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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE

INN September IS, 1s5O' President Willard Fillmore signed the fla O nous fugitive slave law. This law created no end of excitement in
 the north, as it created satisfaction in the south and southwest in which sec tion 1t originated. Thousands of slaves had fled from their owners in the south
 and had settled in the north, where they felt perfectly secure, but this new law
 permitted the hunting down, capture and return of these slaves to their own CTS Naturally the attempt on the part of southern slave owners to reclaim what they considered was their prop erty, led to many serious complications and trials were being constantly held in northern states in an effort to carry
 out the provisions of this law.
 One of the most remarkable of these trials was that of John Freeman, in 1852. Freeman had married Letitia They began married life in Indianapolis
 and being industrious soon acquired city property. The fact that they were colored soon attracted attention. In 1852, after few years of prosperity, John Freeman was kidnapped by Mis- souri shareholder, Pleasant Ellington, who claimed that Freeman was his l slave.
 Freeman was thrown into Jail and the following morning his wife was told that at { o'clock that evening her hus- band would be taken back to slavery i in Missouri. The wife and mother pleaded that her husband was a free
 born colored man from Virginia, and
 that he was never in the state of Mis-
 souri. She had papers to prove the
 fact that Freeman was free-born,
 signed by such men as LeRoy Patilit,
 Judge c. M. Jennings and Howell Cobb, ex-speaker of the House of Representa-
 lives, then governor of Georgia.
 1 Mrs. Freeman took tho case to a 1 lawyer by the name of John Coburn,
 who assured her that he would see to
 it that her husband as not taken out
 Of the city until he should be given a
 fair trial Freeman was held in jail
 for 60 days, during which time his I wife was compelled to hire guard at $2 per day to see that he might not
 be spirited away and taken over the l line into Kentucky.
 I The prisoners wife was not permit ted to go inside of the jail. but she pre-
 vailed upon the sheriff to allow her to place ladder against the outside win
 dow, and each day, rain or shine. she | would appear at the Jail with her child
 on one arm and little basket of pro- visions on the other.
 1 In the meantime. Coburn was making
 a speedy trip through the south securing witnesses for the trial He was able
 to secure number of shareholders from Georgia. Virginia and Alabama to
 come to Indianapolis to testify. On
 the day of the tsial 1t was estimated that 10000 people had gathered ! in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT ENDING THE
 POLITICAL TURMOIL AND OTHER TOPICS

," NERYoNE Is glad the first eleetiof primary is over. and it Is to b'
 hoped that in the second prima-- between Conner and Henderson for gov. ernor the viciousness of the first will b. eliminated
 These two men are ranked in the class of gentlemen. Let them and their friends exhibit this fact to the people of the state in the second primary. And I do hope the newspapers will not attempt to dig up any more snakes. yenomous edl- toTials like abuse on the stump, create poison which is slow of elimination from the system.
 Speaking about criticism, there was much of it during the week before the election against The Age Herald for it's forecast of the election result. Yet that forecast was the most accurate that has ever been made by a newspaper in
  America
 The Hobson people were the primary critics, yet The Age-Herald forecast came within 1os of his actual vote when he boiled 53,499
 really believe that Hugh Roberts in his system of working up this foreca St exhibited the scent of well trained pointer dog that shows by his action the size of a eovey.
 This forecast also predicted within one thousand of the total number of votes cast, when the total number polled was 1s859s
 Everyone connected with ThefAge-Her- aid is proud of the fact that it is always first and primarily accurate
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 My good friend, Josephus Daniels. Sec retary of the Navy, has aroused the ire of the oId-time naval officers in issuing an order to prevent the use of beer wines or liquor on our naval vessels This order places the naval officer in very unfortunate category. It will make
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

