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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-12
By Captain GEORGE 1. KILr1ER. Late

Nv Captain GEORGE [. KILMER. Late
u. S. v.
ICopyright By American Press Associa-
ton. 1911.
RTAHERE was no ocean cable In
1861, and the news OF the seiz-
ure Of Mason and Slidell. Con-
federate commissioners to Eu-
rope. on Nov. 8 in the Bahama channel
did not reach London until the night OF
Nov. &c. The seizure of these distin-
suished Confederates was made on
board of an English mail steamer. 1he
men were taken to United States ports
by the warship which effected the ar
rest, the San JacintO. commanded by
Captain Charles Wilkes. The San ia
cinto brought the news to this country
on Nov 10 Meanwhile the steamer
Trent was on her way to England to
report what was considered by her ON
GERS an outrage upon the British flag
by an officer of the United States. The
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-12

special messenger went from London
by rail and channel boat to Queens
town to overtake her with later and
more vigorous instructions.
All of the men and the ships of the
British navy which were in home
waters were ordered to get ready
at moments notice. Word was sent
to the officials in Canada to prepare
the troops there for war. In Europe
England counted upon France to help
her in case of rupture with the Unit
ed States. These two nations were al
ready working together in attacking
Mexico. and it was believed that
which was Emperor Napoleon Ill,
favored the south in it's war upon the
federal government.
Most of all, the donors that were
paid to Captain Wilkes, commander OF
the San Jacinto. for his promptness in
Selling the persons of Mason and Sill
dell, even in the cabins of ship fly
ing the British flag. incensed the Brit
ish people. Wilkes was given public
receptions in Boston and New York.
and the American press generally
praised his act The attitude of the
nation in this matter was shown by
the thanks which the United States
congress rendered to him. England
prohibited the expectation Of war ma
terial, lest the United States should
turn their own guns and powder
against them.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-12
The War Fifty Years Ago

All England Aroused by War News From America.
Word Reaches London That the British Flag Has Been
Insuted by United States Warship- Swift Re-
lease of Two Confederates, Held Prisoners by the
United States, Is Demanded--The English Prepare
For Wharf.-The First Regular Session of the Great
war Congress" Meets and Receives Lincons First
Annual Messaee---Complication In Mexico
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-12
Will Saw Your Wood

| have portable wood-sawing
outfit and will call at your resi-
dence or woodpile and saw your
cord wood into suitable lengths
Also have a food crusher and
will crush your corn at reason
able rates.
w. V. Church.
Phone 1868 Cor. Merrimac and
Roanoke
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-12-12
England Aroused.

The British nation lost no time ia
making preparations for war with its
oidIantagoniSt. There was large and
powerful party which was anxious to
have Great Britain play into the hands
of the Southern Confederacy. The Of
flcers Of the administration were In
clined to so slow. but the agitation
among the people forced their hands.
After the first steamer had sailed for
New York With letters Of special ad-
vice to Lord Lyons In Washington a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04
NATURES TRAGEDY

r. st. Mars, in Outing.
 They said this beast came from hole in 'cai1n on the mountain Perhaps but he looked as if he came from a rlace much deeper than any hole. Ma ture had given him a long body of won derful twistfulness then, forgetting what she had done, added legs two sizes too sEort. Then she went away, and Satan, coming along, finished the job,
 He added a head-surely no one save he could have evolved such a head-thst had a sharp muzzle, and upright, round- ed, short ears, a head shaped like a wedge, and gave to it an expression genuinely dabolical. For color he chose a grim brown-olack. Later he added an unquenChable thirst for something mucn less' innocent than water and an odor which would spoil the best appetite for week. Finally, lest all the wild folk turn and abolish it, he struck fear out of it's composition and added teeth like stilettos set on end.
 Men called this tragedy a poecat, and then, as if to contradict the title. placed it at the head of the weasel tribe, where it stands to this day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04
Tariff Revision in the Extra Session

Tariff Revision in the Extra Session
 Chairman Underwood's tariff re- vision programme has, The Age Herald is glad to say, small reference to the Senate's majority members, two-thirds of whom are the tools of special interests. It is the plain duty of the democrats in the House to go ahead regardless of what the Senate will do. The democratic party will be upheld or condemned by what it does in the House-not at all by what the Senate does.
 If the Senate refuses to lend hand fin cutting down the cost of living, so much the worse for the Senate. At present the interests are demanding delay until December. If they get any such delay, let them obtain it in the Senate. The House should go straight ahead in accordance with the plans of Chairman Underwood Ad- verse or dilatory action by the Sen ate will but emphasize and deepen the democratic position.
 Let there be no concessions for the purpose of winning over the insur- gents of the Senate. Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may. Stand firmly by the people and the party's pledges. The programme of the ways and means committee points the way It is the way, and the House will no doubt uphold it to the last man in the democratic ranks, to the number of 226.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04
south Alabama Business Good

