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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
ReIiCent MT. TOulmIn

The Wrights are reticent, but their attorney, Harry A. Toulmin, has them lashed to post in the matter of reti- cence. He was born in Alabama about DO years ago, and he lives now in Springfield, O., where he stands high as a patent lawyer. He has drawn tAeir patents, and he is fighting to maintain their full rights in the courts. Just as the man who first put gaso- line motor in an automobile claims a royalty from all who do likewise, so do the Wrights claim priority in the use of gasoline motors in heavier-than- air machines, and Lawyer Toulmin is fighting their battles in the courts.
 MT. Toulmin has won many cases connected with patents, but he has per haps never had one of more import ance than that presented by the Wright brothers. The Wrights seem to have secured not only MT. Toulmin, who is a power on patent cases, but also the support of a warm number of New York magnates. A strong com pany has been organized and MT. Toul- min will, no doubt, see that the legal end of the enterprise is fully main tained
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
Guiteau Was a Luuatic
tained.

E. J. Edwards declares in a syndicat- ed article that President Arthur told him he believed Guiteau was insane when he shot President Garfield and should have been committed to an in- sane asylum. But" added President Arthur, q did not dare to do what I felt reasonably certain was the right thing to do; it would have been mad. ness for me to have interfered with the sentence of death after majority of the commission of experts had re- ported that Guiteau realized and was responsible for the enormity of his act" After the execution the sur geon's knife proved conclusively that Guiteau's deed was that Of lunatic.
 Public opinion is always a mighty power, and it is generally right, but a concurrent judgment of the Amer. ican people Is sometimes erroneous The Guiteau case is sufficient illustra- ton of this. The hanging of Guiteau did not prevent the deed of Leon Czolgosz, who shot in like manner Presi- |. ident Mckinley. fanatics do not seem to fear punishment and the modern method of preserving the lives of the country's chief executives consists largely in the use of detectives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
TOO MANY PEOPLE
 LEAVING THE FARM

Washington, December 2S.-"rhe present high prices for farm products have come to stay; the rural popula- ton is playing out; the present census if it classes the unincorporated villages as towns. will show between 60 and 66 percent of population living in towns" declared Representative Champ Clark of Missouri, the minority leader of the House today At the present rate, in 20 years, the United States will cease to be an exporting nation for agricultural products, except as to cot- ton.
 ''One of the principal causes of the high prices of farm products is the world movement of people toward the towns and cities. While few people fn towns and cities have gardens and raise chickens and occasionally pigs practically the entire town and city population are non-producers of any thing to eat, but are consumers only For the first time, last year, Argen- tina beat us in exporting corn, and Argentina and Brazil are now fighting to take the frozen meat trade from us.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
WAYS OF CROOKS.
Difference Between "Prop-Getter and
 "Front-Getter."

