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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
Captain Gregory at Decatur.

From all parts of the state
come praises of Capt. R. L. Gregory
and his provisional company, and Gov
ernor Jellzs shares in the praise over
the excellent management of a diff
cult situation When crimes like
those that occurred in Decatur can
be met and punished in strict accord
ance with the law, Alabama can no
longer be classed as a lynching or
anarchistic state Beyond all doubt
the law will be carried out at Deca-
praise for his appreciation of the sit
uation.
It Is a mistake to say that military
men from a distance are needed in
towns threatened with mob rule.
Captain Gregory and his men would
do their duty anywhere. They would
do 1t at home as soon and as fully as
they would in Decatur or any other
town. Let us not teach that home
company will not fire on a home mob,
when that Is one of the chief objects
of its organization. Some military
companies would fire on no mob, but
Captain Gregory's provisional COM
pany was not built on such lines.N Its
members were sworn in to maintain
the law and to preserve order, and
they will live up to their oaths wher-
ever duty comes to them. The entire
military force of the state should be
brought up to the Gregory standard.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
LOEB'S ENCOUNTER WITH
A BLOODTHIRSTY RABBIT

air, settled upon the scruff of the pur-
suers neck, and jerked it prone upon the
snow. Cross-eyed Chapo had appeared In
the nick of time. He sent bullet be-
tween the eye-balls of the beast. BY TINS
time Loeb was a mile up the canyon.
struggling with his horse. Chapo skinned
the animal and presented the ears to
Secretary Loeb when the latter appeared,
two hours later. 1t was one Of the big
gest rabbits ever seen in Colorado, its
ears spreading fourteen inches from butt
to tip
Secretary Loeb's multitudinous friends
will share our regret that he was pro-
vided with such eowardly horse. 1t was
a pity he could not have bagged the
rabbit alone. But he did the best he
could, and no doubt will take pardonable
pride in stretching the enormous ears
over the mantel in the executive office,
where all may measure them as he recites
the story OF his dangerous adventure.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
Russia's Proposed Parliament.

The cable brings news from st. Pc
tersburg that zemsky soyyet is to
be established. The zemstvo system
is nrst to be extended to all parts of
the vast empire, and then each local
or provincial zemstvo is to send
representative to the zemstvo assem-
bly,, which will sit in st. Petersburg,
and will consist of about, 500 to $50
members. The assemblys powers
will be advisory only. 1t may ask
questions, and 1t may discuss the
budget, but 1t cannot change the
budget presented by the ministers,
nor is any minister accountable to it,,
and the autocracy and the bureau
cracy stand unchanged, save as the
debates of the assembly affect public
sentiment.
The new plan may operate well as
a stepping stone to people that the
autocracy has designedly kept in a
general condition of ignorance. 1t Is
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
PROUD OF eREeoRY's MEN.

From the Montgomery Advertiser
Personally l am gratihed and [ am
sure the whole Alabama National guard
is gratified at the excellent conduct of
Capt. r. l.. Gregory's Birmingham COM
pany guarding the Decatur negro pris-
oners last week. said Lieutenant Colonel
Hughes b. Kennedy of Birmingham. who
was in Montgomery yesterday.
',The morale of the men in the provision
al company should certainly be a source
of pride to the militia of the present and
the past AS an officer of the regir,e,,i
have expressed to Captain Gregory and his
men my heartiest commentator of their
work In Decatur.
1T is one of the essentials in military
life during peace that the men in uniform
court the favor of the civilians so long
as 1t Is consistent with discipline. 1t is
more delicate task than one would think
at first Certainly from all accounts of
the experiences undergone by the COM
pany at Decatur there was severe
test of this contact with the citizens.
That there was no material friction be-
tween the military and the people, l
repeat, speaks we'll for the militia of this
state | don't think that there Is COM
pany now in the regiment which would
have fallen short of the superb example
SET by Captain Gregory
Il am glad to find tnat = -~- -
eral inclination of the men in the Third
toward Montgomery as the site for en-
campment this year. AS l understand IT,
this city is to put forward some good IN
ducements for the encampment. Per-
sonally l am greatly in favor of Mont
gomery I believe it is the logical place
for holding the best drills and practices.
OF course the best offer from any commu-
nifty is going to receive careful attention.
At the same time l believe there are
enough influential people here to draw
the encampment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
SLEEP,

