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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-01

The graduating recital in expression of Miss Elvie Forester of the Alabama Gen. tral Female college was given last night in the college auditorium. A large aud fence enjoyed the attractive programme from beginning to end. Miss Forester is an exceedingly talented young woman. and she gave her numbers in a most de- lightful fashion. She was assisted by Prof. E. D. Naff. professor of vocal music at the college MT. Naff's splendid bari tone voice was heard to great advan- tage in two numbers on the programme.
 Mrs Henry B. Foster entertained the Kettledrum in an elegant way at her home on Greensboro avenue yesterday aft ernoon. The Foster home is one of the most attractive in the state, and 1t was made even more so yesterday by the tasteful and beautiful decorations. The subject for the afternoon was "The Press," each lady responding to her name at the roll call with a quotation on the press The following entertaining pro- gramme was carried out:
 Reading, Mrs. Henry A. Jones; piano solo, Mrs. c. B. Werner; song, Mrs. l.. o. Dawson; reading, Mrs. A. S. Van de Graaff; piano duet, Mrs. George A. Searey and Mrs. John Van Lear; reading, Mrs. Ellen Peter Bryce piano solo, Miss Stella Brown; song, Mrs J. A. Ander-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-01

A delightful dance was given in the Oliver-Verner building Wednesday even ing by the members of the junior class of the university The hall was tastefully decorated in class and university colors, and pennants of class colors were the pretty favops for the evening. The ger man was artisdcally led by Joseph Walk CT of Birmingham. who had as his partner on the occasion Miss Mary Nuzum, one of Tuscaloosa's s most popular belles of the younger set.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-01
The Alabama Only First Class Hotel in the
 City. MRS. J. H. CHIsOLM, Proprietress
 Alexander City, Ala.

GREENSBORO HOTEL
 GREENSBORO. ALA. Under new management Thoroughly renovated. Special attention given travelling men. Large sample rooma
 RATES s2-OO PER DAY.
 0. w. WHEELER, Prop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-01

WHEELER'S HOTEL
 EUTAWs ALA. Electric lights and bells in each room Artesian water. Long distance Telephone service Hot and Cold Water Baths.
 M. JOE WHEELER, PrOpI Rates e2.0o Per Day.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-03-12
ChaS. Hatz Dead.


Charles Matz well known resi-.
dent Of this city died tuesday even.
Ing following an operation for can.
Ger of the stomach. He had been in
poor health for some time and an
operation 1t was thought might result,
In saving his life.
Charlie was well liked by all who
knew him and always had a smile and
kind work for every one. He had
worked hard nearly all his life unit
a few years ago when he moved tc
town so that might take life easier
He lived alone in his little cottage on
Main street.
He was born in Germany, Jan. 8,
1871 and was So years. 2 months and
3 days old at the time Of ris death
He served in the war against Austria
in 1859 and 1853 and after the wal
located in Ohio and then a few years
later moved to Kansas and located on
a claim. He was married in 1877 to
Carrie Ruhe and later they separated,
He leaves to mourn his death three
sisters, Mrs. Minnie Beeman, OIL
Oregon, Mrs. Louise Parslow, of Ger.
many, Mrs. Fred Hagen, of Ohio
and the heirs of a brother in Ohio
and a host Of friends.
Funeral services we held thi.
afternoon from the Methodist church
at which church he Wa. SECULAR in
attendance. s..
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-03-12
Anti Good Roads Movement


"You ought to have better ro,d,
out here" said a Topeka man, d wi :
through some Central Kansas farm
ing country. AT his particular place
the roads were very bad.
Him" said native. "Noi IL. /
don't want no better roads nov.
want to save up little more m ,nry
and buy some more land before the
roads are made better, cause | Can
buy land cheaper when the roads are
bad"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-03-12
PAIN

Pain In the head-pain anywhere. has its cause
Pain scongestion, paints blood pressure nothing
else usually. At least. so says DR.. Shoop, and to
tablet-called DR.. Shops Headache Tablet
coaxes blood pressure away from pain centers.
Its effects charming pleasingly delightful Gently
though safely 1t surely eQualizes the blood circu.
lation.
II you have headache. it's blood pressure.
II it's painful periods with women, same cause.
II you are sleepless, restless nervous, it's blood
congestion-blood pressure. That surely Is q
certainty, for DR.. Shops Headache Tablets stop
It in 20 minutes. and the tablets simply distribute
the unnatural blood pressure.
Bruise your finger. and doesn't It get red, and
swell, and pain you? OF course it does. It's con.
gestion. blood pressure. You'll find it where pain
ts-always. It's simply Common Sense.
We sell at Is cents, and cheerfully recommend
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-03-12

