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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-17

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-17

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
Carrying Concs aIed Weapons

If the police would fight down pistol toting as they have gambling; If the judges would cease to be lenient to offenders, and above all, If the Mayor would refuse to remit fines and penal ties, the people of this city could be disarmed. The walking arsenals could be deprived of their preparations for war in our streets and wherever else passion may arise.
 The shooting habit in this city sadly needs abatement. It leads to a high percentage of homicides, and to count less other troubles. The deaths and wounds by violence in this community are directly traceable to pistol toting, and life and limb cannot here be rem dered secure while the pistol habit is winxed at by weak laws and weak enforcement of what we have. We need more drastic laws, and above all else we need a stern enforcement of the laws we have in relation to pistol toting.
 Disarmament has been considered impossible, but 1t is not if public senti- ment will get sternly behind the law and it's enforcement. When men go armed any trifling quarrel may lead to a street fusilade and to homicides. The only way to stop such disgraceful out rages consists in disarmament. The pistol toter must be made to shed hls enginery of war no matter what his standing in society may be. The need of a pistol in our streets Is strictly i'm aginary, and the men of vivid imaglna- tions should be disarmed and punished up to the limits of the law. Ihe police will do their duty, and len1ency higher up will be ended when public sentiment is right on this far-reaching question, and progress in that dlrec- tion Is impossible until public senti- ment earnestly demands that an end be put to pistol toting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
Popular Vote and the Jail

The Board of Revenue has indorsed the initiative and referendum, which simply means that the people shall de- eide directly their own questions with out the intervention of representatives at all, even of those that are as nearly representative as fallible men ever get to be. The town meetings of New England, like the meetings in the can tons in Switzerland, permit of popular rule in the broadest and best sense, and the submission to the voters of Jefferson county of the jail problem is a happy extension of popular govern ment
 The voters of the county are to pass upon a proposed issue of bonds for jail and court house purposes, and upon the location of the new jail. This GOV CTS the essential features of the prob lem, and the details can safely be left to the peoples representatives in the Board of Revenue.
 Practically the question is choice between skyscraper on the court house lot, and a jail mile or more away. A skyscraper would be jail in it's upper stories, and court rooms below. The voters are to say which it shall be, for State Inspector Bragg practically says, in the interest of health and life, it must be the one or the other. The old rock jail cannot go on housing 2S4 prisoners where not over one hundred should be. and its
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Would Come to Rlrminoham.


 ''If ever decide to leave Sparta I am coming to Birmingham to live said John D. Walker, who was chairman of the con ference Tuesday to decide upon the estab lishment of an exchange to hanessNsSss cotton. q have watched Birmingham and its progress for a long time, and I con-s sder this the best place in the south from a business standpoint. am, how ever, not in a position to leave the busi- ness that I have established in Sparta and that section of Georgia, and do not expect to come to Birmingham to live very soon.
 q would rather live here than any where else except where I am. However, I have several banks in Georgia and ex- pect to establish several more this spring.
 Every time I come to Birmingham the town looks better to me than 1t did the previous time, and I believe 1t is growing more rapidly than any of the others.
 Should the Southern Cotton association establish it's headquarters here, the spot cotton exchange be opened and conduct ed on broad, business principles, and the headquarters of the Farmers union come to Birmingham, there would be nothing that could stop the growth of this city. It would immediately become the undis puted financial center of the south, the commercial center, the cotton center, the cotton handling center. the headquarters for the farmers and their business trans actions-all in addition to being the iron and coal center of the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25

From the Shanghai Times.
 It is stated in well informed official circles here that Admiral Sah has been notified by H. F. Yuan Fang that the new Chinese gunboats, Kiang Lee and Kiang-chin. which were ordered to be built at the Kawasaki dockyard, Kobe, some time ago, will be launched in the near future. If the armament of these vessels could be provided by China her self 1t would mean the saving of a large sum of money, and therefore the admiral is to inspect the guns which were saved from the wrecked cruiser Haitien and see if they are fit for service on the new gunboats or not. These fine weapons have all been thoroughly overhauled and repaired, and 1t may be well that they can be advantageously used in the way suggested. If so, Admiral Sah Is in- structed to notify Capt. Yao Weiwen, who is now In Japan supervising the construction of the new ships. Captain Yao is to do his best to carry out the suggestion. and If the guns in question are not sufficient in number for the pur- pose the others that will be required may be obtained from foreigp< countries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
Rate Bills in Court

