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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
MARSHALL SHOWS WHERE HE
 STANDS ON LIQUOR QUESTION

owned saloon is one of the chief causes of irritation upon the part of the people.
 This law fixes a limitation of one sa- loon for not less than 300 inhabitants and the board of commissioners, at its first session, may raise the limitation to one to 1000.
 "The license fee is ample but not ex crbitant.
 T do not believe it is so much the ques- tion of the size of the fee as the char acter of the licensee which determines the conduct of the saloon. Conviction of felony is a bar to the granting of a license. Any one twice convicted within four years of violation of the liquor laws or convicted of five violations in his life cannot secure a license. This will elimi- nate from the business many undesirable men. license may be revoked or sus- pended for allowing immoral women to frequent the place and for gambling. and must be revoked upon the holders third conviction of violation of the liquor laws The remonstrance laws of Indiana are preserved and strengthened.
 'I was opposed to the transfer of the license in the beginning, but now I be- lieve that the transfer is the best re- ward that can be hung up before a sa- loon-keeper to induce him to obey the law, and the fact that the license Is re- movable from time to time, so long as the man obeys the law, is very potent factor in eliminating the saloon from pol itics.
 "The most serious feature from the standpoint of the state (and I hope peo- pie will distinguish between the stand point of the state and the standpoint of the church) is that the saloonkeeper has been in politics. I believe he has been in politics because it has been necessary thai he might obtain and retain his license.
 Therefore this legislation, which now enables him to renew and transfer his H. cense, so long as he is a law-abiding cit izen. takes him out of politics.
 There are many other admirable feat ures in this regulatory measure and I hope and believe it's adoption by the gen. eral assembly will result in such a careful management of the saloon business as to take it entirely out of politics and bring about good order and absolute obedience to law"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10

Indianapolis, March 9.-(Special.) )-Thom- as R. Marshall, governor of Indiana, and probable candidate for the democratic nomination for President of the United States, today gave to a representative of the National Model License league the following authoritative and emphatic statement of his position on the liquor question:
 ITO begin with, let it be understood that I am not a saloon man.
 q believe in the doctrine of local self government, which in Indiana I have con- strue6 to mean the city and township as units, rather than the larger units.
 q have serious doubts as to the possi- nility of the enforcement of any pro- hibitory law until the sentiment of a com- munity rises to the degree that the use of intoxicating liquors in that community is drowned upon. I believe that the city and the township have the right to outlaw the saloon.
 "Upon the other hand I do not believe from the viewpoint of constitutional gov ernment, that have any right to com pei any one to adapt his mode of life to my mode of life.
 T have, therefore, felt that until peo- pie come to believe that the excessive use of intoxicating liquors is detrimental, not only to the individual citizen, but to the state at large, that in all those com munities where a majority of the people do not want the saloon excluded, it should be strictly regulated. In other words, l believe that where people will drink it is infinitely better to have them obtain liquors openly at licensed saloons rather than in dark and surreptitious ways at illegal places. I have, therefore, been much impressed with the regulatory feat ures of the Proctor regulation law which I as governor of this state have just ap- proved.
 This law divorces the brewery from the saloon. I believe that the brewery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
LITTLE GIRL IS
 STRUCK BY AUTO
Witnesses Declare Chauffeur Put on More Speed Instead of
 Stopping

Margaret Harris. the little 5-year-old daughter of Mrs. J. F. Harris, 825 South Twenty street, was knocked down and painfully injured yesterday afternoon by an automobile. The accident occurred only short distance from the home and Mrs. liar ris was a witness. The little girl was picked up and carried to her home, where medical attention was called. She was badly bruised about the head and body, and long gash was cut in her face. However, it is not thought that any of the injuries will prove se rious.
 It seems that the little girl was crossing the street and in avoiding one machine got in the way of another ana was struck. It is said that the chauffeur did not stop but put on more speed and escaped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
Suits Filed Yesterday

