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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

is such that after one has once heard his remarks they can be recognized in the Record without seeing his name. It is no exaggeration to say that he is one of the best informed men in the House. He is quick and apt with Biblical quota tions to fit any point that may arise in debate. He is an indefatigable worker, giving personal attention to his largs correspondence, which has trebled since the November elections. There is one thing that can be said of Champ Clark, and that is he Is truly democratic. Any evening you may find him dining at one of the swell hotels, while tomorrow you will see him eating dinner at some un- pretentious cafe. At the capitol you will often find him in that part of the House restaurant reserved for the public He is not in any sense an epicure. His meals are composed of good, wholesome food, gestion. He has not smoked a cigar or pipe for more than 20 years, but he does enjoy a chew of good tobacco.
 Cannon a Judge of Tobacco
 Uncle Joe Cannon, who steps down from the speakers chair March 4, 1911, Is known far and wide as a judge of to- bacco especially cigars. It is a rare thing to see Speaker Cannon In the House without an imported cigar sticking out of lut Ot HIS lflOutii, dl dH SSle ol 75 degrees. Of course, t is not always lighted, for Uncle Joe enjoys dry smoke If anyone should ask why Speaker Can non is so popular with the southern mem bers the answer is because he is a native of the Tar-Heel state, and although he left North Carolina and went to Illinois before the Civil war he never let his heart grow cold toward the southland.
 While Representative Bingham of Penn ..,l., 1,.t. t. n~l tk~ E.t r1R IA House." because he has the longest con- tinuous service to his credit, the service of Uncle Joe is not exceeded by any one in either House of Congress He entered the House in 1873 when James G. Blaine was speaker and served until the landulide of 1S90 when he was defeated by demo- crat named Busey, who was always point ed to by the capitol guides as the nan who beat Cannon. But Uncle Joe was returned to the Fifty-third Congress and has been coming back regularly ever since. although in the last campaign Che insurgents made a desperate effort to get his political scalp.
 What Cannon May Get
 According to precedent Speaker Cannon is entitled to the republican caucus nom- ination for speaker when the House meets for organization next December. The caucus nomination in this instance, how ever, Is merely an houor. although 1t car ries with it the floor leadership of the minority and unless the republican insur- gents change their attitude even that small honor will not go to Uncle Joe with out fight The standpattefs, or regu- lars. say they will stand by the speaker in the next caucus, unless he, decides to step aside and let one of the others take the responsibility of floor leadership. but the attitude of the insurgents Is distinct hNs'ia tO him. The one privilege that | Uncle Joe is sure of next winter will be | selection of his seat before the draw | ing 'begins-an honor always accorded ex- | speakers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

How Can He Change the Futures
 Tafs the James Treatment and Join a Church.
 He Will Have a Will Power that He Can Depend upon and Say No when the .Occa- sion Demands 1t.
 He Will as a Result Spend His Even ings at Home.
 His Position VIII Be Secure.
 His Children Can Stop Work and Go to School.
 His Children Will Not Be Ashamed of Their Clothes or Their Father.
 He Will Take Pride in Meeting His Ob- legations.
 Merchants Will Seek His Patronage.
 He Will Have Good Health and Enjoy Long Life of Happiness and Prosperity. kidneys are cleansed and the inflamed condition produced by alcohol is entirely overcome. Normal functional activity is resumed. A general state of well being is established. The patient feels strong and well, AND HE IS STRONG AND WELL and no longer feels the terrible thirst and cravings that once haunted him and drove him to drink for relief.
 We publish a sixty-two page book which we will take pleasure in sending you under plain cover, In which is fully described the disease of alcoholism and how the treatment, baths. etc.. at James Sanatorium, Memphis, Tenn, the largest and most successful institution of the kind in the world, overcome the diseases of Alcoholism, Morphinism and Nicotine Poisoning.
 JAMES HOME CURE REMEDIES will be furnished at the following prices:
 Whisky, Wine or Beer. 25o Tobacco, Cigarettes or Snuff. -. 5.00 Nervousness and Insomnia. ......... 500
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

