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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
SprinkIinu Cars Needed.

Mayor Behrman of New Orleans
writes to Chairman Waldrop of the
East Lake city council letter that re-
moves all doubt as to the feasibility of
sprnkling cars. Such cars have been
used on all lines in New Orleans three
years. They not only keep dust from
arising on or near the trolley tracks,
but they in no way interfere with the
passenger service, simply because they
do not have to stop, and they can thus
keep out of the way of cars that do
have to stop to take on or let off pas
sengers. The use of sprinkling cars in
New Orleans has proved, says Mayor
Behrman, most benefcent."
What is most beneficent in New Or.
leans would certainly be at least mild.
ly beneficent in this town, especially in
the neighborhood of the city furnaces
of the Sloss-Sheffield company.
The traffic of the trolley lines In and
about this city is constantly increas
ing. 1t is generous as 1t stands today
anu the company which monopolizes
this great public utility can well afford
to come to the relief of their patrons
In their own cars in hot, dusty weather
They cannot afford to keep their pa
irons in fog of dust when sprinkler
cars would render their lines more at.
tractive and more productive. The East
Lake line would be especially benefited
by the use of sprinkler cars; and the
East Lake council deserves the support
and the thanks of all who use the troll
ley lines of this valley for the effort
it is making to have sprinkler cars
used thereon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
Mr.. Stevens and the Machine.

Chief Engineer John F. Stevens of
the Panama canal says, ito the best
of my light I shall attack the task, and
stick to it," He has never seen the
isthmus. but he sails away today to
stay there "a long, long time" 81 ex-
pect," he added, ITO make Panama my
home until the canal is completed.
That is the scene of operations, and
that Is where shall be-"
This is the kind of purpose and spirit
needed In the execution of a huge task
in trying climate. Mr.. Stevens has
caught the correct impulse from the
failures Of the past, and 1t is more than
probable that a real straightforward,
single-minded canal-digger has been
found at last.
The danger consists now as hereto
fore in the machine that stays in Wash
ihStOH. Ohdli iHdu OliOnIS anu Ills COZ
leagues have no intention of making
Panama their home. No, indeed.
Washington suits them much better,
with occasional excursions to Panama
when the weather is propitious. If the
Shonts machine, located in Washing
ton, can be held down, Mr.. Stevens
will plan and dig a canal
The trouble all along has been Wash
ington interference. It will arise all
along the task, and it may prove try
ing to Mr. Stevens nerves. 1t will not
become insistent or aggressive until
Secretary Taft returns, and then II
will begin to make itself felt. 1t is
astonishing how many orders men In
Washington can issue to men in Pan.
anna, bearing the heat and burden OF
the day. Congress can best promote
the digging of the canal by seeing that
the Taft-Shonts machine is kept within
proper bounds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
It's destiny unehunnable, like death.
--Othello.
Insurance in Arkansas.

The Arkansas supreme court has de-
clared the Arkansas antitrust insur-
ance law valid. Only two judges dis
scented from the opinion of the court.
The law was passed at the last session
of the legislature. and 1t is very sweep
ing. 1t not only forbids rate agree
ments made inside the state, but 1t
bars under heavy penalties any fire in
surance company that makes any rate
agreement anywhere. The latter fea-
ture was contested in Arkansas court,
but the supreme court held that the
legislature had power to name the
terms upon which outside insurance
companies could do business In Arkan-
sas.
The effect of the new legislation and
decision cannot easily be foreseen.
There are not enough state companies
to carry the risks of the state, although
enough could be speedily organized.
No foreign company can do business
in x.rkansas, because not one can make
the affidavit the new law requires, and
it's penalties are very heavy. The law
will stay IL. full operation long enough
to Jest it's merits as well as its faults,
and sic Legislature of 1907 will know
pretty we'll what the people desire.
The insurance companies do not
fancy an appeal to the federal courts,
because if they should reverse the de-
cision of the state supreme court they
would have to hold that the insurance
business is interstate commerce, and
that would bring them under the oper-
alton of the Sherman antitrust act--a
leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
It therefore seems probable that the
outside companies will abandon Arkan-
sas. trusting that the next legislature
will repeal the King act, which, now
bears the endorsement of Governor
Davis. of the democratic party and OF
the people in three successive cam
paigns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
MANHATTAN SMASH.
New Drink Pleases Both the Eye and
the Palate.

