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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-05
Reflections of Uncle Ezra.

FTO1n JuuSc
 Constable Bibbs lost his star, and says he expects to get new one. He is fig gerin' on gettin' one from Frohman, as he has read a good deal about that kind.
 some strubry shortcakes Is too blame short. Last time Deacon Renfrew was down to New York, he got one that was mt more'n an inch long.
 Rev Hanks had to go without shave last Sunday mornin.' as Hod Purdy had borrowed his safety razor to plane off the bottom of his henhouse door, which didn't fit
 Our bill poster. Ren Haskins, stuck a big poster on the side of Hillikers store. advertisin' Chicklets. Hilliker wouldn't let him do 1t without he promised him two passes HilIiker said he always want ed to see that show. but never had a chanst before.
 Deacon Renfrew ordered a crayon DOT trait of his first wife from crayon-por- trait concern, and they sent him one which they said was speakin' likeness. Deacon sent 1t back, sayin' that he didn't want that kind. What he wanted was one that would just hang on the wall and say nothin'.
 Lafe Jones says he don't believe in women's clubs. His wife hit him over the head with one last week.
 Our constable carries revolver, but doesn't keep 1t ludded, as he has always heard that it's the guns which aint lud- ded which does the most damage.
 Hank Purdy says free silver is dead issue all right. The last time he was down to borry a quarter offn . police man, but failed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-05
Judge Lindsey.

From Everybody's Magazine.
 It is a story of achievement. Without money, without powerful friends, without the dominating qualities of a personal popularity, this one man, in an obscure struggle, has written upon the statute books of Colorado laws that have been copied around the world. He has codi- fled probate laws, purged election laws, and instituted reform in criminal iuris- prudence that Is as revolutionary in our day as the teachings of Christ were in the "eye-for- -an-eye" days of the Jews. The list of reforms he has obtained charities founded public improvements instituted and political steals baked, show nearly a hundred items. He has obtained nothing for himself but the praise and support of some citizens of Denver and the curse and epmity of oth- CTS. The Reverend Henry Augustus Buch- tel, chancellor of the Denver university and ex-governor of the state of Colorado In the year 1904 coupled his name with Christ's-no lessi-and in the year 1907 called him, through the newspapers "a nincompoop and a flee dog!" Those are the two crowns that have been of- tered him halo and a fools cap. Which shall it be? To which is he entitled in the eyes of the democracy whose battle he is helping to fight.
 Here follows the evidence The choice shall be your own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-05
BIRMINGHAM MAN
 CAUGHT IN MOBILE

Mobile, September Special )-Kemp Gray. alias S. D. Jones, a conductor in the employe of the Mobile Light and Railroad company for the past week. was arrested here tonight on a warrant sworn out at Birmingham, charging him with the crime of seduction He was taken back tonight about midnight
 Gray was arrested at his boarding house on lower Government street by Deputy Sheriff W. C. Fitts of Birming- ham, who reached Mobile this afternoon on the 4:12 o'clock train.
 Gray was seen at the county jail and he begged to be given bond. and said that he would put up any kind of money to get out of his trouble, but he had to be locked up in a cell until his train left the city. When asked about the trouble Gray began to cry and said that he could not account for his troubles
 Edward Phillips, a resident of Adams Vile, a suburb of Birmingham, is the complainant against Gray and the vic- tim Is his 16-year-old daughter. There Is much feeling against Gray among the members of the Phillips family. Gray
 hA 'He livery slaDle business at Evansville and was doing well before he got into his trouble
 Gray was caught in this city through his wife meeting him here this afternoon at the depot. Deputy Fitts learned that she was coming to this city and followed on the same train. When Gray met his wife and was walking to his boarding house the officer told him that he would have to go back. He broke down com pietely and after making all his arrange ments went to the county jail
 Gray Is a married man and has two children. His wife has remained true to him in spite of the trouble that he has brought on himself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-05
QUEER PEOPLE IN
 THIS AMERICA Alabama Has Some of This
 Sect SIN TO HAVE CHURCH The Amishmen Believe the Earth Is FIat-There Are Several Thou
 sand of Them In This Country.
From the New York World.