pretext fails to work them out, he is at once convicted and sentenced for a fraudulent act. This, 1t is stated, is the chief reason for declaring the Alabama law unconstitutional.
 In the opinion of Judge Arthur c, Powell of the state court of appeals, 1t is just this difference which makes the Georgia law safe, and, in the fact of decisions of the supreme and appellate courts upholding it, he does not believe the United States court can possibly de- clare it void. There has, nevertheless, been talk time and again of attacking the Georgia law safe, and. In the face of upon the ground that it, in effect, abets reonage.
 While there have been many convictions under the georgia law in the lower courts, few of them have stood the test of the court of appeals. The appellate court holds rigidly to the requirement that the state must prove intent to defraud, and If a laborer in this state secures advances under contract to work for a certain pe- riod, and if he works for any portion of that period, even though he may have paid back only small portion of the ad- vance made, 1t is practically impossible to convict him in this state. .
 Candidates in the Field
 It's remarkable, sometimes, how jeal-
 
 he may not intend to hold onto 1t beyond the term he is serving. .a+-if,s'
 The other day Hon. J.7 D. Price of Oconee, a former state senator, pnssod through Atlanta, and it was casually mentioned that, having served as chair man of the committee on agriculture. and having been for many years farmer. MT. Price was planning to run for com missioner of agriculture in 1912
 If was stated foo that ba bad 1,a cad bio candidacy on the theory that Commis- sioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson would not be a candidate for reelection, but would retire from his present office to make the race for Congress from the Third district. It had been MT. Hudson's s intention to run for Congress last year, but he decided. after thinking the mat ter over, to wait until 1912.
 Now Commissioner Hudson takes ex- ception to the seeming attempt to put him into the race for Congress two years hence, and talks as if he might like to hold onto his present posi- tion in case things should not turn out favorably in the other direction.
 T am farming this year and not meddling with politics." Commissioner Hudson says. z"I believe that my time sh ould now be taken up with the agri- cultural interests of the state and not with launching a long campaign for Congress"
 ' It is not likely that anyone will dis pute MT. Hudson's statement, still there are several in various sections of the state who are going to persist in get ting him into the race for Congress because they want to have fling al the commissionership of agriculture themselves.
 Practically all of them feel that if MT. Hudson wants to retain his present position he can do so; what they would like is to know something about his intentions. Because if MT. Hudson. is really going to run for Congress, there is going to be about the liveliest racf for commissioner of agriculture next year Georgia has ever seen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
ABLE STATESMEN
 IN THE PUBLIC EYE Clark and Cannon Are Most
 Talked About  CLARK HAS THE ABILITY Cannon Has Served Longer Than Any Other Member of the House But Was Once Beaten By
 Democrat
CLARK HAS THE ABILITY
BY SIDNEY EsPEY

Washington, January 7.-(Special )-In the House of Representatives today the two statesmen who are in the public eye and who are pointed out to visitors in the galleries are Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon of Illinois and Representative Champ Clark of Missouri who, in the next House, 1t is generally admitted, will preside as speaker It is no exaggeration to say that these two national lawmakers are just now the most talked of men in public life.
 Last year 1t was Speaker Cannon who held public attention because of the war made on him by insurgent republicans, but since the November elections Champ Clark occupies the more prominent po- ] sition. This is due to the fact that he ie regarded as the Moses to lead the democrats in the next House through a tariff maze that will, his friends say, end in victory in 1912- And thus 1t is that everybody wants to know all about the man who is to be the first democratic speaker to preside over the House in It years.
 Champ CIarlk's Success
 The success that has attended Champ Clark since his entrance into politics, nearly 30 years ago, is attributed to his experience school teacher. He taught school in Kentucky, where he obtained Y his own education in the common schools With the money he made at teaching he paid his way through Kentucky univer- sity and Bethany college. At 23 he was president of Marshall college, West Vir- gina. He attended a Cincinnati law school, from which he graduated in 1875 Soon afterwards he located in Pike coun- ty, Missouri. where from the start he made a hit with the people, for he had not been there great length of time when he was maze city attorney of Bowl. ing Green. It was after making his home in Missouri that MT. Clark experienced trouble with his name. There were other J. B. Clarks in and around Pike county md the letter carriers and country post masters were continually getting mai mixed. To simplify matters the speaker. to-be cut off the first handle of his name James-and left it Bauchamp, which i. z pronounced "Becham. But the residents of Pike county could never get the righ accept, and would insist on calling | .,"Bowchamp." This was too much ant < the future democratic House leader short ened his name to Champ, by which h. ts known today
 Great Judge of Men
 ! There is no better judge of men In tn, t House than Champ Clark His expert ence as a lawyer farmer, country edito and school teacher gives him judgmen that stamps him a natural leader of men He is of imposing stature and weigh more than 200 pounds. He is built lik Z an athlete, with a head of the scholar ? When young man he wore full beard which later he reduced to, mustache but for the past 20 years he has shave daily.
 He has a strong personality. and a debater has few equals in the, House His speeches are full of fire and the styl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
Report on Maritime Defences

