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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-01
Communicated
(Communicated) Governor Cunningham on Jurisdiction.

The only possible excuse a democrat has or can have for supporting Higdon is that he believes that Higdon was de- frauded
 Suppose it had been shown that when the first committee declared the results of the election that Higdon had been nominated by three votes, and somebody should have discovered that there was an error of six in the addition in the count; in the addition, not an error in the election nor in the qualification of the elector, no fraud, but simply a mis- take In the addition of six votes which would give Stiles a majority of three votes, instead of EIigdon; say Higdon had already been nominated and the result had been declared by the committee: now l ask you. gentlemen, if it could be shown that he had been nominated by a mistake in the addition, would that be right? If you think it would, gentle men, would like for you to stand up
 Now, I will ask you one more ques- ton: Who is to right that wrong or correct the mistake? There is but one body, that is the executive committee Gentlemen, if the legally constituted and authorized executive committee of the democratic party had refused or failed to have gone into the examination of the charges made that there were H. legal votes cast, they could not go into the examination of the case where 1t was clearly shown that there was an error in addition; therefore, the argument that the committee had no Jurisdiction, is sim ply ridiculous and unqualifiedly absurd Now, gentlemen, that being the case the only reply that Colonel Higdon made in
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FOR MISS HAWKINS.

Mrs E. T. Shaw entertained delight fully yesterday afternoon at her home on Twelfth street in honor of Miss Nora May Hawkins, who will be married next week to MT. Horace Shaw.
 The entire lower floor was beautifully decorated in cut flowers and ferns.
 In the drawing room a large pink para sol was suspended and filled with gifts for the bride which were showered upon her. In the dining room the decorations were quite elaborate. The table was cov- cred with lace centerpiece and in the center was a large cut glass vase filled With pink carnations and ferns. The table was lighted with silver candelabra filled with pink tapers. The ices, cakes and bonbons were in pink and white shades. Mrs Shaw looked lovely In a white gown with touches of lilac.
 Miss Hawkins, who is a delightful young woman. and universally popular. looked quite attractive in white frock with pink girdle.
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his whole case was that you gentlemen have no authority and no Jurisdiction.
 Now, gentlemen, if he had received his nomination by an error in the addition. do you think you would owe it to him to support him when he denied the right or the committee to try the contest and refused to go into it for the purpose of having 1t cleared up? That's the way to look at 1t as honest men and fair: minded men. I believe no fair-minded man who looks at 1t straight and honest ly will question that.
 Suppose you sue a man in court and pending that case in court the judge dies and another man is appointed or elected in his stead, do you suppose the defendant could come In and declare that the new court so appointed or elected had no Jurisdiction because it was brought before another judge? Ridiculous Who was 1t. that tried the contest of Comp ton? It was the new committee. Any body question that? That committee had jurisdiction. The candidate who was be- fore the people for their nomination charged that there were illegal votes cast and gave their names That was right. The contestee or defendant in that case. I think, ought to have gone and denied the allegations and brought up proof that they were not true and also to have shown, if he could, that there were just as many illegal votes cast for the other fellow and gave their names
 From speech of Governor Cunningham at Ensley on Tuesday night
 COME TO JEFFERSON THEATRE ON FRIDAY NIGHT. NOVEMBER 2, 1906. AND HEAR HIM. ROBT. N. BELL.
 Chairman of Dem. Camp Com.
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rlADE FROrl NATIVE ROOTS.
 SAFE AND RELIABLE.

