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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
UNDER LIABILITY LAWS|
u. S. SUPREME COURT TO PASS
UPON RAILWAY APPEAL.
Employe Secures Verdict for Dam
ages for Personal Injuries I'm
der Kentucky Statute.

One of the last cases scheduled to be
heard by tho Supreme Court of the
United States before arguments are sus-
pended Friday until next October is one
involving the much-mooted question of
the extent Of the liability Of railroads I'M
der state employers liability laws If
rapid progress is not made with the cal
endar the case will be postponed auto
matically until the next term
The case is that Of Spencer Melton,
carpenter employed by the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company, for dam
ages for personal injuries suffered while
he was assisting in constructing a coal
tpple for the railroad alongside it's tracks
in Indiana. Melton brought suit in the
courts Of Kentucky, where he resides. and
recovered a judgment for $4,000 From
this judgment the railroad company ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court Of the United
States.
Contention of the Company.
The company seeks to raise tho question
as to whether an employers liability law.
limited in its application to railroad cor
porations alone. extends its protection to
all employees OF the railroad, or only to
those subjected to the peculiar hazards
OF the railroad. It claims that the In
diana employers liability law is uncon-
stitutional unless interpreted so as to
limit it's liability to the latter class of
employees.
In brief Benjamin D. Warfield, coun-
sci for the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company, has just filed in the
case, he says the company concerned
does not question the right Of the lesis-
lature to classify railroads in order to
impose liability upon them for injuries
to their employees incident to railroad
hazards.
But it does insist that to make this a
constitutional exercise Of legislative pow
er. the liability of the railroads must
be made to depend upon the character
of the employment, and not upon the
character Of the employer" he says.
Defense Against Discrimination.
It is contended that Melton. as a car
penter, was doing work no more dan
gerous to him. merely because he was
employed by railroad company, than
If he had been doing tho Same character
OF work for an employer other than a
railroad company.
James w. Clay, as counsel for Melton,
in his brief to the court seeks to show
the court that the duties Of a carpenter
employed by railroad company subject
him to greater hazards than would be the
case were he employed by others. It Is
regarded as possible that the Supreme
Court may lay down rule in this case
which will affect the enforcement Of such
laws In all the states.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
WILL HEAR RATE CASES
INTERSTATE COMMISSION TO
CONFER THIS WEEK.
Important Pacific Coast Matters
Will Be Taken Up for
Consideration.

The interstate commerce commission Is
to hold a conference next Thursday and
Friday, when the Pacific coast cases
which were heard by the commits
sion on its long trip last autumn Will
come I'D for consideration. All of the
cases are of general interest. They In
yolve not merely freight conditions local
to the Pacific coast, but questions OF
rates which affect transcontinental tramc
in it's entirety The cases include the re-
hearing of the Spokane rate case, the
Portland and Seattle back-haul cases. the
San Francisco cases involving rates into
int r-mountain territory and the notable
Reno rate case.
The last is the most important proceed
ing nov before the commission Keno
Shippers have urged the COMMISSION TO
give them the same rates on class ana
noints that now are given to Pacific coast
terminals.
Rate to Sacramento.
1t was developed in the hearing OF the
case that the rate from Atlantic ports to
Sacramento, Cal. and other Pacific coast
terminals was 50 on frst-claas freight
and nroportionately less on other classes
and commodities.
The rate to Reno from the same points
Of orisin In the sum OF the Pacific coast
terminal rate plus the local rate from
Sacramento to Reno. The distance from
sacramento to Reno is less than $50 miles
and the back-haul rate is $l.29 on hrst-
class freight.
mis- makes the rate from Atlantic sea-
hoa I'd points to Reno $40, although the
freight is unloaded at Reno on the west
bound haul.
Sacramento II a water competitive point.
a boat line being operated between San
francisco and Sacramento. They hold.
therefore. that although Sacramento IS
a longer haul. they are ooiigeo 10 make
lower rate on account Of the water
competition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
BABIES CAPS,
WORTH soc AND 75c,
CHOICE AT Csc.