The Hague, January 7.--(Specfal.)- Dutch government has published an ex- tract from the secret report on maritime defences, in which 1t declares that the system of defense must give complete guarantees for the maintenance of Dutch neutrality. The forttf1cations of Texel are to be modernized, those of the port of Ymuiden and of the Nieuve Water veg are to be completed, and the forti- fications of Nauzen and Ellewoutsdyk are to be supplemented by works of the highest class at Flushing, The total cost of the scheme is estimated at about $16,- 100000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
LegisIatfOn in Spain

Madrid, January 1.-The government is preparing an association bill and liberal educational bill for introduction In the cortez in March. In an indirect way the Vatican asked that 1t be con- suited in the framing of these meas ures, but Premier Canalejas refused the request. The government Is pre- pared to name Senor calbeton, close personal friend of the premier. as Spanish ambassador to the .vatican as soon as the latter indicates desire formally to resume the negotiations for a revision of the concordat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
Brnye Womeu Are LOat

Lisbon, January 7.-(Special.)-A de- structive fire broke out in a dwelling house at Mourisoa, near Tondella. where an invalid girl lay in bed helpless. Four lady friends courageously ,endeavored to effect her rescue. Rearing ladders to the upper windows, they entered the blazing house and presently were seen to return arms. @
 Just. however, as 1t appeared that thelI gallant venture was to meet the reward of success in spite of the flames which enveloped the small company. the build- ing collapsed bodily and the five women, uttering piercing screams, were sengulfed in what was literally fiery furnace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
MEN WANTED

nile Work-rhousandS of Jobs Wait
 ing For Competent Men In All Parts
 of the Country.
 In addition to the immense number now in operation about 100000 Auto mobiles will be manufactured this year and this means work for thousands of men qualified to Sell. Repair, Drive And Demonstrate Automobiles and Trucks. The Rochester Automobile gchool will fit any man in few weeks to fill any of these positions, with out Interfering with his present em- ployment, get him job and give him In opportunity to make $1O weekly while learning. For information write ROCHESTER, AUTOMOBILE SCHOOL,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
Property Right. in Portugal

Lisbon, January "A government decree issued on the subject of the property rights of the religions orders contains a clause forbidding monks and nuns of the orders to wear a dis 'tinctive dress and prohibits the return to the country of expelled Jesuits until 20 years have elapsed following their expulsion. The decree permits any person to arrest an offender against either provision of the law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
The Drunkard's NeWYear's Prospects Almost Makes Him Curse His Very Existence
He Is Constantly Humated and Summed By His Friends and
 Is Living Death and Disgrace To His Family
HIS FUTURE PROSPECTS ARE

