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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
MlsSISSIPPPs NEEDS URGED.
Great Area Involved In the Proposed
 Waterways Improvement.

From the St. Louis Globe Democrat
 From east to west the Mississippi valley
 covers 20o0 miles. and from north to south nearly as many. It is needless to say
 that it's population, now 100000. is in-
 creaslng fast. No valley of the world equals 1t in the production of breadstuffs meat, cotton timber. and petroleum. At the recent meeting of the Upper Missis-
 slnpi River Improvement association. one
 O. it's officials. A. l.. Crocl<er of Minne-
 sota, said the time has come for the
 cities of the Mississippi valley to work together for the improvement of the main river as all have a vital interest in the subject
 "If Minneapolis. he remarked "can get an average of 12 feet to St. Louis if
 will be worth several railroads to her from commSrcial standpoint" It can be
 added that ths existing railroads would
 not be injured by improved transportation by water Scarcity of freight is not the railroad problem. On the contrary, the i puzzle for them Is to avoid congestion of traffic. When a student of American progress looks over the Mississippi val ley, and weighs the extent to which 1t is already the granary of the world though it's resources are largely unde- VelOped, he must realize that the arteries of transportation are materially it's lead i ing question. and that vigorous action on the subject should begin now and be maintained with uninterrupted energy Improved waterways are a regulator of freight rates and every mill per ton mile
 saved reaches up into an item of hun
 dreds of millions of dollars.
 In swiftness of carriage waterways are not expected to compete with railroads. but in transporting bulky articles they are of unequaled value. Perhaps the tur- bine engine. or something better, will give an approach to railroad speed for passenger boats, but the main utility of deep waterways will be to handle ore. grain, coal. heavy manufactures and other weighty productions The Mississippi valley will be overwhelmed with it's own richness if it's rivers are not improved 1 SO as to pass readily to internal ports ! and to the seae what it raises and makes.
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tors Commons for copy of Lady Yer
 finders will as soon as that document had
 been probated.
 He suspected Alberwhite of purely mer-
 cenary motives intfeeking Rachel fin mar
 rlage. If he was right in his suspicious,
 he concluded that the fact that Rachel
 had only a life interest in her mothers es-
 tate would cool the ardor of the lover, es-
 pecially if as MT. Bruff suspected, God
 frey had hidden debts of a pressing na-
 ture
 The solicitor had talked with Rachel
 who said that she had only accepted God
 frey in a fit of despair; that she did not
 love him, and that fin spite of every
 thing her heart was still Franklin
 Blakes. What that everything" was
 she refused to say However, she broke
 off her engagement with Godfrey who
 took his dismissal very calmly and inn mediately went off seeking a bride with ready capital among his fellow workers fin the philanthropic field.
 Meantime Franklin Blake roamed around the east, dreaming of Rachel in the tents of the Bedouins and sitting amid the ruins of Karnack to wonder what in the name of reason had made her treat him as she did. Finally he re- ceived news of the death of his father, and his solicitor wrote that his presence in England was demanded for the settle ment of the great estate which had fai- len to him.
 No sooner did Franklin see again the white cliffs of Albion than his whole heart leaped with the thought of Rachel, and he became determined to come to an understanding with her at all hazards. At first he hoped that time had made her more reasonable In this surmse he found he was mistaken. But time hal made Blake more determined Thus he did see her at last and alone. He ap- pealed to her by the memory Of the love she once had confessed for him, in the name of reason and in the name of justice to clear away the clouds that had come between them.
 At first Rachel was apparently melted. But suddenly turning on the young man. she said with flashing eyes: You cow ard! You thief I, with my own eyes.
 saw you enter my sitting room and take Moonstone from the cabinet and go away with 1t. Leave mel
 Blake gazed at the girl in dumb amaze ment and left her presence without d word. His brain reeled. Had the ac- cursed Moonstone indeed bewitched ev- erybody? That night after several pipes of tobacco. he came to this conclusion: At Lady Verinder's place in Yorkshire this mystery had begun He would go down to the place of the beginning and. starting all over again, try to find some clue by which to unravel the tangled skein. | near the verinder place. He stroled over 1 to the old place and had a chat with old l Betteredge. the steward who still guard !, ed the deserted house
 l "Bv the way" said Betteredge. when I they had talked for some time. do you l remember maid who was here al the
 time of the Moonstone offair. one Ros-
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away with her daughter. "Rachel Is still obdurate. She will not see you and can not bear even to hear your name men, tioned. Go away for awhile, my dear, and hope that new surroundings will work cure in her, and that some day we shall get to the bottom of this dark mystery As for the, Moonstone, I never want to see 1t again.
