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self,
aslor is not moved by concord of sweet
sounds.
4s fit for treasons, strategems and
spoils.
—Merchant of Venice.
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Currency Keform Bills
The attempt of Senator Aldrich and
Jiis co-workers to authorize emergency
Issues of currency based on railroad
securities, city bonds, county bonds,
and state bonds, is destined lo fall, for
It is nowhere in esteem except in New
[York, where railroad securities are
chiefly held. It is a patchwork job,
end a very poor one at that. It pleases
speculators and Wall street, but no one
else. It would do nothing to prevent a
panic, because its provisions are
hedged about with red tape, and a !
■panic might occur before it could be I
brought into operation.
The American Bankers’ association, !
row sitting in Chicago, presents a plan
for an assets currency to he issued in
Bn emergency up to the paid-up capital ;
of a bank, and to be taxed from 3 to 5 ;
•per cunt, the taxes to become u guar- |
enty fund of the emergency issues.
The bill of the bankers is not a bill I
Brawn to serve primarily the eastern
banks, and it would not be so tardy in
operation as the Aldrich plan. It is
(better than the Aldrich plan. But after j
all it does not give us a new and re
formed currency system, and it does
not prevent an inception of the hoard
ing process which means money strin
gency if carried far enough. The bill
that is needed is one that will prevent
a loss of confidence and resultant hoard
ing and this means that the government
In some form must get behind the cur
rency system of the country. There j
Is no safety short of that. The Aldrich !
bill is not an ounce of prevention. It
Is simply a measure for overcoming
a panic, and it is drawn on eastern
lines only. It should not and assur
edly will not become law.
Farmers Selling Cotton
Reports begin to come in that the
members of the Farmers’ union are
beginning to sell cotton. Those about
Van Buren. Ark., had stored 8000 bales,
and on Saturday they began to sell.
When cotton brings 12 cents, it is cer
tainly best to consider the mill situa
tion. the demand for cotton goods and
the crop to be grown this year. At
Van Buren, Ark., there is a feeling that
15 cents cannot be secured in this year
of trade depression, when other prices
are declining, although the farmers in
that ^neighborhood are loyal to their
organization and they had stored their
cotton grimly determined to let it stay
In the warehouse until an offer of 15
cents had been made. An offer of 12
cents or thereabouts causes them to
consider the situation.
It is a difficult problem—an intricate
question that has at least a dozen sides
to it, some of them international, and
every farmer will have to decide
■whether 12 cents in the hand is not
better than 15 cents in the prophetic
bush.
Foraker Versus Taft
The Ohio Federation of Labor has
smoked out Foraker as well as Taft,
and both have academically defined
their attitudes toward * injunctions.
Neither, however, has taken a single
step toward putting their views into
statutory form. Neither will, for the
republicans have not the slightest in
tention of offending the trusts and
magnates just before the hat is to be
passed.
Both of the eminent Ohioans favor
the enactment of a law defining in
specific terms when and to what ex
tent an injunction may be issued. Mr.
Taft thinks no ex parte injunction
should he issued, but Senator Foraker
links the rule should have exceptions.
>th want a quick final hearing, and
J
aator Foraker favors rather more
ngly than Mr. Taft the granting
e right to defendant vo have a
JF'D for contempt heard before an
/judge, although the Judges would
<»TJretty sure to stand by each other
Other in matters of common 1 merest.
^ But the chief fact in the entire busi
ness is this, neither Senator Fcw.iker
nor Mr. Taft lifts a hand to have his
vews put into law. They express views
therefore for campaign purposes only,
because Congress is in session, and if
either expressed the views of his party
a bill would be quickly introduced and
pushed through both houses. Nothing
has been done in that direction and
nothing will be. Messrs. Taft and For
aker are therefore doing campaign
work on campaign lines. They favor
a reform in the injunction business,
but they want it to be academic only
until November next, when the subject
Is to be dropped altogether.
Hoarded Funds Returning
The New York associated banks had
at the end of last week increased their
surplus reserve to $22,635,476, an in
crease of $16,000,000 in a single week.
Is the story of 1893 to be exceeded or
even repeated?
The surplus was restored in that year
on September 9. At the end of that
month it had been increased to $24,
000,000. At the end of October it stood
at $49,000,000. In December it totaled
$76,000,000, and in the following Feb
ruary it reached $111,633,000, which
stands to this day as the highest sur
plus in the history of New York's asso
ciated banks.
