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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
DENIS o'SULLlvAN.
Died at the Time When His Career
Was Most Promising.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
When Denis O'sullivan died yesterday
morning in Grant hospital at Columbus
death claimed the newest and most prom
Using star upon the American stage. A
brief dispatch from Columbus yesterday
announced that Mr.. OSullivan had passed
away early in the morning On Thursday
he underwent an operation for Appendix
citis. but it was found that gangrene had
set in. and, though every effort was made
to save him, the end was not unex-
pected.
Little more than a month ago Mr.. O'Sul-
Ivan came over from iceland with his
new play, Peggy Machree," and in Chi
cage gave 1t the first American hearing.
His managers. A. w. Dingwen and Jos ,ph
Brooks. had prepared a fine production
for him, and never was a young star in
troduced with greater care and so finely
handled. The result was that though a.
comparative stranger this singer and
player from ireland leaped at once into
favor, and his success had been phe-
nomenal. Just when his career seemed
most promising the signs OF his fatal i'll
ness made themselves apparent, but Mr..
O'Sullivan would not give up. He was of
a robust build, and Thought he could fight
it off. lie only submitted to the opera
ton when It was deemed imperative.
Though an Irishman to the core, O'Sul-
Ivan was born in San Francisco lie was
AZ years old, and spent his boy God IN
that city. Going to Ireland, he took up
the study OF music in Dublin, and com
pleted his musical education In Italy. II
was a lover ofNIrlsh music, and had ac-
complished wonders in the way of awak-,
ening interest in that music and was
active in the movement to revive the ole,
folk melodies of the early Irish composers
and restore them to their rightful place,
In the worlds musical history. He ha6i
the hearty cooperation of many distir =
gushed Irishmen and societies in this
work, and for his ceaseless and almost I'm
valuableeefforts he had endeared hims elf
to his countrymen the world over. His re-
ceptons since his arrival In this COUNTRY
had demonstrated this.
Theatrically the dead singer was Fest
known in America for his performances in
'sShamus O'Bnen," In which he plf ,ved
the title role aSG as q member of Fran
els Wilson's company in 1.-THE Torea dor,
several seasons back.
The remains were shlpped from Coiu mbus
to New York last night, the widoyy and
members of the company going ca st on
thu same train. No arrangements f. or the
funeral were announced, but 1t is likely
that the interment will be in SaI Fran
cisco.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
All Talks and No Acts

President Roosevelt, speaking in be-
half of the masses against the priv
LEGGED classes, demanded at the hands
of Congress the passage of about
dozen bills. True, he did not demand
a revision of the trust-creating tariff,
nor did he demand in his special mes
sage an immediate publicity of cam
paign funds, but he did demand many
important reforms.
Is Congress controlled in both
branches by the republicans-con-
trolled, too, by heavy. majorities-re-
spending to the demands Of the Presi-
dent? Not a response in the form OF
a reported bill is forthcoming-not
one. Not one will be brought on and
passed, and when Congress adjourns
there should be printed in parallel col
umns what the President demanded
and what Congress did. The dispari-
ties will be painful to the republican
politicians. 1t will show how much
that party bends the tree to the pluto
cratic forces Of the republic in times
when campaign funds are needed. 1t
will show at glance how powerful
1.-THE interests" are In Congress. and
by contrast how small the reformers
stand in the two houses, especially in
the south.
Instead of passing bills in accord
ance with the Roosevelt programme
the two houses have become political
debating societies, and politics Is
handed out freely every day. But no
reform bills go along. None will go.
All the questions submitted by the
President will stand condemned in a
negative sense by the republicans of
the two houses-by Payne, Dalzell and
Cannon as we'll as by Aldrich, Hale
and Kean and the rest of the inner
circle in the Senate.
The people will put their opinions
of the republican party as whole in
the ballot box next November.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
MEASURING A KISS.

