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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-19

Replying to Mayor Gsynor's speech
of welcome, Col. Roosevelt said: II
wish to thank you. Mr. Mayor;
through you I thank your committee,
and through them ! wish 70 thank
the American people for their greet
ing. I need hardly say that am most
deeply moved by the reception given
me- No man could receive such
greeting without being made to feel
both very proud and very humble.
7 have been away a year and a
quarter from America. l have seen
strange and interesting things alike
in the heart Of the frowning wilder
ness and in the capitals of the might
lest and most highly polished OF civil
lied nations l have thoroughly en-
joyed myself, and now I am more
glad than I can say to get home. TO
be back IN my own country, back
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-19

it only remains for me TO say now, Mr.
Roosevelt. that we welcome you home
most heartily. and We are glad TO see
you again"
1t was estimated that 10000 persons
were mased in Battery Park.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-19

largest Morning Circulation.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-19
STORM WAITS FOR
PARADE TO PASS

Continued from Page One.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-19
A VERSIFIED WELCOME.

BY CAPT JACK CRAWFORD.
Poet. scout and ranch friend of Col. Roosevelt.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-19

Copyright. 1910, The Press" Compsny)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
Fraudulent Bills of Ladln9

President Taft certainly discusses 0l subjects, for the pamphlet. edition of the message consists of 94 pages, and it will average a subject to a page or better And an Alabamian has to wade through all these pages to page 92 before he comes to a subject of state concern and in teresf.
 On page 92 the President discusses the I<night-Yancey case at length and with considerable severity. T urge" he says, 'supoh Congress the immediate enactment of law under which one who, in good faith, advances money or credit upon a bill of lading issued by a common carrier upon an interstate or foreign shipment can hold the carrier liable for the value of the goods described in the bin at the valuation specified in the bill, at least to the extent of the advances made upon it."
 Tbis is the true remedy. It is the one The Age-Herald has persistently favored The President suggests two bills Of lad ing the one guaranteed and the other not. For the former a small specific charge might be made in addition to the transportation rate.
 The President further recommends that punishment of fine and Imprisonment be imposed upon railroad agents and shippers for fraud or misrepresentatior n connection with the issue of bills ol lading issued upon interstate or foreign shipments.
 Both of the Presidents recommends. tions are sound and excellent, and ther, will be no full and satisfactory settlement of the matter until they are both trans formed into law as amendments of tn, interstate commerce law. The Presiden asks for no other change in the inter state commercesla law, and he desires thu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
Estimates for Next Years Expenses

The President takes great credit for beginning July 1 next to s6SO, 0O,OOO. This does rot include the sum asked for in building the Panama canal He goes on 10 say: Against the estimates of expen- ditures. s630. 494,0l3 we have estimated re ceipts for next year, $6So, ,OOO, ,OOO making n probable surplus of ordinary receipts over ordinary expenditures of about S5O,- 000.o0o, or taking into account the estimates for the Panama canal, which are s56,- seos47. and which will ultimately be paid in bonds. it will leave deficit for the next year of about $7,oO0,OOO, if Congress rhal. conclude to fortify the canal. The cost of the Notifications would be about sl9,0o6,0oO. Should there be no appropria- lion this year for Notifications, then there would be, even including the Panama canal appropriation, surplus of about s120ooOOO."
 This is all very fine, but it cannot be carried out. The estimates for the cur rent year were cut down to $6S4 900 coo and Congress proceeded to add s37 7,0O0 coo more. So it will do in this session.
 The President urges Congress to pour out sl9,OOO0O next year for the fortifica- ton Of the canal. A more unwise expen- allure could scarcely be devised The protection of the canal can be secured by neutralzation agreements, and lacking these the army and the navy can hold it The entire fertilization proposition is a 6eusion. and Congress can be trusted tc reject 1t. The chances are, therefore good that there will be but a small deficit at the end of the next fiscal year. There would be none at all if Congress would not add to the estimates of the depart Yne 1tS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

