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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-07
VETERAN OF SOLDIERS HOME
MEETS TRAGIC DEATH UNDER
WHEELS OF TRAIN.
WAS OLD RESIDENT
OF HARDIN COUNTY.
seabury Had Once Been Committed
to Insane Hospital and Mind Was
Said to Have Been Affected of Late
Had Formerly Attempted Suicide
Body Taken to Union, Former Home.

jerome Seabury, a member of the
soldiers home. was instantly killed
sunday morning al $50 by being run
over by three ears and the caboose Of
an extra freight train on the Chicago
& Northwestern. as it pulled out of
This city.
Seabury and a comrade had gone to
the union depot 10 see the crowds come
in Tor the tabernacle meetings. The
former, nor being aware that there
would be no train from the north, was
expecting relatives or friends from his
old home al Union. He was seen TO
walk west from the station. between
the Northwestern tracks and alongside
the extra freight as it pulled ont.
suddenly he was observed to fall I'M
der the trucks IF the fourth car from
the rear end and was rolled over and
over for a distance Of about 80 feet
before The train was stopped. He was
dead when picked up, his body being
terribly nutilated.
Exact Cause Unknown.
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cident. among them Robt. Bennett, the
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-07

strike, proved for all time the value to
society of such man. He was edu-
Gated and he was follower of Jeho-
yah. His was the cool head and the
warm heart. He loved men because he
lnNad God
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-07
Card Of rhanks.

Mrs. Agnes Gowdy's children wish IN
this way to thank the friends and
neighbors for their help and sympathy
during the sickness and death of their
dear mother, and for the beautiful
flowers they sent
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16

cussing the subject of Birmingham
rates. Your committee trusts that, if
the subject is properly presented 10
the railroads, the injustice complained
of will be righted."
The plan proposed is excellent. A
cure for the local trouble cannot, how
ever be guaranteed in that way, and
it is the part of wisdom to select an
alternative.
That alternative is an Open War
rior, for in 1911 the river will be
opened abreast of Birmingham. This
is none too early to begin the consid-
Grafton of direct Independent connee-
ton with an Open River. Such a con-
neetlon would quickly cure all dis
ordinations by placing this district
on water-rates footing.
The Chamber of Commerce should,
at any rate, formulate a plan. This
task cannot much longer be avoided
with commercial safety or common
sense. When the government was
asked to spend millions in the War
rior it was not done to create some
thing to look att was done to af
ford cheap facilities of transportation
to and from this district. In all honor
we should get ready to utilize it to
the utmost.
This is the true way to deal with
railroad determinations In rates
against this city and this district.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16
Public Spirit.

Il regret to say that as a rule the citi-
zens of Birmingham are somewhat lack
ing in that spirit of enthusiasm which goes
such long way to make things hum,
said well-known citizen yesterday.
THE fame, feeling and progress of a
town depends to a large extent upon that
great big hurrah spirit combined with the
closest cooperation of citizens. On many
occasions the people of Birmingham have
been drawn together in this spirit and
without exception the events involved
proved the greatest successes.
But I say that unless the citizens are
urged along there is a somewhat evident
lack OF interest In affairs where a mani
festation of the same interest would add
much to the occasion. The various COM
mercial and trade organizations do great
work in UNFOLDING and keeping fresh en-
thusiasm and interest In the city and its
anairs They need the help of citizens
not rn<lbers of the organizations. how
eyer1
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16
Factors in Business.

1t is gratifying TO know that all the
members of the firm of Brown Bros &
Co., recently dissolved, will still be ac-
tive factors in the development of Bir-
mingham,' said a real estate man last
night. las The Age-Herald has already
announced, Mr.. Eugene Brown will de-
vote himself to the supervision of the
Woodward buildings and Mr.. Wilson
Brown will go to New York, where he
will be in position to direct capital to the
Birmingham district. And 1 can now
state authoritatively that Mr.. Frank b.
Fowlkes, the third partner, who was
identified with the firm during all of it's
brilliant career of history-malxing for Bir-
mingham, will remain in the real estate
field, having formed a company under
the name of Fowlkes Bros. & Co., with
offices on the second floor of the Brown
Marx building.
There is no better equipped real es-
tate man in Birmingham, none with a
wider acquaintance and none more pop
ular than Mr. Fowlkes. His brother,
Walter B. Fowlkes, who is associated
with him, has had much experience in
real estate and has been remarkably sue
cessful in the development of suburban
property. The new firm will begin bust
ness with strong clientele, and the scope
of its operations will be wide 1 pre-
dict that it will speedily take a command
ing position"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16
Even Atlanta SURPRISED.

