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Invariably meet the same fate. The plate
Of an ordinary and widely current design
Is usually set aside. Rallies Will get 10
work on II with acids and a stout f.e and
after removing all signs OF identity will
hide Il until II can safely be sold through
the dealers. The same Is done with jewel
~ OF an ordinary type. All the rest
brooches, earrings, watch cases, trinkets,
rings, gold and silver plate-go into the
common melting pot TO be finally run into
the Jewellers bars"
As a matter OF fact RafIies always con-
verts the bulk OF his plunder into the bull
lion. leaving out little besides the sparklers
for later sale. The craeK sman is too eau
t.ous a criminal and not quite commercial
enough a man 10 take risks by holding his
stun for a deposit OF the bricks with the
FEDERAL fence. In six days for he Is not
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-23
Germany and the Textile Arts.

THE weaving school at Chemnltz, Ger
many. has made such progress during
the last few years in the point Of
pupils attending and continually in
creasing number OF teachers being EN-
ployed THAI the old quarters have been out
grown and a new and spacious building
has Just been moved into. I've cost OF Iul-
t!on amountsAo S64 per annum for pupils OF
German nationality and $50 for foreigners.
Each pupil must pay an additional lee OF
81 TO cover expenses for weaving materials
Used IN instruction. A few sti9ends are
granted each year 70 talented and needy
students II has been the experience OF
tie school that all who complete its cur
rlculum ind ready employment imme-
.diately uoon leaving the Institution. The
new building has been constructed at q
cost OF $1,000, and the government al
Saxonv has voted a sum OF s. 900 annually
az fund for It's support This amount has
been secured for A number OF years a
come.
The school was originally founded sboul
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signs Of original identity. A turn Of the
pot into a rough mold OF black sand, and
you have the Jewellers bars" Of com
merce. which Uncle Sam so delights to-
refine and pay good money for.
Any one who does nbt accidentally drop
a Jimmy on the threshold can deposit
these bars and old plate In the Wall street
Office. An appearance of respectabllity Is
all that Is essential IN the bearer OF the
brick OF stolen bullion, with a plausible
story for use in the rare event Of suspi-
cion being aroused. That any reasonable
story will do Is abundantly proven by the
fact that although these are sometimes
Investigated. never, so far as the memory
OF the officials runs, has a burglar been
arrested through banking his loot with
Uncle Sam.
The brick Il weighed before him and .
receipt given for t. The bar is then re-
fined, and when he calls for Il later with
the receipt he can exchange Il either fug
bricks Of the pure gold and silver, 80 fne.
which have been found In his Jewellers
bar" or for the value OF the same at the
price then prevailing In the open market,
less q trihing fee for refining.
| An odd thing about this is that he could
| get the money for his brick the next day
after depositing It, While he would have
| to walt one week to get back the gold
and silver which the refinery would sep
J arate out Of the base metals all fused to-
j
face that the of1cials Of the assayinE
/ plant, II desired, can compute the value %
each brick deposited with them IN q single
day, while the reduction of the brick. acs
cordlng to their practice, takes six days.
Z They take four samples from each en- ]
and the middle OF the bar deposited and
run these through the test room, whe G
sample assays are made. Here the sma
bit OF mixed metal is fused in a small pot
made OF bone ash. Each bit Is carefully
marked IN the beginning. and when the
bone ash crucibles are arranged on the
platinum pans, sixty at a time, to be pui
into the gas furnaces they are always
put on from left to right and from the
tray toward the workman, so that the
same bit is followed all the way through
the operation. 1t is a simple method and
mistakes seldom occur, the four different
samples assayed invariably betraying sucf
a mistake by a discrepancy in the fna'
checking up The white heat in the gas
furnaces causes the mixed metal to lique y
and the tin, zinc, copper and other s,
metals are soaked up in the bone ash, tina
material having a strong attraction viii
It's alka.les for them and having none ~
the gold and silver. They emerge iron
D the FIRE as a white pellet.
