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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-22

Another baseball mogu of note appeared in the local arena yesterday in the per son of Jake Wells, owner of the Richmond franchise and manager of the Virginia league and the head of the Wells cir cult of Bijou theatres. For a number of years Mir Wells was a great ball player, being with Mobile, Atlanta. Macon and other cities in the old southern league. He says that the Virginia league is made up of good cities and that a prosperous year is looked forward to-
 With something like three weeks before the opening of the Southern league season the practice of transferring games has commenced. Yellow fever-stegomyia- auarantine-fall of 19O5- 5-Chattanooga- hcrrors.
 It is announced from New Orleans that all arrangements have been completed for all baseball games which were first scheduled to be played in Little Rock on April 23, 24 25 and 26 and in Shreveport on April 27 and 2S will be played in Peli- canville during the Confederate reunion.
 An exchange narrates the following con- corning the troubles between McGraw and Mike Donlin:
 In addition to his troubles about the weather McGraw has his hands full with the doings of Mike Donlin, the great cen ter fielder.
 When Donlin joined the Giants after his shooting scrape at Albany, McGraw gave him strict orders to abstain from looking with the eye of favor at fire wa ter and Donlin agreed to follow the rules laid down by his scrappy manager. Every thing went along we'll for few days, but one night McGraw went into the hotel cafe and noticed the center fielder hard at work at the bar.
 The next day. Donlin had fine of ten dollars charged against him, and in ad- dtion received a calling down from Mo Graw. This ruling did not strike Donlin very favoraby, and he made matters so obnoxious to McGraw that the latter sus- pended him indefinitely. Pressure was brought on McGraw to let up on Donlin, but he was adamant. He admitted that Donlin was great ball player, but at the same time, he let everybody know that
 
 he was the manager. and when he made a rule it was not to be broken. There were rumors then that Donlin would join the Altoona. Pa.. team but when his friends heard of it. they i'm pressed Donlan with the fact that it would practically mean his death in the baseball world and forced him to see his error. Then Donlin apologized to McGraw. This was a great victory for the little manager. as it will show every man on his team that when he issues an order 1t must be obeyed. McGraw showed he would sacrifice any star for the sake of ] discipline.
 The following is the schedule of exhibi- tion games for the balance of the week l in Dixie
 Thursday-New York Americans vs. Bir- mingham in Birmingham; New York Ma tions vs Nashville in Nashville; Boston Americans vs Macon in Macon; Detroit Americans vs. Charleston in Charleston.
 Friday-New York Nationals vs. Nash vile in Nashville; Boston Americans vs. Macon in Macon: Detroit Americans vs. Charleston in Charleston. Saturday-New York Americans vs. Bir- Xm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-22

Dallas, Tex.-The St. Louis Natlohai League Baseball club has sold Cascner William Hansen to the Montgomery cluo of inc Southern League. Hansen left for Montgomery tonight. He was with the Salt Lake club last year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-22
GOES TO ISLE OF PINES.

Today's game at 3 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-22

Thoms Substitutes ........ Zwald
 Dr. J. E. Deadman will act as referee ard E6 Warren as umpire. Tickets for the game are on sale at the Young Mems Christian association building, Mims B. Stones, the High school and by members of both teams
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15
THAT CELEBRATION.

Recently in Kansas there was a celebration in respect for the memory of the bloody-minded murderer, John Brown. We couldn't have much re- spect for any people who could feel proud of such a character as he was, or who would have the bad taste to do honor to his memory, but we thought if 1t pleased the Kansans to apotheosize such a being let them go 1t. Leslie's Weekly. however, which ought to have more respect for itself, thus refers to the performance,
 Sectional feeling having died out in this country. no offense is noW given anywhere when a tribute IS paid to John Browns memory. The rugged old champion of freedom may have acted at ties mistakenly, but mo- body denies him the virtues of sim cerity, honesty, fearlessness, and de- vetion to the cause he deemed right eous.
 When we read that we thought of expressing our opinion about it. but The Chattanooga Times does it SO much to our taste that we substitute it's comments. as follows:
 there ever was L iilOtC y pleaA C4 hibltion of the spirit of the sublilnated mob. defying the laws and the institu- tions of the country than that given by the crazy fanatic, John Brown: and his leaders, history hardly records it.. The murder and outrage of women and children by cruel an dinsensate brutes is a terrible test of mems regard for law, but we trust that no leader of even mob organized to lynch such a brute will !n after years come to be canonized, a monument ~et up to his glory and his fame with any kind same. however rugged" his virtues of sincerity, honesty. fearlessness. and devotion to the cause he deemed right eous." Leslie's says that Brown s ly leading up to the civil war-a hor- rible and shocking reminder of the dangers. the shedding of blood and the spreading of sorrow ana gloom that sometimes follow in the wake of the laWless mobt
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15
ROOSEVELT As AN ISSUE.

