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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
From Leslie's Weekly.

From Leslie's Weekly.
 Precautions for safety at sea were never more wisely provided than to- day. The modern ships are of the most approved pattern, equipped with wireless apparatus and also with de- vices for submarine signals, which render them safe under almost any circumstances. The travelling public should bear this fact in mind when grave approximations are created, as they nrura1ly will be, by the terrible disaster in the St. Lawrence river. As to this accident, the responsibility will be fixed by a court of investigation.
 The public should bear in mind, also that great ocean disasters are so in- frequent that when one occurs 1t ere ates Q world divide sensation. The av- craze loss of life per annum among ocean travellers Is far less than that which occurs among travellers on land Railroad automobile and street ia talities are so common that they at tract only passing attention. yet tho loss of a steamship, or even of sail | ing vessel, involving the sacrifice O. life, Is so rare that 1t becomes a sub aot of special comment in every news paper. I say this to reassure the timid | who. on reflection, will find my state
 ments fully Justified
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

Christ out of literature and you have drawn a face without the eyes: take the Christ out of art, and you have painted the sky and forgotten the sun.
 Let Carlisle tell you in trumpet tones that only the truth and the things founded upon the truth can live. Then explain the life of the church upon any other hypothesis than the eternal truth of Jesus Christ. Every living nation fell; every other institution toppled on it's base and went down. The church was the only stable thing in that Middle Age sea- son of storm and stress, the only rock in seething sea.
 Only truth and things built upon truth can live. Then go to the orphans homes, the hospitals, the asylums for the feeble-minded, the old, the dis eased, all the institutions of charity and love; shoulder the buildings into the sea and turn the inmates into the cold. At the next Christmastide go to every home where families sit in front of fires thinking of the Christ child. Put out the fire on every hearth and the light on every face. Leave behind you trail of darkness. Turn back the worlds clock hands two thou sand years.
 Not so. We will not have it so; we cannot have it so. Call the people to- gether-all of them; the grandfathers and grandmothers, the fathers and mothers, the young men and young women, the boys and girls. Call them all together, put them in some mann moth building and ask them what we shall do with the Christ. Then hear the song well up-"Bring forth the royal diadem and crown Him Lord of all." The might of the united voices will rend the walls apart and fling the ceilings off. Christ is come. HENRY M. EDMoNDs.
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being in England, he was appealed to without the execution of any legal war rant was taking unlawful chances, and that under such conditions homicide was justifable, but this doctrine was opposed eo the American law. Thus the laws of the two countries were at variance
 The head of the Canadian government
 for instructions. His reply was that those in charge should exercise such measures as are authorized by the laws of Canada. In the meantime the friends of Anderson were not idle. They made application to the court of the Queen bench in Canada for writ of habeas cor pus and the legality of Anderson's deten- ,lon was abiy argued before the court
 The two judges of the Queens bench differed in their opinion and delivered their judgment at great length. The chief justice contended that the law of England made 1t murder for a man killing another for attempting to arrest him under a legal warrant and the law of Missouri authorized any person to bring in col- cred man who was suspected of being runaway slave. Diggs. therefore, was acting under legal authority as much as If he had been armed with a process.
 Justice Mclean held that the prisoner had wilfully maliciously and feloniousy
 stabbed and killed Seneca Diggs, and for tHiS oueHSe the keeper or the Jdll at
 Brantford Is commanded to receive the
 said John Anderson into his cutody and hold him until he is safely delivered in due course of the law"
 1 His lordship, the governor general, ex- amined the testimony minutely and took the point that the prisoner was arrested | In the first instance on an insufficient | complaint, that he was detained without sufficient warrant. and on insufficient l evidence and no definite charge. and.
 therefore, thought the prisoner entitled | to his discharge.
 1 The majority of the court being of the
 opinion that the detention was legal, the prisoner was remanded to jail Notice
 was immediately given of an appeal to l the court of errors and appeals in Upper | Canada. The case of the colored man met with great sympathy in England and the British Foreign and Antislavery society took prompt steps to vindicate the prin- cples and objects of their peculiar creed. The case was taken up in Westminster l hall It was debated before Judge Lord ] Mansfield and Chief Justice Cockburn. | An order was made to have Anderson l sent to England for trial. This was irn- l possible at the time. a. the only way 1t
 could be done was by taking him through.
 the United States. when he would no dorbt have been seized. The case was | still pending when hostilities between the north and south occurred. and nothing l further was done by the United States government, and Anderson was finally released
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
Artistic Advertising Matter

