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Hearing in switchmen's Dispute.

st. Paul. November 3o.-Martin A.
Knapp and Charles p. NELL are in st.
Paul today to hear both sides of the dis
pute between the switchmens union and
the members of the committee represent
Ing the railroads of the northwest, rela-
tive to q demand by the switchmen for
an increase of about % per cent in pay.
While the switchmen insist they are ask
Ing for action which will apply to the
northwest only, the railroads are unit
in maintaining that whatever the deci-
sion In st. Paul 1t will apply in all parts
of tho country. and they cannot afford to
treat Il as Z local issue.
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E. x. campbelI's Views.
t,i'ior II The Age-Herald:

A great victory was won Monday. but
.sslu4y FOL the S.l,oons. The
people spoke in no uncertain tone against
any infringement upon constitutional
guarantees, and they could not be torn
from their mornings by the tide Of senti-
ment which swept through the state.
They gave additional assurance of their
ability to rule themselves. But they we're
not voting for saloons. What lawyers
sometimes call false issue was ten
dered By leaders of the amenders, and the
issue was demurred to. The people sus-
tanned the demurrer. A representative
conference was held in Montgomery on
September 10 to organize a campaign
against the proposed amendment. Subse-
auent events demonstrate that 1t was rep
resentative of large majority of Ala
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plan Of TeIephone Interests.

Columbus, o., November So-It became
known from authoritative sources tonight
that the plan of the unknown telephone
interests which have poured several mil
lions of dollars into Ohio and Indiana re-
Gently is to divide the telephone business
of the section equally between tho inds-
pendents and the Bell. The former will
handle local and the latter long-distance
business. The properties will soon be ex-
changed, according TO the programme.
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NOTES AND PERSONALS

NOTES AND PERSONALS.
Miss Persons of Talbotton, Ga, is tho
house guest of Mrs. w. q. Estes.
Mrs J. @. whitfield has as her guest
Miss Marie Holiday of Atlanta.
Mrs. william Byrd. Jr.. who has been
seriously I'll for the past several weeks,
is now convalescent.
Miss Abercrombie, Miss Mcqueen and
Miss Safrold will return to Montgomery
in time to be present at the dance given
by the Beauvoir club.
Miss Annie Murphy of Greensboro will
arrive in few days to visit Mrs. w. p.
G. Harding and will be present at the
dance given by Mr.. and Mrs. Harding for
Miss Moore at the Country club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Green have returned
from Bayou lie Batre.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Morrow, who have
been at Bayou lie Batre, are at homo
again.
Mss Carolyn Garnsey Of Memphis u
visiting friends in Birmingham.
The Alberto Martin School Improve
ment association meets today 1t 3:So
D. IN. All members and friends are urged
to be present.
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Narrow Escape From Death.

st. Augustine, Fla, November 30-Over-
como with gas from a broken exhaust
pipe, A. M. Terwilliser, owner. and Engi-
neer Marsh Of the New Haven yacht
whiz. which was picked up Off the Flori-
da coast In a disabled condition, this aft
ernoon had narrow escape from death.
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OPENING OF ART EXHIBIT.

The opening of the third annual exhiblf
of the Art club will take place today IN
the exhibit hall of the Chamber OF Com
MERGE building. The exhibit VIII con-
time through the week.
The prize for the best poster was
awarded Miss Annie Jones, one of the
Young artists of this city. Miss Jones'
poster, which represents woman In mil
itary costume against shield of stars,
Is very striking in design.
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Sent to Omaha for Trial.

San Francisco, November Sos--Judgs De
Havens of the United States district court
today issued an order sending h B. Hes.
rman. F. w. Brown ana n G. Moore,
said. to be members Of the MAbry gang Of
alleged racing and prise dghtinH swim
diers. to Omaha for trial
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chicago, November so.-Etudents Of the
Iowa Agricultural college today were
awarded first prize in the students Judg-
ing competition for the J. Ogden Armour
scholarships At the International Live
stock exposition. The Iowa students won
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Cooks Records Expected.