Secretary Taft and Secretary Bon- aparte both have recently declared that in the Congressional elections this year Roosevelt is the issue" This is putting 1t plainly and no doubt correctly. for Roosevelt is now at least the principal Issue, if not the sole one in his party and he and his official family are exploiting that is- sue in every way possible.
 There. are two reasons for this con- dition. both of them largely personal to the President. A large Republican vote this fall, and good majorities in the Republican or doubtful States wifi be an endorsement of his official acts and hts policies. and no public man than he. Endorsement and praise and approval and glorification--all these are exceedingly dear to the autocrat of the White House. A decided slump in the Republican vote would mean that he is discredited by his party and like dose of gall and wormwood to Teddy and 1t will not happen if he and his followers can help 1t.
 Then there is another and vital req son why he and his cabinet should be active and alert. Congressman are to be elected in all the States and Republican majority is both uesirable and necessary. True the election can not affect the present Congress which will hold another session with It's present membership. but the members elected in November will take their seat next March and if a majority of them are Democrats they will not only control the next House. but the fact of their election may have an important bearing on the coming Pres idential election. This Is why it is not only essential to control the doubt full districts, but to secure full vote in the sure Republican States as an endorsement of Roosevelt. Both he and his aides will be active until af- ter the fall elections are over.
 But there may be another phase of this issue. If Republican majorities in November are increased. or even If they are generally maintained. it will mean that the country is satisfied with Roosevelt, and it will mean that he is thoroughly satisfactory to the Re- publicans. That, again. will mean that they will look on him as the man to lead them in 1908. The fact that he has more than once declared that he will not again accept a nomination makes little difference. 1t will be very easy for his partisans to persuade and convince him that he is the only man who can lead his party to victory. We are of the opinion that such scruples as he has on the subject can be very aasfIv avareomA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15
TODAY M HISTORY

Name day-Nicetas. Sun rises at 5:5O; sets at 6:10. osoo,4 oF the great river, came in view of noun tains which came from the rivers side. and anchored, it is supposed, near the present site of a,tinn Catskiiri nnaer maha asa1le arrived at Quebec from France; Count Frontenac being Governor or CSnaoa;
 i776--The British under General Howe took possession of New York
 77--Washington left Philadeipnia ana crossed the Schuylkill with the re- mains of his army. deteTmined 70 gNe battle to Sir. William Howe wherever he could meet him. - a.o
 1S04--An American newspaper d'e- clared that it would be wisest to re- tain the Island of New Orleans and sell the rest of the Louisiana Purchase to Spain for what it would bring. tcan statesman, died. He was Minis fer to France In 1873. and in 1925 can didatee for the Presideaey; rssn neymes destroyed in an attack on Fort Bowyer. at Mobile Point and the other three snips @ con at- pel1ed to put to sea Ihe Lors wPritish and Indians on the lana sloe. n ane American garrison consisted of 13O men. of whom four were killed. and Tour wounded British loss. killed and 1923 Slavery abolished in Mexico by the President . A..
 lS62--Harper's Fery surren1ere1 se0 the Southern forces. who took l1'oVV prisoners and sixty cannon =
 I864--The Cook County, IL. BoaEa oL Supervisors offered a bounty or S1V 10 brokers for each man secured TOT ehiis'
 is6S-- Aband of Indians defeated on the banks of the Big Sandy. A terrible conffaeration ragged in the forests oL oregon and California, on ooth siueS of the Columbia River. ,.
 1g74--The White League army m New Orleans succeeded in dep9saing aa Governor Kellogg ana nrttM estaptlsneO ANi
 iSs4--A crusade by the Lake snore and Rock Island Railway companies m Chicago against car hippers resulteo III
 is03--The National Irrigation Con sress met at Ogden. Utah. ,-.,.-
 The Alaskan Boundary Commissloh hoga1 is regular sessions in London. (Service by American Fress-Ne"s' Washington, D. C-)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15
WAGES AND LIVING.

