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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10

shipments. Our exports Of merchandise
are making less and less favorable COM
PARSONS with the last four or five years,
while our importatons are steadily in
ereasing. thus diminishing the trade bal
ance. Fortunately. money continues very
easy abroad, especially in London, while
both British and European investors are
showing an increased disposition to in
vest in American securities, which are
among the safest and most profitable
which they can find in spite of present
high prices.
Just how far easy money abroad and
foreign purchases of American stocks
will check gold exports remains to be
seen. Altogether therefore the outlook
for the stock market is favorable. 1t is
true prices are very high; but no ma
terial recesslons can be anticipated nn-
der existing conditions. There are many
cliques in the market eager to advance
their specialties from time 10 time and
keep up a fair degree of activity. The
public are not buying stocks for invest
ment at these figures; hence transactions
are chiefly on trading account A further
decline of to 10 points would undoubtedly
bring in an important new buying ele-
ment and give the market fresh and
sound basis of strength. But for reasons
Manipulation. however, is very active and
sharp recessons due to realizing, are
liable to occur at any time"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
MUSICAL NOTES.

Mr.. Damn Petersen will give talk on
Parsifal tonight at TIN Gable eompany's
recital hall. The public is invited, and
admission will lie free. The opera of
Parsifal will be presented at the Jeffer-
son theater Thursday, April u.
Mrs. Hattie o. Hon will not take part
in the concert 20 be given next Thurs
day night under the direction of Mrs.
Kern-M ullin. Her name appeared on the
programme published Sunday morning,
but she wishes it stated that the pubea-
ton was unauthorized-so far as she is
concerned, it was a mistake.
Mrs. Edna Gockel-Gussen and Mr.. Glen
O. Friermood will give an Evening with
Won Fielitz'' next Wednesday, at $3.50 p.
M, at the conservatory. The public Is
invited. Mr.. Friermood will sing the
Monk songs and other pieces by the IA
nous song writer and Mrs Gussen Will
play Won Fieitz's Mood Pictures" and
a Won Fielitz ballad.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
The silence, often of pure Innocence
sPersuades, when speaking falls.
Winters Tale.
Lvnchinq in Arkansas.

The Arkansas legislature, now in
session. is about to pass a bill to dis
courage lynching in that state. The
bill before it is known as the Torrey
bill. 1t provides that upon the COM
mission of crime calculated to pro-
woke mob violence the sheriff shall
notify the circuit judge, who shall at
once repair to the county where the
crime was committed, open court, and
proceed with a trial of the accused
Ten days is the limit allowed to the
sheriff and the judge for the COM
mencement of proceedings in court,
and a heavy fine is imposed upon
both for any failure to obey the law.
If the sheriff should refuse to summon
a Judge, seven citizens may do it. 1t
is argued that few mobs are SO blind
ed by passion that its members will
be unwilling to wait for the arrival of
some one to preside at legal trial
when they have assurance that he will
come promptly
1t is not by any means clear that
the Torrey bill will stop the lynchers
who are bloodthirsty or who desire
q frollc, but 1t is at any rate worth
while to take away from all such the
last excuse, namely, the laws delays.
The Torrey bill is evidence that
there Is a widespread sentiment in
favor of wedding out anarchy, thereby
giving law and order chance. Gov
ernor Jelks says that out of five lynch
ings in this state during his first term,
three of the mobs selected innocent
men as their victims, and this is pro-
badly guage of the average action of
mobs throughout the country. The in
nocent are oftentimes seized, and the
boys and young men in a community
where lynchings are permitted are
disorganized, being taught that they
are higher than the law itself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
CLUE is FURNISHED TO
THE RABBITS FEROCITY
From the washington Post

