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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
PORTRAIT OF DR. MEEK
 PRESENTED THE UNIVERSITY.

MT. R. c. Hemphill of Birmingham has presented portrait of the late pr. Benjamin Franklin Meek to the Uni- versity of Alabama. The portrait, which now hangs in the university library. was painted by MT. Paul Men gel, the we'll known portrait painter. It seems most fitting that portrait of the late pr. Meek should adorn the walls of the university. Graduating from the university in 1854, he after ward was elected to the chair of Eng fish. which he occupied with the ex- ception of "a short interval, until his death, in 1899.
 Dr. Meek was born September 20, 1S36 He received his degree Ll4. D. m 1879 from the University of Mississippi. In 1863 and 1865 he was assistant pro lessor of ancient languages at the Uni versity of Ala bama. In 1888 to 1870 he was professor of ancient languages at the Weslyan university, Florence. In 1871 pr. Meek returned to the Univer- sity of Alabama. where he was given the chair of English language and lit erature. He was married in the early
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

McWhorter, one of the most prominent men of Alabama. She is beautiful and charming young woman and will receive a cordial welcome in Birmingham society.
 MT. Newburn is on the staff of the Bir- mingham News. He began his newspaper work in Atlanta and later became equally as well known on the press of New Or leans and Mississippi. Since coming to Birmingham he has continued his sue cessful career in the newspaper field.
 The following is the programme for the musical service this evening at the First Methodist Episcopal church:
 Organ Voluntary-Miss Handley.
 Hear What God, the Lord, Hata Spoken, (SmarD-Choir.
 A Dream of Paradise" (Gray)-Mr. Goldthwaite.
 Hear My Prayer" Nendelssohn)-Mis Bickley and choir
 Lead On, King (SmarD-Choir
 For the Lord Is Mindful of His Own,' (A1endelssohn)-M Miss Moore.
 Gallia, (Gounod) Miss Bickley and choir.
 Sermon-Dr. Duncan.
 Response, "Nightsong," (Schubert)
 Doxolo3ie
 Benedicton.
 The Rev. J. D. Lewis, pastor of the First Cumberland Presbyterian church, and Mrs Lewis, the Rev. B. E. Lee and Mrs Lee, the Rev. J. w. Cheshire and w. NJ Franklin of the Birmingham pres bytery the Rev. J. N. Bright and J. E. Sloan of Sprngville presbytery will leave on Tuesday next to attend the meeting of the seventy eighth general assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, which will convene at Corsicana, Tex, on May 21 Al Memphis they will join the Tennessee delegation on a special train. The assembly. which met last May at Dickson, Tenn was the largest in the history of the denominations A large delegation is expected at Corsicana. Miss Emily Peebles is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Frank Richardson, 1016 Eula street.
 The faculty and senior class of Athens college have issued invitations to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

Would you experiment with an uncertainty when you had a good thing? Re-elect l. w. McAdory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
OBSERVANCE OF PEACE
 DAY IN SCHOOLS.