On the Sth day of May the federal district court at Montgomery will hear the cases filed by the railroads for the purpose of testing the constitutionality of the railway regulation bills passed by the present legislature. No matter what the decision in the district court may be, the cases will be carried to the United States supreme court, and a final decision may not be handed down in less than three years. In other words, all the time between leg islatures will be consumed in appeals to the courts.
 It is a question whether it would not be wiser on the part of the railroads to accept the bills passed by the legis- lature than to fight them in the courts. It has long been maxim that the best way to repeal an unreasonable or un- just law consists in full enforcement of it. and if the bills passed last win ter should prove unwise their accept ance and enforcement at once might lead to their repeal, or at least modifi- cation, when a new legislature meets in January, 1911.
 But if three or four years of litiga- tion are to follow 1t is almost certain that the people who demanded the new legislation will demand practi- cal test of it in case it is held to be constitutional, and no repeal of it could in that case be reasonably expected in 1911.
 Is 1915 still another legislature will meet, and it is at least possible that under the litigation plan no change in the states railroad policy will take place until that year. The year 1915 is too far ahead to be foreseen. A great deal may happen in the mean while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
WoMANs WEALTH OF JEWELS.
Half Million Paid for the Lewis Col
 lection of Gems.

London Cable in New York Sun.
 An enormous crowd was In attendance at Christie's today for the sale of the late Mrs. Sam" Lewis jewels.
 A necklace containing 33S small pearls sold for s10,500; a necklace with 45 grad uated pearls brought s3O5OO pearl rope with 229 large pearls and weighing 745 karats, $S3500; brooch of brilliants with a magnificent spare emerald in the cen- ter, s22, 300; pair of pearl errings. ono white. one black. s17,ooo; pearl and bril- liant bar brooch $500; pair of bracelets set with brilliants, s64oo; magnificent pearl rope, $36,OO0; tiara, formed as a spray of foliage, with superb pear-shaped brill liant in the center. weighing 40 karats, the foliage consisting of 11.0o0 pearls and brilliants, s55, 900; necklace of 15 graduated. each drop pear-shaped pearl. all sus- pended from band of diamonds, s61, 900.
 The total of the sale was nearly $500, GOO.
 Mrs. sam" Lewis, as she was gener- ally called, was the widow of sam" Lewis, a pawnbroker. when she married Lieutenant Hill of the Foot Guards on July 23, 1904 She died on October 13 of last year. At the time she married Hill her wealth was estimated at s2O 100000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
Our Tercentenary Celebration

At the mouth of James river and of Chesapeake bay an exposition will be opened tomorrow that will celebrate the birth of this great country three hundred years before. For at James, town, forty miles up the James river, the first Americans went ashore three hundred years ago. They came to stay, and they did stay, and others joined them, until today we have in- stead of handful at Jamestown eighty millions of busy people who are fast filling a continent. Their homes stretch from ocean to ocean, from the great lakes to the gulf. The story Is a mar vicious one, and the Jamestown exposi- ton will recall it.
 The location of the exposition is a happy one. All about is historic ground. A4. about It are scenes of our colonial struggles, of the Revolutionary war, of the war of 1912, and of the civil war. Yorktown Is near by, and so for that matter is Mount Vernon. The Merri- mac and Monitor fought almost with in sight of the exposition, and Rich mond and Petersburg and the Penin- sula are near at hand. It is the home of American history, and happy the man or the woman who visits the ex- position and who has the time and the desire to go over the ground on which the great events in American history took place.
 No one of the national eXpositions from that of 1876 in Philadelphia to that of the Louisiana Purchase at St. Louis was held in a locality so reekins with history as Hampton Roads. The landing at Jamestown is indeed enough 10 celebrate, for all else in our history is based upon it, and the busy man and his family should stop long enough to go to the exposition and to the spots sacred to all Americans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
DROPS OF WATER.
Number That a SkepticaI Student In
 Paris Could Stand.

From the London Chronicle.
 A drop of water, even three or four drops, falling on the head, seems thing unworthy of attention; nevertheless in China slow and continuous dropping of water on the head has been found to be a method of torture under which the most hardened criminal abjectly howls for mercy.
 When a professor In the Sorbonne stat ed this to his class the other day one of the students laughed incredulously and said it would take a good deal of that sort of thing to affect him.
 The professor assured him that even one quart of water dropped slowly onto his hand would be beyond his endurance. He agreed to experiment.
 A quart measure filled with water was in the bottom and the performance be- gan, the professor counting.
 During the first hundred drops the stu dent made airy remarks. With the sec ond hundred he began to look less cheer ful. ther gradually all his talk died away and his face took on a haggard, tortured expression. With the third hundred the hand began to swell and look red. The pain increased to torture. Finally the skin broke.
 At the four hundred and twentieth drop the sceptic acknowledged his doubts van ished and begged for mercy. He could bear no more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
Southern Cities,

W. J. Dangaix of Birmingham. whose business takes him to every section of the south, has just returned home after an extended trip. q find prosperity every where" said Mr Dangaix.
 New Orleans Is not only the largest city in the south, but it is growing faster than any other. Before many years it will be in the million class. Next to New Orleans fin population and mercantile im- portance comes Memphis. Atlanta, Nash vile and all the other southern cities are making rapid headway, but when 1t comes to suburban population Birmingham leads all the cities except New Orleans. think Birmingham should extend it's limits, but whether it does or not, Jefferson county will probably contain a quarter of mill lion people when the next census is taken. Not even Shelby county, in which Memphis Is situated, will come within 75,oOo of Jeffersons population"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
Wants Emeroency clsterns.