From the New York World
 The queerest people in America are probably the finish In Alabama. Ohio and Oregon men may be seen wearing long black boards, wide-brimmed black hats and black clothes without buttons. They are Amishmen. There are several thousand of them in America, and they are constantly increasing in number.
 They came originally from Germany and Switzerland. driven out by religious persecution. First they settled in west ern Pennsylvania, and then went to cen tral Ohio. Fifteen years ago they ruled Holmes county, in the central part of Ohio, but because their children had to go to the county schools they moved to Geauga county, in the northern part of the state. Even there they were perse- cuted. and large number of them moved to Alabama and Oregon.
 The Amish are the most ignorant peo- pie in America. Education Is scorned They resent all attacks to educate their children. Even after their sons and daughters have been to school and have learned about the world, the Amishmen brand the knowledge as lie. They have no conception of the earth as being round
 Why" they say, 'the earth is not round, because the Bible speaks of the four corners of the earth. and 1t wouldn't if it was round"
 They never read books or newspapers, and the only way they receive news of the outside world is by hearsay. They have no conception of the size of Amer ica. In fact, they have no conception of anything outside their own community.
 Naturally, the Amishmen are very clannish, especially on a meeting day. Each Sunday all the Amishmen in a cer- tain district attend a meeting at the minister's home, since it is considered a sin to have church. These ministers are selected from the congregation by lot annually. They do not know one whit more than the members of their parish. If an Amishman believes that he will be selected to act as a minister he weeps copiously. Often he throws himself into mysteries. Another duty which falls to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-05
Memorial at Pole.


 What memorial could we leave? There is no land at the pole in which to sink a flagstaff. We put small silk Ameri- can flag, In a metal cylinder, together with a record written in pencil of our journey and our observations and these were left there.'
 That is to say you laid a metal cyl inder upon a moving sea of ice nov ing south hence even if 1t is found it will not be at the north pole, but many miles away?"
 'No doubt, but nothing else could be done. We put up our tent at the spot which we located as the north pole and hoisted the Stars and Stripes, but after photographing 1t I brought 1t back with me- and gave 1t to MT. Whitney"
 In reply to other questions Dr. Cook said they found no traces of animal life or even of vegetable life around the pole. At S3 degrees they came upon traces of bear and sea lions. but animal life prac- tically ceased north of Heiberg island. 83 to S5 degrees latitude and 102 degrees longitude. They lost 10 dogs going out and two going home. After their ammunition gave out they starved for two months before they discovered how to moose musk oxen which were difficult to lasso.
 There were other questions but the above gives a fair resume of his an- swers. He never turned @ hair or shirked a question.
 Foreigners are indignant at the un- worthy suspicious of some Americans.
 pr. Cook goes next week to Brussels and thence home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-05
AMONG THE BEDoUINs
Davenport Describes Ceremony Which
 Made Him Princes Brother.

