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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22
Panic Has Seized Members

Panic has seized upon many members of the Stock exchange The money trust investigation has gotten under their skin. They have lorded 1t over public so long that they had come to regar3 the ex- change as a divinely ordained private snap, owing no responsibility excepting among themselves, ana treating with con temptuous indifference complaints and suggestions of methods that would give greater insurance of fair play for out siders. The exchange in it's greed for commissions has lent it's assistance to many promotion schemes of questionable merit, causing enormous losses to deuded, i'll informed and unsuspecting investors who were misled by the fact that the so- called Securities" are listed on the eXchange-a species of indorsement that carries great weight with the public and has been chiefly responsible, it is charged, for enormous losses running through a, long period of time. The resulting slaughter of innocents' led ultimately to discrediting of the exchange, and diverted a vast bulk of investment money to other channels.
 Carelessness in this respect is one tli- rect cause of the loss of prestige, and the decrease of business on the exchange, about which members are bitterly com blaming. They are slow to realize that they are responsible for their own undo ing, and slow also to admit the vital need of reform from within. Now that these reforms of, method, practice and thought are being forced upon them, many members are screaming in agony over the thought that they may be stripped of privileges that from their viewpoint have assumed the proportions of a vested right" to reclilessly exploit the public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22
RN9 NEEK FOR HANP IlLATORS IF STOCK EXCHANGE Margin Buyers" Are Com pletely Frozen Out by
 Big Fellows
SEE HANDWRITING
 OF REFORM AHEAD
Panic Has Seized Certain Operators Who Had Come to Feel That Exchange Was Divinely
 Ordained
Rx ". G. NICHOLAS

New York, December 21-tSpecial.)-The stock market has been a live proposition this week. The big rich have been gen. timely "rattled" by current developments. political. judicial, financial and otherwise, and prices went through series of wild convu1sions Fundamental conditions may not have been seriously disturbed, tut the action at times was sufficiently vio- lent to arouse fears that the joltlng had reached the sure enough foundations and .started something of the earthquake order
 With ceaseless reiteration the financial writers kept on saying day after day that the wholesale liquidation was over. But 1t wasn't. The stuff continued to flood the market and glut the demand. Where the stocks came from and who bought 'em were the twin mysteries.
 Daily transactions were of huge volume for several successive days passing the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22
More for Labor

The statistics issued by the commission are convincing that railroads are paving enormously more money for labor than formerly and getting less per man for the outlay than of old. This is one of the things that will enter heavily into the campaign for the conversion of the people to the justice of the plea for a larger
 income for the railroads-as the only way open for meeting just obligation and providing means for safe transportation for passengers and freight. Deprived Of opportunity for making more money, as matters now stand, there is danger of running into an era of cheap" railroads cheap in everything excepting dispro- portionate pay roll-and this is not a "cheap" country, although there may be cheap people in it. Enforced extrava- gance in outlay and compulsory restric- ton of income is not the way to insure efficient and safe transportation. Deep down, the problem is also one of supreme importance to the establishment of stock market values, and its relationship to brainy men of the investment world.
 There was not so much in the decision of the supreme court in the Reading case to excite alarm. but 1t was accepted as further announcement of the peoples un- shaken purpose to bring the powerful combinations to rigid observance of the spirit as we'll as the letter of the law Tor the suppression of monopolistic ty- ranny. The great truth Is ingroying upon the consciousness of the kings and princes of high finance
 The January distribution of dividends and interest (z10OO0O GOO and s145 0OO on re- spectfully) will exceed any previous pay ment for the correspondinx montt- or tributed this immense sum will hlbricate the business and speculative mac ijnery to a marked extent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22

100000 share limit at many successive sessions. On the severe breaks there was unquestionably tremendous absorption, else prices would have broken through the crust of the earth. There has not been more extensive and prolonged and severe liquidation this year. Somebody got the stocks, and only capitalists or combinations with boundless resources could carry the load that has been as- sumed. Big people must have sold and big people must have bought by the wholesale. Incidentally 6 myriad ot margin players were frozen out, to the sacrifice of millions of speculative money. But even so, the average of prices is not lower than on the January and February break. It may be noticed that the sober minded, conservatives are at length advising purchases, and doing little buying themselves, regardless of current hysteric symptoms
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22

