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The Bourbon news., 1912-01-02
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The Bourbon news., 1912-01-02
Busy Embroiderers.
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AS early as 1873 Diver G,000 women
were engaged in stitching the fine en-
broideries which made st. Gall ia
nous even in those early days. The
number had increased by the begin
ming of 1900 to 10000, the industry
having extended to Baden, Wurtem-
burg, Bavaria. western Austria and all
the country about Lake Constance.
The Bourbon news., 1912-01-02
Platinum.

Referring 10 platinum. books say
that this metal has never yet been
successfully deposited as a protecting
coating to other metals" and add "the
metal to be plated must be coppered. "
The Bourbon news., 1912-01-02
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nothing. And it seemed impossible to
surmise whence, from which one of all
the rooms with windows opening upon
that side of the hotel, had come the
voice Of the woman. She might as
well have been above as below him,
or on either side: he could not guess.
But he was determined.
Now there was beneath his window
a balcony with floor of wood and a
rail of iron-filigree-a long balcony,
extending from one corner of the ho-
tel to the other. At intervals it was
splashed with light from the windows
Of chambers still occupied by guests
belated or busy, like himself, with the
task Of dressing for the evening. The
window to his left was alight; that
on his right, dark. With half his body
on the balcony, his legs dangling with
in the room, O'Rourke watched the
opening On his left with jealous,
breathless expectancy. Not a sound
came therefronl. He hesitated.
"If that weren't her room, I'd hear
somebody moving about" he reasoned.
"'Tis frightened she is-not suspect
in 'tis me. But how do l know
tbs herself? Faith! could me
ears deceive me?"
With that he took heart of hope and
broke manfully into the chorus, sing
ing directly to the lighted window,
singing the first line with ardor and
fervor, with confidence and with hope,
| singing persuasively, pleadingly, anx-
| iously, insistently.
"For the world is all befo-ore US"
he sang and then paused. He heard
no echo. And again he essayed, with
| that in his tone to melt heart of
| ice:
sFor the world is all befo-ore u.s.
And now he triumphed and was
! lifted out of himself with sheer de-
light; for from the adjoining room
came the next line:
sa.- .e.s..esss.s.s,sasa
"And landladies ado-ore US"
Unable to contain himself, he
chin,ed in, and in. duet they sang il
out to the rousing finale:
'fThey ne'er rayfuse to sco-ore US,
| But chalk us up wild joy
| We taste her tap, we tear her cap
| o. that's the chap
For me- cries She
| -, sWhiroo
Isn't he the Dlrlint, the bould soldier
boyv''
! As the last note rang OFT and died
> the next window was darEered: tho
woman had sxitcaed of the lights
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14
ANOTHER LINE ID USE TELEPHONES Central of Georgia Erecting Line From Birmingham
 to Columbus

That the Central of Georgia railway
 would Install telephone operating sys-
 tenn between Birmingham and Colum-
 bus, Ga, work upon which was going ahead without delay, was the official
 announcement made here yesterday by T. S. Noise. general manager of that company. He was here yesterday con ferring with Southern, Alabama Great Southern and Tidewater railway off cials.
 MT. Noise said the telephone line for dispatching trains would supplant the | present telegraph lines just as quickly
 as the line was up and placed in oper- ation. It is stated that the line will | cost in the neighborhood of S100,000 | and that it will be far more serviceable | than the telegraph now used. The Frisco lines in this city have 1 now in service telephone diSpatching 2 system, considered the best in the south
 "The telephone dispatching system on the Central of Georgia will be built from this city 10 Columbus" said MT. Noise. Later it may be extended fur | ther. It will take the place of the
 telegraph lines and will greatly facili- | tate business. Telephones are consid-
 cred far better than any other service | for instantaneous work. I cannot say exactly how much the service will cost. | Work will proceed. without delay" In speaking of the general situation MT. Noise said conditions were improv- | ing and that the general outlook was very fattering. He left last night at midnight for Atlanta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14
THE 1912 FOOTBALL
 DATES ANNOUNCED

