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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
ESCAPE FROM MOB.
White Man Who Shot Ills Former Wife
 Is Jailed.

Memphis, April 20.--A speedy run to Bartlett, Tenn, 10 miles from Memphis, by Sheriff Monteverde and several depu- ties in an automobile and another quick trip back to this city with Hardiman F. Deeson, who shot and probably fatally wounded his former wife, Bessie Ellis Deeson, today put an end to demonstra- tion which for a time threatened to de- velop into lynching. The shooting of Mrs. Deeson occurred at her home at Bartlett, and was sequel to domestic troubles of a year ago. which at the time brought about a shooting affray in which the man was shot and seriously wounded by the woman after he had fired a fusil- Jade at the house in which she had taken quarters. Some months ago Mrs. Deeson was granted a divorce.
 According to the statement of the wom- an she was accosted by Deeson today as she was entering a barn early in the morning, the man announcing that he in- tended taking her life. When she started to run Deeson opened fire, each of the three bullets fired taking effect Deeson escaped, but was soon captured. Crowds began to gather, and when the sheriff's posse arrived they found a small-sized mob olamoring for an instant hanging, and apparently only awaiting a leader to attempt the carrying out of their threat Deeson was quickly secured, and was finally landed safely in the county jail here. He refuses to make any statement to the shooting.
 Mrs. Deeson Is the daughter of we'll known contractor of this city, and the man Is the son of prominent planter of Lake Providence, La.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
Lynch Law In Oklahoma

Four ranch owners and cattlemen, all white and all well-to-do, were taken out of jail at Ada, Okla, and lynched. They were lynched because of many high-handed crimes in the past and for the murder recently of Deputy United States Marshal Bobbitt.
 The four victims of the mob led a gang of rough and desperate men, who terrorized their section of their coun- try. No one had been able to bring them to punishment until Bobbitt rounded them up.
 Lynch law is indefensible in any case or in any locality, but it is re- freshing to find an application of it to some one beside the weak and help less. The subjects of the mobs fury were, however, helpless in the jail from which they were taken. If they had been on their ranches circum-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
Corn and Cotton This Year

Middling spot cotton is worth in New Orleans nearly 101s cents, and southern holders will get for about 100000 bales the recent increase in price. The rest of the big crop was parted~with at 8 or g cents. The man who held cotton will get about $5 more per bale than his neighbors did who sold earlier in the cotton year.
 The recent rise in price will operate to increase the cotton acreage, anu outside of some weeyil infested dis tricts in Louisiana and Mississippi no one anticipates any considerable re- duction in that acreage. The world wants 3,000,000 bales of American cot ton, and that is about all the cotton belt is capable of in the average sea- son.
 While it is well to make 13 ,0O0, 900 bales of cotton, 1t is also even better to blow deeply and make more corn. No one asks the south to grow corn as & surplus crop, but there is every reason why every farmer should grow his own corn. This has been explained so often 1t has become trite, but it's truth stands erect and eternal. No southern farmer can be prosperous who refuses to make his own corn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
Mr. AldriCh ASSaiIS An Income Tax

When the Rhode Island Senator ad- mitted that had his scale of duties been in force in 1907, a year of great prosperity, the governments revenue would have been increased but S8,000,- 900, he gave away his case. He also admitted that the deficit under his bill would in the coming year be s45, ,00O,- 900, but he claims a surplus of ESQ., 100000 in the fiscal year 1911, because he expects Congress to cut down ap- populations from $35,O00,0O0 to s50,- OO0,000 year.
 This is exactly what Congress will not do. The estimates for the fiscal year 1910 were made by republicans with deficit of s1S0,0O0,0OO starting them in the face. Why, then, does MT. Aldrich expect them to reduce ap- propriations when a less deficit Is promised? The proposition is too ridiculous for comment. No republican Congress has ever striven to reduce appropriations to the extent named, and none ever will, The country Is increasing in population and the trend Is toward larger and still larger appro- priations. It is so in other countries, and it is emphatically so in this coun- try.
 The choice Is really between a sale of 3-per-cent bonds and an income tax. True to his section and his class, Nell son Wilmarth Aldrich is opposed to MI income tax, but the country as whole prefers a tax on the wealth of the country to an increase of bonded debt which rests on all. MT. Aldrich's open- ing speech raises the issue between bonds and an income tax, and as such 1t is important. Otherwise it lacks convincing value, for 1t in nowise makes plain the sufficiency of the Sen ate bill as a revenue measure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
Important New Industry.

