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BENNETT SURPRISING COFFER
COMPANY

To Holders of Ftve-Year Six Per Cent,
General Mortgage Gold Bonds, Issued
under and secured by indenture dated
March LIST, 1915:
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that In
accordance with the provisions OF Article Third
Of said indenture, dated March LIST, 1919 and
pursuant to the direction thereunder Of Dom
nett Surprising Coffee Company, above
mentioned Fve-G Year six Per Cent, General
form, bearing the following distinctive MUM
bers. have been drawn by lot by the under
signed as Trustees, under said indenturo. for
redemption on September 2nd. 1919. out OF
moneys on deposit " ith the Trustees TO VII:
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Coffee Cables-Rio $50 reis higher at 10000
for No T. Exchange on London unchanged at
i4H. Receipts. 5000 bags; stock. sos 900. San
tos spot market unchanged at frsoo for IS.
30 reis lower.
Receipts at the two Brazilian ports $500
against 81, 900 last year and 5000 two years
ago. Sac Paulo q, oo0 against 5000 and 81.
900 Jundiahy 1900. compared with 5000 and
81 600.
Weather fine in all districts of Sac Paulo,
with temperatures s to 81.
Santos cleared 20 900 bags for New York and
mn for Nav OrleAnH.
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London Money Market.

LONDON, Aug. 2l.-Money closed 3h
pc cent Discount rates, short bills,
'-ls@SM per cent. three, months bills.
-lsg3% per cent Gold premium at
Lisbon 100. Consols for money closed
y British 9 per cent. loan. 9tH +;
British AZ per cent. loan. S7H.
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said Bonds so drawn for redemption viii
be paid at any time at the Office OF the Treas
and Surrender Of ala Son % wteh
all coupons maturing subsequent 60 March lst,
1919. at par and interest accrued to the date OF
presentation If Presented on or before Sep
TENDER LIST, 1919. II presented on or aftes
September LIST, 1919, with interest to and in-
elusive OF September LIST. 1919. after which
date interest Will cease.
Dated August 2lst, 1919.
JOHN SCHoLL,
FRANK d. WHITE,
ALBERT A. DAHN,
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Minneapolis Grain Market.

MrSSEAPoLIs, Aug. 21.-Flour, I'M
changed. Barley, S1.15ql3s; rye, No
2, sL52h Q153%; bran. SAL fax, seq
500.
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NEW BUYING HELPS
So RISE IN COTTON
Shorts Also Purchase Freely,
Followed by Many Of the
Old Bulls.
CROP REPORT Is AWAITED
High Mark Comes When Ex-
port Clearances Of 10000
Bales Are Posted.
CROP REPORT is AWAITED

All cotton markets were stronger yes
terday, the approximate advance on the
local exchange being IS a bale. Para
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LEGAL spot.. n.Soc. New Orleans, sc.ssc.

LIVERPOOL CABLES
Spots fair business mlddling 81 points lower
at is .2sd. sales 5000 bales, including 1000
american imports 5000 bales, all American.
Futures opened quiet at 10 to fs points decline
and closed arm at net advance OF % 10 81
Of 3 TO 81 points. Ausust oiosed Jsiid.i
October, 10. Aid. January 1s.sid. March.
cloths In more demand
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DIvIDENDs AND INTEREsT.
AMERICAN LOCOMoTIyE 90,


so Church St, New York, August II, I9fA
A quarterly dividend OF ono and three
quarters per cent ok "a upon the Pre-
ferred capital stock OF tho American Lo-
connective Company has been declared pay
able on september so, 1919, TO tho Preferred
stockholders OF record at the olose of buEi-
ness on September 10, 1919 Dividend
checks WIN be mailed September ~. 1919
A quRrterly dividend OF one and one-hAlf
per cent q Co upon tho Common capital
stock OF tho Company has been declared
payable on September 80. 1919, to the Com
mon stockholders OF record at the close OF
business on September Is, 1919. Dividend
checks will be mailed September ~, 1919.
For tho purpose OF tho annual stock
holders meeting to be held on October
FL 1919, the transfer books OF the Pre-
ferred ana Common capital stock Will be
closed at J.. Nj, Sept ember %, 1919, and
Will be reopened at 10 A. M. October a.
1919
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-24
Andrew and In1ogene
LITTLE LIFE Condolences IN THE EXPERIENCE CoUPI-
PEILOSOPHC, THOUGH MARRIED
u

