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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
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Professional Protectionist Baird of Philadelphia says President Roose- welt is a freetrader at heart He fur ther says a depression in business has already set in because of the Presi- dents intention ito mangle" the tariff. He refers, of course, to the sacred Dingley tariff-that most auda- oious devise for robbing the many to enrich the few--that tallest infamy In the way of sly, sneaking, indirect tax ation.
 Mir. Baird's statement that depres- sion in business has been detected is the very reverse of the truth. Nothing of the sort has been disclosed. On the contrary business is strengthened and enlarged as the talk of a revision of the tariff is strengthened and en- larged. The two seem to go together.
 MT. Baird is nothing if not daring and obstreperous in his statements. For example, he says, speaking of President Roosevelt's tariff views: "It is just such mangling of the tariff as he proposes that brought on the civil war If Polk had not tempered with the. tariff that was framed by the demo- crats and which he pledged himself to support the mills and factories of the south would not have been idle, and there would not have been a class of poor white trash, as they were called, to be as clay in the hands of few demagogues.'
 In the first place there were not forty-fve years ago many mills in the south, and in tho second place those mills had no more to do with the bringing on of the war than the man in the moon had. The entire state ment is an illustration of the audacity and effrontery of the tariff brigade. They have been exploiting the people a long time, and they will not stop, especially in Pennsylvania, at the limit of truth. They walk across the bounds of that article without hesita- ton or conscience. They are more at home on the other side of the line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

frankly says Russia needs time in which to build a great navy. When she has such a navy another war with Japan will be brought on.
 Coming fresh from the Emperor and from St. Petersburg, the frank and undip,omatic expressions of the vice admiral are full of meaning, and thus far they have not been in any manner disavowed. It is plain at any rate that the peace feeling is spread ing fast in Russia, and that the bu reaucrats will soon appreciate its meaning.
 The Japanese at present hold all Of Corea, and all of the Liaotung penin- sula, which was ceded to them by the Chinese nine years ago. All maratime Manchuria and the Gulf of Pe-chi--ii and Korea Bay are in Japanese hands, and Japan does not need more terri tory on the mainland. The Corean peninsula and the Liaotung peninsula are what Japan needs, not only for revenge's sake, but also for the sake of security. Russia has lost these and cannot regain them. If the war goes on she will lose the valuable fisheries and minerals of the island of Saghalien and Vladivostok also, not to mention Mukden and possible disas- ters in upper Manchuria. It is wholly possible that Russia will prefer to stop the war now rather than accept more losses in her present condition of unpreparedness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
Governor Folk and Reform.

Governor Folks inaugural address contained an excellent programme of reform-so excellent that the Kansas City Star, an independent republican paper. freely commended and adopted it His plan is thus summarized by the Star "Economical-not cheap maintenance of public institutions; construction of good roads under state supervision; wise treatment of juvenile criminals; effective measures against bribery and professional lob bying, and--most important of all and upon which all good state and munich pal government depends-fair cleo ton and primary laws to insure one vote to every citizen with the right to have that vote counted as cast"
 Governor Folk stands, Tn word, for just government and equal rights un- der this programme, and in the teeth of a hostile legislature, will be watched by the people with hope and deep interest He will endeavor to make professional lobbying a crime, and if the republicans block the way they will be condemned by the good people of Missouri
 Governors Douglas of Massachu. setts, Deneen of Illinois, Adams of Colorado and Johnson of Minnesota are also distinctively reform govern ors. All are democrats except Gov ernor Deneen, and he demands a pri- mary law and reform as forcibly and fearlessly as do his democratic col. leagues.
 Upon the action of these reform governors much depends. They arc the hope of the country at present, and each and every one of them will bravely attempt to put down corrup- tion, and to bring back popular gov ernment through the passage and on. forcement of primary election laws. Upon the general application and use of the primary system the liberty of the people now depends, and the re form governors will endeavor as best they can to secure it's inauguration and working efficiency in their re spective states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
Secretary Hays Arbitration Treaties

