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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-11
FUNERAL NOTICES.

In order to comply with the request
of n number of loving friends and asso-
ciatcs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Deck
err, the date of funeral service will
be changed to Sunday. Dec. 10. at 2
y. m, In the Twenty-flrst ward chapel.
Remains may be viewed by friends from
IL to 1850 y. IN. Sunday, at the resi-
doncc of her daughter, Mrs. w. Il.
Brown. GU seventh street. Body will be
shipped to Provo for interment.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-11
SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION.
Thiriy-Third Ward Sunday School 70
Meet Sunday.

A general invitation. and especially to
guarents, is extended by the superinten-
dency Of the Thlrty-third ward Sunday
school OH tho occasion of the sixth an
nual conference Of the organization. The
conference, in two, sessions, beginning az
10 d. M ana $50 D. m, is to be held III
the ward chapel Sunday evening.
The program for the conference fol-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-11
FUNERAL OF E. w. REESE.

Funeral services We're held today,
commencing at | O'clock, over the re-
mains OF Edward W. Reese, who died
Tuesday evening. TIE obsequies We're
conducted in the Ninth ward meeting
house. Bishop J. W. West presiding.
The deceased was a son of the late
Col John Reese, and was born in this
city, Feb. s., 1870. He was connected
with the National Tea Importing COM
-pany, and was in Nevada when taken
ILL., six weeks ago. He Is survived by
his wife and one child, a mother and
several sisters.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-11
INsPEcTs UTAH BATTERY.

lit. Col. Clark Looks Over Old style
Equipment.
Lieut.-col. Charles II. Clark OF the
ordnance department Of the army, sta
toned at Fort Sam Houston, San
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-11
PRISONER BECOMES VIOLENT.

John soderstrom, taken to the coun-
ty Jail to await an examination as to
his sanity, became violent in the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-11

Floral designs n specially. Phone 961.
: II. E. Evans, Florist, SO s. Main ST.,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-11

A weird, Wonderful and thrilling tale
of sensati onal, daring and brutal as
suult and robbery in broad daylight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
LeprOSV In tbe PhiliDDiDeS

When America took charge of the Philippines 8 census of lepers was taken and it was then ascertained that there were just about $500 of them in the islands. No attempt had been made by the Spaniards to isolate them, and the Americans did not accomplish much in that direction until they founded leper colony.
 The island of Kulion, 14 miles long and miles wide, about 100 miles from Manila, was purchased from the in- habitants, and it has become the leper colony of the Philippines. Not only is the leper taken there, but his family also. The non-leprous members of the family live in another village on Kulion island Once a week they may visit their leprous relatives. The island is fertile and beautiful, presenting noun tain streams. Steadily to it is carried all known lepers, and in this way the government hopes to lessen the dis ease in the islands while improving the condition of the lepers themselves. Before the American occupation their condition was deplorable. They were as a rule beggars, going about without restriction. The wonder is that the number of them had not increased be- yond $500. The colony on Kulion IS in every respect well conducted, and there is a prospect that leprosy will yet become a rare disease in the islands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
LnmhAr 0ntnnt Last Yaar

Notwithstanding the business de- pression that was severely felt in the closing months of 1907, yet the reports of the forest service gathered from 2S,S50 sawmills show that the total cuL of 1907 exceeded that of 1906. The total reported cut last year was 4O,- 256, ,000 feet, board measure, as against 37,550, 5000 feet in 1906. The gain was 7.2 per cent. Laths and shingles are not included in these fig ures. The value of last years cut, in- cluding laths and shingles, was just about $7OO,O0O,OOO.
 The value of a years lumber crop may fall below the value of years corn crop, but it ranks fully abreast u1 a years cotton crop and is far ahead of the value of years wheat crop.
 Yellow pine leads all the woods in the list, the total cut being little over 19,000,000, 900 feet. The white pine cut did not greatly exceed 4,00O, ,0O0 ,OO0 feet. Louisiana leads all the rest of the yellow pine states, followed in or der by Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas.
 White pine is approaching exhaus- tion, and the regret is that yellow pine will in the course of ten years begin to show declining cuts. This means that frame houses can no longer be built at low prices, and that American consumers must soon begin to practice economy in the consumption of lumber
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
JURY IS STILL OUT.
MistriaI May Result In Case of Negro
 Prisoner.

