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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
Murder Case on Trial

George Alexander, charged with the murder of Jim Sullivan near Palos in 1913, was placed on trial before Judge Aston in the criminal court yesterday, when a large number of witnesses were heard. The case will reach the jury to- day. The case was brouht to trial by the efforts of Solicitor Hugo Black to clear the docEets of all old cases. A large number Of cases for minor of lenses were nolle pressed yesterday by Judge Fort, at the suggestion of Solicitor Black
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
16.000 People in Kansas
 City Go Wild When
 President Wilson Speaks
(Continued from Page One)

"get up on your hind legs and talk. and tell the people who represent you what the nation desires and demands. The thing that everybody in democ- racy is listening for is the tramp! tramp! tramp! of the facts
 q have come to ask you what is back of me in this task Of preserving at once peace and your honor,' the President said. "The judge on the bench has the law back of him with it's bailiffs, sheriffs, national guards men and the United States army, but 1T you ignore in some foreign capital what the President urges as the rights of the people and government of the United States, what is there oack of it?
 "It is necessary that I should come and ask you this question because l don't know how long the mere word and insistence of your government Will prevail to maintain your honor ana the dignity and power of the nation.
 "There may come time-1 pray God it may never come, but it may m spite of everything we can do-upon us when I shall have to ask I have said my say: who stands back of it?' Where is that force by which the right and majesty of the United States are to he yindicated and asserted!
 The President declared the need was immediate and that action should be begun within the present month.
 CT assure you there is not a day to be lost" he said 'Not because there ;s any special crisis, but because l do not know 24 hours ahead what will
 INCONSISTENT EDITORS
 orhe future does not depend on us happen.
 but upon commanders of ships and Of submarines and upon blockades and upon many other men, big and little
 'I have read editorials" he said "sneer- ing at the number of notes sent abroad bv the government, and asking why don't the government act; and in these same papers I have seen editorials against the preparation to do anything whatever eff fective, if these notes are to be regarded. Is that the temper of the United States? It may be the temper of some editorial officials but I know it is not the tenn per of the people of the United States"
 wave of applause swept over the gathering. A voice in the gallery cried "No.' and the crowd yelled again.
 The President presented warning that most of the munition factories of the United States were on the Atlantic sea- board and that, therefore, the nation must be ready to repel the first attack in order to avoid disaster. The present army, the President said, was so small that he did not even have enough sol diers to station along the Mexican border to prevent bandits from crossing the line.
 q have even felt he said, Hike ask ing Congress to encourage the recruiting of Texas rangers. We are witnessing a cataclysm and God only knows what the issue shall be- was the way he prefaced his conclusion, in which he asked his audience to keep cool but to uphold the judgment of the government in it's de- mands for larger, more effective means of national defense
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
NAMED
 AS VICE PRESIDENT

In the reorganiza tion of the w. F. Dono- van Produce company, under it's new charter, the style of the concern has been changed to the Donovan Produce com pany. W. F. Donovan remains presi- dent and Howard M. Fulenwider becomes vice president.
 Mir Fulenwider is only p years of axe, but he has made a reputation as an ex- ceptionally capable young man and one possessing sterling traits of character. He is a son of E. l.. Fulenwider.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
25c
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True Bills Returned

Nine true bills were returned by t grand jury yesterday morning in t criminal court, as follows: Burglary a grand larceny and buying and conces ing stolen property: John Thomas, Hal lin Jameson, Frank Walker; forger David R. King; robbery, Abe Harri embezzlement, John M. Mehaffey; grai larceny, Albert Locklyn; assault with i tent to murder, Will Page; murder, Jo Rand, charged with the murder of J. Perry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
Adverse Report Given

