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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
STORY OF A CAUL
 WHOSE MISSION FAILED

culiarities of cauls-they are never to be looked at by their possessors if the luck is to continue to the last.
 "Of course, you will have to be sober and earnest and faithful to yourself and everybody else if you are to have the luck the eaul calls for, but If you be- have, as l believe you will the caul wl always see you through
 The good womans belief in the effi- cacy of the eaul was so firm that I re- ceived her words with becoming solem- nity. It didn't seem reasonable to suppose that an elderly and experienced woman, and rather a clever one, who had raised two large families of children, could be mistaken about matter of that kind.
 The next day, wearing that best coat with the caul sewed inside l started off on my first theatrical tour.
 Well if l got three full days rations during the next two miserable months of slam whanging around bleak Northern Michigan with that unspeakably bum dramatic organization, then 1 don't know it yet. If old eggs and invalid turnips and carrots were eatable we might have eked out on those things, for we got plen- ty of them tossed at us in the most rol- licking spirit in the world by our hilar- ious audiences But we couldn't see that kind of eking, hungry as we generally were, and every day or so I took a fresh one notch reef in my surcingle and won dered when that caul sewed inside of the right sleeve of my best coat was going to get busy and give me some action in the luck line.
 But the action never came. The com pany busted and l walked home from Che boygan. If you don't know where Che [ boysan is just take a map of Michigan 1 and find out, and then you'll be able to | 1If huf rI,f ole ,iol,& have lacked in those days I sure must have been heap of a pedestrian. 1 was pretty hungry and dusty and tired and things when I walked into the old home In Detroit. and the feats I per formed in the way of putting away the provender that my good stepmother quick ly placed before me were of kind that l never equaled before or since. Not till she broached the subject her self did have anything to say about the caul. Then I told her that the charm. somehow or other, hadn't seemed to work out with any very conspicuous or spec tacular success in my case
 " Tt must be, then, son, that you looked
 at It. was her calm reply, and despite my protestatons l never quite succeeded In convincing her that l hadn't destroyed the power of the charm by permitting my curiosity to overcome me and taking a peek at the thing.
 She removed the cau from the lining of my best coat, however, saying that lt could never do me any good any more. as | I had looked at 1t. and, anyhow that the | possessors of cauls had to believe implic- l itly in their virtue in order to be the ben ehciaries of their luckness. She gave the caul to one of her half-brothers. who was also an actor, attached at that time in a leading capacity to the main Detroit stock ! company.
 This new possessor of the caul-who | believed in em implictly-had been own
 ing 1t for three days before he fell down | basement areaway and broke his neck I've been some skeptical about cauls ever since"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12

Nashville, Tenn. August 11.-(Spe- cial)-Governor Malcolm R. Patterson has issued the following proclamation:
 Whereas. by house joint resolution No. 47, approved by me on March 26. 1907. the general assembly of the state of Tennessee has designated the days from September 23 to September 27. in- elusive. as the Home Coming Period"
 New, therefore. l. Malcolm R. Patter- son, governor of Tennessee. hereby issue this proclamation and invitation to all Tennesseans wherever they may be. to meet at Nashville, the capital of the state, at the time mentioned in the resolution. to renew the ties of friendship, to strengthen the bonds of affection and to signify their devotion to their mother state.
 While the invitation is extended to all Tennesseans. it is given particularly to those who have left and elsewhere cast their lots and sought their for tunes.
 The time for this joyous home com ing Is most propitious Peace, happi- ness and prospecity have smiled upon us and shed their joys and benedic- tions.
 From east to west our people are happy at their tasks. proud of their state. and the rewards of toll are full and sure. The land has already brought forth it's abundance and has given the promise of richer harvest yet to come.
 God in lis infinite wisdom las blessed Tennessee and her people.
 He has raised up race of proud men and women who honor the tra-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12