"We are much encouraged by the in- terest shown in our new industry with headquarters in Birmingham" said H. J. Davis, president of the Clerkease Manufacturing company We are real ly an infant industry, but we believe we have the nucleus of what promises to be a great thing. Few people of Bir- mingham realize the far-rea aching na- ture of our product. For instance, we make movable shelving which should revolutionize the present meth ods of handling goods. Under our plan shelves can extend entirely to the cell ing of store. To get goods from any particular shelf, press a button and an electric motor moves the shelf down under your hand. In public libraries stepladders will be forever done away with Sit in a chair in front of the tier, press a button and any shelf of books you wish comes before you. Our system utilizes all the space from the floor to the ceiling which is in itself an immense saving.
 Think what this means to man NllH d slhdll olllSo' h iAieh S"i PAe'NS on top of his desk one of our cabinets reaching to the ceiling. He can have all his papers and letters filed in this cabinet. By pressing a little lever any file he wants moves before him and he has everything in his office avail able without getting up from his chair.
 "When people realize just what our system means there Is bound to be revolution in present methods. Strange to say, our first orders for these cabinets came from New York instead of Bir- mingham."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
THE GREENWOOD TREE.

By Samuel Lover. Who is the maid with the beanling eye. Adown and adown by the greenwood
 tree? Is she the light of the evening sky Watching so earnestly? Iris not the glow of the sunset dye, Bright though its hues be; For brighter the glance of the hunters
 eye,
 Adown by the greenwood tree. Who is the maid with the fearful eye, Adown and adown by the greenwood
 tree7 The owlet hoots, and the moon is high; Where may the hunter be2 Deep in the shade does the maid recline. Weeping the hunter, she: While his hound lies low, with mourn
 ful whine,
 Adown by the greenwood tree. Sadly now in the dusky dell, Adown and adown by the greenwood
 tree. The maiden knells at the vesper bell, Telling her rosary. ', Silent and sad is the glen so green, Meetings no more there be; For never again was the hunter seen Adown by the greenwood tree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

stances would have been reversed. A mob rarely encounters any risks. It assails those who cannot strike back. It is everywhere cowardly, and the Oklahoma case was no exception to the rule
 Now and then it gets a dose of pun ishment itself. Such a case occurred in Birmingham, and no attempt at lynching has since been known in this city. But such cases are rare. As a rule a mob takes no risks. AS a rule it's victims are helpless.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
-------@S-7----------- HARRlM MAN WILL TRAVEL.
European Tour Is Planned By the Rail-
 road Magnate.

New York, April 20-A summer trip to Europe for a stay of an indefinite length has been decided upon by E. H. Hartman. This will be his first visit abroad since he was operated upon for appendicitis several years ago. and will give him opportunity for rest, which 1t Is believed will be. beneficial. The recent western trip was intended to be a vacation outing but his interests in the regions he travelled over were so extensive that he was fairly compelled to business activity and his journey on the whole was far from being a rest ful one. Since his return MT. Harri- man has been giving considerable at- tention to the affairs of the corpora tions in which he is interested and 1t is now believed that a genuine period of rest away from all contact with bus mess matters is necessary to give him the relaxation he should have. He prob ably will sail about the middle of June.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Space Raonmlnn Valuable.

T am impressed every day with some evidence of how valuable space is be- coming in Birmingham" said an old citizen. Take that work begun to- day on the Woodward building cor ner. l understand a deep excavation is to be made under the entire side walk on both sides of Parker's drug store. The sidewalk will be fitted with prism glass to allow the light to get below. Under the sidewalk will be an immense room with the finest sort of fittings and this will be an an- mex to the drug store. A marble stair way according to my information will lead from the main drug store to the rooms below, so that the basement will be in truth a part of the main store.
 "The idea of utilizing the space un- der the sidewalk is not new in Bir- mlngham for already number of handsome places are fitted up under the feet of pedestrians. It all goes to show however that down town space in Brmin gham is getting very valu- able."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

A CELEBRITY. A beetle-browed celebrity
 Came to our town one day; No loud hurrahs did rend the air, No bands began to play. He sneaked into hotel when
 The night was thick with gloom And timidly implored the clerk To let him have a room. Nine days he stayed, yet no one knew His presence, or Inquired If he was pleased with Birmingham Or if it made him tired. No functions filled his heart with pride, As someone's honored guest, No cameras his likeness took With arms across his chest Forsooth, I guess you never saw A wight so much ignored; No wonder he began to frown And soon got deeply bored Perhaps you'd like to know just who This gentleman might be, Who was so celebrated and Scored such hit with me; 4 man of noble aims, or one Who'd made a pile of pelf? To tell the truth. I didn't learn Just who he was, myselfi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
staae as Educational Force.

