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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-02
GERMANYs EMPEROR.

From the New York World
The kaiser as he enters his 50th year
is easily the worlds most conspicuous
personality. He more than any other
ruler embodies the traditions of imperial
ism. Compared with him the car Is an
effigy of despotlc power and England's
constitutional king an amiable f1gurehead
Under Wilhelm during his % years as
emperor of Germany has made greater
progress in industry and the arts of
peace, no less than in military strength,
than any other monarchy. 1t is a matter
for curious reflection that the only other
head of a state whose career shows
parallel with his own inNthe impulsive ex-
ercise of authority, in insistence on the
application Of his policies as sovereign
remedy, In versatility and in devotion TO
the strenuous life. is found not on an
other throne, but in the chief executive
of a democracy.
OF Wilhelm more than any European
ruler since Louis it may be said that he
is the state. He comes near being Ger
many's congress, constitution, judiciary
and interstate commerce commission all in
one. He is the little father to whom
the nation looks for license to act, moth
ers for reproof on race suicide and in
struction in household duties. the clergy
for doctrine, artists for criticism, the
army for ideals.
He is the arbiter of all questions wheth-
er they concern government policy or ele-
gancies of court etiquet. Though there is
no peace of Portsmouth to his credit, he
has consistently stood for peace. He has
advocated a great navy to that end, ana
an increased army, but though he has
constantly held the mailed hand appraised
and sometimes shaken 1t in the fact OF
another nation, he has dealt no blow with
it except against African tribes. He is
the unaltering foe of the pessimist for
whom he has said Germany has no place.
He has no tolerance for the molycod-
die
If the heads of states, like college pro-
fessors. could exchange chairs. what more
congenial assignment could be devised
than an exchange between Potsdam and
the White House? The kaiser at 40 re-
eeiving the plaudits of the populace on his
birthday, with his hold on the affections
of the nation strengthened, with no third
term doubts to trouble him or pedatory
plutocracy to deal WITH is a monarch to
evoke envy in other capitals.
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Two TabOoed Subjects

After all the President does not
quite sum UP the campaign when he
declares himself in favor of the reg
ulation of predatory wealth in all its
various and vicious forms. Mr.. Bryan
desires regulation of that nature and
he has a party to his liking behind
him. Mr.. Roosevelt has all sorts of
predatory wealth in the party that is
behind him.
Then, too, Mr. Bryan stands fat
footed for tariff revision and the i'm
mediate publicity of campaign funds.
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Hughes and
Mr.. Taft talk vaguely about privilege,
but they have not word to say about
the revision of the tariff, which is the
sum of all privilege yillainies. It is
packed with them. Search the recent
utterances of Roosevelt, Hughes and
Taft and you will not find a single
word directed against the tariff Why =?
Slush fund made of by tariff benefi-
Charles, instead of Wall street mag
mates, is needed, and it is to be made
up.
And this, too, is why Messrs. Taft
and Hughes are silent on the subject
of the immediate publicity of cam
paign subscriptions. They talk freely
about predatory wealth, but they are
tongue-tied when the tariff and pub
licity Of campaign funds are men
toned. Like the little boy the calf
ran over, they have not word to
COW
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Acts Better Than Words

On one day President Roosevelt,
Governor Hughes and William Jen-
nings Bryan spoke demanding reform
all along the line, but especially in the
regulation of predatory wealth and
the protection of the wage worker.
This is all very well so far as It
goes, even if some of it has a cam
paign flavor. But it is action, legisla-
ton, laws and their execution, thar
count. The people want acts, not
theories, in these post-panic days. Mr..
Bryan is powerless. He Is out OF Of
fee, his party is cut of power He
cannot. therefore, be judged by the
standard of action. He cannot act.
This is not the case wzsh the re-
publicans. They are in power in all
branches of the government. They
have been in power eleven years.
Practically speaking all the evils COM
planned of by President Roosevelt and
by his big me TOO" and by Governor
Hughes have grown to dangerous pro-
portions in those eleven years.
The question before the voter is
simply this: What will the republican
party do towards ending the evils
complained Of? A long session of
Congress has just got in good work
ing order. There is an abundance of
time for legislation, and Roosevelt,
Taft and Hughes have made plain the
need of it. They are specific, definite
and outspoken: All that is very well,
,hrt tho roap'e-the plain people-de-
They desire to know
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o thou monster. ignorance, how de
form'd dost thou look!
Loves Labor Lost.
Smoke Is Suppressible

