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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1909-12-13
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1909-12-13

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
Conditions at Ensley.

"The all-absorbing topic in Ensley the past few days has been the possibility of the steel mill and blast furnaces shutting down." said pioneer citizen of Ensley.
 AS one of the employees of the mill ex- pressed 1t, there is more talk about the mill shutting down on the street than there Is at the plants. While many ru- mors have been ahoat, I have yet to see the man who suggests shutting down who really knows what he is talking about. Indications may point to a shutdown, but l fail to see what good it does to antici- pate condition that we can't help or remedy. If the blast furnaces close down it will be the first time in the history of the plant, which has been in continuous operation over twenty years, that the blast furnaces have been idle. Even dur ing the panic of 1893. when almost every stack in the district was idle, the fur naces at Ensley went right along and though payments were suspended for three months, there was not let-up on the output. As to the present condition there is nothing to do but to wait for an of- ficial announcement or the operation of the plant to cease. In the meantime tho mill continues to run and may run on indefinitely"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
JOHN BIGELOW.

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
 John Bigelow. who at 92 years of age has started on trip to Europe. is indeed "A living link with the past" since he was familiar personality in politics and letters to the public of six years ago. In 1s49 he became one of the proprietors of the New York Evening Post. and though then but 82. was already a man of mark. -ri-- se-T,cA--irs sls rendered when as a diplomatist in France he folled the scheme of Napoleon III to provide the Confederates with French Alabamas. When we reflect that MT. Bigelow was born in the presidency of James Monroe and feels well enough in the presidency of William H. Taft, who was born 27 years after Monroe's death, to make the voyage to Europe, we realize what events his vigorous constitution has enabled him to span. Nonogenanans are in themselves novelties in ocean travel They must be, for the supply of such veterans of the war against time Is exceedingly limited. The census of 1900 enumerated but s627 persons s2 years old. out of total population of 75, ,994, ,575.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
THE TURKISH MARRIAGE,

From Everybody's Magazine.
 In Turkey marriage is a strictly civil act, the validity of which consists fin it's being attested by at least two witnesses and although an imam, or priest, is usu- aHy present at the signing of the con- tract, 1t is in his legal rather than in his religious capacity. The civil ceremony is simplicity itself. The bridegroom and his witnesses repair to the home of the bride, in the selamlik of which her male relatives discuss with them the payment of the nekiah. This question settled, and the contract drawn up, the bridegroom thrice repeats his desire to marry the daughter of the house, upon which the imam proceeds to the door communicating with the haremlik. behind which the bride and her female relatives are assembled After announcing the amount of the nekiah agreed upon, the imam asks the maiden if she accepts the suitor for her husband The question and the affirma- tive answer having been thrice repeated, the imam returns to the selamlik, where he attests the consent of the bride. and the couple are considered to be legally married.
 The bride and groom do not meet, how ever. until the conclusion of the dughun ziafeti. or week of wedding festivities, which may not be held for some months afterward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Importance of Military.

The inspection of the Jefferson coun- ty military by Adjutant General Graves and Major Thurston which will be held next week, will be interesting to all who have ever been associated with or con- neeted with the National Guard" said Capt. Bob Mabry.
 These inspections are made in order that the military companies may receive the proper attention and to maintain the efficiency of the members of the guard The members of the military are abused in joking way considerably, and few people really appreciate the importance of the organizations.
 Tn cases of riot the militia is nearly all ways fallen back upon and in several in stances in Birmingham and the district it has rendered valuable service.
 "The inspections are quite important events. The military companies should be in good shape for riot or strike duty at all times, and the inspections are really the only way the efficiency of the troops can be ascertained and shortcomings cor rected.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
Hunting for Sources of ReYenne

The deficit of the fiscal year in the United States treasury stood on Thurs day last at $S9 .534,OOO, and over three months of the fiscal year remain fin which the deficit will be increased. At present it is increasing at the rate of about $500,000 a day, and no doubt 1t will go to s120,000,O0O by July 1, when the fiscal year will be ended. \
 The proposed tax on inheritances is falling into disfavor, and so is the pro. posed tax on corporation dividends. All fair-minded men see that we should either have an outand-out revenue tariff or else an income tax. The ag- gregate of special interests will not permit the former, and an income tax is fast becoming inevitable unless in- deed the country is ready to sell se- curites to meet deficits.
 But 1t is said an income tax is un- constitutional. Tn 1880 the supreme court held in accordance with previous decisions covering nearly 100 years that an income tax is constitutional In 1894 in the Porter case five-by- four decision was rendered to the con trary.
 The constitution provides that all direct taxes levied under federal au- thority shall be apportioned among the several states according to population. Such an apportionment of an income tax would overload the weaker states and is practically impossible. In 1894 the five-by-four decision decided:
 1. That . tax ou incomes from lands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28