While some ministers of the gospel still preach against the stage," said an old citizen, church people as a rule feel free to attend the theatres and there Is scarcely an enlightened layman anywhere who does not now look upon the play house as great educational force.
 There are moral plays and immoral plays. just as there are good books and bad books; but the clean drama is com mended and supported by Christian peo- pie and it seems to me that if theatre goers of the better class would make 1t a rule to patronize only wholesome plays managers would present no other kind
 Many people go to the theatre simply to be amused. Shakespeare does not ap- peal to them and all they seem to care for is horseplay comedy. Well, the thea Ire is serving a good end when 1t inter ests even those who seek only divertise- ment The chief point is this: The stage should be free from plays, whether trag- edy or comedy, that contain immoral sug- gestion or immoral lines And to bring about the needed reform preachers, as well as the laity should encourage man agers who are striving to purify the stage Wholesale denunciation of the stage at any rate should be declared out of order.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
Imnroxement In Business.

H. L. Mason of Boston is in Birming- ham and will spend several days here He Is of the firm of Mason & Hamlin, piano manufacturers, and is descended from the New England Masons who were pioneers in the musical field. The late pr. William Mason, the distinguished pianist, was his uncle.
 Birmingham has grown very much since I was here about four years ago." said Mir Mason. ''It is going ahead fast and visitors cannot fail to be impressed with the large number of handsome build ings now in course of construction"
 When asked about business conditions now, from his point of view, as com pared with a year ago, MT. Mason said: There is marked improvement. This time last year the plano trade was ex- tremely dull. There was practically no demand in the south and few pianos were being sold in any section.
 ''It is very different today. The piano business is almost normal again and it will continue to improve. It is felt by many that a return of genuine prosperity is in sight. That is the feeling in Bos- ton at any rate, and 1t seems to be the feeling in other large business centers. expect to see great activity all along the line during the coming summer and fall.
 Birmingham, like Pfttsburg and other iron centers, doubtless felt the panic more than those cities whose business was not related to coal and iron. But from all accounts Birmingham suffered far less relatively speaking, than Pittsburg. The traces of the panic are passing away in industrial districts and here in Birming- ham one finds only signs of wonderful propress"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
Attractions That Draw.

Many southern cities have a festival of music in the spring and an agricultural fair in the fall," said J. s. Herdon of Bal two attractions draw equally well from a merchants point of view. If the fair attracts a greater crowd, the visitors who attend music festival are better spend- CTS.
 'I was in Anniston few days ago and I met several friends who were planning to attend the Birmingham festival next week; and some of the railroads are ad- vertising excursion rates on account of the festival and the crowds will doubt less be large.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Most visits are worth while in order to get back home again.
 You can tell rich man by the way he doesn't have to pretend to be-
 When a girl has beautiful teeth it's a sign she will smile at you half a mile away.
 The reason a woman firts with a man is so she can truthfully satisfy her con- science she didn't.
 What man likes about the long walks he takes is how he can lie about how much longer they are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
Married In Huntsville.

Huntsville, April .-(Special.)- Miss Marguerite Wingo and William c. Collins were married last evening in the study of Father McQuillan of St. Mary's Cath ollie church. The ceremony was witnessed by a small company of friends and MT. Collins and bride de- parted few minutes later for Chat tanooga and Atlanta on their honey moon trip. The bride Is daughter of Mrs Belle Wingo and granddaughter of Capt. H. B. Roper, circuit clerk. MT Collins Is associated with his fath- CT. M. A. Collins, in the hardware bus iueSJ.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
A LETTER.

A Lh1IbH. From far away a letter came A friend who went to Spain Remembered how we used to hum A holiday refrain And wish that we might cross the sea To other lands so fair And view the noted places and The storied castles there. He says he saw a palace where Once Irving stood and gazed And afterward, to all the world A heritage, he praised. And while his senses were amazed Those of my friend I mean And while he stood as one who was Enraptured by the scene, A loneliness woke in his heart His eyes began to fill With tears; homesickness gripped him
 hard,
 As home-1ove often will When ones afar, and all the glow And glory of that spot The golden-wrought Alhambra and Old Spain-all were forgot, Ekseesn The while his fancy pictured scenes He loved in long ago His childhood home, the garden quaint Where roses used to blow. In those days fairy tales were true, But now his sight Is dim And all the splendor of the world A mockery to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
MethodIsts Meet In Richmond.

Richmond. April 20.-Tomorrow night the Southern Methodist Educational con ference will convene in the Broad Street Methodist church for three-day session. during which some of the most prominent educators and ministers of the Methodist church in the south will attend the con ference. Governor Swanson will deliver an address of welcome at the opening, which will be responded to by Dr. Kill gore of Trinity college. Following the opening meeting there will be three ses- sions daily, closing on Friday night with a great public meeting, when the Rev J. H. Kirkland, LL. D.. chancellor of vanderbilt universltu, will be -h-~ nrih- cipal speaker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
HEARTLEss.

IIEARTLESS A tragedy in private life l hate to tell you bout it; 'Tis very sad and when you've heard The facts you will not doubt it. Foul murder was committed by A man whose name is Brown, sir, And walks abroad today as free As if he wore a crown, sir. Just twenty-seven lives he took The telling makes me shiver; Three harmless kittens were his prey He drowned them In a river.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
Bishop Alien.

