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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF ELIZABETH CANNING

second for keeping a disorderly house
| 1t was month before the trial wa:
started. Elizabeth was the first to Civ,
evidence. Many witnesses were callet
who established for her a good charac
ter. The Wells woman's defense wa.
simple, total denial of all charges ami
| ignorance of all the facts. Dozens OF
witnesses were heard who swore they hat
been at the Wells house during the tim,
that Elizabeth claimed she was detained
there any they had never seen the girl
and one man and wife testified that the,
! had slept i'm the room for close to 9
week during the time the Canning cir
| claimed she was held prisoner in this
room.
The jury, however convicted both won.
| en-, the Squires woman being sentenced tc
death and Mrs. Wells to have her HAND
branded. Gascoyne laid the whole o
the evidence before the King. He re.
spited the execution and referred the
whole evidence to the law officers, who
| after considering 1t for awhile, reported
that the weight of evidence was In favor
of Mrs Squires and she was pardoned
and probably escaped a shameful death
on false evidence.
Then the tables We're turned and Eliza
beth was arrested for perjury. The trial
which began on April 20 lasted for seven
days, Elizabeth pleaded not guilty. Wit
nesses were again produced to prove
that she had not been to the Enfield
house In January, as she had sworn
The jury retired and after two hours de-
liberation they brought ia a verdict oil
guilty. A new trial was refused. The
court was about to pronounce the sem
tence when Barnard arose and pleaded
clemency, believing that she was not
alone guilty.
Elizabeth made a statement in which
she said that she had had no intention
of swearing the gypsys life away, but
what she had said was to defend herself.
thought her story was false, and she was
sentenced to month at Newgate, the
filthiest prison in England and that she
was to be exiled in America for seven
years
So the trial came to an end and Eliza
beth was banished. She was sent on a
regular passenger ship to America, and
she secured employment in a prominent
colonist's house. A few years later she
married John Treat a land owner in Con-
necticut, where she died. This was un-
doubtedly one of the most erratic trials
that was ever held in England.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
SHAW ON SEX

BY George Bernard Shaw
I found that the whole business of
stage sensuousness, whether as Lyceum,
Shakespeare, musical farce, or sham
Ibsen, finally disgusted me, not because
l was Pharisaical, or intolerantly refined,
but because 1 was bored; and boredom
is condition which makes men as sus-
ceptble to disgust and irritation as head
ache makes them to noise and glare. Be-
ing man, have my share of the mas
culne Stiffness and vulgarity. on the SUBJ
ject of sex which SO astonshes women,
to whom sex is a serious matter. I am
not an archbishop, and do not pretend to
pass my life on one plane or in one mood,
and that the highest; on the contrary,
am, I protest, as accessible to the hu-
mors of the rogue's comedy or the rake's
progress as to the pious decencies of the
''Sign of the Cross"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
FEBRUARY
From the Chicago Post.

From the Chicago Post.
February is the first spring month. OF
course, the calendar doesn't say so, but
spring month it is-not all of it, but
some of it. What is spring but the time of
springing? The sun makes itself felt in
late February and forces a response
to its warming touch. The eatkins of the
swamp willows bud in our northern fields
in February; the skunk cabbage. name
of undeserved reproach. is one of the
months attractive field offerings, and
song sparrow will sing from the thickets
bordering the Skolzie.
In February the crow blackbrds, the
robins and the meadow lari<s appear. 1t
is true that there are only few of
the birds in springs advance guard but
their coming is moved by a sense of the
season of springing things. February
may be cold and the snow may lie deep on
the prairies, but the cold is not the chain
ing frost of January and the snow cannot
proong it's stay
Ask the great horned owl the name of
springs first month and he will hoot
tepfuary at you, Tor is not February
the month of his wooing? Before Febru-
AIRY ends Madam Owl will be covering her
eggs in high hope of March nestlings In
February the fish crow visits it's last
years nest to determine whether it will
be at home for the season so close at
hand. The Canada jay knows February
as spring and not merely as its messen-
ger. The signs prove the seasons. From
the time that February was given its
name it has set springs signal in the
field
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
COLORED SNOW

