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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
FREAKS OF A CYCLONE.
Strange Capers OF an Autumn Thriller
In Tennessee.

From the Washington Post.
Cyclones are not what they used to
be in the old days" complained Col A M
Hughes of Columbia. Tenn, while talk
ing in Washington of the recent storm
that swept his home state
"The cyclone which devastated parts
of Tennessee a couple of weeks ago killed
a large unmber of persons; just how
many probably never will be known. But
I haven't heard of any freaks perpe-
trated by the storm. Houses were blown
down and people were crushed to death,
but the storm seemed to spare nothing
in its path.
.'Ten years ago. when the town of Co.
lumbia was visited by the cyclone which
tore up a large part of that section OF
the state. about Is lives were lost In and
about the town. After the storm had SUBJ
sided reports of its peculiar antics began
to come in. On a nearby farm a house
which had been constructed In a more
than usually substantial manner was abb
solutely twisted and ground to pieces The
bricks were hammered apart and the
timbers were twisted into kindling wood.
Yet within 100 yards fiimsy shack which
was used as a chicken house was left
untouched. man of any strength at
all could have pushed it over with his
shoulder.
ION another farm a large tree was
found transfixed by beam carried from
a house.
1.-The timber had been shot through the
tree as neatly as an arrow through a tin
target. Why the beam was not shattered
to splinters by the terrible impact no one
could tell But the perforated tree with
the captive timber stood there to prove
the story.
1.-The entrance of the government ar
senal at Columbia was guarded by an i'm
mense stone pillar on either side The
storm confined its attention to these pill
lars. They were literally torn from the
ground and broken to pieces. Cyclones
of these days just go around killing peo-
pie without doing a single interesting
stunt"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Senator Bailey on Night Sessions
not.

Senator Bailey's attempt to turn
senators into night owls after the man
ner of the British parliament, was not
accepted on the spot, and it was with
drawn by the Texan senator. He de-
clares, however, his intention of re-
newing his effort, hoping in the end
to secure it's adoption.
Senator Bailey does not hesitate to
say that senators need the daytime
for individual business, and to that
end he desires to have their public
business postponed to evening hours
In England members of parliament
draw no pay, but in America members
of Congress draw $500 a year and
mileage. The difference is consider
able. and Americans will scarcely be
satisfied with the Bailey programme.
What the Senate does in this matter
the House would soon or late be ex-
pected to do, and the country is not
ready to see its national lawmakers
put on the owl basis. Senator Bailey
is iconoclastic. He should stay his
hand. for the assembling at the noon
hour for congressional work is plenty
late enough to satisfy the notions of
the people of Texas and OF the rest
&c Tho country
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
WHO WILL MARRY AMANDA +?

popuiauon, they marry and live hanpiIv
despite the expansion of their living en-
penses. And they get what they want in
Wives to borrow the pharses of the fair
oisparaser OF the American as a lover.
ihey may sometimes find 1t impossible to
marry an Amanda but after all II is best
that they should not. What would II
pront man If he should successfully
storm the citadel of Amanda's affections
and for one brief and glorious moment
feel himself to be an Anthony PLAYING on
posite Cleopatra. only to go through life
oeins made to feel like an anthropoid ape
at an endless session of the Culture club
of Keokuk?
Inc question is, therefore, not what
American men must do to their nec,xtfes
ana how they must burnish I'D their brass
and acquire Interestingly bad morals. in
order to win wives. The question is who
In the world is to be depended upon to
inspire Amanda with admiration and pro-
pose to her without first learning whether
ne Is to be supported happily in idleness
ever afterward as a reward for havin-
played Chopin, and coppered her bets
upon her superiority as a talker upon
travel2
casting careful eye over the situa-
tion, there is no happy prospect discov-
cradle. In order to buy bonbons and
automobiles and furbelows and trips ia
Europe for his prospective wife the aver
age American man must continue to make
boilers and bricks instead of bon mots;
must continue to can meats and vege-
tables instead Of playing Chopin; mast
continue to fish in the stock market for
the wherewithal that is the sesame to
martial happiness, instead of helping to
make tea in charming corners and plying
the insratiating arts of the green goods
vender while striving to ascertain how
much hard American cash the fair Amer
lean could afford to give for a highly
polished husband
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08

takes a final shot at the insurgents
when he attempts in a lame way to
show that the tariff has nothing to
do with the increased cost of living.
The massage does not lack clear
ness or even force, but it is full OF the
faults of modern presidential mes
sages. 1t is but a summary in which
a hundred subjects are mentioned, and
none fully presented or discussed.
These subjects include the freedman's
bureau, statehood for New Mexico and
Arizona, ship subsidies, second-class
mail, njunctions-which he desires to
have modified; the deficit which he
hopes will be overcome in the next
fiscal year; political contributions, and
the Zelaya government in Nicaragua,
which is CURLY mentioned.
Some day President will be elected
who, after referring to the department
reports, will present all subjects of
presidential size in a column or two,
and then the people will again read
each year the message of their chief
executive officer. At present they do
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Ventilation of Cars.