Andrew" said Imogne looking sporting page
newspaper all these little black squares
ar chess problems honey" said Andrew
probems she asked wrinkng her great
Eyes exclaimed
is brano
play it. This however, discussed the sporting of
the newspaper
| thought this sheet of
citng athletic contests"
greater physical
the than sitting beside cheboard waiting the nk
little watching
nifehrower sticking deshow He will
like looking
the lobe of his his watch
a
castle andp his hand back put his pocket think
playing chess that watching snail crawl brick
draughty
complicated than checkers which ApplPie
to in little,
this played by
hghbrows
unconmed and don't want
said it.
the black
another they
who studied dferenta
it, but in this chess they the William
A Tatoe flew and the cuckooa
offde
aged but praised.
of wooden doll babies representing kings knights
like hungry kid looking
phone tell
the club
"Tel about it," said Imogene.
young wanted handle other peoples
babies they told that be careful and touch the
believed that who addicted chess
babies that without ha feng there
watermelon ripe goes my theory correct"
Copyright T'ventyfir Century Inc)
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Love Affairs of a
Lonely Woman
By MARY HAu


damned in among the hundreds, yea
thousands, speeding along to their homes
in the dark. smelly, unwholesome sub
way, James nerves were overweight.
after the unusual happenings of the day.
Each man, woman, girl and boy in the
throbbing. self-centered crowd had
thought for none other than self; Jane
realized how helpless, how deserted, how
isolated she was in this sweltering, i'm
patient mass of humanity.
Tired now after the heated work of
the day, every face seemed irritable and
angry Not a kindly look was turned
toward her. Even the small space occu-
pied by her slender body seemed grudg
ingly yielded by burly men and aggres
Sve women, who crowded and showed, ell
bowed and continually edged up and
down the car as station after station
was passed.
The changing of gongs at stations, the
roar of the wheels in the reverberating
underground, and the whizz of dimly
lighted iron pillars as they spun past
the dusty windows of tho subway cars
, added to the girls confusion and nervous
ness.
She felt like screaming before her own
station was finally reached. Only by a
supreme stretch of will power did she re-
strain herself from yielding to the mad
dening impulse. At last, however, fol-
| lowing the surging lead of broad
! shouldered laboring man who ploughed
| through the crowd regardless of whose
| feet he trampled, she wedged through the
door, accompanied by a rasping. Step
! lively. Watch your step!' from the tired
! guard.
| The first breath of fresh air seemed as
draught of elysian nectar, when she
reached the street and turned toward
Mrs. Selden s-several blocks to the south.
"Oh, how can l stand that every night
and every morning." Jane Brown asked
! herself, still gasping from the i'll ven
| tilation and the crushing crowd.
! The throngs on the avenue, which at
| first had seemed so oppressive to her.
weres by comparison open and free. With
| a growing sense of relief she picked her
way through the hurying line of pedes-
TRANS and at last arrived at the steps of
the brown stone house, which represented
"home.'"
At the door she experienced some
trouble in fitting her key to the lock. She
was just becoming impatie at her own
stupidity when Mrs. Selden opened it for
her.
"Ah, dearie, you are late tonight" said
the landlady, with an ingratiating, croc-
odile-lilSe smile on her fat, oily face. Il
suppose you are very tired after your
hard days work"
Jane had no desire to exchange words
| with the woman, disagreeable as she had
proved.
Indeed, her first impulse was to yield
/ to the irritation which had been engen-
dered during the eventful day. She bit
her lip, however, answering quietly
enough: TT has been wearing, Mrs Sell
| den. I'm afraid New York is a bit siren
uous for country girl. The travelling on
| the subway is rather nerve-raclling.
wish / could afford to ignore it every
day"
We'll, seen you riding down Fifth
| avenue in a swell automobile today" re-
| torted Mrs Selden, who had apparently
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-24
HAS SERIES
OF BAD ACCIDENTS
Two Men Are Hurt BY Trains and
Others Are Injured When Au-
tomobile Turns Over

