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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29
RECKLESS DRIVER
 RUNS OVER NEGRO
Neuro Is Knocked Down and Fatally Hurt, But the Driver Never
 Stops.

Henry Thomas, a negro, was run over by d buggy and perhaps fatally injured yesterday afternoon at Third avenue and Fourteenth stret. It is understood Thomas was crossing Third avenue when he was struck by the buggy. The driver, who is unknown, was running his horse at a lively pace and when the negro was struck by the buggy he was knocked down and it was not thought that he would live until he could be carried to the hospital. The driver of the buggy which ran over Thomas never did stop his horse Thomas was carried to the Hillman hospital, where it is thought that internal injuries sustained may prove fatal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29
SENATOR SAYS THE CLOG OF BAD ROADS MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE WHEEL OF ALA BAMA'S PROGRESS.

"The people of Alabama demand good roads, good schools and proper care for the veterans" said Senator J. D. Norman of Chambers county, who has represented his county three times in the legislature and was chairman of the local option campaign.
 We have inaugurated a campaign and a system calling for. the expenditure Of thousands of dollars for education in Ala bama. We are caring for the veterans. We have one of the most miserable sys- tems of public roads in the union.
 "Is it true that anyone can be so pre- sumptious as to wish the people of Ala bama to be narrow-minded enough to sit back and be satisfied with good schools? Are our children to be raised into edu- cated prodigies to expend their dearly bought energies, both physical and men
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29
PERSONAL

Dr. F. H. May. who has been doing special work in the New York eye and ear hospital and the Brooklyn eye and ear hospital, has returned to take up his practice in Birmingham. Dr. May is a son of the late Marion A. May and is well known in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29
Superior
 in Strength

Dr. Prices Flavoring Extracts are su. perior in strength. freshness and fine ness of flavor to any aavoring extracts made in the world, and ladies of the best taste, who are now using them. find them just as represented. Persons who desire delicate and natural flavor In their cakes, buildings, or any table delicacy, will obtain it by using
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29

brought to the city as soon as it was possible to get them here, and they were carried to the scene of the mur- der. owing to the fact that a large crowd had congregated around the street car after the murder of the mo- torman it was impossible for the dogs to pick up the trail.
 w. H. Watkins, the deceased motor- man, lived at 4407 Ninth avenue, East Birmingham. He was married and is survived by q widow and one child He had been in the employment of the Bir- mingham Railway, Light and Power company for some time, and had always proven q faithful and trustworthy man.
 The remains of the deceased are be- ing held in the undertaking parlors of lige Loy until funeral arrangements are made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29
Police Prevent Fiuht.

New York, April 2S.-The police tonight prevented the scheduled ten-round box ing bout between Terry McGovern and Johnny Summers of England at the Old Broadway Athletic club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29
THE WEATHER.

Washington, April 2s.-Forecast for Alabama and Mississippi: Fair Wednes- day; Thursday increasing cloudiness and cooler, showers; light south winds, shifting to northwest by Thursday and increasing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29
w. H. Watkins Meets Death on AvondaIe Car While Strug-
 gIing With the Black
KEEN KNIFE IS PLUNGED
 TO HlLT THROUGH HEART
Conductor Courington Later Has Des perate Struggle With the Mur- derer, Who Finally Made His
 Escape In the Dark.

: The negro who stabbed Motor- 1. man W. II. Watkins to death on g an Avondale car last night is de- . scribed as follows:
 3 Age about 30 or 35 years; height g feet inch es; weight 40 to 155 3 color light gingercake alarge eyes 3 black hair, inclined to be straight 2 wore small black mustache, and 8 face covered with scattering beard s or four or five days growth.
 g He wore a light shirt with col
 8 lar attached, and had on dark
 g pants when last seen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29
Programme For Today.


