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Putnam patriot., 1909-02-19
A G. LUKE & co.
OR ANNUAL
MARK.D0WN SALE
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The Opportunity Of a Life Time
To hux GOOD desirable Merchandise and at time "ne needed
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Mems Suit Prices Mems Young
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Suits

Lot l. Suits were 1000. Now 5. IS
Lot 2, Suits were 300, Now 9S
Lot 3. Suits were 1880, Now OBS
All Other Grades Cut i'll same
proportion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
Fantastic Campaign Law

That amendment campaign law is
 marvellous at times, but in his most
 imaginative legal spells he does not quite equal Co-Worker Thorington when the latter is trying to avoid the charge that section is aimed straight at the sanctity of the home. Judge Thorington gets around the trouble
 by abolishing both Webster's Una bridged and the Standard dictionaries so far as the word place" is con cerned. Judge Thorington says the word place" as used in section 2 does not cover a home-that it does not include the place where one re- sides. The dictionaries are lined up against him, but that is a small mat ter. So is the supreme court of Con- necticut, but he brushes aside any law that does not meet the eXigeneies of the campaign, for the learned judge appreciates the fact that something must be done to avoid the charge that the amendment would expose every mans home to ruthless legislation, and a Fuller legislature stands to be called together again by a governor afflicted with the extra session habit.
 If Judge Thorington had stopped to consider what the words ''in the exer- else of the police power" mean he would never have devised his scheme of campaign law. That power express ly calls for restriction upon private rights for the general welfare of all. It points directly in section to the searching of homes for liquors, for at present all other places can be searched under the Fuller law. Once adopt section and the keeping of liquors in ones home can be made a crime by Fuller legislature in the exercise of the police power, and in- discriminate searches would naturally follow. No one should blame Judge Thorington for desiring to avoid a cat astrophe of this nature, but the trou- ble with his law it is law for cam paign purposes only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
San FranClSCO'S Erratic Politics

San Francisco's new mayor is P. H. Mccarthy of the labor union party. He is familiarly known at home as Pin Head Mccarthy Whether he gets his popular title because of the initials due to his intellectual equipment, is not known.
 He proposes in his programme cover ing two years to come in the office of mayor to give the people who have suffered earthquakes, fires, strikes, law suits, suicides and nearly every otss-r dismal event, period of hilarity. lie wants joy to reign supreme. He proposes, no doubt, to take the lid of.
 This will not please the reformers, but it may after all be satisfactory to . people that are weary of the stren- nous life. San Francisco has not been a joyous town since the great earth quake, and it is plainly entitled to a period of reaction, but if Mayor-elect Mccarthy carries his plan of reaction too far another reaction will be in orders and then the machinery of re form can again be put in operation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09

l stockholders nor the bondholders suf- fered any loss. The cost of operating the road was brought down to bed rock, while the volume of business was built up. The company is now well assured of means of paying all fixed indebtedness and having a sur plus. The receivers managed the sys- tenn excellently and it is believed the new directorate will maintain and ex- tend their plans
 The Seaboard is now one of the great permanent systems of the south east, and it is the southeast that will be chiefly benefited by rehabilitation that will soon enable the road to tap every state in this section of the country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
COST OF "DRYn LAW.

Montgomery (Ala.) Cor. New York Herald.
 With the treasury so badly depleted that money must be borrowed to pay the November expenses, the real effect of the loss of liquor permits is beginning to be felt in Alabama. Fifty thousand dollars will be needed at once, and before the end of the year nearly s1,OOo,oo0 must be ob- tained, or debts will be deferred to the col lection of taxes early next year.
 The legislature was lavish in expendi- ture, increasing salaries and allotments in almost every avenue of state control. This was at the regular session, and did not take into account loss of liquor licenses, which resulted from the adop- tion of statewide prohibition at a spe- cial session several months later.
 The Governor can borrow under the law only sS00000. while the deficit will run to practically three times that amount. At the same time there is talk that the practice of paying expenses from all funds may be stopped, on a probable rul- ing that taxes collected for old soldiers and schools can be used. for no other purpose. For the s5OOO0 borrowed inter- est of 3% per cent Is paid. Governor Conner says he will meet the emergency when 1t arrives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
MINISTER COMER.