The peace movement, beginning with the establishment of a World Court at The Hague in 1901 has now developed
 a specific work for peace in the New World. Prominent among the working
 plans is the national observance in
 America of the anniversary of the open ing of the first The Hague conference
 This anniversary falls on May IS. | Throughout the country special exercises
 will be arranged in the schools. Several boards of education have authorized this observance in the schools and the sug- gestion has met with such favor that the
 promoters believe that the superintend- ents of public instruction in all the i'm
 portant cities of the nation will co-op- crate in securing the general observance of the day in the way proposed
 In the Advocate of Peace, published in Boston, appears an outline of the movement in the schools.
 Says the Advocates
 "The importance of this observance can hardly fail to impress itself upon educational leaders who give the subject careful attention. The international peace
 movement which Is expressing itself through the Hague conferences, and the great national and international peace congresses, is now confessedly the most important philanthropic movement before
 the world
 Such Peace Day affords opportunity in the schools to bring before the minds of the children and young people in
 simple way the newer ideals of the rela-
 tion of races and nations which are rap idly coming to the front. It is self-evi-
 dent that the boys and girls who are go- ing to be the workers and leaders in
 the worlds progress the coming gen.
 eration should early have instilled into them right notions of the relations of i nations and peoples to each other, and some elementary knowledge of the
 movements which are rapidly bringing about the unity and ultimate peace of
 the world
 Where exercises of this kind have
 taken place in the schools the past two or three years, the boys and girls have responded eagerly to the appeals
 made in behalf of humanity and peace, and where asked to do so have them selves taken part enthusiastically in the exercises
 "It is not proposed that the 18th of
 May be made holiday, or that any large amount of time should be taken from the regular school duties, but that only half an hour, or at most an hour,
 should be devoted to this subject. The freshness of spirit aroused by such exercises compensates many times over for the time devoted to them. During the past three years the state superintendentS in no less than 12 states Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Montana, Colorado California, Connecticut, New Jersey and Idaho-have recommended the | observance of the day in the schools un- | der their supervision, and in a consider able number of other states local super | intendents have taken the matter up and secured most satisfactory results in the
 schools under their charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
Plans for Entertaining Sponsors
 and Veterans
NOTES AND PERSONALS
We'll Known Young Newspaper Woman Edits "The ookout''-Entertain ments and Amusements for
 the Coming Week.
BY ANNIE KENDRlcK WALKER.

The social plans for the entertainment of the veterans, the sponsors and the maids of honor are keeping the commit tees very busy these days. Cooperating with the ball committees are the young Birmingham women who will be sponsors and maids and special bostesses to the reunion, while these young women are also interesting number of young mar ried women in the special features of re- union week.
 Besides the regular committees actively at work the various clubs of Birming- ham, both the Southern and Country clubs are going ahead with plans for the balls to be given in these handsome clubhouses.
 The first ball will be given by the Southern club to sponsors and maids. This will be danced on the evening of June 9, the ball to be opened by General Lee and Miss Evans, the sponsor for the south.
 The second ball will be danced on the eSening of June 10 at the Country club.
 The grand sponsors ball on the evening of June Il, the last evening of the re- union, will be danced in the Hippodrome.
 Besides the three large balls there will be a musicale and tea for sponsors at the Country club, a reception at the res idence of Gov. and Mrs. Braxton Bragg Conner and innumerable dinners and luncheon parties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

The many friends of Mrs E. c. Starr, who has been very i'll at her home on Third avenue, will be glad to know that she is convalescing, and will be able to be out in the next few weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
Vote for I. w. McAdory.

CONTINUED ON PAGE 1S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

shade of some great sentinel of stone, running, apparently, up and down and across, yet clinging to the foot of the great ridge and from it's elevation vis- fble for miles to the east and to the west.
 Chattanooga, when mentioned, received an almost unanimous aye. Local parties were then interested and the energy and enthusiasm of a number of public-spir- tied citizens was aroused.
 The location of the club, in sight of the city of Chattanooga, to be connected with it by an electric line and boulevard of only eight miles, is most fortunate, for from this point transportation facili- ties are unequalled
 The sight chosen for the club is unique in the worlds scenery; historically it is known as Signal Point" It rises to a bluff, reaching an altitude of over 23OO feet, then runs off into magnificent table-land or plateau, broken here and there by innumerable canyons.
 Signal Point" has become familiar in American history. From it flashed the lights that spurred on to combat the con tending forces in the greatest conflict the world has ever known. From there are plainly visible to the naked eye the famous battlefields of Chickamauga, Look out Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and the bpOL TenOWDeu, DSCduSe OI lile HeNeI-AO- be-forgotten Battle Above the Clouds'
 Every form of recreation and sport IS to be provided. A hunting preserve will be maintained and the angler will find sport in the mountain streams. Dams will be built across some of these, creating seven artificial lakes. These lakes are to be stocked with game fish.
 1nterspersed with lawns, groves and gardens, there will be polo grounds, golt t-lre r,.,fr I 4l. -t. II. garage of the club.
 In addition to the provision contem- plated for every form of sport, the Inter- state club in selecting Chattanooga or rather Signal mountain and Walden s Ridge, as an ideal location, had another another feature in mind. When the loci, and dam enterprise, now under construc- fion and nearly completed, has rendered the Tennessee river for B miles a great lake, the autoboats and other pleasure craft can find no prettier highway of water in all the world.
 Plans have been approved for an in- cline, that despite the elevation of the plateau vii bring the river within easy access. Yachts of any draft can come from any port of the country up the Mississippi river into the Tennessee river 10 the foot of the club house at any sea- son of the year without interruption.
 The home of the club will be erected or 'Signal Point The plans provide for 4 structure having at least 15OO rooms IT architecture the building will be on Colo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

