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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
The Birminoham District.

The United States geological survey has awakened to the fact that the dis trict which mines the most ore and makes the most foundry iron in this country, is destined to prominence in the industrial world. The recognition of the geological survey is a little tardy but late recognition is better than no recognition at all.
 "There is,' says Prof. c. W. Hayes of the geological survey, mo section in the United States in which the out look for the coal and iron business is more satisfactory than it is in what is known as the Birmingham district, Alabama" This covers the ground, and if the geological survey will live up to it no complaints of tardiness will be made.
 Pennsylvania has two things to burn. namely. capital and fuel but it has no iron ores of value. It's ores are carried by rail and water 1000 miles, and they are Bessem.er ores, which the steel world is discarding.
 The Birmingham district holds in exhaustible quantities of ores, fuel and fux, and these are to be crowned in A short time with slackwater barge navigation open the year round. When the Warrior is opened this district will stand equipped for the final contest with Pennsylvania.
 Professor Hayes calls public atten- tion to one fact that is not fully ap- preciated even in this district. He says:
 "The coal found in the Birmingham dis trict is the ideal coal for iron furnaces because of It's conversion into excellent coke It is better for collng than steam ing purposes; and better for coking and steaming purposes than for domestic uses. It is indeed, fortunate for this section that this coal is of this charac- ter for perfect smelting requires good coke and coal not fitted for coking gives very unsatisfactory results in this re- spect. Take the Birmingham field from any point of view, whether scientific or industrial and no conclusion can be reaeh- ed other than it is one intended by na- ture for the development now being un- dertaken."
 Professor Hayes has defined the coal of this district with entire accuracy when taken as whole, but when the coal fields of this district are consid- cred in detail, it is seen that we have seams, like those of Montevallo and of some of the Cahaba mines that are filled with high-grade domestic coal. But we are content with the position awarded us by Professor Hayes The district that can produce ideal coke" is a district that not only has stability in it's grasp, but q high degree of prosperity. But to see the full glory of this district we must await the coming of screaming tugs and capa, cious barges in the Warrior and in Village creek.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Exaggerated Reports.

Judge Thomas R. Roulhae, the Ohi'eu gu States attorney, who was recently Ill and whose physical condition alarmeo his friends not little, was being con graduated yesterday in the Federal court upon his restoration to health ana strength.
 Some of the reports regarding your condition during your llness, Judge said a friend of the United states at torney. Ted us to think that perhaps you wouldn't be seen here in court again
 Yes said Judge Roulhac, they re minded me of what Mark Twain cabled his friends from Europe when it was re- ported in this country that he had pass ed away in Rome. The report that l am dead, cabled Mark Twain has been greatly exaggerated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
CHERRY SISTERS
Are Searching for Record of Their
 Sisters Voice.

Bloomington Gll) Dispatch to the Cincin-
 natl Enquirer.
 The Cherry Sisters are looking for a voice. They are securing Central Illinois in search of a photograph record of the songs of their dead sister Jessie. The pathetic search has attracted much at tention and the charitable are aiding in the search. The song Fair Columbia" was the one of which the record was made.
 Jessie. who is dead. was the youngest of the trio, and Addie and Effie. who survive, are now anxiously seeking for the photographic reproduction of the voice.
 When the Cherry Sisters were at the height of their fame three years ago they were known as the "opera singers of Linn county. Iowa" After the de- mise of Jessie the other sisters retired from the stage. They appeared in nearly every city of the United States.
 It is said that one record has been found at Portsmouth Ohio, but the owner wants $100 for it. and the price is regard- ed as eXhorbitant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
PRESIDENT AND THE SENATE

From Leslie's Weekly.
 The. Senate has done some things recent Iy to baffle the President but if that body has read American history it knows that in a fight between the President and the Senate the people are usually on the side of the President This will be un- occasionally true in the case of Theodore roosevelt When. the Senate passed the vote of censure on President Jackson that body supposed it had effaced the execu- five. Not only did the Whigs vote for inc censure but the Calhoun element of the democrats, and others of their party who Jackson had offended, sided with tnem Yet the censure was expunged from the, Senate journal before the end of Jacksons service, and he became far stronger with the people than he ever was before. The Senate, on account of it's hostility to Jackson. refused to confirm inc nomination of Van Ruren as min ister to England. and the people retailiated hv making Van Buren Vice President and President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
From the Washington Star.

