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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-09
JONES COMPANY TO
BUILD BRICK BLOCK
First Floor Will Be Used for
PoStofflCe
AN ENJOYABLE EVENT
Miss Georgia Ray Macmillan Gives
Reading Under Auspices of Ladies
of Westminster Presbyterian
Church of New Decatur.
AN ENJOYABLE EVENT

Decatur, February Especial 1.-The
Jones Cotton company will soon COM
mence the erection of handsome three
story brick business block on the corner
, of Bank and Vine streets.
The second and third stories will be
used as office rooms, while the first
floor will be leased to the government
for period of years for a postoffice.
The building will be erected with a view
to a postoffice building In every particu-
J lar. The floors will be of tile and the
furnishings will be of the most approved
style. with a private office for the post
master, departments for city and rural
carriers, money order and register de-
partments, etc. The cabinet will contain
400 boxes of the latest design. In short
it is to be one of the handsomest post
offices in this portion of the state,
The plans have already been drawn and
a government officer has already been in
the city going over the plans.
One of the most enjoyable of the many
pleasing entertainments that has been
given in the lecture room of the Young
Mems Christian association In New De-
catur was the reading given by Miss
Georgia Ray Macmillan last night, under
the auspices of the ladies of the West
minister Presbyterian church.
The audience was one of the largest
and most appreciative, as well as one of
the most fashionable that has assembled
at like occasion here for many a day
Miss Macmillan, a charming brunette
of graceful figure and pleasing face, is
an artist as a reader and Entertainer. She
was especially good in her rendition of
child and negro selections and evoked
round after round of applause.
A number of the farmers of this county
are making complaints that dogs are kill
ing their sheep, and they threaten to
wage war against the dogs. James Hol-
loway of New Center precinct says that
recently dogs killed twenty fine sheep for
him.
The snow which fell yesterday throught-
out North Alabama has almost all melted
and the weather has turned much warm
err. 1t is feared that the cold weather of
the past few days has badly injured, If
not killed, the peach crop In this section.
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$40. 90 REWARD.

For the arrest and conviction
of any person guilty of illegal
registration in Ensley on Fri
day and Saturday, Feb. 8 and 8.
Citizens League.
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Glee Club En- Tour.

The University Glee club left the city
yesterday morning en- route direct for
Greensboro. where they gave their concert
and entertainment last night. They Will
appear in Eutaw tonight, and will go from
there to Livingston Saturday. According
to the press comments, the arrival of the
club In each of these cities has been
awaited with much pleasure, and 1t will
doubtless score even a greater success this
season than last.
The Quakers were delightfully."- enter
tanned yesterday afternoon by Miss Anna
bell Pearson. one of the most popular
members of the club An unusually en-
tertaining programme was rendered. after
which the guests Were treated to very
appetizing and tempting luncheon
The Misses Wildman have moved into
their beautiful new home just completed
on Broad street
Mrs. Sadie Mccall of Admission. who has
been in the city week visiting her moth
err. Mrs. Olmstead, has returned home
Mrs NJ. S. Tigreet has also been visiting
her mother. Mrs. Olmstead, returning to
her home in Jackson. Tenn, today.
Mrs f. f. Crawford has returned from
ST. Louis. where she was called by the
death of her son-in-law, DIR. Rokaw.
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which shows that there were seven fires.
with a total loss of $1735, The losses are
not based on valuations of the owners or
assessed values of insurance adjusters.
but is kept as record for the use of
the department.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-09

The Kettledrum club was elegantly en-
tertained yesterday afternoon by Mrs W
G. Somerville at her handsome home on
University avenue. The house was made
more attractive than ever by the taste
full decorations, and the refreshments
served were both elegant and substan-
tial. An interesting programme was rem
dered the subject for the afternoon being
Are Women's Clubs Worth While?" Mrs.
Alonzo Hill discussed the negative side
of the proposition in a most happy way
quoting Cleveland extensively. Mrs Cal
houn Harrison presented a vigorous and
logical argument on the affirmative side
of the proposition. Besides these papers
an entertaining musical programme was
had
Tuscaloosa people read with much inter-
est the announcement of two marriages in
yesterdays Age-Herald. These were the
marriages of Mr.. Christian Burks to Mrs
Dora Sharpe, and Mr.. Redmund Jones to
Mrs. Ida Bullock. Both Mr.. Burks and
Mr.. Jones were Tuscaloosa boys originally
and their families reside here. They are
young men of ability and have a great
many friends In their home town.
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Joint Meeting Held.

