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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
WEARS BAlLEWs CLOTHES.
Washington Negro cIorles In Raiment
 of the Texan.

From the Washington Herald.
 There is a tall, well formed mulatto in town, who wears a long frock coat, reaching nearly to his knees, a slouch hat and a white string tie, the garb affected by a senator from the Lone Star state. He walks with slow and stately tread. It is custom among the negroes to buy their togs at the sec ond hand shops and their superstition is SO strong that their selection is in- f1uenced by the most absurd occur rences. If a spider drops down from the wall, or a black cat runs in front of negro when he is trying on gar ment, he will buy it, no matter what the fit, condition, or price, being con vinced that as long as he wears it he will have good luck. The other day ambitious to outshine his rival in the eyes of thu dusky Dulcinea, to whom he Is paying attention, hied himself to a second hand clothing shop in search of a hobby suit, loud in design and col brings, after the taste of his race. But the proprietor had an old frock coat of ancient vintage among his wares, which he was very anxious to dispose of, and, with the craftiness of his kind, began to play upon the credulity of his customer.
 "This," he said, thrusting Solomon's arms into the sleeves, 'is the very thing you need. This coat belonged to Sem ator Bailey, Joe" Bailey, great friend of mine. He was married in it. Who ever buys this coat will be married to the girl he loves. Fine fit, only $4- beautiful cloth" Just then a big, fat rat scampered across the floor.
 "All right, boss, I'll take it." said the negro, and the proprietor, who must have a pretty good sense of humor suc- ceeded before his customer left the shop in selling him slouch hat of the Bailey model, and the white string tie, which is the inslgna of statesmen from certain sections,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
FALLING FIFTEEN STORIES.
Life From Boyhood Reviewed In Two
 Seconds By Man Who Dodged Death.

Special to the New York World.
 Kansas City-L E. Trout, who, with Charles Peperdine. fell from the fifteenth floor of the Bank Of Commerce building, thus describes his sensations while fal ing to what he believed must be instant death:
 "When the scaffold broke in the middle I realized l was too far from the ropes which descended at either end, to seize one. 1 resigned mys, to fate. It took about two and one-half seconds to de- scend s4 feet, or half way down. In those two seconds I thought of enough things to make volume. My first thought was this: will my wife forgive me for working in dangerous place and telling her I was working inside? I wondered if the news of my death would kill my wife.
 Then I wondered why I did not strike the bottom. It seemed that l had been in the air an hour. and l longed to reach the bottom to end my suspense. l knew that my companion was ahead of me in the descent through space, and wondered what luck he was having.
 Every unknd word I had ever ut tered to my wife in little quarrels stood before me as if painted in fiaring lines on a billboard. They cut me to the quick and I thought how differently l should have acted if had known what terrible death and abrupt parting was coming wished that instead of an instantaneous death I might have a moment to comfort her. but I knew there was no hope for that. And through all my thoughts there ran as a sort of undertone a feeling Of wonder why I hung suspended in the air and could not get to my journeys end.
 My life from boyhood days was re- viewel. l saw every act that nave done which I am ashamed of. l saw the windows passing up and I knew l was not yet half way down. Then l felt the rope in my hands burning and cutting my flesh. The vibration of the rope, which was fastened at both ends, had carried 1t inward 12 feet at the middle, and in my lightning-like descent l had happened 10 make about half of my fall at the in- stant the rope came nearest me.
 q would have reached the bottom In two-tbirds of a second more. l heard Pepperdlne strike and scream The pam in my hands made me want to relinduish my hold, for thought that l would be killed anyway. But decided to be game Next I saw darkness illuminated with millions of sparks. l knew then that l should see my wife again. l knew that if death came it would not be immeolate. Then lost consciousness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Stocks and Business.

Henry Clews in his Saturday review of the financial situation says in part;
 "The outlook for stocks is not very fiattering; not merely because of the de- cided change in sentiment, but also be- cause prices are still too high to attract the investor, who is even less inclined to buy stocks now than before the de- cline began. Of course as prices fall there will be more or less buying to cover the short interest which is increasing and is now the chief support. This will keep the market in state of healthy huX, stimulating occasional rallies and prevent ing too rapid a fall. But no general rise can be anticipated until a further de- cline has taken place, or until there is more improvement in outside conditions.
 General business continues quiet, and is likely to so remain until the tariff question is settled and the sap begins to rise in spring. There is, moreover, an undercurrent of uneasiness in the street over present movements in the railroad world. The huge operations projected by some of our great rail- road magnates. attractive as they may seem from their point of view. do not inspire confidence in conservative financial circles, where such transactions excite both distrust and jealousy. Nor are they likely to be welcomed in political circles where they are sure to be regarded as inimical to public welfare. It would be well for these gentlemen to pause in their proceedings if they wish to avoid a fresh outbreak of hostile public opinion, which until very recently they were only too anxious to placate. If they do not halt and consider consequences they will surely invite more rigid government reg ulation than Is now exercised. Then we shall have fresh outcry about confscatory legislation, etc. and who will be respon- sibe for such an uprising?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
Immigrants Last Year

