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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
Our Trunk Sewers.

Both of the great trunk sewers will
be ready for use on September /, in
Guiding their publication plants. The
two sewers, the one along Valley
Creek, and the other in the valley of
Village Creek, will drain the whole of
Jones valley from East Lake to Bes.
semer, inclusive, provided each com.
munity gets ready to seek connection
with them
Fully one-half of the territory Gov
cred by the two trunk sewers has
taken no steps towards utilizing them,
and the sanitary commission should
unhesitatingly use it's power to see
that no part of Jones valley is left in
condition to endanger the health of
the rest of 1t. Householders who de-
sire to buy or rent suburban property
should first of all ascertain If the To-
cality Of their choice is equipped with
drainage facilities. A suburb that is
filled with dry" closets and open
wells is not suburb that any one
should seek as a place of residence.
After September 1 there need be no
such suburb in Jones valley.
Every community, be it large or
small, should promptly seek connec-
tion with one of the two trunk sewers
of Jones valley. Not single locality
need go undrained. Not a single COM
munity In the great valley need go
beyond September l in an unwhole-
some and unsanitary condition. The
county will have done its part on
September 1, and the localities should
90 theirs by that time, or very shortly
afterwards. AS it is matter that
pertains to health and life it should
be attended to first and pushed until
every home is put on footing that is
proof against preventable diseases.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
oLo.TlME sPEcuLAToR GONE.

From the New York Sun.
Alden B. Stockwell, whose death on SUM-
day was practically unnoticed by the
financial world, was one of the largest and
most daring operators on the street in
the early 70s. He was president of the
Panama Railroad company and the Pa
ciic Mail Steamship company, and In the
latter capacity made Wall street his
tory.
The son of a liveryman in Cleveland,
Ohio, he got place as purser on a Lake
Erie steamboat when a young man, and
while thus employed met and married a
daughter of Elias Howe, the sewing ma
chine inventor. His wife inherited for
+ tune of 100000 on the death of her
father, and the purser then became a
financler.
His most celebrated operation was a
bull movement in Pacific Mail, which car
ried the stock from 45 to 107 in the early
part of 1874 Then esame a crash, the
stock going back in two days to the
point from which it started. MIR. Stockwell
was quoted at the time as summing up
this episode of his career as follows:
"rhey called me that fellow Stockwelf
when I began to stir up things. 1t was
Mr.. StockwelP pretty soon, and Commo-
dore Stockwep when | put Pacific Mail
up to 107. Then she came down, and
was that red-headed son of a gun from
Ohio -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05

sions for employees be they engaged
In industry, commerce or agriculture.
The employer may contriye to
transfer the burden to the employe,
but whether he does this or pays 1t
himself the employee will secure a pen
sion that will in France go far towards
his support in old age. The pension
money even under M. Dubost's bill
will pass through the hands of the
government, and the pension will be
granted directly by its pension bu-
reau.
The pension question will come up
as soon as the church-andstate sepa-
ration bill is out Oh the way, and the
senators and deputies are fayorably
inclined towards some measure for
the relief of the Workingmen.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
Army Posters.

I'm pursuance of an act of the Fifty
eighth Congress, General Ainsworth' mil
itary secretary, is energetically at work
upon the compilation of the Confederate
muster rolls" said a veteran. THE chief
point of interest naturally is the determi-
nation of the respective numbers of the
two armies in the Civil var. The roster
of Mon soldiers has been made up, but
the difficulties are greater as regard the
Confederate armies owing to the incom-
pleteness of the records.
ITO make the roster as complete as
possible letters have been addressed by
the Secretary of WGr to the governors of
the fifteen states of the former Confeder-
acy inviting their cooperation, which has
been cheerfully given. The muster rolls
supplied by these states are returned as
soon as the compilation is made, and it
is believed the list as thus made up will
be practically complete"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
Convention City.

