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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

Silas was seated on high chair behind
the counter RECALLING himself with the
latest postal card news that had come in.
"Howdy, Wes'," he greeted, reluctant
ly placing the cards in their respective
pigeon holes as the visitor came behind
the counter, "Air We through cuttin' ?"
swell, IL amt clean through" was
the embarrassed answer-"but lef off
for a little spell, as | got matter |
want fixed up, an | thought this would
be the bes' time of day to ketch you-"
swell, eff it's that little loan, !
reck'n--"
"No, amt after pesterin' you bout
that, ST." Wesley interrupted, to the
others relief, and tattooing awkwardly
on the desk, he blurted out:
Isl, I've come down here to git you
to do sump'n I can't do myself, an that's
to write letter fer meP
ooh, that's it, is it?" Silas asked, with
grin, noticing the others embarrass-
ment. "Well, reck'n kin 'commodate
you," he added, taking his pen from be-
hind his ear. "Who's the lady" eye
ing Wesley suspicieusly.
Il reckn YOU know" was the answer
with a responsive grin to hide his EN-.
barrassed flush.
Then as Silas began to drawl the
school teachers name, writing it at the
same time with many fourishes at the
top of the sheet. he had spread before
him, Wesley grinned broader, and con
fessed with more bushes that that wa.
the young lady in question.
Snow about the beginning?" was Si's
irext question with his most professional
air, making ready to start. "You XII
make it little stronger by adding som,
words on the next line" Silas indi
Gated with his pen the line below the on,
upon which the ladys name was in
scribed, for the benefit of the uninitiateC
| Wesley-"but that's accordin' to your in
tentions to the young lady," He pause,
for Wesley to intimate.
"Then you might make it littl
stronger" the other suggested sheepishl
: after pause.
ITO the young lady that has m
, heart, how is that?" Silas poised his pc
: inquiringly.
/ Wesley nodded approvingly. "That
, it." he said, and as Silas waited fo
t further instructions he squirned awl
wardly in his seat and began to wipe tn
, perspiration off his face
| Its kinder hard to know what to sa
/ when you amt exactly certain bout til
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

hills, filling gulches, setting and lamp
ing ties and laying rails. The work
demands that she be a skillful man.
ager of men. She knows man as few
women do-she directs their energies,
gets out of them the most work pos
sible, pays their wages, employs or dis
charges them. Men, mules, steam
shovels and dynamite are her obedient
agents. Necessarily she is financier,
talks and figures in the hundred thou
sands and the millions as readily as
most men talk of dollars. In the par
lance of the street she long ago made
her stake and today is accounted the
richest woman in Michigan and one of
the very rich women of the world.
She has made estimates and carried
out contracts on some of the longest
and heaviest pieces of railroad con-
struction in the country. Though her
occupation is strenuous it would do
Mrs. Beacham rank injustice to say
that it has roughened her.. There is
certain set of determination and firm
ness about her features, but her man
ner is feminine, and so are her tastes
She is such good judge of men that
she rarely has any trouble with them
and it is not often that an employer
is so genuinely popular with employees
as Mrs. Beacham.
| Mrs. Beacham has been making and
executing railroad contracts for TWEEN
ty years. She has two sons Claud and
Erwin and her husband, though living
is an invalid.
Much of this remarkable woman's
work has been done in the southern
states where railroad building has gone
forward with Titantic strides in the
last two decades and where a vas
amount Of building is now under way
On one contract with the Tennessee
Central railroad, Mrs. Beacham's profit
was $4,000, and it is calculated thai
her average annual earnings are about
$4,000. The contract which she Is
now engaged in executing is the con
struction of five miles OF railroad from
Kirby Station, Virginia, westward. II
is part of a contract for one hundred
miles of the coal mine to sea rail
road which was secured by Sands ana
oliver of Richmond These eontrac
tors sublet short stretch Of the worl
to Mrs. Beacham.
At present she is employing only
ABOUT one hundred and fifty men but
the proper control of this force am
the purchase of the necessary supplies
calls for the exercise Of no little ex
tecutive ability,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16
Royal Quarrels Over Chess.