From the washington Post.
 ..rhere arc a few places where the pro- fessional crook operates" said Seymour Beutler of New York, for 25 years cnier of the Pinkerton forces on the New York race courses, at the Willard. Washing ton has as few crooks. I believe. as any city in the world, and it is rare indeed that a professional crook can be found doing business on the race tracks. re- member of one arrest here in Washington on the occasion of the inauguration of one of the Presidents that attracted some attention, because the man caught was perhaps the most notorious pickpocket in the country. His name was Dick Preston. and among the police he was known as Windy Dick though his pals called him The Doctor He was man of great intelligence, and as clever at his business as any crook I ever knew. He could work the 'pit-leather' job as nicely as any pickpocket. That is the term the crooks use for picking wallet from the inside vest pocket. Taking a roll of money from the trousers pocket is known as the .side-britch.' while picking vest pocket is called the jervs job.' Prop getters are the ones who steal . scarf pin. and front getters those who take a watch and chain. These latter seldom attempt to take only a mans watch. but get the chain. charm and all. which Is much easier than to get only the watch.
 .sPickpockets generally work in crowds, or bands, and many clever jobs are done while helping an old man or woman on a car. Of course, these crooks frequent crowds and. in the case of 'prop-getters' for instance, the thief will use a hand kerchief in front of g mans scarf and with the other deftly lift out his pin I remember one incident when two or these 'prop-gettsrs were working to- gether. One of them spied beautiful stone in the scarf of prosperous look ing passenger who was standing in crowd on a street car. He tipped off his partner and signaled that he was going after the stone. when the latter held
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not far from the freezing pDint. The early morning temperature has ranged from IS degrees to 2S degrees. Thirty two degrees is the freezing point, and when the thermometer registers that low the weather is considered bitterly cold, and so it is in Alabama.
 Thus far this month the temperature has been seven degrees below normal, and the month will go out with a mean temperature of about g degrees as against a normal temperature of 46 degrees. No December in the last ten years was colder.
 The cold weather of this month has been more nearly continuous and more generally bitter than any that the peo- pie of Alabama have experienced in December in a generation at least. But when these cold winds and low tenn peratures are ended it will no doubt be seen that the south will be all the better because of them The ground has been frozen, the fruit buds driven back, and many noxious and distress ing insects destroyed. There is a sill yer lining to every cloud, and the weather clerk may, after a while, be. come as conciliatory as he is now re- pellent.-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
RaDee-fad Steers to the Rescue

The speech of Clifford Pinchot, chief forester of the United States, before the University club in New York should be read and reread in every household in the land. He pleads for the retention of the mountain forests and of the water powers hid in their depths.
 But there is a special reason for their retention which MT. Pinchot did not state. If the supply of beef cattle is ever to be equal to the demand again, the range-fed steer must be multiplied It is in the national for ests that the range-fed steer must be bred and fed, and the government still owns enough acres to afford shelter and food for feeder steers. It is req sonably certain that stock cattle can no longer maintain the native meat supply, and if Clifford Pin-hot's battle for forest conservation and the rights of the many be sustained and rendered throughout the range-fed steer may yet become a great source of supply in the markets of the country. Inaccessi- ble ranges should be opened and stock men should be invited to utilize the ranges in the national forests. Forest conservation is, in fact, great issue, and 1t will become still greater as the population of the country increases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
About Persons.

Post cards received in Birmingham yes- terday from members of the Jemison- Tutwller party were dated at Calcutta, November %. The tourists were enjoying good health and were delighted with h. dia They are due back In Birmingham some time in February.
 A Christmas post card comes from Phil Memoli. dated Naples. The we'll known musician is abroad with his fam fly to remain two or three years for the purpose of prosecuting studies in musical theory and composition and acquiring ar tistic breadth to which the atmosphere of conservatory city like Naples greatly contributes.
 Senator John H. Bankhead is regis tered at the Morris hotel.
 John W. Tomlinson left yesterday aft ernoon for Tate Springs, Tenn, where he will remain for the next few years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
VIII Entertain zeTaya.

Mexico City. December 2s.-Apart- ments have been reserved at the Palace hotel here for former President Zelaya and his party. Plans for their enter guarded by those in authority here A group of Central Americans announced an intention tonight of going to Teotihuacan, some 25 miles out of the city, to greet him. Others incensed by the reported friendliness for the ex- president, addressed a communication to local paper in which they gave vent to unsavory opinions of zelaya.
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the people generally to have saloons back except possibly as the only alterna- tive to check the illicit traffic in liquor and it's attendant evils,' sad a man who voted wet in Birmingham under the lo- cal option law
 T for one do not wish to see the sa- looms reopened in this city. although high license and strict regulation would be a great improvement on free blind tigering. But I think all reasonable men would like to see the prohibition laws so modi- fled as to allow first-clasS hotels and cafes to serve beer and wine to their guests at meals and also at banquets. Many men who are classed as strict pro- hibitionists and who really have convic- tions on the question, would be glad to see notifications along the line sug- gested"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
Wants to Have Hearst Arrested.

