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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-28
GADSDEN MAY GET
A GLASS FACTORY
Sands Are Found to Be First
Class for Business
LAND SITE Is DESIRED
Automobiles Speeding Between Bir-
mingham and Chattanooga Make
Travel on Etowah Roads
Somewhat Difficult.

Gadsden. August 27.-tSpecial %. o.
Harris, representing Indiana parties,
who spent a few days in the city last
week in the interest of a glass factory,
has notified Gadsden parties that If 100
acres of land can be secured in the
right location the enterprise can be To-
Gated here While here Mr.. Harris
made a full examination of the sands in
this locality and pronounced them first
class for the purpose of glass making.
The industry, as proposed, would employ
200 men and would be a valuable addi-
ton to Gadsden's diverse manufacture
ing activities. The proposition will be
given consideration by the citizens at an
early day.
Farmers in the western part of the
county in the Little Wills valley are
making complaint to the county commits
sioners that the highway up the valley
is being monopolized by automobiles to
such an extent that teams can scarcely
be taken on It in safety. This road re-
ceives the travel between Birmingham
and Chattanooga and automobiles run
DING DclWeen lflo Two Cll1eS are DeCOm-
ing so numerous that vehicles drawn by
horses find it difficult to travel It
is also claimed that the drivers of these
machines being in the most part strang-
ers make no effort to comply with the
law governing the use of the road, but
let men with horses do the best they can
The commissioners will investigate the
matter and find some way to give the res
idents along this road some relief from
these intolerable conditions.
The test of the new road machinery ID
about completed ard the commissioners
are pretty thoroughly satisfied that the
traction engine and large road cars are
much more economical for the moving Of
road material than the mules and wagons
now In use and will undoubtedly discard
the old and adopt the new way of doing
this work. The money saved In hav-
ing no mules to feed will probably be
used to hire convicts from adjoining
counties as 1t takes more men to work
the machinery than are at present avail
able in this county alone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-28
SAFE AND SANE
INTERESTS BUSY
Petitions Are Said to Be CirCu
lating Over State
MOVEMENT Is CONDEMNED
DR.. e. M. Mason Makes investigation
of Gases Reported From Butler
County-Condition Not as
Serious as Reported.

Montgomery, August 27-(Special)-
With a view to getting in hard work on
the prohibition forces in the state the
safe and sane interests are getting
very busy. The following is copy of the
heading of petition scattered along the
route of the Louisville and Nashville
road between Birmingham and Admission
and probably in other sections:
Believing that czarism and fanaticism
have worked untold injury to the pros
perty and welfare of Alabama, and be-
lieving that constitutional prohibition
was conceived and brought forth in the
interest of paid agitators and ambitious
politicians, I hereby subscribe myself
member of the Safe and Sane Business
Mems league of Alabama, and protest
against further useless and distressing
agitation in the state, and pledging my
influence and support to such movement"
Pelagra in Butler.
DR.. e. NJ. Mason, state bacteriologist
having returned from Greenville, says
that reports of pellagra In that section
have been greatly overdrawn. He says
he found two cases in Greenville and one
outside. this being all as well as he
could discover. There is no danger. he
says, to any one, and the disease is in
hand and well cared for The doctor
says, in addition that he was in Clarke
county on the same trip and found things
very much better there. He will bring
one maybe two, cases to Montgomery for
observation, sending the patient to a
hospital for treatment. This information
did not come from the doctor, however.
but from man in Greenville.
Hook Worm Talk.
The prevalence of the hook worm in
Dallas county is no new thing. The
state health department has Investigated
at least 200 cases by specimen within the
past 70 months, most of them coming
from South and Southeast Alabama. The
Huntsville cases have not reached the de-
partment as yet, but will no doubt Sew
eral Southeast Alabama doctors have
made special study of the hook worm
and have sent in information and sta
tistics that are valuable to the state Of
flee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-28
MASONIC CONFERENCE.
Many Attend Calhoun Meeting a,
Piedmont.

