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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-19
Birminaham's EccentricItY.

One-half of the British house of
commons has been selected, and the
liberals have a majority over all of
about fifty seats. 1t Is reasonably
well settled that the premier will have
a clear working majority in the new
parliament. With John Burns in the
cabinet the labor vote should be added
to the liberal strength, and that would
carry the votes behind Sir Henry
Campbell Bannerman to 1913 against
rs opponents all told. This was the
situation on Wednesday night. When
the Irish seats are filled the showing
will not be so one-sided, but the lib
erals will be much more apt to control
the nationalists than the tories.
Looked at in any way the landslide
loses none of its proportions. The
new premier seems to have come to
stay a good while.
The diversion at Birmingham was of
a personal nature. In his home city
Mr.. Chamberlain is confessedly pop
ular, and his triumph was sweeping.
But 1t lacks significance to the coun-
try at large, for tariff for protection,
or even one for retaliation, is the issue
that has upset the tories and given the
liberals landslide. There is no other
way to interpret the strength and
sweep of the movement England Is
standing pat on free trade, and the
Birmingham incident is local and per-
sonal The liberal landslide was not
wholly unexpected. but its length and
breadth and probable depth had not
been fully discounted.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-19
Frivolous Arrests.

Police Judge Feagins report cover
ing the last six months of 1905 shows
that there were 4634 arrests In this
town in that time. With the sole ex-
ception of Atlanta, which is also hunt
ing for fines and fees, no such proper
ton of arrests to population can be
found in this or perhaps any other
country.
Judge Feagin says that the arrests
could be reduced one-third by taking
away the one-man power of arrest. AT
present any citizen can on mere YER
bal charge made to any policeman
cause the arrest Of another citizen.
Many such arrests grow out of petty
spite, and are mol pressed for want of
prosecution. Judge Feagin does not
propose that the right to make COM
plant shall be taken away, but he
says the person causing an arrest
should be compelled to give bond to
appear in court to present and support
his charges of misconduct. If he fail
to appear he should be taxed with
the costs of the case. The PROPOSE
ton presented by Judge Feagin docs
not grow wholly out of his own ex-
perience, although that would be suf-
ficient, but the plan is in operation in
many cities and states. There is no
reason why it should not be adopted
here. No citizen should be subject to
undue and unjust annoyance, and all
know that too many arrests are made
in Birmingham. Nine thousand year
is about six thousand too many, If
the statistics of other American cities
Atlanta excepted-be a guide and
fest
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100000 tons. The pipe shops are
buying iron freely. One pipe shop in
Ohio has just bought $4,000 tons of
southern iron. The structural shops
and foundries are buying freely, the
latter being especially prosperous. The
orders for cars and locomotives are
beyond the capacities of the shops.
These facts in January give prom
Use of a year even more prosperous
than 1905, which was a record maker
and breaker. The year is young, and
untoward influences may spring up,
but such influences cannot at present
be .forseen. Everything at present
points to heavy demand, well sus-
tanned prices and activity In every
branch of the iron trade throughout
the entire year All plans made of
late in and for this district are based
on a continuance of present favorable
conditions.
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Campaigning in Georgia.

All told the Georgia democrats have
five men from whom to pick a candi-
date for governor. There is Clark
Howell. editor of the Atlanta Consti-
tuition; Hoke Smith, once secretary
of the interior; ]. H. Estill, editor of
the Savannah News; James M. Smith,
a millionaire farmer, and Judge Rus
sell. The race, however, seems to be
between Clark Howell and Hoke Smith.
Heretofore there has been an i'm
preston that Hoke Smith would stump
the state without meeting an adverse
ry worthy of his steer, but that inn
preston is disappearing in the light
of recent events. Clark Howell met
Mr.. Smith in joint debate at Column
bus, and when all the reports are read
it becomes plain that he not only held
his own. but that he made inroads into
the Smith territory. He left good
impression upon the people, and he is
speaking every day, and will continue
to speak to the end of the campaign.
He is not only ready to meet Mr..
Smith in Joint debate, but he proposes
to conduct In every county an aggres-
sive speaking campaign. He is every
where enthusiastically received, and
his speeches are acceptable and salts
factory. His courage and skill on the
stump will, it is thought change tie
aspect of the hot political canvass
which Georgia is experiencing.
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Ensley,s Permanent Growth.

