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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-31
PERSONAL

Dr. Charles A. Merrill dean of the Br- mingham Dental college. left yesterday for Old Point Comfort to attend the an- nual meeting of the National Associa- ton of Dental Faculties, composed of all the dental colleges of the United States and Canada
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general shall represent the state in such actions carried to the supreme court, and for his services therein Is entitled to one-half of the commission herein al- lowed to the solicitor
 Sec. 5. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this statuts ara hesstg repealed.
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Husband and Wife Drown.

Salinas. Cal. July S0.-Charles Thinner man anG, his wife were pinned beneath an automobile arf> drowned today when the machine overturned and flung its five oc- cupants into a small stream near Castro vile. Dr. J. Rudolph Beck, Miss Ruby Rasmussen and Miss Alice Adams were painfully but not seriously injured.
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Frank c. Keller.

Frank O. Keller, age 22 years, died at 12.T o'clock this morning at the fam ily residence, 2213 Avenue F. The de- ceased is the son of Mir and Mrs. F. M. Keffer He had been i'll only since last Monday and his death was rather unex- pected. Funeral arrangements will be announced leter
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F. B. TavIor.

Advices have been received in Birming- ham of the death of F. B. Taylor in Chi. cago. He was brother of F. H. Taylor of Birmingham and Mrs. A. H. McAllis- ter of Chattanooga. His home was for merly at Dalton, Ga. The remains will probably be brought south for interment
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FUNERAL NOTICE.

Mrs. Mary Irene Grimes. wife of L.. M. Grimes, who died Thursday at o'clock, will be buried from St. Paul's church at g o'clock Saturday morning. Carriages will leave the Green undertaking chapel at 9 a. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-31
Marriaae License Issued.

The following marriage license was is- sued yesterday from the office of the probate court:
 David Hart of North Birmingham to Miss I.illie Gibson,
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Mrs. Lyra Bailey.

Mrs. Lyra Bailey, age 62 years, died at Acton, near Oxmoor, yesterday afternoon. She Is survived by her husband, R. M. Bailey. Funeral services will be held at the family residence today.
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Neqro Is Hanued,

Greenwood. s. C., July 30-Marsh Wash- ington, negro. aged 30. was hanged here today for the murder of negro woman last July. Washington confessed on the scaffold.
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THE WEATHER.

Washington, July 30-Forecast for Ala bama and Mississippi: Local showers Saturday and Sunday; light to moderate winds.
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Cecil Nixon.

Cecil Nixon, the 15-months-old infant of H. H. Nixon. died yesterday afternoon at the family residence. 104 Montgomery street. The remains will be sent to Gull man this morning by the Green Under- taking Co. for interment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-31

Lost-Gold head and pearl handle Umbrella. Reward paid to finder. Telephone 1270, Bell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-31

Following is the local report of the United States weather bureau at Bir- ming gham for 24 hours ending at D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-31

E. T. Shaw $ Son. undertaksrs.
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Green Undertaking Company,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Letting Down Tariff Bars.

Nothing will really be done about
the tariff. until the extra session of
congress. but some of the preliminary
work is significant, says the New York
Post. No item of it is more so than
the report and recommendation of
the special committee on wood pulp
and printing paper. Appointed last
year as means of staving off action
on the presidents recommendation
that wood pulp be admitted free of
duty, and the rates on paper cut down
the committee has made long inquiry
and has felt bound by the evidence 10
urge that wood pulp be put on the free
list practically and that the duty or
printing paper be reduced from Sc a
ton TO 81.
This shows that the facts can al
last penetrate even the trIpIy pro
tected heads of protectionists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Covers the Field.

