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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
AN ASSOCIATION
 FORMED AT DECATUR
THE TWIN CITIES WILL COMBINE IN AN EFFORT TO SECURE NEW INDUSTRIES AND GET CLOSER TOGETHER.

Decatur, January 1s.-(special.) IA large industrial and commercial asso- citation, to be known as the Develop ment Company of the Decaturs, was organized at the city hall in New De- catur last night by the election of the following officers: President. E. c. Payne, New Decatur; vice president, John D. Wyker, Decatur; secretary, Frank W. Hall, Decatur; treasurer. L. W. Borton, New Decatur. and the fol- lowing board of directors From New Decatur, Samuel Blackwell. L. W. Bor- ton, B. L. Malone. E. c. Payne; from Decatur, John D. Wyker, H. c. Calvin and Frank w. Hall.
 The membership of the organization Is made up of the leading business and professional men and manufacturers of professional men and manufacturers of the two Decaturs. For the present the office of the secretary will be in De- catur and the place of meeting will be in New Decatur.
 The organization will be chartered at once and the capital stock of the com- pany will be $10.0O0. a majority of which Is already paid in.
 The object of the organization is to build up the Decaturs industrially. and 1t is believed that this can be better done by the leading citizens of each city combining and forming one large and influential association. At the meeting last night it was decided that a. cotton factory be built here, and subscriptions for stock will commence within the next few days. The asso- citation will also ask Congress to make an appropriation for q government building in the Decaturs. The organi- zation has many other good things In store for the Decaturs and 1t is be- lieved that during the next year many new factories will be located here. All kinds of factories will be asked to come, but wood working factories are the most desired. The location or the Decaturs make this point one or the best in the south for woodworking plants of all kinds.
 In both Decatur and New Decatur there are many men who favor the union of the two cities and it Is be- lieved that the organization of this association will have tendency 10 accomplish this result.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
THE STANDARD POWER.
Electricity Is Used Extensively In
 Factories.

Columbus, Ga, January 1S.-(Spe- cial. "A rather striking feature, lncl- dent to the industrial expansion of the south and the new conditions relative to manufacturing in this section, is the change from steam to electricity as the power that drives machinery. This change is being made rapidly in some cities and gradually in others, and the present sentiment is we'll illustrated by the situation in this city.
 Columbus has been a textile manu- featuring center for a half century, and during the past two decades has developed large iron-working and wood- working enterprises, and yet up untll about 10 years ago not a single indus trial enterprise here was electrically driven, direct water power and steam being the only power that was used. It was qute an event when, 10 years ago, one of the big cotton mills here discarded steam for electricity, and the incident was widely quoted in industrial and technical journals. Since then plant after plant has relegated coal to the rear, substituting in it's stead the cheaper and more convenient electrical power. About the same time the development of the immense water power of the Chattahoochee river at this point was begun, and of course the generation of such wholesale quanti- ties of electrical energy gave a great impetus to the adoption of this form of power. There are now only one or two manufacturing plants here of any con sequence that cling to steam, and it is interesting to note that all new indus tries established here arrange for an electrical installation as a matter of course. The Columbus Power con- pany, which owns waterfalls furnish ing approximately 100000 horse power, now has three plants in operation, one of them so large that it furnishes power for the operation of nine cotton mills.
 One of the latest industries to be established here is big fertilizer fac tory, which requires some 400 to 500 horse power for the operation of It's ponderous machinery. It adopted cleo tric power, although in order to furnish it, it was necessary to build line sev- eral miles long.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
CAMPBELL FOUND
 GUILTY OF MURDER
IS CHARGED WITH THE KILLING OF LOxLA T. EDWARDS AT COLUMBUS, GA, A FEW MONTHS AGO.

