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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-14
SHERIFF HILL HAS
 VERY FINE RECORD
CALVIN w. YOUNG TO BE SWORN IN AS SHERIFF OF LAUDERpALE COUNTY ToDAY-IS VERY POP ULAR.

Florence, January 3.-(Speeial )-Laud-
 erdale county will have new sheriff to- morrow. o. B. HILL who has served d fraction over six years. will retire to
 the walks of private life and Calvin w.
 Young will succeed him.
 Sheriff Eilrs record as an officer Is
 notable In several particulars. Perhaps no sheriff in the state has made as many important catches of criminals from other sections. He has performed his duty fearlessly and without favor, and 1t Is
 due to this fact that Lauderdale county
 has been free from lynchings during his
 term of office Twice have mobs gathered for the purpose of taking prisoners out to Lynch them. but 10 the leader, Sheriff
 Hill would say, @oorne and get him." And
 in both ca-aes ahe mob decided to abandon
 the attempt After prisoner is once In jail, they can't take him without hurting
 me- he has uften remarked, and those l who know hmm have taken him at his word
 Until The last term Of court, 1t had been matter Of pride to AIr. Hill that
 no prisoner had ever escaped from his custody. bat a combination of untoward circumstances broke this record. The | sheriff was taking a prisoner to court and had just reached the flight of stairs lead ing from the jail corridor, when he re- ceived neesage from the judge to bring two more. He had just thrown wide the cell door in which half dozen or more prisoners were confined, when the first | man made break down the stairs for | liberty oad 10 pursue him without first stopping 10 lock the door meant the loss of all the others. The negro, who was | charged with g nisdemeanor, made good his escape. As the chief eonservator or | the peace Of the county he has made an exceptional record and his friends re- gret that under the new constitution ut Alabama he was Ineligible to succeed himself
 MT Young. the new sheriff. has had q number of years experience as a deputy under Sheriff Hili. and indications are | him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-14
Saturday, January f9.

Cotton Futures" Prof J. II. conneli, Dallas, Tex.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-14

Between sworn statements published in March and December, the deposits of this bank increas- ed nearly one hundred per cent.
 We would be glad to have your account also.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-14
To Take Oath of Offlce

Decatur, January S.-(specal. )-Thom- as R. Shipp, the sheriff-elect of this coun- ty. will take the oath of office tomor- row and will enter upon the duties of the office at once. Mir. Shpp lives at Hartselle. fourteen miles south, but he will move to Decatur. He defeated six other candidates in the election for the nomination for sheriff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-14

Dallas. Tex.
 Saturday, January 19.
 Morning Session. 10 o'elock-Address. "The American Cotton Crop" Hon. B. B. Conner. governor of Alabama.
 Address: "The Modern Cotton Ware house, Construction and Economy of Op- eration." Hon. W. D. Nesbltt, Birmins- ham, Ala Discussion. thirty minutes.
 Address. Relation of Southern Bankers to the Cotton Crop" Hon. John D. Walk er Sparta, Ga. Discussion.
 Afternoon Session, 2:30 O'clock-Ad- dress; The Men Necessary to Handle the Cotton Crop Through Southern Cotton Association" Hon. John P. Allison. Con- cord N. C. Discussion, thirty minutes.
 Address: "The Best Medium of Reacn- ing and Educating the Cotton Growers to the True Value of Their Staple Crop '' Hon. B. H. Burnett. Chickalah, Ala. Dis cussion, thirty minutes.
 Address; Higher Prices for the Crow CTS of American Cotton" Mir. T. C. Busn. Birmingham, Ala.
 Night Session. O'clock-Address. Final report of committees. Adjourn ment.
 
 Speakers are requested not to exceed the limit of thirty to forty minutes in the delivery of their addresses This is necessary in order to complete the pro- gramme of speakers and give ample time to reports of committees and transactions or such business matters as will require the attention of the convention.
 Railroad rates, one fare for the round trip, plus 9 cents, from all regular ticket offices in the south
 Upon arrival of delegates at Birming- ham they are requested to call at once at the offices of the bureau of informa- ton so as to secure prompt hotel accom- modations and such other information as is desired.
 All resolutions must be presented In writing. Delegates are earnestly re- quested to be prompt in attendance on all sessions of the convention. Very respect fully, HARVIE JORDAN, President -SouthernssC Cnttnn sAssnniatin.>
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-14
PROGRAMME FOR
 COTTON CONVENTION
Revised List of Speakers is
 Prepared
BUSIEST DAY IS FRIDAY
All Speakers Are Requested Not to Exceed the Limit of Thirty to Forty Minutes In
 Delivery.

