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The Green Forest tribune., 1907-01-04
RURAL CARRIER EXAMINATION

The United States Civil Service Commission has announced an exami- nation for the County of Carroll, Ark ansas, to be held at Eureka Springs, on January 12, 1918, to fill the position of rural carrier at Berryville, Arkansas, and vacancies that may later occur on rural routes from other post offices the above e-mentioned county. The nination will be open only to male who are actually domiciled in ,ry of post office in the county at the other requirements Set m No. 1877. This form blanks may be obtain .es mentioned above or States Civil Service ashington, D. C. ,e forwarded to
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The Green Forest tribune., 1907-01-04
FAIR WARNING

All person owing an old account or a note must make settlement within the next ten days or make other ar- rangement. l am forced to collect.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23
Senators MORAN and Pettus

Senator Morgan was elected to sue
coed George Goldthwaite, democrat,
taking his seat in the Senate on March
5, 1877, nearly thirty years ago. He
has been in that seat ever since, bat
Ting all the while for the rights Of the
south and the maintenance of the con-
stitution against all the wrenches to
which it has been subjected. The leg
islature yesterday elected him to a
sixth term, which will extend to March
4, 1908. At that time our senior Sena-
tor will be nearly SO years old. His
birthday anniversary comes on June
90 and his term will expire on March 4.
Senator Pettus, who was also elected
yesterday, is older in years, but he did
not enter the Senate until March 5,
1897, and his second term will not be
completed until March 4, 1909. The
third term given him yesterday will
therefore extend to March 4, 1915, at
which time General Pettus will be
nearly "a years old. He was born in
Limestone county on July 6, 1921, when
the state was less than two years old
His life is practically coeval with that
of the state, and he has been con-
spicuous figure in his native state a
/ long time. He was an officer in the
Mexican war, and but handful of the
veterans of that war are still living
only 1000 all told.
The reelection of our veteran Sena-
tors is an unique event, and while they
live the state will have in the Senate
two popular and respected representa-
tives, for those on the floor, as well as
those in the gallery, love and admire
Alabama's two grand old men.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23
Danger in Sunday Law.

There is nothing that could be done
that would hurt the Birmingham district
more than the passage of a law prohib-
iting the railroads from moving freight
trains on Sunday" said Lee Clary gem
eral agent of the Louisville & Nashville
railroad in Birmingham. There is but
one state in the union where there is
such a law, Georgia, and it has done the
state unreasonable damage.
IF such law were passed in Alabama
1t would damage the entire state beyond
measure, and Birmingham particularly.
All the railroads in Alabama and espec-
tally the Louisville & Nashville, move
most of their through freight on Sunday
During the week we use all our equipment
for taking care of the coal companies. the
furnaces and the big corporations which
have made the Birmingham district. They
must have their raw material supply
every day in order to keep running, and
the railroads furnish 1t daily. On Sunday
we take all the engines on the road and
put them on the main line to haul through
freight, thus clearing our yards every
Sunday.
IF we were tied up for twenty-four
hours all the freight to New Orleans and
the west would be diverted through other
lines which do not operate through Ala
bama, and the state would loose that
immense amount of tonnage, which means
great amount of money in salaries paid
and other ways.
IF the railroads could not haul freight
on Sunday the furnaces would lack
Monday supply which would put them
out of business, for they cannot bank
their fires. Every furnace except two in
the district depends on the daily supply
of raw material furnished them by the
railroads, and If that supply falls down
one day in every week 1t would cripple
the furnaces. They are not supplied with
stock houses of capacity enough to keep
them running. In other words, the rail-
roads need eight days in every week in
stead of seven, and If they decreased It
to six days we could not handle the bust
ness Anyway there is no demand for
the Sunday law from the people of the
state
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23

