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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
MANY, PEOPLE MEET DEATH
 IN WRECK OF BIG STEAMER
CONTINUED FROM PAGE I,

CONFINED FROM PAGE D -~~-~~~~~~~~~~~~r>~>~~ and men from the wireless station and lighthouse, stood upon the shore help lessly while the victims were drowned before their eyes.
 In the offing just outside the breaker line the schooner Centralia and Helen F. Drew and the oil ship Argyle lay, their decks lined with their crews, helpless to aid.
 Down the coast, coming as fast as it's engines could drive it, came the tug Re dondo, evidently dispatched some time today to aid the doomed ship.
 A Desolate Spot A special train, according to railroad officials has been dispatched here from the north to take the survivors south ward.
 This probably is the bleakest and most desolate spot 0n the coast south of San Francisco and sunless they are removed early the survivors will suffer. The place of landing is merely a long stretch of bare sand, with no woods and noS water nearer than here.
 The Shriner train wreck in May, 1907. occurred within few hundred yards of the point where the Santa Rosa struck. The entire population of the town of Lombert, 10 miles northeast, is hurry ing to aid the survivors.
 Captains First Trip
 San Francisco, July 7.-The steamer Santa Rosa sailed from here at 11:20 a. m., yesterday carrying 173 first cabin and 2S second-class passengers, and a crew of S5 men, John Faria,. her commander, was making his first trip as captain after many years service as mate. Dense fogs are frequent in summer along the coast of southern California, but navigation this year has been ex- ceptionally free from disasters. The Santa Rosa Is an iron boat Nof PAY tons, 32C feet long and was built In rhila- delphia in 1884 for the Pacific Steamship l company. This company also owned the steamer Spokane which went on the rocks in Seymour straits last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
FIRST PULLMAN CONDUCTOR
How First Sleeping Cars Were Made
 and Operated

It isn't generally known, but it Is a fact, nevertheless, that Col. J. L. Barnes for nearly a third of a century super ntendent of the Southern Kansas divi- sion of the Santa F'e, was the first Pull man conductor in the world. While in reminiscent mood recently the colonel told of his experiences as the first Pull man conductor.
 ''In 1858 George M Pullman arranged with the Chicago and Alton Railway for two of their day coaches, which he fitted up as sleeping cars. MT. Pullman at that time had an office on Madison street in Chicago. I passed his office going to and from my boarding house. and on &C., count of a notice in the papers that Mir. Pullman was going to putt sleeping cars on the Chicago and Alton, I made ap- plication to him for a position as con ductor.
 "In September, 1858, he took me to Bloomington to bring out the first car that he had ready for use. This car, as I remember, was low deck one and had been used for long time as a pas senger coach. It had rods running up and down at the end of each berth. The upper berth was pulled up on the rear Slue DN d iope anu pullcN ana lne front of the berth slid up on these rods and was fastened with an iron catch. The lower berth was made out of the two seats turned together.
 "As I now remember, l was paid $2 a night and made up my report in Mir. Pullman's office at the end of each round trip, deducting s4 from my collections for my pay I understood, on one trip, that the man who ran opposite me was short 50 cents of enough money to pay his own wages.
 "T remember we'll looking al one of the cars that was then used on the Lake Shore. This car was called Woodruff Patent but was very unpopular on ac- count of the two upper shelves, as they were actually only shelves for people to sleep on. MT. Pullman, after using the two old coaches year or more, com menced the building of a new car. which was a very fine enc. The construction of this car was in charge of MT. Field. At that time Mr. Pullman was in the mining business near Black Hawk. Col, and had not seen the car until he was at Alton, coming home from Colorado. I showed him the good points about the car and I remember well what he said Tt ought to be good-it cost enough. - Kansas City Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
GENERAL REVISION
 OF COTTON TARIFF

