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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21
OFFICERS NAMED
 FOR M. ]. AND K. C.
BIRD M. ROBINSON AGAIN HEADS RAiLROAD-THE SToCKHOLD- FRS ELECT DIREcToRs-MEET. ING WAS HELD IN MOBILE.

Mobile. December 20.-At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Mo bile, Jackson and Kansas City railroad held here today the following board of direc- tors were elected:
 W. D. Stratton, Alexander Mcdonald. Bird M. Robinson, Charles B. Levy, R. W. Jones, Jr., R. K. Stallo, all of New York; E. E. Jackson, of Baltimore, and J. W. Whiting, c. D. Willoughby, T. F. Whittelsey and W. H. Mcintosh of Mo bile.
 The board of directors of the Mobile Jackson & Kansas City railway thls evening elected the following officers; Bird M. Robinson, president; D. E. Jack son. vice president; T. E. Whittelsey' sec ond vice president; George W. Creary' secretary and treasurer; E. K. Stallo, general counsel; Mcintosh and Rich, gen eral solicitors. w.. D. Stratton ana the first named officers form the executive committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21
Nominations Confirmed.

Washington, December 20-The Senate in executive session today confirmed the following nominations: Alfred Gotschalk. consul general at Mexico. Collectors of customs. Alfred L. Sharpe, District of Del Norte. Texas; Stanton J. Peele, In- diana, chief justice of the court of claims; Samuel s. Barnes, Wisconsin, judge of the court of claims.
 Marshals: A. Dunlap, northern part of Tennessee. Postmasters: Alabama-Daniel Mcdonald. Carbon Hill; Theodore s.. Lands, Florala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21
Will Not Import Hogs.

Ottawa, Ont, December 20.-The order in council prohibiting the importation and slaughtering of hogs in bond from the United States will go into effect Jan uary l. The purpose of it is to prevent the importation of disease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21
Only One Death.

Chicago, December 20.-The expectation of finding any bodies in the ruins of the Schonck sign factory destroyed last eve ming, has been abandoned by the police. The only death at the fire was that of Lieutenant Bassett.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21
Evanoelist Is Dead.

to a private telegram received here the Rev William A. Sunday. the evangelist, died today of heart failure at Burlington. Ia. He was 42 years of age and one time was a member of the Chicago National league baseball team.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21
H0STE1TERS SI0MAGK RlIIERS

1t cures Headache, Indigestion, Oys pepsia, Costiveness, and Female Ills also prevents Colds, Grippe, or Pneu monia. Try 1t today. also get free copy of our 1908 Almanac from your druggist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21

Comfort and style make you smile. Our $lS.OO to S2O.OO all Weol suit for Sl5.OO. Get yourself in one. Varley & Dauman, 1924 lst Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21
Catholic Bishop Returns.

New York, December 20.-The Rt Rev. Thomas s Byrne, Roman Catholic bishop of Nashville Tenn, arrived here today on the steamer Koenig Albert. from Ital- ian ports.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21
DOES IT PAY

To experiment when the Stomach, Liver. Kidneys, or Bowels are weak and calling for assistance? A thou sand times-No! Follow the example of the multitude who have been cured end commence taking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21
Stock Seat Cost $s2, ,ooo.

New York, December 20.-A seat on the stock exchange was sold today for s9o'- O00 the highest price on record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21

There's nothing more ap. propriate for a Christmas gift than a membership in the Y. M. c. A.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21
MORGAN TRAPS MR. MIL
 LARD IN PECULIAR WAY
fcontinued from First Page)

of J. B. Bishop as member of the com mission which was sent to the Senate to- day. Objection was made and Senator Morgan followed this by moving to recon sider the action of the Senate in confirm ing members of the commission. A rule of the Senate provides that when nom ination is confirmed or rejected, any Sen ator voting in the majority may move for a reconsideration on the same day the vote was taken or on either of the next two days of actual executive session of the Senate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21
No Political Contributions.

he expressed he understood to be same as those of the finance committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21

