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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07
The Bows Club.

II think we are exceedingly fortunate."
said lady last night who is member OF
the board of control of the Boys club.
I'm procuring the Rev DR.. ]. w. Stage
and Mr.. Bolton Gilreath to serve as MEM
bers of our board of mana gers. The inter
est taken by these two gentlemen in move
ments intended to improve the environ
ments of our young boys will be dis
tinct uplift In the social life of the city.
Both these gentlemen are human in every
fibre of their frames, and they win en-
able us to carry forward promptly and
successfully the work we have in mind
for developing and strengthening this
club for boys. We have not forgotten what
Mr. Jacob Ris told us in his admirable
address here a few weeks ago, namely,
that Zone boys club Is worth a hundred
poiceman's clubs. In this connection, I
am glad to say that we are planning
circulating library for the club, in order
that the boys may have wholereme books
u read when they are at home"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07
Disorders in Chicago's Streets.

Strikes are familiar movements,
new phase unless it be found in the
stand taken by the Employers asso-
citation, an organization that Is
spreading to all parts of the country.
We thus have organization pittei
against organization and the old time
struggles between labor and capital
takes on the form of organized war
fare. The Employers association EN-
ploys a profes sjonal strik b;e1ker,
enc Mr.. FarleY, and it empljys the
old familiar injunction, which is large
ly imperative One organization is
armed with cli3s as a rule, while the
other is equipped with reso,vers rhe
Employers association invites rioting
in the streets. the more the better,
because that will indl"e the sooner
the calling out of the militia, or pos
sibly of the regulars. Intervention of
the soldier SOFT = their hest bores.
The worst feature us the teamsters'
case is the whence and disorder that
inevitably go with il. The vicious
within the ranks of the toilers do law.
less acts, no natter b ,w much the
strike leaders deplore sEch acts. no
matter how much their cause is in.
jured by them.
The rights e the eTe;oyer to en-
ploy is plain. The rights of the
strikers to strike are equally plain
in the apparently unending wa. be-
tween labor and capital where is tie
line tc he drawn? How is peace to
be preserved when llbor's plain and
Just demands, and capitals plain and
just demands clash. The problem
seems difficult
The teamsters' general position is
weakened, 1t should he remembered,
by the fact that they started out with
no grievance of their own. They came
to the aid Of the distressed and under
raid garment workers. Theirs is pri-
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Clothes of the Period.

A great change or revolution is oc-
curing in our "hupper suekles," and
in this busy district there are no
doubt now and then men who do
not know it. 1t relates to man alone
and to his clothes. The Haber
dasher, an unqUestioned authority In
matters relating to clothes for the
masculine sex, says that lounge
dress has put formal clothes In a
subordinate and scarcely recognized
position. Lounge dress" means
more days in the country, and there
fore fewer in town. Life in the coun.
try is the vogue at present, the more
of it the better. "A smart wedding"
says the esteemed Haberdasher, may
render run up to town necessary,
but aside from this mufti is worn
from March to December" From
March to December the man of fash
ion or leisure is to consult comfort in
aress, while from December to March
he is to wear comfortless clothes. The
"hupper suckles' are expected here.
after to loaf and invite whatever souls
they may happen to possess.
1t is difficult TO define lounge dress
accurately, for it refuses to be de
fined. 1t includes shirt sleeves. 1t is
lnformality carried to the limit. It is.
in short, flannel shirt on all possible
occasions, except, of course, the
smart wedding in town, which, as a
rule. the men shirk. The bridegroom
will go. but all other members of the
sex will invent ar excuse while lounge
dress is permissible or from March
to December.
The Haberdasher has said it, and
what the Haberdasher says must be
accepted even II it leads on to sloven.
iiness in general and moral collapse
The man who does not now wear
lounge clothes is a man out of fash
ion, and the frock coat and the top
hat must be put aside until Decem.
Der, which is many months away
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REGARDING Hold.ups.