 Here is the programme for today
 Third "Wednesday morning. First Methodist church. 9:00-Devotional services ''rhe Fields Are White Unto the Harvest" John 4:35, the Rev J. w.. Stagg, D. D.
 9:3O-Our State Association: The Pres idents Address-R F. Lewis. The Execu- tive Committees Work-G. G. Miles, The Money Received and Spent-M. M Sweatt The Advance in Field Work-Joseph Car thel Miss Kennedy and D. w. Sims. The Home Department Progess-Miss Smith, Reports of division presidents-Dr. J M Peerson, R. E. Pettus, c. l.. Peck, w. R. Dortch, R. L. Carter, Henry l.. Mellin, Prof. L. P. Giddens Judge w. w. Pear son, Dr. B. M. Ohme, J. F. Duggar, w. H. Banks, B. Davie, W. D. Dunn, C. $. Rabb J. T. Fuller, A. S. Preston
 Fourth Sesson-W ednesday afternoon First Methodist church. 2:30-Devotionai exercises, Seeing the Multitudes, His Disciples Came Unto Him, He Taught Them" Matt. 5:1-2, the Rev. A. R. Moore 2:45-Training the Whole Life: The Chil- dren-Prof. L. F. Leavell. Adolescents-- Rev A. L. Phillips D. D. The Adult-W. c. Pearce Boys and Girls-Miss Ken nedy General discussion.
 W ednesday Afternoon-Elementa con- ferences. First Baptist church. 2:30-De- yotonal exercises-The Rev. H. R. Os- borne.
 2:45-The Boys and Girls-M. E. Ken redy.
 S:l5-The Children-L. P. Leavell.
 3:45-Reports of the Elemntary Secre- taries-NIiss Alice Hale, Miss Alice Camp. Mrs. John Borders, Mrs. Mary Greene, Mrs. Walters Guitars, Mrs. W. B. Castle berry, Mrs R. D. Lees, Miss Amanda Me- Diarmid, Mrs. B. M. Ohme, Miss Louise Davie, Miss Mary Carr Gibson, Mrs. J. 5. Burnett, Mrs. Ida Sansbury
 4:15-Round table. Teaching Problems. Fifth Session-W Wednesday night. Twin meeting. First Methodist church. 7:45- ,arand chorus.
 7:5O-Devotional servicse-The Rev. J. A. Bryan.
 S:15-Meaning of the Modern Sunday School Movement-W. c. Pearce.
 Pledges for the state.
 Twin meeting. First Baptist church. :45-Devotional service-The Rev. Preston Blake.
 S:15-Meaning of the Modern Sunday School Movement-The Rev. A. L. Phil lips, D. D.
 Our Duty to the Work-D. w. Sims
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29
GOOD ROADS ARE NOW
 STATES GREATEST NEED


 tai, in a vain attempt to haul their cot ton to market through three feet of mud, over 50 per cent grades and along rocky highways2
 Such clog in the wheel of Alabamas progress would in my opinion be disgrace ful. We want good roads. too, and I be- lieve we will get them.
 The Overton amendment to the con stitution giving the legislature authority to use state funds for road development is one of the finest pieces of legislation that has ever been voted on by the people of the state It deserves the hearty support of every patriotic citizen.
 Several years ago the people of Ala bama decided to have the railroads come to taw. Now they should in fact they have already grasped q real issue, not farce, and l believe they will overwhelm- ingly vote for a common sense measure. 'Fhe Age-Herald is to be congratulated on it's great campaign for good roads. It has shown just what the state needs and it has developed a sentiment that might have been much longer appearing. The op- position to good roads which has bobbed up will be hewn down in November"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29

Weather conditions for 24 hours end- lQA2.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29
Dogs Hurried To Scene.

Shortly after the murder occurred the sheriff's office and police headquarters were notified. Imemdiately Sheriff Hig
 don Chief Deputy Sheriff Lucfen c. Brown, Deputies Cowam, Courson and Barker, and several detectives from the police department were dispatched to the scene. The blood hounds were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29

Passenger Fires at Fleeing Man. One of the passengers on the car hat
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06

STRANGE CARGO In GOTHAM
Wagon Load of Parrots Stirred Up
the Blase Inhabitants of the
Metropolis.

On a ferryboat from Jersey City
the othcr morning there was a wa
gon load Of passengers which created
general interest. The wagon had
eome evidently from some ship I'M
loading at a Jersey City dock, and
IFS cargo limited Of distant seas and
mysterious tropics, of iungles, adj
venture and romance. for il was
piled high with crates of green par
rots. The different kinds of people
who manifested exactly the same
kind of interest IN the parrots was
remarkable. Messenger boys, the
most blase and indifferent specimens
of childhood in existence. forgot for
a moment that nothing could sur
prise them and became boys again.
Portly business men pushed out
among the horses and vehicles to get
a look at the birds. Fat mothers of
many contested with their own chill
dren to get IA look. Dainty ladies
going in for a mornings shopping,
stenographers in their white shirt
waists, all turned for a glance. The
parrots could not talk American yet,
but they all seemed to be speaking
some language with much energy
and emphasis, and the whole boat
load of commuters listened and
smiled.-N. Y. Press.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
THE MARCH OF TIME.

