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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
GIVES LINEUP OF
 ATLAN'TA'S TEAM

Dick Jemison, sporting editor of the Atlanta Constitution, is in Birmingham, having accompanied the crack Atlanta basketball aggregation, of which he is a member.
 Mir Jemison is well known in Southern league baseball circles, and he has taken rank with the leading sporting writers in the south.
 Mr. Jemison thinks Atlanta will have a first rate team this season, and fur nshes the following list of players as those from which the Crackers will choose their team: Pitchers, Tom Fisher, Roy Castleton Johns, Viebahn, Maxwell, Pressey, Kewanee, Ills, Griffin, Fort Worth, Texas, and Rogers, Wheeling, w Va: infelders, Jordan, Hale, Kalamazoo; Newton, Lancaster; Kirkpatrick, Lynch burg; Bastain. Elmira; Rohn, Peoria; out fielders, Moran, Winters, Becker, Hem, Danville; Bayless, Dayton; catchers' Mc- Murray Smith, Sugden, Van Couver; Wahl, Springfield
 Billy Smith, according to Jemison, IS very hopeful and believes that he will be able to finish among the leaders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
LOUISIANA RACING CASE
 IS UNDER ADVISEMENT

quirer; Hart Durham, a turf official and several bookmakers and official sheet writers.
 The state confined itself to the suhmis- sion of an agreed statement of facts, which covered the betting operations of Sheehan on the opening day of the Sub urban; a copy of the proceedings of the general assembly which passed the Locke law. and the messages of Governor San ders dealing with race track gambling.
 A feature of the trial was an occasional demonstration by Murphy assisted by Sheehan, of both the systems employed at the Suburban and formerly at the large tracks in New Orleans. An uprear of laughter greeted Sheehan as he began posting the odds against the names of the 4orses that appeared on the card at tached to the blackboard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
KING JAMES WINS
 BURNS HANDICAP

Emeryville. Cal, January 30-(special.)-- King James, with Eddie Dugan up. carrying the heavy impost of PA pounds, won the Burns handicap today.
 There was heavy play on every one of the 12 horses entered.
 Right up to the paddock it seemed as if Dorante had the race tied down. But he was forced to take the bad going on the rail- and as the track was sloppy at best he never had a chance after King James started to run at the end
 Eddie Dugan Is due the credit of win ming the race. He let King James take it easy all through the route up to the stretch. Then bent down and started to work and King James responded like a machine. Coming from nowhere he left the bunch as If they were standing still at the paddock. Only Dorante was left to be accounted for. Outclassed and out gamed that animal was all ready to quit and even Lees most vigorous urging failed to get any response.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
PED HICKMAN TO
 START IN BUSINESS

The announcement of Ped A. Hickman, one of Birminghams best-known boys, that he will at once enter into the bi- cycle repair business on his own account, and will sever his connection with the concern with which he has been engaged since he was a youngster of IS years, re- calls some interesting events in his ca reer
 While he has been employed around bi- cycle shops for years, he has found time to do a whole lot of bicycle riding. His first medal was won when he was IS years old, and in the days when the country was bicycle mad he travelled all over the south and easily maintained the title to champion of the south. His num- erous victories are attested by the string of medals which he still keeps to remind him of the days when he was known far and wide as rider
 Hickman spent nearly a year riding in races in England, and has been on all the leading tracks in the northern and eastern states. He will open his place at 407 North Nineteenth street, and will carry a full line of sundries and high grade tires.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
GORDON HICKMAN
 GOING TO COACH

Gordon Hickman. Mobiles crack pitcher whose residence is in Birmingham, has signed a contract to coach the baseball team of the Marion Military institute.
 Hickman will report to Marion, March 1, and to Mobile, April 1.
 He states that he will get in condition at Marion just as easily as he could in Mobile, and will not lose the opportunity to make a few extra dollars by his is- .sociation with the college men.
 Hickman has not received his contract for the ensuing season from Mobile. but entertains no fear but that it will be forthcoming in the near future. Hickman will ask for an advance in salary to which, it is believed, his excellent work of last season entities him.
 Hickman does not entertain any fear that Mobile will seriously object to his reporting a month later than the other players.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31

