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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
Tennessee's Senatorial Primary.

On the 18th day of May the Ten
nessee democrats will meet at each
polling place to decide, to use the
words of the Memphis Commercial
Appeal, whether Senator CarmaclI
shall succeed himself, or whether the
bald head of Bob Taylor shall CLEAN
where famed the Titian-tinted poll Of
Ned Carmack."
An attempt has been made to lug
into the contest the liquor issue, but
1t was so manifestly out of place that
not much impression was made by it,
There are no issues at stake, both
aspirants being democrats, standing
for all recognized principles and poll
cies. 1t is simply a choice of a per-
sonal nature. Those who admire and
Ike Carmack will vote for him, while
those who like the man with the fid-
die and the bow better will support
him. Personal grounds, not political
issues, will rule in Tennessee's first
direct state primary.
All whites can vote, and no one
need display registration papers or
poll tax receipts. Each aspirant is
permitted to have representative at
each polling place to challenge pro-
posed voters. The power to challenge
seems to be all the provision for con-
filming the voting to democrats. The
judges, clerks and receivers have been
appointed between the two aspirants,
and there seems to be a good chance
that a full vote will be polled in the
coming primary, and that the vote
will be counted as 1t is cast
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
University Commencement.

Invitations to the seventy-fifth ami
versary celebration of the opening of the
State university have been received,
said an alumnus From all Indications
the approaching commencement at the
University of Alabama, which will take
place from May q to May 30, will be one
of the most brilliant and most largely at
tended in the history of the institution
Alumni from all parts of this safe
and other states are making preparations
to be present. Accommodations are being
provided far In advance, circular letters
have been sent out to the friends and
alumni and a great gathering of univer-
sity men is anticipated. Tuscaloosa will
be well able to take care of the visitors,
as private homes will be thrown open.
THE social side of commencement also
promises to be of unusual brilliancy. A
large number of young women from va
rious parts of the state will attend, and
many elaborate affairs are being ar
ranged for their entertainment. The va
rious fraternity dances will be a feat
ure.
THE university exercises proper Will
be momentous as particular attention will
be paid to the progress achieved by the
institution during the seventy-fve years
of its existence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
Strengthening the Navy.

The naval appropriation bill now be-
fore the House calls for a round hun.
dred millions. This is a goodly sum,
even If 1t does look small alongside
Captain Hobson's figures.
But of the round sum named in the
pending bill only thirty millions are
to be devoted to an increase of the
navy. One first-class battleship is to
be built, to be presumably bigger than
the Dreadnought. Inc proposed shin
will no doubt have displacement of
$4,000 tons, or about 1000 tons more
than any ship the British navy pos
sesses. The big ship is to cost at the
outset six million dollars, and she will
doubtless cost when fully equipped
not far from ten millions. 1t Is nee
essary to overtop the British and all
the rest of mankind regardless of
cost.
Besides the big ship we are to have
three torpedo-boat destroyers to cost
$2,250, 900; and submarines to cost a
million more, and the batteries on
some of the older battleships are 20
be reconstructed.
The chief feature of the bill, how
ever, relates to the building of a ship
that. to use the words of Secretary
Bonaparte, shall be the largest and
strongest battleship that is known to
be afioat." Japan and Germany are
in the race for "the largest and
strongest" and the Dreadnought will
continue to compete for first place.
The Dreadnought is full of things that
the war between Japan and Russia
taught to British officers, and it is not
certain that she can be crowded out
of her present place. The prize can
not, however, be awarded in times of
peace, for the biggest and strongest
can make good in war only.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
Had any spring colds?
JUDGE WRIGHT.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Judge John " Wright, one Of the best
and truest of men, in an interview in
The Birmingham Age-Herald, referring
to members of the Confederate Congress,
says:
Former Senator James l.. Pugh, Judge
John Goode and myself are three in
Washington and | am sure there are
others In other parts of the country.
But you see we are all old men. now,
as it has been forty-five years since the
war began, and there have been many
changes since then.
Judge Wright represented Tennessee
district in Congress several years prior
to 1861 and is now one of the ablest and
most useful men of the law department
of the Department of the Interior at
Washington. He can do as much good
work and render as able decisions as
any of the younger men in the branch
of the government work, although he is
nearly so years old
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
TRIBUTE TO SIDNEY, LANIER.

