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O. Y. DOZIER, M. D.,
Specialist.
BYRON DOZIER, M. D.,
Specialist.
We Cure When Other Doctors Fail.
We Effect Cures Hore Quickly than
Other doctors.
AND WHY?
They Rely Solely on Pencil and Pre=
scription Pad. WE DO NOT but
Tn the treatment of our patients we furnish all medicines and give to
them, without, extra charge, the benefits to be derived from X-Rays, Vio
let, Rays, Super-heated Dry Air Baths, Ruby and Blue Light Baths, Electric
Light Baths, Steam and Medicated Vapor Baths, Medicated Nebulized In
halations, Medicated Steam Vapor Inhalations, Electric Massage, Electro
Vibration, and every other medium of modem science for making a cure.
Thus we give to each and every patient more opportunities of get
ting cured than they can obtain at the hands of any other doctors south of
the Ohio river.
We have more diplomas from medical colleges, post graduate schools
and other certificates and testimonials of professional skill, and also have
more medicines, more instruments, more electrical devices, and a greater
aggregation of all manner of therapeutic apparatus than is possessed by
any other medical institute in the Southern States, and by reason of our
superior facilities and greater experience In the treatment of chronic dis
eases, we are enabled to effect cures with more certainty in less time and
with less expense than is possible by other physicians with less favorable
preparation.
We make no charge whatever for examinations, consultations and ad
vice.
We positively cure Rheumatism, Scrofula, Sciataca, Cancer, Catarrh,
Dropsy, Diabetes, Syphilis, Stricture, Prostatitis, Variocele, Female Dis
eases and all forms of Genito-Urinary troubles of both men and women.
We will give a written guarantee to cure specific Blood Poison or any
ether form of veneral disease, or to refund every cent paid us in case of
our failure to effect a cure.
Office hours: 8 a. m. till 6 p. m. Sundays: 8 a. m. till 1 p. m.
Treatment by Mail: Those who suffer from any form of Chronic Dis
ease or Nervous, Blood, Skin, Rectal or Genito-Urinary trouble of whatever
character, are invited to write to us and get our book and question list
free. We can cure many patients who cannot visit us in person by our im
proved method of treatment by mall.
Peoples’ Phone 1876.
DRS. DOZIER & DOZIER,
2027^ FIRST AVE., BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
HAUNTED TUNNEL.
Where Trainmen Hear Agonized
Groans and Strange Noises.
Washington Cor. in Baltimore Sun.
Persons living along the line of the
Clinch valley extension pf tho Norfolk
and Western railway, in Southwest Vir
ginia and across the line in Kentucky,
are wrought up over manifestations in
Big Bull tunnel, which is in Virginia, but
not far from the Kentucky border. Ac
cording to a reliable Virginian in Wash
ington, who has recently visited that sec
tion, Norfolk and Western trainmen have
recently witnessed or heard ghostly
demonstrations. Persons living in the
neighborhood of the tunnel have for years
asserted that it w’as “haunted.”
About two weeks ago a train orew made
a careful Investigation of the tunnel, and
all of them, including Conductor R. H.
Gallaway and Engineer Rube Kerns, are
satisfied that there is some sort of occu
pant of the tunnel—and they call it a
ghost. Within the last two years tho
railroad men have heard a great deal
from residents near the tunnel cooncern
ing strange sounds, hair-raising noises,
proceeding from tho tunnel, but the gos
sip caused little attention.
On the afternoon of July 17 a freight
train in charge of Conductor Gallaway
and Engineer Kerns stopped just as the
rear caboose cleared the tunnel. John
Peery of Tazewell county, the flagman,
hastened back into the tunnel to pro
tect the train from collision.
Peery did not stay in the hole long, and
when he reached the train at the en
trance he declared he had “heard sounds
In there which no human being could
stand.” He had the appearance of a
man badly scared, and Gallaway and
Kearns returned into the tunnel with him.
When they reached the point where Peery
said he had heard the sounds that had
“rattled” him the trio stopped.
According to all three of them they did
not have to wait long to hear. The men
say they never heard such groans as
proceeded from the side of the tunnel,
which is bricked. The voice, they say,
was that of a man in anguish. The men
felt chills coursing each other down their
spines. Finally Captall Gallaway de
manded :
“What do you wrant?”
