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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
CAUCASIAN AND NEGRO.
Respects In Which They Are of OPP
poste Extremes In Evolution.

From Robert Bennett Beams THE Negro
Brain In the September Century.
The Caucasian has the subjective facu-
ties well developed; the negro, the OBJ
jective. The caucasion and more par
and domneerng, and possessed primarily
with determination, will power, self-con-
troll, self-government, and all the at
tributes of the subjective self, with a
high development of the ethical and es-
thetic faculties and great reasoning pow
ers. The negro is in direct contrast by rea-
son of a certain lack of these powers,
and a great development of the objective
qualities. The negro is primarily affec-
Tomato, immensely emotional, then sem
sual and, under provocation, passionate.
There is love of outward show, of osten-
tation of appreciation He loves melody
and a rude kind of poetry and sonorous
language. There Is undeveloped artistic
power and taste-negroes make good ar
tisans and handicraftsmen. They are de-
ficient in judgment, in the formation or
new ideas from existing facts in devising
hypothesis, and In making deductions In
general. They are initiative rather than
original, inventive, or constructive. There
Is instability of character incident to lack
of self-control. especially in connection
with the sexual relation, and there is a
lack of orientation, or recognition OF posi-
ton and condition OF self and environ
ment. evidenced in various ways. but by
Professor Blackshear of Texas this is
particularly noticeable.
The white and the black races are anti
podal, then, in cardinal points. The one
has large frontal region of the brain.
the other a larger region behind; the one
is subjective. the other objective: the
one great reasoner, the other pre-emi-
nently emotional; the one domineering,
but having great self-control, the other
meek and submissive, but violent and
lacking self-eontrol when the passions are
aroused; the one very advanced race,
the other very backward one. The eau
castan and the negro are fundamentally
opposite extremes in evolution.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
Standpatism the Issue.

Tariff revision is dead say the repub-
licans, because President Roosevelt
and Speaker Cannon have gone over
bag and baggage to the standpat brig
ade led by Nelso w. Aldrich and Secre-
tary Shaw. The tariff beneficiaries are
masters of the situation. The few are
to fatten in the future as In the past
by picking the pockets of the many
This is to be done, although a revi-
sion of the tariff on honest revenue
lines would take away the backing and
support of nine trusts out of every ten
and would at the same time bring re-
lief to consumers, but President Roose-
welt says NO" and so does Speaker
Cannon, and the republican party as
an organization thus becomes a stand
pat party. But there are thousands of
republicans from Massachusetts to
Iowa who are not standpatters, and
who will not vote In 1908 to maintain
the robber rates of Dingleyism.
The issue should be accepted, and
tariff reform and honest campaign
funds should be the slogan in 1908, and
in 1906 seats in Congress can be won
on those issues. The republican lead
ers admit possible loss of forty seats.
A loss of fifty-six seats would give the
democrats control of the House. There
is trouble coming to the republicans in
Massachusetts, in New York, in New
Jersey, in Pennsylvania, in Iowa, In
Ohio and in Missouri. Seats will be
lost in all those states, and it is by no
means impossible to overcome the pres
ent majority of the republicans in the
House, large as IL is.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
Unrest In Cuba.

When President Palma counted him
self into second term a revolution in
Cuba began to be formulated, and it
has gone on gathering strength until it
has reached threatening proportions.
1t covers several provinces, and 1t is
appearing even in Havana province
itself. The Cubans appear to be about
evenly divided between the government
and the revolutionists, and the former
being weak is not equal to the task of
crushing out the uprising. The indica-
lions now are that the island will be
thrown into disturbed condition.
Revolution and disorder will become
chronic, and the production of a mil
lion tons of sugar. more or less, may
be materially interfered with The
administration Of President Palama,
covering nearly five years, has been
creditable and successful. Peace has
been preserved, and the resources of
the island have been developed. Pros
perity has been well maintained, and
the foreign commerce now approx
mates s2oo,OO0OOO year.
But there are many leaders in Cuba
who do not like President Palma, and
they are behind the insurrectionary
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movement, and there are not few in
commercial circles who desire to see
the island annexed to the United
States.
The Plat amendment which was in
corporated in the Cuban constitution
reads as follows
THAT the government of Cuba con-
SCENTS that the United States may exercise
the right to intervene for the preserva-
ton of Cuban Independence, the malnten-
anee Of a government adequate for the
protection of life. property and Individual
liberty, and for discharging the obligations
with respect TO Cuba imposed by the
treaty Of Paris on the United States, now
to be assumed and undertaken by the
government of Cuba"
Under this provision the United
States does not have to await call
for help from President Palma. When
ever the lives of property, not only of
Americans, but of natives, are really
endangered, and the Cuban government
seems to be unable to restore order,
the United States can intervene, and
whenever intervention takes place
there will spring up a demand for an
nexation, There are many who think
the Teller proposition which sprang
from beet sugar was political mistake,
and there are many more who think
the island will yet be added to this
country. Intervention is therefore
delicate matter, and it will not be re-
sorted to until the revolution has at
tanned to considerable proportions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Iron Market.