A few months ago Governor Brewer made a visit to the convict farm at Parchman and while there found four or five little pickanninies who had been convicted in to terms of one to five years for stealing
 These boys, from 10 to 12 years of eee. excited the sympathy of the governor
 He would have had them isolated and separated from the old and hardened criminals. but there was no way toe.ac- eomplish that. On his return home he 'ook up the matter with an attorney at Natchez and had the pardon petition published at his own expense. The
 hances are strong that these little ne- gores will be pardoned before Christmas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22
Studying Commerce Report

Ffnanciers and railroad managers have given closest study and analysis to tho annual report of the interstate commerce commission, published this week, and find
 it bursting with facts from which they are drawing deductions, some favorable to the future, and others discouragine. The statistics tell the story of heavy and continual enlargement in the volume of traffic, with corresponding increase In gross revenues and weazened in- crease in net, the leanness of the latter being due to the swelling of the pay roll increased taxes, and the growing cost f every variety of material that enters into the operation of a railroad. Net income has not kept pace with the increase in gross, and the record of casualties re- veals the unpleasant fact that the stand ard of service has retrograded instead of improved. The operating heads of the railroads, so far as an expression from them has been obtained, contend that the most important feature of the report is the statement that the increase in the number of accidents is traceable in d large measure to laxity of discipline among the employees.
 All of which leads the employers to in- quire what they are paying $50G00,0e0 to S75,009o00 in advanced wages for, if the only visible return is such a noticeable loss in labor efficiency that the interstate commerce commission feels 1t incumbent to treat the matter with drastic serious ness. Railroad magnates have no wish to start a row with employees, but confi- dentially they are saying that organized labor will inevitably lose its standing with the public if 1t does not brace Up and enforce closer discipline and ef- ficiency among its members. The conten- ton is made that the railroad labor unions owe>it as their highest duty to them selves, the railroads and the public to weed out incompetents and raise the standard of performance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22
From the Chica

From the Chicago Post
 This is Prof. Trimmitt the chlropo- dist says the master of ceremonies at the reception to the visiting notable. in- troducing the gentlemen in the iine ''and this Is Prof Bumpem. the noted pugilist and this Is Prof. Gazinko the famous seal trainer; and this is Prof, Biggun. the eel ebrated wrestler; and this Is Prof. Okono the renowned magician: and this is-I do not believe l know your name, er."
 The milk looking man who is next in line peers through his spectacles at the master of ceremonies and says:
 "Oh, I'm just Mister Booksum sim ply lecture on philosophy in one of the academies here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22
Changing the Subject

From the Detroit Free Press.
 "Who is that homely woman over there?'
 That, sir. Is my wife"
 "ohl Do you know I was just think ing that it would have been better if [ had been born dumb.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22
FEVER
 IN EVERGREEN
New Ad9inistration Arouses Aspir- ants for Office-Four Candidates
 for P0stoffice

Evergreen. December Especial J. Typhoid fever is very prevalent in Ever green and vicinity. Judge F. J. Dean and Miss Francis Deming are just convaiesc- lng from severe attacks of the malady.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22
Until nine o clock

Shop in the morning and you avoid the crush and rush and
 receive better service and attention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22

To many points in Florida. Alabama. fentraJt en!s;J AmmeTfa. mea ,I,lb.. Cuba. Georgia. Mexico Porto Rico. Tennessee and Texas Tickets on sale daily Oct. IS. to points in Mexico. New Mexico. Texas and Louisiana do not become effective until Nov. 1. 1912. Final limit return- ing May. S1, 1913. except to points in Mexico. New Mexico. Texas and Luis lana, return limit June l. l912.
 chicago, Ill.,. and Retnrn. 323 45 Account International Live Stock Ex- osition Tickets on sale November 2sth to December 3d. inclusive. FinAl limit for return. December 1. 1912
 For further information or sleeping car reservations phone Main 977 or con fer with r. Sid Jones, D. F. A. L. & N R R., Birmingham. Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22

The fact of q new administration. in- yolving change of party. is arousing as- p.rants for office and their friends ". B. Jsmes is now holding the unexpired term as postmaster There are four dif-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22
False Pretenses

Boston transcript.
 Ethel-Kitty looks so confiding.
 Madge-My dear, her looks are deceit- ful. When you get to know her you will Ind that shs has nothing to counda-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22
Dropped His Title

ferent applicants seeking the place. MT James was appointed as republican.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22

