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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24
Southern Flakes
For supper with Strawberries.

We offer for sale an inter-
est in one of the best divi-
dend- paying mining invest
ments in the district. For
particulars inquire at the
Office of Brown Brothers &
Co., Woodward building;
Bell phone 384.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24
Admission, Ala. April 10th to 25th, 1907

On account of the above occasion the
Southern railway will cell tickets to An
.,iston. Ala, from --ome, Sel--a. Austell,
birmingham, Wilton, Gadsden and inter-
mediate stations. Tickets on sale April
IL and "a with final limit April 2s. Rate
one fare for the round trip. Minimum
rate so cents.
For further information call on any
ticket agent of the Southern railway, or
address the undersigned.
J. c. .-USk.
District Passenger Agent Birmingham.
Ala <-10-26r
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To Prove what Swamp.Root, the Great Kidney Remedy,
Will Do for YOU, Every Reader of The Age-Herald
May Have Sample Bottle Sent Free by Mail.

Weak unhealthy kidneys responsible for sickness and su
kidney permitted to continue fatal results
Your other atenonbu kidneys most because
they
Root
will
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24
ONE FARE RATE
10 Admission, Ala, and Return Via
Southern Railway.

Account Admission Chatauqua assembly
Southern railway will sell round-trip tick
cts to Admission April Is to "a, inclusive;
final limit April z6. 80. at rate of one
fare. Four trains daily each way.
j. c. LUSK
4-lo-26t District Passenger Agent
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24

The business men of Jasper have ap-
pointed a committee to urge the Illinois
Central railroad to build through that
section, offering right of way. etc.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24

It is stated that the farmers of Butler
county are behind with their work on
account of the excessive rains for the
past few weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24

There is some talk of trying to get up
a big old-fashioned country fair in Selma
this fall.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24
KLOTz & GOLDMAN,
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The depot at Clayton was burned this
week and also $14OO worth of freight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24
DRS. DOZIER & CO.,
PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS AND Elk.
PERT SPECIALISTS.

Treat successful
ly all Nervous
Blood. Skin. Rec
tai. V e n e r e a l
Genito-Urinary and
Female Complaints
and Delicate Dis
orders of Men and
w o m e n. Nearly
all operations of
surgical character
q o n e WITHOUT
PAIN to the pa
tient.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24
FEDERATION HOLDS
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Reports of President and Sec
rotary Are Continued
OTHER BESSEMtR NEWS
Giles-Jones Wedding Was Great Social
Event and Large Number of Per-
sons Are Present at Ceremony.
Mr.. Winters Laid to Rest.

Bessemer, April 2S.-(special)-The re-
ports of the president and secretary were
continued at the convention of the Fede-
ration of Labor this morning.
The secretary stated that the fedora
ton represented $4,000 miners, and recon-
mended that the constitution be changed
so as to provide for five vice presidents
H. N. Randall southern organizer, re-
ported an increase for the American
federation of 25O,OOO in eleven months.
After a brief morning session the con-
vention adjourned out of respect to W.
s. Winters, whose funeral took place to-
day.
The afternoon session was held behind
closed doors. Tonight a smoker will be
rendered the delegates by local miners at
the new armory.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24

Money to loan on real es-
tate from $500 to @25O. 900.
at low rates of interest. No
delays. Steiner Brothers,
Bankers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24
Committees Appointed.

