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assume for arugments sake that Hen
derson in the light of "Dr. Eaves dis
closures" was an imposter. Did the AS
socated Charities know it when they
had their dealings with him? Such was
not the reason given for the failure to
send the negro to Jacksonville; the only
reason given was that his people could
not be found by telegraph, and they lived
II miles in the country and got to town
once every three or four months. So If
the negro was an imposter, the action
of the Associated Charities Is not Justified
However. the negro is gone, although
Mr.. McGrath, like a drowning man and
a straw, attempts to get excited over
the fact that he left at midnight instead
of in the afternoon, as he had first in
tended to do.
To return TO DR.. Eaves. he states that
he mentioned the alleged fact that the
negro's father operated hotel and sa-
loon merely as information. What bear.
ing had this information on the merits
of the negros case? Perhaps man who
has had the misfortune to have saloon-
keeper for father is not as worthy of
| charity as some others? DR.. Eaves says
we must dispense charity with our intel
lects alone and not with our sentiments
and emotions. But Brutus Is an honor
| able man.
In his answer to Question Z DIR. Eaves
states he based his assertion that Hem
derson had sold the ticket his father sent
| him. on the facts" These must be the
| facts the doctor mentions In Answers
| 3, and G. Poor lodging doctor1 AS a
matter of fact, the information In the
case is that the father did not send the
negro "a, ticket at ALL this information
! is that the father sent the boy s., the
boy thought this was enough to buy
| ticket, therefore he told the doctor that
| he had a ticket which was a very
pardonable mistake for an ignorant me-
gro who was Ill. Or. the negro with this
| 50. says he bought the return stub OF
| an excursion ticket which lie found was
no good when he went to use ito and
therefore he had been swindled. so it
might be he even had this ticket when
| he told the doctor he had one.
| In answer to Question 8 the doctor in
wolves a lady - word in the controversy,
and therefore retire without comment,
except to say that l disagree, and that
! went to see Miss Payne twice about
the case and talked to her twice over
| the telephone.
Ticket From MIR. Clark
| The doctor states he knows the Rev.
Willis Clark gave the negro transporter
| tion to Jacksonville and enough money
| to buy such transportation Anyone read
ling the Rev. Clark's statement sees that
he had" the ticket for Henderson but
the negro did not. taxa" ~ The nsarn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
Controversy in Atlanta

Atlanta, September 27-(Special }
While James g. Woodward was mayor of
Atlanta in 1906 he had frequent newspaper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
Time It! In Five Minutes
Your Sick, Upset Stomach
Feels Fine

Sour, sick. upset stomach. indigestion.
dyspepsia; when the food you
eat ferments into gases and stubborn
Jumps; your head aches and you feel
sick and miserable, that's when you re-
alize the magic in Pape's Diapepsin. 1t
makes stomach distress go in five
minutes. IL your stomach is in re-
voit-if YOU can't get It regulated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28

not give enough immediate relief Too
often people, who go to them suffer while
waiting on the investigation of their
cases. Many, many times 1 have people
come to me whom | find worthy and to
whom l give help, but who have ! 81
unable to get it at the Associated O.. r.
tiles. This is no secret with me. for |
have often mentioned it to Mr.. McGrath
and to others.
This may be from lack OF funds
for this immediate relief work. but l
have suggested to them that they set
aside special fund for this purpose
There remain now but few words in
answer to the statements of DIR. Eaves
and Secretary McGrath in regard to the
Henderson case, and in doing this there
seems no satisfactory method except by
using the personal pronoun. No doubt
all this auibbling over little details of
this negros case has become odious to
the public. and it is promised this is
the last of the matter from this source
DIR. Eaves and MIR. McGrath have so
cleverly defended themselves, however,
that this last statement seems neces-
sary.
Negro's Statement
AS concerns Mr.. McGrath's letter, It
is easily disposed of, for it is in sub
stance almost repetition of Dr. Eaves'
arguments. Mr. McGrath intimates that
"envy, hatred and malice, and L am
sorry, If he or anyone else believes such,
for it is far from the truth. His state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28

