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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

a tree Is cut down, rresh shoots may come out of the stump: But man dieth, and wasteth away; yea man giveth up the ghost. and where is he7 Man lleth down and riseth not. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake. not be raised out of their sleep. If a man dle slSeptical frame of mind when lie used these words. then I am absouutely at a loss in Interpreting his language.
 We knew that in modern times, even with all the light of the New Testament to guide them, excellent Christian men have had serious doubts. Of the loved and loving Cowper, one of the most guile- less spirits of his day Mrs. Browning beautiful sings:
 "Oh poetsl from the maniaos tongue
 Was poured the deathless Ringing; O 0..rlstiansl at your cross of hope
 A hopeless hand was olinging.
 O men this man in brotherhood
 Your weary paths beguillng,
 Groaned inly, while he taught you peace,
 And died while ye were smiling"
 Few of our hymn writers have done so much to help and comfort Zion as did William Cowper, and yet he lived and died under a cloud.
 Why should we doubt that our "preaeh- err in his darker moods, now and then took somber views of human life and conduct, especially when hls language often shows that he was speaking of ex- periences and of mental frames which belonged to a past period of tie life.
 In the seventh chapter and tenth verse of his treatise, our author decidedly con- demns pesslmism: Say not thou what
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
~ UNDAY, March 27, 1874, was {
 memorable day for Alabama.

~ UNDAY, March N, 1874, was a
 memorable day for Alabama. l
 0 might mention various decisive events in the history of our state, some of which we are not particularly proud of. For instance, that August day in 1864 when Farragut defeated the Confederate navy in Mobile bay, or the sad Sabbath day in April, 1865, when the remnant of For rests command was annihiliated at Sel- ma. But of them all, the critical Battle of the Horseshoe Bend" was most im- portant, not only as affecting Alabama, but likewise her sister states, Georgia and Mississippi.
 The hostile Indians, headed by the brave warriors of the Creek nation, had been giving grave trouble, greatly accentuated by English emissaries, the second war with Great Britain having begun two years previously. At that time the ter ritory now comprising the state of Ala bama was very thinly settled, and, in order to oppose the Creeks, Gen. Andrew Jackson had been sent with an army of 2000 men, composed mostly of Ten nesseans. Second in command was that valiant Alabamian, Gen. John Coffee of Florence, Lauderdale county.
 The Indians from various settlements in Georgia and middle Alabama, had gradually concentrated their forces and occupied the Horseshoe bend of the Tallapoosa river, some twelve miles north of the present town of Dadeville Doubt less they considered the position impreg- nable, for they left practically no defense for their families. congregating their wives, their children, their sick and their belongings on the level land at the toe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Yet the resting place of Major Montgom- cry Is almost unknown, and altogether unhonored.
 Bunker Hil was no more important or critical conflict than the battle of the Horseshoe Bend, yet for long scores of years the battlefield of Bunker Hill has been honored by a grateful country, while tho battle of the Horseshoe Bend Is left desolate, unmarked, unvislted save by the veriest few. The greatest, the most critical battle In Alabama history, a battle that opened three noble states to settlement, yet all evidences of that noble day, ninety three years ago, are being obliterated by the swift changing years.
 Surely there Is no lack of patriotism amongst us there Is no lack of knowl- edge of the famous battle for every school child In Alabama has studied of the Battle of the Horseshoe Bend. Now when Alabama is at last able to lift her head somewhat above the grinding dtain of poverty, cannot we do something now, before it Is too late, to commemorate this noble battle7 While there arc yet living men who remember tho early points of vantage on the battlefield, cannot their testimony be recorded and utilized In marking the salient features of the bat tle7
 Let us ASK Col Inofuhs h. buiBoI tv introduce Into the adjourned session of the legislature a bill appropriatng not less than s5O00 to purchase the one hundred acres comprising the old battle ground. and make state reservation of it. do- ing something toward making 1t park, Identifying the different points about the famous battlefield, the hill where Jackson planted his two guns, the breastworks erected by the brave Indlans, collecting mementoes of the battle, which oan still be found on the battle ground, and many doubtless in nearby homes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
BY BELLA ARMSTRONG.

