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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
Jamestown Exposition.

With Harry St. George Tucker presi- dent of the Jamestown exposition the great project for celebrating the 3o0th an Kersary of the establishment of the first English colony in the New World will doubtless be big success said a mem Der of Birmingham Virginia colony. "The exposition will be held in 1907. The United States government is committed to it by reason of an appropriation made by Congress- A great feature of the cele- bration will be naval display in Hamp- tor Roads
 Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was the president of the exposition company and at the time of his death the preliminary work was well avdanced. The presidency was offered to former President Grover Cleve- land, but MT. Cleveland had not the time to give to it and declined. He will, how ever, accept position. it is understood, on the advisory board.
 MT. Tucker is a son of the late Ran Tucker and served several terms in Con- gress He is full of energy and tact and is noted for intellectual force and schol- arly attainments."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
Snub Wanamaker.

q am in favor of all southern people turning their backs on John Wanamaker,' said G. H. Estes yesterday. True il would not decrease his revenue very much but a vigorous protest would certainly be an expression of southern sentiment that I think would have a great deal of weight in the north.
 q blame Wanamaker and his daughter more than 1 do Washington The negro saw a chance to get higher in society than ever before and it was temptation he could not resist. He did not elevate him. self any by dining with Wanamaker, but on the other hand Wanamaker lowered himself to the level of Booker Wash ington and other negroes
 T for one hope that Washington will never come back to Alabama to live and that he will move his school out of the south and into the north''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
Refier School Houses.

The Alabama School Improvement association, made up of thoughtful wo- men throughout the state, is endeav- bring to induce the people in each school district to build better school houses and to equip them properly. Present conditions, say these noble hearted women, put a premium on ig- norance by making attendance and in- struction 80 difficult as almost to pro hibit both" All who know the rural districts of this state know that the school houses are in both construc- tion and equipment deplorably defi- cient.
 The cIear-headed women who were placed by the Alabama Federation or Women's clubs at the head of the school house movement, are endeav- bring to organize school improve ment association in every school dis trict in this state. Already number have been organized, and it is hoped that the work will be extended to every county.
 The women are hampered by the want of the power of local taxation, and while they are organizing improve ment associations they are endeavor- ing to build up a sentiment in favor of a constitutional amendment permit ting each district to have whatever educational facilities it is willing to pay for
 Let us hope the women in charge of the school improvement work will no. relax their efforts, at least not until the polls are closed in November, 1907, when the great battle of local taxa ton will be fought out, and one great defect of the constitution of 1901 is put, let us hope, in a way to be rem edied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
A SATELLITE ROCKEFELLER.
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From the New York World.
 That Is a touching picture which the worlds Cleveland dispatch today draws of John D. Rockefeller taking the Kneipp cure by wading in deep grass at dawn, his bony, dew-bathed feet and bulging skull as bare as a baby's.
 This and other penances MT. Rockefeller undergoes to lure back his health, long ago sacrificed to business anxieties. His fare the simplest his daily life limited by the doctors orders to play when he would prefer to work excitement forbid den, the ordinary pleasures of poorer men impossible, his very name bugaboo and his life lived in fear of other men who have been impoverished by him or think they have been-the most famous multi millionaire's life is not so very gay.
 Yet it would not harm many men less wealthy to begin the regimen of plain food. quiet ways and the friendship or the dawn, barefooted or otherwise before 1t Is too late.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIBS
A Ministers Views


