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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
IMMIGRANTS FOR THE SOUTH.

From the Boston Globe:
 If the south wants immigrants" says Commissioner Watchorn, "she will have to raise wages to the level prevailing in the north and west" This Is a very fair epitome of the industrial situation as it exists today in the southern states.
 The south is clamoring for immigrants, but no section of the country ever has required to clamor for immigrants, for as Commissioner Watchorn points out "S9S out of 4OO' of the immigrants know before they start for this country in what section they intend to settle.
 If any section suffers for want of im- migrants. or if. on the other hand. any section is visited with a plethora of im- migration. 1t Is because that in the one case the immigrant has made up his mind that a certain section is to be avoided and certain other section is to be chosen. and it will be found upon examination that the judgment of the immigrant is based primarily upon his information of the relative advantages for him of one section over anothsr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
THREE BASEBALL YARNS.
Girl Won Game for Pitcher--Foul Ball
 Brought Good Luck.
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press T saw girl help a well known Ameri- can league pitcher win a game last sea son." says Matty Mcintyre "The girl was fan of fans and occupied the same seat daily when the team was in town. And she knew the game from A to 2.
 "ln this particular game the score was 3-2 in favor of the visitors, who were in the field. It was the last inning and two men were out, and a man was on second when the manager sent up a big, husky substitute none of us had ever seen be- fore
 "The pitcher looked at the catcher and got the signal Pitch whatever you like. Just then a handkerchief ftttered in the stand back of the catcher, and the girl in an unconcerned way, drew her hand across her throat several times.
 "The pitcher was on in minute He pulled his cap down and wound a fast one around the substitutes neck. It was square over and the big fellow whaled away missing the ball foot. Two more in the same place and the game was over.
 Just as We walked to the bus heard the manager of the home team yell. You're a lucky boy. If you had pitched a low ball that fellow would have lifted 1t out of the lot"
 "One night after a game in Boston a young man. with his right hand in a sling came down to the hotel and asked for me- says Cupid" O'Leary. He bought the cigars and wanted to buy other things. You made me awfully happy today, old man. he said. I couldn t think of anything I had done, but let him rattle one.
 Remember that line foul you batted into the grand stand?' he asked.
 "I remembered.
 1" See that hand?' pointing to the dis abled member.
 q saw
 " Well, my boy, that foul was within about a foot of my girls nose when I managed to get my hand in the way. The girl hadn't hardly spoken to me for a. week, but you bet she did then and she did again tonlght."'
 Down in one of the bush leagues, where used to pitch before my name had appeared In the papers more than a half dozen times, big, road-shouldered ath- letic appearing fellow appeared one day ana asked to De allowed to play says Wild Bill'' Donovan.
 He was so big and so powerful we de- cided to give him chance.
 When he came to bat the pitcher shot the ball straight across.
 One strikel' yelled the umpire.
 Why is 1t one strike? asked the man.
 Because I said so Look out! There comes another
 Two strikesn the umpire howled.
 Here, explain this thing to me- the fellow said. Why do you say two strikes when I haven't struck at the ball at all 9
 Before the umpire could reply, up came another-a straight one-waist-high. MT Amateur let go with all his might and away went the ball-faster and faster, higher and higher, as it sailed away. Just as the ball was passing over the fence looked toward the plate, and there was that numbskull standing stock still
 Run" I shouted with all my might. for we needed the tally. 'Runl Don't you see the ball has gone over the fence?
 'Run?' he howled back. Not on your life. I've done nothing to run for I didn't mean to. lose the ball. but I've got the money to pay for it. How much is the damage?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
Fuel TestinQ Plant.

