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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
EnsIeY's Great Plants.

There is no grander sight in any
iron district than the six stacks at
Ensley, standing in a row facing the
valley, as close to one another as con-
venience of the task in hand will adj
nit of. The six stacks constitute a
battery perhaps unrivalled in a single
place in this or any other country
All six of the stacks are either mod
ern or have been wholly modernized,
and the improvement policy has been
extended to the blowing engines, the
boilers and to all other parts of the
plant.
The Age-Herald is we'll aware that
the richer Lake Superior ores are fed
into stacks of great production, some
of them turning out occasionally 600
tons each daily. The six stacks at
Ensley can produce, perhaps, when
all things are working well, fifteen
hundred tons in a days time, and il
there is another plant in the country,
or in any country, that can do better,
The Age-Herald does not know where
it is. No two stacks in the Pittsburg
district standing together can Guido
cur battery at Ensley.
Behind the six stacks is the plant
of the Semet-Solvey company, which
turns coal into coke, and at the same
time catches, retains and utilizes
every by-product of coal. A block or
two away stands the steel plant OF
the Tennessee company, the three
plants constituting the highest efforts
of our mines and operatives Of all
sorts. At Ensley the visitor sees this
district at its height doing its best
to serve to a consuming world our
fuel and ores in approved commercial
forms
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
IMMORTALITY.

BY Joseph Jefferson.
Two caterpillars crawling on a leaf,
By some strange accident in contact came;
Their conversation. passing all belief,
Was that same argument, the very same,
That has been "proed and coned" from
man to man,
Yea, ever since this wondrous world be-
gan.
The ugly creatures
Deaf and dumb and blind,
Devoid of features
That adorn mankind.
Were vain enough, in dull and wordy
strife,
To speculate upon a future life
The first was optimistic, full of hope;
The second. quite dispeptic, seemed to
nope
Said number one, I'm sure of our sal
vation,"
Said number two, I'm sure of our dam
nation;
Our ugly forms alone would seal our fates
And bar our entrance through the golden
Suppose that death should take us un-
awares,
How could we climb the golden stairs?
If maidens shun us they pass us by.
Would angels bid us welcome in the sky?
l wonder what great crimes we have COM
mitted,
That leave us so forlorn and so unpitied.
Perhaps we've been ungrateful. unfor-
giving;
Ills plain to me that lifes not worth the
living"
Come come. cheer up" the iovial one
replied,
Lets take look upon the other side;
Suppose we cannot fly like moths or
millers,
Are we to blame for being caterpillars?
VIII that same God that doomed us crawl
the earth.
prey to every bird that's given birth,
Forgive our caper as he eats and sings,
And damn poor us because we have not
wings?
If we can't skim the air like owl or bat.
A worm will turn for a that
They argued through the summer; autumn
night,
The ugly things composed themselves to
die.
And so to make their funeral quite COM
Each wrapped him in his little winding
The tangled web encompassed them full
soon,
Each for his coffin made him a cocoon,
All through the winters chilling blast
they lay
Dead to the world, aye. dead as human
clay
I,o. spring comes forth with all her
warmth and love:
She brings sweet justice from the realms
above;
she breaks the chrysalis, she resurrects
the dead;
| Two butterflies ascend encircling her
head.
And so this emblem shall forever be
A sign of immortality.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
MENACE OF THE COYOTE
THREATENS THE NATION

