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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
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FUNNIEST OFF UNNY
ACR0bATS At THE
ORPHEUM THEATER

OF all things funny in the line
OF "vodveel' entitled to look in
on the good graces of local fun
lovers, the Willy Painter company
of acrobats at the Orpheum this
week is the limit. In fact it is
called the limit" among other
things, and it numerically bumps
the funny bones of all spectators
who were ever capable of coughing
up a laugh. The page boys" lit
tie Abe and Jewel Panther, togeth-
er with their dob, Box" in a real
live bull fight are the best of the
show and bring down the house.
The Fifth Commandment, >
(honor thy father and thy mother)
is a very powerful dramtic playlet
and well staged. 1t is one of the
favorites of the Orpheum program.
Eccentricities of the Doherty sis
ters, the singing and dancing CO.
medicines. comprise an enjoyable
and extremely laughable feature
and icon Clermonts burlesque cir
Gus, with his singing dog and
ROSTERS and black shaggy canine
with the wagging tail and an abil'
ity to play The Last Rose of Sum-
mer.' on a "ting-a-ling" machine, is
a dandy. Miss Irene Roman is an
excellent eXpressionist and well re-
ceived. Kramer & Ross in singing
and dancing do very well with
their efforts TO entertain, for some
of their dancing is really good.
Toki Toki, who needs no introduc-
ton, for they know by the name
that he is from the Orient, is
about the classiest wire performer
that has risked his neck for the
pleasure of theater gOers in a long
time here. The moving pictures
are very impressive of the mean
ing of Christmas time to different
people of the world.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20

and nearly 40 per cent in the far
west.
By this is not meant that the re-
taller gets all this profit. The ex-
pense of delivery and other things
that the people have to pay in the
long run has made food higher than
ever before
Here is Secretary Wilson's Off
cial table showing the per cent of
excess of retail cost over wholesale
cost in some important cities:
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20

But the retailer Is not to blame,
as the figures from Chicago show.
They are the highest in the country,
yet practically all the retail trade
in Chicago is in the hands of the
big packers themselves through
their retail markets in all parts of
the city.
Higher cost of living" 1t is
heard everywhere. When will it
stop? Is the tariff the cause?
A glance at the grocer's Christ
mas bill will prove that it is cost
ing more to live all the time.
And the American people, play
ing Santa Claus to the beef trust,
are the sufferers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
Powell's
Stomach
Remedy

cures Indigestion, Gastritis, Merry
Gus Dyspepsia, Sick Headache,
Catarrh of the Stomach. Ask
your druggist.
Spokane, Wash, Jan. &c, 1909.
Mr. A. II. Powell.
Manufacturing Chemist,
Spokane, Wash.
Dear Sir: After suffering for
over 80 years with stomach trouble
and spending hundreds of dollars
with doctors and for patene medi-
cine and receiving only temporary
relief, if any, finally | was induced
to try Powell's Stomach Remedy.
After taking one bottle ! felt like
a new man and could eat things
that ! had not been able to eat for
years. | wrote you this letter so
you can publish it so that anyone
affected as | was may read 1t and
learn of this wonderful medicine
and be permanently cured. Yours
truly, EDWARD RYDBLOM,
S26 Perry Street.
$1.O0 bottle at all drug stores.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-20
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MR.. JULIUS STEGER, assisted
by Mr.. Alfred Hollingsworth, Miss
Maud Earl and Mr.. John Romono,
harpist, in his own musical dra-
matte playlet, "The Fifth Command
ment"-"lIonor thy father and thy
mother"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
Iron and Steel Making Capacity

