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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-30

1 blushed so when my aunt introduced me | to you"
 | She blushed again now and turned her | face away to gaze down the uneven line
 of the gray parapet. "Why was it?' he urged. q did hope you hadn't noticed" she said
 Noticed? My dear Miss Grantham, it was like a regiment of soldiers in the sunlight. No one could have helped mo- ticing it. Was 1t surprise at seeing some- one else here having tea?'' He gave her that loophole because sud- denly he found that he was sorry for her. After all, she had done him no harm. Save for the one shocking in cident in the wood she had been to him all that a girl should be to a man in whose fathers house she is a wel-paid servant and an honored guest She had been courteous, dignified, useful, amus- ing.
 No" she said. avoiding the loopholc. Tit wasn't surprise, because of course knew you were coming. But l didn' know it would be you" L He wished then very earnestly that he had not begun to ask questions. "Oh never mind,' he said quickly, "it doesn't matter.
 "I don't understand" she said.
 "It was an mpertnent question:
 "No mo-" she said eagerly. i've often wanted to tell you 1 knew you'd noticed me blushing in that insane way. It was because 1 met you once at the British Museum-of course you don't remember it."
 But of course I do," he interrupted. hoped you wouldn't" she said, be cause I stared at you. I really honestly didn't know I'd done 1t till afterward. l stared at you for quite a long time-and then-when I saw you at tea on the lawn here--I remembered, and 1 hoped you wouldn't
 "But why did you stare at me, as you call it-n the Museum, I mean?'
 q don't know" she said very earnestly. 'I cant think. It was as if I'd seen you before and been looking for you, and then suddenly there you were. l believe l eX- pected you to shake hands. It was as if we were old friends. It does sound most frightfuly silly. Do you think one ever has moments when one is quite mad?'
 q do," he said earnestly. T do indeed; i; I've had moments when I've fancied the most extraordinary things. But they've not been true" he added stoutly, "any more than 1t was true that we'd met be- fore that day at the Museum
 Are you sure we never met before-at a dance or anywhere? Oh. yes, l used to go to heaps of dances before father when father was here. Are you sure that we never met before?'
 Quite" he said. II should never have forgotten it if we had His tone was one she had never heard.
 And now he was quite certain that the hollow in the wood and the sleeping blue figure and the round arm and all the rest of it had been only vision-queer and tnaecountab ble, but still a vision. The certitude made new heaven and a new earth for him. How could he ever have thought that she, she who was all that a mans ideal lady should be, could ever have put an arm around the neck of a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-30

pletest political victory of our history the congressional election of 1890
 I believe it was Wellington who said that a great victory was nearly as dan gerous as defeat, and so this proved. Nobody can blame Crisp for aspiring to the speakership. He got it because Mills, the Roman, was not favorable to river and harbor bills. Thomas c. Catchings, who did more to put the Mississippi river in it's present excellent state than all the rest of them, elected Crisp speaker. but that work was the be- ginning of faction in the democratic party after the war. lli sshiN
 l write this because a newspaper man said this to me the other night: T see that Roger Q. Mills Is now In Baltimore, a patient In a hospital; I thought he died long ago, and would have bet money that he was no longer among the living"
 Mills in public life was very nearly all great statesman in a parliamentary government should be-except an old hag was among the numerous fairies at his birth and decreed "he shall not have tact"
 And when he was in congress If some- body had handed him a bagful of tact he would have been bewildered, and surely he would not have known what 1t was for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-30

end of the terrace, he went across the gray crooked f1agstones to her. Good morning. he said, and he could hardly have said less.
 What a beautiful old place it is.' she said pleasantly. 1T wonder whether you know how lucky you are to have been born here"
 Its old certainly" he said, and ex- tremely shabby"
 That's part of the charm," she said really rich people never have anything beautiful because they always pay some one to make it for them. But look at the new garden. Miss Underwood and I made that-oh, of course, Sam did the dull digging-but he's as proud of it as we are. We put in all the bulbs, made the plans and everything"
 She was talking without trace of em- barrassment.
 That's true," said he. And having the drawing room repa- pered. That was an event. It took us a week to choose the paper Now really rich people who can have their rooms papered whenever they like-! And the orange trees-you don't know how we've nursed them all winter. If Miss Under- wood could buy new ones when these died7why they'd be nothing" He' liked her voice, he liked the turn
 
