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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
WITNESS TURNS TABLES on JUDGE

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From the Chicago Tribune.
William Melnick of 5015 South Ash
land avenue was testifying before
Judge SABBATH yesterday against joseph
Brew, charged with firing bullet at
Melnick.
..Did you see any shot fired?" asked
Brewe's attorney
II heard it." said Melnick.
did you see the shot fired?" the at
torney reiterated.
II heard it, repeated Melnick. The
attorney looked appalingly to the
judge.
Answer the question:" the court d.
rected. Did you see the shot firedg
mo, but 1 heard it," said Melnick
Motion to strike out" said the at
torney ~
Motion granted. Defendant dis
missed" said the judge. Melnick stepped
from the witness stand laughing.
What do you mean by laughing so
sarcastically in my court?" asked the
judge.
"Did you see me laugh?' asked
Melnick.
NO, but 1 heard you,p answered the
Judge.
"Motion to strike out. said MelniclS.
Motion granted said the court with
smile
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF THE TWEED RING

less efforts of Mr.. Tilden that this work
was successful.
When Tweed was arrested on October
2S he was released on bail to the extent
of 81 100000. His trial began on Novem-
ber 10. 1873, but the jury disagreed on
the first suit and he was again arrested
on December 16, and on this suit he was
convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of
si2,5OO and to suffer 70 years imprison-
ment. This sentence was set aside by the
court of appeals and Tweed's discharge
was ordered.
In the meantime other suits had been
brought, among them one to recover S.
100000. Failing to find bail for 5000. 900.
he was sent to the Ludlow Street jail.
Being allowed to ride in the park and
occasionally to visit his dwelling, one
day he escaped from his keepers. After
hiding for several months he succeeded
in escaping to Cuba. The American con-
sui procured his release-his passports
having been given him under an assumed
name-but later found him out.
The discovery was too late, for Tweed
had again escaped and embarked for
Spain, thinking there to be at rest, as
we then had no extradition treaty with
that country Landing at Vigo he found
the governor of the place waiting with
police for him, and he was soon homeward
bound on an American war vessel
Caleb Cushing. our minister at Ma
drid, had learned of his departure for that
realm, and had put the authorities ON
their guard. To help them identify their
man he furnished a caricature by Mast,
representing Tweed as Tammany police
ban gripping two boys by the hair.
Though everything possible was done to
render him comfortable in jail, Tweed
sighed for liberty. He promised, If re-
leased, to turn states evidence and to
give up all his property and effects
Some papers suggested that the public
pitied the man and would be glad to have
him set free. No compromise with him
was made, however, and he continued in
Jail until his death, in 1878.
No political trial ever held in the
United States created the attention as
did the trial of the Tweed ring. None
of the leading actors failed to pay in
Connolly, the city comptroller, passed
the remainder of his life in exile; Sweeney
left the country and long remained
try: Barnard and McCunn were impeached
and removed from the bench, while Car
dozo resigned his position in time to avoid
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
ACHIEVEMENTS TO HIS CREDIT

From the Selma Times.
The Times has repeatedly said, and it
repeats. that Oscar w. Underwood should
be nominated because he is one of the
nations biggest men, because he has
worked and accomplished things for which
history land we believe the voters of
Alabama) will give him due credit, be-
cause Alabama owes 1t to the nation to
bring forward her best men and give the
United States the benefit of his services.
Captain Hobson is good man, but he
Is not a great man. He has had ample
opportunity in Congress to render valu-
able service, and has but only limited
extent. He does not measure UP with
Mr.. Underwood in any way as useful
public servant. To select Mr.. Underwood
in preference to Mr. Hobson does not
detract from the latter's service, and it
should not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
The Problem of the Socialist

