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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
.ENSLEY TRIES NEW
 PAVING MATERIAL
Future Work Depends on Re-
 suit of Experiment
CHAPLAIN HALL RESIGNS
]. M. Johnston, Vivian Groceryman, Is Held Up and Left Gagged and Bound to a Tree-Personal
 and General.

Ensley, June 6.-(Special )-That the city fathers are not allowing any grass to grow in the pathway of the citys progress is evidenced by the fact that in the im- mediate future an experiment in street paving is to be tried on one of the prin- oipal highways of the city. In speaking of the matter Mayor Sugg stated today that while it had not been definitely de- cided the trial of the new paving would probably be made on Avenue F between Nineteenth and Twenty first streets and would be begun as soon as the necessary arrangements could be made and the ma terial secured.
 "The excellence and utility of the bitu- lithic pavement on Avenue E and Nine teenth street" said Mayor Sugg, have demonstrated the almost practical neces- sity of some kind of paving on the other principal thoroughfares of the city, and to secure a substantial, durable highway at low cost is the purpose of the pro- posed experiment. The foundation of the pavement is to be of slag, over which a heavy roller will be run, and then wearing surface of tar and chert added and rolled evenly and compactly. This paving has been tried in many other places and has given excellent results in the way of roadmaking, it's chief rec concentrations being it's low cost and good quality. It is estimated that the work can be done at a cost of between 50 and 75 cents per yard and when it is taken into consideration that this character of paving is almost as good as bitulithic or asphalt the difference in the cost of the two will be appreciated.
 "The materials will all be secured here in the city as cheaply as possible. The tar comes from the Barrett Manufacturing company, which has national reputation for the success of it's product in the building of model highways, and it is very likely that the company or one of its rep rensentatives will superintend the con- struction of the paving. If the experi- ment proves successful, and the chances are largely in its favor, the matter of paving the principal streets of the city will be taken up oy the City Council in the proper manner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
Special Church Services.

The Rev. Thomas A. Davis of Farmers vile, Tex, will preach Sunday evening at o'clock at the Cumberland Pres5y- terian church. MT. Davis is in the dis trict to attend the reunion and is the guest of MT. and Mrs. J. H. Jones'
 The evangelist meetings at the Presby terian church will end Sunday. spe- cial services will be held at 4 o'clock Sun- day evening.
 At St. Johns church the Sunday school classes will be promoted and classes re- organized by the rector, Dr. Crawford Thursday, June Il, Feast of St. Barna. bas" a. m., holy communion. Tues day, June g, D. m., monthly visiting meeting with MT. H. w. Wallace, Avenue L and Twenty-seventh street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
THE CONVICT IN GEORGIA.
Horrors of Place Where He Must Work
 His Way Back to Freedom.

Charles Edward Russell in the June
 Everybody's.
 The state of Georgia, having no peni- tentiary nor prison nor other means or caring for it's offenders. practises upon them a very strange device. It sells them for the terms of their sentences into the hands of private and Irresponsible per sons, and it was for these persons that the man was now gong up ana doWh the line, selecting the likeliest and cholc- est. Fifty years before, on another spot near at hand, another. man had gone similarly up and down another line, mak- ing similar selections for service But the service of 50 years ago had been called slavery, and the service Of this day was called contract labor, and with this difference of names a great ana splendid state had managed in some way to salve its conscience.
 Some are taken to convicts camp at a place that I shall call Gehenna. That Is not it's name on the map, but 1t Will do well enough for our purposes. It IS one of many convict camps; some better. some worse. The company that had bought of the state of Georgia this par ticular batch of slaves is engaged in max ing brick. Its camp is remote from the cities and ordinary ways of men; nobody knew what went on there, and nobody cared.
 With the first glance at the camp, a chill strikes to the heart; there is some thing most forbidding about the wild and desolate spot, made more hideous with the ragged, dirty structure and the black chimneys of the brickyard. In one corner Is a high stockade with guard pens about it and men with rifles on guard; within the stockade are wretcned, dark, dilapidated, and most filthy nuts in which men are doomed to sleep and eat About the factory yard are men at work in the broad stripes of the convict, some preparing the clay, some wheeling the yellow, damp, new bricks to the furnaces to be baked. One notices that all these men are very baldy clad, and some go almost naked. Beyond the brick kiln the land slopes into swamp, promising breeding-place for disease.
 The new gang are led to one Of the filthy sheds, where they receive break fast of one slice of boiled salt pork and one piece of greasy corn bread. There are no knives nor forks, and one convict takes the pork into his fingers He feels something move under his fingers. He looks sharply at the pork. He sees what it is that has moved. It is worms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07

