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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-04
WISE CLERK
Quits Sandwiches and Coffee For
Lunch.

The MONDAY lunch for the department.
clerks at Washington is often most
serious question.
For 10 years." writes one OF these
clerks, II have been working in one OF
the government departments. About two
years ago found myself every afternoon,
with very tired feeling In my head, try
ing to get days work off my desk.
II had heard of Grape-Nuts as food
for brain and nerve centers, so l began
to eat it instead OF my usual heavy
breakfast, then for my lunch instead of
sandwiches and coffee.
I'm a very short time the tired feeling
in the head left me, and ever since then
the afternoons work has been done with
as much ease and pleasure as the morn.
ing's work
"Grape-Nuts for two meals q day has
worked. in my case, just as advertised.
producing that reserve force and supply
of energy that does not permit one to-
tire oasily--so essential to tho successful
prosecution OF ones life work." There's
u Reason
Namo given by Postum Co., Battle
creek, Mich. Read the 'Road to Well
VILE. in pkss.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-04
Home Rule For ireland.

London, February 9.-All doubt that the
government is planning the introduction
Of legislation looking to home rule for
Ireland in the present session of parIia-
ment was set at res this afternoon when
Herbert IT, Asquith aaueellor Of the az
chequers declared on half Of the premier
that the government had no intention Of
re-introducing the Irish council bill.
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serve special praise for the way in which
they have handled the recent burglary
cases that have come up. There hava
oeen quite number of thefts reported
TO headquarters within the last few
weeks, and as a result of the good work
done by these officers a good many of the
Offenders have been brought to justice
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Bylaws.

Section l. The regular meetings of the
club shall be on the second and fourth
Tuesday nights OF each month.
Sec. = Seven members snail constitute
d quorum for the transaction Of business.
Sec. g. The president shall have power
to call special meetings whenever he
deems it admissible, or there is anything
urgent to come before the CLUB.
Sec. 4. The regular order or business
shall be reading OF minutes of previous
meeting, report Of committees, standing or
special; talks for the good of the club
and such matters as its members shall
see fit to bring before it,
Sec. ;. No change shall be made in
the constitution or bylaws, without being
submitted in writing and laying over one
meeting night, ana then majority OF
those present must vote favorable to il.
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Treble cIef Club. Concert.

The Treble Clef club concert at the
Jefferson theatre Thursday night will
be a brilliant musical event. The SOLO
lotte Maconda, one of the most dis
tinguished sopranos of the country.
This concert will be the second of
the Treble clefs series of three an
nounced for the season.
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Please observe that Phosphate OF

Please observe that Phosphate of
Potash is not properly of the drug-shop
variety but is best prepared by ''Old
Mother Nature and stored in the
grains ready for use by mankind.
Those who have been helped to bet
ter health by the use of Grape-Nuts
are legion.
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made 10 the President in December
and Just submitted to Congress and
said that the report Itself showed that
the sending of troops to Goldneld was
clearly against the statutes in that no
state of Instruction existed. and that
the troops We're placed at the disposal
of the mine owners at the behest Of
Senator Simon Guggenheim an6 other
mine owners in Nevada who wined
and dined Governor sparks.
Speaking of the Moyor. Haywo, 4 and
Pettibone case, Mr.. Sherwood said that
when writs of habeas corpus had been
unjustly issued to take them from Colo
RADIO to Idaho, the President did not
interfere. HE was as silent as the oys-
ters in oyster Bay"
The speaker evoked laughter and ap-
plause when he launched into a COM
parison of the President and Mr.
Bryan, saying the latter and himself
stood by reforms borrowed by the
former and did not stand for mill
tarism, Imperialism and vampirism
Bryan towers above the man at the
White House as the Washington mon
ument towers above the marshes of
the Potomac" he said.
Cockran's Comment.
Mr. Bourke Cochran also replied to Mr.
Townsend He denied the accuracy of
Mr.. Townsend's statement and said that
since the beginning of the republic. there
had not been single policy permanently
Incorporated into law that was not of
democratic origin.
Wild democratic applause greeted Mr..
Cochran when he remarked that the pol
icy of Jefferson, adopted to avoid war
with France, had been applied by the
republicans to the conquest of the Phil
ippines and the purchase of men,. He
compared the Philippine acquisition with
the Louisiana purchase, and said the
republicans were so sick of the Phil
ippne bargain they would be willing TO
blame Providence for it. More applause
greeted Mr.. Cockran's inquiry if the Mon
roe doctrine WAS of republican origin.
Mr.. Cochran spoke of the Civil War and
said that while 1t was true republicans
led the Union forces, democratic pa
triots manned the army.
Government Responsible.
Coming to more recent issues. Mr..
Cochran said:
The message which the President sent
here Friday raises a question which goes
to the very existence and growth of
civil government. The first part of the
message contains complaints he con-
tinued, after we pass that portion, we
come to the part which we all applaud
ed, and that was the paragraph that
related to charges that business dis
tress was brought on by the government
and that the knife should be used freely
in cutting out rottenness."
Mr.. Cochran grew vitriolc in his de-
nunciation of bank presidents and cor
poration officials who had been guilty
of illegal action. He first referred to
the Investigations and in speaking of the
recent financial crisis said it had been
caused by revelations of depravity in
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POLITICAL HURRICANE
SWEEPS THROUGH HOUSE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE l.,