Congressman Underwood never lets an opportunity to serve his district go unutilized. He may get up against ob- stacles that cannot be overcome, as he did when he encountered the steel trust when he tried to bring to this district a government armor plant, but he was right In that instance, and the right is mighty and will prevail in the long run.
 In the meanwhile Mir. Underwood would be glad to see established here the fuel testing plant that has been conducted in park in St. Louis, but which Is no longer wanted there. It must be taken from St. Louis, and there is no reason why it should not be set up in Birmingham. which has ac- cess to all the coal districts of the country
 "The purpose of fuel testing plant" says Mir Underwood. lis to lessen the waste of the nations fuel supply by showing how this fuel can be mined and used more efficiently; to extend the nations supply of fuel and lessen the transportation cost in fuel by in- dicating how Ignite. peat and other mineral now little used may be made valuable as fuel in portions of the coun- try having no ordinary coal; to find how to prevent the spontaneous com bustion of coal stored on ships, naval stations and at the mines; to remedy the loss sustained in the production of nne coal in mining through slack; 10 demonstrate the saving of by-products now wasted in the manufacture of coke, which, if completely saved, would be worth at present prices more than fifty million dollars yearly. and prevent large imports of such by-products. In the coking of forty millions of tons of coal yearly there are now wasted am monum sulphate enough to fertilize all of our crops; creosote enough to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
OCCULLATION OF FAMOUS
 HERO OF BUNGTOWN, ARIZ.

From the Washington Post.
 | T was the leading saloon of Bung- \ town, Arlz.. that the great Bug W'um- ' mick got his fall-down. The owner and conductor of that institution of law and order was something Of a poet be- tween times, which Is why he called it Strawberry Grove" Bug had blown into the crossroads fifteen years before and had ever since been sedulously engaged in making a record for impusive and un- errlng homicide. He brought with him to Bungtown a tradition of the effect that early in life he had fallen out of high tree in North Carolina, while 'possum hunting, and had hurt his head. As general rule the injury didn't trouble him, but on occasion he became the vic- tim of sort of fury and at once was dangerous.
 They could always tell when the fit was coming on, for he had explained to his friends that at the sight of certain strange persons such as tourists with side whlskers. or gentlemen wearing silk hats, or obvious book agents and lec- turer, he lost his mind entirely. man of enormous physical strength and gigan- tic stature. he never took advantage of these purely accidental gifts. circum- stance which greatly endeared him to his Bungtown cronies. Moreover, he was the very soul of generosity and good fellow ship when in the company of home folks" All the same, he was dead shot with both hands. and during his fifteen had aht tIt al lished a title to respect as well as to affection In no single instance had 1t been shown that he killed In malice or that he had depleted the local population. His activities related wholly to visitors and tourists, and 1t had been proved that on every mortuary occasion he had given fair warning by rolling his eyes and splitting cotton with the utmost violence.
 On the fatal evening Bug Wummick was in Strawberry Grove, surrounded by his intimates and as amable as a well-fed kitten. He had been setting 'em up with frequency and freedom, and his resonant, contagious laughter made the cobwebs futter in every, corner of that palatial resort It was going as merry as mar riage bell when the swing doors parted to
 
 stranger with blinking eyes, bad cough, and a struggling whisker He went to table at the far end of the room, called for pint of red liquor, laid a long, pearl-handled A right down in front of him, and spat copiously on the floor When they brought him the stuff he sent word to Bug Wummick's table that he was very delicate and feeble man with chest trouble; that noise made him worse. and that if the crowd didn't moderate their hilarity he should feel 1t incumbent on him to begin shooting. He was a man of peace, he said. and was looking earnestly for the simple life; but he proposed to be quiet if he had to fight for it. This message caused Bug Wum- mick's eyes to wobble nightly. so that four of his friends took hold of him while the other went over to the strangers s table, with view of preventing blood shed. and explained. whereupon the hol- low-chested interloper said:
 You go back to that pot-bsilied chump
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
DEATH CHANGES IN BATTLE.

