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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-13
Stabbed Nine Times
County Ticket Made Up

The county ticket which will be voted in the April primaries, was made up here this afternoon by subcommittee of the Dallas county democratic execu- tive committee. The hour for candidates to qualify expired at noon today and im- mediately thereafter the ticket was made up. On the county ticket there is op- position for but one office, that of jus tiee of the peace of Selma precincts and for which there are two candidates. Eff teen citizens qualified on the ticket as delegates to the state convention from the county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-13
COUNTY TREASURER

The Age-Herald is authorized To an- nounce Dr. John s. Giiiespy as can dtdate for Treasurer of Jefferson conn ~ subject to the action of the demo cratic primary, April l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-13
Crosson Cut in Leg

According to Dr. Charles Whelan' cit, physician Crosson sustained se- we're stab in the leg. Waldron said al the hospital that if Crosson was cut at all it was when he (Waldron) took bis knife away from him during the
 sonfe1e A knife was shown Waldron and he said that 1t was the one ""ioH he took away from Crosson a1ter pe- ing cut. The big blade of the khile was broken, as Crosson stated, put u could be seen that the break Tn the blade was fresh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-13

T, Crosson ked for ain nd left the started to inlself up. charge by the Flor
 headquar- 'fficers. On IS, Crosson ed himself. l done the or of the CT the cut
 men stag
 sank into
 remained the anlbu- litll | 'nder- taken to nbuiance.
 this morn i've Burge.
 as on the
 the coun-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-13
SELMA WORK|NGFOR AN AVIATION MEET Citizens Work to Get Avia-
 tors Next Week STABBED NINE TIMES Section Foreman of Southern Railway Probably Fatally Cut in Dallas.
 County Ticket Made Up
 Yesterday
STABBED NINE TIMES

Selma March 12.-(Special)-An avia- ton meet will very probably be held in Selma on Thursday, Friday and Satur- day, March 2i. % and 23 and which will attract to the city. thousands of visitors from all parts of central Ala bama.
 If arrangements are concluded the meeting will be put on by the company which was in Montgomery last week and which will conduct the meet to be held in Birmingham during April. During the three days some of the most famous of birdnien will perform and their per formances will be the means of thrilling the people of central Alabama
 Stabbed Nine Times
 Gwinn Leiser, young man living at Brown station, in the western part of Dallas county, was brought to Selma by friends Tuesday night and turned over to Sheriff Randall and placed in jail pending injuries, it Is alleged. he inflicted upon Mir Sheppard. section foreman of the Southern railway. MT. Sheppard was brought to Selma Monday night suf- fering from nine knife wounds upon his body and there Is little hope of his re- covering from the wounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-13
BEGIN SUIT ID SPLIT RAILROAD MERGER Government Attorneys File
 Brief COURT IS CRITICISED  Circuit Court of Appeals Aassailed for Decision in Suit-Allege
 Gross Violation of the
 Trust Law
 
COURT IS CRITICISED

Washington, March 12-The govern ment's fight to split the merger or lhloh Pacific and Southern Pacific railway sNs- of the United States. Attorney Geherai Wiekersham and his special assistants' Frank B. Kellogg and c. A. Severance filed a comprehensive brief of their ar gument to be made orally in court short ly after April 1, when the legality of the merger will be presented for decision
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-13
Criticises Court

The government criticised severely the circuit court of appeals of the eighth cir cult, which dismissed the petition for dis solution of the merger Judge Hook alone dissented. The brief declares that the government could not understand how the court below got the impression that the government did not claim that the Union Pacific was a competitor of the Southern Pacific for any business originating nearer than 1000 miles or more away from it's lines
 This statement is contrary to the claim of the government in the petition and in argument" says the brief. and in coll trary to the evidence of scores of wit nesses."
 The decision is attacked because tue court held the Union Pacific could not be competitor of the Southern Pacific by reason of the fact that its traffic moved to California points over the Southern Pa cifc from ogden.
 'Is it possible" asked the brief, "that the Union Pacific, with it's thousands of miles of railway and steamship lines reaching from the Missouri river to Port land and San Francisco. has no apprec- able effect on commerce in it's competition with another complete system reaching the same general territory?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-13
Supplementary Brief

In addition to the brief of arguments a second brief of 600 pages was required to set forth the facts in the case The court was told in the second brief that the railroad combination now sought to be dissolved originated with Edward II. Hartman, Jacob H. Schiff and asso- ciatcs. It brought under a common con trol, the government stated, the Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific, the san Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake, with various ocean ship lines, among which was the Pacific Mail Steamship company, which forms a part of the Panama route from New York to San Francisco and in addition had secured an influential voice in the management of the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway com many
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-13

The Age-Herald is authorized to an nounce the candidacy of Hugh McGeeVer for the Board of Revenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-13
Taken to J

After the cutting walked from the sec officer. He did not hotel, He said thi the police station However. he was Hardy M, Burt. ence hotel, and taH ters and turned o1 the way down, Mf claimed that he m not once denying cutting. l.. A. Stubblefi | Florence hotel, st ting, the larger
 gered out into tl one of the ehai
 until taken to tn
 lance of the Smil taking company 1 the hospital in
 A warrant willA
 ing against Cros
 who. with Detect
 case. Crosson WI ! ty jail.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-30
He SHOOK HIS WIFE
Foreigner Cries Like a Babe
When Taken to Jail.

