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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
Ohio's Gubernatorial Campaiun.

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat con cedes that Herricks plurality for a second term will not be apt to exceed 10000, and yet Roosevelt carried the state last fall by a plurality of 255, ,O0O, and Herrick's own plurality in 1903 was 114,OO0. The democratas do not e -cede that Herrick's plurality can exceed 50,000, and they are even hope ful that 1t can be reversed altogether, for the democratic nominee is Gin cinnati man who is highly thought of. Two years ago John R. Mclean and his paper, the Enquirer, worked openly against Tom Johnson, and it seems to be settled that he has dropped poli tics, and will do nothing towards the defeat of MT. Patterson.
 Ohio Is a mercurial state, and the masses of the people are deeply dis t'irped by the work of the trusts and honopolies, and no one can say what the vote of the state will be. Governor Herrick has all his active life been linked with objectionable corporations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
ALABAMA SENATORS.

From the Washington Post.
 'Alabamians are proud of their two venerable but forceful and intellectual United States Senator's" remarked Hon. F. l.. Blackman of Anniston. Ala, at the Raleigh. Mir. Blackman is state senator and a lawyer of distinguished ability.
 'On the 20th of last month Senator Morgan celebrated his eighty-first birth day and on tomorrow Senator Pettus will have reached the ripe age of eighty four This grand old man, the Senate patriarch, still rugged physically and with undiminished mentality, has hold on the affections of his people that is simply wonderful. In the course of his long and honorable career he has never been a seeker for office though he might long ago have attoned to any place In the gift of his countrymen. Here's hop ing that he may round out full cen tury ere the coming of the final sum mons"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
Passes on Street Railway.

50 the Mayor and Board of Aldermen and all the city officials will get free transpo7tation over the street railway lines after all" said an old citizen last night at the Morris.
 '.Yes," said city hall official, but Mayor Ward won his point after all. He protested against the councilmen accept ing free passes as a gift from the street railway The action taken last night py the City Council enables the Mayor ana the Board of Aldermen and the city or ficials to recive these passes as right. In a word the issuing of the passes IS made mandatory by law, thereby reliev- ing the councilmen of any feeling of personal obligation to the street railway company l think 1t is happy solution of the problem"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
Damaue to Streets.

''I would be glad if the contractors using the streets while engaged in building houses or paving sidewalks, would De compelled to put the street in the same condition in which they found 1t, saiu a lawyer yesterday
 sf know of number of cases where large piles of slag and other material used in laying cement sidewalk have been left in the street The expense of hauling away the surplus would be small ana would prevent damage to the street sand is also allowed to remain in the gutters and obstruct the drainage. This together with the constant digging of the water works and street car companies makes the streets unnecessarily rought and disagree able to buggies and all traffic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
nnr Reserve Stock of Ore.

The worlds annual production Of iron in 1925 in the long ago was but 2. .500, ,000 tons; in 1904 it was fully fifty million tons. At the end of the century it is estimated that the worlds annual production will be 145 million tons. As three tons of ore are needed in the average to make a ton of iron, it is plain we must draw from the earth in the good year 2O00 about 435 million tons of ore. America will prob- ably be asked to furnish one-half of l this enormous product.
 We hazard nothing in saying that this district will do it's part. We have seam fifteen miles long and twenty two feet thick. How deep it is de- bends not so much on the iron in 1t as in the temperature. It has not been tested more than a thousand feet to- wards China, but if we are at all pushed we can mine the seam full mlle in depth for modern appliances can be trusted to reduce the temper ature. Not an indication has ever been discovered showing that the seam deteriorates in the least as 1t advances | in,o the bowels of the earth. We need not reckon in our brown ores. Just multiply one mile by fifteen miles and the product by 22 feet and reduce the sum to tons, and you will have an aggregate that will stagger the brain. And we have the fuel and the Aux at hand to melt the gigantic product, and we will soon have plenty of water on which to float at about forty cents ton to the sea.
 And yet there are men who are ready to say we cannot compete with Great Britain, with Pittsburg, with Colorado, or what not. .ils is all nonsense. We will be able ten years from now to compete with all of them, anI drive the last one of them out of the market.
 It is idle to talk about the exhaustion of our ores. They are as near in- exhaustible as anything in this world is. The high-grade ores will probably be exhausted by 1850. MT. Carnegie
 says they will be, and no one in Pitts
 burg ever disputes the Laird of Skibo.
 But that the leaner ores of Alabama
 will ever be exhausted is not bit
 probable; and those ores are fat
 enough to be smelted profitably and to
 keep the world well supplied with iron
 an. steel. The trouble is no one in tfis district takes the care to consider | Its position in the year 20
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
A DEFENSE OF. WEALTH
 AND MEN WHO SUCCEED

