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Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-11
pEMOCGNrIC CNNDIDNTE
nlF lUn

Boise Idaho. Nov io.-With scat
tering precincts in an parts of tho
state sftll unrcportcd returns at
hHnd TODAY sivc !. ~. Hawley. dcm-
U'rtt icHd of 400 VOTES over his
publican opponent. James s. Brady
p'mntrNt Statc Chairman Nugcut
claims HaWleS's election hE $50 plu-
rhIitN This the republicans refuse
tn rnnccdc. declaring that an official
-ouni viii he ncccsslr, ts dt4erminr
tar result Both branches OF the
lpslslaiuru are republican.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-11
WI SONS PLURALITY
APPRONINfATEI.Y $4,000

Trenton. n. j., Nov. 10.-Latest
election returns show Woodrow Will
sons plurality for governor to be up
ward of forty eight thousand and II
is expected that the complete returns
Will bring the plurality up 10 $4,000.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-11
REPUBLICANS CONTROL
u kANSAS LElsISILAII- RIn

Topeka, kas.. Nov. 10.-Au doubt
as to the complexion of the next
Kansas legislature was settled today
when returns from 1O7 of the 1875
representative districts gave the re-
puhlicans SO members, majority.
Returns now in give the democrats 45.
Eighteen districts are yet TO be heard
from.
Governor Stubbs' majority over @.
NJ. Hodges viii exceed 1900.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-11
MAY GUST POWERS
FROM SEAT IN
CONGRESS
Movement Is Started in Ken
lucky to Deprive Newly Elect
ed Congressman of His
Position.



Louisville Nov. 1O.-Reports which
We're freely circulated today are that
there Is movement under way to
have the nine democratic congress
men Of the kentucky delegation make
"a concerted effort TO have Caleb Pow
ers ouFted from his seat as represen-
tativc Of the Eleventh Kentucky dis
trlct
Coneress II is reported, VIII be
asked TO deny Powers his seat on the
ground that he has been thrice con
vioted OF felony and has not been ac-
quilted by jury. Governor VIII
SONS pardon il is contended, does
not have the same effect as an ac-
quittal on the charge OF completely in
the Goebel assassination.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-11
NESr VIRGINIA DISTRICT
CLAIMED BY THO PARTIES

lsoahOke Va. Nov 10-The result
of the congressional election in the
ninth district appears o. De- still
unuhl which hath CUngressmeu
Skemr repuhhcan. and Friends of
Henr stuart. democrat claiming vfc-
fnrt
Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-11
TIECTION on BURKE IN
NEBRASKA CONCEDED

Fargo ~ ID. Nov l0.-Their re-
publican state chairman tonight con-
crded the election of Governor Burke.
democrat hy plurality nf 1900
Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-11
CONGRESSMAN WINS
BY MAJORITY OF EIGHT

FottsVilIc. Pa. Nov. IO.-Complete
though not official returns from the
twelfth Pennsylvania congressional
district give Robert r. Lee democrat
q majority Of eight votes over Robert
Heaton republican.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-11
RtPtmICAN CANDIDATE
MtN~ by nNE VOTE

tafialn. s. ~. >rt. iN.-A recount
nr the vote ln fhe Thirfy-sixth san-
-ras-lonHl district hy thn secretary of
tn. r.rullIt--n aud Democratic ar-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10

Editor Young of Des Moines says they
are wearing $50 suits of clothes instead
of the SIS suits of ten years ago. But
the trouble is the SIS suits of ten
years ago now cost $50, and all know
the people are not eating any more per
capita than they did fifty years ago.
As a matter of fact the tariff and
the monopolies are at the bottom of
the trouble. and the time has come
when the ultimate consumer is ready
TO think and act for himself. He is
compelled 10 do this by the rapid and
steady advance in the cost of living.
The prices of the neeessaries of life
are being investigated today as they
never have been before, and the vari-
Gus forms of monopolistic greed bred
and promoted by the tariff and the re-
publican party will be found guilty of
creating the present unparalleled
prices for the necessaries of life. The
average man needs no Aldrich-Cannon
of this subject He is
the jury himself and he will be heard
from both in 1910 and 1912.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
Increased Cost of Living

