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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-03-16

In an attempt to solve some of the
difficulties incident u the immigration
problem the experiment was tried of
colonizing some OF tie Italian element
in certain districts of the south and
getting them started in tie business of
fruit farming, the ORIGINATOR of the
plan doubtless thinking that if their
love Of the fruit business. as evinced in
their zeal for the push cart fruit ven
der vocation. could only be turned in
the direction OF production. instead of
vending. great good m.-ht result both
to the cities from which these for
eignors Were drawn aul t. the waste
districts OF the south which their efforts
would turn to some use. The expert
ment Gidn't work, for the sons of sun
ny Italy suffered from nostalgia 10
such an extent that they HE'D them
selves back to the squalid tenements
and smoky noisy confines of the city.
where their constantly increasing num-
Der is becoming a serious problem.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-03-16
Cutting on Asparagus Bushes.

Asparagus bushes should be cut as
soon as the berries are fully colored, as
the growth will be sufficiently matured
so that no injury will be done the
roots by removing the tops, thus avoid
Ing a further drain upon the roots to
mature the seed and preventing the
dropping of seed, followed by the
springing up Of innumerable young
asparagus plants.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-03-16

To raise fine colts you must
have fine parent stock. Do not
waste your time in raising scrubs.
1t takes the same time AID feed
to raise a poor horse as it does
to raise a good one> No money
is saved by such false economy,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-03-16
EXAMPLE FOR YOUNG MEN.


EXAMPLE FOR YOUNG MEN.
1903 has now passed into mis-
tory. No year in the history If
the world has let. 20 our Young
men brighter examples Of ;ue old
maxim that Honesty is tue best
policy" No other year las seen
The downfall of so many men
holding ligh positions in society.
in financial circles and even IN
the chugch. Men who lived in
palaces and Were next II WoT-
shipped by their fellow men at
the dawn of 1905. were behiad
prison hars wheh The old year bid
Us farewell. The heads ola great
many of our large insurance com-
panies and banking houses. have
II their desire TO get rich quick"
stepped aside from the path of
honesty. with tie result that
never fails To follow such course,
and the new year finds them dis
graced and dishonored. Among
the most striking examples in
this. class is that of Prof. n. G.
Doughterty. Superintendent of
Schools in the beautiful city Of
Peoria. Illinois, a position he
held for - years. Not only in
the schools to which he was at
tached where his services as an
educator ID demand, but high
schools. y. NJ. {. \. conventions.
college aud teachers associations
felt extremely honored when they
could induce Prof Doughterty to
speak before them upon educa-
:ional matters, and one of his
strange points was in trying to
impress upon the minds of young
men the necessity of honesty and
uprightnesS.
But that is all ended now, and
Prof. Doughterty's days as an
educator, in what we may call a
positive manner. are ended. his
sllvery voice will no longer urge
young men and women 10 live up
to the highest ideals of right and
duty. But DOughterty'S career
as an educator is not vet over.
though his teachings now will be
rather negative than positive. by
example rather than precept: the
lesson he is now giving should
sink deep into the hearts and
memories of all young men. as it is
Of tremendous significance to all.
for 1t demonstrates the terrible
effects of disObeying the man
dates OF honesty and s.raying
from the paths of uprightness.
The spectacle is a sad one to
be snatched in a moment, as il
were, from the high place he
held i'll the confidence and es.
TEEN of his fellow men, honored
by positions that gave him place
among the highest and best. a
palatial home with every comfort.
a loving family circle where all
was love and happiness. a host of
admiring friends, respected and
loved by every body, the idol of
hundreds of teachers and thou
sands of pupils, all are gone. he
has exchanged them for the four
walls of prison cell and in a
little while he will lose even his
name and will be known simply
by number. Even the dollars for
which he sacrificed so much.
they too are gone, everything is
swept clean and the wife of his
bosom will leave her comfortable
home and go out into the world
worse than widowed, to all in
tents and purposes pauper; and
the friends who loved him and
upheld him must all suffer, not
from anything criminal that thew
have done, but from the conf.
dence and friendly feeling they
have for him, and several of those
hA trnrn -.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-03-16
His MN.

How late do you usually sleep on
Sunday morning."
well, it all depends"
depends on what?"
1.-THE length of the sermon"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-03-16
FRIDAY, MARCH Ii 1906.

II WILL TELL JUDGE DOUG
LASS FRANKLY I AN NOT N
FAVOR OF NEGRO CITIZEN
SHIP"
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-03-16
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Cen
eraI Topics from
the Capital.
March 10. 1906.