Arbitration treaties have been ne- gotiated with France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain, and Austria-Hungary, looking to the submission of differences that do not relate to the honor of nation to The Hague tribunal. The treaties are now before the senate, and Sena- tor Bacon of Georgia has offered an amendment shutting out from arbitra- tion all questions relating to the states as such. This would prevent any agi- tation of the payment of the repudi- ated state debts, now largely held in foreign countries.
 President Roosevelt objects to the Bacon amendment, saying among other things, that under no conceiv- able circumstances" could claims against the states in reference to cer- tain state debts "be for moment en- tertained by any president. He clinches this statement with the fact that the treaties would run for a term of five years only.
 But term of five years would ex- tend one year beyond Mr. Roosevelt's new term, and no one knows that MT. Fairbanks may not yet reach the White House, as four vice-presidents have already done, including MT. Roosevelt himself.
 If those treaties and similar treaties negotiated between European nations produce good results, putting out of the way minor differences, they will be extended, ana it is best to make them sound and safe at the outset. There is nothing in the threat of the President to withdraw the treaties The Senate will not permit itself to be bulldozed in that manner. There is no reason why it should be bulldozed in the consideration of the pending ar bitration treaties, and the chances largely are it will not be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
THE CHAMPION EATER.

From the Louisville Courier-J ournal
 Charles Runde. a brewery employe, won a handsome silver loving cup yes- terday afternoon at Beck's hall by demonstrating beyond doubt that he was the champion eater of all the brew CTS in the city, and this Is what he ate:
 Thirty-six oysters.
 Twenty-four sausages.
 Twenty-four rabbit legs.
 Twenty-eight rabbit backs.
 Also few condiments, little bread and butter and, in order to wash it down he drank a little beer.
 He was not allowed to walk around but swallowed 1t all at one sitting. Close to him was his bitter rival, August spaeth, who had bragged of his capacity and who had even gone so far as to make bet on the side that he would win the prize. Spaeth made good beginning and was eating well at the three-quarter post, where the men were about neck and-neck-both being filled to that por- ton of their anatomies.
 The excitement ran high and sugges- tions for increased supplies were being made. Then Spaeth was seen to waver. He was clearly groggy and was being forced to the ropes. It was on his twen- ty-first rabbit back that he gave up the game and cried:
 Rundle went blandly on, not noticing the failure of his strongest adversary, un- til he had made the remarkable record, which he believes will remain untoueh- ed for many long day He said last night that he did not think he would be hungry again until next New Years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
From the New York World.


 @ OUISE MICHEL, the noted com
 V munist and revolutionary agita- A- tor, who died Monday in Paris, was known as the "Red Virgin" and also as the Joan of Arc of the Paris Commune" She was the greatest of all feminine anarchists the world has ever known, and. strange anomaly, was both the gentlest and fiercest of women
 On being asked once by a French statesman what she would do if the presidency of the French republic were offered to her, she answered.:
 q would accept it for twenty-four hours. Then would open the banks and the prisons. and the world would be re- juvenated immediately"
 The Red Virgin" was born May 20, 1880, in a romantic and remote region of Lorraine. She was natural child. Her ancestors on the paternal side were mo- bles-the Des Merches of Ia Vendee. One of them was a governor of Brittany and a member of the national assembly. His son, Louise's father, married Bur gundy heiress After his wife's death he formed an attachment for his housekeep- CTS daughter. the mother of Louise.
 Louise MicheIs childhood home was in a corner of a ruined castle, where she lived with her mother, two grandmothers an a grandfather.
 The spirit of compassion for suffering which is said to have been the motive of all her conduct was shown early to dumb animals. She could hardly eat meat because she remembered that animals had been slaughtered to provide it, and frogs, killed in a peculiarly brutal way by the French, were repulsive to her. She fought with children, ill-treating dogs an kittens, and when she could not overcome them bought them off with money or toys. Her home was refuge for all animals sick or in distress.
 Such was the tenderness and pitying compassion of the woman who cherished an early admiration for Charlotte Cor day, which afterward grew into a desire to initiate that heroine in her practical way. With a youthful cousin Jules Louise used to enact the scenes of the Reign of Terror. They built small scaf- fold and took turns in being executioner and condemned. They would mount the scaffold, cry, "Vlve la Repupique! anu lay down their heads.
 Another childish amusement was to burn one another at the stake for re- ligious heresies.
 In her later years Louise was enarled, masculine, faced woman, but she must have had some charm of fea- ture when young, as she is known to have been courted by many men, to none of whom she would listen.
 A devout aunt made her good Cath olic. but the teachings of her grand father, a. stanch republican and free thinker. eventually prevailed Fsrre,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
ORCHARD LANDS OF LONG AGO.