Washington, February 1.-The war de- partment today reported to Congress ad- versely on the subject to improve the sn all boat harbor at Newport News, Va. to York river. with a view to connecting by canals New Market creek Back river and Poqueon rivers with York river.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

the ordinary rules of war We have a right to supply them with our cotton to clothe them. We have a right to supply them with our manufactured products
 The Monroe doctrine was spoken of as handsome guarantee by the United States of the rights of national and pop ular sovereignty on this side of the wa ter in both continents of the western hemisphere. Nothing sustained the honor of the United States in respect to this long cherished policy, the President said, but the moral and physical force of the United States. He spoke of the spirit shown by the nation in freeing Cuba. and added that ''the American people feel the same way about the Philippines, though the rest of the world does not believe it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
MOhr Case Near End

Providence, R. l., February 2.-Testi- mony in the trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Mohr, accused with two negroes of the murder of her husband, Dr. c. Franklin Mohr. probably will be concluded tomorrow and the case is expected to go the jury Satur- day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
Charles l.. Jones

The remains of Charles L. Jones, aged S5, who died Friday at Denver, Col. were sent to Goodwater yester day morning at o'clock by the Johns Undertaking company for interment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
Ohio Rising Slowly

Evansville, Ind, February 2.--The Ohio river rose two tenths of foot here today and tonight was slowly climbing above the 39.7 mark. The river is not expected to go over 42 feet The weather is cold and clear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
24 PER CENT GAIN IN
 POSTAL EARNINGS

A gain of 24 per cent was noted last month in the postal receipts, accord inc to the January report of Post
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
KINKY Y HAIR

Don't be fooled all your life by usirl some fake preparation which claims straighten kinky hair. Kinky hair cal
 not be made straight; you are just foo have hair before 1t can be straighteneI Now this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
Exelento Quinine Pomade

is Hair Grower which feeds the sea and roots of the hair and makes the ha grow, and you soon can see the resul by using several times. It cleans dant ruff and stops Falling Hair at once. leaves harsh, stubborn. happy hair SO and silky.
 Price 25c at all Drug Stores or maiIt for 25c on receipt of stamps or coin. E. eIentO Medicine Co.,. Atlanta, Ga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
Today's Best Offerings
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To Be Used With Gasoline

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 The quickest and easiest process for dyeing plumes, velvets, flowers laces, silks, veilings, woolens, cot ton, horse hair or straw goods, als( gloves, shoes and hosiery without taking the curl from plumes or in jury to the most delicate fabric.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03

Stock Exchange Sales New York, February 2.-Sales on the Stock exchange today were 676,000 shares.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01

still masters of the city.
To their left and behind them were
the Austro-Hungarian artillery posi-
tons, and off to the right the German
guns were hurting their projectiles
against the Serbian capital. The
AustrO-Hungarian regiments crossed
the river in plain view for the naked
eye, and a halfway good glass enabled
one to watch the Germans farther to-
ward the west, malig their bloody
struggle to cross over the Gypsy
Island. The inhabitants could see
thinned battalions of Hungarians. ly-
ing with their feet still in the river on
the Belgrade side of the stream, held
in check by murderous rifle and ma
chine fire from the old walls of the
Kalemegdan. They could see damaged
pontoons full of dead men. floating
down stream with the swift current.
The heights southwark from Belgrade
were ploughed by heavy projectiles
searching for the Serbian artillery
positions. Serbian guns were dropping
their shells into Semlin and to the rear
of the city, trying vainly to find the
guns that were gradually battering
down the defenses of the Serbian cap
ital. The Austrian 'thirty-point-five
the twelve-inch mortars, were throw
ing entire houses into the air and
making great craters within the walls
of the Kalemegdan.
I Finally, last scene in the first act of
the tragedy, the inhabitants could see
the German, Austrian and Hungarian
flags thrust out through the apertures
in the top of the still undestroyed
white tower. This was early in the
morning of October 9, when the united
troops reached the tower and a Ger
man soldier carved his name into a
beam in the tower, with the date and
hour, and added the title of the old
Lutheran hymn, Hun Danket ALLIE
Gotti'' (Now Praise Ye All Our God
Not until after the fighting had
passed beyond the crest of the Avala
mountain, southwark of Belgrade. was
the curtain rung down on this awful
entertainment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01

ty-one minutes carrying two people.
Not a hill has been found that the ma
chine did not climb or a sandy spot
that checked IT'S movement"
The machine had a speed of from
four to twenty-five miles an hour but
could be geared to a speed of fifty
miles an hour, its constructor was
quoted as having claimed The latter
spsed was too fast for motor enthus-
lasts of that day and was not at
tempted until several years later. And
then the law stepped in.
Following the appearance of Stat
ford's car, several travelling men who
were familiar with automobiles and
had ridden in them were located in
the city and those fortunate and
worldly wise gentlemen We're unan-
irnous in declaring that the automobile
was 4 Success q nd wa s here to STAY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
A REALISTIC TRAGEDY
War Drama Staged as Villagers Watch
From Housetops.

