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The Washington times., 1907-03-31

But they all fare alike; they are logged,
smashed and dragged in the dirt, then hung 70
wires stretched across the streets, and finally
burned amid great rejoicing by the populace.
In Greece a priest carries around cross
bearing small figure of Christ, which is placed
in the centre of the nave of the church. After
an interval several other priests, CARRIED in
black. carry the body from the cross to a grave,
which has been made in en altar The whole IL
covered with beautiful flowers. and these are
sprinkled with perfumes.
The worshipers then file past the mound
and each one takes a flower, which IS kept and
zealously guarded in the home until the next
Easter.
Concentrating the deliverance of tho
Jews from Egyptian bondage. and their preser-
The Washington times., 1907-03-31

pose, would be kept intact that
spirit of rejoicing that must have swept over
the country when, TO the inquiring women, the
angel at the tomb replied ''He is risen; He Is
not here"
From the various picturesque incidents
rounding the great festival IN the Church It
would appear that Jerusalem has borrowed for
its most elaborate ceremony that of the Penta-
costal descent of tongues of fire upon tho
Apostles.
On this one day of the year there is real
peace in Jerusalem. The Armenians become en-
tirely friendly with the Greek Church Chris
tians. who flock to the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre for joint celebration of Easter.
Not a light appears on the altar. Almost
total darkness prevails. Suddenly, changing
of silver bells, single Jet of light cleaning
from the Chapel of the Angel, and all repeat
softly, "God be praised; the sacred fire has
fallen from heaven"
Those nearest rush to light their candles
every one carries a candle-at the sacred fire,
and the light is passed till throughout the
church there is illumination from countless
wsxen points.
courier hurries with the sacred light 20
The Grotto of the Nativity, where. upon It's
rival, is a ceremony of rejoicing and praise. An
ether courier takes the light to Jafa. where
The Washington times., 1907-03-31

Russian boat Is waiting to convey 1t to Odessa,
then to the eathedrals in st. Petersburg and
Moscow and the imperial chapel
If you could look IL the chapel a short
time after this Easter, you would see Emperor
Nicholas-the Car whom half the world calls
a despot - hunlbly lneelirg there before the
flame which had its birth where a new faith
given to the world on that first Easter day.
The Washington times., 1907-03-31

The Gar becomes an eplUome Of sei-abase-
ment at Easter. 1t Is said that he enters into
the Russian custom of kissing, and that each of
his guards receives a royal kiss on the cheek.
Every one in Russia-that is, every believer
-greets every other person met on Easter morn
ing with the kiss of peace, saying, "The Lord Is
risen" To this the invariable response is, HE
Is risen. indeed"
The Washington times., 1907-03-31

IOOAE me OHIESIEAH C@0' y -
direction, the ancient Passover OF ZION and
the Mohammedan Baram, all occurring
about The same time, common usage ana
tradition haze 5UoveH The most picturesque
customs of the year.
Il strange sight, in Vie1U of The spirit
of good aUiH underlying the feStIuHl, IS the
practice in some European, South and Cen
tral american countries Of burning eHgie5
of Judas. Nor is it the Christian spirit Of
rejoicing, but, rather, a dread of pe5fiLence,
that influences the Bedouins TO sprinkle
their fock5 Nth blood.
Sacrifices of live animals are still seen
in some parts Of the aUOrld at Easter time,
although not to prOpitiate the Christian
Deity; in other parts, the giViHg of aims on
this one festivaI is supposed to cover the
accumulated parsimOHy Of the rest Of the
year.
That the principal festivals Of at least
three of the largest religious bodies in the
SUorId fall in The same period Of The year is
only a coincidence, but remarkable one,
since in all the celebrations is evident the
"apIifP spirit of spring.
The Washington times., 1907-03-31

Y 7 HERE should one look for proper
n Observance Of Easter if not in the
w Holy Landl There, one would sup
pose, would be kept intact that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
MT. CorteIyou's Amended Plan