King Edward, we are told, is deve1-
oping an enthusiasm for chess. In that
case, according to writer in Tid-Bits,
he is only following in the steps of
many of his predecessors on the throne,
including his namesake, the first Ed
ward. Says the writer:
Whether or not players were more
irascible in those old days than now, it
is curious fact that chess was often
more stimulating to the royal tempers
than is golf in these latter days, and
many a game peacefully begun ended
in broken heads When Prince Henry
--afterward Henry I.-once paid Wis
it to the court OF France, she wan SO
much at cheese of Louis, the kings
eldest some, as he, growing into chol-
Ter, called him "a naughty nancy and
threw the cheese in his face. Henry
takes up the chesseboard, and strake
Louis with that force as drew blood
and had Killed him had not his brother
Robert come in the meantime and in.
terposed himselfe, whereupon they sud-
denly took horse and gat away"
King John in his younger days had {
similar experience; for game of ches:
in which his opponent was one Full
Warine ended in royal row, during
which Fulk gave the prince $50 griev.
GUS blowe as almost to slaie him or
the spot" John never forgot the blow
nor forgave his iracible opponent, and
punished him, when later he came tc
the throne, by Withholding his heri
tage-Whittington castle-from him.
William the Conqueror more thai
once lost his temper over the game
and on at least one occasion with ser
ious consequences. He was playing
with the son of the king of France
when a dispute led to hot words, ant
eliminated in William bringing dow
the board so heavily on his opponent
head as to render him unconscious
Louis XIII. of France was so infatu
ated with the game that wherever h
went he was accompanied by his chess
board and men and invariably played j
| in his coach when he took drive
abroad. Charles |. found it so fascin
ating that he almost literally played
to the foot of the scaffold; and whel
once his game was interrupted by new
THAT the Scots had decided to sell him {,
the parliament he proceeded with hi
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

with half of his muscular power to re-
place a deficiency that he feared would
be an unsurmountable barrier between
him and the young school marin.
1t was a common enough failing in
the neighborhood in which Wesley lived,
aud six months before, the fact that he
could not write his own name, would
not have embarrassed him a great deal.
kSince the school teacher had come into
his life, however, it had become a real
thorn in the flesh. Vainly he struggled
with the little imps of the alphabet in
his room by candle light when all the
other members of the household were
wrapped in slumber; but the goal of his
ambition measured distance that was
beyond the feverish impotence that pos
sessed him.
Wesley had been trembling on the
verge of proposal many times and
would have committed himself long age
hut for this barrier. For the idea Of
addressing the school teacher in writing
seemed to have fixed itself in his mind
as being the only method of procedure
through which he could hope for re,
ciprocation So it was an overwhelming
desire to settle his fate, coupled with {
hopelessness of attaining the educatioua
qualification of being able to pen hi
own epistle, that led him to procure tn,
agency of another party, upon which
GRAND he was bound this afternoon.
AThe party he had decided to utiliz
vas one Silas Mansur, postmaster AM
general grocery1nan combined; and a
Silas was under obligation to him TO
small loan, Wesley thought he nigh
be glad to have it cancelled in this way
He had chosen time of the day whei
ne would run the least chance of en-
cSuntering loungers about the store, an
sure enough the coast was clear ant
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

young lady's feelin's," he stammered,
"but | like that beginnin' an | reck'n
you kin put it more fancy like; but
want you to be sure to say I'm waitin'
for her answer very patient, an eff she'll
say yes, I'll be the happies' man in
Chinkapin Hundred, an eff she says no,
it'll drive me to do what it will hurt her
Tell her I'm able to take kere of her,
that Pm workin' the place on sheers
this year, but pa, he's promised to deed
me strip of lam down by the fur gate,
an eff she amt mind to live with the
| old folks I'll build her house on my
own Lam, an say I'll make her sober,
industrious husband, an II treat her
like the apple of my eye, which she is,
an ever will be, even if she don't recip-
create my affections, an then you kin
win up, ST." he finished, taking the first
breath, "only as I'm particular bout
folks signin' other folks name, suppose
you jes say goodbye, my angel, .till ]
hear from you, an thatll do"
1t seemed an age before Wesley had
converted all this in a sure enough let
ter, even taking into consideration the
beautiful fourishes with which it was
embellished, and he had it in his coat
pocket on his way to deliver into the
hands of the school teacher Then il
seemed another age after he had in
trusted it to the care of one of the
school children and watched through the
open window to be sure it was laid or
the teachers desk, before school was LEI
out, though at last when he saw the
children pouring out the door, the pref
| ty school marin bringing up the scar, ;
real stage fright possessed him.
| The idea of flight presented itself, bu
he dismissed it with manly determine
ton to stand his ground. When tn,
teacher came up by him he could no
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