FROM the Kansas City Times
Now. the Manhattan Smash, made first
by Tom Powers, is made in champagne
glass. You pour three different colored
liquors into the stem of the glass; So
You must do it carefully so they don't
mix. Then you drop a cherry into the
bowl on top of the steam and shut the
liquors in; they don't mix with the top
drink at all. They're there Just for color
effect. But they come down In the end
and give you the tang that makes the
Manhattan smash the ordinary Manhat-
long glass and mash an orange In it.
fill it with broken ice and over that the
ordinary Manhattan. Last you must pour
that into your champagne glass without
disturbing the cherry or the liquors in
the STEM And when that is done, said
the barkeeper, handing the glass to his
friend, you have the Manhattan Smash.
Try it."
The guest held the glass with it's murky.
orange tinted bowl up to the light. At the
base of the how'd lay the red cherry like
a good deed in wicked world, and UNI
der that the stem OF three colored liquors.
He drained the glass TITS Manhattan.'
he said. and a sensation" Half dozen
men along the bar counter had listened
to the exposition with curious interest.
The curious guest. turned with an in
effable light in his face.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
Mr.. HYDE Steps Down and Out.

The acceptance of the resignation of
John Hyde, statistician of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, is in its last anly-
sis confession that the estimates of
the Department have been doctored,
and that the chief man of figures has
been negligent. The chances are that
Mr.. Hyde's resignation will later on be
followed by that of the easy-going,
gullible Mr.. Wilson, who is serving a
third term as Secretary of Agriculture
No one questions Mr. Wilson's hon
esty, but all feel that a keen, alert
man is needed at the head of the Agri-
cultural Department.
Better still would 1t be to cut off all
guessing at acreage or condition Of
crops. Whatever actually facts can be
gathered will prove acceptable, but the
producers and the trade in general will
put no more confidence in mere
guesses. Estimates based on one-sided
reports scarcely rank with an honest
guess.
The cotton mill men of Charlotte
are, 1t is true, standing by the guess
bureau of the Agricultural Department,
but they stand quite alone. No one
else in the great industry stands with
them. They have found the percent
ages that Holmes prepared and sent
out useful.
The cotton mill men of Charlotte
are but small fraction of the great
cotton industry, and their demand for
a continuance Of departmental guess
percentages will not be needed by
Congress. The farmer will gain a
hearing in Congress. and no board Of
governors sitting in Charlotte or else
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
INSPECTORS NOT KNOWN
UNDER GREAT NAPOLEON

splendor. but with rigid economy and
without a debt, is a marvel and mys-
terry. In all the offices of state he knew
everything. inspired everything" Sir
William Napier. writing on the same sub
tect, says:
"The annual expenditure or France was
scarcely half that of England; and Ma
poleon rejected public loans, which are
the life-blood of state corruption. he
left no debt. Under him no man de-
voured the public substance in idleness
merely because he was of privileged
class; the state servants were largely
paid, but they were made to labor effect
ually for the state. They did not eat
their bread and sleep. His system OF
public accounts, remarkable for Its exact
ness, simplicity, and comprehensiveness'
was vitality opposed to public fraud, and.
therefore, extremely unfavorable to cor
ruption."
1t is evident that under Napoleon in
spectors inspected. and that one great
American institution, the JunKet was not
in fashion; also that the rake-off did not
flourish.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
From the washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
~ HE exposure Oh the postal lrauos
w in 1903 has been followed by
succession of similar exposures
in other departments all OF serious
character and one of them. to wit, the
story of the land frauds. which Secretary
Hitchcock is bringing out of darkness
into light. involves so stupendous an ag-
rregate that in comparison Herewith the
nostal depredations. many and great as
thew were. seem like q little, old-time re-
tail shop lined up alongside of the larg-
est up-to,date department store. This
processionN abhorrent rascalities-and
the cry is still, They comet would
be absolutely dsheartening but for the
fact that the national administration has
made unexampled efforts to detect, con-
Wet. and punish the rascals regardless OF
their official or social positions. IL ap-
pears to be the settled purpose OF the
President and his official family to turn
on the light in all branches OF the pup
lie service, to detect evil doing wherever
evil is being done. and to apply thereto
the remedies which the law provides.
This wise policy will confirm the theory
that he who serves his country best
serves his party best.
Another hopeful feature of the situation
Is seen IN the unanimity and heartiness
with which the press of the country rep
fesenting healthy and virible pubic
opinion, backs the administration in It's
reforming labors. 1t has been found prac-
ticable to get verdicts of guilty In ac-
cordance with law and evidence, against
men who had long been intrenched in the
respect and confidence of the people
But when all that ie new proposed IN
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
orlaIn Of "eIue Grass,