boosted the failure of the new law, and
he knew what he was talking about.
He knew that the trusts and corpora
lions are working under state charters,
and cannot be reached by federal
law. and he knows that if the City Ma
tional bank of New York, for example,
desires to chip in next year it can do
it in the name of one of its Standard
Oil magnates. The bill is not opera
tive, and is not intended to be opera
tive. If the republicans had really de-
sired to put an end to corruption in
elections it would have compelled the
publication of campaign subscriptions
in federal elections. This it has right
to do, but 1t did nothing of the kind.
Mr.. Grosvenor said he would vote for
the bill 80 as to give the people an
opportunity to see how bad a failure 1t
would be-" He is right. 1t is fake
bill. 1t is not operative. 1t will not
prevent the piling up of a slush fund in
1908 larger than that of 1904, or 1900,
or even larger than the one that bought
the election of 1896. The purchase of
votes in national election is not con-
Quoted so openly as is the business in
Rhode Island, but it takes place never
theless and its secrecy does not lessen
its efficiency in contested places. No
modern national election has been hon
est, and the bill just passed will not
clarity the air bit in 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23
Equality at Law.

"Of all the statements we hear made
every day the one that there is the same
law for the rich as for the poor is the
most abused" said a man who occa-
sionlly visits courts of justice.
Take case for instance where two
men are arrested for similar offenses;
the rich man makes bond and is turned
loose, but the poor man, being unable 10
make bond, is kept in jail. If these men
are tried and acquitted of the charge on
which they were arrested, the rich man
has suffered little or no inconvenience,
while the poor man has had to endure ali
the pains and penalties which imprison-
ment means. That certainly does not
look like equality of rich and poor
And suppose again that both men are
brought to trial, the rich man is able
to employ a lawyer to defend him in
the criminal court, and if convicted, he
can appeal his case to the supreme court.
which very often reverses the action of
the first court and gives the man an
other chance; but the poor man, being
unable to employ the services of a law
yer who will fight the case and make an
eloquent argument to the jury, is con
victed. and has no remedy.
Il think that the state Should employ
a lawyer to defend poor men, just as it
employs solicitors to prosecute. | AN
told that in New York the court always
appoints a lawyer to defend in felony
cases, and the lawyer is paid for such
services by the state. If justice is to be
done, as it is professed to be. the poor
man should be given as much assist
ance in his defense as the rich man can
afford to employ"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23
Presidential Campaign Funds

An honest confession is said to be
good for the soul, but the confession
of the two houses OF Congress in the
matter OF campaign contributions is not
honest and it will not relieve the re-
publicans of the charge of corruption.
1t is not honest because the money
taken from widows and orphans has
not been returned, and because they
refuse to publish the lists of 1904 or of
any other presidential year Chair
man Taggart offers to publish the dem
ocratic lists of 1904, but the republ-
cans, saturated with guilt, refuse to
entertain the proposition.
Congressman Grosyenor openly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23
Mr.. eLAckRURN's LAST EFFORT.

