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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
ROADS OF sAWDUsT IN FLORIDA.

From the Florida Times-Union.
 They are making roads of sawdust mixed with earth. on a new plan in Leon county. Two ridges of earth are thrown up with road machine at the required width from each other and the space be- tween is filled witt. six-inoh bed of saw dust. This is followed with a smaller machine. which blows up and mixes the earth with the sawdust This makes roadbed on wiuch the tires of the heaviest loaded vehicle make no impression. The contractor. G. H. Averitt has kept an accurate account of expenses in connec- ton with this section of sawdust and earth road, and says the cost aggregates s2s7 a mile. showing 1t to be about the cheapest road material in use. It may be suggested that sawdust Is not durable material, but the True Democrat meets this objection with the statement that one or two such roads were constructed in a south Georgia county 20 years ago and are stsll Tn good condition, showing its durability. Az is well known, Leon county soil Is clayey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
SUNDAY IN RURAL HOLLAND.

From an Article Entitled 'Traveling Flu
 rope on Foot" by Harry Franck In the
 Springfield CMass) Republican.
 The warming sun rose none too early, though long before the first shopkeeper, and still fasting. set off toward Haar- lem. On these flat lowlands this Sab bath day was oppressively hot Yet how dolorously devout appeared the peasants who plodded for miles along the dusty highway to the village church. The men, those same men so comfortably pictur- esque in their workyday clothes. marched in their cumbersome Sunday garments like converts doing penance for their sins. The women, buxom always, but painfully awkward in stiffly starched gowns, tramped sweltering behind the males. Even the children. the rollicking youngsters of the day before, were im- prsoned in homemade straightjackets and suffered martyrdom in uncomplain- ing silence. But one and all had cherry word for the passerby and never that sour look which one Ion the road" en- counters on British hishways
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

From the Walker County News.
 That was nice write-up of Jasper by Walter Harper in The Age-Herald, re- produced in the News. He states that Jasper naturally has a great advantage over most of the smaller towns of the state by reason of it's immense natural resources. This is true, but what are our people doing to develop these resources? We need more industries. more pay rolls, more hustle. By the concentrated efforts of our business men and property-holders Jasper could be made a town of 10000 people in few years. Why not get to- gether and do it?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
REPORTS HEARD
 BY ASSEMBLY

Knoxville, May 2S.-The general as- sembly of the United Presbyterian church in America heard important committee reports today. The commit tee on ministerial relief reported the expenditure of $22.S76 and recommend ed that the amount be increased for the ensuing year.
 The educational report showed a fall ing off in the number of theological students in the church and colleges, a situation which was deplored by reso- lution. The report also recommended that the establishment of a college in the northwest be again referred to the Columbia synod when it met. In all likelih ood the establishment will be made within a year.
 The statistical report showed a gem eral increase in the church strength but losses in three synods-Ohfo, Illi- nois and Nebraska. The annual me- morial service was conducted tonight at Knoxville college. The roll of dead contained the names of IA minister's
 There will be no session of the pres bytery Saturday and the delegates will go for an excursion over the scenic Little River railroad far up into the Smoky mountains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
NoRsEMEN IN MINNESOTA.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
 Either some one has perpetrated a prac- tical joke or the discovery of a stone bear ing runic characters giving a message of the fourteenth century in Minnesota is an important discovery With the Cardiff Giant fraud still fresh in memory, such a discovery" must be taken with grain of salt. There is, however, nothing inherently impossible in the fact that Norsemen may have iourneyed from Vine land (Massachusetts) to the far west Their facilities were as good as those of the French yoyagers and missionaries of So0 years alter. But is 1t fact that they did so?"
 That the Norsemen came to this coun- try about the year 1000 seems certain. Brio the Red and other Morse heroes who are found in the sagas seem to have been historical characters. They might easily have ascended the St. Lawrence and, by way of the lakes, reached the section where now so many Swedes and Nor wegfans dwell. The interesting fact is that they never left any record of such travels, save in their epics, so that the discoveries of Columbus were as genuine
 
 across. Evidently about the time of the glacial period or before, men came to North America by the way of Behring Straits. but left no impress upon the rest of the world
 If the Norsemen did go to Minnesota and leave record engrayen on stone, it must be said that their literary labors were to little contemporary advantage If the Norsemen had taken hold of this country 300 years ago what a lot of his tory might have been made But spec ulation of this sort Is hardly valuable They didn't, and it isn't likely they ever got to Minnesota, either But it would be interesting to know who in these days, can write in runic characters Evidently there is some scholarship out west which has been unsuspeoted up to this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
THE WAY OF PEACE.