New Orleans, January 30.-At the con- cluson late today of the trial in Gretna of Jack Sheehan, charged with having violated the Locke law in the making of bets at the Suburban race track Judge Burlington, who presided, announced that he would take the case under advisement and would announce his decision on next Tuesday.
 The trial attracted big crowds to Gret- ma, the parish seat of Jefferson which lies just across the river from New Orleans. The Suburban track was operated at Me Donoughvine. two miles from Gretna.
 The case was opened with a motion of counsel for the defense to quash the bill of information on the ground that St. Clair Adams district attorney oI Orleans parish, who was appointed to represent the state following the recusation of District Attorney Marrero of Jefferson parish was without right to act in the case The objection was overruled. Upon being placed on the stand MT. Merrero stated that he had not noted any viola ton of the law. but that as the governor had declared there was violation he thought it best to step out of the way.
 Joseph A. Murphy, who was presiding judge at the Suburban, was a principal witness for the defense. He declared that the system of betting in vogue at the Suburban did not constitute betting book and entered into detailed explana- tion O. the system, as well as of other systems, which he admitted would con stitute violation of the Locke law.
 Among other witnesses placed oa the stand by the defense and who testified along the same lines as Judge Murphy were John Weisen of the Louisville Cour- ier-Journal, J. L. Dempsey of the Chicago Racing Form, and the Cincinnati En-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
Sold Only Third Avenue at Nineteenth Street
IFis Week M Basketball
By BURR BLACKBURN.

Now for Vanderbilt, the strongest col legiate basketball team in the south. and then final clash between the two local organizations. This week is the most important in basketball this season. The three games, Atlanta of last night, Vanderbilt and B. A. c. vs. Y. M. .. A, will afford six days of the most intense excitement and suspense.
 vanderbilt comes Wednesday, February 8, fresh from home, with the squad which has torn up the grass in the south, win ming game after game. Football stars are seen in the lineup, and are adding all their aggressive tactics to the game Wednesdays fight at the Athletic club will be battle royal.
 But there will be more local interest and enthusiasm over the game at the Young Mems Christian association Friday night The Athletic club will make a mighty effort to win and thus cinch a chance at the Southern league champion ship.
 The Young Mems Christian association has only played one game on Its own floor and won that. The association has
 
 that matter, so has the Athletic club. No southern team has won a single game on a foreign floor this year.
 The association team scored F points to Nashville's 43 in Nashville Friday night. The club scored IS to Nashville's s 30. thus making little better showing, but the association will have the further advantage of playing on it's own floor, which will at least overbalance the dif- ference.
 The Y. M. c. A. team has been ma- terially strengthened since the contest with the Athletic club on January 1. They have gained considerable experience and are just now entering upon their season at home. They play no more games on foreign floors. and will entertain some of the strongest southern squads during the coming month.
 Tuesday night the association will play the Bessemer association a match game on the local floor. No admission will be charged, and the general public is in yited. The game will begin promptly at 8 o'clock, and two of the Commercial ' league series will also be pulled off at the same time. This game with Bessemer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
South Atlantic Meeting.

Savannah, January 30.-The annual meeting of the South Atlantic Baseball noon with two new cities, Columbus and Chattanooga, represented An effort will be made to lengthen the season. The fight for the presidency, which Charles W. Boyer states he does not want again, will be hard one. w. R. Joyner former mayor of Atlanta; Felix Kohler of Sa- vannah and w. A. Jones of Jacksonville are aspirants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
pr. Bull In Savannah.

Savannah, January 30-Dr. William T. Bull, the noted cancer specialist and surgeon, who is himself sufferkeg from cancer, reached Savannah today on q. private car from New York. He was passed through window of the car on a cot and, in an electrically heateu ambulance, with Mrs Bull at his side, went 15 miles from the city to Wynn berly" Though he came in search of warmth, freezing weather and a high wind areetad him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
JUDGE DUNNE DOES
 NOT WANT OFFICE

Chicago, January Special. )-Edward F. Dunne, former judge and mayor, an nounced today that he must decline to be candidate for democratic nomination for circuit judge. Primaries are to be held April 13 next. Strenuous efforts have been made to secure former Judge Dunne as an organization candidate for his old place on the circuit bench, which he left four years ago to become mayor of Chicago for two years.
 q have decided that l cannot become candidate for judge this spring." de- olared Judge Dunne today. Prom nu- merous sources promises of support have been rendered me within the last few months. but I have made up my mind that I must decline them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
Atlanta An Easy WaYk
 For Club s Fasf Squad
Score Was 54 9-Athletic Club Jumped Into Glass Witt Notre Dame-Played Like Passwork Fiends.
 Woodruff Throws Il Goals

clean in their tactics, save few holding stunts.
 Ware was under the weather with bad cold, but his playing was all the bet ter for a that. Charley Woodruff had his goal eye with him, held the ball on long throws and made a record for him self. Henry Chairsel, who took Thomas place, could not have worked better had he been a regular member of the first team, instead of substitute. He took few shots at goal, but missed none of them. Hilty and Streit, the clubs guarding mainstays, were never in better conG'- tion. They played the soX off their former selves, and prevented Atlanta 1roAi scoring but two field goals in the whole game. Here is the box score:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31

will be interesting, as the Marvel City has a good team. It will also serve the association members with an opportunity to get behind their team and let them understand that they have the support of the membership for the contest Fri day night.
 Saturday night Vanderbilt returns to play the association. So the week is full of interest, and will give the fanatics an opportunity to blow off high steam.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
New League In Arkansas.