Copenhagen. November 30.-Rector Torp
of the University of Copenhagen today ex-
tended an invitation to Dr. Maurice F.
Egan, United States minister to Dem
mark, to be present when the north polar
records of DR.. Cook are received and also
during subsequent examination. Tho
Cook records are expected on the steam
err United States, due here about Decem-
her
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Directors Elect President.

Lexington, KY, November 3o.--The di-
rectors of the Blue Grass league, meet
ing in this city today. elected DR.. w. G.
Ussery of Paris, KY, to succeed Presi-
dent Hammond Of the league. The six
Kentucky cities composing the league re-
fused to consider applications for addi-
tional franchises
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coalInq Mans Message.

To the Editor of The Age-Herafd.
1t Is my great desire to tendeS you
congratulations for the magnificent
manner in which you have handled
the great issue that has been before us
for the past 10 weeks Your prediction
was par-excellent, and I feel that we,
as defenders of our great constitution,
are Justly due you great praise. My
fondest hopes are that the two factions
will strike hands and fully resolve Ito
make Alabama the greatest and best
state of the Union.
With very best wishes for the con-
tinued success of your great paper and
again assuring you that you deserve
words of praise, am yours very truly,
SAM L. Fixes.
Coaling. November 80. 1903.
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CUT|CURA CURED
TWO BROTHERS
One had Face Covered with Itching
Eruption -Eyeslght was Affected
Raw, itching Humor Spread
Over the Other from Head to Feet
in a Single Day Dreadful
SKIN-TORTURES YIELD
TO EASY TREATMENT
"In 1907 my face broke out in q mass
Of itching sores which finally affected

my eyeSight. l trleo
several highly recon-
mended salves that
cost one dollar an
ounce, but to no avail.
A friend Of mine urged
me to try Cuticura
Soap and Cuticura
Ointment as he was
sure Of good results
from his own expert
ence. / used the
Cuticura Ointment for
about sly weelrH- After
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In South Alabama.

TO the Editor of The Age-Herald.
Middle and south Alabama give much
credit to The Age-Herald for the
magnificent victory. Fair always, ready
to print the news, the paper has made
for itself place of rare estimation IN
the hearts of the people Of great
state. H. w. LAIRD.
MONTGOMERY, November 30, 1903.
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Triumph for Liberty.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
We are grateful to you and your pa
per for helping win this great victory
Love of liberty preserved the liberty of
all our people. Let us hope that Ala
banla, the standard bearer OF Individual
freedom. will march progressively on
ward, in peace, forever.
WHITE e. GIBSON.
Birmingham, November 30,1909,
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Postal Changes.

Washington, November 3o.-(special.)-
Edward W. woolf is appointed rural car
rier, John w. Gamble substitute, Route
!, at Shorterville.
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SOCIETY.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE -


Mrs. Barksdale who were present were
Mr.. and Mrs. @. c. Burford. Mr.. ana
Mrs. j. E. Barksdale. Mr.. and Mrs. W.
T. Barksda1e, Mr.. and Mrs. w. L.
Barksdale, So grandchildren and hve
great grandchildren.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barksdale will soon
celebrate their list birthday. There
are only a few months difference In
their ages. The reunion of the MEM
bers of their family lasted through
Monday, q formal dinner being served
at noon. The host and hostess were
presented with many handsome glfts IN
commemoration of the day by the ram
fly gathered so lovingly around them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucien Brown gave
beautiful dinner last evening in honor
Of their guest, Miss Taylor, who 10
leaving for her home in Mobile. inc
hostess and her guest OF honor potn
looked charming in tn cir dinner gowns.
Miss Taylor wore handsome lavender
costume and Mrs. Brown rose messa-
line. The guests included Miss Taylor.
Miss Gillespy, Miss Cary CaldWell OF
Jacksonville. Mr.. Fletcher Comen MI
winfield Towns of Boston, MT Cren-
shaw Chamb erlain
TODAY IN SOCIETY.
Miss Mary Tardy will be the hostess
this morning at q bridge party In COM
pliment to Miss Maria Garth OF Hunts
vile. the guest of Miss Cary Johnston.
Mrs Thomas H. Benners' reception IN
honor. of Mrs Brown of Kansas CITY
and Mrs John Donelson will be the large
event of the afternoon. The hours are
to g.
Miss Rose Gillespy will be the hostess
this afternoon at a bridge party for Miss
Belle wilkins of Selma.
Mrs. Mark Lewis will give dance this
evening in compliment to her house
quests, Miss Abercrombie, Miss Mcqueen,
Miss Howell and Miss Saffold.
Miss Howsie Norvell will entertain the
Bachelor Girls at cards this afternoon
at o'clock
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Voice From Eernhank.

