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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
Steel and Iron Prices.

The price of pig iron has been re-
duced so cents or more ton. This
reduction may be reasonable In view
of the fact that the May production
promises to reach two million tons,
and that the sharp demand in the first
quarter of the year has been con-
tracted for No doubt buying on a
large scale will spring up again If the
crop prospects are maintained and es-
tablished. Consumption is heavy. 1t
has not been decreased In any par
ticular except possibly in sheet steel
prices, and the opening of the can
ming season will be apt to put up the
sheet steel prices again.
1t is said the steel trust has orders
enough on file to keep 1t busy to the
end of the year. This is certainly the
case in the Ensley rail mill, and none
of the other mills in this district APP
prehend a lack of orders this year.
The orders of next year will depend
upon this years crops of wheat, corn
and cotton.
The rail mills and the structural
mills and the car shops will certainly
go through the year well loaded up
with orders. The structural mills are
in fact congested. They cannot shut
down this summer, and it is not be-
lieved any of the iron and steel mills
will indulge in long vacations this
summer. The truth is, no actual re-
cession In the iron and steel industry
is probable. The lull Is the customary
one in the midyear season, when all
are waiting to see what the crop out
turn is to be. If the three great crops
of the country are heavy, another year
of exceptional activity in the steel
and iron industry may safely be an
ticipated, and at this writing all the
crops of the country are promising.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
Graft in Philadelphia.

In nation of grafters particular
instance of graft must be marked in
deed to attract public attention. We
have tariff grafters, and trust and cor
poration grafters, grafters big and
grafters little, but Philadelphia seems
to be the one city where graft is a
recognized institution upheld by pub
lie sentiment.
Philadelphia has an uncrowned
king. His name is Israel w. Durhara
Under the rotten registration and cleo.
ton laws of Pennsylvania he can
cause any number of votes he may
desire to be cast. Dead men are reg
istered, and voted by repeaters after
wards. So many people in Fhiladel-
phia are grafters of one sort or an
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
SHOW GIRL STATISTICS.

The New York World recently took a
census of the chorus girls employed in
Lady Teaze.r Out of total of eighty
six girls. this newspaper found thirty-two
who had never been employed before they
went on the stage. From this it is fair to
presume that q large percentage of the
total number thus arduously employed
came from comfortable homes and had no
real need of working. Fourteen had been
typewriters five artists models, one a
Lobbyist and one a domestic. Twenty of
the choristers were married, twenty-one
were divorced, six had divorces pending,
and thrty-nine were single. The youngest
of the lot proved to be sixteen, and the
eldest was put automatically at "?''
The World estimated the average income
per young woman to be $lS week.
twenty weeks in the year, or $3.50 per
annum. Nevertheless, seven were found
to be owners of automombiles, seventy
eight to possess jewels and furs, and
seven confessed to attending rehearsals
in carriages.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
White House Ambitions.