So far as man is able to judge by
his environment it would seem that
the days of art, music and literature
are past, or at least are marking
time. All of the great painters and
sculptors are gone; great authors
passed away with Balzac and the mas
ters of melody are no more,
The last half of the century that has
Just gone was an era of materialism,
q period of inventive industrial activi-
ty and from the hour that Howe con-
ceived his sewing machine down to
the invention of the self binder and the
electric plow, the cotton gin and the
typewriter man devoted his talents to
the lifting of the burdens of labor
from the shoulders Of his fellow be-
ihgs. -i@ aN
The old adage was that the work
man should own his tools, but that era
has passed. The cobbler no longer
bends over the last and awl to supply
the limited local demand, and the
blacksmith shop has ceased to be an
adjunct of the farm. The family loom,
the bake oven and the lye hopper are
today curiosities that few of this gen.
Grafton ever beheld.
Specialization is now the spirit of
the hour and domestic labors have
been removed to the factory. In some
respects economics have Joined hands
with religion and the question of saw
ing the body marches in the same
ranks with the problem of saving the
soul. ..........,.... =,
The great railroads Of the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
What has become of the old ashioned
man who always had a pocket full OF
dirty white peppermint lozenges that he
gave to the children he met?
job imagined he was up against it. But
he never sued railroad for $4,000 and
had to wait 10 years to get verdict of
10 cents
There are a lot of busy people in the
world, including the men who stand in
line waiting for seat in moving pic
ture show.
is going to convert me by telling wha.
bad man he was before he was saved,
and how he used to beat his wife and
steal milk from blind babies.
A woman can always start fight with
her husband about where they would
build their palatial residence if he was
getting $4,000 per week instead of SIS.
When man is going to marry a girl
she knows it six months before ne makes
up his mind about it.
A woman can always see how much
her figure is improving and how much
worse other women's figures are getting.
1t is funny that man who is so careful
not to spoil his features that he Uses a
safety razor when he shaves will think
nothing of fooling around with a married
woman
The reformers who advocated the Pas
teurized kiss seem to have overlooked the
need of a Pasteurized tango.
If woman loves man, a little thing
like glass eye or a wooden leg doesn t
make any difference. But man can t
see a woman who is built that way.
Considering the fact that you can al
ways start a new religion, 1t is funny
that lot of men are content to work
for a living.
The trouble with being near-sighted is
that man is liable to mistake his wife
for some other woman and be polite to
her.
After all, it wasn't mothers cooking
as much as your appetite that made the
difference when you were boy.
An expert on hygiene declares that
women will continue to wear less cloth
ing each year. Some one is going to get
arrested this summer, and Luke is mighty
glad he isn't blind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER
MY ORCHESTRA.
iings down my chimney,

When the wind sings down my chimney,
A sweet harbinger of sleep,
Enhancing are the melodies
That i'll its soft croonings creep
Its tones are sometimes tenebrous, u
Its low fittings often sad,
But they awaken memories
That enchant and make me glad.
When it's blowing from the Northland
With breath of sprite or NIKE,
am sure l hear 1t sobbing
Il wish I was in Dixie"
When from the fair Southland's meadows
1t sweeps m all aquiver;
For then 1t sweetly sings to me
Down on the S'wanee river
But If the far-off Orient
A deep key sets atuning
Rocked in the Billows of the Deep
Is what my chimney's grooming.
And when some swaying, wild strophe
Is breathed by fay or fairy,
1 sense the calling of the West,
I'm the Belle of the Prairie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

~ = October Is, 1S7b the tweed
ring, one of the most corrupt po-
- litical rings that has ever elected
itself into American politics, saw the be-
ginning of its end in the arrest of Will
liam Marcy Tweed its leader. This ring
had become notorious in the frauds it
had committed and for several years ef-
forts had been made to disrupt it and to
bring its leaders to the bar of justice.
In the summer of 1870 proof was pub
ished of vast frauds by leading New
York city officials and Tweed, in the
language of Judge Noah Davis. saw fit
to pervert the powers with which he was
clothed, in a manner more infamous, more
outrageous, than any instance of like
character which the history of the civ
ilized world afforded
The multitudinous officials of New York
were the rings slaves. The thugs of
the city were nicknamed "Tweed's lambs
and they rendered invaluable services at
caucus and convention. When thieves
could be kept in power by such means
plunder was easy ana DraZen. Oontrdc-
tors on public works were Systematically
forced to pay handsome bonuses to the
ring One of them testified at the trial:
.'When l commenced building / asked
Tweed how to make out the bills, and he
said: Have Is per cent over. I asked
what that was for and he said Give that
to me and l will take care of your bills.'
l handed him the percentage after that"
But all the other enterprises of the
'ring" dwindled into insignificance when
compared with the colossal frauds that
were committed in the building of the new
courthouse for the county. When this
undertaking was begun it was stipulated
that its total cost should not exceed $780,
O00 but before the ring" was broken up,
upwards of $S000,000 had been expended
and the work was not completed.
The beginning of the end of the reign
of the ring" came in July, 1871, when
copies of some of the fraudulent accounts
came into possession of a New York
newspaper and were published. The re-
suit of these exposures was meeting
of citizens early in September. 1t was
followed by the formality of a sort of
peaceful vigilance committee, under the
imposing title of the committee of TO-"
This committee, together with Samuel ].
Tilden. went to work at once and with
great energy to obtain actual proof OF
the frauds, and it was owing to the tire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
AIsbama,s Fancy peef