From the Pathfinder.
During a snowstorm in the canton of
Appenzell black snow fell in patches on
the mountains. The odd snow was due to
myriads of microscopic insects. 1t is Il
rare phenomenon, but it is not unknown
in the Alps when atmosphere changes oc-
cur suddenly. The insects make the
snow look as if its surface were covered
with SCOT. -Four avalanches have lately
fallen in the vicinity of Brigue, among
which was the dreaded red" avalanche,
so called because of the peculiar reddish
tinge of the snow. Many persons are re-
ported killed by this avalanche, which oc-
ours in January nearly every year. Arc
tic weather prevails in the Alps regions,
as well as over most narts of Europe. in
contrast to the open winter in America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
AN ANTI-sUICIDE SOCIETY

From the Pittsburg Press.
In the city of Cleveland number OF
kind-hearted women who live lives OF
ease have organized to check suicide
They will employ a friendly person to
offer sympathy and help to down-and-
outs. They will try to supply, at the
critical moment, the friend in need. -
Back of this undertaking is much
precious good will Yet how inadequate
it is; how far it misses the roots of the
problem. Saving few at the brink OF
the grave; but not enlisting for death
grapple with the causes of poverty, crime
and human wreckage. OF kindly, bounti-
full women we have many; women with a
passion for serving human kind. But
alas, how much of their energy is wasted
along the way! Would that a certain
militancy would increase among them;
not the futile miltancy of breaking win
dows but the militancy which will make
them strong moral supporters of every
movement, political as well as nonpoliti-
cal, which seeks to abolish that large
part of hopeless poverty which rises from
social and industrial injustice and which,
more than human perversity, generates
crime
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19

According to the views of number of
prominent educators. heads of we'll known
colleges, student can get through col
lege comfortably ON 500 a year. Some
wealthy students spend $4,000 or more
during the year. but they are exceptions
The average student can pay his tuition,
his board and his room rent, buy books
pay laboratory fees and still have enough
left to provide for clothes, laundry and
recreation. Nor will he have to deny
himself participation in the social and
athletic life of his college. Although there
is much talk of extravaganza in Amer
lean colleges, the statements made by the
presidents of Princeton, Harvard Dart
mouth. Brown and other institutions in
dicate that the cost of a college year is
in majority of cases not over 500 while
some students manage to get through on
less
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19

craft of its kind, a candidate for the
junk pile. Orville Wright says he is
waiting for the necessary engine to
be invented before he takes any long
flights. An engine that is small
enough to be easily carried and pow
erful enough to do the work required
of it seems to be the main problem
at present confronting the builders
of air craft. When the right engine
turns up almost anybody will be able
to furnish the wings, propellers, rud-
ders and other desiderata of aerial
navigation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19

not like a charm which may prevail upon
wart to vanish, but is virtually spe-
cific for the cure of colds, In that hte OIL
| in the onion kills the microbe of cold.
The mouth of nearly every healthy per-
son contains few diplococci pneumonae
| it is explained and a cold, which weakens
resistance, may give the deadly diplococ-
Gus his chance. 1t is, therefore, impor-
tant to treat the cold germ as severely
as he has treated you. He is a fastidious
and does not like onions Dose him with
raw onions and he dies As for the MEM
bers of the family who object to onions
well, man must not give up his hope of
escape from the lurking diplocoecus
merely because his sisters, his cousins or
his aunts abhor the penetrant perfume of
raw onions.
Large, luscious onions repose tempt
ingly amid the green grocers array of ed
ibles. But only the brave who deserve,
and are unafraid of, the fair, dare sug-
gest their being bought and served rsss
Only few bold spirits will go so far as
to smuggle them into the household for
consumption at the witchfng time o night
when hell itself breathes out contagion
on the world. and man who has eaten
an onion should. by comparison, seem in
nocuous and blameless.
But inasmuch as basteriologist in
dorses the onion as a cold cure, and tells
how it acts, let us be up and doing with
a heart for any argument in protest that
may be made. With a Spanish onion as
large as a squash, and the ''fxins' that
go Herewith let those of us who have
hitherto lacked, in polite company, the
courage of our convictions go far AZ
we like. The onion has an oil in it, and
the oil has a Latin name and specific
function. And pneumonia is deadly
peril which must be guarded against at
all costs, and in defiance of contumely.
Even it one hasn't a cold, who can tell
what tomorrow might bring forth? Pre-
Ventive medicine beats pound of cure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
MIXED METAPHORS
London Correspondence New York I

