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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-10
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Deaths and Funerals
N. D. Maske

N. D. Maske, aged S3, died yesterday morning at 2:30 o'clock at the residence of his daughter Mrs. J. D. Acton, near Rocky Ridge Funeral services will be held from the residence at noon today Interment will follow in Acton cemetery The Rev W. C. Cleoner will officiate The deceased is survived by his widow, two sons, J. D. and l.. D. Maske, and four daughters, Mrs. J. D. Acton, Mrs D. w. Bearden, Mrs. D. R. Murphee and Mrs. G. l.. Pryor.
 MT. Masle was born in South Carolina and moved to Alabama in 1858, and had been a resident of his state ever since, He served four years in the Confeder- ate army. He was also a prominent Mason and Odd Fellow. l.
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E. w. lille

Funeral services over the remains of E. w. lille, aged 55. who died Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock in nis apartment al the Fox building, were conducted from Shaw &r Sons private chapel yesterday morning at Il o'clock. Interment followed in Elmwod cemetery. The deceased is survived by brother, A. c. lille. Mr lille was a member of the Knights of Pythias, and had been connected with Davidson's orchestra for many years.
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to Wheeling, w. Va, East Liverpool O., and other points north of the Ohio river.
 Washington, December 9.-The death of Commodore James s. Sears, U. $. N, retired, at Rome, Italy, was reported today to the navy department. He was a native of Binghampton, N. r., and his last active service was as naval at tache at Tol1io and PeSing in 1909-1O.
 Louisville, December 9.-Dr A. Nor gan Vance, widely known in the field of orthopedic surgery, died at his home here today. pr. Vance was president of the Kentucky State Medical associa- tion and fellow of the American Col lege of Surgeons He was 61 years old
 St. Paul, December 9.-Mike Gibbons who was to have fought Young Ahearn here tomorrow night, is suffering from bronchial pneumonia, according to his physicians, who today gave it as their opinion that Gibbons would not be able to fight for at least 30 days. As a result the Gibbons-Ahearn bout has been indefinitely postponed.
 Paris, December 9.-Vice Admiral Roussine, chief of the general staff of the Russian navy, accompanied by sew eral Russian naval officers, arrived here today and attended a session of the general war council of the entente allies.
 Little Rock, December 9.-The demo- cratic state central committee, at d meeting here today, adopted a resoiu- tion indorsing the administration of President Wilson and urging his re- nomination. The state covention will be held in Little Rock May 31.
 Paris, December 9-The custom of marriage by proxy, which has come into vogue during the war, has placed young Parisian woman in a curious situation. She was married by proxy on November IF to Sergeant Joseph Conduche. On December she was in : formed officially that Sergeant Con- duche had been killed at Souchez on September 2S, several weeks before the marriage Although the marriage is in- valid in law, the authorities, taking account of Sergeant Conduches inten- tions, will give a widows pension to the woman.
 Phoenix, Ariz, December 9.-The state board of pardons and paroles an nounced today that it would not inter- fere with the execution of Ramon
 
 prison tomorrow. The Carranza gov ernment appealed for delay on the ground that the condemned man did not have a fair trial. Villalobos was one of five Mexicans saved from the gallows last May by the intervention of Will liam J. Bryan, then Secretary of State. The Villa government at that time sought the delay. The Carranza appeal rejected today was forwarded to Gov ernor Hunt by Secretary of State Lans- ing without comment
 Cincinnati, December 9-One man was killed and two others badly wounded in an attack by five undenti- fled men here today upon a squad of ronunion painters at work on local hospital. In a statement to the police a nurse at the hospital said she saw five men approach several of the paint CTS and heard one of them say: NO scabs can work here" Later she heard several shots and saw one man fall The five men escaped. The dead man was Joseph Shall of this city
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FLASHES FROM THE WIRE