There will be no run away market but
prices Will remain on high levels for some
months at least" said prominent iron
broker.
birmingham is now selling at SIG on a
No basis for prompt delivery and is
being quoted at s15.50 for the first quar-
ter of next year These are pretty stiff
| prices, but in view of the scarcity Of iron
the needs of the consumer and the phe-
nomenal prosperity of the country they
are not too high. Iron may go to $17 or
SIS and still not be runaway
The New York Sun OF Wednesday says:
THE markets for pig iron exhibit as
high a degree of animation as prevailed
last week. Orders are rolling in in large
volume to foundry iron makers north and
south. Producers report pressing requests
for antielpations of contracts which were
not conditioned for shipment earlier than
October. Markets are almost bare of pig
iron for immediate shipment. Prices arc
strong. Several important iron making
interests predict higher prices during this
week. Latest sales of southern foundry
No. 2 are reported at s15d15.25. Northern
49, - iCbhbA5 10 ~ 90 N~AAANAN' -
s18. 75@19.25 at furnaces. Steel making
irons, at valley furnaces, are $1sa1s. 80
for Bessemer and 81. 75@1s for basic.
Eastern basic is ST 6oa1S European pig
iron markets are remarkably active. Ger
many has been buying heavily in British
markets for some days with the result
that the north of England is low in stocks
of notified and white irons. No. l foundry
is 54s at Teesside.
1.-THE coke market is slowing down as to
orders. Prices are firm at 50 .25d3.5 50 for
best ~ hour foundry; AZ four furnace is
50. 1908.
bar iron is firmer and in large demand.
Several mills are selling far forward at
the advanced basis. s1.6O mill. Old ma
terial is very active Steel mills are buy
ing heavily in scrap. Prices are firm and
unchanged. Little new business of i'm
portance is reported by selling agents for
the larger steel corporations. Export bus
mess Is said to be quiet. There is a de-
cided lull In buying for Canadian account
and there is little stir for account of
Mexico and South America. Jobbers Of
steel wares are buster than ever in the
principal distributing cities. There is spe-
cial activity In wire, wire products and in
almost all kinds OF finished products.
Among agents for foreign steel business
is reported steady and prices are I'M
changed.
SLOW deliveries and a good deal of
new work about to be placed condition
the structural steel trade"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
plsHPANs Or DEATH
n the Atehison Globe.

From the Atchson Globe.
Morning papers told of a crush of wom-
en- In store at st. Joe late yesterday,
attracted there by, a bargain sale. but they
did not say what the article was that
was offered at such bargain, and while
the women readers read with interest
that nine women were badly injured and
one fatally, they thought the real point of
the item was omitted The dispatch did
not name what the bargain was. 1t was
six-quart dishpans at 10 cents
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

1906, against 1,739,166 tons for 1905. The
value of exports of iron and steel and
allied products, including machinery, was
$220,0O0000, an increase of about $50, 600, COO,
or 80 per cent over the figures for the
first half of 1905. The principal item of In
crease in exports was in pig iron and pud-
died iron, from 49, 6O tons to 7O6,s67 tons,
the principal part of which went to Ger
many. The decline In rail exports. which
has been detrimental to British rail mills,
was more than 25 per cent, or from 262,-
403 tons in the first half of 1905 to 1911 800
tons in the first half Of 1906. Tin plates fell
off in exports from 1s6109 tons to III ,2SS
TONS
While the official figures for the iron and
steel industry are not available for the
full six months of 1906 in the United
States, the record for the five months, ae-
cording to the Iron Age. proves without
doubt that It will be record half year in
the foreign trade In the United States, as
well as that of Great Britain.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
EXCEPTIONAL NEGROES.

From Robert Bennett Beans THE Negro
Brain" In the September Century.
1t Is an undoubted fact that environ
ment affects the individual more than the
race, whereas heredity affects the race
more than the individual. individuals may
be altered without altering the race. BY
both heredty and environment we may
explain the greatness of certain men like
Dumas. Booker Washington. Tanner and
Professor Dubois, who are classed as ne
groes but are not pure negroes ethnically.
Looked at in IFS broadest sense the race
question is not one of individuals of
local significance, but has assumed world
wide proportions by reason of existing
conditions in Egypt, throughout Oceanica,
in South Africa, Haiti, San Domingo,
South America, the Philippines and other
places, as we'll as in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
A RED, RED ROSE.

