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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-19
AGAINST BRYAN'S PROPOSAL.
G. E. Roberts Sees Much Mischief in
Deposit Insurance.

Joliet, H., March 15.-Prestsent
George e. Roberts OF the Commercial
National bank of Chicago, at the Son-
yention of the Northwestern HliH0ss
Bankers association yesterday Sc
vsrely criticized Bryan's plan OF is1-
surfing bank deposits, declaring the
scheme a makeshift that did not
reach the vital defect in the moae-
tary system. He said that the guar
antee plan had far reaching poasfssI-
tiles for mischief Postal savings
banks are not remedy for the faxifs
of the monetary system. he said. He
preferred the flexible currency system
of Germany.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-19

szzsSEEzssas.s.s&szS- -
mainly on the rural delivery service,
the only amendment to get through
being one increasing by $780, 900 the
appropriation therefor. A bill was in
troduced by Representative Mann of
illinois, by request, which makes 1t
unlawful to send from one state to
another any habitforming drugs ex-
cept on an original prescription or
written order of a physician or veter-
mary surgeon.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-19
Mo legislative Employees.

Wisdom Citizen.-The railways
have abolished the free pass except
to railway employees. and when we
say "eInpic, es" 1t does not include
any OF those they have In the feg1s-
lature.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-19

appeared TO be certain death, Patrick
Mullin, driver OF fire engine in New
York killed both his horses. Mullin
was answering fire alarm when he
approached a school building. The
horses were bearing down on several
children in the street, and it was i'm
possible to check the animals. Mullin
threw his weight on one rein and
swerYed the horses into an iron fence.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-19

North Freedom-A deal was closed
for the sale of the North Freedom
telephone system, owned by the Bar
aboo Telephone company, to a. n.
Haskins of Kendall.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-19

Washington, March 14.-Once again
the members of the house were afford
ed opportunity, under the license of
general debate, to express their views
on the topics of the day. Among
other subjects, politics, the recent f.
napcial panic, tariff and the Sherman
antitrust law, all were discussed,
while the pension appropriat on bill
technically was under consideration.
No time has been agreed upon when
general debate shall conclude. The
speakers were Messrs. BannOn, Ohio,
who talked of the prosperity of that
state and incidentally counted it as
surely republican next November;
Hamlin of Missouri, who placed on the
shoulders of the republicans the re-
spOnsibility for the recent panic;
Carter of Oklahoma, who pleaded for
the removal of the restrictions al
fecting Indian lands in that state;
Langley of Kentucky, who wanted pen
sions granted certain persons in Ken
lucky who a ded in suppressing the
desired the Sherman antitrust law
amended so as to work less hardship
on labor organizations; Hall of South
Dakota, who argued for the repeal of
the duty on lumber. Mr.. BeaIl of
Texas introduced a joint resolution
authorizing the secretary of war to
loan $500 tents to the Benevolent
Order of Ells for use at the national
convention of that order at Dallas,
Texas, next July. Representative
Mann Of IIlino s introduced a joint
resolution authorizing a survey by the
secretary OF war Of the harbors and
rivers about Chicago and as far south
as Gary, Ind, for the purpose of re
porting plan for systematic i'm
provement of the harbor facilities Of
Chicago and adjacent territory, which
WI meet all the probable needs of
lake commerce now and in the future
al that locality, and estimate the
probable cost thereof"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-19

Washington, March 17.-"There
were no commercial causes for
panic. There were speculative, legis-
lative and political reasons why
panic might serve special interests
The bare names of the directors or
two great bank groups STANDARD OH
and Morgan) are all the evidence that
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-19
OBITUARY.

Congressman Adolph Meyer. former
Iy an assistant adjutant general In
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-19

