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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
PARKER WILL NOT
JUMP INTO FIGHT
Announces Decision Not to
Run for Presidency of
Commission

After some weeks of consideration,
DR.. John l. Parker announced that ne
will not enter the race for president
of the city commission to succeed Gull
pepper EXum, who is unwilling to make
another race. The conclusion of Dr.
Parker has been awaited by his friends
and politicians generally who recog-
nized in him a strong candidate for the
place. The race now seems to be en-
tirely between George B. Ward, for
mer mayor, and Clement Wood. That
former Mayor Ward will win by an
overwhelmingly vote is generally con-
ceded by persons in touch with the
trend of city politics.
DR.. Parker is the fourth prominent
man spoken for the race that has de-
elined to run. The other men who de-
cided not to run are NJ H. Mcdowell
and w r. Stewart of Ensley and John
r. Hornady. well known newspaper
man.
In announcing his withdrawal DR..
Parker authorized this statement:
In order to serve the city with the
greatest efficiency and the best re-
oh4to3 a man AiAuSl SEVER ali DuSlDcSS
connections. He must either become IL
commissioner or he must remain in his
business. l have a very satisfactory
and prosperous business and 1 was un-
willing to sacrifice what 1 have striven
for 80 years to build up for the pres
ideney of the commission, even though
l had no chance of being defeated.
"In this race against George r. Ward
it will be severely contested and any
one who enters it will take a great
chance against the former mayor. After
consultation with my friends and after
going into every detail of the situation
and viewing the matter from all angles,
have determined to set at rest all ru-
mors about my candidacy and an
nounce finally that 1 Will not ask the
suffrage of my fellow citizens in this
race. | am retiring in the interest of
no man and under absolutely no pres
sure | say this in order, if possible,
to anticipate any misleading rumors
that might be started that the inter
ests caused my decision The chance
to serve ones city and the good that
might be accomplished are great re-
wards However, | have work to do on
the board of education and I believe
that | can render as vital a service
there in the interest of our future
citizens as | can on the commission.
Il am deeply grateful to those hosts
Of friends who have urged me to make
the race and who assured me of the
support However [ see no
necessity of making such tremendous
sacrifice, especially when in my pres
ent work / can continue to serve my
fellow citizens"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
CLEAN UP ORDER is
ISSUED BY WIKLE
Admission Mayor Issues Edict That All
Weeds, Etc, Be Cut Around
Premises

weeds around your premises or the chief
of police will get YOU" was the sub
stance of an order that has just been pro-
mulgated by DR.. ]. L. Willle, mayor of
Admission, whose administration is making
a record for it's sanitary measures. The
mayor calls attention to section 1857 of the
city code. requiring the cutting of all
Weeds or vegetation in excess of six inches
by persons, firms or corporations, and
SAYS:
This ordinance is not being observed
and this notice is for the purpose of call
ing attention to it and insisting on its
observance 1t is expected that all per
sons coming under the provisions of the
ordinance Will comply with the same with
in 10 days. otherwise the chief tof police
will be Instructed to make cases against
tho offenders
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
HOW COL CALDWELLS FIERY ELOQUENCE
STILLED THE RUMBLE OF ANNISTON MOB
O In hEnagaot
t Summary agenO I c ohgedwt Shooting Thre Mm Il
Office FOun t tsutdnK nKedys

''Igdeelare to you," continued the
young orator, that we must give
these men a fair trial, must establish
their guilt through due process of
law. And although sympathize with
you in your deep Indignation, | will
stand between you and the prisoners
with my life. Take them, if you will
over my dead body
, Before he had concluded, the temper
of the mob was cooled. 1t is said
that more than one cheered the young
orator. At any rate, the crowd dis
persed, and no attempt was made to
storm the Jail.
Edmonds, though shot through the
neck and desperately wounded, re-
covered, as did Triplett and Chap
pelle. Thereupon, the prisoners, who
had been carried to Jacksonville, then
the county site, were released on bond.
Subsequently, Lacy Travelled to CAL
ifornia where he died. Lawrence
secured a continuance of his case
from term to term, year to year. and
finally secured his dismissal. It,can-
not be learned positively whether or
not he is dead, or in case of his con-
tinued existence, in what place he
resides.
At any rate, Admission considers
the incidents described the most
sensational in it's history, though
their injection into the current guber-
natorial campaign has caused great
surprise. 1t is possible that in the
future, the accuracy or inaccuracy of
Kennedy's charges will be established.
for the interest aroused by his first
attack will probably demand and re-
ceive more attention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03