wealth of benefcence on millions of peo- pie and enriched the country a thousand fold at the same time. As. for instance, the mighty transportation enterprises of Boron Hirsch in the lower-Danube country and of the Vanderbilts in America; the toll that they took from the new millions thus created made up a large reward to them, but it was only the fraction of vastly larger gain which they grave to those communities by their judgment ond capacity; and the great fortunes derived from the manufacture of harvesters and other agricultural im- plements are ininitesimal compared with the benefits that these devices have brought to the farmers. And yet every cheap cartoonist from Passamoquoddy to the Golden Gate pictures these great pub lie benefactors as capitalistic harpies! The shame of it! The ignorance of 1t all
 The truth is. man was born to be rich. or inevitobly grows rich by the right use of his faculties. Most of us who are not rich deserve to be just what we are. Property is an intellectual production The game of getting it requires. says Emerson, ''coolness right reasoning, promptness and patience in the players" Cultivated labor drives out brute labor. Skill counts for everything in the game. There is no magic about success. The wealth-getter knows that all goes on the same old road--pound for pound, cent for cent---and that good luck Is only an- other name for tenacity of purpose
 The great masters of the art add to basis of probity. of closeness- s-to-facts and of beng-on-the-spot certain Hong arithmetic" A Marseiles banker once had a visitor who expressed surprise at the contrast between the bankers cha teau and hospitality and the meanness of his counting-room in town. Young man." exclaimed ~the host. you are too young to understand how masses are formed--masses. the true and only pow CT, whether composed of money, water or men, it is all alike: A mass in an immense center of motion. But it must be beguni It must be keptP That is the Hong arithmetic" which creates wealth. Why rail at men for being good matchematicians? Goethe was fond of saving that nobody should be rich but those who understand it." He might just as wisely have said that nobody should be poor except those who know how to be-and who does?
 In their last analysis these magazine attacks on wealth are only blind as- saults on the citadel of human nature
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
conorsssmsn eowie's Views.


 .eWho will be thu democratic leader in the next House of RepresentativeY asX- ed Washington Post reporter Of Rep resentative Bowie.
 T did not suppose there could be any doubt as to his name," replied MT Bowie. .John Sharp williams of Mississippi has made the strongest leader of his party since the civil war in my estimation, ana think he will be chosen to succeed him self in that office by practically unani- nous vote of the minority in the next House. I have heard no other man men tloned. and 1t Is as good as settled that MT. Williams will continue at the neim'
 Any prospect of the democracy get ting back in power?'
 s'There is always chance for change in a country of free men. My belief IS that the pressure for tariff reform Is go- ing to become so heavy in the near fu- ture that the voters are going to turn to the only party that Is fully commit ted to the principle. The people are in- telllgent enough to know that the re- publicans are not going to change the tariff system enough to afford any gen nine relief The cause of protection IS too sacred from the republican point of view to admit of reasonable reductions in ex- isting schedules, and the democratic party fighting on these lines will win vic- tory in the next congressional election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07

and he must face his record at the polls in November. He may squeeze through, but there are many who think he will not.
 The Ohio campaign will be more signifieant-wil have a greater lnhu- ence over Congress than any that ls to be fought out this year. Governor Herrick knows he is at the focus or a hot issue, and he is said to be less confident than are some of his sup porters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
LYMAN DONATES s1oo,ooo.
AtIantan Gives That Sum to Southern
 Presbyterian Church.