Professor Breckenridge Of the Uni
yersity of Illinois has published the
results of 100 tests with Illinois coal.
soft and smoky. Each fest lasted ten
hours. and resulted in mo smoke all
day.
The problem, in the words of Pro-
lessor Breckenridge, is to get the
proper amount of air at the proper
temperature mixed with the fuel white
combustion is going on. 1t is largely
a matter of types Of boilers and fur
naces, but proper care will eliminate
smoke even when unsatisfactory boil
ers and furnaces are used. Professor
Breckenridge describes the boilers and
furnaces that should be used in cities.
He makes it plain that smoke is not
a necessity in any power Or heating
Plant.
At any rate, Professor Breeken-
ridges report of his experiments
should be widely read. Soft coal can
be consumed under boilers absolutely
without smoke, and he makes plain
how it may be done.
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Prouress of The CampaIun

The Age-Herald has no desire 10
treat the high office that Theodore
Roosevelt honorably fills with leyity,
but candor compels it to say that his
extraordinary special message should
be labelled Campaign Document No.
l." It is not reasonable to think II
would have been written if Mr.. Bryan
were not carrying on an aggressive
campaign in favor of the government
of the many by the many It would
not have been written were Mr.. Taft
not the administration candidate for
the succession.
And yet there is no room for doubt
ing the Presidents sincerity. He is
an excellent politician. There is not
q better one in the I9nd-not one who
can hear more when his ear is to the
ground. He cannot keep out of con-
f1ict. That conflict is raging and surg
ing deeper than it will in October, for
then it will be on the surface 1t is
now in a formative condition under
ground. The President throws him
self into it with all his strength and
force and outspoken sincerity. He
sees and knows that radicalism is in
the saddle. He is determined that he
and his'n shall not be outclassed by
the democrats under Mr.. Bryan's lead
ership. The mistake he makes relates
to Congress, which will be his stone
wall. He does, in fact, but make plain
the nature of ''the interests" that con-
troll Congress. He will get none Of the
legislation he demands. The Senate
will sit down on him, but it cannot sit
down on him any harder than the
people will sit down ON the party that
refuses to follow its own leader
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whether the interests" or the good
of the many control Congress.
No one will be deceived by the
fair words of the President or of
Rlessrs Taft and Hughes. The voter,
whether he has or has not been thrown
out of employment, will want in No
vember something more than words.
He will weigh the acts of this Con-
gress and of the various state legis-
latures, and if they are found want
ing, he will vote for a change. Make
no mistake about that. Everybody
knows the present Senate is body
controlled by privilege in all its man.
fold forms. What will the Senate do?
Here is the real test and it is the test
that will decide the election Of next
November
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LAWSON SAVES HIS SCALP,

Frank Fayant in Success Magazine"
Lawsons breaking into the Butte and
Boston" game in this befd way naturally
antagonized the original owners VI the
mine, and they promptly sought means
of throwing Lawson out. They tried to
undermine him by breaking the price of
stock, and by getting the banks to call
his loans This was using a Lawson
method of blood-letting on Lawson him
self. The attack was we'll planned, and
one day Lawson's stocks began crumb-
ling. The newspapers were all ready
to feature" in the morning, the over
throw of the copper plunger. Lawson
was in a bad way. Another day of
crumbling prices and he would be bank
rupt. He needed cash-he needed It more
than he had ever needed it before in
his life.
'Ho, hol' quoth he. as he suddenly saw
a great light There's the Bay State
Gas treasury.
The Bay State treasury then-thanks
to Lawson's skill In peddlng out more
stock to the public whenever Addicks
set the printing presses going fthe cap
ital was merely raised from one to five,
to fifteen to fifty. to a hundred millions)-
was bullying with cash. And so that
night Lawson went to Addicks chief
watchdog of the treasury, and said, In
substance:
'Addicks, they have me on the run.
I need million in the morning. Please
hand me the key to the Bay State treas
ury."
The next morning, with the million of
Bay State cash. Lawson turned the tide
of battle in Butte and Boston, and
saved his scalp.
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Armies Of the Unemployed

