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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-01
0peninu the Warrior.

Another furnace plant is to be 10.
Gated near Tuscaloosa. The site has
already been selected 1t may not
have Red mountain close at hand,
but 1t will have an Open Warrior.
and to an Open Warrior ores and
even coal will soon be hauled
1t is not wise to blink or squirt over
or look around actual facts. The gov
eminent has spent millions in the
Warrior. It is fully committed to the
opening of that river until 1t has
slackwater navigation the year round
-six-foot navigation, unyeXed by ice
or other natural distractions. The
Ohio cannot have a channel that is
good the year round. 1t cannot have
an open channel at all from Novem-
Der to April The Warrior will on the
ptner hand be open twelve months In
the year. and its best period will be
from November to April.
1t is not Gadsden on the unopened
Coosa that threatens our supremacy,
but it is Tuscaloosa on a river that
will very soon be open all the year.
Hnis Is why another mammoth fur
nace," with a rolling attachment is
to be built at Tuscaloosa. But every
year will extend the Open Warrior,
and after while that noble arm of
the sea will be completed to Birming-
ham, for Village creek can be canal
lied, and ex-Mayor VanHoose stands
ready to show how and why it should
be done. Uncle Sam will not turn
back. River Improvements, like rev
olutions, never go backward.
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Good Church CItv.

Birmingham ranks high as a church,
going city, said the Rev. DR.. J. A.
Duncan, pastor of the First Methodist
church, yesterday. "A much larger per-
eentage of the population of Birmingham
attends church than in most other cities
In the country, and that is the result of
two conditions.
For one thing there is a very large
boarding house population In Birming-
ham, and therefore many of the people
have no home ties which prevent their at
tending church There is nothing at the
house where they live to keep them at
home, and they come to church on sun
day in preference to staying at their
boarding places.
Another condition which has its effect
on the church attendance Is the small
number of places of amusement for peo-
pie on Sunday. So far as i know there
Is no place of amusement in Birmine-
ham on Sunday except East Lake. and
a great many people do not care to go
there. They do not like to stay at home,
and the result is that they come to
church. As a rule the attendance at the
churches on the Northside is very much
larger than at the Southside churches"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-01
Good Looking Women.

Il believe that Birmingham has a larger
per cent of good looking women than any
city In the south" said a travelling man
at the Hotel Hillman last night "The
number is increasing more rapidly here
than in any other city that l go to on my
semi-annual trips through the south.
Several years ago there were compare
lively few good looking women in Biz
mingham, and the few were so noticeable
that l knew all of them by sight. Now
the conditions have changed. There Is a
large number of women who are both
stylish looking and good looking, and
find that recognize only a very few
OF the faces | see on the streets. This is
the result of several causes, l should
Judge One thing is that the young girls
of several years ago have married and
live here, and the still younger set has
just grown up and this Is a remark
ably pretty set of girls. Another thing
that has It's effect is the fact that the
young girls are dressing much more sty-
lishly than the older set did. The fathers
have more money than they had a few
years ago. Again there are many striking
looking girls who come here when their
parents move to the city. l know of a
dozen or more who have moved here in
the last year. Then the young men have
married the prettiest girls from other
cities and brought them to Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-01
New Theatre.

The Majestic theatre. owned by Judge
B. M. Allen, is now complete. and this
week will be turned over to the lessees,
the Interstate Amusement company. As
the season for summer attractions Is al
ready well advanced 1t is doubtful
whether the theatre will be opened be-
fore fall There have been booked, it is
said, no end of high-class vaudeville
shows for the coming year. Judge Allen
said:
THE house has seating capacity of
1900. In this respect. as well as In point
of interior decorations, It compares favor
ably with the most popular New York
play houses-Wallacks the Herald
Square, and even the Kniexerbocker or
the Empire. The color scheme is similar
to that Of the Hippodrome, the prevailing
tones being red, green and gold with
ivory cornices and beams. Like most
modern theatres, the effect is somewhat
oriental, restful to the eye and pleasing
to the artistic TASTE
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Federal Meat Inspection.

