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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-25
Marrlnge Llcen.c I..ucd

The following marriage license was is
sued yesterday from the Office of the
probate court:
Harry Priestly of Cardiff to Miss Emma
Norman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-25
CITY ITEMS

Temple Emmanuel Meeting-Regular
Friday night services will be held at
Temple Emmanuel tonight at which
Rabbi NJ. Newfield will deliver the ad-
dress. Following the services there
will be a meeting of the congregation.
New Brick COmpany-Articles of N
corporation for the Robertson Brick
company, incorporated with an author
ICED capital stock of 100000, were filed
yesterday in the office of the probate
court. The company will engage in
the manufacture and sale of brick be-
ginning business with $4,000 of the au-
tn orized capital paid in. Officers and
incorporators of the firm are W. l..
Robertson. president and manager; A.
C. Sharpley, secretary and treasurer;
Mrs. L. B. Robertson and Mrs. T. O..
Sharpley.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-25
Union Bank Closes Door.

The Union Bank and Trust company,
OF which E,ctor II. Smith is president, an
institution located on Nineteenth street
between Second and Third avenues, closed
its doors yesterday. A. r. Dearborn was
named receiver The following notice
was posted on the door of the bank: "Ow-
ing to entanglements of the affairs of a.
branch bank of the Union Bank and
Trust company, 1t is deemed advisable
that this bank go into voluntary liqujda-
ticn."
Fort Payne, February A.-The Union
Bank and Trust company of Fort Payne
went into liquidation today. 1t is one of
a chain of banks with a parent institu-
ton in Birmingham. The deposits are said
to be small A schedule of assets and
liabilities was not made public,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-25
THE WEATHER

Washington. February 24-Forecast for
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana: Fair
Friday and Saturday; rising temperature.
light to moderate north winds becoming
variable.
The following is the local report of the
United States weather bureau Of Brming-
ham for "a hours ended at D. M, Feb
o.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-25
Ii You Are
A Stranger

In Birmingham this ad is a letter of introduction to bank
which will be pleased you promptly and efficiently IN
any transaction within the scope general banking business
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-25
American
Trust and Savings Bank

FIRST AND TWENTIETH, BIRMINGHAM
W. w. CRAWFORD. Preside .
L. q.
NJ w.
g.. McoRMACK Charms of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13
KANSAS AND HER PROPHET.
TO be continually

Where Star OF Empire fingered
While Pointing Westward Way.
There used to be widely prevalent
saying about hard times in Kansas.
Nothing Of the sort is heard nowadays
and II Governor Stubs is to be be-
llteved. there ia nowhere in all the
length and breadth Of the sunfower
State any suggestion Of hard times.
I'VE have" says Governor Stubbs,
the most industrious. the best edu-
Gated. the most moral people OF any
state, and guess we have more money
per capita" What cheerful message
coming from land once famous for
grasshoppers. boom towns and Wild
eyed politicians! remarks the Louis.
Vile Courier Journal That is not all.
Half the jails and poorhouses are
empty, the mortgages have been paid
OF and the farmers are riding in auto
mobiles. No need for anybody to ask,
What is the matter with Kansas? 2"
She is prosperous and pompous. She
may not know where she is going. but
she's on her way.
The apostles OF popultsm have been
gathered to their fathers or have sub
sided or sought greener fields. Mary
Ellen Lease has located in the effete
east and Carrie Nation is selling hatch.
cts in that vague locality best de-
scribed as parts unknown. The joint
keepers have moved to Missouri and
gone into the mail order business. The
politicians have gone to work. The
money devil has been licked into sub
mission and is eating humbly out of
the horny hand of the honest farmer.
The microbe can find no eligible spot
to rear family and the hookworm has
no place to lay his head.
The star Of empire has fingered over
Kansas while pointing the westward
way. The spirit of prosperity and the
handmaids of progress have set their
beacon lights on hill and valley.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13
Rox,.s Es.ax. ON Girls.

-t-f-AN a. ~
T. j. Mcnamara, an English editor.
gives the following composition up
on Girls" which was written by a
British schoolboy:
There are two sorts OF children,
boys and girls, and of the two boys
are the best; girls cause all the rows
and quarrels. They think they are
wonderful If they can get a birds
feather stuck in their hat. They are
proud and vain and always gossiping
and making mischief.
Il simply hate them. They boast Of
what they can do, this, that and the
other. and fat lot it is when it
comes to the put. If there were no
girls and women in the world 1t would
be a very peaceful place. They love
to sit and rest, girls do vary from
day to day on washing days they
think they are nearly killed. They
would rather gossip half day than
walk half a mile. Its no good they
are bad race and deceitful.
Girls like to wear rings and they
think they are ladys, they bob their
hair on top like mountains and wears
a fringe to make us boys think they
are pretty. but amt they Just deceived.
would not be a girl for $50"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13
ROSY COLOR
Pro.uced b. Po.tun.

