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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
ORDERS GIVEN TO
refine FURNACES
WILL BEGIN WORK OF REFINING
FURNACES NOS. / AND AT
oNcE-ELks GIVE RECEPTION
TO FRIENDS.

Bessemer May 4-(special.l- orders
have been issued, it is reported to refine
furnaces Nos. l and ? of the Tennessee
eompany's Bessemer division. At the
shortest II will take six weeks to com
plete Il IS work and at the expiration of
this time 1t is more than probable that
these two plants will be put into blast.
The other three furnaces of this division
are in full blast and are turning out pig
iron in large quantities. 1t was the in
tention of the company to relght Nos.
and sometime this month but as it
is found necessary to refine the furnaces
these plans have been changed
number of worl1men will be put tc
refining the furnaces and the work will
be pushed rapidly to completion. 1t is
estimated that 1t will take nearly one
hundred thousand fire bricks to line the
two plants.
EIks" Reception.
The Bessemer EIks rendered recep-
tion to their families and friends this af-
ternoon and tonight. Tonight beginning
at 7:90 o'clock an interesting programme
consisting of addresses and Music was
carried out During the afternoon and
evening refreshments were served.
Bar Changes Hands.
The Main saloon, adjoining the Grand
hotel on Nineteenth street, was purchased
tonight by VIII Wren and j. w Swain.
two well known Ensley saloon men. The
saloon was formerly conducted by Ed
Veitch. The new owners will take charge
of the business at once.
Church Bazaar.
The ladies of ST Aloysius church have
made arrangements for a bazaar to be
given at Liberty hall, beginning May Il
and May 10. An interesting programme
nil aa1 -R-Tn
number of valuable articles will be on
sale.
Real Estate Changes.
W. II. Lewis has purchased from the
S E. Jones Real Estate company two
brick stores on Second avenue, the prop
erty of Mrs. A. II. Hodges. The price
paid for the stores by Mr.. Lewis is $1,000.
Personal and General.
The annual licnic of the Jonesboro
Methodist Sunday school will be given
next Saturday ct East Lake. Cabs will
leave Bessemer at a. m.
Mrs. Lacy Edmundson entertained at
six-hand euchre yesterday morning in
compliment to Mrs. Legg and Mrs. r. L.
Crook.
The revival services in progress at the
Christian church this week are increasing
In interest and attendance.
DR.. ]. S. Winters and G. L. Vantrump
nave returned from IL seNeidl uds y WISH
in Louisiana
Dr. 7. F. Robinson and family have re-
turned from Chattanooga, where DR.. Rob
inson attended the annual convention
of surgeons of tho Southern railroad.
Mr. G. p Martin is in Walked county
this wesh looking after business in
terests.
Capt W. f. Cook left this morning
for Forest Miss. to attend Confed-
crate veterans reunion. While in Forest
Captain Crook will attend a family re-
union.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
Huntsville to Have Monument.

Huntsville May Especial THE de-
sign of Hummel & Sons. of this city has
been accepted by the Huntsville chapter,
Daughters of the Confederacy. for the
proposed Confederate monument. The
monument will be placed in the county
court yard and will consist of tall shaft
upon which the figure of a Confederate
soldier on sentry duty will stand the
whole to be of granite The cost will be
between $500 and $1,000 The unwilling
Is expected to occur about October and
that ceremony will be a feature of the
Confederate reunion l. 1t is held in Hunts
Vile
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
WaIthour Wins In Atlanta.

Atlanta, May 4.-Nearly 5000 per
sons saw Bobby Walthour defeat Nat
Butler here tonight at the bicycle
game The contest was the best two
In three. heats, five miles. Walthour
winning the first and third. and But
Ter the second by margin of two
feet. The first heat was from fly
ing start, the second and third from
standing starts. The time was 6:56,
1922 and TIA. Walthour won the first
heat by half lap and the third by
$50 yards. The two men will meet
tomorrow In twenty-mile race.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
T. 3. Burch Found Guilty.

