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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
WIND AND SEA.

BY Bayard Taylor.
The Sea is a jovial comrade,
He laughs wherever he goes;
His merriment shines In the dimpling
lines
That wrinkle his hale repose;
He lays himself down at the feet OF the
Sun,
And shakes all over with glee.
And the broad-bacxed pillows fal- faint
on the shore.
In the mirth of the mighty Seal
But the Wind IL sad and restless,
And cursed with an inward pain:
You may bark as sou will, by valley or
hill.
But YOU hear him still complain.
He walls on the barren mountains,
And shrieks on the wintry sea;
He sobs, in the cedar and means In the
pine,
And shoulders all over the aspen tree.
Welcome are both their voices.
And I know not which Is best
The laughter that slips from the Oceans
lips.
Or the comfortle1s Winds unrest.
There's pang in all rejoicing.
A JOY in the heart of pain.
And the Wind that saddens. the Sea that
gaddens,
Sanis singing the selfsame strain!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
Baseball Waaers.

1T is funny what foolish bets men will
make on the spur of the moment said
a man yesterday Il WAS sitting listen
ing to the baseball matinee Saturday
afternoon when I heard a fan offer 500
to s. that New Orleans would win the
game from Montgomery. 1t was in the
eighth inning and the score was to in
favor of the Pelicans.
Some fellow sitting round dug down
into his pockets and produced half
dollar and said he would take $40 of that
800 The New Orleans better put up
his money and just about that time the
messenger boy came in with a telegram
which read: :
Ninth inning Montgomery 3, New Or
leans o.
sThe fellow lost his $40, and there were
fifty men around there who were sorry
they did not take fifty cents or dollars
worth of the bet"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
w. H. Skaqqs Home.

w. IT. Skaggs. well-known Ala
bamian, but now of Chicago. Is spending
several days In the city on business. Mr..
Skaggs is wel-known in Birmingham,
being closely Identified with the city S
earliest history. He was formerly con-
nected with the Associated Press, and
has also held important positions on sew
eral newspapers, both south and north.
He wrote many stories of Birmingham S
future greatness when the city was then
not even a village. in one of which he
made the statement that iron could be
made in Alabama at s1s per ton. At the
time of its publications Mr.. Skaggs state
ment was considered wonderful and
doubted by many
Mr. Skaggs expressed his satisfaction
at seeing such active building In Bir-
mingham and also at SO many other
signs of prosperity. He still believes that
Birmingham will be one of the greatest
cities of the country. and that his boldest
prophecies will be fulfilled.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
ANsoN's CAT SCHEME.

From the Chicago Journal.
If everybody in Chicago owned a cat
and thought enough of it to pay tax of
81 the city would be 100000 better off
each year, and Captain Adrian S. An
sons personal wealth would leap upward
s5OoOOO annually, provided the city clerks
most recently devised revenue plan is
adopted.
While Comptroller Mccain was fretting
today because Chieagos saloon keepers
have been unusually slow this year TAX
ing our new licenses. and while City Col
lector Edward NJ. Lahiff has been alter
nately explaining to the comptroller and
complaining to Chief oNeill because the
license officers have not attended to their
regular duties, Arson has been playing
ball" with his new cat idea.
Its a fine scheme" joyously exclaim-
ed the city clerk Pass law forcing
everybody, man, woman or child black
or white, rich or poor. to own cat. Any
old cat three-old-cat for that matter,
will do, so long as there Is something
to tax. The city wants the money and
want the fee of rs cents each granted
me by law. Cats have just as much
right to be taxed as dogs, and last year
this revenue amounted to $11S,9O6, while
as many more dogs as were registered
with the city escaped. A cat license
would bring in not less than $0o.00e The
eat ought to be restricted anyhow. 1t
spreads contagious diseases, according
to the health department."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
Heavy Cotton Exports.