The development of the publishing
art is such in these early days of the
10th century that every craft and
every profession has its own special
periodical literature. There are mag
azines for the lawyer and magazines
for the doctors; the butcher, the baker
and the candlestick maker have their
trade journals; the subdivision of
class interests is such that it is be-
lieved there is even a weekly or month
ly publication pledged TO the separate
service of red-headed men. 1t is thus
possible for the advertiser. by using
simultaneously some hundreds of
the specialized periodicals, to reach
with his message all kinds of people
in all walks of life-but at how
great waste of money and energyi
At one sweep the great daily news.
paper covers the same field as all the
narrow class publications, and covers
1t with a. ten time more powerful grip
upon the attention and interest of the
reader
The man who advertises an article
of general use in magazine of special
use, and. does not advertise in the
daily newspapers, is the self-same in.
dividual whose experience leads him
TO believe that advertising does not
pay.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Counterfeitins in Prison.

The recent discovery of a counter
feiting plant in the New York state
prison at Sing Sing has occasioned
great surprise, as the prison has been
held up to the public as one of the
model prisons of the country in con-
struction and operation. The counter
ffiting plant turned out imitation
quarters which treasury experts de-
clare are so well made as to deceive
ordinary persons. Large numbers of
the bogus quarters have been put into
circulation, having been passed on
tradesmen in the neighboring village.
This counterfeiting plant might still
be in operation had it not been for an
attempt to pass one of the quarters
on. guard who was himself engaged
in Illicit traffic. 1t seems that this
guard had been caught in prison with
a piece of hose containing whisky
coiled around his waist He had been
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Praises Commission Plan.

DR.. Charles w. Eliot, former presi-
dent of Harvard university, has been
investigating in Galveston and other
Texas cities which are under the com
mission form of government. His
conclusions are of Importance as there
is probably no higher authority on
municipal government in this coun
try.
After spending several days person
ALLY looking into the workings of the
Galveston plan, Dr. Eliot declares:
in Galveston there are now no sine
cures. The citizens get a days work
for days pay from every employee Of
the city-something that can be said
in few instances in my home city
Cambridge. and cannot be said in any
case in Boston. 1t is.the best plar
| yet advanced for the management o
municipalities"
There is no higher authority thar
Dr. Eliot on city affairs. He ha:
given the subject the study of life
time and his conclusions will carr!
great weight.
The Galveston plan is PRACTICAL.
the same as the one in operation i!
Des Moines, except that the Texa
city has not the recall. There ar
differences of opinion as to the valu
of the recall. 1t is in operation in De
Moines. Cedar Rapids and Los Angelo
and in the state of Oregon. The stat
of Kansas has passed an act enablin
the cities of that state to adopt tn
commission form and the measure co.
tains the recall. Cities desiring |
Operate under commission may II
| tain or omit the recall.
Meanwhile DIR. Eliot's strong i
dorsement of the Galveston idea wi
give impetus to the general NOV
ment
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Taft as Yale Sees Him.

Yale Alumni Weekly: 1t is not so
much a matter of Reorganization
to the university itself when one of
their number receives merited recog-
milton of his worth or is called upon
to exercise his abilities for the good
of community, large or small, as it
is matter for congratulation, to the
university itself that It's ideals, its
traditions, its teachers, its teaching,
and implant in the individual thus
trained his views of personal service
to his generation. If there is one thing
which men of the stamp of William
H. Taft show forth in their lives it is
a deep-seated ideal of public service
shorn on personal ambitions and de
voted TO the welfare of their neigh
bors. Men of this stamp are scattered
throughout the breadth and length oi
the land; high places alone do not
know them. But among them all is
the common ideal to serve their gel
Grafton, be their opportunity in a mar
row or broad field of activity. Intel
llectuality is indeed the first attribute
for a university to develop in its sons
bat the truest flower of the awakened
! and broadened intellect is service
When such intellectual training pro
duces men who go out from college
, unselfshly to lift up and further the
best interest of the world, the ennob
ling influence of university life, tht
| innermost essence of it's training, be
comes most strikingly manifest. 1t il
! in this way that men of the single
hearted purpose of a Taft\le lend mos
/ luster to the ideals OF their training
and place. and best inform the worlC
/ of their value.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
The Argus Daily Short Story
WHEN BETTY WAS LOST--BY LULU JOHNSON
Copyrighted, 1908. by Associated Litera Press.