The third annual convention of the Southern Cotton association will be held in Birmingham Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week.
 The executive committee will meet to- morrow and will be in session for two days This committee Is to have headquar- ters at the Hotel Hillman and will hold its daily sessions In the city hall
 The session of the convention will be held in the Hippodrome at the corner of Third avenue and Seventeenth street. Following Is the programme that has been published by President Haryie Jor- dan:
 Thursday, January 17.
 First session, 10 o'clock a. m.
 Invocation.
 Welcome address on behalf of the city of Birmingham, Hon. George B. Ward, Mayor.
 Welcome address on behalf of Alabama division, S. c. A., Hon. w. H. Seymour, Montgomery.
 Response to addresses of welcome, Hon. M. L. Johnson, president Georgia division, s. c. A.
 Annual address, iiOll IidiNie Jpiuoii' president Southern Cotton association, At lanta.
 Appointment of committees.
 Afternoon session, 2;30 o'clock.
 Address, Average Cost of Producing a Pound of American Cotton" Hon w. L.. Foster, Shreveport
 Discussion, thirty minutes.
 Address, How to Secure Systematic Or ganizatlon of Cotton Growers" MT. c. c. Moore, Charlotte. s. C.
 Discussion, thirty minutes,
 Address. Relation of American Cotton to the Civilized World Hon. R. R. Dancy, Houston, Tex.
 Discussion, thirty minutes.
 Night session, o'clock, January r. Address. Marketing and Financing the American Cotton Crop by the Growers, MT L. B. Irvin Saltwater okla. General discussions, one hour and thirty minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-14
PASTOR BREACHES ON GODS MESSAGE The Rev. Dr.. Duncan Talks to
 the Young People LET MAN REFORM HIMSELF We Are Responsible for Carrying Fer- ward the Great Truths God Is
 Speaking to Us in
 This Day.
LET MAN REFORM HIMSELF

The Rev. pr. J. A. Duncan preached at the First Methodist church last night on Gods Message For Us Today" the ser- mon being especially directed to the young people. The text is found in the thirty-nlnth and fortieth verses of the eleventh chapter of Hebrews: These all having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promises; God having received some better things for us. that they without us should not be made perfect.
 Dr. Duncan spoke in part as follows:
 The first reading of these words is rather amazing, especially to those who are accustomed to looking back to tho past for their ideals of perfection In the catalogue given here are the names of Abraham Moses, Joseph, David. We might add the prophets and the apostles, and faill the words of the text would be true. Each age is the carrying forward. if not the completion, of the age preced- Ing it, and in the measure that we forget this, we forget the real meaning of life.
 The Christian world needs to keep tn O. God is a progressive revelation God speaks to each age, giving 1t the mes sage 1t needs, and he is the genuinely great man who hears that message and obeys.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-14

An important national convention for the extension of foreign commerce will be held in Washington this week Presl- dent Roosevelt is expected to address the convention on Wednesday evening. and Secretary Root also probably will take part in the proceedings The opening session will be at 10:30 o'clock, morning and there will be meetings for several days thereafter. The movement is un- der the direction of the New York board of trade and transportation, which sent invitations to the governors of the vari- ous states and various commercial bodies throughout the country
 Secretary Root will leave Washington January IT for Ottawa. Canada, where he will be the guest of Governor General Grey.
 What may prove to be an unusually sensational murder trial is scheduled 10 begin in New York next Thursday, when Louise D'Massey is called to answer for the murder of Gustave Simon, a shirt waist manufacturer by whom she was employed as designer.
 The sessions of the American tariff commissioners with the representatives of the German government which for a month past have been held almost daily in Berlin with the object of finding a basis for reciprocity treaty to go into effect on the expiration of the existing provision on that agreement between two powers next June, will end January IT,
 A plenary council of the French bshops to discuss the situation of the church in France has been summoned to meet January 15 at the Chateau DIa Musette In Paris. It Is expected that the bishops Will simply register the Pope's decision as expressed in the encyelcal issued hv his holiness .In0n1TV II Wbip1a ly put an end to the hopes of the mod crates that the church would eventually accommodate itself to the new conditions in France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-14
Looking Back on the Past,

