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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02
Britons Growing More Sober.
From the Cleveland Leader.

From the Cleveland Leader.
There is solid evidence that Great Britain
is drinking less alcohol. In the last six
years the population of the united king
dom has increased about 100000, but the
annual consumption of beer has decreased
by nearly 900, 900 barrels. The number of
Inhabitants has become about 8 per cent
larger, while the quantity of beer used has
grown nearly Z per cent less. In the
same six years the annual decrease in the
consumption of spirits has been about IS
per cent This far-reaching change in the
direction of temperance has been coincident
with noteworthy revival of British trade
and industry. The lessening OF the con-
sumption of strong drink has been accom-
panied by a marked increase In national
prosperity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

He recent West Indian cyclone
that swept across the southern
part of florida, the northern part
of Cuba and the coast of the Gulf
states, doing incaIcuable damage,
uprooting trees blowing down houses, sink
ing ships and taking literally of human
life, was foretod with absolute accuracy
Its path was traced in advance, its vio-
lence described.
Had the warning been generally observed,
much would have been saved
1t was not the famous government ex-
perts of Washington, with all their costly
equipment and large staffs, who read the
signs of the heavens and foretold the ap-
preaching hurricane. A humble priest,
working only for the good of the Cuban
people. sent out the warning
In Cuba they believed and followed his
Instructions for they knew from years Of
experience that any prediction sent out by
Father Laurent Gangloti. director of the
Belen Observatory at Havana, is sure to be
right.
As soon as he made his announcements
phones and telegraph wires became busy
boats hurried to ships, and the sailors of
all natiOnalities in Havana's port made ev-
erything safe and snug. Inhabitants took
TO their houses, and removed all they could
from the path of the cyclone.
1t came along on time, in the exact path
set for ii by Father Gangioti, and with the
violence and power he had predicted.
The loss OF life and property was great.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02
Musical Comedies.
From Vanity Fair.

The scheme of musical comedy has been
to take a number of clever ladies and gen.
tlemen and to let them do things. That is
to say, the idea" is exactly the same as
the idea that animates the managers of the
Tivoii or Pavilion music halls, except for
the fact that acrobats and dog trainers are
barred, which 10 a pity.
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cashire girls Scotch women orators and
leaders in the women's labor unions.
At first London absolutely ignored them.
Then, as they continued holding outdoor
meetings, petitioning parliament and ask
ing cabinet ministers to receive populations,
attention was attracted.
London laughed at their antics. The news
papers ridicued them. Some of the women
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

It would have been infinitely more so, but
for the warning of the Jesuit priest.
1t was fully a day and half before the
storm that Father Gangioti notified the
United States weather bureau that it was
due.
Such exact information on natural phe-
nomena would have made the reputation
of another weather observer International
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

United States forecaster was announcing
that the disturbance was scarcely worth
mentioning.
When the United States weather maps
traced the course of the storm. it was found
that 1t had been forecast in every particu-
lar by the Belen Observatory From that
time on Uncle Sam has been glad to work
in cooperation with the wonderful experts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

the morning to 10 o'clock at night, during
which time two other observations are
made at 1880 o'clock. day and night, called
"Internationals," because they are cabled to
the central observatory of Mexico, that of
the morning going only to Washington and
Key West. The others are published yearly.
In this way has the Belen Observatory
given to the learned world set Of mete-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

All declared that only one could be guilty,
and that was the man who shared the two
friends cell. The prisoners swore to have
the mans life Delegates from every cell
conferred at exercise time and were unant-
nous in declaring that their victim must be
hanged. The only one who suspected moth
ing was the victim himself who helped the
friends from good-naturedness, and had
never the least intention Of spying upon
them. At last a fitting moment arrived
when there was guard about. At 2
O'Clock one afternoon six delegates enter
ed the cell. The hook and q rope were in
readiness. They began their trial"
What shall we do with this traitor"
asked one man, pointing to the unhappy
victim.
Hang him. they all cried. The man
tried to escape; he rushed to the door,
shouting for help. But he was one against
eight, and, after an awful struggle, they
pulled him back, slipped the moose around
his neck and hanged him on the hook.
At this moment the guard appeared at the
door of the ce... They were met with vol
lev of plates, benches tables-anything in
fact. to keep them out till their victim was
dead.
The inmates of the other cells. hearing the
row ran to their comrades assistance. The
soldiers fired Four men fell. The trial.
was over A few wounded, a few killed,
and the hanged man cut down-stili breath
ing. This Is one of the pictures, out of hum
dreds. which disgrace Russia daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