is tax on the lands themselves, hence is direct tax.
 2. i tax on income derived from h. vested personal property is a tax on the personal property itself. It Is therefore a direct tax.
 This hunting down of the sources of an income in order to hold an income tax unconstitutional is not itself very direct. It is an indirectness that indi- cated a fixed purpose on the part of the five, but the five are not all on the supreme bench at present, and levy of tax under the law of 1893 would bring the issue up again before the supreme court and the five-by-four de- cision might be reversed. A reversal of the decision of 1894 would be speed fly followed by the enactment of an income tax, for public sentiment is rapidly crystallizing in favor of tax that can be readily borne and that on the score of benefits conferred by government itself would be just in the highest degree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
PROFESSIONAL WEsTERNERs.

From the New York Globe.
 Jack Abernathy, who served in the Rough Riders and then expended his su- perfuous energy by catching wolves with his hands, was rudely separated last week from the Oklahoma federal marshalshIp. Yesterday Cayenne Curry, another of the La Guasmas brotheyhood, whipped an editor and then, realizing that the new man at Washington might not ap- prove of such carvings on, telegraphed his resignation.
 With these two ornaments of the public service gone the other members of the distinguished regiment draw their govern ment salaries with a feeling of sadness a sombrero, leggings, and ability to shoot up a town is no longer the best credential for public job.
 And the most amazing thing is that Oklahoma and New Mexico are lighting bonfires in honor of the departures. The east has assumed that the west was de- lighted with having semi-desperadoes as public functionaries. Instead the west has been merely enduring them because 1t did not want to contradict eastern no- tions concerning western preferences and character. But the truth is at last com ing out. If there is one thing the western man does not like, it is the professional westerner Enough of the breed will per haps continue to be developed in urban quarters to keep the wild west shows so- ing, but the plains ask them to stay where they belong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
New AlmShOuSe Near Atlanta

Flafs7n county, in which Atlanta is located, is building about a plaza brick houses for the use of the poor of the county. One building is to be a hos pital, another will be occupied by whites, another by blacks, and still another by tubercular paupers-all to be of brick, with an eye to ventilation and hygienic plumbing The entire set of buildings will cost $75,O00, and 1t will be attractive on the outside and sanitary on the inside.
 This is task that will come to Jef- ferson county within a short time. The buildings on the Woodlawn grounds are inferior in every respect, and the time will soon come when they will have to be replaced.
 It is to Atlanta's credit that it's county is building good quarters for its dependent poor. Few counties in- deed in the south have better or hand somer almshouses than the county of Fulton. Georgia. is engaged today in building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
RABBI AND HIS FLOCK.

New York Correspondent of the Cincin-
 natl Times-Star.
 Thirty little children sat on cheap wooden benches in the second story room at Il Suffolk street the other day. Every one of them was ragged. Most looked as though they had not had enough to eat But they were bright-eyed and alert and not for a moment did their atten- tion stray from the white-bearded old rabbi who was teaching them Jewish prayers, although the smeary little pie lures on the walls and the myriad noises of the roaring East Side street must have been a constant temptation. And then the door opened and City Marshal Lazarus stepped in, dispossess warrant in hand The struggling little congrega- tion of the synagogue hadn't been able to pay the rent. Their few pennies were needed to keep their own rooftrees and give their little ones meagre fare. The old teacher stood silent, with bowed head as the poor furnishings were ripped from i .-le p4-.ce ana stacned in the sI.s -s.sS- low. Tears trickled down his beard The ] children carried the tidings through the | squalid neighborhood and in a moment the street was choked with shrieking, gestieulating, weeping men and women.
 They begged the marshaEs men for
 mercy; As each. bit Of the poor furnish ings appeared they redoubled their out cries. The rabbi, no longer erect and venerable but a poor. old. grief-stricken man, his eyes red with tears, his hands shaking, moved among them, trying to depress their emotion. Marshal Lazarus was moved by the agony of this per haps the most poverty-stricken congre- | gation in all New York. He went to the old rabbi and handed him little money.
 That's to keep you going for a few days" he said kindly.
 The old man accepted 1t. But it Is for my people, he said proudly. Myself, l can starve. But who will watch my ! little children here?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
INITIATIVE WOMEN.

