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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
WILL DECORATE GRAVES TOMORROW East Lake Camp Announces Its Programme-Camp
 Hardee at Oakhill

The graves of the Confederate dead will be strewn with beautiful flowers tomorrow afternoon and fitting tributas paid to their memory at the Memorial Day exercises which will be held ot
 the various cemeteries of the district
 under the auspices of the several chap tors of the Daughters of the Confed- eracy.
 While the 26th Of April is set apart as Memorial Day the custom has been for several years past to hold the ax- ercises on the following Sunday This has been found to be desirable and in- creased interest is being aroused by the Sunday afternoon exercises. Camp Hardee will hold the services lat Oak Hill cemetery where appro- priate exercises will be given Camo
 Pat cleburne of Ensley will observe tho Gay at Oakland. Camp Bob Mckinley of East Lake announces the following programme:
 "The Daughters of the Confederacy and the Confederate Veterans will hold memorial services Sunday evening at 3 o'clock.
 The veterans are requested to meet at l a. m. at Rullama Baptist church to attend a special service; sermon preached by the pastor, Rev. J. R. Ed
 wards. The veterans will meet at 2:l5
 p. m. at the Masonic hall and go to
 the Methodist church at 8 D. m. to attend the memorial service and from
 there to the cemetery to decorate the graves with flowers.
 All veterans are cordially invited to
 come and bring their friends and bring flowers for the occasion. R. N. M'KINLEY. "Adjutant Camp Bob Mckinley No.
 I3i7.
 ,. .tr L MOORE Camrrlandere
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27

Montgomery. April 26-tSpecial)-The following rulings on applications for re- hearing have been announced in the su- preme court:
 J. Benedick vs. Board of Revenue and Road Commissioner of Mobile county, appeal from Mobile law and equity court; application oyerruled.
 C. J. Stewart vs. Bibb County Banking & Trust Co., appeal from Perry circuit court; application overruled.
 Thomas H. Long vs Jerome Seigel ap- peal from Perry circuit court; opinion modified and application overruled
 John Sims vs. the State of Alabama, appeal from Bibb circuit court; applica- tion overruled.
 James E. Aston vs. J. c. Dunn, ct al., appeal from Marengo law and equity court; application overruled.
 Ex parte, Louisville and Nashville Rail- road company, petition for certiorari, etc: application overruled.
 Ed Costello vs. the State of Alabama, appeal from Dale circuit Court; applica- ton overruled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
STILL CONFER WITH
 THE ENGINEERS

New York, April 26.-Justice Martin A. Knapp of the United States commerce court and United States Lapor Commits sioner Charles P. Neill, held two confer ences with each of the parties in dispute today in an effort to carry out their plan for mediation for adjustment of the dlf- ferences between the locomotive engineers and the eastern railroad managers. No statement was made this evening. Indi- cations were that the railroads were in- sisting upon an arbitration board of nine members, while the engineers preferred small number. Judge Knapp and Com missioner Neill will meet the railroad managers again tomorrow and the medi- ators will confer with the engineers Mon- day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
SELMA ADECORATES
 SOLDIERS GRAVES

Selma, April 26.-tSpecial. )--Memorial day was appropriately observed here to- day and the graves of the Confederate dead,in Live Oak cemetery were decorated with flowers by the members of the Selma Ladies' Memorial association and salutes in their honor were fired by the Abbott Rifles. Near the Confederate monument in the cemetery programme of appro- priate exercises which had been arranged was carried out and the address of the occasion, which was delivered by Rev. J. L. Rosser, pastor of the First Baptist church, was heard by large crowd.
 A large parade. composed' of civic and military bodies. was formed in front of the postoffice at o'clock this afternoon and marched to the cemetery. Confed- crate veterans and the school children of the city marched on the sidewalk along side of the parade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
NEWS OF ENSLEY

tbat as quickly as the matter can be gotten to some kind of action will be taken to improve the alleged made quate conditions.
 Thirty-seven cases confronted Re corder Lowry in the police court yes terday. They Were the combined cases of two days. one day being missed as the judge was out of the city. Several hundred dollars were assessed in fines
 Those in charge of Tag Day today an nounce ready. Mrs. F. B. Dodge is chair man and is assisted by Mrs. w, N Wood, Mrs F. W. Wilcox. Miss Lindy Wilcox, Miss Hattie Howard, the Misses Cutter and Mrs. Joe Scholl Two of the young ladies will work the steel plant and the rest of them will work downtown.
 Mrs. Nell Hutchings is quite i'll al her home at Palmer station.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
LETTER TO SEMON
 FROM WHITE HOUSE
BijOu Manager Calls Presidents Att tention to Age-Herald Tribute
 to Major Butt

