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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-21
Lack Of Public Sentiment.

"We WISH" says the Montevallo
Sentinel, Judge Feagin could hold one
session of court down in this section.
Some of the pistol toters here might
be given a wholesome lesson"
Judge Feagin is indeed doing valu-
able work. His sternness and inflexi-
bility in furnishing all detected pistol
toters' in this town and neighborhood
is more than a reform-it is revolu-
ton. The pistol brigade has unloaded
itself, and the best evidence is to the
effect that not one man now goes
loaded with cowardly guns where ten
went so before Judge Feagin began his
all-important mission.
But the Sentinel need not long for
Judge Feagin. What is its mayor, its
probate judge, and it's circuit judge
doing? Why cannot they have the
courage of their convictions, striking
| dI l1S plolOi lObSlo VI kOnSlDy Il6uL
and left?
Judge Feagin cannot sit outside of
| this town, but public sentiment can
bring all other judges in the state up
to his standard. The trouble in its
last analysis consists in a public senti-
ment that winks at pistol toting. Let
the Sentinel attack such a sentiment
and demand that the people reform
themselves in this respect. The peo-
pie make the judges, and they can in
duce them to enforce them to enforce
the laws even up to the limits named
by Judge Feagin, which are not one
bit in advance of public sentiment In
this town or of the law. Don't then
blame judges while there is no public
sentiment to stand behind them.
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Mems Fashions.

"I can remember the time when the
men of Birmingham paid little attention
to dress, but that time is past" said
Simon Klotz Birmingham is now known
as one of the dressiest cities in the
country.
at pays every man to dress well. Dur
ing the days of depression all men here,
as rule, had to retrench. But since
1899 we have had flush times, and there
has been no excuse for one to look
seedy.
within the last two years Birming-
ham and all other southern cities have
come forward in the matter of dress.
Clothes are somewhat higher than they
used to be, but what of that? Wages and
salaries are higher; everybody is better
paid.
What 1 would insist on is that the
good dressers of Birmingham make it an
invariable custom to patronize home tall
ors. There are many excellent merchant
tailors here. No money is saved by hav-
ing suits made in ether Cities Mr.. Klotz
went on to outline late phasas of sartorial
art More taste is displayed in the maxi
ing of business suits than formerly, and
! when 1t comes to Sunday and evening
dress, higher talents than ever are
brought into requisition.
A few years ago the dress suit consist
coat and vest was the conventional
coat and vest, was the conventional
thing. and 1t was said that nothing new
in this line would ever be introduced.
But since worsted dress suits have been
in vogue the man who would wear broad
cloth stuff would be set down as hay
seed. The style of the shirt, collar tie,
cuffs and of the buttons for the shirt
front and cuffs have come to be very Inn
portant. With evening dress no jewelry
must be seen. Mother-of-pearl cuff but
tons, as well as mother-or-pearl studs,
are all the style. White ties or bows arc
still worn with full dress, and black ties
are worn with Tuxedo effects. Gold studs
and cuff buttons are also fashionable for
Tuxedo occasions.
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In March, 1862, when at the age Of 16
years. I ran away from Professor Rem
fro's school at Ramer, Montgomery
county. Alabama. and from my mothers,
and walked to Greenyille, Ala where I
Joined Company E, Thirty third Alabama,
which was organized at the navy yard
nine miles from Pensacola, with Sam
Adams as colonel.
Here we spent three months drilling.
catching fish and fighting heas, the lat
ter being numerous and pestiferous.
Being ordered to Corinth, Miss, we
were supplied with muslkets of the flint
and steel pattern, carrying an ounce ball
and three buck shot, very effective at
close range, both front and rear, as they
kicked like mule. We withdrew to
Tupelo, then went by rail to Chattanooga,
from which place commenced Bragg's
long march through Tennessee and Ken
lucky to Perryville. At Mumfordyille
5000 Federals surrendered to our division
(Buckner's), a very strong fort
Under fire for the first time at Perry
vile. we drove the enemy two miles and
captured some cannon. At Trlune, Tenn,
Gen. Pat Cleburne was placed in COM
mand of our division and marching to
Murfreesboro, opened the. great battle at
early dawn on the 9Oth Of December,
1862 BY 10 o'clock we had driven the
right wing of the enemy off the field with
loss of 10000 killed and wounded, 1000
prisoners and 80 guns. Our regiment
camped on the field where the dead and
wounded were most numerous, and we
built fires to keep the wounded from
freezing. We buried the dead Of both
armies, having to dig graves in earth
frozen to a denth of IA inches WHY
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At the Bijou Tonight.