New York, December 2s.-Louis A. Gull liver, attorney for Francis Dolan, who is charged with having aided in the al- legged Tammany theft of the Independence league machinery in the September pri- mary, said in court today that he would apply for warrant for the arrest of Will liam Randolph Hearst within the next 2i hours. Cullivsr declared that the charge would be election fraud, in that Hearst failed to obey the mandatory injunction of the election law which specifies that delegates chosen at primaries must be summoned to the convention to which they are elected. even though the con- vention does nothing more than adjourn sine die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
Controversy Is Discussed.

Washington, December 2s.-The con- gressional investigation into the so-called Ballinger-Pinchot controversy was the subject of a conference today between President Taft and Representative Dal- zell of Pennsylvania, one of the repub- lican House leaders. MT. Dalzel said after the interview that the investiga- tion unquestionably would be carried for ward by a joint committee composed of from five to seven members. President Taft has agreed with the leaders of the Senate and House that a joint investiga- ton, open to the public, will be the best means of thoroughly dealing with the matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
HARRlMAN'S SUCCESSOR
Garet Garrett in the January Anne can Magazine.

Garet Garrett in the January Ameri-
 can Magazine.
 k@ ovETT is Harriman's con- '(OJ science" said one of the Union
 - Pacific's bankers, impatiently, and Judge Robert Scott Lovett resented it. the more so because there was truth in it. A man with a big nose, wide month and fine head, who has worked with his hands and come out of the west. is apt to be loyal The legal representa- tive of the Hartman roads was in- tensely loyal to Hartman. He had brought the great spirit of the west to 1oo Broadway, and had obliged all men, even MT. Hartman. to respect 1t. To his office on the fourth floor of the Equitapie Life building, MT. Hartman was accus- toned to summon men peremptorily. When he needed Lovett, he went upstairs to Ioyett's office on the fifth floor and sat down with him. No other man about MT Hartman was able to maintain his independence in the same degree In the last two or three years of tempestous life. Hartman leaned heavily upon Low eft. at the very end, tho only man whom Hartman perfectly trusted was Lovett.
 And Lovett, of all men who knew, was the only one who did not lie to Wall street about MT. Harriman's health. Wall street thinks Lovett honest, and this IS so much for Wall street to think or any human being that the fact deserves to he prominently recorded. He is honest fin a most old-fashioned way. He may owe it to the Scotch stock, of which he ts but more likely he owes it to himself. His father was a Georgia slave owner, who moved to Texas after the war in traditional circumstances-that is, with fewer of the worlds goods than one ought to have.
 What with farming and tie hauling and holding a job with construction crew, young Lovett must have had little time for school. He got as far as the Hous- ton high school, the rest was self education. As railroad station agent he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
TWILloHT IN THE ALPe.

By Henry van Dyke. love the hour that comes, with dusky
 hair
 And dewy feet, along tho Alpine dells To lead the cattle forth. A thousand
 bells Go chiming after her across the fair And fiowery uplands, while the rosy
 flare Of sunset on the snowy mountain
 dwels,
 And valleys darken, and the drowsy
 spells Of peace are woven through the purple
 aid. Dear is the magic of this hours she seems To walk before the dark by falling rills, And lend sweeter sonE to hidden
 streams; She opens all the doors of night. and
 fills With moving bells the music of my
 dreams,
 That wander far among the sleeping
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
Mothers Insane Deed.

Cincinnati, December 2S-Just as Mrs. Mary Lipp was about to place her To- months-od baby in a tub of live coals the police arrived at her home today and cut short her outbreak of unusual insanity. She had already burned alive her chickens and pet rabbits and had set fire to the house. Auto-suggestion and it's psychological mysteries, induced by reading accounts of how woman in Loveland, O., yesterday brained her children, is believed to have caused the mothers insanity. She had just re- covered from an illness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
wriohts VIII Not Contest.

