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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
SOME POLITICAL TALK
 AT THE STATE CAPITOL
BY HERVEY W. LAIRD.

Montgomery, September 5.-(Special.)- With the return of many of the lead~ ing men from their summer vacations, political talk is revived and much specu- lation indulged in as to what will be the lineup of the next campaign. Re- cent months have not presented any changes in the prospect of the gover- nors race so far as personnel goes, though there is an impression now that after all there will be no man in the fight definitely upon the platform of in- dorsement of the present administration. It was thought for time that a candi- date would be announced who would nave the open support of Governor Conner and his followers with view to test ing the extent to which the current ad- ministration is indorsed by the people as a whole.
 Men who are in close accord with the present organization, and who feel that there is much to be commended in what has been done and attempted by Cover nor Conner and his followers, believe now that whatever idea might have been for a candidate of the administration, that none will be presented after all The reasons for this impression seem to be that men already announced or known to be in the race will represent the ideas of the administration to the extent neces- sary for an expression of the will of the people.
 Some Getting Busy.
 It is pretty well established that Walter D. Seed will be a candidate for gover- nor The same thing is so of William W. Brandon, though he has made no definite announcement. North Alabama men ex- press the opinion that Speaker Car michael will not offer. This in a meas ure, disposes of the probabilities who are not outspoken and who are in ad- dtion to Lieut.. Gov. Henry B. Gray and H. S. D. Mallory, both of whom have announced.
 There was an impression some time since that Attorney General A. M. Gar Der and Commissioner of Agriculture J. A. Wilkinson were possibilities in the guber material campaign, and though they have not definitely stated they will not run, close friends say that such thing is quite unlikely.
 From the agricultural interest in ev
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MYSTERY OF DEATH.
Robbery and Murder Suspected In a
 Case at St. Louis,

St. Louis, September 5.-The body of man who died on a Chicago and Alton train near Louisiana, Mo-. on August 22, and was buried there as William Hightower," after coroner's jury had failed to determine the cause of death, is now believed to be that of Christ Wiese, 65 years old. of No. 3925 Blaine avenue, St. Louis, who disap. peared from Warrenton, Mo-, on Au. gust 19, after he had drawn $5O00 from a bank there with the intention of pur- chasing a farm. The descriptions are almost identical. It is believed Wiese was decoyed to Kansas City, robbed fatally beaten and placed on the train after the robbers had bought him a ticket for Louisiana.
 It is learned from Warrenton that Wiese cashed $5000 draft there, but had not purchased the farm No tid- ings concerning Wiese have been re. ceived at his home.
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comnIalnt Against Railroads.

Washington, September 5.-The Midland Mill and Elevator company of Oklahoma in a complaint against the Kansas, South- western, Midland Valley, Kansas City Southern, Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway of Texas, asks the interstate commerce commission to require the defendant lines
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Strayed or Stolen-One bay horse, 6 years old, 15la hands high, weigh about 1000 pounds, 1 white foot. Reasonable re- ward if returned to Haynes Donahoo Horse & Mule Ex- change, 2nd Ave. and 27th St.
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FURNITURE DEALERS Needing organs for their trade can buy them in lots of 10 to 20 at marvellous prices at our ~annval sale. Jesse French Piano Co.,, 2018 Second Ave.
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found of the bug It is observed that where a boil is punctured 1t immediately shrivels and begins to decay. In some instances the boil was evidently ready to open when punctured, but it fails to open. and when cracked shows locks of rotten cotton.
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Negro Killed By Llqhtninu,

