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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
Ways and Means Committee.

"Oscar w. Underwood, like most con- gressmen who succeed in attaining q place on the ways and means, had to serves as apprentice in the House before he was appointed on that important com- mittee," remarked man who has re- tired from public life. Among the ex- captions to the rule, In our day, were William Jennings Bryan and John C.. Carlisle In the speakership race, which refulted in Crisps election, MT. Springer wAs a strong candidate that had to be refkoned with. Among the latter's par tifans was MT. Bryan and when Springer finally threw his strength to Crisp, he made it one of the conditions, if my memory serves me right, that the ybung Nepraskan be appointed member df the ways and means committee. At dny rate, Bryan was a member of the dommittee before he had served out his frst term.
 "In the case of Mr. Carlisle, he had national reputation as master of the lariff question before he was elected to Congress. On the stump he had revealed bis statesmanship and had displayed ex- 1cplioldl dOiiity III illS uisNuoSioi oA tAC tariff. He was appointed, therefore, member of the ways and means commit tee at the start and was chairman of
 he committee in his third term
 This iron and steel district is for 'tunate, indeed, in being represented on ithe ways and means committee Not only would 1t be next to impossible for a new congressman from Birmingham to get on that committee, but owing to the pre- .pondence' of northern iron and steel in- ffuence it would be exceedingly difficult
 or a congressman representing Pitts sburg's southern rival to be appointed pn that committee at all, certainly if the republicans were in power."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
Bishop Duncan Dead

The Methodist church has had no kindlier, braver, or more consecrated divine on the Episcopal bench than Bishop w. w. Duncan, who passed away at his home in Spartanburg, s C., yesterday. He was born in Vir- ginia in 1899. Beginning his collegiate education at Randolph Macon In Vir- ginia he graduated at Wofford college in South Carolina. During the war he served as chaplain in the confederate army and after filling number of i'm portant pastorates in Virginia he ac- .cepted in 1878 the professorship of mental and moral philosophy at Wofford, which he retained until he was elected bishop in 1S86
 Bishop Duncan was a strong man mentally and was distinguished for his culture. He had exceptionally fine executive qualities and no bishop pro. sided over conference with more marked ability. As church rAler he was firm but never harsh. A Nan of ready wit he was singularly at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
The Woodstock Corporation.

"The Woodstock Iron and Steel cor poration of Anniston, of which J. NJ. Barr is president and John B. Caring ton is vice president, are making a good success of their furnace opera tions," said man well known in the industrial world.
 MT. Barr and his associates acquired the Woodstock poperties, reorganized the old company, repaired and put in blast the smaller of the two furnaces and got well underway in making iron shortly before the panic. But in spite of the recession in business the new corporation has been operating suc- cessfully right along.
 "The Woodstock concern is now get ting ready to rebuild it's big furnace. This work will cost about s100,00O, and when the expenditure for said material development and other things are added the total cost of the work will reach approxima tely s200,OOO. This is a good showing for Anniston."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
ENGLISH ACCENT.
The Queer Twist Put to Some Tamil
 lar Names.
From the Pittsburg Sun.

From the Pittsburg Sun.
 recent criticism of English nomen- clature on the American stage is a timely warning, as the following list will give an idea of the great difference in pro- nunciation of the two countries:
 Talbot is pronounced "Tolbut," Thames is pronounced "Tems,' Bulwer is pro- nounced Butler" Cowper, Cooper Holburn, "Hobun;' Wemyss. "Weems' Knolloys, "Knowles;' Cockburn. ''Co- burn;' Brougham, Broom Norwich, "Norridge;" St. Leger, "Stillinger;" Ha- warden, Harden" Colquhoun, "Co- hon. Cirrencester, "Sissiter;' Gros- venor, "Grovenor" Salisbury, "Salla- bury" Beaucham, "Beacham;" Maryle- bone, "Marrabun," Abergavenny, "Aber- genny;' Majoribanks, "Marchbanks; Bolingbroke, "Bullingbrook Cholmon- deley, "Chumly.''
 Certain words have different meaning. For example: The American says depot the Englishman says station" Ticket office equals booking office' Baggage becomes Luggage" An Ameri- can says q. guess,' but an Englishman says 'I fancy" Cracker becomes Ibis cuit' Checkers equals 'draughts '' Yeast becomes barn." Dessert equals sweets and sexton becomes door keeper'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
FIRST AID FOR HOUSEWIVES.

