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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-08
| The Alabama Great Southern Railroad
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To the Stockholders of the Alabama
Great Southern Railroad Company:
Notice In hereby given that special
meeting of the stockholders of The
Alabama Great Southern Railroad Com
pany has been called by resolution of
the Board of Directors and will be held
at the principal office of the Company
in the City of Birmingham, Alabama,
on Wednesday. November 20, 1913, at
10 O'Clock A. M. to consider and con-
sent to the increase of the bonded in
debtedness of the Company in an
amount not exceeding $25,000,0OO, by
the creation of a total authorized is
sue of S25,000,000 principal amount Of
First Consolidated Mortgage Five Per
Cent. Gold Bonds of the Company. to
be dated December 1. 1913, and to be
payable December 1. 1943 and to be se-
cured by First Consolidated Mortgage
or Deed of Trust upon all the railroad
and other real property, leasehold in
terests, rights. privileges and fran
chises, now owned or hereafter ac-
quired by the Company, and such per-
| sonal property of the Company as may
be designated therein, which mortgage
or deed of trust will provide the terms
and conditions upon which $4,000, 900
principal amount of said bonds shall
be issued forthwith. and a sufficient
additional amount of said bonds, ap-
proximately $5,6S6,600 principal amount
thereof. shall be reserved to refund al
maturity the outstanding First Mort
gage and General Mortgage Bonds OF
the Company. and upon which $1,000
600 principal amount of said bonds
shall be reserved to be issued to
finance the cost of construction of an
extension from Wauhatchie. Tenn, &c
a connection with the Southern Rail.
way, and of double tracking the line Di
railroad of the Company at not exceed
ing 100000 per mile, and upon which
the remaining bonds of said issue shall
be reserved to be issued only in and
after the year 1917 for general i'm
provements at not exceeding $500, 900
per annum; and to take all such other
or further action in respect to the ere
alton of said mortgage as may come
before the meeting, including approx
ing the form and provisions of said
mortgage and approving all action
taken by the Board of Directors in
the premises
The Stock Transfer Books will close
at o'clock p. NJ, Wednesday, No
vember 10, and will be reopened at 10
A. NJ, Friday. November 2S. 1913.
By order of the Board of Directors.
II. d. LANKFORD,
Dated October a. 1918. Secretary.
11-1-S-15-22-26
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-08
POPE IS CONDEMNED
FOR THE FIFTH TIME
Negro at Admission Con-
yicted in First Degree
MAY TAKE APPEAL
Calhoun Dentists Convene Thursday
in Anniston-Special Jury Term
of Court the Third Monday
in December
MAY TAKE APPEAL

Anniston, November 7.-(Special.) )-Ervin
Pope, who was for the fifth time found
guilty of murder and the penalty of death
fixed upon him by the jury of the city
court of Admission Friday morning, will
be sentenced by Judge Thomas w. Cole
man, Jr., next Monday morning, and it
Is considered almost certain that another
appeal will be taken in the famous case.
The case was given to the jury at 6
o'clock Thursday afternoon, and all night
until the hour of their retirement they
balloted without result the vote standing
seven for the death penalty and five for
life Imprisonment.
Pope remained a stoic He has never
flnched before the sentence of death,
and when he was again carried down
into the valley of shadows Friday morn
ing the only evidence he gave of his dis
appointment and the crushing of hope
that springs eternal was slight falling
in the heaving of his bosom. His fsa-
lures remained immovable, and he still
swears he is innocent believing he will
ultimately gain his freedom
As the case now stands, Pope has been
convicted five times and sentenced to
follow the jury, seven times, the supreme
court having twice reversed itself One
time, complete trial was frustrated by
technical construction of the word
forthwith
The regular meeting of the Calhoun
County Dental association was held in
this city Thursday afternoon, DR.. w. r.
Brown, president, being in the chair and
nearly all the local dentists being pres
ent. Among the out of town dentists at
the gathering were DIR. A. X. Parks of
Montevallo and DR.. w. L. Northern of
Talladega, who delivered addresses.
Shortly after Judge Thomas w. Cole
man had dismissed the city court jury
in the case of Erwin Pope Friday morn
ing, Clerk A. II. Shepperd gave out a
call for q special jury term of the court,
10 begin the third Monday in December
During this term, cases appealed from
the recorders court will be tried.
o. p, Ford president of the Alabama
Farmers union, was in Admission Friday
en- route from a state meeting at Talla-
dega. He says the farmers union will
give their indorSement to the work of
establishing tuberculosis camp in this
county for the treatment of consumptives
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-08
mot Meat and Drink"
Teleeraphers win Not Strike