habitual thought-force measure our eff ciency. The habitual thought-force in many people is so feeble and spasmodlc that they cannot focus their minds with sufficient vigor to accomplish much.
 We can quickly tell the first time we meet a person whether his thought-force is strong or weak. for every sentence he utters will partake of it's quality.
 The person who has a negative thought force betrays his lack of strength in his every word. His language is weak, has no gripping quality.
 But the man with vigorous mentality takes right hold of you grips your mind with every sentence. His power thrills you, and you feel immediately that you are in the presence of a strong person. ality.
 It is the positive, the aggressive thought that creates, that invents. The nega- tive thought is always weak.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
SIovenIy Mental Habits.

From Success Magazine
 The normal mind acts under law The mental faculties will not give up their best unless they are marshaled by sys- tenn. They respondecordially to order, but they rebel against slip-shod methods. They are like soldiers. They must have a leader, general who enforces order, method.
 The majority of people get very little out of their brains because they never learn to think systematically. Their minds are like some country stores where everything is jumbled up. There is no order or method anywhere. They browse, or cogitate, but they do not focus their mind and conduct their mental processes with order.
 Slovenly mental habits will destroy the finest minds.
 The strength and persistency of our
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
Groceryman Held Up,

J. M. Johnston, a groceryman of Wy lam, was the victim of daring and bloodthirsty highway robbery while on his way home from his store. As ne neared First street he saw three men standing in the shadow and on approach ing them, thinking they were friends, wished them good evening. The three men, who proved to be negroes, jumped into the road and covered him with pis- tols, ordered him to throw up his hands, warning him if he made an outcry they would kill him. The highwaymen con- ducted him a short distance from the road, and after gagging him, tied him to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
Hall Resigns.

The Rev. J. J. D. Hall has resigned his position as assistant chaplain at the peni- tentiary to be effective about July 15. He has accepted the position as superinten- dent of the Galilee Rescue Mission, Phil adelphia, Pa. This is the largest insti- tuition of its kind in this country and affords a great opportunity for work among the poor and fallen. It is under the control of the Episcopal church. MT.
 Hall has lived Tn Ensley for the past six years, having accepted a call to St. Johns church in 1902, was rector until March 1, 1904, when he was appointed chaplain at the prison. He has made his moral in- fuence felt in the town and among the unfortunates with whom he labored, hay ing done much to lessen their misery. It is with sincere regrets the people of Ems ley, irrespective of creed, learn of his de- parture, as to know MT. Hall was to love and respect him and only the call of duty could have taken him from the friends he has made here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
Street Decorations,

The decorating committee of the Ensley Commercial club completed their work last night and as a result the business section of the city presents a splendid appearance. The committee is being warmly congratulated for their excellent and artistic work. Those loudest in their praises are the old Confederates, many ot whom have attended other reunions and say the general effect of the decorations surpass anything in the way of street decorations they have ever seen. A num- Der of old veterans, including Uncle Billy Havis, M. L. Arnold, J. R. Acuff and others, gathered on the corner of Nine teenth street and Avenue E and with barred head gave the rebel yell in honor of the committee who had cone their duty so we'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07