The years figures are at hand. The immigration of 1908 was 7S2,S70, as against 1,2S5,349 in the preceding year. The number of departing immigrants last year was 714,s2S, so that the gain in population through the trans-oeean movement was small indeed, and if the truth were fully known, it would ap- pear that there was no gain at all
 The immigrants of the old year came largely from Italy, Austria-Hungary, Greece. Turkey and Russia. These countries furnished 64 per cent of the years immigration, leaving but 36 per cent that came from northern and western Europe
 The present years immigration will depend upon the demand here for la borers. The extent of this demand can not be foreseen at present, and neither can the extent of this years immigration. It is perhaps a good guess that immigration will this year just about equal last years, while com paratively few will return to Europe. This would be a net gain of over 600,- 900 people, and this is probably the best We can reasonably expect during the present year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
FRIDAY-LUckY OR uNLUckYa

From the Baltimore Sun.
 On Friday, August 21, 1492, Christo- pher Columbus sailed on his great voy- age of discovery. On Friday, October 12, 1492, he first discovered land. On Friday January f. 1493, he sailed on his return to Spain, which. if he had not reached in safety, the happy result would never have been known which led to the settlement of this vast con- tinent. On Friday, March 15, 1493, he arrived at Palos in safety. On Friday, November 22, 149S, he arrived at His- panola, on his second voyage to Amer ica. On Friday, June IS, 1494, he, though unknown to himself, discovered the continent of America. It was on Friday that Henry VIII of England gave to John Cabot his commission, which led to the discovery of North America. This is the first American state paper in England On Friday. September [, 1865, Melendez founded St. Augustine, the oldest town in the United States by more than 40 years, On Friday November 10, 162o,i the Nay flower, with the Pilgrims, made the harbor of Provincetown, and on the same day they signed that august com- pact, the forerunner of our present glorious constitution. On Friday, De- cember 22, 1920. the Pilgrims made their final landing at Plymouth Rock. On Friday, February 22, George Wash- ington, the father of American freedom, was born. On Friday June 16, Bunker Hill was seized and fortified. On Fri day October ', 1777, the surrender of Saratoga was made, which had such power and influence in inducing France to declare for our cause. On Friday, October 19, 17S1, the surrender of York town, the crowning glory of the Amer ican arms, occurred. On Friday, July z, 1776, the motion in Congress was made by John Adams, seconded by Richard Henry Lee, that the United States colonies were, and of right ought to be, free and independent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
NEW MINISTER ARRIVES.
Successor of Ncaraguan Representa-
 tive Speaks of Loan.

New Orleans, January 17.-Adolfo Espi- noza, who is to succeed Luis Felipe Corea as Nlcaraguan minister to the United States, is the guest of friends in New Or leans. having arrived here late yesterday from Bluefelds, and will leave tomorrow for Washington.
 Minister Espinoza denies the reports of trouble in Honduras, and said when he left Bluefields there were no rumors Of the movement of troops across the Hon duran frontier.
 He states that Nicaragua is negotiating in Europe for the placing of loan of s5,0O0, GOO for the wlping out of her present national debt and the construction of a railroad extending from the Atlantic coast to the interior.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
In Past Panics.