Cleveland, o.. November 1.-THE threat
ened strike of 200 teiegraphers employed
by the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad
will not materialize. G. w. w. Hanger of
Washington, assistant commissioner of
mediation and concilliation, announced
here late today that after four days of
conferences representatives of the railroad
and the telegraphers have agreed to ar
bitrate the demands recently submitted
by the latter. The demands include a
15 per cent wage increase.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05
FOUR LEAFED CLOVER is
LATEST ITEM ON MENU
Broadway Restaurant Serves Fashion.
able Nibble, Which May Gust Potato.

Four leafed clover salad is the latest
fashiona BILE nibble and eventually will
be introduced as food rival of the
potato. 1t was placed on the menu of
Broadway (New York; restaurant re-
Gently and was served at 40 cents a
portion.
In days to come there may be acres
Of the vegetable, which has genial
taste suggesting the artichoke, the yam
and asparagus. yet having an individ-
ual flavor Of indescribable delicacy.
The basis Of the new food is the firm,
white root Of variety Of European
clover known as oxalis.
The discoverer Is Max Selling. q
botanist and florist Of New York. He
brought over many plants to this coun-
try several years ago and by elimina-
ton produced the present plant. While
working over the plant Mr.. Selling
picked OF leaf and put 1t in his
mouth. He detected peculiar and
agreeable flavor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05
ONE OF WILSON'S PROBLEMS.

The hardest struggle Woodrow Will
son has ahead Of him is between him
self and greedy democratic congress.
When the democratic party met in
it's new hopefulness at Baltimore,
united by a prospect Of success and
sustained by the misnamed and mis-
handled republican convention at Chill
cago it hurried to write into it's plat
form:
Republican Extravaganza: We de-
nounce the profligate waste of money
wrung from the people by oppressive
taxation thru the lavish appropriations
of recent republican congresses which
have kept taxes high and reduced the
purchasing power of the peoples toll.
We demand return to that simplicity
and economy which befits a demo-
cratic government. -.
It kept the promise by coopering and
filling the biggest pork barrel of con-
gressional history. The smell of blood
set the famished democrats raging
Two hundred and eighty-nine con-
gressmen made 2S9 demands for 2S9
districts. These 2ss stood firm to-
gether as macedonian phalanx about
the pork barrel They got the pork.
Warren's famous project for Sun
dance was appropriated or equaled
several times. Jasper, Ala, has a $500
population. 1t is about the size of
Hampton. It got 800 900 for a public
building. Willow, Cal, population L.
100, drew $4,000. Belle Fourche. 300
population. in South Dakota, came
away from the democratic barrel with
$4,000. Jellico, Tenn drew a build
ing to cost $40 900 1t did postoffice
business last year amounting to
little more than $4,000
President Wilson has his work cut
out for him. He Is like a man riding
two horses. Some men can do it. Blu,
it is no snap
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05
A GOOD BEGINNING.

