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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
AIMS AT EDUCATION
 IN WOMAN'S WORK.
Mrs. Reid Discusses Object of
 the State Fair
HOW WOMEN ARE HELPED
Get Interested in the Practical Things of Life and Have Opportunity to Get in Touch With Possi-
 bic Purchasers
BY WALTER HARPIsI,

The busiest woman in Birmingham right now is Mrs. J. B. Reid, manager of the woman's department of the Ala bama State Fair.
 She is at her office in the Chamber of Commerce building every morning early and stays till late at night She is work ing out the details of the hest woman's department ever shown in an Alabama fair It is bound to be the best be- cause she is determined to make 1t so and there are scores of men and women in Alabama who have faith in her and and have become really and deeply in- terested in the work of. tile plucky woman.
 She loves the work. That is another and a main reason that it will succeed. She loves the work because it is humani tarian, helpful, educative. It is a potent agency for the elevation of the women of Alabama economically, educationally and socially.
 Are you surprised?
 Is Not a show
 In the estimation of Mrs. Reid and those women who have been materially helped. the Alabama State Fair is 1ot a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
STEEL SLIPPERS
 ARE BEING BUILT

Atlanta, April 1s-(Special) l)-Seventy all-steel sleeping cars of the most mod ern type, electric lighted and equipped with every device for the comfort and safety of passengers which the ingenuity of the worlds leading car builders has brought out, are now being constructed by the Pullman company for the use of the Southern Railway company on its through trains from the south to New York city. It is expected that these cars will be ready in September or October of this year and as soon as they are delivered to the Southern the company will operate it's through trains to New York, which now stop at Jersey City, into the magnificent new terminal of the Penn sylvania Railroad company on Manhat- tan Island, located between Seventh and Eighth avenues and Thirty-frst and Thir- ty-third streets.
 To reach this terminal trains will pass from the Jersey shore finder the Hudson river through the Pennsylvania tunnels, which are in reality steel tubes, driven bepeath the river. By their use the Southern, instead of landing passengers in Jersey City will enable them to step from their sleepers in the heart of the hotel, theatre and shopping district, thus eliminating the ferry trip from Jersey City, which has been a feature Of all travel to New York from the south since the beginning of railroad service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
SHOUTING FOR WAR
 IN SOUTH AMERICA

GIayaquil, April 1S.-The government has called into service the first reserves. About 1000 reservists paraded the streets late tonight shouting for Ecuador and demanding war with Peru.
 President Alfaro is expected here soon rom Quito. Guayaquil capitalists have offered the government all the money necessary for the war expenditure.
 It is reported that Chile and Peru have settled their dispute regarding the prov inces of Tacna and Africa and this result has aroused great interest, as it is be- iieYed this is probably significant, in- asmuch as it may mean a partial with oraWal or Chile's support of Ecuador.
 The Peru minister at Quito is hold ing daily conferences with the Ecuador minister with a view of reaching an agreement, but it is stated that little progress is being made
 Japanese who was arrested here as q spy has been exiied to Panama,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
ITCH GONE INSTANTLY
 PROOF AT 25 CENTS

What eczema sufferer would not spend 25 cents to cure that terrible agonizing itch?
 Since our repeated recommendations failed to induce some eczema sufferers right in this town to try D. D. D. Pre- scription at $1.0O a bottle, we arranged with the D. D. D.. Laboratories of Chicago to offer special trial--for the nresent-at only 25 cents for this special bottle. This nominal price is made to assure a trial by every skin sufferer.
 The remedy will convince you in- stantly for it takes the itch away the very moment you start to, wash she skin, and 1t cures--as we KNOW.
 For sale by Collier Drug Co.,, Bir- mipgham, and ". D. Taylor, Besscmer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
DELEGATES ARRIVE
 FOR CON VENTION