Suit for s2o00O damages was filed yester- day in the circnit court by Mrs. Annie O'Brien against the B. R., L. & P. com pany for alleged personal injuries re- ceived while alighting from a street car.
 Will Smith filed suit for 5000 damages against the J. L. Yancy Real Estate & Insurance company on the ground that the defendant had wrongfully caused his arrest and subsequent imprisonment Suits for like amounts were filed in the same instance by Jackson Hodges and Walter Fogg.
 Suit for s5000 damages was filed yester- ! day in the city court by Lee Berger Lagainst the B. R., L. & P. company for illegal assault and battery committed on him by an agent of the company while he was a passenger on a street car.
 Suit for 5000 damages was filed by Elmer Tipton agans. the Southern Rail- way company for alleged personal injur- les received while in the employ of the company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
SPENT $1,392,854
 OVER RECEIPTS Report Made on the States During the Conner
 Administration

Montgomery, March 9.-(Special)-
 of Alabama during the four years of
 the Conner administration over the re- ceipts for the same period were $1,392,-
 S54 .16, according to 8 report of the
 senate finance committee, which was
 appointed to investigate the condition
 of the state treasury at the beginning g
 of the ONeal administration. The total
 receipts for the four years amounted
 to $18.712,746. 20, while the total ex- penditures amounted to s2o.1O5, 500 s6
 Between the period stretching from October 1, 1910, to February IA, 1911, the receipts in the state treasury amounted to s3.SO1.2 .237.55. which rep resents 70.S per cent of the receipts for the present fiscal year. This is sig nificant, especially when 1t Is taken into consideration that of this amount in the same length of time. the total disbursements amounted to $2,95S,-
 465 54.
 The report of the committee, in art was as follows:
 Committees Report The gross cash balance in the treas ury, exclusive of interest balance and bond redemption balance in the hands of the states New York fiscal agent
 amount to s265.716.71, as follows; Balance to credit interest account s1S2,716.71: balance to credit bond re- demption account. $S3000.
 Cash balance in the treasury, No vember 1, 1910 was $20,90S. The gross cash balance in the treas ury February 14. 1911. was $S42.. 772.o1. and the amount of warrants is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
WHARTON SHAFT
 REACHES EUFAULA
Will Begin Work of Erecting Beauti- full Monument Which Will Be
 Dedicated May II

Eufaula, March -(SpeciaL)-T Wharton monument arrived yesterday end the work of erection will begin i'm . mediately. The main shaft will rise nine feet from a pedestal five feet square, which will be ornamented by q life-size statue of the eminent divine six feet high. The whole Is beautiful in design, excellent in workmanship and is carved from pure white marble, the admiral tion of all who have seen 1t,
 The structure will occupy a con venient site on the sidewalk of Ran dolph street, facing the First Baptist church, which is the second built through pr. Wharton's efforts during his pastorate of IS years in this city.
 The funds were raised principally by private subscriptions, many handsome contributions coming from various couples whom Dr. Wharton married long ago and who are now residing in various sections of Alabama, Georgia and Virginia.
 Much credit is also due to the untir- ing efforts of Mrs. Matte Thompson, who heads the Wharton Memorial as- sociation as President, and who was Instrumental in bringing it about. The unveilng will not take place until May Il, when the association will hold a Chautauqua here for the period of five days, and the event will mark an in- teresting feature of the exercises.
 Information of the serious illness of A J. Foreman of Sassor, Ga, for many years a citizen of Quitman county, Geor- gia, and well known and esteemed throughout this city and section, has been received here. Mr.. Foreman is suffering from complicated troubles and has grown so weak that the worst is feared at most any time.
 Invitations have been received here an- nouncing the coming wedding of Miss Lizzie Bea Crozier of Clay county. Geor- gia. to Rev. Quincey Johnathan Pinson of Albany, Ga. The wedding will be solemnized at the Baptist church in Nor ris station over the river on the morning of March 26 and is being contemplated with great interest and pleasure by the citizens of that village. The bride-elect Is well known here, where she is greatly esteemed by a circle of warm friends, and is the charming young daughter of MT. and Mrs. R. D. Crozier of that sec tion.
 H. E. Williamson and Miss Mary Will Hanson, who reside in Pike county. near Josey, reached the city yesterday morn ing and immediately repaired to George town, Ga., where they were married by Judge J. E. Dozier of that village It was Gretna Green affair brought about in order to escape interference by the parents of the young woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
Eugland Issues Naval Estimates

