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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

virgin pine timber; VIII cut oVDV leee
lumber per acre; smooth, dry land,
near railroad. Price $3.50 per acre.
~ 900 acres COLOMBIA ton land in Lake
county, Florida, on two railroads, and
six stations Price s1.50 per acre; one
half cash f. Il. McMeans, Agent, ITO
Cain street Avondale, Ala.
LIST your property with me, can sell
1t to advantage for you. L. p. Hill,
Cos Farley building, Bell phone APP;
Peoples phone 1883
FOR SALE--The entire furnishings of
Groom house. consisting of four dress
ers and washstands, two iron beds one
Verna Martin bed. Davenport. chairs,
tables sideboard gas stove and other
things; will also turn over lease If party
.desires house, Call 522 North 18th street
or Bell phone 3649 main
FOR sALE-Four lots 45x190; 40-foot ave-
nue. in front. facing south; 1b-foot al
lev in rear; high and dry; two blocks Of
car sidewalk one block OF lots; no
mud; on beautiful North Highlands.
$780, One small house and lot in east
Avondale. colored property. $500. 80
acres nine miles from city on Fulton
Springs road on good pike road, some
cleared: good water; good land; $65 per
acre. See ID. NJ. Griswald, 209 Title
Guarantee Bldg.
I
FOR SALE or rent. might exchange. one
| OF the finest large farms In Alabama
| Box 6s2 city.
| COTTAGE bargain For sale. exchange
| or rent. new modern groom house at
| sacrifice near fair grounds. Eborn, 632
Brown-Marx.
FINE Mississippi farm. 1900 acres. upland
| delta. grows long staple cotton: one OF
| finest, best improved farms in Mlssis-
| sippi: price and terms attractive; would
consider part pay in birmingham prop
eriy Ebon. Brown-MaVx.
FOR EALE-Well-built groom cottage on
| lot 50xl50 at Kingston, two blocks south
OF car line on 50th street; $500, 500 cash,
balance monthly. bunker. 2111 1st ave
| nue..
FOR SALE-$7500 high-class house in
Norwood, rooms, modern, with fur
| mace, terms easy. F. N. Parkinson &
Co.. gill LIST avenue. Bell 1868.
GARDEN and dairy: Five acres, rich.
| well improved, fronts pike North Bir-
| mingham; first-class property; terms.
| Eborn. ea2 Brown-Marx.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

WANTED Experience cook. German or
Swedish preferred. 90, care Age-Her-
aid. 2-istf
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

ANTED-Three unfurnshed connecting
rooms downstairs for light housekeep-
ing by commercial salesman DESTROYS of
hcms-lilxe place for wife and Swear
old girl: must be in good location: ref
erences exchanged. Address B-42. care
Age Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

MULES end horses wanted In exchange
for part cash and part good real estate.
Address stating price Box so, city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

FOR SALE-sS000; SO $780, 31st street. be-
tween 18th and 14th avenues; this in
cludes street. curbing and sidewalk;
easy payments. w. B. Leedy & Co.
r-6- Il
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

WANT ED--1n buy. breeder for young
chicts: mtst he in good condition PA
care Age-Herai1
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

FOR SALE-s12.oO0. $4,000 cash, balance
!. and years, per cent interest
choice lot, 50x140 feet. 4th avenue. near
23d street: fine location for apartment
house or fats. Owner. 205 Hood bldg.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

Ton SALE-Bargam in one-horse dray.
See US at once. Alabama Paint and
Glass Co.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

FOR S-ALE-Iwo parrots, will sell cheap;
write or call 2502 9Th avenue. Bell phone
9ss: Peoples phone a47s.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
EDITORIAL