 Franklin was bitterly distressed by his cousins treatment of him, and sorely puzzled. He did not share Lady Verin- der's belief that Rachel was mentally un- balanced. He believed that her treat ment of him and her other inexplicable actions were the outcome of some evil mistake and he felt that if she were less naughty and self-wiled-if she would only be frank with him and tell all she knew or suspected-the mystery might readily be solved. Therefore 1t was with a feeling of anger as well as with the grief of the bereaved lover that he set out for an indefinite period of travel. If Rachel could forget he would try to do the same.
 The Indian jugglers were discharged; {; but before they were released there came to them a letter, written in an Indian dia- lect. The letter was opened by the Jailer and read by MT. Murthwaite before being delivered It ram Tn the name of the Regent of the Night whose seat Is on tho antelope, whose arms embrace the four corners of the earth, brothers, turn your faces to the south and come to me in the street of many noises which leads down to the muddy river. The reason is this. Mine own eyes have seen it.'
 Soon after the departure of the Indians from Frizinghall a MT. Luker. a we'll known money lender of London, com plained to d Migstrate that he had had tr dfspharRp pmnlOVp 1 for eigner of some sort, for attempted theft, and that a band of Indian jugglers con- stantly loitered about his place of busi- ness, apparently with q sinister design. A little later the newspapers had sensa- ton. MT. Godfrey Abelwhite and MT. Luker were each assaulted and searched in an identical manner by three Indians. From Godfrey Abelwhite nothing was stolen; but from Luker was taken d paper which was the duplicate of re- ceipt that he had given for what he de- scribed as a rare Eastern gem" In court MT. Luker refused to say from whom he had received the gem, but he declared that it was deposited with his bankers.
 The story of the Moonstone now was re- vived in the press; but MT. Luker de- clared that he had never even heard of such a gem. Suspicion began to hint about Godfrey Abelwhite But Rachel made written statement that, to her certain knowledge. Godfrey was not the astealer of the diamond.
 Shortly afterward Godfrey again pro- posed marriage to Rachel. He was ac- cepted. The wedding date was fixed. but
 1t was not to be. Lady Verinder suddenly succumbed to an old disease of the heart. Before the period of mourning was ended. MT. Brur. who took fatherIy interest in all that pertained to Rachel, learned that Godfrey Abelwhite had sent to Doc
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book to him. We must examine all tho clothing in the house."
 Godfrey Abelwhite, who, like his cousin, Franklin Blake. was still a guest at Lady Vernders, immediately offered all his be- longings for the inspection. and so did Franklin. Lady Verinder did so, too. of course, and the servants had to submit But Rachel declared that no one should examine her wardrobe, and, furthermore, that she desired to leave home and go to her aunt's at Frizinghall forthwith. See Franklin Blake before she went? Not on any account
 At once Sergeant Cuff began to form a new theory He had investigated the doings of the Indians held in detention at Frzinghail and was convinced that they had not been near Lady Verinder's after they had given their performances in the late afternoon. They had perfect alin. But somebody must have stolen the dia- mond Inspiraton--it was Rachel her. self, She had stolen her own gem. Had not sne alone of all the people in the house refused to have her wardrobe ex- amined?
 In the full and long experience of Ser geant Cuff he had met many young ladies outwardly as correct as Miss Verinder, who had little debts of their own that they did not wish their family to discover Rachel had stolen the diamond and had either sent it to London by some trusty messenger or she would take 1t there her. self. The gem would turn up in the pos- cession of some London jeweler; and it this fantastic story about it's being the Moonstone were true, and not something invented to give an additional value to the stone, the Indians would be found hanging around the place of it's deposit for even Gun had begun to come to be- lieve that though the Orientals had not stolen the diamond they wanted to, and had strange ways of knowing where to look for 1t.
 The great detective unfolded his theory to Lady Verindera begging her not to be disturbed-such incidents being exceed ingly common in fashionable society Lady Verinder was disturbed, however, very greatly. Could 1t be possible that the detectlves suspicious were correct? {? No She must at all hazards retain her faith in her daughter, though Rachel still refused to make a confidante of her mother or offer any explanation of her strange conduct. Lady Verinder deter mined to close the incident of the Moon stone forever. She paid Sergeant Cuff and dismissed him.
 Then she paid a visit to her daughter and demanded to know why she would not receive her fiance. Franklin Blake Instead of replying, Rachel begged her mother to take her to London. She said that all was over between Blake and her self No further explanation would she give.
 Lady vcrinder began to conjecture now that her daughters mind was affected She consulted doctor and at his advice went with her to London in the hope that the diversion of society might restore her to her more normal state. Poor Frank lin,' she said to Blake before she went
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Not Happy as Claudius.