 always liked her eyes,
 T do not like you at all,'' he said in wardly-"oh, not at all. You shall not make me like you'
 But he stayed talking with her in the little wood of orange trees till the aunt had laid away the jingling housekeeping keys and joined them on the terrace.
 Then she went to her work in the liz brary. He strolled in presently, to talk ha ,x,,fl ,i. ca
 You won't mind Miss Grantham stay ing with us?' said the father. "She can take down everything you say in short hand-and as she'll have the whole tran scribing of the book to do"
 "Of course-of course," said Neville.
 In the course of that morning he found out that Miss Grantham was not only pretty, but clever. That she knew more about his special subject than any woman he had ever met
 Curious" he said to himself, as he strolled in to lunch. Curious how l dis like that girl"
 Dislike her he~might, but 1t was impos- sible not to talk to her, as it is not to answer an amable and intelligent child. Not that she was childish or even child like but she seemed so unconscious of any reason why she should not talk to him. And there were so many good things to talk about. The book, the gar den, the old house, the growing glory of spring putting on the vestments of summer, the brasses in the old church, the new green of the aspens n the churchyards.
 It was one day when the haze of great heat turned the woods blue and the far hills violet that they stood by the broken balustrade of the terrace and looked out over the fields of powered grass dim pied by the wind
 Her eyes were fixed on the wood-the wood.
 'I wonder" he said suddenly and quite without meaning to say it, "why you
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-19
STRINGENT Law PASSED
Regulating Saloons in Louisiana.
Prohibition Loses Fight.
Law is FOR A HIGH LICENSE
Under the Law Dives Will Be Forced
Out of Existence and the State and
City Revenue Increased.

Baton Rouge, La.-LouiSiana will
not become a prohibition state during
the term of the present assembly
This was decided by the house of
representatives, when that body, by
a vote of SIS to AZ, indefinitely post
poned consideration OF the Doussan
bill providing for referendum vote
ON statewide prohibition.
The action OF tile house means COM
plete defeat for the Doussan bill in
both branches of the assembly.
The Shattuck high license BILL MAX
ing the minimum local license $500
and the minimum state license $500,
was passed by the house, 80 to Is. The
effect of this bill will be to increase
the state revenues between $250,000
and 100000 annually.
The Shattuck bill is practically GER
tain to be passed by the senate. Among
it's most stringent provisions are the
following:
No license shall be issued to a
woman.
No woman, girl or minors shall be
permitted to drink in saloons, not even
in special rooms set apart for them.
Women are not permitted to serve
as barmaids.
Liquor shall not be sold to whites
and blacks in the same building
No brewer or distiller engaged In
the wholesale distribution of liquor
shall be interested financially in any
saloon for retailing liquor.
Planes and musical instruments of
all descriptions and all gambling
games are barred.
City councils are given power to
revoke any license in Gheir discretion.
A license cannot be obtained for a
saloon withil 300 feet of a church or
schools.
Penalties are provided for breaking
these laws, ranging from permanent
loss of license to heavy fines and i'm
prisonment.
The prohibition fight in Louisiana
has been devoid of the popular cru
SADIE features participated In by wom-
en- and children, which have occurred
recently in other states.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-19
POWERS and HOWARD
Freed at Last--Were Accused of
Numbering William Gobel.
end OF The FAMOUS CASE
Great Excitement Prevails When News
is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Taylor
Makes Statement.