y y 1890 d 3
when person rises from each
meal with q ringing In the ears and
Q general sense OF nervousness. 1t is a
common habit to charge 1t to de-
ranged stomach. ~
II found 1t was caused from drink.
ing coffee. which I never suspected
for q long time. but found by leaving
OF coffee that the disagrssabls feelings
went away. 4
II was brought to think Of the sub
Acct BY getting some Postum and this
brought mo out Of trouble
It y . most appstizing and inyig-
Grating beverage and has been OF such
great benefit to me that naturally.
speak Of 1t from time to time as op-
portunity offers.
"A lady friend complained to me that
she had tried Postum. but 1t did not
taste good. In reply to my question
she said she guessed she boiled 1t
about ten minutes. I advised her to
follow directions and know that she
boiled 1t fifteen or twenty minutes, and
she would have something worth talk
ing about. A short time ago / heard
one Of her children say that they were
drinking Postum nowadays, 30 I
Judge she succeeded in making 1t good,
which Is by no means . dificult task.
The son Of one Of my friends was
formerly pale lad. but since he has
been drinking Postum. has fine color.
y ~ n. ID t.. -
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13
washington .Economy,.

For the good cheer of the ninety
one members Of the United States Sen
ate palatial marble clubhouse, with
a private office for every Senator,
equipped with every luxury imagin-
able. has Just been provided by a coun-
try grateful that an occasional dollar
Of Its earninugs escapes the eagle eye
of predatory interests.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13
IS. 0. So HELP CALL.
New international signal for ships

d. D. lt u L
New. international signal for Ships
IN Distress.
The wireless telegraph character
q $500 IN e. (three dots, three
dashes. three dots), is the general sig
nal of distress as provided in the serv-
ice regulations of the International
wireless telegraph convention, signed
at Berlin on November 3,f19O6.
Although, In the continental code,
three dots means ard three dashes
o. the distress signal is not sent as
three letters. sos" as is commonly
supposed, but is distinct character
by itself, which means only Send help
with all speed"
Up to Jan. 1. 1909, the Marconi
Wireless Company had distress sig,
nal of its own, &c. q. d." which was
made famous by the Republic disaster.
On that date. however. the interna,
stional signal was adopted This is ono
of the steps which the wireless tele-
graph companies are taking to secure
uniform service throughout the world
When a ship is in distress the wire
less operator plugs in all his power
and begins sending the distress signal
again and again at brief intervals
until he receives an answer. Then he
gives all possible details which can
be of use in sending aid to the vessel.
AS soon as wireless station receives
the signal of distress 1t Immediately
stops all other correspondence and
gets into communication with the ves-
sci in distress. No other work is
taken up until 1t has been made sure
that the operator on the vessel has
transmitted all the information neces-
sary to aid rescuers in reaching the
crippled ship.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13

I State is inspiring. 1t does not require
an ear of unusual keenness to detect
the rumbling of the tumbrils. bearing
the flower of our .standpat aristocracy
to the political guiilotine, where the
voter with the ballot-ax will admin
lister the coup de grace,
High Food Prices and Foreign Trade
For the first time in that month in
fifteen years the February of the cur
rent year shows an excess of Ameri-
can imports over exports. We bought
abroad during that month four and a
third million Of dollars of products
more. than we sold abroad.
During the eight months beginning
with the opening of the fiscal year on
July l and ending with the last of
February the excess of exports over
imports was in round numbers. That's
sa balance of trade of comfortable di.
mansions to have in our favor, but
during the same eight months ending
with the last of February, 1909, this
excess was s341 200, 900. while the ex-
cess during the, same months ending
February, 1908, was more than $780,
100000.
It is not to be overlooked, of course,
that the movement of money (gold,
silver and bank notes) and of securi-
ties. also, must be included in the
computation If an exact statement of
the balance of trade in our commercial
relations with other countries is
sought. No computation is exact
which comprehends commodities alone
and no balance Of trade is in our ia.
yor in the complete view unless the In
coming total of commodities, securities
and money is greater than the outgo-
ing total. None the less, the move
ment of commodities is both interest
ing and instructive.
That balance in our favor in the
exchange of commodities averaging at
least thirty millions or forty millions
month for some time past, should,
in the second month of the present
year, be suddenly changed into an adj
verse balance of more than four mil
lions seems an illustration of one Of
the most familiar laws of trade. The
falling off In our balance of trade in
that month is due to- a lessening In the
exports Of agricultural products. to-
gether with an increase in our imports.
We sold abroad something like $14,-
100000 less Of agricultural products in
February than we sold in the Febru-
airy of the year before. And there has
been lessening in the amount of such
products sold abroad during that entire
period of eight months. which shows a
total decrease of more than s15O,0Oo,-
900 in our excess of exports over i'm.
ports.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13