HIS FUTURE PROSPECTS ARE
 Friends Dwindling.
 People Stop Speaking
 Fewer Invitations to Drink.
 Occupation Uncertain Daughter Working for a Living.
 Son on the Street.
 Children Improperly Clad.
 Wife Sick, from Worry.
 House Rent Due. z
 Grocery Bills Unpaid.
 Creditors impatient.
 Swears Off.
 Gets Drunk Again.
 Loses Position.
 Crazed by Drink.
 Is a Defaulter.
 Murders Family.
 Commits Suicide
 ! Are you swearing off? Are you taking the pledge? Are you trying to start life anew? Have you drank in moderation" until you indulge in an occasional spree, brace up with drink next morning, and go to work and feel shaky next day for the want of another drink? If so you are suffering from the reaction of over-stim- ulation You have diseased nerves, your stomach, your liver, your heart and your kidneys are becoming deranged. In a. short time you will feel ''all out of sorts, again get the blues. become nervous and restless, take a drink and get drunk. When you get sober you will be torn up worse than before, nauseated, nervous and Sick, can't sleep, can't eat, disheart- ened, melancholy. Your memory is get ting bad, you are losing your old-time pride and self-respect, the sprees will get closer together until they become almost one continuous spree. Your ambition and your interest in your work are on the wane, you need whisky. you are suffering for it. but you are resisting it with all your power of both mind and body. Al cohol has weakened the mind. shattered the nerves, crippled the will power; alco- hol with you Is now physical necessity. You take one more drink as a tonic; it fires your brain and you take more and more, get drunk, get sick, get sober, fight off the desireafor a while and get drunk again.
 Now you are deceiving yourself by res- olutions that you will be physically una ble to keep. You are diseased Neither will power nor resolutions will keep your system from crying out for alcoholic stmulants, or keep you from falling, when nature can no longer stand without alcoholic stimulation.
 The James Treatment repairs the dam age done the human system by the ex- cessive use of alcoholic. drug or tobacco poisons, and the last vestige of these poisons is eliminated from the system. It builds up and restores the nervous sys- tenn to a normal eond .ton. It gives the heart full normal action. The liver and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
Waterproof Your Shoes

New guaranteed Best offered Money back not satisfied. Suitable for any kind Of shosA msn's women's; thin or heavy solss- Can wade in watsr after application. Makes shoes lonssr. Send 25c for trial bottle. Agents wanted Bank refer sncsa Douats Mfs. Co.,. Box lss. Pallnds. N. |.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
Mo.t Curieus PoIicv

London, January 7- (Epecial)-At "T.loyds." the insurance mart. where any ''nd of risk" can be insured against
 perhaps the most curious policy taken out in recent years Is one against the appointment of David Lloyd George as prime minister. The present chan cellor of the exchequer Is regarded by the nnionists as the most sinister enemy of their cause. and from their viewpoint his becoming premier would be first-class nolitical disaster. The premium demand ed by the underwater for this policy was 25 per cent. and 1t is only good for one year. There Is quite Q brisk market in Lloyds in insurance against another gen. eral election taking place in 1911, the rate being 35 per cent. Another risk being covered by the underwriters Is that of the abandonment or postponement of the cor onation. which is now fixed for date in June, 1911.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
Kitchener on Hunting Trip

Cairo, January 7.-(Special.) )-Lord Kitchener has left for Khartum, en route for shooting trip to Uganda. He will reach Mombassa by the middle of March. He expressed great pleasure at the visits he has received from persons from all parts Of Egypt. who formerly served nile he Nas inspector of po-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
FOR SALE

Between 4th and 9th avenues, well located at East Thomas ]; IS bounded by four railroads and electric car; has spur track already in; plenty of water. Can be bought very cheap.
 LOUIS V. CLARK q CO.,, 4th Ave. and 20th St.
 Phones GOT.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

Hamilton county Chattanooga has made a bid Of more than $10o,OoO for the Colored Normal school which is soon to be located by the state educational au- thorities. Included in the s10O,OOO bid are school buildings valued at s2o.OO0, which could be used for normal purposes next fall. It is believed that the bid of the local authorities will be accepted and the school located here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
FREE DRUG CURE

Charles B. James, Dept. 3, 133 Pop lar ave. Memphis, Tenn: Please send, all charges paid, a free trial bottle for patient using (state here num- Der grains used each 24 hours) .... grains of Estate kind of drug here)
 ................... state If used by mouth or hypodermically ................. ................. Name
 ,............ Town State ........ Nearest Express Office
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

Lon A. Warner, for more than 25 years engaged in newspaper work in the state, has retired 10 enter the insurance field. For more than five years MT. Warner has been managing editor of the Tradesman. monthly trade magazine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

