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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
Cost of the PhiIIpptnes.

The country will soon begin to ask,
What are the Philippines worth, any
how? These islands have already
cost us 100000 900. and each year of
occupation is adding s6O,OOO,O0O to this
sum. General Wheaton, who has been
on the spot, estimates the cost of the
first ten years of occupation at bill
lion of dollars. He did not say what
the cost in American lives would he
in a tropical land afflicted perennially
with plague and cholera. but it is con-
servative to put it at 100000 souls.
The problem is a very difficult one
How to let go is as difficult as to hold
on, and altogether no one sees an
easy way out Of the difficulty. Spain
was perhaps the wiser of the two &C.
cupants of the islands after all. She
was content to hold Manila and few
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
A MORMON SENATOR.
From the Boston Herald.

FROM the Boston Herald.
The statement comes from Utah that
the Mormons Of that state mean to have
a senator who shall be one of their num-
Der in something more than name when
the next United States Senate convenes.
They have picked out Elder Smoot, one
of the leading officers of their church,
for this position. Elder Smoot is a Re-
publican, and reminds the politicians that
he was Republican before he was a
Mormon official. 1t is In the latter capa-
city that he comes forward, now, how
ever. He wants the seat of Mr.. Rawlins.
and there seems to be a oliticians' ar
rangement that he shall have 1t. Mr..
Kearns. the present Republican senator
from Utah. Is man said to be worth
H5,O00,000, the richest inhabitant Of the
state. He is reported to have a good
understanding with Smoot, and his wealth
and the Norman church in combination
are thought to be irresistible. Yet there
are Republicans who refuse to support
a man SO much a Mormon as Is Smoot,
and the Democrats may present an anti
Norman issue in the coming campaign
for the legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Ironworkers.

Notwithstanding the fact that TINS Is
an age Of schooling and widespread ihlor-
nation, a large majority of the nrst-e'ass
ironworkers in Pennsylvania do not seem
TO understand that Birmingham Is within
comparatively easy travelling distance OF
their homes" said an iron manufactures
of Alabama who spends considerable
time In and around Pittsburg.
"Pennsylvanians have an idea ina.
birmingham is as far away practically
as Kansas CITY or even Denver. They
would think nothing of going TO Kansas
City to get a good job, and yet II you
ask them to come to Alabama they say
That's too far And then these men
have got 1t into their heads that the sum-
mers here are excessively hot. Some OF
them actually think that the thermometer
registers a hundred and thirty or forty IN
the shade and that everybody has feVer.
A campaign of education should be start
ed to remove these erroneous Impressions.
In time the Birmingham district Will
be fully supplied with skilled and settled
mechanics who can turn Oul all Soi 70 VI
finished product. This class of workers
is pretty we'll represented here now.
There are probably enough of these men
to supply the present demand, but / am
speaking of difficulties that will confront
employers in case two or three steel mills
and several other high industries are put
up in this section in the near future. And
still, this labor problem should not and
will not deter capital from going ahead
with industries that are most needed here
now. Put up the finished product plants
and the wage-workers will come, even If
it be hard to get them at the beginning.
Il simply started out to speak of the
misconception of the average Pennsyl-
vanla wage worker touching Alabama.
Those who come here are more than
pleased with our climate, In ten years I
suppose, everybody will know the truth
about our section, and then 1t will be as
easy to fill up the mills in the Birming.
ham district as 1t is to fill up the big
works in the North"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
TENNESSEE JUDICIARY.
New Members Nominated for Members
of Supreme Court.

Nashville, May 30.-The Democratic
state judiciary convention which met here
today transacted its business with dis
patch, nominating Ave candidates for
membership of the Supreme Court and
three for the Chancery Court of Appeals,
The ticket follows:
For Supreme Court-John K Shields Of
Hamblem: John s. Wilkes of Giles; W.
X. McAlister of Davidson; w. d. Beard
of Shelby, NJ. M. Nell of Gibson.
For Court of Appeals-R. M. Barton Of
Hamilton, S. f. Wilson of Sumner. John
NJ. Taylor of Henderson.
The nominations were all made. by ac-
clama ton though the fight between Hon.
John NJ. Taylor of Henderson and Hon.
e. s. Mallory of Madison for the third
place on the Court of Chancery Appeals,
was spirited before the ballot was taken.
The ballot was to 1 in Taylor's favor
and on motion 1t was mads unanimous.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
Eoers That VIII Not Be Brltons.

