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The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

The last ultirE>tum received by the
Sultan OF Turkey. so 10 speak. seems 70
be about the most businesslike proposi-
ton he has ever been up against in all
ais sublimeIy august existence.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26
Accomnlishea rnnic wnkcr,.

From the New York Wo-ld-
The stock exchange men got up an ini-
tation panic for Mr.. Wu's benefit. To
such accomplished panic makers no re-
hearsal was. necessary
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

Women don't understand the response
bilities OF politics
rhey don't. eh2 At a recent woman's
congress the delegates threw kisses at
popular candidate for an hour and thirty
seven minutes by the clock.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

Caruso IS said 20 smoke from lOo 20
80 cigarettes day. So. after all. he
may not Erieve excessively because OF
the loss OF his once magnificent voice:
he evidently found It something OF a
bore 10 give UP the time from cigarette
smoking necessary in order that he might
sing n0w and then. anyway.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

From the Chicago Trihune
1T isn't a corner" SAYS Mr.. Patten.
Its a perfectly square deal" Anything
that is perfectly square usually has a
corner.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

Still, il the Republicans had been ab-
sent from the pie counter as regularly
for the past forty years as the Demo-
Gratis. We suspect What is a Republi-
cam" would be something OF a problem
itself.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26
Home Tasks.

Il suppose you'll be glad when your
child gets out or the lower ana into the
higher grades ,"
Yes; ! believe could do the geometry
lessons more easily than the beadwork
and the perforated squares"
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

Hon Castro does not Ike il a little Bit
that Uncle Sam spoiled his revoIu-
tiOnaTy progress and sQUelched his war
Ike programme for Venezuela Hon.
Castro does not understand that his big
uncle really did him a great favor, in ali
probability
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

Mr. Aldrich's proposal to cut down
Congressional appropriations and econo-
mize viii cause him 70 be regarded here
after more IN sorrow than in anger by
some Of his erstwhlle comrades
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26
Heart Interest

Something novel in melodrama."
How now?''
The heroine's spring hat gets hit by
pile-driver. which nashes It into lovely
new shape"
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

The surprising virtues Of corn pone
are al last beginning TO dawn on numer-
Gus people throughout this land OF the
free and home Of the brave.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

One Of the KaIser's sons Is described
by an admiring writer as such q manly
chap that he recently joined q party OF
labcrefs and. with trowel IN hand. worked
for nearly half an hour" Good thing
he lid not work taree-Qusrters Of an
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26
The Cheer-up school

The sunshine poet daily grinds
his little stint.
It's easy TO be gay. he finds
In print.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26
Hnrmonv. but Not Hnrmor

FROM he 81. louis Globe-DemocTat
Mr. Bryan Is for harmony. but views
the word with suspicion f the last letter
happens 20 drop of.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26
VIII Foni En- Arain.

From the Chicago News
DOUBTLESS in 1872 tariff revision down
ward viii be once more q perfectly good
ralIying cry.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

the Democrats in Congress spend the
greater part OF their spare time thanking
the good Lord tariff revision is not their
funeral.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

Pittsburg is IN something OF a temper
over Miss Ida TarbelTs tariff stories in
volving some Smoky City features OF
ptotection. That woman certainly has an
uncommonly frank manner when It comes
to telling unpleasant truths concerning
some hardened CID sinners.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

The principal glitter around and about
the White House since the departure of
Air- Loeb appears 10 be Capt Archibald
Wnlingham de Grafenried Butt.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

hour. That writer surely would have
been unable to dig up enough adjectiyes
to do full justice to the dear fellow.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

Potatoes are up. -four IS up, meat IS
Up; but remember. gentle reader. sharp
cut in diamonds is promised for the near
future
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

Cheer up, Those Saturday afternoon
Marine Band concerts might be moved
over 10 Alexandria. or even down to Ma
nassas. you know.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

Well, what are you growing about2
You may get less doughnut for your
nickel just al this time. but you get
more hole. do you not? Why be unrea-
sOnable2
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

Have you noticed that the Oldest in
habitaut is always a man, never a
woman inquiries the Philadelphia Rec
ord. Certainly. We are a gallant peo-
pie.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26
The wherefore.

why is this fener Castro considered 50
dangerousg"
Hes a boat rocker. Wants to rock the
ship OF state
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

The time. the place and the girl. How
seldom We find them together"
Still, a rarer combination Is the man,
the money, and the inclination to pro-
pose"
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26
A Dangerous Practice.

