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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-03-20

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
JONES IS DEPUTY
 SHERIFF AFTER ALL
Hedon Offers Additional Inducements and the Popular Man Decides
 to Accept the Position.

Bessemer, January 5.-(Special)-It is understood on the streets today that the next deputy sheriff of the Bessemer city court will be George W. Jones, all ru- mors to the contrary notwithstanding.
 The official announcement of all the deputies was made today from the sheriff's office. and the above name ap- peared on the list. Further than this from the general belief, it is understood that Higdon offered Mir. Jones further induce ments. which finally made him determine to accept the position.
 Several days ago MT. Jones refused the appointment on the ground that the pay was not sufficient. The salary heretofore has always been $75, but from the 18th of this month, it is said, the office in Besse- mer will be worth $1O0.
 MT Jones is a valuable officer with much experience, and the sheriff knew that the sacrifice was worthy of the man. The appointment of Mr. Jones is ac- cepted with general pleasure by all the business men. as they are confident that there could not be found a better man for the place in this end of the county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
RAGSDALE GOES
 TOLEGISLATURE
Bessemer First In His Mind and Then He Will Attack the Pistol
 Toters.

Bessemer, January 5.-(Special. )-Upper- most in the mind of Representative M. C. Ragsdale, who leaves Monday for the leg islature, is Bessemer and the lower end of Jefferson county. ''I intend to give my best efforts first to the bills with which l am intrusted namely, that for extend- ed corporate limits and court powers As soon I become convinced upon the ma- jority side of the police commission squab- ble l intend to take the lead In settling the question:"
 After Bessemer Dr. Ragsdale has an other bill of widespread influence which he intends to push. With the assistance of T. Y. Huffman he has drawn up drastic bill against the pistol carrier The object in view is to prevent entirely the carrying of a weapon of any kind with out a permit
 According to his plan, persons within the corporate limits of a town who wish to carry shot gun or rifle will be re- quired to secure from the probate judge, by petition. an annual permit and shall at the same time deposit Sl00 with the court as a solvant bond. The punish ment involved for breaking the law would be fine for not less than sl0 and not more than s100.
 The pistol toter'' would have to go through the same form. but would also be forced to pay an extra fe of 8 per year and the punishment for concealed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
IMPORTANT MURDER
 TRIALS THIS WEEK
John Daenan, John Granger, M. B. Chandler and Bessemer Nail
 to Answer Charges.

Bessemer, January -(Special.) 1.-The week beginning Monday will be one of the most important of this term of the city court of Bessemer. Judge William Jackson will rule the bench, and the jury criminal docket will be taken up.
 There are four trials for murder on hand On the 7th the case of John Dag nan, charged with killing negro In Blue Creek, and of John Granger, Jr., who killed a negro in Bessemer several months ago, will begin. For this day is also scheduled the trial of Raleigh Jones. charged with murder in the first degree of Lee Morrison in a saloon on Nine teenth street.
 For the remainder of the week there are two important cases, one of them being that of M. B. Chandler, indicted for murder in the second degree of A. IL. Handy in the rooms of a Bessemer lodge. The case ot Bessemer Nail indicted for manslaughter of young Taylor near the pipe shops, is also on the docket. All of these trials are of special interest, as the parties are well known and the crimes created quite a stir at the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
 TO MEET TUESDAY
Miss Lena Mingea, the Librarian, Will Describe Her Trip and Studies
 In Atlanta.

Bessemer, January 5.-(Special.)-The trustees and the committee in charge of the Carnegie public library, will hold their regular monthly meeting at the city hall next Tuesday afternoon at S;SO o'clock. Chairman Sullivan is especially anxious that every member be present as matters of vast importance are sched- tiled to come up.
 The committees on building, books, etc, have several questions to report, which need immediate action and will be of interest to the public.
 Another very interesting feature of the meeting will be the report of the libra rian, Miss Lena Mingea, who has been studying her work under Miss Wallace, at the library in Atlanta, and returned two weeks ago, quite enthusiastic over the prospects. She will tell in simple manner the most important points in the governing of a set of books, and probably will recommend several changes in the rules. The building is not goins mp as fast as expected, but. the class of work is exceptional, and the building com mttee reports favorably on the work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
General Lee, Hero.