The irreconcilable Beers are already
preparing to trek northward, where
there are no Britons to modest them.
They have preempted two large tracts
of land, the one adjoining the Portu-
guese province near the Transyaal,
containing $1,000 square miles of land,
and the other far away In German
East Africa. The latter contains 25,-
900 square miles, and is already called
Langeberg.
The story of the Beers is remark
able one. Their chief desire is to be
isolated and independent. The great
trek of 1897 carried them to the Trans
vaal, then more isolated than any part
of Africa is today. In that great trek
faul Kruger was but boy, and he
is today the sole survivor of 1t. The
new trek VIII not be more difficult
than the one of 1887 was, and no doubt
large numbers will join 1t. Perhaps
considerable numbers have already left
the two crushed republics.
This desire to leave their old homes
springs chiefly from a love for
patriarchal and pastoral life, such as
is told of in many book of the Old
| Testament, and this accounts in part
at least for their stubborn refusal to
accept assimilation in any form. They
refuse not only to be assimilated but
they dislike association of any sort.
The real, genuine Boer does not want
a neighbor even Of his own race and
language In sight: Isolation on the
broad veldt is his ideal life.
England will not be apt to hinder
the irreconcilables from trekking
where they will. The more that go
the simpler will her task of recon
struction be, and the more readily can
Adjudication be carried on. In their
new land the brave Beers will be safe
perhaps If no gold or diamond mines
are discovered there, for no nation
will desire to accept England's expert
ence and expense for the sake of ac-
quiring a few thousand square miles
of African territory. The irreconcil-
able Beers would be welcomed In this
country, but they do not desire assim-
ilation, and they know that that would
await them here. A trek northward
is all that is open to them in their
present frame of mind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
About Persons.

ABOUT TcrSonss
w. P. Galloway and wife OF Admission
are at the Hillman.
William ]. Ellis of Wilmington, Del,
is at the Hillman.
John Hall of New Haven, Conn.,. is at
the Hillman.
J. H. Hall of Augusta. Ca, is at the
Hillman.
]. NJ. Musgrove of Jasper is in the city.
Frank N. Julian of Tuscumbia is at the
Metropolitan.
John V. Smith. president of the railroad
commission is at the Metropolitan.
Virgil C. Griffin. secretary of the rail-
road commission is at the Metropolitan.
Mayor George H. Parker of cullman is
at the Metropolitan.
C. J. Briant of Rome. Ca. is at the
Metropolitan.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. ]. Thompson OF Selma
are at the Metropolitan.
E. B. Campbell and wife of Troy are
at the Metropolitan.
Dr. s. NJ Cox of Bangor is at the Me-
tropolitan
John A. Mccain of New Decatur is at
the Metropolitan.
Max Oeser, of Cullen, is at the Metro
politan.
E. j. Waddell. of Philadelphia, is at the
Morris.
o. E. Marshall, of North Carolina, is
at the Morris.
w. B. Oliver, of Tuscaloosa. is at the
Morris.
w. C. Carpenter. of Aidrich. is at the
Morris.
R. r. Anderson. of New York. is at
the oMrris.
o. NJ. Cawthon, wife and nurse, Of
Selma, are at the Morris.
Hon. John C. Eyster, Of New Decatur,
who accompanied the railroad commits
sion from New Decatur TO Chattanooga,
and return, is at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
GAINES AND ST. PIERRE BILL.

From the Washington Times.
Yes" said Representative John Wes-
ley Gaines, of Tennessee, yesterday, Il
was one of the nine members who voted
against the appropriation for the relief
Of the Martinique sufferers. And 1 did
so from principle. 1 DO net believe we
have the right to vote the peoples money
taken by taxation for the support of the
government, for the benefit Of private in
dividuals, however worthy the cause. l
appreciate the sufferirgs of the victims
OF the Martinique disaster and l con-
trlbuted out Of my own pocket s25 to the
fund subscribed by the citizens for their
relief Just as freely and cheerfully as 1
did SOS for tho sufferers Of the Coal Creek
mine horror of Tennessee"
Mr.. Gaines Is a strict constructionist
of the constitution and Is opposed to
appropriating money for private pur-
poses.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
About Birmingham.

