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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-26

smile, nor the parchment nor even big
stick, he seemed really at ease and said
he guessed he'd trust it to me- Then
he asked me if I'd enjoy a ride on horse
back some morning.
AT that we branched off into CONVEX
sation on various subjects. the president
sitting, or rather walking, back and forth.
back and forth"
But how did you make your sketch
esq
caught them on the fly, as 1t were.
Wine the president was talking to me
ana explaining the American methods of
commerce, American institutions of art.
American women in business and society
and goodness knows what else.
President Roosevelt cannot help being
taetful. l found him too busy to give
me mere than three good sittings as
they were called, and 1 did want more
was admitted to his office in Washing
ton and watched him for many days at
a time.
Had l painted your president lust as
l had wished to, it would have been ont
OF doors, In either negligee or in his rid
Ing to9s. You can see from that desire
not in the least prompl... from a long
ing of the fantastic but from the nature
OF the man-that l felt the free. fresh
out-of-door spirit in him. Some day. per-
maps, can paint just such portrait for
my own pleasure"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

From the Chicago News.
1t is the things we didn't do that we re-
gret most.
A bluff is all right as long as YOU can
fool people with il.
Men with soft snaps don't realize what
a hard world this is.
Fools who butt in where angels fear to
tread usually get what they go after.
The weigh of the transgressor depends
on whether he is buying or selling.
Money will do a great many things, but
it will not remove the freckles from a
n1shl's conscience.
Grass seldom grows under the feet of
a man who keeps on the sidewalk or in
the middle OF the street.
II is much easier to tell people that
there is no use in worrying than IT is to
tell them how to avoid it.
Men are always telling what they would
do under certain circumstances, but when
the aforesaid circumstances happen along
they do something different.
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VALUE OF FOODS.
Bulletin to Be Issued BY Agricultural
Department.

Washington Special to The New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
"Its what you eat that makes you
what you are
That's what the food sharps of the ag-
ricultural department said today when
they read the conclusions of Prof. Irving
Fisher, of Yale, that the vegetarian is
the strongest type physically. According
TO a table OF receipts outlined today, food
not only decides mans muscular char
acter, but his mental callber. and partic-
ular fitness in business life as well.
The department authorities say that
man reflects animal spirit. They point
to the fact that just as the carnivorous
animals, as the tiger and the lion, are
predatory and ferocious, so can human
being become by devouring raw meat
And, by the same process, the granivor-
Gus animals, like the cow and the horse,
are tractable and strong, just as the man
is who lives on vegetables. Thus by the
regular diet of beans three times day,
from generation to generation, the sub
ject finally becom sea strong but easily
persuaded Individual. On the other hand,
if the subject eats raw beef sandwiches
he becomes belligerent, crafty, treacher-
Gus and selfish.
The department is now engaged in eX-
haustive research into the precise effect
upon the human intellect Of various kinds
of food, and will soon issue formal
statement on the subject.
Investigations by noted scientific men
throughout the world" said Prof. Lang
worthy of the department today, have
led to the conclusion that probably the
most intellectual men in the world are
the Buddhist priests. They are vegetar-
ians. Put it Is well known to any one
who views tile mere physiological aspect
of the case that regularity is what
counts I don't mean that a man or wo-
man should eat the same things every
day, but they must eat about the same
time each day, and be moderate in the
quantity of their food.
Temperance in the consumption of
food counts for everything. Overeating
and the persistent consumption of rich
foodstGffs, especially at hours when the
digestive apparatus should be allowed to
rest, cause the so-called brain storms
The mind is put in an abnormal condition
through the overtaxing of the stomach"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Should Get the Facts.

"A paper in Il neghborlng city says
the criminal record of Birmingham is at
tracing attention, and the Atlanta Con-
stitution asks for light" remarked a citi-
zen. THE paper referred to then tells
of several murders and no end of ordl-
nary crimnalty, and concludes by say
ing: Doubtless the explanation is found
in the fact that Birmingham has been
importing, in great numbers, foreigners
TO work in the mines and shops. They
represent the serapings of Europe, and
when they come in contact with the brand
of red liquor dispensed in Birmingham
they go forth and kin and scratch each
other. Birmingham probably has a
greater number of this class than any
other city in the SOUTH.
The Birmingham district has more
than It's share of homicides and it is
lamentable fact that white men arraigned
for murder never suffer the full penalty
for their crime. But II Is not true that
foreigners commit the greater part of the
criminal offenses recorded in this district.
Most of the murders are committed by
negroes and white men born on the soil.
The foreigners as a rule are at once in
dustrious and law abiding and employers
only wish there were more of them"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-26
San Franchises Political Boss

