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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
THE INDIAN AND THE RANGER

From the Washington Post.
 Representative Alfalfa Bill' Murray of Oklahoma, in speech in the House regaled members with an Indians esti- mate of the prowess of a Texas ranger.
 Tn the early seventies and eighties, " said MT. Murray, when the Commancne Indians swooped down on Texas anc robbed scalped and murdered people, the Texas rangers promptly ran them out After peace was restored an Indian went to the Indian agent at Anadarko, and said:
 ." IT want a rifle
 "The agent said to him: You cannot have it. You might shoot a soldier with it.
 The Indian replied: No, I do not want to shoot a soldier. We kill soldier with stick. l want rifle to shoot Texas ranger with. "
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INN N February 2 1892, was terminated N one of the most interesting do- O nestle trials in the history O. the
 New York courts, that of Carlyle M.
 Harris. for the poisoning of his wife just
 cne year and day before. The jury
 had deliberated several days before they
 reached a verdict, and on the following February s the sentence of death was pronounced by Recorder Smyth, to take ! place during the week of March 21. The prisoner was respited and the execution
 was delayed for more than q year and l finally. took place on May s, 1S93
 Carlyle Harris was descended from a prominent New York family aid first
 met Miss Helen Potts in the sumaer of
 1889 at Ocean Grove, N. ]. At the time
 he was only 20 years of age. They were 1 secretly mail ed the following .'chruary
 Harris was It tine time a student at a mcdlo:l s:hcol and desired that thc mar
 riage should I.0t be generally known, but
 the mother of the girl insisted or a
 marriage by minister, the first ceremony having been performed by an alderman.
 Harris had evidently become tired Of his child-wfe ard his visits were necom- ing less frequ ant. On January D he sc- ' cured a prescription for six capsules, each to contain 1rc-sixth of grain Of lncr- phine and four and 6 half grains uf ,;ni
 nne. He save lieien four of Ine ri;ls telling her to take each aignt. On
 the evening "f saturday, January 31
 Helen took the last pill and went to bed. She became veiy ii that night al6 .lfd
 at Il o'clock the folio wing Sunday horn ing.
 | Harris was seiit for He seemeI esre | little for his wif"'s death. He prh5u"oo | the two pi.is kept out of the b5x to
 show that his prescription was all right The contention of the state was that he l had taken out three pills and put in the one that had killed her. Judge Gray of
 the court of appeals says the evidence showed that Harris went away exft ctfng
 that the deadly Dill would be oee of the
 first taken. By q strange coincidence it
 was the last.
 | The apparent preparations Harr's had
 made to clear himself of suspicion aa.d the previous remar AS he had made about ] wishing that Helen was out of the way caused suspicion to fall on him. He re-
 fused also to allow Helen to oe buried
 as Mrs. Harris He told many conflicting
 stories of Helen'.s mother, who repeated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF RLYLE HARRIS

them to the district attorney The .atter presented the facFs to the srdud jusy. | which indicted him on May 13 lSai He was arrested and brought to trial on
 January H. 1892, and the jury three weeks 1 ater brought in d verdict of murder in | the first degree
 When the sentence was passed upon rim that he be executed during thi week
 of March 21, he ;ock an appeal li.t the conviction was unanimously continue by
 the court of appeals After that Harris
 and his counsel 60 all they could to | arouse public sympathy in behalf of the ] prisoner. Lawyer Howe collected m hn-
 mense number of afejdavits that were al- legged to prove that Helen Potts was
 morphine eater On the strength If these he asked for a new trial, which Recorder Smyth refused
 At the time Harris was electrocuted at Sing Sing he was 23 years months and f6 days of age. Upon his casket were
 the words: Murdered. May s, 1893. We would not if we had known-the jury" His dead hand was closed tightly upon
 the testimony sworn to by Mason Craw- ford the juror, who testified that Tad he NhONii ol lHe new eNiueHte He WOulu itt
 have found Harris guilty.
 When Harris was seated ready .o be executed he said to those present: Now that l have no possible reason for trying
 to deceive, l desire to say that die ab- solutely innocent of the crime for which
 I have been convicted"
 | Harris cool to the last lie left l statement of considerable length, which
 was dated May and in wnch lie made | the claim that he was sacrsfice:l in order
 to shield Recorder Smyth and the dist:ic: Attorney. This statement, after copies were made for the press, was given 10 i the mother of the prisoner.
 | William Travis Jerome, who so effec- lively has fought the states case against | Harry K. Thaw, was just as vigorous ill his prosecution of Carlyle w Harris. He worked so hard for conviction that several days before the trial he completely broke down and was compelled to leave the court. After the verdict was rendered criminal lawyers of New York claimed that although a perfect case of morphine 1 poisoning had been made out against the 1 prisoner. yet the prosecution had been weak in it's attempt to connect Harris with l the administration of the morphine by 1 proving a sufficient motive for him io desire the girls death so greatly as to | cause it himself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
A Victim of the Law