From the New York Sun.
 A New Yorker. recently returned from England where he saw much of the tinsel and tin armor pageantry by which va rious anniversaries have been celebrated at Oxford and elsewhere, tells this;
 A Roman in costume approached a fel- low timed character and asked:
 Are you Appius Claudius?'
 "No." responded the other dejectedlS. "rm not as sppy as Claudius; I'm as un appy as ell.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

Next Sundays One-Page Classic will be "The Last of the Mohcans,' by James Fenimore Cooper.
The newspaper., 1907-01-18

reverence for the law and to
obey it, but is better citizen
and better fit for this honor than
the so-called caucus nominee
whom you are now attempting to
elevate into this high office.
OF all the evils of this day, dis
regard for law is the worst. OF
all the men who have stood
against it, our president has been
the best. To him we have
pledged our unqualified support.
Can you imagine this man, Mr.
Guggenheim, standing shoulder
to shoulder with the president in
carrying out that policy7 The
very idea is preposterousl
And who is it that will rejoice
at this mans election2 Is it the
people of our state? Not one of
you will contend that is true.
On the contrary, however, every
enemy of square deal in busi-
ness and in politics will feel the
thrill of rejoicing when this man
wins this high Office. He will
take it as equivalent to notice
that the power of money in poll
tics has been a little longer es-
tablished and its supremacy will
be prolonged. Upon hearing this
news Addicks, of Delaware,
Clark, OF Montana, Platt and De-
pew, of New York, and other
men of their type and stripe will
feel gratifed that at last one
state remains that will send men
of their type to the senate to
prolong their power little yet.
Not big business concern in
the country that has profited by
violations of the law, not a law
violator of smaller degree who
has lived by nfractions of the
law, but will feel a little safer
when he hears of this mans cleo
ton. And | say to you, as a
member OF this assembly, as one
elected upon the republican
ticket, that the moment you ratify
that so-called caucus nomination
by an election here, you repudiate
the platform upon which you ran
into Office. You bolt it; you hurl
it back into the face of the people
to whom you Dragged of its
promises, and to serve notice to
all the world that its only purpose
was to gain the confidence of the
voters.
Leading men Of great industries
have written him open letters
asking his views and he has
treated those letters with a con-
temptuous silence. People have
sought to find out what stand he
would take upon this question or
that, but no answer has ever been
vouchsafed to the public.
He does state, however, that in
the event of his election he will
resign all connection with the
American Smelling and Refining
Company. That in itself is COM
plete confession that man in his
position, having the relations he
holds with the business he has,
The newspaper., 1907-01-18

