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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

From the Washington Star.
The Louisianians are very much in
earnest about celebrating the opening
of the Panama canal. They will ar
rive here in force tomorrow to lay
the matter before Congress, and the
country will be better advised than
before about the commercial why's and
wherefores of the south's great in
terest in that enterprise. For it is
understood that the south seconds
Louisiana's ambition in the premises.
New Orleans is prosperous and grow
ing city, and feels able to house and
manage celebration of even more
than national significance.
However this effort may turn out,
the occasion is appropriate to congrat-
ulate the south on her recent business
growth and her fiattering prospects.
Her crops have been commanding the
highest prices in her history. Her man
ufactures have been increasing by leaps
and bounds. She Is already spinning a
large portion of her cotton, and hopes
soon to be spinning the whole of it..
Her sugar industry is flourishing. Her
iron industry is now prominent in the
picture. AS a result her values of ev-
cry kind are mounting up. The cities
of New Orleans, Baltimore, Louisville,
Atlanta. Birmingham, Richmond, Mem
phis and Galveston are taking an in
fluential place in the national equa-
ton.
The south as a business field has
for some years been inviting, both to
her own people and to outsiders. Re
wards have been large. Young men
fresh from college or just in posses
sion of inheritances, who at an earlier
day might have preferred political ac-
tivity, have devoted their time to plant
ing, or mining, or manufacturing, and
in some instances to all three pursuits
They have been pushing the south along
and upward, and in doing SO have ben
Gifted not only the south, but the whole
country.
AS time passes, and big projects now
in motion or in the shaping perform
the work expected of them, we shall
see the south become a very rich sec
ton. She is favored in many things,
ana closer STUDY Oh Her resources Is
bringing, and will continue to bring,
enormous returns for we'll made and
carefully guarded investments. Cotton
will probably continue to be her CHIEF
staple, but she has discovered the
value of diversified industries, and will
hold on to them.
Naturally the south reflects the en-
thusiasm that has been generally
aroused by the speculation attaching
to the Panama canal. If that enterprise
yields but a portion of the benefits
expected Of 1t she will share them in
most liberal measure. The markets OF
the far east are alluring to her, and If
she can reach them by short cut and
improved means she will put money In
her purse in goodly sums.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29
Natural Gas in This District

Two of the new open-hearth furnaces
recently built by the Cambria Steel COM
nany at Johnstown. Pa, have been con-
nected with natural gas and six more
open-hearth furnaces in Johnstown are
to be- The Franklin plant OF the Cam
hria company will doubtless be supplied
with gas as soon as pipe line is ex-
tended to Altoona. All this in Pennsyl-
vania amid coal fieldt
The use that the Cambria company is
making of natural gas, together with the
use that the Steel corporation did make
of it while the supply was abundant and
satisfactory, plainly points to a rev.
olution in this district If the gas wells
of Fayette county, Alabama. can furnish
all the gas that is or may be needed In
the district AS a cheap and convenient
fuel natural gas has no known rival.
Falling water may be cheaper, but 1t can
by no means be so conveniently applied.
Assuming that the Fayette field is the
equal of the average Appalachian web.
both in volume and endurance, few indeed
appreciate the prosperity that is in store
for this district. The life of field
varies from 80 to so years, depending to
some extent upon the amount of new
drilling. In period of that length, after
the opening of the Warrior river and of
the Panama canal, vast number OF In
dustries would be attracted to this dis
trict. Natural gas would attract them,
and each and all of them would know
that an ample coal supply is in reserve
if the supply of gas should give out, and
that water transportation is at hand in
either case. The stimulus that gas would
lend to industrial Investigation in this
district may not at present be appreci.
ated, but it will be as time runs on, al
ways provided that the new field is fully
IN to the general average of other APP
palachian fields. While the anteclinal
in this district has not been fully meas
ured, the impression prevails among all
observers of the four completed wells that
the field in this district will measure well
I'D to its near relatives along the APP
palachian range.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29
Referee Stratton and Newspaper Men