Lexington, Ky.vCaleb Powers and
James Howard, charged with forming
and carrying out plot which result
ed in the assassination of Senator
William Goebel in 1900, were given full
and free pardons by Governor Will
son and will be Immediately released.
They have been confined in prison
for more than eight years.
Powers Is now in Jail In Georgetown,
while Howard is in the penitentiary at
Frankfort serving a life sentence.
Powers will go back to his old home
in Knox county, where his mother has
fitted up the old place for his coming.
This home was mortgaged early dur
ing Powers fight for freedom by his
mother, who did all she could to help
her son.
Howard will go to Louisville and
join his family, and will become an
evangelist in prison work. Governor
Wilson affixed his official signature to
the pardons after an exhaustive study
of the cases and review of the testi-
mony. He was aided by arguments OF
attorneys both for and against Pow
ers and Howard, as well as by reading
the entire transcripts OF the testi-
mony, covering four trials Of Powers
and one of Howard.
1t is said that Wilson even carried
briefs OF the most important testi-
mcny with him to Washington when
he went to attend the conference OF
governors, in order to discuss various
points with other governors. He has
been steadily working ON tile records
since he returned.
Remarkable scenes were Witnessed
here, at Frankfort, Georgetown, Bar
bourville and other points when news
of the pardons came. Men grasped
each others hands and wrung them
fervently as they almost sobbed out
the news.
Women wept openly on the streets
when news OF the pardons was flashed
through the country. In Frankfort
and Georgetown, where the men are
confined, crowds of friends were
standing in the corridors of the Jail
and penitentiary waiting for even one
hand-clasp or look from the men who
have suffered so long.
Both men were almost too overcome
with emotion to talk. Powers said: Il
am glad to have my freedom, but
would rather have had an acquittal by
the courts. am not guilty and I
hoped that | would be indicated"
This marks the end Of one Of the
most noted cases ever tried in Ann
erica.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-19
ON ROOFS OF HOMES
Scores are Camping Flood is
Cause of Fearful Suffering.
$500 PERSONS DESTITUTE
PrivatiOn and Exposure Make Sufferers
Easy Victims Of the Swamp Fever
Levees Brake at Marksville, Ia.

New Orleans, La.-Scores of persons
are camping on the roofs of their
houses, and descriptions of improvised
floating barnyards were among the
striking features of a disastrous flood
Of the Black river in northeastern Lou
1siana. About 1900 have been either
driven from their homes or else coop
ed up In them by an overflow which
started weeks ago and has been re-
leDtlessly rising ever since.
Around Jonesville, in this district,
there are miles of land where there
Is from to 10 feet of water on the
fields. In these sections people are
living in the second stories of their
houses. In several cases they are
camping on the roofs of cottages. Only
the tops of corn crops are seen above
the floods.
Hoping that there would be fall
people built RATS of drift logs, planked
them On the upper surface, and are
keeping their stock penned on these.
The animals are kept alive with brush
and willow leaves, brought to them
by their owners.
There are fully 1900 men, women
and children Who are suffering and
fully half that number are in abso-
Mttly destitute circumstances. They
have not even food to eat to last them
a week. The poorer white and colored
families are in a pitiable condition.
The swamp fever, which is common in
that section, aided by privation and ex-
posture, has begun one of it's most act
i've campaigns.
Marksville, La.-Red river levees
broke in two places below Moncla on
Monday. The worst break is about 500
feet wide, with the water flowing
through at depths ranging from 16 to
20 feet. Both breaks are on the left
descending bank. The Moncla breaks
are within about 80 miles of the Mis-
sissippi river, into which the Red emp
ties
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-19
HUGHES WINS HIS FIGHT.
Succeeds in Making Betting on Races
Crime in New York.

Albany, N. Y.-After a struggle, the
precise like of which no man in or
about the legislature has ever seen,
the famous Agnes-Hart race track
gambling bills are now laws Of the
state OF New York Governor Hughes,
by his signature affixed to each of the
bills crowned legislative victory, the
brilliancy of which, equaled only by its
unexpectedness, is conceded even by
those who fought him in the matter to
the last ditch.
The decisive votes, which passed the
bills, were cast by Senator Otto G.
Foelker, of the fourth senatorial dis
trict of Brooklyn, who craWled- from
sick bed and made 60-mile rail-
road journey to do it, so weak and dis
tressed in mind and body that he
seemed on the verge of utter collapse,
and by new senator, William G. Wal
lace of Niagara Falls, who was elect
ed in special campaign preceding
which the governor himself toured the
district, speaking in behalf Of his cleo
ton.
The vote stood twenty-five to TWEEN
ty-six in favor Of the bill.
Notwithstanding the new law, be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 persons jour-
neyed down to Gravesend race track
Friday to see the horses run and, If
possible, to make wager on their
fayorites. Hundreds of gaily dressed
women were in the crowds.
Six races were run, and six fayorites
won. There was betting, too, on ev-
cry side, though Judge Cavanaugh, the
master of the betting ring, announced
that no speculation should be INDUCED
in. Nine persons we're taken into GUS
tody by the police authorities, who,
in uniforms and plain clothes, circulat-
ed in large numbers among the crowd
in the betting pavilion. The prisoners
were charged with violating the new
anti-gam bling law and each man was
held in $500 bail for hearing tomor-
row,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-19
'Sl,OOO,OOO INVOLVED.
Tract 20 Miles in Length and Eight
Miles Wide in Dispute.

