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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
UPRISING IN INDIA.
m the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Cable advces indicate very serious situation in Lahore, India What began as mob demonstration against Christian missionaries, the first victims being Amer jeans, has developed into a mutiny against the British government of the empire. Troops of all arms are being drafted to the center of disturbance and the authori- ties evidently anticipate difficult work in suppressing the uprising
 It Is not easy to judge at this dis tance what foundation in justice this latest protest against English rule in ln- I-dla may have. The fact that it began with an assault upon missionaries indi- cates a frantic illumination merely. Yet 1t must be admitted the British reign in India does not appear to have done it much good. Famnes recur with about the same frequency; the vast population has made little progress in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. It is true the English have inaugurated some great public improvements that ought to bet ter the condition of the people, but they do not appear to have had the beneticent effects of similar undertakings in Egypt. vast proportion of the great population of India continues to worship it's own idols In extreme poverty and dissatisfac- tion with the regnant power. Support of the imperial arms and agencies of ad- ministration absorb the greater part of the usufruct from the public works.
 An uprising such as is threatening at Lahore will not benefit India nor will it bring better conditions to the mutineers. Great Britain is strong enough to put it down and will do so at any cost. The white mans burden" will not be aban- doned, though maintenance of the priv- lege of bearing it may impose upon h. dia an additional weight of taxation. The movement is deplorable from any point of yiAu.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
TIGER ATE FIFTY VICTIMS. I2 aupoon (Tpdial Gazatfe


 'Chakrata, writes a correspondent, terday by the arrival of the man-ea ting tiger from Lokar. beyond Denban. This animal has for the last three years been the terror of the tract of country known as Jaunsar-Bawar. Indeed for twenty five miles beyond Deoban there Is scarce ly khud that has not its history of human victims. all attempts to destroy this scourge having hitherto proved fu- tile. On September 13 leaving his usual two men close to the forest officers gar den, one body only being found. On the morning of the 18th he killed bullock a mile and half from Chakrata, on the Deoban road The forest officer, A. Smy- thies, Colonel FitzRoy, Fifth Fusiliers. and most of the officers in garrison then made arrangements to surround the spot where the tiger was last seen. Several soldiers in garrison volunteering their ser feet this most completely. After about two hours beating the tiger was marked down under a cliff. Nothing would per suade him to leave his cover, and it was not until party of five or six guns ad- vanced to the spot where he was lying that shot was possible, Mir. Smythes drawing first blood. He then bolted, re- ceiving the fire of several rifles, and was eventually killed on the Jadi road, about 400 yards from where first hit He was then carried into Chakrata In triumph. ac- companied by about 300 men, singing a very quaint song and chorus. On opening him, the fingers and other portions of the man eaten on the 18th were found in his stomach. The government reward for this was 800 rupees. He was a small but very powerful animal, measuring, as he lay seven feet, eight inches from his nose to the tip of the tail. He had dur ing the last three years killed not fewer than fifty human beings, four of them during this present month, and his death is source of universal satisfaction throughout the whole district"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
NEW FABLE FOR CRITICS.

From Puck.
 A young mule. who had been called donkey by ignorant persons till he grew restive under the imputation, made in quiry of his mother as to any possible inheritance of mentality that might be coming to him.
 My son." said the aged she-ass, low ing to your exceptional parentage, you sense. The time has come for you to choose one of the two."
 T fail to see any difference between the terms, as commonly used" replied the mule. 'I really can not make a choice"
 T perceive" said the mother, regret fully, that you resemble a famous an- cestor of yours, who became mixed up with duplicate bundles of hay, to his undoing.'
 'I can support the consciousness of that fact" said the mule, 'so long as it does not become noised abroad. Is there no way in which l can conceal 1t from the world?'
 There is." the parent responded, after a moments thought, and it is this: in case of a dispute, seize the first opinion that comes handy and stick to it till the crack of doom. In this way you will get reputation for knowing your own mind, without necessarily knowing any thing at all''
 The young mule, being level-headed young mule, acted upon this advice and made a name for himself as a synonym for firmness
 Moral-Utilize your limitations. If you can not make money, you may attain to fame by pointing out the criminality of wealth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15

while the New Orleans Cotton Ex. change puts the price of August cotton at 1127 cents. The New Orleans con tracts mean in the case of delivery spinnable cotton, and the quotations in that market fairly represent the mar ket. No one buys New York contract expecting to get on 1t cotton. for New York delivery means any old stuff.
 The entire New York scheme is a device of the New England splnners, and 1t is conducted to depress the price of cotton. It is losing it's power for evil because no one cares now what the New York quotation is. New Or leans is the chief cotton market of the United States just as Liverpool is the chief cotton market of Great Britain. The elimination of New York from the cotton trade is a hopeful and help full feature of the cotton industry, and if MT. Price succeeds in establishing his charges the ground under the New York Cotton Exchange will be cut away and the entire concern will top pie down. A concern that quotes in one breath May contracts at 10.7S cents and spot middlings at 1195 cents should topple down. It is a swindling concern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
All, SWEET IS TIPPERARY.

