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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-11

nation, or trust, or conspiracy. to op-
pose the president in anything; much
less did I ever hear of the so-ca1led
five million dollar conspiracy Of
which we have heard SO much dur
ing the last week. zsl sf8 q Il 3..'
It trust 4 may be pardoned for go
ing further and saying / never saw
John D. Rockefeller but once in my
life, and that was twenty years ago
or more while IL was governor Of
Ohio. rs NJ: NJ N. ...@ 81
Mr.. Hartman I have seen often
er. have seen him three times
twice az the White House; the last
time as an b IGNORED guest at the we'd
ding ceremonies. Of the presidents
daughter. On. neither OF these oc-
casions did have any conversation
with him. M sssi
The only other time ever saw
him was to meet him at a dinner
party given by Senator and Mrs. De-
pew where Speaker Cannon and his
daughter, Senator Spooner and his
wife, Senator Elkins and his wife,
and many others were present.
Except only the brief conversa-
ton Of the evening in the presence
OF all this company, never commu-
nicated with him directly or indi-
rectly on any subject whatever.
call attention to all this with
particularly SO that at the outset
such vile, reckless, crazy stories may
be put into the class Of campaign
literature where they properly be-
long. 4. y. 's.
But these stories are but sam-
Pies of many others, all of which
taken together seem, to have for
their object the dissemination Of the
idea that am at war with the poll
cies Of Preside nt Roosevelt..
No man ever occupied the White
House who has been identified with
SO many legislative I. measures as
President Roosevelt. He is tire
less worker. He lis constantly doing,
or causing to be done. something Of
great imp rtance. This is true. not
only as to domestic, but also as to
foreign Affairs. He has been presi-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-11

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territories voted against joint state
hood. That was no occasion for any
bitterness Of feeling in connection
with its consideration; and there was
none on my part, and never heard
that there was any on the part Of
the president. Xxi. INA
= was unable also to agree with
the president as to comforting the
rate-making power upon the inter
state commerce commission, as pro-
vided in the Hepburn law, passed at
the first session of the fifty ninth con-
gress. was not opposed to that
proposition, however, because 1 did
not want governm entail control and
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-11
dent since September, 1901, almost

4st y ,saf7' y
dent since September, 1901, almost
six years. q, t.s
.S During all that time 1 have sup
ported all measures that have come
before the senate Of the United
States for consideration with which
he was in any way identified, except
only three. NJ N IN HI
differed from him as to joint
statehood for New Mexico and Ari-
IONA, insisting that they should not
be forced into the union as one state,
unless q majority of the citizens OF
each territory might so vote. The
proposition I favored was adopted
by congress, and the people Of the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-11

dinner and in the meantime Justice
Fitzgerald adjourned court until 9
lso'clock. He did not then indicate
how late he would remain at the
court house. ig IA .,@ n n
The life Of Harry Thaw this day
will go down as the most trying he
has ever experienced. From the op-
lening Of court until the jury retired,
the fates dealt numerically with
him. .zts NJ VI
Beginning with District Attorney
|Jerome's final argument and through
tout the Judges charge Thaw had to
listen to a scathing attack upon his
character and to a narrative drawn
from the evidence, which was meant
to strip his deeds of the halo OF
chivalreus glory which his own at
torneys had thrown about them. &
The Judges charge, lasting an !:
hour, was a concise outline OF !:
the law and gave to the jury the !:
alternate Of rendering any one Of !:
the following four verdicts !:
Murder In the first degree,
Murder in the second degree. !:
Manslaughter in the first de- !:
gree:
or. not guilty On the ground !:
Of insanity.
The statutes governing the plea Of
insanity was defined clearly, much
stress being laid on the fact that an
lirressistible impulse to kill had no
place in law.
The Judge also informed the jury
that an Illusion. unless the Illusion
Iif true might result in the injury 81
q man suffering 4, could not be al
Ecepted as an excuse.
4 srlI
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-11

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- Altogether the charge, while con.
sisting principally Of a complete ex.
PLANTATION of the law, was considered
by those who have followed the trial
as adverse to the defendant. Il
d The attorneys for the defendant
took exceptions because the Judge
had failed to include any of the cir.
cumstances surrounding the case.
4:,.5 Thaw was much depressed by
the judges charge and could !:
B: not suppress his feelings. He
4: left the court room detected.
The district attorneys sum-
4: ming up was comprehensive
and forceful review of the evil /:
I: dence. He declared at the out /:
D; set that romance and sentiment
did not enter into the issue; it !:
D: not a question Of Stanford
b: Whites character or Evelyn
Thaw's sufferings;; it was plain,
4: matter-of-fact homicide.
a common, cowardly tenderloin
murder" he termed 1T.
The novel plea of dementia Amer
icana I made by Attorney Delmas
vas repeatedly referred to in tones
OF sarcasm. Mr.. Jerome dealt more
with Evelyn Thaw. to whom he re
ferred as the s'angel child" and ID
ThaW. whom he termed alternately
EST, George and Sir Galabad 4,
house for a short while after the
sjury retired and then the family with
the exception OF the younger Mrs
Thaw, went 70 dinner The young
wife remained and had dinner with
Attorney 0'Reiliy at nearby rest.
aurant. The others returned shortly
after 5 o'clock and went 10 the Telnbs
waiting room.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-11

