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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
OXFORD FOR THE PEOPLE.

From the New York World
 joint committee of Oxford tutors and fellows and of labor union dele gates has framed a plan for extend ing the usefulness of the university by organizing systematic teaching for workingmen in industrial centers. The better qualified students are after prep aration to go to Oxford, where spe- cial courses are to be provided and the men, who must be genuine man ual laborers, are expected after their studies are complete to be useful to their country as labor union mana gers.
 Tn America if a workingp1an wishes to go to college he goes, and nothing is thought of it. But the oxford scheme is on both sides received with class conscious suspicion. The Cham berlainite Outlook says that the pro- posal would transform the wl1 ole character of the university by flood ing 1t with workingmen students" The Tory Saturday Review wishes Oxford to be preserved as a place where gen tlemen may go and "learn nothing useful" On the other side, a resolu- ton of Amalgamated Railways Ser wants says that:
 'It Is inexpedient for the work ing classes to cultivate closer re- latfonshfp with Oxford by university extension lectures or any other meth ods until the teachings of the univer- sites are radically altered so that a truer view of social questions may be taught, and 1t is inadvisable to send workingmen students to colleges un- less the curriculum is made suita ble for the training of labor leaders,"
 Strangely different from the Amer ican idea of a university is Oxford, with It's costly and cumbersome sys- tenn. The students are supposed to spend more than $15o0 year each. The university and colleges had in 1908 an income of $2,595, 900 and did besides victualling business of S2.- 445,0O in lodging, food and wine.
 Only $2S5,000, 10 per cent of the academic income. was paid to the Ox- ford teaching staff of 56, where Ber- lin university had 1S1 professors: but lHe 100 pFl'dtuOcenten or Berlin were outnumbered by the private to- tors of Oxford. Columbia that year had 551 in faculty. Michigan univer- spends 60 to 70 per cent of its income upon the teaching staff. In Michigan lad could attend in 1903 for S1s5 a year; in the four Scottish universi- ties for $50. Harvard and Columbia with an iuyastment ipco,,a a,oL million dollars less than oxford's, han dle many more students.
 Yet university must be judged by Its fruits Oxford pays apparently scant attention to scholarship, yet pro duces great scholars. It's view of "so- cial questions" is high Tory, yet 1t has armed many social reformers for noble work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
President Yaft's Difficult Task

Mir. Roosevelt was fearless and di- rect He was born that way, and this no doubt is the secret of his popular ity among the.masses. Frankness and dfrectness are demanded in the chief executive and the chances are that the countrylhas seen the last of the Presi- dents of'whom ex-vice President Fair banks would have been fine example. The man who looks wise and who pre- fers a cfrcumfocution mill that turns out maximum of policy and a mini mum of conviction, is no longer wanted. The people have had a taste of direct dealing and they want more of 1t.
 Thomas Jefferson had the qualities needed, so did Andrew Jackson, so did Abraham Lincoln, who worked under the pressure of war; so did Grover Cleveland, so did Theodore Roosevelt.
 The rest of the Presidents did not get in close touch with the people. Whether they had contempt for the average man or whether they thought it better and safer to be indirect and circumlocutory, it is difficult to say. but it is not difficult to say that frank ness, directness and courage are quail ties needed nowadays in President h order to command popular support. Theodore Roosevelt has set the pace, hnd MT Taft may be able to maintain lt. Few others in his party could do 70. for 1t is party that as whole is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
1 hourly learn a doctrine of obedience
 Antony and Cleopatra.
Mr.. Harriman's Proposed Extensions

The Central of Georgia extensions AS planned out would call for about 25O miles of track in the gap between Andalusia and the Illinois Central, and about 100 miles of new track between Alexander City and Union Springs. The Central of Georgia would then be ready for the opening of the Panama canal or for any other event, especially if it's line be extended to Pensacola.
 The possibilities of these extensions are greatly promoted by the fact that they would cross territory that has no railroads and that has vast forests of soutbern nine. The needs of the ter ritory traversed would alone justify the buildins of the proposed exten- sions
 The proposed extensions would go far toward completing the railroad system of state that has no county without railroad connection with all the railroads in the land. choetaw went railroadless longer than the other 66 counties did, but Choctaw now has a railroad. There is, however, room in the state for more railroads, and the filling of the gaps in the Central of Georgia system would be welcomed. The state needs this linking up nearly as much as the Central of Georgia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
Wickersham Takes Oath.