'I have been travelling over the south, from the Potomac to the Gulf of Mexico, for 35 years, and have seen in that period many commercial ups and downs, but l have never seen a panic so quickly side tracked as that of 19O7," said Fred liar rington of Philadelphia. "I was on the road from 1873 to 1879. Recovery from the 1873 panic was painfully slow. In the eighties the Wall street fiurries were very hurtful to trade. The panic of 1893 was long drawn out. but the one just behind us was more violent than any of its prede- cessors, and now in little more than years time we have thoroughly over come its effects.
 Business is improving every day, and by April conditions will be normal ln- deed, old time prosperity is predicted for the spring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

propriation of s25 ,0O0 stand. It is none too much. It should increase the sal ary to s1OO,OOO, thus putting the Presi- dent on an equal footing with at least some of the people he entertains off cially during his term of office. The dignity of the republic calls for an adequate salary for the head of the government. The republic is a world power and the President should have a corresponding salary. In that way the place will be kept open to all eomers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
seaboard Air Line.

l.. sevier, vice president of the Sea board Air Line Is in Birmingham ana will remain here until Tuesday morn ing. This is his old home and no one is more cordially received on hls Vlslts than MT. Sevier
 "Traffic Is not as heavy as l would like to see it." said Mir. Sevier, put the situation is improving. The Sea board is getting its share.
 "our passenger service between BIT min eham and New York, via Richmond and Washington. Is being appreciated' I can say with the utmost modesty that no finer passenger service is operated in the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
The New Hotel,

''The prospects of having new ana up-to-date hotel-the Mortimer-were dis cussed Sunday in clubs and other places of assembly," said a lawyer. Birmingham is badly in need of more hotel accommo- dations and this need is now about to be met.
 ..The fact that the Brown Bros. are interested in the hotel scheme ana are standing for 1t, so to speak, means a great deal The Browns have had wide experience here in financing large office buildings, and when they figure out that A building will pay it is pretty safe to say that it Is going to pay"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New YOrk Press.
 A satisfactory thing about inheriting lot of money is you don't need to inherit any brains with it.
 The only man who can bore you more than the one who breaches what one ought to do Is the one who does it.
 A man could hardly ever decide whether he had rather go to the dentists or visit his wifes relatives.
 The greatest extravagance a woman thinks man can have is the way he won't buy a bargain he doesn't want.
 The reason girl likes to have music lessons is it is such a good excuse for not being able to help her mother do anything.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
From the New York World.

I&AA AAi4A 1lpSOH Biti-DoW LOW lO \" her. Charles Dana Gibson has heard the call of the American girl again. He has forsaken his atelier in Paris and has come back to New York to draw her all over again in her frank attractiveness.
 Oils have been laid aside-they were once the ambition of the artists life. He has gone back to black and white.
 But perhaps MT. Gibson's experiences abroad have made him look at the American girl from a different point of view. She is still the tall, stately classic beauty, but she is cast in diff ferent mold.
 Like St. Gaudens, he has turned to the Irish type An Irish girl posed for the great sculptor when he designed the new coins for Uncle Sam. An Irish girl, Miss Camille Langhorne, is posing for Mr. Gibson today-the Twentieth century Gibson girl.
 Miss Langhorne comes from Dublin. She is a pronounced type of Irish beau ty-regular features, b1ue-gray eyes, clear complexion with just the faintest suspicion of roses, a wealth of glorious red-brown hair and a slender, girlish figure.
 Miss Langhorne came to this coun- try only four years ago. She had been a model abroad, both at the South Kensington school, in Dawson street, and at the Rotunda, two of the best art schools in the metropolis of Erin's isle. She came to American to stay but a year, and returned home. Two years ago she came here again to make it her home.
 Mir. Gibson is equally frank about the resumption of his old work. He has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
Floral Parades.

''The floral parade at the Birmingham reunion of the Confederates was such 8 notable success that reunion visitors are still talking about it. said s. W. Mishler of Galveston .Nothing like that floral parade was ever seen before in the south.
 q understand a similar parade will be a feature Of the music festival next May. A city that can have such tasteful dis plays is certainly to be envied.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
coastina Vessels Are Idle.

Portland, Me, January l7.--As the re- suit of the inactivity of the business of coal carrying by water, an unusually large number of big coasting vessels lie idle. At this port about 20 schooners are at anchor. The same situation pre- yails at Boston.
 THE SERMON. By A. C. Benson.
 i know not what the preacher said; His words fell untitled in a dream By clause and clause, from head to heads He traced sad and subtle scheme; Through legal maze, on dizzy height, The curious metaphysic trod; He held with all his tedious might
 The mirror to the mind of God. The mind of God! and all the while His large wind thundered in the tower, And on the easements of the aisle
 Pelted and tapped the driving shower; Old grandsires shivered at the sound; How cold among the slanting stones, The comfortless and ugly ground,
 Where they must lay their aching
 bones! q
 While lovers sat in blushing thought, And needed not the unkindly skies- But with an awkward rapture caught The sudden glance of wistful (eyee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

