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The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
THE MOOSE OPINION.

When Attorney General Moose hand ed down an opinion in effect that pe- titioners on the liquor issue could sign the petition previous to Janu- ary l. and the signatures would be legal he merely applied reasoning to the sitaution.
 Whatever teehnicality there might exist in connection with the situation here is also some common sense. If the Legislature intended, as seems the situation, that the liquor privi. lege should only be given after 51 per cent of the white adults of com munity had petitioned for 1t, there can be no questioning of the fact that the Legislature proposed to give the their wants known in time to meet the demand.
 Attorney General Moose merely ap- piled common sense, and thus clari- lied what an effort had been made to bemuddle.
 The petitions in Pine Bluff, Little Rock, Argenta, Fort Smith and some few other cities, where they have beer sufficiently signed, will be presented on Thursday morning, January l 1914, and will most likely be acted on in keeping with lse conditions i1 dicated
 The prohibitionists have not mad any favor tby attempting to take a5 vantage of technicaliies. This is a age when technicalities are not take seriously by the public. Certain har conditions were put up to the nbers element, who favor license, and they meet these conditions, honestl and sincerity, certainly no technica ity should be used by the minority.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
SEVEN SHOPPING DAYS.

The day of the holiday shopper is drawing to it's close. There are but seven days now for shopping and they dwindle almost like the hours If there is to be saving from the holiday rush of the lats hours, the remainder of this week must be spent by the shoppers in the stores. It IS merely the hint that makes for the advantage of the shopper and tor the benefit of the shop keepers and the shop workers.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
TEMPERANCE BOOZE PEDDLERs.

Washington, Dec 16-Geo. W. Rose of Merriam, Neb., a temperance man, who unwittingly delivered pack ages containing liquor to persons in Pine Ridge Indian reservation, South Dakoto, was today relieved by Presi- dent Wilson from the sixty-day jail sentence imposed upon him, although he will have to pay $100 fine and costs, totaling about $500. While Q fair was in progress on the reserva- tion Rose was asked to bring some packages in his delivery automobile from Merriam He said he had no idea of their contents.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
HOTEL WATERS STRIKE.
Cleveland Managers Refuse Demand
 For More Wages.

r or MoFe wages.
 Cleveland, Ohio, Dec lG.-Managers of the three Cleveland hotels affected by the strike of walters said tonight that under no consideration will they yield to he demands of the 150 strlk- CTS. The latter ask s5 per month more than they now are getting and better working conditions.
 The Hollonden management said iy had been little inconyenienced by the walkout and had continued 70 serve it's patrons as usual. The Stitler and Colonial arrangements. while admitt- ing that their dining room service tenn porarily had been curtailed, declared that tomorrow they will have filled he strikers places.
 Thomas Farrell, business agent of the walters. says unless the Union Club agrees to the strikers demands by 10:3O a. m. tomorrow a walkout will be called there. Non-union wal CTS arrived today.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
TO AID MINE STRIKERS,

Denver, Col, Dec. 16.-.Fve hun dred delegates of state allied trades unions met here today to decide on the proper method to be used by the unions in furthering the strike Of coal miners in the southern Colorado fields. A resolution directing the cir. culation of recall petitions against Gov. E. NJ. Ammons, because of his alleged repeated refusal to withdraw the state troops from the strike dis trict, was referred to a committee which will make a report tomorrow.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
BAILEY SELLS STOCK FARM.

Lexington, Ky, Dec. 16.-Former United States Senator Joseph Bailey of Gainesville, Texas, today sold the Fairland stock farm near here. For mer Senator Bailey for years has been breeding harness horses at the Fair land farm. The price is said to been $90.000, and Mir Bailey, it is be- lieved, will retire from he horse breeding business.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
TINKER STILL HOPES

Chicago, Dec. 16.-Both Joe Tinker, deposed manager of the Cincinnati National League Baseball Club and Charles w Murphy, president of the Chicago club expressed the belief to- night the outcome of the failure of the directors of the Cincinnati club to ratify Tinker's sale to Brooklyn would be to send Tinker to Chicago next year.
 Murphy tonight mailed August Her mann, president of the Cincinnati club list of reserve Chicago players be is willing to offer in trade for Tinker
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
sHoEMAKERs GET RAISE.

