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The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-15

Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskan)
 Washington, May, 15-Gov. Charles E. Hughes has issued protest against federal oGiceholders participating in New York state politics. Particularly does he protest against President Roosevelts efforts to kill his boom for the presidency.
 There is DO doubt but chat President Roosevelt is engaged iD a life and death
The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-15
SAN FRANCISCO STRIKERS
 LOMBARD CARS

at the highest possible speed for the purpose of escaping the would-be wreckers. One man, passenger, attempted to get of car that was going at 8 high speed anI he was dragged for several blocks and seriously injured, having sustained a fracture of the skull.
 Chicago VII Help
 Chicago, May l5-The carmen's union of this city voted S4O,OOO ito help the San Francisco strikers to win their contest.
The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-15
NOT TOR BILL. NOT TOR TIM
Elihu Root Condemns
 Political Knockers

Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskan)
 New Haven, May I5-Elihu Root, in an address at Ya'e last night, assailed upolitical knockers" He said he had no use for them. This growing habit o fauIt-Gndtng, in the parties, he said, ii persisted in it will stop progress in America,
The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-15
HUGHES AGAINST ROOSEVELT.
New Yors governor protests against federal inter
 ference in State potios-He particularly objects to
 the presidents opposition to his boomNational ex- -gcutve in lie and death struggle for Taft delegation

the downfall of Senator Platt, that h then took up the cause Of former Gov. Higgins Jo secure his (Odell'sl defeat, and that he had no sooner accomplished his purpose than he had used Hughes as 8 sand bag against Higgins. Now, he says, he has turned against Hnghesr and is trying to make use of some of the former allies whom he had several times used and discarded to defeat his latest discarded ally.
The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-15
fAVf FLOODS
Southern States Swept By
 WaterspOUts

Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskon.)
 Memphis, Tenn, May l5-Water- spouts throughout Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi have flooded thousands of acres of farming lands, The rain storms have been accompanied by ter rife winds which have razed many buildings in various sections of the country. The damage to property and growing crops has been very large.
The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-15

in an effort to down the president in
 the state, Gov. Odell tells the poli- clans that the more they have to do
 with President Roosevelt the sorrier they will be in the end. He says the president will work with them as long as he can use them and then he will drop them as if they were cold potatoes. He points to the fact that President Roosevelt worked with him to secure
The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-15
Dance Aft0r.PIn7

Alter the production of the "Hick'ry Farm" Friday night there will be a dance to which all those who attend the play are invited There will be good music and an evening Of enjoy menJ is promised those who remain to ;.
The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-15

struggle to capture New York stato's delegation in the national convention for Secretary Taft. To get it federal officials and others of the personal fol lowing of President Roosevelt are lined up with the machine politicians who have opposed the reforms urged by Gov. Hughes in state matters.
 Former Gov. Olell is supporting Gov. Hughes and will unite with his friends
The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-15
CTS ORDERS
Cutter Rush Will Protect
 Alaskan Seals

Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskanl
 Washington, May I5-Orders have been issued to the United States rev. enue cutter Rush to proceed to Unalas- ka to protect the seals iu Alaskan waters.
The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-15
PIIo. Crred In 6 toILDaTg

PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of IJchiUg, Blind, Bleed ing or Protruding Piles in to h days or money refunded. soc, M-W'F
The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-15
CREAM
Pure

America's finest production. Rich and mellow At the Seattle, the house of old honest goods and reputation ;!
The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-15

To know what means comfort in Skagway is to stay at the Fifth Avenue hotei-a modern hostelry in every way
The daily Alaskan., 1907-05-15
Fresh Meat