Good reasons exist for anticipating
a duplication and even a displacement
of the record of 1893. Four times as
much money was hoarded in 1907 as.
was hoarded in 1893. The hoarding
of the latter year is put by experts at
$50,000,000, whereas the hoarding that
followed the October panic is known
to have reached $200,000,000. Twice
as much gold has been imported since
October as was brought over in 1893. j
True, the government may withdraw a
share of Its deposits from the banks.
Gold, too, may be exported. The issue
of new securities and of trade activity, I
not to mention Wall street speculation, j
may decrease cash holdings. The New !
York Central sold last week equipment j
trust notes to the amount of $30,000,- |
000, and Consolidated Gas sold notes
up to $1,500,000. These sales are full
of meaning, but the best judges seem
inclined to say that despite such sale3
and all probabilities money will con
tinue to accumulate In New York, and
that a new surplus record may be
established.
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Six Year’s From Ju y
According to Mr. Underwood and ;
Colonel Goethals two great events will |
take place in July, 1914, and The Age
Herald has no intention of letting the I
Goethals event outdazzle in its own ;
estimation the Underwood event. The j
opening of the Warrior to slackwater j
navigation all the way from the rail- j
road bridges and the forks of the river
to the sea Is by no means a local event.
It means, it is true, a great deal to
this district, for it should speedily
lead to a doubling of its coal output,
to say nothing of its iron and steel, but
it means also bunker coal at Mobile,
Pensacola and New Orleans at lower j
prices than it can be procured at any ;
other port in the world. This gives
the Warrior improvement a national
bearing, if not an international one.
Colonel Goethals says the Panama
canal will be opened in six years from
next July. Balboa discovered the isth
mus in 1513, so that the celebration of
the 400th anniversary of the discovery
of the isthmus and that of the opening
of the canal can be held together. The
canal is to be 110 feet wide and 40
feet deep, and the ships of the world
that steam to or from the Pacific will
pass close to our gulf ports. We must
be ready to fill their bunkers at un
approached and unapproachable rates.
This is the underlying reason of the
Warrior improvement, and the opening
of the Warrior should not be delayed
in order to hasten the opening of any
other river in the land.
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Congress has reduced the Chinese
indemnity one-half, knowing that the
loss will be more than made good by
Mr. Rockefeller when he pays that
fine.
Fifth avenue is suffering more from
attempts to pronounce the name of the
bridegroom in the approaching Vander
bilt wedding than from the grip.
Tom Lawson rises to remark that
an eight-cylinder bull market is coming
down the pike and he advises the
bears to take to the woods.
Our sea prestige has bee'n fully re
stored at Rio, and to some extent at
all places which have cable connection
with that beautiful harbor.
The suffragettes in England believe
in carrying the war into Africa and
the premier’s home. They have to a
woman put on war paint.
The supreme court does not think Mr.
Harriman is beneficial to the country
as a sphinx, and it has advised him to
overcome the habit.
Mr. Fairbanks is posing still as a
candidate In the firm belief that the
cocktail incident is now ancient his
tory.
All is gay and festilve at Rio except
Admiral Bob Evans’ big toe, and it is
doing business in its own peculiar way.
Indiana is troubled with a wild tiger,
and Georgia wdth blind tigers, and it
is difficult to say which is the worse.
Ex-Governor Douglas makes states’
rights second to tariff revision only in
his outline of a democratic platform.
Mr. Mtinsev and Mr. Hearst should
be alert, for the Ijondon Times is still
on the market at a beggarly $1,000,000.
The rumbling of the Taft band
wagon is beard by federal officials in
the south plainer and plainer each day.
The supreme court refused to in
dorse E. H. Harriman’s laconicism on
great internal questions.
Confidence is returning like a leak
in a levee, growing larger daily until
it becomes a flood.
Pour thousand actors are out of jobs,
but still the circuits down this way are
well filled.
Stuporous melancholia Is our old
friend, dementia Americana, in a new
masque.
Democratic harmony begins to reign,
and that Is an excellent prelude to
victory.
George Ade Is not In politics to any
great extent, he being a Fairbanks
man.
The first robin is nearly due, with
or without the consent of the ground
hog.
Kangaroo joints are displacing horse
meat in Paris restaurants.
