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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15

that-anyway, he said I was pink, like somebody by that name. Everybody de- clared that the lieutenant was desper- ately in love with me, and maybe he was. I don't know. But l do know he was desperately in love with himself I was so glad when Jack Carter, my cousin. cameup to the springs, for then l told the lieutenant I was engaged to him, for it was the only way I could get rid of the naughty West Pointer.
 I am looking now in the kodak book at the girl sitting on the right of Jack.
 I may as we'll tell you he married her. and that really never was engaged to him.
 Silly, isn't it. to keep old hats and old photographs?
 But honest Injun, aren't they funny to look at years afterward?
 There's an old Panama hat I got in Honolulu. On the ship coming home 1 met Billy Nicely, and such a irritation as we did havel He fell in love with my Panama hat, he said. He would have made love to bisque doll if shed listen. He married, I heard afterward, a girl he met in San Francisco the day his ship landed. He was awfully nice, and he had such fine shoulders and wonder- full blue eyesl
 Let me see. Who was it that I was in love with when the Merry Widows first came in? Oh, yes. know Low, I was in Atlantic City. and I was wildly enamored of Jimmy Valentine. l can just hear the surf beating against the beach now, and I must close my eyes to the glare of the board walk. Mercy, how viv- idly 1t all comes back to me, Here's the polka dotted bathing cap, tool re- member Jimmy swore he'd commit suicide
 if l didn't marry him when he saw it, and what do you think? met him not
 long ago in Philadelphia with his wife and the twins,
 That same summer I went down to visit Josie Allison at the lovllest country place, and I really thought that l was in love with her charming cousin, Geoge Donovan. The little old sunbonnet with the pale blue ribbons on it recalls George So to mind that I can almost see him in his pretty white flannels He was a per feet love to talk to. but l just couldnt marry him. l don't believe I'm the mar rying kind, after all
 As I look at the old faded hats and photographs, somehow the old loves come tripping by like so many chorus girls in an opera.
 My thoughts go so rapidly. then all at once somehow they revert 10 that first summer when l met Glenn McLane. I wonder if l could have really loved him? Perhaps.
 Anyway. I'd give anything to see him today, with all the newspaper clippings in his inside pocket, to cheer me up!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
DEMOCRATIC PEACE
 FAILS IN TENNESSEE

Nashville, Tenn, September 14.-Failure on the part of the regular democratic state committee to reply at once to the peace proposition of the independent state committee has led to the publication to- day of the basis adopted last Saturday on which the independent leaders were willing to cooperate in bringing about democratic harmony in Tennessee. The plan contemplates a direct primary early next year for white democrats. held by a committee of 20, both sides equally rep resented and at which voters would bal lot on candidate for president, national convention delegates and electors, all the state officers elected by the people and on members of new democratic state committee.
 In some quarters the failure of the reg ular democratic committee to act promptly Is construed to mean that the commit tee might not join In the negotiations. So far no substitute committee has been appointed by the regulars and no call for the committee has been issued to meet Meanwhile friends of Harmon, Clark and Wilson have become quite &C., tive in Tennessee. Just what effect a continuation of the democratic breach would have on the states vote Is prob lematic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
ROANOKE BUSINESS
 FIRMS MAKE CHANGE

Roanoke, September 14.-(Special.)- Two new firms have just been formed in Roanoke and will begin business at once. Walter and Ben Redmon nave bought out J. T. Woodall and will con duct a grocery business under the name of Redmon Bros G. L. Rodgers and J. B. Brooks have formed a part nership to conduct grocery and con- fectionery business, succeeding G. L.. Rodgers.
 w Y. Chewning. retired business man, has purchased the residence and grounds of I. G. Hill near the A., B. X A. depot, for a consideration of 5000 and will spend $500 or S200O on tho place in improvements. moving to it December 1.' In the trade MT. Hill comes into possession of the residence MT. Chewning Is now occupying.
 Miss Leita Chewping went to La Grange today to enter the LaGrange Female college
 J. w. Hurt of Marion Is spending a week or two with his sister, Mrs. B.. G. Sanders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
PEASANTS FLEE
 ETNA'S ERUPTION

