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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-01-02

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
San Francisco's Rivals.

Portland, In Oregon, and Seattle, in
Washington, rank as ports on the Pa
cific coast next to San Francisco. Both
are. however, about one hundred miles
from the sea, while San Francisco lies
on the broad Pacific, with an entrance
to a landlocked bay right at hand.
Portland had in the census year 10000
inhabitants, and Seattle had $4,000,
while San Francisco had 343,000. All
three have grown proportionately
since 1900, but Portland and Seattle
put together would not make San
Francisco. Seattle is growing faster
than Portland. Seattle has an excel
lent harbor, and 1t lies nearer China
and Japan than its two rivals. But
Seattle lies too near the Dominion to
become the American metropolis on
the Pacific unless indeed the Dominion
is to be annexed, and no information
of such a movement is at hand.
1t is difficult to see why business
men or capital or Industrial enter
prises should leave San Francisco, or
avoid that town, to go to Portland or
Seattle, for no one is authorized to
say that either Portland or Seattle is
immune from earthquakes. No one
knows how far the earthquake belt
extends. Both Portland and Seattle
have felt mild quakes in the earth's
crust, and they have no right to de-
clare themselves earthquake-proof.
All three cities WILL however, pros
per, but in the long run San Francisco
will retain it's priority on the Pacific
coast. 1t will be the financial center
in the west as New York is in the
east, and when a finer city is built
beside the Golden Gate it's pre-emi-
hence may be more marked and I'M
mistakeable than 1t was before the
earthquake struck it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
In kentuck Town.

'As the result of the visit OF Governor
Folk of Missouri to Lexington, KY, 1t
is likely that Lexington will be a dry
down on Sundays which will be some-
thing extraordinary" said commercial
traveller
ut Is said that the law for Sunday
closing has not been enforced in Lex
ington more than three Sundays In the
last ten years. Recently some Lexing-
ton people have been making a fight for
the enforcement of the law.
THE outcome was hanging in the bal
ance when Governor Folk delivered his
speech before the educational conference
there the other night. Without referring
to local conditions he made a red hot
plea for the enforcement of laws on the
statute books, contending that there was
no such thing as failure If the majority
would only assert their rights. Hundreds
of Lexington people in the hall got UP
and cheered.
THE Mayor was present and witnessed
the demonstration and the next day the
common council passed an ordinance CIV
ing the Mayor full power to revoke the
license of any saloon keeper who vio-
lates the city ordinance. Proprietors who
refuse to close hereafter will be put out
of business. All of the Lexington papers
give the credit to Folk"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Excursion Trade Growing.

THE success of the free excursions in
augurated nine months ago by the Mer-
chants association of Birmingham has
been very gratifying" said Secretary j.
B. Babb of the organization last night.
During the nine months since the ex-
cursion plan was inaugurated for out
of-town shoppers. s95.52S worth of goods
have been sold by members of the asso-
citation by reason of the excursions. The
amount Of goods sold on the same plan
by the Merchants association of In
dlanapolis during the first year of Its
organization was only $1,000. That was five
years ago. The trade of the association
during the past year from the excursion
plan was 100000.
THE members of the Birmingham asso-
citation are we'll pleased with the begin
ming that has been made, and have decid-
ed to extend the campaign during the
summer
"An enthusiastic meeting of the associa-
ton was held last Friday night at which
time plans for extending the excursion
idea were discussed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Geography in Politics.

at is not a sectional feeling" says
the New York World, (which prevents
the nomination of southern demo-
crat for President, but the parochial
element of geographical availability
which often denies the presidency to
the man best qualified for the office
This provincial disability will never
be removed until the habit of indie
pendent voting makes all states doubt
full"
There is a world of political sense
in the Worlds paragraph. Geogra-
phical availability has ruled national
conventions ever since they were es-
tablished sixty years ago, and 1t Will
continue to be a controlling factor I'M
till. as the World truly says, independ,
ent voting becomes general, or better
still, until direct voting takes the
place Oh COHNeutlOub III thO
ton of presidential candidates.
The day is not far distant when the
people will repudiate the national con-
vention, which Is as noisy as 1t is
unwieldy, as uncertain and impulsive
as 1t is full of cliques and undercur
rents What is good In city or dis
trict is good in the nation, for the
nation is but an enlargement of the
political unit.
The national convention prefers
both geographical and individual avail
ability instead of the strongest and
fittest man The man who can carry
a doubtful state and whose personality
and career are SO round that nothing
will stick to them Is the man that is
wanted. This is why our strongest
men are no longer placed in nomina-
ton for President.
The real remedy is a national pri'
mary. and we are much nearer a direct
vote for presidential candidates than
many now think. 1t is in the air,
and Just as soon as 1t crystalizes we
will get rid of the ills Of availability
geographical and individual, and the
greatest man will then be the most
available. This would be return to
the methods of the earlier days of the
republic when the modern monster
convention was unknown.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Steel. Frame or Brick.