Meridian Miss, April 1S.-(Special.)-The advance guard of the state Sunday school convention has reached the city and every train into Meridian from now until to- morrow afternoon is expected to be load ed with delegates. The convention meets at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the First Baptist church for the opening ses- sion of the three days meeting. W. Fred Long. state secretary. and Mrs. Long. corresponding secretary Of the con- vention. arrived this afternoon from Jack son. and both predict that the eonyen- tion will be the most successful in tie history of the organization in this sta = The programme is one of interest and in- struction. with not dull moment in It. Meridian has opened wide it's arms in welcoming it's guests and every possible attention will he paid the visitors At o'clock tomorrow afternoon all business will he suspended in honor Of the parade of delegates. and Sunday school teachers and pupils of this city. 1t Is thought there will be about 3sD marehers in line.
 Mir and Mrs l. M Miller Of Russell and their sons. Jeff and Joe. and thelf daughter. Mrs. Kettle Sims and baby left this afternoon for New Orleans, to enter the Pssteur institute on advice of num- her of physicians mad dog had bit ten a number of hogs and cows belonging to the Milers. and the family had been using the milk and butter from the cows after the animals had been bitten. Physicians declared they were in danger of hydrophoPia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
General cIarkson Retires

New York, April 1S.-After eight years of government service, as surveyor of the port of New York, Gen. James B.. Clarkson, formerly chairman of the re- publican national committee, retired from office today and was temporarily super seded by Chief Deputy Surveyor George J. Smith General Clarkson was presented with a. huge silver loving cup and a gold watch and chain as tokens of es- teem from the employees of the surveyors department, who served under him. Gen. eral Clarksons successor has not yet been named.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19

show merely. It is school of experi- ence, practical cooperation and means of inspiration for the housewife or girl who wants to do something practical and of value for herself and for the community.
 Mrs. Reid can name many women who have been helped and in a very ma terial way through the educatve infiu- ence of the fair. She wants to reach others. Mrs. Reids work does not end with the final closing of the gates at the fair grounds. the tearing down of the exhibits It goes on through all the year. She is paid salary only for few months work but she does not stop work when the salary stops She takes slsterly. personal interest in the work of exery exhibitor and in those who may be induced to become exhibitors. Work All Year
 A clipping from some newspaper or magazine on some special feature of household work is mailed to this woman A recipe for preparing fruits of pastry goes 10 another woman. A suggestion or pattern for embroidery goes to another woman. She knows something of the needs and special interest of every wom- an and never forgets any of them. This work goes on the year round.
 few years ago the Alabama State Fair had no women exhibitors from Ala bama Exhibits of woman's work were imported from the north and middle west for the purpose of demonstrating and en- couraging. Alabama women 10 take up the work and enter for the contests Foreign exhibits have been gradually ex- cluded as Alabama women became in- terested and now no foreign exhibitor is allowed to compete for prizes.
 Women Are Helped
 More than one woman in Birmingham and in Alabama has been able 10 build LID small domestic enterprises that net
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
Gold Export Movement

New York, April lS.-'rhe gold export movement to Europe which was suspended early last week after total of sll.19,0o0 had been sent to London, was resumed to- day, with engagements of sl,5O0,ooo in gold for shipment to London on Mednes- daV
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
Piles Quickly
 Cured At Home
Instant Relief, Permanent Cure-Trial Package Mailed Free to All
 in PIaiu WFanupr

Many cases of Piles have been cured by a trial package of Pyramid Pile Cure without further treatment. When 1t proves it's value to you, order more from your druggist at 30 cents box. simply fill out free coupon below and mail today Save yourself from the surgeons knife and it's torture, the doc for and his bills
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
Did Not Visit Roosevelt

Rome, April 1S.-From reports which have been received from Vienna, the Vatican. it is said, does not consider that Monsignor Pignatelli, the papal nun cio at Vienna, visited MT. Roosevelt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19

