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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

The conyicts of Kansas will refine oil in opposition to the Rockefeller octopus, and when the two aggrega- tions meet then will come the tug of war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

The Bullock County Breeze says that the cocaine habit seems to be growing in our midst That's where it does most harm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

John D. Rockefeller is in a way to correct his impression that there is no public opinion in this country of weight and importance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Banks, it is said. should be built wholly of glass, so that all passers-by can see Mrs. Chadwick when she does her hypnotic act.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Trepoff and Vladimir have both heard from the Russian people, and they do not like the communications that have come to hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

The major in the federal army who is fifty years old and has received a sentence of forty years should take advantage of the Osler plan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02
oreqon Fire Under Control.

Eureka, Cal, March 1.-The steamer Oregon has been beached and the fire is under control.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

It appears that General Kuropatkin is preparing to get licked again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Admiral Dewey found the grip more redoubtable than a Spanish fleet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02
To Abolish Commission.

Washington, March 1.-The meet ing of the conferees on the Panama canal bill today resulted in no agree ment on the main question of differ ence between the two houses, the abolition of the isthmian canal com mission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

General Oyama is calling Russia s large and imposing war bluff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Indiana has legislator whose front name is Ananias, and it does not seem to be a misfit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

It is astonishing how automatically that Dogger bank affair was settled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

The people are suggesting to that Baltimore professor that he need not wait until he Is GO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Strange! Young Corbett did not explain how he was defeated by Bat fling Nelson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Kuropatkin is an adept, an actual expert, at falling back. He is engaged in presenting his famous act again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Cleveland has started a crusade against mashers. A swift kick is rec commended for each masher detected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

The modern hen is not earning her normal average of dollar a year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

The state senate of California has set a good example by expelling four senators charged with accepting hribes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

T is surprising how unpopular bach
 elors have become here of late Somebody is continually devising new ways to make them unhappy. They are "called down" by the preachers. scolded by the old maids and harried about in most unseemly fashion. Before long, if the present agitation continues, this anti-bachelor crusade will become downright oppression. This is not Rus sia. There are only two autoerats in the ceuntr5-Theodore Roosevelt and Speak CT Cannon-and it a mystery why re- formers so consistently prod bachelors. Here is a free and democratic country and if forsooth a man does not want to marry he should not be assaied as an enemy of the public welfare, parasite, an anomaly, non-producer, a nonentity and tax-dodger. There are a few bach elors who are good fellows in their way; some are not criminal others are liberal | and cheerful and most of them are far from being the menace to society that certain danes would have us believe. A tax on bachelors is a good plan to raise revenues but there is no necessity for abusing single gentlemen just be- | cause they are not married Some bach elors can't marry the woman they want to and surely :'ou would not ask them to marry a person for whom they cher ish no affection It were about time that bachelors, especially young bache- lors, be taken off the sridiron for rest.
 l We all remember that familiar quota tion, '"rhe hand that wields the slipper rules the world" This axiom has just | been impressed upon the public mind drew by the case of a Massachusetts woman who has invented a whipping ma- l chine for the reinstatement of wife beat CTS. The machine is no respector of per- sons and will whip anybody, but it was designed primarily for gentlemen who beat their wives. This contrivance has many excellent qualities that commend 1t to the authorities. In the first place it does not get "rled" and consequently all l the blows are delivered with equal force The machine is also guaranteed not to do any permanent Injury to u xhlppee, and l IL VIII Nui II Nlih dDoGt SO lidl l0e DunlSl- ment will be es-enls- distributed over his | person. Now this looks like q good thing. l The country owes the lady a vote of t--snks-rising-but could 1he strain a | point and perfect fos domestic use a pat en. baby spanker?
 OPTIMHsM THAT PAYS. Who is it brings the sunshine
 And drives dull care away2
 Who is it tells those anecdotes
 That brighten every day?
 Who
 Laughs Who Is it orders whisky And then forgets to pay?
 Who is 1t spends your money
 When you are feeling gay?
 The
 Laughs A iest's his only stock in trade | It keeps hin on the upper grade | He tells a joke that he may dine; It wouldn't do for him to pine
 So
 ] He
 Just
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Another satellite of Jupiter has been found. Jupiter is getting quite size able family
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

The Chicago Tribune notifies the eff fete east that it cannot furnish the next republican candidate for Presi- dent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

School boys have no chance in the prize essay department. The school girls capture all but an odd one or two.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02
HER SHORT VOCABULARY

Oh woman, you're a wonder
 But without discrimination; For "cute's" the single adjective You apply to all creation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Niedringhaus says he is not on the toboggan slide. He says he is simply retiring"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Daily and Sunda. Age Herald. ......-..SSo Daily and Sunday, per month.......... TO Sunday Ase-Herald, per annum........ 200 Weekly Age Herald, per annum........ loO
 Subscription payable in advance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Japan is preparing to raise it's price of peace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

