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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28

elastic rocks into adjacent almost in- elastic soil and unconsolidated sedi- ments. These are the waves which eve witnesses of great earth quakes have de- scribed as causing the surface of the ground to rise and fall like the pillows of the ocean, opening cracks in the crests and closing them again in the troughs as the motion passes along.
 The present period has been sup- posed by many, especially those not versed in geology, to be season of rest in the action of earth building
 forces. This, however, is not the case. We know of a gentle upward move
 ment of the earth's crust In the Hud-
 son Bay region, fin New York and the
 eastern Great Lakes and of the sub
 sidence of parts of the Atlantic coast and the elevation of other parts, but these are slow and their connection with earthquakes has not been estab- fish ed. Certain areas however, present
 definite breaks in the rocks with sur faces polished or strained by friction.
 indicating ancient movements which must have been accomplished by great earthquakes.
 The frequency of earthquake shocks.
 considering those of all amplitudes is not generally realized. The globe, in deed. may be said hardly ever to be free from seismic disturbances of some kind somewhere, for the average of all
 recorded shocks is more than fifteen a day, and the bare enumeration of those occurring in 1908 fills a book of 500 tabulated pages. About sixty heavy shocks occur every year on an aver age. The Count de Montessus de Bal
 lore has plotted upon maps of the hem ispheres the positions of the 1597S4 l independent quakes which had been
 recorded up to 1903. It was found by
 de Ballore that 96 per cent of all the
 recorded quakes had occurred within
 the limits of certain we'll defined zones,
 which are along lines where the crust is bent downward forming great troughs. though the troughs are only to be recognized geologically; that is, by the relation of one rock strata to another without reference to the sur face confrguration of the earth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
Bird Sano AuainSt Band.

Uniontown (Wash.) Cor. Spokane ReVlew.
 The concert given by the Uniontown Military band at the opera house last evening was attended by large and dp- preciative audience An excellent pro gramme was rendered by the band, and each number was heartily applauded by the audience. After the concert the pano furnished music for a free dance Tor the audience. A peculiar incident happened during the concert and dance. A wild mocking bird, in a tree not far from the hall. began to sing when the first mum Der was rendered by the band when was about o'clock, and as number atter number was rendered the mocking bird continued to sing as if it's little throat would burst. At midnight 1t was stlii singing. Whenever the band stopped ilaS . ing the. bird would stop singins' put just as soon as the music started the bird began to sing, and it's song could be heard until the band ceased to play
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
A Reward of Faith.
Trom the Youths Companion.

From the Youths Companion.
 A congregation in a hilly district In Ohio bought a small tract of land and erected a church building upon 1t. Tnen the question of insurance came up. Mr. Sipes, the wealthiest member, who had contributed more than half the nonev needed for the new structure. declared that he did not believe in insurance. .tThis is the Lords building He'll take care of it." he said
 Ills view prevailed and there was no in- surance. In few weeks the building was struck by lightning and almost total " consumed by fire. Another one was erected, MT. Sipes contributing the great est portion of the fund as before. This time the demand was almost unanimous that 1t be insured, but Mr. Sipes again objected on the same ground.
 IT 1t burns down again. brethren he said, I'll agree to rebuild it myself"
 Again he carried his point. In less than a month the new church was struck by. lightning again. and although strenuous efforts were made to save 1t the loss was almost total.
 'There must be some reason for this, brethren' said Brother Sipes. T am go- ing to find out what 1t is.''
 "Thereupon he employed a force of mon to sink a shaft on the side of the twice. destroyed church. Within few days a rich vein of iron ore was found and the church property was sold for many times the amount needed to buy land in another locality and build again.
 q tell you, brethren," said Brother Sipes, 'it pays to trust the Lord. He's a great deal better business manager than anybody in this congregation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
BURNS
 MANY LIVES LOST
All Those Drowned Were
 Women and Children
MEN ACT LIKE EDWARDS
Many Male Passengers Rush to Escape the Flames and Prevent the Crew From Using Proper Meas
 ures for Saving Others.