The following committees were APP
pointed this morning:
Committee on official representation:
George Barber, ]. L. Cox, w. c. Ham
NETT. A. C. Babcock. B. L. Greer
Finance: p. II. Moore, H. N. Randle
r. II. Tenny.
Grievances: F. e. Cool, H. A. Marley
]. Won Readan, Richard Handy Dan Nc.
Cloud.
Resolutions: John Douglas, F. ]. Pei
vey, Sandy Williams, Pat McCarren, IL
A. Wright.
Union Label: L. C. Brill s. G. Shlndle-
hover, j. H. Bean.
Constitution: George Young, H. N. Ran
die, w. Hargans, l. Katzenstein, s. J.
Brooks.
Organization: w. e. Sisson, Ed. Sheets
NJ j. Hays, J. l.. Cartwell, John Wash
ington.
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Several of Selmas prominent young
men are circulating list for organiza-
ton of boat club, and have obtained
about forty signatures. They expect to
have membership of about one hundred.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24
What
Will Give
A Man,.

more comfort in a new hat than to
have the hat fit his head properly !?
A stock boy can hand you out hat and
tell you the price, but It takes expert
ence to look at you and produce the
hat that will fit your tace and fea-
tures-our statesmen do this. Let them
at your spring hat. We carry the best
hats made.
"Whatever comes from X. 6 G. Is
Korrect and Good"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24

The Selma Times says: 1t has been dis
covered that several citizens have given
In their ages to the registrars from Is to
20 years below par. This, however, does
not prevent them from voting in the COM
ing city election.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24

The Athens Courier says: Beginning
the first of May the electric light plant
will be run all night. 1t all depends on
the question of whether the town can
afford the expense or not as to how long
this arrangement will continue
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4-lo2st
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MRS. TYNER ABSTRACTS PAPARS
FROM SAFE IN P. 0. DEPARTMENT
Continued from First Paee)

months at a time. He is suffering from
an unusually severe case of paralysis,
and in consideration of this fact the re-
quest for his resignation was based on his
i'll health.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02
LETTERS TO EDITOR.
St. Louis Exhibit.

To the Editor of the Age-Herald.
 At the last meeting of the St. Louis commissioners a committee was ap- pointed to provide for raising funds, etc. The committee has not made any move The time is here when we have to make a move or else make Alabama be the most short sighted parsimonious, i'm provident state of the Union. In the end as in the beginning. the press alone can save the day and uphold the dignity of Alabama. From the first I have thought the commissioners would fail to get the amount asked for. As they cannot get this, they might get leFs. Georgia at last has appropriated so 900. The bill is now a law They remember their disgrace at Buffalo and will not try to stay away again.
 Ten thousand dollars up will give us a good display at St. Louis. We could have a mineral and agricultural display In the buildings devoted to those indus tries that would be fine for the above sum. Economy would make the money last and the proper effort would secure the exhibit practically free and the rail- roads would haul it there for nothing, even as they did before I am asking the leading dalies of the state to come out Thursday, August 27. and urge Colonel Poole to cal mass meeting of people interested in Alabama's welfare to meet at Montgomery the third day of the com- ing session of the legislature to work for an appropriation for an exhibit at St Louis. I hope you will do this. The first state on roll in name and many oth- CT ways cannot commit suicide in any such way as it is about to do. Yours for the good of the cause,
 ROSCOE W. GORMAN.
 Oplika, August, 1903.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.
Report of Royal Commission and It's
 Recommendations.

London-The report of the royal com mission on the South African war. issued today. adds little information to that already published. It refrains from com menting sn the conduct of individual officers strongly condemns the lack of preparations for war. indorses Lord Lans- downe's opinion expressed May 21, 1900, that such a condition Is full of peril to the empire, and says an unsatisfactory and insufficient safeguard has since been suggested to prevent a recurrence of so serious a scandal"
 From the beginning to the end of the war 44s,435 troops were engaged. and ow- ing to the drain caused by the South Af- rica defense Great Britain became danger ously weak in 1900.
 The commission asserts that the true lesson of the war is that no system is sat isfactory which does not contain the power of expansion outside of the limit of the regular imperial forces, and con firms the necessity for higher degree of intelligence in the men and a well edu- cated staff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02
HAsTILY-MADE CITIZENS.