posal" The net result of these expert
will not willingly jump over fence that
is too high to be jumped; that they will
readily climb over fences built of hori-
zontal rails, especially in order to es-
cape from captivity" that they will crawl
through a barbed-wire fence to escape
but whether they will craw, through such
a fence in order to iteal poultry is a
question that can only be determined by
elaborate research and mathematical call
culaton together with furthc- study Of
the brain structure of the coyote; that
triangular meshes are better than square
ones for keeping out coyotes; that in
fencing against coyotes care must be
taken to build the fence right, leaving no
gaps, as the animal is extremely likely to
crawl through.
Professor Lantz admits that these ex-
periments are discounted by tho fact that
the coyotes were suffering from excite
ment in trying to escape. THE expert
ments are insufficient" he says, Ito de-
termine what a coyote would do If the
conditions were reversed, and mpelled
only by the stimulus of hunger, he were
attempting to enter IN Enclosure" Natur-
ally, therefore. the subject must be
studied further by the government ex-
perts. Sheep men. farmers and others
have gone ahead bin -ly and built fences.
but they are deficient in the scientific
sense, and their fences are lacking in
many particulars, although tnoJ ma5- keep
out coyotes.
Further experiments with wire fences
will be made therefore. 'by the Biolog-
ical survey" and the results will be
given to the public s early az practical
ble." We hope the survey will not be too
precipitate. 1t should carefully test and
retest its work and refrain from prema-
ture announcements which may mislead
the public. 1t is better to face the dam
gers of the COZ nest n while longer
than to indulge in the indiscriminate
building of fences which have not
reached scientific perfection.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
Population SpecuIations.

Since 1870 Alabama's population
has been increased just about three
hundred thousand in each decade.
There were in the last census year
1,S2S.697 people in this state. The
number in 1910 will. certainly be 2,1OO,.
600, and it may exceed 100000 I'm
der the first census taken after the
states admission to the union our
population all told was but 127901.
We are today close to the two million
line.
The population Of the country is a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
Coosa County.

"Coosa county is keeping pace with the
general development that is going on
in Alabama" said Prof. j. d. McPhail,
superintendent of the Goodwater public
schools who has been attending the state
Sunday school convention which has been
in session in Birmingham during the past
week.
THE bountiful crops of the last three or
four years have placed the farmers and
business men of the county in fine shape.
Judging from the decrease in the sales of
commercial fertilizers in our county the
cotton acreage will be considerably re-
duced. The prospects for good crops this
year are at present very bright
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

\M HlLE Professor Wiley continues
W. the work of ferretins out adul,
w terations of food which imperil
the public health and Professor Garfield
boldly attacks the meat and oil trusts in
defense of the whole people. another
branch of the government is manfully
struggling with a growing danger. We
were not aware of the imminence of the
danger until we perused Coyotes in
Their Economic Relations" just issued by
the Department of Agriculture. The au-
thor, Prof David e. Lantz, displays a
fund of information, a painstaking pre-
csion, and a biographical fullness which
entitle both him and the coyote to public
attention
Summed up in a sentence, the message
conveyed by Coyotes in Their Economic
Relations" is that the animals are rap
idly increasing. and that the biological
survey, wide awake to the danger is
working cautiously, but with unwearied
persistence, to devise means of protecting
the people, Traps, poison, roundups,
bounties and other methods have failed.
AS last resource the biological survey
is bending every energy in the collection
of data regarding the proper method of
fencing against the coyote. 1.-The biologi
cal survey has made some preliminary
Investigations says the author. land
has formulated plans for more extensive
experiments in the near future" 1t is a
subtle elusive SUBJECT, and requires medi-
tation and research. The subject requires
careful investigation to determine what
more may be done" Nowhere can the
subject in its ramifcations be studied as
well as in Washington, where Congress is
at hand to render annual assistance.
"The coyote problem is a serious one."
says Professor Lantz. various methods
of dealing with it have been in vogue
since coyotes first began to like mutton"
When was that? In some future work we
hope Professor Lantz will tell the story.
How Brer Coyote Became Acquainted
with Mutton OF course, he is too busy
now. The pressing question is how to
check the spread of coyotes over the
country. 1.-THE discussion of the various
means of destroying coyotes and the
evident futility, thus far. of all of them
combined to completely check the increase
of the species leads naturally to the con-
sideration of means of preventing their
depredations, continues the government
authority 1.-The biological survey has I'M
dertaken an investigation of the FEAST
bility of successfully fencing against the
coyote"
Professor Lantz Their discusses certain
experiments made by him in Oklahoma.
making such investigations as were pos
sible during the limited time at his dis
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
IN ARSIFA AL" has come and gone.
VO Birmingham breathes easier