II wonder how many persons know, =
asked q student of botany yesterday
what is the origin of the words blue
grassT There Is surely nothing in the
color of the beautiful grass, when seen
at close range that II should be known
by the adjective olue.'
II was told this morning. he continued,
that the name was given to this Won
derfully beautiful grass by reason of the
fact that ii was first cultivated at a
certain Blue Lick Spings in Kentucky.
In time the people left off the Lick and
shortened the phrase to simple blue
grass
by the by, l notice that blue grass is
grown here in Birmingham. The lawn of
the First Presbyterian church and the
pastors residence is planted In blue grass.
1t requires di1igent cultivation to pre-
serve it here, the weeds and coarser
grasses as we'll as the insects tending to
choke it's growth,
There is yet another explanation of
the derivation of the name. 1t is that the
long stretches of grass in the blue grass
country of Kentucky when seen at a
distance are touched with a sort Of azure
color like that of the armament"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
A Word About Decoration.

~ was pleased to see," said a Nine
teenth street merchant last night at the
Morris, that some one has suggested
ample decoration Of the city on the oc-
casion of President Roosevelts visit here
in the autumn
ANY one who has ever been to cities
like New Orleans, Cincinnati and Louis
Vile on occasion of festival or celebra-
tion knows how beautiful such towns
are made by the custom of decorating the
streets-residence as well as places Of
business. In this respect. New Orleans Is
perhaps the most artistic city in the
country. The annual mardi gras there
cultivate In the people a love for spec
tacle. Here In Birmingham we yet lack
this Accomplishment. I'm hoping that the
suggestion made in The Age-Herald will
be adopted l would like to see the Com
mercial club, the Board of Trade and
the merchants generally take an interest
in the subject"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
ST Bernard.

The catalogue Of St. Bernard college,
for the scholastic year 19O4-1sO5 recently
issued. is an interesting document and
makes an excellent showing for the IN
stitution.
Last session the students numbered
over one hundred and nearly every state
In the south was represented. A good per-
centage came from Alabama and not a
few from Birmingham.
St Bernard is located in Cullman conn=
ty, about a mile and half from the
town of Cullman. The scenery there
abouts is picturesque. and the climate is
noted for its salubrity. Indeed. there is
no healthier section in ALABAMA than
Cullman.
While the classical department of the
college is thorough the commercial course
seems to be the most popular. Arithme-
tic. stenography, typewriting and book
keeping are taught and the graduates of
the commercial course are to be found In
many counting rooms of Birmingham and
elsewhere.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
ENTHUSIASM OF THE JAPANESE.
Interesting Letter From a Pupil of the
Home School at Toxic.

