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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-17
Removed to United States Court.

Etheredge has used every means known to the law to secure his acquittal. When the case was first called for trial he had the same removed to the circuit court of the United States upon an affidavit made by him, alleging mat ne was an officer of the government, engaged in rrae revenue department, and that this prose- cution against him was a conspiracy.
 The United States circuit decided against him and he carried the case by appeal to the supreme court of the United States, where the same was dismissed and sent back to the state courts. The defendant had some of the best legal assistance in the state, and fought the case at every opening His plea was not guilty. He claimed that he got drunk the night of the card game and went home that morn ing in that condition ana lntImated that the whole prosecution was a conspiracy put on foot and engineered by his ene- mics. Sentence has not yet been passed by the court, and an appeal will be taken. Many exceptions were reserved by the attorneys for the defendant, and the fight is not yet ended, yet as the verdict of the jury was read one could but feel sorry for this man, who had once been a power in the politics of Lawrence county, be- fore the constitutional reconstructien Faithful even unto the end, his son and brother remained with him ana say that he will yet be vindcated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-17

Band concert daily at en- campment by the Second Regiment Band.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-17

IRe make the best Us Tn town. Age Herald Engraving Company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-17
Watermelon Cutting.

Chief Clerk Walter R. Brassel of the state health department, and recording secretary to the governor, M H. Screws, were hosts this morning to a general watermelon cutting at the capitol. They served half a dozen big melons raised on their farm eight miles from the city, and the occasion proved very enjoyable all the way through.
 Acting Governor Cunningham, who had been out with Commissioner of Agricul- ture Poole and his chief clerk, Jesse Adams. was unable to take care of more than half of a big fine fellow, because he had been over supplied while out on the trip indicated
 The whole force from the governor down, attended and ate of the delicious fruit of the vine. The melons were among the finest seen so far this year. Messrs. Screws and Brassell make a specially of fine watermeIons and fruit and are doing exceedingly well. The ladies of the department were served in the private office of the agricultural de-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-17

from doctor to doctor to re- ceive l o c q tre a [ m e Il [, with little or no result.
 In Pc r Il n a these women GaI nnan1nf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-17
SUFFERED MANY YEARS eo"F4gS.4fo' SFBE E.4fo' FEMA
f Thousands of Testimonials
 Received Yearly

Thankful Women Who Have Been Cured
 by Dr. Hartman's Free Treatment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-17

iiO W Si oNNiht l feel. Any. a 2 n C y which brings health and strength to the afflicted is always a we 0 m e friend, and today t h e market is so filled with useless and in rious m ed cines that it is a pleasure to know of so e l fable q remedy as yo place before the public
 Miss Ruth Emerson.
The oasis., 1904-03-05

Sonora Time.
 Dining Stations.
 Pullman Sleepers are attached to these trains.
 Trains makes connection at Torres with Torres x Prietas Railroad. leaving at S:OO a. m. and D. m. daily for Colorado. and Minas PrieIas.
 c ose connection Is made at Guaymas with Pacific Coast Steamship Colnpanys steamer "ruracao'' sailing the lIth of each month for AltaTa. Mazatlan. Cape St. Lucas, Magdalena Bay aud Ensenada: well with Of the l.. A. Martinez steamship Line and others lines calling nt this port
 For particulars address. j. A. NAUGLF,
 Gen'l Pass. hg't. buaymaF, sonora, Mex
The oasis., 1904-03-05
ACROSS THE BORDER.