impressiyeness of organ music and flower scented atmosphere, hear the minister In sonorous tones declare two young people man and wife9' Did 1t ever occur to you that he did not pronounce them ''husband and wife?" Indeed when you come to look closely into the matter is the man married at all? The officer has said, q prouonce you man and wife" but anybody is supposed from the gen. eral framework of the blushing bride groom to know that he is a man. The announcement adds nothing thereto. He was already. Oh, no. 1t Is the woman who is married. Nothing is said about pronouncing her woman, she Ia Just pronounced wife. Isn't that a delicious provision of the men7 And 1t is, of course, the men who made marrying books.
 asked bishop about 1t once and he told mo that he had considered the matter deeply and had looked in to every marriage service of which he knew and that they were all alike In that particu- lar. A'I pronounce you man and wife, l take his word for 1t; but It's queer Isn't it2
 Returning to the lass and the lack for a finale. This lack of the language to properly provide for chasing men In two sections, the hemispheres, so to speak, reminds me of story.
 A philosopher attended an evening party where a preponderance of girls made un- accustomed wall flowers of some very bright and charming women. many of the men having stopped at home' as our English cousins would say, or having "stayed away as Americans would blunt ly put 1t.
 The savant at supper was surrounded by a group of butterflies and he discoursed learnedly saying in concfuslon:
 "The English language is wofully deficient. Many words have no equivalent fin the masculine or feminine as the case may be- Now for instance. when a man is an escort. what Is the lady?" She's lucky" responded one of his hearers solemnly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

X To sooner is the mall taken aboard
 M at suez than the vessel once 4 more gets under way and enters the strait of suez, strip of water near ly two hundred miles long and from twelve to fifteen miles wide, The passage through the strait Is attended with in- terest to all readers of the Old Testa- ment, although the land on both sides Is bare and barren.
 The most conspicuous object and one which appears in view shortly after en- tering the strait is Mount Sinai. There it stands on the left hand side, bleak, bare and barren and rising out of the bare and barren desert. What thoughts rush upon the mind in the presence of that bald old mountain where once, amid thunder and lightning, Moses received the lawB which govern the world today. While the shores on either side present nothing but a sandy waste fading off in the sandy desert, 1t is easy for the im- agination to call to mind again the wan Gerings of the Israelites in that desert, and especially to mark with attention the spot pointed out as being the place where the sea rolled back its waters to permit their passage and where the same waters engulfed the army of Pharoh.
 Nothing is more useful on such a pass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

m HE first time set foot in this town
 I found the two great parties in-
 ! tent on politics and President mak- ing. That was in February, 1880. Roscoe conkling, assisted by Don Cameron Matt Carpenter, and John A. Logan, had charge of the Grant boom. MT. Blaine in person led the Blaine forces. John Sher- man. then secretary of the treasury, conducted his own campaign. A select few were for Senator Edmudns, who was not a candidate. There were numerous dark horses-Windom, Washburn and Garfield among them.
 In the other camp the old democratic party went blundering along. Every re- publican in the Union instinctively felt that Samuel J. Tilden as the opposing candidate would be invincible, and the one democrat who could be elected. Sam Randall was about the only prominent man at the national capital who saw what was as clear as monday, and that made him a Tilden man. All the others said that four years after the republicans stole the presidency the democrats could elect A weller dog, blind to the memorable logic that if you presented the issue you must accept the man who was representative of the issue. That logic was vindicated in 1892.
 
 judiciary committee, himself a profound lawyer, able statesman, and delightful man, sought to secure the nomination os MT. Justice Field, of the supreme bench, for some opinion or other he had render ed in a litigation growing out of the re- construction infamy. "Johngee" Thomp- son was pushing "the Old Roman then and for a dozen years the greatest sen- ator in Congress. Voorhees, and the In- diana squad were for Hendricks. Han cocks strength was spread over a large section north and south, due to his famous "order No 40," a magnificent state paper. worthy of Thomas Jefferson himself. Old Dave Davis had his rod up hoping to catch the democratic lightning as though he had not already cost the democratic party President by resign ing from the bench to go into the Senate About the time the roses came again that spring. there was Seymour boom that would have swept the convention off its feet had the thing been pulled off a month earlier than it was.
 Grant had the nomination nailed down if the unit rule had held, but Robertson. Belden, "Old Salt" and some others. led a revolt in New York; Washburn AAsArtAd Lasan in Illinois; Cameron con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
PU1 LABEL ON BENEDIC7S