Everybody knows that while our
Pacific front needs great port San
Francisco must endure. No earth
quake can destroy the commercial
need of the country, and that need
will rebuild the stricken city, and the
work will be done without hesitation
or doubt or lack of courage. Just as
Galveston, Baltimore and Chicago
were rebuilt as fast as money and
human energy could do the work, so
will San Francisco be, heavy as its
losses have been. 1t should not be
forgotten that ships can still sail in
and out of the Golden Gate, and that
none of its railroad terminals were
shifted by the earthquake to Seattle
or any other city. They are all in
their accustomed places, and a new
city will spring from them.
But before the construction of the
new city is begun 1t is to be hoped
that careful thought will be given TO
the general manner of it. The de-
stroyed city was full of frame build
ings, because they had long been con-
sidered safer In seismic troubles than
brick buildings. To some extent that
belief was well founded. The frame
building is more nearly earthquake
proof than a brick building, but Meth
err equals in that respect the steel
frame. II seems to be established
that no steel frame was destroyed or
seriously damaged by the earthquake.
Many were Quilted by the resultant
CONGREGATIONS. The story of Balti-
more shows that steel frame buildings
are as near to being fire proof as any
form Of building yet devised, and the
story Of San Francisco shows that
they are practically earthquake proof.
But Ill lot owners cannot Afford to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
CRIME IN GREAT BRITAIN.

From the London Daily Graphic.
The principal conclusions as to the in
crease and decrease of crimes and offenses
to be drawn from the statistics for 1904
are shortly stated thus:
/. Crimes against the person have dimin-
ished
2. Crimes of the classes chiefly commit
ted by the habitual criminals have ceased
to increase at the same rapid rate as in
previous years.
3. Minor offenses of dishonesty have In
creased.
l. Serious frauds and breaches of trust
have Increased.
s. Drunkenness Is stationary.
8. Offenses of the vagrancy class are
growing rapidly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07

crowd composed of the beauty, the virtue.
and the chivalry of Rhubarb county as
sembled in the town hall of Whiskeree
and the Hon. Bucephalus Brown address,
ed them in his characteristic vein of
fearlessness. Without resorting to anv
timid subterfuge, but. on the contrary.
parlng his bosom to the shafts of arro-
gance and despotism, he laid bare the
infamy OF the republican regime and de-
fed the ravening cohorts and all other
oppressors of the people"
Really, now. doesn't it remind you of
old times to hear about this indomitable
and, so to speak, unshirted fearlessness?
Ihey talked exactly that way as far back
as the later sixties. Jones would mount
the stump at some fish-fry, or barbecue,
OF other celebration, and would forth
with denounce, hurl back, challenge,
scarify, and so on, every liar, horse thief,
mlnion, myrmidon, and satellite. Then
ne would be hailed and canonlzed and
held up to contemporary admiration and
amazement as the most reckless daredevil
in all history. Compared with him.
Sobieski was a faint-hearted trimmer,
A.oo'tei ~ iiidililBeTeT, bOdDQlI q n1Qer-
out and Godfrey de Bouillon the most
contemplate of skulkers. Those others
might scatter like affrighted rabbits. That
was to be expected. But Jones. sur
rounded by the chivalry, ETC.. hemmed
in on every side by wassail and real food
Jones refused to turn hair. He never
blenched before the Thingumbobs Of
Tyranny or thees so-and-sos of Evil. There
was his unprotected form. Their his prac-
tically naked diaphragm. Let the octopus
make the most of it. Let the bastard
oppessor strew his vitals on the windl
On no conditions would he quail.
There is as much fearlessness in the
south today as there has ever been
since 1865, and they make as much noise
about 1t as ever Maybe there's some
thing new about it. If so, we should
like to know.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
LURID STORIES.
Of San Francisco Are Little too
Extravagant.