Columbus, Ga., January 1S.-(Special.)- The jury in the Wood c. Campbell mur- der case tonight brought in verdict of guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and this means that the slayer of Loxla T. Edwards will serve from one to twenty years in the penitentiary for his deed.
 The jury was out four hours, and the verdict is regarded as a compromise one. Judge Martin will not pass sentence until Monday. It is believed that motion for a new trial has been made. The fact that Campbell had a reputation as a man killer" he having shot one or more men prior to tie recent tragedy, undoubtedly had its effect on the jurors. according to popular belief.
 He was acquitted of murder at Opelka, Ala, a year or two ago, after a long and sensational trial for the killing of a MT. Thetford, of PheniX City, while Campbell was marshal of that town. In the pres ent case Campbell claimed that Edwards tried to invade his home, despite repeated warnings, also was trying to shoot him at the moment when he tCampbelD shot at him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL. Few People Know How Useful If Is In Preserving Health and Beauty.
Costs Nothing To Try.

Nearly everybody knows that charcoal is the safest and most efficient disinfect- ant and purifier In nature, but few req lize its value when taken into the human system for the same cleansing purpose.
 Charcoal is remedy that the more you take of it the better 1t Is not a drug at all. but simply absorbs the gases and inl- purities always present in the stomach and intestines and carries them out of the system.
 Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking, drinking or after eating on- ions and other odorous vegetables.
 Charcoal effectually clears and inn proves the complexion, it whitens the teeth and further acts as a natural and eminently safe cathartic.
 If absorbs the injurious gases which collect in the stomach and bowels; it oisinfects the mouth and throat from the poison of catarrh.
 All druggists sell charcoal in one form or another, but probably the best charcoal and the most for the money is in Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges; they are composed of the finest powdered will low charcoal and other harmless anti septics in tablet form or rather in the form of large pleasant tasting lozenges, the charcoal being mixed with honey.
 The daily use of these lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condition or the general nSaith, Doe.et SoipiSAiohs uweeter breath and purer blood, and the beauty of it Is that no possible harm can result from their continued use. but, on the contrary, great benefit
 A Buffalo physician, in speaking of the benefits of charcoal, says: q ad- wise Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges to all patients suffering from gas in stomach and bowels, and to clear the compiexlon and purify the breath mouth and throat ] also believe the liver is greatly ben efited by the daily use of them; they cost but twenty-five cents box at drug stores. and although in some sense a patent preparation, yet I believe l get more and better charcoal in Stuarts Charcoal Lozenges than in any or the ordinary charcoal tablets
 Send your name and address today for p free trial package and see for your yelf. F. A. Stuart Co.,, POO Stuart Build plg, Marshall, Mich.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
BY HERVEY w. LAIRD.

Montgomery, January 1S.-(Special.) )-In the trip of the High School Board over the state this week the people of Ala bama have had a novel instance of desire on the part of the powers that be to know what the people who are to be benefited want It is an ideal illustration of the doctrine of the referendum. It is hardly possible that there has been case be- fore of state officers having the power to do as they please in matter to an extent at least of riding and driving and walking to get to country towns to dis cover the desires of humble citizens, many of whom have never before seen the executive for whom they voted
 1t Was Hard Work.
 The members of this board have the duty under the law of locating in each county a high school to which the state will appropriate each year 5000. Cover nor Conner is the chairman, his associates being Superintendent of Education |. Gunnells and Auditor William w. Bran don They might have remained at the capital and let the argument be brought to them, but they did not For 10 days they have been in some of the most re- mote counties in the state and now they will know better than by any other means what the several communities have to give. There is no such other incident in the history of the state that the writer now recalls.
 Children Lined Up.
 There is nothing that gets so near the heart of Governor Conner as lot of children. He is the father of & big fam fly and the lover of all the little fellows who can get around him. Hearing of this the people of Jones Mill, in Monroe county, made ready for him. When the party arrived at the place there was line of children half a mile long,, one of the enthusiatistic members said. Any way there were many of them. As soon as his eyes fell on the youngsters the face of the governor almost blazed with the pleasure they gave him. He wanted to get hold of every one of them. He had little time for anything else Rub ping his hands in delight he said over and over: My, but that is fine"
 McDuffle Took it To Heart.
 Representative McDuffie was in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
SONG RECITAL
 BY EDGAR L. BROWN, Cable Hall, Thursday, January 23, 1903. Edna GockeI Gussen at the piano.
 Admission 50 cents.