From the washington Herald.
Senator Blackburn's leadership of the
Senate democrats has been only nominal
snice the mantle of the late Arthur Pue
German was conferred upon him until
the KentuclSian took hold of the tangled
Brownsville affair for the minority few
days ago. His first move in that matter,
however, is evidence that the celebrated
Kentuckan is still alert and full of fight
as of yore, when he used to lead his
party cohorts in the House on dashing
forays Time was when Mr.. Blackburn,
even after moving from the House, the
arena of his greatest achievements, over
to the Senate, would attract crowded gai-
leries whenever 1t was known he was to
speak. During his present term in the
upper chamber, however, which expires
in March, he has been remarkably quiet.
He has made only one speech Of length
or note in the past six years, and that
was in defense of Senator Tillman in the
McLaurin affair.
Now that the Kentuckian has asserted
his leadership in the Brownsville matter,
he has already caused heaps OF confusion
on the republican side of the chamber,
and his old-time admirers are expecting
a notable performance on his part in tho
management of the democratic end of The
fight that will open tomorrow. 1t is said
that he will make one or moro speeches
during the progress Of the campaign ne
has adroitly planned to force the re-
publican senators to come out in the open
by either indorsing or repudiating tho
Presidents action outright in the matter
of the discharge of the negro troops.
When this fight is ended it is expected
that IT will mark the close of Senator
Blackburn's active participation in public
affairs. He will retire to his farm in the
heart OF the Blue Grass region with the
expiration of this Congress, and there
take up the life of gentleman farmer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23
ANCIENT CRAPS.
From the Noble and Once Fashionable
Game of Hazard.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
To the Editor of The Sun:
Sir:-In your editorial of January Is,
which discusses the respective merits ana
future prospects of bridge and craps,
you hint at the possibility that history
may repeat itself. and that the aristoc-
racy, or ''highly placed" may turn from
bridge to craps The "highly placed of
the Old World abandoned whist for craps.
Why should not those of the New World
follow in their footsteps?
Craps is a corruption, or mispronun-
citation of .'erabs," a term in the once
fashionable game of hazard. In hazard
the caster first throws main" for the
company. which must exceed four and be
under nine. He then throws his own
chance and If this second throw hap
pens to be double ace, or trois ace it is
called CRABS" and the caster immediate
" loses his stakes, let the main" be
what it may.
So far as the name is concerned. we
have now substituted the part for the
whole; because the modern game that we
call craps is simply the hazard of a
century ago.
When whist was all the rage among ths
nobility and gentry of England, high
play was the rule, and it soon became
the fashion to denounce it from the pull
pit as a gambling game. and to COM
pare it to cock lighting. We find that
even those who insisted that they were
not gambling had to admit that they
fought ana quarreled with their part
ners, and that the feelings of hatred ana
animosity that they cherished toward
those that threw them down was
wicked even if whist was not quite as bad
as cock lighting.
The final result was that the "hupper
clawsses" deserted whist for hazard or
CRABS" in which there is no wicked
partner to interfere with the deft twist
of the wrist, the snap of the fingers and
the cooling of the coaxing words: Come
sebben; come elebben.'
If the pulpit is to enter upon a cru
SADIE against bridge. all that seems TO
stand between that game and return
TO craps is the fact that there is a card
game, like bridge in many ways, in which
YOU have no partner to throw YOU down
when you make It no trumps. and that
is skat A CRAP SHUTTER.
New York, January 10.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23
Pay Your Pell Taxes

No one can vote in the approaching
city primary who has not paid on or
before February l all poll taxes as
sessed against them. All poll taxes
due from a voter are considered as
sessed, and no notice of the assessment
is given. The voter who is not 40 years
old knows that the state expects him
to pay to the public schools $1.50 a
year. He knows this, and he must pro-
duce receipts to meet it before he caa
vote.
Thus far about 1000 persons only il
Jefferson county have paid their poll
taxes. Five times that number should
pay poll taxes in this county, for we
have five times that number of white
voters between the ages of q and 45.
The legislature is considering a con-
stitutional amendment that would re-
store the compulsory feature of poll
taxes. 1t is, in fact, probable that the
compulsory payment of poll taxes Will
be established, but that will excuse no
one from neglect in paying voluntary
poll taxes. The latter will be collected
forcibly in case the constitution is
changed.
The duty of the hour is to walk up to
sessed poll taxes. Tax Collector Tar
rant has stationed collectors at all cen
trail places, so that no ono need be
greatly inconvenience. We need more
than 1000 white voters between the
ages of II and 45 in Jefferson county
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23
Germany's Electoral Campaign