Boston. Dec. 16.-lncreases Tn wages of from 15 to 20 cents a day in rockton shoe factories were awarded today by the state board of concilia- ton and arbitration. The boot and shoe workers union and the manufac- turers' association both of which are bound by an arbitration agreement were parties to the dispute which the board decided.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
TAXABLE PROPERTY
 NOW SIO,5SO,29O
COUNTY CLERK DAVIS MAKES A RESUME OF THE FINANCIAL
 SITUATION OF COUNTY.
There Are 2,843 Qualified White Vot- CTS in the City and Almost a Like Number in Garland County.

An interesting estimate is made up of the county's financial situation, based on the assessment report, by County Clerk Charles H. Davis, who has reached the totals on his books. The report shows that in the whole of Garland county there is now taxa ble property in the sum of S10,5S0 2S0, which is an increas in the assessed property over last year of about S475 900.
 There are 2,S43 white voters in the city qualified, according to the tax qualification, and in the county out side the city there are ? 7S3 white voters qualified.
 An interesting feature of the table is that the public utilities company pays on an assessment of $S2t ,000 in the city personal tax column
 The tabulation is as follows:
 County real estate, which includes all lands lying outside corporate limits City Real Estate .........-. County Personal ................... County Personal White Polls ..... County Personal Colored Polls ... County Personal School Fund Penal County Personal Assessors Penalties City Personal ..,............... City Personal White Polls ....... City Personal Colored Polls ..... City Personal School Fund Penalties City Personal Assessors Penalties Railroads, Telephone. Telegraph, Ex
 and Public Utilities Companys ..
 Total .................
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED

Portland, Dec 16.-The city com mission decided today to give work to Portlands unemployed after a consul tation with a committee from the cen tral labor council
 Men with families will be given pre- ference and will be given three full days work a week, while single men wlli get two days work a week From 800 70 1000 men will be employed.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
YOAKUM DEFENDS
 FRISCO BUILDING
SAYS SYNDlcATES IN PIONEER RAILWAY BUILDING WERE
 ENTITLED TO PROFITS.
Says All the Different Lines Built Have Developed into Good Payers, with One Exception.

New York, Dec. 16.-Benjamin F. Yoakum, who was one of the projec- tors of the St. Louis and San Fran cisco Railroad Company, and chair, man of the board of directors when the road went into receivership early this year, today issued detailed statement covering his connection with the company, and denying that he participated in exorbitant profits through syndicate dealings.
 In his statement Mr. Yoakum de- fends the operations of the various syndlcates, saying that those who participate in pioneering ventures are entitled to larger profits than the or. dinary rate on funds invested in stand ard securities or in other business ventures He adds that he has not lost faith in the property in which he retains all his large holdings of stock, and wishes to cooperate with all his resources in the reorganization of the road so that the loss to the stockholders may be regained,
 q recognize the public dsapproval of dealings between a corporation and its officials" his statement says "and 1 am convinced that on the whole this disapproval is right but l do not be- lieve it just to apply the modern stand ards to operations in connection wluh | the pioneering enterprises of past years, which depend altogether for l their success upon syndicate and in- dividual financing.
 l When the Frisco began in 1897 as a little system of l ,162 miles, it earned less than $6,000,00O gross. It's country tied and many other railroads, much more powerful from a financial point of view were extending into this then sparsely settled western territory. Under these circumstances the on- ly possible method whereby money could be obtained to construct and finance new lines for this system was to make each separate venture an en- terprise by itself and finance 1t through individual credi: or through syndicates organized and carried on as individual syndicates. There were six lines constructed through syndi- cates by which properties were sold to the Frisco in which l had a per sonal interest"
 Mir. Yoakum itemized these. His own subscription out of total sub scription of $1S,569,O00 amounted to lsfS0,G0G His profits, according to the statement totaled $2SS,177, and minus } per cent interest annually on the investment, $151151. He added that he received $2S,O00 in 412 per cent bonds from the &. Louis and Gulf syndicate, and $377.5OO in the sale of the Gulf Construction Company. "as shown by me at the hearing at St. Louis.'
 If we had not built these lines by the methods that have been so strong Ily condemned in public prints" the statement adds, they would not have been built at all. All the lines in which l was interested have proven advantageous and profitable to the Frisco with the exception of the so- called Gulf Coas. lines. I believe that the purchase of the Gulf Coast lines also will be fully justified by the fu- ture."
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
Fit His Case Exactly.