From the Columbus Ledger
Harry Stillwell Edwards, the we'll
known Georgia writer makes the unique
suggestion that the most appropriate
tribute that the south could pay to Sidney
Lanier, who was one of Georgia's most
gifted writers. and sweetest singers, would
be to change the name of the flute
throated hooking bird and call it la
nier.
OF this unique suggestion the Atlanta
Georgian says it is zone which Is des-
tined to receive serious attention through
out the south. 1t would indeed be a
fitting tribute to the man who above
all others Games nearest to possessing the
varied gift of song. the delicate sweet
ness of this most marvellous of birds
There can be no possibility that in the
years to come any southern singer will
arise whose gifts. however great, will so
nearly correspond TO those of the mock
ing bird
The Birmingham Age-Herald agrees
that this tribute to Lanier is wholly with
in the power of the southern people.
and it suggests that IL "our schools would
adopt 1t and give it effect in their rooms
1t would soon come into general use The
Age-Herald commends the suggestion to
the schools of Alabama, saying they
need not hesitate at all in starting this
tribute to the poets memory"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

however, the reductions extended
t-.'n"ghout the state, the counties
named being exceptional.
The chief producing counties last
year were Montgomery, 55,445 bales;
Lowndes, 42,O02 bales; Dallas, 4O,533
bales; Pike, 96.737 bales; Bullock, 49,.
GA bales; Marengo, 99,O33 bales Per-
ry. $4,000, and Barbour 30.97s bales.
iae other counties in this state did
not reach the 30,O0O-bale line.
Few counties exceeded the record of
Montgomery county last year. Nc
Lehman Bell Hill and Ellis counties,
in Texas; Orangeburg in South Caro-
lima, and Greer In Oklahoma were the
only counties that exceeded last year
Montgomery's fine record.
Alabama last year had $500, 168
acres that grew cotton, thus showing
that nearly three acres are planted in
this state in order to produce a bale
of cotton. Georgia made a bale last
year on two acres, and North Caro-
lima did even better. The Old North
State grew 664,934 bales on 1,OS5,56S
acres. There seems to be no reason
why Alabama acres should produce
less cotton than those of North Car
DINA, and yet the figures run plainly
in favor of North Carolina agricul-
ture.
Early in June the government will
estimate the acreage of the present
year. AS a rule our farmers have
bought fertilizers freely and the be-
lief Is that they have added to their
cotton acreages, and the figures of
June will be awaited with interest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
The varying shore of the world.
Antony and Cleopatra
Work OF the Conference.

Beside the recommendations OF the
college of bishops, and of the Epworth
league board and of the Editors and
Publishers association, the general
conference is expected to consider the
memorials that come to 1t from forty
seven conferences in the states of the
church. Nearly every one of the for
ty-seven conferences desires legisla-
ton of one sort or another and the
general conference will have its hands
full If 1t hears and answers all memo
rails laid before it, and this is what
1t is expected to do.
For example the North Alabama
conference desires the general con-
ference to limit service as a presiding
elder to four years. Missouri desires
the appointment of district evangel-
lists. The Little Rock conference
would require pastors to report
changes of residence by members to
new pastors. Kentucky asks that there
be a uniform law In lay membership
in district conferences. North Mis-
sissippi thinks Vanderbilt university
should be brought under the control
of the church, while Mississippi wants
to know who are the trustees Of
church property. Memphis urges the
general conference to hand over to
the quarterly conferences the licens-
ing of preachers.
These examples are enough to show
how wide, varied and numerous are
tie demands of the forty-seven an
nual conferences. Many of the de-
mands, too, relate to discipline, but
none seem to relate to higher criti-
cism, or the new theology. The dele
gates have too much business to at
tend to to waste any time over specu-
lative theology. They will undoubted-
ly try to clear their calendar of press
ing business affairs before they stop
to consider questions that German
scholars have precipitated on a busy
world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
SAND MOUNTAIN.
from the Montgomery Register.