Abe Ruef was, ten years ago, law
yer who had few clients, and he natur-
ally drifted into politics, and quite as
naturally he became the leader and
business end of the machine organized
by the republicans and fed by the
Southern Pacific railroad Abe claims
TO be a republican today, although
when the union-labor movement be-
came controlling he picked up Schmitz,
whom he found blowing a. horn in q
theatre orchestra, and made him
mayor. Schmitz. in return, made Ruef
his legal adviser.
Ruef was a born CRATER, and when
he had become the legal adviser of the
city government he proceeded to or
ganize a political brokers' Office of a
sweeping nature. He outdid the St
Louis grafters, and nothing equal to
his machine has been disclosed since
the days Of Boss Tweed. Ruef, 1t
should be remembered, held no office,
and drew no salary. He had the ear
of the mayor, and the entire city and
county government, and he proceeded
to build up a system that levied heavy
assessments on all franchise getters.
He assessed the trolley system, the
telephone companies, and the gas and
electric companies. 1t stands proven
that the street railways paid him $780,
600, and the lighting and telephone
companies probably paid him as much
more. He knew what every voting
official wanted for his vote, and he
stood ready to hand over the cash.
He stood between the officials and the
franchise-seeking corporations, and he
filed his own pocket first.
The labor-union party will have to
shoulder Ruef, for 1t put Schmitz into
Office, and Schmitz set up Ruef as a
boss, or rather Schmitz permitted
Ruef to establish himself as a political
broker. through whom franchises could
be procured or defeated as the corpora
lions might desire. 1t will thus be
seen that all parties may develop cor
ruption. Philadelphia is an illustra-
ton of republican rottenness, and ST.
Louis of democratic rascality, and now
San Francisco demonstrates that graft
can spring from labor unions
The people of San Francisco are
thoroughly, aroused. and the hope is
ti.at the men who paid sums of money
to Ruef for corruption purposes will
be arrested and punished. 1t is plain
that corruption can best be stopped by
reaching its fountain head. The men
who pay the money render possible
the machine and machine creates a
boss, and thus nearly every city be-
comes equipped with an Abe Ruef.
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But do not stain
Paw tor Time Spent in Camp

Georgia sent three regiments and
war, and her volunteers spent some
time in camp before they were finally
mustered into the service of the United
States. All regiments and batteries
do. But all states do not proceed to
collect pay for this waiting spell Geor-
gia has just collected from Uncle Sam
$29,3S3, which will be distributed
among the men who waited in camp to
lie mustered in.
The individual claims Of the soldiers
of Georgia range from AZ cents to
$3.50. The latter sum goes to the colo
mel of the Third Georgia regiment,
while the former goes to the recruits
who were In camp but single day
before they were mustered in.
The act OF Congress- that authorizes
payments of claims Of this nature re-
qrires the total sum TO be paid to the
governor of the state. but he cannot
place the money in the treasury of
the state. He is required to pay the
claimants man by man according to
the lists filed with the government.
The belated checks are very welcome
in Georgia, and similar checks would
probably be as Welcome In other
states.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-26
DIED TRYING TO SAVE MASTER

From the New York American
A little wiry-haired fox terrier that had
trotted gravely beside its master while he
walked the tracks of the Long Island
railroad at Morris Park station, last night
attempted to save the man from death
and went to destruction with him.
The man. who has not yet been identi-
fled, had proceeded from a cafe to the
tracks, between which there is a high
wooden fence, with a swinging gate. The
gate was open and the man made for Ii.
Tie dog gripped its masters trosusers
legs and held back But the man did not
heed the warning. He wrcnched himself
free. Once more the animal gclpped him.
BY this time the stranger. evidently
under the influence OF liquor, had gone
through the gate. Suddenly, he disap-
peared with the dog under fast express
that WhiZZed by
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-26
Baltimore Speci.