Catania City, September 14.-Twenty thousand inhabitants of Castiglion and Francavilla fled today before the advancing flood of lava from Mount Etna. Both towns are threatened with destruction.
 Discharge from the crater and new Assures increases in volume The main stream pouring down the northeastern side of the volcano has made it's way sluggishly over the foot hills toward the base, crossed the railway and in- vaded the valley of the Alcantara.
 Today the front, 50 feet high and a third of a mile wide, broke over long declivity and, gathering velocity, forced the peasant dwellers in its path to make a hurried retreat. It cut off the water supply of several villages.
 When the stream was within three miles of Castiglion and Francavilla, the people collected their portable property and made for the higher places.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
OLD WARRANTS
 IN CIRCULATION
Mississippi Refuses to Pay Unearned Interest-Inves-
 tigate Governors Affairs

Jackson, Miss, September 13.-Accord- ing to a story from Arkansas the credit of tho state of Mississippi is not impaired to any appreciable extent by her refusal to pay unearned interest promised by her governor on her last bond issue. This story is to the effect that warrants is- sued by the state a quarter of a century ago are being sold and passed around as currency in Arkansas. These warrants were retired and cancelled 20 years ago.
 These notes were cancelled in the usual way when redeemed, holes the size of a silver dollar being punched through them. They were then packed away in boxes in the old capitol, and since the state vacated that building boys and vandals have ransacked it from one end to the other, and pockets full of these old notes have been scattered about the streets of Jackson. More than once reports have been made of efforts to pass them as currency, and in some few instances 1t has. been accomplished.
 It is supposed here that these are the notes or bills palmed off in Arkansas.
 State Accountant Charles J. Moore was asked today if he had let up on his in- vestigation of the affairs of the gover- nor's office, and stated that he had not by any means. Just at present he is tied up with court maneuvers and injunc- tons, but expects those barriers to be removed in course of time. and that he will yet be given permission to examine the bank books covering the adminiStra- ton of Governor Vardaman. In the event he is not granted that privilege he will make a report anyhow, though 1t cannot be complete. MT Moore and his assist ants are now working on other depart ments of the state government and for private individuals and firms which he las contracts to audit books and accounts at regular intervals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15

I wonder why I'm in this reminiscent mood today, Maybe because its nearing the end of the good old summer time, '" and I'm lonesom enough to die
 I've felt like being alone today, though, and what do you suppose I'm doing?
 Clearing out my writing desk and un- packing winter clothes. l intended to burn up all the trash I could get my hands on, but some how when I got ready to do so, T-well, I just couldn't burn the old letters or the old hats. Somehow they formed sort of a link with my eventful life, and I couldn't snap It. suddenly!
 So I just dusted the leftovers and tied them up with pale blue ribbons and damned them back again In their own
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15

little pigeon holes in my desk, all showed up together, sometimes letters from two people who hated each other, gathered and tied up in the same bunch.
 There's Nellie Ambler, for instance, who just loaths Annie White. Ever since we went to Mss Thompson's Finishing School for Young Ladies, these girls have hated each other-all because they to be in love with the same man, Dick Whiting. So what do you suppose? After I had pigeon holed the bunch of letters from them. I took them out again and put some letters I had received from Dick between them, and the ribbon that held them together came off a box om bon bons that he sent me the kind I adore. Wouldn't those girls be furious? But today I've just got to worry somebody, so why not those two?
 After lunch I still had this mania for cleaning up" things, and so I climbed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
SOMETHING ABOUT OLD
 HATS AND OLD BEAUX
Peggy Grows Reminiscent and Tells Her Real Name About Some Things-A Summer at the White Sulphur Springs, Dated 19O5-What the Faded Old Kodak Book Revealed-"Every Little Bonnet Has
 Meaning All Its Own
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

up into the attic and opened the old cedar chest. And such time as I had. It was almost like looking through a pho tograph album of my youth. It was sort of a medley, that cedar chest of old hats and old photographs, if kodak snapshots, blue printed, may be called photographs.
 Old hats and old loves!
 It's queer how one forgets a hat the minute the season Is over, and how a summer man fades out of existence, just as ones dance programmes get lost. or the place card at a dinner party, which the man next to you writes sweet noth- ings on, and you think that you will never, never lose as long as you live!
 The first hat I took out of the cedar chest was an old leghorn, that "hoppy'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
WE REFUND YOUR MONEY IF YOU KEEP YOUR
 FRECKLES
Try Wilson's Freckle Cream. : It Is Sold Under An Ab-
 solute Guarantee