From the New York Journal of Com
 merce.
 The question of importance in regard to this matter of alien immigration is becoming increasingly political rather than economic, and that aspect of the ques- ton receives too little attention. Efforts have been directed of late. and properly so within reasonable limits, to the ex- clusion of the Undesirable clements for economic reasons. But hastily making citizens and voters of this undigested and unassimilated mass of population is quite different matter. No man ought to have the right of suffrage under our form Of government until he has an understand ing of it's principles and an intelligent conception of the duties of citizenship. The native who grows up under eur sys- tenn and in its atmosphere acquires something of this capacity even if his education is neglected, and he Is more apt to fail on the moral than the mental side. But foreigners who are ignorant not only of the country and its history and institutions. but even of it's com mon language, cannot acquire fitness Tor exercising the right of suffrage in few years. If they have the language they may advance rapidly, but while they are ignorant of that and herd together m communities of their own they make little or no progress. They may be here twenty years and remain as alien as when they came.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02

The common stock was worth last year 26; it is now held at 2, with few or no bidders. Both preferred and com, mon are to be assessed eight dollars share in order to furnish a working capital to the company, which had none and which could not borrow, and the capitalization is to be cut down to twenty millions. It was either this or bankruptcy.
 The United States Leather company and the strawboard trust are also in deep water. Competitors have appear ed on every hand, and the necessity of taking them in on their own terms and of keeping up the unnatural war cannot borrow, and they cannot sell more bonds. The buying up of com petitors and the need of working cap ital are two things all trusts must face hereafter These are called the dis eases of trusts. Mills are started to sell out. or at any rate to take advan- tage of the high prices established by the trust. The independent mills thrive in any event, but the trust is steadily driven t0 the wall Tnctpad nf preventing overproduction, the trust invites it and its own ruin
 During the next two or three years the evils of industrial trustism will be rendered apparent, and the country will be lucky if it escapes general dis tress because of the failure and reor- ganizations of the thousand and one overcapitalized trusts of the last five years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02
Politics in New York.

William E. Curtis of the Chicago Record-Herald is considered a news paper man who seeks, accurate in formation and courageously presents it, regardless of who may be hurt by it. He has recently investigated poli- tical conditions in the democratic party in New York state, and he reaches the conclusion that ex.Senato- Hill is still the all-powerful demo- cratic politician of that state, in full control of the party as it's leader and director.
 He further says that MT. Hill does not desire Presidential nomination in 1904, and that he is doing all he can to promote the candidacy of Judge Parker It was through the advice of the latter's best friends that he did not run for governor Hast fall in New York. The chances for defeat were considered forbidding. As it turned put he probably could have been elect ed governor MT. Coler came within about 10000 votes of the gubernatorial prize, which is usually regarded as a stepping stone to the White House.
 But MT. Curtis information all goes  to show that MT. Hill is managing in B quiet and shrewd manner the can didacy of Judge Parker, and that he will beyond reasonable doubt arrange to give the votes of New York in the democratic national convention to the latter.
 MT. Curtis says MT Hill has by no means given up all ambition to be President himself. He is but sixty years old, and Is in excellent health He will be in the running either in 1908 or 1912. Even at the latter date ne will not be quite seventy years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02
BONNY DUNDEE,

By Sir Walter Scott To the lords of convention twas Cla-
 verse who spoke, Ere the kings crown shall fall there are
 crowns to be broke; So let each cavalier who love honor and
 me Come follow the bonnet of Bonny Dun-
 dee. Come fill up my cup come fill up my
 can. Come saddle your horses. and call up
 your men: Come open the West Port and let me
 gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny
 Dundee Dundee he is mounted. he rides up the
 street, The bells are rung backward, the drums
 they are beat; But the provost, douce man, said Just cen let him be, The gude town is weel quit of the deil
 of Dundee With sour featured whigs the Grassmar-
 ket was crammed, As. if half the west had set tryst to be
 hanged, There was spite in each look. there was
 fear in each ee, As they watched for the bonnets of Bon-
 ny Dundee. These cowls of Kilmarnock had spits and
 had spears, And lang halted gullies to kill cavaliers. And they shrunk to close heads, and the
 causeway was free. At the toss of the bonnet of Bonny Dun
 dee.
 rocks Ere own an usurper. I'll couch with the
 fox; And trembIe. false whigs, in the midst
 of your glee; You've not seen the last of my bonnets
 and me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02
Things without remedy should be without regard.
 Macbeth.
Peonaae in South Alabama.

