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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-20
A GARDEN CITY

in the center from a great lack of trees,
and though the company has planted as
900, it will be long before Garden City
is as beautiful as some of the villages
that surround it.
So great has been the demand for
houses-Letchworth has now 1130 houses,
and more are being completely at the rate
of one per day-that outside companies,
such as the Garden City Tenants, limited,
have stepped in to aid in their erection.
In some respects this is a disadvantage,
because such companies, and certain build
ers and contractors, do not necessarily
have the high standard, the desire to set
good example, that one must take for
granted animates the Garden City COM
pany in its capacity of builder Many
working class cottages have too small
rooms, inconvenient stairs, very tiny land
ings, stairs opening off the living room
smoky chimneys, small windows and soul
lery baths. One can easily discover all
these facts, though not generally all to-
gether. 1t Is agreeable to find a bath In
every cottage. together with modern sani-
tation, gas for lighting and cooking at
reasonable rates. and garden attached
The gardens at Letchworth are often
quite delightful; it Is astonishing to see
what hard work and resolution have
achieved In SO short a time. Many men
spend most of their spare time digging,
delving, planting, wedding in the garden,
and the results are most pleasing
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was located to an amount as large as
that found in the outcrops, the total
high-grade ore located thus amounting
to 12,OO0,000,000 tons. AS Brazil, for
various reasons, will be unable to work
these vast deposits, they have recently
been visited by representatives of
American and British syndieates with
a view TO making contracts for ore
shipments, in the immediate future,
from Rio de Janeiro or from Victoria,
about 300 miles north of Rio de ia
neiro
When the full report of the Brazilian
government is made public Consul Gen.
eral Anderson predicts it will startle
the iron world. There is no coal in
Brazil, or, for that matter, in South
America, mad the iron ores of Brazil
will doubtless be carried to fuel in this
country, or possibly in England. They
may yet be transferred from ship to
barge In Mobile and towed to this dis
trict, where they would meet the near
est fuel and flux. The transferrence at
Mobile need not be expensive. Con-
Quoted on large scale the transfer
would not cost above 10 cents a ton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-20
President Tar'S Lageard Action

"Unless," said President Taft in his
acceptance speech at Cincinnati, 1--WE
act in accordane with our promises, or
/ II we only keep the word of promise to
the ear and break it to the hope, we
| shall be made accountable to the
American people and suffer such conse-
quences as failure to keep faith has
always been visited with. 1t would be
better to have no revision at all, unless
we are going honestly and fairly to re-
wise the tariff on the basis promised
by our party"
And yet the President permitted the
agents of the special interests in the
two houses until they had determined
four-ffths of the tariff Only one-flfth
of it is before the conference commit
tee, and the Presidents belated efforts
are devoted to rates on few raw ma
terials. Even If he succeeds, the tariff
will still remain a violation of his cam
paign promises 1t will still be worse
than the Dingley tariff. And yet he
says he feels strongly the call Of the
country for downward revision"
II he feels this so strongly, why did
he not say so. distinctly before the
hardshell standpatters had practically
made tariff? Why does he not even
now endeavor to have the wool sched-
ule revised to an extent at least suffi-
cient to meet and defeat the schemes
of the wooden trust? The truth is, the
President permitted a worse than Ding
ley tariff to be framed up, hobRobbing
as he did with Aldrich and Cannon,
and now he is endeayoring to say that
he must sign 1t because it is the best
he could procure. 1t is not the best
he could have procured. He sat still
when he should as the titular leader
of the republican party have acted, and
he cannot shield himself now from
neglect of opportunities that he ut
terly ignored. Had ne spoken early in
the special session the Aldriches and
Cannons would not have been aggres-
sive 1t is too late now to take from
the special interests anything of much
value. 1t is too late to change the ma
ture of the new tariff bill.
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Popular Election Of Senators