BY Sir Philip Sidney Q554-15s6)
Come. Sleep o Seepl the certain knot OF
peace,
The batting place of wit the balm Of
woe,
The poor mans wealth. the prisoners re-
lease,
The Indifferent judge between the high
and low;
With shield of proof shield me from out
the prease
OF those fierce darts Despair at me
doth throw;
Oh, make in me those civil wars to cease;
will good tribute pay II thou do so.
Take thou of me smooth pillows. sweeter
bed,
A chamber deaf to noise and blind to
light,
A rosy garland and a weary head
And if these things. as being thine by
right
Move not thy heavy grace. thou shalt in
me.
Livlier than elsewhere, stella's image
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
Curiew TO Rinu in Pratt CITY

The Pratt City Womans club has
won great victory, and curfew will
officially ring every night hereafter
in Pratt City. All youths under Is
years of age must in that prosperous
city be at home not later than $50
O'Clock on weekday nights, and not
later than 7:50 o'clock on Sunday
nights. Their parents can take them
out for an airing at later hours. but
of they attempt to get ozone unchap-
eroned they will bring UP in the city
jail. The Mayor and Board of Alder
men have said it, and the chief of
police and the Woman's club will see
that the ordinance is executed to the
limit.
Curfew rings in about nine hundred
American cities, and Pratt City's
ordinance is by no means tentative.
Curfew laws are excellent, provided
they are rigidly and persistently en-
forced 1t is the unenforced curfew
ordinance that is a nuisance and On
injury. Pratt Citys curfew law will
be above criticism as long as It is
enforced, but when 1t stands on the
city's statute books unexpected ard
forlorn it will be worse than no ordi.
nance at all. All depends upon en-
forcement
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
Solid Foundation.

THE Masonic temple being erected at
the corner of Ninsteenth street and Sixth
avenue will be most substantial building
judging from the depth of the excavations
and the large quantity of concrete being
used" said citizen interested In building
operations. Il had forgot who the archi-
tect was, but hen 1 asked one of the
workmen and was too that Wheelock
was the man, | said i might have sur
missed as much Major Wheelock de-
signed and supervised the construction OF
the Chalifoux building, the Hilman hos
pital and many other large buildings and
all of them We're erected for long years
to come. Major Wheelock is an enemy of
fimsy foundations. The Masons hope to
occupy the new temple early next fall.
but 1t will probably be Christmas before
the building is completed. Hurry Jobs in
big buildings are never satisfactory
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
COULDN'T MISS IT.

From the Kansas City Journal.
young sprig of British nobility was
over in America recently, accompanied
by the inevitable "Jeems."
They saw the seaboard cities. tarried
for time in Pitsburg, in Chicago, in st.
Louis and in Kansas City, and then
struck out into the great west. Some
where near the edge of Colorado the train
was delayed at a small station and the
passengers got out to stretch their legs,
among them his lordship and Jeems, who
seemed in a brown study.
What is it ?" asked his master.
II was just thinkin', me lud," said
Jeems, that Columbus didn't do such
mighty big thing when e discovered this
ere country. 'Ow could e 'elp it?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
PEARY's NEW SHIP.
Commander Describes Vessel He Will
Take to the Pole.

