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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
Telling Wild Tales,

The youthful soldiers who recently re- turned from the army maneuvers at Ma nassas are telling some wild stories of their escapades' said young man about town yesterday. For instance, one boy told me conf1dential1y that three negro soldiers were killed in the first engage ment and the affair was kept so quiet that none of the newspapers got hold of It. He further stated that negroes were badly treated whenever the soldiers had an op- portunity Of venting their spite, and that Instead of saluting negro officer the usual mode of procedure was to hit him with a brick.
 Now of course I took his statements with grain of salt, but the young fel. low bears an excellent reputation, and my curiosity has been aroused to know if there was any basis of truth in his stories No doubt the troops were inclined to be dlsorderly at times, and for very good reasons no extended announcement of the fact was made, but hesitate to be- lieye that the southern boys deliberately shot down negro soldiers with some of the ball cartridges which were found in eamp'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
Immiuration.

The department of commerce and labor has issued a pamphlet of 230 pages relating to immigration. One quarter of our present population came over between 1921 and 1903. After de- ducting ten millions of negroes, our population consists in round numbers of one-half descended from the early English settlers and one-half of immi- grants who arrived after 1921 and their children. The source of the lat ter half is thus set down, so far as a million came:
 Germany.... ...5,1SS,0 ,091 1reland.... .... .... ...... .3,979, 569 England and Wales.... .... ......2. 766. 156 Italy,. .... .... ........ ,5S9, 569 Austria Hungary. .... .... ....1, 522. .925 Norway and Sweden.... .... ....1, 405, 420 Russia and Poland.... .... ........1. PAP, 455
 Other countries furnished less than a million. Ninetythree per cent of all immigrants came from Europe, the total number of all arriving since 1921 being 21,265,723, or one-quarter of our present population.
 The grumbling over immigration arises from the fact that fewer immi- grants are coming to us from Western Europe-from Great Britain and Ger many-and more from Eastern and Southern Europe. In other words, i'm migration is running down in quality, but not in quantity. The consular re- ports show that in Hungary a move ment has been inaugurated looking to the sending home of all earnings and the consequent return of the immi- grant. In Hungary immigration is un- popular, whereas in Italy and Poland it is popular, and public sentiment sus- tains it. Many Italians return, but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
Two Reformers Side by Side.

Earl Grey has been appointed gov ernor general of Canada in succession to the Earl of Minto. The new gov ernor general is grandson of the whig prime minister who passed the reform bill of 1881, by which the price of bread was cut down in Great Britain.
 But the American people are not deeply concerned in the comings or goings of British earls as rule. Earl Grey is, however, exceptional. He is a reformer. He is Bishop Potter's typ ical reformer. He has been engaged in setting up reformed taverns in the mother land, but let us make haste to say of him that he did not attempt a reform by increasing the number of public houses in England He bought out existing public houses and pro ceeded to reform them.
 Bishop Potter boasts him as his typ ical reformer, but Bishop Potter does not hesitate to make two saloons four ish where only one fourished before. Altogether Earl Grey has one on Bishop Potter, for Bishop Potter and his as- sociates did not stop to buy out a wicked saloon, but they proceeded to establish new one.
 Bishop Potter should run over to Canada when his great and titled friend arrives, and consult him on the spot. If we are to be reformed on English methods, let us have the whole thing as Earl Grey has been conducting it. Earl Grey has con fessedly improved the public houses he has taken over, and there are those who say the liquors sold in the Subway saloon are not whit better than those sold on the next corner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
Promisinq Action at Huntsville.