None but those who have passed
through it can appreciate the radical
nature of the change wrought by
science in the whole mental attitude
of its disciples. What they really
cry out for in religion is a new
standpoint standpoint like their
own. The one hope, therefore, for
science is more science. Again, to
quote Bacon-we shall hear enough
from the moderns by and by-"This
| dare affirm in knowledge of ma
ture, that a little natural philosophy,
and the first entrance into it, doth
dispose the opinion to atheism but,
on the other side, much natural
philosophy, and wading deep
into it, will bring about mems
minds to religion. Henry Drum
mond.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
WILL KILL MOSQUITOES.

The chief of the sanitary service
at Gaboon, French Africa, has found
in the cactus a substitute for Pc
troleum for the determination OF
mosquitoes.
The thick, pulpy leaves are put in
water and macerated until a sticky
paste is formed. This is spread upon
the surface of stagnant water, and
forms an isolating layer which pre-
vents the mosquito larvae from COM
ing to the top to breathe, and thus
destroys them through asphyxiation.
The advantage over petroleum.
which eyaporates quickly, is that
the paste can hold its place and
consistency indefinitely week.
month or even a year-while the de-
velopment of the larvae is only
about a fortnight.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
TO OBLiGE.

President Eliot of Harvard is not
a believer in spelling reform. Not
long ago there was a student who
was a candidate for the degree of
doctor of philosophy. This student
had adopted spelling reform as his
particular line of work, and as COM
mencement drew near he went to
President Eliot with a request. "You
know, Mr.. President" he said, chat
you are proposing to make me a Phi.
ID. Now | have made a speciality of
spelling reform and | always spell
philosophy with an f. | therefore
called to ask you if you could not
make my degree F. D., instead of
Phi. D."
Certainly" replied the president.
''In fact, if you insist we shall
make it a d. F."
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
NAMES IN ALASKA.

Life in Alaska is uncouth in
parts, but it has its refnements. In
Valdez there lived a man named
Jake who kept a boarding house
for dogs. When the prospectors re-
turned from their sled trips they
would place their teams in his charge
until ready to start out again. As
he fed his guests on garbage gath
cred by a house-to-house canvass he
was known by every one as "Slop
Jake
Once upon a time he fell i'll and
the newspapers wished to chronicle
the fact. No one, however, knew
"Jake's' other name, and it didn't
seem worth while to waste the time
of the editorial staff on so insig-
nificant a detail. So the news was
printed thus:
"Our well-known fellow-citizen s.
Jake, is confined to his house with q
severe cold. 1t is hoped he will be
out soon."
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
HER HUSBANDS CoNFIDANTE.

She is a happy woman who occu-
pies this position, but not everyone
is wise enough to attain it.
The tactful wife wins her hus-
bands confidence, but she never at
tempts to force it. She shows to
him that the truth, even if it is IN
pleasant, will be received with bet
ter grace than will any attempt at
smooth assimilation.
To maintain happiness and a per-
feet relation the business and social
exactions of each should be known
by the other, and the first plank in
the barrier of deceit torn down by a
full and honest acknowledgment.
White lies should be abhorred, and
the life of each made an open book
for the other to read.
When this basis is established
things may be trusted to run smooth
ly. Mutual confidence disarms sus-
picion and destroys jealousy, which
are the two gravest enemies of life's
most serious and beautiful partner
ship.-Exchange. y
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
JUST OFF n A

TO the majority of the people of
Manhattan, Brooklyn is located just
off the upper left-hand corner of the
map. This fact was well illustrated
the other day when two strangers
were looking for Osborne street,
Brooklyn. Though they didn't
know it they were within a short
block of the street when they saw an
lrishman busily mixing mortar in
front of an uncompleted dwelling.
Can you tell us where Osborne
street is?" they inquired of the
mixer.
"Oi cannot" was the emphatic re-
ply, "Oi'm a stranger from New
York myself."-N. Y. Globe.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
DESIGNATIONS.

Some foreigners and even certain
Americans are disposed to stand
aloof from what they haughtily
term the working classes of the
country. 1t is to be regretted that
they could not have overheard the
conversation which took place on an
East river ferryboat not long age
between a recently introduced
shall we hazard it-wheelwright and
shop girl.
"Do you attend in Barginer's es-
Enlistment? !" he asked.
eyes, | am one of the emporium
ladies'" she replied, with becoming
dignity. "Where are you engaged?'
81 am one of Banks & Co.'s re-
pository for carriages gentlemen
he informed her.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
AN ADMISSION.