The President holds reports from
two special investigators concerning
the wretched conditions in the Chicago
packing houses, and he refuses to
make them public. Some correspond
ents say the reports are so disgust
ing that publicity thereof would nause-
ate the country. But spell of nausea
would be more wholesome than a con-
tinuance of dirty and unsound meat
products. The meat trust has prac-
tically monopolized the meat trade Of
the country, and surely consumers
have a riglt to know what products
are being dealt out to them by a mo-
nopoly. The President has not, in
other words, moral right to withhold
the reports of the special inyestiga-
tors from the consuming public.
The demand for better meat prod
ucts has caused the insertion in the
pending agricultural appropriation bill
of the Beverage amendment. The
bill hangs fire in the House, after
passing the Senate, and the packers
are making the fight of their lives in
tne House. The point at issue relates
to the cost of inspection in the $50
packing houses of the country. The
packers are endeavoring to put the
cost of inspection upon the govern
ment. because they think the PROPOSE
tion would serve them in their attempt
10 kill the Beveredge amendment.
In this connection the nature of the
Beveredge amendment becomes inter-
esting. It provides for rigid post-mor-
tenn inspection of all cattle. swine,
sheep and goats killed for human CON
sumption in any state, territory or any
place under the jurisdiction of the
united States. according to the rules
of the agricultural department All
meats found healthful shall be tagged.
and all meats found unhealthful shall
be destroyed.
1t provides for reinspection when in
spectors think any meat product has
become spoiled and for destroying it,
even if it has been passed once.
All slaughterers and packers and all
others engaged in preparation of meat
products must admit inspectors to all
parts of their establishments.
All canning, rendering, sailing and
packing products are included, and
any products treated with dyes or DEL
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OVER THE HILLS.

BY Eugene Field
over the hills and far away
A little boy steals from his mornings
play,
And under the poisoning apple tree
He lies and he dreams of the things to
be-
OF battles fought and of victories won.
OF wrongs o erthown and of great deeds
OF the valor that he shall prove some
day,
Over the hills and far away
over the hills and far away.
over the hills and far away,
It's o for the toll of the livelong day!
But it matters not to the soul afame
With "a love for riches and power and
fame!
On. O man, while the sun is high
on to the certain joys that lie
Yonder where blazeth the noon of day!
over the hills and far away
over the hills and far away.
over the hills and far away.
An old man fingers at close of day;
Now that his journey is almost done,
His battles fought and his victories WON
The old-time honesty and truth,
The trustfulness and the friends OF
youth,
Home and mother-where are theys
Over the hills and far away?
Over tho hills and far awayl
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DISCUSSION ANENT THE
PROPER TINE TO MARRY

of evenings and darn stockings while he
reads aloud from some improving book.
She will not be content to regard a
quiet rubber of whist with the next door
neighbors as a giddy and delightful break
in the monotony of a month.
Nor will she recognize the existence Of
such an institution as washing day
while there is steam laundry within
hailng distance of the family copper.
She will not be content to wear dress
which has been turned so many times in
color and substance that all the neigh
bors date their children's ages by It, And
she will expect to squeeze new hat
and matinee or two out of every weeks
housekeeping
And the young man of today, being far
older and wiser than he has any bust
ness to be, knows all these things, and
lodges matrimony gently, but firmly, just
as long as he can so that it often hap
pens that, before he knows where he Is.
he slides past the susceptible age, and
settles down into a steadygoing, club
hunting bachelor, wasting his time on
billiards and bridge.
And from the ladies' point OF view a
husband caught young, before his habits
are fixed. takes but 1.-THE of the break
ing in which the 3o-year-old bachelor re-
quires, AS for the man of fve-and-thirty.
he is best left alone from the matrimonial
point of view.
If he has baby he will regard 1t with
a mixture of awe and resentment. meet
ing it as he would meet new and doubt
full member of his pet club, and holding
it about as happily and as handily as he
would hold a. live shell, for the art of
nursing babies Is only learned. like riding
horseback, by being broken to it when
young.
Wherefore. taking all things into con-
sideration, let us marry before we have
reached the sensible age, so that we may
grow sensible together.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-01
Car Service.