John W. Faxen. for years prominently identified with the business interests of Chattanooga, has been reelected presi- dent of the local Humane society.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

T
 Booklet on Sanatorium and Home Treatment of Drug Addictions. Drunk enness and Tobacco and Cigarette Habits, containing testimonials. etc, sent sealed under plain cover Cores pondence confidential. Address Charles B. James Sanatorium, Dept. 3, 1S3 Pop lar avenue, Memphis, Tenn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

After a vacation during the Christmas holidays the regular January sessions of the criminal and the circuit courts vii. be started on Monday. The criminal court will empanel the grand jury Monday and then adjourn for one week. The cir cult court will s3art it's regular docket at once, however. E
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

Excellent new stations have recently been opened by the Southern railroad at Cleveland and Athens, and work is rap idly progressing on another new station at Oeltewah Junction, F miles east of Chattanooga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

Following almost two weeks of suspen- sion, due to heavy rains, and more re- gently the severe cold weather, the con- struction of new streets which is in pro- gress in this city began again today. The indictment weather has made work almost impossible for about two weeks, but 1t Is expected that conditions will be better in the future. Several hundred men are af- fected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

The local Y M. C. A. will shortly inau- gurate bowling contest, and the winners will issue challenge to the best bowlers of the Y. M. c. A. teams of Birming- ham. Memphis, Atlanta and Nashville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

With a hope of attracting more perma- nent residents to Lookout mountain, the Business league of that township is mak- ing strenuous effort to secure better pas senger and freight transportation to the top of the mountain. At present there seems to be an excellent chance for the construction of another passenger incline which will be ample to take care of this feature of the business. Freight traf- fic is what. bothers the residents, how ever, and a movement has been launched to secure better service for this feat slre.
The Monte Vista journal., 1911-07-01
RECIPROCITY

We give below, some of the
points made by Congressman Ed
T. Taylor IN his remarks favoring
the Canadian reciprocity agree
ment and the Farmers Free List
bill:
Reciprocity is a give and take
proposition.
No one can, in this world, expect
to get everything and to give up
nothing.
This reciprocity treaty is merely
trade agreement between the two
countries to mutually wipe out
some and reduce other tariffs, with
a view to more extended and
freezer trade between us.
am not of these who seem to
believe that nations cannot trade
with each other without one or the
other being cheated. 1 believe that
both nations, cities, merchants and
farmer can deal with each other
and both be benefited by it.
Any country which buys great
more from us than we buy from it
is certainly a good country for us
to trade with, and no retaliatory
tariff wall should stand between us
and such country.
A tariff wall between this coun-
try and Canada looks to me just
like a spite wall between two
neighbors, or like two farmers,
each keeping up parallel-line
fence with q devils lane" between.
Parallel fences are great waste of
material and energy and destroy.
er of business and good will.
From a business standpoint there
is no more sense in maintaining a
tariff wall between this country
and Canada than there would be
in creating one between the east
and the west banks of the Missis-
sippi river.
Suppose We had high tariff wall
around Colorado. We would be
practically put out of business with
in thirty days. The same rule
largely applies to our country.
The Monte Vista journal., 1911-07-01
ALASKA COAL CLAIMS

Wednesday the famous Cunning
han. G uggenheim coal claims in
Alaska, variously estimated to be
worth from $lOO,OOO,OOO to 81, O0O,-
OOO, 600 were ordered cancelled by
Commissioner Fred bennett of
the general land office, with the
approval of Secretary of the Inter
ior Fisher. BY this decision it is
declared that the alleged effort of
the Morgan Guggenheim syndi-
cate to grab Alaska" is frustrated
for the present, 60 far as the coal
deposits are concerned.
These lands of fabulous value,
which caused the Ballinger-Pin
chot feud, splitting the Taft ad-
ministration into bitter factions
and resulting in the dismissal by
President Taft Of Chief Forester,
Clifford Pinchot, Field Agent l..
X. CLAWS and several others, will
be restored to the public domain
and later will be opened for re-
entry.
The claimants threaten to appeal
TO the supreme court.