From the Spokane Spokesman Review.
Some misguided misogSnist of the me-
tropolis has gone to the trouble of meas
uring the extent of the lingering sweet
ness long drawn out when lips meet in
the course of/the latest operate sensa-
ton direct from Paris. With grave
face and an air of superiority like unto
that assumed by John Alexander Dowie's
young hopeful when he announced that
never had his lips pressed those of the
fair sex he affirms that % seconds elapse
before the lips are unglued and the kiss
like all other good things of life, comes
to an end
Just think of it for a moment. I'M
agine any one SO far forgetting the poetry
of existence, the romance of OSCILLATION,
as to hold a watch and keep his eyes
fastened on. the second hand as it whirrs
it's way aroand the circle when an oscu-
lation which would put Olga Nethersole
to blush is in progress on the stage. That
person is fit for treason, stratagems and
spoils; nothing is beyond him. He would
sit unenthralled before the unfolding of
the story of Peter Pan, the boy from
Never Never Land, who just simply
wouldn't grow up, and wonder what kind
of pie they were going to have for din
ner and whether the performance would
be over in time for him to catch the
regular car. He would not only gid
refined gold and attempt to paint the
lily, but he would demand saccharine
adukerant with his kisses, as though the
pressure Of Cupid's bow against his ICON
oclastic. undeservingS lips We're not guerd-
on beyond the dreams of avarice.
No fate is too severe for that man
who has forgotten his youth and loves
young dream. He should be pilloried on
a scaffold of sharpened spikes, hanged.
drawn, quartered and the remains, after
having been chopped into mince meat
and boiled in oil, should be cast in utter
darkness into the lowest recesses OF Do
rean purgatory.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
NEW Works. FIVE sATuRNALIA.

w. D. Howells, in Harper's Magazine for
February.
New York has f1ye saturnalia every
year. New Years Mighty Decoration Day,
Fourth of July, Election Night, and
Thanksgiving and not the least of these
is ELECTION Night. If it is right first
Tuesday of November, the daytime wind
will be veering from west to south and
back, sun and cloud will equally share
the hours between them, and a not un-
natural quiet as of political passions
hushed under the blanket of the Austria
liam ballot, will prevail. The streets will
be rather emptied than filled, and the lit
ter OF straw and scrap paper and the
ordure and other filth of the great slat-
tern town will blow agreeably about un-
der your feet and into your eyes and
teeth. But with the falling of the night
there will be a rise of the urban spirits;
the sidewalks win thicken with citizens
of all ages and sexes and nations; and II
you will then seek some large center for
the cinematographic dissemination of the
election news. you will find yourself one
of a multitude gloating' on the scenes of
comedy and tragedy thrown upon the can
vas to stay your impatience for the re-
turns Along the curbstones are stationed
wagons for the sale of the wind and
string instruments. whose raw, harsh dis
cords of whistling and twanging will be-
gin with the sight Of the vote from the
first precinct. Meantime policemen ner-
vously fondling their clubs in their hands,
hang upon the fringes of the crowd, which
Is yet so good natured that 1t seems to
have no impulse but to lift children on Its
shoulders and put pretty girls before It..
and caress old women and crpples into
favorable positions, so that they may see
better You will wish to leave it before
the clubbing begins, and either go home
to the slumbers which the whistling and
twanging will duly attend, or join the
diners going into or coming Out of the
restaurants, or the throngs strollng down
into the fairy realms of Broadway, I'M
der the flare of the whiskys and the ac-
tresses.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
THE TENoR's BANK AccoUT.

From the New York World.
The failure of the New Amsterdam bank
reveals a condition Of prosperity among
the operate artists concerning which the
tax assessors lists are not SO eloquent.
Sig. Caruso is shown to have nearly
$4,000 on deposit there, Bonci $4,000, Mile.
Cavalier $4,000 Nine. Sembrich $1,000,
Nine Kirkby-Lhnn $1,000. Scott, with
American foresight, put his cash in a
safe deposit box last October. 1t will
be recalled that the KniclSerbocker fall
ure tied up the funds of prominent men,
bers of the theatrical profession. Little
Egypt" the dancer, left a considerable
fortune which is in litigation.
Altogether the artistic fraternity has no
reason to complain of hard times. Clear
ing house checks have no terrors for the
popular tenor. He strikes high C and
abundant streams of revenue gush forth.
Has the artistic world ever known such
twin horns of plenty as New York's
opera houses provide for singers, what
ever they may be for stockholders and
impresarios?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
Iove,s reasons without reason
-cymbellne.
Cars and General Trade