WHITE MAN HELD
FOR KILLING NEGRO
Anniston. Ala., January 20.—(Special.)—
Charged with the murder of Joe Shivers,
a negro, Collie Reaves, a well-known
white farmer, was arraigned before Pro
bate Judge Emmett F. Crook this after
noon for a preliminary hearing, and as
a result he was placed under a $1000 bond
to answer to the city court grand jury.
The killing occurred of this city
last fall, Reaves alleging self-defense as
an excuse for the deed.
Hon. Charles Pelham Dead.
Judge John Pelham of this city has re
ceived news from South Georgia of the
death of his father, Hon. Charles Pelham,
who passed away at Poulon. The de
ceased was 72 years old and was at one
time a judge of the circuit court in this
district, also representing the Fourth
District in Congress during the early 70’s.
He was a captain in Wheeler’s cavalry
during the civil war.
Alleged Blind Tigers.
Charged with violating the prohibition i
laws of Calhoun county, three bind tigers,
Jack Depositor, Arthur Gilcrease and S.
H. Crow, will have a hearing before Re
corder James T. Greene in police court
Wednesday morning. Depositor is |
charged with bringing whisky into the I
city and the other two men are charged |
with selling it at a dance in West Annis- i
on Saturday night. The cases were called j
In police court Monday, but were con
tinued. This is the first case of allege*! j
blind tigering since the prohibition laws |
went into effect in this city.
Speechless For Weeks.
Havng been deprived of the pow'er of
speech for several weeks, Mr. J. H.
Smoot, a well-known contractor, suc
cumbed to apoplexy Sunday night and
was buried here Monday afternoon. Two
other deaths in Anniston Sunday were
those of Mrs. T. J. Langley, wife of one
of the pioneer citizens of the city, and
Chesley Towns, a prominent citizen of
the Third ward.
Lunatic Is Jailed.
Having been arrested on a charge of
disorderly conduct, T. Gilbert, an aged
white man, has been transferred from the
city prison to the county jail on a charg*i
of lunacy, upon the recommendation of
the city and county physician, Dr. E. K.
Moon, who pronounced the old man in
sane after an examination.
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GENERAL LEE’S BIRTHDAY.
Celebration at Mobile Is Marked By
Fine Programme.
Mobile, January 20.—(Special.)—The lec
ture room of the Y. M. C. A. was crowded
tonight, the occasion being the JOlst cele
bration of the birth of the illustrious
Gen. Robert E. Lee. The programme was
in charge of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, and was a pleasing one.
There were songs and recitations by Mo
bile talent. The Rev. Matthew Brewster
read the poem, “The Living Lee,” from
the pen of T. C. DeLeon. The evening
oration was delivered by Robert E. Gor
don, one of Mobile's most gifted and
eloquent young attorneys. During the
ceremonies Mrs. E. S. Colston, daughter
of the late Admiral Semmes, delivered -
crosses of honor in the name of the
U. D. C. to 21 veterans. The members
of both Raphael Semmes and Jones M.
Withers camps, U. C. V., and John M.
Owens camp, Sons of Veterans, were in
attendance.
CHANCE FOR WALSH.
Juror Who Stood Out So Long Is
Sorry He Changed.
Chicago, January 20.—A special dispatch
to the Journal from Harvard, 111., says
that Elbert Palmer, the juror who stood
out so long for the acquittal of John R.
Walsh, who was convicted on 'Saturday
of violating the national banking Jaws,
told J. C. Hendricks, a lawyer, who re
counts in an affidavit a conversation held I
by him with Palmer, that he did not be- i
lieve that Walsh was technically guilty,
and that had he known that he could
change his verdict when questioned in
court by Judge Anderson he woulw* have
done so. Palmer said he rather would
have blown out his brains than to have
presented a verdict of guilty in «ourt hod
he known he could change it wain the
jurors wrere polled.
Palmer is at his farm near Harvard a
physical wreck.
The affidavit made by Hendricks han
been sent to Walsh’s lawyers.
Receiver Appointed.
Providence, R. 1„ January 20.—Justice
Sweetland, n* the superior court this aft
ernon appointed John P. Hilton, treas
urer of the New England Trust company
of this city, as tempprary receiver of the
institution. No statement was given out
by the trust company as to the cause of
the difficulty.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
Prom the Ned York Press.
The hardest tiling Is to be a good ex
ample to yourself.
A women calls it making up a com
plexion only when It can be detected.
When the head of a family is a clergy
man it's only a sure a sign his sons aren't
going to be.