President Wilson's inaugura! speech
is very satisfactory document gen
orally speaking. If it foreshadows a
consistent policy, if the public right
eousness of the act squares itself with
the spoken word Wilson is on his
way TO a secure place in history among
faithful and seryiceable executives. His
general platform as offered directly
upon the oath Of office which made him
president Of the United States might
be taken from the best Of all the party
platforms. The details will be the
lions in his way. His difficulties will
arise when he attempts to lead his
party flushed with victory and greedy
for spoils away from the loot TO the
labor and sacrifice Of LEGISLATION and
public service for all without distinc-
ton Of party and special interest. His
general program predicts tumult and
opposition by the selfish.
1t was an excellent speech from an
incoming president. Scholarly, plain
and with the ring Of sincerity in 1t il
justifies the conception the country has
of the man. People are, as they have
been, ready TO accept Wilson at his
face value. There is general belief in
him and his motives. But back Of an
surrounding Wilson IS his party. 1t is
as a man once somewhat prominent in
Iowa said to his wife when she an
nounced her determination 10 join the
church: GO ahead. Lucy" he re-
marked, Church is good thing and
you are a good woman but you are
likely to have a Of time living
religion with me-" President Wilson is
likely to have difficulty living re-
ligion' with his party. But in a gem
eral way and as representative Of a
general public sentiment and desire it
is sood 10 hear the new president say:
This is not a day OF triumph. It is
day of dedication. Here muster not
the forces Of party. but the forces Of
humanity. Mems hearts wait upon US;
mems lives hang in the balance; mems
hopes call upon US to say what We vii!
do. Who shall live up TO the great
trust? Who dares fail to try? I sum
mon all honest men. all patriotic, all
forward looking men 10 my side. God
helping me- l will not fail them If they
will but counse! and sustain me.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05
Topics of the Times

The session of congress which as
sembles April is likely to find PLENTY
of bricks under the old hats left by
the previous administration.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen is coming to Amer
lea soon, but he will not awaken nearly
the general interest evoked by the visit
OF tina, Jap baseball team.
A lot of things happen in four years.
President Wilson viii nave full oppur-
tuni,y 10 realize this.
Woman suffragists seem to have no
more chance in Washington than
Coxey's army.
Until Cummins and Kenyon came in
TO national public life the possibility
that the presidency might come TO Iowa
wasn't mentioned day after day as is
the case now. Ii is we'll to recall this
when the fake wall goes up Of "1owa's
lost aresigeal at Washington
Don't worry. Youth get Your con-
gressional garden seeds this year all
right.
Permanent road legislation which
amounts to something will have some
what to do with the permanence of the
legislator who votes and works for II.
Republican congresses have been
properly condemned Tor excessive
pork" bills but none ever went the
whole hog like this economical"
democratic congress.
Mr.. Bryan's elevation is going 10 be
embarrassing in the commoner office.
Along with the proposed school for
wayward girls why not have short
course for fool parents?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05
FLY TRAPS.

Grandmother never had screens On
her windows until she had raised her
family. Then somebody, who deserves
to have monument a mile high in
vented mosquito bar. After that
grandmother had screens on her doors
and windows. The grandchildren
sometimes ran thru them and she
patched the holes with blue denim Or
brown hollands or some of the variety
of scraps from her rag bag. That was
when we began to swat the fy.
Grandmother used to make fytraps.
very effective in their way. She took
a slice Of bread, cut round hole in
the center of it, smeared one side Of
the slice with New Orleans molasses
and set it over a tumb bier half or two
thirds full Of soap suds. The doomed
companions followed. Right in the
midst of their enjoyment someone
tapped the slice of bread on the top
and the flies went down into soap suds
and oblivion. In time the tumbleT
filed up unpleasantly, was dumped and
reset and the process went on ad in
.finftum. But it never caught up with
the production.
Aaak R0melia's husband was handy
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05