Gamaliel Bradford Jr., in the December
 Atlantic
 It is to be noted that Lees conduct from beginning to end was absolutely free from all thought of personal credit or advantage. He gave up ihe highes. position in his profession for what was. to Say the least, dim uncertainty. He was 54 years old and such dreams or glory as he may have ever chei ished hal doubtless long faded in the hope of peace One consideration and one only the de sIre 10 do right, prompted him in all he undertook and in all he accomplished And when the fearful failure came. when everything was sinking to wreck and ruin about him, though hi; heart was torn in anguish for. the safrerings of others, for his own lot there was nothing but superb tranquility; a calm, unyield- ins heroic self control which rested upon the consciousness that he had done what man could do, and all the rest was God s. He might have used the splendid words Of Demosthenes: T say that if tho event had been manifest to the whore world beforehand, not even hen ought Athens to have forsaken this course, If Athens had any regard for her glory, or fS1 her past, or for the ages to come. But lie had words of his own as apt, perhaps as splendid, as those of Demos henes, the well known and often quoted, "Duty is the sublimest word in the lam guage."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
Tolls and Coal At the Canal

The heart of the Presidents message its central page, that is to say, relates to The canal, in the building Of which the President takes great pride. For he se- lected Colonel Goethals to do the work. This he did when he was Secretary of War. He has visited the zone five times, the last time being just as he took pen in hand to write his annual letter to the people via the congressional route.
 In the message at hand he asks Con- ''Eress to make at the present session the toll sheet of the canal, and he recom- naends $1 a net ton as the proper figure This means the tonnage of the ship, no, what she may carry-s1 a ton net register
 He estimates the business of the first year at 6.S43,S05 tons, and he thinks the an nual increase wifi be 25.1 per cent A, ,this rate the canal would soon pay a fair interest on it's cost for the cost of maintenance and operation is not ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
TRICK HARD TO DO
From Scraps

From Scraps.
 Harry Gebler mayor of High foint' N T.. says that in the old days an Amer jean wooden ship of war on;e lay m Tutch port, and number of Dutch sal o,o came about to fraternize. Shortly a .n,.;t of rivalry arose. Tho sailors tried +, outdo one another in athletic tricks, and the honors were for sometime with +h. Americans. Finally, however, to tho consternation of our men. one Dutchman c,imbed to the very top of tho mainmas. ana there stood on his head. Seeing that his fellows were much dowrcast by req s,n of the -Dutchman's feat, one Irishman leaned to his feet, exclaiming: By hivins! won't let a fat Dutchman beat me-
 Accordingly this reckless Celt scampered ,,n the mast monkey like, and when he had reached the top he prepared to du- piicste the foreigners feat. He put his head down and gave a push with his feet. The first push wasn't hard enough. and he dropped back. But the second rusr was too hard, and he fell, heels over head His back stru.k the first rope, his legs the next, his neck the next, ana so on, someysault after somersauit, tll, astonishing as 1t may seem' ne landed on his feet on the oeck. Do that, ye son-of-a-gun!' he shouted, as soon as he could get his breath. Do that!o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
AUTOMOBILE TOILET

From the New York Sun.
 Those walking in one of the quiet streets in the fifties in the block west Of Fifth avenue, saw the other day a p9rty of girls in an automobile which had come, Judging by their wind-blown appearance, from one of tfe up-Hudson towns. The motor car passed by the curb and the chauffeur hauled out a black laprobe and hung it on the out side of the glass storm shield, making an effective mirror. Then the girls pro drced their town hats from somewhere ano, taking turns sitting in the front seat they rearranged their headgear be- fore the looking glass. They went it 1t as carefully and with as much ease as though they were before their own mirrors at home. When they had all finished the car swung out on the ave nue with as proper a cargo as anyone cculd wish to see
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
Henry F. DeBardel6bel