The Shreve cases in the bankruptcy
court are to be heard in true Star Cham
Der style They are to be conducted with
closed doors, Referee Stratton having de-
cided that newspaper men often print
court proceedings that should be kept
secret. All reporters were therefore eject
ed at Montgomery, where Referee STRAIT
ton holds court.
The bankruptcy proceedings in ques-
ton are of public interest. 1t is alleged
that the Shreves had established at An
dalusia a dumping ground for hidden as
sots removed in the nick O. time from
concerns about to become bankrupt. So
important is the case considered that the
Attorney General Of the United States is
represented in the hearings.
If the people have no right to study
the Andalusia concern, it is almost i'm
possible to name any litigation they have
a right to study for themselves, and the
Star Chamber may as well be re-estab-
lished. AS rule all litigation in which
many people take an interest is in these
modern days in this country conducted
publicly. This is the way Referee Lowell
conducts the Knight-Y ancey case, and at
this distance it is impossible to see the
propriety and sense of the stand taken
by Referee Stratton in the Shreve cases.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

S Ever since last March the government
has had three special agents In this dis
tr1cf tor the purpose of completing a CEN
nus Of its manufacturing industries--of It's
small Industries as well as those connect
- with iron, steel and coal These spe-
0a1 agents are as DESTROYS of making the
1nduGtrinl census Of the district complete
uas complete in fact--as its population
count. ana to this end they ask for the CO.
Gpsration Of all industries ana of all good
G1tisens in general
! zhis = Z matter Of no small Importance
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29
ANYHOW SHE TAINTED

From the Chicago Record-Herald..
The Club of Amateur Thespians used to
give theatrical performances which were
distinguished by the local prominence of
the actors. Once social celebrity, with
gorgeous costume, as one of the lords
in waiting. had only four words to say,
"rhe queen has swooned." AS he stepped
forward his friends applauded vocifer-
ously. Bowling his thanks he faced the
king and said, in high-pitched voice:
THE swoon has queened."
There was roar of laughter. but he
waited patiently and made another at
tempt: n
che sween has cooned.''
Again the walls trembled, and the stage
manager said in voice which could be
heard all over the house:
Come off, you silly fool!"
But the ambitious amateur refused to
surrender, and In a rasping falsetto, az
ne was assisted off tho stage, he
screamed
THE coon has sweened!"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29
HoBNoBBING WITH ROYALTY

From From the Bottom Up" by Alex
ander Irvine doubleday. Page & Coz
While lying off Piraeus, in my sailor
days, ] was doing guard duty on deck in
the first watch Toward the close of the
watch 1 was Joined on my beat by a man
in plain clothes, who, with lighted ci-
gar In his mouth, marched fore and aft
the starboard side of the ship with me-
In anticipation of entering Greek waters
l had read for months, and this stranger
was astonished to find a common soldier
SO well Informed on the history OF
Greece. / had not yet been ashore. but
I had arranged to go on the following
day. The gentleman, on leaving, handed
me q card on which he had penciled
what / think was an introduction. I had
only time to ask him his name, and he
said 'George-just George. Next day ]
discovered that had been powwowins
with King George of Greece"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29
AN ANTI-sUFFRAGETTE
he Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
George Cavan Browne, the expert on
international law. was discussing In
Providence the Ruspoli case.
"An American h eiress," he said, mar
ried an Italian, one Ruspoli. He took
her to Italy, treated her badly, then
died and left all her money to his
family. She. in consequence, is penni-
less. For by italian law the wifes
money, all of it, belongs to the hus-
band.
But, aside from its legal aspect,
consider the mean. mercenary spirit of
this thing! Really, these foreign noble
men resemble Peleg Henderson, of APP
ponaug.
"Peleg had his choice Of two sweet
hearts, Shawomet girls, one of whom
owned COW. That was the one he
married. He explained to his friends
at the wedding:
"By crinus, there amt the differ
ence of a COW between any two women
livin'.'"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29
rArrERDEMALIA

