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NOTES AND PERSONALS.

MT. R. L. Pugh is visiting Mir Gus Robe in Livingston, Ala.
 Mrs. Charles M. Wood and little son, who have been visiting Mrs. R. G. Green, left yesterday for Gadsden.
 MT. and Mrs. J. s. McDaren of Chatta- nooga are visiting Mrs. Georgia Cassidy and her daughter. Mrs. Leslie on Thir- teenth street, south.
 Mrs. Kate E. Moore is visiting Mrs. S. D. Weakley.
 The Ladies Aid society of the South Highlands Presbyterian church will give an alfresco party Thursday evening at the residence of Mrs. S. D. Weakley.
 Miss Grace and Miss Ethel Harrell are at Blount Springs, where they will spend the summer.
 Mrs. F. F. Jackson and her little son Percy Nixon at their residence at Nor wood.
 Dr. D. Edward Drennen is seriusly sick with appendicitis at Hot Springs. His mother and brother left Friday night to be with him.
 Mrs. R. B. Conner has returned from a visit to Conner.
 Mrs. l.. A. Hobart. the sister of Mrs. w. M Byrd, Jr., left the city last Thursday
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WEDDING OF MISS MOOAR.

Miss Clara Belle Mooar and Mir. Edward Jennings Lee Rust will be married Tues day morning at o'clock The ceremony will take place at the brides home and will be performed by the Rev. Quincy Ewing.
 The brides sisters. Miss Ruth Mooar and Miss Elizabeth Mooar, will be the maids and MT. Rust's brother of Pitts burg will be the best man. A number of guests will be present, including friends from out of town, as follows: MT. and Mrs. J. B. McClary and daughters Misses Lucile and Helen, of Sheffield; Mrs. R. c. Rogers of Marietta, Ga; Lieut. and Mrs. c. A. Lynch of West Point, N. Y; Miss Chynoweth of Fort McPherson Ga.
 The bride will be married in a trav- cling suit. The bridal trip will be taken. to Pass Christian and along the gulf coast. and later they will visit MT. Rusts relatives in Virginia, They will make their home in Birmingham A wedding break fast will be served and the guests have been limited to 100.
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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS OF 'oe.

A great deal has been said about the girl graduates of the Birmingham schools, but the boys have been rather left out of 1t.
 There are the young men of one 'o6 class especially who deserve the highest com mendation; the boys of the Birmingham High school. They have come out win ners. the whole sixteen of them.
 They are an exceptional set of fellows, all told; good athletes, good, all-round scholars, and healthy, wholesome, ambi- tious boys. They are not afraid of work, and they have ideals worth the while.
 It took the boys of their caliber to make Virginia what 1t was a century ago; to make Massachusetts.
 And there are those among these six teen young men just graduating who will make their mark in this city, and in this state, maybe in the country before many years shall pass. "Prospice' is their mot
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St. John were married in Memphis on June at the home of the brides aunt, Mrs. ". B. Morgan. After leaving Men1- phis they visited Henderson, Tenn, Bir- mingham and Decatur. They received many handsome presents among which was a chest of silver from the office force of the Memphis Furniture Manufact- uring company, and a check for $100 from the president of the company. After July 1 they will be at home to their friends at 1866 Carr avenue, Memphis.
 Mrs & B. Dunlop and son, Hugh are spending the month in Atlanta and Ma rietta, Ga They will be joined later by MT. Dunlop.
 Dr. J. Ross Snyder returned Thursday from Boston, where he attended the meet ing of the American Medical associa- tion.
 Miss Ina Shepard and Miss Ottilie Buck shaw will give a recital at the studio of MT Edward c. Powell on the even ing of June 2l Invitations will be is- sued next week.
 MT F W. Dixon Mir. Rusnton and MT, H. r. Wilson have gone to Nevada, where they are interested in several gold mines. They will remain west all summer, and will join Mir. A. R. Dearborn, who Is also prospecting in Nevada gold fields. MT. Herman Alber has recently returned
 The marriage of Miss Mona St. Clair of this city and MT. Frank Lydel came as a surprise to relatives here. The marriage
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MRS. RUSSELL BETTER.

A report received in the city yesterday announcing the sudden death of Mrs. l.. s. Russell at Louisville is untrue.
 Mrs. Russell has been seriously i'll but has greatly improved.
 She left Birmingham with Mr. Russell several days ago for New York and on her return stopped in Louisville, her for mer home, for visit to her mother. She will return shortly to Birmingham.
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TO TOUR THE WEST.