 There is one phase of the recent n'o''"s of Birmingham ball players fi,"e a.sis., ,.', to have been too lightly passed over Ds the public and which has been eh'ife'y overlooked by the players fhehseses' said Il well-known minister or the sospo' of thts city who Is lover or the ha- tional game. ,a.,,
 "rhe players" he continued Keep barpine on the fact that they were liileu' and Judging from their talk they appar- entlv look at the case from thelr own vIewpoints alone. They seem to have no conception whatever of the most serious side of the matter, which Is or the ou'- rage they did the Birmingham elup' .iie baseball loving public and the Souther" leagne as an organization by their mutlhy at such critical time, It was crllleai lime for the Birmingham team, which was making hard fight to finish second ln the pennant race, and 1t was a critical time for the Southern league whieh IS fighting for It's very existence to the eno of this season, at least.
 of these players had shown the proper spirlt they would have stuck to the cluo' no matter now uHJustiS tiS9 ' thought they had been treated In the matter of fines. and would have remon- strated with Manager Vaughan. If thelr remonstrances had proved unavailing they could have appealed to the local assoela- ton. Nobody doubts that they would nave received fair treatment in the end. aes' it seems to me that the most fragrant nhase of the players conduct has not been duly emphasized"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
RAvELERs along rural highways and tourists who gaze idly from
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 the windows of Pullman cars as their train files through a country vil- iase have noted the little white churches with window shutters painted green. Of ten there Is small cemetery contiguous. Where the1e are tombstones green with the messy vestments of age and beaten by the rains of many winters; where some of the lots are jealously guarded by en- closures of wooden paiings; where cedar trees grow and old fashioned flowers bloom modestly in the spring. There may or may not be a grave yard, but you will always find the church. It's architectural proportions are not impos- ing, its outlines are scarcely graceful and the small frame building, with its weatherboarded sides and shingle roof, is very unpretentious Yet the eye of a worldling delights to finger on this simple house of worship. It breaches lesson of peace. A soft-toned bell in the tower filings it's notes over peaceful valleys and quiet hills. The people who pass through its modest portal are good and honest, contented and happy. The noise and tu- mutt, the heartlessness and the suffering of the busy world are unknown here. Weddings that do not precede divorce suit are performed within the church and sweet-faced brides who walk down the aisle dread no matrimonial storms in the future. Within the country church yard sleep worthy folk who lived the simple life. The little white church has mis- sion to perform in the world and who shall say that they who worship here are not closer to their Creator than the fash ionable congregation gathered in great city edifce, where the rustic of silks and the whisper of scandal mingle with the operatic notes of the choir?
 The Parks anti-cigarette law of Indi- ana seems to have achieved a dismal fail- ure. Instead of stopping the use of cigarettes in the state the number of smokers has actually increased and it is estimated that 15.OO0 more people smoke cigarettes now than did before the law went into effect. No recent enactment of state legislature has created more lively discussion and attracted more at- tention than the Indiana anti-cigarette law. Many persons who predicted it's futility are now in a position to remark, 'I told you SOL In the first place this law was regarded as too closely encroach- ing upon the rights of American citizens and in the second place the very perver- sity of human nature has contrived to make a great many people smoke cigar cites who would not otherwise have done i so, save for the feet that the practice was prohibited. The tobacco trust'' flooded the state with free papers, boys bought their tobacco direct and the busi- ness of rolling cigarettes went along right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
Business in August.

Tn all cities August is the dullest month of the year." said a business man. and the last half of August Is the dull est part of the dull month. The large ma jority of people who can afford to take a vacation leave for tine seaside or the mountains during the dog days. Yet not withstanding the fact that so many of our people are away from home, retail trade keeps up well. I often wonder where all the men and women come from that crowd the strets and shop in the retail houses.
 This is certainly a record-breahng summer in Birmingham from a banking and mercantile point of view
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19

wall which simply promotes the ferma- tion of trusts inside the wall the con vention decided to recommend the adoption of the German plan--a max mum and minimum tariff The max mum tariff would be applied to our trade enemies, and the minimum tariff to our trade friends, The plan is not a bit ideal, and all that can be said in it's favor Is, 1t is better than the Dingley Chinese wall.
 Dual tariffs seem to be coming into favor in various parts of the world. Mr. Chamberlain's scheme is but an application of dual tariffs-the British colonies to get the benefit of a min mum tariff, while the rest of the world is subjected to a maximum tariff, Ger. many's new dual tariff will go into ef- feet on March 1, next, and France has similar scheme.
 The Senate of the United States has killed in the interest of privilege a dozen reciprocity treaties, and 1t Is hoped to build up a sentiment in favor of dual tariffs that the Senate dare not disregard. After pledging the convention to the support of the new scheme steps were taken to en- large and widen tho movement, the whole of it to be hereafter known as the American Reciprocity Tarin league. It is step against Dingley- ism, and as such it is commendable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
TRovATo