From the Washington Post
II HE POST has received from a
Wy valued correspondent in Virginia
further confirmation of the fact
that the Lepus cuniculus, or ordinary
rabbit, in his native state is a dangerous
foe to man. Evidence has accumulated
until it Is well-nigh overwhelming that
the homicidal tendency of the rabbit is
not only easily excited, but is annually
increasing in virulence. Too many en-
counters have occurred, principally In the
south, where the rabbit appears to be
endowed with more combatitiveness and
greater powers of locomotion, to leave
the question in doubt. The malevolence
of the animal, too, is something uncan-
ny. and in some instances has paralyzed
the most expert hunter
Our correspondent furnishes a clew,
however, which may enable hunters to
evade an encounter with the rabbit, ex-
cept on favorable terms. That is, that
the rabbits fury is aroused against man
not necessarily because he is man. but
because of the peculiar aspect of the hui
man eye. 1T is a well known fact that
the rabbit will not attack a man unless
the man looks the animal in the eye"
writes our correspondent, who adds, with
great cogency: This gives a great adj
vantage to a cross-eyed man.
While we would not go so far as to
admit that man has never been attacked
by rabbits except when there has been
an interchange of glances, we must ac-
knowledge that the glance of the human
eye may be a powerful contributory irri-
tant. We have seen some eyes which
naturally invited retaliation and destruc-
tion Our correspondent proceeds:
"A private named Samuel johnson in
the Sixth Virginia cavalry was so cross
eyed that it is said he could see
Yankee behind tree, and, when the sun
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
The Money Market.

Henry Clews in his Wall street let
ter of Saturdays date says:
'The course of the money market will
be watched with exceptional interest In
all probability the period of extreme
ease has passed. Bank reserves, being ex-
ceptionally low. will be apt to rise during
the next few months unless the declared
intention of the government to withdraw
it's deposits should interfere. Secretary
Shaw is likely to conduct these opera
tions with as little effect upon the mones
market as possible; but the heavy drain
of new issues upon our surplus capital.
the activity of business and the POSSIBLE
ity of gold exports in connection with our
subscriptions I'd the Japanese Joan, as
well as the fact that our foreign trade
balance is not satisfactory. all point to
the possibility OF considerable future gold
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
Juries in Jefferson County.

The Scottsboro Citizen in discuss
ing an item of news relating to the
erection of steel gallows in Birming
ham, says:
at should be used freely. Statistics,
we believe, show that more people are
slain in Birmingham every year than in
any, city of ten times its size in the
world. Past history proves that any
man with respectable connection or in
fuence can get drunk in Birmingham,
,,urder any man he wants to, have a
farce of trial and be acquitted. The
solicitor down there Is courageous in The
discharge of his duty. buS the jury sys-
tenn seems to be rotten, corrupt and rpr-
chasable in Jefferson county"
The jury system in this county is
none too good but the Citizen is mis-
taken if it thinks it is any worse
than it is elsewhere in this section, or
perhaps in any other section of this
country. The entire primitive sys-
tenn in this country is sadly below
that of England or of any of the other
old countries of Europe. In England
no appeal whatever is permitted in a
criminal case, and in that country
full of classes and caste juries are
Impartial. just and law-observing. In
this country directly the reverse
holds Birmingham and Jefferson
county are no worse than other cities
and counties in this country. This
however is no palliation or excuse
We have long ways to travel before
we reach the goal of jury reform
law reform in general, and the Citizen
should not consider Jefferson county
worse than its neighbors. We are all
in one boat, and that boat, it must be
admitted, is leaky, full of holes and
insecurity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
JUMPED FROM STEAMER
Wrote Letters to Friends Saying He
Would Commit Suicide.

Denver, April 9.-George Wilder,
pioneer wholesale grocer, aged SO
years, who disappeared from his home
in this city two weeks ago. has COM
mitted suicide by jumping into the
sea from the steamer Concha, on
which he sailed from Galveston on
Wednesday, according to reports re-
ceived here from Key West.
Before going away Mr.. Wilder re-
corded deeds transferring valuable
real estate in this city to his step
daughter. At Galveston on April he
wrote letters announcing his intention
to sail on the Concha, and drown him
self at sea. He mailed these letters
on Wednesday shortly before boarding
the steamer. They We're received here
yesterday Immediately kilograms
were sent to points along the gulf
coast, directing agents to use every
means to signal the steamer. Efforts
were also made to send messages to
the steamer by wireless telegraph.
All efforts, however. were unavailing,
and Wilder was in fact already dead
when these precautions were taken.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
COLORED SILK OBTAINED
BY DYEING THE WORMS