The republican newspapers are See
ing a great deal of handwriting on the
wall Every march made by the I'M
employed, that in Chicago, for exam
pie, throws them into a conniption fit
They cannot say the democrats de-
prived these men of employment, nor
can they say the democrats are doiag
anything to keep them idle. for the
democrats control no part of the gos-
eminent and have controlled no part
of it in eleven long years.
The republicans fear demonstrations
of the unemployed will increase in size
and number as the present year wears
on, and they are puzzled over the ex-
cuse to offer. They do not know what
to say to the unemployed, nor what
to say to the people concerning them.
The old stock in trade TO the effect
that republicanism and Dingleyism
spell Prosperity is dead, as dead as
Hector The October panic killed it,
and the republican system Stood by
armed with power. 1t ca mot escape
responsibility. 1t may deny responsi-
bility, but at any rate it cannot put the
blame on the democratic party 1t
may attribute it TO the moon or Old
Nick, or avy other old thing. but It
cannot lay the business and labor
troubles OF the country at tho ,loor Of
the democratic party.
The republicans may as well step
up and confess they did it, for that is
what the clear-headed business man or
workman will say next November.
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From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald
~ I the dinner of the Automobile
WIN club of America in New York
Mr.. Jusserand, the French am
bassador, dubbed the automobile the
modern ihppogriff and gave thenoisy, gaso-
Ine-sm cling machine an air of romance
Long before this dinner Henley and
Maeterlinck wrote brilliantly concerning
the heetness of the automobile and the
sensations of & man securing the plain
and defylng the hillside; but it did not
occur to either one of them to character
ize the machine as hippogriff, although
Henley was daring in the art of conf
parison and Maeterlinck is peculiarly I'M
aginative. They knew all about the hippo
griff, and possibly had seen one.
The hippogriff, a familiar apparitlon to
poets from the time of Ariosto, to adj
venturous knights, to noble maidens in
distress, was like unto a griffin, but its
body and headquarters resembled those OF
q horse. The head, forelegs and wings
of the griffin were those of an eagle,
though there were griffins with the head
Of a lion. The hippogriff was most at
home in the air and there was it seen to
best advantage. Its fight was heroic,
sensational. The automobile is normally
on the ground. When it would fam rise
skyward Its course is short awkward
brutal II
The hippogriff, being a blend Of two
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-02
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

| THE LAND OF MAKE-BELIEVE.
I'know a land a magic realm,
A land where dreams come true,
And everybody's happy, cause
There's nothing else to- do.
The poorest man may be a prince,
The lowly may be great
And poverty forgets itself
To walk in pHrple state
Oh. wonder land oh, mystic land,
Oh. land We most adore.
The blissfm Land Of alseBeleye,
Alluring more and morei
In the ship of dreams we take our places
And bravely sail away.
To reach the Land of Make Believe,
Where gnomes and fairies stay.
Ger crested pillows, lightly tossed,
We course into the west,
Beyond the flaming sunset. where
A weary heart may rest.
And Care must take his letters off
And wrinkles disappear,
Tor in the Land OF Make Believe
There's only hope and cheer.
Sometimes it lies beyond the hills,
And not across the sea
1t all depends upon the mood
That comes to you and me.
Sometimes We close our eyes to go,
Sometimes we're wide awake
Sometimes It is a slight canoe,
Sometimes a coach we take.
The briefest stroll may bring us there,
Or else a thousand miles,
According to the color of
The fancy that beguiles
OH blessed Land of Make Believe,
Immense the debt we owe
For you have taught us to forget
Our troubles here belowl
When all the world was dark without
And sorrow brought dismay.
You filled our hearts with hopefulness
To face another day.
A refuge from the sordid grind
or life's monotony,
'Tis here and here alone man
May laugh at destiny.
SOMETHING NEW.
I'VE have the greatest show ever!"
What is it?''
Macbeth as a bagpipe monologist."
A NATTER OF TASTE.
IT never cared for onomatopoeia."
Neither do I. Lobster suits me bet
ter
JOHN BARLEYCORN.
Here lies a fighter
All forlorn,
Who tried to lick
John Barleycorn.
Birmingham Age-Herald
But every pu-
Gilstic bum
Will fight old John
Till kingdom come
Chicago Tribune
NO CLIENTS.
What Is his business?"
Flaw"
IT know, but what does he do for a
living?" r-s>ss
A California Judge rules that we needn't
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-02
Roller Dauahtry's New Waltz.

