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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
FEAR OF NEGROES
 IS RIDICULOUS
A DENIAL THAT NEGROES ARE FORMING TO ATTACK HENRI ETTA IN REVENGE FOR LYNCH ING-REPoRT ABSURD.

Dallas, Tex, December 2S.-The Dallas News tonight received the following dis patch from it's special correspondent at Henrietta, Okla:
 Notwithstanding the various reports of a sensational nature that have been sent out from this section to the effect that negroes are forming for the purpose of invading this place, quiet and order has prevailed here since the lynching of the negro. Henry Garden. Tuesday No parties of negroes have been seen heavily armed, and no reports have reached this place that an attack had been planned. It has been reported that negroes have been driven from this community and their dwellings burned to the ground. Both are not only untrue but absolutely without any sort of foundation. ldany negroes left immediately following the lynching, but it is said by the town authorities that these will return. One negro cabin was burned, but the fire was of unknown origin, as the cabin was unoccupied at the time. The municipal authorities re- quested your correspondent to say that the report that troops are needed here Is nonsense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
ANOTHER AUTHOR
 IS ADVERTISED
MINISTER OBJECTS TO SALE OF "THREE WEEKS" BECAUSE A FRIEND WAS SHoCKED-SALEIs IMMEDIATELY SUPPRESSED.

Boston, December 2S.-(Special.)- Because a young man friend of the Rev. Charles F. Page, assistant pastor of Dudley Street Baptist church, Rox- bury, read it and was offended, the sale of Mrs Elenore Glyns latest novel, "Three Weeks" which caused such a stir in New York has been suppressed in Boston.
 The young man secured copy of the book and was so shocked at its con tents that he immediately told the Rev. Mr Page, who in turn notified the agent of the New England Watch and Ward society. The society made an investigation and caused the sale of the book stopped.
 The New England Watch and Ward society. through it's secre Jury, Mir Davis, placed evidence in the hands of the Boston postoffce authorities who have in turn sent it to the New York officials for action there. The malls are being carefully watched and any copies of the book which come to this city will be held up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
ROOSEVELT GIVES
 NO ENCOURAGEMENT
DOESN'T FAVOR SCHEME OF GRE ATlNG HEALTH DEPARTMENT UNDER NEW CABINET OFFICER. ELIOT OF HARVARD SPEAKS.

New York, December 2S.-The commit tee of 100 on national health announced today that at a meeting of the members letter had been read from President Roosevelt, in which he opposed a na- tional department of health to be under the direction of a new cabinet officer. President Roosevelt, in his letter to Pro- lessor Fisher, chairman of the commit tee,a which was made public today, said:
 1T believe that we could with advan- tage have bureau of health to be put under one of the existing departments, but we need no additional cabinet officers. On the contrary. they would be disad- vantage. While we do most urgently need encouragement of the bureaus and divisions of the present cabinet, We also need to have every executive office of the government put under some cabinet of- flee. I am utterly against the creation of any independent bureau not under a cabinet officer.
 President Eliot of Harvard stated at the meeting of the committee:
 The committee is confronted with a dilemma. If less than a federal depart ment, with representation in the cabinet, results, little will be accomplished. To seek to create a new department with a secretary in the cabinet is to undertake the impossible
 The committee is now generally com mitted to the advocacy of a system of health bureaus within an existing depart ment rather than a new department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
SPECIAL FUND DIVISION.
Subscribers To United States Steel
 Preferred Will Get Cash.

Pittsburg, December 2S.-Notices were posted today at the Edgar Thompson steel works, blast furnaces and foundries that subscribers to the preferred stock of the United States Steel corporation. who have retained the stock since it was offered to the employees in January, 19o3
 are entitled to participate in the special fund to be distributed In January, 190S
 All employees holding this stock are re- quested to present certificates to the pay- master at the Edgar Thomson plant on January 9. When the stock was offered to the employees of the steel company they were given to understand that they would receive a bonus of $5 each year they held stock, but if any sold it, or failed to keep it through any cause, the bonus would revert to the special fund.
 It Is this special fund which is to be distributed at the various plants on Janu- ary 9 as it was stipulated that the fund would be divided at the end of five years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
JERKS IN GROUPS OF FIVE.
Fish Story By Man Only Once Ac- cused of UntruthfuIness By Boss.