Eight months of the cotton year
have elapsed and the foreign ship
ments in those eight months aggre-
gate 6,95S,226 bales, or nearly a mil
lion bales more than were exported
in the entire previous cotton year.
Cotton shipments continue to be
heavy, those of last month footing up
59o,064 bales. When the shipments
of the last four months of the cotton
year are added, the cotton year will
present unprecedented export figures
Our shipments to Great Britain are
very heavy, so much so that it leads
to the opinion that the English spin
ners are stocking up with eightcent
cotton rather than to take the chances
of the price in the coming cotton
year. Japan is also taking more cot
ton. In April we sent more cotton TO
Japan than to any other country,
Great Britain, Italy and Germany
alone excepted. At present Japan is
taking more American cotton than
France is, and almost as much as
Italy is consuming 1t is plain that
Japan is destined to become a warm
competitor in the manufactured goods
trade of the far east.
The increase in cotton shipments
bids fair to absorb the crop that has
been turned loose in the last two or
three months. Not much cotton will
be held back on the farm, and foreign
buyers will probably absorb all of 1t
that is not needed in the mills of this
country. OF course surplus cotton is
surplus cotton, no matter whether 1t
is held here or in foreign warehouses
but the low price of the product is nc
doubt increasing the consumption OF
cotton goods, and the stocks of the
world at the end of the cotton year
may not be beyond all precedent. Nc
doubt they will be abundant, but they
will not be so excessive that they will
materially depress prices.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
Durham and Penrose Upset.

Boss Durham met Mayor Weaver
and, after five days of popular tumult,
he has surrendered. The gas lease
that would hand over the gas prop
erty of the city for a period of sew
enty-fiye years has been withdrawn.
"The organization" is in a chaotic con-
dition. 1t is rent, torn and disorgan-
lied
The victory was due to the pressure
of public opinion upon the members
of the city council, who were assailed
in every possible way-with threats
of loss of business, with social ostra-
cism, with every other conceivable
harm, and they at once began to fall
away from Boss Durham and Boss
Boies Penrose. Penrose and Durham
work together. They are at the head
of "the organization" and that organ
ization is the very depth of machine
politics in this country. There is
nothing viler or more autocratic any
where, not even in grand ducal cir
Giles in Russia. 1t is this that has been
overthrow.
Whether the defeat will have per-
manent effects in Philadelphia and
Pennsylvania remains to be seen.
Mayor Weaver may utilize the reyo-
luton to ride roughshod over 'the or
ganization," and he may become the
republican candidate for governor next
year. The city of Philadelphia Is
much wrought up, and SO in fact is
the rest of the state, and the situation
is full of possibilities. 1t has at least
been shown that the DurhamPenrose
machine is powerless when public SEN
timent assails it in earnest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29

blossoms in the human heart is grati-
tude, and Memorial Day is its national
conservatory. On this day let the path
way of our living heroes be strewn with
these tokens of appreciation and the
graves of their sleeping comrades be bow
cred with natures sweetest emblems and
moistened with gratitude's tenderest tears.
Let is not be day of frivonty and frolic,
but a day of serious reflection and OF
solemn observance as becometh thought
full, intelligent and patriotic people,"
There is the climax of the Governors
flower. There is no getting around it. 1t
Is not "a memory of the heart" as
some inferior poet has called it, nor
is 1t a breakfast food. Governor Hoch
plainly, and yet with all the ornate grand
eur and spiritual quality of poetry, defines
It, So bear in mind in future just what
1t is. As for the figure, Memorial Day
is its national conservatory" words pos
itively fail to do 1t justice. 1t is sublime,
gorgeous, magical, enhancing. overwhelm-
ing, immense.
Long live Hochi Long may his pen
wave and pour forth seething, saccha-
rine suds of soulfulness; long may his
voice voice the pent-up symphonies of his
being; long may the birds bloom and the
flowers sing and the trees leave and the
sun dance and the cat nip and the rollers
skate in his heart He is joy incarnate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
Ambassador Reid Standing Pat.

