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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
The Criminal Record

I have never doubted that the relation of strong drink to crime and of the light CT wines and beer to crime would, as in dlcated by the police statistics in every
 land. show much to the advantage of the latter as against the former. That the brewers of our country have to answer, for the overplus of low dives set up by them, where liquors as we'll as beers are sold, is true enough. On this, point Adolphus Busch himself spoke in no un- certain terms less than year ago. But this Is an incident which does not affect the argument in favor of the vinous and malt fluids.
 Washington though himself & distiller. was of this opinion. Jefferson, who had seen more of the world-assuredly more of the European world-than Washington. went the length of making a strenuous effort to introduce wine and beer to vir- gfnia by offering a bonus to the vintners and brewers who would come and try the experiment. Not until the Germans ar rived in great numbers, however, did the beer industry prosper f"
 Touching this relation of drink to crfme as revealed by the police records. I am permitted by Consul General Peters to make the following quotation from the latest data compiled by him:
 The statistics of arrests for all causes will give some idea-6f the effect of beer on crime, although'it 1t does not necessarily follow that the crime was directly the result of beer. On the contrary the per- centage of intoxication which influenced crime possibly was very small indeed; the percentage of arrests for all causes in comparison with the population was very small and decreasing in a remarkable manner from 1901, when there were 413. 255, to 1907, with population of 53S, ,9S3, and only sSs3 arrests for all causes.
 Inebriety is not Q crime in Munich, nor will one be arrested for 1t unless connect- ed with some other cause which may have been the result of incbriety,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
lost Treasure Found

From Answers, Lonuo1.
 At Thorpness recently the sea reNeaied treasure that had been hidden for hun dreds of years. As the tide ebbed. the sanSs were found to be filtered with hun dreds of coins-gold silver and bronze dating from early Saxon times. There were also antique bronze rings and orna- ments, that will fetch many pounds to their fortunate finders from collectors. At the inquest-which by, the way, is in held on such treasure trove-it was decided that-the find was not crown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
A sineeure

From the Washington Post.
 Gen. Horatio C. King. secretary of tho Society of the Army of the Potomac. was narrating at dinner in Brooklyn his memories of the Civil war.
 We suffered many hardships on both sides" said General King Ut the poor, brave Confederates suffered most.
 T remember a grizzed old colored man who. at the outbreak of the spanish war; applied for a place as an army cook.
 What experience have you had?' tho
 old fellow was asked.
 'I was cook. sab. fo a Confederate regiment in sixty-fo he answered. That is, sah, had the position of cook. but., to tell the truth, l didn't work at It.
 Why not?'
 There wasn't nothn' to cook, sah.' "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02

home and talked to him severely.
 Will you promise not to do that again?" we demanded.
 1essir," sobbed thes angel. He ain't got cent left. What can do, pap
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
Nothing Left

From tfie Cleveland Plain Dealer
 Our little, angel boy was caught shoot ing craps with the neighbor's little bur glar last evening We brought our child
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
A TEMPERANCE LECTURE

There are times, the present Is one of them, when 8 beer called "Salvator' Is brewed this beer Is double the strength Of ordinary beer and much desired by the peoplegis Only a certain amount of this is brewed and generally consumed in two or three weeks. During this time there is a certain amount of intoxication among the people, but not of violent character as that produced by alcoholic drink.
 The following table of arrests will show the decrease of crime since 1901:
 Arrests
 1901 there were. ......,.....t............. 9,33i 1902 there were. ................. 9,336 1903 there were .................... g. 015 1904 there were......,............... S,S01 1905 there .......................... 6917 1906 there were. ......................., 5,572 1907 there were. ............. 3,SS3 In 1901 Munich had population of A3- 255, In 1907 53S, 9S3, while in 1910 595, ,05s The statistics of arrests for that year, regret to say, I have not as yet re- ceived. But it will, I dare say, maintain, the average of the above figures.
 These figures are tolerably conclusive in telling their own story. They com plerely refute the pleas of the American prohibitionists, who, as I said make no discrimination and allow no distinctions One and all. they are temperate in what they call their temperance, a single glass according to their philosophy. being the first mile-post on the road to perditon, a glass of beer, or a glass of wine, and a glass of grog, one and the same.
 They take their stand upon total ab- stinence, which is their right. But not content with adopting it for themselves, they seek to force it by law upon their pai ichh f te f,o,rn uci1 to with such a spirit. It is of the very es- sence of despotism. Gratifed with re- spect to intoxcants, 1t would next ad- dress itself to tobacco; then to such food as might fall beneath it's ban; and finally, to religious opinion, wearing apparel and personal behavior. Tyranny accepted knows no bounds. Fanaticism is relent- less Over here the masses of the people know this but too well, and the rulers dare not run counter to it.
 The moderate use of drink has brought as much happiness into the world as its' immoderate use has brought wretched- ness. Even in Kentucky, in any of the states of America, there is not per cap ita in any community one sot to hun dred moderate drinkers. Both in Eng land and in the United States drunken ness has steadily abated under the minis- trations of an intelligent morality. In these European beer-brewing and wine making countries drunkenness of the kind common to us is unknown; their stand ards of production undiminished; their domestic happiness unclouded; their ra- cial and personal worth untainted by their national beverage, whether 1t be the varied vintage of the grape Or the home ly offspring of hops and malt, they go their way, and laugh at "despotism in AmericaD D
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
Phones Main 1435, 2O55, 25S6