From the Chicago Post.
 The discovery of something new is generally interesting, and Baltimore. be- lieving it has made such a discovery, Is wondering why the first aid for house keepers was not thought of long ago. lts discovery is an emergency householt work force which can be rushed to the relief of helpless housewives at any hour
 The business world long has enjoyed facilities for securing promptly emer' gency employees when the need for then arose, and even the lowly task of clean ing thes treets depends largely upon extra crews. Only the mistress of the house has been compelled to face single handed her problems of "help" that failed utterly to help at the critical moment. Since the day of Eve she has lacked adequate re Inducements in those battles fought Dc low stairs"
 A carefully recruited force. mobile and prompt to respond to the relief of bel leaguered households, should work won1 ders in the solving of the servant prop lem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread.
 As You Like lt.
Our Billion-DoIlar Country

The government does not own bill lion dollars in gold, but last week for the first time in it's entire history 1t held $1 ,O00, ,4S2, 900 in gold in it's vaults, as against $912,075,OOO one year ago, and s177,463, ,OOo at the like date in 1894.
 But this great sum in the govern ment vaults cannot be said to belong to the government in the fullest sense of ownership. There are liens upon nearly all of it. For example, $S30,- t20 900 is held for the redemption ot outstanding go;d cer,ii cates, and $l5o,- 100000 is held under the law of 19oO as security fo, national notes or green backs. This leaves but $20,062,O00 ill free gold, and CD November 16, 1906, the treasury actually held over $117,- 00O,0OO in free gold.
 But still the treasury holds an enor- nous gold fund, said. to be the largest ever collected at one time, in one place, and under one control. The great state banks hold the gold of other countries, but against our billion dollars the Bank of France held re- gently but $599, 100000; the Bank of England, $245, 100000, and the Imperial Bank of Russia, $591 500, 900.
 It is not easy to say why we out hold all other countries unless it is be- cause we are richer and bigger than any other country We have only to liquidate and sell our products, said Congressman Hill of Connecticut last week, "at fair price at the rate we have been doing, and we will not only maintain the stock of goods we now have, but we will add largely to it from the reserves of Europe. The gold of Europe is ours if we will take it."
 It did not occur to the Connecticut congressman to mention the fact that the chief magnet in attracting gold this way is the f1eecy staple grown in the south, but perhaps he did not know it. Without bags of cotton to export we could not draw a dollar of gold from Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
VASE CLEOPATRA OWNED,

Philadelphia Dispatch in New York Sun
 vase of beautiful workmanship, with inscriptions tending to show it to have been the property of Cleopatra and upon which is painted a portrait of Julius Caesar in the costume of a Greek god ilas been found by the. Randall Maciver expedition of the University of Penn sylvania, which has been at work at Anibeh, a famous religious shrine of tho ancient Egyptians, since the middle of last November. News of the discovery was sent by Dr. Maciver a few days ago in letter to Eckley B. Coxe, chairman of the Egyptian section of the University museum. The vase was found in a tomb about mile north of the city of Anibeh proper, where the tombs of many of the nobility of Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies have been unearthed. In the burial chamber besides the vase were several articles which would have been ranked in important discoveries but for the Cleopatra vase. The vase itself, just 26 inches high, was standing in a niche cut into the solid rock wall of the tomb at the head of the sarcophasus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
From Tit Bits.


