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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01
STOCKS SHOW BUT
 LITTLE ACTIVITY Mexican Situation Largely Responsible for Slacken-
 ing, Says Expert

New York, May 31.-The stock market pendulum vibrated narrowly last week, thus reflecting the indecsion and almost total Indifference of both spectators and investors. Such initiative as the market had come principally from abroad, where sentiment was more impressed than here with the Mexican peace promise and the passage of the Irish home rule bill with out disorder.
 The foremost French financial authority holds that the Mexican situation has been largely responsible for the slackening of economic progress and of financial ac- tivity in the world at large which meas ures the financial importance attached in France to the prospect of settlement. The New Yorg gold exports also have helped to clear the atmosphere abroad.
 There was some subsistence of crop
 scare over Dessian fly damage. Some
 lines of manufacture reported actual in- quiries in hand for that period. The steel trade still failed to show concrete evi- dence of the expected betterment. The supreme courts decision in the tap line cases threatened delay in the rate de- cision Steps to investigate other railroad financing offered prospects of more em- barrassment akin to that of New Haven Uncertainty as to when the federal re- serve system shall become operative .exer- cised restraining influence in all direc. tions, both on business and speculation The week also left a degree of suspense regarding the success of the plan for ex- tending both the Missouri Pacific and Boston and Maine notes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01
UNIVERSITY
 BEGINS COMMENCEMENT

a reasonable assurance for a realiza- tion of the hope that Is In Us the ulti- mate realization of our hopes Is al- ready In view. You or I may retard or accelerate the moral momentum of the world. Men will not address themselves to stupendous task unless there Is a pros pect of realization. The question now Is what God and all the Christian armies of the world can do.a
 The sermon was a striking and time- ly one and the speaker was heard by large audience Of townsfol< and com mencement visitors.
 < On Sunday evening, at the Methodist church, Rev. Otis V. Calhoun. also q graduate of the college class of 1899. and presiding elder of the Marianne district of the Alabama conference. de- livered the annual address before the Young Mems Christian association.
 Among the most interesting fea-' lures of the commencement festis- ities was the reception given by Iota chapter of sigma Alpha Epsilon on Saturday evening at the residence of MT. and Mrs. Harry Waller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01
Mexican War Pensioners

From the NeW IOTh 1TipuHo,
 Although 1t is nearly 66 years since the war with Mexico was ended officially, on July 1, 1898, there were 1ll2 vetSrans of that war upon the rolls of the pension bureau at the close of the last fiscal year. each drawing S30 a month, There wore also 6123 widows of soldiers in that war receiving pensions from tho government,
 As there were only 9o.e64 regulars and 73.77s volunteers. . total of 3.e9o Amer- loan soldiers, engaged in the struggle, which officially began 60 years ago on Friday. the soldiers of that period must have been a hardy lot for a boy of 16 at the close of the war would now have passed the scripturai allotment of three score and 10 and been well on la the second half of his fourth score of years. The larger number of widows on the rolls Is accounted fer by the fact that. as in the case of the civil war veterans, many hundreds of those who fought In Mexico under Scott took second and even third wives later in life
 Tnouiry at the offices of the grand army memorial committee in tho 0ity hail, where records are kept of the veterans of United States wars, brought out the fact that there are no veterans of the Mexican war living in New York city,
 Soldiers of the Mexican war and theiS dependents received no pensions for their services until nearly Sl years after the war ci0eed, the first act for their benefit bearing the date of January e, 1881. 9Inee that time the cost of their pensions to tho government, up to the eioso of the fjccal yer, Was eH,Q6seu.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01
DIR. HOYT NJ. DOBBS BREACHES THE COMMENCEMENT SERMON AND REV. CALHOUN DELIVERS ANNUAL ADDRESS

Greensboro, May s1.--tSpecial 1.-The exercises incident to the forty fourth commencement of the Southern univer- sity. the historic institution of Ala bama Methodism. beg gan with the com mencement sermon preached in the col lege auditorium by Dr. Hoyt NJ. Dobbs of Kansas City. Mo. Dr. Dohbs. who is a graduate of the Southern univer- sity class of 1899, Is one of the most distinguished of the younger ministers In the southern Methodist church and is at present the pastor of one of the largest churches in Missouri. Before his removal to Missouri he was mem- Der of the north Alabama conference, his last charge in this state being in Birmingham.
 The text of his discourse was, "Thy Kingdom Come.' and in simple and ap- pealing but trenchant words he pie tured the might and majesty of Christ S Kingdom and the demand for every one to play his part in furthering it.
 We advance upon our knees" said Dr. Dobbs, 'and there Is nothing more impressive than to behold great man at prayer. This prayer of the disciples, taught them by the Master, harmonizes and unifies our life at and furnishes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01