Father Younans lecture on India at the
Biiou theatre tonight will be an event of
uncommon interest and the music
will also be especially attractive. Miss
Alice Fallon will sing a solo, with violin
obligato by oliver Chalifoux, and there
will be one or two choice numbers by
chorus and a cornet solo by Mr.. Memoli.
Father Younan is man of rare elo-
quence." said a professional man, but
he is much more. He has a keen insight
into human nature and a marvellous store
of knowledge. His lecture will be treat
indeed. The subtle mental processes OF
the upper classes of India are thoroughly
understood and appreciated by him, but
he understands as well the intellects of
the lower classes"
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Rirminuham. VS.. MemphIs.

1.-THE primary cause says the
Memphis News. of our unprecedented
progress among southern cities and
our greatest advantage over Birming-
ham is the unequaled transportation
facilities of this city, both by river
and rail. These make Memphis a
great commercial center and would in
sure a magnificent future for the
town, no matter if we did not have
al acre of timber in hundred miles
OF us, and no matter if a bale of cot
ton never were shipped here for
market. They necessarily make Mem
phis the greatest southern distributing
point. This is something Birming-
ham can never hope to be-"
Birmingham is not merely hoping.
Next year it will be 6-foot-year-round
navigation complete to point in the
heart of this district, a point twenty
six miles above Tuscaloosa. Every
year will add new locks and dams, and
long before 1910, a census year, this
district will have water rates to all
"a and all countries.
pphis seems to think it can be-
when southern lumber is swept
y, a second Manchester and Biz
CHAM combined-that it can spin
he cotton grown in its district,
manipulate all the crude iron
in this district. Our little crude
Ire to be carted away to Mem
to be refined, SO to speak. As
his does not possess a single
spindle, and as the lumber trade
wing. less year by year, this
the News seems but an idle
Memphis WILL however, be
an interior distributing point
made in Birmingham"
Jews is smiling over the cen
Tres of 1900, when Greater Mem
me up with $4,000 population,
pst 140, 900 in Greater Birming-
IS the News quite sure that
Memphis "outclasses" Greater
nam today? No one else is.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
After a man gets rich his next ambition
Is to get richer.
Politicians seem to be aoie TO reform
almost as easily as drunkards.
1t is remarkable how many impure
things a prude can discover that nobody
else can discover.
When man comes home late at night
there is nothing more embarrassing than
to find the latchkey won't Mt because 1t
Is somebody else's door.
When you see boy with his hair care
fully parted, either he thinks he is in
love with his school teacher or ne is go
ing to get his photograph taken.
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hsJT37oea