ST In committing the death sentence OF Samuel r.
Hardy. Governor Mann makes it plain that MS
action was in no sense a reflection upon or
interference with the verdict of the lower or
\ the decision of the higher court. tie acted upon
newly discovered evidence, the value OF which
he sifted and of which the prisoner did not have
and. after conviction, could not have the beneht.
circumstances like these fit exactly the theory
--11uon which titt. paFdeHing power Is based, the
placing in the hands of a trusted officer dis
cretion to remedy the effects of unintentionai
Injustice or to amelorate unforeseen hardship
in punishment. The case is here far different
from one in which the executive, in the case
of Governor Patterson undertakes 10 pass on
The evidence upon which the verdict and de-
cision are based. In the one case, the Governor
acts as the safeguard Of the law in the other he
presames 10 be the Law.
As to the Patterson case. without assuming a
knowledge of motive way or the other, we
think that too little consideration has been given
the fact that the Governor was entirely convers-
ant at first hand with all the evidence that the
ease was one brought on a charge Of conspiracy,
mon conviction of which the Supreme Court
gave new trial to the defendant who did the
killing aud sustained the verdict and sentence
against the defendant who did not fire, and
that by all accepted standards it would seem
that on a co-iudictment for conspiracy evidence
would bear equally on both defendants. In
such circumstances the strain upon the deciding
mind is. clear; whether the executive should in
such case vote his own convictions or smother
them in humble obedience to declared law is n
matter which the individual and the crisis must
be left to decide between themselves.
II Governor Patterson, however, attempted as
charged to influence the opinion of the Court,
it is not too much to say that he is an anarchist
of the worst type. As the head of a coordinate
branch Of government. he is perhaps free from
attachment for contempt. but this fact only adds
To the outrage of the attempt lie merely in
! dtilees in a crime for which he is not by virtue
I of his position punishable The crime is the
higher and the more dangerous for that fact
Ii there be reasonable evidence tending to show
that he did attempt to influence the court the
question in Tennessee should be, not the re-
election of its Governor. but his impeachment
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
A Large Misft.

/ II becomes apparent that President Taft
erred when he declined to accept at Roose-
velt's hands an appointment as Justice OF the
Supreme Court. His habit, experience and IN
ielinaton were all judicial Even his Philippine
experience and his Secretaryship of war called
for those qualities of equitable adjustment
which mark the Judge, whose opinion is a con-
cluson, final until it is overruled
When Mr. Taft became President, he was
welcomed as judge, one who would deal
fairly, without passion and without hate. Per-
haps he likewise deluded himself to the
possibility of welding judicial functions to
executive duties. If so, he is by this time as
much aware of his delusion as the country Is
of its own, After little more than year of
service, it is only those who for temporary pur-
poses have the Presidential car, and those who
have been won by the charm and good nature Of
the social side of his character who will not
reluctantly concede that as President Mr.. Taft
is misfit. 1t is use to blink the fact,
unpafHtHbfe as IL may be to all whB locked to
him to afford the happy mean between the ex-
travaganccs of Roosevelt and the sinister
conservatism of the reactonary wing.
Failing TO see the distinction, it would APP
pear that Mr.. Taft has procrastinated in action
until, spurred to do something, he acts in a
panic, and acts wrong. lie has dallied in de-
liberation until at the last moment, he is apt to
act and speak without it, Unused to the tricks
of politics and IMMERSED in the game he has
permitted himself to become enmeshed in the
tolls Of Aldrich. of Cannon and Of Ballnger.
Striving to be party man. when all his in
stinets were judicial. he has permitted his
naturally high ideals of equity to be obfuscated
with exaggerated notions of what is expected
iof him a Republican. In this way, honestly,
no doubt, but iamentably. he has come to do the
bidding of others instead Of demanding that
others, within his proper sphere of authority,
do his bidding. And he has as a result exhibited
to the nation the humiliating ,pectacle of big,
sane and learned man retailing hystercal de-
nunclatons from a street corner.
Ballinger has proved himself the sllyster even
more completely than the Collier charges taken
at their face value, ever made him out To
witness this venal legal and political runt push
ing before him to the firing line where the
mud flys thickest the President of the United
States is sight at which Angels might we'll let
fall tear.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
A Change Inevitable.

