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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-22
FIVE AND TWENTY sAILoRMEN.


From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Oh, it's up-along and down-along and all
along the quay.
There are FIVE and twenty sailormen just
come home on the SPREE
All afre to spend their money
In land of milk and honey,
They are tired Of stormy watches and the
tossing of the sea.
There are snug low-ceiling-d parlors in the
taverns in the street,
With their cellars full Of liquor and their
larders full of meat.
There are tables white and shining
Full of sailor-folk a-dining,
There is dancing In the gardens with the
wenches trim and neat
There are beds of down for sleep-Oh, the
quiet dreamless sleep,
With no bosn's whistles calling, with no
watch for one to keep,
And to wake to sound of singing,
And the convent bell a-ringing,
Not the tumult of the tempest and the
thunder of the deep.
Oh. it's up-along and down-along. and all
along the quay,
There are five and twenty sailormen as
glum as glum can be.
They have squandered all their money
They are tired of milk and honey,
They have done>with fun and feasting and
they weary for the sea.
They can hear the sea a-calling and the
fine lands far away,
And It's hoist the rusty anchor up and
sail at break O. day;
There's a stiff wind blowing,
There's strong tide flowing,
So it's put her head Tor Port O. Spain, ana
ont anrnss the havl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-22
Star Chamber Tariff MAKING

The conspiracy of the remarkable
firm of Cannon & Aldrich is being IN
covered-the conspiracy that put Ford
ney, a Michigan lumberman, on the
conference committee against the adj
vice of Chairman Payne. The dick
ering in conference would be discred-
liable in the vilest branch of bust
ness, and the ultimate consumer is
not even represented among the re-
publicans.
The Presidents demand for free raw
materials is deceptive. 1t would in
crease the profits of many manufac-
turers, especially in New England,
where free hides and free coal are u--
sired, but it is far from certain that
the presidential raid would help the
consumer. What the consumer needs
are lower rates on finished products,
on manufactured goods. The rates
in the Aldrich-C Cannon bill on such
goods are fully up to Dingley rates,
and In many instances they go be-
yond existing rates. The President
knew about this tariff making when
1t was going on, and he did not move
hand or foot. He finds now it is too
late to change the schedules that
cover manufactured goods-the wool
en- schedule, for example.
The result will be tariff that will
increase the cost of living-a tariff
even more burdensome on the many
than the Dingley tariff is. Free raw
materials will not lower the cost of
living. 1t will put more money In the
pockets of the favored few who will
be fattened by other schedules in the
bill. The President appeared on the
scene too late to defeat the Cannon.
Aldrich combine.
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Mr. Taft is up against II obstinate
standpat jurymen.
ELEcTRlclTYs PROGRESS.