It would have been an impossible thing to have found a sober man at Faro the other day for the streets of the little community were running with wine.
 Fire broke out in the extensive wine stores Of the VinIcola company, and in order to avoid an explosion in the center of the city, which would have caused great damage and probably killed many per sons, hundreds of casks of wine were emptied into the streets.
 The populace abandoned the fire and al ank copiously. Many persons brought bottles, buckets, and even kettles, which they filled with wine
 Several hundred people were overcome by the strong fumes and were removed insenslble by the police, while many others became so drunk that they lay about on the pavements.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
NEW KISSING BUG
 COMES ID PARIS
Streets and BouIevardS Are
 Made Uncomfortable
TROUBLES OF COMMUNE
Le Tartre- -Gaudran Has Not Enough Qualified Voters to Fill All the Offiees-Not a Marriage
 in Twenty Years.
BY PAUL VlLLlERS.

Paris, June 6--All Paris is in despair at the invasion of an unknown fly or bug which in many ways reminds of the Amer ican kissing bug. The air is literally filled with these insects, which are more than three-fourths of an inch long and at night the boulevards present the remarkable spectacle of thousands of people fighting like madmen and trying to defend them | selves against the bugs with canes, fans and newspapers.
 The owners of the famous cafes and restaurants along the boulevards, whose customers ordinarily partake of their meals and drinks on the sidewalk, declare that unless the insects are driven away they will be ruined for no one cares to while away time outside cafe when he has to keep his arms going like a windmill to defend himself against these winged, heavily armored pests.
 Nobody knows from where the insects, now popularly known as the "Bibions de Saint Mare" have come but curiously enough the plague is confined to this city and has not reached the country. The little commune of Le Tartre-Gau- dran has had considerable difficulty in
  eipal council must by law consist of 10 members. But Le Tartre-Gaudran pos sesses only five voters. There are three houses in the village-three farms-and the population numbers r.
 In Paris at election time the candidates make many rude remarks in print, and these are pasted on colored bills on the , top of the rude remarks made by the opposing candidate. But here in this Utopian village there are seven candidates too few, and there are therefore, no ad- verse candidates at all. One of the five voters refused to be candidate or vote. lie is the mayor.
 The foru others met in solemn conclave, and were about to elect themselves muni- clpal councillors, when it suddenly realized that only three of them were available. The fourth was old enough to vote, but still too young to hold office. Eventually three councillors were hunted down in neghboring villages.
 There has not been a marriage in Le Tartre-G Gaudran for over 20 years Then the mayor married, and the doubt arose whether it would be. legal for him to register his marriage himself and make the usual speech, You are married In the name of the law" to himself and his bride. The deputy mayor eventually did it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
FOR SALE.

Millinery Store doing a busi- ness of $8,000 a year; good es- tablished trade. Doing strictly a cash business. Any other in- formation, address
 SHOOT MILLINERY CO.,,
 Ensley, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07

Claude Monet, the greatest living painter of the French impressionist school, has destroyed nearly 20 of his own paintings. Their market value was at least s100000, and they represent the labor of over three years.
 Monsieur Monet had decided to send the twenty paintings to an exhibition which is to be opened in Paris in June. They consisted of landscapes, of studies of trees and of water under various effects of light. Upon going over them carefully the artist decided they were not up to his standard of excellence. Ruthlessly he de- stroyed them, one and all. The famous painter who is now an old man, lives at Giverny, near Vernon, where he has a marvellous home rich in art treasures and surrounded by elaborate gardens. A lit tie colony of American artists has gath cred around him, the best known being Mac Monnes, Blumenscheen and Mark Hopkins And these, who have seen the pictures which Monsieur Monet deemed unworthy to live, declare they were of great art value.
 The only other incident of a similar kind which the present generation can recall is the destruction of many of his own works by the veteran painter Degas. chiefly remarkable for his pictures of French ballet girls.
 Although his slightest sketch fetched Q high prlce, NJ. Degas is now living in poverty, as the result of his habit of de- stroying all of his work which did not reach the standard he had set up. He made several fortunes by his brush, but spent them all in huying back pictures from his studio which he considered un- worthy to go down to posterity bearing his name and which he, therefore, de- stroyed. He IS six years older than Mir.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07

