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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-17
ADJUSTMENTS
Orpheun,

Those who have seen the Orpheum bill this week say 1t is one of the best of the season, with four high class acts and another that is good. Count Beau mont, the wonderful wizard presents . brilliantly staged act that is full of mys- terious tricks, His palming Is exception ally clever. Quigg and Sanderson offer the best black face comedian of the season. and the, straight character is a clever musician. The lariat throwers are classy, and one of the most novel acts of the season is the three Brownies. rol- Ter skaters and dancers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-17
BARTENDER KILLED
 BY HIS EMPLOYER

Tuseumbia. July If. l)-Daniel Mover was shot and killed here Mon day afternoon by k. G. Turner, well known saloon keeper of this place Tur- ner has been advised by h's attorneys not to talk Mover was Turner's bar tender and the tragedy ocurred in the saloon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-17
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

Harry Thaw to secure his freedom from Matteawan state hospital.
 St. Louis.--Contracts aggreeating $500, GOO to repair breaks in levees on the lower Mississippi river caused by the recent floors were let by the Mississippi river commission in St. Louis today.
 New Orieans.-Louisiana's democratic national committeeman. Col Robert Ewing. returned to this city tonight from Chicago, where he attended a meeting of the committee that elected William F. McCombs chairman. and was given rousing welcome which was turned into demohstration for Gov Woodrow Wilson's candidacy for the presidency.
 New Bedford, Mass.-The probability of an extension of the strike In the cloth mills of New Bedford was avert ed tonight for time at least by the action of the Weavers' union in voting to confer with agents of the seven mills now operating.
 New York.--A compromise was af- fected here today between the steam ship lines and the cotton shippers in the dispute over the refusal of the steamship companies to issue ocean bills of lading for cotton shipments after September 1 unless the railroads de- livered the cotton thoroughly covered and entirely free from all evidence of damage By the agreement reached the decision of the steamship lines Is au- omatically rescinded.
 Atlantic City.-Representatives of S9 railroads composing the Southern rail- ways classification committee who have been in conference here for the past three weeks wrestling with the protests and problems arising from new schedule Of freight rates adjourned tonight to meet next Thursday in Washington. There the decisions reached will be submitted to the uniform classification committee.
 Moblle-The trial judge today allowed a stay of execution that the case of Mrs. Mary Godau, convicted of the murder in the first degree of her son-in-law, Fred Wasserleben, may be carried to the SUI preme court Mrs. Godau received sen- tence of life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-17
Discrimination Declared

Washington. July 16.-'fhe interstate commerce commission held today that the St Louis and San Francisco rail- road and several other western and southwestern railroads were violating the law In maintaining higher rates on cotton seed than they charged for the transportation of cotton seed oil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-17
SOME BATTLE

New Orleans. July 16.-An ordinary mocsing bird. with the exception its ah- normal curiosity and belligerent disposi- tion, attacked and put to flight thor oughbred bulldog at Coliseum and Ma poleon avenues yesterday. much to the chagrin of the owner of the dog ana amusement of street car passengers ana spectators. The bull pup was stroilinS placidly. wagging his stubby tall, when the bird swooped down from shade tree, alighted on the dogs back and be- gan it's attack on the abbreviated ap- bondage. The astonished canine sudden ly sat down, causing MT. Mocking Bird to change his tactics. He darted at the doorstep guardian, pecking ;,t his nose and ears. emitting shrill notes of anger. MT. Dog yelped huff" and beat it, - his owner following disgustedly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-17
White Sells Holdings

Cincinnati, July l6-Archibald A. White, president of the Columbia Gas and Elec- trip company of this city, today confirmed reports of the sale of his holdings in the company to the banking firm of Seliglnan G Co. of New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-17
Majestic