Dayton, O., December 8.-The Wright brothers will not again contest for the Michelin cup awarded to Wilbur Wright in France over year ago for the record long distance flight in an aeroplane. This was announced here tonight by Orville Wright, who added that for some time the Wrights will make no flights at all. When they begin again, Orville said. 1t will be in Florida, where they expect to have an aviation course. The Michelin cup never was formally claimed by Will bur Wright and is not now in his posses
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him back, saying, Nix on that. nothing doing.'
 "'Why what's the matter; 1t isn't . phoney," returned the crook.
 "'No, it's all right, but there must bs honor among thieves.
 'sThe man who was about to be touched was ono of the most notorious pick pockets in New York.
 "on one occasion at the Saratoga racs course a big storm came up and several persons were injured in the grand stand" continued Mir. Beutler. Bob Pinkerton was one of the first to so to the aid of the injured. He found woman who had been hurt by flying chair. and az he stopped to take her arm he found that another man was assisting her also. He looked at his co-worker. who saids well, Bob. never thought you and would work together
 "It was Red Leary.' the bank bur glar."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
carrIe Nation Appeals Case.

Washington. December 2S.-Mrs. Car rie Nation has appealed the case in which she was fined $1o0 for smashing the bar at the Union station in this city some weeks ago, from the police court to the district court of appeals. Her attorney has raised several con stitutional questions in her defense. the principal one being that the prosecu- tion should have been made in the name of the United States instead of +ba District of Columbia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES.

WAKING UP. Take no chances, Sparkling glances Often lead a chap astray, When fellow s feeling mellow And his simple heart is gay. Iris no wonder Iris, by thunderi
 He succumbs to smiling eyes; But he later On may hate her There is where the danger lies. Does seem funny How one's honey When true love has run its course, Gets so grabbed And so rabid
 In an action for divorce!
 NO DOUBT. T see where a man claims to have brought up a. family of seven children on a salary of $s a week"
 "Umph-Pd be willing to bet my hat that there is a well-to-do relative some where in the background"
 WAITING. Though the wind may shake the shutters And the days bring icy rain. We'll possess ourselves in patience Till the Juno bug comes again.
 'TwASN'T THERE. Mrs. F1ipper was woefully disappoint- ed yesterday"
 What happened to Mrs. Flipper?" MT. Flipper brought home a copy of the Congressional Record and Mrs. Flip per spent half an hour looking for the womans department"
 REPAID. Old Santa Claus was good to her The sweetest miss; And she was good to Santa Claus He get kiss.
 HIS JUST DESERTS. That seems to be a hot pot over there," said a recent arrival in Hades, in dicating a cauldron which was throwing out terrific heat waves. You bet your life that's hot pot!" said an imp who spoke slang fuently. Tn fact, that's one of the hottest pots in Hades."
 May I ask who is the occupant" You may. The occupant is an editor who made a practice all his life of clip ping stuff from other newspapers and publishing it in his own paper without credit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 woman iinagines she has beauty; man that he has brains.
 Good examples have virtue just like cas- tor oil, and they are almost as pleasant
 You can tell a girl is in love with a man by the way she pretends he Is in love with her
 Tine thing women can never forgive in a friend is for her to get invited to a wedding they didn't.
 A woman can get more fun out of bundle of old letters and photographs than q man can out of . barrel of honda
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
Two Bows Arrested.

Two white boys were placed under ar- rest this morning at go o'clock in con- nection with the assault and robbery of the Greek held up about Il o'clock at the corner of Second avenue and Twen- ty-second street The arrests were made by Sergeant Devne and Patroman Me- f-oo,-or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
Killed bv Little Brother.

Pensacola. Fla, December 2S.-Minnie Hurd. the 9-year-old daughter of Charles Hurd, residing eight miles east of Pen sacola, was instantly killed today when a gun in the hands of her little brother, James, was accidentally discharged, al- most blowing her head off, The boy had unbreeched the gun to load it with large shot with which to shoot a hawk, and as he closed the breech the gun was dis charged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
FreIuht Steamer MIssIna.