The boards of county commissioners and
of public works had joint meeting tode
and formulated an advertisement for
sealed bids to be submitted for the pur-
chase of the countys bonds to the amount
of $500 for the purpose Of building the
new court house. A rough plan of what
is desired was also settled upon, so that
the necessary rooms and apartments will
be ineligible to an architect in making
a design. 1t is the purpose of the boards
to get the court house under way and
completed in the shorest possible time
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-09

Moses Inglett, well known citizen of
Alabama City died at his home in that
place at II o'clock this morning after a
short illness. aged 30 years. He is sur
vlved by wife and several small chill,
dren The funeral will be held from
the residence Saturday morning.
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and frankly, In strctest confidence, telling all your
troubles, and stating your age We will send you
FREE ADVICE, In plain sealed envelope, and val
cable book on "Home Treatment for Women"
Address Ladies' Advisory Department, Tho
ChattanooDa Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02

TyHE day was very warm for early
May, and Shag, the big gray timber i
wolf at the street railway =
~ pany's park, loled lazily on the
ground in the corner OF his pen.
Two feet behind him coarse wire netting separated
hlm from the adjoining coyote inclosure. Close
10 the netting were two coyotes, apparently living
but IN reality crouching with their cunning yellow
eyes liked eagerly upon the hindmost parts of the
big Wo-. At length Shag gave half roll and swung
his tail backward against the netting. Instantly
there was double snap, two sharp coyote snouts
shot through the meShes and attached themselves
10 the timber VOLTS tail.
Then The air was convulsed with terrible din
Shag freed his imprisoned member-Or most of i; ;
Tor coyotes have sharp teeth. His mate left her
four little puppies to join in the cause OF her lord
and every coyote on the other side OF the netting
lined ur and snapped and snared and made faces
in reply the horrible growing and deep chested
hateful roars OF the larger CANNES Shag furious
Tor before him that cared sniveer with the
piece OF ra still in his mouth. He especially hated
that coyote, for he the villain that only the dav
before had slaughtered of Madam Shags pup
pies, when the little fellow had inadvertently Wob-
bed through the MEETINGS.
Enra ged beyond endurance, the big wolf sprang
high. ali then threw himself against the fence
To the sorTrise of the bystanders, of the coyotes
and per OF himself, his legs stuck through
the 1-ees, that were more open, higher up, and he
hung there. His hind legs Immediately became the
center ~ attraction for the coyotes, and they
snapped and bit him cruelty. He drew them up
and looked about him. He tried to free his front
legs, ar. DE working them one at a time he
found himself climbing. He looked around him
"ondcr- Ply. and then upward. He had solved the
problem that had defed his wolfish brain for the
three years Of his imprisonment within those hate
iul |lre "alls, the problem that had kept that
dreaI vacant look in his pale eyes, as he used to
lie inot.He5s Tor hours apparently seeing nothing.
One more effort, and he was teetering with his
belly across The top Of the fence, looking down upon
ine coyotes They were not scramblIng over each
other now to reach him. Instead, they sneaked
quIckly about on low, crouching legs, with their
tals out oL sight darting for this corner and that,
and holding their cowardly eyes fixed upon the big
graz ts-re above them.
Then The big wolf freed his hind legs, wobbled
moment. and 1ell into the coyote pen. One long
grow Oh triumphant hate broke from him. as he
aTchea hls hrlstllng neck and looked for that
cared coyote. y rush, terrible chop few shakes,
and II sa- over. He killed them all six Of them
and taeH he ran over and in his delight rubbed
nose through the wire with his frantic mate
But the cares
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02