differ in their opinions is no reason tha
they shall not be friends. DR.. Eayes anss
Mr. McGrath's efforts towards scientific
and organized charity are believed to be
honest and conscientious. The character
of either man is in no way held up to
ridicule or criticism. It Is their beliefs
and Secretary McGraths 5 personality that
has made more enemies for the Associat-
ed Charities than has probably any other
two institutions of any kind in the entire
city. That very fact alone makes the
work of the Associated Charities ineffeet-
ual. For the sake of argument, however,
let it be assumed that the sociological
and scientific ideas and methods of char
ity fostered by DR.. Eaves and Secre-
tary McGrath are sound and practical;
then would not the remaining fact that
so many people are privately criticising
the institution and are hostile to it, de-
feat the very purpose for which it ex-
lists? So drop the contention as to the
fitness or untitness of Mr.. MeGrath for
the position which he holds, and the
fact still remains that something must
be dcne to improve conditions.
But it is not for the writer to judge
Mr.. McGrath; it is the opinion Of the
people of the city which is against him
ana which demands that a different man
be placed in charge of the Associated
Cha rifles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
Chief Bodeker's Views


The Associated Charities certainly is
of little benefit to the poor, the hungry
and the homeless says Chief of Police
George Bodeker. There is never day
passed at this office but what / and my
men go down into our pockets and raise
enough money to get some poor man
or woman place to sleep or something
to eat or railroad fare to friends in an
other town, men and women who have
been unable to secure relief from the
Associated Charities.
II believe with the majority of other
people that there is too much investi-
eating and red tape at the Associated
Charities office. They are not human
enough and they try to apply the same
rules to all cases. when practically no
two cases are ever alike. When a man
goes there hungry or i'll he should be
given relief whether he's drunk or sober
or in any 0ther condition. Because a
man has sinned or made mistake is
no reason he should be reformed before
he can have food and shelter and any
othev aid he asks for. Their efforts to
guard against imposition are very good
but they are carried to extremes. I'd
rather by mistake give meal to man
who didn't deserve 1t than refuse one
TO a man who did deserve It. Secretary
McGrath apparently thinks the opposite. Z
Mrs. Seawright's Ideas
my criticism OF the Associated Chari-
ties" states Mrs. Wilsc- Sc r syh- os.4's',
city welfare bureau. Is that they do
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
MIR. McGrath's Figures

In Mr.. McGrath's letter In answer to
the criticism made against him he en-
deavors to show how 4nuch good he is
doing to the poor by citing his own fig
ures made from his own report. The We
racity of these figures is not questioned,
but his defense would certainly have
more weight with the public had he Of
fered some other proofs. Incidentally, no.
tice some of the statistics Mr.. McGrath
cited: "Our homeless man department
shows that 1540 nonresident men and
women passed through the hands of the
society in three years" Did they pass
through the hands of the society," Mr..
McGrath. like Henderson did?S
DR.. Eaves and Mr.. McGrath's attention
Is called to the following statements from
a man who probably sees more poor and
unfortunate people In week than the
doetor or the secretary in two months:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
Missouri plans Big Exhibit.

Jefferson City.-Chairman McNatt
Of the Panama-Paciic exposition hat
called a meeting Of the Missouri COM
missioners at Jefferson City for Jan.
s. It is expected plans will be formu-
lated for erecting the state building
at San Francisco early next year.
Plans also will be perfected as to
the scope of the Missouri exhibit, and
several places may be filed,
A hostess is to be appointed for the
state baiiding and other appointments
viii be sought eagerly. Mrs. James
B. CAN'T of jefferson City, widow of
the late Judge CAN'T, would accept the
appointment, it is understood, to rep
resent Missouri as hostess.
]. 3. Crumbaugh of Columbia, who
has supervised Missouri exhibits in
nearly all the expositions in the last
20 years, is an applicant for a similar
position at San Francisco. He had
charge Of gathering the agricultural
specimens this year which will be pre-
served for the exposition.
There will be no scarcity of appli-
cants for every place. Members of
the commission do not know yet what
help will be needed.
A petition asking the appointment
OF Mrs. Can't as hostess will be pre-
sented at the meeting. This petition
is signed by Speaker Champ Clark, the
Missouri congressional delegation, the
judges Of the state supreme court and
nearly all the state officials.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
TYP|ST KILLED BY A BOMB
PACKAGE SENT TO HER EMPLOY.
ERs ExPLoDEs.
W Others Hurt When Stenographer
Is Slain-office Windows Shatter.
ed and Furniture Wrecked.