By Denis A. Mccarthy. An, sweet Tippareray in the Sprinsume or
 the year.
 When the hawthorn's winter than the
 snow, When the feathered folk assemble and
 the air is all a-tremble
 With their singing and their wingine
 to and fro; When queenly Slieve-na-mon puts her ver- dant vesture on, And smiles to hear the news the breezea
 bring; When the sun begins to glance on tho
 rivulets that dance An sweet is Tipperary in the Springi An, sweet Is Tipperary in the Springtime
 of the year,
 When the mists are rising from the lea, When the Golden Vale Is smiling with .
 beauty all beguiling And the Suir goes crooning to the sea: When the shadows and the showers only multiply the flowers That the lavish hand of May will fling; When in unquestioned ways. fairy music
 softly plays
 An. sweet is Tipperary In the Spring! An. sweet is Tipperary in the sprinstime
 of the year,
 When life like the year is young.s When the soul is just awakening like Q lily blossom breaking, And love words finger on the tongue;< When the blue of Irish skies is the hue
 of Irish eyes,
 And love dreams cluster and cling Round the heart and round the brain,
 half of pleasure, half of pain Al sweet is Tippsra<x ia the springi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
Defective Steel Rails

The open-hearth process is coming more and more into use in rail making. In the May number of Cassier's Maga- zine Robert Job discusses the new cpl demic of rail breakages. He is not welded to any one process, and his article relates to defects in rails in general. He mentions three possible defects in all rails.
 In the first place, he says, unless the rail is worked-that is, passed through the rolls which shape and compress it until the critical point in it's cooling is passed, the steel lacks tenacity and is brittle. The second defect is called piping. A piped rail is one through which a cavity extends, producing great brittleness and weakness. This piping is caused by unsound ends of in- gots and billets which should never have been put into rails Mir Job is inclined to attribute the greater part 
 of the rail breakages to piping. The third defect is porosity. Some rails are full of blow holes. There are other known defects in rails, but MT. Job is inclined to think that nearly all rail road smash-ups that are caused by broken rails can be traced to one of the three defects mentioned.
 Rails are expensive things. Each one is B feet long, and if 1t be 90- pound rail, it is worth S14 at the mill, for two rails weigh ton, lacking twenty pounds. They cost enough at any rate to call for the utmost care on tn part of rail manufacturers. De- fective manufacture Is at the bottom of many railroad accidents, and MT. Job says open-hearth steel is subject to the three great defects that are known to exist in Bessemer rails.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
Kicks on Nulsances.

T don't like to be a kpocker," said an old city drummer, "but I thing 1t is hardly knocking when a man kicks on an eye sore to the town. In my opinion the worn out, tattered awnings that grace Nineteenth and Twentieth streets are about the worst eye-sores imaginable. These rags hang down and in many in stances flap in the faces of pedestrians. They get full of water and drip for hours after a rain has ceased. Sometimes pocket will be formed in one of them, which will fill with water and with sudden pun of wind flare up and splash the water out, oftentimes drenchinS the person who happens to be passing un- der 1t.
 "Only a day or two ago I saw lady passing down Nineteenth street when just as she passed an awning 1t f1ared up and completely drenched her.
 While I'm kicking there's another thing I want to kick about; and that Is the time of day the negro porters in the stores and offices on the principal streets sweep off the sidewalks. They wait until and g o'clock in the morning, when every one is going to work, then get out on the sidewalk and commence raising dust Then again about 3 or o'clock In the afternoon they do the same thing. This is very disagreeable and I think something should be done to remedy it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
From Joliet to Atlanta

Millionaire Gourdain conducted lot teries, and in the course of his busi- ness he used the mails improperly and rnlawfully. He was arrested, tried and convicted, and was at length sentenced to serve four and half years. But his family secured a writ of super sedeas, and he was released on bond against his will.
 Here is where the oddity of Gour- dain's conduct comes in. He went from court to court asking to be returned to prison. He desired to go to prison. He threateend to build prison if he could not butt into a public one. Nothing would please him more, he said, than to get behind the bars, and serve out his sentence, which he had never ques- toned and he conducted his own case. He denied that he was 1arboring brain storms of any sort, and all he asked for was to be put in his little cell in thorough-going government prison.
 At length the supersedeas writ was heard and dismissed, and Louis A. Gourdain, Chicago multi-mlllionaire, was at length received in prison, and the government sent him from Joliet to Atlanta, where he Is to serve out his term. It will take him fully three years to do it, even if his behavior is beyond reproach. His fortune of five millions is intact, but he refuses to have any of it used to get him out of prison. He believes in equal justice to all, and he seems to think that a millionaire has no greater rights be- fore the law than a pauper This is the height and amazing extent of his eccentricity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
Banking Development