The two vaudeville hits of the week. are those scored by Ben Harney and Jesse Haynes and the real. live Aviatrix, at tho, Majestic theatre. Harney and Haynes have a >ry clever act, in which rag time n(Ac and comic dancing play promiuht part. Harney is a real black face dmedftn and Miss Haynes mper- sonafon of a negro maid is good. As the Rviatrix. Miss Klemm scars high oveEy the heads of the audience in an aerbplane and sings tantalizing song. Her act is . delightful novelty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-17

would recognize L. C. Layllng, who con ducted the primary campaign in Ohio for MT Taft, Granville w. Mooney, for mer speaker of the assembly and for mer Congressman Ralph Cole. Carml Thompson, assistant secretary Of the in- terior, is slated to become secretary to the President, succeeding Charles D. Hilles, who today assumed his new du- ties as chairman of the republican na- tional committee.
 Mir. Mooney Is scheduled to enter the White House offices ass assistant secre. tary, and with MT. Thompson as secre- tary, the Presidents principal assistants, with one exception, will be Ohio men. In appointing so many Ohioans to office the President expects to lay at rest griev- ances voiced by Ohio republicans that his own state had not been sufficiently recognized.
 The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Secundino Romero to be United States marshal of New Mexico, to succeed Creighton Foraker, brother of former United States Senator Jo- seph Benson Foraker, of Ohio MT Foraker resigned several days ago and for political reasons, according to pub llshed reports
 Republican leaders in Missouri Mich igan and elsewhere are active as to federal appointments in their states.
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but in reality it was justified by the condition of affairs. Senator Bailey re- piled the president did not use that phrase in the letter of January S. 1911 but in his Boston speech.
 Bailey Withdraws Charges
 After further explanation by Senate. Borah, however. Mir. Bailey asked per mission to withdraw his charge that. the president intended to reflect upon hin, when he spoke of Bailey and others fighting to keep Lorn,er in the Senate
 T learned that Colonel Roosevelt was to write that article for the Outlook, '' said Senator Borah in his explanation q did not think that such would be wise or proper discussed the matter witt, the president l told him this was a matter which ought to be left with the senators to decide. I have no doubt that it was upon the strength of that that the President wrote to Colonel Roose- welt.
 "I cannot repeat what was said there but can assure the Senate that the President meant no reflection upon Sena- tor Bailey. in speaking about his deter imitation to keep Lorimer In the Sen ate
 Senator Bailey said. in view of that assurance, he would withdraw from the record all reference to that point.
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L.aE LoY. undersake-. Phones 7se.
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SHAW. tho Undertaken. Phones 3.
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ey-Gaudin-smith Co.,. Phones 6

JOHNS. Undertaking Go. Phones looe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-17

New Orleans.-The national progressive party in Louisiana will hold conven- tion In this city August to select dele gates to attend the national convention at Chicago August 5.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-17

Harry Thaw to secure his freedom from Matteawan state hospital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-17
Quotes Taft's Statement


 ''Is it fair to try a man of his good name-of what is dearer than his name -'on such evidence as I could get at'?" demanded Senator Bailey He went on to quote President Tafts statement in the letter to the effect that he had been urging senators to read the rec ord carefully.
 reached such a state of degradation" he cried, that the President must sum mons senators to the White House to urge them 10 discharge their duties under their oath of officer Senator Bailey took up the Presi- dents reference to his activities leak Ing out"
 should never do anything in reference to the Senate that could leak out. ," he declared.
 Senator Bailey declared that the clause in President Taft's letter sug gesting to Colonel Roosevelt that he withhold his outlook editorial on LOT inner, lest such senators as Bailey, who were intent on keeping Lorimer in the Senate, might term it outside interfer- ence was an intimation that he tBailey) would not vote according to the law and evidence, but on the ground of outside Interference.
 The Texan testified that he had been singled out because Roosevelt retained an ancient prejudice' against him.
 "I once proved that he slandered me- added Bailey, and when I de- nounced him as I now intend to de- nounce the present President, the coun- try held up its hands in horror, None held him higher than the President but I have lived long enough to see him ransack the records of the war department to convict Colonel Roose- veltsof a guilty falsehood and he seems to have succeeded.
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that his contention that President Taft had no right to interfere and appre- ciated he said not interfere, was made evident by the Presidents endeavors according to his letters, to keep his ac- tiyities secret.
 Even if the President had a right to use his power to influence the vote, Senator Bailey charges, he acted erron- eously because in the letter of January 6, 1911. MT. Taft wrote he had only read such of the evidence as he could get at." Mir. Bailey declared the Pres ident had not read a line of the evil dence because it had not been printed until January 6.
 Senator Borah challenged that state ment and declared the committee print of the evidence was available before the Christmas holidays.
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White Plains, N. Y.-Oral arguments were presented today in what is believed to be the last feature of the fight of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-17
Additional Charges