E~ ID any of you ever hear of a
 'Vt)1 thirty-fve mile steeple chase 1 for man and beast?" inquired
 the Californian in the crowd of turf
 followers Ut doesn't sound like a thing
 to bet on, does it? But there was an
 event of that kind down in l-.e Hawaiian
 Islands in the fall of 1885, when that
 genial, caloric proposition, Dave Kala-
 kaua, was king of the islands.
 "There were no telephones joinings the islands then and state messages and man.
 dates were carried by the interisland steamers and delivered by Kanaka run
 ners
 #"These runners can gallop all day like American Indians on the trail, and they
 didn't know what getting tired or winded
 meant.
 "Kalakaua thought a good deal of these
 state runners of his. He always main-
 taned that they could go fas CT and far ther than a horse over the rough Ha- waiian country.
 ''In this he was disputed by number of the white attaches of his court. Kala- waua wagered 5000 with these white courtiers that he could pick out runner from among his Kanakas who'd get from Eilo to the Burning Lake of Kilauea a
 distance of nearly thirty-fve miles, quicker than any horse and rider could
 do the trip. They snapped Kalakaua up
 at even money.
 Tt looked as if they had the good end
 of it. The King and big party from Honolulu sailed in one of the interisland steamers to Hillp, on the man island of
 Hawaiia, to see the finish of the race. The King picked out a huge, 1.-the, sinewy
 Kanaka, a man about 30 years old. who
 had been employed as runner on the
 island of Maui for a number of years, to essay the task for him.
 Flight Kanakas made the start on
 horseback on native ponies, bred from western cayuses-strong, sure-footed. nippy little deviles, thoroughly used to the bad roads and the climbing. The King and his party had gone up to Volcano house, at the top of kilauea, in coaches
 the day before to be on hand to greet the winner.
 Now. I understand that that road from Hilo up to the Burning Lake of Kilauea has been greatly improved since the time I'm speaking Of. but was bad trail then. It was only wide enough for one wagon, and it was a climb of about 30 degrees all the way The trees that lined the road used to get blown across the trail in big windstorms, and ,.ie coach drivers counted it part of their busi- ness to jump from their seats every time they came to these Instructions and Eshoulder them out of the way.
 ''This work had all been carefully at tended to. however, in advance of the race. by order of Kalakaua, and it looked like a pipe for the ponies. all of which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
Jacksonville Normal College.

Sam Ingram of Blount county a stu dent in the state normal college at Jacksonville, is in Birmingham. Ihe normal college" he said lis enjoying one of the most prosperous periods In it's history. The total attendance is now over three hundred and good work is being done in the various departments Of the school. The review term began last Tuesday and the students are now pre- pairing for the final examinations.
 "The town of Jacksonville is also pass ing through a decided boom. A new cot ton mill is being built which when con- pleted will greatly increase the business of the city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
Frank p. Glass.

Frank P. Glass, business manager of the Montgomery Advertiser, is registered at the aillmin. He is in Birmingham looking after business interests and incl dentally he puts in a good word for the Capital City While a loyal Montgomerian he Is first of all an Alabamian, and has great faith in the future greatness or the state
 Montgomery said Mr. Glass, lis per haps enjoying the most gratifying era oe prosperity in it's entire history. Indus- trially and commercially the city is in a most healthy condition, and from every indication 1t will continue on it's upward course at a pace that will prove satis- factory to every one interested in the good of Montgomery"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
he New York Prens

From the New York Press.
 Either girl is proud because she has wavy hair or mad because her best friend has.
 Some men are so mean they calculate they suffer a net loss when they pay an inheritance tax.
 You can generally tell an innocent girl by the way it is so natural to her she doesn't know 1t.
 After man has sued other people two or three times he has nothing left for other people to sue him over.
 woman likes to travel on railway trains because it seems so unavoidably scandalous the way they all have to go to bed in the same sleeping car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
About Persons.

F. w. Parsons of Cleveland, ohio is at the Morris.
 W. K. Pelzer of Montgomery is at the Morris.
 w. F. Wilkerson of Prattville is at the Morris.
 T. H. Kahn of Richmond. Va, is at the Morris.
 Col. R. II. Adams of New Decatur IS stopping at the Metropolitan.
 D. D. Brigg of Anniston is at the Metropolitan.
 G. r. White of Macon. Ga, is at the St. Nicholas.
 E. J. Cox of Boston is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 Prof. George w. Ducan of Auburn is stopping at the Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
Birmingham Realty Company.

