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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19

wv ASHINGToN, January 1S.-(Spe-
w eial.)-washinston is unlike
w every other American city in
list visiting the national capital is i'm
pressed with the broad and roomy streets.
the beautiful parks, and the grand pub
lie buildings, and the distinguished pub
lie men, whom the enterprising guides
never fail to mention and to point out.
and the innumerable statues erected to
sons of the republic who have made
names for themselves, either, upon the
field of battle, the bosom of the deep or
in the halls of Congress.
But there is one other thing that Wash
inston exeels in-probably it is a spe-
cial feature of predominence of which
the nations capital would not boast or
enthuse over specially. hut nevertheless. so
far as can be ascertained, Washington
has it on any other contestant, if there
be any contestants, for the number, va
riety, pedigreed, cultured, aristocratic
and just plain CATS
There are thousands and thousands of
cats in Washington. Cats of every con-
ocivable description-yellow cats streaked
cats, blue cats, -whiskered, blue
blood cats, and then some.
There are some cats in Washington that
can, or at least it is done for them,
trace their ancestry back through the
niouldy past to ages before the pilgrims
landed at Plymouth Rock; these are, OF
course, very high priced and valuable
cats, as cats go. and are the pets of
the society women of the capital. Nat
rrally, however. the aristocracy is in
TIE minority. Just the plain and unas-
suning Thomas cat-the hoi-polloi of cat
dem as perhaps John III. Wallace would
say, is more in evidence-the rough
coated gent, who seats himself on a
back fence about a. m. and lifts his
voice in loud protest against the ad-
nlinistration, and yowls the worries of
his troubled soul into the bosom of the
night. There are 100000 of him in
Washington: he is more numerous than
officeseekers; and besides that an Of
ficeseeker has but one life and he has
nine. Every month a few thousand of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19

TIME gunpowder plot of 1904 was one
of the most villainous conspiracies
1 ever conceived, and had Guy
Fawkes and his confederates succeeded,
England would practically have become
depopulated of it's government.
rniliarly associated with this plot, the
originator was Robert Catesby, a gentle
man of ancient family. Having revolved
in his own mind a project for Destroy
ing at one blow the kings, lords and
commons. Catesby communicated 1T to
Thomas Winter, gentlemen of Worees-
tershire, who at first expressed great
horror but was afterward induced to
cooperate in the plot. Winter it was
who secured the assistance of Fawlles,
gentleman of good family, but actuated
by spirit of ferocious fanaticism.
other confederates were gradually add
ed, and in a secluded house in Lam
neth oaths of secrecy were taken. Thom-
as Percy a distant relative of the Earl
of Northumberland, agreed to hire a
house adjoining the building where the
Parliament met. and it was resolved to
undermine and blow up the legislature b.
carrying a mine through the wall.
Preparations for this dastardly plot
were completed about the month of May.
1Gl5, and the time fixed for carrying
out the conspiracy was set for October
3, the day upon which the legislators
! should meet. Parliament, however, was
not opened until two days later.
The plot was discovered upon the eve
of it's being carried out by one of the
conspirators turning traitor. Sir Thomas
Knevett a Westminster magistrate with
several attendants, visited the cellar,
seized Fawkes at the door, and carried
him off to whitehall, where in the royal
bedchamber he was intcrrogated by the
King and council, and thence was con-
veyed to the tower.
Upon hearing of Fawizes' arrest the
remaining conspirators, with the exception
of Tresham, fled from London to the
place of rendezvous in Warwickshire.
| They were overtaken there at the man.
| sion of Holbeach, where Catesby, and
three others, refusing 20 surrender, were
slain. The remainder, taken prisoners
in different places, were carried to Lon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
UNDERWOOD's PROMISE
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Whenever 1t comes to a question be-
tween hopefulness and dependency in
the prognosis of business conditions the
Sun is every time with the party of
daylight ahead. That is our habitual at
titude Our sympathetic liberation ex-
tends sometimes even to the chasers of
rainbows; they do infinite good in this
world: If they seldom actually catch up
with the pot Of gold.
The Sun does not mean to class the
Hon. Oscar w. Underwood with the rain
bow chasers when it records with Pc
culiar qualification that distinguished
gentleman prophecy of an extensive re-
vival of business confidence and activity
during the present year. Mr.. underwood
went so far on Tuesday in the House of
REPRESENTATIVES as to stake his reputation
for discernment on the prediction that
"before the coming elections next fall
there will be an Industrial awakening that
will put to shame the panic preaching
brokers who cry disaster in order to bring
about depression"
Although the specific mention of elec-
tion day appears to denote q political in
tention on the part of Mr.. Underwood. we
cannot believe that his sober, consesva-
tive, cautious and conscientious intellect
was Influenced by insignificant consider
ations of partisanship in a matter of such
momentous Importance to all his fellow
countrymen. His positive conviction as
! to the imminent resumption of prosperity
must be based on ascertained facts; on
something more tangible than loyalty to
the Wilson policies, personal desire for
| the vindication of the tariff bin in the
construction and passage of which he bore
so conspicuous a part and earnest hope
that the Congress elections in November
will not upset the democratic majority in
| the House. Mr. Underwoods splendid
promise must signify more than that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
BOTTLE SORTING A TRADE

