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Plat and Odell.

Just as we hear that Thomas Collier
Plat of New York is to retire from the
United States Senate there are rumors
that Benjamin b. Odell, Jr.. the fallen
republican political boss of this state is
to be rehabiitated. Plat made Odell
Then Odell ousted Platt. Odell met his
Waterloo when the President took hand
in New York state politics.
1t is known to his intimate friends that
Senator Plat is serving his last term in
Congress. He expects to resign soon after
the end of the present Congress, on March
4, 1907. Senator Plat is tired. He is now
in his 74th year. He has been continually
in politics since the sixties. and was
elected to the Forty-third Congress in
1872 nearly thirty-five years ago He was
for many years the political master of
the republican party of New York, having
nominated, successfully, Governors Nor
ton Black, Roosevelt and Odell and haV-
ing had a hand in forcing the nomination
of Governor Higgins.
There will be a lively scramble for his
place. but it is not unlikely, judging from
present indications, that Secretary Root
will be the man
e. H. Hartman. for some years the
financial hacker of Odell, is reported to
be behind the movement to rehabiltate
the fallen boss.
I'm spend 100000 to put Odell back
In power, he Is reported TO nave SAID.
Following quick upon this story 1t was
announced that Odell would come down
from his home in Newburg and spend the
winter at the Fifth Avenue hotel in this
city There he expects to hold frequent
consultations with the leaders, and try
to prevail upon them to renew their al
legiance to him. He may make some
trouble and give the political reporters
lots of copy. but it is a safe bet, a
100 to 1 bet, that odell is down and out
for good.
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Paris, December 29.-When the senate
today resumed consideration of the
BRAND bill amending the church and
state separation act, M. Gaudin De VIII
ane, in behalf of the opposition moved
to recommit it with instructions to re-
frame the measures on the line of the
Brazilian church and state separation
law which the vatican accepted.
The motion was defeated by 1913 to 50
votes.
Every effort to amend the act having
been defeated by overwhelming majori-
ties, the measure was finally passed ex-
actly as it came from the chamber by
10 to 100 The bill only requires the Sig
nature of President Falleries, and as that
is assured 1t is now virtually law. The
bill passed by the senate is as follows:
article 1. independently of the asso-
Citations contemplated by the law of De-
cember 9, 1905, public worship can be held
by means of associations under the law
of July /, 1901. as well as. in virtue OF
the public meetings law of June 20, lSoi'
under individual initiative.
ARTICLE 2. Even in default of the cui-
tural associations provided for by the
law of December g. 1905, the usage oil
edifices intended for worship, as well as
the furniture contained therein, shall re-
main at the disposition of the faithful,
and of the clergy for the practice of their
religion. the free usage of the churches
may be accorded either to associations
formed under the law of July !, 1901 OF
TO clergy designated under the declara-
lions prescribed by article 20 of the law
of December g. 1905.
This usage, however, shall be maze
under the conditions stated IN article Il
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Row In a Ladies, Hotel.

There's trouble In the Martha Washing
ton hotel-where only women are at home
and Miss Helen Could John d. Rookie
Teller, Mrs Russell Sage and others al
most as prominent are to sit in judgment
on the contentious of the two rival fac
tons.
Mark A. Caldwell, general manager of
the hotel, is the unfortunate cause of
this war of women. 1t IS rumored by one
faction that Mr.. Caldwell is solely re-
sponsibe for alleged fragrant stinginess
on the part of the cook; that he alone
must be charged with engaging a head
waitress whose figure is inartistic, and
a steward so extravagant as to own an
automobile. And these accusations don't
exhaust the list
Today, as a result, there are two fac
tions, who scorn to speak to each other;
who contemptuously decline to eat the
same tables or at the same hours, and
who will not sit in the same rooms with
antagonists.
The board of directors. of which the
prominent persons named are members,
has been called to meet to settle the
trouble.
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CUBAN CONDITIONS
ARE NOT ALARMING
THE WAR DEPARTMENT ISSUES A
STATEMENT CONCERNING THE
SITUATION IN SANTA CLARA.
U. S. TROOPS WELCOMED.