Troy July 1.-THE ac-
cidents have occurred here on the rail-
road within two days. Sunday night
Jack Alloway, negro living in the
western part of Troy, was struck by
a Central Of Georgia train and knock
ed from the track. The negro was
walking on the track and hearing the
Approaching train stepped from the
Coast Line track onto the Contra
directly in front of the train, mistal<-
ing the tracks. Two of his ribs were
broken and he was otherwise injured
Monday afternoon John Jones, a
flagman on the Central road. had his
leg broken in three places. when a
caboose and freight cars collided in
the yards.
He was carried to his home in Col
umbus. Ga. Tuesday morning, to be
placed in a hospital.
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State and federal engineers are to
be in Troy on Friday and Will inspect
the highway routes. Probate Judge j.
q. Kay will accompany the party on
their tour of inspection.
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(To be continued tomorrow
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Tuscaloosa Avenue Paving

To the Editor of the Age-Herald.
Once there was lion Getty commits
sion) and in all well regulated fables
there must have been a lamb in close
proximity, which we find ready at
hand in the Birmingham Railway
Light and Power company
The unusual position of the lamb is
inside the lion but now we have them.
according to scripture. lying down to-
gether. But why? Didn't the lion
pounce down on the lamb a short time
ago and with loud burr-r-r tell what
it was going to do with the lamb. and
didn't that lamb just stand there and
wag its tail and reach its tongue clear
around to wipe its ear to hear better?
Says the lion if you don't pave this
avenue I'll put you out of business,
says the lamb in reply If 1 do it I
pave your way to the big rock" which
you know isn't any summer resort but
is run on the American plan and with
out private "bawths"
The moral is that the lion could be
spared from the arena for three
months and wouldn't be missed while
the NIB enables fifty thousand people
daily to earn their food and raiment
G. H. ROGERS.
Birmingham, July %. 1919.
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tons of the belt. except in the more
eastern states where there was too
much rain, the National weather and
Crop Bulletin states. The crop made
generally satisfactory progress in Tex
as, Oklahoma and Arkansas. but the
plants are fruiting poorly in Texas
and the growth is rank while the. gen
eral condition continues poor in South :
ern Arkansas, but is fairly good in
other sections. Conditions ranges
from poor TO very good IN Oklahoma.
The crop is IN satisfactory condition
in central and northern Georgia, but
poor in the south while in Alabama 1t
ranges from fair To good, The heavy
rains were detrimental in the Carroll
mas. and Florida.
Weevil damage is increasing in
many southern sections Of the east
EN- portion of the belt, but complaints
of this pest were not so numerous as
previously in Tee
The temperatures averaged some
what below normal in the extreme
western and more eastern portion OF
the cotton belt but about normal else
where. Rainfall was moderately
heavy to heavy in central Texas and
the more western districts. but mostly
moderate to light elsewhere
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been bding her time impatiently, You
didn't seem to be worrying about no sub
way this afternoon at any rate.
The inuendo in the woman's voice and
eyes brought flush to the cheeks of
the girl Jane was too tired to resent it,
however.
"Well, that was the car of a woman
friend of mine," she answered as she
started up the stairs. I'm not so FORUM
ate as to get such a ride every day
at was a pretty swell car for woman
to own" persisted Mrs. Selden her voice
becoming louder as Jane mounted the
stairs to her tiny room on the top floor.
And 1 thought you said you didn't have
a single woman friend here when you
came to New York city few days ago.
These words seemed fairly screeched to
James sensitive nerves, and the girl
stopped at the landing to retort:
THAT is my affair and not yours. Mrs.
Selden"
Then she continued to her room, to
fling herself down upon the narrow bed
without even removing her hat. AS the
pent-up tears burst from her throbbing
eyes Jane felt as though nothing in
all the weary world were worth the
trouble of living.
But the landlady, hurrying down into
the dingy dining room on the basement
floor was enjoying herself to the utmost
as she whispered her suspicious of the
handsome young woman on the top floor
to the two old women whom she knew to
be the gossip mongers of the house,
copyright, 1919, Thompson Feature
Service
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Huntsville, July 2a.-tspec!al)-The avi-
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NEWS EVENTS ANDFEA TURES FOR WOMEN RIA DEL2S

alton detachment from the aviation re-
pair depot at Montgomery departed
Tuesday afternoon for Athens after hav-
ing enlisted 90 men in Huntsville during
their stay of three days. Lieutenant
Moran. who piloted the airplane on all
the flights here. took several news
paper men up as we'll as a number Of
others who had helped the detachment
with its publicity work.
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COL. TALIAFERRO is
DEAD IN HUNTSVILLE
Former Birmingham Man Passes
Away at Home of His Sister,
Mrs. Robert Pulley