New York.-A bomb delivered
to the o. X. Bottling company
52s West Thirty-eighth street, explod,
ed and killed Miss Ida Anusowitz. %
years old, hare. Miss Anusowitz was
a s~tenographer in the employ of the
firm. She was terribly mangled by
the bomb.
The package containing the borb
Is supposed to have come to the of
fice by express, Thomas McCabe,
sales manager of the firm, was near
Miss ,Anusowitz, and his left ear was
nearly torn off. Thomas Ryan, a sta
bic man. received a cut extending
from his a 10 his chin. The win
doWs of the office were blown out and
the furniture wrecked.
Following the explosion, McCabe
said he believed the package was de-
llvered by d man he took to be an
expressman. He did not remember
whether the man was in uniform. He
said it was a package about 10 inches
long and wrapped in brown paper. lii
one corner of the package was written
"z3 State ST., New York"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
GRANGER CENSUREs HOUSTON
Miffed Because Secretary Stunned
Corn Boys"-Bryan is Wanted
for Next President,

Lima, GA boom for William
Jennings Bryan as presidential
candidate in 1916, was started at the
meeting of the Ohio State Grange
here, when Secretary Freeman a.
Tippecanoe City, o., in an address
lauded Bryan as his favorite candi.
date At Freenian's eulogy of Bryan.
too delegates stood and cheered.
Freeman caused further excitement
when he offered a resolution con.
demning Secretary of Agriculture
Houston for his recent failure to re-
celve and address the Ohio Corn
Boys" on their visit to Washington
The resolution concluded:
The Ohio State Grange feels It was
q shock to the National Grange when
PRESIDENT Wilson appointed Houston
to his present position"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
H0UsTON'S SCALP SOUGHT
CONCERTED ATTACK ON sEcRE
TARY is PLANNED.
Alleged Stumbling Of Ohio Boy Corn
Growers by Department Head to
Be Ground Of Charges.

Washington, d. Chat a con
certed attack is to be made on the
department of agriculture by certain
members OF congress became known
today. 1t will be led by Representa-.
tive Frank P. Willis and other Ohio
members and assisted by every mem
Der OF the house affiliated with the
National Grange.
The recent alleged snubbing of the
OHIO Boy Corn Growers by Secretary
Houston is to be the nominal excuse.
u the officials of the National
Grange assert that the secretary has
failed to bring his department close
to the men for whom it was created
the farmers.
humors that Houston, Labor Secre-
tary Wilson and Attorney General
McReynolds would not complete their
terms have been circulated freely for
the last week. Denials have been
prompt, but their opponents insist
Houston and Wilson are sure to go
before the end of the present session
OF congress, next spring being the ia
vorite time fixed. No open attacks
have been made on Wilson or Nc.
Reynolds. 7
In the attack on Houston the Ohio
representatives will utilize resolu-
ons adopted by the Ohio State
Grange, specifically criticising the sec
Rotary.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
ROOT GETS 1912 NOBEL PRIZE
Former Secretary of State Is Second
American to Have Honor Be-
slowed for Peace Acts.

C~hristiania, Norway.-united States
Senator Elihu Root of New York wal
designated for the Nobel peace prize
.or 1912.
The prize for 1913 was awarded to
Senator Henri La Fontaine of Brus.
sells, former president of the perma.
nent peace bureau of Berne, Switz-
erland.
The award to Senator Root wat,
made because of his work in the paci-
hcation of Cuba and the Philippines,
and for his connection with the set.
tlement of the dispute between the
United States and Japan.
The Nobel prize is worth about
100000. The award was held up last
year, which accounts for the award
for the two years being made at this
tine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
Health Boards Hit BY Court.

Jefferson City.-That the state
board Of health is without authority to
revoke the license of physicians who
agree to perform an operation forbid
den by statute, was the decision in di-
vision No. 2 of the supreme court. The
decision was given by Judge John G..
Brown. The opinion was ~concurred
in by Judges Farris and Walker. The
Judge declared the state Furnishes for
crimes, not evil thoughts.
The court made the ruling in the
case of DR.. M. Luther Spriggs Of Jop-
lin. The physicians license was sus-
pended one year by the state board
OF health, after he had been trapped
in an agreement of this nature by a
p%ostofice inspector, who wrote let
tiers signing himself Miss Susie Da.
WIS.," The court quashed the records
of the board Of health, which restores
Spriggs' license.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
FLl5G YOUNG QUITS.
RETIREs WHEN BALLOT SHOWS
OPPOSITION.
]. D. shonp Succeeds Her as Super.
intendenr of Chicago School,
Precedent Of 1osrd Resigns.