out the risk of cholera morbus, the thief, the wreck, the belyache, like the drunk
 ard, being the exception. Shall we have no more fiscal institutions, no more lines of transportation, no more truck gardens and no more cakes and ale? Perish the thought, for what has been and is in Bavaria can be in Kentucky or anywhere else where the rule of sanity and mod eration is observed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02

This the prohibitionists would set aside and nullify. To do so they fly in the face of Heaven itself. Preading the tcloisters of the past here in Europe, or travelling the thoroughfares of the present at home, I know but one torch to light the way, and that is the Spirit of the Man of Cali
 lee, whose teaching from first to last was at war with force appealing to the better
 nature and the reason of man, not his
 brutal passions and cumulative parts; and,
 taking this for my guide, I cannot help thinking the American prohbitonist im- pious and irreligious in his dogmatism and at the same time as unwise and undis- eliminating in his worldly methods | might.as well rail at God for bring ing sin and disease and death into the world and seek to encompass them by
 sumptuary legislation. Men may be
 made hypocrites by law. but never saints. Religious truth has been the rather ob- scured and retarded than accelerated by theoloeic controversy.
 | Expressive agencies culminate in reac- | tons Radical puritanism in England was succeeded by the debaucheries of the Restoration; and prohibition laws in the United States have not only not dimin- ished drunkenness, but they have brought in their train scandals and evils quite as hurtful to the community at large drink has brought to that limited section of the community given over to the ex cessiVe use of intoxicants: that Is, con tempt for law, evasonS of law eXtortion
 and adulteration, the corruption alike of
 the officials and the drink, lawful and
 needful revenues eXtinguished in favor of
 lawless indulgences; the fanatical preacn-
 CT and the grating politician uniting to
 work the spy system each for his own
 ends, but against the mass and body of
 society
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-02-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST
NEWS THAT IS NEWS. WHEN IT 10
NEWS, FOR ALL
DOINGS OF DAY and WEEK
happenings the Wide World Over Of
important Events Condensed to
Good Reading.
WASHINGTON.

The United States senate, after
short, Intellectual open filibuster
against the resolution providing for
the popular election OF senators, ac-
ceded Saturday to Senator Borah's In
sistent demand to make that resolu-
ton the unfinished business of the
senate After the disposition of the
ship subsidy bill Friday, Senator Mel
son call up his Alaska coal and oil Dill
and Saturday attempted to make 1t
the unfinished business, but the SEN
ate, by vote of Al noes to 36 ayes.
refused to take up the matter.
At the request of several Amer
leans who have large property inter
ests in Juarez Mexico, which city is
scheduled to be attacked by the revo;
lutionists, the president laid before
the cabinet Friday the proposition OF
sending American troops into JuareZ
for the purpose Of protecting this
property and the several hundred
American citizens living there.
Representative William Il Smith of
Texas, whose district takes in the Rio
Grande frontier from Ell Paso TO Del
Rio, opposite which there has been
considerable fighting between the
Mexican troops and insurgents, Fri
day laid before Secretary of State
Knox the complaint of |. l.. Kleine-
man, merchant of Preside, charg-
ing that the Mexican jefe politico, OPP
posite Preside, is prohibiting Amer
leans and Mexicans alike from cross
ing the Rio Grande into Texas. Mr..
Kleineman says that this action has
resulted in the separating of families
and has caused hardships and distress
on the Texas side, because heads of
families working or residing In Mex
leo are prevented from returning to
Texas to take care of their families.
For the first time in the history of
the government the vice president of
the United States Friday exercised his
constitutional privilege of casting
vote to break ties in connection with
three successive roll calls in the SEN
ate. BY the first two of these votes
he saved from defeat the ocean mail
or ship subsidy bill, and by the third
forced an adjournment of the senate
on a vote having direct bearing on
the resolution looking to the election
of United States senators by direct
vote of the people. The vote on the
subsidy bill. both in committee of the
whole and in the senate proper, stood
80 ayes and 80 noes, and on adjourn
ment 81 to 81. On all these occasions
the vice president voted in the affirm
alive.
Secretary Ballinger Friday notified
Representative Morgan that no further
investigation of irrigation projects in
Oklahoma would be made owing to the
questionableness of investments and
the meager possibilities of persons who
would be benefited from government
irrigation work, to pass back the
money which the government would be
compelled to expend.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-02-09
DOM EsTIc.