Beyond all question Mr.. Roosevelt
is straightforward and frank in de-
clining a denomination in 1908, but
it is equally beyond question that he
may in the month of June, 1908, be
induced to accept a denomination de-
spite all his previous honest state
ments to the contrary.
The expert opinion, however, is
that Mr.. Roosevelt will have accumu-
lated SO many powerful enemies by
1908 that he will not be any longer
an available candidate for the repub-
lican nomination. He is about to face
the strongest interests in the country,
and he may come out of the contests
battle-scarred, rather the worse for
wear. 1t is prudent, at any rate, to
take his word for ito assume that
he will not be candidate in 1908.
Just at present the men who are
seeking the limelight belong to the
Senate or to the cabinet, and through
neither does the road to the White
House lie. The members of the cab
met will necessarily share the fate of
the President and the administration,
for they will assist in ushering it in.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw will
be especially obnoxious. because he
advocates on all possible occasions
high prices for the common people.
Judge Taft stands we'll now, but he,
too. must stand or fall with the adj
ministration.
The republican nominee will be a
man, like Elihu Root who presum
ably can carry New York, or else it
will be man like Governor Deneen
of Illinois, who has had no hand III
in national politics. Governor Deneen
stands in favor of the primary system
and various other reforms of modern
nature. Governor Hoch is not alto
gether beyond the range of the presi
Dental lightning and Governor Hlg
gins of New York may be harborine
the bee. The stepping stones to the
White House are to be found, at any
rate. outside of Washington.
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compromising attitude of the express
companies, holding, in the absence of
a parcels post, a monopoly. The con-
eession asked from the express COM
panies was the reaceeptance of the
teamsters in untitled places. The ex-
press companies at once said they
would not employ any teamster who
had gone out on strike. This decision
was rendered by President Tom Plat
and the other express magnates
lodged in New York skyscrapers one
thousand miles away from the strike
itself.
No doubt this involves the use of
troops, and revival of the injunction
plan, and world of trouble that
might have been avoided.
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other, Durham is king-king of the
grafters, and his will is law. HI.
latest effort relates to gas. The CHIEF
facts are these: The United ,;as In.
proyemlent company hollis The eitv,s
gas work under a thirty-year lease.
but the city can regain nossegsioa in
1907 by paying twenty million dollars
Durham decided to lease The gas
works to the company now Enlainp
them for seventy-fiva years upon he
payment of twenty i've millions in
three years. The Saith syndicate CT.
Tered TO loan the cit, twenty million
dollars at 5 per cert with which 10
take up the gas lease, to advance
twenty-five millions within five years.
to reduce the price of gas to so cents.
and to share profits with the city, one
third for ten years and one-half for
sixty-fye years.
Excellent as the Smith bid was.
Durham drove his bill through the
city council He did amend it SO that
after 1928 the price of gas should be
reduced below one dollar. He made
provision for cheaper gas to grand
children only.
The Durham bill is not yet law.
Mayor Weaver will veto 1t, but Dur
nam proposes to pass it over the veto,
and 1t is his determination to disre-
gard public sentiment-to steal, in
short, the gas works-that is agitat-
ing Philadelphia deeply despite its
great army of grafters. Durham
knows the extent of graft in Phila-
delphia. He believes the city is cor
rupt and contented, and he is acting
fully up to that belief. Some of the
citizens threaten to hang him II he
steals the gas works, and altogether
the City of Graft is in a stew.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23

From Success.
Thomas w. Lawson, himself an adept
in unconventional tactics, recently re-
ceived shock at his own speciality. He
was driving a spirited horse to light
vehicle. Having occasion to leave 1t in
order to enter an office building, he
called TO a street urchin
Sonny, hold my horse?"
Cert" was the pert reply; what do
git?"
"A dollar an hour" said Mr.. Lawson,
laughing.
by that cock?'' continued the lad,
pointing to a street clock in front of a
jewelers..
YES said the finaneier, much amused.
"All right assented the boy, with q
sudden alaerity in contrast with his pre-
yious hesitation.
Mr.. Lawson performed his errand and
emerged again from the office building.
How much do L owe your he asked
the boy
Two hundred and seven dollars
"What?'
"By the clock, mister
Mr.. Lawson glanced at the clock-an
advertisement. 1t contained no works,
but was operated by currents of air, and
pidity of a pin wheel.
Il thought Wall streeters could do
more business on wind than anybody
else gasped Mr. Lawson, but this takes
my time"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
Selma Well Represented.

Selma is well represented at the meet
ing of the Great Council of Red Men
which will commence Its sessions today.
l, l.. Rosendorf is the representative Of
Mohawk Tribe No. 20 of that city and
he is accompanied by r. Il. Mel, chair
man of the finance committee of the
great council; Charles Hopf, Jr., Louis
Phillips and others
Mr. Mel Is candidate for Great Junior
Sycamore before the greet council, and
the Selmians here are enthusiastic in his
behalf He has strong support from
Montgomery, South Alabama and other
parts of the state, according to the claims
of his friends, and will PROBABLY receive
large majority of the votes In the Bir-
mingham district.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
Miniature Railway.