The Frye-Bruhn Co., keep all kind fresh meat constantly on hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

or compressed into cakes. Pemmican does not immediatel appeal to the alien palate The fat gives 1t a flavor that IS rather nauseating, but it Is taste that can be easily acquired. Pemmican has great nutrltive powers and it is possi- ble easily to carry a supply lasting for days without unduly burdening the trav- eler.
 The Sioux have always been meat eat CTS. They grew no vegetables at all. Tribal history has 1t that one of the tribes, which roamed rich bottomlands, once tried the experiment of raising corn. but the others called them squaws ana other names that do not agree with the Indian temper and the crop was never harvested. Some of them grew wild rice, but the cultivation of crops was tasE that never appealed to the naughty Brules and their kin, and that old he- reditary disinclination still clings to many of them In this day.
 The Pawnees and Otoes and Piegans, the great tribes of the plains, grew GOTH of three or four varieties, the most popu- lar being a long blue-eared variety that does not appeal to the experts. It was most prized when roasted. They did not despise the succulent buffalo meat. ana often cooked it with squashes ana peans of a semi-wild variety. The pumpkih and the watermelon were not unknown to the Indians The trepsin, or pIa1i ,e turnip. was another delicacy that the reus ate both cooked and raw Choke cherries, pounded up and dried and carried Tn sacks. was another favorite travel ioou. Mixed with Pemmican as sups'ilu'e for the melted fat, 1t gave oencacy oi equal nutritive value and mucn pieas- anter to the taste.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
Husband Qualities.
a Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 An animated discussion regarding the comparative excellence or Amer ican and English husbands has been carried on for some time in an eastern paper. The English husbands have had fully as many champions as have the American. though most of those con tributing to the discussion were Amer ican men and women.
 If was ludicrous to read some of the arguments brought forth against the English husbands. Dozens of writers vehemently asserted that Englishmen were not good husbands because they refused to push their babies peram- bulators along the streets. Then came replies stating that the reason they did not push the perambulators was that for generations it had been the custom not to do so. But this point was not brought forward against the Englishman so often as the one that he sometimes allowed his wife to black his boots The answer was hurled back that an Englishman would never think of letting his wife press his trousers, as Americans do. This pre- cipitated an argument which ended about were it began, which was wltn the question, 'Is 1t more humilfatinS for woman to black her husband s boots than to press and clean ms clothes?"
 Finally attention was distracted from this point by some one writing a letter attempting to prove that the American man was a good husband only because he didn't dare be anything else. while the Englishman was from choice. The writer of this letter went on to say that the Englishman was boss Tn ms home, while the American man was only a partner who shared equally with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
OIL COMPANY APPEALS.
Assignments of Error In the Waters
 Pierce Case Are Sent In.


 austin, July 20.-The assignment of error in the antitrust suit of the state of Texas against the Waters-Pierce oil company were filed today with District Clerk Pickle by the attorneys for the defense. The instrument con- tains flfty-seven typewriter pages and twenty-eight assignments of reversible errors In the rulings by Judge Brooks. The principal errors complained of are limitation of amount of damages, the appointment of receiver, damages assessed under the act of 1899, after the act of 1903 had become law, the introduction of the mandate of the supreme court of the United States in the suit against the former Waters Pierce Oil company, the judgment in lne old old case and the introduction of the testimony of H. Clay Pierce as given in the antitrust hearing in Mis- souri,
 The assignments of error will be sent to the civil court of appeals for the Third Supreme Judicial district with the mandate of the district court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