As Wesley plodded down the main
road he glanced guilty back over the
green fields where straight rows of to-
.bacco spread their broad leaves ripe for
cutting. There was deeper guilt in his
heart, too, when he thought of the pro-
iect upon which he was bent. Never
before had he done anything that he
would have been ashamed to tell out
m classmeeting at the little cross roads
chapel where he was one of the younger
leaders. The tall, gawky shadow he
cast along the white road seemed sort
OF prenionitory figure of that better self
that would follow him the rest of his
hfe like an accusing angel. And it was
all on account of woman; not that she
was to blame, except for the fact that she
had soft white skin and fair hair, and
the tiniest of feet that made his own
seem monstrous, and the daintiest little
figure, the kind that big muscular fell
low like Wesley yearns to hold in his
arms.
Wesley had never been ladies' man
until the school teacher came into the
neighborhood but he had been captured
from the evening he drove to the sta
ton and she had sat beside him in the
httle spring wagon during the five miles
they had to go in the September twi-
light. The scent of her gauzy handker-
chief played about his senses for week
-afterward; it was different from any
perfume that had entered his nostrils
before accustomed to the odors O.
sweet basil" marjoram, and gen
erous sprinkling of musk in the closely
packed little chapel of Sunday mornings
Propinquity, that strong promoter o
Che tender passions, sealed his doom
Tor the school teacher boarded in hi
own house and came to bear upon hin
all the varied and wonderful charms o
a woman.
He felt himself the most highly fav
ored man in the universe to be able t
1--we under the same roof with her, AM
10 keep the little box behind the sheet
iron stove filled with wood sawed an
split to nicely, to handle refractor
boy, behind the school house as an ex
ample to all others who should dare t
defy the teachers authority, and hur
dred other Offices that big, strong ma
can perform for a young aud fragil
member of his household that brougf
MIN unspeakable joy.
So far, however, from believing thes
Offices were gaining for him the desire
iavor, Wesley would have dispense
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16
SUCCESSFUL WOMAN BUILDER.
Mrs. Theodos Beacham, of Michigan
Enterprislng Railroad Contractor.

There are few fields of endeavor in
which woman has not acquired foot
hold. She is conspicuous in the arts,
sciences and professions and she makes
her presence felt in trade Yet it is
believed that one Of the few of her
sex to essay and succeed in railroad
contracting'and construction is a Mich
igan woman-Mrs. Theodosia Beacham.
She is not notable for home-staying or
housekeeping qualities, for her bust
ness calls for her presence in many
parts of the United States and she has
to deal with vast engineering prob,
lems-felling forests, tunneling noun
tains, bridging gorges, cutting through
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16
She Bested the Emperor.

The great opera singer, Nine. Grisi,
who was married to Signor Mario, the
tenor, was singing in St. Petersburg.
The emperor, the father of the present
Gar gave Nine. Grisi permission to
walk in his private park. One morning
the emperor met Nine. Grisi, accompan-
led by two little girls. The emperor
saluted her and said: "Are these two
Grisettes?" mo, your majesty" replied
Nine. Grisi, "these are two. Marior-
cites"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

move as unruff1ed as if, instead of hear
ing his doom, he had received a sum-
mons to dinner. And when John Fred
erick, Elector of Saxony, heard over
the chessboard the news that he had
been condemned to death, he complet-
ed his move and was again immersed
iii the game before the messenger had
had time to withdraw.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-02-16

There Is a cherry stone at the Salem,
Massachusetts,, Museum which con.
tains the fac-similes Of one dozen ST.
yer spoons. They are so small that
their shape and finish can only be dis
tinguished by the microscope.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-18
CARDINAL REASON
GIBBONS WRITES LETTER TO MIR.
GALLAGHER.
Saws TINT He Underestimated the
Duties as Member of International
Policy holders Comr -tttee and
Therefore Resigned.