No communication will be published without it's authors nL ne. Rejected manuscripts will no. be returaed unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Entered a. the Birmingham, Ala. post. office as second-class matter nnder act or Congress, March 5, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

l.. H. Russ and M. W. Carlisle are the only authorized travelling representatives of The Age-Herald in its circulation de- pertinent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

The Amherst students reject with scorn the cast-off clothing of the alumni
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

It is hard job to get the Presi dents salary raised.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Russia needs the constitutional treatment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

Washington Bureau Age-Herald, 1421 c Street, N. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

The Senate will remain to do the concert act after the main show is ended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

The bills the Senate has turned down will return in more radical forms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

A iest's his only stock in trade It keeps hin on the upper grade. He tells a joke that Le may dine; It wouldn't do for him to pine.
 So
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

OPTIMR.M THAT PAYS. Who is it brings the sunshine And drives dull care away? Who is it tells those anecdotes That brighten every day?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

The zemsky zabor should not meet near tho vodka works.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

The man who has disinherited his wife because she was disrespectful to him is certainly hard to please. How many gen. tlemen are there in the country today who would offer up prayers of thanks giving if their wives would be merely disrespectful? Ye godsl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-02

From the unanimous and heated refu- tation of Dr. Osler's statement that man is out of the race at 40 1t appears that there are a great many people in the country who have passed this age.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14
Suit John Platt Who Says Hannah Elias Weedled Him
. Out of Nearly Three Quarters of Million
Comes to Trial in New York.

NEW YORK. Jan. 1.-THE final
stage in the struggle for possession on
nearly three quarters Of million dol
lars between John r. Plat. an aged
millionaire, and Hannah Elias, neg
ress, who, he charges, wrongfully OBJ
tanned the money from him, was sched-
uled to begin before Justice Bischoff
In the supreme court today. In this
suit it is expected that the whole
amazing story of the affair which at
tracted the attention of the entire
country when the secret Of Platt's re-
lations with the woman were revealed
by the filing of his suit last summer,
would be brought out
Interest in the case was intensified
from the first by the strange and trag-
ic death of Andrew II. Green, one OF
the citys most prominent men, who
was shot to death almost at the door
of the Elias woman's home on Central
Park west a few months before the
Plat suit was filed.
Green's murderer, a negro who was
captured and later sent to an insane
asylum, said he had shot Mr.. Green
because he was Jealous of the latter's
attentions to Mrs. Elias. With the
filing of the Plat suit the contention
of Mr.. Green's friends that he was the
victim of mistaken identity when the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14
FALL RIVER MILL OWNERS
WILL NOT COMPROMISE STRIKE

The mil owners at Fall River, Mass,
having turned down the unionists'
proposition to compromise the great
textile workers strike, the latter re-
solved to stay out indefinitely. We
have here splendid Illustration of the
absolute planlessness and criminal
status of frenzied capitalism. The Mas
sachusetts mill owners complain that
cotton is SO high that they are COM
PEELED to cut the wages Of their Is. 600
employees below the pauper level, while
down in the Southern States the cotton
growers declare they will burn 2,000,-
600 bales to keep up prices and that
prices are SO low now that BANKRUPTCY
stares them in the face. Thousands of
bales have already been burned. And
thousands Of poor are shivering be-
cause they have not sufficient clothing!
DID you ever hear anything 80 infer
nahy idiotic?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14
PAY YOUR DUES CHEERFULr.Y.

One of the greatest hindrances in the
progress of local unions Is the begeard-
ly income that is dragged out of the
members of local unions affiliated with
other international unions
If the members could see the oppor-
tunities that are lost to themselves, for
the lack Of funds in the hands Of their
international unions, they would not be
SO niggardly in the amount that they
are willing to pay in as dues.
The majority Of the members Of trade
unions seem to think that the inter-
national unions can give benefits and
other returns to- their !. members =. that
would put the Standard Oil compay's
benefits in tho shade, from the beg
gardly payments they make. It is not
possible to get milk out IT a bucket If
some has not first been put in, This
principle applies to the. trade. unions
in its benefits returnable to its menu
bers; they must put something into the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14