TorreOn Enterprise: A company has bought number of haciendas in the territory of Topic, seventeen in all, with a total area of over 2,500,00O acres, which will be ex- plored on large scale. The com pany is capitalized at s3,500,000.
 Chihuahua Enterprise: New Nor mon colonies are to be established in the state of Tabasco A large hacienda has been purchased for the colonists and in few days q party of Mormons will arrive at Port Juan Bautista, the capital of Tabasco.
 Chihuahua Enterprise: The en- gineers of the American Smelling and Refining Company, sent to in spect the Cigarrera mines between Jimenez and Parral, in the state of Chihuahua, are already on the field and a report is being pre- pared. The owners of these mines, Messrs. Santiago Rodriguez and Frumencio Fuentes, ask S25.000,- 900 for their property.
 Chihuahua Enterprise: J. M Duthee, of El Paso, has gone to Sinaloa to inspect the 3,000000 acres of timber lands upon which Collector of Customs P F. Garrett and Judge Seymour Thurmond, both of that place, recently ob- tained an option. It is stated that the timber possibilities of the tract are simply immense. and that it contains a great deal of mahogany and ebony. The tract is said to be well watered and adjoins a rich mineral section. It is understood that by March 1st the surveying of the land is to begin, and that 1t will require at least six months to finish the work. It proposed to carry on the lumber business on a large scale.
 Torreon Enterprise: J. Gordon Hardy, the new manager of the Dolores Mining Company, was an arrival at the Palace Hotel Mon day and left Wednesday on busi- ness trip to the States. Mir. Hardy says that the plan of the new own CTS is to increase the operation as rapidly as possible, but thus far there has been trouble in getting miners. Preparations are being made at the mine for a mill, and tests are being made to determine the process best adapted to the ores. MT. Hardy expects the pro- cess and capacity of the mill to be determined on this trip to Dem yer. He says the proposed ex- tension of the Chihuahua and Pacific railroad to Tamosiachic, S6 kilometers, will cut the pack train trip to the mines just in two.
 Torreon Enterprise: A mountain of almost pure glass has recently been discovered near this port in a section of country almost unex- plored and where no foreigner, until recently, has ever set foot The glass is in layers and can be mined at very little expense, as 1t Is found in huge blocks, that can be taken out without removing much earth. The only question in the way of beginning operations at once is transportation facilities but the party in charge Of the mines, is of the opinion that the glass can be freighted by burros to the nearest water course, and then by boat to Tampico. The n |.
The oasis., 1904-03-05
FRANK SMITH, Seal
 MARSHALL P. WRIGHT, Seal JAMES n. FRESH, Seal ALLEN r. BIRD, seal
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
 County of Santa Cruz, '''

TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, County of Santa Cruz, ''' Before me, Frank J. Duffy, a Notary Public in and for the County of Santa Cruz. Territory of Arizona, on this day personally appeared Frank Smith. Marshall r. Wright, James D. Fresh and Allen I Bird, known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing Articles of Incorporation, and ack ledged to me that they and each of considerations therein expressed, Given under my hand and seal of office this twenty-ninth day of February, A, D. l94.
 FRANK J. DUFF
 Notary Public. My commission expires November l5, l9Oi. TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, County of Santa Cruz, l, Phil Herold County Recorder in and for the County and Territory aforesaid, do hereby certify that l have compared the forego ng copy with the original articles Of incorporation of the The Missouri Mining Company, He'd and recorded in my office on the 29th day of Feb ruary, 1904, in Book of Miscellaneous Records at page---et seq; and that the same is il full, true and correct copy of such original and oi the whole thereof.
 Witness my hand and seal of office this 2gth day oi February, A D l9o4
 Phil HerOld
 County Recorder. TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
 County Oi santa Cruz
 hereby certify that the within instrument was fled and recorded at the request of Allen T. Bird February .9th A. D. ls0i at l05 D. m. Book ---Page.
 Witness my hand and official seal the day and year f,resaid.
 Signed, PHIL HERoLD,
 County Recorder First publication March 5th. 1901
The oasis., 1904-03-05

the Auditor of tho T. rriiory of Arizona and terminate twenty-five co years afterwards. ii not prorogued and continued from fimc Co tune tn conformity with the laws Of the Territory of Arizona now in force.
 K These articles of incorporation may be reformed at any ordinary meeting Of share holders or at any cxtraord nary meeting con vened for that purpose, by n majority of the votes of the shareholders of the corporation in favor of such reformation.
 IN wiTNEFs WHEREOF, we have hereunto set eur hands and seals this 29th day of February A. D. 1901.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-15
To Be Auxiliary Bishop.