The Iron Age thinks the cost of liv-
ing has now reached a point so high
that it should be characterized as
alarming. 1t thinks "the question of
how to meet the cost of living is prob
ably more important than any now
coming before the employers of this
country, and 1t presses for an early
and satisfactory conclusion"
This situation is filling the repub-
lican party with alarm. They see the
average citizen marching to the polls
and voting against everything and
everybody that comes from the re-
publican party or bears its name.l The
republicans are trying to avertS the
storm by arguments that are simply
silly They have put up Prof Miltpn
Whi(ney Of the department of agricuk
tnrs = ssy that people are eating farV
- lhen -fhsy "A nfty years ago and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
M AK Hoffman.

Birmingham theatregoers all rs.nem-
Der Max Hoffman, who came to Bir-
mingham so often when musical director
and composer of songs of the old Bijou
Musical comedy company several years
ago." said a theatregoer. MANY have
watched him climb to the top rung of
che ladder of fame until today he Is
without peer in a certain class
OF very popular song writing. He
writes all the music for Rogers
Brothers, Weber and Field. and many OF
this country's greatest musical comedies.
His music is tuneful. and no matter what
part of the country you go, you always
hear one of Max Hoffman's songs being
whistled. He wrote all the music for In
Panama. which the Rogers Brothers
played here last season, and all remem-
Der what catchy airs there were in this
production.
Gertrude Hoffman, the wife of Max,
has also become famous since she left
Birmingham She is said to be receiving
$500 per week in vaudeville. He Salome
dance brought her to the front with a
rush, and she draws one of the highest
salaries paid a vaudeville performer in
this country. When she was in Birming-
ham she trained the chorus of the Bijou
company"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
Pure Foods and REGULATED Drugs

We enter upon the new year equip
ped with a pure food law that supple
ments and is modelled from the fed
eral act. Any one who offers for sale
in this state any adulterated or mis-
branded drug or article of food be-
comes liable to fine or Imprisonment,
or both, in the discretion of the court
Municipal and county inspectors may
be appointed to act with the state
chemist in detecting the sale of adul-
terated foodstuffs. Provision is made
for sending samples to the state chem
fst, and 1t then becomes the. duty of
the state chemist to furnish the So
icitor with sworn analysis of the
sample submitted. The solicitor is
then expected to bring the merchant
tc law The law provides an appro-
priation to carry it into effect, and it
becomes the duty of every citizen to
aid In the work of stopping in this
state the sale of adulterated foodstuffs.
An act has also gone into effect Gre
ating board of pharmacy and the IL
censing of pharmacists and their as
sistants. Hereafter all drugs, poisons
and prescriptions must be sold by
licensed pharmacists. Physicians and
veterinarians may. however, compound
their own prescriptions.
These two laws are valuable and
helpful, and they should not be per-
mitted in any county to fall into dis
use. Both should be enforced, and the
solicitors in the state are expected
to do their duty in relation to both of
these new laws. They simply put Ala
bama in line with other progressive
states. There is nothing tentative
about either of them. Both are needed,
and both are valuable and may be
made exceedingly practical through
strict enforcement
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Prosperity Among Banks.

IN looking over the statements issued
oy the banks in a number of cities on
the LIST of January I find that the Bir-
mingham banks are in as good condition
In every way as the best banks whose
statements | saw" said John II. Frye,
president Of the Traders National bank.
The banks OF Birmingham are in ex-
ceilent condition, and the deposits are
heavy The business now is healthier
than 1T has ever been In the history Of
the Traders. and 1 Judge that the same
is true of the other banks in Brming-
ham.
I'VE declared a semi-annuaI dividend
of per cent on the first of the year,
which was good showing considering
the fact that the country has only re-
Gently emerged from a financial panic.
But the present prosperity is not
circumstance to what I believe the fu-
ture has in store for Birmingham banks.
l would not be surprised to see the de-
posts of local banks total an Increase
OF 80 1-3 per cent during 1910. There is
every indication of that character Of
business for this year. and personally
am very optimistic
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
Where the Gold Goes To

