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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-09-12
JEROME DISCHARGED.
Trial of Thaw'S Nemesis, Charged
With Gambling, Consumes
Less Than an Hour.

Coaticock, Quebec, September s.
William Travers Jerome was acquitted
tonight of the cnarge Of having
gambled on Thursday last on the sta
ton property Of the Grand Trunk
Railway here, while waiting for the
Enumeration authorities to pass on
the case of Harry K Thaw. In dis
charging him the court apologized
for the humiliation to which he had
been subjected.
The hearing before Magistrate Hen
ry Mulvena, Of sherbrooke, lasted less
than an hour. 1t began at 7.35 o'clock
and at $50 the court said: "Sir, you
are honorably discharged"
An attempt to hold an afternoon
session failed because the magistrate
felr he had no authority to take pre-
cedence over James Mckee, the JUS
tice of the peace who signed the war
rant for Mr.. Jerome's arrest. Tonight,
however, the magistrate said ne was
convinced of his authority to act and
the hearing moved with dispatch.
Joseph Beauline, a Coaticock law
yer, who said he variously represent
ed justice, the people and the cri-
minal code, interrupted the afternoon
session, but wnen he endeavored to
renew similar tactics this evening he
was ruled out of court.
Jerome Thanks Court
When acquitted, Mr.. Jerome thank
ed the Court, spoke flatteringly Of
his reception in Canada and added
that he did not attribute his arrest
and brief Imprisonment last week to
the thinking people of the Dominion.
He took a late train from Coaricock
tonight in order to be in New York
Tuesday and will return to Montreal
for the arguments on the latest Thaw
habeas corpus writ, to be held before
the Kings Bench at Montreal, Sep
tember Is.
ToWnspeople packed the court
room like sardines when the hearing
was opened tonight. Each bench was
taken, every inch of standing room
was occupied and the bold among the
auditors advanced in a ragged semi
circle about the counsel table and
perched at the sides of the hail, upon
which the magistrate sat. Jerome
looked straight at the Court and not
once glanced at the throng, which,
in looks, grimaces and subdued re-
marks was plainly hostile.
A. J. Hanson, joint prosecutor, op-
ened the case with the reading of the
complaint of Milford Aldricn, mill
hand who swore he had seen the de-
fendant playing cards for money at
the railway station. Statutes were
quoted to show that this was an in
dictable offence, punishable with
years Imprisonment
Contention of Defence.
Samuel Jacobs, of Montreal, who
has been retained by New York State
in it's efforts to return Thaw to Mat
teawan, contended that the statute
applied only to gambling on
public conveyance proper. The
Court took this question under ad-
visement and called for witnesses.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-09-12
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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-09-12

Samuel Jacobs, Of Montreal, who
has been retained by New York State
in it's efforts to return Thaw to Mat
teawan, contended that the statute
applied only to gambling on
a public conveyance proper. The
Court took this question under ad-
visement and called for witnesses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19
Raw Material Supply

The final cash payment made by
the Standard Steel company interests
to the Self-FluXing Ore and Iron COM
pany on the large ore tract in Shades
valley, purchased some months ago,
stresses the fact that the steel con-
cern is now we'll supplied with raw
material. And it is of general con-
cern to the Birmingham public
that all the operating companies here
reap the full benefits of the districts
natural recources.
The Tennessee company has a vast
supply of coal and iron. The Wood
ward Iron company has enough raw
material to justify large industrial
expansion and to keep operations GO
ing for probably 100 years to come.
Several other prominent industrial
concerns are we'll off in raw material
The Standard Steel has large sup
ply of high class coking coal at it's
Virginia mines in this county. It's ore
mines now being operated furnish
product of good quality, but unless
that company had acquired the big
Shannon -McDonough tract which has
just been paid for in full, it would
have been relatively weak in raw ma
terial a few years hence.
The price paid to the Self Fluxing
Ore and Iron company for the Shan
non McDonough land was cheap
enough, according to the opinion of
experienced furnace operators. In
deed, double the price paid would not
have been considered excessive, for
good red ore not owned by the large
concerns is extremely scarce. The
same may be said of good coal lands.
All Alabama minerals are enhancing
steadily in value, and the time will
come WHeH Teu ore property VIII DflnS
$1,000 an acre.
The Standard Steel company, which
will soon be known as the Gulf States
Steel company, has, a steel mill and a
large and modern wire mill at Gads-
den, and well equipped as it now is it
should be one of the most successful
industrial concerns in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19
Enthusiasm Counts