London Correspondence New York Times
James Ramsay Macdonald, M. p, has
added a gem to the collection of mixed
metaphors for which political orators are
famous. Referring to the syndicalists,
Mr.. Macdonald said:
mo sooner do they get themselves into
a hole than they put down a string SO
that we may pull them out of it. The
Delilah of syndicalism has endeavored to
cut the locks of trades unionism, so that
1T becomes mere piece of putty in the
hands of the political authorities"
This is declared to be the most mag
nificent mixing of metaphors by an Eng
lish public man since John Burns in
weighed against the Condor county coun,
Gil for taking white elephant under
its wing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
ON THE BIRTH OF A cnrLD

Louis Untermeyer In the Independent.
Lo, to the battle-ground of life,
Child, you have come, like a conquer
ing shout,
Out of struggle into strife,
Out of the darkness into doubt.
Girt with the fragile armor of youth
Child, you must ride into endless wars
With the sword of protest, the buckler
of truth
And a banner of love to sweep the
stars!
About you the worlds despair will surgeN
Into defeat you must plunge and gropc''
Be to the faltering an urge;
Be to the hopeless years a hope
Be to the darkened world a flame:
Be to its unconcern a blow.
For out of its pain and tumult you
came,
Andsinto its tumult and pain you 70.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
RESTAURANT AFFILIAYIoN


The waiter in the light lunch cafe
looked expectantly at the first of five
men who had just entered.
Bring me a coffee cake and a cup
of coffee ordered the first man.
"I'll take some milk biscuit and q
glass of milk said the second.
Tea buns and a cup of tea, please"
remarked the third.
"A piece OF cocoanut pie and cup of
cocoa said the fourth.
The waiter went to the fifth man. Il
know what you want" he said. You
want a slice of chocolate cake and cup
of chocolate
mo: l do not" protested the fifth man.
Il want plate of ice cream and glass
of ice water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
Underwood's Popularity

The whole country is naturally in
terested in the senatorial candidacy of
Oscar Underwood" said Milton Free
1aan of indianapolis.
u am a democrat, and as a mat
ter of course think that a great lead
er-one of the greatest that the party
has ever had-should be signalIy hon
ored. | could not ina gine that Hob
sun or anyone else in Alabama could
aeat Underwood Two months ago |
heard that Underwood would pull
through by "a small majority, but now
am glad to hear that he will be a
winner by an immense majority. 1t
would certainly be a slam on Alabama
not to send to the Senate a man of
tnderwood's type who has done such
splendid work for the party"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
PaderevsISi Tomorrow Night

Faderewski. the greatest of pianists,
is cue in Birmingham tonight and the
jefferson theatre vii be sure to be
crowded tomorrow night when he gives
his recital. This will be his third ap-
pearance in this city The first time
he came, the O'Brien opera house,
where he played, was filled to over
flowing and the tickets were 50. This
time the tickets are only S3
II am much pleased with Pader-
ewski's programme, which was pub
lishod in The Age Herald" said an old
muse lover. Il have heard the IA
nous virtuoso many times. heard
him in Washington the first season he
was in this country-about % years
ago-and / recall The fact that two of
his numbers on the programme for
Friday night We're on his programme
when | heard him at the national cap
ital on the occasion of his initial ap-
poarance there-the Prelude and
IuSue by ch-Liszt, and the Chopin
Sonata, including the funeral march"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
Peace Has Its Victories

