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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
Politics in Clay.

Judge Terry Richardson of Montgomery Is at the Morris. He has returned from a trip to Clay county, where he went to look after some business interests. While at Ashland, the county seat of Clay he had a joint debate with the re- publican spell binder. Professor J. T. Blakemore, who has essayed to run against Oscar Underwood in the Ninth district but who is at present stumping the Fifth district.a
 In speaking of the incident Judge Rich ardson said: "I accidentally happened upon Professor Bakemore, when he was discussing the national issues with the people of Clay Some of the democrats asked him to divide time with me, and for about three hours we discussed the issues of the campaign. The professor made a feeble attempt to evade the ne gro question but I brought it to the front as the chief issue before us.
 'I am confident that Clay will give all the democratic nominees big ma jority."
 While Judge Richardson does not say who got the best of the debate. it is understood that he refuted the profess sor's arguments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
Truck Farming in the South.

Richard Ingles, industrial agent of the Gulf and Ship Island railroad says he has formed thirty local associations of farmers along the Ship Island road. Tn these associations are over three thousand cooperating farmers, all pledged to grow truck of one sort or another for shipment to large markets, chiefly in the northern cities.
 Truck growing for commercial pur- poses Is becoming fad or fashion along the Ship Island railroad. Many a farmer is getting for his products one hundred dollars an acre, and MT. Ingles says sales could be doubled if the farmers would use gang blows ca pablo of blowing five or six acres a day, instead of pony blows that can loosen up but half an acre a day, and that in an inferior manner Refriger- ation, too, is needful when the pro ducts are first removed from the field. MT. Ingles is endeavoring both to in- duce the farmers along the Ship Is- land road to engage in farming, and to use improved machinery and i'm proved methods from start to finish. He is indefatigable and is meeting with a high degree of success.
 The truth is, the gulf states should grow all the truck that the markets will absorb at reasonable prices. The climate enables us to anticipate all growers in the north and to get better prices. The work MT. Ingles is doing in Mississippi should be duplicated by other men in Alabama. We have made a good start here and there, but we need a broad and general movement that will cover the lower half of the state, and make inroads even in the upper half, for the entire state IS adapted to truck growing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
The Ever-Young Old Man.

From the New York World.
 "old man Davis of West Virginia" Is not satisfied with doing a regular stunt at travelling and speechmaking that might easily appall a youngster of half his years, but he jokes Davy Hill on his bachelorhood and challenges ex-Governor White of Maryland, another octogenarian, to contest before ladies for the prize of manly beauty. The race is still young and we can furnish our Gladstones on occasion. The times has been prophesied when we would no longer grow teeth, and a German promises that we shall man age to exist and work without sleep with the examples before us why not dream of other MethIselahs before all Is done?
 But these old mn are bringing the good service out of them. Senator FL kins is leading the fight in his state against the democratic ticket, but his sons and daughters, under the leadership of his Wife are discounting all his efforts by following and giving good reasons why Grandpa Davis" is still the best man in the lot. Other grandsons are rushing to the war while the grandfathers in Wheel ing are unanimous for their old playmate the cry of Eliminate the Middle Man. captures the miners, and Tom Watson struggles in vain to swim against the current set running to the sea of demo- cratic victory.
 Since the republicans of Delaware con- doned the sins of the Unspeakable Ad- dicks at the request of Roosevelt they claim the state by the votes of the united faction, but the "Old Men" have called for their champion and Davis is going it is time for the gray heads to get together and vindicate themselves if they would not be forever fallen under the feet of their children. Long life to the old men and power to their tongues and arms
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
MT. BrYan's Indiana Tour.

The Indiana tour that MT. Bryan undertook at the request of the na- tional campaign committee Is ended, and it was successful from start to finish. Wherever the great leader went he was greeted by old-time num- bers, and he carried them up to their ofd-time enthusiasm.
 MT. Bryan is unquestionably the most popular and perhaps the most forceful stumper in the country today. He retains the confidence of thou sands and tens of thousands of voters. It is not 100 much to say that he has a larger personal following than any man possesses or has possessed in the history of our politics. Henry Clay had large personal following and so had James G. Blaine, and so has MT. Cleveland, but no one of them at any time equalled MT. Bryan in the re- spect of popular support.
 It should be cause for congratula' tion that this great leader has no sore spots to exhibit in the present cam paign. He did not support Judge Parker in the St. Louis convention, but he Loyalty accepted the result, and no one is doing better work for the ticket. He will doubtless speak daily until the day of ballots comes, and the verdict of all fair-minded democrats will be, regardless of re- suits, that the Nebraskan leader did his duty manfully and unfalteringly. MT. Bryan is still a young man among leaders. He recently said that he ex- pected to stay in politics thirty years, and thirty years may bring him sur prising rewards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
A Smooth Scheme.