Cunningham is coming t, be great
convention city, sa1 member OF the
Commercial club. Several large national
bodies have already met here, and In the
years to come many more will select BIZ
mngham as their meeting place.
$50 far as l can recall every organiza-
ton that has held its general convention
here has been well entertained and the
delegates have been delighted with the
city.
''The knights of Columbus have their
national convention and reunion in Los
Angeles this year-some time in June. IL
the Commercial club and the City Coun=
ell would pass resolutions asking the o.
der to hold it's next annual meeting in
Birmingham it would have good effect
Even if we did not get the convention
in 1906, we might succeed in securing It
for 1907. The knights of Columbus met
last year in Louisville and about 10000
Knights attended. A body that assemblies
10000 members is certainly worth looking
after"
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nished him a calling better suited to his
capacities than empering. 1t is a stupen-
dous force-that which resides in the all
coneealng cloak of clothes and title; they
fill the onlooker with awe; they make him
tremble; yet he knows that every hered-
itary regal dignity commentaries a usur-
patton, a power illegitimately acquired,
an authority conveyed and conferred by
persons who did own it, For monarchs
have been chosen and elected by aristoc-
racies only; nation has never elected
one
There is no power without clothes. 1t
is the power that governs the human race.
Strip its chiefs to the skin, and no state
could be governed; naked officials could
exercise no authority; they would look
land bel like everybody else-common-
place, inconsequential. A policeman in
plain clothes is one man; in his uniform
he is ten. Clothes and title are the most
potent thing, the most formidable infiu-
ence, in the earth. They move the human
race to willing and spontaneous respect
for the judge, the general, the admiral.
the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous
earl, the idiot duke the sultan. the king,
the emperor. No great title is efficient
without clothes to support 1t. In naked
tribes of savages the kings wear some
kind of rag or decoration which they
make sacred to themselves and allow no
one else to wear The king of the great
Fan tribe wears a bit of leopard skin on
his shoulder-it is sacred to royalty; the
rest of him is perfectly naked Without
his bit of leopard skin to awe and inn
press the people, he would not be able
to keen his lob
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
CHE WALKED OEE.u

From the New York Press.
In the loafng room at the hotel at Ii
tusville Fla. at the head of the Indian
river. Sol Barge called Ike Randolph a
BANKED fool. Don't call him a fool"
said a venerable cracker "Jes' say he
walked off. walked OFF? What do that
mean?' asked Sol, and the cracker ex-
planned THE Lord created men out of
clay. As fast as He made 'em He leaned
EN- up again the fince ter dry in the sun.
After a while He come along ter put
brains into their heads. beginnin at the
end of the line. But before He could get
through with the job some o. the fellers
got impatient an walked off,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
IN HOTEL LoB3IES


falladega has a new connection with
Birmingham said a Talladegian in the
lobby of the Morris hotel last evening.
We can now exchange visits via the
Seaboard Air Line Many people suppose
that Pell City was cut out os the Sea-
board since the straight line to Georgia's
capital went into operation; but not So
The short line Birmingham and Atlantic
from Talladega to Pell City now uses the
track of the old East and West from Pell
City to Coal City a distance of six or
seven miles and there connects with the
main line of the Seahoard, running passen-
ger and freight trains, and connecting
both ways.
People become confused over the names
of the two roadside birmingham and
Atlantic and the Atlantic and Birming-
ham, The former, is short line and
the latter is to be quite a long one when
completed. There is a suspicion that the
Birmingham and Atlantic is eventually
to be absorbed by the Seaboard, to the
common benefit of all ;.
1.-The Atlantic and Birmingham, former
ly known as the Brunswick and Biz
mingham, is full of promise for Talladega.
1t will give us direct line to the Atlantic
ports sixty or seventy miles shorter than
any other route and another direct line to
Atlanta 1t will also secure to Talladega
a new line to Birmingham, twenty miles
nearer than present routes. On a direct
line the two cities are only forty miles
apart, whereas, by present railroad
routes we are sixty miles apart The pro-
posed line of the new road will cross the
Coosa a short distance above the mouth
of Upper Clear creek and thence by
Thompson's Gap and Leeds to Birming-
ham. The route is almost an air line and
will not only put us closer to Birming-
ham and the great west, but will develop
a section of country Astounding in most
valuable agricultural and mineral re-
snurces -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
Mecca for siehtseers.