Schriever, La., September 5.-Durlng an electrical storm today James Hill and Ben Harris, negroes, who were fishing near here. were struck by light ming. Hill was instantly killed, while Harris was seriously injured.
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to maintain reasonable tariffs of Joint and through rates on grain and grain products. The compliant asks for speedy action. on account of the fact that the season for moving the corn crop tributary to the Kansas Southwestern railway is about to begin. The complaint says the failure to establish through rates discrim- mates in favor of mills at Arkansas City and other points in Texas.
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Consign your horses and mules to our next Auction Sale, Friday, Sept. 11th. Fies & Sons.
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Removal of pr. Westbrook.
 Dr. J. c. Westbroolz has removed his dental office to 329 First National Bank building. 9-2-tf-we-sti
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For Sale-Well established meat market. Will bear closest investigation. Address Rex, Care Age Herald.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-10-24
ROUND THE CAPITAL
Inf nd Picked Here
here in Washington.
Prospects for Social Season Are Bright

ture, but with the White House opened
many of the embassies will follow
suit
Washington is a great gathering
place for conventions, especially in the
autumn, and this year the season
opened with the tuberculosis con-
gress, which brought together distin-
guished men from all parts of the
world, many of them with their wives
and other feminine kin. This made
necessary a reception or two and many
luncheons and dinners, and these
started the ball rolling Although the
ball may slow up when the delegates
depart for their English, French, Ger
man, or other homes, it will be kept
going on the way toward the new year
and a new administration.
Meantime, there will be the official
opening of the White House, with a re-
ception for congress and the introduce
ton of Miss Ethel Roosevelt into So
ciety. Miss Roosevelt is planning to
have a stream of young house guests
and all the cousins" will take turns
at joining in the entertainments, of
fetal and otherwise. Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth will chaperon her sister on
most occasions, relieved by her uncle,
Admiral William S. Cowles, who filled
the same genial Office for Mrs. Long
worth when she made her debut.
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r. HE army of rough riders, trappers
1 and men who catch 'em alive with
their hands" who have been looking for
ward to the presidents African trip in
quest of big game as an occasion in
which they would play part, will be
disappointed.
Mr.. Roosevelt and his son Kermit,
one taxidermist, and one naturalist
from the National museum will consti-
tute the Roosevelt party. They will be
the only Americans in it. Just how
large a following of natives will be
necessary the president himself does
not yet know.
Although the president is to receive
one large dollar for each word written
by him about the trip, he is not con-
templating the throwing of money
right and left to equip himself for the
novel experience of shooting real big
game.
BY the time the president will have
been separated (this is the word
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-10-24

1T is a tragic coincidence that the
L two distinguished members of diplo-
matte corps who have recently died
Minister Hauge of Norway and Am
bassador Speck Won Sternberg of Ger
many-should have both been sur
vived by beautiful and childless
widows, who at some time in their
girlhood claimed the same city, Louis
vile, as their home.
The dramatic sadness of the dual
incidents still hangs like a pail over
that inner circle of Washington So
ciety where the two happy couples
shone as regnant lights.
That both men died in their father
land when on temporary visits there
with their American wives, booming
the young widows to solitary journeys
home, is a further pathetic parallel
Baroness Speck Won Sternberg. the
later of the two diplomatic women to
be bereaved of an idolizing husband,
returned from abroad recently and has
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No Hunters to Accompany the President

used in Washington from the govern
ment service and the monthly check
for $4,166.66 % will be going to some
other man. 1t will be incumbent upon
him to mind his pennies, else, instead
of a trip of profit, it will develop into
one of expense.
President Roosevelt does not yet
know the scientists that are to accom-
pany him All he knows is that he in
tends presenting specimens of African
animals to the National museum, and
that he has asked that institution to
send along two men, one to preserve
the specimens and the other to make
notes that will be of benefit to natural
history.
No definite itinerary has beCl yet
arranged The president will go
where he can find the game, and if he
fails to find it one place he will go to
another, and when he has found it he
will camp there. The details of the
trip will not be arranged, therefore,
until after he has consulted his guides,
who will not be from the United
States The caravan will be mustered
in after he reaches the African coast.
Reports that the president has &C
cepted an invitation from this or that
official or dignitary are also premature.
The president has received no invi-
tations and his plans at present will
hardly admit of his accepting any.
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onlce-Holdlnn a Duty.