A man named Angelo Ruffo recent 1y died in Sing Sing who was serving a sentence of from five to ten years. He was charged with robbery. It was not a prison funeral because the mans pathetic history had become known. The chaplain of Sing Sing and other officials added to the small sum raised by Ruffo's sister and brother in-law, so that the unfortunate con- vict was given a fitting burial.
 Ruffo was innocent of the crime charged against him. His fate was due to ignorance and his blind con fidence in . brother who is profes-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
THE GENIAL WEATHER MAN

From the Washington Star. The weather man sat day by day
 And sang his little tune, Although the skies were dull and gray
 And clouds obscured the moon, Though icices were clinging round
 His eyebrows and his hair His voice would joyously resound
 And warble. Warm and fair. His nose became almost as blue
 As skies for which he sighed. His fingers stiff could scarce pursue
 The lines he penned with pride The frost obscured the window pane
 Through which he gazed with care He still held out for his refrain And warbled, Warm and fair!' "I scorn' auoth he. the man who sinxl Of weather cold or wet. Why keep reminding folks of things They're trying to forget? The bitter winds must change ere long To zerhyrs mild and rare, Ard since it is a plea sant song.
 I'll warble, Warm and fair!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER
IN A MANNER OF WRITING.

IN A MANNER OF WRITING. maid there is in Maryland, in Mary land in Maryland. A maid there is in Maryland whose heaft is mine And golden was the gloriole above her as an oriole An oriole was singing from an apple
 vine. It's down to fair Annapolis, Annapolis,
 Annapolis It's down to fair Annapolis I'll go and
 then I'll buy q lot of lumberland about a mile
 from Cumberland And be the poet laureate of the U. S. N.
 New York Tribune. There is maid in Alabam, in Alabam,
 in Alabam. There is maid in Alabam whose heart
 I'll win. played with her at krokinole, together
 We drank coco-cole And she is not so very od,\ but only
 thin. It's down to dear old Birmingham. old
 Birmingham. old Birmingham It's down to dear old Birmingham I'll
 go and wait. I'll buy an acre just for her in the suburbs
 of Bessemer
 And be the poet laureate of the state THE SPICE OF LIFE. He: That White House must be the busiest place in the whole land" She: Why SOP" He: Its been nothing but ultimatums going out and wedding trousseaus coming in for a year" TWIXT TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEE-
 DLEDEn Wife: T visited the movies of the Balkan war today and saw real battle."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
NEICHBORLY

From Everybody's Magazine.
 A South Dakota state senator recently gave a new illustration of that fine say iIg of an ancient philosopher, Man was born for mutual assistance
 A customer entered the small town barber shop.
 How soon can you cut my hair?' he asked of the proprietor, who was seated fin an easy chair, perusins the pasges of a dime novel.
 "Bll," said the barber, addressing his errand boy, run over and tell the editor that I'd like my scissors, if he's got done edith the paper. Gentleman waitin for a hair-cut'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
Stewards Ice Box

It is just forty-seven years almost to the day since Secretary of State Seward, who has long gone to his rest, negotiated the purchase by the United States of Alaska from Russia.
 The acquisition was ridiculed by the public and the tract of land, though embracing an area the size of the Atlantic states in the aggregate and costing but s7,2OO, 1000, was deemed of so little value that to it was given the name Stewards Ice Box"
 The Secretary, however, was a true seer, ignoring the prods of his critics, and died with the prediction upon his lips that within a generation the world would accredit to his admins tration the purchase of Alaska as it's greatest achievement The United States christened it's new possession Alaska-a corruption of the native tongue Al-ay-eska, which signifies a "great Country" It was not great country then, but is upon the outskirts of such a status now and with all the glorious promises of it's magnificent possibilities the last words of Mr. Seward have been confirmed.
 At the time of it's purchase the ter ritory contained few thousand in- habitants, of which several hundred were whites and the remainder na- tives. There were no roads of any character, and its commerce was con- fined to fishing and sealing, which yielded an annual revenue approxi- mating $2,00O,OO0.
 Note the change today when it's re- sources are still an unknown quantity. The new bill just signed by President Wilson carries an appropriation of $35,000,0 900 for the building of a territory; Alaska buys from this country annually $20,O0O, ,O00 of goods and sends to us each year similar amount of her native products. Her gold output reaches annually S20,000,- 900, while the value of her other min erals, yet undeveloped, is beyond es- innate.
 Under the last census Alaska s population included 36,000 whites and 28,000 natives. Her highways, roads and trails cover 5000 miles and some b00 miles of railroads have been built within her confines. The territory has established more than 4000 miles of wire communication and she is just upon the verge of an advance in prosperity and development that bids fair to astound the world. Her fish ing resources are of incalculable value as her shipments of fish oil are now enormous and she will probably be- come the salmon producing center of the world. Her progress will be a race between that of Siberia and Brazil but with American enterprise and in- genuity back of her it is not diff cult to predict which of the three will excel. Stewards Ice Box" is a jewel casket and probably our most precious possession.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
With Good crops