A lot Of makers Sample Caps Bonnets
little folks offered savings of half to
of dainty. sheer null. in French shape, with
tuclxs embroidery, lace and ribbon bow trimmings.
Clean fresh goods Sizes 13 and IA only.
Choice at csc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
st. Mary's Academy Alumnae.

At the annual meeting Of the alumnae
Of st. Mary's Academy yesterday after
noon the following officers were elected:
Miss Matte Chilly, president; Mrs. James
W. Bales. vice president; Miss Ella Hill.
secretary: Miss Sallie Harlow treasurer;
Miss Agnes Gilroy. historian: Miss Rosa
Crilly, librarian. The alumnae made the
annual presentation of . the aiunnae
medal for department., which will be
awarded at the commencement exercises
in June. Another meeting will be held
September IL, when plans for the annual
banquet Of the alumnae October Is will
be made The faculty has invited alum
rue to attend the closing exercises June
IL Members are requested to wear their
aiuSnnae badges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
AEXAN[)R|AAFFARS
Pleading With Gov. Mann for
!. Calvin Johnson's Life.
NO MORE RESPITES LIKELY
Nesting Of St. Mary's Academy
Hmmnae-Short Session Of Police
Court Cash Register Robbed.
Spsea6l Correspondence Of The Star.

SpSeadl Correspondence Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va, April 25., 1910.
A mai plea for the life of Calvin John
son. one Of the four negroes sentenced
TO BE- electrocuted May Is for the murder
of walter F. Schultz Of Chicago. who
wae killed in this city March 6, 1909. was
mads Saturday by Attorney Lewis H.
MActlen to Gov. Mann. Mr.. Mhchen
srHusd with the governor all day to save
the life Of his client.
The governor is now engaged in go
ing over the record. which is a long one.
Reports from Richmond say Gov. Mann
declared that he would grant no more
respites in the cases of the condemned
men. and that his next action would end
the case one way or the other.
Richard Pines and Eugene Dorsey,
negroes. also convicted OF the murder will
be benefciades Of Mr.. Machen's efforts
II he succeeds. as they we're convicted
on practically the same testimony. Many
persons here believe that all four men
will have their sentences COMMITTED to
life imprisonment. Twice the executions
have been postponed by Gov. Mann and
they were postponed three times by Gov.
swanson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
BLACK CHIP HATS.
Usual So Values at 79c.

A special lot of Women's Fine Quality
Black Chip Untrimaned Hats-the most approved
shapes OF the season.
In medium and large shapes-styes that lend
themselves any kind trimming, they
very dressy and smart.
we make a bold for big Tuesday crowd in
Millinery Section Offering these regular $500
Black Chip Untrmmed Hats for roc each
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
Memoranda.

WYcomico for Chesapeake city, In tow
OF tug Fortuna.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
$1.25 CREX RUGS. 79c,

200 Crex Mating Rugs, size 3Ox6O inch,
colors, bordered and striped designs. Che
green and blue.
Tape-bound sides and fringed ends. Idea
erings for summer homes-both durable and
Each rug bears the well known "Crex'
label
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
Yankee Meat and Alien Eggs
freely

Our sacred tariff and it's trusts are un- der fire from many quarters, but per haps the most deadly fire comes from comparison of prices of home meats at home and abroad and of the prices of alien eggs in this country.
 ? The New York World shows that the best cuts of American frozen beef were sold in London last wek at from SA to cents pound, wheras the price of all cuts in New York for frozen beef was 111k to II cents a pound. These are whole sale prices in both instances, and they show that American beef is carried SO00 miles across the sea and is then sold at from to cents a pound cheaper than 1t Is sold in New York. A people that will stand extortion of that nature and extent at the hands of the meat trust will stand almost any raid the meat trust may desire to make
 Brokers in Hull, England, are now shipping eggs to this country. The duty on the frozen eggs in , cents dozen, and the sea transportation charges are ( cents a dozen. The imported eggs are sold at % cents dozen in New York, and the price is said to leave a profit to the brokers of Hull. American cold storage eggs are worth from % to 26 cents a dozen in New York Were it not for the duty on eggs, this country would be well supplied with foreign eggs. The Euro pean markets are overburdened with them.
 Remove the smoot-Aldrich tariff and the cost of living would go down 25 per cent day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
LUCKY COUNTRY EDITOR