Washington, March 5.-George W. Wick ersham took the oath of office as Att torney General at the department Of justice at 9:@ this afternoon. The only persons present were Mrs. Wiekersham and their daughter. Miss Lillie Wicker sham, Lady Hadfeid. MT. Wickersham' s sister, MT. and Mrs Henry ". Taft, and MT Cole, private secretary. At the con- clusion of the brief ceremony the prin- cipal officers and clerks of the depart ment were introduced. Attorney General Bonaparte went to his home in Baltimore this afternoon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
The Iron Market.

While the pig iron market is still quiet each day brings more hopeful feeling of activity before the end Of the present month. Furnace interests, as a rule, are holding at s1a, but few sales agents seem willing to make large tonnage contracts at that price. Matthew, Addy & Co.'s Cincinnati re- port says
 There has not yet been time for the iron situation to settle itself. The declaration of the U. s. Steel corpor- ation that it could no longer protect finished materials but would allow the natural laws of competition to take their course, was a tremendous jolt to the market. Undoubtedly 1t was for the best. The price of finished mate rial remained exactly where it was dur ing boom days, and the price of raw material-pig iron in particular-had gone down about 50 per cent. There was an incongruity in the situation that was absolutely ridiculous. No one with any high degree of business com mon sense was willing to buy finished materials under such conditions. and the reduction in price was logical and natural and 1t simply had to come. And undoubtedly it will presently start things to going again.
 "The particular immediate effect 1t has had on pig iron has been to very greatly stimulate inquiry. There has been more demand during the past week than for several months pre- viously, but apparently this has been for the sake of getting information in regard to prices. Yet the fact that con- sumers are inquiring as to what can be done is always a good sign.
 But there is still another factor in the situation and that Is the tariff. As everyone knows the tariff plays a very large part in the trade and that must be settled before we shall know ex- actly where we are at" Whatever is to be done should be done quickly, for being suspended between heaven and earth as we are now is about as bad a ] business as there can be-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
FORTY MILES MADE
 IN TEN HOURS

New York, March 5.-Train service be- tween this city and Washington was still badly tied up today Trains were few and far between, running generally from five to six hours behind their schedule, Little parties of those who went from this city to attend the inauguration cere- monies struggled In with all sorts of stories of hardships Traffic out of Wash ington. they report, was seriously mud dled and there was little hope of relief for 24 hours or more.
 Passengers on a particularly belated train told of making 40 miles in ten hours. During the first three hours only seven miles were covered each run of 100 yards or so being followed by pro- longed stop. There was no dining car on the train and sandwiches commended fabulous prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
THE HAUNTED PALACE,

By Edgar Allan Poe. In the greenest of valleys
 By good angels tenanted, Once fair and stately palace
 Radiant palace-reared it's head In the monarch Thoughts dominion It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion
 Over fabric half so fair. Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its reors did float and flow (Time, all this, was in the olden
 Time, long ago., And every gentle air that daliied In that sweet day. Along the rlmparts plumed and pallfd A winged ordor went away. Wanderers in that happy valley
 Thru two luminous windows saw Spirits moving musically
 To lute's well-tuned law Round about s- throne where, sitting (PoiphyrogeneD In state, his glory befitting,
 The ruler Of the realm was seen. And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace door, Thru which came flowing, flowing, flow
 ing,
 And sparkling evermore, "A troop or 1ohoes, whose sweet duty Was but to sing In voices of surpassng beauty
 The wit and wisdom of their king. But evel things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn!- !--for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolateD And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed Is but a dim-remembered story
 Of the old time entombed. And travellers now, within that valley, Thru the red-litten windows see Vast forms that move fantastically
 To a discordant melody; While, like a ghastly rapid river,
 Thru the pale door A hideous throng rush out forevee And laugh-but smile no more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
McReynoIds Sues Haskell.

