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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
Paving the Piper In SpringfeId

The mob dance in Springfield, H., is be followed by shower of damage
 its. The law of Illinois permits an
 sgrieved property owner to recover .-r-om the city three-fourths of the value of any property, real or personal, de- stroyed by mob. Dependent heirs of a victim of a mob can also recover s5000 from the city or county that per mits mob to arise.
 However, it is one thing to write a law on the statute books of state and quite another thing to enforce it. Ohio has similar laws and yet after mob had ravaged sections of the Springfield in that state property owners who were despoiled by it have not to this day been able to recover damages. The attempted application of the Illinois law before petit juries will therefore be watched with interest. In this coun- try petit juror listens more to public sentiment than to law. His oath sits lightly on him, being largely matter of time and place and fit case.
 But Springfield will have for a year to come a variety of jury work The district attorney is camping on the trail of the leaders of the mob and in- dictments are to be found in wholesale lots. While the criminal court is handling the indicted the civil courts will be kept busy trying the suits / brought under Illinois sweeping law for the protection of private property.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
THE BIRMINGHAM STRIKE.

From the Chattanooga Times.
 Almost enough violencer bloodshed and business distraction have resulted from the labor disturbances in the Birmingham district to justify the optimistic report sent out from that city yesterday that the mine strike is nearing an end. This seems to be indicated notwithstanding the unsatisfactory efforts of President Lewis of the Mine Workers, to secure conference on the subject The rumors flying about the district, as reported in our news yesterday morning, are indubit- ably significant of an early ending of the trouble. The issue involved is of great importance to the manufacturing indus tries of the city of Birmingham, involv- ing, as 1t does. the old and still unsettled question as to whether the owners or the employees shall conduct business.
 In time. 1t may be, when men of sound judgment and good common sense shall get control of the labor organizations. the relationship of the men to the proprietors may be adjusted in so reasonable a way as that each may be left to the enjoy ment of their rights without friction or interference. Until that time comes we will have strikes and lockouts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
DiStinGuiShed Confederate Dead

The death of Gen. Alexander r. Stewart yesterday, leaves only one who attained the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate army. The sole surviving lieutenant general is Simon Bolivar Buckner, ex-governor of Kentucky. Gen. Stephen D. Lee, who died on the eve of the reunion held in Birmingham last June, was lieu tenant general but these three were the only commanders of such high rank living at the beginning of the present year.
 General Stewart was a native of Tennessee and graduated from West Point in 1S42; and after serving there as assistant professor until 1S45, he resigned his army commission to ac- cept the professorship of mental and moral philosophy in Tennessee insti- tutions
 After the secession of Tennessee he drilled troops for the Confederacy and constructed batteries on the Missis- sippi For his services at the battle of Belmont he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. His fur ther achievements were conspicuous rendering as he did splendid service at Shiloh, Perryyille, Murphreesboro' Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. Stewart was commissioned major gen eral in June. 1863, and Lieutenant gen. eral in June, 1863, and lieutenant gen t;on was on account of his brilliant service in defeating Rockers corps in the Atlanta campaign.
 General Stewart was not able to at tend the Birmingham reunion, but the old veterans remembered him Wl1h sih- oaro affection and his memory "iVh that of stephen Lees, will De lohuiS cherished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Mir. Maben's lnsiqht.

Now that it seems to be generally understood that the strike of the United Mine Workers has been called off, or will be called off Monday I am re- minded of what MT Maben of the Sloss Sheffield company said to me last Thursday and what he repeated on Sat- urday," said a prominent member of the Commercial club last night.
 MT. Maben stated It to be his firm belief that President Lewis of the union miners national organization had prac tically decided in Indianapolis to call off the strike when he rung up the president of the Alabama Coal Opera tors association over the long distance telephone and asked what the opera tors were going to do for the strikers in the event that the struggle was soon ended. or words to that effect. The operators sent MT Lewis a message by wire saying they were unalterably committed to the open shop policy and making it plain that they would enter into no arrangement or agreement with him. Mir. Lewis came to Birmingham on Friday and conferred with local Of ficials of the United Mine Work CTS, and also with Gov. Conner and two or three other business men. On Saturday night MT. Maben repeated the remark that he had made to me on Thursday. He said: Lewis is still here. He will call off the strike within the next few days probably on Sunday or Monday Some of the Operators express doubts about an early ending of the strike. but have no shadow of doubt about speedy action. There is nothing left for MT. Lewis and his associates to do but to call off the strike.
 MT. Maben has seen many strikes and he is a mighty good judge of hu- man nature. When he told me that this strike would be called off within the next few days I thought him exceed ingly optimistic; may be bit too much so. but I felt inclined to go out and make a wager on his say so.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
Castro and the Dutch
cherished