The administration plan of bor- rowing $1OO,0O0,OOO for one year at 8 per cent has been amended so that it will become immediately operative A national bank that subscribes for the new certificates will be permitted to retain 75 per cent of the purchase price as deposit of public money, and the certificates may then be used as a basis for new bank note circula- ton to their face value. A bank can have the notes shipped at once, the government retaining the certificates purchased by it. This means an ex- pansion of $75,000,000 in currency if the national banks take advantage of Secretary Cortelyou's offer. A bank that can get a 3 per cent government security at par, losing in the purchase but 20 per cent in currency of it's cost, and then can issue notes upon it to its 1ull amount Woulu loSe d Soou oppor- tunity if it neglects to subscribe lib- orally for the new certificates.
 The certificates will have to be re- tired at the end of year, but by that time there will be no currency troubles, and the surplus funds of the goyerpment will be ample The cer- tiflcates will be taken up without fric- ton or disturbance of the money market. The operation will have cost the government s3,ooo,ooo interest money. but the cost need not be con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
It Was Most ProvidentiaI.

The more we see of developments, the more We are impressed with ele narrow escape this district made re- gently when the United States Steel corporation came to the rescue of the | Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail- road pool and bought the hypothe- cated holdings of the Schley syndi- cate,' said a business man. Up to the time of the financial disturbance in New York, the Tennessee company was supposed to have been in good shape. The men who held the stock were re- puted to be very wealthy. All of them were multimillionaires-on paper. But the extraordinary strain in Wall street was too much for them and fortunate it was that the Steel corporation was ready to buy them out. As was seen after the deal was made the Schley syndicate could not have held on many days longer The other day Mr Schley had to raise through his wife several hundred thousand dollars by q mortgage on their home. Had it not been for the United States Steel cor poration the Tennessee company would have gone into the hands of receivers, and the effect on this district of such q misfortune would have been stag gerlng. No company, corporation or set of men, except the United States Steel was in the position to come to the Tennessee's relief; and not only that the entrance of no other concern into the Birmingham district would have been reassuring, It all happened most providential.
 "The Tennessee company has changed hands for the last time. It Is now owned and operated by the strongest combination of capital and talent in the world. Look over it's board of directors, it's advisory committees, and it's list of officials and there will be found the pick of financiers, steel makers, minerologists, metallurgical chemists civil engineers, mining en- gineers, mechanical engineers and sta tisticans-Pierpont Morgan, F'rick Gary, Cory, Gayley, and many others of great capacity and wide reputation. either in the financial or industrial world.
 "The shutting down of some Of tn blast furnaces in the Birmingham dis trict is only temporary. They will all be running again before long; and when bushes sdoes revive everything here will hum It is safe to say that the United States Steel will within the next five or six years eXpend $50 ,0OO,- 900 or more on improvements and eX- tensions hereabouts At any rate the fact that the Steel corporation is all ready with us is enough to cause sin cere public thanksgiving on Thursday next"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
Hnne on the farm

If fines are hard in Alabama the railroads of Alabama are no barometer pt all. for they trundled away III oc' tober 6S,142 cars, as against o4'loo handled in October of last year. The gain was nearly per cent. In other words business was more active last month by ' per cent in this dlstrlct and state than it was one year ago.
 The story of October is the story or the preceding months of the calen- dar year. February alone excepted A material diminution in business IS not anticipated in November or Decem- her. and the most experienced rall- road men are anticipating an increase of 50O0O cars in the calendar year over the business transacted in the previous year, or an increase or about per cent.
 So long as the railroads of this state are crowded with business-so long as more goods are offered to them than they can expeditiously haul, we need not worry over the stories sent out from Wall street, or the antics of this or that wildcat financier. Alabama holds today about million bales or cotton grown on the home soil and this alone is worth not less than $5O,- 100000. Besides, we have corn enough to carry us through the winter, for the corn crop of this state was eXcep- tionally good. We have made nearly all the corn that we will need. Our chief shortage is in meats, and the farmers are rapidly overcoming that great lack We need more hogs, more steers. more COWS, more native mules and horses. These are coming, how ever. They are coming because cot ton is commanding living prices, and the value of cotton lands is a rising uua..tity. The farmers boys are there fore staying on the farms, after leav- ing school, and where there is hope there will soon be hogs and mules and other stoch in glorious sufficiency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
ALREADY HAD CUT IT OUT TWICE