Guthrie, Okla. March 5.-Scott McRey- holds of Brooklyn today filed suit for $1O,o00 damages against Gov. Charles N. Haskell, Orville T. Smith, law secre- tary to- the governor, John Mahoney, sheriff of Logan county, and Robert L. Lunsford of Cleveland Okla. The suit IS brought in connection with the seizure of papers from McReynolds by the rep resentatives of Governor Haskell, having to do with the governors recent $6O0,00O suit against William R. Hearst. it Is averred, and McReynolds attested he was Hearsts correspondent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
Roosevelt In Private Life.

Oyster Bay, N. F., March 5.-Ex-Presi- dent Rooseyelt's first day as a private citizen was spent in a decidedly quiet manner at his home at Sagamore Hill. Notwithstanding the cold wind of today, MT. Roosevelt was out early and took his daily exercise in the woods. His day was interrupted by calls from score of news paper representatives to secure an inter- view. At first he refused to talk. Fin ally. however he consented to say few words, and made the first public an- nouncement of the date and steamer on which he is to depart for Africa, which is March 23. by the steamer Hamburg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
suffraoettes Are Busy.

New York, March 5.-The New York suffragettes have organized crusade for the furthering of their propaganda among the newspaper men who work on the morning papers. The opening meeting of what promises to be long campaign is to be held on Park Row, near Brook lyn bridge, on Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock in the morning The suffragettes will gather in automobiles and half dozen speakers will make vigorous demand for .Yotes for women"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
Met the Cardinal.

''In New Orleans last month I had the honor of being presented to Cardinal Gib- bons" said Alonzo Atkins of Birmingh am, assistant district manager of the New York Life Insurance company q met his eminence at the Sacred Heart con- vent, where I had gone to call on my sister, who Is superior of that well-known institution. The cardinal was most graci- ous and we ccnversed for 10 or 16 minutes.
 When l told Cardinal Gibbons that was in the life insurance business he said: You are working in a good cause Insurance is next to religion. I think 1t the duty of every man who has any one dependent on hIm to carry some n- Surance, even If it is only 5000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 It's just human nature for the ice mar to think the coal man Is a fool in sum. mer and genius in winter. -
 The water wagon is way up like ar airship when you climb on. but as close to the ground as the grass when you fall off.
 Next to his beard, certain type of man seems to think the kind of necktie he wears is the surest sign how smart he is
 If 8 man could ever get enough money to support his family in all they want Il would be just his luck to have another one to support.
 Maybe the reason a widow seems so willing to get another husband is she knows from experience what 2 disap- pointment it will be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06

Savannah Press: Birmingham is boast ing of millioa-oollar hotel.
 
 Gadsden Times-News: Roosevelt should stop over in Birmingham and Mobile on his way to Africa and hunt tigers.
 Pen City Progress: The talk of an extra session tiekles Birmingham all up one side and scratches all down the other.
 Savannah Press: A master builder in Birmingham is of the opinion that steel coming down will help shyserapers to go up.
 Savannah Press: When we read that Mobile is real wide open we remem- Der that things like that are still said about Birmingham.
 Alexander City Outlook: And now Bir- mingham has an auto fire engine. It's auto water wagon has been worked full time since prohibition.
 Savannah Press: Spring has come, says a Birmingham editor. We will have some more chilly nights and perhaps some cold days, but the winter has gone.'
 Bessemer Review: Next year being cen sus year, we are looking for Birmingham to sign up all the baseball players in the United States. to help her out in popu- lation.
 Savannah Press: The Ga6sden Journal thinks that 1t will taAe millions of dol- lars to get a big water supply for Bir- mingham And yet prohibition in Bir- mingham is less than a year old.
 Chattanooga Times: A 16-year- boy of Jefferson county, Ala. near Birming- ham, Whipped revolver out of his pocket" and killed his father. Can any one guess how it comes about that 16- year-old boys carry concealed revolvers?
 Greenville Advocate, All the members of the house of representatives of Blr- mingham favor the oslling for the extra session of the legisia ture. They all want the Greater Birmingham bill patched up and fixed so 1t will stand. Most of them, however, want the session to be short and sweet.
 