Draeidant Castro fills no small place in the world at present. His country ;s near the Panama canal, and he him. self has plenty of courage and capac- itv He stands ready to meet any issue and ex-Minister De Reus admits that no revolutionary party exists to- day in Venezuela. Castro has many personal enemies, but he is too alert to enable them to get together in the ! form of a South American revolution ary movement
 There are two sides to the Dutch in- oidant Ii appears that while M. De Reus was the representative of the Netherlands at Caracao there was pub lished in an Amsterdam paper letter from him assailing Venezuela. Be cause of this publication President Cas- tro sent him his passports. De Reus claims that the publication complained of consisted of personal letter, and that his consent to its publication was never asked.
 Venezuela complains that when the Dutch cruiser Gelderland went to La l Guayara to take Minister De Reus on board she did not properly salute the flag of the republic. The ex-minister went peacefully away, but at Wilem- stad on the nearby Dutch island of Curacoa, the Venezuelan consul was stoned. and it was with difficulty that he escaped with his family to the main land. An American steamer carried him back to his native land
 These facts are set forth in a note written by Dr. J. de J. Paul, the Vene- 1 zuelan minister of foreign affairs, to M Van Swinderin, minister of foreign affairs at The Hague. The reply of the latter has not been made public. Baron Von Seckendorff, minister of Germany at Caracas, is caring for Dutch affairs in Venezuela, and through him perhaps will Hollands reply be made public.
 Whatever the merits of the case may be, Holland considers herself az grieved, and she will no doubt proceed to blockade the Venezuelan coast. America will not interfere with the proposed blockade. That will be the situation until isolation induces Presi- dent Castro to ask for arbitration or for terms, or until there are internal troubles that, threaten Castro's su- premacy in his own country. The last named possibility is improbable, be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
Numerous Arrests.

q was told this afternoon that there were in the neighborhood of 40 arrests made today" said a citizen last night
 "Out of curiosity went to the city jail just to see what the nature of the offenses was, and I found that ma jority of the arrests involved eases of assault and battery, drunkenness and affrays growing out of drunkenness.
 "This, it seems to me- is no good argument for prohibition. And the number ot arrests Is easily accounted for. Men evidently find no trouble in getting whisky on Sunday, so there must be quite a number of bootleg gers who make their rounds every day and Sunday too
 "The police tell me that this is the greatest difficulty with which tn ey have to deal in enforcing the prohibition law. The walking tiger may perhaps carry no more than two bottles, one in each hip pocket, and it is naturally very difficult to catch them in the act of getting the whisky.
 "If the police could get at the evil of the 'bootlegger' in some manner we would not have a record of 40 arrests on Sunday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
In Financial Circles.

Henry Clews, in his weekly financial re- view of Saturdays date. says:
 Last weeks excessive plunging oper- ations fortunately created only tenn porary disturbance. Incidentally they proved the hazardous position of the short side of the market. There are com paratively few stocks for sale; partly because investors and the public recognize that recuperation is the order of the day, and partly because the big operators are opposing any important reaction at this time. As long as Improvement in indus trial and mercantile affairs continues it will be difficult to check the present hope full temper which prevails in financial circles. Wall street always looks far ahead, and is now actively discountng all the improvement that is likely to take place before next January. It may be overdiscounting that probability; but if so, it is only moving in accordance with precedent.
 By far the most important element in the stock market just now is the world wide ease in money. This ease Is not so much a consequence of increase in the gold supply as some would have us be- lieve. although that factor cannot be ig nored The present glutted condition of the money market is chiefly attributable to the accumulation of funds which all ways follows panic regardless of the pro- duction of gold. Business activity has been at minimum, and funds came out of hoarding as confidence. revived. These two movements caused a piling up of idle funds in the banks, which now hold ex- traordinary reserves in spite of the fact that the crop movement has begun, and that usually currency is flowing freely to the west and south at this season. They also account for the record-breaking ac- cumulaton of gold in the American and European banks more than the enormous production of the Rand district"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