Sewance. Tenn, February 13.-(Special) }
 The athletic board of control of the Uni
 versity of the South has announced the
 football schedule for that institution for
 1912. The schedule is almost identical
 with that of last year. except that Texas
 and Tulane have been dropped and the University of Tennessee has been taken on. This game will be played in Chat tanooga and will be an annual affair Another notable fact is that no prep schools will be played by the Tigers this year. Southern Presbyterian university and Chattanooga university being giver the dates formerly belonging to Castle
 Heights. S. NJ. A, or other prep in stitutions. The complete schedule is as follows October 12-Southwestern Presbyterian university at Sewanee. October 19-University of Chattanooga at Sewanee. October 26-University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. November 2.--Georgia Tech at Atlanta. November 9.-University of Georgia at Athens.
 November 16-University of Alabama at Birmingham. l November 2S-Vanderbilt university at l Nashville
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14
ANNISTON IS PLEASED OVER
 SALE OF DECATUR FRANCHISE

The proposition to place a team in the Birmingham district means a better schedule. Railway facilities to the Deca- lures are not the best in the world for the majority of the teams in the league, and railway fare to and from Deca- tur last year proved a big item in the expenses of the league.
 Dr. l.. l.. Scarbrough, former president of the Anniston club in the Trl-State league, when this city introduced Ty Cobh 10 the baseball world, agrees with Presi- dent Mitchell as to the significance of the new deal, and 1t is believed that tho schedule will be so arranged this year as to place the Southeastern in Birmingham. or the Birmingham district while the Barons are on the road. The jump will be made from that city to Huntsville in the event the proposed dea goes through.
 While the meeting at Birmingham or Thursday Is for the specific purpose oi ratifying or rejecting the purchase of the Decatur franchise, it is very likely that proposed revision of the schedule will be discussed, and the question oi setting a definite date for the opening oi the league, probably early in April, vii likely be decided.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14
WESTON TO ODES|CN THE RIDDEN HOTEL We'll Known Birmingham Architect Will Plan Fifth
 Avenue Building

William C. Weston, the well known architect of this city, will design the Roden hotel, having been engaged yes terday, according to the announcement of the officials of that hotel company last night. Mir. Weston, 1t is said, will have associated with him a prominent New York architect in an advisory ca pacity.
 The local promoters of the Roden hotel received offers from architects located in New York, Boston, St. Louis Nash vile Atlanta New Orleans and else where. However, it was determined to favor a Birmingham designer. MT. Wes- ton Is one of the best known and most popular architects in this city. He has been the designer of many buildings of note and stands at the head of his pro- fession locally and in the south
 It Is stated by the Roden hotel In terests that committee of the organ izers of that company will leave within n day or two for the east to inspect several hotels, to get acquainted with the latest innovations in such buildings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14
OUTLOOK BRIGHT FOR
 THE TWO DECATURS
Everything Points to Gen.
 eral Business Revival
CONVOCATION MEETS
Double Tracking of Louisville and Nashville Will Mean Much-The Decaturs Will Be Without
 Baseball This Season