(From "Perdita and Other Poems.') By Charles J. Bayne
 Is 1t but the idle fancy
 Of mocking necromancy That together, leaf and blossom. by ths Indus once we grew,
 And that Hafiz came, or Omar, To imprison the aroma On some half remembered measure which has rhythmed me to you? Is 1t false or Is 1t real
 That in ages more ideal, I was song and you were Sappho; you were sunbeam, l the dew?
 For I long have felt the burgeon Of a passion, vague and virgin, Which you quicken to remembrance of a former life we knew.
 Were you stream when I was willow Was I shell when you were pillow? For you voice has ever echoed through the hushes of my heart; And 1t seems, as I behold you, That the very air foretold you By the fragrance which, in welcome. all the building boughs impart. But at last I stand beside you. And the fate which long denied you Yields, in recompense, dearer incarna- tion than my dream.
 What sought to what you are, Love, Was as twilight to the star, Love. As the languor is to summer, as the mur- mur to the stream.
 And since age on age has perished But to bring the soul cherished. Wherein thought and feeling blended, arc as petal and perfume.
 Let us finger here forever. Where the pride of all endeavor Is fervor which to passion is as glamour unto gloom.
 Yet, if Fate reserves its malice But to break the lifted chalice, Let me mingle with the clements, where
 once was part;
 Then, on some supernal morning Which your beauty is adorning. As a dewdrop in lily. may nestle in
 your heart.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
SOUTHERN woMAN's ENTERPRISE

From the Philadelphia Record.
 A very aristocratic southern woman who has but recently come to Philadel- phia has undertaken new commercial enterprise. She intends to give lessons in southern cooking. All the renowned southern delicacies of which one reads in both literature and history are 10 De the subjects of her instruction Tn the houses of the fashionable women here. Matrons in mansions on the fashionable Main Line have already volunteered to lend themselves to the delicate and per- plexing task of doing up the chickens in the true Alabama way; of fixing the rice just as 1t should be fixed, and the debu- tantes of the season have become highly interested in the new idea Hundreds of delicacies unheard of In the north ana many of them not well known in tue south. will now grace the tables of fash ionable Philadelphians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
Dual Tariffs

From Texas to New England thoughtful men to the number of six hundred came together at Chicago to discuss Dingleyism and its evils and particularly it's dangers to American trade. The convention itself was evi dence that Dingleyism is becoming every day more unsatisfactory to the best interests of the country. IL threatens to deprive us in the near future of . German trade amounting to s22o.Oo0.0Oo year.
 As Q substitute for the present tariff
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
DIAMOND RIVALRY AT SARATOGA.

From the Boston Herald.
 The diamond rivalry at Saratoga is alone worth the fares up there. When the lid came off the 'jooerls' broke out on expansive and manly bosoms, putting to shame ladies diadems and chains of great price. If these dead Saratoga sports will now wear diamonds in their hats, as we'll as on their hands and buttoning their gaudy 'weslxits," a gorgeousness will mark the season as never was before or since. From all accounts Saratoga is blazing with diamonds, both male and female.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
 KN ID-AUGUST finds the pleasant E\p land of Dixie in the happy and | normal condition of political war. The treacherous thermometer which in the north has palpably cra=ed large proportion of the population, has beningly registered a genial and glowing warmth in the south, conducive to intellectual agility incisiveness of temper, and health full acidity of speech. From the Potomac to the Rio Grande come reverberations of field and siege artillery. "Sunhurned sicklemen, of August weary" drop their slckles and flock to town where peerless orators drown and burn in precipitation and peroration. All Dixie is alive with local issues of overwhelming national inn portance.
 The very dome of the capitol filings back the echoes of yirginian strife. There the fiorid Montague and the 1natter-of-fact Martin are locked in a death struggle that extends over every county of the Old Do minion Figures of speech and figures of commerce writhe and grapple. The Kappa hammock boils, the Rapidan bubbles, and the James runs in panic to the Roads. The mother of Presidents adjusts her spectacles and clasps her hands In convul- sive apprehension as she stares at her warning son. It is fierce and blody fight, but out of 1t will come peace and sem ator, if there is survivor at all
 In good old Georgia the shears of em- battled editors flash in the August moon. Georgia was disposed to become frantic at first, fine grand old state sighed and became resigned She no longer fears the worst, for 1t has happened She hears the roar of the linotypes as they belch forth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
STRENUOUS LIFE.