That the roots of many native plants, growing wild In our American forests, possess remarkable properties for the cure of human maladies is well proven. Even the untutored Indian had learned the curative value of some of these and taught the early settlers their uses. The Indian never liked work so he wanted his sQuaw to get we'll as soon as possible that she might do the work and let him hunt. Therefore, he dug rpapoose root for her, for that was their great remedy for fe- male weaknesses. pr. Pierce uses the same root-called Blue Cohosh-in his rFavorite Prescription" skillfully com bined with other agents that make 1t more effective than any other medicine in curing all the various weaknesses and painful Arrangements peculiar to women:
 Many afflicted women have been saved from the operating table and the sur geon's knife by the timely use ot Doctor Pierces Favorlte Prescription. Tender ness over the lower pelvic region, with backache, spells of dizziness, faintneSs, bearing down pains or distress should not go unheeded. A course of "Favorite Pre- in all such cases, and generally effect permanent cure if persisted in for req sonable length of time. The "Fayorite Prescription is 8 harmless agent, being wholly prepared from native medicinal roots, without drop of alcohol In It's make up, whereas all Ctner meuicincS, put up for sale through druggists for woman's peculiar ailments, contain large quantities of spirituous liquors, which are very harmful, especially to delicate women. rFavorite Prescription con tains neither alcohol nor harmful habit forming drugs. All its ingredients are printed on each bottle wrapper. It is powerful invigorating tonic, imparting health and strength in particular to the organs distinctly feminine. For weak or debiltated, especially for women who work in store. office, or school-room, who sit at the typewriter or sewing machine, or bear heavy household burdens, and for nursing mothers, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription will prove priceless benentt because of its health restoring and strength-giving power.
 For constipation, the true. scientific cure Is Dr. Pierce's Pleasant PelletA Mild, harmless, yet sure.
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YOUTH MAKES LONG
 TRIP ON HORSEBACK
Columbus Hobbs Rides Alone From St. Rose County, Florida, to
 Columbus, Miss.

Columbus Ga October 31.-(Special)- Mounted on a pretty pony, with q light rifle resting across his saddle, Columbus Hobbs, an orphan boy from St, Rose county, Florida, arrived in Columbus yes terday afternoon. He had ridden alone all the way from Florida to this city, coming to see if he could not locate some of his relatives with whom he could live, having heard that one of his kinsman, Frank Hobbs, was a resident of Colum- bus.
 The little fellow does not look to be over 12 years of age, although he is a year or two older, and he has a manly, sef-reliant look that impresses those who meet him favorably. His father and mother both died year ago, leaving him without brothers or sisters, and with practically no property. He lived nearly a year with neighbors in St. Rose county and then decided to come to Georgia and seek his relatives in this state. He had . only a small sum of money, but dld not need it, as he says the people along the route took an interest in him and gladly furnished him his meals. Asked If he dld not feel lonely and frightened as he was i passing through the Florida swamps and south Georgia forests, he replied, pluckily , that he had got along all right. as the
 country was pretty thickly settled. He
 came to Columbus by way of Geneva Ga, where he located one of his rela- | tives, but that kinsman has so many | to care for already that the boy decided
 that it would be best for him not to l stop there.
 | The boy has found people here by the | name of Hobbs, but has not yet located l Frank Hobbs
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BONAPARTE SAYS THEY
 ARE HANDLING TRUSTS

wanted. a square deal for everyone, whether pig, lion or men, and under his leadership the republicans have tried to put, and keep, each of our trusts in it's own proper pen. where it cannot crowd any of the little fellows around 1t. To these ends he has asked the aid of Con gress, and of the courts to keep the cor porate and individual wealth of the coun- try in due subjection to the law and not make rich men poor, for to do this would only make poor men poorer, but to make rich men law-abiding so that poor men may become rich if they will. And the two houses of Congress, as well as the courts, have responded to his ap- neal ''
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SOCT ET'Y .
BY EMMA TOULMlN REID. Bell Telephone 1897.
GULF STATES CONVENTION OF THE Y. " C. A.

UP n 2 f.eW. .Os A.
 Much interest is felt in the gulf states convention of the Young Women's Chris tan association which meets in Mont gomery November ?. says the Atlanta Georgian. Entertainment will be provided for all delegates or visitors who have no friends in Montgomery, and a railroad face of one and one-third fares will be granted.
 The first session will begin at o'clock, p. m, on Friday November ?, and the last at 7:30 o'clock, D. m. Sunday. On Saturday afternoon a reception will be given to the delegates by the Montgomery city association.
 Among the speakers and leaders who will take an active part in the conven- ton exercises are Rev. Dunbar IT. Og- den First Presbyterian church, Knoxville, Tenn; William L. Walker, associate pas tor of Tabernacle Baptist church, Allan ta; Miss May N. Blodgett, who is so well known throughout the south, will have charge Of the Bible hour during the convention; Miss Emma Hays. city secre- tary of the American committed; Miss Maidee Smith, recently returned from Brazil, who will be the missionary guest.
 Mrs. Stewart Washburn of Montgomery will have charge of the music, Two prom inent singers on the programme will be Mrs. Lillian Clark Todd and MT. Radwin O. Bell of Atlanta
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w. c. T. u. CLOSES.
Jubilee Exercises Are Held Before the
 Final Adjournment.