Washington, December 29-The war de-
partment issued statement today con-
corning the situation in Cuba, which in
dicates that the unsettled conditions in
Santa Clara province are not alarming
and that the labor trouble in camaguey
is not serious.
In explanation of the Santa Clara trou-
BILE the statement says:
ION Christmas evening a dispatch was
received from Governor Magoon saying
that he had received word from some
plantation owners expressing fears of
depredations of the small bands of rob-
bers and he accordingly ordered practice
marches of two troops of cavalry in that
province. He also mentioned the exist
ence of a strike in Camaguey which
might possibly lead to some disorder"
The statement continues:
"A letter under date of December %
has been received from Governor Ma
COON which contains the following pas
| sage:
There is fair prospect of a strike
| by the workmen in the railway shops in
Camaguey, and / sent fifty artillerymen
there last night, and this morning [ am
advised that the matter is unimpor-
tant.'
The following has been received by the
department In private letter from
military officer holding a high station in
| Cuba under date of December q:
| Il suppose an AngloSaXon will never
understand these people, and can never
| hope to do SO. They are something like
children who tell ghost stories to each
other until they frighten themselves to
a point where they cannot sleep. Apart
from mutterings such l have referred
to, and which in my opinion amount to
nothing at this time, there is nothing
| to cause any uneasiness at this time. In
| fact our rule has been so quiet and
orderly, and the President injunc-
| ton to refrain from hurting the feel
| ings or woundng the susceptibilites of
the Cubans are so strictly observed that
| the people welcome the troops every
where, and get down to work wherever
they appear
lone of the most marked features of
this situation is the number of houses
that are being built throughout the
country districts On a ride of thirty
four miles from here into the country
| toward Marel, l counted over forty new
! houses going up, where there was not
one in process of construction after our
arrival in Havana. There is a regular
| building BOOM
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REPORT PREMATURE
SAYS NEBRASKAN
1t Is Too Early for Bryan to Say Any
thing About the Next
Candidate.

Lincoln, Neb.. December CIV. j..
Bryan tonight. said that in an interview
with him at Topeka, Kan, he had been
quoted as saying, referring to his possible
candidacy for President: mo one would
decline a nomination of that kind
Mr. Bryan said to that extent the To-
peka interview was incorrect. He insisted
that he had nothing to add to the state
ment given out by him in London several
months ago, and repeated several times
since, namely: He does not think the time
has come for him to announce that he will
be a candidate, or to announce that he
will not be a candidate.
circumstances, said he must deter
mine that question, and 1t is too far from
the convention to settle now.
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Another Outrage in the Police
Ridden Metropolis
WOMAN THE VICTIM
Plat is to Retire From the Senate.
Hughes a New Sort of Governor.
A Woman ia Years Old.
A New Croesus,
BY sEWELL HAGGARD.