were colored a slight red, and the worms
ate them as they eat ordinary leaves in
a natural condition. They grew and de-
veloped as if fed on common mulberry
leaves. The general color of their bodies
became a dark req, md the blood ex-
traeted from them was of an intense red
When the coeoons were formed, Au-
gust u, pink silk was reeled from them.
The entire cocoon was of a beautiful
red To prevent the silk from being soil
ed by contact with the coloring matter
on the leaves or by the skin of the
worms, which might have been spotted
by the dye, some of them (the worms)
were washed and placed on freshly gath
cred branches, where they at once began
to form cocoons as red as the first lot.
Two worms that had been eating color
ell leaves were separated from the others
al the fourth moulting Gully 20 and d
for the rest of their lives on uncolored
leaves. Little by little they lost the color
received from the other leaves, and 1 Q
silk reeled from .hem had only the slight
est tinge of rose In the excrement of
these worms considerable quantities of
red were found during the first two or
three days, the quantity diminishing
daily to the end f the larval period (Au-
gust 1D. The coloring matter contained
in the blood passed INTO the intestines,
and the red was completely eliminated
in eighteen days.
The worms selected from the lot at the
fourth moulting July ~ were fed on col
ored leaves only during the fifth period
of life, and they rendered, on August
10, cocoons as red as those of the first
lot. in which the worms had been fed on
colored leaves during the entire laval
period. The absorption of red during &c
last period is therefore necessary G-.d
sufficient to color the silk.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
AN APRIL DAY.
How One of Beauty Was Passed by
the People.

Yesterday was what might be called
smoothing. Sunlight and temperature
inclined everyone to forget his troubles
to cease to think of the past and to
look to the future, not forgetting that the
present was joyful as 1t well could be-
Some such day Lowell must have had
in mind when he asked:
What is so rare as a day in June?"
Then if ever come perfect days"
Birmingham, by the way is a little more
than a month ahead of Boston in this
regard-summer's outriders come upon us
here in mid-April; they are seen on the
sinuous Charles" not till June.
What a delight it was to be alive yes
terday-what ecstasy it was to be in the
open! How the piazzas thronged with
persons seated there-and the voices, as
one passed how full of gladness they
seemed to be! A sense of courtesy, too,
was everywhere and gracious beyond COM
pare. Had one asked another yesterday
TO walk with him mile, the other sure
ly would gladly have walked with him
twain
Twas a day fit for walking and for
driving and for automobile riding, and
more popular than all, for riding on the
trolley cars. In the morning the streets
were crowded with worshippers on their
way to church-the brght-coored gowns
Of women giving a picturesque touch to
the residence section. Though their hearts
may have been Lenten their clothes sure
ly suggested that Easter was come.
Services over, and dinner had, the re-
mainder of the day was passed on the
piazza or awheel or along the beautiful
streets in the residential part of town or
more than all else in the attractive SUI
burbs and throughout the countryside.
It's good sgn-this thing of whole
families going out in the country of a
Sunday afternoon and passing their hours
close to Mother Earth, making friends
with the woods and learning to love the
fields. It's an effective preventive of end
less and useless gossip-if nothing else.
Back they all came, when the day was
done-fathers and mothers with their
broods. small or large as the case may
have been, heartened by the trip. Some
where. not far away, they knew that
elder sons and elder daughters were en-
joying Gods day OF rest and peace. Little
wonder was it that the older faces bright
ened as the happy couples one after an
other. came. with the blossoming dog
wood in hand, back to town
Sunset. afterglow, dusk, nightfall-and
after these the ever-shining stars. One
after another bells sounded the passing
hours-and the people if not the city went
contentedly to sleep.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
Birmlnqham's Growth.