From the Obar (N. Mex.) Progress
 We know it isn't exactly right to gloat over the misfortunes of others, but we just can't help asking the editor of city paper how he would like to be a country editor in New Mexico, and one of these fine May mornings of a New Mexico January he were to hear a sweet 16-year-old voice calling him to the door, and outside the door he were to find a beautiful damsel on a snow white charger, like an equestrian pie ture of Venus in her teens, and then, MT. City Editor, if the picture were to hand you a dollar, and, with a smile that would charm squirrel out of a tree and make you feel like you were going straight to glory in a little red wagon. would say, T want to sub scribe for your paper" wouldn't you No! no. Progrss isn't for sale, and if 1t was the picture wouldn't go with the plant, anyway.
 But, just the same. who wouldn't be a country editor in New Mexico, where such things happen in the subscription department, as they did in ours the other day?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
Let the end try the man.
 - King Henry W.
Nathan Bedford Forrest

Capt. John ". Morton of Tennessee has added an interesting volume of S74 pages to the fascinating literature con- corning Forrest and Forests famous cavalry in the Confederate service. Of the great cavalry leader Capt. Morton says, me carved his way unaided from obsourity to fame by his intelligence, energy and bravery" He had little re- xpect for West Point or its ideas. He discarded the saber, and he indulged in camp life just long enough to shoe the horses and catch a good breathing spell. At times. too, he was dreadfully unsub- ordinate-for example, when Hood or dered him to turn over his surplus mules. He refused to do this. and subsequent events justified him in the stand he took.
 Capt Morton served with Forrest from April. 1881, to the end of the war, and his book contains not little new matter, including some curious facts concern ing the Ku-Klux Klan of which order Forrest became the Grand Wizard. The volume is an interesting contribution to Confederate literature, and the historian of the future will no doubt draw upon it Iron
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
THE DICKENS "REvIvAL,

From the New York World.
 An English actor and an English lec- turer have just arrived in this city to give impetus to the Dickens revival" One of the oldest things in contemporary life has been this revival in both Great Britain and America. It is like sudden discov cry of the Alps or the Rockies by some che who is anxious to tell the world about his find.
 There is no more solid fact in literature than the popularity of Dickens, which has never waned in any part of the Anglo Saxon world. Every new generation reads him. Three or four years ago, when some question was raised as to whether Dickens was now read, his authorized London publishers issued a statement that they were selling 100000 copies of his books yearly Only two or three of his novels were then subject to copyright. and rival publishers were issuing the others in all kinds of editions.
 There has never been copyright on any of the works of Dickens in this country, and they have been issued in many styles by many publishers. Forty years after his death 1000 900 copies of his books are doubtless sold in year in the United States, Great Britain and the colonies, while many a novel comes out nowadays, receives its praise. has a sale of 20O0 copies and is out of print three years after pub lication.
 Dickens had two great qualities, humor and what is now called 'heart interest" i" and he was a blessing to a weary world which has troubles enough of it's own without looking for new ones in the pages of fiction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
TO THE LOCOMOTIVE

