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Semi-weekly herald., 1908-01-16
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Semi-weekly herald., 1908-01-16
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
Onen Door In China

The old question of keeping Man churia open to all the world assumes an acute form through the protests or Consul Fisher at Harbin against the establishment by Russia of municlpall- ties in the railway zone independent of the sovereignty of China. China pro tests against them, and Consul Fisher sunnorts China's claim to sovereignty. The Russian ambassador at Washing ton has ascertained at the state depart ment that Consul Fishers position at Harbin is authorized and approved.
 Tn the Portsmouth treaty Russia de- clared that it had no concessions or claims in Manchuria "of such a nature as to impair the sovereignty of China or which are incompatible with the principle of equal opportunity" And vet the Russian government claims ab- solute control of the railroad zone, and it forbids in that zone any criticism or it's policy of exclusive control.
 Consul Fisher has been instructed to recognize the authority of China only in Manchuria, and if the United States stands firmly in support of an oren door in Eastern China some good trade results may follow. China her self will soon have an army of her own. Encroachments on Chinese rights in Manchuria by either Russia or Ja- pan should be resisted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
CHEAP CAPITAL OF LINCOLN.

From the Chicago Post
 Is not Abraham Lincoln too great a figure in our history to be dragged into every passing argument and to be used as a moral for every trivial tale?
 For all the elaborate plans being formu- lated for the celebration of the centennial of Lincoln's birth, the surface of our daily life reveals no signs of a growing reverence for the man, but instead a ten deney to make his name a shuttlecoek to be knocked back and forth between the battledores of fiippant debaters. First d vehement argument was waged over the problem, Did Lincoln ever tipple? Now he serves to point a successful plea for acquittal of a. youth whose defense against a burglary charge was somnambulism. He is dragged down from his pedestal and made a court exhibit, labeled historic epieptic." Next, perhaps, we shall wit ness his exploitation as the first user of Somebody's Magic Oil, or our debating clubs will wax eloquent over the prob lem Did Lincoln chew tobacco?
 A truce to such base use of the name of "The First American"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
HE MISSED HIS MAN.
Story of Strange Duel Brought About
 By Casual Remark.

From the London Tit-Bits.
 NJ de Girardin the father of the states man and author, Emile de Girardin, on eral men were firing at target. A gen. itleman present, whom M. de Girardin did not know, hit the bulls eye at every shot Several bystanders expressed them selves in great admiration of the gentle mans precision.
 Yes" said de Girardin, ''he shoots re- markedly well; but it's quite a different thing to hit a man in a duel from hitting a piece of pasteboard."
 The marksman overheard the remark and was offended.
 T think you are mistaken, sir, said he to de Girardn. ''I assure you that if had you before me shouldn't miss you.'' "You can have me when you like" said de Girardin
 Let it be immediately, then" said the other.
 'At once,'
 An attempt was made to patch the mat ter up, but neither man would agree to an amicabe settlement. The seconds were chosen and the men went to locality favorable for the duel. It was decided that they should fire separately, and it was left to a decision by lot which fired first
 The lot fell to the mysterious marks man. He fired at M de Girardn and missed him. De Girardin stood still, mak- ing no sign as if to fire at his antagonist
 
 his seconds.
 "Why should shoot?" asked de Girar- din. There is no reason why I should kill this gentleman. I maintained that even a crack shot could easily miss his man at 25 paces. This gentleman main- tained the contrary. He must now be convinced that he is wrong. I owe him no ill-will for having discovered that"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
Blast Furnace Activity

The production of pig iron in March was 1,234,35 tons. In February it was but 1,OS5, ,SO9 tons. The March product came from 154 stacks, gain of four over February.
 This district did well in March, for it had 19 stacks in blast, and they turned out 11S,795 tons, as against 94,- AGO tons from IT stacks in February. We are leading New York handsomely, and the indications are that we will not be showed down a notch this year by New York. The latter's product in March was but 4S,S56 tons.
 The present rate of production means an annual product of about 15,000,OO0 tons. and no one expects the country to consume more than that amount this year. Production was smartly in- creased in March in Ohio, Pennsyl- vania, Illinois and Alabama. These are the four leading pig iron states. The demand for iron is still hesitating, and the product in April may not show a gain over the outturn in March
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
PREFER HOTELS TO HOMES.