Santa Fe.. \. M. December s.-Gen- eral Jose Ynez Salazar, former Huerta general, tried on charges of perjury, was acquitted by jury in federal court here today. The charges grew out of Salazar's testimony at habeas corpus proceedings following his entrance into American territory after the battle of ojinaga, northern Mexico in 1914
 Lima, Peru, December 9.-The meas ure recently passed by the Senate sanctioning the coinage of 100000 soIs $100,000) of fractional coins, has been passed by the Chamber of Deputies. It is expected this legislation will ade- quately meet the silver circulation problem.
 Delaware Breakwater, Del. Decem- her 9.-The schooner Henry w. Cramp. Philadelphia for Rouen, France, with a cargo of refined oil, returned here to- day leaking. Some of her rigging is damaged and the pumps are disabled.
 Washington, December 9.-Sydney Brooks, English writer and economist. told President Wilson today that he saw no prospect for restoring peace In Europe for at least six months.
 London, December 9,-I.ord Robert Cecil. parliamentary under secretary tor foreign affairs, announced in the House Of Commons this afternoon that Great Britain had formally recognized the Carranza government in Mexico.
 
 tected cruiser Columbia after lying ont of commission at the Philadelphia navy yards for 10 years, left today for the Panama canal zone, where she will en- gage in maneuvers with other war ships. The Columbia, one of the speed rest warships of her class a dozen years ago, has been overloaded from keel to hghting top. On board the vessel when she left was Rear Admiral A. w. Grant chief of submarine operations.
 Washington, December 9-Pernis- sion for 100000 tons of wheat to enter spain free of duty and Transportation tax has been granted by King Alfonso The American consul general notified the state department that in addition to granting free entry, the Spanish government had offered to advance money to millers for purchase of the grain.
 Monroe, La, December 9.-George SWartz, millionaire lumber man of St Louis, died here today after a weeks illness. He was 77 years of age, and was native of Germany. MT. Swartz held large interests in this section and in Oklahoma
 New York, December 9-Members Of the New York stock exchange were notified today that the practice of some brokerage firms of recommendine in newspapers and periodical advertise ing the purchase of certain securities in which they are interested is a vio lation of the rules and must be discon- tinued.
 Washington, December 9-The inter- state commerce commission today sus- pended until April 16 tariffs of the Atlantic Coast Line proposing increases ranging from S5 to 40 cents a ton on kaolin clay and fuller's earth in car loads from producing points in Florida
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Washington, December 9-The inter- state commerce commission today sus- pended until April 16 tariffs of the Atlantic Coast Line proposing increases ranging from S5 to 40 cents a ton on kaolin clay and fuller's earth in car loads from producing points in Florida
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Monroe, La. December 9-George Swartz millionaire lumber man of st. Louis, died here today after a weeks illness He was " years of age, and was native Of Germany. MT. Swartz held large interests in this section and in Oklahoma.
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New York, December 9-Members Of the New York stock exchange were notified today that the practice of some brokerage firms of recommending Tn newspapers and periodical advertis- ing the purchase of certain securities In which they are interested is a vio- iatIon of the rules and must be discon- tinued.
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HUDDLESTON CAUSE
 OF MUCH CURIOSITY
 ON THE OPENING DAY

tCOntiuued from Page One) to war call; $20,OO0,Oo6 annually for coast defenses and $26,OOOOO0 for ammunition and supplies.
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the Y. M. c. A., churches and other organizations and individuals took quick action to provide temporary shelter for those who had lost their homes
 Many Were forced to remain in Hope well in the midst of the ruins. After o'clock tonight it was almost an inn possibility to obtain a conveyance to reach Petersburg. Drivers of a few au- tomobiles collected fancy prices fot seats
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Delaware Brealxwater, Del, Decem- Der 9.-The schooner Henry w. Cramp. Philadelphia for Rouen, France, with a cargo of refined oil, returned here to- day leaking. Some of her rigging is damaged and the pumps are disabled.
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London, December 9-I,ord Robert Cecil, parliamentary under secretary for foreign affairs, announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that Great Britain had formally recognized the Carranza government in Mexico
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Washington, December 9.-Sydney Brooks, English writer and economist. told President Wilson today that he saw no prospect for restoring peace in Europe for at least six months.
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c. Burgin, R. E. Lee, J. l. Massey. man. agers; J. M. Massey, Will Cowgirl
 clerks; Charles Wilson. returning off
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
The Burglar and the Moon