Hartford, October 31.-Jubilee exer- cises closed the national convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, which has been in session here since last Friday, tonight. In point of numbers and volume of business trans. acted the convention has been one of the most interesting in the history of the organization.
 The adoption of a number of resolu- tions, among them one asking Presi- dent Roosevelt to mention in his an nual message to Congress the liquor traffic as lone of the evils that men, ace our nation," together with num- Der of other recommendations of vari- ous interest, were among the features of the days proceedings.
 At the jubilee exercises tonight the prize membership banners were pre- sented.
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AFTERNOON TEA.

One of the delightful events of the week was the tea yesterday afternoon at the Woman's exchange, when this institution was inaugurated. There will be a tea each day from to o'clock.
 The rooms were artistically arranged and decorated in ferns and cut flowers
 The reception room has been turned to an oriental den and was e1aborately dec- orated in oriental draperies. which pre- sented a beautiful appearance with the little tables dotted here and there. The members of the board of directors assist ed Miss Walters to receive the many guests who called during the afternoon. These teas will be a great pleasure to the shoppers who are in town for the afternoon and a delightful place for the young women to drop in for chat.
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JULIE KEEN IS DEAD. Famous German Dialect Comedian Went Quickly After Wife's Death.

New York, October 3.-Jule Keen, who had been treasurer for the Buffalo Bill Wild West show during it's career of twenty years, died today at the Ashland House, under peculiarly pathetic circum- stances.
 MT. Keen arrived from Europe a few days ago to find his wife in dying con- dition. and his own health, which had been poor for several years, broke down completely. Mrs. Keen died last Monday and her husband sank steadily until the end came today. MT. Keen was born in New York city in 1S46. He became a famous negro" minstrel forty years ago. and subsequently, developed great talent as German dialect comedian, becoming g famous on the vaudeville and dramatic stage, especially in the play Chris and Lena"
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NOTES AND PERSONALS.

Mrs A. Martin Baldwin of Montgomery and Miss Ewin of Nashville are the guests of Mrs. Thomas Ellis at her home on Mountain avenue
 Mr. Culpepper Exum left Tuesday even ing for New York.
 Mrs. c. J. Davis and children of Cram dall Fla are the guests of Mrs. J. L. Cousins at her home in Woodlawn.
 MT. and Mrs. J. l.. Cousin, who are building a new home at North Haven, will take possession early next week.
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas Baine will spend next week in Mississippi.
 
 Mrs. N. w. Trimble and Miss Jennie Trimble, who have spent the summer at Rock Island. N. r., will return to Bir- mingham the last of the month.
 Mrs. George Thornton has returned from a short visit to relatives in Eutaw. Miss Willie May Bates will entertain the Bid Euchre club this morning at 10:3O o'clock at her home on Sixth avenue. The Council of Jewish Women will meet this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with Miss
 
 Mrs Pugh Pearson will entertain the Thursday Morning Sewing Circle this morning at 10 O clock at Eubank station. Mrs. Dudley Lawrence of New York will arrive the last of the month and will be the guest of her mothers, Mrs A. c. Birch, for several months. Mrs. Law renee will be pleasantly remembered as Miss Kate Birch
 Mrs. F. G. Teacher has returned from a short stay in Montgomery.
 Miss Helen Jeter will arrive in the city this week and will spend some time with friends.
 Mrs. Kate Taylor Craig of New York will spend some time in the south this winter with friends and relatives in Bir mingham and Boligee, Ala.
 MT. and Mrs. Dunbar Sibley and their mother. Mrs. Sibley, have moved to their remodeed home Highland avenue.
 Mir. and Mrs. Wald have recently moved 1 to Highland avenue, near Twenty-hrst street. where they will keep house for 1 the winter.
 | MT. ana MrS. NlctOr Gage nave as l their guests Mrs. Gage, Miss Gage and MT. Gage of South Carolina. Mrs Gage and Miss Gage will spend the winter in l Birmingham.
 l Miss Sadie, Miss Kathleen and Miss Julia Randolph, who have been the guests ] of their aunt. Mrs. T. V. Boardman, have returned to their home in Greens l boro.
 
