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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

entire question of party discipline will be discussed.
 Congressman Hefin is right when he says the voice of the party must be respected and obeyed. If says MT. Hefiin, the speaker proposes to vio- late the just and righteous custom of allowing the minority leader to name the democrats on the standing con- mittees in the House, let this demo- cratic caucus clearly and emphatically say to the democratic members ap- pointed by the republican speaker in defiance of the expressed wishes of the chosen democratic leader that they cannot accept the appointments with out being guilty of aiding the repub- lican speaker in destroying very large ly the power of the minority in the house and discrediting the minority leader and of bringing the organiza- tion Into disrepute.' This is the cor rect position, and no doubt the caucus on Monday night will send the 23 Fitz- geraldites to serve either with their Cannon allies or else in an outlaw leaglle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
l. William Jones.

"The Rev. pr. J. William Jones of Rich mond. who died this week. was one of the best known and most highly esteemed men in the south," said a Virginian. As chaplain general of the United Confed- crate Veterans he was known personally to thousands of the brave men who wore the gray, and at the reunion last sum rner he was one of the conspicuous fig ures here.
 ''He was a splendid type of the high minded warm-hesrted, patriotic and in- trepid ex-confederates, who in accepting defeat bore no malice toward the vic- torious north, yet worked unceasingly with tongue and pen to defend the south and the souths great leaders against the aspersions and bitter attacks of enemies.
 "Dr Jones was a consecrated minister of the Baptist church, had preached fre- quently in Birmingham and had many devoted friends here who are now la menting his death''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
Regarding Music Festivals.

By far the most attractive music fes- tival to be held in the south this spring, excepting perhaps the Spartanburg, s. C., festival which is an established institu- ton, will be the Damrosch event, at the Hippodrome, in Birmingham, April 2S, 29, and 3O," said man of festival experience.
 While Atlanta will have festival in May, 1t will miss the New York sym phony orchestra, of which Damrosch is the director, and no orchestra that will be heard in the south is equal to the one referred to.
 "Caruso, the noted tenor, has been en- gagged to sing in two of the festival con- certs in Atlanta, for which his manager is to receive $1OO00, but from newspaper accounts the artists physician has or dered him to take rest and it will not be surprising if the Atlanta dates have to be cancelled
 q admire Atlanta pluck in raising a guarantee fund sufficient to induce Caru- sos manager to book the tenor for the festival, but after all it is extremely prob lematical as to whether such expensive ventures can be made to pay. An effort was made to bring Caruso to Brming- ham, but his Atlanta contract provides that he shall not sing in any other city south of the Ohio river and so that project came to naught, and from box office point of view it was well it did. Fancy prices w3Ald have been charged for seats, and while many Birmingham peo- pie go to New York and pay s5 to hear grand opera with stars in the cast, 1t is very different proposition when the same prices are asked for a concert. l for one would not pay over $1 to hear Caruso in concert numbers, but would not begrudge s5 to hear him in opera. Mime. Schu- mann-Heink Is one of the few artists who Is equally attractive in opera or recital.
 "Damrosch will bring to Birmingham a fine solo quartet, including Reed Miller, and there will be several chorus numbers, as well as vocal solos and rich orchestral numbers. There will be nothing on any of the programmes long drawn out, dry or heavy. On the contrary, all the music will be bright and beautiful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
Another Big Iron and Steel Concern