"In what direction is Birmingham
likely to grow most In the next ten
years" asked one real estate man of
another at the Hillman last night.
1.-THE answer to that question WILL in
my judgment" said No. ?, depend, in
no small measure. by the site of the new
union station to be built soon in Biz
mingham.
IF the station is built near Twenty
fourth street, | expect to see the town
grow out In that direction. If it be built
near Fifteenth street, you will see prop
erty on the north side. between Fifteenth
and Eighteenth streets, advance sharply
in value In either case the business sec
ton of the city will be likely to grow up
near the point where the union station
is situated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
CLOTH BUSINESS UNITED.
Fair Lines Were Placed for India and
China at Fair Rates.

Manchester, April 9.-The cotton cloth.
business was limited last week in con-
sequence of the heavy commitments of
producers. Fair lines We're placed for In
ola and China at fair rates. Ct cloths
had a fair inquiry from the Levant and
Egypt. and the best finishing cloths were
firm Miscellaneous orders We're received
from South America with counter offers
at higher rates for midsummer delivery,
as against winter delivery. Although GER
tain manufacturers are heavily engaged
we'll ahead it Is thought that estimates
of engagements recently have been some
what exaggerated and merchants oc-
casonally are surprised when offers are
made for comparatively early delivery.
Yarns were quiet. The reduction in
the turnover has not affected the recent
quotations to which spinners firmly adj
here.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10

was bright, behind barn. l was told
that Sam supplied his mess with rabbits.
He simply took stick. walked through
the fields and knocked the rabbits on the
head as the rabbits thought that Sam
was not looking at them. The smell of
roasted rabbits, baked rabbits, and fried
rabbits pervaded the camp, and so ex-
cited the envy of William Buster that
he took a stick and went out rabbit hunt
ing. His comrades soon saw him return
ing at 2:4O gait, and leaping a five
rail fence One of them said, Bill, what
made you jump that .enoe? Are the
Yanks after your Fence? replied Bill,
what fence? l went to get rabbit and
just as l was going to hit him on the
head he gnashed his teeth and ran at me
so savagely that I thought l had better
come back to camp. And 1 done so.
But | didn't see no fence"
1t must be admitted that our CORE
spondent has made out a strong case.
The envy which poisoned the breast of
William Buster when he smelled the
rabbit feast of his cross-eyed comrade
may have tinted his eye repusve green,
which would have justified hi, intended
victim in gnashing his teeth and making
sudden onslaught. But Williams abb
solute truthfulness as to the cause of his
retreat proves him to be a man of some
worth, and probably his eye was no
more evil than any other human optic.
His error, unquestionably, was in at
tempting to OUTAGE the rabbit.
The thanks of hunters and sportsmen
generally are due to our Virginia corre-
spondent for his valuable suggestion. If
the hunting of rabbits Is hereafter con-
fined to cross-eyed men. or if others
will refrain from looking rabbit in the
face, the long list of sanguinary encoun-
tiers between man and his subtle and
bloodthirsty foe will be appreciably di-
minished.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
ADDRESS AT MARION.
President Woodrow Wilson to Speak
on Government Day, April 20.

Marion, April DISQUALIFICATION
Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton
university, will deliver the annual adj
dress before the council and commons of
Marion Military institute on their Gov
erament day the Goth of April. Govern
ment day has been set apart In the acad-
emic calendar of the institute to COM
memorate the establishment of their honor
system of government. Each year
distinguished statesman or educator is
invited to address the students on Educa-
ton and government. Since the estab-
lshment of the government it has been
the desire of the students and of the au-
thorities of the institute to have Presi-
dent Wilson deliver the address. In ac-
oepting the invitation of the council and
comm ons. President Wilson wrote: II
am deeply interested in what you have
been doing for the self-government of the
school and l shall hope to express my
cordial endorsement of it when I come to
you
The address win at o'clock on the
evening of the goth of April in the chapel
of the institute All patrons and friends
of the institute, all interested in the great
subjects of education and government and
the public at large as well are cordially
invited to visit Marion at this time to
hear President Wilson. Visitors from
distance will be welcomed by the hos
pltalty comrlittee of students. The COM
mittee will appreciate letters from those
who expect to attend giving notice of
the day and hour of arrival Such let
tiers should be addressed to Mr.. c. B.
Cameron. chairman. Special rates will be
secured at the hotels and boarding houses
for all visitors on Government day An
effort is being made to have the rail-
roads offer reduced rates for the occasion
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
IN HOTEL LOB3IEs
Indian Territory.