BY II. Fl. Ling
There's place they call Tatterdemalia
where
The Tatterdemalians play.
And never a shadow of sorrow or care
Has ever been known to reveal itself
For to hide these away meath veil OF
despair,
Is the Tatterdema1ian way.
Bleak winter in Tatterdemalia land
Has rarely been known to appear.
Its fortunate denizens need not Withstand
The biting of storms, and this whitening
OF seasons, SO happily even is planned
The Tatterdemalian year.
And labor no Tatterdemalian knows;
His wants are but trifiing, and they
Are always supplied from the hands oil
his foes,
For tribute he claims from the world, and
bestows
No thanks on the donors; he looks upon
those
AS Tatterdemalia's prey.
And Tatterdemalia will not claim
OF responsibility heed,
For mo matter how or wherever ne came
His volition had nothing to do with the
same.
And the world owes him all that he needs
In its game
Is the Tatterdemalian creed.
No Tatterdemalian ever aspires
To eninence, honor or fame.
He lives but to dream and assuage his de-
sires
Hating work. and Ambitions o'ershadow.
ing fires
Are nothing to him. neither aids nor In
spires,
And he knows not the meaning Of
shame.
Does Death ever visit, or makes he stay
Meath Tatterdemalian skies?
We know not. for there II one passeth
away
No friends come to weep. or to cheer, o.
to pray;
He seems but to vanish-that may be the
way
A Tatterdemalian dies
Oh, Tatterdemalia's a wonderful place,
And its people. how wonderful they
Born, live and then vanish, and leave moi
| q trace
Tor erect Of their lives on the rest Of
their race,
And history meier VIII be called to EN-.
Ono Tattsrdemaliau day
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

Abraham Lincoln thus came within III
votes of a majority Of the convention.
Almost Immediately, the chairman of the
Ohio delegation arose and announced the
change of four votes from Chase to Lin
coin, and when all the other changes had
been made the Illinois candidate had 1884
votes out of a total of 4s6. William NJ.
ination be made unanimous, and he was
seconded by John A. Andrew of Massa-
chusetts and Carl Schurz of WISCONSIN
Mr. Lincoln was then declared the repub-
hcan candidate for President OF the
United States.
The election Of Lincoln followed and
when Inauguration day approached the
seeds of civil strife had been fully sown,
and the war came on that had long been
Inevitable.
1t was one of those issues that had to
be fought out, and the nomination and
election of Lincoln simply determined
when the struggle should be begun. II
Lincoln had been defeated at the polls
by either Douglass or Breckenridge, or
Bell, the war would have been post
poned, but it is difficult to see how it
could have been avoided. The one sectlon
Or the other would have claimed
mastery, and that meant war fifty years
ego.
The war promptly followed Lincoln's
Inauguration, and that war will ever re-
main the most tremendous single occur
renee In the history of this nation. Little
1id the men who cast their ballots for
Abraham Lincoln 50 years ago know what
those ballots means in blood in the then
immediate future.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT KICKERS
OF LOCAL. AND NATIONAL STANDING

