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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21
TIT. MODERN IDEA.

If David end his Jonathan
 Were both alive today, Alas, how far behind they are."
 Is what the world would say. In these late times of give4and-take And heartless strife for pelf, A man Is called a lunatle
 Who doesn't love himself!
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Busy Scene.

q have not seen anywhere in the south such a busy scene as I witnessed in one of the banks of Birmingham today" said visitor last night "The rush from 10 o'clock until noon reminded me of the Chemical National bank and other busy institutions in New York. If this Is an indication of the thrift of Birmingham I do not hesitate to say that Birmingham easily leads all southern cities.
 q have been here only two days and the general appearance of the city has impressed me most favorably; but the scene at the bank was an object lesson which impressed me most of all'
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Hills Visit Prince Henry.

Berlin, January 20.-At the invitation of Prince Henry, brother of Emperor Will liam, Ambassador and Mrs. Hill visited the Prince today, and Mrs. Hill was pre- scented to the Princess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

The President has fully demonstrated that he is no mollycoddle. An anna teur who can ride 9S miles through mud and sleet in a day is indeed sound and strong.
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THH REAL THING.

The Bronx has a purple rat" Hal Hal HaH
 @oh, you needn't laugh. Little children can see him as we'll as old rounders."
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Professor Lowell has been frater- nally welcomed by the other college and university presidents. All con sider him worthy.
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Hotel keepers are hastening to put 'possum on their menu cards. The presidential fashion is extremely con tagious.
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Thornton Hains is ungrateful. He has been acquitted and yet he proposes to inflict on the people new novel. It is we'll for him that he did not say so before the verdict was brought in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

A contemporary tells how woman s,,e lrase works out. What we are more concerned about is the way 1t breaks out
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Mir Taft is going to Panama to set tie dam controversy, and yet he is not a profane man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

Suggestions of summer capital are being forwarded to Augusta, Ga, along with lists of cabinet eligibles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

The electoral college has thus far been free from insurgents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

The adjectives that Tillman forgot Congressman Willett recalled and he placed them in a very picturesque manner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

Good citizens up north are exhorted to clean the snow off their sidewalks even if they have to borrow their neighbor's snow shovel to do 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

Carrie Nations arrest in Great Sri. tain will not lead to any international complications.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

John Worth Kern proved to be the stepchild instead of the favorite son of the Indiana democracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

The New York legislature is in ses- sion, and it should pass law against murder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

Banker Rhinehart of Pittsburg will take Is years course in mat making. He should in that time become expert enough to make a Turkish or Persian mat in Darkest Pittsburg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

No grand dukes are in prison in Rus sia and yet all consider them the men who wrecked Russia's army and navy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

The 'possums may go round wearing silk hats if presidential honors con- tinue to come their way.
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MT. Bryan says that if the election took place now his plurality would be equal to Taft's.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21
Celtic Arrives at Naples.

Naples, January 2O.-The supply snip Celtic, which arrived yesterday from New York. left this morning with supplies for the earthquake sufferers in Calabria and Sicily.
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The national temperament In Cub demands lotteries and cock fights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

Corsets were worn 4OO0 years ago in Crete-and it is safe wager that they will be worn by women 4000 years hence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21
A DAY DREAMER.

"Ain't no money in turnips any more' 'No?"
 An I'm just a-settln' here wishin I had one O them there gold fields"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

T. Jenkins Hains has a murder trial every IS years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21
A SURRENDER

'1 had comfortable seat on the car coming down this morning, when a wom- an entered and fixed her eyes on me-" What did you do?"
 "Oh, I stood for it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21
Meath skies of blue
REPLIES.