From the New York Evening Post.
One of the 'lurid'' stories that came out
of San Francisco during the aftermath of
the earthquake has attracted the attention
of a South Dakota "higher critic" The
tale concerned the finding of a we'll
dressed man injured in the streets of San
Francisco and his removal to temper
airy operating room. He was given ether,
preliminary to the operation land then
when his coat was unbuttoned three fing-
ers of women. with valuable rings on
them, dropped out of the pockets" Ac-
cording to the teller of the tale the sur
geon revived the man and turned him
over to two soldiers. who took him out
side and .'shot him as you would rab-
Bit 1t is a fine story. says the South
Dakota critic, only 1t doesn't track He
proceeds to show why: "Of course, 1T is
not the custom of surgeons to begin an
operation on a man with all of his cloth
ing on, nor would they be likely to give
him the anaesthetic before they began to
prepare him for the operation. This was
to have beep an abdominal operation, and,
according to the story. the surgeons be-
IL
dressed"
This tendency to inject into every dis
aster like that on the Pacific coast some
element of the spectacular, whether it
taxes belief beyond the breaking point or
not has been noted before. The South
Dakota man recalls a somewhat sugges-
tive tale that owed its origin to the great
blizzard of 1888 in that state. According
to the Dakota romancer a stage with a
great number of children was overtaken
on the way from Vermillion to Yankton.
Unable to go, further the stage driver
took ''29 babies and put them into the
mail sacks. These sacks were then care
fully piled up, and after the storm the
babies were found to be alive and we'll and
none the worse for their odd experience"
1.-The queer thing about it," the critic of
the yellow liar adds, was that this story
actually travelled all over the United
States and was printed as a calm and
truthful account of thing that actually
happened.
Hardly more extravaganza than these ex-
amples is the classic Texas yarn about
the man who in January set out with a
team of oxen to drive twenty miles across
the prairie. At noon one OK was dead
of overheating. and before the driver
had finished skinning the dead OK nor
Their blew down from Minnesota and
froze the other OK to death.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Free Alcohol and Mr.. Aldrich.

For some reason wholly beyond
reason or even imagination a tax Of
over two dollars a gallon was imposed
on alcohol. One result of that in
sensate tax is that we are compelled
to buy in Germany chemicals to the
extent of about six million dollars a
year.
The House passed by a vote of 222
yeas and nays a bill to free alcohol
for use In arts and manufactures from
all tax. such alcohol to be denatured
so that it could not in any way be
used as strong drink by the thirsty.
In the Senate the bill that was passed
almost unanimously by the House was
referred to the finance committee and
Mr.. Aldrich of Rhode Island and New
York is chairman of that committee.
He has decided, it is reported, to veto
the House bill, and there is no appeal
Tax-free alcohol, says Prof. Elihu
Thompson, could be made from pota-
toes, spoiled grain, corn stalks, sugar
cane or other refuse at low cost. 1t Is
sold today in Cuba at from twelve to
fifteen cents a gallon. Its distillation
Is simple. and If the tax were taken
off every farming district would have
small distillery. 1t would supplant
gasoline in automobiles and in other
motors. and 1t would perhaps dispute
the illuminant field with kerosene
Fuel light and power would come
from 1t. and it would be boon to the
farmers.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, straight
republican paper devoted to the ma
chine, does not hesitate to say that
Mr.. Aldrich is opposed to free alcohol
because 1t would displace a good deal
of gasoline. Grain alcohol" the In
quirer goes on to say, lis to be debar-
red from industrial use and all con-
sumers of 1t are to continue paying a
heavy tax in order that the Standard
Oil companys sales of gasoline shall
suffer no reduction. Does an Ameri-
can community intend to stand for
that? We don't believe it."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
RAPID MARCH OF GRAFT
TO THE DICTIONARY