"lf the people of Birmingham who go
to the ball park would not be so impa-
tient to get to the city after the game
they would all get seats and none would
have to stand on the running boards of
the cars" said George II Harris, super
intendent of the street railway depart
ment of the Birmingham aRilway. Light
and Power company.
1--WE have studied the proposition and
arranged so that everyone may have a
seat if they would only be patient min
ute or two. We always have an ample
number of streets cars waiting at the
ball park after the game to give everyone
a seat, but instead of waiting everyone
seems to try to get on the first car that
comes along. The result is that the last
two or three cars that leave the grounds
are freqently empty, while the first few
are overloaded.
"There are twelve special cars on the
baseball line, and each makes three or
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-01
POSED AS FRENCH NoBLEMAN.
Tennessee Politicians Knew Him as a
Negro and Elected Him.

Knoxville Special to the Cincinnati En-
quirer.'
Occupants of the Westinghouse
nooga Pullman witnessed a turbulent
scene this evening at Morrstown, when
a negro. posing as Frenchman of no.
bility, was elected from the car.
The negro, as he was proved and adj
mltted to be, purchased ticket in Wash
irgton for Tuscumbia. At Newport
Tenn, viii McSweeney a lawyer of that
place, with Ed Minis, a prominent citizen,
entered the Pullman. The negro was
seated beside a white lady and they were
eating supper They were engaged in
conversation in German and the negro
pretended he could not speak English The
men ordered him out of the car, but he
protested In a jabber.
The lady became much excited but he
insisted to her in German, which she
spoke fluently, that he was what he
claimed to be.
The Tennesseans who were delegates on
their way to the gubernatorial conven-
ton, picked the negro up and elected him
bodily from the car and would have
thrown him from the train but for the in
reference of the Pullman conductor ana
trainmen. They made him go to the
negro ear and remain there. He will sue
the Southern railway and Pullman COM
pany for damages.
His ticket, purchased in Washington,
was under the Interstate commerce law.
He admitted that he is colored and that
he is Reverdy c. Ransom OF Boston. lie
is highly educated
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All establishments must be main
tanned in a sanitary manner, according
TO rules and regulations prescribed by
the secretary of agriculture.
No animal shall be allowed to enter
any killing or packing establishments
unless they have been inspected and
passed, and none but healthful animals
shall be used
After January 1, 1907, no railroad
or any other common carrier can trans
port any meat product not inspected
or passed, and no ship with such arti-
cles on board snail be given clear
Gnce papers, nor can any common car
rier transport any meat product that
is rot prepared IN an esta' lishment
where specified sanitary conditions do
not prevail.
All canned, ported or eanvased meat
products shall be labeled as inspected
and passed, and shall not be offered
for sale until so labeled.
Severe penalties are provided for
forging labels.
Inspection shall be made during
both night and day, but there shall be
no slaughtering in the night time ex-
cept in cases of emergency.
Fees for inspection are fixed.
Packers and dealers in meat prod
ucts are forbidden to offer for sale
any fresh-salted, canned or otherwise
packed meat products that have not
been properly inspected and passed.
Penalties are provided for attempts
to bride inspectors.
Animals slaughtered by farmers on
farms are exempt.
But apart from the Beyeridge
amendment, valuable as it it, are the
reports presented by Commissioner
Neill and James B. Reynolds, the two
special investigators, and the Presi-
dent has no right to withhold them
from the people. Congress should act
in this matter of the Withholding of
information from the people.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-01
Maps of the District.