Auburn, N. Y, July 2.-The steamboat Frontenac was burned and beached op- posite Farleys point at Lake cayuga today and nine lives were lost. The victims were all women and children pas sengers and all were drowned. Several other passengers were severely burned before the boat could be beaehed. The bodies of the drowned women and chil- dren have been recovered and the in- jured are being cared for at the homes of persons near the scene of the wrecked steamer.
 In midlake fire broke out in the en- zine room and spread quickly to the after section of the boat The crew of twelve men behaved splendidly, fighting the flames at first but, seeing that nothing could save the boat, turned all their attention to the passengers.
 Life preservers were put on every one that could be found in the ~<-ef time, but in spite of their efforts. nine women and children perished. Captain Brown di- rected the work of. the crew and was the last to leave the burning boat.
 m strong contrast to the cool bravery of the crew was the panic Rha' III s'i9 instances, cowardice of many of the men among the passengers. In their efforts to save themselves they impeded the work of the crew and endangered the lives of everyone in the steamer. It IS not known tonight just when, nor just now all the women and children were thrown into the water. It is thought however, that they became panic stricken and either jumped into the water as the boat ueare1 the shore or were forced over board in the rush to get into the boats that put off The bodies were recovered near shore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
Governor GIenn's Statement.
Ronanarte Gives Views.

Lenox, Mass, July 27-United States Attorney General Bonaparte who is spending the summer in this town, said today. relative to the controversy between the state and federal authorities in North Carolina:
 "I do not anticipate" he said, that there will be any great difficulty in ad- justing the matter provided as Is bound to be assumed, that both the federal and state officials have no other desire than to discharge their sworn duty under the constitution of the United States which Is the supreme law of the land.
 Ut is evident that thfs situation should be submitted to the United States su- preme court and pending decision of that tribunal the rights of all parties affected should be at once safeguarded that so far as circumstances render it practicable, they may be placed after the decision which they would have been had 1t been known in advance what the decision woulh be-.
 "The propriety of such an arrangement is so obvious that l am confident one will be made appropriate to the circum- stances of this case. Any other view would be to question which is altogether lnadmissable, the good faith and patriot ism of the public officials concerned"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28

From the Chicago Tribune.
 "The question of long hair is a delicate have. Baptist, Meth odist, Presbyterian or independent? We have ffty-seven varieties"
 According to the Rev. pr. Ritchett' president of the general conference or the Methodist church of Australia, the barbers ought to be so well versed in the religious makeups of the city as to greet every customer with the fore going question, and every customer ought to be so wei Uniformed on hair cuts that he would make prompt reply, something like this:
 "Ill take one of those Unitarian trims with round corners, and an Epis- copal shampoo"
 If l dropped from balloon into gathering of Baptists l could tell their sect by the way their hair is cut said Dr. Ritchett, addressing the annual con ference of his church in London Chicago Baptists evidently appreciate the compliment. as do the Chicago bar bers. Dr. Johnson Myeyrs, pastor of Immanuel Baptist church, who, by the way, is more blessed with brains and popularity than he is with hair on his head. spoke up for the Baptists.
 "The Methodist preacher is right" he said "We Baptists are proud of the distinction. We believe in patronizing the barbers. one can tell a Baptist by the nice. clean haircut he wears
 "Can you tell a Methodist praecher by the way his hair is cut?' pr. Myers asked.
 "No. but you can by the lack of it, he replied. ''The Methodists are long haired"
 pr. Meyers said all the explanation he
 has to make to his barber when he takes
 his semi-monthly hair cut is to ask Tor Baptist haircut pr. John L. Jackson, pastor of Hyde Park Baptist church, agreed with pr. Myers.
 "Yes. YOU can tell a Baptist by his neat hair cut." he said. Both Myers and myself got hair cut just today Dr. William A. Quayle, pastor of St. James Methodist Episcopal church was mentioned as an ideal type of the present day Methodists. Dr. Quayle wasn't at home, but members of his church admit that it is Methodsm and not hair tonic that is responsible for his dense auburn locks
 "rhe question of lang hair is delicate one" said the Rev. William B. Leach pastor of Sacramento Boulevard Metho- dist Episcopal church. "Fd like to grow n head of long hair, but Methodsm and nair tonics combined don't seem to pro duce the desired result. l think l can tell a Baptist preacher by his hair cut all right"
 Presbyterians are not Hong" on halr cuts, according to Rev. Louis r. Caln, pastor of Edgewater Presbyterian church.
 "rhere was a time, some years ago, he said when you could tell Methodist
 preached by his style of hair cut, flo wore burnsides and long hair But | think preachers nave outgrown most or ,,,ose styles. Today it is the man first and the preacher second with all pastors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
BUSTING THE TRUSTS
 AND THE LAW TOGETHER