Chancellor Day. in Leslie's.
 There has been no single instrumental ity of civilization since the world began comparable with the locomotive. To pro- mote the extension and efficiency of this means of civilization should be the earn est work of every nation. To hinder and embarrass it is a responsibility which only the ignorant and minimizing, the demagogue and fanatical socialist can carelessly assume It is the greatest friend of the farmer. It did not prevent the sale of his oats and hay, as he feared. It brought to his door the great markets of the world, and made 1t pos- sible for him to enjoy the luxuries of the rich. It takes away to the great sea- board markets or across the oceans his cattle, his apples. his wheat-in a word. everything that he can raise that men
 in any part of the world want-and brings to him in return everything that he can desire It opens lands sealed to the civ ilized world for centuries It is pierc- ing China from Canton to the Yangtse and from Hankow to- Picking. It has hitched China, through Manchura. to the
 star of European destiny. It mobilizes
 armies. it intersperses commerce. It Is
 accomplishing the promises of the word of God concerning the common brother hood of the races of mankind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
The Music Festival

Birmingham has had number of excel- lent music festivals, but the festival which will be given in April next promises to surpass in general attractiveness all simi- lar affairs of the past. The Birmingham Festival association, under whose aus- pices it is to be held, has engaged for the occasion Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony orchestra. and 8 quartet of vocal artists. Local choruses will as- slst and altogether it will be such a festival as should attract visitors from every part of Alabama and from adjoin- ing states as well.
 In order to secure the services of MT. Damrosch and his splendid orchestra the Festival association had to raise a guar antee fund of 5000. This is a larger guar antee than usual, but if the people of Bir- mingham will show reasonable apprecia-
  ton of this great musical enterprise by purchasing tickets for the various con- certs-there will be five performances in all-the guarantors will not be called upon to meet a deficit.
 High class music, like all forms of art. is an expensive luxury, but few things are so humanizing or educative. The his tory of all great festivals in this coun- try shows that deficit has generally been in evidence. It has been so in large centers of wealth and culture, as well IS in the smaller cities. The Atlanta festival of last year was one of the few that ever closed with big surplus to it's credit. It was a fine festival, but in it's main features Birminghams festival this year will be even finer. It will be good advertisement for this city if the festival Is a financial success. Let all have it in mind and lose no opportunity in bring ing it to the attention of their out-of-to friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21

From the New York World.
 The present is almost universally recog- nized as a barren age as regards poetry. The great Victorians have passed and have left no successors of equal fame and possible chances for immortality. The twentieth century promises to be an era of fact and practical achievement so brilliant as to be, temporarily at least, satisfying.
 It Is nevertheless gratifying to note that even in what We have grown accustomed to admit is a prosaic age. or atsleast the age of prose poetry is not neglected among the influences that shape the ed- ucation of youth. In the schools of New York, and perhaps in those of most cities and towns, the memorizing of stand ard selections from the poets is a part of the educative formula.
 How far time and taste have changed may readily be seen by comparison of the school readers of today with those in use a quarter or half century ago. This change is made more striking by noting, for instance, the titles of the 40 poems prescribed by the board of education of a western city to be mem- orized by the pupils in their passage through the various grades. Among the poems in the list the inclusion of a num- Der not to be found in the older readers will be most noticeable to the middle. aged or aged reader of today Such are "Wynken. Blynken and Nod" My Shadow Songs of Treetop and Mead ow," The Flag Goes By, "October's Bright Blue Weather" Flower in the Crannied Wall" "The Recessional," 70 Captain, My Captain, and 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic" Other selections, such as Bed in Summer "The Coun- terpane' and September" are still less familiar to those whose school days are now far behind them.
 Perhaps even more striking than the inclusion of newer poems is the omission of old favorites to be found in almost every American reader a generation ago, such as "Thanatopsis," Miss Mitford's "Rienzi," Gray's "Elegy," Byron's Wa terloo" and Song of the Greek Bard" Collins "Ode on the Passions" Macau- lays "Horatius at the Bridge and Battle of 1vry,' Milton's ''L' Allegro and 'Il Penseroso.' Such omissions in a list of poems to be made the perma- nent possession of school children by memorzng are difficult to explain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
BOVS' Corn Clubs
friends.