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\. !: New York, April To- Charged !:
!: with the respo possibility Of deciding
/: the fate of Harry X. Thaw, the ]:
]: jury which since January % has
!: been sitting in judgment on the !:
/: young slayer Of Stanford White,
!: retired at ~ p. M, today to be-:
/; gin consid eration Of their verdict. 1:
q Six hours later they had failed to !:
!: report an bagreeemnt and shortly !:
!: after IL ID. m. we're locked up for !:
]: the night ia jury room Of criminal I:
!: court building. It was said that :
when Justice Fitzgerald's message
n was received the officers ON duty :
put the matter up to the jurors !:
/: themselves, asking if there was ]:
3 any possibility Of their arriving !:
j: alta verdict within the next few 4:
!. hours. The reply from the jury :
4 room was strongly negative. The :
!: jury was said to be almost hope:
I. lessly divided and none OF those
!; connected with the case tonight:
]: would venture the hope Of any !:
/: thing better than a disagreement :
I: as q climax OF the long drawn out
!: trial, ]: ]:
Associated Press 10 Bismarck Tribune
New York, April 10 Harry Kendall
Thaw,s fate Is IN the hands Of the
jury The trial. which had been ii
progress since January %. came to an
end at SIT o'clock this afternoon
when the twelve men who are to pass
upon Stanford Whites slayer retired
to deliberate upon their verdict.
The general impression prevailed
that . decision would be reached be
fore morning.
After considering the case for al
hour and 4 HALF the Jury was takeI
to the Broadway Central hotel fe,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-11

After the case had been given to
the jury Jerome's attention was sal
led to the nervous state of the de-
PENDANT. Discussing the situation
with friends, the district attorney
said: 81
- - -. =. -. =. :. ;. -. .
J: "The poor fellow thought the ::
!: judge would simply tell the Jury ::
to let st. George, this Sir Gala ):
pad business, go, and that's ali ::
there would be to it. Now I un- !:
!: derstand he is sitting in his cell ::
/: and in distress, his head bowed, ::
!: worrying about the outcome. I ):
: am really sorry for him, but more ::
SO for his mother =
The ThaWs remained in the court
The jury returned to the court
house from dinner at 1926 b. M, and
Immediately went to their consulta-
ton room. When it became apparent
that there was no possibility Of a de-
cision being reached by 9 p. n. Jus
tice Fitzgerald went home and left
word that he would return whenever
the jury desired him.
The court room was emptied, and
the doors We're locked.
AS time wore on the crowd await
ms the verdict grew smaller and
smaller. AT last the court house
corridors were all but deserted, only
the newspaper writer's remaining.
Mrs. William Thaw went back to her
apartment in an up-tewn hotel.
Evelyn remained ait the court house.
BY 10 o'clock the streets about the
court house were deserted. 1t seem
ed to be the general impression that
there was no possibility Of verdict
before tomorrow rlorning, il then.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-05
WORRYING OVER WORRY

stronger than we think. We are like bridge or boiler that has resisting pow CT several times the normal amount Of strain that may be put upon it. When we collapse under successive nights of in- somnla or under burdens unduly heavy, 1t is not the strain or the burden, or wor- ry about either, but worry about worry that does it. We think we are done up, but we are not. We have merely reached what the psychologists call the first layer of fatigue There are other layers of fatigue and of energy beyond that, and an effort of the will or some stimulation of the interest may have the same effect in reaching them that a march tune has on a wearied file of soldiers approaching it's bivouac.
 For such consolation as there is in 1t, 1t may be noted that people who worry often take trouble when it comes with surprising equanimity. It is so much less than what they had expected. Mrs. Gum midge, 1t will be remembered, was Hone and lorn," a very east wind at the Peg goty hearth, until great trouble came; she met 1t with courage and cheer. Often the man who collapses utterly in misfor- tune or disgrace Is the man who took no thought of the morrow nor admitted that the future held aught but good for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-05

felt by the Rockefeller concern. It divides annually $4O,00O,OOO a year, and a fine of S29,24O.000 will not be to it as burdensome as fine of five dol lars would be on the everyday citizen.
 The distressing feature of the fine is that on account of the existing mo- nopoly of the Standard oil it will be taken, not from the pockets of the offending stockholders, but from the and smoking oil lamp In the back dis tricts-from the people in general. Standard Oil dividends will be main tained, and the fine will be assessed on the people after the appeals and technicalities of the law have been exhausted. The blame for all this rests upon an administration that permits a monopoly to exist in the teeth of the Sherman antitrust act-an act that has been on the statute books thirteen years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-05
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL.