From the New York Evening Sun
n some States OF the Union it viii soon
be safer TO kill than smoke a cigarette IN
public
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

Emma Goldman says psychology leads
anarchists 10 kin people. Anarchists
should be Permitted TO study psychology
only from he inside Of a jail or lunatic
asylum. II the woman is right.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

Senator Stewart coined the famous
phrase. The crime OF IS. but he out
lived il by several years
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

And now Florida threatens 10 &c dry.
It viii be a far CRY from Cincinnati to
Key West
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

Evidently a few wise old owls among
those Young Turks. eh7
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

The tariff Is a joke" says John ".
Gates Il may so appear TO the man IN
an automobile, but il does not 10 the
straphanger
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

'Nr- Patten has gone fishing" SAYS
Chicago contemporary. For suckers. pre-
sumably
The Washington herald., 1909-04-26

The great playing ground OF the Brit
ish aIistOcracy and OF the sporting rich
IS Scotland said Andrew s. Duncan. OF
Glasgow. VINO is al the New Willard.
There IS no country in the world which
depends so much for its living on sport
Millions OF acres that fifty years ago
were let at peppercor1 rent now bring
in vast sums, continued the Scotchmau,
''as grouse mOors and deer forests. and
the time IS not far of when all Scotch
men VII be gIllies. ca6dies. or beaters.
or win serve in some other capacity n
the vast and expanding organization that
ministers to sport.
ITO be invited as a guest TO some
great Scottish mansion with its private
golf links. it's brawling trout and sal
mon stream. its uneQusled apparatus for
grouse shooting and deer stalking. and
It's intoxicating scenery, is a treat for
the gods themselves
What DO ] think Of German inva-
sion OF Scotland2
7 don't think anything OF IL In fact,
the German Emperor has more sense
than he is credited with. He knows that
II would 90 bad with his navy II he at
tempted to land on the Scottish coast.
II has been tried before by others With
results which should be a lesson to those
who would invade England by way OF
Scotland
There is one thing which must admit,
and that is that Germany IS pushing our
trade and commerce out OF existence, and
that II we don't do something TO stop
i We viii lose the supremacy not only as
a maritime power, but also as q commsV-
ciai power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-02
GARDENS OF THE TUlLERIES.

From a Paris Letter to the Outlook.
 It is not until one has walked through the gardens of the Tuileries that the wealth of statuary in Paris begins to im- press the mind. For there must be almost as many statues as flowers They shine or glmmer everywhere, as in the Athen- ian groves-allegorical, symbolical, myth ological, naked. The Luxembourg Gardens are hardly less rich, but there one finds the statues Of real persons. Here, as becomes a formal garden laid out by king, realism Is excluded. Formal it is in the extreme; the trees are sternly pol larded the beds are mathematicafly laid out, the paths are straight and not to be deviated from. None the less, on a hot summers day there are few more de- lightful spots, with the placid bonnes sit ting so solidly, as only French women can sit, over their needlework and their charges-flitting like discreet butterflies all around them; and here are two old philosophers-another Bouvard and Pe- cuchet-discussing some problem of con duct or science-and there a family party at lunch, without shame. Pleasant groves, pleasant people,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-02
Higber Cost of Living