From the Philadelphia Record.
 After a recent railway accident, among the victims taken to the hospital for treatment was a man who remained in the comatose state though the physicians worked long and patiently upon him. Careful examination also failed to reveal any specific injuries, and the doctors were puzzled to decide what was re- sponsible for his condition. Finally one of the doctors suggested an operation for appendicitis as last resort However, upon removing under garment, the following request was found printed upon a tablet suspended from the mans neck: Please don't operate upon me for ap- pendicitis, as I have had it cut out twice already" It transpired later that the man was subject to cataleptic attacks. and had learned from bitter experience the necessity of providing against inju- dicious surgical experiments at such times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24

but if they carry one of less length they may be sent to jail and they must be fined at least S25
 The murders in the south and it's almost innumerable shooting scrapes are directly traceable to the pistol toting habit, and The Age-Herald re- joices that the habit has been declared in this state a misdemeanor. The new statute is not as rigid and pre- emptory as circumstances demand, but the new bill will serve very well as starter It can be amended when the next legislature meets, three years hence, and it certainly will be if pub lie sentiment continues to be devel- oped against the foolish and cowardly habit. The pistol toter, infiamed by poor liquor, has jeoparded lives a long time in this state. It is an inexcusa- ble and intolerable habit, and the leg islature has wisely made it a misde- meanor, and the courts may punish an offender severely. He may be sent to jail for six months, and that is eX- actly what should be done in every case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
Enforcement of Game Laws.

q noticed recently an article in The Age-Herald in which property holder criticised the game laws rather severely" said a physician who loves to hunt. Now, as a matter of fact hunting is my chief recreation and I know no greater pleasure than to tramp through the. hills and wales with a dog and a gun But, also know that 1t is absolutely necessary to prevent the game of our state from being extermnated and that promiscuous hunting should be regulated.
 Tt . not at the true sportsman that the law is aimed, but at the pot hunter and the man who by dynamiting a creek destroys thousands of fish These have become so numerous l am sorry to say, that I for one am glad the law was passed and hope 1t will be rigidly in- forced. It will and does cause some in convenience. but the preservation of our game birds should be sufficient incen- tive to every man who hunts for true sport not only to obey the laws but to see they are inforced."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
Adjournment of the Legislature

The work of the extra session is com pleted, and it passes into the history of the state. It was an anti-injunction session, and it passed a set of laws Intended to defeat the injunctions that came from the federal courts. What the new laws will accomplish remains to be disclosed. It is an issue of su- premacy between the state and the federal government, and as such 1t promises to become exceedingly his , toric.
 \ General Counsel Stone of the Louis vile and Nashville railroad insists that the injunctions in question did not justify the holding of the extra session, and he brings to his support a great many decisions and technical legal points. Whether the injunctions did or did not justify the convening of an extra session Is an idle discus sion, for they confessedly did cause the summoning of an extra session, and that session has done its work and adjourned. MT. Stones contention is, therefore, academic in the light of events.
 It is not academic perhaps to say that more injunctions-more attempts to hold up the laws of this state may lead to more extra sessions. The Southern railroad, which has even more miles of track than the Louis vile and Nashville, does not consider the policy of provoking extra sessions wise or desirable. Scores of other railroads have adopted similar pol icy. The Louisville and Nashville has never suffered harm in the state courts, and it can get in them and through them and the United States supreme court all the legal protection that it really needs. This would leave untouched the dignity of the state, and it would render another extra session unnecessary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Early Christmas shonnlno.