Twenty-seven states have petitioned
Congress to call convention for pro-
posing an amendment for the popular
election of senators. These states are
Arkansas, California. Colorado, Idaho,
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennes-
see, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wiscon-
sin and Wyoming. When four more
states petition Congress it must call
convention under the terms Of the
constitution.
Why should not Alabama join the
twenty-seven states? She elects United
States senators at present by popular
vote, and this would seem to commit
her to the principle of popular election.
The Senate needs reforming worse
than any other portion of the federal
machinery. 1t is now controlled by
trusts and monopolies, and it's leanings
are felt in all important measures. It
would never submit an amendment in
favor of direct election, but it can be
compelled by petition Of two-thirds of
| the states to call a convention. Just
why Alabama has refused to join In
the petition is not known. There is
apparently no good reason for non-ac-
ton. True, thirty-five states must rat
| ify the action of the convention, but
public sentiment Is moving even In the
east toward reform in the stronghold
of special interests.
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Washington Correspondence of New York
Globe.
One of the indispensable functionaries
about the capitol while the tariff bill Is
In conference is William, the colored door
keeper who presides over Senator Aid
rich's office While the conferees are in
session William sits on guard in great
solemnity before the door of that room
in the Senate office building where the
tariff bill is being manufactured. A stern
look pervades his ebony countenance.
William is on the alert for intruders who
may come shopping about to peer in at a
keyhole or listen at crack. He holds
everyone at arms length, unless he knows
him to be in favor with Senator Aldrich.
He can tell a lobbyist, a democrat, or a
downward revisonist in the dark.
William is entitled to rank as one OF
the indispensables Of the Aldrich estab-
lishment. Without him the tariff bill
might be written into the statute book
and then again it might not. William is
one of the old timers. 1t was Senator
Spooner of Wisconsin who, while chair
man of the rules committee, first discov-
cred his usefulness. Then Senator Knox
retained him at the door of the rules
committee offices, and found him per-
son of eninence and attachments In his
profession. Then Senator Aldrich, a keen
judge OF men, white and black, saw
that William was just the man he want
ed to keep the secrets of the finance COM
mittee intact.
1t is said that on one occasion when
there was fight on involving the rules,
and the sessions of the rules committee
were important. Senator Aldrich learned
that William was able to prove to the
satisfaction of any caller that the head
of the committee was not In his office
even though had been seen to enter it
a minute before, and there was no pos
sible way to escape except by jumping
through a window high above ground and
breaking his neck. At the first oppor-
tunity. therefore. William was annexed to
the finance committee
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NOTIFYING NATION

when Naboth proved that he was capable
of keeping the sons of Belial at bay for
nearly three years, they in their turn
began to think that England was past her
prime.
The spectacle of power that q hundred
years ago had faced undaunted the armies
of Napoleon being hard put to it to crush
the commanders of the Beers naturally
made those who measure everything In
terms of slaughter exceedingly sick. The
fact that we were beaten year after year
in South Africa because we deserved to
be beaten afforded them no consolation.
So both pro-Boers and jingoes agreed that
Old England was in a bad way.
The pro-Boers were the first to dis
cover that the country had been chas-
tised, not in wrath but in mercy" But,
distracted and depressed by the ghastly
failure of their policy in South Africa,
Mr.. Chamberlain and CHS satellites could
conceive of no other method of diverting
public attention from their blunders than
by making headlong frontal attack upon
free trade In order to justify a fiscal
revolution of any kind, it is essential that
the evils of the established order should
be painted as black as possible.
The word of command was given out
from Birmingham that England was on
the brink of ruin, owing to free trade.
Mr. Chamberlain end all of his myr-
midons set themselves on thousand
platforms, and a hundred newspapers
r,roolo{ noad that tho {rade of fne country
was going to the dogs. and that we were
so hopelessly beaten In manufactures
that we could not hold our own in the
home market without the protection of
10 per cent import duty.
It became patriotic" to "cra4' the
country. Those who Thought imperially''
went about as If they were the under
takers preparing for the funeral of the
empire. No wonder. therefore. that In
the oversee dominions a belief grew up
that the old country was played out.
There are clouds on the horizon, black
spots in the social system of England,
but never in my lifetime has England been
so strong, so rich, so supremacy confident
in the justice of her cause and the energy
of her people. Her trade has never been
SO great, her navy so strong, her people
SO well to do. Her only danger arises
from her too great prosperity.
No wonder, then, that the colonial edi-
tors return to the four quarters of the
he is the livelest corpse they ever saw.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-20
HE BELIEVED IN HIMSELF.