1.-THE best evidence of Ensley's .perma-
nent growth and prosperity is the fact
that though several business men pre-
dicted business would be light in almost
all lines and several business houses would
be empty on account of the several new
houses that havea been recently built, ev-
cry business house in the city is occupied,
more are in demand and the merchants
report even better business than during
the closing months of last year. said
a member of the Ensley city council last
night at the close of busy meeting of
that body.
when the Morris building at the corner
OF Seventeenth street and Avenue e was
begun it was predicted by some whose
faith is subject to fainting spells that
other business houses would become va
can't Contrary to this pessimistic predic-
ton the six large store rooms in the
new building are occupied by enterprising
mercantile firms and every house vacated
has been supplied with new firms.
"Other business houses are now going
up and they will be filled as soon as COM
pleted Two or three new buildings are
under way on Nineteenth street, the new
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-19
IN HOTEL. LORBIES
Alabama Statesmen.

"A group Of men were discussing re-
Gently as to who was the foremost man
IN statesmanship and oratory in Alabama
IN the past half century, said Capt.
]. Lawler Darby.
William L. Yaneey exee1led all others
as an orator. Since death stllled his
tongue, there has appeared no man gifted
with such eloquenee. The late J. l.. NJ.
Curry, known IN Congress as the rising
star Of the south, has no equal, perhaps
as statesman except possibly that
grand old man. Senator John 7. Nor
gan.
Some time before his death, while on
a visit to Birmingham, he was taken sud
denly sick. and sent for me. Although
had known him from childhood, he as
tonished me with his knowledge of men
and governments. He was a charming
companion and was good at anecdotes
Let me relate an instance. In Paris lady
often remarked to him, You need but
one thing in America, lordlings and
dukes John c. Breckenridge called. DO
tell me- the lady asked, who that hand
some man was. have never looked into
such a face. That, madame replied Dr.
Curry is one of our American Kings,
John C. Breckenridge of Kentucky.
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Tennessee Objects.

The Nashville Banner does not care
to discuss the primary in its own state,
but 1t has plenty of space and time in
which to denounce the Alabams pri-
mary, for it says:
1.-THE committee not only ordered a pri-
mary to elect successors to Senators Nor
gan and Pettus, but, presuming that they
will be chosen to succeed themselves, Or
dered also that nominations be made at
these primaries of men whom the gov
ernor, yet to be elected, shall appoint as
senators should Senators Morgan and Pet
tus die in office. The thing is simply alb
surd-politics run mad. 1t is an evasion of
the provisions of the federal constitution
and a rldleulously impractical plan that
evidently had its origin in the petty
schemes of some coterie of designing pol
lticians, and came of no proper regard for
the good of the state or the welfare of the
democratic party"
How much more of an evasion of
the federal constitution is 1t than the
election of dummy presidential cleo
tors? Our dummy presidential electors
are not simply instructed-they are
ordered to vote as party convention
has dictated. This is not in accordance
with the federal constitution, and yet
1t Is an unwritten law of the land that
is never disobeyed And II presiden-
tial electors can be ordered to vote so
and so, why may not legislators be
instructed by the people in the single
matter of selecting United States SEN
ators?
The need of United States senators
who will represent the masses instead
of the classes, especially the trusts, is
extremely urgent, and the Banner
surely must see that there is no other
feasible way in which the Senate can
be reformed.
Senators Morgan and Pettus will be
reelected in 1907, and If on account of
a four.year legislature recess the peo-
pie of Alabama desire to name men
for possible vacancies, there is no par
ticular reason why they should be
scolded by the Nashville Banner in
such violent manner. The people of
Alabama are not nearly SO mad as the
editor of the Banner seems to be.
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FAMOUS PASSENGER AGENT.

Victor Smith. in New York Press.
Nearly everybody who has crossed the
Atlantic on a Cunarder knows that the
passenger manager of the line for the
last forty years was John Keppie He has
just been retired on a handsome pension
and a committee of influential English
men, Scotchmen, and Irishmen has been
appointed to organize a suitable testimo-
nail of regard. This is sure to be on a
large and representative scale. George H.
Daniels. who has retired from the pas
senger department of the New York Cen
trail, is better known, probably, than
Keppie, yet l have heard of no testimo-
NAL or pension for him. II every man
in America who has received a favor
from Mr. Daniel would chip in 81 for
memorial piece of plate. why, 1t would
be nearly as big as the Washington mon
ument,
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Regarded as Curiosity.