New York, December 29-New York,
the worse police ridden city in the universe,
is again up in arms. But the revolt won't
last long; the people will forget until an
other police outrage stSrs them. Truly
New Workers are a meek and submissive
lot
Last Saturday evening Mrs. Jennie
Trautman, the wife of DR.. Trautman, a
well known physician of 36e Lexington
avenue was out finishing her Christmas
shopping. Suddenly she was accused by
a man who detained her by elutching her
arm.
DO you know me?" he asked.
4 never saw you before Mrs Traut-
man replied
"Oh, yes you have" persisted the man.
You are the woman that robbed me Of
$l3e
With that he called a policeman and
Mrs. Trautman was taken to station
house. She gave the police her husband 5
name; told them she was respectable
woman, that she was innocent and that
she had never seen her accuser before.
The sergeant who took her pedigree
looked upon the matter more or less in
the light of joke. He sent Mrs. Traut-
man to a cell and there she remained
for several hours, while her friends hunt
ed up a magistrate to sign bail bond.
In court Mrs. Trautman was vindicated.
The testimony of the complainant, him
self, was enough to free her so prepos-
ferrous was his story. He said that he
had met two women on the street Few
nights before the arrest of Mrs Traut-
man, one of whom had pulled him off into
a dark place. She suddenly became very
affectlonate and he felt hand clutchng
at his wallet He found that 1t was not
out of his pocket, was thankful that he
was so lucky and went on his way. IL
was not until next day, he said, that
he discovered that he had been robbed
of S13. How the money could have been
extracted from his wallet, which first
would have had to have been unclapsed,
was the thing that made his story ridicu-
lous.
If the police acted within their rights
in this case any woman walking quietly
in one of the shopping streets is liable
to arrest provided that any man, actuat-
ed by malice or mistake, pointed her out
to a policeman and makes charge. She
will be dragged off to police station,
and no matter If she retains her COM
posture sufficiently to give a clear account
of herself, she will be thrust into a cell.
And she suffers this degradation on the
mere word of an accuser.
1t Is a hard question to settle, but some
solution should be found. The contention
of the police is that when an accusation
is made in reasonable manner it is not
for them to decide on the guilt or inno-
cence of the accused New York has had
frequent outrages similar to the Traut-
man case and London has had many and
yet there has been no means of relief
found in either city. 1t seems preposter-
GUS that a respectable woman should not
be safe on the streets of the two great
! cities of the world.
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s" KLOTz & GOLDMAN
1925 Second Ave. Correct Clothes for Men
FRENCH SENATE AGREES ON
CHURCH AND STATE ACT

of the last mentioned law by means of an
administrative act, either by the project
for the property placed under seQuester,
when such property belongs to the state
or departments, or by the mayor when 1t
belongs to the communes. The above
mentioned regulations will apply to edi-
fees intended for worship which having
belonged to ecclesiastical establishments
will have been assigned by decree to
charitable Institutions under article Of
the law of December 9, 1905
Article 8. With the PRONUNCIATION Of
the present law, the state, the depart
ments and the communes will receive the
free use of the episcopal mansions, pres
byteries semnaries and so far which are
their property, and the use of which has
not been claimed by association formed
under the law of December g. 1905 AT
the same time lodging indemnites falling
upon communes where there is no pres
bytery will cease.
"Article4 The property of ecclesiastical
establishments not claimed by associa-
tions constituted under the law of De-
cember 8, 1905, will be assigned upon the
PRONUNCIATION of this act to charitable
institutions, as provided by article OF
said law, without prejudice to assign
ments which may be made under articles
and concerning property no dedicated
to public worship.
'Art1cle .. Al tne eNplrdlloH VI ohe
month after the enactment of the present
law, allowances made under the law of
December O. 1905, to the clergy who have
failed to carry out the requirements of
that law will be suppressed. The failure
of members of the clergy to fulfill the
requirements of the law, will in each case
de determined by a Joint decision of the
minister of justice and the minister of
finance.
"Axticle g. All the provisions of the law
of December g. 1901, will remain in full
force in so far as they are not in con-
tradiction with the present act"
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Woman ia Years Old.

