The age-herald., 1902-03-25


 
 church. Their denunciations were almost as fierce as that of pr. Len Broughton the sensational preacher of the Taber- nacle.
 Under these circumstances both Col. Hemphill and MT. Cabaniss were placed in trying positions and quite a number of guesses were made as to which side they would join when the fight came be- fore the council proper. They were real ly committeeman from both, and had been active for a time in the interests of one. The question was finally decided when ministers called upon them.
 At ,the meeting neither appeared, but during the debate one minister stated that both had expressed willingness to resign from the fair committee. Anyway they were in hot water for a time.
 Birmingham men and women are al- ways popular wherever they go. This has been exemplfied so often that the telling of stories of hits made by them has little effect in adding to the argu- ments needed to prove the statement However, I will tell of an experience of drummer in Mobile last week. The man who is responsible for the story Is Hughes Kennedy. The drummer was Sidney Lazarus.
 Lazarus is young fellow, and when he first saw the beautiful women of Mo bile he lost his head. No wonder he did so, for there are a number of the pret- tiest women of the state in that city. Anyway, he made six engagements to meet young women at a popular drug store after the business session of the convention Thursday afternoon. But when the meeting was over he espied a very pretty girl across from the hall who hailed from Selma.
 So he forgot his engagement or rather engagements and went with her. With in short time I passed the drug store and saw a number of rather strikfngly good-looking girls standing about the place. They saw my T. P. A badge, and guessed I was from Birmingham. Finally after I had consumed four drinks and bought five cigars, all the time looking at the girls, one, somewhat bolder than the others asked if I knew when the meet ing would end. I explained that it had adjourned half hour previously. This girl i said lots of hard things to a friend about young Lazarus.
 During the afternoon the Birmingham boy met nearly all of the six and was not recognized. Then he remembered his engagements. That was why. But he never explained why he got loaded that | night. Only Hughes Kennedy guessed. The man who has always cursed red neckties as an outrage upon the eyesight Of the well-dressed race should have been in Atlanta last Monday morning. One man who was there Is loud in his praise of the beauty of such ties. That man was in the Gelders Hotel fire. His tie saved his life.
 The man bore the name of Haskinson. To the name was added the title of ad- vance representative of a show The po- sition required the tie Some people think this was the reason for 1t being worn. Whether or not, Haskinson was in bath room on the fifth floor of the hotel when he heard the fire alarm. In
 
 anywhere. He could not escape anyway he turned. Finally he raised the window and screamed. He yelled again and again, but without avail. In no way could he attract attention. All the time his posi- tion was becoming more and more pre- carious.
 Suddenly he spied his red necktie. In desperation he grabbed it and began way ing 1t furiously. Whether 1t was the loud ness of the color or the effectiveness of his waving, he was soon seen and saved from death. At once he delivered a pray CT and after giving credit to the Almighty began praising his tie. He has sworn never to dear another color, even when in full dress. The one which saved his life has been framed.
 Dfaff