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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
REV. s. R. EMERSON
 DOES GOOD WORK Religious Services With Con-
 victs Is Effective OLIVER FOR CONGRESS
Circuit Solicitor of Tuscaloosa Will Oppose Hobson In the Sixth Dis
 trict-W. c. Davis Is AL ready In the Field.

Montgomery March 27.-(Special.) )-Rev. convicts, makes the interesting state ment that at every camp in the state, whether under state control or not, there is religious service every Sunday. He has about 20 preachers associated with him and the force thus organized can get to every place of convict residence each Sunday. In the majority of cases there are services twice and three times a week, prayer meetings Wednesdays be- ing added to Sunday morning preaching and Sunday night prayer service.
 MT. Emerson says that not only do the wardens give time for the services, but encourage them. President J. Craig Smith, of the state convict board, also lends ev- cry encouragement, taking the position that a convict works a great deal better after hearing sermon on Sunday than he does after a strapping. Mr. Smith, says MT. Emerson, will do anything that tends to better the condition of these wards of the state and he sees to it that the wardens and contractors follow out the same policy.
 J. E. Russell and Albert Driscoll. who were sent up from Montgomery county for breaking into several stores, are re- ligious men, says MT. Emerson. Russell became so first. and was followed by Driscoll and others. There is not a man in Montgomery who can make better Sunday school talk than Russell said MT Emerson. 'Driscoll also is a religious worker and talker. He often talks in the prayer meetings and tells the others how they ought to act. He has figured out that he must work for Il cents day to pay the-money value of his acts in Mont gomery."
 Russell is remembered in Montgomery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
CONDEMNED NEGRO
 WANTEDELSEWHERE'
GEORGE WATSON MAY TELL A SENSATIONAL STORY BEFORE HE IS HANGED AT TALLADEGA NEXT WEDNESDAY,.

Talladega, March 27.-(Special. )--It is rnmored that the negro, George Watson, who Is to hang here Wednesday next, is badly wanted in Mississippi for the com mission of capital offense His re- semblance to the man wanted is very striking. It is expected that his state ment on the gallows will contain sensa- tional disclosures concerning the Missis- sippi crime.
 The Southern and Louisville and Nash vile railroads both report the largest business in the history of the city since the beginning of the incoming year.
 Henry Simmons, charged with the mur- der of Sol Smith near Rendala, in this county, was captured in Clay county, Thursday, and turned over to Sheriff Mid dleton. He is now in Jail without ball. Both Simmons and Smith were negroes
 Dr. Edwin w. Dwight of Boston, one of America's most distinguished insur- ance experts, is the guest of A. G. Storey Dr. Dwight is chief medical director of the New England Mutual Life Insurance company and is in Talladega for a visit to the company's state agency here
 News reached here early today of the death at o'clock this morning of Mrs Levi w. Lawler at her country home seven miles south of the city. Gen. Levi w. Lawler, her husband, represented this county in the state senate and was a member of the railroad commission. He was man of much prominence over the state during his lifetime. Since her hus- bands death Mrs. Lawler had lived the greater portion of her time with her son-in-law, General Whiting, of Mobile. She was very old and feeble at the time of her death. It has not as yet been made known where the interment will take place, whether here or at Mo- bile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
INDIGESTION AND DISTRESS
 FROM DISORDERED STOMACH

You haven't Catarrh of the Stomach, or Nervousness, or Gastritis, or Cancer, etc. Prove this by taking Pape's Diapep sin after your very next meal. Convince yourself within five minutes that your actual disease was sour, acid Stomach Food fermentation-tha every bite you ate turned to Stomach gas, Stomach poison and Acid, which makes you feel sick and miserable, producing such symp- toml as pain in the pit of the stomach, Difficulty in breathing after a meal, Headaches. Belching, Heartburn, Nause- ous breath, Water brash, Blliousness. Sour risings, Gas on Stomach and many other bad feelings.
 Indigestion is a result, not cause of your misery. If the Stomach is sour, your food becomes tainted, and thats s why you have these stomach disorders.
 Ask your pharmacist to show you a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28