a million dollars worth Of freight
cars are idle and several thousand
locomotives. To be exact, the reports
made to the American Railway asso-
citation show that $4,000 cars were
idle on January 20. This good many,
Int a less number were idle on Janu-
ary % than were idle on January 3.
The difference is but 5000 cars, but the
Improvement, small as it is, shows that
the tide has turned in the railway busi-
ness which is the best possible barorn-
eter of general trade.
The bank clearings were the lowest
In the last week of December. and the
railway earnings touched bottom on
January 8. Since those dates bank
clearings have been increased and the
idle cars are slowly coming into use,
and they are being sent home. When
the railway business begins to look up
and bank clearings begin to increase,
the return to normal conditions of gen.
eraI business Is but a matter of time.
The depression will be felt only for a
while. 1t will not interfere with the
making OF marketing Of crops, and this
1.- 80 80 +ho ty,,a coIu+ion of our
troubles, namely, big crops of cotton,
corn, wheat and oats next fall. Just
as soon as these are guaranteed the
contractions IN business due to the
panic will disappear, and we will be
ready to enter on another long period
of development and prosperity. 1t is
not easy to keep a great country down.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
A PULPIT Orator.

The Dominican fathers are famed for
their pulpit eloquence," said the Rev
Father Doyle of Ensley. and Father
Moran, whom l heard Wednesday night
at the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows
on Avenue f in Birmingham, is one OF
the best type OF the Dominican orator.
1 listened to a sermon on the duty of
parents toward their children in the mat
ter of education, and 1t was one of the
finest efforts It was ever my privilege to
hear.
''Of course, no sermon amounts to
anything unless it has in it point and
substance The priest 1 refer to had a
message. He had something to say worth
saying and this fact, combined with a
splendid voice. grace of style, dramatic
passion, and perfect dlction, made his
discourse notable
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
Libraries In Suburbs.

1T is to~be hoped that the citizens of
the municipalities soon to be incorporated
as Greater Birmingham will have the
foresight to provide library facilities be-
fore joining the greater city, said a
book-lover. THE will thus insure to
their portion of the greater city facilities
which will be duly appreciated as the
years pass by. If they delay till the
absorption occurs then they must be gov
erned by the exigencies of the city as
a whole. The city proper sooner or later
must provide library facilities, but It is
probable that, for a long time. all effort
will be concentrated on the central lib
rary. If the men who look into the
future will now make provision, as Avon
dale has DONE they will have provided
while they may, lasting advantages for
their sections of the greater city. If
North Birmingham. Pratt City, Wood
lawn, East Lake and Graymount\ will
without delay make provision for public
libraries and leave to the future the ques-
ton of maintenance they may be very
sure that here, as elsewhere in this coun-
try, way will be found.
They might likewise prohtably employ
some of the proceeds of bond issues in
securing a capacious public park for each
section. If we believe in the future great
ness of our larger city we should act,
like the federated railroads when a new
terminal station was to be constructed,
on the belief that we must provide for
that greater citys needs. Had the men
who started Birmingham comprehended
what the future in this short period has
brought to pass we would have many
public utilities we now lack. The more
enthusiastic Of those pioneers were
deemed foolish by many, and yet even
their most roseate expectations have been
exceeded. Now that these municipalities
have this splendid opportunity to make
provision tor great future 1t would be a
lasting pity for them to neglect it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
technical TRAINING.

