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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24

William E. Curtis in the Chicago Record
 Herald.
 New York, January 21.-John ", Gates has appealed to the interstate commerce commission for an opportunity to answer the testimony given by Pierpont Nor gan during the investigation of the Louis- vile and Nashville transfer here the other day. Mr, Morgan represented that he had bought the road from patriotic motives because John w. Gates was a dangerous man to handle valuable prop erty; that 1t was unsafe to trust him with the great interests involved in the Louis vile and Nashville system. and because he was anxious to promote the prosperity and the welfare of the south. The asso- ciates of MT, Gates are very indignant at this assumption of superior morality on the part of MT. Morgan, and declare that the latter was actuated by purely selfish motives. which he Is now trying to con- ceal They say that 1t was nothing more than an ordinary stock jobbing operation which Mir. Morgan went Into to make money for himself, to secure the Louis- Niiii anu NdSHfite IdllTodu IoE lue Atlantic Coast Line system and to prevent Gates from selling 1t to the Seaboard Air Line company. with which the latter was in negotiation. MT. Morgan represented in his testimony that he had nothing whatever to do with the original negotiations which were in- itiated by some of the boys" in his of- flee, and that he knew nothing of them until they were very nearly concluded. when he learned the situation over in England and took the matter up himself. The facts of the case as stated by some of the Chicago associates of Mir. Gates are entirely different from those related to the Morgan testimony. and MT. Gates, who is spending few weeks down on the gulf coast, near Galveston, has teie- graphed that he will come north and de- mand a hearing.
 In the early spring of 1901 MT. Gates, associated with Isaac L. Ellwood, John Lambert, Charles A. Dupee of Chicago and several other friends, commenced to buy Louisville and Nashville stock. which was then quoted at 1o5 on the market Six hundred thousand shares were outstand- ing, and of these Harris, Gates 6 Co, the Chicago brokers. obtained by purchase 2o400o shares. Edwin Hawley of the Southern Pacific system had 1o2, 900 shares. By combining their interests the Gates party and Hawiey controlled majority
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
Another Antitrust Bill.

Publicity and prohibition of rebates are the features of the much-heralded antitrust bill of the house judiciary committee. It is a bill that presum- ably bears the assent of the trusts themselves, for without their assent no bill affecting the trusts can be passed in the senate. It is in very truth bill to bamboozle the people without harming in any material re- spect the trusts. It should be so en- titled.
 This is very plain from the nature of the penalties it imposes. These consist of fines only, ranging from $100 up to $5000, A concern that fails to make return may, it is true, be restrained from conducting an inter- state trade, but it can at once file a return and go on as before.
 Tho trusts will not mind the penal ties of the act, and they will disregard it without fear or conscience. It is not, to use their own words, drastic. It is not even harmful to them. It is yalueless to the public, and it was so intended to be. Only the facts that the combines are willing to make pub lie will be reported, and all that they desire to conceal will be withheld.
 The penalties prescribed for the rail- roads that have adopted or may adopt the rebate habit are simply ridiculous. The minimum fine lon conviction" is $500 and the maximum fine is $500o The railroads will simply laugh at such political drasticity. It is not drastic enough to change the rebate situation a particle, and it was not drawn with any such intention. If it had been, there would have been prison bars, instead of fines, provided for the railroad directors and other officials who pay rebates to trusts. The bill should be called a pro-trust bill. for it does not contain provision that the trusts will spend an uneasy mo- ment over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
North BIrmInoham.


 T took trip to North Birmingham yesterday" said a banker, "and was very much struck with the growth and im- provements going on out there. The ex- tension of the Belt line over to the Dim mick pipe works Is valuable thing Tor quite an extensive section of North Bir- mingham, and a number of new concerns are going up along it's route.
 One of the best of the new industries for the town Is the factory of the South ern Sewer Pipe company which will soon be ready to go Into operation. It will make beautiful quality of pipe and the plant will be an important one for the district Everything is prospering out there.
 A the Dimmlck pipe works I saw their yards stacked full of pipe, every foot of which Is sold. The only complaint the management has to make is that it can't get cars fast enough to move the output"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
THE KING JAMES BIBLE.