Washington, Ca, May AT Z
o'clock this evening the jury in the
case of T. P. Burch. charged with
numbering Charles Tyler last Juiy.
brought in verdict of guilty, with a
recommendation to the mercy of the
court. after having been out tws-.fy.
four hours.
structure and the working out OF a scheme
for final adoption
There is the utmost harmony in the
commission as regards separate buildings
and other plans of improvements and ii
Is nov settled that 1t will not be long
before there will be practical scheme.
outlined and work begun.
DR. Thomas NJ Owen. director nf the
state department of archicves and his
tory spoke to the school incident to the
closing exercises of the session at Fort
Deposit last night He . very much.
pleased with the work that has been
done there, especial" along history lines.
New Corporations.
New corporations have been reported to
the Secretary of State as follows:
Birmingham Trunk Factory, Birming-
ham; capital 5000 Incorporators. e. l..
Liebesman and others.
Central Alabama Fair association, Sell
ma; capital $4,000. Ineorporators, J r.
Ellis and others The object is to hold
county fair at Selma
The following appointments have been
made: Notarles public. Niena Wright
Admission; e. L. Mcintosh, sylacauga.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05

They are busy all the time making them
selves pleasant meeting and plotting
about the officials of their systems who
are not familiar with local surroundings.
1t begins to look as If the hearing will
be long drawn out and that there will be
many hard working sessions before the
af.d
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
Miss Carter In Tuscaloosa.

Tuscaloosa, May -(speciaD-Miss Nat
lice Carter daughter of Captain Car
ter. a retired United States army officer
residing at Birmingham is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Won Bayer. at Holt Miss
Carter will sing on the evening when
Richmand p. Hobson will lecture there for
the benefit of the Baptist church.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
PRATT FIREMEN
ELECT DELEGATES
MAYOR HUDNALL AND j. w.
MILLS WILL REPRESENT PRATT
CITY DEPARTMENT AT GADS.
DEN-OTHER NEWS.

Pratt City May 4.=-(specfal.)- AT a meet
ing of the Pratt City volunteer fire de-
partment last night Mayor f. j. Hudnall
and J. w. Mills were elected as dele
gates to the Tri-State Volunteer Firemens
Tournament, which meets at Gadsden on
May Il and Is A number of volunteer fire
departments from Alabama, Georgia and
Tennessee will send crack teams to take
part in the tournament. A number of
handsome prizes will be offered by the
Volunteer Firemen's association and many
interesting contests will be p-lled off.
The Pratt city team. under the direc-
ton of c. d. Comstock, is praetieing every
afternoon, and a large number of people
from this town will accompany the team
to Ciadsden
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
Culpepper-McA Adams.

Last night at o'clock at the parson-
age of the First Baptist church Miss
Blaneh Culpepper a popular young lady
of this city. was married to Mr.. Robert
MoAdams of Birmingham. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. j. A. Hen
bricks The bride is a daugh .er of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Culpepper of this city
and has a large circle of friends. Mr.. Nc
Adams is a railroad man. Mr.. and Mrs.
McAdams will make their future home
at RirOiu pbn
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
Personal and General.

Mr.. and Mrs Samuel f. Neal enter
tanned a few friends yesterday evening at
their home on Third street.
Mr.. J. c. Worthington of Augusta was
In the city few hours yesterday
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
Little of interest.

The capitol commits ion, at a meeting
held In the office of the governor today
decided to have competitive plans offered
for general scheme of Improvement of
the building and appointed the clerk, Dr.
Thomas M. Owen, and Chief Justice Nc
Clellan of the supreme court, to draw
up the details report Will be made at
a meeting to be held next Tuesday. The
plans contemplate the enlargement Of the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
Smith Attentive.