The American Trust and Savings banks July number of "Americans' is a gem. geographically and otherwise. It's cover is in colors, the title being in red. and the cover lettering in blue.
 On the first page of Americans is a fine half tone of Dr. John H. Phillips from a painting by Mrs Louise S. Cone presented by the students and alumni of the Central High school to the Birmingham schools. On the second page is an excellent half tone of J. D. Kirkpatrick. The July num- Der contains about 20 pages and Is full of instructive short articles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF FUGITIVE SLAVE ANDERSON

T HE trial of the fugitive slave, An-
 derson, just prior to the civil war,
 created much excitement not only in the United States but in Canada and in England. John Anderson escaped from his master and while being pursued killed Senaca Diggs, one of the men who at tempted to capture him. He reached Can ada and demand was made upon that country for his extradition, but there was much hagging, as the Canadian authori- ties were not willing to return him to the states They appealed to the home government in England, and when that government suggested that Canada had no right to pass upon a case of this kind and that 1t must be tried in London, the Canadian government resented this inter- ference as to what they considered was their own rights in the matter.
 The story of the case briefly told. is as follows: In 1853 there lived in Missouri in slavery John Anderson and his wife. In that year they were both sold by their master Moses Burton. The former was purchased by farmer named Mcdonald and the wife was sold to another man. samuel Brown, about 40 miles away. Mcdonald decided to sell Anderson again. and the colored man, fearing that he was going to be widely separated from his wife, ran away from Mcdonald. He was seen lurking in the neighborhood of the Brown home, where his wife was slave, and he was charged with being a run away.
 When Anderson found that he was about to be taken and returned to his l owner, he ran away and posse fol
 lowed him. In this party was a man named Seneca Diggs When he found himself cornered, and in order to gel
 away, Anderson killed Diggs and finally
 succeeded in reaching Canada through the
 then underground railway" as the sys- | tenn was popularly known.
 l Merely as fugitive slave. Anderson
 would have been safe in Canada under the protection of Great Britain. But ir | 1S42 the two countries had united in g treaty, known as the Ashburton treaty 1 which agreed to the extradition of mur- | derers. Anderson lived in Canada unmo. tested until 1860, when he was recognized Thereupon the officers of the state of Nils.
 souri took proceedings to bring him back He was taken before a justice of tho peace at Brantford and was committed
 to Jail to await action. The governor
 of tho province being absent, United
 States Secretary of State Cass asked fol | Anderson's return.
 Now, the Ashburton treaty, while cffec laws of the two countries In this case for the British law held that man wht
 attempted to deprive another of his lIbert,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
Christ Is Come

"The word became flesh and dwelt among us." John 1, IA.
 History has been long time nov ing it's pen, but it has spelt only one word. That is Christ. He cuts in two the process of the worlds unfolding, is the center of history and the expla- nation of history. For thousands of years the world waited for Him; for thousands of years we have been waiting with Him. If you would read the tale of the past without Christ you must rub it out and write it over again.
 Pitch the nations up and watch them fall and spraddle into new re- lations. Take away the vigor of Ger many, the splendor of England, and the fine young glory of America; herd them all back under the east and let them scowl and snarl there as Turkey and Persia are doing today. Go to the forefront of a hundred armies that have fought for Christ and turn them back. Go to the millions of martyr saints and martyr-soldiers, who have died for the sake of "the Name;" lift them up and tell them they have poured out their blood for dream, for fancy. They will laugh at you, the holy laughter of the tomb. No; they will say: "Once believed, now l know" And these things mirror them selves in literature and art. Take the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
THE WAR ON INCOMES

From the Philadelphia Ledger
 Now that the income tax, which was
 to yield between s5e,oc0.oo and ESQ.,
 600,000 this year, is giving promise Of little more than s5o,eo0.e00, Secretary MoAdoo is talking about haling the rich men into court and putting them on the stand to explain under oath why their incomes are not so large as the administration believed they were. He had better pause hefore he embarlSs on any such rash course, for there are thousands of malefactors of great wealth who would be delighted to ex- plain in public just how many hundred thousand dollars the policy of med ding With business has cost them in the last 12 months.
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and wanted the job badly, for he is to serve the state four years as governor for s2ooo-for $500 a year or s41 ss a month That's barely enough to pay for his food. As a matter of fact MT. Henderson admits he spent some s2s.0oO in cam paign expenses. His friends probably spent few thousand more. So it seems to be an expensive matter to gain polit- cal office in Alabama. and the men who win only win honor and hard work
 have few friends who spent few thousand each in the last campaign who are now working hard to re-earn the dol- lars they dealt out to alleged political wire pullers.
 Politics is indeed a queer game.
 # + x
 Roosevelt Is the one American citizen who cannot be downed. Of vim and en- ergy he Is ehocked full and of brain and brawn there be few if any his equal.
 No one would be surprised to see him the next Governor of New York and the chances are the republicans will unite on him as their. presidential candidate two years hence.
 It will be battle royal then between democratic party Wilson not only has the brains, but he has a nerve as steady and steely as Roosevelts.
 The next presidential campaign will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