~ do not think that the members of
Il City Council of East Lake, after CIV
ing the matter due consideration will
make an attempt to stop the miniature
railroad at East Lake from operating
on Sunday" said A. A. Gambill, one of
the owners yesterday afternoon.
This is certainly an innocent amuse-
ment for the young people andAit is one
of the chief attractions at the lake. And
on the other hand l know of no laws
now existing In Alabama, hat prevents
the operating of passenger trains on Sum
de.y. There is no law even against run
ming freight trains in this great state
of ours, although Georgia does have such
a law.
"The Lake Shore route which circles
Luke Como is passenger line strictly.
and We do not anticipate that the Sum
day business will e interferred with in
the least by the East Lake council"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
IN HOTEL IOBBIES
/, o,U Shoe Troubles.

"The low shoe season is here, remark
ed vo1ng man last night, and no
tice the oxfords sold this year are just
as hard to put on, if not more So as
they have all ways been.
.erhe collar BUTTON with its pfoiah-
itv producing properties, Is a matter OF
history. but a snug fitting oxford Will
generate more sulphurie adjectives IN
one nornine thin a refractory collar will
In six months Putting on your low quar-
Ter shoes is easy enough if the hone Is
in place. but the man who has tins aa-
junet to summer footwear at hand Just
when its wanted carries it on his key ring,
or else he is married and his wife KNOWS
the psychologist effect of shoe hone on
hand and one out of place.
"A man under the stress OF clreum-
stance often will resort to numerous IN
genious methods to get shoe on the
outside of his foot. A belt makes a nrst
class substitute, and collar is not bad
though 1t generally comes forth rumpled
and unwearable. A desperate man, how
ever. will not likely consider the cost SO
long as results are accomplished.
But in spite of this trouble low shoes
are so comfortable in the warm months,
they will all ways be in favor. Maybe
somebody will discover a way to put
them on automatically by next summer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
INTERESTING CAREER OF
WORLDS OLDEST ACTOR

of Brooke and others returned to the
colonies in the December following
There is ample confirmation of the fact
that in the aforementioned year. 1854
more than half a century ago, be 1t re-
membered-George Coppin, who had then
been away from England for IL years,
was well known and respected in this
country. Here, for instance, is al allusion
to him in the diary of the late E. l.
Blanchard for many years the dramatic
critic OF The Daily Telegraph: '1s54, DC,
tober Prepare MS. of Dodge Gin
derella,' 'Crusoe,' two pantomines and
songs for Coping to take to Australia
Two days later Blanchard records: Cop
ping pays e5 for copy of Dodge Sails
tomorrow from Southampton in the Argo.
Propose his health and success to him.
1t was in August of the year 1854 that
Mr.. Coppip met an actor with whom he
ives destined to be much associated, GUS
tavus Vaughan Brooke, who was then
playing in Birmingham. Coppin engaged
the tragedian for 200 performances in
Australia and New Zealan, and in order to
carry out the contract he found it neces-
sary to build a portable iron theater, the
holding capacity of which was $500, the
cost of construction being $4,000. Brooke
and his wife. accompanied by Miss Fanny
Young, left Plymouth in the paddle-wheel
steamer, Pacific, on November %, and
reached Melbourne on February %. 1866, a
journey that is now accomplished in less
than half that time
George Coppin in 1850 opened and con-
Quoted one of the first of Melbournes the
aires. the Iron Pot, but at the time OF
Brooke's arrival there was only one the
atre in the city, the Queens, at the cor
ner of Little Bourke street and Queen
street which possessed an admirable stock
company Brooke, it may be added, made
his first appearance on the colonial stage
at the Queens theatre on February 26,
1855, his opening part being Othello to
the Iago of Richard Younge.
George Coppin enjoyed considerable
fame in his day as an actor, his favor
lite parts being Bob Acres. Launcelot
Gobbo. Jacques, Colonel Damas, Dan'l
White in Milky White" and Aminadab
Sleek in 'The Serious Family" In addi-
ton to Brooke he introduced many noted
actors to Austria. including Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Kean.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
Holiday for Theatre Attaches.

