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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13
PEARLS STILL EXPENSIVE.

From the New York Commercial.
Although the pearl fishery season in Cey-
lon has been record one. the govern
ment earnings having amount to over
e1,Oo0.0oO ts5.o00, 0o0). there is no prospect
of fall in the price of pearl necklaces.
"Ceylon pearls" said member OF the
firm of E. Hahn & Co. of Hatten Garden
London, recently, will not affect the
British market. The bulk of the pearls
we get come from western Australia.
Prices are high, and a ten-grain pearl
will continue to bring 600, $1,000 for
some time to come"
Mr.. Streeter of the well-known Bona
Street firm remarked that Ceylon pearls
are never larger than pea-three or
four grains at the most. Even a record
YIELD" he said, could not bring ABOUT
fall in the English market price
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INSANITY.

BY Robin, Lillard. in the Atlanta consti-
tuition.
A while ago when l was sane like other
men,
l thought like them that Madness was a
starless night
But SOFT for | would whisper thee Of
Insanity, so strangely sweet, so dazzling
bright,
No more, no more the days are dull and
commonplace;
My empty life is brilliant now, ablaze is
grown
With gay, fantastic flashing fires, as when
at dawn
Round lofty spires the fame fiends dance
by tempest blown;
All glorious the wide. wide world--for
am madl
My brain fountain is become, whence
emanate
Those creatures vast, the myriad host
of splendid Shapes
Nor can Hell boast such horrid forms, so
intricate
In ugliness as mingle with the endless
throng-
That crowd around in silence grand, my
crystal throne.
At other times l have no sight but only
hear
From out the night the Voices. low and
sweet, that moan,
Or sigh. or sing, or whisper plaintive
messages.
But all there sometimes comes the day
of grisly Fear. \
When formless Phantoms crouch and
creep in shadows gray;
And long and deep, with CHASTITY eyes.
they pry and peer
Into the very csterns cool of human
brains.
Deirium in banquet halls of Fancy rare
Spreads gorgeous feasts of wine and meat
and birds to come.
To drink. to eat. each one his fill, of
grotesque fare,
The raving lovers of the banquet's mis-
tress sweet.
oh, who would sell such Godlike bliss for
place or gold,
Surrender up his banqut seat to plodding
go,
With cautious feet. along the paths Of
Reason cold
A while ago, when / was sane like other
men,
thought like them that Madness was a
staress night:
But soft. for have whispered thee of my
new joy,
Insanity, so strangely sweet, so dazzling
bright.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13
UNCLE JOE WON'T HAVE 1T.
What He viii Do If Elected Vice Prise
ident in Spite of Himself.

From the Washington Post.
Speaker Cannon met several of his old
friends here yesterday. To one of them
who prodded him about the vice presi-
dency he said:
II don't want it. l won't take 1t. If I
were elected to 1t in spite of myself, l
would go up there and take the oath.
Then would appoint a private secretary
and a messenger and a telephone CLERK.
and go away and never again go near the
hlankety- blank chamber again to be
humiliated.s
"Unele Joseph" has notion that any
body who goes into the vice president S
chair. where he has all the titular re-
sponsibiity and none of the power of the
second officer in the republic, has to be
made OF some other material than he is.
The social side of the office would be
Infinitely tedious to him also. He feels
that he was never built for a show place.
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Iwn-thirds or a Majority.

It is plain the next democratic can.
didate for President will be nominated
under the twothirds rule, but it is
not plain that this rule should be
further perpetuated. No state has
adopted it. or lesser political division
No other party has ever harbored it,
In 1860 it split the democratic party
into two parts, and brought in the
first republican President and civil
war.
1t was adopted in 1892 for the pur-
pose of defeating Mr.. Van Buren's
nomination for the Vice-Presidency.
Mr.. Van Buren, willingly accepted the
test, and the resolution was adopted.
1t reads as follows:
Resolved, That each state be entitled, in
the nomination to be made of a candi-
date for the vice presidency, to number
of votes equal to the number to which
they will be entitled in the electoral col
lege under the new apportionment' in
voting for President and vice president.
and that two-thirds Of the whole number
of votes In The convention shall be neces-
sary to constitute a choice.
Mr.. Van Buren, was nominated for
Vice-President, and four years later
for President under the two-thirds
rule. 1t was retained because of sec
tional fears, the south fearing the
north and vice versa, but why need
this undemocratic rule-this rule that
does not recognize the power of the
majority-be kept longer?
If the question could be submitted
to the states free from the entangle-
ment of a presidential race, 1t would
be abrogated The st. Louis conven-
ton could aubmit the question to the
state conventions as they are held,
and in states that hold no conventions
it could be passed upon in primaries.
IT, in short, the St Louis convention
is convinced that the time has come
for a general submission to the party
of a rule lat has long survived its
usefulness, it will not be difficult TO
find way OF ascertaining the senti-
ment of the party. The rule cannot,
however, be abolished in a preslden-
tai year. In such a year it can be
made to serve one interest or another.
If it is to be voted down and out, the
work must Re done in an intervening
year, and next year is as good for
that purpose as any other year would
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SOUTH NOT WORRIED.
John Shelton Williams Talks of Big
Cotton Crop.
From the Baltimore News.