 A contemporary tells how woman suf- frage works out. What we are nor. concerned about is the way 1t breaks out Ihe trouble with money and art is that they never have really understood each other.
 An enlightened editorial writer discnsso. The Matter of Eating" There's notb- ing more important except when you are so rich you can't eat.
 A minister says flair babblers" encopr- age Satan. Well, wasn't Eve the oripina1 fair babbler?
 Love requires constant diet of sweat words' says the philosopher of the Flor ida Times-Union. Love has been known to thrive on pork and beans.
 The present population of Buffalo Is 415.- 3S2. It Is difficult to believe that tbera are so many unfortunates in one spot There is woman out in Omaha who can cook corn in 3O1 ways. There are women in Birmingham who can roast their husbands in more ways than that. An actress in Ohio bumped her hus- bands head against the wall for flirting. That's a good way to correct very bad habit.
 Some northern girls have been writing to Texas for good husbands. Poor, de- luded creatures.
 Twenty-three lives were lost in the re- cent Colorado railroad wreck There's that number again. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21
EXASPER ATING

Forgive the man the oath he swears And don't upbraid him; Most everywhere he goes he hears, His wife she made him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21
LIP IN THE AID

Yesterday heard some honks of high degree"
 You meanT'
 The wild goose kind"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21
FORESIGHr

If I were an automobilist And owned a 60-horse power car. I'd stay around town, so when it broke
 down
 I wouldn't have to walk very far.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21
A FANCY,

1T, W. na. pieasant airs and gentle graces. what placid brows and smiling faces lnnanit still those rural places
 That once we knew.
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AUGUSTA HAS WON
 HEART OF TAFT
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1.)
South Must Move un.


 less and Augusta by Judge Joseph R. Lamar.
 South Must Move Up.
 That Mr Taft had urged the south to resume it's old seat at the council table of the nation, led Judge Lamar to discuss some of the more serious problems which confronted the south. With cotton securely enthroned as king, he said the south was even more interested in the foreign policy of the government than was Pittsburg with her steel, Chicago with her meat prod ucts, and the west with her grain. The south wanted the open door kept open, wanted the peace of the world main tained, and the efficiency of the con- sular service extended. The importance of the foreign situation, MT. Lamar emphasized by the emphatic assertion that the cotton exports exceeded those of corn, wheat, iron, steel and petro- leum, and oil products, and consequent ly brought more foreign money to this country than all these products com bined.
 The negro tenant farmer of Georgia and the south, he said, was poorer this year because of conditions in Asia, likewise manNa man at this dinner had found his prosperity lessened from the same cause
 As to the tariff, Judge Lamar remarked that as interest in high tariff seemed to wane in the north, it begnis to grow in the south. Legislation or reciprocal ar rangement was need for the protection of cotton seed and it's products, the clay, lumber and naval stores, all products of the south.
 MT. Taft, the last speaker, voiced again his cordiality and good feeling for tho south.
 Taft Meets Rockefeller.
 Although William H. Taft and John D. Rockefeller have been guests of the Bon Air hotel since Monday, 1t was $40 o'clock tonight at the banquet when they first met. MT. Rockefeller had for some time been holding an informal reception, at which the arriving guests had been eager attendants. When MT. Taft arrived he established himself a short distance from MT. Rockefeller in the assembly room of the hotel. At once the crowd began to desert the oil magnate and assemble around MT. Taft. MT. Rockefeller was taken by the hand by MT. c. A. Woods, manager of the hotel, and formally pre- scented to MT. Taft. How are you, MT. Rockefeller was the Jovial salutation of MT. Taft. q got around the golf links in SS today
 ''I wanted to hear you speak this even- ing" was the reply of MT. Rockefeller. who added with a touch of regret in his voice, "but I could not get near enough" !"
 This ended the interview as the other guests pressed forward for an introduce ton to MT. Taft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-21

sometimes we seem to hear them calling The tones of yesterday enthralling. e'
 To where bold streams are seaVvard brav..,- ing VI a"i-
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 less, and Augusta by Judge Joseph R Lamar.
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Entered at the Birmingham. Ala'' postofflce as second-class matter under act of Congress March 8, 1879.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-21
Moving Mass Is Slicing Off the
River Banks As It Pro.
crosses Down Stream
NO HELP AVAILABLE TO
STOP the MIGHTY POWER
Ice Is Six Feet Thick and Dynamite
Would be as Futile as 1t Would lie
In Soft Dirts Says the United States
Engineer.