Frau Marks, who lives in a dingy little
room in Forsyth street. celebrated her
birthday a few days ago. 1t was her
Hath. Before age bent her double Frau
Marks was a shamoste-a woman who
prepares the dead for burial, praying
for them before and after death.
She was taught to prepare the dead
for burial in her home, Suvalk. Russian
Poland, long before she came to America,
and that was more than fifty years ago.
OF her life in Suvalk she remembers a
good deal, and especially one incident
that she recalled while talking with a
reporter When she was girl. not yet
90 the Russian soldiers came to the
hut where her father lived with his fami-
w. dragged her father out and drove
bayonets into his body until he was quite
dead. Then they left him In the snow,
and she and her mother carried the body
into the house and washed it for burial.
my grandfather was a revolutionist,
said Herr Louis. with pride 80 they
killed him. They do the same thing now
in Russia. l read 1t In the papers
When she came to New York she was
an old woman but she had a good trade,
for money was to be made in getting
the dead ready for the grave There were
none more skillful than old Frau Marks
in that trade, and while she was able to
move around spryly she made money
Now, she complained querulously, she
had to sit all day by the fire, with nc
pleasure left but to smoke her pipe
Louis, her son, who lives with her, is an
old man.
my mother says she is ia" said Herr
Louis, "and how am | to doubt the word
of my mother? l know that | was born
when she was 30 years old. so she must be
ia That is the truth. She has been a
good mother, and so | am good to her
more a daughter than son. although
make a little money by peddling clothes
in the country In New Jersey
81 think my mother keeps alive by
smoking good tobacco. For food she
cares little and she drinks little. but she
must smoke night and day. and | buy
her the hest tobacco | can afford. "
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A. X. x. NAMES OFFICERS.
New Hampshire Man Is Elected BY
Convention at Nashville.

Nashville, December 29.-The grand
council of the Alpha Kappa Kappa fra
ternity closed its annual convention here
tonight with banquet given by the
three local chapters Before adjournment
the council elected the following officers:
Grand President-Dr. George Cook, Con-
cord, N. H.
Grand Vice. President-Dr. James Brew,
Nashville.
Grand Secretary-Dr. Edward L. Heintz,
Chicago
Grand Treasurer-Dr. Edward r. Pfar-
re. Brooklyn, n. Y.
The grand council officers will announce
later the selection Of the next meeting
place.
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ARLINGTON FUND
is NEARLY $4,000
MONEY WILL BE USED TO ERECT
MONUMENT TO CONFEDERATE
DEAD WHO REPoSE IN THE
NATIONAL CEMETERY.

Washington, December 29.-(Special)-
Nearly $4,000 has been collected by Con-
federate Veterans in Washington in be-
half of the erectionHof monument to the
Confederate dead in Arlington, and 1t is
expected that before a great while suf-
ficient means will be on hand to place
the work in the hands of a sculptor
There are inferred in the Arlington Gem
etery the remains of 267 Confederate SOL
diers, in a beautiful section secured
through the generosity of the late Presi-
dent Mckinley They are soldiers who
died during the war from wounds and
others who succumbed to disease while
captives of war in hospitals and military
prisons in this city. They represent every
state in the south. and give the object a
national character. The American Secur-
ity and Trust company, or Capt. T. Raj
eigh Raines of this city, will receive do
nations,
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VERSATILE CRIMINAL.
Many Crimes at FL Reno Laid On One
Negro.

Ell Reno. Okla, December CIT Is be.
leved that the negro supposed to be
soldier from FIT. Reno. who last night
held up and shot a Chinese laundryman
here, was the same man who last week
shot and seriously wounded Capt. Ed
gar A. Macklin. Yesterday late negro
filling the description of Macklin's as
saiant, attempted to hold up the rail-
road at Darlington, near here The agent
knocked the negro down, but he escaped.
It is supposed he came to Ell Reno. Sew
eral DAYS ago bloodhounds traced Mack
Inns assailant to Darlington, where the
scent was lost. The Chinaman Is not
seriously. wounded. After last nights
shooting the negro is believed to have
escaped on stolen horse.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30
CAMP HARDEE MEETS.
Memorial Services Held Yesterday
Afternoon With Large Attendance.

Camp Hardee held it's memorial SER
vices yesterday afternoon and a large
crowd of veterans were in attendance. AT
the roll call many of the departed men,
bers failed to answer to their names.
Their comrades answered in their stead.
Beautiful eulogies were pronounced in
a feeling manner by the Spokesman of
the occasion.
1t was reported that Mrs. Jack Adams,
sister of Walter Moore, had sent an in
dividual present to every inmate of the
southern Veterans home at Mountain
Creek. There are seventy of these old
men who were made happy by the valu-
able little gifts which they received. Mrs.
Adams was rendered the thanks of the
camp.
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"a Dead From Wreck In Scotland.