From the Baltimore News.
Mr.. John Shelton Williams chairman
of the board of directors of the Sea-
board Air Line. spent several hours in
Baltimore this morning. on his way
south.
THE earnings of the Seaboard Air
Line system for the month Of May
said Mr. Williams, were the largest in
the history Of the company. 1t is the
general opinion, both north and SOUTH
that the southern states are likely to
feel less than any other portion OF the
country the recession in business which
is taking place in some sections; and
see no reason to doubt that business on
this system will continue to increase
steadily throughout the year.
'Our Atlanta and Birmingham line is
rapidly approaching completion, and We
hope to be running through trains from
Birmingham to Washington before the
close of the summer.
THE growing cotton crop will very
surely be the largest the south has ever
raised and the universal shortage of
the staple and the growing demand for
it throughout the world are likely to
insure prices which will bring into the
south the ensuing season more money
than has ever been realized from any
cotton crop.
Notwithstanding the general falling
off in railroads earnings which is going
on in some parts of the country, the
freight and passenger earnings of the
Seaboard system for the IL months end
ing juno 3, 1904 will show an increase
Of APPROXIMATELY $3.50. 600 over last year,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13
GUATEMALAN ANT Is NO
WORSE THAN BOIL WEEVIL

, such important economic consequences
as the uninterrupted spread of the cotton
boil weevil would threaten. They are
a nuisance rather than a danger. Even
in the Philippine Islands, which are ant
ridden as probably no other country is,
the ants threaten, we believe, no growing
crop.
Such danger as may attend the Guate-
mala experiment resides in the possible
disturbance of an chronological equili-
brium. Nature somehow finds a balance
In which every creature may be said to
have it's task and Junction. and every
one his enemies, which keep him from
gaining undue strength. But nov and
then there comes along some intruder,
like the Mexican boil weevil or the Colo
RADIO potato bug. which is not native to
the existing system. 1t attacks some one
particular thing, and is not directly
preyed upon by any existing enemy. 1t
therefore multiples abnormally. and ex-
tends its ravages. The introduction OF a
creature which preys upon it is generally
not new menace, but a restora ton OF
natures equilibrium.
The Guatemalan ant may turn out to
be a mongoos In disguise II may be
that we shall not have to reckon merely
with the ants, but with the sisters and
the cousins, whose name will be legion.
But the risk is one which 1t Is safe to
take. Meantime 1t might be worth while
to see whether Guatemala can offer any
ant-eaters.
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dies are negroes who were born and
reared in a climate not unlike that of
Panama, and it is to these negroes
that the contractor should turn. It
may be necessary to carry them often
to and from their homes, but this
would not be a heavy or expensive
task.
The American negro reared in a
temperate zone would die as readily
as a white man. and the Indian or
mixed bloo6s of the republics near
the canal strip will not do much work
under any circumstances. The Chi.
nese who were brought to work ON
the Panama railroad died like sheep
The negroes of the West Indies can
along dig the canal without involving
a great waste of life. Dr. Gorgas can
bring in pure water and carry away
filth, but re cannot lessen the rays
of the sun or change the habits Of
people. The West India negro fills the
bill at the Isthmus, and his services
should be sought even if he must be
carried home every six months The
offer of good wages and good Iood
and good treatment will secure MS
services, and the contractors should
tie forbidden 70 look elsewhere.
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Visiting the Fatherland.

"A person who has lived in his native
country all his life cannot appreciate the
depths of emotion with which an exiled
wanderer returns to the land of his birth
after years of absence" said gentleman
who has recently returned from a visit to
his old home in Sweden. ut had been
twenty years since / left Stockholm, in
company with my father and mother.
when | went back there last month. and
you may judge how different | found the
place Yet the old world does not change
as rapidly as the new and were you to
remain away from an American city for
that length of time YOU would be unable
to recognize 1t when you returned
"But ones ideas change in new coun-
try. He thinks of his fatherand as an
ideal place where all is happiness and
peace. but when he goes hack he finds
that conditions are not as he pictured
them in his mind. 1t is different from that
to which he has become accustomed in
the new land He likes his later surround
ings better and you will notice that few
immigrants who prosper in America ever
go back to the old country TO live, all
though they may pay it a visit.
And yet mans native lana has a firm
grasp of his sympathles. and while he
may not desire to live there again, he will
always cherish 1t in his memory
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From the New York Mail.

