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The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-06-04
NASHVlLLlANS GRADUATE
CHICAGO.

Invitations from Chicago have been
received announcing the graduation
of Miss Buelah e. McGavock from
Provident Hospital and Training
School on June 8. Miss McGavock is
a Nashville girl ana IS a graduate
from Fisk University in the class Of
1906. She will remain at the hospit-
al until July the 10Th.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-06-04
ENTERTAINs CHURCH CHOIR.
Miss Gertrude Stratton. of 15O7 Foul

Miss Gertrude Stratton, OF l5O7 Four
teenth avenue, North, entertained
Mt. Zion Church choir recently.
Those present were Misses Sallie Muir
ray, Nettie Jordan, Washington, Hat
tie Creighton; Olda Mulhie, Maggie
Green, Mesdames Mary Holder, Octavia
Elkins, Iona G. Dodson, Lizzie Bailey
and Messrs. Robinson, G. L. Stratton,
w. R. Stratton.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-06-04

A solo by Miss Lucy B. White ended
the program. The Missionary Socie-
ty will hold it's next quarterly meet
ing the third Sunday in August.
The public is cordially invited.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-06-04
MAYFLOWER ENTERTAINMENT
AT ST. JAMES CHAPEL.

The Mayiower entertainment at
st. James Chapel A. M. E. Church
recently, despite the rain, was a
great success. Mrs. Laura Gray, of
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-06-04

Cream parlor in the corner OF
Straightway avenue and Gallatin pike.
and they ask the patronage Of ali
tneir hiends, and especially those
VINO come out to visit from the city.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-06-04
BANK DIRECTORY.

There are thrtyseven negro banks and Institutions doing q baaktnG
business in the United satSa They ire owned and operated exclusively
by Negroes and are scattered thrOuG bout the several states, principally
in the South. The names, locations, and other information concOARG
some of them are given below.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-06-04
TENN. CENTRAL R. R.

City Ticket Office, No. / Arcade,
227 FOURTH AVE-, N. PHONE, MAIN 200
Station, foot of Broad street. Effective
March Ia. 1908.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-06-04
TAKE NOTICE.

MesVrs ]. l. Hollins and mo. Bu-
"hanon have opened a f~rst.class Ics
Douglas Island news., 1909-03-24
A1askans All Crazy

It may, perhaps, affect the dignity of Alaskans to realize that notwithstand- ing we have delegate and governor who arc representing" Alaska at the national capital, the average congress- man entertains opinions concerning that country that are peculiar, to say thel east. A clause in the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill providing for the care and custody of the insane of Alas ka was under discussion in the house of representatives when the following debate ensued:
 The clerk read as follows: "Care and custody of the insane of Alaska: For the care and custody of the legally adjudged insane in the district,of Alas ka, including transportation and other expenses, S5O00O."
 Mir. Gaines, of Tenessee-"What pro- vision is made for the insane in Alaskan"
 MT. Smith, of Iowa -"They are brought to the United States and cared for by contract"
 MT. Gaines-"Has the government made no provision whatever for taking care of the insane of Alaska?"
 Mir. SmithA"No; except to bring them home to the continental United States"
 Mir. Mann-"And taking care of them"
 MT. Gaines-"I am surprised that no insane asylum has been erected in Alaska"
 MT. Smith-"There is no place where an asylum could be built up there where they would be comfortable through the long darkness and cold of winter"
 MT. Mann-"I will suggest to the gentleman that they could not very
Douglas Island news., 1909-03-24
Alaska and the Grape