Commander r. E. Peary, in Harper's
Weekly.
This ship has already been described
more or less frequently, but summing
VI of the points in which she differs
specifically from other arctic ships has
not perhaps been attempted.
First and foremost, she will be a pow
erful steamer, carrying all the engine
power which the size of her hull will
contain. All previous arctic ships have
been sailing ships, with only accessory
or auxiliary steam power. The sail power
of the new steamer will be auxiliary
only.
Second. she is the first purely fore-and-
Abridged vessel yet built for arctic
work. None of the others have been able
to get away entirely from the old-time
square rig. Her rig will be three-masted
schooner, and her sail area about three
fcurths of the sail area of the typical
Maine schooner of the same size of hull.
In hull model the ship differs from other
arctic ships in several points
The rake of her stem is much more
pronounced than in any previous ship of
her class. Her forefoot Is more round
Ing, and her bows are more wedge-shaped.
This increase In the rake of the stem not
only makes her more effective as an ice
breaker, but is necessitated by her I'M
usual engine power, the incline of the
stem acting buffer to her impact
against the ice
The pronounced wedge shape has been
given to her bows because the greater
portion of her work will be that of slowly
and laboriously squeezing her way
through and between fields and fragments
of heavy ice, and the sharper her bow
the more EFFECTIVE will be her engine
power,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
From the Washington Post.


1 HE alarming spread of homopho-
(0 bia among the rabbits of Ameri-
ca, to which The Post has cour-
ageously called attention recently, mas
reached Colorado in particularly virulent
form. In consideration of the feelings OF
those who were nervously apprehensive
as to the Presidents safety, we have
refrained from dwelling upon the danger
surrounding him. Now that he is safe in
a Pullman, removed from hostile fang
and claw, we feel at liberty to publish an
outline of Secretary Loebs encounter
with a jack rabbit The report was re-
ceived several days ago from a valued
correspondent at New Castle.
"A Mexican vaquero named Chapo Ira
SOLO told me about it, writes our inform
ant. HE went with Secretary Loeb to the
Presidents camp, and took part IN the
scrap with the rabbit. Chapo Is cross
eyed but he can see straight and talk
straight If he could not throw lariat
straight the job of secretary to the Presi-
dent would have been vacant"
Secretary Loeb. it appears was return
ing from camp, and had reached Coyote
Canyon, when he discovered that he had
forgotten a package of papers. He sent
Chapo, the cross-eyed vaquero, back to
camp to get them, intending to ride slow
ly until Chapo could overtake him. Our
correspondent continues:
Everybody knows that adult male jack
rabbits often lie in wait for their prey
for hours, especially when their anger
has been aroused"
We didn't know 1t, but we are not sur
prised. 1t merely confirms our worst
fears.
Secretary Loeb was riding along slow
ly, when he turned a jog in the can
yon and his horse suddenly shifted paved
the snow, and reared with a scream. Loeb
looked about, and was horro-struck when
he saw what he took to be an enormous
lynx lying on a rock overhanging the
trail The animal was splitting scratching
the gravel, and uttering menacing growls.
Its ears were abnormally large and
threatening.
Secretary Loeb tried to disengage his
gun, but his horse made such rumpus
that he could not. The strange animal
crouched, flattened its hideous ears and
prepared TO spring. Loeb remembered that
a direct gaze from a fearless eye some-
times has the effect of hypnotizing wild
animals. With forced calmness he turned
upon the intruder that cold and hypnotic
eve which has made senators cover and
amba ssadors turn tail. The effect upon
the crouching beast was somewhat diff
ferent 1t rose upon its launches. CRASHED
it's teeth, and rapidly raised and lowered
its great ears.
with a half-human cry the horse
whirled and ran up the canyon. Secretary
Loeb was carried away in spite of him
self. He frantically chung to his mad
dened beast, and tried to turn 1t back
to face the thing that had attacked him.
over his shoulder Loeb saw the animal
was in hot pursuit, and he was about to
Jump from his horse and meet it bare
handed when a lariat sang through the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
HE glad picnic days are at hand.
Now doth the busy housewife ex-


wv Now doth the busy housewife ex-
ert herself to prepare dainties
which shall rival the best efforts of her
neighbors. and call forth enthusiastic
comment from the males who feed them
selves ravenously. The small boy and the
small girl venture forth on a bright morn
ing to lake and stream, risking their
lives while waxing foolish under the di-
rection of Chancellor Cupid and the BEAM
ing Sunday school superintendent mops
the perspiration from his face as he stag
gers along under twenty-pound basket.
Young and old have the picnic habit 1t
boots not how miserably hot how dis
tressingly thirsty, how uneomfortably
dirty and how generally disappointing the
trip may be all around the people have
picnics on the brain, and they are going
forth regardless of all discouraging con-
ditions, including the villainy of the
weather man. The average picnic is
snare and a delusion, but If you can just
imagine you are having the time of your
life you won't stop to think how much
better it would have been to have re-
manned at home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
Captain Hobson.

Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson of
of Greensboro, who delivered a lecture
last night at the Jefferson, is registered
at the Hillman. Captain Hobson is in
excellent health md was busy yesterday
and last night receiving the congratulate
lions of his friends on his approaching
marriage to Miss Hull of New York
When asked about his political plans
for the future, Captain Hobson said:
II will be In the campaign next year
and expect to take an active part in poll
tics" When asked whether he was to be
a candidate for governor or for Congress
Captain Hobson replied, 1T is too early
yet to discuss these matters, but what
ever steps | take will be governed by the
conditions that may arise between now
and the time the campaign opens
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
BETTER RESULTS.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
A certain distinguished minister VINO
is unusually plain in physical appear
ance tells this story on himself: He was
visiting at a country house and was De-
ing shown around the place by his most
little daughter, "A pretty and precocious
child of 6. She was somewhat shy at
first but gradually grew accustomed TO
her distinguished visitor, finally asking
him, with serious face:
Ibid God make all thingsY'
Eyes, my dear"
Ibid he make your"
Eyes, He made me, my child"
And did He make me, too?"
Eyes"
well, He must have got a good deal
better at it since He made you"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
Railroad Rate LEGISLATION.

President Roosevelt discussed at
Denver the railroad rate situation,
making It plain that he is going back
to Washington to fight for the passage
of a bill that will radically change
the powers of the interstate commerce
commission. He may not get what he
desires, because legislation, as a rule,
is a compromise, but he will attempt
to get It, and the next Congress is
peculiarly a Rooseveltian Congress, on
the House side, at any rate.
He desires Congress to give the in
terstate commerce commission "the
power to fix rates." and he wants its
rates to go into effect practically at
once" leaving the courts the right to
review what is rather than what is to
be, or rather may be. Exactly what
practically at once means the Pres
ident did not say, but it is plain he
docs not desire much delay between
the naming of a rate and its operation.
He wants also the national govern
ment to have more supervisory and
regulatory power over all corpora
tions.
But the first step should, the Pres
ident says, relate to railroads. He
thinks they especially need supervi-
sion and regulation by the national
government. He does not expect ma
tional supervision and regulation will
cure all ills, nor does he desire such
regulation and supervision to work in
Justice to the railroads. He wants
a scheme. in other words, that will
please the common carriers and the
public. "If," he added, 81 have the
appointment or retention of any COM
mission, and power to administer a
law of such increased powers, shall
neither appoint nor retain the man
who would fail to do justice to the
railroad any more than | would ap-
point or retain the man who would
fail to exact justice from the rail-
road" 1t is his old. familiar square
-, III .,o,,nn AGAIN
The Presidents plan reads well,
but the trouble will come when an
attempt is made to determine the de-
tails of very complex and difficult
problem. The country is broad, and
the conditions of life in it are so va
ried, and modern trade is so compli-
Gated, it is indeed difficult to imagine
even a plan that does more than to
assign to the interstate commission
or its substitute dictatorial powers,
subject, of course, to review by the
courts.
But We need not discuss a plan that
has not been formulated except In
vague, indefinite manner. All that we
started out to say is that the Presi-
dent expects from the Congress which
will be assembled on October 16 bill
providing for the regulation and SUI
pervision of railroads. His teeth are
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
Examples Of Hlqh integrity.


