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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
ONE WAY.
TO PUSH WORK OF
SUNDAY SCHOOLS

The Sunday school workers of Br-
n.ingham will meet in the First Baptist
church tomorrow afternoon at $3.50 o'clock
to welcome Miss Kennedy to Birmins-
ham.
Miss Kennedy has been field secretary
of The Alabama Sunday School associa-
ton for several years and is regarded as
ore of the foremost Sunday school work.
ers in the south When it became known
that she was going to leave the state
association TO work for the Birmingham
association, both New York and Chicago
tried to engage her, but the possibilities
of Greater Birmingham and love for her
native state appealed to her more strong
ly At the state convention. held in Mo-
bile Ia few days ago. Miss Kennedy was
presented with a handsome gold watch
by the 1340 delegates in attendance as a
token of high estem. She came to Bir-
mingham this week and will now reside
here permanently.
In order to make her work effective and
to meet the growing needs of the Sunday
school work in Birmingham, the county
association authorized at its convention
tere last November the organization of
q city association. The Birmingham Sum-
day School association was accordingly
organized with d. H. Marbury as Pres-
dent and number of prominent business
men are its other officers. Miss Kennedy
will be general secretary of the city as
ISOLATION and will be in charge of the
office that the association will open in
few days. The asosication will have IL
heads of departments, consisting of the
leading Sunday school workers of the
city. Their names will be announced at
the meeting tomorrow. 49,
The work of the association will be In
terdenominatioaal. 1t is prescribed In its
constitution as follows: 1.-The Sunday
schools of Birmingham are united by this
association to promote the progress of
Christianity. especially the winning OF
souls to Jesus Christ and the establish
ment of Christian character through de-
vout and diligent study of the Holy Bible,
and to that end to effect the growth ana
bctterment of the Sunday school its meth
DDS. activities and membership and 10
enlist every person in Birmingham In
Sunday school work"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
MEMPHIS SUFFERS
FROM Big STORM

Memphis, April 15.-With an average of
five inches Of rainfall as a result of the
storm which yesterday and last night
swept over Tennessee, Mississippi and
Arkansas, another storm broke over these
states tonight with renewed fury. Rain
fell in torrents, accompanied In many
places by hail, and the property damage
will be heavy.
Accompanying this second storm was
wind which at times took on the proper
lions of a cyclone.
Reports from Como, Merigold and jones'
town, Miss, indicate that many small
houses were levelled to the ground at the
latter place and one negro woman was
killed. This is the only fatality reported.
Houses were unroofed, trees torn up and
havoc played with telephone and tele-
graph wires In and around Memphis. All
railroad traffic is delayed again tonight
on account of washouts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
FEDERATION OF
CLUBS In SESSION

Columbus, Miss, April 15.-(Special.)--
The twelfth annual meeting OF the Mis-
s:ssippi Federation of Women's clubs con-
veIed here yesterday afternoon. Commit
tee meeting was held at 3 o'clock in the
College chapel, but the formal meeting
did not convene until last night at s
o'clock. The address of welcome to Co.
iumbus and the college was delivered by
President Henry l.. Whitfield and was
responded to in behalf of the association
by Mrs w. B. Lockwood of Crystal
Springs Miss Eta Atwell of the college
music faculty rendered a splendid instra-
mental selection. Miss Pauline Orr, mis-
tress of English, lectured on Robert
Browning and a reception followed.
The meeting was continued this MORN
ing and at $50 o'clock Mrs. Daisy d.
Laml1in of Friar Point. Miss, president
of the federation, made the annual pres
ident's address This afternoon a bust
ness session will be held and Miss Mary
Thomas of the /. l. and c. faculty will
speak on Compulsory Education
The meeting will continue through Fri
day About rs delegates from many of
the larger cities in Mississippi are here.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
INTEREST IN THE
MEETING UNDATED

