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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION.
Some Arguments Offered Against MT
 keifer's Pending Bill.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The bill introduced in Congress by Rep resentative .<eifer of Omo. providing for the reduction of the representation of those southern states which have dis franchised negroes, probably owes it's ori- gin to a request" from some of Mir Keifer's constituents. Similar bills intro duced at former sessions have gone only to the pigeon holes of committees.
 The Keller bill provides that Alabama, Arkansas. Florida, Georgia. Louisiana, Mississippi. North Carolina, South Caro- lima, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia shall be deprived in the aggregate of thirty seven members of the House of Repre- sentatives. The seeming authority for this reduction of representation is to be found in the Fourteenth amendment to the Con- stituton:
 When the right to vote is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, be- ing twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged. except for participation in re- bellion or other crimes. the basis of repre- sentation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.'
 This is clear, emphatic, unmistakable. It is no answer to say that Massachusett it's and several other states with property, educational. or other qualifications at tached as conditions precedent to the ex- ercise of the franchise are equally liable to the enforcement of the constitutional provision. Those states might also be dis ciplined.
 There is. however. alater provision in the constitution in the Fifteenth amend ments
 "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or pre- vious condition of servitude.
 ''The Congress shall have power to en- force this article by appropriate legisla- tion'
 Does the Fifteenth amendment take the place of the Fourteenth amendment and nullfy it's representation provisions? It seems so. The earlier amendment says that if states deprive their citizens of the right to vote they may be punished by losing members of the house. The later amendment declares that states shall not deny or abridge the vote There are no conditions and no punishments provided except that Congress shall have power to enforce the amendment.
 How is this to be done? Apparently in one ,way only, and that is by sending troops into the southern states to take charge of the state governments by force of arms. Does anybody think that MT Keifer's bill is feasible legislation?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
Ancient Skating.

Roller skating in the south is over forty years old" said Capt ?. Sid Jones yesterday. T started the first skating rink south of Louisville about thirty eight years ago in Nashville, where l rented a theatre. renovated it and put in floor. The theatre was on the corner of Union and Cherry streets
 "We used the Plimptom patent roller skate with lignum vitae wheels. These were the first oscillating skates manufae- tured and it was just about this time that we first had fancy stunts on skates. We had regular professors and profes- sionals, who traveled from one rink to another giving exhibitions.
 MT. Barwise of Cincinnati was in con trol of the southern territory and sold rights to open rinks. We had to buy our skates from him.
 "I had d man in my employ named St. Clair, who was a noted skater on both ice and roller skates. The floor was controlled in those days by an indicator, which designated fancy skating. profess sional skating, serpentine skating, with a partner, and other desirable movements. We never allowed promiscuous skating and we always had band which played appropriate music for each. kind of skat- ing
 we also had clubs formed of the best people and we had masquerade skating carnivals fancy dress carniyals and oth- CT exclusive affairs when only invited guests were allowed in the building
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
Tornado Clouds.
Joseph.

The weather man of the New York Herald is considered wise in his spe- cialty, and when he discusses at long range the Meridian tornado he brings to bear upon it all known science. He says the tornado in question was fully developed and typical, and that it was travelling northeastward in the custom ary manner of such storms. It was, says the Herald, "an eddy in the cur rent prevailing in the southeast quad rant of a very extensive depression then covering most of the Mississippi valley It's central whirl was not over fifty rods in diameter.
 The Herald attributes the loss of life in Meridian to the late hour the toi' nado approached that city. Many did not see it coming in time to take refuge in cellars or to flee out of it's narrow path. Ordinarily such s.approach in daylight hours, and they are as a rule visible when several miles distant. "When this is the case" adds the Her aid, "a close observer may instantly detect it's line of motion and possibly elude the monster by a rapid flight, directed to the north or south of the storms path. as the circumstances may indicate. But under no circumstances should he turn to the east or or north east, as he would thus enter the zone of greatest peril
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Women would be crying nearly all ths
 time if it didn't make their noses
 red
 A girl calls it flirting when she th'
 man for giving her a seat in a
 car There is lot of fun in making believe you are having more [ are. After q woman has tried nj marry off her daughter she letting the girl herself try. You are not so particul having been told how muc| | like d piece of raw be around the edges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
Lent is wearing itself out.
INCIDENT OF MOSCOW REvoLuTi