“Remove the awful weight from my
body,” said the voice, which seemed to
come from the solid wall of brick. It was
a minute before the men could whisper a
word to each other. Then the voice
cried:
“They are drinking my blood.”
The trainmen could stand It no longer
and hurried back to their train, after ex
amining the walls of the tunnel, because
the thought also came to them that some
wag had found a hiding place and was
playing a practical joke. There was not a
break in the brick which lined the sides
and the top of the tunnel.
Three men have lost their lives in this
tunnel. Captain Jud Hall, who assisted
In arching the tunnel about two years
ago, maintains that it is "haunted,” or at
least that sounds may bo heard In the
tunnel which are not susceptible of ex
planation. A number of trainmen are
making arrangements to Investigate the
story further. The story that the three
trainmen relate is generally credited.
All Over.
From the Columbus Dispatch.
"No more will I hear his footsteps on
yonder walk just as the .clock strikes tho
hour of 8.”
“Gracious, Jeanette!”
“And the old parlor light will never
burn low for him again.”
"You don’t mean it?”
"1 do, and furthermore he will never
sit on this sofa three nights a week and
call on this sofa three nights a week and
•call me pet names as he has been doing
for two years."
"1 am astonished.”
"And tonight I am going to burn all
the old love letters In my trunk.”
"B—but why are you going to discard
him?”
"Discard him? Why, you goose, I am
going to marry him!”
-.—.
Won’t Blow Over.
From the New York Evening Post.
The great thing Is that legal machinery
t is at last to be set in motion. We are
not to let all this (Equitable corruption)
blow over with our criminal American
good nature. Somebody is to be arraign
ed. Somebody, we hope, is to be made
to smart. Unless our state and county
prosecuting officers are able to bring
some of these rich swindlers to justice,
we shall have to transpose the nots in
(he definition of the law so as to make It
read: "The very least not feeling her
rare, and the greatest exempted from
her power.”
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ONEGASBURNER.
ELECTRIC CURLING IRON, NEAT, QUICK AND
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ELECTROTHERM OR
WARMING PAN
for invalids or cold weather.
B’HAM RY., LT, & PR. CO.
Phone No. 5, on Exchange 18.
'JEFFRIES in
IH RENO, NEVADA
The Champion is Looked Upon
With Awe
TRIES HIS HAND GAMBLING
His Friends Say Big Fellow’s Wealth
Will Not Last Long and He
Will Soon Be Back
In the Ring.
San Francisco.—SInee the finish fight at
Reno, Nev., between Jack Root and
Marvin Hart there has been much gos
sip about Kx^Ohampion Jeffries and the |
possibility of his return to the ring in
the hear future. Jeff himself says that
this day will be very remote. In fact he
gives the impression that with his mine
and his ranch near Los Angeles he has
enough enterprises to keep him active;
but many of his friends believe he will
not be content with this humdrum busi
ness life, after tasting of the pleasures
of the semi-theatrical existence of his
last year as a public character.
Besides, they say that though Jeff has
npne of the ordinary vices of the prize
fighter, yet he has a passion for gamb
ling, which, if indulged as he has in
dulged it recently, will cut a hole In a
very much larger fortune that he has
Laid aside. These persons point to ids
bucking the skin crap games in Reno and
to his losses in stud poker in Los Angeles.
Jeff went up to Reno after he had re
ceived a check for $1000 for his services
as referee. He hirpd a suit of six rooms
in the best hotel and he practically kept
open house for his friends for three days.
Any big sport who failed to get a good
room was invited by Jeff to make his
headquarters with him, and he soon had
his suit as full as it would hold. He must
have, blown in half the amount of his
referee’s fee at this hotel and in setting
up drinks for his admirers.
Regarded Him With Awe.
It was amusing to see the awe with
which the cowboys and miners of the
sagebrush districts regarded Jeff. They
crowded around the big windows in the
hotel through which they could get a
glimpse of the exchampion, until the pro
prietor came in and begged Jeffries to go
upstairs to another room or to go out on
the veranda and let the crowd see him,
as he feared the mob would break in his
windows. Whenever Jeff appeared on the
streets he was fairly mobbed. One old
fellow, with a ’49 beard, insisted on shak
ing hands with Jeff, and when the cham
pion good naturedly squr^zed his paw un
til the aged oltizei> winced with pain the .
veteran cackled out:
"Well, I’m in $10. My pard bet me I
wouldn't have the nerve to ask you for a
shake!"