By James Whitcomb Riley. The orchard lands of long ago O drowsy winds, awake and blow The snowy blossoms back to me And all the buds that used to be! Blow back again the grassy ways o truant feet, and life the haze Of happy summer from the trees That trail their tresses in the seas Of grain that float and overflow The orchard lands of long ago! Blow back the melody that slips In lazy laughter from the lips That marvel must that any kiss Is sweeter than the apple is. Blow back the twitter of the birds, The lisp. the thrills and the words Of merriment that found the shine Of summer time a glorious wine. That drenched the leaves that loved it so In orchard lands of long ago. O memoryl Alight and sing Where rosy-bellied pippins sling, And golden russets glint and gleam As in the old Arabian dream The fruits of that enchanted tree The glad Aladdin robbed for me! And drowsy winds. awake and fan My blood as when 1t overran A heart ripe as the apples grow, In orchard lands of long ago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Platter the vain, seek fiattery from the modest.
 People can be much more sweet-tem- pered after fist-fight than an argument with their tongue. When a woman wears thick, warm stockings 1t is a sign she is not going to climb a stepladder.
 A girl takes lot of trouble to prove to people that it is no trouble at all for her to keep her complexion.
 A woman would like to be rich so that everybody in church would watch like cat to- see how big contribution she puts in the plate and then she would put it in an envelope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
TURBULENT CAREER WAS
 LED BY LOUISE MICHEL

1 leader of the Commune, is also said to have used his influence over her to place her beyond. the path of the church. | She was an ardent republican and anti
 Bonapartist while Louis Napoleon was rising to power, and remained so | throughout the second empire until it's l fall, when she became an equally bitter | enemy of the present republic. She taught her pupils that it wicked to
 pray for Napoleon H., and was moro
 than once reprimanded by the authori- | ties but never punished.
 | Before the French republic knew her
 Louise Michel was teacher in board | ing school at Clermont, in the Haute- Marne, becoming the directress at the death of her superior, through the in- | huence of neighboring village curate, | who raised $2000 to put her at the head | of the school. Very religious then, she wrote some verse upon the assassination | of Archbishop Sibour, demanding in be- half of France and the Virgin Mary what Paris meant by making martyrs , of her citizens. Later she was a teacher | in a Paris school.
 | She planned to personally assassinate
 Napoleon ILL, and Thiers also, and on
 the eve of the latter attempt Ferre dis armed her, saying that the revolution | must not be founded on a crime. | She fought like a demon during tho Commune, and this woman with such a horror of blood used a gun, side by side | with maddened men, doing bloody work
 and herself being wounded.
 | Made a prisoner in 1871, and taken | before a courtmartial, Louise Michel was obstreperous, insoent and furiously ex- alted. While refusing to defend herself | or to allow herself to be defended, she did her best to prove that she was | dangerous character.
 | Condemned to transportation for life.
 she was taken to New Caledonia, where although the Governor was ordered to treat her indulgently and allow her cer- l tain privileges, she insisted upon sfar- | ing all the privations of her companions | in exile and made herself useful by watching over the sick and teaching the | children.
 | An act of amnesty permitted her to | return to Paris In 1880. She was met | by a great crowd and appeared in black, with a red flower in her hat and a tap-
 ering tail. long-legged cat under each
 arm. Immediately Louise began to ap-
 pear at public meetings and to make
 speeches demanding vengeance and abusing Gambetta, to whom she owed her liberation.
 | The orator was not pleasing to look upon, with her high cheek bones, her heavy. underhung jaw, her upper lip shaded with an incipient mustache, her 1 grayish, disheveled hair, her small, ! fiery eyes, her high forehead and her generally unwomanly appearance. Her harsh and loud voice, too, rendered her | fluent elouquence disagreeable to listen | to.
 | She saw the inside of many French prisons and was finally exiled from | France.
 | For many years she lived in the an- l archistic section of London, finally re-
 turning to France to end her dayA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
Larae Cotton Crop.