, Spring Hill our division drove the Fed
erals out of town, and cut them off from
Nashville, but through some oversight
they escaped, and this caused the battle
of Franklin where we charged with all
the bands playing, the only time l ever
saw such an occurrence.
The Federals had strong earth works.
with locust stakes for abbatis, and posts
strung with wires in front. Cleburne was
killed on their works, and in the trenches
our dead lay two or three deep. The
army sadly depleted in strength and
morale pursued the enemy to Nashville.
Many of the men had their feet tied up
with strips of blankets, and hundreds
were without shoes, and their clothing
was in rags Hence the fight we made
against overwhelming odds at Nashville,
could have but one result, and the rem
nant of the army escaped over the frozen
roads with difficulty. On the retreat a
general saw one lone private, the only
other man in sight sitting against a
tree. He said:
you look pretty badly dcmoralized.s
The private replied:
Yes, general l am demolaized; but
thank God l amt scattered.
l surrendered under General Johnston
at Greensboro N. c. April, 1860
The reader can get from these lines
very faint view of what one boy saw
in those stirring days.
+ To me, the most wonderful sight of the
war was where Granberrys Texas bril-
gade killed over nine hundred Federals
with one volley. This was at Pumpkin
Vine Creek, Ca Officers and men fell in
their places as they charged.
Zen as they fell in files they lay,
Like mowers grass at close of day.
They belonged to an Ohio command.
Captain Crockett was also an eye wit
ness ia This
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The Episcopal Church.

st am decidedly opposed to changing
the name of the Protestant Episcopal
church." remarked a churchman yester-
day 1.-THE question of changing the title
is now before some of the diocesan bodies.
Between now and the meeting of the gem
eral convention at Boston in 1904 many
dioceses will have voted upon an express
SIN about Incorporating the word Cath
Ollie in our official name This PROPOSE
tion to change the name was threshed
out several years ago, and was defeated
by large majority. And the pending
proposition will be defeated again two
years hence.
II have always thought 1t would have
been wise In the church when 1t set up
an existence Independent of the church OF
England if 1t had styled itself the Ameri-
can church, or. the American Catholic
church, but since we have held on to the
title of Protestant Episcopal all this time,
no change should be seriously considered.
AS one of the bishops suggested the other
day, change in name would necessitate
explanations upon explanations. This
bishop being very high ehurchman
would naturally prefer to have the word
Catholic inserted in our title. But he sees
clearly the confusion that would ensue
If we changed the name to the Catholic
church in the United States we would
have to insert for the benefit of our mis-
sionary territory, formerly the Profess
tant Episcopal church of the Anglican
Communion The term. Protestant Epis-
copal, is after all endeared to thou
sands upon thousands of churchmen, and
sentiment is in a measure, at least, on the
side of no change"
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IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Laborers Needed.

There is a great demand for labor IN
the Birmingham district" said promi=
nent railroad contractor yesterday. The
Louisville apd Nashville is building about
twenty-five miles of road In Jefferson
county and the Seaboard Air Line Is
building between Birmingham and Coal
City. about thirty-four miles. The con-
tractors on these important sections have
men enough to keep the work a-going, but
1t would be better for all of us If 5000 more
laborers could be found in this county.
There is no stronger evidence of pros
perity in this state than the scarcity OF
labor. All men able and willing to work
find employment at good wages, and yet
thousands of vacancies still exist"
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BY CHARLES x. DIcKEY.

Bragg retreated has always been a mys-
terry.
I became sick at this time, and when
I returned the army was on Missionary
Ridge and our division having only two
Alabama regiments, the Thirty-third and
forty-fifth, and the Sixteenth Alabama
battalion in it, occupied the extreme right
of the line. Attached to our brigade was
the famous Semple battery of Montgom-
cry. One of It's survivors. Frank Lide,
and three of the Thirty-third, Maj ]. w.
Miner, p. j. Powell and the writer re-
side in this county. Capt. j. f. Crockett,
who carries the scars from many wounds,
of the Forty-ffth Alabama, also resides
in this county
Sherman with $4,000 men, double our
number, essayed for five hours without
success to. break the lines of Cleburns
division. and we gained a victory over
that portion of Grants army. though the
result of the battle of Missionary Ridge
was disastrous to our army as a whole.
Overwhelming numbers broke the CEN
ter, and at Taylor's mountain, one mile
south of Ringgold our division covered
the retreat Of the army. Here thirty
thousand fresh troops attacked us In
vain, for we repulsed every charge, and
saved the wagon train of our whole army
which was In plain view. ~.
The Thirty-third and Forty-fffth Ala
bama were in every battle fought from
Dalton to Atlanta and around Atlanta.
Our division carried a flag differing from
any other command. 1t was blue with a
white half moon in the center.
Col. Sam Adams was brother-in-law
of Col. II. A. Herbert, ex-secretary of the
navy. He and Colonel Lampley of the
Forty-fifth were killed at Atlanta At
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-21
RENoUNcEME EMIT.