1T might not seem to you" said tho -
burglar to the New York Sun, chat an lreCIed
would be of any particular use in orr b,aH@udc
but always keep in the house. we a',leSS,
do any country work in the full of the moon never
In the city you can keep in the sbado,.
buildings but you cant do that in the conn. VI
Sure, in many country towns and yilIaoo" lIl'
would find streets lined thick with trees Tit5 you
shade under them solid and dark but then inc
might lind spaces without trees, and plentv' ou w
trees in front, but none at the side " u
Again you would find country roads mil
trees at all, and you know the light of = fa no
moon on a night when the air is clear On iu!l
a night you can see a man coming along an U1u
country road as plainly you could by day o a
of course it would be foolish to take such cbo uu'
as that. But in my business, as in any Other eS
have to learn by experience. '0u
when l still young man l walked -.
day through country town that l liked the jo ole
of very much There one house in parti loTAS
that looked to me very hopeful and day ny + t
later l went back at night for that house WV
THE moon was full at that time, and even cor,
paratively young as l was then l think sbon15
have had sense enough to keep away if tba rjtI
had been clear, but it wasn't; it was dark 9n S
stormy. 1t had been clouding up all dav and nv
night it had come to rain, with what looked liL
a long, settled storm, and it was dark enough f
anybody. All
But along about 1 o'clock, just before strro,.
this town, the wind changed 1t still rainad bA
not quite steadily; it would let up a little oDo
in a while, and the wind was rising and the treos
beginning to thrash. Of course if had been oIdor
would have turned around right then and tboTn
and gone back, but a man has to have sense n
know when to give up. 1t was still dark as
pocket and still raining, and l thought | cond
get through
There were the big trees all along in front of
this house and under them it was as dark as II
would be in tunnel, but around at the side tbaro
were trees at all. There it was all omen and
away off. far off, l could see, not an opening hnt
a little thinner small spot in the clouds but over
head and all around near it was still thick and
black, and so | went in, hearing the wind blow and
hearing those big trees thrashng around ont in
front
Just as | got into the room I after inside
the house there came a gust that / thought was
going to tear those trees up by the roots and then
came another gust that did break something that
split those deep black clouds overhead wide omen
and let out what seemed to me the biggest and tbA
Whitest and the brightest moon l ever saw
1T seemed fairly to jump out, and it shot into
that room big broad moonbeam that fell square
on the face Of a man lying there in bed; it looked
like hitting him with a big white club 1t never
moved him, but it did so startle me that dropped
my jimmy.
Il got away all right and so there was no harm
done, but that experience a sufficient warning
Always after that in all country work l went never
by the weather. but always strictly by the almanac"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
THE TRAGEDY OF JUDAS
AND IMMORTALITY OF HIS TYPE

