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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-11
MEETINGS.

TO TIE STOCKHOLDERS OF MONO
l LlTH STEEL COMPANY, INC.-The
regular annual meeting Of the stockholders OF
the above corporation will be held at It's
office, No. III south Fairfax street, Alexan-
dria Virginia tbeing the Office of its attorney,
janis r. Cation, esq, on MONDAY, the
2Sth day of September, 1908. at three o'clock
D. m. II. NJ. LOW, Secretary.
oApA "a
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-11

THE annual meeting of the stockholders
and directors of THE HARRIS q
SHAFER Co. will be held at the office Of the
company, 1913 south Royal street, Alexandria,
Va, at 8 D M, THURSDAY, September "a,
1905. By order Of the di'ectors.
sept32w G.. A. SHAFER, Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-11

LOWER PRICES ON BACON.-Old Mis-.
So Hams Ice; Mild cured Hams, 49,;
lkfast Strins. Ice. ]. G. MILBUBN
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Fouts. The government felt that pa.
thence, even with fair woman, had
ceased to be a virtue. The dignity
of the law must be maintained, with
out bloodshed if possible, with blood
shed if necessary. But first diplo-
macy.
A revenue officer sent to Miss Fouts
by trusted friend to the moonshiner
this message in writing:
Meet us at the schoolhouse on Bea-
yer Creek Thursday and promise you
will never violate the law, never
moonshine any more, and we will see
to it that you are fully pardoned for
ALL"
81 will never meet you," was her
curt reply, and to her mother she
said:
There's no use talking-I will keep
this still going in spite of all the gov
eminent. 1t is a duty to you l mean
to fulfill. Father stilled all his life
and stilled good whisky. There is no
reason why we shouldn't keep up the
family reputation. They will never
take me alive she is said to have
added.
For, you see, Mary Fouts, for all her
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ling by the Chinese, vice which is
INDUCED in on such scale and which
involves such evil results that the
presence of Orientals in general be-
comes Objectionable in the eyes of
American citizens. Japanese agitation
for the suppression of this vice ps ON
Uses to have the result of clearly diff
Terminating them from it's practice.
The second movement has for it's
immediate outcome thia idea of nup-
tials by photograph. There are about
100000 Japanese in the United States,
and fully 80 per cent. of them lead
single lives. Such a condition was
tolerable so long as settlers object
consisted merely in earning as fast as
possible enough to return home. But
in view of the anti-Oriental spirit now
prevailing in the United States, the
Japanese residents see that the only
practical remedy lies in becoming per-
manent settlers, and in carrying out
that program wife is prime essen
tial
To return to Japan, however, for
the purpose of providing himself with
wife means not only that a man
would have to incur great expense,
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play, and although no particle of gold
dust large enough to be readily de-
tected by the eye is allowed to escape,
the greatest care cannot always avoid
the falling of some small filings to the
carpet.
In purchasing these carpets great
Judgment is exercised. Those are
sought in which the weave is as close
as possible, so that tho material will
hold the scattered bits of gold. 1t is
not unusual for the authorities to get
$4,000 worth of gold from an old car
pet. Other thrifty devices are used
in order to capture escaped particles
of gold. The floor sweepings are
treasured with the greatest care and
they furnish enough money to pay the
salaries of several employees about the
building. Much gold goes up the chin
neys and they are often scraped and
the resultant SCOT and dirt scanned
for gold. Employees who handle bars
of gold are not permitted to dispose of
the aprons, overalls or gloves with
which they are provided, for when
these articles are burned after they
have outlived their usefulness they
yield rich harvest.
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contempt of government and the law,
couth bearing and rougher speech. She
is the embodiment of the twentieth
century business woman a-bloom in
Kentucky hills.
So the quaint old Fouts homestead
was put in a state of siege. The Win
chesters were cleaned, loaded and
made ready. The revenue men were
sure to come after that bold defiance.
And come they did, headed by Uni
ted States Marshal F. M. Blair, one of
the most determined and successful
men in the revenue service. With him
was picked posse-and before him,
well barricaded by natural breast
work of impenetrable rock, was Mary
Fouts, the moonshine maid, with Win
chesters and ammunition enough to
stand off an army.
According to the officers story they
pressed forward, and then Mary Fouts
fired. She deliberately, say the reve-
nue. men, opened the fight and made it
possible for the revenue men to do
their duty. They returned the fire,
to a man, but Mary Fouts was safe
behind the powders. Onward they
pressed, and for half an hour the mi
mic, one-sided battle ragged, then Depu-
ty Marshal Hiram Day fell sorely
wounded, and was carried away on a
stretcher by his baffled companions.
What will happen to Mary Fouts
depends upon the outcome of Days
wound. If it prove fatal, as the doc
tors predict, Mary Fouts will have to
face charge of murder without the
mitigating plea of self-defense, and
Uncle Sans sense of chivalry will
not be violated. But at the time of
writing, Mary Fouts, the moonshine
maid, reigns undisturbed in the Ken
lucky hills, calmly Sitting the corn
colored brew that is the pride and
joy of Kentucky connoisseurs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-18
COLLEGE MEN NO LONGER
RARE In BIG LEAGUES
Many Boys Who Boast Sheepskins
Are Making Good in Major
Circuits.

