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cept IT, Such is the wish of the French
postmaster general, careful of his de-
pariment's dignity. though it be in an
archy inca pabc OF service.
1t is also cheaper than my last mail
via the seaport Havre. which cost ST, and
the messenger. who is a married man,
desired 10 bring his wife lobster as a
souvenir. I handed him S1.30 extra 10 In
sure against the private sabotage" OF
any of my eighteen letters. Containing
photographs. rolled round cardboard
cylinders too large TO enter the slip OF
La Touraine's maiibcx. they might be
mistaken for printed matter and be left
behind; so he ought to recommend them
10 the bewildered boat clerk. 1t might
cost 81 further. I'm not sure It did not
mean another lobster.
All this is because Paris Is thrown back
into the bygone ages by the strike OF the
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Havana gent got roomy and commodi-
Gus skate aboard and went down South
Main street looking for trouble he was
liable to come back up Market looking
for a dentist.
I'VE cleaned up his fair city for him
until he didn't feel at home in it any
more. and the wayfarer could no longer
tell as he drifted along the Prado which
family had the swellest garbage. We
made him sanitary. but uncomfortable. We
took away his money from him and built
roads with it. We discouraged him for
the time being from the false lure of poll
tics and the sinful lust for Office. We de-
prived him of his favorite pastime, which
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Under Secretary OF Posts.
their strike being assured they voted for
publication. Nevertheless. we are united
to take all necessary measures In case
the government should attempt to coerce
them,'
Their own claims are handsome. The
syndicated railway employees of all
France demand Immediately:
Retiring pensions at the age Of fifty for
al active services; and
Retiring pensions at the age of fifty
five for all sedentary employees. The de-
mand applies alike to government and
corpora tion railways. They may need
the help of syndicated government clerks.
syndicated municipal employees. tie syn
dicated prOletariat in general and the
syndicated police in particu ar to get IL.
So we in Paris look for hot times
around May 1.
The bakers are tired of working at
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sabotage even among intelligent men
when intoxicated with organized power.
see what happened yesterday after Prime
Minister Clemenceau had promised the
strikers all their claims except the instant
deca pitation of Simyan, the hated post
master general. That was promised later
for the governments dignity. Crash!
Down came six more thick telegraph ca
b!es at Lille and Amiens under the nose
of the military, and at Paris and Bou-
logne-Paris suburbs-almost under the
nose of the police.
No one expects more than slobby, good
natured obedience from the military-no
zeal. The little soldiers drawn to an
unwilling service from the masses at the
sappy age of nineteen to twentythree
get through their two years with the least
work possible.
They will fight the invader, but replac-
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graph and telephone cables, injury of
quad. Baudot and Hughes machines. the
''salading" of sorted mail by which busi-
ness houses of Rome and Berlin had, in
the early days of the strike, begun re-
ceiving letters addressed to London and
Vienna. and the simple dumping of mail
matter into the sewers.
For you must understand that this
strike of intelligent and discriminating
clerks began in the most subtle form
of "folded-arms strike" In the first
days they came to tn, desks, started on
their delivery trips and linemen reported
for orders. But slyly everything went
wrong and when the department tried
to bring in scabs there were the folded
arms holding down the chairs. Even the
military substitutes-in themselves worth
less-did not really clear them out be-
cause the returned to duty repentants
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selves cut off from humankind. They
knew themselves to be government func-
tionaries. Government functfonaries do
not go on strikes So, all the more, they
were against all strikes.
Then suddenly in May, 1905, aStOnish-
ing all France and Europe, the entire
police force OF Lyons went on strike like
any workinginen, because of budgetary
modification of their mutual benefit and
retiring pension figures.
During five days no policeman or
Lyons did more than walk his beat, the
strike of folded arms" while the mill
tary kept order Prime Minister Rouvier
Illuminated against mutiny and proclaim
ed that NO government can tolerate a
strike on the part of depositaries of the
public force" Then they were all taken
back-and their grievances were righted.
The police had shown the way! Two
years later the striking mail carriers of
Paris and Neuilly strengthened their au-
dacity as mutinOus government junction
aries by the example of the Lyons police:
The ..heifers' spies and .'strolers''
had given their stirckup brethren a first
lesson in how to talk back to the
princess.