A N English woman has suggested
 "A that the benedicts of this day \ and time assume wedding rings, thus distinguishing those of the fold from the ones of outer darkness. And 1t Is said that the King has given his royal sane ton and now the hand that wields the scepter wears a ring; no, it can hardly be so unless Edward Guelph is left handed, which~I have no reason to believe.
 The English woman, however, will have to go deeper into the problem if she wins out in her undertaking of branding the poor married man. It is not d wedding ring or the lack of 1t that will mark him as women are marked when matrmony settles down upon them for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer. Nay, mi lady's object will be attained only when she changes the custom of the language and enriches 1t by word.
 A married woman becomes Mrs.-by abreviation--whlle her unchosen sister re- mains Miss until death takes her for hls bride and then it is too late for titles.
 Man on the other is not 50 labeled. Be he benedict or bachelor. the fact Is not proclaimed at every introduction, from every housetop as he passes by. He Is left free to wander over hls neighoor preserves untrammeled, unhampered by a prefix which might put nm out ol lhS running. He may have wife In every state iii the union, |. seems hardly nec- essary to mention little thing like that and 1t is merely question of his neigh bsr' s-or his neighbours womenkinds- private knowledge whether said hunter is free to hunt.
 In the domain which King Edward rules with his ringed hand, an unmarried wo- man Is mistress of her own property ,nd of ,,,atiire age can assume the dig nitv of Mrs" if she chooses but woe to that American spinster who should dare such an innovation! The cartoonsts and the funny men would shortly make her wish she hadn't; and moreover, she would probably be arrested for appearing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
WILLIAM H. TAFT

Of the last three, each had Q solid Ohio behind him in convention. How 1t will be with Taft I do not know. If pros perity holds, he may be able to knock the plum. even if the senators should be sufficiently influential to put on the dele gation eight or ten anti-Taft delegates
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

There is no unit rule in republican con- -vention, and the rule only holds in dem- ocratio conventions because 1t smacks of state sovereignty.
 I do not believe that William H. Taft is as great a man as Grover Cleveland,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

and John Sherman were much greater
 men than Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, and William Mckinley. No one of the first three attained to the Presidency and for the reason that no one of them was fortunate enough to have a solid Ohio for him in convention.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-07-12
CHARGE TELEGRAPH COMBINE.
Western Union and Postal Companie!
Attacked in the East.

New York, July 10. - Acting on a
petition filed by Attorney General
William S. Jackson, Justice William
A. PlatZk, in the supreme court, yes
terday appointed r. Burnham Moffat,
an attorney, to take evidence based
upon the attorney generals allega-
lions that the Postal Cable and Tele-
graph company and the Western
Union Telegraph company have form
ed an illegal combination to increase
rates in New York and other states.
Mr.. Moffatt announced that the first
hearing in the matter would be held
at his Office in Wall street July 16.
In his petition Attorney General
Jackson charges that the alleged com
bine was formed in this city last Jan.
uary and is a monopoly in restraint of
competition in the telegraph business.
He asks that Robert G. Clowry, Clar.
ence Mackey, George j. Gould. +. II.
Hartman, Norris K. Jessup and other
officials of both companies be sum
money to produce records, books, etc,
and to give testimony before the ref.
cree as to the existence of the alleged
combination.
The attorney general said that his
department for about two months had
been making investigation into the
relations existing between the two
telegraph companies.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-07-12
A OF HAYWOOD
For Murder of Gov. Steunelberq.

lay and bring the case to as speedy a
close as possible. Counsel for the de
Tense and for the prosecution, after
the adjournment yesterday afternoon
we're willing to admit the possibility
of a verdict or disagreement il two
weeks.
Discred,t Orchard.
The five witnesses on the stand yes
terday morning added support to
those who have preceded them. They
were called to testify concerning con-
ditions existing in Colorado during
the the disturbances at Cripple Creek
and to show hat there was no reason
to call cut the militia. Orchard was
further discredited by Owen Barnes,
a miner. who lived ear the lndepend-
ence mine, and WHO Orchard said as
sisted him in the manufacture OF
bombs. Barnes said he knew Orchard,
Adams. Easterly and others, but flat
ly denied hat he ever planned or dis
cussed any criminal expedition with
Orchard.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-07-12
Tear Orchards Story to Tatters.