Robert L. Daniels, formerly OF Aia.
bama, but now prominent attorney Oh
South McAlester. Indian Territory, -
in Birmingham Indian Territory ne
said, lis growing rapidly. This sprihs
people from all parts of the Union nave
fioeked to the territory and nearly every
one is prospecting.
South McAlester like Birmingham =
located in the heart of rich mineral
district. The coal fields are rich anu d.
being developed at a rapid rate. ne
population of South McAlester Is douDilns
itself every year.
Every state in the Union has lur-
nished citizens for our city Alaoain
is well represented. A short time ago
we formed an Alabama club when az
ready has a membership Of over one nun
dred''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
Now and Forty Years AGO.

1t is idle to compare Mukden with
Gettysburg as Gen. Joe Wheeler has
done, because all is changed. The
arms of today are not the arms of
forty years ago. The methods of
fighting are wholly changed.
Muzzle loading rifles and smooth
bore cannons were used forty years
ago. and it was not easy to hit the
side of barn with them. The Mauser
and the Martin-Henry send steel
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
Will Inspect Army Posts.

Washington, April 9.-Lieutenant
General Chaffee, chief of staff, has
arranged to make inspection of army
posts in the southwest, and expects
to start in short time. 1t is prob
able that he will be accompanied By
Quartermaster General Humphrey
and Captain Hutchinson of the gen.
eral staff. During the summer Cen
eral Chaffee will make an inspection
tour of the posts in Alaska, if poss.-
BILE
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
srem the Scientific American.

II.
EYERAL European newspapers
@N have recently published the
- statement that Messrs. Comte
and Levrat of Lyons France, had sue
eeeded in so affecting silkworms by col
oring their food that they would make
coeoons yielding colo.ed silk, thus OBJ
waiting the necessity of dyeing the silk
in the thread or piece
The subject has attracted so much at
tention that the uniteu States consul
called upon the gentlemen in question:
ard received from them full information
on the subject
I'm experimenting in this line said
one of them, lit is not expected that any
commercial advantages will be gained or
any discoveries made that will cause any
changes in the industry of dyeing.,
The gentlemen are engaged merely in
laboratory experiments, in a field which
has been partially worked for the last
sixty years. The object of their studi, s
was to discover. if possible, why some
breeds of silkworms produce white silk.
while others produc, yellow or a yell
lowish-green silk. Their experiments
showed them Tat the natural eoloring
matter of the cocoons was in the leaves.
II was therefore logical to believe that
the color of the silk must originate in
the chlorophyl of the leaves fed to the
worms.
ire experiments which followed under
taken to test this hypothesis, prove that
a coloring matter introduced into the in
teStines of a worm bv means of food
may, under certain conditions, reach the
silk through the blood
Thirty silkworms Matched June ia.
1902, were divided into a number of Iots
and reared on small branches. One LOT
was fed on leaves dipped in LIQUID to
color them.
Some of the lea res the worms fed nnnn
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-10
Has Marrow Escape from Death.

Florence. April al)--Waver1y
Garner, the 15-year-old son of B. B. Gar
ner prominent merchant of this city,
had a miraculous escape from death this
morning. In the alley beside his father
sttre Is a walled up hole fifteen feet deep,
twenty feet long and just wide enough to
admit the body of a horse. Young Gar
ner was just beside this hole when the
horse he was riding became frightened and
backed in carrying the boy with him In
some miraculous way he escaped injury
bit the horse was so badly hurt that
after being brought out with a block and
tackle he was shot