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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17
Free Demonstration Today

Ideal, champion woman swimmer of this country. will give a free demon stration of swimming and diving for women at the Orpheum theatre this morning. The ladies will be invited on the stage and Ideal will show them the best of the fancy strokes as well as the simplest ways to learn to swim The Orpheum Is offering this week the greatest vaudeville bill ever seen in Birmingham at Orpheum prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17
NO REPLY YET ID THE NOTE OF MR. WILSON Discussed By MaderO At
 Cabinet Meeting NEWSPAPER COMMENT One Organ Calls Note Bitter, Dis courteous and Impertinent."
 Rebels Warned Against
 Ignoring Menace
NEWSPAPER COMMENT

Mexico City, April 16.-No reply to the American state department note calling on Mexicans to respect the lives of Americans in Mexico had been made by the department of foreign relations at late hour tonight. The note was discussed by President Madero and his ministers at special cabinet meeting today. At the conclusion of the meet ing 1t was said at the Presidents of fee a statement would be given to the newspapers later.
 Mexico City, April 16.-Discussing As- sistant Secretary Wilson's joint warning to President Madero and General Orozco, Fl Pais, the official Catholic organ, said today editorially directing it's message to the revolutionists:
 This is the first flash of lightning. Be assured that the colossus of the north will not make the government responsible, but the Mexican people for any attempt against the rights, interests or lives of foreigners. It is not moment to discuss the legality of the revolutions; the light ming is not discussed. Be sure that if you do not respect these lives and inter- ests you will be condemned as assassins of the fatherand."
 La Presna qualified the diplomatic rote as bitter. discourteous and in- pertinent"
 The note is called impertinent since. in the conception of the editor of the paper, international law requires a na- ton to give protection to aliens only 20 far as 1t is able and does not lay 1t open to any claims for damage to life or property which it would will ingly protect but cannot.
 In summing the matter up, the ac- tion of the American government La Prensa brands as despotic and over bearing, and as an attempt to protect American lives and interests by sort of "civs Ronianus sum"
 Chihuahua, April 16-Gen. Pascual Orozco today decided to recognize Unit ed States Consul Marion Letecher in his official capacity.
 The consul spent an hour and half with the rebel leader and presented to him the state departments mes gage that American lives and property must be safeguarded and that MT Letcher must be allowed to exercise his consular functions in dealing with the rebels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17
DAY IN CONGRESS
Senate mel at midday

Passed House bill appropriating s3o0,000 more for Mississippi river flood work.
 Lakes gulf deeper waterway dele- gation urges immediate action on prof. ect before commerce committee.
 Senator Sutherland spoke in supporI Of the workmen's compensation bill
 owen bill to create public health de- partment discussed.
 Adjourned at 5'28 D. m. until ? p. m. today.
 House:
 Hobson bill to establish a council of national defense ordered favorably reported by the naval affairs commit tee
 Adjourned at $50 D. m. until noon today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17
GROCE'S BODY IS NOW
 AT NEW ORLEANS

New Orleans. April 16.--The body of Leonard Groce. the American soldier of fortune who with LeRoy Cannon, Penn sylvanian, were shot to death in Nica- ragua by the order of President Zelaya during a revolution which unseated Ze- lava, arrived here today from Bocas Del Toro and will be forwarded to Hemp stead, Tex, his former home. The body of Cannon is said to have been sent to New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17
Rain Adds To Discomfort

Vicksburg, Miss, April 16.-Ran fell in volumes along the southern stretches of the Mississippi river today, adding to the discomfort and peril of those ma rooned in the overfiowed section of south eastern Arkansas and northern Louisiana. but without materially affecting the dikes in this district. Reports from as far south as Natchez tell of leyees holding and generally an improvement in the sit uation. At Greenvile and Natchez the river is stationary; at vicksburg a slight fall is noted
 Rescue parties returning to Greenville tonight from the territory inundated by the water coming through the Panther Forest. Ark, crevasse, report the drown ing of seven negroes in the vicinity of Lake Village Ark. The protecting levee along Lake Chicote has broken and prac- tically all of Chicote county. Arkansas, is flooded to a depth of 10 to 15 feet. The water is flowing inland at a swift pace, sweeping the more frail plantation buildings before it. A number were res- cued from the roofs of floating buildings. Lake yermillion and Eutaw Landing vicinity of Greenville Miller Bend, where a break was anticipated before the Pan ther Forest, directly opposite, went out. 1t is believed will hold.
 Relief Work Systemized
 The task of caring for refugees being in vicksburg has been sys- tematized and they are being cared for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17
Many Are Without Shelter and FO0d-Occupy Pub
 lie Buildings
2OOO NEGROES ARE
 TAKEN FROM LEVEE
Break in Dogtail Levee Relieves Sit nation Somewhat South of Vicks- burg-Taft Signs Appropria-
 tion Bill

