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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
Farmers In the Middle West.

The rural population of New York
and the New England states has long
been stagnant or declining, and the
trouble has reached the middle west.
Even in Iowa there are fewer people
on the farms than there were twenty
years ago. The towns of Iowa are
increasing in population, and the state
as "a whole shows in each census year
a handsome gain, but the strictly agri-
cultural counties are losing popua-
ton.
The Chicago Tribune says the move
ment is we'll understood in Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio, where 1t has long
been in operation. When land in the
last-named state goes to $3.50 an acre
1t is sold, and its owner goes to Iowa,
where he can buy land at 800 an
acre. The Iowa man who sells his
land goes to Missouri where he buys
land at SIS an acre, and so on to the
end of the chapter
This realizing on high-priced lands
will at last turn the farmers of the
west into the south. where the last
stand will be made. Lands are
cheaper in the south-in Alabama
than in any other part of the country.
The climate is superior, and in the
long run the western farmer will come
this way in great numbers. The van
guard is already here, and the time is
coming when all the lands will be I'M
der cultivation in this state.
The western farmer who comes to
Alabama will use a great deal of i'm
proved farm machinery. He will grow
neither corn nor cotton. He will be a
disciple of intensive culture, and he
will grow crops through which the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
Atlanta Demands Port Rates.

While Mr. Conner is demanding for
this state rates equivalent to those of
Georgia, Atlanta goes him one better
by demanding for itself port rates, al
though it has no better access to salt
admits it has no navigable stream.
'How far" asks the Atlanta Journal,
lis Atlanta from the ocean? About
$50 miles by the short line, and 200
miles by the Central railroad, which
is the long line-as near to deep
water navigation as the city of Bir-
mingham is to river transportation.
We are only Iii miles from river nav
igation at Augusta, much nearer than
Birmingham, and yet Birmingham is
allowed competitive rates, based upon
river navigation $50 miles away, while
Atlanta is denied all such rates, al
though much nearer to river naviga-
ton and as near to the ocean,"
The Journal keeps In mind the dis.
lance of Birmingham from Memphis,
carefully ignoring all other facts of
the situation. 1t neglects to mention
that Birmingham is but 81 miles from
Decatur on the broad and sweeping
Tennessee river, and that appropria-
lions already made will open the War.
rior to point not over forty miles
from Birmingham-ope it the year
round to tow boats and barges, when
is the navigation that Pittsburg fat
tens on, although its river is close
three-fourths of the year by ice or
drouths. When the Warrior is fully
opened Birmingham will have an open
waterway six feet deep the year round
all the way to the sea. These facts
the Journal ignores whenever it com
pares Birmingham and Atlanta. 1t has
much to say about Atlanta's natural
sitution. when in fact it has no water
in hand or even in sight
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
Get Touether.

Many of the merchants, business
men and property holders of Birming-
ham are very much exercised over the
proposed movement to separate the
passenger depot facilities of Birming-
ham. They are making vigorous pro-
test because of the rumored statement
that the Southern, the Alabama Great
Southern, the Central of Georgia, the
Frisco and the Seaboard Air Line pro-
pose to build a new passenger station
in the northeastern part of Birming-
ham, while the Louisville and Nash
vile is to remain in the present union
station.
Many merchants and property own
ers complain because of the fear that
the new station will in a measure
have the effect of changing the pres
ent retail business district of the city
1t is known to all that the present
depot facilities of Birmingham are
inadequate. At the same time, 1t is
much better and more convenient for
the travelling public and the citizens
of any community to have one union
passenger depot.
There seems to be some conflict be-
tween the railroads. The Louisville
and Nashville owns and controls the
present union station, and the state
ment is generally made that this rail-
road would find 1t very expensive to
extend the present station sufficiently
to make 1t adequate to the needs of
all the railroads for years to come.
Therefore 1t is said that the other rail
roads have purchased property else
where and propose to erect station
for their own needs regardless of the
Louisville and Nashville.
1t is to be hoped, however that the
managers of the respective roads can
get together and have but one great
union station in Birmingham. 1t will
be unfortunate for the city if the pas
senger stations are separate. Let the
railroad men get together.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11