Hot Springs, Ark, January 9O.-(Special.) An independent baseball league in Arkan- sas to fight the Arkansas State league is being perfected here. The independents will include Ft. Smith, Texarkana, Hot Springs and Helena. The two latter with drew from the Arkansas State league on account of the alleged domniation of Pres ident Hurst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
Lonaboat Beats Two Men.

Washington, January 30-Tom Long, boat, the Marathon runner. tonight out distanced by one mile and half four local relay runners in 15-mile exhibition race in convention hall Longboat's official time was 1 hours, 20 minutes and 30 sec onds AN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
Southern League Umpires.

Little Rock, Ark, January 30.-(special) President Kavanaugh of the soutnern league today completed his list of um- pires for next season by signing O'Brien. The list includes Carpenter, Pfenninger, Fitzsimmons, Rudderham. Moran ana O Brien. s s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
FREE DEAFNESS CURE.

A remarkable offer by one of the leading ear specialists in this country, who will send two months medicine free to prove his ability to cure deafness, head noises and catarrh. Address pr. c. M. Brana- man, 1466 Walnut street. Kansas City. Mo. 1-5-eoS-26t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31

FOR SALE-Three blocks of central business property; S42,0OO, $50,000 and S75,000; 6 per cent investments; terms to suit. W. B. Leedy & Go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31

Fouls, on Birmingham, IT; on At lanta 10. Referee, Stone (Vandy); Um- pire, Patterson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31

To the left and right you can see some of the values that the tlrOngS /Otherwise known as a\ sgreat many customersj oEC buying and have been buying all day long
 YOUSHOULD BE HERE MONDAY so you can save money; a great deal, too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-08

at you for an infidel! I will demon
strate that you lack, not critical sense
alone, but ordinary humanity. And
after we have finished with each 9TH
er, and the smoke has cleared away.
we shall dinIy become aware of what
our patient womenfolk knew from
the beginning of the battle. that moth
ing particular has happened. Mean
while, the flood of new production
pours on increasingly. Most of it is
probably bad; but the moment you at
tempt arranging the agglomerated
heap for praise or blame, all sorts
and conditions of readers demand
hearing, if not for their judgments, at
least for their preferences. We are
really in need of something like a
critical consensus, lest we relapse into
a chaos of individual whims. This, as
Matthew Arnold pointed out. is no I'M
important matter. We read more and
more, and we hardly realize how
deeply our daily lives are colored by
those reflections of life which we find
in books. We cannot, and should not,
agree upon what we shall seek in our
reading; but for the sake of literature
and our own human selves, we should
improve our appreciation of one an
others point of view, our understand
ing of one another's standards"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-08
SOMETHING ON LITERATURE.

There is no immediate prospect of
an end to the making of many books"
writes Brian Hooker in an article on
the Popular Element in Literature"
in the November Forum. 'It would
be in many ways a comfortable thing
to have all production stop now and
forever; or at least to call a halt
while the cropping public and the
gasping critics recovered their bear
ings. We should have the complete
body of English letters neatly sorted
and arranged, like the Greek and
Latin: masterpieces on the top shelf,
classics in an unalterable row, minor
poets all in order, and the fragment
airy and ephemeral slowed safely in
the cupboard. Yet even so we should
not find peace. We still have contro-
versies over Homer; the only good
literature is a dead literature; and
when all is done, the unrestful spirit
of personal taste will not down. You
shall not by any human power make
me like The Vicar of Wakefield; but
II you do not enjoy Pickwick, have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-08
KANSAS AND IRRIGATION.