From the Washington Post.
The announcement that Hartman will
spend $4,000 600 in electrifying the 40
miles of the Sacramento division of the
Southern Pacific means that a long step
forward will be taken in the war that Is
now being waged between steam and cleo
trical propulsion for railways. Up to the
present time Canada has led the United
States in the application of electricity to
railways. and the experimental work In
the Rocky Mountains has been declared a
success The Great Northern and the
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound
railways are utilizing electricity instead
of steam in their grades over the con-
tinental divide. In suburban traffic in
the vicinity of large cities electricity is
rapidly taking the place of steam. 1t has
remained, however, for Hartman. after
long and patient investigation, to attempt
the project of electrifying an entire di-
vision of a great railroad at an enormous
expense.
The work of changing the power upon
the Sacramento division, which extends
over the Sierra Nevada Mountains from
Reno to Sacramento, is the most ambi-
tious ever undertaken in the way of cleo
trical Quitting. 1t is necessary for the
road to increase it's carrying capacity for
freight. The continued use of steam as
propulsive power would mean that more
tunnels would have to be bored. This
would take eight years, and cost about
So, 100000. E1ectriflcation of the division,
experts estimate, will take two years, and
result in an increase of 70 per cent in
the speed of moving trains, while re-
ducing the nonproftable tonnage by 20
per cent. This means many more trains
over the division, the prevention OF con-
gestion, and bigger dividends.
When the work is completed and has
been in operation long enough for prac-
teal conclusions to be drawn by en-
gineers and railway experts, the data will
be of invaluable service in the perfec-
ton of plans for the extension of cleo
trical propulsion to the other railroads Of
the country. While many intricate traf-
fic problems are yet to be solved before
steam will be entirely displaced, yet 1t
is evident that the steam locomotive has
begun its journey toward the junk pile
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southern states. From his conclusions,
printed in July McCIure's. we detach two
sentences:
the south is in the main ac-
tuated by a just and far-reaching, If
not far-seelng, instinct. I believe that
the problem, far from being unreal, is
so real and SO dishearteningly difficult
that nothing but an almost superhuman
wisdom, energy, and courage will ever ef-
fectually deal with It,"
We wish that these convictions were
in the heart of every New Englander
who hastily calls a meeting to pass
resolutions on the negro problem, and
every northern editor who has formula,
long conventionalized, in which he writes,
periodically, a scolding for the south. In
the Outlook the other day, Lyman Abbott
spoke OF his sympathy with the intense
feelings of the southern white, his "strong
confirmation" of the enlightened views of
President Eliot and Ambassador Bryce
about the south's ultimate problem To
these names may be added that of Thom-
as wentworth TIigginson, survivor of
the generation of abolition leaders and
coHlmdnuer oI q cOloreu TeBlineHt uuAihS
the civil war. In declining an invitation
to attend conference on the status OF
the negro. he deplored all such agitation,
which makes the problem of the south
only more difficult. The day may yet
come when the north will formally ac-
knowledge that the souths stubborn re-
fusal. since the civil war, to yield an inch
of its stand in the matter of the rela-
lions of the races was an epochal con-
tribution to the white race in America,
which, under the outrageous difficulties
which the north pressed down upon the
SOUTH could not have been done different
ly. Probably 1t would be impossible to
prophesy day more unhappy for this
continent than the one on which the
southern white should abate one iota of
his raoa prida
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From the New York Globe.

From the New York Globe.
~ ELL, well. It certainly is good
WI trade, being a democrat these
]" days-if you're the right sort OF
democrat. Some democrats, of course,
get nothing but the boots In the face,
while other democrats-those that are FOL
lowing the light-can get about anything
on the bargain counter. Why If this goes
on, the democratic party will be more
of myth than William Tells russell.
All that President Taft does when ne sees
a good, eligible democrat, is to get him
tenderly by the scruff of the neck and
loosen the soil about his roots a little and
give one gentle heave-and first thing you
know there's gap In the democratic gar
den and the republican party Is nudging
up to the transplanted and urging him
to drink hearty. Not to speak of the
four-speeds forward gents who are a part
fthat ambrosial bower with which Pres
ident Taft has surrounded himself, take
Crane, the new minister to China. Take
two looks. He's worth it. Not that he's
pretty Percy, but he's starting out to be
the Colonel Bogie on the Chinese links.
And Mr. Bull and Hans, and that dear
land of France, and Old Doctor Takahira,
are hereby handed a bunch. Watch him.
He's going over to China to get business
II he has to cut rates to do 1t.
Once Gran landed in Mexico with a
couple of letters of introduction, but every
one knows what letters of introduction get
you. They confer the right to sit about
IN somebody's front office for a few hours,
and by and by the boy comes out and
says he's sorry, but the boss just died,
and could you call some day next week.
But Grant presented his letters. That
day he took lunch with one foreign min
lister and dined with another, and rode
out to the races with a third, and snapped
chatter with President Diaz, and told
funny stories to the minister of state.
And next day he had to issue cards to
the dignitaries that called on him. Next"
he says, don't push And before they
got out of the City of Mexico that Amer
lean party knew every one worth knowing
in the burg except the cashier, who was
hairpin Crane is. Nothing pushing about
him, but he gets there like a horseiy.
That's why he's going to make good in
China. He's built that way.
He's diplomat all right, but the sort
of diplomat that sits at mahogany
fiat-top desk in the inner office. Every
now and then he sticks his finger on the
buzzer. "Jinlss." he says to the man that
comes in take this gentleman out to
the works and sell him what he wants at
the right price. And get the money"
And the visitor goes away vastly i'm
pressed. THAT boss of yours is cold
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-22
Safe and Sane Politics