Nashville and number of the state DEM
oeratic executive committee, is in the
city.
George H. Parker of Cullman was in
the city yesterday.
c. c. Simpson of Tuscaloosa is at the
Morris.
F. L. Hood of Chicago is at the Nor
ris.
o. ]. Thomas of Alexander City is at
the Morris.
J. H. Devices of Montgomery is at the
Morris.
s. p Brown of Drifton is in the city.
c. A. Lewis of New Orleans is in the
city.
E. M. scovil of the New York Evening
Post is at the Hillman.
J. w. Terry and H. H. Marks of Mont
gomery are in the city.
The Rev. DR.. w. o. Hearn and II. j.
Jones of Talladega are in the city.
G. w. Ely of Montgomery is in the
city.
E. M, Dimoe of the International Har-
vester company, with headquarters at
Montgomery, is in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11

No one proposes to give it slackwatcr
navigation or any other kind of ravi-
cation. Even Columbus, Ga. lacks
river navigation the year round. And
yet the Journal expects its state rail
road commission to give Atlanta port
rates by reducing the interstate rate
from Savannah.
The Journal is mistaken if 1t thinks
Atlanta is entitled to or can perma
nently secure better rates than other
inland southern cities possess. Equal
and just rates will in the end be in.
augurated, and Atlanta will have &c
fall into line and accept the common
terms.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11

FROM the new 1OTk sun.
~ HATEvER the almanac makers
W. may say about it summer be-
w gins this week. Coney Island
will open its gates, inviting the multi
tudes to new and more elaborate amuse-
ment resorts than 1t has ever boasted be-
fore Thus Coney determines the season.
The great success its elaborate resorts
have earned has inspired imitators, and
the whole sea front of the city, except
where commerce dominates it, promises
to support a practically continuous series
of resorts of one kind or another, for
each of which there is apparently album
dant patronage.
The big enterprises at Coney Island
have resulted in the construction of sew
eral similar establishments in other parts
of the city. At the north end of Man
haitian Island ground has been broken
for large park, with shows, circuses
and catchpenny devices oe all kinds. 1t
may divert a profitable patronage from
the Brooklyn pleasure grounds without
making any considerable hole in the an
nual profits Of their proprietors.
Each year the fame of New York as
a summer home increases. The city
itself is as comfortable spot to loaf and
while away the time as far as tempera-
ture is concerned as many of the seaside
towns or mountain hamlets that derive
their whole prosperity from New York
ers who flee the hot months at home.
No other community In the country Of
fers as many and so various forms of
amusement as New York. It's libraries,
picture galleries and museums are al
ways open Its theatrical purveyors con-
tinually offer dramatic performances of
a grade not too taxing in warm weather.
Its restaurants. big aid little, expensive
and cheap are always open, always
worth exploring. Beyond and above these,
New York's panorama of humanity con-
stantly changing. ever instructive. anus
ing and fascinating. moves steadily for
ward without admission fee for the edi-
fication of all who look and listen.
Some New Workers run away at the
first breath of the warm months. Father
reads in the paper that Coney Island
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
Winter and Sprinu Wheat.