Greensboro, December 6.-(Special.) The jury in the case of Ed Howard, one of the four negroes who was charged with the murder of former Sheriff Drake, is still out tonight and there appears to be strong probability of mistrial as the jury has been out for considerably more than "A hours. Charley Taylor, the one of the four who confessed and who was used as a witness against the others, pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree. Solicitor Thompson made a statement to the jury in which he said that but for the testimony of Taylor the other defendants could not have been con- victed and asked the jury to give Tay- Tor life sentence, which was done.
 On every side is heard dissa tisfac ction with the verdict in the Ed Williams case and those who attended the trial and heard the evidence state that they cannot see by what process of reason Ing the verdict was arrived at It is pointed out by them that the judge practically charged the jury that Tn his particular case there was no mid dle ground
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07

and further weaken them. These cells, called .phagoeytes, meaning "eating cells" he has proved devour the pig ment in the hair and so leave it white. His contention is that the feebleness O old age is due to the damage done by phagocytes to parts of the body that have been poisoned from fermentation in the large intestine.
 Other investigators have found that tactic acid interferes with fermenta- tion, and an Italian has tried eating soured milk with the idea that it's tactic acid would stop the process by which his tissues were poisoned. So in "The Nature of Man" Professor Metchnikoff urges the regular eating of soured milk as a means to longevity. Evidently, however, he is not quite satisfied with his remedy, and desires to make further investigations.
 Professor Metchnikoff has no inten- tion of multiplying Methusalehs in the world He is, however, convinced that if unfriendly germs can be expelled a mans youthful strength should last 100 years, and his manly strength 50 years longer.
 Success on the part of Professor Metchnikoff would work many social and economic changes in this world. If John D. Rockefeller should get rid of his hostile germs he would come pretty near owning this country at the end of 150 years. And New York would not take kindly to the sugges- tion that her present Senators should hold on nearly century longer. But the Russian scientist simply presents theory. He has not yet begun a rigid scientific adaptation of that theory to the human system. When he does that he may find, alas, it is easier to formulate theories than it is to extend the average human life a century
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
ROMANCE OF MODERN NILE.

From the Travel Magazine for December.
 Yet there is a sad side to the trium- plant story of the Assouan dam. Above the dam stand the islands of Philae. which the ancients called the City of Isis. and on them some of the most beautiful though, not the oldest of the Egyptian temples. Already, owing to the opera. ton of the dam, these temples are flooded far up their walls. When first I visited Egypt, over 20 years ago, walked about their courts on foot; when returned re- gently I sailed them in a boat. The sight was sad to see but soon it will be worse, for when the dam is raised "Pharaoh's bed" and the other lovely ruins of Philae must be submerged and with all their sculptures and paintings hidden, and, in the end, destroyed.
 Thus the romance of the religions of the past is doomed to give away to the romance of the prosperity of the present. Philae must go, but since bread will al- ways breed an eater, within a few years time there will be hundreds of thousands more Egyptians, most of them hating and agitating against the western power that brought them into being. A some- what, thankless task, perhaps, yet surely herein lies the real romance of the mod ern Nile, that the care and genius of dis tant England should do more than all the Pharaohs ever did to utilize its wasted wealth for the benefit of Egypt and her inhabitants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
Socialism Is Silent

Since the election the socialists have been remarkably quiet In New York and Chicago they encountered heavy losses, and their vote in the country is but 53O,O00, whereas they had boasted before election 100000 or more voters. They boiled over 400 ,000 votes in 1904, and they are disappointed in the vote cast last month.
 Perhaps the fact that all parties in the recent election were liberally or radically inclined may have taken votes away from them, but their hope that the foreign-born and even the natives one degree removed would vote here as they would have voted across the sea, has proven illusory. The foreign-born who find employment here are not inclined to become socialists. Socialism exists where the toiler gets small returns. Our conditions are not adapted to it's peculiar doctrines.
 And yet excluding the negroes, near ly one-half our total population con- sists of foreign-born or natives born of foreign parentage. It is indeed sur prising as well as cheering that out of 30,000,0G of our foreign groups only 530,000 could be induced to vote the ticket of the socialists. The result shows that assimilation is going on rapidly, and that the foreigners are no more ready to accept socialism than are those to the manner born. It will be many a day before these so-called reformers become as cheery and san guine as they were just before the day of ballots last month. They have re- ceived heavy blow, and they may not again enter the national field seeking votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Financial Situation.

