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BIRMINGHAM STATE HERALD
Entered at the postofflce at Birmingham,
Ai^^as^eecond-class^maUer^^^^^^^
Eastern Business Office, 48 Tribune Build
ing New York; Western Business Office, 609
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from any community. If at a small place
where it has no regular correspondent,
news reports of neighborhood happenings
from any friend will be gratefully received.
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ter or length, should be written on only one
side of the sheet.
TELEPHONE CAL.L.S.
Business Office.230
Editorial Rooms.231
All calls after 9 o'clock p. m. should be
sent to the Editorial Rooms.
The question of holding a constitu
tional convention is likely to come to the
front in Alabama pretty soon.
The water in both the Alabama and
Tombigbee livers has become so low as
to seriously interfere with the navigation
of steamboats upon those streams.
The number of men involved in the
strikes of the past seven years is placed
at 2.391,000 and the total loss from them
reached $35,000,000 for employes and $29,
000,000 for employers, exclusive of the
lockouts, which aggregate about $18,000,
000. '_
October 31 is the last day that prop
erty which has been sold to the state
may be redeemed or compromised "for by
paying five years’ taxes to the Judge of
probate. After this date the property is
to be regularly condemned for the taxes
and sold to the highest bidder, the state
giving a clear title to the purchaser at
tax sale.
If anybody doubts that iron went into
the soul of John Sherman when James A.
Garfield took the nomination from under
liim, let him get a list of the men he
turned out of office shortly after the con
vention and gave their political treach
ery to him as a reason for their decapi
tation. General Grant said to a friend at
that time: "There is one thing I l.ke
about John Sherman, and that is that
when he cuts a man's head off for having
betrayed him politically, he squarely tells
him the reason, instead of professing, as
President Hayes does, to be very sorry he
has to make the change.”
The Atlanta Constitution of yesterday
copies an editorial from the leading
northwestern republican paper, the Chi
cago Tribune, ridiculing Mr. Cleveland's
Speech at the exposition. Anything abu
sive of the democratic president goes
with the Constitution, no matter whence
the source.—Montgomery Advertiser.
The Montgomery Advertiser of last
Sunday copied an editorial from the
Greenville Living Truth, about the rank
est anti-democratic paper in Alabama,
excepting, possibly, the Advertiser, rid
iculing Captain Johnston. Anything
abusive of that leading democrat goes
with the Advertiser, no matter whence
Ihe source.
The Chicago Times-Herald has learned
that of forty-four state governors thirty
nine are avowed believers in religion.
Ten are Presbyterians, five Congregation
alists, five Episcopalian, four Methodist,
three Unitarians, one Baptist and one
Christian, while the remaining ten- say
they are simply Christians. Governor
Budd of California, In his reply, says
he has no religion, but he believes In the
observance of Sunday ns a day for rest.
Bis parents are not believers and he was
brought up as a free thinker. Governor
Oates of Alabama says he is not a mem
ber of any church, and lhat he never
Joined but twj Institutions—the Masonic
fraternity and the democratic party.
John P. Rockefeller Is going to build
ii genuine castle. It will be situated on
the Pocanttco hills and command a su
perb view of the Hudson. Built after
|Uie stylo of a renaissance chateau, it will
contain several hundred rooms. They
will make it eclipse Mrs. Anson Pholps
Stokrs' cottage at Lenox, with Its 100
lied chambers, and even Biltmore, Mr.
George Vanderbilt's baronial estate in
North Carolina, will be cast into the
shadow by his lordly palace The house
will be magnificently decorated and fur
nished, and when completed will un
doubtedly be the handsomest country es
tablishment In America, if not the most
elegant residence on this side of the At
lantic. __
The Paris tribunal held that the Ca
nadian sealers captured In Behring sea
had a right to be there, and that they
were entitled to damages for the seizure.
The sealers claim over $1,000,000, but this
was scaled down to $472,000 by an agree
ment between the late Secretary Gres
ham and Sir Julian Pnuncefote. Con
gress refused to ratify the agreement, it
being asserted by Senator Morgan in the
senate anil Representative Hitt In the
house that the amount was excessive.
The coming convention w ill seek to reach
a lair mode of adjustment. Under the
Paris award some sum must be paid by
the United States, so that the only ques
tion involved is how much that payment
shall be.