 Admission 50 cents.
 PROGRAMME. l. The Bandolero. Stuart 2. Ode to Bacchus (sung in French). Chaminade. 3. Pretty Polly Oliver. Old English. 4. Absent Metcalfe. 6. Swallows Song. Radecke. 6. Largo (from the Opera "Xerxes"). Handel. z. Recit:-Thus Saith the Lord Aria But Who May Abide. Handel.
 (From the "Messiah) 8. Wandering. Sch hubert. g. Whither. Sch ubert. 10. Who Is Sylvia? Schubert. II. Organ Player. Schubert. 12. Erlking. Schubert. IS. Loch Lomond. Old Scotch. IA. All Through the Night. Old Welsh. , 15 Monotone. Peter Cornelius. 16. F'uniculi Funicula isung in Ital ian). Ligui Denza. IT, Tragic Tale Slater. IS. His Lullaby. Carrie Jacobs Bond 19 Act III, Scene 2, O Do Mein Holder Abendstern. Richard Wagner. (From the Opera "Tannhauser.') 20. Ich Grolla Nicht. Robt. Schumann.
 (Sung in German.) 21. Many a Beauteous Flower. Ella May Smith. 22. Recit. and Aria Vision Fugitive. Massenet.
 (From the Opera "Herodiade.D
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
CHILD TAKEN FROM PARENTS.
Grandmother Gets Possession For
 Seven Years or Less.

Gainesville, Ga, January 1S.-(Spe- cial.)-The contest of B. c. Sloan and his wife, the daughter of the late Rev. Sam P. Jones, for possession of their 2-year-old baby boy. Sam Jones Sloan, wa decided this afternoon by a deci- sion rendered by Judge Fite, giving the child into possession of Mrs. Sam P. Jones, the baby's grandmother, un- til it is years old, or until further order of the court. MT. Sloan created a sensation some weeks ago by at tempting, it was claimed, to kdnap the child.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
NEW PAPER AT BRIDGEPORT. Home of Rogers Stancl Is Destroyed
 By Fire.

Scottsboro, January 1S.-(Special.) )- The Bridgeport News, a new paper. handsomely printed and a well-edited folio of 28 columns, with Charles G. Featherly editor. has just been started at Bridgeport. It is independent in politics.
 The home of Rogers Stancil was burned down Thursday. It was the property of Mrs. Mamie Campbell and is an entire loss, as no insurance was carried on it. Stancil lost everything he had in the house. The family barely escaped with their lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
Will Celebrate Today.

Decatur, January 1S-(Special. J. Joe Wheeler chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, will hold services at the First Baptist church tomorrow after noon at o'clock in honor of Gen. Rob- ert E. Lees birthday They will be assisted by the members of Camp Hor- race King, United Confederate Veter- ans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
HOME WANTED

We have customer who wants 7 or 8 room house. Mod ern in every particular and east of Twentieth street, within a block or two of Highland Ave. Must be a good value. Jemison R. E. 6 Ins. Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
On a False Trail.

Savannah, January 1S.-(Special.) .)- Herman Ridder, the German editor of New York, who is here today, says he is touring the south to prevent the nomination of Bryan for President. He thinks the democrats should choose someone else
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
FREE TRIAL COUPON

A free trial package of the won derful Golden Remedy will be sent you by mail. in plain wrapper. if you will fill in your name and ad- dress on blank lines below. cut out the coupon and mail 1t at once to Dr. J. w. Haines, 1516 Glenn Build ing, Cincinnati. Ohio.
 You can then prove to yourself how secretly and easily 1t can be used, and what God-send it will be to you.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19

A new tasteless and odorless dis covery which can be given secretly by any lady in tea, coffee or food Heartily endorsed by temperance workers. It does it's work so silently and surely that while the devoted wife, sister or daughter looks on, the drunkard is re- claimed even against his will and with out his knowledge. Many have been cured in a single day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
TO SEE AND
 HEAR CALVE

in a Carmen programme is to sail down the widest river of song that flows through the dream-land of romance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19

Southern Railway now the only line operating afternoon trains through to Eastern points.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19

Grand Opening Ball-Prof. Mcconnell, Hippodrome, Tues day night after skating. Grand March, 1915 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
R Wbske DuffV's Pure. Malt Whiskev

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
Reynolds a Seer.
Looked Like Good Plan.