BY Alice Meynen.
1 must not think of thee; and, tired, yet
strong,
l shun the love that turks in all delight
The love of thee-and in the blue heav-
ems height,
And in the dearest passage of a song.
o, just beyond the sweetest thoughts
that throng
This breast. the thought of thee waits
hidden yet bright
But 1t must never. never come In sight;
I must stop short of thee the whole day
long.
But when sleep comes to close each dir
ficult day,
When night gives pause to the long
watch / keep,
And all my bonds I need must loose
apart.
Must doff NIX will as raiment laid away
With the first dream that comes with
the first sleep
run, rum am gathered to thy heart
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pisannointInh.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
81 went with my wife to visit her rela
tons this summer, and it was the first
time most of them had ever seen me-"
What was the verdict?".
'"They were too polite to tell me. All
except Uncle Jethro. Jethro looked me
up and down when he heard | was the
Teller who had married .Lyddy Ann. Then
he slowly turned away.
Didn't he say something's"
yes. He summed me all up in one
word'
And that VASE"
"Shucbs'f
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WORK FOR THE LEGISLATURE.

From the Marshall Banner
The following are some of the meas
ures that demand the attention OF the
next legislature: The school book trust
the public roads, the railroad commission.
creating a coal oil inspector, making the
counties into school districts instead OF
combining the public schools to townships
and to put the district agricultural
schools all under one board OF trustees
appointed one from each congressional
district
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The tyson Millions.

The millions left behind by James Ty-
son, the richest of Australian squatters,
without the slightest intimation of de-
sire as to their disposal, continue to be an
object of interest to the eccentric claim
ants in various parts of the world A man
from Ayr, Scotland, is the latest to ex-
press wish to amuse himself with them.
He has sent a formidable document to
the authorities in Melbourne proving on
Biblical testimony that the Tyson mill
lions should be devoted to the rebuilding
of Solomon's temple at Jerusalem.
neutrality-suspicious. 12) Y ET90 7S9e$S. 49,.
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Speaking about the negro, I observe
that Senator Morgan is still harping on
his scheme toscolonize the negnoes in the
Philippines. The senator apparently does
not realize that we cannot ship the ne
gro to the Philippines without his con-
sent. I hope the distinguished Alabama
senator will not permit this colonization
scheme of his to interfere with his old
time enthusiasm in pushing the eonstruc-
ton Of an isthmian canal.
see in a dispatch from Atlanta that
it now costs 800 to be a Georgia colonel.
In former days in Georgia the governor
appointed all of his good political friends
as colonies on his staff. But since Gov
ernor Terrell has taken possession of the
executive office he has made new rule
that no man shall be a coionel on his
staff who is not willing to invest $500 in
a uniform hat sword. boots and spurs.
In other words, the present and future
Georgia colonel must put in an order for
his paraphernalia, accompanied by the
cash. before he can get his commission.
1 predict that under the circumstances
the crop of Georgia colonies will be small
er this year than ever before in the his
tory of the state.
President Roosevelt is nothing If not
stylish and extravagant. He has done
away with nearly all the old furniture,
china and other fixings Of the white house,
and is now f,1rnishif1sr tho Same II, q ,,,os.
elaborate and gaudy manner. Many of
the old things are to be sold at auction
early in the new year, and in consequence
the relic hunters are waiting with eager
ness the announcement of the date of
the SALE 1t is probable that the old
things will bring more cash money than
the new ones cost.
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Fattenlna.

