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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
"A A. T. HADLEY AND WIFE,
 ON A HOTEL REGISTER

throughout the country. Don't forget to used his initials instead of writing out his whole name. Elaborate all you can on the fact that he registered Mrs Hadley as and wife The word wife you know. is taboo in high society nowadays. If you have time run over to the library and copy Tennyson's dedication of his poems to Queen Victoria in which he re- fers to her as an exemplary maiden. wife and mother Play up the beauty and holiness of the word wife for all it's worth. You hear? All right. Be sure to get the signature on the hotel register so that we can make a facsimile of it for tomorrow's paper.''
 With that tho city editor rang off and the hotel reporter jumped from the tele- phone booth to the hotel clerks desk.
 Say l want this signature" said the newspaper man, pointing to that of "A. T. Hadley and wife, entered on the Hotel Hillman register. That man is President Eadley of Yale. He's here with Mrs. Had ley as a guest of the Yale Alumini as sociation. He's a great man and al simple as he's great. You see, he doesn't reg ister his full name, or part his name in the middle as some of these blamed Yankees do. A T. Hadley and wife that's all. Nine out of ten of these Yankee ducks would write out their full names or part them in the middle and they'd never think of registering their wives in the old fashioned style of and wife For heavens sake, let me cut this entry off the page and take it to the office," pleaded the newspaper man.
 Why you're perfectly welcome to it.'' said the hotel clerk, imperturbably; but l think you ought to know that the ar rival of President and Mrs. Hadley at this hotel was recorded on the register by red-headec man named Peter who lives here in Birmingham"
 ''Peteri" cried the newspaper man. Peter. Who in the h. is Peter?"
 Hes the president of the Yale Alumini association"
 "Oh, Peter be damnedr' said the news paper man, disgustedly, as he realized that a good story had woefully miscarried
 And with that the newspaper man walk ed crestfallen out of the lobby.
 SEYMOUR RANSOM.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

kept down or put in the course of re- duetion, they will insist that no tax upon coffee and tea is needed-that all the country need do is to stand pat on the sacred tariff. Already they proclaim their purpose to take that stand.
 A bill to impose duties upon tea and coffee would, of course, be followed by a demand for a general revision, especially for reductions in duties that forbid importations. thus defeat ing the only constitutional excuse of custom house collections. II Is gen eral revision that the standpatters fear. It Is this they are getting ready to combat. The interests being each Dingley item are heavy, and the fight they will put Up against the people will be one that concentrated capital alone can make.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
They Went A.Fishina.

Feeling the call of spring and hearken- ing unto it, Col. Wilson Brown and Col. Dan O'Connell, prominent citizens or Rirmingham wandered out to the reser- yoir of the Birmingham Water Works company yesterday to fish. Both Colonel Brown and Colonel OConnell stated that they were going to fish, They departed in an automobile with a retinue of ser wants, and of course they were taken at their word. The gentlemen also carried along bait. It was uncertain in charac- ter.
 Arriving at the scene of operations Col onel Brown remarked to Colonel O'Con- nell that he thought 1t was about time to begin Forthwith both gentlemen be- gan to angle. Being bachelors and able successors to Isaac Walton, Colonel Brown and Colonel O'Connell had prodg- ious luck. Their modest statement of the facts is improbable but the fish were too numerous for nasty counting.
 As the shades of evening crept over the valley and settled on Birmingham Colonel Brown and Colonel O'Connen returned to town. They came of their own accord and without any assistance other than that of their automobile. The sport was great, the gentlemen enthusiastic and the fish exceedingly dead. It boots little where or how Colonel Brown and Colonel o'Connell angled; they had the goods and delivered.
 The expedition of Colonel Brown and Colonel O'Connell was an important topic yesterday at the clubs and on the High lands. The betting was lively up to noon and the excitement intense all day. Both the method of their departure and the manner of their coming home was un- usual, while the fact that the two gen tlemen thus opened the official fishing season in Birmingham was in itself suf- dcient to cause remark. Probably no similar excursion has been fraught with more interest, and certainly none has been better provisioned. both as regards solids and liquids.
 Colonel Brown and Colonel O'Connell are modest men, though bachelors. They say so themselves. They are not boast inc. hut feel that they have no cause to feeel ashamed of their efforts at the reservoir. Until a late hour this morning
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
A Scholarly Musician.

