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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
THE ASSAULT BY NIGHT.

By Edmund Clarence Stedman,
All night we hear the rafting flaw
The easements shiver with each breath;
And still more near the foemen draw.
The pioneers of Death.
Their grisly chieftain comes;
He steals upon US in the night
Call up the guards light every light!
Beat the alarum drumsf ~
His tramp Is at the outer door;
He beats against the shuddering walls;
Lo! what dismal frost, and boar.
Upon the window falls!
Outbar him while We mayi
Feed, feed the watch-fires everywhere
E. en- yet their CHEEKY warmth will scare
This thing of night away.
Ye cannoti something chokes the CRATE
And clogs the air within It's flues,
And runners from the entrance gate
Come chill with evil news;
The bars are broken open!
Hal he has scaled the inner wall!
But fight him still, from hall to hall;
While life remains, there's hope.
Too late! the very frame is dust,
The locks and trammels fall apart:
He reaches, scornfu of their trust,
The portals of the heart.
Ay, take the citadel!
But where, grim Conqueror, is thy prey
In vain thou'lt search each secret way,
It's flight Is hidden well.
We yield thee, for thy paltry spoils.
This shell, this ruin thou hast nader
It's tenant has escaped they tolls.
Though they were darkly laid
Even now, immortal, pure,
1t gains huse not made with banda
refuge in serener bands,
A heritage secure.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
John R. Early'S Sad Lot

A leper soldier died last week in Sa-
vannah. He contracted the disease in
Cuba, and no one had any doubts about
his affection from first to last. He
was isolated, but the government took
excellent care of him.
John R. Early's case is different. 1t
is one of doubt. The Washington ar,-
thorities consider him a leper, while
the medical men in New York seem to
think he is not leper. The latter say
he has a skin disease contracted in a
pulp mill. In Washington he was kept
many months in quarantine, but he
was finally libe .ated and he went to
New York, where eminent specialists
said he did not have the disease. lie
then went bach to his farm in North
Carolina, but at length he returned to
Washington TO collect back pension
money, and he was again clapped into
quarantine. BY paying rs regular fares
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad did
carry him to New York in baggage
car. the washington authorities hav-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
Lee In Statuary Hall
IeI1er

In Statuary Hall in the capitol at
! Washington each state is expected to
place two statues in accordance with
the wishes and wills of its people. No
one outside of a state has ever tried
to dictate who should be selected by a
particular state, and no choice of a
state has ever been rejected. Ala
bama set up in this Hall of Fame a
statue to the memory of J. L. M. Curry
and a second statue will no doubt be
erected in due time, and no objection
will arise in any section of the coun.
try. 1t is true that when Michigan
placed a statue of Father Marquette in
the nall some objections were heard,
but these objections related to the
robes represented In the statue and
were based on religious bigotry. They
quickly died out, and the statue to the
memory of the dead priest and dis
coverer stands in The hall and ever
will while the building withstands the
elements and time.
Virginia comes forward with statues
Ct George Washington and Robart L.
Lee, and again is heard a discordant
hOte or two SO far as the great soldier
of the Confe1eracy is concerned Eut
this piece of Political bigotry will die
out as quickly as did the religious big
otry aroused in the case of Father
Marquette. General Lee needs no
statue anywhere, for his fame and his
st9nding in history are secure; but
Virginia's right to choose her own rep
resentative statues is at stake. Not
one word can truthfully be said against
the character or capacity of General
Lee. Not one word of that nature has
been uttered. But Virginia's right of
choice is questioned, not seriously, but
still it is questioned. Congress will
decide. Congress, nearly so years aft
er the close of civil strife, will decide
the question fairly, justly and patriot
ically without any deviation because
of sectionalism or the passions of
struggle long ago ended.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
WRIGHT BROTHERS
SUING CURT|SS