It is n« w only a few days over one
month until congress meets. The presi
dent, we are informed, is engaged In pre
paring his message. The document is ex
pert d to contain the president’s plan for
carrying out the pledges of the Chicago
platform wherein the free coinage of gold
nr.d silver was promised the people, as
well as an expansion of the circulating
30 dinm. In some quarters it is whis
pered that the president will recommend
tl calling in of the greenbacks and
treasury notes arid retiring them from
cl ; hit ion. issuing in their stead interest
b-vring bonds, and that he will also take
t) p. nit Ion that no more silver should
1 ined If these rumors be true the
pv.l !, • will be eager to learn by what
arithmetic the president figures out that
ti. way to expand the circulating me
dium is to, withdraw from circulation
0,000. They will ulso be anxious to
learn how the closing of the mints entire
ly against silver can be construed Into a
fulfillment of the pledge to coin gold and
silver free.
UTAH.
The republican party for thirty years
has pursued the Mormons as one of the
twin relies of barbarism, and yet we find,
now that 1'tah has an opportunity to
come Into the union as a state through
the friendly action of a democratic con
gress, that the Mormon hierarchy call
upon their church to defeat the dem
ocratic candidates, Messrs. Thatcher and
Roberts. Mormonism is evidently intent
upon making friends with the mammon
of unrighteousness. When Mr. Blaine
lost New York state and the presidency
in 1884 by that welcoming address of
Rev. Dr. Burchard, In which the cele
brated alliterator denounced “Rum, Ro
manism and Rebellion," the republican
papers were quick to explain that Mr.
Blaine did not hear the words distinctly
and thought that the reverend gentleman
said “Rum, Mormonism and Rebellion.”
They were afraid to denounce the Cath
olic church, but quick to denounce that
Mormonism which they had been char
acterising for thirty years as a barbar
ism yoked with Blavery. The alliteration
shows what Burchard said and what he
meant, and it was only after the indig
nation of the Catholics showed itself
that Mormonism was selected as a scape
goat. That small wit of Mr. Burchard
lost the presidency to Mr. Blaine. It
elected Mr. Cleveland and brought about
everything that has followed that elec
tion in the way of fastening upon the
country the peculiar ideas which have
marked tlje two administrations of the
president. From such small acorns grow
great oaks. But we are digressing from
the subject in hand.
The Mormoft church is now hand in
glove with the republican party, and that
party expects two senators from the Mor
mons to overthrow democratic power in
I he upper house. The Utah democrats
are very properly in a frame of mind
over the base ingratitude of the Latter
Day apostles, who are ordering their men
to vote the republican ticket. So much
so that the territoi lal convention, which
appears to be a democratic body, have
issued a declaration in the following
spirited language:
We, tnereture, in tne most solemn man
ner, say that we will not be dictated to,
inlerferred with or hindered in our po
litical duties by those selected to min
ister to us the consolation of gospel.
The people being sovereign in this free
land, to the people we make our appeal.
The church being the source of man's
religion, to the church we appeal when
we so desire, with regard to matters af
fecting the conscience.
We call upon the democrats of Utah,
men, women and children, and all other
people who sympathize with our efforts
to secure political freedom, to assemble
in every hamlet throughout the territory
on the evening of Wednesday, October 30,
1896, in their usual places of meeting,
then and there to read this declaration;
to listen to such remarks as may be prop
erly made in connection therewith, and
to solemnly consecrate themselves, their
efforts, their property and all that they
hold dear, if need be, to this cause of
human liberty.
And this cause, with the help of the
One who holds the universe in the hollow
of His hand, we will ever advance and
maintain
PHILOLOGICAL DISCOURSE.
That was a very entertaining letter
from Trofessor Mc-ek in Sunday's State
Herald as to the question whether It is
correct to say "The house is building."
rather than "The house is being built."
The Mobile Register sticks to the for
mer expression and the State Herald to
the latter. The professor shows that the
former was in use in old times, and that
the latter has been adopted in modern
times as conveying a more definite mean
ing. In old times the expression was
“The house is in building,” which later
was modified with “The house Is a-build
ing.” At present the preposition being
eliminated, it was necessary to use a
new form of expression, and so the lan
guage worked around to the form, “The
house is being built." The professor
says, quoting from the Century diction
ary:
“In modern use the preposition is omit
ted; as, the house is building. But none
of these forms of expression have become
thoroughly popular, the popular Instinct
being shown in recent development of
the desired ‘progressive passive parti
ciple;’ as. the house Is bring built. This
construction, though condemned by logi
cians and purists, is well established in
popular speech, and will probably pass
into current literary usage. Has not the
time come to change, in this sentence
from the Century, ‘will probably pass
into,’ to has passed into? The new dic
tionary of the Philological society cer
tainly so thinks.”