must charge him the maximum fare,
and, then for these southern congress
men to vote against an approximation to
pay his travelling expenses, is outrageous.
The people of this country want to see
and hear from a President, whatever be
his politics. He should travel as he sees
fit in this country at the expense of the
government. His total annual travelling
expense don't amount to as much as that
paid by a few kicking congressman to
their sons, daughters and other family
members for clerk hire.
Each congressman now gets $500 in
salary and I think S100 or $50 month for
clerk. and other perquisites, such as
something like Is or 20 cents mile for
travelling expenses
If congressman need anything more
they vote it to themselves President
Taft happened to make his trip around
the circuit of the United States and came
via Birmingham. The acknowledgements
they had to under the law-charged him
more than the Congress had allowed the
presidential office for travelling expenses
1.
that the next years appropriation be
made available now instead of July 1
to pay up, a few southern congressman
made a kick and a point of order, and
ripped from a many million dollar APP
preparation bill, mere five thousand dol
lars, which must come out of next years
expense fund anyhow. I and some of
the kickers met the President and trav-
cled with him.
1t is petty politics, and will not fool
the people.
Look at Mr.. Roosevelt in Europes An
ex-President he is. Yet, everywhere he
has been special cars and special trains
have been at his disposal He has
Travelled and been entertained.
If commissioner, or any other repre-
sentative, accredited from a foreign gov
eminent comes here the State Department
takes care of him.
Yet President of the United States
must be 'jacked up for a few dollars of
railroad expense for going in decent style
to see the people who had voted and in
vited him to come and talk to, and see
them.
That no Alabama congressman was a
party to such meets with the applause
of every Alabamian and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Anyhow, engagements aren't as expen-
sive as automobiles.
Some men are not to be believed when
they tell the truth any more than when
they don't
II woman can't find anything else to
brag about her husband, she'll do it abou,
how he hates to have her do It,
One good thing about a mans having
lot of children Is he never has any
worry to spare on how the government is
run.
The man who sits down and waits for
what he deserves to come to him will
never deserve It, not to speak of get
ting 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

JIG Lusk, vice president of the Jemi-
son Real Estate and Insurance company,
entertained at luncheon at the Empire
cafe yesterday several officers and rep
resentatives of the company. In the
party were Mr.. Lusk, vice president; +.
A. Holley, treasurer; A. b. Tanner, sec
rotary; E. o. Wrenn, auditor; E. IL.
Wrenn, cashier; ]. NJ. P. Otis, manager
rental department; f. H. Bell, advertising
manager: M. l.. Farley, collector; Albert
Hughes, Nat Barker, w. A. Rocks, u. M.
S. Houston, G. A. Pope. Jr.. of the real
estate department; II. E. Dalbey, cashier
Corey bank, and H. ]. Lorenz of, the
Lorenz Model company of Madison, Wis.
1t was under Mr.. Lorenz's personal di-
rection that the unique model Of Corey
was made This model is now on exhibit
ton in front of the main office of the
Jemison company on Third avenue, and
is attracting a great deal of attention.
After the luncheon the party went in
automobiles to Corey and spent the after
noon inspecting the work in progress
there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

tell something more about how things
have been and should be done.
But after all the comet in politics and
in business-the upsetting element-has
nassed into the western skies and is get
ting farther away every day. The SUBJ
stantial is settling upon its foundation
again. The tail will switch about for
awhile and illuminate the atmosphere.
but the real and the substantial is coming
to itself and right here in this>Birming-
ham district we are soon to become the
great industrial, commercial and manu-
featuring center of all the south.
Within a year from date I look for
natural gas and oil piped from Fayette
and other adjoining territory into Biz
mingham city and section; and an influx
of people and development which will
surprise even the most optimistic.
The old south of politics and quibhling
has passed to the great beyond Like
good old temporarily acting Senator Cor.
don of Mississippi said, the real people of
the south are human and progressive,
broad and generous, and will do their part
to make of this nation the greatest in
the world. The spirit of that good old
broad-minded man is predominant in the
south and especially in this Birmingham
district of Alabama, and in all of the
state.
And in this connection I don't believe
ten men in all of Alabama approve the
action of some southern congressman in
cutting off a petty appropriation to pay
President Taft's travelling expenses for
his trip throughout the west and the
south.
1t is petty politics.
In former days every railroad in Amer
lea rendered free transportation, private
cars, special trains, dining cars and all
manner of splendid accommodations to a
President of the United States for any
trip. Under the present law if he travels
in a private car he must pay eighteen
railroad fares and pay something like
eighteen Pullman fares a day Under the
government law the railroads must
charge and collect, or the men in charge
are criminally liable.
For congressman and the people to in
vite the President of the United States
to come to see them and then say the
railroads shall not carry him free. but
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

The heir presumptive In France has the
good sense not to presume very much.
He is exceedingly modest in that direc-
tion. having due regard for his own
neck
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