practically secured its dispersion.
That man was Col. John NJ. Caldwell.
Three Men Shot Down
One afternoon in the early life of
Admission, two young men, not con-
sidered models for the new genera
tion to follow, walked into the office
of the Hot Blast, and firing recklessly
with revolvers, sent to the floor three
men, W. H. Edmonds, editor; John
Chappelle and John Triplett, editorial
assistants. The men had cause, but,
in the light of present day evidence,
very little cause. 1t seems that Ed
monds had had trouble with the An
niston constabulary, and that Law
renee, who in addition to practicing
law, did newspaper correspondence on
the side, reported the incidents. of the
case to the Montgomery Dispatch.
The anger of Edmonds was provoked,
and through his own paper, he Sc
verely criticised, according to the re-
ports, Lawrence, who had written the
story for the Montgomery Dispatch.
The latter, thereupon, assisted by
Lacy, attempted not only the life of
the editor of the paper. but the lives
of all connected with the paper.
The two men were arrested, and
because their previous deeds had not
been up to the standard required by
the "law and order" league, the mem
bers of that organization, represent
ing the ''best people of the city," came
together. There were fiery speeches
and the expression in sensational
language of outraged dignity. It is
said that thereupon, someone cried
out, 1--WE will lynch them," where
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
R0bber Offers an
Apology When the
Wrong Man Is Struck

Montgomery, August 2-(Special D.
George M. Baggett, salesman, was sand
bagged" in an alleyway on Lee street Fri
day evening, according to his story to the
police. No money was taken, as Baggett
had only few pennies in his pockets.
The robber left note In which he admit
ted that the wrong man had been struck
and apologized for his error.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03

come the homo of the ultra conservative.
The leaders in this field are certainly col
lectng their resources and openly dis
couraging expenditures on the part of
customers in matters usually admittedly
none of their business. This rule ap-
plies to big things as well as to trifling
matters. Railroads and other rich inter-
ests can only make loans or market is
sues of new securities by paying the high
est rates allowable and submitting to
heart breaking exactions .on the side"
as the saying is. The corporations that
can afford to delay the raising of fresh
capital are doing so, some of them at se-
we're sacrifice of position. As a result Of
the rigid enforcement of the restrictive
policy being pursued by the general run
of banks, active men of affairs are in an
angry and distrustful frame of mind
condition that finds reflection on the tape
and in the conversation heard in offices,
clubs and counting rooms.
Failure to Respond
The failure of the "affluent elements"
in the many branches of big business to
respond to encouraging developments and
to help things along, instead of backing
up against the wall and sa ying NO" is a
factor of decided adverse influence in the
securities market Banks in assuming
and maintaining an unfriendly attitude
create powerful influence against prices
On that point there can be no dispute.
The disqueting feature is the mystery
that befogs the situation, and which no.
body has vet found acceptable solution.
Bankers declare that they are moved only
by strictly business reasoning and that
stories representing them as soulless con-
spirators are malicious untruths. Yet thev
are as susceptible to nervous chills as the
rest of us Thev don't know.
Mexican Situation
Not everybody in the financial district
would regard our Mexican Intervention
as a bearish stock market factor On the
contrary, many argue that the active
interference of the United States would
be a sensatonally bullish development;
that it would be assuming the position
of a perpetual protectorate: that this
nation would be responsible for life and
property IN that bestricken country for
time with no ending Such situation
raieht have its offsetting virtue. is the
consoling argument; that would pave
the way for the development of extra
ordinary resources in agriculture, live
stock gold, silver. copper and every other
mineral magnificent abundance-in brief,
that by giving protection to lives and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
GRAIN CROP FARMERS
ENTICE EMPLOYEES

DeVils Lake. N. D., August 2-Warned
by scarcity of men to harvest this years
great grain crop farmers in this region
nave agreed to call a halt to work at
6 p. m. daily In many Instances they
Will furnish automobiles to enable the men
te spend their evenings in town Com
certs are to be provided for a big amuse-
ment day to end with a big watermelon
carnival
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
Hans Holmer Wins