That the greatest care should be shown in selecting a cream or lotion for facial application is generally known. But to be able to purchase a cream which is absolutely guaranteed to remove freckles or pmples and get your money back from the druggist if it fails to do so is something new
 Wilson's Freckle Cream is not only . splendid toilet cream. but also a harms less, mild face bleach.
 Try a 50-cent jar of Wilson's Freckie Cream, and you will find that your freckles will preceptibly fade. A sec> ond jar will cause them to completely disappear. If 1t does not do this, your money will be refunded without argu- ment by the druggist from whom you purchase the cream.
 If your druggist cannot supply you send his name and 50 cents to the Wil- son Freckle Cream Company, Charles ton. $. C.. and a full size jar will ba mailed you. Sold by Jacobs drug store. 1904 Second avenue. special agentx
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
CARDS RECEIVED TO
 ANNUAL CONVENTION

The following cards bearing the in- signia of the woman board, Appalachian exposition, and the following invitation, handsomely engraved, are received in Bir- mingham:
 ."rhe Knoxville woman's board of the Appalachian exposition invite your pres epce at the second annual convention, to be held in Knoxville Tenn, September Il to B. 1911."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
CHATTANOOGA DAY AT
 APPALACHIAN FAIR
Railroad Business Heavy-An In- junction Is Asked Against
 Factory Whistle

Chattanooga, September 14.-(Speclal)- From present estimates more than 5000 Chattanoogans will visit the Appalachian exposition at Knoxville on Chattanooga Day. It is planned to close all the fac tories here and make the date, September 19, a civic holiday. Exhibits by Chat tanooga manufacturers are one of the most remarkable features of the exposi- tion.
 Business with the local railroads, the real barometers of prosperity, Is remark ably good, according to statements given out by the various lines here. With the Cincinnati Southern railway business dur ing August was the best of the year, and indications are that September will sur pass in tonnage the former month.
 Heavy movements of wheat and corn from the north and cotton, sugar, lum- Der and pig iron from the south, account for the tremendous volume of business. All local repair shops are running at full blast, and according to the railroads the approaching season will be most aus picious. Passenger traffic Is about nor nal
 Lawyers have discovered many delicate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
PROGRAMME OF
 FAIRVIEW SCHOOL

The School Improvement association of Fairview school has prepared an inter- esting programme, including a play and music, for this evening at S:30 o'clock. A large attendance is expected. The pro- gramme is as follows
 Duet, violin and plano, MT. Lamb and Miss Jessie Ruter
 Play, Polishing the Rough Diamond" Cast: Miss Phillips, Messrs. O'Byrne, Slaton and Munro.
 Ladies' quartet. Misses Ruter, Johnson and Mrs. Thomas. l,n feplasj
 Duet, cornet and piano, MT. Slaton and Miss Jessie Ruter.
 Male quartet, Messrs. Durham. Ham mill, Munro and Slaton.
 Vocal solo. Miss Maureen Johnson.
 Vocal duet, Miss Angelyn Ruter and MT. Slaton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
MISS MCCORMICK ENGAGED
 TO MIR. THOMAS H. CONNER

The Baltimore Sun of recent date has the announcement of Miss Katherine Me- Cormack's engagement to MT. Conner of this city. Miss Mccormick is delight fully remembered as the guest of Mrs. Sam Perry in the spring. and left many friends who will be interested to know that she IS to return here as, bride The announcement follows:
 ''The Rev. and Mrs. Hugh Pendleton Mccormick of Virginia announce the en- gagement of their daughter, Katherine Re ynolds Mccormick, to Mir Thomas L. Conner, Jr., of Birmingham, the wedding to take place in the early fall at the old Dover home near Middleburg, Va"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
ON
 HOOKWORM MEET