the then little city of Indianapolis to witness the trial.
 Ellington also had the best counsel
 money could secure, and from the sur
 rounding country the best legal talent had gathered to hear the case, which
 was afterwards known as the famous fugitive slave case" Many lawyers spoke in favor of the fugitive slave and of- fered their services in the case. while just as many argued that the case
 should be tried fully and decided as the
 new law directed.
 When Freeman was brought in he
 was handcuffed and blindfolded. When the blindfold was removed he recog- nized many persons who had come from the states named and whom he for
 merly knew John Coburn, the attor-
 ney then rose and addressed the judge, jury and people, declaring that these
 men were from Georgia, Virginia and Alabama and were there to defend
 Freeman as having been free-born.
 First he introduced Judge Jennings, and l then he introduced the governor of | Georgia.
 Freeman was freed practically with ouI any eViuence being gwen, aud the arrest of Ellington was demanded. The court placed judgment against him
 for s2o00; but he had fled from tie
 courtroom as soon as he saw how the case was going and before papers could
 be served upon him he was over the
 Ohio river in Kentucky.
 The Judgment for $2000 was never
 paid. However, the trial had cost the
 Freemans something over s300O and
 they were not able to meet the expen-
 ses. To help them money came from all sections of the country, from people
 who had only heard of the case, and
 all the expenses of the trial were liqui- dated
 1 The late ex-President Benjamin liar
 rison was one of the lawyers who de- | Tended John Freeman in the trial Af- ! ter the assassination of Lincoln the
 Freemans moved to Canada, where they
 resided until 1870, after which they
 took up their home in Topeka, Kan,
 where both of them died only . short
 time ago at a good old age. l FT--
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Monday n Legal Ho,,d.x

sApril.l3 is the anniversary of the birth or Thomas Jefferson and Is legal holiday In Alabama remarked a professional man. T have always been democrat and am an ardent admirer of Jefferson. He was a philosopher and seer as well as practical statesman. but I do not think We should make his anniversary a legal holiday, especially since Virginia has not done so.
 As there Is little or no observance of Jeffersons day. in political or educational circles l believe it would be a good idea Tor the new legislature to drop April 1S from the list of holidays and restore Good Friday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
A New College President

Educational leadership in Alabama ha s been greatly strengthened by the acces- sion of Dr. Paul VI Bonner to the presi- dency of Judson college at Marion" said Dr. Il. o. Murfee, president of the Marion institute, who has been in attendance on the Alabama Educational association.
 'Dr. Bonner Is a distinguished gradl1- ate of Wofford college in South Carolina and of the Southern Baptist Theological seminary at Louisville. He unites in high degree ripe scholarship, liberal culture and mature experience. He has previously de- ciined calls to college professorships and presidential positions. but finally yielded to the insistent demand of hls friends that he devote his conspicuous talent and genius for leadership to the cause of education in Alabama by accepting the presidency of Judson. President Bonner has been in attendance throughout the sessions of the Alabama Educational as- sociation, and is deeply interested in the betterment of the entire school system of the commonwealth
 The educational forces of Alabama will be strengthened by the leadership of the new president of Judson college"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

, him the laughing stock of the other navies of the world. What shall the admiral of a fleet do when at anchor in foreign waters. if called upon by naval officers of other countries, by port officers and by royalty of the European countries? He will be considered unciviI if he does not offer a glass of wine to his guest.
 It Is the custom of all navies, and un- less it is permitted our naval officers will be the subject of thu ridieule of the world
 I remember once when I was news paper correspondent during the closing days of the Chinese-Japanese war, of an our former Secretary of State.
 General Foster was in China as coun- sel to Ii Hung Chang and was dele gated by the Chinese government to be present as advisor during the formality of turning over the island of Formosa to the Japanese. The incident occurred aboard Chinese cruiser anchored off Tamsui, in Formosa.~
 The stingy people,'' said General Fos- ter, with a contemptuous expression, as he returned from the formalities. They simply opened one pint bottle of cham pagne for six people to celebrate the oc- casion."
 And yet the Chinese government paid General Foster fifty thousand Mexican dollars for his services on this occa- sion.
 Naval etiquette throughout the world requires; and it is an un~ritten law, that at functions on shipbo.rd wine shall be served.
 Secretaries Bryan and Daniels are play ing a bit too much to the galleries in their prohibition proclivities.
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 Returning to the state political situa- tion. I hope the prohibition issue will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