Chicago, m.-Mrs. Ella Flags
ioung. for the last four years
superintendent of the Chicago schools,
rallied to be reelected by the board OF
education. John d. Shoop, who has
1een assistant superintendent, was
chosen in her place.
When the first ballot showed MEM
hers of the board were not unanimous
in her favor. Mrs. Young withdrew
and announced she was not a candi-
late.
The attitude of the opposing board
members also forced the resignation
of Peter Reinberg as president Of the
board, and of Dean Walter V. Sum-
mel as chairman of the committee of
school management.
The reason for the superintendent
action was found in the first ballot,
when she received but 10 of the 20
votes cast to 4 for Mr.. Shoop and 4
blank ballots. This, Mrs. Young in
terpreted to show a lack of confidence
in her and her policies, and she at
once announced that under no cir.
substances would she further serve
as superintendent. In the face Of this
statement, seven members of the board
voted for her on the second ballot. and
TWO passed, Mr.. Shoop receiving II,
which constituted a majority.
Mrs. Young's defeat came az a shock
10 the city at large, Her enemies were
conducting a secret campaign, and as
Early as Tuesday noon felt certain that
they had secured a vote that would
force Mrs. Young to resign.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
Pensions to Be Shv.

Jefferson City..State Auditor Cor
don has sent q letter to all ex-Confed-
crates on the state pension roll, ad-
vising that all those on the books Oct.
l, 1913, will receive $18.S3 each for
the quarter ending Dec. 81, instead of
$50, the amount to which they are en-
titled, but which cannot be paid be-
cause the 100000 appropriated by the
last legislature is exhausted.
This will be the last payment until
the next general assembly makes an
appropriation. The amount due the
pensioners on Jan. /, 1914, will be $12,-
374.40, which will have to be carried
over until another appropriation is
made.
Auditor Gordon was advised by At
torney General Barker to pro rate the
money that was left for the last quar-
ter. Under this apportionment each
pensioner will receive 62 per cent of
the amount due him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
TO EXECUTE FOES
SON If ATTACKED
VILLA DEMANDS IMMUNITY FROM
FEoERALs AT ToRREoN AS
PRICE OF YOUTHS LIFE.
WOMEN HELD AS HOSTAGE
insurgents Head, Dictator Of City, In
suits consuIs, Refugees Reaching
Texas Say-RepuIse of Rebels
at Tampico Confirmed.

Ell Paso, Tex.-If the federaIs, who
have taken Torreon, attempt to re.
take chihuahua city, Gen. Rancho
villa will execute Don Luis Terrazas,
Jr., son of Gen. Luis Terrazas, and
heir to the largest estate in Mexico.
This ultimatum was SEN to Gen.
Terrazas from Chuahua. He is
making frantic efforts to ave his son
from being shot like a bandit. Young
Terrazas is a prisoner in the palace
at chihuahua and Villa has altered
his demand for 3,000,0 900 pesos ransom
to immunity from attack from Tor
reon.
Believing his son is in danger of
execution by the rebels, Louis Terra
zas, Sr., appealed to business men of
FL Paso to ask the American govern.
ment to intercede on behalf of the
prisoner. The business men sent tele-
grams to Secretary of State BRYAN
n to Texas members of congress.
and to Consul Letcher at chihuahua.
Women Held as Hostage.
Gen. Terrazas and his companions
arrived from Ojinaga. He learned the
women of the Terrazas family also
were being held as hostages and the
rebels were stabling their horses in
his $4,000, 600 home in Chihuahua CITY.
Americans, Germans and Spaniards
who arrived from Chihuahua. report
Villa virtually has constituted himself
dictator there and refused to heed re.
quests of representatives of foreign
governments.
They asserted the rebel leader had
seized $5,00O,00O worth Of property
belonging to foreigners. had put to
death about 20 Mexican civilians, in.
Guiding Sergeic Sanchez, lawyer and
former state official, and had com,
manded the American, German and
British consuls to obey rebel orders.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
PENMAN DRUGGED, HE SAYS
women Almost Fight for Standing
Space in Court Room--Alienists
Give Testimony.

Champaign, Ill.-Gus Penman,
charged with the murder of Har.
old Shaw at Urbana, took the witness
stand and declared he had no recol-
lection of the killing.
Women almost coag-:: ;or standing
room in the crowded court.
Penman testified that from the tima
a stranger gave him some tablets pre-
sumed to be breath perfumery, in a
dtsorderly house in Danville, he was
dazed. He said he had had a revolver
all day. The state held he had OBJ
tanned the weapon just before going to
the Penman pasture with Shaw.
The defense today offered it's first
expert testimony.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
END OF CONTRACT
SYSTEM IN SIGHT
SULLIVAN SADDLE COMPANY TO
TAKE ITS PLANT FROM MIS-
souRPs STATE PRISON.
THE BEGINNING Of THE END
Indicates That the Exploitation Of
Criminals for Private Benefit viii
Soon Be a Thing of the Past
TO Move to St. Louis.