Robertus Love in Spare Moments.
Folks down In Sleepytown said he was
a crank
Jim Jones was-an' the fellers in the
bank
Laffed when he passed, an the clerks in
\ Looked down on Jonesy when he walked
by the door,
Home-folks. even, didn't s'pose him extry
bright;
Dad sort o snickered-Brother Joe made
light
o. Jim's ambitions-an' they didn't b'lieve
in him;
But jim
He b'lieved in himself.
Jim left the village when he turned
twenty-one
For the county seat town. where he
hustled an done
Jobs aroun' the courthouse, a-workn'
for his keep,
An read them books that are bound in
yaller sheep
Jim Jones did-an he studied day an
night.
Lawyers LATED a little, an they didn't
count him bright
An folks aroun town didn't b'lieve in
him;
But Jim
He b'lieved in himself.
Hung out his shingle when he turned
Lawyer Jenkins lated. with He-he-he!
ledge Smith smiled when the long-legged
yap
Tried his first case, an got ketched in
trap;
For he didn't know much O. the tricks
o. the trade,
An the shysters ag'n him, they throwed
him In the shade;
But he b'lieved in law, this ganglin' legal
limb:
An Jim
He blieved in himself
Went to the city when he turned twenty
eight;
Practiced year or SO, an got on tho
|. slate =
For Circuit Attorney; an still folks said,
Amt nothin' to him-got wheels in his
head"
Still, Jim wuz elected, an, Gee! how he
fit
The ring an the gang with his bulldog
grit!
An folks in the city, they b'lieved in
him;
An Jim
He b'lieved in himself.
Folks down in the sleepytown. dressed
up to kill
sunday-go- to-meetin's on-sam, Joe an
Bill,
Dad an the gals an his Ma-an' me-
Trapse to the Capitol now for to see
Governor Jones-Jm Jones-the zap
That we didn't blieve in when he was
a chap;
But Jim
He b'lieved in himself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
PUSHING Repairs,

President W. H. Hassinger of the South
ern Iron and Steel company, who attend
ed a meeting of the board of directors in
New York last week is now in Gadsden
looking alter repairs on the blast furnace
and steel mill there. The reorganized
company has all the money needed for
rehabilitation and working capital and
no time will be lost In resuming oper-
atoms at the Gadsden plant and the Ems
ley rod mill. 1t is thought that by De-
tober three of the four blast furnaces
will be ready for making pig iron. 1t is
understood that F. B., Keiser will be the
general manager in charge of the South
ern Iron and Steel company's furnace
plants.
The stock of the Southern Iron and
Steel has not yet been listed on the New
York exchange but it is being actively
traded in on the curb. According to the
last report preferred sold at 5514 and COM
mon at 1872
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Cullman crops.