will revise the tariff in their own inter- ests, and they will not then greatly care who writes the presidential mes. sages. A subservient House added to an oligarchal Senate would be protec- tion enough.
 To render assurance doubly sure, Speaker Cannon is to be sent into all doubtful districts. But why Speaker Cannon? He fought all of Roosevelt's policies, and he will combat all future progressive policies if he can elect a House that will re-elect him speaker He is, in short, engaged in serving special tariff interests by swinging around the circle in an effort to elect a reactionary Congress. This is a real and genuine exemplification of the hypocritical position of the republican party on the tariff
 A Cannon campaign conducted on the subscriptions of tariff beneficiaries which are on no account whatever to be made public does not promise re- lief to consumers who are taxed for the benefit of the few. And this is exactly what the republican congressional com mittee is up to-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
ON LIVING AT HOTELS

would spurn and reject and he will con sume 1t without the least suspicion that it is bad. In fact men with their ob- tuse appetites maintain in a fiourishing condition a class of gastronomic hang outs" that would starve to death and would be compelled to close down if they depended upon women for patronage.
 But this is Aggression Getting back to the subject of hotels where one can always find something to eat and where the variety-even in default of quality may be rated as desideratum, 1t is. after al the freedom and the inde- pendence of the life that makes it att tractive to men--if not to women Unless you have lived at a hotel you can form no conception of the joy which it brings to a man to be able to come into his lodgings at any time after midnight or near morning, whistling or singing or talking with the elevator boy in tone of voice that can be heard all over the floor where are set up his Lares and Penates. Such indulgence, not to men, tion the slam,ning of doors and the bang, Ing of windows, wodld, obviously be out of the question in anything deserv- ing to be called home, or in a private family.
 There is. too. the factor of service. on which hotel boarders place great store. There is always .'help'' in a hotel If the cooks or the walters or the bell-hops or any other of the servants walk out ths guests and the boarders never need know it. And what, pray, can compare with the privilege of just ringing for what you want, day or night, and having it brought to youl
 What if the vegetables you get at hotel often taste as if they were all cooked in the same vessel? What if the pie shows up as a delusion and snare as compared with the home product? What if you come to regard with some fatigue the eternal reiteration of the bill of fare? Are there not compensations for all of these penalties, and must they not be very substantial, indeed, when you see people who have been thrust forth from hotel in which they have lived for years, wandering about much after the manner of ghosts and m1rrnuring to themselves:
 Poor old me, haven't got a key
 And l don't know where to livef
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 N OTHING but experience can re- M veal to any person the advant- ages and the drawbacks of liv- ing at a hotel There is copious vol. ume of hostile msapprehension concern. ing that plan of existence that is sus- ceptible of prompt correction by means of actual knowledge, and this antidote also serves to dispel the glamor through which another class of misinformed per- sons contemplate hotels.
 The cessation of the Midland hotel in this city after a prosperous and interest ing existence of 20 years is, to the great body of the people, quite a casual event. an incident to be spoken of today and forgotten tomorrow. To the guests of the house, whose connections with its destinies have extended over varying pe- riods, ssome reaching back to the time of it's opening, the discontinuance of the Midland is an event of real gravity and of serious importance. When man makes his home at the same place for 20 years it follows, logically, that he has taken root, and that he has been satis- fled with his lot To be compelled to make a change under such circumstances involves no trivial sacrifice and it means a trial that is far from being inconse- quental
 Thus it was with a sort of sense of exile that the belated boarder, tagging su- perfiuous at the Midland, came down to the office this morning to find the cafes dismantled and to wander forth in quest of his morning meal in unaccustomed places For be it understood that those devotees of domesticty who hold that there is no home life about a hotel are densely in error. To a person who ac- quires the hotel habit his inn becomes as homelike and as Inviting an anchor age as any family dwelling appears to its docile and we'll ordered inmates.
 It is to be admitted, of course, that men. as rule, get on better at hotels than women. woman is domestic by nature; man by education. Women possess what might be called an inherent sense of discrimination about food; in a man this has to be acquired. If he Is normal and not enervated by indulgence and luxury you can set him down to stuff to eat that the average woman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
Sneaker Cannon'S CamDaien