WI bl1HlDBndIH DiedlHtS EASIER
and those who had the aesthe-
tic ability. as we'll as those who had 1t
not, are telling how much they enjoyed
the performance. The fact that empty
boxes stared the Conried company in
the face was enough to discourage the
stoutest exponent of grand opera, or
sacred music drama, while the gaps here
and there in the parquet created the i'm
preston that there was something of a
FROST Howea err this result was due
more to the high prices than to Bir-
mingham's lack of "cultchaw.' More
over, it is rumored that there was a wee
bit Of a frost" in Atlanta, the in
superable, the ineffaceable, so that we do
not feel impelled to shed tears over our
lack of appreciation. Most of those who
did attend enjoyed "Parsifal most thor
oughly and it is celdom one hears a more
spontaneous outburst of applause than
that which followed the wooing of Parsi-
fal by Kundry. The occasion was bril-
liant and the stars were rendered a well
come which must have impressed them
by its sincerity. 1t is no discredit to Bir-
mingham that a, hatchet-faced individual
leaned over to a friend and remarked in
soto voice, See that big fat man? That s
Schuman-Heink." 1t is believed that the
speaker came from the wilds of Mont
gomery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
REFLECTIONS o. A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Love is n disease that you can catch
like the measles and get over.
A man learns lot about not getting
rich in the summer resort season.
A woman always tries to figure out
from the way the envelope is addressed
whether the letter contains good news
or bad news
One of the relaXations of home. after
YOU have worked downtown all day,
is TO try to solve the servant problem
with your family.
It's dangerous not to notice a new dress
your wife has. because she thinks you
are not interested. and it's dangerous to
notice because it may be a new one
you forgot to notice >>~e.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
Central Female College.

DR.. b. f. Giles, president of the Ala
bama Central Female college at Tusca-
loosa is at the Morris. This session
which closes on May 81 has been the most
successful in the history of our college,
said DR. Giles. lone hundred and eighty
students were enrolled during the year.
The following will be the speakers for
commencement: The Rev. DR.. w. d.
Hubbard of Troy, sermon; the Rev. T. d,
Galloway of Talladega, baeealaureate adj
dress; the Rev. DIR. A. c. Davidson of Bir-
mingham, alumni address
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
JOHN w. GATES.
rom the Pittsburg Post.

From The Pittsburg Post
John W. Gates is a great, big, buster
ing personality. He IL a frank and con-
fessed gambler. He will bet on anything.
He is found of faro, and bridge" and
poker, and horse racing and chuck-a-
luck and craps, and mumbley-peg, and
pitching pennies and selling stocks. He
takes up a salt shaker at the table ex-
actly as he lifts a stack of blues. 1t Is
a favorite trick of his to enter the Wal
dorf cafe with a friend, order two high
balls and give the waiter a SIS bill with
the injunction to keep the change" He
has demoralzed the walters in that big
hotel. At Delmcnico's he is rarely seen,
because the atmosphere of that place Is
not suited to the newly rich.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
The Late Eitzhuah Lee.

Gen. Fltzhugh Lee, who has Just
passed away in Washington. had larger
personal acquaintance, perhaps, than any
man in the United States" said a men,
Der of Birmingham Virginia colony. He
knew every man and boy in the Old
Dominion, and he knew every man of
prominence from the Atlantic to the Pa
eihc. He was fearless and outspoken, but
If he ever had an enemy l never heard
of II.
"Fitz Lee was full of humor and was a
fine recanteur. Some of the best stories
l ever listened to were told by him. Cen
eral Lee was in Birmingham on several
occasions and on the occasion of his last
visit, two or three years ago. he was
received with public honors. He will be
greatly mourned throughout the south
land
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
cornering the Supply.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
One gallon and half of whisky for
each man, woman and child Is the way
the statistics man foots it up for the
United States. No doubt there are men
who insist upon cornering the entire FAM
lily supply for their own use.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
Gates Got Deserts.