" You ink
you keep dat
greedy devil
here? You t ink
he not eat your
cabbagcs! My
Gotl Look! Won
dollar wort of
chop he eat al
retty! Open dat
door"
And the in
furiated Ger
man hurled a
bare beef bone
at the naraud-
er. 1t found his
ribs with a hol-
low " bung, "
and the wolf
growled his re
ply through a
mouthful of
meat. He was
not afraid of
these men, not
he. They were
not hunting
him. But the
irate meat ven
der made an at
tack with a ter
rible knife in
one hand and a
cleavcr in the
other; and Shag
moved on, drag
ging a long
string of sau-
sage throughthe
SaWdust on the
floor. Up and
down the long
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02
B y H. M. L AING

had really hurt him But that yelping rahblc OF
dogs constantly following him was maddcuiug
ust ahead Was kcnucdy dy-st.. one of the main
thoroughtarcs OF the heart OF the city Across
1t, lodging electric car several rigs and an auto
car came the stream OF CANNES with the gray wolf
IN the lead. lie was labOrmg hard. the stern race
was telling on HIM. The chauffeur gave a shout and
turning his machine, gave chase In a fcw mo-
nentS they were up with the wolf; but he turned in
across the boulcvards, and then sprang into side
lane, throwing OF the men and most of the dogs
But two COllIcS. keen and swift OF foot followed
hIn, and, ernbodcncd by the onslaught of a
grel hound, they snapped at the wolf S rear. Some
Workmcn nearby ran across and with shout and
gesture encouraged the dogs, and the fight was on
Once, and twice, the big wolf chopped and shook
and his enemies We're two. \ collie was as quickly
put out OF commission; then to escape the missiles
hurled at him he put off again.
But now he was very lame and tired. His mouth
was open wide, as he painted heavily. Bloody
slavcrs ran from his lolng tongue, and his eyes
were red trimmed and bcary. If they would only
let HIM rest 4 little! But he a wolf and it was
cverybody's duty TO seek his life. But because he
was wolf, he had the Wolhsh heart, that keeps on
and on and knows not defeat till IS dead North
ward was the way; and because he could not stop,
he lOped onward; and though each lopc was very
short, still he was a wolf
For considerable distance he kept to the lane
and secured temporary respite; but delivery
wagon blocked the way and forced him to the
street. Before he had gone a quarter of a mile he
was again pursued: and now he could not outstrip
his pursuers. As he struggled painfully onward, a
long low building suddenly blocked the way. y
dozen ours were swapping around him, and, seeing
narrow pOOT, ne ddSllcu INTO II almost against
portly man in a white apron. The pursuers piled
promiscuously about the door and fell to fighting,
and he of the white apron slammed the door.
Shag hmpcd into long aisle, and his nose filled
with the most delicious fragrance that he had ever
encountered. All about him, row, was
meat, red meat, and raw. He was in the city
market Cries and much confusion followed his
appearance Many customers, regardless of half
filled orders or orders not begun, rushed pel NELL
from the building. The Pangs of hunger that had
temporarily been slenced by the fear, excitement.
and fierce wrath of battle, returned, and
reaching up, the starved brute seized mouthful
OF tender chops, Gup, gulP; ne lerked his neck
and swallowed the savOry morsels in great pieces.
"Open dat door!" yelled lorid faced man in a
white apron.
mo; keep it shut and We'll catch himl" 1t
a vegetable dealer in the next stall speaking
'You tink
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02

OF a father rest
lightly upon a
wolf at any
time, and now
Shag had other
things to occu-
py his atten-
ton. Turning
and taking a
flying leap, he
again lighted
on the fence,
and began the
repetition of his
former exploit.
Most Of the by
ISLANDERS scat
tered; but one
man with more
courage than
discretion wait
ed till the wolf
reachedthetop,
when he be
labored him
over the head
with his UNI
brclla. The
brute groWled
wrathfully; but
IN spite of his
punishment he
did not retreat
an inch. He
rolled over the
top, and fell
with a heavy
thunp upon
the outside rail
ing. He con-
tented himself
with biting his
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02

or horses and draws or snorting automobiles
had really hurt him. But that yeping rahblc OF
dogs constantly following him was maddcuiug
Just ahead was kcnucdy-st.. one OF the main
lALLr. 4 - Il. l.. 4. II /
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02

r1HE day was very warm for early
May, and Shag, the big gray timber
wolf at the street railway COM
- Pany's park, loled lazily on the
ground in the corner of his pen.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-24
TwIcE-ToLD TESTIMONY.
Paducaii People Are Doing All They
Can for Fellow Sufferers.