Niagara Falls. N. Y, April 21.-
thousands of tons of broken ice piled
IN a confused mass in the mouth of
the Niagara river where it flows into
Lake Ontario today threatens the
Lewiston suspension bridge which is
eighty-five feet above the normal level
OF the river. Moving ponderously be-
fore the tremendous pressure of wa
ter, the mass of ice is slicing off the
river embankment as it passes and
threatens serious damage to some of
the hotels on the river bank ordinar-
lily high above water. While the ex-
citement over the ice jam was at it's
helghth today an unknown man went
over the falls and was seen clinging
to the rocks below them.
The danger to property and life
caused by the gorge is increasing
hourly. Col. Jas. R. Price. in charge
OF the Buffalo Office of United States
engineer corps, declares that the de-
partment Is absolutely helpless to
render any assistance at Lewiston and
Youngstown. He inspected the con-
ditions on Sunday and found the ice
at the mouth of the river at least
seventy-five inches in thickness and
that boat would be powerless. Dyna-
mite, he said, would make no more
impression than If exploded in soft
dirt. He saw absolutely no way to
relieve the condition.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-21
LAND FRAUD CASE
Interested Party Bribed Clerks an
Got Secret Information

Washington, April 21-When the
trial of John A. Benson of San Fran
cisco, charged with bribing two form
er general land Office clerks to fur
nish hi minformation concerning con-
tents Of special report in connection
with western alleged land frauds, was
resumed in criminal court here today.
Assistant Attorney General Pugh in
the opening statement for the govern
ment, declared the evidence would
show that Woodford Harlan, one of
the clerks alleged to have been bribed,
had received on three occasions a
total of $500 from Benson and that
William E. Walk, the other clerk, had
been paid 500 by Benson.
John A. McPhaui law clerk of the
general land Office, who testified for
the government, declared that a num-
ber of cases in which Benson was in
terested were advanced over other
case sin the department.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-21
MAY ELIMINATE.
THE AL|0N|STS
Plan of Avoiding Contest of
Hair Splitting in Hams
Case

Flushing. n. Y, April 21.-A propo-
sition for the elimination Of expert
medical testimony from the trial of
Captain Peter C. Hams, Jr.. was made
today to prosecution by counsel for
Captain Hams, who is on trial here
for the killing of William E. Annis.
District Attorney Dewitt took the
matter under advisement. Attorney
Dewitt had already retained Drs.
George V. Foster and Austin G. Flint
of New York and Dr. c. Coombs of
Corona. Long Island. as medical ex-
perts for the prosecution. The third
day of the trial opened with only a
few of talesmen OH the regular panel
cf forty-elght and the special panel of
150. which had been called when trial
opened. remaining to be examined.
1t was thought probably that the list
would be exhausted before the day
was over without completing the jury.
In the examination of prospective
jurors it was apparent that both
sides were striving to obtain men of
advanced age and family responsibili-
ties. The first four jurors accepted
are all past fifty and men of large
families.
In the course OF examination OF
talesmen. the defendants counsel in
timated today that Captain Hains
would not be called to testify in his
own behalf.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-21
MISSOURI RATE CASE
Motion to Dissolve Injunction Against
Interstate Commerce Commission.

Chicago. April 21-In the United
States circuit court today Judges
Grosscut, Baker and Kohlsaat listened
to argument of counsel OH a motion
TO dissolve the injunction which re-
strains the interstate commerce COM
mission from enforcing it's celebrated
order in the Missouri river rate case.
1t is the contention of the railroads
that the order if enforced would
change the whole system of rate maxi
ing, and have demoralizing effect
on all business. At the conclusion of
the Missouri rate case the court dis
missed petition of the Chicago. Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad for an
injunction against the interstate COM
merce commission restraining the
commission from enforcing the order
directing the road to re-establish and
maintain through joint rates on ship
ments of coal from Illinois coal fields.
This case grew out of a proceeding
of the Cardiff Coal company against
the railroad.
The hearing ended after arguments
in support of the motion to dissolve
the restraining order had been made
by John L. Atwood of Omaha. repre-
senting the shippers. and Attorney
Colin C. H. Fyffe had made the appeal
for the railroads interested. The court
took the matter under advisement.
Representatives of western roads noti-
fed the court that they intended to
ask for temporary restraining order
to prevent the interstate commerce
commission from enforcing its reduced
rate OH freight shipped from the At
lantic seaboard TO Denver. The new
rate takes effect May l.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-21
VENEZUELAN CLAIMS
Report Made by Secretary Of State
Sent to Congress by President.