 Stuart's Calcium Waters Sent
 Free for Trial
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 Stuarts Calcium Waters contain this great purifier and preserve its fullest strength in the peculiar process called Stuart's. Combined with the Calcium Sul- phide are three other great blood invig- orators, each doing special work intend ed for rapid and complete mastery over blood impurities and skin diseases.
 By using Stuarts Calcium Waters in a few days one notices the good effects. and in a short time the blood responds quickly and purges itself of it's irritating and im- pure parts.
 These waters are not experimental, they do their great work so fast and are so uniformly successful that they are known in every hamlet and by every druggist. Physicians will tell you of Calcium Sul- phide. and how hard it is to prepare Nit to hold it's full strength. Stuart has solved the question with Stuarts Calcium Waters. They sell at all druggists for 5Oc, or send us your name and address and we will send you trial package by mail free. Address F. A. Stuart Co.,, 175 Stuart Bldg, Marshall, Mich.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
TURNER HELD ON
 MURDER CHARGE

Alexander City, March H.-(Special.)- The grand jury for Tallapoosa county. which has been sitting the past week, has just adjourned and among the indict- ments of importance is the one found against J. Fletcher Turner, one of the members of the state legislature at pres ent, for the killing of Jack Henderson several months ago. The charge is mur- der in the first degree and he was imme- diately remanded to jail, the case not be- ing balable.
 It will be remembered that several months ago he stood a preliminary trial just after the tragedy, and under the ev- idence then found was allowed ball, but 1t Is whispered that more evidence of a damaging nature was brought out in the grand jury this week than was given in the preliminary trial, and he now has to stand trial for his life under a charge of murder In the first degree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28

case of Pape's Diapepsin, which costs only 50 cents. Read what this effective Stomach and digestive treatment con tains, and how absolutely harmless 1t must be; how it does for the Stomach what the washing and sun bath do for the churn; absolutely removes every cor rupting or taislting clement and will di- gest all the food you can eat.
 Go to your druggist and get some Diapepsin now, then eat anything you want at your next meal, and you will not suffer from Indigestion or Stomach trouble. Each bite of food will taste good, and. besides, you will not need liver regulators to keep your intestines and Stomach clean and fresh.
 Now and forever rid yourself of the misery of Indigestion and Stomach trouble. Make your meals pleasure by going to the table with healthy appe- tite.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28

as a. desperate man. When on trial he jumped from the courthouse window and broke his leg in frantic effort to es- cape. Driscoll was as bad. Russell is at No. 12, Pratt City, and Driscoll at Flat Top. Both have fine influence over the rest of the convicts, MT Emerson says, and have been great aids in main tainnig discipline. He is firmly con vinced that they will be good men when they work out their sentences and become free again.
 MT. Emerson is anxious to get papers of any kind for the men to read. He will be grateful for anything of this kind shipped to him at Speigner. Anyone in terested may write him at his home in Woodlawn and he will be happy to tell how help of this kind can be rendered.
 Fight on Hobson.
 The fight on Congressman Richmond P. Hobson in the Sixth district goes on apace, the latest aspirant for his place being w. B. Oliver of Tuscaloosa, who Is announced for the nomination at the next primaries. w. c. Davis of Jasper had already given it out that he would make the race. So it is well set out even this early that the erst- while hero of the Merrimack Is going to have his hands full in the contest coming.
  circuit which place he will have to re- sign to make the race. It Is known that Judge s. H. Sprott was to drop out with the term and it was thought that MT. Oliver would go for his place. The new arrangement will make two places to be sought, judge and solici- tor. and 1t Is thought that lively poll tics will follow. Robert F. Peters of Fayette may run for judge, and John n, T of Livingston for solicitor.
 College President.
 The opening of the new woman's college to be established by the Motli- odist people at Montgomery will cali for the election of a president before many more weeks. Dr. John Massey who retires with the female college at Tuskegee, will again take up work or this kind The commission is now talk ing this matter in hand and 1t is like ly that a man will be agreed upon Tn a short time. Arrangements will proo- ably be made to open school this fall in Montgomery.
 Will Spragins Run?
 The talk of R. E. Spragins for gov srnor will not down. Many of the state papers are discussing him and there Is a belief now that he will yet offer for the nomination. The failure of the prohibition laws to prohibit in Sir mingham. Mobile and Montgomery has turned attention to his programme of local option and the liquor men say that he will yet get into the running. Can Come Into State. In the case of the Empire Life com pany of Atlanta, Attorney General Gar Der has ruled that the deposit of secur- ities worthsin cash the amount required of the outside companies, i. G., $1000Oc meets the law. It had been contehded
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
NORTON