1.-The growing sweet potato crop looks
weli' said Henry Vanderputte of Gull
man.
Our strawberry crop was cut short
by the cool weather. 1t looked at one
time as if we would have a record-break-
ing crop of berries but as it turned out
only 40 carloads were shipped. The straw
berries We're of fine quality and brought
high prices. They averaged to the pro-
Queer s1.75 a crate net Every year the
price reaches a higher level. Only one
carload was shipped to Birmingham, the
others going north"
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was that Sutton hired the automobile
and paid for 1t.
Plain Testimony.
Lieutenant Adams is a clear-cut look
Ing officer and gave his testimony frank
~ but in a voice that trembled at times
with excitement He resorted frequent
ly to glass of water that an orderly
had placed on table near him. He
seemed anxious to go into details and
tell all ne knew about the tragedy.
Major Leonard asked the witness IL
he, Utley, and Osterman were in uni
form on the night of the shooting. Lieu
tenant adams said they were in their
dark blue mess jacket uniforms.
rs there any way, in your opinion,
a man could carry a service revolver
while in the mess uniform without 1t
being in evidenced" asked Major Leon
ard.
No, sir; I think not" Adams replied.
The witness said there were four
shots before Sutton fired the fatal shot
Sutton had service revolver in one
hand and a smaller one in the other
when he opened fire the witness said.
The third shot was fired from the large
calibre, service revolver, Adams testi-
fed. He knew that because he was on
top of Sutton and saw the flash at his
side.
shot with which Sutton killed himself
was fired from the smaller gun" the
witness said.
Lawyer Henry e. Davis, counsel for
Mrs. Sutton, cross examined the wit
ness. Mr.. Davis wanted to know IL
the witness relations with Sutton were
always agreeable. Lieutenant Adams
said he had little to do with Sutton.
Threat of Shooting.
On further cross-examination Adams
testified that Sutton threatened to shoot
him as they were going toward camp,
after Lieutenant Utley had ordered
tn EN- to postpone the fight and go to
camp. 1t was then that Lieutenant
Osterman stepped In and tried to quiet
Sutton, and Sutton and Osterman had
their fight. Later, before Sutton left
them, Sutton threatened to sh DOT them
all before SUNRISE the witness said.
Lieutenant Adams said that after he
and Lieutenant Osterman left Sutton
they went to the guardhous before re-
porting at the barracks with the intention
of arming themselves as q protection
against Sutton. The only reason they
did not get weapons. he said, was be-
cause they could not find the officer
at the guardhouse who could give them
arms
Aehcu ny NIL LAWS IL Al LIS OPlalou
Sutton shot himself, Adams says he
believed Sutton deliberately shot h im-
self after he heard some one say
Lieutenant Rocker had been shot and
not as a result Of accident.
Major Leonard objected to any opin-
lon by witness, saying the point should
be determined on the facts as they were
brought out.
When Mr.. Davis pressed the question
the Judge advocate withdrew his OBJ
lection. Sutton said he did not re-
member whether he got off of Sutton
himself or was pulled Off. Sutton
seemed to become suddenly exhausted
after the fifth shot, the witness said.
Court adjourned at p. m. until 10
o'clock tomorrow with Adams still on
cross exa animation.
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MISS kELLER's SEASIDE HOME
Talented Blind Girl VIII Continue Her
Literary Work This Summer.
From the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Globe.
Brunswick, Me.-Miss Helen Keller ar
rived in Brunswick this week to spend the
summer at her recently purchased home.
Linden Grove farm, Pennellville, one OF
the most picturesque spots on the shores
of Casco Bay. Miss Keller is accom-
panied by her mother and by Mr.. and Mrs.
John Macy of Wrentham, Mass, with
whom she has made her home for many
years.
In Pennellville Miss Keller hopes to
find leisure for her literary work. At
Wrentham social demands upon her timc
made 1t almost impossible for her to con-
fine herself strictly to the work as she de-
sires. She Is planning to write book
about the blind and hopes to write an
other about nature study.
Pennellville Is about four miles from
Brunswick village and Is named after
Capt William Pennell. shipbulder who
made his home there In the last century.
He sold his place to his brother. Jacob
Pennell and in 1896 It began passing down
into the family. The place was far famed
for the ships which were built upon Its
shores
The residence occupied by Miss Keller
commands f1ne view of tho upper part
of Casco Bay. The house was built In
1889 by Charles 8. Pennell and later II
was rebuilt and enlarged at an expense
of 5000. The Pennell heirs sold the
place to the Misses Herrick of Lewiston.
who made their home there for 20iyears.
In 1902 the place was purchased by VIII
liam McFadden, who for several seasons
used 1t for summer guests.
The house Is but short distance from
Saganook, the summer home of Karl Won
Rydingsvard of New York. the foremost
woodcarver of America. 1t Is also but a
few miles from Indian Rest, the summer
home of Names well known author, Hol-
man r. Day.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
A heap of a mans generosity Is due to
his passion for showing OFF.
After man learns how to support him.
self he can do 1t for his relatives
Even people who won't tell lie will
dress up the truth SO its own mother
couldn't recognize 1T.
When you see a woman who wants to
wear a gown till it's in rags It's a sign
somebody told her how young she looks
In 1t.
A girls idea of something awfully ro-
mantle is to see what she thinks IL a
man out In the yard by moonlight when
she u pretty sure 1t is a lilac bush
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-20

