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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
Decision for Bezenah.

Milwaukee, November 29.-Andy Bezenah
of Cincinnati was given the decision over
Jack O'Leary Of Milwaukee In a ten
round bout before the Badger Athletic
club this evening. Only in two rounds,
the second and eighth. did OLeary make
a favorable showing. Bezenah landed two
blows TO O'Learys one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
Captain Berkeley Dead.

Philadelphia, November 29.-Capt Ed
mund Berkeley Of Atlanta, general agent
of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad COM
pany, died at a hospital here today as
the result of an operation performed
three weeks ago. Captain Berkeley was
prominent in railroad circles and was SO
years old.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
Jennie Yeamans Dead.

New York, November 29.-Jennie Yea
r.ans, popular as singer and actress. a
decade ago, died after long illness at the
Hotel Gerard late last night from tuber-
culosis.
Miss Yeamans, who came of theatrical
lineage on both her father and mothers
side, was born in Australia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
Twenty.four Were Killed.

Dortmund, Germany, November $50
far as can be ascertained this morning,
twenty-four persons were killed, ninety
six were dangerously wounded, and scv-
eral hundred were slightly injured as a
result of the explosion last night of the
Roburit factory near Amen
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
Terry Mccovern Locked up.

Washington, November 20 Terry
McGovern, former lightweight cnar.'
pion of the world, was arrested end
locked up tonight on a charge of dis
orderly conduct. He was subsequently,
released on a $25 bond to appear in
court tnr,nrrnw
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
Ex-Governor Dyer Dead.

Providence, November 29-Mayor
Elisha Dyer of this city and forma-
governor of Rhode Island. died sud
denly tonight of heart trouble
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
Lonely THANKSGIVING.

Herkimer, N. Y, November CHICHESTER
e. Gillette, the young man now ON trial
here charged with the murder of Grace
Brown, spent a lonely Thanksgiving Day
in his cell in the county jail.
lie received no visitors, his keepers hay
ing been given strict orders to permit
no one to go TO his cell today. But even
in his loneliness, Gillette welcomed the
respite from the trying ordeal which be-
gan in earnest yesterday. Gillette was
tired, worn and very pale when adjourn
ment was taken last night, and even
then the severest part of the questioning
remained
The holiday will give the prisoner OPP
portunity to regain his composure, and
TO fortify himself for the struggle which
will come when the cross-examination is
resumed tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
ANOTHER EXPERT
GOING ON STAND
DR.. ElsiNG, WHO FIRST SAW TIT
BODY OF THE DEAD GIRL 10
CALLED TO HERkiMER-G'L
LIETTE SPENDS A LONELY DAY.

New York, November 29.-Dr. Eugene II.
Eisins of this city, who has been called
to testify in the Gillette case at Herki-
mer, is said to have been the first physi-
clan to examine Grace Browns Body after
it was found.
In an interview with a Herald repre-
sentative, he declared he had not made a
full examination of the body. but had con-
fined his observations entirely to tue
head where he noticed an abrasion oil
the forehead over the left eye.
Gould the4 wound have been aesed by
the body falling on rocks in the water
No | think not said DR.. Eisine; The
indications were that the wound was re-
ceived before the body entered he water
1t had evidently been caused By blunt
instrument of some sort"
DO you think drowning contributed in
any way to Grace Browns DEATH!
1T would be difficult to say, as my
examination included only the head. My
impression is, howev6r, that it did not
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
Hawaiians Want More Money.