When father was sick about six years ago he read an advertisement Of Chamberlain Tablets in the papers that fit his case exactly" writes Miss Margret Campbell of It. Smith, Ark. "He purchased box Of them and has not been sick since. My sister had stomach trouble and was also benefited by them. For sale by all dealers.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
ROYALTY BANKRUPT.

Brussels, Dec. 16.-Creditors of Princess Louise of Belgium, daughter of the late King Leopold, who have entered claims against the princess amounting to s2,20O,0O0, have agreed to withdraw the case from the courts and to abide by the arbitration of two eminent lawyers to whom the govern ment will hand over $900, ,000 for equit- able distribution after examination of the claims.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
MCFARLAND NOT WORRIED.

Chicago. Dec. 16.-Packy McFar- land said he was little concerned over the action of the Wisconsin boxing commission in barring him from box ing in the state for year
 "1heir ruling has no influence in other states" he said, land I don't care if l never fight in Wisconsin again. If failed to comply with the law, the commission was wrong in let ling me box last week. They are the ones who should he disciplined"
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

Cardinal Rampolla, Marquis Del Tin daro, was appointed secretary of state by Pope Leo XIII, and at the conclaye for the election of a sue cessor to Pope Leo was the predomin- ant figure until Austria exercised an old prerogative, he right to enter an objection to the election of a given candidate for the papacy. CardinGl Rampolla led on the firsl and second votes
 Of late Cardinal Rampolla had been mentioned as a possible successor to Pope Plus x. He was born at Po- liz2i, Sicily, in 1S43 and was proclaim- ed cardinal in 1887. He was arch priest of St. Peters and secretary of .he congregation of the Universal In- quisition.
 Since the conclave Cardinal Ram polla has lived in retireaent in the palace of St Martha, just Jehind St Peters, and has devoted his time to the departments dealing with matters of doctrine, dogma and internal ad ministration of the church, holding aloof from affairs pertaining to the foreign relations of the holy see.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
AN IDEAL GIFT Especially if Your Husband or Friend
 Travels

Would be one of our swell Alligator or Walrus Bags, from $10 70 $50, or small Bill Holder in Alligator or Seal, with place for Lodge Card; also secret space for picture, S2.50 up, and hundreds of other novelties in Glove Boxes, Collar Boxes, Fobs, Coat Hangers. Medicine Cases, Pocket Books, Music Rolls. etc, etc. Open evenings until S.S0 up to Christmas.
 PHIL LEVY,
 332 Central Avenue.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
WHITE SLAYER INDICTED.

Chicago, Dec. 16.-Carl C. Christen- son, assistant quaretrmaster in the United States army, was indicted here in the federal court today, charged with violating the white slave act. Christensen, stationed at the Lake Forest Naval Training School, was charged with bringing Edith Alm here from Boston under promise of mar riage.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
RAILWAY REcElVERsHIP.

Sunbury. Pa, Dec. 16.-IReceivers were appointed today for the Sun bury and Susquehanna Railroad Com pany on petition of creditors having claim saggregating about s20l000, and who allege the company is insolvent. The company has lines and franchises in northeastern Pennsylvania. The bonded indebtedness was given as s1, ,O5O, 900.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
OHIO COUNTY VOTES WET"

Norwalk, Ohio, Dec. 16-Thirty-six saloons in Huron county may continue business for at least three years, as the result of a local option election held today. The county voted wet by 1,257 majority
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

Perhaps, after all a dress coat 's the proper garment to wear at a swell dinner. It doesn't button in front and gives you a chance to swell
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