And the Philological society is right.
The people know what they want, and
they manufacture the language to suit.
Our forefathers used to say "He clomb
the tree," which, no doubt, the Tennessee
editors of the Register arc accustomed
to, when they say "He dumb the tree."
That may pass muster in Tennessee, but
in Virginia and here in Alabama we say
"He climbed the tree.” The psalmist
says "Learn me wisdom.” If a man were
to use that expression now he would be
set down as one who eats pie with a
knife or wears a stove-pipe hat with a
sack coat. The good men in King James’
time makes the gospel speak of “Going
up to Jerusalem for to worship.” That
might be tolerated in Tennessee, but not
in Mobile. This Is a progressive age, and
we modify our views as to language Just
as our politicians modify their views as
to currency.
The professor. In his letter, says, as
will be observed In the above quotation:
••But none of these forms of expression
has become thoroughly popular.” Now
in Tennessee they would say "None have
become." But when we understand that
the word "none” is in fact two words—
"no one"—we see that the professor was
correct in using the singular verb In
stead of the plural. The antiquated Reg
ister would no doubt relegate our Amer
ican language back to the days of Shake
speare, and even to those of Spencer, or
Chaucer, or Dryden; but If a reader of
poetry should give an audience a selec
tion from the “Fairy Queen," the small
boy in the gallery would very properly
exclaim, "What are you giving us?”
That same small boy would understand
what is meant when he is told that "the
railroad Is being run by a receiver,” but
when the Register informs him that "the
railroad is running by a receiver,” he
would naturally wish to know whether,
in going by, it ran over the receiver.
It is the small boy who Is building up
the American language, and the editor
and the professor had better catch on, or
they will get left.
TOLERANCE.
Under the above caption the Eutaw
Whig and Observer writes the following
timely editorial:
It is about time for our people to cease
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
ABSOLUTELY PURE
contending among themselves anil unite
tn their efforts to build up our material
as’well hs our political interests. Crim
ination and recrimination should cease.
It is an easy thing to write personal and
tantalising articles about those who may
differ with us, but this is not the way to
convince one of error and accomplish
good. There has been too much person
ality and feeling indulged In by some
democrats towards others who don't ful
ly agree with them on financial and oth
er matters of our national and state gov
ernments. We have for some time been
gently reminding some of our impulsive
and indiscreet editors and other writers
to tone down along this line, and we are
gratified to see many others throughout
the state adopting this course.
You may by intelligent, conservative
reasoning lead men, in your way of think
ing and acting, but you can’t drive them,
—that day has passed. On this subject
that cultivated, Christian gentleman and
unswerving democrat, (he editor of the
TcskegeS News, truthfully says: “To
abuse yoiir neighbor because he fails to
see Just as you do on political or reli
gious matters Is neither right nor is it
good manners. This is a free country, and
every man has a right to worship God
according to the dictates of his own con
science. and he has the right to use his
own mind In choosing his political affili
ations. And whil" vve do not blame men
for using all honorable methods to gain
men to their standards, yet we deprecate
the practice of newspapers and Individu
als who have no kind words for persons
who differ with them. Here we have the
paper hissing ‘gold bug' at his neighbor,
and back is flung the epithet ‘silver
icon.’ On the financial question, about
'which many prate loudly, and yet, in
truth, of which so little is known, our
neighbors are allowing themselves to be
divided, some saying-. 'I won’t support a
gold man if he is nominated,’ and others,
‘I won’t vote for a free silver man if he
is nominated.’
’’Fellow-countrymen, this is all but the
veriest nonsense. Let us remember that
the money issue is only one of the many
problems the solution of which now con
front the American people, and to divide
on one and fall to quarreling over that
undoubtedly means defeat so far as the
others are concerned. If the democrats
of Alabama would only exercise tolera
tion towards each other, standing to
gether on all the great principles of gov
ernment, agreeing to disagree on the
minor details as to what sort of a band,
cog or pulley shall be used in running
ihc machinery, then we would remain in
vincible against any enemy or combina
tion of enemies which might nrise. The
man and the paper whose influence goes
out to harmonise this great people^now
somewhat divided, will be the benefac
tors to our day and generation."