.----,-~--~-~-------~>---~------
most bitter opposition, was that giving
the interstate commerce commission
power to fix rates, but he declared that
experience had justified its wisdom.
Declaring fault finding to be the
largest part of the capital of the dem
ocrats, he declared. the democrats
party has nose for carrion, it can
scent corruption at very large range,
but 1t has no refined distinction as
to kind"
Every little WHILE he said he heard
or read of some democrat saying that
the rate bill, the antitrust law and
tue enforcement of them were of dem
ocratie origin; that republicans had
stolen democratic thunder; that Pres
ident Roosevelt, Ito use a classical ex-
preston of Mr.. Bryan had been wear
ing Bryans clothes.
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Every undertaken shows this food be strictly Wheat and Barley
processes partially transform the
muchea to
Food for Brain and Nerve Centers upon
Barley (Which
Phosphate of Potash
make it 70 asimnate
w. Carey in System O.
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Democratic Origin.

Mr.. Townsend denied that the rate
law and the principles it represented
were of democratic origin, or con-
dent had departed from republican
policies when he said it. He then dis
cussed antitrust legislation and COM
pared the action under it, under tn e adj
ministrations of Cleveland and Roose-
welt. As compared with Cleveland's ad-
ministration. he said, there had been
under President Roosevelts administra-
tion four times as many bills in equity
filed, nine times as many indictments
found and seven times $ many convic-
tions had, with nine Indictment cases
still pending. Antitrust law, he said,
was not of democratic origin. and its
enforcement was not to be given dem
ocratic credit.
Sheerwood's Speech.
Representative Sherwood. democrat,
of Ohio, in following Mr.. Townsend, de-
livered his ideas on the Presidents
message and practically addressing
himself to the labor part of it.
why did the President express his
views so fully?" asked the speaker.
Was 1t in the interest of the candidacy
of the secretary of war? Is it a spectac-
ular and sensational appeal to divert
the attention of the country from the
secretary's record? The President. like
the secretary of war, has a labor rec
ord of his own that Is in need of patch
ing" Mr.. Sherwood took up the re-
port of the Goldfield labor commission
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"There's a Reason

Postum Cereal Co.. Ltd.
, 1908-04-18
FORMER LARAMIE MAN
UNDERGoES OPERATION,

Mr.. Walter Harris, who has been in
st. Joseph's hospital at Denver for
several weeks undergoing an operation
of great Importance, has so far recov-
cred as to be able to return to his home
in that city today. The operation was
performed by five of Denver's leading
surgeons and was intended, by reliev-
ing the pressure on the brain caused
by an injury many years ago, to cure
the partial paralysis from which Mr..
Harris has suffered in recent years.
The indications now are that the
operation was entirely successful and
that time will bring him complete res
toration to health. Ma" Harris has
suffered greatly from the anxiety, but
is now also gaining in strength. All
the Laramie friends of the family will
rejoice with her at the favorable news
from her son.
, 1908-04-18
NOW HAs-B ZEN.
Governor johnson Makes Remarkable
Statement About Bryan.