THE huge steel plant at Ensley is the
Mecca in the Birmingham district for
ton lists" said a traveller last night
while the name Mecca might serve, 1t
is needless to say that more people want
to see the plant than are able to gain
admittance. On account o. the dangerous
machinery employed and the risk incurred
by people going through the various de-
partments it has been found necessary
to pass very strict rules about visitors.
Everybody has heard about the steel
plant and the first question strangers
ask when they reach Birmingham. is
whether 1t will be possible to visit this
industry. TO person who has lived in an
agricultural country his life the sight
of Birmingham iron an steel plants Is
novelty as striking as an inlanders
first glimpse of the ocean,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
sELF-cuLTuRE HINTS.

From the New York Sun
The Self-Culture club of Chicago, is do
ing great deeds for the culture of all.
Wisdom cries out from it, but once In
while with hard sayings.
AT last weeks meeting DIR. v. q. Lun-
quest told How TO Sum up a Stranger"
Much extract ant pemmican of sagacity
is found in that address. For instance:
IF you want a good boarding house
keeper, get one who has vital nature.
That is one who Graves good food and
drink. But what is to be made of this
dark utterance:
IF his (the stranger's) mouth is open
continually make bargain with him
by all means You'll win.
This seems to imply that the oratorical
temperament is not accompanied with
business ability, that the open mouth does
not go with an eye to the main chance.
Does DR.. Lunqusst know Mr.. Bryan or
the Hon. William Bourke Cochran?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
THE OLD BAND,

BY James Whitcomb Riley.
It's mighty good to get back to the old
town, shore,
Considerin I've ben away twenty year
and more.
Since | moved then to Kansas, of course
| see change,
A-comin back, and notice things that's
new to me and strange;
Especially at evening when yer new
band-felers meet,
In fancy uniforms and all, and play out
on the street
What's come of old Bill Lindsey and the
saxhorn fellers-say2
l want to hear the old band play.
What's come of Eastman, and Nat Snow?
and where's War Barnett at?
And Nate and Bony Meek; Bill Hart; Tom
Richa'so and that
Air brother of him played the drum as
twic't as big as jim;
And old Hi kerns. the carpenter-say,
what's become O him
make no doubt yer new band now's
competenter band,
And plays their music more by note than
what they played by hand,
And stylisher and grander tunes, but
somehow anyway,
l want to hear the old band play.
Sich times as John Browns Body and
Sweet Alice don't you know;
And The Camels Is A-Comin'," and John
Anderson, My Jo;''
And a dozent others of 'em-"Number
Nine and Number 'Leven"
Was favo-rites that fairly made fellow
dream O heaven
And when the boys w'd saranade. I've
laid so still in bed
I've even heerd the locus-blossoms drop
pin on the shed
When Lilly Dale" err Hazel Dell" had
sobbed and died away
| want to hear the old band play.
Yes new band ma'by it, but the old bands
what l said
1t allus 'peared to kind o. chord with
somepin in my head
And, whilse I'm no musicianer, when my
blame eyes is jes'
Nigh drowned out, and Mem'ry squares
her jaws and sort o. says
She won't ner never will fergit. I want
to jes' turn in
And take and light right out O. here and
git back west a'gin
And stay there, when | git there, where
l never hat to say,
| vast to hear the old band play.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
Old Ace Pensions in France.

The French senate and the chamber
of deputies is not expected to confine
the work of the session to the separa.
ton of church and state. They are
also pledged to the voters to provide
for old-age pensions, as Germany long
has done, and England is preparing to
do.
The governments pension bills are,
however, considered very burdensome,
and Senator Dubost has prepared a
bill that grants to all persons a pen
sion Of $72 year after the age Of
IS ID reached. M. Dubost does not
propose to take the money from the
treasury. He proposes that every EN-
ployer shall be taxed to provide pen
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
: HE Pittsburg Young Mems Chris
tian association has Just given a