Governor Cunningham and Judge Paul Speake and Solicitor Erie Pet tus and Capt. Lucian c. Brown are en- deavoring to demonstrate at Hunts vile that law outranks in Alabama an archy, and the hopes and good wishes of every good citizen will follow them In their efforts. The men who lynched Horace Naples last week are this week up against the law in it's plain est and most unswerving forms.
 The Huntsville issue has lost its local features. It is now as broad and as far-reaching as the state itself. The issue now relates to the suprem- acy of either law or mob rule If the efforts of the authorities of the state at Huntsville are in the highest degree successful no more mobs will defy sheriffs and militia in this state; no more jails will be set on fire, and no more prisoners will be lynched, except possibly in some back district that Is fairly furnishing for excitement of some sort.
 Much remains to be accomplished at Huntsville. The drawing of petit ju- ries to try the indictments that have been and are to be found will deter mine the scope and thoroughness of the present inquiry. The steps al- ready taken are full ot promise. Gov ernor Cunningham has set the machin- cry of the law In motion, and ke has been quickly and finely supportod in his efforts by Judge Speake. All praise to both. Both are endeaYoring to yindicate the law and the good name of Alabama. Both propose 10 do their utmost to drive anarchy out.
 The action taken at Huntsville is far in advance of the action taken at statesboro. The militia officers at Statesboro are to be courtmartialed, but the coroner's jury at statesboro- little old rustic town-certifed under oath that the victims of the mob were killed by persons to them unknown. Their investigation could not possibly have been searching and thorough. The grand jury at Huntsville, on the other hand, has already named ten lynchers, and is still at work. Solic. itor Erie Pettus and the grand jury deserve the thanks of all good citizens in this state. The steps taken at Huntsville show that the best people of the state appreciate the dangerous tendencies of mob-rule, and are ready to begin active operations against it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
chauncey Talks Wildly.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 chauneey Depew in a recent speech draws comparison between the oppos- ing candidates for President thus: TWO New Workers are running for President, both good friends of mine One has sat on the bench for many years, the other has led the liveliest life ever lived in this was known only In this state before he was mentioned for the nomination, while the other is the best-known man in the world" As plain statement of the rela- tive merits of the two candidates, it Is hard to see wherein Senator Depew's can didate Is better fitted for the presidency than Judge Parker. Admitting that his superlative liveliness and the extent to which his name has become known from his accidental tenure of the presidency they are weak pegs upon which to hang a claim for his continuation in office. They certainly do not offset the qualifications exhibited by Judge Parker during his long occupation of the bench. Besides, if hav- ute recommendation for the chief mag istracy of this country, the fact that President Roosevelt no longer poses in that attitude places him under at least a provisional disability. It is strange that a gentleman of Senator Depew's perspica- city should have failed to discern the ob- vious non sequitur in his argument.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
Nomination of Mir. Hinalns.

After a severe and bitter struggle between Senator Thomas c. Platt and Governor Odell for ascendancy in their party in their state Governor Odell comes out a winner, and Lieutenant Governor Higgins becomes the nomi- nee of the republican party for gov ernor. He is a millionaire business man residing at Clean, small city in the western part of the state.
 The defeat of x-Lieutenant- Govern pr Woodruff, who lives in Brooklyn, together with the defeat of the vet eran Platt, indicates that the republi- cans will not seriously contest Brook lyn, for neither MT. Higgins nor Gov ernor Odell have any special strength In that city of homes and voters.
 What Mir. Platt will do remzhns to be seen. In the past he has lot been silent under defeat He hfs struck back, and he has unusual facilities for striking back secretly. He has friends and supporters in almost ev- cry township in the state. The coun- ty politicians are as i rule his hench- men, and if he decides that Governor Odell must be keF out of power by the defeat of MT Higgins, the latter will go down.
 Between SenAtor P1atts possible ac- . ton and GoY1rnor Odells unpopulari- ty, the democrats have a chance next week to nsme man who can be elect ed governor of New York. As yet it is not plain whom they will nominate, but tie gravity of the situation is ap- preoated by all, and we may reasona- bly, anticipate the selection of a nom- ipee of known strength and popularity bfore the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17

sand men, mostly voters, were in pickle, including Senator Lodge and several other active politicians.
 What did Senator Lodge do? He sat down and wrote to President Roose- velt, and President Roosevelt at once proceeded to revise the tariff, he being one of it's friends. He suspended the Keep order indefinitely, thus talk ing Senator Lodge out of pickle, and also all the rest of the faithful in Massachusetts.
 Picked sheepskins come from Cape Colony. Australia and a few other places, and at first thought the Mas sachusetts men thought the meat rust had worked corner in the pelt trade, and that they would have to pay meat trust prices, but 1t now appears that MT. Keep had simply construed picking as a process of manufacture
 The storm has blown over, and no doubt Massachusetts Is glad she has a president who can so quickly revise the tariff in the interest of his political friends. He and Senator Lodge were the revisionists, and made the revision fit the trades that had been assessed 20 per cent by Mr Keep Dingleyism is full of odd holes and tricks, and the picked sheepsk1n incident simply shows how speedily and effectively 1t can be revised by it's friends, for its friends, if they live in Massachusetts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
Musical Comedy Town.