THE BUSINESS BAROMETER.
Iron is the business barometer. The
following table shows the growth In pro
duction since the recovery of the country
from the panic of 1893:
1894—
June 1.
July 1.
August 1_
September 1
!WSI .
1 Stt.T—
Ja-nuary 1..
March 1.
April 1.
May 1.
June 1.
July 1.
August 1.
September 1.
October 1_
Capacity
per week
of furnaces
in blast.
. 62,517
. 85,650
. 115,356
. 131.113
I uoqma^ojvi
. 1GS.4E4
.156,976
. 158,132
. 156,554
. 157,224
. 171,134
. 180,325
. 1 <14,029
. 201,414
From this table it appears that the fur
naces are turning out ns much iron as
they did in the height of their prosperity.
Indications are becoming stronger,
says the New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat,
every day that Governor Foster will have
practically no opposition In the nominat
ing convention when It assembles at
Shreveport on the ISth of December.
PRATTVILLE.
Rah for Prattville! First Passenger Train
Pulled Out October 28.
Prattville, Oct. 29.—(Special Corre
spondence.)—Mr. Bell Holly of Lowndes
boro, Ala., was In our city shaking hands
with friends last week.
Miss Lillian, daughter of Captain Ellis,
has been very sick for several days. We
regret to say she is no better this morn
ing.
’Rah! for Prattville! The first passen
ger train left Prattville October 28. The
trains will be run to connect with trains
on the main line for a short time, then
there will be through trains to Montgom
ery. Double dally trains to Tuspoka
(Prattville Junction) is the schedule tem
porarily.
Prattville is going to hum with im
provements for the next year.
New cotton mill, work to begin not
later than November 12; new dwellings
going up in our town, but the demand is
greater than the supply.
Mrs. Mims died last week at the home
of her son-in-law, MaJ. E. M. Davis, at
the ripe old age of 87 years. She was
among the oldest and best citizens of Au
tauga county.
Sunday morning while most of our cit
izens were yet sleeping a crew of twenty
five or more railroad hands forgot (?) it
was Sunday, and proateded to laying
track on our new railroad near the city
limits. It seems that the sound of ham
mer, etc., grated on the ears of our
church-going people, and Rev. J. B. Oum
ming and Mr. G. C. Spigener, the sheriff,
rrtode a formal call upon the said hands
and asked them to desist from further
work until Monday. Of course they quit
their work.
It is understood that H. E. Gipson,
Esq., will do a real estate business in
connection with his law practice.
Autauga county farmers are said to be
in better spirits than for several years
past. Plenty of home supplies, made
at-home, is supposed to be the basis of
their happiness.
OPELIKA.
Opelika Citizens Pleased With the State
Herald’s Mention of Her Progress.
Opelika, Oct. 29.—Circuit court corh
menced on the criminal docket today.
There are seventy cases to be tried, and
Judge Carmichael is endeavoring to dis
pose of all of them this week.
The piece on Opelika In yesterday’s
State Herald atracted much favorable
comment here. The piece was a clear
and comprehensive statement of the
many advantages Opelika possesses. The
State Herald is deservedly popular here.
* WARRIOR.
Work at the Coal Mines All Satisfactory.
Everything Harmonious.
Warrior, Oct. 29.—(Special Staff Corre
spondence.)—The condition at the coal
mines here, is satisfactory as far as the
operators are concerned. There are 125
men at work in the Pearson mines and
the coal output is satisfactory. The Moss
Mining company has about thirty-five
men at work, with promises from several
of the old men to go back in a day or two.
PENCILINGS.
A Fall Time Song.
Fall time in the country!
Ain’t it out of eight?
Hlck'rv nuts a-droppln’
An' fire’s blazzin’ bright!
’Taters in the ashes—
Apples on the shelf;
Pass aroun’ the cider
Till you hardly know yourself!
Fall time in the country!
Full o’ sweetest joys;
All the liddles playin'—
Swing your sweethearts, boys!
Spring has lots o’ pleasure
summer’s sweet to see,
But fall time in the country,
is the best o’ times to me!
—F. L.. S In, Atlanta Constitution.
U nrecons tr uctod.