All Richmond should lend itself to the move
ment for a study of commission form of gov
eminent, which was inaugurated Monday at a
meeting between the Clay Ward Annex League
and The East End Citizens Association. of Mar.
shall Ward
lie is a wise man who can say to himself that
he has solved the problem of municipal govern
ment, by any one of the several Commission
Plans , or otherwise. Communities differ in
character and in temperament The plan must
be made to fit the situation and must be per-
fccted by experiment That this is true is fully
shown by the success of the commission form of
government in one city and by the disappoint-
ment it occasionally holds for another But what
seems to have been established beyond point of
cavil is that the ordinary city government of
widely ditfused responsibility and of intricate
machinery Is not anywhere truly satisfactory
or really representative Business is now an
exact science save i'll the conduct of the cities,
those corporations in which every man of civic
qualities is a stakeholder and in which he has
III greater or smaller degree a vital interest
Whatever the "plan' shall be, it is inevi
table that the people of communities are not
much longer to submit to lack of system. the
opportunity for malingering and the possibility
of graft in the one business in which their inter
ests of commerce. of health, and of morals are
most positively at
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
THE PEOPLES FORUM
\ Confederate Soldiers View.

Editor OF the Nfrgnian:
Sir,-I am proud that the people of Richmond are
good, that they do not want the boys contami-
mated by the very mention Of that which Is evil
You must not mention them OF the barroom,
of smoking cigarettes of any other evils. 1T will
not do to try and speak to them when they going
to ruin by the thousands. 1t might cut someone out
Of few dollars. | have read every piece in your
paper about MIR. Yoder. God bless your paper and
may II continue to make appeal for the right.
am proud that We have one daily paper IN
Richmond that Is tit read, that Is not run BY
corruption bought by the whiskey traffic that
is 1T for families read. enjoy editorials
hope every other Christian gentlemen will do as
doing talk II up and take it.
In reply to old Fashioned Virginian" ! Will say
that will he of five hundred 10 give Yoder five
dollars II he Will accept II. though l never saw the
man one of his napers but have heard the optn-
ion of many that he doing good deal of good.
/ am willing to help those who trying to help
others, and win for those who are trying TO per-
secute him. that they had better remember Judas
Iscariot. Wrong may prosper for while, but the
truth will to the top May the Lord have mercy
those who have prosecuted him. 1t is bound to do
good tho long hut is the duty of Christians
to give him help and hope others Will come to his
aid WILLIAM f, GILL
Confederate SOLDIER Tricks L. o., Va
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
More Nicaraguan Complication.

Now that the Ncaraguan middle is again
stirred by the action of United States warshlr
In refusing to permit the Niearaguan gunboat
9.Venus'' TO lombard the town of Bluefields, it
Is but natural that the fantastic methods of
the State Department in connection with this
entire matter should cause confusion as to the
present incident.
Illustrative of this it is now being asked why,
il the Venus was not to be permitted to
perform the functions of war vessel she was
ever permitted to be fitted ont as a flibuster-
ing expedition at New Orleans
The answer is simply. that the vessel was not
in any sense a fibusterer, but was prepared
and fitted AZ the property of a sovereign, in
dependent power OF Central America.
1t IL true that the ridiculous antics of Knox
in bringing the power of the United States TO
bear in the aid of rebellion against the regular
Nicaraguan government so confused the issue
as to make excusabe the inference that the
government forces in rebellion against
themselves and that their preparations for war
were those of forces seeking to destroy in
stead of preserve the government But the
Illuminating result was that, even despite the
open. sympathy of this country with the revou-
tionists. sympathy that extended to the trans
port of United States marines in their aid the
government has managed to not only hold its
OWL bnt almost 10 crush the insurgent- forces.
This being true the action of Commander
Gilmer must be viewed entirely from the stand
point Of the humanities. Here was de-
fenseless town largely filled with non-combatant
#eHa4f AID children, threatened with complete
destruction. Technically perhaps, the United
4 States should have stood by and let the carnage
proceed. Morally, such Indifference would have
been a greater crime against modern ideals than
interference was against the strict rules of
neutrais in time Of war. But this is far diff
Ierent ease from the bumptious and perhaps
malign injection of the power of great nation
on the scales Of third rate squabble
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
Fighters Not Worried to Death

President Kirby, the new president of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers, undertakes
to declare that former president J. W. Van
cleave died directly by reason of the long fight
which he waged against the labor unions of
the country Regretfully spoken as this com
ment doubtless was it is SANDER of the man
Ut whom il was directed. Van Cleave was "A
fighter who gave no quarter nor asked any. He
was likewise man of poise and man not with
out the sense of humor One Of the reasons he
proved so exasperatine to the more extreme
element among the unionists was that he pos
sessed the quality of fighting wholehea~tedly
for his cause without permitting himself to be
personally affected. He came out of one battle
fresh and ready for another With many and
sr~ied interests beyond and apart from his fights
& eainst the unions, it is possible that the sum of
ssiness cares NAV finally have worn out 50
rong and well rounded physical and mental
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
A Distinction Overlooked.