Men interested in the general mining conditions thought 1t a good and a safe plan. As no two men could have been from the same county and all would have been experienced men, ,itis thought bill nearer to what was wanted than by other means could have been secured. It is said that the idea met the approval of many men on both sides of the house. The resolution passed the rules committee of the senate and was adopted in that body, but was never reported from the house committee on rules It is intimated that certain member of the house who had much to say about the question de- feated the measure because he could not get it reported like he wanted 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
SOME SUNDAY GOSSIP
 AT THE SAFE CAPITOL

party. He wanted the Monroe county school to go to Monroeville. "I looked at that bunch of children and at the face of the governor and l thought it was all up with us. I thought it an unfair ad vantage to take of us for second, then realized how carefully the citizens had studied the executive. If we lose the school it will be a result of the heart touch of that line of little ones. It was 90 pretty sight, one to inspire any man, and 1t showed, too, that there is work at that place for the school to do. We have the children at our place but we did not think about trotting them out in that way. We may wi ishswe had before it is over"
 Busy MT. BiIingsley.
 There are two things about C.. H. Bfl- hngSley just Chow. He is keen for the best things that can be had in fertilizers for the farmers, and busy in the interest of William Jennings Bryan. As a clerk in the department of agriculture MT. Bill kingsley is now out after the fertilizer men, seeing that they keep all grades up to standard. As the appointee on the Bryan State club for Fillmore county, his home, he has secured the signature of al- most every voter in the county to the renomination of MT. Bryan. When the Bryan clans gather at Birmingham next Thursday he will have to present to Gen. cldl ITtSlueHI JOIln w. 1OHll1nS0n the, report that practically every voter of the democracy in ,Elmore county is signed up for the Nebraskan.
 Reynolds Seer.
 That Herbert E. Reynolds, senator from Bibb, had the faculty for looking ahead is shown by two things, one that he tried to get commission to look into mine con- ditions with regard to safety, and the other that recent accidents prove that he was right about it. The effort of Mr. Reynolds came just after the mining bill, about which there wass O much talk, was sent to its grave by tabling. He intro duced joint resolution in the senate pro viding for a commission to investigate the mining conditions in Alabama and report to the governor at the next regular or called sesson of the legislature a mining law. This commission was to be com posed of the State Board of Mine Inspec- tors, two experienced miners and two coal operators
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
Mrs. R. M. Davidson of Bloom ington, Illinois, has been cured of Bronchical trouble by Duffy's
 Pure Malt
 Whiskey. { Mrs. Davidson is loud in her praise of Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey for the good it has done her, and
 calls it a life saver.

Tn a recent letter Mrs. Davidson wrote:
 q can say that Duffy's Malt Whis- key has done me a great deal of good. My trouble is bronchial, and since began taking Duffy's Pure Malt Whis- key a few months ago, I have won- derfully improved, and know at the same rate of improvement shall be an entirely well woman in very short time. I note gain every day. rec ommend Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as life saver"
 Thousands of unsolicited letters of gratitude like this of Mrs. Davidson are received from grateful patients who are anxious to extol the merits fthis great life saver-Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19

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New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
PHGBE COUSINS HEARD.
Tells Senators Prohibition Is Fraud
and q Failure.