A step that may mean much to the
development of Kansas has been taken
by a number of the farmers of Chero-
kee county in their petition to the
governor that the experts of the State
= agricultural college and the State uni
versity make a study of the possibili-
ties for irrigation in their locality. Not
only is Governor Stubs enthusiastic
over this proposition but he is proper
~ in favor of extending the inquiry to
all sections of the state which are in
clined to be arid
This is work that should be I'M
dertaken at once. If it is possible to
establish systems of irrigation in those
portions of Kansas where the need for
them is great, the real task of estab-
FISHING these valuable plants will be
extensive and the cost of them con-
siderable. So no time should be lost
on the preliminarfes.
Intensive farming where irrigation
is possible has worked wonders not
only in this country but also abroad
wherever 1t has been tried. AS mat
ter of fact the farmers of this country
particularly the garden and fruit farm
ers, have much to learn from their
friends in foreign lands in this respect
The profits that are made through
farming of this character in France
and in other portions OF the old world
from little tracts of land which are
farms in miniature compared with the
sizes of farms hereabouts are really
marvellous
There is no good reason why these
things could not be accomplished just
as well in this country and especially
IN this particular part of it where the
soil is the richest that can be found
anywhere on the earth's surface KAN
sas is a wonderful territory now for the
purposes of agriculture. That there
IS room for Improvement in this re-
spect, there can be no doubt. Irriga-
Ton, if the conditions make it feasible,
will play large part in bringing this
Improvement about.
Everybody in the state should be-
come interested in this project. If it
can be developed into a reality it will
be of most direct benefit primarily to
the owners of the land that will be
tapped by the irrigation bitches. But
any such proposition as this, wide in
It's scope and so monumental in it's
proportions, has ramifications in
Vulnerable which will make it of ex-
'eeding great value and benefit to the
people of the whole state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-08
THE NEW TRUST IDEA.

So seldom is it that the editors of the
East, the selfconstituted arbiters of
the public questions of the day, can find
anything worthy of commentator in
the efforts of the western states. and
especially Kansas, to solve the present
day problems Of public moment, that
when one of them does so 1t is worthy
Of more than passing notice. In the in
stance at hand 1t is nothing less than
editorial approval from the Saturday
Evening Post Of the new Kansas plan
for the control and regulation of fire in
surance companies. The Post believes
that this would also be the best method
for the regulation and control of all
combinations. 1t argues that the old
idea of trying to prevent combination is
giving way to new idea of trying to
regulate it and that this latter is the
right one. But let the Post speak for
itself:
Following Kansas lead a number of
western states have recently passed
laws requiring fire insurance companies
to file their rate schedules, forbidding
them to depart from the published
rates. and authorizing the state board,
or commissioner, to change a rate tina.
is judged. upon hearing, to be unrea-
sonable.
This, it may be said, is the new
thought concerning trusts. Nearly all
western states and many eastern ones
have for years had laws forbidding fire
insurance companies to combine for the
purpose of fixing and maintaining
rates That was the old thought. It's
general futility is sufficiently Illus
trated by the fact that fire insurance
companies kept right on combining to
fix rates-for that is the only intelligent
way of conducting the business. Even
in Kansas, we believe, there is still an
anti-combine law, side by side with the
new law-just as the national statute
book still contains the contradictory
absurdity of one law commanding rail-
roads to compete and another law au-
thorizing the government to regulate
their rates. In one state that has
adopted the Kansas plan of state regu-
| lation, antitrust suits are still pending
against fire insurance companies il
which the maximum aggregate fines
| would amount to two hundred million
! dollars-the state at once attempting tt
| establish uniform rates and to punish
companies for trying to do the same
thing.
This same contradiction between the
old idea of trying to prevent combina
ton and the new idea of trying to reg
ulate it appears elsewhere. But in time
the new idea will gain the day becaus'
it is the right one"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-08
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IF'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
There are times when hard words
come mighty easy.
No really great man ever allows his
hat to get too small for him.
Any girl will tell you that long en-
gagements are better than none.
The reason gas bill runs I'D so
quickly it because 1t has thousands of
feet.
No, Maude. DEAR there is no reason
why man should look sheepish In an
all-wool suit.
Some people are so impressed with
the idea that the Lord will provide that
they never go to work.
In the matter of expectations there is
quite a difference between the consur1-
nation and the consomme.
Many a man isn't satisfied to be the
whole thing. He wants to be at least
the half Of something else, too.
When a man is divorced from his
wife and marries her again It proves
that twice won isn't always two.
Nell-"I,on't you think Maude dresses
with great deal of taste?' Belle
Yes; but it's generally bad"
Mrs. Buggins-"Every day will be
Sunday by and by. Won't that be finer
Mr.. Buggins-'Yes; fine for the speak
easies."
Speech was given man to conceal his
thoughts" quoted the Wise Guy. sswell.
in a great many cases it's a needless
precautfon,'' added the Simple Mug.
Mr.. Struckoil-'"That there sculptor
Teller says he's goin' to make a bust of
me-" Mrs. Struckoil-"Henry. it's
dreadful the way you talk. Say burst