London. March 9.-The naval esti- mates issued tonight provide for the expenditure of $221,961. 800. an increase of $19,0OO,000 over the previous year The cost of new construction is now fixed at $75,319,3S5. The programme in cludes five dreadnaughts, three protect ed cruisers. one unarmored cruiser, 20 destroyers, six submarines and an in- creased personnel of the navy of 5000 men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
Militia Officers to Attend

Columbus, Ohio. March 9.-Adjutant General Weybrecht left. tonight for Washington with a roster of Ohio Ma tional Guard officers. He left after a receipt of telegram from the war de- pertinent inviting officers of the statu militia to participate in the Texas army maneuverS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
Big Losses Reported

Salt Lake City, Utah, March 9-The Mormon church authorities have re- colony of Dublan. Mexico, giving par
 ticulars of the insurrecto defeat near Casas Grandes. It says the number of federal troops engaged was 1900 and the fnsurrecto force 1000, while the rebel loss was 200 and the federal 100.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
Cleveland Pleads Chilly

Newark. O.. March 9.-Robert Cleve- land, charged with murder in connec- tion with the lynching of Carl Ether ington, detective, here last July. pleaded guilty to manslaughter today. He was given an indeterminate sen tence in the reformatory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
Sentenced to Six Months

Opelika. March g. Special .)-Mathew Ford was arraigned before Judge Sam Duke in the Lee County court of law and equity yesterday on the charge of violating the prohibition law. Ford plead guilty and was sentenced to six months hard labor for the county. and costs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
"Want Ad" Pages

of THE AGE-HERALD, because these pages get to them the first thing in tho morning, gives them ample time to think and then act. Is your proposition before them? If not. there's no time like the rresent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
The Logical Place

for the person in search of room,
 for the person In search of house, for the person in search of position, for the person in search of board, for the person who wants to buy, sell or trade anything, would be to look in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
Veto Sustained

Des Moines. Ia., March 9.-The Iowa house of representatives this after noon sustained Governor Carrolrs veto of the oregon primary plan bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
LOCAL LIQUOR BILLS.
 MEETING MORE FAVOR

as the Screws bill, which applies to Mont gomery county, is designed to do. A favorable report has already been given on the Montgomery. county measure, and it is now expected to pass both of the houses without material opposition
 Local optonists of the two houses think that their victory in passing the Parks measure and the Smith bill has been in- dicative of the outcome of any local op- tion fight that might be started, hence wherever reason of a sane and safe nature backs up local measures it is more than probable that such measures will be passed. An argument in behalf of such local option measures is that the expenses of an election can be saved by such instruments.
 It is known that many county treas uries are at rock bottom, hence the argu- ment is considered an appealing one. 1906 and ending February IA, 1s11 shows the following:
 Total receipts for the four years, s1s,. TIP, TAG. 20. a'
 Total disbursements for the four years, S20, 105. 500 3G.
 Excess of disbursements over receipts s, ,S92, 1854 .16.
 Cash on hand October l. 1sos s1.s2s.- 326. .09.
 Excess of disbursements over receipts, 8, ,392, ,S54.16.
 Cash on hand October 1, 1910, s433, Al 03
 The report of the joint committee was signed by Senator Moody, chairman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10