''The people of Birmingham do not often have the pleasure of listening to a musl- elan of such skill and scholarship as we find combined in w. w. Lauder, who is giving a series of Talks at the Piano at the Pollock Stephens institute" said prominent music lover. MT. Lauder em- phasizes what We must all recognize as true that music is the most subtle the most poetic and the most spiritual of all the arts; that it is as complex as al- zebra, and as metaphysical as the most profound treatise on the mental pro- cesses. Art values and spiritual religion and music. according to MT. Lauder, are the only things that survive. We have no record of the pork packers or the oil kings of Greece said MT. Lauder, but we have Plato and Praxiteles. The science of math- ematcs is important, but 1t is not mali so important as the true the beautiful and the good
 'Mr Lauder's remarks on Beethoven Liszt and Wagner might be summed up as a vigorous protest against materlalisnl and commerciallsm and plea for cul- tiyation of literature and music"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

the condition of the mine after the explosion of powder before permitting miners to go in it. The negligence in neither case led to dreadful results, as did similar negligence in a West Virginia mine a few days previous.
 Not one of the three disasters named would have occurred if the mines had been properly inspected and watched by competent men. Fire damp explosions are never unavoida- ble. Between safety lamps and proper inspections all harm from that source to human life can be averted. The want of wellknown precautions, to- gether with disposition in miners to consider life cheap, lead directly on to these recurring disasters. In months time three such disasters have oc- cured in this country, and 1t certainly Is incumbent upon the mining states to take steps to see that no more vic tims of firedamp are sacrificed. Let DO one think that such accidents are inevitable, for they are not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
T. HADLEY and wife. New Haven, Conn.,
 That entry on the regis

M That entry on the regis ter of the Hillman hotel yesterday caused what was little less than sen sation in certain newspaper circles.
 Dr. Arthur Twining Hadley is the pres ident of Yale university Yale university is situated at New Haven, Conn. The president of the university, with Mrs. Hadley, arrived in Birmingham yester- day to be the guest of the local Yale Alumni association.
 At o'clock yesterday afternoon a newspaper man glanced over the Hotel Hflman register. As his eyes ran down the names entered thereon, they saw these words:
 "A. T. Hadley and wife, New Haven, Conn.,
 The moment the newspaper man read the words, he jumped to the telephone and called up his city editor.
 Say he cried, the moment he got the office number, Professor Arthur Twin ing Hadley and Mrs. Hadley arrived at the Hilman at noon."
 "oh, ring off!'' cried the city editor. We've got that on today's schedule. There's to be reception this afternoon and a dinner at the Country club tonight. I've arranged to cover the whole thing. Get out on the Cunningham Conner story
 But, say" insisted the reporter, Pres ident Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale and Mrs. Hadley are registered here at the Hillman as "A. T. Hadley and wife. ~to k., +bot
 What's that?" asked the city editor, with interest.
 President Arthur Twining Hadley and Mrs. Hadley are registered in the old-fash- toned style of man and wife said the reporter. His name is Arthur Twining Hadley. He's the president of Yale univer- sity, and he's got whole lot of degrees use them. Up in Yankeedom he's a big duck. Among Yale men throughout the country he's the whole damn Edam.' Couldn't we make a good story on the idea of great men being simple, etc., etc.?
 '.Yes, yes," said the city editor. Play it up to beat the band. Work up the sim plicity end of it, and contrast Hadley with the Newport and New York '400' bunch. They always register as MT. and Mrs. So-and-So, you know. In high society it is thought improper to refer to ones wife as my wife It's always Mrs. So-and- So.' Catch? Well, go ahead on the story. See Nabb and try to get the hotel register entry so that We can make a facsimile of the signature and run it with the story in the morning. It's a great story, and will attract attention
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
a canvassing board was still counting the catch. Suckers preponderate.
Time Stamps.