This month of May brings many i'm portant conventions to Birmingham, and this week is the banner convention week. The Presbyterian general assem- ply conyenes tomorrow. and the Ala bama Bankers association Friday. The city will be filled with visitors, but there will be room for all and all will be welcome.
 Of the state organizations the bank CTS form not only highly representa- tive body, but numerically this associa- tion is also strong. About two hundred members will attend the convention, and a score or more of visiting bankers from various money centers outside of Alabama will add greatly to the inter- est of the occasion. When the asso- citation last met here the attendance was large and representative, but it will be much larger this week, and the visitors from the north and east will be more numerous and distinguished.
 As fast as the Birmingham district has grown in population and industrial importance within the last five years, the banks of Birmingham have made even greater strides, relatively speak ing. This Is accounted for by the fact that Birmingham is now the financial center of the state. A few years ago this city could make no such claims; but within a very short period its bank ing capital has been more than doubled. The total transaction of one bank alone in Birmingham for the year 1906 were $60o,00o,000, and If the rate of increase in total transactions in this single bank since July is maintained its total for the year will exceed one billion dollars, which is about all the Atlanta banks combined could show last year. While money is not every thing-not the chief thing in life-it must ever be sine qua non. Large banking will always differentiate the enlightened, progressive community from the slow, plodding town. Thus it is that Birminghams banking devel- opment is attracting wide attention and will not fail to interest the finan- ciers who pay us a visit this week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
NEW YoRk's DRAMATIC SEASON,

From the New York World.
 How active has been the stage in New York during the theatrical season now drawing to a close is shown by the review of the year which appears in todays World. New York not only leads all other great cities as a play-going com. munity; it also surpasses them in the amount of material provided for enter tainment
 But while we may boast of the multi. plicity of events, we have less reason to be proud of the quality of the plays and acting for which we exchange our money and our time. When London century and a quarter ago divided it's patronage of the drama between Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatrical art was lifted to nobler heights than New York knows to- day, even with its seventy odd theatres. opera houses and music halls.
 Yet the last busy play going year haa not been without it's favorable signs. There has been a growing disposition on the part of both managers and pub lie to encourage the efforts of native writers. The latter are gradually awak enng to the value of problems of na- tionaI and municipal life as suitable sub jects for the stage. Thus both as an, educational and moral force American theatres have improved.
 Probably by accident we have given the classics more cordial attention. We have allowed ourselves to be less the victims of musical comedy and kindred claptrap than in the previous five sea- sons. If popular tastes as displayed in the theatre have not grown more re- fined they have at least become little more substantial.
 The litter that has clogged the stage has been the inevitable result of too much speculative theatre building. The low standard of acting is accounted for by the fact that the theatre is the mon opoly of a trust Its directing geniuses are men of great business ability whose principle is that art may take care of itself as long as box offices pay Healthy competition, without which there can be no progres, has been reduced to a min imum in the theatrical profession in this country.
 As long as the American disposition Is to accept without complaint whatever is offered and at ridiculously high prices, there will be little chance of improve ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
League of Press Clubs.

q wrote recently to the Denver Cham Der of Commerce to get the opinion of that organization as to the benefit the city received from the meeting of the International League of Press Clubs held there last summer,' said J. A. Rountree. chairman of the arrangements committee for the entertainment or the same body in Birmingham next month.
 President Meyer Friendman of the Chamber of Commerce of Denver, re- spends as follows:
 With regard to the benefit derived from the meeting of the International League of Press Clubs in this city last August; This meeting brought to Colorado about 400 of the most famous writers of the country and on their return they wrote not less than 400 columns of matter laud- atory of Colorado, it's climate, scenery, resources etc. the whole made fervid with expressions of their good will and esteem for the people who had enter tained them so hospitably. Beyond ques- ton, this matter scattered through the best newspapers of the country, did much good to the state of Colorado. The city council appropriated s2OO0 to be used in the entertainment and the rest of the money needed was raised by private sub scription. All who gave to the fund be- lieved the money well spent and the re- turn ample The amount of space se- cured could not be had at any price in such papers as the Chicago Inter-Ocean, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit Free Press and Toledo Blade, These and other notable newspapers ran whole pages reaching hundreds of thousands of peo- nle "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
New York Cotton Quotations