Decatur, February 13.-(Special.)-
 The indications are that the present year will be one of the most prosperous
 years the two Decaturs have ever had Everything points to a general revival of business and industries, of growth
 and of progress
 There are many good indications. Re- gently a Birmingham company pur- chased the Decatur Waterworks plant merely for an investment" as they said. Now we'll founded rumors say
 that number of other big deals are
 under way and that they will likely
 be closed within a short time. If these other deals are closed it will mean much for the Decaturs.
 The double tracking of the Louis- vile and Nashville railroad will also
 mean much to the Decaturs, and may
 be the means of getting wagon bridge built across the Tennessee river. Capital has its eyes on the Deca- turs and is bound to come. The loca- ton here Is attractive to the manufac- turer on account of the surroundings.
 The Decaturs are destined to become a | SGtdl Clly al lO ldl udtt' iO
 growth of the two cities has been steady
 and quite rapid during the past few
 years, but the indications are that 1t will be more rapid in the future. 1 With the growth and the improve
 ment of the two cities the surrounding
 country has improved, too. Turnpikes
 have been built and many rural school
 houses erected. The methods of farm I f,e- hax- t.,,,, cd a,.I hoe
 been a general improvement, both in 1 the towns and in the country.
 | C. l.. Worthngton, representative Of 1 the Curtis aeroplane, has been in the 1 Decaturs for the purpose of getting up an
 aeropane meet here. Nothing of defin-
 ite nature was done, but MT. Worthing l ton will return at later date and see 1 if the meet can be arranged.
 The Huntsville Episcopal conyoeation
 met in New Decatur this morning at 7:N | o'clock and will be in session for three days. An interesting programme has | been prepared The following visiting
 ministers are present; Rev Charles | Price of Florence. Rev. Jos. H. Harvey of Sheffield, Rev Cary Gamble and Rev. Stewart Mcqueen of Montgomery, The Decaturs vii have no league base ball this season, very much to the regret of the local fans. Lack of interest on the part of sufficient citizens of the Decaturs was the cause of the Decatur franchise
 being sold to F. C. Menasco of Birming-
 ham, who will organize a stock company at Bessemer and that city will, get the
 Decatur berth in the Southeastern league. A special grand jury is being sum moned to investigate the case of John
 Bailey, the negro who shot and killed his wife at Moulton Heights few days ago. The grand jury will convene here on February 10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14
PROTESTS AGAINST
 LANES E'SSTATEMENT
Thinks Citizens Are Right to Demand Change From
 LaWless Conditions

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: As a citizen of Birmingham, as tax
 payer. as one of many home lovers who
 have at much personal effort and no llt-
 tie financial sacrifice striven to lend some
 aia to the various efforts tbat have been
 made from time to time to Stay the reign
 of lawlessness and crime in Jefferson
 county, I protest against the slur of Com
 missioner Lane in the morning paper or
 February P. The body of patriotic eitl-
 zens who have striven to do some Of the
 work for which the county and municipal
 officers are paid, but which has been
 in so great a measure left undone, are
 neither insane, calamity howlers, nor pes simists. Neither do they have to swallow
 whole and unseasoned all the statements
 made from time to time as. to conditions
 by Commissioner Lane.
 If conditions were not intolerable, why
 has it been necessary for Commissioner
 Lane to issue stringent orders" to the
 police department? If gambling was truly
 reduced to a minimum recently, why is 1t
 now necessary to detail Captain Egan
 and five special men to close gambling
 rooms and tigers? If conditions are satis- factory, why Is it necessary for MT. Agee
 
 Commissioner Lane is right, why have
 two grand iuries gone to the length they have in calling attention to lawlessness
 in office and out?
 A little more and Commissioner Lane wil appear ridiculous in calling two intel ligent grand juries, the pastors of the city, the expert observers of the Survey, the recent organization of law enforcement league and hundreds of citizens who are pained and shocked at the position Blr- mir gham is occupying in the eye of the | public, calamity howlers, pessimists and insane sensationalists. There was once a l jury that disagreed Il to l. The one | man when asked the cause of disagree | ment, replied, '"There were II of the | bamdest fools on the jury he ever saw. | l can not believe that anyone doubts that | the statements generally made as to con | dtions are true.
 | If anyone doubts the uses to which cer- | tain well known second and third story | rooms are used. let them Investigate for | themselves. If they can't do this let
 them ask MT. Agse what he learned in in | vestigatng the connection between the sa,-
 loon on the ground floor and the rooms above
 Commissioner Lane has undoubtedly | done wise thing. though long delayed, in l placing the handling of this proposition | in different hands. Commissioner Lane is l eminently right when he says, We have l laws. the one thing needed is to enforce | them." That is what we eranks, calamity
 howlers and pessimists have long insisted
 upon. We welcome Commissioner Lane to our ranks
 We are of the opinion that Commission CT Lane with his magnificent determina ton and the autocratic power with which
 he is clothed, and with the ample laws with which he Is fortified can close every gambling hell and blind tiger of any ac- count in the city. Will he? We wait the
 answer r. B. SUTTON, M. D. Birmingham, February 13, 1912.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14
GOOD GOVERNMENT
Veterans Association Held Successful
 Meeting Last Night