Of the women who claim to be martyrs
for the cause who went to Jail. Christabel,
although the leader, the commander in all
subsequent disturbances, has always man.
aged to escape arrest. She believes she can
do more for the cause by not going to Jail.
After the general election Miss Pank-
hurst came to London. She established
branch here. With her came several Lam
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

Miss, Pankhurst is of medium height and
is quite delightfully."- plump. A wealth of
curly lght-brown hair struggles around a
high, broad forehead. Her eyes are large
and deep and gray. Her complexion is
decidedly of the pink and white order In
repose her mouth is the ideal of Cupid
bow. But il is hardly ever in repOse For
Miss Pankhurst, though in deadly earnest
in her inspired work, seems to be rushing
through life to the accompaniment of qup
and Jest and merry laughter
Ordinarily her round face, with its vel
vety youthfulness, is baby face; the gray
Transformation when she is animated:
when, for instance she is addressing
vast assembage of mingled sympathizers
and opponents. as l saw her recently. Then
her beauty becomes defined. Her eyes
sparkle. Her mouth curves commands.
Her nostrils diate with the joy of a leader
at the scene of battle.
Then and then only can one realize that
this girl is what she Is acknowledged TO be
the heart, soul and brain of the crusade
that has startled all England. Undeniably
Christabel Pankhurst has a lot of brains.
The records prove that. She wanted to be,
like her father. barrster. SO, alone. she
faced the august benchers of Lincoln's Inn
some two years ago. and demanded to be
enrolled a law student Nothing daunted
by the stern refusal. she secured entrance
10 the law school of the Victoria University
at Manchester. When the final examina-
tiOn came the name of Christabel Pank-
hurst headed the long list of the successful
bachelors of laws. More, for she secured
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON M