Dundee, Scotland December 2e.-The
wrecks of the two trains which were
in collision near Arbroath. between Edin-
brug and Aberdeen yesterday, resulting
in the death of sixteen persons and Sc
rious injuries to over thirty, have been
cleared away sufficiently to permit Of
traffic being resumed Three more persons
who sustained injuries yesterday are
dead. This brings the total of deaths up
to 49, Gangs of men by the light of
huge bonfires tonight are, clearing away
the debris. Aberdeen has been cut off
since Thursday but the demoraized Scot
fish train service is being restored.
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Rockefeller's Advice.

Tn a recent sermon. John ID. Rockefeller.
without the suspicion of a smile, told
the American people that they were not
saving un for a rainy day. 1t will be
some comfort. perhaps. to know that this
old gentleman whose income Is s6o,o0o.0oo
a year, is worrying about us. Mr.. Rookie
feller's advice invites a variety of re-
torts We might ask him how We can save
when the yellow journals are telling us
that he and a few other men have all
the uaonay And IA might aisn tall Mr..
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John Katie Armstrong.

John <latte Armstrong, son of Mr.,
and Mrs Hollis l.. Armstrong. died last
night at the residence of his parents,
Eleventh street and Fountain avenue.
Fountain Heights. The funeral win be
conducted from the home today at p.
M, and interment will be made in Elm
wood cemetery.
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Judqe D. r. Weaver.

The funeral services over the remains
of the late Judge ID. r. Weaver will
be held from the West End Baptist
church this afternoon at 2 o'clock Fol
lowing are the pallbearers; Active, II
j. Salter, John Dupuy, Paul Green, II
G. Sellers, w. r. Goodeluck, w. II
Tharpe Honorary, r. G. McGahey, A. d
Mackey, s. NJ. Ward, C. M. Lacey, G. w
Harrell, l. d. Harris and 4. S. Cham
bley
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May Locate Church.

Rev. C. Whitney. the Rev. DR.. II. II.
Fount. and p. NJ. Camp, members of
the Home Mission society of the United
Brethren church, spent the day in Bir-
mingham with local church workers. They
have visited Chattanooga. Memphis, At
lanta and many other southern cities. and
are prospecting for the location of
churches.
They were we'll impressed with the Biz
mingham district and will probably report
favorably on the location Of church
in this city.
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Brazilian Consul Assembled.

Rostov on the-Don, December %
The Brazilian consul here has been
assaulted and beaten by a member of
the Reaction League of Russian Men.
The attack took place in the opstoftice.
The consul's assailant, who was ar
rested, has. been sentenced to four
days Imprisonment.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS
James Alvin Sheaner,

James Alvin Sheaner, aged years, died
Saturday at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. e. f. Sheaner, 1905 Avenue
c. The remains were laid to rest at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon in Oak Hill
cemetery.
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Berkmann a Printer.

Alexander Berkman, the anarchist who
shot IL c. Prick about the time of the
steel mill riots in Pennsylvania fifteen
years ago. and served fourteen years In
a Pennsylvania prison for that crime, has
started a little printing establishment at
sos East Twenty-seventh street.
Not that Berkman is tired of anarchy
but, as he plaintively pointed out:
'''rhe cause of human liberty is glorious,
but a man must make a living"
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Rockefeller that we could save more If
his Standard Oil company would give
us back the money that the United States
Attorney General says it is taking from
us Illegally.
We might also remind Mr.. Rockefeller
that there is at least one American that
has saved and has been so successful at
1t that he is said to be richer than the
oil trust king. A yellow magazine has
just discovered him in the person of
Frederick Weyerhaeuser. Rockefeller
made his millions by getting possession
of the wealth below the soil, while this
new Croesus made his by cornering a
big block of the forests on the earth's
surface He is said to own stretches of
forest that reach from the lakes of Wis
consn to the Pacific ocean.