having permitted that business to
be operated as it has been opera
ted. is absolutely unfit for the
Office which he seeks; otherwise,
he would have no reason for
resigning his connection with it,
and in connection with that we
see nothing but subterfuge.
Can you imagine a state that
has had as senators Jerome B.
Chaffee, an N. P. Hill and an
Edward o. Wolcott, sending this
man to the United States senate7
Can you imagine this man being
selected as those men were to
outline party policies and defend
the administration? Compare
him, also, with the men who
founded the party-Lincoln, Grant,
Blaine, and its present leaders,
and among the founders of the
republican party, and among its
great leaders, do you find any
Morgans, any Rockefellers, any
Ryans, any Harrimans. any Gugg-
enheims?
1t is impossible that this man
should ever become a party leader
in this state. He does not reflect
the character, the intelligence nor
the views of the Republicans of
Colorado. The methods of his
election are satire upon the
square deal" that we boast of,
and his elevation to this office
equivalent to an insult to every
man and woman in the state of
Colorado who has reverence for
the law and obeys it, and who con-
ducts his or her business in a law
full manner, upholding by their
conduct and their sanction the
laws of the state and of the gov
ernment.
nominate as the Republican
candidate for United States sena-
tor man who has spent a life
time of service for the party, who
has devoted his time and energies
as unselhshly as any man ever
did to the principles of cause,
and who received the highest
vote for governor of the state of
Colorado that was ever cast for a
republican candidate in the state
Frank c. Goudy.
In presenting his name | state
plainly that he consents to it at
my solicitation and request. He
was willing to have it known that
in this state, at this time, there
was one man among the great
men in the party who was not so
fearful OF his future or who cared
so much about it. or who was so
selfish of his personal interests,
that he would not stand up here
and now and array himself
against what the rank and file of
the republican party look upon
as an infamous bargain which
the erstwhile leaders of the or
ganization OF our party have
made in attempting to deliver
this high Office to man whose
The newspaper., 1907-01-18
candidates for the United States

candidates for the United States
senate"
DO you interpret that to mean
that at this time, in the face of
this promise you should elect a
man who would undoubtedly be
low man in contest of fifty men
for that place? Would you like
to have the people of Colorado
rise up now and give an extern.
poraneous expression of their
choice for the United States SEN
ator? How would it suit your
present purposes7 | will ask you
would it not be in keeping with
the spirit and law of this provi-
sion, and do not you and | abso-
lutely violate it when we seek to
put into the highest Office in the
state this man, who would be the
last choice of the people?
Listen again to our party plat
form:
I'VE recommend the enactment
of law governing the railway
commerce OF the state along the
lines of the national rate law"
Do you not know that Inter
state Commerce Commissioner
Clark, while hearing evidence in
Pueblo a few weeks ago. un-
earthcd the fact that the Ameri-
can Smelling and Refining COM
pany, of which this man, Mr..
Guggenheim. is the head. was re-
ceiving preferential rates, below
the public tariff granted to other
shippers, in violation of the fed
eral law2 Do you think there
fore, that this man will support
President Roosevelt in his efforts
to extend the powers of this
same railroad commission2 Do
you think that a man with such
interests and such business as
sociations can honestly represent
the people of ColoradoT Do you
not think that his election is vi
olation of our party PLATFORM
Listen again to the republican
platform: 1--WE recommend the
enactment by the Legislature of
an antitrust law, which will pro-
hibit combinations in restraint of
trade"
The man you propose to send
to the United States senate is now
the head of the most exclusive
and oppressive trust in the state
of Colorado. His business has
gained this exclusive supremacy
to a large extent by reason of his
INVASION and violation of the
federal law in obtaining prefer
entail railroad rates, thereby
being enabled to crush competi-
ton, which it has successfully
done.
There is not small merchant,
a farmer or a miner in the state of
Colorado, who provides honestly
for lis family by doing business
on an honest and square basis,
asking no favors of the law or of
other business enterprises that
may have influence, who trains
up his children to have
The newspaper., 1907-01-18