Albert Edwards, in Harper's Weekly.
 It was impossible to go quietly about your business even in those parts of the city where there had been no disturb ances A dozen times day you were peremptorily ordered to stop, and had to submit to an offensive search by more or less drunken soldiers. This of course did not trouble the insurgents, as there were not enough soldiers to search at every street corner, and those who car ried arms found 1t possible. almost with out exception, to avoid tile patrols But if you were in hurry to get anywhere you were sure to be held up two or three times. l was searched twice in two min utes at the Iberian Gate, Another time was riding along the Lepntiefskaia with a friend. Our sleigh was stopped and we both had to get out "A young officer, having searched the sleignAI suppose for bombs-allowed my friend to get in again.
 He then turned to me and began-rather nervously to search me- By chance I had a large pipe in my pocket. and through my heavy overcoat it may have felt like a revolver. He cried out an order, and three soldiers with fixed bayonets rush. ed to protect him. My friend told me afterwards that l looked like the statue of Arnold von Winlxlerled gathering in the lances of the Austrians and making way for liberty. At the time she was thoroughly frightened as she thought l might have a revolver. 1 didn't have time to think about statues. l was wondering whether the soldiers were sober enough to search me first or whether they would, as often happened. shoot first and search afterwards 1 had to stand there hands up," while the officer unbuttoned my overcoat, and gingefly pulled out the pipe This incident 3had it's humor, but more often there was nothing to laugh at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
IOTEL LOBBIES
Financially Depressed.

n. custodian of the city hall am 1f the police court and a ma haps has held more different pos the city government than any rson, has many interesting stories to tell of the days when Bir- mingham was still in it's swaddlng clothes.
 'The Mayor and Aldermen Swanted 10 Nhitewash the old market house, which stood on that part of the property oe- cupied now by the fire department in the city halt and the treasury was de pleted." said Custodian Curran yesterday afternoon. 'Whether it was scheme of the entire. council I cannot tell but anyway the man who was then Mayor and 1t has been years ago. advertised for bids for the work. Several painters do- ing work by contract submitted bids, and the Mayor summoned the official having charge of the license department to aseer- tain if all had taken out the required license to do business In Birmingham. One poor fellow who offered to do the work for S60 had not secured a license and he was immediately arrested and fined in the Mayors court for doing busi- ness without d license. He could not pay his fine and was sent to jail. The next morning as his task he was assigned to whitewash the market house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Fdnstons and Leonard Woods-need not deceive anyone in this country, for Congress has not declared war against China. and Congress still has some control over such a matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

And physical beauty Is rare; We still have pipes and tobacco.
 So what in the deuce do we care? Louisville protests against the inference drawn from the recent action of her postmaster in mailing a copy of the city directory to a man who wanted a list of 'unsaved' in the town. Louisville, like the wronged girl in the play, insists that she is not as bad as she is painted DON'T DISCOUNT THE PRESENT. We talk about the early days,
 And pleasures that are past The good old times we used to have Which were too good to last. We say the stuff we eat today
 Is nothing like the food That graced the banquet board when we Were in a merry mood. No writer of today can write
 Like Dickens, Durns and Scott, No gallants are so bold today
 And in their loves so hot. No romance can compare with that Which everywhere was found, No statesmen nowadays are half
 So broad so deep, SO sound. The life today is not so gay
 As that we used to live, Nor are the people of today
 So free to take and give. With eyes upon the past we look Through panes of colored glass, For those were days, we oft opine, which these cannot surpass. And yet, while life in those old times Was rich and rather pleasant, Of modern joys there are a few. So don't discount the present. Five thousand people stormed a theatre in New York and ripped off doors in their eagerness to hear Mark Twain deliver 2 lecture. It was a striking evidence of the popularity of a man whose kindly humor has endeared him to the nation. The trouble about leading a double lfe. is that sooner or later somebody is going to draw the deadly parallel"
 EASTER REVERIES.
 By Phyllis, at this time of year,
 The fashion page Is read
 The Easter hat Is on her mind
 Twill soon be on her head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
Wants Government Powder Plant.

Washington, March 6-Representative Williams, the minority leader, introduced a bill today approprlatlng sI5o.0o0 for a government smokeless powder plant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

A IRMINGHAM theatregoers- have D1 again. had sthe pleasure of wit
 messing James O'Nenrs match less performance of Monte eristo. There is strange fascination inspired by the novel and the story in dramatized form. The adventures of Dantes are a com pound of those elements which appeal most to the human heart. The charm of the book lies in it's mystery. in the dag zling loap from prison to splendid wealth made by its hero and the never hagging interest created by man with won derful past. There is love and vengeance in the story but love is subsidiary to vengeance and a majority of critics will agree that neither the one nor the other is the storyis strongest claim to popular ity That part of Edmund Dantes' career which most attracts the reader and the playgoer is the fortune which he found on Monte t'risto. Riches the splendor of Parislan drawing rooms and title of mo- Pility fell to a man who was at first only a poor sailor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Nicholas Longworth brought Uncle Joe Cannon a cigar from Cuba eighteen inches long. If Uncle Joe is careful he can smoke it for the remainder of the session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
Drummers ak.