The banking houses of John L. VIII
liams & Sons of Richmond and J. w.
Alddendorf & Co. of Baltimore came
out Of their financial difficulties with
high credit to themselves as well as
high satisfaction to their friends and
case no one who who knows these
prominent financiers ever entertained
the shadow of doubt, but now that
the advisory committee which took
charge of the affairs of the two con-
Germs in 1903 has completed its work
and been dissolved with the state
ment that the Williams Middendorf
deDts have been paid in full with in
terest, every right-minded man feels
proud of the fact that old-time com
mercial integrity and pluck still have
shining opponents in this age of ''fren-
zied finance"
The two banking firms were init
mately associated in the control of
the Seaboard Air Line and other large
enterprises. When, in the course Of
extraordinary pressure in the money
market, John L. Williams Sons and
]. W. Middendorf & Co. became en-
barrassed and asked for an extension
of credit, they owed $12,O0OO00 Many
a concern, with honest principles,
would have been staggered and STAN
peded by heavy reverses, but John
Shelton Williams, the managing
partner of the Williams banking firm
was not a man to lose his head or be-
come unstrung. Adversely could not
daunt him and high sense of duty
with him had all the effect of sus-
tanning force.
Mr.. Middendorf like Mr.. Williams,
was actuated by noble motives and
was noted for his cool judgment and
frank business methods. These two
men had been bold in their financial
operations but bold only in the best
sense of the term. They were never
reckless, and anything like wildcat
speculation they scrupulously avoided.
Their temporary embarrassment,
therefore, brought friends to their as
sistance, and today they are not only
free of debt, but have a good working
surplus for future operations.
In 1898 John Shelton Williams and
associates acquired control of the Sea-
board and Mr.. Williams was elected
president Of the company. The road
was then only about 900 miles long
anu it was In poor physical condition
Williams, with wonderful energy,
went to work to extend the line and
develop it into a great system. His
achievements in this respect were
brilliant and far-reaching, and the
people Of large section of the south
and of Birmingham in particular, will
ever feel grateful to him for his work
In connection with the Seaboard.
The south needs more men of the
Williams Middendorf mould, and the
example of these two bankers will
have a stimulating effect on the ideals
of coming generations.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

DR.. Dowie has made frenzied attack on
the Womans Christian Temperance union
TO this effect: There is not a more fiat
failure in the religious world today than
the Woman's Christian Temperance IN
ion. 1t is curse to the country. for 1t
aecomplishes nothing and breaks up
homes. 1 am for the temperance cause,
but do not think 1t should be managed
by lot of meddling old maids" From
these few remarks 1t is easy to see that
DR.. Dowie does not think well of female
temperance agitators. If the prophet is
wise he will quit prodding hornets nest.
Dr. Washington GLADDEN. says it is time
to condemn piracy and robbery and the
church must differentiate the methods OF
business. 1t is believed that DR.. GLADDEN.
had Standard Oil in mind when he made
these remarks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Everybody has hankerins to teach
others what he doesn't know himself.
It's awful nice of girl TO treat a man
so well that she won't even marry him.
There is absolutely no satisfaction IN
doing something smart II there is nopooy
for you to brag to about It.
The average mans idea OF a Joke Is
something over which he splits MS sac
when he is planning 1t and nobody cracks
a smile when he does 1t.
The way to make your wife have con-
fidence in you is TO tell her that the otner
woman is rather pretty except TOT ner
hair eyes. mouth. teeth. nose complex
ion and figure
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
Love Finds a Way.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
A pessimlstic contemporary complains
that when crinoline becomes fashionable
1t will not be possible for the young
folks to spoon as they now do. Let him
ask some of the old grayheads about
that and he will know more than he now
seems to,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
THE ABSURD POOR.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Give you nickel?' said Miss DE
Style. "Oh, mol l never dispense promis-
cuous aims Why do you not obtain en-
ployment?"
please, num-" was the timid reply.
II have a small baby and people won't
be bothered by a woman with child
Then, you absurd creature, why not
leave the child at home with it's nurse?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
Knocking the Game.

From the Mobile Herald.
Having seen an inning or two of yes
terday's game, we know now what spit
ball' is: 1t is the rankest, rottenest
specimen of baseball playing seen in Mo-
bile since old Grimes died and Hec was
a pup
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-10
IDENTIFICATION.


From Puck.
What kind of a looking man is that
chap Gabbleton you just mentioned?
don't believe have met him."
WELL If you see two men off In corr
ner anywhere and one of them looks
bored to death, the other one Is Gabble-
TONI