'.T.he new time stamp which has been recently placed on the counter where it is conspicuous has elieited a question from nearly every one who sees it. said the chief clerk of one of the large hotels of Birmingham last night.
 'The clock on the stamp seems to pug gle a number of the questioners, and yet the stamp part removes all doubt as to its being a time piece. After looking at the stamp for several minutes, the euri- osity of the average traveller will get the better of him and will, almost with out exception. ask what that thing is used for l have been asked so often about it that have to answer the ques- tions by stamping an envelope for them.
 we use the stamp in order to record the time at which the letters and tele- grams for the guests are received. and find it very useful"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
Iapan's New Ships.

Japan Is not limiting her policies to the present. She is looking to the future as we'll and she means to re- tain any advantage she may win Tn the present war, Sea power IS her strong point in the struggle of today, and she intends to dominate the Far East in that respect in the years to come.
 No one knows what she is doing m her own extensive, well-equipped yards and shops, but it IS known what her Chinese indemnity Is pur' chasing in England. The battleshlp Kashima has just been launched In British yard. This great ship IS thus described by the New York Irlpuhe'
 "rbat stupendous fortress, with dls- nlscement of 16,4O0 tons, Is to carry no less an armament than four 12-inch guns fo,r 1O-inch guns. twelve 6-inch guns ana tu.entv-one smaller pieces. The big guns 4b
 eordite charges, projectiles of Soo pouhos' which at a distance of two ana null miles will pierce any armor earrieu ps any ship afioat. The vessel Will carfs qooo tons of coal, which will give II w,6e radius of action, and will nave sneed of at least eighteen and a nall ,+,a,s We are not sure that there Is more formidable vessel ahoat or build ing in any navy in the world. Tn the British navy the Africa is to nave iour to-inch guns, but the secondary batteries arc much lighter, and she Is a smaller vessel than the Kashima The Anson carries four 13-inch guns but no others larger than 6-inch. The Britannia the Don,,rio, the New Zealand and others are like the Africa. There is not one listed in the last "Brassey' that equais the Kashima in size and in weight or Il, fnament No other European navy can equal it. In our own navy we come nerhaps nearest to it with such vessels ag the Connecticut, the Kansas the Louisiana, etc. each with four l2-inch and eight s-inch guns, or the oregon with four 1s-inch and eight S-inch guns though the Oregon Is only two-thirds inc size of the Kashima, and the others na,oed are smaller than the Japanese giant"
 Russia's chief objection to the pay ment of an indemnity is that the money would go to increase the sea power of Japan. But either with or without a Russian indemnity Japan intends. it is plain, to dominate the waters of the Far East. Like England, she is lodged on islands, and sea mower is to her all essential, and sea mower she will assuredly secure. She not only knows how to get or to build powerful ships, but she also knows how to fight them when she once gets them. While Russia is planning a powerful navy Japan is actually build ing one. and she can be trusted to build faster than her big foe can. She can be trusted to have a powerful voice in the Far East, and while the English alliance lasts she will domi- nate that part of the world. Between her new ships and her treaty with England she has squarely raised her self to a secure place among the great powers, and there she will stay, per haps. for a long time. In word, she Is too smart to be whipped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A girl has to be mighty pretty to make a man forget the way she tries to reason.
 After man has tried every other way to lose his money he can always hire q lawyer
 The only woman who acts prouder than the one who is just going to be married is the one who has just been divorced.
 When a man leaves town because he couldn't pay his rent. it is sign he will tell everybody the climate was maiarial.
 Some times man who doesn't know enough 10 earn a living has such good business Judgment that he will marry a rich wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
Puff for Vulcan.