Although the general flood situation along the Mississippi river south of yicksburg has materially improved. conditions today in the vast territory of northern Louisiana, where dozen or more parishes are partly under from five to 10 feet of water, were steadily growing worse. The Salem crevasse near Alsatia, La, continues to empty it's 1S-foot wall of muddy waters over some of the finest grazing and farming lands of the upper state.
 Tallulah, La., April 16.-Heavy rains al- most of cloudburst proportions which have fallen here during the past two days have intensified the already intolerable condition of the sufferers, many of whom have been without shelter and in some instances without food, since the waters from the Salem levee break invaded this territory. Freight cars. attics, upper stories, lodge rooms, the courthouse, the house of correction, high school building and even the city jail are being occupied by the unfortunates who have been driven from their homes.
 
 and the county to keep the floods from the southern part of the town has been lost The temporary levee thrown up along the embankments of the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific and the Iron Noun tain railroads was overlapped easily to- day, flooding that portion of the town which had heretofore remained dry.
 The water is three feet deep there and still rising rapidly. The town was in total darkness during the night, owing to the flooding of the electric power plant. Over 20Oo negroes who were on the levees for a. distance of 20 miles south of the Salem crevasse, many of them without food for more than 24 hours, were res cued yesterday by boats sent out from vicksburg.
 300 Still Marooned
 Three hundred persons are still ma- rooned at Sondheim. Boats are being assembled and they will be taken to the levees and from there transferred to places of safety.
 Mrs. George Keller of Quebec, La., seven miles west of here, is the. first probable victim of the flood in this vi- cinity. While attempting to save some corn in a crib which was threatened by the flood she was bitten yesterday by a huge rattlesnake. Immediate attention was given her but it Is not believed she can recover.
 All train service on the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific to and from Tal- lulah has been annulled.
 The Iron Mountain operated a train from Natchez and return yesterday, but it was probably the last train, as the water is rising rapidly south of here. All of the negroes. who, as rule, never worry and because of the hard winter just ex- perienced, are in destitute circumstances. Unless aid is received for them imme- diately there will be untold suffering
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17

Lexington. Va, April 16.-(Special)-T boat crows are out at Washington and Lee with the breaking of the winter. As usual, about April 1 the crews are posted on the bulletin board and both boat clubs begin the work of breaking in the new men. By this time most of the recruits have found out the safe way to get in and out of the shell and begun to learn a few of the necessary things about pull ing the oar through the water.
 Everybody is busy catching the '"crabs'' out of the river and in spite of that there are lots more to be caught. There are about 30 candidates for each crew and both sides seem confident of turn ing out strong crews.
 The Harry Lees (Reds), who won the race last year. have two of the old crew
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17
Jas. H. Finder

Fills occulists' prescriptions for eyeglasses right. He puts a fin- ish oI his eye glasses that many optic Is find 1t difficult to equal the t0och oe .he artist.
 306 N. 18th Street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17
MRS. GRACE BOUND OVER ID GRAND JURY Her Bond of $7500 Is Con-
 tinued
SHOWS NO EMOTION
Testimony of Physicians, Police Off, ficers, Negress and Grace's Mother Confined To Finding of Grace
 and Wife's Statements