The AleXander-Du party will leave Bir- mingham July for San Francisco by way of Kansas City. They will tour Colorado, stopping at Denver and at Colorado Springs. After a visit in Salt Lake City the party will go to the Yellowstone Ma tional park and arrive in Frisco on July 23
 They will have a delightful stay in California at Los Angeles, Pasadena and San Gabriel Mission, then will start for the Grand Canon and return by way of Arizona.
 Thus in a few weeks all the interesting and picturesque points of the west will be covered. The party is personally con ducted and has invariably proven most delightful
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TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY.

The Womans Christian Temperance union of Birmingham will observe its twentieth anniversary Tuesday, June 19. special meeting will be held In the par lors of the First M F. church at D. m,
 A history of the work, personal remi- nisences and talks by old and new mem- bers will make up the programme of what promises to be an interesting occasion.
 Many changes have occurred during these years, some who were once members are now engaged in other work; some have changed their viewpoint and some have become indifferent
 All old members and friends are earn estly requested to join with the local union in this anniversary meeting.
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ham she entered the Benedictne convent on the north side and graduated there a little over seven years ago. After q brief course at the Massey Business col lese, but a few months practically, she entered the flrm--then of Walker & Grubb as stenographer. Her work in Mir. Grubb' s office for the past five years has been more in the nature of colleague and law partner than as subordinate.
 Almost all of the minor cases that come before the firm she has handled alone. She has a quick eye, and a sound, Secure judgment. She is young woman of brains and she Is essentially feminine a pretty, charming and attractive girl.
 She Is very small and slender, with a fine, erect carriage and a lightning quickness of movement and action She is thoroughly forelgn-looking- Spanish looklng-her hair Is so black and her eyes so dark. Her face, very thin, is sensitivey moulded, and extraordinarily interesting.
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WEII-SIMONS,

MT. and Mrs. Herman Well have issued invitations to the marriage of their daugh- ter, Nina to MT. Irvine Simons on Sun day evening" June 24, 1906 at o'clock at their residence 3006 Highland avenue.
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to, and Forward" 1t means to them in earnest.
 The class members who graduated are: Ralph Sheldon Barrow, Charles Richmond Estes, Clarence Johnson Going, Henry J. Weiss, Jr.. Thomas Anglin White James Nelson Montgomery Leon Crumpton Bradley, Lee Allen Brooks, Roscoe Cham- blee, Samuel Francis ClabauSh, William Oliver Cox, Thomas Bailey Dryer, Ster- ling Sidney Lanier, IT, Tom Courtney Senn, Paul West and Clement R. Wood.
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Call on Hugh Scales, the florist, for artistic floral work, and fresh cut flowers. Will give all work personal attention, Doster-N -Northlng. tons Drug Store, both phones 02O.
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lure or the evening ana ne was most s-,.,.,,nn...""u,,,u,u,. n".,,un"n.u in motif and handling and the color is not half bad and Is in tone with the gen. eral look of things. Is is not flnnicky but broad and simple in line and treat ment. and really very decorative.
 It represents an ancient German castle of feudal times against a background of brown hill, while it's own domain of spreading green lies far to right and left, patroled, here a distinctly modern touch by lines of Lombardy poplars, stately, up- right, like sentines
 This same landscape effect is to be car- rled out in art glass in the cafe win dows.
 The mantel is of red brick massive and simple in design, and there are big and irons in the open fireplace.
 The interest all of the members of the club, and there are $50 enrolled, have taken In the remodeing and up-to-date equipment of their little cafe has been marked. It has been observed that the men of Birmingham do not know any thing about art, but they do know.
 The rathskeller proves it. They are completely vindicated by the rathskeler The hall Is not so artistic. not quite! The frieze is too like Bierstadt and the red is too red But all men, anywhere, would select just that shade no doubt.
 The ponderous thought it takes for art and house decorations and housekeeping in general is a weighty business, and the men have had their hands full. And they have done everything by themselves.
 They have considered every detail point by point For instance, the other day Secretary Tilghman and Major De Valcourt were standing in deep study be- .F ..II. ing admringly at the andirons.
 Its Empire" said one of the profess sional decorators. "and not in keeping"
 That's so," said the major, they'll never do in the world"
 '"They are not what I've ordered" said MT. Tilghman. T want heavy black ones, you know"
 "Those there will never do.' said the major, never doi''
 "But-just a little touch of Paris" had dared to say upstairs, almost chok- ing with the Puritan gloom, and remem- bering the solemn day when MT. Eustis had shown me through the club long ago, and pausing before the billiard room, said so innocently:
 This is the billiard room-where they play billiards"
 However, they changed the andirons.
 But they are going to give a stein  party before long, and everybody must bring a stein. So at least-if there isn't going to be any French for comfort there'll be Dutch.
 Then. as I said before, it's Poet Robert Brownings Fra Hippo Lppi on the raths- keller chairs, and not the other Brother!
 Mr and Mrs. John Steele Jen1ison issued the invitations yesterday for the marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth Virginia, to Mir. Edward Thomas Holmes, on the even- ing of Wednesday, June D. at o'clock. at St. ys-on-the-Highlands
 Mir. and Mrs. Samuel T. Eehols of New Orleans, formerly of Birmingham, have announced the marriage of their daughter. Sarah Earl. to MT. Arthur F. Murdoch of Liverpool England. Mir. and Mrs. Mur- doch sailed from New York yesterday. and after few months abroad will re- turn to New Orleans to reside
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10 Remove Freckles a Pimples h Ten Days. Use Nadinola