Mrs. General Pickett in the January Lip
 pincott's.
 When l first met General Lee honors and age had brought that perfect, imper- turbable gravity and dignity which char acterized his later years and rendered the stories of his youthful escapades almost beyond belief TO me he was always a hero. He came to me first in connection with the most important historic event which had occurred within my short eX- itsence, and remained with me always in association with the great problems which changed the trend of national history for in less than two years the storm broke which was presaged when the un- Fortunate John Brown seized the arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
 Unlike many of the leaders in the Com federacy. Robert E. Lee had no pet theo- ry, the maintenance of which required him to cast his fortunes with the south A soldier by birth and training, he had belonged to the United States too long and too entirely to have developed an al- 1egiance to the doctrine of state rights though long after the war he made the statement tfat had not that theory been taught at West Point, there would have been no secession. He had no quarrel with the free soil party His aversion to slavery was so strong that he had al
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
"FRoM RAGS TO RICHES"
Motto Appropriate for Most of Pitts bures 100 Shirtsleeve MiIlionaires.

Herbert N. Casson in Munseys.
 Pittsburg has about 100 shirtsleeve millionaires and very few silk hat ones. Without single exception, the steel kings and coal barons of today were the barefooted boys of yesterday In this respect no other city is as gen timely republican, as thoroughly Amer ican as Pittsburg. Its motto might be From rags to riches; and it's name should be spelled-Pitt$burg It is a region where even yet "all men arc born free and equal'-where the lad der of opportunity has rungs that reach to the bottom It is land of money; but more, it is land where the aver age man has received a squarer deal in the game of life than he would have got anywhere elsewhere the prizes are nok bequeathed from strong fathers to feeble sons, but carried off by the 'fittest" in each contest.
 Pittsburgers have no pedigree. They want none. They are themselves a generation of ancestors. The few aris- tocratic land owning families are being bought out by the iron and steel men No gentlemen" emigrated to western Pennsylvania. From first to last, il was settled by plain, ordinary people who had nothing to help them except their own efforts. Among the earlier iron kings not one had a college edu- cation. Christopher Zug and Curtis G Hussey-two stately figures-were the sons of poor farmers. Thomas M Howe and Joshua Rhodes were gro cery boys. Aaron French and John J Torley were child workers in iron mills. There is no one conspicuous exception to this rule. The greater greatness of Greater Pittsburg is in the fact that it has been created by the rank and file of the human race It is the extraordinary achievement oi ordinary men.
 Until twenty years ago the bulk ol the Pittsburgers were Soottish-lrish English and Welsh Today there arc in Pittsburg and Allegheny about so, 900 Germans, 10000 Italians, 55,00C Poles, 35.O00 Huns and Slavs, 15,00C Jews. 2OOO Greeks, and 2000 Assyrians besides number of negroes. You may hear thirty languages on the streets Out of every nine inhabitants four are foreign born. So it is a community with little national prejudice. If 6 man is efficient it makes little differ ence whether or not he speaks broken English. or uses bad grammar or wears torn clothes and soiled collar. Un- der such 2 zmoke cloud no one can be clean. IH nch a labrynth of work shops no can he dandy. Ant among So many dialects every bar sees the folly of claiming superiority for his own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
Announcement of
 Award.

Number 2004 not having been presented at our store within ten days, as advertised, we had another award made, and the following numbers are entitled to the China Set:
 Number 845 will be entitled to the Set if presented at our store on or before Jan. 18th. Tn case it is not brought in by that date, number 3338 will en- title the holder to the Set. If the latter number is not pre- sented by Jan. 25th, it will, too, be void, and number 30 will get the prize.
 Look at your tickets well and see if you have either one of the above numbers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
Notes and Personals.

Mrs. Fred Robinson has returned from a very pleasant visit to MT. and Mrs Pritchard in Gate City.
 Miss Carrie T.. Drain has returned from Farmersville, Ala, where she has been for several months. She spends most of her time with her aunt, the wife of AL derman J. M. Crook.
 Mrs B. A. Emory has joined her daugh- ter here and is visiting MT. and Mrs H. c. Moore.
 The Epworth league held a most in- teresting business meeting last week at the church. On next Thursday a meet Of special importance will be held, and pr. J. II. Mccoy of Birmingham and president of the Birmingham college, will be present to make an address.
 At the Methodist church Sunday a communion service will be held and the Rev w. E. Morris will preach on Our Friendship"
 The Rev. D. P Taylor, pastor of the Christian church, will preach this morn- ing on the "Determination of Paul" His other services will he as usual.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
E. L. Huey Furniture Co. !. 19O8-f9f0 Second Ave-,
 BESSENaER, ALA.
Bryan on Russia.