THE Hickory Swing" is the pleasing
title of Rozier Daughtry's new waltz
which has lately been published Mr.
Daughtry is successful writer of songs
and instrumental music and a resident of
Birmingham. His most recent composition
has q catchy Tilt and bids fair to equal
the popularity of several of shis other
works, which have enjoyed wide SALE
Mr.. Doughtry has been particularly happy
In writing ballards and dance music
His MATCHMAKER two-step is still in
great demand, while several of his rag
time pieces have been in vogue ever
since they were published
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CANDY FOR FIGHTERS.
Admiral Evans Fleet Carries Many
Thousand Pounds of It.

From the Boston Herald.
If an army of children could only cap
ture the United States steamship Gull
goa. Think of 5000 pounds of candies.
and all in little round tin boxes of a
pound and half pound.
Who is going to eat 1000 pounds of as
sorted chocolates? There are some thou
sands of husky tars composing Eight
ing Bob" Evans fleet who can answer
that. No finer sailors in the world yet
they love bonbons as well as any school
boy.
When thousands of miles from their
homes, in foreign waters, under trop-
cal sun, the men Of the giant fleet will
be able to lunch on candy AS Corporal
II. F. Baker, of company A, Twenty
sixth infantry, said when on service IN
the Philippines: 'All have to do is to
open the package, place piece In my
mouth, close my eyes, and in less than
a minute I am at home"
The stay-at-home public has no idea of
the quantity of candy the army and navy
consume They eat tons of sweets every
year And the eating of it probably
saves them from the evils of consump-
ton of thousands of gallons more of al.
cohol.
For in the tropics candy is both med
icine and a food. 1t is medicine in that
II creates a distaste for alcohol, or to
be more accurate it di1ninshes or eradi-
Gates the thirst. Those who are in a po-
sition to be considered authorities assert
that the use of candy creates dislike
for that stinlulant. Scientists have not
ed, too. that men with & strong taste for
sweets are seldom addicted to alcoholism.
In parenthesis it might be said that be-
cause a man doesn't like candies it does
not necessarily follow that he is fond of
the flowing bowl.
The medical department of the army
gave the matter careful investigation.
So have the medical departments of the
armies of other nations. 1t was proved
that the use of jam and chocolate was
the salvation of many a regiment. Queen
Victoria herself ecvidently recognized the
properties Of chocolate as a health food,
for she sent to the British army out of
her own purse sufficient chocolate to pro-
vide a can for each man in the host OF
100000 men.
But before that time the American
troops had themselves learned the value
Of sweets on active service. In the Phil
] ippiues the United States army con.
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Demand For Sunday Concerts.

Memoirs band will give a sacred concert
at the Majestic theatre this afternoon for
the benefit of the band uniform fund.
The musicians will be assisted by Glen
0. Friermood, baritone, and choice pro-
gramme will be rendered.
In referring to this entertainment a
well known music lover said: Accord
ing to a state law Sunday concerts may,
be given on the subscription plan or for
special benefit or where no admission is
charged, Dut the act should be amended So
as to permit legitimate concerts on
Sunday without restriction. Next to re-
ligion music of a high order is the
most uplifting of all things. It is un-
questionally conducive to good morals
and it is in great degree educative.
There are about 30 musicians In Biz
mingham capable of playing in a SYM
phony orchestra, but as most of them arc
employed at the theatres. they are avail
able for concert purposes only on. Sun
day. If the law were amended in the
particular indicated an orchestra would
be organized and concerts would be
given every Sunday that would not only
afford pleasure to many, but would be a
credit to birmingham. Let the effort be
made when the legislature next meets.
There is undoubtedly demand for Sun
day concerts and the demand comes
from some of the best people of this
community. There could be no better evil
dence of this fact than the large and re-
fined audiences that assemble whenever
free Sunday musicale is announced
or a first class concert is advertised for
the benefit of charity"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-02
The Ressemer Rolling Mill.

