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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
JAMES HAZEN HYDE AS
 VIEWED BY CREELMAN

viousIy manicured. the little half moons showing whitely against the pink.
 Mr. Hyde was dressed in some soft black material. exceedingly well cut, and wore a black silk waistcoat, speckled with broken lines He wore a ruffled shirt of the finest linen, fas- tened with small gold studs a high turned-down collar and a well-tied black satin bow His feet were shod with point ed low shoes, revealing black stockings.
 Altogether MT. Hyde was about as handsome and graceful figure as one could find, quick, polished suave-the highly bred, much-traveled university graduate-manly in stature and in bear ing. but with a curiously boyish air, not wthstanding. The only sign of ornament about him was a large intaglio green seal set in gold ring on the little finger of his right hand.
 He sat in the leather back chair on little mpainted wooden platform MT. Hughes, the inquisitor, stood about fifteen feet away. The contrast between the two men was striking; one smiling. graceful. exquisite, the other angular. stiff. stern and at times harsh.
 It was curious to notice Mir. Hyde's plain desire to make good impression as witness, to seem to be candid and friendly to the purpose of the investiga- tion. He would fold his long arms across his breast, hold his head erect and lis- ten to the questions intently.
 When a puzzling question was put to him he would lean forward, rest his elbows on the little table in front of him. clasp his face in his slim hands. wrinkle his forehead and watch his in- terr0gator intently Now and then na would rest his hands on his thighs, eI- bows out, throw his chest upward and deliver himself in loud. clear voice.
 Sometimes when MT. Hughes got deeply into the figures of syndicate transactions Mr Hyde would hold his steel-rimmed eyeglasses in his right hand. put the glasses on his nose, peer at the mem- oranda on the table, twist his mustache daintily with his left hand stroke his silky beard, take the glasses off his nose again, twirl them about, look at MT. Hughes, glance quickly at his counsel, Mr. Untermyer, and then, when he had got the point of the question clear. straishten back in his chair and draw his lips back from his teeth in a happy smile and give his answer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17

district. was at the Metropolitan yester- day.
 A. c. Burce of Atlanta is at the Bir- mingham.
 J. II. Walker of Shelby is at the Hill- man.
 John W. Phillips of Jasper is at the Metropolitan.
 R. A. Harris of Gadsden is at the Hill- man.
 ". T. Dean of Ashland is at the Metro politan.
 V. IL Marshall of Anniston is at the Morris.
 W. W. Graves and c. P. Anderson of Montgomery are at the Morris.
 F. P Howard of Decatur, H., is at the Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
New York Bank Reserves.

Money rates are lower, but they are still above normal, and there is yet a clamor for relief on the part of the secretary of the treasury. That re. lief can take but one form, namely
 the taking of money from the treasury for the purpose of depositing it in the national banks. The speculative in terests desire Secretary Shaw to de posit $50,000, ,0OO-in any event s20,. OOO.O00. A deposit of s5O,000,000 would leave a working balance in the treas. ury not less than $20,00000O, and a lower working balance has occurred several times, and in the last Cleve- land administration the working bal. snce fell so low that the gold reserve was resorted to. Precident would,
 therefore. uphold Secretary Shaw If ho
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17

deems it best to come to the relief of borrowers.
 The national bank act requires coun- try banks to hold on hand 15 per cent of their deposits, national Repositories 20 per cent, and central Repositories 25 per cent. The replenishing of the reserves of the clearing house banks in New York is the crux of the sitna- tion. Out of fifty-three banks twenty five were last week below the required rates.
 Thus far Secretary Shaw is not con vinced that legitimate business has been affected by the soaring prices of call money in New York, and he seems to think 1t will not be, and he is disln. clined to help the spectators in their stock iobbing schemes. At this writ ing 1t seems improbable that action on the part of the government will be deemed needful, although MT. Shaw is no doubt watching the situation care fully, and is prepared to avert any real trouble to the great business interests of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
ARE YOUNG MEN.
Youthfulness Noted Among Presidents
 of Southern Colleges.

From the Washington Post.
 The comparative youth of the heads of southern state universities who are in Washington attending the convention of the National Association of Universities is remarkable. With scarcely an excep- ton they are in the early prime of life, as was easily noticeable yesterday when a group of them at the noon recess, stood in the lobby of the Shoreham, around the stalwart figure of the famous Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews. of the Nebras- ka university, listening to him tell how he had always been partial to the south and the southern character, and predicting for that section a glorious future. In the group were Presidents Ayres of the University of Tennessee; Abercrom- bic of the University of Alabama; Thach of the Alabama Polytechnic institute at Auburn; Fulton of the University of Missouri; Houston of Texas, and Boyd of Tulane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
ORIGIN OF THE WALTZ.
Was First Danced In the Church Dur
 ing Middle Ages.