Piedmont. August 27.--(special) 1.-THE
Calhoun county Masonic conference was
in session here Wednesday and yester-
day The conference was in charge of
H. G. Earnest, worshipful master. Near
ly all of the lodges in the county were
represented and It was declared by all
who attended to be the best ever held
in the county.
Two candidates, j. T. Jarrels and e. F.
DeFreece, we're passed. and with two
others, Robert Glass and L. H. Rob-
ertson, were raised by special dispense
ton.
Prof George B. Thigpen, district grand
lecturer. was present and rendered valu-
able service in the calculation of the Sc
crets of the order.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: ]. F. Spearman, wor-
shipful master; o. L. Stewart, senior
warden d. D. Weaver, Junior warden;
E. G. Caldwell, treasurer; A. P. johnson,
secretary; c.. H. Tomlinson senior dea-
con; T.. Ben Kerr, junior deacon; H. B.
Rawls, chaplain.
Jacksonville was chosen as the place
for the next conference.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-28
MRS. TROUPE ILL.
May Die From Scratch of Setting
Hen.

Guntersville, August 2z.-(Special.) Mrs.
Lucinda Troupe, while setting" a hen,
received a slight scratch, presumably from
the fowl, which may result In the loss of
her arm, if not her life. About 20 hours
after receiving the scratch on the arm the
member swelled to enormous proportion
with symptoms of general septicemia aris-
ing, that area Immediately around the
abrasion sloughing out. The possibility
of the hen harboring snake has been
suggested, and the late symptoms due to
an imperfect injection of the poison. 1t is
feared that the condition will result in her
death. Mrs. Troupe is a widow and lives
with her son, Dave, here.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-28

what can be done and how it can be done,
making ready in this way to clean up
good and hard at the end of the ten
days time to eliminate all screens or
other distractions, and cut out all sign
and street car advertising.
Montgomery Seeks Home.
Montgomery has been given week to
get up an offer for the home for widows
and orphans which the Masons will erect
in the state at a cost of 100000, with
$2O, 900 a year for maintenance. At a
session of the committee of location on
Thursday night this was agreed upon
after local citizens had made the offer.
Jacksonville, Montevallo, Odenville and
Tuskegee have made offers for the 1oca-
ton that are very liberal, but the Ma
sons prefer to have it in Montgomery
because of the location mere of the grand
lodge office. Ben M Jacobs of Birming-
ham is the chairman.
Bank Bills Are Law.
The bill for two assistant bank exam
liners and their pay, and for uniform ne
gotiable instruments have been signed
and are now law. These are of great i'm
portance to the bankers Of the state.
Other bills signed include the following
To give military officers full pay while
ceedings; to regulate packing feedstuffs
for improvements at old soldiers home;
to allow country doctors to embalm
bodies; to regulate sale of food and
drugs; to establish Marengo law and
equity court.
Get Good Places.
B. G. Williams of Demopolis has been
appointed judge of the new Marengo
county law and equity court. e. ]. Gill
der of the same place is the solicitor.
No Girls School.
1t is announced that the woman's col
lege of the Methodist church, to have
been opened here this fall will not be
opened on account of the fire which
destroyed Hammer hall, that was to be
used President Martin has returned to
his old place at the head of Sullins col
lege, Bristol, Va, to return next year
when the new buildings here are finished.
Conner at Stanton.
Gov. B. B. Conner left Friday for Stan
ton, where on Saturday he is to make a
speech at a barbecue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-28

Children teething often suffer from
cholera infantum, diarrhoea or some form
of bowel complaint. DR.. Seth Arnold $
Balsam is the best remedy. Warranted
by Jacobs Pharmacy.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-02-25
FREEZE TIGHT SHOPPERS.
1t Causes Contraction From Neck Of
Bottle and Makes Removal Easy.

