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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01
Catholic Archtishopric.

Il was surprised to see an editorial in
a Catholic paper suggesting that the
archsee of Baltimore be transferred to
Washington city" said Catholic layman.
THE writer of the article evidently has
little regard for sentiment or historic land
marks. He points out that the Baltimore
cathedral is too small for the demands
on 1t and advises that a vast cathedral
be erected in Washington for the arch
bishop. No such change as the article
suggests will ever take place. protest
would come not only from Baltimore but
from almost the entire Catholic popu-
lation of America.
Baltimore Is the primatial Catholic see
of the United States and its archbishop
is the ranking Catholic prelate of this
country. To transfer the seat of the arch
bishop would be a rude shock to senti-
ment to say the least and 1t will never
be done. 1t is probable that Washington
on account of its size and social inn
portance will be erected into a see. 1t would
then have a bishop suffragan to the
archbishop of Baltimore.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

school house are to supplant strikes,
and In the course of ten years strikes
will perhaps be unknown in this eoun'
try. The new weapon is really the
ballot, and tho socialists are begin
ming to utilize 1t, especially in the
west.
Socialism as a cult is chiefly dissem-
mated by the grafters in public lie
and by grabbers In the commercial
exchanges. Watered stocks make so
clalists. and so does corruption IN
official clrcles-in city governments
as well as in legislatures. Extor-
ton on the part of pratical corpora
tion-probably a trust-conyerts men
to paternalism who would not listen
to the teachers of new doctrines. All
privilege leads towards socialism, be-
cause all privilege is discriminatory,
whether it be in the Dingley tarlH' III
a trust or in any other form of mo-
nopoly. The Standard Oil and the
Equitable Life are today creating
more socialists, ten times over, than
all the noisy agitators in the land.
The true way to curb paternalism
and keep the country on the individ-
ualistic track of Tom Jefferson's day,
is to curb privilege Wherever social
ism becomes a dominant, or even
rising force, there you will find priyil-
ege strongly intrenched, robbing the
people almost without reserve or
limit. When we begin TO put bounds
to privilege then and not until then
will the socialistic spirit begin to sub
side.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01
DR.. Phillips' Book.

I'VE have just received the copies or
Old Tales and Modern Ideals by Dr.
j. II. Phillips said Henry Baruch, who
is in charge of the book department o.
one of the large stores land it will prove
interesting to the teachers of the state,
and also to the students from one end
of Alabama to the other.
"rhe book is made up of number of
short talks which DR.. Phillips delivered
at the High school in Birmingham dur
ing the past year. A talk is made eacn
Monday morning by DR.. Phillips or some
other person qualified to discuss ethical
subjects, and they have proven very
stimulating and helpful.
"Dr. Phillips has condensed these talks
into most interesting reading matter The
book will prove most wholesome to young
men and young women who are in the
high school of this and other cities, as
well as a number who have already reach
ed college. l think that teachers will find
the book of practical use to them in
their efforts to train the minds of the
young
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

FROM the Springfield Republican.
A@ HAT a fine and fit man Frank
Y" G. Bigelow was to have been
w made president of the Amer
lean bankers association! What SNUG
hGmbug he uttered last September in
an address before the association, when
declaring: However much prejudice
there may appear to be at times against
bankers, our business is of the utmost
usefulness and Importance and the right
pursuit of it in its broader and better
aspects, requires all the courage and all
the conservatism we can demand.
The elaborate liari Even then he APP
pears to have been fathoms deep in thiev-
cry involving estates, commercial instI-
buttons and what not-all he could lay
his hands on, it would appearl II ever
there was Cheerful liar" this is the
rascal. with his monumental falsifcations
and no proper record of them. 1t would
now seem as Il he had been lying out
right when attributing the confession of
his rascality to the Chicago wheat specu-
lation, because he must have been mil
lions deep in speculations before Gates
projected his corner 1t would seem as II
he sought to mitigate his plight by MAX
ing an excuse of the picturesque and
brilliant proceedings of the wheat pit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01
THE ROCK THAT DID 1T.

From the New York Commercial.
1t turns out that James Henry smith
was after ALL the rock upon which Mr..
Hoadley's southern iron merger craft
came to grief True to the nature of
New York capitalists, Mr. Smith waited
until he got as far away from New
York as convenient before he unburdened
himself on the subject. when he confessed
that he had been opposed to the merger
plan from the beginning-that he consid-
cred the financial and physical condition
of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company
too far in advance of that OF the other
companies to permit 1t to enter the COM
bination with them with advantage to
its stockholders.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01
The Iron Comranies.