By Robert Burns.
o my Luve's like red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
o my Luves like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am L;
And I will luve thee still. my dear,
Till a the seas gang dry.
TIL a the seas gang dry, my dear.
And the rocks melt wi the sun;
And I will luve thee still, my dear.
While the sands O. life shall run.
And fare thee weel. my only Luve.
And fare thee weel awhilel
And | will come again, my Luve,
Tho 1t were ten thousand mile.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
HAILED A DRUG STORE.
, the kansas CITY Journal.

From the Kansas City Journal.
big Tim" Sullivan, the New York con-
gresham, has many constituents of the
same name. One of them, nicknamed
skinny" enlisted in the navy His sea-
fearing experience was limited, consisting
of occasional trips to Coney Island. and
he had not been long enough in the
service to learn much. On watch ona
night two lights. red and green, the port
and starboard lamps of an approaching
vessel, bored their way through the dark
ness. Hi, vi, ahoy' he yelled. What
the matter?" queried the officer of the
deck What do you see?'' II amt quite
sure" was the reply. but l think it's
drug store"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
A Good SUGGESTION.

An old democrat. who takes great in
trest in elections, makes this suggestion:
when you go to vote Monday take along
your lifetime certificate and every poll
tax receipt you can find, pin them to-
gether and hand them to the election Of
feer This will save time for you, for
them and for the fellow behind you. Your
name may show up on the list all right
and It may not. Even if it is 1t will take
some time to look it up and in the largest
boxes in the city every second counts"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
BRITISH IRON AND STEEL TRADE

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The imports of iron and steel into Great
Britain for the six months ending June
80 were 721, 199 tons, as against sS2,S54 tons
in the corresponding period last year. If
this rate were continued to the end of the
year it would give the largest years I'M
port record ever made. But even a.
greater increase over the first half OF
1905 is shown in the total of iron and
steel exports, which was 2,1o7.43 tons for
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

you that you were something.-that-.
But here the inuuistlve friend turned
and fed. with a burning flush of shame
on his cheek that his lack Of knowledge
of those things which go to make up the
truly great had been discovered.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

ONE men walk through the world
az and lie down to die without ever
- having had more than a few
brief smiles from Dame Fortune, while
others there are whom she loves with a
constant affection. She puts her arms
around them and cuddles them as a
mother does her children. and less favored
mortals look on with regret For EXAMPLE:
grimy boiler-room worker has Just quit
his job and washed up because his bride
of six months standing has received a
fortune Of more than $3.50. 900 from an old
sweetheart, who is now dead and at
peace Rank favoritism that's what it Isl!
THE LAND OF NEVER-CARE.
The blooms are always blowing free,
The birds sing roundelays.
The softest sort of breezes lull
And sunny are the days.
No wrinkles line the faces of
The folk who frolc there,
For life is but dream. I guess,
In the Land of Never-Care.
Each morning brings increased delight,
Each night is calm and sweet,
Unknown the troubles of the world
The sting of harsh defeat.
The goad of proud ambition drives
No toler to despair.
Instead contentment reigns for aye
In the Land of Never-Care.
The people. smiling always. have
Forgotten how to sigh.
In pleasant Businesses they dwell
And sorrow passes by.
The noisy world rolls on its way,
The blatant trumpets blare.
But nothing breaks the golden spell
In the Land of Never-Care.
Light housekeeping-in a lighthouse.
The earthquake is travelling north. Step
lively, Mexicol
Corbett has been having trouble with his
milkman but the milSman had the larger
share Of trouble.
Tiere was something doing in Georgia.
but It was mostly for IloISe.
"Or Dangerous Ground is the tile III
a thriller" Scene MT st be Ell near Val
paraiso.
Santos Dumont is still fooling around in
tae air.
ON HIS WAY.
In the sunshine
And the wet
Banker Stensland's
Going yet
The idea of John d. Rockefeller pro-
vidng a home, for superannuated chorus
girls Frisky old thing.
Mr.. Bryan is now in a position to SYM
pathize with Secretary Root His daugh-
ter has written a play and he will have to
sit through the initial performance
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
MILLIoNAlREs TO BLAME.