Honolulu, November 29.-The members
elect of Hawaiian legislature will ask the
United States to raise their pay TO
$1,000 session.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30

Attractive ads. are illustrated. La
tie 0awk make your Illustrations
Ere.Hcraid Building.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30

Try the Gawk for haIftone and line
illustrations. Age-HeraId Building
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03

day In the lives of those who attend.
People who have the blues will have a
chance to laugh themselves away. Mrs.
George Malcolm as Sis Hopkins, will
eclipse all her previous efforts. Bert
Gregg as Mr.. Katzenjammer will look
and act the part of an eccentric citizen
of the Vaterland, while Jake Kaufman
as Mrs. Katzenjammer will make it
hot for Fritz and Hans, besides causing
endless merriment for the audience.
Robert Lynch as Happy Hooligan, will
be there with his tomato can, getting
into oceans of trouble-but causing
an abundance of fun for the audience.
Sanderson-the policeman, will be right
there to look after Hooligan and get
him out of his troubles.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03
@NI l=lsN| h Ell REN
CANNON FOR PRESIDENT.

The reported candidacy of Speaker
Cannon for the republican nomination
for the presidency suggests that the
speakership has been as poor a road
to the White House as the senate. OF
the candidates for president since the
war two were soldiers who had never
held public office three We're public
men who had been in the senate, and
six were governors of pivotal states
Seymour. Cleveland, Harrison. Tilden,
Mckinley. Roosevelt, owed their nom-
nation as much to the fact that they
had shown vote-getting capacity in
their own states as to any other cause.
While our political history is starred
with such names as Reed, Carlisle,
Randall, Blaine, men who had made
great records in the speakers chair,
not one of them reached the White
House, though all were at times push
ed for the nomination in their party.
The calmest judgment of the country
probably will be that Mr. Cannon's day
for reaching the White House has
passed. He ripened late in life. His
Legislative capacity and his parliament
tary skill have long been recognized,
but he was not thought of for speaker
so long as such men as Reed and Nc
Kinley were in congress. He even
waited for Henderson to have his turn
In the meantime Mr. Cannon has
achieved his scrptural allotment of
years. Moreover. the while the speaker
has been arriving at the reward of his
industry as a committee chairman the
country has also passed a given point.
1t has definitely departed from the
stand-pat statesman of the old school
to whom the label republican is all
that is necessary on piece of republi-
can goods. If Sneaker Cannon stands
for the presidency he must do it as
the candidate of the reactiOnarieS, of
the extreme protective tariff, let-well-
enough alone people who are being
constantly turned down in the party.
Honest as Speaker Cannon may be.
and typical as he may be of southern
Illinois. he is far from being typical
of the country today. 1t is looking for
men whose eyes are to the future and
whose comprehension includes great
questions of state and broad interpre-
tationS of fundamental laws. AS a
parer of appropriations Mr. Cannon
had his place. as the kindly boss of
the house he appears to enjoy the love
of his minions. but the next president
of the United States must be neither
a cheese parer nor a petty boss.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03

The Carnegie hero commission is
said to be embarrassed by a surplus,
ward Has the commission cOnsid-
cred the case of the vice. president,
who listens to all the senate debates,
or to that urban gardener who goes to
the same church with the neighbor who
keeps hens? If there is any dearth it
is a dearth of apprehension on the
part of the commission.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03
A Wonderful MOaa.

One Of the most wonderful speci-
mems of vegetable life known to the
botanist is the ''life moss" Of Jamaica,
Barbados and other of the West In
dian islands. There are several spe
cies Of tropical plants which have re-
markable tenacity of life, but the
life moss" and the story of its vital
ity are almost beyond belief, its pow
ers to live under adverse circum-
stances being certainly beyond that Of
any other known plant. 1t appears to
be absolutely indestructible by any
means except by immersion in boiling
water or the application Of a redhot
iron to its roots and branching vines.
1t may be cut up and divided into in
finitesimal particles. and then the very
smallest shred will throw out roots and
soon grow and form new branches and
buds. Specimens of this extraordinary
plant have been suspended in the air
In a dry, hot room; they have been
placed in close, air tight dark boxes,
without moisture Of any sort. and yet
thev lived grew and dnnrisheC.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03
MANY RARE WILD BEASTS.
Norris G. Rowe Have Trained More
Than Any Other Circus.

