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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21

The rays grow perceptibly shorter but
Christmas is yet some time off.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21

Hurrah for Atlanta! The Georgia me-
tropolis is a pretty big city after ALL
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INEVITABLE
Vacation days, vacation days,
The days we like to sing,
When random fancy fondly strays
And bells of Elfland ring;
When happy dreams gild rural shades
And winding lanes of bloom
And peace is found in sylvan glades,
Altar from strife and doom.
Vacation days vacation days,
The best time~0f the year,
The golden respite that repays
For many a sigh and tear
We trip away to pleasures gay
On mountain crest or shore,
And bear what ready funds we may.
We always write for more.
PAUL COOK.
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The poet of aviation believes in flight
of fancy.
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Prunes are Awaiting.
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Vacation days are fast drawing to a
close.
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makes Gen. Stonewall jackson give a
stern rebuke to the soldier who fred the
shot.
Who harms one hair of yon gray head
Dies like dog"
That's the way Whittier put 1t, as
remember. But the version that nv
Grand Army friend gave me is entirely
different. The old Confederate told him
mat as the troops were marching past a
house-whose 1t was. of course, he didn't
know at that time-an old woman came
to the front door with a Union flag in
her hand. She waved this back and forth,
although she didn't say anything. The
soldiers all along the line were Joking
her In a good-natu way In his own
company were several young fellows who
always wanted to have all the fun they
could get out of even such a tiresome
affair as march along dusty roads.
When they saw the old woman waving
the flag they raised their guns and point
ed them In her direction, just to see if
they could get her to say something to
them. These guns were not loaded, as
they were not in action, and, so the
sergeants story goes, there was not the
slightest danger for the woman. The
boys were merely acting in spirit of
mischief.
1.-The sergeant himself, he relates, or
dered the boys to stop their foolishness
and not point their guns at woman.
They laughed and shouldered arms That
seems to be all there is to the story
Stonewall Jackson is eliminated there
no shot fired, but. nevertheless. guns
were pointed at Barbara Fritichie, and
so the poem of Whittiers is not Alto
gether the product of imagination. The
poet may have got his information from
some dispatch to yellow newspaper.
if they had them In those days"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21

along, passed between me and the street
car SO that l had to step back to tho
curb, with the result that 1 missed my
car for the city. I was mad enough to
commit murder. IT seemed to me that of
all the thoughtless. inconsderate crea-
lures in the world the automobilist took
the prize.
so that have reached the conclusion
that the blame for Observation-Disclosures de-
ponds largely on whether you happen to
be the automobiles or the other fellow
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ONE OF MANY.

"Griggs has a painful disregard for
the truth"
you do Griggs a great injustice"
"EhY
He regards the truth very highly
but has found that he can't use it in
his business"
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ringing in his ears: Do you think this is
a school for amateurs?' You never can
tell about these women."-Leavenwor
Times.
TRIALS OF AUTHORSHIP.
In stuffy rooms where 'skeeters" fit
The Christmas story's being writ
Although tits very hard, we hear,
To get the proper atmosphere,
An atmosphere of snow and frost
And dead leaves by the blizzard tossed,
And poundings on the window-pane
OF rafting hail and wintry rain.
ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER
The ice mans rule is waning. now.
But bless your soul!
Well soon inquire with troubled brow
The price of coal.
HARD TO REACH.
I'D be glad to kiss the tips of her
fingers"
You'd find 1t bad business. She
believes in having her nails manicured
extra long"
SOME DAY.
Fathers cooking ham and eggs,
Helpless in his fury
For his bot. the baby begs-
Mothers on the jury.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

ringing in his ears Do you think this is
school for amateurs?' You never can
tell about these women.'-Leavenworth
Times.
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HE ABSORBS MORE.