From the Columbus Dispatch.
 Say" roared the irate citizen as he rushed into the office of the village week. ly, where's the editorr
 Want to see him personality" quiried the office boy.
 You bet do.' answered the l. c. I'm going to thrash him within an inch of his life See?''
 "Oh, all right" answered the boy. "Jusi have seat. please. There are three oth. CTS ahead of you.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
POLITICAL ARTILLERY
 ROARS IN DIXIE LAND

defiance and smoke, and the sharp rattle of sanguinary typewriters fills her cap ital with dread. Editorial explosions are of hourly occurrence, and column after column sweeps forward with double leads and bold-faced heads. It is carnage of minion and bourgeois Even the neutral dictionary has been pillaged. and war poems are at a ruinous premium.
 Over in Tennessee the aureate plumes of the Hon. Edward ". Carmack are in- candescent, while the Hon. Bob Taylor's violin "shrielxs like a god in pain" Hav- ing providently arranged that restraining hands shall hold them back. these brilliant sons of Tennessee are struggling to grip each others throat, while the people of the commonwealth look on aghast The golden-domed senator would defend his seat by joint debate, but his friends fear the cunning master of the catgut muse. And Bob Taylor's friends tie his hands. for they know the fiddle would stand no show" against the viol that sings in epi- gram.
 From Texas comes the voice of the Hon. Joseph w. Bailey who in speech from which politics was vigorously excluded, thus referred with senatorial courtesy to certain of his colleagues:
 "Who Is the successor of Stephen A. Douglas? A nice old woman, who com pares with Douglas as the glow-worm compares with the eagle. Who represents Ohio? MT. Dick, who didn't make great success at running a feed store. Who comes from Pennsylvania? The oeature of cornora lions and cabals"
 Rare old Kentucky, meanwhile. listens to rare old Joe Blackburn, making the fight of his life. So 1t goes throughout Dixie, that fair and happy land.
 quarantine is much worse than tine fever'' though probably an exception would be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
A GOOD CARTOON.

From the Gadsden Times-News.
 The cartoon of The Age Herald Wednes- day on Booker washington's latest social triumph was both timely and good. It shows Booker going to dinner with the daughter of John Wanamaker, who is shown wearing smile and thinking mer- rily over the free advertising he will get out of the episode. Poor John w. should come down south and see 1t as we do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
STRENUOUS LIFE AT SARATOGA.

From an Exchange.
 Here is one days entry in the diary of a man who makes his iiving by gambling: "Got up at Il o'clock, had breakfast, got check cashed. played faro bank till o'clock, winning $500. Went to the races, played six races, lost si300 Played roulette from o'clock till dinner time, lost 1850. Played poker from g o'clock on to 1:30, lost S65O. Played faro from l o'clock until o'clock, won S17o0 Went to bed and fell asleep trying to dope out the winners for the next day."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 There ought to be a weather bureau to tell man when not to go home pe- cause there will be a storm there.
 The way for girl to catch huspano is to run away from him, and to hoio him Is to keep teasing him to go away.
 What a woman likes about street cars Is the way she can get indignant witn men who can't help staring at her m admiration.
 About the worst luck man can have is to have to stay at home at dinner witn the minister when he knows where U good poker game is going on.
 It is very puzzling to figure out now much you wouldn't like woman 1T you were married to her that you like nov; and how much you would like woman that you don't now if you weren't mar ried to her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19

