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The Jasper news., 1910-06-30
INVENTORS HAD LAST LAUGH.
Steel Making by 5essemer Process
Was RldIouied at First.

The so-called Besseiner process Of
making steel by injecting air blasts
Into molten iron was discovered first
by an American named Kelly, and
known as his air boiling process,
After the iron workers had seen
it done, they still would not believe
it. Some crankll be burning ice,
next thing" they said. Some OF his
customers, when they heard about 1t,
wrote Kelly that they wanted their
iron made either in the regular way.
and not by any newfangled method.
or not at all.
When the first blast was SO strong
that it melted the iron, the spectators
roared with laughter at what they
called "Kelly's fireworks" and laugh.
ed for ten years at hie .S,,J.'
When Bessemer introduced his
process to the British iron makers,
they. too, roared with laughter at the
crazy Frenchman," and would not
allow the silly idea to be mentioned
in their records.
The steel rail proposition excited
only derision. "Bosh! Stuff! Hum.
bug! Nonsense!" said the railroad
directors when 1t was proposed to
them. But after one road had tried
1t, the steel mills could not keep up
with the orders sent in.--The Sunday
Magazine.
Many Slip.
Hello, Newlywed! When did you
get back from your wedding trip?"
Yesterday"
Have good timer"
"Yes, fine; only"
only what?"
20, nothing"
Wen, of course, If you, don't want
to tell me, all right. You know I'll
not repeat, but"
"Well, don't mind telling you, but
don't let 1t go any farther
Sure. I'll not"
well, we did have fine trip, as
said, although we met with an acci.
dent that temporarily marred the
serenity of the journey. But you'll
not repeat this?"
Never in a thousand years"
We'll, you know there are lot of
short tunnels and snowsheds between
here and Denver. The first one caught
me in the smoking compartment and
we were out of it before | could get
to where my wife was sitting. But I
was on the lookout for the next one
and made a run for her. I arrived Just
in time to get one kiss before we shot
out into daylight again."
"Yes. Go on"
That's about all. It wasn't my wife
had kissed. Pacific Monthly.
The Jasper news., 1910-06-30

New embroideries just in at
Webb Bros.
The Jasper news., 1910-06-30

BoRN-Today, to Mr.. ands Mrs.
Chesley Vandegriff, boy
The Jasper news., 1910-06-30

New potato chips at Crandall
Bros.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
NEW CRIME DETECToR

From the Boston Globe.
A new aid in the detection of crime
has been discovered by a painstaking
French investigator, DR.. v. Balthazard,
who has found that pistol bullet which
has penetrated a piece of cloth retains
markings produced by the threads. These
are not obliterated, even If the bullet
pierces the body behind the cloth.
Hitherto examination of bullet has
not gone beyond determining whether it
will fit a certain weapon. This new dis
covery will carry Identification far be-
W nd this point.
Patient experiments along this line
have been conducted by stretching varie-
ties of cloth over smooth boards and then
firing bullets at them from a .3S calibre
revolver. 1t was found that unmistak-
able evidence remained in the markings
of the bullet of the texture of the fabric
fired at.
It was even possible to trace the char
acter of successive fabrics through which
the bullet passed such as a collar or shirt
bosom composed of layers of different
kinds of cloth, or when a bullet passed
through several garments. In this way
II would be possible to ascertain the ma
ture of the clothing of murdered per-
son, even II the garments had been taken
away.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
Inflated WilOna