Mir. Culberson called attention to the recent speech of MT. Foraker in which the latter had said that since the Elkins law had gone into effect. rebates had prac- tically ceased. Mir Culberson said that there had been recent indictments of rail- road officials and Chicago for taking re- bates He understood also that Mir For aker had opposed all further legisla- tion.
 MT. Foraker asserted that he had not said that there was no longer rebates but that he had said that there was
The Washington times., 1905-10-16

us believe in race suicide. All of
Us want the futures to profit by to-
days best. But If we preach the
virtue of large families for the rich
we must not forget the counterpart
doctrine of small families for the
poor. The average American of to-
day is man of education He has
the expensive tastes and standards
which education inculcates. The
wife he marries is of equal intel
lectual rank and the same expensive
tastes. Does he do wisely to con-
sign her and himself to a life of
penury, for the sake of the future ?
1t is hard to think so. And IL they
do net invite penury by the
overmultiplication of their expen-
ses they have answered and dispos-
ed Of Miss Gordon's chief complaint
against matrimonial returns"
Washington offers the American
girl of today the best non-domestic
employment she can find. The exec
ut1ve departments are filed in con-
sequence with representative and
wholly admirable American single
women They ought to know. and
assuredly they do know, as much OF
the esthetics of the industrial life fol
women as any Phi d. and A. M. that
ever lived. Yet they-most of them
sharing their earnings with married
sisters-woeid be the last to join
Miss Gordon in disparaging marriage
as an estate or contemning the .su-
perlative fascination" to a woman OF
having home and little children OF
her own.
The Washington times., 1905-10-16
MCCLELLAN FOR ,eos.

Mayor McClellan's star Is in the as
cendent," remarked T. P. Kennedy. OF
New York, at the Shoreham today. MI
Kennedy is here to attend TO some ousi-
ness before the Supreme Court OF the
United States. Mcclellan has made an
excellent mayor" said Mr. Kennedy
land the people win indorse his admin
istration by re-electing him by q large
majority.
His election is practically conceded, ana
therefore the only interest that attacnS;S5 t;5
to the campaign Is the vote Hearst VII
receive Hearst Is conducting q Wnfri-
wind campaign, and he will receive 2
good percentage OF the labor vote. put
he viii fan far short OF reaching tne
mayors chair. III,
Next year the fight for governor VIII
be on and as the cards are now stackeo
Mcclellan will be the man most taxed
of by the Democrats Should he pc
Nominated and elected governor then
undoubtedly New York would present his
name to the national convention In Doo-
New York will always continue TO have
a dominating influence in selecting tne
Democratic candidate for the RTesa-
dency-"
The Washington times., 1905-10-16
DISTRESSING DEATH
OF TREASURER POOR
Valued Official of Washington Gas
Light Company Stricken While
Bicycle Riding.

John c. Poor. treasurer OF the Wash
inSton Gas Light Company, died sud-
denly few minutes before noon yes
teTday at the Chevy Chase loop station
of the Capital Traction Company, as
the result Of an attack OF acute indi-
gestion and heart failure.
About 1890 o'clock yesterday morn
ing Mr.. Poor left his home. I724 Connec-
tcut avenue northwest. going on his
bicycle for a ride, IL Is supposed. TO
the Chevy Chase club. When near the
Cleveland Park Heights station he was
taken i'll.
He stopped an Incoming car and asked
to be taken to the city. He and his
wheel were put on the car Upon ar
rival at the loop station, however.
Mr.. Poor was found TO be much worse
and he was carried into the waiting
room in an almost unconscious condi-
ton. DR. j. Ramsey hewitt was sum-
moned and the ambulance of the Emer-
gency Hospital was telephoned for.
Mr.. Poor was born I'm Port Gibson,
Miss, October p, 1874 His boyhood was
spent at HillSboro, Ohio He enlisted
in the army of the First Ohio Volun-
teers during the war between the
States. During the war he suffered
a severe attack of typhoid fever.
After the war he farmed in Virginia
but later came TO Washington, where
he practiced law for awhile
The Washington times., 1905-10-16
ALDRIcH CONTROLS TARIFF.

1.-The Massachusetts, Republicans. in
their State platform. are on record for
tariff revision. and IN other sections
of the country there is much talk of
tariff legislation this coming winter
said H M. Williams. prominent busi-
ness man OF Connecticut 'But If we
are to judge the future by the past,
tariff legislation IS many a day remov-
ed have followed Congressional mat
ters for a number OF years; that is.
have been a careful reader Of news
papers and / long since came to the
conclusion that when the tariff was to
be revised or amended. Senator Aldrich
of Rhode Island would let the country
know And thus far. the Rhode Island
Senator has caused II to be given out
that he sees no necessity for tariff leg
islation. Now. ii would be q compare
lively easy matter for the House to
rush through a tariff measure, but ii
would be different in the Senate, Sena-
tor Aldrich Is c. airman of the Commit
tee on Finance. believe, and is q recog-
nized authority on all tariff matters As
he IS opposed to any such legislation
at this Congress, Il would matter lit
tie what the President would recon-
mend on the subject, for the bill would
never be reported bv the Senator's com
mittee. II you want to know anything
on the tariff line. ask Senator Aldrich. !"
The Washington times., 1905-10-16
Is There Too Much Marrying2