Guest of the famous douma points out
 Russian future in the January Reader
 Magazine
 Russia presents one of the most inter- esting pictures of governmental develop ment that has been seen in century. She has been a synonym for despotism her people have known every form of tyran- ny and suffered every excess of arbitrary power. Seized without warrant and ex- lied without trial, they have drained the cup of sorrow to it's dregs. At last the czar, frightened by the threatenings from within and shamed by the criticisms from without, began to concede, a little at a time. the reforms demanded-waiting, un- fortunately, until the clamor for new and larger reform made the reform grant ed seem insignificant. At last came tho war with Japan, which exhibited the in- efficiency of the government and demon- strated how important factor patriotism is in war. The Russian soldiers, having little worth fighting for, showed them selves more expert in retreat than in ad- vance, and a crushing defeat on land and sea taught the czar a lesson which he ought to have learned before. If the douma, however, can be credited to that defeat. then the people of Russia won victory far greater than the losses of the war.
 The douma, dissolved with the promise of another election, marks a new era in the national life of Russia. This body can give voice to the aspirations of ths people and devote the revenues to the ad- vancement of the interests of the masses. The first session of that body brought to- gether as notable a group of men as ever assembled in a legislative hall. Lawyers and editors from the great cities, educa- tors from the universities. members or the group of toll and peasants from the farms-these mingled together all intent upon remedial legislation. The czar had no party in the douma-all were radicals, varying only in degrees.
 The future of Russia Is no longer in the keeping of the royal family; 1t has been transferred to the people, and while there may still be revolutions and bloodshed be- fore the popular will can find unobstruct- ed expression, nothing is more certain than that Russia is going to have free speech. a free press. constitutional gov ernment and general education and th3t with these she will take her place among the most influential of the powers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
.BESSEMER IS SURE
 ID DO HER PART Will Open Her Doors to the
 Cotton Association BOARD OF TRADE TO MEET Representatives of the Commercial Club Will Be Heard On Tuesday
 Afternoon-FuneraI of
 A. D. Kelley.
BOARD OF TRADE TO MEET

Bessemer. January 5.--(special)-A city with a reputation for hospitality, Besse- mer will not be slow to do her part in the entertainment of the Southern Cot ton association, which meets in Birming- ham on the 17th of this month. Radical steps are under way to assist the Com mercial club in every manner possible.
 At the last meeting of the board of aldermen a committee, of which l. A. Lewis is chairman, was appointed to take the matter in charge. Mr Lewis has called a meeting of the committee for next Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the city hall to hold joint session with the board of trade in order that definite plan may be formulated. As yet the plans have not been exactly understood and for this reason the committee requests that delegation of the members of the Commercial club of Birmingham attend and explain in detail just what is ex- pected of Bessemer.
 The importance of this great gather ing Is becoming more and more impressed upon the business and thinking men of the town. They are all eager to see each member of the association come to Besse- mer, get a mental picture of the wealth and resources and take it back with him to every corner of the southland. It is the intention of the committee to take this matter in charge and see that all corners are hosptably shown over this end of the county.
 Of course they will depend largely upon the citizens for assistance, but this, from the interest displayed seems already as- sured Everybody is going to pull for Jefferson county.
 From the present impression it is prob able that a home committee, to secure rooms in private families, reception com- mittee. to lead excursions through the various plants and a general committee to manage the finances and other matters that may come up will be appointed. Tho aldermen have become interested in the movement that the board may vote an appropriation to assist in entertain ing the guests and 1t is also suggested that the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company be requested to furnish q special car every morning and evening to take the delegates to the convention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
RUSH'S SUPPORTERS
 HOLD A MEETING
Candidate for Mayor Encouraged In Reports of His Campaign Man
 ager and Friends.

Bessemer, January 5.-(Special )--The friends and supporters of Walter L. Rush, candidate for Mayor, held an impromptu meeting in the Rebie hall last night, and in quiet yet enthusiastic manner dis cussed the outlook for his candidacy.
 After talking over the field and hearing reports from his workers, Mir. Rush and his campaign manager, J. B. East, were very much encouraged over the pros- poets and expressed themselves confident oe the support of the conservative vote of the city. MT. Rush has a number of enthusiastic campaigners in nearly all of the professions, who are quietly advanc- ing his claims. Unsolicited, a great many citizens have already pledged their sup port.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
Escapes Captured.