MT. Eugene Foss of Massachusetts, who has been studying statistics. re- gently made the statement that during the past ten years the cost of living in the United States has advanced about forty-two per cent, and he asi-s: Have the wages and salaries tncreas- ed in like propOrton?'' Thereupon Francis Curtis of Springfield, Maine, who is one of the srand-patters and the literary manager of the late Re publican campaign in Maine, thus makes reply to Mir F7ss's question: There is not a sober, intelligent. hon. est man. woman or child in the State of Massachusetts. or in the United States who will rot answer yes to that question"
 Such an assertion as that is what might be expected of Republican high tariff advocate and defender Take the entire list of clerks, federal, State hd municipal; take the cleri- cal and other employees In offices and stores. and compare their pay now with what it was ten years ago, and see how far Mir Curtis is from thc facts A salary then of sixty dollars a month should be about eighty-fve now; a salary of one hundred should be one hundred and fortytwo now, and so on. Is there an intelligent. properly informed person who does not know that no such advance > has been made? Tn the various industrial occupations there has been some ad vance in the wages of employees but as general thing the advance does not amount to one-haf of forty-two per cent. and MT Curtis knows it. or he is too ignorant to write on the subject
 The truth is that Mir Curtis had a hard task set him. He knows perfectly well that the high tariff is one of the principal causes of the increased cost of living, but to admit that fact would be to give his whole case away and cause him to lose favor with those in whose interest he was
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15
Downing the Ronnes.

Mr@tIe Register.
 This is the year that fate has fixed for the downfall of the bosses If the reader will review recent history he will not fail to observe that the bosses have begun to have hard time of it. There is more trouble to come. The fact is that the people have become tired of things as they are and want a change They are actually tired of too much prosperity and prosperity talk, and are willing to risk little for the pleasure of seeing the situltton altered It IS a kind of revolution which Is peaceful because it can oe ar- comrlished by peaceful means. If the people were not free to control affairs, they would resort in such times to vio- lence As il is, they are turning the rascals out" or the bosses-and boss is q rascal in their terminology.
 This is not curious. It has happened before. The very curious things is that the people who are so earnest in at tackiug boss rule are led by men who are either bosses already or have Hearst is the most striking example of this sort of thing. His Independence League platform Is a diatribe upon the evils of boss rule. The league appears born to set things aright Al the same time the man who does not how the knee to Hearst and acknowledge that he is the only peerless in those parts, is condemned A whole assembly of municipal ownership view, formerly for Hearst is engaged in denouneing the league for its arrogance. Never theless, the league goes it's way, build ing up the fortupes of a new boss upon the ruins of the fortunes of bosses that have been cast down.
 And the moral of this is that just when we have got all the old bosses under foot we shall find that the ne v bosses have us doing their bidding. We concluded that the bosses, like the poor, we shall have with us always.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15
sArURpAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1908.

One Joseph Bruner. writing in Field and Stream. has set his lance in rest against the whole cat family. He is a sportsman and looks at cats only from a sportsman's point of view, and ghys that "a single cat will often deprive him of his shooting in given locality for, if 1t has once found the location of a bevy of quail. grouse or other game birds, it will not stop un- til the last one of the family is killed. wifx predatory animals generally re- strict their raids to the hours consid- cred night; a domestic cat will prowl and kill at any hour during the twen- ty-four of a day. Some specimens att tack evea deer-fawus and other game of like size cat shrinks from noth- ing in it's lust for killing-not even from water"
 That is all very well, perhaps, if nobody but the bird shooters are to be considered, but we submit that they lack somewhat of being the whole thing in the scheme of fife. There are many people who love cats for their own sake. and there are others who like them for their servic- es in ridding houses of the trouble some rodents which sometimes are a genuine pest. So far as the birds are concerned it makes little difference whether they are killed by cats or the pot-hEnters; they are gone, anyhow, and that's the end of them. but most people will not agree that all the cats shall be destroyed because they kill birds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15
The strenuous Modern Life.

London Telegraph.
 In the days when eight hours for sleep was nominally regarded as an hour too long for any self respecting individual the exhausting character of modern life was unkn avn. There was less wealth and more cehtentnient, less competition and more security, fewer distractions, but more sin plicity. The modern nan is subject to as much mental and moral wear and tear in a day as his ancestors in no very re- mote generation experienced in week Yet in respect Of sleep we have hardly changed traditional habit. We keep later and stil1 later hours. We catch our trains in the morning as usual There is no doubt whatever that we burn the candle at both ends with unprecedented disregard of the laws of psychological economy ard that the amount of rest we allow for nerve and brain Is no longer aGequaF"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15
IudIon. Crowfnr In Numbers.

