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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
BOIL WEEYIL IS
 MOVING WARD

Jackson, Miss, August s.-(Special.)- MT. John Nirts, one of the most pros porous farmers of the Lucknow neigh borhood, in Rankin county, 10 miles north of this city, and who spent today in Jack son, reports that the boil weevil has reached his section, and the farmers are getting interested.
 Mir wirtz had not seen any of the pests on his own farm, but stated that one of his nearest neighbors. MT. Henry Jones, reports his place full of them.
 This is the most easterly point in this section that has so far reported a wee VII. Bugs and insects closely resembling the pests have been found that near the Alabama line before this but they have all been declared something in the way of near weevils" when submitted to the inspection of the experts. It Is hoped here this will prove to be the case with the Jones bug.
 In the meantime. first open bolls" are finding their way to Jackson, and farm CTS report that they will begin picking in two weeks in earnest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

pretty heavily on advertising in such cases. and it will not be surprising if the Philadelphia company like the New York company, fails to win great amount of public confidence by it's ad- vertising. The time to advertise, like the time to lock the stable door, is not after confidence has departed, but all the time. Advertising at such late day, and at such critical pass. seems like deliberately putting salt on a birds tail after you have scared it to the limit.
 As William G. McAdoo said on July 19. at the opening of the tunnels con- meeting Jersey City with Manhattan, the policy of frankly taking the public into confidence and sincerely trying to offer good service is infinitely wiser policy than the well known corporation attitude of "the public be damned
 The time to advertise frankly to the ground method has failed. The corpora ton seeking to do business by the favor or trade of the public needs adver- tising just as greatly as 1t needs clerks to transact business. It is only the thick-skulled who fail to see that 1t is the reputation of your concern that is worth more than half million made in sharp practice and reputation is won nowadays mostly by good advertising backed up with the goods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
TENNYsoN.
From William Watsons "Laci
 

From William Watson's "Lachrymae
 Musarum." Rapt though he be from us, Virgil salutes him, and Theocritus; Catullus, mightiest-brained Lucretius,
 each Greets him. their brother. on the Stygian
 beach; Proudly a gaunt hand doth Dante reach; Milton and Wordsworth bid him welcome Bright Keats to touch his raiment doth
 beseech: Coleridge, his locks aspersed with fairy
 foam, Calm Spenser, Chaucer suave, His equal friendship crave; And godlike spirits hail him guest, iI Of Athens. Florence. weimar, stratford
 Rome The seasons change, the winds they shif
 and veer; The grass of yesteryear Is dead. the birds depart the groves de
 cay; Empires dissolve and peoples disappear; Song passes not away. Captains and conquerors leave a little
 dust, And kings dubious legend of their
 Icl8Hs The swords of Caesars, they are less
 than rust; The poet doth remain. Dead Is Augustus, Marc is alive; And thou. the Mantuan of our age and
 clime Like Virgil shalt thy race and tongue
 survive, Bequeathing no less honeyed words to
 time, Embalmed in amber of eternal rhyme. And rich with sweets from every Muse's
 hive; While to the measure of>the cosmic rune For purer ears thou shalt thy Tyre at-
 tune. And heed no more the hum of idle praise In that great calm our tumults cannot
 reach. Master who crown'st our immelodious
 days With flower of perfect speech
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
s the model for our state legislatures

is the model for our state legislatures and for our municipal legislatures. The personnel of Congress in this lat ter time may not be up to the stan dard of former days. Congress after Congress may be called mediocre, but who would seriously consider changing our form of government and substitut- ing a commission to look after the country?
 It will be far better for us to hold on to our American institutions and not be calling for undemocratic experi- ments. We surely have had too much politics in Alabama already. The peo- pie should pray to be delivered from any measure that will mean more of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