From the New York Sun.
 T was never accused of telling lie by the superintendent of telegraph but once,' said the old railroad telegrapher who would rather tell the truth than ca. wooden nutmegs, "and 1 must confess that the circumstances were peculiar.
 You remember that switching tower along the shore of Upper Nutcong Lake, don't you? And undoubtedly you have heard about the size and abundance of fish in that lake? Well, I must say that they are no idle press agents yarns.
 An operator on duty at this tower has numerous opportunities to fish right from the rear windows of the tower which overlook the lake Manys the fine mess of fish 1 have yanked from its depths. You could just drop set line from one of the windows, pull 1t in every hour or so, and be sure of two or three fine plckerel or lake trout at a setting. Yes, slrree, I got so much brain food at that tower that could almost have been eligible to membership in an Indiana au- thor 'ss colony.
 ''The fishing was particularly good of nights. At those times l would make my most remarkable catches.
 "One night, or rather. one early morif- irg. I was startled by the operator in the next tower east calling me viciously on the telegraph wire.
 "I am holding an important special up here for a clear block. Has that train backed over yet that you sgnaled me had crossed to the westbound track?'
 That's news to me- I replied. I've never signalled you that a train had crossed over to the westbound track
 "I don't like to call you liar he flashed back, but surely got a crossover signal from you on the bells and I de- mand a clear signal before l let this di- rectors special come west to you
 You'd have less liking to call me a liar If I were In striking distance. wired him. as no man has ever called me that and got away with it.
 ''He insisted, however, that I had given
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
A MUSICIANS REPRooF.
How the Famous CorelI Rebuked a
 Palliative Cardinal.

From the Dramatic Mirror.
 Even in the days of Colley Cibber the musical genius seems often to have been subjected to the same annoying indifference and impoliteness so com mon in New York at the present day. Cibber himself gives this example:
 While the famous Corelli at Rome, was playing some musical composition of his own to a select company in the private apartment of his patron cardi- nal, he observed, in the height of his harmony, his eminence was engaged in a detached conversation, upon which he suddenly stopped short and gently laid down his instrument. The cardinal surprised at the unexpected cessation, asked if a string was broken. To wh ich Corelli, in an honest consciousness of what was due to his music. replied: No, sir; I was only afraid I interrupt ed business.' His eminence took the reproof in good part and broke off his conversation to hear the whole con- certo played over again"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
WAREHOUSE CLOSED UP.
American Tobacco Company May Quit
 Kentucky Field.

Louisville Ky, December 2S.-A special from Frankfort, Ky, says
 Tt was announced here today that the American Tobacco company had given directions to their representatives here to rent out their warehouse at Frankfort and cease business until further notice.
 This is construed to mean that if the company buys the pooled tobacco of the Burley association at Winchester, an in- spection of which will begin on January 2, it will need no more Burley tobacco at this time and all its buyers in the Burley district will be withdrawn for a time at least. On the other hand 1t is contended that it may mean that the American Tobacco company has decided to buy no more tobacco at all.
 Developments are being watched with great anxiety by the holders of tobacco of this years and last years crops
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
TOM WORRELL KILLS HIMSELF
Man Who Busted a Trust Is Driven
 To Death By Pain.