London Gable to the New York Sun.
One of London's queer trades is that
of empty bottle sorting at the bottle
exchange. off Blackfriars road These
bottles have been salvaged from dust
bins, cellars, the holds of ships and
wherever bottles go astray.
Every year at least two million bot
ties, after many wanderings find their
way to the exchange. They are sorted and
returned to their rightful owners, who
pay an annual subscription as we'll as a
few shillings gross for returned bot
ties.
Reared on the bottle, as it were, a
sorter at the exchange must be a man
of keen eye and delicate touch. All that
he has to guide him in thousands of
cases is the embossed name on the glass,
and swiftly, unerringly and with almost
uncanny deftness he picks out bottle
which has wandered from Glasgow and
puts it in the case bound for the north
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF GUY FAWKES

don, tried and condemned, with their as
sociate. Guy Fawkes.
When Fawkes was placed on trial ana
| was asked by the King if he was not
sorry for his attack on the royal family,
he replied that "a desperate deed requires
d desperate remedy" He said he was
sorry for nothing but that the plot had
| failed, and added that zone of my OBJ.
jects was to blow the Scots back into
Scotland'
Fawkes was removed from the tower
the same night and was subjected to
| further examination the following day.
He was SO reticent in his giving of in
formation that it was necessary to put
him on the racks, which was done on the
| Sth. This so subdued MS spirit that he
gave a history of the conspiracy, but
without revealing any names. The next
day, however, he gave the names of the
racn when he learned that some of them
had been captured near Holbeach.
| On January p, 1906, Fawkes, with the
two Winters, Grant, lockwood, Keyes
and Bates, We're tried before a special
commission in Westminster ball. They all
pleaded mot guilty" even to Fawkes.
When Fawlles was asked how he could
raise such a plea after his confession OF
guilt, he replied that he would not re-
tract his statement, but the indictment
implicated 1.-THE holy fathers in the plot.
| which was unwarranted. All of the pris-
oners were found guilty as soon as their
confessions were read. Sir Edward Dig
by was then tried and convicted separate
ly. Finally Judgment of death was passed
Lpon all.
| On Friday January 81, all the con-
sLiratcrs were drawn from the tower
| to the old palace at Westminster where
/ a scaffold had been erected. Fawkcs
was the last to mount. He was SO weak
and ill from torture it was necessary to
| help him up the ladder. He spoke
briefly and asked forgiveness of the King
ana the state. His actions at the time
| Of his execution were in strong contrast
with those at the trial. Then he was de-
| fiant, even sarcastic
| His actions failed to elicit the slight
| est sympathy which might otherwise have
been felt for him, for undoubtedly Fawkes
| was working as tool for a number OF
other men very much higher up. The
attempt to make the eunpowder plot a
| religious rather than a political conspir-
! ary for the most part failed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
FRIENDSHIP