Tp heart police, You are men and
brothers. So the other day the initial
contribution of 500 francs to the striking
post and telegraph clerks by the police
of a single Paris ward provoked Verl-
table delirium'' Of enthusiasm. Since,
the committee acknowledges GEO francs,
of three other wards. And they boast
that so much more has been promised
that the total only will be acknowledged
to keep the wards anonymous.
"I will find out what wards they are."
cried NJ. Lepine,
Better not" replied the striking gov
ernment clerks. You may stir up a hor-
nets nest"
I'VE had distrusted the police ex-
plains Citizen Poron, considering them
as servants of the bourgeois. What they
have done is fine. And now we are with
them
They no longer fear the police will
stop them from branding" scabs. They
are all government functfonarfes to-
gether. The post Office may give broth
erly aid to a police strike tomorrow.
Here is new species of Pretorians.
.''The employees of the ministry of war
have sent us a subscription OF 1,tOO
francs and letter of encouragement.
proclaim the striking post office and teie-
graph functionarieS
So have the syndicated employees of the
assistance publique-vast national poor
relief machinery.
So have the synd'cated intirmiers of
Paris public hospitals
The vast National Syndicate of NUM-
cipal Employees sends 5000 francs anG
fluctuations to the strikers, whose pow
erful and admirable movement inter-
ests the destiny of Coo 900 humble func-
tionaries.'' Along with it. they send the
threat:
Eve propose the immediate organize
tion of a coordination movement OF all
functionaries to resist the arbitrary
cynicism of an administration become
so insolent that 1t is the gangrene of the
nation"
Government and municipal employees
are to march in a tight solidarity with
1.-THE proletariat of private industry"
Strong. talk for little country mayors
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A Cyclones Miracle.

NORMAN DUNCAN at a dinner in
! Lawrence said of brother author: !,
His nature studies are fascinating. but
false-false as SO many Of our Kansas
cyclone yarns:
Our cyclone yarns are hard to beat.
l heard a new one yesterday. A stranger.
on the. way through the fertile farm
lands OF the state. pointed to taf. PIN
nacle-like something that rose UP In the
clear air Of the distance
What's that tall chimney doing
thereT he said. Is somebody starting
to build a factory?
"'Oh,, no. said a native. That's no
chimney. It's Jabez Greene's well.
Cyclone turned her inside OUT
Copyright, 1909, by Estelle Kiauder)
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adjoints! I shall be astonished if France
does not soon see notable fireworks in the
midst of SO much organization.
The governments fear of sympathetic
railway strike is an open secret. In
France where the state has always
operated one great system and has just
bought up another. all railway employees
pretend to retiring pensions and other
perquisites of government functionaries.
Well, yesterday. when all looked rosy
for the post Office and telegraph clerks.
two Of their delegates visited the mass
of provincial delegates of the National
Syndicate of Railway Employees. united
by curious coincidence, in Paris.
I'VE are delighted to learn from Com
rades LIE Cleo and Thibaut that interven-
tion In favor of our post and telegraph
brethren is not necessary, the triumph of
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RY IRWIN 5. COER.

SEE tllefD I uDldHS
started i'm cuttin'
up and carryin' on
just as soon as tho
Amurikan troops
was withdrawed
from I'll a V a IL a,
said the House De-
tective.
YEP said the
Hotel Clerk of the
st. Reckless, they
did. They certain
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HIS letter will be
taken out of France
by hand-at a cost
of S4-to be put on
the English pa cket
in Boulogne har-
Dor. ......
Yet il must bear
+ re II c h STAN ps
which | must can
eel. by hand, befor,
the English can ac.
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WITHOUT Telegraph,
F" Mail or Telephone
Striking Public Services Give
Good Imitation of Bygone
Ages-How 1t Cost Sd to
Send This Letter-And How
Parisians Are Preparing to
Do Without Electricity, Gas.
Railway or Police-In View
of May Day.
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Thus we i'm Paris have said goodbye to
illree-uuarterS of our overdue letters
and all papers. The salad Will have
sent them to kamchatka or the sewers.
And to show the force of this mania for
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the soil is that rich you can plant al or
binary walking stick and in three weeks
time grow silk umbrella with a neat
bone handle There are fully thirty va
rieties of wild fruits. all tasting exactly
alike. There's a pinching bug with an
equipment extending out from his brow
that makes him look like an Ice wagon
helper. It's summer the year round, and
nearly everybody is taking his or her va
cation.