B. w. Snow, the crop expert pre-
diets a great crop of wheat. Over
fifty million acres are seeded in wheat,
gain over last year of fully two mil
lion acres. The condition of winter
wheat is Oil as against a condition
of 766 on May 1 of last year. The
condition of spring wheat cannot be
stated as yet for seeding is but re-
Gently finished in the sections of the
wheat belt along the Canadian border
The country is so large winter wheat
is ripening in Texas while seeding
is going on in North Dakota and Min
nesota.
Mr.. Snow says the winter wheat
crop has entered upon its period of
final development with promise of an
outturn above the average crop. The
average condition on May 1 in a Pc
riod of ten preceding years was but
So, whereas the condition of the grow
ing crop exceeds 81.
1t is much too early to present crop
estimates. All that can be said is, the
wheat fields are promising. A great
crop is possible. even probable. Moist
ure and warmth will do the work in
the speeding weeks, and by July the
country will know whether 1t is to be
afflicted again with dear bread, or
whether we will have wheat to sell
as well as to eat
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
CITY OF NEW YORK Is A
GREAT SUMMER RESORT

opens next week. Mother drapes the
furniture in its summer linen the next
day, and the end of the week finds the
York in summer is worth living in as it
is in winter, spring and autumn. But
the city does not miss them. More know
ing ones from other towns move annual
ly to Manhattan, and the crowd, changed
slightly in its individuals. remains itself
unchanged.
New York is the pleasantest summer
resort in America
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

~ MoNG the lessons of life that
P10 youth must learn there are some
which impart a painful shock
and others which were to be expected.
To budding manhood what is harder
to discover that the prefix Honorable"
before the name of a renowned politician
does not necessarily mean thatthe man Is
honorable or honest? With what dis
may the future voter learri that a
certain individual who is hailed as a
prominent citizen" addresses the peo-
pie on suspicious occasions and sits on
a rostrum before vast audiences, is
unclean in his private life, a substantial
CRATER" and a perpetrator of much Sc
cret wickedness! What can equal the
sensation of utter bewilderment when he
Is informed that man whom he has seen
for years acting as deacon in the church
and playing the role of a pious hypocrite
is a defaulter and a swindler to the ex-
tent Of a million dollars? Last but not
least how many lofty ideals gre shattered
by the knowledge that all beautiful wo-
men are not good women? Often
times we find that things are not what
they seem by slow and easy stages but
more frequently the realization rushes up
on us with precipitation that sweeps us
off our feet. The youth of normal mind
will pass through this Introductory stage
of learning the ropes with his faith
mistaken in human virtues but woe be-
tide the unfortunate who becomes embit-
tered because much of his gold has proven
dross!
1t is related that the Russians are
hard pressed. A great many summer
girls will soon be in the same predica-
ment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
Wholesale Wedding Presents.

These are strenuous times for the
wedding present giver, said a popular
bachelor of thirty-odd years yesterday.
I don't believe I've ever seen so many
of my friends getting married in a
bunch, and June promises to break all
matrimonial records. l am anticipating
the wedding present market somewhat,
and have just laid in about fifteen very
nice gifts which l can send out as fast
as the invitations come in.
Mine, l think, Is the best solution of
the wedding present proposition. BY buy
ing in wholesale quantities l get them
at much more satisfactory prices, and
then, best of all, l don't have to stop
work each time to go out and mix up with
my friends, the jewelers., in selecting my
presents. The wholesale plan is the best !"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
THE UMPIRE.

Grim and unmoved, he stands alone,
Arbiter of human affairs;
Cool and methodical, proudly aloof,
Needless of frenzied stares.
Though hot, angry boards move all about
And blood is in every ones eye,
His face is still calm, his attitude braves
And on his lips is a sigh.
Friends he has none in the busy world,
The pleasures of life denied him.
Never a word of thanks does he get,
Though the populace likes to deride him.
A tragic air he carries about,
His death is hourly expected.
A brick is very apt to fall on him
When a player has just been elected
You may call 1t fame If you feel that
way,
AS for me, l do not aspire.
Between death and umpiring a baseball
game,
I think I'd prefer to expire.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
Panama Hats.

Panama hats will be as popular this
year as ever BEFORE" said f. P. Mont
gomery, a hat salesman last night "A
large number have already been sold in
Birmingham this season. and the demand
Is still active.
Panama hats are not bringing the
fancy prices they did several years ago,
when they were first introduced, and were
such a fad. The hat that sold for s12
or SIS then now brings $3.50 Panamas
are being worn in all shapes and styles
Straw hats are being rapidly sold this
year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
New Country Club.