 l Mrs. Y. V. Boardman will leave in a | few days for Greensboro. where she will spend several days with relatives. l Mrs. Rebecca Nelson, who Is spending some time in Shffield with relatives, will l arrive this week and will be the guest of her sister, Mrs. Alfred Benners, on Hunts i vile avenue. en route to her home in | Greensboro.
 ! Mrs. A. c. Birch has returned from | Talassee. where she was called on ac- count of the illness and death of her mother, Mrs. Clitherial. ] Mir. and Mrs. Paul Ivey, who were re- i gently married in Atlanta, have returned from their wedding trip and are at home
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THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
Few People Know How Useful It Is In
 Preserving Health and Beauty.
Costs Nothing to Try.

Nearly everybody knows that charcoal is the safest and most efficient disin- festant and purifier in nature, but few realize its value when taken into the hu- man system for the same cleansing pur- pose.
 Charcoal is remedy that the more you take of it tbe better; it is not a drug at all, but simply absorbs the gases and Impurities always present in the stomach and intestines and carries them out of the system. ~
 Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking, drinking or after eating onions and other odorous vegetables.
 Charcoal effectually clears and inn proves the complexion. it whitens the teeth and further acts as a natural ana eminently safe cathartic.
 It absorbs the injurious gases which collect in the stomach and bowels; 1t dis infects the mouth and throat from the poison of catarrh.
 All druggists sell charcoal In one form or another, but probably the best char coal and the most for the money is In Stuarts Charcoal Lozenges; they are composed of the finest powdered Willow charcoal, and other harmless antiseptioe In tablet form. or rather in the form oe large pleasant tasting lozenges, the charcoal being mixed with honey.
 The daily use of these lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condition of the general health. better complexion, sweeter breath and purer blood, and the beauty of it is. that no possible harm can result from their continued use, but, on the contrary, great benefit.
 A Buffalo physician. in speaking of the benefits of charcoal, says: 'I ad- wise Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges to all patients suffering from gas in stomach and bowels, and to clear the complexion and purify tine breath. mouth and throat: I also believe the liver is greatly bene- fted by the daily use of them: they. cost but 20 cents box at drug stores. and although in some sense a patent prepara- ton, syet 1 believe l get more and bet ter charcoal in Stuart's Charcoal Log enges than in any of the ordinary char coal tablets.'
 Send your name and address today for a free trial package and see for yoursSR F. A Stuart Co.,. 5s Stuart Bldg, Mar. shsll Mich.
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with Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Frazier on South Eleventh avenue.
 MT. and Mrs. Syd Smith have returned from q short visit to Montgomery.
 Dr. and Mrs Eugene Northington will be among the out-of-town guests at the Walker -Northington wedding next week in Prattville.
 Mrs. Joseph MeLester and Mss Susie McLester have returned from a short visit to relatives in Mississippi.
 Miss Mary Beard has returned from a visit to MT and Mrs. Priestly Toulmin at Lehigh.
 Mir. and Mrs. c. o. Locke will leave today for a visit to Virginia. The many friends of MT Locke will be glad to learn that he is recovering from his recent ill., ness.
 MT. and Mrs. Horace Shropshire have moved to their new home on NiaZuma avenue.
 MT w. D. Nesbitt has returned from an eastern trip.
 T turned from New York. where they were the guests of Mrs. Runyon, Mrs. Dren- nen's mother
 Mrs w T. Pride of Madison, Ala is the guest of Mrs. J. F. Frazier. Mrs. Pride will be pleasantly remembered as Miss Mary Fletcher.
 Miss Eloise Johnston. former resident of this city, but now of Richmond, Va. will arrive soon and will be the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Henry Johnston, on South Thirteenth street.
 Mrs. H. K. White has returned from Nashville.
 Miss Eva Lazarus will arrive today and will be the guest of MT. and Mrs. Sidney Lazarus on South Twelfth street.
 MT. and Mrs. T. T. Shaw will move to- day to their home on South Sixteenth street, which they have recently pur- chased
 MT. and Mrs. T. D. Jackson and little daughter, Helen, will be at home for the winter with Mrs. Oslin on South Eleventh avenue. They move into their apartments today Mrs. Conner of Midway, Ala, is the guest of her daughter. Mrs. J. A. Emery on South Twenty-flrst street.
 