The republican congressional cam paign is to be conducted independent of the Taft campaign. The former has It's own chairman and treasurer, and it Is collecting money from the trusts who are exploiting consumers behind the tariff wall on plain understand Ing that no publicity of subscriptions la to be made either before or after the election. The subscriptions are to re- main secrets perpetually.
 To a great extent the subscriptions expected are to come from he bene- 1leewries of the Dingley tal'ff, who
 Ut hand in any revision 1at may
 'jrced on the party. They f3opose.
 aer words. to elect . zou that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Only the man who has courage knows how thin 1t Is.
 If a man doesn't think he's clever it's because he think he's good looking.
 Lots of men make good husbands who can't be good at anything else.
 One of the most astonishing things in the world is when you kiss girl in the dark and Ind she is somebody eloo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
Not So Thirsty.

Slack business today was evidence of the cool weather" said soda water clerk yesterday.
 "On warm and sultry day we soda 5erkers are fairly worked to death, but llet the weather grow the least bit cool
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
CHATTANOOGA NEWS.

The twentieth anniversary edition of the Chattanooga News shows that both the News and Chattanooga are flourish ing. The News is one of the south's most progressive newspapers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

and business immediately begins to fall off. Today there was a percepu- ble falling off in the demand for soll drinks. This fact was to me the first evidence of the cool weather which has just relieved the heated season"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
LOVELY, LASTING PEACE.

By Oliver Goldsmith IFrom ThrenOdia Augustalis.'D
 Lovely, lasting peace, below, Comforter of every woe, Heavenly born, and bred on high, To crown the favorites of the sky! Lovely. lasting peace, appear! This world itself, if thou art here, Is once again with Eden blest, And man contains 1t in his breast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31
WHILE AWAY FROM HOME.

Birmingham people who are leaving home for vacation trip should have The Age-HeraId follow them and thus keep informed about what is taking place in the city and state during their absence. The Age-HeraId will be sent to them at any address at the regular price, and the address will be changed as often as desired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

The Young Turks are really striv- ing to divorce the caliphate from all temporal sovereignty. When church and state are divorced in Turkey the battle of separation may be considered as good as won in all the world, even in England and reactionary Russia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

cause Dutch blockade would arouse the patriotism of the Venezuelans and they would rally to the support of Castro.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

Cornelius N Bliss of insurance mem- ory is also member of the republican advisory committee. lie and William Nelson Cromwell are a fine pair of slushers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

The last halfers in baseball league look at the present strife with conl- placency and non-interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

The straw hat season along Mason and Dixons line has been officially extended to September 21.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

It is plain there is no feeling of ovei- confidence in this campaign. Neither side feels cocksure.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

Judge Grosscup is between Bona psrte and Landis, and either way he encounters something redhot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

The Marathon winner, Hayes, draws bigger crowds than presidential can didate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

The reading of the Patterson social problem novel Is not compulsory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

The season of cholera morbus and nolitics is in our midst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

The spanking of Castro is progress ing steadily. but slowly. It is to be done with great deliberation, but every hloW will count
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

The Hughes bandwagon needs nu- merous tenders, so fast are the prac- tical politicians fiocbing to it. each one striving to look pleasant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

Colonel Goethals at any rate should not be subjected to the horseback test.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

The quietude of MT. Hisgen, who makes axle grease, is somewhat sur prising He should take a lesson or two from Lipton on the art of adver- Using
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

The Shah complacently sees the con stitution he granted growing weaker daily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

Hollands dog of war is presumably a dachshrnd, he is so deliberate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

Don't say anything against blanket in- functions as the cool nights approach.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

Campaigns, alas, are not won in ban quet halls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

The army officers can't raise a mil lion-dollar fund for Captain Halns' defense even if they were so inclined.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

The republicans are troubled over the fact that the panic of 1893 ante- dated the Wilson tariff a full year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

Now that Professor Bailey has ac- cepted a place on the Roosevelt uplift commission no farmer will be placed on it, not even for varietys sake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-31

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
 Whispers the o'er fraught heart and bids it break. Macbeth.