Might Clerk Tankerly at the st. Mich
olas hotel has unique object. in its
way" said a travelling man. He re-
eeived It yesterday. and says he intends
to keep it, as an evidence that the best
sort of system might sometimes go wrong.
The article in question is nothing more
nor less than an envelope which con-
tanned a letter from Mr.. Tankerly's broth
er, who is in Coffeyville, Kan. The en-
velope bears a stamp. but it was never
cancelled. There is no postmark on the
envelope. either of the Coffeyvi1le post
office or the Birmingham office
THE fact that the envelope could make
the trip. pass through two postoffces and
be delivered without being postmarked
or having the stamp cancelled makes 1t a
curiosity. and it was subject much
discussed last night by the persons who
had seen it."
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THE TURKISH SOUL.

From Armenia.
The primitive religion of the Turks IN
Central Asia included the worship OF
water, air, earth. as also the sacrifices
of oxen under the shade of huge trees.
Even to this day one witnesses In Asia
Minor and in the vicinity of Constants
nopIe gigantic plane trees. held In rever-
ence by successive generations. After their
exit from their land of origin. the Turks
successfully became Buddhists, Nesto-
rians. Christians, Mahometans, with per-
feet Indifference, according to the nature
of their conquests and the necessities OF
their politics. This entire absence of con-
Germ in matters moral was counterbal-
anced by their esprit de corps discipline
and passive obedience to their chief A
military people. they possessed the quail
ties and defects of a soldier on the
march; they were bloodthirsty and brutal.
but also candid and generous. obstinate
but firm on the point of honor. now
wrathful and then mirthful. on the spur
OF the moment, now full of life and ACTIVE
ity. succumbing without transition to
state of utter Incidence. .
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From the New York Globe.

L IOHu Tic NEW LOAh 1ASP~'
j. IFTY per cent of the men In Wall
ri street have gloved hands as they
I" emerge from their offices for
midday luncheon. Eighty per cent>of the
gentlemen taking an airing on Fifth
avenue on Sunday afternoon wear
gloves. Historians of the Roman empire
tell us that the Romans wore gloves, but
the philosophers despised them for SO do
ing. 1t was said to be a shameful thing
for men in perfect health to cover their
hands with soft and hairy coverings.
Homer tells us that Ulysses wore gloves,
but as sort of apology for the transact
ton we are assured that the great Tro-
jan hero wore them to protect his hands
from thorns when working in the fields.
In the middle ages gloves were undoubt-
edly mark of dignity, and when, in the
year 1897 the tomb of King John, at Wor-
cester, was opened 1t was found that the
very hand which had signed the great
charter at Runnymede was gloved in the
coffin. So was the hand of Edward Long
shanks when his tomb was opened in
Westminster Abbey in liza. And the old
6IBliSH matthew L al 49, ttlAS
us that he noticed that King Henry II,
in the year 1887, was buried In This corr
onation robes, with a golden crown on his
head and gloves on his hands,
1t has been attempted to prove that the
shoe mentioned in the Book of Ruth
and in the Psalms was really a glove,
but the Hebrew word which signifies ITO
tie" scarcely admits of this meaning
There is also a tradition that St. Ann,
the mother of the Virgin Mary. whose
ancient relic in East Seventy-sixth
street, New York. is we'll known, was a
knitter of gloves. That gloves were
worn by the Persians in remote ages we
have the assurance of the historian Keno
phon.
The glove has also a place in poetic
fiction. Romeo when his beloved Juliet APP
pears at the window exclaims:
See. how she leans her cheek upon her
hand
Oh that l were a glove upon that hand,
That might touch that cheekl"
The giving of a pair of gloves as a
token of friendship is expressed in 1.-The
Merchant of Venice" when Portia says
to Bassanio, Give me your gloves. I'll
wear them for your sake And in "Corio-
lanus" when it Is said that the matrons
welcomed Marsius as consul and flung
their gloves, and ladies and maids the
scarfs and handkerchiefs, upon him as he
passed"
The old custom in the northern parts of
England and Scotland of a maiden claim
ing pair of gloves when she kisses
sleeping man is referred to by Sir Walter
Scott in THE Fair Maid of Perth" when
he writes: Thou knowest maiden who
ventures to kissa sleeping man wins
of him pair of gloves" And the young
man of today is fortunate If the gloves
so claimed are not the fashionable ''mous-
quetaires, which | am told range from
S. a pair upward
The Poet Cowper. in his Table Talk,
designates those people as hypocrites
Who pirate and preach about what others
prove,
AS if the world and they were hand and
glove.
Even in the present day, to be hand
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Iron and Steel.