The passing of Tawney in Minnesota
recalls the fact that his home town
is Winona, in which Mr.. Taft declared
thar the Aldrich tariff was the best one
ever devised Tawney is a statesman
of the Cannon school, and Mr.. Taft was
induced to go there in order to help Taw-
new get back to Congress- The voters,
however, decided to send to Congress
Young attorney of Lanesboro, and Taw-
ney Is left in Winona to ponder over the
uncertainties of standpat politics.
What has happened to Tawney will
happen, ii is plain. to Mr.. Taft, vino put
his foot in the standpat mud at Winona
He has since tried to back out of his
winona position, but his act committed
there will stick to him, and keen OBJ
servers are predicting that he will go
the way that Tawney has gone. Even
the St. Louis Globe Democrat admits that
the defeat of Tawney is direct blow at
Mr. Taft I'm his tour a year ago,
saws the Globe Democrat, Taft diverged
little from his direct line to speak in
Winona, Tawneys home town, and there
he declared that he came not to apol-
ogize for Tawney, but to indorse him.
The influence of the President was used
in Tawney's favor in his district. Taw-
ney was the only member of the Mime
sofa delegation who supported the Payne
act All the rest of the states
lbers, in both branches of Congress-
cd with the democrats against it, And
return for Tawney's fealty to his
4rty the democrats joined the insurgents
IN the republican primary and helped to
nominate his insurgent opponent"
This is sad, very sad 1t is now also
and alas a piece of handwriting on the
wall
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
Coal Competition Al New Orleans

President Donaldson and Vice Presi-
combine spent several days of this week
In New Orleans, and while there they
were interviewed freely. Although they
ing the future, yet they plainly intimated
that they would not build steel barges
for use in the New Orleans trade until
the Ohio river is improved by system
of locks and canals to nine-foot chan
mel ten months in the year, and the Mis-
sissippi ,channel is deepened. They do
not seem to admire the grounding of
boats and barges on sand bars at low
water stages.
While they expressed confidence in i'm
proved rivers. they seemed to have little
in the Ohio and Mississippi as they run
today. This has led to the prediction
that the Monongahela combine will yet
conclude to withdraw from competition
in the lower Mississippi, preferring to
send their coal where no sand bars are
encountered
Be this as it may. it is the plain duty
of this district to get ready to barge
coal to New Orleans via the open War
rior. Mississippi sound and Lake Borgne
direct to New Orleans. 1t is high time
that this district came into control of
trade which it should control by rea-
son of mileage and inland water trans
portaton. Whether the Monongahela
combine is willing or unwilling to leave
the lower Mississippi, it should be made
to go by the force of commercial COM
petition and water transportation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
GREAT PRESENCE OF MIND

From National Monthly.
negro preacher once visited Cath
Ollie church and seeing the altar boys
march up the aisle, one of them swing
ing the incense pot, while the others
chanted in low voices, thought that this
would be a pretty good idea to intro
duce in his church. On his return to
the south he trained Is or 20 little
negro boys to initiate the white boys
One Sunday morning the congrega-
ton was surprised to see row of lit
tie fellows marching up the aisle,
chanting away; of course, they noticed
nothing wrong, but the preacher no.
ticed that the little fellow who was
supposed to carry the incense pot did
not have 1t; so he leaned over the pull
pit and chanted in the same tune:
what have you done with the incense
pot?" and the little negro chanted
back: Il left it behind, it was too
damned hot"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24

agents signature as proposed by the
railroads and then an acknowledgment
of responsibility for every validated bill
of lading, whether the cotton has been
received by therailroad or not. Any
thing short of this will render the finance
ing of cotton more or less unsatisfac-
tory.
The foreign bankers stand firmly by
their original position demanding after
October 81 guarantees from the American
banking houses. These guarantees will
not be forthcoming, but cotton will not
suffer thereby. Firms in good standing
are making arrangements for financing
all the cotton they can buy, and they
are having no difficulty in perfecting ar
engagements. Cotton is gold and every
bale will be in demand at full market
value Drafts of firms in good standing
will be honored across the sea. and in
this way the crop will be moved very
much as it heretofore has been.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
Old P0StofilCe BUILDINGS

The old government building in Atlanta
is to be appraised by the Secretary of the
Treasury without consideration of the lot,
which was a gift of the city of Atlanta,
and 1t is then to be conveyed to Atlanta,
which desires to use it as city hall.
It is believed in Atlanta that the city
will have to pay a sum not exceeding
100000 for the bulding-possibly not more
than $4,000 Mayor Maddox of Atlanta
and Congressman Livingston are now in
Washington promoting the appraisement
of the building in accordance with the
recent act of Congress.
Here is a suggestion that may not be
a msht in this city in the course of two
or three years. What is sauce for the
goose should be sauce for the gander,
and no doubt the government would be
more than willing to sell the present
postoffice building in this city for con-
sideraton. Whether it would be avail
able for a public school or for a public
library or for some other public pur-
pose would remain to be disclosed by
the desires of the people when the day
of purchase should come.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
Good News from the Seventh District