From the Admission Star.
In his effort to corner the wheat mar
ket Gates found a little bigger thing
than he calculated on. He lost out, and 1t
was right that he should. When a man
sets out on plan of robbery. as has Mr..
Gates, the proper penalty is for him to
get 1t where the chicken got the axe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
Illicit DistiIIers Captured.

Scottsboro, April ESPECIAL deputy
Collector Root and Deputy Marshal Henry
Arnold made very successful raid on
Sand mountain today and captured three
alleged wild CATERS and brought them in
to town this afternoon. The men, Messrs.
Charley Webster, Enury Hicks and John
Rogers, and charged with making wild
cat whisky.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
Press Pleasantly.

From the Mobile Herald.
why does an Item reporter take the
opposite side of the street from the Her
AIDS bulletin boards?' asks a Mobile
banker For the same reason, perhaps, as
Dockstader would say, that impels
chicken to scoot when it sees a darby
coming-for safetys sake.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
Furnishing the People.

From the Coosa Argus.
The Brooklyn. n. Y, papers describe
boy husband who is pouring out his
soul on his cornet" because his stern
parent has taken away his girl bride.
That boy is doubtless making fell
low-sufferers, if not -sympathizers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
Life Insurance in Alabama.

The Equitable Life collected in this
knate last year $391,951, returning to
e state but s9S,294. The policy hold
IFS in this state as body were there
fore out of pocket last year nearly
.hree hundred thousand dollars. :
business man who pays out 1891 900
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
early Bird" Coming.

From the Alexander City Outlook.
The Age-Herald has its Messenger
Boy train running over the Frisco. The
Outlook looks with prophetic eye to the
time when it can put on its EARLY Bird
special over the Montgomery and Alex
ander City electric line.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
AVERAGED THE SAME.

From Judge.
Yes" says the first beauteous dsmsei,
ct had Ave proposals at the reception last
night"
II had but one" remarks the denure
damsel. but it counted the same as five.
The man stutteEed.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

You've heard about the auto face
It's spreading more and more
But how about the baseball face,
When the home team fails to score?

DR.. d. K. Pearsons of Chicago has the
right idea about giving to colleges. He
believes in aiding the smaller institu-
tons in the south that are struggling
for an existence. Colleges are like men
the more money they have the more is
donated to them by mllionaires. The
schools that DIR. Pearsons is helping
should feel extremely grateful, for there
is none to deny that they need the
money.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

The astonishing case is reported of a
wealthy youth who ran away from home
to make his way in the world because
his mother would not let him work. It
sounds very much as if the hero of this
tale is playing on the credulity of a
trusting public. If he smashes baggage
or drives a truck for six months with
out a rest, it will be much easier to
believe that he is in earnest about want
ing to live the simple life.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
Has a Barrel.

From the Tuscumbia North Albanian.
W. T. Vandiver, wealthy citizen of
Montgomery, is being mentioned as pos
sibc gubernatorial candidate. Mr.. Vandi-
yer is a successful business man and has
all the requisites necessary to enter a
state primary-a barrel"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
Out of Touch.

From the Greenville Living Truth.
Snowman Bailey says that the day when
the street circus parade was popular has
passed Evidently Mr.. Bailey has gotten
out of touch with the small boy of the
present generation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

leads to the belief that the bears of Colo
RADIO won't stand for any more hot lead.
The fact that the party has dispatched
five bears is considered by those who kuow
an unprecedented run of good luck. The
season of the year and the climactic ana
typographical conditions were not tho
most favorable and it is not Lelieved thai
Roosevelt and the bears.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
Venezuela Wise.