Alden M Wallace, well known travel ing salesman who formerly resided in Bir- mingham, is in the city with Mrs. Wal lace, visiting her parents, Mir. and Mrs. I. W. Evens. They will be here several days.
 MT. Wallace is now in charge of the southern part of the state for a well known Louisville concern and he said yesterday business was fine. Q
 'In the southern part of the state I cannot detect any slack in business, said Mr. Wallace. q find orders are bright for continuation of good com mercal business.
 There has been a great deal of talk recently about a slowness of orders, but I have failed to find any real proof of that condition, and consequently I was not beguled into accepting any such re- ports as fact.
 ..The business interests of the smaller cities and towns of the state are In good shape financially and report extraordi- narily brisk business. The disposas for the past quarter have been excellent, while as l say the fall season looks up exceedingly bright. I am always very glad to get back to Birmingham. There seems to be no end to the accomplish ments of the city and I hope there 'wIll not until Birmingham shall have become the finest city in the state."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04
The One Association Proposition

q have been very much interested in the proposed consolidation of the five National Good Roads associations in the United States said an advocate of the good roads movement, "and I am hoplng that tine plan will not only be proposed but urged at the coming meeting of the National Good Roads congress to be held in this city on May 2S-26. Of course, l do not believe that each of the present organization should lose altogether it's identity or rather lay aside its original purpose, because such a consolidation would be wholly impraeticable, for it would mean that a new association be built up again from the very beginning.
 ''The plan of consolidation seems feasl- ble only in so much as each organiza- Iion would coordinate it's efforts Tn vrew of a general object Each should adhere to it's original idea and in this way the activities of the organization would be more comprehensive and of more con- sequence. The five national associations are already too closely related to work out their purposes independently when all in combination could perhaps secure the recognition of the government with the additional. support of maintenance fund. I am sure that there will be some diff culty at coalition in the beginning but 1 sincerely hope that the scheme will be promulgated at the coming convention in May"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Man is a cheap skate and woman all most is as bad"
 This doesn't sound much like Haven der and old Lace" but it was the author of that 'sweet-scented manuscript ' Myrtle Reed Mccullough, who said it in effect yesterday to the somewhat scan- dalzed members of the Ravenswo5d Womans club.
 The author was outlining her views on matrimony.
 "The wife" she said, gets her board, her clothes and a few kind words, while her servant in the kitchen gets her board, her clothes and s7 a week. If the aver age husband used the same language to his domestics as he does to his wife his skull would be corrugated, from col lisions with a rolling pin.
 "The mans argument, Well, support her. breaks down completely before this state of facts. If anything further were needed, it might be pointed out that he also supports tho women in his of- flee His employees do not feel under any particular obligations to him for that
 You would have great difficulty in finding a working woman in this great city willing to exchange her weekly pay envelope for her employers whispered darling and his beery kiss. Marriage in a good many cases is a gold brick game in which the man exchanges that ira wifes real service.
 "The modern woman is suffering from atavism. Modern living conditions have brought this about. History has repeated itself and women are back in the cave dwelling age. The up-to-date flat is tie troglodyte's cave embellish with open plumbing and electric lights.
 "Eighty-six per cent of the women of the United States virtually are cave dwellers. They toll all day in the little caves they call home while the man roams the highways seeking whom he may devour
 She bedecks herself with the teeth and the hides of wild beasts, and never is so happy as when she is able to pa rade herself before the world gloricied in the feathers of some poor bird slauen- tered by a brute of man.
 woman never will be able to emanci- pate herself until she puts all this aside Corsets, French heels and nursing bot ties are the chains that bind her to the husbands chariot wheels. The truly great women of the world have deen iconoclasts. They laughed at convention. If modern woman would follow in the footsteps of the great ones of her sex the problem of woman's rights would be solved. And the race would not die out either. Men would marry us just the same and be glad of the chance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04