Strang. And this time she nodded an
assent.
Only one suburban line boosted
green cars. These ran out to Mount
Holly, distance of eighteen miles.
BY following along the road, which
for the greater part of the way paral-
leled the tracks. he probably would
enable the child to get her bearings.
She was old enough to recognize a
familiar neiShborhood even If she was
too young to be able to call the
suburb by name.
He made her comfortable In the seat
beside him, and presently they were
i,whizzing through the side streets to-
ward the open country. Sidney forgot
all about the belated Danvers, but he
could not quite forget about the girl
who had been haunting his memory
AS they rushed along her image came
back afreSh to him.
Somehow the child with her flower
like face reminded him tantalizingly
, of that older girl whom he had seer
sitting in a box at the theater week
before.
Strang had questioned several of his
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
CITIES HONOR TAFT.
Chicago's Novel Method Of Celebrat-
ing the Inauguration.

Chicago's Novel Method of CelebPat-
ing the Inauguration.
All Chicago took the oath of office
with President Taft when he was in.
augurated. During the FIVE minutes
when the president elect was standing
with head barred before the chief jus.
tice of the supreme court business
throughout the city was suspended
After IL o'clock telephone operators
answered all calls with taft is presi-
dent instead of the usual Number
please"
In many places there were prayers
for the-success of the incoming admin
istration. In the courts there were
speeches by judges and lawyers. urg.
ing upon the crowds that gathered a
better citizenship.
In several private business establish.
ments those in authority gave short in.
formal talks. In the restaurants the
diners laid down their knives and forks
while the orchestras played patriotic
III thC WI PIT tHc OuDct
ed. while the secretary of the board OF
trade announced that President Taft
was taking the oath OF. Office. and then
it broke forth anew amid the fiutter.
ing of flags. In the marriage license
clerks Office blushing bride and
bridegroom stood up and took the mat
rimonial oath to 'love. honor and
obey"
All activity in the criminal court
building paused at IL O'Clock. The ele
vators were stopped and the judges
adjourned court for five minutes. In
the superior, circuit, county and pro
bate courts speeches were made by
the judges and others. Chief Judge
Harry Olson and his eighteen asso
ciate judges in the municipal cour
building ali took mart in the -celebra
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

driving lucrative business selling
whisky to the convicts at % cents a
drink.
When bogus quarter was passed
on the liquor vender he threatened TO
make trouble. and the convict custom
ers turned the tables by informing on
him. In the subsequent inquiry, the
counterfeiting plant was discovered
been arrested on charges of making
and passing spurious coin. In this
case it appears that whisky was res
, ponsible for unearthing a very serious
crime against the sovereignty of the
ipeople.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

Stranc, sitting in his big touring car.
watched with lazy interest the tiny
figure of the child telling up the hill.
He was ftud of children, all sorts and
varieties. but there was an elfin dainti-
ness about this independent youn:
wayfarer that appealed most particu-
larly to him.
She could not he more than five, yet
she carried herself with Il knowing lit,
lie air that belied her timid eyes and
her rosy, quivering mouth, while her
smart frock and fetching hat indicated
comfortable circumstances.
He forgot that Danvers WAS half an
hour late for their appointment, He
even neglected to think about q certain
girl whose image for the past week
had filed his thoughts almost con
stantly
To his dismay. as the child was op-
posite him she sat down upon the
steps of n high stopped house and be-
gan to cry, not loudly and with a wild
| display of grief, but quietly. as If she
sought to keep back the tears that
trickled down her checks.
In an instant Strang was out of the
car and knelt on the stoop beside her,
seeking to learn the cause Of her grief.
81 guess Tn losted." was the plain.
tive reply, San there isn't any police
man to find me-"
perhaps I'm as good as a police
| man. he suggested as. with shud-
der. he thought of this dainty child's
spending the day in some dingy police
station. "How were you lost. and
where do you live?'
81 was wi muvver," was the haltins
explanation. "She coined in on thc
trolley, an when we changed I was
losted.. an then tried to find Aunt
Mollfe's, an ] guess she's losted too.
can't find her either"
"Where do you live? In the coun-
try?" he asked hopefully. If they
used any particular trolley it. might be
easy to trace her people.
ION the gween trolley" assented the
child. "We live way out. most te
where they stop
II guess we can find you them" de
clared Sidney cheerfulIy. "You jump
into my car and I'll take you out
along the line. We're sure to see the
place then. Is your house right on the
line of the cars?'
mo, we has to walk a dood lot" said
the child.
| "But you'll remember the corner
where you took the carr" urged
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
A Raw Recruit.