William Halls. Jr., vice president of the Hanover National bank of New York; and vice president of the Birmingham Realty company, was in the city yesterday to attend the annual meeting of stockholders of the Realty company. He expressed himself as highly pleased with the condi- ton in which he found the Realty com pany. He said MT. Fulenwider, president of the Birmingham Realty company, had submitted a report that was most credit able to the management and was eminent ly satisfactory to the stockholders.
 Birmingham Is making substantial pro- gress,p remarked MT. Halls, and it has a great future."
 MT. Halls left last night for San An tonic to join his family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
Good for Birmingham.

eIt was a lucky day for Birmingham that the merger fell through said II. II. Sinnge, formerly of Birmingham, but now of St. Louis. Birmingham is great town and will be greater, but if the merger should come to pass the Birmingham dis trict will receive a blow.
 Everybody in Birmingham should be glad to see the iron companies working along on independent lines. Present con dtions are entirely satisfactory. From the merger. may a good Providence deliver us; and I say us, because I own property in Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
MRS. M'klNLEY TODAY.
m the National Magazine.

From the National Magazine.
 Mrs Mckinley has aged somewhat since that terrible blow; her hair is little winter, her gray eyes not quite so bright. Her expression is sad, and when she speaks there is slight quiver of the lips that indicates something of the great grief ever present with her.
 She goes to drive nearly every day. and everywhere and by every one is greeted with tender and sympathetic cordiality Her geenral health is improving, and shi is now able to take an interest in all tlf household matters connected with hk home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

A Delaware preacher delivers a few "hot shots' to the effect that there are "too many sissified asses in the pulpit What particularly aroused the preachers ire was the fact that ministers of the gospel are now indulging in face massage tified for the benefit of their congrega- tions. Pretty preachers" sicken his soul. Maybe the Delaware divine is right. A ministerial flop is about the worst specimen of human ass that one could find and it is safe to assume that a man who thinks more about his engage ments with a masseuse than he does about the salvation of souls is wrongly placed He belongs with the Willies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
Not a Family Skeleton.

From the Mobile Register
 A mysterious skeleton has been found in a cave near scottsboro Alabama. There seems to be only one fact known of this skelton. It is not the skelton that inhabits the closets of so many peo- ple-it is not a ubiquitous skeleton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
One or Both.

From the Gadsden Journal
 The Russian grand dukes who see con trol of the eastern seas in Rojetsvensky's fleet have vivid imaginations or are also addicted to the use of the national bev- craze
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
May Fear Cassie.

From the Opelika News.
 New York banker has refused a $50,- GOO job as president of an Ohio bank Evi- dently he was afraid the old lady Chad wick might get out ond pay him a visit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
THE GOOD CLASSIFIED.

From the Douglas (Kan) Tribune.
 An Indian is a good Indian when he is dead; boy is a good boy when he is asleep; man is a good man when he is at work. Get busy and be a good citi- zen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
THE GALL OF THE WORRIED.

From the New York Telegram.
 T. Roosevelt, The Wilderness: Hurry back. Somebody Is sticking things up through the lid. Rush. TAFT.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

member of the syndicate is specified. The plan proposed simply destroys theatrical competition in all but a few large cities, thus striking at one of the chief means of public education and recreation in this country. MT. Garfeld's attention is needed in this direction as soon as he comp. -tes his task in Kansas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
ALABAMA PRESS
The Real Sufferers.

From the Mobile Item.
 Stage life has led to the nervous col lapse of Terry McGovern. Think of the people who were not on the stage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Coroner Paris held one inquest and at once swelled it to III inquests. This is expanding some.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

A Pennsylvania boy tried to swallow candy ball and was choked to death. He ought to have tried highball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

MT. Dodd and MT. Rogers are a unit in declaring Standard Oil noble, MT. Rockefeller a saint and young Rocke feller a beauty rose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

The Rockefellers have taken up automobiling. That is one way for them to get rid of money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

It's all right to found public baths as philanthropy. but it looks like a downright insult to a community.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Judge Dunne has taken the oath as Mayor of Chicago. He hopes to take the street railways in the immediate future"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

When Carnegie slaps a college on the back he uses a check book and the blow is not resented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

President Roosevelt may after all be striving to get beyond the secret service men that hedge him in on all other occasions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

President Harper has resumed bus mess at the old stand and has nothing to say against Standard Oil money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

The umpire will soon do the auto crat act in this country, and he wit share the autocrat's unpopularity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Kentucky negro confesses that he agreed to kill a man for a quart of whisky. Shows how much they think of the stuff in Kentucky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

A California woman committed sui eide because she was fat. She has discovered the only certain cure for obesity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Rojestvensky is supposed to be making an effort to reach his home base at Vladivostok.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