Paducah testimony has been pub
lished to prove the merit of Doan's
Kidney Pills to others in Paducah
who suffer from bad backs and kid
ney lis. Let any sufferer doubt that
the cures made by Doan's Kidney
Pills are thorough and lasting, we
produce confirmed proof-stateme
from Paducah people saying that the
cures they told of years ago were
permanent. Here's a Paducah case:
j. w. Wootan, retired, Of 1903
Burnett street, Paducah, KY, says:
"About seven years ago / gave a
statement for publication telling of
the great merits of Doan's Kidney
Pills and what they had done for me
after other remedies had failed to
even help me. | was at that time a
sufferer from backache and. kidney
trouble of years standing. My rest
at night was greatly broken and my
health was greatly run down. learn
ed of Doan's Kidney Piles and pro-
cured them at Dubois & Co.'S drug
store. l took them us directed and
was greatly benefited. This was sew
EN- years ago and at this time, Feb.
IS, 1907, I think even more highly
Of this remedy than / did then as 1t
has stood the test. Ismost heartily
Doan's Kidney Pills.
For sale by dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan' s.
and take no other.
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of a turn of the tide.

of turn of the tide.
About this time of year 1t is nat
ural to expect alarming stories as to
damage to fruit, wheat, and pretty
much everything else. All the peach
les are killed off every spring, but
they are in the market just the same
in the summer. Winter wheat gem
orally has too much snow or too lit
tie, blowing is retarded by cold
weather or early cereals are burned
up by heat. Miscellaneous calamity
stories of this kind, as applied to
crops, orchards, and live stock inter-
ests, are good enough to influence flu
lures for a day or two, but they do
not come in contact with the govern
ment estimates.
Thus far Indications are that there
Will be an enormous crop this year of
almost verifying. The reports thus
far made 70 the department of agri-
culture are almost universally en-
couraging. There has been an in
crease In acreage all along the line,
and, although the summer may
bring out totally different conditions,
the farmers, live stock men, and
promoters of dairy and poultry pro-
ducts have right to look forward
to a prosperous year.
Farmers in Prosperous State.
The farmers generally have paid
of their mortgages. Now they have
money in banks and some of them
are even making loans on city prop
erty, entirely reversing the old re.
lations between city and country.
They are In a position to stand a
temporary setback. II would take
two or three years of steady bad
crops to put the farmers in the con-
dition they were in twelve or four
teen years ago.
The situation in the farming COM
munity has been reflected in general
business. Reports from all interior
cities are alike. They show that the
various furries In the stock market
resulting in a general reign of al
most panic prices for speculation in
securities. have not affected general
business conditions in the slightest
degree. The banks OF Cincinnati ST..
Louis, Milwaukee. and st. Paul send
in reports which are similar to those
received by the great financial insti-
tutions of Chicago.
There is plenty of money for le-
climate business and always has
been, even during times when rates
we're run up to the highest notch In
Wall street The banks in the Missls-
sippl valley and throughout the
south have been lending money at
profit on gilt edged commercial pa
per, on cotton, sugar. wheat corn,
hogs, and cattle. There has been no
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-24
Dies at Home Plate.

Montezuma. Ia, April 24.-ChOked
by "a piece of candy. Orrie McWil-
dams died today while engaged in a
game of ball. An exciting contest
was in progress and McWllliams
was catching with a gumdrop in his
mouth. The ball was thrown to him
TO shut out home run by man on
third. McWllNams caught the ball
but Immediately fell to the ground in
a fit of strangulation. Help was
summoned. but the boy was dead be-
fore physicians could reach his side
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-24
PERSIAN PHYSICIAN.
Mira Tago Khan Is With Pawnee
Bill Show.