Semlin, Hungary, Jan. 1T is not
three months since shells were falling
in this old Hungarian city. but the
civilian population has already settled
back into the humdrum routine of
normal city life. Some soldiers are
still in the city. ana an occasional
column of prisoners is marched
through the streets. but apart from
this there are only some destroyed
houses in the southeastern section of
the town and a few houses SCARED by
shrapnel bullets to remind the inhab-
itants of the stirring scenes of the
early October days.
Perhaps never in the worlds history
has so splendid a spectacle been staged
free of charge for civilian spectators
as was the taking of Belgrade From
their housetops the Inhabitants of
SemIin could see every move in the
desperate undertaking. The broad
river lay in front of them. and on the
other side, perched some two hundred
feet above the stream, rose the Kali
emegdan. the old Belgrade fortress with
its white tower and its walls dating
from the days when the Turks were
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
CAR NUMBER ONE
First Automobile Seen on the
Streets of Topeka
Was Built by Terry Stafford Is
Years Ago.
SEVEN HORSEPOWER MACHINE
He Made Frequent Trips About
the Country in 1t.
He Was Both Inventor and
Builder of the Vehicle.

1t was a proud day for the home
boys, when one fine August afternoon
in the year 1900 A. D., Terry Stafford
and two friends toured down Kansas
avenue in a horselesS wagon That
vehicle looking much like a buggy
from which the quadruped power had
been unhitched bore little resemblance
to the cars that sweep down the same
thcroughfare today. But it was the
first automobile owned by a resident
of the city and the first one that
most of the native sens had ever seen.
Stafford later became prominent in
the automobile industry as the manu-
ia cturer of the Great Smith" and
the Stafford" cars That first auto
mobile that he owned he planned and
constructed without assistance and
after having seen but one other ma
chine. The other ma chine was of the
storage battery type while his own
was propelled by a compound gasoline
engine of seven horsepower.
When Stafford first penetrated the
rural districts in his ma hine his sense
of piety wasn't outraged by sulphurous
adjectives fired at him by persons who
drove four legged beasts that insisted
on taking the fences after giving the
car the ''once over" Not in those
days. Horses frequently shied even
as they frequently shy today. But
farmers WHO viewed TIE auto LOT Nhe
I first time strained their eye muscles
too far to make use of the vocal cords
possible
I Early JOY Rides
1t is said that once during those
early joyrides, Stafford encountered
/ a farmer who was unable to keep
/ his team in the road. Tie man beat
/ his horses with stick so short that he
| had to lean far over tc hit them
/ Tuning TO Stafford, who had stopped
his car until the team could be
quieted tie farmer shouted, Say,
l frie nc, lend ms your whip"
Before bres king into the public
/ prints several trips We're made in the
machine by its builder. The first
Journey was between Topeka and Sill
yer Lake The trip was made in four
hours each way without trouble"
proudly chroniclcd the newspaDe
man who covered the story.
Writing un0er the same feverish
/ excitement, the scribe continued
( From tie postoffice to Pauline, Their
cast to the Bcrrytor cross roads and
then to Topeka IS a little more thar
nineteen and three-quarters miles, and
| Mr.. Stafford has made the trip with
his automobile in one hour and TWEEN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01