Atlanta. April 16.--Mrs. Eugene H. Grace today was bound over to the action of the grand jury on a charge of shooting her husband with intent to murder. Her bond of S7500, under which she has been free for several weeks, was continued. The formal hearing was held late this afternoon after an earlier adjournment, to escape a crowd which filled the court room
 Shows No Ekotion Mrs. Grace was present but did not , take the stand. She showed no emotion. l either at the justices ruling or the statement of witnesses that her husband has accused her of trying to kill him. The testimony of several police offi- cials, two physicians, who attended, a negress and Graoes mother was confined to the finding of the wounded man. state ments of the wife after the affair and his condition.
 The negress, cook at the Grace home. In the fashionable resident section of Atlanta. appeared the most damaging to the defendant. She declared that while Grace lay grooming in his bed his wife smiled at her and said he twas not sick. only sleepy" She also declared that Mrs. Grace forbade her returning to the upper part of the house while she (Mrs Grace) was away, because 1t had been locked. According to the girl Mrs. Grace instruct ed her that if doctor telephoned to tell him that his services were not needed and her husband had gone to his office.
 Grace Is Doomed
 Two physicians testified that Grace was doomed-that he might die in two weeks six months-but that he never would recover The detectives told of the mys- terious telephone calls from the Grace house, their finding the husband locked, how they battered down his bedroom door and found him hanging headfore- most out of the bed with bullet through his side, and his direct accusation of his wife when they met in the hospital.
 There was no argument by the large array of counsel and the judge announced his ruling immediately after the last wit ness was excused
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17

AETNA ACCIDENT INSURANCE, ASSETS OVER &IO4 4,00O,0O0. GEO. (. OLIVER, GENERAL AGENT PHONE $500.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17
Breaches Give Relief

New Orleans, April 16.-The enormous Dogtail crevasse in upper Louisiana and the breaches in lower Arkansas have re- lieved considerably the Mssissipper river flood situation south of Vicksburg today. From Memphis south the river gauges to- day showed 24 hours change not ex- ceeding one-tenth of an inch or a fall of one-tenth at Memphis. The same is true of Vicksburg One-tenth foot drop is noted from all points below Natchez.
 The great bulk of the Mississippis flood water continued today to pour through the Dogtail crevasse near Alsatia rapidly, inundating hundreds of square miles of farming and grazing lands and driving thousands from their homes.
 Sections of three Arkansas counties and B upper Louisiana parishes will experi- ence what promises to be the greatest calamity in the history of the devastating floods of the lower river.
 Conditions Improve
 Capt. Cochran o. Sherrell of the United States engineering corps in charge of leYee work from Vicksburg to the jetties re- ported conditions improved and expressed strong hope of saving the remaining em- bankments.
 Official advices received from Natchez say that over 100 feet of the main line levee at Kemp Bend west side, north of Natchez, sloughed off. It is said United States engineers went to work at once and hoped to save the embahkment. Should this break increase in size many small cities would be inundated in Ten sas. Concordia and Catahoua parishes. Persons living near Kemp Bend are mov- ing their household effects to safety. Kemp Bend is five miles from Water proof La
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17
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R. W; EWING, President nThe Big Alabama, House" printers, Binders, Photographers, stationers, Engravers, -Embossers. Loose LeafGoods, Office
 Supplies, Etc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-17
Relief Work Sysfemized

The task of caring for refugees being concentrated in Vicksburg has been sys- tematized and they are being cared for
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-16

when his emissaries. with their crowded
films, have returned from Africa. Asia,
Europe and South America We shall have
a chance 70 see what this new kind Of
public school will ba like
That II wifi be popular nobody can
doubt. Even grown-up people would
rather look at tigers In jungle than In
a cage. and would rather see elephants,
CRATES sano Thinoceroses moving about
in their natlvN haunts than to read
about them. The holae life Of strange
and savage men; the native customs OF
remote peoples: diamond tliggers at work
In the mines of South Africa. tourists
iaboriously climbing up the face of the
great pyramid of Cheops; ths soldiers OF
different nations on the mar,h, or per-
forming evolutions; scenes In the streets
and parks OF the great cities Of the
world workmen of all kinds engaged
in their tasks-one making a pin, another
turning out steel rail; an engineer in
his cab. as the locomotive speeds on its
way, so that the onlooker seems to ac-
company him. and can study his every
movement while he controls the mechan-
ism OF the englnei carpenters. masons.
iron workers. wire stringeFs, divers and
steepIe-jscks-ail these things, scenes
and persons are to be included, together
with thousand others in the new
scheme of education through the eye.
The basis assumed is sound. The eye
is the great educator. Look into the face
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-16
atss