Manchester, England. August 2.Hans
Holmer, an American long distance rum
ner, won the 10 mile championship race
at a professional athletic meet here today
His time was 54 minutes IL Is seconds
Nemeulin of France was second
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03

W palgn manager Tor ChafleS
Henderson, one of the half
dozen or more candidates for gov
ernor, charged that B. B. Conner, an
other of the candidates, led a mod
in Admission in the early SOS bent on
lynching two men who were never
brought to trial, the state immedi-
ately pitched over on its left ear and
awaited developments. There is curl
osity as to whether or not the charge
is true. There is also curiosity con-
cerning the mob, and the crime for
which the mob is alleged to have de-
termined to lynch the two offenders
against the peace and dignity of the
community.
It is unknown whether or not the
charges of Kennedy are true. Mr..
Conner has said nothing. No evidence
has been adduced tending to sustain
the charges further than that it was
known, at that time, that Mr.. Conner
was a leader in the cause of law and
order, and that he sympathized with
a body of men who gathered and ex-
pressed their indignation over what
had occurred.
However, light has been thrown on
the crime and the principals of the
crime, and the fact has been adduced
that present resident of Birming-
ham, by brilliant, fiery and highly
dramatic speech, stopped the mob,
cooled the temper of the mob, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03

Continued from Page FIve)
ably gaining greater strength every day.
Sam T. Kennedy, campaign manager for
Mr.. Henderson,, declares that he is daily
receiving reports from all parts of the
state to the effect that Mr.. Henderson s
interests are advancing, and he says he
feels little uneasiness as to the final out
come
Henderson Busy With Commission
Mr.. Henderson has also been less ac-
tive in prosecuting his campaign than the
other principally owing to the
fact that he has been much engaged dur
ing the past few weeks in discharging the
duties of his office as president of the
railroad commission.
When Mr.. Conner was delivering his
Gaines Chapel speech, in which he made a
severe attack upon Mr.. Henderson as a
railroad candidate, the latter was deliv-
ering a federal order requiring that a 2I5
cents passenger rate be put into effect
Less than a week later, while Mr.. Conner
was in Union Springs making another at
tack upon Mr.. Henderson, he was busy
at the railroad commission office In Mont
gomery issuing an order for a lower pas
senger rate the Central of Georgia
railroad.
Next Wednesday, while Mr. Conner and
other candidates will be delivering
speeches at Brent Mr.. Henderson will be
hearing testimony in the South and North
railroad case on the question of authoriz-
ing a 21a cents passenger rate on that line.
Mr. Henderson will make the opening
speech of his campaign at Troy on Au-
gust a. Indications are that several thou
sand people from Pike and nearby coun-
ties will be in attendance. One of the fea-
lures of the day will be an immense bar
becue.
Captain Kolb will open up in Birming-
ham on September l with what he terms
a "soclS-dodger' speech. Captain Kolb
has lost none of his OPTIMISM and he
claims that he will secure the nomination
by large majority.
Mr.. Conner, Mr. Seed and Mr.. Wallace
have been busy making speeches for some
time. Mr.. Wallace will deliver one speech
a week from now until October or Novenl-
Der, when he will begin tour of the ems
tire state, speaking daily. Like the other
candidates, Mr.. Wallace is optimistic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
COUNTRY CLUB TO
SELECT LOCATION
Huntsville Promoters Have
Several Sites in View
PLAN CIVIC LEAGUE
City Beautiful Club VIII Merge Into
Civic League and Broaden Scope
of It's Worthwhile Way Be-
ing Rushed to Finish

Huntsville, August 2.-(speclal 1.-THE
Country club, which is now in process Of
organization, has offers of options on sew
eral places in addition to Byrd Spring, on
which an option was taken several weeks
ago and the charter members are unde-
cided which they will take. It is stated
that two or three very desirable places
nearer the city have been offered and the
offers are very tempting. The club VIII
complete its organization and make a ses
lection of its location next week.
The Madison County Teachers Institute
adjourned Friday evening after remainina.
in session since Monday. The last session
of the institute was held at Brahan Spring.
where a fine old fashioned barbecue din,
ner was served. What to do with the chii-
dren who have completed the common
school course and how to impress them
with desire to enter high school was dis,
cussed by both common and high school
teachers 1t was suggested that high
school teachers visit the rural schools and
assist them to get pupils into the high
schools.
The City Beautiful club, an organizaA
ton of ladies which has been very active
in the Improvement of civic conditions In
the city has decided to enlarge it's scope
and for that purpose has called a mass
meeting for August 15 when steps will be
taken for the organization of a civic
league into which the City Beautiful club
will be merged. The new organizations
will embrace all the work of the City
Beautiful club and several things In ada
dition. One of its features win be a
Houseleepers' league which will make
regular Inspections of the groceries, ba-
keries, meat shops and other places where
articles of food are sold, with view Of
compelling the observance of sanitary
precautions.
The new white way which was cons
tracted for some time ago, is being in
stalled around the square and will be in
service by the middle of this month. The
Huntsville Railway, Light and Power
company has a large force of men at worls
on the job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03