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With the police more sensational trait
has disclosed itself. Heretofore distrusted
by all workingmen, they have been strike
repressers as much by despite as by duty.
Popularity called "heifers.' ''spies" and
"hygienic promenaders," they felt them
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was having the yellow fever. and we
spent many of our leisure hours giving
him advice that he hadn't asked for. In
short, we did everything we could think
of for him, also to him. and with him.
And yet, as soon as our gallant soldiers
are withdrawn he begins to call us hard
names in Spanish and work up insurrec-
tions that are almost as serious as a dis
pute with the umpire up at the Polo
Grounds"
1T looks like, to me, the Cubians got
no gratitood for all we done for 'em, =
said the House Detective.
Larry said the Hotel Clerk, 'if you
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docks to see the American soldier laddies
off. There was little cheering. So over
come with emotion were the inhabitants
that they could hardly raise their chok-
ing voices to curse, let alone a cheer.
Carolina Perfecto Lopez Gomez stood in
silence. with his friends and neighbors,
until the last of the ships flying the s,ars
and stripes had passed the frowning ram
parts of Morro Castle. | don't know why
ramparts should always frown, Larry, but
they always do. So there he stood. as l
say. until the last of them headed into
the open gulf.
Are they gomez says Carolina Per-
fecto Lopez Gomez, in voice filled with
huskiness, to the man standing next 10
him.
They are says his neighbor. tears
standing in his eyes.
And there's no danger of them turn
ing around and coming back at this time %
says Carolina Perfecto Lopez Gomez.
There is not, praise be- says the
other man.
Then come with me, children. says
the grateful Carolina Perfecto Lopez Co
mez to little Angina Pectoris Lopez Co
mez and little Medula Obloneata Lopez
Gomez. taking them by the hand; come,
we will now go to our humble home and
throw rocks at picture of George Wash
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whole governmental postal, telegraph and
telephone services.
So we get important mail Off privately.
as when Comte Hugo de Castellane in
trusted a letter to his mother-in-law at
Marseille requesting loan, to Doolin OF
Mayence. en- route with Charlemagne and
the eleven for Jerusalem.
We dare not take the stuff to Havre
in person, for the railway employees might
strike by sympathy and 1t might be hard
to get an automobile back. But we are
working up to it.
\,
Ought not the French line willingly take
American mail at its Paris office? Hun
dreds were answered, the first day: 1--WE
have just refused the Societe Generate"
The American Express Company, in turn,
explained: 1.-THE postmaster general has
warned US that only the government may
carry mail in France"
Later. when the Hotel Meurice had in
augurated the present hotel practice Of
sending guests mail to Dover; when the
Swiss consul inaugurated the acceptance
of important commercial correspondence
for his country: when the Lyons Stock
Exchange had defiantly made its bags for
Paris and Brussels: when Paris banks
had composed a similar service for them
selves and when three English and Amer
ican journalists were organizing the pres
ent expensive service via Boulogne, the
French line and the American Express
dared to accept a rev letters only from
each anxious American.
Ny eighteen big ones would have no
chance with them. Nor can | depend on
the American Chamber of Commerce, not
belonging TO it. The printed statement
that Thomas Cook g. Co. were taking
letters to England for 5 cents apiece
caused a little riot. They denied 1t
quickly.
We. in Paris. are. beginning to learn by
experience what the first sensations OF the
suicide of higher civilization might be
like.
You easily get used to it. This time |
have personally bought three smoked
hams (Which will keep, heavy sack OF
Indian corn meal (Which always wanted)
and the canned goods with which we snail
go camping next summer II we don nave
TO live on them next week. because Faris
will soon be short of food by the lmpos-
sibllity of sending checks or postal orders
to thousands of isolated shippers all over
the country. who need their money ana
dare not forward in the dark, without
orders.
X x
Shippers of FISH have 1000. 600 francs due
and awaiting them in Paris. Shippers OF
butchers meat lack 100000 francs, but
ter and eggs 100000 francs. and so on.
NJ Demoge of the Federation of Retail
Tradesmen affirms that lin few days"
the stocks of Paris retailers VIII be eX-
hausted.
