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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
DRUNKEN cHAuFFEURs.

New York County Pittsburg Dispatch.
''The drunken chauffeur is the deadliest
thing that this gilded age has produced, :"
So SAYS Howard v. Norris, who owns
four automobiles. Mr.. Norris had just
pulled a tipsy automobile driver from
his seat on an uptown boulevard and
turned him over to the police. Then he
gave a trenchant talk on New York chauf-
feurs. "The chauffeurs of this city are
the weirdest lot of beings that were ever
classed together" he said. "A large per-
centage of them are ex-hack drivers.
Some of them are loafers at heart, Who
wouldn't work If they had the chan ce
They love to sit up in machine and
lord II over people who have to work.
venture to say with ut fnar of con-
tradiction on the part of anyone who
has studied the question that not %
per cent of the car drivers are temperate
men. I have found on investigation that
out of thirty-seven automobile accidents
the chauffeurs in twcnty-one had been
drinking. In nineteen OF these cases the
chauffeurs had the machines out without
chauffeurs grow to be arrogant and inso-
lent the moment they get the lever in
their hands Some day some of them will
be responsible for e big tragedy here
in this city. and then some one will
wake up and start furore to regulate
them by laws strlater taan they have
in New Jersey. which are not strict
enough at that. rhe craze for cars is
so great that most any man who cares
10 can become a Chauffeur III few
days. and 1t attracts the fotsam of ad-
venturers such as New York always has
bountiful supply Of One or two of
the more responsible of the garages have
club rooms and strict rules for their men,
but In most of the places they are al
lowed to hang around the doorways and
on the streets. where they are a menace
to any woman passing along"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
THOMAS HARDY.

From Harpers Weekly.
1t is said that the first book Thomas
Hardy ever wrote has never been pub
lished and the man who persuaded him
not to publish 1t was no other than
George Meredith. The book was called
1.-The Poor Man and The Lady" and con-
tanned some strong revolutionary prin-
c!ples. Tess the most dramatic of
Hardys books, was inspired by the sight
of a girls face. It's author was walk
ing down a lane in West Dorset when
a farmers cart rumbled past on which
was seated the original of Tess. The nov
elist never saw her again but he found
himself weaving romance around the
girl and in due time Tess of the Dur
bervilles' appeared. The famous author
is seen daily in Dorchester. He walks
with his hands behind his back and his
head usually bent, a slow, shambling
walk. like that of man prematurely
aged The whole face is finely chiselled,
but it Is the forehead which stands out
paramount. He cares nothing for society;
in conversation he seems unconscious of
his own cleverness. In his own opinion
the only work he has penned which will
live is Jude the Obscure and he be-
lieves that his greatest book has yet
to come. Moorland and meadow are his
delight, and storm and stress OF tenn
pests hold no terrors for him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
Filth and Nerve Combined.

Instead of tearing down their rotten
buildings the eight big packing COM
panies in Chicago have issued de-
fence, and have called to their aid
two college professors who stand ready
to give the eight all the testimonials
they are. willing to pay for.
But the Houses of Filth are not stand
ing pat on college professors alone.
They have secured the services of
Congressman Wadsworth, chairman
of the agricultural committee in the
House. Wadsworth is cattle pro-
Queer himself in Western New York,
and he poses as a friend of all other
producers and of the eight allied pack
ers. His partizanship is so acute,
however, as to amount to scandal.
He sees no blame whatever in the pro-
Gucers of filthy meats, and he stands
ready to attack in his committee room
whoever does He stands for the beef
trust at all points and under all cir
cumstances, regardless of what they
did or what they may do hereafter.
| The Wadsworth championship of the
beef trust became at length so marked
and unfair that Congressman Sidney
j. Bowie felt compelled to demonstrate.
He took the ground that Commissioners
of Labor Neill did not come before
them in the attitude of a defendant
under cross-examination. This led to
modification of the proceedings in
the committee room.
Perhaps the most audacious PROPOSE
ton of the packers is that all expenses
of inspection should come out of the
people, although as a practical monop-
oily they possess unlimited powers of
taxation. In view of the fact that the
packers are confessedly and wretched-
ly delinquent, they should be made to
bear the expenses of inspection even
| if they do later on levy those expenses
on the cattle producers. The packers
are as impudent before the public as
| they are filthy in their packing houses,
and they should be given the Bever-
idge amendment without the dotting
| of an 81" or the crossing of st."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
Drsuo and Monroe Doctrines.