From the New York Sun.
 The late John Ashton, the veteran actor long associated with James A. Herne in Shore Acres" who met with an accident al death in Binghamton not long ago, had a story about a caul
 T was a young chap twiddling around Detroit in the latter eos when the stage bug seized me-" he said After I'd played super, roles with the Detroit stock com panies for a couple of years a chance If you'd call 1t chance-to go out with a travelling company came my way.
 II was less than 20 at the time. The travelling company to which l attached myself was a Box and Cox sort of an outfit about to venture upon a tour of the lumber country of Northern Michigan. The outfit was carded to perform every thing from 1ngomar' and Macbeth to Ticket of Leave Man and Ten Nights in q Barroom.
 When I went home and told my step mother than l was going away from there she looked very serious. l was her favor ite stepson, being the youngest, and she rghtfully regarded an expedition into the wilds of Michigan a very solemn and dangerous matter for so young and raw a chap as 1 then was.
 'On the evening before l was due to start out with the fly by night company my stepmother called me into her room.
 Son. she said to me, do you know that you were born lucky?'
 'I told the good lady that I hoped so. I'd been hustling for living at a pretty good clip since I'd put on long trouserse without falling into any very startling amount of luck. but If 1t pleased my good stepmother to imagine that I'd beep born lucky, l had no objection.
 ' Yes she went on, you are bound to be lucky throughout your life. Are you aware of the fact son. that you were born with a caul?'
 NOW I had but the faintest notion at that time what caul was, but l remem- bered having heard, part of the family legendry that I'd come into the world fitted with such an attachment.
 "'I believe l was,' I said to my step mother. There |; superstition that peo- pie born with cauls have luck all their lives, isn't there? Don't sailors cherish cauls on account of that superstition?
 No superstition at all, my son--not a bit of it, said my stepmother. It's a proved and solemn truth that people born with cauls always have the grandest of good luck. I've watched it all my life, and I've never known 1t to fail
 Well. I'm glad of that said I hope fully. Maybe I'll be playing leading parts inside of a. few years, when I get more seasoned
 '''Now, listen said my stepmother. I've sewn that eaul in the lining of the right sleeve of your best coat. You'l always have luck as long as you carry that caul with you
 IT Is not necessary that you wear the coat all the time in order to have the luck. You need only to have it among your effects. and l have sewn 1t In the lining of the sleeve of your best coat so that therell be no possibility of your los ing it.
 Now, while you may know that 1t is there. you must never, in any circum- stances look at it. That is one of the pe-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
NEW TUBE WELD METHOD.
American Inventor in British City
 Works Out an Improvement.

Washington. August n.-(Special.) )-Con- sul Albert Halstead reports that two Americans who have been employed in a tube factory in the vicinity of Bir- mingham have patented an improved method for the manufacture of welded iron and steel tubes, applicable to both butt and lap welding, concerning which he says
 It is claimed that the patent which is already in successful use in this dis trict, not only assures more perfect we'd, but permits of great economy in the making of tubes The process con sists of blowing cold air, or air and gas upon the edges of the steel or iron strip which is to be welded. In practice the air blast alone is used, because 1t Is regarded as better. but a combination of air and gas can also be employed The effect of the air blast upon the iron or steel bar, which Is drawn through the furnace at what is regarded as welding heat Is similar to that of blowers on coal or wood-it more than doubles the temperature of the edges.
 The device consists of cast iron arms placed on each side of the furnace Each arm has slot hoie IS inches in length and three-sixteenths of an inch in width. and by means of rest the strip is held right In front of the slots. Through the slot holes cold air is blown by the use of ordinary tatory blowers on each edge of the strip. The air blast, while heat ing the edge of the strip to a greater tenn perature, throungh the mixture of the oxygen in the air with the impurities Tn the steel and iron, leaves a perfect edge. In butt welding the tube is drawn through the usual bell, its edges being squeezed together, and an even butt-welded joint results. The process can also be applied to the well known method of manufactur- Ing butt-welded iron and steel tubes by squeezing the edges of the heated strip or skelp together with tongs as 1t Is drawn from the furnace.
 In lap welding, the air is driven so as to impinge the scarfed edges of the strip or sl1elp as it leaves the furnace and just before it passes through the welding rolls, so that the scarfed edges and a perfect and proper lap weld is formed.
 It is claimed for this invention that 1t absolutely obviates the los sthat some- times occurs when the strip buckles. be- cause too hot. or is burned by the excess sive heat. An improper weld is forne q, or the tube becomes elongated and dis torted in the process of drawing an1 welding. This Is because, while the whole strip IS necessarily of very high temper ature when drawn from the furnace. it's edges only are superheated by the air
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
TENNESSEANS INVITED
 TO A "HOME COMING"