"A smooth scheme has been worked by several negro girls on the parents Of small children residing on the North Highlands. for the past few days said a resident of that section last night.
 "I myself was a victim. My little girl was playing on the sidewalk a short distance from my house, when q negro girl in some way induced her to follow. After walking the child around several blocks and getting her tired and dusty, the negress returned to my house and in- formed me that my child had been lost, and that she found her long distance off The appearance of the chold, who her self was too excited to make a denial, added to the plauslbility of the story In my joy I rewarded the girl right lib erally and did not realize my mistake until several hours later when my little girl told me the truth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
That Baltic Fleet.

To sail a fleet fifteen thousand miles with no coaling stations en route is no light task, and when that fleet is officered by men of little experience, and the ships are by no means of the best class, the task becomes all the heavier. Only four of the seven bat tleships of the Baltic fleet ara new. and the four are not up to the Best of modern construction. The eight ar mored or protected cruisers in the fleet would not add to it's fighting strength in battle. Upon the seven battleshlps would fall the burden of battle with the Japanese fleet. One of the seven is six years old, and two of them are fourteen years old.
 But the chief difficulty of the voy- age consists in finding fuel. The talk ing on of fuel at sea has not been fully solved, and some consider 1t inn practicable, especially when large fleet is to be thus supplied. Whatever delay occurs to any vessel of the fleet occurs to all for all must as q matter of common defence keep in touch The fleet must go if it go at all as fleet, and not as single ships.
 As the fleet would at the best be eight or mae weeks in making the trip. it would encounter at Vladivos- tok ice, and there would be some Ice to contend with at Port Arthur. There would also be the Japanese fleet to overcome. Five new, well-equipped battleships, manned by men of ripe experience would meet them, and a battle would have to be fought then and there. The supremacy of the sea would be the stake, and the utmost efforts of the Japanese would be ex- erted. The five battleshlps would De aided by eight armored cruisers and fourteen protected cruisers, besides numerous torpedo boats and destroy CTS. "On the whole" says an expert it. the London Times, ~even after talk ing into consideration the fact that in
 
 the four new battleships the Russians possess at least on paper very formid- able naval factor, there do not appear to be satisfactory reasons for modify ing our opinion that the Russian ad- niralty will be attempting a very hazardous experiment if it persists in launching this untried force upon a journey halfway round the world, to be met at the termination of it's al-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
Prosperity of the MormonS.

The Mormons are no longer local institution confined to Salt Lake basin. They are spreading themselves over the earth. There are Mormons in England, Canada, Mexico, New Zea- land and Australia, and 1500 elders are kept at work in twenty mission fields, making proselytes for the church that Joe Smith founded These missionaries can be found in Germany, France, Sweden and Denmark, as well as in nearly all the states of this country.
 The Mormons at present constitute 7U per cent of Utah, and they are the balance of power in Wyoming Nevada and Idaho. They are always in poll. tics up to their eyes and one of the most corr .,t political bargains this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
WARMING ON MIGRANTS,
Ie Macon Telegraph.

T rIOHl the MacOn IeIegraph.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald says:
 The Memphis Commercial Appeal makes a strong plea for the enforcement of the vagrancy law based upon the recent kill ing in Memphis of a police officer and the wounding of several others by des- perate negro What the Commercial Ap- peal has to say for Memphis applies with equal force in Birmingham. There is not city in the south of any size that does not have to suffer from the lawlessness bred from idleness. There is not a city that is nos now and then called upon to mourn the loss of some brave officer of the law shot down by some desperado who ought to have been put to work or run out of the community long before A tragedy similar to the deplorable one in Memphis is apt to occur at any time in any city where the negro population is large and where there is worthless lot Of men supported in likeness by the labor of cooks and washerwomen. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and the Birmingham police should at all times be alert to round up the vagrants. Clean out the dives and make the idle go to work on .ne streets if they won t work elsewhere. Enforce the cocaine law and with those precautions the dan ger of tragedies like that at Memphis will be materially lessened.
 Georgia has a far better vagrancy law than either Tennessee or Alabama It is not enforced as 1t should be. There is abundant opportunity for men and women to work if they would only do so The condition in Memphis as the Birmingham Age-Herald well says threatens the com munal welfare of every southern city. The police authorities should enforce the law
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
PROVE THE
 COLORED BROTHER BUSY