New York correspondence of the Pitts
 burg Dispatch.
 Hotel life seems to have it's attractive ness for the wealthy families of New York. Because of the shortness of the season, many society folk have not open ed their city homes during the winter months These families are to be found scattered through the large, semi-private hotels which have multiplied within the last couple of years, and which have been designed with view to attracting the millionaire class of tenants. Hotel life, society women have begun to find out, affords an easy evasion of much enter taning The average hostess nowadays seeks to avoid extra bother, and it Is less of a tax on her time and patience to hold large receptions in one of the half-dozen hotels favored by society or in the Colonial club. By keeping her town house closed this winter a well-known society woman remarked the other day that at a rough estimate she had saved $750o0 in four months. Besides this. she has not had to worry over the servant question and other matters so vexatious to women who entertain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Charmed With Birmingham.


 Birmingham has been a most agree able surprise to me" said Second Vice President w. B. Dickson of the United States Steel corporation. who is here with the Corey party. "I had so long heard this city spoken of as the Pittsburg of the south that I had formed in my mind a picture of dirt and smoke.
 Tt never occurred to me that l would find anything entrancing here. Imagine, then, my amazement when l found not only a clean, comparatively sootless town but one of the most elegant and, from landscape point of view, one of the most charming in the United States The green hills with their graceful sky lines and this pleasant valley reveal scenes of nat ural beauty that come to me as revela- ton and that must be pure delight to all who dwell hereabouts.
 Birmingham business district is well built. The character of its architecture suggests both solidity and dignity In the best residence sections one finds striking example of aesthetic taste and home-rehnement and l recall no indus trial city that has such attractive look ing suburbs Birmingham must be in- deed a delightful place in which to live. In appearance it far outclasses older and more pretentious cities"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
BLOODY ISLAND OF HAITI

the state of discipline which prevails among the 5000 ruffians who bear the courtesy title of -the army"
 MT. Sandman and an Irish friend, who resided in the island, were one day watch ing the commandanta of the Haytian army reviewing his troops.
 ''Would you like to see me break up the whole lot?'' asked the Irishman.
 "Of course" replied the artist
 The Irishman then took five silver coins from his pocket, and, with loud shout, threw them up in the air. Instantly the whole army leaped forward and scram- bled for the money, the commandanta himself securing the first three pieces. After pocketing them with dignity and restoring order among his men. he or- dered the Irishman to be arrested for bringing discredit on the army. The lat ter was sentenced to three weeks im- prisonment, but five pieces of silver and a bottle of rum secured his instant re- lease
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
THE DEPARTED FRIEND.

By Robert Louis Stevenson Though he that ever kind and true Kept stoutly step by step with you Your whole long gusty lifetime through
 Be gone a while before Be now a moment gone before. Yet doubt not; anon the seasons shall
 restore
 Your friend to you. He has but turned a corner-still He pushes on with right good will Through mire and marsh, by heugh and
 hill,
 The self-same arduous way That self-same upland hopeful way That you and he through many . doubt.
 full day
 Attempted still. He is not dead, this friend-not dead. But in the path we mortals tread- Got some few, trifing steps ahead
 And nearer to the end, So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, thisy
 friend,
 You fancy dead. NX Push gayly on, strong heart! the while f,4 You travel forward mile by mile He loiters with backward smile
 Till you can overtake, As And strains his eyes to search his wal Or. whistling. as he sees you thrcu6f.,
 the brake,
 Waits on a gtile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
BUDAPEST INITIATES NEW YORK.

From the New York World.
 The young Count and Countess Szec- henyi have been having the time of their life in Budapest, but in New York they will get scant sympathy
 We have our dentists who charge royal dukes s1000 for touching up their teeth, but Budapest has it's hotel porters who won't touch the Szechenyan trunks for less than $1.20 trunk and think they ought to get more. We have women who wriggle through coal-holes to attend church weddings of people who forgot to invite them, but Budapest has curi- osity seekers who keep the Szechenyis in 100-yard-dash form sprinting to their ho- tel for protection. We have the scls- sors brigade who clip little momentos from draperies that fall in their way. Budapest it's magnesium-lght bunglers who nearly set the Count on fire trying to photograph him. No parallel has been re- ported of our society persons who steal tooth brushes as souvenirs from the cab ins of visiting warships commanded by princes but perhaps the Hungarian dep- uties who stampeded from the diet to get a glimpse of the pair may be an offset.
 New York is not the only town dis tressed by idle barbarians. Probably there are others besides Budapest, Misery loves company and shame is lighter, shared.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
Unemployed Labor