On Friday next the people Of Ger
many will go to the polls to elect the
members of new reichstag. The old
parliament was dissolved by the En-
peror because he could not secure from
it an increased appropriation for carry
ing on the war in Southeast Africa.
The centrists or clericals had sup
ported the government, but when they
bolted the Chancellor's colonial policy
he at once advised the Emperor to dis
solve the parliament and appeal to the
people. II the government fails to Sc
cure working majority, the Emperor
may again dissolve the reichstag, and
then Germany will indeed be face to
face with struggle between autocracy
and constitutional rule. The pending
contest is regarded as one of deep i'm
portance to all Germans.
The membership of the reichstag is
| 397 all told. In the body recently dis
solved the centrists had 102 members:
the social democrats, 70; the conserva-
tives, SO, and the so-called free con-
servatives 19-total 253. The remain
ing 144 members are liberals and adj
| vanced liberals, and national liberals
and Richter and Bartti liberals, with a
few Poles, agrarians and minor groups
thrown in.
The Emperor and Chancellor Won
Buelow and the other ministers hope to
elect clear majority of conservatives,
but that is plainly impossible. The
centrists have church organization
behind them, and no inroads in their
ranks is probable. The socialists are
aggressive, and they hope to increase
their representation. The government
stands to lose, because it cannot gain
members from the districts now repre-
scented by centrists or socialists.
If the government be defeated. the
anticipation is that the Emperor will
in some manner endeavor to rule alone,
and this means no end of trouble in
Germany, with a possibility of a revo-
luton in the long run. The Kaiser is
bullheaded, and that head is full of
divine right notions wholly out of line
with the trend of events in the world.
He may, in short plunge his country
into civil war. dissolution of the
reichstag twice in succession has never
occurred, and resort to that device
will be construed as an attempt on the
part of the Kaiser to go it alone in
Germany
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23
CHAlES M. SHELLEY.
from the Mobile Item.

From the Mobile Item.
Charles Miller Shelley, Confederate SOL
dler and congressman, after lingering
illness, passed away at an early hour
Sunday morning in Birmingham. Having
passed three-score and ten, his death,
taken in connection with the condition
of his health for some time past came
as no surprise, no matter how much ths
news may have shocked his thousands
of friends. Beginning life's work as a
bricklayer. his qualities of sterling char
acter won for him a brgadier general
ship in the Confederate service and subse-
quent to the war he became an active
leader in the politics of his state, be-
coming one of the most influential men
in Alabama. In his death. Alabama loses
a highly respected and most valued cit
lien whose memory will be revered and
held in the highest esteem and afree-
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23
March of the Boil Weevil

In 1906 the boil weevil advanced
more miles northward han it di / east
ward 1t entered the lower tier of coun-
ties in the Indian territory and five
counties in southwestern Arkansas.
Since its appearance at Brownsville
fourteen Yeas ago it has winged its
way $50 miles northward and about a
like distance eastward. This shows a
yearly march of about forty miles, but
the advance eastward last year was not
forty miles, while the march northward
exceeded that number of miles.
The pest did not cross the Missls-
sippi river in Louisiana, nor did 1t
reach a parish that is bounded by The
big river 1t did enter Avoyelles par
ish, which is near the riyec, but IL did
not gain foothold in either Point
Coupee or Concordia parish, both of
which lie along the river.
The insect is hibernating near The
river, and the winter is unusually mild.
A battle is to be fought this year all
along the river from the Tennessee
line southwark, and the Mississippi
authorities will have to be alert IL they
keep the insects from entering their
state this year. The battle has been
coming on several years. but this is the
year when the contest will be warm
and at close range. The Mississippi Is
this years battle line. The insects
will start this year from Ouatchita,
Cabahoula, Avoyelles. st. Landry and
Acadia parishes with their eyes set on
the rich fields of the Yazoo valley and
the black belt counties of Mississippi.
No more distinct line has been drawn
against the Mexican pest since it
crossed the Rio Grande. The Missis-
sippi is the larger stream and possibly
its width will aid in the effort to check
the march of the invader, for ali know
Its march cannot be wholly stayed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23
PUBLIC CORPORATIONS.