1t Causes Contraction From Neck Of
Bottle and Makes Removal Easy.
Reagent bottles holding caustic al
kalies, alkaline carbonates, ETC., very
frequently become fixed and the usu-
al method has been to tap the stop
per with wooden block or the ap-
plication of heat to the neck, or a
combination of both. Results are
poor in certain cases and often re-
suit in the fracture of the neck.
The inverse process may be used
to advantage. In other words freeze
the stopper, thus causing a contrac-
tion of the stopper from the neck.
The bottles which I used for expert
ment had failed to open under the
heating and tapping, and were bad
cases Of fixed shoppers. The bottles
held sodium carbonate that had form
ed sodium silieate, an excellent ce-
ment, and so were firmly fixed. They
were inverted in a mixture of crushed
ice and calcium chloride, taking care
that the freezing solution did not
touch the lips of the bottles.
After standing twenty minutes
each stopper was removed without
the slightest exertion. This is the
neatest and safest way to remove
shoppers from bromine bottles and
other corrosive chemicals.-Scientifio
American.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-02-25
FOREIGN LETTER ENVELOPES.
Made Now Lined With Thin Tissue
Paper of Any Desired Color.


Mice sorts of envelopes they have
nowadays for foreign correspon-
dence," said girl who writes letters
abroad. you know the envelopes,
like the letter sheets, are made af
thin paper so that they won't weigh
too much and increase the postage.
with an envelope of thin, plain
paper the writing on the letter might
show through. So they came to make
these envelopes of a paper that was
printed on the inner side with close
lines in a pretty plaid pattern that
you couldn't see through and that
served very well, but now you can
huy foreign letter envelopes that are
made Opaque with a lining of the thin
nest tissue paper Of any desired col
rr.
"Such envelopes you will find and
with lining of various colors in stock;
envelopes lined with blue or with red
or purple or tan or violet, but if you
don't find among these Just what you
want they will show you book OF
tissues with samples of fifty or more
colors or shades from which you can
select first Just the color you do fancy
or the color you call your own and
then you have the envelopes made tc
torder.-New York Sun.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-02-25

The development of types of 1igh4
horses has been notable in the Unit
ed States, but according to bulletin
recently issued by the Department of
Agriculture with a single exception
the draft horses have been foreign
strains transplanted.
OF the light horses, the Narragan-
sett PAGER was famous type in Col
onial days. Later came the Morgan,
the standard bred and the saddle
horse. The specialization of these
types has been a national business,
and in spite of fmportations from
abroad the native stock has develop
ed and held its own.
Of draft horses, on the other hand,
the only native type was the Cones
toga. a breed that has now become
completely extinct and has left no
discernfble traces on the native stock.
For heavy work, therefore. Ameri-
cans must depend upon the import
ed Percherons, Clydesdales and
'Shires.
he udklOlldA Il d1lS WAAANsA ANFS ~
suited in these conditions are evil
IDENTIFY somewhat different from what
has been supposed; for the speed
mania is what has caused the light
types to be developed and the heavy
ones to be neglected. American breed
ers have sacrificed other qualities,
which, in the opinion of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture. are more import
ant in order to lower track records
by> n second or two.
In the minds Of most persons, Vir-
ginia, Kentucky and other parts of
the South are most commonly as
sociated with the pedigrees and de-
velopment of the finest types or
horses. To all who hold that opinion
it will be instructive to trace, through
the pages of the bulletin. number Of
great strains of racing. carriage and
saddle blood which. although common
ly associated with the South, in reali-
ty go directly back to New England.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-02-25
WHY the EDITOR is Sore.

The editor of the Alkali Eye does
not believe there are heavenly
angels" on the police force of far
framed Houston. He says: They
have imported lot O. plain clothes
men for the carnival thet air beneath
tn notice O. any self-respectin' south
ern gentleman, an until they depart
we shall hereafter remain in our own
sanctun sanitarium and daily with the
sizzers and paste. We air free ter
say thet we have nothin' in common
with no officer thet uses his club in
tn breakaway an gouges in a rough
an tumble: as we thoughtfully an
abstractedly put one of our eyes back
into its socket this mornin' an tied
a barrel save to our back ter keep
our broken spine from wobblin', we
decided ter visit Houston city as SOON
as tn crowd goes an have some
understandin'; failin' in gettin' mat.
ters arranged on a live and let live
basis we shall seek recreation in some
other town whose officers do not bite
gouge, spike, kick, butt, pile on OF
otherwise try ter disfgure tn easua
visitor. Atlanta Constitution.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-02-25
(FrOm the Nineteenth Century.)