The newspapers are full of rumors concerning combination of the inde- pendent iron and steel interests, the new company to be capitalized at $S00,- OOO. .OO0. This would make it a rival indeed of the Billion-Dollar Steel cor poration.
 A Pittsburg correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer says that among the concerns in the new deal are the Jones & Laughlin Iron and Steel com pany, the Bethlehem Steel company the Midland Steel company, the Mary land Steel company, the Pittsburg Steel company, the Pennsylvania Steel company, the Cambria Steel company, the Republic Steel company, the Inland Steel company, and the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company. W. P. Shy der of Pittsbnrg was slated to be the uedu Ol LL6 u6W DuJ tnC latest reports are to the effect that the Snyder interests will not be in- cluded in the proposed deal.
 No doubt the new movement got it's impetus from the announcement by Chairman Gary of the Steel corpora tion of an open market for iron and steel products, but it is one of those things that would be sure soon or late to take form and fighting shape. While nothing may come from present con- ferences yet in the long run the inde- pendents will be pretty sure to get together because in that way they can more efficiently protect themselves.
 This district would be represented in both of the big combinations, and it does not stand to lose in the pro- posed shuff1e. The entire proposition is on a gigantic scale, and it's outcome will be watched with interest in this district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
DUKE OF ARGYLE'S TEA TREE.

From the Scotsman.
 A correspondent tells of coming across, during a country stroll a climbing shrub with green foliage and a few thorns. On taking It home and examining 1t he found that 1t was the plant commonly known as the Duke of Argylls tea tree. belong ing to the same natural order (solanaceae) as the potato and tomato. Loudon tells us that it got it's aristocratic name from the fact that a tea plant. thea viridis, was sent to the Duke of Argyle at the same time as this plant and the labels became accidentally transposed. The allen seems to have quickly established itself fin the southern counties of England and was recorded by British botanists under the name of lyctum barbarum, the Bar bary box thorn. It is described in the text books a naturalized British plant on the southern coasts of England, but it seems to have established itself we'll on the Scottish coasts, too. Like a good many other aliens, 1t has fiourished for a long time under a false name in this country, for 1t was only lately discovered that it's real name is lyctum chinese, and that 1t is native of China and not of Barbary, as was thought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
N. N. Rlohey In City.

M. M. Rchey, formerly vice president of the sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron com pany. and general superintendent of the Southern. with Birmingham headquarters spent yesterday in Birmingham
 MT. Rlehey, now superintendent of the IrIn Mountain with headquarters In Little Rock. did not state the object of his visit. T am here chiefly" he stated, ito meet old friends, and see the dis trict''
 MT Richey is one of the best known railroad officials in the south, and was very popular when located in Birming- ham.
 Business is gradually improving stat ed he although we have had no boom following the election and accession to the throne of Mr Taft. But there is no reason to look blue, for the indications are healthy for an early return of pros perity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
THE LITTLE SORROWS.

By Edward Wilbur Mason in the Ave Maria. It was the Little Sorrows came With tears unto my heart They waited at the doorway there, And coaxed with gentle art. But I looked from the easement high, And bade them all depart. "Ye wraiths of night" I cried, 'dis-
 perse
 Flee back to marsh and fen! Ye have no power for veal or woe, All futile have ye been. I bid ye vanish ia the mist
 And come not back again." "Oh, let us in" they softly sighed, '"To cling about your knees! Blest gifts have we of wisdom sweet And tender mysteries, And Jewels like the seven stars
 That deck the Pleiades." It was the Little Sorrows fled
 Sore frightened all away; And shadow on the sunlight came, A cloud fell on the day, And in my empty house sat
 More sad then words can say
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
MARKING THE TRAIL,

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
 The Earl of Warwick at banquet in Washington was quizzed about the hunt ing yarns he had swapped with the Presi- dent whilst dining at the White House.
 "Oh, yes." Lord Warwick said playfully. "they were tall yarns-tall on my side, ] mean. I outdid the wandering hen.
 "A hen, you know. set out to see the world and met a crow in distant wood.
 But said the crow, are you not afraid, without wings, of losing your way in all this tangle?'
 "'Afraid? Not l. scoffed the hen. 'Ev- cry little while I lay an egg to guide myself back by.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
JAMES S. SHERMAN,