The politicians are trembling before the labor vote, especially those of the party that shelters and promotes trusts. This is why that party was in hurry to pass another employers liability bill, and it will pass anything else that can be devised to placate the labor vote, which is said to be 5,000,000 strong.
 The friends of Secretary Taft are particularly troubled over the labor situation. His record as a judge in Cincinnati has given him the declared enmity of President Gompers of the American Federation. The administra- tion is pushing the amendment to the antitrust act that would legalize the combinations of workingmen.
 But all the prediction capers in the world cannot bring into line the men employed in plants that have been closed by the October panic which came on after Il years of unconfined republican rule. The Industrial Work CTS of the World, a non-partisan paper, presents a list of the unemployed at this time in the various states, as fol- lows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11

worlds greatest bacteriologist, and his life seems to be devoted to investiga- tions in his chosen field. The diseov- cries in that field have reyolutionized the science of medicine and even of surgery. and to no one are we more indebted than to Dr. Koch.
 The great German scientist is GA years old, but he shows few signs of age. His stay in this country will be short. He is journeying to Japan, country, he says, more interesting to him than any other. There are, no doubt, many years of valuable work in him, and he does not hesitate to seek it in distant places.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
GRAND OPERAS COST.

New York Special to Chicago Tribune.
 Grand opera has cost New York over g. 600, GOO this season. The Metropolitan opera house has produced 131 operas, and Hammersteins Manhattan opera house has produced 125 operas. The Metropoli- tan receipts were s1,31O,O0O for 21 weeks. The Manhattans receipts were s1,0oo,ooo for 20 weeks.
 That the cost next year will be greater is not doubted It is probable the price will be increased to subscribers. It has been proposed to put the orchestra seats at $6 Now they cost $5. The seats in the other parts of the house, with the exception of those in the family circle, will be proportlonately increased.
 Eight new operas were produced this season. They cost $9OO,ooO The dearest was the "The Damnation of Faust" which cost $6OOO0 to produce, and it was produced only three times. "Andreas Che nier" was produced last week at a cost of s1O.0OO for one performance. so Mime. Campanini could sing at her best.
 Tetrazini's was the greatest personal success.
 With the male song birds there were none among those heard in either opera house for the first time this season whose ersonal trumphs overshadowed Caruso' $, a holdover of several seasons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
GIRL WINS ssooo AT FARO.

Reno (Nev) Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.
 Miss Lillian Bennett, said to be the daughter of a prominent New York fam fly, broke a faro bank in Rawhide last night, winning $60Oo in one sitting in q resort.
 When the bank roll was gone the pro- prietor sent out for more money, but the banks of the camp were closed and the big game was brought to an end. This is the second time the young woman has made a spectacular play in the new camp and in the same resort At former sit- ting she lost $S000, and took her bad luck with little concern.
 The young woman gained considerable notoriety in the Klondike few years ago. She left her home for the far north. and it was while there that she learned to play faro, winning a considerable fortune, a portion of which she brought with her to Rawhide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
TEST OF OFFICIAL FITNESS.

Governor Hughes of New York in Leslie's
 Weekly.
 Every governmental scheme finds Its ul- innate test in the character of the men who may be brought te It's execution. Men who in trade will resort to dishones. methods and unfair practices in compe- tition will attempt to fatten themselves at the expense of the public if they are elected to office. Men who will prey upon minority stockholders or abuse the trusts that are committed to them in our great financial enterprises will prey upon the people if they have a chance. Whether powers of supervision and regulation will be wis ely exercised depends not upon the words of the statute book, but upon the character of the super vsors and regulators; and you must have a higher quality of citizenship in those who administer the law. than in those whose conduct makes the laws and their administration necessary. Between the man who attempts to fool the people IF order to get office, between him who seeks his personal profit through an sl use of his trust as q director and the man who uses office to se,ye himself or his personal friends, there is nothing to hOose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
IS PARIS NAuGHIY7

Samuel G. Blythe in the April Every.
 bodys.
 Paris is the best advertised municipality in the world. People have been writing about 1t ever since MT. J. Caesar came along and added the three parts of Gaul to his imperial estates, writing about it and throwing side lights on the forbid den things one can do there and still maintain respectable standing in society, because what is forbidden elsewhere is forgotten in Paris.
 The core of Paris, the tourist Paris, the Paris that is Gay Farce, organized for and supported by foreign money, is one great experimentation of restaurants. shows, theatres, photograph parlors, shops where there are three prices-the lowest for the French, the next lowest for the English, and the highest for the American-and American bars.
 This Is no more the real Paris than the Tenderloin is the real New York, but 1t passes for that with most people who go there, and the provident French, having methodical minds, notwithstanding their
 
 collect their tolls and consider 1t all in the days work. The Partisan who lives and works outside this core-it would not be fair to call it heart-is thrifty, frugal, hard headed and industrious, sensible and self-respecting And the idea that all Parisians are careless, immoral and non- domestic gets a rude shock when one goes to the parks on Sunday feast day. The orderly Parisian goes pcnicking with his whole family-father, mother, children and all. There arc hundreds of these lit- tie family groups on any fine Sunday, eating beneath the trees or on the lawns. and playing games. They are the people who enable the Bank of France to main- tain more gold than England and Ger many have together-the most domestic people on earth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
Or. Koch In America

Amid the flood of Abruzzis and De Sagans that Europe unwittingly sup plies us with there comes now and then a man of real and rare merit-a man like Gen. William Booth, who has organized a church that works in the slums. And now has come here Dr. Robert Koch, the great German pathol- ogist who discovered in 1890 the tuber- cle bacillus. It was he, too, who dis covered the presence of tuberculosis in cattle. Later still he studied the sleeping sickness in Africa. He is the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
Law School at Sewanee.

