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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
A CONCERT BY
 WELL kONWN MUSICIANS.

The date of concert to be given for
 benefit of the East Lake Methodist church
 owing to confiction is changed from May
 20 to May IS. The programme will be furnished by Birmingham musicians. It is seldom that we are so fortunate to hear so many musicians of such high or
 der in one evening. The following will fill the programme:
 Mrs Harriette Wiswell- l-O'Neal will sing
 Aria La Bolieme), "Oni, On MAD belle" (MimD, "On Wings of Song" QHahn), "The Years at the Spring (Beach), "The Night Hath Thousand Eyes (Smith), and ''Sing, Smile, Slum- Der" (Gounod, with MT. Oliver Chali- foux playing an obligato; also Mrs. ONeal and MT. Wyatt Hehin will sing 'The Crucifix" Faure). Miss Stribling's piano numbers will be ''Notcurne" Chopin, Twelfth Rhap- sodie" QiszD. ''Mazurka" (Musin). ''sernade" (Svend- son).
 MT. Klenk's two violin solos, selected, will be played with the Klenk's string quartet.
 MT. Wyatt Hehin, Flows My Boy?" (Home)
 MT. owen Gillespi, Dreams (StreezkD. MT. Erin Farley, When the Heart is Young" Dudley Bucl). Mir. W. H. Davis, Star of My Soul' (Bischoff), 70, Paradse;" (Meyerbeer). Miss Bessie Eargood "Ich Liebe Ich' (irieg).
 Raymond Cox, piano solos, (a) "The Butterfy), (b) Spring (Grieg). The accompanists for this concert will be Mrs. Oliver Chalffoux, Miss Stribling and MT. Raymond Cox.
 ANNOUNCEMENTS. Mr. and Mrs. William A. Chenoweth will entertain at reception Tuesday afternoon at the Country club in honor of MT. and Mrs. William Arthur Cheno- weth, Jr. That evening they will also en- tertain for them with cotllon. Mrs. Benton will entertain the Music Study club Thursday afternoon at 8 | O clock.
 Mrs. Berry Baugh will give bridge | party Friday afternoon in compliment to | Mrs Raymond Emerson The Talking Garden" little play will l be given by the first five classes at the | Allen school Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 l O. clock The friends of the school are | cordially invited. | The little play, Patience" which was l presented so delightfully."- at the Birming- | ham seminary Friday evening, will be | repeated tomorrow evening again for the l benefit of the Yancey chapter, United | Daughters of the Confederacy. coLLINS-S
 | MT. and Mrs J. T. Collins announce the | engagement of their daughter Virginia, to
 Mr, Albert 0. Steere of Shreveport the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09

Mrs. Benton will entertain the Music Study club Thursday afternoon at O clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-09
ANNouNcEM ENTs.

Mir. and Mrs. William A. Chenoweth will entertain at reception Tuesday afternoon at the Country club in honor of MT. and Mrs William Arthur Cheno- weth, Jr That evening they will also en- tertain for them with a cotillon.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09
The Only Safe Way.

"No, I can't stay any longer" he said. with determination.
 What difference does an hour or so make now?" asked member of the party. "Your wife will be in bed and asleep, and if she wakes up she won't know what time it is."
 "Quitc right. quite right" he re- turned. ''I can fool my wife almost any time as long as I get home before breakfast. Why. I've gone home when the sun was up. kept the blinds shut, lit the gas and made her think that 1t was little after 12. But, gentlemen. I can't fool the baby. I can make the room as dark as please, but it won't make the baby sleep minute later than usual. and when she wakes up hungry 1t comes pretty close to being morning. and my wife knows 1t. Gen tlemen," he added as he bowed him. self out. T make it a rule to get home before the baby wakes. It's the only safe way"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09
WHEN YOU WEEP.
The Way. That Tears Act Upon the
 Human Organism.