1.-THE Kelley Engraving company's new
maps of the Birmingham district and the
Birmingham mineral district are the most
complete that l have SEEM said a large
operator. 1.-The Birmingham district
proper, according to the Kelley company,
comprises most of Jefferson county and
extends from East Lake to Bessemer.
The new map locates every industry in
the county and every important building
in Birmingham.
According to the same authority the
greater Birmingham district. known as
the Birmingham mineral district, includes
everything within a radius of seventy
five miles. and includes, of course, Gads-
den and Admission. In the commercial
and financial world outside of the state
the Birmingham district means all of
mineral Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-01
Army OF DISTINGUISHED.

In the census year there we're in
this state 224,212 native white males
of voting age, and S0S2 of foreign birth
"a total of 232,294. The increase
since 1900 has been at least 10 per
cent, thus carrying the number of
whites in this state of voting age TO
255,000. The number of polls paid this
year is $4,000. This leaves 1900
whites of voting age in this state to be
divided into two classes-those who
are over forty-fiye years of age and
the army of the disfranchised. 1t is
impossible 10 say what proportion be-
longs to either class. The census
bureau and its college professors have
prepared great many tables. but they
prepared none showing how many
whites in Alabama are over forty-fve
years of age. They have the facts in
the census office, but none of their
numerous bulletins draw the line at
the age of forty-fye on race divisions.
But whether we have 100000 dis
franchised whites or a few thousand
under that round number, we will soon
hive that number, and then the ques-
ton will certainly be up to the legis-
lature. What are you going to do
about it? Are you willing to let the
state go on accommodating DISTINGUISHED
whites? Is this good policy? Is the
cumulative feature of the poll tax
wise or bit needful?
These questions cannot be evaded.
They are before the people of Ala
bGma today, and they will stay there
until they are answered In the mean
while the DISTINGUISHED whites of vot-
ing age. 100000 strong, will go on in
creasing until they outnumber the
whites who can vote.
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healthy scaDegoafs, and stoessel and
Nebogatoff are not the right men.
General Nogi says General stoessel
did well, and he would have done bet
ter If he had been supported heartily
by the officers and men of his com
mand. Nebogatoff says likewise. The
revolt in his ships was indeed ex-
IRENE. Both did all that could be
done with disaffected men ripe for
revolution against rottenness and ty.
ranny.
The Russian military and naval
courts naturally decline to take into
consideration the desperate fighting of
the devoted patriotic Japanese. Todle-
ben had no such adyersaries to CON
tend with at sebastopol. If he had
had he would not have come out as
well as he did, and in the long run he
too surrendered
But discussion of the differences
between the japanese and the allies
at Sebastopol is a waste of time and
space General Nogi acted in noble
manner when he spoke in favor of
General Stoessel, and If the bureau
Gratis cause the latter to be found
guilty they will disgrace no one but
themselves.
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two=minute service. After the game they
are all eongregafed at the grounds. An
inspector gets an accurate number Of
people hauled on each car from the con-
ductors trip sheets and figures out the
attendance He then orders as many cars
as will be necessary TO handle the crowd
on one trip down to town. We estimate
fifty people to a car, and that gives every
one a seat If there are 200 people at the
game we provide about forty cars. If
there are 1000 we provide twenty cars.
IF the people would only wait and
catch some of the later cars all would
get a seat and it would be far more con-
yenient for them and for US also. It is
never more than five minutes between the
first of the string and the last Of the
string of special ears, and a person gains
nothing by crowding on the running
board of the first few cars to leave.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-01
THE NEGRO AND THE SOUTH.