Mr Homer Davenport went into the Syrian desert to buy Arabian horses, and there he met Alxmet Haffez, Prince of the Bedouins. In the Bohemian for September, MT. Davenport describes the high honor conferred upon him by the prince.
 And at last as though he were yet afraid that he had not shown enough friendship to his American friend. this big-hearted chief conferred on MT. Davenport the highest honor within a Bedouin's power. MT. Davenport gives the following vivid description of the queer ceremony.
 q hope to succeed in impressing the reader with the very fine nobility of character of Akmet TIaffez. My friend ship with him and my admiration for him began at our first meeting in Aleppo, and each day made both stronger. And now I was to come Into close relations with him. The morning after the mare became mine we were to start on a visit to Sheikh Ali. and just before we mounted I went through the ceremony which made me his brother.
 Neither of us had brothers, and so we agreed to follow out the old customs of the Bedouins and take the frater- nal pledge I first treated the matter a little too frivously, but the Bedouins were very solemn.
 Standing at one side of the tent, in the presence of many witnesses, we held up our right hands and with our left clasped together repeated the pledge. ASmet Haffez began with the words, 'Wallahi Wallahl co God! My Godv) which I repeated after him. 'Wallah! Wallah! and then together we said them over and over again.
 Elijah! Billah! Tillah! Tillah' chanted the old Bedouin. 'Akhwan, akhwan, el yom wa bookra wa lal abad, akhwan. cBy God and through God, brothers, today and tomorrow and forever, broth ersr
 ''I felt nothing of frivolity now, and as I gasped his hand and took the oath my eyes were moist After 1t was over he asked how I felt now that l was the brother of a brown old man who ate with his hands. I replied that I felt no change; that we had appar- ently always been brothers, whereupon he began to cry c
 "Who, knew, he asked. but that we had been through a similar ceremony that God himself had performed centu- ries ago on some other planet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-05
BARCELONA IS
 STORM CENTER Of The Restless Nation of the
 Spanish ANARCHIST CONSPlRAClES Catalonlan cty Is Notorious as Center of Agitations-Antl-clerical and Antl-Budget Riots-Man-
 ners of the People.
ANARCHIST CONSPlRAClES
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
 ''If you give stones to the Catalonian he will extract bread from them So runs markedly the character of the men whose recent revolutionary risings have been startling civilized Europe.
 True, Catalonia Is a part of Spain, but Catalonia does not want to be- and strug- gles to regain its former independence are always seething in the pot of insurrec- tion.
 In energy, intelligence and wealth they are superior to all Spain, while they differ not only in habits and costume, but even speak language of their own, with its own grammar, dictionaries and literature. Their industry is proverbial, and in some provinces the phrase for going to market is. GO to the Catalonians."
 The City of Strikes.
 Rarcelonia the city of strikes, Is Cata- lonia's storm center. Anarchist conspira- cies, attempts at assassination anti-cleri- cal and anti-budget riots abound there. Bombs have been hurled in the streets, the cafes the theatres, the churches even. The very appearance of the inhabitants, with their defiant eyes, strong features, glossy dark hair and national Catalonian headdress--a gaudy 'kerchief tied under the chin-proclaims their character And they shout, sing republican songs and drink their favorite priorato wine.
 By day the Catalonians manufacture cotton, silk and wooen goods, brandy, paper, cordage and firearms and industri- ously tend their cory trees, dwarf pines lime md olive ates, nuts, almonds figs, walnuts, and so forth; but they are pleasure lovers too. and in Barcelona alone there are no fewer than IA theatres, one of which can accommodate an audience of 400O.
 Strenuous Sport.
 Toward midnight in the cities the still air resounds with the melancholy voices of the night watchmen, wrapped in their stone-colored mantles. and with their lanterns dangling from the end of a pole. Not content with watching over the sleeping townsmen, they chant the passing hours, and as the nights In Spain are usually calm, these watch men have received the name "serenos ' On the Catalonian highroads one might expect that the chief danger to the trav- eler would be the brigand. By no means! The greatest pests are the small chil- dren, who accost one at every turn. Treated with the utmost consideration by their parents-they are never cor rected, it is said. in any circumstances whatsoever-they track the foreigner with the irritating pertinacity of the mosquito. And, like the mosquito, they seek blood, only they call, 'Cank sous" or "Cinco centimos."
 q have neither father nor mother! Cfneo centimosr And the grubby hands shoot up into ones face.
 Night Watchmen.
 The national game of Catalonia is pe- lota, ball game played on concrete floor marked out something after the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-05
To Ladv correspondents.

From the Sylvania (Ga.) Telephone
 Our young lady correspondents will con- fer a favor if they will write only on one side of the paper. We mean, of course by this correspondence intended for tue paper As to the other, not intended for publication, we don't care if they writs on all four sides. and even crnaa A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-05

When you got to the pole what me- morial did you leave for the next comer?'
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-02-19
Gold and Silver Medals,
Books and Bibles for the Win
ners.
IL Months Schooling Free.