From the Philadelphia Press.
What a peculiarly shaped table, said
the prospective boarder. Il never saw
dining table with all those concave
curves before"
NO" said the boarding house keeper.
'but you see unless the table was cut
out in that fashion they couldn't get near
enough to it; our boarders, / mean. They
become so stout"
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|roes in the PhiIinnines.

r. Morgan's plans are alto
DO cosmopolitan and revolu-
THE Philippines already hold
ms Malays and mixed races,
our senior senator proposes
there ten millions of ne
lis would create at any rate
archipelago of blacks and
falays furnishing the yellow
oes are to be given twenty
nothing has thus far been
a mule, although acres
mule are valueless to a
Whether twenty acres and
mule would prove attractive
citizens of African de-
pen question. They might
They might snub it, and
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ed that each one of the $50 men employed
in the war received an average oompen-
sation of e197 and, allowing e29, 100000
for transportation, with the hypothesis
that 100000 horses were shipped to South
Africa it cost eS4 to take one man and
his horse out and back. On the same
basis, it works out that Ell was spent to
maintain each man and his horse.
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lanes Monroe lives again.
ANOTHER IRON COUNTY.

From the Gadsden Times-News.
So far as pig iron production goes
Etowah county will soon be second only
to Jefferson county In the south.
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About Persons.

S. W. John. Jr.. of Admission is in Bir-
mingham today.
President j. c. Maben of the Sloss Shelf
field Steel and Iron company will remain
in New York until after the holidays.
Among the special insurance agents VINO
visited Birmingham last week was ]. a..
sullivan of Atlanta. representing the
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Western. of Toronto and j. t. FIFTEEN of
Atlanta, representing the Fire association.
John T. Hennigen of st. Louis is at the
Norris
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After the Race.

From Judge.
Friend-How cleverly your horse went
through that pocket!
Owner-Yes Fact Is. she is named
after my wife, you know.
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DIR. Lorenz not only straightens
crooked limbs, but he admires all
American women. In the latter re-
spect he is not ahead of the natives.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-21

A pacific blockade is a bit worse
than a belligerent blockade, for de-
cent belligerents would not wantonly
sink captured ships.
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Captain Hobson should massage his
eyes and get ready for another tussle
in Caribbean waters.
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In the German navy are $4,000 men
as against II 900 IN the United States
navy, but Mr.. Iewey counts more
than one when he takes a hasty break
FIST.
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Uncle Sam should call in Venezuela
a creditors meeting, with a view of
Sitting the sheep from the goats.
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The gunboats that German sunk
are Maines to the Venezuelans, and
they will remember them.
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The allies are remembering the
Monroe doctrine, and are not ordering
their Christmas dinner In Caracas.
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Jim Hill is leading the bears, and
folks begin to wonder what stocks
he still lacks.
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Until Richard Harding Davis starts
for the scene of pacific war, it should
not be accounted much of a shower.
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This is a fairly formidable eleven, but
it presents numerous elements of weak
ness. In the first place, we have absolute
" no confidence in Hercules as snap
back. He played a good game ON the At
tica Athletic club team, but there never
yet was found a captain who could get
him to train.
The first instance when this doughty
fighter saw snakes is q matter of common
talk 1t was at a disgraeefully early age.
some historians, including Suetonius,
claiming that he was still In the cradle.
Even the most devoted supporters Of the
muscular gentleman will admit that such
sprees should've banished utterly from
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New York welcomes DIR. Lorenz, al
though he came in from the PROV
inees.
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I'VE are all, says President-eleot
Eliot, new Amerlcans-even those
whose ancestors came over in the first
boat"
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ALL-AGEs ELEVEN CRITICISED.

From the Albany Argus.
Is there a football team in all these
United States which could cope with such
an aggregation as the following, which
anneared in the Baltimore Sun:
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The country lacks faith In a secre-
tary of state who parts his whiskers
in the middle.
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And now Uncle Sam wants 81 SOC. 900
from Corea on account of a trolley
line that some Americans, speculative
ly inclined. built. This means another
pacific blockade.