Dispatches today say that Messrs. Wickersham and Hoggatt, two dis tinguished gentlemen from Alaska, hitherto noted for their hostility to each other, have feasted and drank to- gcther, mostly the latter, and have dis covered fondness for each other which increased in sym pathetic ratio with the cocktails that were passed.
 Ohl the ever mellowing influence of the grape. What witchery is in thy kiss. Think of it. To take these men in their hearts extremest hate and with a few drops of thy life's blood trans form them into brothers.
 Where is all the gore that brother Wickersham widowed in on his pil. grimage from Alaska to Washington?
 Where are the "scars of his political enemies"?
 Where are their "graves"?
 Vanished through the legerdemain of wine.
 But wait. Wait until the grape has lost it's magic and the headache comes on. Wait until the pulse throbs and the tongue tastes like Turkish towel. N Then, Jack Dalton, curses upon you, "weIl brook no interference from our enemies at Washington"
 But there will be other banquets. Red wine will stain the napkins and warm the heart. In the meantime Alaska's fate depends upon which one goes under the table first.-Ketchikan Miner,
Douglas Island news., 1909-03-24

we'll build big enough asylum, for it would have to include the entire popu- lation No one goes there who is sane." [Laughter.l
 MT. Gaines-"The President-elect is going there next summer. Now, as to the climate, 1 understand there are places in Alaska where flowers and veg etables grow"
 Mir. Garrel-"Aud onions"
 Mir. Gaines-"And everything that is goodn
 MT. Maun-"They grow luxuriantly in the government reports"
 Mir. Smith-"I will say to the gentle mau hat we have a contract to take care of the Alaska insane here in the United States"
 Mr. Gaines-"There are great many of our own people in Alaska. We have owned that country ever since Andrew Johnson was president, and yet we have never built an insane asylum up there. We have built railroads and towns, and sent deer up there-reindeer-a the real dear goes there, aud made appro- priations to take care of the Indians und other people otherwise, and yet we have no insane asylum there. We bring those unfortunate peuple away off down here at great expense. It seems to me in that country of trees and saw-mills and railroads and diamonds"
 Mr. Robinsou-"And Eskimos."
 Mir. Gaines-"And Eskimos. We ought to build at least temporary in- sane asylum. 1 hope it will be done. It ought to be done"
 MT. Macon-"Does not the gentleman think it would be cruelty to keep help less people up in that cold climate through the long wintersH"
 MT. Gaines-"Well, I do not know about that.
Douglas Island news., 1909-03-24

The effectiveness of the American Mining congress is to be greatly in- creased by plan, as announced by the board of directors, of having local off, ficers and subsidiary organizations in each of the mining centers, where no active associations are now in existence. Heretofore the congress has been ex- clusively national in it's scope, giving little attention to the local problems that vex the camps individually, but it's growing strength in all the mining states, with now large mem bership in each, has suggested new arrangement under which each state will have it's own local branch organization, with To- cal officers and committees in charge. The national organization will thus be brought into close contact with the. small operator as we'll as the large one, and the entire strength of the national body will, if necessary, be thrown be- hind any local movement for relief from conditions generally oppressive to the industry. Besides having vice. president for each state, who will pre- side over all local meetings and look after the local affairs of the mining congress, standing committees will be appointed by the congress for each state for the purpose of ascertaining how the industry is locally affected by such questions as the forest reserves, shelter rates, transportation rates, labor conditions, etc.
Douglas Island news., 1909-03-24
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody,

No important placer strikes have been made in the Nome country the past winter.
 The Dawson police report the drown. ing of five Peel river Indians in the Peel river last fall.
 Large shipments of canuery supplies are now engaging the attention of the Northern steamers.
 Joseph Cannon, the friend (?} of Alaska, has been reelected speaker of the house of representatives.
 The Corwin will sail from Seattle for Nome ou May 10th, with mali. She will have full passenger list.
 Since the arrival of Contractor Heney at Cordova, real estate values have a tendency to soar skyward.
 The Skagway Alaskan takes decided stand when it says: "Taft wants to come to Alaska-and we want him."
 William E. Craig, of Haines, has been bound over to the federal grand jury, charged with selling whisky to Indians.
 The report comes from Nome that a half dozen native hunters out after seal were attacked by sharks and Jonah ized.
 "Hostilities" began at the Whitehorse shipyards on March 15. It is consid- cred by the inhabitants of that burg as a hamburger of sweet spring.
 The Grand Trunk Pacific railroad at Prince Rupert is up against strike. The demand is for S3 day, and the strikers are mostly Montenegrins.
 Richard Ballinger, secretary of the interior, will visit Alaska next summer to look into the coal lands and the manner in which they are gobbled up.
 The Ohio with 480 passengers, the Northwestern with 400 and the Port land with over 200, are indications that the tide of travel is we'll on to the great North.
 A man bound for Alaska was fined S2OO for stealing dog at Vancouver, B. c. Southeastern Alaska could have furnished him a ship load for less money.
 It is said that hundreds of Alaskans who joined the rush to Nevada few years ago are on their way back to the North, having got their fill of the sage brush country.
 W. c. Dawson, former manager of the Alaska Pacific Steamship company, has gone over to Shubach & Hamilton, and will have charge of the firms Alaska business, which has been growing on scale to be a distinct menace to the su- premacy on the Yukon of the N. A. T. & T. Go. and the N. 0. Go.
Douglas Island news., 1909-03-24