New Orleans. July IA general revi- sion of the cotton tariff affecting ali points on the Illinois Central railroad from Memphis to New Orleans, was the subject of meeting here today of Pres ident W. B. Thompson of the. cotton exchange and rate officials of the rail road The conference is a result of a plan started by the cotto nexclfange of ficials to generally reduce cotton hand ling charges 8 with q view of making this city cheaper cotton exporting port, and the di9ertipg of shipments now going through Charleston, Savannah and Bruins wick billed from Memphis. The meeting was behind closed doors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
ALBANiANS READY FOR TURKS
GEMS FOUND IN CURSED HILLS
rRof1 THe iLtvsTa1Isp'
 1 oNbON MINIS

base of the barren hills Biting and stinging like the icy needles of a bliz- gard the sand travels in blinding sheets. obliterating all trails. filling unprotected water holes. spreading new hard sheet over the lifeless sand.
 Death and disappointment stalked on the trail of the men who located the Cal iforna gem mines The claim of the tournaline discoveries was jumped. The blood-red hyacinth was to take it's toll. Doc Wilson, one of the claims owners. twice felt the sweep of the black wings of death lowering over him. He was making his way slowly up the sheer face of the cliff. body pressed tightly against the perpendicular wall, when the stone upon which his feet rested gave way and crashed 300 feet down to thr bottom. leav- ing the man hanging by his fingers. that were buried in the crevasses of the nara rock, nothing but the syength of his grip between him and eternity. It seemed hours before his toes succeeded In locat- ing a narrow projection, and he lay as one dead when finally. with torn and bleeding fingers. he reached the crest Thereafter Wilson always chose the roundab bout trail to gain the peak.
 The second time Wilson wrestled with death for nigh on to two days before his vitality conquered Delay in the arrival of a burro load of fresh Nater induced him to quench his burning thirst with foul water strongly impregnated with alkali. Half an hour later he writhed on the ground in convulsions. and for 2f hours he lay without consciousness. Having given Wilson a taste of it's power. the desert, keeping close guard over it's treas ures, reached out its bony hand and play fully clutched the throat of a tenderfoot, a geologist of Leland Stanford univer- sity, who was studying the peculiar form ation of the Hyacinth mine. The desert played with him for only four hours, but at the end of that time it had the man of science on his knees, gazing horror struck into the hellish grave waiting to receive him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
NAME FACULTIES
 FOR HIGH SCHOOLS

Montgomery, July 7.-(Special.)-The principals of two county high sehoolz, and faculties, and assistant teachers of two other county high schools are the most recent additions to the education system of the state, as elected by the state high school commission today. The faculties elected are: Lawrence county high school, J. Melvin Crowel, principal; Earl M. Hodgson, Miss Sallie Samples and A. D. Roberts, assistants. Lamar county high school S. B.. Gibson, princi- pal; F. R. Harris and Miss Lola Eaton Bynum, assistants. Colbert county high school Miss Clara Young, assistant Cof- fee county, Miss Bessie Jenkins, assistant. The principals in the last two instances have already been named.
 The faculties of three counties are yet to be named: Washington, Wilcox and Jackson counties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
From the World Today.

From the World Today.
 Indian boys in the Valley of Mesa Grande, 40 miles to the east of San | Diego, for years had been playing with long reddish crystals resembling SIX | sided pencils in form, holding them against the light to watch them glow l like Burgundy wine. No one paid much
 attention to these sparkling crystals not even the two prospectors who To- cated a claim right over the place | whence came these translucent stones. | The prospectors were after lithia, the mineral that enters Into the compost | ton of medicinal water and tablets. | The crystals they pushed aside, intend | ing to inquire into their nature some othertime.
 But before that time came they were induced. by the ancient fable of the lost mine, to leave their claims for long prospecting trip into Mexico. When they returned their claims were jumped and in the possession of the jumpers The jumpers cared naught for lithia. They were after the spark
 ling, shimmering crystals, and they have, taken a fortune out of the hole since. The playthings of the red chill dren turned out to be tourmaline, the sacred stone of the Chinese, found
 hitherto only in Ceylon, a gem worth $b to S15\ a carat, a brilliant stone
 