life Is getting entirely too cheap in Ala bama. Instead of talking about the civiii- zation of Russia, this paper believes that we ought to get look in on our own con dition, and concludes with the opinion that If jurors would do their duty we would soon put stop to this wholesale murder in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28

that the statutes required state or fed eral bonds, but under the code an amount fully up to the requirments is sufficient even though it be not in such bonds.
 Boy Leaves Home.
 John Ogletree, a small boy of about II years. has left home and his me ther, Mrs. J. P. Ogletree, would like to xncw something of him. He carried away a pistol that belonged to his brother.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
Pimply Pretty
 Faces
May Be Made Clean and Clear By Using Stuart's Calcium Waters.
Trial Packaae Sent Free

ITIdI FdCKdyc ScTTt FTcc'
 Pretty faces are daily seen about us marred and marked with pimples, blotches and eruptions.
 There is absolutely no necessity for this condition being so exceedingly prevalent Pimples and skin troubles show that the blood is impure, and Is forcing It's i'm purties into the cells and glands of the skin, there fostering and breaking out al last into many eruptive disorders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
Recover on Rond.

Bay Minette, March .-(Special.)- J. The county of Baldwin recovered $S397.63 from guarantee company on the bond of Tax Collector H. H. Coop CT. The office was alleged to have been robbed during his incumbency.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-17