 Gadsden Journal: The million-dollar ho- tel in Birmingham has been taken out of the air-castle class. The promoters have acquired a site for the structure at cost of $l60,000 at the corner of Fifth avenue and Twentieth street That makes the project begin to look like the real thing.
 Alabama Courier: Birmingham is to have a million-dollar hotel. That will equal anything In Athens. Birmingham Is keeping pace with the progress of the times and soon fellow will have to leave the city and go to the top of Red or Shades mountain to see the sun rise because of the many tall buildings in the city.
 Montgomery Journall While Birming- ham is mourning over the failure of the city extension law, Bessemer, too, is get ting ambitious and now wants to extend her territory. If the special session of the legislature attempts to enact all such local legislation as this, the time will be quickly consumed. The Greater Birming- ham law will be about the only such legislation attempted, we think.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06

devoted to special interests and under ground wirepulling.
 The old-time statesman is dead and buried, and the coming men in Amer ica are those who get in touch with the average man while they keep out of the hands of special interests. MT Taft has no easy task before him, his environment considered. He may make good, but if he does he will have to rise above the controlling influences in his party-its Aldrches and Joe Cannons-just as Theodore Roosevelt did.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Savannah Press: The Birmingham Age Herald fears that Statesman Knox keeps his patriotism and his pay roll money in independent pigeon holes."
 Washington Herald: "Dream,. dream, Adream." begins Poet Paul Cook in tho Birmingham Age-Herald Probably an effusion on tariff revision.
 Columbus Ledger, The Birmingham Age-Herald says: Premier Robert Ba- con is to be so soon done for he must wonder what he was begun for"
 Selma Times No, Percival Paul Cook of the Age-Herald is no relation of Con- eressman Cook, although they both get Up some right good reading matter.
 Jackson News: ''The sorriest business in the world" says the Birmingham Age Herald, 'fs to put yourself to an incon- venience merely to spite somebody else" We'll said.
 Savannah News: Editor Barrett ex- presses 1t this way MT. Roosevelt is still on the quarterback, but he begins
 
 the gangplank."
 Atlanta Georgian: We are informed by the Birmingham Age Herald that the mint crop will be abundant this year in the south but the demand is apt to be short for statutory reasons.
 Jackson Clarion Ledger: The Bir- mingham Age-Herald says the rail- roads of Missouri are making money despite their 2-cent rate. But then Missouri had to show them"
 Roanoke, Va, World: "A rat was run over by a trolley car yesterday and didn't let out a squeal, not having one" says Paul Cook in the Birmingham Age Herald. Rat-a-tat-tat! Rat-a-tat-tat! Houston Post: "A new Kentucky editor opened with a ten-word salutatory May be he's a Quaker" says the Nashville American. Maybe he's married.-Bir- mingham Age-Herald. Maybe he stam- mers.
 Atlanta Georgian: Editor Barrett puts the latest bulletin from the White House in battleship language. Thus: .Mr. Roosevelt is still oh the quarterdeck. but he begins to peer down the companion way toward the gangplank."
 Chicago Record-Herald: No laundry man ever joins smoke abatement club BiTn,inghan Age-Herald. We should not hold the launarymen in contempt, how ever, if they would consent to keep their own chimneys from smoking.
 Washington Herald: "Can a mule be silenced?" inquiries some one of Poet Paul Cook in the Birmingham Age-Herald. There appears to be no way in which he may be prevented from registering his kick whenever the spirit moves him.
 Columbus Ledger: The Birmingham Age Herald says that all baseball teams will next month win pennant .on paper. The Columbus papers have not waited that long. They are win" ming pennants already.-Augusta Her ald And Augusta Is becoming jealous.
 Anniston Star: It is difficult to de- scribe the beneficent and beatif1c feel ings which pervade ones system after having assimilated a suitable supply of strawberry shortcake, says Paul Cook. However, Paul, we can faintly recall an aggravated indisposition which ap- proximated a permanent valetudinarian tendency as result of gastronomic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
The Southern Steel.