Jeff had given notice that he would
compel Hart and Root to break at the
word, but after a few rounds Jeff had to
get In and break the men. and he did
longshoreman's work from that time on
and certainly earned a part of his fee.
Jeff didn't return to the city with the
gangt but suld he wanted to see some
thing of Reno. Well, he saw it, if Bat
tling Nelson and others who remained be
hind are to be believed.
Reno is about the toughest of the wide
open towns In the far west. Everything
goes In the way of games and dives and
saloons six clays in the week. On the
seventh the town is shut tight as a drum
as far as gambling is concerned, all
tables being piled in the corner. Even
the sheriff frowns on any levity on the
seventh day. The newspaper men who
went up to Reno from this city to see
the fight had a taste of the Sabbatarian
regulations of this wild and woolly town.
Two of them with a photogrpher went
down on Sunday morning to get some
pictures and material for description at
Marvin Hart’s headquarters. The pho
tographer had Marvin come out in front
of his gym and pose for a picture in fight
ing rig. As the artist finished taking a
good series of photos, up came the sheriff
with a big gun slung to his belt on each
side. He was greatly excited and asked:
"What are you fellows doing here?
Don’t you know It’s Sunday?" Hart had
gone into his quarters, but the sheriff
continued: "You ought to 1<now better
than to let a nearly naked man pose in
the street. Suppose some ladies had
passed on the wray to church!"
Placated Sheriff’s Wrath.
The reporters placated his wrath with
a big cigar und calmly advised him to go
in and make his kick to the big Ken
tuckian. He didn’t go, but had business
up the street.
It's a singular contradiction that any
one may float in booze in Reno on Sun
day, but he must not play a card or twirl
a roulette wheel or throw' craps. It is a
Nevada state law, and it is enforced with
a rigor that is unknowm in less primi
tiv districts. •
Reno has a very nnely nttea up gamb
ling joint on the main street, which keeps
open day and night. It was in this place
that Jeff Is said to have become enamor
ed of the game of craps, and to have
stayed with the southern diversion until
he had given off markers for $f»i00. Jeff
denies that he blew In so much money,
but Battling Nelson says that It Is a fact
that his friends tried to get him to break
away when *hey found that the game
was crook £ but that Jeff refused.
When the i, fellow returned to this
city his friends advised him to let the
markers lie in Reno, as ho was not
obliged to pay money to men who run
a crooked game; btit the chances aro
that Jeff will pay up. as he fears that he
will he accused of pleading the baby act.
Since the story of this escapade came
out it Is said by persons who have fol
lowed Jeff's course lately that he has lost
very heavily in gambling, blowing in
$3700 at stud poker in Bos Angeles. Jeff
is not a clever card player, but he is
very mulish and ugly when he starts in
to play and loses, and he always sure
to stay with a game in the vain hope of
recouping his losses.
As Jeff spends money very liberally on
himself and his wife, his savings will not
last long should he carry on gambling as
a diversion. Unless his mine proves to be
uncommonly rich JefT may be expected to
drift back into the ring in a few months,
about the time when Marvin Hart or
Jim McCormick gets ready to meet a
’champ.
WHEN IN NEW YORK STOP AT
Gregorian hotel, Thirty-fifth street, near
Fifth avenue. Refined patronage solicited.
Bend for booklet. 2-19-S0t-su-tu-th
See the great values. $18
and $20 hand made suits for
$12.50. Varley & Baumai,
1924 First Ava.
CHEAP SUNDAY EXCUR
SIONS.
Oely $1-25 reund trip to
Ohatohle Ingram Wells, en
the Seaboard. Cool breeses,
the finest Lithia water, mag
nificent bathing. Leave 6.20
a. m.; arrive heme 9.25 p. m.
Spend entire day at this
charming resort
fthe Paper’s Not The Only Place
A Towel
Special
24x48 Unbleached
Turkish Bath Towels,
Extra Heavy, 20c value
for a Special iCp
Drive Monday..*"'*
Notion
Specia.1
Clear cut and polish
ed Pearl Buttons in
four sizes, Ca
Special Dozen...
Star Alpaca Braid in
all Colors and Black or
White, 5 yard |f|f%
Rolls.