On such articles as steel beams, quicksilver, castor oil, turpentine, nails, glass, hemlock timber, caustic soda, sulphuric acid, phosphate rock, opium and the like, Bradstreet's reports prices lower than they were year ago. These articles are not good as a steady diet. They can neither be eat en nor worn. They neither satisfy hunger nor clothe nakedness. Let us look at another list.
 Prices have been increased in the course of year on wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, four eggs, pork, bacon. hams. lard. butter, mackerel, coffee, tea. beans, potatoes, apples, lemons, raisins, print cloths, ginghams, etc This is why the cost of living is going up This Is why the consumer is hard pressed every month, and the special interests that are engaged in making a new tar1H Dill are not ulIlhS d hohu oi a duty that will lessen his burden. The unchanged list is largely made up of lead, coke, tar, lime, nitric acid, hons. none of which find their way to the table of the consumer.
 The party that is engaged in in- creasing the cost of living and in pun ishing insurgents-the Aldrich-Cannon party-will hear from the people next fall in a way that will not be misun derstood. Abraham Lincoln's words will come true-you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-02
Pistol TOtlng In the Tariff Bill

Congressman Sisson of Mississippi is endeayoring to tack onto the tariff bill an internal revenue tax of two dollars upon each deadly weapon manufac- tured and sold within the United States in addition to 25 per cent ad Salorem tax He proposes also to put a tax ranging from one-tenth of 1 per cent to one-fifth of 1 per cent on every cartridge manufactured and sold in this country.
 The Mississippi congressman is not seeking so much to increase the funds in the treasury as he is seeking to in- crease the cost of pistol toting, hoping in that way to reduce the output of deadly weapons and the demand for them. He is assailing indirectly the pistol toters.
 Every little helps, and all possible aids are needed in overcoming the pistol habit. The Sisson amendments and a re-enactment of the Samuel Will John bill would render pistol toting more expensive and difficult. Taxed pistols "A inches long would accom- plish something in a sorely needed re- form.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-02
PROF. FOSTERS LATEST

, his spiritual nature as anything can be. The fundamental thing in life is on the action side not on the intellectual side. There is nothing good in this world but good will. Identity of opinion is poor basis of fellowship. When emphasis is put on ideas and not on will power and deeds it Is misplaced.
 "Ihe great religion of our lives should be self-realization. Our vocation is to achieve values in truth, virtue and per sonality. These virtues are not donated to man. They must be achieved, and their achievement is religion.
 'I am a member of the Hyde Park church." concluded Professor Foster, ''and the only way I can get out of it is to die out of it, for 1 am a Baptist in principle. In my opinion there are but two consistent positions for religious man. he must either stand by the vati- can at Rome or have a free soul To the free soul the inner life. is an experience, not gift. contend that we have earned the voice of conscience through the sweat of our brows. All I ask of the Baptists is that they do as their fathers did-do their own thinking.
 "I have my appreciation of the man who believes that the earth is flat, that the world was made In six days of "A hours each and that the whale swallowed Jonah, provided that he has kind heart, and is conscientiodsly doing his duty in life. Brotherly love and a will strength ened and christened to cope against the ills of life Is the real thing, and what a man believes is incidental
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-02

of his squad of 23 bolting democrats, but still it is believed he will not car ry standpatism and favoritism so far as to deprive MT. Underwood of an op- portunity to represent the democrats in conference.
 The personnel of the conference committee will watched with inter- est. If 1t is packed with standpatters it will be taken" says the correspond ent of the Hartford Courant, "as final evidence that the republican leaders are determined to bury revision down. ward as promised by Taft under q mountain of prohibitory duties The Courant is republican paper, but it is not hopelessly tied to the Aldrich- Cannon machine. It sees 1910 accom-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-02
STEPPING WESTWARD.
By Wordsworth.