From the Selma Times.
 Our Governors going to China,
 Hoorayl Hooray
 We thought it best; we needed rest,
 That's why he's going away.
 Hooray! Hooray!
 love my state so no more Bragg,
 Our Governors going away.
 Age Herald. At the banquet in Birmingham the Gov ernor told the President if he could not get anyone to go to China in Cranes place he'd take the job.
 It was a good joke and everybody laughed; of course they did. Couldn't let that much wit go to waste without being benefited a little, you know.
 But a day later this joke wasn't a joke; or rather had grown all out of it's original proportions as joke. Hundreds of loyal friends of the Governor got up a petition to the President, praying that the distinguished and "amiable" chief ex- ecutive of our state be sent to China It was stated that nearly 2o00 names were han may have been stretching matters He works for that "old Advertiser" if you please, which casts some doubt CD on the situation. But 2000 signatures could have been se- cured all right within another two hours time. had someone not suggested that the joke was showing disrespect for the chief executive.
 The people of our state will await with some uneasiness the decision of the Pres- ident in this important matter. Frankly this state would feel terribly complimented to have an ambassador made out'en him-the Governor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
John Stuart Kennedy'S Will

After the publication of the Har- riman will which left nothing of a vast estate to public uses, and really created a trust by leaving all to the widow, the Kennedy will comes as a balm to the public mind The late Bishop Potter was an expert on mil lionaires and he saids that not over l per cent of them give anything back to the people from whom their great estates were drawn by fair means or foul.
 John Stuart Kennedy was an in- yestor in western railroad properties and when he died he left an estate worth nearly s6O,0O0,0OO. Few outside of financial circles had overheard of him and yet he was a builder of railroads, a patron of art and educa- tion, and a promoter of organized charity. He was a successful man of business, and an excellent citizen who never tried to advertise himself
 When he died he left S16,0O0,OO0 to his wife and as much more to other relatives and to friends and employees, ana then he handed over $12,000,000 to the people at large. He was born in Scotland, but he came to this coun- try in early life to become an errand boy in New York. He was product in fact, of the metropolis.
 The list of public donations named in his will is his best monument Ey cry one of them is fully organized tc do good work with the money it is to receive from the testator's estate The will calls for no experiments, nc new organizations. The cause of art gets s2,250,0O0 donated to the Metro politan Museum. The pictures and other art objects will be displayed in New York but all the rest of the country will be benefited thereby. And so it is with his other donations in cluding $100,000 for the Tuskegee Nor nal and Industrial institute The testator was a Presbyterian and he left large sums to PTebyterian insti- tutions, but the New York public library received $2,250,O0O, and a dozen other non-sectarian institutions became beneficiaries in the excellent will of a multi-millionaire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
Musical Prodigy,

Beryl Rubinstein, brilliant boy pianist, will give a piano recital at Cable hall next Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock This was the date for Mrs. Edna Gockel Gussen's second programme of interpre- tation lessons, but in consideration of Rubinsteins wonderful talent as a young performer she postponed her recital in his favor. The boy is 10 years old-will be Il next January.
 Old music lovers are familiar with the achievements of world-famed prodigies They have read a great deal about boy pianists and boy violinists, but William Gussen, who heard Josef Hoffmann at 10, says Hoffman was not at that age equal either in technique or mental develop ment to Beryl Rubinstein. At a private recital at the Birmingham Conservatory yesterday he played Mendelssohn con- certo, Mendelssohn's "Rondo Capricioso ' Chopin's "Berceuse," and many other things, and he played them all with re- markable musicianship, considering his youth.
 Beryl Rubinstein is a well grown, healthy, good looking boy-manly but modest. He was born in Athens, Ga., of Russian parents. His father travels with him. Beryl began playing the piano at '. He has been studying music in Philadelphia, but his father hopes to take him to Europe next year. The boy has prodigious memory and his roper toire already runs up to something like 100 pieces, many of them long works
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
WORLDS COLDEST PLACE

while cigarettes or cigars freeze to the lips.
 It must be embarrassing to lind, as one does when the thermometer reaches so below, that ones very breath falls at ones feet in a fine, white powder A mustache becomes a torture-a heavy. solid lump of ice. To lay bare hand on metal means that the skin will stay where it touches. A careless traveller once carelessly left a shirt soutside his hut to dry When he picked 1t up agani 1t bent and almost broke. When swung through the air 1t made a noise like the- atrical thunder.
 At these temperatures many usually trusty articles, such as combs and razors and knife handles, shrivel or bend or break.
 Verhoyansk is huddle of mud-plas- tered huts along on struggling street. The windows are of ice, so that candles are needed both summer and winter. Twenty miles away, across a dismal plain Of snow, lies low, black line of pine forests.
 On the other side is the frozen river, from which dense, unhealthy mists roll up for weeks together in the autumn. There are no flowers in spring; the sum- mersis dingy. Perhaps they are right at Verhoyansky in looking forward to the long months of winter But it Is not cheerful place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Frederick Warde's Lecture.