Birmingham is getting right along in every way" said Milton H. Andrews of Chicago, at the Morris last evening 'I am only an ordinary everyday travelling man. but l am in a position to tell whether on not a city town is grow ing, by the size of my orders Ordinarily spend only two or three days in Bir- mingham, but this trip 1 found it neces- sary to remain over week in order to meet and take orders from all my old customers and several new People must have footwear. just as they must have hats and clothing. certain amount of trade of that sort ways expected from any town. r folks begin paying hip' order to get a better
 nearly all of then
 the same thing.
 that money Is have discove mngham.
 lieve u they
 cry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
THE GARDEN OF PRosPERPlNE.

By AIgernon Charles Swinburne. Pale beyond porch and portal,
 Crowned with calm leaves. she stands Who gathers all things mortal
 With cold immortal hands; Her langiud lips are sweeter Than loves who fears to greet her | To men that mix and meet her
 From many climes and lands. She waits for each and other,
 She waits for all men born Forgets the earth her me
 The life of fruits O. And spring and Take wir~ Wher
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

The George Goulds now have seven children, the new little girl being No. '. Race suicide is not recognized in that plutocratic family
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
ALABAMA PRESS

Anniston Hot Blast: Secretary Taft ought to find it easy enough to dig the Panama canal with all the newspaper editors in the country giving him sugges- tions
 Gadsden Times-News: The story of regi- ments brigades and machine guns being used in an Ohio city to protect negroes from pob violence reads like the story of Russian revolution.
 Dothan Sftings; Senator Tillman is go- ing to South Carolina for few days Possibly he is after a supply of home grown pitchfolks to be used in defense of the rate bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

A day laborer in Iowa presented S50o0 to Drake university to help found a Carnegie library. No one is barred from philanthropy these days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Witness Cromwell is an even better forgetter than Witness Rogers. Both had much to forget.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Ex-Governor Hogg died with an un- satisfied ambition. He aspired to the United States Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

MT. Wu says China needs reform in spots, but he omits to say what Spring field. Ohio, needs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

General Grosvenor cannot prevent the administration from thrusting 8 foreign appointment on him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

When our biggest billionaire gets up against a process server the latter SC. cures a clear right of way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Tom Lawson says he can with one hand tied behind serve a subpoena on John D. Rockefeller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Senator Morgan seems to think Wit ness Cromwell is Sphinx enough with out going to Egypt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Japan is again demonstrating her sound common sense by going after the worlds commerce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
MANSFIELD SAYS THAT
 HE IS MISUNDERSTOOD

Special to the Chicago Record Herald. N EW YORK-Richard Mansfield VII at last has come out in the open and says that he is mis- understood man. Instead of being cold, hard-hearted self-centered cynic, with an unpleasant temper and disposition, this actor insists he is of a jovial nature, loves society and good fellowship, enjoys life and sunshine and all the pleasant things of the world. Circumstances have been such, mainly on account of MT. Mansfields S fervid devotion to his profess sion, that he has had no time to indulge his natural bent for good humor and the pleasantries of life MT. Mansfield, in dis eussing his purpose to quite the stage, ex- plained that he had been working at high tension for twenty-five years, and added;
 And what Is the result? It is that for a number of years l have been pretty generally misunderstood. l have been thought unapproachable and the possessor of a violent temper. In fact-and all my intimate friends know this to be true I am just the contrary. To be sure l am a bundle of nerves, and dlseorudht notes jar on me and prick me. Perhaps I am supersensitive in that respect. At any rate, it seems to have been the fash ion to exploit anything that seemed bad trait on my part or what would throw a slur upon me as man.
 Somehow the public appears to be more interested in learning of unpleasant things
 4I.z about people in public life than or the pleasant ones. At least, that .has been my experience, and I have felt 1t very keenly. You cannot imagine how all these reports-and I am happy to say in ninety nine cases out of hundred they have been fictitious-have affected and annoy ed me. | have suffered them in silence for the good reason that denia'
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

As things are going it will soon be difficult to say which is the democratic side of the Senate, and which the re- publican
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

The Longworths are now in Wash ington sorting out duplicates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