From the Street Railway Journal.
At the meeting of the Westminster
Mems club of Milwaukee, held Thurs
day. October H. the representatives of
the Milwaukee Electric Railway and
Light company. Wisconsin Telephone
company and Milwaukee Gas Light COM
pany, the three largest public service cor
porations in the city of Milwaukee, de-
liz cred speeches favoring intelligent and
honest regulation of corporate interests.
As president of the Milwaukee Electric
Railway and Light company, John l.
Beggs made a strong argument for the
substitution of municipal politics in regu-
lating public service corporations in pref
erence to the restrictions placed on
company by a common council
II invite and always advocated proper,
reasonable and intelligent regulation of
public service corporations, for in. my
judgment it affords a protection against
the confiscator," Mr.. Beggs is quoted as
saying. Corporations are not afraid of
regulations removed from the caprices
and whims of petty politicians.
81 do not think that any of the large
public service corporations are afraid of
honest regulation. What we are most
afraid of is that the present frenzied
public opinion will bring about a condi-
ton of affairs in which the corporations
will receive but little consideration. We
are afraid of the regulation of the dema-
gogues Of a common council who have
developed a hatred toward all corpora
tions and have gone forth as the saviors
of the dear people
Securities of public service corpora
lions are quoted at higher figures in the
state of Massachusetts, than in any other
state in the union. Why? For the simple
reason that there we find sane and hon
est regulation. No road can enter there
that would make competition ruinous. NO
additional capital can be agreed upon
without a substantial reason for issuing
the stock and stating to the commission
the purposes to which the additional cap
ital is to be devoted.
Another example is the state Of Mis-
souri,. Several years ago a yellow press
in the city of st. Louis started an agita-
ton in which they maintained that the as
sessed valuation of the street railway
properties In that city should De IN
creased to s5OOOO,oOo. The officials of the
company argued that the valuation should
not exceed s170oo,OOo. On the state tax
commission at that time was Governor
Folk, who has acquired a national reputa-
ton, and Attorney General Hadley who
has made the Standard Oil people come to
time. After conducting an investigation
the assessed valuation of the properties
was increased but a few hundred thou
sa nd dollars.
"rhis illustrates the benefit of sane reg
ulation. Gentlemen, | tell you that the
public service corporations of the country
are having difficulty in borrowing money
because of the frenzied public opinion OF
the present time
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23
ACCIDENTS IN MINES.

from the Baltimore sun.
The industries of peace record more
casualties, 1t seems. than the operations
of war. In 1905, according to the Engl-
neering and Mining Journal. our coal
mines alone had accidents causing the
loss of over 22O0 valuable lives. and in
ten years 1900 coal miners have been
killed while engaged in their calling. The
rate per 1000 which in 1895 was 2.1 fell
in 1897 to pa per 1000, but In 1902 it had
mounted to 80 per 1000. The number
200 in 1905 corresponds to rate of S4i
per 1000. The actual number is believed
to have been considerably greater. since
the smaller mines are not reported. The
states generally have taken steps to les
sen the risks of coal mining. but the
yearly death rate continues to be high.
Explosions N England have been mini
mixed by close governmental scrutiny.
but the foolhardiness of few of the
miners themselves produces what seems
TO be an irreduciblc minimum of "acci-
dents"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-23
PRESS POINTS

Nashville American: A Detroit man
shot himself because nelghbor inces-
sanity played the accordion. He would
have been justified If he had shot his
reighbor
Washington Herald: When Hercules I'm
ished the job of cleaning the Augean sta
bles there were doubtless plenty of poll
ticians standing around ready to go on
the stump and claim the credit for It,
Plttsburg sun: Only think Of having to
pay over a million dollars a year extra
for the kind of corporation-serving po-
ltical jockeys in the House and oratori-
cal scrappers such as we now have in
the Senate.
Arkansas Gazette: At Tulsa. I. T., a
man jumped from a hospital window,
climbed into the cab of a locomotive and
threw open the throttle. Perhaps he had
been mentally unbalanced by long and
continuous experience with late trains.
st. Louis Globe Democrat Nearly half
of the more than f15o.o0o immigrants who
arrived in this country last year settled
in New York and Pennsylvania. Now
that the states are at liberty to import
aliens direct the distribution ought to
be greatly improved.
Spokesman Review: When it bears in
mind the 600 which it has received
from John D. Rockefeller and the result
ant benefits, the University of Chicago
may view with equanmity i'll natured
comments like that of the Baltimore
Sun, which remarks: THE Chicago uni
versity appears to be the receiving de-
pot for Standard Oil profits"