Human organism.
 Professor Waynbaum, M. D., of Paris publishes some queer facts re- garding the nature and purpose of tears, coming to the conclusion that tears act upon the human organism "like chloroform, ether or alcohol"
 When n human being gives way to sorrow" says Dr. Waynbaum, "the blood pressure fin the brain decreases. The tear helps in this process, which benumbs the brain for the time being, causing passiveness of the soul all most approaching indifference.
 Tears are blood, changing color by their passage through the lachrymal glands. One can drown his sorrow in tears as one can benumb his senses by the use of alcohol or drugs. When person cries the facial muscles con- tract and the appearance of the face changes, which action facilitates the white blood letting, driving the blood particles into the lachrymal gland from which they issue in the shape of tears.
 Children whose nervous system is particularly tender derive great ben eft from crying occasionally. The act of crying relieves their brains. The same may be said with respect to wo- men"
 The professor likewise explains why laughter sometimes produces tears but the explanation Is too technical for reproduction.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

and at all of which repair work costs manifold more than it should. Ten million dollars has been spent on the Portsmouth yard, which competent navy officers believe should hA abandoned be cause of inaccessibility. Thirteen mil lion dollars has been dumped into the Mare Island yard, including the cost of a fine dry dock to which no battle ship can approach. In the south are mum Der of naval stations where the cost of repair work is twenty-five times it's actual value. These are but few of the items of waste. MT. Turner de- clares that
 ''The main trouble with the pres
 ent United States navy is that too
 much of it has got on the land.
 The great bulk of its expenditure
 has been transferred from the sea;
 to the shore; and the chief deter
 mining factors in it's management
 are political system and a sub
 ordinate bureaucracy, which find
 
 motive in the abnormal develop
 ment of series of national plants
 for the manufacture of naval
 stores. The reason this has hap
 pened is that there has been no
 agency with any responsibility or
 power in our naval organization to
 represent the one thing it exists for
 its military purpose. Its develop
 ment, consequently, could not
 escape becoming political and
 bureaucratic.
 Mr. Turner estimates that our naval establishment is costing S40,000,000, a year too much. That may be merely a guess, yet the official figures he gives will convince anybody that there is a tremendous waste in our naval expendi. ture, and that congress has done noth- ing to prevent this waste, but is, on the contrary, the chief source of it. It is waste that ought to be checked by congressional action of radical kind. To have the navy establishment turned into pork barrei,' to sub ordinate the country's defense and the efficiency of it's naval equipment to political considerations, is form of patriotism that will scarcely commend itself to the better judgment of the people who now urgrudgingly sustain the immense cost of our navy.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09
Shifting Slugs


 The capitalization of New York city's gas companies is over s3s6,000,- 900, and they sell annually 92,0oo, ,00o,- 900 cubic feet of gas, which is 20 per cent of the gas production in the United States.
 State forest commissioner of New York reported 700 forest fires last year, causing loss of sSo0,0o0. He attrib- utes ninety fires to hunters and nearly 400 to locomotives.
 Several of the messengers taking cleo toral college returns to Washington were very tardy. At 25c mile the tempta- tions to daily are many. Some broken resolutions: By Dorando, to rest on his laurels; by Emperor VII helm, to emulate the sphinx; by Aus tria and Servia, to bury the hatchet; by every woman, to remain away from bar gain day sales; by Hobson, not to see another war cloud; by congress not to build two battleships.
 A Detroit milliner who routed a bur. glar after hot fight, declared she knew the intruder got the worst of it despite her own bruised and battered appear ance, because trimming is right in her line.
 
 Before congress permitted Willett' $ speech to go on record it was treated to an anti-septic preparation of chloride of lime, bichloride of mercury and fire
 Small Boy--I didn t know aunty mar ried an Indian, mamma.
 Mother-Gracious, childl What dc you mean?
 Small Boy--Well, just saw lot of scalps on her dressing table.
 With Marathon to be run on March IT in which Hayes, an Irish-American; Longboat, an Indian; Shrubb, an Eng lishman, and Dorando, an Italian, par tlclpate, what IS the answer!
 One reason man can be such a fool over woman is that he thinks he can t *-~x A word from Josh Wise: Truth is stranger than fiction, but nature fake: are stranger than nature" *a*
 A dispatch to a London paper says; Walker, Olympic champion, twice rar 130 yards in 12 3-5 seconds Won derful! Walker must have run the dis tance in 6 3-10 seconds each time. &s* Another effort is being made to get funds to raise the Maine. Why not lei her R. I. F.?
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09
STRAWBERRIES AND EGGS