From the New York Herald.
 Of all the millions who waltz, who can
 tell how this famous dance originated?
 The story is a curious one. It is wrongly
 supposed that France received the waltz
 from Germany toward the close of the
 eighteenth century. The waltz did not
 emenate in its present form from the
 brain of a dancing master. Long before
 17S0, the time when it is first mentioned
 under this name, it was displayed on the village greens. The waltz was first danced
 in church, and serves to trace the un- ion between the ancient civilization and
 that of the middle ages.
 The sacred dance of the Pagans is
 preserved to a certain extent in Chris tian rites. It Is transformed to a series of revolutions made to the sound of the tambourine. St. Isadore, Archbishop of Seville, born about A. D. 5S0, was in- Trusted by the Council of Toledo with the revision of the liturgy as it was then practiced in the Roman church. in which | there was tambourine dance. The coun- | ell decided to adopt the Isadorian lit urgy In all Spain, and it differed but | little from that used in other countries at | that time
 | This dance, celebrated before the eighth century, when the Moors first invaded | Spain, was still celebrated by the Chris tians in the seven churches of Toledo, | which the Moors abandoned after their capture of the city and it was after that time called the Moorish rite. This was known and employed in Provence | and Italy The tambourine in use in this | religious dance was called the St. 1sa-
 dore "moite de symphonic" and evil
 dently corresponded to the instrument
 which in the ancient sacred dances ac-
 companied the flute, a sort or bagpipe invented two centuries before Christ As
 the religious dance of the middle ages | is allied to the ancient sacred dance so | the waltz Is an evolution of this religious
 dance. having passed through many changes before arriving in It's present | form. In the eleventh century when the
 Cregorian rite supplanted the Moorish
 rite, the dance disappeared from the
 church. It appeared very quickly in so,
 c,stv under the name of "carole." word | derived from the Latin tcaroler."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
ALBUM OF KISSES INVENTED.
kenslnoton Young Woman Keeps lm-
 prints With Friends Autographs.
Special London Cable to the New Yori Herald.

special London Cable to the New York
 Herald.
 A clever young Kensington woman Miss Evans, has devised new Kind or autograph album that is likely to be pop ular. It Is SO contrived as to enable q young woman not only to collect au- tograph signatures of her friends, but to preserve also the imprints of their kisses. This book is equipped with little pad of soluble carmine tinted substance. upon which the lips are first lightly pressed, so as to take up little of the pigment. Then a kiss is imprinted upon the page in a space provided for the purpose, leaving a clear earmine record of the pressure of the lips. By the side of the kiss imprint space is another for the au- tograph and date, and together kiss and signature make very precious ana lnti- mate keepsake.
 "It is really marvellous what lot of character there is in kisses" says Miss Evans People who are not students of the subject simply have no idea how they vary. You know no two persons finger prints are alike. have two hum dred in one album and there is not one of them that you could possibly mistake for any other. These kiss prints look like kisses, too."
 This kiss album bears on the title page the motto, "Give Me a Kiss for Keep sake and the quotation, Dear as re- membered kisses"
 ID be complete the kiss album should be lberally sprinked with kissing quota tions from novelists as well as poets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
Wants an Auuust Primary.

"So far as I can judge" said promi- nent business man yesterday, there is no inclination on the part of the people to have the primary election held next year until August.
 Business men don't want their late winter and early spring business knocked higher than Gilroy's kite by campaign of political agitation stretching from now till April That Is the busiest season of the year, and the people should be re-
 lieved of the stress incident to a political campaign at that tlme
 'The off season. as everyone knows, be- gins in June and lasts until July. think if the business men and farmers could
 run this thing, we would have the pri- mary election not earlier than August
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
Another Island and the Flag.

Just south of Cuba and almost with in sight of it lies the Isle of Pines. Its distance from Cuba is thirty-five miles, and it contains 1214 square miles of fiat or slightly undulatins land, much of which is marshy On this land live about 2500 natives, none of whom own foot of land. Amer leans and Spaniards own the land. There are marble Guarries on the is- land, and one village, Nueva Corona.
 Slender as Panama was as an inde- pendent republic the Isle of Pines would outclass all in that respect. At present the resident speculative Amer jeans desire, not independence, but ad- mission to the United States. The basis of all action is the undetermined Isle of Pines has not been taken over in a formal manner by Cuba, and the Americans who own five-sixths of it do not propose to submit to Cuban rule. A treaty has been negotiated between this country and Cuba by which the Isle of Pines would be transferred to the latter, but that treaty has not been ratified. The American residents in the little island have organized a territorial govern ment chiefly that they may send to Washington a territorial delegate au- thorized to protest against the cession by this country of the Isle of Pines to Cuba.
 After the Teller folly of handing over Cuba had been consummated 1t was difficult to see why the Isle of Pines should not be handed over also. The beet sugar interests were behind the cession of Cuba,and the Cuban cession justly calls for the cession of the Isle of Pines. It is matter of right, says Secretary of State Root and he is right, provided the cession of Cuba was right Tn other words, it is but natural and reasonable that Cuba and the little island near it should go together and this will undoubtedly be the outcome of the incident. The sub ject will come before the Senate when the treaty relating to the Isle of Pines is taken up next month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17