1T is matter of fact that only about
one-half of the alleged cases of highway
robbery are really genuine said MEM
Der of the police force yesterday.
When the epidemic was going the
rounds in Birmingham and suburbs some
time ago, we traced many of them down
and found out that some of the men who
reported that they had been held up and
robbed had really lost their money in
gambling or in some other questionable
manner.
"Of course many reports of hold-ups
are true. We can generally tell when
they are fakes. One cannot doubt the
statements of many men. for they are
reliable, but others we never believe
Some timid men report that they are
held up when no attempt is made on
them. These people become frightened
because some one walks toward them in
the dark. They run to the nearest tele-
phone and report that an attempt was
made to rob Them
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British Wire Guns,

About ten years ago the British ad-
miralty adopted the wire gun, which
consists of thin steel lining wrapped
with wire. Such guns weigh one-third
less than the lig steel rifled guns to
be found in all navies except those of
Great Britain and Japan, making the
ship more buoyant and seaworthy. A
13-inch steel gun weighs about sixty
seven tons. and a Pinch wire gun but
forty-fye tons. Japan accepted the
wire gun, and 1t is leaking out that
the life of a wire gun is short. The
life of any big gun is not long. The
big steel ri1ed guns can be used about
$50 times only, and it Is believed a
wire gun is weaker still.
The London Daily Graphic says the
12-inch wire gun is failure, and that
the battleships in the British navy
must be equipped with steel guns.
The admiralty denies the Graphic's
statements, but there is a feeling that
there is more ruth than poetry in it.
1t is believed also that Admiral Togo
saw trouble In his wire guns in the
battle of August, 1904, and that this
trouble kept him from following up
the Russian ships and destroying
them The ruth as to this is not
ascertainable, but all believe the ~
inch wire guns on Togo's ships have
been put on shore, and that his battle
ships now carry 13-inch steel riied
guns of the usual pattern.
The British admiralty know what
the situation is and perhaps the Jap
anese war has served to disclose a
weakness in wire guns that might
otherwise have proven very disastrous
to England in some future war. The
merits and dement's of wire guns vii
be made known when the far eastern
war is ended, and the entire story is
told as it certainly will be.
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Rural Free Delivery.

Next to public schools Alabama has
no one means of public education
more fruitful than rural free delivery,
and yet Alabama has been, and still
is much slower in securing the estab-
lishment of routes than either Geor-
gia or Tennessee. Both of the last
named states have double the number
of routes relatively speaking,
But Alabama, although slow and
tardy, is coming along pretty well.
Mr.. Underwood started the work fully
five years ago, and today Jefferson
county has better free delivery sys-
tenn than any other county in the
south, and more routes can be readily
procured, because routes in this pop
ulous county show profits.
Some time elapsed after Mr.. Under
woods initial effort before other Ala
pama districts took up the task. The
Third district is the first to cross the
one-hundred mark, and the Fourth dis
trict will no doubt cross the line with
in years time. Every congressional
district should have at least one hun
ared free delivery routes. The First
and the Sixth districts should wake
up. AS a rule the fault lies in the
Lcl e of the districts who are lack
ing In public spirit and energy. They
will not take the steps required in all
parts of the country. Congressman
are willing enough to act when the
people first do their part The educa-
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Law and order won the day at Decat'
DECORATING.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
i've often wondered why women don't
take their own coloring into account in
decorating their rooms" remarks beau
ty expert" But wouldn't it be simpler
and less expensive for women to take the
coloring of their rooms into account in
decorating themselves? OF course, there
would necessarily result few isolated
instances where they would look like Jap
anese vases modified with stucco and am
plfied with indigo, but. on the other hand.
some of those who have undergone the
peroxide, enamel, belladonna and car
mine treatment might submit to changes
that would make them appear almost hu-
man. And that would be something.
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WHEN | GO HON E.