Editor Dawson News: In every age Judas APP
pears-might almost say in every organization.
The trouble with Judas is that he thinks he is
match for Caiphas-for every Judas there is
Caiphas They are eternal partners Judas had
ambition, stupidity, confidence in his Masters abll-
ity to take care OF Himself And the thnS that sod
Judas his confidence that Judas, a common
everyday peasants association for three years with
a Cod could enable him to cope in chicanery with
the descendant of Levi reared in the atmosphere
and drinking in diplomacy one takes water. lie
had heard the Christ say if necessary Il can call
twelve legions of angels to my aid" He knew OF
the ministry of the angels during the forty days
fast he had seen Lazarus called from the tomb
though putrefactiOn had set in; he had seen lep-
ers cleansed; had seen bread multiplied; he knew,
as every Jewish child taught, of the com
ing of the Messiah, who should restore and build
again the kingdom OF David, and Caiphas believed
the same things. He did not think the Romans
would ever take the Chrst-grant that he unlike
Judas, had never associated with Christ-yet he
knew, Judas did not, the prophecies, and ne
believed while processing that 1t was needtul Jnat
die for the people, and that the whole nation
perish not" that once clash being brought about
between the Roman and David's the Roman
would be overthrow, but he was careful for his
own safety, if peradventure he was fooled in TINS
prophet and the Roman should once come off con-
querOr he could say to Rome, Il bought this fell
lows betrayal by one of his followers for thirty
pence" Caiphas playing safe game, Judas
staked his all on his confidence that his highest
ambition going to be accomplished-that he
would have the seat on the right hand that Christ
had refused to give to Zebeddees ambitious sons
by placing his Master where to save Himself from
ignominious death He must call on His angels,
and having called them events would drive Him
to use them for TsraeIs restoration, and when he
failed he did as his prototype often fails to do
hanged himself-for he saw himself crucifed along
with other traitors when Caiphas to save himself
should hand him to the Romans for conspir-
acy to commit treason. Judas preferred suicide to
crucifcation-most of would. RemOrse did not
kill him. He born, his prototypes are, with
out conscience and with fear of bodily harm or
bodily want.
Now the application of the lesson this eternal
tragedy teaches will be left to the reader with this
injunction: Examine yourself and see how much
of it applies at home and pass the balance to your
neighbor. ANDREW +. RINES.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
Checking The Drug Habit.

The federal restrictive law against the use of
drugs is proving successful in checking the drug
forming habit.
a government report states that officials have
received the hearty cooperation of druggists every
where in stamping out the terrible evil and that
now it is comparatively easy thing to prevent
the sale of injurious drugs One OF the largest
distributing wholesale drug houses in the world
says that its trade in opium and cocaine has de-
creased IS per cent since the passage Of the law
and wishes Ito bear testimony to the beneficial eff
feet of the efficient enforcement of the law
The horror and suffering brought to the sur
face, especially in the large cities, by the early
enforcement of the law are passing away. The
task of uprooting the traffic in drugs has not been
accomplished without dreadful scenes Of misery
and torment among the wretched unfortunates who
were driven to madness by the deprivations of ac-
customed drugs. But their rawlings in most cases,
have ceased, and they have profted by their suf-
fering.
The concern for the future is that the law shall
continue to be enforced.
The check exercised at present by the internal
revenue Office upon all who buy, sell or furnish
drugs whether druggist physician, must be main
tanned. The first let-up will make easy the descent
10 the limbo of dead letter laws. where so many
statutes repose unhonored and unsung.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
What Is The Answer :?

According TO DR.. L. J. c. Flament, who has been
serving as a surgeon in the Congo, the native
troops of both the Belgian and German forces are
practcing cannibalism. When they kill their oppo-
nents in battle they eat them afterwards.
The see US killing each other" says DR.. Fla
ment "a thing We try to stop them from doing,
and they say we are not different from them. So
when they want to eat their enemies we cannot
argue with them"
And what is there to say to these nesroes? We,
the superior white men, self-appointed guardians
of civilization, Boosting of refnements and
culture have a way of deprecating as horrible the
savageres Of Africa, but how far removed are we
from those excuses? We do not eat our enemies
when we STAY them, but do practice barbar-
tiles of which the black Africans never dreamed.
We send missionaries among them to teach civil
izations niceties; and yet, while the mission
aries are laundering the doctrines OF peace and
good will into their ears there is another thunder
in the distance. White men are Staying other
white men by millions, and in the effort are en-
ploying forms of ghoulishness which outdistance
all conceptions of African depravity.
And if the Africans, then, say that we are in
consistent and that do not follow in the tracks
of our own teachings what shall we say to them
what is there for to say in contravention?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
VARIOUS THINGS
Too Good TO Live,

He never smoked, he never drank;
He never said, How dry l ann
The filthy weed he thought was rank
He never used the cuss word "!!!**.'
He came home early every night
OF this fact | am positive
And on his tombstone one might write:
Alas! he was too good to liye!'
A model man in all respects
He even went to Sunday school;
Quite free was he from all defects,
He'd never heard of Kelly pool;
His hard-earned salary each week
To friend wife he would always give,
And those who would his tombstone seek
Might read: He was too good to live.
He paid subscriptions in advance;
He never Knocked his native town;
He welded no reformer's lance,
He never sought for cheap renoWn
If you but pleased him he would write
And tell you how much joy you give
(Not many persons so pOlite)
Alas, he was too good to live!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
Failure of RadiCaIiSm.