Omaha, December 2S.-(Special.) )-Tom Worrell, who busted the Nebraska grain trust, committed suicide In his office at Lincoln some time last night, the body not being discovered uutil this afternoon. He had taken two ounces of carbolic acid. Worrell was formerly in the grain bus mess in Omaha but was forced out by the grain trust. He then wrote book, "The Grain Trust Exposed" and sup piled such evidence to the attorney gen. eral that the trust was dissolved by the supreme court Worrell brought suit against individual members of the grain trust for large sums and was on the point of winning when the grain trust settled the cases out of court by paying heavily.
 Worrell wrote several letters before drinking the acid. He rave as his req sons that he had such severe pains In his head that he could stand them no longer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29

him a bell signal that the westbound track was occupied by train which had crossed over from the eastbound track for some purpose at my tower.
 " There, you're ringing it again now, he said.
 "I was nowhere near the bell keys and I rushed over to the bell button connect ing us with the next tower east. What dye think?
 My set line had slipped from the usual nail in the window frame and become firmly knotted around the bell button. The other end in the lake had hooked a big fish, and of course each violent bid the big fish made for his liberty would jerk on the bell key, which was fitted in the side of the tower nearest the lake.
 Tt just happened that the fish would make its jerks and squirms for liberty in groups of five. We blocked trains by bells, and this grouping of five bells was our code signal to the next tower east that an eastbound train had crossed over and was occupying the westbound track.
 Naturally the operator in the next tower had no way of knowing that the signals were being waited to him by a fish. He thought the westbound track had been blocked by train crossing over, which was frequently the case at our tower. 50 ne nelu the Specidl up. we patched the thing up and the special was only delayed about 15 minutes.
 "Of course, I was called down to the main office early the next morning for an explanation of the delay to the special. I took the captured fish down as a work ing model to explain to the super just what did happen. I had no ulterior pur- pose in taking the fish, lake trout weighing about six pounds, with me.
 Would you believe it, he wouldn't stand for the story at all No, sirree. Said he thought l had been asleep and didn't know just what I was doing when I rang the bells. However as he had no proof that I was sleeping on duty ned just lay me off for 10 days for careless ness in letting the fish line hang so near the bell key.
 "He also kept the working model. He even ntlmated that I was lying. Now, say, you don't think I'd tell lie, do you, old sport?'
 Well" said the tall, cynical conductor, .I am in the throes of the Christmas spirit and-no, I don't know as l would care to limit you to one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Bonfils Refuses To Plead.

Denver, December 2S.-Fred G. Bon fills, one of the proprietors of the Denver Post, refused to plead to the complaint charging him with assault and battery upon former Senator Thomas M. Patter- son, principal owner of the Rocky Moun- tain News and the Denver Times, In Jus tice Thomas Cartons court today. The court thereupon entered plea of not guilty and the trial was begun. MT. Pat terson related the circumstances of the attack upon him and before his exam ination was finished the hearing was ad- journed until Monday next.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
To Cough Properly.

Few people know how to cough prop erly. It never occurs to the ordinary in- dividual that there is a right way and a wrong way of doing 1t. Yet 1t is a mat ter of no small importance.
 If every sigh means a drop of blood out of the heart. as people say, every cough means some greater or less pro- portion of time knocked off one's life
 Most people cough as loudly and for cibly as they can. But it is rather costly noise, for the single reason that 1t tears and inf1ames the lungs The lungs consist of an extraordinarily delicate sponge-like tissue, which sometimes gets infiamed and choked with phlegm. When we try to get rid of this substance we cough. But ob- viously, 1 five remove 1t violently we must necessarily injure the delicate lung tissue. Therefore, train yourself to cough as gent ly as possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Thoughtful.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
 There is an elderly business man of Cleveland, of whom friends tell story amusingly illustrating his excessively me- thodical manner of conducting both his business and his domestic affairs.
 The Clevelander recently married a young woman living in town not far away On the evening of the ceremony the prospective bridegroom, being de- tained by an unexpected and important matter of business, missed the train he had intended to take in order that he might reach the abode of his bride at ! O clock, the hour set for the wedding.
 True to his instincts, the careful Cleve- lander immediately repaired to the tele- graph office, from which to dispatch a message to the lady. It read:
 Don't marry till I come. Howard"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Uses For Austrian Recruits.