The seventeenth annual meeting of
the Alabama Good Roads association,
which will be held in Mobile, opens
tomorrow, and will be in session three
days. There is every promise of
record breaking attendance. This
part of the state will be well repre-
sented, and it is believed that dele
gates will be enrolled from every
county.
This good roads association has al
ways been full of enthusiasm During
the first years of it's existence little
in the way of practical work seemed
to have been accomplished, but as the
years went by very decided and far
reaching results were in evidence. En-
thusiasm in any good cause counts
for much, and in the case of the Ala
bama Good Roads association optim-
ism and the cooperative spirit have
born good fruit.
The slogan of all good roads asso-
Citations is to every intent and pur-
pose, THE mud road must CO." The
time was when many farmers and
taxpayers were slow to appreciate the
Importance of road bond issues. Now
the man is dull and narrow minded
indeed who questions the profitable
ness of high class road building, no
matter what the first cost may be-
All honor to the men who have been
to the front in the Alabama Good
Roads association! May their meet
ing in Mobile be as pleasant to those
attending as it will be substantial in
results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19
The Alarmist Bankers

Despite predictions by some bank
ers that disaster would follow closely
upon the passage of the Glass-Owen
bill, many good citizens of America
flatly decline to fall into a fit Of
fright The Saturday Evening Post
editorially invites little RETROSPECT
ton to the financiers who take a
gloomy view of the outlook. 1t is
pointed out that at the bankers con-
vention of 1908 it was resolved with
out dissenting vote that "the Amer
ican Bankers association condemns as
unwise and hurtful all propositions to
establish postal savings banks" and
state bank associations, almost with
out exception, iterated the condemna-
ton
Now bankers, state and national,
are practically unanimous in their
commentator of postal savings
banks. The results prophesied by the
sponsors of the scheme have been full
filled in a large measure. Deposits in
Z the postal savings bank as a rule are
such as would have never found their
way into other financial institutions.
In the first full year of the system S
operation, the amount remitted to
foreign countries by postal money or
ders-mainly representing savings of
? immigrants-fell $12,O00,O0O, while
nearly $20,00O,OO0 were deposited in
the postal banks.
The United States is too big and
erich and resourceful to go to rack and
ruin in a trice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19
THE EXPECTED ANSWER
the Tuscaloosa News.

From the Tuscaloosa News.
From the Hobson papers which have
been criticizing extra-state papers for ex-
pressing a preference for Underwood, the
discussion of the question of outside IN
terference. This paper is not exercised
over the matter one way or the other, for
it believes that the people are going to
elect the man who has the best record
of service and the one who has shown
himself most capable of accomplishing
legislation in the interest of all the people.
But it does believe that If outside inter-
ference in the expression of editorial
opinion favorable to Underwood is obJec-
tionable to the people that outside inter-
ference in favor of Hobson is likewise to
be condemned.
Not so the Hobson papers, however.
One of them, the Fort Payne Journal,
comes back with the illogical but foreseen
answer that the entrance of outside forces
in favor of Hobson is all right while the
same thing in Underwood's behalf is
wrong.
In concluding it's editorial on the sub
ject. the Journal draws this invidious
comparison:
I'm addition to all this there are differ
ent kinds of outside interference The
people of Birmingham welcomed with Ell
thusiasm the interference of Gipsy Smith,
who came 20 preach to them the gospel OF
peace and purity. If a man came to that
same. people preaching a doctrine of vice
and wickedness. what sort of welcome do
you suppose he would get? The object
of the outside interference sometimes
makes a good deal of difference In its re-
ception."
The News would do all honor to Gipsy
Smith and to some Of his kind who are
doing consecrated work, but 1t falls to see
where the comparison drawn Is In any
sense apt. The only deduction that can
be drawn from the comparison Is that
those on the outside who favor Under
wood are the vicious and the wicked.
From such self-righteousness, may we be
delivered.
With this discussion the News hopes -
let the matter drop. 1t has never taken
much stock in this talk of outside inter-
ference, and what interest 1t has shown
was primarily for the purpose of showing
the utter inconsistency of Captain Hob
sons supporters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19
APTITUDE TOWARDS MEXICO