Boise, Idaho, July Max Malich,
Joe Mehelick and Billy Altman, three
of the men variously implicated in al
legged misconduct at G~lobeville, Den
yer and Cripple Creek, on the work of
Harry Orchard, went on the stand
yesterday as witnesses for William ID.
Haywood and made denial Of Or
chard's testimony.
Malich swore hat Orchard and
not he, suggested the plot of dynamit-
ing a boarding house full of n%on-union
men at G~lobeville, and that Orchard
originated the idea of killing William
Mcdonald, one of Malich's business
rivals.
Not "Pettibone Dope"
He said that he had been burned by
some mysterious acid thrown into his
house by an unknown hand, but denied
that this acid was really "Pettibone
dope" that had been left in his room
by Steve and Annie Adams. He also
denied that "Pettibone dope" had been
| used in burning his store and said that
he was at his ranch when the fire oc-
CuITeu. ne dISo S"olt Nldt olAliait "a
| had told him that but for Gov. Steu-
| nenberg he would be rich and that he
| intended to kill Steunenberg.
Deny Orchards Story.
Mehelich and Altman, who followed
Malich, also made circumstantial de,
| NAL OF all the things that Orchard
swore they did with him. The cross.
examination of all three witnesses
showed a purpose on the part of the
state further to deal with their testi
mony when the case in rebuttal is
reached.
Eugene Engles, formerly attorney
general of Colorado, AYERS that Or
chard told of a loss of a rich share in
! the Hercules mine, and of his inten'
| ton to kill Steunenberg. Engles told
at great length how the military all
thorities at Cripple Creek defied the
processes of the civil courts.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-07-12

Fishing from . small pier at Three
Lakes, Marquette county, Mich, the
small son Of Ole Lund, section fore
man at that place, fell into the water
and a drowned.
The Frisco's fast south-bound train
was wrecked near Fayetteville, Ark,
as the result of a washout- The in
juries were confined almost entirely
to cuts and bruises.
The Calhoun building, home OF the
Condor training school at Huntsville.
Ala, burned. Prof. ]. E. Condor,
principal, and several students mar.
rowly escaped. The building cost
$50, 0OO.
Helen Kohler, eighteen months old,
of Waterloo, Iowa, ate eighteen OF
the chocolate-coated cold cure tablets,
commonly sold as a remedy for that
ailment, and shortly afterwards went
into commissions. Her death followed
two hours of agoniziog pain.
Driven by a pressure of 100000 gal
Ions OF water, Joe De Witt, a boy
was swept from the basin of a swim.
ming pool in Greenwood, Mo, and
carried $50 feet through a drain into
the river Des Peres, and then cast
upon the bank, bleeding and ex
hausted.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-07-12
SCHM|Tz GETS 5
/ YEARS IN PRISON
DRAMATIC SCENE IN COURT
WHEN CONVICTED MAYOR
is SENTENCED.
CROWD CHEERS JUDGE dunno
COURT LECTURES MAYOR WHO
INTERRUPTS WITH OBJEC-
TIONS.

San Francisco, July 1O.-Mayor Eu-
gene ScEmitz. convicted of eXtorting
$1,175 from French restaurant keep
ers, was yesterday sentenced by
Judge Dunno to five years lmprlson-
ment in the San Quentin penitentlary.
The pronouncing of sentence fol-
lowed a dramatic g After Judge
Dunno had overruled motions for a
new trial and for a stay of sentence,
he directed Mayor Schmitz to stand
up and then delivered to him a lecture:
for his crime.
Both Schmitz and his attorney in
%terrupted to insist that the Judge con-
fine his remarks to p~ronouncing SEN
tence. but the interruption served on
ly to increase the severity OF the
judges remarks.
Crowd Cheers Judge Dunno.
AS the last words of the sentence
fell from the judges lips the great
crowd that had stood during the dra-
matte scene sent up a thunder-roar
cheer.
Good for you,' shouted a man in
the back Of the o
His ejaculation was echoed and re-
echoed by one after another of the
spectators. Several threw their hats
into the air, others scrambled upon
chairs to look owe the shoulders of
the crowd. The greatest confusion
prevailed.
Attorney Fairall of the defense,
raising his voice above the din. called
out to Judge Dunno:
Your honor, this cheering is a very
unseemly occurrence"
Well retorted Judge Dunno. with
spirit, IF we had a sheriff worthy of
the name it would have been stopped
instantly"
Schmitz Interrupts Court.
h sentencing of the convicted
mayor wis in one respect without a
parallel in court. Half a dozen times
Judge Dunno was interrupted by
Schmitz, who protested in strong
words against the delivery of a lee
ture instead of the announcement Of
Judgment He accused the court OF
unnecessarily humiliating him and
giving opportunity for further humil-
iation by the reporting of his remarks
to the press.
Once replying to the prisoner Judge
Dunno said:
Such brazen effrontery was proba-
bly, no more than should be expected
! and it is the duty of the court to Dear
it in PATIENCE
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-07-12
Domestic.