A new discovery, sold under a positive guar nntee and money re- funded in every case where it fails to remove freckles, pimples, liver spots, sun-tan, sallow- ness, collar discolora- tions, blackheads and all eruptions of the skin, no matter of how long standing, Cures ordinary cases in 10 days, and the -zret In on dave ftnp
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Highland Pharmacy's Peo- ple's Phone is now lO6O. Same number as their Bell Phone.
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cry few years visits her early home. For years she taught in the High schools Of Chicago before she visited the south.
 She has conducted the institute in this city with marked ability. Graduates from her school are admitted into any of the large universities without examination, so high Is the standard maintained.
 One of the brightest pupils to graduate this session was Miss Jessie Bonner. She has attended the Pollock-Stephens school since she was seven years old, and she
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graduates with the highest honors.
 She is a very young girl and very blonde Her face Is f1ower-like in it's sweetness. beauty and freshness. while her nature and manner are so gracious and gentle, so frank and so utterly charm ing that one does not marvel that she Is so adored by her teachers, her friends and her classmates.
 Her school record has been unsurpass- ed. She will enter one of the big col leges next fall, possibly Wellesley.
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Col. T. c. Bush has broken the record; he has delivered a commencement ad- dress that did not bore a single listener.
 It was last Wednesday evening at the Pollock-Stephens institute when the eigh teen charming young women whose pie lures are reproduced on this page today received their diplomas.
 The talk by Colonel Bush was the fea- ture of the evening and he was most
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Dr. and Mrs. L. c. Carson of Greens boro were in Birmingham yesterday on their way to Rochester. Minn., where they will visit Dr. Mayo at the St. Marys hospital. Mrs. Carson is in poor health.
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Mir. and Mrs. A. M. St. John left here yesterday after a two days visit to Mrs. St. Johns father. Dr. w. H. Murphy, at 2O15 Twelfth avenue, north. Mir. and Mrs.
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pr. w. H. Murphy returned Thursday from Memphis where he has been since last week. He went to attend the mar riage of his daughter, Miss Sue Murphy, to MT. A. M. St. John.
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Mrs. l.. A. Hobart, the sister of Mrs. w M Byrd. Jr., left the city last Thursda,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-23
NEGRO MOB ATTACKS THEATRE
"CLANSMAN" GETS ADVERTISING
1T HADN'T BARGAINED FOR.

