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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-03
Un TO Conuress.

After letting the eagle scream q
while, President Roosevelt takes up
the subject of trusts; but as soon as
he does it he loses his impulsiyeness
and frankness, becoming guarded and
diplomatic, not to say evasiye. Taps
and caresses are dealt out alternately,
and no programme of reform or regu-
lation is laid down. The President
does say, however. that congress pos
sesses full power in the premises, and
this will enable the democrats to
charge upon congress all remissness
of duty.
There are two points in the message
in relation to the trusts that should
not be forgotten, namely:
1. Regulation of the trusts must be
achieved by national action"
2. Congress has constitutional au-
thority to make all necessary and
proper laws.
These points presented by q repub-
1ican President to a congress strongly
republican in both branches shows
exactly where the responsibility rests.
The lawyers and experts of the trusts
may argue otherwise, but the head
and chief of the republican party says
congress has all the power in the mat
ter that is necessary and proper, and
he asks congress to enact "a wise and
reasonable law"
Let us see what congress, controlled
by the republican party, will do in re-
lation to the confessed evils of the
trusts. By the very words of its own
chief the responsibility is upon con
gress, and congress alone. II it neg
lects to act, the trusts are in its eyes
bigger than the consumers, who con-
stitute the mass of the people. Which
shall 1t be? A jury will be convened
in November, 1904, to determine the
whole matter, and to decide who have
been faithful and who have been but
tools of the trusts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-03
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Monte Carlo.


B. Steiner. the banker who returned
recently from an extended so1ourn in Eu-
rope. said yesterday that he had no
difficulty in settling down to business. He
found that Birmingham had grown very
much. but he was prepared to see TINS
growth because he read the Birmingham
daily papers regularly the year or more
he was abroad.
Mr. Steiner visited Europe seven or
eight years ago. on his last trip he re-
marked great progress there and saw
much in trade and art that interested
him.
Asked what was the most interesting
thing he saw, Mr.. Steiner replied quick
": Monte Carlo" With that he stepped
to the vault of his bank and got out two
souvenirs of his visit to the famous gamb-
ling resort They were one hundred
frame gold pieces containing relief OF the
bust of the sovereign and the inscription;
s.Alberti Prince de Monaco" These
heavy coins were bright and looked as II
they had Just been minted. Mr.. Steiner
said he brought them home to show to
his friends as they had been actually
rolled at roulette in the bank at Monte
Carlo.
Ibid play? Oh, yes. Everybody plays
who goes to Monte Carlo. made a few
winnings but came out loser in the end.
I was out of pocket about s2S"
Mr. Steiner said the men at Monte
Carlo got wildly excited" especially
those who were playing for big stakes
and losing heavily, but their excitement
was nothing compared with that of the
ladies' II never in all my life imagined
anything equal to the frenzy" remarked
the banker. ut was, indeed, terrible"
Mr. Steiner said he saw Charlie schwab
playing roulette He did not make his
acquaintance but he said there was no
doubt about Schwab making pretty big
losses. But Schwab could stand 1t and
he didn't seem to be at all depressed.
The Prince of Monaco owns everything
in his entire principality and he owns
Monte Carlo. He does not gamble. He
is studious and is a man Of exemplary
habits. Mr. Steiner saw him frequently
riding over his estate.
While the gaming at Monte Carlo is de-
moralizing. a redeeming thing about 1t is
no one living in Monaco, in Monte Carlo,
or anywhere around, is allowed to enter
the bank. The sport is only for visitors.
It Is an immense source of revenue to
Prince Albert.
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sion made up Of business experts. :
whose duty It should be to recommend
action by congress after a deliberate
and scientific examination"
1t is generally understood that the
real administration programme is de-
lay through the appointment of per-
manent commission. In this way the
subject can, It Is thought, be tlded
over 1904, at least in good part. Sen
ator Spooner. It is said, will introduce
the commission bill.
There is no greater humbug than a
tariff commission. Such a commission
was appointed IN the Arthur admins
tration. It did prepare an excellent
bill, but when that bill was brought
before congress it came out dishgured
by every protected interest that could
muster a pull" In other words,
congressional bill was substituted for
the commissions bill. So it will be
hereafter. So 1t will ever be- Con-
gress alone can revise the tariff, and
the responsibility cannot be shifted to
a commission, especially to one ap-
pointed for purposes of delay. The as
sertion that the tariff should be taken
out Of politics is a delusion. 1t never
has been taken out of politics, and
never will be. Let congress act, or.
refuse to act, and then the people will
know what to do at the polls.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-03
MARcoNps PROGRESS.