The Confederate Veteran Better Gov erfment association held we'll attended meeting yesterday evening at their hall, room 4, 2161a North Twenty-1rst street.
 Several interesting addresses were de- liyered and much enthusiasm prevailed. goodly number of applications for membership were received and acted upon favorably.
 The organization is growing rapidly and bids fair at an early date to become one of the most powerful factors for good in the community.
 Bylaws were adopted and their pres ent place of meeting was made perma- nent. It has been decided by the exec ,ltive committee to hold public rallies at short intervals, and invite prominent speakers to address the association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14

Anniston, February 13.-(Special 1.-The encouragement from Birmingham to the effect that r. C. Monasco has purchased the Decatur franchise in the Southeastern league from Robert Cortner is consid- cred to mean that the Southeastern in that city will eventually be a side line carried by the Southern league magnates, and 1t is believed that it was with this end In view that President Baugh of the Birmingham club gave his support to Charlie Frank in the purchase of the franchise in the Cotton States.
 When seen in regard to the meeting which has been called by President Rob erts for Thursday afternoon, President c. H. Mitchell of the Anniston club stated that he was delighted to hear that Decatur had sold to Birmingham, and that he believes with either Bessemer or Ensley in the league, more com pact circuit will result and that the change will also be better from a finan- cial point of view. it being understood that President Cortner of Decatur lost several hundred dollars in his venture at Decatur last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14
GETTING OLD
By ANGUS A. AGREE

"Some people live to a ripe old age,
 averred Detective Puckett few days ago.
 q knew a man once who died at the
 age of 1o3 years and he died then after
 someone had shot him in the liver. He
 was just as hale and hearty before that
 as anyone I know"
 That's nothing" chimed in Sergeant
 of Police J. B. Donelson. '"rhere was an old negro in our camp one time who was cutting crossties every day. He -came 10
 miles afoot every morning to work and
 walked back at night. He was 100 years
 old and died about a year ago of old
 age"
 Ii was a motley gathering at-well,
 that's secret, because they don't want it
 told. Nevertheless they were meeting
 somewhere. Somehow or other the ques- tion of ages came up, and they were all
 trying to see who could outdo the other. Presently vox Popul ran up on them quite unawares and took a seat, quietly listening to their yarns. Vox evidently
 had something up his sleeve, for when he sits around, listens and says nothing, he usually has something to tell. He did this 1 time.
 When Bill Burge had finished telling his I concoction and experimentation of greatly | exaggerated and nearly broken facts, Vox snorted with disgust at these amateurs. | Down here in Thomasville. Ga, people live to an awfully old age,'' he said. T | saw several people who were well up in | 30, and l began to think that everybody | in town was old and that there were no | young people there at all. All the girls i l saw were past 30 and I was getting lone some
 | However, one day I stroled over in | Fairview, and while crossing common | there I saw an old man sitting on the | curbstone crying if his heart would
 break Gee, he was there with the weeps.
 Tears were flying thicker than hair in 1 family argument. 1 Being kindly inclined and almost dead of that stuff they call 'ong-wee' l stopped and asked, Whats the matter, grandpa?
 Something troubling your l "'Yes, sir. Pa slapped me While ago, | the old man moaned.
 ".Why did he do that?" I asked, dazed l to think that A man that old could have a 1 father living.
 | Because I chunked a rock at grandpa
 and hit his pa,' the old man snivelled. l That was a poser for you, and I was | ready to drop. But Tkept courage. How | old are you? I asked him. 1 "A hundred and fourteen sobbed the old man. his wounded feelings about
 mended.
 ..T don't know how the ambulance got there. but woke up at the hospital and
 have just gotten out concluded vox.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14
DISABLED SCHOONER
 REACHES PENSACOLA