ditions of their state. cherish her glor- ious record in war and peace, and these have been handed down as blessed heritage richer than gold, and which neither time, place nor circumstance can diminish.
 These have remained to keep the birthright untarnished but Tennessee has also sent forth many of her sons to find homes in other states. whose brain and brawn. tempered and direct ed by the lesso ns taught at the moth er's knee by the old fireside, have contributed so much to the common glory of a common country
 Loyal to the states of their adoption, Tennessee is proud of the men she has given to the world, and deep Is Ser pride to know that wherever they are, filial love is still strong. and memories of the dear old state still cluster around thei rhearts.
 Tennessee has not forgotten these of her sons, and they have not forgotten Tennessee.
 To those at home. this invitation is to come to their beautiful capital city, and in Joyous meetings and festal cele- bration. honor their state and return thanks that they are part of its glory and destiny.
 To those away, the bidding Is to come, for the old scenes are still here to smile a welcome the old hearth stone still remains to bring back the joys and sorrows of the beautiful past, the old arms which held you once are anxiously reaching out to embrace you again, and the old faces set in your heart, apart from all the world and sacred evermore, will smile and cry again for Joy that you are back to Tennessee and home.
 MALCOLM R. PATTERSON,
 Governor of Tennessee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
STRIKE-BREAkING PAYS.
Jim Farley Has a Country Home and
 Fortune of $1oo,ooo.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 Strkebreaking Jim" Farley has made his fortune and is paving the settled way for a life of ease. He Is a horse lover and spends most of his time these days at his breeding farm at Plattsburg, N. Y., and makes occasional trips to Kentucky in search of fine stock. Farley is still strikebreaker, but he has shifted the per sonally hazardous part of the business to the hands of trusted lieutenants He is q sort of board of strategy all by himself Is Farley, and he will probably be break ing strikes until he dies.
 Harry H. Bowen.I strikebreaker, has made his thousands by fighting all over the country for corporations against un- ions. He saved the beef trust in Chi cago; his recent campaign against the warning longshoremen on the docks of New York nettcd him a tidy fortune. Bowen faced shots in the famous collar and cuff strike at Troy.
 Like Farley. he has a beautiful coun- try home It is on the Jersey Highlands and his city apartments on Central Park Invest are as luxurlously fitted out as those of a mutimlllonaire. He owns ten ement houses in New York and Brooklyn.
 Farley and Bowen hold special insur- ance policies on their lives for s10o,0oO each.
 Strikebreaking has become to chiefs of corporations recognized business, and they are in constant touch with men like Farley and Bowen. Railroads. street car companies. machine works and institu- tions employing large bodies of workmen keep strikebreaker bosses on the payroll even in time of peace. The Instant the suggestion of q strike is made the strike breaker boss is notified and sends his se- cret agents among the dissatisfied work men. Then he begins to enlist men capa- ble of working at this particular trade and holds them in readiness for call. They are under pay while awaiting orders.
 The handling of strikes is not planned in the offices of the corporation. Far ley and Bowen both have offices in big buildings on nnner Broadway. Far
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
PersoniI and General.
CHINESE EMIGRATION.
ehantuns Res Hents Flock to Siberia
 in Great Number.