Baltimore Special 10 the New York World.
~ CcORDING to Dr. II. Burton
w Stevenson. formerly president of
the County Medical association,
there should be only two unpreventable
causes of death-accident and old age.
lie believes that all germ diseases are
durable by anti-toxins. which he calls
the twentetieth century medicine, and
that the production OF anti-toxins ought
to be the first thought of the medical
profession.
While some antl-toxins can be secured
from animals, there are others that can
be obtained only from human beings.
How to get this is the question. BY
way of suggestion he asks why not give
persons convicted of crime the alterna-
tive of going to prison or submitting to
become temporary anti-toxin factories
The possibilities of fatal results, DIR.
Stevenson says are very remote.
Says DIR. Stevenson; "A toxin is the
poison of a disease germ. When such
germ enters the body natrue. to COM
bat it, provides in the blood a substance
which neutralizes the action of the germs
toxin.
1--WE say of dlphtheria that it runs its
course in seven days, or of typhoid fever
that it runs it's course in twenty-one days
We mean by this that with diphtheria it
requires seven days for the body to form
the anti-toxin which renders the germs
poison harmless and with typhoid it re-
quires twenty-one days. By the injection
OF anti-toxin in the early stages of diph-
iberia the poison is counteracted at once,
the disease does not have to run its
course and the attendant dangers are
done away with.
LAS result of this great discovery
mans allotted three score years and ten
will soon cease to be a myth The TWEEN
tieth century medicine will make disease
harmless indisposition and death by ac-
cident and old age only the order OF the
day. Surgery electrotheraphy and Ro-
entgen rays are daily demonstrating the
fact that hitherto unconquerable diseases
are yielding to treatment, and serum
theraphy, the glittering dream OF gener-
atoms gone, is becoming a reality.
I'VE now know that if sufficient anti
NN-N'-i
to control an amount of toxin sufficient
to produce death a condition of immunity
exists. This immunity Is acquired natur.
ally or artihcially. The influence of a
toxin upon the cells of a body is one of
excitation, causing the body cells to pro-
duce an antidote for the poison or an
ant-toxin for the toxin. When the pro-
cess OF anti-toxin manufacture in the
body goes on until the toxin is controlled
we have NATURALLY acquired immunity.
1.-THE artificial immunity is one pro-.
duced by injecting into a body an anti
toxin secured from an animal GONZALES
cent from the disease. In other words,
antl-toxin is supplied artihcially in the
beginning of disease instead of waiting
for the body cells to manufacture it.
The theory upon which serum therapy
is based has been proved to be correct
beyond a doubt. The chief difficulty in
the way of It's more general application is
the fact that such anti-toxins as have
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-26
DEATH FROM BITTEN TONGUE.

From the Philadelphia North American
Infected with tetanus as the result Of
a seemingly trihing wound caused by the
victim biting her own tongue. 11-year-
old Mary Holland OF 2310 Cross street
died yesterday of lockjaw in spite of all
that medical aid could do to save her life.
The child, who was afflicted with a
nervous trouble bit her tongue In sort
of paroxysm on the 9th of the present
MONTH The injury resulting did not seem
to be any more serious than usually fol-
lows from q similar accident. In a few
days, however. the tongue became ulcer
ated and a week ago the jaws became
rigid and showed the dreaded tendency
to lock together.
While the strength of the child was
kept up as far as possible by the admin
istration of food through tube, every
thing known to medical science was done
to save the childs life. Nothing availed,
however, and she grew steadily worse
until death ended her sufferings.
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healthy man could ask There was a
bowl of soup to begin with, followed by
meat and vegetables and plenty of bread
I'm sure the lunch would have done that
man more good than the drink of whisky,
and while / cannot say how badly he
needed the alcohol, he certainly did seem
to need the meal much more. have been
thinking over this matter and can reach
no conclusion, except the opinion that
the man was a fit subject for medical
treatment"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-26
REGARDING Musical Culture.

Il read with interest what the head of
an old piano concern had to say in The
Age-Herald Of Sunday about the greatly
increased demand for musical instru-
ments in Alabama" said a musician
THE fact that piano is now regarded
as almost household necessity is en-
couraging 1t certainly indicates that
along with our material prosperity comes
a desire for musical culture, but in my
opinion Americans will never be recognized
as a musical people until parents who
have children to educate learn to dis
criminate in the selection OF teachers
Music is both an art and a science and
should be studied with the same serious
purpose as high school or college students
study history, mathematics and the other
sciences. There are competent instruc-
tors of music in every city of Birming
hams size, but the number of incompe-
tents is far too large. The percentage of
musical charlatans is greater in cities
like New York and Chicago, perhaps,
than in cities of the smaller size. Until
the poorly equipped teachers are welded
out music as an art will continue to
make slow progress.
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Ruef case, or to a thousand other
cases in this country. Here techni-
calities, delays and appeals are almost
endless, provided the accused is rich
or has rich friends. If the prisoner
be poor and frlendless he is hanged
as summarily in this country as he
would have been if he had committed
murder in England.
The entire American criminal sys-
tenn not only defeats the ends of jus.
tice. but it sets up class distinctions.
rendering conviction in the case of the
rich and powerful almost impossible,
while the poor and humble are hur-
ried to the scaffold. There are no dis
tinctions of this sort in England.
where class and caste exist. There
are no endless trials, few technical
ties and no appeals, save to the Home
Office, which can be trusted to turn a
deaf ear to all but a few exceptional
cases. The American methods In
handling prisoner charged with
crime must yet be changed from the
ground up, for they are unjust, in.
efficient and crime breeding at every
step, and in some respects they are
corrupt Juries are packed in this
country, and no scheme is left untried
when there is money enough in a case
TO foot the bills
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-26
THE AUTOMOBILE IN WAR.
Editorial in Chicago Post.