Mira Tago Khan is the physician
of the Persians with the Pawnee
Bill show, which will be here on
April &c. He accompanied them from
their far-off eastern homes. He is an
old man, with a long beard, dyed a
fiery red and wears the drab skull
cap of his country. His outer gar
ment is of sneep-skln, fitting loosely
over long tunic of blue cotton. The
lower part of his legs are bare and
almost as dark in color as the wo-
ven socks which cover his feet. His
shoes are left outside the door of a
patients house and his tread be-
comes as noiseless as that of a cat.
The natives have great faith in
Mira Tago Khan. They fear Ameri-
can diseases and call for his services
at every unwonted physical sensation
He apparently relies most conspicu-
ously upon the aid of Allah, whom
ne invokes at every step of his treat
ment. He has a decided tendency to
blood-letting and a delight in strong
medicines. Pawnee Bill was walking
about his encampment the other
morning when he encountered splash
after splash of crimson. Inquiring the
cause, ne learned that the Persian
medicine man had been making his
rounds. BY blood-letting, he had
treated a cold. headache and
pain In the stomach.
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MORE LICENSES
NOT TO Be ISSUED
Until Paducah Has a Popula-
ton OF 10000
joint Ordinance Committee Orders
Measure Providing For Sewer
Connections.
NEW JEFFERSON BOULEVARD

AT meeting of the joint ordi-
nance and license committees last ev.
ening an ordinance, regulating sa.
loon licenses proposed by Council
man e. Lackey, was ordered drawn,
the committee issuing implicit in
|structIons regarding its drawing
Other ordinances and resolutions
were ordered.
The provisions of the saloon H.
cense ordinance are that no more
license be issued for saloons until
the city has attained population of
$4,000 which will give one saloon
for every 500 Inhabitants. Saloons
now licensed may be sold and the IL
cense transferred if the council rat
ifies IT, The council may revoke any
license If the proprietor is guilty of
violation of the law.
A resolution. empowering the trac-
ton company and abutting property
owners on Jefferson street from
Fountain avenue to the city limits,
to construct -: foot grass plots
with curb ant gutter on each side of
the car tracks, the city not to be liza
bic for any part of the cost, was or
dered; also a resolution placing the
control of the grass plots in the
hands of the board of park commits
sioners.
An ordinance requiring property
owners on both sides of Jefferson
street and Broadway between Ninth
and Eleventh streets to put in lat
eral sewers within thirty days from
date of passage as the streets are to
be paved this summer.
An ordinance ordering Kincaid av-
enue graded and graveled two blocks
west of 712 Bridge street, was or
dered drafted.
Ordinances were ordered for con-
crete pavements. curb and cutters on
Ohio from Third street to Thirteenth
street; Tennessee street from Third
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street to Twelfth street; Fourth
street from Clay street to Trimble
street; Fifth street from Clay to
Trimble street; Eighth street from
Washington street to Tennessee
street; grading and crawling; Thir-
teenth street from Flournoy street
to Terrell street and Finley street
from Seventh street to Eighth street.
The license committee filed away
a petition from the Terrell distlller-
les, asking permission to dispose of
bottled in bond bottles OF one-tenth
of pint. The firm has a gallon and
quart license.
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furry up or down in business TIL
even range or continued prosperit.
has been extraordinary.
Transportation Lines Inadequate.
Up to the present times business
has not expanded as mucn as it Nigh
have done If it had had more facili
tiles. The railroads have been unable
to handle freight offered to them
Retail merchants have been unable
to secure supplies from their job.
bers in time to meet the constantly
demand, and farmers dur.
ing the fall and winter have been un.
able to market their crops as rapid
ly as they would have liked to do
1t has been hard to get coal out on
the prairie, and it has been almost
as hard to get wheat from the prai-
ries to the seaboard.
There has been a general inability
in every line of business. to do as
much as the demand would have JUS
titled. Stores in cities have proved to
be too small for the increased vol
ume of business, many firms have
been unable to secure enough deliv-
cry wagons, there has been conges-
ton In express business. and rail-
roads are clogged beyond the posi-
bility Of their getting out from under
at any time in the Immediate fu-
ture.
Nothing but business depression
will relieve the transportation lines
at the present time. They cannot
make enough new improvements in
the next two or three years to put
their roads where they ought to be
today. If prosperity continues in this
country the railroads will be almost
as far behind the demand on their
resources after they have spent two
Or. three billions of dollars as they
are today.
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furry up or down in business. The
even range or continued prosperity
has been extraordinary.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-24

Toulon, April "a Fire in the ar
senai here was brought under control
today after burning over a large
tract of ground, causing damage
which Will reach many Millions OF
francs. All buildings for 800 yards
were burned. including torpedo
shops. For a time fire threatened the
military barracks.