with tools. He invented and made a
fly trap that was at once unique and
effective. He rigged two boards in
such a way that when the house door
was closed these boards spread wide
apart and when the door opened they
slapped together. Smeared with mo-
lasses this was murderous affair.
Every person who opened the door
crushed hundreds Of nuscae domestica
into pulp. Incidentally it was fearful
and gruesome sight after it had been
in operation a few days.
When, later the screen wire cloth
came into use some inventive mind
conceived the wire cloth trap. These
traps sat here and there where in former
days the iytrap or the plate with it's
solution of cobalt had occupied. A
screen fiytrap was always provoca-
ton to a boy. He never failed to de-
sire to examine it and observe its cap
tives at close range. Sometimes he
managed to drop the bottom out Of it
and loose the prisoners. Then other
things happened which put the flies
out Of mind and subdued the investi-
eating spirit.
The fly, like truth in the poem,
crushed to earth rises on phoenix
wings. Why in the economy Of nature
was the fiy so ARRANGED as TO defy the
united assaults of the world while
poultry is SO scarce and hens eggs part
OF high cost Of living, A fly never
gets fat and refuses to lay. Her eggs
never fail to hatch. Any old place is
a 100 per cent incubator for her. Why
wasn't hen made to lay million
eggs a day and hatch out every one
of them?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05
THE IOWA CITY VIEW.

Glowa City Republican,
The Cedar Rapids Republican is riled
to the point of dyspepsia over the klay
substitute which passed the house OF
representatives SIS to 10. 1t calls those
who voted for it "poltroons' and thus
pays its respects to the author OF the
bill:
1T is the dirtiest makeshift in the
way of reaching a settlement that was
ever devised by the cunning of even
the devil himself
The thing that bothers the Cedar
Rapids paper, in reality, is the size or
the vote. Probably there are some pol
troons in the house OF representatives..
but are there eighty-fi five. and only ten
brave men?
The bill passed by the house re-
verses the board of education. definite
ly and plainly. 1t esta blishes by law the
colleges and departments in operation
last September. 1t recognizes the fact
that the board Of education is the
proper body IN which to vest the pow
er of making changes in departments,
by comforting that power upon tae
board. 1t recognizes that board sub
ject to rapid changes in membership
should not act by mere majority, out
practically unanimously
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that the number seven was fixed upon
in order to put the question up to the
governor. and give him chance TO
pack the board. Rather, 10 prevent am
governor from doing that. Even ii
Governor Clarke should re-appoint all
the present members OF the board, the
plan of coordination would fail, for
the plan never has mustered seven
votes, and never could muster them.
even if some OF the board members
should desire to go ahead in spite o.
legislative disapproval. Packing by the
governor is made practically inpossi-
BILE
In the senate and house combined.
there are scarcely a dozen and a half
men who believe That the board was
right in what 1t did. What support the
board has is due 10 desire TO support
the action merely because It has been
taken, and to avoid giving the board
q slap.
Perhaps the 'devilish cunning" which
the Cedar Rapids Republican sees IN
this bin. is merely the fact that It re-
verses the board nithou, forbiddins
future changes. and without affront,uS
the board, and that consequently ii
unites all members of the legislature
who are opposed to the board 5 action.
We would sugges; to the Cedar Pap
ids paper that IL take g poll of the
board of education. and see IL II Is not
fact that a majority desire the klay
bill to go thru the senate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05
THE cH1LDREN's CRY.
[Sioux City Tribune.I

lSlOuS lily IrlDuNe.I
The school children of South Omaha
signed and sent to the legislature at
Lincoln a petition so feet long and
bearing 1850 names, asking the legis-
lature to enact a law that will force
the packing houses Of South Omaha
to pay the workers there living wages.
The World Herald, backing this cry
Of the children" in a stirring editorial,
says: In South Omaha, in these i'm
mense packing plants, are thousands of
men and women working at wages
that press them down to the level
of the beasts of the feld-wages that
are disgrace to civilization and a
reproach to the state. They must sub
sist as many already do, on the coars-
est and cheapest boarding house fare,
sleep 10 or IL in a room, vastly more
miserable inhabitants OF this rich state
OF ours than are the cattle and hogs
they slaughter. Such men will not be
citizens. They will represent the cregs
Of the worlds cheap labor market.
They will come 10 our state to work
for starvation wages. live after cur
ious fashion on So or - week and
return with their pitiful boarding,
when they have stood the grind an long
as possible, to their homes across the
sea. =
It's a gloomy picture and strong
appeal from the LEAKING democratic
organ OF the state to the democratic
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05