To the Editor of The Age-Hera1d
Your fight for the homes of Alabama
was truly noble.
DIR. G. S. BARKSDALE.
Fernbank, November 80, 1909
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PROMINENT MEN
EXPRESS VIEWS
ON THE RESUl !


for your consideration of the committee
Of which 1 am CHI airman. am sincerely
yours, y. LEE LCNH'
Chairman Anti-Amendment Campaign
Committee.
Birmingham, November 80, 1909.
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with q total of 1910 points. Their nearest
competitors, the students of the Ontario
Agricultural college. were 1893 points be-
hind. Ohio State university was third,
Kansas Agricultural college fourth, Mis-
sissippi NTH and Texas sixth. Tho Iowa
team took first honors in cattle and
hogs; Mssissippi'S team was first in
horses and Ohio first In sheep.
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MISS RopEN ISSUES CARDS.

The following cards were issued yester-
day:
Miss Roden, Country club. on Monday.
December 8. at o'clock. Domino party.
Please reply.
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u-ot.1 .10Iy Zy5l oo5v
Majority against amendment in city,
1910. - ,~+v
majority against amendment In county
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The bazaar given by the First Baptist
church will be held in the window Of the
Jesse French Piano store Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday.
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MON GOMEHY Hi
AMENDMENT HARD
eity and County Both Go
Strong Against Measure
MAJORITY IN CITY 1540
Idea of Women Going to Polls is Re-
buked-county Chairman Rushton
Is Congratulated and Is
sues Statement.
BY HERvEY w. LAIRD.

Montgomery, November 3o-(special.)-
The city and county Is taking it easy
today, talking much of the result of the
prohibition amendment election on yes
terday while getting back to a steady
grind in the business of the everyday
life. Local chairmen are out of harness
and getting back to their avocations.
while the workers of less prominence are
again at the duties from which day
in politics drew their attentions.
There are as many impressions of what
1t means as there are men, but all agree
that 1t was a rebuke to the women and
the preachers in politics. There is no use
to be squeamish about 1t. 1t is not tho
place for either one of them. They may
do, and must do a great work for morals
and high-level living, but 1t will be in
the home and in the pulpit, not on the
hastings, that the results will be accom-
plished, IL one may be excused from edi-
torializing in the news columns.
Montgomery's Attitude.
Montgomery did not take happily to
the women at the polls, though the people
here were uniformly polite and consid-
crate to them. Neither were there favor
able expressions in the main for the
marching and singing Of the children.
One little fellow evidently exposed the
tale of the pressure when he said that
It was told in school that II his father
did not let him go In the parade that
father was a whisky ran and friend
of the saloons. YES" he said to his
father, they said If you would not allow
me to go you was for whisky"
The vote in the county against the
amendment was not only a surprise to
those who were not on the inside. but
O compliment to the estimating FORE
sight Of Charles B. Teasley, tax collector.
and the anti-amendment chairman, Ray
Rushton Mr.. Teasley said that the ma
tority against the amendment would be
1900 IL tho vote ran to $500. Mr.. Rushton,
not so sangune, put 1t a little lower,
but did expect over 1000. He had In his
office. however, a poll taken by mail that
was in line with the guessing or MT
Teasley, and was laying much good faitn
on Il being correct.
Montgomery Goes Hard.
MONTGOMERY tried itself in Its opposi-
tion to the amendment. Only two beats
seem to have been for It, and those so
ANAL as to have little effect. From Ono TO
seven. city beats, hit 1t hard. notwith-
standing the efforts OF the women ana
preachers. Nine and Seventeen, the only
ones to get in the pro columns, gave up
a total Of At votes in that behalf only
Here is the table:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

There will be no meeting of the Coun-
ell of Jewish Women this week.
The bazaar at the Second Presbyterian
church will open today at II o'clock In
the lecture room.
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Tho Ullman School Improvement as
ISOLATION VIII meet tomorrow Afternoon
at ESQ o'clock.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-23
FEET OF SEA BEASTS.
Their Appearance When the Skin Is
 Stripped Off.