Miss Emily Peebles is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Frank Richardson, lol6 Eula' street.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-06
BADGER EAGLES WISH CHANGE
Important Measure Regarding Per Capt.
ia Tax to Come Up at Seattle

Two measures of sweeping import
ance will be introduced by Wisconsin
Eagles before the national aerie Of the
order in convention at Seattle, Wash,
August II, one being for a reduction
in the per capita tax and the other a
movement to expedite the work of
future conventions Of the Order by
reducing the representation and the
method Of voting. The present per
capita is 20 cents per year and with
the large membership Of the Order,
the revenues are large and Wiscon-
sin members contend that a 10 cent
tax is sufficient. Under present repre-
sentation 1900 delegates are seated in
the national convention and the pro-
posal now is to limit each state to four
or five delegates, it being contended
that the change, would be economical
and wise. E. E. Elvers, Of Madison,
has been delegated to present the pro-
posed measures to- the convention.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-06
SETS NEW RECORD
Enrolment of Students at Sum-
mer School Of University Of
Wisconsin is Large
MANY STATES REPRESENTED

A total enrolment of 1925 in the
University Of Wisconsin summer ses-
sion this year is reported by Prof. G.
c. Sellery, director, who has just made
his annual statement. This is not only
the largest enrolment since the estab-
hshment Of the summer session ten
years ago; but it is also the most wide
II distributed, showing students from
thirty-fve states and seven foreign
countries. Cuba, Canada, China, Eng
land, Germany, Japan and the Philip
pines sent representatives to the vari-
Gus colleges of the university, the col
lege of letters and science enrolled 469
undergraduates and 262 graduate stu
dents, total Of 731, or SO more than the
total enrolment of all colleges in last
years summer session. In the advanc-
ed engineering and artisan s courses
there were 1872 undergraduates and Is
graduates, total Of 1873. The college
Of law enrolled ii; the summer course
in surveying 70; the course in shop
work 20; and the dairy school 10.
Naturally Wisconsin leads all states
with an enrolment of 500, besides 81
in the school Of artisans-a total OF
653. Illinois is second with 80; Iowa
third with IS; Ohio fourth with %;
and Indiana fifth with 25. The enroll
nlent from other states is as follows
Minnesota %. Missouri 81; New York
II; Michigan 10; Kentucky and South
Dakota 9 each; Washington, D. G. Z;
Nebraska and 4,orth Dakota each;
Massachusetts and Texas 5 each; Colo
RADIO, Kansas, Tennessee and Virginia
4 each; Georgina, Mississippi, Montana
and Utah 3 each; New Jersey, Rhode
Island, South Carolina and Washington
2 each; Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland,
New Hampshire, New Mexico, West
Virginia and Wyoming each; Idaho g.
There were 9 students from the Phil
ippines and more from Cuba. China
sent and England, German and Cana
da sent | each.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-06

The city needs more parks and now
is the time to get them before the
rapid growth of the city puts all of the
desirable locations for parks away up
in the air as to- price, but if any land
is purchased in the next two or three
years the purchase price will have to be
raised by private subscription. At the
rate things are going the city will have
to raise the tax levy in spite Of the big
increase in the assessment or run be-
hind on the regular budget and very
few of the smaller tax payers at least
will favor any extraordinary expenses
such as an appropriation for the pur-
chase Of land for parks. There is a big
question right now whether or not the
next levy will have to be increased and
the chances are slim that the financial
situation of the city will improve any
by the time the levy is made. AS a
matter of fact the chances are all the
other way and that the demands for
cash will necessitate an increase in the
levy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-06
A Lazy Liver