LONDON, November -, 1906.
TN spite of all that has been published
s about the now famous English female
suGclg.s,s-or "suffragcttes' as the
E London newspapers call them-the most
etrkiug thing of all III connection
witt their crusade has yet to be told
In print. 1t las not been stated before
I'm fact, it is hardly known to any but the
surTraG SITS executive cUmmittee-that the
founder and chief organizer of what,
whether it succeeds or not, must be de-
eeriHed as one of the most extraordinary
movements OF recent times, is girl OF
twenty-five y pretty, fluffy girl, more
over is Christabel Pankhurst, to whom
". T. Stcld-onc of the few people who
know the full story of her achievements
referred the other day as the English
Joan OF Arc" and around whose standard
OF Votes for Women some OF the most
famous and influential folk of both sexes
In this country have lately ranged them
selves.
As American readers have probably
heard, the aVOwed adhcrcntS to the female
suffrage cause in this country now include
George Meredith. Lady Frances BalfOur.
the SiSter-in-law of the late prime minister,
Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Humphrey Ward,
Beatrice Harraden and that gifted writer.
Mrs Alfred I.yttelton, whose husband until
lately was British colonial secretary-not
to mention that a daughter of Richard
Golden has recently been undergoing i'm
prsunment as willing martyr to the
cause of the much be-moked "suffra-
gettes." 1t may be said too. that of late
there has been a marked change in the at
titude OF the English press toward the
women whose fight for the suffrage has
attracted SO much attention, and with
Premier Campbell Zimmerman himself, an
avowed sympathizer, it would be unsafe
indeed, to affirm that the whole agitation
is bound to come to naught.
Bitterly as the "suffragettes' have been
denounced on account of their turbulent
methods. ii Is nowhere denied that their
crusade has compelled worldwide atten-
tion in an incredibly short time. So it is
all the more astonishing that the genius
of the movement should be a girl who looks
hardly out of her teens, and who. when not
on the platform or defying policemen or
directing her felow-wOrkers for the
cause" would be taken for a placid I'M
ambitious damsel of the domestic and home
loving type. incidentally. Christabel Pank
hurst is rich. her father, the late DR.. Pank
hurst of Manchester, having been extreme
ly wealthy He was unusually gifted. too,
as an orator and writer, and both of
these talents are inherited in a large meas
ure by his pretty daughter.
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honors and the gold medal. Yet when
she asked to be called to the bar, the
benchers of the temple and the inns Of
law denied her application with more force
fulness than courtesy.
The action of those big-wigs had It's d.
rect result in the present female suffrage
agitation in this country, for 1t was prac-
tically just after Christabel Pankhurst's
rejection by the benchers of the temple
that the now famous Women's Social and
Political Union was founded. This was
scarcely a year ago. Its birthplace was
Manchester, and the original founders of
the union were Christabe Pankhurst and
her mother and two sisters. Votes for
women was It's demand, AMI Immediately
enrolments poured in from the surround
ing country. Labor and socialistic organ1-
cations welcomed the union. Christabel
Pankhurst became the chief organizer. She
toured the north country and the mtdlands.
Branches were established in a score of
towns Politics were then swiring through
England. The elections were at the flood.
Miss Pankhurst and her comrades secured
pledges from the candidates for parliament.
In ALL 40 of the members elected to the
house of commons-ab bout three-fourths OF
the entire house-pledged themselves in
favor of woman suffrage. This alone shows
what a worker, real hustler, is Christabel
Pankhurst.
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At several of the big political meetings
Miss Pankhurst and her most valuable CO.
worker. Miss Annie kenney, tried to Sc
cure a hearing. But they were refused a
place on the platform, and whenever they
tried to speak from the floor they were
howled down. The doorkeepers were final
lv ordered to refuse them admittance at
future meetings Christabel rose to the
occasion At one most important meeting
she coolly climbed up a ladder, crawled
through a window into the gallery OF the
hall and appeared with her banner votes
for Women at the psychological moment
Burly policemen seized her. rushed her
out of the hall and flung her to the side
walk Outside she attempted to address an
Indignation meeting. The police charged,
seized her and the chair on which she was
standing, and marched her to jail. In court
next day she refused to recognize me
''man-made law and was sentenced TO nVe
days.
She served the time and was thus the first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

geological reports covering a period that
few observatories can boast to have COW
cred with care and accuracy. The collec-
ton has won Belen honor. 1t received
high awards a Philadelphia in 1876, at Paris
in 1878 at Barcelona - 1888, at Chicago in
1893. and st. Louis in 1904. The medal Of
the last exposition has never been sent it,
but the others are among its priced trophies
Of incessant conscientious scientific work.
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I4DNIJIJN, NONtIHUtI - I'V''
TN spite of all that has been published
s about the now famous English female
& suftcag.s. s-or "suffragcttes,' as the
i, London newspapers call them-the most
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-28
Churches Without Cast e.

Washington GLADDEN. is a widely
known clergyman, and he is using his
pen freely in the hope that he can
induce American Christians to organ
ize and conduct in our cities churches
that are entirely free from every sus-
picion of caste. He thus writes:
1--WE have churches for the rich and
cultured classes and churches for the
poor and humble classes. The social
stratification is quite as marked here as
in any portion of society. A man who
has lived long in our great metropolis and
knows intimately the religious life of that
city said to me not long ago: No man
would stand much chance of being chosen
to an office In any of these large churches
unless he had a considerable bank ac-
count or strong social position And
the entire administration of these great
churches in the cities proceeds upon
plane and scale which makes the presence
in them or connection with them simply
impossible to self-respecting working peo-
pie"
He asks men who believe in the
principle of Christian brotherhood to
build churches which shall be so plain
and simple in their architecture and
furnishings that there shall be no sug-
gestion of luxury, which shall be adj
ministered ON a scale so inexpensive
that ordinary working men can easily
bear their part in their support, and
in which the rich and poor shall work
together, sharing responsibility and
hardship.
No doubt DIR. GLADDEN. is right the
oretically. No doubt his call for sim
plicity and freedom from caste finds
full warrant in the life of Jesus No
doubt Dr. GLADDEN. means well, but in
this day of tariffs and class legisla.
ton and combinations and campaign
subscriptions and privilege in a thou
sand forms, he has bit off more than
he can chew. He calls for the ideal
when the country is aimlessly drifting
in another direction.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-28
Northern Alabama FLYER.