Funds are being raised in different parts of the United States to equip an expedition to set out from Seattle, in search of pr. Cook, the explorer, who is lost in the Arctic regions.
 Billy Cooper, who attempted to make the trip from Valdez to Seattle over land with a team of dogs, has reached Seattle-by steamer. When he got to the Atlin country he gave it up.
 Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture has decided that hump back aud dog salmon must be so marked by the cannerymeu, and that the "pink" brand will no longer go.
 A Washington dispatch says that re- tiring Delegate Gale is showing James Wickersham, his successor from Alas ka, the haunts of the city. Alaskans who kuow Wickersham consider this time wasted.
 An exchange remarks that the freight rates on the Yukon river are altitudin- ous enough to realize the fondeHt dreams of a steamboat mans most op. timistic hours. Boats option of space or weight" is the rule.
 Several hundred holy rollers are pre-. pairing to hold a camp meeting just out side of the city limits of Seattle during the fair next summer, and the White horse Star suggests that with the holy rollers around her edges and rube rol- lers within her confines, Seattle will be in position to entertain all classes.
 E. A. Murphy, general manager of the Klondike Mines Railway Co.,, went North recently bound for Dawson. He has just returned from London, where the stockholders of the company, al recent meeting, decided to spend S5OO,- 900 on improvement and extension of the road. The road is receiving a sub- sidy of S6,0OO mile, and it is planned that it will eventually be connected with and form part Of the Grand Trunk Pacific, with one terminus at Prince Rupert.
 Those people who believe that the placer fields at Nome are about worked out should read the following U. P. dis patch from that town bearing date of March 13: "The Pioneer Mining Go. is now taking out from the famous prop critics the richest dirt ever mined in Alaska. The pay is averaging S6.30 to the bucket and 10000 buckets are taken out monthly. One hundred and eighty men are at work. Estimates made to- day place the gold output from Nome this season at S12OO0OOO"
 A circular was issued March by the U. s. department of agriculture, which reads as follows: "In accordance with authority conferred on the secretary of agriculture under section 2 of the Alas ka game law, approved May Il, 1908, the following regulations, additional to those of August l, 1908, are hereby promulgated, to take effet April l, 1909: In Southeastern Alaska the season for killing deer shall be limited to the period from June to December 15i the sale of deer, carcasses or venison is pro- hibited except during the months of September, October, November and De- cember; and the number of deer killed by one person during the open season shall be limited to F."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-26
Water Transportation the Hope of District

Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation, says in a letter addressed to the Manufac- turers' Record that he intends to visit Birmingham next fall. He expresses the opinion that the natural resources and location of the Birmingham dis trict make it one of the best places for the manufacture and distribution or iron and steel products"
 When Judge Gary comes here let us hope President Crawford will carry him in his auto car straight from Ems ley to the Warrior river. The distance is less than 15 miles. Possibly, too, he should be carried to the locks that are being built in Squaw Shoals.
 The Steel corporation never fails to utilize water transportation. It uses the fitful Ohio and Mississippi and it seeks the lakeside. So it will seek the Warrior, and foreign trade via the Panama canal.
 This districts future in the large sense is dependent upon water trans portation. It has no great future with out it. If iron and steel can be made here to be barged to tidewater at low cost there will be no lack of orders even in dull seasons. The Panama canal is the hope of this district. It Is the key to success and prosperity. This view of the district is the view that should be laid before Judge Gary. The Panama canal Is to be opened on January 1, 1915. The Warrior will be opened to sixfoot slackwater navigation in 1911 or 1912 at the far therest. To get terminal facilities | ready for these changes Is the duty of the hour, and the chairman of the Steel corporation should be asked to base his plans on river open the year round-on a river that neither ice nor drougths will affect, veritable arm of the sea-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-26
cent years