BY Thomas Moore.
The daylight is gone-but before we de-
part,
One cup shall go round to the friend of
my heart.
The llindest, the dearest-oh, judge by the
I now shed while name him, how kind
and how dear.
Oh, say. is it thus in the mirth-bringing
hour,
When friends are assembled. when wit,
in full flower,
Shoots forth from the lip under Bacchus'I'
dew, -
In blossoms of thought ever springing ann
new
Do you sometimes remember and hallow
the brim
OF your cup with sigh, as you crown it
to him
Who is lonely and sad in these valleys SO
fair,
And would you pine in Elysium. II friea IL
were not theref
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19

The effete east is not going to be out
done by the virile west SO far at lea ast
as narrlcaded bandits are concerned. The
EPISODE of Lopez in the Arizona mine ba
duplicate in one Beardsley of Mayville,
n. Y, who took refuge In his shack. and
aided by heavy snowfall for five DAYS
successfully defied the authorities. The
days of the dime novel drama are not
YET gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
Chamber OF Commerce Presidency

THE possibilities for president of the
Chamber of Commerce for the year en-
suing are now occupying to a great ex-
tent the thoughts of the members of the
chamber" said member of the Chamber
of Commerce. 1.-The nominating commit
tee will, 1 understand, meet Tuesday
and will probably make a report of it's
decision about the latter part of this
week.
Among those prominently mentioned
for the place are J. D. Moore of the Moore
& Handley Hardware company; Oscar c..
Turner, Paschal C. Shook Murray Brown
and Herman Beck. President Harding
was considered for time about the
best betting proposition being gossped
on the streets, but since his statement
to the effect that he would refuse the
nomination were it rendered him, much
gossip has been centered on J. d. Moore.
Mr.. Moore has an established reputation
in Birmingham as a business man, and
that he would have a business-lil<e ad-
ministartion is not doubted. Murray
Brown, in my opinion, is an ideal prob
ability, but 1 understand that he would
hardly stand for the place, for business
reasons.
oscar C. Turner is such a live wire
that he is good betting possibility, for
he has many friends in the chamber who
would put in much time In his behalf.
The field now is clear, with Mr. Hard
ing's elimination, and an exciting and
clean race is looked for"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
UNDEyELopED RESOURCES

From the New York Herald.
A Rhode Island legislator has turned
his salary back to the state because he
believes he didn't earn it. If this type
of conscience were general in legislators
perhaps there would have been no excus
for the income tax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Marriage and appendicitis are both
risky. But you can't fool with appended
tbs more than once.
The man who brags that he can shave
himself quicker than barber can do 1t
always looks it.
The high cost of living wasn't such in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19

The National House of Representatives
tee on woman's suffrage, but the leaders
OF the cause say they ''have just begun
to fight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19

1t is true, as President Wilson saws,
that the United States soldiers are not
till collectors, but Uncle Sam is run
ming rather extensive boarding house
on the Mexican frontier. this winter, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19

One of the very first things-this year
that Birmingham has to crow about is
the poultry show. There is much of
fuss and feathers concerning it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19

Miss Fancy, the children's elephant. still
has small debt hanging over her head,
hut Birmingham has too many "children
grown up" to let it remain long.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19

It's poor day for news when the AS
sociated Press does not carry all over tie
country some big story about Alabama
affairs nowadays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
RULES FOR PIN swALLowERs
the Chicago Record-H Herald.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
Sturgis, Mich.-If you swallow pir
and the physician cannot help you. joir
choir and sing a high note and yol
may be safe. At least that is the expert
epce of Miss Mary Austin of this city
She swallowed white-headed pin ant
al, efforts of local physicians to dislodg,
ii were futile.
Miss Austin was informed that she mus
go to the University OF Michigan hos
pital Immediately. AS the train did MOI
, leave for several hours and choir prac
tice was scheduled, she went to tn,
church.
The patient did not intend to attemp
to sing but as she could not feel the pir
she took her place. When she sang hel
first high note the pin became dislodged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19

Popocatapetl is not behaving like that
Japanese volcano, but Huerta thinks
Villa is just as bad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19

If President Wilson Were in the south
now he would see some real Dixie
weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19

Today is Robert E. Lees birthday, and
business will pause in honor of the great
hero.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
SAME OLD KIND OF WEATHER