Martin l.. Semon, manager of the Bijou theatre, writes as follows, the letters being self explanatory:
 ITO the Editor of The ge-Herald. q sent a copy of last Sundays Age Herald to President Taft, marking the signed editorial tribute to Major Butt and received the enclosed reply.
 ''M. l.. SEMON." The letter from the White House under date of April % 1912, was as follows: My Dear MT. Semon-The President requests me to thank you cordially for your courtesy in calling to his attention the tribute to Major Butt in Sundays Age Herald. Very truly yours,
 CHARLES D. HILLES,
 Secretary to the President MT Martin l.. Semon, Manager the Bijou, Birmingham, Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
Trv Couple Today

The trial of Mrs. Kate Shivers and q man giving his name as J. B. Brown will come up this morning before Judge Hugo L. Black of the recorders court The couple were arrested at the instance of the husband of the woman. Brown does not reside in Birmingham, and it is un- derstood is g travelling salesman for . tobacco house
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
PASSION PLAY POSTPONED Pictures Were to Have Been Presented
 Tomorrow Afternoon

pr. George Eaves announces that be- cause of the failure of the pictures to arrive on time, the presentation of the Passion Play at the Victoria theatre, scheduled for Sunday afternoon, has been postponed.
 The silver offering to have been taken was for the benefit of the Mississippi flood sufferers and was to be turned over to the Red Cross society.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
COLONEL MURFEEIS
 BURIED IN MARION Funeral Yesterday From SilOam Baptist Church TOWN BOWED IN GRIEF For Years Deceased Was Identified With Town and Educational h.
 terests of Perry-Natiye of
 Yirginia-Brave Soldier
TOWN BOWED IN GRIEF

Marion, April 26.-(special )-The fu- neral service of the late Col. James
 Thomas Murfee. who died in Miami Fla, Tuesday night, was held in Sloan Baptist | church this morning at Il o'clock. con- ducted by the pastor, the Rev Paul ". Bomar.
 1 In the death of Col. Murfee Marion has lost it's most distinguished citizen
 and its best friend. Coming to Marion
 in 1871 as the president of Howard col
 lege, and in 1887 establishing the Marion
 Military institute, he has identified him self with the town and the educational
 interests of Perry county in a manner
 not attained by any other man. |.
 Today the town is bowed in grief, and | to show proper respect for his memory | all business was suspended during the funeral hour, and doubtless the largest | number of persons attended this funeral
 ever known in the history of the town.
 Sketch of His Life
 brief sketch of his life is given as fol- 1 lows: Colonel Murfee was born in l Southampton, Va, on September 13, 1885,
 graduated from the Virginia Military in- stitute In 1853 without a single demerit and with the highest honors of his class
 He joined the Baptist church in Lynch
 burg, Va, in 1851; he was called to the | University of Alabama as professor of | mathematics and commandant of cadets
 in 1860; he was the architect and re- builder of the University of Alabama after
 it had been destroyed by the Federal sol | 1rfa l, ,Ic tta,, | tenant colonel of the Forty-frst Alabama regiment, c. s. A, and commanded the | cadets in an engagement with the federal | troops at Tuscaloosa in April, 1865; he was president of Howard college at Marion | from 1871 to 1887, when it was moved to | Birmingham.
 In 1887 he founded and established the 1 Marion Military institute and was It's | superintendent until 1906, when he was re- | tired by the Carnegie foundation funds on a pension for the remainder of his life. Active in School Work Colonel Murfee had been a familiar figure in the school work in Alabama for 52 years, and hundreds of young men from all parts and from all stations in life are due largely to his energies their educa- tonal advantages He had been a mem-
 Der of Siloam Baptist church for more than Al years, during which time he had shown not only his interest in the educa- ton of the head but the heart of man, and has been frequently quoted as say ing: "A boy must be a gentleman before he can become scholar"
 Colonel Murfee Is survived by his wife and four children. His sons are Hopson
 o. Murfee and Walter l.. Murfee. His
 daughters are Mrs. w. H. Lovelace and Mrs. E. B. Anderson all of whom live in
 Marion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
Deaths and Funerals
J. J. Odom