Huntsville. July Especial. )-Col. Ed
win 7. Tal.aferro, a prominent lawyer
OF New York city, died yesterday after
noon at the home of his sister, Mrs
Robert Pulley. on Monte Sano where he
had come to spend the summer in re-
cuperation Colonel Tallaferro was a
native of New Market. Madison county,
and moved from here to Birmingham,
where he engaged III the practice of
law for many years as a partner of the
late Judge A o. Lane. They were as
,oc.ated in several famous cases, among
them being the Hawcs murder case.
Colonel Taliaferro later moved to New
York. He is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Riddle and Mss Maymie ITALIA
ferro who are now en- route here. to at.
tend the funeral which will be held AZ
Pulaski, Tenn, the former home o!
their mother,
T,,ft , toll az -
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No. As.

All the way home in the crowded sub
way Jane repeated in her mind the men
ace in Cabannello's final words. What
could he mean by the remark concerning
good reasons" for thinking lot about
Mortimers interests? What could he know
which should inspire him to such conf
dence that some day she would be glad
to receive and entertain him?
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Late Monday afternoon an automobile
accident occurred on Brun1ige street,
when Mrs. S. e. Mary, WHO was driving
the car, losed her hold on the steering
wheel to place pillow under her
sleeping baby's head With Mrs
Mary in the car were her baby and
nurse, Virginia Barr and Elizabeth
Barr. children of r. j. Barr, president
of the Alabama automobile dealers as
sociation and their negro nanny.
The car struck a tree and was turned
over. Mrs. Mary tainted. but was not
seriously injured Little Mary Barr
had her great toe badly cut and the
bone broken. Nanny" was cut
cut about the face. The others were
uninjured
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-24

Mrs. j. M. Sanders, county superin
tendent of education is conducting the
state examinations for teachers here
this week There are one hundred and
twenty applicants of which one humid
red and four are white and sixteen
negroes.
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Cotton Condition

BY Associated Press
Washington, July 23.-Cotton was
favorably affected by weather condi-
tions during the last week in most sec
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-01-10
FARMER NEEDS GOOD ROADS
Motor Has Extended His Sphere Of
Operation Until 100 Miles Doesn't
Worry Him.

There is a reason for American
hardness in road building. We need
not be utterly dOwncast when we hear
our highways ~unfavOrably compared
with the fine, smooth roads of Europe.
We must remember that European
highways We're hundreds of years In
the making and in periods when roads
were the sole means Of transportation.
both civil and military. There were
no railroads, no electric lines, no wire
communication. Road building was
the essence of commercial life and
communication.
America started almost with the
railroad and the steamboat. COmpar.
atively a few years later we had the
telegraph. Our roads were neglected
because they were only local In char
acter. Our railroads and telegraph
enabled us to leap the centuries. But
now we are confronted by a new need.
It Is the need for better local trans.
portation, says Chicago Tribune
Where formerly the farmer was con.
tent with q few miles of dirt roads for
his local traffic, he TO- requires hun.
dreds of miles, for his area has ex
banded with the advent Of gasoline.
A few years back there was the
protest that good roads was merely
the argument of the autOmobilist,' a
species restricted chiefly to metrOpol.
titan districts. A part of that argu
ment still obtains-that good roads
Is the demand of the a%utomobilist;
but the autOmobilist is the farmer
The motor has extended his sphere OF
operation until 100 miles is of no more
concern to him than was ten before.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-01-10
Further plotting for the kid
mapping Of the crown prince is
revealed in the next INSTALL
ment.
(TO BE
How Tornado Originates.