Buffalo December 14--Three of the
worlds most famous av.ators, the
Wright brothers and Glenn H. Curtiss,
issue in a legal battle here today. The
proceedings, which came before Judge
Hazel in the United States court, were
In a suit brought by the Wrights for
preliminary Injunction against Cur
tiss to restrain him and his assistants
from manufacturing and selling aero
planes on the ground that in all essen
tial details Curtis is infringing the pat
ents of the Wrights. Arguments had
not been completed when court adj
journed until tomorrow.
Attorney H. A. Toulmin of Springfield,
o., representing the Wright brothers.
argued for three hours to show that
his clients were the pioneers In maxi
ing and demonstrating the teayier-than-
air machines. He laid special stress on
their discovery of devices for balancing
a machine the wind, one of the claims in
the suit being that Curtiss copied these
devices.
It was charged that Curtiss received
his inspiration and understanding of
these devices while A. NJ. Herring his
partner. was a guest of the Wright
brothers in 1903.
FOR MT. CQTUSS, AllOTaty huicIsoh
K Newell of New York, denied the In
fringement. He declared that the
Wrights themselves had admitted that
the inclined or curved plane and the for
ward and rear attachments were old;
that while the Wrights had solved the
balancing problem, Curtiss had adopted
an entirely different plan to maintain
equilibrium He also asserted that the
particular devises upon which the
Wrghts claimed infringement had never
been patented.
He contended that an automatic de-
vice to maintain equilibrium was still
the great desiratum in the aeroplane.
After paying a tribute to the Wright
brothers for their success he added that
their fame. after all, rested largely upon
their skill as "aeroplane chauffeurs,
which did not figure in the suit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
Defining 6 Monopoly

Justice Wheeler of Buffalo, New
York state judge, has made in court in
case brought before him an effort
to define monopoly. The ice trust
had been hailed to court under the
Donnelly law of New York, which
makes it a penal offense to monopo-
ilize or attempt to monopolize any
branch of trade or industry. The feo-
eral courts have tried to define acts
that are in restraint of trade under the
Sherman antitrust law of 1890, but
they have each and all SHE'D when a
definition of monopoly was needed.
But Judge Wheeler did not shy or
bulge particle. He faced the issue
manfully. "a monopoly" he told the
jury, exists where all or nearly all of
an article of trade or commerce within
a community or district is brought
within the hands of one man." This
definition makes any person or corpo-
ration in a district or community a
monopolist who secures a great pre-
ponderating share in any article of
trade or commerce.
The trouble with this definition is,
it goes too far. The village black
smith may be a monopolist under this
definition, and so may thousands of
other people. The question is, there
fore, unsolved; and it is the biggest
question before the American people
today. All are anxious to know what
Is monopolistic, and therefore illegal.
and what is not. Judge Wheeler tried
to solve the problem, and his law may
/ be good law; but if it is, the country
/ is full of monopolies. The truth is,
l'no business man knows today what is
monopolistic and illegal and in re-
straint of trade and what is not. The
attempt to clear away the fog in Buff
falo was manly and courageous, but it
went so far that more fog was created
than was cleared away.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
SUSPECTED MAN
PROVES AN AL|B|

Savannah, December 14-A chemical
analysis of blood stains found on a
bundle of clothing owned by ]. c. Hunter
husband of the last of the three women
victims of the Perry street murders here,
to die. today practically eliminated Hunt
err from suspicion of guilt as the per-
petrator of the crime.
The analysis was made at the request
of the police by City Bacteriologist Vic
tir Bassett, and his declaration is that
though Hunter declared the stains to be
a variety of varnish, yet they are blood,
however, they are not recent stains and
must be older than several days, there
fore, could not have been made at the
time of the murder of Mrs. Hunter, Mrs.
Ohlander and Mrs. Gribble.
An affidavit was obtained today from
]. M. Robertson, fellow workman of
Hunter, too, that asserts that during
the time the murders must have been
committed, Hunter did not leave his
sight long enough to go to the Gribble
home and return.
Early today Hunter and William
WALL who also is prisoner, and was
a close friend of Mrs. Hunter, were
given the third degree by the police.
Neither knew Mrs Hunter was dead.
The husband was led into a room where
his wife lay In her coffin. Suddenly ne
was brought face to face with the dead
woman. He showed much emotion. but
asked to be allowed to kiss her, and did
SO. walls, declaring that he had rather
have his head cut of than harm her, :"
was allowed to fondle the dead womans
hands.
The problem the police face now is to
apprehend the negro man seen at the
Gribble home with an ak in his hands
at about the time of the murders. The
arrest Of this man. they believe, will
solve the mystery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
A Great Medical Discovery,