From the Atlanta Journal.
Our neighbor Birmingham seems to have
quietly dropped the nickname the Pitts
burg of the South"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
ALABAMA PRESS

Talladega Mountain Home: Bryan is
getting closer home. You can tell 1t by
the headlines in the papers.
Alabama Courier: We hear many Lime
stone people expressing themselves for
Chief Justice Weakley. He is the favor
lite.
Oneonta Southern Democrat: Birmlng-
ham has about concluded that there is no
moral difference between gambling with
craps or with crops
Tuscaloosa Times-G Gazette: It is just
about as difficult to predict the sue
oessful candidates in next Mondays cleo
ton as to figure out the age of Ann.
Montgomery Journal: The Alabama min
ers seem to have acted wisely in calling
off their strike Every man. laborer or
employer, longs for the day when strikes
will be no more and and differences will
be settled otherwise.
Guntersville Democrat: Preachers are
not as fraternal as editors. As an evil
dence, the political field is full of edl-
tors, all of whom have the united sup
port of the press while we know of one
instance, at least where a follower OF
the meek and lowly espouses the cause
of another man against a brother in the
cross.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

William Travers Jerome is not big
enough to put the democratic party in
New York out of the practice of plat
form building. 1t is habit, and habits
are not easily overcome.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

The Valparaiso earthquake is dis
couraging even to investments in San
Francisco. The entire Pacific coast
seems to have caught the complaint.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Hoke Smith will proceed to organize
machine, and two years hence Clark
Howell can run for governor as the
anti-ring candidate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

The bank examiner who examined
Stensland's bank found everything
sound and orderly simply because
Stensland forgot to tell him he was
footing the institution.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Captain Joyner barely won the nomi-
nation for mayor in Atlanta, because
his ball team had fallen to the foot of
the first division.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Longworth will speak at a republican
picnic at Cleveland. He didn't have
much of a chance to speak while
abroad.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

King Edward was last week bull
on the New York stock market. He is
q cosmopolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

The Rockefeller stomachache story
puts him in touch with all the world
and the rest OF mankind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Butterworth, Yale's great quarter
back, wants to go to the Senate. His
qualifications are as stated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24
NEXT STATE SENATOR.

From the Birmingham Ledger.
Nat. L. Miller will be the senator, but
the contest has been real warm.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Every day Uncle Sam accumulates
10000 pieces of mail that, for various
reasons, cannot be delivered
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Nashville Banner: Maxim Gorlky says
he will pay no more attention to Ameri-
ca. Honors are easy, since America is
paying very little attention to him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Cleveland girls are to be taught
housekeeping in schools. Cupid will
shortly move over to Cleveland.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

From the Birmingham Ledger.
Mr. Beddow has suffered from inju-
dicious friends
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Santiago and San Francisco, both
stricken in one seasoni There must
be something In name.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

The sight of King Edward at ticker
watching Wall streets quotations is
something new in international poll
tics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Mr.. Root has sailed for Valparaiso,
but he will find some of the town miss
ing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

The Coney Island season is almost
ended, and no more battles in that
quarter will be pulled off.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Memphis Commercial-Appeal: Mr.. Roose-
welt would segregate the protective tariff
from the trusts. This would be like sepa-
rating the republican from his skin.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Mr.. Bryan has found time to write
a reply to Letters From Chinese
Oficial." but he VIII It in
laundry charactet
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

A patient in Bellevue who was
thought to be an inebriate was merely
suffering from a broken neck.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Roj. Sullivan proposes to stick to his
self-acquired job two years longer. Po-
litical bosses never resign and rarely
die.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Stensland is at any rate rid of Off
cial bank examiners who perplex and
embarrass, but do not examine
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Hetty Green prefers the financial set
to the smart set. She is a leader of
the former, and she despises the latter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Atlanta Constitutions: A Mr.. Drinkwater
is on the Bryan reception committee, but
1t may be reassuring to note that he is in
a hopeless minority.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

a ripe melon in Wall street. but then he
had the opportunity of plugging it first
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Hoke Smiths victory would have
been complete IL he had Savannah and
its county.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Corbett says he is a gentleman and
none disputes the claim.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

THE HUSBAND OF A BRILLIANT
WOMAN.
Cultivated, lovely woman,
Is the wife of Broker Brown.
Leading light IN social circles,
Wrote some verses-won renown.
Goes to all the foxy functions,
Scintillates to beat the band.
Never was a smarter woman
Anywhere throughout the land
Everybody talks about her
Splendid qualities of mind
To her stunning way of dressing
Other women are not blind.
Repartee? She has abundance.
1inguist? She is Number One
Has so many clubs to go to,
Never gets her duties done.
Tho some think that she's a widow,
There's husband, modest man,
Who is very seldom mentioned
Seems to be beneath the ban.
Not a polished sort of fellow,
Goes to work each day at nine.
He provides the ready money
While his wife puts up the shine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Railroad stocks are going up just
when the rate bill is about to go into
operation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Dick Garfield picked up $4,000 in
U. P. Richard always was a lucky
chap.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Spot pig iron Is salable at advancing
prices. Spot cotton has a rival.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Newport wants race track. People
there go swift gait without track.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-24

Walter Wellman Is wholly excusable
for having cold feet in Spitzbergen.