hurled themselves at 1t and washed
over and over the island, and no boat
could have lived at all in such weather.
If a goose be only a goose. no matter,
but If it be Christmas dinner-ah,
then! e. 81 = s..
Yes, they had good reason to feel
dismal at the lighthouse. 1t was no
wonder if five noses were fifty times
q day f1attened despairingly against
the lighthouse windows. Yes: six
noses. for even Baby Deb was finally
affected. and, though she did not know
the least thing about the weather, she,
too. would press her little nose against
the glass in a most alarming way, as
If she thought that pressure was the
only effective thing.
It took some time for Baby Deb to
realize the Importance Of having
goose for Christmas. but when she had
grasped the idea she became an enthu-
siast on the subject. She explained
the matter to her dolls and was par
ticularly explicit with Stulpin, with
whom, indeed, she held very elaborate
and almost painful conversations.
One thing became very certain.
There was very little prospect Of clean
weather within a week, and it lacked
only three days Of Christmas. The
others gloomily gave up hope, but not
so did Baby Deb. The truth was she
had plan, and you know when one
has plan one has hope too.
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Ever since oh, PLEASE, DOOD
was born.'' he LORD, SEND Us
went on, eve DoosE"
have had a roast goose for Christ
mas"
Ever since he was born! It might
have been a hundred years before.
from Toms tone and manner, and the
audience was tremendously impressed.
''And," continued the orator, I'VE
must have one now. We will have one
noww
They almost stopped breathing:
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ing Of families,
no Christmas
trees loa d e d
down with pres
ents, nothing to
be seen from the
lighthouse but
the changing wa
ter and unchang-
ing rocks-water
on three sides
and on the fourth
side a bluff bar
rier Of rocks,
with the world
hiding behind it
ten miles away.
There are six
children there.
though, and a
mother and IA
Their, and if they
cannot make q
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at low tide, even in this bad weather.
out OF water. The other children had
been forbidden to 60 there because It
was dangerous, but no one had thought
OF cautioning Baby Deb. So there she
went and in her imperfect way begged
hard for the goose.
Christmas eve came, and still there
was no goose. Baby Deb was puzzled:
the others were gloomy. Still Baby
Deb would not give up. 1t would be
low tide about 7 o'clock. She knew
that, for she had asked. She would
make her last trial. She had hope
yet, but as the others knew nothing
Of her plans they had absolutely no
hope. To them it was certain that
there could be no Christmas goose at
their house that year.
Seven o'clock came, and Baby Deb
crept softly from the room and down.
stairs: She opened the great door just
a little bit and slipped out into the
Enthusiastically did slip, for it was
very icy on the rocks, and she sat
down very hard. However, she was
very chubby and did not mind 1t. She
crawled cautiously around to the big
rock, the keen wind nipping her round
cheeks and pelting her with the frozen
drops Of spray. She knelt down.
"Oh, please, dood Lord, send US a
doose! We wants a doose awful.
Won't you, please, dood Lord?"
Thud fell something right alongside
of her. So.
"Oh, what's datY' she exclaimed.
putting her hand out. "Why. it's
doosew she cried, with scream Of de-
light. as her hand came In contact with
a soft. warm, feathery body. &Ss<-
She forgot to give thank you" for
the goose. but she was thankful, though
not so very much surprised. She really
had expected it
1t was heavy load for Baby Deb.
but she was excited and did not no.
tice it. She made her way into the
lighthouse. and. step by step. patter.
patter, she went upstairs and burst. all
GREATNESS, into the sitting room. cry
ing exultantly Its tummed. it's tum-
med" as the great goose fell from her
arms upon the floor.
Well. If you think they were not sur
prised you know very little about the
Stoughton folks What they said no
body knows. They all talked at once.
but by and by Papa Stoughton had a
chance to be heard.
"Where did you get it. Baby Deb~
he asked.
: "Why, Played bod for it." answer
ed Deb in the most matter of fact way.
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II have plan.'' They shuddered
and drew nearer. 1--WE all must COM
biner' .-.s
"Oh" in chorus.
do you want goose, SueT
eyes, indeed" "
3 ''You, Sam?'
eyes," 9 ,,.s. >>,x TIL
"Ike?' I'll; ;-::.".*.ssE
do I? weur' !: ! : ~;*~=''
"Ann?"
Eyes, sir!''
"Me, too," said Baby Deb, with
great earnestness, for it was clear to
her that it was a question Of eating,
and she did not wish to be left out.
"Of course you, too, you deary dunn
ping" said Tom. ''Now, then," he
continued when order was restored.
what shall we contribute? I'll give
my new sailboat That ought to bring
so cents.".
His new sailboat! Why, he had only
just made it and had not even tried it
yet. Oh, evidently this was a time of
sacrifice! Who could hesitate now?
It'll give my Shells" said Sue hero
ically.
my sea mosses," sighed Ann.
'You may take my sharks teeth"
said Ike.
"And my whales TOOTH" said Sam.
The sacrifice was general. The light
house would yield up it's treasures.
@'All right" said Tom. "Now let's
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case to her. The
goose was neces-
sary. Why not
ask for it, then?
The great diff
Guilty was to find
a secret place for
her devotions. for,
the family very
W ell filed the
lighthouse, a n d
Baby Deb under
stood that pray
ers ought to be
quietly and Sc
cretly made.
The place was
found, however.
Just in front Of
the Eighth house
W a S a broad
ledge of rocks.
generally washed
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-17
A Christmas
@ 81 Goose
BY CHARLES BARON.