MANY people were inclined to think that
a merger of the large coal and iron COM
panies of the Birmingham district would
be a good thing for this city, but ! be-
lieve merger would hurt rather
than help this section" said prominent
business man. There is no merger pro-
ject on foot just now and after recent
hascos regarding consolidation 1t will
probably be a long while before any man
or set of men revive the merger
matter.
"All the companies seem to be doing
well along the old lines and without
merger 1t is safe to say that many new
plants for the manufacture of finished
products will be erected within the next
two years. The Tennessee will continue
to spend money on expansion and other
prosperous concerns will do likewise
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01
HERE AND THERE.

BY Julia Nicely Finch.
The restless feet go up and down
The crowded streets of the busy town;
With change and charm of grave or gay
The faces shift the live-long day;
But as for me, my thoughts go wide,
And seek the slope of fair hillside.
Where those who once had place part
Within the city's throbbng heart
Are sleeping softly side by side.
There PUSHES thro' no restless throng,
But only those with quiet tread
Who seek communion with their dead;
No ruder sound the whole day long
Is heard there than some birds low song
Who buildeth busily above
And singeth ever of her love;
And wandering winds that blithely blow
That little leaves may quicker grow.
There placid paths wind in and out
With bud and blossom all about;
And great, green arms stretch out to hold
The mounds beneath in loving fold;
And lest at nakedness we grieve,
The little grasses haste to weave
A broidered braid to softly lie
Above those sleeping happily
At rest beneath quiet sky.
Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

IT OPEKA.-Frederick Dumont Smith
wv of Kinsley the author of the
maximum rate law, which was
enacted by the legislature last winter, be-
lieves the fuel problem in the short grass
country of Kansas will be solved by the
use of petroleum. He is in Topeka to ex-
anime a heater, which a German, named
Hoffmeister, has invented and he is so
well pleased with it that he already has
taken up the subject of transportation
with j. r. Koontz, general freight agent
of the Atchison. Topeka and Sante Fe
railway.
Hoffmeisters device has not been per-
fected yet. but he las applied the princi-
pie of it to a common stove in cigar
store here, and for two months 1t has
heated a room 20x35 feet. The stove is
about fourteen inches in diameter and
three feet high. In front of the stove
close to the base. is fastened cast iron
box about six inches square and four
inches deep. which is half filled with wood
as..es and covered with lid. Into the
ashes crude petrol I'm is fed by gravity
from a galvanized iron tank which rests
on chair behind. The tank per-
baps fourteen inches high and the seat of
the chair is about four inches higher
than the ash box The tank Will hold
two and one-half gallons of oil, which
will run a stove a day in zero weather.
In moderate temperature, as now. tank
full will heat the room two days or more.
The flow of oil is regulated by stop
cock.
The oil used is of the low grade of q
specific gravity. and costs laid down here
eighty cents for barrel of thirty-nine
gallons Mr.. Hoffmeister estimates that
two barrels of this oil has the heating
quality of ton Of Kansas lump coal
which he says costs s425 to $3.50 a ton
in the eastern part Of the state. The
tank may be even placed on the stove
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
ON THE BARD OF AVON

doubt that shakespeare's family called
themselves the Shakespeares.'
After his remarks upon Shakespeare
middle-class origin and instincts, Mr..
Shaw set out to prove an old point of his
that in his early romantic" plays Shake
speare was just writing what the public
wanted. and that in his heart he was a
pessimist.
Otherwise" Mr.. Shaw added. Shake
speare failed as a philosophic guide. He
had no religion. no politics. no great con-
Germs. He was a narrow minded middle-
class man"
have had hardly anything too good to
say about Shakespeare-if only he hadn't
written in blank verse. Here are some
shawisms upon this little matter:
Blank verse is a thing you could teach
a cat If it had an ear.
An enormous mass of the blank verse
in the play isn't poetry at all.
Shakespeare was a master of trenen-
dous prose. Compare the What a piece
of work is a man" speech in Hamlet
with such twaddle as ITO be or not to
be-"
Why didn't he leave the mighty line to
people like Marlowe, who could write
nothing else
Yet he made even this blank verse
musical. There was a charm even about
such a line Thou damn'd and luxu-
rious mountain goat"
Finally Mr.. Shaw put 1t to his audi
ence that they were just fascinated by
the magic of shakespeare's speech into
idolizing everything that he wrote, wfleth-
er 1t were true or no. The ayes had it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01
THE WANDERING JEW.