"The University of the South has changed its vacation time from the winter to the summer months" said H. l.. Sci bels, an alumnus of Sewanee. Following this change Judge Lyman Chalkley dean of the law department has issued bull letin announcing the reorganization of the department on a scale of effectiveness, which he says was not practical under the practice of winter vacations The essen tial features of the scheme are: l. A com- prehensve study of the law following the general plans in vogue at Yale, Ann Arbor, the New York Law school and the University of Virginia. ?. The ac- quirement of knowledge of and the ex- ercise in practice, procedure, forma, and ethics.
 "The two together occupy three years, courses designated as the bachelor course and the master course. The bachelor course covers two years of instruction by text book and lecture in all the branches of law as embraced in the curriculum of any first-class university This course is grouped into junior and senior, each occu-  pying one year.
 "The distinguishing feature, however, of the plan is the master course, occu pying the last year of the three. No student may be candidate for the mas ter degree unless he has first taken the bachelor degree at some university law school of high standing.
 Tn the master course a prominent fea- ture Is the time devoted to actual prac- tice, for which purpose court with trial ard appellate divisions conducted with the same rules of practice and decorum as state courts, with a clerk, are provided The dean presides and the courts are continuously open during the terms. The clerks office is provided with necessary forms, and students are required to pre- pare cases, draw pleadings and papers, make arguments before a jury. prosecute appeals and supervise the whole conduct of actions, whether in law or in equity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
PoLYGLoT CHICAGO.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
 It may have surprised and amused some people to read few days ago that MT. Khubier, a native Persian of Teheran, had been sworn in as a Chicago police man. But the force is a gathering of the nations. There are also among the guard ians of the city an Armenian, an Aus tralian, a Greek, a Bulgarian, Finn, a Portuguese and several Lithuanians. Strange to say there is no Spaniard or Mexican, but it might be considered with In the range of possibilities for the force to contain not only these but an Arabian, a Turk, an Algerine and Japanese.
 It would be natural to suppose that some effort had been made to get men of every nationality because of their infiu- ence in controlling their own people. And, of course, they are specially useful in this way, but the truth is the police receive their places under civil service rules, and these men from foreign countries are ap- pointed for no other reason than that they wanted to be and that they passed the requisite examination.
 The record shows what a polyglot city Chicago has become. It is like New York and London in this respect In it's streets are seen people from every nook and cor ner, civilized and uncivilized, of the globe.
 According to the last census the foreign population of Chicago was in round num- bers, as follows: Germanic nations, 2O5 900; Slav nations. 125,OO0; Great Britain and Ireland, 115,0O0; Scandinavian nations, S1,- 900; North and South America, 5000; Latin nations, 10000, and Asiatic nations 17O0 There were 273 people from Aus tralia. lsO from Turkey, 90 from Africa. S6 from Atlantic islands. 46 from Pacific islands and 161 unfortunates were born at sea. Among the Asiatics were 1179 Chinese and 30 Japanese.
 Since the census was taken there has been an enormous immigration from Italy, middle Europe and Russia, and the foreign population is both more num- erous and more varied than it was in 1900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-11
TRAMP WILL WRITE BOOK.
Famous "A. No. P' Will Leave the
 Road For Literature.

Middleton. N. Y. Dispatch to the Cinein-
 natl Enquirer.
 "A No. l." the most famous tramp in the world, has cleared up the mystery Of his identity and is going to write a book of his adventures.
 Since 1883, when he started tramping, this curious fellow has been known everywhere as "A No. l." and this title is seen on fences, freight cars and rail- road stations in every town from New York to San Francisco. He has travelled more than 50O,Oo0 miles at a cost of S.55 riding on top and underneath freight and passenger cars. He does not beg, but gets living by carving artistic images from potatoes. He speaks Eng fish. German, French and Spanish. He does not drink, smoke gamble nor steal
 "A No 1" now announces that his name is Ray Livingston and his home at Cam bridge Springs, Pa. and that he has given up tramping to take up literary pur- suits.