The exact location of the house where Byron lived while in Rome has been discovered. That the poet lived In the Piazza de. Spagna was known, but there was some doubt ax to the number of his address. Ambassador Page stated at a meeting of the Shel- ley assocation in Rome that he had seen letter sent from Venice to Lord Byron in care of a banker, who di- rected it to 66 Piazza de Spagna. The number has not been changed since By ron's time, and the house has appar- ently not been altered. It Is almost op- poslte the house in which Keats lived It was built in the eighteenth century and is now occupied by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
WHAT WON FOR ATLANTA

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal
 The Atlanta Constitution says the At lanta spirit won the regional bank for that city. The Atlanta Journal says that Hoke Smith won the regional bank for Atlanta. The Georgian says the hank came to Atlanta because of the effofes of MT. Hearst. Probably all three helped to get the bank for Atlanta, for the amount of banking capital in Atlanta and the amount of deposits in Atlanta and Atlanta's position in the banking worlc in competition with New Orleans and Louisville would not have got it a cast register.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
BEGINNING THE DAN-I would

BEGINNING THE DAA-I would fix my eyes today. Goh, upon "s
 risen Lord. May l know Him not only as dying hut ns rising asain' having broken asunder the bands or death, Show me the pendent seni or the empty tomb. show me the Nie- tor coming forth clad for the sky 0 Thou Conuueror of the last enemy pbou art my Hero, my King. Fill me with the unauenchabie hope be- gotten In Thy victory. With Ihee | shall be unmoyed even In the crash of worlds and the wreck Of time, my Lord and my God. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
EASTER HYMN

" CIdTIeS WeSIey.
 Christ the Lord Is risen today, Sons of men and angels say:
 Raise your joys and triumphs high, Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply. Loves redeeming work Is done, / Fought the fight, the vistory won: Jesus agony Is OCT,
 Darkness veils the earth no more. Vain the stone, the watch, the seal, Christ hath burst the gates of hell; Death in vain forbids Him rise, Christ hath opened Paradise Soar we now where Christ hath led. Following our exalted Head; Made like Him, like Him. we rise; Ours the cross. the grave. the ukies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

ioAi JQuSe. He came home just before dinner
 and hung up his hat. She failed to meet him at the door. as was her custom.
 so he wandered out to the kitchen. At the door he halted, somewhat discon- cerned.
 Whats this, Isabel? Green hair?" She was bending over he frying pan and didn't deign to notice him. And purple eyebrows" The slice of ham in the pan squirmed,
 and she stabbed 1t viciously Why, Isabel" he went on whimsi- cally, q didn't know you went in for these extreme fashions.' She tossed back one rainbow lock and fixed him with s6nbaleful eye. A Look here, you!" she hissed. 1T don't @want any funny talk out of you! I'm
 all worn out dyeing Daster sggsl''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
TouJoURS LA MEME.

Her dear head fell upon my breast,
 Her eyes with love aflame, As in a trembling voice she cried
 "Toujours, toujours la Meme, !" Toujours la meme: ah, little girl, Take care, the story's old; The frailty of woman's love
 In every tongue is told. With laughter and with mockery, With grief. with crime and shame, The shifting shades as well might cry "Toujours, toujours la meme" I'll learn the lesson from thy lips And tell it unto thee As at thy feet to thee I pledge Eternal constancy. And when thou hast forgotten me,
 Forgotten cen my name, Thou'lts find it traced upon my tomb Tonjours. toujours la meme.
 RICHMOND P. ROBSON. Here lies Gods masterpiece,
 Acme of male perfeetion; Upon life he held lease
 Now cancelled by election. He'll hear the resurrection horn Of the Angel Gabriel; In Alabama was he born
 And he died in April.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

