The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-01-15

Inc upright on the press - largo screw
which, as II revolves, brings the relentes
jaws Of tho machine closer and closer 10
gcther Six bands Of hoop iron are ther
wrapped around t. and it is ready Tor market
Birmingham is the most remarkable city
In the south. It is more like a booming min
ing town than anything else and looks lik,
Leadville IN the flush times. When We rod,
into the city it was remarkable transition
from the old style of Alabama towns. Red
mouthed furnaces yawned like sleepy giants
and painted tho somber sSy a gaudy crimson
with their hot breath. Busy people might
have been seen here and there. going some
where instead of waiting patiently for some
body to walk around them, OF looking re
proachfully at strangers who had been
brought up 80 business habits
Birmingham is a young Kansas CITY, and
has city lots staked out so far west, and Kan.
sas City has so many extending east, that
thcrc IS really only narrow strip OF ground
between the two towns, and 10 is bein. rap
Idly bought up \ new railroad connects the
two young giants, and a few choice lots in
either place viii be a good investment for
those who have become weary Of putting
their money into Canadian tourists.
Birmingham reminds mo 80 forcibly Of a
booming mining town that remarked 10 Mr..
Riley. as we got of tho train, that all we
needed % carry out the similarity was an
earnest lyuching party. In less than twenty
four hours crowd Of 5000 people made a
party call to the jail for the purpose Of o1-
tending the neck OF a gentleman named
Halves, but after twenty people had b.sen
killed and wounded by the officers they re-
treated Several strangers who had never
seen O. man lynched, and wanted 10 be able
TO scare their children with the story when
they got home by telling about it, went 10
the entertainment, returning later ON by the
way Of tho undertaker's store.
Mr. Hawes was a man who had an earnest
nature and a large red elm club, with which
be ever and anon attracted tho attention Of
his wife when he wanted to communicate a
disagreeable truth 20 her But be would most
always feel real sorry about it afterward,
and one time after he had broken two Of his
wife's ribs in this way. he told her he could
see that he had perhaps been hasty and given
her needless pain, and he believed that no had
better divide up his attentions between her
aud another woman, so that one of them
could recover whilo he gently rebuked tho
other
SO ho married another woman. aud thi,
created a personal feeling between tho two
for no true wife can bear to know that her
souls idol Is lavishiug his kicks On another
Night after night the first vito would sit up
oil alone counting the tagging hours, ali tho
t.mo knowing full veil that her rival was
getting all the largo buo wclts over the back
which had in tho happy past been hers aud
hers alone. They had two little girls, which
Mr.. HaWe5 was in tho habit Of kissing in
public and kicking across tho lrosido
occasionally, and so, when little
May was found lying dead on tho
shore OF East lake, Mr. Hawes was
placed in Jail. Whilo we wero ia Birming-
ham the citizens Of the town dragged the lake
and found tho first Mrs. Hawes at tho bot.
tom, with large quantity OF railroad iron
attached 70 her That was partly what ere |
ited feeling against Mr. IIowes, and 50 a /
great many OF his old ncghbors went up to I
he 'ail 10 present. him with tho freedom OF /
ne New Jerusalem, but they were fOiled /
Several Of them wero 50 much 80 that they /
gill never wholly recover from its effects. /
Mr.. Hawes did wrong IN the first instance In /
marrying two women. When man marries /
wo women he is already on tho downward /
oad Gone wife seems 10 call for another .
n such ease, and then i'll feeling arises. llr. !
iawes, Of course, then tried 70 obviato tho 4
wife he had al first married, and now people /,
iislilo him for 10.
Mr. hawes made mistake, also, in marry
ng a woman, anyway. He should have
married q southern hotel carpet, and then "a
title beating wouldn't have been out Of place.
hOugh Of course it might have aroused sus-
iciOn.
No man should accumulate family with a
lew toward eradicatmg them as soon Us be
ecomes weary of them and desires % become
be head Of another family, for whom he has
higher regard And 50 Mr. Halves IS in a
cry trying position az this time lie may
AXE up, most any morning now, and find
imself IN a felons grave. This ought 10 be
solemn warning 20 little boys and girls who
iay be tempted 70 wipe out previous family
. order 70 become more solid, as may say,
18th recent one.
We are having a good time scooting about
yer the country, changing cars two or three
mes in one night, and in other ways enjoy
e ourselves 70 the utmost. We sleep DAYS
cture evenings, aud at uight abandon our
lives TO changing carr. At first we devoted
70 first half Of the night 10 oratious. ban
lets and demonstrations, but now We have
iit Having but ono stomach apiece, and
lylng about six months Of this tour looming
P ahead, With is prospective mirth, music
al qual! on toast, We have registered large.
u VOW Oh the hotel register hereafter 10
Institute on such occasions our new agent.
no has four stomachs and valise. toqether
ith an alimentary which would certainly be