"The resumption of work at the Ten
nessee eompany's rolling mill at Bes-
semer is cheering" said a merchant
THAT plant not only gives employment
to several hundred meh but the very
fact of its starting up is a sign that in
dustrial conditions are improving ma
terially.
"Ensley Is a busy place. The Tennessee
company's blast furnaces and steel plant
are being operated to their fun capacity.
and l hope to see idle furnaces at Bes-
semer and elsewhere in the district blown
H. shortly In the meantime general trad :
in Birmingham is fairly active and the
outlook for spring business is bright"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-02
THE ENGLISH TEA-HABiT.
American Business Man Tries To Over
turn British Traditions.

In Everybody's Magazine for Feb
ruary, Samuel G. Blythe tells the story
of the collision of an American busi-
ness man with the English tea-habit.
He had gone to London as the manager
of one of the biggest enterprises in
which American money Is invested.
He was formally introduced to all his
heads of departments on the first day
he went to the office. After everybody
had strolled away and he had turned to
his desk, small clerkly looking person
approached him and said: please, sir,
| wish to know If we can have some
new tea rings
= Tea rings?' said the manager;
what in the name of the Thames EN-
bankment ere tea rings?'
Rings we put on the stove when
we make our tea,ssir. Thank you"
when you make your tear"
"Oh. yes, sir; we have our tea regu-
larly every afternoon. Thank you
The manager looked Into the tea
business. He found tho clerk was
yight The whole office force quit work
in the middle of the afternoon and
drank tea The proposition did not
appeal to his American mind, SO he is
sued an order stopping the tea-drinls-
ing. There was a wild protest. Here
was this American overturninE the
presidents of centuries. Here was a
man who dared to deprive the Britons
of their tea. The manager held out for
month and then capitulated, for his
board OF directors stood with the
clerks. The directors drank tea, too.
He rescinded the order, bought the new
tea rings, and kept tab on the amount
of gas used in brewing this necessary
beverage. He discovered that the tea
/ thirst OF the clerks in his offices cost
the company for gas used to brew II
s325 wear
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-02
HORRORS OF A FEUD.
Bloody Warfare In Kentucky Started
Over a Pig.


Special dispatch to the Cincinnati En-
uuirer.
Marion, O.-Sittng in the big witness
chair in the police court this afternoon,
John Hatfield of Kentucky, son of Cap
tain Hatfield, leader of the famous Nc
Coy Hatfield feud in Rowan county,
Kentucky, 16 years ago, entertained the
mayor, the sheriff and the police by tell
ing for the first time his fathers side Of
the feudal tragedy. Hatfield asked for q
nights lodging, and to be accommodated
he had to be arrested on a charge Of
| vagrancy.
THE trouble all arose over pig de-
clared Hatfield Father had sold Mccoy
young shoat. Mccoy delayed paying
for it. They met at election time and
father asked Mccoy for the money. Nc
Coy was insulted, and, drawing his re-
volver fired The bullet missed its mark
and father drew his gun and shot and
killed Mccoy. This was the beginning OF
the great feud which followed"
Hatfield then told the court Of the horri-
bic death of his little sister. He said that
his sister, aged g. was gathering daisies
along the roadside, when she was seized
| by the Mccoy band. They bent two sap
pings to the ground, and, tying leg
| to each of them, allowed the saplinss
| to spring." sobbed the big Kentuckian,
who broke down completely when he at
! tempted to describe the condition of his
| sister when she was found by him several
hours after the terrible deed had been
| committed.
The prisoner said that his father, who
| had IA bullets imbedded in his body during
/ the three years of the feud, is dying at
! Hot Springs, Ark. He is past so years
old. Hatfield said he had sister, Mrs.
/ Minnie Connors. residing in Columbus,
who had ip-her possession most of the
weapons Used by her father during the
] felId.