Occasionally correspondent will attack with
heat as the opinion of the paper to which he
writes some view which the paper itself may
not hold and with which it in fact disagrees. Be
cause he ''sees it in the paper" this type Of in
dividual concludes that the paper itself must
have said or Endorsed it, Nothing could be
further from the truth, so far as any fair news
paper is concerned. The function of the news
paper and the ideal toward which it aims is. with
IN the limits of decency to give the news; within
the limits of fairness, to express and seek to i'm
press it's own opinion, and in the interest of tho
information of its own readers. no less than in
justice to those who hold differently from itself.
to present impartially the views and opinions of
others. To do less than this would be to per.
Judice the case before the great jury to which
the newspaper makes appeal, and To rob it in
the end of that sympathetic and thoughtful CON-
partnership which it ought always to seek to es-
tablish and maintain with the body of its read
ers
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
Virginia Comment
Unknown War HEROINE Discoycred.

In 1897 there appeared In the Richmond Times
Dispatch communication. written from Shepherds
town, w. Va giving account of the heroic act
during the Civil War of a Southern woman then a
girl of eighteen, living Port Republic. in this
county which resulted in bluffng dozen Yankee
soldiers and saving for herr brother, gallant Con-
federate soldier whe happened be In the neghbor
hood at the time, his highly priced mount. which the
Northern troopers found in her possession The writer
OF the was unable to give the name of
the brave young woman, 1t having escaped his men,
ory much to his regret The identity OF the daring
girl was discovered yesterday by Daily News
porter She was none other than Miss Cynthia Hook
who still resides the old Hooke homestead.
Port Republic. Her brother, the of the
horse In question Scott Hooke who Is still living
Mr.. Hooke at resides within half mile OF the
home of his sister.
In the MAN. the author of the communication to
the Dispatch the fact with absolute accuracy.
lie was wrong In one partio uar however. The Yam
kee lieutenant referred did not discover that the
pistol with which the young woman held his men at
bay was capless, and therefore harmless, until he
had returned to camp following the delivery of the
pistol to him,
Miss Hooke and her entire family yet remain among
the most loyal Southerners of all those who gave
cheer and comfort TO the supporters of the Stars and
Bars--Iiarrisonburg News
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
HAPPY ItculAIlyilIc.

Editor Of the Vrgnian:
The Virginian is read with increased interest by
those who ii in this section. All like it, not only
for the table and fair editorials. but also for the
interesting correspondents. We like the sympathy
expressed for Mr. a. A Yoder. who is prosecuted and
prosecuted for trying tn do right throwing the light
on dark and cracked places There is only one crt-
cism, /. G., it does not date every page,
People In this section prosperous, have fine
horses and excellent cattle, and have very much i'm
proved their farms raise good crops The nights are
cool but wheat and trucks look we'll. There fine
prospects for fruit and the flowers beautiful.
So the girls Like the rosebuds painted by
Farmers and their families busy, but take time
to extend hospitality.
The Sunday school of Beuah Baptist church Is the
oldest Sunday school in the county and is the banner
school of all this section in and prompt at
tendance as also in hberality the large collection
every Sunday proves Mr. Robert Semple Ryland is
the faithful superintendent, MIR. Ryland is at
tending the Sunday School Convention in Washington.
Few. ii here losing sleep account of the
comet Indeed, they thinking of ting
mother earth They think it will pay better. The
comet is exceeding the speed limit. and they will
leave IL to the police and plain clothes men and to
others who are paid TO watch It, w. ii. TURPIN.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20

1t looks like whichever way the Jumps In the
case of John 6. Davis, ex-Wmingtonian trial
in Washington ii is not going TO show up precisely
we'll for North Carolina If he's adudged insane. II
will look like North Carolina turned loose a crazy
and II he is declared will appear II a
New Hanover county jury allowed thief to go
Observation-Disclosures Dispatch
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
Virginia Alfalfa.