With hot summer coming on ice has been advanced 25 per cent ih northern cities, where they despise artificial ice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

poultry man thinks he has dfscoy- cred way to make hens lay coloreu eggs, but what's the use?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Speaker Cannon is the House and Senator Aldrich is the Senate. The two constitute one branch of the gov ernment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

the stage hand, why don't you go some where out of the way where you won't disturb me-?
 n went along to my dressing room, but as I did so I heard him mutter as he slipped away: The d--n crank; how in h-l did 1 know I was going to sneeze? suppose it is incidents of this kind that have given me this unfortunate reputation I have been saddled with. But I submit that it is annoying and upsetting in the midst of a fervid and impassioned love scene or some prayerful episode where your soul and heart are uplifted to the situation, with deathly stiffness all over the house, to have a stage hand blow hts nose.
 "It is when these misconceptions and Interruptions occur during a performance that feel them most keenly. have been seated in my dressing room while the dresser was making up my hands, adjust ing my wig or doing some work of that kind, from which my thoughts were far away, screwing myself up to the needed pitch in the coming scene, with my atten. tion rveted on the stars, my minds eye entranced with glorious and supernatural visions, my whole being far away from the confines of the makeup table and the world around me, when would come knock at the door, and bangl down would tumble my air castle and my house of dreams-and an actor would come in and ask to have his salary raisedi
 Years ago, when a young man, I had or, ba xrbao I Cfo aa11 travelled about the country I would be met with a delegation headed by the mayor, the board of aldermen and a brass band at each city. Nothing of ths kind ever happened to me
 met by a de'- a4 vol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Witness Cromwell has been set free subject 10 recall whenever Senator Morgan feels that he needs him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Mr. Rockefeller has time to think now there is one thing money cannot buy-MissOuri
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

The drydock Dewey is all right itself. It's riyets are, however, loose, and they are to be frightened at the Canaries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Theodore Roosevelt has three years lacking three days 10 serve before Wil- liam Jennings Bryan or some other good democrat moves into the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Bishop Andrews says that modern literature makes empty pews, yet some say that there is no literature nova days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

The McCurdys will find Andy Ham, ilton in Paris. where he is awaiting the subsistence of the agitation before he puts the finishing touches to his justly celebrated health.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

What trick, what device, what start Ing hole, canst thou now find out, to hide thee from this open and apparent shame?
 king Henry W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE TIMES

A man who was declared bankrupt and lost his wife wept for her and thep made his money back.
 SOLILOQUY OF A GERM. A little germ
 Was heard one day To air his woes
 And talk this way: ''Tn olden times
 lived at ease, Could walk out and
 No one displease. All undisturbed
 I spent my days In calm pursuits
 And pleasant ways. My life was sweet
 And free from care, lived in peace
 Went everywhere. But now, alas,
 The world is changed, From former joys
 I am estranged. The bold savants
 Are after me, Altho it's more
 Than l, can sec Why they should make
 My life a bore And chase me till
 I'm sick and sore. I cannot get
 A wink of sleep, l cannot rest
 Or even keep
 domicile,
 A place to go Where I can hide And lay me low I'm written up
 Tn magazines,
 Pm pictured Tn
 All kinds of scenes. I'm vilified
 And roundly cursed I'm routed where
 I once was nursed The people think
 I am a pest, I'm married north,
 South. east and west. You'd take me for
 A pirate, or
 A brigand with
 His louis dor. I dare not show
 My face at all Upon this fun
 Igated ball. Egad, I'm sick
 Of noise and strife This hot abuse
 And ragtime life" No. Maude, the young married man. whose domestic duties keep him at home most of the time. interviewed in the Age Herald yesterday morning, is not one of the new kind. It should have been woman" Another one on the typo. ONE OF THE FAMILY. No doubt you've often seen a man Beside a pretty girl Appear so bored and sullen that You thought him quite churl However, you should not remark, The scene is true to life. The girl may be his sister dear, Or probably his wife. great many people would not sub scribe money for public charities if there were no newspapers to publish the list A Birmingham trolley car ran into steam roller yesterday and wrecked it. A steam roller is one street vehicle that even the most oyerbearing automobile avoids PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

The Japanese are crowding through the open door in China.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Count Boni is all right for the vaude- vile stage yawns for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Kansas has dropped the fight against Standard Oil. Is Standard Oil whip ped? No.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

Birminghams new skyscraper will soon be doing it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

The bluffing at Algeeiras has nearly run it's course, and hands must soon be shown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

The negroes of Springfield, O., need a subway. reaching to Canada.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

The Czar is not an autocrat in his own cabinet, whatever he may be out of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07
x ENOUGH SAID.

While few of Us chaps have money And physical beauty is rare; We still have pipes and tobacco.
 So what in the deuce do we care?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

These days promote the fresh air cure
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-07

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