Corporal Ito town recruit on stable
guard for the first time)-Now, you've
got to patrol these ere lines an am
mer in any pegs that get loose an gen
orally look after the 'orses.
Recruit (whose knowledge of horses
is of the slightest)-And what time an
to wake the horses in the mornin'?-
London Tit Bits.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

Hopkins hopes, now to win back the
seat of the United States senate
which the people of the state are OPP
posed to having him longer enjoy by
firing out the opposition. This is the
Trick Of the average unpopular indi-
vidual holding on until he gets his
way because those who do not really
want him become Disguised and dis
cOtIragpd
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

The lady who received an alligator
from friend who is spending the win
ter on the east coast did the best she
knew when che put the saurian in a
. tub of Florida water pending further
4adyiceS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

Learn to stand alone. II you find 1t
hard, a rich uncle will be pleased to
give you a correspondence course.
With a smoker there are few things
for which a cigar will not do as sub
stitute.
A tall friend may be short when you
want to borrow some change.
A vaudeville program leaves the I'm
preston that the woodman has spared
the chestnut tree.
Silence has all other bluffs beaten to
a FRAGILE.
If we take care Of our next presi-
dents the ex-presidents will take care
Of themselves.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
OFF Guard.

"How did it happen that your friends
got the best of your queried the in
quisitive person.
"They got busy while l was watch
ing my enemies" explained the man
who had got the short end of it.-Chi-
cagO News
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Home Again.

Home Again.
The fleet is back
From foreign lands.
To Home, Sweet Home,
They pipe all hands.
And every bit
OF bunting flies,
A sight. indeed.
To test the eyes.
Around the world
In brave array
The colors of
The L. S. A.
Were proudly born
Where all might view
Could take a look
And know who's who.
Not in the quest
OF crimson war
They sought a far
And distant shore.
But just to let
The nations see
We were among
The powers that Be.
1t wasn't any
Thing for us
To talk about
Or make a fuss.
This voyage of
Our fighting stock
Was just q walk
Around the block.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
aid in the book of the of the Lord
s of Arnon." Numbers, 22:14.

tn
and in the brooks of Arnon Numbers 22:14.
When the Book of the Wars of Men is done
And the story is truly penned
From the following page of the tale begun
To the chapter that holds The End
When the trumpets of peace the world around
Have blent in chorus grand,
And the battle flag shall no more be found
AS a shadow above the land;
Will we keep the Book of the Wars of Men
In high and an honored place,
That childrens may be thrilled again
With the stories their eyes may trace?
Will we cherish the book in faithful pride
That men of a future age
May acquaint themselves with the ones who died
That the volume might have page?
Will the Book of the Wars of Men tell truth7
Will it mingle the songs and cheers
With the sacrifice of the beardless youth
And the dew of mothers tears?
Will it bazon in gold the noble deed
That won forgotten fame?
VIII it tell of the grippe of a ceaseess greed
That has wrought for a nations shame2
O. the Book of the Wars of Men 1t waits
Till the Weakening of the world,
Till the banners that tell of scorns and hates
In the glory of peace are furled-
Will we keep it to tell of the rolling drum
And the peals that the fifers know,
Or to speak to the men of the days to come
Of the way that they must not go?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