From "The Progress of the World, In
the American Review of Reviews for
November. j.
The United States occupied Cuba be-
cause we had a duty to perform in the
interest of the suffering and the weak.
A war that was devastating the island
had been going on for three years, with
increasing atrocities. We relieved a
deadlocked situation in very few
days, established peace in Cuba, al
lowed 5000 young Spanish soldiers to
go back to their homes, and conferred
a blessing upon the people of Spain as
well as upon those of Cuba. President
Wilson has tried to confer a blessing
upon the people of Mexico by offering
neighborly and disinterested counsel.
He has tried to induce the opposing
factions to accept our government as
their friend and unite upon some hon
orable way to restore order and peace.
But the factional leaders are selfish and
headstrong, and those who overthrow
and assassinated Madero have gone too
far to talk in unselfish terms about
the welfare of their country. What will
happen, therefore, nobody knows; and
vet the patient. restrained, moderate
course and tone OF President Wilson
and his agents have strengthened rath-
er than weakened the ultimate power
of the United States to be of practical
service to the people of Mexico The
opportunity will present itself In some
form, but what that form may be does
not as yet appear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19

From the New York Telegram.
Every one is familiar with the term Ca
nard," used to describe an improbable
story. The origin of the word is older
than that of newspapers.
In the sixteenth century some Dutch
fishermen brought news of a marvellous
''canard " or duck, which was born at the
bottom of the sea, apparently out of
nothingness.
Another version had it that a special
kind of tree produced a capsule, which
opened and had a duck inside.
The naturalists of the period believed in
these stories, but not SO the public, hence
duck" became the equivalent for tail
story.
Going the whole hog" which is al
most universally regarded as a character
istc American phrase, is said to be of Hi
bernian coinage. Before the year 1925
the silver shilling in Ireland was equiva-
lent to 13 pence, or l penny more than
the English one. The former coin was
sometimes called "a 49," and sometimes "a
hog" When an Irishman, not cbary of
expense, spent an entire shilling in en-
tertaining a friend. he was said ito go
the whole hog"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19

thority to remove a female principal
or teacher because of her marriage.
This being SO, it seems to me self
evident that the board cannot dismiss
a married female principal or teacher
because of the fact that she has given
birth to a child. If she cannot be re-
moved because of her marriage, she
cannot be removed because of an act
which is a natural incident of her
marriage"
An eminent New York physician
says: at is a decision which is in
accord with every fundamentl princi-
pie of purity, morality and educa-
ton But the fact that the school
board has been compelled by law to
reverse itself has not caused it to
change its view in the premises. The
discussion of the Peixotto case may
be expected to go on for long while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19

sippi and wealth corralling in the east
is a coldly analytical game of cost sys-
TENS. efficiency experts advertising cam
paigns and the charts of business fore
casts.
But the search for romance in busi-
ness has developed the typical American
"a rowing entrepreneur Time was when
a 100-mile trip meant county gossip; but
now a coast-to-coast Jaunt occasions a
mere elevating of the brows and a request
for picture postals.
THE oil country was the last to lose
its fairyland enchantment. The oil man
is the most picturesque and discontented
of all the sorrowful procession of ro-
nance seekers-his home is on wheels and
in a suit case, and he jumps 1000 miles
at time. Occasionally one meets an
old time oil producer who suggests days
of plank roads and border rushings but
he will shake his head and claim that oil
country romance died when anticlinal
maps and 20 Broadway came into exis-
tence.
Pit Hole, the worlds first oil town,
where 10000 boomers built a mushroom
''' VI "iiiSh hotiiihs lelldiis touoy pue
tradition and one house; Coal Oil Johnny,
the first great get-rich7spick, plunger and
spendthrift and Pipe Line Dan O'Day
who ran the first pipe lines through the
country; all these have been taken from
him. The individual producer has been
nearly blotted out by Standard Oil. Oil
Is corporation proposition; and the only
person who sees romance around a COR
poration is the stenographer'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19
PICTURESQUE SEAPORT