Even when the strike ceases 1t will take
fifteen days for the mails to work normal
ly-siIch is the vest accumulation OF mat
ter and the damage by sabotage
Sabotage" is the destruction or de-
terioration of products machinery ma
terial trusted to their hands by strikers.
Actually, it consists in cutting teie-
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where his wife was making the national
scrapple with it, and girded it on his
waist and went forth for one of those in
formal little 5 o'clock revolutions. with
cucumber sandwiches and fried bananas,
such as all Latin American races delight
in from time to time. except during Lent.
there were loud cries from ', all street.
lower Broadway and Washington, d. c.,
and pretty soon we had about twenty
thousand of our troops down there 20
keep order. You bet they kept 1t. too.
They kept all there was. As the poet
says. Hell hath no fury like a Cuban
corned,' but you can bet that any time a
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Special Correspondence OF Tn" sta.
PARIS. Marcn 40 1909
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Its such a land, Larry, as any lars
American trust would be glad to tai
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HIS letter will hs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
BALKAN REPORTS
 ARE NOT HOPEFUL

London, March 24.-The conflicting regard to the Balkan situation are ao- counted for by the fact that Servia in her reply to the representations of the powers, made every concession that the governments thought Austria Hungary had demanded; but Baron Von Aehren- thai, the Austro- Hungarian foreign minister, is not yet satisfied. Great Britain and the other powers, however, are still hopeful of reaching an ami cable settlement, and negotiations are still proceeding at London and Vienna.
 British officials admitted today that they were somewhat disappointed at Austria -Hungary's reception of the framed with the idea of meeting the views of Baron von Aehrenthal so far as they are known here, and at the same time to save Servia undue hu- initiation Great Britain is rather of the opinion that Austria Hungary wishes thoroughly to humiliate Servia and place her in a position in which she will not be able to create any fur ther trouble in the Balkans. Officials do not go so far as this; using more diplomatic language. they say:
 Austria Hungary is simply trying to get all she can while she has the op- portunity.'
 The arrangements for a conference of the powers to regulate the recent changes in the near east depend on the success of the negotiations to bring Servia and Austria Hungary together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
MEETING CALLED
 TO DISCUSS RACES

Louisville, Ky, March 4.-A call for meeting of the Kentucky State Racing commission, to meet in Lexington Thurs day, April 1, has been issued by the sec retary A. B. Rouse. The meeting is for the purpose of alloting the spring meeting dates for the three jockey clubs under the commissions jurisdiction, but it is understood that the recent decision of Judge Harbison, at Covington, Ky, de- claring the commission an illegally consti- tuted body and without authority, will be thoroughly gone over. It is understood that the commission will continue the ex- ercise of it's functions pending the final settlement of the case on an appeal. It is stated here on good authority that the spring meeting at Lexington will be all lotted a week or ten days by the commis- sion at the forthcoming session, the racing ending April 30. The new Louisville jockey club will be probably granted l- eense for twenty-four days of racing, be- ginning May l. What dates will be allot- ted the Datona track and whether any attempt will be made to resume book making at Louisville are uncertain prop ositions. The Louisville clubs charter permits the use of auction pools and pari- mutuel machines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
GREAT WAR LORDS
 WILL NOT MEET

Berlin, March 24.-There is no like lihood of Emperor William and Theo- dore Roosevelt meeting in the Medi- terranean in April, MT. Roosevelt. on board the steamer Admiral will be in the neighborhood of Alden or the southern end of the sea whe en Emperor William goes on board the imperial yacht Hohenzollern at Venice. No ar engagements have been made by Elm peror William to meet MT. Roosevelt before 1910, but if opportunity is af- forded sooner his majesty will be greatly pleased to embrace it.
 If the political situation in southeast ern Europe has in the meantime cleared Emperor William and the Empress will leave Germany April 15 and arrive at Venice on the 16th. They will go on board the Hohenzollern at Venice and proceed to Corfu, where they will re- main until May 4. From May to IA his majesty will cruise in the Medi- terranean, visiting Messina. The i'm perial party will return to Weisbaden May 16.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
Real Estate Transfers.

Deeds of conveyance were filed in the office of the probate court yesterday in the following transactions in real estate in which amounts of 5000 or more were involved
 s35OO-Woodlaw Realty company to Paul Barnett, lots 10, IA and 15, in block 12 of the first addition to Wood lawn.