is a franc and half day for mon
who are alone standing, and two francs
for those who have others dependent on
them; and for the remaining thirty
days it is as much as the directors can
afford to make it-anything from 80
centimes to a franc and half. If the
directors refuse to grant a man an al
lowance or if they reduce his allow
ance at the end of thirty days below
what he thinks it ought to be he may
appeal against them to the court OF
trade. The unemployed elect two Of
themselves to watch over their inter-
ests and see that each of them receives
his due.
The directors are bound to grant an
allowance to every member of the bur-
eau who fulfils the conditions under
which allowances may be claimed. AS
one of these conditions is, however,
that the claimant must be out of work
through no fault of his own they take
it for granted that every claimant IS
anxious to be in work and therefore
before giving him one penny they try
/ to find work for him. The manager
of the insurance bureau, it must be re-
| membered, is also the manager OF the
labor bureau, and as such is in con-
slant communication with all the en-
ployers in the canton as well as with
all the labor bureaus in the country.
( He therefore knows to a nicely the
state of the labor market, and can say
at once where, if anywhere, work is
to be had. All members of the insur-
ance bureau are allowed to travel on
| all state railways at half the usual
! fares when in search of employment.
If he reports to the directors that
there is no work anywhere, they ap-
ply to the Municipal Board of Works
| to start at once some undertaking that
would perhaps otherwise not be started
until later. For they have an agree
ment with this board that all municipal
work shall so far as possible be done in
December, January and February and
by members of the insurance bureau
Thus they have as rule a fair amount
of work to offer during these months
and any one who refuses it when Of
fered forfeits of course his claim to
an allowance. Allowances are grant.
ed, in fact, only in cases in which
work cannot be provided and only un-
til it can The men who receive them
are required to present them
selves twice every day in the bu-
reau waiting room to see if the man
ager has a job for them.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-02-25
Extemporaneous.

A young lawyer was invited to de-
liver an grafton on the occasion of
the dedication of a new bridge. He
did not prepare himself, but had an
idea that he could speak at a moments
notice, He arose on the platform and
commenced as follows:
Five and forty years ago this bridge
built by your enterprise was part and
parcel of the bowling wilderness" He
paused for a moment. Yes, fellow
citizens, only five ana forty years ago,
l repeat, this bridge was part and par
eel of the bowling Wilderness Again
he paused and there were cries of GO
on! go on!". He was plainly ratified;
however, he went on.
Il feel it hardly necessary to repeat
that this bridge five and forty years
ago was part and parcel of the bowling
wilderness, and l will conclude by say
ing that | wish it was part and par
eel of bowling wilderness now
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-02-25

The transformation of Ireland from
a country of tenant farmers and alb
sentee landlords into country of
peasant proprietors proceeds apace.
In single months negotiations cover
ing the purchase of as many as 5000
small farms have been completed.
Since the passage of the act of 1908,
notes the New York Mail, the latest
official report shows purchase agree
mentg to the number of 166,89S have
been lodged, and loans applied for to
The Government under the act to the
amount of s2S8,742,3@5.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-02-25

Whether the wife supports or is
supported by the husband whose
house she keeps and whose children
she Fears seems to be rather futile
question, and one wonders at the
vehemence which was displayed by
the feminine disputants who raised
it, contends the New York Times. OF
course, the answer to the question
depends on the meaning one gives
to the word support, I" though none
of the eloquent controversialists
thought of agreeing on a definition.
As terms are commonly used, the
efficient and dutifuI husband un-
doubtedly supports his family and in
cidentalIy himself That is his chief
business in Iife-what he is here for.
as the saying is. When he dies or
otherwise departs nobody hesitates to
say that the wife's status is changed,
and that from supported she becomes
supporter. if she can, and the rela-
tiyes or the town authorities do not
intervene. When one of the speakers
asked what was said of husband
who stayed at home and looked after
the house while his wife went OUT and
earned money for food and clothes
fer him. the debate ought to have
ended, for the answer is obvious and
OF double applicability. There IS.
however, such a thing as gupporting 3
the supporter. and the issue OF in-
feriority is not necessarily involved q
the debate
The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-02-25