BY Eugene Field.
1t comes to me often in silence.
When the freight sputters low
When the black, uncertain shadows
Seem wraiths of the long ago;
Always with throb of heartache
That thrills each pulsive vein.
Comes the old, unquet longing
For the peace Of home again.
L m sick of the roar of cities
And of faces old and strange;
l know where there $, warmth of well
come.
And my yearning fanees range
Back to the dear old homestead
With an aching sense of pain:
But therell be joy in the coming
When | go home again.
When | go home againl There's music
That may never die away.
And 1t seems the band of angels
On mystic harp to play.
Have touched with yearning sadness
On beautiful broken strain,
To which Is my fond heart wording
When l go home again
Outside of my darkening window
Is the great worlds crush and din.
And slowly the autumn's shadows
Come drifting. drifting in.
Sobbing' the night winds murmur
To the plash Of the autumn rain:
But dream OF the glorious greeting
When l go home again.
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CHAMPION JEFFRIES is
REFUTED BY THE FACTS

are sleek, well fed and entirely satisfied
with themselves.
At the same time an analysis of the sit
uation involving Mr.. Jeffries reveals a
rather anomalous condition of affairs and
may help to explain the unexpected de-
cision at which he has arrived in shaping
his future course. 1t may be that Mr..
Jeffries has tardily discovered that the
claim which he has put forth to the effect
that he has no peer, having been cheer.
: fully allowed by his contemporar ies.
leaves him in a most unenviable position.
Being unapproachable, at last he Is unap-
preached. Nobody advances to swat
him or to be "swatted" by him. War hath
its Victories, and greatness in battle i'm
poses pains and penalties Mr. Jeffries has
been too generously endowed by nature
and too prodigally expanded by judicious
exercise, and he is suffering in conse-
quence. He cannot post a forfeit with his
own shadow, and an exacting and critical
public will have none of bag punching.
Still, his is not an isolated case The
horse whose superlatve speed is bar
to the free-for-an class is useless for rae
ing purposes; many a gifted author
thinks and writes so profoundly that he
cannot make himself understood or dis
pose of his books in the market place, and
transcendent talent has robbed more than
one artist, while in the flesh of the APP
probation and patronage which his cam
vass compelled after he had passed be-
yond the sky line. Mr.. Jeffries is not alone
in his predicament, although the company
to which his attention has BEEN directed
may not prove to be congenial.
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Earninqs Make New Record--Gross
Receipts Largest in Co.'s History.

The Wall st. Journal says:
The gross earnings of Southern rail
way for the month of March We're larger
hv nearly half a million than those for
the corresponding month last year, and
were the highest IN the history of the
company. Unlike most other months IN
the present fiscal year, the greater part
of the gain in gross was retained In net
earnings so that the statement must be
considered very satisfactory. The returns
for Alabama Great Southern and Cincin-
natl. New orleans and Texas Pacific
showed considerable increases in gross
with comparatively small net gains
For the nine months gross earnings of
Southern railway show an increase of ST.
600 OOO but on account of heavy operating
expenses the gain in net is only $7S2,Oo
or little more than one-third of the in
crease in gross. A proportion of Il per
cent for expenses and taxes is undoubted-
ly very high but this contains quite a
little money expenses on double tracking
in accordance with the method pursued
by the company for several years of
building long sidings to be afterwards
connected up so as to form double track.
This double tracking is on the line from
Washington through Orange and ulti-
matey the work may be continued to At
lanta.
But, while making full allowance for
the progress of 81 h work, it must not
be forgotten that the statement fer six
months issued at the time of the declara-
zion of the preferred dividend showed that
the company is making no progress what
ever in the direction Of increasing its train
loans, although this offers the very best
test as to the efficiency of g roads oper.
atlons. Southern railway, by this test.
is still unable to get full results from its
buslness A..
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
CHAR Trade.

Il believe that there are at least 10000
cigars smoked in Birmingham every day
during the week, and nearly 4O,oo0 smoked
on Sunday said Pryor Prumlee. well
known cigar salesman yesterday.
Il know that there are five or six
stands in the city which sell from 1900
to 200O cigars every day. and there are
a score or more others which sell from
100 to 1900 every day.
Besides these there are large quanti-
ties of cigars sold in boxes. which con-
stitutes almost a separate business. Of
course u majority of the cigars sold cost
five cents. but at some of the stands more
ten-cent cigars and three for quarter
cigars are sold than five-cent brands.
The business in Birmingham has in
creased remarkably in the past two years,
almost one-thrd as many cigars being
sold daily now as were sold a year and a
half or two years ago"
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jamestown Exposition.