In the year 1909 gold was sent out of
this country to the amount of $780,
100000, a greater amount than was
ever before sent out in a calendar
year. About half of this amount was
sent to South America, chiefly to Ar
gentina. We have sent to Japan and
Argentina s90,OOO,O00 There was not
that difference to be settled by us, but
we were called upon to settle Eng
lands bills in the two countries, and
if we had not sent the sum to Japan
and Argentina, we would have been
compelled to send it to London. Our
actual shipments of gold to London
was about s15,OOO,0O0, or the largest
total since the year 1900. Not since
the middle of May has any gold left
New York for Europe, but still we are
constantly paying European bills i'll
gold in roundabout commercial way.
After all, balances must be settled
somewhere and in some way, and so
long as we cherish an Aldrich tariff
we need not expect to have the trade
and shipping that would make Argen-
tina and Japan and Great Britain send
us gold. Exports of gold are simply
one of the baleful effects of an Aldrich
tariff for the formation of trusts and
monopolies at home and the destruc-
ton of foreign trade
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
IN pRIEsT MAINE.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Prof. Ira Remsen. president of the Johns
Hopkins university and head of the Ma
tional Academy of Sciences, spends all of
his vacations in Maine. 1t is a matter of
current history that Maine is dry, but DR..
Remsen had reason one day to suspect
that if he had to get a drink of whisky
some day to save his life he would never
be in danger of death in Maine.
The doctor was bicycling and his pedal
broke. He inquired the way to the near
est blacksmith shop, and following the d.
rections arrived at a ramshackle place,
the door of which was closed but not
locked. He opened the door. and pushing
his bicycle ahead was surprised to see q
crowd Of men sitting around an impro-
vised tray, on which were a bottle and
some glasses.
Somewhat abashed, the doctor said: Il
wonder IL am the right place? Is this
the blacksmith shopr'
Yes" said the blacksmith, .'Whatn
you have, rye or Scotch?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
Are these things then necessities?
Then let US meet them like necessities.
q King Henry Nv.
Passing Of the Pietail

The soldiers and sailors of China
are to be shorn of their queues, and
the civilians are already tired of it and
will soon free themselves from it. The
abolition of the pig-tail means that
4O0,000,0OO of people. naturally alert
and active, are advancing and will
soon be able to keep up with the pro-
cession.
1t means above all else that China's
isolation is to be abandoned, and she
is to become a part of this everyday
workaday world. AS soon as she does
away with her general scheme of isola-
ton and considers herself a part of
the world in general all else will fol-
low naturally and steadily.
The rise of China in this century is
to match and oyerstop perhaps the
rise of Japan in the last century, and
it will perhaps become the chief and
most important feature of the present
century. There are great possibilities
shut up in the populous Chinese en-
pire. 1t is SO vast that the remainder
of the century will be needed in which
to bring out those possibilities. Hap
PLY Japan is standing loaded off the
Chinese coast to keep off western
marauders while China is engaged in
assimilating western ideas and meth
DDS and is getting ready to defend her.
self. The plundering and looting of
China was disgraceful. but thanks to
Japan it is ended and there will be no
more of it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
Msior ]. c. HemDhlll

The announcement that Maj. J. c.
Hemphill, who has been the editor of
the Charleston News and Courier for
many years, has accepted the editor
ship of the Richmond Times-Dispatch
will be read with interest throughout
the South. The change will become
effective on February 10. In news
paper circles this will cause some sur
Prise, for Major Hemphill has been
identified with Charleston so long and
has been for so long a time at the
head of the News and Courier staff
that he might well have been regarded
as life fixture in his present position.
What will be a great loss to Charles
ton will be a distinctive gain for Rich
mond. Major Hemphill is a thorough
newspaper man. In his younger days
he was known as a first-class reporter.
He won promotion rapidly and after
serving as city editor, news editor and
managing editor, he became editor-in-
chief He is a broad-minded thinker
and a vigorous writer. And he is not
only finely equipped for editorial work,
but he understands both the business
side and the mechanical side of daily
paper. He is, therefore, an all-round
man in his calling
The Times-Dispatch is Virginia's
leading morning daily. 1t is an ex-
cellent paper, but Maj. Hemphill, with
his ripe experience and his exceptional
capacity, will be a great acquisition
The Times-Dispatch is to be congratu-
lated indeed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
Stock Market.