Ten years ago the college bail
player was a curiosity in major league
circles, but today he is fixture. Up
to date big league managers never
fail to look over the college stars
when scouting FOR material Connie
Mack only recently signed Barry, the
star shortstop of the University of
Vermont team, while Cincinnati a few
weeks ago picked up Dubec and Sim
cock, the star twirlers of Notre Dame
and Michigan
Connie Mack has been very for
tunate with college players, getting
a number of his stars direct, among
them being Pitchers Plank and
C0ombs and Catcher Powers.
It would be possible to form a pref
ty fast team from the various college
players in the American league and
what noise they would make if they
gave their various college banks after
victory. Here is mythical team
made up of players who have en-
joyed the liberal advantages of col
lege education:
The catching department would be
looked after by Mike Powers of
Notre Dame fame, Carrigan of Holy
Cross and Spencer of Bucknell. These
players are now with Philadelphia,
Boston and st. Louis, respectively,
and would form mighty strong trio.
There are plenty of college beavers
in Ban BIS league White of Chicago
Vas once a star at Georgetown. Plank
and Coombs of the Athletics formerly
attended Gettysburg and Colby, Fall
kenberg, with Cleveland, was once the
star of the University of Illinois.
These are but few of the many.
The infield would only be fair with
Stahl of Boston at first, Chase of New
York at second, Nichols of Philadel.
phia at short and Hartzel of st. Louis
at third. Stahl was a former univer-
sity of Illinois captain, Chase studied
at University of California, Nichols a..
University of Virginia and Hartzel vi
the Denver School of Mines. Chase
has played second base and is very
clever at that position.
There would be college outfielders
galore to pick from, among them being
Gessler of Boston, Birmingham of
Cleveland, Hahn of Chicago and Barry
of Philadelphia, as well as others.
Hughey Jennings was graduated at
Cornell, and, of course, would be the
manager.
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SHE GOT HER BEAR.
Prodded Him Out with Scissors, Then
TomahaWked Him.

AS for that grit of mountaineering
Indian women-which has been cele-
brated in a well-known book, there is
story which is good evidence of their
physical courage.
A dealer in skins tells of a squaw
who was walking along on her snow
shoes one day when her small boy saw
a bear buried up under the snow in his
winter sleep. She could not kill him
where she was, so she dashed pair
of scissors to a sapling, prodded him
out, and smashed his head in with her
tomahaWk.
II gave her ten dollars for the skim
writes the dealer, so it wasn't a bad
mornings work. Another ingenious
piece of hunting that I remember was
accomplished by an Indian who found
two moose in yard-that is, the snow
clearing which the animals make
when the frosts are breaking up and
the snow is too sharp and brittle for
their comfort
He crept up and got the female
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-18
LEAGUE SHY OF LEFT-HANDERS
Few Port Side Pitchers Make Good in
American.