Another great pioneer of the Birmins- ham district-in most respects the great est pioneer in the industrial held-has passed away. Henry F. DeBardeleben, who died yesterday was a household name in Birmingham and throughout this section of Alabama. Our older citizens knew him personally and were strongly attached to him; while all, young and old, were familiar with his high pui- poses and the record of his eventful ca reer, and oil classes esteemed him.
 The story of Mr DeBerdeleben's life was like romance. A native 9s Alabama hs came to Birmingham in the early seyen- ties and was easily the most resourcefal industrial leader in this district. He realized at the start what wealth of minerals lay buried in these hills, He was not geologist by profession. but he seemed to be natural born mineralogist and engineer He had an uncommon store of hard sense, and his munitions were acute. These things stood him in good stead and combined as they were with pluck. imagination and unlimited enthus- iasm. MT. DeBardeleben was recognized at once as the ideal developer He was the districts ardent prophet. He had absolute faith in the outcome and inspired others with confidence And Mr. DeBas- deleben's faith never faltered.
 He was often called a dreamer, but. il dreamer he was. then that very quality of his made him all the more valuable to this rich but undeveloped state.
 At one time Mr. DeBardeleben was re- puted to be the wealthiest citizen of Jef- ferson county; the wealthiest, indeed in Alabama He met with financial reverses and men of less heroic mold and less op- timistic temperament would have sue cumbed when diversity overlook them. But he never lost heart, and in his declin- ing years he accomplished wonders In developing and operating large coal prop erties-
 His energy was simply prodigious, and within the past two or three years this distinguished pioneer had achieved his most signal success, perhaps, from busl- ness point of view-most signal because the most permanent The life of such man-honorable, helpful and true-will al- ways be ar inspiration to the young. The world is certainly made better by the ex- amples of such citizens.
 MT. DeBardeleben was a good neighbor and always kindly, courteous gentle man.
 After life's htful fever he sleeps well,'' And his memory will be long and tender ly cherished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

From the Washington Herald.
 rYNHE approach of the Christmas sea-
 | son, the view of the shop windows, ! and the advertisements of the deal CTS in toys indicate that there has been sensed on the part of the manufacturers of toys for children a great change El the tastes of the modern child. It was uerhaps, to be expected-such are the queer ramifications of politics-that the popuarity of the Teddy bear should die away: out with the passing of this, one of the most popular of childrens ldois ol recent years, seems to have passed ais' our dear old friends of childhood, the ut~ tie toy dog and the little tin soldier ana the. Barlow knife that used to hll our hearts with joys and shed our youlhiu ui blood all over the parlor carpet. Wl.h these has passed the joy with which, on Christmas morning, a lad would discover a shiny red apple in the toe or hls stocN- ing, the delight in picture books ana pug zles and other well-remembered play things.
 Many of us can go back across the years in fancy to the time when these simple toys delighted our souls. Today most of us feel that MT. John Kendrick Bangs is voicing our sentiments when ne writes:
 MY little toy dog is covered with dust'
 Like the dog in the dear poets song. My little steel cars are covered witn
 rust
 They've lain in the garret so long! The marbles are there, and the soidlers
 of tin,
 Lie hid In the old oaken chest, And there is the drum, and the trumpets
 whose din
 I loved in the ages at rest
 Much as we may regret the encroach- ments of modernity on our youtniu' Christmas ideals, we must acknowledge perhaps, that the manufacturers or chii- dren's toys are wise in their generation' They believe that children of today oe- sire their playthings to be up-to-date' No more does the stern tin soldier, with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
My salad days, When I was green in judgment.
 Antony and Cleopatra.
Parcels Post on Rural Delivery Routes

The President urges Congress to es- tablish a parcels post up to limit of Il ponnds-the international hinton all rural delivery routes. The Sears-Roe- buck concern for example. could not send B package to John Smith. a citizen liv- ing on R. F. D. No. of Birmingham, unless it had some one to remail it's pacA- age in this city, and this would call for q second payment of postage. The big mail order houses would, in fact, be shut out, and the limited parcels post proposed by the President and Postmaster General Hitchcock would induce each trade cen Ter 10 look sharply after it's rural free delivery routes.
 The plan proposed would be inexpen- sive, and 1t would serve the farm both coming and going. There are only four reasons, as Mr. Wanamaker once said, against the proposition, and these four are the four big express companies that stop now and then to cut a melon in ad- lition to the payment of fine regular div 4dends.
 If Congress wishes to win in it's last hours the good will of the bone and sinew of the land, it will establish a parcels post as recommended by the President in his annual message. It is not all the country wants in that direction, but it will do very well as a starter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
Novels Drnmatized