Everyone who attended Atlanta's mu-
sic festival marveled at its splendid sue
cess" said a Birmingham man.
1T was to be expected that the music
would be fine. Great vocal artists and
the Dresden orchestra were engaged and
Mr.. Barnes had trained a chorus of be-
tween four and five hundred voices. The
programmes We're exceedingly attractive
although from many points of view Bir-
minghams festival was fully as delight
full as Atlanta's. But Atlanta beat all
records in the vast crowds that assem-
bled in the new auditorium to listen to
the music AS Mr.. j. S. B. Thompson
said to me, nothing that Atlanta had
ever done in the way of expositions or
other great drawing enterprises, had
equalled the music festival achievement.
considered as a business matter. The
expenses amounted to $4,000 but the re-
ceipts exceeded the cost of the affair
by something like $4,000 And Mr..
Thompson said that all this financial
success came about without anybody be-
ing held up. Everybody bought tickets
and was glad to buy them. OF the 5000
people in the auditorium the first night
of the festival it was estimated that fully
three-fourths were home folks. Yes said
Mr.. Thompson, our festival was a mag
nifcent success and the people of Atlanta
were really surprised at themselves. "
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16
elRMlNeHAM's TRIBUTE.

From the Montgomery Times.
The selection of a Montgomerian to di-
rect the policies of Birminghams BUSH
ness Mems league implies a compliment
not only to the gentleman honored by
this proof of Magic City regard, but to
the city of Montgomery as well.
A few weeks ago there was a va
cancy in the local position similar to the
one that is to filled through Birmingham
choice of a Montgomery business man.
In serving it, we hunted the country over
for a candidate. There were 400 ap-
plicants, 1t was stated. and presumably
among these some local men. We do not
know whether or not the subject of Bir-
minghams draft on our progressive ranks
was Included on the list of home appli-
cants At any rate he was not chosen,
nor was any other Montgomery appli-
cant, it seems regarded as capable or fit
for the place.
A stranger was selected and installed in
the vacancy. We are not registering a
protest that this was So or bringing into
question a policy that discredited "home
talent" for utilization for home purposes.
we are, however,
ham on success in a local field where
we ourselves have failed, and congratu-
lating her upon a recognition of capacities
suited to the service of Birmingham, so
near home.
1t is a verified instance of the truth
that a prophet is not htwiout honor, save
in his own country. We hope we have
not been ungrateful in suffering the
proverb to be used against us in this
case which we are discussing.
If there is a suggestion of rebuke in
Birminghams action toward us we are
prepared to confess that we deserve it.
1t may serve us on important lines, in
times of the future when the idea of faith
in our own people to do things that
strangers may do, is little more of fun
damental rule and law among us in
fashioning our policies as a community
and city
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16
To Improve Labor Conditions

W. R. Pettiford, president of the
Penny Savings and Loan company, and
his associates are appealing to en-
ployers for assistance in improving
conditions of laborers in this district.
The object of the effort is to make the
laborer more contented, comfortable
and trustworthy. They propose to
start an institution that will strive
to raise the standard of health, reduce
the percentage of crimes, and bring
the death rate among the colored peo-
pie nearer to that of the whites. This
is to be accomplished by bringing to-
gether for four days of each week in
a given term the preachers, Sunday
school teachers and settlement work
ers for instruction. What these work
ers are taught they are to teach those
of their own race they come in con-
tact with.
The plant of the new school would
cost about $4,000 and the expenses of
conducting it would be about $3.50 a
month. Work can be begun in tenn
porary quarters with one competent
leader who would be paid 500 a month
and three other teachers who would
be paid $40 week. This teaching
staff would answer at the outset even
if 500 students should be gathered to-
gether.
President Pettiford puts the matter
before large employers who desire Gu
secure more efficient laborers and who
also desire to better their conditions.
1t is a practical problem to be con-
sidered primarily by employers of Ia
bor
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16
Mark Twain on Shakespeare