One of the curious phases of life on a United States war vessel, observed dur ing a recent visit to Pensacola, is the attitude of seamen toward marines The marines are the police officers of the ship, whose duty it is to preserve order among the 'tjachies.n Naturally, the feeling existing between the two bodies of men is not very cordial. They are continually fighting, and it is remarka- ble what a trivial incident will start melee. Yet when the men are on shore leave and they are attacked by civilians they fight for each other tooth and toe nail. The sailors on a battleship remind one of nothing so much as a crowd of school boys, rather husky, to be sure, but very much as they were when they carried apples to school and refused to give up the core.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Spectators are not wanted when the President shoots bears. He has some consideration for the feelings of the bears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

The Louisville and Nashville is moving it's switching facilities to the suburbs. The other railroads should do likewise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Coyotes and rattlesnakes are the victims of the presidential thirst for blood, having succeeded the starved wolves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

The two biggest things in the world at present are Japan and the Bir- mingham district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

George Foster Peabody has pur- chased the small matter of a mountain in New York. It's wonder that more of our wealthy men have not thought about collecting mountains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

F. Tennyson Smith, a temperance crusader, says that he wouldn't stand in Bishop Potter's shoes for all the wealth in the United States. There is no way of proving E. Tennyson Smith a liar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
FAKES.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene You will often find is made of paste; And while the messenger boy rides wheel,
 Yet he does not always go in haste.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Belasco's first name David" re- calls to mind that other David who tackled a Goliath not half so hard to whip as the theatrical trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

in the far west fewer dinosaurs are discovered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

HEN, INVENT, THIRT." YHow dare you!" cried the angry maid As she hit him with hammer. The villain staggered, then he fell AThey were making melodrammer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
THE LATE sPELLBINDER.

With apologies to Thomas Moore.) The man who once in country halls
 Made happy voters yell, Now hangs about the eity's streets
 Or seeks some cheap hotel. So sleeps the pride of former days
 His glory's thrill is OCT;
 The world no longer smiles on him,
 And now he's feeling sore. No more among the masses great
 His hefty bosom swells,
 The threadbare coat that oft he wears
 Its tale of ruins tells.
 His eloquence no longer stirs
 A tear in every eye;
 He merely gratis and lives in hope
 To see some fellow buy. Judge D. F. Dunne has been installed Mayor of Chicago beneath the beaming eyes of his father, his mother, his broth CT, his wife and six little Dunnes. It is presumed that the remaining members of Judge Dunnes family were "unavoid- ably detained" Mayor Harrison, who was, has departed for California, accom- panied by a retinue of loving cups
 In a rather caustic speech before the seevnty-fifth annual conference of the Mormon church, just closed at Salt Lake City, Utah, J. Golden Kimball said to the critics of President Joseph II. smith, 'If you want to go to hell, black your boots and go like gentleman, not like a trai- tor" This advice again reminds one of the brilliant society that moves" in the regions below. It i'll becomes man of brains to go there other than as a gentleman. The Functions" in hades must be immense, if time is allowed for such frivolities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

The Department of Agriculture de- clines to accept the theory that the farmers are buying fertilizers for use in growing crops other than cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Theodore Thomas successor is Frederick A. Stock. He is but B years old, German and for long
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Rojestvensky is certain that Togo cannot sink all of him all at once.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Mayor Dunne is now preparing to get out of the prospectus stage of h;s career.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
gaA9asli e6gseiD ~4AalEnRR

Entered a the Birmingham, Ala, post office as seeond-class matteE under aet of Congress. March :, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

The Standard Oil is defending itself, something it has never done before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

That rattlesnake got taste of the Presidents big stick. which proved fatal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Fertilizer tags tell the tale in Ala bama more eloquently than words.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Jimmie Hyde is too busy at present to plan any more dinner parties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

The John Hay retirement rumor TO news it's activity at least once a week
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

L. H. Russ. M w. Carlisle and W. +. Jordan are the only authorize traVellns representatives of The Age-Herald in It's circulation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

The trunks of the beef trust have been seized and will be duly exploited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
FEELING.

(Sung ad libtum to a popular air.) Way down in his heart!
 He's afeeling blue, afeeling bluel Because that Easter bonnet Is just about due, just about due! If he lad his way
 I'm telling to you, telling to you! We'd all wear fig leaves
 That cost nothing new, cost nothing
 newi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Washington Bureau Age-Herald. 142l G Street, N. W.