Press Agents EFFORT 20 Draw Attention 70
Philadelphia Theatre Results In Mot
I'm which Thousands Join Windows
Smashed and Many Persons Injured.
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 22,-Rioting by thou
sands OF negroes was caused tonight by
the efforts OF the press agent Of the Rev.
Thomas Dixon's play. The Clansman,"
70 draw attention to the theatre.
Before IL was ended panic reigned inside
the Walnut Street Theatre, where the play
was on, oar service to the central part Of
the city was stopped, windows were broken
and a score or more Of blacks were badly
beaten up. Several went to hospitals and
a number were arrested.
Pursuing the usual policy Of the manage
ment. race prejudice had been appealed to
for q week. A committee Of ministers
called upon Mayor Weaver to-day to pro-
test against the play and In the afternoon
thousands Of postal cards were sent to the
1000 negroes In the "black belt calling
upon them to march upon the theatre to-
night and stop the play by force. Recent
lynohings in the South were attributed "a 1t.
At 2 O'Clock several hundred negroes
had gathered. By 8 there we're 5000 Of
them filing the streets and two squads of
reserve police from City Hall had all
they could do to protect the the~atregoers.
IL was not long after the curtain went up
that a fight began in the gallery, and down
into the street came q negro, his head and
face streaming with blood.
Rush the theatrel' the mob cried. but
just then q hundred more police charged
on the blacks and the battle began.
While the riot was at Its Insight and the
police were firing over the heads Of the
surging negroes. Director Of Public Safety
McKenty and Mayor Weaver's chum. Fred
erick ]. Shoyer, pushed through and gained
the theatre steps. They and three negro
ministers who Joined them managed to stop
the fight and Quoted the mob.
After a council meeting had been ar
ranged for tomorrow morning, n an
nounced to the mob, 1t began to melt away,
1t il probable that the press agent will
be arrested for melting a riot.
Considerable property damage was
caused by stones. and hardly q handful
remained inside TO see the play.
-The Clansman" il a dramatization OF
the Rev. Thomas Dixon's novel OF the SAM
name and Is a melodrama of the Recon
struction period and the Kuklux Khan
II deals with the relations between the
negroes and the whites, and Its chief villair
is a mulatto ~oficeholder who wants to
marry a white woman. The play oauscc
some comment and aroused some loca
feeling in the South. It was produced II
New York last winter and attracted little
attention.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-23
LIEUT.. HAMILTON SURRENDERS.
MysteriousIy Disappeared Two Months
AEO-Hs Accounts short.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-Seoond Lieut..
John s. Hamilton, Twelfth Infantry, who
mysteriously disappeared from Mount
Gretna while his regiment was encamped
there about two months ago. has surren-
dered to Gen. Carter, commander OF the
Department OF the Lakes at Chicago. accord
ing TO q despatch received at the War Depart
msnt this morning. When Hamilton dis
appeared it was animated that he was short
in his accounts. Some time afterward the
War Department received a letter from him,
mailed from Chicago, in which he said he
Intended 10 commit suicide. Nothing more
was heard Of him until yesterday, when he
voluntarily gave himself up, having APP
parently abandoned his intention to end
his life.
BY returning at this time Hamilton has
saved himself from being dropped from
The rolls and charged with desertion. He
will now be tried for absence without leave
and for Ahortage In his accounts. He was
sent TO Fort Sheridan to await the action
OF the Department.
Hamilton entered the army as a private
In 1880 and in 1907 was made a commissioned
officer. His home 10 in New York.
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BURGOO AND JULEP FEST.
Bankers and Their Wives Entertained on
HeImOnt's Kentucky Farm.

AA0E DAhu ~ " W.
BeImOnt's Kentucky Farm.
LEXINGTON, KY, Oct. ~22.-Kentucky
somen, Kentucky horses and, last but not
least, Kentucky mint juleps were the three
things which charmed seventy-flve bankers
and their wives and daughters from New
York, Washington, Boston and other Eastern
points to-day, during their brief stay in the
Blu Grass.
The party were going home after a short
tour Of the South following the annual con
vention of bankers in st. Louis last week.
and she Lexington Chamber Of Commerce
did much to make their trip to the Blue
Grass section OF Kentucky one long to be
remembered.
The party we're first taken to the ElmendoTf
Stud Of James B. Haggin, where an hour
was spent in viewing the scenery and horses
that have made the place famous. From
there they vent to the nursery farm OF
August Belmont. At the latter place Ken
lucky burgoo was brewed and the festive
mint julep was on tap. So well did the
| Fasteners take to the famous ailments that
their departure was postponed for thrs
hours.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-23
DIR THOMASs BALLOON WINS.
Beats the Famous Centaur In First Ameri-
can Distance Race.