From the Mexican Herald.
Buckets of holy water were sprinkled
about their homes yesterday by residents
of Don Toribio street, who saw two
brothers fighting and believe that 1t por-
tends the calamtous appearance of the
Wandering Jew, who will come and bring
misfortune to all unless scared way by
holy water. Whenever two brothers dis
agree and come to blows, it Is said, the
Wandering Jew shortly appears and asks
for room and board in some family living
in the street. always repaying his accom-
mediation by causing the death of some
members of the family.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

- ERNARD SHAW, the well known
K11 novelist and dramatist delivered
~ a lecture on Shakespeare the
other evening at the KensIngton Town
Hall, London. According to a report in
the London Chronicle his real points
were just these. Shakespeare the writer
was not God. Shakespeare the man was
not an illiterate. ood-for-notnng black
guard. Both were comprised in a thor
ough middle-elass gentleman of my own
profession.
Shakespeare was, too, not an infallble
philosopher but as an artist he was SUI
premely imaginative. the greatest mas
ter of language that ever was, and of
verbal music, with an enormous power
of characterization and tremendous
fun"
Here are some Characteristic Shawisms !:
On the idolization of Chakespeare's
works
People view them as they view the
Bible-that is to say in me proper
spirit, which means that the mind must
be completely closed to everything they
contain.
Others abide our question, thou art
free'-what can that mean but that
Shakespeare is God?'
On Shakespeare not being a vagabond-
That he was respectable, middle
class man is proved by the fact of his
father having been a bankrupt"
He came to town obviously as an Or
binary sort of middle-elass literary young
man. and wrote Loves Labor's Lost a
regular Bedford Park sort of play"
My own family have always called
themselves the Shaws' There Is no
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Southern Bell Telephone company. with
headquarters at Atlanta. is in the city
L. Strauss of Montgomery is registered
at the Hillman.
]. Elser of Meridian, Miss, Is in the
city
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01
WORRIED WEALTH IN 2eo5.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
"Ah, me-" sighed the tainted trust mag
nate, as he vainly essayed to give beg
gar a ten-spot, "our ancestors lived In
different times. I've heard grandfather
say that he once succeeded in giving away
a thousand dollars!'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01
Police Catch Criminals.

"Burglaries and highway robberies may
take place with more regularity in Bir
mingham than elsewhere, but you sell
dom hear of the burglars and highway
men getting away said a man who
matters.
I'VE may have more of them here, but
in other cities the robbers get away when
they commit the crimes and in Brming
ham they get caught. Take, for instance,
all the murder cases, with the exception
of the negro who killed Policeman Null
lin, and all the highway robberies and
burglaries. The guilty have been caught.
'rhe police have broken up at least
dozen different gangs of burglars In the
past four years. and l can recall six or
seven gangs of highway robbers which
have been apprehended, and many of
them are being punished and nearly
every murderer has been arrested. 1t Is
true that they are not always convicted,
but that is not the fault of the police
department.
Recently the police department has
broken up three gangs of highway rob-
bers, one of negroes. one of the white
boys from Atlanta and the other the
gang that operated in a suburb
About Persons.
L. Meyer of Montgomery is at the Nor
ris.
NJ T. Kahn of Alabama, City is at the
Morris.
Daniel Partridge, Jr.. of Selma is
stopping at the Morris
David B. Traxler, manager of the
Chick Springs hotel. of Chicks Springs.
s. c., is at the Norris
d. L. Roseman of Tuscaloosa is in Bir-
mingham.
Herman Well of Huntsville is at the
Metropolitan.
Lewis Mayer of Demopelis is at the
Hillman.
Louis ]. Adler of UniontownVis in the
city.
Victor Friedman of Tuscaloosa in
the city.
s. Mills of Chattanooga is in the city,
Henry Albes. formerly clerk at thu
Metropolitan hotel, but now with II
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01
WHERE THEY GET IT.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper weekly.
George AIDE, not long ago. was speak
ing of the curious ideas some children
have of the most ordinary things. Ads
then said the story he was about to
tell actually occurred in Indiana, his ma
tive state. There was a little boy, who
on seeing a pan of warm freshly drawn
milk. inquired where the cows got their
milk.
Where do you get your tears?" was the
reply,
Gee" exclaimed the youngster, do you
have to spank the cows?'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01
EXCLUSIVE.