Mobile Heraldi It Is feared that most of those who go to Saratoga use the celebrated water only for T chaser
 Mobile Register; The ThomasvIlle es-Ilnterprise dubs him 'stesomyia fasoInator" We refuse to admit the fas- cination.
 Selma Journal Mr. Bodlne believes thut within few years 1t will be nLo, the poor man," instead of "Lo' the poor Indian"
 Andalusia News; It is said that before man announces for office he Is in the hands of his friends. After he anounces he is in the hands of his enemies
 Cullman Democrat: Good school houses and good schools are coming. it is only matter of time; get in the front on this question and you can the better look your children in the face. centrevllle Press: The Sultan of Turkey has recently given a Paris tailor an order for seventy dresses for his numerous wives. The Sultan Is a sick man but with that number of wives there is no won- der.
 Greensboro Record: Tn Alabama today there are lying uncultivated 100000 acres of cleared land; for the negroes have been fiocl5ing from the farms to the mines and factories. The time is at hand when Alabama must have immigrants. 1 Anniston Star: The Star contained dispatch yesterday stating that one MT. Tucker had shot brother, also Tucker over the division of a quantity of liquor. Ever since the days of the illustrious Dan | old booze has been a hoodoo number in the Tucker family.
 Gadsden Times-News: Billy Goat Hill' is becoming as famous in Gadsden as the Rabbit Foot" saloon was in Birming- ham, We hope Mayor Smith will be as successful in his determination to break up Billy Goat Hil1' as Mayor Ward was with the Rabbit Foot saloon. Mobile Item: It is given out from Wash ington in a report from the census de- partment that the birthrate of the Unit ed States has been steadily decreasing since 1860. Perhaps President Roosevelt was on the inside of the situation when he first claimed the American people to be guilty of race suicide. |
 Troy Messenger Indictments should be found against all who were concerned in the recent cotton leakages The leaking of that information, while beneficial to the perpetrators, was a crime against the country. Those who bought the informa- tlon should be punished alike with those | who sold it.
 Florence Times: Some day, and not so remote either, communication between the towns of north Alabama will be prin- cpally by electric cars, the current being supplied by the power of the great Mussel shoals, power ample to turn all the | wheels in north Alabama including those in the head of our old friend, Colonel Mique Auber.
 Tallapoosa Courier: Fortune is smiling on this part of our state. We never saw better cotton nor more grown bolls at this time of year, and the good season will surely continue the crop fruitage. There Is great harvest ahead of our people in cotton, corn and hay at good prices. Old cotton, old corn and old money Is lying around loose in Tallapoosa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19

The entire gulf coast in Mississippi Is regarded as infected territory, and the refugees from that district are in- ereasing in number.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19

The worlds fair at Portland, Ore, may prove to be the first money maker of that class of shows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19

The Roosevelt name will soon be familiar in, vaudeville. A cousin with a tendency toward the stage has de- yeloped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19

The case of Metcalfe versus the al- legged theatrical trusts is not ended by any means. More developments are expected for September.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19

Grover Cleveland declined to accept the presidency of the Jamestown expo sition. His Equitable job will keep him busy enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19

Baron Schlippenbach visited Ports mouth Thursday. The baron has an easy-going name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19

The conference cocktail Is com- pound of vodka and sake, warranted to stagger humanity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19

There is even more fright than freight at Panama, and the latter is in congested condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19

In New York Booker T. Washington advised the negroes not to inflame the south, fter.doing that very thing him. self in Saratoga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19

According to her pictures, Miss Pur. year of Nashville, the nancee of Ex- plorer Flala, Is well worth braying a little arctic ice to win.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19

Russia may have great armies and many ships, but they are useless ~s'sh they cannot win single victory in a war that is nearly two years old.