Il HE Pittsburg Young Mems Chris
w tian association has just given a
remarkable exhibition of imbecil
ity by announcing that 1t does not want
its younger members contaminated by
coming in contact with theatrical people.
Three actors who applied for admission
to the association were barred, and the
enlightened membership is determined to
preserve its purity unsullled by the low
followers of Thespis. This action on the
part of the Pittsburg Y. NJ. C. A. comes
just when the entire country-press and
pulpit alike-is singing the praises of one
aetor-a man whose life was like the sun
shine and his art without compare OF
course there are wicked people on the
stage. There are imperfect mortals in
every walk of life even in the church
and in the Young Mems Christian associa-f
ton. But there are Christian actors There
Is nothing like knowing how to discrimin-
ate. The Pharaisaical attitude of the
Pittsburg association is not only unjust to
the theatrical profession but is ludicrous.
That must indeed be a peerless band of
young men who will deny an actor an op-
portunity to enjoy the blessings of Chris
tianity.
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Profitable Side Lines.

"A number of people living in the SUI
burbs of Birmingham are turning penny
now and then by raising pigeons and
Chickens said a citizen 1.-The pigeon
industry is quite popular and profitable
as WELL for squads command ready
sale at the hotels. They bring on an
average of 80 cents pair the year round.
Many fourishing poultry yards are being
conducted on a solid financial basis and
there is one dog farm that has proven a
gold mine to its owner.
THE man who runs the dog farm has
orders ahead all the time and he cannot
breed CANNES fast enough to satisfy the
demand. lie raises blooded bulldogs and
poodles almost exclusively and gets
fancy price for ever,- puppy that he
SELLS"
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Crop Prospects in the West.

The farmers of Texas and the other
southwestern states are very much dis
year. said citizen of Bowie county,
Texas, last night. THE unusually wet
spring has materially delayed the plant
ing, and the farmers will hardly be able
to put all of their lands in cultivation.
Il am of the opinion that the cotton
acreage will be cut down to some degree
this year. but the reduction will not be
nearly so much as it was hoped by the
supporters of the reduction plan. l believe,
however, that the cotton yield in our state
will be much smaller this year than 1t
was last
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05

oldIh VAIN III ifle Noibn AAheflcaH
Review
IN FFER the Cars morning bath it is
V1 his habit to med ate an hour be-
fore dressing hmself.-London
Times Correspondence.
(Viewing himself in the pier glass.)
Naked. what am ]? A lank, skinny, spider
legged libel on the image of God Look
at the waxwork head-the face, with the
expression of a melon-the projecting ears
the knotted elbows-the dished breast
the knife-edged shins-and then the feet,
all beads and joints and bone-sprays, an
imitation X-ray photograph! There is
nothing imperial about this, nothing inn
posing. impressive, nothing to evoke awe
and reverence. Is it this that hundred
and forty million Russians kiss the dust
before and worship? Manifestly not! No
one could worship this spectacle, which
is Me. Then who is it, what is it, that
they worship? Privately, none knows bet
ter than l. 1t Is my clothes Without my
clothes l would be as destitute of author
ity as any other naked person. Nobody
could tell me as parsof, a barber, a
dude Then who is the real Emperor of
Russia? My clothes. There is no other.
As Teufelsdreckh suggested what would
man be-what would any man be-with-
out his clothes? As soon as one stops
and thinks over that proposition, one real
ICES WITHOUT his clothes a man would
be nothing at ALL that the clothes do not
merely make the man, the clothes are
the man: that without them he is a ci-
pher, a vacancy, nobody, nothing.
Titles-another artifciality-are a part
of his clothing. They and the dry goods
conceal the wearer''s inferiority and make
him seem great and a wonder, when at
bottom there is nothing remarkable about
him. They can move a nation to fall on
its knees and sincerely worship an EN-
peror who, without his clothes and his
title would drop to the rank of the cob
bier and be swallowed up and lost sight
of in the massed multitude of the inconse-
ouentials; an Emperor who. naked. in a
naked world, would get no notice, excite
no remark. and be heedlessly shouldered
and jostled like any other uncertifed
stranger, and perhaps offered kopec to
carry somebody gripsack; yet an Emperor
Who by the sheer might of those artl-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and title-can get him.
self worshiped as deity by his people.
and at his pleasure and unrebuked can
exile them. hunt them, harry them, de-
stroy them, just as he would with so many
rats If the incident Of birth had fur
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
Fewer Police Arrests.