''One great danger to the public health
would be removed II the Birmingham
Railway, Light and Power company
would issue instructions to the conduct
ors on the street cars to keep the ven
tilators in the top of the cars open all
the time,' remarked suburbanite. but
few OF tho conductors seem to realize
why the ventilators were put in the car.
ION a cold or rainy day every window
on a car will be closed and the ventila-
tors as well The ventilators being closed
there is no way for the foul air to es-
cape and a disgusting condition results
Several times during the past two weeks
I have been compelled to leave my seat
in the car and go to the platform on ac-
count of the closeness of the interior
Only yesterday asked a conductor why
he didn't open his ventilators and he
didn't know what was talking about. He
said that he had been running on the
line for several months and it was the
first time he knew the ventilators would
OPEN"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Change of Pastors.

zone hundred and seventy pastors in
the North Alabama Methodist conference
were changed to new charges at the
Roanoke meeting last night" said del
egate who returned from the conference
yesterday.
Most of the changes are among the
small circuits and charges. There were
but few changes in the Birmingham and
Bessemer districts and the average Bir-
mngham reader does not realize the
full extent Of the general shai1e-up ad-
ministersd by Bishop Morrison.
Practically every minister in the con-
ference expected to be changed and those
who were not put on the skid were sur
prised. Several rumors became current
before the final announcements that all
sorts of sensational shifting might be ex-
pected and when the hour for reading
the announcements arrived the conference
was in a fever of excitement. The North
Alabama conference has perhaps never
before experienced such tense excitement
as on this occasion.
1.-THE creation of a new district in the
territory surrounding Haleyville and
known as the Haleyvile district called for
a number of preachers and the creation
of another presiding elder. The Rev.
Robert Echols was made presiding elder
of this district
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Iron and steel.


ut is somewhat surprising to find that
comparatively few persons living IN an
iron and steel district have even an ele-
mental Idea of iron and steel making"
said an old citizen. Il have been struck
with that fact in several iron eenters
which have visited and I have long OBJ
served the same fact here, where we
hear iron talked year in and year out.
OF course anyone who wishes to be In
formed on subjects connected with the
metals can find them more or less ex-
haustively treated in the large encyclo-
pedies, but I have been thinking that 1t
would be we'll worth while for some one
of our metallurgical engineers who has
the gift of writing or speaking, to de-
liver under High school or lyceum aus
pieces series of four or five lectures OF
a popular sort, Understandable to the
average lay mind, ON iron and steel and
the mineral resources of the Birmingham
district in general. Such lectures could
be made exceedingly interesting as well
as instructive.
And while I am on this line I wish
to call attention to "A Study of the Open
Hearth published by the Harbison-Wal-
ker Refractories company of Pittsburg.
which has Just completed an extensive
and model plant near Ensley. It appears
in book form and Is within the compre-
hension of those not technically educated.
This study Is presented in about 80
pages and the binding in flexible leather,
of rich oxblood color. with gilt lettering
and is elegant enough for holiday pub
LEGATION OF an edition de luxe effect. The
Harbison-W Walker company is distributing
copies to their friends of the steel trade"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
President Taft's First MESSAGE

There is nothing sensational in the
message that Mr. Taft sent to Con-
gress yesterday. Even the subjects that
could have been treated in a highly
interesting manner are postponed to
some other day. All amendments of
the antitrust and interstate commerce
laws are to be treated by the President
in a special message always provided a
convenient opportunity presents itself
to him. He may, indeed, await the de-
cision of the supreme court in the
Standard Oil case when he will know
lust where the Sherman antitrust act
sis at" He also evades the CLAWS
Pinchot-Ballinger matter, preferring to
present in a special message the fric-
tional subjects that have arisen in
connection with our waterways, arid
lands, forests and coal deposits.
Neither the corporation tax nor the
pending income tax amendment are
mentioned in the message. The central
bank scheme Is no more referred to
than is "The Return from Elba." But
still the standpatters will find much
more encouragement in the message
than will the insurgents, for the latter
will find nothing at all. He hands
over to tariff board an investigation
of the new tariff law, and he says their
work will perhaps" take two or three
years. He proposes to become a stand
pat tariff man in the intervening time.
He deprecates any changed in the
tariff practically during IFS term Of
office, standing firm by is Winona
speech. He says it woul1 be unwise
to touch the tarik wh.je the tariff
board is investigatinA the Aldrich de-
vice. and at the end Of rs, message he
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Takes a Cheerful View.