Every young man thinks he'd be perfectly happy if he could have his own way, but the older he grows the happier he is to think that he mdnt have it.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

Charles Lamb said: "A good laugh is worth a hundred groans in any stage of the market" When the mar ket turns suddenly, however, and tue
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

The apple is now considered excel Lent food for brain workers. Well. the original came from the tree of knowledge.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

The money Hot Springs saves on foreign advertising might well be spent opening up a macadamized road to Little Rock.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

The western outlet will be here with all the fullness of it's new terri tory opened up on next Saturday.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

Among the costly Christmas pres ents enumerated are fresh eggs, Da- con, furs and diamond.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

Of course, the resort will miss the mediums win miss the resort.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

The same old scandal is out against hens. They always stop laying when eggs are highest
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

Municipal problems have always been with us, but they always will be until public interest solves them.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

Come to Biggs and select unique and useful present that will surely bo appreciated. 1216-9t
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
TRUNKS AT HALLS.
FOR SALE AT A GREAT BARGAIN.

One hundred and fifty feet on lower Central avenue, one of the most beau tiful sites for home in the city; light, water, gas and sewer connections in front of property. Will make sacrifice price if sold in the next month. Cal owner, phone 161. 12-10-tf
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

laugh is on you. it is not so much ar- preciated.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

Time is money and every American is in a hurry.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

Do others as you wouldn't do your self and you'll never fail to get rich,
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

Let us be grateful that air castles are property no court can touch.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17

The assessment valuations are sig niiicant of improvement
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-17
CARDINAL RAMPOLLA DEAD,
Former Papal Secretary of State Pass
 es Away at Rome.

Rome, Dec. 16.-Cardinal Rampolla, former papal secretary of sta.e, died tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07

community. traditonalism, institutional
ism, the Phlistines of the world, were to
blame for Tonys offense. We never ar
ragned them before the bar of justice.
You think it is not felt by Tony and his
kind? 1t is, Perhaps unconsciously, but
it is felt. Since the world began, ignor-
ance and viplence have begotten ignor-
ance and violence
Men have been pointing the way for a
generation. but there has been so much
pointing and so little travelling. Now the
procession is forming. getting ready for
one grand march to the music of the new
education. Even the juvenile court win
go to the junk Heap, as it ought to- 1t was
thousand times better than the old GRIM
inal court and jail, worth all 1t cost and
more. But at best it was only a poor
eXpedient. one of the palliatiVes, forever
recording effects. It's greatest service has
been in showing up the causes, pointing
the way, urging men to march against
institutionalism and tradition.
Interest is everything in the child's life.
He plays harder than he works because
he is interested in his play. That is all.
| He will work as hard as he plays if he is
interested in his work Mr.. Edison has
found the way. l report for duty under
him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07

with the tang of the far off snow. Else
where, where the track winds into the re-
entrant of rayine, the air is still, the
sun is hot and from the depths snow
creeps up, as though the mouth of some
alchemst's funnel, the subtle odor of the
pines. You may see hut far down, with
its row of terraces of cultivated land cut
out of the steep above it,Aand COW or
buffalo grazing there, while semi-naked
urchin lolls beside it.
The forest is full of citizens. furtive,
busy ,and watehful. You know not what
strange, wild creature sinks from your
path as it hears your football, nor X
there be not a panther watching you with
stealthy eyes from the shadow ., an over
hanging rock. As / have been walking
l have twice started khakur tbarlling
deer) in the thicket beside me- and seen
them leap forth and away like arrows.
with n noise of crashing boughs. The
magnificent hill pheasants, peelSing on the
track among the dropping of the pack
ponies, slide like shadows into the under
growth as you draw near. To stranger
this is all romance, but to the poor peas
ant it is sadly workaday. 1t is not only
by the sweat OF his brow that he must
eat bread but at the peril of his life. No
place is so devastated by wild animals.
They take their toll of his focks and
herds-aye. and of his family. In the
Veranda of the dark bungalow where
am staying is a printed notice of govern
ment Offering 800 rupees for the destruc-
ton of a man-eating tiger that is infesting
this region Leopards are extremely bold.
and seem to have no fear OF man. though
fhey seldom attack him One however.
was destroyed this year, the famous AL
mora leopard. which within five years
had taken 300 human lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07