| Lawyer Leon McCord of Montgom
cry, former secretary of the supreme
court, has started a propaganda that
aims to prevent political turmoil In
period just beginning to get away
from depression. He evidently thinks
the betterment of the mass of the peo-
pie is preferable in the grinding of any
mans AK The people, he says, want
fewer laws, fewer taxes, and fewer al
legged reforms Above all else they want
a thorough test of the present prohibit
ton law before it is showed into the
constitution where modification of 1t
would be slow and difficult.
Mr.. McCord certainly speaks for all
men who do not seek living in pol
itics. The business man, the farmer,
the wage Garner is tired of and bored
by the changes and the fussing and
the agitations of the present state
administration. Such men want re-
lief from campaigns that always have
something personal in them, and Mr..
McCord will, no doubt, secure large
following for his sound, sensible
policy.
The people in general desire an op-
portunity to attend to business instead
of shifting, bamboozling politics. They
are trying to regain normality in all
branches of business, and they are
not at this time concerned who shall
be elected to this or that office later
on. They want rest from politics in
order that they may restore activity
and prosperity to general business.
Mr.. McCord has struck the right note.
Let him keep up his excellent cam
paign. He can secure numerous sup
porters in every one of the 67 counties
in the state, and that is more than
endless agitation can secure in any
county.
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LOYAL To HIrminqhan1.

"one of the most loyal men in Birming-
ham is a well-known dry goods mer-
chant and he displays positively the
prettiest spirit / have ever SEEM" said a
promoter yesterday.
This merchant whom l do not believe
would like to have his name called, told
me when went to him with a PROPOSE
ton the other day that my offer was not
a bad one by any means but that he did
not care to accept 1t. When ventured to
ask for reasons he replied very frankly
that whenever he had any money to In
vest one way or another he would in
vest 1t in Birmingham.
II tried to argue with him that 1t was
business to invest money where 1t would
bring goodly returns and his reply was
that anybody who had money to invest
could find many profitable places for it in
Birmingham, and he stated that he never
intended to invest one dollar outside or
the Magic City if he could help it."
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PUT A BAN ON COCAINE.

From the Philadelphia North American.
OF all the vicious, habit forming, char
acter and health wrecking drugs, cocaine
is the easiest drug of all to use. 1t 10
bought as a solid, white substance. 1t Is
then crushed, with a pencil usually, then
taken upon the thumb and shifted into
the nose, precisely like snuff. 1t is one
of the most exhilarating Of all drugs.
Later there are terrible reactions, until
the "fiend" has to use the drug constant
ly to be even decently comfortable. Fin
ally there are complications and he dies.
Statistics concerning the results of CO.
caine are lacking. But it has been in
every city as 1t has been in Philadelphia,
where it was proved IN open court that
scores of boys and girls in this city are
addicted to the cocaine habit; that pur-
veyors of the drug have even approached
the pupils of the public schools, and that
the opiate can be obtained in almost any
part of the Tenderloin.
Police officials have had good cause to
learn that one result of the use Of the
drug is to breed in the 'iend'' the desire
to make converts to it's use. And in most
cases the choice falls upon children of
tender years. The schools for thieves, the
colleges of crime Of the modern Fagins
that exists in every large city, find CO.
caine the most potent or the corrupting
influences necessary for the education of
the Juvenile pickpocket and sneak thief.
For the sake of that whole race, for the
sake of the children forced daily into con-
tact with evil in congested city districts,
for the sake OF the humanitarianism that
is causing the whole world to help lift
the curse of opium from China, let us look
at, home and force Congress to take the
first step toward casting out the devil of
cocaine
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ture of Alabama will be next week.
Thus far no action has been reported
at either Hartford or Atlanta, The
sincerity of republican support of the
amendment will be we'll tested at
Hartford. Georgia and Alabama are
expected to ratify It, although Georgia
politics Is decidedly inclined to eccen-
trieity. Another week will disclose
Connecticut's action, and then the ma
ture of the battle for an income tax
will have become known.
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Fully Re0realiZed