Waters had just come in from his
club. He appeared in the best of
humors, and his wife soon found out
why.
you've heard me speak of Sell
fers, haven't you?" he asked.
1.-THE man that knows so much
about the tariff" ventured Mrs.
Waters.
1.-THE man who talks so much
about it," corrected Waters. swell,
we had a long argument about it this
evening, and | came out ahead"
you did," exclaimed Mrs. Wa
ters, surprised.
eyes; | got him to admit that he
knows no more about it than [ do"
ILLUSTRATED Sunday Magazine.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
FINE SHOOTING BY A WOMAN.

The Bisley rifle meeting this year
will be notable for the presence of a
remarkable lady shot, who has come
all the way from Perak, in the
Straits Settlements. The sports
woman in question, Mrs. Douglas,
has entered for the principal COM
petitions, and is already practicing
on the ranges in association with the
Malay States Guides team, in train
ing for the Kolapore cup COMPETE
ton. Shooting in India, she has won
several prizes, even making the high
est possible at 1000 yards, and her
achievements at Bisley will be
watched with much Interest,"
Ladies' Pictorial.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06

The Chinese have always had ath-
letic exercises Of a sort, in which they
have rather prided themselves,
though none ever seem to have taken
such a hold on the nation as ours
have on us during the last century
or so. They have plenty of stories
Of strong men capable of welding
extraordinary weapons, of bending
wondrous bows, or of lifting heavy
weights, etc. Even within the last
few years feats of archery were done
before an officer could get his COM
mission in the army, and in almost
every village there is a bamboo with
a pierced stone at either end to test
the strength of the rising generation
in lifting. But there was nothing
of regular athletic training, except
for a few wrestlers, perhaps, before
foreigners came.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
FIND HEALTH In TEMPERANCE
"Fletcherizine' Recommended as a
Saving to the Body and the
Pocket Book.

Mothers, wives and housekeepers
are interested in Actcherizing in
more ways than are others. House.
keeping is enormously simplified
and much expense is saved. lIus-
bands who heteherizc faithfully lose
taste for alcoholic drinks until final.
y there is a Decentralization of ex-
eessiye alcohol. SAYS Horace Fletcher
in Harper's Bazaar, The practice
brings health, patience and general
amiabiIlty, If not perfection, at least
in ~agreeably modified form. Even
when husbands are Incorporate in
their aversion to anything alcoholic,
greater amiability is sure to be the
result of temperate eating.
There is little fear of under
nourishment as a result of attention
To lletcherizing. There is, however,
danger of OVERRIDING the reform it.
self. Prof. Irving Fisher guarded
against this abuse of a good thing in
formulating the rules which gov
erned his famous experiment at
New Haven.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
HOW SHE ESCAPED.

"My darling" said Mr.. Spoona-
more, as he finished the third help
ing of his wife's plumcake, "the
lightness and flavor of your excel
lent cake give a grand and emphatic
denial to all the rubbish written in
would-be funny papers about the in
capacity of young wives to cook"
She nestled close to him.
"Or, perhaps" he continued, cit
may be that my own little WHEY
pifey is better than all others.
30, ducky," she whispered, chow
happy you make me-"
And then she thought how lucky
it was that she had had the sense to
buy that cake at the bakers.-Penny
Pictorial.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
CLASS IN SEALING WAX.

A work on heraldry, by Paul
Gruendel, recently published at
Leipsic, contains some information
on the subject of sealing wax and
the rules governing its use in the
days of old. White wax was for the
kings of France, and later for the
kings of Sicily. A few dukes were
allowed the high privilege, through
the generosity of Frederick III. Red
way was for the holy father at Rome
and the German monarchs, but as a
mark of favor to the people it was
allowed to be used generally. Green
wax was for the common people,
and some cities which had been UNI
faithful to their government were
compelled we afterward, as a mark
of their shame, to seal all public
documents with green wax"
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
FIXED UP FOR THE MARKET
Proof That "Fine, Fat Poultry" Are
Net Always What They Seem
to the Buyer.

"oh, YES" said the poultry farmer,
"there are tricks in every trade,
Take, for instance. this old rooster
here" The rooster was old. There
was no denying it. He was as tough
an old rooster as ever graced the
summer hoarders' table Of a New
England farm.
Take this old rooster" said the
farmer, Selling a paint brush.
BLACK up his feet. Then break his
breastbone, so, with a long pair Of
scissors. Then push the breast up
high. What's the result? A fine
young turkeys the result, and know
ing housewives will scramble over
one another to buy'them."
With a harsh laugh the farmer
turned to a skeleton chicken. "'rhis
bird is a regular skeleton, isn't she?a
he said. "Now watch me. See, |
lay her on her back, and | place this
heavy board on her breast. Then to-
morrow when | come to take her to
market, the board will have made
her scraggy breastbone almost in
visible, and it will have given her
very full, plump sides-no breast
bone, fat sides-the sure signs of a
fat and tender young chicken"
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
ELECTRICITY IN SPAIN.