Smith was a Methodist exhorter from Missouri, an earnest, devout man, who went from camp to camp in early days, exhorting miners to abstain from vice and sin, performing marriage ceremonies, baptizing infants-which were very rare in those times-and burying the dead He was highly respected, and, while his ministrations were not very effective, it was the fault of the material he had to work with and not due to any lack of zeal or piety on his part.
 AS the epitaph states, he was on his way to preach at Crook City when he was attacked and killed and scalped, and his body was found on the trail the next morning. There was great excitement, with sincere manifestations of sorrow among the miners. who held him in such high esteem that they called mass meeting, as was customary on occasions of great importance, and appointed a committee of arrangements to take charge of the funeral. This committee consisted of Red Clark, Jim vandanecker, Tom Short, Jim Matlzn and Seth Bull lock, who had recently come into the hills from Montana and was then a boy of, "A years. Bullock has since made a national reputation as a fearless officer of the law, rough rider and an intimate friend of Theodore Roosevelt, who has invited MT. and Mrs Bullock to meet him and Mrs Roosevelt in London after the African trip is over. Bullock is now United States marshal of South Dakota.
 The committee met and completed the arrangements for the funeral, but were seriously embarrassed because they were unable to find any clergyman or other person of experience to read the burial service. Therefore. after long and anx- ious discussion. they concluded that they would have to do it themselves and agreed to draw lots to determine who should as- sume the responsibility. Seth Bullock drew the short straw. and, as he says: Went up against the most desperate emergency of my life"
 we went to Doc Carters gambling he'll" said Bullock, which was then the bureau of intelligence and center of social activity in Deadwood, and made a public inquiry if anybody knew of a prayer book in the camp. Doc answered promptly:
 I've got one of my own: my mother gave it to me when I left home to so to California in '57. It's in my trunk. and I'll get it."
 When Carter returned with the prayer book the committee of arrangements sat down on a row of beer kegs and looked 1t over for something appropriate for the occasion. They found prayers for men who are lost at sea- for women in childbed, for persons who are about to depart upon a journey, and for various other occasions in human experience, but nothing for the funeral of Methodist parson who has been killed by the In dians. So we selected the Lords Prayer, which, you know, fits every emergency, and two or three others that We thought appropriate, and we put slips of paper between the leaves so that l shouldn't lose the place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
FINAL ROUND OF
 TENNIS TOURNEY

New York, August 8.-The national doubles champions. Alexander and Hackett. and their challengers from the Pacific coast. George James and Maurice Mclaughlin, gained the final round of the tennis tournament on the turf courts of the Knollwood Country club at White Plains today. Alexander and Hackett defeated w. A. Larned and R. D. Wrenp in an unhill match, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
 James and Mclaughlin defeated T. R. Bell and W. s. Grant, the southern cham pions, 4-6. 10-s, 6-3. The Pacific coast players began the day by defeating R. D. Little and R. Leroy, and Larned and Wrenn won the last set of their unfin- ished match against M. H. Long and H. M. MacQuaiston, the California Texas pair.
 The tournament is being played as a workout. preparatory to the approaching national contest at Newport.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
Strike Will Be Avoided.

Chicago, August S.-According to present signs there will be no strike of the street car employees of Chicago. An amicable settlement is likely to be reached by to- morrow night It is said that offers of a wage increase, based on the length of service of employees, will be made by President Thomas E. Mitten of the Chi ca go City Railway company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
Out-of-Iown Trade.

"The increase of out-of-town trade dur ing the last few weeks is fully justifying the Business Mems leagues claim made some time ago that weekend rates, if generally conceded by the railroads, would be mutually beneficial to the visit ing shoppers, the railroads and our mer- chants" said a citizen.
 ''The good effects of the wide advertis- ing the special rates have been given by the Business Mems league is being shown in the steady increase of weekend traf- fiv over the railroads centering here. The railroads, as well as our merchants, are well pleased with the results. While most of the roads put the weekend rates on permanently, one or two of them tried 1t as an experiment to continue through the month of September. It~is understood that these roads are SO well pleased with the increased passenger traffic that they will doubtless make the weekend rates permanent. It is to be hoped so, as such rates are much appreciated by the out of-town trade"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
Greater Birmingham,

eve hear great deal about the get
 together idea and the pull-together spirit.
 but Birmingham has yet much to learn
 along these lines," said public-spirited
 man.
 "A year ago when tho people of Allan.
 ta found that they must get-together on
 the Greater Atlanta question and an- lnex populous outlying towns in order to keep ahead of Nashville and possibly
 Birmingham, which the Constitution re-
 ferred to at the time as Atlanta's for
 midable rivals, there was practically not a discordant note in the metropolitan city. All the citizens of Atlanta stood
 together and worked together as one man for the Greater Atlanta movement On the Greater Birmingham question there has not been that unanimity of purpose and action which characterized the people of the Georgia capital. It is hoped the friends of the King bill will get together at once and assist in passing the bill through the legislature. It will be a
 great shame if Birmingham fails to ap- pear in the next census table with more than 100000 population.
 Speaking of population, Mr. F. D.. Smith, Sr., in communication under an Ensley date line. which appeared in The Age-Herald, wants Ensley included in the King bill. and so do most of us; but Birmingham as 1t stands today con- tains more souls than we are usually credited with. MT. Smith says that Bir-
 mingham proper Is credited with 4S'oo0 and the incorporated suburbs sought to be brought in-not including Ensley-totai an estimated population of 2s.2SS. But those figures are underestimated. The United States census bureau in making up population estimates pursues the proper method In taking as basis tho
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
Found Dead In a Hole.