Asheville, n C.-Claiming title to a
tract of land containing $4,000 acres in
Swain county, for which they obtained
a deed on bid of 500 at an execution
SAKE conducted by Deputy United
States Marshal Ramsey, at Bryson
City, E. c. Coffin of Bryson City and
Samuel White of Maysville, KY, are
now resisting an injunction suit filed
against them in the United States cir
cult court here by the Harris-Wood-
bury Lumber company.
Some idea of the area of this tract
of land, claimed in return for the in
significant sum of $500, may be OBJ
tanned from the statement in the bill
filed by the plaintiffs, which states
that the tract is twenty miles in length
and from eight to fifteen miles in
width, and an idea of the true value
of this land may be gotten from the
allegation that at a forced sale on
September l, 1906, the tract was pur-
chased by the Harris Woodbury.
Lumber company for $449,02405.
and it is now estimated to be worth
over a million dollars.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-19
CONSUMERS LICENSE.
New Solution of the Liquor Problem in
State of Washington.

Spokane, Wash.-Compel every man
and woman who drinks intoxicating IL
quors to pay license fee, exempt sa-
loonmen and permit any one who de-
sires to engage in the traffic, the sole
restriction being to sell only to Ii
cense-holders. This is the solution
Mr.. E. E. Hall will offer the state leg
islatlre if elected to- that body. Out
ling his plan Mr.. Hall says: my plan
would be to abolish all saloon licenses,
permitting any man desiring to do so
to sell liquor. If man wants to drink
he should be compelled to take out
license to do so, and 1t should be a
m1sdemeanor for any person to sell to
a man who does not have such a H.
cense. Such licenses should be issued
by county and city, reasonable fee
being about SIS year for county IL
censes, and from 81 to So year for
city This would bring in larger
revenue than under the present license
system, and would put the burden
where it belongs.
"Each license thus issued should
have attached thereto photograph of
the person taking it out, so there could
be no using of the license except by
this man. 1t should also contain a pro-
vision that conviction for drunken
ness at any time would be punished by
a revocation of the license for peri
Cd of six months ra year. This ap-
pears to be the logical solution Of the
liquor question in districts where sa-
looms are not barred by local option"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-19
CHARGED WITH FORGERY.
Alleged that Florida Man Forged
Southern Railway Pass.

Washington, D. C.-John C. Dalton,
said to be captain in the Florida state
militia, was arrested here upon com
plant of Southern railway officials,
who charge that Captain dalton rorg-
ed pass and used it On the railway.
Dalton was employed as a clerk by the
Jacksonville Terminal company and
it is charged obtained possession OF a
blank pass; after inserting The name of
j. q. Smith and wife, forged the name
of an official OF the road to the pass.
Dalton and wife were arrested as they
got OF southern train here from
Jacksonville. Both are detained at
the police station. In addition to the
charge of forgery, it is alleged by rail
way officials that Dalton has violated
the interstate commerce law
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-19
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.

President Roosevelt has taken no.
tice of the collapse Of an apartment
house under construction in Washing
ton, and through Secretary Loeb has
requested District Attorney Baker to
investigate the accident and see who
was responsible for it.
Thieves smashed a plate glass window
in the jewelry store OF Hyman, Berg
& Co., at State and. Washington
streets, Chicago, ILL.,, and escaped with
sixty gold watches and miscellaneous
jewelry valued at $4,000.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-19
LOWER LUMBER RATES.
Interstate Commerce Commission An
nounces Its Decision.