Kosuke Torneoko In Charities Magazine.
Sympathy and enthusiasm abound in
every direction in Japan, and relief ac-
commodations are planned and projected,
not only by those who are willing among
the people, but also by the state itself
which has issued an imperial ordinance
concerning the relief of soldiers and sail
ors' families, and has established the
means of helping those who have no
relatives and friends to help them.
Most picturesque of the relief work in
the towns and villages is the Secret
Ploughing society of the young men of
Nakagawa village. Either at night, or
when nobody knows, these young men
go out and plough for those who are
away at the front. the farms which
would be unploughed and unsowed on
account of their oiiltivators' absence,
and thus help labor of their families
left behind In Meij village .iilage has
been helped and agricultural work salts
factorily accomplished. In Kuze county
the school children after school is over
have helped in the tillage of the farms Of
those who are at the front. In some
places farms are gratuitously lent out to
the soldiers families for tillage or ma
nures and other things are bought to-
gether at wholesale prices and distrib-
uted to them; or capital is either lent
out Or given, so that they can devote
themselves to the manufacture of straw
articles which are by-products of farm
ing; or some work in tea making or
slkworm raising is found out and given
to them.
In describing the work of relief through
employment, a few words must be add
ed about the arrangements lately started
for taking care of young children during
the daytime for the sake of those who
to work. The Toxic Kyobashi-Ku Nurs-
ing Place for Young Children of Those
Serving at the Front, the Osaka Wo-
mems Charity society the Osaka Philan-
thropic Relief society, the Kobe Woo
mems Public Service society. and the
Hiroshima Women's One Heart society
are reaping good results in these day
nurseries
Besides these societies of local relief,
there are those of universal relief, such
as the Association for the Relief of Those
Serving in the Army and Navy, the La
dies Patriotic society. and so forth. The
former association, which is under the
leadership of Count Jnoue and Count
Matsugata. and supported by the we'll
to-do classes, both native and foreign.
has already property amounting to more
than one million yen.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
THE LAW IN ALABAMA.

From the Knoxville Sentinel
Again complaints come from Alabama
that farmers in that state have been
guilty of the crime of peonage. A deter
mined effort is being made. both by
the courts and by public sentiment. to
suppress this evil practice. These efforts
are commended by all well-thinking cit
izens who have at heart the best in
terests of the state Of Alabama and OF
the reputation OF the entire south. Tho
practice Of such crimes in the south re-
fleets not only upon the state in which
the offense is committed, but upon the
fair name of the southland as well. Peon-
age--the holding and working OF indivfd-
uals in bondage-s a violation of sacred
moral and national law. and 1t should be
suppressed. no matter In what state It
may be practiced.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
Enuland's Cotton Growing.

Consul Halstead, who represents this
country at Birmingham, England, re-
ports to the Department of Commerce
that the present movement of the Brit
ish Cotton Growing association is con-
Quoted with earnest determination.
The exhibition now open in London
shows what the colonies can possibly
be made to produce.
The world will soon need all the cot
ton that thirty-eight million acres can
produce. The international cotton con-
gress that recently met in Manchester
nuts the maximum of this country at
th,rty.Ave million acres. As the crop
of last year was gathered from thirty
two million acres, no one is authorized
tn saw that an increase of 10 per cent
is this country's maximum acreage
This country can in fact grow a great
deal of cotton, but 1t wants an assur-
ance in advance that 1t will command
not less than 10 cents pound, and
the indications are that the price will
not fall below that price. The world,
we should not forget, is not standing
still. 1t needs every year more cotton,
England is not half SO unselfish as
she claims to be. She is simply trying
To substitute Egyptian and East In
dian products with cotton grown
In other parts of Africa, IN
Borneo, Logos, Cyprus, and wher-
ever else the plant can be induced
TO produce lint. The object is to get
rid of American domination and con-
troll The Britain believes in the dom
nance of Great Britain, and he wants
no Independent American planters to
rise up and perplex the situation. He
wants moreover cheap cotton, whereas
the American producer wants remuner
alive cotton, and the latter is willing
to reduce acreage to get it.
The subject is not, however, very
pressing. Years and years will be con
sumed before much cotton is grown
In English colonies outside of Egypt
and the East Indies. The Egyptian
cotton is of high grade-too high to
60 into coarse egttons for export to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
Mr.. Maben Returns.