TIE AboOfNbS NOItE'
"A whisky bath is highly recommend
ed"
THAT sort of proposition no doubt
appeals to a man with enlarged pores"
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close.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05

Two mem KILLED IN
COLLISION IN OREGON

CASCADE LOCKS, Oregon, Jan. 5.-Two
killed and five seriously injured today in wreck of two
exAa freight trains three miles of this
place the o. R. N road dense fog and steep grade
are partly responsible for the accident.
The dead
T. H. Carson, cattleman.
Unidentified immigrant, burned to death
The injured:
T. B. Moore Durkee Oregon catteman, leg broken; in
ternally injured.
M Mclean, Mauchunk, Pa, cattleman, broken, in
|ternal injuries.
George D. Hall, Tacoma, catteman, head cut shoulders
badly injured.
G. Hanley cattleman internal nuries may not recover
Bert Hallman, The Dalles, brakeman leg broken
The wreck caused by extra freight No. 300 and
extra train No. 1872 coding The caboose of train No. 300
caught fire from overturned stove and the caboose and
an immigrant Immediately ahead of it totally
destroyed It in the latter that the unidentified i'm
migrant incinerated He coming west in the
with his furniture
Carson is believed to be from Carney Neb. card
with this address found in his pocket He in the
asleep when the crash and caught under
the wreck.
All the injured were either asleep lying hunks in
the cabOOSe,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05

riageS every year in Oklahoma for
each 10000 adult married popula-
tion, or, in other words. Il bach
elor or an old maid who moves to
Oklahoma is taking one chance in
20 that they will remain unmarried.
For many this might be long
chance. but it's a better opportun-
ity. the figures show, than any
other part of the country offers.
Two extremes of the marriage
question. according to Professor
Hill were left entirely out of the
official report. They were Hawaii
and Alaska. The Hawaians are
known to get married on the
slightest provocation. Divorces, too,
are more frequent than in the
United States proper, because the
Japanese, who outnumber the
whites in Hawaii. are inconstant
husbands.
The reverse is true in Alaska.
There are plenty of men there and
mighty few women.
Outside the south" says Profes-
sor hin, the highest marriage
rates prevail In the middle west
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
MARTIN INSISTS
PROSECUTOR SLEPT
IN GORDON CASES
Cites New Criminal Code to Show That Gordon and
Schively Indictments Void Because of
Failure to Prosecute.

Has the time, the energy and the
money expended by Spokane county
In running down the alleged embez-
elements by M. ! Gordon as attor-
ney for the Great Northern railway,
and the indictments returned
against J. n. SchIvely, insurance
commissioner, come to naught
through failure to prosecute these
cases to trial by Prosecutor Pugh?
Thousands of dollars of the tax
payers money were freely paid out
in the belief that the prosecuting
attorneys office was bent on prob
ing the Gordon-Root matter and the
Pacific Livestock cases to the bot
tom. Prosecuting Attorney Pugh
had the support of the county com
missioners, the grand jury and the
press OF the city and he was hailed
as another Heney at the time. 1t
Is now over six months since the
lgrand jury returned the indict-
7ments In these cases-seven
against Judge Gordon charging EN-.
bezzlement OF nearly $4,000 from
the Great Northern railway, and
two against J. II. Schively, present
state insurance commissioner, In
eonection with the wrecking of the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
BOATS
AND rs MEN GONE

VANCOUVER, B. c., Jan. ga special from Halifax,
N. s. says ''Wha may prove of the worst fishing
disasters in this vicinity occurred yesterday when tempt
ed by fine morning. 25 boats belonging to the fleets in
the vicinity of Whitehead n S., went out little farther
than customary Good fishing made them careless of the
gathering storm, whchswooped down ON them about
Only five boats have succeeded in making harbor and
three others heard from this morning, making
eneen with 76 men, still missing having been driven out
to by the souhwesterly gale.
One boat is reported ashore at the bay entrance but
there is hope for the The government steamer
Aberdeen will be in search of the missing boats
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05