An address of extraordinary inter-
est was delivered recently TO the
teachers of the New England Asso-
citation of Colleges and Preparatory
Schools. The speaker was Miss Kate
Gordon, the holder of several degrees
and the head instructor in psychol-
ogy at Mount Holyoke College. In
substance, she contended that there
- too much marrying in this world
q ours and too little deliberation in
SSe average girls choosing of do
mestic life rather than business or
a professional life
The matrimonial returns" says
Miss Gordon, mot to mention the
yagaries of affection, are notoriously
disproportionate TO a woman's eff
ficiency. IL it be the business of a
domestic woman to rear large fam
lily of children. we must acknowl-
edge that her reward in worldly
goods is inversely proportional to
her success; for with every addi-
t4OuGi CIllQ lnC
be made to reach further"
TIE speaker means 10 be fair She Sii
recognizes that sentiment is the gen.
eral bar TO her reasoning; and SO she
cannot but think" that the super
lative fascination of that estate has
been by recent writer's and thinkers
trifie oyerworked." Ii would be
easy TO dispose of Miss Kate Cor
don, A NJ Phi. d., on this score.
What does she know about the sehti-
ment of married life? Can a child.
whose parents love each other, ever
argue that their life had not a
''superlative fascination And il
Miss Gordon ignores the lesson of
her own home, where else has she
been able TO learn? In college, In
the library, among young girl stu
dents. overimpressed with the
seriousness of their "careers?"
But there Is food for reflection In
nher argument as to matrimonial re-
prHs. q she defines them. None OF
The Washington times., 1905-10-16
DEPARTMENT WOhEN'S
HOTEL PROJECT GROWS
Plan Now Well Under Way and 0Me
GERS to Take Charge OF
Movement. 4iAE

The officers and members OF the or
ganization having in view the estabiish-
ment of q hotel for the accommodation
of women employed IN the executive de-
partments met at Carroll Institute Hall
yesterday afternoon. Officers were elect
ed. and the organization was made per-
manent.
Much enthusiasm was manifested. not
only in the object OF the movement, but
in q series OF social events which the
charter members will hold In the near
future The first OF the proposed en-
tertainments win be a reception. with
euchre and dancing as its chief attrac-
ton.
The Department Women's Hotef' In
believed TO be an accomplished fact
The officers elected were: President,
Mrs. Anna 2. Hoagiand: first vice presi-
dent. Miss Marion A. Harper; second
vice president, Mrs. C. l. Price; secre-
tary. Miss E NJ. Jacobs: treasurer. Mrs.
Mary z. Latin: financial secretary,
Mrs. Arvilla McDonough.
The executive committee. having in
charge the projected entertainments, II
composed of the following:
Chairman Miss Margaret Desmond,
assisted by Mrs. Zoe Rigby and the
Misses Nellie G.. Ross, Maggie Miller,
Elizabeth Hill. Isabella Rice, Mrs. l.
Gruber. and Miss Brick
The Washington times., 1905-10-16
SENATOR cuLLoM COMING BACK.

Senator Cullom will be elected to sue
ceed himself, and when the time ar
rives for the Legislature to meet 1 be-
lIeye the Senator's name will be the
only one presented for United States
Senator" said Representative Roden-
berg, of the East st. Louis district.
Illinois. at the Ebbitt House this morn
ing.
Senator Cullom has rendered the
State faithful service and his standing
in the Senate cannot be questioned His
record in the Senate Is one the State
has a right to be proud OF. and the peo-
pie of Illinois will not. to gratify the
ambition of some politician. retire the
senior Senator just because he has com,
pleted an honorable and most usefW
term of twenty-four years.
activity. and his reelection will be
personal triumph To use an expression
of the day, he will be the only one IN
the running, the others will be left at
the post
The Washington times., 1905-10-16
Political Chat GrOwS
animated in LObbies
Boom for Bailey for President Arrives in
Capital-AldriCh Reputed to Hold
Tariff i'm His Hand