Mark Twain desired to write book
chiefly because there was a demand
for anything he might write. Royalties
followed His new book is devoted
to the task of showing that Shakes
peare was not fitted by education anu
experience to produce the plays fitted
with legal, military and other multi
farious knowledge attributed to him.
He attempts this with his customary
skill and excellent wit. No one will
fail to enjoy his book, and yet after
all it is not bit convincing after
one gets out of the spell it weaves
about the reader.
If Mark Twain had been willing to
see that no one could write two such
plays year in and year out for 20
years unaided he would have been
ready to have said that Shakespeare
was an expert appropriation of other
peoples work, wherever he found it,
whether in. plays, in the theatre, or
in books of the time. In those books
and prosy old plays that he utilized
he found no doubt all the learning
that he himself may have lacked. He
took those plots and all the learning
they contained and he rewrote them,
and in the rewriting we have de-
Ilightful development of character that
no one has equalled to this day. He
apparently enjoyed in personal sense
that character drawing, and today it
is as fresh and spontaneous and life
like as 1t was 300 years ago.
No one regrets that he appropri-
ated plots and learning at every hand,
as no doubt he did, for he had
worlds task in depicting the charac-
tiers thus brought before him. He did
not have to stop to study anything
except human nature. This afforded
his genius an ample field and little
of it was wasted let us hope, in delv
ing in musty books or in connecting
plots.
If Mark Twain had been content to
say that Shakespeare could not have
written in an absolutely original man.
ner two of the plays a year he no
doubt would have been wholly cor
rect, but when he undertakes to say
that Shakespeare could not re-write
two of the plays a year when all the
materials were at hand, he underesti-
mates the worlds greatest genius.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16

jeanette L. Glider in the Chicago Tribune.
OLLOWING closely upon the death
~ of Mr.. Marion Crawford comes a
novel from his pen, 1.-The White
Sister" 1t is, like so many of his stories,
a tale of Italy. This time it is modern
Rome with which he deals. Like all of
Mr. Crawfords novels, 1.-THE White Sis
ter" is a real story, as Mr.. Crawford
was a real story teller. Whatever one
may have to say of his manner, whatever
one may have to offer in criticism of his
work, mis- gift as a story teller can never
be denied. 1 do not think that, with all
his popularity, the work of Mr.. Crawford
has been thoroughly appreciated; because
he wrote so many novels people thought
that they could not all be good This is
an excellent theory, but in his case 1t did
not prove true Some Of his stories We're
better than others, as Is the case OF every
novelist who ever wrote. Mr. Crawford
could accomplish a great deal because he
wrote methodically. He had magnificent
physique, he had high health and he had
application and method. You only have
to see his handwriting to realize that ne
was a man of method rather than OF In
spiration. He regarded novel writing as a
profession, which it certainly Is, just as
much as the law is a profession or as
medicine is a profession. When he was in
this country he had a room in the Mac
milan building to which he retired at
certain hour every day and wrote for a
certain length of time. IF ope writes in
this way one can accomplish much
greater amount of work than by waiting
for inspiration. which may never come.
The only failures on Mr.. Crawford's
list of novels were two that he wrote
about New York. OF all of his books
think that my favorite is 1.-THE Tale of a
Lonely Parish" The scene of this story
Is laid in a little English village, the
characters are few, and the plot is simply.
think that Mr. Crawford himself liked
this story very much / told him that it
was my favorite, and from what he said
about it, | imagine 1t was good deal of
favorite of his own.
If there ever was a versatile author it
was Marion Crawford. man that could
write Mr.. Isaac" 1.-The Saracnesca
Series" and 1.-THE Witch of Prague"
was certainly versatile, and the curious
thing is, that with The exception of the
two New York stories, to which have
referred, he kept pretty we'll up to his
standard.
knew Mr.. Crawford since he was
about IA years of agb but between then
and his early manhood had seen little
or nothing of him. When he was IA, by
the way, be was called Frank Craw-
ford, his name being Francis Marion he
was. sent to this country from his home
In Italy, to school, and some of his vaca-l
tons were spent in Bordentown, N j.,
with his aunt, Mrs. Adolph Maillard.
Though mere lad, he wore the high hat
and the long trousers of the Elton boy,
much to the amusement of the youth of
Bordentown, who, knowing that he came
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16
The Present Outlook

While there has been a marked i'm
provement in business we must wait a
little longer before conditions in the
industrial world are again fully nor
NAL. The effects of the panic of 1907
have been steadily passing and every
day brings evidences of returning pros
perity. With the adjournment of Con
gress and with good crops in sight bus
mess will move forward with great
activity and unless all signs fail the
last half of 1909 will witness larger
degree of genuine thrift than even the
most optimistic prophets had predicted.
Among the barometers of a general
business revival is the continued
strength of the stock market. Some
observers have said they failed to see
what made stocks advance in the fac.
of cut prices in steel products and
slow improvement in railroad earn
ings. But the explanation is both easy
and significant. In the first place the
rise in securities shows clearly that
capital is abundant and is eagerly
seeking investment. In the next place
the strength of the stock market in
dicates that investors believe railroad
traffic depression is soon to give place
to large earnings and that industrial
depression in general is fast coming
to an end. In short confidence is be-
ing restored.
1t used to be that panics were 1or.
lowed by long periods of hard times.
1t was five years before business re-
covered from the panic of 1873, and
from 1878 to 1900 the lean years out
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16
DEAD LETTERS IN GERMANY.