DIR. Jonnesco, the Roumanian ply
stefan who gave remarkable demon
stration with a new anesthetic in New
York before 50 eminent surgeons at a
clinic In one of the hospitals, is a pro-
lessor at one of the leading colleges of
his country said physician.
His substitute for chloroform is COM
posed of mixture of stovaine with
strychnine. This solution is injected by
perdermically into the body close to the
spine. 1t instantly produces paralysis
of the nerves, which lasts for about 10
minutes. In order that the patients may
not receive a mental shock a mark is
used. Some of the patents chatted all
unconscious of what would have been
pain Of the most agonizing kind. For
instance, boy who was afflicted with
deformed ankle and contracted musles
lay upon the operating table talking
while skillful surgeon opened up the
parts, seized the muscles and stretched
them. And another good feature, there
is no succeeding nausea"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
A Valuable Heirloom.

Il had the pleasure a few days age
of handling rare piece of the weav-
ing by the slaves of a hundred years
ago" said a citizen.
1T is very heavy counterpart
woven on the looms of a century ago
The thread was spun on the spinnet OF
those days. 1t has a very heavy
fringe and all is the work of the slaves
of the Glenns of Virginia and North
Carolina. The present owner is "a
lineSl descendans. the fifth in line
from the original owner. This valued
heirloom shows a bit of the yellow
tinge of age but otherwise is in per-
feet condition"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
FIRST REAL CLUE
TO ALMA KELLNER

Louisville, December 15.-After a
elimination last night in what seemed
to be the first real clue to the where
abouts of Alma Kellner, the relatives
and police officials early this morning
announced that the next "a hours will
bring the end of the search" This
announcement followed the appearance
at police headquarters of a man, a
woman and a little girl, who 1t is said
were clairvoyants. What connection
they have with the kidnapers is not
known, but what they told the police
is believed to have revealed the mys-
terry.
The only real clue of the day, as far
as known, came late last night from
the superintendent of a ferry company,
who saw a yelled woman and girl
who answered exactly the description
of the Kellner child cross the Ohio
river to Jeffersonville ,on the day the
little girl disappeared.
With view to scattering the clouds
which have gathered about the posi-
BILE motive behind the disappearance of
Alma Kellner, Frank Fehr, millionaire
brewer, and uncle of the child, said
today fatty that kidnapers were en-
tirely responsible. Mr.. Fehr has been
extremely interested. in hts efforts to
restore the child to its parents and
through his offices the family of the
child has refused to offer a reward.
Mr. Fehrs statement today quieted
rumors of skeletons in the Kellner
family closet which had grown into
varied and stratling assertions. All
/ tn ese Mr.. Fehr denied.
Money Is what the kidnapers want and
! that is why they will not harm Alma
/ and why we are trying not to be unduly
| alarmed" said Mr.. Fehr. He said that
| at the time the kidnapers thought
! proper-when announcement aba>es
somewhat he expected a ransom propo-
sition Mr.. Fehr believes Alma is held
| in Louisville.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
PROGRESS MADE IN
MOVING FREIGHT