'I charge" he continued. and I defy any senator to deny it, that in some of his other letters the President did reflect upon republican senators; perhaps not on their integrity. but at least upon their strength of character"
 President Tafts statement that he had been forced" to make public his letter to Roosevelt was an admission, said Bailey, that the President knew his ac- tivities and his statements about the Sem ate ought not to be known He re- ferred to the Presidents statement that he feared the case was going by default on the summary report of the committed
 Senator Bailey characterized that as the most remarkable declaration of all. He said the Senate was charged with let ting a case go by default with Its own committee, after a full consideration, had raised the question.
 .This is simply question:" he said ''of whether the Senate will defend it's own honor and dignity. or whether the Senate is ready to submit to these impu- tatious upon it's integrity.
 Senator Borah rose to reply when Sen ator Bailey asked for a vote on his resolution.
 MT. Rorah declared the president had been unfortunate In using the phrase about letting the matter go by default"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-17
Was Infamous Sander

When the President penned that in- famous islander on me in this letter no one knew it better than the Pres ident of the United States himself"
 Senator Bailey continued that it were far better than 10 corrupt senators should sit in the Senate of the United States than that the constitution should be
 ravished to oblige these presidential politicians
 Senator Bailey was interrupted when the Senate resolved itself into court of im- peachment to begin the trial of Judge
 Robert W. Archibald of the commerce court, but continued his attack upon President Taft when the court recessed
 and the Senate again began business. Nothing he declared, could be plainer than that the President thought the Lori mer case was not to be decided according to law and evidence, but was to be man aged as a contest. s Andrew Johnson was impeached,' Sen ator Bailey added. upon allegations which. if true were less serious evasions of rights of Congress than this letter proclaims the President of thsA United
 States to be guilty of But that is not
 all He has doubtless sent other and worse ones. Nave his word for it that he has sent others and am justified in saving worse by his not makg them public''
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St. Louis.--Contracts aggreeating $500, GOO to repair breaks in levees on the lower Mississippi river caused by the recent
 floors were let by the Mississippi river commission in St. Louis today.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-29
Poles Passion for Gambling.

The trial at Crakow of a Polish ad vocate named Steinfeld who has come to grief through gambling has been the occasion of some curious revela- tions about the hold which this vice has on business men in Austrian Po- land.
 pr. Steinfeld's wife in her endeavor to keep her husband out of temptation tried the plan of never leaving him out of her sight even when he vent to his office. The lawyer then made a practice of going to bed early and rising at in the morning before his wife was awake in order to hurry of to the so-called Monte Carlo" at Crakow, which he would find still in full swing at that hour. When stay ing at hotels during the summer he would arrange meetings with other card players in the bathroom and play there for hours. -vhi.e Ee told his wife that he was taking a cold water cure
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-29
CUTTING DOWN THE FLESH
Heroic Struggles of a Fat Man Who Thought the Scales Were
 Deceivlna Him.

