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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23
As to the Fee System

Everybody knows how eager the can didates for political office at the re- cent elections were to let it be known that they were opposed to the fee sys- tenn" said a court official, and many of them were materially aided in their election by their advocacy of the anti fee issue Yet since election not one word from the beneficiaries Of the fee system has been heard In the effort to bring about its abolishment Some of the benefciaries of the perniciuus sys- tenn state they are in favor of the abolishment of the fee system provided the salary is made of such amount commensurate with the duties of the office There is scarcely a man reap ing the benefits of the fee system in Jefferson county today that could com mand a salary of over $3500 year if employed by business or industrial concern. yet some of them place such a high value on their services that the mention of such figure as the one quoted above would throw them into mysteries.
 Tt seems to me that 1t is an op- perfume time for some of the success full candidates to show at least a part of the zeal for the abolishment of the fee system as they proclaimed before the election. In the absence of such candidates to show their hand their election promises are certainly subject to severe criticism"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

Citizens of Starkville, Miss, have pro- tested against public hanging scheduled for the holidays in that town. This is to be a legal execution of two negroes, however. and not an al fresco lynchins bee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23
TELEPHONE
Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, might stop . hole to keep the wind away.
 Hamlet.
BEGINNING THE DAy--My Fath-

CT. I thank Thee that Thou under standest the things, which l cannot sax thank Thee that Thou seest ,hc inner grace, hidden beneath the ug,x ernst. thank Thee that Thou nearest the prayer, which men think i. never said. I thank Thee that Thou iudrest the heart, and thnt rhou lnowcst altogether. give myself 10 Thy discerning sympathy. yield my self to the love that never failetn' Amen.-H. M. 10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

magazine writer aptly describes At lanta's police department as the crude product of a small town suddenly grown to metropolitan greatness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

Since that German raid on the coast of England a large number of young Englshmen are convinced that their coun- try does need them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23
DESCRIBED.

DESCRIBED. What sore of fellow is GaddersIy?" "I'il tell you. He donated a couple of worn-out neckties to the stricken Bel gians and now he thinks he's entitled to abuse the Kaiser morning, noon and night"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

Harry Thaw will probably be returned to New York, but if any man thinks the Thaw case Is nearing settlement he had better guess again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

Anybody who has ever tasted mescal will not be surprised to learn that it burned Villas throat Iris fiery stuff and makes mountain dew seem almost as mild as milk, in comparison
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

If 10 of New Yorl1's gunmen had fought that lone lioness instead of 10 New York policemen she would have been pumped
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23
HAS FOUR BOYS.

Christmas will be sad day for Twoh- ble."
 Why so?'
 He'll have to give up the toy steam engines, automobiles. railroad trains and aeropianes he's been playing with every night for the past two weeks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23
ADRIFTl WITH THE TIMES
FIRST AID.

FIRST AID. This little verse Is just a stall To see who'll add To it-that's all. New York Sun. So here is one ,ss.z.z To give it length In union. then There may be strength. Youngstown Telegram. As one good verse Deserves another. We're in it, too, To help you. brother.
 --springyIlle Union. wen add stan Za to 1t, too: To help us out As well as you.
 Peoria Journal. Here's one more It's not the best. But it's about
 Like all the rest. Davenport Daily Times. We fail to see fe Where it is wrong To help a wor- Thy cause along. Waterloo Times-Tribune. We'll lend hand And write a verse 1t may be bad E It might be worse Dubuque Telegraph Herald. e sS It's so near the sr sssf Glad Christmas Time We'll have to help You with your rhyme.
 Houston Post. We don't object To helping you; This fills up space And helps us, too
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