W. T. Snead in the New York American.
~ ONDON.-Lord Salisbury a dozen
O years ago gave mortal offense
- by describing Spain as a dying
nation. Since then Spain and the Span
iards have shown astonishing recupera-
tive power. At the last Hague confer
ence nothing was more remarkable than
the revival of Spain and the Spanish
race in the Old World and the New.
A few years ago Turkey was supposed
to be manifestly moribund. The sick
man. had been sick for nearly a century,
when suddenly, to the surprise of his ex-
pectant heirs, he leaped from his sick
bed and proclaimed that under constitu-
tional treatment he had recovered his
youth.
There seems to be now going on a
similar renaissance in the case of Eng
land
Outsiders who only know of England
and the English from the newspapers and
from the speeches of party politicians,
have for some time past been under the
impression that Old England was, If not
exactly in extremes, at least in a very
bad way.
The result has been that when the
colonial editors came to the Old Country
they were more than half expecting to
be asked to officate at a funeral Hence,
their immense surprise and heartfelt re-
lief on discovering that, far from being
sick or ailing, to say nothing of being
ready to die, John Bull was never in
better health, never more robust, never
more full of life and energy than he is
today
1t is not very difficult to explain the
origin of the false impression. now so
completely dispelled in the minds of our
colonial visitors, as to the decsdence of
Britain. 1t is the poisonous legacy of
the criminal war which Mr.. Chamberlain
waged In South Africa. The moral tur-
pitude of that war of buccaneering ad-
venture appalled, the decent English who
still believe in God and in the Ten
Commandments. They saw their empire
engaged in a great criminal enterprise.
conceived In falsehood and shapen in in
EQUITY. Fearing the vengeance of Al
mighty God. they were perhaps, too eager
to detect and proclaim every adverse &C.
currence as an evidence that the nation
was suffering righteous punishment for
its siHs.
On the other side the lingo, who recks
not either of God or of ethical consider
ations was furious over the miscarriage
vineyard seemed cheap and easy, but
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Business Prosperity.

W. M. Little of North Carolina, who
for a number of years was a resident
of Birmingham, and member of the
Birmingham bar, is here on short visit.
Business conditions in North Carolina
have been improving steadily for some
months past and are now said to be
good" said Mr.. Little. This seems to
be particularly the case in the western
part of the state.
ION my way to Birmingham l spent
a few days in Atlanta and was struck
with the brisk appearance of trade there.
Every Atlanta man tells you that BUSH
ness is fine and there are really many
evidences of solid prosperity noted. At
lanta is now a very large city and it is
probably growing at a faster rate than
at any period of Its history"
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Demand for Machinery,

IAN evidence of business improvement
in the Birmingham district is the de-
mand for machinery" said H. ]. Davis
of this city, one of the best known ma
chinery men in the south.
For Is months there was scarcely any
thing doing in my line, but during the
last three weeks 1 have made some good
sales and every sale of machinery means
much in the Industrial world"
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HOW BURGLARS WORK.
} Saturday Review

A detective once said It was all wrong
to suppose that the professional house,
breaker works with GOODNESS and CAL
cuIation. On the contrary. he usually
works In terror and in haste, takes too
much swag from one room and too little
from another and sometimes overlooks
the silver in carrying of the electro.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-20

The insurgent republicans say they
were guilty of but one offense-obedi-
ence to the will Of constituents. The
standpatters rely upon bosses to save
them from the wrath of plundered con-
sumers.
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The degree Of Mrs. has BEEN con-
ferred on only one-fifth of the gradu-
ates of Smith college, and reports from
other colleges for women are to a like
effect.
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Roosevelt has killed four rhinoce-
roses, but not one with patch Of
white on him. The white rhinoceroses
seem to have fallen back to the head
of the jungle.
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A RECORD BREAKER.

From the Stanford University Chaparrel.
THAT man has broken more records
than any one else I ever heard Of"
"A runner?'
mo- he owns a graplSphone"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-20

The Persians are the best opera
bouffe fighters the world has seen in
many day. II one man is killed in
battle it is considered remarkably
bloody.