Jefferson City,. M. Hays of st.
Louis, manager and chief owner of
the Sullivan Saddle Tree company,
n of the Oldest and largest contrac-
tors in the Missouri state prison, has
announced that the company will
erect factories at st. Louis and Pueb-
10, Colo. Sites have been bought in
both cities and buildings will be erect
ed at once and machinery installed.
This move indicates the beginning
of the end of the contract system in
the penitentiary, it is believed. The
Sullivan company will renew it's con-
tract for convicts for two years from
July l, 1914, but the uncertainty assto
whether the system will be continued
beyond that time made it necessary
to provide against the time when it
would cease to exist,
Mr.. Hays said installation of facto.
ries by his company in st. Louis and
Pueblo meant that they would leave
the prison at the termination of two
years and a half.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
FIELDS GUILTY OF MURDER
Cairo Man Gets 20 Year Sentence -,
Murder of Doctor-Jurors De
nounced in Court. 4

Cairo, IH.-After three hours de.
liberation, a jury found Harvey
X. Fields guilty of the murder 81
DR.. q. E. Gordon and fixed his pun.
lshment at 20 years in the peniten.
tiary' Fields shot DR.. Gordon as The
latter was leaving a hospital on Sept.
!, 1913. The plea of the defense was
that Fields mind had become de-
ranged by stories Of the alleged abuse
OF his wife by DR.. Gordon.
Fields was calm throughout the
reading of the verdict and the penalty
assessed by the jury. His wife and
sister, Mrs. Pheny Schmidt of Chi.
cage, became ~hysterical. AS the ex-
cused jurors began to file cut of The
room Mrs. Schmidt denounced them
IN such terms she finally was dragged
from the by court officials.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
INSANITY THEORYSUPPORTED
Girl Victim Believed Hans Schmidt
WHOLLY crazy"-Physician Tells
of Eccentricities.

New York.-"Father Schmidt is
wholly crazy" was the statement
OF Anna Aumueller to DR.. Arnold
Leo, according to the testimony
OF the physician, given in the trial
OF Hans Schmidt, confessed slayer of
the girl.
DR., Leo was the principal witpess
and his evidence vas grasped by the
defense lawyers to aid their insanity
theory. On one occasion, when he
called at the rectory to treat Schmidt,
DR.. Leo said, the priest suddenly
jumped from a chair and, taking up
a either, began to sing and play a
wild song. Medically, DR.. Leo said.
he considered Schmidt eccentric and
irrational.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
Capitol Job to Be sublet.

~ 50 E4NE.E EH.#ae .|.f TtTA. ~
Jefferson City.-An important SEES
sion OF the capitol building commits
sion will be held this week. A major
1ty OF the subcontracts will be sub
mltted' by Contractor K. f. Gill for
the approval of the commission. Mr..
Gill may also announce his selection
OF the stone to be used in the con-
struction of the building.
Mr.. Gill has visited all the lime
stone quarries in south Missouri. He
was at Carthage, Phoenix, Ste. Gene
We've, Cassville and in Jefferson u
ty. He not only sized up the char.
acter OF stone produced at these
points, but the facilities for produc-
ton in the quantities that will be
needed for the s%tatehouse.
1t is practically certain that, all
things being equal, Missouri material
and Missouri contractors. will be
given the preference by Contractor
Gill. It seems reasonably certain
that a st. Louis firm will secure the
contract for all Of the structural steel
that goes into the building. This firm
Will not only make the steel, but will
erect it. This will be the first sub
contract awarded and will be the first
presented for the approval of the com
mission when it meets.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-12-18
CALF DEALER GETS 2 YEARS
Was Charged With Getting Corner on
Animals in Kansas City by
Tricky Methods.

Kansas City, Mo.-John Aikens,
president of the Missouri and
Kansas Calf and Cattle company,
charged with obtaining money by
trick IN connection with an alleged
corner of the local calf market, was
found guilty and sentenced to two
years in the ~penitentiary.
The state alleged that by paying
buyers for three large packing com
panies the men managed practically
to corner the calf market and to OBJ
tain more than the market price for
their calves.
1t was alleged the three packing
companies lost more than 5000, 900
through the transactions of the calf
company.