Washington, lugust (Special.)-C sul W. T. Grady of Tsingtau, says that it is reported fom Vladlcostok that dur i ing the year 196 strong tide of Chiness immigration frtn Shantung has been one of the great fatures, concerning which he says:
 It is estimats that at least 10000 have arrived at thal city from Tsingtau and Chefoo. Vladipstok is now said to have the appearance of semi Chinese town. have been irlormed by the government of Kiaochow hat he has been greatly handicapped insecuring workmen for the various governaental improvements here, owing to the icrease of emigration. not withstanding tie fact wages are from l10 to 200 per centhigher than in the Shan tung hinterlanl There Is a call now for laborers on tn road and in the forestry demand. and te governor states that he could use fourfimes as many laborers as he Is able tolsecure.
 The higher kages paid in Siberia and fin the Amur provinces seem to be at tracting the hinese, and travellers on the Trans-Sihrian railway say that men from thl province are seen con tinually at eery station of the rail- way as far hland as Irkutsk. being engaged as ruck and fruit farmers and coming { the train to dispose of their produce to passengers. Much of the money mde by these people Is re- mitted to tn er relations in Shantung. and as it is a custom with Chinese never to writ home without forward ing some gif and the postal money order system how furnishes a safe and easy means d transferring money. un- doubtedly co1iderable amounts are be- ing graduallytransported to the colony and the prov1ce of Shantung from Manchurian ad Siberian points.
 An increase of 10000 in one year to the Chinese ppulation of Vladivostok alone, comint entirely from the pro- vince of ShaIung, shows that there must be som particularly attractive business thet to interest the exceed ingly keen hsiness men of this ter ritory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12

ley Is content with a little grass N gn having on 1t: James Farley, detect:ve" Bowen screens his identity by the name, "The Bowen-Post company" Strikebreaking bosses. for obvious req sons. are not anxious to be conspicuous
 Tn the last year l have received 5000 threatening letters" said Farley to friend. 'Tf they should stop com- ing now, l would feel lonesome. The great danger in our business Is when the actual strike Is on. I have been shot at about twenty-five times, but only one shot struck me"
 The profits of Farley and Bowen come mainly from the increased wage paid per man furnished to break the strike. For instance, when the subway te-up began twenty months ago the motor guards and train hands got from $1 75 to s2.25 a day. When breaking the strike Farley received & day for each man he furnished. in addition to 5000 q day for personally supervising and commanding the strike kebreaking force. He paid his men s2 30 day.
 Farley says striltebreakers as q rule are men of good character. and Join his ranks because they are hard up for work Bowen is reported to have 10000 men Tn all parts of the country ready to serve hlm at moments notice Bowen's list includes 20 women. who were used in the shirt factory strike at Troy, N. Y.
 In women I find passion for strike breaking said Bowen, and some would rather work for s2 day breaking a strike than get a steady job at B a day"
 Farley got into the strlkebrea king bus ines in a peculiar way He ran 2 small hotel in Plattsburg. and while i'll with typhoid fever he wandered off in a de- lirium. and got rid of all his money. |, ,.IE l.. Brooklyn, broke while the B. R. T strike was on He got lob as motorman and that suggested his present occupa- tion. He has since broken strikes in Chicago. Cincinnati. San Francisco, Wa terburv and many other cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
KEGLEY BREACHES AT ENSLEY CHURCH Considering c all to First Pres ' byteria Church YOUNG MAN UNDER ARREST Is Charged Witf Driving Horse to Death-EnsIey Party Returns
 From Cuba --PersonaI and
 GeneTal News.
YOUNG MAN UNDER ARREST

Ensley, August 1.-(Special.) )-Rev. H. c. Kegley of Gadsden preached this morn ing at the First Presbyterian church. A large congregation was present, as it. is understood Mrl Kegley is considering a call to the chirch.
 MT. Kegley is h young man of fine presence and is forceful and impress sive speaker. He took for his text: "The Temple of God And by his logical req soning and skilfq illustration, made n very favorable impression. MT. Kegley's s decision will be made known in a few days. It Is hopel by the congregation that he will acceit the call
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
Drove Horse to Death.