In many ways the people of the
country would be benefited by inducing
men who have a practical experience
in the management Of great industrial,
financial and commercial enterprises
to become candidates for public office,
declares American Industries. They
know economic questions better than
do the politicians. Their trade connec
lions give them a larger concern in
such issues, and furnish them with a
greater inducement for studying them
thoroughly. Moreover, business men
in Office are less likely than are the
nominees Of the politicians to be STAN
peded by demagogues, or to be
frightened by the crack of the boss
whip. They would be far less likely to
be influenced by the wiles of the
boodler. More than the average man
they are conservative. The personal
stake which they have in the stability
of industry and finance has compelled
them to get some acquaintance with
the various political panaceas which
agitators, from time to time, have
urged. and with the different nostrums
which ignorant, timid or careless
legislatures have, at one time and an
other, enacted.
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Tragic Coincidence in Death of ENJOYS

begun the packing of her effects at
the German embassy. She has a right
to the salary of her husband and to
the occupancy of the embassy in
Washington for three months after the
ambassadors demise. AS the widow
of diplomat who died in service, the
former beautiful Miss Langham of
Louisville will enjoy a considerable
pension from the German government
No more sumptuous hospitality was
lavished in Washington than that
emanated from Baron Won Sternberg
and his peculiarly alluring Kentucky
wife. The white ballroom of the Ger
man embassy during the incumbency
of the Won Sternbergs has been the
scene of princely festivities.
The pathetic little diplomat with the
gentle wistful face that always ap-
pealed, was man of large personal in
come. No woman in Washington
dressed more exquisite1y than the
wife of whom he was so justly proud.
The invalid diplomat, because of the
determined malady that finally closed
his career, appeared seldom in society
last winter. His presence with his
wife at the last state function of the
season at the White House was the oc-
casion of heartfelt congratulations
| among his friends. They believed he
was better and going to get we'll.
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An old.rinne ouaok-

In the right hands, it is a poor root
that will not work both ways. An old
Quack doctor, according to the Wash
ington correspondent of the Boston
Herald, was once called to see a boy
who had chills and fever.
He proceeded to scratch the bark
off a root, and put some in one glass
of water and some in another glass of
water.
Give the medicine in this glass for
the chills,' he then said to the lads
mother, but give this in the other
glass when the fever comes on"
But, DOCTOR" the mother protested.
cit is exactly the same in both
glasses"
"Oh, not at ALL declared the quack.
but I saw you scrape the bark OH
the same root and put it in each
glass;
Yes" admitted the quack, smooth
", "but you didn't see how done it,
my dear lady. This for the chills I
scrape up on the root, and that makes
it high cockalorum. This for the fever
l scrape down on the root, and that
makes it low cockahighrum."
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Public and Publisher.
KANSAS.

One of the leading book publishers,
sociates and rivals in the manufacture
of books, said that the publisher has
great difficulty in making money from
the more solid kinds of literature;
that to keep his establishment on a
paying basis, as he is bound to do, he
has to publish a good deal of the less
worthy, although not necessarily bad
sort. If this be so, then it is a public
question of great Importance, for the
publisher puts forth what experience
teaches him the people desire; and
although the individual writer may be
true to his own genius, the rank and
1ile of writing persons obey popular
demand as any other producers work
ing for their daily bread. There are
two sides to this question, says the
Youths Companion. On the one hand,
it may be contended that the people
are eager for good things; that good
books and good periodicals do win
large audiences; that high purpose
among publishers and writer's will
lead them to satisfy the best appe-
tites of readers; and that thereby all
will profit in spirit and none who is
worthy will suffer in purse. Great
books can be named which have
brought money reward to writer and
publisher. Fortune overlook Pope,
Tennyson and Longfellow, who wrote
poetry, which, it is alleged, the people
do not buy. On the other hand, if the
cheap journal, the trashy novel, do
succeed, the people, whoever the
people" are, have nobody to blame but
themselves. They are the arbiters of
taste, whose obedient servants pub
Usher and author will always be for
selfish reasons. If nobody read the
worst newspaper, the worst newspa-
per would get better or die, and all it's
rivals up the scale to the best would
improve. The principle here applies
to all things in a democracy. The peo-
pie cannot be fed with bad food,
tricked by wrong leaders, stuffed with
foolish ideas or amused with low
amusements unless they are willing.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-10-24
Insane Hospital to House Male Nurses