81 was much interested in a short dis
patch which appeared in The Age-Heraid
of Wednesday under a New York date
line In regard to technical training said
business man who comes in contact
with industrial operations. ut seems that
r. II. Crane, the well-known manufac-
turer, delivered an address recently in
which he discredited the value of techni-
cal equipment and attacked Andrew Car
negtle for his support of engineering edu-
cation
f" 1t dinner of the alumni of Stevens
In itute If Technology, given in New
Yc < Tu' day, DR.. Alexander C. Hum
ph US, president of the institution, made
a vigorous speech In defense of technical
ucation in answer to Mr.. Crane re-
marks. I think the great majority OF
iron and steel makers, mine operators
and largo manufacturers will side with
IDr Alexander and with Mr.. Carnegie,
who although not himself technically
educated, appreciated SO much the inn
Jportance of applied science and special
training that he has established and en-
dowed great school of technology.
Manufacturers succeeded so years ago
1 without the aid of educated men in charge
work shops. But the world has
need since then and competition
,ecome so active Z 1t ,4satItfc -
es are necessary in nearly every
branch OF industrial enterprise. No ex-
tensiye mining operation can be carried
on with business economy without the
aid of mining engineer. Some mine
owners operate in the old time way, EN-
ploying only experienced miners to do
what should be done by engineers; but
that is false economy, for competent
nining engineer would earn his salary
many times over in protecting the prop
erty and getting results. The same may
be said with regard to the mechanic en-
gineer Such technically educated per-
son is needed at every large plant. Mr..
Carnegie never put his philanthrophy to
better use than when he gave his money
to promote technical education.
ut goes without saying that the techi-
cally trained young man is of little or no
value until he has hade some practical
| experience If he is mechanic engineer
he must not only know theory but he
| must in addition demonstrate his ability
| to direct or handle men. But in these
modern days technical training is the
foundation stone of development and 1t
will never do to disparage it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
FLOWER AND THORN.

BY Thomas Bailey Aldrich. f
At Shiraz. IN Sultan's garden, stood
A tree whereon curious apple grew,
One side like honey, and one side like rue.
Thus sweet and bitter Is the life Of man.
The Sultan said, for thus together grow
Bitter and sweet, but wherefore none
may know.
Herewith together you have flower and
, thorn,
Both rose and brier, for thus together
Bitter and sweet, but wherefore none may
know.
II.
Take them and keep them,
Silvery thorn and flower,
Plucked just at random
In the rosy weather.
Snowdrops and pansies,
Sprigs of wayside heather,
And fve-leafed wild rose
Dead within an hour.
Take them and keep them:
Who can tell? some day, dear.
(Though they be withered,
Flower and thorn and blossom).
Held for an instant
Up against thy bosom,
They might make December
Seem to thee like May, dearl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
RECREATION OF GENIUS

they were seated comfortably in each
motor that whizzes past them, and the
tenth person is very likely walking ON
an antifat prescription. walking is the
cheapest of all recreations and one of the
most health-giving. Why it is not pursued
in this as in many European countries
is a subject which needs investigation.
1t has been said that our neglect of this
wholesome exercise is due to the pecu-
liarity Of our climate. Most Americans do
not care to walk. just as most Americans
have catarrh in the head. Whatever the
explanation, the subject calls for a scien-
tific dissertation by some candidate for a.
yersities ~
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
Restaurant Man Pleased.

I'VE are feeding more people on an av-
erage now than we did six months ago.
said restaurant man yesterday ut is
so with other restaurants as well as mine
Prior to the first of the year we felt the
panic very decidedly. The number of Gus
and the orders were invariably small
There are more customers now and the
size of their orders average larger. The
fancy eater, however, has disappeared,
but the total amount of our business is
greater than it was before the squeeze
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
Iwn Fleets in Two Seas

While Bob Evans is steaming away
in the Pacific, we of the Atlantic slope
are not idle. We are mobolizing a
feet also. The Mississippi, New Hamp-
shire and Idaho are being prepared for
commission; the Michigan and the
South Carolina are in course of con-
struction, and the North Carolina and
Montana are monster armored cruisers
that are practically as effective as bat
tleships. 1t will thus be seen that
there will after a while be a pretty
strong Atlantic feet, not counting
what the present Congress may author
lie.
1t is doubtful indeed If the 16 ships
that Admiral Evans is conducting to
Magdalena bay will return to the At
lantic until the Panama canal is
opened in 1914. We need a fleet in
both seas, and the stronger feet of the
two is perhaps needed in the Pacific.
A country that bestrides a continent
plainly needs two fleets at least
until 1914, and the Evans movement
is simply putting us on-a right foot
ing. Those 16 ships will never again
go around the Horn at any rate. Some
of them may come back via the Suez
canal, but they will never retrace the
route they are now steaming over SO
peacefully and successfully.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
About Parsons.