finance took him away from the nevs-
paper offices. he still retains warm IL
lection for his first love.
Every visitor from the Buckeva star.
nad much to say of the home POLITICAL
campaign, and Mr.. Jennings was no ex-
cepion At the Raleigh last night hs
expressed the opinion that Governor
derrlck Will win and be yindicate6
against the aspersions of Democrat.
ahd' particularly. of the Ansi-Saloou
League. which is fighting unfairly ana
abusively. he says
governor Herrick was not a polia-
clan. clan, said Mr. Jennings. He Is q
business man and banker. beginning life
humoly on farm In his private life
ne Is above reproach, a church member
temperance man and one who abhors
friends by the force and sagacity he has
developed In this campaign 1t was a
case almost of circumstances making
the man and his speeches are strikingly
IT has by some people been regarded
unfortunate that Herrfck entered Ohio
politics Back OF his entry is a bit Of
history not generally known When Mr..
mckinley had his financial difficulties
Herrick and others came TO the front
and saved him from bankruptcy. Nc
kinney, ever grateful man, wanted to
reward Herrick. and offered the mission
to Italy. Herrick did not want TO leave
the country and expressed desire TO
be governor. So it was fixed I'D that
he should succeed Nash. and he was
nominated by Hanna, who respected the
wish of Mckinley, although Mckinley
was in his grave.
Mckinley knew men. and he made
no mistake in thinking that Herrick
would make a good business rather than
a political governor. Senator Dick
wanted the nomination, but gracefully
withdrew 1t was luck for Dick as he
came to the Senate for seven years, hich
Is preferable to the governorship."
The Washington times., 1905-10-16
DEMOCRATIC WHIP AGAIN.

Representative James T. Lloyd OF Mis-
souri, is registered at the Eboitt House
He 10 here to place his children at
school. When the House is organized IN
December, Mr.. Lloyd. tt Is said. viii
again be chosen whip by the Democrats
The position of party whip" IS
responsible one for the whip" has TO
be constant in attendance on the House
and see to it that the absent members
OF his party are provided Win pairs
when an important vote is to be taken.
and he also has TO notify members OK
the minority when the majority are
preparing to spring special rules for the
consideration OF party measures. Repre-
sentative Tawney OF Minnesota Is the
whip for the Republicans.
The Washington times., 1905-10-16
Dr.. Parkhurst's Diagnosis.

The Rev. Charles II. Parkhurst,
D. D.. in his sermon yesterday, gave
a diagnosis of what he defines as
general disease gnawing the vitals
of the body politic. In his opinion
the main trouble with our condition
is that we are not brave enough to
call our faults by their Anglo-Saxon
names. "Coddling infamy," he said,
makes 1t respectable, and pretty
soon vice becomes simply virtue got
ten out in a guilt-edged and limp
back edition"
We are mealy-mouthed. We even
fall over ourselves in our enthusiasm
to applaud the reasonable decency
that should be so common that it
should pass Without notice, and we
splutter our praises over every man
who lodges she penitentiary. Our
corporation directors have, in mapy
instances-notably in the insurance
investigation-teen shown TO be di-
rectors only in name, exercising little
or no authority over the affairs Of
the companies supposed to be COM
mitted to their charge, and in reality
of the stripe made notorious in Eng
land some years ago as Guinea
Pigs'-men whe sell the use Of
names enormously held in honor for
the sake Of the gold they can get
thereby.
DR.. Parkhurst would have public
sentiment SO purged and altered that
vice and corruption, no matter how
disguised, no matter whore found,
can be translated into the terms
OF the vernacular and then treated
with the wholesome corrections of
the law and the social ostracism they
should entail He recognizes, how
we suffer has gone so far that our
sensitivenesS to its ravages has be-
come dulled; and he is somewhat
skeptical OF our moral virility. II
do not know how many Of us could
afford to run the risk of being presi-
dent of an insurance company, or
the son, nephew, cousin or brother
in-law of the president" is a SEN
tence that displays pessimism well
grounded in wide observation and
deep knowledge of the weaknesses
Of human nature. Even he has to
admit that ''some people steal more
than others, not because they are
worse stealers, but because they have
more chances to STEAL" and the ad-
mission is the most distressing part
of his caustic diagnosis of our
troubles.
We are humane in the charity OF
our judgments of others, because we
are SO thoroughly human in our
own errors. The lesson of charity
toward outwardly respectable wrong
doing and well-dressed vice has been
too well learned; what we need is
to hold ourselves down to the strict
letter of the moral law and when
we have done that we can, with good
conscience. demand the same recti-
tude Of others.
The Washington times., 1905-10-16
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