 1 Henry Clews in his review of the fnan- eiai situation says in part:
 "The money market, while frmer is still too easy to please lenders who desire more profitable employment for their surplus funds. The prolonged ease in money was not entirely satisfactory. It is one of the usual sequences of panic and indicates l continued inactivity in some lines of busi- ness. It is also objectionable for the req son that an excessive supply of cheap money is always a dangerous incentive to unwholesome speculation. The present inhation in stocks and increased specu- lation in real estate has been largely fos- tered by redundancy and low interest rates. Gradually however this condition will disappear. Business is becoming more active, and both mercantile and indus trial demands will grow Many new cap ital issues are forthcoming, and these should shortly considerably diminish the surplus of idle capital. Gold exports have also begun and will operate on the side of firmer rates for money. Having an unusual supply of gold at hand, we can readily spare large sums without injury, and if Europe continues to buy sparingly of our grain and cotton while freely sell ing our securities it follows that consider able gold must go abroad in settlement. Some authorities already expect to see Sl00OO,000, more or less, sent out this month. Next week Congress opens. for tunately with much less apprehension than usual
 'The tariff battle will chiefly center on the steel schedule especially as Mr. Car negie has said the steel duties are un- necessary and many American manufac- turers wish to buy their raw materials in shape of steel in the cheapest market. More or less hesitation is sure to accom- pany tariff agitation, but the derange- ment to business will be much less than on former occasions, because many of our industries are much less dependent upon a tariff than formerly and there are many industries that would be positively stm- ulated by gaining cheaper raw materials and wider markets under adequate tariff revision In any case there is no serious disturbance to business in sight at pres- ent arising from new tariff legislation. The business outlook is slowly but sure ly improving, and the main difficulty with the stock market is that it has discounted such improvement probably too far in advance, hence 1t is now trying to resist the natural reactionary tendencies. Fri days outburst of strength was one of those displays which may be expected at almost any time while the market remains so completely in control of powerful ma nipulators'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
NEWS AND NOTES
 OF CENTREYILLE

Centreville. December 6.-tSpecial.)- )-The officers of the county court will leave at an early hour tomorrow morning for Blocton, where they go to attend the jury term of the county court for the Blocton division. They will probably be gone several days. Solicitor Thompson spent the entire week in Greensboro, where he is conducting the prosecution of the negroes charged with the murder of ex-Sheriff R. w. Drake.
 The teachers of the public schools of the county were paid off here yesterday and quite a large crowd of teachers from various parts of the county were here.
 Prof A. ". Hayes, the new county su- perntendent of education for this coun- ty, is taking quite an active interest in educational affairs of the county
 The Southern Amusement Co. gave three entertainments at the courthouse here during the latter part of the week which those who attended pronounced good.
 On Friday night at their elegant new home on East Highlands Mayor and Mrs. S. c. Meigs in a most delightful man ner entertained the members of. the Fri day Night Social club. Progressive games were played and there was Shakes pearean contest in which Miss Dixie Bates and w. c. Fuller tied for the prize, each answering every question on the list correctly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
NOTED CONFIDENCE QUEEN

began she has never told It is knownr however, that she had dabbled in swind- ling in a small way before 1878, when she jumped into police prominence by swindling MT. Rabbit out of $19,OOO Mr. Rabbit had been robbed a short time be- fore of more than half a million dollars by employees. Mrs. Peck represented her self to the soap manufacturer as a wom- an detective and asserted that she had information which would lead to the re- covery of much of the stolen property. After MT. Rabbit had paid Mrs. Peck in installments $19O00 for her 'information'' he found that it was valueless.
 For this she was arrested and indicted. Her wits appeared to desert her. She was adjudged insane and committed to an asylum in Philadelphia. Her counsel persuaded MT. Rabbit to agree to a civil action, and as soon as this was settled she regained her reason and was re- leased.
 Mrs. Peck returned to New York and proved that her mental qualities had not suffered by convincing Samuel Tingee, & wealthy patent medicine man, that she had a friend in Jay Gould's office from whom she could secure tips on Jay Goulds market operations. MT. Pingee' invested s27O0 in Mrs. Peck's tips before he discovered that MT. Gould was selling the same stocks that he had been told .tot buy. Byrnes says of Mrs. Peck:
 Tt was a singular feature of Mrs. Peck's career that when she had her choice in the matter she selected her vic4 tins from among the ranHs of the crookedl She took @ professional pride in outwitting people of her own line who esteemed themselves every whit as sharp as shes
 A case in point cited by Byrnes was that of John D. Grady, a receiver of stolen goods. Grady handed over several thousand dollars to Mrs. Peck on security of rent receipt for safe deposit vault in which she assured Grady she kept her family diamonds. Mrs. Peck often said that she would have given half to money to have seen Grady's face when he opened the empty vault.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
The Late Joseph Bryan.

Joseph Bryan, who died recently at his home near Richmond, was not only re- garded as the foremost citizen of his community, but few men in public or pri- vate life have been so deeply mourned by all classes as he. MT. Bryan had enver held an office, and although he took lively interest in Virginia politics, hs had never been a candidate for office, and yet no statesman or soldier who has passed away in recent years was honored with such tributes of public respect as are being paid to MT. Bryan. The me- morial meetings being held in Richmond and vicinity furnish striking lessons of a communitys appreciation of individual worth and kindness, and refute the cyni- cal idea often expressed that this is a cold and ungrateful age.
 At largely attended meeting in Rich- mond last Thursday, Maj. James H. Doo- ley, one of the speakers. delivered fitting eulogy and reviewed MT. Bryans life from the time he entered the Con fderate army at the age of Is to the close of his busy and useful life Major Dooley drew a picture of the scenes at the last obsequies, saying:
 Around his open grave there gath cred the country man and the city man, the colored man and the white man, the rich man and the poor man. There might be seen the sturdy mechanic with his wife and children side by side with the presidents of rich and powerful corpora tions There were the Confederate soldier and the gray haired bishop, the church. man and the unbeliever, all classes, colors and creeds reverently bowed their heads and bedewed his grave with their com mingled tears.
 "A private citizen, who could so stir the hearts of this community by his death, who could elicit such tribute of sorrow from all ranks of the people, must have been no ordinary man.
 MT Bryan was almost as well known in Birmingham as if he had been resi- dent of this city. He had large interests here, and was for many years vice presi- dent of the Sloss-Sheffield company. Bir- mingham had no more steadfast prophet than he, and scores of citizens who knew and esteemed him join with Virginia in lamenting his death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
GOVERNOR LOWERY
 IS MUCH BETTER