THE arrival in Birmingham of three
carloads of 'top-notch' beef cattle pro-
duced in south Alabama, which were re-
Gently purchased by my firm for local
consumption, has aroused renewed in
terest in Alabama's cattle raising pos
sbilities," stated I. B. Tanner of the
firm of Tanner Brothers, the Fourth
avenue. meat and produce dealers.
The cattle in qeustion were bred by
]. T. Stokeley of this city on his great
farm near Demopolis. Heretofore Mr.
Stokeley has placed his young steers
on the chicago and Kansas City mar
kets, as the price obtained there was
considered too high for southern m9-
sists of 3year- r-old steers in excellent
conditions, whose average gross weight
is more than 1900 pounds, which net
about 60 per cent. Indeed one carload
has already been dressed out, and is
now on sale to the Birmingham public.
THE good meat trade of Birmingham
demands the best that can be produced
in this country, and II has been our
custom to supply this demand from the
impossible for southern cattemen to
compete with the western ranchers In
quality. The members of my firm were
among the experienced meat men OF
Birmingham who were surprised at the
showing made by the Alabama product;
but as soon as we were convinced that
the Alabama cows had the quality we
We're not slow to act. Since our first
carload of Alabama meat has been
placed on exhibition compliments and
expressions of astonishment on the
part of veteran meat men of Birming-
ham have been numerous.
What Mr.. Stokeley has accomplished
on Alabama land can be duplicated by
any man of enterprise and resource
who will not tolerate scrub stock. The
young steers before mentioned are of
the following breeds: Short Horns,
Black Polands and White Faces. The
Birmingham market is always open to
quality meat, whether produced in
Alabama or. Texas"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
LAUGH AND SOB FOR HIRE

From the Chicago Journal
The theatrical claquer has ever been ar
institution in France, especially where
chef de claque' enjoys recognized
status and receives a comfortable in
come. 1t is mistake to suppose that the
only duty of claquers is to applaud A
we'll organized claque includes some
members who have cultivated the art of
infectious laughter. These, called
'chatoulleurs, attend the lighter FORMS
of drama and laugh SO heartily and nat
urally that their> neighbors join in and
leave the house convinced that the play
must be a most amusing cne. >rhen, too.
there are the ''pleureuses," who are sad
in melodrama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
PERFORMING ANIMAL FINED

From the London Chronicle.
In the United States performing ami
mails run risks which they are spared in
this country Some years ago a CHM
panzee who gave a performance on the
lines of those now at Olympia, visited
South Bend, Ind. Among other tricks
he smoked cigarette. AS soon as he
lit up a policeman stepped forward and
asked for the animals name, in order
that summons might be issued against
him for infringing a law of the Indiana
legislature prohibiting cigarette smok-
ing.
In court the following day it was
pleaded that the chimpanzee could hard
ly be expected. to know the extent of
his guilt; but the magistrate ruled that
ignorance was no excuse for law break
ing, and fined the defendant the sum OF
S, which was paid by his trainer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

Some little time back both the Cana
dian and this government were consi1-
crably alarmed at the immense migra- :
tion of farmers from the northwestern
states to the dominion, the former fear
ing that the nation would become Amer
icanized and the latter regretting to lose
its citizens. 1t was soon found, however,
that the immigrants who remained in
Canada became more loyal Canadians
than the natives, but that nearly as
many returned to the United States as
left It, Statistics show that in the LIST
six years the settlers in Canada iron,
the states numbered 6ls,1 112, while those
coming from the dominion into our ter
ritory numbered 5949l9, leaving but 13 igs
permanent settlers, or not 1000 per an
mum, mere drop in the bucket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
Alabama Product in Washington