fatal attack was made, was practical
ly proven. There was a remarkable
similarity In personal appearance be-
tween Andrew H: Green and John B.
Platt and Mr.. Plat himself has said
that he believes the insane negro in
tended to kill him and naistook Mr.
Green for him.
Mrs. Elias maintains that the vast
sum named in Platt's suit was given
to her voluntarily by Platt-that he
literally threw money at her. She has
told Of one instance when, she says,
after pressing her to take a large sum
which she refused, he threw great
hand full Of 'banknotes on the floor
and she had servant gather them
up Oh dust pan.
On the other hand Plat claims that
the defendant resorted to every trick
and device her ingenuity could COM
mand to extort money from him dur
ing the twenty years of their acquain-
lance.
Mr. Plat is now 81 years old and
very feeble. 49,. 49,,
When the case was called today 1t
was found that several witnesses re-
garded as material by the defense were
not present and. on request of Mrs.
Elias counsel the case went over until
tomorrow.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14

treasury before they can draw anything
out.
Many local unions expect their inter-
national unions to be ON the alert at
all times when there is trouble, and
thinking that it is they themselves
who have not made preparations for
themselves when they needed it by
putting into the International Union
a sufficient amount in dues to enable
it to get the desired assistance when
1t is needed.
In all probability they have been
advised to make preparations in time
of peace for trouble that will surely
come, but the. warning was unheeded,
and when the storm breaks they find
themselves not prepared. Call is then
vainly made upon the, international
union, but the International union is
helpless, and the officers have the I'M
pleasant duty Of informing the mem
bers that their hans are tied and they
cannot help them. This is one Of the
most unpleasant duties that befalls
the lot of the International officers,
as they feel for the members in trouble
and would help them if they could, but
they cannot.
The task is made doubly hard for
them shortly after when the members
find their cause losing one. The first
thought is to blame their international
officers and arraign them before their
locals, charging them with all sorts Of
things and in terms that would not
look we'll on paper. q
The international union then comes
in for it's share 1T is no good" and
hundreds Of other nasty things are said
about it. This is all said and done, of
course, in the heat Of argument and
under perhaps great pressure, but 1t
is not very pleasant for those who are
blamed when they are blameless, and
would have it different If their prayers
were listened to.
The independence of the union de-
ponds upon the income it has, and can
not bring independence to its members
If it is not given the tools with which
to gain it.-Labor Leader.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
AFTER NEW ENGL ANDERa

The Canadian government has ap-
pointed Thomas Hetherington, former
~ member of the New Brunswick
Legislature, immigration agent, and
has authorized him to open an office
IN Boston. It is proposed to carry on
a campaign in, New England agricul-
turaf districts TO induce farmers to 10
cate In the Canadian Northewest. A
special effort will be made. by the gov
ernment to get former Canadians re-
siding in New England to settle in the
new region or else return to the East
ern provinces: On the other hand, the
Canadian unions and: labor papers are
warning working people that they will
encounter great hardships If they emf
crate to Canada.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14
ONE COLORADO MINE a.. -" .
SUES WESTERN MINERS

me total amount of damages the
victor Fuel Co., of Colorado, wants as
damages from the miners amounts to
@o!6oOo. In the bills filed in court the
company declares it was put to the ex-
pense Of $4,000 to hire guards pink
erton and thugD and $4,000 as rail-
way fare to import strike-breakers.
These little items the company asks
that the miners be made to pay. The
case is being watched with great in
terest by the lawyers of Colorado. and
If it goes against the workers anv
number of similar actions will be
Drought against the Western Fedora
ton of Miners and other bodies.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14


fnanciers
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14
ISN'T IT So

That a trades union is the only or
ganization that represents nothing but
the mechanics and laborers?
That it is the only organization that
pays benefits to its members when out
Of work?
That it is the only organization that
the employment Of the father and the
non employment Of the child?
That It .is the only organization that
the working people can apply to with
any right to demand protection against
INSCRIPTIONS competing sweat-shop
employers and specializing contractors?
That it Is the only organization that
employees an, agent to devote his entire
time to finding employment for the un-
employed and to adjust differences be-
tween workman and employer?
That it Is the only organization that
does not demand the passing of q
physical examination to entitle it's sick
or disabled to disability: benefits, and
it's dead from burial or death benefit:
That it is the only organization that
furnishes publication with free col.
umns to it's members, through which
the different callings and classes
throughout the country may exchange
IDEAS and ventilate abuses or advocate
changes necessary for: their advance.
ment, comfort and prosperity ~
That it is the only organisation that
prohibits its members from supplantine
other working men and women at lower
wages or any kind Of inferior condi-
tions? Art&
If you have never given this thought
it is time to do it now, whether you
are a union man, a non-union man. q
scab or an employer.-L w. Tildsn. &
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14