black actresses, and ten Afro-American female lawyers. Che negro woman works as a roofer, another as a plumber, and forty-five of them are blacksmiths, iron and steel workers and machinists. Three are wholesale and S6O retail merchants Others are journalists, literary persons. artists, musicians, government officials, and practitioners of an infinite variety of skilled and unskilled trades.
 In many respects the colored popula- tions bear a marked resemblance to a European peasantry. Take for instance, the extensive employment of women in agriculture Nearly 6OO,OO0 negro women and girls-almost as many as the num- bers in all other occupations combined are engaged in farming Over half a million of them are employed as rarm la borers, outnumbering the white women three to one.
 Negroes operate about one-eighth of all the farms in the United States, which is rather more than their proportion of the population. But, of course their share of the acreage and value Of the land is much smaller-only 4.6 per cent of the former and 2.7 per cent of the latter In South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana more than half of all the farms are worked by negroes.
 Moreover, half of all the cotton planta- tions in the United States are under black control, although, of course, they av- craze less in size than those run by white men. The black farms of all kinds pro- duce greater values to the acre than the white. There Is great stretch of land. extending from the Atlantic to the gulf coast of Texas, in which more than half of all the farms are operated by negroes. In three counties more than nineteen twentieths of the farms are in coored hands; in thirteen counties more than three-fourths, and in 2O5 counties in eleven states more than half.
 Negro barbers, porters, servants and walters loom large in the popular imagin- ation, but they really form an insignf- cant part of the colored race. The bar bers are little over half of per cent of the income-earning negro men. Servants and walters are Az per cent. Over SS per cent of those men are engaged in agricul- ture.
 It is noteworthy that the proportion or self-supporting negroes Is much larger than that of self-supporting whites. or all over 10 years old, S4.1 per cent of the col ored males and 4O.7 per cent of the col ored females are engaged in gainful oc- equations, against 79.5 per cent or the white males and 16 per cent of the white females similarly occupied. These are hg- ures to which the negro can point with pride" when he is accused of preferring the midnight chicken and the surrepu- tious watermelon to the joys of labor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
THE VoIcELESS.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes. We count the -fokvi. Tyres that rest Where the sweet wailng singers slum-
 ber. But OCT their silent sisters breast The wild flowers who will stoop to num-
 Der? A few cantouch the magic string, And noisy fame is proud to win them Atlas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts sad
 story Weep for the voiceless, who have known The cross without the crown of glory. No: where Leucadian breezes sweep Ger Sapphos memory-haunted pillow, But where the glistening night -dews weep On nameless Sorrows churchyard pill
 low.
 0 hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses, Till death pours out his cordial wine Slow dropped from r-isery's crushing
 presses- If singing breath or echoing chord To every hidden panC were given, What endless melodies were poured. As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Abundant Crops.

T have never known such fine etops III my section as we have been gathering this fall" said Congressman J. Il. baiiN- head of the Sixth district, who caine II oi' his home at Fayette yesterday T 'niiN the cotton in my neighborhood has sieiu ed 25 per cent more than ever peiore' am getting my cotton to market as iast as possible, for the crop is not gong to fall below 115QooO bales. and present prices are good enough for me-
 T have also made large corn ana nay crops. and every farm product has been wonderfully prolific
 Asked about politics. Congressman Bankhead said he only knew what he saw in the papers. He does not travel about much during harvest time, and is, therefore. not in close touch with political eenters just now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
Samuel E. Moffett in the Saturday Even-
 ing Post
ing Post.

ing Post.
 THE time is past when the only ca lQ reers in life open to negro were
 to pick cotton, make up berths in a Pullman car or wait on table. The study of the negro population of the Uni ted States recently published by a census bureau discloses some facts that show very clearly that the colored race is stead fly developing a complete social and in- dustrial system of its own. There is hard ly any branch of industry in which ne- groes are unrepresented, and that state ment includes the women as well as the men.
 A large city could be formed without a single white man in 1t, and yet lack for no trade or profession. There are 21,26S negro teachers and college professors in the United States. and 15,53o clergymen. The negroes could finance a railroad through their eighty-two bankers and brokers, lay it out with their 120 civil en- gineers and surveyors, condemn the right of-way with their FPS lawyers, make the rails with their 12. 327 iron and steel work CTS, build the road with their 545, ,9S0 la borers. construct it's telegraph system with their 1s5 electricians and their 529 linemen and operate it with their 55,327 railway employers.
 Colored people complain that they have to sit in the gallery in white theatres, but their 2O43 actors and showmen might give them theatres of their own in which they could occupy the boxes in solitary grandeur. They have 52 architects, de- signers and draftsmen, .36 artists and teachers of art. 17s4 physicians and sur Ageons, PIP dentists, 210 journalists, 392l musicians and teachers of music, and 99 literary and scientific persons. The colored baby can be introduced to the world by negro physicians and nurses, instructed in every accomplishment by negro teach CTS, supplied with every requisite of life by negro merchants housed by negro builders and buried by a negro under- taker
 There are negro bookkeepers, account ants. clerks and copyists. commercial travellers, merchants, salesmen, stenog- raphers and telegraph operators. Negroes are in every manaul trade-carpcnters, masons painters, paperhangers, plasterers plumbers, steam-fitters. chemical work CTS, marble-cutters, glass-workers, fish ermen, bakers, butchers, confectioners. millers, shoemakers. tanners, watchmak- CTS gold and silver smiths. bookbinders, engravers, printers, tailors, engineers, photographers, love-makers-eyeryth thing that statistic ans think II worth while to count. And the curious thing IS that in whatever line negro man is at work there also is a negro woman. The only oc- cupation which the colored women have allowed their men-folk to monopolize are those of the architect, the banker and broker. the telegraph and telephone line men, the boiler maker. the trunkmaker and the pattern maker. You can hire a negro civil engineere-s or an electricienne. Ther are 164 colored clergywomen, 262
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22