 T HE shot bv which the Anarchist
 lU Bresci took the life of King
 Humbert of Italy at Monza in 1900 cost the insurance companies con- cerned no less than $1, ,500,0O0 in English money, the King having insured himself more heavily than any other monarch of his time The loss was, however, very widely distributed, the risk having been regarded as a comparatively safe one as royal Hives" go.
 The reverse was the case with that Of Alexander I of Servia, murdered along
 with Queen Draga in 1903. Not very long before the tragedy took place efforts
 were made to insure the Kings life in London for GS0,O00, but the premiums asked were considered too high, and the
 business was reported to have been con- cluded on the continent. Underwriters here looked upon the risk as a very se- rious one, and the accuracy of this view was proved when, within a very short time, claims were made, chiefly upon Dutch and Belgian offices, for the amounts of the policies.
 In contrast to this one may refer to the instance of the late Prince Imperial of
 France When he was still very young
 his father insured his sons life with Eng fish companies for e2,0000o0, payable upon the prince attaining his majority. The sum was duly collected, but at that time
 the previously deposed Emperor was dead and the prince was student at Wool ba Zulu assegais
 >Of all royal lives that of King Ed ward is regarded most favorably by in surers It is calculated that personally he "carries"-as the>Americans say-about
 s75OOOO in policies; but, besides. he is insured for vast sums by many people who. for various reasons, would otherwise
 find anything unfortunate happening to him financially catastrophe to them selves.
 Thus, before the commencement of every London season many manufacturers and tradesmen whose business depends upon the court functions going through with out interruption, take out policies on the Kings life for very large sums So may man who desires to protect capital in consols for the death of the ruler would
 probably mean considerable, though possibly temporary, fall in the premier
 security. Others may insure the King because his life Is one of those men toned in the leases by which they hold land or property.
 | Such contingencies are endless. and the | total of the resulting policies is beyond | accurate calculation, but some years ago I it was very moderately estimated at be- tween s2,00O,Ooo and s3,O00.OoO When l Queen Victoria died the. amount paid out under similar agreements in London alone
 was said to be f25o,Ooo. and for obvious reasons the total in her case was muci, l smaller than 1t is under existing condl- | tons
 l The German Emperor is reputed to be l personally insured-chiefy in his own l country-for' several hundred thousand l pounds. Here, from various causes his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
PAYING HER FARE.
ain Dealer.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 The woman on the car with the evelyn thaw shaped hat started to get out her money to give to the conductor Here is what she did She took little satchel out of her shopping bag, closed the shop ping bag, opened the satchel, took out a dinky purse out of the satchel, closed the satchel. opened the purse and took out a quarter Then she put the purse back in the satchel, closed the satchel, opened the shopping bag and put the satchel back ir that. By that time the conductor haG handed her the 20 cents change. Then she opened the shopping bag-but why repeal in full The printer can just set up this Viz, de capo-which means if , one is correctly informed, go back to the beginning and repeat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
LOVE AND DEATH.

What time the mighty moon was gather ing light, -. Love paced the thymy plots of Paradise And all about him rolled his lustrou
 eyes; When. turning round cassia, full il
 view, Death. walking all alone beneath a yew And talking to himself, first met hi
 sight: You must begone,' said Death, "thes
 walks are mine.' Love wept and shed his sheeny vans fq
 flight; Yet. ere he parted, said: This hour
 thine; Thou art the shadow of life; and as tl
 tree
 Stands in the sun and shadows all
 heath, So in the light of great eternity Life eminent creates the shade of death, The shadow passeth when the tree slaal
 fall, But shall reign forever over all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
sEvEN-MINUTE KISS.
Traffic Stops In New York While Two
 Pairs of Lips Are Glued.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 The osculatory art is only in it's infancy on the stage. Harlem presented a per formance to a mixed audience in West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street last night that put Olga Nethersole, Sophie Brandt and Mary Garden 20 times 20 days In the shade.
 At One Hundred and Twenty fifth street and Eighth avenue there is an open air transfer station. About church time, last evening two figures appeared at a window in a hotel nearby. The window framed a picture reeking with orange blossoms and jessamine. Two pairs of arms met each other, a pretty blonde head rested on manly shoul- der for second, and the lips turned upward in invitation.
 "A soul kiss" suggested coldfooted citizen waiting for a car outside. T have waited for my car ten minutes. It is now S:1O, and-they are off
 Two pairs of lips met. Two forms swayed. A piano tinkled waltz dream. A small boy sheltered A fat woman sniffed The corner crowd grew and grew.
 "One minute" said the man with the watch. "They are out for a record"
 The two forms nestled closer. Two minutes, three minutes four five and six Then seven by the watch. The throng outside was crowding the frank furter man off his post. The "cop'' was too busy watching the watch to do any thing else.
 There ought to be a law against that" said the fat woman whoS had sniffed. A sedate man who had been looking on with a sour face hurried across the street and telephoned an alarm to the manage ment of the hotel.
 "Besides,' he explained, they are blocking traffic.
 The osculating couple at the window started. They hurried toward the door. A bell boy appeared with note. It was from downstairs. Down came the curtain with a bang.
 Seven minutes fifty-six and one-fifth seconds" said the man with the watch.
 That is-up to the drop of the cur tain"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
DELEGATES TO DENVER.
the Goodwater Enterprise.