The most popular gift piece of = this popular gift store and best value. Big Turkish Rocker, up- holstered in Imperial leather (warranted) a fn1~ 'sD sS,s'.' ,G iss at vs,ss; ssiy $l3.95
The Washington times., 1912-08-11
EXPECT OPPOSITION
TO FISHERS PLAN
FORC|TYCOAL MINES
Private Interests to Oppose
Scheme for Cheap Munic-
ipal Fuel Supply. IL

Violent opposition by private coal
mining interests is expected to the plan
OF Secretary of the Interior Walter
Fisher to allot Government coal lands
TO Western cities and when a bill
authorizing a grant to Grand Junction,
Colo. comes up in Congress, this oppo-
sitlon, 1t Is said. will make itself plainly
felt.
Secretary Fisher has recommended that
congress grant $40 acres of coal land
that city and in the meantime the In
terror Department has withdrawn the
land from private entry. The right of
the Secretary to order this withdra wal
in the absence Of express authority con-
ferred by statute will of itself be the
subject of hot debate. for some West
ern Congressman deny that such an
executive order is legal.
Secretary Fisher plans that allotted
Government coal lands shall be oper-
ated by the cities to which they are
granted so as to supply municipal needs
as well as those of Individual citizens.
A general bill drawn up by the Secre-
tary authorizes him to patent $40 acres
for each city under conditions provid-
ing for prompt and continuous develop
ment of the coal, the prevention of
any assignment or transfer and the
safeguarding of the lives and health of
miners working for the city.
Congressman Taylor of Colorado. will
offer the bill making the grant to
Colorado Junction and will endeavor to
get it passed at this session. There Is
not so much likelihood of the general
bill coming up at this time.
The Washington times., 1912-08-11
MARGUERITE ESAXTON,
FRIEND OFGARF|ELD,
IS DYING PENN|LESS
Former Social Favorite and
Washington Actress Near
End in Chicago.

CHICAGO. Aug. 1i.-Her life slowly
eobing away from complete nervous
breakdown and practically penniless,
Miss Marguerite Saxton, once a fav-
orite Shakesperean actress, a society
favorite at Washington during the
Presidency of James A. Garfield and
known throughout the land as a fam
Gus Southern beauty, Is diving I'm the
presbyterian Hospital IN this city.
Miss Saxton Is a member of the Round
Iabie Literary Club of WASHINGTON. the
Southern Women's Club. and the Flag
Day Association. Born In the South,
Miss Saxton, went to Washington with
her parents In the carly seventies when
she entered upon her career as an act
ress;, Mr.. Garfield was friend of her
family. and later in her life she was a
favorite at the White House during his
brief term
Her most notable part was that of
the countess in THE Two Orphans"
She was associated at one time with
Edwin Booth and acted the part Of the
nurse in Romeo and Juliet"
Four years ago she came TO Chicago
and has been living in o5scurity at a
small hotel on the north side.
The Washington times., 1912-08-11
SNAPPED BATHING
SUITS ON BEACH
Man Arrested In Atlantic CITY
Gives Washington AS
Home Town.

The name of Samuel SPAIN, arrested
IN Atlantic City for exchanging bath
lng costumes on the beach with Anna
Costello, of Philadelphia, Is not found
IN the city directory, although he gave
washington as his home when taken
In custody by the police.
Atlantic City suffered something Of a
shock, according to reports. at. the dar-
ing behavior Of SPAIN and the young
woman. and the crowds which ran to
see the couple as they appeared after
the exchange were the largest that this
particular section of the beach has
known this year.
Each of the bathers was held in SOS
bail to answer charge Of disorderIy
conduct and 1t is believed that they will
forfeit their collateral.
The Washington times., 1912-08-11
CAR STRIKE TRUCE
HAS BEEN CALLED .
IN CHICAGO FIGHT.
Both Sides Agree to Halt in
Controversy on Wage
Scale.

CHICAGO. Aug. ia truce until
next Friday was agreed on by both
sides today in the wage controversy be-
tween the employees of the surface and
elevated lines and the managers of the
companies. L. A. Busby. president of
the City Railways Company, emphat-
ically declared that there will be no
strike.
w. d. Mahon,. international president
of the union, this afternoon will report
to a mass meeting of the workers that
one of the most Objectionable features
of the present contract would be ehmi-
mated In framing the new agreement,
the probation period of six months,
when the men who are learning to be
motormen, conductors, and guards re-
ceive very little pay for their time.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, today
wired Mahon that he could not attend
the mass meeting.
During the truce II is understood that
the presidents of the three operating
companies will receive from the contrQl-
ing stockholders in the East instruc-
tions as just what concessions will be
acceptable to them.
The Washington times., 1912-08-11
Capitals Atlantic City
AT Height of Popularity