II have seen the completed plans of
the new Country club said a clubman
last night, land as soon as the improve
ments now under way are completed the
Country club will have probably the most
complete establishment of the kind in the
south.
The new ballroom will be nearly as
large as the ballroom of the Hotel Hill
man. and will be without posts in the
middle. The new cafe down stairs, the
restaurant, and, in fact. the whole place,
will be complete in every way, and will
be even more popular as club than it
is now"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
HAD THE DOUGH
Polly loved a callow youth
Whose name was Sidney Echols.
The reason Polly loved him SO
Was because he had the shechols.


John Strange Winter, who is Mrs. Ar
thur Stannard, the novelist, has started
crusade to head off the crinoline.
Twelve years ago Mrs. Stannard sue
ceeded in staying the tide, for which she
deserves the thanks of a multitude Her
method then was to pledge 21,0O0 English
women to write postcards stating that
they would not wear crinoline. Her
present campaign will be conducted in
much the same fashion Here's hop
ing" but 1t is no May day affair to
best Dame Fashion
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
Grand Lodge. |. Q. 0. F.

George stiefeimeyer, a prominent mer-
Giant of Cullman, was in the city yes
terday on his way home from the grand
lodge of the Independent Order of odd
Fellows at Admission
THE grand lodge which is now in ses-
sion," remarked Mr.. Stiefelmeyer lis
the largest and most important that has
ever been hell in the state. The attend
ance has been very full and reports from
over the state indicate that the order is
growing.
I'VE are arranging in Cullman county
for big reunion of the lodges in the
county to be held sometime in July which
promises to be a very interesting affair
We have twenty lodges in the county
with total membership of about Iooo."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11

ages amounting to a total OF six cents.
After some wrangling it was decided
later to return verdict of $50 In favor
of Triggs which would cover the ex-
penses of the trial. exclusive of coun-
sells fees. 1t will be recalled that the
Sun had a vast amount of amusement at
the expense of Professor Trigg's remark
able theories on literature and the whole
country laughed at the satire which one
of the papers editorial writer's heaped
upon the head of the unfortunate peda-
gogue. Triggs was grllled with mimi
table sarcasm. Now the result of his
damage suit is farce and he will not
appeal. 1t appears that nearly every
body has reached the conclusion that
Triggs is a fraud
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
MOURNFUl MUSE.

From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Senator Plat of New York was reading
magazine poem
1t is not always May" were the words
that met his eye.
NO he unused, regretfully. some
times it is Mae"
Whereupon, signing heavily. he arose
10 telephone to Secretary Loeb to learn
now the case was coming or
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Marriage is speculation; divorce is in
vestment.
People never know too much; they
think they do.
There is hardly ever any use in prac-
ticing virtues unless you preach them
very loudly, because nobody will be-
leve it.
The girl with tall neck that isn't thin
takes an awful mean advantage of other
girls to have also dark eyebrows and
golden hair.
There is hardly anything more charac-
teristic of a woman than the way she
makes excuses to her mother for things
her husband does which she won't ex-
cuse herself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
IN HOTEL IOBBIES
Frank Leonard's Farm.

I spent last Sunday on my farm at
Cooks Springs and had fresh, home
grown potatoes for dinner" remarked
Frank Leonard yesterday.
When asked about the condition of his
fruit crop Mr.. Leonard said: My peaches
are better than l had thought they could
be week ago. l feared that many would
fall from the trees on account of the
eold snap some weeks abo, but they
weathered the shock nelly. have peach
es now as large as the average size
lemon
THE trees are not burdened with fruit
and for hat reason will be much finer
than if the crop we're large. I have ar
abundance of plums. The trees are liter
ally burdened with fruit
My place is 800 feet above Cooks
Springs and the atmosphere is pure. !
have a number of excellent mineral
springs on the place. l believe I have as
fine lithia water as there is in the state"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11

southern sun can be coined into dol
lars-Irish potatoes truck crops. ber-
ries, fruits and the like. A hundred
things can be grown in Alabama with
profit that cannot be grown in the
northern states, and this is what the
northern farmer who is looking this
way will grow when he arrives to take
up anew farm work.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
ALABAMA PRESS
Not a Banker.