Filibustering is to be met by giving authority to discharge committees from consideration of bills. Appro- priation bills may be amended when ever an amendment will result in an entrenchment of national expendi- lures, and bill may come up twice for passage under the unanimous con sent privilege. Bills are to be read by their title only and the title must not exceed 100 words. These changes will shake czarism pretty thoroughly out of the speakers gavel, and MT. Clark, who is a democrat from the ground up can be trusted to do the rest.
 Under these rules, at the sugges- tion of Chairman Underwood, the democratic caucus resolved to limit the activities of the extra session to such questions as the popular selec- tion of United States Senators, Can adian reciprocity, tariff revision, in- vestigation of governmental depart ments, congressional reapportion- ment, statehood for Arizona and New Mexico, general deficiency appropria tions, District of Columbia legisla- tion and publicity of campaign con- tributions. This is enough, and if the House does all this in accordance with democratic pledge it will give the democratic nominees of 1912 a walkover such as the democrats have not known since the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04
RICH WOMAN THIEVES

From the Washington Herald.
 The fashionable thief is becoming more and more a source of worry to trades men in London according to Captain B. N. Lyons, of the English metropolis, who was seen at the Raleigh Captain Lyons was formerly connected with the London police department.
 By the fashionable thief merchants mean the woman of apparent refine ment whose social position and means should place her beyond such sordid practices-the woman who hopes by her general appearance to avoid suspicion. come that the council of the Drapers' Chamber of Commerce has taken up the matter with a determination to find a check if possible.
 "It is the drapery establishment which the fashionable thieves haunt most" continued Captain Lyons, and so cum ming are they that even the most vigilant detectives, in the guise of salesmen and shop-walIlers, have been baked utterly.
 Though these shop thieves know that detectives are watching them they take things quite boldly, and in nine cases out of ten get away undetected. Even when they are caught, the proprietors of the shops rarely prosecute. The pec- pie who are caught are nearly always ladies in good circumstances, ladies of high position, who take things from the oounter although their purses are full of gold."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04
PROHIBITION AND DRUG HABIT

From the New York World.
 An increase of the drug habit in the prohibition districts of New England is observed by pr. Cabot of the Massachu- setts General hospital who ascribes it to the difficulty of obtaining liquor "The moment you limit the use of alcohol, ' says pr. Cabot, you increase the use of drugs. Nothing is more sure than men accustomed to the use of alcohol will come to use morphine if alcohol is with held"
 There is similar testimony to the growth of the cocaine habit in the south under engage the attention of advocates of com pulsory abstinence. If legislative prohi- bition is exerting the adverse influence of driving men to narcotic drugs as substi- tutes for whisky and beer it is defeating it's object.
 A half century has brought about a great improvement in drinking habits. As compared with the conditions a century ago we are today a very temperate peo- pie. The reform has been secured not so much by legislation as by a more general recognition of the evils of drink as they affect individual efficiency. It has been reform mainly from within. So far as it has been accomplished from without, the inspiring cause has been commercial and not legislative.
 If the effect of making men abstain from liquor by law is to encourage the drug habit a worse evil will have been caused by the attempt to eradicate a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04
OATH OF HIPPOCRATEs

From Doctors and Surgeons" by .Chas
 Winslow Hall, in the National Mag
 azine for April
 Hippocrates, styled through the ages the Father of Medicine was born on the Isle of Cos about 40 B. C., and liv- ing over 90 years, he was the contem- porary of Pericles, Socrates, zenophon, Plato, Herodotus, Thucydides, Phidias, and many other illustrious men, Him. self a descendant of Asceplos, he stud fed medicine under Gorgias and Demo- critus and also under that Herodicus who first taught that systematic exercise was cure for many ailments.
 The oath of Hippocrates, long the pat tern of a physicians obligation, ran as follows
 T swear by Apollo. the physician, and Asclepios, and I call Hygeia and Pana- ceia and all the gods to witness, that to the best of my power and judgment the solemn VOW which I now make I will honor as my father the master who taught me the art of medicine; his chill dren I will consider as my brothers, and teach them my profession without fee or reward. I will admit to my lectures and discourses my own sons, my mas ter's sons, and those pupils who have taken the medical oath; but no one else. will prescribe such medicines as may be best suited to the cases of my pa- tients, according to the best of my know ledge; and no temptation shall ever in- duce me to administer poison. will re- ligiously maintain the purity of my char acter and the honor of my art. Into whatever house I enter, I will enter 1t with the sole view of relieving the sick and conduct myself with propriety to- ward all the members of the family. If during my attendance l hear anything that should not be revealed, I will keep 1t a profound secret. If l observe this cath may have success in this life, and may l obtain general esteem after it; if l break it, may the contrary be my lnt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Trade Improvement


 April will be a better month in the business world than March, and May promises to be better than April" said II. Ii. Warner of Philadelphia. "March was an exceptionally dull month, the dullest In years. It was generally believed in the east that the first three or four months of the year would witness depression but that with big crops assured prosperity would be in evidence throughout the summer and fall. There is a decidedly better feeling now than there was two weeks ago, and l think that by May gen uine activity will have returned
 aThe business situation in the south l keep in close touch with nearly ev- cry southern state-is very satisfactory indeed. No part of the country seems to be getting ahead quite so fast as this. Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Florida are especially prosperous"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04
Bills on the Calendars