The Iron Trade Review and the
Iron Age both agree in saying that the
outlook in the present January far out
runs that of January of last year.
Orders ara larger, more numerous and
they come from all branches of the
great industry. They cover, too, the
wants of at least the first six months
of the year. Every factor of January
one year ago is present today in en-
larged form. The rail mills are
crowded with heavy orders. The
Pennsyivania railroad alone wants
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-19
AT REST.

BY Daniel o'Connell.
Weary of the rivers and the verdure of
the meadows;
OF the sky's unchanging azure,
or the seas untiring hymn;
OF the giories of the landscape
With the Sunshine and its shadows;
OF the busSe of the city,
With Its folly and its sin.
Painting with longing and a golden
misted dreaming
For a haven where the spirit knows no
surfeit in Its joy;
Where the sparkle of the wine Gun and
the love from bright eyes streaming,
Steal from age its bitter poiSon-steal
from time its power to cloy.
Where regrets may never enter, never
cross the guarded portal:
: Where decay shall be a stranger and the
past an unstained leaf,
With no doubtings for the future. but a
sense of bliss immortal
Deaf to hear the voice of sorrow. strong
to turn the lance of grief.
Where the waillng of the widow and the
wrong and crime and aching
In the hearts of saddened brothers.
treadng dark and lonesome ways,
Shall never pierce the ramparts, nor the
trance perpetual breaking,
Cloud the sun of its endowment, mar the
music of its lays.
Where no winters frost may wither flow
ers of perfume everlasting
Never hush the song of brooklets,
change the splendor of the scene;
Rut the shades of peace esernal--soul and
sense and mind o'ercasting-
wrap them safe from outer troubles, in
nd tnbrotau dream.
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Confederate Veterans.

Alabama veterans" said the ex-Atlan-
tlan. get about $50 apiece, while the vet
Grams in my old state are paid each year
$50 each. The disabled veterans receive
pensions all the way up to 500, While
the widows receive $50 each.
THE disbursements in Atlanta to in
digent veterans alone was this year s5lsso'
for 5Ss drew $50 each. Said the disbursng
officer in Atlanta as he handed out the
new bills:
= love to pay these old fellows this
money, because they not only need It,
but deserve every penny they receive.
For five years l have stood here to make
these annual payments, and year by year
can see the changes; they grow feebler
and feebler, and the years are not many
when most of them Will have passed to
that bourne from whence no traveller re-
turns.'
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"THE GLOVED HAND" IN
HISTORY OF THE WORLD