Omaha, Neb., April 1S.-"William ].
Bryan is a has been. His star reach
ed its zenith some time ago, and when
his name goes before the Denver con
vention he will be looking for votes.
THE tide always has a limit. 1t
continues to swell until that limit is
reached, and then it recedes. The
tide of the popularity of Mr.. Bryan
reached that limit with the adjourn.
ment of the state convention in Nebras.
ka, which lauded his name and recon-
mended him for another nomination,
and has been recediIg ever since
This is the remarkable statement
made by Governor Johnson Of Mime
sofa in opening his campaign for the
democratic nomination for president,
as he passed through Omaha yester-
day on his way to Kansas.
, 1908-04-18
DIES AT THE HOME OF
CENTENNIAL DAUGHTER.

Ashbel Mapes, aged SO years, died
Thursday night, of heart and kidney
trouble, at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Louisa Baily, three miles from
Centennial, and the remains will be
brought here for interment in the city
cemetery. Mr.. Mapes leaves three
daughters, Mrs. Baily and Miss Nellie
Mapes at Centennial and Mrs. Lucy
Horton at Cuba, Kas, and one son,
Robert w. Mapes. at Lakeland, Neb.,
all of whom have been telegraphed TO.
Mr.. Mapes has been Ill for some time,
and the end was not entirely unex-
pected. The remains are expected TO
reach this city at 5:35 this afternoon.
over the Laramie Plains line, and no
arrangements for the funeral had been
made during the forenoon.
, 1908-04-18
Goinq to the Coast.

John Sorenson, foreman of the I'M
ion Pacific tank shop and mill, who
has been in continuous service of the
Union Pacific company for nearly thic
ty-three years, has been granted a
transfer from the Cheyenne shops to
Los Angeles, Cal, where he will be
placed in one of the large machine
shops on the Hartman system, the
Southern Pacific, says the Cheyenne
Tribune. The move is made for the
benefit of Mrs. Sorenson, who left here
about FIVE months ago in very poor
health. but who is now very much i'm
proved, being much banetited by the
low altitude and sea breezcs He will
leave here in about a weel; or ten
days.
, 1908-04-18

Jerome H. Sobel is in the city.
Fred Ihmsen went to sherman tod;

Jerome H. Sobel is in the city.
Fred Ihmsen went to Sherman today.
Ora Haley returned today from Den
yer.
Miss Jennie Johnson of Buford is N
the city.
Mrs. Will Barnett returned to Chey-
enne today.
John Travelle went to Rock River
fishing today.
C. H. Jones is in the city for the
Easter holidays.
Miss Vera Craig of Rawlins is visit.
ing in the city.
Miss Baja johnson came in from
Tie Siding today.
Mrs. w. H. Hawkes. of Tie Siding is
in the city this afternoon.
John Popp vent to Denver today to
visit his brother, Charles Popp.
Peter Mordhurst returned from the
northern part of the state today.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. George of Vir-
glnia dale are visiting in the city to-
day.
Charles H. Harris of the Laramie
Grocery company returned from Han
ma today.
John Ernest and Timothy Ross went
to the country in Ernest's Franklin car
this morning.
Louis Miller and Captain A. A. I'm.
derwood of Cheyenne went to Jelm
this afternoon and will return tomor,
row.
Gus Larson left today for Topeka
Kas. His family will remain here foI
the present and until Mr.. Larson get.
settled.
o. G. Moss was here from his ranct
this afternoon. 81 have seldom seer
it dryer at this time of year." he said
to a reporter.
Prof. ]. T. Mcconnell, the ANNA
husbandmdn at the experiment sta
ton farm, who has been confined Il
his for a few days, is able to be
out again and was in the city today.
John Hill and Herbert L. Kennel,
will go to Cheyenne tomorrow to b
examined by the staff physician at For
Russell. They are intending to go I;
the Philippine islands in July, enlist
ing in the c~onstabulary service of tht
army.
, 1908-04-18
No Hope for Bomb rhrower.

New York, April 18.-Physicians at
Bellevue hospital today practically
gave up hope of the recovery of Selig
Silverstein, the self-confessej maker
Of the bomb exploded in Union square
as he was preparing to throw it during
a mass meeting of the unemployed,
Killing n man and seriously injuring
himself.
Suffered a Relapse.
Siiverstein has suffered a relapse
and u~nfavorable symptoms have de-
veloped. He sank into a stupor yes.
terday afternoon and has since remain
ed in that condition.
, 1908-04-18
FORT WORTH VISITED BY WORST
WIND AND RAIN KNOWN IN
THAT SECTION FOR
MANY YEARS.
Telegraph and Telephone Lines Out Of
Commission and Not Railroad But
Has Had to Annul Some Trains
cIeburne Visited by Storm and
Several Hundred Houses Flooded
Casualties of the Day.