be gathered up, and the same bodies used again in another world. Paul distinctly says the reverse in the last part of the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians.
 For our spiritual upbuilding let us make continuing present out of the verb in the text, and thus get the emphasis that Jesus used "This mortal must be putting on immor- tality." q give unto them eternal life," not q shall give" He said Let us be putting on immortality as some garment rich with the richness of heaven. Eternal life is perhaps the noblest conception in human think ing. Let us ennoble ourselves by be- ginning now to walk with the purity and the dignity and the power of inn mortality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
AS CHINA SEES THE WHITES

AS CHINA SEES THE WHITES From the Kansas City Star.
 In his book, "The Chinese Revolution," Arthur J. Brown reprints a paragraph written by a Chinese who had seen much Shanghai.
 We are always told that the countries of the foreign devils are grand and rich" the Chinese observed, 'but Shat cannot be true, else what do they all come here for?
 They jump around and kick balls as if they were paid to do it. Again you find them making long tramps into the coun- try; but that is probably a religious duty, for when they wave sticks in the air mo- body knows why. They have no sense of dignity, for they may be found walking with women. Yet the women are to be pitied. too. On festive occasions they are dragged around a room to the ac- compartment of the most helish music.''
 Another interesting paragraph is from the pen of Chinese who had just re- turned from a tour of Europe and North America He wrote to relative as fol- lows:
 You cannot civilize these foreign devils. They are beyond redemption. They will live for weeks and months without touch- ing mouthful of rice, but they eat the flesh of bullocks and sheep in enormous quantities. That is why they smell so badly. They smell like sheep themselves. Every day they take bath to rid them- selves of their disagreeable odors, but they do not succeed. Nor do they eat their meat cooked in small pieces. It is carried into the room in large chunks, often half raw, and they cut and slash and tear 1t apart. They eat with knives and prongs It makes civilized being perfectly nervous. One fancies himself in the presence of sword-swallowers. They even sit down at the same table with women and the latter are served first re- versing the order of nature"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

not again be injected Into politics for a time. Alabama Is doing we'll now under the local option system. There Is cer- tainly less drinking in Birmingham than during the prohibition era and all classes seem very well content with present con 6itions.
 Business has been dull in the commer- eial centers for six months or more past. and it is indeed time that the people were giving more attention to business and development and less to politics, and the ambitions of men who desire political of flee, regardless of methods in obtaining such.
 I don't believe in the run-off race that there will be much more than two-thirds of the vote of last Monday boiled.
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 By the way, I am forced to the opinion that there are not a great number of chicken and farming experts in Alabama just at the present time. Although I have become a full fedged farmer and chicken raiser, and have asked for sug- gestions, I have received very few. Yet have planted everything that anybody has suggested and have finally persuaded some of the hens to become accfimated and produce few eggs.
 Next Sunday I hope to be able to tell more about the experience of novice in building a country bungalow and es- tablishing a Shades mountain farm
 My first discovery has been that no em- ployed individual likes to do more work than he is absolutely forced to do in cul- tivating the soil, and it strikes me that this is the reason so many people in this section are not successful in farming and gardening.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
The Music Festival Project

If Birmingham is to have music fes tiVal this spring there is little time indeed left in which to advertise 1t and perfect details, as the St. Louis Symphony orches tra, upon which the Birmingham Musical association has an option, has only two open dates, May and 7, said ai sub scriber to the association's stock April 10 was the date optioned but it is believed that further extension Of two or three days will be granted
 May Is only little more than three weeks off, and an active organization might do a good deal of effective adver- tisihg if contract for the orchestra can be closed between now and Wednesday, A splendid chorus under the direction of MT. Rienzi Thomas is assured, and this is really the best feature of the situation as see it. Dubois wonderfully dramatic and melodic oratorio, Paradise Lost ha & been thoroughly rehearsed in sections. l am told, and such being the case, three or four mass rehearsals should be suf- hclent to insure smoothness and finish
 Tt is hoped that the committee which are looking after the financial end of the festival project will be successful. There should be no difficulty in raising the money on the stock subscription plan. The shares are only $1o. No one who is solIc- ited declines to take one share at least. It is only question, then, of getting around and seeing the people,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
The Age Heralds Accurate Election Forecast