I met him in Atlanta, whar I’d gone to see
the fair;
Fur folks had come from north and south to
meet together there;
I knowed him when I seed him, and his face
was plain to me;
Fur he had fit with Sherman, and 1 had
tramped with Lee.
The last time I had seen him was in battle’s
furious roar.
And I knowed I would remember him if I
seen him once, more;
For it was at Chiekamauga, where he shot
me in the knee; v
And lie was backin' Sherman up and I was
backin’ Lee.
It was in the midway that he tried to shake
my hand;
Where all the blue and gray were met as
one united land;
But I raised my crutch and smashed his
head and made him turn and flee,
For he was one of Sherman s men and I had
lit with Lee.
—Houston Post.
When burglary is the disease, an ounce
of buckshot is better than a pound of pen
itentiary.
Says the Atlanta Constitutions “If the
silver craze is really dead it ought to be
skinned and stuffed.
The bicycle is certainly an enemy of the
saloon. The man who is full of mixed
liquor cannot ride a wheel.
The Atlanta Constitution says there are
enough Indians In Buffalo Bill's show to
start another Seminole war.
The enemies of Senator Hill of New
York are burying him every day. Hill,
like the “silver craze," is proving a very
lively corpse.
The New Orleans States wants to know
now that the bicycle has supplanted the
horse, what is to become of the "dark
horse" in politics.
The populist party of Texas has decided
to stand square by the Omaha platform.
What’s the matter, anybody trying to
steal the planks?
White is to be the prevailing color at
the Vanderbilt-Marlborough wedding.
That $3,000,000 check will prevent the
bridegroom from looking blue.
The Galveston News says: “In the
course of time there will be a loom at
tached to every gin." Well, let 'er loom
up. We are In the cotton fields and can
stand it.
ALABAMA EDITORS,
Says the Marengo Democrat:
“Gold on the brain and poverty in the
pocket seems to be the disease that in
fests the average ring politician.”
Says the Hartseile Enquirer:
“A newspaper Is often more valuable
to a community by reason of what it re
fuses to publish than through what it
publishes, but many people fail to see
it that way.”
The Eufaula Times pays the following
high compliment to Miss Margaret
O'Brien:
"Miss O'Brien promises to begin soon
the publication of a society paper at Bir
mingham. Miss Margaret is one of the
most gifted of all our Alabama women.”
The Marengo Demorcrat thinks men
are forgetting principle:
“The question is being asked all over
the country what does it take to consti
tute a democrat, and what does it take
to constitute a republican? The reason
is that men are forgetting principle and
are looking for pie.”
Congressman Bankhead is making
speeches in Alabama. What for?—Gads
den Times-News.
Because he loaded for Dick Clarke, and
as the sea bird has flown will save his
ammunition by bagging smaller game.
Does the editor of the Times-News wish
to Join in the hunt?
Says the Gadsden Tribune:
Place a higher premium on farm prod
ucts, a lower premium on the manufac
tured articles, and there would be more
farmers. More farmers would utilize
more land. More utilized land means a
more thickly populated district. A more
thickly populated district means a great
er demand for manufactured articles.
More farmers to create more demand
means a prosperous country and a pros
perous town and a higher srder of civili
zation.
The Sheffield Standard contains the
following call:
All persons who believe In restoring
gold and silver to their constitutional po
sition, the equal privileges of the mint,
without discrimination in favor of either
■metal, at a ratio of 16 to 1—a system un
der which this country achieved a growth
and prosperity unequaled In the history
of the world—and who believe this can
best be done through the medium of the
democratic party, and who will co-oper
ate with It, are earnestly requested,
without regard to previous party affilia
tions, to meet at the court house In
Tuscumbia, on November 2 next, at 2
o'clock, p. m. ALEX JACKSON,
Member State Bimetallic Democratic
Committee from Colbert County.
The Mount Hope correspondent to the
Livingston News says:
I tried experimenting on corn planting
this year. I planted three acres the day
after the new moon. Then came a rain
and stopped me from planting. Then be
tween the full moon and last quarter I
planted two acres by the side of the three,
of the same kind of land. The difference
between the two plantings was very
great. That planted at the time of the
new moon grew very tall, the ears grow
ing very high up the stalk, and was
short, while that planted during full
moon was low and the ears large. I
shall plant corn, cotton and Irish no
.We are grateful to our friends
for their generous outpouring
at our opening yesterday, and hope no
one was slighted.