The tornado of the Western plains is
identical In formation with the sand.
whirl. The sun beats fiercely on a linn
tied area-say ten square miles of bar
rem prairie-and as a result the air next
the earth becomes very hot, perhaps
12O degrees, and the mass Is constant.
ly increasing In volume. Above the
warm air is a stratum perhaps 20 de-
grees colder.
By and by a passageway is made.
the hot air begins to ascend and the
cold upper air, pressing downward.
forces the lighter air through a chan
mel thus formed. 1t begins to whirl, II
increases in velocity. a surface cur
rent forces 1t along, and the tornado
starts on its destructive journey.
The terrific cyclone originates In
much the same way. only differing in
extent. The most violent cyclones or
iginate In tropical ATTITUDES, In the At
lantic ocean, to the north and east of
West Indian islands and In the Pacific,
In the China e and in the neighbor.
hood of the Philippine islands.
The reason they r so destructive
Is because they r carried such great
distances by extraneous influences.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-01-10
WHERE WILD FOWL BREED
Yukon River and the Lakes of That
H~yperborean Region Favored
Spot Of Many Birds.

Until the acquisition Of Alaska by
the United States 1t was a wonder
where certain wild fowl went when
they migrated from temperate climes
on the approach of summer as we'll as
snowbirds and other small species OF
the feathered tribe. 1t was after.
ward found. observes a writer In the
Kansas City Journal. that their hab-
itat in summer was the waters OF
Alaska-the Yukon river and the lakes
of that hyperborean region.
People wonder where the wild TOW
come from. They e the sandhill
crane, the wild goose heron and other
fowl every spring and fall pursue
their unwearied way, but like the wind
they do not know whence they come
or whittier they 60.
Up on Golovine bay, on the north
side Of Norton sound. is the breeding
place of these fowls. All the birds
in creation. seemingly. go to that coun-
try to breed. Geese, ducks, swans
and thousands upon thousands of sand.
hill cranes are swarming there all the
tine. They lay. their eggs In the blue
stem grass in the lOwlands.
Myriads of robins and swallows are
there, as well as millions Of magni6-
cent grouse, wearing red combs and
feather moccasins. This grouse turns
as white as snow In winter.
You can kill dozens Of teal ducks
or grouse as fat as butter balls In a
few moments. The wild fowl and
bears live on salmon berries and
huckleberries, with which the hills are
literally covered.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-01-10

as she had looked many years before.
when he married her, and when at last,
after months of married wooing, she
had crept willing into his arms.
So, awakening from a doze, he saw
the boy there. and called him Hubert.
Prince Ferdinand William Otto, feel
Ing rather worried, did the only thing
he could think Of. He thrust his warm
hand into his grandfather's cropping
one, and the touch Of his soft flesh
reused the king.
The sister left them together, and
In her small room dropped on her
knees before the holy image.
In the kings bed chamber Prince
Ferdinand William Otto sat on a high
chair. and talked, but he viewed his
grandfather with alarm. His aunt had
certainly intimated that his running
away had made the king worse. And
he looked very Ill.
Tin awfully sorry, grandfather" he
said.
For whatT"
THAT went away the other day,
sir"
ut was, after all, a natural thing
to do"
The crown prince could hardly be-
lieve his ears.
"If it could only be arranged safely
a little freedom" The king lay
still with closed eyes.
Prince Ferdinand William Otto felt
uneasy. "But l am very comfortable,
and-and happy" he fastened to say.
You are. please, not to worry about
me. sir"
The king still held his hand, but
he said nothing. There were many
things he wanted to say. He had gone
crooked where this boy must 60
straight. He had erred, and the boy
must avoid his errors. He had cher
ished enmities. and In his age they
cherished him. And now
= MAY l ask you a question, sirf'
"What is it,"
"wili you tell me about Abraham
LincolnY
"Why7" The king was awake
enough now. He fixed the crown
prince with keen eyes.
"well. Miss Braithwaite does not
care for him. She says he was not a
great man, not as great as Mr.. Glad.
stone, anyhow. But Bobby-that's the
boy I met; l told you about him-he
says he was the greatest man who
ever lived"
"And who," asked the king, do you
regard as the greatest man"
Prince Ferdinand william Otto
idgeted, but he answered bravely,
"You, sir"
"HumphT" The king lay still, smil-
ing slightly. SWELL" he observed,
there are, Of course, other opinions
as to that. However-Abraham Lin
coin was a very great a A
dreamer, a visionary, but a great man.
You might ask Miss Braithwaite to
teach you his Gettysburg address, 1t
ia rather a model al ia speech making.