From the Mobile Register
Venezuela is level-headed when it comes
to depositing her funds. Castro has ship
ped 81, 100000 to the United States to be
placed in a New York bank
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

The fact that there are sixty members
of the new cruiser Galveston in irons for
mutinous conduct and extra precautions
have been taken to prevent the remaining
members of the crew from deserving while
the vessel is at Galveston, and the fact
that desertion at Pensacola has been a
frequent offense since the arrival of the
fleet in that port awakens the suspicion
that life on the bounding deep is not as
delightsome as the Autographs of Uncle
Sans recruiting agents would have us be-
lieve. The amusing feature of the situa-
tion on board the Galveston is that the
cruiser went to Galveston on her maiden
trip to receive a silver service from the
citizens. Naturally, you would expect
every one to be bubbling over with good
numor but this feenng Is apparently
not shared by the tackles"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

Pictures of the Gar and Jimmy
Hyde are Interchangeable in news
paper Offices, and no one knows the
difference. There really is none.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

800 went to I<lav- & Erlanger. 1t is
true that such figures are not imposing
in these days of huge industrial COM
binations and consequent returns from
such combines but it is safe to assume
that the trust" didn't lose any money
on the musical comedies which were sent
down south during the past season.
Economy was spelled in big. glaring let
ters which equalled in size those which
hlazoned the name of a well known and
lonesome star, surrounded by what the
press agent calls. "a bunch of hamfat-
ters"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
About Persons.

w. p Lay OF Gadsden is at the Nor
ris.
Harry S. Meyers of Cincinnati is at
the Morris.
f. p. Clemments of Tuscaloosa is in
the city.
Charles r. Turner of Tuscaloosa is in
the birmingham.
II. T. GIN of New Decatur is in the city.
G. w. Pratt. president of the Pell City
Manufacturing company is in Birmlng-
ham.
Arthur Johnson of Admission is in the
city.
Mr. and Mrs ]. X. Davis of Atwood
are at the Colonial. After spending a few
days in birmingham they will leave for
the Panhandle, Texas where they make
their future home.
Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United
States court, went to Montgomery yes
terday afternoon
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
The UMPIRE.

From the Florida Times-union.
Birmingham Age-Herald says. "An UNI
pire has a right to have common sense"
If he's wise he'll be careful when and
where he exercises it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

The President is leaving the bear
country for the country which the
gray wolves control. He is greatly
needed in the latter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

Carnegie has surpassed all his for
mer philanthropies by his donation of
$10,000000 to pension college profess
sors. This time he is putting his
money where it is needed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
About Settling.

From the Greensboro Record.
1t is good to marry and settle down,
but 1T is better to remain single and
settle up.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

1t is related that the skin is peel
ing off Mr.. Roosevelts face, but that
is not a circumstance to the skin that
was peeled of those five bears.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

Mrs. Chadwick's art treasures were
sold at ridiculously low figures. Mrs.
Chadwick is herself considerably de-
preciated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

President Woodrow Wilson says the
trusts should be moralized only. This
ruts on the esteemed trusts the smile
that does not come Off
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

The house in which Admiral Dewey
was born has just been sold under a
foreclosure sale for $1,000, which is
considered paltry.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

The children of the orphan asylums
in New York are to be given an auto
mobile ride in order to show them
how children oftentimes become or
nhanS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
BIRMINGHAM AND NERVE.

From the Savannah Press.
The Birmingham Age-Herald mourns be-
cause that city lacks Atlanta's nerve. Bir-
mingham is advised to steer its ambitions
in some other direction.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29
ALABAMA PRESS
Including the Gar.

From the Coosa Valleyan.
The Russian losses are greatly exag-
gerated. They will have few men left
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

The Ensley battery of furnaces
standing in one compact row is sight
unequalled in this country, and all are
in blast
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-29

If you hear dull sound that you do
not understand or recognize just set
it down as the dropping of life insur-
ance policies.