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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
Edmundson in Anniston
Bennett on Smoking Room Talk

In the current Harper's Arnold Ben nett's American impressions begin. His frst article is largely devoted to hts trip across the ocean. Some of his com nents on the conversation of the smok- ing room are amusing
 The conversation of every group in the lounge would be stopped by the tn1ry of a page bearing a telegram and calling out in the voice of destiny the name of him to whom the telegram was addressed. And then another com panion would relate In intricate detail q recent excursion into Yucatan, speak . irg negligently--as though 1t were a trihe--of the extraordinary beauty of the women of Yucatan. and in the end making quite plain his conviction that no other women were as beautiful as tho women of Yucatan. And then the in- evitable Mona Lisa would get onto the carpet, and one heard, apropos, of the theft Of Adam mantlepieces from Rus sel square. and of superb master. pieces of paint rotting with damp in neglected Venetian churches, and so on. and so on. until one had the melancholy illusion that the whole art world was going or gone to destruction. But this subject did not really hold us, for the reason that. beneath blase exterior, we were all secreteiy preocupied by the beauty of the women of Yucatan and wondering whether we should ever ne, to Yucatan,'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16

Jasper. May 15.--(Special1-Th good roads train Of the Frisco's lines visited Jasper yesterday, arriving at 12 o'clock and leaving at 3. The train was pushed up on the North Alabama side track, where 1t would be near the town and more con- venient to the people. large crowd gathered at the exhibit cars at go o'clock and heard several highly entertaining and instructive lectures on modern road build ing. The main speaker of the company was IT C. Wells of the good roads de- partment at Washington, D. C.. who first told of the motives of the promoters of the railroad in sending out this good road train. Then he gave one of the most unique and logical stereopticon lectures ever heard in this section of the country He showed the common types of bad roads 10 be found in every section of the country and how they retarded ma terial progress of the various industries found in every sections of the country and that there was also lack of cul- tufe and enlightenment where the roads were bad.
 In conjunction with this bad feature of the poor highways, views were given stowing the bad roads converted into good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
JASPER CITIZENS HEAR ABOUT
 MODERN ROAD BUILDING

roads and the transformation following in every department of life as well as great economy to those who had good highways. Culture social and ethical, learning health, facilities of communca- tion economy were some of the inevitable results of good highways.
 MT. Wells advocated bond issues for road improvement showing that it was as impossible for every man to work out his road tax as it would be for every man to teach out his school tax Also, that 1t was not generally the thrifty man who objected to being taxed to support and keep up the country highways but tho man of small material wealth.
 The car was packed throughout tue lecture and every one was Impressed with the illustrated and verbal arguments pre- scented in behalf of highway improvement. It is hoped that the citizens of Walker county will realize their need of better roads and take some action to improve our public highways.
 Those accompanying the good roads l train were II. (. Wells and II. lss Craig of the good roads department at WasI- ington, D. C., MT. Samuel A. Hughes. general immigration agent of the Frisco system. and Mir Litton, superintendent of the Frisco system
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
The Angelus

From the Century Magazine.
 "The Angelus" is to me the most per isistent effort Millet ever made to ex- press himself. It has more of him in it than any other of his works Tho value of this picture to me lies in the attitudes and character of the figures IS an effort to express very noble aeniiment-that of a soul retiring into itself. or self communion For nam he chose that which signified an action of the most beautiful. related approprl- nteness. The figures may be regards l quite independent of any connection with the landscape, simply as works oi art as you would two statues. You may say this of nearly all of Millet's figures but this man and woman have kind of privacy or reserve. that is more i'm pressive thsn any of rhe others. I can not define 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
Dry" Trains in Ohio

From Comforts Wine and Spirit Circn-
 lar.
 Passenger officials of Ohio railroads are in a quandary and it is not at all improbable that the salel of drinks in dining cars in this state will soon be a thing of the past. The law prevents the service of drinks In a dining car while passing through dry" county or territory
 There are now i6 dry" counties in Ohio, II have not voted on county op- sion and have saloons. while 31 coun- ties are wet" As a temporary ex- pedient the passenger agents of the principal lines have been furnished with maps of Ohio showing the wet and dry" counties in the state. The rail- road officials have about come to the conclusion that the sale of liquor on trains. as handicapped by this situation, is unprofitable, and a liability rather than an asset.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
JOHN W. KNIGHT IS
 PLACED ON STAND
In Eccles-L. & N. Suit at Huntsville Tells How He
 Conducted Business