For. Worth, Texas, April 1S.-With
the telegraph and telephone and rail
road service almost completely sus-
pended Fort Worth was last night the
center Of the worst storm of wind and
rain that has ragged in north Texas for
many years.
Railroads Knocked Out.
With two exceptions, every railroad
out Of this city was forced to annul
some of its trains, owing to washed-out
tracks and the loss of bridges, and at
midnight the telephone companies
we're reported as having lost all the
wires out of the city.
cieburne Hard Hit.
Cleburne. twenty miles south, was
struck by a wind storm of tornado pro,
portions, followed by a torrential
downpour Of rain that literally food
ed the city.
Many Houses Flooded.
Within twenty minutes after the
storm broke two bayous that run
through the city left their banks.
flooding five Or six hundred houses.
Circus Was Wrecked.
A circus, whose tents were pitched
in the western portion of the city, was
completely wrecked.
Lions T~errorize People.
Two lions escaped and prowlej about
the town for an hour, throwing the
people into a panic. One canvasman
was caught under the wreckage and
fatally injured.
, 1908-04-18
Will Let Contracts.

The first contracts for construction
work on the Denver, Laramie and
Northwestern railroad will be let dur,
ing the coming week, says the Den,
e Times. The cross-sectioning of
the section to be built this spring was
completed last week and the estimates
of work to be done were furnished
several contracting firms IN Monday.
These firms are now figuring on the
cost of the work preliminary to SUBJ
hitting the bids which will be follow.
ed by the awarding of the contracts
to the lowest bidder.
Working Under Buck.
Two engineering parties have been
put in the field by the company to fill
ish locating the final surveys for the
line to Fort Collins and these are work
ing under the direction of Chief Engi,
lee e. A. Buck. The company is plan.
ming an elaborate program for the ex-
ercises attending the beginning of con.
struction work on May 2.
, 1908-04-18
MADE PARTY MATTER
BY THE DEMOCRATS

the American battleship fleet entered
the second installment of it's California
welcome, a demonstration which will
last a solid week. 1t left San Diego
early this morning for a nine-hour run
to the ports of Los Angeles.
Cities GaiIy Decked Out.
Not only Los Angeles, but Santa
Monica, Long Beach, San Pedro, Red
ondo, Venice and Ocean Park are gay
today with bunting and flags for the
celebration.
Thousands Are Waiting.
1t is estimated that 100, 900 people
are scattered along the bluffs for forty
miles watching for the first sight OF
the fleet, which will drop anchor at 3
this afternoon in San Pedro bay.
Official Welcome Monday.
The official welcome to the officers
and men will be on Monday, and then
five days an extensive program has
been prepared for each day.
, 1908-04-18
INSTALLING
INSTRUMENTS
BARCLAY PRINTING. MACHINES
BEING PLACED IN OPERATION
BY wEsTERNsuhloN.
Operated by Tape and Sends Hundred
Words Per Minute, Taken Auto,
maticalIy on Receiving End of the
Wire on Regular Receiving Blanks
of the Telegraph Company.

The Western Union Telegraph com
pany is installing the Barclay printers
on its trunk lines, which may aid the
railroads in meeting the ~exigencies Of
the nine-hour law by other means than
closing up depots because telegraph
operators cannot be secured in sufIic.
lent numbers, says the Omaha Bee.
The Barclay machine does the work
of three Or four operators.
The machine is operated by tape
and sends about 100 words a minute,
which are taken automatically on the
receiving end of the wire by a machine
similar to a typewriter, which writes
blanks Of the company. The tape is
prepared by means of a machine which
also works like a typewriter, but which
pe%rforates the tape similar to the
Wheatstone system now in use in this
country and Europe, the characters.
however. being different.
Printed by Receiving Machine.
The Barclay printers differ from
the Wheatstone system in that at the
point of destination instead of the
message being received on a tape in
telegraph characters it is printed by
the receiving machine on the blanks
of the company ready for delivery.
The machinery works automatically
and, as one machine transmits as fast
as three or four operators, it saves
many men at each end of the wire.
Is Sent Automatically.
When a message is taken into one
of the larger offices it will be tran
scribed by a machine onto tape in
characters. then placed in the Sending
machine, which sends 1t automatically
and it is received automatically as de-
scribed above.
The Barclay system is quite new
and has but recently been put in use
between large commercial centers in
the east. 1t is now being installed ; n
Kansas City. Omaha and st. Paul, con
Meeting them with each other. as well
as with Chicago. The system Is con.
sidered a great success by the Western
Union company, who owns and con-
trolls the patents.
, 1908-04-18
VERY WELL PLEASED
With COUNTRY TRIP.