 Mir. William Provost of Mobile is the guest of his sister, Mrs. J. D. Moore, on Eighth avenue.
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Denton Md October 31.-Secretary Bonaparte spoke here today at meeting fin the interest of William II. Jackson, the republican nominee for Congress in the First district of Maryland. Mir. Bona parte's speech was a plea for the con tinuaton of the next House of Repre- sontatives in republican hands He quoted figures showing the increase of the for eign commerce of the country since 1896, when the republicans came into power, in support of his contention that the na- tonal prosperity was due to republican administration.
 But this very prosperity" he con tnued. lis the source of some serious embarass when a nation grows rich also, and in such cases some of these individuals always grow far richer than others. We have developed a crop Croesus without precedent in history and, more over. the long distance telephone the ocean cable and the development of cor porate agencies, enables these multi-mil- ]ionaires to unite their wealth in huge combinations which threaten the conner cial liberties of their fellow citizens and even bid defiance to our laws"
 MT. Bonaparte lkened the trusts to Q pen Of pigs, in Which the big, strong oyerfed hog crowded the little ones away from their feed and got far more than its share. He continued
 Our big, strong greedy, over-pros- porous trusts are animals of the like order. They crowd their smaller and weaker fellows from the feeding trough so that these do not get their fair share of our national prosperity. The problem is how to drive off the great beasts, so as to give the little ones a show
 "The democrats propose to cut off the supply of swill or in other words, to de- stroy our prosperity, by unsettling all our business relations. No doubt this pro cess would soon make the big hogs as thin as razor-backs, but would the small ones fare any the better?
 Remember, we don't complain of the former, because they are themselves big and fat but because they make others small and thin. The fatter the big pigs become, the better for their owner and the more money the trusts make the better for the American people, provided in the one case. all the little pigs get fat too, or at all events, as fat as they can, and in the other. that all dealers outside of the trusts have fair field, and the trusts have no favor.
 "Our President wants and has alway
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WORK FOR NEW ORLEANS.
Commercial Bodies Join Forces to Sc
 cure Panama Trade.

New Orleans, October 31.-The New Orleans Pan-American committee, em- bracing all the commercial bodies or this city, was organized tonight for the purpose of facilitating shipments from the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio val leys for the canal construction work through this port. Resolutions were adopted saying that in the interests Of these sections the isthmian canal com mission should assign at least one third of the total number of govern ment ships in the Panama service to New Orleans. The Board of Trade and the Progressive Union jointly caused the organization of the committee.
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UNITED CHARITIES.

The meeting of the United Charities was held yesterday morning at 1O:3O o'clock in the Mayberry building and the annual election of officers took place. The follow ing officers will serve for the coming season:
 Mrs J. A. Montgomery, president; Mrs. Harsh, vice president; Mrs. A l. Dexter, treasurer and Mrs. W. s. Lowell, secre- tary, Mrs. Johnston, the manager, was reelected.
 The report of the years work will be ready soon for publication. and just now the principal object of the association is to establish the Visiting Nurses asso- citation on a working basis.
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ciety young people. Much interest Is be- ing taken in the affair. and the rehearsal each evening at the Hillman is being chaperoned by Mrs. Henry B. Gray. The songs and dances are all new. The fol- lowing young people will take part in tine Double Octette:
 Misses Eula Drennen, Mary Gillespie, Pauline Browning, Donald Seals, Mary Ware, Mary Ruth McLester, Marianne Hamilton. Ethel Clifford; Messrs. Rob ert D Johnston, Jr., Carl Seals, Hill Fer guson, Hugh Martin, Ramsay, William Bason, James Bolton and Lowe.
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2 DEAD, } HURT AS
 RESULT OF MURDER
Fire Department Uses Water to Dis perse Big Crowd Which Assem-
 bed In Fl Paso.

Fl Paso, Tex. October S1.-Three bodies are in the morgue and two wounded per- sons in hospital, as the result of murder here this afternoon, followed by an exchange of shos between the mur- derer and policeme
 Manuel Rodriguez killed his wife when she returned home and found him in con- pany with another womar Rodriguez and Chana Ramiera, the woman with him, were killed and City Detective George Harold and Jack Glover. a negro, wounded in the fight that ensued. The fire de- partment was called out and dispersed the excited crowd that had collected, by pouring water on it from a hose.