PIrTsPIELD, Mass, Oct. 22.-The Orient,
the French balloon that carried DR.. and
Mrs. Julian P. Thomas Of New York on
their fight from this city last March, to-
day won the first balloon race held in
America, by defeating by twenty miles the
Centaur. the champion long distance balloon
of the world, in which Count De la Vaulx
OF Paris, in 1900, made his flight from Paris
to the interior OF Russia.
The Centaur, Charles T.. Walsh pilot, m
Major Samuel Reber and Capt. Charles
De F. Chandler observers, landed near
Bennington al III o'clock this afternoon
and the Orient, Leo Steven, pilot, and
Capt. Homer w. Herdge observer, was
reported as landing at Las O'Clock at
Jamaica, Vt, twenty-seven miles north Of
Brattleboro.
The race began from the Aero Park in
this city at 1921 o'clock to-day. The
~aeronauts had been here awaiting good
weather since Friday and early this morn
ing began initiating the balloons. Of which
the Centaur carried $1,000 cubic feet Of gas
and the Orient about 5000 cubic feet. Z
The start was spectacular. The ball
looms got away within a half minute Of
each other and both ~aeronauts Immediately
began the use OF ballast TO reach a favor
ahA air current. The airships took a
northwesterly direction until they had
crossed the Taghonic Mountain, when an
other current carried them to the north and
into Vermont.
The CeRtaur reached an altitude OF e,sss
feet and the Orient 5000 feet. Both bal
loons made perfect landings.
In connection with the fight OF the bal
looms was an automobile q from here
in which Floyd knight and William Archi-
bald, driving racing automobiles, and Cort-
land Field Bishop, driving a French touring
car, took part.
Bishop, who carried four passengers,
led until near Bennington. whore hismachine
broke down. and knight won the race.
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FELB on SUBWAY TRACK.
scunne 1t Circle station Train stepped
with Jerk but wheels lnJure Man.

Scunne 1t Circle station TRAIN stepped
with Jerk hut wheels InJure Man.
A man whose name the police got as Alex
ander Snsdden of 2SS East l22d street got OF
a northbound subway train at the Circle last
night with two friends. All three seemed
70 be unsteady. They pushed their way
through the big after theatre crowd waiting
for trains until they finally got into a row
with the negro porter, Alfred Moore, near
the ticket box.
Some one punched the porter and he re-
taliated, It lie alleged, by pushing Snedden.
The latter staggered toward the edge Of the
platform and finally toppled over onto the
track just as the ~northbound local train
whistled az IL was rounding the curve below
the station. Many women who had seen
Snedden fall turned their heads when they
realized that the train must be upon the
man, M some OF them screamed. The
men looked on powerless.
The motorman Of the local saw the crowd
surging toward the edge Of the platform.
and finally made out the form Of the man on
the rack. He put on the brakes with a sud
denness that jolted all the occupants Of the
crowded cars. and brought the motor car to
a stop with the front wheels pressing against
Snedden's body. Snedden was hurriedly
lifted to the platform. He had several cuts
on his head. his arm was Acerated. and he
had scratches on his face. all from his fall.
He was sent TO Roosevelt Hospital in an
ambulance. Moore was locked mp.
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MORE TROOPS OUT AFTER UTES.

Another Detachment Of Tenth Cavalry
Under Arms Movements Of the indiana.
OMAHA, Oct. 72.-That the War Depart
meut considers the Indian war scare In
Wyoming as very grave Is shown by the
fact that Gen. A. w. Greedy, commander
Of the Northern Military Division, who left
Omaha Last Friday night for st. Louis.
returned here to-day to take personal
charge OF the campaign.
Late this afternoon $50 more soldiers
OF the Tenth Cavalry were sent West, maxi
ing more than 500 soldiers who are now
out after the renegades.
This last detachment will leave the train
within a mile Of the scene OF the Custer
massacre. II they End that tho Indians
have passed that point they will attempt
to beat them to the crossing Of the Yellow
stone River. Onoe across this river, the
country IL 90 sparsely settled that It viii
be dificuit TO round them up.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 33.-The Commits
sioner Of Indian Affairs this afternoon re-
Ceived a telegram from Indian Agent Rey-
nolds at Gillett, Wyo., which says hat on
the 18th the Utes were camped forty miles
north OF Gillett, on Little Powder River,
Passing through Gillett the Indians bought
800 pounds Of -four. 200 pounds OF coffee
200 pounds OF sugar and some bacon at one
store; at another they bought $50 worth
of provisions, paying cash. They sold quite
a quantity Of coyote hides and bead work
and twenty head Of horses for about $500
They bought some ammunition. There
are 400 Indians in he party. They have
200 horses and are driving forty head OF
cattle, and have made no hostile demon
e~tration whatever. They are probably
now In Montana headed for the Crows or
Chayapnaa