j. y. u
man understand that, would shsey
Whatever happened, he had possessed
her; she had been hfs for brief hours.
Did he have the strength, now to give
her to someone else even though he
were dead? Being dead, would he
know?
The struggle racked and tore him In
his heart. He could come to no de-
cfsion, at least not then. What he
would do later would depend upon cir
cumstances. One thing he could do
and that was to go and find the man.
Attending to such matters as were
most pressing and taking the precau-
ton to make his will, a strange will,
at which his attorney ventured to
demonstrate unavailingly,s at last he
Started on that journey across the CON
tinent in his private car. He left the
car at Suffolk, Virginia, and with a
motor which had been transported
with him he ran up the west side Of
the inlet until he came to the manor
house which a local guide, picked up
by the way, pointed out to him.
Ito be continually
o. ~ =
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13

The new element of distrust thrown
about the story of Commander Peary
by the refusal of the House Commit
tee to favor special honors for his dis
covery of the North Pole has brought
out defense from two noted polar
explorers. Knud Rasmussen. the DAN
isl expert in Arctic travel, is quoted
as saying that the length of sledge
journeys which Pearys claims to have
made is not impossible. Rasmussen
himself says he has travelled on sledges
from seventy to 100 miles in day.
But still he thinks 1T little strange
that Peary made those wonderful
marches on his return journey from
the pole when his dogs must have been
very tired. Rasmussen, thinks Peary
should give all his data to Congress.
From London comes an interview with
Lieut.. Shackleton, who holds the Ant
arctic record. He says one can not
have the slightest. doubt of Peary's
achievement, g
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13
Wen Done, Mas.achusetts.

X
II President Taft has doubted the at
titude of the people of the United
States toward the Aldrich-Taft tariff,
his doubts should be dispelled by the
election of Eugene N. Foss, with a
Democratic majority of $40, in the
Fourteenth Massachusetts Congrsssion-
al District, to succeed a man who was
chosen by a Republican plurality of
1i,250 two years ago.
Mr.. Foss made his campaign on
straight tariff issue. His sweeping
victory is protest against the Aid
rich-Taft law. and reputation Of
the Republican party by the inner
temple of Republicanism.
Senator Lodge led the fight against
Mr.. Foss. President Taft himself took
part in the campaign, making a spe-
cial trip to Providence, and defending
the tariff in a public speech within
few miles of the battlefield.
There was no local issue. The tariff
alone was in contest; the voters of the
Fourteenth District emphatically ex-
pressed their dislike ana dlstruSt OF
the tariff and its sponsors.
The Aldrich-Taft tariff and the Re
publican party are discredited in the
very cradle of protection. Republic
an grand dukes and tariff barons are
sdefied by their own followers. The
common people are in open revolt
against the interests. The vassals have
turned against their feudal lords.
When such popular uprising oc-
ours within the very shadow Of the
Sacred Goldfish that hangs on Beacon
hill, there is not doubt Of Demo
cratic victory all over the country at
the Congressional elections this fall.
The real insurgents are not in Con-
gress. They are the people. An In
surgent populace does not with good
grace withhold its hand. once nerved
by victory. The example Of the Bay
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13
The Struggle Raeked and Tore Hin,
In His Heart.

better do than he from his trained
business acumen the scope and, yet
the feasibility of the undertaking. He
had wondered cynically what would
be the career OF the man in the Uni
ted States. He knew the value, as
did every business man, especially ev-
cry man with large transportation in
terests like his, of the Charnock es-
tate. He would have wSgered that
Charnock would lose his head as
ninety-nine men out of hundred
would have done, and that intoxi-
Gated by the sudden touch Of the
material world which was at his feet,
he would have gone the usual pace;
and he would have won his wager
had It not been for the immortal
memory of the woman they
both loved. he felt bitterly enough
He sat alone in his office In the
great building and pondered over the.
account in the paper. He had been
mistaken in the man. He was really
worth while. He was worthy of the
woman. II he had not sworn an oath,
given his word He hesitated, smil-
Ing bitterly. The woman alone could
release him. Should he sail down to
the island with that paper and tell
that story. He had waited too long.
The army surgeons Of Alaska had
told him the brutal truth; that he had
but few months to live and that II
he had anything to do before he went
out into the beyond, he had better do
1t quickly. No, he could not go down
there and tell her and get released
from his promise.
Yet how Charnock would revel In
such news as he. and he alone, could
give him. He loved the woman and
he hated the man. He could not bear
to think that the man should have
what was denied him. He could not
bear to think of the woman he loved
In another's arms. And yet he loved
the woman. As he pictured Charnock
happy. so he pictured Kate sad, fret
ting out her life on that island as he
had fretted out his on the ship. And
he could make her happy by word
If he broke his oath and was false to
the plighted word he had given her.
Should he do 1t for her sake? Would
she forgive him? He would be past
forgiveness when she knew.
Which was the stronger, his love
for the woman or his hatred for the
man? II he spoke at all, 1t would be
for her sake. naught else. Would the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13
sure Of sympathy

