The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

the Confectionery. Capt. John Curtis of the Richmond Lee camp, is the originator ot the proposition, and this camp will glVe the matter full consideration at it's meeting next month.
 If this monument is erected" says Captain Curtis, ..the work must be done before the Confederate soldier passes away. It should stand in Richmond. tho home of the Confederacv, as an everiast- ing tribute to those faithful helpers whose suffering in time of war has not been and can never be appreciated and un- derstood"
 The cooperation of the Daughters and Sons of the Confectionery will be invoked and If the resolution meets with general favor, the proposition will go before tue big reunion al Birmingham foR official ap- proNal and indorsement.
 To Release Woman.
 Through the efforts of former Con sressman Davison, assistant district at torney of the eastern Kentucky district, the President has taken two months off the sentence imposed by Judge Cochran upon Mrs. Alkaline Rose of Jackson coun- ty, and she will be released from tho Laurel county jail at London two weeks from today. Mrs Rose on May 10 was convicted of making and selling moon- shine whisky at a still in the mountains of Jackson. Two years before this her husband, an illicit distlller, died, leaving her with eight small children to support. She had no means of doing so other than to apply his methods of earning livcli hood. For nearly two years she man aged to eke out an existence by selling the moonshine of her own manufacture. Finally the revenue agents located the still; she was arrested, brought before Judge Cochran's court, convicted and sen- fenced to six months in jail The law also provided for q fine, and Sl000 was placed against her. Her family of eight children is in a deplorable condition, scat tered among neighbors, almost as lilly prepared to take care of them as herself Citizens of Jackson and Laurel counties talked with Assistant District Attorney Davison about the pathetic features of the case, and petition to the President was drawn up praying for her release. Judge Cochran gave it his cordial indoTst- ment, and the attorney general in turn recommends favorable action by the Pres ident. who wipes out the fine and com nutes the sentence. Mrs Rose promises that she will neither make nor sell any more moonshine.
 Southern Mail Service.
 Under the heading "Punkkissimo, "This Southern Mail Service Is Certainly Fierce" the Washington Star prints the following:
 Owing to the present railway schedules letters from Washington to cities in the tiers of states, If mailed after o'clock in the morning, do not leave Washington until Il o'clock at night, so it is possible for them to lie in the city postoffice for fourteen hours after mailing The first mail train leaves at 8 a. m. That and the il D. m. train will carry registered letters. The a. m. train will not do so, as it has no railway mail clerks aboard. Until recently there was a mail train leaving Washington at p. m. for the south, but that has been discon- tnued. It was said at the office of the second assistant postmaster general today that it would be possible to send mail by more circutous routes to the south, but that nothing would be gained in tme It was also said that there Is no remedy for this condition except for the railways to put on additional trains.
 Crosstie Problem.
 The railroads of the country are face to face with the problem of lumber supply for crossties. They can no long4 have choice of the best. but must take what is to be had. It is not so much a question of price as of absolute shortage in the best grades.
 In 1906 the railroads of the country pur- chased 103, GOO, 900 ties. Since each tie con tains, on the average, 30 board feet or enough to make d plank thirty feet long one foot wide and one inch thick this number of ties equals over three billion board feet, or one-twelfth of all saw tim Der produced in the year
 Nearly one-half of the ties were oak,