There is no color line in the Prest- wood eases that arose in South Ala bama. These cases grew out of an at tempt on the part of a turpentine farmer and his official son to oppress a family of poor whites, and it reads like a chapter from the Dark Ages. And yet a correspondent of the Att lanta Constitution says that the Prest- wood cases represent "a fearful condi- tion of affairs that exists in num- Der of communities in the lower tier ol white counties" in this state
 The circumstances in these cases are so barbaric and cruel that the Age. Herald declines to repeat them. An old man and his two sons were made peons by justice of the peace in the good state of Alabamal The story as told by the correspondent of the Con stitution should induce the legislature to investigate at least the office of the justice of the peace. In towns and cities it can perhaps be abolished, substituting instead judges of in. ferfor courts serving nvt for fees but on salaries. Perhaps the entire system can be put on salary basis.
 All cases of peonage arise or are promoted in cou. Ss of justices of the peace, and a study of the persecution of Bob English and his two sons will convince any one that some remedy against such oppression of the weak and igorant Is needed. The best re- form seems to consist in fhe wiplng out of the fee system altogether, and in all towns of the justices of the peace. The latter are in many cases unfit to Hold office, and the unfit jus tices of the peace are bringing dis credit and disgrace upon this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02
from the Chicago Inter-ocean.
FIFE news from Seattle recalls Mark . Twain's account of his attempt to

from the chicago lnter-Ocean.
 %HE news from Seattle recalls Mark (0 Twain's account of his attempt to
 use a glacier as a freight train. He was up in the Alps with baggage which he felt indisposed to carry down again. He was told the glacier was al ways moving down. Sc he resolved to load his baggage on that and thus save himself labor.
 Then he learned that the glacier could not be expected to get his baggage to the foot of the mountain in less than 1,6 years Although he was satisfied from observation that this rate of trayei was somewhat faster thanethat of the ordi- nary German freight train. he felt ti,at he could not wait quite so long for a clean shirt. So he hired a man to carry his trunk.
 The people of Seattle and negnDor- ing cities are about to do, in a way what Mark Twain was unable to do. They are going to travel about not exactly on the glaciers of Tacoma, but at any rate by means of the power furnished by those glaciers.
 Tacoma has the largest ice cap of ny mountain in the western nemisohere It's area is more than three times that 1f the state of Rhode Island. It is the source of many rivers of considerable volume and rapid descent. Works are n5w under construction which will supply the power that will enable the people of that region to travel by glacier.
 Just below where the Mowich river joins the Puya1lup at point 1900 feet above the sea and thirty-five miles from the city of Tacoma, a dam is building From this a canal will run nearly eleven miles to a reservoir. Thence steel tubes four feet in diameter will drop the water 170o feet upon water wheels.
 The net fall. deducting allowances for friction due to the slope of the pipes. will be $50 feet The power produced with the four wheels to be first Installed will equal that of 10000 horses. The power will be used to drive trolley cars and for other purposes. Other wheels will be added as needed and other streams utilized. The engineers estimate that all the power needed for the Puget sound district can be obtained from the glaciers of this one mountain.
 Another good thing about this utiliza-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02

weeks. The trip will be made by way of Memphis and Indian territory, aud a stop of few days will be made at Waco Tex.
 R. L. Ray of Chicago is stepping at the Metropolitan. J. c. Jones of Pensacola Is registered at the Morris. A. E. Fields of Blountsville wasin the city yesterday. Dr. J. D. Gibson is very sick with fever at the Gibson sanitarium.
  Congressman Bankhead was in Bir- mngham yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02
Idle Spindles.