Lookin back into the past, one can very easily see this. God spoke to man in the beginning. emphasizing the fact that man ls the handiwork of God. Then comes the time when men have forgotten that the world is God-made, and that they are God-made also. A deluge follows cleans ing the earth, and leaving a single family with the God-consciousness to start anew. Then comes another thought. God Is the living God, the Creator and the sustainer of life. A man is called who goes out not knowing whither, only knowing that Gods voice has been heard by him, and that through Him all the nations of the earth are to be blessed.
 The tremendous significance of this statement he did not fully grasp. It is only in our day as we enjoy the vast in fuenee of Christian civilization that the genuine meaning of these words to Ab- raham becomes apparent. His world was small world, and "all the nations of the earth" were to him but handful of people compared to what the term means to us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-14
Friday, January 18.

Morning session. 10 o'clock.
 Address. Practical Means of Making Lint Cotton Bring to the Farmer Just Price" Hon. Hoke Smith. governor-eleet of Georgia. Discussion, thirty minutes.
 Address. How Shall We Finance the Cotton Crop?" Hon. F. II. Hyatt, Coluui- bia. s. C.
 Discussion, thirty minutes.
 Address, Probable Profits to Stockhold- CTS in a Corporation to Buy and Sell Cotton, and the Best Plan to Operate On." Hon. S. A. Witherspoon, Meridian, Miss.
 Discussion, thirty minutes.
 Afternoon Session, 2:30 D. m.-Address: Best Method of Obtaining Necessary and Desirable Immigration for the South" Hon. D. H. Hayward, governor of South Carolina. Discussion, thirty minutes.
 Address: What Have We Accom- plshed?' Hon. Walter Clark. Clarksdale, Miss
 Night Session, O'clock-Address: Got ton, the Basis of Southern Prosperity" Hon E. D. Smith, Columbia. s. c. Dis cussion.
 Address: What the Southern Cotton Association Means to the South" Hor. II. M. Jacoway Dardanelle Ark Discus sion, thiry minutes.
 Address: '.The Evils Speculation in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-07
The Demonizing Rum Traffic.

A striking incident of the demon
izing influence of Intoxicating liquor
occurred in st. Louis. The case was
thus described in the local press:
What a man Of good and even
gentle disposition will do when under
the influence of liquor was graphic
ally illustrated in a story told in the
case of Henry Laesche in the City
Hall Police Court Saturday.
Friday evening Laesche arrived
at his home, 2340 South Ninth street,
intoxicated. He had passed the
cheerful state of hilarity and was
moody and irritable. His wife saw
that there would be trouble as soon
as he entered the room and called
her brother, A. Voges, who lives In
the same house.
"Laesche caugh: sight of his little
baby girl lying on the bed. Without
q word CT warning he took up a pail
Of boiling water and threw it at the
child on the bed.
But the mother, with the instinc-
tive presence of mind that comes to
most mothers when their children are
In danger, threw a bed quilt over the
child while the scalding water was
still in the air, and thus narrowly
averted what might have been a trag-
edy.
Then the husband made an effort
to strike the child on the bed. But
by this time Voges reached him and
dragged him away. In court Laesche
simply said that he was intoxicated
and knew nothing of what had hap
pened. Voges testified that he
thought his brother-in-law a good
man and gave a practical demonstra.
ton of his opinion by paying the SIS
fine which Judge Tracy imposed"
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Be Anxious For Nothing.