 $155O-Asa A. Simmons to M. H. Barnes, lots l, 4, D. and lots Is to 19. inclusive and part of lot 3, In the survey of Mrs. c. Donnan.
 s2S0O--T 0. Smith and wife to W. w. Hollingsworth, lots and 4, in block 278, Bessemer.
 s250O-G Bowden Settlement to J. Cary Thompson, lots 121 and 122 of Hewes & Booths survey.
 s500o-W. w. McTyier to Annie N. MeTyier, lot 4, in block 25 "E" of the first addition to Ensley. s10OO-North Birmingham Land com pany to J. S. Westbrook, lots 1s to 22, inclusive, in block 43 of the second ad- dition to North Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
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MOBILE PEOPLE
 PLEAD FOR SHERIFF

Montgomery. March 24-(Special)- pe- tition largely signed by citizens of Mo bile has been presented to Gov. B. B. Conner, in opposition to the impeachment of Sheriff Frank Cazales, a movement for which was made a .hort time ago. Probate Judge Price Williams and Rabbi A. G. Moses are among those whose sig na tures are affixed to the paper along with many others. The petition has been sent to the office of the governor, but it has not been made public, neither would he or the attorney general give out any thing about it.
 It is recalled that the grand jury has investigated the conduct of the sheriff with regard to the lynchng of the negro Robertson, and found that he had not been at fault, and 1t is suggested that any effort to impeach the officer would bv in the nature of persecution. The pe- tioners think the sheriff a good man, who is ready to do his duty and trust that there will be no more effort to bring his administration into discreult.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-25
IRON PRODUCTS
 ARE FILLING UP Eastern Interests Are Planning to Make Reductions STRUCTURAL PRICES LOW Steel Rail Trade Is Quiet With Some Orders for Delivery, While Bar
 Iron Interests Look for
 Better Business.
STRUCTURAL PRICES LOW

l New York, March 24-The Iron Age to- morrow will say:
 Too much pig iron is being made and metal is accommodating in nearly all the principal producing districts. Prices are weak, but the market has not been seri- ously tested in any of the leading distrib uting centers. It is acknowledge that large Birmingham interests have en- deavored to secure orders for good ton nages on the basis of $11 per ton for No. ? foundry but have not met with success. Eastern pig iron markets are conferring on means of reducing cost of production Efforts are being made to secure reduc- ton of railroad freights on coke and ore and to bring about readjustment of wages.
 The only business of consequence done lately has been in New England, where the makers of textile machinery, who are busy, have been the principal buyers. In that territory, Buffalo is selling on the basis of $145O at furnace. while the lower prices made by Alabama makers give them an advantage at points close to Bos- ton and Providence.
 Low prices continue to be made on structural material and 1.O6 cents at an eastern mill Is reported on a recent large contract During the past week there was placed II ,OO0 tons for track elevation work TOT the Chicago and Northwestern at Chi cago. and 12,000 tons for the Gimbet build ing in this city. In addition to the differ ent larger contracts referred to previous ly, as pending, we may note that there
 onda ,,.ia between 33OO0 tons and 34,O0O tons for the New York Central, and 11,OOo to 12,0oo tons for 2O6 bridges on the Florida East Coast line.
 The steel rail trade remains very quiet, and there are intimations of a coming lowering in the price. Chicago mills booked during last week a total of 19oOO tons, including 5000 tons for the Soo Line, while Pittsburg took 3OO0 tons for the Nor folk and Western railway
 The inquiry for 10000 steel cars for the Baltimore and Ohio is again in the mar ket, and it is believed that at least a part of it may be placed.
 In the bar trade, the chief item of in- terest is that the agricultural implement makers have begun negotiations for ma terial for delivery over a whole year, but apparently their expectations of low prices are far beyond anything Whlch the HILLS will be likely to meet. The same interests are also feeling the pig iron market for large tonnages for delivery over a long period
 In the wire trade, specifications are com- ing in we'll but the new orders are very light.
 It is estimated that there have .been sales during the past week of copper both to exporters and for domestic consump- l 1 of the earlier transactions were made at l 12ss cents, while the later sales were made on the basis of 125a cents net cash for 1 eectrolytic.
 There have been good sales of lead and ! the market is firmer.