May be only a tired liver, or a starved
liver. It would be a stupid as we'll as
savage thing to beat q weary or starved
man because he Jagged in his work. So
in treating the tagging, torpid liver it is
great mistake to lash it with strong
drastic drugs. A torpid liver is but an
Indication of an ill-nourished, enfeebled
body whose organs are weary with over
work. Start with the stomach and allied
organs of digestion and nutrition. Put
them in working order and see how
quickly your liver will become active.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
has made many marvellous cures OF silver
trouble by its wonderful control OF The
organs of digestion and nutrition. It re-
stores the normal activity of the stomach,
increases the secretions of the blood-mak-
Ing glands, cleanses the system from poi.
sonouS accumulations, and so relieves the
liver OF the burdens imposed upon it by
the detection OF other organs.
II you have bitter or bad taste In the morne
ing. poor or variable appetite. coated tongue
foul breath. coAstipated or irregular bowels.
feel weak. easil& tired. Respondent. frequent
headaches, pain Or distres3Sp Tsmal OF backs
gnawing or distressed feenpg in stomach.
perhaps nausea. <hsAAg<SF\SoAr "risings" In
throat after eating. and kin6TeS symphonic
Of weak stomach and torpid li7sA no medi~
cine will relieve you more promptly or cuTs
you moro nEFMa1enflY than Doctor Plerce's
Golden Medical Discovery. Perhaps only
part Of the above symptoms will be present
at one time and yet point to torpid liver or
biliousness and weak stomach. Avoid all
hot bread and biscuits, griddle cakes and
other indigestible food and take the UGolden
Medical Discovery" regularly and stick to it's
use until you are vigorous and strong.
The wDiscovery" Is non-secret. non-alco-
holic, is a glyceric extract of native medici-
nal roots with a full list Of its ingredients
printed on each bottle-wrapper and attested
under oath. It's ingredients are endorsed
and extolled by the most eminent medical
writer's of the age and are recommended to
cure the diseases for which it is advised
Don't accept substitute of unknown
composition for this non secret MEDICINE
OF KNOWN COMPOSITION.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-06
RAILROAD CASUALTIES

The interstate commerce commission
reports that during the first quarter Of
this year 728 passengers and employees
were killed and 14,713 injured on Amer
lean railroads. This record is bad
enough. but it is the least sanguinary
the roads have made in three years.
There would be more cause for con
oratulation over the decrease in deaths
and injuries if it could be proved that
iC was owing to additional precautions
taken by railroad managers and to the
greater carefulness Of employees. Such
a pleasing explanation is impossible.
No doubt there has been some improve
ment in both those directions, but the
chief reason for the better showing is
the falling off in freight and passenger
traffic which came on the heels Of the
panic During the earlier part of last
year the roads made desperate attempts
to handle the business thrust upon them.
They made every effort to push their
freight trains along. Several accidents,
with considerable loss Of life, were di-
rectly due to the exertions made to
keep freight moving. The enforced
idleness Of from 100000 to 100000
freight cars inevitably led to a reduc-
ton in the number Of injuries to pas
sengers and employees, particularly the
latter. They are the men who figure
conspicuously in the lists of dead and
wounded.
The revival of business and the re-
turn to service of idle cars should not
be accompanied by an increase in those
casualties which are a disgrace to rail
reading in America. Most Of them are
preventable, being due either to poor
equipment or to the lack of discipline
and excessive recklessness Of employees.
They are continually hazarding their
own lives and those Of others. 1T is
shameful that during the three months
OF comparative railroad inactivity
which began the year there should have
been so many casualties. There would
not have been half so many if railroad
managers and the great and powerful
railroad labor organizations had given
serious thought to the prevention Of
ACCIDENTS Chicago Tribune.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-06