The annual report of Chief Wier OF
the police department will prove very
gratifying to all students of the situa-
ton. The number of arrests during
the year just ended was 9f32, as
against 11,04S in the previous year.
A similar reduction in the new year
will bring the arrests in this city
down to the basis of other cities.
Chief Wier is endeavoring to reach
such a result. TOO many arrests"
he recently said "are made for the
public good. Good order without ar
rests is the thing desired, and | am
trying to bring about that condition"
The chief of police will certainly
be supported by all good citizens in
his effort to minimize arrests. The
arrest of citizen is a delicate mat
ter, no matter how poor and friend
less he may be. Every arrest debases
citizenship, and the fewer the number
the more progress we will, as a
whole, make, and the better we will
stand in the records. At present Bir-
mingham is considered a bad" town,
when the truth is We are no worse
than other cities of like makeup.
There has been too many arrests of
the poor and friendless, and Chief
Wier is endeayoring, The Age-Herald
is glad to say, to work out reform
in that particular
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The Republic Company.

The Republic Iron and Steel company's
general offices. which are located in Chi
town, Ohio where the company has
large plant. The Youngstown Telegram
says:
IAN official of the company and one Of
high standing is authority for the state
ment that within a short time the COM
pany will begin the erection Of the struc-
ture which will house the small army OF
officials and clerks to be transferred to
this city. The work is to be rushed with
all possible dispatch with the idea of oc-
cupancy this fall or not later than the
first of the coming year"
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REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
It's terribly monotonous job being
good just for the fun of it.
Some people are so lucky they can't
even get engaged without having it
broken.
Even the man who knows how hard
1t Is to pick the winner in horse race
acts as II 1t was too easy to pick a
wife.
1t is awful nice the way women can
run in ribbons where nobody Is expected
to see them in such way that you can't
help seeing them.
A girl calls it romantic II a man is
so much interested in her that when he
sits down in the custard pie on q picnic
he doesn't swear.
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IN CHICAGO AND ELSEWHERE.

You've heard about the mcn behind,
The man behind the gun,
And by his mighty valor how
The battles always won.
You've heard about his gallantry
On board the battle ships
You've heard his praises heralded
By everybody's lips.
All honor to the sailor boldi
Our hats off to the tars,
But the man behind the gun should
be
The man behind the bars.
The joys of being truly rich are second
only to those of being very, very good.
1t is not everyone who can boast that
he has in his library an edition of only
one book. Mrs. Ogden Goelet-of course
everybody who is anybody, knows Mrs.
Goelet-has Just had made at enormous
expense" an edition de luxe of the man
uscript of Hyperion" The edition is
limited to only one copy and that copy
belongs to Mrs. Goelet. OF course our rich
people, in these democratic days, could
not appropriate to themselves the entire
output of an author but 1t is something
to have copy of one of his books total
ly different from the books owned by other
people. Most exclusive, doncherknow
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05
DueIinq In BIrminaham.

From the Guntersville Democrat
The Birmingham papers discussing the
recent promiscuous fusilade on the streets
suggest that retired and isolated spot
be set apart for duelng. But that would
necessitate previous understanding and
a revival of the code"
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Doubts the Statement.

From the Jasper Mountain Eagle
The Montgomery Journal is authority
for tho statement that the railroads are
going to hands off in the next guberna-
torial fight. Even if B. B. Conner should
be in the race? All who believe that stand
on your head and hold your breath until
1t happens.
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Where They Shine.

From the Selma Journal.
The Cossaeks, the famous Cossacks,
seem to be able to do better work at
home than In Manchuria. We have not
heard of their killing many Japanese, but
when massacre is scheduled anywhere in
Russia they are always on time and in
the game from the jump.
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Heavy Enough. Anyway.

From the Talladega Mountain Home
Ex-P president Cleveland among other
prominent citizens has been named for the
presidency of the Equitable Life. Mr..
Cleveland would doubtless be acceptable
to poliey-holdars in all parts of the coun-
try, and is ponderous enough to hold
down the lid