cnnati killed himself because his wife refused to scratch his back; Mrs. Rainey Pittsburg swallowed carbolic acid because she did not believe she cooked well enough to please her husband d young lad in Pennsylvania hanged himself because he was too bashful to attend school; John Davison, of Indiana, fearing he would be buried alive, choked himself to death; Henry Wilkes of O5io was one of tine many cases C<S too much mother in law, and took the poison route for relief; be- cause he was a humpbaclI, a young man in Arkansas cut his throat; Samuel Bur- rows of Pennsylvania choked himself to death with bakers bread; her sweet heart not keeping an appointment caused a young lady of the same state to end her life with dose of carbolic acid q Geor- gia citizen shuffled off this mortal coil by jumping into an open furnace because his wife did not present him with a boy baby; another man in Alabama wanted twins, and because the doctor did not leave them he drowned himself; it was a Florida man who hanged himself with a clothesline because he could not attend church; fear of reinstatement from his father caused a South Carolina lad to jump into river; William Sefton of the District of Columbia killed himself after q young lady refused to marry him; an other from the same place, William  Thomas, an actor, took rough on rats because he believed life a failure; a de- mented man in Nebraska cut his throat because angels were calling him every day to come to heaven;" rumors circd- lated that a young man had negro blood in his veins caused a North Caronian to cut his throat failure to make good on an assignment caused a young reporter on Colorado paper to shoot himsef
 rather than see her children want for bread, a Minnesota young woman hanged herself: tired of d farmers life, and knowing his wife could get his insurance money, a Connecticut farmer took a blow line and ended his existence; because hls allowance was cut down to $l2oOO a year, a young man in California went by the carbolc acid route; dread of hydro phobia so preyed on the mind of West Virginia man that he used an old musltSt to put himself out of trouble; gambling debts which he could not meet was the cause assigned by a man in Illinois Tor ending his life and thousands of such cases could be cited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
SUICIDE WAVES.
Odd Causes and Methods of SeIfDe- struction Revealed by Records.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
 During the past year, according to re- ports from a large number of states. the number of suicides in the United States will reach 20 per cent more than for the previous year, and the increased percent age in foreign countries will equal, if not so beyond, that of this country. Natural ly the heavy increase in the United States may be attributed largely to the large increase in population, but suicide statis- ties show a much larger increase than does that of our population.
 There was a time when history showed that suicide obtained almost entirely to nations sunk in enervating luXuries and vices and that individual cases occurring in a healthier condition of society were invariably traceable either to moral de- generacy or to mental lmbccility. Such conditions do not now exist, for suicides come from every walk and condition of life. from the rich, poor intelligent, igno- rant, white, and colored-from every class the great list of self-destroyed is made up
 The Japanese are the only people known to history among whom there Is an estab- 1ished mode of suicide. The Jap draws the line at a pistol or rough rats, but from his earliest days is taught the in- dispensable part of his education-hdri- kiri, or. in plain English, Happy dis patch" a mode of disembowling ones self, with which every Japanese of con dition must be theoretically familiar. Americans and other nations adopt any and every means which will accomplish the work. There are many means now used which were not in reach of the poets, philosophers, historians. orators and other great men of the days long gone who put period to their existence. They were entirely unfamiliar with the meth ods employed in these enlightened days, if they may be so termed. Think of Briton killing himself by rolling down the great Pyramid; a Greenwish pension CT using his spectacles to stab himself to death; Chenier thrusting brass key down his throat; Demosthenes taking poison which he carried in pen; Labie nus burning himself to death, because his writing were burned; Cato's daughter, Portia and Catulus Lutatius swallowing burning coals of fire Herennius beating his brains out against a post; the old philosopher, Empedocles. throwing him. self into the crater of Nesuvius; Dem ocles scading himself to death Aris- tarchus starving himself; Hannibal drink ing bulls blood and Cassius Licinus choking himself with a napkin because he feared Ciceros judgment.
 The causes and the means are almost in numerabe but the one which most quick Iy touches the heart is that furnished by the larger cities almost daily; No work no bread, no home, no hope Wtih- out these it does seem that life Is not worth the living. But there are hundreds of frivolous causes assigned. woman fin Philadelphia committed suicide because she believed her husband loved their baos better than he did herself; man in Cin-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
TRAVEL FOOD OF THE INDIANS
The Aborignes the Original Breakfast
 Food Makers.