Chicago, august s.-John c. Diehl. son of George H. Diehl. IS West One Hun dred and Twenty-seventh street, New York city, retired manager of the Ham burg American Steamship line, was found dead in a clay hole on the outskirts of the city today with indications of suicide. Diehl was without money and had tried to borrow s from friend until his usual allowance came from his father.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
England Recovers Lost Ground.

London, August 8.-The influence in Turkish official circles which Great Bri- tain lost during the late years of Abdul Hamid's reign is being recovered under the new regime A new national bank of Turkey is now in the course of for- nation with tho aid of British capital, the prime movers in 1t being Sir Ernest Cassel, Lord Revelstoke and Sir Alexander Henderson, and at the British govern- ment's request Babington Smith, secre- tary of the British postofices has ac- cepted the position of president of the bank. MT. Smith has had great experience in Turkish finance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
About Persons.

John L. Parker, the prominent local druggist, will leave for Montgomery to- day. MT Parker goes to the Capital City to represent the board of pharmacy and will meet with the senate committee on pure foods and drugs to discuss matters affecting the pharmacists which are now before the legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New YOrk Press.
 Young people have to blow off steam, and their wits blow off with it.
 One of the ways to have some money once in a while is not to own an automo- bile.
 Everybody has some great weakness specially the majority whose weakness is not to be able to see it.
 As a moral example the most that Q man can ever hope to be is a sign post; a woman can be a guide.
 A man can fall in love with a woman older than he is easily enough; the hard thing 10 to stay In love with her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
Heavv Lumber Exports,

Pensacola, Fla, August 8.-The outward movement of lumber and timber from this port during the past week reached N,- OOo.Ooo feet, the largest in the past two years Seven vessels cleared Saturday, carrying 1o,0O0, GOO feet of lumber and tim Der. making the largest daily outward movement in the same length of time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

ratio of increase from 1890 to 1900. But in the case of Birmingham It's rate of growth was uncommonly great from 1900 to 1907, when the panic came. The pro- posed Greater Birmingham without Ens- ley has. estimate. 95.ooO to 1oO,OOO-may- be 105,000."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
Drowned While at Work.

'Hazlehurst, Ga., August S.-F brennan w. E. Kohler of the Georgia and Florida steel bridge construction crew, which is dredging the Altamaha, was drowned last night The foreman fell from the boat and, being unable to swim, sank before he could be rescued.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
Crop Satisfactory.

New Orleans, August S.-Reports re- ceived here from the orange growing sec ton of Louisiana states that while the ants in many sections have wrought dam age the general condition of the crop. is satisfactory and good yield Is expected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
 Ty Cobb as a Pitcher.

Scranton, Pa. August s.-"Ty" Cobb's effort to pitch came near costing the De- troit Americans today's exhibition game with the Scranton State league team. The Georgian occupied the box for the last four innings and was hit freely. Detroit won out IS to Ii.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
ALABAMA's PLIGHT.
From the Chattanooga Times.


 Governor Conner and his collection or political fanatics who are undertaking not only to prohibit the sale of liquor in Ala bama, but to deprive the citizen of his right to buy it outside the state and to store 1t where he can most conveniently get at 1t, are obviously going to repeai the federal as well as the state "bill Of rights" It is only another step in the announced scheme of depriving cities and towns of their right of local self-govern- ment and centering authority In the oligarchy known as the state admlnis- tration. The public resentment agmnst such laws will be even more strongly marked than that which followed the act of the regular session. Governor Conner and all his myrmidons cannot indict or prosecute a whole community like BIT mingham for instance; and the very rao- icalism of his attempt will prove It's un- do,ne Men are not children to be snan,.ed bv a lot of impractical zeaiots, and it will not require many minutes iof them to demonstrate the fact when the yovernor attempts to put his punitive ma chinery in motion.
 The present laws were not eniorceo or observed because public sentiment disap- nroted them; more rigid ones will meet the same fate. It is perhaps well, how ever that the extremest measures con ceivable shall be adopted. After that the middle course suggested by common sense and practical judgment will be more cas- ilv reachable. Intemperance in legisla- t,on will only beget another sort of in temperance and in the meantime con tempt Is created in the public mind not only for the law itself but for its makers and those who may attempt to enforce it..
 We are told that the governors spot ters are conveniently stationed so as to make note of any man who shall offer ob- jections to his high-handed projects-a great demonstration that of the liberty of the citizen and the manhood of free Americans Intimidation and persecution are to be added to the list of things men who have the courage of their convictions are now to expect in Alabama. Still there are some true. brave and strong men in that state and the people are not mad if the legislators are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
Fall. Dead at Home.