WV HEN Sam P Kennedy, cam
w paign manager for Charles
Henderson. one of the half
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
O'NEAL BELIEVES
LOCAL OPTIONISTS
SHOULD MEET AND
ADOPT PLATFORM

Continued from Page Flve)
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-03-15
A STORY BY JOHNNY

n. ", today-this storey that am
going to tell about happened down in
the bankruptcy court cuppel of
days ago
james sweeney had bankrupted,
and the lawyers for the guys that he
owed money to wanted to find out
some things about him
so they called his wife for a witniss
mrs. sweeney she set down in the
witniss chare and smiled sweetly at
the lawyer that was going to examine
her
ha, hum, says the lawyer, clearing
his throte and looking very sollum,
will you please tell us madden, where
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-03-15
(Continued.)
: SATURDAY. COOKIES

Measure three tablespoonful of
butter and put in a saucepan on the
stove to melt. Put three-quarters
of cup of granulated sugar in a
mixing bowl and add the melted but
ter, rubbing them together well with
wooden spoon. Add to this one
half teaspoonful of vanilla extract.
Break an egg into another bowl and
beat it with an egg beaten until it
is quite light Add this to the but
ter and sugar, and beat together with
a spoon. Get board and rolling pin
ready, butter baking tins and see that
oven is hot.
Dissolve one-quarter of tea
spoonful of cooking soda in table
spoonful of hot water Sift some
flour and measure one and one-half
cupfuls into a bowl. Sift second
time with a quarter of a teaspoonful
of salt added. Add six teaspoonfuls
of rich milk to the soda water and
add to the first mixture, at the same
time turning in the flour. Roll out
the dough less than half an inch
thick; cut with cooky cutter, spread
on buttered tins and bake in hot oven
Is minutes.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-03-15

your husbend is Employed and how
mulch he earns
ime sorry, but haven't the faintest
idea, says mrs. sweeney
the lawyer give her hard look,
then he asks, please tell us, at least,
what's mr.. sweeney's DISMISS or i'm
ployment
i don't know, am sure, answers
mrs. sweeney
the lawyer, praps you will kindly in
form us what time mr.. sweeney
leaves home in the morning
praps would, replys mrs. sweeney,
but RELY have no idea
you surely must know, madden,
what time he gets home at night, hol-
lers the lawyer, please tell us that
i don't know, says mrs. sweeney,
shakin her head, so can't tell you
madden, the lawyer rores at her,
do you mean to tell me and this hon.
cradle court that you don't know
what time your husbend leaves
home nor where he is all day, nor
WAdI hO uOOo, llOl WhCh hC SOIo hOl1lC
that's exackly the idea, says mrs.
sweeney
well, madden, what DO you know
about this husbend of yours asks the
lawyer very sarcastick
that's different, answers mrs.
sweeney
know he gives me enough money
to buy all the matinay tickits and
chocklit bumbums i want and he
kisses me evry morning when he
goes away and evry night when he
gets home, and loves me just as
mulch as he did when he was, mar
ried
and that's all want to know about
him
witniss excused, says the lawyer,
setting down and hopping his brow
johnny
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-03-15

"Did you hear about the deface-
ment of SINNERS tombstone?" "No.
What was it?" Someone added
the word friends to the epitaph"
What was the epitaph?" "He did
his best"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
CORN CRIB MADE RAT-PR00F
Idea illustrated Herewith Well Worth
Studying Out Where Many Hogs
Are Raised.