By WOrdSWOrtn.
 While my fellow traveller and I were walking by the side of Loch Katrne after sunset we met in one of the loneliest parts of that solitary region two women, who said to us by way of greeting, What, you are stepping westward?"] What you are stepping westward?"-
 Yea."-
 'Twould be wildish destiny, If we, who thus together roam In a strange land. and far from home, Were in this place the guests of chance; Yet who would stop, or fear to advance, Though homo or shelter he had none, With such a sky to lead him on? The dewy ground was dark and cold; Behind, all gloomy to behold; And stepping westward seemed to be A kind of heavenly destiny; I liked the greeting; twas sound Of something without place or bound; And seemed to give me spiritual right To travel through that region bright. The voice was soft, and she who spake Was walking by her native lake; The salutation had to me The very sound of courtesy; It's power was felt; and while my eye Was fixed upon the glowing sky, The echo of the voice enwrought human sweetness with the thought Of travelling through the world that lay Before me in my endless way.
 1a02
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-02
Mir. Taft'S RaSn0nsihilitY

At the Yale alumni feast President Taft warned the republicans that if they do not live up to their campaign promises they will be relegated to membership in a minority opposition party.
 The chief responsibility in this mat ter rests, not upon the rank and file, hut upon the official leader of the par ty. and he cannot meet his responsi- bility to the country, and especially to consumers. with mere talk at feast. He must act, and the livest question of the hour is the action he will take if the conferees report revision up in stead of a revision down in accordance with MT. Taft's promises in his cam paign speeches.
 Thus far the President has cooper ated with Senator Aldrich, Speaker Cannon and other hardshell stand-pat members. He does not seem tO knoW the progressive republicans at all.
 He cannot make good" by speeches of the Yale sort. In order to satisfy the people he must act when the Aldrich-Payne boost in tariff rates comes before him. The people expec; they have right to expect-a bet ter law than the present Dingley tariff "a law that will decrease instead oi the contrary the cost of living. Ii they do not get such law the blame will be placed where it belongs The President cannot escape responsibility unless he sees to it that Aldrichism is duly exposed and defeated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-02
THE SULTAN KEPT HIS WORD.
After the French Ambassador Was His Guest Sent Gift He Promised.

The threshold of the harem has occa- sionally been crossed clandestinely, yet save those in rare cases where a Turkish family, adopting the conventions of the Europeans. admits its intimate friends no stranger has openly and officially been permitted to visit the gynecaeum of the Turk, says N. c. Adossides in The Deln- eator for July. The one exception to this iron-clad rule, strange to say. occurred in the palace of a sultan.
 It was in the year of 1907, when the British government attempting to coerce the Sublime Porte into coalition against Napoleon. ordered the Sultan, Selim III. to surrender his fleet This Selim refused to do, and the English feet sailed through the Dardanelles into the Propontis. Mean while, General Sebastiani the French am- bassador, assisted the Sultan in orRaniz- ing the defense of Constantinople, and did it so admirably that the British fleet retired without firing a shot, Accordingly the Padishah told him to choose his re- ward. The general, thorough French man, asked permission to visit Ills maj estys haren. Se1im, bound by his word, granted this unprecedented favor, and in- vited him to witness the review of tho sultanee As the latter. the most beauti- full women of the east, with blushing cheeks and modest eyes. passed one by one before them, the sultan said: Who ever of them all you find fairest is yours" sebastiani, delighted. indicated one of the imperial odalisques. Geor- gian of divine beauty, with deep black eyes.
 The next morning procession of black slaves appeared at the embassy, bringing with them a magnificent casket Raising the lid thereof, Sebastiani beheld, lying upon the purple cushion, the head of the beautiful girl he had chosen. By its side lay a letter from the Khalifa, which read as follows:
 Though our law forbids that woman of Islam be given to a Christian, yet thou shalt have at least the consolation that none other shall possess her whom thou hast preferred"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
His Services Appreciated.

MT. Lang Anderson. who came all the way from his home at Maysville, Ky, to Birmingham to act as judge at the horse show given for the benefit of the East Lake orphanage, has made many friends here," said a lover of horses. Ut is not easy to render decisions that please everybody. but all who attended the horse show must have been fully impressed with MT. Anderson's purpose to be impar- tial
 MT. Anderson is the owner of Auview stock farm. just outside of Maysville. on the Lexington turnpike. It is a beau tifui place, and is fast coming to be known as one of the best stock farms of the Blue Grass state. Mir. Anderson's visit to Birmingham is greatly appreciated by horse lovers. and those in charge of the orphanage cannot but feel grateful for his services"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-02
POETRY IN THE TARIFF.
Senator Stones Epic Tribute to the
 Rooster and the Farmer.