From the Troy Messenger.
 Vulcan, the great Alabama iron statue which was exhibited at the St. Louis Worlds fair, has been sent back to Bir- mingham and will be given a permanent position on Red mountain, where it may be seen from all over the city. This monument stands not only to represent the great mineral and industrial wealth of grand old Alabama, but is a just trib- ute to the pluck and activity of Birming- hams business men,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
THE COLLEGE WELLS OF WALES

From the London Daily Mail.
 Wales is by no means disposed to bend the knee to America. The Welsh ''yells'' are fully up to the transatlantic level The University of North Wales has a yell something like this: Bravo pra- vissimo, ray ray, ra-o-rock, Ray-ray-ra- o-rock Ray-ray-ra-o-rocki" Cardiff has a somewhat similar yell while at Aberystwyth the cry is: '.Hip-hip-nu ater. Hip-hip-hur-ab Hip-hip-hur- Aberystwythl With pip and a pang, and yip and a yang. Yak. Yak.j Yak!.v'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
Politics and the pispensarIes.

"When the executive committee of the Dispensary organization meets in Bir- mingham this month, 1t will be resolved. 1 think, to ask each man aspiring for the governorship to commit himself to the dis pensary proposition" said l.. B. Mus grove, the well known dispensary agi- tator. If the pledges of the candidates now in training are not satisfactory to the committee the dispensary people will put up a candidate of their own. The prohibition counties and the dispensary counties added together make majority of all the counties in Alabama. Temper ance sentiment Is increasing steadily in this state, and a dispensary candidate could, in my opinion, easily win.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
Mobile Booming.

From the Mobile Register.
 Some idea may be had of the rapid growth of Mobile when residence lots of ordinary size located three or four miles from the city proper are bringing from s250 to $500 in the market. The average citizen of Mobile really has no idea of it's growth within the past two years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
Alabama Hen.

From the Collinsvile Courier.
 A real estate deal was busted up in Tennessee few days ago on account of an old setting hen. The Alabama hen cuts no such shines as that, but she pro- notes rather than "busts' up real estate deals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
Serious Subject.

From the Roanoke Leader.
 Easter hats that are dreams" to fem mine minds often develop into night mares for married men.-Age- Herald.
 Seems to us this subject oughtn't to be joked about anyway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Secretary Taft has approved recom- mendation made by General Chaffee for a new bayonet which is six inches longer than the old weapon. With the new bay onet 1t will be possible to stick an enemy six inches sooner than heretofore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
Hope Yet.

From the Guntersville Democrat.
 If 1t is true that the man has been discovered who blew up the Maine, we may reasonably hope to learn yet who struck Billy Patterson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

The hopes of the bureaucrats and of the autocracy are now centered upon Rojest- vensky, who must save Russia from hu- initiation if she is to be saved at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
ALABAMA PRESS
Still Haa Wind.

From the Livingston Southern Home.
 Chicago has two hundred brass bands and a whistling choir, and still has wind to spare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Some fear that the American board in- cident has discouraged MT. Rockefeller so much he will not try to fll even pr. Harper's stockings next Christmas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Charley Gates smokes a cigar which is seven inches long, an inch in diameter at the center and worth $1 6S at retail, Char ley believes in smoking up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

The dove of peace has been shooed away by the approach of Rojestvensky. He Is Russia's forlorn hope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Jimmie Hyde knows how to give enter tainments and spend the money at any rate, but the Alexander crowd think he should not use the money of the assured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

The Coal Barons under the trained and steady eye of Manager Vaughan are rounding into fine form and first divi- sion berth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

After all, it won't do to make too much fun of castro's threatened invasion. Look what the boil weevil has done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Q Spring Is not springing so much as it was few days ago, but the tender green leaves are still secure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