An Omaha man presented himself to
the leader of band in that city. ac
cording to writer in Harper's Maya.
zine. with a request that the band play
at a cousins funeral.
us It military funeral?" asked the
leader.
Not at ALL" was the reply. "My
cousin was no military man; in fact
he was never interested In matters mil.
itary. Nevertheless. 1t was his express
wish that your band should play at
his funeral"
The leader was surprised and fat
tered. SIS that so?" he asked.
"Yes," responded the other. 'He
said that he wanted to be sure that
the people who came to his funeral
would be sorry he died"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13
A Republican Machine.

.No Republican machine in this
country is more astutely operated
or more firmly intrenched than
the Republican political machine in
Massachusetts" says Ray Stannard
Baker in his political review in the
American Magazine. Mr.. Baker con-
tinues:
mo boss in American politics is
more accomplished in every art of ma
chine manipulation than that scholar
in politics. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
and he is ably seconded by Senator
Crane, Gov. Draper and Congressman
Weeks. They all work together. and be-
hind them are solemnly marshaled all
the great financial and corporate inter-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13

A .
States, welcomed everywhere, his eff
forts were unavailing. There was
more than one woman who would
have been glad to accept the mans
suit; whom, ssif he had wooed ever so
slightly he could have won, but he
was friendly with everyone and in
love with none.
At the end Of two years society gave
him up as confirmed in his isolation
and loneliness. He was not the less
welcome. but he was no longer
matrimonial possibility, nor was he
any more the wonder that he had
been. New things engrossed public
attention. The world presently took
sCharnock as he would fain have it
take him, as a matter Of course.
He did things slowly, not because
that was his nature, but from an In.
vincible determination to do things
right. He made his plans deliberately
and had formulated an enterprise SO
comprehensive in its scope, SO vast In.
Its outlay and with such Infinite posi-
bilities of help to the poor, the
wretched. the down-trodden classes of.
society, that when the foreshad owings
of 1t were announced, people stood
amazed, An undertaking SO great was
not within the, power even of Char.
mock. His resources were utterly I'm.
equal to 1t, but he had enough to make
q magnificent beginning and by devo-
ting to It the whole revenue of his es-
tate. and the estate itself after he
died, gradually the enterprise would
be achieved.
There was no necessity for secrecy
about 1t. Indeed with that simplicity
and candor so unusual and SO uncon-
ventional J. which touch with the world
had never been able to alter, he had
spoken of his plans without reserve
and he had declared with equal frank
ness that what he was doing was in
memory of the noblest and the truest
Of women, to whom he owed 1t that
he was human being and not an anil
mall
~ Whitaker, Of whose Judgment he
thought highly and with desert. was
called from the naval service to be
the executive head Of the great I'M
dertaking. The spiritual work was to
be placed in the hands of the chaplain
who had so endeared himself to the
promoter and deyiser of 1t all. Char
mock realized that these men who had
known Katharine Brenton would enter
more sympathetically into his views
and could be depended upon to carry
them out in case anything happened
to him. He and his uncle and one or
two others Of excellent Judgment
whom he had met, were associated
with the two mentioned to carry out
all the founders plans
Now, this thing was not done in a
c1lner.N The news OF It was carried
over the United States and spread
even to foreign lands. The world read
1T and marveled again. A newspaper
carrying an account OF 1t fell under
the eye OF d lonely man in San Fran
cisco, who had just returned from a
long voyage In northern seas. The
name "Charnock" caught his eye first;
and then Langford saw the name of
the woman he loved. He read with
avidity, appreciating as none could
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-13
Hatpin Ordinanee lPa.sed,

The Chicago City Council passed, by
q vote Of 8s to- 2. an ordinance MAKE
ing 1t rnisdemeanor for a woman to
wear long hatpin. Any one SO caught
will be liable to a fine of $50. "A crowd
of women N the galleries greeted the
decision with jeers and made noisy
protest against the measure. on the
ground that the city had no right to
regulate women's wearing apparel and
that at night the long hatpin was wom-
ans only defense. The law says that
the future hatpin must not extend more
than half an inch beyond the Grown Of
the hot "a 49, m, 90 fftaf ftl4 AZ