From the Washington Post
 In all it's roll, no member ever made more graceful exit from the House of Representatives than did James S. sher- man last Wednesday night. Truly. it is Sunny Jim" and in goodness of heart and in clearness of understa nding he is a vivid reminder of that statesman of France who in the annals and the TO- nance of that sunny cline, is made to sing:
 For l am Philippe le Debonnaire.
 Philippe le Debonnaire.
 Mir Sherman first entered Congress in 1887, with John Dalzell and Bourke Cock ran f1edgings in the national legislature in his class. He might have been a showy member on the floor; he elected to be a useful member in committee. What place in our government would have been out of the reach of the late William s. Holman, "the original Great Objector,' had he been endowed with the captivating voice. fluent speech, and bland manners of MT. Sherman? For your Uncle Hol man, notwithstanding his piping voice and awkward delivery, was as fond as fond could be of forensic debate, and was never so happy as when participating in 1t in the forefront of the tenth legion of honesty, economy, frugality, and re- form
 The Vice President marshaled the giants whom he found in Congress when he first became member He was more liberal to those opposed to him politically than he was to his party friends, and that is characteristic of the man
 Philippe le Debonnaire.
 No man-not even John c. Breckenridge. whose cousin and son he so gracefully eomplimented Wednesday-eve took on himself the robes of office which James S. Sherman assumed Thursday with more good wishes or more hearty gratulations than came to our Vice President from men of both parties who know him best.
 In this he is like McKinley-he would, if he could, banish unhappiness and anxiety from every heart, everywhere. And that 1t is that makes good man, Sunny Jim" and animosity are strangers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
from the New York Press

From the New York Press.
 There is such a thing in the world as pure unselfishness, but nobody can find it.
 A most exasperating thing about be- ing great man must be how everybody disputes that you are.
 You can tell a man in public life>who isn't statesman by the way he thinks he has to dress like one.
 The surer a woman could be of man the more she could act as if she wasn't, so as to make him prove it.
 What a man likes about going to sup per after the theatre is how he can get home before midnight and mako people believe it SwasE't till after daylight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
SHOCKED THE LADIES.

From the Delineator.
 The Ladies' Aid society, which met with Darcy's mother, had assembled on the porch. A big turkey suddenly ap- peared near by, strutting and rumplng his feathers, when the hostess was as- founded to hear Darcy, who was at play in the yard, call out: For shame, Chucky, put down your clothes!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

per serles' dates, name of bank, which all are supposed to remember ahont lost bills, then we turned 1t over to him. which shows how safe 1t is to lose money on the streets of Dothan. He promised to give Julian a marriage license the nrst time he found himself in need of such an instrument and we haven't told him what we'd exact for the part we played.
 We suggested that he leave wad of HO bills at our office, as aAkind of sub station, then he wouldn't be so liable to be dropping his green goods all over the streets.-Dothan Eagle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

;, Bessemer Workman: The Age-Herald is trying to awaken General Prosperity in a cartoon. Good; give him dig, he needs it.
 Columbus Enquirer-Sun: The Birming- ham Age-Herald has discovered that the presidency is being used as a stepping stone to journalism.
 Savannah Press: The dinner table is proposes to tax the breakfast table also, says The Age-Herald.
 Columbus Ledger: Thomas C. Platt says he is glad to be out of politics, and the Birmingham Age-Herad says that poll itics fully reciprocates.
 Beaumont Enterprise: The Birmingham Age-Herald gives double-column cap- ton to Hope on Novel Writing" There is room for hope that some real novels will again be written. Columbus Enquirer: "Messina is to bs rebuilt on earthquake lines" according to The Birmingham Age-Herald. It would seem to be more sensible to rebuild Mes sina off the earthquake lines.
 Columbus Ledger: The Birmingham Age-Herald is urging the importance of establishing more dairies in Alabama. There is no denying the fact that more of these industries are needed in both Geor- gia and Alabama.
 Atlanta Georgian: "As newspaper man. MT. Roosevelt will not begin by working a broom over the floor" says The Birmingham Age-Herald, to which remark the Meridian Dispatch replies: But we wager he plays the devil"
 Talladega Mountain Home: Tennessee's unwritten law is being tried before an unlettered jury-Birmingham Age-Herald.
 Either one is bad enough. but the two working together 1t is only a matter of speculation how far justice can miscarry.
 Hattiesburg News: Forty thousand dol lars will be used for enlargng the &C., commodations of the White House, and The Birmingham Age-Herad suggests that this is a warning to the voters to elect hereafter men of smaller dimen- sions.
 Oregon Journal: Oregon and Hartman are about to dissolve partnership. The senior partner feels that due share Of profits is not coming to her.-Birmingham Age-Herald.
 Oh, 1t isn't exactly partnership; ore gon has been the hired man, working TOT Hartman on his own terms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
The Iron Market.