The growth of liners, both in length and horsepower, is remarkable. In 1S48 the average length of the 20 long est steamships was 230 feet; in 1881 it was 460 feet; in 1903 it was GAO feet. Today there are Il vessels of 700 feet or over and two White Star liners building which are to be $50 feet long. Once the Great Eastern, built in 1858, was considered the leviathan of the seas, and yet she was but 6S0 feet long and her horsepower was far inferior to modern ships.
 Speed in the boiling seas calls for horsepower as well as displacement. The recent trip westward of the Mau- retania was done at an average speed of 30A statute miles an hour. A nau- tical mile is 60S0 feet, and a statute or land mile is but 5280 feet. A speed of 25 knots an hour means the ex- penditure of millions in building ships with greater displacement and vastly greater horsepower.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-26
ApprOnrIatlOn for Another Census

The House of Representatives OH Thursday passed a bill appropriating $10,000,000 for the taking of the census of 1910. No doubt the Senate will con cur, and a conflict between the two houses will in that way be avoided.
 The chances are now that the next census will be taken under an old act, which does not recognize civil service examinations at all. The two houses cannot come to an agreement, and the passage of an appropriation bill pure and simple probably means that the two houses have agreed to disagree.
 After all, it cannot be said that the cumbersome civil service regulations fit the case. The appointment of a temporary force cannot be conducted in that manner simply because men and women will not get ready for q civil service examination merely to hold an office for a brief term. The methods of former census years are not perfect, but nothing in the official service is perfect. The present cen sus director is an experienced man and he can be trusted to select com potent temporary force. This seems to be the outcome of the entire matter. It was precipitated by a veto from President Roosevelt, and in the end no doubt the temporary patronage will be distributed among the states according to population.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-26

Baptist minister, and he has recently published a book in which he states that no modern man believes in the following propositions:
 The divinity of Christ
 Doctrine of the Trinity.
 Performing of miracles
 Teaching of the blood of the atone ment.
 Driving of demons out of human beings.
 Multiplying of the loaves and fishes.
 Finding of the coin in the fish's mouth.
 Possibly in these days of wide diver gencies in individual opinions these views of Dr. Foster would not have at tracted a great deal of attention if a Baptist ministers conference in Chi cago had not attempted to discipline the offending author The fact was de- veloped that he could be driven out of the local association or conference, but that he could not, so to speak, be un- frocked. He is still a Baptist minister, and professor in a Baptist university. He is not defending himself. He sim ply defes his assailants and goes on gathering in royalties on his book. All this comes about because each Baptist church or congregation is a law unto itself, and once a Baptist clergyman always a Baptist clergyman seems to be the rule, on account of the congre- gational nature of the Baptist church system.
 Dr. Foster cannot well be tried for heresy except in his own conscience. It is difficult to see how he can con sider himelf a Baptist when he knows that a vast majority of Baptists do not accept his views on religious dogmas. In common honesty and fairness he should disassociate himself from the Baptists. He should join the free lances or perhaps the Unitarians. At any rate, he is not entitled to enroll ment among Baptists, who are as a rule orthodox according to the old Protestant standards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-26
Repayment of Excess Rates