From the Mobile Herald.
An Ohio man has been sentenced to
serve five years in the penitentiary for
stealing a 50-cent cap.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11

The press of the south has sustained
a distinct loss by the death of Col. John
l.. Rapier, proprietor of the Mobile Regis
ter, with which paper he has been asso-
ciated for the past thirty years. Though
modest and retiring in disposition, Colonel
Rapier took an active interest in the af-
fairs of the city which he has done much
to build up, and he was widely known
among southern newspaper men. Under
his management the Register has been
maintained as one of the south's repre-
sentative papers, excellent in it's news
service, conservative and dignified in its
editorial policies. Many tributes to the
bravery of Colonel Rapier as a soldier
and his ability as a journalist are being
paid him by the newspapers of the south.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
Strikers and Ball Players.

From the Mobile Item.
Alice-No. none of the strikers are ball
players that we know c., though they
are possessed of hitting abilities. You
are right about their having struck out
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
Won't Phase Grafters.

From the Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette.
The big deficit staring the government
In the face won't have much effect upon
the pension grabbers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
Not Surprising.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
The Portsmouth Star thinks the Cars
subjects are mighty poor cattle" Con-
siderlng their feed and treatment, they
could hardly be otherwise.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11

movement is on foot advocating the
establishment of a school of pharmacy
at the University of Alabama in Tusca-
loosa. There is such a department con-
Quoted at the medical college of the uni
versty in Mobile. While there can be no
objections to improving the facilities for
education in the state, school of phar-
macy at Tuscaloosa might detract from
the usefulness of the school at Mobile.
What the university needs more than
anything else is the consolidation of the
medical, academic and law departments
at Tuscaloosa, thus giving the institution
more soldity, strengthening the student
body and affording The medical students
the advantages enjoyed by the students
in the academic and law departments.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
SHOCKING,

From the Washington POST
1t is about time to end this Edward At
kinson talk about a woman dressing on
$65 a year. The prophecies and the law
require that she wear something besides
a hat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
WHAT THE WILD WAVES ARE SAY
INC
We'd be happy always IL
In our summer whirls,
We would only have to toss
Stunning summer girls.

The novelist, Paul Leicester Ford, who
was killed by his brother in a lament
able tragedy several years ago, left an
estate valued at more than $780, 900. These
figures show that Ford was one writer
who earned handsome return on his
books, and his case is not exceptional.
Despite the quips of wits and the discour-
aging twadde of misinformed persons.
there is always room In the field of lit
erature for person with ideas, and our
modern novelists are as well paid as they
deserve to be.
The celebrated Professor Triggs, lately
member of the faculty at the Universe
ty of Chicago, sued the New York Sun
for libel and the jury awarded him dam
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11

The New York legislature has ad-
journed, and the members are buying
automobiles as a preparation for a
summer vacation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11

Secretary Taft, president pro tenn,
has jumped into the bandwagon, and
he had the audacity to advise the
railroads to do likewise.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11

Governor Hanley of Indiana draws
the line in appointments at the man
who drinks. He believes in putting
none but teetotalers on guard.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11

Mr.. Cortelyou, the lucky, is now
looking toward the Equitable building,
away from politics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
About Persons.

DR.. j. NJ. Miller. mayor of Cordova,
was in the city last night
William Boub of Cullman was in the
city yesterday.
George W. Jones of Montgomery, dis
trict counsellor for the Louisville and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11

J. ]. Hill says the railroads should
make their own rates, but President
Pro TEN. Taft says the people ought
to have a voice in the business.