The latest information from the district
represented in Congress by John L. Bur-
nett is reassuring. Mr.. Burnett is stump
ing the district, and the indications are
that he will be reelected by handsome
majority
To send republican to a democratic
House would be folly indeed. To turn an
Alabama district over to the postmasters
and standpatters in a year when such
people are being repudiated in all other
states would be strange and almost in
credible. It will not be done. Alabama
viii send a solid delegation to vote for
Champ Clark for speaker, and Mr.. Bur
nett will win the just rewards of his long
service on the minority side. He should
be given taste of official life on the
majority side of a Congress. and If the
good people of the Seventh district will
rally to his support he will have an OPP
portunity of that nature in the Sixty
second Congress. and he will in that Con-
gress be in position to serve his con-
stituents much more efficiently than
republican could hope to do. Every friend
of democracy and popular rule and an
open Coosa should rally to Mr.. Burnett's
c1,pport
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
Mines In winston County

Robert Neill. associate mine inspector,
has returned from trip of inspection in
Winston county, where he says a mine
inspector had never been before He
stated that several small mines had been
opened up in that county and that they
seemed to be working Nout well.
Il found everything in connection with
the mines of the counties I visited pro-
crossing very we'll, said Mr.. Neill.
They told me over in Winston county
that 1 was the first inspector that had
ever been in their mines. They seemed
to be very glad to have them inspected,
and my trip was very pleasant The
mines which have recently been opened
In that section are small yet and are not
producing any very great Ftonnages.
However, the indications are fine for
good coal in that section, and simprove-
ments may work wonders for those oper-
ators'
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Cotton Bills OF Lading


The Alabama and the Louisiana laws
concerning interstate bills of lading seem
to be- lust and comprehensive, but intra
state bills cut no figure in the present
probIem It is interstate and interna-
tional bills that are at issue. And the
trouble is, the Hepburn law, as L. Sewer,
. prominent railroad official, shows, does
not touch the point involved. Mr. Sewer
supplies the pertinent section OF that
law, as follows: THAT any carrier, rail-
road or transportation company, receiv
ing property for transportation from a
point in one state to a point in an
other state shall issue a receipt or bill
of lading therefor, and shall be liable
loss, damage or injury to such prop
erty caused by 1t or by any common car
rier, railroad or transportation company
TO which such property may. be delv-
cred or over whose line or lines such
property may pass, and no contract, re-
ceipt, rule or regulation shall exempt
such common carrier, railroad or trans
fore receiving cotton was begun primarily
hereby imposed
rs. hot
nothing in the Hepburn act covering .bills
Of lading issued carelessly by or in col
fusion with others without receiving bales
for transportation. The Hepburn act does
not. in other words, touch bills Of lading
Of the Knight Yancey or Steele Miller
class. The practice of issuing bills be-
fore receiving motion begun primarily
~ convenience.
80 far as export cotton is concerned
bills of lading issued before the cotton
has been received. Right here is where
the recent trouble arose, and not one
of tho bills in question has been sued
"a or ever will be. The railroads ac-
knowledge no responsibility when cotton
he's not been received by them, even
when their own agent had issued bills
covering the cotton. The whole matter
turns upon delivery, and the foreign
banker is in poor position to prove that.
The provision in state laws granting for
sscn bankers damages when bills of lad
/ ~ have been issued by railroads with
cut receiving the cotton mentioned in
thsm is. alas, valueless to foreign bank
- A
what Is needed is valuation of an
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
WOMEN WHO work IN FIELDS