The effective capacity of this coun- try in 1907 was 26, ,400,0 900 tons of pig iron a year. Since then 32 furnaces have been built with an annual ca pacity of 100000 tons. This car ried the total effective capacity on July 1 last to 30 500 900 tons. One new furnace has been blown in at Buff falo since July l, and 13 coke fur naces are in course of construction .-one at Duquesne, three at Aligruppa, one at Coatesville, two at Cleveland, four at Gary, one at South Chicago. and one at Detroit The combined ca pacity of the new furnaces is 1866, 900 tons. This would carry the furnace capacity of the country in 1910 to 32,600,000 tons a year. Possibly the furnaces that are being rebuilt would increase this aggregate.
 About one-half of the increased ca pacity belongs to the Steel corpor- lation, leaving one-half that belongs Ito independent steel companies. No Strictly merchant furnaces are in- cluded in the list of new enterprises.
 But the industry bids fair as a whole to meet any demands upon it in the next 12 months. There will be mo famine either in iron or steel eith- rer this year or next year. Prosperity will have to boom as it rarely has in the past to demand more iron or steel than our furnaces can produce in the near future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
Calm and ConCiSa

Among the most cogent articles against the proposed amendment to the constitution that have appeared 1n any of the newspapers was that wlich The Age-Herald reproduced from the Decatur News yesterday. It was not long article, containing ss lit did less than 300 words; but the discussion of the situation was sing. ularly clear and forceful The editor shows especially keen insight when it comes to the political phase of the proposition which is stirring Alabama at this time. In beginning his article he says:
 After c careful and mature considera- tion, we have decided to oppose the pro- hibition amendment to the constitution. We do this on the grounds of expedi- ency; for the best interests of church and state, and the welfare Of the .peopla of Alabama. We are opposed to the pro- 1 posed amendment because it springs frokr . mesalliance of religion and politics. lAy\ iag . dangerous precedent for union oi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Mayor Returns Today.

Mayor O'Brien is expected to return home Saturday, and with his return to the mayors chair 1t is expected that things will pick up," said a man who is frequently at the city hall.
 .'The captains Irish energy serves to move things in an interesting way and the dearth of startling news which has prevailed over his office during his ab- sence will undoubtedly be dispelled.
 The Mayor takes an active interest in the workings of each department of the city government and his practical ex- perience has resulted in the rearranging of several things to the citys benefit. He also has number of plans for the beauti- flying of the city, which he will proceed to carry out. One i'll particular Is the proposition to sell the dead ends of cer- tain streets and alleys and appropriate the funds received from such sales to the building of new parks and improving of the present ones. This will amount to about $50, ,O0O."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
EXCAVATIONS ON
 ISTHMIAN CANAL

Washington, September 1o.-Total exca- vatlons on the isthmian canal for August show a reduction from the previous month, the August figures being 2,755,17S cubic yards.
 Concrete laid during August amounted to 7s43 cubic yards. against s15s in July. while 464,sT cubic yards of fill were placed in dams in August against 55S,4o1 in July.
 Good progress is being made on the Panama canal, and four sections of it have been finished" said Colonel Goeth- als, chief engineer in charge of the con- struction of the canal. upon his arrival here tonight from the isthmus. Colonel Goethas returned to this country on leave.
 "The excavations whl fall off from time to time as each part is flnished,' he said. "The report for each month gives the average excavation for the whole project, but if the work for Culebra cut alone were figured it would be found that we are doing more there at present than at any previous time."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
Strong Men to the Front

The call for the mass meeting to be
 held at the Jefferson theatre next
 Monday night for the purpose of voic- ing the sentiment of the community against the proposed amendment to the constitution is signed by repre- sentative men. Some of them have long been prominent men and all are known to be estimable citizens. Not a few class themselves as prohibit tionists, but one and all are deter mined in resisting the attempt of self seeking politicians to write prohibi- tion in the constitution.
 At the meeting short addresses will be delivered and delegates to the Montgomery conference will be chosen. It will be a rousing rally and it's effect will be felt throughout the state. Information from various sections of Alabama point strongly to the defeat of the amendment; but every liberty-loving citizen should feel it his duty to join actively in the anti-amendment movement and there- by help to roll up a sweeping ma jority.
 This is a matter of serious moment to all Alabamians. Should the amend ment carry the state would be thrown back like Maine, which has had con- stitutional prohibition for something like half century. Maine is rich in natural resources but its popula- tion has increased only about 50 per cent in 50 years and today it's popu- lation Is estimated to be only one- third as large as Alabama's.
 But the amendment will not carry if all who are opposed to 1t vote their convictions Let us not be sat isfed with anything less than an over- whelming victory, and to that end let every freeman hereabouts turn out Monday night
 Remember, strong men are at the front. They are men worthy of our confidence and no one can make mistake in following their lead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
MEXICAN FLOODS
 DESTRUCTIVE