From Harper's Weekly.
The following notice is said to be post
ed on the door of an English country
church:
This is to give notice that no person
is to be buried in the ehurchyard but
tho Sc living in the parish, and those
who wish to be buried are requested to
apply to me.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Other states .13363O 125 432 S1 1'462, COB
Total ;. =. .21s7s57 1883 81 2.2s4. III
The table makes plain the fact that
Pennsylvania no longer makes the
greatly Bessemer rails predominant.
The changes of the present year and
of future years will, however, be
against Pennsylvania and against Bes.
semer rails. There is no reason in the
world why 100000 tons of open hearth
rails should not be made in this dis
trict every year, and if there were no
Dingley tariff wall to destroy compe-
tition, the rails of this country would
have to made in this district, for no
other domestic rail could under free
trade rules compete with foreign
rails.
Alabama rolled in 1904 the open
hearth rails Of the country, but Color
ado will aid her th.1 year. and so will
Pennsylvania. The production of Bes-
semer rails is steadily decreasing, the
decrease last year being PA per cent.
The hope of this district lies largely
in the production of open hearth rails.
and capital will soon cease to be
timid over investments in rail mills,
for it is now fully demonstrated that
open hearth steel is as much superior
in rails as it is in bridge or structural
material
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad must
at any rate be within the range of
prosperity when it places an order for
four million dollars worth of cars
and locomotives.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

When Omaha becomes dull it re-
calls Pat Grove and at tonce begins
to negotiate his return and surrender.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Banker Bigelow not only bucked the
grain and stoc pits, but he played
the races, and sat in friendly poker
games at night. He was a rounder in
sporting life.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Washington now takes its baseball
as joke. This is the best way to
take the sport in tail-end towns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The bank examiners who were paid
to examine that Milwaukee bank have
not been heard from
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The tailenders are quarreling in
Montgomery over which shall have
the position that no other team covets.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The Car should consult Governor
odell who is over seas as to Mr.
schwabs qualifications as shin
builder.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Country editors are viewing the
progress of the blackberry crop with
considerable pride.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The Maine-the new Maine-is be-
set the troubles, and all begin to think
the hoodoo has come to stay.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The Belasco suit is showing the
world what is gon on behind the
scenes in the box office.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The coyotes in Oklahoma have not
yet quit holding indignation meetings.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The man who rocks the boat re-
mains with us because the fool killer
is behind in his work, and cannot
catch up.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The men who lost over three mil
lions placed in Bigelow's hands are
not a bit placated by the fact that he
lost his own fortune also.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The woman's clubs are beginning to
talk back, and what they will say to
Grover Cleveland will be a-plenty.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Inc policy holders of the Equitable
are at length able to sit up and take
notice of things.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Jimmy Hyde seems to think his fel.
low countrymen should learn how to
be kind to the rich-ever to the rich
CRATER.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

If the Shakers did originate modem
spiritualism, it is nothing to boast OF.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Bigelow of Milwaukee has put Mrs.
Chadwick of Cleveland out of the
limelight altogether
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

me Ferris wheel was the grand
daddy of the loop-the-loop. 1t is a
back number now.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The hail stones fell in Shades val.
ley when they should have fallen in
West End Park.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

All tongues speak of him, and the
bleared sights
Are specialized to see him.
-Cymbeline.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

1t is generally thought that bachelors
should either be taxed or segregated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01
Production of Rails.

The recent bulletin of the American
Iron and Steel association shows the
production of all kinds of rails in 1904,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

John w. Gates is getting advice,
while the men he dealt with are get
ting his money.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Mr.. Gates had less luck when he
hunted bears than the President had
in Colorado.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Chicago is the most strikeridden
city in the country, and somebody is
to blame.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Flour is as high as ever before. 1t
could not have been made from May
wheat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The Presidential hunting party can
afford to snap it's fingers at the beef
trust.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The new who's Who" is chiefly
made up of two-steppers and pro-
moters.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Comerford is doing a lot of think
ing about his colleagues who decline
to know INN.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The cunning for bears will soon
have to give way to the cunning for
trusts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Many bear stories are coming from
Colorado, but thus far only one skin.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Joe Folk Is the announced candidate
of Missouri for President in 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Wheat's chief use at present is to
be delivered to the Gates syndicate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Our own Frisco system is extending
itself finely at the western end of it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

There are more Smith than one
who buy guns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Washington Bureau Age-Herald. 1921 @
Street, N. W.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The bears that the President shoots
are cot bears trained to be shot.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Paul Jones got along without a big
navy, but times have changed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Rojestvensky is between Togo and
the deep blue sea.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The bank, not the beer, made Mil
waukee famous.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

Before woman's clubs Mr.. Cleveland
is no longer favorite orator.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-01

The bear crop in Colorado is becom-
ing better.