The revival services at the First Meth
odist church continue with undated in
terest Though the weather was threat
ening, there was a large congregation
last night. Many compliments were heard
with reference to the singing, as led
by Evangelist Curry. Remember Me, o
Mighty One was sung by the male
quartet
Evangelist Brown took as the basis of
his sermon the Bible incident of Samson
Staying the lion. He declared that there
we're lions between us and success. This
he said was especially true in spiritual
things. He took up fault-finding as an
evil habit that Christian people should rid
themselves Of Indifference, he said, was
another lion that ought to be slain. The
sinner, Indifferent to his salvation the
church member Indifferent to the CONVEX
sion of his friend or brother--these ought
to put aside their Indifference and be-
come desperately in earnest. 'Man-fear,
If we are to be successful. either as soul
winners or in reference to our own in
dividual life, must lie put aside" he
said "Selfshness also is an evil that
stands In the way of Christian activity.
1t Is at the bottom of all-Ein. 1t must
be overcome" He reminded the congrega-
ton that Samson did not slay the lion
In his own strength, but the spirit of
the Lord came nightly upon him. And,
so, IL we overcome our besetting sins, we
must attack them in the strength that
God alone can give.
Whatever the difficulty in the way;
whatever the temptation to be overcome.
God helping us, 1t can be DONE Closing
the service. penitents were invited to come
forward for prayer. A number came.
some of whom professed to be converted.
There will be service this morning at
10 o'clock; but no service tonight. Mr.
Brown will preach three times tomorrow
delivering a special address in the aft
ernoon at 80 to men only. =.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
IS AFTER THOSE WHO
VIOLATE HEALTH LAWS


Spitters on the sidewalks and porters
who persist in sweeping sidewalks with
out first sprinkling them are receiving
attention at the hands of the city health
department. Chief Sanitary Inspector
Walter Burson started this campaign
some little time ago and much good re-
suited. During the smallpox scare the
officers could not pay as much attention
to these offenders as they had been doing,
and violators began to take advantage of
1t. 1t is being handled rather vigorously
now, and the unhealthy practices, 1t is be-
lieved, will soon be thing of the past
During the past few days there have
been number of arrests In this regard,
and such defendants are receiving a nice
lecture on health from Judge Feagin. A
nominal fine is being imposed with the
promise that second arrest for this Of
Tense will draw a fine of exceptionally
heavy amount.
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river. Enterprise, skill and intelligence
can, however. make good the deficiencies
OF nature.
Alabama. too, has some pecan groves,
but this state is tagging behind Georgia
in the extension of what she has. Pecans
grow equally well in both states, and
Georgias pecan groves should be dupli-
Gated in this state. If home capital be
lacking TO do this any good banker can
secure it from eastern sources.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
YOUNGEST MEMBER
GETS CREDENTIALS

James Henry Bowden, last night
elected a member of the Chamber of
Commerce, is perhaps the youngest
member of any commercial organiza-
ton in the world. He is Just one month
old, born on st. Patrick's day.
He is the son of Marmaduke B. Bow
cen, the former president of the Louis
Vile chamber of commerce. who has
come to Birmingham to live. and is
general counsel for the Citizens Life
Insurance company.
In putting up his boy for member
ship Major Bowden said that he want
ed to train his boy In the way he
should go, and recommended to other
fathers that they pay their boys mem
bership.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
Senator Burton'S River Criticisms

The figures that Senator Burton SUBJ
Nuts in a minority report of the COM
merce committee on features of the rivers
and harbors bill now pending in the SEN
ate should operate as warning to those
who want an open Warrior, but who de-
cline to get ready to use it. The Ohio
senator objects to the expenditures in the
Muscle Shoals canal on the ground that
the people of the Tennessee valley do not
use It freely. He goes on to show that
the expenditure to date on the canal has
been s115O for every ton of freight car
ried through it.
These figures should sink into the mind
of every man who desires to see this dis
trict supplied with barge transportation TO
tidewater. Unless we begin to use the
Warrior as soon as squaw Shoals are
overcome by locks and dams we may be
sure We will get from Senator Burton
figures not unlike those he applies to the
Muscle Shoals canal.
But worse than this would be the fact
that we would gain no more from the
opening of the Panama canal than Allan
ia or Nashville would gain If we do not
get ready to utilize the river that the
government is spending millions of dol
lars to open to barge navigation the year
round.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
TO DEVELOP Big
MOUNTAIN TRACT