In order to form a just conception of the pending disorder in the white mans party In Alabama so closely succeeding the kolb bolt of 1892 We may afford to touch upon the merits of the question.
 On June 30. 1898. some. as soon as the incoming President, Mir Cleveland, could
 divest himself of certain routine duties i peculiar to the year. he issued call for Congress in extra session, to assemble August :. The proclamation explained | that "distrust and apprehension concern
 ing the financial situation was general and perilous'' that the trouble was largely
 the result of q financial policy which the
 executive branch of the government finds embodied in unwise laws"
 Capt. Joseph r. Johnston, president of a
 bank of Birmingham. immediately ap-
 peared in the press denouncing the pur- | pose of the President to endeavor thus to | nullify the pledge of the platform on which he had been elected so recently. The President intended to prevail on Con gress to repeal .'the sherman silver bull lion purchasing law" in order to demon- ! tize the silver dollar and reduce the coun- | try to the single gold standard. On the other hand the Chicago platform, on which he had been elected, with utmost emphasis and in view of years of agita- ton among the people on the subject, de- clared: we hold to the use of both gold
 and silver as the standard money of the country and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal or charge for mintage, etc | Mr. w D. Wilson from West Virginia reported a bill to the lower House in ac- cordance with the Presidents views. l Three weeks debate followed in that House, pending which MT. Richard NJ. Bland of Missouri proposed amend
 ment, that the silver bullion purchase,
 for coinage on government account, being discontinued as by the Wilson bill, free
 and unlimited coinage on account of pri- vate owners of silver bullion be restored as of old
 On the Bland resolution, to open the | merits. as in the better days of the re- public, Messrs. Bankhead, Cobb, Denson. 1 Robbins, Stallings. Turpin and Gen. ! Joseph Wheeler of the Alabama delega- | ton voted yes. Mir. Richard II. Clarke of the First Alabama district and Col. w. c. | Oates of the Third voted nay. The reso- lution was lost 227 to 124. only two votes | or the roll call absent, so intense was the excitement.
 1 Mir. Bland not yet undone. offered in successive five amendments, each seeking l to overcome some difficulty in regard to | ratio of the coinage metals To one of these Colonel Oates agreed. but to all MT. Clarke objected. The five were all de- feated by combination of the northern | democrats with the Cleveland men from the south. Bland finally proposed to re-
 store the BlandAllison law of 1878, by which there had been millions of silver | dollars coined. All the Alabama dele | gaton but Clarke voted for this amend
 ment. but it miscarried.
 | The House bill went to the Senate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01

counts of J. P Morgan & Co is likely to disclose except possibly indirectly, what MT. Morgan's philosophy respecting the New England railway situation was. Il was the establishment of this economic policy that entaiied much of the large financing. The present head of the house in his recent statement asserts that his father realized years ago that commercial and industrial conditions in New England were rapidly changing and that the pros perity of the New England section was in danger He believed that this could be prevented if there were unification along economic lines of the railroad systems oi New England.
 MT. Morgan had already taken heed oi the gradual steps in the direction of unifi. cation which had been taken by the man. agerS of the corporation some years be. l fore Mr. Morgan became largely interest ed in it. Tn 1887 the New Haven man agement took over the Naugatuck rail
 road, line which had been built chiefly for the purpose of handling the very ! heavy traffic offered by the brass manu- 1 featuring interests In the Naugatuck val | ley, Waterbury, Conn, being a center of that industry. The corporal on had taken over, about that time O. little earlier, the so-called Short Line railroad , running between the New Haven and New
 