Harry Weiss is here on visit with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Weiss and with other relatives and
friends. Harry has been working
at his trade as printer in California
for some time, but is now on his way
to Sioux City, Iowa, where he has a
good position awaiting him in a large
job Office.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-03-12

ln'round numbers there are in the
United States 22,OOO,OOO dairy cows.
And out of this number it is estimat.
ed that 1S,UO0,OOO are farm dairy
cows, "Werefer to this latter class,
as rule, as the $40 cow" says T. l..
Hartner of the Minnesota agricultural
experiment station. "Granting this.
we will find that the owner of this $40
COW, enjoys profit Of $40 annually.
Now if this COW were to be exchang.
ed for special dairy COW, one half
the number of COWS could be kept on.
half the feed, and still the farmers
would have just the same profit at
the end of the year. But now when
we come down to facts and figures,
!
we are not sure whether it would be
advisable to exchange this $40 COW
, for special dairy COW. 1t brings
up fine point. We need only to
give the common COW proper care
and feed to learn that instead Oh
being the $50 lb. COW she may be
made 25Olb COW. This proves
conclusively that she is a far better
cow than the average man is a dairy.
man. In every instance where she
has been given an opportunity to de.
monstrate her ability she has con.
chsively proven this fact. Improve.
ment must begin with the owner Of
the common COW. Success in any
business comes through complete
knowledge Of that business, and the
average dairyman does not know even
the rudiments of breeding and feed.
Of cows. While he is only capable OIL
making common COW produce only
three-ffths Of the product she is cap.
able of producing, it is a serious ques'
ton whether it is advisable to attempt
to decrease the cost Of producing bnt'
ter fat, thereby increasing his profits
by placing special dairy COW in hi.
care, or rather lack Of care, when W,
know that her very nature rebels a
the misuse to which she will be sub.
jected. / wish to repeat that tn,
common COW appears to be the GU
growth Of conditions that prevail up
on the average farm and perhaps sh,
is the COW that is best adapted t.
those conditions. If she is to be re
placed by a better COW, then this bet
ter COW should be preceded by
better dairyman. In other words
the 300 ID. COW should follow the 15l
ID. COW only when the $50 ID. dairy
man is transformed into a 800 ID
daiyman.'
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-03-12

WANTED-A boy to work in this
Office and learn the printers trade.
One who is not afraid Of a little work,
and who is steady. Will pay all you
are worth, and increase the paw as
you learn more about the work.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-03-12

Attention is called to the W. I.
Sans Monument Co.'S ad in this issue.
This firm has on hand at all times a
large stock of monuments of all
kinds, and at prices much lower
than you can secure the same quail
ity Of goods for elsewhere.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-03-12

-. Mrs Kitiie SEQ Scott, Of 10 % Stone
St, left Wednesday evening for
Wichita on churchrbusiness and will
remain over Sunday.
Denny Meachem and Reg Russell
returned Wednesday morning from
Kansas City where they have been
marketing some stock.
ID. A. Banta aud WIN. Osmond
returned Tuesday evening from
Wichita, after few days attendance
in the .Unit.d States court.
"The Owns News has a gifted
poet who lifts up his voice and carols
in this wise; "rhe telephone girl
sits still In her chair and listens to
voices from everywhere. She hears
all the gossip, she hears all the news.
she knows who is happy and who has
the blues; she knows all our sorrows,
she knows all our joys, she knows
every girl who is chasing the boys;
she knows of our troubles, she
knows Of cur strife, she knows every
man who is mean to his wife; she
knows every time we are out with the
boys, she hears the excuses each fell.
low emp oys; she knows every woman
who has dark past, she knows every
man who's inclined to be fast; In
fact, there's a secret meath each
saucy curl Of that quiet demure look.
Ing telephone girl. If the telephone
girl would tell all that she knows it
would turn half our friends into. bit.
terest foes; she would sow a small
wind that would soon be a gale, en-.
gulf US in trouble and land US in Jail;
she could let 60 story (which gain.
ing in force) would cause half our
wives to sue for divorce; she could
get all the churches mixed up in a
fight and turn all our days into sor-
rowing nights; in fact, she could keed
the whole town in a stew if she'd tell
tenth part of the things that she
knew. Now doesn't it make your
head whirl when you think what you
owe to the telephone girl?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-03-12