J. J. Odom, aged 50 years, died last night at aso o'clock at the family residence. 242o Fifth avenue. north. The time of the funeral has not yet been set, but it will be held some time Sunday. He was a son-in-law of Mir. and Mrs Henry Chairsell. 2216 Fifth avenue. north. MT. odom Is survived by his widow, two daughters and three sons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
Mrs. Neacy Gray

Mrs Neacy Gray. aged 95. died Friday at 6:3o D. m, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. D.. A. Gray. Fountain Heights. She is survived by her daugh- ter, Mrs. Gray. and the following grand children: Mrs. H. M. McTyeire. Mrs. Walter Carter. Misses Nell and Hassie Gray, Richard and Will Gray.
 The body of the deceased will be sent to Athens for interment at F o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
Taft Makes Denial

New York, April 26.-Before leaving the home of his brother. Henry w. Taft, to attend the memorial exercises for the late Maj Gen Frederick Dent Grant at Gov ernor's Island. President Taft issued a formal denial that he had said in his speech at Springfield. Mass, iyesterday that Theodore Roosevelt would be die tator and stick to the White House like a leech if he were elected for third term.
 The President said:
 T did not use the language attributed to me at Springfield In some of the dis patches In which I am made to say Mir. Roosevelt would be dictator and stick like a leech to the White House
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
GUN CLUB SHOOT

On account of a very high wind perfect shooting was not possible yesterday aft ernoon, but the members of the Birming- ham Gun club enjoyed themselves. Gen. try Hillman, with 9S, was high gun.
 A visitor was John Phillip Sousa, and he had difficulty with his gun. On that account he did not make his usually good score.
 The shoot yesterday was the first in three weeks. the aviators having had charge of the field previously
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
Serious Disturbances

Annoy, China. April 2s.-Reports were received today from Tungan. on the east coast of Kwang Tung providence. that serious disturbances have resulted from an attempt to collect tifc Likin or transit taxes. All traffic in the neighborhood has been suspended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
PERSONAL

Mrs. EIdred Marshall of Pittsburg is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. D. M. Dren- nen, at 1006 South Twentieth street. Mrs. Marshall will be remembered as Miss Bessie Irvine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
Charges DislOyalty

Charges DislOyalty
 MT Taft said yesterday that never in thought word or deed had he been disloyal in his friendship for me. It is hard for me to answer such a state lnent except by calling 1t the grosssst and most astounding hypocrisy. When MT. Taft made that statement he had just sent to the United States Sen ate on half an hours notice obviously in collision with the Iorimer demo- cratic senator who made the request, pupers which were intended to con vey the impression that l had inn properly favored the harvester trust by declining to prosecute 1t in 1907.
 When MT. Taft takes the action he did he has not more in thought. word snd deed been dsloyal to our past friendship. but has been disloyal 10 E every canon of ordinary decency and fair dealing such as should obtain even Cln dealing with mans bitterest op- rhponents. Such conduct represents the ' very crook kedest kind of a crook ed deal
 This is not an exceptional instance of how he has behaved to me. The same course was followed last sum sner in connection with the Tennessee Coal and Iron company. The assaults upon me by MT. Taft's campaign man agers, made in Washington. under MT Taft's very eyes, have been foul to the verge of indecency. But remember, l am not complaining of these things; I care nothing for MT. Taft's personal attitude toward me; l allude to it only in passing and merely because MT. Taft lays such emphasis on the matter"
 Talks of Reciprocity
 The speaker then turned to reel procity, saying:
 MT Taft says that I changed front on the. reciprocity measure. This is un- true He publishes letter of mine in answer to letter of his marked con tidential' Incidentally. of the un- purdonable sins on the part of any man calling himself gentleman is to publish confidential correspondence Without permission as to this, l care nothing."i
 Mir Roosevelt said he at least did not say one word against MT. Tafts reciprocity measure until it was dead. ..I1ven then" he said, T declined to speak on the subject until in several states MT. Taft's managers themselves began to circulate the fact of my sup port of MT. Taft's proposal reason why I should not be nominated"
 He declared that in 30 years of close ob- servation he had never seen such sean dalous abuse of the patronage as of this year"
 The Cannon Meeting
 'Mr Taft states that I advised him to have a meeting with Cannon" said the speaker q advised him to meet everyone to consult with everyone, to try to get on with everyone. But no less emphatically l advised him to follow my example, to consult freely with all the politicians and to try to get on with them but where the politicians split off from the people then to stand with the people and not with the politicians; and it is precisely this that he failed to do.
 T have eagerly endeayored to praise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
The Cannon Meeting
TOO LATE ID CLASSIFY