Talk about the profit In farming how does a crop
of alfalfa worth $4,000 strike you? farmer In
Prince George county Va, has been working the crop
for all 1t Is worth. and this 1t Is said. will
most double his output of last year. does NOT
great big farm either: II is of the average size:
he simply knows how. What il more ASTONISHING Il
is said that alfalfa will do well unless on upland
while in this the land Is not far above level
Greensboro RecOrd
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20

man. But the imputation of a lack of funda-
mental nerve which the explanation of his death
carries with it is charge which to no one more
than Van Cleave himself would have appeared as
both ridiculous and insulting.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
Will Not Hold C.ke-

Among the other reasons advanced In explanation
of that extraordinary contract with the county
company, necessity for better fire protection in the
Seventh Ward is especially stressed.
The explanation itself will not hold water.
AS the Nirgnian- Pilot pointed out yesterday, all
that necessary the Seventh Ward section
adequate water pressure and supply in case
of tire other emergency is TO install gatevalve
Williams and Twenty fifth street.-The very
point at which the city Is delivered to
the county system.
This gate-valve could be promptly and easily open
ed in Of need, thus quickly flooding the county
mains and creating adequate pressure before the
fire engines could arrive the and connect up
with the water plugs.
In view OF these obvious facts the average mind
will hardly appreciate the necessity of giving the
county system ten million gallons of city water a
month. the bulk OF which is resold at profit of
tweny-six hundred cent, when the same result.
far fire protection in the Seventh Ward Is CON
cerned. could be effectively accomplished NOM
nal expenditure Of city water. and possibly II not
gtnian Pilot
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
Hitch in Ratsinr sfatnc,

Another hitch has occurred IN the plan raise
the battleship Maine. sunk Havana harbor In 1898
Congress recently appropriated $780, 900 TO raise
vesael. but according statement given out yes
terday by the War Department. II may take half a
million dollars or more defray the cost OF raising
the wreck Secretary OF War Dickinson yesterday
called the attention of the House letter to him,
dated last Saturday from Chief Engineer Marshall.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20

"Having proved to its own satisfac-
ton that Roosevelt is a shallow and
pretentious humbug who can not een-
struct decent speech, that Bryan Is
mischief making pretender and fraud
and that Taft is an amiable imbecile,
The Dispatch, Richmond, should
go a step further. 1t should tell MS
whether in its opinion we have any
where in public life good, representa-
tive, worthy American citizen with
reasonably good character and meas
uring up to The Times-Dispatch stand
ard of ability Roanoke Times.
Surely there ought to be some good Southel
IAN" who could fill the bill.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
City Noises I'm Raleigh.

"The bardIette OF the Raleigh Evening Times" COM
ments the Charlotte News hasn't heaved a poetic
sigh in week. Is the tuning fork lost?" Nay.
but how could be expected to raptuous
musical thoughts with much discordant noise n
PROGRESS the streets OF Observation-Disclosures Do
patch.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20

Furnishing vice, if it have the Will to do so,
and that without the necessity OF National 's
going to the extent of charging the commerce
clause of the Constitution so as to make IN
Idividuals Interstate baggage
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
Carolina Comment


VIII not please rise up and tell the name OF
that comet that in evident back in 81 5s? 1T
plainly be in the western sky between
sunset and dark and hummer. in all this
talk about comets nothing IL said about IT. In fact.
would infer that the HALEY gentleman the
whole show; that other comet had ever been
printing around 1t won't do say that this 'lS
small potato: it a lin dandy all
right and had the whole creation scaredGreensbuI
Record.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-20
Back from Minnesota.

DR.. NJ. H. Triplett. Duluth, MINI. is spending "A
few days visiting relatives and friends in Frederick
county and winchester. after absence of number
years. DIR. Triplett. who Is known among his old
associates as Bud' is now OF the most successful
physicians aand surgeons of Duluth. and Is extern
svey Interested in the iron industry and estate
in Mnnesota.W Winchester star