From the Ladys Realm.
 Like the famous John Gilpin, the heir to the throne has frugal mind, and, it has been maliciously whispered, sees great chances to exercise this virtue at the expense of the poor recruits
 Scores of these who come from the country are drafted off to the archducal estates and do their military service there, much of it consisting in game keepers duties in the archdukes pheas- ant preserves. The recruits are also used when Improvements in the parks and grounds, are being made. According to one story, squads of them are marched about and made to do duty as dummy trees while the heir to the throne stands at a distance and experiments as to where clump of trees would look best.
 The soldiers, being merely human, ob- ject all the more because there are no ex- tra rations for this kind of duty. They have generally to shift for themselves and their miserable pay only procures them food far poorer than that which they would get in barracks, although that Is not very sumptuous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
SUITS FOR DAMAGES.
Foreigners Will Make Effort To Re
 cover From Mine Owners.

Pittsburg, December 2S.-Leading for eigners are to meet in this city tomorrow to consider the advisability of making an effort to recover damages on behalf - the foreign coal miners who lost their lives in the wrecked Naomi, Darr and Monongah mines. The conference was called by A. s. Ambrose of New York, supreme president of the National Sla- vonic society, which has branches in all parts of the country but is especially well represented in the mining region. Steps to secure legislation for the better pro- lection for the lives of the miners will be taken
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
SUNDAY IN NEW YORK.
Moving Picture People Get Al
 Omnibus Injunction.

New York, December 2S.-A new move in the fight against Sunday closing was made today when an ex-parte omnibus in- junction was obtained from Justice Green baum in the supreme court, restraining the police from interfering with the business of the moving picture associa- tion.
 The injunction also restraints the police from interfering with sacred or educa- tional lectures.
 The moving picture managers insist they have a right to conduct their shows whether an admission is charged or not. With all the moving picture places in operation tomorrow and various amuse- ments being given under the new modified ordinance as interpreted by the aldermen the last suggestion of blue" Sabbath In New York will have vanished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
EnaIishman Wins Race.

Boston. December 2S.-In the first ten mile professional running race ever held on board track, Alfred Shrubb of Eng land easily defeated Tom Williams, Sam Myers and Frank Randy, the latter the American professional champion, who ran in relays at the Park Square coliseum tonight. Shrubb's time was 53 minutes and seconds, as compared with his out door record for the same distance of 53 minutes and seconds. After the race, Shrubb declared that the contest was the first of the kind ever held on a board track, and that it should be the last on account of its effects on the runner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
PETTIBONE TRIAL.
Defense Takes Up Dispositions of the
 Frisco Witnesses.

Boise, Idaho, December 2S.-The de- fense in the trial of George A. Petit bone, charged with complicity in the mur- der of former Governor Steunenberg, spent all of today's session in the read ing of dispositions of San Francisco wit nesses on the explosion in the Bradley residence, which Harry Orchard claimed was the result of his placing a bomb under the door mat in the vestibule of the residence. The depositions were taken at San Francisco during the Hay wood trial and by stipulation were intro- duced as evidence in the present trial. By holding court past the usual time for adjournment. all the dispositions were read and on Monday the defense will begin the examination of witnesses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Fatal Result of Fire.

Washington, December 2s.-Fire which broke out early this morning destroyed the home of P. M. Becker, manager of local laundry. burned his wife to death and seriously injured his daughter, Edna When the firemen arrived shortly after 2 o'clock the house was a mass of flames and 1t was with difficulty that the daugh- ter was saved. The cause of the fire Is not known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Parker Out of Politics

Chicago, December 2S-Seattle, Wash. was selected as the meeting place of the American Bar association at a meeting of the executive committee of the organ ization here today in the office of Jacob M. Dickinson, president of the associa- ton. The convention will assemble Au- gust 25. Alton B. Parker, who was one of the committee members present, de- clared himself out of politics, and said that he will view all future campaigns as an innocent bystander."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Rothesay Wedding Dowery.
From the London Globe.