If a man could be a» sure of heaven In
the next world as he Is of hell In this
there could be no arguments about It.
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Prospects Brightening.
Said a prominent merchant last night:
“Today has been anything but the pro
verbial ‘blue Monday,' for not since last
fall, before the panic, has the business
outlook seemed so bright. Trade today
has been good and the signs of idle form
aces resuming operations had a fine effect
in the public mind. Two or three stacks
in the immediate Birmingham district that
were blow-n out some months ago will
be relighted very soon.”
Regarding Sunday Golf.
“I am not a Country club man but I am
sorry the law prohibits on Sunday such
healthful exercise and innocent diversion
as golf,” said a prohibitionist. "While I
voted the anti-saloon ticket 1 am opposed
to ‘blue law's.’ There is nothing that
hurts a good cause so much as a ten
dency to extremes.
“I believe in a decorous observance of
Sunday, but to forbid harmless recreation
on that day is carrying the matter too
far. History repeats itself. The pendulum
will swing back and instead of accom
plishing something for morals, men who
are not inclined to be sanctimonious will
l rise up in protest and undo all that has
been achieved in the matter of temperance
} reform. Let the act that makes Sunday
golf a crime or misdemeanor be w-lped off
the statute book.”
Between Bryan and Taft.
‘‘At the approach of every presidential
election year republican candiates for the
nomination are numerous, but they seem
more numerous this year than usual,” re
marked an old citizen. ‘‘On the other
hand, democratic aspirants are, as a rule,
few- in number.
‘‘Bryan is the only democrat seriously
thought of for the nomination. In the
republican party Governor Hughes ap
peared at one time to have the lead.
Fairbanks was strong, and so was Can
non, and so, too, was Knox. But every
thing today points to the nomination of
Taft. I do not expect to see a dark horse.
With Taft as the republican standard
bearer and Bryan carrying the demo
cratic standard, the country will have two
popular men from which to choose. The
chances are in favor of Bryan.”
Social Drinking.
‘‘The liquor locker system is growing
In popularity in Georgia,” said an At
lanta man at the Morris. "At first many
club men wrho had the habit of social
drinking had an idea that the prohibition
law prohibited treating. Since this turned
out not to be the case, social drinking at
the clubs goes on just the same as in
other days.
"Henry Clews, the distinguished finan
cier and writer on finance and other sub
jects, once wrote a bright, sententious
syndicate ‘story’ on ‘Men to Be Avoided.’
I recall this sentence: ‘The man who,
W'hen he drinks drinks alone.’ There was
good, homely philosophy in that advice,
temperance gentlemen in feeble health
who drink liquor simply as medicine and
the drunkard are the two extremes among
men who would think or drinking all by
ones self. The American rule is to
treat and be sociable. I do not know how
it Is in Birmingham, but if the locker is
in vogue here there will be the usual
amount of treating. Human nature is the
same all over this country.’ ’
Frosts and Rain.
"I am losing faith in w-eather,
signs,” said a dairyman last night.
"Among the few' sig^ns that I thought
unfailing was that three white frosts
brought rain.
"I have W’atched the weather for
many years and my abservation was
that one white frost brought clouds;
that white frosts two nights in suc
cession were almost sure to bring rain,
and that three frosts never failed to be
followed by a rainy spell. We have
had four white frosts since Thursday
and yet the rain comes not. Sunday
and today were bright and beautiful.”
About Persons.
Lieutenant Governor Henry B. Gray
returned to Alabama yesterday, after
spending several days in Chicago.
* * *
W. W. Stringfellow, president of the
Fir&t National bank of Anniston, and
one of the best known members of the
banking fraternity in Alabama, Is reg
istered at the New’ Morris.
* * *
M. L. Harahan, a well known citizen
of Montgomery, is stopping at the New
Morris hotel.
* • *
S. J. Maegan of Blocton is at the
Morris.
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Cecil N. Cowan of Sayre is at thd
Morris.
* * *
R. E. Bowden of Keystone is at the
Morris. /
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J. G. Oakley of Ashby is at the
Morris.
* • *
Chancellor A. H. Benners is in Tus
caloosk, holding court. / He left Mon
day morning and will return tomor
row,
• • *
Friends of How’ard Kolb, formerly of
Birmingham but more recently of
Reading. Pa., wrill be interested to
know that a circular fssued by the
Travelers Insurance company an
nounces that he lias been appointed
manager of the life and accident de
partments of the Travelers for the state
of Missouri, outside of Jackson "coun
ty, w'ith future headquarters at St.