From the Seattle Post-Irtelligencer.
Before the British Geological society
the other day. Professor Gregory as
serted, after reviewing all of the data
which could be obtained, that he could
not find any evidence to show that there
had been the slightest climatic change
during the past 1900 years. Professor
Willis Moore. formerly in charge of the
weather bureau of this country, has fire.
quently made the same assertion. Ye,
talk of the influence on climate of de-
foresting and reforesting still continues
to be a large amount of the ammunition
haf political conservationists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
Pleased with Wilson Attitude

Good news is having its effect upon the
stock market" says Henry Clews in his
weekly financial review THE most cheer
ing advices came from Washington, Pres
dent Wilson having evidently determined
building up business" on constructive
lines. The President having gotten rid
of the tariff and currency PROBLEMS,
is now taking hold of the trust ques-
ton in earnest, and he evidently believes
that it's true solution does not lie in de-
structive methods.
THAT the Sherman law will be retained
as protection against monopoly is beyond
question. That the supreme, court of the
United States has read reason into the
law is well known by those willing to
understand. That in the past it has been
frequently enforced with undue severity
is self evident. That it positively needs
clearer definition is the opinion OF many
unprejudiced authorities and that it
should be enforced in a friendly and not
in an antagonistic spirit appears to be
the conclusion arrived at by President
Wilson and his associates. The President
is expected to make an important an
nouncement of his policy next week; and
it is understood that bills embodying his
ideas will be presented for legislation as
rapidly as may seem prudent. The idea
that this legislation shall include gov
ernment bureau of information which
shall aid manufacturers in interpreting
the Sherman law is well received in busi-
ness circles. Manufacturers and others
under such a bureau would be able to Sc
cure an authoritative opinion as to
whether they were obeying the law or
not. This would relieve much of the ex-
listing uncertainty in business which has
for months past tended to paralyze initia-
tive.
''rhere is another factor in the anti
| trust situation which is favorable; and
that is the almost universal disposition
| among business leaders amounting to in
many cases a positive anxiety to obey the
law. This disposition has been tremen-
| dously increased by the friendly atti-
| tude toward business shown by the adj
| minstration; and the present Attorney
| in preference to welding the big stick.
In all directions business leaders are maxi
ing sincere efforts ito comply with the
| law, and thus will gradually disappear
the wearisome friction between big busi-
ness and the government. which has been
the basis of so much popular hostility to
large corporations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
DIR. HaI.tead on Chicken Hobby

when it comes to sure enough bugs,
or people who have particular hobby
there is no class SO completely carried
away with 1t as those people who get sure
enough interested in chickens said DR..
Hal Halstead a well known local breeder
and fancier.
"Onoe let a man or woman get the
chicken fever and it is all off with almcst
everything else. You can always get a
fancier to talk chickens no matter what
his business may be, If you want warm
argument, just suggest that the particu-
lar breed of birds he has taken up is not
up to the standard of some other breed
and you will have more argument than
you can turn loose.
"At that. the raising of fancy chickens
is very fascinating. and if one knows the
game can be made very profitable, but
like everything else worth while, one
must be informed to be successful. Yes
sir. there are no bugs like the chicken
bugs. l know, because l am one myself
Finds Underwood Sentiment Strong
Jere C. King, candidate for Congress to
succeed Oscar w. Underwood, returned
home yesterday after campaign of sew
eral days. in Blount and the upper END
of Jefferson county. His opinion is that
Oscar w. Underwood will defeat Hobson
by a tremendous majority
II told the people with whom came In
contact that l was an Underwood demo.
crat,'' said Mr.. King. Il asked then
if they ever heard of Grover CLEVELAND
xl,-k Al
time we must all be Underwood demo
Gratis. l disseminated the doctrine tha
Uncle Joe Cannon. and all that he as higf
priest of protection stood for, jumped two
feet off the floor every time 9 Hobsol
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-26
HoGARTH SUES TRACTION MEN
FOR LARGE SUM