''rhe Bijou theatre will close at the end
of the present week. said Manager
Semon last night, and as the Casino does
not open until June 5. we will have
week that will be almost holiday You
notice that l say almost, for we will
be busy getting ready for the opening
of the Casino, and looking after matters
at the lake, so that there will be a few
of us who will have to work about as
hard as usual.
Several Improvements have been made
in the Casino, notably as regards the
stage arrangements. We are now in
position to handle much heavier scenery
thsn was possible last summer and we
will consequently put on shows that are
more lsborately staged. Every detail
necessary 20 the comfort of patrons has
been looked after and We anticipate
most successful season.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
Colonel Parsons Here.

Col George Parsons, a large stock
holder in the Sloss-Sneffield Steel and
Iron company and IL member of the board
of directors of the company, accompanied
by his son, Harry Parsons. is in the city.
Mr.. Parsons has large interests In Ala
bama beside those In the Sloss company,
and is greatly Interested in the develop
ment of the state. Among other things
he owns much of the stock In the Shelf
field Land company, which owns the
public utilities in that city, the street
railways, the lighting and water plants.
The company in Sheffield is very much as
the Birmingham Realty company in Bir-
mngham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
Norwegian banners fIout the sky,
And fan our people cold.
Macbeth.
Decrease in LynchinQs.

A dozen men who participated in
the Danville, Ill.,, lynching have been
sent to the state penitentiary, but ILL
nois was not content with that tri-
umph of law. She proceeded at once
to pass a new anti-lynching bill, and
Governor Deneen last week made it
a Jaw.
It provides that any person or per
sons composing a mob that is engaged
in a lynching shall be subjected to
fine or Imprisonment in the county
Jail. Any person or persons who UNI
der the pretense of exercising correc-
tional powers actually inf1ict injury
upon a person charged with crime
may be imprisoned in the penitentiary
for a term not exceeding five years,
being also subject to action for dam
aces. The surviving heirs of a per-
son meeting death by lynching may
recover from the city or the county
where the lynching takes place dam
aaes not to exceed $4,000. Lastly,
the new law provides that a sheriff
who fails to stop a lynching shall be
removed Immediately by the governor
aid cannot be reappointed until he
presents satisfactory evidence that he
did all In his power to protect the
prisoner.
The new law will stop lynchings in
Illinois, even If the sentencing of the
Danville lynchers would not. The
new law contains all the best provi-
sions of the anti-lynching bills of
other states, and 1t will doubtless
stand as model for all other states
that desire to suppress lynching.
Governor Folk of Missouri, too, has
turned from the pursuit of boodlers
long enough to order a thorough in
vestigation of the lynching of a negro
kidnapper at Belmont. He proposes
to prosecute every person whose par
ticipation In that mob can be estab-
lished.
The general efforts to put an end
to lynchings are beginning to produce
excellent results In the first four
months of the present year lynchings
were cut down 80 per cent In the coun-
try as a whole. In Alabama there has
not been a single lynching this year,
and the orderly trial of the men who
murdered DR.. Foscue in Wilcox county
is victory of law and order-of a
new and better condition of affairs in
this state. The people of Alabama
no longer stuff ballot boxes, or IN
dulge In lynching bees. Law and or
der reign at last In Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
Birmingham Is Picturesque.

I'm some circles this town has the name
of bad Birmingham said young
woman of sense yesterday. land in other
circles it has the name of dirty Bir-
mingham, and the upshot of it is that
there is abroad an impression that our
life here lacks the quality Of charm.
IF it lacks it at all, it lacks 1t only to
persons whose eyes are blinded and whose
sense is dulled. If one but have the heart
TO feel and the bra.i to think, ores eyes
will mirror In and near Birmingham
great deal that is truly beautiful. 'Tis
true that we have our factories here and
there over the valley. and they're not
lovely things to look Upon, but when you
get to the bottom of 1t, the smokestack
Is the price we pay to civilization. There
is also a certain spiritual as we'll as ma
terial significance in these great indus
trial plants that dot Jones valley, for
they minister wisely to the life of all
the people, N. turally the Birmingham
district is beautiful and Its industrial
development gives d picturesque touch to
the picture
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