Perhaps it is because Norris & ROwje
ers of native and wild animals that
they have always paid unusual atten-
ton to their menageries; at any rate,
since establishing a big circus they
have increased their wild animal col
lection each season until at the pres
ent time their zoo is a permanent fea-
ture during the winter months at their
quarters at Santa Cruz, Cal. Housed
in a big building, we'll protected from
draughts the numerous wild animals
are confined in big, rOomy cages and
the public of the Surf City crowd the
zoo every day during the long winter.
To them the zoo is of unfailing. absorb
ing interest. This season the animal
trainers have taken more of the ami
mails under their care and have cere-
fully trained the dangerous beasts.
The wonderfully intelligent elephants
have all been taught new tricks; the
odd-looking llamas go through all sorts
of unbelievable antics; the camels, sea
lions, dromedaries, bears, monkeys and
chimpanzees are not so hard to train,
once they understand what is required
of them, but it took infinite patience
and gentleness. OF course. the high
bred horses, the dogs and ponies simply
required time and patience to educate,
but the pigs and pelicans were perverse
and stupid, and it took them all winter
to attain the high school education they
now enjoy. This feature alone is well
worth double the price of admission
to the shows, but they will be given
in conjunction with hundreds of other
features when the new and greater
Norris & Rowe circus exhibits at Walla
Walla on Tuesday. May Is.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03
ADJUSTMENTS
New Stock Company.

Manager Catron, of the Keylor
Grand, is to be congratulated upon
having secured the Peoples Theater
company for a stock season of three
weeks, commencing Sunday night, and
if merit counts for anything, this ster-
ling organization will certainly do a
capacity business here. Sunday night
the company will open with "The Par
ish Priest" and will produce a new
play each night during the engagement,
together with an entire change of spec
ialties Each Friday night will be am
ateur night and the company will give
$40 to the best amateur. The prices
for the stock season have been placed
within the reach of all-ten, twenty
and thirty cents.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03
HOW THE ELkINS LAW WORKS.

In passing sentence upon the Bur-
lington railroad for granting rebates.
Judge Bothea remarked that if there
was provision in the law for imprison-
ment as we'll as fine. much more might
be accomplished. AS the law stands.
however. he could do nothing but as
sess $4,000 against the corporation
and $4,000 each against the two offic-
ials who pleaded guilty to having done
the acts complained of. The fine was
Immediately paid in one check of 500
600 of the company'S money.
The theory of the Elkins law under
which this conviction was obtained is
that the removal Of the Imprisonment
feature makes it easier to obtain evil
6ence. that then fines of sufficient pro-
portions may be assessed to discourage
the breaking of the law. But it may
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03
How Turks Pray For the InAdels.

How Turks Pray For the InAdels.
The following is an exact translation
from the Arabic of the official prayer
Of Islam, which Is used throughout
Turkey and daily repeated in the Cairo
Azhar university by 10000 Mohamme-
dan students from all lands:
II seek refuge with Allah from Satan,
the accurSed. In the name Of Allah the
compassionate, the merciful! o Lord
of all creatures! o Allah! Destroy the
infidels and polytheists, thine enemies,
the enemies of the religion! o Allah!
Make their children orphans and defile
their abodes, and cause their feet to
slip, and give them and their families
and their households and their women
and their children and their relatives
by marriage and their brothers and
their friends and their possessions and
their race and their wealth and their
lands as booty to the moslems, o Lord
Of all creatures"
In all the other religions Of even the
semicivilized nations of the globe there
can be no prayer found to parallel this
cruel appeal Of Islam to the spirit Of
;nhumanity.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03
GREAT ROADS OF ANTIQUITY
The MOST Magnificent Were Those al
the Medieval Peruvians.