The combination corn crib and
feeding floor herewith illustrated is
an idea well worth studying, If the
reader raises any great number OF
hogs. The idea first was to build a
corn crib that was as near rat and
mice proof as possible, and while it is
impossible for rats or mice to enter
this crib 1t must be remembered that
one often allows them to get into a
crib through carelessness, says the
Iowa Homestead. For instance. a
board is left leaning against the crib.
the mice may be shoveled in with
the corn, ETC., but mice and rats must
have water, and the few that enter
cribs In this manner viii soon leave.
This crib is thirty-six feet wide, with
a twelve-foot driveway, and is forty
eight feet long. The walls are twenty
feet to the caves, and the crib is
filled with a corn elevator. The crib
has a cubic capacity of about thirty
thousand feet, and will easily store
seven thousand bushels Of corn. The
stills are SKIS timbers. The studs are
2xS. and the center over the drive
has 2x10 joists. The roof is covered
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21

A rope, apparently, but why should
there be ropes in that house? There
had never been any before. He
climbed over it and it was a climb
Of hundreds of feet and the height
made him giddy. That was a house,
another house, not the one he had
been living in. And there were lights
all about. Perhaps one Of them was
the light at the parsonage. And big
bell was booming. That was his
church bell and he would be late for
the meeting.
Some one was speaking to him. He
knew the voice. He had known II al.
ways and would know II forever. II
was the voice he wanted to hear,
"Grace!" he called. "Gracei / want
you. Don't go! Don't go! Grace!
oh, my dearl don't go"
Then the voice had gone. No, 1t had
not gone. It was still there and he
heard it speaking to him, begging him
to listen, pleading with him to 60
somewhere, go back, back to some
thing or other. And there was an
arm about his waist and some one
was leading him, helping him. He
broke down and cried childfshly and
some one cried with him.
CTO BE CONTINUED)
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21
By KATHERINE ATHERToN
GRIMES.)

By KATHERINE ATHERToN
GRIMES)
There is no part of farming more
fascinating to the average boy than
the care of poultry. At the same
time, there is no branch that offers
him a better chance of success. Even
a very small boy can manage a small
flock of chickens successfully.
1t does not cost much to get start
ed-another item in favor of the poul-
try business. The equipment need
not cost much. and, in fact, most of
the needed coops and fixtures can be
built by almost any ambitious boy
The most important consideration
is, of course, the breed to be kept
In an article so brief as this it is
impossible to compare the different
kinds OF fowls, more than to say that
they are divided into two principal
groups. those kept for eggs, and those
kept for broilers or other sale stock.
1t all depends upon the market which
will pay the best. The layers are sell
dom as good for raising frying and
boiling chicks as some larger breeds,
as they usually weigh less at the same
age, though maturing even more
quickly IN the matter of egg produc-
ing.
1t is safe enough, then, to keep any
breed that you like, so long as your
fowls are from good strains, and full
blooded. Nearly every one has some
preference, either of size, color, or
other qualities, and there are none
OF the standard breeds but what have
much to recommend them. So If you
wish to keep Brown Leghorns, or Bun
Orpingtons. or Black Minorcas, you
will be perfectly safe in doing so, no
matter what some one else may say
in favor of other breeds. But when
once you have adopted a particular
kind, stick to it. Do not change, at
least until you have given it sew.
eral years trial. Usually the fault,
If there is any, is in care or handling
not in the fowls themselves.
When you are selecting your fowls
insist on having nothing but good
young birds.
If you buy in the fall, try to gel
early spring-hatched pullets if you
can; but do not take anything over
is months old. at the furthest To
mate with the spring pullets you
should have yearling male. but II
your hens are over a year old, cock
erel from the spring hatch is better
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-03-21

and ordered a weekly service Of pray
er for the safe delivery of their young
leader from danger.
Keziah Coffin was, perhaps, the one
person most disturbed by her parsons
heroism. She would have gone to the
shanty Immediately had not DIR. Par
ker prevented. Even as it was, she
did go as far as the ropes, but there
she was warded on by Ebenezer until
Ellery came running out and babe her
come no nearer. Keziah, after more
expostulation, went back to the par.
sonage. She wrote to Grace and told
her the news Of the San Jose, but she
said nothing Of the minister's part in
It. Poor thing!" sighed Keziah, she's
bearin' enough already"
The sick sailor grew no better. Days
and nights passed and he raved and