Henry Clew in his Saturday review
says in part:
1.-The first week of the year witnessed
considerable liquidation in the stock mar
ket This must be attributed to dearer
money, TO undue apprehensions regarding
President Taft's message, to the taking OF
profits by insiders on stocks which have
had phenomenal advances. to unsettled
markets abroad and to the anticipation
of important new security issues; not to
mention the unsettling effect of the Rock
Island episode.
1.-THE stringency in call money is only
temporary, and incidental to usual jan
uary operations. 1t will be remembered
that January year ago was a period Of
declining prices. although the general
situation was distinctly promising. The
reduction in the Bank of England rate
was a favorable factor and indicates a
better condition in the foreign market
than expected considering the unusual ex
element and disturbances attending the
British election.
General business though active shows
There is general belief that the coming
year will witness a large volume of bus
mess; but conditions are perplexing, costs
Of doing business are steadily increasing,
labor agitations are unsettling and the
outlook while upon the whole encouraging
is not free from snares Our speculative
leaders are not very active. They seem
to recognize that Wall street has very
literally discounted all the prosperity"
Ia sight. They are somewhat uneasy re-
garding President Tafts enforcement Of
the Roosevelt policies, and seem disposed
to await until the attitude of Congress
Is more clearly understood. The proba-
bility is that the national legislature
will talk much and do little. but the talk
may be unsettling, and until this is over
confidence will not be fully restored AZ
for President Taft, he IL not likely to
recommend any radical or disturbing leg
islation unless he departs from his well
known beliefs, which is improbable.
Briefly the situation IL one that warrants
a confident undertons. but considerable
caution and discrimination from day to
day
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
CHERRY SUFFERERS
WELLPROYIDED FOR

Cherry, ILL.,, January 9.-Ernest P. Bick-
nell, national director OF the American
Red Cross, and Duncan Mcdonald, presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers of Illi-
nois, issued statement today in answer
to criticisms of the relief work and de-
fining the necessity for a permanent relief
plan.
The total disbursements to the people
of Cherry since the tragedy are shown to
be s111,S00. The DEFENDANTS are now
given a weekly average cash grant OF
s575, the schedule running up or down
according to the number of children.
The report estimates that there is ap-
proximately s145,oo0 available for relief
work. 1t is the proposal of the Red
Cross to place a sum-s4o0.0Oo will be re-
quired. 1t is estimated-in the hands of
trustees for the care of the sufferers I'M
til they again become able to sustain
themselves This form of pension will
enable children to be educated and wild
ows to live comfortably and in the mean
time the relief operations can be brought
to an end
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT.

rTOm Lie.
II cannot marry your
The brilliant young chorus girl, her face
naturally flushed with her high determ-
ination, gazed fondly but determinedly
into the eyes Of the young magnate
whose wealth was numbered by millions.
Cannot marry me?'' he repeated.
Surely there is some mistake. I offer
you equality and all the financial privi-
leges l command. You will own your
own home and be able to sip from the
fountain of eternal gasoline. Why do you
refuse mel"
She smiled loftily, if sadly, as she re-
piled:
Il do 1t for my art. Surrounded by the
temptations of great wealth, fear that
would lapse into an idle creature. Mol
MOL Archibald. 1t cannot be. My art
must not suffer. I thank you for your
kind offer. Believe me. shall always be
your true friend. But ask me nothing
more. Art, always. and for all timei Be-
sides. I am going to marry your father"
And putting her pink silk tights into
her card envelope system she passed out
into the night
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
THE VILLAGE INN.