 tant link in its New York and Boston service As early as 1872 the late Will liam D. Bishop. whose father planned and then built the original New York and New Haven line, merged with it the line running from New Haven to Spring field. Mass. Thus little by little unifica- ton had been carried on some years be- | fore MT. Morgan became the pre-eminent authority of the New Haven system. This xuff ,fuI, Rpo although it entailed large financing and for no other req son than the belief of the managers of the system as long since 40 years that the transportation system of New England and New England indus tries involved the bringing under one con. trol of large numbers of little railroad companies.
 When MT. Morgan became a director oi the New Haven company, about 23 year.
 ago, he was thoroughly persuaded tha this policy was one of wisdom. It hat been undertaken before the Sherman
 antitrust law had been enacted. All tn, subsequent mergers were in sympathy with that earlier policy, although at frs there was no idea of bringing the trolle, lines of New England-for good reason that there were no trolley lines-in opera ton in Connecticut until about the yea 1895.
 Probably only in an indirect and infer ential way could an examination of th
 books and accounts of the Morgan hous
 make disclosures of Mir. Morgan's philos ophy respecting the railroad situation fl New England There are intimations iron Washington that the department of jus
 tice may be contemplating civil or crim
 inai prosecutions or both with certain di 1 rectors of the New Haven system as de
 feEdants, Proceedings of this kind would make 1t pOesfhJe hv r,oss o~ Q v,,ipo ttor Q ,,<
 by the appearance of competent counse
 to disclose the entire truth instead of sucl disclosure made in such an exparte man ner as was thought appropriate by tn, counsel of the interstate commerce com mission
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01
WALKER CITIZENS FAVOR GOOD ROADS Adopt Resolutions at Mass Meeting Fav0ring a
 Bond Issue

Jasper. May a1.-(Special )-senator J. States Good Roads association, addressed a mass meeting of the citizens of Walker county here Saturday in the interest of a sSo0,Oo0 good roads bond issue.
 Senator Bankhead stated at the begin hing of his speech that he regarded the good roads movement one of the most inn portant the ciJzens of the county could engage in and expressed his conviction that the best way to build good roads was by means of issuing bonds.
 Among the local speakers were P. M. Long of cordova, J. H. Cranford. J. B. Shields and Frank A. Gamble of Jasper: A. B. Aldrich of Drifton presided over the mass meeting.
 P. M Long offered the following reso- lution. which was adopted by unani- nous vote:
 Resolved. That it is the sense of this mass meeting that an election should be called to vote on bond issue of sS00 O00 for building good roads in Walker coun- ty. Be It further
 Resolved. That the commissioners court of Walker county be requested to call said election for some date within 90 days, and make all orders necessary to allow the voters of Walker county to vote upon said bond issue"
 r. A. Gamble of Jasper at the close of the meeting offered the following reso- lution, which was also adopted without a dissenting vote:
 Be it resolved by the citizens of Walker county in mass meeting assem- bled, that we heartily favor the working of convicts on the public roads and we earnestly request our representatives in the next legislature to favor legislation looking to that end.'
 The Walker County Letter Carriers as- sociation also indorsed the movement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01
JOHN SIMMONS IS
 MADE POLICE CHIEF

Jackson, Miss, May s1.-(Special.) )-Johr Simmons, an experienced member of the police department of Jackson, has been designated by the city commissioners as chief of police temporarily.
 The friends of Chief Humphreys, who was found dead in the home of H. D. Stevens early yesterday morning, have about abandoned the idea that he wal poisoned or met with foul play. City Phy' sician Wall has weighed and measured Chief Humphreys heart and finds 1t wal abnormal. It weighed 370 grams, wher the average human heart weighs 80 grams; 1t measured 12 5-10. when the aver. age heart measures sh centimeterA Ths state chemist at Starkville. to whom ths stomach WAS sent for analysis, has no been heard from. but 1t is not believed ha will find any poison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01

Articles of incorporation of the South Alabama Development company of this place have been filed with the judge of probate for record. The papers show that the authorized capital of the com pany is $25,000, of which amount $6500 is paid in. The incorporators of the com- pany are F. A. Wheelhan, John E. Mitch ell c. A. Ryland, D. F. Arrnes. c. l.. Ol- son, c. H. Snowden, w. D. Stapleton, F. A. Fowlkes. William H. Monk, Jr., l.. J. Taylor and w. B. Logan. They have a tract of about 5000 acres of land near Stapleton. about 10 miles south of this place. which they will sell out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01
WOULD HAVE A NEW
 TRAIN FROM MOBILE