N17NS;ffIE;5D5Sc@fo N7S;ffI;55Sf iifre several good teams. w. D. Wood Lumber Co, sth avenue and 18th street. Both phones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
Taft Renews Attack

Newark, N. J., April 26.-President Taft renewed in Newark tonight his attack on Col Theodore Roosevelt Carrying his lighting campaign into New Jersey, the President spoke to several thousand peo- pie in the armory here. He did not reply to Mr Roosevelts charges In detail, but tried to make it plain that in his opinion Mr. Roosevelt knew most of the charges to be groundess.
 "If consulted my own wish" said MT. Taft, q would be silent under MT. Roosevelt's attack and trust to the future to vindicate me. But l am forced against the wall with my back to 1t and I'm bound, if I have any manhood to fight"
 The President spoke with evident emo- tion. He walked the platform, pounded the rail in front of him and as he warmed up to his subject grew red in the face with anger.
 He referred briefly to many of MT. Roosevet's charges.
 ''The thing that sinks deepest in my heart" said the President, lis the charge that I am an oligarch and don't believe in the ability of the people of the United States to govern themselves. If there is anything have pride in, it is that l am an American citizen and a part of the American government that has shown it. self the finest and best and most bene- ficial one in the world.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27

nington and Lola May Woods won the prize in the three-legged race. Charles Cargile won the prizes in the 100 yard dash, baseball throw and potato race. large crowd gathered and a neat sum was realized. The proceeds will be used for the benefit of the annual.
 The ladies of the First Methodist church will serve meals Saturday at their tent on Nineteenth street between Third and Fourth avenues.
 Last night one of the prettiest affairs of the season took place at the home of Mrs. R. w. Waldrop on Fifth ave- nue, when she and Mrs. Tom Benton were joint hostesses to the Matrons' club and their husbands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27

MT. Taft wherever possibly could and I have merely kept silence where l dis agreed. As he now insists that I should break silence about the tariff law, l will say that I hold him culpably responsible for having led the people to believe that he favored a substantial downward re- vision and that he would work actively for it, and for them having sat supinely by and allowed his new friends, under the es leadership of Messrs Aldrich and Cannon, to produce a bill which made him convict himself of insincerity when he signed it.''
 Third Termism
 Turning to President Tafts statements in regard to third term, Colonel Roose- welt declared that the danger lay only in more than two consecutive terms which might afford opportunity for the executive to entrench himself in power.
 MT. Taft, without my permission" he continued, has quoted entire letters from me written in answer to letters of his which were marked confidential. l shall so far avail myself of his example as to quote four lines of a letter from him to me which was not marked 'confidential.' It was written shortly after he became President. It runs:
 I can never forget that the power l now exercise was voluntarily transferred lTOil NOu lo iHtg dhu liidl dii hiANNi obligation to you to see to it that your judgment in selecting me as your suc- cessor and bringing about the succession shall be vindicated, according to the standards which you and I in conversa- tion have always formulated
 Taft's Ingratitude
 Tt is a bad trait to bite the hand that feeds you.
 NO other man in this country was as much interested as I was in having MT Taft succeed. No other man with my principles and convictions has supported him for so long time and has so pit- terly regretted being unable to support him for longer time. I eagerly sought every opportunity to stand by him, and long after I felt deep in my heart that he was unfit to lead his people l refused to acknowledge the fact to myself, and struggled to convince myself that he was fit, and clutehed at every opportunity to back him up.
 Until less than a year ago 1 kept des- perately hoping that either MT. Taft him. self would at least show himself reason- ably fit for the task before him or that if he failed so one else would arise to whom the people could turn. Reluctantly I made up my mind that MT. Taft could not do the task, and l became convinced that the people of the great west felt that I would be untrue to them if I refused to act as their standard bearer.
 "I do not think MT. Taft means i'll; l think he means we'll But he means well feebly and during his administration he has been under the influence of men who are neither well meaning nor feeble. 1t is quality of feebleness in a normally ami able man which pre-eminently fits such a man for use in high office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27