Hector Fuller in the Indianapolis Star.
Across the Gulf of Alden from Somalf-
land, on the southern coast of Arabia. lies
Aaen, one of the most picturesque sea-
ports in the world. The British who have
had possession of it ever since the. East
India company took possession of it as a
trading outpost in 1899. have fortified the
place so extravagantly that it is known
as the Gibraltar of the east an applica-
tion which II shares with Hongkong.
l never felt so strongly the force of
true poetry until saw Alden and recalled
Kipling's verse:
And Jumped above the sea appears
Old Alden, like barrack stove,
AS amt been lit for years and years
That is exactly what Alden looks like.
Its scarpy sides and towering peaks are
red rusty without single trace of YER
dure OF all places inhabited by white
men | guess Alden has the least rainfall
| forget just the exact figures on precipi-
tation at Alden but l know they are
frightfully small, and 1 remember best
what a British soldier said over~a bottle
of uniced beer | bought him: I'm 40 years
inch O. rain, and That's Gawds trewthr'
He was quite thirsty enough to make me
believe it.
There is a garrison of a few white
British troops, some British Indian SOL
diers. a few Arab traders, some Hindu
merchants, Malay and Chinese fishermen.
Just outside of Alden are the huge
tanks, dug out of the solid rocks that
used to be the water reservoirs for the
place. The natives attribute the building
of these to King Solomon. The Garden of
Eden is said by the Mohammedans to be
somewhere in the vicinity. They think
that King Solomon's famous mines are
hidden among the mountains and on one
of Aden's peaks they will tell you, the
ark rested after the flood
l rode through Alden, out past forts
and clear to Solomon's tanks on the back
of a camel, one of those beasts whose
hide looks like much overused door
mat, the fur all worn off in places and
every tuft of camel hair that was not
worn off the home of innumerable fieas
When the feas weren't biting the camel
was breaking its neck trying to take
piece out of my leg. 1t might not have
been so bad only along the sandy and lone
road we met a fine specimen of an Arab,
swarthy black, his perspring face shin
ing in the sun. He was riding superb
| camel with long fur, almost white, and
with broad padded hoofs that sent it
along almost silently, but at great speed.
! The Arab was perched high on its back,
his legs crossed and resting on his lap
! one of those inlaid, long barreled rifles,
with peculiarly shaped stock, that most
! of us only see In curio shops or In the
| impossible modern cosy corners
| And hot. There can be only one place
hotter than Alden in June, and that place
| is not usually mentioned in polite society.
No wonder the officers of the Garrison
| kick when they are ordered to Alden. But
| the climate is so bad that a regiment il
| kept there only six months at a time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19
Lawmakers and Pay

The national unionist conference,
in session at Norwich, England, has
placed itself on record as opposed to
the payment of members of the House
of Commons, and the unionist party
pledges itself to pass laws to carry
out this policy when it next comes
into power. At the present time, MEM
bers of the commons are paid $4,000
a year.
In America, senators and represen-
tatives get $500 year, and in ad-
dition receive mileage from their
homes to the capital and certain al
lowances for clerk hire and station
cry. In the last few years the salary
of a congressman was increased from
$4,000 to $500, but already complaint
is heard that the present remunera-
ton is insufficient.
Politics, rather than economy, is
probably behind the position of the
unionists. That party comprises a
large per cent of the wealth of Great
Britain, and it's members could bet
ter afford to serve in Parliament
without pay than could the average
liberal, laborite or nationalist. The
unionist pledge may not be as patri-
otic and self sacrificing as it sounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19