All will not be lovely and peaceful
at Rio Janeiro next month when the
third Pan-American conference meets.
The Drago doctrine will be there pre-
pared for a fight with the Monroe doc
trine over the Roosevelt extension of
the latter enabling one power to col
lect by force debts due its citizens by
another power The distinguished Ar
gentine jurist, L. F. Drago, says no
such power exists, or rather should
exist
The programme committee of the
Pan-American conference was forced
to modify its statement of the subject,
so that it reads now as follows: "A
resolution recommending that the sec
ond peace conference at The Hague
be requested to consider whether and,
If at all. to what extent, the use of
IO1CG LOT lu6 COllCtllOn vi QCpNo 10 tib
missable." If the subject had stood
as 1t was at first presented several re-
publics would not have sent delegates
to the Rio conference, and as things
stand Secretary Root will have to be
skillful and tactful in order to secure
a full attendance.
The Drago doctrine and the Roose-
welt Monroe doctrine are at swords
points, and not few of the delegates
at Rio will favor action on the spot on
the subject with no thought or care
as to what The Hague or the rest OF
mankind may think of it. Argentine
by no means stands alone on this sub
ject, and altogether there promises to
be battle at Rio between the Drago
forces and the Roosevelt Monroe line
up, with the chances in favor of the
Drago doctrine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
Turning Out Iron and Steel.

An official of the Tennessee Coal
and Iron company recently stated to
a reporter Of the Wall Street Journal:
"Within two years we expect to be
turning out $4,000 tons of open hearth
rails month, which is at the rate OF
100000 a year. In the first six months
of 1907 we exepct to turn out $4,000
tons, and in the last half 225,000 tons.
making total of $4,000 tons for the
year. After that we will have ca
pacity of $4,000 tons month"
This would carry the home consump-
ton Of pig iron up to about one mil
lion tons year, and the production of
this district last year was but 1901
062 tons, and it will not exceed 1,700,-
600 tons this year. In other words,
we will soon consume two-thirds of
our pig iron product. A rail mill in
North Birmingham would soon carry
nome CONSUMPTION up W HOHle pro-
duction, a consummation devoutly to
be wished
When we go out of the pig iron
market we will begin to derive from
our natural resources a fair proper
ton of the benefits, but so long as we
are content to melt ores, letting other
districts turn the product into mer-
charitable forms of manufactured
goods, just that long will we be at the
mercy of other districts. We will not
have the independence that should go
with our undoubted resources alike Of
fuel and iron ores.
When the Tennessee company is
turning out $4,000 tons of rails a
month our battle for independence will
be half won.
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Evans he said, had told him that his
friends had given him the money and
| other presents, and that these friends
were liquor dealers. At that time he
said that Evans. was chairman of the
purchasing board. Davis further stated
he had heard Evans complain that other
members Of the board were not giving
him his share of the orders according to
arrangement, and that he had laid a trap
by which he and Briggs Wilson, manager
OF a distilery IN Columbia, had seen
other whisky men pass rebate money TO
other members of the dispensary board.
Evans and Williams. he said were stand
ing on a table looking through a tran
SOM"
Governor Hayward has directed the
attorney general to prosecute four
former members of the dispensary
board for malfeasance in office, and
the subject has thus been thrown into
the pending state campaign. Senator
Tillman is having the fight of his life
in defending the state dispensary sys-
tenn from the prohibitionists on the
one hand and the wide-open crowd on
the other, and the result is in doubt
Already disintegration is going on, for
under a new law any county can take
vote choosing between prohibition
and dispensary, and several counties
have already accepted prohibition. 1t
is more than probable that the agri-
cultural counties will one by one be-
come dry" while the dispensary will
linger in the counties that have cities
until it is wholly overthrown at least
on state basis. 1t invites corrup-
tion, and South Carolina has never
been able to purchase liquors in an
honest above-the-board manner. HUI
man weakness and greed come in to
prevent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
BIRMINGHAM Spirit.