New York, Sept. 1.-THE Herald to.
day publishes a letter from Cardinal
Gibbons to w. A Gallagher of Balti
more, in reply to letter from Mr..
Gallagher asking the Cardinal the rea-
sons for his resignation from the In
ternational Policyholders' Committee
Cardinal Gibbons's letter follows:
baltimore. Md, Sept II. 1906.
Mr.. w. Gallagher, New York Life
Insurance Company, Baltimore:
my DAar Sir-In reply to your COM
nunication this morning I beg to say
that when l accepted the position on
tho international Policyholders' Com
nittee, l did not adequately comprc
bend the duties, responsibilities and
scope of it's members, l, therefore
resigned.
II do not enjoy an acquaintance
with a considerable number of mem
here nominated On the administrG-
lion ticket of the New York Lilo
and Mutual Life Insurance Companies
AS to those whom l know personally,
1 am happy to say they possess my
fullest confdeh e as gentlemen OF the
highest financial integrity
Yours very truly.
James. Cardinal Gibbons"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-18
FAREWELL TO ZION
DoWIE TO FOREVER QUIT HIS
CITY.
Prophet's Health Demands That He
Pass Remainder of Days In
MexicO--Tells Followers
Not TO Vote.

Chicago, Sept. 17.-John Alexander
Dowie, who according to general be-
lief in Zion City Is in an extremely
low condition of health. announced
yesterday a farewell service at Shiloh
House for next Sunday.
Immediately after this service he
will leave for Mexico II his physical
condition Will permit, and 1T is not
expected that he will ever see Zion
City again.
In a communication from the old
leader, which was read at the taber-
nacIe he advised his loyal followers
to remain away from the polls at the
election for a new general overseer
tomorrow.
Reports of Dowie's condition were
taken to his wife at her summer home,
Ben Mac D'Hui, White Lake. Michi-
gan, and she FASTENED to Zion City
accompanied by her son, Gladstone.
They arrived at Shiloh House Thurs
day night but were denied admission.
Mrs. Dowie came to Chicago yester-
day to remain with a friend. and her
son returned to Michigan.
The polls for the election will be
opened from to p. m, tomorrow,
The election of Voliva who spoke to
large outdoor meeting yesterday is
conceded by nearly a unanimous vote.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-18
NEW HAMPSHIRE CONVENTION.
Novelist Winston Churchill Makes spec
tncular Race for Governor.

Novelist winston Churchill Makes spec
tacular Race for Governor.
Concord. N. H.. Sept. 1.-THE most
interesting Republican State Conyen-
zion In New Hampshie IN many years
wisl be held hers tomorrow.
The extraordinary canvass which mas
preceded the convention has largely de-
yeloped from the entrance into the neld
for the gubernatoria1 nomination or
winston Churchill, the novelist. VINO
is representative and leader Of anti
corporation movement launched oy the
newly formed Lincoln Repuoiican Siup
of New Hampshire. -,
For the mast six weeks Mr.. CEurcMll
has toured the State, making q large
number of speeches In support or this
platform, which Is aimed chiefly at the
Boston and Maine Railroad and which
calls for the abolition of lobby In
New Hampshire politics. The other
candidates for the nomination are
Charles II. Greenleaf of Franconia.
member of Governor McLane's council
and former State Senator; Charles M.
FLOYD of Manchester, r. w. Hillsbury
Of Londonderry and s. H. Gale OF Ex-
eter. Mr.. Greenleaf Is known as the
north country candidate while MT.
Floyd's strength is in the southern sec
ton of the State.
Both Mr. Greenleaf and Mr.. Floyd
are known as regulars or Repuon-
cans satisfied with the party record In
the state as well as in national af-
fairs. Mr.. Hillbury stands upon a
platform which alleges extravaganza In
State finances and charges among other
things the creation and maintenance OF
useless commissions. Gale has issued
general reform platform. The can
didacy of Greenleaf and Floyd Is said
to have split the Republican organi-
zation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-18
WEATHER FORECAST.
washington, Sept. 17.-For Alabama
showers Tuesday. and in north por-
tion Wednesday,, fresh TO brisk north
west winds.