From the Atlanta Conctitution
 Hugh T. Inman. the well known At lantan who is now in Europe is under stood to have made before his depar- ture a donation of sl0o,Ooo to the cause of education in the southern Presbyterian church. An elder in the First Presby- terian church of this city, MT. 1nman has not only maintained a deep interest in the welfare of his church. but recently an especial interest in ministerial edu- cation.
 The offer of MT Inman was made com ditional on the raising of similar sum elsewhere and dispatch from Louis- vile. Ky, last night stated that part of the additional sldo'ooO had already been made.
 The offer of the we'll known Atlanta citizen was made to the executive com mittee of ministerial education and re- ligion of the southern Presbyterian church with headquarters at Louisville. Like most of his donations. MT. Inman en- joined that nothing be said of it, but the facts were brought out last night as the result of a brief Associated Press dis match from Louisville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
THE GENIUS OF PATIENCE
 DOMINANT IN JOHN HAY

q admit that have been disappointed
 by these latest developments But there
 is nothing fatal or final about them. We
 must go ahead and knit up the raveled
 threads again. It will require some labor
 and patience, but that is all in the days
 work. The interests of the two countries
 are so clearly involved in good under
 standing that l will not believe it will be
 long delayed"
 In the last paragraph apove is much
 of the philosophy of John Hays remark able success in dealing with world poll
 tics. Labor and patience, with him, were
 .'all In the days work" When the situa- ton became so strained that an impulsive, cratic or irritable diplomat in our de- partment of state might easily have broken, or rendered exceedingly difficult, the maintenance of the good underestimate ing with Russia which Mir. Hay so sim cerely desired to preserve, he merely sighed to himself, smiled to the world. and went ahead to knit up the raveled threads again.
 It was so when the failure of the first Hay Pauncefote treaty threatened the en-
 terprise which of all things in the world
 was then nearest his heart, the cementing of friendly relations between this nation
 and Great Britain. It was so in the case
 we are now considering, when all that he had accomplished for the ''open door seemed likely to be undone by Russian in- trigue at Peldn Without excitement or pique, without any sacrifice of personal self-respect or national dignity, he went to work patiently and laboriously to re-
 cover the ground that had been lost; and
 six or seven months later he had the satisfaction of securing the assent of
 the Russian government to his memorable
 note of February 10. 1904, safeguarding the
 neutrality and administrative entity Of China
 It is all in the days work, but not in every mans days work. The quality was in Abraham Lincoln, and perhaps that is where John Hay learned its practical value in great affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
cunnInq.,am's Sense of Humor.

.It seems to me somewhat significant" !" said political wag last night. that three weeks ago, when the Conner band wagon was rolling smoothly through the state Dr. Cunningham should have gone for a ten days fishing trip to Camp Despair a sportsman's rendezvous near BILOXI on the gulf coast, and that the moment MT. Conner came out with his dissenting opin- ion, Dr. Cunningham should have packed his grip and taken the first train for Mount Hope Cunningham surely has sense of humor.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 when a girl says she has naturally cur,v hair it is a sign she thinks she has,
 man could be honest in politics if there was anything to be made out or being it.
 If a mans daughter wouldn't grow up gst married and go away from him ne wouldn't care how old he got.
 o,s of men get engaged simply be- causa they have not the will power to prevent a girl from taking thing Tor granted.
 A woman always estimates how much weight she has lost by how much iess uncomfortable she is m stays tnat a1 too tight for her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
From the New York Commercial.