Montgomery, March 9.-(Special)-The impression is prevailing at the capitol that the passage of local liquor bills which have the unanimous approval of the delegation from the various counties may result in making imperative many of the provisions of the Parks local op- ton bill and the Smith regulation meas ure. The first of these instruments de- clares local option as the policy of the state and provides the machinery for the holding of elections; the second of the two instruments regulates the traffic, fixes the license and carries penalties for violation.
 A local bill which is passed after the Parks and Smith measure, however, can take precedence over those two measures,
 
 sued by the state auditor and outstand- ing was s1os.Os6s0. making the net balance in the treasury s73s.7O5.21.
 The receipts from october 1, 1910, to February IA, 1911. were $3,301,237.55, and taking the total receipts of the last fiscal year as the basis of calcula- ton, this represents 70.S per cent of the receipts for the present fiscal year. The disbursements from October 1, 1910, to February 14s 1911. were $2,95S, ,465.54 and taking tho total disbursements of the last fiscal year as the basis ohcal- culation. they represent 52.4 per cent of the disbursements for the present fiscal year.
 The amount of money received by the present treasurer, who entered upon the duties of his office on January IS, 1911, from his predecessor was $975, .2S, as follows: Cash to credit of interest account, sls2,- 716.71.
 Cash to credit of bond redemption ac- count, Ss3.0O0.
 Cash for disbursements, $7O9.520.5 .52. This report is signed by Charles E. Me- Call and II. Y. Brooke, examiners of puD- lie accounts. Recapitulati0n l In recapitulation of the statement show ] ing the condition of the treasury for the four fiscal years beginning October l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
MRS. COCHRANE TO
 BE BURIED TODAY

Tuscaloosa, March 9. Special 1.-The death of Mrs. W. G. Cochrane occurred at the home of her son. J. T. Cochrane. in Mobile, at o'clock this morning Mrs. Cochrane had been i'll for some months and her death, while not entire ly unexpected. comes as a blow to her large circle of relatives and friends in Tuscaloosa, where for years she has been closely identified with the social and religious life of the city. Two years ago Tuscaloosa yielded the Cochrancs with much regret to Mobile where thev have since made their home with tbe,r only son, J. T. Cochrane. president of the Tombigbee Valley railroad. The re- mains, accompanied by Mir. and Mrs. ] T. Cochrane, Miss Buena Taylor and Mrs. Festus Fitts and her husband w. G. Cochrane, arrived tonight and will lie at the home of c. A. Searcy on Greens boro ave, until the funeral which will take place from Christ church tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, with interment in Evergreen cemetery.
 w. H. Morgan. private secretary to Richmond Pearson Hobson, is at home to spend the congressional vacation.
 Mrs. Sterling Wood of Birmingham has been recalled to the bedside of her mother, Mrs. w. c. Richardson, who is seriously i'll with pneumonia at her home on Twenty-second aveune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10

A number of the large landowners have
 expressed willingness to subdivide their
 lands for the settlement of white far
 mers They admit the impossibility of
 continuing the old system of cotton
 growing with the negro. For number of years the negro has been drifting
 from the plantations. Labor is already
 most serious problem. The boil weevil
 promises to complete the desertion of the farm.
 Most of the farmers who supervise their
 own plantations have resorted to alfalfz and other hay crops, corn and stock raic- ing on account of lack of labor. North Sumter is essentially stock
 raising section. Those who have tried it on a scientific scale have found il
 profitable. This section has produced some of the finest beef cattle, mules sheep and hogs that can be raised any where.
 This industry in time will supplant cot ton growing in north Sumter and the re- adjustment will be of marked advantage, but such a system calls for more people The people will come in time, but it will take time, patience and persistent work. The lands are naturally as fertile as any in the world. They are so pro- nounced by soil experts from the soil sur yey of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10

w. H. Morgan. private secretary to Richmond Pearson Hobson, is at home to spend the congressional vacation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10

In recapitulation of the statement show ing the condition of the treasury for the four fiscal years beginning October l.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-05

Pensacola's Harbor is the
Deepest and Best Port
South of Newport News
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-30
BROWN CHOSEN CHANCELLOR
Elmer Ellgworth Brown of wash