Birmingham is certainly a town that Is musical comedy mad" said young man.
 Attention has been called to this fact several times before but I am impressed with 1t more and more. It is very seldom indeed that the most ordinary show of this class fails to draw good house, while the usual state of affairs Is a large and enthusiastic crowd.
 However, this much cannot be said of orama, be 1t good bad or indifferent. some of the best plays have been neg lected for the lighter amusement. Peo- pie here, like people in nearly every other part Of the country. want to laugh when they go to theatre and do not care to trouble themselves about thinking"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
MACHINERY POWERFUL
 IN THE CAUSE OF REFORM
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 nN YOUNG man with a family has 'V no excuse for getting drunk,
 and the habit of doing so will ruin his chances of steady and profitable employment quicker than anything else. The industrial world has work and wages for the sober man, and there Is no place for the man who gets drunk. ."-Nebraska State Journal
 It is true that the habitual use of in- toxicating drinks to more than very moderate degree is 8 heavy handicap to a man in business or seeking employment. Long before the drinking man acquires the habit of getting drunk his business prospects are seriously impaired. and when the acquisition of that habit is completed, when he has become habit ual drunkard, he is ruined beyond the reach of any remedy, saving only that of immediate and thorough reform. And that, while practicable in most cases, is never an easy. and, in some instances, is an impossible achievement. The drink habit grows in strength as long as 1t is indulged in; meanwhile, the will power, the capacity for resistance. is continually weakened, both positively and relatively with the terrible result that the habit be- comes the master and the man the slave.
 By all odds the greatest promoter of temperance in the last sixty years has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17

been the change in business of every de- scription which has especially marked that period. Everywhere the machine has superseded the man or the woman. This Is as notable on the farm and In the farmers home as in the town. In manu- fucturing, mining engineering, transpor- tation, and almost all other business pur- suits, the individual worker has become 0 part of the machine, and the mechanism Is too costlysto be intrusted to the direc- ton or manipulation of a man whose brain is liable to be befogged. In trans- portation and to a less extent in mining and manufactures, not only the safety of property, but of life, depeds upon the sobriety of employees. In the old days a wageworker could go off on an occasional spree without interrupting the work of others; now the absence of a single em- ploye may tie up the business of the branch of the factory in which he works.
 This is, as we have said, the greatest of all influences tending to the promotion of temperance by and through the con demnation of intemperance in the use of intoxicants It has wrought a great change in the past sixty years. and it remains a permanent, ever-present, and always operative power for good; for ''the industrial world will continue to have mo place for the man who gets drunk" and that is and will always be the strongest restraint upon appetite.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
ACTION IN HUNTSVILLE CASE.

From the Chicago News.
 It is encouraging to note that Acting Governor Cunningham of Alabama ap- parently recognizes the necessity of wig orous action in the case of the Hunts- vile lynchers. He has requested the calling of special grand jury to inves- tigate the lynchings and return indict- ments against those who participated in it. At the same time he has called upon the sheriff and the militia officer in charge at the Huntsville jail for an ex- planation of their failure to resist the mob.
 If Governor Cunningham can succeed in impresslng sheriffs and militia officers throughout Alabama with a sense of their responsibility and of the dishonor which attaches to officials who evade it he will have done a signal service to the cause of law and order. At Hunts ville as at Statesboro, the mob was able to wreak its brutal vengeance because the men appointed to uphold the law were weak. They were either too cow ardly to do their duty or too much in sympathy with the mob to want to do it. In the Geargia lynching the soldiers faced the lynchers with unloaded weap- ons. At Huntsville the militia did not make even show of resistance. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
Picked Sheepskins.

Secretary Shaw was absent spell binding on the line of higher prices all around, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Keep was on deck and in command. and it was he who issued an order declaring pickled sheepskins a process of manufacture, subject to a duty of 20 per cent. If the pickling were merely a preservatiye process, they could come in free, as they had done ever since the enactment of the Dingley sacred tariff.
 AS soon as Assistant Secretary Keep had issued his order, there was commotion throughout the Morocco leather and boot and shoe districts of Massachusetts. One hundred thou
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17

they soon go back to the United States Emigration from Italy to Brazil has ceased, simply because the immigrant cannot better there his condition. The immigrant from Poland Is fleeing, not from political, but economic, condI- tions. He desires to earn better wages and he rarely goes back.
 As steamships increase in size the tide of immigration increases, and assimilation Is pressed to the utmost. Immigrants not infrequently seek colo nies of their own nationality in large cities, and they are very slow in learning the English language. How ever, this danger is not threatening. Their children will learn the language of the country.
 Public sentiment strongly fayors inn migration, and in the south especially there is growing desire that Italians be induced to become growers of cot ton. No southern state is more than one-third occupied, and the Italians who come to us in the next generation could all be placed in the south to their own advantage and to the ad- vantage of this section. The south should as unit resist any movement to check Italian immigration. We can place all Italians that will come to this country. We need them, and ey- cry one of them can do well In the south, where land is low-priced, the climate like that of Naples, and the opportunities of cotton growing almost unlimited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
The Smoke Nuisance.