No understand, no understand" eX-
citedly cried Angelo Venardo in police
court this morning when arraigned
for abusing his wife after the affidavit
had been read 10 him. An Interpreter
was called in and the charges explain
ed to Venardo. He told the court he
had not struck his wife but had mere
ly taken hold of her waist and shaken
her Mrs Venardo testified that while
she was taking the ashes out of the
stove she was struck by her husband
several times and then knocked down.
Mayor Zimmerman fined the defend
ant 81 and costs and sentenced him to
thirty days in the county Jail. The ltal-
ian did not understand why he was 60
ing to Jail and told the court he want
ed to pay his fine. He cried like child
and tried to have his wife intercede
for him. She refused.
Last month Mrs. Nenardo filed a
complaint against her husband be-
cause he had attempted to take her
child away from her. He was not pros
ecuted because she denied her state
ments to the patrolman who made the
arrest and said she did not want her
alleged that he had made repeated
threats to take her life and had often
abused her.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-30
AN ILL MATED PAIR.
Wide Apart In Temperament Were
Thomas and Jane Carlyle.

Wide Apart In Temperament Were
Thomas and Jane Carlyle.
That the Carlyles were an ill assert
ed couple no one could deny. She was
a highly strung. nervous woman. very
quick. able and impatient. disappoint-
Ell with her married life and her posi-
ton. jealous of the admiration which
Carlyle received ut the hands Of all
his admirers. especially of one or two
women, whom she found very unSym-
pathetic.
That Carlyle adored her there is lit
tie doubt. He loved her with all the
rough. passionate power OF his nature,
but he was Il peasant in manner and
character and lacking in all the little
outward signs of devotion and affec-
ton which so many women exact and
the absence of which they resent most
bitterly.
Mrs. Carlyle found herself tied to an
irritable genius who. sensitive at every
point. deeply devoted TO her. but abso-
lutely incapable of translatinG that
love into the language which she
cruved and lOnced for. | remember
her once saying to me in bitter way.
My dear, whatever you do. never
marry philosopher" and that was
the key TO the enigma-the woman al
ways hungering for proofs OF the de-
votion in which the whole of her daily
life was wanting.-From Lady st. He
lier's Memories"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-30
THREATENED WITH
VERY LIGHT DIET

William Manville. an habitual drunk
ard and police character was ordered
out OF the city today and threatened
with diet of bread and water for 90
days if he returns to this city. Man
vile was released from the county
Jail Saturday morning and was ar
rested Saturday night on a charge OF
public intoxicstion. He was unable
TO walk when arrested.
James Walker Was threatened with
q similar wholesome but unpalatable
menu il he was brought into court on
the charge of intoxication in this city.
Walker claims TO hail from Philadel-
phia and came here TO obtain work.
The mayor informed him he would be
introduced formally TO a good city II
he returned 10 Richmond again. He
was allowed 10 leave the city.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-30
MUCH NICER HERE
So Says Visitor to This Complacent Community Be
cause You Have More Time to Read, Sleep in the
Morning and Stalk Your Own Amusement

harmless pipe and pint with your next
near-friend.
And can put on your hat and walk
any place you want to go.
Excessive metropolitanitis he alb
jured as inimical to development.
Frantic business acrobatics during
the day followed up with a dinner at
a glittering caravansary and an endup
at the play, with a post-theater supper
and to bed at one or after each day.
with the Tired Business Man arising
at a f1endish hour to play the same
route next day and the next and next
and next yet again-this said the Wis
itor, was what literally put you to the
bad.
You have no time to read or rest
or do anything you really want to-
said the visitor. Here it's different
You get chance at life. Or, rather,
your own life
This is not the first time this has
been so expressed nor has the visitor
made an original discovery.
pilSu up SohIluCul 10 d /
ways the more convincing.
And it's all more or less true.
Although, to tell the fact, people
can live their lives anywhere if they
have the courage to do so.
| In most the densely populated quar-.
ter or at the cross roads.
| Its all within yourself.
Or would be if you were not tied
up and fettered with bonds of your
own forging.
| That's the pity of the thing.
We handcUff and shackle ourselves
before We know what We are doing
/ And then spend the rest OF our
/ lives straining at the leash, to mix the
/ figure.
! We're gagged by tradition.
! And obsessed with convention.
/ Afraid to do the things that are
/ simple and natural and what We really
! like.
| Ashamed to be ourselves. 49,
Shivering with timoroQsfears.
! Craven towards, We and cads and
mostly fools.
| Showed to the last ditch. there il
something exclusively and sardonical
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-30
National News Association