From the New ork Sun.
 It Is a cruel and an unusual punish ment to have to read the Congressional Record when 1t Is packed with tariff speeches, but in the pursuit of duty how often pleasure awaits, the conscientious man. Our old acquaintance the Hon. William Joel Stone of Missouri is speak ing his little piece for the benefit of the back country. Who would have looked for such depths of sentiment, of love and appreciation of nature in remarks on the tariff bill:
 The farmer, MT. President, rises when the clarion call of the chandelier gives notice of the coming dawn, and plods his weary way until the circling orb sinks into the shadow of the night"
 There are "reminiscences of Chaucer, Gray and we don't know how many oth- CTS here, but the whole passage Is rich In poetical thought and establishment and will be grabbed eagerly by the makers of school speakers" The only blot on the Ycutcheon is the formal. legal gives mo- tiee," but this may perhaps be Justified on the ground that the chanticieer is regard ed as the town crier. So much for the poetios; now for the economies. -oes the farmer get up after due notice by the clarion caller? A more abject humbug than the cock as watchman or time recorder can't be found in the books or the barnyards. Not merely about Christi mas time the bird of dawning singeth all night long. He sing eth all night of every night of moonlight. The younger the night the more he crows. He is asleep, to the relief of the respect able part of the community when accord ing to our soft-footed friend from Missou- ri he (the clarion caller) should be noti- flying the farmer to get up and plod his weary way. Why should we mince mat ters? The cock Is an ass. We leave 1t to the great multitude of farmer commuters in New York and New Jersey. Why, the cock crows every time he hears a train pass. He is almost as trustworthy and useful as watchdog"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-02
BEER: A RHAPSODY

insinuated that Kant, Hegel, Fichte and Schelling the transcendental school owed to beer much of their obscurity Nietzsche suffered from weak stomach. If Germany were not a beer drinking nation the peace of Europe would be endangered, for the Teuton Is not phleg- matic by temperament, as is commonly believed. lie is tanned by beer; beer soft ems his furor teutonicus. Therefore beer ought to be espoused by the peace societies. above all commended by those zealous citizens throughout the land who are so amazingly solicitous as to what their fellows pour down their gullets.
 That beer is of vast antiquity every body knows. In Egypt long before the advent of the children of Israel beer was common beverage, and while that rare gossip Petronus Arbiter does not mention it, We doubt not but he drank the bitter barley brew from the country of the northern barharians, surveying with dismay through his emerald mono cle-he set the fashion in this for Nero the dwindling mugs of his day. "Eheu fugaves." we hear him exclaim: Rome becomes more and more provincial Less substance and more foam!" The man who writes the history of beer writes the his- tory of civilization. The breweries fol- lowed the Crusades.
 In his address delivered before recent meeting of the Brewers association at Atlantic City, President Liebmann al- luded feelingly to the depreciation by ri 0f bo that makes for temperance. He did not speak well of whisky; but that was natural; it was not. expected at beer congress. The point he made was logical; there always will be drinking Humanity may be led to the water trough by legis- lation. but though forced there will not drink. Therefore let good pure beer be brewed; let hops and malt enter upon the scene and bid begone the chemical substi- tutes.
 During the roar and surge of the sym phonious gathering at the Madison Square Garden recently how many voices lifted skyward were animated by the thirst that passeth all understanding, the immoral bierdurst chanted by the poets. Beer is the great dissolvent of hostility, of stiff- ness in social intercourse. of planetary Jealousies. If all the world drank beer war would cease. destroyers and Dread- thoughts would be converted into scrap iron, not for ploughshare but for brew .ery utensils Our brethren who abhor the brew that cools though it should not intoxicate. might with profit to their flyers and to foster latitudinarian sympa- thies follow the notable example of tho dsrman singers. Prostu W