James Creelman in the New York World. TT WAS only in the last hour yester-
 day of his all-day examination that the hot temper of James Hagen Hyde came redly to his cheeks and blazed in his eyes.
 Ie had been a smooth, smiling witness astonishingly unfamiliar with the great financial transactions in which ne hao played a part as vice president Of me Equitable Life Assurance society, put courteous and impersonal and obviously eager to help Mir. Hughes and the inves- tigating committee to get at the racts'
 But when he accused MT. Frick' MT. Hartman and other fellow directors or plotting to send him abroad as an aiii- bassador, of conspiring to wreck the value of his stock and to seize control or the Eouitable and It's hundreds or mihons' when he confessed that the Mercantile Trust company paid s750Oo in settlement of ex-Goyernor Odelrs Shipbuiding com many claims. in the face of a threat that its sneclal charter might be revokeS by legisation-then the fire that was m tne young man came out-his youth his sense of injury. his determination to punish ms enemies.
 I, that hour of startling revelation he uss m longer the weak, adolescent, curled and nerfumed dandy of the public imagi- ration hut man of character, virile and fiery.
 And if was obvious that MT, Hyde had held himself in control all day in oroer tbot the denouement should be stronger bv contrast. His declaration of his finan- cia, losses bv syndicate transactions was closely connected with his attack on MT. Prick and Mr. Hartman, and each minute saw his color and his temper rise to- gether
 If would be hard to imagine more fastidious or agreeable personality than MT. Hyde when he took the stand in the morning. He is tall, very tall, slim in the waist. broad in the shoulders, well pro- portioned throughout and erect like trained athlete.
 His head and face are long and narrow. hnt the long black haid brushed straight hack from the high forehead and the well-trimmed, pointed pedru anu iohe' slender mustache added to the breadth sufficiently to make the proportions pleas- ant.
 The brow is high. straight and full, the nose long, straight and fine. the jaws firm and strong The short lip. shaded by the soft mustache, has a distinct cupid bow; the lower lip is round and full' evi- dence of luxury-loving nature. The upper teeth are broad, white and straight the lower teeth pointed and irregular
 MT. Hyde's eyes are dark gray. very large and exceedingly handsome. It would be hard to md a more expressive pair of eyes in a mans head Ihe lashes are black and well marked. The brow overhangs the eye sockets and casts shadows beneath.
 In profile MT. Hyde's head and face are of the classic Greek type. Looked at from the front, the countenance sug- gests southern Europe. The skin is fine, pale but slightly tanned The hair and beard are soft and fine.
 His hands are long, slender and white. The fingers taper. The nails were oh-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
LONG LIVE THE CHOLERA!

From Gil Bias (Paris)
 Long live the choleral It Is the greatest boon to humanity. It has done more for human progress than all the social pan aceas combined. Under it's benign infiu- ence drunkards grow sober; gluttons and winebbbers wax temperate The dirty ones wash themselves. Whenever the cholera Is approaching people who have never washed their houses before clean every nook and corner with the vehe- mence of a Dutch maiden. The most negligent boards of health develop ~rolent passion for sanitation.
 The cholera is the strongest impetus for all possible philanthropc enterprises and inspires the most strenuous efforts for the welfare of ones felowmen. With out the cholera modern society would still be ignorant of the first principle of hygiene, still less would it be able to sup ply them. Long live the cholera!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
VanderbiIt's Strength.

Tt is mere fun to Vanderbilt this year, :" said Hill Ferguson yesterday, Ito play any other southern team. Vandy picks her team from the entire enrolment Of her classical, law, medical and dentestry schools, and she has twice as many to pick from as Tulane or any other south ern school has, and her football team should therefore be twice as good. NO other southern team should play with the Commodores this year, for each and all are out classed.
 "The law of averages holds good in football. vandy could hold her own against many of the western teams, and there are not more than ten teams in the country that could defeat her.
 'The southern teams are drawn from colleges of light enrolment, and they should play among themselves, letting the northern teams and Vanderbilt flock to- gether. The match between Auburn and the University is an ideal match, each side being confident. and each will strive under equal circumstances for the goal line"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
Carriages at Football.