have about come to the conclusion hat the good Lord intended some of his creatures to be fat and some thin, regardless of medicines and so-called infallible cures. writes a western man For long while l tried all the alleged obesity cures and none of them did me any good. Then I deter mined to starve myself and take lots of exercise.
 All my life I had been a lover of good eating, and counted that day lost on which I did not consume for my dinner the better part of sirloin steak as thick as a darky's foot, with all the trimmings. For breakfast 1 usually destroyed a platter of cakes, three eggs and no end of thin-sliced bacon, besides fruits and two cups of coffee.
 This lifelong system I abandoned for an entire month, cutting out all the meat and about all the vegetables. piece of toast and glass of milk talk ing the place of my morning meals and a little rice being the chief item on the meager dinner bill of fare. Lunch I omitted wholly. In addition walked at least six miles every day and did all sorts of stunts in my room with a gymnasium outfit. Prior to going to bed l perpetrated all sorts of muscular contortions and rolled on the floor till my body was bruised.
 At the end of thirty days I felt fit to run a three-mile foot-race or go in the ring with the champion. About this time it occurred to me that ought to get weighed and I made a bee line for the scales. My grocer as- sured me that they were correct to an ounce, but they showed had gained 1+ pounds in the period of my abstinence.-Exchange
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-29
.HEY HAD PLENTY OF CLUBS
Postmaster Of CherrydaIe Village
 Names Over It's Various oresni- zations for the Stranger.

T suppose that your town is almost too small for the club movement to have affected it much. A town of only eight hundred inhabitants seldom has many clubs, I believe" said the stranger within the gates of Cherry dale to the postmaster.
 Well. we aint clubbed 10 death as some places seem to be, but when you come to count 'em up we got consid- erable many clubs for a town of our size We got Womsn's Club O two hundred members. an a Village Im- provement Club. an a Ladies Social Club. an Friday Afternoon Club. an big Choral Club. an a Current Events Club an a Library Club. an a Dickens Club. an a Thought an Work Club an Art Club, an a mixed club that calls itself the Prog ross Club. an a Dancing Club. an five whist clubs an Euchre Club. an Saturday Night Club Then the W. C. T. L.. an the Odd Fellows. an the masons, an Knights O Phythias, an the D. A. E.. an the c. 4. R., an the Ancient Order O Hibernians, an the Eastern Stars, an the Sons O Tenn p'rance an the Christian EndeavoreTs all have societies here. an they are tryin' to start Y NJ. c. A. an Y. w c. 4. Then with the Grange, an the Boys Brigade, an five churches, an some Boy Scouts, an a Lend e Hand Society, an a Handicraft So- ciety. an the Good Samaritans. an the Helpers Guild, we got considdabls many clubs. after all. Each of 'em has a fair an a couple O entertain ments a year, so there's something go- In on a good deal O ,he club time, even if the club movement ain't hit Js very hard vat"-Judge.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-29
YANKEE GIRL DOESN'T FIT
Austrian Critic Declares No Formula Can Define Young Lady
 From America.

Alice Schalek, Viennese traveller and writer. has provided the Vossiche Zeitung of Berlin with a description Of the manner wherein American women on tour differ from all others
 The fact is." she says, you cannot class them (American women): they won't fit into any accepted formula.
 You can tell a Frenchwoman i'm mediately. and be dead sure she's no prude, but light-hearted f1irt. If you meet an English woman you must wait 10 make her acquaintance until she drops her typical English reserve.
 "A German woman wants to be ask ed about her husband and his profes- sion, titles and their babies. An Aus trian woman will be smart and a good fellow But if you meet a woman who won't fit any of these cat egories and doesn't correspond to any particular type. you can be dead sure she is an American.
 There is a 17-year-old whose fs- ther. mother and elder sister are along. travelling in cabins de luxe She flirts day and night on deck, and all so naturally that she retains her social position in circumstances no other nationality could survive. What has 1t got to do with you? she seems to ask, and there's an end of it.
 Here are some pictures from my gallery of American girls abroad. just to show their differences. A girl who petted white rats and snakes in KyOto; a young Y W. C. A. apostle in Corea, who was as pious as the day is long. but who firted to her hearts content with a young English missionary; an energetic middle-aged American fe- male, who was missionary for some obscure Parisian reincarnation Of Buddha.
 There were other less pleasant pictures, but each sticks in my mind with an individuality which no Euro pean woman ever achieved. Yet per haps there is one feature common to all these Americans-each of them cherished some eccentrioity. but, whatever it was, she carried 1t out with unwavering determination.
 q believe we can learn much from these American women"
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-29