Meat will be lower" remarks Mr.
Armour, looking sternly at the farm
ers, when corn is cheaper Heart
Hear.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

Defeat may be
good for us, but
we don't cotton
to the things
whose only merit
lies in the fact
that they are
good for us.
When a woman
says she looks
like a fright it is
a mean man who
will keep still and
let it go at that.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

Considering that men start the day
by cursing' the alarm clock it IS IL
wonder that they engage in as little
deviltry as they do
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

A convict in the Kentucky state
prison died few days ago from over
feeding. II is up to Kansas to evolve
some equally startling story
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

A lot of men try to be fair. but not
many would give themselves the
worst of It in compiling an autobiogra-
phy.-Atchison Globe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

Perhaps Mr.. Cortelyou has become Z
democrat again.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

Mr.. Rockefeller has high opinion
of United States courts, of course.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

Since 1900 President Taft has trav.
eled over 100000 miles, which, might
be added is going some.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

The green hat viii at least be popu-
lar on the 18th.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

true, the sum of $4,000 will be CIV
en- to any charitable institution if it
can be shown otherwise.
Half a century ago, when the late
Father John o 'Brien of Lowell, Mass.
recommended to his parishioners and
friends the prescription that had re-
stored him to health and strength the
people named it Father Johns Med
icine.
Its power to. make strength and
build up the body explains why it
cures colds and all throat and lung
troubles.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Disposed OF.

"Eyery man is for sale"
"You don't say SOL
"Don't your
"Well, some Of them are sold al.
ready"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

Business was suspended for five min.
utes on the board of trade in Kansas
City during the Inauguration of Presi-
dent Taft, while the members sang
America"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

In the Minnesota legislature recess
was taken during the hour when Pres
ident Taft was inaugurated, and Re
publicans and Democrats We'd Will
each other In expressing loyalty to
Mr.. Roosevelt and for President Taft
At the conclusion of the euiogies the
house testified its respect for the In
coming president with rising vote
and the speaker was instructed to send
|, kilograms of congratulation to both
Roosevelt and Taft.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
ion. All the police courts took re-
,ess while the Inauguration was going

ton. All the police courts took re-
cess while the inauguration was going
on.
All departments of the postoffice sus-
pended operations for five minutes. A
whistle connected with the compressed
air apparatus of the postoffice pneu-
matte tube system was kept screaming
during the pause, ard A. e. LIE Gros.
in charge of the government chronom-
eters, kept the time bell going to add
to the noise.
Employees Of the board Of education
sang songs and listened to an address
by Otto c. Schneider, president. In
the schools the pupils stopped their
work for five minutes.
An imitation of the Inauguration
ceremony was given by the pupils of
the Eighth grade of the Franklin
school, A president. vice president
and cabinet had been elected, and at
II o'clock the boy officials took the
''oath of Office
The city hall celebrated the inaugu-
| ration by the suspension of work in all
departments. Special exercises were
/ held in the council chamber.
To give honor to Cincinnatfs most
| distinguished citizen and the twenty
seventh president of the United States,
William Howard Taft, all business
was suspended and the bells of the
churches and fire department were
rung and the whistles on all factories
| were blown for several minutes, be-
ginning at II O'Clock on the morning
of the Inauguration.
| This was done in compliance with q
! proclamation issued by the city's ex-
ecutive. but the earnestnesS of the
demonstrations was prompted by the
respect and admiration which Cincin-
natians In general have for their fell
low citizen, who has been honored
with the highest Office within the gift
Of the American people.
EACH crowd of citizens followed their
own desire in the form of their cele,
bration, but their form of salutation
was Long live the PRESIDENT
John w. Heron, the aged father OF
Mrs. Taft, who has been i'll for some
time. sat in the library of his home in
Cincinnati and heard reports of the
inauguration ceremonies at Washing
ton. He expressed a desire to visit
Washington as soon as he regaincd
sufficient strength for the trip.