Louis.
MONOPOLY MUST CEASE.
Government Proposes To Control All
Grazing Lands.
Denver, Colo., January 20.—President
Roosevelt's policy of government control
of grazing lands in and out of forest
reserves w’as unanimously indorsed today
by the forest reserves grazing land com
mittee of the National Live Stock as
sociation. The commission is drawing up
a set of resolutions which / it will offer
to the association which meets here to
morrow and as the committee is represen
tative of all parts of the country, its
resolutions are certain of acceptance. The
President’s policy In this respect was in
dorsed tonight by the Colorado Horse
and Cattle Growers’ association.
Preliminary to the meeting of the na
tional association, tho Colorado Cattle
and Horse Growers’ association met to
day.
President John W. Springer made an ad
dress which was the sensation ot the con
vention. \ He said that the United States
Senate was an aggregation of million
aires put there by the trusts. He criti
cised the strict protectionists of Massa
chusetts, who demanded a reduction of
the tariff on wool and hides, but pooh*
poohed the western cry for a reduction
on shoes and clothing.
Railroads, life insurance companies and
other corporations and trust interests,
he said, must be made to cease tho rao
nopollzing of utilities and necessities
TAX ON JAPS CUTS
OFF IMMIGRATION
Washington, January 20.—Japanese
immigration to America is decreasing,
according to official reports received
by the immigration bureau, the falling
| off for December, 1907, was 2234, as
! compared w ith December, 1906. This
is regarded by the immigration au
| thorities as proving that the immigra
tion restrictions placed upon the Jap
anese last spring are proving effec
tive. While the immigration of Jap
anese duMng tlie past eight or nine
months has shown an increase over
the corresponding period of last year,
it is believed by the immigration of
ficials that the immigration of Japanese
to this country has been checked. /The
diplomatic negotiations which are pond
ing betw'een this country and Japan
has disclosed the fact that the Jap
anese government has placed a tax on
Immigration societies organized In that
country. This tax has put many of
them out of business and the fatling
off of the immigration into this coun
try may he attributed to that fact.
governor'smith
REFUSES TO ATTEND
Atlanta, January 20.—(Special.)—
Because wine and champagne w'ere to
be served at the banquet given the
Virginia society tonight, Governor
Hoke Smith, who wras listed as one
of the speakers, cancelled his engage
ment and appeared at the banquet of
the Atlanta Grays. Governor Smith
was of the opinion that the serving of
wine would probably be a violation of
the prohibition law and did not desire
to countenance a violation.
Miss Anne Wallace, who for 16 years
has served as librarian of the old Y.
M. C. A. library in Atlanta and then of
the Carnegie library, today handed in
her resignation to the library board
and was succeeded by Miss Julia Ran
kin, her assistant. Miss Wallace re
signed to marry Mr. Max Franklin
Howland of Boston, who is prominent
In library circles In that city.
“LITTLE EGYPT"
LEAVES FORTUNE
New York, January 20.—Fred Hamlin
of the banking firm of Hamlin & Co. of
East Bloomfield, N. Y., has applied for
letters of administration for the estate
of Catherine Devine, the ‘‘Little Egypt"
of Seeley dinner fame, who died alone j
In her flat in West Thirty-seventh street ,
two weeks ago. Mr. ^Hamlin asserts that
he married the dancer nearly 12 years
ago. The relatives of the dancer will light
Hamlin's claims. The estate is estimated
at $200,000.
At the time of "Little Egypt's" death it
wras not generally supposed that she had
left a fortune. An investigation, however,
revealed the fact that she ow’ned real
estate and in New York had several bank
accounts besides much valuable jewelry.
Her income after the Seeley dinner, It
It is said, averaged nearly $1000 a wreek.
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NEGRO MURDERER
LYNCHED BY MOB
Chattanooga, Tenn., January 20.—New#
reached this city tonight to the effect that
a posse of Morgan county citizens cap
tured and lynched Walter Cole, the negro
who yesterday killed Walter Langley, the
Cincinnati Southern bridge watchman, at
Annadel, Tenn. The posse had followed ;
Cole all night and early tills morning sur
rounded him in the woods. The negro re
sisted arrest and the posse fired, riddling
his body with bullets.