(NatlOnal News ASSOclatlOn)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30-DoWn at
Carmel By-the-Sea, DR.. David Starr Jor-
dan is preparing a bOmbshell in the
shape Of a little book that is expected
to blast in the worlds opinion of itself.
DR.. Jordan is, among other things,
president of the Eugenics Commission
of the American Breeders association
and his essay will be ostensibly written
for them.
Equipped with tones and charts and
aided by the most expert genealogist
on the Pacific coast, DR.. Jordan has
traced about 1000 American families,
representing several millions of us,
back through our ancestry.
DR.. Jordan has reached these find,
ings:
l. At least, half the citizens in this
country of English ancestry are de
Scendants of one "SuperWoman' and
members OF one colossal family.
,. Isabella De Vermandois, daughter
of a crusader and wife of the Duke of
Warren, living in the twelfth century,
is the common progenitor of the team
ing millions whom Dr. Jordan stamps
as the "fittest of the English speaking
race"
5. John D. Rockefeller and ]. P. Nor
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-30
David Starr Jordan Aims
Heavy Blow at Worlds Vanity

gan, and their millions of poor rela-
tionS" will now be able to prove it.
A. Rockefeller and Morgan have an
cestral lines which also run back to
that Prince of Buccaneers, Sir Fran
els Drake.
5. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln
the two Harrisons, Cleveland and
Roosevelt are shown to be quite def
nitely related"
6. President Emeritus Charles w
Eliot, of Harvard, and President Mich
olas Murray Butler, of Columbia, the
two Timothy Dwights and Woolsey, OF
Yale and DR.. Jordan himself happen to
fall into a college president trust, due
to their common ancestor.
T. Practically any family which can
trace it's line back to Isabelle Verman
do is mentally and physically sound
and its progeny stand more than usu
al chance to inherit the earth.
8. The mating of mother Isabella S
progeny is a step toward the ideal OF
eugenics.
9. True love, with the initiative OF
the individuals tempered by an under
standing of eugenics, is far and away
better method of bringing about this
selective ideal than resort to state
regulation or parental interference.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-30
PhNsionnonY Not Reliable.

am a profound disbeliever in phys
iognomy. Features are false witnesses.
Stupidity frequently wears a mask Of
intelligence. / know business men who
look like poets and poets who look
like business men. Men of genius i'll
variably look like idiots. and il YOU
pick out the man who looks most EN-
inent in a party you are sure 10 find
be is a nobody. l always distrust men
who look magnificent. Nature is a
stingy creature. She seldom gives a
man the double gift of being great
and looking great. She took care to
lame Byron and deform Pope and dis.
figure Johnson. But the browning ey-
ample of her jealous parsimony Is
Shakespeare. l have always been dis.
appointed with Shakespeare face. II
does not live up to his poetry. II is
dull. heavy and commonplace.-From
''Adventurls in London"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-30
JUGDE ANDERSON WAS
LEN|ENT IN RENDER
INC THE SENTENCES
Six of the Convicted Men, In
GLIDING Clark, Who Plead
Guilty, Had Their Senten-
ces Suspended.
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himself. He leaves a wife and five
children in Chicago.
Murphy, of Detroit, whose sentence
was suspended, walked straight up to
Judge Anderson and expressed his
great appreciation. Extending his
hand he remarked, eff all the judges
were like you we would have a better
country"
Hiram Cline of Muncie, who also
received a suspended sentence was
overcome with joy and cried like a
baby. His attorneys Judge Leffler
and Mr.. Ball, also were overcome and
were forced to leave the court room
to hide their emotion.
Moving Pictures Taken.
Moving picture and camera men
guarded every exit to the building
until after the prisoners were led
away. Passage was blocked in the
streets Immediately surrounding the
federal building and the Hobbies were
black with people.
Edward Clark, the confessed dyna-
inter, who pleaded guilty and receiv-
ed a suspended sentence for turning
states evidence apparently was the
happiest man in the city. He said,
amid tears, Il have no plans for the
future, but | know this experience
will make me a good citizen" He
danced around in childish glee,
grasping the hands of those about
him.
Following the sentences great sur
prise was expressed on all sides re-
garding the comparatively light pun
ishment inflicted on the men. From
the attorneys and from several of the
convicted men themselves came words
of qualification that the judge had so
tempered justice with mercy.
Z It has not been definitely determ-
ined when the dynamite special" will
leave indianapolis for FIT. LeavenWorth
but it has been the custom hereto
fore to transport federal prisoners on
the first train leaving the city. 1t
was thought likely that those who re-
ceived prison sentences would start
on their journey tonight.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-30
Why q Horse Rolls.