Wordsworth, '"The White Doe of Ryl-
 stone.' Action Is transtory-a step a blow, The motion of a muscle-this way or
 that Iris done; and iff the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men be-
 trayed; Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity. Yet through that darkness Gnfinite
 though it seem And irremovable) gracious openings lie, By which the soul-with patient steps of
 thought Now toiling, waited now on wings of
 prayer May pass in hope, and. though from
 mortal bounds Yet undelivered, rise with sure ascent Even to the fountain-head of peace divine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

ing MT. Gladstone's words when he said that such a tax makes a nation of liars. A nation of liars is no worse than a nation of smugglers under a high protective tariff. England re- tains her income tax, and perhaps al ways will. In this country the richer class say they do not want a tax of that nature. That class prefers tax ation of poverty to taxation of wealth. The issue is before the people. and it will stay before them when new House of Representatives is eles ed next year, and a new President in 1912
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
The Presbyterian Bodies.

''Presbyterianism in this country is di- vided into several bodies, those with which the general public is most familiar being the Presbyterian church in the United States of America commonly called the northern Presbyterian church; the Presbyterian church in the United States. commonly known as the south ern,' remarked a layman. There is also the Cumberland Presbyterian church, but as many of the congregations of this body were merged recently into the north ern Presbyterian church, the general as- sembly retaining the Cumberland title Is now one of the smaller organizations.
 But what started out to say was that the average reader finds it hard. no doubt. to remember which is which of the two prominent bodies. Their formal titles do not explain. It would have been better perhaps, if the southern organization had incorporated the word south into its name just as the M. E. church, south, did.
 ''The northern church, which has been holding its general assembly at Dem yer this month, has a communicant mem bership of about 1,300.oO0; the southern. which has been meeting in Savannah, numbers about 26S,000 conmunicants. was surprised to see that the northern assembly passed a resolution against the use of tobacco. It calls upon laymen as well as pastors to abstain from the weed. Nearly all the Presbyterian ministers that I have known have been great smokers. and as thousands and tens of thousands of laymen. as well as many of the preach CTS, are addicted to cigars or pipes strong self-denial will have to be brought into play"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
MISS KELLER DENIES STORY.

Special to the Times-Democrat.
 Boston.-Emphatic denial is made by Miss Helen Keller through her teacher, Mrs. John A. Macy, of the Norfolk (Va) story that Henry H. Rogers rescued the blind girl in the south 25 years ago and that she had been educated by him since. Miss Keller's education began in Ala bama in her own home. and it was her father who sent to the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston for a teacher, who was then Miss Sullivan.
 In Boston Miss Keler's most notable benefactor was John P. Spauldng At his death, when Miss Keller and her teacher were left without means to carry on their work, MT. Rogers helped them privately, and few knew that he had any connection with them. He disliked all discussion of himself as philanthropist, and this story would have much dis pleased him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Shoots Officer and Escapes.

Dothan, May 2S.-In a desperate effort to escape arrest on the charge of em- bezzlement, W. l. Skipper, local agent of the Montgomery firm of D. ID. Forbes Piano company, shot three times at Clar- ence Conrad, chief of the Dothan fire de- nartment, who blocked his way, and tho officer was downed, receiving serious wound in his right shoulder, at 3 o'clock tonight on the principal street of the citv' Skipper escaped and until late to- night had not been captured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
American Radiator Co.

''The American Radiator company which recently leased the plant of the Birming- ham Pipe and Casting company on Sec ond avenue near the Sloss furnaces, turned out its first radiators here this week." said real estate agent who is personally acquainted with the high of hcials of the concern.
 This company Is one of the strongest and most enterprising in Athe United States but its expansion in Birmingham will depend largely upon favorable freight rates. I believe the railroads will act all right The advantages offered here are manifold and with shipping charges favorable the radiator company will build up a business for this southern branch that will mean the employment in time of 1200 to 1500 wageworkers. It starts off with a working force of about 150 men,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
CREATOR OF THE RILLIKEN.

From the Savannah Press.
 The girl who made Billiken is Miss Florence Pretz, formerly of Kansas City, now of Chicago. She is known as the drawer of Japanese designs and the cre- ator of Billiken.
 Hamptons Magazine, which publishes her picture, insists that she looks like a Japanese girl However, she says that she is pure Holland-Dutch. She is not pretty-how could she be to dream of such thing as Billiken? There is noth- ing about the blear-eyed, blinking thing to suggest kimonas or butterflies or "blos- soming cherry trees under the wonder of the sailing moon" The idol recalls Kip ling's rhyme, when he sang of Manda- lay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 man has a fair chance to have a small family if he is able to support a biz one
 The same virtue that you can admire in yourself you can be very doubtful about in anybody else.
 Where a woman is so often right in her judgment is her instinct never lets her follow it the way man does his
 One of the neatest tricks of a pretty girl is not to have any foolish notions about how much moro useful brains would be to her.
 Even if a man really could raise cu- cuinbsrs in his own garden he would want to lie about it and aay ts>1 wA-a Ham, burg grapes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
MT. Hassinoer Returns.