The favorite outdoor sport of the Ger man army In Poland just now is hammer ing the Russ.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23
NEWSPAPER ENGLISH

may attribute to press stories" says Prof. James Melvin Lee, ethe fact re- mains that they are almost invariably clear and usually forcible.' a
 Condolences necessarily accompanies iucidity in the case of reporters
 Counting rooms object to paying cable and telegraph tolls on useless nouns, ad- jectives, verbs, adverbs, propositions and conjunctions.
 Besides, space in the forms Is limited.
 MT. James Morgan, author of the series of travel and historical articles entitled Tn the Path of Napoleon" recently pub lished in the Globe, and writer of the sketches of backgrounds of the present, European war. now appearing in the Sun day issues, is a notable example of the trained journalist, who contributes, through the medumship of newspaper, to good literature.
 The art of composition, as he practices it, aIlures and charms
 Richard Harding Davis told the read CTS of the Globe in English unimpeach- able how the German host, clad in gray, appeared in Belguim like fog, and then swept on into France.
 Frederick Palmer F. Alexander Powell, Edwin Emerson, Herbert Corey and Fran cis McCullagh have sent to the press of America remarkable descriptions of scenes in the zones of hostilIties abroad.
 Thackeray and Dickens learned to write in newspaper offices.
 So did Eugene Field and Arnold Ben nett. g
 William Cullen Bryant was an editor.
 Only few weeks ago a New York book publisher paid a compliment to the Fourth Estate by declaring that from it had come most of the best noveiists and short-story writers of today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23
GET RID OF IT.

GET RlD Ot IT. There's nothing worse Than writing verse. Some people say, but, gee! I'd rather thump The silly chump
 Who reads his stuff to me. For one may write Verse every night And madly twang the Tyre. Yet thrive. I say, If he'll but lay
 His output on the fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

The American missionary who is tour ing India on a motorcycle should pause
 and reflect that he presents most un- godly appearance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23
STARTING THE SMILES.

Tt is said that more than 100000 cham. pagne corks will pop on New Years Day among the French soldiers at the front" .. ~ "Umph! That's the right kind of shoot ing. That's the artillery of good cheer"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23
UNFAIR ADVANTAGE,

UNFAIR ADVANTAGE, why does Professor Dubbins lecture SO often on the ancient Egyptians?" T can't imagine, unless it's because he wants to talk about somebody who can't talk back"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

The Russians and the Germans are fighting in the snow. but alas they are not using snowballs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

Joaquin Miller left a fortune of more than $4o,00o, which makes him very Croesus among poets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

The prohibitionists have at last suc- ceeded in putting John Barleycorn on the firing line in Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

Mir. Underwood will quit the House to take up his duties in the Senate with the reputation of being the Great Pacificator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

The American navy Is said to be five years behind the times, but 1t must be remembered that the times just now are out of joint.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

man with a polished dome of thought seems rather out of place behind bar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23
The Immigration Department

The lmmIkTatlVn DFPhse
 q notice that soihs members of the legislature in their published 'de9s given to The Age-H Herald favor abol- ishment of the state immigration de- partment on economical grounds" said a man prominent in civic affairs. To siny mind this would be a very grave mis- take from any viewpoint of the states interest.
 .In lS60 Alabuma farm lands readily sold for s10O per acre. At the close of the civil war this state, with others or the south, went under negro tenancy system ard farm lands began to de- preciate in value until they are today, after the lapse of half century, the cheapest on this continent and with comparatively little demand for them. It should be clear to any thoughtful citizen that this condition can never be improved until more people are in duced to own and live on these lands and in that way more demand for them created.
 "Where this is left to individual owH- CTS and speculative companies much dissatisfaction and disappointment arise and such settlers as are secured under these conditions become in many instances d positive detriment to the progress of the state; hence the need of an impartial state department that carries with it the strength and in- fluence of the state itself to give pub l;cit1 to the real condition existing in 7 Alabama and put the state under an owner ship farming system.
 Tn the hands of man who appre- ciates these conditions and who knows how to exploit the state advantageous iy, the immigration department can become of incalculable value and this is what Alabama needs and must have
 to remedy her farming deficiencies and ! increase state revenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23
The Seven Keys to Baldpate

"One of George Cohan's greatest suc- cesses-his greatest, l believe-is The Seven Keys to Baldpate," said w. H.. Jeffries.
 Ut is to be the Christmas attraction at the Jefferson, There will be a Fri day matinee and a night performance and another matinee and another night performance Saturday. saw this great farce comedy in New York recently. Nothing in that city was drawing quite so well. There are a thousand laughs in 1t and the Jefferson theatre should be crowded at each performance.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

Lineyile Headlight: It will not re- quire submarines to sink some of the c. o. P. presidential booms now being launched. Most of them will sink of their own weight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-23

