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WELCOMES
THE VISITORS
HAPPY LITTLE SPEECH BY THE
PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD
OF TRUSTEES.
Otto Gramm Asks Auditors Not to
Shoot Him, az He Did the Best He
could-Great Pleasure to Welcome
Visiting Members of Legislature to
the University City.

In the exercises at the university
wednesday afternoon, Hon. Otto
Gramm. the president Of the board OF
trustees and the presiding officer OF
the meeting. made a hit, a palpable
hit in his address of welcome, which
is too good to be lost, although two
days have elapsed since it's delivery.
1t is here printed in full:
Ladies and Gentlemen-I feel some.
what like a story that | heard a few
days ago; some of you may possibly
have heard it. In the early days of
Leadville, they wished to assume some
OF the refinement of civilization, so
they organized a church, and procured
an organist, who in turn got an organ,
which was old and very wheezy in
tone. Knowing full well the western
spirit, he procured a placard, upon
which he placed the following inscrip-
ton, do not shoot the organist, he is
doing the best he can" So We feel we
will do the best we can.
1t is a great pleasure and IL great
privilege to have you with us today,
and we greatly appreciate your pres
ence. Today We shall inaugurate a
president for this university, an insti-
tuition which is not an Albany county
matter, but it belongs to the people Of
this young and growing common
wealth. We feel highly honored that
1t should have been placed in Il
midst. and we have a great pride in the
institution.
AS the governor in his message aptly
There should be no north,
south, east or west, but we should
work for the common good of the
whole state Our fore.fathers build
ed well, on the motto which they had
engraved upon the old copper coin OF
one cent value which was United We
stand; divided We fall" A state di-
vided will not succeed.
The presidents who have served the
university are as follows:
John w. Hoyt, 1886 to 1891, five
years.
John D. Comfy, acting, January, 1891,
to March, 1891, three months.
Alonzo A. johnson, 1891 to 1896, Ave
years.
Frank P. Graves, 1896 to 1898, two
years.
Elmer E. Smiley, 1898 to 1908. five
years.
Chas. w. Lewis, September, 1903, to
1904, 9 months.
Frederick M. Tisdel, July, 1904.
In selecting the last president there
we're numerous applications. We
very favorably impressed with the
strong endorsements Of DR.. Eliot from
Harvard, and from DR.. Gonsaulus OF
the Armour Institute of Chicago. Pres
ident Tisdel Is eminently fitted for the
position, being a co~llege-bred man,
from Harvard, Madison, Wisconsin, OBJ
erlin, Ohio. Northwestern, Evanston,
ILL.,, and the Armour institute of tech
nology. He yet will be compelled to
win his spurs" We have great faith
in him, and he is aided by a faculty
which will compare fayorably with
many of the larger universities. The
III - .G-~l 90 that tho
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ALBANY COUNTY MAN GETS
CATTLE At FORT COLLINS

H. T, Decker bought $50 head OF
steers yesterday and is now on MS
way to his Laramie river ranch with
them, says the Fort Collins Express.
He has = good place to care for the
stock and the sand to buy when the
price i down, two requisites for sue
cess in the cattle business.
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WILL CONNECT WITH
THE UNION PACIFIC.

Officials of the Denver, Enid and
Gulf, now operating between Enid and
Guthrie, nou the purpose of the
company to extend the line south to
Oklahoma City and northwest to a con.
nection with the Union Pacific in Kan
saS.
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JElM MAN FILES

PLAT OF A DITCH.
John H. Towner, of Jelm, Wyo., has
filed. as required by law, in the county
clerks Office, a plat of a ditch he has
taken out OF Johnson creek, says the
Fort Collins Express. 1t is about three
miles long with a capacity Of Tx cub
lie feet.
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Attorney at law. U. S. Commissioner

Land Filings and Final Proofs made any
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Railroad Lots for Sale at Reduced Prices
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
MARK TWAIN MET GREELEY