Charles 7. O'Ferrall. ex-governor of
Virginia, and Gen. Joseph Wheeler of
Alabama are prominently mentioned in
connection with the presidency of the
jamestown Exposition company, made
vacant by the death of Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee" remarked member of Birming-
hams Virginia colony. General Wheeler
would make an ideal man for the place.
but as Governor O'Ferrall is also a man
OF high standing and ability and has
many friends he will probably be elected
president of the company.
The exposition is to be held at Nor
folk in 1907 and the naval display, which
will be the chief feature of the celebra-
ton, will take place i'm Hampton roads
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About Persons.

c. M. Busbee of Raleigh, a prominent
lawyer of North Carolina. spent yester-
day in Birmingham.
w. c. Davis of Jasper was in the city
last night.
Prof. b. F. Giles of Tuscaloosa, presl-
dent of the Alabama Central Female coll
lege, is at the Norris
la. Z Lawson of Greensboro is at the
Morris.
ThetRev. DIR. w. B. Crumpton of Mont
6omerysis at the Morris.
L. NJ. Burkes of Admission is at the
Morris.
Col W. c. Turstall. associate member
of the railroad commission. and A. M.
Tunstall. speaker of the Hc<se of Rep
resentatives, were in the city last night
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From the Providence Journal.


IN FIRST blush the announcement
pv that Mr.. James ]. Jeffries, the
champion heavyweight exponent
of fistieuffs, has determined to retire
from the roped arena and engage in BUSH
ness because 'pugilism doesn't pay" will
be received with an incredulous smile, not
only by the uninitiated but by thousands
of ring followers the world over. The i'm
preston certainly prevails that pugilism,
particularly in this country, does pay, and
all things considered--the amount of labor
expended and the demands which actual
contest makes upon those who practice it
the consensus OF opinion undoubtedly
would be that it pays handsomely. With
in a week Mr.. John l.. Sullivan, address,
ing an audience of convicts on the fine
ethical distinctions between approved con-
duct and careless manner of life, proud
ly boosted that with the gloves for stock
in trade he had earned million dollars,
and that his was the one. fortune of the
proportions named that had been honestly
acquired.
The respectable circumstance that Mr.
Sullivan has cast himself from the pin
nacle ON which he formerly teetered as a
popular idol. and that nothing more SUBJ
stantial remains to him than the memory
of his accumulations and the ticket for
a diamond-studded belt does not impair
the force of the contention that pugilism
yields, or at least has yielded, as rich
returns as almost any profession that can
be cited Even those who have not been
conspicuously proficient in inficting pun
ishment and escaping from the retribution
which their efforts have merited at the
hands of their opponents have prospered
by means of their chosen calling. 1t is a
matter of record that Mr.. Tug Wilson,
a somewhat inert, but muscular, English
visitor, departed from these shores pos
sessed of $4,000. the reward of the per-
spicacity which he displayed by prostrat-
ing himself in the presence of the afore-
mentioned Mr.. Sullivan whenever the lat
ter worthy Tented with his ponderous and
pillowed knuckles. Rows of so-called
stables of gentlemen more or less adept
in the art of hitting. parrying and side
stepping are being maintained by. sup
posedly profitable pugilism. Yarns rela-
tive to their prowess they may spin. but
except at rare intervals they toll not;
yet their raiment is resonant and they
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en- route from Montgomery to Green's
boro.
The Rev. w. C. Bledsoe of Lafayette
Ia la the city
j. w Wright of Decatur is in the city.
G. B. Mclean of Montgomery is in the
city.
A. b. Andrews of Atlanta Is in the city.
J. S. Mccormick of Atlanta is in Bir-
mingham.
J. A. Romer of Cincinnati is in the
city,
w. C. North of Wheeling, ". W. is in
the city.
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payrolls Increasing.