At voted for the amendment but now
that constitutional prohibition is defeat
ed l am glad to see the prospects for
real temperance in Alabama decidedly
bright" said an anti-saloon man but not
a member of the Anti-Saloon league. "I
voted dry in tho local option election
two years ago and got to calling myself a
thoroughgoing prohibitionist. Although l
have never Joined the league l drifted
along with the prohibition rank and file
and committed myself to the amend
ment but since we are beat I am not
sorry, especially seeing as do the growth
of prohibition sentiment among men for
merly in favor of saloons
'"rhe present laws are undoubtedly too
drastic and should be modified. All but
those extremists who think liquor ought
to be driven from the home are, 1 feel
certain, in favor of allowing beer and
wine to be served at hotels and cafes to
guests.
But about the defeat, 1 felt early in
the campaign that victory for amenders
would have been little short of a mir
acle. 1 know that many men on our
side were confident of success, thinking
as they did that the influence of church
organizations would pull US through In
spite of the fact that we were wofully
handicapped by politics and candidates.
But there were a dozen things that con-
CURED to bring about our defeat. Sec
ton was one of those jokers that could
not be explained away If it was not to
outlaw liquor from the home it would
have been easy enough to have made
It plain by the insertion of q
phrase. But I feel that all will turn
out for the best. The defeat of tho
amendment Will prove a real blessing
to the state. even from prohibition point
of view"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Publishing House Bought.

st. Louis December 7.-Two-thirds of
the stock, or the controlling interest OF
the Christian Publishing company, the
largest publishing house of the Christian
church in the world, has been purchased
by r. A. Long of Kansas City for $780,
co., He intends to purchase the remain
der and to donate 1t to the Christian
church at large after he has received 4
per cent on his investment for five years.
No change In the management will be
made
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
No Agreement on WAGES.

Cincinnati, December mo agreement
has been reached yet by the committee
of telegraph operators who have come
here to negotiate with the Big -Four Of
fcials for a new wage scale. 1t was ru-
mored tonight that leaders of the opera
tors were seriously considering calling .
strike. The railroad denied this, and the
operators refused to discuss 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Aldermen from the New Wards

Pending a decision in the supreme
court relative to the validity OF
Greater Birmingham it may be waste
of breath or space as the case may be
to discuss the selection Of alderman
in the new wards. But really it would
be a poor start toward an unified and
enthusiastic city to force on any sec
ton a representative not Of its own
selection A representative that rep
resents is naturally one selected by
the people to be represented. A Sc
lection on any other basis smacks al
together too much of autocracy, or,
to use an American phrase, of ring
rule.
A popular send-off is desirable, and
the very best way to secure a favor
able and suspicious start is to ask
each new ward in the Greater City to
select its own representative in the
aldermanic board. Then no locality
will have a right to complain If 1t
fails to get what it has a right to ex-
pect, except against its own represen-
tatiye. The Perdue resolution en-
bodies the correct principle and rule
of action. and it should be adopted.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
EXTRACTS FROM AsNow.BoNp.v

BY John Greenleaf Whittier
The sun that brief December day
Rose cherries over hills of gray,
And darkly circled, gave no noon
A sadder light than waning moon.
Slow tracing down the tnickening sky
Its mute and ominous prophecy.
Apparent seeming less than threat,
1t sank from sight before 1t set,
A chill no coat, however stout
OF homeepun stun could quite shut out,
A hard dull bitterness of cold,
That checked. mid-vein, the circling race
OF life blood IN the sharpened face,
The coming Of the snow storm told.
The wind blew east, we heard the roar
OF ocean on his wintry shore,
And felt the strong pulse throbbing there
Beat with low rhythm our inland air.
Unwarned by any sunset light
The gray day darkened into night
A night made hoary with the swarm
And whirl-dance OF the binding storm.
AS sig-zag wavering to and fro,
Crossed and recrossed the winged snowf
And ere the early bedtime came
The white drift piled the window frame.
And through the glass the clothes-iins
posts
Looked like tall and sheeted ghosts.
The old familiar sights of ours ~
Took marvellous shapes; strange domea
and towers
Rose up where sty or corncrib stood,
Or garden wall or belt of wood;
A smooth white mound the brush-pilc
showed
A fenceless drift that once was road;
The bridle-post an old man sat
With loose-hung coat and high-cocked
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
TAYLOR and Helm JoIIied.

washington, December 7.(special.)-
Senators Bankhead and Johnston and all
of the house members of the Alabama
delegation with the exception of Repre-
sentatives Hobson and Burnett were
present when Congress met yesterday.
Their colleagues had q good deal of
fun at the expense of Amenders Taylor
and Helm.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Judge Lurton May Be Named.