From a Letter in Harpers Weekly.
 always recall that talk with Hay with pleasure not only for it's own sake but because 1t was incidentally the occasion of my getting acquainted with Horace Greeley, a man whom I greatly admired and longed to see and whose memory 1 still revere It was difficult to get an in- terview with him, for he was a busy man. he was irascible and he had an aversion to strangers; but I not only had the good fortune to meet him. but also had the great privilege of hearing him talk. Ihe Tribune was in it's early home at that time, and Hay was leader writer on It's staff. I had an appointment with nm and went there to look him up. ] dld not know my way and entered MT Greeley's room by mistake. l recognized his back, and stood mute and rejoicing. After little he swung slowly around in his chair, with his head slightly tilted backward and the great moons of his spectacles glaring with intercepted light; after auout a year-though it may have been less, perhaps-he arranged his firm mouth with care and said with virile in terest:
 Well, what the hell do you want?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
HORSE SHOW INFLUENCE,

From the New York Sun.
 The horse shows of the present time have an incidental effect In assembling the social interests of our various communi- ties. These annual competitions, besides increasing interest in horsefIesh and tend ing to improve the stock and breeds ex- hibited, have also come to serve this other purpose. Owners of horses journey from one city of the country to another to compete for prizes and are thrown into one another's society as never before.
 Very naturally, horse show honors usually go to very rich people, for these alone are able to afford the expense of such exhibitions. New York millionaires travel with their families to the western towns and make the acquaintance of their wealth and fashion. Thus do the million aires of New York come to know the mill lionares of Kansas City.
 New Workers are accused of provincial ism by dwellers in other cities, more especially those of the west They are said to be indifferent to other towns and their interests. It used to be that the wealth of our different towns united so- cially only at Newport. The horse shows, however, have changed all that, and no other institution has done so much to bring together the society of the east and west,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
A Good Barometer.

"The Birmingham Railway, Light ana Power company Is evidencing it's great faith in the future of the Birmingham dis trict by the many extensions and large improvements that are being made on all the lines of the company in all direc- tions,. said a gentleman at the Hillman yesterday
 q see that this company has purchased a lot and will erect a large new freight and passenger depot at Ensley while new depot at Bessemer is already being built to cost something like $1O,ooO
 "The company has just completed via duct at Bessemer over the steam rail- way tracks at Tenth avenue that has cost about s75, ,OOO A new car line from Besse- mer to Jonesboro and other points is to be built as soon as a franchise is se- cured from the City Council of Besse- mer
 New lines are being built in every sec- ton of the county that can be reached. and more are being planned. 1 am told that a new line is being built from East Birmingham to Boyles station, which will be a great advantage to the people em- ployed at the new shops of the Louisville and Nashville railway at that place, and who have homes in Birmingham. The best barometer of a city's substantial growth Is the operations of it's street car system
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
From the New York Commercial.

From the New York Commercial.
 1 HE problem of success appeals in (CR various ways of different per
 sons. In the good, old days when Bill Nye was editing a little news paper in the wind-swept town of Lar annie. wyoming. and calmly waiting for the reputation of a great humorist that even then was on his trail and later found him. he wrote thus:
 Young man, what are you living for? Have you an object dear to you as life, and without the attainment of which you feel that your life will have been a wide shoreless waste of shadow people by the spectres of dead ambitions? Is it your consuming ambition to paddle quiet ly but firmly up the stream of time with manly strokes, against the current of pub lie opinion, or to finger along the seduc- tive banks, going in swimming; or, care less of the future. gathering shells and tadpoles along the shore?
 Have you a distinct idea of certain position in life which you wish to at tain? Have you decided whether you will be great man and die in the poorhouse, and have nice, comfortable monument after you are dead, for your destitute family to look at; or will you content yourself to plug along through life as a bank president? These, young man, are questions of moment. They are ques- tions of two moments. They come home to our hearts today with terrible earnest ness. You can take your choice in the great battle of life, whether you will bristle up and win a deathless name, and owe almost everything, or be satisfied with scads and mediocrity.
 Why do you finger and fritter away the heyday of life, when you might sklr- mish around and win some laurels? Many of those who now stand at the head of the nation as statesmen and logicians were once unknown, unhonored and un- sung. Now they saw the air in the halls of congress, and their names are plaster ed on the temple of fame. They were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

server of the war in the Far East, and the chances are that he has picked up point or two from our friends. the Japanese.
 The battlefield, be it on land or sea, is not the place for old men. They are too cautious, too prudent. to slow in coming to the crisis, to wage success ful war. After all. it must be conceded that Dr Osler was not far astray when he said the dash and vigor of a mans he is on the sunny side of forty. There are exceptions, but those excep- tons should not oe found on our ships The age of retirement in the English army is 55; in this country it is GA. Here is a very material difference. The age for retirement in our navy is 62 and the meaning of Admiral Deweys opinion no doubt is that that age should be moved up at least ten points.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
President Roosevelt in Alabama.