The MOST Magnificent Were Those OF
the Medieval Peruvians.
Perhaps the earliest road on record
is that mentioned by Herodotus as
having been constructed by Cheops, the
Egyptian king. In order that stones
might be dragged along it for his pyra-
mid In the opinion Of the Greek trav-
eler, the work of making the road was
as great as that Of building the pyra-
mid, for it took ten years to construct,
and it was composed of polished stones
with figures carved on them, but this
does not compare in magnitude with
the highways constructed by the Peru
vians while medieval Europe was still
in state of semibarbarous disOrgani
Zation.
The two principal roads in Peru ran
from Quito in the north to Cuzco, the
capital, the one along the sandy and
level strip Of coast, the other along the
plateau Of the Andes, region of I'M
paralleled engineering difficulty. The
length Of the second has been estimated
at from 1.5OO to 1900 miles. It crossed
sierras buried in snow, bridged ravines
with walls Of solid masonry, mounted
and descended precipices by staircases
hewn In the solid rock and ran In in
terminable galleries along the sides OF
intractable mountains.
Where rivers had to be crossed
bridges were made with ropes Of stout.
plant osier twisted to the thickness Of
a mans body and stretched over the
stream sometimes for a distance of 200
feet These cables swung side by side,
and, fastened with planks so as to form
a footway, were drawn through holes
in enormous buttresses of stone spe-
cially constructed ON each bank and
were secured firmly at each end to
heavy beams of timber. A railing of
similar osier material gave the pas
senger confidence as he crossed the os-
cillating bridge that sank dangerously
in the middle and mounted rapidly at
the sides.
The great highway was twenty feet
wide and was built with flags Of free
stone covered with bituminous cement
1t was measured out by posts set up
at every league. sCaravansaries and
magazines were stationed at conven-
lent distances for the Peruvian soldiers
on their military expeditions, and a
regular postal service had been organ
lied by which highly trained runners,
relieved every five miles, could convey
messages a distance of 200 miles in
the twenty-four hours. The roads were
kept in beautiful order, the inhabitants
of district being responsible for that
portion of the highway which trav-
ersed their land. At the same time it
should be remembered that there was
no wheel traffic to cut up the level sur.
face Of the hard pavement. There is
considerable irony in the fact that it
was not till the Spaniards forcibly in.
troduced their so called civilization
into Peru that the famous roads be.
gan to fall into disrepair. - London
Standard
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03

he taken for granted that In these
transactions on big railroad sufficient
profit accrues in a short time to make
If profitable to take the risk OF incur
ring what would be considered large
fine. The corporations, it may also De
taken for granted, consider the whole
question from a purely profit or-loss
standpoint. If they see probable
profit in an infraction of the law they
will continue to break it, not believing
there is anything morally wrong IN the
performance. They reduce themselves
to the exact status of the gamblers
of the city who will cheerfully pay
fines imposed by the courts on dummy
proprietors, but who begin to scat
fer as soon as an administration of
Justice arises which seeks diligently
for the real owners of the business
and gives them the workhouse.
The Elkins law has been in existence
now several years. This is the first
conviction against a railorad obtained
under If. But rebating has been going
on as before, as the report of Garfield
on the Standtrd Oil company will show.
This fine probably is only small per
cent upon the illegal business done by
the Burlington alone. The conviction
and the large fine imposed therefore
represent not an endorsement of the
Elkins law. but a practical confession
of its failure either to facilitate cOnVlc-
tons or to stop the practices COM
planned of.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03
CHINATOWN WIPED OUT.