Key West, Fla. Febriary 1s.-rhe three masted schooner Otis, lumber laden, from Scranton, Miss, for Havana was caught in a squall last Saturday 30 miles north of Loggerhead key, and had her three masts and jibboom carried overheard. The ships crew of seven rigged up jury mast and succeeded in reaching Rebecca shoal, where the lighthouse tender Man grove went to their rescue yesterday in response to their signals of distress.
 With the disabled vessel in tow the Mangrove came into port today The hull of the Otis is reported in good shape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14
IS CHARGED WITH
 SHIPPING DYNAMITE

Rochester, N. Y, February 13.-Clarence Doud was arrested by Deputy United States Marshal Vehmann on warrant charging with transporting dynamite from one state to another at different time today. The marshal was accompanied by Secret Service Agent Epperstein of Wash ington, who arrived in the city early. Doud made no comment when arrested. He was lodged in the county jail. The warrant was based on an indictment re- turned by the federal grand jury in In dianapolis.
 Doud is S5 years old. He came to this city from Mansfield, O., in January.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14

rule that the grants of franchises to strictly construed, and in case of a fair doubt such doubt must. be resolved in favor of the public.
 sThere is. however, another matter to be considered in arriving at a correct con clusion of the citys power in respect to regulating the private rates to be charged by the water company and that is that it has developed during this in- vestigaton that about 13 years ago there was litigation in the chancery court be- tween the water company and the city, which the company claims adjudicated this question and finally established the water company's claims to 30 year con tract for domestic rates as well as to fire hydrants.
 How Litigation Started
 'It appears that at this time QS9S) the board of mayer and aldermen passed an ordinance repeating. or attempting to re- peal the contract with the water com pany, and the board at the same time ordained new water rates and prescribed penalties for the water company charg ing in excess of same. The Water com pany thereupon filed a bill against the city, seeking to have these repeating or dinances declared void and to secure a construction of it's contract in accordance with its present contention. There was a decree overruling the city's demurrer. and a written opinion of the chancellor, sustaining the water company's conten- tion, and it also appears that this par ticular decree was never appealed from. Later decree pro confesso was rem dered against the city for failure to file an answer, which decree was, however. afterward set aside, and several years later it appears that the water company s bill was dismissed without prejudice on motion of the city, based on the ground that the ordinances against which the water companys bill had been filed had all been repealed.
 '"The court papers and files in this case have been misplaced and cannot he found. and it appears that some of these papers were never recorded Therefore. it has been impossible to obtain exact and definite information upon which to base a positive opinion as to the effect of this former litigation as a bar to present pro ceedings to have the terms of the water contract construed as to whether or moi the 30 year period, therein referred to- also applied to rates to private consum- CTS.
 ''Unless the city is precluded by this former litigation, I think there are reas- enable grounds for the opinion that the courts, applying the usual rules of con struction as to grants of public franchises will hold .that the 30 year period was mol intended to apply and does not apply to the domestic rates to private consum CTS, set out in section F of the water con tract from which 1t would follow tha the city has the power to regulate suct rates, except possibly in such suburbs as had franchise contracts expressly GOV ering this point when they came into Greater Birmingham Very respectfully, "ROMAINE BOYD,
 "City Attorney"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14
KEISER'S CASE
 IS CONTINUED

continuance for day was granted Tuesday morning by Judge I. H. Benners of the court of common pleas. In the case of David keiser who was brought back from Baltimore on a charge of issuing a bank check without having sufficient funds to meet it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-14
Jeffers Made Cpatain

Anniston, February 1S.-(Special.) )-La- mar Jeffers, first lie Itenant was elected captain to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Capt. B. R. Sawyer at the meeting of the members of the Pelham Guards, Company D, Alabama National Guards. Monday night. Ray New, who has been acting as first sergeant and holder of the company medal for eff ciency in drill. was elected to fill the vacancy caused by Captain Jeffers' pro mot