Tuscaloosa News: Evidence that pros- perity is coming and coming fast Is found in the announcement from the Associated Advertising clubs of the world that ad- vertising is increasing rapidly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-17
s PERSONS DIE WHEN
TRAIN PLUNGES INTO
SIDE OF COAL CARS
Scores of Other Passengers Were
Injured When Collision
Occurred

Norfolk Va, July IT, Six were
killed and nineteen badly injured early
to-day when an electric excursion train
crashed into a Virginia Railway coal
train at grade crossing near this
CITY, Four men and two women. all
of Norfolk, were killed. Dennis +.
Lyons, of Baltimore, among the in
jured, is in a critical condition. Men
on the freight say the crossing gates
were down.
The electric train, loaded with men
and women, left Ocean View at mid
night and would have arrived in Nor
folk at 12.45 O'Clock. At the Virginian
railroad crossing trainmen said the
safety gates were down and a coal
train of seventy cars was passing, en-
route to Roanoke. The electric train
cdashed through theg ates and into the
freight train.
The electric train, made up of two
wooden coaches crumpled up after
the collision and passengers were
hemmed in the wreck. They were re-
leased only after rescuers cut away the
broken seats and tmbers that held
them prisoners.
Many of them had broken legs and
arms and their heads were bleeding
The gEoans of women could be heard
for blocks and scores of persons resid-
ing near by went to the scene with
bandages and water
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-17
REBELS SAY HUERTA
WILL NEVER REACH
COAST TOWN ALIVE
However, Reports From Various
Points Say Nothing Unplea-
SAINT Has Occurred
ON WAY TO PUERTO MEXICO
Former Dictator Is Expected to
Reach Destination Late This
Afternoon
IN WAY TO PUERTO MEXICO
BY Associated Press

Puerto Mexico, Mex, July IL
General Huerta stopped on the jour-
hey from Mexico City to this port and
assed the night at Tierre Blanca in
he State of Vera Cruz, the center of
P district overrun by small bands of
Fevolutionists, who have uttered the
boast that they will never let the
parting dictator reach the coast.
Under the best conditions Huerta
fould not arrive here before noon and
It was thought unlikely by his wait
ng family that he would be in Puerto
Mexico before late in the afternoon.
1t was 6 o'clock this morning when
E1uerta departed from TERRA Blanca,
1is train being preceded and followed
by troop trains. No orders were given
10 the engineers to attempt to make
lp the lost time.
General Huerta's failure to hasten
bis exit from the country was the
pause of some worry to his wife, while
Penora Banquet. whose husband, for
ner minister of war, is with his old
fhief, was frightened into a state of
hysteria by the delay.
Reports from various points along
Ehe line gave no reason to believe that
TCOufinued on DaUa O1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-17
Heliodorus Defends
Lay Monks Assailant
By Assoeiated Press

st. Petersburg, July 17.-Helio-
dorus, famous abbot of Tsaritsyn, who
was banished from ST. Petersburg be-
cause of his opposition to Gregory
Rasputin, the mystic lay monk and
advisor of the Emperor of Russia, has
again come before the public Ras-
putin is now recovering from dagger
wound inflicted by woman said to be
a fanatical follower of Heliodorus.
The abbot now comes forward with
a defense of the woman's deed
In telegraphic dispatches he lauds
the intelligence and religious devotion
of the assassin and says her action
was prompted by righteous indigna-
tion against the conduct of Rasputin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-17
FIGHT IN CH|CACO'S
VICE DISTRICT ENDS
IN OFFICERS DEATH
Clash of Police Activities Features
Revolver Battle With Levee
Characters
FOUR MEN ARE WOUNDED
Uniformed Police Disperse Mob
and Hold Two Detectives
as Witnesses
OUR MEN ARE WOUNDED
BY Associated Press