The New York Tribune found itself
between the devil and the deep blue
sea when Secretary Taft announced
the policy of the administration as
to purchases for the Panama canal.
1t was compelled to stand by an adj
ministration that had just appointed
its editor and controlling stakeholder
ambassador to Great Britain, and yet
: from time out of mind almost it had
stood for protection. The higher the
duty the better it was pleased. Be-
tween supporting protection for pro-
tection's sake and standing firmly up
to the administration, it was COM
PEELED to adopt a new line of action.
1t was compelled to evolve new the
DRY to fit the Rooseyeltian cataclasm.
1t did 1t In this wise: Two scales
of prices exist, it proceeded to say,
one for the common people of this
country and one for the free people
living elsewhere in the world. The
Tribune practically says that robbery
of this sort is just and laudable-be-
cause other nations do 1t. It offers
no proof, and it expects its statement
to stand as fact unsupported-one
price for domestic consumers and one
for foreign consumers. Now here is
where the little joker appears. The
Panama market, it says, Is a foreign
market. AS matter of fact the canal
zone is as much a part of this country
as Long Island is. But never mind
that. 1.-THE titular sovereignty" says
the Tribune, rests in the republic OF
Panama, when as matter of fact
Panama has no right to say "boo" in
the canal zone. But let that pass.
The Tribune unfolds its theory, and
proceeds to ask home merchants and
manufacturers to consider Uncle Sam
at Panama a foreigner, entitled to
their foreign prices for goods instead
of the home robber prices.
This will not begin to satisfy the
stand patters, who want home robber
prices for all goods used in digging
the canal. I'VE are free to say that
we cannot sympathize," adds the Tri.
bune, with the patriotism of those
who would now demand as right
the right to charge their own govern
ment more than they have been glad
to receive hitherto from foreigners. y
How about those who charge the
struggling, overburdened citizen at
home more than they have been glad
to receive hitherto from foreigners
Why should the home man pay two
prices and the foreigner but one?
This point is not covered by the Tri-
bunes theory, and it is fair to pre-
sumo it never will be.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
THE CAVIAR OF THE DRAMA.
How lbsen Has Been Injured by Poor
Actors.

James L. Harper in Harper's Weekly
One of the many varieties of dramatic
caviar now known to the public the most
famous is that prepared by Ihsen, and
served now and then ON special occasions
generally in the afternoon before fea-time
The 1bsen caviar would be indefinitely
better known and appreciated than IT is
We're it not for the prejudice created
against IL long ago by Its sponsors, the
soi-disant "Ibsenites." who have done so
much harm to the Scandinavian prophet
as the "Browningltes" have to the fame
of noble English poet Isben has suf-
fered also, and suffered previously, too,
at the hands of its interpreters, for the
word went forth long ago that 'every
body could play 1sben," and the rush of
bad actors that followed left trail of
hideous memories behind. The truth Is
that Isben's gift of Characterization Is SO
remarkable that not even the
most incompetent hummer that
ever talked about hts intellectual acting"
can wholly elude the dramatic purpose, or
fail to hold the attention of the audience,
even IL he can DO no more than walk
through the scenes that are built, one on
top of the other, with such marvellous
constructive skill In one sense, there
fore. Isben is a tempting proposition. and
there is scarcely an actress of prominence
in the country VINO has not at one time
or other yearned to play Nora or Hedda
Gabler Nevertheless it would be hard
to name a player who has gained mat
erially a reputation, money, or artistic
finish by means of these dramas of sim
pieity, realism, and unpleasantness AT
best they can but caviar to player as
well as to public. None of them afford
satisfying meal.
Nevertheless, to the serious student of
the stage, Isben offeres more food for
thought and a greater wealth of susges-
lions and teaches more valuable lesson
in the arts af Characterization and scene-
building than any dramatlst living. There
is not one of us that can afford to miss
any play that bears his name
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
President Montat,ue.