Il see that there Is to be an election
on the incorporation of Fairview June
2S,' said a man last night This re-
minds me that only about two years ago
there was not more than a dozen houses
in that section and most of these were
at Rising about half a mile this side of
Fairview proper.
Now I believe they claim a population
of at least one thousand in Fairview.
Most of this growth has been in the past
twelve months. and am told that prop
erty in this section has advanced more
than 100 per cent in this time.
The rapid growth of Fairview issehar-
acteristic of the Birmingham district and
indicates the great possibilities of every
section in the district that is touched by
the electric railway system or has any
of the other advantages with which the
district is so beautifully supplied.
"Fairview has the advantage of a
healthy altitude, quick car service, the
county sanitary sewer, electric lights, city
water, good air and as fine class of
people as live in Jones valley.
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The Periodical CRATER.

ut looks as II there is graft most every
way you turn these days-work for the
muck rake In high places and in the little
corners-but the variety of CRATER l want
to use my little rake on is the man who
stands round in the way and reads my
periodicals. gratis, every day." said
newsdealer last night.
YOU'D be surprised to know how many
people drop in here daily and monopolize
my stand. OF course I'm not selling so
much paper: the reading matter and not
the paper is what sells a magazine. So
the man who stands here in the store and
reads a periodical, then places II in the
rack and walks away, has actually taken
so much of my property, and I've received
no return. Probably he soothes his con-
science with the reflection that the book
Is unlnjured, but IL he hadn't had free
access to it, he might have purchased it,
At any rate he's read 1t, and that's what
they're published for. Its the same way
with papers. Everybody knows handling
detracts from a papers appearance. Then
not one out of ten can put a paper back
just like they got 1t.
yes sir, the periodical CRATER Is the
man I'm after. Upton Sinclair can look
after those of larger calibre."
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could this time touch 1t with impunity.
He had now, obviously, been admitted
among the initiated; and when he had
gone on drinking and spending enough
to entltle him to confidence, the beautiful
"demoiselle du Compton, condescended to
explain to him the mystery of the mat
ter.
At the foot of the metal counter was a
piece of strip iron, connected with one Of
the wires of galvanic battery, the other
wire communicating with the counter it.
self. When any of the initiated touched
the counter the presiding goddess stopped
the current, which only novices were in
tended to. feel. The whole device was
only employed to amuse customers. The
electric counters became very popular.
and had rapidly spread all over Paris.
when the government, thinking probably
that such practical jokes might some
times be carried too far. absolutely sup
pressed the cafes electrlques.''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
Scholarly Musician.

"Dr. Muck, the new leader Of the Bos-
ton symphony orchestra, was famous in
Berlin as an opera director when I was
there a few years ago, but If he had had
experience as a symphony director l was
not aware of it, remarked Birmingham
musician DIR. Muck Is conspicuous ex-
ample of the high intellectual rank held
by musicians in Germany. He is a schol-
ariy man and is Phi. D. Of Heidelberg.
1.-The University of Heidelberg, by the
way. confers PHI. D. for music alone; but
the student who receives it for music
must be not only a master musician but
must be able to write luminous treatese
on music and must be master of several
languages. DIR. Muck was student OF
metaphysics and received his degree on
account Of his philosophical studies"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
Very Realistic.