T fully understand that smoke and industry go hand In hand" remarked a man from the north, yesterday, "and am much impressed with the industrial progress of Birmingham; but do want to impress my objection to the too abundant supply of smoke in your city. There Is no use for this hindrance to comfort. In all modern cities of the east and west smoke is harnessed for usefulness and against the possibility of public nuisance
 Your laundries. electric power com paines, printing shops and general man. ufacturing concerns can stop 1t all at the smallest expense"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
NATIONAL POLITICS.
Babeock's Fears.
Baltimore Herald.

From the Baltimore Herald.
 Tn the same breath Chairman Babeock says there is great danger that his party will lose control of the house and claims that MT. Roosevelt will be elected by an overwhelming majority
 Tn the history of our country the people have never elected President and a hos tile house at the same time-excepting the Hayes-Tilden contest. wherein, even according to republican figures, the pop ular vote was many thousands in favor o9 MT. Tilden.
 Republicans admit the danger of losing control of congress. In the light of the past and taking Into consideration the widespread discontent. the conclusion is plain. It is at least sufficient to inspire new courage and make more imperative the need of a bold. educational campaign.
 Judge Parker Is the leader for such a crisis. His conservatism and sanity suit the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17

sentries posted to protect the prisoner did not fire single shot. The mob pushed them back into the jail as easily as though they had been so many sheep.
 Nothing could illustrate better the ex- tent to which mob lawlessness has per- meated the south than this failure of the officials to do their plain duty. Tho same spirit which prompts juries to re- port that the 4lynchers are persons un- known" causes sheriffs and militia cap- tains to submit meekly to the mandate of the mob, A severe lesson is needed for such faithless representatives of lawful authority.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
THE WOOD GYPSY.

Hilton R. Greer. in the Smart Set. In scarlet skirt and bodice gay, A bold~lipped. tawny thing, Comes brown October down the wooo' A gypsy wandering. Her light limbs shame the leopards ntne Abandonment of grace, Her dark eyes prison all the old Wild passion of her race. Grooming, she lifts her voice in song. Some strain of weird romance, And timed to clashing tambour bells. Whirls in a wanton dance.
 & And ere the cadence dies away In echoes wild and sweet, The oaks and naples shower gold About her twinkling feetl 1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
The "BIa stIckD Policy.
l, New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
 The ''big stick policy of our. imperial istic friends the republicans wont do. Even those experts in knocking their neighbors on the head with a war club, the dusky and Strenuous" tribal chiefs of Liberia-according to the American charge d'affairs in Monrovia-have de- eided, as told in our Washington dis patches that the club has got to go. and that arbitration is good enough for any body nowadays.
 With even Liberia falling In line, Is not the day of the policy of force gone by? Is imperialism to take the place of con- stitutional democracy in America?
 But the people will have to decide.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
The Cotton Crop.

Y. L. Burton, prominent merchant of LaFayette, is in the city looking after business interests. "A few days ago." he said, 'the prospects for a fine yield of cotton was as good as 1t has been in our county for several years, but the drouth of the past several days has got in its work and now the indications are that the crop will be less than that of last year. True the early crop has turn ed out fairly well, but the farmers were late in getting cotton planted last spring and as a result over half of the crop was thrown back several weeks. The condi- tlons this year are similar to those Of last season."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
Architects Busy.

'I was never so busy at this time of the year as I am now" said T. U. Walter. the architect. yesterday. "A great many houses are being planned and builders will continue to be actively employed. I think all the architects have their hands full.
 Just now the projected high school building is keeping the architects busy. The designs are to be completed Novem- Der l."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press
 It Is always too late to amend broken pledge.
 The only way for politician to earn a kind word is to die.
 When none of her female friends like a woman it Is a sign the men do.
 A woman's dinner party talk is almost a foreign language to her family.
 It is good deal easier to listen to the driest kind of sermon than to try to live up to 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17

Airships that will stay in the air and submarine boats that will not stay on the bottom all the time are yet to be consummated, although the latter is nearer reality than the former.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17

thor's "up From Slavery" The book Is published by Doubleday, Page & 70. ana an interesting resume of pr. Washing toms life-work in building up his school at Tuskegee. It is clearly written and IS of value to students of educational prob ,ems as applied to the negro.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17

H. H. Rogers says he cannot under stand that man Lawson who is devot- ing so much of his time to writing "Frenzied Finance" but Lawson seems to understand Rogers perfectly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-17
THE LAST STRAW.

From the Florida Times Union.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald calls lit- tie Willie Astor ::typical Newporter." Whats the use of insulting man just because you don't like him?