One of the purely beneficent results
of the San Francisco disaster was the
total destruction of Chinatown. Not
one stick or stone remains to show
where Chinatown existed. Hundreds
of it's miserable inhabitants persisted
in the living grave, in which for
years they had burrowed.
Chinatown, according to the news
from San Francisco. will never be per-
mitted to be established. The Chi
nese who remain will be housed in an
other part of the city. 1t will be well
if the city authorities take care that
the conditions of another Chinatown
are not created. The one recently
destroyed was made out of buildings
which were originally fitted for the
habitation of Caucasians. But the
Chinese gradually converted brick and
frame dwellings into beehivelike struc-
lures. full of winding passages, under
ground rooms and dark holes where
human beings lived and died without
seeing the light of day. Here were the
pestilent opium smoking dens which
tourists were shown, and here the mis-
cradle poor of the Chinese quarter
dragged out an existence which would
make hell a relief Whatever Chinese
remain in San Francisco should be
compelled to live above ground. Pos
sibly WI Ting Fang and some of his
fellow official fakirs of the Chinese
empire, might find in this another as
sault upon China by the American
government But the distress of that
worthy Chink could be borne in the
interest of the health and morality Of
the new San Francisco.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03
ATTORNEYS ARE LOSERS
Factory Inspection Law a Saving
in Litigation.
VERY few DAMAGE SUITS FILED
LABOR COMMISSIONER HUBBARD
TELLS OF GOOD RESULTS
FROM LEGISLATION.
VERY FEW DAMAGE SUITS FILED

zone of the effects of the factory
inspection law" says Charles Hubbard,
state labor commissioner, 'is a de-
crease in the number of damage
suits.
IAN attorney who gets most of the
damage suits in one county told me
the other day that the factory inspec
ton law must be working we'll, for he
said he was now getting only about
fourth the number of cases he got
before the law was passed. is the way
the Olympian puts it.
The labor commissioner says a law
is needed in this state to compel fac
tories and mills to report accidents.
Under present conditions not many of
the accidents are reported. When the
labor commissioner reads of an acct
dent in the newspaper he sends out
blank and asks for report, but not all
accidents are reported in the newspa-
pers, and, anyhow, the labor commits
sioner cannot be expected to read all
the newspapers printed in the state
The decrease in the business of the
attorneys owing to the enactment of
the law was probably one of the I'M
looked-for effects.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03

Former Governor Odell, of New York,
expresses his horror of political re-
formers, but thus far the reformers
have been unable to couch what they
think of Odell in language within the
statute in such cases made and pro-
Vided
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03
"There Will be Downs"

The Elks' Picnic will certainly be 1T.
Those who CHANGED to be at the re-
hearsol of the Katzenjammer Picnic,
last night. were convinced that it will
be one of the best entertainments of
With the orchestrations, the solos and
chorus are doubly pretty. The Elks
are taking hold with a vim. which
augurs success. Nothing will be lock-
ing in making the event a red-letter
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03

The Kansas City Star has it figured
out that tariff on the steel which it
amount to more than all the contri-
buttons made by the public The steel
trust has probably given to San Fran
cisco one-half of one per cent of what
it will get back
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03

Next spring there is to be an exhi-
bition at Berne, Switzerland, at which
1900 varieties of Sausages will be dis
played. What is this, pure food show,
or a bench show?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03
his train through before the icing
charges absorb the value Of the cargo.

those three days wasted even if the
senate did not listen. From Oconomo-
woe an dother five-syllable towns in
Wisconsin orders for Little Bob's
speech have been coming in like de-
mands for free seeds
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03

Several newspapers came to the
front with pictures of how San Fran
cisco looked during the quake. There
must be something like telepathic pho
Biography now in use in the best equip
ped offices.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03

An English chemist, having discover
ed that sawdust is digestible, we may
expect to find "Slab- -See," Bark Of
Pine" or "YOu-need-a Toothpick'
among our table delicacies.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03

Chairman Shonts found the cOndi-
tions on the isthmus so lovely that he
might have stayed there had he not felt
the duty of hurrying home to tell us
how lovely they are.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03

The rate bill debate meets too many
misplaced switches and runs on to too
many spur tracks. Dispatcher Tillman
threatens to call off all other traffic
over the line in a valiant effort to get
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03

Senator La Follette's great speech
was unfortunately timed. No states
man can talk against an earthquake
and make much impression on the
news service.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-03

There never was any party, faction.
sect or cabal whatsoever In which the
most ignorant were not the most vio'
lent, for q bee Is not buster animal
.han blockhead.-Pope.