zone night when I had finished work
sat in our store gazing at the woodside
frieze which belongs in the decorative
scheme of the stairway Of the Southern
club leading from the first floor down to
the new cafe said a man whose firm has
the contract for the interior work. 80
realistic was the scene that the spirit OF
the woods came out, as 1t were, and got
hold of me. Tt seemed as though | could
actually smell the woods and by putting
my hand out touch the tress. What do
you suppose I felt like at the moment
when a 'possum walked into the land
scape Naturally my first thought was
that I had EN-. l rubbed my eyes and
took another look. The 'possum was there
all right He was walking round the room
as though he owned the place. Well,
couldn't stand the nerve strain, so
skiddooed. Certainly 1t was a 'possum and
1t took load off my mind to find him still
there when I came back with some other
people. don't know how he got there.
He just felt at home among those trees
I guess, and wandered in. Any time you
want to conjure up a 'possum take look
at the freze. 1t will be on the wall to-
morrow"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
FROM the New york Post


~ ONSUL E. T. LEIFELD reports
~ from Freiburg concerning a new
- electric lamp which, 1t is declared,
will revolutionze the present system of
electric lighting. He says that an Aus
trian chemist, DIR. Hans Kuzel, has, after
many years hard work, succeeded in con-
structing a new electric lamp, which he
calls the syrius lamp. AS is well known,
incandescent gaslight Is cheaper than
electric light, because the filament wires
Of the latter are very expensive and the
glass bulbs soon wear out. Dr. Kuzel has
now invented a new substitute for the
glowthread, by forming out of common
and cheap metals, and metallods, colloids
in a plastic mass, which can be handled
like clay and which, when dry, become
hard as stone Out of this mass. very
thin wire threads are then shaped, which
are of uniform thickness and Of great
homogeneity. These two characteristics
are of great value in the technics of mean
descent lamps. The Kuzel or Syrius lamp
hardly needs one-quarter of the electric
current which the ordinary electric lamp
with a filament wire requires. Expert
ments, 1t is asserted, have shown that
the lamp can burn for thirty-five hundred
hours at a stretch. Another advantage
Is that the intensity of light of the new
lamp always remains the same, the lamp
bulb never becoming blackened, as is now
the case The new lamp, it Is said, will
be put on the market next autumn.
"A number of attempts have been made
recently" says the Electrical World, "as
is well known, to improve the light-yield
of an incandescent lamp, by the selection
of suitable high-meetingp point metal for
the filament, in place of carbon. con-
siderable degree of success has been met
with in the use of graphite, tantalum,
and osmum. 1t seems to be only ques-
ton of time and commercial process devel-
opment when the ordinary carbon fila
ment, now so widely used, shall disappear.
Reports have recently come to hand con-
corning attempts to utilize two new ele-
mentary substances; namely molybdenum
and tungsten, particularly the latter.
Tungsten is rare metal and has an iron
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
Mr.. Evans Beaver Hat.

The disclosures before the South
Carolina dispensary investigating
committee almost rival those brought
out in Pennsylvania by the interstate
commerce commission. More was at
stake in Pennsylvania. but in South
Carolina gifts and rebates seem to
have been distributed with free hand.
Contractor Davis engaged in building
a house for H. H. Evans of Newberry.
formerly chairman of the dispensary
board, said under oath:
He several times saw in Evans pos
session large amounts of money. thou
sand-dollar bill generally being on the
outside. Once he had seen Evans with a
Saver hat full of money in greenbacks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
MANY SUCH.

From the Sacred Heart Review
Old Mrs. B., a lady notorious for her
saving habits, one morning entered the
doctors surgery leading a healthy boy
OF nine years. well. Mrs B." said the
doctor. who's our patient?' MY nevew
from town. Mrs. b. replied Not much
wrong with him. l should say" laughed
the doctor. pinching his red cheeks. TITS
about is appetite, DOCTOR" said the boy S
aunt in a low voice. What" exclaimed
the doctor, staring. Surely he doesn't
need an appetizer" Good gracious. no,
doctor" replied Mrs. B. in Mortified &C.
cents. IT want you to give me summat
to make s appetite less. Ell eat me
out of 'ouse and ome afore is month S
'oiday Is up if is appetite amt cut
down.
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THE ELECTRIC CAFE.
Resorts Where Thrill Was Admins.
tered at Every Turn.