Estimating from the large quantity of cotton that is still unpicked in the fields of Louisiana and Mississippi, there must have been an enormous crop raised last year." said Needham Avery who has just returned from a several Gays trip fin Texas and the west.
 q was told that 1t was Impossible for the farmers of the west to have their cotton picking last fall and that when the slump in the market set in. they abandoned the picking altogether. In several places I was informed that the farmers sold their crops to stockmen for the price of the seed and that cattle were turned in to feed upon the cotton.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
THE BIG MAN OF THE HOUSE.

Washington Cor. of the N. Y. Times.
 q consider Burton the greatest man in the house." said Pennsylvania con- gressman today. "Of course, he's big ger than Hemerway Uncle Joe is q good, shrewd. common-sense man, but he hasn't Burton's wids information and breadth of view. Hepburn is the best all-round dcbater tn the house, and Grosvenor is thu ablest on the question of politics. I think the really big men of the house ss, included in that list, and Burton is the top of the heap. Added to which he Is what can be said of none of the others-he is perfectly fearless, and would just as soon buck the house machine or the President himself if he felt like it''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
BAD EFFECT OF BlTTERS.
in London Mail

A Doctor, in London Mail.
 Luckily absinthe Is not much drunk in this county, but other bitters are some that are only less injurious. Your readers should know that all bitter ton les. habitualy indulged in, are apt to do harm-to depress, not exhilarate. Such tonics should be taken rather as medi- cines than as everyday drinks. You could bring yourself to melancholy by means of gentian, quassia or columbia as we'll as by wormwood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
Friday, the Thirteenth.

Have you noticed the calendar today?' inquired MT. Superstition last night NO. We'll perhaps you have not been remind ed of the fact that tomorrow is Friday, the 18th day of January Just think of 1t Friday and 13-at the same time. I don't like Friday and am not fond of IS, and with both coming at the same time I am qualring in my boots. Don't think will sleep a wink and l will cer- tainly be happy when the day is over.
 ..It is not very often that the thirteenth of the month comes on Friday. I remem- her several years ago when 1t did and l had all kinds of bad luck. Although I arl not running in competition with the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
Prospects of Peace.

Vice Admiral Doubassoff, the Rus sian member of the North Sea inter. national commission, intimates that Russian sentiment in favor of peace is increasing, the Japanese to take what they have conquered, and the Russians to gain time in which to build navy that will control the sea in the far sast. He admits the utter incapacity sf the present navy of Russia. and he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
Bank Note Circulation.

A well-known banker who keeps in- formed on all matters of money said yesterday: Bank note circulation Is now the largest since the passage of the na- tional banking act. It amounts to $464,- 244,506 an increase of $39,0S1. .4sS during the past year. The gain in 1903 was s4O,- 233, 234 so that there has been an ex- pansion in two years of nearly sSO,0Oo,- 900, an increase of 20 per cent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
STILL DOING BUSINESS.