Chicago, ILL.,. July 17.-With one de-
tective dead and three wounded as a
result of a revolver battle last night in
Chicagos vice district, officially re-
ported closed, police officials attempt
ed to-day to untangle the accounts of
the fatal affray between members of
the department.
The dead detective. Stanley ]. Birns,
was a member of the regular plain
clothes force. John c. Sloop, Birns'
partner, was shot through the thigh.
Joseph Merrill and Fred Amert, de-
tectives of the morals squad, were
wounded less seriously. James c. Car
roll, who said he was an investigator
and railway fireman, also was
wounded.
In the investigation by Chief of Po-
lice Gleason two facts appeared to
stand out-that the killing and wound
ing of the policemen were precipitated
by a gang OF levee characters and that
many of the volley of shots fired came
from weapons in the hands of the
gangsters. 1t was thought that several
[Continued on Page Ill
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-17
Appointment of Receiver to
Prosecute Claims Asked
For by Stockholders
JUDGE ISSUES ORDER
RETURNABLE FRIDAY
Defendants Include William
Rockefeller, Charles S.
Mellon and J. P. Morgan
Estate
By Associated Press

Boston, July 1.-THE appointment
of receiver, special master or other
official to prosecute claims aggregating
$500, 100000 against defendant direc-
tors and estates of directors of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad, is asked In a suit filed In the
Supreme Court to-day. The action is
brought by Shipple, Sears and Ogden,
representing minority stockholders of
the company.
The suit, in which the attorneys re-
Gently demanded that the directors
join, is designed to force restitution
from those responsible of funds al
legged TO have been Illegally expended
in building up the New Haven system.
Judge Brady issued an order of
notice returnable next Friday to show
cause why a received should not be
appointed and why an injunction
against the disposition of the defend
ants stocks should not be issued.
The defendants who include various
New Haven directors since 1918 and
estates of deceased directors are.
William Rockefeller, Charles NJ. Pratt,
Lewis Cass Ledyard, II. Nick. Twom-
bly, George McC. Miller, George j.
Brush, James S. Hemingway, A. H.
Robertson, Frederick f. Brewster.
Charles f. Brocker, D. Newton Bar
ney, James II. Elton, Henry r. Nc
Harg, Robert w. Taft. William Skin
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-17
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and vicinityi Un-
settled weather, probably tbun-
dershowerS this nfternOOnj gen.
ernIIy fair tO-nigbt and Sntur-
dayi somewhat cooler Saturday.
For Eastern PennsylVaniat Showers
and thunderstOrms this afternoon
or Tonight; Saturday partly
clOudyj not much change in tenn
pernture; fresh southwest winds.
River
The main river VIII remain nearly
stationary tonight and Satur-
A stage of about 2.5 feet IL indi-
Gated for Harrisburg Saturday
morning.
General Conditions
The center of the Canadian dis
turbapce has moved from Mani
t0ba to Ontario during the Dast
twenty-fOur hours, and IL IL now
central near Parry Sound. 1t has
caused unsettled weather over the
greater part of the eastern half
of the United States since last
report, with local thundershow-
ers In many districts, the heavi-
est rains reported falling in IlIi-
nOis and Kentucky.
Temperatures 3 n. m, 73.
Suns Rises, 1850 n. M; sets, 1882
Moon, New moon. July ~, s,ss
River Stage, 80 feet above low
Yesterdays WeatheR
Highest temperature, -.
Lowest temperature, 20.
Mean temperature, II.
Normal temperature, 70.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-17
Dissolution Suit Under
Sherman Law May Yet Be
Averted, Belief of Many
BY Associated Press

New York, July 1.-THE statement
of the board of directors of the New
York. New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road that "the directors have neither
receded from their position, nor closed
the door to further negotiation" is
an indication, 1t is said to-day, that
the contemplated dissolution suit un-
der the Sherman law may yet be
averted. The bill in suit in equity
for the separation of the Boston and
Maine from the New Haven system
has been prepared for some time.
Reports from Washington that
President Wilson might be asked to
bring about a compromise and there
by possibly avoid a dissolution suit,
served to strengthen a general belief
that the government and the New
Haven directors would again attempt
a friendly settlement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-17
NEW EVIDENCE IN
CARMAN CASE MAY
INCREASE DECREE
Present Indictment Charging Man
slaughter Is Returned
Today
WOMANS RELEASE SOUGHT
DR.. Carman Prepared to Furnish
Bail to Amount of
100000
By Associated Press