Mexico City, September 10-Atoyac river overfiowed it's banks and swept miles of a rich country with devastating force. The initial overflow of the Atoyac river was caused by a cloudburst The situation in the northern part of the re- public is still serious, in spite of the fact that the flood sufferers in the state of Tampaulipas are receiving their first re- lief
 News of a number of marooned Amerf- cans reached here today. It seems that the Presbyterian mission school at San Juan has been cut off since the flood. A party under the leadership of w. A. Rose is to go to the rescue The pupils and teachers are reported to be safe, al- though suffering from want of food.
 A party of Americans consisting of J. B. Goddard and his mother, Stuart Ryan of Oklahoma and Hugh Cockerill reached Linares yesterday evening after six day trip in an OK cart from the Santa Anna ranch where they had been stay ing. The ranch was completely inundated The Americans took refuge on a near by hill. making their escape with little more than the clothes they had on their backs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
AdNantaoes of South.

''The creator intended southern Cali fornia for desert, but by artificial means it has been transformed into d veritable garden" said Gov. Albert W. Gllchrist of Florida, who was in the city yesterday for few hours on his way home from a vacation spent in the west.
 "I was never so greatly impressed with the opportunities offered in the southland till I visited the great west Out there hear people camoring for irrigation and reclamation of desert lands. After the government spends millions on these lands, providing water, their maintenance Is expensive. The lands cost the planters four and five times the price charged in Alabama and Florida, and here we have all these advantages that must be pro- vided artif1cially In the west.
 We have the climate, soil, water and everything else needed to make us happy and prosperous. The price of land is cheap in comparison and yet we do not seem to appreciate our opportunities. It is surprising that more of the immigrants that are flooding the north and west do not turn to the south where all these things they seek are provided by nature and lands are reasonable.
 ''I am inclined to think we are at fault. Though we may appreciate some of our we do lot go out after the people that might be turned this way.
 Taking all things into consideration we have here in the south the greatest coun- try in the world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
Alabama and Her School Children

While Alabama has at the instance and suggestion of Governor Conner handed over large sums to the high CT institutions that comparatively few attend, she pays but s192 per cap ita for the support of the public schools and she forbids the rural schools to increase this payment by means of local taxation.
 Georgia on the east pays S2.74 per child of school age; Tennessee on the north pays S4.04; Mississippi on the west pays $3.35, and Florida on the south s5.2O. And yet there is an im- pression in some quarters that Ala bama is supporting her schools gen erously. Look at the middle west! Iowa pays $5.82 per capita; Nebraska, S15.32, and South Dakota, $18.70 It is true that in Lowndes county the white pupil gets the benefit of $30, but this sum is largely taken from payments on account of negro ehil- dren. What the white children of Lowndes get beyond s1.92 they get by taking money from less fortunate children.
 The figures for all the states are not at hand, but the chances are that Alabama contributes less per capita to public schools than any other state. And yet no duty of the state is so important as the development and support of her public schools and by the public schools we mean the plain school that 19 children out of every 20 in the state attend Out of 100000 children of school age in this state not over 25,000 are bene- fited by the higher schools The dis trict school Is the school that needs better support and better care in this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11