Who is to pay for the $2S0,oo0
bond required of County Clerk At
kinson on the $4,000 of trust
money in his charge? Prosecutor
Pugh mas advised the county com
missioners that the county is not
compelled to pay the premiums,
and while Mr. Atkinson says little
it is evident that he doesn't con-
slider the payment for the bonds up
to him,
The judges, who ordered the
bond, and the prosecutors olflce
will confer on the matter today or
tomorrow and endeaNor TO untan-
Gle affairs. AS it is now the law
gives the county commissioners no
authority in the matter OF bonds
for the clerk of the courts, the
clerk Is not permitted to receive
interest on the trust funds, and
should the courts make a ruling
that the trust fund interest be ap-
piled TO bond premiums the liti-
gants might step in and demand
Interest on their money.
Z Il have $l50,000 in state war
rants and bonds TO secure my trust
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
CHICAGO GRAIN.

ICAGO Jan. 5.-Wheat-
was checkered course in
rheat market both early and
and in the end prices were
Jout 3-4 cent net decline from
close yesterday. 1t was in the
this morning to take profits
prepare for something of a
back in the market after the
e half-cent advances from low
y on the closing day of yes
aday.
The selling. which caused a dip
to $1.13 "a FOR May and close to
$1.03 for July on the opening
trades. was largely In the way of
profit taking. The last hour
brought repetition of about the
same kind of selling noted during
the morning, with about the same
result.
The most noticeable thing in the
local trade today was the cash de-
mand. All the southwest markets
showed. receipts much lighter than
shipm ATS, and cash prices ag"in
strong and higher. 1t looks like a
healthy situation for both cash and
futures If buyers will take the pre-
caution to get in on fairly good
breaks.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
HEAD OF YALE SAYS GERMAN
IS THE TYPICAL AMERICAN

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-After years Of close search
in America, President Iadley of Yale University de-
clares 'he nearest representative o '1e NPca Amer
ican' which he has been able to find is not an Amer
lean at all, but a German from Berlin
This announcement, made before the American His
torica and Economic associations last night is creating
wide comment DIR. IIadley declared he had been en-
gagged for years in the seIfi0posed task of finding
typical American and had to the conclusion that
the Berner most nearly represented the ambitions and
character sought in this country.
''We have much to learn from these Germans, par
ticuary in the line of practical work. declared the
educator.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
INSURGENTS TO
ACCEPT BATTLE

WASHINGTON Jan. 5.-Reports out today that the
insurgents in congress planning to hold meeting to
adopt general plan of action to combat the reported pur
pose of the Taft administration to conduct open warfare
against them The administration intention Of withhold
ing patronage from the nsurgen congressman and in that
manner carry the fight against them into their own dis
tricts, openly stated, met with no denial.
The assertion of Representative Miller of Minnesota that
Postmaster General Hitchcock told him in plain words
that his appointments of posmasters would be held up
because he is nsrgent, is not denied today The in
srgents say they have ample evidence that the admins
tration is using administration club to make them
suffer.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
LATEST FINANCIAL
- NEWS 80
Furnished the Night Edition Walter Nichols Co,
BOSTON COPPER.

BOSTON, Jan. 5.-EVerybOdy
seemed to have the selling fever.
The weakness in Amalgamated was
responsible for most of the selling
in coppers and the movement may
extend a few points farther.
The shutdown of all the Butte
mines is a strong bull point as far
as the metal situation is concerned,
but is discouraging to the holders
of Butte stocks.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
COLD FIGURES ON HOT LOVE
POINT TO THE SUNNY SOUTH
That's the Great Marrying Place of the Naon-Mddle
West Is Next-Cupid Earns Millions for Knot Tyers

While figures from most states
show increases in marriages for the
last 20 years, Utah is an exception.
This may be due to the fact that
the Mormon church has abolished
polygamy.
Preachers, rural justices, judges
and others who tie the knot have
made at least $25 1854 ,0SS in fees in
the last two decades. These figures
compare favorably with the income
of the sugar trust; and isn't it
dreadful, Mabel?
This sum is figured on the basis
of 81 for each marriage.
In times of panic there are few
marriages, while in times of pros
perity there are more. Thus, in
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
NORTHWEST FIR WILL GET AD-
VERTiSEMENT AT WASH
INGTON.