BEGINNING THE DAY--eracious God, may Thy winds blow upon me today with gentle breath' May Thy sun shine with softer glow. May my food he different hnu my conyersatiSn, and my life. May all the day be different. May all the day be Gods. And may I meet @od today fare to face. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
WORTH WHILE

Though you never have money, with
 a heart that's still sunny, You can banish the misfortunes that
 come, All your troubles beguiling by the
 mere art of smiling, Though you have a good reason to
 be grum. The hard working fellow with a soul
 always mellow, Though he's often cast down in de-
 feat In spite of the sorrows that man
 never borrows, Still believes that this old world
 is sweet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
The Solvent Credit Case

me statute assessing solvent cred It's has been on the books, as I un- derstand 1t, for 15 or 20 years but has been declared unconstitutional by the court and was patched up and put into the last code. but former State Attorney W. c. Fitts instructed his tax collectors In the state at that time not to try to collect it and our for, mer back tax commissioner, Frank S. White, also regarded 1t as obsolete and not proper to be assessed and collect ed" said a prominent merchant "This just seems to be an effort to add to the taxes of Birmingham and Jeffer- son county. Very few other places possibly one or two exceptions In the state, are paying this tax or are even having efforts made to>pay 1t.
 "The Board of Trade and the other civic organizations among the mer- chants and manufacturers of the cit, are. therefore, wise In combining forces and joining together to fight this un. fair proposition, If you just stop t. think of 1t minute any man can set that it is absolutely unfair and it doe. look as if the supreme court of Ala,
 hama will decide again as they dit
 once before if this matter comes III again.
 | "A merchant pays taxes and licens, for doing business and he pays in pro portion to the capital invested. If h, sells for cash, of course, he woul,
 have no insolvent credit or tax, but 1 another merchant, doing the sam
 amount of business, were to sell oi credit, such as do our furniture house and most of our other wholesale an, retail mercantile establishments, b.
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 would at once have to pay a tax on the entire outstanding of good ae counts or solvent credits no matter whether secured or unsecured. This is double taxation. On some businesses 1t would not only be double but triple taxation. Not only this but there is an inequality in the taxation because secured credits, such as are held by the banks, 1t is understood, and mort gages, would not be subject to tax un- der the present law and ruling of the court. This would again make dis crimination which would render the proposition invalid.
 Every interest in Greater Birming ham doing a credit business should ral- ly to the support of the combined com mittee,' having the contesting of this insolvent tax question in hand and give them all the information. assistance and backing necessary to the end that the condition may be ready rem edied and Birmingham already so heav- fly taxed will not have this additional unjust tax thrust upon the merchants to their undoing.
 "Should the tax commissioner con. tention hold good Birmingham would have a terrible setback"
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therefore be the hardest fought ana closest this country has ever known. Everyone awaits 1t with the most in tense interest
 The recent dinners and banquets in to Mr. Harding and others have produced fruit of great value.
 Business men have gotten together in good fellowship and understood one another. They have been brought Into contact with the good points of each other and found out the cheery sides of Birmingham.
 Former pessimists have become opti- mists and enthusiasm now prevails where heretofore fingered doubt and dallying.
 Paschal Shook has gotten everybody working for the big Methodist univer- sity and 1t is practically a sure thing that it will be located in Birmingham. Everybody is intensely interested and each, in contributing a small sum, will with the big subscriptions like that which MT. Munger will surely give make up the necessary funds to land it. Then there are other developments on foot growing out of the unity of spirit recently brought about which means more to Birmingham than most of us dream of. No degree of growth, how ever, can surprise some of us. par ticularly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
ANiHoNoRED GUEST

From TIt-BIts,
 "No man Is as well known as he thinks he is," says Caruso, T was motoring on Long Island recently. My car broke down. and l entered farm house to get warm. The farmer and I ohatted, and when he asked my name l told him modestly that it was Caruso. At that name he threw up his hands.
 "'Carusor he exclaimed, Robinson Caruso, the great traveller! Little did expect ever to see man like yer ia this here humble kitchen, siFl'
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start it now has, naturally creates optimists. There is centainly no room here for the man who does not appre- ciate this districts inherent strength or who does not feel thrill in con- templating Birmingham's splendid destiny. Let optimism ever be Bir- mingham's distinguishing note.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
SERVABO FIDEM

By A. Latady.
 Ah stupid fled, s. hath lost its enterprise;
 heart mind, thy stead. approving All, all, worldliness a prey, Naught of Complaining the day
 0 he a world d at Trimming their a Where they devil
 I nor sha knoW
 Nor can g soulless mortal e'er Birmnsham 1s1%
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