Cablegram to the Democrat.
London.-The st. James Gazette says
that 1t has the best authority for say
ing that the Marconi wireless company
has received no news from the inventor
confirming the statement of Henniker
Heaton, M. p, that a Marconi message
would shortly reach King Edward from
Lord Mimic, governor general of Canada,
as a preliminary to the Inauguration of
the service across the Atlantic. Lord
Mimic will probably be asked to inaugu-
rate such service.
The Marconi company is not prepared
at the present time to indicate the prob
able date when it will be ready, but it
is fully expected that a service Will be
in operation before 1903. A new magnetic
detector is now being tested with view
of increasing the speed of transmission.
1t is answering the purpose admirably.
With the ordinary coherer, the guaran-
teed speed is only ten words a minute,
although twenty words have been fire.
quently sent. According to the inventor,
the magnetic detector will enable him to
send forty words minute with compare
tive ease.
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the Hillman, left a few days ago for
Selma where he is proprietor Of the Hotel
Albert ciaibe Plumlee. who was also
behind the counter at the Hillman. has
accepted a elerlxship at Mr.. Lloyd's hotel.
He left for Selma yesterday.
w H. Baird of Kansas City Is at the
Metropolitan.
W P. Jones of cedartown. Ca. Is at
the Metropolitan.
J. NJ alatz Of st. Louis is at the
Metropolitan.
]. S. Frank Of New York is at the
Morris.
w P. Aelzer of Admission Is registered
at the Morris.
William A. Davis of Admission is at the
Morris.
]. R. Hill of calera is at the Morris.
II. e. Gould of Memphis is at the Nor
ris.
w. H. Weller of Admission was at the
Morris yesterday. 1t is said that he is
about to negotiate the sale OF Jenifer
furnace to eastern capitalists. At any
rate the deal is pending. Jenlfer is in
Taladega. The furnace has a capacity
Of $50 tons a day.
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Morris Avenue.

The produce market is brisker this
week than it has been for some time"
said Morris avenue merchant yester-
day.
There is an active demand for vege-
tables, eggs, poultry and game. Birds are
scarce and higher than they have ever
been since was in business-17 cents at
wholesale. There are no wild turkeys on
the avenue. Rabbits are plentiful and sell
at the same price as last year.
'The feature in the vegetable line is
the advance in sweet potatoes They are
up to 30 cents a bushel and will be
bringing 81 within the next few days.
The supply just now is coming from
Georgia."
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Tariff Commission Recommended.

President Roosevelt undertakes to
say at the beginning that the tariff
and the trusts are wholly apart, hav-
ing little or no relation to each other.
He does not, however, explain the fact
that many trusts have two prices-a
low one for foreign buyers, and a high
one for home consumers, nor does he
explain why he desires the duty taken
from hard coal at once and not from
other articles. AS to hard coal. he
asks that the duty be removed, al
though it is difficult to see why the
hard coal trust should alone be hit.
What is good for the hard-coal goose
would, 1t would seem, be good for
many trust ganders that could be
named.
The President talks the tariff up
and then he talks it down, ard he re
peats the operation several times, but
in the end he expresses desire for
reciprocity treaties, and, these failing,
he wants revision. and he suggests 10
congress in mild and un-Rooseveltian
manner the appointment OF commits
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-03
AND FRENCH
WOMEN ARE MUCH ALIKE
Paris Correspondence to the New York
Mail and Express.