No form of summer amusement afford
ed In Washington has surpassed the
popularity of the moonlight rides
given every Monday night on the good
ship st. Johns, which runs between the
seventh street wharves and Colonial
Beach siXty-six miles distant. Although
these evening diversions attract many
persons, the large capacity of the vessel
Is guarantee against a jam or crowd
ing.
"washington's Atlantic City" is at the
crest of its popularity. 1t offers fishing.
boating, swimming, grabbing. dancing,
and dozen other forms of amusement.
The round-trip fare is so cents and a
ticket good until September can be
obtained for 81.
Excepting Mondays and Saturdays,
the steamer leaves the Seventh street
wharf at Q a. m. The trip down Is made
at 2:30 in the afternoon Saturday..
The Washington times., 1912-08-11
WEEK OF ARGUMENT
In MTHEDARROWC CASE
Jurors Take Long Automobile Ride
While Attorneys Prepare
Speeches.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. lin antici-
patton OF week Of strenuous argu-
ment, beginning tomorrow morning, and
which will close the TRIAL OF Clarence
Darrow. charged with !, the bribery of
George N. Lockwood prospective
Juror In the Mcnamara, case, the Dar-
row jury spent today In recreation. with
an automobile ride and picnic at Balboa
and Laguna Beaches, while the attor-
neys amassed their arguments to be
presented In their final appeals
Considerable anxiety is being mani
tested In the physical condition of A.
NJ. Blakesley, the thirteenth Juror Sc
lected, who took the place Of l.. A.
Leavitt, when the latter became too
Ill for fury duty. During the past week
Blakesiey has been complaining of heart
trouble and a physician has been In
attendance every day.
The Washington times., 1912-08-11
Alaskan Candidate for
Delegate Known Here

II Robert w. Jennings, who has been
nominated by the Democrats of Alaska
as a Delegate in Congress, should be
elected, he will return to a city with
which he is familiar, as he was a clerk
in the office of Chief of Engineers. War
Department for four years, and ma
circulated at Georgetown, where he
graduated with honors in 1887.
He left the Government service for a
position with the Columbia Title Insur-
ance Company and subsequently went
to Port Townsend, Wash After tha :
he went to Alaska, where he shortly
became attorney for the only railroad
there at that time
The Washington times., 1912-08-11
CAPITAL MAN MADE
q LODGE PRESIDENT
]. H. McGilton Chosen At Conven-
ton OF Social Order
Of Moose.

J. H. McGilton, 2226 M street north.
west, has been made supreme president
of the Social Order of Moose. The an.
nuai convention Of the order came to a
close in London. Ontario, yesterday aft.
ernoon with. an election of officers fol
the year beginning September l. Mr..
McGilton was first vice president before
being elected president.
Charles II. Gardner, also of this city,
was reelected supreme marshal.
Mr. McGilton and Mr.. Gardner are
expected to return to the city tomorrow
or Tuesday.
The Social Order of Moose meets In
the Arion Hall, In e street northwest.
The Washington times., 1912-08-11
Philadelphian to Tell
"The Truth About Helf'

Benjamin H. Barton. of Philadelphia.
will lecture in the Old Masonic Tenn
pie this afternoon at 3 o'clock on "The
Truth About He'll" AS a general in
vitation has been extended to the
public. several hundred persons are
expected.
The lecture is of especial interest as
the speaker will explain the conten
tion of the. International Bible Stu
dents Association which recently
went on record that there is no burn
ing pit.
The Washington times., 1912-08-11
Chickens VIII Decide
Who Osvns Them

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Aug. IL.
Solomon had nothing on Chief
Of Police W. H. harrington.
Here's why's
Frank Hoffman was arrested
charged with stealing q number
Of chickens from j. L. Larsen.
Both men swore they owned the
chickens. Tomorrow the chief of
police will take the chickens to
point half way between the re-
spectiye homes Of Larsen and
Hoffman and turn them loose.
The chickens will then establish
the guilt or innocence of the
accused.
The Washington times., 1912-08-11
Fat Men on Outing.