The reorganization of the Southern
Steel company under the title of the
Southern Iron and Steel company is
now complete and as high class Of
ficials have been selected to operate
the properties the work of rehabilitat-
ing the old plants will proceed with
all possible dispatch. The company
owns extensive mineral lands in Ala
bama, Tennessee and Georgia and with
an abundance of raw material and
backed by ample capital the new con-
Germ starts off with bright prospects
indeed.
Birmingham will continue to be the
headquarters of the company. 1t will
doubtless be the policy of the new man.
agement to concentrate its manufactur-
ing operations at Gadsden. where its
steel mill Is situated; but as Gadsden
is In the Birmingham district in the
large sense and as some Of the COM
pany's best properties are in Jefferson
county this city will derive direct BEN
eft, and a great deal of 1t, from the
resumption Of corporation under ex-
ceptionally strong financial auspices,
which at one time appeared to be al
most hopelessly bankrupt.
Several of the Southern Iron and
Steel company's plants are to be in
operation by October and all Of them
by January /. And it is safe to say
that by January the industrial activ-
ity Of the entire Birmingham district
will have a greater swing than ever
before in its history.
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CAN WARD OFF OLD AGE.

Iondon.-As the result of Investigations
at ST. Mary's hospital, London, DR.. Dis
taso of Paris says he has verified the
theory of Professor Metchnikoff that old
age can be warded off.
1t is declared that Professor Metchni-
koff declared it to be his conviction a
couple of years ago that the large intes-
tine was the breeding place of THE ma
jority of harmful germs in the human
body and that when this intestine was
removed the majority of germs remain
ing in the body were beneficial, with the
result that life was prolonged DR.. Dis
tasos Investigations were directed to
comparing tho germs found in normal
individuals and In those whose large
intestine had been removed by opera
ton.
He SO satisfied himself by his studies
of the truth of Professor Metchnikoff' s
theory that he unhesitatingly says that
every child ought to have its large in
testine and appendix removed when two
or three years old
He further affirms that almost every
chronic disease can be traced to the
action of these intestinal germs, among
others heart disease, arterial scierosis
and most kinds of headaches. Every
body would get along better without the
big intestine but those who are not in
clined to submit to its removal by oper-
alton ought, If they want to live long. to
eat very little meat, once daily being
plenty, with green vegetables and only
vegetables at other meals.
Water should be- drunk abundantly
throughout the day, but no tea. coffee or
spirits, although little diluted wine
could be allowed with meals. Eggs are
danQero,1a notann
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-22
AXLE GREASE BUTTER.

From the Washington Herald
We wonder If Mr.. Taft thinks it exactly
right for the Standard OIL company to
enter the lists as a competitor of the
humble but erstwhile victorious cow,
What Is this stuff the Standard proposes
as a substitute for butter? Petrol ia
the name the octopus gives 1t, and II
is concooted of petroleum and has dark
'brownish" appearance, so the story has
1t, and gives forth a "pungent odor
faint, and not unlike that characterizins
vaseline."
Now, the common people do not want
to eat that stuff We feel sure Of it
abundantly sure of it, indeed. And yet
experience has taught us that the com
mon people will more than likely have II
to do If the Standard so wills. Fancy
feeding the children bread spread with
thinly disguised vaseline. Ugh!
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TRICKS $3.50 UNDERWEAR.

From the New York Times.
Iondon.-A London haberdasher is now
exhibitinr in a shop window in ire
ouented thoroughfare sample OF dozen
suits of underwear which notice dis
nlaved alongside says have been specially
made for a wealthy American at total
of $3.50.
The haberdasher acknowledged this aft
ernoon that the dozen suits Of silk under
wear were made to the special order OF
Henry c. Prick of Pittsburg and New
York. and that four dozen silk-wool suits
d,splayed in another window, of the same
.bon. costing s127, were ordered by the
Colorado millionaire, William N. Wood
The haberdasher further proudly an
nounces upon placard In the front Of
hts shop that he has more than 10000
American customers.
When interviewed he said the price paid
by Mr.. Frlck was more than twice the
highest previously known. The texture
Of the garments is heavy woven silk Of
the softest most flexible, and glossiest
quality manufactured in England. The
color is a very light ecru. Tho needie-
work, binding and button holes are as
fine, as those of the wedding trousseau
Of a princess or the clothes of royal
baby. Each suit consists Of only two
pieces.
The haberdasher spoke of dozen other
orders for silk underclothes for wealthy
Americans, the prices ranging from f4o
a dozen suits upward. The weight and
percentage of pure silk determined the
value he said.
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a Satisfied Creditor.