A physician in Baltimore tells the
Newark Star of an amusing expert
ence OF the early days Of his practice
when he was residing in small town
where by far the majority
of the workers were Goa
miners. 81 was greatly distressed by
the insanitary conditions prevailing in
their cottages" says the doctor, "and
among other things l tried to explain
to eacLA household the importance
of maintaining a wholesome atmos
phere in the sleeping rooms. l laid ia
a stock of thermometers, which were
distributed to the households where
they were most needed. took pains
to point out to each family in turn
JUS: how the thermometer would in.
dictate the proper degree Of tempera.
ture.s As was making the rounds
one day l inquired of the woman al
the head Of one establishment, where
in T observed my thermometer proud.
ly displayed at the end of a string
whether she had followed my in.
structions. yes, sir answered she
'I'm very careful about the tempera
ture; l watch the thing all the time
as it hangs up there 'Whatdo you
do when the temperature rises above
6SF Itake it down, sir, an put il
outside till it cools off bit"
CA9TORfA.
Bss.tb. hIs Kind You Have Always Bough
''; : LhHZ7zz1!
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-03-12
School Repori.

Report Of District IS, for The
month ending March S, l9e9..
Number of days taught 20, total
attendance l7244, average daily at
tendance 8, number OF boys enrolled
I. number of girls enrolled 8, totaI
enrolment 10. percentage of 4!tend-
ance Sc per cent.
There have ben no cases of
hardness during the month. Those
who have not been absent are: Vernon
and Louis Dutand, Gertrude Wilson
and Kenneth and Ruth Truxal.
Blanche Hammond, Teacher
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-03-12
CA9TORTA.
Bsu.tbs hIhs Kind You Have Always BSugh
signature q &<HzZm
Mr.. Raw|eigh Swears
ITO THIS
State of Illinois,
Stephenson County, 90

/, W. T. Rawleigh, President Of The W. T. Rawlegh
Medical Company my oath do soemy that before the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-03-12
w, P. FEEDER returned from ropek;
Wednesday evening.

The official board of the Methodist
church met Monday night and he .rd
reports for the last year and elected
officers and committees for the com.
ing year. This year 81 stewards
were elected. The church stewards
are the people who collect the mini.
sters salary and heretofore it has
taken 10. Under the new rules it is
permissible to elect 81, so they elect.
ed the full number. The general
conference is to be held in Kipgman
onthe oath of this month and Rev.
Selle will 60 the 2frd. .....'
This town." says the Clay Center
Times; modify, "is going to bs
somewhat disappointed in his ap.
pearance of the postofice building
the government will put up with its
little old 100000, A private indivi
dual or successful corporation could
put up a beautiful building with that
amount Of money, but the govern
ment cannot. l will lie a good
substantial building all right, bat it
will look dinky. The government is
great on using cut stone, which i.
very expensive, and it will put TIT
most costly of this kind Of worl
where it does not show and is of NJ
earthly use. The building a
Lawrence cost $4,000 and it is
freak. The same is true at Emporis
and the chances are Clay Center vii
draw the same"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-03-12

d. A. Banta aud WIN. Osmond
returned Tuesday evening from
Wichita, after few days attendance
in the .Unitsd States court.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-10-01
Thew Didn't Have to Chance.

During the years in which our pure
food laws have been put into effect
there has been a great hurrying and
scurrying on the part of the food man
ufacturers to change their methods to
make them conform to the law.
The Quaker Oats Company is a con-
spicuous exception. 1t was admitted
that Quaker Oats was as pure and
clean as possible and that 1t was an
ideal food.
1t is so cheap that any one car af-
ford it and so nourishing that every.
n needs it. The result of last years
experiments at Yale and other points
where food values were tested is that
Quaker Oats has been adopted by
many persons as their food on which
they rely for adding vigor and endur.
ance of muscle and brain.
The Quaker Oats Company meets
all demands in the way it packs
Quaker Oats: regular size packages
and the large size family package;
the latter, both with and without
china. 1
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-10-01