zone of the healthiest features of Bir-
mingham's growth is the steadily increas-
ing number of small manufacturing plants
located hereabouts, said member of
the Commercial club. AT least half
dozen new Industries have been secured
for North Birmingham within the past
few months, and other suburbs are at
tracing various industries. Every shop
and factory, no matter how small, swells
the payrolls and big pay rolls make every
branch of business thrive"
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Charles Banning who was for thirty
three years the coachman of the late Sem
ator Hanna, died last Wednesday in
Washington, and his death is said to have
been due to grief for his late employer.
The man was a great favorite with Sem
ator Hanna and always occupied the box
when the Senator went out driving. This
story may be the result of some corre-
spondent's fertile imagination; the coach
man may have died from some very nat
ural and very commonplace causes, but
then it could be true. If Banning died Of
a broken heart his love for the dead SEN
ator affords us another glimpse of the
great boss inner self When cartoonsts
and photographers were busy at the ex-
pense of Mr.. Hanna the public came very
near forgetting the man himself People
devoted all their attention to his policies,
real and alleged, but his death brought
about a most remarkable change of feel
ing
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WHEN CHANGE TOOK PLACE.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
II don't take much stock in the new
way of pronouncing that people have
these days" said w w. Nordyke of Bir-
mingham. Ala, at The Old Inn last night.
Take the word INTEREST," Everybody
pronounces 1t Interest these days II
you say you are interESTED in anything,
people look at you with pity. One day
1 went to an old school teacher, who has
the reputation of being one of the gram
marians in the south. and asked him:
9 When did sinterEST get to be inter-
est?' and he replied:
".when the did Yankees came south
in the sixties. !"
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

1t takes a lot of fortitude to be sepa-
rated from a rich wife
A man can make an awful lot or money
specializing in stocks in a novel.
A woman very easily fools herself into
believing she is fooling other people.
Generally you can tell by the way a
girl appears to be looking down at her
feet that she is really looking into some
mans face.
A man can get very fair idea of what
spring feels like by subtracting ten from
the thermometer and imagining he has
fallen OF a ferryboat in linen duster.
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Retail Trade.

"Seasonable weather always helps the
retail trade" said Second avenue mer-
chant. "and we have no fault to find
with the weather man recently.
Spring came early and our sales were
larger than usual, and we are now dispos-
ing of our summer stocks. Sales are at
least 80 per cent ahead of those for the
first five months of 1904"
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marily a symps thetic strike, and as
such it Lacks the support and
strength of cause that has its own
sad facts behind it. The appeal
against the importation of outside
labor, chiefly negroes. loses at least
a part of its force when made in be-
half of a sympathetic strike.
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

~ MAN died the other day who
WI claimed that he was born III
years ago, and had never touched
tobacco. Think what he has missed! He
never sat in coy room by the fire and
waxed meditative as he watched the blue
clouds of smoke curl toward the ceiling.
He never built castles in the air or Yield
ed to those fancies inspired by Lady Mic
otine When the world looked dark and
his friends turned against him he had
not the solaee of his faithful pipe In
the glow of after-dinner comfort this
man never experienced the luxury of a
cigar in a room filled with tobacco smoke
and good fellows. Giving himself up to the
witchery of a summer night, he never sat
on a quiet veranda somewhere and behind
the ruddy fire of a cigar became at peace
with all men. In sunshine tobacco was not
a luxury to him and in sorrow it was not
a comfort. He never gathered collection
or rank old fellows on his mantel shelf
which he dubbed with pet names and
smoked according to his varying moods
His hand never stole out TO his tobacco
jar for a pipeful of the choicest blend
If he had any reveries they were color
less, and If he ever had an idle moment
time must have hung heavily on his
hands. What did this man get out of
life, anyway? -
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he Real Menace.


From the Huntsville Tribune.
The Montgomery Advertiser i'll its car
toon puts C. p. Lane down as afraid of
the people The cartoonst has mis-
conception, we are not afraid of the peo-
pie, but are afraid of the politicians.