Christmas is four weeks off from next Wednesday, but it is not too far away for heads of families 10 be well along with their holiday shopping, said prominent citizen. T have sev- eral children eagerly waiting for santa Claus, and l am glad to know that my wife has almost completed her Christ mas purchases. She wisely starts out early so as 10 avoid the crush.
 Many people wait until the week be- fore Christmas to look for Christmas supplies. They are then rushed all most to death. In going shopping a month before Christmas one not only avoids the crowds but gets the pick of all the holiday stocks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24

From the New York Globe
 The khedivah is the only wife Of Egypt's ruler. There are no odallsuues and very few eunuchs the latter being merely surviving retainers of former reigns. Yet the lhedlviah, who is an ex- tremely beautiful woman and as sunny tempered and as kind hearted as she is comely made her debut in the khedivial establishment as a slav> She was, writes Marquise de Fontenoy, designedly placed in his way by his mother and bS his other feminine relatives at Cairo with the object of diverting him from his in- tenton of marrying one of the daugh- ters or. nieces of the Turkish sultan A consortof that sort would have lorded 1t over them all, and they were anxious that if he married he should choose his wife among the prncesses of his own family. Ikbal Hanem was merely put in his way as a temporary diversion, but 1t proved permanent Her loveliness fascinated the khedive, and when she gave birth to her first child he. much to the disgust of his family and relatives, and despite their opposition. insisted upon marrying her and upon creating her khediviah. The princesses of his house had disliked the idea of having to pay homage to khediviah of the imperial family at Constantinople, but the notion of having to bow low before a khediviah who had been a mere lodalisque and slave was infinitely more distasteful to them. The khediviah at the time of her
 aJ,, Ion, beyond that which ordinarily falls to the share of an oriental woman whose beauty is her only asset But since then she has taken the trouble to acquire com plete mastery of French and English, with a view of fitting herself intellec- tllallY as an associate of her husband
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
Mr. Roosevelt Under Fire

Justice Brewer of the United States supreme court holds a life office, and though it be of a judicial nature, he does not hesitate to criticize the Pres
 dent and to discuss politics freely. He does not like Theodore Roose- welt, and in his speech in Carnegie hall to the Civic Forum he intimated that seven years of Roosevelt would be quite enough, for he's for law, but against it's enforcement. He then com pared Roosevelt with Hughes criti- cising the former and lauding the lat ter.
 But his most serious charge against MT. Roosevelt was that of treachery. He said he had turned his back on 'the expressed principles" of his party. He had taken office on an implied promise and had repudiated that prom ise. It is difficult to say just what Justice Brewer had in mind, but the chances are that he considers the Roosevelt corporation policies as a change in the party programme. MT. Roosevelt has not disturbed the tariff and he has collected slush money as freely almost as Mark Hanna did. It must therefore be that Justice Brewer is angry because the President favors rate regulation, control of corpora tions, an inheritance and even an in- come tax, and plenty of postal reforms. He has stolen, in other words, deal of democratic thunder, and he has failed to stand by the principles" that dominated the republican party in the days of William Mckinley. Those principles or rather policies, favored the classes at every turn, while MT. Roosevelt favors the masses. By adopting democratic policies he has indeed turned his back on the ex- pressed "principles" of the party that elected him.
 But will the republican party dare assert as much at this time? Justice Brewer holds a life office and he fears nobody. When the party however, re- pudiates the Roosevelt policies it will go to the bottom quicker than lead would. Mr. Roosevelt is popular be- cause of the democratic policies that he has adopted, and if the party re- pudiates them it is doomed to defeat. It will probably encounter defeat any way because it has permitted hard times to come upon the country-be- cause, too, it stands pat on the Ding ley tariff, and gathers from Wall street millions of slush money. But if to all these be added a repudiation of what has come to be known as Roosevelt pOllcleS IL WOulu Siihpiy toHlHilC lelo de SC. All the life and vlgor there is in it comes from stolen policies stolen bodily from the democrats. Jus tice Brewer may not like those poli- cies, but the people do, and the repub- lican party dare not openly repudiate them. It may attempt in sly way 10 nullify them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
MED BRACE TALKS ABOUT CONDITIONS IN BIRMINGHAM AND THE COUNTRY GENERALLY