GREAT THEATRE HORRORS.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
1811—December 26, theater at Richmond,
Va„ 70 killed; 200 injured.
1876— December 6, Conway theater, at
Brcxdclyn, 295 killed; 500 injured.
1877— Robinson's opera house, Cincin
nati, false alarm; panic; 16 killed; many
lnj tired.
*881—December 9, Ring theater, Vienna,
700 killed; 400 Injured.
1881—Lehman's theater, St. Petersburg,
700 killed; 400 injured.
1887— May 25, Opera Comlque, Paris, 20
killed; many Injured.
1888— Temple theater, Philadelphia,
scores killed; many Injured.
1891—Central theater, Philadelphia, 10
killed; many Injured.
v 1897—Charity Bazaar, Paris, 300 killed;
scores injured.
j897—Theater Cenral, Brussels, many
killed; scores injured.
1897—Yore's opera house, Benton Har
bor, Mich., 11 killed; 20 injured.
1897—Robinson's opera house, Cincinnati
dome fell, 4 killed; many injured.
1897—People's theatre, Aberdeen, Scot
land. 10 killed; 40 injured.
1901—November 6, Klondyke theatre,
Milwaukee, 11 killed; many Injured.
1903—Iroquois theatre, Chicago, 600 kill
ed; scores Injured.
1908—Barnsley, Englapd. 16 killed.
1908—Boyertown, Pa.,\200 killed; scores
Injured.
Rich Indian Chief Dead.
Guthrie, Okla., January 20.—James Big
heart, ex-chlef of the Osage Indians, who,
It Is claimed, was the richest Indian In
the t'nlted States, died today of paralysis,
at his home rear Big Heart, In the Osage
Nation. Bignoait was born In Henry
county, Mo., In years ago. With forty
others oe volunteered In a company of
Kansas cavalry, and participated In sev
eral battler, of the civil war. He owned
much valuable land and was a stock
holder in two national banks.
Bad Wreck on Italian Railway.
Milan. Januaiy 20.—Ten persons ure re
ported dead and many Injured in a col
lision oetween an express train from
Rome and a tialn corning from Berga
mo, near tins city, tonight. The catas
trophe was further aggravatoed by a trln
from Milan winch-ran Into the wreckage
of the two lll-lated trains. A special train
with doctors and nurses has left hare for
the scene of ihe disaster.
Fish Gets More Time.
Chicago, January 20.—Stuyvesant Fish
anil others who are endeavoring to pre
vent the voting of 281,251 .shares of stock
of the Illinois Central Railroad company
at the annual meeting of the stockholders
of that company on March 2, were today
given an extension of time to January
25 In whloh to file reply briefs In an ac
tion pending In the superior court.
Stork Again Expected.
Madrid, January 20.—It Is seml-offieially
announced that the Queen of Spain is
against enclente. Accouchment Is ex
pected In July. . i
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
LINES FOR THE MORNING.
Scatter roses, roses, roses
All along the -way of life,
Lend a hand to fallen brothers
Who are conquered In the strife.
Make the best of any fortune,
Face the future with a smile
And. although your place be humble,
Try to make It worth your while!
DROUTH.
"I have here a tale of two cities."
“What cities?"
“Atlanta and Birmingham."
“Cut it out. Too dry."
1^ AN OLD GARDEN.
A little maid whose smile was sweet
and tender
Leaned gracefully above a summer rose,
. And Cupid, coming by, made quick sur
render
To such a pair and such a pretty pose.
REALLY STRENUOUS.
“That’s the greatest family of athletes
I ever knew."
“You don’t tell me!"
“All the boys are football players and
all the girls bargain- hunters."
THE STRAP-HANGER.*
Each morn he runs to catch his car,
In weather cold and hot.
The time is short, his office far—
He's late, a* like as not.
The car is crowded, brimming full,
And there’s no place to sit,
Where people push and people pull
And make the best of it.
Now, hanging to a strap would be
Among his lesser woes,
But villains tramp with fiendish glee
Th3 corns upon his toes.
And when at last he gets to town
He feels but little joy
And takes It out with horrid frown
Upon the ofTice boy!
A PRACTICAL VIEW.
"The poet has no money but he is rich
In golden dreams."
"The butcher wfcn’t trade meat for
golden dreams."
GROUCH.
"Do you ever get tired of living?"
"Yes, but I don’t think I would get so
tired if some people didn’t make me
tired."