Columbus Mckee, a negro, who escaped from the chain gang in May. 1905. owing the city $30, was captured yesterday aft ernoon by Chief Christlieb and Officer Ross. The vagrant after long holiday, will board and work for the city for d while.
 Arthur Wilson, another convict. while working with the gang near the Alabama Great Southern railroad this afternoon, gently swung onto a southbound freight train and started to ride for freedom. Dismounting at Mobile junction the negro cut across country as fast as shackles would allow. in the direction of the Lous- vile and Nashville tracks, but was cap tured on the way, returned to the jail and will be given a few more days for his pains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
A. O. kelley's Funeral.

The funeral services over the remains Of A. O. Kelley were conducted at the residence with great hosts of friends pres ent. The officiating ministers were the Rev. N. D. Crawford, the Rev. w. E. Morris and the Rev. J. F. Gable The ceremony was most imposing and the floral offerings were elaborate. expressing the deep regard in which the deceased was held
 The remains were taken to Jasper, Tenn, on the Pan-American at 6:22 where they will be laid to rest in the family burial ground. The body was &C., ccmpanied by the widow, three daughters, two brothers and three sisters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06

weapon without permit would be im- prsonment for not less than five years or more than ten.
 The plan in reference to the rifle is sim liar to that in Florida but MT. Huffman says that he has no precedent for the remainder of the provisions. It is well known that very drastic laws will be passed along this line for the pistol and drink are the recognized cause of nearly all crime
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06

one end to the other the business house was strewn with rejected goods, while clothing, shoes, dress goods, hats, un- derwear and money in large quantities were missing.
 From clue which has been unearthed f. appears that the goods were piled into a wagon and driven off before morning. Detectives Patton and Childers, together with Assistant Fire Chief Doyle, went out to the scene and the guilty parties were tracked to the Woodward quarters, put the trail was there lost. The detectives are still hard at work on the case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
Store Is Robbed.

When the Brighton Department store was opened this morning it was found that a great load had been carried off during the night valued at about N5o.
 The burglars had boldly broken through the glass on the front door. entered. and with the choicest selection. helped them selves to just what they needed. From
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
Perhaps He Meant It.

From the January Lippincotts.
 P- is usually self-possessed young man; but the other day when dining out he was unexpectedly called upon to say grace. and the best he could dow as to deliver himself of the following: "Oh Lord. bless our sins and forgive this food. Amen"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
Where He Learned It.

From Smiles.
 Can you give me any evidence in re- gard to the character of the deceased?e said the judge.
 Yes. my lord replied the witness. He was a man without blame, beloved and respected by all men; pure in thoughts, and -
 Where did you learn that?r
 q copied 1t from his tombstone my lord ''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06

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 Age-Heral Drs. Dozier & Dozier's long standing record and approved abiii- ties entitle them to the proud distinction of standing at the head of their profess sion.
 The Birmingham Ledger There are no better known specialists in the south than Drs. Orion T. and Byron Dozier of the firm of Drs. Dozer & Dozier of this city. Certainly there are none more ca- pablo and skillful than they.
 Their success is remarkable and be- speaks for them the confidence of the people.
 The Southern Odd Fellow: We cannot add anything to the reputation Drs. Do- zier & Dozier have already acquired in the line of their profession, but We know them to be brother Odd Fellows and can be relied upon to carry out every promise they make to those needing their serv- ices.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
In Safe Hands.

From Sketchy Bits.
 The Married one-oh, we settle our diff ferences by arbitration
 The Single One-And who arbitrates? The Married One-Oh; I do, of course!
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 The Bessemer Weekly: There are no physicians in Alabama, if in the south, as- well known as the Drs. Dozier-Orion T. and Byron-of Birmingham. We doubt if there are as skilled and capable phy- sicians in the state as they are, and we know that there are none other as suc- cessful
 The Birmingham News: Dr. o. T. Do- zier and Dr. Byron Dozier. his son, com prise what is probably the most popu- lar medical firm in the south Beyond question they have the best equipped off, fees in the south, containing large number of scientific instruments and devices for treating those diseases which do not yield readily to the ordinary method of treatment.
 This firm has been doing business In Birmingham continuously for number of years and they have yet to be ac- cused of having dealt unfairly with a patient in any way whatsoever. They are both gentlemen of the highest type and carry their honor and gentleman Illness into their business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-06
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