The feature vote boiled O he Unofficial
  1200O0
  of it's election Ito the senatorial accurately predicted. The following figures:
 Total Majority -. The Age-terads forecast. 137,591 The Hobson Pickens majority published marvel
 
  joke which the The forecast weeks Its remarkable entirely throughout either
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

Miss Margaret Swinback, 101 years old, voted "dry" in the Illinois election. She can't possibly fight the "demon rum' much longer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
EVER TRY:

From the Louisville Herald.
 Where have you been all day?'
 "Tramping around among my friends on fruitless errand.'' Aha! Trying to borrow money?" Nothing like that. Trying to give away couple of tickets to . lec- ture.".
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

About 40 bahamas for each man, woman and child in the United States were imported last year As long as the peelings are kept off the side walks, let 'em comet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

Torreons misfortunes are said to be due to an accident of geography. The accident of Villas birth is also partly responsible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

A finicky hotel patron who had to have four beds. to sleep in and linen sheets on each bed would probably never survive if he had to make a barn storming tour with a theatrical com pany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

Uncle Joe" Cannon is going around these days with his heart full of hope and his pocket full of cigars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

Sun power will soon replace coal. declares an English engineer. Well, that ought to do away with the smok e nuisance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

The Queen of England is said to en-
 joy gardening. She could probably af- ford to have a chicken farm if she wanted to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

Ladies and gentlemen, patrons of the movies" the next feature film will be entitled "The Hero of Torreon"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

One advantage of city life Is that a man can buy an armful of newspapers fer a dime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

There Is no doubt that summer is on the way. Discussion of safe and sane Fourth" has been revived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

Our idea of an optimist is the man who believes that the 2o-cent mileage graft for congressman is doomed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

A contemporary discusses the '1oan shark situation,' which Is doubtless still susceptible of improvement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

A domestic seismograph would be useful to tell when wifey is about to put her foot down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

Did.t not thou fall out with n tailor Easter: -Homeo m" '"N
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
Federal Reserve Bank

"B. Steiner writes me from New York how much he regretted that Birmingham did not get the federal reserve bank in- stead of Atlanta" said Leo K Steiner.
 He felt that Birmingham was entitled
 to 1t by reason of its strong business showing and its central location. AL though MT B. Steiner lives in New York now, no one is more devoted to Birming- ham, for many years his home, than he. He is always jealous for the reputation of this city and never loses an opportunity of putting in earnest words for Birming-
 ham and the Birmingham district.
 "The best defense that have seen of the action of the federal reserve organiza- ton committees action in the matter of locating the reserve banks was in The Age-Herald's Associated Press Saturday
 morning. I was thinking that politics chiefly had influenced the committee in favor of Atlanta. It had been generally said that Hoke Smith had the matter cinched even before the banking and cur rency bill passed, but 1t now seems by the organization committees statement
 that. quiet ballots were taken in the diff. ferent states of the south, and that a ma jority voted in favor of Atlanta It all
 shows how well the Atlanta people pull together, and how they get to work early. In Atlanta everybody pulls for At- lanta. They were hustlng for the federal reserve bank before Birmingham ever took the matter up. Of course the location of the bank makes little difference no diff ference whatever to the public, which
 does not come in direct touch with it, but Atlanta appreciates prestige, and from that point of view the federal re- serve bank was perhaps worth getting"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
OUT THERE.

It is a great and glorious thing In Texas to abide You're sure of meeting all your friends
 Upon the other side.