The elevated loop which circles and throttles to some extent Chcago's pusi- ness center. is found to carry daily near ly half million passengers on elevated trains and yearly nearly 160000,000 pas sengers. A check for the citys share of the earnings of the loop structure, s40,000 for a six-months period, has dis closed the earnings of the loop struc- ture which Charles T. Yerkes contribu- ted to the disfiguring landmarks of his traction regime. The loop is owned by separate corporation, which is paid one- half cent for every passenger carried by all of the elevated roads. and the city gets 15 per cent of tbe loop company's earnings. The city has a number of reve- nue incomes now which were unknown five years ago, the biggest being from the rehabilitated surface street car compa- nies They pay the city over a million dollars each year The Illinois Tunnel company for it's network of bores under the city recently sent a check for $22, ,255, which is per cent of the Tunnel com pany's business. which last year totaled $445, 105, but now is rapidly on an in- crease The Tunnel company operates freight delivery service forty feet below the surface of the streets and although in January. 1909 it's earnings were only s19,O00 in December they had increased to s51 ,000.
 The havoc of springtime joy-riding of automobilists has reached such a point that drastic action has been recommended to the city authorities by several infiuen- tial organizations. Only rigid enforce ment of police laws is likely to prevent mob violence, for there have been num- Der of demonstrations of late from which scorching chauffeurs and their passengers escaped summary punishment only by making a quick getaway under protec- ton of the police. The trial of a case against a chauffeur who ran down a lit tic girl has done much to advance the sentiment favoring rigid discipline for motorists. for this chauffeur was found to have a record of reckless driving and accidents which has shown how danger ons the aggregate of autos will become if his individual case is an example of the rest. Even the disaster at the Jackson boulevard bridge, when a chauffeur car rled his passengers to death in the Chi cago river by dashing full speed into the open draw, has not served to slow-d down the speed of cars. The increase of heavy motor trucks has developed @ new dan ger to the pedestrian. for enormous vans go at high speed through the streets, turning sharp corners and menacing not only a man on foot, but the smaller autos and wagons. The loop district, now the most congested district in the world. of fers thousand dangers daily to the throngs upon the streets They must be- ware not only of street cars, trucks, car riages, autos and auto trucks coming from one direction, but at some corners from three-even four. Randolph street and Fifth avenue now is the show dan ger spot of the city, for street car tracks intersect there in four directions and overhead the elevated trains add to- the distractions and uproar which serve to oopf,1sa oaople
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19

posers on the staffs of teachers of theory and composition. Moreover. the large cities support orchestras, the university towns have ehoruses, musical festivals and orchestral tours. The club, there- fore, has given up sending students abroad Its scholarship fund is made to do double service and gives more to struggling genius. The talented stu- dent is being aided by fees for concert work in institutions which cannot pay for their music.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
CITIZENSHIP ON
 VERY BROAD GAUGE Chicago Has Just Organized a
 Citizens Congress
A MIXTURE OF BELIEFS
No Partisanship. No Sectarinnism VIII Be Allowed in the Congress Which Proposes to work Unitediy for
 the City's Good

Chicago, April 1S.-(Special.) )-Good eit- izenship as a creed will have trial heat in Chicago among the memberships or A churches. religious bodies and clubs which have organized the Chicago Citizens con- gress. with high hopes for big results. The formal declaration of the congress as to it's purposes includes this: ITO unite all men who profess religious prin- ciples of life in the application or their principles to the duties and responslpii- ities of citizenship The congress has adopted a commission form of govern- ment with 15 commissioners. The mem bership promises to be such mixture oi religious faiths as rarely has been seen and still more rarely held together with any permanence. Observe the altitude oi its activities as stated by the temporary secretary: No partisanship, no sectarian- ism. no fad, must be our watchword II we are to accomplish any impress on the life of our city" The pure Evanstonian diction with which the project is launched also is to be noted. Already the officers are confronted with the difficulty oi avoiding friction between factions and at the same time getting anywhere. With a touch of cynicism Rev. Ernest w. ONeal said: The first thing we know responsibilities will stalk unchecked through the streets of Chicago There Is no telling where movement like this will end If we stick together we can do anything. By and by we will judge a criminal by his crime and not by his money'' The moral growth of Chicago has kept pace, if not outstripped, the citys increase of population and area but reform has not been accomplished in one dose by one set of men. Keeping pace with the citys growth has been 'go- ing some'' too. Chicago will have 4,0OO, 900 and more persons within it's city limits March s, 1925, according to Walter D. Moody, business manager of the Chicago Association of Commerce. AS an actual fact Chicago has considerably more than 100000 population now he said. Our increase in ten years has been 52 per cent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19