Harvey Parsons, chief of police;
George A Clark. former secretary of
state, and Frank farrell, publicity
agent for the Santa Fe railway. are
others who can claim undisputec
membership. Chief Parsons once pub
lished a paper in Wabaunsee county
and George A Clark was for years
publisher of Junction City papers.
Colonel "Bill' Sapp, Democratic ma
tional committeeman, was once in the
we editor class in a country town
in southeastern Kansas. He is now
the owner of a paper in Galena, but is
too busy with his mineral interests to
think of it.
T. A. McNeaI started his editorial
experiences in Medicine Lodge as pub
Usher of the Cresset- Earl Akers,
state treasurer, has sold his Stafford
Republican and is now eligible to
membership. George H. Hodges. for
mer governor. claims former expert
ence as a country editor, while S. T.
Seaton, in charge of the blue sky de-
partment in the bank commissioner
office was editor. business manager,
solicitor. reporter and devil on an
Olathe paper.
There are any number of other ell
gibles. W. T Brown. D. o. McCray.
Ernest Tucker, Dwight Harris, A j.
Carruth. Jr, E. B. Chapman. Walter
Johnson, A. L. Shultz, T. F. Black
burn and other Topeka newspaper
men have published country papers.
Z. W. Wingart claims membership be-
cause he once published the K L.
daily and was discharged because the
school heads did not like his editorial
policy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
TO EXTERMINkTE
YULETIDE Green
Government Puts Ban on Mis-
tIetoe. the Christmas Plant.
Eats Life Out of Trees, Forest
Officials Declare.
&C &C DESPITE SACRED HISTORY
Millions of Dollars Lost From
Attacks of Shrub.
The kissing Plant Condemned
as Pest by Experts.

Copyright, 1915, L. William Thavis.)
Washington. D. C, Jan. 1.-THE
traditional mistletoe, with its sacred
history as a Christmas decoration the
world over from period anterior to
the revelation of Christianity. is des-
tined to be exterminated in this coun-
try because of its serious destruction
of the hardwood trees of the forests,
as well as shade and orchard trees.
According to Uncle Sam the losses re-
sulting from its attacks amount to
millions of dollars.
Although this beautiful shrub brings
much joy during the Yuletide season
to the hearts of both young and old.
mistletoe has come to be termed by
friends of trees as not merely para
site or ordinary pest, but an insidious
and destructive pest which ought to be
externinated.
Government forest officials, who
have made an exhaustive study of the
destructiveness of the mistletOe plant,
fully realize there are many consid-
erations which go toward cOndoning
its harmfulness, principally the gen.
eral traditional hold ii has upon the
regard of people as a joy-producing
decoration. and that of its commercial
value. Florists and marketmen deal
Z in it by the tons annually. making the
mistletoe a most profitable commodity
during the period of Yuletide-
Is Parasitic Plant.
{ probably one OF the Cnl6I causes
/ of the present conditions lies in the
! fact that in tolerating the growth be-
4 cause of its biological interest and be-
cause of its traditional setting this
parasitic plant has insidiously multi
piled upon trees until it has become
positively a serious pest" says Pro
/ lessor w. L. Brady of the division OF
forest pathology, department of agri-
culture. Those who have tried inef
fectively for decade or more to ric
valuable shade trees of mistletOe viii
! doubtless be ready to waive consid
eratiOns of sentiment and tradition il
favor of a radical movement looking
to the determination Of mistletoe.
In general, the American mistletoe
like its European prototype, is more
cherished because of its biological in
. terest and historic setting thar
feared for its harmfulness to trees. II
various sections of the country, no
tably in Texas, Oregon and California
its destructiveness as a tree parasite
outweighs other considerations in it
behalf The use of the mistletoe, il
I Christmas decorations. however. give
it a commercial status which has som'
bearing on the question of its contrO
and determination"
The mistIetoe plant is purely a par
asite and not a disease of trees. a
is generally believed 1t fastens itsel
upon its hostile tree-penetrates it
tissues and draws nourishment from
it, deforming and sapping its vitality
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
Feathered SOngster Possesses a
College Education.
Canary Is Trained for Perform
ance in Grand Opera.
1T GAN EXECUTE A TRILI
Initiates the Notes of a Flute
or a Violin.
Does Unusual Feat of Singing
Two Notes at Once. ~