tories, shower baths and bathrooms,
all lined with Vermont marble, arr on
each floor. On the first floor is a
large club or reception room running
the entire width of the building, which
will be used as a reading room or pos
sibly as a billiard room.
Employees who are to occupy the
building are being assigned to quarters
there now, and they have expressed
themselves as pleased at their new sur
roundings, which they regard as max
ing for their comfort and pleasure
after working hours.
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THE Government Hospital for the In
i sane has just opened its male

THE Government Hospital for the In
i sane has just opened its male
nurses home.
The building is designed to accom-
modate a large number of the male
nurses and attendants who have here
tofore been quartered in buildings in
which patients were cared for. They
will be enabled under the new condi-
lions when. work on the wards is over
to go to a building removed from the
patients and containing homelike ap-
pointments.
The need of such a home has been
recognized by the hospital authorities
for a long time. In the plans originally
prepared for the extension of the
asylum there was provision made for
the erection of such a structure. 1t
was finally eliminated.
A building three stories high, how
ever. was erected for the female
nurses and attendants when the hos
pital extension was completed. AS no
appropriation was available for the
construction of building for the male
nurses. all that it was possible to do
was to remodel one of the buildings
already on the hospital reservation
The building finally selected is what
was known as the east lodge. Several
years ago it was utilized for female pa
tients. 1t is combined three story
and two-story brick building.
Entirely remodeled to meet the re-
Quirements of the situation. 1t con-
tains 80 roomy apartments. capable of
Drofidfne for about IS men, It is
liehted throushonl By eIeetEiclty. Laya.
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The Popular Coral.

The dealer held up two strinsJ Of
coral. They were of equal size. but one
was dark and dull in hue, the other
beautifully pink and translucent
The dark one" he said, is WORTH
so cents. the pink one is worth $500.
That is what makes coral so popular.
1t suits all pocketbooks.
'AIl over the world it goes. These
strings of rough, uncut beads are for
the dead of India. They are put round
the necks of the bodies about to be
burnt in the CHATS.
These large and blood-red beads
go to Africa. They are much liked
by the natives, whose dark skins they
perfectly suit Mr.. Roosevelt would
do well to take a case of them with
him on his forthcoming trip
Here are lot of coral hands with
fingers extended in a V-the gesture
that wards on the evil eye. The coral
hands are for Italy, where the belief
in their efficacy is widespread"
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he found one which rang full note
lower than his own. This he pur-
chased and with it fastened back to
the house.
He placed the original globe over
the burner. In moment it sent out a
low whine. Then he tried his pur-
chase. 1t was silent. He went down
stairs and called Mrs. Todd.
IT have it," said he, and displayed
the two globes. Then another in
spiration came to him.
Where's the skylight?" he asked.
Mr.. Todd took him into hall
closet and showed him ladder run
ming upwards. This he assembled, and
went out on the roof. Presently he
was back with sigh of relief.
Our ghostly musician said he, is
a lot of wires running across the
roof. There's a standard holding them
just overhead. When it's windy, they
begin to hum, and one of them drones
the keynote of the gas globe here, and
the vibrations, carried along the wall,
set the globe going. That first globe
l bought rang the same note as the
original one, so you see that's why it
tuned up also. This one is somewhat
lower-most of them, 1 found. were
pitched like the first one-and that's
why it doesn't sing. Glad I know
what it is
$50 am Is said Mrs. Todd, fervently.
They were silent for moment.
Then Knox spoke:
Must have been creepy to see him
do that, though. wonder il he really
did?"
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Mrs. Todd's Three
Flights-Front
Copyright. by shortstory Pub. Coz
By Richard B. Shelton