L rum the New 1OfK Mall.
II HE Savannah News" sounds a
Wy note of warming in connection
with the Guatemalan ant which
is being imported into Texas under gov
eminent auspices, to prey upon the cotton
boil weevil. 1t hints that, in bringing
In this bug that eats the bug, we may
be flying, as it were, from weevls that
we have to others that we know not Of"
The News" is, however, unable to cite
case in which a creature of any kind, i'm
ported into this country to prey upon
pest. has itself become a pest 1t holds
up as warning the English sparrow and
the gypsy moth; but both these pests
We're original importations, SO to speak,
for though the gypsy moth came as
parasite and accompaniment of certain
silkworm importations. it was not con-
sciously or Intentionally brought in The
News might have cited the case of the
mongoos, in Jamaica, which was taken
to that island to exterminate the venom
Gus snakes, and which, after cleaning
them out, increased and multiplied until
it became veritable pest, preying upon
birds and other useful creatures, and
stealing the farmers poultry But the
Guatemalan ant probably has in it no
such possibilities of mischief as the mon
COOS.
There are several species of native
ants which are a pest in their way. but
it is enough to say that they have never
committed any ravages which threatened
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13

ican national committeeman from Ala
bama, is at the Hillman.
G. G. Britton of Admission is stopping
al the st. Nicholas.
Charles Ham of Boston is at the Colo
NAL.
Guy Holcomb of Atlanta is at the Nor
ris.
B. Fl. Hardway of Columbus. Ga. is at
The Morris.
R. L. King and F. r. King Of GadsdeE
are at the st. Nicholas.
W. L. Tisdale of Evergreen is register
ed at the lillian.
F. B. Coleman of New Orleans is at
the Colonial.
@. S. Finch of Montgomery is stopping
at the Morris.
George T. Boyer of cullman is in the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13
FRAGILE BONES OF THE INSANE,

From the New York World.
The attendants in city hospitals who
make a practice of calming demented
patients by jumping on them will be
interested in a paper read by DIR. Maule
Emith before the British Medical associa-
ton. DIR. Smith stated that an undue
fragility of bones was not infrequently
met with among the insane after middle
life.
The ribs, he said were the most easily
affected: then followed the fiat pelvic
bones the vertebrae. the skull cap. and
lastly the long bones An analysis of 200
cases from the postmortem records of
the West Riding asylum was made, the
strength of the rib bones being tested
with the hands. No fragility was found
in twenty-six out of twenty-seven cases
of idiocy or imbecility. Melancholia was
marked by evidences of increased fragili-
ty, and this was still more marked in
the case of dementia.
BY knowing that the ribs of insane
persons break most easily, while the long
bones are likely to be the last to be
fractured. the attendants can save them
selves a good deal of effort in calming
their patients. The veriest novice should
be able to break ribs, and an attendant
of experience should have no difficulty
in fracturing skulls
If there is any public protest against
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13
RECORD SHIRT MAKING.

From the Chicago Tribune
The up-to-date song of the shirt lasts
just six and one-half minutes according
to a factory inspector for whose edifi-
cation the foreman of a shirt factory
started a piece of cloth on the rounds
and made 1t come out ready for GUS
toner's back before the second hand on
a watch had revolved seven times. In
this time seven girls had contributed
their efforts to the finished product. One
machine in this shop makes 1890 button
holes a day, or twenty-eight in a minute,
and in ten-hour day man can cut $50
dozen shirts.
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were as follows

Under the head ''all other minerals"
are included one bauxlte mine, one
cement quarry, one graphite mine, one
marble quarry, and one sulphur and
pyrite mine. The coal miners earned
S7S41,457, and the ore miners $2,029,-
S07. All this relates to the year 1907
Alabama is not the chief mineral
state in the country, but it outranks
all the other states in the cotton belt,
having in fact no rival in the land of
cotton. Its mineral products are six
times greater than those of Georgia;
three times more than those of Texas,
and twice greater than those of Ten
nessee, and greater than those of all
the other cotton states combined.
Pennsylvania is the leading mining
state in the union, followed by Ohio,
Illinois. Michigan, West Virginia and
Colorado. Alabama comes next, when
the number of wage earners engaged
in mining is considered. We bid fair
to outrun Colorado, when we will hold
sixth place among the mining states.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
A girl can nearly always improve her
complexion by kissing a man against her
will.
If a man acts as If he We're deeply inter-
ested in womans wit she will take all
the rest for granted.
Because you can see through a woman's
shirt waist is no sign you can see through
her idea of wearing II that way.
When you are going through a tunnel
with pretty girl it does seem a great
waste of time to have the lights turned
on for short "A time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13
Mines and Quarries.