A couple of interested attendants at the
hearings are r. f. Steiner, local counsel
of the Seaboard Air Line and other
roads. and George W. Jones. occupying
the same position for the Louisville and
Nashville. Both have the title of district
counsel, and are depended upon TO take
care of much of the detail of the hearing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-06
couRTsHiP FOR HEALTH.
The Outdoor Exercise and Air Dur
I ing the Love-Making Period
e. Is Good.

! An old physician recommended what
he humorously termed the "courtship
cure, relates Cassell's Monthly. .r
:; Many married folk, he pointed out,
look back regretfully to their bright,
active and buoyant feelings when they
were young lovers. They do not real
lie that their robust health in those
days was not merely a question of
youth, but was due in great measure
to their daily walks and pastimes in
each others company. and to the fact
that they had then sympathies and
interests In common.
After marriage many couples aban.
don their healthy outdoor pursuits,
and neglect to entertain and cheer
each other up, as they did in court
ship days, and this has a prejudicial
effect upon the health.
The benefits of counting were so
thoroughly realized by certain young
health seeker that, it is said, he in
dulged in no fewer than seven court
ships, in order to have the advantages
OF female companionship on his walks
When the young ladies eventually
found out the real motive of his at
tentions they dropped him, the damsel
in one case, sarcastically remarking
that she wished to qualify for a wife
and not nurse!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-06
THE BRIGANDS OF ITALY.
Are Not Quite So Bad as Some Ex.
citable Tourists Try to Make
Them Appear.

A German gentleman was one evening
riding along the public highway near
Imola, when his horse threw him and
bolted, says Rome letter to a Pail
Mall Gazette. He picked himself up
and lighted a match to see what time
it was, but found that his watch had
stopped. Just at that moment two BIZ
cyclists hove in sight, and he went
forward, making signs for them to
stop, but the men pedaled furiously
out of sight, About two months after
the gentleman was reading an account
Of travel in Italy, when he came across
the following passage:
Zone evening we had an adventure
with a brigand. We were bicycling
near 1mola. when an individual in a
long dusty cloak suddenly sprang from
the ground and with small lighted
torch, which he fourished with furious
gestures, demanded our watches. We
with great agility, but by the skin of
our teeth, avoided the ill-intentioned
fellow, and shouting that we had no
watches made off as fast as we could,
whether followed or not we did not
wait to see."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-06
IN OF ALUM. BUT { ALIMol "
Woman Reporter Puts It All Over
Smart Young Man Who Tries s>
to Be Funny. s,~.

The new reporter was woman, and
the first who had appeared In the city
room of that paper within the memory
of the oldest reporter, relates the New
York Tribune. She was smart look
ing person Of about 80, who wore neat,
severe, wel].fltting clothes, mannish
boots and gloves, and walked with q
swing that made one invariably look
up when she passed.
She sat at the next desk to Rice, a
bright. cheeky young fellow from up
state. who had been on the paper for a
year. and so felt right to consider q
woman's entrance into the Office an
intrusion. Nobody paid much atten-
ton to her for some days, until she
was sent to Rice by the city editor to
get some information.
The other reporters sat round and
watched Rice explaining things to her.
She took it in rapidly with an airy
nonchalance which nettled that young
man. When she had assimilated all
the information she thanked him with
profound bow and flashed diamond
solitaire in his face in most impu-
dent way.
Rice accepted her challenge at once
and. touching the ring with his finger,
he straightway raised~ it to his lips
with a show of tasting it, and made the
terse remark:
'Alum!'
''No, young man." replied the young
woman. sternly, but with a twinkle in
her eye: mot alum: alimony!"
From that day the city room &C.
cepted her at par value.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-06
STINGY WITH DOLLAR SIGN
Mutilated Character Finds Favor
with Some Writers, But
Is Wrong.