By Robert Louis Stevenson.
 A naked house, a naked moor, A shivering pool before the door, A garden bare of flowers and fruit, And poplars at the garden foot; Such Is the place that I live in, Bleak without and bare within. Yet shall your ragged moors receive The incomparable pomp of eve, And the cold glories of the dawn Behind your shiverng trees be drawn; And when the wind from place to place Doth the unmoored cloud galleons chase. Your garden blooms and the gleams again With leaping sun and glancing rain; Here shall the wizard moon ascend The heavens, in the crimson end Of days declining splendor; here The army of the stars appear. The neighbor hollows. dry or wet, Spring shall with tender flowers beset And oft the morning muser see Larks rising from the broomy lea. And every fairy wheel and thread Of cobweb dew bediamonded. When daisies go shall winter time Silver the simple grass with rime; Autumnal frosts enchant the pool And make the cart ruts beautiful. And when snow bright the moor expands, How shall your children clap their handst To make this earth our heritage. A cheerful and a changeful page. Gods intricate and bridge device Of days and seasons doth suffice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-05
MRS. RoWLAND's BOOK.

The Louisville Times has the follow ing to say of bol1 by Birmingham writer:
 Latter Day Sinners" by Alice Kate Rowland. New York; The NeaIe Pub fishing company
 The closing lines of this readable book, dramatic from beginning to end, Is the keynote of it's character Tho wages of sin is death." Told In the form of a manuscript by the heroine of the story. Caprice, and publish ed after her untimely death, there is not a dull line in the work. Beautiful, high strung, impulslve and shadowed by n skeleton In the closet that stalks in the shape of an inherited evil through her family, Caprice Is fated to a love less marriage and to sin. Strongly. graphically, yet modestly described, the natural error of a warm, passionate heart that can beat with no more than cold, lifeless respect for the heart 1t is bound to stands in bold relief as a warning, old yet eternal, against mar riages without love. The scenes of the book are laid in Virginia in the neigh borh ood of Richmond and Norfolk, and the old Virginia family life is pie turesquely described. The author of the book Is a Kentuckian and the work is intensely southern in its tyle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-05
Clay Products Needed.

"I was very much impressed with the industrial review issue of The Age-Herald a compendium of this districts resources and developments, said J. W. Sibley of the Slbley-Menge Brick Co.,
 'T was particularly pleased with the article on clay Within thirty miles of birmingham there are many valuable clay deposits that could be used with great profit
 'lhe most inviting opening here at present Is in the manufacture of con duits for telephone. telegraph and under ground work. and to use in part for plumbing All these needful things al e manufactured in other parts while 'tis a fact that the south uses Immense quan- titles of them. Thus far trust controls this output but that would not Interfere, as the demand is very great. The shales and other clays that abound here are the very best of material to use in such manufacture
 Another enterprise that would prove profitable is a manufacturing plant for sanitary closets. and similar products in white ware. The clay for this Is near at hand
 ''As I said on another occasion a plant with $15O,Ooo capital here in the district manufacturing filings for floors, wains- cotings floors and architectural art pieces and ornamental work would reap a rich return on the investment.
 ''I think that the time will come when the clay products of Alabama will rep resent large asset in the states de- Velopment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-05
FIRST AID TO IMPOLITE
From the New York Evening Post.

From the New York Evening Post
 NICE men and women of fashion O) conform their manners to man - uals of etiquette. just as they regulate their morals by the Ten Com mandments, they will be eager to con- suit E. w. Greens Dictionary of Eti- quette," as well as Mrs. Learned's up-to- date work on the subject of manners in New York today. Both books are of con- venlent size, and can easily be carried in the pocket of what MT. Green calls "the Tuxedo" Thes new guides to conduct are very encouraging and optimistic just as the old ones loaded men with burdens grievous to be borne. The old represent the law, the new, the gospel of good be- havor, The former were written to warn the malevoent, the latter to help the we'll meaning.
 An instance of this increase Is kindli- ness is seen in the directions given for weddings. They would almost persuade the blessedly single to get married. The whole brunt of the affair seems to rest upon the best man. Unlike the clergyman, he gets no fee for his trouble, and his Is only the trihlng advantage of knowing where the married pair are going on their wedding journey; 'he alone knows the point of destination, and Is in honor bound not to betray 1t save In case of emergen- cies." Kissing at weddings is we regret to find, mo longer good form" Still, the ushers may call on the bride just before the ceremony, and she will place flowers In the lapel of their coats."
 In these manuals, many pages are oe- cupied with directions for behavior in the street, and out of doors generally. Taking ones best girl' to drive will surely be- come a less popular form of amusement; for man, when driving with a woman, should refrain from asking her permission to smoke, and. "of course, would never do so without her permission;" so here after the woman will do all the smoking. Few men who own horses will care to wear the dress prescribed: gray suit with gray high hat and gray gloves. with a white silk tie and white linen. It is well to know, however, that "a man bi- cycling with woman should extend to her all the courtesies practiced when rid ing or driving with her" As mere men, we are glad that the old custom of a man giving up his>seat in a street car to a woman is being gradually done away with" yet woman should not assume "a pained and injured alr' If no one offers her a seat However he may treat women, "a man should always be polite and courteous toward a conductor"
 Rowing and the management of ones
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-05