Washington. April 21.-President
Taft today sent to congress a report
by the secretary of state regarding
the settlement of the Venezuelan
claims negotiated by VIM. l. Buchan-
er of that country.
Arrangements are made for the
settlement of the Jaurett claim and
that of the New York and Bermudez
company out of court while the claims
to go to arbitration are those of the
Orinoco corporation. the Orinoco
Steamship company and that of the
United States and Venezuela COM
panr.
The report recites the severance Of
diplomatic relations with Venezuela
and their renewal following change
of policy on the part of that govern
ment under Gen. Gomez, who took
charge in the absence of Castro.
Relations with Venezuela were sever
ed, according to a memorandum pre-
pared for the press. I'm view of the
persistent refusal of the government
of Venezuela to grant redress for the
action of the government whereby
substantially all American interests
in Venezuela had been destroyed or
confiscated. and. specifically. in view
of the refusal of the government of
Venezuela to grant redress in regard
to five cases which had been the sub
ject of long correspondence between
the two governments"
At The Hague. the parties interest
ed will be entitled to use either the
English. French or Spanish lang
uages. The arbitral tribunal will
meet on Feb. 13. 1910. Press dis
patches indicate that Venezuela has
selected Senor Rogue Saenz Pena Of
the Argentine Republic, as the Judge
to represent her at The Hague.
Each OF the claimant companies
will be represented by special counsel
approved by the state department.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-21
sity for any demonstration by naval

sity for any demonstration by naval
authorities.
1t was first suggested that the scout
cruiser SQUADRON, made up of the Sa-
lem. Birmingham and Chester, be
utilized for this missin. but the fact
that the boilers of the Birmingham are
undergoing repairs, would make her
Immediate departure impossible.
The principal information coming to
the department today from Ambassa-
dor Leishman at Constantinople was
that there was no Indication of any
premeditated attack upon foreigners.
During the day Secretary Knox re-
ceived several requests that the de-
partment use its efforts to see that
American church interests were given
adequate protection in the disturbed
districts. One came from the chair
man of the foreign mission committee
of the Presbytery of Westchester coun-
ty. New York. and another from the
superintendent of the Armenian or
phanage at Reading. Pa. The depart
ment already has taken steps to in
sure protection to American mission
ary and other interests.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-21
LABOR AND CHURCH
John Mitchell Tells About Their Rela.
ton in Public Address.

tIUu I'LL L uUIC AUUreSSs
New Haven, Conn. April 21.-John
Mitchell, former president of the
United Mine Workers of America,
spoke today before the Yale divinity
school on "The Relation of the Work.
ingman to the Church"
Mr.. Mitchell emphasized the good
trades union had done for the work.
Ing man and gave as his solution of
the problem Of modern industrial life
a literal application of the golden
rule. Mr.. Mitchell said the trade union
was formed to find substitute for
the individual bargain between the
employer and a single workman.
There are," he added, six ends
which trades unions are striving to
attain; a wage suitable to the Ameri-
can standard of living; the eight hour
day; child labor; employers liability;
improved working conditions and the
preservation of the constitutional
guarantee of free speech, free press
and trial by jury, and it is to attain
these, all other methods falling, that a
resort is made to strikes and boycotts
There is more in strike than wages
or hours of labor, and a strike may
be loss from money point of view
and a great gain in a higher and
nobler sense.'
In closing. Mr.. Mitchell said: "It
is a matter of general comment that
large numbers Of working men ap-
parently have become Indifferent or
even unsympathetic to the voice of
the ministry as it expounds the doc
trines and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
If it be true there must be reason
which seems to them to justify such
action. There can be. of course, not
fundamental antagonism between the
church and the labor union because
each in its own sphere works to the
same end, and If / were asked to pro-
pose a solution of the whole vexed
problem of modern Industrial life
should unhesitatingly advise a literal
application of the golden rule"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-21
REMOVED TUM0R
BY NEW PROCESS
Injected Gelatin Impregnated
With Radium Into the
Growth