No wonder ]. A. Ramsey was wof-
ried about the delayed arrival of his
canary bird last week-the one ship
ped from Philadelphia right in the
midst of the Christmas rush
That bird isn't any ordinary canary.
It's canary with a college education.
regard for it's sex perhaps it would DO
more fitting to refer to it as a Caruso.
The Ramsey bird is fitted in every
way for grand opera. Six months
were spent teaching it to run the scale,
to initiate flute. violin. bell and
to give an inimitable trilL In fact this
bird can actually sing two notes at one
time, feat that has never been ac-
complished by the most wonderful
operate stars.
Is it any wonder that Mr.. Ramsey
was anxious? But the bird is here
now. He has Ii in his office at the
city building. After II arrived in To-
peks it refused to MARBLE u single war
Bile until Mr. Ramsey placed IL in a
new brass cage Then the little yell
low mite opened up the flood gates OF
music and has been going ever since
This bird was raised in Germany and
was educated by some one in a peas
ant district of Germany. No other
class of people have the patience to
undertake SuCn a task. It's education
was started when it was six weeks old.
Like its brothers and sisters Il was
placed in a small box cage with one
small round hole to give il just light
enough to see to eat and drink. II
was placed in room from which all
other sound was excluded. then ftN
teacher began giving it lesson every
two hours. The first lesson was on
the flute.
First Played Classics.
The teacher started by playing the
scales softly and low. The bird imi-
tered that 1t was started on vioiin
tones. After mastering the tones pre-
duced by a single violin string the
more difficult part of the birds tdu-
cation began. The teacher played on
I two strings at one time, producing
chords full OF harmony, and the bird
/ initiated them.
| After the violin came the bell
tones A series OF the finest toned
silver bells was placed in a box or
closet and kept ringing for half an
hour at a time three or four times .
day. Next came the trill In a few
short weeks the bird could trill as ne
human being can; not one note but
many notes-dwelling. on one or more
notes so long the listener holds his
| breath and wonders where ii all comes
| from.
| Then to top off the college educa-
ton the bird is taught to sing at night.
and taught by another bird. The Eu-
| ropean nightingale is used for this
purpose. The nightingale sings at
night and by enclosing one with the
| cararies the latter are taught Every
bird must sing at night before he II
graduated.
The bird Mr.. Ramsey has was ship
ped across the Atlantic ocean to Phil
aeelphia and from there to Topeka.
He was alive and well when he reach
ed here and II required only a new
/ brass cage to start him showing off
the effects of his German college sd0-
| cation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
NO CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
German Court Holds "Acts of Divine
Healers'' Are Repugnant-

Berlin. Jan. 1.-Fraulein Huesgen
and Frau Ahrend. the two Christian
Scientists recently sentenced to prison
for being responsible for the death of
two Berlin actresses. have appealed
from the Judgment of the trial court.
Local legal authorities, however, pre-
dict a certain affirmation of the judg-
rnent basing their view on opinions
already handed down by the imperial
supreme court IN similar cases. In
each of these the court held that the
assumption of the treatment of the
patient and the failure to call in a
physician constitutes gross negligence.
1t said in one case;
The trial court found the negh-
gence of the accused to exist in the
fact that ne carried on the treatment
of the patient alone, although he knew
the dangerous character of the ILL
ness and must also have known that
this illness required a proper treat
ment, and he could have foreseen that
death might possibly be the result of
his treatment. In these circumstances
the court could assume without error
that the accused lost sight of the re-
quired care and perception, and espe-
cially that he did not. as healer take
proper consideration for the life OF
his patient, and therefore acted
against duty and in a guilty man.
ner-"
The provincial court of Berlin de-
clared null and void contract with a
Christian Scientist, saying:
The belief that a person is able
| by the power of especial divine
grace, to heal the sick, may exist in
more or Less extended circles. But
the assumption of such a healing
power in connection with its exercise
as source of revenue is repugnant
to the general moral sense, at least OF
cd Il 10 ~, g Il
ture, and can therefore not enjoy tht
protection of the laws"