Inventoried at cost Chieago's babies have a value of $4,5O0,00o according to the figures of Prof. E. H. Arnold of Yale who put s75 as the average money price paid. There are 60O0O Chicago babies very tiny ones, not more than year old What valuation the parents would place on those babies is a very different thing What their potential value to so- ciety may be also is different matter. They are about equally divided between boys and girls, but the cost of either is the same. When they. are 15 years of age these same babies would go on the cost sheet at s120,0O0, 600, again using the figures of Professor Arnold of 5000 each at that age. There are about 225,000 chill dren in the city between 15 and 19 years of age, each of whom owes the world s9oOO-a total of s450.0O0,0O0 There are 243 children in Chicago between 10 and 15 years of age each of whom owes the world about s1200, or a total of $291, GOO. There are 2s4,000 children between and 10 years, each of whom owes the world about $500 or total of $142, 100000. There are 229, 900 children between and 5, each of whom has cost about $l75, or a total of s40,075, GOO. To these add the babies of 1 year and under, at s75 each $4500, 600, and the grand total of children who have cost and have not yet begun to pay back amounts to the tidy sum of 1928, 175, 900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
Women Are Helped

More than one woman in Birmingham and in Alabama has been able 10 build up small domestic enterprises that net
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
Ddth d Hfs 


 pgeon-holed in a subcommittee of the hostile postoffice committee of the House will not pass at this session of Congress, according to a bulletin of the Postal Savings Bank league. unless the public wakes up and demands action. The league is urging newspapers to call upon their readers to write to their mem bers of Congress to demand that the postoffice committee report the bill which the Senate has passed The opposition to the measure has proceeded from the American Bankers association postal savings bank committee. In a report to the Postal Savings Bank league a for mer Canadian banker, c. F. Ross. who is familiar with postal banking in the dominion, said. q had IA years expe- rience with the system, and can see only great benefit, not only to the people but to banks from them. I have travelled over a great deal of territory and met a great many bankers, and I have yet to postal savings banks that was worthy of the name. In the first place the bank CTS know that there Is a great amount of money hoarded up by people who have not the confidence in banking as the conditions are today, or as they think the conditions are. They know that if this money was brought into circulation it would be a powerful benefit to the coun- try generally. It is therefore easy to see that by educating the class of people who are now hoarding up their money to open an account with a postal savings L. |. IA .t,n v1AI Con. tt.A banks to obtain deposits that could not be done under any other conditions. There is a class of people in this country who deposit money in banks that should not have that privilege. Many runs on good institutions have been caused by these people, and the bankers of this country should be very wiling to be relieved from doing business with them."
 l. Europe no more for the student of music who is short of funds, conserve the talent in the United States, where opportunities are better" This is the slo- gan raised by an organization of 800 Chi | cago women, the Amateur Musical club. The club has found that Europe's pit | falls and obstacles more than onset It's advantages to a student, particularly for young women. This organization has dis covered that the young woman sent from | home to a strange city. Paris, Leipsig | London or anywhere else, was subjected | to a severe test such as only the best balanced character could withstand. There arc loneliness. the difficulties with all alien language in strange land, the temptations of youth, and the considerable
 expense of board and lessons, many times
 greater than if the student had remained | in America. While saving the student 1 from foreign temptations and the econo
 mizjng of means are important, the club
 as well as Frank Damrosch. who was
 called in from. New York for counsel realizes that America is rising to higher | level in it's music schools. Every ac
 credited institution has thoroughly trained foreign talent among Its teachers o
 ,,iano' the voice. the violin and in othe' instruments, as well as successful com
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-07-28
To
EXAMINED At
CT. MARTIAL