From the Scientific American
 In Homeric days a battle was con flict of armed mobs. The nearer you got to your assailant the better was your chance of killing or being killed The bigger the man the better were his chances in the strife. In these piping times of mechanical warfare the situation is reversed. Battles are fought at ranges of a mile or so. The smaller the man the less are his chances of being hit. An ingenious mathematician has figured out that perhaps the casualties on the Japanese side must have been consider ably less than those of the Russians in the recent war if it be assumed that the marlSmanship of each was equally good. The advantage of the Japanese was inversely as the cubes of their height and breadth. The average targets offered by each to the enemy are as the cubes of 1885 and 1642 or as 106 to 11s, an advan- tage in favor of the Japanese of about 12 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13

and tell him for me that what say goes. If he don't shut up and behave himself, I'll fill him full of holes. Something wrong with his head? Goes crazy every now and then? We'll l was clawed by cinnamon bear in 1889, and I must have been inoculated somehow. I've got hair on my back an inch long, and when I hear certain kind of noise I want to kill somebody. You tell your big friend what l say, and get him out of here within three minutes or I'll make him look like sieve You might also ask him if he remembers little Billy Matchin he used to know back home before chased him out of the county" He picked up his pearl-handled gun, killed a flying cockroach that had lighted on the wall and waited.
 That is where Bug Wummck got wise in minute and evacuated Strawberry Grove without saying a word. His for mer chums couldn't believe it; but next day they saw prairie schooner passing down the road with two led mules, and yellow dog under the wagon, and Bung- town is looking for another hero now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
Victory in Siaht.

Professor Haynes shows in recent book that nineteen states have in a formal and official manner made de- mand upon Congress Ito cal1 conven- tion" for the purposes of submitting a constitutional amendment permitting the popular election of United States Senators. The states that have acted are Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min nesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Ar kansas. Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, California, Oregon, Nevada. Colorado Montana, Washington, Idaho and Utah nineteen in all. When twelve more states join in the demand Congress has no discretion-it must call con vention.
 It is a strange thing that only Arkan-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
Weather Chances.

"rhis spring and summer has seemed cooler to me than I ever remember ex- periencing in Birmingham before," said one of the citizens who has lived here a number of years, but who does not class himself as an old citizen. The tempera- ture has been comparatively low all spring and we have not had many hot days. There has not been day which could be called scorcher, although we generally have many of them in Birmingham be- fore this time of the year.
 ''The weather yesterday and today was rather curious It was warm yesterday one of the hot days. but it was cool all today The rain seemed to cool the at mosphere wonderfully. and there was a brisk wind blowing all day.
 Birmingham has one advantage over most cities. It may be seorching hot dur ing the day but on the Highlands there is nearly always a good breeze especially at night"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
Home Coming Week.

"I read with much interest the editorial Alabamas Home-Coning Week in the Age-Herald yesterday" said J. A. Roun- tree.
 "It is a splendid and timely suggestion. It would certainly be an occasion of great joy and pleasure. Many Aabamians from distant states would be glad to come home to meet and greet their relatives and old acquaintances. The president Of the Alabama State Fair should pro mote this event and have 1t as one of the drawing cards for the fair in October. Invite Governor Patterson of Tennessee, Judge N. M. Somerville of New York, Secretary of Interior Hitch cock of Missouri and Senator Culberson of Texas, and other distinguished men from distant states to speak on that occasion Let us have a 'Home-Coming Week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
POEMS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW

By Poe
 At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapor, dewey, dim, Exhales from out of her golden rim, And, softly dripping, drop by drop, Upon the quiet mountain-top Steals drowsily and musically Into the universal valley. The rosemary mods upon the grave; The lily lolls upon the wave; Wrapping the fog about it's breast, The ruin moulders into rest; Looking like I<ethe, see. the lake A conscious slumber seems to take, And would not for the world, awake. All beauty sleeps! and loi where lies (Her easement open to the skies), Irene with her Destinies!
 The lady sleeps. Oh. may her sleep, Which Is enduring so be deep. Heaven have her In its sacred keepi This chamber changed for one more holy, This bed for one more melancholy, I pray to God that she may lie Forever with unopened eye,
 While the pale sheeted ghosts go by. My love. she sleeps. Oh. may her sleep As 1t is lasting, so be deep.
 Soft may the worms about her creep. Far in the forest, dim and old, For her may some tall vault unfold Some vault that oft hath flung its black And winged panels. futtering back, Triumphant, OCT the crested pals Of her grand family funerals,
 Some sepulchre. remote. alone.
 Against whose portals sine hath thrown In childhood. many an idle stone Some tomb from out whose sounding dooi She ne'er shall force an echo more. Thrilling to thing. poor child of sin. It was the dead who gneAned within.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
Pretty Big Farm.