Sitting on the steps of the county
church at Naked Creek, Va, Friday,
Fitzhugh Conner, young farmer, shot
and killed his betrothed, Miss Cora
Turner, aged 20 years, and then COM
mitted suicide. Conner was jealous of
the attentions of another farmer to
Miss Turner, and several times, 1t is
said he threatened to kill the girl il
she continued to write to anyone but
him.
Two gins at Ladonia, Texas, have
paid out $27 900 for cotton and the
season will not close for two weeks
or more if the weather continues ia
vorable. The average price paid has
been more than &c a pound, as the
greater part has sold for 2 lac and
some as high as SC. One gin is equip
ped with the latest improved huller
and makes staple that brings from
lie to 13c. 1t is not uncommon to
hear farmer say he has sold $500
worth of bolls, and one man has re-
ceived more than $500.
With only small attendance, the
Texas Conservative Association met in
annual session at San Antonio Thurs
day. Those present manifested great
interest and a most excellent program
was carried out. Ed IL. Kone, commits
sioner of agriculture and president of
the association, presided. A resolu-
ton was adopted asking the legislature
for reformation of the law of 1905.
providing for the formation of irrlga-
ton districts and the issuance of bonds
Tor the district SO the law will be more
Blastic.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-02-09

The report Of w. r. Fitzgerald, au.
ditor Of the Texas railroad commits.
sion, on the Texas state railroad was
made public Saturday. 1t is an analy.
SIS of the records of the Palestine
office. According to the trial balance
furnished the state railroad has de.
felt from operation of s16,541 after
all current obligations are paid.
Every death and every birth in a
small town causes approximately 300
extra telephone calls, according to fig.
ures issued by telephone company.
The calls resulting from births are
more trouble, says the report, because
these are limited to women, and the
conversation occupies much more time
than in telling of death.
A cargo of dynamite in transit from
freight car to the hold of lighter,
moored at Pier No. Z, Communipaw,
NJ, j., exploded Wednesday, $50 yards
south of the Jersey City terminal of
the Central Railroad of New Jersey,
and in the widespread ruin that fol-
lowed, thirty-five are known to have
been killed, seven more are missing,
hundreds were injured and varying re-
ports leave from fifteen to twenty
more unaccounted for.
Rear Admiral Charles Sperry, u.
s. N. (retired), who commanded the
Atlantic fleet on the last leg of its
round-the-world trip, died suddenly
Wednesday in Washington. Rear Ad.
miral Sperry had been ill only day
or so. He was CO years old, having
been born at Brooklyn, N. Y, Sept. 3,
1S47. Entering the navy in 1862, he
reached the rank of rear admiral in
1906, and retired on attaining the age
Of 90 in 1909.
A car of apples from Washington
was received in Houston Wednesday
contained the following varieties: Mis-
souri, Pippins, Wagners, Ganos, Ben
Davis, Yakima Reds, Rome Beauties,
Genetons, Black Twigs, New York
Pippins, Atkins, Grimes Golden, Belle
fleurs, Rhode Island Greens and Chi
Cages. The apples are the choicest
grown, and the car contained the best
quality of any received during the sea-
son. The prices quoted ranged from
$3.50 to $3.50 per box.
Seventeen witnesses were put on
the stand by the defendants in the
Burleson County peonage case We'd
nesday, and at the end of the sessions
good start had been made in the ex-
PLANTATION of that side of the contro-
versy over proceedings in the justice
court of Somerville.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-02-09
BEAN COFFEE,
A HEALTHFUL DRINK