Says the On1o state Journal
 "A fellow is very apt to get tired
 of this world when brought face to
 face with the proposition of buying
 strawberries at so much berry.
 That is the point we have reached.
 Here is a telegram from down the
 Mississippi stating that shipment
 of 15,000 strawberries had been
 made to rich people in New York,
 Chicago and Cincinnati, at two
 cents a strawberry.
 'It is bad enough to buy straw
 berries by the quart, with the bot
 tom half way up to the top, but
 by the berry-so much apiece
 Bounds! We propose an amendment
 to Mrs. Rorer's opinion that straw
 berries are fit only for snakes, by
 adding, and rich people. That is
 the only inference from this export
 of l5,000 strawberries at two cents
 apiece, which is about 50 cents
 dish or $500 for family short
 cake.''
 That is bad enough in way, but has our contemporary thought O. the egg situation7 We trust not, or it would not waste its impotent indignation on strawberries. Eggs, which have been quoted at 50 cents per dozen almost the entire winter, are reported on the verge of another sharp advance; indeed, al- ready they are being held for from two to three cents per dozen over last week s prices in many cities, and the end is by no means in sight yet.
 Every one not positively juvenile can remember the large, expansive plate of daintily fried eggs that used to visit the table ever and anon in the good old days. Ever see such vision now? Not muchl And yet eggs constitute one of our real substantial articles of food combining with themselves, in the eyes of many physicians, the most beautiful ly adjusted variety of nourishment pos. sible to assemble in one given article naturally designed for human assimila- tion.
 The ordinary family does not today purchase eggs for their own sake. They are merely used for mixing breads and other compounded foods, to which they are indispensable. Occasionally the sick one gets as great concession, an egg or two just as they are, and not disguised in a mass of other food, but he dare not confess an improved condi tion until long time has passed, fol fear he may be thought to have been selfish in taking those eggs.
 Strawberries? Pshaw! It ,s:aaes nc vital difference if they disappear from the earth entirely They are dainty ant palatable, but they are not especially valuable as an article of diet. But eggs eggs are necessary, and we ought tc be able to get at them for reasonable outlay of cash.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09
A Dog Story.

At farmhouse at which we have been staying terrier, Rough, shares always his masters first breakfast the bread and cream accompanying a cup of tea. Three corners he breaks off and gives to Rough. who eats the first two. or the third he licks the cream, then carries the crust to 2 hen who each morning comes across the field where the fowls are kep! and at the gate awaits her friends ar rival Should others of the hens ap' pear. Rough "barks them off'' while his favorite devours her portion. - London Spectator.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09
FLOWERS OF SPEECH.
An EngIishman's Address at Ladies'
 Seminary In Siam.

Seminary In Siam.
 The influentiaJ Englishman in Siam fattered himself that he had very decent knowledge of the language and was ready to do great things. He had already ordered coffee from his hotel waiter with success and asked the boy to bring up his boots.
 Now, influential Englishmen fin Siam are not as common as cock reaches, and that afternoon the dis tinguished visitor was requested by friend to deliver an address on "England' at the only ladies' sem mary in the country. Confidently he accepted.
 He began famously. Every one ap- plauded and smiled. But gradually as he proceeded be noticed consternation overspreadlng the countenances of his listeners
 "What's the troubleY he whispered in English anxiously to his friend on the platform.
 "Troubler' exclaimed the friend hot ly. "Why. the trouble is what you are saying"
 "But," protested the speaker, T am saying, I am delighted to see so many young ladies rising to intellectual heights, with fine brains and large appreciation
 "Oh, no. you're not" corrected the friend You're saying. I am pleased to see so many small lionesses grow. ing large and fat. with big noses and huge feet" "--London Tit-Bits.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

Among the first laws that the Cuban congress is likely to pass will be one to Iegalize cock-fghting and another providing for the establishment of a national lottery. It appears that there is still considerable room for improve ment in Cuba" says the Chicago Rec ord. Herald. Yes, indeed! It will prob ably be long time before the Cuban congress gets to the 'pork bar'l' stage, ''My Dear MT. Az correspon dence, and so forth, and so on!
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

There is not any better Salve than Dewitt s Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve. We hereby warn the public that we are not responsible for any injurious effects caused from worthless or poison ous limitations of our DeWitt's Car boized Witch Hazel Salve, the original. It is good for anything when salve is needed, but it is especially good for piles. Be sure you get DeWitt's. Sold by Palace Pharmacy and United Drug Co.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09
4 Patron of Art.