Sea Girt, July 28:-Preparations
are being made for the court-martiaI
Of three men each from Companies
H. and l. OF Orange on charges of
drunkenness and disorderly conduct
several days after the Fifth Regi-
ment returns from camp. The for
NAL charges were made today by
Captain Lord and Horton and the
summary court will take up the
cases next.
Colonel Edwin w. Hine lost no
time investigating the charges made
by Police Commissioner John N.
Lindsey, holding q long conversa-
ton with the two officers and with
Major Shoenthal, of Orange.
The non-commissioned officers are
incensed over the turn of affairs. 1t
is generally held here that justice
would have been sufficiently served
If the letter of Police Commissioner
John N. Lindsey had first went to
Colonel Hine. The two companies
have done fine work while in camp.
The claims of Mr.. Lindsey when
investigated disclosed the fact readi-
ly that he had grounds for complaint
and it is declared Colonel Hine
showed quickly he would not count
enance any disorder in his regiment,
which is the senior n of the State.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-07-28
Antiquity Of Shorthand.

Shorthand is apt to be looked upon
as an essentially modern art. The
predecessors of Pitman-Byrom in the
eighteenth century, Mason in the sew
enteenth-are dim and distant figures
beyond which 1t seems useless to ven
ture. Cicero dictated his orations to
his freedman, It. Tullius Trio, and was
inconsolable when temporarily depriv.
ed of his services. He complained In
a letter to a friend that, while "T1ro
takes down whole phrases In a few
signs, spintharus (his provisional sub.
~stitute) only writes in syllables." We
need not, however, suppose that the
"notae Tironianae" were actually in,
vented by the freedman in question
AS M. Guenin points out, the Romans
created very few Of the arts of peace
contenting themselves, as a rule, by
copying from the Greeks. M. Guenin
however, indicates the banks Of the
Nile as the cradle of the art--T. P.'E
London Weekly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-07-28
GOV. FORT is
HOST TODAY
AT SEA GRIT

Governor Fort has issued more
than $50 invitations for Governors
Day today at the summer capital at
Sea Girt, If there Is anybody in po-
litical life In New Jersey who has
not been summoned to the feast it
is because the witch of forgetfulness
has played a prank on the govern
or's memory.
Those who have been Invited In
clude United States Senators Kean
and Briggs, the Jersey congressman,
all the members of the two houses
Of the legislature, all the state Off
Gals, the county registers, county
clerks, sherifs, surrogates, prosecu-
tors and assistant prosecutors of ev-
cry county In the state, all the may
ors, not a few aldermen and others
who are serving the people in vari-
Gus capacities.
There is quite a list of former ser
wants of the people who are expect
ed. These include former govern
ors, former members of the legisla-
ture in days gone by and former
state officials.
Then there is no small array OF
prospective servants of the public
There will be republicans of two
shades of thought IN hand. The
progressives, led by William P
Martin. their candidate for govern
or, will likely be there to hobnot
with the regulars and their aspirants
for the chief magistracy of the state.
Newspaper men from Wildwood to
SUI sunna have been United to
call on the governor md eat a bite
at his board.
If there is anybody who wants tC
find out how his neighbours boom is
progressing he can get the desired
information either personally or by
proxy at Sea Girt today. Consider
ing the fact that a governor Of New
Jersey Is to be elected this fall
likewise ten congressman and that a
United States senatorsh;p is ut stake
in the coming Legislature, there
ought to be something doing IN the
way OF political small talk, or per
haps big talk.