Huntsville May la .-(Special)-John ". Knight, head of the cotton firm of the Knight, Yancey X Co.,, was placed on the stand by the attorneys for the complain ant today in the trial of the suit of Alex ander Ecces .S Co. against the Louis- vile and Nashville railway. MT. Knight entered into the details of the manner in which he conducted his Immense cotton business, the greater part of which was transacted with foreign dealers.
 MT. Knight spent most of the time OH the stand identifying documents that were submitted to him His examination vas not finished thls evening
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
Ozark Commencement

Ozark, May 15.-tSpecial)-Th Rev c. B. McDavid of Atlanta and ex-president of the Georgia conference of the Metho- dist chursh, will preach the annual ser mon at the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday morning to the Dale County High school graduates. Monday and Tuesday evenings entertainments will be given by the music and literary departments at Casey's opera house. The graduating ex- ercises will be held at the opera house Wednesday evening, and Thursday morn ing the address to the class will be de- livered by Dr. Frederick D. Losey of the University of Alabama
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
AN UNQUENCHABLE FIRE Medicine That Burns is Now Summed
 by Certain Negro Cook
turday Evening Post

From the Saturday Evening Post.
 Yonkers. N. Y., physician had a neglo cook who was a chronic complain CT. One day she came in grooming with a misery in her side and the doctor of fered to prescribe for her.
 He went to the dining room. poured out a spoonful of game sauce, stirred in some English mustard and sprinkled on some cayenne pepper. and handed the dose ro the sufferer. telling her to take 1t down at one swallow.
 It was two weeks or more before Mary turned up with a new pain. This time if was in her other side. Her employer offered to mix her another dose of his medicine.
 No suh," said Mary, firmly I'm much obliged to you, doctor; but Ise done got my mind made up never agin to drink ncthin' what water won't squench,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
Worse and Worse
From the saturdav Evening post

From the Saturday Evening Post
 The late Dr. James H. Garfield was once called a liar by a newspaper for something he had said in the course of his college labors. Shortly afterward he was walking with pr. Eliot, then presi- dent of Harvard.
 Well Garfield" said Eliot. T see they have called you liar.
 Yes" Garfield replied, "it seems to be a sort of ex-officia college title. I sup pose, pr. Eliot they have often called you q liar?"
 Worse than that chuckled pr. Eliot. far worse than that. They have proved it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
CASE IS NOW UNDER
 COURTS AMUSEMENT

Knoxville, May 15.-The state court Of civil appeals this afternoon took under advisement the petition of the Nashville Baseball club, seeking dissolution of the recevcrship and injunction inhibiting Sunday baseball in Nashville. A decision will be announced in a few days. The case came to the court on writ of super cedeas, presented this afternoon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT OPEL|KA $8000 Edifice Will Be Built on North Ninth Street.
 Many New Buildings

Opelka. May .-(Special.)-Th mem- bers of the First Presbyterian church of this city have accepted the plans of an architect and contractors are now prepar- ing their estimates to build an $So0O church. It will probably be brick veneer and will be located on the corner lot owned by the Presbyterians on North Ninth street and Second avenue. For sev- eral years the Presbyterians have wanted new church. and the late Capt J. L. Dean nearly made it his life work It is expected that work will begin in the early future on this building.
 The death of Mrs. Lucinda Sabra Barnes. age 6 years, occurred at the home of her son, Will A. Barnes. The deceased had been Ill some time, but only d few weeks ago was taken to her bed with Bright's disease.
 From the present prospects last year s building record, which was more than in any year in the history of the city, will be outdistanced this year. There is build- ing activities in evidence nearly all the year round here, new homes going up, business store improvements and other construction work. During the past lew months several costly homes have been erected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16