It is little hard for an automobilist
to escape all the perils of the road and
then get stalled in a city of 10000
people within a few blocks of it's Main
street, but that is what happens in
Kenosha every once in a while when
Ia strange machine wanders off the
paved streets. Some Of the back
streets of the city would not be toler-
ated in country village and there is
"a large field for good roads associa-
ton to work in right inside the city
limits.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-06

The men behind the plan to build a
municipal bath house will have to hus-
tie to have the people get any good out
of it this year, but the project should
not be allowed to drop even if it IS
found to be impossible to get the build
ing ready for use this summer. Build
it as soon as possible and have it all
ready for next summer. The people
have been waiting a long while for a
bath house and they would like to see
something started.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-06
TO KEEP UP THE FIGHT
Civic Federation Declares That
"Four Corners Resort Must
Respect Laws
MONEY NEEDED FOR REFORM

The events Of the last week, in con-
nection with the raid on the "Four
Corners dive, nave been the occasion
for considerable comment and query on
the part of the general public.
It is too early to predict the outcome
Of this move on the part of the di-
rectors of the Civic Federation. One
thing is clear, however, namely that
the Federation purposes to rid the
noighborhood Of this stencil at what
ever cost may be required.
The audacity OF the proprietors and
lessons Of this place in keeping it open
in defiance Of the refusal of the Town
Board of Pleasant Prairie to grant
liquor license and in the face of the
protests Of the adjacent property own
ers, is beyond liberation.
Such people must be taught that
Wisconsin IS laws are made to be obey
ed, and that in and around Kenosha
at least, there is quite a possibility
Of their prompt enforcement, notwith-
standing any immunity which the VIC
lators may expect as a courtesy from
their official protectors.
By the way, reform costs money
Expense is constantly incurred by the
directors Of the Civic Federation in
their efforts to rid the city and vicinity
Of undersirables and in the prosecution
OF the other enterprises for which the
Federation stands. Hitherto this ex-
pense has been betrayed in part by the
one dollar a year dues Of the members
and in part by voluntary contributions
by some of Kenosha s public spirited
citizens, but balance has always re-
manned and has been borne by the di-
rectors, personally, rather than submit
the organization S needs to the public.
| They express themselves as willing to
shoulder this burden as heretofore i'll
preference to abating an yof their pres
ent reform activity, but SO many per-
sens, not members, have recently ex,
hpressed wish to assist in the work,
that the Federation has decided to in
dictate, through this column, the means
of doing so.
! The Kenosha Civic Federation could
fuse to advantage right now, from $500
to $4,000. IF you are anxious to partici-
pate in their work send your check for
from $100 to $4,000 to the treasurer.
G. P. Heide, $50 Garden street, or de-
pcsit, if you prefer, to the organiza-
ton s credit with the First National
Bank. Make all checks payable to
kenosha Civic Federation.
This is not an appeal for funds. It
is an opportunity to help if you want
to. adv.
Try a want ad-25 cents a week.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-06
BREWERS TO MAKE FIGHT
Careful Scrutiny of Candidates for the
Legislature Promised by Brewers

1t is evident that the Wisconsin
Brewers Association is planning to go
into politics in the coming campaign and
that an effort will be made to concen-
trate the saloon power to defeat some
men who are candidates for a place in
the state legislature. This morning
County Clerk Jones received letter
from the association asking that he
send at once list of the candidates
for the assembly and the state senate.
This action is in keeping with the re-
cent action of the Brewers convention
at which it was decided to make some
effort to attempt to get men into the
assembly who would oppose the passage
Of any rigid laws for the regulation of
the liquor traffic. It is possible that
the support or opposition of the associa-
ton would cut quite figure in the Ke
nosha county election.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-06

If the water commission does not
think extended tests of the kind pro-
posed by the Council are necessary we'll
and good. The members of the commits
sion have as much right to their own
opinion as the members of the Council
and if they care to take the risk of
allowing the people of the city to drink
the water in the mains it is only fair
to assume that they are convinced that
there is not any great danger in so
doing. There is no occasion to get up
any discussion about which body-the
water commission or the Councils
to pay for the tests in case they have
to be made, however, for it does not
make a particle of difference in the
long run. In the end the money comes
out Of the taxpayers.