Bay Minette, May 31.-The members of the executive committee of the Bay Minette Agricultural and Civic league held called meeting yesterday afternon in the Arcade building at which time a number of very important matters were brought up for disposal. Among them was the consideration of an appeal from the Chamber of Commerce of Mobile to assist them in their efforts to secure a new. train out of Mobile in the morning. The scommittee decided to send two dele gates to Montgomery Monday with the Mobile delegation to assist in securing the road. The delegates appointed are w. D. Stapleton and Thomas W. Gilmer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01
LEE DAVIS IS KILLED ]. AT SAND HILL, MISS. Postoffice Robbed and Mur- derers Escape-Blood-
 hounds on Trail

Jackson. Miss. May si.-(6peciai. )-Lea Davia. postmaster at Sand Hill, small settlement in the northern part of Rankin county. and near Pearl river. was killed at an early hour last night. The news vas resolved hers via the convict farm. which was asiaed to send hounds to run dewn the murdersrs and they are sup poee4 to be on the trial,
 Davis, who dees small merchandising hustness In o0nnsction with the postoffice, heard noise about o'clock at night. and won't sut on his front gallery to in- vestisate. 4 gun vas fired and Davis Fell dead with several buckshet in his breast, The nsighboFs were notified. They found Davis dead and that the little store had bee4 robbed,.
 r0eses vera ofgansed and secured the pountvy fer nlieb around, but no suspioi- ous characters were found, 1t was several miies ta 2 teIephone, but In course of time conhe0fieR was secured to Brandon, where eheFfM RobertseR waa netifed, The UHitd Htateq aarshal's of{jee in this city was also advised of the mp1dep and rob- beFY ef the pestsAiee and saveraI men have gene to the soens,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01
FOR RENT

TWO NEW STORES AT PARK AVE. AND 10TH ST, 1Sx4S; STEAM HEAT AND WATERS HIGH CEILINGS WITH sKYLIGHT. TWO NICE OFFICES IN CLARK BUILDING. LOUIS V. CLARK
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01
Walter Robinson Arrested

Hamilton, May pecial.)-
 ter Robinson was placed in the county jail yesterday by J. E. Mosely, city marshal of Guin, under the charges of assault with intent to murder and car rying concealed pistol. Robinson was on a freight train near Winfield when the brakemen attempted to put him off and he is alleged to have drawn his pistol on them. After reaching Winfield the matter was reported to the marshal.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-04-07
YOUNG
MEN, YOUNG WOMEN!

Do you desire a position in the elias.
sified civil service? Post Office Clerks
Letter Carriers, Railway Mail Clerks,
etc., in demand. Ages Is to 45. Sal
airy $75to $3.50 monthly. Hundreds
of appointments to fill vacancies, ex
tension of service and Parcel Post
Mr.. H. l.. Carl will be at the Windsor
Hotel in Paris on Tuesday, April Z
inquiring for young men and women
who desire to qualify for these ap
pointments. He will be there one
day only, noon until p. m. Those
interested should call and see hin
without fail. Minors must be accom-
panied by parents
(27-3tl
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-04-07

ing, and was greatly enjoyed by all
present.
The program closed with an instru-
mental solo by Mrs. H. NJ. Hamilton
on the violin, accompanied by Miss
Lilleston on the piano. This number
delighted the audience, which was
evidenced by the continuous applause
which followed each selection.
At the last conference the Scott
Street church, OF Cuvington, reported
the largest membership, which was
eighty-eight, in the Kentucky Confer
ence. The Paris League bids fair to
surpass any of the Leagues in the
Conference, having membership OF
ninety-seven.
The new msnbers will be form
ally recognized on Easter Sunday
April II, when the League will have
charge of the regular night services
at the Methodist Church.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-04-07
EASIER FOR COMMON
SEAMEN TO ATTAIN RANK

Winston Spencer Churchill, Brit
aims First Lord of the Admiralty, is
endeavoring to make it easier for COM
mon seamen in the navy to attain the
rank Of officer. In this he has the
precedent of many great men, includ-
ing Napoleon. All of Napoleon's
greatest Generals had risen from the
ranks: Bernadotte, the grandson of a
blacksmith; Murat, who began life as
g. stable boy; Massena, the son of a
tanner; Lannes, the son Of a small
farmer; Ney, the son of poor Alsa-
tan cooper; Suchet, the son of silk
weaver; Jourdan, the son of a country
leech; Morier, a brewers boy; Ouri-
not, farmer lad; Mcdonald, the son
Of q Uist crofter, and the Duke of Dan
zig, barrack room brat.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-04-07
STRAIGHT AT 1T.