There i every reason now to
hope that the jOiut statehood bill
will he defeated when it comes
up for a vote his week, at least
that Its purposes will be defeated
by having the Foraker Amend
mend applied 10 it which Will
insure the question OF JOINT state
hood being referred TO the people
of New Mexico and Arizona
which means, of course, the defeat
If thai end Of the bill after it
getS through the Senate is a
little doubtful. The Foraker
Amendment will ride its should
els like The Old Man OF the Sea.
and Ii l. said that many f net
most Of the mem her> OF tae
House would rather let t. bill
die IN the committee than to
accept il IN that form. BUT 1t is
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
Teonessee-RepubIIc Companies.

The Wall Street Journal says:
 Grant B. Schley has returned from his trip through the south, undertaken primarily for the inspection of the prop critics of the Tennessee and the Republic Iron and Steel companies He remained south longer than the other directors who visited the properties with him. MT. Schley says that everything in the south looks prosperous and that the future Is very bright for all interests, especially the iron and steel industry. The indca- tions are, he says, that the present enor- nous business of the Tennessee and Re- public companies will continue for an in- definite time and fully warrants the large expenditures which those companies now contemplate for extensions and improve ments of their various plants
 "The plans Of the management of both companies MT. schley says, are now be- ing carefully considered, but have not yet progressed far enough to warrant making them public. Due announcement, however, will be made at the proper time. He declares that when he started away he was fully prepared to see great pros perity in that section of the country, but his highest expectation came nowhere near to the reality"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
Immigration Work.

Tn letter printed in the Chattanooga Times W. c. Rinearson. general passen- ger agent of the Queen and Crescent efforts to promate immigration along the line of the Alabama Great Southern, . said a Birmingham man
 "The report evidences the fact that MT. Rinearson has within seven months in duced 450 men to settle along this line and all of them are of class which be- speaks good citizenship.
 ''All of the settlers were able to buy land and had sufficient means left to buy farming implements stock and all that is necessary to begin farming on good scale,
 "The amount of land purchased by each individual is given with the names of each purchaser, and the report shows that these farms range in size from 40 to 350 acres, and all will probably average 75 acres each.
 -"These immigrants are all Americans. and fourteen states are represented by them. They come from Ohio. Texas, In- diana, Alabama, Kansas, Georgia, Illl- nois South Carolina, Tennessee, South Dakota, New Mexico, Florida, Maryland and Mississippi.
 MT. Rinearson's success In the line of securing settlers of this character ex- emplifies the possibilities of securing good citizens for the undeveloped places of the south with the adoption of the proper means
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
Addinn to Southern Mills,

In the first quarter of the present year 19O,652 spindles and 2346 looms were in plans added to the equipment of southern cotton mills These addi- tions point to an addition of about a million spindles in the south this year. All this is hopeful and encouraging when we consider the south as a whole.
 But when We look at the quarters figures in detail we see that the addi tions are almost wholly i'll Georgia and the two Carolinas, with some hand some extensions in Tennessee. But Alabama-alas, no spindles and no looms! Some old spindles are to be replaced in the mill at Piedmont, and few new spindles are to be installed in the mill at Girard-that is all. Out of 190,000 spindles we may get 5000.
 Rarely has cotton spinning been more active than it now is in Lanca- shire and in New England All the mills are making money, and they ex- pect to make money. New mills are going up, and old mills are pushed to the utmost both in Old and in New England and yet no one is striving to
 
 build more mills in Alabama. Why is this?
 It is mistaken policy, whatever the cause be. The south will never come into it's own unless 1t spins its own cotton. It may not weave it-at least not at first, but it should spin it. Ala bama should lend helping hand. Our water powers are strong and abundant and every one of them should be har messed to a cotton mill. In this dis trict fuel is cheap, anyway. It is not right to say that a cotton mill popula tion is undesirable. for it is not true Cities have been founded and main. tained by such workers, and we need them here in this state. They are making the two Carolinas rich, and Georgia derives no small part of her prosperity from cotton mills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
Concerning Advertising.