For a lorg time none of the books of the late Mrs. Augusta Evans-Wilson had been dramatized, although to my mind they always presented the greatest oppoi- tunity for the playwright said an ad- mirer of the works of the widely read Alabama novelist. But since they have been dramatized they are proving to be among the most popular of modern plays
 "The first work to reach the public through the stage was St. Elmo, which has enjoyed marvellous success in the north, east, south and west, but more particularly the south and west. Rival ing St Elmo in dramatic intensity and offering even greater opportunity for strong acting is At the Mercy of Ti- berus,' probably the second book of Mrs Evans-Wilson in popular favor. T en- joyed a performance Of this great play recently, for it was dramatized so that the best Of the book was brought out strongly, and the company was admir- able.
 This second play from Mrs. Evans Wilson's novels has met with phenomenal popular favor. for it has been played 10 the capacity of every theatre in which it has appeared this season. Birmingham people will be all the more interested because of the fact that the author was an Alabama woman, and left many rela- tives and friends in Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
DAWN ON THE HEADLAND

William Watson in the Nation. Dawn-and magical stillness;e on earth,
 quiescence profound
 On the waters a vast Content, as of
 hunger appeased and stayed; In the heavens a silence that seems not
 mere privation of sound,. But thing with form and body, thing
 to be touched and weighed! Yet know that I dwell in the midst of
 the roar of the cosmic wheel, { In the hot collision of Forces and clans
 sor of boundless Strife, Mid the sound Of the speed of the worlds,
 the rushing worlds, and the peal Of the thunder of Life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

this has sometimes been the cause of Q passenger having to walk back two or three blocks. l feel sure all this an noyanee could be very easily remeded by the conductor clearly announcing saoh stopping place.
 '1 read in a St. Louis paper few weeks since the instructions issued by the street car company to it's conductors and felt sure that their observance tend ed to make travel on cars a source or pleasure. The public is quick 10 appre- ciate favors of the sort to which these instructions refer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
WEALTH FOR ELLEN TERRY

From the Los Angeles Examiner.
 Ellen Terry proved Monday night the truth of the lines which welcomed her back to America. 'Time stands still for Ellen Terry It was her first appearance in Los Angeles and Miss Terry held the audience, which filled the Temple auditorium, enthralled by her magic charm.
 John Mott. of the reception committee, on behalf of it's members, presented to Miss Terry a gold laurel wreath. quot ing from the poem which was written to welcome her return to America: How can we welcome back that image
 bright,
 Who from our hearts has never been
 away?
 With tear wet eyes and quivering lip Miss Terry listened to his words of ap- preciation, and in reply she said:
 "Thaking you, I can but say, if each were treated according to his need most of us would need whpping-but," smil- ingly clasping the wreath, "I'd so much rather have this"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
MARK TWAIN's POPULARITY

From George Ades Mark Twain as
 our Emissary," in December Cen tury.
 Mark Twain had large following of admirers who came, to regard them selves as his personal friends. Many of them ho never met. Most of them never saw him. All of them felt cer- tn;n relationship and were fiattered by if Men and women in all parts of our outspread domain, the men especially, cherished a private affection for him. They called him by his first name, which is the surest proof of abiding fondness. Andrew Jackson was known as "Audy;' Abraham Lincoln was sim ply Abe, 10 every soldier boy; and, as il later instance, we have Teddy" Some men settle down to a kinship with the shirt sleeve contingent, even when they seem indifferent to the favor of the plain multitude.
 Mark Twain never practiced any of the wiles Of the politician in order to be cheered at railway stations and have chauiauluos send for him. He did not seem oyeranxious to meet the reporters and he had a fine contempt for most of tho orthodox traditions cherished by the people who loved him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
IN HOTEL L.OBBIES
Jefferson County History