Parls correspondence 10 the New York
Mail and Express.
ITO comprehend at glance the
lCD type which the faces of most
French women of today suggest
one has but to turn to the portraits
drawn by the court painters Of the later
Bourbons and compare them with such
representative English countenances as
shine forth from canvass in the so-cailed
windsor Beauties" and Richmond
Beauties" The difference is both Of con-
tour ana Of spirit.
The French face is in perfect contrast
to the long, serene face of the English
woman It is short oval, uncommonly
wide between 1.-THE eyes, and often with a
rather sharply pointed chin. Whatever
else it may be 1t is not serene, Alertness
perches on every feature, and there Is
animation in the eyes and sensibi1ity IN
the mobile mouth.
1t is not nearly so pretty a face as the
English face-an inequality for which the
English maiden has compensating phys
ical advantage elsewhere. The features
are apt to be irregular and the express
sion is not so gentle. But it Is a face
that challenges the attention more quick
ly and often holds it longer. In esprit
1t is superior to the English, and in the
variety Of moods which 1t registers it is
superior to any other.
Esprit" as the French use 1t. means
something a little different from our
spirit" and IT. would not be quite ac-
curate to say that the French woman is
particularly spiritual. But there is less
of the soil about her perhaps than there
is about any of her sisters. Her fas-
cination, when she has It, is not so can
didly of the flesh as that of the women
of Germany and Austria often seems to
be. She is a remove farther from ele-
mantal nature. The French maiden is sell
dom the wild, white country rose. She
suggests the garden and the flowers of
the garden rather than the field and the
fruits Of the field.
This aspect, and 1t is almost the chief
aspect of French feminine nature, has
been conveyed by the eighteenth century
painters, the painters of the French
classic period. They gave their women
the very background that their qualities
cdlleu ior. hurai allnouBn IL is meant
to be. the landscape of Corot or Fra
gonard is not the honely landscape OF
a George Morland. There is a marble
terrace on one side and an urn or a
statue in the foreground, and the women
that recline at Its base wear the garb or
American shepherdesses rather than
Breton peasants. The French girl of to-
day suggests the landscapes of yesterday,
even though she be so deliberately a vii
lage type as Eugene Grandet herself.
An English writer, wearying of the at
tempts of the psychological novelists of
Paris to probe what they are pleased to
call the mystery of woman's nature, has
urged that they never comprehend the
mystery because 1t is not there to COM
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-03
EMPLOYERS MASTERY PASSING.

IRON the Atlanta monthly.
The industrial mastery of the employer
is passing rapidly. Labor organizations
and the laborers improved condition are
in fact destroying it. AS a substitute for
the old system it is inevitable that the
employer must accept the fact and act
toward the dealer in labor as he acts to-
ward the dealer in raw material, maxi
ing the best bargain he can, with no
favor but civility. A whole century of
change mas led from a system in which
responsibility might be shirked (by the
master in oppression of a servant by the
servant In the hope of charitable aid from
his MASTERY to this better system of CO.
ordinate responsibilities definitely placed
and not to be shirked without loss to the
delinquent. The rise of the factory sys-
tenn with its much-lamented severance or
personal bonds between master and work.
err and the organization of labor which
the factory system facilitated, have con-
tributed most to this fortunate revolu-
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-03
MRS. EDDY ExPLAlNs.