Camp Forest number 1887 will hold it's visitor from a progressive community about Birmingham," said Il prominent citizen of neighboring state at the Hillman last night, lis the absence of the advertising spirit
 "of course you have great city with many goods and wares of your own man ufacture for sale, and better still. thous- ands of underclassed fortunes but how on earth is the outside world to get in- formation about them unless those h. terested publish the facts?
 Your newspapers, as news mediums, are good enough, but there are thousands of things that will benefit Birmingham and furnish a cue t9 prospective in- vestors that ought to be published as advertising by those interested in your trade and properties.
 Say continued the visitor, "ean the average citizen tell me what is manu- factursd in this city for market supply? No: certainly he cannot; and no one else can for the reason that immediate pros- perty furnishes every manufacturer all the trade he wants and he has an idea that he has got his fortune under home- stead.
 But that is a wrong idea sloo GOO a year spent in advertising Birmingham would double your trade and the demand for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
Southern Fast Mail.

Special mail train 97 running be. tween Washington and New York is 10 be maintained. the special appropria- ton of $142,72S for it's benefit having been retained in the postoffice appro- priation bill. The fight against it was bitter and strenuous, but the item was retained by narrow margin.
 The truth is the Southern railway which operates the special mail train known as No. 97 passes through sec ton not well supplied with cities or population, and the pay due on local mails would not justify the company in providing specially speedy service. In the course of time the regular pay allowed by law may suffice, but at present it does not. The fast service between Washington and Atlanta was started in 1893, but train 97 was not put on until 1902. It serves almost all Of the cotton belt, Tor malls III lexas, Arkansas and even Tennessee as well as those in Georgia and Alabama are hastened by 1t.
 New Orleans is not bit discouraged by the close vote in the House, and that city proposes to begin move ment looking to the starting of ar equally fast service between New Or leans and Washington. At present the special mail service is in one direction only. An organization has been formed in New Orleans to press the proposi tion upon the next Congress, and help Is asked from all the intervening cities for each and all would be benefited by fast mail service in both directions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
The Vulcan Statue.

'srhere has been much discussion and many suggestions as 10 a suitable site for Morettis creation, the Iron Man, called Vulcan" said Capt. J. Lawler Darby '"rhe statue was fashioned from the product of Red mountain and has served good purpose in advertising Bir- mingham.
 Vulcan has travelled, and has stood up and been gazed upon. He is known not only in this country, but across the seas. Tn most respects he deserves well of the community. but after all, has he not fin ished his work? He is certainly not suffi- ciently comedy to be erected in our most attractive park.
 People go to the park to enjoy the shade of the trees. to hear the birds sing. to look at the flowers and to the laughter of children. These things should be far removed from that which brings the thought of silver and gold We have in the park the Confederate monument and the statue of an eminent physician and surgeon. the one representing loyalty to a great cause. and the other a noble man engaged in a noble profession. These mon- uments are most fitting. If Vulcan Is to be pedestaled anywhere. why not stand him on Red mountain?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
Text Books in Rural Schools.

Man teachers-possibly all-are full of notions about text books, and very naturally they desire to have a voice in their selection. The book trust also naturally desires to monopolize the en- tire business. The honest teachers and the grasping book trusts have, in other words, singularly united to form a movement having for it's object re- peal of the uniform text book law.
 The Age Herald has no appeal to make to the book trust which desires to fill the schools of this state with its own books at it's own monopoly prices. But to the teachers of the state one word should be said. The Age-Herald desires them to consider, not so much their own favored city schools, as the little rural schools far removed from centers of culture, from railroads and newspapers, from even a rural free de- livery route Before the passage of the uniform text book law all sorts of odds and ends left over from past genera lions were in use in such schools, but nnv those schools have as good pQoAs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
ARTIST AND HIS MODELS.
Women Who Pose for Deeas Need Not
 Be Graceful or Beautiful.


 Marie Van Worst in Lippineott's.
 It was Degas who said to Boldini. after the famous portrait he painted of de Montesquieu, When you paint wo- man you dishonor her; when you paint man you degrade him. I admire you cordially" On seeing the pictures of several celebrated painters, who profess disdain for his work whilst their inspi- rations were most evidently taken from Degas, he cried. Look, they are flying with my wings
 When an artist interests him he takes a fancy to him at once and asks him to fetch his paintings to him for criticism, and these criticisms are given with a gentle modesty that is as charming as it is great.
 Degas treats his models in a curious fashion, as if they were simply instru- ments to his art. He has no need of an inspiration that comes from a person. ality, more or less remarkable-a crea- tion either masculine or feminine, which will give him the movement, the gesture for the position is all he requires. The woman who poses for him is a tool, as necessary to his art as the pencil or palette He does not insist that she shall be graceful or beautiful He de- mands that she shall be great physical resistance, for he entirely forgets that he has before him a human being. Some times he is at the mercy of the little opera or ballet girls, whose caprices and deeeptons keep him waiting, but they do not entirely miss their seances. When he is not at work on a subject of importance, he cannot replace the special model by any other, and he. re- quires for each position people of the particular calling that he Is painting-a dancer from the opera, a real dress maker or a real jockey. Ordinary models, such as serve the usual needs of the painter, arc; useful to Degas only for l studies of the nude. He asks some of the most difficult and fatiguing poses and lis quite without mercy. In his relation with his model he is. on the other hand, of a conduct and dignity beyond re- proaeh. He respects and esteems the sex, He has special cult for the work ing woman, for the milliner or dress maker. He appreciates her art and her 1 graceful skill. He has an intense indul- gence for her. mingled with sincere and human understanding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
Italians in the South.