"One of the most interesting historical books of local character which l have ever seen Is that entitled, Jefferson County and Birmingham Ala: Historical and Biographieal.' published in this city by Teeple 6 Smith, in 1887; and 1t would be worth while for some one to get out new edition bringing this countys history down to date" said a well-knowll man of 10 or 12 years residence in the district
 'Gt is an admirable volume-most valu- able as reference work and uncommon ly readable. It is out of print, but there is a copy in the public library and, of course. hundreds of our older citizens rossess copies which they purchased at the time the book was published. The chapters setting forth Jefferson countys topography. geology and natural re- sources were written by Henry MeCal Icy, then holding the position of chemist aro assistant state geologist. This part os the book is exceedingly instructive. Turning to the biographical sketches we fin6 that no representative citizen of the county was overlooked. In this latter respect the book is especially valuable and is far ahead of most of the histori- ca. books of state scope, for in the lat ter it often happens that the very men We wish to read about are not there.
 Many of the citizens who were prom irent in Jefferson county in the 7os passed away before I came to Alabama to live but never tire of reading about them in this local history, and the sketches of those who are still with us are full of interest. The other day I read the quiet little sketch of oscar ". Underwood, who was then young member of the Birmingham bar In 1887 he was not spoken of for Congress and probably Inc himself had no notion in those early days that he would ever aspire to be our re presentative in the national legislature. But while he was yet a young man in 1894, I believe. he was elected to the House of Representatives and has been there ever since, being reckoned with today for the chairmanship of the ways ana means committee of the Sixty second Congress, which would give him great national fame.
 'The Jefferson county history brought down to date should have a very wide sale. Miss Armes has done a great work for this state in her exhaustive and charmingly written book-'The Story of Coal and Iron. She is exceptionally well equipped for giving us Jefferson and Bir- mingham up to date. l hope she or some other painstalking and entertaining writer will undertake the task"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
The English Elections

"The return of Will Crooks labor can didate for Woolwich, is especially in- teresting in todays election news from England,' said the Rev. Dr. George Eaves. He is a sane Christian leader, who IS reckoned a laborite for the same reason that John Burns, whose triumphant re- turn at Battersea is also chronicled, is laborite. That is to say, these men are advanced liberals, not socialists in any sense except that in which Mir. Lloyd George is a socialist.
 Both Burns and Crooks have the con- fdence of the entire liberal party, ana one or both of these names will almost certainly appear in the new cabnet.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
About o,Neal Appointments

''I have not seen Col. Emmet o'Neal Tor some time, said P. G. Bowman yester- day, 'but before he left for Kentucky he assured me that he would not take up the appointment of any state officers un- til after his inauguration. l know that he has come to no conclusions, and yet l see from the item copied yesterday by the Birmingham Ledger from the ldontgom- cry Item that Colonel ONeal has already seiected.J Craig Smith to continue in Nhe office of president of the state convict board
 Now. I have recently been all over the state, and l can say that the friends and supporters of Emmet O'Neal are in favor of the appointment of James G. Oakley to head the convict board. l know Colonel O'Neal well enough to say that he will appoint his friend to the position, and l do not believe that he has even consid. cred the name of Mir. Smith"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
IF. Roberson of Cromwell

J. Fall Roberson of Cropwell represen- tative-eleet from St. Clair county, was in Birmingham yesterday attending to his real estate business. MT. Roberson re- ceived the highest vote on the democrtic ticket. He is a member of the firm of James R. Roberson & Son. which proba- bly, does the largest business in St. Clair county having been established S5 years.
 "T am interested in giving St. Clair county better road laws, and a better jury system. Under the present law there is q serious fault in that juries are drawn from two sections. Cases have been at tackled on this ground, and I hope to have the trouble corrected, and the juries drawn from all parts of the county.
 eve had HOO bales of cotton in Crop well this year, an increase of 400 bales. The town is in fine shape. Collections are better than ever. In fact, St. Clair coun- ty is on the boom"