The object of organizing the boys of Alabama into corn clubs is to increase the production of corn, and to secure at their hands more intelligent fertilization and better cultivation, knowing that this would at length lead to better schools and better living generally speaking.
 As a rule, club is organized through the cooperation of a teacher in the pub lie school, and any boy not over 21 years old may join a club.
 Superintendent of Education Gunnels is encouraging the formation of boys corn clubs in this state. In travelling through Iowa it occurred to him that "there must be reason for the fact that in Iowa from D to 120 bushels of corn are made on an acre, while in Alabama, on soil equally as good, with climatic conditions much better, there is a yield of 25 or 90 bushels per acre. could not help thinking that there must be reason why farm lands in Iowa are worth from s10O to s900 an acre while lands equally as valuable for farm ing purposes in Alabama can be pur- chased for s2O or 80 per acre. It seemed to me that there must be a reason for the prosperous condition of the farmers in tlxe middle west. If a farmer with small farm purchased at s250 per acre in Iowa, on credit perhaps. can have an ele- gant home, educate his children, dash around the country in an automobile, why cannot such conditions exist in the south in Alabama?'
 MT. Gunnels ascertained that boys corn clubs are part of nearly every rural school in the middle west, and he came home a warm advocate of such clubs in this state, and he is encouraging in every feasible way the organization of corn clubs in the agricultural districts through out this state. There cannot be too many corn clubs, and every rural school should have one. Write to Superintendent Gun nels
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
BOONE A WONDERFUL SHOOT

a scratch on him. Killing a tough old fox squirrel without bullet touching him or drawing a drop of blood looked like big magic or witchcraft to early settlers and Indians.
 Boone drove a nail or two, and showed how he loaded his gun. He had small powder horn filled with finest grain pow der about as hard and clean from smut as the best modern little hollow DOW der measure made of elderwood, such as boys make whistles of. And he showed how he gauged his powder by laying the rifle bullet in the palm of his hand, then pouring on powder until the bullet was just exactly hid in the pile of powder. This was the right load, so he cut his elder to this measure. After pouring the powder down the barrel he laid a piece of greased linen patching of finest, smcothest homespun over the end, and forced it down the barrel with the butt end of his knife. cut off the patching sticking out, then showing the bullet home with the ramrod-a hard, tight job Wlth a ouick jerk of the wrist he would pack tight the bullet and powder, and drive so hard that the ramrod almost jumped out of the gun on the rebound.
 Boone's rife stock was the shortest and most angularly curved of any in the vil- lage. And this same Daniel Boone stock, seen for the first time by the old gentle man, has now been adopted as a'worio model by all armies and manufactures As a matter of fact, some of the finest Yankee wholesale manufacturers dellber- ately copied the Kentucky rife stock as their model as Dr. Norvfn Green' the or ganizer and first president of the Vest ern Union Telegraph company, long ago f1alI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
Good Farming In Alabama

Two more good farmers have been To- cated in Alabama. They are pretty scarce, but they can be found here when one seal ches the state carefully. There is, for example, Dick Coins of Macon countv. who grows year in and year out F bales on seven acres, and who can sell his seed at s1 bushel. From the seven acres he gets this year STAG, or SITS an acre. This Is the way he did it, says a correspond ent of the Atlanta Constitution:
 ''He titled his land. fertilized his crop and gave it culture just like people do to grow fine cotton. He used average land that had never been specially built up, put on the seven acres four tons of fertilizer that cost him s2O per ton. and put the blow through seven times and the hoe four times. When the cotton was ready he barred and chopped 1t. lesving stalks three feet apart in drills that were six feet Following the chopper he sent a light scrape through, siding the first time. After that the entire culture with the blow consisted of light work with h. inch scrape.''
 The other independent farmer is J. K. York of Pinckard. Dale county. His