From the New York Sun.
 The original breakfast food maker in America was the Indian. Years ago he turned out a corn grit that not all the skill of Battle Creek has been able to surpass. It did not need to have sugar and cream upon 1t to make 1t palatable and 1t was famous in all the Indian country as "the travel food" The h. dians called it ahpuskey. Corn was removed from the cob just before 1t had hardened and cooked in pot until a tawny colored mass resulted. From the pot 1t was dumped into a mortar and pounded until 1t turned out a coarse meal. Some wood ashes were sprinkled over the mixture, and as a usual thing some maple sap was added
 When an Indian started off to travel he swung on his back a small skin bag of ahpuskey. While 1t lasted he need ed no other food. At any brookside he came to he could stop, put a few teaspoonfuls of the grits in an impro- vised cup and soften it with water He had a food with a most appetizing flavor and a power to sustain existence that was marvellous The tfappers and hunters who pioneered the country of the Indian early learned it's value, but only among the Indians of the five civ ilized tribes of the territory Is an ahpuskey to be found.
 Another travel food that also did good service as the family messpot is known as sofkey or tomfulla. Until the territory reds got so much money there was always a sofkey pot or two hanging in the kitchen for the coming guest.
 Sofky is made of corn, wood ashes, lye and water. Long, slender ears of corn, the smaller and fiintier the grains the bet ter, are selected at the earliest time it is possible to shell the kernels. These are soaked In water until the outer skin is separated. The latter is strained off and the residue pounded until it is a mass of grts. A sitter made of intertwined cane or of dogwood was used to separate the husks from the cracked grain. and in this task practice made the squaws remark ably expert.
 The grains were then dumped into pot of water and boiled for half a day. Lye was added to prevent fermentation, and give the acid taste that was its chief re- commendation to the sofkey educated pal ate. Great pots holding several gallons were used and after the cooking was nearly completed some wood ashes were added and the pot banked In the fire to keep it warm Two pots were kept on tap one of cold and the other of warm. The latter was to cheer the guest on his arrival or for use as the dinner pot. Long wooden spoons lured the mess from it's earthen receptacle. The cold was tapped on his departure or the going of a mem Der of the family on a journey, to be par taken of much the same as ahpuskey. The southern Indians were distinguished from the Dakotas and Athabascans by the fact that they were greater vege- tarians. In the north the Indian used pemmican, the same old pemmican that is still in use in the Hudson bay coun- try. Pemmican is made of the lean meat Of wild game, cut into t~in slices and pounded until it Is reduced to small par ticles Over this melted fat is poured, and the mass stuffed into small bags
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
LEGAL BATTLING
 OVER KARL HAU Germans Are KeenIy Interested
 in the Trial ADMIRATION FOR PRISONER Judge Threatens to Fine Lenck for Refusing to Testify In the Case, But Hau Agrees to Tell
 What He Knows.
ADMIRATION FOR PRISONER

Karlsruhe, July 20.-Four days of legal battling over the life of Karl Hau, the one time professor of Roman law at George Washington universl- ty, Washington, D. C., who is charged with the murder of Frau Molitor, his moth her- in-law, at Baden Baden, on the 26th of last November, leaves the fate of the man still hanging in the balance
 The German public is showing an absorbing interest in the case and the newspapers are running off and selling greatly enlarged editions.
 The streets outside the court room are filled continuously by large crowd.
 Hau remains the center of attraction. The crowd is showing him a certain admiration because of the stout for titude with which he bears up against the pitiless array of facts pointing to his guilt Nevertheless the prisoner Is losing confidence.
 At the afternoon session the judge decided to impose fine on Lenck for refusing to testify Lenck is young artist. The question of infor- nation given him by Hau, while they were fellow prisoners in jail arose and Iau said rather than see Lenck punished, he decided to make an expla- nation. He had returned to the con- tinent he said, to see Olga, for whom he had conceived a violent passion. He wanted to meet her before he returned to the United States. She knew noth- ing of his intention and he had as- sumed a disguise in order to carry his purpose until recognized. Hau ad- mitted the correctness of the testi- mony of all the witnesses regarding his actions in Baden Baden and said that he telephoned to the Molitor villa on the afternoon of the murder with the sole purpose of getting Frau Molitor away from the house.
 Whoa he later saw Olga leaving the house with her mother. he was so dis appointed over the Illustration of his plan that he went to the station at full speed and heard no shot fired.
 The presiding judge asked Hau wh, he adopted such roundabout way 'r procedure why he had not communi- cated directly with Olga. Hau an- swered that he was too agitated at the time to adopt a clear plan of ac-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
From the Theatre Magazine.