Nashville, September 14.-A third con- ference of directors of field sanitation and field inspection appointed by vari- ous southern board of health began hc~o his morning. About 40 are in attendance.
 ..s pnlect is to discuss the methods used in tho different states during the past year in fighting hook worm and to reach some more efficient methods of waging this war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
MISS WINNIE POMROY
 GIVES A LUNCHEON

Miss Susie Angel. who Is to be one of the most interesting of the seasons brides, was the honoree at a luncheon given yesterday by Miss Winnie Pomeroy on Twelfth street, north. It was a typ ical brides luncheon, the decorations prettily suggesting the coming nuptials. The guests were Miss Louise Archer, Miss Angel, Miss Frances Whitfield, Miss Har- riet Dobbins, Miss Mary Carr, Mrs. John Angel and Mrs w. C. Carr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
FINGER RING AT
 COMORRA TRIAL

Viterbo, Italy, September 1.-The finger ring which earabiners claim to to have found in the possession of all legged assassions of Genaro, Cuoccolo and his wife again figured in the pro- longed Camerra trial today
 Some witnesses asserted the ring had been the property of the murdered man, while others denied 1t was the same Cuoccolo had worn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
MISS LANIER
 HOSTESS AT LUNCHEON

Miss Mary Lanier was the hostess at a lovely luncheon yesterday, the honor of which was shared by Miss Elinor Lux erberg of New Orleans and Miss Bland Williams of Camden. S. C.. the guests re- sreetively of Miss Monro Lanier and of Miss Serena Kirkpatrick. The honorees and Miss Serena Kirkpatrick, Miss Mar gGerite Nabers, Miss Lydia Eustis. Miss Lena Wilkerson and the hostess sat at the table, which was exqustely ap- pointed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
MURDERED GIRLS
 LOVER FOUND DEAD

Kenton, O., September 14.-Officers hunting for the slayer of Della Halsey, who was dragged out of James Watts bakery last night and shot to death in the darkness early today, discovered the dead body of Jesse Newman, a re- jected suitor of the girl in a barn on his fathers farm five miles south of here.
 It Is believed that after killing the girl, Newman retreated to the farm and hid. When he heard the officers com ing in pursuit he committed suicide
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
NOTES AND PERSONALS

Miss Helen McAdory will leave Tues day for Holins, Va, to enter upon her first year at college. Miss Susan Lips comb of Auburn will arrive in the city the last of the week to accompany her. Mrs. J. H. Minge and family, who have spent some time on their plantation, are at home again.
 Mrs. Feton Wimberly and her little son. Felton, Jr., have returned from Men tone. where they spent the greater part of the heated term.
 
 Miss Kathryn Lindsay, who spent the summer at Borden Wheeler Springs, has returned to Birmingham. and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. W. Cooke.
 
 Miss Mabel Burgess and Miss Goldie Eshelman have gone to the University of Alabama, where Miss Burgess finishes this year and Miss Eshelman is junior. They are staying with Col. J, T. Murphee, S15 Queen City avenue.
 Mrs. J. E. Shelby of Denver is visiting in Birmingham.
 Mir. and Mrs. Eugene Brown, MT. and Mrs. Frank Fowlkes, Atwell Brown and east.
 Miss Dorothy Johns will be a student this year at Winston-Salem college. She will leave Birmingham Monday.
 MT. and Mrs B. P. Mcdonald and chill dren are occupying a beautiful bungalow on the shores of Battle Lake. Minn.. where they have spent delightful sea- son fishing and hunting. They will re- turn home October l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
BITTEN 2OOO TIMES
Dog Catcher Doesn't Worry About
 HydrOphObia