From the Rome Herald.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald says the water wagon Is about to suspend business for the want of patronage. We notice that Birmingham's barrooms have not as yet suspended
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

Strange to relate. a great many mil lionaires were missing when New Yorks tax assessments were made out. Of course, they were out of town on business and had no idea of evading faxas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

A Chicago man with sixteen children complains that he is not able to send six of them to school. He might get a blackboard and start school of his own,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

Ella Wheeler Wilcox's new play, "Mizpah," has just been put on the stage in San Francisco. If 1t is as good as Elias poetry 1t ought to be a lollapoloolah.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
Proud of Birmingham.

''We citizens of East Alabama, who live on the Georgia line, are proud of the prestige that Birmingham has ac- quired in the industrial and business world" said W. N. Ratchford of Lafay- cite. who IS at the Metropolitan.
 'It does us good to see the progress that you are making and affords us keen satisfaction to read daily in your papers of the achievements that this district is making from time to time.'
 'Lafayette," continued MT. Ratchford "is doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances, brought on by six-cent cotton. Never in the history of our town has the slump in the cotton market so depressed business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

With Birminghams retiring Mayor and her newly elected Mayor being exploited in the papers, the town bids fair to attain to real greatness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

The Port Arthur band, which played every evening during the siege, may have adopted Japanese tunes and signed up for the new campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
Senator Hipp.

State Senator Robert L. Hipp of Gull man is at the Metropolitan. "Cullman," he said, continues to grow and prosper notwithstanding the slump in the cotton market. Our town which has already won fame by the fruit that is shipped from there yearly will in the future come into more renown."
 Preparations are being made to raise the largest strawberry crop in Cullman g history. It has already been a source of pride to us that we supply Birming- ham with the greater portion of it's strawberries. If conditions are favorable the Cullman berry this year will be larger and more luscious than ever before.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

It appears that the Hanna Elias scan- dal Is to receive an airing. It is q great pity that such matters cannot be aired in the backyard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

The matinee idol of the hour in Massachusetts is young Tucker, who Is charged with the murder of Mabel Page.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

No wonder President Roosevelt is looking forward to his inauguration. He will have the time of his life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

The circus companies are making up their routes, and the Board of AL dermen should announce their pro- gramme
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

President Roosevelt's influence in Congress is to be severely tested in the tariff revision and railroad rebate struggles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

Rojestvensky is lurking somewhere around Madagascar, where there are no trawlers or ghosts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

Professor Triggs is to start an anti Shakespeare, pro-Rockefellow maga- zine. Now is the time to subscribe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

Jupiter Fluvius was our sewer f1usher and cleanser on Wednesday night, and his work was Al.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

Cheaper automobiles are promised. They are too cheap now, but not nearly so cheap as human life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

When Tom Watson and Professor Triggs get their respective periodicals on the firing line the fun will begin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

The anarchists who are fighting the statue of Frederick the Great in Washington should be given free rein.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

Messrs. Bede and Depew promise to furnish all the vaudeville entertain ment that Congress is looking for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
ON A TOM MBSTONE.

From the New York Commercial. A weather-beaten tombstone in an old Virginia cemetery bears this inscription: I Await My Husband.
 May 26. 1S40
 Here I Am,
 Dec. IA, 1S61 A wag passing by added Late, as usual'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

Colorado has concluded that one governor Is better than two, and that Ava Adams is better than Deporter Peabody.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

France thinks Japan should be put out of Arthur, but she Is not ready to undertake the task. Nor is any other nation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

Congress rallies away from tariff revision. It was elected to dodge that burning issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

President Sheppard returns from the Cincinnati conference full of hope and dope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13

weather bureau at Washington still pre- dict that the day will be rainy, gloomy one"
 The forecast for the day, however Is much colder, and that will most likely mean far weather.
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Judge Parker resists all proposi- tions to start periodical. Give him due credit.