Herald. that the Sisters of Charity were induced to build St. Vncent's hospital at cost of over s2OO0OO. and that they were able to maintain 1t in the first years of its operation, when 1t was hari to meet current expenses. Later Father O'Reilly established a home for orphans at East Lake. These two institutions, both of them non-sectarlan, will eve" stand as monuments to his zeal and char ity."
 At the ceremony of the unveiling there were participants representing the state, the city, the National Guard-in which Father o'Reilly served as chaplain-tne commercial organizations and the churches, including the Rev John w. Stagg of the Presbyterian church. by let ter. The whole citizenship of Birmingham was well pleased to pay the tribute to the beneyolence and public spirit of the priest who in a short career made an indellble impress upon the community, and who is numbered with the blessed of whom the Spirit saith: They may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-05
TodaY's Conference

Governor Conner comes up from the capitol carrying in his inside pocket the Greater Birmingham bills, which lack his signature only in order to become laws of a sovereign state. He comes to consult with his friends, neighbors and fellow citizens. He comes, too, with mind open to con viction, a heart filled with just local pride, and a training that looks to economic results in the years to come.
 He would not come to a conference if he desired to be despotic or selfish CT unjust Let us meet him at today's conference at the Commercial Club rooms as one neighbor should meet another. This spirit animates Gov ernor Conner, and 1t should fill the breasts of every other citizen of this community. The governor of the state has the same citizen pride that you have, but his official oath puts upon him a responsibility that does not fall upon the shoulders of the private citizen except fin very gen eral way.
 The conference should be a friendly consultation in which each person ac- cords to the man at his elbow patriot ism and a just home spirit If we meet in this spirit the outcome Is al most sure to put us in the list of cities-a list that includes Memphis, Nashville, Mobile and Richmond and to which list will soon be added At lanta.
 Co to the conference In a frame of mind to do injustice to no one or no interest but filled with desire to do the best that circumstances admit of for the common good of Jones Valley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-05
IN MEMORY OF FATHER GREELEY

From the Mobile Register.
 A very handsome monument in marble was unveiled last Sunday in the St. Vim cent hospital grounds, Birmingham, in memory of the late Rev. P. A. O'Reilly. sometime pastor of St. Pauls church in Birmingham, and the originator of the hospital. It is fitting that the lifelike statue of the much loved pastor should stand close by the institution that his la bors helped to create. Father O'Reilly was in his early priesthood stationed at Whist Ter in Mobile county, and was fin charge of St. BriGgets church there. Obscure as was his post he yet attracted attention not alone in Whistler but in Mobile. He had most winning manner. and his intel ligence was of high order. Bishop OSul- lican recognized his talent and usefulness and translated him to the central pas torate in Birmingham. where he quickly demonstrated that he was the right man for the place. He became one of the best known workers there for all good causes, and among the undertakings of merit which he fostered was the hospital. ''lt was through Father O'Reilly's un- firing e1orts." says the Birmingham Age
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-05
Exposition POpular

The Jamestown Exposition, which was criticised adversely at the start, is now calling forth high praise from all intelligent visitors. After weeks of unavoidable delay, the exhibits are in place and the grounds and build ings have received finishing touches. All agree that the buildings are archi- great world fairs, while from an his toric and educational point of view it is exceptionally interesting and val uable
 pr. B. G. Lowry, president of Blue Mountain Female Seminary of Mis- sissippi, one of the best known edu- cators In the south, recently escorted party of eighty of his students to the exposition. His impressions agree with those of other appreciative per sons. To a Richmond reporter Dr. Lowry said:
 Our parties have visited every ex- position in recent years, and after re- maining at Jamestown four days we were greatly impressed with the mag nltude of the enterprise. Though It Is not as large, of course, as some. 1t is excellent, and I shall advise the people of my section to go there be- fore 1t has closed. It Is an education in itself and I am particularly grati- fled that the young laoies visited 1t"
 The attendance Is steadily increas- ing and August and September Will doubtless witness great crowds. The Jamestown Exposition is the most im- portant and ambitious show ever at tempted in the south, and every south erner has reason to Iccl proud of 1t.