The federal court may indefinitely postpone the refunding of excess rates, but it cannot do so and at the same time make the postponement consist ent with the bond it required the rail roads to file when the famous injunc- tion was issued. This bond was made by the National Surety company, and it provides that the railroads shall pay all "overcharge or excess rates" when ever the injunction granted in April last shall have been dissolved or vacated as having been wrongfully issued" The injunction has gone where the wood bine twineth, and yet neither the Louisville and Nashville nor the Gen. tral of Georgia is paying back excess rates
 The claimant might sue the National Surety company, but would not he, too. be enjoined, especially If the surety company had transferred the case to the federal courts? Altogether, the case is one of complex points, and 1t calls, no doubt, for the exercise of several years of patience.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-26
Transatlantic Records

On Monday last the Mauretania suc- ceeded in going from the New World to the Old World in four days, IT hours and 21 minutes. This is a new record in the direction of the Old World, but the Lusitania still holds the record of the quickest westward voyage-four days, 15 hours, made Au- gust 16 to 20, 1908.
 Transatlantic steamship records may be said to have been begun in 1840 when the Britannia crossed the sea in IA days. She was but POT feet long, whereas the Lusitania of today is 760 feet long. The horsepower of the Brit annia was but 740-that of the Llsi- tania is 6S,000! The following table shows the successive reductions in New York Queenstown records in re- cent years:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 Experience teaches what a lot more we must go through without learning anything.
 The reason a man wants to marry girl is he wouldn't if he knew what was best for them.
 There's nothing artistic about pushing a lawn mower, but 1t can make a happier family than writing poetry.
 There's something rather attractive about the idea of purgatory when a man is in the middle of charity fair.
 A woman dates everything from her honey moon: a man from the time he was Initiated into secret society.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-26
Young TravelInu Man.

Mount Vernon. N. T., June 25-The only Harry Adams known in this city is n. son of William Adams, a retired real estate operatoE The latter said today that he did not know enough about hIs sons affairs to have knowledge as to whether he had ever been engaged to he married to Mrs. Woodill, or Mrs Cas- well, as she was at the time of the re- ported engagement. Harry Adams is now travelling for New York firm, his father stated, but the name Of the firm or where his son is at present, the elder Adams said he did not know. His son had not been home in more than year and al- thosgh he knew the young man had been married within that time he did not know his present address. Harry Adams is a little under 30 years of age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-26
Professor Foster, Clergyman

George Burnam Foster Is professor of the University of Chicago, an insti- tuition widely recognized as the leading Baptist institution of learning perhaps in the world. This institution was al- most wholly built and endowed by John D. Rockefeller, who is also widely recognized as Baptist in good and regular standing.
 Professor Foster is not only pro- fessoY on the theological side of the University of Chicago, bat he is also
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-26
LOVE AND DEATH.

By Alfred Tennyson. What tme the mighty moon was gather
 ing light, - Love paced the thymy plots of Para
 disc, And all about him rolled his lustrous
 eyes; When, turning round cassia full in
 view, Death, walking all alone beneath yew, And talking to himself, first met his
 sight: You must begone," said Death, ''these
 walks are mine" Love wept and spread his sheeny vans
 for flight: Yet, ere he parted said: This hour is
 thine; Thou art the shadow of life; and as the
 tree Stands in the sun and shadows all be-
 heath, So, in the light of great eternity Life eminent creates the shade of death; The shadow passeth when the tree
 shall fall, But shall reign forever over alL''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-26
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
A plstinauished Ennineer.

Dabney H. Maury of Peoria. H.. com sulting engineer visited Birmingham this week for the first time, and expressed surprise at finding this city not only well built but surprisingly beautiful He said it was one of the finest cities he had ever seen
 MT Maury is a Virginian and is the son o1 the late Gen. Dabney H. Maury, a famous and daring Confederate and one Of the most beloved citizens of Richmond. President Cleveland, in his first adminis- tration, sent General Maury as minister to Colombia, and young Maury accom- panied his father to Bogota as private secretary.
 Maury, Jr., was cadet at the Vir- glnia Military institute and Col. T. o. smith was a classmate of his. MT. Maury ranks high as an engineer. He Is a mem Der Of the American Society of Civil En- glneers and also member of the Society or Mechanical Engineers. He has spe- clallzed in steampower, hydraulic engin- eering and eleetrolytic investigations.