have been II they had not let some
Democrats amend 1t.
In this conjunction. Mr.. Bryan came
TO speak of his own Idea as a govern
ment ownership of railroads He said
BECAUSE have stated that 1t Is
going to be impossible to get relief
from this rate law on account OF the
corrupting influence of railroads am
Jumped on by all the newspapers that
failed to support me heretofore anu
bv people who thought l had changed
and begun to yield 10 the iiiue"0eS
of predatory wealth.
president Roosevelt himself In TWO
messages said that II this law were
not effective we could expect pupilc
nu,,ershin To come and that did not
create any commotion in the country.
7 merely went a step farther and salo
that from my observations oio NOV
believe it would be effective.
IF any North Carolina Deho.,a
so.s not believe that corrupting infiu-
ences will make this law inenective,
read our own platform There is no,
a. state In the South that has not fei'
the corrupting influence of RAILROADS IN
Legislation. Believing 1t ultimately &c
be the solution. i gave pan ina
would give the benefit of puonc own
ership without the danger or cehtraii-
cation. 1t was dual plan, giving eacr
state the right to control It's own
roads and protect Its interests. MY
Man Ia a Democratic one that let's the
state act when 1t is ready.
Mr.. Bryan delivered a ten minutes
address at Capital Square after ieav'
ing Metropolitan Hall. He was intro,
duced by Governor Glenn as the mex
President, Mr.. Bryan replying tna'
while he was confident OF Democratic
success. he did not desire to predict
as much for Mr.. Bryan. He was lib
orally cheered.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-18
pEAvY ELEVATOR CASE.


Interstate Commerce COmmission LIS
tens to Long Legal Dispute.
Chicago, Sept 17.--Members of the
Interstate Commerce Commission to-
day reopened the old Peavey Elevator
case after listening to long dispute
between the various lawyers represent
Ing the parties to the suit relative to
supposed agreement for a continu-
ance
The dispute ended abruptly after
President A. b: Stickney of the Chi
cago Great Western Railroad declared
that he most vigorously protested
against further delay in the hearing
President stickney is one of the petit
TONERS for the reopening of the case,
which involves the Union Pacific Rail
road Company. the Peavey Elevator
Company and the Trans Mississippi Ell
evator Company. One OF the chief al
legations in the case Is that the rail-
road company granted rebates to the
Peavey Elevator Company and gave II
| a monopoly of the grain business along
| the railroad.
Besides the Chicago Great Western
Railroad, the petitioners are the Chica-
go. Burlington and Quincy and the
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
roads. The rebating is said to have
been done at Omaha and Kansas City
Hefffinger, during the afternoon SEES
i B1On ttettntu tnat thV C"Noy 1872
| tor Company at Omaha. during the year
| had received 100000 bushels of grain
! OF this amount. he declared. that 1900
| 900 came from the Union Pacific Rail
road and the remainder from Iowa
| points
| lie said the company received about
| 80 per cent of the shipment u the
Union Pacific system. On the Union
Pacific grain his company, he said, re-
| ceived lac a bushel for handling. but
when asked the amount received Tor
taking care OF the remaining 100000
bushels admitted a profit, but declined
/ to state how much II was.
When asked II he did not think that
the lao contract aid rot make 1t easier
for his company in the way OF compe-
tition, the witness replied: Not Bit
we could continue buying country grain
without the Council Bluffs elevator
Just the same as ever, and all this fuss
and public opinion against us woult
be gone. This hoist Is now for sale.
| Edward P. Beck. manager OF the
Omaha Elevator Company at Council
Bluffs. was then called to the stand. but
shortly afterward the hearing adjourn
ed until morning.
Commissioner Knapp announcer tina,
one or two of the commissioners VIII
go to Omaha to hear the coal and oil
case on wednesday while others remain
In Chicago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-18
INSPECTION POSTPONED.
Taft,s Cuban Trip Interferes With
Tour Of Posts.

Washington, Sept. 17.--one result OF
Secretary Taft's mission to Havana Is
the indefinite postponement of trip
of inspection which he intended to make
with General Bell. chief of stan.
They were to have left Washington
about the end of the present month for
Chicamauga and then go westward to
Fort sheridan, Fort Smelling and Fort
Riley The trip was planned to afford
the Secretary an opportunity to ascer-
tain for himself the advantages of these
places for the establishment of a
great brigade and even division post.
Provided the Secretary's mission In
Cuba does not consume too much time,
the inspection trip may yet be made
before the assembling OF the next ses-
sion OF Congress.
AS Secretary Taft is ex-officio Presi-
dent OF the American Red Cross and
Assistant Secretary Bacon as a member
OF the Executive Committee, their alb
sence from Washington may also OPP
crate to cause a postponement of the
meeting of the Executive Council. which
had been called for the 25th instant. to
wind up some business connected with
the San Francisco relief measures.