President Roosevelt will enter Ala of today and tomorrow will be spent in this state. He will traverse the state from the sea to the hill country in the course of the two days, and thousands of Alabamians will see the face and hear the voice of the man who brought peace to the world.
 It was he, too who early in his adj ministration, denounced the evils of the lynching habit. His teachings in that respect did not go unheeded in Alabama. Other good men, including Governor Jelks, spoke out plainly, too, and today The Age-Herald is glad to be able to welcome the President to a state in which not single lynch ing has occurred this year. This is a great victory for law, order and civ ilzation, and the President did his part. He bore his tesimony, which was weighty and potential.
 The Presidents trip will prove val uable in more respects than one. It will bring him and the southern peo- pie closer together. It will accentu- ate the fact that he is the Presideff of the whole country. It will promote peace and good will between the North and the South.
 lie will everywhere be received in Alabama, not only with the courtesy due to his high office, but with enthu- siasm, for all in this section admire honesty, courage and democratic ways His mother was southern born and bred, and he himself has the chivalry and the manliness that is found in the heart of every true southern man Alabama will welcome the head of the nation, and s.S will also welcome the man who goes straight to the spot where duty calls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
Closinq the Lewis and Clark Fair.

On Saturday night last the Lewis hnu Clark centennial exposition closed its doors, and it's story become a part of the history of the country. The people of Oregon are very proud of their great fair. It was successful in the respect of gate receipts, and also in the respect of exhibits and attrac- tions generally.
 When the limited population of the Pacific states is considered, it is sur prising that the enterprise of Port land should have turned out so we'll It certainly must have commanded the lo-al support of every man, woman and child in the three states that lie on the Pacific.
 The figures are not at hand, but it is understood that it came nearer being a paying enterprise than any national or international fair that has even been held in this country. This fact, too, pleases the people of Port land, the seat of the late exposition, the chief city and capital of Oregon.
 very considerable number of peo- pie crossed the continent to see the exposition, and while they were on the Pacific coast they studied every fea- ture of it. The Pacific states are far better known to the people of this country today than they were before the exposition opened its doors last May, and this is one of the great ben efts of expositions. The people need from time to time some excuse for travellng over and seeing the vast scope and still vaster resources of their magnificent country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
Make It q Great Fair.

In the glorious sunshine of these autumnal days, let us turn out to en- joy and to make useful the state fair of Alabama of this year. The people and their enthusiasm and their joy is all that is now needed to make the fair wonderfully and finely successful. In this period of material prosper ity, when every man can find ready employment, and every product com mands a good market, all should visit tDe fair to enjoy it to the fullest ex- tent.
 The scope of the fair is very broad. It is not all machinery, or all horse, or all handiwork of women. All these are well represented at the fair, but there is much more beside. A great tent is full of poultry, and the stalls for cattle, sheep and other stock ex- tend almost out of sight. Nothing seems to have been overlooked or neglected Every product of the mines and surface soil of Alabama will be duly placed before the people. Every factor of a great fair will be in place in the big buildings, or in the ample spaces of the new fair grounds. It is really astonishing to see what has been accomplished in few weeks, but when men and money pull together aImost anytaing is possible.
 Let us then turn out to make the opening day a record breaker. Let the attendance rise higher and higher as the fair progresses. It deserves the support of every Alabamian, and there is not an Alabamian in the world who cannot find at the fair a deal of things of interest and downright instruction. Let us make it a great fair by going to it early and often.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23