W. H. Hassinger, recently elected pres ident of the Southern Iron and Steel com pany, has returned from New York, where he had been to participate in the reor= ganization of the old Southern Steel and to confer with the fnanciers who have in hand the matter of rehabilitating the properties of the company
 He is not ready to make a definite state ment as to when the plants of the reor- ganized company will resume operation, but he said yesterday that he was well satisfied with the present condition of af- fairs and intimated that the s1,5O0,OoO yet to be raised for working capital would soon be forthcoming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Miss Nix Best Golfer.

Glencove. N. T., May 2S.xThe sudden reversal of form shown atsthe Nassau club course today by Miss Georgianna Bishop, which lost her the championship of the Womens Metropolitan Golf asso- citation to Miss Julia Mix by down and 6 to go, adds a surprising chapter to the local history of that sport Miss Mix has been playing five or six years and Miss Bishop twice as long.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Beaten By White Caps.

Rising Sun. Ind. May 2s.-Henry Dike- man came to this city today and re- ported that his neighbors armed with shotguns, were guarding one of his ten ants. who is suffering wounds inflicted by White Caps" The man was taken from his house at night tied to tree and beaten by masked men and ordered I'd leave the country. He was charged with stealing chickens and eggs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Bauoaoemaster Is Killed.

Nashville May 8.-Dr. Fain Stephens, baggagemaster on the Tennessee Central railroad. was shot and killed at Bowen, Tenn, this morning by John w. Thomas, who entered the baggage car, and shot five times. Thomas is believed to be mentally unbalanced. Stephens Is the son of Dr. J Benjamin Stephens, primitive Baptist minister and physician or Nash-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Train Robbers caunht.

Omaha. Neb., May 2s.-Fred Torten- zen and W. D. Woods were tonight identified by Engineer 'Mickeljohn and Fireman Prawl as the men who Sat urday night robbed the Union Pacific Overland Limited. Several school children also identified all the prison CTS as men they had seen in the vicin- ity of the Brown Park school Sunday and Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Youno Woman Burned to Death,

Charlotte. N. C., May 2s-While en- deavoring to- start a fire with kero- sene Miss Julia Ware, 30 years old, a prominent young woman of Kings Mountain, N. C., was burned to death last night. The victims mother, hear ing her screams, rushed to her assist ance and was seriously burned
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Howard Gould Case Called.

New York, May 2S.-The case Of kath- erine Clemons Gould for separation from her husband. Howard Gould, was called in the supreme court today and marked ready and passed" This means that the case will be called again at the next session of court on June and may go to trial on that day or during that week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Jury Is Still Out.

Chicago, May 2S.-The jury in the Madden Boyle -Puchot labor case. which has been out since 4:30 o'clock yester- day afternoon, will be discharged at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning if no yer dict has been reached by that time. Judge McSurely made this annuonce- ment tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
"BloominI idol made of mud,
 Plucky lot she cared for idols"

Her Japanese sketches are fantastic and clever. One day Billiken came. The whole of Chicago knelt at the shrine of Billiken. People began to buy the queer Japanese sketches of the little Kansas City girl and before she knew it Chi cago courted her and fame claimed her. She had her idol copyrighted and she is making small fortune out of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

has packed his firearms away and ceased to let his thoughts dwell on buffaloes and Indians. Doubtless he is earnestly seek ing way to give his temperament free play in it's novel setting.
 If he wishes to show himself really swashhucklering and bold we suggest to him that there is no legal obstacle in the way of his using a toothpck in public if he wishes. But doubtless he will regard that as more serious breach of propriety than endangering the public health by ex- pectoration. He cannes, as he has said from Boston.-Chicago Record Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Rather and Sons Sentenced.

Alexandria. La. May 2S.-H. c. Garner and sons, D. B. and w. H. Garner, plead euilty In the federal court here today to illicit distilling of whisky. The boys were each sentenced to five years in the house of correction in Emmettsburg, Md, but the father was allowed to go home, his sentence having been suspended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Two Conductors Drowned.

Minneapolis. Mihn, May 2S.-W. G. Con- ley and George Gibbs of this city, and both employed as conductors on the St. Paul road, were drowned in Lake Chan hassen. 1T miles out of Minneapolis yes terday afternoon by the capszing of their boat while fishing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Series of FIqhts In Paris.