There were in Spain in 1901 only
S61 electric power stations, of which
651 were for public lighting and 210
for private lighting. Since then the
number of power stations for electric
lighting has increased considerably,
and it may be added also that the
use of electricity in its many other
applications has also increased and
become more general, but there is
still a vast field for further indus
trial developments, as the supply of
power which the country affords is
yet far from being exhausted
Scientific American.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
ALSO THERE AT THE FINISH
MIR. Fletcher's Criticism Rather Weak-
ened Under a Mild Cross
Examination.

'Woman's curiosity said Mr..
Fletcher, "is a quality of mind be-
yond human understanding"
Yes" said Mrs. Fletcher. "What
made you think Of that?'
The fool actions of a woman
that | saw downtown to-day. She
followed a man ten blocks just to
get TO read a placard that was fas-
tened to his back. She spotted him
at Thirty-fourth street. That was
really the end of her trip made
that out from something she said to
another woman who was too fat to
join in the chase-but when she
caught sight Of that flaming red
poster tied to the mans back, her
curiosity got the better of her and
she set out after him. He led her
quite a chase across town and down.
town and back again, but she
weakened. She tagged faithfully
along in his wake, and finally she
got close enough to read that no.
lice"
Mrs. Fletcher reflected a moment.
What did it say" she asked.
1T advised her to get her teeth
pulled somewhere on Sixth avenue"
Mrs. Fletcher thought again.
"Where were you all the time she
vas trying to find that OUT"
''Me?" said Fletcher. ooh, | was
following the Woman l wanted to
zee if she finally caught up with the
man"
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
CONSISTENTLY CHERRIES.

81 understand that you farmers
are going to get most of the profits
from crops this year"
$50 I hear" answered Farmer
Corntossel. "But we've got to be
mighty keerful. If we ever get to
payin' dividends regular some captain
of finance will git hold of us an
we'll be organized an syndicated an
merged, till there won't be no prof
its fur nobody except a few fellers
with a little office somewhere in Jer-
sey City,"
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
LIVE LONG IN SOUTH.

While it may be true that the
white man loses in intellectual and
bodily power in the tropics, DR..
Luigi Sambon maintains, as a re-
suit of recent researches, that the
average Arab lives 25 years longer
than the average Esquimau that the
coast people Of South America are
longer lived than the mountain peo-
Pile that old age is much commoner
in the southern countries of Europe
than in the northern countries and
that Spain with a population
smaller by 1000, O0O) has 4o1 cente-
narians to England's 146.-Army
and Navy Journal.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
USES FOR MERRY WIDOW HAT
Ieadeear Can Be Made S~erviceable in
Many Respects, According to
One Writer.

Purchase the untrimmed article,
remove the crown, and insert a sofa
pillow in the opening. 1t will make
an excellent veranda seat for the
summer cottage.
Buy the extra heavy straw variety
and remove crown same as before.
Insert a rubber pad with name Of
apartment house lettered upon it in
the aperture and use for door mat.
One modishly trimmed hat ele-
yated on a pole in the center of a
field should keep crows at a dis
.anee. 1t can be taken down during
4 shower so as not to deprive the
vegetables of moisture.
Trim carefully in the usual way
and leave it in the front dooryard.
The neighbors will all envy you your
beautiful flower garden.
When drowning push the head up
through the crown, sacrificing the
trimming, and adjust the brim
under the arms. 1t should act as q
life preserver.
Turn untrimmed article upside
down and affix to tripod. 1t will do
for a makeshift poker table.
Set the decanter inside the crown
and arrange glasses around the
brim. This will be a unique salver
for serving liquid refreshments.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-11-06
A BLUNDER CORRECTED.

"Who can tell me to what king
dom this belongs?" asked a teacher
of her class, assembled in presence
of the inspector. She gingerly held
up a filbert. A hand was raised.
"Well, Jane?" said teacher.
ITO the animal kingdom" was
the reply.
Seeing the teachers frowning
face, Jane knew that she had blum
dered.
90, no." she exclaimed in correc-
ton, "to the vegetable kingdom! I
was thinking of the horse chestnut !"
Family Herald.