Denver, September 14.-Herman Car man, official dog catcher of the city of Denver, yesterday received his two thousandth dog bite. Following his custom he anointed the wound with carbolic acid and pursued his work
 Dog bites aint nothing" he said cheerfully 'Tde a good deal rather have elm than mosquito bites. There is nothing to this hydrophobia busi- ness"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15

and apparently hypothetical matters for litigation but that which has just re- suited here over a whistle has all the others backed clear off the boards when 1t comes to airy nothingness. The sub ject of the litigation in question Is a whistle-not the instrument but the sound which emanated from 1t. Certain per- sons had factory owner here arrested for blowing a whistle as a signal for his hanfls, and he immediately took out an injunction. 1.g,AiaEuWYWI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
SENATOR GORE TO
 ASSIST IN CANADA

Oklahoma City, Okla, September It. Senator Thomas F. Gore of Oklahoma has been reported by Premier Iaurier to assist him in the Canadian campaign for reciprocity. Senator Gore left Okla homa today for Canada. He supported reciprocity In the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15

the owner of the house. Of this house and the house next door. Of a row on the other side of the street. Of a hotel over on Broadway, and a score of tenements round the corner. Don't worry, dear. He really didn't need your quarterl'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
AUTHORIZES EVANS
 DIES IN BAVARIA

Aibling, Upper Bavaria, September IA. Elizabeth Edson Evans, the American authoress, died here today. She was born in Newport. N. H., in 1922, and had resided in Europe since 1870.
 Mrs Evans was a daughter. of Dr. Willard Putnam and Lucia Field (Wil- liams) Gibson. In 1868 she married Edward Payson Evans, the author, who Is a native of Remsen, N. Y.
 Mrs. Evans contributed verse and prose to the newspapers and magazines and her books included the novels: Laura, An American Girl" Trans planted Manners" and Confession" and "A History of Religions" The Story of Kaspar Hauser," The Story of Louis XVII of France" and The Christ Myth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15

kind, you know. I remember l wore It that summer I met Glenn McLane. l thought l had found in him the hero of my dreams" I didn't know until long afterward that the reason I really liked Glenn was because he always carried the cleverest lot of newspaper clippings with him, mostly relative to himself
 It took me long time, though, to find this out. One of the things I re- member is an "Ode to Peggy" which he wrote to me, and had printed, and 1t bears the date, "White Sulphur Springs, w. Va, August. 1905.
 I fished out darling little pink poke bonnet, next with forget-me-nots at the side and great pink bow in the back. I wore 1t to a garden party that same summer and met the lovliest West Point man. Haven't all the army men the most elegant manners? I remember that this one called me Aurora" or something like
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15
Best and Takes Less"

Blue Ribbon Vanilla Extract Is per fectly pure and so strong that only one to the quart is required. Best and takes less" W
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15

Mrs. Felton Wimberly and her little son. Felton, Jr., have returned from Men tone. where they spent the greater part of the heated term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15

Mir. and Mrs. Eugene Brown, MT and Mrs. Frank Fowlkes, Atwell Brown and Henry Fowlkes left yesterday for the east.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15

Miss Dorothy Johns will be a student this year at Winston-Salem college. She will leave Birmingham Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-15

Miss Kathryn Lindsay, who spent the summer at Borden Wheeler Springs, has returned to Birmingham. and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. W. Cooke.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-01-13
The Youths Companion Calen-
dar for 1911.

The publishers of The Youths
Companion will, as always at this
season, present to every subscriber
whose subscription ($1.75) is pail
for 1911 beautiful Calendar for the
new year. The picture panel repro
duces water-color painting of an
old-time garden in flood of sum-
mer sunshine, with a background of
Lombardy poplars through which
one catches glimpse of distant
hills. The picture being in 12 col
ors, the tones of the original are
faithfully reproduced.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-01-13
Harness, Harness, Harness.

I am now prepared to furnish har-
ness, heavy and light; all kinds of
straps, robes, etc. My leather is
my own tanning and is not tanned
by the quick process" Machine
and hand work, all guaranteed.
All kinds of mens' and womens'
waterproof shoes made to order.
J. O. Smith,
Toledo's Tanner and Harnessmaker.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-01-13
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After taking a course of the baths
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