From Harper's Weekly.
The dead letter department of the Ger
man imperial postoffice is working over
time, and from a comparison of the sta
tistics compiled for a number of years.
the persons who use the mails are growing
more careless or ignorant of. the correct
method of writing the address. OF ev-
cry million pieces of mail handled by the
imperial post the unbelievable matter
increased from 1921 pieces in 1904 to 1898 in
1907 a gain of 21.7 per cent. During the
latter year an average of 10, 900 pieces of
mail were sent daily to the dead letter
department to puzzle the experts
Although illiteracy is exceedingly rare
among the native Germans, where good
education is possible for any child, never
theless The incorrectly addressed letters
are, for the most part, examples of
a woeful lack of schooling 1t is very
probable that in the vast majority Of
cases the sender is a newly arrived i'm
migrant, possessing practically no eduea-
tion-one of the great casseth has been
attracted by Germany's rapid commercial
development. Many of the dead" letters
entirely omit the point of destination in
the address, and others give only the first
name of the addressee. In 1907 70 per
cent of the nondeiveries were of the pic
ture postal variety.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE PROPOSED
EXTRA SESSION OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE

There is always danger to the material
interests of State in a legislative ses-
sion. The railroads which were so severely
punished at the last session have just
commenced to right affairs again and to
do business. Few if any of them have
made money under the new State laws.
Nearly all improvements and extensions
were stopped, but having readjusted af-
fairs according to the laws of the State
they are now just beginning to get back
on a good basis and to contemplate i'm
provements and extensions.
I presume, and in fact hear 1t is an
nouneed by the legal advisers of the Gov
ernor, that the prohibition question will
be taken up again, and that an effort
will be made to pass law which will
prevent lockers in the clubs. In other
words, it is proposed to enact law which
will prevent any member of any club from
keeping or using a bottle of wine whisky
or beer in any club of which he is a
member. II may also be attempted to en-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16
Senator Railev,s Attack

i regretted to see a democratic SEN
ator-Bailey of Texas-attacking the
United States Steel corporation" said a
wageworker. at was a violent attack,
but it was so manifestly unjust that 1t
seems to have had no effect whatever
upon the business world.
AS far as I can learn the United States
Steel corporation, commonly called the
Steel trust is not a trust in the usual
acceptation of the term. 1t does not con-
troll more than 65 per cent of the iron
and steel trade of the country. Independ-
ent companies not only flourish but these
independents are welcomed by the Off
cials. of the Steel corporation. There are
corporations and corporations. Some are
grinding, no doubt, and will bear watch
ing, while others are conducted on a
high plane and are noted for their good
faith with stockholders and the public
alike. The Steel corporation belongs, 1
think, to the all right class"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16
Early Primaries Next Year

Between the desire of county COM
mittees to round up hot county con-
tests and the desire of all to get pol
itics out of the way at the earliest
possible date, early political action
next year becomes probable. The
county committee of Dallas will soon
meet, and while the call is for a pur-
pose named, yet when the committee
is assembled it can take up any bus
mess it may desire to consider. The
Selma Times says the call sis in the in
terest of party welfare, and for the
benefit of candidates announced anu
prospective" 1t is not easy to say
what this means. The Dallas dem
ocracy may, however, conclude to fore
stall the action of the other counties
of the state-to start boom which it
may fondly hope will overcome the
state like a summer cloud.
Taking the matter up one side and
down the other it becomes plain that
early action next year is to be ex-
pected whether it be in or out of all
reason. 1t is natural thing on the
part of the non-political citizen to get
politics out of sight and sound, and
In an one-party state this can readily
be accomplished by holding early pri-
maries. A county primary can not, in
all regularity, dispose of anything ex-
cept county nominations until the state
committee acts, but when the state
committee sees impotence in the great
body of voters it, too, may meet early
and block out the states part of this
important public business. BY meet
ing early the state committee could
in fact, no doubt, regulate the hold.
ing of county primaries for the nom
nation of county candidates.