While Birmingham Is one of the best
advertised cities in the United States. or
In the world, for that matter there are
yet many persons in New York who are
supposed to be we'll informed who have
no idea where this city is or what ut Is
all about"
There is not day in the year, l sup
pose. that the New York dailes do not
print Birmingham date line" said Mr..
Michael Maloney, land still / run across
people at the great metropolis who never
heard of Birmingham. And many who
have heard of the place know nothing of
Its industries or its promising future.
These are the persons, no doubt who
look over the papers in a hurry and who
do not remem Der what they see. On the
other hand. l meet many New Workers
who are thoroughly informed and who
know as much about this district as l
do"
The Rev Father Sweeney, assistant to
the Rev. Father O'Reilley, of St. Paurs.
returned yesterday from New York, af-
ter a stay there of several weeks He
was surprised to meet men who dis
played ignorance about Birmingham. One
of his New York friends said he thought
Birmingham was in Georgia.
I'VE boast of the public schools of the
United States and that being so 1t is
quite dscouraging to find young men and
women who are ignorant of American
geography and the distinctive character of
American communities, remarked a per-
son who was listening to Father Swee-
ney. 'If the schools would pay more at
tention to the study OF important cities
1t might be WELL"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Mr.. Edward j. O'Beirne, the engineer
and contractor of this city, has just COM
pleted a $4,000 water works at Hatties-
burg Miss The council of that city was
so much pleased with the job that it
passed a resolution thanking Mr.
O'Beirne for the thorough manner In
which he had executed his contract.
Mr.. O'Beirne is building a $4,000 water
works for Gloucester, Miss. and on Mon
day he will begin the construction of
$4,000 water and light plant at Halle
hurst, Miss. The pressure of the Hat
tiesburg works is 100 pounds to the
square inch. This of course gives first
class fire protection and does away en-
tirely with fire engines.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
LOOM FIxERS WALK OUT.
The Trouble at Augusta Cotton Mills
Again Complicated.

Augusta, Ca, May 30.-The trouble at
the King mill was again complicated
more today by the walking out of all the
loom fixers except two. This was done, it
is said on a preemptory order by Secre-
tary HILBERT of the National Textile
Workers Association received by wire
yesterday.
The striking operatives have been or
dered to vacate the companys houses
and all are moving out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
Kentucky viii Postpone.

Louisville, KY, May S0-As the result
of a conference this afternoon between
the Indiana and Kentucky boar.s Of
health, the Kentucky board agreed to
postpone the quarantine order against
Indiana which was to become effective
June l for 10 days from today. 1t is said
when all necessary precautions have
been taken by the Indiana authorities to
stamp out the smallpox, the order will be
withdrawn. This action was taken on
account of assurances being given by the
Indiana board that all precautions would
be taken to prevent a spreading of the
disease.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
Lemons.

''While the trade in lines Is increasing
year by year there Is no diminution in the
consumption of lemons In this county,
said Morris Avenue merchant yesterday.
1.-The Birmingham lemon trade amounts
to between thirty and thirty-five thousand
boxes year. A box contains $50 lemons.
The market is naturally active at this
time of the year and 1t will be still more
active as the summer advances. Lemons
are worth 81 but the price will probably
go up to IS or Sc for the best"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
MISCONCEPTIONS.
BY Robert Browning.

By Robert Browning.
This is a spray the Bird chung TO-
Making it blossom with pleasure,
Ere the high tree-top she sprung 70
Fit for her nest and her treasure.
Oh. what a hope. beyond measure
Was the poor sprays, which the nyins
feet hung to-
So to be singled out, built in and sung 10
This is heart the Queen leant on,
Thrilled In a minute erratic.
Ere the true bosom she bent on,
Meet for loves legal dalmatic.
Oh, what a fancy ecstatic
Was the poor hearts, ere the wanoeret
went on
Love to be saveo for it, proffered n
spent on!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
Capitalists Coming.

Mr.. Otto Marx and Mr.. George B.
Ward returned yesterday from New Or
leans whittier they had gone on business
A party Of prominent bankers of the
Crescent City, who have large invest
mepts in Birmingham, notably in the
Railway. Light and Power Company. and
who are also especial friends of Mr.. Marx
and Mr.. Ward have arranged to visit this
city next week.
''The Birmingham Railway. Light and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
1T MAY TAKE ALL SUMNER.

From the Hamilton News
AS the Democratic nomination for any
office in Alabama is equivalent to an
election we favor a primary for said
nomination. The Democratic party can
not afford to allow a few self-appointed
leaders to say who the nominees shall be.
The people will have state primary II
1t takes all summer to get it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM.