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Each week for year we will pub
lish list OF questions on the Bible
and contestants must write an answe
TO one question week Throughout
the year. AT the end of the year W,
forward the answers to the Interna
tional Newspaper Bible Study Club a
philadelphia, whose judges will ex
y anime the answers and award tn,
prizes.
No attention will be paid to su
perior penmanship or superior ar
rangement or the language used bu
simply to the thought expressed il
the answer. Anybody who can make
his meaning clear has an equal chance
with the best scholars. Nobody
barred from the contest but ordained
ministers.
These questions are in line with
the International Sunday school work
for the current year, and will be a
great help to teachers and pupils en-
gagged in the study and the. work of
the regular lessons. This paper has
purchased the exclusive right to pub
lish the questions in this territory for
1909.
Write out your answers each week
and send to us weekly or mail them
all to us at the close of the year as
you prefer, and you will be in the
cntest with a chance for gold medal,
a silver medal, a $3.50 Bible or a
. $1.5O book entitled 1.-THE Heart of
fChristianity."
Each prize will be suitably en-
graved, giving the name of the win
ner, and for what it is awarded.
Each question must be answered
separately, and the paper written
only on one side. No answer must
have more than two hundred words,
but may be less. Each answer must
have the name and address of the
writer signed at the bottom.
Begin this week, be your own
teacher, master this weeks lesson and
y be ready for new lesson next week.
You will find it interesting, and it
does not cost you cent except for
the stamp to send the answers to us
at the close.
These are the questions for this
week, and only one of them is to be
du6WcTcu. sIftt4H4
Suggestive Questions ON Lesson.
Copyright, 1908, by Rev. T. s. Lins-
colt, D. d.
Stephen the first Christian martyr.
Acts VII to Wills.
Golden Text-They stoned Stephen
calling upon God, and saying, Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts vii:
SO.
& Study Acts 1875; vii:54 to viii: 30.
Verse, S.-Who was Stephen?
In view of present day distinctions,
would you call Stephen layman or |
clergyman?
Why is it not crime against the
gospel, that the preaching of the Cos
pei is so professionalism, that our
pulpits today in the towns and cities,
are practically closed to the laymen
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-02-19
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of the church, SO that even men lik
Stephen, have to keep silent" In on
church pulpits? (This question is {,
be answered in writing by members o
the club.)
4 What was the secret of Stephen
power as preacher, and to what ex
tent may every layman become lik'
him?
| Verse 9-When in a community O
thoughtful men. who oppose the COS
pei; can its claims be established bet
ter by debate than by ordinary
preaching or defamation?
Verse 10.-If you defeat an oppos
er in debate, that Is not likely t1
| convert him to Christianity; unless
he is sincere seeker after truth, but
is it likely to convert the hearers?
| Verses 11-13-What effect did
Stephens victory have upon his OPP
ponents, and what effect did it prob
ably have upon the audience?
Is there any necessary moral value
In mere opinion, and will men ever be
condemned because of wrong doc
trines; l. e. wrong opinions?
When man with right views of
truth, gets angry at the man with
wrong views, and does mean things
to him, the latter takes with gentle
ness; which is likely to be the bet
ter man of the two?
Why is it that men who profess re-
ligion, can act so like devils, when
new truth is presented to them as in
this case?
Verse 14.-Can a mans word in a
religious dispute, be depended upon,
on a matter of fact, If he is untrue to
his conscience and to God?
How is it that unrighteous men
will fight for their false religious
creeds, and shrink from no sort of
rascality to accomplish their pur-
pose?
Can you give any other reason than
their unrighteousness, or assign to
any other principle, the hatred of
these men for so lovely character as
Stephen?
Verse Is. Did the fact tina. Ste
phen looked like an angel, make his
prosecutors love him or hate him,
more?
Chap. T., Verve 54.-What is it
which cuts wrong doors to the heart
more than anything else?
II these rulers had been innocent of
the charge Stephen brought against
them, would they have been cut to
the heart as they were?
Verse 55.-What do you under
stand by Stephen being full of the
Holy Spirit?
What did Stephen see when he
looked up into heaven?
Would the onlookers have probably |
seen the same things, as Stephen, il |
they had looked up?
Verse 56-57-Did they believe Ste
phen's testimony as to what he saw?
Do cold professors of religion as a
rule, have any confidence in the ex-
periences of those who walk and talk
with God?
Verse 58-How would these peo-
lie justify themselves, for committing
this great crime?
What was the method of stoning a
victim to death?
Verses 59-60--Does the spirit sleep
It death, or go into state Of con-
'cious presence with God?
BY what power can man love or
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-02-19
BLACKFOOT MAN IN CUBA.