dot 4 doing practic a york Tor THU
world Nsscondl certain charit Ties,
calculated "a relieve az a slight degree
|. the misery which everywhere abounds,
and justice compells me to say that it
comes just about as j near being a
rational remedy for. poverty as SYM
patty is for the tootache. With all the
organized charities, we are surrounded
by poverty, wretchedness and rags.
Nobody is hungry because there is a
famine, but because the. greedy have
more than a plenty. Part Of the people
are ragged because others have a sur
plus. Men are not homeless because
they are lazy. but because others have
legally stolen the fruits of their labor.
The streets are filled with mendicants.
the highways swarm with tramps. The
wealth created by labor has. by
cunning laws, been drawn to the priv
ileged class. The labor which should
have been expended upon cottages has
been used to erect palaces and temples.
The rich are feasting-the poor fast
anC-laughter mingled with groans.
"A plutocracy, powerful, arrogant
and heartless is deliberately reducing
Inc people 10 6STluOIL. l. HlS Is the CON-
dition Of labor. and from it's 10000
palaces the church looks on unmoved.
Let us be candid. What has the
church done for labor? BY what act
have our interests been advanced? Has
it ever increased wages by one penny?
Secured one jot of favorable legislation.
or taken one single step towards
changing our industrial system? If it
has to its credit one single distinct act.
as church that materially improved
the conditions of labor, I invite you
to name it. If the church would really
enlist in the cause Of labor, If it would
lend a hand in the great reform move
ment, 1t must be by a return to the
simple creed Of Christ. It must earnest
ly seek to solve the greatest problem
of our day-the honest distribution of
the wealth labor creates-and it must
be broad and sincere enough to follow
the example Of it's founder and forget
the |self-interest involved In the ques-
ton.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14
FRENztED FINANCE BREAKS
FORTY IOWA BANKS

A dispatch from Sioux City, Iowa,
says: According to report of the state
bank commissioners, the' methods OF
the beef trust in causing a deprecia-
ton in the value Of beef have been
responsible for forty bank failures and
eight suicides in this state during the
past year. To this startling statement
y added an official estimate Of the
noney loss oceeslqned BY the trust's
operations and the 'frensted finance
that has been prevalent. This the
commissioner places at $4,000, 900, an
average of $1,000, 900 a month.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14

DO HoNORS PAY1
From Boston Herald:
Small wonder that Attorney-General
Moody, with a salary of $4,000, enlarges
on the inequalities Of the fee system,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14

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when one. Of his subordinates. United
etates District Attorney Burnett Of
the southern district Of New York,
draws an average of $61, 600 a year in
salary and legitimate fees.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-01-14

Try 8. I. Levin's Xxx Columbian
l4s4 rye. It is the very best that can
be Nad for family and medicinal pur.
posees. AT tho old stand. SOL West su-
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-14
The Valley of the Nile

is no richer than the fertile cOun
try traversed by the Illinois Cen.
trail railroad in the States OF
Tennessee. Mississippi and Lou,
isiana. Northern farmers have
awakened to this fact and are
rapidly settling here, for they ap,
preciate the fact that the soil
crops, climate, water, markets,
etc, are all that could be desired
and they are buying land while
the prices are yet very low: Write
the undersigned for free iI!ustra-
ted literature and find out for
yourself. E. A. Richter, Pass. and
Land Agent, Illinois Central rail
road, GIT Bessemer building,
Pittsburg, Pa. 7,26-tf
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-14
A Defense Of Slang.

So rar from being an evidence Of a
national levity and lack Of seriousness
slang is the language of sincerity. II
is the result of an in-tinctive effort to
get as far away as possible from every
thing like pretentiousness. 1t is the
antipodes of bathos. 1t is the Ian
guage Of the whole people, because II
is expressive of the national sense of
humor that Is never 80 keen as when
it contemplates with joy likewise
unutterable the spectacle presented by
a fake exposed. 1t is blunt. 1t is crude,
it is brutal sometimes, but 1t is always
sincere. 1t directs against the citadels
of evil the mighty enginery Of laugh
ter. 1t does for our nascent abuses
what the mordant satire Of Martial and
Juvenal failed to do for decadent
Rome.-Professor Herman Spencer in
Booklovers' Magazine.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-14
The New Kansas Law

or refuse to accept, transport and
deliver oil when offered up to the
full capacity of such pipe line,
in the order in which the same
is offered by the owners thereof,
and at the rates not to exceed
those herein made lawful, shall
forfeit to the person aggrleved by
such failure or refusal the sum of
$500 for every failure or refusal,
to be recovered in any court of
competent jurisdiction, together
with a reasonable attorneys fee
to be fixed by the court.
Sec. 6-Every person, every
member of any firm, and every Of
fcer or agent of any corporation
owning or operating such pipe
line who shall violate any of the
provisions of this act, shall, on
conviction, be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor and be fined not less
than $50 and not more than $500.