President ]. C. Maben of the Sloss-Shef-
field Steel and Iron company returned
from New York yesterday. lie had been
absent from Birmingham for two weeks
looking after his private business.
II found business in Flew York pros
perous," said Mr.. Maben, and the out
look for the fall trade is highly en-
conraging
1.-THE activity in The iron market is no
surprise to iron makers. A brisk buying
movement was bound to come. The con-
sumers had let their stocks run down to
nothing. My company has sold more iron
within the last ten days than 1t had
sold in the previous three months.
"A good deal of Birmingham iron has
been sold at s11 on No. basis, and
even lower, but the market is now firm
at s11.5O and some manufacturers are re-
fusng to sell for less than $l2
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

IT is peculiarly appropriate that the
monument to be erected in honor of
Joseph Jefferson at Richmond should
represent the actor as RIP Van Wrinkle +"
Ways and means of obtaining the best
design are now being discussed Whether
it is decided to throw open the COMPETE
ton to all sculptors OF conhne the con-
testants to those artists who have won
fame by meritorious achievement, the
subject is one to inspire the most slug
gish workman. The comedian VIII derive
additional honor from the TACT that his
monument In Richmond will be the first
ever erected to an actor in this coun-
try. Slowly but surely the stage Is rising
above the prejudice that formerly held
Its followers little better than social out
casts, and the time will come eventually
when 1t will be one of the most honored
of the professions. Jefferson, Irving,
Maud Adams and Mrs. Gilbert will have
man, successors in the future.
Another cure for baldnessl A certain
individual who is baldheaded Is attract
ing attention to himself by going about
in the sunshine without hat. He hopes
thus to woo back the thinning locks
which departing hence cause him much
pain. He may or may not be deluded,
but he Is certainly anxious for hair Gem
tlemen who wish to try this sunshine
treatment should choose a time when the
thermometer stands at SO in the shade
every day in the week, then spend hours
| mt xrrffl, n 1of have
sustained sunstroke they will be sur
prised to discover how fmmaterial bald
ness will ever afterward appear.
APPEARANCES ARE DEcEITFUL.
The man who always looks the part
May often fail to play 1t;
The pious bankers often short,
Although one hates to say 1t.
A ray of light has been shed ON the
theatrical armament by the announce
ment of a new theatricai syndicate to
cope with the combination headed by
Klaw & Erlanger. While it is true that
the shubert- Belasco syndicate is far from
being so strong as its huge rival. 1t will
nevertheless be able to give the trust a
lot of trouble. Moreover, there is every
chance for rapid expansion. 1t is not
probable that this change will affect Bir-
mingham at any time soon, but in the
matter of combines two or more are more
| to be desired than one. Where there is
| real rivalry good is sure to result.
| A department clerk writes that Panama
Is a more desirable place or residence
| lust now than W-ashin gton That fell
| low is either endowed with a vivid imag-
nation or else he Is an optimist of the
| first order
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where will be permitted to represent
the industry In this matter. The cot.
ton scandals will have served the coun-
try well If they lead to an exposure
and then to an ending of the entire
system Of guessing prospectively the
great crop of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20

81 have been Interested" said a book
worm last night, "in reading Thomas
Dixon, Jr.' latest book-"The Life Worth
Living 1t is quite different from any
thing else It's author has written. 1t does
not affect to have either plot or plan,
but is rather a study of nature and of
Its impression upon persons who are fond
of life in the open. There are many fine
passages In the book that disclose dis
eliminating sympathy with nature. but
these are somewhat marred by an I'M
pleasant egotism of the author that too
often asserts itself The book also indi-
Gates that its author does not discrim-
mate between the life really worth liv-
ing and certain lotus-eating existence
that is baneful at best
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-20
Mayor Helm Here.

Mayor John T. Hefiin of Roanoke Is
visiting his brothers, the Drs. Hefiin. Mr..
Hefiin is one of the best known attor-
neys in East Alabama. He served In
the legislature and In the constitutional
convention with distinction. At the last
election he was chosen unanimously for
mayor of the thriving city OF Roanoke.
Mr.. Hefiin Is being mentioned as a can
didate for senator from the Ninth dis
trict comprising the counties OF Ran
dolph and Chambers. When seen yes
terday. however. he declined to discuss
politics
THE people of our section of the state
are delighted with the present price Of
cotton and many Of. them have reaped
some benefit from the rise in prices" said
Mayor Hefin.