majority In the legislatures. IT, now,
the governor, who Is also democrat.
could break away from the influences
of the South Omaha stock yards and
packing houses that were SO potent in
securing his election, long enough to
back the children and the Worid-Her-
aid in this move for Industrial justice.
the legislature might be- aroused into
favorable action. A message from
Governor Morehead along the line OF
the World Herald editorial would re-
lieve the painful silence that bfoods
over the executive office and at the
same time give the honest democratic
voters Of the state some evidence that
their party in power at the state house
is rot dominated by Omaha and South
Omaha corporation influence.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05

fact that our prisons. are filling up
with young criminals, when the UNI
called for. misplaced meddlesome sym
pathy as is expressed In this case goes
out 10 men who are dyed black in
crime and who use the public press to
ove-rurn rules OF conduct which have
been in operation since the human
family began.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05
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Iona Newspapers
THE QUESTION.
[Des Moines Tribune.l

IDes Moines Tribune.l
Who hears any more about the in
jury the parcel post was going to bring
on the Iowa village and small town.
What objection is now urged against
rural mail delivery?
What farmer would dispense with hts
rural telephone, that was looked upon
as an unrighteous invasion of rural
Iowa?
What state, or county. or township
that has gone to the consolidated rural
school has ever turned back?
What community that has built a
hard surfaced road has ever put up
with a mud road afterwards?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05


a
anything should with the mechanism the locks the
terrible
Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05
NO PERFECTLY MATED PAIRS.

Newly Wed At Eishty-t two Finds Fault
With Marriage Laws.
''There is not perfectly mated cou-
pie on the earth.
1.-The marriage laws are wrong be
cause evil is at the bottom OF them,
but they are the best that can be had
under the present condition OF society.
Perfect marital happiness Is ap-
preached closer by those who marry In
the sunset Of life than By those who
marry young.
'slyhat we call morried haDDiness
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05

groom. who is living with his seventy
two-year-old bride. Mclean was mar
ried in Los Angeles recently after a
courtship lasting several months. Both
had bann r,sa r~-a,l heSc-e
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05

is simply ignorance Of something
greater"
These are few Of the beliefs on
marriage presented by DR.. James Nc
Lean. ap einhtv-tuo-venr-oid bride
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05
ANOTHER GUESS.

INdSVII CIlN IIO1Es.I
The Marshalltown Times Republican
wants TO know whether Gardner
Cowles was selected a director of the
Des Moines National bank because of
the Register and Leader or Ii spite otf
it Another guess is coming. Why
should Gardner select the Des Moines
National to direct when he might have
started one Of his own?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05
. NEW AERoPLANE RALANcER. I

At n fete given in honor Of
: President Elect Poincare at the
Louis lie Grand iycee in Paris re-
: Gently Rene Quinton. president
!. of the French National Aero
league. announced that secret
. automatic device for the stability :
OF aeroplanes had been discOv-
cred. This. said NJ. Quinton, was :
. great news.
. The inventor. named Moreau,
. made experiments on an aero
> plane in the presence of war Of
flee officials and few with a pas
senger for forty-five minutes
without touching the controlling
. levers Of the aeroplane except for
the purpose Of rising and de-
. scending. On this occasion the
wind sometimes blew twenty-five
> feet second.
Also Device to Tip Them Over.
. General Hirschauer OF the fly
. ing corps has received a commu-
nication from the inventor. Or.
. Cousin, a scientist, who has re-
Gently been experimenting on
. device with Jules Vedrines, the
aviator. He informs General
+ Hirschauer that the apparatus,
which is small and simple and
? can he carried in soldiers
knapsack. by provoking disturb
/ ances Of the air will cause any
] type Of aeroplane to capsize. even
/ if it has assembled to height Of
! more than 1900 feet.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05

The Perry Chief insists That fool
legislator that argues against good
roads because they will wear out the
horses shoes ought 10 be taken before
the proper commission and discover
what is the matter with his brain
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05

There can be no patriotism in any
country where all the energy and all
the time of its citizens are expended
IN the effort to subsist,' declares the
Sioux City Tribune.