not pursue offenders-if there be any but all the property and all the busi- ness. It proposes to take away and to manage the business of the innocent minority as well as that of the guilty majority-assuming them to be guilty, which is not yet proved. But the bus mess is not to be run permanently, IL is 10 be wound up. This is part of the real task of recognized receiyerships. A receiver is appointed to wind up a bankrupt corporation. He is to man age the business in such a way as to procure out of it as much as posslpIe for the creditors and to save as much as possible for the owners, the share holders. Sometimes a receiver does so well with business that he saves 1t and it is restored to the management of it's owners. In this case against the American Tobacco company, however, the government proposes to put an end to the earning capacity of the business and to destroy the investment of the shareholders, minority as well as ma jority. It must be presumed that It is a proper business, because the majority of the shareholders, or only the officers and creditors, it may be, are accused (not yet shown guilty) of monopoliZ- ing or restraining trade. If there be guilt. the guilty should be punished but 1t is a strange and happily. hith- erto an unknown doctrine that punish ment may be meted ont in advance of proof; and that the business and prop erty of the innocent may suffer with the accused. We opine that the courts will hesitate before granting the re- quest 10 lend themselves to such an as- sault upon property and that Attorney General Bonaparte Is now inclined to agree that the time has not yet come when the law and the trusts can be busted" together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
CITY GIVES FREEDOM TO
 THIEVES AND BURGLARS

bed decided to try to put the thief in prison. When the case came up again the prisoner was set free on the ground of insufficient evidence. The man recoy cred his yaluabes from the police.
 Shortly afterward the same pickpoeket was again arrested at the bridge. A policeman came to the man who had had the former experience and asked him to have his wife go to court and identify the prisoner and testify against him.
 Have you got a subpoena?' the man asked.
 'No,' said the policeman.
 Then said the man, present my compliments to whenever sent you and tell him to go to hell"
 "Very we'll said the man; but my wife is rather nearsighted and l hardly think she could identify the thief
 There Is small gang of pickpockets working the Ulmer park station of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit road. One of them Is very well known by sight to persons who frequent the station There are seldom any policemen in sight when he Is busy. He is .a good sized man and usually wears a gray suit and straw hat that looks somewhat like an fmita- tion Panama.
 When the crowd is getting aboard the train he gets in the midst of it. just ahead of a man that has been picked out to be robbed, puts an arm in front of the intended victim, grasps the step railing with the hand of that arm and says to those on the other side of him, as if they belonged to his party:
 Hurry up Don't be all night getting aboard Others want to get seats, tool!
 Meanwhile the light fingered member of the gang relieves of his valuables the man who has been held back by the bullys arm and passes them to con- federate just behind him.
 This has been done so frequently that nearly all persons who habitually take trains from the statlon-nearly all ex- cepting the police-know the man in the gray suit and know the methods of the gang The two other members of 1t are not so generally known by sight. It Is not usual for persons robbed at the IT. mer Park or Bath Beach station to make any fuss about it. They understand the difficulty of presenting sufficient evi- dence" against thief caught at the bridge, and they perceive that the diff cuty would be even greater if by any chance there should happen to be po- liceman whose services were available for an arrest.
 There Is seldom an evening when there are crowds waiting at these stations that the thieves are not at work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28