Cleveland O.. May 15.-(Special.)-- )--Ths Iron Trade Review tomorrow will say: The offering of premiums for prompt delivery of plates is one of the indica- tions of prosperity that have developed within a few days. Prices are being well maintained on finished products and fur | ther advances are expected. Higher quotations are being made on nuts and bolts. chair has been advanced | $2 per ton, and advances aon tin plates, structural material, plates and bars al an early date would not surprise the trade. All indications point to an extreme l ly busy summer Consumers are begin ming 10 realize that probably they will need more material than they have con tracted for and some are endeayoring to make additional contracts.
 A large steel maker has purchased 10,C0 tons for billets, making his total pur- chases recently in the open market about 0,OO0 tons of crude steel, especially sheet of semi-fnished steel, especially sheet bars, is becoming more pronounced in the Pittsburg district
 Railroads are becoming insistent in their demands for deliveries. Rail buying Is being actively maintained. The Seaboard Air Line has divided 1S,00D tons about equally between the Bethlehem Steel com pany and the Tennessee Coal Iron and
 
 Line has divided 10000 tons between the Tennessee company and the Maryland Steel company A Brazilian railroad has awarded 20,000 tons to the Carnegie Steel company and a Cuban railroad 200 tons to the Lackawanna Steel company. The New Haven system has formally closed for rail requirements amounting to 27,000 tons, of which 1l,000 tons have been awarded to the Pennsylvania Steel com afI ha divided hpt the Bethlehem and Lackawanna com panies.
 The Middleton Car company has taken 1000 cars for a railroad in Argentine.
 The pig iron market is rather quiet throughout the country, but conditions are sound and the tendency is toward higher prices. Reports indicate a de- crease in stocks. Eastern shipyards have asked steel makers for prices on about F GOO tons of plates and shapes. The steel required for the three additional Am erican Hawaiian boats will be about 5000 tons and will probably be rolled at cen tral Pennsylvania mill.
 In response to a strong demand for furnace coke, producers in the Connells- vile region exerted their utmost efforts to increase the output, but the result has been an insignificant gain of only 50 tons and there does not seem to be any prospect of a materially larger pro- duction this summer.
 Labor shortage continues to be an im- portant factor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
European PIsn)
 North Ave. & \. Clerk s., Chicago, Ill.
Moneys SaIutation

rom the Baltimore American.
 |Said one man on the street, speaking to friend. Well, money talks Maybe does" answered the other; but all ever said to me was Goodbye
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
.ANN|STON MILITIA
 FILLS A VACANCY John Huger Chosen Second
 Lieutenant of Guards DIR. STOVES ORATOR
Regular Air Brake Instruction Car of Louisville and Nashville in Annis- ton-Oxford to Pave Streets.
 Edmunson in Anniston

Anniston May 15.-At the business meet ing of the Pelham Guards on last night a vacancy in the office of second lieutenant was filled by the election of John Huger who heretofore held the office of first sergeant. Lieutenant Huger was elected by exclamation, no other candidate being out for the place Hubert Dent who had been mentioned as a candidate, re- quested that his name not be offered.
 Owing to the election of Lieutenant Huger the office of first sergeant became vacant, and the following officers who stood in the line of promotion are now holding the following ranks: l.. c. Ern- est, first sergeant; Hubert Dent, second sergeant; Ray Lee, third sergeant; Horace Dill, fourth sergeant; Harry Powell. fifth sergeant. and Charles Powell, quarter master sergeant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
Enforce Sanitary Laws
Employees Attend Church

The dispensary was closed this morn ing for an hour to permit the employees to attend religious services in the First
 Methodist church. It is the first time
 within memory that liquor establish ment has suspended business in order to allow its employees to go to church. The revival meetings are well attended every morning and evening, and 62 new mem bers have been added to the church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
HUNTSVILLE J. ). |.
 ELECTS OFFICERS
Hawkins Rendered Judg-
 ment Against Southern
LEAVE FOR OKLAHOMA
Sanitary Laws of Huntsville Are Now Being Strictly Enforced. Dispensary Closes to Enable
 Employees to Go to Church