This city was in a dreadful predica- ment for nearly three hours last night" said c. o. Simpson, vice president of the Citizens bank, yesterday afternoon. "A situation was presented by the break of the water main which gives cause for serious thought. If fire should have broken out during this period in the busi- ness district of Birmingham the results would have been disastrous
 With such contingency in view the city ought to establish large fire wells or cisterns in the business centers to meet just, such emergencies, for we cannot tell when such a disaster might occur. and certainly ought to be prepared for 1t. Such emergency cisterns have been estab- lished in other cities. and from a fire in surance standpoint, at least, Birmingham should be equipped with these wells.
 q think that the citizens should be warned by last nights accident and take steps for better protection to their buis- ness interests by inaugurating a move ment to have these emergency wells con- structed.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
The Athletic Club.

''The Birmipg gham Athletic club is in- creasing in membership rapidly. and the personnel of the organization Is excep- tionally representative of the city's sub stantial young manhood said an old cit izen who takes great interest in youth.
 'Tncluding life members, active paying members and few other classes the club has on It's rolls nearly 900 names. One hundred of these active members have been enrolled since the first of January.
 New Orleans Is the only city in the south that has an athletic club house as handsome as Birmingham's. In addition to the athletic features of the club here a reading room on a large scale is main- tained All the bagazines and weekly illustrated papers and large number of the dailies are found on its tables. The moral atmosphere of the club is whole some and every young man should join"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25

Roosevelt used to do good deal of slum- ming together in the lower districts of the big city and thus the man who is now President was enabled to learn by actual experience of the poverty and crime of the Submerged tenth" The President has since then been as helpful to Riis and Riis has been to him. It was MT. Roose- welt who opened the way to Riis to do magazine work and thus acquire celeb rity, which means working capital. Much of the proof of the books which MT. Riis has written, and out of which he has accumulated considerable fortune, was revised by Mir. Roosevelt, as can be easily discerned by the distinctive Roosevelt style in Riis' literary work. MT. Riis has added largely to his fortune since his friend has been in the White House by winning popularity as leo- turer. The President has proffered him two pr three responsible positions in the government service, but Mir. Riis has preferred to stick to the lecture platform. He has perhaps written and spoken more words of praise of the President than any other man who has handled that fruitful subject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
THE PRESIDENTS EuLoGIsT.

From the Washington Herald.
 Jacob A. Riis, who for the past year or two has been featuring in all parts of the country on his fayorite topic, "The- odore Roosevelt" was first brought in contact with the President while the lat ter was a police commissioner In New York, and the former was a police re- porter on the New York Evening Sun Riis. whose name is pronounced "Reece.' was accounted an excellent reporter, and was valued highly by the late Charles A. Dana and Amos Cummings, who was Mir. Dana's managing editor of the Evening Sun. Riis, who is a Dane by birth, and who lived in penury' for quite time after coming over to New York, got close to MT. Roosevelt ty the information he was able to give the police commissioner concerning the graft system the police maintained in that city. He and MT.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
North and South Waterways

The great west is full of water im- provement issues, and the chief ones relate to a waterway of at least four teen feet from the great lakes to the gulf. The present channel of the lakes is 21 feet deep, and no ship canal can diminish it. All the talk about de- pletion of the great lakes comes from the imaginative, for the scientists do not give it credence at all. The lakes are so large their level cannot be re- duced by any canals that man can build. The Chicago drainage canal has nineteen feet of water, and it has no effect whatever on the level of the lakes.
 Beyond all doubt the lakes and the gulf will in the near future be linked together. The Panama canal and the growth of population will demand a waterway between the two, and the upper end of the movement will be on two independent lines-one to Pitts burg and the Ohio river, and one via the drainage canal and the Illinois river to the Mississippi. Both are needed and both will be built. The waterway from Chicago will no doubt have at least fourteen feet of water, while the one via Pittsburg may have but nine feet to correspond with the proposed depth of the Ohio river.
 But it is the lower end of the water way that concerns us. While the Mis- sissippi will afford one waterway to the gulf, still another will be needed from the Ohio along the Tennessee river to Guntersville and then to the sea by, means of a canal and the War rior river. A six-foot depth on the metre sills would suffice in the Ten nessee-Walrior waterway.
 The Tennessee valley and the War rior should begin to organize. They should get together at once. They should not permit the states to the north of us to absorb $50,000,000 a year as they propose to do unless s5,000,O00 a year be expended on the Tennessee Warrior waterway.
 Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama snou.d stand together in this matter. Indiana. and Illinois will aid us, for their produce is freely marketed in tba south. and they want our iron and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
KIT cARSoN'S CHAIR.
Reminder of Ills Love for His Daueh-
 ter, Adeline.