An army officer may have to quit the service because he carries deadly germs. to which he Is himself immune. It might be captured by the enemy the next time we have war
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
ADRIFT WITH THE TIr1ES
FIXING our A SLIM FARE

FIXING OUT A SLIM FARE "We sell great many of these en- velopes to poets"
 "Why SOP"
 "The mucilage on the flaps is un- usually thick and some of them find 1t nutritious"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

The New York Times expresses deep concern as to the ability of the transat- lantio aeroplane expedition to steer Q course to the Azores. but those who are to make the voyage are not showing in lack of confidence. and they should be the ones to worry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

The man who saves 50 weeks in the year so he can have two weeks of high life at a summer resort has only contempt for the man who puts what he has saved in the bank and spends his vacation at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
QUITE A CONTRAST

Are Tompkins and his wife happy together2'
 "oh, yes. They are as happy as anybody could expect them to be, con sidering the fact that she was a Pen field of Penheld Manor, and he was just Tompkins of nowhere in particu- lar"
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incapable of wiggling his finger.

A christening was about to miss fire when the ever resourceful Kaiser stepped into the breach and smashed the bottle of wine into countless pieces. No wonder he is called the T. R. of Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
UPS AND DOWNS.

UPS AND DOWNS. He proposed to her on one oI the Alpine peaks and she threw him down."
 Think of thatr' But he pulled himself together and asked her again." What happened then7f' "She took him up.'' 'AWelll Wellw
 They've been married year now and he's more cast down than ever"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

Villa may present a picturesque aspect to the war correspondent in search of local color. but the A. B. c. envoys have as yet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

The whisky sold in Alaska is said to make consumers climb poles. That isn't so bad. The bootlegger's brand in some communities makes the man who drinks it incapable of wiggling his finger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

The automobile has brought back the country circus, which motors from town to town and gives performance on the village green.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
sympathy for the H. II. claflin Co.

'The financial embarrassment of no large business concern has so touched my sympathy as that of the H. B. Claf- lin company" said Felix M. Drennen
 T am well acquainted with Mir John Claflin, the head of the company, and a finer man does not live. Like his la mented father, he is not only a man of noble integrity, but fin pushing the busi- ness of his concern he has displayed wonderful breadth and constructive genius. He has been a great upbuilder The Drennen company has been a large customer of the H. B. Claflin company. We have bought millions of dollars worth of goods from the concern. In looking over our books find that we now 6we Claflin only about s2S7. We have owed .the company as much as $10o,0O0 at one time.
 T know I voice the sentiments of thou sands of merchants when I express the hope that the H. B. Claflin company will be able to straighten out Its affairs and get well on it's feet again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

The pension appropriation continues to grow. Why work when an indulgent gov- ernment will support you?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

The colonel Is not well, bpt he stands ready to enliven the political situation once more just the same
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

Even the reform wave Is not what 1t was before it collided with the heat wave
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

Some peoples idea of heaven Is spending a week or two at Atlantic City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

It was hardly necessary for Premier Asquith to say he would hear the suf- fragettes. He's been hearing them all the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28

The latest thriller in the newspapers is entitled "The Heiress and the Chauf- feur."
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IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS

"A smart college graduate came in here the other day and told me how to run my business"
 "Of course you threw him out?"
 "No, I didn't. He was right so gave him a job"
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SAFETY ON THE SEA

Few tears are shed when 'subsidized'' newspaper goes under.
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OBLIGING

T understand the wheat fields are calling for help" Well if I were in a position to do
 so, I wouldn't mind throwing them a
 couple of tramps."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
THE LURE OF LUXURY

Maud Muller, as she raked the hay, Observed the judge go by; His limousine, the neighbors say, It what first caught her eye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-28
2,eJ-d3zuea
NOT so FAR BACK

T see where one of me school mates has been pinched again." said Bill the Burglar.
 You an him wuz kids together?" queried Frisco Frank
 Nope. Me an him went to night school in de same penn
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NOT SHE
 The sweet girl graduate who read the learned essay that expanded fath er's chest to the bursting point is not the one who is Just now the queen of bathing beach. Alas and alack, curves and intellectually don't al ways go together. although Hypata IS credited with being a well rounded woman.
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FATHERS INSPIRATION What are you reading. son?" The Rhyme of the Ancient Ma riner,' father"
 Hum! That reminds me. Ring the bell and ask William to bring me bottle of port"
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TELEPHONE Bell (priyate exchange connee'ns aii departments), Main 49oo'
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A. J. Eaton, Jr.. and 0. l.. Young are the only authorized traNeilns repre- sentatives of The Age-Herata Ia Its circulation department.