I'm my recent canvass of the state in
interest of the new science building to he
erected at Howard college. l have met
win the most gratifying encouragement,
said DR.. A. p Montague, president of the
Institution at East Lake.
me Baptists of Alabama have their
eyes turned towards Howard college. and
we expect great things to come to pass
within the next year. The people of the
state have rendered me cordial reeen-
ton and their generous responses to my
requests have been exceedingly refresh
ing. -Four prominent citizens of the state
contributed $1,000 each towards the new
building.
The college is just closing one of the
most prosperous years in It's history and
at the annual meeting of the board of
trustees Monday afternoon several impor-
tant movements will be inaugurated look
ing towards the advancement of How
ard"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29

expression of opinion is not sufficient
to divert immigrants that other sec
tions desire. There must be initiative
and action. and probably money
enough to bring the newly-arrived TO
the mills. South Carolina has taken
up the task in a business-like man
ner. She has established an agency
at Ellis island, and she is securing de-
sirable immigrants in goodly numbers.
What South Carolina is doing the
other southern states should do.
Energy and practical methods are
needed at the outset, and these will
assuredly cause the newcomers to 90
where cheap lands, a mild climate and
a warm welcome await them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
AMBER, AMBERoID, AMRERINE.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Amber has become rare" safd tobac-
conist, that it is difficult to get hold of
a good piece. That is sad. for long cigar
cite holders will be exceedingly fashion,
able this year.
~Amberine is often sold for genuine am
ber 1t can be detected easily. II you put
a match to it confagration will ensue.
Furthermore, If you rub 1t it will give off
a camphor smell Also, 1t viii not pick up
paper.
"Amberoid is made of amber chips pow
dered and compressed by hydraulic power.
Only an expert can tell ambercid from am
ber 1t won't burn and like amber. IL
will sfter a little friction. pick up paper.
"Amberoid is SO excellent a counterfeit
that many an honest tobacconist, deceived
himself, will sell 1t to you IN good faith
for the real article"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
Black Belt Prosperous.

me prosperity outlook in the black belt
Is bright for the coming year. said r. A.
Lambert of Wilcox county, 1.-THE crop
prospect is good and industrial situation is
equally encouraging. New railroads are
being projected and built and we are
advancing right along in our section.
"Of course one hears plenty of political
gossip and everyone Is watching with in
terest the moves that are pcrng made on
the political chess board of the state.
While our county supported Conner in his
fight for railroad commissioner, many of
them feel that Lieutenant governor Cum
ningham will be a strong candidate for
governor"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Situation at Woodlawn.

IF anyone thinks that the woodlawn
citizens are going into this patroling
business without meaning what they say
they are badly mistaken said Dupont
Thompson Saturday night.
we mean business and we are going
to rid the town of these crimes and catch
some of the criminals.
1T is case of necessity with US.
Things have come to such point that
action, immediate and strenuous, is neces-
sary and We are going to act. We will
put stop to these things and without
any delay, too ! have talked TO a large
number of citizens and they are thor
onghly aroused to the needs of the town
for better protection"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29

TN the LOUISVILLE Courier Journal
n ARK! From the wind-swept and
b) fertile fields of Kansas comes a
sound we love to hear.
IL is Governor Hoch singing a lifting
lay. Since his poetic flight a few hebdo-
MAIDS agone we have zen longed for fur
Their poetic rhapsodies from the pellueid
depths of his font. but the winters gusts
passed by. and the March winds blewed
and vented and the crocuses lifted I'm
their dimpled cheeks toward the sun and
met a fatal death and summer drew
nigh. And we waited in vain, for not a
note came from the poetic gent whose
writings we so admire
Now. howsomever, he bursts once more
into song. His words come stealing
through the hills and valleys of Missouri.
they sail gently through the bagles and
interstices of Injianny and HE them
across the flowing waters of the Ohio
and here they are right before the eyes.
All, it's we'll
The subject of this latest work is Deco
ration Day. and our idol attacks it with
the fervor and rhetoric to be expected
from one of his exalted inspiration. With
glowing. dazzling sizzling. wonderful i'm
agery and ditto language he thus begins
his proclamation:
ION the 3Oth of every recurring May,
when the air is fragrant with the per-
fume of flowers and vocal with the melody
of birds and all nature gives sanction to
the beautiful and sacred custom. a great
and grateful people turn aside from their
varied and various duties to honor the
memory of the brave men who. in the
dark days of the Co.'S took their guns and
lives in their hands and went forth to
do and dare and die. If need were, that
this government of the people and by the
people and for the people might not per-
ish from the earth, and wherever floats
the flag they loved so wen the deeds of
these heroes of ours are cherished men,
cries and their graves are hallowed
spots
Is 1t not surprisingly beautiful? Observe
the tenderness and originality and now
city of the line: When the air is frag-
rant with the perfume of flowers and
vocal with the melody of BIRDS Only a
genius could have conceived so noble a
thought and expressed 1t so perfectly.
But we delay. Governor Hoch con-
tinues:
.srhe sweetest flower that buds and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
The Stock Market.