This cools, Is hammered fat and washed
b In a solution Of nitric acid which takes OF
7 what remains OF the bone ash residue. J
q boiling in concentrated nitric acid take
y This Is washed OF nitric acid in boiling ant
4 cold water and weighed. The silver IL
8 prec!pltated from the acid with a slmpl
y Teagent and likewise weighed. II all tn
n four samples check against one anothe
8 the result Is compared with the origina
o weight OF the samples and the proportion
I of gold and silver thus determined Com
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fifty years ago. and Will. therefore, soon
celebrate its seml-centennial During this
time more than TWO thousand pupils
skilled IN all the arts OF the textile indus
try. have left its halls and taken their
places among the ranks OF those who By
virtue OF patience, diligence and lptelli-
gence have raised the manufacture Of dress
goods, hosiery, fabric gloves, SC, In Sax
Jny into world vide importance.
70 support the theoretical instruction.
laboratories and practical wOrkrooms nftsi
up with the latest machinery OF ya-.yus
kinds. run by electricity. are placed AZ M.
disposal OF the students. Liberal coIacffons
OF designs and a small l.brary are also con
stanuy ia use, the one IN practical Instrl,c-
ton and the other for reference. Thai Inc
school stands high In the estimation 81 ne
Chemnltz manufacturers Is amply pr,,sl
By the numerous presents wh.ca are cor
tinually given 70 augment the effect .yeness
OF the various collections, as well as thy
iab0ra tories. library. sc.
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ID II ever OCCUR 70 you Lnat your
Uncle Sam runs the greatest
fence" for thieves and burglars in
the United states7 SeaFtiing but
= true, he spends millions a year on
G. the Secret Service and the Post
ONCE detective force. Yet In the
government assay ONCE in Wall street he
runs the biggest and most convenient
fence for stolen gold and SILVER in the
country.
And. while the New York once is the
largest fence In the country, the other as
say establishments are exactly the same
thing. The proceeds OF countless burglartes
all over the country run into them as into
a mill, TO come out a shining grist of clean
gold dollars For at all Of these plumber
mills Uncle Sam not only rehnes the spells
OF gold and silver thieves n general. but he
also buys q good proportion OF the result
ing precious metal at market price and no
questions asked And the rest can be sold
a. the bullion establishments on the same
terms lust across the streOt-good, clean
money By The kindness OF genial Uncle
Sam for the cTfmfnars plumber.
OF COURSE, ne government does not dc
this out Of anY benevolent feeling toward
That eocauer4o man about town, the
burglar. 1ns conversion OF the loot into
marketable bullion OF ootn Of the Republic
is but a part Of the enormous business II
reflning, mostly for legitimate purposes
nat the federal administration doe
every year for the coinage, Tor use IN tn
arts, for the iswslTy trade. Yet no ont
Feahsas how great . figure IN that tota
= cut " the loot of Midnight marauder
and with what ridiculous ease every Sor
81 plnderer that makes plate, trinkets
tOwelry or any other gold or silver war
hs speciality has been allowed for year
- mako his loot an easily m3rketabl,
product, nay sometimes 10 convert II I'm
nediAtsiy into clean money, through tn
k4ndnO1s Of Unole Sam.
AZ the Wall street MIL OF the preciou
metals, for instance. $4,000 worth O
~gold jewellers bars. old plate, &c." wa
r0dned and bought during the year end
tnS July l, 1905 Nearly a million more Il
silver Of the same class went through tn
mill, coming out as good, clean dollars
And Il Is admitted by officials of the AS
say once that more than half OF thi
mass OF gold and silver IL the proceeds o
burElaries In other words. Uncle Sar
plays the part OF chief fence extraordinar
and plenipotentiary 70 the housebrelldn
profession In an annual amount OF owe
two millions In New York city alone an
something IKE ten millions in the Who'll
country.
The odd plate" which contributes {
ehis Illicit total. Is merely the plate whic
has been plundered from various sid,
boardA, had its monOgrams and otht
marks OF identity removed and then bee
battered up a little more/to give Il an al
pearance OF age. The Jewellers bars
are the result of dropping the settings
rings, watch cases, brooches match SAT,
and plate OF either unusual and easil
identihed, or much advertised design-bOl
gold and silver-intO plumber meltir
Dot. The gasolene fame Is hot enough
fuse the metals into a mass lacking a
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liable 20 arouse suspicion by asking for
his money at onCe, he comes back and re-
oeives In gold eagles and hundred dollar
bills the gold and silver he stole IN IN"
night a week back with a little more
trepldation he sells the remaining stun
to a crooked pawnDrokeT or antiques
merchant such az every Journeyman
rractsnan knows After all, Ihe JUNK
might By some freak OF fate be identified
and the Merchant, 10 save himself squeal
N him. But Uncle sam never squeals.