J. D. Harris, ayoung white man, was arrested this mFning by Officer John Wren, charged with driving a horse to death.
 Harris hired a horse and buggy from Smiley & Sons Saturday morning, pre- sumably to go td Birmingham. He drove the horse until [ dropped from exhaus- tion, abandoning it near Thomas fur mace.
 Information wS sent to J. c. Jordan, manager for Smiley x Son. of the oc- currence. who immediately went in search of the horse afd buggy. When found the horse was @ad.
 Inc police wen notified and the arrest followed.
 PersonI and General.
 W. R. Knapp who is temporarily To- cated in Tuscaloosa, spent Sunday in the city.
 Mrs. Avertysl and daughters, Misses Madge, Annie aud Tillie, will leave in a few days for Jamestown and other points in Virginia.
 Capt. z. D. Easier, R. T. Mcleod and Roscoe E. Scott returned Saturday from Cuba, where thy have been for the past three weeks Investigating orange lands. They report a Fery pleasant and profit able trip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
His pIaa.

From Harper's Weekly.
 Judee Prisoner. have you anything to say to the court before sentence Is pro- nounced?'
 Prisoner: "I beg the court to consider tho voutnfripass of my aftnrrev"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
A Rod in Pickle.

From the Philadelphia Press.
 "Is your husband up yet2" inquired the early morning caller
 "T guess he is." replied the stern looking woman at the door.
 Well. I'd like to say few words to him"
 50 would I. He hasn't come home yet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
Not Quite the Same.

From the Baltimore American. Tt is a wonder we ever got out of that crowd unhurt."
 'We were something like the fly in the amber, weren't we?'' How do you make that out?"
 Why. weren't we, to speak pre- served in jam?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
Well and Good.

From tho rhiea ga News.
 Little Wil'ie-Say. ra. what is the diff ferenco hetweea .'wel'' and "goo1?" Pal nave noticed. my son. that about the only tine when you are good is when you are not we'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12
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A Way Out. From the Philadelphia Ledger The girl said, albeit regretfuly. that she could not marry hlm, that she was welded to CT art NO other reason?' he asked. None"
 We'll he responded I've said I'd dare anything for you, and I'm willing to run the risk of bigamy. After reflection, she was, too
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-12

We should advertise in all the papers a reward for the discovery of the man." suggested Ford
 certainly," acquiesced the secretary.
 Let us see. Suppose we insert an ad- Vertisement of this, kind" said Ford, slowly composing an advertisement. in which he took care to insert every mia spelled word in the forged notes.
 That would do admirably" assented the secretary.
 Would you mind writing 1t out. as I have forgotten my spectacles." said Ford
 The secretary accordingly wrote the ad- vertsement out at Ford's dictaton, mis- spelling the test words precisely as they td been misspeled in the forged notes. Ford took the advertisement away, insert ed 1t in all the newspapers, and mme- diately after it's appearance, called again to see the secretary.
 Well asked the secretary, have you found the man
 "T have"
 "Yes?" who is he?
 "You' thundered Ford clapping his hand violently upon the secretary's knee. The secretary, without asking for proof without uttering a single word-started up, dashed to the open window, flung him sci out, and was impaled upon the Iron rallings before the door
 The chief evidence against John Con nor for the murder cf a man in Cork was the accused's hat. which was found beside the corpse The policeman who found the hat was cross examined thus by Daniel O'Connell:
 You swear the hat now in my hand is the identical hat you found beside the body of the murdered man?" he asked the policeman.
 do."
 ''Yo Il know 1t to be the prisoners hat" 'I do."
 You know it from the name inside" said OConnell, looking into the hat ard proceeding to spell slowly 'J-o-h-n Com nor"
 .'I did" replied the policeman
 Now. my lord and gentlemen of tho jury. just see for yourselves how much this mans oath is worth" said OConnell. handing up the hat to the judge. There's no name at all inside the hat"
 The prisoner won