. |. Their Appearance When the Skin Is
 Stripped Off.
 Of all the feet that I have looked at I know only one more utterly ridicu lous than the twisted fipper on which the sea lion props b;E great bulk in front, and that is the forked fly flap which extends from tie hinder part of the same. How can it be worth any beasts while to carry such an absurd apparatus with it just for the sake of getting out into the air sometimes and pushing oneself about on the ice and being eaten by polar bears? The DOT poise has discarded one pair, turned the other into decent fins and recovered a grace and power of motion in water which is not equaled by the grey hound on land. Why have the seals hung back? I believe I know the secret. It is the baby! No one knows where the porpoise and the whale cradle their newborn fnfants--it is so dificult to pry into the domestic ways of these sea people-but evidently the seals cannot manage it, so they are forced to return to the land when the cares of maternity are on them.
 I hane called the feet of these sea
 ~~ ridiculous things. and so they are as we see them. But strip off the skin, and, 10. there appears plain foot, with its five digits. each of sev- era1 joints. tipped with claws. nowise essentially different, in short, from that with which the toad or frog first set out in past too distant for our infirm imagination. Admiration itself is paralyzed by a contrivance so sim pie, so transmutable and so sufficient for every need that time and change could bring. Strand Magazine.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-23
ATHLETIC TRAINING.
To Acquire an Excess of Muscle May
 Prove Injurious.

Prove injurious.
 Nothing could be more elusive than the idea that by a period of athletic training man can lay in a stock of health and strength upon which he can draw later while engaged in a seden- tary occupation. The truth is that the big muscles and hypertrophied heart of the athlete are perilous possessions for the man who no longer has the time or the inclination for using them, When he stops the exercises by which he gained them, instead of simply re- turning to their original size they sui fer one or another of the many forms of degeneration and become incapable of performing their original services.
 It is not quite true that all exercise for it's own sake is harmless, for it Is well to be prepared for the ms.eting of life's little emergencies as weH as it's ordinary and daily demands. but it probably is true that, the emergencies apart, every man does enough in going about his customary business and pleasure to keep himself in the condf tion which that business and pleasure demand and that anything besides is superf1uous or injurious. That athletics take one into the open air is less commendation of athletics than an in- dictment of our houses. offices and stores for lack of adequate ventilation. If all the air we breathe was pure afr we could get along well enough with out any open air at all. Any man who has the muscle he needs for doing the things he wants to do and should do has all the muscle he ought to have. To acquire more is a silly waste of time and perilous besides.-New York Times aa
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-23
: QUEER BURlALs.
Uneoutf Methods of the Nomads of
 Queensland.

Uneouth Methods of the Nomads of
 Queensland.
 Of all the modes of burial ever prac- ticed by creatures in the shape of hu- man beings the method of the Queens land nomads is certainly the most un- couth. After drying the corpse in the sun and knocking out it's teeth for keepsakes they deposit it on frame work of rough poles and bury it under a few armfuls of rushes and old kan garoo skins, leaving the bush wolves to sing its requiem.
 No member of the dead mans tribe will settle within a mile of his grave for fear of being haunted by the spooks making the burial place their midnight rendezvous. The metaphysical opin- ions of the Australian aborigines prove indeed that savagGS can be afflicted with an abundance of supernaturalism without betraying trace of anything deserving the name of religious senti- ment ift
 They believe in evil spirits whistling in the blasts of the storm wind and try to exercise them. by splitting in the di- rection of the sky, but for the concep- tions of the Deity, of future existence, of repentance, atonement and con- science their language has not cyan definite word. From somewh( the land of their forefathers- eastern Asia perhaps-they have imported notion faintly resembling the Buddhist doc urine of metempsychosis and believe that animals may be reborn as men and men as human beings of supe- vior rank.-London Answers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-23
Ways to an untimeIy End.