In discussing the pig iron situation, Matthew Addy & Co.'S Cincinnati circu- lar says in part:
 'In spite of the fact that there is a halt in the buying of pig iron, there is no question but that in large and general way the foundations are being laid for better things All that is want ed as far as pig iron Is concerned is that consumers should be convinced of the stability of business conditions. There are some very well posted men in the trade that think all has happened now that can happen and that pig iron is really at the bottom. This in spite of the fact that consumers have not walked up to the realization of the fact and commenced to buy. One thing is sure unless there are very radical reductions in labor pig iron cannot be made at a lower cost than 1t is being made to- day."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

The Equitable building in New York was considered towering structure when it was built, but now 1t is to come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

Joseph G. Cannon thought at one time ring-tailed boojum was hunting him down, but he is recovering his poise and is hitting the junior boojums at every turn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
WILLIE MADE A DISCOVERY

From the Delineator.
 Willie, aged 6, came to me- ms iace SD wreathed in smiles that ms pug nose seemed to be turned back among his freckles. '"what do you think?" he said, "Papa was drandma's little boy" My incredulity added fuel to his already in tense amusement. Between his chuckles he assured me, 'Yes he was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
TEN DOLLARS IN LOTHIAN.

FEN DOLLARS IN LOTHIAN.
 Julian Dell picked up a BIO bill on the streets yesterday. He didn't spend it, but brought 1t to the Eagle office to find an owner. We agreed to help him, and wrote a dainty little ad full of possibilities and 1t wasn't 30 minutes before Judge Leslie came in to advertise for a lost S0 bill. We put him through a series of questions and found he knew the num-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

Hetty Greens daughters marriage cannot be pronounced success, for she has lost 20 pounds since her we'd ding day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

London is shocked by the opening Gin it's midst of an American depart ment store, and the old established places are fighting it with vaudeville entertainments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

The special interests know their stronghold is the Senate, where Boss Aldrich rules without a real rival.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
About Persons.

MT. Henry Mosler, the distinguished painter, arrived in Birmingham last night and will be the guest of Mir. and Mrs. Otto Marx for a few weeks. He is the father of Mrs. Marx.
 President J. c. Maben of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company Is ex- pected to return from New York early next week.
 J. s. Grasty, adjunct professor of geol- ogy at the University of Virginia, Is at the Hotel TIilman. He is a son of the late T. P. Grasty and is one of the best equipped men in the geological field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

It is plain that presidential messages are to be cut much shorter hereafter. Fashions do change.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

Notwithstanding the cut in his salary Secretary Knox continues to rise at 5:30 o'clock every morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

The groundhog comes out of his hole hugging bottle of book beer. This is not the case, however, in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
NOT A HAIR CUT.

NOT A HAIR CUT. What's the matter with the wild man today? He is late" T understand his wife gave him a trimming.e
 Good heavensi Then we are ruinedt,, "Oh, it isn't as bad as that She merely trimmed him with a poker"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
A TIRESOME TYPE.