It has been a long acknowledged
platitude and one recently Enumerated
bv ex-President Roosevelt with con-
siderable vehemence, that nation
not engaged in sempiternal struggle
must stagnate and degenerate.
Exceptions often prove a rule, and
if this be true Canada is brilliant
example of the exception. To such an
extent has this exception proved
success that the dominion is serious
" considering the completion of one
hundred years of peace between the
United States and the mother coun-
try.
The burning of Washington city oc-
Cured just century ago and since
that time the dove of peace has been
converted into a regular carrier
pigeon between the two nations. And
today so interlaced have the financial
relations of these two countries be-
come that war between us and Great
Britain would be SO costly and disas-
ferrous as to render it we'll nigh impos-
sible.
Hostilites were narrowly averted
by the surrender of Messrs. Mason
and Slidel, the commissioners of the
Confederate government, who were
taken by Captain Wilkes from Brit
ish steamship on the high seas, when
President Lincoln handed them over
to Great Britain. Such disaster
would have made Canada the battle
groend.
Again was such catastrophy
avoided by the amicable settlement
of the 'fifty-four forty or fight
ISSUE when the numerals would have
given way to action in history but for
the timely and felicitous ending of the
dispute.
England reciprocated all this in the
Alabama award of the Geneva con-
ference by her gracious acquiescence
in the decision. Statistics show that,
with cotton exports eliminated, our
international trade is greater with
Canada than with that of any other
nation. Also that the dominion's gen
eral agricultural progress in the last
century has only been excelled by the
: United States among the nations of
the globe. Canada has constructed a
mammoth network of transcontinental
railroads, has opened up vast areas
of virgin soil for the cultivation of
wheat and other cereals, has ex-
plotted to an amazing degree her sta
pies and has SO attracted immigra-
tion that the influx of agriculturists
in her domain has been of such a
character as to elicit serious concern
: in our country.
This is an enviable record with the
treaty of Ghent as its initiatory fac
tor and century of uninterrupted
peace has not brought her stagnasion
nor degeneration but on the contrary
stimulated her progress and aug
mented her wealth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
ASK MONETrE

From the Huntsville Mercury Banner.
HobsOn refused the craftsmanship of
sition as member of the naval committee,
where he says he has been of great
benefit to the government" Saturday the
naval committee was considering the gov
ernment armor plant question-probably
the most important question that will
come before the committee this season.
But where was Hobson?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19

our trade territory is the best possible
advertisement of St. Louis"
Good orchestral music, painting and
sculpture are beyond the reach of the
country town. They cost high and are
found only where much money is con-
centrated. There is no good advertis-
ing that does not imply benefit and SER
vice to those to whom it is addressed.
Here certainly is way in which the
city may very notably benefit and serve
the smaller community.
We should not stop at an orchestra,
either. Why not a travelling collection
of paintings, with the compliments of the
metropolis? What could better express a
ctys liberal spirit toward its country
patrons than a fine concert or an exhibl-
tion of pictures? Considering the thing
at the lowest terms, to cultivate taste
for art Is to increase trade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19

N
jury in the English police courts
- was that of Elizabeth Canning.
1t was of such a peculiar character that
at its conclusion the entire town was di-
vided between Canningites and anti-Can-
ningites. Poems and songs were written
regarding it. and pamphlets flooded the
streets. Finally the gossip became so
violent that one party began to prosecute
the other.
The trial was held before the Lord
Mayor. Sir Gascoyne, at Old Bailey. The
mayor, five judges, the recorder and two
aldermen We're for transporting Eliza
beth, and the other eight aldermen were
for six months Imprisonment.
On January 6, 1853, there appeared in
the Daily Advertiser the following adver-
tisement: Lost, girl, about is, dressed
in a purple gown, with white handl>er-
chief and apron. black-quilted petticoat,
shoes, and a hat with green ribbons.
Whoever informs Mrs. Canning, at Alder
manbury, concerning her shall be hand
somely rewarded"
The case at once aroused the whole
NiildSt, lpf the SlIi WHOSE NnertdDodlS
was a mystery was Elizabeth Canning,
Is years of age, of a good, moral char
acter, and the servant in the household
of a carpenter called Lyon.
Elizabeth had spent New Years day
at the home of an uncle. and started for
home about 9 in the evening. She was
accompanied by relatives to Hounds
Glitch, about half way. This was the last
seen of her until January 20, at 10 O'Clock
tired, hungry and poorly clad. The story
she told was that shortly after her rela-
tive left her she was met by two men,
who took off her gown and hat and
stuffed a handkerchief in her mouth,
threatening to kill her if she made an
outcry. They took her to a house at
Hertford road, II miles from London.
Here she was forced to give up most of
her clothing, and was locked in an upper
room with only bread and water until
she succeeded in making her escape. She
was under the impression that the house
in which she was confined was that of
Susannah Wells of Wills.
An effort was made at once to locate
the house under the escort of Elizabeth
and a gypsy woman named Mary Squires,
and Susannah Wells were arrested. The
first for the robbery of the girl and the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19