The Right Rev. E. P Allen, bishop of Mobile, who arrived in Birmingham Mon day, left yesterday for Anniston. whence he will proceed to Washington to at tend meeting of the board in charge of colored missions. The sessions of the board will be held at the Catholic uni- versty and will be presided over by Cardinal Gibbons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
A SERIOUS MIsrAKB.

Some people who nope day and night And never dry their eyes, Contrive to make the way of life
 An avenue of signs And when Instructions strew the path, So lost are they in woes, They never think to lift their feet,
 But always stub their toes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

The consumer is assailed by the New England tariff reviser on the one hand and by the western wheat specu- lator on the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

No team has cinched a position in the first division, and will not until it has at least once met the entire league.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

The Young Turks are not spring chickens in the game of politics. They are up and moving, and Abdul Hamid may soon seek the imperial yacht, which lies in the stream with steam up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

MT. Roosevelt is about to face lions, smallpox and rebellious natives. The more obstacles, the stronger the work he will do in the jungles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

An Armenian massacre goes with every Turkish uprising. Fanaticism and bad government go together in Turkey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt does not yet understand why, if the royal baby in Holland is girl, the military salute is to be 51, marked down from 101.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

Governor Hughes knows there is to be another legislature after a while, and he is content to wait in the direct primary matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

The subscribers to the Congressional Record begin to think they are getting too much tariff information for their money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

Former Vice President Fairbanks has sailed away to spend the summer in Japan, and that country can reason ably expect to enjoy a cool season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

baseball pitcher. or the inventor of an airship"
 Indeed you would"
 "Yet, he's merely millionaire"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
REPLIES


 Good evening. Is it boiled?" asks tho Oregon Journal. We don't boil our even ings, thank you.
 Among the new books is one entitled, When Railroads Were Young" That was when, no doubt, they were not so wicked lawmakers nowadays aver. King Leopold is "A years old; in wicked ness he is about 7O0" says paragrapher. And right up to the minute in wicked ness.
 A Kentucky man had his bride stolen by guest at the wedding just after the wedding ceremony was performed. A double-cross like that is enough to sour the sweetest disposition & mortal was ever born with.
 An old lady died the other day at the age of 1OS years because she caught cold. Some people never do learn how to take care of themselves. PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
OFT OF HIS REACH.

Professor Pickering says it will cost s1O. 100000 to establish communication with the inhabitants of Mars"
 ''In that case. don't suppose it will ever be possible for a poor man to pass the time of day with anybody on Mars"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
VERY TRYING.

The poet sang of melting maids,''
 His mood subdued and dreamy; No doubt he thought of liquid eyes
 And faces soft and creamy And other charms too sweet for words. He failed to say how creepy It makes a chap feel when maid
 Melts into tears and s weepy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
ASKING roo MICH

Mary Garden says the Latin gentle men make love perfectly but they don't make money"
 Now that's just like woman!'' How so?''
 ''she expects man to make love and money, too.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

The Armenian rarely fails to get it in the neck when there are any dis orders in Turkey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
EAsY

T wonder why a Chicago man kissed his landlady?'
 "Pshawl He was behind with his rent o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
BADLY POOLED.


 Mrs. B. is charmingly ingenious" ''Yes, indeed. She has one of those trustful natures" Quite so. She told me yesterday the reason why MT. B. hated to beat car pet was that he was so tender-hearted."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
WARM.

My father used to make me smokes Surely, you're joking"
 Mot a bit of 1t. He used a shingle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

Illinois should begin to ask MT. Hop kins, who is an organization man, what he thinks of an income tax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

The strawberry artists are now se- leeting five large strawberries to go on top of each box.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

The slogan of the democrats in Con- gress is sound and complete, "Tax wealth, not poverty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

The slogan of the democrats in Con- gress is sound and complete, "Tax wealth, not poverty"
  The Armenian rarely fails to get it in the neck when there are any dis orders in Turkey. The strawberry artists are now se- leeting five large strawberries to go on top of each box.
  A tariff schedule is not so engross- ing to the average man as a baseoan score.
  Honest Jim Patten should sell enough wheat to keep the bakeries going.
 Despite some farebacks the Patten wheat corner holds it's own very we'll The nervous feeling in the wheat pit has extended to the bake shop,
  Turkey is normal when Armenian massacres are taking place.
  Abdul Hamid is getting these days a surfeit of politics. Indian corn as the understudy of wheat is looking up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

A tariff schedule is not so engross- ing to the average man as a baseoan score.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
A PERFECT NOBODY.

''To see that old fellow strut, you'd think he was the father of a celebrated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

Wash ington Bureau Age-Herald. 14:1 c street. N. w.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

Honest Jim Patten should sell enough wheat to keep the bakeries going.