From the London Globe.
place among the cafes of Paris is the
total disappearance of the electric cafe.
thirsty Partisan entering one of them for
the first time in his life found himself in
place which resembled a buffet more
than a cafe, and in which the most re-
markable object was an enormous metal
counter Having swallowed his beverage
he proceeded to place his piece of money
on the counter when. to his astonshment,
he received a violent shock in the right
hand, which probably caused him to drop
the coin as If 1t were redhot.
1T have had an electric shock!' he
would exclaim to some frequenter lourg-
ing near him.
'Impossible!' would be the reply. you
must have knocked your funnypone
against the edge of the counter"
Protesting that he had received gan
vanic shock, the victim was assured by
the lounger. who had been lying In wait
for his joke, that he had simply oeen
electrified by the charms OF the young
lady behind the counter, just as an auol-
ence at the theatre is said to be electihed
by an actress or prima donna.
Again, however, on receiving his change
the new customer experienced sharp
shock. being the more astonished mas
much as the habitues present put down
and took up their change without any
visible disturbance by the electric cur
rent. Then he went away mystiffed, to
return, perhaps, later in the evening, with
an inexperienced friend, whom, partly
from curiosity, partly from mischief, he
led up to the counter. His friend nc
sooner touched it than he started back
electrified, but he himself found that ht
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
INCANDESCENT LAMP TO
BURN FOR $500 HOURS

gray color, and is so very hard that it
can scratch glass. Its specific gravity is
given at 1911, and it's atomic weight 1874
almost identical with tantalum). thus be-
ing one of the heaviest of metals. 1t was
discovered by Scheele in 1850. 1t is some
times called wolfram, particularly in Ger
many, but this term is also applied to a
mineral consisting of a double tungstate
of iron and manganese. Until recently,
tungsten has only been known. to most
electricians as the nietal which, when
added to German silver to tbeA~z.tssic,
or per cent, produced the alloy platin-
old, which possesses a remarkably high
resistyity, the value of which varies only
slightly with great temperature changes.
Like osmium and tantalum, tungsten
has lower resistivity than carbon, and
consequently there is the same kind of diff
ficulty in producing high-voltage lamps of
tungsten that there is in producing high
voltage lamps of osmium and tantalum.
Nevertheless, 110-volt tungsten tantalum
lamps of 32-cp are stated to have been
produced. very high efficiency, and
therefore very low specific consumption,
is claimed for them, namely, l watt per
hefner, or .SS candle, while the lifetime at
this specific consumption is reported as
1900 hours. Moreover, it is said that the
candle-power of the tungsten lamp re-
mains constant during it's lifetime, and
that it is not sensitive to- fluctuations in
terminal voltage. If all this is borne out
in practice. and the lamp can also be
produced at a reasonable cost very ros-
cate future should be predicted for it.
Up to the present. time, however, the in
formation offered is too meagre to admit
of any reliable opinion being formed as
to the merits of the tungsten filament. 1t
it unquestioned, however, that its melting
point is exceedingly high. In fact, ac-
cording to the inventors in Austria, pure
tungsten does not melt, but volatilizes d.
rectly at a temperature considerably in
excess of that at which the ordinary car
bon filament is supposed to volatilize. On
this account a considerable Improvement
in the luminous efficiency of tungsten as
compared with carbon filaments when en-
ployed in incandescent electric lamps may
reasonably be expected"
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Transfer Association,

George c. Harris of the Harris Transfer
company and his son George C. Harris,
Jr.. left yesterday for st. Joseph Mo-, to
attend the annual meeting of the National
Association of Transfer officials. They
will be absent about week. The nation
al association has been instrumental in
bringing about many improvements in the
transfer service. The members are pro-
gressive men and exchange ideas for the
genefit OF the business which touches
closely the travelling public
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Being in love seems to be either all joy
or all pain, according to no rule what
soever.
1t costs $4,000 to educate some boys,
and they never earn the interest on it..
A woman is pretty sure that If she un-
derstood mathematics better the house
bills would add up less.
Anyway, man with money can't have
the fun a man without any plans what
he would do If he had IT.
Some men are so mean they would al
most be willing not to have anything so
as not to have to pay taxes.