The catalogue of the ways and means employed by otherwise sensible people to incur the risk of disease and an untimely end include running to catch trolley cars, breathing rapidly through the mouth instead of deeply through the nose, eating too hastily and overeating. "slouching" instead of standing and walking in an erect attitude. using un- necessary stimulants, failing to exter- minate the presidential housef1y, which goes blithely about carrying the germs of disease; sleeping in i'll ventilated rooms and failing to protect food from flies and other insects by proper screen ing.--Phi7adelphia Press.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-23
A W;IIino scot.

Dean Ramsay has a story of that border hostility between English and Scots which used to go to halter lengths. A Scottish drover was re- turning from the south in particularly bad humor with the English, having done poor business, when he saw in Carlisle a notice offering a reward of .f50 to any one who would volunteer for the unpopular task of hanging a condemned criminal Seeing his chance to make up for his bad market and comforting himself with the thought that he was unknown there, he did the job and got his fee. As he was leaving he was taunted as beggarly Scot. doing for money what no Eng lishman would But he answered, with cheerful grin, '"I'll hang ye a at the price"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-23

IF YOU want an exterminator for all kinds of bugs and insects, why moi get one that has $1.000 guarantee
 l14 Kossuth St. U612 3 6
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-23
Taps Over. a Soldiers Grave.

The custom of sounding taps over a soldiers grave originated with the late Captain John c. Tidball, U. s. A. On the retirement from the peninsula in August, 1862. Horse Battery A. Sec ond artillery, was serving with the rear guard, and on reaching Yorktown one of the cannoneers died and was buried there. Not wishing to stir up the enemy by firing three rounds from the battery guns, as was customary. Captain Tidball substituted the sound ing of taps, lights out, which impress i've ceremony has since been observed at all military funerals at the close of the services.-.Argonaut.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-23
NOISES IN VENICE.
The Way They Crash Upon the Nor-
 nal Quiet of the City.

nal Quiet of the City.
 With all the water traffic and with not a horse or cab or a wagon to wake the echoes. the utter silence of Venice is the thing that first impresses the traveller. Yet because there is no undertone of city noises in which occa- sional noises may merge the Grand canal at Venice seems to the sleeper at night the noisiest place in the world, for every little noise crashes into One's sleep. and the most wakeful hours of our six weeks in Italy were spent on the Grand canal In Venice. The bells of the churches probably do not ring louder nor more frequently than they ring in other cities, yet be- sssuse Venice is so still these bells ciang through the night like the alarm of a continuous and ever increasing fire. The bawl of a lovelorn human calf carrying home three drinks and a throbbing heart, noise that may be heard by the attentive listener any place on earth after Il o'clock, in Venice becomes insistent and demo- niacal. The common quarrel in the street enters the bedroom at night with nerve racking distinctness, and the morning song of the market gar 1ener bringing his wares to town in his silent boat smites the sleeper's ears like call to arms. If Macbeth really did murder sleep, the crime was done in Venice.
 There are, of course, considerable acres in nice-islands-where the streets are paved and where commerce goes on in the ordinary way. exec that there are no horses or carriages in the narrow ways.-William Allen White in Emporia Gazette.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-23
Not So Bad as It Sounded.

Tn a downtown cafe two old college friends met by Chance. They had not met before in several years and were properly delighted. In the course of conversation one. who had been long absent from town, bethought him of a mutual friend.
 .sTeIl me-" said he, t'how I can reach Jim I'd like to look him up tonight."
 My boy,'' said the other, ''if you want to reach Jim you'll have to tele- phone to -, an undertaken on Sixth avenue."
 "What, You shock me. Jim dead! II am sorry indeed to o4hear it."
 stDead? Who. said he was dead. He's a friend of the undertaken and has rooms near by. He has no telephone, but has an arrangement for using the undertaker's, as the place is open at all hours. Just telephone the undertaken, and the message will be carried around to Jim."-New York Globe.