From the New York Tribune
 Women" said well-known auctioneer whose clients are mostly feminine and very fashionable, "are great for playing the game of follow my leader. They don't know they are playing it, but they do. One woman of society can fill a whole colony of homes with some partic- ular kind of pottery or embroidery or what not, just by buying a piece of 1t; providing, of course, that she is one of the leaders in the colony Whenever a woman l know to be an arbter in her set comes to a sale and bids in a piece of Egyptian pottery, say always lay in a stock of Egyptian pottery for the next sale, and I'm never left with it on my hands. Last month woman who reigns supreme in the Westchester colony bought a small piece of Syrian embroidery from me. I couldn't get any more small pieces just then, but had one large piece, as 1t happened, and I immediately cut that up It paid. That woman's neighbors fell over one another to bid for those bits and fragments at the next sale; ran the prices way up.
 Its queer" the auctioneer added mus ingly, how little originality there is in this world. Dealing with women, I mo- tice how they copy, but l suppose that men do it just as much. too."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT CONDITIONS
 POL LITTCALLY AND FINANCIALLY EXISTING

for a while as rumor says, if there be no orders for rails It will be only for a bit of a time. In the meantime all the smaller plants will be going and busi- ness will be doing here. There will be opportunity for building; and every man who wants work can get it.
 New buildings are going Up here-lots of them. The far-seeing ones are prepar- ing for the future and they are building to that wise.
 look for little temporary slump here, as we'll as in all other sections of this country. but 1t will be merely temporary. Then we are to have the most prosperous era this country has ever had; and the first evidences of it will be in the Bir- mingham district and Alabama.
 There will be hum here which will reverberate throughout the south and then throughout the entire country-Birming- ham leading in it.
 Just as I am writing this the story comes in that full financial arrangements have practically been made for the new
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
"The City Beautiful"

The block improvement societies that have been organized should stand shoulder to shoulder with the city gov ernment at this season of the year, for right now is the time in which to make city lot attractive. The suggestions that Mayor Ward presents to the block improvement societies should be taken to heart and conned over and carried speedily into things concrete and beau tiful Here they are, and The Age Herald reprints them in order that they may be reread again and again, for every one of them calls for 'The City Beautiful" When every one of them is obsedved in every block of lnls O..y no viCy ,l1ls SOuntiy II De more attractive, not one. Here are the suggestions:
 Pull down your fence. The city will haul it away and keep off the cows. If J you can't be induced to part with 1t, fix It up and paint 1t.
 'Whitewash everything you can't paint
 Plant lawns, flowers and trees. Wherever the ground shows bare, plant something green in it.
 Exercise the same supervision over your sidewalks as over oyur front yard, Sidewalks are the index of the kind of people inside.
 | wh f0o In and which overhang sidewalks. Plant a strip of green in bare places along sidewalks. The city will furnish street sweepings, it's haul is not too long but weeds always while young are ten der It will save you money and please everybody.
 Don't let your dog bark all night. Think of your neighbors.
 Sweet peas, climbing nasturtiums, cas- tor beans, hollyhocks or even sunfowers make an effective screen to hide old 1 fences, sheds or other unsightly views. 1 For permanent screens use hardy shrubs or the quickly growing vines.
 You may have a winow box filled with geraniums if you cannot have grand yard filled with choice roses The window box can be made at small cost. The flowers will not cost you 25 cents.''
 The. underlying idea Is to make a sweeter, healthier and in other respects better place to live into add to na- tures charms all that man or woman can devise, especially woman, for, after all, if we are to have "The City Beau tiful," the women must become the chief factors in the movement for 1t is the women who make the homes of the city, and the manner in which they do it will make or mar Mayor Wards plans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
In mouths of wisest censure.
He Hung Up the Receiver