Gadsden, April 15.-tSpecial.) -That the
men behind the proposed new electric
railroad connecting the Tri-Cities with the
Lookout mountain territory are in earnest
is evidenced by the fact that a deal has
been contaminated whereby the new Or
ganization comes into ownership of some
$50 acres of land on the mountain ac-
curing the property from the Coksa Lana
company The territory acquired lies ao-
jacent to the falls in Black creek, and is
admirably situated for a pleasure. ground
and for residence purposes The state
ment is given out that the land is to be
at once replatted and laid off according
to the plans of landscape gardener, SO
that il can be made one of the most beau
tiful spots to be found in this vicinity
The consideration paid Is said TO be $oO,oe0
H. A. Rogers, the leading promoter OF
the new enterprise. is recently from Call
fornia, where he was engaged In similar
propositions, and his plan is to have the
plan of the grounds and the architecture
follow the Japanese style so prevalent
and popular in the west. The promoters
insist that as soon as the necessary fran
chises are secured they are ready to pro-
ceed and as the council at its meeting on
Monday night of the coming week will
probably grant these, the way Will De
open for them to push as rapidly as
they like. The company has taken other
options and has already made a, tenta-
tive agreement with the Alabama City,
Gadsden and Alfalfa Railroad company
for power for its line until a plant of its
own can be erected. 1t looks as though
the project was to be a real go without
moments delay.
Sam Ryan, a young man of Collinsvllle,
who recently attempted suicide by shoot
ing himself with a revolver, and who was
brought to this city for an operation. died
at the local hospital at S o'clock last
evening. Ryan was respondent because
the grand jury of Marshall county re-
turned verdict against him on some trfv-
ial charge and determined on self-destruc-
ton as a consequence
The case of G. w Weatherly, admins
traitor of the estate of Emory Weatherly,
against the Nashville, Chattanooga and
st. Louis Railroad company, compromised
today by the company agreeing to the
entry of a judgment for the sum of $1,000.
Weatherly was run down and killed by a
train of the company two years ago in the
edge of this city and the action was filed
shortly after and has been pending ever
since
w. G. Bellenger, owner of the brick
building on Court street long occupied as
a livery and sale stable. has awarded a
contract for the remodellng of the build
ing to admit of its use as a garage.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
TERMS OF SETTLEMENT
OF STREET CAR STRIKE

Philadelphia, April 15.-The terms of
settlement of the street car strike were
announced today as follows:
All men now on strike to be taken back
by the company and to receive positions
as fast as possible; those who are not
Immediately placed to be paid at the rate
OF 81 a day until they can be placed.
The cases of ia men whose discharge
precipitated the strike to be left to erbi-
tration.
Wages to be % cents an hour beginning
July 1 next, and to be increased each sue
cceding year "a cent an hour until the
maximum Of % cents an hour Is reached.
The company to have the right to hear
the grievance OF an employee and the men
to nave the right to join any union.
This agreement is not to be signed but
merely to be posted in the car barns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Clean streets

The new street commissioner, Frank
II. Gafford. is making good" said Sol
Caheen last night as he stood on Nine
teenth street in front of the city hall.
1.-THE streets are thoroughly swept and
they are swept, too, without raising
any dust. No city thoroughfare could be
cleaner than Nineteenth. Not only is the
main roadbed as clean as well kept
floor in Well kept house, but the part
which touches the eurbing is also clean.
We find the same excellent condition
that one remarks here on Nineteenth
street throughout the business district.
People often knock, and l myself am a
good knocker when there is anything to
knock about but when a city official is
doing notably fine work I take great
pleasure in calling attention to the fact.
With his limited means Mr.. Gafford is
certainly doing wonders"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
FRISCO OFFICIALS
TO SPEND DAY HERE