1T Eliza had ever tried to get across the senate with her child in her arms the bloodhounds would have got her and a good story would have been spoiled. Perry and Cook never tried to explore the senate. If they had, it would have been polar exploration worth while. l put on an extra union suit, fuzzy side m, and wore my over coat and earmuffs, but couldn't stand the frigid atmosphere more than six minutes at time. One stranger who stayed in ten minutes rushed back in to the press rooms with his nose froz- en and his ears turning black.
 Dignity is the keynote of the senato- rial symphony. They put the loud pedal on it during the whole piece. The Senate is so dignified that 1t is in danger Of falling over backwards and it does, sometimes, especially when a rank outsider like Lorimer breaks into the sacred portals. LOT inner looks as lonesome as Napoleon at St Helena. They don't cuddle up to him and whisper sweet nothings in his ea. as they do with each other. He sits on back seat away of in the corner and tries to look as unconcern- ed as a defunct porcupine quadruped hanging in front Of Q meat market, with his hands snugly folded over the place where his waist line ought to be.
 All in all. the senate is about as in teTesting a deliberative body as one could meet in a days walk in Wash ington, provided he stay away from the house and the supreme court. The stage settings are elaborate. Be lasco could not have dcne much bet ter. and the costuming is all that it should be. We have not Yet noticed a single celluloid collar or red neck tic in the place.
 Senator Lodge of Massachusetts is a dapper man and perhaps the Beau Rrummel of the senate. The senator
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-29
NEWSpAF FRS
 IN THE PRISON.

Most prominent among the reforms which Governor Hunt will inutute will be the betterment ot conditions at tie gtate prison. It is generally under stood that the purpose Of the modern prison is 10 make men better and no- to make them more callous by need jess humiliating punishment.
 IL is ad.hitred that there is such a thing as a hardened criminal but it is not easy to say that any particular cr,mina! nay not 5e responsive to humane treatment
 One of the purposes of the new ad' lninistration is to improve the mind as well as the morals of conyicts al Florence. for moral improvement will depend to a large extent upon mental improvement. A reading room is to be established in which wiu be kept healthful literature for the use Of the ,lisoners This viii include the news
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-29
W4s:H1AG GaAl GAAlBr ROY lN.- MOULTON Us W
THE UNITED STA TIES SENATE

i5 partially in ambush behind very correct and carefully parted beard. It Is said that if one hair or this beard gets on the wrong side of the part, the senator finds it difficult to navi- gate on a straightaway course, but th-t is only press gallery story and We are here to report facts. The sen ator was the mouthpiece of the ROose- welt administration, but 1t is not do- ing any mouthpiecing at present
 senator Elihu Root, who sits near Lodge. wears bangs. like those of Ser tha, the sewing machine girl, and he doesn't appear to care who knows it. Senator Root looks like his picture. IL isn't necessary to say anything more sarcastic than that about him.
 Near La Toilette sits an old chap from the beautiful sucker state of Missouri by the name of Gum Shoe Bill Stone. Stone wears one Of those oId-fashioned civil war stovepipe lids and is almost replica Of the more or less immortal Henry Clay. He is something over six feet in height, and when he gets up to speak you would naturally expect to hear a sound sim liar to the below of an enraged male bovine who has just caught sight of a red petticoat. but you are disap- pointed. Gum Shoe Bill has one ot those gentle, lyric, tenor voices which comes from nowhere, goes nowhere and makes no noise while going. He is known as the voiceless orator. and is therefore one of the most interest ing men in the senate Co listen to. You cant hear him at all.
 Jeff Davis of Arkansas, gets on by his name. He is the fire-eating states man from the wild southwest who was going to walk down the centre aisle in his stocking feet, and who said that nobody but Consummate ass would wear a dress suit. He hasn't walked down the aisle in his sock feet yet. ana he still sits in a back seat near the door. The senate has a way of its own of cooling off these tempestu- ous characters. Henry A. Dupont, the powder king of Delaware, looks more like a boot and shoe merchant in Os- kaloosa, Iowa, than like one of these trust magnates. He wears a necktie that fastens behind with a rubber