One Of the latest census bulletins
relates to mines and quarries, and in
it Alabama is credited with 260, which
yielded products in 1902 worth ST.
367,992. The number of wage earn
ers in them in 1902 was 1892 10
whom was paid $1O,345, las in wages.
Alabama's mineral products in 1902
were as follows:
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the injuries to which the patients are
subjected, plausible showing can be
made that the patients ribs were so
fragile that they broke when the at
tendant tried to lead his charge back to
the ward
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13
Birminehams Busiest Corner.

81 heard a lengthy discussion the other
day as to which was the busiest corner
in Birmingham said a man about town.
lone gentleman contended that the in
teisection OF Twentieth street and First
avenue was the busiest part of town at
all hours of the day another thought the
corner of Second avenue and Nineteenth
street might claim the honor but the
general opinion seemed to be that the in
tersection of Second avenue and Tween
tieth street is the busiest spot in Rir-
mingham from sunrise until a late hour
at night. There is always large crowd
of people there waiting to take cars to
various parts of town. while the corners
seem to attract a great many persons
who have nothing to do but stand around
and gossip.
There is hardly any question that Sec
ond avenue is the busiest street in Bir-
mipgham. That is in the shopping district
and the ladies are always out in force.
On a Saturday night Second avenue pre-
sents an unusually likely appearance The
sidewalks are thronged with people, so
that progress is very slow, and at that
time the street reminds me of the old
boom days when life was very strenuous
in the Birmingham district, although the
town was much smaller then than IL
is now"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13

Campaign Manager Cortelyou is
studying Wisconsin politics, and is not
getting much satisfaction from the
task
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NOT At EsoPus.

From the New York Mail
A new Institution for teaching the dumb
to speak has been started in this state.
Bur not at Esopus.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13

Lots of youngsters all over the coun-
try have Judge Parker badly beaten
in learning to talk. $
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Rose Coghlan went into vaudeville
and secured a divorce in the same
breath, one might say
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13

Prince PHI 14un thinks the million
aires in China should be recalled, and
sent to Colorado
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General Kuropatkin does not feel
that his health demands this year a
journey to a more southern latitude.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13

Russell Sage begins to think he
could not carry the country on his no.
vacation issue
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General Kuropatkin considers the
climate Of the Locating peninsula I'M
wholesome 1t may be bracing but It
braces the wrong way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13

Governor Yates is an axeman who
is trying TO rival Adlai Stevenson
His field is however limited.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13

Bull fights do not ut the twentieth
century, unless the bulls get the upper
hand of their tormentors
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13

When Nebraska republicans solicit
votes for John L. Webster for wee
President, diagrams of him should 90
with each invitation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13

The plan for Kentuckys new capitol
has been selected, but the dome will
bear no resemblance to a bottle.
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The adminlat ration is not crazy
enough to go mp against Frances Mon
roe doctrine in Morocco
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As a result of the cut in steamship
prices Europe will be induced to send
over large consignments of her unde-
sirable citizens.
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Philander hnox will be at home in
the Milionaires club. He was one of
em himself
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Governor. Yates should stick another
frank in his COW, and send her back
to his rustic home.
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cling is to be taught in the
ehools of advanced states.
gftime applied to the feet.
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District Attorney Jerome says Han
nah Elias must give up so per cent Of
her loot.
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Blackmail is form of postal scan
dial that appears to be flourishing in
New York.
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There is no curfew law in Port Ar.
thur that the Japanese are bound to
respect.
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Ships of the desert are needed now
in Morocco, for Colonel Raisuli de-
clines to fight it out on the high seas.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13

President Roosevelt may demand
second term in 1898. He is d
stickef.
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The Georgia peach is eolliding just
at present with the northern straw
berry.
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Colorado is enjoying an acute at
tack of the labor and capital problem.
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Ships in a harbor do not impress q
bandit fifty miles away in desert.
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About Persons.

w. F. Aldrich of Aldrich and Mrs. Al
drich are at the Hillman.
]. w. Dimmick of Montgomery. repub-
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All kinds of musical comedy schemes
are being Matched for next season.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13

Ion Perdicaris will soon be booking
dates for Re lecture platform.
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Colonel Younghusband gathers
courage as reinforcements come in
and his line of retreat is kept open
He proposes to leave his card at the
door of the Dalai Lama in 4 Hasa.
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Frank V Evans and R. L. o'Neal. Jr..
are the only authorized travelling repre-
sentatives of the Age-Herald in its cir
fuiation department
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Russell Sage does not believe i
vacations OF Inc o. p sort.