THE TRUTH.
Straight from his heart
His verse he wrote.
His thoughts wrere on
An overcoat.
—St. Louis Times.
He'd pawned his coat
Erstwhile, you see.
And that’s what brought
Him misery.
PLUTO PLEASED.
Hell was being paved with good inten
tions. "I’m glad this isn’t Birmingham,"
remarked His Majesty. "There would
be a municipal squabble, sure."
HOT AND COLD.
"Is it possible to measure love?"
"Yes."
"How?"
"With a thermometer."
MISSED HIS CHANCE.
"Where were you when opportunity
knocked at your door?"
"In the rear of the‘house firing the
cook."
A DIGGER.
Dig, dig, dig
For hats and Paris gowns,
There's never an end to the fearful grind
And that’s why father frowns.
Dig, dig, dig,
For all the girls must shine
And mother, In her ropes of pearls,
Believes in cards and wine.
Dig, dig. dig •
For money all day long,
With never a rest and never a smile
And never a lilt of *song.
Dig, dig, dig,
Expenses drive him on.
And they’ll shed a tear and say, "Ohi
dear!"
When the poor old man is gone.
SURE.
He took a cold—
’Twas in his head.
f The doctor came
And now he’s dead.
His widow weeps
Like everything,
But she’ll get married
In the spring!
RIPPLES.
Good morning! Have you had tht
grip?
Birmingham citizens are keeping theirs
in safety deposit vaults.
It is reported that Senator Davis will
go into vaudeville. He is already our
vaudeville senator.
"Why not obey the law?" asks the New
York World. There is more money made
by not obeying the law.
"What is the plural of mud?" asks
the Baton Rouge State. We don’t know,
but suspect it must be slush.
"All women are c^ts," says a Cleveland
judge. Not all. Some of them are kit
tens.
"Everybody loves our baby," sings a
bard. We’ll bet the neighbors don’t.
George Bailey says the sunbeams are
kissing the fullblown roses In Houston.
Who's kissing the widows, George?
Professor J. Lawrence Laughlin of Chi
cago says President Roosevelt is a "flashy
bluffer." Run, Prof., run!
FAUL COOIv.
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GIRL’S STRANGE CAREER
From the Seattle Times.
•TJ^HIS is the tale of a Seattle girl
f(Si) who dresses like a nuyi, poses
''1 continually as a man, and for
wJiom two girls have ended their lives,
when they found they were madly in love
with one of their own sex. Poison ended
the life of one; the other turned upon
herself the bullet of a revolver. But the
girl who has caused these tragedies lives
on. Often the officers of the law take
her in hand, for she is regarded as a
menace to society. But she soon regains
her liberty and Is again playing the game
she likes so well- The name Nell Pick
erell is one familiar to the police far and
wide. To her mother this girl is "Harry."
“I always played with the boys, and
wanted to be one of them," this girl once
confided to a friend. As a rule she talks
filtle about herself—so wise has she grown
on the score of keeping her own counsel.
“I did not look like a girl; did not feel
like a girl. I seemed to have nothing In
common with my own sex. My hair was
short and coarse. My shoulders were
broad and square like a man's. The lines
of my figure were straight. My 'hips were
a little broader than a man’s—that was
about the only distinguishing feature.
"So it seemed impossible to make my
self a girl and, sick at heart over the
thought that I would be an outcast of the
feminine gender, I conceived the idea of
making myself a man, and mingling with
men as one of them. I put on men’s
clothing, and have not discarded it since,
though now I am almost 24 years old. I
will newer go back to the conventional
style of dress; that would make my life
so unbearable that I could not stand It.
^Better anything than that.”
The early years of Nell Pickerell’s life
were spent in a small village near Seat
tle. Her father was an old soldier, and
then a circus "spieler," traveling over the
country as the ticket barker In front of a
side show. Her mother has always been
her closest friend, and it is she who
ctjmes to the front for the man-daughter
when difficulty arises. In the family is a
brother who suffered severe injury in a
street-car accident some years ago. Mrs.
Piekerell now’ lives in a comfortable home
she owns on Warren avenue.
Even with all her varied experiences—
more remarkable in their way than those
of any other girl in the country—Nell
Piekerell looks upon life as more or less
of a joke. Again and again she finds
herself behind iron bars, but she emerges
serenely, usually through the efforts of
her mother, who would sacrifice anything
for the strange creature that once nestled
at her breast.