 Tomorrow informing at 10:SO o'clock the veterans of Ensley and members of Camp Pat Cleburne have been re- quested to meet at the city hall from where they will march to the Frank lin theatre on Avenue E and Nineteenth street to hear the Rev. A. K. Wright deliver awRemorial address, the hour of his 0K being set at II o'clock. In the afternoon the veterans are re- quested to meet again at the city hall and march In body to Oakland cen- etery. where services will be held with appropriate exercises.
 A reply has been received to the let ter sent by the Ensley club to the state railroad commission petitioning that body to look into the matter of better depot facilities of the Southern rail- way at Ensley. The promise is given
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
LAND SIGHTED BUT TWICE IN 15O MILES Sanitation Is Problem That
 Will Cause Trouble BIG RISK OF PLAGUE Until Water Recedes and Dry Fuel Is Obtainable Carcasses of Drowned
 Stock Will Increase the
 Danger of Infection
BIG RISK OF PLAGUE

New Orleans, April 26.-Traveling 15O miles in a motorboat, through the par ishes of Richland, East Carroll and Madi- son today, an Associated Press core spondent only sighted land twice after leaving Delhi. Twice the small open boat came near being swamped by high waves and unusually swift currents sweeping across the thousands of acres of open farm lands.
 Water Rising Gradually
 The land sighted was a small open strip at Thomastown and another at Delta Point, in Madison parish, and the latter is expected to be under water by morning, as the water is rising gradually and surely.
 Except at Tallulah very few persons are left remaining near their possessions in the vast countryside covered by the floods from the Alsatia and Panther Forest crevasse. Here and there in ginhouses, barns and other two storied outhouses a few persons could be found huddled to- gether, but in all the hundreds and hun dreds of tenants hcused on the vast plan tations for which this section is noted there were no signs of life except oc- casionally q lonely furnishing house cat on cabin roof, slowly starving to death
 One great problem with which the in habitants will be forced to deal upon re- tuoning to their farms and homes will be that of sanitation. The odor from thou sands upon thousands of carcasses of drowned live stock is almost unbearable in several sections. Until the water has completely receded and dry fuel is ob- tainable with which to burn them, these cascasses must remain. adding constantly to the risk of plague.
 The Flood Situation
 Water from the upper crevasses has spread over most of that country between the ridge of Macon hills to Millhaven. east of Monroe, distance of 20 miles. Water Is already up into the levee recent ly built around Rayville At Holly Ridge water is two and three feet deep in dwell- ings which ere dry Monday. The Boeuff river is overtlowing adjacent territory near Girard, and Crew lake further west is slowly spreading over adjacent planta- tions. From Crew lake to Millhaven there is one rnbroken sheet of water. The vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific railroad is threatened at several places between Monroe and Delhi. Those familiar with the conditions predict that eventually all that country between Monroe and Delta point on the Mississippi river, distance of 75 miles, will be under water.
 At Delhi 1880 negroes are drawing gov ernment iations. No sanitary officer has yet been sent to Delhi, and it is report ed that sanitary conditions there are be- coming bad, especially in the camp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
ROOSEVELT MAKES CLUSTERING REPLY
 TO TAFT'S CAUSTIC
 CRITICISM OF. HIM
tCoNTINuED FROM PAGE D

and support the cause of the people. The trouble with MT. Taft is that he gets their assistance at the price of going their way and opposing the cause of the people.