Chicago, December Ito. L. Dickson.
speaking officially for the general man.
ayers association, gave out the follow
ing statement tonight:
AT the close of the 18th day of the
switchmen's strike in the north west.
regardless of the various sta Elements
TO the Contrary, the railroads have
made greater progress in moving
freight than any day since the strike
began.
Concerning the reported coal famine,
the following kilograms has been re-
ceived from J. NJ. Gruber, general man.
ager of the Great Northern: Coal
loading at the head of the lakes last
several days has been above normal.
There is absolutely no coal shortage
in the country or at the Twin Cities
A second conference between the
railroad managers and the representa-
tives of the Switchmens union took
place here today but the committees
have not begun the actual business.
The managers it is said will stand out
against any wage advance, preferring
to take their chances with an arbitra-
ton board.
One of the railroad managers de-
clared that to grant an Increase in
variably to the switchmen would mean
an advance to all the employees, as the
trainmen and conductors on all east
ern roads have asked for an increase.
A committee representing the train
men and conductors on all the eastern
roads will meet here Friday fo can
vass the vote recently taken on the
question of demanding uniform
schedule and a general advance to
bring the wages on tho eastern lines
up to the standard which prevails west
of Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
Wide-Eyed Christmas Spies.

Il have been much interested in the
boys and girls who are gazing wide
eyed into the show windows filed with
Christmas in all its shapes and fancies,"
said lover OF children last night
To-day I was particularly interested
in two little girls bare headed, one with
red cloak and the other without a
wrap, discussing the toys in two well
filed windows How they did boil over
with their hopes and wishes.
and tonight I saw boy and girl
accompanied by their father, who is evil
IDENTIFY closely confined during the day
taking in the show windows. They were
evidently out to do the sights but I
judge from some words they were also
planning, the three of them, to do
mamma with surprise on Christmas.
"A word to those who have no ties
in little ones to make happy Go and
pick out a bright little girl or boy and
work right up to Christmas with him or
her and then cap the whole scheme with
a suitable Christmas gift. You'll be
happier than you have been in many a
day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
A sheer on a woman's lips is like poi
son In nectar
Next to weddings and funerals wom-
an gets the most satisfaction out Of re-
ligion.
It's imagination that makes people be-
lieve they are having run when they are
Just being plain fools
Sympathy for people in trouble is pre-
tending you feel as bad for them as they
would pretend to feel for you If II was
your trouble.
Women don't take any. interest in going
out camping to catch nsh. because there
IL 20 much more sport In catching men
1t home. and It's ten times - aasys
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
Experienced Men ENGAGED.

Seattle. Wash, December 14.-The
Northern Pacific railroad today en-
ployed IL experienced men to take the
places of striking switch men here, ac-
cording to Superintendent of Terminals
c. E. McMullin.
The Northern Pacific has 13 engines
and crews at work.
Advices from Butte, Mon, say that
members of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trafnmen there, whose action in strik-
ing with the switchmen December /.
brought about a shut down of the
mines, where 5000 men were employed,
will return to work tomorrow. This
was announced by Vice President Mo-
Intyre of the Brotherhood this after
noon.
With the return of the trainmen,
normal conditions will be restored at
Butte and the mines there, and the
shelters at Great Falls are expected to
resume within a few days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
Miner. Are Entombed.

Negaune, Mich, December 14-Four
miners were entombed in drift at the
third level of the Negaune mine today.
Rescuers are working frantically to reach
them. but have little hope Of accom-
plishing the task for several hours. Inc
mine in which the accident occurred Is
owned by the Cleveland Clins Iron COM
pany. The miners were buried by q great
stream of mud and 1t Is believed tnat all
are dead
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
LIcense on Bali Games.

st. Louis, December ia bill intro
duced in the municipal assembly tonight
calls for license fee Of $50 for each
game of baseball played in park hav-
ing a seating capacity Of 1000. The re-
vision of the license fees In the measure
which is for revenue, is entirely upward.
Theatres charging $3.50 a seat are to be
taxed 90 cents seat per year, and lower
priced houses will pay 65 cents a seat.
Nickelodeons will be requested to pay
license of so cents a seat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
prairie Ready To Sail.

philadelphia, December twin the ar
rival here, late this afternoon, OF a de-
tachment of marines from Boston, COM
plotting the complement Of 700 who have
been ordered to sail on the United States
transport Prairie for Colon, everything
is IN readiness for the sailing Of that
vessel tomorrow afternoon. Col. William
+, R,ddle will be In command Of the ma
rines and Captain Kellogg will be in
command Of the transport
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
Phone Rates Declared Fair.