AS this mornings paper goes to the
reader The Age-Herald's new flyer TO
northwestern Alabama is speeding
towards Russellville and Tuscumbia
and a dozen other promising towns
that it may reach Sheffield and Flor
ence and the Tennessee valley. The
Age-Herald will today for the first
time be delivered before MONDAY in all
the territory hence to Sheffield.
But The Age-Herald will not be the
sole beneficiary of the new train
service. Every merchant and manu-
facturer in this city will be benefited
by it, for it will bring at least 100 miles
of prosperous territory in close touch
with Birmingham. 1t will aid in MAX
ing this city the commercial and
financial center of Alabama, its amuse.
nient and shopping center as we'll.
Gradually we are tying district after
district to this city, and The Age-Her-
AIDS Northern Alabama Flyer annexes
in one bold dash half dozen fine pro.
ductive counties.
The new train will leave Birming-
ham each morning at 6 O'Clock and at
noon it will stand on the banks of the
Tennessee ar Shelf cid Ruscellville
Tuscumbia, Sheffield and Florence
are the Big Four that the new morn
ing train is speeding towards to-
day, and The Age-Herald is proud of
the part it took in its installation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-28
Scarcity of Iron.

The average man in this district,
busily engaged in his own calling,
does not stop to think what twenty
dollar iron means to us here in Bir-
mingham. We make here a minimum
of 100000 tons of pig iron a year.
If sold in it's raw state at $40 it would
bring S30,O0O,O00. Turned inc steel
and its products it would be worth
twice that great sum. This is why
many freely predict that Jones valley
will soon become a Birmingham that
will outrun its British namesake.
Nor does high iron seem to be a
fleeting thing that will soon be sue
ceeded by low iron, or rather iron at
or near the cost of production. The
truth is, an iron famine exists in the
land. This country has become so
great ard populous and industrious
and ambitious, it cannot make iron
enough to meet its own wants, and
it is importing about 100000 tons a
year-actually importing pig iron to
meet the wants of its melters-wants
beyond the power and capacity of our
blast furnaces, about 300 in number.
Iron for quick shipment is not readily
obtainable simply because the demand
outruns all stocks and all capacities
of supply. 1t is now reasonably GER
tain that high prices will extend to
July of next year, and no one can now
see why they will not stay throughout
the coming year. There is no ques-
tion," says one large concern, lin re-
gard to the strength of the market,
actually and statistically. The whole
tendency is toward higher prices"
This tells the entire story.
Prophecy is, however, superfuous.
What is enough to know is we are
making 500 iron, and this means pros
perity and population almost beyond
our dreamiest dreams. No part of
Jonss valley can lack value when iron
is worth 500 a ton. No part of that
valley will go untitled if iron stays
long at that price. The Age-Herald
is no rainbow builder 1t simply de-
sires to call attention to a fact-the
firm price of a very firm article drawn
from our everlasting and perhaps in
exhaustible hills.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-28

questions In the rate law, in the en-
ployers' liability act, the pure food
law and the meat inspection act, not
to mention new income and inherit.
lance tax laws. All these existing
statutes will be tested in the supreme
court and the appointment of Mr.
Moody is therefore significant and in.
teresting. He is not a states rights
man, and 1t is pretty certain that he
will take very nearly a Rooseveltian
view of all Rooseveltian measures.
Mr.. Moody will sit long time in
the high court in the ordinary course
of human events, and 1t is plain there.
fore that no more important appoint
ment has been made by the President.
It may prove practical reconstruc-
ton Of court that really needs an
additional touch of popular sympathy
In 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-28
Ignorance of Little Things.