Copyright 1909, by American Press Asso-
ciation.1
~ HRISTMAS is just as much
4 Christmas at the Boon island
~ lighthouse as it is anywhere else
in the world.
And why not?
TO be sure, the nearest Land is ten
miles away, and when the winter
storms come the waves dash quite
over the two acres Of rocks out of
which the sturdy lighthouse rises.
There are no blazing rows of streets
tined with toyshops there, no gather
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: Mamma Stoughton had only recently
been having series of talks with
Baby Deb on the important question
of prayer, and it had occurred to Baby
Deb that the goose was a good sub
ject for prayer. 1t was a very clear
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W 40 SAN.f SAAN 90
fairly said "Ah!'
Baby Deb was
there, too, some
W h a t aWeStruck
at the mystery
a b GU t her. but
ready to lend the
help Of her wis
dom if necessary.
1--WE must have
a goose" said
Tom.
"Oh!'' gaSped his
audience, moved
by min 81 e d
amaZement and
admiration.
Tom looked at
them with great
frmness and dig
nifty.
Ever since 7
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For, you see. these parents we're
very simple hearted folk. and it seem
ed to them very affecting that the
children should make such sacrifices
to procure the goose for Christmas.
"And what does Baby Deb contrib
ute?" asked Papa Stoughton by way
Of a joke.
II des rs not dot nuffin,'' was Baby
Deb's reply when the matter was ex-
planned to her. "'cept 90 tate StuIpin."
Oh, what a laugh there was then.
for If ever there was a MANNED and
demoralized doll it was Stulpin. But
Baby Deb was Rugged and kissed as
If she had contributed a lump of gold
instead Of little bundle of rags.
Papa Stoughton and Tom we're to
60 out to the mainland the first clear
day to buy the goose: but, alas storm
came on, and they were forced to wait
for it to 60 down. It did not 60 down.
It grew worse and worse. The wind
shrieked and moaned and wrestled
with the lonely tower, and the waves
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eyes and hugging and kissing and
making up new pet names for Baby
Deb.
Papa Stoughton did say to Mamma
Stoughton that night as they were 60
ing to bed:
"A wild goose. It was blinded by
the bright light and broke its neck by
flying against the glass. And. after all.
who shall say the good Lord did not
send it?'
At all events. not word Of explana-
ton was said to Baby Deb. and no
one eontradicted her when she said at
dinner next day:
"Dod's doose is dood"
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= - ~ wv
exclaimed Papa
Stoughton.
Up aid Dodr"
c b O r u s ed the
family.
" 'Es." respond
ed Baby Deb
con vincing ly.
"Dod-ze God
Lord. l paved
to him. He send
cd II TO me QeSS
now"
NJ ore que s.
lions and more
Of Baby Deb's
explanations re-
vealed the whole
story. F u n n Y
f TX 8, t b o s e
Stoughtons. but
they spent the
next ten minutes
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Not By bvity af 1sadng, but By stub. =.
hem farce Of swimming. shalt thou
Aaaks tAy 1ay.-Ca1iyie.
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tell father" ..
And father was told, and for some
reason he pretended to look out of tb
window very suddenly, but he did
hot He wiped his eyes. and Mamma
stoughton wiped her spectacles and
winked very hard and said:
'tBless their hearts!''
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which they did almost before they had
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1909-07-02
ever will venture against them.

ever will venture against them.
c. w. and William Norman, of
Decatur, Iowa, arrived in Medora
Thursday for a short stay with the
VIM. Lee family up the river.
Their father had proceeded their
arrival some weeks and they ex-
pect to find him there but he had
left for home some few hours be-
fore their arrival. They are look
ing for land investment and stock.
Tuesday evening Medora came
near witnessing a balloon ascen-
tion, had the balloons been pro-
perly constructed and a few more
condition been complied with we do
not entertain a shadow Of a doubt
but that Medora would have beaten
the worlds record and never sweat
a bit. A party of young folks
were responsible for the exhibition
and it occurred near Peterson store.
The railway company has now
come alive and have men at work
constructing a bridge across the
run west of the station, where the
old one was before it wasn't. From
the size Of the timbers being used
and the construction of the trestles
the structure can neither be broken
down or washed away. It surely
does look good to the people who
would like to get to Medora but
can not.