met any Of Mister Gsynor's trends. Pa
sed.
Well, sed Ma, who was he?
will tell you, sed Pa, Epicktetus was
crate fiiIosofer In the good old days
wen a man had a chanst to filios0fize 4
sun nzIk enough to keep MARY & the
children. II a man tried to fillosifize now.
Pa sed. thay wud talk his wife & child
rem to a iustitushun for the needy & thay
wud send him to Bellevue.
But II was different then, sed Pa. In
them days thare was lot Of old guys
ike Socrates that was 80 busy thinking
deep thoughts that thay dident have
time to git a shave onst over in a hurry
eeyen. Hence the grass on the chin. Pa
sed. But them old timers thought CRATE
thoughts. s. Mister Epiektetus was one
OF the gratest thoughters.
70 you remember sum OF his eppy-
grams? sed Ma
I sure do. sed Pa, altho l do not Ike 20
reesite eppy grams as 4 rule. / figger,
sed Pa, that q eppygTam Is sumthing
rota By a man who has been out too late
to rite a musical comedy. But here Is
sum of Mister Epicktetuss eppygrams:
:. Never explain Yure friends do not
require explanations & ylre enenys
wuddent besieeye one.
| : Give yure wife sumthins every week
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-16
The Eye is the Great Educa-
tor, but Things it Sees
Must Be Explained
That is the Reason Why Moving Pictures in the Schoo
Room as Advocated by Thomas A. Edison,
d.. - Can Never Supplant Books.
BY GARRETT p. sERyIss.

Of your dog as he settles himself on
his launches at your side. and, with
up-pricked ears, surveys the stranger
who is approaching Observe the lnten.
sity of his gaze; he would know that
stranger again II he met him In Africa;
IL he could speak he could tell you more
about the personal bearing of your
friends than you know yourself.
Look at a cat who finds herself, as
We say, in a strange gaTetH-her eyes
tell her everything in a second. and dis
cover the road TO safety before you can
throw a stick at her. Observe the bead.
like eyes OF a little monkey in his cage,
darling everywhere, distinguishing
friends in the crowd. inspecting what is
Offered to II with decislvcness Of
judgment that surpasses science. and
penetrating even the secrets OF human
nature with those lightning quick glances.
Then look into the eyes OF your child. as
they study your face. or gaze at a toy,
or a tickling watch. or a mechanical play.
thing. and, imagining yourself, In its
place, demand OF your reason whether II
would not be through the eyes that all
your first knowledge OF the world would
come TO you.
But the proposed motion picture schools
will not be quite independent Of either
teachers or books Mr.. Edison admits
that he doesn't see how he can teach
grammar with moving pictures. but he
thinks he can teach almost everything
else. But. In fact, even the scenes in the
jungles and the workshops viii have to
be explained with words, either printed
or spoken. while the elaborate reproduc.
tons Of such historic events as Washing.
ton crossing the Delaware will need d
great deal of explanation.
And then there Is the great world OF
music. concerned not with sights but
with sounds. Perhaps Mr.. Edison will
supply monographs to cover this ground
But even so, there viii remain many
avenues by which knowledge finds It's
way to the mind that will admit OF no
mechanical substitutes.
Thousands of years ago Plato was quite
as well aware as we are today Of the
supremacy Of the eye in education. but
he was also aware OF what we should
not' forget-sthat human perfection de-
mands a relatively equal development Of
all the human faculties.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-16
The Work Done by Women's Clubs
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