FROM the tlllSDulS 1lspdtcH
IN ow that another of our old ac-
Ol tors has passed from "life's fitful
fever'-allusion is made to Mr..
Lewis Ball, who died recently at the age
of s5-many actors of The old schol and
of great age do not remain with US. For
the Oldest of them all we must go to
Australia In a speech at Plymouth the
other day Sir Henry Irving referred to
Jimmy Doel," who, he said, was the
oldest actor that ever lived-"his age was
beyond belief" This same remark ap-
plies to Mr. George coppin, far and away
the Oldest actor-manager in the world.
Precisely when George Coppin was born
is ''wropt in mystery" 1t is surmised
that in 1887 he was playing Osric to the
Hamlet of Gustayus Vaughan Brooke
at any rate he was certinly acing In the
provinces at that period His career,
however, is-more associated with Aus
tralia than with England He arrived in
Sydney as far back IS 1913, and after
varied experience as actor and manager
he settled down in Adelaide three years
later. Here he Dull u lntdlIe dDo dlldSStu
a small fortune. Unhapply, however, he
was led into peculation-through the
craze due to the discovery of gold in
Victoria-and lost all the money he had
made in his legitimate business as actor
and manager. So bad, indeed, did his
affairs become that he was forced into
bankruptcy.
The honorable sequel to this part of his
story has been told by w. ]. Lawrence in
his life of Brooke. the tragedian just men,
toned Making his way to the diggings
as best he could Coppin. tried his luck
there for a fortnight, 1.-THE only material
result being a couple of blistered hands
and a terrible baekache. REWRITING to
his old profession he in 1852 assumed the
MANAGEMENT of the Great Malop Street
Theatre, Geelong, on but slender capital
and prospered exceedingy-so much so
that In less than two years he had re-
turned to Adelaide and surprised his cred
itors by inviting them to dinner at which
all his debts were discharged in full Sail
ing for England in January. 1854. he full
filed several successful engagements as
a starring comedian in London and the
provinces, and after securing the services
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
EVERY TOWN HAS
From the Louisville Post.
A La.

From the Louisville Post.
A liar.
A sponger.
A smart alec.
A girl who giggles.
A weather prophet.
A neighborhood feud.
A woman who tattles.
A man who knows it all.
One Jaeksonan democrat.
More loafers than 1t needs.
A few meddlesome old women.
boy who can cut u in church.
thing that stares at women.
A stock law that is not enforced.
few who know how to run the affairs
of the country.
A girl who goes to the postoffice every
time the mail comes in.
Scores of rN2n with the caboose of their
trousers WORK smooth as glass.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
sHAws TREASURY ETIQUETTE.

From the New York Sun.
A Treasury Department circular has
issued contains instructions to employees
of the department as to the proper for
mulas to use In addressing official COM
munications to public officers. Here are
the first four formulas on the list:
The President.
ury.
The Speaker of the House.
The President of the Senate.
The circular is signed by Leslie NJ.
Shaw
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
OMISSIONS OF HISTORY.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Draco had deereed death as the pun
ishment for the slightest infraction of the
law.
ITS cheaper than hiring sluggers to
kill Objectionable people o. at SO
head" he said. Il can ire an execu-
toner by the year"
Greatly elated by the discovery of this
easy method of reforming society, he be-
gan with enthusiasm the study of muni-
cipal ownership as the solution OF the
problems still remaining unsolved.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
Congressman sankhead.

Congressman John H. Bankhead of
Fayette, representative of the Sixth dis
trict, stopped at the Metropolitan last
night, en- route to Washington, where
he goes to look after some departmental
matters. The Colonel is in fine health and
spirits and talks interestingly of his crop
prospects and growing eloquently when
describing his crop outlook for this year.
He is not talking politics and says that
over his district there is very little poll
tical gossip at the present.
Capt Richmond Pearson Hobson, who
was defeated by Colonel Bankhead last
year, after one of the memorable cam
paigns ever wsged states that he Will
be a candidate for Congress next year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE.

By Shakespeare.
For aught that ever 1 could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did. run
smooth;
But either it was different in blood,
Or else misgraff-ed in respect of years.
Or else it stood upon the choice of friends;
Or If there were a sympathy In choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege
to It,
Making 1t momentary as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, In spleen, unfolds both heaven
and earth,
And ere man hath power to say. be-
holdw
The jaws of darkness do devour 1t up;
30 quick bright things come to con-
fusion