a tree and relieved him of his money, amounting to $27 50. They then decamped, leaving Johnston tied to the tree. He succeeded in freeing himself, however, as he was tied by wire, and gave the alarm. Chief of Police Eubanks organ ized posse of citizens, who searched the woods for the highwaymen, but were un- successful. They traced them to the rail- roads of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic, but further traces were lost. MT. Johnston's mouth was cut and bruised from the gag and his wrists where the wire was tied are lacerated.
 Robert Fitzwilliams, aged about 5O years, a number in mine No. 5, was se- riously if not fatally hurt Saturday by being struck by a tram car. Fitzwilliams saw the car on the slope and made an effort to step off the track. He got on the track on which the car was and received injuries which may prove fatal. Fltz- williams was hurt internally and about the head. He lives at Pratt City and has been taken there.
 Personal and General.
 Prof. and Mrs. Thomas R. Walker en- tertained last night at the city hall, Blr- mingham in honor of the teachers of the summer school and their friends. The at- fair was an informal reception. mus  lightful refreshments were served. About 200 guests were present and the affair was enjoyed immensely.
 M. II. Sherman, assistant general man. ager of the Semet-Solvay company plant, is in Ensley accompanied by the super intendent of construction of the company Their visit at this time tends to confirm the rumor of further development of the plant at this point.
 James c. Murphy, assistant chief clerk of the Frisco railroad, left Saturday Tor a six-weeks visit to his old home Cuba, N. Y.
 P. c. Simmons will leave in few days for Cincinnati and several other points north.
 Commandant R. l.. Daniels has issued a call to all members of R. E. camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, to meet Sunday afternoon at o'clock to take up several important matters in connection with the reunion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07

For best aovertlsing cuts try The Gawl. hge-Hera'f' building.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-07-07
WHO STOLE
The BICYCLE?
~ -
This is the Question Put up
to the Mayor.
"SOnEBODY LIED"
Bob Cheney Knows His
Wheel was Stolen.
The Matter of Who Swiped the
Bike is a Question of Dispute In
Mayors Court.

AS result of a general business
mixup in which some one was victim
ized-the 'stung" party yet to be
found, Albert Rhu Is langulshing in
durance more or less vile. And it all
came about because Il. G Cheney, the
sign painter, owned bicycle.
ICheney's wheel was stolen from in
front of Comers somehousc sometime
Monday afternoon. In the evening
Cheney walked past A. d. Mltchell's
|secon d hand store on Church street
and saw the missing machine. lie i'm
mediately got busy and GAINED IL.
Mitchell protested that he had bought
the machine from a man who had
worked for him just short time ago.
A dispute followed and Cheney started
for police headquarters with the IN
tenti0n of swearing out a warrent for
Mitchell's arrest. Mitchell then got
busy, and in a few minutes rushed
down and swore out warrant charg-
ing Rhu, his former employe. with
having stolen the wheel. Rhu was
arrested about midnight and claims to
have traded a silver watch to a fellow
he didn't know for a wheel.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-07-07
SUCKED into
PIT OF DEATH
Elmer Burch Sustains Fas
tai Injuries.
AT OVENS QUARRIES
Sad Accident Occurs This
Sad Accident Occurs This
Morning.
Body Is Bruised and Bleeding When
Recovered and Injuries Prove
Fatal.