"So you enjoy reading all the extrav- agant praise that is printed about that opera singer?'
 "Yes," answered Mir. Cumrox. Tt kind of helps me to feel that maybe those tickets were worth what paid for em."-Washington Star.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09
Chamberlain Cough Remedy the Most
 Popular Because It Is the Best

"'I have sold Chamberlain Cough Remedy for the past eight years and find it to be one of the best selling medicines on the market. For babies and young children there is nothing bet ter in the line of cough syrups,'' says Paul Allen, Plain Dealing, La. This remedy not only cures the coughs, colds and croup so common among young chil- dren, but it is pleasant and safe for them to take. For sale by All Drug, gists.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

"The Atlantic Fleet is coming home,' notes the San Antonio Express. The muckrakers and magazine writers have been saying some scandalous things about it in its absence.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

"Automob.lists should be little more careful about killing people who are getting of street cars,' says the Milwaukee Sentinel. That's right; we too, are in favor of getting in a reform wedge wherever there appears an op- portunity, no matter how minute.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

King Menelik again arises to deny that he is dead. His majesty could hardly be kept buster at that sort of thing if he were real, promising peach crop.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09
Poor Jonssl

Missionary Can you give me any in formation about Deacon Jones, who labored among your people three years ago? Cannibal-Well, the last heard about him he had gone into consump- tion.-Judge.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09
Arrested

A cough that has been hanging on for over two months by taking Bal lard s Horehound Syrup. If you have 8 cough, don't wait--stop it at once with this wonderful remedy. Splendid for coughs, cold on chest, influenza, bronchitis and pulmonary troubles. Price 25c, 50c and $l00. Sold by Pal ace Pharmacy.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

Unless you are the ice man we don't see anything you can do but vainly gaash your teeth at the coal man, how ever. Of course, if you are the ice man, you can get back at him next sum- mer.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

It is said that benzoate of soda is a by-product of the Standard Oil Com pany. Ah--h-h! That may explain many of it's insistent virtues, of course!
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

By carefully selecting your Febru- ary magazines, you will be able to find several first-class articles concerning the late Abraham Lincoln.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

''Let the local lumber trust do it's worst,' says the Indianapolis News. If it is anything like its big and plutocrat- ic kin, it doubtless will, all right
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

Tt seems that the Indiana legisla- ture is debating whether or not it had its fingers crossed when it passed the local option law says the Chicago Post. Its three fingers, you mean, probably.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

.'The constitution of the United States is by no means dead letter, !" says Mir. Roosevelt, according to a re- cent news letter Of course, therefore, if MT. Taft has been entertaining fool ish notions otherwise, he wants to get them out of his head right away.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

According to the Atlanta Georgian, human life has been extended within the past two decades 1.-two full years Not 1.-two full years in Georgia, sure ly?
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

"New York has at last been shocked by 'Salome' performance, says the South Bend, Ind, News. There may be more truth than poetry in this; the last reported performance of note being fairly decent affair.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

President Jefferson Davis faithful body servant has died again. What was his name?'' asks the Mobile Regis ter. His name was--and is-legion.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09
A Tremendous Task.

"So you are going to study law?"
 "Yes."
 Going to make speciality of crini- nal law"
 "No."
 ''Corporation lawT"
 No. Both are too easy. What want is to be accurately and reliably informed as to what months in the year and days in the week it is per mitted to shoot certain game in the various sections of the country."- Washington Star.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

If you need pill take Dewitt s Little Early Riscrs. Insist on them; gentle, easy, pleasant, little liver pills. Sold by Palace Pharmacy and United Drug Co.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09
NoTICE no sUBsCRIBERs

Subscribers to the Daily Arizona Sil- vek Belt will confer a favor on this sfico by reporting promptly failure to receive paper. When no complaint IS received the natural conclusion is that th8 paper is being delivered regularly.
 SILVER BELT PUBLISHING co.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

We suppose it makes Japan rather tired also-this involuntary service as war scarecrow.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

Let the groundhog have his say. His prognostications are probably as deserv- ing of respect as the rest of them.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

Let the Guarantee Paint company de your work. Best material, best work, lowest prices.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

MABEL TALIAFERR0, WHO IS TO QUIT THE STAGE. she she will leading Miss Talo although she twenty
  public in the part o Patch of wife of the {: Iippodrome
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

The Silver Belt does job printing.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