Speaking of broad acres and sizable dis tances the following story was recently told of a western farm:
 'Yes, sir" said the Dakota man, as a crowd of agrculturists seated them selves around little table, ''yes, sir; we do things on rather a siZable scale. I've seen a man start out in the spring and blow furrow until fall Then he turned around and harvested back. We have some big farms up there, gentlemen. A friend of mine owned one on which he had to give a mortgage and the mortgage was due on one end before they could get it recorded on the other. You see 1t was laid off in countless
 There was a murmur of astonishment, and the Dakota man contnued
 q got letter from a man who lives in my orchard just before l left home, and it had been three weeks getting to the dwelling house, although it had tray eed day and night"
 Distances are pretty wide up there, ain't they?" inquired one.
 Reasonably, reasonably" replied the. Dakota man. And the worst of 1t is, it breaks up families Two years ago saw a whole family prostrated with grief. Women yelling, children bowling. and dogs barking. One of my men had his camp truck packed on seven four-mule teams and he was going around bidding everybody good-by."
 "Where was he going?" asked Gravesend man.
 He was agoing halfway across the farm to feed the pigs replied the Dakota man.
 And did he ever get back to his family again?"
 Ut isn't time for him yet" replied the Dakota man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
About Persons.

J. c. Jones of Huntsville was registered at the Birmingham hotel yesterday.
 R. H. Adams of New Decatur was reg istered at the Metropolitan hotel yester- day.
 J. II. Moore and wife were registered at the St. Nicholas hotel yesterday.
 C. L. Young of Fort Payne Is registered at the Morris hotel.
 George E. Bell of Washington, D. C., is registered at the St. Nicholas hotel.
 G. F. Pierce and F. J. Pierce and wife of Union Springs were registered at the Hotel Hllman yesterday.
 Albert Russell of Jasper is registered at the Hotel Hllman.
 George H. Dent, Jr., of Montgomery was among those registered at the Hotel Hillman yesterday
 A. K Merrill of Eufaula spent yester- day in Birmingham en route to Tusca- loosa, where he goes to take a summer course at the University of Alabama law school
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
Coal Operators Elect Officers,

Kansas City, June 12.-The Southwest ern Interstate Coal Operators associa- elected the following officers: President. w. c. Perry, Kansas City; vice president at large, William Busby, South McAllis- ter I. T.; vice president for Kansas, James Hamilton Wier, Kansas City; vice president for Arkansas and Indian Ter ritory. Carl Schiltz. Chicago: vice presi- dent for Missouri, R. c. Rambauer, kirks- vile. Mo.
 The association voted s1ooo to w. c. Perry for his services in settling the coal strike in the southwestern district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13

preserve our timber; pitch and tar enough to roof our houses"
 MT. Underwood proposes to urge an increase of the appropriation for such purposes, no matter where the plant is to be placed after it's removal from St. Louis. Birmingham should invite it's location and doubtless if it gives Mir. Underwood the needful support he. will yet land the plant in this district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
NOT THE HORSE FOR HIM.

From the Astoria Herald.
 Hans came in from his ranch, two miles this side of Olney, this week to buy horse.
 I've got the very thing you want" said Ike Bergman; tits a fine road horse. five years old, sound as quail, $l75 cash down. and he goes ten miles without stopping.
 Hans threw his hands skyward.
 Not for me-, he said, mot for me. I wouldn't gif you five cents for him. I live eight miles from Astoria, und I'd haf to walk back two miles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE TIMES