The epidemic of typhoid fever in
Pittsburg is gradually assuming seri.
Gus proportions. In June there were
1913 new cases.
Commander Robert E. Peary will
not start on his seventh expedition
for the North pole until the middle Of
July. He had expected to start on the
first. He has ordered the Roosevelt
equipped for a th~ree-years' voyage.
Hoke Smith was inaugurated gov
ernor of Georgia last week. The oath
OF office was administered by Chief
Justice William H. Fish of the SUI
preme court before the joint session
OF h two branches of the legislature.
Notices were issued at Springfield,
Ill, to a number of former state treas
urers and auditors that unless they
pay into the state treasury within the
next thirty days fees which they col
lected while in Office proceedings will
be commenced in the courts to collect
the fees.
Charles II. Meyer was retained as
president and William D. Haywood as
secretary-treasurer Of the Western
Federation of Miners by the fedora
ton at Denver, although they are i'm
prisoned in Idaho on the charge of
completely in the murder Of Former
Governor Steunenberg.
Members of the American Society
OF Equity, composed of farmers, met
at many OF the county seats in South
ern Indiana and pledged themselves
to hold their wheat this year unit
they are paid 81 a bushel for it. It
is estimated that from 600, 900 to 500.
600 bushels Of wheat were pledged.
Home Colony, established by anar.
chists on Henderson bay, Wash, about
ten years ago, is breaking up. Mem.
bers are reported to be quietly leaving
since Emma Goldman visited the
place a few weeks ago. The colony
owns 219 acres. divided into two-acre
tracts, but all have never been occu.
pied.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-07-12
Cepositions Read to Jury.

Boise, Idaho. July 10. - Part of the
San Francisco dispositions dealing
with the Bradley explosion were read
yesterday to the jurymen that are try
ing Haywood for the murder Of Frank
S~teunenberg and the rest of them
will be presented to-day. The reading
began directly after the court sat,
with Clarence barrow and Senator
Borah alternating for their respective
sizes. The dispositions have an i'm
portant bearing upon the case, but
they contained no interest for the
crowd, and the attendance was the
lightest since the trial began.
Both sides seemed to be satisfied
with the showing made by the depo.
sitions and their contents will proba.
bly, furnish much material for directly
opposed contention when the trial
reaches the argument stage. One OBJ.
lection from the state constituted the
sole interruption for the day, and dur.
ing all the rest of the time counsel for
both sides seemed united in getting
all the matter in the worn state.
ments before the jury.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-07-12
END OF BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR.".
Report Of Senate Committee Will Be
a Compromise-May Re-EnIist.

a NOmPrOmlSS-Mdy ne-Gn'iSt.
Washington, July 9. - The report
upon the Brownsville investigation by
the senate committee will not be
made until congress v in De-
cember, but it may bet set down at
this time that it will pave the way for
the discharged colored soldiers to re-
enter the army. Senator Foraker may
be satisfied with the conclusions OF
the majority of the committee that
he will make no minority report,
There are assurances also hat Presi.
dent Roosevelt will be satisfied with
this result.
The program as outlined provides:
First-The committee will make no
direct charge in its report that the
negro soldiers, individually or collec.
lively, shot up the town of Browns.
vile, but will let the people draw
their W conclusions from the testi.
mony taken in the case, which will be
printed and made a part of the re-
port.
Second-The committee will recon
mend the passage of a law by con
gress which will authorize the dis.
charged soldiers to re-enlist without
prejudice" and their army status to
be fixed as it was before they were
dishonorably discharged, providing
each soldier who desires to r~e-enlist
shall make a statement that he did
not participate in the shooting.