Harry Stillwell Edwards in the Century
Thirty years ago, when | was a boy
in Georgia's central city, one part of the
suburbs given over to negroes contained
an aggregation of unfurnlshed, ill-kept
rented cabins, the occupants untidy and
for the most part shiftless. Re
Gently in company with a friend who was
interested in a family residing in the
same community I visited it. I found
many families occupying their own
homes, flowers growing in the yards and
on the porches, curtains at the windows
and an air of homely serenity overflow
ing the entire district.
In conversation with the people of the
house and neighborhood we heard good
ideas expressed in excellent language,
and discovered that every one with whom
we came in contact was possessed of suf-
ficient education to read and write, while
many were much further advanced.
Just one generation lies between the
two conditions set FORTH and the change
may be said to indicate the urban ne
gros mental and material progress
throughout the whole south. OF those of
us who see only gloom ahead for the
negro the question may be fairly asked,
Where else In the world is there peo-
pie developing SO rapidly?
There is no threat to the south in the
negro's presence there. For at last the
only negro who threatens our civilization
Is the criminal negro. and the only white
man who threatens the negro is the erimi-
nal white man. and our whole system Is
a failure If this question may not be
left where Georgia has placed it. in the
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Mrs. Amelia c. eornas.

Mrs. Amelia c. Gorgas. for twenty
five years librarian and hospital matron
of the University of Alabama, was ac-
corded unusual honors by commencement
visitors, students and alumni" said a
Tuscaloosa man.
Mrs. Gorgas is widely known and
loved, and many beautiful tributes of af-
lection were paid her by commencement
orators. Although quite old now and no
longer able to have active charge of the
library. Mrs Gorgas is still serene and
cheerful. She was the wife of one of the
university's most revered presidents,
General Gorgas"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-01


(0 question, but here is one which
has as many facets as a rose
diamond
Wise folks tell us that we should post
none matrimony till we arrive at what
they vaguely call a sensible age" Yet
when man Of fifty or so, after long
years of waiting on the brink ventures
into the troubled sea of matrimony, you
will hear the self-same wise folks de-
claring that there is no fool like an old
fool.
judging by observation. which, after
all. is less misleading than statistics,
Young men Of the middle and upper
classes do not tumble headlong into mat
rimony nowadays in the same cheerful,
happy-go-lucky way they used to fifty
years ago.
1t seems to take the young man OF
today ten years longer to screw up his
courage to take the plunge that it took
his father. who married at twenty-five,
and was the father of a fine family OF
seven by the time he was thirty-two.
But then, as you will find by refer
ring to the family photograph album
the young men and young ladies or to-
day are very different persons from their
fathers and mothers.
Father. whom you will find in the al
bum. brave in mutton-chop whiskers
and peg-top trousers, with a stovepipe
hat on the photographers carved oak
table beside him. and the corner of an
Italian palace behind him, did not ex-
pect to spend every week end at the
seaside and two nights of every week
at the theater. He knew golf as game
which a few eccentric gentlemen In red
coats played and he made that suit of
clothes in which you see him photo
eraphed, last four years by dint of care
full brushing. folding and pressing every
time he wore them
He took fortnight's holiday once
year, great and solemn pilgrimmage'
prepared for weeks beforehand, and a
far greater undertaking than is the mod
ern scamper to Colomobo or Cairo in these
degenerate days.
AS for the theater father was content
to go once a quarter, and of the acting
on these memorable nights he would talk
Tor the rest Oh llo ycei ASi NAAS -oSs
of his life.
And above all, father was not above
pushing round his last set of twins in
a double perambulator while mother
STAYED at home and cooked the dinner
a family Joint of roast beef, with the
POTATOES cooked with the meat, and a
suet pudding as light and as big as a
pillow to keep the sharp edge of the
family appetite off the beef till the prop
err time came.
II was the correct thing to be a family
man in those days. and every housewife
was a past mistress in household econ
omy, making a dollar travel as far
through a ffteen-roomed house as a
81 note will nowadays travel through a
six-room nat So people could afford to
marry young in those days of the world
But in these degenerate times things
are sadly altered, and the youth who
would marry at two-and-twenty must
either have an independent income, or a
sublime belief in himself and his bride
elect.
She must be ready to forego most OF
tho Measures and recreations which
nonuiar habit has converted almost into
Necessities. and he will discover that the
Young wife of the present day expect:
much more and performs much less thar
ala her mother Of thirty years ago.
She will not be content to sit at home