Eight inch all nickle
plated scissors, Special
25c Shear 15c
Ladies Military Hose
Supporters; colors and
white. Regular price
25c, Special 18c
Baby Bonnets
Little white mull
bonnets trimmed with
embroidery or lace.
Made with full ruffle
around face.
Bonnets slightly
soiled in showing.
Bonnets ranging in
price from 50c to $2.00
all one lot ORa
Monday.fcUU
50c H&ad Bags
OYie lot of hand bags in
blue, green, grey, red and
black. 1.00 and 1.50 hand
bags. All one lot at-.50c
Fancy Ribbon 25c
Dolly Varden Taffetas
four and a half inches wide
Regular 40c and 50c rib
bons. Monday at f...25c
Kayser Gloves
Black or white silk at
50c 75c and.1,00
Mode and Champagne
at.75c
Blck or white lisle thread
at.50c
The name Kayser on the
he m is a guarantee ofquality
—the patent finger tip and
the long wearing.
To Find Ba.rga.ins..,.
A word in passing about advertising, the greatest bargains are
not always in the paper. Take this advertisement for example. A
score of specials are set down, but you cannot gain the real business
of this store for the coming week by it any more than you could
judge the merits of a book by reading the preface and the last chapter.
Here’s an outline—set down perhaps are just the things you
want—perhaps not, but on the other hand, not included by the ad
vertising, are things you’d make an early trip rather than miss. In
other words, it would be a rare case indeed when a shopper could go
through from department to department and not find a bargain that
exactly fitted both want and the pocketbook.
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For Still More Dainty Summer Frocks
New arrivals in lawn—a profusion of
daintiness and novelness in colors. The
first arrivals in Spring couldn’t have
brought with them more charm at
double the price. Monday they Iflp
A. F. C. Ginghams, regular 10 and
12 l-2c in other stores, for Mon- Op
day and Monday only, special-Ow
Monday morning special. Every yard
of colored lawn in our house (all this
season’s goods) that sold for less than
10c yard, will be put on sale Monday
morning for the Q3p
15c solid color Tissues, as yet an as
sortment of colors to choose Iflp
from, Monday.IIIU
White Goods Specials
12 l-2c quality of sheer white India
Linen Lawn, Iflp
Monday special.IUU
Wash Skirts
Wash Skirts in natural colored linen, deep
pointed yoke, full plaits, extending from Q C fl
yoke to flare; regular 54.00 skirts for-Ziwll
Wash Skirts in blue or black knickerbocker,
braid trimming, full flared skirt; regular I On
52.00 Skirt for.IiZJ
Natural colored linen Skirts, designed | 7C
in folds with white piping.I« | 0
Duck Skirts in black, blue or black and | flfl
blue with white polka dots, extra full flare.. LUll
STEELE-SMITH,
10c quality of Check Dimity in small
checks, Op
Monday.Ow
12 l-2c and 15c Curtain Swiss in as
sorted sizes, dots and floral de- 111 ft
signs, Monday.IUU
Linen Specials
72 in. bleached Irish Table Damask in
floral designs, extra good value, well
worth 65c, Rdf*
Monday special.UUw
36 in. Dress Linen for ladies’ shirt
waists and shirt waist suits. This is a
beautiful quality of smooth finish linen,
50c value, /[flft
Monday.■# Uu
10 1-4 Linen Sheeting, full 90 in.,
round thread and easy to draw, equal
to any $1.50 quality, fl OC
Monday special.
Silk Specials
Best quality Silk Wash Cords, not old shelf
worn stock, but new and exclusive patterns in
this again very popular summer silk, ideal for
waists, house dresses and kimonos Every
yard is worth 50c. QRp
$1.25 quality Embroidered Pongee, natural
grounds with dots of green, navy, red or brown;
27 inches wide, takes very little for a waist;
washes and wears like linen. 7Ca
For one day at.I dll
36 inch White Washable Silk; regular 7C«
$1.00 quality. Monday at.I dll
1923 2nd Ave.
JAPAN AS SHE REALLY IS.
Imitates American Culture Without
Understanding It.