fl ONE people still cling to feather 'NA beds, but thank heaven, these
 " relics of other days are pass ing out of use" said travelling man. .I never will forget my first and only ex- perience with one of these unsanitary affairs in a little country town in Ten nessee I had never slept in a feather bed before. consequently it was with mingled feelings that laid myself down and sank with a gasp toward the bed slats felt as if about to suffocate and in a little while my body was like d furnace from heat, but in couse of time I managed to drop off into slumber land. Of all the dreams I ever had, that feather bed dream was the worst. It was a prize nightmare. For a while I thought I was floundering around in quicksand, then I found myself in a dismal swamp with the black water up to my neck and ooze clinging about my feet. The scene shifted and I was tossing about on the ocean, waves rolling high and threatening at every moment to snuff out my breath. About clock in the morning I awoke, cold with terror. reekng with perspira- ton and looking like an apparition AItho I must have houndGed around eonsid- erably while I slept, there was a trough in the bed nearly foot deep, showing the outlines of my body. I sat in chair and waited for daylight. That was my last experience with feather bed"
 It Is related that twenty-nine different kinds of champagne were served at the banquet of the National Liquor Dealers at Louisville. Wonder if anybody has walked up yet?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
ALABAMA PRESS

Gadsden Times-News: The Filipinos are rapidly catching on to the Philadel- phia and St. Louis style of elections
 Montgomery Advertiser: The denaturcd alcohol bill having become a law. the country will now watch to see if Q trust doesn't get hold of the business.
 Gadsden Journal: Don't ask us if it's hot enough unless you are fishing for left-handed compliments in the shape of bricks, egg bouquets or similar favors.
 Huntsville Mercury: new style rifle has been asked for by Prominent Huntsville lawyer The style lie wants is one that will kill a cat and bury it at the same time
 Mobile Herald: The lobby against the pure food bill has been too persuasive for many republican congressman to overcome. and the bill is hung up" in the interest of the beef trust and other purveyors of tainted stuff.
 Selma Times: There does not seem to be a great deal in the rumor about Gov ernor Oates running against General Morgan for the Senate. General Oates would do well to think twice before he undertakes that job, for he will never defeat him.
 Mobile Register: The New York Bryan ties awake to find that some of the old line democrats had originated a plan 10 give Mir Bryan big reception upon his return from abroad. and they now de- mand that these "sooners" take a back seat. There Is likely to be something of row before this matter is settled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13
DISTRESSING TALE.

DISTRESSING TALE. I took apartments for a month Down by the summer sea Where all the pleasures of the earth Were brought around to me. I had the swelest suite of rooms Right in the best hotel And when the racket started I Was feeling pretty well. I gave the walters five apiece At every meal l ate And fifty dollars to the chef Whose ideas were great The bellboys loved me for my wealth. The servants all avowed That I surpassed the billionaires And would enrich the crowd. At or 10 I breakfasted. Then rode out in my car, While puffing nonchalantly on A fifty cent cigar. At luncheon, dinner, supper. too, I had a sumptuous spread And late at night, brim full of wine, wandered off to bed. A round of pleasure, day by day, The maidens seemed to like The way I did-I softly said, ''Old boy, you've made a strike'' Such fun in chunks I never had. And never lived so high Oh. happy moments, how they fled! And how they make me sighl Of course I met certain girl Who stole my heart away I must have spent thousand bones Upon her every day She had tantalizing eye. A figure-it was grandl Full many times I ogled her While seated on the sand. She donned lovely bathing suit And sported in the spray. A mermaid of the modern age, creature blithe and gay. She called to me, Dive In the sea! The waters cool and deep!' I did and struck the sounding floor beds the place to sleep.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13

From the New York Press:
 Whtewashing regulations are terribly sloppy jobs.
 The only practical use for poetry is to quote 1t to girls.
 A woman always means what she meant to say and didn't
 It would seem mighty queer to have a rich relative who was fond of you.
 There is never enough money in reform ing to make up for how miserable you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13

All the democrats of the Senate com mittee on privileges and elections voted to bounce Reed Shoot, including General Pettus, but majority of the republicans of the committee voted to keep him in his seat in accordance with the bargain under which Utah goes republican.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13

Although two professors have re- signed from Syracuse university, they protest that their relations with the faculty, including Chancellor Day, are eminently pleasant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-13

MT. Bryan simply believes in govern ment of the people. by the people, for the people--that's all. He does not be- lieye in government by the trusts. for the trusts. Privilege is not in his dictionary.