HOAoR twelve-month or more the EO publishers of our American maga- zines-with some notable excep- tons, of eourse-have been "dishing up'' for their readers at regular intervals masses of fact and fiction about rich men or. in other words, successful men in this country. and along with them lex posures" of the methods employed in many of the greatest and most success full enterprises and industries here in the United States. It Is all on the sup position that denunciation of wealth Is popular. that it will take" with maga- zine readers. and therefore is a good in- vestment for the publishers.
 They may have been correct in their business Judgment of the situation: but what they have actually accomplished is the creation of a lot of prejudice against wealth where none existed be- fore and the intensifying of it, unwar- rantedly, in every nook and corner of the country. The plethora of this maga- zine invective has become positively nauseating What was theme for legiti-
 
 has been "worked" to a disgusting ex- treme.
 It is in consequence refreshing, really inspiritlng. to find i n the Atlantic Monthly for July an article on Large Fortunes by Professor L. Laurence Laughlin, in which his effort is to show that mult.millionaires and gigantic trust" enterprises are not necessarily enemies of society. Envy. he says. is at the bottom of this general railing at industries. Tt is." he declares, large ly the .yawp' of a dog running along side an express train, indignant that 1t cannot run as fast, or make as big a noise, as the train" While it Is possible for a rich man to be a rascal or an op- pressor, all right-mnded persons must agree with this opinion; and 1t is de- plorable. as our essayist points out that all these violent denunciations of the rich and the successful by the discontented classes or by the extreme socialists, find an echo in the ranks of the more conservative groups" In short, surfeit of this stuff in the monthly prints, as in the daily press, has ''yellowed" many otherwise sane men and women.
 Professor Laughlin demonstrates with logical clearness that the creators of vast new wealth have been able to take to themselves only part of it-that they have in almost every instance bestowed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
WO years ago yesterday, writing from Newport, Rhode Island.
 Secretary Hay expressed in pri-

@ WO years ago yesterday. writing @ from Newport. Rhode ,a Island, s ar,
 Secretary Hay expressed in pri- vate letter his profound dissatisfaction with the attitude of the Russian govern ment respecting our treaty rights In Man churia. He had already secured for the American policy of the open door Tn the far east the assent of every great power concerned, including Russia. He had maoe the policy of the United States the avoweo policy of the world.
 The course of the Russian foreign office in the early summer of 1903 seemed 'n- applicable to MT. Hay. Count Cassini' per haps goaded by a censorious dispatch from I.amsdorff, had just issued his manifesto to the press in which the two subjects or Kishineff and Manchuria were Tor the first time coupled At Pekin the efforts or Minister Conger to get the new treaty with the Chinese government signed were apparently baffled by threats and positive bulldozing on the part of the Russian charge d,affaires there. Russia seemed 10 be standing in the way of that freedom or trade In Manchuria which had been agreed to by the whole world, including the gov ernment of St. Petersburg When the new Russian minister. Lessar. arrived at Pe- kin, to MT. Hays amazement the pohcy of terrorism and obstruction was con tinued and the Chinese were still pre- vented from signing our treaty.
 Such was the condition of affairs when MT. Hay wrote, on July 4, 1903:
 Tn all this matter I have insisted on dealing with Russia alone. have refused for four years to join any group or com bination against her, believing that by patience and persistence sne would finally see that our interests were not hostile. but rather identical with hers. And in spite of these passing clouds have never ceased to believe that we should gain our point I left Washington with hope all most amounting to certainty that before the autumn we should work out the prob lem to our satisfaction and to that of our merchants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
FAT APPLE PIES.

From the National Magazine. In making the much liked fiat apple
 fie, considerably difficulty is generally ex- perenced in keeping the juice from boiling out in the oven. find that the best way is to cut the crusts, upper and under, slightly wider than the pie tin. Then loil the under crust over the upper and Iress down with fork all around. Brush the roll over with the white of an egg. A paper funnel about three inches long, fastened with a p,I, and inserted in the
 middle of the pie. also prevents the juice from boiling ort as t allows place for 1t to boil up in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
Nashvllle,s Fires.