George II. Zellers. Jr. "A. District OF
Columbia. and Ethel w. Miller. 4. Bos-
ton. Mass.
George Connors Reid, "a, and Alice
Hyatt, &c
Mandose Johnson. 40. and Caroline
Collins, 30.
Silas Cov!ngton, 80. and Lily Foun-
tain, "a
James Turner. IS. and Nancy Smith.
4S.
George r. Shipley. -, and Margaret
Thomas, 10. both OF Baltimore.
w Lester Slater, %, and Virgins
Butler. p. both of Hanover county, Va,
James L. Carrico. "a. and Mary C
Wood. 20.
The Washington times., 1905-10-16
Where the Issue Rests.

Inc cause Of good municipal gov
ernment depends now ON the candi-
dacy of Mr.. Jerome In New York,
the City Party in Philadelphia, and
the reform instituted by Governor
FOLK in st. Louis. If these three in
terests shall overcome their oppo-
sition, honesty end self-respect
among the American people will re-
celve a tremendous onset. If they
fall, good government will be fur
ther away than most of us would
like to think.
Mr.. Jerome has the support of
nearly all the powerful newspapers
or Gotham. AS far as the argument
OF good government, calm Judgment
and citizen responsibility can appeal
to the people of New York those
papers will do the work Of the cam
palgn- In Philadelphia and ST.
Louis the same valuable influences
are on the same side. In lines with
tnese newspapers are conspicuous
groups of prominent and influential
and earnest citizens. Yet all this
strength does not insure success.
Ii Is fortunate feature of our
government that nothing counts but
votes. If the State of Rhode Island
chooses to sell herself, or the State
OF Pennsylvania, the buyers must
cover the whole market-a few thou
sand votes In the one instance. hum
dreds of thousands in the other. All
the carelessness in the world, there
fore, cannot obviate the individual
Citizens responsibility for the out
come of each election. If he sells
his vote. or If he stands idle while
others commit that grievous offense,
or II he even joins in the crime of
buying votes, he is always and un-
eeasingly the one who must bear
the burden of his own wrong.
so, In the end. the issue of good
government in these three cities
rests, not with the reform leaders. or
~RSP~Ao, Oul Will the D6ODlG
themselves. They must fight an
enemy that never gives up. They
must fight men who are battling for
more than success, for the cheap
reputation of not being found out.
for freedom from Jail, for bread and
butter They can win, even against
enemies SO desperate But they will
not win unless they go at the fight
with all their strength.
How admirably all this is express
ed by today's New York Sun in
this single paragraph:
When the eitv teens with abuse when
liberty is abridged and the rights of
property are nowhere, when extortion
becomes unDearable and the laws are
perverted and derided. when. In short.
New York Is in the hands OF bandits and
thieves, then Will be the time 10 reflect
prayerfullv that on October 16. 1905. you
9ld 9old not register so that you could vote
Tor William Trayers JerOrnei
The Washington times., 1905-10-16
REPUBLICAN ROUT, SAYS
REPRESENTATIVE HAY

congressman James Hay. of the Sew
ehth virginia district, passed through
washington today from his home in
Madison TO make series of campaign
speeches In the Shenandoah valley
counties OF his district. He Will speak
every day for three weeks.
According to Mr.. Hay the Republicans
are due for ''snow-under' in the com
ing elections. He takes small stock
IN the rumors that the Republicans Will
make large gains in The ST.
The Washington times., 1905-10-16
KANSAS pRosPERs.

I'VE have the largest corn crop in
Kansas this year that I've known since
took up my home in the State. more
than twenty years ago." said E E.
White, of Leayenworth, Kan, land
don't you know it has been the un-
bounded prosperity of the State in the
past few years that killed the Pops.
and drove them out OF politics. With
all the farmers making money, and the
labor in the State employed on full
time, there is not a ghost OF a show for
any party to get stronghold We gave
Roosevelt last year an overwhelming
ma jority. and believe IL he should
come before the people of Kansas to be
voted for tomorrow he'd carry the State
unanimously.
kansas is a peculiar State. A con-
tnued streak of business depression and
failure OF crops would create half q
dozen <isms-.' and the Republican ma
Jority would go glimmering.'