Alabama iron, in the form of white
way posts, is now being placed along
Pennsylvania avenue in Washington.
and furthermore, the posts were manu-
featured in Admission. They won out
over designs submitted from all parts
of the country and are regarded as
one of the most attractive and most
ornamental features of that historic
avenue.
The lesson from Mr.. Schumacher's
success in placing these posts in Wash
ington can be taken to heart by every
manufacturer in Alabama. This states
products are equal to any in the world
and, men who go out into the world
markets to place their goods are sure
to be successful. a'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
OUR TRAvELSCoPE.

Lueerne, January 1s-Coming here we
crossed the Lake of the Four Cantons,
and it was so cold that ma and l both
wore our cantons On the way we saw
Tells chapel. Tell was a fine clay pigeon
shot. He shot an apple from the apple
of his eye and had something to boot
an arrow that he hid there. We went to
see Thorwalsden's lion. 1t is cut in the
living rock but the lion Is dead; he looked
SO natural, just as if he had been rocked
to sleep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
LIRE HOME To HIM.
he New York Times.

From the New York Times.
Westerner dn board steamer bound
for America)--It's going to be praity fine
to get back again. Didn't you get aw-
fully homesick in Europe among SO many
strange faces and languages?
Easterner-Nope. not at all; felt right
at home.
Western Why, how could YOU?
Easterner-Dead easy. You see; live
in New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

Recent investigation of the New \ or,s,
the startling fact that over s324 900 600 OF
it's manipulations. representing MT a
farthing in value, were foisted On the
backs of the people and that $4,000 went
as donation to the republican national
campaign fund. Is it any wonder that
a cry is being heard all over the land for
government ownership of the country's
railroads?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
OUR WALL STREET COLUMN

From Life.
Mr.. Herbert Hobbleton. head Of the
firm of Hobbleton, F1eecum & Co.. fought
a new 5O-cent cravat yesterday.
A stranger from the west wandered into
the street this morning and orderer a
share of stock.
Several members OF the stock exchange
are buying hand organs on the install-
ment plan for use on their summer yaca-
tions. -
day on the floor. 1t was much admired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
Claims Earth. Is Hollow

"While l. pretend to know little or
nothing about astronomy said we'll
known man yesterday, II have been
greatly interested lately In little
booklet written by we'll known Amer
lean astronomer seeking to prove that
the earth Is only a shell, like round
porch-light globe with holes at each
of its poles and that 1t Is inhabited
on the inside of the shell just the same
as it is on the outside.
knowing little about astronomy my
self, I am unable to bring much argu-
ment for or against his theory. but 1
can see very plainly where he has am
ple grounds to support himself His
main proof. as I see 1t. is the fact that
all explorers who have approached the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
UNDERWOOD TO RECEIVE REWARD

FfOm tHe CTeeHVIIIe IIFIIIS ITuNTI'
Stick -to-the- job Underwood is giving
the people the service they are paying
winning campaign for him.
Underwoods into.ests will not suffer at
the hands of his friends for they will see
that conscientious public official who
will not cheat the people out Of the ser
vice the reward due the greatest living
Albanian. He Is the genuine article,
made up of the right material. full meas
ure and weight and would-be substitutes
need not try to I'LL his place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

street car passenger in Tarrytown
found himself without fare, but upon
finding in his basket a newly laid egg.
he offered it to the conductor for trans
portation, and it was accepted. This
would be handy if adopted by The paw
as-you-enter car system. There would be
no bother about having the exact change
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
MOONLIGHT

BY Herbert Kennedy.
Bright as the golden lily. ripple driven.
Floating, beneath the hawthorn flowers
OF June;
So, stargirt in purple pool of heaven
Swan the low glory of the desert moon.
And all the earth lay trembling tn =
swoon
OF slumbering loveliness: until my brain
Thrilled through with JOY and the desire
ApSf2 ssdrs tssnf wt61 p5ssest pain
!. And. -eaP N. .San2k from me elnto -sloab.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
CULTIVATE HIM.