Horses are fond of rolling on the
ground. and no animal more thorough
~ shakes itself than they do. After
a roll they give themselves a shake
or two to remove anything adhering
to the coat. The habit is of much
service to horses living in open plains.
On being turned loose at the end Of a
journey an Arab horse rolls in the
sand, which acts as blotting paper,
absorbing exudations from the body.
A shake removes the sand. and the
coat soon dries. Cavalrymen in hot
climates sometimes put sand on their
horses as the simplest and quickest
way of drying them.-Selborne Maya
Hine
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-30
GRAY DECIDES ON
CHARLES B, BECK
Congressman Here Saturday
to Hear Objections 10
Appointee.
FOUND TO BE CHOICE
The Question as 70 the Next
Postmaster Is Settled
for Good.

Charles h. Beck. shoe salesman.
will be the next postmaster Of Rich
mond
Finly H Gray. Sixth district con-
gresham was in this city Saturday af-
ternoon and after hearing the ohsec-
lions TO the appointment of Mr.. Beck.
who was district chairman of In Dem
ocratic party. decided to stick" To
his first announcement. which was TO
the effect that Mr. Beck would sue
coed +. NJ. Haas.
Il found that Mr.. Beck was the
choice of the majority of persons. of
all parties, TO whom | talked" said Mr..
Gray. Il came here at the request OF
several Democrats who were dissatis-
fed | Immediately held up the sp-
pointment and said that would come
to Richmond and discuss the matter.
Made Canvass.
Il have canvasscd every man on
Main street and in addition have sent
out a large number of letters. promis-
cuorsly Mr.. Beck is the choice of the
majority.
AS rule congressman merely make
up their minds. without consulting
anyone in connection with postoffcs
appointments or recommendations.
am following a different method. ain
pursuing a uniform policy all over the
district
! Mr. Gray said that he did not see or
81 Il
urday. He admitted that he talked to
Henry L. Johnson and Thomas ]. Str
dy, two of the leaders of the opposition
to the appointment of Beck. MIR Gray
said that the second choice for The
postmastership was Charles Z. Mar
latt. He said that the method he used
was the best he knew of in getting TO
the sentiment of the people.
Beck At connersviIIe.
Mr.. Beck went to Connersyille today
TO discuss matters with Congressman
Gray
Neither Mr.. Johnson nor Mr. Study
could be, seen today and interroga:ef
in regard TO their opinion of the final
selection of the future postmaster
When Gray was asked whether John
son or Study were displeased over the
result of the conference. he smiled
nonchalantly and said You had better
ask them
County Chairman Doney OF Cam
bridge City was officially notifed of
the appointment by letter today.
Congressman Gray expects TO start
for Washington this evening or tomor-
row morning.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-30
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

you get more of a chance to live
in a town of this size"
To this effect animadverted visit
or to this more or less clean and de
lightful municipal abode.
And not so Clean" said a returned
resident disgustedly.
The truth is, the town was never as
dirty
The sidewalks are Shiny.
And the streets ooze with surface
| filth.
Alley entrances are practically i'm
passable, in many insances,and street
crossings a grinning farce.
Why not flush the streets now and
then and let the drippings hit the
sidewalk
OF course this may cost a lot OF
money for all this column knows. And
we are if not bankrupt, economical.
Cities should not have annual house
cleanings.
They should house-clean every day
Then things would always look nice
or within shouting distance of nice.
The housewife nowadays rarely has
one complete yearly overhauling.
Houses have been made more SAM
tary and easier to keep clean with car
| petless floors and rugs. so that every
day is housekeeping day" instead OF
bye and bye"
What's the use of having cement al
leys if they aren't made disable fol
the pedestrian?
However, that isn't what the visitor
meant.
! In fact he didn't mention it.
| 1t was the returned resident who
! had carried over rosy visions of Rich
mond's former immaculate state
The visitor thought it might be nice
| to live in Richmond.
Where life is less strenuous anG
more leisurely.
| Where you could sit round the
| friendly evening lamp and cut the pa
ges of the last fictional inanity or flir
over the reviews and the weeklies
| He rather hanhered after that state
| of neighborly beatitude in which yol
run round the corner to exchange q
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-30
The Mistake.

In his biography Of Alexandra Du-
mas Harry a. Spur says that the i'm
provident French author. who hated
avarice. was once waiting in line for
his cloak at a soiree when he saw q
millionaire give tip of 30 centimes 90
cents to the servant who handed out
his paletot. Dumas. getting his cloak,
threw down a 100 franc note. Par
don. sir; you have made a mistake.
think" said the man, offering to re
turn the note. "No. no, friend" an
swered Dumas. casting a disdainful
glance at the millionaire: lit is the
other gentleman who has made the
mistake"