Henry clews' stock letter of Saturday
says:
Our general business situation con-
tinues satisfactory the volume of trade
being unusually large and as yet free
from symptoms of general overriding or
everprodnction great deal has been
made of the lull in the iron trade. 1t
should be remembered that for some
weeks past the iron industry has been
experiencing record breaking activity. A
moderate cessation, therefore, is both ma
tural and desirable, If we are to avoid
an injurious period of overproduction.
Cur iron mills still have orders ON hand
that will keep them busy for months to
come; and projected improvements and
new construction, which were temporar-
lily delayed by the backward season. are
likely to take good care OF our entire out
put for the balance of the year. Here
and there concessions have been made
in values which have caused a slight
feeling of unsettlement but prices have
been upon so high a plane as to yield
unusual profits and In some cases to
restrict business. The slight reeessions
which have been made will probably
serve to stimulate orders and sustain the
volume of business; so that the iron in
dustry as a whole should continue upon
profitable basis; even If the hlghwater
marx was touched last month, and in spite
OF rupture of the steel rail pool and tariff
agitation. The crop situation is doubtless
the most uncertain feature on the bust
ness horizon at the moment. We have
had cool and late spring, retardine
termination of nearly all crops. Neverthe-
Tess we are practically sure of a large
winter wheat crop, an ample cotton crop
and big hay CROP
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
THE KINGS oLovED HAND.

From the London Chronicle.
1t was noticed In Paris, when King Ed
ward was there, that he always appear
ed in public with his right hand gloved
but not his left As it is a common prac-
tice to carry the right glove loose, and
not the left, much speculation has been
excited by the Kings reversal of this
custom One learned writer suggests
that it is due to a sound perception or
hygienic propriety The object of a glove
he says, is not to adorn, but to protect
the hand. Which hand has the more con-
slant employment, and is therefore
brought into closer contact with MI
crobes? Why, the right hand. 1t FOL
lows that in keeping that hand gloved
the King shows his unfailing sense. Vive
lie Roi!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
"SUNB BEAM"

From the Atchison (Kan) Globe.
1t is dangerous to give child a pet
name for it will stick to 1t through life.
There lives in Coolidge a woman who
scolds her family all day and lambasts
them In her dreams. She is envious Of
the good fortune of others; she is all
ways finding trouble because she looks
for nothing else. and her face is so
sour that it will stop laughter in any
ROOM The woman is called Sunbeam,
that being a pet name given her by
her parents before she was old enough
To talk
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
No Cause for Anxiety

From the Gadsden Journal.
The campaign for governor promises to
become a pretty lively affair. There are
already two ayowed candidates who are
both able TO put up c strong tight and
now come rumors that there will be 9TH
ers who must be reckoned with in max
Ing future predictions. The more the
merrier and the people have habit of
selecting the best man that saves us any
uneasiness.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
Regret Over Hobson.

From the Coosa River News.
We regret that Captain Hobson has de-
cided not to make the race for governor,
II 1t Is true that he has reached that
decision. Brilliant busy. brainy, young
and yet conservative. he would go in as
creditable chief magistrate and would
have few Objectionable strings tied to
him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-29
Point to Remember,

From the Tri-County Weekly
When stage struck girls read that Nan
Patterson was no sooner acquitted than
she was engaged for the stage at 5000 a
week. they should recall the fact that
she only missed electrocution by a very
small margin.