"The Rev. Father Thomas F. Cusack, the indefatigable mission preacher who is soon to become bishop auxiliary to Arch bishop Farley of New York. is one of the ablest priests of the Paulist society,"" remarked a layman. He Is well known in many of the southern states, and it was he, I believe, who inaugurated the uues- tion box system in mission work
 According to sketch in the New York Sun, Father Cusack comes of a devout Catholic family. His parents were born in Ireland but he was born in this country. He was an altar boy at the age of ', and early in youth showed decided production for the priesthood
 Father CusaclS induges in but one ing. hearing confessions or long hours of reading he will take some priest or friend and start for a jaunt of several miles.
 I like a companion in my walks he said and like to walk under trees. Few things give me more pleasure than to go to a mission somewhere up in the country where there is lots of work to do and plenty of trees to walk under
 "Bishop Cusack says that he rarely cares to be alone. He is fond of children and gathers crowd of them around him wherever he goes. He has great influence over young boys and is an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-15
Empty Hearst Gossip.

The current talk as to this or that southern state sending delegates to St. Louis committed to the Hearst barrel boom Is idle. Possibly Governor Jen- nings of Florida may be able to secure the appointment of a Hearst delegate or two, but beyond that the so-called Hearst delegations in the south will not materialize into actual voting dele gates authorized to appear and repre- sent southern constituents at St. Louis.
 Especially in the states that have adopted ballot reform and the primary system the voters are unpurchasable. MT. Hearst's campaign for delegates is not based on fitness for high office, for the New York newspaper man has scarcely held office at all. He was elected two years ago to congress, but he is rarely seen in his seat By politi cal work springing from the disburse- 1hchb Ol lHOHS9, hS SApSSts lO oOSuiO some delegates, and to certain extent he will succeed.
 But he cannot buy the representa- tives of a single southern state, simply because public sentiment in any one of those states is not for sale, and never has been. The Hearst candidacy is the very continuation of multi-millienair- ism, and as such it will be condemned in the south, no matter what the Kan sas democrats, or the democrats of northern states may do. The Age-Her- aid desires to put on record the pre- diction that MT. Hearsts busy agents will not be able to buy single south ern state.
 As a rule the southern delegates vii go to St. Louis open to conviction. They desire party success, and they will have an eye single to the selection of man who can carry the country. The nominee may be this man or that, but he will not be William Randolph Hearst, or any other payroll aspirant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-15
COTTON OUTLOOK.
0 Huntsville Mercury.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The Age-Herald correctly as we think. takes a very bright and hopeful outlook as to the price of the next cotton crop. Conceding that this crop will reach the maximum prediction of 11,50O000 bales. it will not be sufficient to meet the world S demand But the boil weevil in Texas and a drouth or overflow in certain sec tions are probabilities to be considered cotton famine Is almost a certainty in the closing months of the cotton year Man ufactured goods are going up in price and an adjustment will be reached before the cotton year ends. It is highly probable a cotton planter could sell his next crop now, to be delivered in December for 12 cents. So on the whole it is not too optimistic to say December cotton may bring as much as March cotton does now But. let all that be as it may, the safe course is for the farmer to raise his own supplies. As the Age-Herald says:
 These facts are encouraging to our farmers provided they do not neglect food crops. If too heavy fertilizer bills must be added bills for supplies there will be nothing left of big crop. not even if present prices are maintained to the end of the calendar year. The farm CT who grows his. own corn, sweet pota- toes and if possible meats, has, however. a finer outlook than he has known since the war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-15
Fine Choral Music.