Paris, May 2S.--In a series of fights held here tonight, Jim Barry. the Chi cago heavyweight knocked out Tom Bo- Ian, an Englishman, in the first round, and a Frenchman named Hogan won from Dick Green, an American, in the third round. Green was knocked out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Weston Reaches creeIev.

Greenley. Col, May 2S.-Edward Pay son Weston, the pedestrian. arrived here att Il o'clock tonight, having walked 51 miles since he left Denver at midnight. He will start for Chey- enne Wyo., tomorrow morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
CHICAGO GLoATs.

To judge from the following editorial, which appeared in the Chicago Record Herald, the attitude of Chicago toward Boston is anything but sisterly. It is unseemly, to say the least, to chuckle over the misfortune of Boston gentle man who forgot himself and spat upon the spotless pave of Chicago:
 He came from Boston. He said his name was John Moriarty. He spat on the side walk as soon as he had stepped from the train. He found himself at police sta tion before reaching his hotel. The judge let him off with s1 and costs
 He is now engaged in studying the West" at first hand instead of depending on hearsay. Already, we may believe, he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Three-Year Sentence.

Memphis, May 2s.-John R. Mo- Quarry, well known young man of Gov ington, Tenn, was sentenced to three years Imprisonment by Judge Mccall in the federal court here today. McQuary was charged with opening a letter not addressed to him and cashing checks carried in the letter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE CASTLE oF DREAMS.

THE CASTLE OF DREAMS. The castle of dreams Is heavenly fair And the glory of dawn Abides ever there. Aod it's streamers of light Shall never be furled, Nor suffer the blight Of a work-a-day worldl The castle of dreams Is a palace of song And revelers, too,-
 A radiant throng, And faces that smile And hearts free from care, And never a sign
 Of the burdens men bear. The castle of dreams
 Still offers retreat To the creatures of woe And the thralls of defeat. Turn away from a world No fancy redeems And tarry a while
 In the castle of dreamsl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
THE SUMMER GIRL.

THE SUMMER GIRL. The summer girl
 Will soon be here A charming maid
 A perfect dear; A very dream Of loves delight, With winning ways And glances bright. She'll break some twenty Hearts or more, In mountain inns
 And by the shore, And put as trophies On a string And number each
 Engagement ring. And she'll look down With dropping head When each new lovers Vow is said, As if she were
 Embarrassed so, When any sort
 Of fool might know She doesn't mean It-shameless Cert; If truth were told, She's just a firtl
 TRUE. More human lives are blighted By foolish little breaks Than eer were lost in bloody war, Or storm and fire and "quakes."
 LOST TO A TITLE. Love fought battle and lost" "He took the count, eh?" "Yes, because the girl did."
 BOUND TO COME. q guess we can't escape it.'' "What?" "A musical comedy with the scenes laid in the neighborhood of Mombasa."
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

Henry H. Rogers began active life at S3 a week, but 1t does not follow that every $9 man will die worth $100, 100000, for there are not enough Standard Oils to go round.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
kilIs pauohter and Self.

Paris, May 2S-An American whose name is given as Angerson, and who is believed to have been from New York, shot his daughter dead and then com mitted suicide in a cafe near the Cen tral market shortly before midnight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

The Jersey City baseball team, con- sisting wholly of preachers, will cer- tainly need lay manager to talk to the umpire in words that burn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

James J. Hill is certainly mistaken when he says all eyes are turned on Congress. A very considerable per centage of eyes is watching the base ball game or a score board.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
Iinuor Cannot Re Sold.

Topeka, Kan. May 29.-Kansas' new prohibition law ywent into effect at midnight. Under it's terms no liquor can be sold for any purpose by drug gists or anybody else
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
MICH SADDER.

"A Chicago wheat expert says wheat is in sad condition"
 He ought to take a look at the chaps who got caught short"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

Pending the appeal of the McPher- son decision to the supreme court the passengers in Missouri are paying but 2 cents mile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

The self-promoter and political ad- wiser of the Taft campaign, John Hays Hammond, now poses as a magnate in politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

The United States experiment sta tion at Pittsburg indorses IF explosives all good for use in coal mines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

Colonel Roosevelt has already ex- hausted the list of African fauna, and he has 10 months left to stay in the jungle under the equator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29
About Persons.

Preston H. Haskell of Virginia who has been visiting relatives in .Birming- ham, returned home. last night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

Admiral Sigsbee wins no reputation in opposing the raising of the ship that he commanded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

The conductors organization in New England very properly accepts as mem- bers trolley conductors also.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

Hisgen has deserted the indepen- dence party, but John Temple Graves stands true to Hearst and his payroll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

Atlantic City is to have a church for men only. It is to be organized to draw men away from the boardwalk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-29

Farmer Patten is fully vindicated by the course of the markets and he has bulging pockets.