Frederick Warde, tragedian and pop ular lecturer on Shakespeare, gave reel tations from Julius Caesar" and com ments on the play. in the lyceum course at the High school last night. He was greeted by a splendid audience and for nearly two hours he held his listeners rapt.
 Last season MT Warde gave a charm ing lecture on "Shakespeare and His Plays" and many of those who heard him then and again last night seemed to enjoy Julius Caesar the more. It was wonderfully Illuminating presentation of the great tragedy and as the even- ing's entertainment was made up for the most part of speeches from the play, the audience had a treat very much as II MT Warde had been in stage costume and was enacting one of the roles sup ported by a company of fine actors MT Warde was singularly eloquent in recltlhg Brutus' speeches and singularly effective in reproducing Marc Antony. It was rich treat indeed and all present In the audience will be eager for Warde to appear again next season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
DiVerging Views

Many of the orators now making addresses under the auspices of the amendment campaign committee dwell chiefly on the curse of intemperance. Tn other words they are pleading for total abstinence. They recall the eX- cellent addresses delivered 40 or 5o years ago by Sons of Temperance and Good Templar orators. Little or no argument is advanced by such speak CTS to show what relation their total abstinence or anti-saloon discourses has to the constitutional amendment. l And it is somewhat amusing to put one one of these total abstinence speeches alongside of some of the speeches delivered by Governor Conner and Judge Weakley and other amendment lead CTS. telling drinking men with a jolly ing air that they can have all the liquor they want at home and treat all their neighbors to liquor. From a simon pure prohibition point of view such encouragement to drinkers is far from edifying.
 The Ledger, which is supporting the amendment, has been suggesting that there will be no radical enforcement of the prohibition law in the event that constitutional prohibition is adopted but in concluding an editorial yes terday on Dr. R. M Cunningham's scientific lecture entitled, "The Elf fects of Alcohol Upon the Bodies of Human Beings" which is being cir culated as campaign document, it says:
 pr. Cunningham refutes the theory that alcohol is a medicine. He re- cites from his own experience as physician to prove that alcohol has no value as a medicine.
 In the summary Dr. Cunnin gham gives 1s reasons why the use of alcohol in any amount Is harmful to the hu- man system. Every citizen of Ala bama should read this interesting doc ument carefully before casting his vote on the side of any question that will foretell the return of the legalized liquor traffic in Alabama.
 Dr. Cunningham was lieutenant gov ernor in the Jelks administration and was acting governor for about a year. He is however not only out of poli- tics now but he has taken no part whatever in the pending campaign. It | is understood among his friends, nev- ertheless, that he will vote against the amendment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
ReorQauizatiOu of the SeabOard

All the way from Birmingham to Baltimore there will be rejoicing that '-the Seaboard Air Line railway is no longer in the hands of receivers. The road is now in the hands of it's own directors, and it is now strong enough financially to attend to its own oper- ation and development.
 This road is to become one of the great agencies for the upbuilding of the southeast. It does not touch the Mississippi river, but 1t doubtless will, and perhaps it will in time build an extension to New Orleans. With such . line the Seaboard would cover the southeast as well as any other sys- tenn in 1t.
 n the reorganization neither the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
SOMETHING OF ALAw vIoLAToR.

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
 One of the most vocal of the amend ment advocates in Alabama is an Ohio man named Lawrence. He has gone from one end of the state to the other telling the people that the prohibition law ought to be observed because it Is the law, and denouncing those who are vio- lating 1t in any way. Yet it now ap- pears that Lawrence himself is & law dodger. He is travelling around through Alabama on a dead-head pass The crim- inal code prohibits the granting of passes except to persons exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work" or to ministers of religion" Lawrence is engaged in no such work as that men, toned in the code and he holds no charge as a minister in Alabama, and does not live in that state. Here, then, Is a vio- lator of one law denouncing those who violate another law, clear example of the pot calling the kettle black. If Lawrence really cared anything for law as law, he would scorn to use a free pass when he knew that he was violating the law. When a man who Is law vio- lator concentrates all his energies on a particular statute, it can only be because there is something in 1t for him; and 1t is tolerably plain that there must be something substantial in 1t, something that will settle grocery bills, or the free pass saint would never bother his head about it. The Hon. Dead Head Lawrence had better let Alabama alone and 50 on back to Ohio We imagine the Alabama people can settle their differences with out his assistance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
Big Increase in Crime