From the Kansas City Star.
 A mahogany rocking chair in the home of MT and Mrs. Jucien P. Slaughter, 304 Virginia avenue. West Side, is remind CT of Kit Carsons tenderness of heart and his love for his daughter, Adeline The chair, fit to grace the palace of king, was a gift from the pioneer trap per, hunter, explorer and Indian fighter, to Mrs. Eliza Amick, wife of Leander Amick and mother of Mrs. Slaughter, in Howard county, Missouri, more than fifty years ago.
 "When I was a very small child-I think 1t was in 1S42-Kit Carson came back from the mountains" Mrs. Slaugh- ter said. He had been away from home sixteen years, and he brought with him his little daughter Adeline, then about six or seven years old, whom he desired to educate and make of her a lovely woman. as he expressed it, Adeine's mother had died shortly after the child was born. She was described as beauti- ful Indian maiden whom Kit had married in one of the tribes-I think 1t was the Araphoes-who were very kindly disposed to Kit because of his helping them settle their troubles with the bloodthirsty Sioux. As I remember the girl Adeline, she was indeed lovely child. And her father, Kit, as brave a man as ever lived, and Indian fighter though he was, he was one of the kindest and most tender-hearted men I ever knew. Adeline was educated partly at St. Louis and partly at our house. which was her home. until she was seventeen or eighteen years old. One day in the '50s, when Kit had been to Washington with dispatches from Gen eral Fremont, he stopped at our house to take his daughter away. It was sad parting. The great man was deeply af- fected because my mother who had been so good to his child was then an invalid, a cripple. She had not even dreamed of any pay for Adeline's board, and to show how he felt Kit made the family many gifts. One of the gifts to my mother was this mahogany chair. It is just as he gave it, except it has once been reup- holstered."
 Mrs. Slaughter and her husband-both of them past seventy years-were chill dren of pioneers, who went to Howard county from Carolina and Virginia. They became neighbors of the. Carsons-Kit's parents--who entered the Missouri wilder ness from Kentucky in 1910.
 "Yes. we prize the old chair above all our possessions" she said as she toyed with a pretty scarf that was tastefully arranged at the back. Tt reminds us of Kit Carson, who was a good man and who did more towards the development of the country west of the Mississippi river than any other man that ever lived.''
 But what became of the daughter Ade- liner
 I've never saw her after her father took her away, but I learned that she married and went to California"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
WAR ON CORPORATIONS.

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald says: Our farmers and business men need money, and our municipalities also need It. The south is in a developing condi- tion, two-thirds of it's soil being uncul- tiyated, and fully two-thirds of it's re- sources untouched. A section In that con- dition needs large sums of money, and Alabama is no exception 10 the rule. To drive away to other states by adverse legislation the great insurance companies and other loan companies is to cripple development and to retard progress
 There Is great deal of truth and wis dom in the foregoing, especially in the warning to state legislatures. Of late there has been too much of the spirit of antagonism exhibited by these bodies to- ward foreign corporations with capital to invest. It is, as MT Cleveland suggest ed, the spirit of sheep following leader One jumps the fence and the flock fol- lows pell-mell without due consideration of what they are leaving or where they are going Some corporations have of- tended, and were hit for the offense, but the blow proved attractive-so attractive that everybody took 1t into his head to raise his cane and smite right and left.
 It has not been, on the whole, either a considerate or discriminating chastise- ment; but has been 'laid on' In and out of season, for cause and without cause Indeed 1t has been simply the vogue to lambast corporations and the innocent and l1seful have siIffered with the wicked and the grating. Of course the results are far from satisfactory, or wholesome, and the south being in the development stage is apt to catch the major portion of the injury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25
LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE.
By Epes Sargent.

By Epes Sargent. A life on the ocean wave,
 A home on the rolling deep. Where the scattered waters rave,
 And the winds their revels keepi Like an angel caged, I pine
 On this dull unchanging shore! Oh give me the flashing brine.
 The spray and the tempest's roar! Once more on the deck I stand
 Of my own swift-going craft; Set saili farewell to the landl
 The gale follows fair abaft. We shoot through 6e sparkling foam Like an ocean-bird set free Like the ocean-bird, our home
 We'll find far out at sea. The land is no longer in view,
 The clouds have begun to frown; But with stout vessel and crew.
 We'll say Let the storm come downi And the song of our hearts shall be-
 While the winds and the waters rave. A home on the rolling sea!
 A life on the ocean wavei