Washington, March 1.-THE post
Office appropriation bill had rough
sailing in the house. It's progress was
halted at every turn by amendments
upon which there was lengthy discus
sion. The attacks were begun on the
section relating to pneumatic tube
service, which was forced to undergo
Il change so that extensions of such
service should not be confined to the
should be made wherever the post
master general thinks best. The house
was a unit for with holding a port on
Of the pay to railroads for the trans
pOrtatiOn of ma Is until a correct sys-
tenn of weighing should be established,
provision to that effect being incor-
porated in the measure. Finally a Wig
OrOus but Intellectual fight was made
on the proposition, by Mr.. Goebel of
Ohio, to Increase by 100000 the APT
preparation for paying the expenses
Of railway mail clerks while travelling
on business Of the department.
Senator Lodge Of Massachusetts
strongly endorsed the pending cur
rency bill in the senate and declared
it would be serviceable as an emery
ency measure and would not prevent
the enactment Of a general currency
law which, he declared, he hoped to
see realized in the future on the basis
Of a central bank Senator Painter
OF Kentucky opposed the bill and es-
pecially condemned the proposition to
insure bank deposits. The senate
ratified two more Hague treaties.
They relate TO certain restrictions
with regard TO the exercise of the
right to capture n naval war, and
prohibit the discharging of projectiles
from balloons.
Washington, March Ex-senator
Bacon Of Georgia spoke OF executive
encroachments on the legislative
power OF the government. and read
freely from newspaper reports to
show that legislation is being mapped
out in the white house at conferences
at which congressman are not even
present The bill providing for the
SUI LiAShi o. lAdISi Id lAlcluSd 4OR Tic
Panama canal n American ships
passed the senate. Senator Simmons
of North Carolina spoke in favor of
the ocean mailshipping bill.
Carrying the largest appropriation
in all its history-s222, 100, 392-the
postoffice appropr alton bill passed
the house. having been under discus
sion IA days. This IS s1,425,o00 more
than was reported by the committee.
Chairman Overstreet, wheG the read
ing of the bill had been concluded.
waged a vigorous fight on the PROPOSE
ION to increase the pay Of letter car
riers. which was voted into the b u
last Wednesday. but that action was
confirmed 136 to 126.
The closing debate on the bill dwelt
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-19
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY

Washington, Mar. ia message
from the president and reports from
the comm ttee on the Brownsville af-
fair consumed the time of the sen
ate A brief debate brought out a
statement by Senator Warren, chair
man Of the committee on military af-
fairs, to the effect that a bill will be
introduced for the reinstatement of
the discharged cOIored soldiers of the
25th regiment, under certain condt-
lions. The currency bill was dis
cussed by Senator Clarke of Arkan-
sas, who declared he would vote for
neither the Aldrich bill nor for the
Bailey substitute.
Determined and persistent assaults
on the postoffice appropriation bill in
the house resulted in the amplif1ca-
ton of that measure in many i'm
pOrtant parts, despite protests of
Chairman Overstreet and the commit
tee. The letter carriers finally won
their long fight for $1,000 salar .es,
when an amendment by Mr.. Goebel of
Ohio was adopted. The house also
allowed an additional $4,000 for
clerks in third class offices, where the
salaries of postmasters range from
$1,000 to $1,000, and $4,000 additional
for contract stations.
The prohibitionists also had their
inn .ngs, when through an amendment
by Mr.. Houston of Tennessee, there
was incorporated into the bill a
provision prohibiting transmission
through the mails of intox, eating Ii
quors, which was later modified so as
to include cocaine and it's derivatives.
Altogether the appropriations carried
were increased to the extent of ST.
225,000. Consideration Of the meas
ure was not concluded.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-19
FARM HELP IN DEMAND.

Totals ..... "a, ISL % 5.SO2. AGO o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
JUDGE SAYS
 LYING IS DISEASE It Comes on the Victim Like
 PareSis LIKE A SUDDEN "KiNK" Brain Is Distorted With the MaIady Suddenly and Causes a Condi-
 ton Sometimes of Utter
 Responsibility.