Birmingham will have some good choral music on a small scale in the next few weeks" said local music lover yesterday. 'It will be a chorus of something over thirty voices, and on Good Friday they will sing the Seven Last Words by Du Bois. It Is an ora toro particularly fitted to the day, and Is said to be a beautiful and dramatic com position.
 "The chorus is under the direction of Rienzi Thomas and he will have a num- Der of the best voices in Birmingham. am delighted to hear of a revival of good music in Birmingham, even if it Is on a smaller scale than we had two or three years ago.
 ''Mr Thomas is also directing a large chorus in Selma, going there once a week for that purpose. The music clubs of that city propose having May Festival about the middle of that month, and will pre- sent a highly dramatic oratorio by Du Bois-'Paradlse Lost This will be the second time this work has been produced in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Public Loses Interest.

"As result of the conflicting reports and delay in fighting a decisive battle interest in the war in the far east Is very much on the wane in Birmingham" said a newspaper reader yesterday When hostilities first began everybody on the streets was discussing the probable result of the struggle, extras were read with eagerness and bulletins were awaited with marked anxiety, but all that seems to be past now. One seldom hears the war mentioned and while the newspapers con- tinue to print big headlines, they fail to arouse the sometime eagerness on the part of the public.
 This state of affairs is merely an ex- ample of public sentiment. Unless an event is near at home or startling devel- opments occur frequently people cease to take any interest in It. The American is, as a rule, too busy to worry himself much about affairs so far away and while he would take lively interest if there were more fighting and less press censoring, he is not at present wasting much money on extra editions of the papers.
 "I would like to see the way people would wake tip if Uncle Sam should in any manner get entangled in the far east ern embroglio. Although Russia and Ja- pan may not attract such general atten- ton by their Fabian methods of fighting the patriotic wards of the old gentleman with striped trousers would be interested enough if 1t were a home affair.""
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-15
How to Smoke claars.

If you want to really enjoy smoking a cigar" said a devotee of the weed yes- terday, don't bite off the end you put in your mouth or cut 1t off with your knife, or take it off in a cigar cutter. Instead merely take your penknife and make a slight ineision about an eighth of an inch In length in the closed end of the cigar, which you are going to pit between your teeth. Of course you cannot do this very well when you get a cigar that is open at both ends, but to have a luxurious smoke carefully avoid that kind. After you have made the little slit in your cigar you will find that 1t smokes just as we'll as if the end were cut off, and in addition bits of tobacco leaves do not get into your mouth.
 This is merely one way to enjoy cigar, however. Some men do not light the weed at all, but content themselves with a dry smoke and then throw 1t away. Such a proceeding Is justifiable only in person who has had long experi- ence in wooing Lady Nicotine. I have seen some men smoke cigars while talk ing a bath, but this is not altogether de- sirable, as there is danger of the weed going out'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-15
ALL WOKE UP.
The Ways and Means Committee Fell
 Sound Asleep.

From the Washington Post
 The ways and means committee had a hearing the other morning. and the mem- bers thereof struggled in late. The pre- vious evening many of them had been guests at a social function, where the stress and strain was great. They had not arrived home till along in the wee small hours.
 The hearing progressed, but the mat tention of venerable men about the com mittee table was marked. Soon one white head began to nod at long intervals Shortly another white head rested upon the back of tall chair. A third man of smaller stature listed to one side, and there was a strong suggestion that he was going to sleep.
 "Thwack," came the sound right in the midst of this interesting proceeding. Rep resentative Watson of Indiana had rais- ed big book high above the table, delib- erately allowed it to fall
 MT. Chairman" said he, ''I move that the hearing be suspended till the com mittee wakes up."
 And the committee was wide awake from that moment, and remained at at tention till the last word had been said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-15
Expulsion of Mr. Smoof.