France. But the best English kid gloves
and glove with any one is to be on thu
terms of the closest friendship.
Among our Anglo-Saxon forefathers to
throw down a glove" was equivalent to
a challenge to single combat, and until
recently it was customary for the Kings
herald to make such challenge at the
coronation in Westminster Abbey.
In England it is customary for the
sheriff to present the judge at what is
called "a maiden assize'' when there ara
no prisoners for triaD with pair of
gloves.
: 1t is often necessary to ''handle a man
with silk gloves" although they are no
longer worn by men. Still the manufac-
ture of silk gloves for women is a great
industry in this country. The great center
of glove-malxing is at Gloversville and
Johnstown, in the state of New York.
These towns are celebrated for the man
ufaeture of the buckskin glove, which is
an American speciality, l understand. In
England silk and thread gloves are mada
at Leicester and Nottingham, and kid
gloves at Yeovil and Worcester, so cele-
brated for its sauce. The heavy kind of
glove known as chevrette kid comes from
are made from the skin of reindeer.
which comes from Kazan. in Russia
There Is large importation of sheepskins
from the Cape of Good Hope for the man.
ufacture of the best kid gloves
The principal materials used in the
manufacture of gloves are leather, silk,
cotton and wool. 1t has been said that
French kid gloves are made from the
skins of rats caught in the great sewers
of Paris, but | am told that this state
ment is absolutely untrue. Paris, how
ever. Is beyond question the great center
of the glove trade, but 1t is at Grenoble
that French gloves are most extensively
manufactured Previous to the year 1925
the Importation of leather gloves into
England was forbidden.
Under inquiry at a glove store am In
formed that owing to the cultivation or
athletics both among men and women
there is an increase in the average size
of the hand. Among men 1t is No. To-
and among women 616. There are some
hands "in whose comparison all whites
are Gnk," and ito whose soft seizure the
cygnet's down is harsh,' as Shakespeare
saith. which can be got into glove
numbered only 5lh which, to my sur
prise was the smallest number which
could find in a well-known glove shop
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-19
General Lees Character.

ut is we'll that the southern people
celebrate the birthday anniversary OF Gen.
Robert e. Lee" said Capt. Frank p
O Bren last night.
Apart from his military greatness and
regardless of what he accomplished. Gen
eral Lee was, on the side of character
the finest flower of American civilization
Upon his reputation rested not spot
not even a speck. There Is only one word
that suggests the supreme beauty of his
character, and that word is NOBLE Cen
eral Lee was, in truth, the noblest man
the new world has given to history.
.I recall now, as I think of his life a
few thoughts of his that have won their
way into print. and these alone indi-
cate the fine temper of the man. For
examples consider these:
Duty Is the sublmest word in the
English language
"A gentleman always feels himself
humbled when he cannot help humbling
others
My name cannot be bought. What
influence I have with the southern people
is not for SALE
General Lee made that reply said
Captain O'Brien, soon after the war
when, in his poverty, he was offered the
presidency of northern insurance COM
pany.
There are only two more sayings that
l need cite now. The first of these, We
must all work now was written to his
son, Robert, in 1853. and indicated the
spirit of General Lee in adapting him
self to altered social and industrial condi-
tons in the south. The second quotation
that l have in mind contains his well
known dying words
Let the tent be struck
In my judgment, said Captain o Brien.
that is finer than Napoleons Tete
dArmee' or even Montcalm's This is the
last of earth, I die content.
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postoniee building on Avenue { VIII have
Two large store rooms beside the one to
be occupied by the postoffiee and Charles
Rouss will soon begin the erection of
another large building on Seventeenth
street.
There seems to be no end for the de-
mand for business houses in Ensley. and
I understand that at least one more large
building IS to go up IN the vicinity of
the city hall on Avenue E early in the
spring.
Il have been told by several Of the
leading business men of the city that
trade has been unusually large for this
season of the year and that the indiea-
lions point TO the largest years business
in all lines in the history o. the Steel
city,
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About Persons.

Marshall Miller of Mobile is at the Hill
man.
Henry Kahn of Montgomery is regis
tered at the st. Nicholas.
J. NJ. Keller of Admission is at the Morris.
Walter A Stewart of Marengo county
is at the Colonial.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. C. Morrison of New
York is at the Birmingham.
D. E. Pope of Mobile is at the St.
Nicholas.
Charles l. Lundstrom of New Orleans
is registered at the Metropolitan
Wat. Brown of Ragland is at the st.
Nicholas.
r. F. Allison of Gadsden is registered at
the Birmingham.
Louis W. schoen of Decatur is at the
Metropolitan.
R. W. Biese of Florence is at the Bir-
mingham.
]. Arthur Engelhardt of Memphis is at
the Hillman.
Mai. William A. Handley of Roanoke
is at me Metropolitan.
A REDUCTION IN VALUE.
From the New York American.
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THE SANDER REFuTED.

From the Lindsborg tKan) Record
A report gained credence that dancing
was ipdulged in at party at the home of
Carl johnson, north of town, last Satur-
day evening In justice to the parties
concerned 1t should be known that such
was not the case, and that the report Is
simply result of the demon gossip which
so often does SO much harm and which
relies mostly upon falsehoods for It's sus-
tenance