Jackson, Miss, December 6.-(Spe- cial )-The friends of ex-Gov. Robert Lowry will be pleased to learn that he is considered a great deal better than he has been for several weeks, and that he has been removed to the home of his daughter, three blocks from his old home, it being hoped that change of scene and surroundings will do him good. He stood the short journey well, and looked oh eerful, declaring he is go- ing to improve from now on and that as soon as he is able to travel will go to New Orleans to spend the winter with his son, John w. Lowry.
 Governor Lowry recently sold his home to Mir F. B. Hull, the price paid being 5000. It Is situated on Forti- fication street, the highest point in Jackson, overlooking the city. in every direction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
NEGRO WOMAN'S
 DEAD BODY FOUND

Selma, December Special. )-This morning about 1 o'clock the body of Laura Fort negro woman, was found at the intersection of the Southern rail- way and Wrenn street.
 The crew of freight train that had just reached Selma made the discovery and an examination showed unmis- takably that the woman had been mur- dered and her body placed on the track. A great jagged wound, made evidently with a hatchet or meat cleaver, had almost severed the womans head from the body. Felix Walker and Alonzo Moore, two well known negroes, said to have been last seen with the woman, were arrested by the police department today on suspicion of having committed the crime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
In Right Direction
votes.

Now that 15,000 of fourth-class post masters have been placed in the civil service classification, and therefore removed from politics, the postoffice department as well as the Congress- men in whose districts the offices af- fected are distributed must experience a feeling of relief. While President Roosevelt was issuing his order ex- tending the civil service to include fourth-class postmasters in certain areas it is to be regretted that he did not make even a larger sweep. In no branch of the government has there been more petty politics than in that embracing the rural postmasters. The extension of the rural free delivery must gradually reduce the number of country offices, but the time should not be far distant when all fourth-class postmasters should hold their positions on merit, regardless of party afflia- ton.
 The next movement in the way of administrative reform should have for it's object relief for the President All the postmasters receiving a salary of 5000 and over are appointed by the President This consumes much of the Presidents valuable time, of course. Every one of the postmasters now known as presidential should be ap- pointed by the Postmaster General In years past the President had more time at his disposal than the occupant of the White House has in these re- cent times; and as the nation grows and becomes more and more active as a world-power, the reasons for reliev- ing the chief magistrate of voluminous and exacting routine are more than ever obvious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
Long Life Declared Possible

The distinguished Russian scientist, Professor Mechnikoff, won a Nobel prize, $19,O00, and he proposes to spend the money in an effort to discover how men may live to be 150 years old. Many scientists agree with him when he says life would be extended were it not for germs, chiefly intestinal, which multiply in the system until life is overcome. He proposes to study these hostile germs more closely than they ever have been hitherto with the inten- tion of discovering, If possible, some way to prevent them from cutting down mans life .one-half He hopes to find some way in which to evict the germs in question and to keep them out.
 Professor Mechinkoff's theory brief ly, is this He regards the large in testine as the source of large share of human ills. The partly digested food that is retained there may be at tackled by bacteria, causing fermenta- tion. The products of this fermenta- ton are poisonous, and they may lower the capacities of the various tissues 1ust as alcohol does. His observations have led him to believe that certain cells then attack the poisoned tissues
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07
ENGINEER AND
 BRAKEMAN KILLED

Selma, December Especial. )-This afternoon at 3:30 o'clock freight train No 173 en route to Mobile from Selma, struck a drove of cattle three miles south of Walker Springs on the south ern railway. The engine was turned over and Engineer John Green and the head brakeman, Ed McCarrel, colored, were instantly killed. MT. Green is about 40 years of age and has lived in Selma practically all of his life. He has been on the Southern IS or 20 years and was one of the most popular men running out of Selma. He leaves wife and four children. None of the particulars have been learned here at this time except as stated above.
 The fireman and the rest of the train crew were uninjured. Train No. IFS left Selma at o'clock this morning. The accident occurred just about 12 hours later.