The healthiest ever; you can grow
1t In your own garden on small
patch 10 by 10, producing so pounds or
more. Ripens in Wisconsin 80 days
Used in great quantities in France,
Germany and all over Europe. Send
10 cents in stamps and we will mail
you package giving full culture di-
catalog free, or send 81 cents and get
In addition to above 10000 kernels
indispensable vegetable and flower
seeds--enough for bushels of .Yege-
tables and flowers. John A. Salzer
Seed Co., 1872 S. Sth St, La Crosse, Via
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-02-09
FOREIGN.

Another great earth slide a mile long
in the Panama Canal, and already has
covered the thirty-tiye-foot bank of the
canal opposite the tow path with $50.
900 cubic yards of material. The slide
began, according to the canal record,
Jan IS on the west bank of the canal
opposite the Culebra hotel. Up to Jan.
20 the earth had not encroached on
the railroad tracks in the lower part
of the cut to any extent, and opera.
lions there we're not interfered with.
M. LeMarty, the French aviator,
broke the worlds passenger-carrying
record at Pau, France, Friday. Pilot.
ing monoplane, he carried up seven
passengers for five minutes flight.
A special dispatch from CONSTANT
nople to London says that two Arab
tribes friendly to the Turks have been
massacred by Yemen rebels. All the
adults were killed and the children's
legs were cut off.
The discovery that twenty deaths
from the plague have occurred in the
Chinese hospital at Tien Tsin has re.
renewed the suspicion that the au
thorities there are concealing the real
conditions. 1t is believed that the
plague is not diminishing and the ply.
sicians attached to the lagtions cal
culate that there are at least 500 vic.
tins daily throughout the infected
quarters.
The evacuation of Puerto Cortez by
the Honuduran government troops has
taken place, and the town is now in
the hands of the American and Brit.
lsh marines, who are awaiting the ar
rival of the forces of General Manuel
Bonilla, the leader of the revolution.
lists.
The burning of the accumulated
bodies of plague victims has begun
and already thousand have been de.
stroyed in this way outside the vari.
GUS towns in Manchuria. Collins are
stacked upright, surrounded by logs
on which oil has been thrown, while
! the uncoffined bodies, frozen, are piled
on top. Then the torch is applied
Those having charge of the crema-
ton protect themselves from the dis
ease by heavy masks and bandages,
but the coolies who drive the wagons
and handle the bodies, being fatalists,
take no such precaution.
The eruption of Taal volcano and
the accompanying disturbances in the
Philippines killed 700 people In the
town of Talisay, according to the re
port of the governor of Batangas pro
vince. Among the estimates of casu.
allies was a report from Delegate
Apacible, representing Batangas in the
Philippines assembly, who placed the
total dead at 900. The delegates re
port added that 5000 families had
been ruined by the disaster
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-02-09