and IL each had been ready 10 show
practical unselfishness and consideration
Of others. all would have gone well. But
when the friends Of some OF the ar
lists gave curtain calls. instead OF re-
spending with a smile and bow tknowlng
any other response would Inconvenience
the artists 10 follow. the majority OF
these entertainers came merrily forth and
sang or reciled or played an extra mum.
Der.
In consequence. the last four artists
played TO empty seats. for the hour grow
so late that people could not remain. 81
AT a brilliant banquet given by q wo-
mans club there we're 10 be six speeches
of ten minutes duration each
Five Of the speakers were men: one
was woman. a woman of great activity
IN club affairs and whose main object In
life Is 10 help humanity.
Yet when this woman rose TO speak.
after three men had given their ten min
utes' talk, sns held her position Of not
the attention Of tho audiencel for fifty
live awful minutes. =
Then the people began TO file out. for
the hour was late. and the other two
speakers talked 10 handful Of listeners.
This was due to utter lack Of thought
fulness. utter seifishnes& and utter ignor-
ancc OF what constitutes good breeding
and practical Christianity In such POSI-
ton.
| Christianity is not a thing TO use on
sundays; II must be used In the daily AZ
Ia. ~ A..
the business meeting. The clergyman
who talks too long In the pulpit 10 not a
good Christian. He Is taking time which
does not belong TO him.
Tho choir singers. the Sunday school
teachers. the congregation. are all In
eonyanienced when he talks overtime.
The best things are said quickly: the
most brilliant speeches are always the
shortest. and the entertainers and In
structors who leave us wishing we could
hear more are the most successful !.
Good health is maintained by leaving
the table with slight sense Of hunger.
The speakers and musicians who send
their audiences away with that same
aense of not being satiated are the pro.
motors Of good Intellectual health. q
II you are club man or woman or an
entertainer or a musician, take this.
thought TO heart.
Consider your audience. and consider
those who come after you.
Boil down TO rich, creamy consistency
whatever you have to offer as mental
food for your listeners. and then skim IL
and boil II again before you serve 1t.
And do not give encorez II there are
others who follow you and the hour IL
late.
Think OF somebody beside yourself.
This is a sure way TO become popular. -
Copyright. 1912. by the American
Journal-Examlner.)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-16

make women resort 10 any means In
warfare over mans attentions,
Over in London perhaps one finds this
Illustrated to a more marked degree. a
very active suffrasist was asked by q
friend why she was not satisfied with
her own fine social position and her
very comfortable income, and why she
did not do charity work and help the poor
and let the sufrasettea alone. She replied
III you could associate for few months
With the women who take no part In
any public questions. and who are salts
fled with social affairs and charity work
on the old lines. you would understand
how impossible II is for any woman OF
mental growth TO be content with such
life.
.'why, the anti-suffragists are the most
impossible creatures. they are filled with
such empty ideals. such petty aims. just
to get another's admirers away OF TO
outshine another woman In dress, and the
way they talk small scandal fairly sick
ems one who thinks seriously OF life.
fear I was much like them. until ]
awakened to the knowledge Of the SUI
fering In the world and the need Of earn
est women OF my class to help others who
we're not as happily situated TO better
conditions. Now when ] 10 back 10 the
society which used TO satisfy me ! feet
as IL we're on desert island
Meanwhile there are many things
which the club women need still to learn
but not alone club women-eluh men al
well.
Not alone club men and women. but
all men and women who are gifted In
any way which calls them to be public
instructors or entertainers.
once upon g time there was a special
matinee. and. as usual on such occasions.
the program was OVERRIDING.
The list OF entertainers was brilliant,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-16

II you cant give here anything else, give
her blue eye.
.. A honest man Is n liar with good
memory.
l. A mayor is man that walks to q
from his business q who saves ten cents
a day from the street car peepul & wants
TO save milyuns for them.
s. There was a time wen our judges
vas the salt Of the earth. Since have
got fresh, things Is different.
Wen. sed Ma, | hoap yon have done
about enuff spouting. / doant beeleere
that single one Of them eppygrams wich
you have just spoke is eppygram Of
Mister Epicketus, II sounds more to
me like the result Of late hours, sed Ma.
Jest then the doorbell rang & went
TO the door. & 1t was Miss Viola Veal.
Miss Veal was a poet & fillossser. &
she was the one that toad Ma about
Epicktptus. the friend Of Mister Gayncr.
Husband. sed Ma, this is a friend Of Mis-
ter Gaynor & Mister Spiektetus, she
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-16

appear that the
idea in itself. is
original with Mr..
Edison, for I re-
member TO have
seen an editorial in
the Evening Jour
nal, some time ago,
in which the i'm
mense educational
possibilities OF the
cInematogranh were
pointed out. But
he has taken II up
with his character
istic energy aud