Riderville is a lumber town or plant in Chiffon county, and some German immigrants were induced to settle there, aud they are dissatisfied with their work, or pay or surroundings. They are to be offered work elsewhere, where their skill as farmers or grape culturists would become available.
 Maplesville is also in Chiffon county, about ten miles from Rideryille. At the former place Superintendent Plant has twenty-five Italians and one Span iard, and they are getting on so we'll that MT. Plant believes they have solved the labor question in both lum- Der mill and railroad at that point. One of the band has become a track foreman; another has purchased one hundred acres of land, and others are preparing to do likewise.
 The Italians at Maplesville are entirely contented. The Italian nat urally takes to the southern climate. Over in Arkansas Alfred H. Stone put at work on his plantation in 1898 thirty y-eight Italian families. There were 200 working hands in the thirty eight families. Alongside of them on that plantation were 203 negro families that furnished 600 working hands. The Italians cultivated 1900 acres of cotton, and the negroes 26oe acres. "At the end of 1905,p says MT. Stone, "the Italians numbered 107 squads, with 500 working hands, while the negroes numbered only 3S squads, with 175 working hands, and the acreage culti- vated by the Italians had increased to 5000, while that cultivated by the ne. groes had decreased to 900 acres. Moreover, the Italians were raising an average of 403 pounds of lint per acre and 25S4 pounds per hand while the negroes were averaging 233 pounds per acre and 1174 pounds per hand
 Facts like these are convincing. The Italians could solve our labor problems and if a good start could be made in Italian farm employment our unim- proved lands would soon be in demand, and the production of cotton would keep step with the demands of the world. ss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18
JEFF DAVIS OF ARKANSAS.

From the Washington Post.
 arhe senator-elect from Arkansas owes his political success to his extraordinary hold on the common people, and especial- ly that element of the rural population which rejoiees in the name of hill-pli- lies l" said Mir T. A. Post of New Or leans at the Riggs house.
 .The country voters look on Jeff Davis as a prophet and as their inspired cham pion. Jeff has done his full part in deyel- oping that sentiment, and sleeker poli- tician than he is not to be found.
 "once when running for governor dur ing a tour of one of the most benghted counties he would answer all inquiries as to the health of himself and family by saving that he was tip-top, but that Mary had exerted herself a leeue too much bilin soap, because she couldn't rid her self of the idea that homemade soap was preferable to the bought article. This picture of industry and frugalty at the gubernatorial mansion aroused enthusi- asm for the candidate and his better half and made Jeff votes by the hundreds. That it was entirely the work of his magination. goes without saying.
 "Anotner time when campaigning against MT Rector, a fine man who thought it no sin to wear nice clothes Jeff told his farmer audience that his opponent was an aristoerat who. gave himself airs and wore silk stockings. Look at my socks. my countrymen,' said he, pulling up the leg of his trousers; {; they are the kind you wear, 10 cents pair; cotton socks are good enough for you and me This eloquent remark brought forth the approving yells, and JeSs popularity was nightly increased.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-18

as have the city schools. The state text book law did 1t. and if the book trust is permitted to repeal it the little rural school will relapse into its old ways. No new books will be pur- chased. and the pupils in a rural school will soon hold a medley of ill-assorted books.
 II is not right to tax the people of Alabama for new text books to be used by 100000 children, but the chief in jury would come to the poorly-con- ducted, weak, little rural schools. So long as the states strong hand is put out in the. matter of text books so long will such schools have reasonably good text books-books selected by a com. mission made of such men as Presi- dent Petersen and Superintendent Phillips
 The book trust is moving, and it will watch every legislative nomination. It naturally seeds to control the next legislature when the subject of a new book contract will come up. The friends of the little rural schools in back districts should be alert, for the book trust is alert, and the fight is coming on.