Re bas done the burglar the kindest serv-
Ice nossibl-. As safe and uncommunicauve
"a a church. he has played the fence to
nm on practically all his plumber. with
ONT 5, much as a thank you and huge y
to MI Rafies safety. convenience ana,
pCesFbly, amusement.
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putai.on OF the value OF the brick Is then
merely a matter Of simple arithmetic.
similar method on large scale is
followed with the mass OF the brick, with
the difference that cheaper materials are
used. making the process OF reduction take
six days When the operation Is com
pleted each brick is weighed and held
subject to the deposltor's order.
Thus 1t is that Raffies. II ne Is re-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-22
THE NEW ART MOVEMENT
WORK OF MRS. RAULSTON
BY ETHEL ARMIES.

is going to inaugurate here a school of
design. She will not close her studio until
August. She will leave then for few
weeks trip in the west returning here
In September.
She has done some portrait work, chiefly
in pastel. and she has several copies of
famous portraits that she did in the
Louvre and in the National museum in
London.
There are a hundred interesting things
in her studio-too many for the telling
delicately moulded and artistic things;
plates, vases, rose bowls, cups and saul
GERS, bon-bon boxes-everything and rich,
warm eolors and a thousand flowers en-
compass one, and then too she has few
things from the masters there. Echo of
the Greeks-a breath Of Paris.
She keeps abreast Of the times. She has
taken lately a course under Marshall Fry
of New York, that most able china decor
ator. In one of his recent announcements
he mentions the new movement in art
education, saying in part:
There are many china decorators who
are interested in the new movement in
art education, and who wish to do some
thing toward acquiring a knowledge of
the fundamental principles of fine art
which may be applied to ceramics.
1T has been felt by all who have given
the matter any thought that the reason
why our work has not achieved recogni-
ton from the art world is because we
have ignored the principles which gov
ern other branches of art and handlcraft
and have allowed great gulf to separate
us from other crafts and craftsmen, thus
denying ourselves the influence and in
spiration which we might derive from ac-
quaintance and intercourse with them.
"China decoration is usually under
taken with little or no previous training
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tageously through the medium of the ex-
change than by any other means.
A number of women, some of them
widows with young children to support
make a fairly good living in very
quiet and transformations way by doing
work that is sold at the exchange. Con-
signments of bread, cakes and pies are
made daily at the exchange and on
Saturdays regular sale has been insti-
tuted.
All sorts and kinds of women's work
is exhibited in the cafe on display coun-
tiers; worsted goods embroidered linens,
handkerchefs, doillies, handpainted score
cards, calendars, infants clothes of the
most delicate workmanship,-in fact all
sorts and kinds of things at the average
market value.
1t has frequently happened here when
through financial reverses the women of
gentle homes have been obliged to earn
their own living and there has appeared
no practicable means, the exchange has
engaged their services and secured for
them means of livelihood.
And 1t isn't a matter of trading little
bad Christianity for poor ice cream" as
an Episcopal bishop of the southern
diocese recently remarked in protest
against the bug-bear lawn fetes "in be-
half of the church." Quite on the other
hand the exchange grants full money
worth and even more for whatever pur-
chase is made.
What Is is the best.
A number of the working women of
the city make the objection that the
prices at the exchange are too high and
so the cafe is placed out of bounds
where they are concerned. The prices are
not too high considering the wholesome
cooking and the sort of food offered.
And that PAYS in the end undoubtedly
Another lunch room designated to fill
the special needs of working women Is
the Y. w. C. A.. The prices of food
here are almost next to nothing and the
food is naturally commensurate with
that price. An effort is now being made
to change tho conditions of the Y. w. c.
A. restaurant. New quarters are badly
needed and a suitable dining room, more
wholesome and better food, better cooked
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-22
DANCE AT ALLEN SCHOOL.

The most important social event of the
week was the dance given at the Allen
school last Friday evening in honor of
Miss Bess Ressegine, the charming young
guest of Miss Elizabeth Dearborn, and
Miss Mary Hope, who Is visiting Miss
Sadie Gillespy.
The dance was given by Miss Lillian
Minor and Miss Fern Minor and 1t was
largely attended.