From the Atlanta News.
 No feature of the Presidents visit to Atlanta was more significant and more notable than the eloquent and apprecia- tive tribute he paid to Joel Chandler Har- ris
 In his speech at the Driving club he made the author of Uncle Remus" prac- tically the central theme of his discourse. It was not merely the ''Uncle Remus' stories, however. which challenged the admiration of the President and elicited his warm words of commendation These folklore stories of the "old south" are already incorporated in the permanent literature of our country and have been stamped as classics of the highest order for all time. Nothing that the President or anyone else could say could exalt them in the minds and the hearts of the people who have learned to love them during two generations.
 But the speaker dwelt upon the fact that in those other stories of the soNth, in which MT. Harris has caught the spirit of the days that are no more, glorifylng the south and it's traditions without distilling one word of bitterness he had rendered an invaluable service to the American people And he dws)t with emphasis upon the fact that for his own part he had never risen up from reading one of those exquisite stories without feeling that he was better man.
 This is the highest praise. What Is better, it is well bestowed.
 And, therein lies a fact upon which
 we cannot dwell too frequently-the
 wholesome and uplifting moral which | necessarily underlies good literature. The | south has always been proud of Mr. Harris. Quiet and unassuming to the | point of actual timidty, he lives in the sweet seclusion of the Sign of the Wrens Nest" from which he dispenses
 that sweetness and light which makes | mankind better and nobler. His work is typical of all good work in literature. It has become somewhat the fashion to scoff at stories with a moral. But the truth of the matter is that no great story is without a moral Perhaps the highest excellence to be found in any novel is the fidelity with which it reproduces human life. Balzac called himself the secretary of society. and such must every great
 writer be. The more photographic his fidelity in placing before his readers the varying aspects of human life, the greater l is his work.
 | And surely in all the episodes of such life, there certainly must be a moral when they are embodied in book and pre-
 scented to the reading world.
 l That there is such moral in everything | that Uncle Remus has written, does
 not even need to be demonstrated and it
 must have been a grateful realization to | MT. Harris to learn on yesteraa. how
 much he had contributed through his stories, to the forming of the manly
 character of the President of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
Financial Situation.

Henry Clews in his Wall Street letter of Saturday, says:
 "Cautionary signals are up in Wall street, and this in spite of exceptionally brilliant business prospects. Both money and foreign exchange have advanced and firm rates are likely to continue. The significant feature of the situation is that this tension in the money market is not confined to New York. In all of the worlds principal money markets rates have advanced, and those who hold the regns of finance are manifesting an in- creasingly prudent spirit. Interest rates at New York, London, Paris and Berlin have practically doubled since the open ing of September, and the various inter- national money markets are showing 8 disposition to increase their supplies of gold at the expense of each other Bank reserves at New York are at the lowest point within a dozen years; save in ono or two momentary periods; while re- serves of the great foreign banks are also lower than usual and their managers openly recognize the necessity for eau ton.
 What is the reason for this world wide policy of prudence at time when the business horizon seems cloudless and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-23
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
To Welcome the President.

''I was pleased to read in The Age Herald that the Confederate veterans hao been assigned a place at the right hand or President Roosevelts carriage in the parade that will take place Tuesday, said a well known merchant at the MOT rs yesterday, "and I am delighted with the thought that the members of the Grand Army of the Republic will march on the opposite side. The sight Of the blue and the grey marching side by side with q President, who has shown that he Is a leader of all the people, will cer- tainly be an inspiring sight to the thous- ands of persons who will line the streets that day It was with regret that l heard the veterans of the Spanish-American war would not take part in the paraoe' What a complete picture it would nave made to have them following in the rear or the carriage!
 There is one thing I regret to notice in Birmingham, however, and that IS the apparent apathy on the part of our mer- chants and residents concerning the mat ter of decorating. One would hardly mag inc from the appearance of our pubic buildings that we had a state fair much less any thought of receiving the Presl- dent of the United States within the next two days This is an important thing, and I believe everybody should make Monday a general decoration day IT something is not done in this direction the President may think we are very stingy. I am not pessimist but l am of the opinion that the stand erected at Capitol park is entirely too small for such an occasion as a Presidential reception. Hark my word. members of the commit tee of arrangements will be forced to stand on the ground. There is hardly room on the platform"