country has ever known is that exist ing between the Mormon church and the republican party Under this bar gain the Mormons are to vote the re- publican ticket and the republicans, when in power are to forget that Nor monism is a wicked institution. The Mormons are to be let alone. In re- turn they are to vote the straight re- publican ticket. The bargain is well understood, and no one with authority to speak has eyer denied it's exist ence.
 But aside from their politics the Mormons are certainly good empire builders, and the indications are that their missionaries will in the next ten years be able to make them a power in the Rocky mountain states. The south is freely drawn upon by the missionaries of the church, and Ala bama. Tennessee, Georgia and the Car olinas are each expected to contrib ute proselytes yearly to the Mormon church. The mountain counties are the fields in which the Mormon elders usually find the people they desire, and every year goodly numbers de- part from them, going to Utah or other strongholds of the aggressive and power-seeking church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
Captain Hobson.

Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson passed through Birmingham last night en route to Jasper from New York. He has been in the east for the past two weeks making speeches in the interest of the dmocratic nominees. Captain Hobson is in the best of health and spirits, and speaks confidently of the democratic outlook.
 Captain Hobson will go from Jasper to his home at Greensboro. He has ar ranged to meet Prof. J. T. Blakemore, the republican congressional elector and nominee. After these joint meetings are held, Captain Hobson will probably go to Indiana and make several speeches during the last week of the campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
Judge HerrIek In New York.

From the F Iorida Times Union.
 Judge D. Cady Herrick's first active political campaign In a dozen years and more has intensified interest in the state campaign from Buffalo to New York and greatly strengthened his hold upon the people. In him the democratic party has candidate for governor who unites dig nifty with energy and strength with dis cretion.
 Judge Herrick's address in the Madison Square Garden on Monday night was telling arraignment of tnc growing ten- dency to centralize power in the hands of the executive in this state. He speaks again at the Cooper Union meeting. New York. irrespective of party, welcomes in him a candidate of calibre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
w R Clements.

W. B. Clements, one of the most popu- lar passenger travelling agents in the south, has just accepted good position in the passenger service of the Ocean Steamship company, with headquarters In Savannah. He was with the seaooard for several years and visited Birming- ham frequently in the interest of that line.
 As agent of the steamship company Mir. Clements will continue his visits to this city. He has a large circle of friends here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press.
 Faith is believing without thinking about it what you couldn't if you did
 Anything that makes a woman look fright is sure to be the latest fashion.
 If a woman's clothes are comfortable it is sure proof that they are not in the fashion.
 What specially fascinates a girl Is to trust a man she knows cannot be trusted.
 Women like to have Thanksgiving come around so they can wish they had some thing to be thankful for.
 Adam blamed it all on Eve, but ever since she has been blaming her boys on some other Eyes boy.
 A woman likes to have great deal of sentiment so she can be sorry for the disappointment it causes her.
 A girl thinks she is sick abed when her new gown doesn't come home for her to wear to church next morning.
 When woman can't discover any bad habits in her neighbor's husband she be- gins to suspect he must lead double life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
Auburn's Football Coach.

M. J. Donahue. Auburn's football coach, with twenty members of the Auburn team, is at the Colonial. Mir. Donahue was formerly quarterback on the Yale foottAl team, and is one of the recog- nizedOauthorities in the country on foot ball. He has already demonstrated his ability by taking comparatively raw ma terlal and putting out a team that was able to defeat the inyincible Clemson team.
 q am we'll pleased" he said, with the condition of our team. All of the boys are in fairly good form. I consider that the team as whole is in as good shape as it was when the Clemson game was played.
 pAuburn appreciates the kindly and friendly feeling that has always been shown towards her by the people of Br- mingham. l am sure that our friends in this city will have no cause to regret their loyalty this year. We will present our strongest front in the game with Nashville Saturday afternoon"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
FARMING IN MANCHURiA,

From the St. Louis obe-Democrat
 There is nothing humdrum about the business of farming in Manchuria. A dis patch says that along the battle line some of the Chinese have built bomb proofs. from the protection of which they are gathering crops between the cannon ading." Though there may be powder on the pumpkin, the fodder will be shocked as usual.