There are only three applicants this year for the Rothesay wedding dowry, for which the late Marquess of Butte left sum of GlO0o the interest of which Is to be given annually by the magistrates of the town to some deserving bride. It may be that Scottish lasses shrink from the ordeal of having the first Il verses of the second chapter of St. Johns Cos pei read to them by the magistrate. which Is one of Che conditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Two Cases of Meningitis.

Newport, R. l., December 2S.-Two cases of spinal meningitis, or spotted fever" the first in two years, were dis covered at the naval training station today. The victims, Robert B. Holloway of Tennessee, and Frederick F. Crawford of Charleston, H. Holloway's condition Is not regarded as serious, but Crawford Is on the dangerous list.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
SionaIs for the New Year.

Washington, December 2S.-The naval observatory has made the usual arrange ments to flash the signal marking the instant of the beginning of the new year to the four standard time belts of the country The time for each belt will be sent out from Washington during five minutes preceding the hour of mid night in each respective belt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Reconstruction Bonds.

Raleigh, N. C., December 2S-rhe bonds are known in North Carolina as 'spe- cial tax bonds,' and were made during the reconstruction period, the state get ting nothing. Many of these have been collected by New York parties represent ed by John G. Carlisle, Henry H. Mel vile and l.. E.. Whether, and offers to donate amounts to various states by these bondholders so as to have suits brought against North Carolina have been rejected.
 Edward l.. Andrews wrote Governor Glenn to present the matter of paying these bonds to a possible extra session of the legislature, with the request for a constitutional amendment to let the peo- pie vote on paying the bonds. threaten ing unless this is done to give $S000,c00 of the bonds to a forgeign nation so as to have suit brought as no individual can sue a state. The bonds are consid- cred as fraudulent and twice the legis- lature has declined to pay them, while once the people in a constitutional elec- tion repudiated them.
 Governor Glenn wrote Mr. Andrews de- clining to do anything, but to resist any action broght; that he does not believe any state or nation will harass North Carolina about them, and that MT. An drews need not write any more as his threats of suits will avail nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
One Way To Wisdom.

From the Philadelphia Press.
 q think" said the gay youths father, tits about time you stopped this foolish ness and began to acquire little wis., dom."
 My scheme" replied the youth, lis to acquire wisdom by first determining how foolish I can be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Why the czar Tried To staeeer Taft

NrHJ hnC S[at fiiSd " 9tcSA@i cfes Jacob M. Dickinson, Former United
 States Assistant Attorney General, in
 All the resources of the Czar's vast empire were strained to impress upon the mind of William H. Taft that the might of Russia Is a real thing. From the hour of his arrival at Vladivostock until the farewell audience in the Czars s own study of Tsarkoe-Selo, the Amer ican Secretary of War was literally in the tolls of the immense Russian mili- tary machine. When he was not con fronted by bayonets of the infantry or not under escort by squadrons of cavalry he was deafened by the roar of artillery. MT. Taft's entreaties that his reception be made informal and unofficial was po- litely ignored, for the reason, as the Paris Temps believes, that the Czar wanted his distinguished guest to real ize that though the Mikado may possess a fine fighting force, that of the Roman offs is even finer No pomp and cir constance likely to convey ideas of ir- resistible might was overlooked. MT. Taft was sedulously excluded from con-
 tact with the masses of his majestys subjects, nor did he get chance to con verse at all intimately with the bour- geoisie or with the intellectuals. The official world claimed him for itself. His tremendous dash across the width of Asia was contriyed with an eye to it's strategical effect. MT. Taft observes the Temps, must have seen with his own eyes that Russia could today hurry her troops to the Pacific with infinitely great CT facility than was possible in the dark days of Kuropatlkin's flight up Man churia with the Japanese at his heels. Should Taft report to Roosevelt that the might of Russia" Is, after all, more than a phrase the object of the Czar will have been attained completely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Trial Trip Through Tunnel.

New York, December 2s-The first jour ney through the series of tunnels that will eventually solve the traffic problem of Manhattan island was given it's try out today through the Hudson tunnel from Sixth avenue to Hoboken, N J. The journey was made without single mis- han.