In telling of the lineage of the English Bible In Harper's Magazine, H. w. Hoare pays a tribute to the King James version and the scholars who made 1t:
 Its scholarship marked conspicuous advance even on that of Geneva" he says. Its English was the peoples Eng fish. yet refecting at the same time all the glow and glory of a period never sur passed in the whole history of letters. Receiving the jewel committed to them with deep sense of devout responsiu;l- ity. King James revisers provided for 1t a setting of imperishable beauty. In strength and tenderness, in its sustained note of nobility and solemnity. in it's wondrous pathos. in its chastened so- briety. simplicity and directness in the semblance of inevitableness under which the elaborate art of it lies concealed, in its haunting cadences and rhythms. the richness and power and grandeur of our native tongue have been enshrlned for eyermore'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
------"------- ----~S@---------------- PUBLIC IS ADMITTED.

Washington Correspondence in New York
 Tribune.
 The east room of the White House Is again open for the inspection of the local public and visitors to Washington and the grounds of the mansion are also free to the passage of pedestrians. The contin- uance of alterations to the White House had caused these privileges to be withheld since last June. Visitors to the White House now enter by the east terrace, op- posite the treasury. They are permitted to inspect the east room, which is reached by the basement corridor and the new staircase Exit is by the same route. No other part of the mansion Is open to public view. No one IS admitted at the north door of the mansion except the personal friends of the President and Mrs Roosc- welt. The north front Is to be the private entrance of the Presidents family, and a strict Presidential ukase has been pro- mulgated that all sight-seers must enter through the east, or public, entrance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
JOHN w. GATES ANXIOUS TO ANSWER J. P. MORGAN

of the stock and entered into negotia- tions with John Sxelton Williams and ". A. Reed, of the banking house of Yer milye 6 Co.,, to sell the road to the Sea- board Air Line upon guarantee of per cent annual dividends for a definite term of years.
 The negotiations were discovered by who, knowing that MT. Morgan wanted the Louisville and Nashville road for con solidation with the Southern system and. was very much opposed to the interests of It's competitors, the seaboard Air Line. cabled that gentleman the facts at his London address and requested Mir. Gates not to close with Williams and Reed until he had received a reply. MT. Morgan ca- bled Perkins authority to buy, and the latter paid $130 share cash for Hawley's 102, 600 shares and secured from Harris, Gates & Co., an option upon their 2O4 900 shares at $50 share. The contract cov- ering this option was drawn by MT. stet- son, who is MT. Morgan's attorney, and 1t provided that MT. Morgan should have an opportunity to formulate & plan for
 
 Nashville road. If he succeeded in doing so to his satisfaction he was. to buy the Gates stock If he did not succeed he agreed to sell Gates the 102, 900 shares he had already bought from Haw1ey at $1s0 a share. the price he gave for 1t. This contract was made in the name of Mir. Morgan, and the Gates party say that he was advised by cable of every step of the negotiations, and that on several occa- sions they were compelled to postpone matters until he could be communicated with in London.
 The result of the negotiations was that MT. Morgan bought the entire block ot 2o400o shares of stock from MT. Gates at $50 share. This gave him a total of sos,ooO shares. He then transferred his en- tire holdings to the Atlantic Coast Line for $50 share, thus making profit of T share. or something over s200oooo and 1t is believed he was given and still holds large block of the stock. The profits to the Gates party were even larger. They commenced to buy at $l05 a share. and are supposed to have divided something like s5,0Oo,OOo as their profits from the speculation. MT. Gates does not pretend to have gone into the scheme with any high moral motives. such as MT. Morgan claims to have had. His friends say that it was not philan- thropic movement, but purely business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
HONEST ELECTIONS.

From the Chattanooga Times.
 Governor Jelks, in his message to the Alabama legislature. justified the con fidence the people of the state exhib- tied in him and demonstrated his qual- ifcations for the high office he holds. ''The people of Alabama have arrived at period of honest elections, and they must cleanse their garments There's the right kind of courage for you with something like Jacksonian ring to the sentiment. It Is equivalent. to saying; You Alabamians have been perpetrating election frauds long enough; now, by the eternal, it must stop" People of Tennessee are holding their breath until after January 20 to see whether the spirit of Jackson has fled it's native state to Alabama for good. It hasn't walked abroad here for many years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
Work of a Consul.

What can a United States consul have to do at the little Island of St. Helena 2" was asked former Consul J. A. Mac Knight.
 Tt is not sinecure, I assure you" replied the ex-consul. who is to lecture on Napoleon at the Jefferson theatre Mon day night. Tn my first year at the island we had fleet of twenty-six American whaling vessels anchored in Jamestown bay, and from these vessels over 600 sea men came ashore. On some of the ves- sels there had been serious trouble be- tween officers and men, and on two of them a red-handed mutiny while cruis- ing In the whaling waters far south of the Cape of Good Hope All such difficult ties must be adjusted by the consul of the first port at which the vessel touches. He must also settle all disputes as to wages, and as the men on whaling vessels are paid by the lay or share in the vessel S catch, some of these troubles are decid- edly complicated.
 Tt was while I was stationed at St. Helena that one of the most remarkable tragedies in the annals of the deep ever occurred. It was on the POGO ton Ameri- oln merchantman. The tragedy happen ed about 800 miles southeast of St. Helena. Two Manila coolles murdered the mates at midnight, and ran amuclS among the entire ships company After killing or wounding nearly every man on board they attacked the captain, R. R. Clark. in his cabin, and inflicted wounds on him that are fatal in ninety nine cases out of a hundred. The cap tain's wife and child were with him. and it was due to Mrs. Clark's bravery that her husband survived. and that every soul on board did rot perish When the coolies discovered that the captain was not dead they fired the ship, and the few survivors embarked in an open boat. and reached St. Helena in starving con dition about ten days later.
 Such things as these make a consul necessary at the old rock"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
THE TIME TO QUIT.

From the Guntersville Democrat.
 We met a man the other day whose ambition was to retire from active life at fifty years. We could not help think ing that his expectation of ease anc comfort would undoubtedly be most bit- terly disappointed. The Boston Herald published some wise words from the ven- erable Senator Pettus of Alabama, which are well worth our careful consideration.
 "The secret of living long Is to work. I am eighty-one, and happy and healthy as boy. I notice that all of my neigh bors who got rich and retired are all dead. I never got rich, and l never re- tired. I tell you. young man, the most fatal disease know of is to quit work. It kills every time. Keep working and you'll keep alive"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
PEe-LEe's NEGRO TRADE.
the Huntsville Mercury.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 When Peg-leg Williams gets out of Huntsville this time he will doubtless be glad to give this section a wide birth. He learned some time ago to steer clear of North Georgia, and now he is about to reach the same conclusion about North Alabama.
 The farmers of Madison county are justly indignant because of the frequent visits of labor agents. These individuals have no regard whatever for the law. They will induce tenant under contract to go to Mississippi as one who is not under contract. A man mean enough to engage In such a business iss mean enough to do anything required to ac- complish the end he desires
 When Peg gets away this time he should stay away. His protestations of innocence will not save him if he falls into the hands of the outraged farmers. They feel that he is despoiler and are merely telling the truth when they say he will not be safe if caught endeavoring to carry Madison county negroes to Mis- sissppi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24

Supreme court holding invalid Tn Massa- chusetts a divorce grauted to six months resident of South Dakota is very broad in It's sweep. It is declared by the court that control over marriages has always been vested in the states and has never been parted with by them. The six months residence of the plaintiff was taken for the express purpose of getting his divorce. It did not affect his citizenship in his own state, and only the courts of that state had jurisdiction in the matter of his plea.
 This case first bring up again the oft discussed question of a national law of marriage and divorce. Such a law has been argued impossible because of the widely differing ideas and practices main tained in the several states or groups of states. But the application of the prin- eiple now set forth by the highest court in the land imperatlveiy demands, for our social integrity, some pronounced uni- formity of the code
 The estimate Is made that In the last twenty years s2o.O0O divorces have been granted in this country. In the ten years between 1870 and 1880 the national popu- lation increased about 30 per cent while divorces increased more than 7e per cent. This gain was not limited to sections. though 1t Is of note that South Carolina did not and does not provide for dlvorces. It seems obvious that processes of such general effect should be subject to gen erai regulation. To argue for uniformity Is not to urge freer divorce an "eyening np' between the state admitting one cause of separation and those recognizing a half-dozen causes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
From Longman's MagazIne.

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 Napoleon, according to Alexandre Du- mas, lost such battles as he did lose be- cause he wrote such fiendish hand. His generals could not read his notes and letters. typewriting had not been invented, and the trembling marshals, afraid of disobeying. and striving to in- terpret the indecipherabe commands, loitered, wandered and did not come up to the scratch, or not to the right scratch. Thus Waterloo was lost
 Cannot you fancy Grouchy handing round Napoleon's notes on that san guinary Sunday? T say" cries the mar shal to his aid-de-camp, lis that word Gembloux or Wavre? Is this Butcher of Bulow?' So probably Grouchy tossed up for it, and the real words may have been none of these at which he offered his conjectures
 Meanwhile on the left and center D' 'Eron and Jerome and Ney were equal ly puzzled. and kept on sending cavalry to places where 1t was very uncomforta- ble (though our men seldom managed to hit any of the cavaliers, firing too high), and did no sort of good. Napoleon may never have been apprised of these cir cumstances. Ills old writing master was not on the scene of action. Nobody dared
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
TIE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Lay aside your stitchery; l must have you play the idle huswife.
 -coriolanus.
Our Timber Forests.

The representatives of southern lumbermen met this week in a conyen- ton held at New Orleans, and among the papers read was one on Stump age" by MT. Long of Kansas City. He presented an estimate of standing pine lumber in the south wholly at variance with the government reports, which say the pine in the south GOV CTS 10000, ,000 acres. MT. Long says 21 ,000, ,000 acres is more nearly correct and he presents much smaller esti mate, as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
TRIBUTE TO PETTUs.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 The oldest man in the senate, and like wise one of the most vigorous. Is very contented as January days roll by. He is Senator Pettus of Alabama, who will have rounded out eighty-two good and fruitful years July next. The cause of Senator Pettus peaceful attitude toward all the world is a recent epistle from one of the members of the Alabama leglsfa- ture. in which the pleasing assurance is given that there win be no one to contest with him for a second term. He will be the unanimous choice of the democrats to serve six years from March next. The aged senator, who was an officer in both the Mexican and the civil wars. has had a memorable political career. No one down in Alabama would even suggest that his political honors ever cost him a dollar. His hands are clean, and the first office he ever held was that of United States senator
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Lamar Democrat: Alabama is the only state in the union with woman jailor. and Talledaga county boasts of this one. A. D. Moore resigned his position as dispenser in the dispensary at Anniston and Is travelling for house in Columbus. Miss. Lamar Democrat: That Mississippi 'col- ored lady, now drawing pay as postmis- tress may not be good cook, but she has got the administration into hot water.
 The United States government Is pre- pairing to build steamboat to be used in the work of keeping in repair the im- provements on the coosa river below Gadsden.
 Tuscaloosa Times Gazette, A Board of Trade was organized at the city hall last night in so enthusiastic a way and with such earnestness that 1t argues perma- nent benefit to Tuscaloosa.
 
 The trial of Gilbert R. Jarvis. who shot Harry Reardy in Mobile on September 27, is on trial for his life. Great interest Is shown in his case, large crowds as- sembling before the court was opened.
 
 Mobile Register Many of the gulf ports show falling off notably Galveston. H4- GOO 900 exports in eleven months; New Or leans, s2o 900. Mobile. however. has re- corded a steady gain. despite the fact that the previous years exports were the largest in the history of the port. DeKalb Times: The Valley Iron com pany north of Valley Head is doing much toward developing North >DeKalb. They are putting In several hundred coke ovens and building a furnace which will give employment to a great many hands and add much to the wealth of this county. May success crown their efforts,
 
 The Warrior and Bigbee River Packet company on behalf of itself and of cer- tain insurance companies and owners of cargo, filed a suit yesterday in the Uni ted States court against Band Lumber company for the recovery of about s27.o0O damages occasioned by the sinking of the steamer Frank 8. Stone in January, 1902. siss
 | Huntsville Mercury: The Bible used at the inauguration of Governor Jelks last Monday vas used for the same purpose when President Davis was inaugurated President of the Confederacy forty years , ago. It Is one of the most valuable of all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
An Anniston Banker.

J. w. MoElreath of Anniston was at the Morris last night Mir. McElreath Is one of Anniston's leading younger citizens. He Is cashier of the City National bank. He takes a great deal of interest In poli- tics and is always valued adviser in campaigns. MT. McElreath is a staunch democrat and has worked untlringly for the party in North Alabama.
 MT. McElreath wasiformerly engaged in the drug business but in 1891 when the City National bank was organized he ac- cepted the position of cashier. He owns considerable stock in the institution. which has been mar. d success from the start
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
ovERcoATs IN NEW YORK.

New York Letter in Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The fact that thousand-dollar overcoats are worn by some men of fashion was made known today. when D. O. Mills of this city advertised a s10O reward for the return of one which had been stolen from him. MT. Mills attended dinner party given by relative, and when the party broke up it was discovered that a Is~jl thief had made away with his fur-lined coat. Attendants say that the door was at no time left unlocked and the disap- pearance of the coat is stili mystery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
Bombardment of San Carlos.

The bombardment of Fort San Car los by three German warships Is n very unpleasant incident, to say the least. Just why Germany should de- sire to offend all American sentiment when steps are being taken to settle amicably the entire matter, is not known. The Kaiser may be anxious to assert himself. He may prefer to dn this while ha has the opportunity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-24
THE PATH THE CALF MADE.


 By Sam Walter Foss. ona day. through the primeval wood, A calf walked home, as good as calves
 should;
 But made trail all bent askew, A crooked trail, as all calves do Since then two hundred years have fled And I infer, the calf is dead But still he left behind his trail. And thereby hangs my moral tale. The trail was taken up next day By lone dog that passed that way; And then a wise beil-wether sheep Pursued the trail OCT vale and steep, And drew the flock behind him, too, As good bell-wethers always do. And from that day. OCT hill and glade, Through those old woods a path was
 made;
 And many men wound in and out, And lodged, and turned, ana bent about And uttered words of righteous wrath Because twas such a crooked path. But still they foliowed-do not laugh The first migrations of that calf, And through this winding Woodwav
 stalked, Because he wobbled when he walked. This forest path became a lane mat bent, and turned, and turned again. This crooked lane became road. where many poor horse with his load rolled on beneath the burning sun. Ane tIaveied some three miles in one. And thus, a century and a half lney trod in the footsteps of that calf The years passed on in swiftness fleet. The road became a village street: Ana this, before men were aware, 4 city's crowded thoroughfare;. -.sse And soon the central street was this, pr renowned metropolis. And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf. Each day hundred thousand rout Foilowed the zigzag calf about; And OCT his crooked journey went The traffic of continent. A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead They followed still his crooked way, And lose one hundred years day; For such reverence is lent To well-established precedent A moral lesson this might teach, Were I ordained and called to preach; For men are prone to go 1t blind Along the calf paths of the mind And work away from sun to sun. To do what other men have done. They. follow in the beaten track, And out, and fin. and forth, and back. And still their devious course pursue. To keep the path that others do But how the wise old wood gods laugh Who saw the first primeval calf, An! many things this tale might teach. But am not ordained to preach