Bar Harbor, Sept. 2S.-Peary was in
formed tonight that Whitney said he
read Peary's instructions to Boatswain
Murphy regarding the stores at Ammo
tok and Etah, and that he directed
Murphy to use Cooks supplies first,
then Peary's. Peary said:
Il left explicit instructions to Mu"-
ply about those supplies, but until the
main question is settled. | will not
make those instructions public. There
Is nothing ambiguous about the in
structions with regard to providing for
Cook in case he needed assistance
Peary's written statement ort
ing the contention that Cook did not
reach the pole is now tcmp-ete8. 50.
soon as it is passed upon by the Peary
Arctic club it will be made pub ic. 1t
is intimated hat Peary has other
proofs which he considers it unne es
sary to publish now.
General Hubbard said tonight:
Il do not care to 60 on record as
saying that Peary's statement will
prove that Cook did not reach the pol q.
That is for the public to judge. | can
say Peary's statements are true"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-10-01
PAINT FAulTA.

It IL q common occurrence nova
days to hear q man remark with dis
gust: 1T is impossible to have good
painting done these days; either the
paint is not good or there are no good
painters" This, however, is not true.
There is good paint. and there are
good painters. But the question Is.
bringing them together.
One cannot expect a satisfactory
painting job without pure white lead.
There is q way to make sure you are
getting pure white lead without test
ing it. See that the key bears Ma
tional Lead Company's famous Dutch
Boy Painter trademark. which is a
positive guarantee Of purity. However,
anyone can test white lead. National
Lead Company. 1902 Trinity Bldg,
New York City, will send you a lead
tester and painters outfit, consisting
of book of color schemes, speciflca.
tons, etc.. upon request.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-10-01
Whitney Interviewed

| St. Johns. Newfoundland, Sept. Is
The Arctic vessel JEANNE, with Harry
Whitney of New Haven. has arrived
| here from the Greenland coast, via In
dian Harbor, Labrador.
Regarding the statements made to
| him by Cook in Greenland, Whitney
| said Cook arrived at AnnotOk in
April this year and declared he haA
reached the pole the year before. He
! pledged Whitney not to tell feary, who
was to be informed only that Cook had
passed Peary's previous record. Coos
| told Whitney he had accomplished
more than he had expected to. Whit
ney did not communicate to Peary all
Cook told him. Cook complained OF
Peary's having taken over his house
| and stores, but declared he had suffer
| ed no unfairness. Peary's steward,
| Pritchard, was present when the
| statements were made. MUIR by,
| Peary's boatswain, had written instrlc-
| lions from Peary WHICH Whitney, a,
| Feary's request, read over to Murphy
from time to time. They directed Muir
| ply to use Cooks stores first and
Peary's afterwards; also that II Cook
| returned he was to be given every
help.
When Cook and his Eskimo arrived
at Annatok they had no sledges, haV-
ing left them twenty miles out. Inc
next day a sledge was recovered. Al
contained Cooks scientific Instruments,
! food and clothes. At Cooks request
Whitney took charge of these lnstru-
| ments when Cook left for home. Whit
new SAYS Cook left no written record :
hat he knows of. Whitney says that
when Peary reached Annotok he told
him Cook said he had gone beyond
Peary's farthest north, but Peary mace
no comment, Next day Cooks Eskimos
came to him and asked what Peary's
men were trying to get them to say.
! Peary's men had shown them maps,
Int the Eskimos declared they did not
understand these papers. AS far as
Whitney is aware, Cooks Eskimo
never admitted they and Cook had only
progressed two sleeps from the land.
Whitney said he told Parry Cook in
| trusted to him certain belongings u
! bring home. Peary declined, Wh:tne7
| saws, to permit Cooks belongings to
/ be brought aboard the Roosevelt. Whit
! new thereupon went ashore, and WITH
| the assistance of Capt. Bartlett, COM
! mander of the Roosevelt. separated
| Cooks property from his own baggage.
| repacked them IN boxes and left them
| ashore.
Whitney, in expressing his be,ief
| that Cook found the pole and tina
| Peary did the same, said he knew ne
| reason for doubling Cook any more
| than Peary.
"Dr. Cooks story" he added seems
| truthful and probable. Nothing else
would explain his twelve months a.
sence,"
Whitney said Cook left with him at
! Annotok several cases containing IN
| struments and other belongings but
50 far as Whitney knew, no records,
| though records may have been packed
/ with Cooks effects.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-10-01
As St. Louis Lawyers Talk.