Vice President and General Manager w.
G. Nixon General Superintendent J. 3,
Hutchinson and Chief Engineer M. c. Bey-
ers of the Frisco system were scheduled
to arrive in Birmingham at o'clock this
morning. They are travelling in special
train and will probably be here all day.
That the visit Of these officials will
have some bearing on the vtadnct situa-
ton is generally believed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
INJUSTICE TO
WALKER COUNTY

To the Editor of The e-Herald:
In your issue of this April IA appears a
communication from Oakman of the as
sassination of w. A. Anderson and the
attempted assassination of Chief of Police
Putnam of Oakman, about 10 miles south
of that point, on yesterday. Following
this special communication, l find this
statement:
THE crime which occurred yesterday is
not the first of its kind in Walker county.
The wildcatters in the remote section of
the county which adjoins Jefferson on the
northwest, have for years been noted for
their boldness and desperate character. In
recent years several revenue officers have
been killed by the moonshiners of this
particular section"
This statement is erroneous. In the first
place, the shooting occurred in the south
ern portion of the county near the Tus-
caloosa line, and not where it joints JEFF
ferson county. The writer has been a citi-
zen of Walker county for the past %
years, and IL there has ever been reve-
nue. officer killed in Walker county dur
ing that length of time, 1 cannot recall
the fact, nor have l been able to find
any of the elder citizens of Walker
who can remember of a revenue officer
being killed in the county during that
time, The statement in your paper is
manifesty unjust to the patriotic, law
abiding citizens of Walker county. carry
ing as 1t does to the outside world the idea
that Walker county is made up largely of
a lawless element, and that murder Is
frequent occurrence.
The good people of Walker county were
greatly shocked yesterday on hearing of
the murder of Deputy Marshal Anderson
and every effort possible will be made to
capture the guilty parties and bring them
to justice.
l trust that you will give this statement
the same prominence in your paper as
the statement complained of. Yours very
truly, A. s. PRESTON.
Jasper, April IA, 1910.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
OFFICERS RETURN
WITH STRICKLAND

Detectives Nation and Gray arrived
in the city last night with John 7.
Strickland, the alleged forger of $4,000
worth of checks from his employers.
the Fulenwider Building company.
Strickland seemed to be In a jovial
frame of mind. He admits his guilt and
is not backward in doing so. He was
locked in the county jail.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16

civic degeneracy. It is impraeticable. The
re3ormers should leave lawmaking to wise
experts, and be content with educating
public sentiment
And what the bishop said of Tennessee
would apply with equal force to conditions
in Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
ON HIS BLINDNESS

BY Milton.
When 1 consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days, in this dark world
and wide,
And that one talent which is death to
hide
Lodged with me useless, though my
soul more bent
To serve Herewith my Maker, and
present
My true account lest he returning
chide,-
Doth God exact day-labor, light de-
MED?
fondly ask But Patience. to prevent
That murmur, soon replies: God doth
not need
Either mans work, or His own gifts:
who best
Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him
best; His state
Is kingly thousands at His bidding
speed
And post DER land and ocean without
rest
They also serve who only. stand and
walt.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
BURGE Is HANGED
FOR KILLING WIFE

Atlanta, April 15.-George Burge. the
condemned wife slayer. paid the penalty
for his crime on the scaffold here today
The drop was sprung at Hal O'Clock by
Sheriff Mangum after the prisoner had
mounted the scaffold without the aid of
any of the prison officials.
Burge made a confession of his guilt
to the Rev. d. S. Edenfied, a Baptist
minister, just before the latter gave him
baptism earlier in the day. The cere-
mony was performed in a bath tub and
when he emerged from the water Burge
broke down for the first time and wept
piteously. $500
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16

Knoxville. Tenn, April ia special to
the Sentinel from Athens Tenn, says
Governor Patterson was burned in effigy
at that place last night. This was an
expression of disapproval OF the pardon
of Col. d. B. Cooper, Immediately after
the state supreme court had affirmed his
sentence of 20 years In prison for the MUIR
der of Senator e. w. Carmack. There is
puch feeling in Athens over the pardon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
WE'LL EQrIPPED.