Cleveland. December 14-Barney NAH
Ter, chairman of the rate commission OF
the United Telephone company's board OF
directors decided tonight that the appa-
rent raise in rates in larger cities Of the
state ordered yesterday was merely
eoualized along the lines Of the recent
rate movements among common carriers
The advance In price between large cit
les, he said, was counteroalanced by de-
creases in rural rates.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
Bows Dormitory Burned.

Knoxville, Tenn, December H-Grant-
Lee Hall. a dormitory for boys, at Lin
coin Memorial university, located at Cum
berland Gap, Tenn, was burned late to-
day. The loss is $4,000. fully insured. The
fire originated on the third floor, but the
cause Is unknown.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
DR.. soule offered New Place.

Athens. Ca, December 14-President
Andrew 6oule of the Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture today received tele-
gram from Governor Eberhardt of Min
nesota, offering him the position of dean
Of the State College of Agriculture Of that
state. While DR.. soule did not announce
his decision in the matter, 1t Is believed
that he will decline the place.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15

Arbitration Is Asked.

New York, December 1.-THE Associat-
ed Waist and Dress Manufacturers ask
an open investigation of their shops and
arbitration by fair-minded and impair
tfal committee of the questions at issue
between them and their striking en-
ployes In an open letted to Miss Anne
Morgan, daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan,
and others who have publicly interested
themselves in the cause of the strikers,
the manufacturers complain that the true
issues at stake have become obscured.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
This Years Nobel Prizes

None of the big $4,000 prizes
awarded this year just before Christ
mas from the vast fund left by the
man who made a fortune out of dyna-
mite comes to America. The prize to
Imaginative literature was won by Sell
ma Lagerlof, Swedish writer of home
and even continental fame and popu-
larity, but whose works are little
known in this country. Doubtless her
novels will be translated and publish
ed in this country, now that the gifted
authoress has been awarded a Nobel
prize.
The other prizes of the year go to
Marconi, of wireless telegraph fame;
Braun, the great physicist of Strass-
burg university; Kochner of Berne.
the practitioner of and author on sur
gerry. and OSWALD of Leipsig, a specu-
lative thinker and philosopher as well
as eminent investigator and exposi.or
of chemistry in its higher and newer
implications.
The awarding of five great annual
prizes to science and literature each
year is wonderful incentive to effort
in the higest walks, and no one has
discovered any injustice or Partially
in the awards made under the will of
Alfred Bernhard Nobel in Scandinavia.
The fund is 100000, and the five an
nual prizes were first awarded in 1901.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
Search for Lake Victims.

Erie. Pa, December 14.-No progress
was made today In the search for addi-
tional victims Of the Marquette and bes-
semer car ferry No. 2, which is believed
to have gone down in the middle of Lake
Erie on Tuesday last. The lake was
rougher today than 1t has been for a
week, and craft of every character hug
ged their mornings
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
Editorial Writer Dead.

Roswell. N. NJ, December 14.-George
A. Pickett, for five years editor of the
Roswell Daily Record, died today from
tuberculosis. He was born in Eel, Nor
gan county, Kentucky, in 1868. He was
an editorial writer on the Chicago Tri-
bune and wellington. Kan, papers and
owned the first paper in the Cherokee
Strip" at Blackwell, Okla.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
Prisoner Escapes From Fort.

Pensacola, Fla, December 14.-Making
dash from almost under the guns OF
dozen sentries, ]. o. Gallup. general
military prisoner, gained his liberty at
Fort Rarancas this afternoon, although
bullets whizzed uncomfortably close to
his head during his run of 100 yards to
cover. He was working with number
of other prisoners on the post grounds.
Tonight more than hundred soldiers are
securing the country north of the fort IN
search of the escaped man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-15
Bowling Record Broken.

st. Louis. December 1.-THE Royals,
playing in the city star bowling league.
tonight broke the worlds record for a
single game by making score of 1895.
The average of the I'VE men was 2z7.
The previous record was 1907.