From the New York World.
 Recently in Paris the court of cessation declared through the mouth of it's pre- siding judge, in a bourgeois divorce case that a certain witness was mot only in- capable of speaking the truth, but tha. apparently, he could not even think it'' In other words the said witness was de- clared to be irresponsibly mendacious, and that he was a congenital or hereIi- tary liar. Naturally enough the Parts press seized upon the incident and gath cred the opinions of medical experts as 10 the extent to which irresponsible men dacity existed in human nature. The re- suits can hardly be said to be encourage ing, and a pathetic enough consideration is the undoubted fact according to mel- ical testimony, that the habit of lying may, all unconsciously to ourselves. over take us at any period in life, and follow US down to a dishonest grave.
 Dr. Pieron, who Is medical publicist of note in the French capital, says that the brain in the course of its develop ment-that is, up till the Both year in ay- craze men-may at some point or other develop a malformation which will have the effect of destroying the ratiocinatiye or reasoning faculty. Like peresis. oi
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is doing wrong or that she has done wrong. Though such a woman were pre- pairing to commit an offense or were even actually caught in am offense, she would still deny her guilt even though there had been thousand witnesses of it.
 This is not moral perversion, for the moral sense in woman is rather re- lection of the sense of honor or justice In man than an active and original qual- lty. It is simply that in such women, even as in men of similar mentality, the Ideas cease to coordinate or to become logical at a certain point in the cerebral digestive process. It is just like this: If 2 psychopathic sliar were to look out cf window and see camel with one single hump the sight of the animal would, n the normal way, strike upon the retina and. having ratiocinatively declared itself to be a camel would figurativelv travel down the optic nerve and pass into the brain. At a certain junction of nerve ines the camel would-unconscously to the psychopathic liar-switch off the orig .nal nerve line it was intended that 1t should follow. Having become derailed, 90 to speak, the camel would, while ger m'nally remaining camel in the lia's mind, change it's proportions relatively 10 its actual condition. It would, when left to the choice of other rails in the Junc- tiCn, develop into tWo-numpeu or eVen a three bumped camel. Its pads would grow ten times their original size; it's hide would from light brown become bright red it's necl. would become longer than that of a giraffe All this because the central idea became derailed in the liars mind. and the cerebral stomach" re- fused, owing to it's diseased state. to di- gest the primary conception
 Living of this kind is, therefore, a dis ease, and must be so accounted Never theless the existence of such beings n lhe world should be noted by the health authorities, since they are so easily n nuenced by interruptions persons. Where the disease of such a person can be diag nosed and recorded. the legal testimony is not of more validity than would be that of d gramophone.
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 Lying, says Pieron, is not by any means a monopoly of women and children. The male grown-up. even If he does not nat ually evince the tendency to eXaggerate CT invent-a certain indication of degen- eracy-is always liable to become vic tim of the lying habit. The natural and spontaneous liar who has reached ma- turity lies because he is physically or mentally still an infant, and can neither exercise any power of criticism either subjectively or objectively. and is wholly devoid of reasoning as to the effect his lies produce upon his hearers or upon their objects. He will lie maliciously just as recSlessly or as easily as he lies spon- taneously or simply, the result being in calculabe as far as he is concerned. They are, unfortunately, amenable to the in- f1uence of stronger wills. and can, under Guasi-hypnotlc power, be made to assert almost anything, the truth or untruth If their declaration being to them not only an entirely absent consideration. but without the scope of their mental or moral purview
 The so-called harmless liar, says Pieron, differs only in slight degree from the malicious or brutal liar for motives of re- venge, jealousy or cruelty. The physical malformation is almost identical in both cases. the difference being only one Of
 
 of the nerve cells which produces the state of hysteria, of which lying is per haps the most pronounced symptom.
 The children of drunkards and luna tics. more tlan any others, evince .hs disposition to lie and to deceive, and 1t is an unfortunate fact that considerable ability and even religious and conscen- tious spirit-as for example in money matters-may exist side by side with the tendency toward mendacity. In women who are the children of lunatics and drunlSards the lying spirit often mani- fests itself. although a keen sense oe honor is still preserved in the common dealings of life. The woman remains .owever, wholly unconscious of her lapse, say, in cases of infidelity' She is. says Pieron. in the position of a person who has no recollection of having done wrong. She will deny her guilt and lie away her soul, really in good faith, simply because she refuses to persuade herself that she
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2OO9 3rd Ave.