An unexpected result of the Portu-
Euese revolution was the indisposition
Of the animals at the Lisbon zoologi-
cal gardens. They all became Ill, hav-
ing been so alarmed by the lombard
ment that they refused to eat and
drink.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-05
NOTHING DOING.
The Lady Explains Why She Cannot
! Listen to the Book Agent.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The book agent crossed the road, push
ed the button at the front door OF the
brown house and wiped his feet on the
mat, which was inscribed with the word
Welcome He reached under his coat
and unbuttoned the pocket which held
his prospectus of 1.-The Devil Of Today"
The door opened and thin woman
looked at him with sharp eyes. Her hair
was red and she wore white side combs.
"Good morning. said the book agent
as he removed his hat. "Perhaps-'
Yes, and perhaps not. too. You're
round collecting for the wringer. aren't
you? Well, you won't get no more OFF
of me. Il haven't got minutes time to
waste with you.
NO SIR" she repeated, you don't get
no more off of me. The egg beating at
tachment onto it don't work at all and
the prize portrait you gave with it don't
look no more like Claude than l do. Do
you know never see wringer but what
think of our dear old cat:
''One night she went to sleep in the
basket OF clothes and the next morning
we squeezed her through the wringer
done up in a table cloth. She was too
sweet for anything. We buried her In
y
Ny husband just loves turnips.
'.He likes 'em fixed up with cabbage
and tomato sauce, like his Aunt Ann used
to do 'em. You know his Aunt Ann is
a awfully nice lady. The only peculiar
ity about her was she wouldn't ride back
ward in a trolley car. She said 1t made
her feel like she was wading in the surf
at Coney Island. 1 think Coney Island
is just the loveliest place.
"Of course I don't believe I'd care to be
there in the winter time, but In the sum-
mer 1 think it's just grand. / like that
place where you sit down and slide down
around a shoot and out at the bottom.
They call 1t the dew drop. OF course,
ordinary dew I can't stand. I can't go
out much after nightfall on account OF
the dew on my ankles. My aunty was
the same way.
Whenever L speak Of aunty can't
help thinking OF the pies she used to
make. 1 can almost taste 'em now. She
was so artistic. too. Aunty stamped
crescents and lovely pretty things on the
pie crust-makes 1t SO much moro ap-
petizing. you know. She done it with her
false teeth. Aunty's dead now: she had
DO you know that vest you've got on
looks Just like Claudes. Why, I didn't
say any such thing! I only said It look
ed like it. Can't more than one vest look
alike?
I'm washing and I'll have to go. cause
7 smell the suds runnin' over. won't
pay no more on that wringer. but I'm
always glad to listen to what folks has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-05
j. Automobile Calendar.

February 6-11-Annual Chicago
show OF n. a. A. NJ, commercial
ears.
! February 5-11-Annual show In.
Buffalo. promoted by Automobile
Trade Association.
s February 13-1S-Annual automo-
bile show. Convention Hall, Wash
ington. D. G..
February 13-oO-Motor show in
Convention Hall. Kansas City. Mo-.
under the auspices of the Motor
Car Trades Association OF Kansas
City.
February 15-1S-Show at Grand
Rapids. Mich.
February 1s-o5-second annual
show held by the Binghamton
Chamber OF Commerce and the
Binghamton Automobile Club In
the State Armory. Binghamton.
N. Y.
February 1s-26-Annual Mime
apolis show in National Guard
Armory.
February oO-2lAnnual show,
9TH Regiment Armory. Baltimore.
Nd.
February 2o-o6-show of Omaha
Automobile Association at Omaha,
Neb.
February 81 to March 4-Show at
Toronto, Ont.
March 4-11-Annual Boston show.
March 6-11-Second annual show
Of Des Moines Automobile Dealers
Association, Des Moines. Iowa.
March 15-1S-Show OF Louisville
Automobile Dealers Association,
Louisville, Ky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-05
The Siamese at Home.
From London T. P.'s Weekly.

rom London I. L. Weekly.
Describing their national character as
"doci1e, indolent, timid. gay" u writer
has said: The Siamese are devoted to
the holiday markings and ceremonies
and professions which accompany the
important anniversaries or incidents of
life. death and religion, and which
cause an infinite amount of money to
be squandered and time lost. When a
king or prince Is cremated.' or when a
crown prince has his topknot shaved
off. the whole city (Bangkok) is given
up TO idleness for days, and the bar
barrie splendor of the ceremonial Is
unique even In the far east" The
marriage customs OF Siam are peculiar.
When a wedding is contemplated the
negotiations are carried out by elderly
women, who ascertain IL the intended
bride and bridegroom are suitable and
arrange all details. But. with all
their faults. the Siamese are a charm
ing people. lovable. gifted and Gull
tured. Their chief failings are leth-
argy and love OF pleasure, and they
have the characteristic capriciousness
of all orientals in their amours. linn
tied or extended, Of course. according
to their social position and balance at
the bank. To the late king. for an ex-
ample, wives were as embarrassing aa
they were to Solomon. for 1t 10 the Gus
tom Of the Siamess arietocracx to dedi-
cate it's most attractive daughters to
the service of the sovereign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-05

Goodyear No Rim Cut tires,
until lately, cost 20 per cent more
than other standard tires. Yet last
year our tire sales trebled-
jumped to So, 100000.
Now because of enormous pro-
duction, they cost 40 extra price.
No-Rim-Cut tires have become the
sensation. Half million have already
beeu sold. And "a leading motor car
makers have contracted for them for
1911. For these are the only practical
tires which make rim-cutting impos-
sible. Let US explain.