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 5.-Splen-
did examples of fir finishing, said
to be the most elaborate ever sent
from the northwest, will be shipped
this week to Washington, d. c.,
where they will enter into the new
building being erected by the Blu
reau of American Republics, under
the direction OF John Barrett. The
wood will be used In the reception
room OF the new building. which
will be completely finished in fir.
This will result in a big advertise
ment for this wood as a finishing
material.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
FOWLS WE'RE
DECOMPOSED

The Schallinger Produce
company was fined $25 and
costs by Justice Geo. w. Stock
er this morning for selling de-
composed fowls to VIM. kellin-
ger, the Division street butch
er, on October 8, 1909.
SchaIIinger declared that the
fowls were allowed to deoom-
pose by the cold storage peo-
pie, and that they were deliv-
cred without any notification
to him of the condition of the
birds.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
WHERE ARE THOSE
RESOLVES NOW?
Swearing On," Instead, With the
Cigar Smokers, Dropping the
'fSWearing Off" Habit?

=
IL O city be
4 y
Evidently fellow smoking said that he
swearing Off habit getting of
violation
said: From the
shaking
theyfa kept 1t
cracked the cold wave
United
Until this
their will be slight easing off in the traffic.
Smiths the New Years resolves
felt In fact they everent in regard to this
nto at among
of cigar smoke
of
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
THOUGHT HE BEL LONCED
TO THE 400"

. Evidently becoming pos =
. sessed with the idea that he =
. was member OF the 400, ID. s. =
. Hobbs, one of the city chnin =
. gang men, suddenly halted =
. the silent procession Al Il Was =
. crossing the Howard street y
. bridge this morning and de- =
. manded that he be provided II
. with a conveyance to take him y
. to his task on the rock pills. -
. The police accommodated him -
\ by calling out the police pa \
= troll. Va
- Hobbs Is I'M" for cngaGifg 1
= In 4 fight In the Darby saloon. =
ett~<t~tHvtHH200 = -
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SWEPT TO DEA TIL INA
Z SNOWSLLDE; NOT FOUND

Hubbard Copper Co. Of Chicago, left
Cordova with Greer and party Of
other mining men December.12. His
object was the examination of min
ing property at Elliott creek, in
which his company has an interest.
No further details Of the accident
were forthcoming from the messen-
ger who first brought news yester-
daY from 1iekeI.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
POOR DOG
COOK HAS
ONLY $1,000
That's What His Friends
Are Saying
Now.
HOW 1T FIGURES OUT
HOW 1T FIGURES OUT

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Dr. Cooks
fake. II fake he did, wasn't such
fat thing for his pocketbook as
some people figure, his friends say.
They insist that the doctor, In
fact, only picked up measty $780,
900 from his newspaper writings
and the lectures he delivered In "a
cities right off the bat on his return
to America. And whole lot Of
that $4,000 went gIimmerlng on
various ordinary and extraordinary
expenses that bobbed up before the
explorer" disappeared into the
cleaning.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
ITALIANS SHIELD
THEIR C0UNTRYMEN

you desire to secure justice
through this court and yet you
wilfully hold back testimony nee
essary to convict the guilty men.
You cannot expect the county or
the state to go to the expense of
conducting a trial If you stand to-
gether and refuse to tell facts"
The above is in substance what
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05

WASHINGTON. Jan. ga lot of
lightning calculators, census eX-
perts and philosophers have re-
Gently muckraked Cupid and
spread out columns of figures
showing that Little Dan has been
unusually active in some parts of
the country while in others he
has been loafing on the job.
The government love report
hides itself in the covers of cen
sus bulletin. There are more
marriages to the square mile in
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas. Mis-
sissippi and Florida than in any
other states. Also, more mar
riages per thousand of population.
There are more than go mar
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
(By United Press.)