Yone Noguchi, the celebrated young
Japanese poet who for ten years resided
in America and England, has lately re
turned to Japan to lecture on American
literature in a Japanese university. Writ
ing from Tokio, he contributes to the
National Magazine for August a scathing
indictment of literary and educational
conditions in his own country. In part
he says:
•'Our Japanese writers are working un
der the most unfortunate conditions. They
are not given a proper reading public as
in America—or the 'western sea,' as we
say In Japan. Strange to say, in spite of
the wide Bproad report of the enlightened
civilization of tlie Meija Era, the trutii is
that not until lately is the general public
beginning to recognize that culture, the
feeding one’s thoughts nobly, or the un
derstanding what is human kind,' is
gained only through literature.
''Since the restoration (1867) Japan was
put In a forge of change—the most sud
den and tremendous revolution ever
known in the history of the worid-whose
tumult has not yet subsided. Spiritual
peace is not yet attained. The builders
of modern Japan, having been born in
the disturbance of the destruction of the
Tokugawa feudalism, did not get the per
fect samurai education of gentleman s
education of those days. They came to
America instead. They saw and were
astounded at the material civilization of
telegraphs, steamers and machinery.
“The real American culture they did not
have time to fathom; the spiritual civili
zation was a closed book. Only a few of
them acquired superficial knowledge of
Christianity, ‘swallowed it/ as we say col
loquially. They hud neither the best of
their ancestors’ culture nor could they
grasp completely the best essence of
American civilization.
“Nevertheless, notwithstanding their
poor equipment, these people formed the
educational structure of Japan today, and
they belong to what are termed our tip
per classes. True literature they have
always regarded as an imbecility. They
are on speaking acquaintance with Shake
speare, Thackeray, Dickens and Hugo.
But they do not know that English liter
ature is bullded on the Greek or Roman.
They do not know any of the present
writers or poets of England or America,
and furthermore they know not one of
their own. but they denounce, without
the slightest investigation, the modern
Japanese literature as inferior.
“They have not read any of the best
literature of our Japan of the early age,
either; the books of Chikamatsu, of Sal
kaku, of Genji or Makurasoshl. And as
for the modern masters, the late Koyo
Oaakl, Roban Koda and Ichtyo Higuchi,
they never mention them.
“And the people under forty as a read
ing public? They also are a disappoint
ment. And the source of the whole evil
is in the flimsy education they have
gained and are gaining. Our modem edu
cation is far too hasty; our common high
•chool has too many courses of useless
study and lacks the most important one
for the nourishment of the human mind.
The students are then moved into the
higher middle school, where they ore
turned Into a specialty all at once and are
not given time for general knowledge or
for gaining cultivation worthy of a man.
Then they enter the university, and with
the exception of the students of the liter
ary department, all show a terrible gap
in human knowledge. As students of hu
I inanity, history and general culture they
i are poverty stricken. Their thoughts are
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not uplifting. Their ignorance of the
purest literature lowers their ideals—all
but obliterates them. They become the
most uninteresting persons. The children
of such fathers are bound to suffer. Ths
family will be a tasteless gathering.”
Passing of the Grandmother.
From the Philadelphia Press.
"It is because I was brought up so dif
ferently that I can never accustom myself
to accept co-education as a good thing
for women." said Mrs. JefTerson Davis
In a recent interview.
"A woman's charm is In her very elu
siveness, and the daily and familiar as
sociation which co-education brings about
between boys and girls is a serious draw
back to the advantages college gives. The
time will come when the equal advant
ages for both will make co-education
quite unnecessary.
‘‘Our grandmothers were quite ‘superior1
women. I think, for they were not rest
less, anxious, nervous, fretful women—
but, then, there are not grandmothers to
day. Those who fill the position today
are more learned than the grandmothers
of my time—they spell better, perhaps—
no," and Mrs. Davis paused.
“I don't believe they do spell so well,”
she added quickly, "for they were not
taught to syllabise. It Is only those who
went through r!a. be. bi. in the old blue
back speller who can thoroughly appre
ciate the power of letters. I do not think
the 'picture' method is a good way to
teach children to spell.
"A great deal Is taught mechanically
nowadays, and so much is given on which
brain froce is scattered that little is left
to learn any one thing perfectly and
well.”
dill Protected.
From the Columbus Dispatch.
The shade of Captain Kidd loomed up
from the sands where his undiscovered
gold was still burled.
"Talk about chest protectors.” he re
marked facetiously. ”1 think I should be
awarded the prize. My chest has been
protected for centuries and no one has
been able to claim it yet."
And drawing out several gold pieces he
replaced the cover and went up to one
of the beach hotels for a good time.