What is the matter with the south
paws?
Are the port side twirlers becoming
an extinct baseball species?
The dismal failure of nearly all the
left-handed twirlers tried out in the
American league this year makes it
appear so.
1t looks as if Joe Cantillon has a
jewel in big Bill Burns. The records
don't make Burns look like a star, but
it mustn't be forgotten that he has
been with a tail-end team, and has
suffered half of his defeats by single
run.
McAleer appears to have a mighty
good man in Graham, but after you
consider these two successes, you
must count the others out.
The New York Americans had
Castleton and Neuer in the spring.
The former was the star port slider
of the Southern league, while the lat
ter was the best in the South Allan
tic. They both failed to deliver and
were turned back.
"Bilr' baltimore, one of the best
in the American Association, and
Gladstone Graney, star in the New
York State league, were tried out by
Cleveland with poor success.
Connie Mack secured the much
touted Krause from the Pacific coast,
but he was soon shipped to Harris
burg in the Tri-State.
Big league managers are pining
for southpaws like Plank, White, Kill
lian and Waddell. The minor league
recruits touted as fast enough for the
majors seem to lack the fast breaking
curve of the old stars. incidentally
the left-handed batters like Cobb,
Crawford, Stone and others are de-
lighted at the failure of the left-hand-
ed pitchers to make good.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-18
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND

Christy Mathewson has eight shut
out victories to his credit.
Pittsburg probably will have Barry,
Abstein and Frock of the Providence
Grays in line in 1909.
To date the New York Highlanders
have spent about $4,000 for new ma
terial.
Worcester is drawing away in the
New England league and it looks like
the third consecutive championship.
Arthur, Irwin says that the major
league team that will win the most
games at this season of the year is the
one that will have three first-class
pitchers and use them regularly in
turn.
Jesse Burkett has not decided yet to
turn down Hugh Duffy's offer of 50, 900
to join the Providence Grays. Maybe
he would play few games for Hugh
ey at 5000 game.
This is surely the bell for Billy Ma
loney. No outfielder can stay in fast
company who hits under 200.
Bill Carrigan, the Boston Red Sox
catcher, is seriously sick with appen.
dicitis, and is out of the game for
the rest of the season.
Ed Greminger, former major
Lacquer, has been appointed perma-
nent manager for this year and next
season, to succeed Manager Jimmy
Ryan of Montgomery.
Smiling Al Orth, the veteran Yankee
pitcher, who has been with the club
ever since the American league in
vadsd New York, and who until this
year has always been the iuainstay of
New York boxmen, has been sold
to the Lynchburg (Va) club.
In a game at Williamsburg, Ia, in
Which Williamsburg defeated Coma
City to 0, Pitcher Butler of the To-
Gals struck out % men.
The Pittsburg club has bought
Pitchers Sam Frock and Charles Barry
Of the Providence club in the Eastern
league. Providence will keep the
pitchers until the close of the league
season.
Clayton Perry, Montgomery's star
third baseman and heavy hitter, has
joined the Detroit Americans. Mont
gomery is to get a player from this
seasons Detroit team in return for 0
check for S1.750.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-18
GOLD-BEARING CARPET.
Floor Coverings That Grow Valuable
with Age.

A requisition has come to the treas
ury department at Washington from
the San Francisco mint asking that a
new carpet be placed in the adjusting
room, as the one there now has been
worn out after ten years service. In
ordinary instances such requisition
would excite no unusual interest on
the part of the treasury officials, but
in this case great care has to be taken
in removing the old carpet, for it has
become raore valuable with each days
cervice, because it is literally lined
with gold dust.
The old carpet will be burned, and
Il is expected that between $4,000 and
$4,000 will be realized from the ashes.
In the adjusting room at San Fran
cisco files are used to trim the surplus
gold from rough pieces. The gold is
first run of into blanks and then
stamped. so it frequently happens that
a piece is a trifle over weight or un-
even. The files are then brought into
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but also that it would be more than
states subsequently. Therefore, the
only feasible alternative is to get a
wife over from Japan without going to
fetch her.
All this appears to have been an
ticipated very cleverly by the we'll
known Mr.. Shimanuki, a prominent
Christian. Some time ago he estab-
lished in the Koisikawa suburb OF
Tokyo an institution called the Ryok
kokai, which may be freely translated
Self-Help society.
The inmates of this institution
mostly graduates from girls high
schools, receive education in all sub
jects likely to be of practical utility
such as housekeeping, cooking, sew
ing, typewriting, etc. In fact they are
expressly equipped to be the wives Ct
Japanese settlers in the United
States.
1t is between this institution and
the Japanese settlers that photo
graphs have been exchanged, and by
this means the settlers are enabled
to obtain helpmates whose qualifica-
tons and record are known and
whose appearance is rendered familiar
by the photographs. The idea is that
if the settlers thus marry and bring
up families, their sons will become
naturalized American citizens, and by
degrees the anti-Japanese feeling in
the United States will die out. The
conception seems eminently practical
and useful, nor can we doubt for a
moment that the Japanese authorities
in Tokyo will refrain from interfering
with the program.-Japanese Weekly
Mail.
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PLAYERS SUGGEST THAT
UMP. RES TRAIN ALSO
Spring Course in the South Might I'm
prove Their Work, Say Some
Big Leasuers.