Washington. Feb. 1.-The subcommittee Of the
Senate Committee Judiciary. consisting of sena-
tors Knox. Nelson, Fulton and Bacon appointed TO
hold hearings bills and resolutions providing for
the withdrawal federal liquor licenses in prohi-
bition states. listened to-day TO arguments by mem
bers of the Gernan-American Alliance and repre-
sentatives of wine growers associations directed
against the passage of any measures OF the kind
proposed
Miss Phnbe Cousins the former temperance ad-
and woman s,Iffragist spoke in support Of
the contentious of the German Americans. saying
she had supported the prohibition idea, but
that she had found IT to be fraud and failure.
She said il was decreed in the Constitution that
should be deprived of life. liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. therefore # was outside
the province of the government to interfere in the
liquor traffic by admitting that states rights
supreme the powers of the federal government
You cannot take man. said she. who from time
immemoral has been accustomed some kind of
drink and deprive him of II. Every nation the
world has known has had its form OF strong drink
Noah himself had potion in his days which would
be considered strong and harmful as wood aico-
hol- You cannot remove the custom Of drinking bv
a prohibition law"
Miss Cousins mentioned that s2s7 np 90 was paid
10 the government annually in the form Of in
Ternal revenue and drew attention to the fact that
the Senators or the sub were themselves
drawing a part of their salary from this fund
Are YOU prepared to destroy this revenue at the
dctation OF n mono4oy?" she asked
Members OF the Germsn-American Alliance and
wine growers who appeared before the committee
were Dr. c J. Hexamer r. A Wildermuth
Adoph Timm and Henry LORI. of Philadelphia:
John Tjarks. A F. Trappe. Senator Click. Chris
tcpher Bauer. Paul Johannson and Herman Baden
hoof. Baltimore: Carl Ruehmund. Richmond We;
Theodore F. Meinherdt and AdoIph Russow.
Dr. Julius GoebeI, Harvard University, and George
Grimme. Newark, y. J.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
INQUIRY INTO BIDS.
Committee to Investigate Gorern-
ment Printing Office Methods.
IFror1l the Tribune Bureau

Washington. Feb. l.-Plans made to-day by
the joint Committee Printing conduct an in
vestigation into OF the methods employed at
the Government Printing Office. particularly the
awarding of contracts for printed forms For
time a vigorous campaign has been waged
against the Public Printer, Charles A. Stilngs
because OF his installation of the audit Sys-
TEN, method of estimating and keeping ac-
curate accounts. The office Audit System
Company is said 10 be at No. 81 Duane street
New York, and 1t is alleged by those who are
asking for an investigation that the office
is being used by the Suffolk Distributing Company
which has obtained certain contracts from the
Government Printing Office
The committee will try to determine at the out
set the connection between the Audit System Com
pany and the Suffolk Distributing Company, and
whether the bids of the Suffolk company we're ir-
regular because of its close association with the
Audit System Company and the intimate knowI-
edge of the printing Office which is said to be in
the possession of the former concern For this
purpose the committee has summoned J. F.
Handy, Of New York. said to he the president
Of the Suffolk Distributing Company: Frederick
Afford. said be an officer of the company and
TO live in New York; W. A. Root Washington
agent of the company, and W. a. Raynor, vice
president of the Audit System Company
The audit system installed than 4 year
ago by the Public Printer. and, although it has
never been approved by the employees it is said
10 have beer q needed reform and greatly faci-
tated the computation of the cost of individual
Jobs. and thus have made for economy.
The sub-comnlitte OF the joint Committee on
Printing met to-day examine Mr. Handy, who
had been requested TO appear and testifNS Mr.
Handy did not appear, although. according TO in
formation obtained by Chairman Lands the tele-
gram of notification signed for by him in New
York at O'Clock yesterday afternoon. In his stead
appeared p. Golden Donaldson. a Washington at
torney. who told the committee that while he
engaged in case in court yesterday afternoon he
retained by telephone counsel for Suf-
meeting. Mr- Donaldson said he had knowledge
that Mr. Handy had received Chairman I-andis's
telegram and had had communication with his
clients promised that Mr. Handy and other
New York men wanted by the committee would
appear at II o'clock Monday morning without for
NAL summons If the committee would adjourn
until that time. This agreed to. and the
ing accordingly until Monday.