For several years past radicalism has been pre-
eminent in the national life. The press has been
bombarded with all sorts of propaganda pro-this
and pro-that Questions of vital Importance to the
nation have been relegated to the rear to make
room for the fad of some politician or organlZa-
ton, and all kinds of governmental schemes have
spread over the country with alarming rapldly:
Not all of this propaganda has had the basis or
truth. Big business organizations have been known
to bring on contests such as prohibition or wo-
mans suffrage in states which had not been pre-
pared through Campaign of education to vote IN
tellgently the adoption rejection of such pro-
posed laws In the meantime the organizations
which brought about the contest, safe in the Sc
clusiOn in which the apparently more important
movement shrOuded them, have been able TO secure
legislation of tremendous importance to their spe-
cial interest. But the people are no longer being
fooled by the radicals. Voters going more
slowly about the adoption of laws that tend to up
turn their entire economic status. Thus Womans
suffrage, which had been adopted wildly by num-
of western states in the first thrOes of the de-
mand for votes for women, defeated in New
Jersey New York and Pennsylvania. The women
of these states claim that they will adopt Womans
suffrage eventually. In the meantime they Will
continue their educational propaganda, and VOt-
ers will have a chance to study both sides of the
question When the decision is finally made the
result will be a lasting and beneficial one. The
prohibition question likewise slated for sew
eral states this year. but wiser heads prevailed, and
these states postponed the contest until Ohio pass
state held millions of dollars invested in the liquor
business and that the decision of the voters of the
state would not be made lightly. This is as it
should be. Reforms must come slowly in great
bodies No matter how desirable law may seem
it should not be forced ignorant public by
study and step by step that make substantial
and lasting prOgreSS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
We. The People.

Although if was business-like, with no more fuss
than if it was coming together after weeks re-
cess instead of nine months absence, the opening
of the sixty-frst congress- when We, the People as
sembled for business, was marked with certain
soIemnty.
Perhaps it was best voiced by the gray haired
chaplain when he uttered the opening prayer call
ing for peace with honor" Not man there
hut knew that the nations fate may rest on his
action in the next few weeks. for the President
is calling for 1858 S72 1873 to defend our land The
enormous sum of one and quarter billion or DOL
lars is the total appropriation that the government
REQUIRES When we attained the burden OF a
biIliOn-dollar congress the country thought the
limit of endurance had been reached; but here is
a billion and a quarter, and big chunk OF 1t for
national defense from
The only bit of color at the opening Of congress
was the appearance of about 1000 sutfrassts, with
a giant petition asking that the Susan B. Anthony
amendment to the constitution be adopted. This
amendment has come up so many times and as
regularly defeated that it is worn threadbare.
All in gold and purple, buff and blue, the wo-
men of the suffrage propaganda made brave
showing as their line stretched far down the
capitol steps, carrying the petition signed by
thousands it unrolled like scroll and they bore
proudly in and laid at the feet OF the represent
atives of suffrage states.
Aside from the suffrage cooring the day was
dull and drab. The SO senators and 435 represent
atives assembled in the matter-of-course manner
were sworn in, went through routine business
chose presiding officers and settled down to work
Almost the only notable Uncle Joe Cannon
former speaker of the house, who came back as
an ordinary member of the lower house. The new
leader of the majority Representative Kitchin
of North Carolina, the floor for the first
time in his capacity leader and the country waits
his action. The majority he leads is but ~ in
stead of the 81 of the last session.
1t gives promise of being momentous session
of congress- pregnant with great possibilities, whose
outcome no man can see, since the still leaves
all the world in doubt of what the next day may
bring forth