Since it is a foregone conclusion that Bryan will be nominated at the Denver convention, 1t is entirely proper that Hon. John w. Tomlinson of Birmingham should head the delegation from Alabama as one of the four delegates-at-large. MT. Tomlinson is a splendid good fellow, a loyal democrat and thoroughly in touch with MT. Bryan, and would have as much influence in the Denver convention as any man that could be sent from Ala bama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
AROUND THE COUNTRY
New York Tribune: A Shah in the car riage is worth two in the automobile.

New York Tribune: A Shah in the car riage is worth two in the automobile.
 Florida Times Union: Manhattanites who room in New Jersey now go to bed by way of the subaqueous tunnel.
 New York Telegram: Me and my peo- ple," 1t must be borne in mind, doesn't include the railroads nor Standard Oil.
 Savannah Press: A Pensacola cashier who stole $40,0O0 has been sent to an asylum. He was probably harrythawed.
 Dallas News: Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota is rather hard-headed and uncouth Scandinavian who does not believe that the New York bankers know it all.
 Philadelphia North American: Morse swears that he went abroard to look after some financial matters" Probably wanted to see if they looked any worse at long distance.
 Kansas City Star: Rex Beach, the author protests to the courts that some women are prosecuting him. This is per- haps the penalty of having a name like summer resort.
 Washington Herald: A ship has just ar rived in Boston carrying 2OoO sacks of beans; which suggests 57 varieties of paragraphs that even a nonunonist would hesitate to perpetrate.
 Knoxville Journal and Tribune: The fact that Senator Davis has not made speech in the Senate for more than a month must not be taken as evidence that he is a finished orator
 Norfolk Virignian-Pilot: According to newspaper reports, if Harry Thaw is de- clared permanently insane Evelyn will divorce him. Why? If he hadn't been insane he wouldn't have married her. Washington Post: A New Jersey man re- gently broke his nose for the seventh time, and the remarkable feature of the case is that he has been keeping it out of other peoples business to the best of his ability
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03

list of the things Underwood has ac- complished for the district, 1t is amply sufficient to demonstrate his right to the title of good and faithful public servant. Who could have served us better? Who could have served us so
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
An Excellent Entertainment.

Birmingham don't know. how to ap- preciate rare treats" said a man last night. q dropped into Cable hall tonight to hear the Lyric Glee club of Chicago and was very much surprised to see only 65 or 70 people in the audience.
 "A splendid quartet and young lady reader rendered more than pleasing pro- gramme, one far more pleasing than the average play. There was an abundance of real melody and humor, and the hall should have been packed. The people of Birmingham should wake up to these things and not let such treats pass by.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
WOE

WOE. The days grow longer,
 What~a shame
 Whereas our pay Remains the same.
 Detroit Free Press.
 The days grow longer,
 Yet are we
 Much shorter than
 We used to be. man lectured in Cincinnati Sunday on Life, Death and the Hereafter" That is the trinity which keeps mankind guess ing.
 The first photographs were taken in 1902. a long time before Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and Ethel Barrymore were born. We are wondering whether Spring will come on the Southern or the Louisville and Nashville. A man named Tack ran for office in Pennsylvania, says the Washington Post The returns showed that MT. Tack was sat on.
 The title of a new book is "The Fly On the Wheel,' which reminds us that the fly in the butter will soon cause talk Where were you year ago today?' asks contemporary. Right where we are today--in debt. Don't depend upon your salary" ad- vses a banker. We lean rather heavily on ours.
 POOR MAN.
 He bought some books
 A lovely Set
 The monthly plan
 He's paying yet.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
Business Improving.