Circuit Judge Reynolds had an.
nounced that he would hear jurors
who had u to offer for not serv.
ing, and a dozen American citizens
crowded up to the bench to tell their
troubles. Their excuses were. as
varied as those who were hidden to
the feast that the Bible tells about.
One had An important engagement
and another could not hear very we'll,
and another had sickness in his fam.
lily, and another had duties to per.
form which nobody else on earth could
perform, and another was going on
q Journey. And 50 1t went.
The last man In the line wanted to
be let of because he was a German.
He might have been excused If he had
not presented his excuse wrong end
forward.
Judge" he said, Il can't under.
stand good English"
"Oh, you'll do all right said the
Judge. There is no good English
spoken in here."-St. Louis Post-Dis.
patch.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-10-01
Brave Hello Girls

gainesville, Ohio, Sept. 2S.-The
bravery of two telephone girls, Haze
Christian and Alice Warren, sleeping
in a telephone exchange at Perry, near
here, saved tha~ town from total de-
struction by fire early today.
Fire broke out in the store beneath
the exchange. The girls were alone
but stuck to their posts and telephon
ed the sleeping citizens. They hat
trouble in getting an answer to the
calls. and then they called the Paines
vile and Madison fire departments fol
help. While tal--4ng with the Paineg'
vile fire CHIEF, lie flames burned the
wires and the girls in their nigh
clothes stumbled down the stairs
through the smoke to the street. TWO
stores, a livery stable and a residence
were burned before aid from othel
towns arrived.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-10-01

Four young men accosted a clergy
man who has defended the dogma of
The devil, while he was walking along
the streets in Malmo, and one of them
said point blank that there "a no
longer a hell because 1t had been
abolished. He looked kindly at them
and said: Il am really sorry for
you, for now you have no home. Here
is a Krone (27 cents) for each of
YOU" They actually took the money
and walked quietly away.
The Conservatives of Sundsvall
elected their candidate for . veal in
the rtksdag.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-10-01
Puzzle for the Girls.

Every instructor, at Chautauqua is
required to fill out a paper answer
ing a number of necessary and un-
necessary questions. One year there
was q remarkably handsome male
member Of the faculty in whom all
the girl students were much interest.
ed. rs he married or unmarried"
became an ~all-absorbing question.
Finally some Of them had the courage
to approach the college secretary and
ask If the files might be looked over.
An6 there the handsome professor. an
ticipating some such investigation had
recorded his matrimonial pretensions
as follows: Married or single?-
Yes"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-10-01
Cook Makes Statement

New York, Sept. 2S.-COok said to-
night that everything Whitney said
about the incidents when they were to-
gether at Annotok was substantially
corest and confirmed all my declar-
alton" Whitney was probably unamare
of the records being left with him,
They are not Of much consequence. as
l have duplicates. The whole story
OF my not going far north is based on
the reply l gave Murphy when he ask.
ed me Have you been farther than 81
north" answered: Yes. much farther
north but I gave Murphy no other in
formation, and Whitney would not lie,
Murphy know. The Eskimos did the
same"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-10-01
Snake Story.

Before he went fishing" said the
town story-teller, he swallowed
bout a pint an half OF s%nakebite rem
edy, an of course you know what that
is? Well, after the snake bit him,
the reptile cut all sorts O. capers, kaZe
the remedy went straight to it's head.
Last thing it tried to do wuz to swal-
Ter it's tail, an it got itself in the form
OF a hoop, an I'm a liar eff the chill
dren didn't roll it around all day!"-
Atlanta Constitution.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-10-01
"FiIthy lucre."

The expression filthy lucre" Is OF
Biblical origin. and is to be found in
the third chapter of the first book OF
Timothy, where the qualifications nee
essary for the Office Of a bishop
are thus set forth: This is a true
saying. If a man desireth the Of
flee Of bishop, he desireth a good
work. A bishop must then be blame
less, the husband of one wife, vigilant
sober, Of good behavior, given to hos
pitality. apt to teach; not given tc
wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy
lucre; but patient, not a brawler ,ot
covetous."
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-10-01

Four days of hard rain caused foods
in southeastern Norway. In Fredrik.
stad the streets and parts of the
churchyard were flooded. A great
number of cellars were filled with wa.
ter, and the entrances to several stores
we're shut of by water.
Captain ROAD Amundsen. the Nor
wegian explorer, has decided to post
pone his projected expedition to the
Arctic region until June 1. 1910, on &C
count Of delay in his preparations
caused by the general strike in Swe
den.