Had the properties Of the Southern
Steel company become disintegrated and
been parceled out and disposed of at a
bankrupt sale instead Of being kept to-
gether and the company reorganized and
refinanced. the creditors would not have
got cents on the dollar" said the rep
resentatiye of a large creditor. las
it is the creditors who agreed to &C
cept securities of. the reorganized COM
pany and who are holding on to their
securities will not lose anything. Those
who have sold their claims Tor cash
have got as much as 10 cents on the
dollar. The creditor I represent is well
satisfied with his securities.
1.-THE bonds Of the company and not
a little of the stock were placed in Am
sterdam, Paris and London. and they are
held by investors of high standing. A
party of the foreign bondholders, by the
way. will visit the Birmingham district
in the coming fall to look over the South
ern Steel properties and to familiarize
themselves with conditions here in gen.
eral
"The Southern Iron and Steel preferred
sold in New York this week at IS and
common at 1884,"
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E.sl.u,s strong Position.

.rt has been rumored In Ensley Tor
the last day or two that the southerh
Iron and Steel company would at once
remoye It's rod and wire mill to eaos-
dem" said a prominent merchant OF the
Steel city. "such contingency mad
been discounted for If the company hxed
IN the old mill and operated 1t Tor
while 1t would have been regarded as
only a question of time when rod mill
would be built adjoining the steel mill
at Gadsden and the Ensley plant as
nentler and scrapped.
"of course the business men OF Enseiy
will regret to see the rod mill moved
ewav. for when it was running 1t en-
Moved about 1900 to 1900 men. II mas
been idle. however, for nearly two years.
md we have got used, therefore, TO
doing without it. Another thing that
will make us bear the loss compiacentiy
"a the fact that the Tennessee company
will expand on a very large scale IN
the Ensley division, and that 1t VIII
do far more for Ensley than was dreamed
of a few years ago. Ensley is certainly
in a vastly stronger position now from
a. manufacturing point of view than ever
before in its history"
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RAILWAY IMPROVEMENTS

From a Berlin letter to the New York
Times.
saus sssa Of s1s T 's ;. has
Scherls "Neues schnellbahnsys-
tem," a startling illustrated challenge
to the railroad engineers of the age. and
a proposition to solve the problem of
rapid transist by getting away from the
earth and all that pertains to it as far
as possible. scherl criticises Germans
and German railroads in particular, as
well as he may, for far too little progress
has been made in railroading in Germany
during the past ten years, especially con-
sidering the strides the Germans have
made in other directions; but, after all,
what the enterprising publisher proposes
Is nothing less than a revolution OF rail-
reading generally, and the whole question
resolves itself to this: lis science equal
to the demand7 Can the twentieth CEN
tury engineer build such road as Scherl
outlines?'
To get unimpeded courses, and to re-
annoyance, from the jewellers of cities,
Scherl calls for roadbed OF solid cement
between towns and for a steel track SO
highly elevated that 1t will be far above
the houses and 30 we'll foundationed that,
with pillars of heavy concrete, passing
through houses, scarcely the least tremor
will be felt from the passing trains.
Judging by the accomplishments of en-
gineers in various departments of modern
life such an elevated track can, of course,
be constructed, provided the capital Is
Forthcoming, though one may doubt the
eradication Of all noise; but it may be
another matter with the train, the RAIL-
the method of propulsion and balance,
which form the chief features of depar-
ture in Scherps system.
Scherl's train is to run on a single rail
laid. not over the coaches or as a part
of a cumbrous and expensive foundation
equipped with side rails, but open, sim
pie and in place of the usual two rails.