New York. April 21-The surgeons
at the Flower hospital have just cf-
fected a remarkable cure of patient
suffering with a malignant tumor by
means of an infection of gelatin I'M
pregnated with radium. Only one
other similar case is on record. ac-
cording to the hospital authorities
and that was treated in Europe re-
Gently by means of radium in a glass
tube which was sewed up in the tu-
NOR. In the Flower hospital case the
tumor was as large as Il grape fruit
and was first reduced by use of the
N-ray. Then radioactive gelatin was
injected and at the end of five weeks
the growth was so materially reduced
that the patient was allowed to 20
home. 1t is expected that he will re-
cover completely. although the tumor
was in the abdomen and his death
was expected six months ago,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-21
EBERLY GROSS
DIVORCE CASE
Defendant Charged Rostand
With Plagiarism in Cyrano
de Bergerac

Chicago. April 21.-samuel Eberly
Gross, who gained International fame
some years ago by accusing Edmond
Rostand, the French playwright OF
filching his ideas for "Cyrano De
Bregerao" from Gross play called
',rhe Merchant Prince of Cornville."
thus winning success based on the
claim, has sued for divorce. Mrs.
Emily Gross charged that her hus-
band deserted her on December 1,
1905. Gross was once one of largest
real estate dealers in Chicago. but
two years ago became financially en-
barrassed and now is in a sanitarium.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-21
A Slight Rally at All Points
From the Low Mark of
Tuesday
.PATTEM WILL INSPECT
THE CROP PROSPECTS
Left Chicago Today for Winter Wheat
Region to See What is in Sight for
His July Options-Accompanied by
an Expert.

Minneapolis. April 21-The statis-
tics this morning were inclined to be
bull1sh and very unfavorable weather
reported from the northwest caused
the pit traders to run to cover today.
The market opened wild and excited
on half cent range but after the
flrst selling orders had been filled the
market turned very strong and there
was a rally to S1.23 IA, which was
two cents higher than yesterdays low
mark. Reports from outside markets
indicated that they were all strong,
The stocks of wheat here are decreas-
ing at the rate of 100000 bushels a
day and this is not at all encouraging
to those who are bearislly inclined.
Minneapolis July closed Al S1.23 1-s.
which is one and three-quarters cents
higher than last nights closing
prices. May wheat closed at S1.22 rs
q s1.2S. about one and half cents
higher than last night The curb is
very strong being quoted at s1.23 Id
for May with July selling at $1.23 Ia
bid.
Rallied Rapidly
Chicago, April 21-There was heayy
buying of wheat in this market today
and the market rallied very rapidly
after the opening. The market OPEN
ed around yesterdays closing prices
and this proved to be the bottom prices
of the day. Commission house,, bought
all the July wheat offered and there
was a rally of two and three-eighths
cents from the lowest point of the
day. On the advance however, some
profit taking appeared and those who
had bought early were inclined to ac-
cept their profits. The December and
September options also showed
strength but closed only tive-eighths
higher than yesterdays closing prices.
James A. Patten. the bull leader,
left the city today personally to in
spect the crop outlook. particularly
as it hears on the amount of wheat
which may be delivered to him on his
July contracts. Patterns departure
was made quietly and was discovered
by a majority of his associates only
after it had been an accomplished
fact He is accompanied by an ex-
pert and it is believed will inspect the
winter wheat crop in Illinois and the
adjacent states. among them Missou-
ri, where the reports are conflicting.
Regained Losses
Winnipeg. April 21-This market
regained some of yesterdays loss,
closing at s1.22 IA for May. The
market opened about half cent high
er than last night and gradually
worked up with the closing prices
around the high marks of the day.