| 1y in books, that 1t has spread abroad,
and London and Paris and Berlin, in re-
ferring to many American disclosures,
adopt the word without any translation.
So today no American word is better
known either in this country or in Eu-
rope.
In the good old days graft had two
we'll known meanings. The dictionaries
defined it as later form of graft a
spelling of the past participle of the
medieval word 'graffen,' a small shoot
or scion of a tree inserted in another
tree, but the graft determined the kind
of fruit.
This tail of the definition throws some
light on the present meaning of the Amer
lean word. 1t is easy to see how graft
determines the kind of fruit these days;
that is, If you make the word synonym
GUS with money profit.
The old definition in the dictionary went
on to denote graft, hguratively, as
something which inserted in or incorpor-
ated with another thing to which it did
| not originally belong; an extraneous adj
dition." And today 1t has the same fg-
urative meaning.
George w. Matsell, chief of police of
New York, police justice and after
wards publisher of the Police Gazette,
wrote book entitled 'vocabulum; or.
the Rogues Lexicon" In 1t he defined
the word grating as working" as
helping another to steal. To work man
meant to pilfer from him; to graft meant
to steal from a man. But among COM
mon everyday people the word was as
little known as the rogue expression
"snitch" is known today.
w e. Henley, the brilliant English
journalist and poet. used the word graft
in 1897 in one of his remarkable ballads
on London slum life. This verse is taken
from "villon's Straight Tips to All Cross
Coves:''
Suppose you try different tack.
And on the square you flash your flag?
At penny-a-lining make your whack.
Or with the mummers mum and gag?
For nix for nix the dibbs you bag
At any graft. no matter what!
Your merry gobbns soon stravag,
Booze and the blowers cop the lot
In other words. Henley wrote: Sup
pose you try different tack and sport
your apron honestly at writing for the
press; or, as a comedian, by gags and
grfmaces, you can earn your money for
naught, whatever your graft (trade).
Your sovereigns all go to taverns and -
lasses"
Henley knew London street slang al
few men knew 1t, and in his Slang and
It's Analogous" published in 1893, there
was his definition of the word graft:
Graft, the verb (Amercan), to steal.
However, since Henley ascribed the
word to the jargon Of thieves, 1t obtained
no other standing and remained
thieves word until Josiah Flynt boldly
seized upon it as an effective word and
used 1t in the title of his book and gave
1t a lengthy and inclusive definition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
FAMILIAR SOUNDS in
CACKLE OF "NEW SOUTH"
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
IN the intervals of the noisy cackle
about the so-called New SOUTH one
hears a vast number of old familiar
sounds. Just what the New South"
means. we have never been able to gather
from the vast and deafening vociferation
referred to. There has been readjust-
ment of the social organization conse-
quent on the abolition of slavery; but
that is forty years old, and has not been
novelty within the generation. The
brains, and substance, the courage and
devotion of the south are now concen-
trated on material development; but that
Is only a logical and inevitable conse-
quence. What is this New South" we
hear SO much about? And IL there be
really such a thing, why are our ears
continually belabored by the old hectic
and vague shibboleths?
We refer Immediately to the comments
in the southern press on the various
political conflicts now raging in such
states as Georgia and Tennessee. There
Is nothing new about them. In all
their aspects and developments they re-
call the violent and feverish past. Every
thing is at the boiling point Apart from
the mere externals, there is no real diff
ference between 1905 and 1852. We have
the same old staggering, scowling ad-
versaries, the new threadbare defiances
and attitudes. Rivals bawl from frown-
ing platforms. Antagonists touch their
hlltswith homicidal,. nervous fingers.
Dugald Dalgetty struts with sword In
hand, looking for some miscreant who
bites his thumb And, over all this seeth-
ing ebullition, the patient listener hears
the outcry of the free and, of course,
independent press. I'VE invite attention
to the fearless denunciation of republic
can corruption delivered by the Hon.
Cyrus Joskins, last Tuesday, in his brill
liant speech at Frog Level before an
immense gathering of our best citizens
And again: Might before last, vast
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
SHE'S A WISE WOMAN.

Warwick James Price in Watson's Maya
zine
Who is able to mend both her hus-
bands clothes and his ways.
Who has learned the paradox that to
have JOY one must give it.
Who can tell the difference between
the first child and a genius.
Who acknowledges the allowance made
her by her husband by making allow
ances for him.
Who appreciates that the largest room
in any house is that left for self-improve-
ment
Why realizes that two husbands of
twenty-five years each are not necessarily
as good as one of fifty.
Who can distinguish between the laugh
of amusement and the one meant to show
off dimple.
Who gets off trolley car the right
way, though she runs the risk of being
arrested as n man I'm disguise.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-07
Hotel Recommendations Wanted.

Five hundred members of the Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows from all points
In Alabama will be In Birmingham for
several days this week attending the
grand lodge meeting. and we are ex-
perieneing some trouble in securing ac-
commodations for the visitors said
member of the local reception committee
last night.
I'VE have been making canvass Tor
the past few days and find that the hotels
are practically filled with visitors TO
the Methodist conference. travelling men
and the regular guests. A number OF
private homes are open to us, however.
and with the numerous boarding houses
in different parts of birmingham, we will
make all of our guests just as comfort
able as we can, although some of them
may be crowded a little.
THE grand lodge meeting Is a great
thing for Birmingham, and the local com
mittee will spare no pains to make the
visitors enjoy their stay in the Magic
city,