Writes to Ask About the Town Hi
Lived in Twenty Years Ago
May Return Soon.
The following letter from Rev
George c. Stull, who became pastor
Of the Methodist church at Blackfoo,
in August, 1887. and remained for
several years, will interest the older
residents of the community, and we
publish 1t for their benefit, as well as
our reply which gives some informa-
ton OF current interest.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-02-19

forgive his murderers?
Chap. g.. Verses 1-3-What was
the measure of Saul's sin in the ston-
ing of Stephen?
What were the chief results of the
stoning of Stephen?
Lesson for Sunday Feb. 2Sth, 1909.
The Gospel in Samaria.-Acts wiz
1926.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-02-19
Moro Barracks, Santiago, Cuba,
January 80, 1909.

| Moro Barracks, Santiago, Cuba
January 80, 1909.
| My Dear Trego:
! am somehow influenced to write
you and get little news. do no,
know why, but somehow Blackfoot
and its associations will not down
After the lapse of the years, the old
parsonage is but the one that l built
and the companions but the young
men and women who were so gladly
welcomed by the young parson, wife
baby and dog. Some of the happiest
days of my life were spent at Black
foot and | recall the many kindnesses
extended to me and mine. 1t is of
these that ! wish to enquire and if
the Byrd Trego that remember is
the same painstaking man of former
years, the word | anticipate will
be rich in fruit. The years have
made Of me wanderer-Asia, India,
Japan, the isles of the sea, East and
West, North and South, in my own
country and for the past two years in
Cuba. But ever before me Black
foot. The other day was talking
with my Colonel and found that he,
too, was acquainted with Blackfoot
and it's people. He asked me if |
knew RUDE Dunn, Jim Stevens and
Charlie Bunting. 1t was easy for me
to say YES" but with the exception
of the death of Stevens and Bunting
| could tell him nothing of my other
friends there. What can you tell me
of mother, Mrs. Green, Bumgarner,
Dowd, Pierce, Fishers, Rogers, Berry
man and the other splendid people
who were there in the old days. |
suppose the other side of Snake river
Is now suburb of Blackfoot. My!
To be able to sit on the bank as of
aforetime and watch the fish. What
Of the News and of the remaining
members of the Jones family and the
0anilsons. ] passed through the
,ity only once and that at night, so
hat could get but faint glimpse
If it's increased glory. Write me
when you get the time. | shall be
glad to hear from you. My kindest |
'egards to all the people that are
till there. When you again write,
end to Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming,
or we expect to leave Cuba on the
10Th of this month. Yours,
G. G. STULL.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-02-19

| DedT Verge. Was luueeu sur
prised and pleased at receiving your
letter of January 30th. / rang I'll
Mrs. Wright to tell her I had this
letter from you, and Cassie answered
She was delighted at hearing of you
and said she had just received a let.
ter from her brother, Stull, the boy
they named for you in the long ago;
he is attending school at Helena, and
said he had been up at the capitol
to make some observations about the
legislature, and while in the build
ing somewhere, he had found relic
of one of the battles you were in in
the. Philippines; it was a section of a
tree you had sent home, and on it
were inscribed the words, Presented
by Geo. C. Stull."
Miss Wright sends you the kindest
regards of the whole Wright family.
Mrs. Trego rang Mrs. Eldredge,
formerly Miss Blanch Jones, and told
her of this letter from you, and she
was equally delighted to hear of you,
and told of how you once ran over to
their home to dress her arm when
some accident happened to her and
there was no doctor at hand. Mrs.
Eldredge insists that you come and
visit Blackfoot and your old friends.
We have tried to keep track of you in
your wanderings, but it has been a
long time between reports.
I am sorry you do not say who is
the colonel of your regiment who
asked about all these old residents.
/ will take them in the order you
have named them, and in addition to
what ! write will send you a copy
of The Idaho Republican of December
25th, in which ] gave the where
abouts of few dozen of the people
who have been here and moved away.
Henry Dunn is still here and lives
in a fine home that stands where AL
Creswell lived when you came here.
1t was on lot joining the Hopkins
home.
Jim Stevens" is the honorable dis
trict Judge, and lives on the corner
diagonally across from the Billy
Woodin residence by the courthouse.
His wife was Miss Grace Morgan,
daughter of the chief justice.
Mother Trego has a home at
Maokay, a new copper town near the