William H. Taft, President-elect, is the first citizen chosen to the high office of chief magistrate who has win tered in the south. In Augusta Taft has learned more of southern senti- ment in one day than all former Presi- dents learned in a lifetime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

King Edward is about to visit the Emperor William in Germany, and the two will no doubt discuss the features of reigning without ruling. Both are on the job, but King Edward slyly manages to do some of both.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
NOT QUITE USELESS.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 ''The prairie dog,' observed the trav- eler, "seems to be vanishing. and soon will be extinct. Don't you suppose that in the economy of nature those little crea- lures serve some use?"
 "Oh. yes,' said the western Kansas farmer; 'the ornery things ain't alto gether useless. My boys have earned about ss5 apiece in bounties, killin' of 'em off,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

Mayor Tom Johnson has left his
 palatial mansion, but he has gone into palatial fiat of nine rooms, for the use of which he is to pay s135 month, and he is to keep one of his automo- piles. He is not badly circumstanced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18
TRUTH ABOUT KANSAS

stunt, shines upon as pleasant a group of men and women as you may find this side of Canaan's fair and happy land. where our possessions lie.
 Emporia, Kan, January 4.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

Because Wilbur Wright is a high flyer he naturally became correspond ent in Paris divorce case. There was no other ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

It is winter all the way from Medi- cine Hat to New York, but the south east is not in the belt and is quite content, thank you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

If Hartman should slip on New Works ice and break his leg Wall street would have conniption or cat nip fit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

The democrats of Ohio and Indiana do not think the democratic party is dead It is alive enough to furnish both with splendid governors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

The $S3,0O0,000 estate of Marshall Field is the largest one ever legally and officially credited to single indi- vidual decedent in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

Kansas City boy ate axle grease thinking it was caviar, and he would never have known better if a busybody had not told him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

The more scrappy Congress becomes the greater is the demand for our esteemed contemporary, the Congress sional Record
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

The women of Gotham are not skill full in the art of tax lodging. They are largely represented in the personal tax lists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

The sidetracking of cold waves is the chief task of the local weather clerks nowadays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

The Marshall Field estate has been officially set at $53,000,000, and there are no lawyers fees to be deducted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

Those who want the tariff taken out of politics should first move to take politics out of the tariff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

If the Yerkes estate keeps on shrink ing the heirs will be lucky if they escape assessments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

A snow storm in a northern city $ welcomed because it brings work to the workless.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

Sweeping changes ar taking place in the snow belt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

There are many White Cities up north at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

The independent man in the snow belt is he who owns a snow shovel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

The quake on the Pacific coast was a small one and of a purely sympa- thetic nature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

Congress feels like prohibiting re- viyal of the old game q spy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala. postoffice as second-class matter under act of Congress March 3. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-18

The new fertilizer trust proposes to them all
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-08-05
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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-08-05
DR.. A. Il. WILLIAMS ASKED
(. TO SPECIFY.
HIS REPLY TO CARD OF JOHNSONVlLLE
PEOPLE ANALYlED-S9AE INFORM
ALTON ASKED FOR.
Editor County Record

Editor County Record
DR. Williams reply to the card ad-
dressed to him by citizens of Johu.
sonville begs the question entirely.
The Doctor starts out with the old
Yankee trick of answering aquestion
by asking another: "1f the people OF
Lake City preach the true gospel.
will Johusonville shout and vote for
the new county," That query Is to-
tally irrelevant to the issue. DR.
Williams promise was given freely
and willingly, without bargain or
condition, and this was his pledge:
81 will promise you II At if Lake City
lays down upon HE in this matter
and does not put up sufficient funds
mot promises but CaSh-to build a
good court house and Jail, after the
election is ordered | will come out
in the public prints and notify the
people and advise them not to vote
for the new county, and will not
vote for same myself
A year and half later DIR Will
Hams recollection of his promise is
strangely at variance with the pledge
heard by 800 people at johnsonville.
Now, he says: y promised the
people of Johnsonville that if the
new county was formed and Lake
CITY selected as the county seat, the
people of Lake City would put up
the public buildings, and if they fall
down or me and refuse or fail to put
up the money for the said buildings,
| would let them know 1t in time to
vote against the new county and
will vote against it myself"
Let us analyze the above state
ment and try to get at the meaning
81 promised the people of Johnson
Vile that if the new county was
formed and Lake City selected as
the county seat when could those
conditions be fulfilled? How would
it be possible to form the new county
and select Lake City as the county
seat till after the election? Then DR.
Williams continues: "Aud # they