meet demands. As a consequence con cerns employing labor began to cut down and dispense with every man who could be eliminated from the payroll. A lot of small concerns here closed down pend ing the clearing away of the clouds in the business world. Laboring men in numbers have been cut out of work and pay, because their frightened friends have brought it about
 The situation is silly. The banks and the business of Birmingham are as solid as stone. If you have hoarded money put it back in your bank and let us all get to work.
 Some plants have shut down because of general conditions and some because they have tried to do too much. The Southern Steel company is shutting down because it tried to develop beyond it's means and when the people with money to lend and invest refused to produce the cash the concern had to go into the hands of re- eeivers. Now Ao settle up it's affairs and get back upon a business basis it must close up the rod and wire mills at Ensley and it's steel plant and mines. Several thousand high salaried men, there- fore are deprived of work.
 However, the Tennessee and other com- panies are going ahead and somebody with means will soon have the Southern Steel plants and put them in operation.
 You cannot keep this district down. The stuff is here. The well managed concerns have always made money. Only
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
PONIES OFFERED.

From the Cleveland Leader.
 A correspondent writes; ''On reading your paper this morning I find pretty little poem signed Leigh Hunt. I have one or two at present I would like to have you consider Hoping for favor able reply, l am, etc"
 That's the way it goes. We just knew that if we let Leigh Hunt contribute some verses a lot of others would want to. Send your poems in. lady. But under stand. we didn't pay Leigh a cent for his. so don't expect any pecuniary ad- vantage. Hunt is satisfied with the honor-he got-you must be the same
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
APPRECIATED LOVE
BY A. LATADY.

The mellow light of other days In hallowed rays surround me, And thoughts of thy unfailing love In mystic chains have bound me. Mine eyes may lose their gift of sight, And darkness may confound me.
 But memory's sight
 Will see the light Thy love has shed around me. Mine ear may lose all touch of sound And stiffness may enbound me,
 But memory's
 Will ever hear The voice thy love will sound me. My last dissolving day being born, Of my poor being disposing, Thou1t be the day star of it's morn, Its Hesperus at closing Thy -faultless love will point the goal, And light the unknown way, Will shrive my faltering feeting soul And bless my dying day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
ALARM CLOCK IN HER STOCKING.

Boston Dispatch in Philadelphia Record.
 Just because an alarm clock was so in delicate as to start its clamor of ting a-ling-ling'' while reposing in the stock ing of pretty Edith NF. Wilder she was arrested by a department store detec- tive on the charge of larceny. With her was her chum, Blanche Dunn. who also was arrested. It was most dramatic moment for the two pretty West End girls. who were defying with flashing eyes the charges of the store detective. It was about the moment when the girls seemed to be winning their point that the alarm clock went on its wilt tell-tale ramble. and the girls were arrested
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24

those who have extended beyond their means have failed.
 Now. let us all get together and do business while others are croalxing. The bright side of life is the only side. Pull with your neighbors. Boom Birmingham. Be good and exuberant If you want to cuss Conner go in the back alley and do it. If it's the other fellow, do likewise. Make the best of every situation. Adapt yourself to 1t if it has been done and await your opportunity to right it. But don't get mad because the other fellow thought first and acted first and got the best of you. Waves go in extremes They are like tides at times The thing to do is to prepare in advance for the next. Begin to build a breakwater now. Don't stand about croaking about what has happened.
 Right in this connection, there Is just as much money here as there has ever been. Dig it out of the corners and crevices and give it to your storekeeper for your needed articles. The same dirt and houses and mines and factories are here. They are worth just as much as they have ever been, and more too.
 I have no patience with the timid Ev- cry man with brain and brawn and nerve can do just as well under one condition as another. All that is necessary is go sahead and do it. Cut out the kicker. Let's be up and doing,