There are various kinds of optim- ists"
 "Yes?"
 For instance, there is the optimist who brags so much about his optimism that he makes everybody else pessimis- ffc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

Citizen Roosevelt's quarters on the ship going to Italy are labeled "The Emperors Suite'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

. A 20-year-old millionaire in Paris committed suicide because he was bored to death"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

Ensley Sun: Birmingham baseball fans have begun roofing already It Is a month before the first game, yet they have be- gun the winning of games in that rapid and progressive city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

Chicago also wants "the reeall.' It thinks it could set a retreating army in motion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

"The recall" in Los Angeles not only unseated the mayor, but drove him into exile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

President Taft's optimism will be severely tested before the extra ses- sion is ended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

President Diaz may decide to live 100 years and to serve as President to the end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

The Cubans must fight something, so they fight bulls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

Next week Old Sol will put in a 12 hour day. He has been loafng on his job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

It is now Taft the Silent in place of Teddy the Tumultuous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

Washington Herald: "The President will shoot no tigers in Africa-there are none," says writer. Plenty of them can be found in Birmingham, we un- derstand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

Weston, aged II, proposes to show that he can still walk 43 miles a day and Keep it up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

What the lions of Africa need is defensive trust and they need it quick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
THE SLEEP CrRE.

Lay your head upon lne pillow, Close your eyes and say goodbye To the worries of the daytime,
 With a gentle little sigh. And go drifting, drifting, drifting
 To the golden land of dreams, Soft as any summer zephyr,
 Breathing o'er Lethean streams. Then the world will be forgotten,
 With it's heartache and it's pain, And the turmoil and the hustle
 And the frenzied strife for gain. There's a truce to toll and struggle,
 There is rest for those who weep In the soothing realm of slumber,
 In the silent halls of sleep. And the beggar dreams more blithely Than the lord of vast estates. And the brow of sorrow lightens,
 And the weight of care abates. When there's much to make you weary, Much you can not understand, Go where trouble never troubles
 Take trip to Slumberland!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

chances for future good roads, and bond issues which are necessary to complete any big system
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

Savannah Press In Birmingham they allude to the Dingley bill as sacred. It ought to be sacred to the memory of the party that is dead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
A HARD RI.OW

'When l look into your eyes, Miss Pert. When I look into your eyes er-hum-"
 Well, MT Whiffer?'
 When I look into your eyes my brain seems to be on fire"
 "I shouldn't think it would be much trouble to put out small blaze like that, MT. Whiffer."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

Montgomery Times A Birmingham policeman has had a reporter arrested for impeaching his bravery. If the quality is of the genuine variety 1t should be safe from the reportorial test.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

A recall plan will please the fickle citizen at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
elpful Sims


 "1 see that signs have been placed on the poles of the street railway company at several of the prominent business cor ners telling which cars pass that corner" said visitor yesterday. That impressed me as a very helpful sign for the public not only for the visitor but the people who live in Birmingham. l know that these signs will obvate the necessity of asking where I can catch a certain car, or if a certain car passes the corner happen to be on.
 "They told me that these signs had been placed on 12 of the prominent street and avenue intersections in the business dis trict, and that there is a sign on pole on each of the four corners of the in- terseetion, making a total of lS signs.
 T understand that they are on the cor ner of First avenue and Nineteenth street, First avenue and Twentieth street, First avenue and Nineteenth street, Second ave- nue and Nineteenth street, Second and Twentieth street, Second and Twenty-first street, Third avenue and Nineteenth street, Third and Twentieth street, Third and Twenty-frst street, Fourth avenue ana Nlueteenln street, fourln anu "eh- tieth street, Fourth and Twenty-first street. All of the cars pass one or more of these corners, so that person need not go far to look for information about the car he wants.
 Signs like these will prevent the asking of hundreds of questions, as we'll as re- lieve the mind of the stranger of much worry They have the same effect that the names of streets on every corner have, and the stranger in any city ap- preciates how useful street signs are"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20

He never lends a helping hand,
 Then cries, Just look at mel'' Now that's the kind of citizen
 One always like to see.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
THE GoTD sEEKERs

THE GOLD SEEKERS. The story's old, the lure of gold And fortunes brave emprse Tn foreign lands. on distant strands, Upheld meath alien skies. Around the world and home again, Equipped with a goodly store, But we never get enough of the sordid
 stuff
 And we're always wanting more.