When the legislature meets today it will take up the work of it's forty sixth day. It will have five full leg islative days left and the calendars can be cleared in that time if the members will get down to brass tacks and long hours. Fifty bills day can be acted on as bills run in the aver age.
 Some of these bills are of deep im- portance to many people. The Bir- mingham commission bill is a law, but the viaduct bill still hangs fire, and until it is passed this city will remain unsatisfied with current leg islation. That bill should become a law speedily, for it will lead to the building of a viaduct over grade crossings that are now dangerous to life and limb of fully 50,000 people.
 The legislature can, in fact, see a way now to a clearing of calendars and to a good record. It has worked hard of late and, as a rule, faithfully and well. It has respected public sentiment. It has upheld public edu- cation in appropriations, and it may yet submit a constitutional proposi- tion authorizing local taxation for public schools. Let us hope it will.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04
Sane and Broad View

Many of the railroad officials take a broad view of present conditions and talk enthusiastically instead of pessmistically," said a man prominent in the industrial world. "The pessimists are not helping the situation, but fortunately they are becoming fewer and fewer as interstate commerce commissions rate case de- cisions have come to be understood and appreciated Among the able and right thinking men who have recently discussed the action of the commission is John Bar ton Payne, general counsel of the Chi cago Great Western, at the annual din- ncr of the American Railway Engineer ing association in Chicago. Mr. Payne represented the Great Western in the western rate advance case. It might be expected says the Railway Age Gazette, that the result of that case would make him pessimistic. But he was formerly a judge The judicial temper which na- ture gave him has been developed by ex- perience. He Is, therefore. able to be Judicial even in defeat-a rare accomplish ment. Surveying the field with an eye that can see the tendencies working to benefit as well as those working to harm the railways he said in substance:
 :" I do not think we should be disturbed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04
HOW THE .FRENCHMAN SHOOTS

Ethel Rose in Scribner's Magazine.
 Many Frenchmen are excellent shots but the great majority are certainly not and do scarcely more than wander about with a gun, of which they are only too often exceedingly ignorant and reck- less comparative few are really clever at 1t, but even of these there are almost none possessing that trait of the born hunter which makes him almost unconsciously study the habits of the game. learn it's haunts and customs and enables him to tell what it's probable next move will be. Most of them walk aheal in a straight line, taking what comes in their way. and seldom follow ing a hare from cover to cover or a flock of cartridges from flight to flight; while that instinct possessed by some of our own sportsmen which takes them un- erringIy 10 game that has flown over a wood or disappeared beyond the brow of n hill seems to be quite lacking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04
SPRING

Swinburne "Atalanta in Calydon.' When the hounds of spring are on win ters traces, The mother of months iH meadow or plain
 Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain; And the brown bright nightingale amor = Is half assuaged for ItyIus, For the Thracian ships and the foreign faces,
 The tongueless vigil, and all the pain. For winters rains and ruins are over,
 And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover,
 The light that loses, the light that wins;
 And time remembered is grief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begot-
 ten, And in green underwood and cover
 Blossom by blossom the spring begins. The full streams feed on flower of
 rushes,
 Ripe grasses trammel travelling foot, The faint fresh flame of the young year flushes q. From leaf to leaf and flower to fruit: And fruit and leaf are as gold and fire. And the oat is heard above the Tyre, And the hoofd heel of Satyr crushes The chestnut husk at the chestnut's
 root.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04

by the phase of legal difficulties through which we are now passing. You know the history of the past in dealing with railway construction We were simply leading the van of civilization through the west; and. now that civilization mas settled down in some sort, difficulties which confronted railway constructions and operation exemplified by the 46 or more state commissions and the great commission of the United States. We must be wise enough to adjust ourselves to these conditions. After awhile, the United States commission, by the ad- dition of power given sby Congress and by the construction of the constitution, which the supreme court of the United States must ultimately make, will assert and exercise the power of dominating rate-maRing and railway regulation to such an extent as to dwarf the power of the state commissions, and when we reach that condition we shall so have impressed ourselves upon the power of Congress and upon it's wisdom that Con- gress will give to the railways of this country that power and encouragement
 
 the place which the ways of the world have always taken and held. And the only word from the legal department of our road Is that we shall be wise and patient, and that we shall not beat our selves against the bricks, but deal with these conditions wisely, because it is a phase of civilization through which we must pass"