The case of Theodore H. Price against the New York Cotton Exchange will be heard by Judge Rushmore of New York court tomorrow MT. Price is not member of the New York Cot ton Exchange, but he holds one of It's contracts, and he therefore claims a legal right to question it's unlawful and corrupt practices"
 It is not necessary to follow the tech nicalities of the case. It is not neces- nary to do so because a mere glance nt it's quotations of futures is convinc- ing. By means of rotten system of grading 1t contrives to quote August cotton, for example, at 1o.44 cents,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
scuIptors Exhibit.

c. Morreth, the sculptor whose studio and marble quarries are in Talladega county, is registered at the Hillman. He has recently returned from the James town exposition, whersNhe had been to in stall large and varied exhibit of his works.
 'I am much pleased with the space which the exposition management allot- ted me. The works which I have on ex- hiblton make an extensive display and will attract attention to Alabama be- cause each piece of sculpture is chiseled in native marble.
 Norfolk. where the exposition is held, Is a charming city, and is distinguished for genuine Virginia hospitality. The Jamestown show is yet incomplete, but I think everything will be In shape by July
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
County Bond Proposition

The referendum of June "A should be kept in mind, for on that day the qualified voters of Jefferson county will pass upon a proposed $500,000 bond issue for the erection of county jail and additional court house room on the present court house lot.
 The coming election Is not informal or unofficial It is a primary or refer endum under the laws of this state, and an affirmative vote will compel the s50O,O00, and the building of com bined jail and court house on Fourth avenue adjacent to and near the court house now in use.
 The proposition looks, it is plain, to a skyscraper structure, at the top of which will be ample jail room, always provided stories enough are added to it. Room for 250 prisoners is now needed, and if the fee system Is to be maintained accommodations for twice that number may be needed ten years hence. The new building will neces- sarily be planned on the basis of the fee system.
 Public sentiment has crystallized in favor of a skyscraper jail and court house. The idea is extremely modern, and city after city is hurrying to se- cure an escape-proof jail, notably Pitts burg. For unless a prisoner can hyp- notize the elevators escape in such building is impossible. Walls ten stories high cannot be overcome by the rope route, and leap from that height would destroy life even quicker than the electric chair.
 The voters will not be asked to vote upon a proposition specifically calling for combined jail and court house, but they will be asked to vote upon a proposition to put up "a county build ing" knowing full we'll that an aff1rma- tive vote means a combined jail and court house on the present court house lot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
DEPARTED GLORY.

DEPARTED GLORY. While Brown was shy on intellect And had no love for work, The kind that fell upon him in
 His duties as a clerk, And while he held no weighty claims To fame or great renown, The girlies all agreed he was
 The best dressed man in town. No matter what the season was, If winter time or spring, Young Browns attire was still correct, His gait a jaunty swing A beau indeed, a fashion plate, A haberdashers dream! The willie boys for miles around Held Brown in high esteem The years have flown away, alas, The blighting hand of time! What changes in the man we knew When he was in his prime! Poor Brown is married now and humps To pay his little bills. Hes glad enough when both ends meet And has no time for frills He hasn't done much in the world, The road seems long and hard, Somehow, he never turned a trick" Or held a winning card Forsooth, there isn't much in life For poor old seedy Brown But once upon a time he was The best dressed man in town! While Robert Fulton didn't invent the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-15
PRESS POINTS

Boston Globe: It is announced, upon. reliable authority, that the little prince of Spain wrinkles his nose when he cries.
 Nashville American: 'eWhere are your American poets?' asks Ambassador Bryce. Most of them are dead. The others are writing advertisements.
 Chattanooga Star: A lot of southern editors are trying to make hash out of Ray stanard Baker on account of his late articles on the negro question.
 Baltimore News: Foraker offering the olive branch appears to be producing no more effect on the Taft people in Ohio than when he was brandishing the tomahawk
 Houston Post: The farmers of quite an area of west Texas are complaining of the drouth. They might easily secure a rain by setting a day and arranging for a Sunday school picnic.
 New Orleans Times-D Democrat: The or ganization of a new fast steamship line from England to Halifax is announced. But the English can never go to Hab- fax fast enough to please the Kaiser.
 Washington Post: The current num- Der of the Haberdasher says: Neck wear hasn't much to say for itself this month"; In that case, perhaps the shirts and vests will be loud enough to make themselves heard.
 Norfolk Virginia Pilot: Mir Roosevelt is said to have ready the material Tor fourteen more books against the time when he shall have leisure to write them. Mighty fortunate for his family that his cacoethes is scribendi instead of bibendi.