There is no use of our beating
around the BUSH" We might as we'll
out with it first as last. We want you
to try Chamberlain Cough Remedy
the next time you have cough or a
cold. There is no reason as far as
we can see why you should not do so.
This preparation by it's remarkable
cures has gained a world wide reputa-
ton, and people everywhere speak Of
it in the highest terms of praise. 1t
is for sale by all dealers.
(ApriD (adv)
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-04-07
Nearly Dies in Gasoline Tank.

OwensbOrO-With a hundred per-
sons standing around gasoline tank
car, apparently helpless to rescue Ell
lis Gipe, Is, who had entered the emp
ty car and been overcome by the
fumes Of the gasoline, H. J. Sparks, a
miller, went through the opening in
tho car and rescued the apparently
lifeless boy. The boy unscrewed the
top Of the tank off and slid down a
pipe. He wanted to fill a bottle with
gasoline that he saw on the bottom
of the car. A companion was sliding
down the pipe when he was told that
it was dangerous. When discovered
Gipe was unconscious at the bottom
Of the tank His back had been badly
blistered by the gasoline
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-04-07
TIRED, WORKOUT, MISERABLE
Many Paris People in This Condition

"ohJ 10 Tcopte IN MS COnuition
There is little rest for the kidney
sufferer
The back throbs, feels weak and
painful.
The urinary passages are irregular
and distressing.
The sufferer, tired, WORKOUT and
depressed.
The kidneys need quick help.
They need a special kidney remedy.
Doan's Kidney Pills have stood the
test.
A remedy especially for kidney all
ments.
Can any Paris reader doubt this
statement?
Mrs. G. N. Gravitt, "A n First Ave-,
Winchester, KY, says: For a number
TO years | have known about Doan's
Kidney Pills, and l consider them the
best of all kidney remedies | had
headaches and backache, and was
restless at night. l felt ALL tired out
in the morning and sometimes was
nervous. Seeing Doan's Kidney Pills
used them. They made me strong
and WE'LL
Price soc. Don't simply ask for
kidney remedy-get Doan's Kidney
Pills-the same that Mrs. Gravitt had.
Foster-Milburn Co., Props, Buffalo,
N. Y.
april 7-10O (adv)
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-04-07
RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY
ACCIDENTS IN ITALY

Mr. Marconi, who barely escaped be-
ing in a second serious motor acct
dent, says that many accidents occur
there is no uniformity in keeping to
the right or the left of the road.
Travellers in Italy have noticed the diff
ference in usage. For instance, the
rule in Rome is to turn to the right;
in Florence, to the left. 1t is easy to
see that there must be confusion in
the rural districts, anG that motorist
from one section of the country must
not only know the definite usage of
the district, but must also know the
amount of probability of the usage be-
ing ignored.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-04-07
Thirty-Nine Are Livinq.

Danville-Dr Thomas Washington,
aged eighty-one years, who resides on
his farm eight miles north of Dan
vile, is a man after Col. ROOSEVELT
own heart He has been married
four times and is the father if forty
four children, thirty-nine of whom are
living. Dr. Washington has grand
children, great-grandchildre and
great-great-gr almost too
numerous to count. And the stork is
again lingering around the Washing
ton home.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-04-07
Makes His Escape.

Carlisle-John Garrett Williams,
who recently fined $40 and given ten
days at hard labor on a charge of hav-
ing liquor in his possession here for
the purpose of sale, made his escape
from the officers white he was at work
on the county roads. Williams, when
arrested, had $50 bottles of beer and
several gallons of whisky in buggy,
bringing them here from Paris.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-04-07
Auto Accident Ends in Death.

MaysVille-Mrs. Ed. Walton, 60,
who was injured by being run over by
an automobile driven by Lucien Lutt-
rell, "a, about two weeks ago near
Mayslick, died at her home from the
effects Of her injuries. Mrs. Walton
was the mother of ten children, all Of
whom survive. Luttrell is in Jail at
this place, having been placed there
by Judge Rice, who refused to grant
him bail pending the outcome Of the
accident.