BY Oliver Goldsmith.
Near yonder thorn that lifts its head on
high
Where once the sisn-post caught the
passing eye,
Low lies the house where nut-brown
draughts inspired;
Where gray-beard mirth and smiling toll
retired.
Where village statesmen talk'd with
looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went
round.
Imagination fondly stoops to trace
The parlor splsndors of that festive
place;
The whitewashed wall. the nicely sandsd
floor,
The varnish'd clock that clickd behind
the door;
The chest contrived a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, chest Of drawers BY
The pictures placed for ornament and
The twelve good rules. the royal game of
The hearth. except when winter child
the day,
with aspen boushs and flowers and fen
mel gay,
While broken teacups wisely kept for
show
Ranged DER the chimney, slistened in .
Vain. transitory splendor! Could not ali
Rsprieve the tottsrtns mansion from IT.
Obscure 1t sinks nor shall It more i'm
An hours Importance = ths ~ n.su
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
$4,000 A DAY FOR SEERS

Situated in the heart of the heart of
the city, this man, who describes him
self not as a soothsayer but as a ply
stefan of your mental state and who
charges in accordance with the distinc-
ton in application, is so busily engaged
every day, including Sunday, that you
have to make an appointment by letter
or by telephone In the large waiting
room, extensively furnished and deco
rated, and with no symbols of the occult
in evidence, numbers of well conditioned
clients are always In evidence, speaking
well for the condition OF the owners bank
account.
In the neighborhood of the crystal
gazer and the palmist still another type
of fortune teller does fourfshing busi-
mes through clairvoyance. He leaves
you in a room alone to write your ques-
tons upon given slip of paper and then
summoning you to him in an adjoining
room clasps your hand. with the paper
under its palm, upon his knee and pro-
ceeds to read and answer the questions
while in psychic trance" Clever Jug
Cling in the writing of the questions SO
confuses his psychic workings, however,
that you are doomed to disappointment
In receiving his answers
You are in need of psychic treatment,
he announces. Just as the physically
afflicted must seek the physician and get
Strengthened out, SO you. over whom
some adverse demon is exerffng a baneful
control, must go to a good clairyoyant
and be treated. You deprecate your
deplorable condition as you pay your
fee and depart, and say that you will
consider the matter. You do, but not
in the way agreeable TO the clairvoyant.
These are but very few Of the ways
by which Is garnered in each day in New
York over $4,000 The bulk OF that sum
comes from the uptown district which
can best afford it. Nevertheless the prac-
tice is much more baneful in the poor,
foreign districts, where small fees are
collected by the thousand-small fees,
but large proportionately to the hard
working people who pay them
There is nothing these fortune tel
lers, especially among the poor, will
not promise to do-to restore missing
friends, to secure husbands or wives for
the unmarried, to cure disease of mind
or body, to remove curses Or to work
mystic charms. No other species of
matrimonial bureau is more flourishing.
The client hesitates even to buy kitchen
chair without consulting the powers for
favorable signs.
Worst of all is the opportunity thus
given to cloak serious crime. Simple
minded followers invest their humble
savings as the seer directs, greatly to the
latter's ultimate profit, as the police
records show. AS the Wall street specu-
lator goes to the high priced clairvoyant,
who always has the market quotations
close at hand, so the petty gambler is a
regular visitor to the cheap soothsayer
Yet, strange as it may seem. many in
stances are related by social workers
of the influence for good that is exerted
by some of these professional prophets,
who by virtue of naturally kindly dis
position can really be of benefit to the
community.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-10
SOUTH CAROLINA
MAY BECOME DRY

Columbia, January 9.-When the legisla-
ture OF South Carolina convenes in an
nual session Tuesday the foremost topic
of discussion win be the liquor ques-
ton, with the prohibitionists renewing
their fight for a statewide law. The leg
islature at its last session passed bill
referring the liquor question to the voters
Of the wet counties for decision on
county local option basis.
At the election held in August, 16 coun-
ties voted out dispensaries, leaving but
six wet" counties out of a total of A in
the state.
Encouraged by this vote, the statewiders
now plan to pass bill covering the whole
state. The local optionists maintain that
the matter should now be left in statu
quo as the people of the six counties
have declared for liquor and their wishes
should be considered