Over in Atlanta a man in one sky seraper called up a man in another skyseraper, and before the former had a chance to state his business the lat ter had hung up his receiver. The blank silence that the former felt made him so angry, he seized a paper opener and started out to seek the man who had in this up-to-date manner insulted him. He found him dressed in a cross between a business suit and hunting suit and a race ensued at once, the man armed with paper opener striv- ing to get within striking distance of the man who had insulted him. The race through the corridors was long and exciting, but innocent bystanders interfered at the psychological mo- ment, and the shedding of gore was prevented. The scene then shifts to the police court, where peace perforce reigns.
 The moral of the story is plain don't hang up your receiver abruptly. Daily with it and hang it up with some oily excuse and apology. In this way you will avoid a race in the corridor with a man in hot pursuit armed with a paper opener. The chaser in Atlanta was fined s15.75, but even that sum donated to the public did not operate as balm to the wounded feelings of the chasee. Be polite, then, when you have the receiver in hand if you would ,,-- AeosJ .Acoih plo.c' OOs
 tune through the corridors of a sky
 scraper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
sKATEs5 5000 YEARsoIa.
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F rom the London Globe.
 The English chronicer has recorded that the youth of London in the twelfth century understood the art of flying over the Ice like birds In the air, but the origin of skating is far more ancient An Ice landic saga relates how the Norwegian hero Frithjof not only. traced verses upon the polished mirror, but also he cut the dear name of Ingebord.
 skats have been discovered near Span dau, in Germany, which those competent to express an opinion attribute to a De- riod of 5000 years ago. These skates were made from bones of horses, figured and perforated to attach to the sandal Similar skates have been found at Moor fields, in Finsbury, and like discoveries have been made in Berlin in the bed of the Spree
 These and similar discoveries we learn enable the authorities to conclude that the European ice area in prehistoric times extended from Great Britain to Finland, and from Norway to Hungary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28

hotel on Fifth avenue. This Is one thing that Birmingham has badly needed, and I am told that it is to be not only the hest constructed and the largest hotel in the south, but that 1t will be conducted on higher and better plane than any other hotel in the south.
 This hotel has been talked of for a long time, and I am told reliably that the actual bond mortgage has been placed and that work will commence almost im- mediately.
 In this connection, it might be stated that The Age-Herald will make an an- nouncement within few days of the plans and drawings of the new building which 1t is to construct on Fifth avenue within one block of the new hotel. The plans for this building are practically completed, and 1t is to be not only a handsome building, but the very best flre-proof building for the practical oper- ation of a newspaper in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
Openinu of East Lake.

Preparations are already under way for the opening of East Lake for the sum- mer season." said an enthusiastic citizen ' 4 D. Campbell is to be the nr .has ei' ana elT promises to popula-'ze -ne piaee' for he Is noious .aa. .Jped for the po- slton. It is understood that there are to be extensive Improvements, and that a nice cafe in the Superba building will ca- ter to the best. trade.
 'Already the fishing at East Lake haa begun Some very nice strings of Dream and goggle-eye perch have been taken with earth worms. The lake was cleared out on the upper end during the win ter, and will add much to the pleasure of fishing and boating this summer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
Automobile unIiuhted.

q am not disposed to be kicker but the authorities should keep a closer eye on reckless chauffeurs and those owners of automobiles who disregard the law" said prominent citizen.
 T was driving with my family along Twenty-second street, near Mir. Maben S residence, when large auto car without a single light in 1t met and passed us at high speed. We narrowly escaped col lision. Had the machine been lighted, I could have got out of the way; but as 1t was I marveled that the automobile did not crash into my conveyance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
UNION JACK AT SOUTH POLE?

From the New York World.
 Assuming that Lieutenant Shackleton has just failed of reaching the South Pole, he has nevertheless given England the honors of the race for the Poles" If he came within 100 miles of t.3 goal he has penetrated further south than Peary's 'furthest north" S7 degrees minutes.
 The search for the South Pole is the minor of the polar sporting events It has appealed less to American interest than to that of the English. Germans, Belgians and French. One of the most recent expeditions is that under pr. Charcot, who sailed from Havre last Au- gust But as against great galaxy of names famous in north polar. ex- ploration, Franklin Nordenskjold. Greedy. De Long, Nansen, Peary and the Duke of Abruzzi, from the time of the American Wilkes and the Englshman Ross in the forties, little was accomplished in the way of Antarctic exploration until Scott in 1903 penetrated to latitude S2 degrees IF minutes south. The fact of interest in the present discovery is that the energetic resumption of south polar exploration in AOCOit yodfS iidar bo bpceOlIy Deen re- warded with success.
 Lieutenant Shackleton has had the ad- vantage of an unusually well-equipped ex- petition, the stanch little Newfoundland sealing steamer which carries the party of S2 containing food supplies for two years, Siberian ponies, dogs, a motor sledge and felt and cork lined shelters for use on the ice. The original plan was that party of three should make the actual attempt at the Pole. To what extent the motor car was servioeable, how the Siberian ponies stood the cold whether ice plains or an open sea were encountered, are questions of general in- terest
 It is not inferred that the discovery will be rich in scientific results, but that the expedition has achieved great geographical prestige in carrying the Brit ish flag furtherest south is obvious.