The New York Commercial has been soliciting information from the cot ton mills north as well south as to their supplies of cotton up to october l, and it concludes from the informa- tion it has been able to gather that fully 5,000,000 spindles are either idle or working a portion of the time only, on account of the high price of cot ton This number is about one-quarter of the spindles in the country.
 In Alabama three mills are shut down, five are partially closed and eleven are running with restricted output. Such proportions extend to all other spinning states, and it is prob able that production will be cut down about 25 per cent until October brings out a full supply of the fleecy staple.
 The truth is, the mills are about out of cotton, and they cannot get enough new cotton before November. Condi- tions are not a bit normal, the crop Is late, and all the spindles will not be running much before November 1.
 The readjustment of the prices of cotton goods stand in the way, The prices of goods must be advanced, but the basis of such an advance will not be established until the size of the new crop is better ascertained. All mill men expect to see goods prices go higher, but the movement has not yet taken form While MT. Brown and his associates are holding the prices of the raw material up, no one seems to be interested in. advancing the prices of goods. But this difficulty will adjust itself When all see that the crop is not sufficient for the worlds needs-and it certainly will not be- the prices of goods will quickly be adjusted to the situation. There need be no doubt as to this, because the crop cannot at this late day be en- larged. The world must take the crop as it stands, or soon will stand, and make the best of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02
About Persons.

w. l.. Shepherd of Maplesville is stop ping at the Hillman.
 w. c. Mcclellan of Nashville is regis tered at the Morris.
 c. B. Nuzum of Tuscaloosa is at the Metropolitan.
 J. H. Clagett of Aldrich is at the St. Nicholas
 J. E. Sanford of Huntsville is stopping at the Hillman.
 M. l.. Lowenthal of Buffalo is stop ping at the Morris.
 c. l.. Barker, Jr., of Marion is register ed at the Metropolitan.
 George Maynes and wife of Chicago are at the St. Nicholas.
 Joseph Gump of Baltimore is stopping at the Morris.
 Dr. R. Wilbur Hawkins, B. B. Jor- dan and R. l.. Killough will leave this morning for San Antonio. Tex, where they will probably remain for several
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02
Trusts Invite Competition.

Reorganizations of trusts are now progressing, and during the next two or three years there will be a lively especially if there should occtr a period of business reaction.
 A typical case of over-capitalization md the payment of dividends not earned is presented in the reorganiza. ion of the Consolidated Lake Superior company, an ore-mining company, cap talized at s102, 100000. Last year the preferred stock of this company was iuoted at 80; it is now selling at s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Impressed wIth RlrmInohann.

During the past few years I have made my home at St. Paul. said a north ern man, ''and when I reached Birmins- ham this morning I was very agreeably surprised.
 T can truthfully say that as I stood on the corner of Twentieth street and Second avenuethis afternoon l saw more people on the street=than ever saw dur ing my entire stay in St. Paul. This is little remarkable when it is taken Into consideration that St. Paul has an aecred- tied population of 16oO00, while l under stand that Birmingham has not more than 50.OOO within the corporate limits.
 Minneapolis, where I have also spent much time, has a population of 100000, and yet l have never seen at any one time as many people on the street there as l have seen since I reached Birming- ham today A striking feature about the people on the streets down here is that they look and act as though they were going somewhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 When a man can't make himself behave he has brains his mother can.
 When a girl says she perfectly adoros a man sine means he is good enough to fiirt with.
 It's mighty queer how many women will go on trusting their instinct. even after they have married their husbands that way.
 Vanity looks through a magnifying glass when 1t is interpretive and through a microscope when it examines others
 A woman makes a fool of herself by bragging about things she ought not to- and a man by not bragging about things he ought to.