IL have heard 1t said that an educated
person is one who knows something about
everything and everything about some
thing" said a member of one of the
learned professions. IF we accept that
statement as true, then there are very
few entitled to the term educated
Il know men in this city, members of
my own profession, whose knowledge in
their own particular line Is equal to any
occasion that may arise, but when it
comes to matters outside their profession,
they are as ignorant as babies. I'll VEN
ture to say that not 10 per cent of the
people who travel on street cars under
stand either the mechaism or principle
of the motor which converts the electricity
into power. Wireless telegraphy is one
of the commonest topics mentioned in
newspaper; about l per cent outside the
electricians. know anything about the
subject.
''rhese are difficult subjects to under
stand and ignorance about them is. to
a certain extent, eXcusable, but not so
with reference to objects that come hourly
beneath our observation. How many peo-
pie can tell why a blower helps to
kindle the fire; why salt preserves meat;
why it is easier to swim in sea water
than in fresh water why balloons rise,
and several such simple questions?
Ignorance of such matters as these
is hardly excusable, and could easily be
corrected If courses of simple lectures
were delivered at which the public might
attend
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-28
IN HOTEL LoBBlEs
Electric Arcade serenade.

THE Electric Arcade Saturday night
brass band serenade is a first-elass pub
licity scheme" remarked visitor last
night.
THE wagon, bedecked with streamers,
drawn by four white horses, carrying
the band was the next thing TO a circus
parade.
THAT section of Third avenue known
as the Electric Esplanade is already one
of the best advertised streets in the city
At night it is easily the prettiest block
in town. The development of the Third
avenue property was probably the most
rapid on local record, too. A couple of
years ago there were only two or three
concerns doing business on that avenue
between Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets Now the street is built up solid
~. some of the finest business houses in
Birmingham being there. The growth is
substantial, too, though it came on with
mushroom-like rapidity. Today a visitor
has not seen the most attractive part OF
Birmingham until the Electric Esplanade
is seen at night. The business men on the
street are always energetically pressing
the advantages of their section as a retail
center, too, and Third avenue Is sure to
grow in business favor"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-28
Justice Browns Successor

1t is virtually determined, although
not announced, that Attorney General
Moody is to take seat on the supreme
bench, thus filling the vacancy created
by the retirement of Associate Justice
Brown.
This appointment is more important
than may appear at first sight. 1t is
an appointment to court that has
freely INDUCED of late in five-tofour
decisions, especially when far-reaching
questions came up. The appointment
of Mr.. Moody may readily, therefore,
In court composed of nine members,
change it's entire hue or proclivity.
Questions come before the supreme
court that are essentially political. The
income tax went down in states
lights court. There are states rights
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-28
KING LEOPOLD'S "GRAFT."
Leopold, Business Man, Is Greatly Aid.
ed by Leopold, the King.

In "a King in Business" in the No
vember Eyerybody's, Mr.. Robert e. Park
explains Leopolds success.
'1n the scramble for foreign eonces-
sions," he says, Leopold the fnancier.
has been greatly aided by Leopold, the
king. Not only has he used all the diplo-
matte machinery of the Belgian govern
ment to secure for his own companies
the concessions he desired but actually
he has spent the governments funds to
exploit them. He borrowed thirty-one
million francs from the Belgian govern
ment to carry on the Congo enterprise.
and then took the money from the sink
ing fund created to pay back his loan and
put 1t In the Pekin-Hankow railway
scheme in China. In all these operations
he has acted wit hthe untrammeled free
dom and singleness of purpose of a cap
tain of high finance, giving about as
much consideration to the interests of
Belgium as a railway president does to
the interests Of the stockholders"