The girl gets genuine pleasure in gather
ing to 'herself the affections of trusting
girls who see in her an object of passion
ate admiration. Hh^ stands tall and
straight, Jesses with cure, has features
that might be called handsome in a mar,
though not pretty in a woman, and one
might pass her again and again upon the
street without suspecting her true nature
or the havoc she has played among
women.
The first of her victims to end her dis
appointed life declared her infatuation
knew no bounds. She was madly, rap
turously in love with the attractive
"Harry” Livingstone. The girl in man’s
garb played with the misguided membef
of her own sex as an angler with a big
speckled trout, until at last the secret was
whispered in her ear. Her life seemed
worth nothing when she learned the truth.
”1 love you, Harry, even though you
have been to me a living lie,” she cried,
and shot herself to death.
The second victim, within a short space
of a few weeks, hurled herself upon the
rocks of destruction to the siren song of
this woman who plays with life and death.
Like a wrecker upon the beach, she placed
false beacon Ughts upon the shore to lure
upon the treafcherous sands the ships that
sail the angiV seas. Hasel Walters felt
the lure of \ha girl's false personality,
and In her delirium of madness drank
a liquid that ended forever the disap
pointment that filled her life. Her suicide
took place in IProom facing First avenue,
near Pike strjet.
It was aft™ the second suicide that
Nell Pickerell was so severely scored by
the coroner, at that time Dr. C. E. Hoye.
It was not plssible to prosecute her for
a crime, yet In the eyes of the moral
law could any crime be worse than hers?
The warning that she was given over the
body of this second victim was a lesson
that Nell Pickerell has never forgotten.
Perhaps she was right in saying she had
| loved but one man, and that was in her
I early youth; it may be that his falsity
! made life what it since became, but those
| familiar with the circumstances declare
I this girl was in love with George Baker,
who was shot down as a safe-cracker by
f Policeman Ribbach a year or more ago.
The two were often seen together, and
were finally called “pals.”
Many times has the girl been arrested
for frequenting the streets and resorts of
North Seattle, and having no apparent
means of livelihood. She was arrested in
Colfax some time ago, accused of theft,
but was not convicted. Her last appear
ance in court was very recently when the
old charge against her was made, and she
was allotted GO days in the county jail,
but her mother, with the security of the
small home, arranged for her daughter's
release, giving a peace bond for three
months.
It is a pitiful story that Nell Pickerell
tells.
“I have been persecuted and hounded by
the police until I am almost mad,*' she
declares, and so plausible a story does *
she recite that the sympathy of the hard
est listener is quickly won. “I want to
reform, but no one giVes me a chance.
It is the old story of the dog who is
down.1'
Vvitu clear, well-spoken words does she
tell her story, and there are detectives
and policemen on the Seattle force who
have sympathy for the girl who dresses
like a man. “She’s trying to be on the
square," said one of them the other day,
“and she ought to have a decent show.'*
Big Sales of Tobacco.
Lexington, Ivy., January 20.— Half a mil
lion pounds of light tobacco was sold on
the loose tobacco market today, breaking
all records. The prices were exceptionally
good. Representatives of every extensive
manufacturer in America were present.
INSCRIPTION TO A NEWFOUND
LAND DOG.
By Lord Byron.
[ When some proud son of man returns to
earth
Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth,
The sculptor’s art exhausts the pomp of
woe
I And storied urns record who rests below;
When all is done upon the tomb is seen.
Not what he was, but what should have
been.
But the poor dog, *in life the firmest
friend,
The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Whose honest heart is still his master’s
own
Who labors, fights, lives, breathes for
him alone.
Unhonor’d fall, unnoticed all his worth.
Denied in heaven tlie soul he held on
earth;
While man, vain insect! hopes to be for
given.
And claims himself a sole, exclusive
heaven.
0 man, thou feeble tenant of an hour,
Debased by slavery or corrupt by power.
Who knows thee well must quit thee
with disgust, /
Degraded mass of animated dust!
Thy love Is lust, thy friendship all a
cheat,
Thy smile hypocrisy, they words de
ceit!
By nature vile, ennobled but by name,
Each kindred brute might bid thee blush
for shame.
Ye, who, perchance, behold this slmpla
urn,
Pass on—it honors none you wish to
mourn;
To mark a friend’s remains these stones
arise;
1 never knew but one—and here he lies!