Before many years." Lewis Nixon
Is quoted as saying, ''we shall see the
absolutely fireproof steamer for car
rying passengers. But it will be with
the war vessel that progress will be
most spectacular. Heavier guns,
heavier shell, more efficient powder,
greater perfection in sighting and
firing are the results of present de-
-Eelopment I expect soon to see the
heavy masts, coming towers and
smokestacks disappear. They are all
needless, and the future battleship
win not have them. In 1902 pointed
put that it would some day be possi-
BILE to project electrical impulses with
the possible result of shocking to
death the men on an enemy's ship or
at least of rendering them helpless. "
The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-02-25

Miss Ninette Porter, Braintree, Yer
mont, writes: Il have been cured by
Peruna.
Il had several hemorrhages of the lungs,
The doctors did not help me much and
would never have cured me.
Il saw testimonial in Peruna almanac
of a case similar to mine, and | commenced
using it. | wrote to DR.. Hartman for ad-
vice. He kindly gave me free advice.
" i was not able to wait on myself when
| began using it. | gained very slowly at
first, but could see that it was help
ing me.
menced to raise up stringy, sticky, sub
stance from my lungs. This grew less and
less in quantity as l continued the treat
ment.
Il grew more feshy than I had been
for long time, and now I call myself
well"
A Bad Cough.
Mrs Emma Martin, Odessa, Mo, writes:
" | cannot thank you enough for curing me-
For two years | doctored my cough,
which cost me many dollars, but still [
seemed to get worse. My cough was so
bad | could not sleep.
Finally | purchased a bottle of Peruna
After the use of six bottles / feel that 1
am cured"
People who object to liquid medicines
can now secure Peruna tablets.
For a free illustrated booklet entitled
"The Truth About Peruna," address The
Peruna Co., Columbus, Ohio. Mailed post
paid
The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-02-25

Great men and women were born
in the year 1909. Great men and
women will be born in the year 1909,
prophesies the Christian Register.
Whence they will come and out of
what stratum of society they will be
raised up nobody knows. Human ma
ture is so rich and large, and so bound
together in all its parts that out of
any family or race at any time may
come the highest intelligence and the
most exalted moral character. The
genealogists make much of lists and
family descent. The real truth, ca
pabIe of mathematical demonstration,
we hold to be that the ancestry of
every human being could, if we only
knew enough, be traced back to every
man or woman who lived, say, 100
generations ago. There is not pure
bIooded race or family in the world.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-02-25
JEWISH LONGEVITY.
The Reasons for 1t, Hygienie and Re
Igious.

The Reasons for 1t, Hygienic and Re
Iigious.
Superficial scrutiny of the vital st' :
tistics yields the Jew a 5 omineI t
position in the sanitary world, if long
evity serves as any index of hygienic
living. With the average length of
life for all Christian people placed at
Sc years II months (19OO) the Jew
may hope to reach 48 years months.
Neufville (1855), inQuiring into the
comparative duration of life and caus-
es of death of Jews and Christians in
Frankfort, learned that one-fourth Of
the Jewish population was living be-
yond Il years, while only one-fourth
of their neighbors was living beyond
the age of SO years 10 months. Abbott
claims that They ii. e., Jews) are
much less frequently the subjects Of
tubercular and acute epidemic dis,
eases than any other race of man.
kind"
Why should this seeming vital su-
periority exist? According to Rich,
arlson "the causes are simply sum.
med up in the term 'soberness of life
The Jew drinks less than his even
Christian; he takes as a rule better
food; he marries earlier; he rears the
children he has brought into the
world with greater personal care; he
tends the aged more thoughtfully; he
takes better care of his poor and he
takes better care of himself" To this
might have been added that through
religious customs hygienic tendencies
became an inheritance.-From the
Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette.