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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12
Secure Written Contracts.

c. R. McCrary in the Opelika Post calls the attent on of the farmers of Alabama to an act of the last legisla- ture relating 10 onracts with farm labor, rs. This law Amends section 473O of the criminal code, making it read, as follows:
 Any person, who, with intent to injure or defraud his employer enters into a contract in writing for the performance of any act of service, and thereby ob- tains money or other personal property from such employer and with like in tent, and without just cause and with out refunding such money or paying for such property, refuses or fails to perform such act or service, must, conviction, be punished as if he had stolen it. And the refusal or failure of any person who enters into such contract or service, or to refund such money, or pay for such property. without just cause shall be prima facie evidence of the intent to in- jure or defraud his employer"
 MT McCrary thinks that if the farm CTS who employ labor would take care to secure written contract, and neigh bors would be neighbors indeed, the new law would prove useful The sub ject is one of deep interest in the pres ent year, when every energy will be exerted to grow great crops alike of corn and cotton. Farmers who secure written contracts will be apt to gather what they plant, and if they do not take advantage of the new law they should not complain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12
ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RED-
 MAN DRAKE.

By Fitz-Greene Halleck. Green be the turf above thee,
 Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee,
 Nor named thee but to praise. Tears fell when thou vert dying,
 From eyes unused to weep, And long, where thou are lying,
 Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven
 To tell the world their worth. And I woke each morrow
 To clasp thy hand in mine. Who shared they joy and sorrow,
 Whose veal and woe were thine; It should be mine to braid 1t
 Around thy faded brow But I've in vain essayed 1t,
 And feel I cannot now. While memory bids me weep -
 Nor thoughts nor words are free, The grief is fixed too deeply
 That mourns man like thee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12
AFRAID OF ROOSEVELT.
Voters Want Safe Man, and BaIk at
 the President.

From the Boston Globe.
 When President Roosevelt's popularity is analysed 1t Is not found to be of the quality which spreads over the forty-five states. His friends admit that 1t is strongest in the west. And where is the west nowadays? Ohio, Indiana and 1lli- nois are not the west. That is not where he Is so popular.
 His popularity is far beyond those states. out on the remote plains. It is where the electoral vote is small.
 The Roosevelt sentiment in the Allan tic coast states and many of the middle states is certainly at a low ebb. At one time 1t was fairly strong, because of the avowed intention of the President to do something against the corporations and attempt desirable changes in the tariff. A do-nothing policy has weakened 1t badly.
 The Presidents champions argue that when elected he will show his teeth to the corporations" and run things to suit himself. Sober-thinking citizens reply; twill 1t be safe to elect him? Do not his tactics in the Panama canal matter indi- cate. to say the lest, an abruptness to- ward foreign powers?'
 The country desires to elect man who Is deservedly popular for personal char acteristics, but 1t also imperatively de- mands that a presidential candidate shall be known to be a safe man, one who will live up to all laws, who will not be fond of war but be in harmony with the na- tional sentiment that peace and righte- ousness are best for any nation. Is not President Roosevelt the opposite of such charactpr7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12
Southern Iron in 1903.

James A. Green of Cincinnati traces in the Iron Age the course of pig iron
 in Birmingham month by month
 throughout 1903. At the opening of the year iron which had sold at $25 f. O. b..
 Birmingham in the previous October had fallen to $20, and vague feeling of unsubstantiality filled all breasts. In February the price of No 2 foundry had receded to $1S,5o, and it would have gone further if the breakdown in railway traffic had not helped the mar ket. In March the independent fur. naces in this district sold No ? at s17.50. April was more cheerful, but importauons of foreign iron filled the markets. In May the demand fell off, and the independent southern furnaces sold No foundry at $15.50. In June the association met and made the price of No. foundry $15. Some of the furnaces sold it at s14, but pur- chases were light. In July the associa- tion reduced the price of No. ? to $1s.50, and the independent furnaces sold 1t at s12.50. Very little was how eyer sold, and July was the dullest mon h of dull year. In August No. ?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12
RULES TO BE OBSERVED
 INENTERTAINING ROYALTY

one calls dinner, they are always present at the table of their host together with the whole house party.
 Certain points of etiquette there are which differentiate such dinners from the usual evening meal of the English coun- try house As to dress, for example, it is understood that even at private enter tainments at which the queen is present. the ceremonious knee brooches and silk stockings are worn instead of the ordi- nary neither garments of the English gentleman.
 A story is told of how certain baro- net who was privileged to entertain for the first time the Prince of Wales at his board, sedulously provided himself with the necessary articles of raiment Gas he conceived them), and so arrayed met his royal guest in the hall of the house The prince, emerging from his brougham, ad- yanced with his own gracious smile, and grasping his hosts hand, addressed him thus; "Go upstairs, my good fellow and put on your trousers; those things are not worn, you know, unless the princess is with me" Up went Sir H. to his dress ing room; off went the offending knee brooches; on went the orthodox continu- ations, and the host was downstairs again before his august guest had reached the door of the drawing room.
 The party being duly mustered in what ever apartment 1t Is customary to meet before the evening meal--it is unneces- sary that everyone must be in the room before the royalties enter it-and the ban- quet being announced. the procession ia marshaled, but not in the usual order. The king and queen go in first to the dfn- ing room, escorted by their host and hos tess. or if the king alone Is present hs leads in the lady of the house At their own table their majesties sit not at either end, but in the center of one side, and the same order is observed, as a rule. at dinners where they are guests The menu is choice and (above alp short for the king hates long dinners, and the gargan- tuan bills of fare provided by too many hosts he cannot endure
 Here Is a menu served to his majesty at the table of one of the most perfect of London hostesses:
 Consomme Prince de Gales,
 Sole d'Aumale,
 Selle d dAgneau dc lait,
 Caneton a la Presse,
 Asperges Anglaises,
 Soufne au curacoa
 Every dish is a masterpiece: the golden consomme, specially created in honor of the royal guest the sole, with it's rich garnish of oysters and truffes; the young and tender lamb, the wild duck. with it's subtly-blended and toothsome sauce, Eng fish asparagus, (thel best in the world), and last of all, the souffe, melting in the mouth; In all respects dinner fit to set before the king"
 One curious detail of the Arrangement of royal dinner party must not be for gotten. Finger glasses at dessert must be conspicuous by its absence, and in cases where royalty is entertained for the first time, the host is generally notified before hand of this point of etiquette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12
ESTIMATE OF THE CURRENT
 BRITISH WIT AND HJMOR

the way, that speech was the kaiser's re- joinder to ''Ubique" and his Modern Warfare.")
 According to the book war begins about June 12. Great Britain does not start in until July l; but in just three weeks she has thrashed the German army so com pletely that peace is sought by the kaiser! The book is got up as if the war was real: There are dozen maps-the final battle requires seven chapters for It's description, and there are three or four maps showing the movements of the troops at various times. Gettysburg itself has been de- soribed in less space. and with no more maps. The orders given by Lord Kitcn- ener, who is in command, are printed at length. and the details of events are related if the war had been a real one the book would be valuable, but, as it is, 1t Is only another specimen of that curi- ous British humor that led a man to write "Ivanhoe" in long hand and send the manuscript to a publisher as that of an original novel. The Briton has an in- finite capacity for taking pains at times; the result is British humor.
 A specimen of that humor that does not creak, however. Is a little book got up to initiate closely the official drill regu- lations of the British army The interest in the forces aroused by the dsastrously victorious war in South Africa appears to be responsible for the public interest in the book, which has gone through three editions. Tactics and Military Training" by Major Gen. George D'Ordel'' is the title of the book which Is got up with the same care as is wasted on "Ubique's'' Modern Warfare" but deserves it. Tie book gives the plates. without which no English drill book is complete; definitions, plautudes, tactics, have their proper places General D'Ordel Is dead, but his monument remains still In the D'Ordel Screen for troops. This is a wicker screen which soldiers carry on their left arms; it is pierced by two holes, one three inches square, the other six and a half by three inches The smaller of these serves for the left eye of the soldier. the larger for his right eye and his rifle. As the general says, Under it's protection not one of a whole battalion of men will be seen. and one would have thought that 1t need not be demonstrated, even to civilian, that a man who is not seen is not so likely to be hit as one who is." A good take-off is of the methods of correspondence required in the army; and 1t Is as good here as in England. General D'Ordel gives the correspondence which occurred when he, as captain during the Crimean war, applied for forage for his horse. His application was made on January 1, 1855; the twenty-first letter. dated January 27, informed him that he was not entitled to forage. A note says the information was not great blow, as the horse had been dead some days. This Is good fooling but most of the British | joking is a very serious matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12
New Orleans.

"All southerners should be very proud of New Orleans" said a man in the lobby last night. That city has absolutely re- deemed the south from bankruptcy this season and enriched the people. The financial strength of her men, added to their business acumen. has absolutely controlled the cotton market, and New Orleans today controls the cotton of the world
 ''The bullish tendency of the Browns ct al, discounts day after day the ma npulations of the New York people and makes the south free and independent Not only should we southerners be proud of New Orleans, but we should show our appreciation by patronizing her wholesale merchants. New Orleans Is a metropolis. :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

was offered freely at SIP, and consider able buying followed the offers of iron at that price, which was then consid- cred a dead line. No change in prices was made in September, and the move ment of iron was light.
 In October freight rates to Ohio river points were reduced 30 cents ton, and in this month the southern association went to pieces, and the situation became then every furnace 4cg itself, and the devil take the hindmost. A fierce scramble for orders followed, and No. 2 foundry was freely offered at $10. In Novem- Der the price of No. fell to 1925, and bottom was reached in December when sales of No. were made at $9. Prices then turned and advances were re- corded until $10 was again considered the price of No. foundry.
 MT. Green says, in conclusion: "As for 1904, we are fortunate in beginning at the bottom. In 1903 we began at the top and had a bad fall This com ing year no such fearful decline in values. no such overwhelming collapse of the business structure is possible We are today on bottom, and as pig iron is incapable of standing still, the only direction apparently in which it can move Is upward"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12
Progressive Bankers.

T can say, after years of experience in contact with bankers. that the executive officers of the banks of Birmingham will compare in ability and progressive ideas with the bankers of New York" said l.. P. Routt of the borough of Manhattan.
 "Richmond has a number of great bank CTS. John Skelton Williams, John F. Branch and Virginius Newton being among the foremost financiers in the country. But outside of the three Rich mond men named, I do not recall any especially progressive bankers in the south outside of Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
 It's the fresh man who Is apt to get in a pickle.
 Unless man has sense he Is seldom able to acquire dollars.
 It's always a cold day for an officehold- CT when he gets fired.
 A woman seldom marries man to re- form him unless he has money and is mserly.
 We are told that the good die young, yet some ministers live to ripe old age.
 Only selfish man will allow his life in- surance to lapse just before passing in his checks.
 When man goes away for rest and change he may get rest, but he seldom brings back any change.
 It sometimes happens that man is not on speaking terms with his wife be- cause she does all the talking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12
TROLLEY SLEEPING CARS
Now Run Between Indianapolis and
 Cleveland.

From Finance.
 The Holland Palace Car company Of Indianapolis has received the first of the sleeping cars which it has had built at Wilmington, Del. The car cost $2O'OeO and has ten compartments. with upper and lower berths. It is possible to Yenti- late each compartment separately, and the electric lights in the compartments are installed so that they can be raised and lowered at will The dressing rooms have every convenience, even the most minute details being provided, such as electric cigar lighters in the mems rooms and electric hair curriers' in the women rooms. Another car of similar build has been shipped from Wilmington, and will arrive at Greenfield before the end of the month.
 The cars are named respectively Theo- dore and Francis, after the sons of Pres ident Holland and Joseph Salvage of the company. The Theodore will be on ex- hibition running in and out of Indian apolis next week It is intended to put both of the cars into regular servce be- tween Indianapolis and Columbus. O., on January l. The cars are so arranged that when made up for day travel they are chair parlor cars. At night parti- tions are placed, roll curtains brought up from brass slots in the floor and ten compartments, each with a single lower and upper berth, are made. Each car carries 600-horse power motors and is ca pablo of making sixty-five to seventy miles an hour. It is figured that the car can leave the Indianapolis or olumbus terminal at ii o'clock at night and arrive at the opposite terminal at the follow ing morning. The Holland company al- ready has a contract for twenty-four sleepers, part of which will be combina- ton diners and sleepers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12
The Weather.

we have had a pretty cold winter in Alabama, as the winters go in the south, but predict mild weather from now un- til the middle of February" said an old weather prophet. Easter comes earliec this year than usual-April 3. We will have bright spring weather then, but we may look out for several freezes between the 18th of February and the middle of March,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12
Shoots Two Men and Escapes.

Sturges. Miss, January 11.-Today Jim Bagwell shot and killed Ed Tomlinson and Singham Edwards. Last night Bagwell and the father of Ed Tomlinson became involved in difficulty but nothing seri- ous occurred. Today young Tomlinson and Edwards went to where Bagwell was cutting the brush, purposing to thrash him, but it seems that Bagwell was an- ticipating trouble and shot both with a winchester rife. The dead are young men about IS years of age. Bagwell e. capped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

David Bennett Hill is to marry pretty widow. so runs a report; and if the report be true he does not care who is nominated for President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

MT. Schwab is not ashamed to pro- claim himself the largest holder of Steel common. Most people would have kept that fact secret.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

While they are improving the type of the Congressional Record some at tention should be paid to the nature and grade of the contributions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

Wind shields should be fitted to sleighs in zero weather, and no one in the northern states will object.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

The Japs in the field live on rice and dried fish. and it is not easy to whip men who discard luxuries to that ex- tpDt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

The Japs, are full of war spirit, and the bureaucracy of Russia Is full of bile, and war may be the final outcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

Russell Sage has quit hard work at the age of S7, with every prospect of being able to keep the wolf from his door
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

The wire trust is satisfied the true way to treat Canada is to fence her off with barbed wire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

The mikado and the czar are monop- olizing the limelight at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

While Russia Is coining words Japan is buying warships in all parts of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

The 1904 coins are out, and they are just as hard to get and to hold as the old kind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

congested, and war Is in the rumor shape only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

Jefferson county is full of candidates for office. They are kissing the babies at every crossroads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

They are awaiting along the Ohio river the customary January thaw.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

Senator Shoot says that If he Is a polygamist he does not know it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

Commander Peary considers zero weather balmy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

The weather up north still has plenty of snows to shower down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

The Japs are not indulging in any "On to St. Petersburg" talk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

In the death of Gerome, the artist, the world loses a commanding figure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

At any rate steps should be taken to keep asbestos curtains in theatres from burning up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

Charles F. Murphy seems to be our modern Warwick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

The Yellow sea may be changed to a darker hue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-12

Senator Dietrich's vindication is guilt-edged.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-02

roso titulo de <cab&llero>; no as
pirAban 4 mas grsDde honor nj
comedian que hubier2 nsds en- Ell
mundo mas respectable que la
ilustre cunx de sus padres. HUI
DO an tempo en- que Ia joyen ge-
neraci6n de los Moceli SO extern
di6 v multiplied de tai modo,
que lego q constituir una hume
rosa f4miiis. nero POGO q POGO
sus miembros fueron desapare-
ciendo del mundo de los vivos,
como proceso lento Y natural de
tod2 antigua exiet sncis, y ell ac-
tual cabaIlero era ell 1itino de
So rsza.
H.bfan sido muy ricos; ersn
en- otros tiempos duefios de mas
de Ia mitad de las fertiles tie
rras que son ell orgullo do Mem
doz', nero alguna de las pronie-
dades fueron confisc2das y ot-As
SO perdier, u en- IL corriente sz4-
rosa de los hechos hist6ricos.
tan fecundos en- Observation-Disclosures
de una en- otrA generaci6n.
Estl no obsttutA. eI senior de
Mocell posefa aun muchGs rique-
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-02
LA TIRANIA DEL
PRESIDENTE MORALES
mo sc ha decIaradO en- ell
Congreso que los puertorri-
quehos gozan en- ell extranje-
70 de iguaI protection que
los american0s?

Hay un asunto importante que no
puede pasar inadvertido para La gene
ralidad de los puertorriquefios nj me-
nos adn para todos los ciudadanos.
Es un hecho que envuelve un escarnlo
inaudito de la seguridad individual,
de La libertad humana el que Sc denun-
cia ahora. Nadie que tenga nociones
de iusticia, nadie que sienta cari1o al
Dedazo de terra que forme su patrla,
pasara en- silencio los atropellos fu-
silamientos que en- Santo Domingo
lIeya & efecto el ex-cura Morales, pre-
sidente con caracter provisional de
aouella rep1blica. FL cura Morales
Sc ha convertible en- ell poder en- una
especie de Gar absolute; el partido
en- que militia en- una agrupacion fac
ciosa en- ell seno de la rep1blica ha
levantado una polvoreda de odios y
rencores, cuya finalidad sera La rulna
destruction de su partido, asi como
en- el extranjero un soberano despre-
clio por los actos de su gobierno.
FL principle fundamental de los
pueblos consiste en- respetarse mutua-
mente garantirse sus derechos, es
un principle este que todos los fun
cionarios deben llevar en- su escudO
de gobierno, porque los presldentes
que solamente Sc gufan por actos ca
prichosos de su voluntad, que tlenen
4 sus pies un pueblo que los aplaude,
debido al miedo, pOdran en- momentos
yer colmadas sus aspiraciones de Ca
lfgula 8 Ner6n, pero ahf esta la OPT
ni6n p1blica, ahf esta ell clamoreo de
la prensa que condenara sin apela-
ci0n, como La Historic despues, tOdos
los actos inhumanos, tOdos los des-
bordes del odio, resurgiendo del pol
vo del olvido un nombre para que sea
execrado en- la Humanidad. ESQ lie
pasara al presidente Morales, de la
Rep1blica Dominicana, 81 contlnua
su obra de odio exterminio contra
los puertorriquenos ALI residences.
Pero esta question tiene otro as
pecto. mo ha declarado 81 Congreso
americana que los puertorriquenos en-
ell extranjero gozan de igual protec-
ci6n que los americanos?
6Y como es que ahora no ha toma-
do determination alguna sobre ell he
cho, repetido va varias veces, de que
en- Santo Domingo sc fusilen puerto
rriquehos por el solo capricho de un
satrapa?
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-06-02

Los Morceli de Mendoza eran
descendientas de una de las mas
an t1guas familias de Inglsterra,
y en- InglAterra Sc hallaba cuan
do entro Gel ConquistAdor>, de
quien eran, por tAnto contem po-
rAneos, aunQue 81 caractsr sen
clio les impedfa envanecerse por
clio. Una excelente v venera
BILE fAmils ssjons, orgullosa de
50 estirpe como pocas, seg6n 10
demostrAba ell cello desplegAdo
por ell actual sefior del castillo
on Ia conservation de los en-
mohecidos objet9s gu2rdados re-
: sligiosament9 en- ell Archivo Mu
SEQ de Mendoza. pruebA elocuen
to de los excelentes servicios
prestados nj reg y & In patria por
ilustres varones, que murieron
gloriosamente despu6s de una
vida sin mancha. sembrAda de
memorAbles hecbos de armas.
Los reyes les hsbfan ofrecido
iftulos de noblezA; podfAn hAber
sido barones de Mendoza 8 con-
des de JUdAI, pero todos prefe-
riAn conservar ell sencillo y hon