had that room. He went insane in
that very room. They say he'd play
the keynote of a requiem, and every
now and then he'd stop and listen for
an echo, and laugh to himself. 1t may
be exaggerated
Its rot" said Knox, shortly, and
turning on his heel he went up stairs.
Yet, when the globe started up its
drone early that evening, he felt cold
chills running up and down his spine.
What a timid ass you're getting to
be, my boy he said to himself as he
rose and lighted a pipe with a hand
that was a trifie unsteady. Played
the keynote he said, musingly.
Rather a morbid fancy, that. Played
the keynote-By George!" He stopped
and laid aside the pipe. Suddenly he
whipped off the globe, and DOMINIC
his hat and overcoat he rushed down
stairs carrying the troublesome globe
under his arm. 1t was a frosty eve
ming and the wind was blowing brisk
ly. He hurried to a store on the ave-
nue. and asked for gas globes. Anum-
Der of the ordinary shape were laid
before him. He took pencil from his
pocket and sounded first his own
globe and then the others. Presently
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-10-24

In Anglomaniac circles in the Uni
ted States there are Americans who
would pump at the chance to acquire
an English title. When American
heiresses of a certain type give for
of marrying into the nobility, and
when impecunious "noblemen" hawk
their titles about for sale to the high
est bidder and usually find a pur-
chaser, the harsh comments upon Mr..
Astor's pretensions and aspirations on
both sides of the Atlantic seem to be
more or less hypocritical. If Mr.. Astor
can buy his way into the peerage, asks
Baltimore Sun, why shouldn't he?
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Observation-Disclosures the tide of
w society has turned. 1t is no
longer where to go, but when to re-
turn. Society has had it's fling, and
merry one it has been, despite all
that has been said to the contrary,
and now the more serious considera-
lions of home life come to the front.
With the summers gayeties in Bar
Harbor and Newport now only a
memory, the fashionable set is of vari-
gus minds as to where to spend the
next month. Virginia Hot Springs
holds out reckoning hand to those
who have revealed in the summers
designations.
But in Washington the curtain has
been eng up and the stage set for the
coming season by the arrival of the
president and Mrs. Roosevelt, and
the raising of questions which necessi-
tate the return of the official family,
as the cabinet is called. The opening
of the winter season is in the dim flu
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-10-24

The walking test for army officers,
which is to be held in October this
year. calls for the covering of so miles
in 20 hours within three days. This is
certainly not a difficult stunt" Men
not given to systematic pedestrianism
ought to walk that distance without
over-exertion. and as army men are
supposed to be in practice to some
extent, they ought easily to meet the
requirement. Seventeen miles a day
would leave unaccustomed walkers
tame at the end of three days. but with
that certainty before them a good
many Of the class would willingly I'M
1ertake a cross-country tour for the
mere joy of the inspiring October air.
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The new man often has had his picture
in the paper He is at the wash tub with
shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow or he is
giving the baby its bottle, or he is stand
ing before the kitchen table wearing an
apron and using rolling pin. In another
favorite pose he sits in low rocker darning
the family socks or sewing fine seam.
1t is not odd that man should know
how to cook, for the most celebrated cooks
all have been men. Nor is it queer that
he should use a needle, for the finest dress
makers and designers always have been
men. But to find fellow at home with
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Is
the
Soul
Immortal?
By SIR OLIVER LODGE.

destroyed the
atmosphere gaseous constituents the ongockeup solar
potential form and light and heat
burning piece kind of resurrection
temporarily the earthly but
prime Though the coal has dis
appeared there dcounng its existence IN another FORM which shall
through analogous Who
material value and who shall that its
released being burned constituents that
If
the enthusiastically minute particles of matter
then must admit that the
space papby material and the mpapaby exisenthe
mind exampdoes appear to be wholly unbridgeabe
Nothing any lost the scheme of the universe
sensible that the soul immortal?
everything Gods creation after being
again another form doing the
strength possessed before Therefore with scientific
back uu this belief
wondering found believers who pro-
possess plausible sdation
sort Of phenomenon