Parkersburg, w. Va. August S.-Former Mayor R. H. Thomas fell dead today white sitting on the front porch of his homat-a Heart disease, superinduced by extrems heat. Is asoribed as the cause of his death
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

Antrim in New Hampshire has clergyman in active service who is 95 years old-the Rev. William Hurlin. He has no use for Dr. Osler and his chloroform bottle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
ADVERTISING AS LAST RESOURCE.

From Printers Ink.
 A peculiar compliment is paid to ad- vertising as method of influencing the public by the decision of such concerns as the Interborough Rapid Transit com pany New York. and the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company to begin cam paign of advertising. Both of these con- cerns, after years of decided unpopular ity and the failure of many other steps toward reconciliation (among them press agentism). have selected display adver- Using as the one panacea remaining which can lift them out of their slough.
 There is something unfortunate in all this, as we'll as significant object les- son to other corporations. The yoke falls public ia not after every ally and under
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

The press censor in Spain is plain ly overworked. He should go on a vacation. The world does not like to see a censor kill himself by the blue pencil route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

Caleb Powers of Kentucky proposes to break into Congress at the same time that a woman in Colorado pro poses to get there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

The Barcelona revolutionists who re- treated to the mountains will live to fight again, like the king who marched up the hill and then marched down again
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

Deadwood Correspondent to Chicago
 Record-Herald.
 N FEW rods distant, also protected (P71 by screens of wire. is another statue in red sandstone, sculp- tured bv the same artist who made Wild Bilrs. The figure appears in ministerial froclS coat and whiskers, with the right hand thrust into the bosom in the atti- tude which is supposed to represent ora- tory. The epitaph reads as follows;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

An old maid is one who is single from necessity, while balechor maid Is single from choice. This difference should not be overlooked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

John Bull has eighteen miles of bat tleships and France and Russia to fall back upon and he is regaining his com posture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09
Fatal shootIna over cards.

Roseland, La., August Swallowing 2 dispute over game of cards here today Al Hillebert shot Albert Jayrox. There Is little hope for the latter's recovery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

Rheims, France, also aspires to be- come an aviation center.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

William Dean Howells, the accepted dean of American letters, is ill in his retreat in Maine. He is 72 years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

Beverly, Mass, came into it's own when Congress adjourned. It was naturally impatient.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

The republican insurgents are not bit discouraged by what Joe Cannon did to them when he named the com mittees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

What the world needs now is plenty of competent aerial chauffeurs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

A baseball umpire sued a player for islander, but he lost out" because he did not secure a jury of umpires.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

Ten thousand unemployed actors are looking forward hopefully to good amusement season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

No burglar ever seizes five-foot shelf with an intention of putting 1t on the market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

The Wrights will have their hands full in teaching plodding world how to fly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

Shoes may become cheaper, but stockings will cost more, and the feet will not come out of tariff revision more than even.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

No lion that dislike ginger would bite Bwano Tumbo anyway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

A submarine boat building firm pro poses to make airships also, thus working both ends for all they are worth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

What Hubert Latham needs is a web-footed aeroplane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

The summer is waning, for straw hats have been marked down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

Palamos, the center of Spain's cork industry, also floated a revolution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-09

Reverend Henry Weston Smith, Minister of the Methodist Episcopal
 Church. Pioneer Preacher of the Black Hills, Killed by Indians. August 20. 1878, While on his way from Deadwood To Crook City to Preach.
 Faithful Unto Death.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-08-07
Some Aristocratic DOGS.

Long Branch, N. J., Aug. 7.-Aristo-
Gratis of dogdom are ON exhibition
here today at the annual show of the
Monmouth Kennel Association. A
mong the valuable CANNES shown are
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's collection
of old English shepherds, Mrs. ]. Pier
pont Morgan, Jr's. Pekinese and Mrs.
C.. w. Throcknorton's famous point
ers. over 200 special prizes, in addi-
tion to h cash premiums, will be a
warded. The most prominent kennels
in the country are represented. The
list Of sixteen judges includes two
women, Mrs. NJ. Thorpe, of Southport.
England, for Pomeranians, and Miss
Verona Jarbeau, for French Bull
dogs.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-08-07
Resolution.

WHEREAS. An all wise Provid.
ence has removed from our Nest
Brother v. l. Annette, be 1t
RESOLVED, That in his death we
have sustained a severe loss; not
only his untiring efforts In promot.
ing the best interests of our Order,
but also his able work In ~perfecting
the organization of the Owl Band;
and be 1t further
RESOLVED, That our sympathy be
extended the members of the family
OF our late Brother and a copy OF this
resolution be forwarded them, as well
as published in our local papers.
II. A. ingalls,,
NJ. c. Spicer.
G. w. Campbell.
Committee.
Roswell Nest 1175. Order of Owls,
August 9Th. 1909. It,