From the Theatre Magazine.
 Hers the rare gift of being thorough ly, fully alive. Hers the genius of keeping a girls heart in a woman's bosom Miss Terrys charm Is as in- eseapable, as irresistible as the sun shine. One may have waited for her three hours in the polar air of an empty stage at zero weather, spirits dropping In the depressing environ ment of unpeopled wings and vacant boards and empty orchestra chairs, but when Miss Terry appears all mental miasma vanishes before her smile, and her Poor dear! It's too bad, isn't it?"
 Miss Terry has the genius of enjoy ment, the elf power of extracting from an hour all the essence of joy in it. In part from abundant vitality in part from ready sympathy has this genius it's source. It endows with changeless youth. Miss Terry, like Peter Pan, Is the girl who has never grown up.
 Critics have tried to analyze her art as distinct from her charm. They have failed as they would have failed had they tried to part a rose from it's fra grance. Her charm Is not merely part of her. It is herself. It's com
 
 lights up her face as the rising sun irradiates a landscape a swift, CT ratio, humming bird kind of locomo- ton that can scarcely be called any thing so merely human as a walk, but that Is inexpressibly graceful; in minglng of intelligence and sympathy that translates the thought of her vis- avis before it is uttered; and a cheer tulness that transforms a gray day into essential Ia her never hagging interest in every body and everything.
 Great literary analysts have tried to sum up Ellen Terry in a few phrases. They have admitted that her strange, enchanting personality baffied them. Said Charles Reade: Ellen Terry Is ar enigma: her eyes arc pale. her nose rather long, her mouth nothing partic- ular, complexion a delicate brickdust, hair like tow. Yet, somehow, she is beautiful. Her expression kills any pretty face one sees beside hers. Her figure Is lean and bony, her hand mas culine in size and form. yet she Is a pattern of fawnlike grace; whether in movem ent or repose, grace pervades the hussy." Thus he wrote of her in the sos, thus he might now write of her
 Home means much to Miss Terry-in- deed, Klpling has it that no one knows how much a womans house is to her, that to write of her without a reference to her home would be to leave picture
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

his wife in authority. This caused endless friction, while In England domestic lie was much smoother. Then the writr added that no home could have two heals in authority; that 1t was all very well 10 talk about such thing, but no concen in which various people were interesttd ever ran smoothly unless there was one person whose authority was unquestio,- able: that the Engllshman was very len lent in the exercise of his authority be- cause there was never any question of lis right to It. While the American chaf,d under the fact that his authority was nbt recognized, he submitted to dictation sim ply because he had to. ''The American woman will pay dearly for the insistende on her part that she be as much the head of the house as Is her husband" said the writer in conclusion.
 There were many Americans who wrote upholding this writer's opinion. She was an American woman married to an En- glishman.
 And when you come to look at the mat ter fairly, doesn't it seem as if her view was correct? Can a home be peaceful that has two heads equal in authority? You may say that when two people ara rightly mated this may be possible. But such marriages are not frequent on this earth, where we are all pretty human.
 According to the trend of opinion in the discussion referred to, a woman who had offers of marriage from both an English man and American would have this ques- tion to decide: Shall I accept the Amer ican and thereby have a husband who al- ways recognizes my authority as equal to his own, even when he doesn't want to, because he knows if he does otherwise there will be trouble, or shall marry the Englishman, who, nine times out of ten, will defer to me and follow my opinion.
 T tl,O, trien but because he prefers not to use the au- thority which he knows I recognize as his?"
 In one case she'll get a husband who yields to her because he has to; the other one who yields because he wants to.