NJ. Flannery, president of the Standard
Chemical company, before the Senate
committee on mines, radio active earth
Is being used with remarkable results
as fertilizer. He said that vegetables
experimental on had shown fully 300 per
full study is being made of this new dis
covery, and it is predicted that radium
will soon accomplish wonders in agricul-
tural and Industrial pursuits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
business In North Birmingham

business was somewhat duh with
Us this January, as it usually is the
iirst part of the year" aid Cash
Ter Robert II. Wharton of the North
Birmingham Trust and Savings Bank,
'but 1t is quite brisk now
industrial conditions in North Bir-
mngham are in fine shape No sec
tfon of Greater Birmingham has such
variety of Industries as has North
Birmingham. Last year was one or
marked prosperity in North Birming-
ham, and 1914 will doubtless be as
tood If not better
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
TROUBADOUR AND JESTER
NARROW SUGGESTION.

NARROW SUGGESTION. {,
That scamp who sent my valentine
10 justice should be brought.
he called this noble brow of mine
A minaret of thought.
TONGUE TIED.
! Twomley: so the Pankhurst party ha
split
Swamley: Yes; the suffragette platforr
will now have two Panks.''
THE SWATH OF TIME.
Young Man: My little sister May wa
SO fond of me that she followed me every
where, but one day, falling over ston
in the yard, she broke her arm and tha
was the last of May"
Old Lady: Terrible; did she die?"
Young Man: mo. the next day wa
the first of June
THE SILVER LINING.
Never cry about split milk;
All worriment avoid
For if you hadn't split the stuff
You might have had typhoid.
AMBIGUOUS SCHEDULE.
Husband: THE almanac says the sola
eclipse this year will occur at 7:30 o'cloc
in the morning."
Wife: Yes, but it doesn't state whethe
it means eastern or central time
Welded TO HER ART.
terested in your new cook book"
Wife: I'm trying to find out how t
make an octopi for dinner"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
RuiIdcrs Of Rirmingham

The Traders National bank in its
biogra phical series, entitled the
Builders of Birmingham" publishes
the following sketch in connection with
a calendar for February:
William Irwin Grubb, Judge of the
United States court for the northern
district of Alabama, is one of the lead
ing jurists of the country In recog-
milton OF his ability. judicial tempera-
nent, and wide knowledge, he has fire.
quently been selected to serve on the
! circuit court of appeals, which is low
er only than the supreme court of the
| Uni! ed States, and the department of
| justice has conferred other marked dis
| tinctions upon him.
Judge Grubb was born on March s,
1862, in Cincinnati O., graduated from
the academic department of Yale uni
versity with high honors and studied
law at Cincinnati university. In 1888
he came to Birmingham and entered
| the office of Hewitt. Porter g. Walk er
| with whom he practiced until 1908,
when he formed a connection with
walker Percy. Three years later he
part cipated in organizing the firm OF
Tillman, Grubb, Bradley g. Morrow, and
his large practice and capacity con-
tributed greatly to the success of this
firm. In May, 1903, he was appointed by
President Taft to his present position.
Judge Grubb has important real es-
tate holdings including valuable pieces
of well improved central business prop
erty. He | salso connected with sew
eral successful enterprises. including
! the Birmingham Trust and Savings
company, of which he is a director, and
the Pratt Land and Improvement COM
pany, of which he is vice president"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
AFAR FROM HOME
he Cincinnati ENQUIRER.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mahoney, of the bureau of forestry,
who was recently out west. was bit
sore on the section to which he was as
signed, and one day, while out VT sselly,
a fellow worker. inquires-.c name of
the bird that was makaIg such din near
by
That said Sicily. with a grin, lis
the bird of paradise
We'll" said Mahoney, "all / have to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-19
MIR. WE'LL USUALLY KNOWS

From the Brewton Pine Belt News.
Marcus We'll, the we'll known Birming-
ham political prophet. has issued a fore
cast on the senatorial election. He states
that the majority for Underwood In JEFF
ferson county alone will be greater than
the combined majorities of>all the Hobson
counties The Underwood forces hope
that this prediction will come true.