Several members Of the Fat Mems
Club and friends will spend this week
at Colonial Beach. chaperoned by Mr..
and Mrs. Charles w. Gill. of tht
Canary Islands, who are here on a
visit. The party leaves the city this
evening. Those going are as follows:
Ben Miller, Sadie Dillon. Norman Fen
ton, Della Dillon. ]. J. Wagner, Rae
A. Server Mike Jacobs, Macy Gould,
B. Cassidy. Rhene Wertheimer. Leo
Rice, Bee Folliard, James Lyons, and
M Income.
The Washington times., 1912-08-11
Humorist Dies
In His California Home

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Aug. 11.-Frank
Thompson searight a California author,
newspaper correspondent, and president
of the American Press Humorists Asso-
citation, is dead at his home here from
paralysis resulting from an automobile
accident In San Diego last February.
Mr. Searight was thirty-seven years
old. ---.
The Washington times., 1912-08-11

Tea Sets; IS pieces Carlsbad
China; nicely decorated. CI OF
Usually $6.95. 5............ OtsJt
Best Stone China Cham
bers; large. size. Usually IN
25c .................. IN
Stone China Tea or Coffee
Cups and Saucers. Usually IN
sc ..'..... ...'.. ~
Carlsbad China Berry Bowls; as
sorted decorations Usually IT.
soc ....... ................... 1SS
7-piece China Berry Sets, C0o
with new decorations. .... AOC
Stone China Tankard Pitch IL
ers. Usually 15c. ~
The Washington times., 1912-08-11

White China Berry Saucers; o.
fancy edges. s for. CS
Oil Jugs; new shapes; cut Eo
glass pattern. Usually 10c. "
Wine Glasses; assorted o.
shapes. Usually SC. ~
Hand painted China Salad,
sHyli aiiy 500. 1oS Cake Plates: usu. 48c
saHasrs. MS'ts shioa foa. Tea Cups and 24c
foT ~"'.e China Tea Plates: 18c
Wni'e for China Dinner Plates 24c
toT oTti.',' white China Soup Plates s 19c
The Washington times., 1912-08-11

Rabbits Soap. p. & G. Oleine
Soap, Star, Brooks Crystal Soap,
Pearline, Stove Polish, Gold Dust,
Household Ammonia, and CU,o
other &c articles. s........... CTSC
Garden Hose: 25 feet long: good
quality, with brass nozzle Ct OF
and reel. Usually $2.25.. OlsCS
35c Iron Preserving Kettles:
v,i. white ts I'es porcelain lined; s. 24c
Ceiling busters. with g. 1no
foot handle. Usually 19c..... lUS
Jardiniere and Pedestal: o5 in
:s.ss ssss ..is!':......,s'!: high: Usually S1.79
The Washington times., 1912-08-11

Chocolate Sets: pot and 8 cups
and sucers; decorated to QSo
match. Usually $1.50...... CoN
Jardinieres: fancy shape 1Oo
glazed. in Ivory finish. lOS
Rubber Rings for Mason's Fruit
ars; good quality. 2 dozen So
loI Nv
Fruit Jar Fillers; to At any o.
size jar. ................. OC
Toilet Pitchers and Basins; stone
china; fancy shapes. Usually COo
Cake Dishes, on high stand;
ise ins-s'ass pattern, Usually 1Oc
The Washington times., 1912-08-11
Dining Room

Solid oak. made with box frame and
highly polished closely caned seat
Regular price, $500.
The Washington times., 1912-08-11

White China Fruit Saucers. o.
Tor. w
White China Individual But II
ter Plates, 6 for.............. ~
Table Oncloth. first quality, As
inches wide. white and 1SO
colors. Yard d............. 1CN
16-inch .Japanned Tea Tray:
nicely decorated. Usually 19c
zoe ''''
Artistically Engraved Tea
Trays, with side handles. CSo
Usually soc. c............... ScS
Folding Wash Benches; hard
wood; for two tubs. Usually S7c
bUC s'''
The Washington times., 1912-08-11

Earthen Cuspidors; glazed 1Ao
in assorted olors.......:..... III
New Perfection Blue Flame
Wickless Oil Stoves, with two
81 burners es Usually SAFE
Galvanized Iron Watering 1Oo
Cans. Usually 39c........... lOC
Sheffield Steel Grass Hooks;
warranted best steel. Usual 1Eo
ly soc ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. lON
White Mountain Ice Cream
Freezers; triple motion; 81 OF
Double Oil Stoves, with 4 burners
and two oil tanks. Usual CT %
ly Observation-Disclosures. OlsCJ
The Washington times., 1912-08-11

SEC Welsbach In
verted I Gas Lamp,
solid brass, mantle
and engraved C0o
globe ......... AOS