'I believe that Nashville is undergoing a serious fire epidemic,' said former cit izen of that town last night.
 For number of years Nashville moved along without single disastrous conflagraton, while Birmingham suffered several. The Tennessee capital was then wrongly accused of being too slow to catch a fire, while Birmingham, 1t was said, moved so rapidly that fires were almost unavoidable. If this be true sign of the city's prosperity, Nashville is catching up with the Magic City
 "The McKendre Street Methodist church. which was destroyed for the sec- ond time last Tuesday. was magnifi- cent edlfice, and will be a great loss to the city. It was one of the most pros porous churches in Tennessee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
EXPOSITION ITEMS

The trail at the Lewis and Clark expo sition was formally dedicated July l. There are thirty-five shows on this amusement street, and the admission fees are so low that one may visit all of them for about s7.
 All American authors are invited to be present during western authors week, beginning July 1O at the Lewis and Clark exposition. The week will close with Joa- quin Miller day. Miller will be present during the entire week. Fifty Igorrotes are now en route from Manila to Portland, to become feature at the Lewis and Clark exposition. The Igorrote village will be located near the Homer Davenport farm. where the famous cartoonlst has on exhibition many fancy birds and animals.
 The Robert Burns cottage. which was erected in the experimental gardens at the Lewis and Clark exposition, has been | torn down and removed to a site adJoip-
 tar from the points frequented by the
 crowds.
 1 Charles G. Fitzpatrick, the one-legged | bicyclist has begun a months engage
 ment at the Lewis and Clarke exposition. He rides an automobile down an inclined
 plane with only six inches of margin
 at each side. and performs amazing | tricks on the bicycle.
 An erroneous report sent out some time
 ago was to the effect that the Lewis and Clark exposition was unfair to organized | labor and was being boycotted. The Port land Labor Press, well known paper de- | voted to the interests of union labor, | makes positive denial of this report and urges all union men to support the fair. | Many eastern people are visiting Port
 land this summer instead of going to Att
 lantic coast resorts. Portland is an ideal | summer resort There is no humidity in the atmosphere and the nights are always
 cool, while the temperature Tn the day.
 time rarely goes above 30 degrees. Along
 the Pacific coast, hundred miles away.
 are several pretty seaside towns, where
 the tourist may enjoy the delights of surf bathing.
 During the Lewis and Clark exposition
 the public has an opportunity to learn a great deal concerning the government 8 gigantic irrigation projects in the west At the exposition there is one entire build- ing devoted to this subject Models and photographs of some of the great land- | reclamation projects, upon which more
 than s3o.Ooo,00o will be expended within
 the next few days. are shown. and lec- lures on the subject are delivered by Ed
 mund T. Perkins. skllful civil engineer
 in the service of the government This is
 the nrst time that irrigation has received
 such attention at any exposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
MODEST BOY.

From the Chicago Journal.
 A little boy was being reproved by his mother.
 Charlie" she said, If you behave like this. you know you won't go to heaven The child thought little, ard then sald; Well, I've been to two circuses ana 70 Uncle Toms Cabin;' can't expect to se everywheref'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
About Persons.

J. s. Grady of Sylacauga is inythe city.
 J. E. Moody of Memphis is at the Nor ris.
 R. A. Hinson of Greenville, Ala, was here yesterday.
 T. L. Gates and J. B. Blount of Au- gusta, Ga, are in the city.
 Charles B. Teasley of Montgomery Is at the Morris
 W. F. Christian, assistant general pas senger agent of the Seaboard Air Line, with headquarters in Atlanta, arrived in Birmingham last night and will remain until Sunday J. C. Conn. division passenger agent Of the Queen and Crescent Route with head quarters in Chattanooga, was in the city yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
REPUTATION.
From Life

From Life.
 A certain pompous individual from the state of Massachusetts was strutting about the capitol at Washington. A western senator said to Senator Hoar:
 .'Who is that person."
 That" responded Hoar, lis Gen B. of my state"
 Does he cut as wide swath in Mas sachusetts as he does in Washington T'
 NO" said Senator Hoar, with a mer- " twinkle. "No. Gen. B.'s reputation Is purely national.'