T. w. Bethea of Telladega is at the
New Morris.
E. D. stockem of Vincent is at the New
Morris.
J. W. Rutland of Blocton is at the
New Morris
T. r. Gordon. editor of the Admission
Star passed through Birmingham yes
terday en- route to Admission. Mr.. Cor
don has lately been sojourning in Mexico
for his health.
Almuth c. Vandiver announces his re-
tirement from the professional staff of
the district attorney of New York coun-
ty and his association with former Judge
Charles s. Whitman in the general prac-
tice of law al No. 30 Nassau street. New
York city Mr.. Vandiver is a, son of for
mer Mayor wellington Vandiver of ITALIA
dega and is well Known in Alabama.
Fred i. Blackmon state senator, and a
prominent attorney of Admission, Is reg
istered in the city, and will leave this
morning for Montgomery to be present
at the meeting of the state democratic
executive committee. Mr. Blackmon has
been mentioned as probable candidate
for the supreme court.
J. Fall Robertson Of Cropwell, one OF
the widest known citizens of st. AClair
county, is spending the day in the city
Mr. Robertson reports business good and
says that the farmers have not felt the
bite of hard times. He reports inter-
esting political conditions in st. Clair,
but declares local conditions SO over
Swallowed by. national politics at this time
that there is little discussion in spite
of the distince rumbling in the back
ground.
John A. Lusk of Guntersville. state
senator, spent yesterday in the city. Mr..
I,usk is one of the three announced cam
didates for the supreme court bench, the
others being James j. Mayfield of Tus-
caloosa end ]. A Bilbro of Gadsden.
Mr.. Lusk is preparing to make an ac-
tive campaign, and his friends predict
his triumph.
John B. Knox Of Admission, one OF the
best known citizens of the state spent
last night in Birmingham. He Is en-
route to Montgomery, where the state
democratic executive committee meets
today at noon. For many years Mr.. Knox
has been a prominent figure in state
politics, and was a candidate for the
United States Senate in the recent sen
atorial succession" campaign. He is in
excellent health.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
Population and Baseball

A sporting writer of Memphis esti-
mates that the the baseball territory
which the Southern league will afford
outdoor amusement for this summer
contains 100000 people, and he there
fore concludes that the eighth season
of the league will be prosperous. He
furnishes these figures of the towns
in the Southern circuit as basis Of
his estimate Of 100000 fans all told:
New Orieans... -. -. ......,.. 1924. 900
Atlanta. ,......1o0, 900
Greater Birmingham. e., ....... 100 900
nopho..' - go 49, s'.s 80 s'''''.. oVvV
Little ROCK. 80. $1,000
Montgomery. 4o,OVO
These estimates of population are
but approximate. All population fig
ures necessarily are this year and so
they will continue to be until the CEN
sus year is at hand, and then there will
be a revision that will stagger some OF
the estimators.
The estimate for Greater Birming-
ham will not suffice from a baseball
point OF view, because Ensley contain
ing $4,000 people and Bessemer CON-
tanning as many more are warm
patrons Of the national game. In a base
ball table trolley Birmingham should
be set down at 10000, and the chances
are that 1t would then BIZ entitled to
second place in list of Nhe league
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07

came upon u.s. I attribute this condition
largely to prohibition. While l know 1t
is possible for man to secure all the
drink he wishes, there are great many
men who won't take the trouble to send
off for it or look up blind tiger, and
as a result much of the money that was
spent with the saloons is now coming in
our direction. A great many new res
taurants have been opened since January
1, but that hasn't stopped our business
from increasing"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
roo GREAr A srRAIN.

From Everybody's Magazine.
why did you leave your last placer"
the lady asked of the would-be cook.
ITO tell the truth, mum, just couldn't
stand the way the master an the mis-
sus used to quarrel. num-"
Dear me! Do you mean to say that
they actually used to quarrel?"
'Yis, mum. all the time. When 1t
wasn't me an him, 1t was me an her. >