From the New York Sun.
 A judge in the city of New York two or three years ago gave out in a public way advice to this effect: "If you wake up in the night and see a burglar or burglars, snore; let them take what they can find and go away with It."
 A few weeks or months later son of the jurist who gave this advice was awakened in the night by burglars in his house. He followed thu old man S conservative counsel and was not mur- dered. The burglars gathered up such Valuables as they could discover and departed in peace.
 "The freedom of the city, is not an empty expression. Burglars enjoy 1t. So, in a small way, do pickpockets.
 Not long ago the pocketbook of the wife of a resident of Brooklyn, whose home was then at Sixth avenue and Seventh street, was stolen while she was entering a car of a Brooklyn Rapid Tran sit train at the Manhattan end of the bridge. She made an outcry before the pockettook could be passed to the thiefs confederate, and he dropped 1t on the floor of the car just at the door,
 The pickpocket was arrested and the policeman took him and the pocketbook to the station house. The woman who was robbed went with her husband to the magistrates court to testify against
 
 The husband is a business man, malt- ing a considerable income, and at some sacrifice of his business interests he said that he would follow the matter up and try to aid In the conviction of the pick pocket. Before the case came up again in the magistrates court the pickpocket S lawyer came to his home and told him of the probable further adjournments and bother and asked him to drop the case The man finally said that he would perhaps be willing to do that if he was sure of getting back the pocket book and it's contents, some $50. There upon the lawyer offered to give him the law firms check for the amount, the same to be retuned when he recovered the pocketbook and its contents.
 A day or two later two women one elderly and the other young and rather good looking, both plainly dressed, called at the home of the man whose wife had teen robbed and represented them selves as the mother and sister Of the pickpocket. They said they had always believed him to be an honest. hard working young man and that he was their only support, and, managing 10 shed tears, they begged that the com plaint against him he dropped.
 But the man whose wife had been rob
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
JAPANESE TROOPS
 ARRIVE IN KOREA
Hilary Information Not Given
 to Newspapers
MARQUIS lTO'S STATEMENT
Japanese Statesman Declares That the Agreement Reached Is a Great Relief to Both Nations and
 lnsures Mutual Welfare.

Seoul, July 27.-About 1900 troops are arriving daily. General Okasi has been placed in command of all armed police. It has been forbidden to pub fish military information of any kind. Marquis Saonji, premier of Japan, has sent the congratulations of the Elm peror to Marquis Ito expressing grat- ifcation over his services in Korea. A monetary gift from the Emperor to be distributed among the soldiers and police accompanied the congratulations. The Japanese foreign minister, Vis- count Hayashi, was received in au- dience this afternoon by the Emperor.
 Marquis Ito, who accompanied Min ister Hayashi. gave the Associated Press before starting to the palace, the following statement:
 "Tne agreement reached is a great re- lief to both nations and insures mutual welfare. Though unrest has existed, the country has quieted since an agree ment has been made. Troops have been asked for in the beginning of the re- cent trouble, are now arriving. This is a necessary precaution because of the existence of several thousand Korean troops A large Japanese garrison will be required hereafter in order to pre- vent the possibility of danger from Korean troops.
 q am now figuring on the future, but the details of my plans have not yet been revealed. Our position, formerly one of advice, is now one of direction, but we shall and must go slowly and steadily. The stipuations of the new convention dispose of the accusations that Japan intended gradually to annex Korea. Annexation is opposed by me as unwise and unnecessary. The draft of the agreement was made from pro- posals brought by Minister Hayashi in which the suggestions of the govern ment were in accordance with mine.
 "The agreement carefully expressed after amending the difficulties of the two countries that the right of decis- ion was with myself, Tokio and those with real interest will support me.
 "The protectorate Is a great burden and the increase of revenue great problem. Fortunately the revenues are necessary as was the case in Formosa, where 1t took twelve years to increase the revenues from six to twenty nine millions annually. In the progress of Korea, ignorance is the greatest ob- stacle. The next was the court of the misguided Emperor. The people are beginning to understand that 1 want their interests first, next to those or Japan against whom I can do nothing inimical"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
$2o,ooo,ooo FOR FLOWERS.
Growing Flowers for the Trade Is an
 Expensive Business.