From the Marion Standard.
Birmingham is fast becoming the hub,
Last week she secured the Seaboard Ai-
Line Railroad, giving her another trunk
line East and to the coast. She has virtu-
ally secured direct schedule over the
Southern through the heart of the Black
Belt of Alabama which will also prove a
big local feeder. Great Is Birmingham"
is fast becoming the common slogan, and
her prophets are legions
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Truth was invented to make enemies
for the man who tells It,
Friends can be bought, though you
never can sell them for anything.
1t is better never to cut your wisdom
teeth than to think you know any more
when you have done 1t.
Half the men in the world don't know
enough to get ahead of other men; the
other half don't know enough not to let
the other men get ahead OF them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
MAY DEPEND UPON 1T.

From the San Antonio Express.
Webster Davis has not yet been heard
from as to the peace terms. but he is prob
ably in direct communication with Gen
eral Pearson and other belligerent Beers
who have kept the broad ocean between
themselves and the struggling Beers In
South Africa,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
Georgia Delegation Leaves.

Atlanta. May 30.-The Georgia delega-
ton to the American tuberculosis Con-
gress to be held in New York next week
left Atlanta today. George Brown of
Atlanta. vice president of the congress,
will present to the convention a PROPOSE
ton to hold an international tuberculosis
congress in ST. Louis in 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
Takes Soldiers From Martinique.

New Orleans May So.-French steam
ship Paraguay. from Santos via Rio de
Janeiro. with coffee, previously reported
at Port Eads, has reached this city from
quarantine, and after discharging. will
sail for Martinique, having been charter
ed by, the French government to carry
1900 soldiers from Martinique, to France.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

The Jefferson Bible is by far the
best public document ever issued. JEFF
ferson was by no means an atheist or
freethinker
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

We now have a statue of Rocham-
beau, and will soon have one of Fred
erick the Great. One of that noble
Briton, w. w. Astor, would complete
the collection.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Peace may come in South Africa,
but not in Thirty-second street, where
the corporations are at war in a street
belonging to the people.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

The Duchess Of Marlborough, an
American, should at least be permitted
to try the new garter that has come
to the family.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

The Duke of Marlborough presum-
ably was honored with the Order of
the Garter on account of his brilliant
South African campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Thousands of school children will
recall in years to come their greeting
of Fitzhugh Lee in Capitol Park on
beautiful day in May.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Power Company securities are In active
demand in New Orleans and they are
regarded with more and more favor as
Birmingham grows and the company ex-
pands," said Mr.. Marx. New Orleans is
a city Of large capital and 1t is always
gratifying to find New Orleans people
looking this way
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

From the Admission Evening Star.
General Lee asked at the Union depot
this morning: Isn't there town near
Admission called Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

The British will soon have an op-
Fol tunity to show their skill in benevo-
lent assimilation in South Africa.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

The scientists are sending out ex-
plantations that do not explain Mont
Pelee, which is breaking all records.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Montana and Indiana are now neck
and-neck in literary productions, with
Mary McLane gaining at every turn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

The dove of peace in South Africa
keeps a fresh palm branch constantly
at hand
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Secretary of the Treasury Shaw pro-
poses to duplicate the Thompson trip,
making Iowa the rendezvous.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

The vicious snakes of Martinique
were not spared by Mont Pelee, which
is no respecter of life.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

One neglected rain barrel can stock
an entire neighborhood with mos
quitoes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

The impression gains ground that
Captain Hobson will be put on the
retired list.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Julia Ward Howe is now in her saith
yer, and may fairly be considered the
grand old woman of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

The Tom Johnson Presidential boom
Should lengthen out it's front name.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31
From the scottsboro Citizen.

The Seaboard Air Line Railroad Is
making arrangements to build into Bir-
miugham at an early date. Truly Bir-
mingharn Is getting to be a great rail-
road center.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Thus far Russell Sage has resisted
all temptation of one of those Panama
hats
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

President Palma wants more pros
perity and less politics in his readopted
country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Burns lived before the beef trust
was organized, for he wrote: :.
Some haze meat and Gamma eat
And some wad eat that want 1t.
But we haze meat, and we can eat.
Sac let the Lord be thankit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Napoleon Lajoie is another victim
of government by injunction.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Beef on the hoof or off it is still
very high, and may be higher.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Mont Pelee has apparently taken a
q. .ntract to fill up the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

President Palma kept. bis first mes
sage within the space Of a column. He
thus scores at the start.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

The beef trust at present considers
that silence is golden
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Cuba has it "ln" for us, for she is
about to turn Nicely and Rathbone
loose.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

The silver dollar is to be dissolved
into dimes, quarters and the like.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

The coronation show is in the re-
hearsal stage.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-31

Congress Had Almost Agreed on
Day to Adjourn When Singular
Objection Was Made. SC - -