Huntsville, May 15.--(Special)-T an- nual election of officers was held by the Virginia Clay-Clopton chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. with the following result:@ Mrs Alberta Taylor, reelected president; Miss Edna Rodgers. first vice president; Mrs. Mar garet Boiling, second vice president. Mrs. Roy O'Neal recording secretary; Mrs Jennie Hosmer Garner, corresponding sec retary; Mrs. A. F.. Mastin, reelected treasurer; Mrs. Alice McCravey. reelected registrar: Mrs. Kate Coles Donegan, re- elected historian; Mrs. c. N. Vaught, re- corder of crosses Mrs. Milton Humes, chaplain, and Miss Sarah Lowe, director.
 Awarded $1250
 A jury in the United States court has awarded D. II. Hawkins a judgment against the Southern railroad for S25O for personal injuries.
 Enforce Sanitary Laws
 The sanitary laws of the city are now being strictly enforced Merchants are not allowed to litter up the sidewalks or sweep trash into the streets as they are in the habit of doing. Two arrests have re- suited from this practice
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
Instruction Car Arrives

The regular air brake instruction car owned by the Louisville and Nashville railroad is spending a few days In Anns- ton, which Is the midway terminal of the Alabama and Birmingham Mineral di- visions.
 The car Is used in instructng employees in the finer arts of using air and the proper way to apply air for braking pur- poses. Many other uses of air are shown, and in this manner employees of every di- vision on the Louisville and Nashville system are learned in the air brake uses.
 Dr. Stoves Orator
 Dr. George Stoves, pastor of the Annis- ton First Methodist church left Wednes- day morning for Ashland, Clay county where he will deliver the baccalaureate address before the graduating class of the Clay County High school, located at that place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
Paving in Oxford

An important meeting of the oxford city council was held on Tuesday evening, at which time resolutions providing for the filling and grading of sidewalks and the construction of cement sidewalks on each side of Main, snow. Choecolocco and Mekibbon streets was adopted
 The eouncimen also discussed the ad- visibility of establishing municipal park, the ladies of oxford wishing to cooperate with them in this matter, they wishing to obtain an old lot now used for a wagon yard and to convert 1t into camp ground for country visitors. If Is believed that the municipal park will be established within very short time.
 Edmunds0n in Anniston
 W, T. Edmundson. Jr., former business manager of the Annlston Hot Blast. and who left this city to assume the duties of manager for the Montgomery light and water commission. spent few days in Anniston this week
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
|EXPECT RECORD YEAR
 IN IRON BUSINESS
Prices in Birmingham Dis
 trict Hold Firm at $11
SOME GOOD ORDERS
Tennessee Company Gets Half of 17,000 Ton Order From Seaboard Air Line and Several Thous-
 and Tons From A. C. l..

l New York, May l5.-tSpecal)- )-The Iron | Age will say tomorrow:
 There is evidence of the coming out of the railroads, and with more confidence leaders in the industry are now looking for year of record production. In certain products, as in bars, sheets and wire, the test of recent advances in prices has not been serious from the standpoint of tonnage. but with the re- quirements of open hearth steel taxing the capacity of melting furnaces, the basis for the advances appears substan- tlaL
 In the middle west several steel com tons of seml-hnished steel in the past three weeks
 The Seaboard Air Line has divided about 17,Ooo tons of rails between the Tennessee and Bethlehem companies. The Atlantic Coast Line has bought 10000 tons, and the New Haven system has increased it's original small order to 27.0Oo tons. The largest export order is 10000 tons for the Leopoldina railroad in Brazil
 Car buying shows a lull, but builders are booked into the fall. Locomotive works have been accumuIatng work quite heavily.
 The eastern market continues to show some deviation from the new Plttsburg basis for plates and structural material. at the same time the tendency in plates in the central west is upward. Ware house prices of bars and structural steel have advanced $l a ton at Chicago and S1 to s2 in the Pittsburg and New York districts
 Specifications have been heavy for bars plates, shapes, sheets and tin plates. For tin plates $3. 40 Pittsburg has been quoted lately at an advance of 10 cents a box.
 Pig iron buying has fallen, particularly in the east In spite of declining stocks and with production stationary, the hold ing of advances in foundry iron in the central west is not easy. This is parti- cularly true of southern Ohio furnaces. Southern iron is quite firm, however, at sl1 Birmingham for No. ? and buying of 4j. .000 tons of pipe iron has caused fur ther stiffening in that market
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-16
Leave for Oklahoma

Madison county's delegation to the southern Baptist convention in Oklahoma City left last night. They will all do what they can to get the next convention in Birmingham.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1912-01-18
CARNEGIE DOESN'T SHOW WELL AS STAR WITNESS.