j. B. Hogarth, former general SUI
perintendent of the Chicago Railways
Co., filed a 100000 damage suit
against John NJ. Roach, John H. Lar
kin, H. L. Beach, William Quinlan and
William Taber yesterday. He makes
these allegations in the declaration:
1. Hogarth was fired from his big
job through a conspiracy between
John M. Roach, president of the COM
pany; John H. Larkin and H. L.
Beach, division superintendent and
William Quinlan and William Taber,
officers of the street car mems union.
2. Hogarth was threatening to
spoil graft Roach was getting through
contracts in lubricating oil, scrap iron
and improper vouchers, and Roach
secretly paid $4,000 to Quinlan and
Taber of the car mems union to
threaten strike and stir up such
mess that Roach would be justified in
throwing Hogarth out of his job.
Both Quinlan and Taber say they
have no fear of Hogarth's suit being
heard in court, that Hogarth dis
charged men right and left and ruled
with such an iron hand that the men
would have gone on strike even if
there had been no union or officers.
On Beach the allegation is:
THAT Roach was indebted to
Beach for favors when Beach was a
newspaper man, that Beach helped
Roach mould public opinion through
the newspapers in favor of the vari-
GUS concessions and privileges desired
by Roach and the street railway COM
panies and that to reward Beach, he,
Roach, has caused Beach's employ
ment by the Chicago Railways Co."
Allegation of graft against Roach
is:
Roach was purchasing lubricating
oils and greases used by the company
from his personal friends, and the
operating costs per 1000 car miles
was for such lubricating oils As cents,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-26

candescent lamps used upon cars Of
the Chicago Railways Co. averaged
20 cents per 1000 miles, while in
other large cities similar lamps per-
formed similar services at cost of
IA cents per 1000 car miles.
That. one Morris purchased
through Blair the scrap metal of the
company and Blair (Henry A. alleg-
ed to the plaintiff he knew there was
graft in the scrap transaction.
THAT lumber dealers complained
of orders given to friends of Roach,
notwithstanding the fact that COM
planning dealers made low bids, even
below cost price"
Hogarth charges that when he
started an investigation of these
prices for all stuff bought by the
company it was then that Roach got
a plot working to tie up the road. in
a strike so that Hogarth could be
fired.
Shortly before this Hogarth had
told Henry A. Blair, chairman board
of directors, c. R. c., that Roach
took 100000 improperly from the
company treasury Sept. 1, 1908, in
three vouchers for $4,000, $4,000
and $4,000.
He also says that John H. Larkins,
formerly president of Division 241 Of
the car mems organization "had done
many favors for Roach while presi-
dent of the organized employees" and
was company man.
Larkin has friends among members
of the car mems union who deny that
he has played anything but straight
game. Many of the most active mem
bers of the union say they will be
glad to see all of Hogarth's allega-
tons brought out in court.
1870
If recipe calls for sour milk and
there is none at hand, sweet milk
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-26

Some people would never be happy
unless they felt they had more happi-
ness than anybody eBe.-Cincinnai
Enquirer,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-26

If a recipe calls for sour m
there is none at hand, swet
may be soured by adding a lit
gar or lemon juice and lett
mixture stand for a few hours
Mohave County miner., 1914-02-21

Dr. E. R. Baldwin, of Saranac Lake, a recognized specialist on tubercular troubles, gives some men a shock, and others most comfortable feeling when he states that "All adults are very little endangered by close contact with open tuberculosis, and not at all in ordinary association. Qualify these statements as we may, it is time for reaction against the extreme ideas of infection now prevailing. There has been too much read into popular lit erature by health boards and lectures that has no sound basis in facts, and it needs to be dropped out or revised. He believes that the preachments about the danger of infection to adults in the present state of society are without justification from an experi- mental standpoint" And added to this comes the endorsement of the American Journal of Medicine in these words, these statements represent not one mans views, but what seems to be the growing conviction of the most progressive and thoughtful students of tuberculosis at the present time."
Mohave County miner., 1914-02-21

the things have not by any manner Of means been found. Such find as that reported from the Hartford waterway, it is needless to say, would mean a rush in many mining districts. Up in Nevada the newspapers would find oc- casions for half page heads and stories of "picture rock" ''jewelry strikes" etc. for months. Down in this part of the country all these things are taken more placidly. The grass-roots ma terial of the Hartford nevertheless has an exceedingly good look and with a fine prospecting season coming on, with abundance of water, grass and game assured, a period of prospecting Is certainly made to look inviting.- Bisbee Review.