 W. w Miller of the distinguished law firm of Hornblowsr. Miller & Potter, New York city, who has been in Birmingham for 10 days or more in connection with the Southern Steel company's reorganiza- ton, expects to return home today or tomorrow. This Is not his first visit to Birmingham. and each time he comes he adds to his list Of friends both inside and outside the legal profession
 Ar Miller is counsel for the reorganiza- ton committee, and members of that com mittee are agreed that he has done the principal part of the work in straighten- ing out matters and making reorganiza- ton feasible There never was, accord ing to those familiar with the case, a more difficult problem of it's kind than that Involving the rehabilitation of the Southern Steel.
 It may have seemed 10 some that the work of reorganizing has been proceeding slowly" said MT. Milier, but the fact is that, considering all things, remark ably good progress has been made The Southern Steel for which receivers were appointed in October, 1e07 is the first large indL~sial concern in Bankruptcy to be reorganized. Tae committee had an exceptionally heavy task on their hands. Eight hundred creditors had to be lined up and satisfied~and s3,000.aso of first mortgage bonds and other extensive lia bllities had to be looked after. to say nothing of the complicated affairs of the subsidiary companies. But everything is in good shape now, and the end of the committees troubles are in sight It will not be very long before the reorganized company will be ready to resume opera tIons'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
THE EDUCATED GROCER.
From Success Magazine.

FrOm SucceSs MaBazlne.
 Say, mister" said the small boy. breathlessly, take down this order quick l got to go to school. Two pounds of coffee at 45 cents; three and one-half of sugar att cents; six boxes of cocoa at 24; two dozen eggs at 32, and four pounds of butter at 40 cents. How much does it come to?'
 -Four dollars and eighty-three cents, my little man." said the grocer. What ad- dress, please?"
 Gee! Thanks!' said the schoolboy as he made his escape. That was the only one I couldn't dol"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
I'll. MATINEE IDOL.

Priscilla, like most other girls, affects the
 matinee, Tn stunning hats and pretty clothes she's there 'most every day. Her mouth is full of chocolate, her eyes
 are on the stage Where the hero's ardent wooing her att
 tention doth engage I've often heard her say she loves the
 leading man to death And when his path through danger lies
 a little catch of breath Doth prove beyond a doubt how much
 Priscilla thinks of him, And when the villain gets him down her
 eyes with tears are dim. 'Tis lucky that Priscilla never has a
 chance to see That blooming chump off-stage awhile,
 for sure a chump is he And has a wife, and maybe two, and
 drinks an awful lot And eats beefsteak and onions and spa
 ghetti, like as not. I know some leading men, a few, and
 they are not the kind You'd care to praise for qualities of either
 heart or mind. Perhaps you'll think me jealous quite,
 and yet I want to say They're seldom found in real life as at
 the matinee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
Careless With Dynamite.

Washington, March 5.-Carelessly throw ing down on a pool table box of dynamite caps, saying they were not dan gerous, George Castleman, a driver of this oity, today injured himself and six other men. Five of them are in a serious con- dition. Castleman had his right hand blown off at the wrist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
Business Good In Chicaoo.

Business seems quite brisk In Chicago" said J. E. Shelby, who returned from that city yesterday.
 q was in New York in January and found business men there depressed. A month later q great improvement ha1 taken place. judged from the feeling in Chicago. Not only is there a healthy ac- tiyity in t ade but Chicago people are anticipating a large volume of business between now and summer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
Wages to Be Reduced.

New York, March 5.-It was learned today that the Eastern Pig Iron sssocia- ton, which is made up of the leading iron producers of the east, had practically agreed to reduce the wages of its work men 10 per cent. Similar reductions, 1t is said, will be made later on the part of all blast furnaces in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-06
Patrick Makes Appeal.

New York. March 5.-Albert T. Patrick, who was convicted of the murder of William Marsh Rice, made a sensational appeal to the appellate division in Brook lyn today to free him from imprison- ment for life or send him to the electric chair. He declared that imprisonment for life was greater punishment than the death penalty