trills where the trills are marked in the her voice issues the straight goods minus the tremolo. She probably cannot trill like Nordiea She has not the pure bird nl-e voice ol Elsie Lincoln, but her exe- crtion and her stage presence are won- derfully pleasing. She has been on the stage for years. She has had the powers behind to push her forward. Public ap- proval has never turned her head Her good nature off the stage has made for her friends. Had Elsie Lincoln had sim liar advantages she would have been greater than Sembrich.
 A teacher cannot maintain the same voice as a star performer who trains for The stage. Sembrich has always been re- ileved of all responsibility and worries. But Sembrich is getting old. She is good for about one more farewell tour and she can mark that down as thirty just as Patti did when she rounded up America fer the last time. Her voice at the open ing of the concert was not fresh. She went through with part one very me- chanically. From that time on she sang es she did when she was in her prime. She reached her old courtship days when she sang Love Has Wings" At the close when she was recalled and sang 'The Last Rose of Summer her hearers felt that this one number was worth the prize of admission
 The surprise of the evening was Spider Legs. This young man goes on the pro- gramme at MT. Zadora. He is a Polish- American. I1e is a second Paderewski In size he is about as tall as Henry Tenn pleton and as thin as scraped skeleton. He opens and shuts like a jack-knife and two-steps and side-steps like Farley Shell don when dancing the minuet. Zadora is a freak He divided honors with Sem- trich. He is not only a pee-an-ist-he is g whole orchestra.
 The tenor, Van Hoose, at first was disappointment. He took his part like a prep. He stood on the stage with about as much expression as clothing figure. He kept the points of his index fingers ,o- eether. and there was about as much ex- pression as q talking machine. But he woke up in part two, forgot his white gloves, his finger tips, his corns and his mustache ard sang. The beautiful tones rolled out. He made good and was re- called time and again.
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fok SALE. ss7 50 pr it., handsome lot near Glen Iris s2150-Choice s. 13 St. lot, 70X200 s2OOO-Lot on Ash St. near High'ld Ave. S3000-Good lot Is Ave, blk. s. 20 St. s4G5O-Lovely 6-r. s. Highrd cottage. S55O0-Large Iroquois St lot. s10.OO0-Cor res. 1 blk. Higld. Ave, big lot
 sbOOO-Good home, large lot, Hickory St. S10500-S. Higld. home big lot bargain. S15O pr. ft. lot ". side 20, D & F. SIS 000--2-storv brk. store, pays $40. $75O0-Brick store long lease, pays s1S00. S22, ,5OO-Brick store long lease, pays $S0o0. s10,00O-Handsome N. side home, bargain Ss50O-N. 20 St. place. near s Ave. Ss00O-Large lot, 2-story res. q St, Ave. S275Q-N. 21 St, modern colt. rents $500. StGO0-S-r. res, Norwood district. $cO0O-2 brick stores F per cent. St5OC-Ensley brick store, pays $40 per
 mo.
 FOR RENT-SOUTHSIDE. Cor. il Ave X b St. rooms, $40. 151O IA Ave. rooms s20. 1i3O s. 15 St, rooms S0 7sO s. 29 St, s rooms, modern, $40 1O14 & 12 St, rooms, $40 fc25-1229 II Ave. 8 rooms, $37.50. 5000 Ave. H. rooms, SEQ. 9915 Ave H, rooms S25. lsOO-4-6 Ave E. rooms, Sl5. 1929 S. IS St, ' rooms, $40. 2e21 Ave. D, rooms, SIS. .O05 Ave. C, fiat. s rooms, s20. New store 2003 Ave C, $20.
 FOR RENT-NORTHSIDE. 1407 Tuscaloosa Ave, 10-r., $25 1880 Ave. s rooms, S45. S,1 24 St, rooms sS7 50. 1dO9 "A St. 4 rooms, modern, $l6. 1N4 14 St. rooms. s175O. III. Il Ave, rooms, new. SIS. 1880 Rush ave, rooms s35. ISIS Rush ave, ! rooms. s30. Store opp. Terminal station, SlOO.
 R. M'CONNElL & CO.,, Phones S10. 2lO1 Third Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
PULLMAN, THE GARDENER.
A Visitor Finds the Senator Among
 His Flower Pots.
I'rom the Dellneator.