Washington, D. C.-The interstate
commerce commission in an opinion
rendered by Commissioner Lane an
nounced its decision in the case of
the ]. w. Thompson Lumber company
and thirteen other compliments
against the Illinois Central Railroad
company, the Yazoo and Mississippi
Valley Railroad company and st.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
railway.
1t appeared that the rate on such
lumber between said points had been
for fifteen years prior to February 2,
1903, 10 cents per 100 pounds, but on
that date the rate, was advanced 2
cents. The commission in its decision
holds that the 12-cent rate is unrea-
sonable and orders that rate not ex-
ceeding 10 cents per 100 pounds be
put in effect
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-19
SUMMARY OF COTTON CROP.
Much Cotton Destroyed by Floods in
Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas.

Memphis, Tenn.-The Commercial
Appeals crop summary is as follows:
The rainfall for the past ten days
in the central and western states of
the cotton belt has been above the nor
NAL, but nevertheless, with exceptions
hereinafter noted, the cotton plant has
made rapid growth and is now thrifty
and in fair state of cultivation. In
the eastern states the rainfall has been
light to moderate, the cultivation is
well advanced, and the crop is very
promising. 1t is not large as a rule,
but seems very healthy.
In Oklahoma, western Arkansas and
the northern tier of Texts, counties
only the rainfall has been excessive
and prolonged. The crop there lis bad
ly in need Of cultivation, is not we'll
grown, and the bottom lands have
been inundated, and much of the cot
ton destroyed. The water in many bot
toms is still on the lands and they
will be lost to cotton. Where they
have receded at this date the farmers
are rushing work of replanting.
Otherwise stands are everywhere
good, in marked contrast with last
year. The crop in southern Texas is
well advanced, and the plants are
heavily fruited. The fields district in
Tennessee, northern Mississippi and
northern Alabama are in many places
grassy
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-19
AUTO RUNS WILD.
Four Drowned by Machine Bounding
Into North River.

New York City.-Four persons were
drowned when an automobile carrying
a pleasure party of six became unman-
ageable, shot at wild speed down
West Fifty-sixth street, and bounded
from an open pier into the North riv-
err The machine turned over in its
plunge from the pier, holding the four
victims fast in their seats. The dead
are: Adeline Berdon, aged 10 years.
Mrs. Rose Coleman, aged % years
John Coleman, aged q years. Vir-
ginia Knight, aged 8 years.
John Bauer, the chauffeur, was car
ried into the river with the machine,
but managed to free himself and swim
to safety. John Nolan, one of the
party, jumped from the runaway ma
chime as it neared the end of the
dock Bauer was taken into custody
by the police.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-19
UNCLE SAM LOSES 100000.
Registered Mail Pouch From Los An
qeIes to New York Missing.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Reluctant admis-
sions made by postal officers Of three
cities, confirm to some extent the be-
lief that the disappearance of a regis
tered mail pouch somewhere within
the jurisdiction of the Kansas City
postoffice, will prove to be one of the
largest losses in the history of the
postofice department. From private
sources it was learned that package
of at least $4,000 in currency was
among the contents of the pouch,
which carried, in addition, an unusual
large number of letters and packages
containing money and other valuables.
The amount may reach total of
100000.
There is reason to believe that the
$4,000 package of currency was
shipment made by Los Angeles
bank to it's New York correspondent.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-19
MIDGETS ARE Welded.
Couple, EIudes Girls Mother who Bit
terIY Opposed Match.

Richmond, Va.-James Burnett, OF
Bristol, the smallest Odd Fellow in
America and the smallest man in the
employ of the federal government, re-
Gently eloped from Baldwin, Miss,
with Lou Nabors, said to be the small
est female midget in the south, weigh
ing less than sixty pounds. The cou-
pie were married in Marietta, Miss,
after eluding the girls mother, who
was bitterly opposed to the match
There is a pretty element of ro-
NANCE attached to the marriage, the
little people having formed an ac-
quaintance growing from correspon-
dence suggested by the picture of her
future husband falling into the girls
hands.
Burnett is one of trio of midgess,
there being a brother aad sister even
smaller than himself. The boys are
well known business men In their COM
munities, having amased small for
tune each.