ment station connected with the State Fair at Birmingham. Such station, pro- vided with simple means for demonstrat- ing the various phases of farming, horti- culture and stock-raising, would give decided emphasis to the operations of the fair from the agricultural point of view.
 Birmingham is in the center of splen- did farming section, and the type of soil around the fair grounds Is representative of this section. Object lessons in the various crops would naturally be at the right stage at each recurring fair, thus giving the farmers an excellent oppor- tunity of closely studying the different methods of cultivation and the various tests in the use of fertilizers. It is true that we have experiment stations at our agricultural schools, but these are SO To- cated as to largely reduce the benefits of the experiments to the localities where they are located. By placing a station at the Birmingham fair grounds thou sands of farmers would visit 1t and be benefited by its instructions, thus mak- ing stronger the agricultural idea in con- nection with the great annual fair.
 J. A. B. LOvETr.
 Pell City September 10, 1909.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11

mingham there is the utmost optimism and the future is regarded as assured.
 "As a matter of actual fact, the steel makers are buster than the manufae- turers who use iron as iron. The revival in trade struck them first and the sales of steel making irons have been record breakers. There is a great effort on the part of the steel men to cover for the first half Of next year and basic has advanced a dollar within a few weeks Apparently the end of the basic demand Is not in sight.
 "rhe iron masters are not having things all their own way either, for, although they have scored a decided increase in the price of iron, yet they have their own problems. for they are facing not only an advance in wages but raw materials promise to go ballooning. Coke is par ticularly uncertain, while ore, being so closely held, has never really been on the bargain counter. Business this week has been heavy and there is no reason to ex- pect any change in the immediate future. Prices all have an upward trend"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
MILLMAN CASE
 IS POSTPONED

Detroit, September 10.-on the request of Prosecuting Attorney Van Etle of Wayne county the inquest scheduled for tonight at Ford City into the death of Miss Maybeiie MiIlman of Ann Arbor was postponed until September zL
 The continuance of the coroner's fu- quiry followed the remandfng of Dr. George A. Frftch to the metropolitan police fin bonds of s1e@oG. Dr. Frftch ts still held on suspicion of murder and late tonight had not secured hondz-nen-
 Dr. Fritch denied having performed a. surgical operation upon MayfeIle MIL man, but admitted that she had vfsfted his office about two weeks ago with Mar tha Hennfng.
 Miss Hennirg was brought hack here from Ann Arbor today by Sheriff Gaston and is again held at the police station She was quizzed fin the matron's headquarters all afternoon
 Captain of Detectives Mcdonnell after ward declared that mo developments had occurred. Miss Henning. when taken to the station. was in dears-
 A report that Dr. John E. Clark, ths county chemist, had declared after an analysis of the portion of Mayberle Mils mans body Last recoyeeed from Ecurze creek that he found indications of a surgical operation, was denied tonight
 Dr. Clark said he was confident that preparations for an operation had been made.
 ''I cannot tell until tomorrow" he sard. whether the young woman died from the effects off an operation or succurnbed while efforts were being made to keep her alive by means of artificial respiration. There is every indication that she had been upon an operating table to undergo an operation. From the examination made thus far. however, indications are that death came before the operation WAS performed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
Controversy Is Settled.

New York, September 1o.(udge Hand in the United States circuit court settled a novel legal controversy today bearing on Com. Robert D. Peary's discovery of the north pole in favor of the New York Sun and the New York World, defendants fin proceedings brought by the New York Times Yesterday the Times obtained an injunction restraining the Sun and World from printing any of Peary's cabled ac- count of his discovery, which he had agreed to furnish exclusively to the Times, but the court held today that the Times copyright was not legally hole proof. and dissolved the restraining or der.
 The Sun and World on Thursday op- tained by way of London. where it ap- peared in the London Times, by agree ment with the New York Times, yer batim account of Peary's brief resume of his discovery. and printed 1t here.
 Immediately the Times took legal steps to stop this, but has failed insofar as Judge Hands decision goes.
 A copy of Peary's contract, which was submitted to the court. set forth that the explorer received s400o from the news paper, to be considered as loaa, which was to be repaid out of the proceeds or the Times syndicate accounts of his dic- covery Failing to reach the pole, he was to refund the full amount.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11