"A very plain Injunction, but how
few there are who go through the
daily duties of life free from a spirit
Of ARE and anxious thought! Let
us look at one or two reasons why
we should try to keep minds free
from anxiety.
First of all, we are very prone to
anticipate trouble, but great solicit
tude about the future shows a want
of confidence in God, who has prom
Used saying: II will never leave thee,
mol forsake thee" and we have the
testimony of Joshua: mot one thing
hath failed of all the good things
which the Lord your God spake con-
corning YOU"
Then anxiety keeps the mind in a
state of constant uneasiness, and
preys upon the temper, spirits and
health. 1t produces perplexity Of
purpose, DISC ualifies the mind from
pursuing it's ordinary duties, and Of
ten a~ccelerates the very evils that
are the objects Of dread. 1t has also
a most pernicious moral influence, as
it leads to repining, discomfort, envy,
peevishness, prayerlessness and inf
deity. Man is SO short-sighted that
the very cloud he breads may be re-
p1ete with mercy, while the object of
his desire may be like the meat
which the children of Israel craved
In the wilderness, Of which they had
no sooner eaten than 1t became
loathsome, and numbers died with a
very great plague.
Carking anxiety makes a person
overweeningly selfish, shuts up all
the generous sympatbies Of the heart
and binds every thought to the wheel
of this despotic monomania. Great
effeminacy Of mind on body pro-
duces nervousness and many moral
evils; so great anxiety debilitates the
mental and physical powers. AS pull
monary consumption wastes away
the body, so care consumes the
mind. Care in the heart is like a
worm in the bud, or, to use another
smile, distressful solicitude preys
upon the mind as a moth frets a gar
ment.
Jesus said: "Take no thought for
your life, what We shall eat, or what
We shall drink; nor yet for your
body, what We shall put on. Take
no thought for the morrow, for the
morrow shall take thought for the
things of itself. Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof" Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and He shall
sustain thee. Cast all your care
upon God, for He careth for you.
Be careful for nothing. Which OF
you by taking thought can add N
cubit to his stature? If We then be
not able to do that thing which Is
least, why take ye thought of the
rest?"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-07
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPEIsANCE.

Rescue Of q Drunkard-Jlmmic Went
to Church, But Prosperity Came,
He Took to Drink and You Know
the Result-How He Reformed.
DR.. C. L. Goodell, of New York,
tells this story: Jimmy "a a mem
Der Of the church but prosperity
came to Jimmy, and as he got money
he forgot God He fell into bad COM
pany and began to drink; all his for
tune, an interest in a whaling vessel,
went down J1mmy's throat until he
wasn't worth a dollar. He had a
place as salesman in the fishing bust
ness, that was all. He hadn't been in
a church for years, but I noticed him
at meeting one night sitting on the
back seat. Somehow, my heart was
drawn toward the fellow, and he was
moved by the heartfelt interest that
he knew I had In him, so he came
week after week. Sometimes he
would be sober and sometimes he
would be so drunk that I hardly knew
If he could get out Of the church
alone.
Zone Sunday night Jimmy came in
and dropped heavily down in the
back seat. I was in the pulpit and I
said to myself, He has either been
drinking more than usual or else
there is something going ION. No,
Jimmy is sober enough so that he
knows what is going on After the
service was over Jimmy had taken
his place again on the back seat. I
went to him and threw my arm
around his shoulder and talked to
him. He said: Doctor, I want 1t,
and I am going to turn over a new
leaf, but I have got to have just n
more drink I said to him: You
want something to eat, Jimmy He
replied: I guess you are right; I
haven't had anything to eat to-day.
I had a drink this morning, and two
or three more at OOH and another
tonight, and I haven't had anything
to eat to-day I got him down to a
restaurant where they had nothing
but tea and coffee to drink. I ordered
black coffee and beefsteak, and after
he had eaten the steak and drank two
or three cups of coffee he began to
feel quite like himself, and he said,
Il guess I will 90 home now I said,
4 will go home with YOU At the
front steps he said Good night I
answered, I will go up with you to
your room and see you tucked into
bed So I stepped in and tucked him
In bed and talked with him, and then
went home. When he heard my feet
echoing down the street, he said to
himself: Now the minister is gone,
I will put on my clothes and go down
and have a drink and a good time
He got out of bed and started to put
on his clothes, when all at once he
stopped and said: I won't do it; I
am a mean man, but I am not mean
enough to do that. After the minis
ter was kind enough to come clear
home with me and tuck me into bed,
I am not mean enough to go back on
him. A strange thing happened
when Jimmy woke up next morning;
for the first time in twenty-five years
he didn't want any liquor. I can't
explain it, but I know it is a fact that
Jimmy didn't want any liquor and he
didn't get any. He went on day after
day, and he didn't want any liquor,
and he came into the meeting and
gave his testimony"
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my best to repair the misery l have
brought upon you; I will work for
you and little Willie as no woman
ever worked before
You dear, faithful creature" said
Sophy, tenderly. "At present our
fortune is in the clouds, through
which, however, let us hope that
some ray of sunshine may presently
find it's way. But you have not yet
told me what You promised; how is
it we are lodged in this pretty place?
Who has made these arrangements
for our comfort? How did we get
here with such ease and safety?
Who but Henry could have done it?"
Mrs. Irton could have done it,
Miss Sophy, no doubt" returned
Jeanette gently; but it was so all
important, you see, that neither she
nor her husband should know any
thing about your whereabouts when
Mr.. Adair makes his inquiries Of
them, as he is sure to do"
Sophy cast an involuntary glance
at her sleeping child and .s%huddered.
Il see, of course, the absolute ne
cessity of that" she said; "but things
do not happen in this world accord
ing to our necessities. If Henry has
not been our guardian angel in this
matter, who can it have been? Who
is good Mrs. Johnson"
There is no guardian 'angelshlp
and no sort of goodness about her"
returned the waiting-maid, vehement
ly. "All that you see here are the
mere proceeds of her wages of in
iuuity. But such as she is, she is
Jenny Perkins"
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BITS " NE WIS
WASHINGTON

Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng, retiring
Minister from China, LETT to return
to his native country.
Rear-Admiral Evans left for New
York to prepare the Atlantic feet
for it's voyage to the Paclhc.
Quartermaster-General Humphrey
was placed on the retired list at his
own request.
Secretary TAFT announced that J.
B. Bishop, secretary OF the Panama
Canal Commission, would make his
headquarters on the Isthmus.
The itinerary of the Presidents
trip West early in October, which was
made public at Oyster Bay, showed
that he would not go further South
than Memphis.
Plans were announced for a pro-
posed National Department of Fine
Arts.
Chief Engineer 'Goethals IN a
tentative report favored the division
Of the Panama Canal work into Sec
lions and letting contracts for them.
Secretary Taft left for a months
vacation at Murray Bay.
The American Bankers Associa-
ton presented a complaint to n
Interstate Commerce Commission
against the leading express COM
panies acting as bankers.
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DOMESTIC.

New York City's bond sale resulted
In bids for ~S2,121,840 of the $685.
100000 offered, being saved from
complete fasco by ffty-seven small
bids.
Federal Judge Lands, at Chicago,
refused to recall the subpoena for
John D. Rockefeller, summoned to
give Information of Standard Oil
finances in the Alton rebate case.
The Wisconsin State Assembly, by
q vote of 60 to 3, passed the Senate
resolution providing for the naming
of a United States Senator by direct
vote.
Secretary Metcalf stated at San
round Cape Horn and visit that har-
Dor.
About 1000 delegates attended the
sixteenth annual convention of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union at
Spokane.
Judge Edgar Aldrich, Of Littleton,
N. H., was appointed master to de-
termine the competency of Mary
Baker G. Eddy to conduct her
affairs.
Magnus Thompson shot and fatally
wounded Minnie Phatum at New
Richmond, Wis, and blew off the top
of his own head. The girl had re-
fused to marry Thompson.
Leo C. Thurman, of West Point,
KY, arrested at Vancouver, z. c., in
April for the murder at Norfolk, Va,
in Fehruarv Q06 of Walter p. DOL
sen, Of Michigan, the victim of a
trunk mystery, has been sentenced to
be hanged September 27.
Tams Bixby, Of Muskogee, I. T.,
for ten years a commissioner for the
Five Civilized Tribes, has retired. j..
George Wright, Indian inspector, sue
.ceeds him.
A jump from a moving train near
Denver, Col, killed Frank Schneider,
of the Western Federation of Miners,
who was going to Boise to testify for
Haywood.