 green of the olive and the deep sea to the opalescent pink and red of the afterglow.
 Repeated discoveries of precious stones, of tourmaline, of heart, of aquamarine and of kunzite drew hund- reds of prospectors into the hills and mountains that rise from sea level at | San Diego to a height of nearly 7O0o l feet 50 miles to the east, drove them along the tracks of the horde that'had passed through these hills in the early
 days hunting for gold. l Eons ago the breath of life departed
 out of this cursed land. Upon it's dead
 hull, nothing moves except the writhing,
 tortured air. the hot breath or nell tna, l rises from the burning rock in dancing, ouivering sheets as from the mouth or | a white glowing furnace. Hideausly par 1 ren like a burned out slas pile, are hilis l and plains. Even the bitter, persistent | sagebrush is lacking. Only here ana there. in a sheltered nook leafless,
 spiny. missshapen thing defies hostile 1 nature A crust of alkali mixed with 1 clav formed after the infrequent cloud bursts and baked hard by the broiling sun. covers the plain. At every step 1t | breaks like crusted snow, it's edges cut tins footgear and skin into strips. Be- l vond this crust lies the region of broken l nebbles with edges sharp a million | knives. that finish the work begun by | the alkali crust.
 1 Sometimes silence so intense lies oyer | this desolation that the wanderer seems to hear the pounding of the fearful rays lhuryed by the sun upon the unshaded rocks. Often the wind howls, sings an exultant dirge; hot wind that screams around the crags, that sets in motion the 1 mountains of loose sand piled 50 or 60 l feet deep upon the floor of the desert.
 heaped to height of 200 feet against the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
Literary Folk and Marriage m, ssrTba potpf of UiaNu ', tr T,,

Y ioHi ihC Oiit OL Ni0Wy III oulS Scribner.
 Andrew Lang says that the reason lit erary characters are often unhappy in marriage is that theirs is q home indus try and they and their wives see too much of each other The Carlyles rise to the front as rueful instance: the
 Grotes more humorously. 'I like Mir.
 Grote," exclaimed Sydney Smith; ''he' $ so ladylike and I like her, she's such a perfect gentleman Jenny Lind compared the historian to a fine old bust in a cor ner which one longed to dust And" commented Hare, Mrs. Grote dusted
 him!"
 More aggressive in defense was the Rev. R. c. Maturin who, when in the throes of composition, would be seen with a |-red wafer stuck on his forehead, a sign to his wife and numerous family that he was not to be spoken to. That the home industry is not, however, the sole cause of conjugal ennui is suggested by the famous letter of the French wife: ."I | am writing to you because l do not know
 what to do, and I am ending my letter
 because I do not know what to say"
 The traffic in kind speeches and occa- sional sips from the chalice prepared for
 other lips are potent factors in the pleas aTness of married life. When Harm Jan EIudekoper and His wife added up the
 same, column of figures to see if the re-
 suits corresponded and they would some times differ, he would always say, Dear. l must have made a mstalse.' Less tact
 was shown by the autograph collector who, perceiving that the house was on fire scrambled out of bed crying to his wife, You save the children and I will
 save the autographs Obviously, if an Important thing is to be done one should do it ones self.
 Wordsworth on one occasion, when talking to his wife referred to a time
 when as you know, l was better look ing. "Bnt, my dear replied she, you
 Were always very ugly"
 Lady Dacre on her S3d hirthday wrote to her granddaughter: "I do assure you that if l had been lovely young bride striking 19, more affectionate and grat- | flying speeches could not have flown from
 my. bridegroom's lips of 23. I am so llt- tie worthy of it. It belongs to his nature: I have nothing to do with it'; delightful | instance of the dormant qualities which come out in elemental partnerships
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
MAY EVEN TAX
 INSURANCE POLICIES

Montgomery, July 7.-(SpeciaL)- Every life insurance, policy in Alabama which has cash surrender value may be taxed as taxable property" if, a movement now on foot issues as ex- pected at the capitol. The theory is that such policies are solvent credits, ana that they are entitled to the same con sideration as Is shown other solvent credits in the commonwealth The gov ernor has a solvent credit list in his possession at this time and is expect ed to issue a statement relative to the articles included at an early moment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
The Summer Toast
tho Now yorls S,Ir

From the New Y YOrk sun. II
 In all her business life the bit of work she is now completing has been most pleasant, says the free lance stenographer.
 T have been typewriting toasts on paper naqkins," she said. "A society of club women who have planned to do a lot of outdoor entertaining this sum mer expect to use thousands of paper napkins and l have had the job Of typewriting toast on each napkin IL is a pretty idea. and I tried to meet the charming sentiment of the ladies half way by using a good non -copyink ink, but in spite of that precaution l am afraid that many guest will leave the lunch table with a purple ink smudgs on her face"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
Handle the Gears Properly
From the July Outing.