Fowlkes & Myatt.
tatoes during full moon if possible. In
planting produce of any kind I find it
best on full of the moon. I advise all
farmers to plant betwen the full and
new moon.
Because the Alabama editors were not
met at the depot with brass bands and
escorted to the Aragon or some other
equally fashionable hotel when they
visited Atlanta some few have seen fit
to charge Secretary Rountree as being
the cause. While th« State Herald
thinks that with the free advertising the
Alabama papers have given the exposi
tion the editors should have been met
with brass bands and welcomed In a dress
suit fitting speech, and that our Georgia
friends acted very unwisely, even If un
thoughtedly, In their treatment of Gov
ernor Oates and staff, yet the press sec
retary had nothing whatever to do with
it. Secretary Rountree was called home
from this city by a telegram announcing
the serious Illness of his wife the even
ing before the party left for Atlanta, and
therefore could not chaperone them
through the midway and other important
places of the exposition or see that they
had mock turtle soup, double-breasted
steak, medium rare, hot coffee, Boston
rclls, etc., and downy beds to sleep on
all for being an editor. And it should
not be forgotten that Asa carried the
boys to Chicago on Pullman sleepers and
showed them the White City In all Its
phases and pulled them out of the
clutches of the anti-A. P. A.s when they
v\ ore yellow badges, and all for less cost
possibly than some had to pay to see
the Atlanta exposition. Besides he car
ried them to Cuba and introduced them
to the rulers of that little island, and
they were treated in grand style and
dined from the beginning of the trip un
til their return home. Don't go back on
Asa. He would have hovered you as a
hen doth hover her brood this time If
sicknes had not prevented._
STATE NEWS.
Carrollton New3: The sweet potato
crop of Pickens Is very good.
Gadsden Times-News: It is stated by
those who ought to know that a large'
number of northwestern immigrants will
soon locate in and near Gadsden.
Gadsden Tlmes-News: The Coosa fur
nace lias been repainted and some needed
repairs made on same. It is to be hoped
that this plant will be put in operation
soon.
Carrollton News; Mr. Jim Wood, who
lives eight miles east of Columbus, had
the misfortune to have his dwelling house
and contents entirely destroyed by fire
about a week ago.
Bridgeport News: The streets of
Bridgeport looked like old times last Sat
urday. They were crowded with people
nearly all day. The merchants report a
first-rate trade.
Choctaw Alliance: Mr. W. H. Ford of
Pushmataha was in town last Thursday
and showed us a sample of wild grapes
taken from a vine growing on his place.
The grapes, it is strange to say, are seed
less, but are in every other way similar
to the common wild grape.
Bridgeport News: Dr. S. A. Steele left
for Chattanooga Friday to meet a com
mittee to decide the location of the Ep
worth league Chatauqua. Our excellent
mayor, Mr. Kilpatrick, learned of the
plan and ofTered $100,000 and any building
In Bridgeport to locate here. Dr. Steels
lias promised to return and look over the
ground.
Choctow Herald: The Choctaw saw
mill is a new enterprise recently started
in the northern end of the county. It is
owned and operated by gentlemen of
means from other states, and promises to
be a great acquisition to the business
circles of Choctaw when completed, as It
will give employment to quite a number
of hands.
Eufaula Times: As a general rule the
farmers, as all other classes, are in a
better financial condition than they have
been for several years. They have bought
lesB and made more supplies, and in addi
tion have gotten a better price for their
cotton, though it will take some time yet
for the effects of the financial panic to
pass away.
Anniston Hot Blast: None of Annis
ton's industries are prospering- more than
the Hercules Pipe works, under the able
management of Messrs. E. Ij. Tyler and
A. I.. Tyler, Jr. Since they assumed con
trol the force has been increased from
eighty to 200 men, or about as many as
can be worked in the shop until it is en
larged Orders from various cities In the
United States are being filled and the en
tire product is being disposed of as rap
idly as made.
Gadsden Times-News: Friday after
noon Robert Woodford and his widowed
mother arrived in Gadsden from Huron,
S. D. Robert had driven through the
country all the way and did not look any
the worse for wear. He is only a 16-year
old boy and intends to locate here. He
and his mother are quartered for the
present in West Gadsden .and next year
he intends to engage in farming. He in
formed a Times-News man that he would
try to get some draying to do in the city
first. Those who have any hauling to
bo done should encourage this worthy
young man. He is certainly a brave
young fellow to drive from Dakota to
Gadsden with no one but his mother.