The Silver Belt has larger circula- ton than any daily newspaper in the world published in city with 10000 or less population.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

A word from Josh Wise: Truth i stranger than fiction, but nature fake are stranger than nature.'
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-09

A dispatch to London paper says: Walker, Olympic champion, twice ran 130 yards in 12 3-5 seconds Won derful! Walker must have run the dis tance in 3-10 seconds each time.
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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-06-05

1884 SO
In evidence whereof witness my Of
fetal signature aud the impress of the
seal of my Office. this LIST day of June,
1909.
WILBUR H. KRAMER,
Clerk of Court, St. Mary Parish, La.
Clerks Office, Parish of ST. Mary,
To the Police Jury, of the Parish of
St. Mary, State of Louisiana.
GENTLEMEN
During the month of May, 1909,
this Office issued the following jul
rOr Warrants tO-wit.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-06-05

man, Sheriff and Tax Collector,
Parish of ST. Mary, La.
To the Treasurer of the Parish OF ST
Mary, Louisiana, Taxes for the
year 1908, and Parish Licenses for
the year 1909, Parish of st. Mary.
La, from the 1st day OF May
1919, to the 31st day of May,
1909, inclusive, as per accounts
enumerated as follows:
Parish Tax, 1908 ......... AL rs
Franklin Drainage Tax, 1908 "a 81
Bird Ward School Tax, 1905. 5 81
Ate. Bay Ship Channel Tax :,
Sth Ward School Tax, 1908.. 20 IS
Court Fines, May, 1909. ,..... 20 ~
Licenses. 1909. 40 90
6o2 26
Interest 81 20
Total 80. .... 633 SO
Commission ...... 7 IS
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-06-05

1855 Is
In evidence whereof witness nv Of.
fetal signature and the impress of the
seal of my office, this LIST day of June
A. D., 1909.
WILBUR H. KRAMER,
Clerk of Court, St. Mary Parish, La.
FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT
FOR MAY.
FRANKLIN, La, June |, 1909.
To the President and Members, of the
Police Jury. Parish of st. Mary:
GENTLEMEN:-We, your Finance
Committee have to report that we
have examined the following claims
and finding them correct, have an.
proved them and recommend that
they be registered and paid:
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-06-05

1fUJf :
E. A. BOUDREAUX,
Treasurer.
CLERKS REPORT
Clerks Office, Parish of st. Mary,
To the Police Jury of the Parish OF
ST. Mary, State Of Louisiana.
GENTLEMEN
During the month of May, 1909,
this office issued the following wit
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-06-05

1893 J B Luke. same 10 30
1916 VIM. Elijah, witness 90
1882 Jacob Clausen, same l 10
1872 A Reuter-, public buildings l 90
615S Toerner & Young return
license 90
612l Ed Hydalgo, cor jury 90
GIG Geo A Lobby 90
4O91 80
May 31st.
Balance on hand this day 1862 AZ
14O54 %
RECEIPTS.
GENERAL FUND.
May 6. Check from Paul
Kramer, Agt. r. Hanf af-
fairs III o.
May 6. Amt. 3 per cent. on
daily balances from Com.
Band a. T Co. from Jan.
l to date Sc "a
May 4. By balance on last
report 1875 IS
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-06-05

Continued on page SIX.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-06-05
VfCJ
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE,
CONSTABLES.
Salary for Nav.

OHIarV TOT way.
Jack Mendoza, 1st ward 500. Is 90
Geo Pecot, LIST ward. ....,.... Is 90
c A Bergeron, End ward. Is 90
Fernand Barrilleaux 3rd ward Is 90
Philip Alberas, Bird ward. .. Is 90
CASTOR Rotation, 4th ward. Is 90
Callen Charpentier, 9TH ward Is 90
Mp Sofford, 9Th ward ....... Is OF
Jos A Daigle, 9Th ward. ..... Is 90
NJ D. Legnon, It'll ward. Is 90
C A Cooksley. 9Th ward Is 90
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-06-05

Net amount paid to Parish
Treasurer. ...... 5 626 q
TREASURER'S REPORT.
FRANKLIN. La, May 81, 1909.
To the Honorable Police Jury, Par
ish Of st. Mary, La.
Beg to submit the following, as my
report of the receipts and disburse-
ments of my Office since my last
report, to this date:
DISBURSEMENTS
GENERAL FUND.