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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
German immigration.

"A number of German colonies have
been flourishing in Alabama for many
years. but we should make strong efforts
to induce more Germans to come to this
state" said f. Lesser.
THE book that is being prepared by the
German immigration Society of Alabama
Is to be distributed free in the father
land 1t will contain interesting and ac-
curate data about Alabama and will re-
produce letters from farmers who came
from Germany to this country years ago.
The book is to be handsomely printed
and bound. 1t will cost nearly 5000, but
Notwithstanding the large expense not
line of advertising will be allowed.
In Isolated cases German immigrants
have settled on farms in the south and
left because they were badly treated. The
German is easy to get along with and
all he wants is comfortable shelter ana
plain food. Alabamas waste places need
filling up and no better or more desirable
class can be named than the sturdy Ger
mans of agricultural experience
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
The Pistol Peril.

Drastic measures and a firm hand
to enforce them are needed to free Bir-
mingham of the Pistol Peril. A book
full of laws restricting the sale of re-
volvers and fixing punishment for those
VINO carry them will never abate the
evil. 1t has been tried here and else
where.
Purge the city of the class of men
who go armed. Do not wait to catch
them with the goods on" as that dis
tinguished citizen of New York, Viii
liam Stephen Deyery, would say, for
in nine cases out of ten the harm has
been done before the goods" is dis
covered. 1t is useless to spike the gun
after it has been fired.
Those who carry revolvers are usu-
ally gamblers or gentlemen of other
occupations not recognized in law. The
yagrancy law should cover them if no
otner statute is available. If that is
not effective arrest them ON suspicion.
The courts will doubtless turn them
loose. but arrest them again. Harry
them until they conclude that some
other climate is more congenial. 1t
has been tried in larger cities with
success. 1t is by this system that New
York keeps its undesirable population
within comfortable bounds
The man who thinks his toilet in
complete for civilized community
without a shooting iron is not a desir-
able citizen. He builds no skyscrapers,
or steel plants or iron furnaces. No
body will weep at his departure.
Let the police start the crusade and
within a week there will be fewer loaf
ers on the street corners and fewer
pistols in the hip pocket ambush. Biz
mingham will be safer place for law
abiding folk and the railroads will be
richer. The retreat of the artillery
cannot begin too soon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
Was ever a feather so lightly blown
70 and fro, as this multitude?
2 King Henry vi.
Twenty Deaths Per Month.

Only three cases Of typhoid fever
record-but the deaths in the month
from violence numbered twenty-a
very bad record. The death rate Of
the month was heavy because of the
twenty deaths from violence, besides
two from alcoholism, and another from
poisoning of an unknown nature. The
health conditions in the city are excel
lent, and yet the death rate in April
was high because of the twenty-three
deaths mentioned.
city that INDUCES in twenty deaths
from violence in single month is a
city that will soon gain an unenviabe
reputation, especially when no white
man can be convicted in connection
with those deaths. The time seems to
have fully arrived for concerted and
strong movement against the pistol
toter. He Killed twenty last month,
and if he keeps up the pace his work
will certainly be telling and significant
by the time the census year comes
round.
The report Of DR.. Hardness, city
health officer, is one that discloses not
only our sanitary condition, but also
our ethical position, and the insecurity
of life within the city's bounds. These
subjects should interest the Mayor
and Board Of Aldermen, but doubtless
they have deeper and broader matters
on hand Twenty lives more or less
may not interest them, not even
twenty deaths from violence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20

not be unduly increased or enlarged.
Senator Morgan held up before the
Senate and the federal government an
appeal by the governor of Alabama to
the supreme court of the United
States if under the pending bill the
interstate commission should attempt
to differentiate between, for example,
Louisiana and New York, between Ala
bama and Massachusetts, and their
ports. The pending bill gives the in
terstate commissioners almost unlim
tied powers of differentiation, and II
they are exercised, Alabama, says Sen
ator Morgan, will seek relief in the
supreme court of the United States.
Almost as the curtain was rung
down in the Senate ON the long de-
bate the constitution of Alabama and
the reserved rights of the states were
held up by Senator Morgan. Il am
relying he said in conclusion, upon
a power higher than the Congress of
the United States or the President of
the United States for the protection
of the interests of the people of Ala
bama' He declared in his speech
that the greatest river state in the
union did not need the drastic pro-
visions of the pending bill, and he in
yoked the protection of the supreme
court against them.
Possibly, however, our senior Sen
ator sees troubles where none will
arise, but he sees the possibility of
such troubles, and he therefore took
a stand upon the rights of the states,
and his vote and that of General Pet
tus will go down in history as a cry
out of the past over the lost rights of
the states over the great railroad sys-
TENS of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20

The President, by his acts, has un-
doubleday lost the confidence of the SEN
ate, and has brought about an antagon-
ism toward his manner of conducting the
executive affairs of this government
which will be embarrassing in the ex-
IRENE to him during the remaining period
of his occupancy of the White House.
On the other hand, Senator Bailey of
Texas has made himself the leading ex-
ponent of democratic principles in the
senate-has shown himself to be a man
in whom not only his party. but the re-
publican senators, have confidence, and a
man who stands out conspicuously and
who would most probably gain the demo-
cratic nomination for the presidency in
the event such should be made in the
near future
In Alabama, the two candidates for
governor, both of whom are running on
anti-railroad platforms, continue their
placid campaigns. Neither of them inspire
enthusiasm. They have worked their is
sues out; and the people of Alabama are
really in a state of mind today where they
would love to see another candidate en-
ter the race. If man with the courage,
backbone, ability and straightforwardnes
OF Samuel d. Weakey-a man allied to no
interests but who simply believes in the
right and knows how to do it, whatever
happens-were to enter the race today he
would be elected. [ merely refer to Mr..
Weakley because everybody who knows
him has confidence in him. He is a eandi-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
cALAMlTlEs OF THE BLONDE.