Louisville Courier-JournaL
 Sentimentalists alwGys picture the Indians as vanishing race, showed on toward the furthermast edge of the map by the ruthless Wb1'o man and shot down now and then WI e1 they do not obey with sufficient a!.;crity the or der to move on. But cold statistics show that .he.s a- .S+.eG0 Indians now living and th9f th're has been an increase of IA, Na1 IT the last de- cnde It is estimated h.: there were hut o3O 900 in what now the Uni ted states when this country was dis covered. These figures constitute a high tribute to the vago1 Of race that has not only survived the en- croachments of civilization, represent ed by some 90.Ooo,o00 whites. but in- creased and multiplied while defend- ing itself with inferior weapons against trained fighting men with mod ern arms.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15

And what has become of the Hon. Carson Whitson, he of Senatorial sue cession fame? The State Convention condemned his plan of filling the of ice of United States Senator, and when we read over the roll ot the new State Democratic Executive Com Inittee, his name was not to be found. The Hon. Carson Whitson evidently got lost in the shufflc-Selma Times.
 Mir whitson was chairman of the Committee on Permanent Organiza- tion, and order of business in the late Convention. When he made re- port from that committee, accompanied with a statement MT. White chaI- lenged the correctness of what he said. The matter was re-eommitted and by a two-thirds vote the com mattee sustained what MT Whitson had said. He did not get so lost in that shuf1e as to incorrectly state what was done in committee. He would have been on the committee if the delegates from his Congressional District could have had the selection,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15

chinery and duplicated ad nauseam In countless rows on rows. Go the length and breadth of the land and, find II you can modest neighborhoods betrayfng the least touch of real devotion on the part of architect or builder. The dry goods box with rigidly rectangular holes for doors and windows. the whole slightly enlarged. seems to have been, the model for all the homes of the poor --even for those persons commonly considered to be in comfortable cir cumstances. Of genuine artistis sym pathy there is none.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15
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London Globe.

London GIobe. - tba site of the ancient oratory or St. Gwithian, one of the many Irish saints who descended upon Cornwall in the fifth avd sixth centuries. In a waste of sand near the Godrevy lighthouse, which marks the eastern horn of St Ives Bay. lie what are regarded as the remains of the oldest Christian oulid- ing in England. The nave bulges with sand to the level of the plain. and through a grass-covered hillock over the demolished altar protrude a few rough stones. During e stormy night of 1928 the sand shifted and revealed the lines of a structure about forty eight feet long by twelve feet wide' with a priests doorway, small win dow. traces of stone benches and an altar of masonry now gone as the re- suit of the building being forthwith used as a cowsned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15

In view of what some say is 2 purely academic discussion of railroad ownership by State and Federal Gov srnment the following paragraph from the Alabama State Constitution will be found interesting;
 Section 93. The State shall not en- gage In works of internal improve fnent, nor lend money on its credit ln aid of such; nor shall the State be in terested in any private or corporate enterprises, or lend money to any m dividual, association or corporation.
 Under the terms of that constitution al prohibition Alabama could not own railroad lines In this State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15


 This seems to have been an unlucky season for aeronauts. The number of fatalities has been unusually great, but the i'll luck of some apparently has no deterrent effect on others, who continue to risk their lives for no good purpose. As The Kansas City Journal views the matter it is strange phase of human nature that men will delight to do desperately hazardous things before gaping throng. There is something of weird fascination about the psychology of the mob. Most men and women love applause and they are willing to do dangerous, ridiculous or grotesque acts, according to their temperamental fancy, if for reward they only hear the shouts and cheers and clapping of hands. Why will men continue to go up in balloons. risking their lives upon a small thread of chance that any one of many circumstances may break. The question is hard to answer. YeC the fact that the same dreadful end awaits nearly all aeronauts does nos appear to diminish the number who are constantly entering the business. The fatal witchery or chance beckons them on and there seems to be no dis couragement in the inevitable late that awaits them all"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15

at work That accounts for his game of hlur. and for his untruthfui sus- gestion. If he wants to be eithe' fair or accurate let him investigate hon. estly and ascertain how much ad- vance there has been in the pay of the great army of workers. male and fe- male and he will find that hls blun will not hold good.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15
Nct Proyocatiye of Harmony,

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 The Conner forces ruled the Demo vertiser aptly quoted they "ate 'em alive" Nobody will for one moment wa to take from Mir. Conner one bit of the fruits of his victory. But the principle that a successful candidate should dictate the next Executive Committee Is not calculated to pro- mote harmony or strengthen the rank and file of the Democratic party.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-15
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