That business is improving there can be no question: said a bank official. A month ago the merchants were a little blue, fearing hard times were ahead. But trade has kept up very we'll and now one scarcely meets a merchant who has not a cheerful air. The jobbers are doing well, too, and as the iron trade is steadily improving. All these signs taken together are more than assuring.
 While the volume of trade will not be as large as it was a year ago, 1908 will be far from dull"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BAcHELoF

From the New York Press.
 All babies are mighty good looking, con- sidering their parents.
 Evening gowns cost lot, but what some of them show is worth it.
 A girl is awful proud of being able to blush without knowing why
 The strenuous life Is being a Presi- dent or being managed by a baby
 A woman always thinks she could make her husband successful in business if he would let her select his clothes for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

, ly-or absolutely as MT. Bert Williams would say-refused to believe in fairies, and in consequence left poor Tinker Bell
 to die of neglect at the end of the third act.
 Somehow or other, from the very start of the play the Poughkeepsians seemed to resent the idea of having Peters guar dian fairy represented by light. That's
 a regular No. 2 company cheap trick. exclaimed one irate individual in the audience. "In New York I'll bet they
 had a pretty girl in pink tights and white wings playing that part. When they come up here a durned old electric light with cowbell tied to it is good l enough for us."
 Those who have seen the play will re-
 member that at the end of the third act Tinker Bell swallows the poison which the wicked Captain Hook has prepared for Peter Pan and is expiring in great agony in spite of the fact that she hasn't any stomach when Peter rushes down to the audience and implores them if they believe in fairies to please clap their hands. By so doing they will not only save Tinker Bells life, but will supply | the crafty MT. Barrie with & climax for | his act.
 Well, as we said before, Poughkeepsie had not taken kindly to Tinker Bell from | the start Consequently when little Miss Vivian Martin as Peter made her frantic appeal for aid the entire audience, figur- atively at least, put their hands in their | pockets Just as the light which rep resented Tinker Bell was on the point of expiring the aoorkeeper rushed madly
 into the box tice, where Mir. Frohman's | representative, Manager Charles Rich | ards was counting up'' and exclaimed: Say, you'd better go In there quick | That kid leading lady of yours is talk l ing right out to the audience.' | "Ill bet it's that Tinker Bell | again." cried MT. Richards, 'I forgot to | tell the ushers to clap" | Running madly into the theatre Mir. | Richards, from the rear of the orchestra, began to applaud madly with both hands, and then Tinker Bell began to revive as | rapidly as though she had swallowed a | bottle of sal yolatile.-New York Evening Sun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
Hsme Vs. the Restaurant

A correspondent of the New York Times took that paper to task for mak- ing the statement that when one con siders the high prices for all sorts of things in the eating and drinking line the restaurant charges are not much more for a good dinner than the cost of one at home. The correspondent rejects the prices of the fashionable restaurants with results as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03
Restaurant
Home for
 Eixt.

1.50.. Fuel and sundriess waiter... 100
 Not only does the home meal cost 60 per cent. less, but it is usually SO per cent. better in quality, quantity and real cleanliness. The New York restaurant is not in the running against the ,well-kept home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03

THE CLUB LIFE. Mothers joined club Keeps her busy, too. Father sits around,
 Looking rather blue. Bridget quit today,
 Beds are not made up, Baby's in the yard,
 Playing with the pup. House is upside down, We are shy on grub. Know what all this means? /kGother's joined club!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-03

If Missouri mule should be pitted against the racing automobiles the bet ting would run in favor of the mule reaching Paris first.