CORDOvA, Alaska, Jan. 5.-The
bodies of Harry Curtiss Elliott OF
Chicago and II. n. Greer Of Seattle,
who were swept to their death by
a snoNslide 100 miles north of here,
on December 80, had not been re-
covered up to January 8, according
to wSrd received today. Elliott,
who was president of the Elliott
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
WHO WILL PAY
THAT BIG BOND?

funds" declared Clerk Atkinson
this morning" and in addition to
this | enter all sums to the credit
of the case chargeable to my
self on the appearance docket and
also on the reception register,
things which have never been done
before by any clerk of this
county"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
WHITES LAST ~
TALK THURSDAY

John u. White, the eminent desci-
pie of Henry George, who is one of
the finest lecturers in the country,
and who has been entertaining
large audiences here, has been Sc
cured for one more evening in this
city. Thursday evening at Appollo
hall, $40 II Riverside, he will de-
liver his noted lecture on the
French Revolution"
Friday Mr.. White will leave for
Portland.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
NEW YORK STOCKS.

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-The selling
of the Rock Island issues on a
large scale was perhaps RESPONSE
BILE for the greater part of the
feverishness and irregularity dur
ing todays session, but in addition
TO conflicting reports from Wash
ipston, together with the erratic
ione of call money. We're factors
which served to induce liquidation.
and on the declines great many
4atop orders were uncovered which
tspotl1
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05

l90I-oS the number of marriages
in the United States was less than
the preceding two years, when the
nigh tide of prosperity had been
reached.
Just how the states of the union
show up in the little matter of love
and marriage is shown in the ac-
companying map.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
TWO KILLED
BY A TRAIN

CHICAGO. Jan. 5.-Lewis e.
Cone. a wealthy horseman, and his
wife, were instantly killed today
when an Illinois Central train
crashed into their touring car in
the southern section of the city.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05
BOUND OVER AS
THE HORTON ROBBER

derer of Officer Waterbury. was
this afternoon bound over to the
superior court. after the testimony
in the Horton case had been heard.
His bonds were placed at $780,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05

Joe Duffy, alias Ira Thompson,
charged with an attempt to rob
Charles e. Horton on New Years
eve, suspected of being the MUIR
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05

Judge Mann said to a number OF
Italians in the police court this
afternoon, after the trial of Tomas
81 Carnitoro and Michael Daguna.
who were mixed up in a cutting
scrape at the o. r. C N. depot re-
Gently.
The Italians were openly accused
of holding back essential testi-
mony. The case was continued.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05

For instance. the suite of rooms
which he held at the Waldorf-As-
toria hotel is in the $30-a-day
class. He occupied this suite for
four weeks, which meant an ex-
pense Of about sS40.
The third day he was in New
York he took Mrs. Cook to Tiff.
fany's store and made extensive
purchases of jewelry for her. and
the new white satin gown in which
she appeared at the Cook banquet
was a costly piece of work. Among
other expenses was $500 for send
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NIGHT BULLETINS

CHICAGO, Jan 5The and sleet which
The
midd
Repos relief within
although fatal
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-05

Pacific Livestock association. Five
other Livestock directors We're also
indicted.
None of these indictments have
been brought to trial, and at the
meeting of the Spokane County
Township and Good Government
club yesterday it was charged by
II. b. Martin, president of the club,
that Prosecutor Pugh had slept on
his rights and that the indictments
were no longer valid because of a
lack of prosecution.
Prosecutor Pugh insists in n re-
ply that Martin had been misin-
formed as to the law and that the
cases will be brought to trial in
due time. He says that We're the
indictments thrown out the prose.
cution could be renewed on an in.
formation filed by the prosecutor.
To this Mr.. Martin today made
the following reply:
MARTIN CITES LAW.
"Mr. Fred G. Pugh. Prosecuting
Attorney: In last evenings Chron-
icle you are quoted as saying that
] do not state the facts regarding
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