From the Montgomery Register.
Sand Mountain is one of the most pros
porous portions of Alabama today. Only
white people inhahit the mountains and
they have peace and plenty. They have
pretty homes, good water, pure air, good
schools, pure women. and men full of
energy and sterling honesty and integ-
rity and are making. by their energy
Sand Mountain the garden spot OF North
Alabama, as the wiregrass is the garden
spot of South Alabama. Both are in
habited almost exclusively by white peo-
pie. A recent visitor to Sand Mountain
says that 1t is no longer noted for its
wild cat stills but these things are
in the past and of the past. and there
has been a revolution of public sentiment
against them, against whisky drinking.
against all forms of sin and vice; and
nowhere has he found a more moral. up
right, honest, good people, than In the
hifs OF old Marshall and DeKalb and
the section through which said mountain
extends its rugged hills.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
CORRESPONDENT WRITES
OF THE DESOLATE CITY

pushed steadily forward. There is some
thing terrible in the sight Of these peo-
pie. as well as in the rocky wastes about
them.
at might be Karnak,'' says a friend.
coming up to us and looking far in the
distance.
mo, 1t is not Karnak," says my broth
er. ut is not Karnak nor any of the
Egyptian ruins. They were probably de-
stroyed by time. This is Pompeii. And
If we did not lose so many lives our peo-
pie suffered more. At Pelee the people
were mercifully killed in a few seconds,
while our people spent two days and
nights in the cemeteries, on the graves
of the dead while always the roaring
fire drew nearer"
But one is glad to be a Californian.
The pluck of the far west is still here.
The courage of the people is simply WON
derful. Their forbearance, their gener-
Gus sharing with each other, is one of the
marvels of modern times.
The conditions are almost overwhelm-
ing, but order is being evolved across the
bay. The big hospital tents are wonders
full There are great tents for the people
at Golden Gate park, at the Preside and
at the smaller parks. Food is assured
for the people, and shelter also, and it
remains for us to face the future with the
courage and fortitude characteristic OF
California.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

Special Oakland Cor. New York Times.
II HE majesty of the sight holds us
[" dumb. A great, awful desola-
ton lies on the wide wastes. A
profound stiffness rests upon them, but
in the stiffness is no peace. 1t is not
mournful-it is not pathetic-it is inde-
scribly awful; a great wilderness of Desc
lation.
On every sides of us, down every street,
is a mass of masonry. great facades of
GRANTEES, great stone boulders in hdeous
masses. Not a single human being Is
among them, not a sign of life in all the
wild wastes-a desolation which claimed
its own, indescribable in it's grandeur.
sits enthroned.
Our walk is full of fearful pictures In
all these ruins, deserted buildings is
not one trace to show what any of them
had been One cannot tell what business
was carried on or what relation this
structure had to the commercial inter-
ests of the world.
On they go in an unending stream, all
kinds of people, and the queer, weird,
uncanny thing of 1t all is their almost
absolute silence. The ordinary small
talk Of life is strangely out of place in
the midst of these splendid desolate
wastes. On and on they go, like so many
spectres an unending column of people
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
"HossoN FOR PRESIDENT"
L. q. Musgrove Comes From Alabama
With the Slogan.