Should the baseball umpires have
spring training and go through the
same sort of work as a ball player
must do to get in shape and condition
for the seasons campaign. This is tho
hue and cry that is being heard on
all sides, especially in the east The
poor imp has to come in for his an
nual roasting. Otherwise life would
not be worth living for
In a discussion the other day be-
tween several eastern players, the
jumps were on the pan. According
TO Mackenzie in the New York Mail
such cool-headed players as Cy Young,
Willie Keller, Jim Mcclure and Jake
Stahl tried to find reason for the
dissatisfaction that has spread among
the players over the umpiring.
There have been so many glazing
decisions by the umpires that the
managers are going to try to have
rule passed making it obligatory for
the umpires to go south in the spring,
when the teams go there to train.
Then the Jump could get into condition
umpiring the exhibition games and
come home ready to start to work in
the big league.
Whatever the result of the many
kicks against the men who make the
decisions, it is up to Ban Johnson to
warn his men about their effortless
work and to impress on them the i'm
rortance of getting up on their toes
the way they do in the worlds fat
series, when they know that they arr
being watched.
To sum it all up, there seems to
be disposition on the part of som,
Of the umpires to make decisions fol
tire purpose of ending the game, 6
thing which hurts every club and
spoils the game.
There is often discussion as to the
work of the present-day umpires as
compared with that of the men who
ran the game ten or fifteen years ago.
and the men who were in the game in
those days and who still suffer from
the work of the present-day arbitra.
tors are inclined to believe that the
men of this decade are as good as the
Cld-timers.
There were some very bad umpires
then and there are some now, but the
number of good umpires is still about
the same. Expert opinion numbers
the good men at about three in the
two leagues, but to listen to the daily
kicks one would suppose that there
were no good umpires.
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coffee boiler in her mothers kitchen.
At 16, her education finished, Mary
Fouts declared against muslin frocks
and cross-road dances. She wanted
the free if hazardous life of the moon
sinner.
A woman moonshiner, Even bold
Kentucky gasped.
Women there were who had protect
ed their men," and fought for their
men" and even died with their men"
but a woman who wanted to be a
leader of men in moonshining, well,
that was going some!
A few years later, Mary Fouts came
into her own. Her father died, and
she became the head of his household
and the manipulation of his famous still.
And what was more, Mary Fouts
made a whisky of no mean reputa-
ton. She raised her own crop of
corn and coaxed it as only farmer
who loves his growing things can
coax. And then she made it into the
right sort of whisky, pure and un-
adulterated.
81 would not adulterate my whisky
for any price, nor for the whole
world" said Miss Fouts in recent
interview-and she meant it. No
head of a great food factory ever re-
garded the output of his establishment
with greater reverence and pride and
affection than does Mary Fouts the
product of her illicit still. And down
there in Kentucky when a man wants
the real thing in whisky he demands
Mary Fouts' whisky, willingly pay
ing the higher price asked for her
brand
Now, of course, the United States
government, with its mighty system of
officers and spies, was not ignorant
of Mary Fouts and her calm, unwaver-
ing violation of the laws. But how to
reach Mary Fouts without sacrificing
national pride by splitting the blood of
a woman who sinned only because she
thought it no sin, but her right, was
a problem even for great govern
,ment If Mary Fouts would kindly
sneak out of her stronghold and MUIR
DER man III COlu DlOOu, Iueu the law
might take it's course. But Mary Fouts
was distressingly peaceable and in
dustrious. She attended strictly to
her own business.
Mary Fouots did not come to town
nor haunt highways. But she certain
tainly did know how to guard her
property, particularly her still. This
had a natural barricade of rocks, and
behind this barricade Mary Fouts kept
a collection of Winnhesters and am
munition which meant a fight to a
finish-and it is a sorry thing for a
posse of men to find themselves fight
ing against one intrepid woman who
had been guilty of no greater offense
than turning the product of her own
land into cash according to the meth
DDS followed by her ancestors for gen.
erations. And of these ancestors she
was as proud as the scions of English
nobility of the ancestors who fought
under William the Conqueror
But something had to be done.
There were seven counts against Miss
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-18
Horses with Mustaches.