II was reading magazine article
the other day in which the cost of
certain staple commodities was quoted
in every other line" said the man Of
experience, relates the New York
Press. "As soon as I began to read
was struck with some popularity in
the type that made me feel uncom-
Portable, but I worried through half a
dozen pages before l found out what
it was. Finally I discovered that
somebody had been experimenting
with the dollar mark Instead of
using the two vertical lines that con-
stituted the framework of the dollar
mark I had been accustomed to, that
magazine had grown stingy and had
limited the sign to only one line.
"Since then have seen our most
precious symbol thus mutllated in sew
eral publications. I wonder if it is
going to be the style to write it so
hereafter? l hope not. I don't like
it. Typographical eccentricities of any
kind are seldom welcome; dollar
mark minus one of it's familiar props
would be least popular of ALL"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-06
A CROCODILE SUPERSTITION
Washing of Mosquito Net in Borneo
River Followed by One or
More Deaths.

The superstition that deaths by
crocodiles are the inevitable result
Immediately after a curtain has been
washed in the river has been constant
ly confirmed, says the North Borneo
Herald.
A curious note upon this supersti-
ton appears in the monthly report of
w. B. Smith, district officer at Tim
bang Batu, North Borneo He says:
1.-TWO crocodile fatalities have been
reported, and there have been several
narrow escapes. Toward the end of
December the enlightened authorities
at Pangkalan Bandau sent up an aged
Chinaman to Timbang Batu under ar
rest for having washed his mosquito
net in the river. A woman was taken
in the same place by crocodile few
hours later, a coincidence which great
" enhanced his guilt while adding,
am afraid, fresh authority to the
superstition"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-06
QUEER CURE FOR OLD AGE
Bulgarian Recipe for Preparing Milk
a Remedy Against Grow
ing Aged.

Curdled milk of a special kind, pre-
pared only on a Bulgarian recipe, is
now supposed to be a remedy against
growing old, says a Paris correspond
ence OF the London Telegraph. M.
Xavier Dybovsky has made COM
munication on the subject to the Acad-
envy of Medicine. The substance is
called yaghurt. and can now be OBJ
tanned in tins in Paris. 1t is sup
posed to be death to all the inimical
bacteria in the intestines, while those
friendly microbes to which Prof.
Metchnikoff pins his faith positively
adore it, Hence the property of yag-
hurt to prolong human life to what is
its normal span-a century or so. The
substance looks very like ordinary
cream cheese gone bad, and tastes
similarly. The solid portion is mixed
with white, thin liquid, which is ex-
ceedingly sour. People who wish to
live to hundred breakfast of yag-
hurt exclusively.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-06
MONUMENT. 10 SOLDIERS.
Wisconsin Has Erected Splendid 1-e.
mortal to Veterans Who Have
y Passed Away.

One of the most notable soldier non-
uments Of this country has just been
erected by Capt. w. r. Hedges. of St.
Louis, for the state of Wisconsin, on the
battlefield of Shiloh. 1t is a wide de-
parture from the conventional soldier
standing at listless ease with his gun.
A color sergeant has been MORALLY
wounded, a beautiful female figure,
typifying the nation, whose face and
attitude express the utmost tenderness
and sympathy, bends, over and sup
ports him with her left arm, on which
is the shield of the United States en-
twined with laurel. She has caught
the flag as it fell from his grasp, and
holds it aloft. 1t expresses the apo
theosis of heroic sacrifice, giving ones
life for the land he loves. and standing
as it does in the Hornets Nest" the
scene of the most terrific fighting OF
one of the blooCiest battles of the great
war, it is most effective and beautiful
The conception of the group is by
Capt Hodges, and Mr.. Robert P. Bring
hurst, the sculptor, has been entirely
successful in giving form, life and &C.
ton in a masterful way On the front
is the dedicatory panel in bronze, and
on the ends and back of the die are
bronze panels illustrating in bas-reli.,f
scenes of the battle. The pedestal is
Of Westerly (R ~ granite, rectangu-
lar in shape. and base being nine feet
eight inches by seven feet eight inches
and six feet in height. The figures of
the group are one and a quarter life
size, and the total height Of the struc
ture from the foundation to the top of
the flagstaff is 20 feet.
This monument was erected to COM
memorate the valor of the Fourteenth
Sixteenth and Eighteenth regiments OF
Wisconsin volunteers, who participant
ed in the battle Of Shiloh on April 6
and Z 1862. The Fourteenth, Col.
David E. Wood was in Buell's
army, and did not arrive upon
the field until Sunday night. On Mon
day it joined Smiths brigade of the
army of the Ohio and served with that
command all day. It assisted in the
capture of battery, one gun of which
was awarded to this regiment and sent
to the state of Wisconsin. Its loss was
81 killed and wounded. The Sixteenth,
Col. Benjamin Allen. was in the First
brigade of Prentiss' division, COM
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-06
ANTS BORE THROUGH ROCK
Cable Laid in Concrete Trough suf-
fers from Depredations Of
White Species.