do the right thing. SO did all of the bat
terry. IT was not a matter of their good
will, or even of their intelligence, but of
tradition-of silly educational custom like
that of the Chinese.
l can imagine little girl brought be-
fore juvenile court in China.
''She won't keep the bandages on" says
the prosecutor. "She tears them off and
runs out in the street. She is bright
enough and knows that it is all wrong -
There is nothing to do but send her
up" chimes the Chinese battery. 'Of
course, Judge. you will insist upon having
her feet bound. Hasn't it been done for
a thousand years? This court has been
established to defend the traditions of a
great people-our ancestors, who are pow
dead. The children? Oh. that is differ
ent.'
Poor teacher. Poor battery. Victims all,
rather than culprits as much to be pitied
as Tony. Like him, they might say I'VE
can't help tive just can't help it,
The Judge might say: Yes, l know it,
poor little teacher But we can't say it
out loud-at least you can't for tradition
might have it in for you. But | am sorry
for you. How long must you wander in
the darkness of your inheritance-in your
institutionalism? You could not turn on
the light If you would-you can't reach
the switchboard. But some one can,
some one must reach that switchboard, III
we are to save Tony. / can send him to
the reform school by the DEGREES of the
same tradition, but what good will it do?'
The case goes on. Tony is ever coming
back again, and always will be until some
one reaches that switchboard. | am not
surprised that Mr.. Edison is the man. 1t
is just like him. He is coming to the
rescue of Tony. He is going to make
Tony run away to so to school. He will
take Tony away from me, put him in a
school that is not a school at all, but
just one big game-just one round of joy,
of play, of gladness, of knowledge, of
sunshine. warming the cells in Tony $
head until they all open up as the flow
ers do. They have been chilled so long
that they almost shrivelled up and died
There will be something moving, some
thing doing at that school all the time
just as there is when Tony goes down to
the tracks to see the engines.
When / tell him about it all Tony
shouts ''Hooray for Mr.. Edison,' right in
front of the battery, just as he used to
say, "to hell wild de cop
We are Just awakening to our fools JUS
tice which never inquired how far the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
THE COUNTY INSTITUTES FOR TEACHERS
What Is Being Done In Preparation For NezO School Year

September and the return to school
seem synonymous, especially to teachers,
patrons and pupils. While parents and
children are only just now turning their
attention to the opening of the new term
all teachers and other school officials
have spent more or less time during the
summer in preparation for the session
which is now at hand. Superintendents
and principals have had to see that their
school buildings were repaired or enlarged
as occasion demanded, and that their fac
ulties were complete. Teachers have Sc
cured places and many of them have
done special work in summer schools or
have studied for the state examination
In order to renew or to raise the grade
of their licenses
recent addition to the states educa-
tonal system is the institutes for teach
ers. Until a few years ago the schools
were taught largely according to the in
dividual teachers methods and there was
little effort made to have the schools con-
form to a general plan. The teachers
rarely met in any assembly and each one
was to. a great extent his own and only
guide in teaching. At the time set by
the county board and district trustees
the teacher in each community opened
his school. making wahtever preparations
for teaching his conscience dictated. Be-
yond the holding of a state license and
having experience little professional
training was required. Later teachers
institutes were held in various parts of
the state, having for their purpose the
improvement of the schools through the
teachers studying methods, devices,
courses of study and school room man
agement and through their broadening
their ideas of the educational system and
becoming interested in other teachers
work. For a short time these Institutes
were held in each congressional district,
but three years ago they were further
perfected and now represent an almost
ideal plan for instructing the teachers
and preparing them to do their part in
making their school a part of one definite,
systematic, educational whole.
During the last session of the legisla-
ture law was enacted whereby an an
nual appropriation of $4,000 was made from
the general school fund for holding insti-
tutes for white teachers of Alabama
These institutes are held in July, August,
September and October, and cover a Pc