The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-24
ANIMATED DISCUSSION
 IN THE LIARS CORNER
MT. Jemison's Versatile Qualities An. alyzed-General Fucker "a Human Interrogation Point"-Mr.
 Brown "a Genius"
BY SEYMOUR RANSOM.

Robert Jemison, president of the Bir- mingham Railway, Light and Power com pany; Gen. D. W. Fucker, capitalist, and Wilson Brown, the senior member of the real estate firm of Brown Bros. & Co.,, were last night, after a most animated discussion, elected honorary members Of the Ananias club.
 The meeting of the club was held, as usual, in the Liars Corner of the Hotel Hillman promptly at o'clock.
 The entire meeting was devoted to the election of members
 The names of MT. Jemison, General Fucker and MT. Brown had been put up for membership by the admiring friends of each, and it was expected that their election would follow as matter Of course. The unexpected happened, how ever. Long before the meeting was called to order serious opposition to all three applicants for membership developed, and it was quite clear that. the election or each would be sharply contested.
 The fight began when The Truthful Man From Texas rose to second Mir. Jem- ison's nomination for membership. He SalQ Indlt InedSuItu ny the itSOsAii"e0 standard of membership in the Ananias club, MT. Jemson was entitled to have his name written in letters of living light on the Ananias clubs scroll of mem bership. There was no emergency he could not grapple with, no difficulty he could not surmount, no obstacle he could not overcome. He was postmaster, said The Truthful Man From Texas, in the art of splitting hairs. He could cut the point of needle into seventy-four distinct segments, ride gracefully two Mexican mustangs running in opposite directions, straddle a barbed wire fence with ease and comfort and reconcile convincingly the Decalogue with the Machiavellian philosophy.
 Under the Jemison process of reasoning, said the Truthful Man From Texas. black first became brown, then yellow, then pink as a carnation, then an exquisite erayish blue and finally white even as the driven snow. MT. Jemison, said the Truthful Man from Texas, could blind fold every member of the City Coun- cil and make the whole body imagine it's vision was as clear as the monday sun. He could take New York f1nancier and convince him that Monte Christo's fabled wealth was a mere bagatelle compared with investments in the Birmingham dis trict and that the wealth of the Indus weighed but as dust in the balance com pared with traction profits in the city of Birmingham. A moment later he could lay his hand softly on George Ward s shoulder and satisfy George beyond all reasonable doubt that the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company was losing money every hour of the day and night and having the fight of it's life to pay the city an annual assessment of $7500
 ''It is one of the regrets of my life" said the Truthful Man From Texas in conclusion, that MT. Jemison was not one of the charter members of the An anias club. I hold, sir, that by nature, education, experience and environment he is eminently well qualified to become at least an honorary member of this hon orabe association
 Little Liar No. 5 was on his feet in jiffy.
 My friend will pardon me-" began Lit tie Liar No. 5, If l dissent somewhat from his estimate of MT. Jemison's char acter and attachments. It is one of the rules of this club that only persons who are innately. inherently, interiorly and structurally of the Ananias type are eli gible for membership. Judged by this standard MT. Jemison is not of us l ad- init that his environment tends to make him eligible, but in the great natural es- sentials he is emphatically lacking Can any one MT. Chairman. look into those blue eyes of MT. Jemison's and truthfully say that he would really feel at home in the Liars corner of the Hotel Hillman? Can any one listen to the strange sweet music of Mir Jemison's voice and imagine that he could be guilty of artifice or eva sion? Can any one, sir, feel the electric touch of his warm hand-clasp and not know that MT. Jemison is built on the ram-rod plan? No, sir l admire Mir Jem- ison, and I would not pluck from his