Venice Letter to the Indianapolis Star.
We left Milan about o'clock in the
afternoon. Our train went clipping
along like a disjointed rattle box, taxi
ing us through some wonderful scenery.
We were going almost due east across
rich, broad plains guarded by the
Euganean and distant Alps Men and
women yere preparing the fields for the
wheat crop, working in the orchards or
gardens of olive In the vineyards and
the rice fields. Right here let me say
that I have changed my opinion about
the hardships the women (of Italy at
LEAST endure, working out in the
fields" They are much happier, health
Ter and stronger working thus out in
the open air and the sunshine in COM
pany with their neighbors than shut up
in their miserable huts, which are with
out ventilation. Farming in south
ern countries has none of the hardships
that farming in northern countries has.
These little Italian farms, worked by
primitive tools, do not seem much more
than one of our vegetable gardens. The
women are singing or laughing as they
work, and If any ones to be pitied let us
pity the poor indoor drudge, who has to
earn her living in tenement kitchens or
bending over the Washtub.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
south Makes Good showing

THE Ohio Valley exposition at Cincin-
natl now about to close, has been a
marked success in point of attendance,
and as an educative enterprise 1t has
been of the highest Importance" said
G. H. Calvin of the exposition city
1.-THE crowds have been fully up to ex-
pectations. Cincinnati is noted for it's
expositions, and 1t has never yet held one
that failed to draw or that disappointed
the thousands of visitors who attended
and because of the fact that the exhibits
are always worth while the management
can feel assured of large gate receipts
1.-The south has been splendidly repre-
scented at the Ohio Valley exposition.
This section seems to produce nearly ev-
erythng. I was especially impressed with
Alabama's exhibits. With her valuable
minerals and timber and with her great
variety of agricultural resources, this
state is destined to become one of the
wealthiest in the Union. OF course, Ala
bama is famous as a great cotton state,
but it has not been so we'll known as
trucking state l find it is coming for
ward very fast in fruits and vegetables.
BY exploiting herself at the exposition.
thousands of home seekers will find their
way here within the next few years"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
WINTER SIGNS

From the Kansas City Times.
Evidences of an early fall and
cold winter are accommodating And all
this without reference to the predic-
ton that a cold wave has been sched-
uled by the weather bureau.
Have you heard the katydid sine7
Well the katydids are singing in Kan
sas City and that song is the faithful
harbnger of frost. 1t is the advance
agent of the first sign of winter, and.
unless all signs fail in hot weather,
just six weeks willie pass into history
before the newspaper reporters will
subscribe to the fact that "the nrst
frost of the season fell here last night"
But the katydid is not the only wit
ness Did you ever see such hazy Au-
gust evenings? You don't remember. of
course. Ask any old-timer and he Will
tell you that you never did unless you
saw frost in September following. Out
in the country they say the ROSTERS are
Growing before the farmh ouse doors.
Always a warning that it is time to
cut the winters wood.
The leaves still persist in staying on
the trees. but that usually reliable sign
of an early fall is not to be accept
ed as controverting the katydid the
hazy evenings and the growing rooster.
The leaves sometimes fail to get the
right "hunch" as to what Is certain to
happen.
And as to a severe winter? The
corn husks are growing thick upon
the ears. therefore 1t is almost GER
tain that the goosebone will be the
proper thickness when it Is time to call
the goosebone a witness to confirm
the other weather prophets in their
mute attestations to the fact that the
coming winter Will be a singer"
So, cheer up. Enjoy this hot wealth
err while you can.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
HAPPINESS

BY John J. ingalls,.
Happiness is an endowment, and not
an acquisition 1t depends more upon
temperament and disposition than en-
vironment. 1t is state or condition of
mind and not commodity to be bought
or sold in the market. beggar may be
happier in his rags than king in his
purple. Poverty is no more Incompatible
with happiness than wealth and the in
quiry, how to be happy though poor?
implies a want of understanding of the
ponds. Dives was not happy because
he was a millionaire nor Lazarus
wretched because he was a pauper
There is quality in the soul of man
that is superior to circumstances and
that defes calamity and misfortune
poor would be unhappy if he were rich.
and he who is happy in palace in
Paris would be happy in a dugout on
the frontier of Dakota There are as
many unhappy fich men as there are
unhappy poor men. Every heart knows
its own bitterness and 1t own joy. Not
that wealth and what 1t brings is not
observation-disclosures, travels leisure. COM
fort, the best food and raiment, agree
able companionship-but all these do
not necessarily bring happiness and
may coexfst with the deepest wretched-
ness, while adversely and penury, exile
and privation are not incompatible with
the loftiest exaltation of the soul
More true JOY Marcellus eXiled feels
Than Caesar with a Senate at his heels
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
o SWALLOW, FLYING SOUTH