'I'ye got rarity, horse with a
mustache," said cabby.
The horse doctor looked the ungain-
ly animal over.
ct is a rarity,'.h said, "a mustache
so highly developed. Lots of horses
have incipient, Chineselike mustaches,
but your nag has the mustache of a
grenadier-a regular soup strainer,
Ell?
Mayhem and the other leading au-
thorities lay it down that q mustache
is the surest sign of low-bred horse.
Certainly no one can dispute your an
imals claim to low breeding."-Phila
delphia Bulletin.
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MzERE NNr/0uzS
6NRRICN2ED MER5kZF
/UP I777ZE

Down behind a natural fortress of
huge powders in eastern Kentucky a
woman who has not yet seen her thir'
tieth birthday is calmly, intrepidly
and successfully defying the mighty
government of the United States.
A few days ago, single-handed, she
beat back a posse of the best revenue
officers Uncle Sam could muster. Her
aim is true and her belief in her SOW
ereign right to make her own brand
of whisky from her own corn is SUI
preme and immovable.
Mary Fouts, aged q, is America
only moonshine maid, and she is a
moonshiner by birth, inclination and
training. Her father was a moon
sinner before her, and the several ram
ifications of her family hold records
for battle with revenue officers that
any mountaineer might envy.
For 40 years the Beaver Creek dis
trict, on the Knott loyd-Letcher bor-
der, has been moonshine stronghold,
the scene of many pitched battle
. between moonshiners and government
officials. Blood of both sides has
stained its narrow ravines and pic
turesque mountain paths. If record
of lives sold for the mountain brew
had been kept doubtless the greater
number of notches would have been
cut by Uncle Sam. But when it came
to this woman, this TALL stalwart,
calm-eyed, sure aiming young woman
on her native heath, Uncle Sam was
baffled. Chivalry died hard, even when
backed by law and justice, and to send
his picked shots against woman was
more than even Uncle Sam wanted to
10. In time the clash had to come,
yet the woman won against the law
and it's armed officers.
Mary Fouts was born in the rude
home where she now distills what is
said to be the best brand of whisky
obtainable in all Kentucky. Her baby
eyes studied the still, and her baby
ears learned to catch quick, ominous
whispers. Just as the child of the
proverbial artist accepts poverty as
the price of parental genius, as the
child of the king believes that royal
~ can do no wrong, so this child of
the mountains believed that making
whisky without government consent
was the inalienable right of hill peo-
pie.
Her parents were ambitious for the
little Mary, however, and sent her to
school, where she proved exception
ally bright, and acquired an amount of
book learning" which dazzled her
humble relatives But she never for
got her love of the mountain life and
never lost her grip on mountain ira
ditions.
When other girls were writing notes
to each other or making paper dolls
Mary Fouts was drawing pictures of
stills, and finally she presented to her
astonished teacher a perfect repro
duction of still, including the worm"
which she had evolved from some odd
bits of copper that came her way.
During her twelfth year, when home
on her vacation, she made run" of
very fair moonshine whisky in an old
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-18
MARRIAGE BY PHOTOGRAPH.
Some Defensive Movements Undertak.
en- by Japanese in America.

The Asahi Shimbun has an article
which throws an interesting light on
the question alluded to in our last is
sue, namely, marriages by photo
graph between japanese residing in
America and their cOuntrywomen in
Japan. 1t appears that two move
ments of a self-defensive nature have
recently been organized by Japanese
residents in the United States.
The first is crusade against gamb-
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Food as an Heirloom.

Conversation in the railway carriage
had slowed down bit
20, l say" remarked Buffer to his
brother commercials in an endeavor
to reawaken interest, "did you chaps
hear that old Goldman the proprietor
of the Showdown Station restaurant,
has just died?"
HAS he?" drawled Snaff1e, unsym-
pathetically. ITO whom did he leave
the sandwiches ?'-Cleveland Leader.