Covered with lime and stone dust,
smothered and crushed and lnsensible,
the body of young Elmer Burch of this
city was found at the bottom of heap
of "dust" coming from one of the
chutes at the quarrles of the John ID.
Owens & Son quarrles, in Owens, this
morning.
Elmer is a son of Samuel Burch,
who resides ON Thompson street, this
city and Is employed by Owens COM
pany. He had gone down this morn
ling with the idea of helping his father
in his work.
While nothing else seemed to be do
ing, the young man strolled over and
assisted in what Is called fleveling
off" n bunch of dust which Is shot
down a chute. Young Burch was
warned, II Is said, of the danger of the
position.
However, he took the chance, and
within few moments his body was
whirled and swlrled and twisted
down through that trough Of death
and the beaten body found at the bot
tom. Those who We're present know
nothing of how young Burch happened
TO fall into the gaping mouth of the
deadly pit which sucked him down.
He had been told, 50 it Is claimed by
Mr.. Clifford Owen, that he was
perched upon dangerous position and
had been fully warned to ''look out"
The body of the injured boy was
taken to a nearby residence and med
lead assistance summoned. Doctors
Of Prospect, and James
Wilson McMurray, of this city, re-
sponded and found that the boy was
terribly crushed about the chest and
had probably suffered internal injur-
les from which he will not recover.
Notwithstanding the heroic eR-
forts of attending puhysicans, the
unfortunate young man died at
Il1:30 o'clock. The body was brought
to this city and arrangements
FOR the funeral will be made later.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-07-07
Personals
:.

Rev. C. e. Buerkle was a visitor
In Columbus today.
John Baker has returned home sftel
visit with friends at Upper San
dusky.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Klehm ant
daughter were guests of Upper San
dusky relatives over Sunday.
Mrs. Elmer Millhouse and two
children left today for a visit with
niends in Ostrander.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Walker OF
North Prospect street, are the par
ents OF son born Monday evening.
A son was born to MIR. and Mrs.
Homer Carlton of South Main
street, Monday afternoon
Mrs. Bishop Dickinson and daughter
Miss Mary left this morning for Cin-
cinnati, where they will visit friends
for a few weeks.
Miss Eta Gloss, Miss Frances
iauslon and Mr.. Charles Langloh
OF Columbus are in the city visiting
friends and relatives.
DIR. and Mrs. Lawson returned
yesterday evening from a weeks out
ing at Howell, Michigan, where they
have been visiting relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gunder, OF West
Center street, went to Redwood with
their guest, Otto Gunder, today,
where they will spend few days WIS.,
iting friends
Miss Rose Scherger OF Agosta,
left Sunday for an extended tour
through the East, where she will
spend some time with her aunt
near New York city.
Misses Anna and Catharine Raj
ferty of Columbus, returned to their
home today after a brief visit with
Miss Catharine Rafferty, of Silver
Miss Orpha Snow and Miss Olive
Bayles OF Cleveland and Mr.. S.
halph Wilson OF TT. Wayne, are
guests OF Miss Jennie Peters OF Vine
street.
Mr., r. r. Wright, OF the Marion
Department company, Is attending
An annual furniture exhibit at Grand
Rapids, Michigan, for a couple of
weeks. He will visit Chicago and 9TH
er cities on his return home.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-07-07
LEARN OF ACCIDENTAL
DEATH OF Their son
Walter Hoffstetter was
Drowned In Idaho.
News 10 Learned From the Post
Master at St. Joe IN a
Letter.

Mr., John Hofstetter, of Martel, re-
ceiyed the very sad intelligence today
that his son Walter, aged 23, had been
drowned ait st. Joe, Idaho. The
young man had been gone from home
for considerable period and had been
writing 10 his parents at frequent in
tervals.
About three weeks ago a letter was
written TO him from the Martel home
land no answer received at the time
one usually arrived. Today the let
ter written from this county was re-
turned together with letter of explain
alton from st. joe, postmaster, stating
that the young man had been drowned
while In swimming and had been bur
led there.
The parents were almost prostrated
by the news and haven't, as yet, de-
termined whether or not the body will
be brought back to this county.