DR.. Elmer Ellsworth Brown OF Wash
ington, United States commissioner OF
education and former Michigan edu-
Gator, was recently appointed chan
cellor Of New York university to sue
coed the Rev. Dr. Henry Mitchell Mac
Cracker, resigned.
DR.. Brown was born at Kiantone,
Chautauqua county, New York, in 1851.
His education was received at the ILL.,
nois Normal university, the University
of Michigan and the University OF
Halle, in Germany, with the supple
mentary honor of the degree Of LII. D.
from both Columbia and Wesleyan
universities.
His life work has been that OF an
educator, begun as teacher in public
schools OF Illinois and Michigan and
af srwards as professor of science and
a. in teaching in the University OF
Michigan and University Of California.
Re has published several works on
educational subjects.
He has been United States com
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-30
THE FATE OF EMPIRES

assigned LOO years the period of race after
which it must be succeeded by another.
The various activities Of man, according to
Professor Petrie, related in the same order
in each successive period. This can be best
traced in the medieval and classical periods,
where the stages of sculpture, painting, litera-
ture, music, mechanics, science and wealth
spread over some centuries. These stages
were nearer together in earlier ages, but the or
der was always the SO far as can be traced.
The starting point of each civilization-as of
each generation-is mixture of blood. With
out fusion Of race no fresh start can be made
About six or eight centuries needed for the
rise to the sculpture stage. The growth Of civil
ization largely consists In a frightening out of
the subsequent stages Of activity, and diminu-
ton of the stagnant period before new mix
ture is started. The period seems to belong to
the people and not to the country and is kept
by the people when they go to land of a diff
ferent phase.
Though. no doubt, climatic periods have a
precipitating effect in throwing one people on to
another, yet the general regularity of interval
of the stages of growth of civilization point to
a racial determinant This may be the time re-
quired to promote the maximum mixture of diff
ferent strains in two races which are in CON.
tact.-London Globe
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-30

"The meaning of life has in all ages been the
goal of human thought and the great extension
OF our knowledge of the past, by the researches
of recent years, enables now to view the
course of human changes with more complete
ness than has been the case before In place Of
looking on the fall of the Roman empire as
mcnstrous and inexplicable fact, we now see that
civilization is not only intermittent, but is reg
ulary recurrent phenomenon"
This the theory propounded by Prof Film
ders Petrie in a lecture delivered at the Royal
institution on "The Revolutions Of Civilization"
In Egypt said the lecturer, we can trace eight
civilizations; the first prehistoric; the second
prehistoric, the early dynastc, the pyramid build
ers, the middle kingdom (XIIth dynasty, the EN-
pire (XVIIIth Dynasty, the Greek and the Arab.
The rise and fall Of art in each of these periods
can be we'll illustrated. Similar periods are
found in Europe, the early, middle and late Gre
tan the classical and the medieval These pc
RODS are contemporary with those of Egypt, so
far as we ascertain. Hence the Mediterra-
civilization seems distinct unit, rising
and falling together as one body. The Mesopo-
tamian civilization IS in different phase to that
of the Mediterranean, but its period is about the
same.
similsr period of about 1900 years has oc-
Cured in India and Mexico. The Etruscan sages
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-30

tennis tournaments are held on hundreds OF
courts all over the country on this m1dsummer
holiday and "sociability runs" by automop1e
clubs have added vet another event to those on
the calendar for this pre-eminent holiday
The very warmth Of the weather encountered
by the greater part of the country on the average
Fourth Of July has always rendered popular
aquatic festivals and carnivals. Yachting con-
tests rowing and power boat competitions, swim
ming and canoe races and other sports on the wa
ter have compensations for the participants and
regale the spectators ranged in the shade along
shore. In this field there are many mirthprovok-
ing contests as productive Of fun are the ones
above mentioned. Log rolling contests, water polo
water football, fitting contests in which the op-
ponents, armed with lances, stand up in canoes.
and walking the creased pole over the water, are
a few of the tests of skill in which the price OF
failure Is duckng, to the delight Of the spec
tators