The guests were:
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Hood, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hunter Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Minor, Mr. and Mrs. Jones @. Moore,
Mrs. John English of Ensley; Miss Res
segine. Miss Elizabeth Dearborn, Miss
Mary Hope Miss Sadie Gillespy, Miss
Lizzie Morris Mason, Miss Kate and Miss
Lucille Garrett, Miss Sara Ca-llen, Miss
Florence Smith, Miss Helen Coulbourne.
Miss Corrie Hood, Miss Agnes Terrell,
Miss Mildred Tynes, Miss Wilcie Dick
erson, Miss Josephine Minor, Miss May
Collins, Miss Lucille Moore, Miss Willie
May Bates Miss Mabel Moore. Miss Nell
lie Nabers Miss Lucille Davidson, Miss
May Nevins, Miss Hancie Mcknight, Miss
Harris, Miss Laura Oliver of Calera, Miss
Leone Cosby, Miss Mabelle Roden, Miss
Mary Ware. Miss Mary and Miss Isabel
Bane, Miss Donald Seals. Miss Mary Gil
lespy, Miss I4inly Graham, Mr.. Thomas
Sinclair, MT. ClyU0 oOulo Oh heiluisah,
Mr.. Thomas Catchings, Mr.. Frank Den
son. Mr.. Alex Montgomery, Mr.. owen
Gillespy, Mr. Chaplain Hodges. Mr.. Ru-
fus Hagood, Mr.. William Dunn Mr.. Reed
Lawson, Mr.. William Garrett, Mr. Eu-
gene Munger, Mr.. Charles Reed. Mr..
Thornton Estes. Mr.. Robert Ware, Mr..
Charles Woodruff, Mr. Sorsby Jemison,
Mr.. Frank Clarke, Mr. Joseph Hulse,
Mr.. Michael Nolan Mr.. Jack and Mr..
William Orrison, Mr.. Benjamin Reynolds,
Mr.. Boseman Peppermint, Mr.. Ernest
Shoaff, Mr.. George Kolb. Mr.. Edward
Erwin, Mr.. Clyde Hunter, Mr.. Norville
Cullom Mr.. William and Mr.. Daniel Web
ster, Mr. Alex Dearborn Mr.. Murray
Wittichen Mr.. Samuel Ledbetter, Mr..
Robert Munger Mr.. Ira and Mr.. Walter
Hood Mr.. Bun Roberts, Mr.. Russell
Brooks Mr. Gurley Coke, Mr.. Bert
Meadow Mr.. Edward Archibald. Mr.. Carl
Seals, DIR. Long and DR. Callen.
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One Of the few examples of what is
termed lie Art Noveau" to be seen in
Birmingham is at the Southern club
IN the rathskeller-and It is a very in
teresting bit of decorative work.
In the studio of Mary E. Raulston in
the Watts building there are. however,
other examples for Mrs. Raulston is an
exponent Of just this particular branch
of art
It is taking the American cities by storm
fairly during late years-this Art Nou-
veau movement. It is, however, expensive
and 1t has been having something of a
conflict with the natura1istic methods
which have prevailed up until quite lately
in the matter of mural decoration, frieze
painting, wall paper design and china
decoration.
1T consists merely in making the draw
Ing first directly from nature, from the
flower, plants or leaf to be used, and
In adapting and applying that to the vase,
plate or whatever work you happen to
be engaged on" remarked Mrs. Raulston,
applying 1t with design she repeated,
conventonalizing-neoe For in
stance these plates" she took down from
the high plate shelf around her studio
two or three plates of most striking
workmanship, design and coloring.
They are among the latest she has dec
forated and they are unusually artistic.
sThere is an extraordinary simplicity and
isxaotitude of line in the treatment and
they are altogether different from the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-22
AT WOMAN'S EXCHANGE
GREAT PROGRESS SHOWN

The success of the Woman's exchange
under the efficient administration Of Miss
Janet B. Walters has become a matter
of comment throughout Birmingham.
Starting on rather a two by four basis-as
almost every organization of that kind
begins-it has gradually increased not
only in extent but in stability and in un-
questioned usefulness to the community.
Among the officers Of the board of man
agement are Mrs. David Roberts, who
is president and Miss Annie Williams,
who is secretary. The restaurant in con-
nection with the exchange Is but one OF
its departments. This aims to provide
Clean wholesome well-eooked food at
reasonable rates and this it does.
There are few cafes in the city where
one is so entirely assured of these facts
The exchange kitchens are open to in
spectlon at any time. The entire place
is spotless. The very best materials and
ingredients are used in the cooking and
the most up-to-date methods
In the dining room itself the linen is
always scrupulously clean, the tables
neat and carefully set and the service ex-
celent.