From the New York World.
A boom for Richmond Pearson Hob
son for President was liberated yester-
day in this city by l.. B. Musgrove of
Alabama, who talked with Norman e.
Mack last week down in Alabama about
the Hobson boom and then came here to
see other politicians.
'Hobson is the greatest man in the
United States under 10 years of age" said
Mr.. Musgrove. He will be President some
dav Just as sure as he lives. l find all
agreed that Bryan will dominate the next
democratic convention. Bryan is still too
radical Hobsons drawing powers have
been shown to be greater than Bryan's.
Both lectured for the same booking
agency, and Hobson's receipts were %
per cent greater than Bryan's. 1t Is time
to nominate a southern man for President
and Hobson is the man."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
THE CHOIR INVISIBLE.
BY George Eliot.

by GeOIBe EuOt
Oh, may I join the choir invisible
OF those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence
live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude. in scorn
For miserable aims that end with self.
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night
like stars,
And with their mild persistence urge
mans search
To vaster issues.
So to live is heaven:
To make undying music in the world,
Breathing as beauteous order that con-
With growing sway the growing life Of
man.
So we inherit that sweet purity
For which we struggled. failed and agon-
With widening retrospect that bred de-
spair,
Rebeliious flesh that would not be SUBJ
A vicious parent shaming still its child.
Poor anxious penitence is quick dis
solved;
Its discords, quenched by meeting har-
monies.
Die in the large and charitable air:
And all our rarer. better. truer self,
That sobbed religiously in yearning song,
That watched to ease the burden OF the
world.
Laboriousiy tracing what must be,
And what may yet be better, saw within
A worthier image for the sanctuary.
And shaped 1t forth before the multitude
Divnely human, raising worship so
To higher reverence more mixed with
love
That better self shall live till human
time
O.. roll fSc tIe ox.1 H.
sky
Be gathered like a scroll within the tomb
Unread forever.
This life to come,
Which martyred men have made more
glorious
For us who strive to follow-may reach
That purest heaven. be to other souls
The cup of strength in some great agony,
EHkindle generous ardor. feed pure love,
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty.
Be the sweet presence of a good diffused,
And in diffusion ever more intense
So shall l Join the choir invisible
Whose music 10 the gladness oe IT,
unnriA-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
Crop Of 1905.

On the basis of 500-pound bales the
census bureau puts the crop grown
last year in this state at 1,260314
bales, as against 1,467,469 bales
grown in 1904, which stands as the
record crop of this state. The reduc-
ton was just about fourteen per cent
The reduction Is by no means uni
form, for Clay, DeKalb, Colbert, Ma
rion, Franklin, Lawrence, Randolph
and Montgomery made more cotton in
1905 than they did IN the previous
year. Coosa, Elmore, Jackson. Lau-
derdale AID Lee stood pat As q rule.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
Reduced Railroad Fare.

"The railroads in Alabama are selling
round trip tickets to Birmingham during
the Methodist general conference for one
and one-third fare and thousands of per-
sons will avail themselves of this oppor
tunity to visit this city," said prominent
Methodist.
1.-THE general conference U.s. as every one
knows, the largest Methodist organization
in the south. and every Methodist takes
deep interest in its proceedings
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press. >.
It's queer what awful small hats hts
people with swelled heads.
It's no use to deny that dimple tastes
the sweetest of all. h.t
1t makes a man pretty cross to have
his wife act as if he had a good temper.
The louder a man hollers about not be-
ing willing TO work for anybody but him.
self the smaller the salary he could earn
Maybe babies would learn to talk much
earlier than they do II they had real
language talked to them by the women
folk.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
How is a craftsman going to make a
haul at the Night and Day bank?

An observant preacher says that 1t
wouldn't be bad idea to sew up the
trousers pockets of some divines, so they
could not thrust their hands In their
pockets when they preach. The pocket
habit when once acquired is hard to
break and in the pulpit has a peculiar sig
nificance. A preacher who sermonizes
with his hands In his pockets is deemed a
trifle Informal If not radical. while no
orator could hope to achieve burst of
eloquence by adopting such a pose. How
ever, pockets must be great convenience
to young and diffdent preachers. They
are also a great relief when a man Is
stumped and can't think of anything else
to do but to ram both hands into his
pockets and swear.
A Missouri farmer snapped a young
wife and child with his hired man for a
matron of IL and six children. Wouldn't
he be easy in horse trade?
TWO POETS.
A bard who doled out many songs
OF peoples woes and worldly wrongs
Could find no one who wished to share
His heavy load OF grief and care.
But one who piped a merry lay
And said, Cheer up, there is way"
Was loved and honored far and wide
And when he ceased nation sighed
Maids who were not crowned May
queens are beginning to come out of the
sulks.
1t Is rumored that a square meal will
soon be at a premium in Zion City.
Dolorous tales are going the rounds anent
Dowie's woes. Impending ruin seems to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
Government Clerks.