Expulsion of a senator requires a two-thirds vote, where as a senator he may be unseated, it is claimed, by a majority vote Whatever the senate does in the case is final, because it is judge of it's own members.
 But it is presumable that it will not wholly disregard law and order and precedent. It cannot show that Reed Shoot is a polygamist, for he is not. It cannot with the constitution staring it in the face bounce him because he is a Mormon A senator may belong to any preposterous sect and yet be eligible accoroIng to the constitution.
 MT. Shoot may, however, be un- seated or even expelled if it can be shown that he, an apostle, is subservi- ent to a cnurch that considers itself superior to anything earthly-that he takes his instructions from the twelve apostles rather than from the constitu- tion and the revised statutes. He may be bounced, too, if it can be shown that he breaches polygamy even if he does not practice it-that he is an up- holder of his associate apostles who are confessed polygamists.
 The chances are that he will be un- seated, because it would be good poli- tics. He is, it is true, a republican, and he was seated under a corrupt bar gain that transferred Utah to republi- can control. If he should be unseated. he should at any rate expose that bar gain. But he will do nothing of the sort, because the Mormon hierarchy cannot afford to "peach on it's pals"
 Whatever is done by the senate, it is plain that MT. Shoot has freely countenanced polygamy in others, and polygamy is confessedly a crime in Utah, and it is equally plain that the apostles are above law in Utah. Upon these two charges he may be un- seated, although he is not a polyg- amist, and the constitution says "con- gross shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibit ing the free exercise thereof"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-15
LIFE AS IF IS LIVED BY
 KANSAS FARMERS WIFE

going to attend the woman's club of Township B North. Range Is.
 By the time breakfast is over a pack age of the latest novels has arrived from Topeka; the farmer goes to his bank. forwards a few thousand to New York to relieve Wall street, or tries flyer on the Chicago Board of Trade, while the farmers wife talks to the governess, in structs the housekeeper, writes accept ances to receptions, calls for her favorite mare, takes a brisk ride across coun- try, and returning, does Indian basket and bead work till luncheon is an- nounced.
 In the afternoon she receives or re- turns calls; attends perhaps one of Ed mund Russells lectures in the village hard by. skates if it Is winter, plays golf if it is summer and meets her husband at the dinner table after well flied day. After dinner Beethoven or Handel and Haydn. or perhaps the lighter composers are heard on the pianola; the governess and the children are dismissed; the farm CT reads his favorite poet, the farmers wife calls up the neighbors on the district telephone and hears the gossip of the day; the butler and housekeeper call to pay their respects and good night. and the farmers wife meande 5 to her apart ments, where her maid awaits her.
 The city girl who longs 10 be farmers wife in these days. that she may meander down life's pathway smoothly. tranqu'lly. blissfully, knows what she Is longinl, for better than the country editor knows the country as it was, not it Is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-15
Postmaster-GeneraI Payne's Report.

The so-called Bristow report seems to be Payne report, for the lists are submitted to Chairman James Over street by "H. c. Payne, postmaster general" Indeed, the entire report of 21S pages seems to be a compilation of petty acts gotten together to cover up the rottenness of the department.
 In MT. Payne's list we come first to MT. Banlxhead's name in connection with the allowance of $460 for rent, fuel and light of the Tuscaloosa office. The space used by that office became too cramped for the business trans acted, and Mir Moody, the owner of the building, agreed to increase the space two-thirds if the allowance were increased to $700. The lease expires on June 30 of this year, and if the government desires to move it can soon do so. As MT. Bankhead had no interest in the lease, it is difficult to see why he should have been included in the Payne list of criminals, He simply aided the postofice department to secure larger quarters in Tusca- loosa at a reasonable rent, including. heat and lights.
 The next Alabama names in the list are those of Senator Pettus and Congressman Clayton, and their ter rible offense relates to the Union Springs postoffice. The allowance for rent, heat and light had been S234 year, and when Dr. Searle purchased the building he proposed to enlarge and renovate the postoffice space if the government allowance were increased to $500 year, an increase of $66 year. The crime of Senator Pettus and Congressman Clayton consists in asking that the postoffice be kept in Dr. Harris building at $500 a year, including heat and lights. Just why H. c. Payne, postmaster-general, went out ol his way to spread over three printed pages the story of the straight forward and wholly just action of Messrs. Pettus and Clayton is some thing no one can understand.
 The Gadsden postoffice is the next Alabama postoffice in the Payne list The allowance for rent, fuel and lights had long been s35S-for rent alone,