Hunter rides buck nine miles-he jumps
an angry deer's back after missing his
shot" SO read headlines In the New York
Sun. The story goes on to relate that
Vernon Rider of Kingston had a thrilling
adventure while hunting deer the other
day. To keep from being gored Mr..
Rider seized the enraged animal by the
antlers, and the deers head in rising
threw the hunter astride the back Lock-
ing his feet under the stomach of the
buck, Mr.. Rider held on to the antlers
The buck plunged into the forest, and as
Rider could not let go his hold he was
carried, as near as he could estimate,
between nine and 10 miles. The infuriated
animal tried to throw the unwelcome gem
tleman by brushing against trees and
rocks. Mr.. Riders clothes were torn to
shreds, but he held fast. Peter b. Mark
ell, an old hunter, saw the deer coming
with Rider and he fired a heavy ball
through the animals fore shoulder. The
buck fell, and Rider landed in the
branches of spruce tree. This Mr..
Rider from his experience with the buck
should be able to ride any circus trick
mule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Prominent visitors

W. II. Goadby of New York, a large
pany, and a member of the executive
committee, is in Birmingham. He will
remain here several days and will accom-
pany President J. c. Maben on tour
of inspection of the company's proper
ties. Jonathan Bryan, Thomas B. Scott
and George Cole Scott of Richmond came
to birmingham on the same train with
Mr.. Goadby The members of the Rich
mond party have various interests in this
district, and they represent large Rioh-
mond capital, invested in the Bryan Coal
corporation. of which Frank Nelson, Jr..
is president.
Il come to Birmingham about every
six months, and am always looking for
ward with pleasure to my visit here"
said Tom Scott. My old town of Rich
mond is one of the most beautiful and
one of the most prosperous in this eoun-
try. 1t is very wealthy city, too and
like most wealthy cities, it is conserva-
tive. l am devoted to Richmond and
would not live anywhere else, but for real
exhiliration Birmingham is the place.
AiiiS toWh 10 uldhlnS SlupenuOuS SlIiutS
and the very minute I step off the train
| feel as il l had taken a good strong
tonic. Birmingham is great, big city
now compared with what it was when
first saw 1t, but it will increase in popu-
lation so rapidly that one would have to
be an enthusiastic prophet indeed to ap-
proximately guess what it's population will
be in the next census,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
Don't pass your worries on, chloroform
them.
Moreover, the freckled criminal is bound
to be spotted.
The suspicious man always finds what
he is looking for.
Success seldom comes to man who is
too lazy to go after it.
The more a mans thirst is irrigated, the
faster it grows.
The easiest thing for a man to acquire
is old age-if he lives long enough.
When watch is run down it stops
working, but it's different with some men
1t is we'll enough to be a thinker but too
often the man who thinks does nothing
else
It's rather difficult for an easy going
man to keep people from using him for a
door mat.
No, Cordelia, practice doesn't always
make perfect, Even good physicians oc.
ca asionally lose a patient.
Paying premiums on a fire insurance
policy is like throwing money in the fire.
until one has a fire.
Months before a young man makes W
his mind to propose the girl in the case
has decided upon the fiat and it's fur
nishings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19
Married School Teachers

A justice of the New York supreme
court has issued peremptory writ
of mandamus instructing the board of
education to reinstate Mrs. Bright C.
Peixotto as a teacher. The order gives
a legal settlement to a question that
has caused much discussion in New
York and over the country, but the
social and ethical points involved are
still left in dispute.
Mrs. Peixotto was dismissed by the
board of education October 8, last
after she had returned from a wears
leave of absence, during the course of
which she had borne a child. February
3, last, Mrs. Peixotto absented her.
self from school and gave proper no.
tice to the authorities that she was
i'll. April she gave birth to a child.
April % she received notice from
the district superintendent that she
was suspended from duty, the notice
bearing the specification: "The rea-
son for this action is the continued
absence of Mrs. Peixotto for the pur-
pose of bearing a child" October s
she was formally dismissed and then
she began court proceedings seeking
reinstatement.
In his decision in her favor, the
Justice said: "Thus it is settled that
the board of education is without au-