Cincinnati. December Judge Horace
H Lurton Of the United States court OF
appeals, who arrived here today from his
home In Nashville, Tenn, said he had
heard from high private sources that
President Taft will name him to the
United States supreme bench, but there
was nothing official. mo correspondence
has passed between the President and
myself" he said. 'I have not sought
this position and IL do not get 1t I shall
cheerfully continue to serve the appel
late court"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Baseball Season Too Long.

Chicago, December 7.-Ban B. Johnson.
president of the American league. de-
clared tonight that the American league
msgnates would be a unit in the meeting
next for schedule for 40 games instead
of 154 The leasI will also try to shorten
the time of games. THE pitcher should
be made to quit killing time. We will
try to do away with the practice of let
ting the pitcher throw four balls to the
catcher unless the pitcher has just been
to bat" said johnson.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Three Killed by Explosion.

Kansas CITY, December 1.-TWO white
men and a negro janitress were killed
ana four white men were injured follow
ing the explosion OF q boiler in the base-
ment Of a six-story building at 81 Broad
way in the wholesale district here, short
ly before noon today. One of dead
men was an expressman and the other
victims were employed about the build
ing. The total damage is estimated at
s4b On
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Bow Stranded to Death.

Spartanburg, 8. c., December THE
body Of the 9-year-old son Of Rev. w. H.
X. Pendleton of this city was found
hanging by the collar Of his jacket from
q hook in the bath room At his home
here this afternoon. The child had been
dead for several hours. He II supposed
to have fallen from a chair, his coat col
lar catching on the hook and strangling
him to death.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Peculiar Cause Of Death,

Cleveland. February 7.-Fainting at ths
sight Of blood. Harry T. Simmons, .
junior in Western Reserve Medical col
lege. fell to the floor during clinic to-
day and sustained a fatal fracture of the
skull He died on the operating table at
which few minutes before he had been
an assistant. There was no time to op-
crate. Simmons was a track athlete and
baseball player.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Schooner VIII Be Total Loss.

Monterey, Cal. December THE steam
schooner Majestic. bound from Redondo
to San Francisco, was driven ashore at
Pfeiffers Point, eight miles below Point
Sur at midnight on Saturday by q heavy
storm and probably will prove total
loss Capt. e. Keegan and his crew
of nine men reached shore In safety. The
Majestic was owned by Ira K. Harmon
of San Francisco and was valued at
$15N0O0
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Deneen Calls Special Session.

Springfield, ILL.,, December Tonight
Governor Deneen issued q proclamation
calling the legislature into special ses-
sion December IA to consider "a more or
less important subjects A primary cleo
ton law and measures suggested by the
Cherry mine disaster are among the leg
islation proposed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08

From the New York Press
Most everybody would be willing to be
a good citizen If 1t wasn't SO dull
poor excuse for coming home late is
better than not coming home at all.
The time a woman demands the strong
est that you shall say she's pretty is
when she's furthest from 1t.
There's a kind of man that thinks he
makes his wife fine present when he
pays q doctors bill that was for her.
What . woman specially likes about
washing her hair 10 how long she can sit
hakoso The mirror watching n 1rSS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Ships Engineer Disappears.

Pensacola, Fla, December THE mas
ter of the British steamer Dulcie. ar
irving here tonight, reports the myster-
ious disappearance Of W. H. Phillips, Sec
ond engineer of the ship. While the ves-
sci was at sea this morning Phillips
left the engine room and went on deck,
since when no trace Of him has been
found
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08

cerned it was an absolute impossibility.
Conditions have changed quickly, how
ever, and the storekeepers are looking
into their stocks and for this us drum
mers are truly thankful
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
About Persons,

Washington and eastern points. While
out of the city he will attend the Rivers
and Harbors convention in Washington
a delegate of the Birmingham Cham
Der Of Commerce and sec that this city
gets its full share of attention.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08

Rome. December 1.-THE Queen received
today for the hrst time John G. A.
Leishman, the American ambassador to
Italy. She converted with him for time
on his sotourn in Constantinople, as min.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
Africa JubiIee Fund.

Buffalo. N. T., December 7-Bishop
Hartell announced today that total of
$2s0,0O0 has thus far been pledged to-
ward the Africa jubilee fund of $3oOJv
which is being raised to commemorate rs
years Of Methodist missions In Africa.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08

The earls and dukes are hearing
themselves discussed with no regard
to precedent or tradition. The lib
erals propose to hang their hides on
the political fence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08

A motor road from the Atlantic TO
the Pacific is proposed, with road
houses, garages and hospitals every
FIVE miles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08

The Monroe doctrine does not ex-
actly fit the case Of Zelaya, but he
will feel the weight Of it just the same.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
NEEDING A REST.

From the Macon Telegraph.
The Alabama newspapers have para
phrased the state motto Here We Rest"
and exclaim "Give Us a Rest"