The ministerial baseball coach Is a real ity. and baseball evangelist IS power for good in the land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Sir Thomas Lipton is getting ready to lift that cup next year. He wants long spell to get ready in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Rojestvensky has an opportunity to give the world a surprising jolt if he be big enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Muskrat is becoming a delicacy in high bills of fare, where it is given pic- turesque French name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Whats the matter With the farmers who bought 1000 more tons of fertilizer this year than they did last year?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

The Roosevelt men In Chicago may have voted for Judge Dunne because he had ten children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

The Alexander crowd are trying to hang their Hyde on the fence, but thus far they have not accomplished the task.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Mr. Rogers is standing by MT. Rocke- feller, and the latter will no doubt recip- rocate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

In Kentucky they did ask the President to have something, but it was not to drink.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

While MT. Roosevelt Is away MT. Bryan will proceed to organize an lnVincioie democratic party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Municipal ownership won in Chicago and lost in St, Louis. The honors are even.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

As things look now, so far as 1908 is concerned, 1t is Bryan, Folk or Dunne versus Rooseevlt, Taft, Root or La Fol lette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Chicago had the J. Pierpont Morgan peril very bad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
April Advance

The April number of Advance has been hs ndsomely gotten up, but Is filled with entertaining reading matter. The re- markable improvement of the magazine continues to surprise it's friends. From month to month changes have been made and always for the better. This month Advance contains among other contributions paper by J. w. Gibson, which charges Dr. A. Conan Doyle with plagiarizing from Edgar Allen Poe in his detective stories; continuation of Joseph B. Babb's articles on modern newspaper making; How Gen. Lew Wallace Corrected History " by Samuel J. stockard; "The Practical Side of Tu- berculosis." by Eli P Smith, and the us- ual miscellaneous matter. Birmingham is very proud of Advance.
 About Persons.
 Dr. John w.. Abercrombie of Tusea- loosa, president of the state university is at the Morris.
 A. P. Smith of Carbon Hill is at the Morris.
 B. c. Lawler of Russellville is at the Morris.
 The Rev. Dr. F. M Peterson, presi- dent of the Alabama Polytechnic insti- ute at Auburn, is at the Hillman.
 Edjutant General William w. Brandon of Tuscaloosa is at the Hillman.
 G. F. Peter of Mayline Is registered at the Hillman.
 Jorn R. Moore of Buffalo is at the St. Nicholas.
 A. K. Patterson of statesville, S. C., is at the St. Nicholas.
 M. c. Davie of Blocton was at the Metropolitan yesterday.
 Charles N. Maxwell of Tuscaloosa is stopping at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Judge Dunne now says immediate municipal ownership Is two years off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

President Roosevelt is a big man, but Texas Is large enough to hold him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Russla's new navy looks ominous, but It is all on paper and not on the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Yesterday was out of date. We don't deserve such weather in April,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

April is falling behind March in its weather output.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Russell Sage is better in health, but not more generous in purse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

While Linevitch issues addresses Oyams issues rations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Jimmie Hyde has more assurance than his assurance company itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Don't expect too much too quickly of the new canal commission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Sir Thomas Iipton declines to let thu cup stand pat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07

Even the boarding houses are beginning to indulge in strawberries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-07
Methodist General Conference.

'The delegates and visitors to the gen eral conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. south, which will be held in Bir- mingham next spring, will be welll cared for" remarked layman yesterday af- ternoon.
 ''This will be one of the largest church meetings that has ever been held any where in the south. and the visitors, who will come from all points between Mary land and Texas, will be here for at least month. This great body was secured for Birmingham through the efforts of William E. Wier. the Rev. Dr. J. D. Simpson and others, who attended the last general conference.
 'I understand that Atlanta is making an effort to have the place of meeting changed in order that that city can se- cure the conference. l feel that there is no probability, however of this being done. Birmingham will have ample hotel and other accommodations for the hun dreds of visitors. and if Atlanta wants the conference very bad that city will have to wait five years hence, as the confer ence only meets every four years.