From the Washington Post
 It will be news to most people that America pays $2OOOO,OOo every year for cut flowers. The demand increases every year, so that supplies have to be drawn from far over seas-the bulb farms of Holland and the Rivera, the lily fields of the Bermudas and Japan, and even the remote orchid habitats of Venezuela, Bra gil and Colombia.
 But most of our flowers are home grown, under glass, of which there is in this country at present nearly 3l000,0D square feet New York comes first, with 400 large establishments and 4,900,0O0 square feet; Illinois is next, with 960 es- | tablishments and 4,670000 square feet. Pennsylvania. Massachusetts, Ohio and New Jersey follow in the order named.
 Roses are first favorites. Carnations come next, and then follow violets, chry santhemums and miscellaneous blooms, including lilies There are today not less than 11O00 establishments in the United States growing and selling flowers and plants, and the problem of protecting their enormous acreage of glass is so seri- ous that no ordinary insurance company could be found to take the risk against hall.
 Accordingly the florists of America re- solved upon a private mutual concern, ana incorporated Tn lSof the floflSlS l1all association under the laws of New Jer- sey. The first of these curious organl- zations was started in Germany, the sec ond in this country and the third in England Not one of them, however. is a money making concern, but exists simply and solely to protect members from actual loss.
 Already something like 11,00O claims have been paid by the American associa- ton. representing more than $l02, ,000 There will sometimes be ten or dozen disastrous hailstorms in a season. The membership fee is $2 for every person in surfing 2O0O square feet of glass and 50 cents for each additional 1000.
 Members pay to the treasurer, on re- hitting the membership fee, s cents for every 100 square feet of single thick glass and cents for each 1o0 square feet of double thick glass to be insured. Any risk upon which three or more consecu- a hazardous risk" and 10 per cent is added to the assessment.
 For every square foot of single thick glass broken by hail a member receives 5 cents. and cents for the double thick glass. The secretary must be notified of a loss within twenty-five days, the proofs being the growers affidavit and that of two disinterested persons.
 The florists of the United States, how ever are evidently not quite satisfied even with their mutual insurance society," for they have more than once suggested establishing a glass factory of their own SO enormous Is the demand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
Under Knife Eleven Times

Worcester (Mass) Cor. Boston American.
 Edgar Terrill, aged 13 years, died ln the hospital after having survived eleven sui Eical operations. Death saved him from the twelfth. Several years ago his caso was famous on account of the numerous operations performed upon his between the ages of and D years in an attempt to cure cleft bladder. He passed much of his early life in hospitals at Brook line. The operations were finally success ful. and he became a rugged youth until short time ago, when he was attacked by appendicitis. June 2S he was admitted to the hospital His case was pronounced critical. and an immediate operation was believed necessary Upon examinatilon 1t was found that pertonit!s precluded fur ther surgical treatment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
The Newspaper Worm.

From the Kansas City Journal.
 The worm will turn, says the prov erb, and at last the newspaper worm has turned hard. In a recent novel well known criminal lawyer represent ed the city editor of metropolitan daily newspaper as remaining in the office until 2 o'clock in the morning, at which time he was finishing off an editorial. A few days after the pubic had heen allow d to gain this valuable information of the workings of news- paper office the aforesaid daily news paper worm turned. It said it under stood the lawyers n ext book was to De stood on the bridge and oiled the en- stood on te bridge and oiled the en- zines. The lawyers demurrer is now awaited with interest.