Mr.. Hathaway of Denver, who re-
turned late yesterday afternoon from a
two days trip out over the Laramie
plain with j. NJ. Hoge and R E. Fitch,
left last night for Denver. He was
quite well pleased with the trip aud
promised the gentlemen he would be
heard from again right c He rep
resents a syndicate in the market
for 100. 600 acres of good cheap land in
this state and is believed to have
found just what is wanted. being
shown some of the cream OF the acre
age on the market on the Laramie
plain.
, 1908-04-18
WASHINGTON THE
BIG NEWS CENTER
BETWEEN FIVE HUNDRED AND
THOUSAND COLUMNS SENT
OUT FROM CAPITAL A DAY.
Much of This Published in Several
Papers simultaneously, Adding to
the Vast Amount of Matter Read
BY the People of the Country
Part riayed by Telephone.

Washington, April 1S.-While poll
tics is and probably always will con-
tinue to be the principal occupation of
Washington, its principal trade is
news. Not only are there more men
engaged in collecting and distributing
news in the national capital, in pro-
rortion to its total population, than in
any other city in the country, but more
news of general Importance originates
here nan in any other place.
Thousand Columns a Day.
Between the activities of the White
house, the capital, and the various de,
partments, to say nothing of the gen
eral political gossip that always cen
ters here, from 500 to 1000 news
paper columns of matter go out from
the city every day. Much Of this goes
simultaneously to a large number nj
papers, so that the total volume oil
news emanating from Washington
which is published by the press of the
country every day must be several
times this amount.
An Interesting Chart.
This point is strikingly illustrated by
a chart which is published in the an
nual report of the American Telephone
and Telegraph company recently made
public. This chart illustrates the
daily course of telephone business in
the capital and shows hat it is great
est at two periods during the day.
Two Busy Periods.
The first of these is between IL and
IL o'clock in the forenoon, when the
correspondents of the evening papers
are getting off their scores, and tie
second is from 6 to s in the evening,
when the morning newspaper men
have their inning.
Telegraph the Slower.
The records of the telegraph COM
panies would show the same conditiol IS
except that the high pressure is main
tanned for d longer period, as it takes
longer to get off the great volume of
dispatches. The chart is interesting
as illustrating two points, the great
importance of the news industry in
Washington, and the growing use OF
the telephone in handling it.
, 1908-04-18
ASKS FOR RECEIVER.
Company Itself Makes Application in
State Court at Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, O.. April 1S.-Applica-
ton for the appointment of a receiver
for the Odell Brokerage company, one
of the largest concerns OF the kind in
the country, was made in the state
court here today by attorneys repre-
senting the company. Rumors of
financial difficulties have been current
locally for several days, but the com
pany was declared to be in good shape
at the time of the last reorganization
of the concern. Today's action was in
the interest of the company mi for
the protection of its business.
, 1908-04-18
RECALLS THE DISASTER
AT SAN FRANCISCO.

Ed e. Wells of Denver is in the city,
as the representative of a big New
York insurance company. Mr.. Wells
was among those who recalled that the
San Francisco earthquake occurred
two years age today, his company sus-
tanning a loss of about five and a half
millions by that disaster. The fact was
called to mind by several other citi-
Zen5.
, 1908-04-18
Gone to Plains Line.

P. ]. Cain, the contractor, who has
had a force of men on the Borie cut
off for several months, in camp since
the shutting down of that work, was
here today, arriving last night. His
outfit, consisting of twenty-five men,
teams and wagons, passed through the
city this morning, at $50, en- route to
Centennial, where they will do some
grading for the Laramie, Hahns Peak
and Pacific in the extension Of the line
from Centennial to Walden. Mr.. Cain
hopes to have his camp in shape and