If the country is blessed with large crops again this year. We will have marked prosperity throughout the sum- mer and fall" said S. N. Jacques of Chi cago.
 Business is comparatively inactive at this time, but with the advance of sprins there is sure to he an improvement. l speak with some knowledge of conditions in the west. Trade was brisk in most western cities last fall and conditions while quiet are sound in those cities to- day. I predict great deal of activity by May 1'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
Birmin ham and Railroad Lite

"The railroads traversng this part of the country do a great deal to advertise the south, but my attention was called the other day to the fact that in d recent folder or booklet issued by the Louisville and Nashville Birminghams population was given according to the census figures of 1910 as 132,6S5. while Atlanta appeared with it's later estimated and exaggera ted population,' said club man.
 The New York World Almanac usually gives conservative estimates of the population of the large cities each year, and it would be quite easy for compilers of local statistics for railroad advertising to make use of the Almanac S figures, The estimate given for Birming- ham in the World Almanac of 1913 was 15O,oOO dS0,0OO in 19D. In the 1913 AL manac Atanta's population was given at 225 GOO, which was manifestly an ex- aggeration, for it's census popula ton was only 154000. In this years almanac At lanta had come down in it's estimate to 2G0,o0O"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
QUAKER QUu'S
m the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 You don't have to be deaf mute to realize that actions speak louder than words.
 You can't very well say of doctor that he is doing we'll unless he is doing the sick.
 Many a fellow gets the reputation of being fast when his creditors think he is pretty slow.
 One swallow doesn't make a summer, but a couple of swallows have made many a fellow think he was a bird.
 Even when she feels that she hasn't friend in the world the average woman can always find some. one to tell secret
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
WORK PROGRESSING ON DAMS

From the Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette
 The work on lock IT at Squaw Shoals and at locks Nos. ? and is progressing, and according to reports the dams will be completed after the spring rains are over when the river will reach a low stage, the work will be rushed to completion. It is stated that the contractors will have three working crews. and that the work will be kept going night and day until the dams are finished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

first assistant Murray Nicholson, who was at his right hand in the engineer ing office during his former tenure.
 If much is expected of Mr. Kendrick the city will not be disappointed. the city may feel assured that he will fill the bill in every particular
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
THE REV. A. G. LANE DIES
e Tuscaloosa News.

From the Tuscaloosa News.
 The Rev A G. Lane. a distinguished Presbyterian minister well known in Tuscaloosa, died at his home at La Grange, Ore, Sunday of an attack of apoplexy. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian church at LaGrange at the time of his death. He has frequent ly filled the pulpit at the First Pres byterian church here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
MOBILE CAPITALIST PASSES

From the Mobile Item
 George T. Tonsmeire, for Ia years con- nected with the City Bank and Trust company, of which he had recently been vice president, died at 12:39 o'clock Tues day afternoon at his late residence, 302 South Georgia avenue. He was fl yea,s of age.
 MT. Tonsmeire's death came as the re- suit of stroke of paralysis which he
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suffered last Thursday night in the law office of his brother, Henry Tonsmeire. He never fully regained consciousness after the attack but Monday afternoon he thought to have rallied and his condition was regarded as improved, though physicians announced that the crisis had not been passed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Hear the Goosebone prophet

We are having a remarNably early spring and predict an early and pleasant sumner said an old weather observer
 The gardens and truck farms here abouts will fare well this season, but there will be at least one heavy frost by the middle of April. After that we will have nothing but all right spring weather"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02
AP. 2-EoD.TF

pattle that you saw.
 AP. 2-EoD., TIE Lost. stfayed or stolen in this state, handsome umpire candidate. u may be he is off his base, But we would like to see his face. To press those silken locks of his Against our own admiring phiz Felicitous would make our lot. Oh, cannot some one find our Scott? Now truly this is not a joke Our desire to thinly cloak; You may have heard it often, but Do not deem it a Chestnut When our handsome Scott gets there In the gubernatorial chair, Oh how greatly we'll elat- To live in our proud Umpire State. A LA MEXIeANA. He buzzed an hour round my ear Till in the collar I was hot. He kept it mp another hour
 And then I down the swatter got. I waited for that tarnel fly
 To swat him with mighty sweep: With watchful waiting rested l In patience till I fell asleep.
 NOT UP ON TRouSSEAUS. silas: "The Presidents daughter must be a real suffragette."
 Hez: Why so?"
 Silas: .The papers say she's gone To New York to buy her wedding trousers.'
 EFT TU BRUTE.
 Wife: T just read in magazine that female spiders often devour their mates.' Husband: So ho; it seems that the brutes as well as humans have their suf- fragettes.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