Though not so sweet as a rhodo-
Dendron, the skunk is our alls.
While just now he's in bad odor.
He'll smell sweeter by and bv.I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

Comptroller John Shelton Williams lays
Birmingham has as good a chance for a
regional bank as any other city in the
country. No city is sure of getting one.
not even New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
BARMECIDAL FEAST.

Peaches and cream had last night
Though not at an eating place.
The peach was the girl | called upon,
The cream she had on her. face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
COAL TO LAST CENTURIE.

From the New York Times.
The International Geographical con-
gress has issued a monograph, the
coal resources Of the world Sixty-four
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Teacher. Tommy, what is the. text for
today?"
Tommy: 'It is easier for rich man to
pass through the eye of a needle thai. it
is for a camel to get to heaven"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

The Rev. Charles B. Bullard u the
Elmwood Presbyterian church, last Or
ange, n. j., has resigned because of a
recent dance in the parish house. He
says: Men cannot tango with the devil
and walk with GodF' This is speaking
rather harshly of the ladies unless the
men danced with partners of the male
sex
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

Commissioner Weatherly says Firs [
That crossing has been the sceLe of
more accidents. than any other in the
city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

The international conference on safety
at sea, which has just come to close
In London has succeeded In securing IA
nations to the compact. Among the pro-
visions of the agreement are the equip
ping of all vessels carrying 80 phssen-
gers with wireless service of at least
1O0 miles range, the exercising of dscre-
ton by the master of the vessel IN dis
to assistance the discrimination rs 70
what shall constitute dangerous cargo
minimum number of lifeboats, crew. ETC.
Neptune bound, gagged and pilloricd in
the stocks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

Government mineral experts declare
that while they have not as yet had suf
heient opportunity to thoroughly DEM
onstrate the quality of the Bering coal
in Alaska. it has been satisfactorily
shown that the product has nearly so per
cent of the efficiency of the best naval
coal mined in the United States and this
Notwithstanding the fact that the coal
had been exposed to the weather for
year. Surely our fathers builded higher
than they knew when they paid Russia
but 100000 for her Alaskan possessions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
VOICES oF THE NIGHT.

VOICES OF THE. NIGHT. =
THAT was a pretty high wind we had
last night said a South Highlander. Il
left my automobile in the yard and the
wind blew the siren of the machine all
night long, so that I got very little
sleep"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

Man 1. a giddy thing, and that is my
con nclusion.
Much Ado About Nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

T. C. Adams, a full blooded Indian Of
the Delaware tribe, denies that his race
is dyin gout, but says that upon the
contrary it is steadily increasing. He
claims that there are $1,000 registered In
dian voters in America and 65o,0J0 eligible
for registration. Adams asserts tlaat .ho
Indian woman was the original suffra-
gette and inventor of the tango, hut that
they would never tolerate the dance as
executed today on account of it's degener-
ate suggestiveness. There may be some
thing in the smashing of windows that
is akin to the squaw nature but the gem
efal conception of that worthy lady has
always been that she is too sad TO at
tempt anything so fiippant as the tango.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
ANOTHER ONE.

Mary had little dough
Twas left her by her dad
And everywhere that Maryd go
There went some busted cad
Florida Times-U Union.
Johnny had but little dough.
Perhaps twas just a quarter:
But he had winning ways. so
He won a bankers daughter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

MOST OF us do not have to worry about
revenue Collector McNeels efforts to
get the income tax paid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
ENTOMOLOGY.

Simpkins: 'T see that ex-President Taft
has 35 pair of trousers"
Mrs. Simpkins: ''Sakes alive: why that
man must be centipede."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
PARADOXICAL

Love at locksmiths laughs;
Naught his way can block.
Though the smith he shuns,
He aims for wedlock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

A ]. Eaton, Jr., and o. e. Young are
the only authorized travelling repre-
sentatives of The Age-Herald in Its cir
culation department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala,
postoffice as secoLd class matter unoer
act of Congress Marcn ). 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

TELEPHONE
Bell tprivare exchange connec'ss -'
departments), Mafn 1000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

~ October IS, 1S7l the Tweed
ring, one of the most corrupt po-
litical rings that has ever elected