Hamburg. December c.-The Norwe- gian steamer sapula, with her crew of 13, has been given up for lost. The vessel belonged to the sloman line and sailed from this port December 1 for Genoa. She was last sighted two days later. The Capula was built at Glasgow in 1889 and registered 1282 tons net.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
Historical Writer Dead.

Atlantic City. N. J.. December s. Arthur Gilman, an author of Cam bridge, Mass, died here today. He was 72 years old He was the founder of the Harvard Annex now known as Rad cliffe college, and the author Of nu- merous historical works-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-29
Decembe.'s Weather Record

The cold spell began on December 2, and on only three days since that time has the temperature failed to go below freezing, and on those three days the minimum temperature was
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found time to read law and in 1882 was admitted to the bar at Houston. He was then 22 and is now 49. which leaves him a young man. At 40 he was perhaps the best known railroad attorney in the southwest, having enjoyed the confidence and fees of both Jay Gould, who had large railroad interests in Texas, and Collis P. Huntington, who owned tha Southern Pacific.
 When Hartman bought control of Southern Pacific he found. among other assets, Robert S. Lovett, attol and counsel in Texas. MT. Harriu genius consisted partly in knowing and in a very short time he knew I@ I so well that he brought Jim to New & to act as general counsel for all the1 riman lines Baptist. mugwump. awl and honest, he was regarded at frG considerable curiosity in Wall presently 1t was said of him that vi rough corners disappeared with
 wear, he would do. He ism smoother today, but that has c( 4 matter at all to anybody. * 2&
 As the intimate legal adviser man, Lovett was drawn into th< eddies of the financial maelst} never once, so far as anybodX
 grew dizzy. His cool, good
 pulled Hartman safely throq1 tight places and was invaluar trying times of 1906 and 1907,
 head of the Union Pacific VI
 ject of intense public interest. IS4
 When Hartman died, his associas@ ls bankers and the several great capitalists whose support he commanded through sheer force of money making ability, united upon Judge Lovett as perhaps the only man who could be trusted equally by all to act as chairman of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific boards. Har- rirnan was to most people an unlovable man, a great speculator and a marvellous money maker. Lovett Is to everypooy lovable man, with no more genius Tor speculation than had Lincoln, whom he sometimes resembles
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Utah" is the name of our new Dreadnought, and it is name that will strike terror in the ears of foes. It was launched in salt water but not in Salt Lake.
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This old-fashioned winter is to be long and obstreperous. It is booming the trade in furnaces and heaters, while the open fire in grate is at sad discount,
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Kermit Roosevelt has killed sita- tunga, but whether it is bigger than an elephant or smaller than weasel the reader is left to conjecture.
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Abe Ruef was released from jail be- cause he said he did not like his sur roundings. That seems to be reason enough in San Francisco at present.
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Great expositioDs in rhe year that the Panama canal is to be opened are increasing in number--on paper.
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Let us hope the cold will not begin to strengthen as the days begin to lengthen. The weather has been plen- ty cool enough this December.
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Kermit Roosevelt can now come home swinging a bongo in one hand and sitatunga in the other. He is mighty hunter.
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A general belief prevails that Wor- cester, Mass, should draw up good resolution and get on the water wagon. It sees too much O nights.
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It is now believed those mysterious flights over Worcester, Mass, were simply Santa Claus getting in position to do business on his busy night.
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The knife and the vermiform ap- pendix first met in 1866, and the sub seauent harvest has been millions in the doctors pockets.
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All good resolutions should be for mulated speedily, for they go into ef- feet next Saturday.
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The peace on earth this year did not include Nicaragua.
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The s1tatunga may be beast, fish or fowl. All we know is, Kermit shot enc.
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Mobile wants better roads, so that 'mobiling to Mobile will become a fea- ture of the landscape.
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Delaware has had an earthquake, but it naturally was little one and no one was hurt or scared by it.
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England's budget election has driven out of sight and sound her German war scare at any rate.