7 HAVE heard some kicking during the
past week among merchants and
business men about lack of business,
slowness of collections and general de-
preston.
Makers of iron and steel talk about
low prices and slow sales. Clothing men
say they have sold little. Furniture men
and haberdashers and department stores,
and even men with town lots for sale, all
over the face of the earth, say there is
nothing doing, and they are facing the
facts when the bankers suggest that they
might pay up at least 30 parts of the note
due and renew the other 70.
But these of inclinations at present pes
simistically disposed don't stop to think
that there remains in us Americans some
of the old Indian blood; and that when
a comet shakes Its Illuminated tail in our
faces and tells us, through our astrono-
mers, that it proposes to SINCE and burn
and poison us; that we forget to buy or
pay or do anything else that we usually
feel 1t our duty and pleasure to do.
a
made us wear overcoats in May Who
can sell summer clothes or wear them,
when you have needed fire in the CRATE.
But more than all we must eat; and
when your good old cook tells you that
she must minister to her soul and prepare
for the going, rather than cook for the
family, what be the good of groceries.
You can't eat raw stuff.
So the comet has compelled many of
us to go to the canned.
But finally, the comet has become home
folks. We have gotten used to 1t, and
friendly with 1t. Our cooks have gotten
to the laughing stage about 1t and have
really made friends with it. They cook
good dinners and then go out and talk
about how scared they were last week
and laugh about how much more scared
Mary or Mandy was than they were.
And the whole world of people, like the
good old negro cook, is now getting in
the humor to laugh again and talk about
the other fellow who was scared. The
good, warm and natural weather of the
season is upon us now, and the pros
poets are bright. Nobody fears anything
Of greater note than that Marcus We'll
may make another political prediction and
tell in figures how the mayoralty race
will result, or that Brooks Lawrence may
in Ireland. He will land in Wales and
proceed at once to Erin. His father and
mother are still living.
Father Coyle will be abroad about three
months, and just before returning. will
yieit fbe coptinepf He oxpoofc N coo tho
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

San Francisco thinks New Orleans is
hoggish. Tt has absorbed the Mardi Gras
celebration. and now 1t wants the Pan
anna canal celebration event.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29
EASY MEAT

From the Washington Herald
1.-The ultimate consumer is ordinarily
harmless" says The Birmingham Age
Herald. Some of the big trusts appear
to consider him extraordinarily SO, In
deed. ~.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

The questions of a customs inspector
are more incisive and more penetrating
than were those of the census taker.
Ask Ex-Governor Rollins.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

Eight of the republican congressman In
are frankly opposed to the reelection of
Cannon as speaker. This movement
promises to become unanimous.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

The Roosevelt reception in New York
is to be confined. 1t is said, to the Rough
Riders and the reception committee. L
Is to be select. but. not aristoeratlc.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29
Humor in SchoolrOom

"Children at school sometimes give
strange and unexpected answers to ques-
tions," said a member of the Birming-
ham public school faculty, land some-
times unconsciousy perpetrate choice
bit of humor. Last week at one of the
suburban schools the teacher was Civ
ing instruction in sentence building. The
word excavate' was selected as the key
word. After looking up the word in
Webster and explaining 1t she wrote the
definitions on the board, among which
was one that excavate meant to hollow
out
'She then instructed the class to write
a short sentence including the word.
Among the papers turned in was one from
a little freckled-faced chap about II years
old who had written: I pinched the baby
and he excavated.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

A straw hat is still too aggressive to
fit the New York climate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

When Uncle Joe reads the returns of
the November elections he will begin to
see that he is no longer burning issue
in this country
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

Rostand. alas, draws no royalty from
Chanticler fashion designs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

Congressional fences up north have to
be handled this year more carefully than
even barbed wire.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

The climate is so trying in Chicago 1t
is treated to nothing better than last
years straw hats.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-29

Senator Lorimer hopes the comet will
yet be bright enough to withdraw pubic
attention from himself