AN official register, commonly known
as the Blue Book shows 25,4Sl people as
employed in various capacities in the de-
partment in Washington" said Wash
ington correspondent.
"The aggregate compensation of this
army of clerks Is a little In excess of
s27 100000 year The treasury depart
ment leads the list with $500 employees, and
the state department appears at the foot
with little bunch of only 100 The fig
ures vary slightly from year to year. but
the round total of $1,000 may be said to
represent washingtons army OF depart
ment clerks.
There has been considerable discussion
during the present session about the mat
ter of clerks of more than sixty-five years
of age 1t has been alleged that some of
the departments were unduly loaded up
with patriarchs whose days of usefulness
lay In their past An investigation was
ordered and partial report has been sub
mitted. From this It appears that about
per cent of the total are s. or more
years of age The procession Is headed by
a sprighty youth OF 81, with one of 80
close second. There are three of SO
years, four of IS years five of 81, six of
SO, twelve of 81 fourteen of ST. eighteen of
so, fifteen of 70, twenty-five of Is. twenty
three of II and forty-four of 76 There are
some 400 specimens of young manhood
and womanhood between the ages of 60
and 75
about one-quarter of the total number
of those who are 65 years and over are
reported as doing excellent work; nearly
one-half are quoted as doing good work,
and the remainder are rated as average.
fair or poor The longevity of these
officials would seem to indicate that in
his search for the foundation of perpetu-
al youth Senior Ponce de Leon struck the
American coast little too far SOUTH
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

The department of justice may pro-
pose an investigation of the rebate
advantages secured by the Standard
oil, but Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich will
put his foot on it in the hour of action.
That is what he is a senator for.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
WHERE THEY CAN GO.

From the Boston Globe.
They are still shutting Mr.. and Mrs.
James S. Metcalfe out of the New York
but they can go to any of the
New York churches-or even to the syna-
gogues.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

The Louisville Courier-Journal re-
fuses to endorse Hobson for the presi-
dency. Marse Henry says he is too
young.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

The Young woman who answered
yes" ten times by wire, when young
man asked for her hand, wasn't taking
any chances on the operator getting
the message wrong.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

Now more tAan ever will the people
of Birmingham cry out against the
habit of carrying concealed weapons.
So long as men disregard the law
against the pistol habit just SO long
will homlcides .e frequent in this COM
munity It is a serious business and
the law abiding public cannot become
aroused too soon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

No mention was made of Boni in
the labor riots in Paris on May day.
He may not have gone to work
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

Mr.. Carnegie says there are but Ave
great men in the world. He names
Sir Wilfred Laurier and Booker T..
Washington, but he refuses to expose
the other three to the gaze of vul-
gar world and the sneers of para
graDhers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

Stanford university people have an
opinion of earthquakes. They consid-
err them downright mean to creep up
on buildings just at daybreak.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

Washington is to go without whip
ping post, and is forced to accept
Barnes as its own postmaster and
bouncer
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

Governor Hook of Kansas Is a kisser
and he can besides cry as readily as
an actress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

Boston has sent San Francisco a
car load of baked beans, and Alabama
should send a car load of sugary sweet
potatoes that fairly ooze in the cook
ing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

F. Opper pictures the devil riding in
the subway as if his satanic majesty
had no better sense than to attempt
that sort of travel
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05

The anti-Osler employment agency
in Chicago will endeavor to counterfeit
the theory that man is useless after
he has passed As.