Look out! Throw into second you'll stall your motor She can never make this hill on the high.
 The man who Is learning to drive a car will hear this warning a dozen times before he realizes that there is a certain relation between the gears and the proportionate speed of the motor and rear wheels. Finally he un- derstands that shift in the gears is the best relief afforded to panting and overworked motor and begins to attach to the gear changing lever it's proper importance. The mastry of the gears and gear shifting represents the graduation from novice to adept. and the proper use of the pedals or side lever at the right time has more to do with the long life of the motor and car than has the conscientious purchase of exactly the proper grade of gasoline.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
PETAL INVITES
 ATTORNEYS GENERAL

torneys General of the United States
 H. be invited to convene next year
 this city. Attorney. General BrickelI bf this city is cooperating with the Business Mems league of Montgomery Fwith this end in view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
NATIONAL SANE
 FOURTH PROPOSED

Cleveland, July "A movement was started here today by Chairman II. !.. Britton and Secretary D. L. Nook of the lGDDeveland 1ndependence Day association " bsure the cooperation of the "sane kh'' associations of all cities Of the
 "a States in the formation of 8 na-
 Independence Day associ ation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
HE!NRr MENIER

Paris society learned few days ago with engagement the engagement of Mons. Henri Menier to Mile. Thyra Seillere, daughter of Baron Raymond Seilliere, as Mons. Menier was looked upon as adamant to feminine attractions.
 He-is a great yachtsman, fried of the Kaiser and dilgent worker supervising his immense interests in the Menier chocolate works, celebrated throughout Enrone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
PARDON ASKED FOR
 CANADIAN WOMAN
Monster Petitions Sent to Save the Life of Mrs.
 NapOlitano

Chicago. July 7.-Some of tine rlost prominent women of Chicago have taken up the cause of Mrs Angelina Napoitano, who is under sentence of death for the murder of her husband a sanlt Ste. Marie, Canada.
 The date for the execution is set for August 12. Unless the calculations Of the prison <>3ysicians are wrong AususS + will fall within two weeks after Mrs. Napolitano has become a mother.
 Their campaign takes the form Of an appeal to every woman in Chicago to write letter to Sir Allyn Aylsworra minister of justice of Canada. urging him to grant Mrs Napolitano respite until a month or six weeks after the clild IS born.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
Chauncey Parks Appointed

Montgomery, July .-(Special)-Chau cey Sparks of Eufaula has been honored by Gov Emnet sO'Neal by being ap- pointed to he judge of the inferior court of Eufaula, m {.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
Fair Enough

From the Boston Globe.
 Now. Johnny, how good will yVi be R give you a quarter?''
 About quarters worth, 1 guess"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08

Little Rock, Ark, July 7.-The AIkansas Democrat. today mailed to the governor general of Canada a petition bearing the names of 21,011. Little Rock persons ask ing for the pardon of Mrs. Angelina Ma politano. Gov. G. w. Donaghey headed the DetitiOn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08

New Orleans, July 7.-Headsd by Mayor Behrmann and signed by all ,he city and parish officials, petitions, estimated to contain between 5O,000 and 100000 namesn of New Orleans residents, will be for warded on July 15 to Earl Gray, gov ernor general of Canada, asking that Mrs. Angelina Napolitano, under sentence of death for the murder of her husband, be pardoned. Some of the petitions re- cite that the woman killed her husbanc rather than accede to his immoral de- mands to assist in earning a liviihood for the family.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-05-04
LUMBER CUT HAMPERED
Plan Under Way to Make curtaiI.
msnt General in Northwest.

ment General In Northwest.
Tacoma.-In view Of the present
slack condition of the lumber market
and the heavy discounts from the list
being quoted by some millmen in or
der to get business. a general curtail-
ment OF output In the Northwest is
contemplated. Millmen report the
rail trade demoralized and the stand
ard list Is widely ignored.
The Pacific Coast Lumber Manu-
facturers' Association, at its monthly
meeting here. authorized President
Griggs to appoint a committee of IL
manufacturers. two from each of the
lumber-producing centers in the asso-
citation, to consider ways and means
OF getting the millmen together. so
that curtailment OF the output will be
general until market conditions i'm
prove. or else to agree to stand by
the list and cease quoting at heavy
discounts.
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CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH.

CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH.
Rev. p. j. Hoekenga, Pastor. TEL 1912
Sunday services $3.50 A. NJ. and 300
PM.
Sunday School 3:15 P. M.
Catechumen Glasses in the Chapel:
Senior Glass, Tuesday F. M. and
s p. M.
Junior Glasses: Glass I, Saturday
1870 P. M.
Glass II, Saturday 2:15 P. M.
Glass Ill, Saturday 1880 p. NJ.
Junior Glasses in Delta Chapel Sat-
urday 9 A. M.
Young Peoples Society, Thursday
8 p. M.
Ladies Aid, Wednesday p. M. BIZ
weekly.
Sunday School teachers meeting, Fri
dav p. M.
Consistory meeting in first week of
every month.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
sunday School. 10 A. M; Public
worship. II A. M. and s P. NJ.
:Epwerth League Pm:
Prayer Meeting, 1880 p. NJ, Wednes-
day; Glass Meeting. Sr. Class, II N.
Sunday; Choir practice, Thursday,
1850 +. M; Official Board meeting,
LIST. Monday in month. 1880 P. NJ.
Seeking the kingdom; mans in
neritence in the earth, mans in
heritence in heaven.
evening. Evangalistic services in
the evening.
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To Vote at Tacoma Recall.

Tacoma.-The registration books
for the special recall election for
Mayor A. V. Fawcett, April 4, closed
1t midnight March ~. showing q total
Of 23,63O names.
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who have been exposed to smallpox
need be vaccinated. For a sw days
no one could even buy a dcket to
Alaska unless he had been recently
vaccinated and 1000 persons we're
obliged to undergo the opention.
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THE REFORMED CHURCH.
in America.

Preaching services every Sabbath
at 1880 p. M. in the Holland lam
gauge and at 500 nj English. You
are cordially invited to attend these
services.
Catechatical classes on Saturday at
1:30 p. M. for the small and at 2:15
for the older children.
J. G. Brouwer, Pastor.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-05-04

Captain Of iroquoIs Arrested.
Victoria. B. C.-Captain A. A. Sears.
master Of the steamer Iroquois, which
fouodered off Sidney last Monday
with loss of 81 lives, was arrested
on a charge of granddaughter.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-05-04
BAPTIST CHURCH.

Sunday services: Sunday school at
10 to IL; preaching II to IL in the
morning. Evening service 1880 to $3.50
Mid-week Bible study, Wednesday
afternoon from 2:30 to $3.50. Every
body Is welcome.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-05-04
LODGE DIRECTORY
MODERN WOODMEN

Meet every End and 4th Saturday
of each month. The big ak on Third
Street will lead you to the place. Wis.,
isiting Neighbors cordially invited.
J. w. Edwards, Consul.
r. E. Hawley, Clerk.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-05-04

TUX SALE-1 span Of colts. yearl-
ing and two year old. full brother
ana sister. sired BY Black Prince
wen matched. 1 saddle pony. i
gGeiding. light mule. Farmers
fnone 7OS. Roy E. Clark. 4-2o-tf
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LINDEN LODGE NO. Sc F. & A. NJ.
Meets End. and 4th. Thursdays OF
each month in Masonic Hall.
Geo. A. Palmer, w. M.
d. w. Bender, Secy.
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LYNDEN CHAPTER NO. IL o. E. S.
Meets LIST and 3rd. Thursdays of
each month in Masonic Hall.
Zuba M. Bixby, Worthy Matron
V. f. Randall, Secy.
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FOR SALE-A 2-year old horse
colt, sired by Black Prince, weight
about HOO. Henry Egley, North
wood. 2-p.
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fOk SALE-Gray's Anatomy and
rosters Physiology.-both stand
ara medical school books. Mrs.
=. c. Smallfield. Aoo-t,
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FOR SALE span ponies harness
and top buggy. l two-seated surry
and 1 open buggy. rubber tire, good
q as new. / new single harness.
Geo. Bostwick, Phon main 70. 5-4tf.
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NOOKSACK VALLEY ENCAMPMEN,
NO. 56 /. O. o. +.
Meets every list. and Bird. Wednes-
days in there hall.
w. r. Steinhauer, c. P.
H. s. Steinhauer, Serb.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-05-04

1900 new rugs in for the May sale, in
every size, color, and kind, at at
tractive prices and on liberal terms
A fancy 8 X II mating rug free,
with each large rug sold. Ring
up Farmers b 424. Waldron's Store
Elk street Bellingham.
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rAoilDio, new bit" cigar. and
1t Is good. City Drug Store
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HARMONY REBEkAH LODGE NO.
So l. o. 0. +.
Meets every 1st. and 3rd. Saturday
evenings of each month in l. o. o. +.
Hall.
Anna Andersen, Noble Grand
Janey E. Palmer, Secy.