Our faithful laborers in the field of sci
ence have been told through the alert
editor-in-chief of the Christian Science
Sentinel and Journal that Mrs. Eddy
advises, until the public thought becomes
better acquainted with Christian Science.
that Christian Scientists decline to doctor
infectious or contagious diseases.
The great Master said: For which OF
these works do We stone me?" He said
this to satisfy himself whereof he spake
as Gods representative-as one who never
weakened in his own personal sense OF
righteousness because of another's wick
edness, or the minifying of his own good
ness. Charity Is quite as rare as wisdom,
but when 1t does appear it is known by its
potience and endurance.
When, under the protection of state or
United States laws, good citizens are ar
rested for manslaughter because one out
Of three of their patients, having the
same disease and In the same family dies
while the others recover, we naturally
turn to Divine justice for support. and
wait on God. Christian Scientists should
be influenced by their own judgment in
the taking of a case of malignant dis
ease, they should consider well as to their
ability to cope with the caks-and not
overlook the fact that there are those "
ing in wait to catch them in their say
ings; neither should they forget that, in
their practice, whether successful or not,
they are not specially protected by law.
The above quotation stands for this: IShe-
rent Justice constitutional individual
rights, self-preservation, and the gospel
injunction, Cast not your pearls before
swine, lest they trample them under foot
and turn again and rend you"
And it stands side by side with Christs
command, whatsoever shall smite thee
on thy right cheek, turn to him the other
also" abide by this rule, and triumph
by it. The sinner may sneer at this beat
itude for the fool hath said in his heart,
no God " 1t Is known that the good young
student, Mr.. Lathrop, after he was prose-
cuted for practising Christian Science, fin
ished healing the cases of diphtheria he
had on hand. Statistics show that this
science cures a larger per cent of mallg
rant diseases than does materia medica.
1 call disease by its name, and have
Cuieu IL illus, 50 lilSle ~ HOlAlliS uSW Oll
this score My book, Science and Health,
rames disease, and thousands are healed
by reading its name and learning that So
called disease is a sensation Of mind, not
matter. Evil minds signally blunder in
divine metaphysics; hence 1 am always
saying the unexpected to them. The evil
mind calls 1t "slxpllSng," when to mo It
is wisdom to Overcome evil with good. &"
I fail to know how one can be a Christian
and vet denart from Christ,s teachings
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-03
Oysters.

This is a poor oyster season, not only
in the gulf states, but in the Chesapeake
bay as we'll" said a prominent restau-
rant man.
Birmingham gets most of its oyster
supply from Biloxi. Why the bivalves
are scarce and of inferior quality this
year I do not know. Perhaps 1t was the
dry summer. But it is fact that they
are scarcer and higher than they have
been for long time.
"Oysters are divided into four grades
the plants, which are the largest, the ex-
ira Selects which are the kind that first
class restaurants and families generally
use; selects, which the cheap price res
taurants serve, and REFERS, which only
the dago eating houses serve.
Birmingham usually begins to get
the plants by October /, but very few
have been seen here this season. We will
get some this month, but nothing like our
share
1.-THE largest and best favored oysters
in the south are those got from Bayou
Cook and Barataria Bay They are as
fine as the Lynn Haven Bay oysters of
Virginia. But the supply is only equal
to the demand in New Orleans and the
Cooks and the Baratarias therefore are
seldom shipped away.
81 was talking to a Baltimore man
about oysters the other day and he told
me that those on Tangier Sound, the cele-
brated oyster grounds of the Chesapeake,
were a failure. There were a plenty in
the beds but they were too small for the
market. This, he said, was not only true
of the natural oyster beds, but of the
cultivated oysters also. The oyster
business along the Chesapeake was be-
coming worse every year. and the reason
for this could be found in the constantly
increasing number of oyster dredgers and
the steady decrease in the supply.
In past years all the beds in Maryland
and Virginia were not worked at the
same time, but now the season is hardly
opened when every bed in Chesapeake
Bay, the Potomac river and elsewhere is
crowded with boats"
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all the uninitiated present. But the two
bidders happened to know the value of
fve-claw dragon when they saw one,
at any rate on saucer The subsequent
history of the saucer, too, was not I'M
eventful. In a year or two it was again
sold at auction, and was then bought by
a dealer at a big advance on the S23
By him it was taken east and resold into
one of the finest collections, where 1t
now reposes in a handsome glass case.
OF the imperial Japanese porcelain
there are, perhaps, twenty-five or thirty
pieces known to be In the United States.
An American woman who, a short time
since, returned from Japan, was fortu-
nate enough to secure a dozen saki cups
and caucers bearing the coveted sixteen
petaled chrysanthemum. How she man
aged it is a story she will not disclose.
as few vacant positions in the imperial
household might result in consequence.
1t will thus be seen that If you should
discover in your china closet a saucer
with a five-claw dragon on it, or a little
bowl bearing a sixteen-petaled chrysan-
themum, you have a treasure whose
proper place is your reception rooms.
In connection with this much coveted
imperial porcelain there is a cracked
plate somewhere that would be worth
$500 to a fortunate discoverer. When the
famous Royal Worcester dinner set was
made for the English crown service three
plates slightly damaged were rejected,
but by some oversight not destroyed. Two
of these plates found their way into a
private collection, and are so treasured
that $500 each has been offered in vain
for them by the Lord Chamberlain de-
partment. The third plate has disap-
peared, but even If found in pieces the
offer of $500 still holds good
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-03
GRADUALLY sURRENDERINo.