"I think the football management makes great mistake in charging ad- mission for vehicles" said a prominent citizen who is known to be a liberal pa tron of college sports
 "I have thought that 1t might be wise to admit not only carriages but drivers free. But dropping the matter of drivers. no charge should be made on conway ances. The principle of requiring pay for horses and traps is wrong from my point of view. Moreover, it strikes me as bad policy. Persons who go to the game in carriages relieve congested conditions, and therefore those who sit In vehicles should be encouraged. I hope the man. agemont will take a business-like view of the question and do away with the toll on horses and carriages
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
Aid for the Russian Jews.

Tonight after the regular Sabbath eve services a mass meeting of con- gregation Emanuel will be held, and on Sunday afternoon next the kness- eth Israel congregation will also hold A mass meeting. The object of both meetings will be to aid the distressed Jews in Russia.
 There Is every reason why the Christians of Birmingham should take part in this movement. The Chris tians of Montgomery swelled the suo- scriptions for that purpose. and hu- manity's appeal comes as strongly to the Christians of this city.
 The Russian government is pracu- cally powerless. It cannot protect Jews in that land even if it were so minded, and this country cannot there fore plead or intercede in their favor' There is nothing to do but to send to inc living money and clothing and every city In the land is collecting funds for that purpose. Let Birming- ham do its part, and the Christians or the city should be heard from. Chris tian movements are often aided by our home Jews. and turn about is fair play, especially when an appeal comes from the victims of Russian barbar' ism
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
Boer Colony.

"The Boer war show, after a success ful career in the United States. has closed and the members of the organization nave just settled as a colony near Hollins' Ala'' on the Central of Georgia said J. M' Mallory of Savannah representing the traffic department of the Central, who spent yesterday in Birmingham. "These foreigners are highly intelligent, and Will make ideal settlers. They are noted for their industry and their temperate habits. The colony Is composed of between twen- ty and twenty-five souls, and the men will make excellent citizens of this state. The Central of Georgia company has. l think, done a work of far reaching inn portance in inducing these Boers to To- cate in Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
Hotels Full.

q never saw a city like Birmingham before in my Iife," said D. w. Hughes secretary and treasurer of the Lookout Inn company. "I came to Birmingham last night and went to four hotels before I could get accommodations l first went to the Hillman, then the Morris and the St. Nicholas, and finally the Birmingham' where I was able to secure a room.
 Ut is a wonderful indication of the pros perlty of the city. Just think of man not being able to get room in three hotels in a city which has as many hotels as Birmingham.
 I've came very near loosing the Inn on Lookout mountain last Saturday night by fire. The buildings adjoining the hotel were burned and several times 1 thought that the Inn would be burned. It was one of the most beautiful sights 1 ever wit messed. Several houses burning on top or the mountain so high above Chattanooga was a grand sight
 MT. Hughes is guest of Col. L. w. Johns at his residence, "The Elms,' and will be in Birmingham several days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART
 GROW PONDER.

Sweetheart 1 have grown so lonely, Living thus away from you, For love you, and you only; Still I wonder If you're true. I regret the harsh words spoken, That I know have caused you pain, And my heart is nearly broken, Say you love me once again.
 Chorus. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, That is why l long for you; Lonely through the nights I ponder, Wond'ring, darling, If you're true. Distance only lends enchantment, Tho the ocean waves divide Absence makes the heart grow fondef. Longing to be near your side. Has the love that once was dearer Than all else to me grown cold? Or has absence drawn us nearer To each other, as of old? Promise then. you will not sever From the ties that bind us two. Say you will be mine forever, Tell me that yeu still are true
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
Banking and Printers Ink.

"The banking business said a we'll known local banker yesterday, lis greatly helped by legitimate newspaper advertis- ing. convincing Illustration of this truth came to my attention today.
 "No less than three prospective de- positors called up our bank this morning. saying they had noticed the banks state ment in the advertising columns of The Age Herald. and that they wished to come in and make their deposits. The total amounts of the deposits made by these three persons who saw the adver- tisement in the newspapers aggregate S50,O00.
 'So you can see the newspaper is com ing to play a large and legitimate part in the banking business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
Returns From Meeting.

W. L. Howard, chief deputy in the of flee of the circuit court clerk. has return ed from Montgomery, where he attended the annual session of the Alabama synod of the Presby church.
 .'The synod" said Mir. Howard, was largely attended by representative Pres byterians from all over the state. num- Der of splendid addresses were delivered before the synod on missions and other live questions.
 .'The synod, by a unanimous vote, de- cided to meet next year at Talladega. Montgomery entertained the synod in a most gracious manner"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

grom the New York Post.
 If people aren't careful the gilt of their honesty will wear off.
 low corsage never seems so immodest to stout as to a thin woman.
 It would be lots of fun to some people to have everybody else miserable
 woman hardly ever gets so old that she speaks of the time when she was young.
 A girl has hard time following the advice which her mother never followed. but always gives her.