The biennial report of Attorney Gen. eral Garber shows that crime is in- creasing in this state at faster rate than population. Twenty years ago the number of criminal cases disposed of in two years was S572. In the two years ended September 30, 1908, the number disposed of was 20,672. The number of criminal cases has been almost trebled while the popu- lation has been increased but one-third in 20 years. The increase in crime of the last two years was not alto gether spasmodic The tendency to in- crease has long been felt, and the big figures of the two years covered by Attorney General Garber's report were not surprising.
 Of the 20,672 criminal cases disposed of in the two years mentioned there were 11,933 convictions, 2734 acquit- tals, 5153 nolle prosequies and 552 cases were abated or withdrawn. Four teen were sentenced to death, 1494 to the penitentiary, 2479 to hard labor for the county, POT to jail, and 7739 fines were imposed. Out of 657 cap- ital cases tried only IA sentences to ,rI and for criminal assault. The death penalty, says the attorney general, lis waning in popular favor with the juries throughout the state" This state of things is largely brought about through the use, or perhaps misuse, of the issue of sanity. The attorney general urges the legislature to adopt a new policy in this respect. Lest he be misquoted in this important matter his own words are best. q am one of those," he says, "who hold the opinion that the present practice of submitting the special plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, along with the general is. sue of not guilty, and trying both at the same time, has been failure oftener | than success in accomplishing the | humane purposes of the framers oi l this system. It is now perverted ire | quently from its true use into an in. strument of defense in a class of homi cides never contemplated. Technically
 evidence on the issue of insanity should not be considered by the jury
 in passing on the issue of guilt ve
 non. As rule the special plea is
 supported by a great mass of evidence
 which has no field of operation ol
 relevancy under the general issue anc
 only serves to confuse the minds of the jury in reaching verdict under this latter plea. It is absolutely impos sible to expect a jury, as human agency in the administration of the criminal law, to separate the facts ad duced under each separate plea, ye the law requires this impossibility a
 the hands of the jury. Thus the spe
 cial plea of insanity often becomes ; shield for the murderer and results fl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09

shocking miscarriage of justice. The present system, as provided by sec tions 7176 and 7177 of the code should be changed so that the two issues may be tried separate and if the jury should find in favor of the defend ants sanity he may be then tried for the crime, and in this manner elimln- ate in the latter trial all evidence on the question of sanity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
Situation in Lamar.

w w Ogden, a prominent business man of Sulligent, was in Birmingham yes- terday and brought some interesting news of conditions in Lamar county.
 "Our county will be easily two to one against the amendment" he said. With in the last week there has been a regular stampede People are no longer backward about announcing their position on the amendment. You would be amazed at the attitude of the farmers who come to my store. When I ask them how they stand on the amendment I almost know what the answer is going to be. The farmers of the county are practically unanimous against 1t.
 And you need have no fears that late developments of the campaign are going to have any effect upon them. They have their minds made up on the subject and these sensational eleventh hour stories are not going to change any votes.
 'Marion county. just above us, Is in practically the same shape as Lamar and if the rest of the state does it's duty as well as these two counties you need have no fear but what the amendment will be overwhelmingly defeated"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
soNN ET.
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. How do I love thee? Let me count the love thee to the depth and breadth and
 height My soul can reach when feeling out
 of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every days Most quiet need, by sun and candle light love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely. as men turn from
 praise. love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my child
 hoods faith. love thee with a love seemed to lose With my lost saints-I love thee with
 the breath, Smiles, tears. of all my life!-and if
 Gcd choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
The Cotton Slump.

'There have been some rather sensa- tional declines in cotton futures during the past week." said a merchant
 "I do not think the cotton gamblers can push the spot price down very much. In fact, spots do not follow the near months as much as they once did. Much of the distressed cotton has been mar keted and the approach of the holidays always brings certain amount of forced sales on the part of negroes and many whites who just must have something for Christmas.
 My information Is that there is short CT crop than for many years. Some very conservative men name 100000 as the size of the crop. If this develops into the truth the new year will find prices well beyond 15 cents, with some sales up to 17 cents This last price will be paid by mills running hand to mouth but spin ming fancy yarns. The price of seed and the price of lint will very well even up the farmer on shortage in most in- stances
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
DON'T FORGET THE BARN.

DON'T FORGET THE BARN.
 Getting married in Kansas is worth while. The Grove County, Kans-, Advo- cate publishes the following account of recent wedding which seems to have had all the trimmings" Says the Ad- vocate:
 "A record crowd gathered at Angelus at the public wedding of two of It's most popular young people, Margaret veland to Will Rueshhon. Both are residents of this locality for five or six years After the ceremony, at 9 o'clock on Tues day morning, wedding feast was spread at the home of the brides parents. It was simply collosal Everybody-and that meant whole lot on that day-had plenty to eat and drink. Then the dance GrinnelPs bands, assisted by Vim and Bruce Peck of Grainfield, furnished music for the occasion. The bride was dressed in white silk with an overdress of dotted netting. The groom wore conventional black. Presents piled up and as they says on sale bills, too numerous to men, ton. The bride and groom took a trip to EffinghamA Illinois. to visit relatives and be married again at that point On their return to Grove County they will reside on the Rundy farm about nine miles south of Park, where large house and barn are being built for their ac- commodation."