From the New York Times.
Attention is called in the law depart
ment of the Medical Critic to the fact
that Mrs. Eddys recent order forbidding
the practitioners of christian Science
to treat contagious diseases until the ex-
listing hostility to those who let children
die of neglect has subsidized Is only the
last of several proofs that when moth
err is confronted with a choice between
consistency and safety she has always
chosen the latter. Thus she told her fol-
lowers to submit to vaccination when the
law requires it. and again, after several
of the 'healers" had been Brought up
with a round turn of the law for kill
ings of kind where it is !nconveniently
easy to prove that post hoe is also prop
ter hoe, she commanded them to let that
class of cases alone unless they were
equipped with a regular medical degree
as well as one of her own. 'Theso grad
ua1 recessions," says the Medical Critic,
first from surgery. than from opposi-
tion to vaccination, and now from the
treatment Of contagious diseases, seem
to INDICATE that the shrewd leaders of
Christian Science who brave the law
only when they think that lack Of pop
ular support renders 1t brutus fulmen
fear it when supported by public senti-
ment, and that they will before long,
perhaps, recede entirely from public at
tention, only to be succeeded by some
new and similar folly" The New York
Medical Journal. commenting on the new
order to the ''healers," says that while
the division of diseases into two classes
is logical end of Eddyism, 1t is not
likely to have much, If any, immediate
effect on the followers of the miserable
delusion. 1t advises. therefore, that the
wording of the sanitary laws relating
to infectious diseases be so amended
as specially to impose the full burden of
technical professional responsibility not
merely upon physicians" but upon "all
persons who practice healing (other than
by gratuitous efforts for the relief of
members of their own household) by any
method whatsoever" The clause in
parenthesis would, it holds, cover every
possible legitimate exemption from the
burden of professional liability.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-03
Excellent in Form.

The literary man in the White
House has certainly given the country
a message in which clearness and
even force have transplanted the Gus
tomary turgidity and trimming. Every
sentence Is explicit and readily digest
ible. It had come to be believed that
involved and muddled sentences and
the misuse of words were a part of
statesmanship-that Talleyrand had
asserted a great truth when he said
words were given to public men to
conceal ideas.
But Mr.. Roosevelt does not believe
in such notions. He treats every sub
ject clearly and compactly, and he in
PRODUCES subjects of general interest
only, thus keeping his first annual
message within reasonable limits. His
seven columns will be read by thou
sands who would not read a message
twice or thrice that length.
After all. the man who thinks clear
ly writes clearly, and that is perhaps
what ails our strenuous President.
One or two vexed subjects do, how
ever. cause him to do a little trim
ming, but as rule the message is a
model of plain, straightforward writ
ing, in words well chosen, and full of
meaning.
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TAKE MEN AS THEY ARE.

From the Lewiston (Me.) Sun.
This abolition of the canteen seems
to be founded on an untrue standard of
manhood. AS matter of fact, the aver
age man-and 1t is average men that
soldiers are made of-the average man
drinks and smokes, and drinks coffee.
Swears some. Probably shores. Lies too
often. Talks in grammer only partially
authorized by the books. How are you
going to bring that man to speak the
truth. in good English. without oaths. to
smoke not more than three times a day.
drink coffee not oftener than once a day,
and beer not oftener than once a week?
How are you going to make of that man
a finer specimen of manhood?
Maybe there Is no better way than the
Great Teacher did. His way was mol
characterized by prohibitory laws.
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Business Barometers.

Clearing house reports do not count
for much in the way of indicating the
volume or development OF a citys bust
ness. and yet they are always interest
ing" said 1nancier.
IT would rather know that the amount
of clearance was increasing instead of
diminishing. Birmingham will go about
s10.o0OoO0 in bank clearings this year
over last. But facts that actually tell
are the totals Of the commercial business
done, the pay rolls, the banks deposits
and the railroad traffic. And Birming-
ham will come out well ahead in all these
lines this year"