The quarters now-in the basement of
the Title Guarantee oompany-are far
superior to the former ones, but they
are scarcely adequate for the greatly In
creasing patronage and the present needs
of the exchange.
In addition to the cafe there is
cake and preserve department where the
best home made pickles. preserves and
jellies can be procured. These are made in
the homes of the various women who
make a regular profession of it and are
enabled to sell these goods more advan-
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other examples of china painting in the
studio
1.-THE French of course, have been work.
Ing so for yearsP'fI looked up at the
Mucha poster over the door--a perfectly
stunning thing in grace of color, form
design as is everything he does.
And Bfucha is coming to New York."
said Mrs. Raulston
Which news means quite the full and
triumphant christening of the infant az
art nouveau" in America. All the art
students will go deliciously wild when
that is noised abroad, after the way art
students have.
Mucha, however, being really worth
the fever, 1t doesn't matter much
Nearly as worth as Puvis de Chav-
annes! Those two, the creators of the
great new school of decorative art.
ut is all form first" said Mrs. Rauls-
aon. form and design, and low, fiat
tones.
And such a harmony of color and
fine exquisite line and simplicity that is
tParadse," might have added had 1 been
ranging the art school world again. But
q didn't quite.
For good workmanship Mrs. Raulston
has a fine enthusiasm.
She can do good work herself and she
has spent years In study. She is an Eng
sishwoman, but has lived in America so
long she Is American-nearly.
Her early home was Taunton, In Somer-
Eetshire and It was here as a little girl
that she received her first art training,
1n one of the many branch schools of the
celebrated Kenslngton Art academy.
Later she studied with John Walker a
spupil OF Sir Frederick leighton. and
supplemented her training with term
An Paris before coming to America.
Tt was not however. until many years
uater that she put her art training to
lany practical use when after her hus-
hands death she took a course in the de-
apartment of design of the Art institute in
Fhicago and began her career as a
4eacher and artist In that city.
For some time she was secretary OF the
Eeramio association of Chicago She
boined her sister Mrs. Henry Hiden in
Birmingham some seven or eight years
Rgo, established her studio here and has
been successful.
OF china painting she has made spe-
tcialty and her classes have all been
In this particular line. In the fall she
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-22
A HOUSE PARTY.

A charming house party is in progress
at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. I S.
Pound of this city. Their place is situ-
ated about twelve miles out of Talladega
on the Coosa river. so that there is BATH
ing, fishing and boating On the lawn
surrounding the house are a tennis court,
croquet grounds, a baseball diamond and
just recently a dancing pavilion has been
erected so there is dancing every evening.
Altogether 1t is an ideal country summer
place and quite a gathering of young
people are at present guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Pound Among them are Miss Ce-
ella MeCrossin, Miss Ireta McCrossin,
Miss Lizzie Lee Pound Of this city, Miss
Laura Baker Of Montgomery, Miss Grace
Pound, Miss Hattie Pound. Miss Hattie
Lee Smith and Mrs. l. e. Winburn of At
lanta, Mrs o. d. Atkins of this city, Mr..
Gilbert Jemison, DIR. George Edmonson
DR. W. A. Holbeck of Atlanta, Mr.. Leslie
Barker Mr.. Vernon Badham. Mr.. Clar-
ence Pound, Mr.. Robert Barker and Mr..
Howard A. Winburn.
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ciety free from expense, and if not sold
or accepted, removed by its owner with
out cost to the society.
Q. In the cake and preserve department,
there is a standard, and no one can en-
ter them without 5rst sending samples
pickles, preserves and jellies must be
sampled every year.
TO- Daily consignments of bread, cakes,
pies, ETC., can be received or not at the
discretion OF the manager
Il. No preserves will be received before
October 1 or after April 1.
u. No worsted goods will be received
between June l and September l.
49, Prices put upon articles cannot be
changed during the year, and should be
placed as low as possible since ready
sales are desirable.
a Articles sent by mail should be pre-
coded by an invoice letter.
Is. Checks drafts and money orders
should be payable to the ''Woman's Ex-
change"
16 The society does not consider itself
responsible for any loss or damage caused
by the exhibition of articles, nor for
articles that have been declined and have
not been called for by the owners with
In two weeks after notification.