From the Deineator.
 Across the white cotton fields that drape the crimson clay hills and white sanded uplands of Edgefield county, was riding to the plantation home of the great South Carolinian, whom the nation knows as the most militant figure in thu Senate.
 I threw my bridle to a negro standing rear the gate opening from the lane to the garden.
 ''Yas-as, suh, I reckon you fin Mar.se Sen on de bench dar b, de tree. Walk ri in, suh Yas-as suh.'
 Across the front of the house stretched a broad veranda, outlined by a screen of magnificent plants. From behind this wall of blossoms came the hum of a sew ing machine. Besides the brick -bordered path leading to the veranda stood an an- cient live oak, with moss on its boughs. Surely this was de tree" but where was the "Marse Ben?
 The one person l saw was an old m m in his shirt sleeves sitting on bench around the base of the tree; he was hold iEg d gardeners trowel in one hand and potted plant in the other His hands were grimy to his wrists his white shirt { sleeves and baggy clothes were covered < with loam. About him was an array of flower pots full and empty boxes oe 7 hl lbs and scattered garden tools.
 As 1 approached the seat the big figure strengthened itself and the large panama hat was pushed back with the wrist O. the hand that held the trowel. There was no mistaking that shrewd. powerful face. In a flash I knew that the simple-look- ing old man peering anectionately through his spectacles at the plant in his hand was pitchfork Ben Tillman-the dread of the suave statesmen of the up- per House, the terror of all champions of special privilege
 At the sound of footsteps he looked up and a smile showed in the deep lines of his face He brushed off the dirt and Eeld ou. ms hand with an unaffected;
 Good mawnin', sir. I'm glad 10 see you"
 His one luxury, his one hobby with no Ltilitaran purpose back of it, is the cul- tvaton of beautiful shrubs and plants. The screen of rare blossoms around the veranda was a feast for the eyes. There were wonderful palms, feathery orchids, double gentians, dwarf lilies, ancient box wood, and roses, roses, roses There were hundreds of plants whose names I do not know, plants from all over the world. Such a collection demands incessant care, and 1t is, perhaps, one of the senator's keenets regrets that he cannot have time to give them the loving, scientific atten- ton they need Washington consumes his winters-speeches and lectures take up the springtlme when the late sessions of Congress do not do so, and state politics encroach upon the fall Illus sum mers ought to be his own, but the Chau- tauqua Assembly men are after him. No one except a trained botanical gardner could care for these plants he can. As old Joe says: "Gawd shine de sun and run de win-mill an ole Joe swash de hose roun' abundantful, but Marse Bennie, he am call upan to ten to de edgerkashun O dem greens hissef."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
Notice of Sale.

I will, in accordance with the law, on Monday, June %, 1908, sell to the highest bidder for cash one gasoline engine and parts; same was received al Birmingham over the Louisville and Nashville railroad and consigned to White-B -Blakeslee Manu- featuring company from Lowndesboro Ala, August 26. 1907.
 This sale will be made in order to sat isfy the transportation charges and stor- age. The sale will take place at 12 o'clock, noon. June p, 1908, at freight office ot the Louisville and Nashville railroad, corner of Twentieth street and Railroad avenue. Birmingham, Ala
 c. w. TOLIVER, Assistant Agent Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co.,,
 Birmingham, Ala. 6-7-3t-su
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LEGAL NOTICES.
Bids w Wantcd,

bTUS w dHlCUs Bids will be received by the Board of Revenue of Montgomery county, Alabama, until 12. noon. Monday, June 15, for load ing gravel at county pit. Contractor to lave privilege of selling gravel to outside parties. Bids to stipulate price per cubic yard for loading gravel and royalty per cubic yard to be paid on gravel sold to outside parties.
 For particulars address
 J. T. BULLEN, County Engineer. Montgomery, Ala.
 6-3-3t-3-7-14
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
Secret Ballot In France.

Paris, June 13.-The chamber of deputies today adopted an amendment to the existing voting law which prac- tically puts into effect the secret Aus tralian ballot system. Although uni versal suffrage was instituted in France in 1S4S, there has always been much complaint of the system of making the ballots in public
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
Bids Wanted,

Bids will be received by the Board of Revenue of Montgomery county, Alabama, until noon. Monday, June 15 for grading and coating with sand clay eight miles of olG pike road south of Mamie, Ala; also for graveling about five miles of the Pe.- tus road and for grading and coating with sand clay or graveling about four miles of the Woodley road.
 For particulars address
 J. T. BULLEN,
 County Engineer. Box 160. 6-3-3t-3-7-14 Montgomery, Ala
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The Stinqiest Man.

From the Danville Advocate.
 Gallatin claims to have the stingiest man in Tennessee, if not in the world, and a premium is offered for his supe- rior in closefstedness. He got married to home girl to save expenses. They walked arQdnd the square for bridal tour He Bought her nicllel's worth of stick candy for wedding present, and then suggested that they save the candy for the \children.
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Sembrich in Iowa.

From the Ames Qowa) Intelligencer.
 She pleased She always pleases. The big auditorium at Des Moines was filed Monday evening Lover. of music were there from all over Iowa, and they in sisted on getting their moneys worth. Sembrich sings accurately. She is what might be called an all-round singer. She
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which mendacity is kindred disease, 1t may come upon the most truthful and the least suspecting man without a mo- ment's warning, and just as the result of a sudden "kink'' occurring in the cere- hral structure.