Carnegie has been a star witness
for several days before the steel in
vestigation committee, but he did
not acquit himself with much credit
with his testimony.
He admitted that he recommend
ed Philander G. Knox for attorney
general in the Mckinley cabinet
while Knox was counsel for the
steel trust. He solemnly declared
that he never heard of the Sher-
man antitrust law while he was in
business, although he had paid at
torneys like Knox TO keep him in
formed of all legislation affecting
the steel business.
He was represented by special
counsel before the committee (not
Knox, for he is in Taft's cabinet
now and every time he was cor
nered by question he would ap-
peal to his legal adviser. ANDY
had more than one bad halt-hour
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1912-01-18

before the committee, and alto
gether his testimony showed him
to be one of those thrifty financial
buccaneers who is willing to milk
the people for all the traffic would
bear, law or no law, and profess ig-
norance of any wrongdoing.
He was a colossal beneficiary of
a system which destroyed uuionism
in his industry, shot down men at
Homestead, took big bonus from
the government in tariff protection
and made multi -millionaires by the
score.
After benetitting for years by a
high protective tariff, he now says
the steel business needs no tariff
duty; after heaping up millions in
the manufacture of implements of
war, he now wants universal peace.
Carnegie's testimony stamps him
thoroughbred hvpocrite, and all
the Carnegie libraries in the world
will never condone the part he
played in Big Business, at the ex.
pense Of the masses,
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1912-01-18
Smoking EN- Out.

There are many in both parties
who have strong suspicion that
Roosevelt and Bryan, secretly,
would be dee-lighted to make the
presidential race again in spite of
their protestations to the contrary.
They will soon have the oppor-
tunity to put their wishes in writ
ing, inasmuch as each has been
nominated by petition in Nebraska
for the presidential primaries and
the only way to get their names off
the ballot is to file declination in
writing.
We shall see what we shall see.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1912-01-18
0LDTlMER
MAKES GOOD
]. ]. Sullivan Down from B. c.,
to Work Mining Claim. Has
Land at Edmonton Growing
Into Town Lots.

J J. Sullivan, old-time frontiers
man, was a visitor in Libby this
week. John came with the Great
Northern railway and advanced
westward with its building at
Minot, Havre and Kalispell, fol-
lowing mercantile lines, and then
jumped to Eureka with the build
ing of the Columbia Falls cut off,
as townsite boomer and realty spec
ulator.
He early got tangled up
with galena proposition on the
Kootenai, below Rexford at Stone
hill And he has faithfully stayed
with it since, plugging along every
year on representation work. He
is now doing the work for the year
and came to Libby with a new
strike of copper rock samples to
have tested. He has uncovered
four feet of it and it looks worth
while.
Mr.. Sullivan is now located at
Edmonton and all his friends in
Flathead and Lincoln counties will
be pleased to learn that he has
prospered very much In the north,
ern country. He has choice tracts
of land bordering on the city, now
turning into city lots, and other
valuahle holdings, In fact, easy
street looks easy to him and we re.
joice with him in his success.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1912-01-18
Alleges False Representation

The following from Tueseay's S
Spokane Spokesmrn-Review IS of
local interest:
Austin Ready yesterday brought
suit in the superior court against
w. R. Biggs, asking for $4,000
and interest for alleged false repre-
sentations in the construction of a
power dam to be built for the Mon
tanaMorning Mining and Milling
company. The dam was to be
built on Callahan creek, near Troy.
Ready alleges that Biggs told him
if they would build the dam they
would be given 5000 shares OF
stock in the company and that the
defendant would superintend the
construction of the dam and dis
pose of the stock. Ready alleges
that he has put his money into the
concern, but that Biggs has not
performed his part of the agree
ment in any respect or put in any
money.