Every member of this assembly
that casts his vote for this man
notifies the people of Colorado,
whom he represents, that this
man Guggenheim is his first and
only choice for United States
senator. and he says in effect that
the mere possession of great
wealth. unaccompanied by other
qualifications. better fits man
for high Office than ability, in
tegrity and loyalty to party prin-
ciples; he takes the position that
all considerations of ability, in
tegrity and belief in party princi-
plies should be eliminated if they
conflict with the demands of the
organization to elect a man whose
only recommendation is the inn
mense wealth that he possesses
and the contributions which ne
has made to the campaign fund,
The election of this man is in
absolute contravention of both
the letter and the spirit of the
republican platform.
Let me see, then, what the re-
publican platform says: I'VE
favor measure which will pro-
vide for the expression by the
people of their preferences for
The newspaper., 1907-01-18

The So called caucus which
convened on December 81 last
was called without authority by
State Chairman Vivian. the man
ner of convening it and the time
and the place being arbitrarily
fixed by him without consultation
or conference with members.
No member of this assembly is
bound by that sc-called caucus,
unless he confesses the right of
and consents to have his action
as a member OF this assembly die
tated in advance in all particulars
by his state chairman; unless he
acknowledges the right of the
chairman to take from him abso-
lutely his constitutional right of
considering and celebrating upon
questions after he enters upon his
duties; unless he consents to and
acquiesces in the delivery of his
rights to the chairman, in viola.
ton of his constitutional rights;
unless he confesses that the chair
man can arbitrarily compel him
20 take such action and in such a
manner as will cause him to ig-
more and repudiate the letter and
spirit of his party platform.
The newspaper., 1907-01-18
INDICTS PARTY MANAGERS.
Hon. NJ. D. Vincent, in Ringing Speech,
Castigates the Managers who Sold the
State to Guggenheim.

To those, watching this the speech of
Hon M D. Vincent liberal which publish herewith
will prove interesting reading There always reasonable
This people been fooled so
often that they rather film of the
1t would be worth considerable what has actually
taken place fall before the and the
between the republican officials of this Mr. Guggenhems
M D. Vincent Enough indicate that Mr.
Vincent refused Guggy chariot wheels and that
he still refuses seek capuaon 1t also known that
Mr. Guggenhem literally endowed the committee of this
county
hands.
Mr. Vineents speech feeling different
from what the thereof There reads
undercuren outraged pride defiance dcaton
willingness immediate himself the altar his
and superb disregard for orders from the either
home abroad
The revolt
One high regard for the peoples coupled with knowl
edge that those being abridged the other from
That the individual being oppressed and unfairly treated but
this latter there usually OF evengu feeling than Mr.
Vincent shows
His speech the though tinctured
largely spirit OF injured pride Our readers will anayze his
Personally believe Mr. Vincent apprec
mistreated and placed
His speech all the bell wethers that he
independent offer what
naturally 90 by eprnng copousy these columns will
made this for Following extracts
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-23
District Court.

Pursuant to adjournment on the l4th
inst, session of district court was
convened at 10 o'clock last Wednes-
day forenoon, with Judge Paul Leche
on the bench and all other court
officers in attendance. In the suit OF
Fairbanks vs.. Fairbanks, an answer
was dled and the case fixed for trial
Dec. %. Judgment for plaintiffs
was rendered in the case of Parker
Blake Co., Ltd, vs.. Mrs. Lucille j.
Shallowhorne. A default was entered
In the case OF r. D. Landry VS.. Mrs.
Jean Bourg. The case of Franklin
MacVeagh & Co. vs.. Donaldsonville
Rice Mill was continued indefinitely
on account of the absence OF counsel
for plaintiff. Court then adjourned.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-23
NlemoriaI ExercisesI

Appropriate exercises in honor OF
the memory OF the late John F. Ter.
rio were held in the Knights OF Column
bus hall at the conclusion OF high
mass last Sunday forenoon under the
auspices OF Ascension Council No.
1887, of which organization Mr.. Ter.
rio was a jealous and popular mem.
Der. DR.. E. T. Dugas OF Assumption
presided as grand knight. and clio.
auent addresses of eulogy we're deliv.
cred by Hon. P. NJ. Lambremont Of
ST. James and Attorney B. J. Vega
and j. Arthur Melaneon, of Donald
sonvi1le. A large proportion O
the membership of the council, be
sides number Of the relatives and in
innate friends of the deceased, were II
attanda nea