Nerve grafting" is the latest achieve ment of surgery. It has been demonstrate ed that paralSzed limbs can be restored new" If q cut nerve is immediatel re- united there will be no loss of function. If union of the divided nerve is impossible it's degenerated portion and any other convenient nerve may be joined. The nerves of a wthered limb that have lost their function as a result of some injury to the brain or some brain disease, can be connected with a nerve trunk leading to a healthy part of the brain and the inirmty of the limb will be cured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

BEGINNING THE DAY-O Thou. whose ear is ever open to the cry of Thy people, hear me when I call. Thy bosom. have mercy upon me In my need. Q Thou Mighty One of Israel, fight with me and give me the victory in my battle. For Christs sake. Amen.-H. NJ. k.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

Villas Torreon battle was bad for Mr Wilson, says the New York Press. It seems to have been bad for Villa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

There is a system of wireless teegraphy used in dry towns, by which a thirsty man can always get a drink.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

Spring fever is in the air It never gets out of some peoples bones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

Lawyers got only one-tenth of Mrs Mary Baker G. Eddy's estate All lawyers are not greedy it seems.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

Lloyd-George, it is said. is not very pop ular with Queen Mary, but Queen Mary doesn't seem to be very popular with herself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

Chicago's municipal store has done an average business of $9.11 a day. A clerk ship in store like that ought to be cinch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

Billy Sunday says: "The people who knock me are the people who never give how
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

A man named Solitaire told an At lantic City judge that he preferred single blessedness. The prospect of d full house doesn't appeal to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

An actor says the managers are respon- sible for theatres being kept open on Sunday. Still, the public helps by pa- tronizing them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

Twenty three Methodist ministers in New England are paid $500 year or less. How they must yearn for the lecture plat forml
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

You can often tell whether married man is happy or not by the way his wife treats her poodle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

The tango has increased the demand for silk dresses and boomed the silk indus try. Even the tango has it's uses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

It doesn't do any harm to speak a kind word now and then for the railroads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

William J. Burns confesses that he turkey trots. contemporary says Sher- lock Holmes was merely cocaine fiend
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

Perhaps all Predetermined people ought to be registered, but the d. f.'s are too numerous to eatalog.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

King George seems to be in the position of a man who hasn't very much to stand on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

\ feminist orator says it is a serious matter for d woman to be small. Not if she is disposed to keep the peace.
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Husband: No, dearie. it was a rec battle that you saw"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-02

Waahineton bureau. 207 Hibbs build- ing.
 European bureau, Henrietta street Covent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office, Rooms 4S to 50, inclusive, Tribune building, New York City: Western business oillce' Tribune building. Chicago. The 5. '. Beckvith Special Agency, agents TOT eign advertising.
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The uplift movement is responsible for a great deal of fapdoodle.
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Entered at the Birmingham, Aia-' postoffico as second class matter uhaeF net of Congress March 3. 1879.
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~ N February ?. 1892, was terminated one of the most interesting do-
 O nestle trials in the history o. the
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And how is that little garden?

Now for another dreadnaught.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-26
SAYS HE CAN'T
RESIST VICTIMS
CRY FOR DRUGS
DIR. w. l.. Baker Says His Soft
Heart Has Got Him Into
Trouble
ADMITS WRITING MANY
dope" PRESCRIPTIONS
Tells How He First Became In
vOlved in Traffic-Was For
merly Minister

Charged with violating the medical
laws by freely prescribing cocaine to
dope fiends." Dr. William L. Baker,
Of No. so Park-st., former Presbyter-
Ian minister, former postmaster OF
Crosse Pointe village, then superin-
tehdent OF the West Side hospital, and
later trying in Vain TO build up a
practice that would pay him $75 o
month, is held in Ward f, in the top
of the county jail, brooding over the
wreck OF a career, and declaring:
God knows I'm victim of my own
soft heart and not a criminal. /
couldn't refuse such pleas as ! re-
ceived from these cocaine tiends. for
lust enough of the stuff TO ease their
sufferings | didn't make a business
OF giving prescriptions The police
say they have 176 OF my prescriptions
| guess they have. | was to get 80
cents apiece for prescriptions. but
half Of the patients never paid me"
Dr. Baker, "a years old, waived to
the recorders court when arraigned
before Justice Gainey. He had no
attorney. He says he hasn't cent
TO hire one. He says perhaps he viii
get bail If a certain man whom he
knows will furnish IT, He hopes that
the man will come 10 his aid.
Bakers story of his own life re-
veals as big a tragedy in the case as
any OF the dope tragedies.
No college diploma gained him his
certificate to practice medicine. He