EDITORIAL 1T chicago ToSt
1t has come to President Bonilla of
Honduras to be the first great soldier to
take the field in an automobile. Bonilla,
say the meager dispatches from Central
America, is on the firing line of the Mic
araguan war in his own private racing
motor
To dismiss this innovation carelessly as
merely another bit of good stage bust
ness in the comic opera revolutions of
the Latn-American W ,uld be unfair. 1t
is much more than that. 1t is a vivid sign
that the continent to the south of US, dis
covered for modern purposes by Elihu
Root, is by no means the sleepy, old
foggy place that we have been content to
consider it. No people can be considered
behind the times when they cheerfully
go to war in motor cars. Such an act is
modernity of the most daring kind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-26
THE GOLD QUESTION.
Wall Street Journal.

From the Wall Street Journal.
The statistics of the production and use
of gold, published in the Wall Street
Journal show that the increase in the
production has been followed by greater
increase in the demand for the metal as
a basis of the monetary systems of the
countries which forty years ago were
either upon the silver basis or maintained
a bi-metallic system.
This increase in the demand for gold
has, no doubt. to a considerable extent,
counteracted the effects which the en-
larged supply of gold money might have
had upon the prices of commodities.
That this greater demand for gold from
countries which are DESTROYS of estab-
fishing a stable currency will continue
there is every reason to believe. The
present requirements of Mexico and South
America as we'll as of India are convinc-
ing evidence to this effect.
The statistics show that the United
States, since the resumption of specie
payments in 1879, has Jared better than
almost any other country. During the
past thirty years, beginning with 1873
the United States has produced 27S4 per
cent of the worlds production of gold
and has not only retained all of this for
use at home in coinage and the arts, but
has added to 1t, up to the end of Febru-
airy, 1907, q net excess of imports over ex-
ports of more than s229,0O0,oo0
1t Is entirely without precedent that
country which is one of the worlds great
est producers of gold, should retain its en-
tire product for so long period This Is
the result, first. of the resumption act
which went into effect January l, 1879,
and second, of the repeal of the silver
purchase act in 1898, and of the final de-
feat of the silver movement in the presi-
dental election of 1896. The greatest ex-
ports of gold since the resumption of
specie payment were in the fiscal years
1889 to 1896, inclusive, which were also
the period of the most intense agitation
of the silver question.
The record of the last thirty years Is
the more remarkable from the fact that
since the discovery of gold In California
up to the close of the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1877. the exports of gold exceeded
the imports in every single year
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-26
Returns From Mexico.

w. p g. Harding, president of the
First National Bank. has returned from
a pleasure trip to Mexico. He was away
from home two weeks and as it was his
first vacation in many years, he enjoyed
the outing very much indeed.
THE City of Mexico said Mr.. Hard
ing, 'ii beautiful as well as historic. 1t
is one of the most picturesque cities in
the world, and 1t is one Of the most pros
porous. 1t combines in wonderful de-
gree modern business push with charm
ing social life and the landmarks of a
romantic past.
Mexico city is on a great boom and
prosperity seems to be on a substantial
foundation. AS an evidence of advancing
values in the city business site was
pointed out that recently sold for s4O,-
900 In Mexican money. and the owner
is now refusing 100000 in Mexican coin
for It.
There are many foreigners in the
City of Mexico-about 1000 from the
United States, and the German colony is
even larger The Americans form a COM
munity of their own in delightful SUI
burb. While foreigners are welcomed and
their property rights absolutely protected,
they are not allowed to take part in Mex
lean politics This Is President Diaz' s
policy and 1t works WELL"
Major e. NJ Tutwiler, ]. c. Patterson
and Erslxine Ramsay, who took the trip
with Mr. Harding, stopped over on the
return Major Tutwiler and Mr.. Patter-
son are visiting a relative who lives not
far from San Antonio and Mr.. Ramsay
is at Hot Springs. The party went from
Birmingham to Kansas City by the
Frisco, and at the latter point Joined
larger party and proceeded TO Mexico in
a special train over the Kansas CITY
Mexico and Orient railway. The trip was
personally conducted by officials of that
line. who showed the pilgrims the
sights and presented them to President
Diaz.
James Bowron had taken the same trip
earlier in the year and his glowing ac-
count of 1t got Mr.. Harding In the notion
of doing likewise.