"Tiblets impresses me as one of those
good, old-fashioned individuals whose
heart is overlooking with kindness and
love for his fellow man."
s"Thats the way he impresses nearly
everybody, It's a valuable asset in his
business"
lis that so? What is his business?"
watering stock, selling gold mines and
general f1imhamming.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16

Miss Mary Garden, who never forgets
stage, was also very dramatic when she
sailed away from Oscar Hammersmith
In a huff
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Mrs. william b, Bate Die.

Huntsville, April 16.-(special.)-A tele-
gram has been received here from Grand
view, Tex, announcing the death of Mrs.
William B. Bate, widow of the late Sem
ator Bate of Tennessee. She died at the
home of her son-in-law, Thomas b. Mas
tin Mrs. Bate was native of Hunts
willie and was Miss Julia Peete before her
marriage to Senator Bate some so years
ago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16
RECOLLECTION.


Sometimes a song that falls upon
Your half-attentive ear,
As If upswelling In a dream
You scarcely wonder where
Brings back the scenes of days gone by,
The paths YOU used to tread,
Before you fell in thorny ways
And bright-winged hope had fled.
Yes, something in that old-time Tilt
A willing echo finds
Away down in your heart. and more,
Perhaps a tear-mst blinds
A little while your eyes, that seem
Fixed sadly on the past,
AS one who sees his native shore
To .rearward fading fast.
Or else a smile is the response
Your heart leaps up to hear
And happy times almost forgot
IL fancy reappear
But when the last sweet note has flown
The song is heard no more,
You quit the House of Used-to-Be
And Memory bars the door.
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WAY OF THE TRANsGREssOR.

WAY OF THE TRsNSGRESSOR.
In speaking of her husbands double
life a wronged wife said. HE told me
frankly about his affair with Mrs. Der
haven. He said it was on account of
the child. I never had any children.
Mr.. Doak said that one of his terrors
was that he might talk in his sleep" Oh,
ye who lead the double life, think of
its consequences There are hundred
and ninety-nine ways in which you may
be found out at any momollt and talking
in your sleep is one of the least prob
able of all. Yet, we see this poor man
going tremblingly to bed-when he was
in his legal homeland fearing to close
his eyes in dewy sleep, lest he murmur
the fateful words which would wake
his wife to listen and drink In the story
of his wrongdoing. This man did not
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16

From the New York Press.
Except for his faults man is a very
dull creature.
Social friendships among women are
mere rivalries.
It's so natural for a girl to pretend
tn at she seems very strong when she
hasn't a chance to.
The best thing to keep an argument
going indefinitely is Ignorance Of the
subject on both sides
A reputation for being clever can
make person act more like . fool
than anything else In the world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16

Some claim that young SioIs, who is
calculating the fourth dimension at
Harvard, is after all but a reincarna-
ton of Euclid. Young Sidis himself
says to this theory: What bosh"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16

Botanist Osterhont of Harvard says
that both the republican and demo-
cratic parties will pass away within
25 years. to make room for conserva-
tion or non-c onservation of natural
resources.
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The fresh eggs going into storage
plants at present meet yeariings com
ing out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16

BY getting up at 430 to see the
comet you may after while be In
duced to go back to the farm.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16

Lord Kitchener knows how TO travel
through country with out modifying
it's brass bands.
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How big is Birmin CHAM? After to-
day the census man Will begin to max e
his estimate, and that estimate will
stand 10 years
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The "Chanticler" has already yielded
ny and sanguine.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

talk in his sleep, yet his duplicity came
out and now he faces alimony. The
double life not only costs like fury, but
it keeps one perpetually on pins and
needles.
WILL SOON BE HERE.
Tears and laughter
April's way;
Who comes after?
Sweetheart Mayl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-16

The Delaware peach growers now
admit with tears in their eyes that
their peach crop is not destroyed at
all.
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Mr. Pinchot did not show his proofs
them at Porto Maurizio.