Mineola, N. Y, July 17.-Notwith-
standing that manslaughter in the
first degree was said to have been
grand jury which investigated the case
of Mrs. Florence Carman, in jail
charged with having shot Mrs. Louise
Bailey, it was reported to-day that the
prosecuting authorities hoped that a
stronger superceding indictment
might be returned later on the basis
of new evidence. This evidence, it was
said, was discovered yesterday about
the time manslaughter charge was de-
cided upon.
The present indictment, according
to arrangements, was handed up in
tie Supreme Court this afternoon.
Friends of Mrs. Carman here and
in Freeport expected that an indict-
ment charging her with manslaughter,
in the first degree, would be returned.
Under such an indictment Mrs. Car
man, through her counsel was ex-
pected to ask for release on bail pend
ing trial next Fall.
In the event of her release on bail,
DR.. Carman, it was said to-day, plan
med to take his wife from Freeport
Wnere sne was prominent III social
life. to some obscure place for at least
g. mouth.
DIR. Carman to-day said he was pre-
pared TO furnish bail in any sum up
to 100000 but it was hardly expected
that more than $4,000 would be de-
manded by the district attorney on a
charge of manslaughter.
With the release of Mrs. Carman, it
was said that Ellwood T. Bardes and
Frank ]. Farrell, the tramp, too may
be released on bail. They have been
held in Jail here as material wit
Inesses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-17
Electric Lights to Be
Switched on in Dauphin

Unless the weather man should kick
up another fuss and hand out some of
the rough storm stuff that has been
Dauphin county's portion for the last
week or so-the streets of Dauphin bor-
ough will be lighted by the new electric
lights tonight,
The Harrisburg Light and Power
Company, which will furnish the cur
rent for the sixteen new standards via
the finishing touches to the construc2
tion job to-day and If rain does not
interfere the lights will be switched on
at twilight.
In addition to furnishing electric
lights for Dauphin streets the new sys-
tenn will be significant from another
viewpoint. 1t will be the first of the
new interurban lighting systems to he
established in this section of the State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-17
RUSH
WORK ON PENVSY'S
IMPROVEMENT JOBS
4S Men at Work Day and Night
on Construction of
Tunnel

Work on the big two million dollar
Pennsylvania and Cumberland Valley
Railroad operations at Second and
Mulberry streets which will include
the construction of big freight house
Is being rapidly rushed. Just at pres
ent 1t is impossible to say when opera
tions will begin on the freight house
construction. The contract for this
part of the work has not yet been
let, and it is understood that its con-
struction will not be undertaken until
the completion of the subway work in
Second street.
AT present attention is being direct
ed toward the completion of a tunnel
down which a sewer will be run. This
tunnel, which is one of the most in
teresting pieces of work ever under
taken in Harrisburg, is to run from
River to Front street, below Mulberry
Its construction is being pushed rap
idly from three different points. Forty
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-17
indian Tribes of City
Will Parade Tonight

Indian tribes of this city tonight
will celebrate the elevation of Charles
F.. Pass to the highest office in the
Improved Order of Red Men in Penn
Fylvania.
Visiting tribes from Steelton, High
=spire, Middletown and other points
will also be in line of parade. The
parade route of the braves will be as
Follows:
Verbeke street to Sixth, to Maclay.
to Third. to State, to Second, to Wal
put, to Front, to Market, to subway,
tountermarch to Market Square, where
fhe parade will be reviewed by the
chlef marshal and his staff and the
great chiefs of the council of Pennsyl-
kania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-17
Three Automobiles Crash
Into Each Other at Third
and North; Nobody Hurt

Lovings car was going west in North
street and Longs car was coming
south in Third street when they
crashed. Loving's car, which was a
Cadillac, was thrown against the
Shaffer machine, which was going east
in North street. Lovings car was
damaged, the rear axle being broken.
Longs car, a touring machine. was
smashed in the front, the engine be-
ing ruined and the lights being put out
of commission A front wheel of the
Shaffer car was smashed.
Just how the accident happened or
who was to blame, pedestrians who
saw the accident refused to say. None
of the cars was going at very fast
speed, according to witnesses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-17
HUERTA is PRAISED

Paris, July 7.-The retirement of
President Huerta is commented upon
sympathetically in the French press
too day The papers declare that
Huerta's departure from the Mexican
capital is in keeping with the remark
able intelligence he has shown
throughout. He leaves soon enough
so that he does not seem to fly before
the constitutionalists, they assert.