BY Alfred Tennyson.
o Swallow, Swallow, flying south,
Fly to her, and fall upon her guided
caves,
And tell her, tell her what tell thee.
o tell her. Swallow. that thou knowest
each,
That bright and fierce and fickle is the
SOUTH
And dark and true and tender is tn.
north.
o Swallow. Swallow. If I could follow
and light
Upon her lattice, would pipe and trill.
And cheap and twitter twenty million
loves.
o were I thou. that she might take me
And lay me on her bosom. and her heart
Would rock the snowy cradle till l died.
Why lingerethl she to cothe her heart
with love,
Delaying as the tender ash delays
To clothe herself when all the woods are
green?
o tll her, Swallow. that thy brood is
flown;
Say to her, do but wanton in the south,
But In the north long since my nest Is
made.
o tell her, brief is life but love is long,
And brief the sun OF summer in the
north.
And brief the moon of beauty in the
south.
o Swallow, flying from the golden woods.
Fly to her, and pipe and WOO her, and
make her mine,
And tell her. tell her that follow thee.
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IF I were bee In the heart of a rose
The poet seemed really inspired.
And he sang with a truly rhapsodical
pose,
AS II he had never desired
Aught else but to drink of the sweetest
perfume,
With never a care all the day;
Altar from his desolate, top-story room
And the bills that he never could pay.
IF | were bee in the heart of a rose
His spirit scared up In a dream,
While he pictured himself as the lord
of a close
Where the sun throws many beam,
And sweet blossoms sway at the will of
the breeze
And butterflies fit to and fro.
Then he gazed from window where
nothing could please
And sighed at the city below.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
THE ENGAGING SAVAGE

commended to the thoughtful considera-
ton to DR.. Baff Possibly the Creator,
who might bave made the morning glory
gray instead of purple; the sea and sky
brown instead of blue; the diamond as
dull as a pebble and the emerald as I'M
lovely as brick; who might have made
the day without sunshine and the night
without stars. purposefully created wo-
man with love of finery and furbeows
Perhaps the Burmese legend confuses
the wise Queen of Burma with a power
omnipotent and omniscient, in attempt
ing to explain how the colors of the rain
bow found their way into the apparel of
the 'neater, sweeter maiden In a greener,
cleaner land"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
THE LATEST INNOVATION.

THE LATEST INNOVATION.
Well Well We are living in lux
urious age"
mo doubt"
"A shoe-shining parlor advertises a So
MANS ROUTINE.
From home to the office
And back again,
One nickel cigar, then
To bed at ten.
Detroit Free Press.
Monotonous life, but
Better for Brown
Or Jones or Smith than
Painting the town.
A STRONG INDICTMENT.
What induced him to adopt literature
as a profession?"
lie read somewhere that it was posi-
BILE to start on a capital of 20 cents"
IRRESPONSIBLE.
A poet is a person who,
Whate'er's amiss,
Can still write dainty sonnets to
Describe kiss.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
He also Is a person who,
If there's kiss
Awaiting him, will write one to
Beguile miss.
Springfield Union.
NO WONDER SHE wEPT
"I understand the Youngweds have
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24

ers appears to eorroborate the statement
above-that the low point has been reach
ed, and it is now a question of purchas-
ing most proftably for the longest posi-
BILE time.
Coke Is suffering under reduced output
and smaller movement from the ovens,
while the market and sales end is prac-
tically without change"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
BULwER LYTroN AND THE MEDIUM

FrOm ESCOIL S IlIS.
The possibility of communicating
with his daughters spirit attracted
him to Home; the coarseness of one Of
Homes female clients began to repel
him. This lady, as Lytton used to tell
the story, had been bought into con-
verse with her departed husbands
spirit.
Are you" she asked, quite Apply,
dear-as Apply as when you were with
me?"
The reply came: "Oh, far 'appier."
Then, indeed, you must be in
'eaven," sighed the lady.
NO." returned the gentleman; I'm
in ELL"