The age-herald., 1900-10-11

it thrust it's greatness upon the world?"
 the man who uses snakes for pills was
 asked.
 "Oh. I am not so particular about where
 I swallow 'em," replied Roscoe, with an-
 other yawn. 4I just didn't like things out
 on the Midway, so I decided to catch up
 with another man with snakes and do the
 swallowing for him"
 You don't have your own snakes?" he
 was asked.
 Now listen to that, will you," remarked
 Roscoe with some contempt
 "When I eats snakes for fellow he sure
 got to furnish his own snakes. would be
 a pretty sort of a guy to eat snakes and
 then furnish the snakes myself, wouldn't l I?'
 Another Birmingham favorte Schlatter.
 the so-caIled ''Divine Healer" was arrest
 ed for drunkenness in Elyria, Ohio, the | other day. He first came into notice in
 1895 in Albuquerque by performing alleged | cures among the MeMcans He was shoe 1 maker by occupation, and in his dress af- l fected the conventional appearance of the
 Lord After a forty days fast he went to l Denver, where he began a three months
 mission under orders from "The Father"
 as he said. In that time 25,O0O persons vis-
 tied him.
 Schlatter was in Birmingham two or
 three weeks in 1899, and he "touched''
 countless thousands of persons and per l formed thousands of miracles" With Birmingham's favorite "Wullie''
 married, favorite Roscoe" and favorite Schlatter in jail, things are too bad, too l bad!
 Coy. W. H. Sims, Mrs. Sims and MT | Harry Upsom Sims have returned to Bir- | mingham after their summer sojourning at the pleasure and health resorts they | being in abundant good health. MT. Harry Upsom Sims, who was so long and so dan I gerously i'll, is now looking entirely well, | and declares himself to be perfectly strong. 1 Governor Sims has been doing much good work for the material advancement of Bir- | mingham, which he and his family prize | most highly as their permanent home He has wide business, professional and social connections with the most influential class
 in the East, and to all classes of the peo- pie his representations carry deservedly great weight. Governor Sims is every 1 where esteemed one of the strongest men OSosA.. | his family to be most charming in their l courtly social graces.
 
 Something of the romance of law is in-
 volved in one of Jefferson County's appall- 1 ing number of murder cases" This par l ticular case was that of one James Flem- 1 ing. who killed one Townsend in Third av enue, near Nineteenth street, on the 16th Of aEf ba riy.,ipo al iiry l terday acquitted Fleming, after being out l about thirty minutes, on the plea of self 1 defense.
 l Hon. Basil Manly Allen was counsel for l Fleming. The man Townsend, whom l Fleming slew, was one of the three men l who killed a fruit vendor for the purpose of robbery in Chicago three years ago. l Townsend turned states evidence and was saved; but his two companions in crime, l one of whom was a Birmingham man
 named Jesse Sojers, were condemned to be 1 hanged. Certain white persons in Bir-
 mingham, one of whom was a good wo- man who reared Sojers, engaged MT Allen l to proceed to Illinois and try to save So- | jers from the hangman. When MT. Allen reached Illinois Governor Tanner was at l Bar Harbor, Me-, and the members of the l recently created Illinois Board of Pardons, 1 which had never had meeting, were scat l tered thither and wonder. MT. Allen sue | ceeded in getting them together, and their | first official act after their board was ere | ated was to recommend to the Governor | that the death sentence against Sojers and J his fellow-murderer be commuted to inn prisonment. This recommendation was | agreed upon the night before the day fixed ] for tn, hanging, and it did not reach the l Governor till the morning of the fateful
 day. The Governor telegraphed the com | mutation to Chicago, and MT. Allen ar l rived with the order at the Cook County 1 jail just 30 minutes before the time fixed | for the execution. The third man, the
 States informer, Townsend, came to Bir- | mingham and was killed.
 l MT. Allen will leave Birmingham Friday l for Columbia, s. C., to defend the Bir- 1 mingham alleged gambler, Billy Smith, l who is charged with the murder of man
 named Allen in or near a gambling place.
 Smiths plea is understood to be self-de l fense His family and many relatives re- side here.
 l Former Judge Mitchell T. Porter was sev- enty-five years old yesterday, having been 1 born in Shelby County in 1925. He began the l practice of law in Elyton forty-nine years l ago. He was educated at the University of l Tennessee, and in 1S61 entered the Con- | federate service as d captain in the 20th 1 Alabama Infantry. He became lieutenant I colonel of the regiment; but failing health | forced him to resign in 1864 When the seat l of county government was removed to Bir- mingham in 1881, he became a resident of | this city. In 1884 he was appointed by Gov 1 ernor O'Neal to be Probate Judge of Jeffer- I son, in succession to Judge John C. Nor | row, resigned. He was elected in 1SS6 and l reelected in 1892: but declined reelection in l 1898, being succeeded by his son-in-aw. Judge James F. Stiles.
 Judge Porter is one of the best loved and | most cordially honored men who ever lived I in Jefferson, and everybody in the county | will wish him many happy returns of the l day."
 AWAY.