church and state, the separation of which
 Is as vital to our form of government as is breath to the human body. It
 was conceived in political lust born in a
 hotbed of personal ambitions and greed
 for office, and wet-nursed by the paps of
 official triekery and treachery.
 Every bit of the above is true and strikingly true and trenchant is the last sentence. Never was there be- fore an example in this state where political lust was so transparent. Scheming politicians have tried to use the churches, and some of the best of ministers, and not a few lay men, honest but unwary, have fallen into a political trap. But the cam paign against the amendment is just beginning. It will be a campaign of education and before the voting day comes every intelligent man in Ala bama will know all about the pol itics at the bottom of the amendment The amendment should be defeated by a landslide majority and The Age-Herald believes it will be, But no matter what may be the result in November political chicanery will be exposed and no voter will be allowed to cast his ballot through ignorance of what is happening.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
The Stock Market

While only those men who buy and sell stocks watch the New York stock market with eager interest, all finan- ciers and other business men have an indirect interest in it owing to it's close relation to the money market and its effect on trade in general. But in view of the death of MT. Hartman, the announcement of which was made after the close of the market Mon- day, the entire business world await ed the opening quotations yesterday morning and the course of the days trading with deep concern.
 Instead of the market being bear ish as many business men feared 1t might be, but as the more experienced observers predicted it would not be, 1t was exceptionally bullish. Strong interests had too much at stake in general way to allow anything like a furry. The bull leaders not only supported the market but they ran Union Pacific up to an abnormally high notch and other stocks rose in sympathy. United States Steel con- mon made a new high record, touch- ing 30 3-S.
 The maEket is top heavy In their effort to prevent collapse as the re- suit of MT. Harrimans death the bulls not only routed the shorts but made Hartman stocks seem of more specu- lative value than ever. There is al- most sure to be a reaction and sharp fluctuations and feverish conditions may be expected. But it having been plainly demonstrated that the money
 market is normal and that confidence. which was shattered by the panic of 1907, has been fully restored the outside public breathes freer. General business conditions are alto gether sound and the stock market during the next few days will attract attention only as any other news fea-
 ture of the press might do. This is
 great country and the fact that 1t has the prosperity habit once more should cheer and stimulate all branches of business from one end | of the United States to the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
Commerce sulIdlna Ready.

"By Monday the contractors will be ready to turn over the Chamber of Com merce building to it's owners" said Rob- ert Jemison, Jr., yesterday. "The build ing is now practically complete and its magnifcence is no dream. It will eclipse any other building of the kind in the whole south, and will prove a paying in- vestment not only to the town but to the stockholders.
 '"The building has been carefully super vised and every detail perfectly managed by the contractors. the architects and the building committee. When the people of Greater Birmingham see just what has been given them, more zest will be added to the Greater Birmingham celebration and the people of the state will find something for just pride"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
Ill OTHHE SPHEREa.

By Thones Bailey .Aldrich. I v.x 1ue not with breeding on the years That were ere I Grew breath; why
 snoll1 I then Diatrust the darkness that may fall
 agair When iifo is done? Perchance in other
 spherer- Dead plarst,-I once tasted mortal tears, And walked as now amid throng of
 men.
 Ponaer,ng things that lay beyond my
 ken. Questioning death. and solacing my fears. Ofttins-s indeed strange sense have of
 this,
 Vague memories that hold me with a
 spell
 Touchss of unseen lips upon my brow, Breathing some incornmunicable bliss! In years foregone, Soul, was all not
 well? stiI lovelier life awaits thee. Fear not
 thoul