Tuskegee Reporter: Hon. Gaston A.
Robbins was tendered a most delightful
entertainment In an Informal way on
Monday night at Mr. Thompson’s home.
Among those present were Col. W. F.
Foster, Miss I,ucy Gautier. J. R. Wood,
Miss Mamie Moore of Auburn, M. B. Ab
ercrombie, Miss Maggie Smith, Mr. Col
lette of Texas,Miss Ellen Holt, R.V. Dow
JIkU, Miss Susie Gautier, John H. Drake
ford, Miss Salile Mae Thompson, Gen C.
J Bryan, E. T Varner and E. M. Har
alson. Miss Moore is Auburn's nightin
gale and added greatly to the pleasure
of the evening by her charming singing.
It wras the verdict of all that she bad
one of the sweetest voices ever heard in
Tuskegee. Mr. Robbins is the esteemed
representative in congress of the shoe
string district and clmmukuu the aide of
When
Y ou
Want
tl'ie Best
Groceries
For tlie
Least Money,
Call on or
Send Your
Orders to
T. F. Thornton
Wholesale and Retail Groeer,
2003 2d Avenue, Birmingham
Has any and everything in stock from
a live chicken to a full grown beef, and
from a 5 cent sack of salt to a barrel of
flour. Just anything and the best. Prices
equal to the lowest for the same quality
of goods. 10-23-tf
the money question that our congress
man, Cobb, does.
Anniston Hot Blast: George Howard
of Duke's station, a young negro 23 or 24
years old, was instantly killed
by a train Just this side of Jacksonville
Friday afternoon. He had been to town
to see the circus parade and was on his
way back home by way of the Southern
railway and Jacksonville. When the en
gineer whistled for Jacksonville he went
out and got on the steps, leaning out just
as the bridge was reached. The frame
work struck him and threw him beneath
the train and the wheels and brake beams
rolled and dragged him entirely across
the track. When the train stopped the
negro was found to be fearfully mangled
and life was extinct. One of the wheels
had cut off the top of Howard’s head
Just above the eara as If it had been done
with a big ax.^.
Mr. Frank V. Evans will take a party
of young ladles tp Atlanta today, where
they will spend about a week "taking in”
the exposition. The young ladles who
will fprm the party are Misses Katie
Morrow, Laura and Lucy Hagood, Maud
Bankhead and Addle Evans. From At
lanta Misses Katie Morrow and Addie
Evans will go to Augusta to attend the
marriage of Miss Ollle Evans and Miss
Bankhead will go to Washington city.
Dunlap Latest.
Rogan Latest.
$5.oo-$4.oo-$j.oo.
Are high grade goods.
L. ROGAN & CO.,
i (j 11 First Avenue.
COMMUNICATED.
To the State Herald:
I take pleasure In correcting the im
pression made, as published, in my Inter
view with the State Herald reporter of
today.
My language was too broad in leaving
the inference that Judge Greene would
hold that saloon doors could be kept wide
open without a violation of the city law.
The fact Is, Judge Greene holds that a
saloon keeper violates the city ordinance
1. When he makes a single sale on
Sunday.
2. When he Is at his saloon on Sunday
for the purpose of making sales.
3. When he keeps his door open on
Sunday, whether for the purpose of do
ing business or not.
I hold that if a saloon keeper is in his
saloon and answers tapB upon the door
and grants admittance and either gives
away or sells whisky he is guilty of vio
lating the city ordinance.
OFF FOR THE EXPOSITION.
N. B. FEAGIN.
Birmingham, Oct. 22.
MONTGOMERY VS. BIRMINGHAM.
To the State Herald:
We are In the habit of pointing to At
lanta when we wish to spur ourselves.
The writer was favorably Impressed
with Montgomery upon a recent visit
new houses everywhere. Some of
the handsomest homes In the south grace
her streets, and It is the exception not to
find cottage as well as mansion tastily
piain ted.
It makes a favorable Impression upon
a. stranger. It shows that her citizens not
only possess pride, but the means to
make home comfortable and attractive.
It shows prosperity.
Hirmingham could with profit follow
Montgomery in this matter. It will profit
us In a number of ways. Let’s paint up
and clean up. Let’s make a good Im
pression on our visitors. It pays.
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