The engineers in charge of a tele-
graph line at Hong-Kong were sur
prisel recently by the discovery that
about seven miles of their cable,
though it was we'll protected and laid
underground in a concrete trough,
had been severely damaged. For the
greater part of the length oval holes
had been bored right through the cas-
ing down to the copper wire ITSELF
1t was agreed, says the London Spec
tator, that insects must have been the
author of the mischief, though what
kind of insects was not obvious. It
might be possible to find one which
enjoys perforating lead. But these in
sects seemed to have drilled the holes,
not in order to make a passage, but by
way Of making a NEAL They had
taken dinner of six courses, consist
ing first of tarred rope, then of lead
then of twisted rope, then of tape, then
of hemp fiber, and lastly Of india rub
Der. The copper strand had been too
much for them.
Portions of the damaged cable were
sent to the Natural History museum
with hope that some opinion might
be given, and the oracle replied that
there could be very little doubt that
the damage was caused by white ants.
Specimens of their peculiar forms OF
appetite and industry&re kept in the
museum, which show not only that
they will eat lead, but will also bore
through hard sandstone rock.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-06
THE PASSING SOLDIERS.
Five Great Warriors Have Been Ele-
waited to Highest Office in
United States.

Five soldiers Of the civil war have
Hayes, Garfield Harrison and McKin-
ley The death of Senator Bate has
moved the students Of the times to the
conclusion that he will 60 on record
as the last confederate in Tennessee
to occupy SO prominent place as gov
ernor or senator. 1t is also expressed
as a tenable conclusion that Mckinley
will go down into history as the last
union officer of the civil war to be
president.
The passing away of the prominent
men of the war gives rise to solemn re-
Election. 1t is serious lesson in the
flight of time. But it can easily hap
pen that union officer of a minor
grade may be the next president. 1t is.
of course, not likely that he will be
one who rose to high command, with
title as great as brigadier or major
general The few left of that grade are
past the presidential time of their
lives. McKinleys highest grade in the
actual service was that of captain of
a company in the Twenty third Ohio
regiment of volunteers, the grade of
brevet major being conferred at the
close of hostilities. There are other
captains in the volunteer service-men
wto served WELL and who are physical
ly and mentally rugged-who are still
within presidential range 1t is not
perhaps necessary at this moment to
name names. '-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-06

He was young man In lodgings and he
was learning to play the cornet. There
was no disputing the earnestness and per
severance Of this embryo cornetist. relates
London t-Bits.
Every evening during the late heat wave
he threw his window open and blew away
# tho Lost Chord" 1t was ever tho
In the commercial-room Of tho hotel op-
posite the knights Of tho road" sat,
scrihbling off their orders and hurting
anathemas Ut tho head Of tho young man
player.
Finally they held = council Of war and
determined on his destruction.
Cutting off \ window cord, the, rang
Tor tho boots and ordered him to take
It across to the musician, with tho fol-
lowing note,
Dear Sir: Make no more trouble over
your Lost C(h)ord.' We send you = sub.
enough. 's
eve will arrange with tho coroner and
guarantee decent burial"
The doleful notes of tho Lost Chord
were not heard in that street afterwards.