From the New York Mail.
II all the newspaper doctors are right
the eminent physicians who somehow or
other are continually giving the public
the benefit of the information they pos
sess-it is a great mistake to be blonde.
Light people are subject to great many
bodily troubles that dark people escape
1t was lately demonstrated in a discus
sion in the foremost of botanical journals
that nearly all the people who are sem
sitive to ivy poison are blondes, while
most of the immune are dark skinned
Blondes. one authority maintains.i have
a greater proportion of red corpuscles
than white in their blood, and conse-
ouently possess less power of resistance
in germs and germ diseases And now
Prof. James Nevins Hyde of Chicago dem
onstrates that blondes are much more
susceptible to cancer than brunettes.
All this goes to support the theory
maintained by a great many dark COM
piected" people that blondes are an alb
normal development in the history of the
human race-a sort OF garden sport, a
washed-out- unnaturally bleached type.
and destitute therefore,, of the natural
guarantees against disease. This theory
declares them to be mere result OF a
deficiency of sunlight and therefore elias
sifiable with celery grown under ground
with potato vines that sprout in cellars.
and with grubs that live in the hollows
of trees and die as soon as they are eX-
posed to the light. These theories, are, OF
course, subject to the next medical reve-
lation, which will repeal all the edicts and
deliverances that have gone before It,.
In any case, there is the best of reason
to believe that in this country the race
is slowly breeding back to the darker
tints. through variety of influences.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
THE CRICKET.
BY william Cowper,

BY William CoWper.
Little inmate, full of mirth,
CHIPPING on my kitchen hearth,
Whereso'er be thine ABODE
Always harbinger of good,
Paw me for thy warm retreat
with a song more soft and sweet;
In return thou shalt receive
Such a strain as / can give.
Thus thy praise shall be expressed,
Inoffensiye, welcome guest!
while the rat is on the scout
And The mouse with curious snout,
With what vermin else infest
EVERY dish. and spoil the best;
Frjsking thus before the hre,
Thou mast all thy hearts desire.
Though in voice and shape they be
FORMED as if akin to thee,
Thou surpassest, happier far,
Happiest grasshoppers that are:
Theirs is but c summers song
Thine endures the winter long,
Iynimpaired and shrill and clear,
Melody throughout the year.
Neither night nor dawn of day
Puts a Iericd to thy play:
Sing then-and extend thy span
Far beyond the date of man.
Nretched man. whose years are spent
In repinng oscpntent,
Lives not. aged though he be.
Half span. compared with thee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
The Red Rooster.

An incident which caused a ripple of
amusement among the crowd at the cor
ner of First avenue and Twentieth street
late yesterday afternoon was the sight Of
a man of uncertain age and more uncer.
tain gait navigating serenely down the
street with big red rooster under his
arm. The man was entirely oblivious Of
the crowd, and so was the chicken. 1.-The
mans thoughts said an observer, seem
ed intent upon the hazy beyond-possibly
of the time when the ROSTERS future and
his own would be more intimately wrap
ped up. And the rooster simply roasted
on his arm. An old negro around the
corner broke into an appreciative grin as
he said, dat man sho do hole dat chicken
matched, but he amt particular bout
carrn i'm mighty public.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
Federal Instead Of State Control.

The negative vote cast on the rate
bill in the Senate consisted of only
three votes, out of seventy-four cast,
and two of the three were cast by our
two Senators. General Pettus did not
explain his vote on the floor of the
Senate during the long debate over the
bill, but Senator Morgan did in the
last hours of the debate that will stand
q long time as one of the most re-
markable in the history of the Sen
ate.
Briefly put, our Senators stood on
the rights of the states as opposed 70
a concentration of railroad supervision
in the federal government. They be-
lieve that Jim crow cars and the issu'
ance of passes and score of other
powers belong TO the state, and the
pending bill sweeps them all in as
Incidents of a federal control of inter
state commerce. Congress plainly has
mower 10 regulate foreign interstate
commerce. but our Senators say that
the incidents Of such control should
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
PAUL COOK.
"MlSS MARY"
Tribute to Widely Loved Teacher OF
Birmingham.

From the Educational Exchange
To be called by the given name tokens
close relationship 1t falls to the lot OF
few to be better known by this name than
by the surname. When child and parent,
official and servant. poor and rich. Pro-
testant and Catholic, Gentle and Jew,
unite in this respectful familiarity, there
lies a greet person behind the name.
Miss Mary was a teacher Thirty
two years she went in and out as the
faithful shepherdess of the city's lambs.
Thousands Of little heads have felt the
touch Of her gentle hand. Hundreds of
disauieted parents have been comforted
by her belief in son or daughter. Many
a discouraged teacher has taken heart
again teca;Ise Miss Mary" found some
thing to praise.
Judged By results the life of Miss Mary
A. Cahal9n for twenty-one years prln-
cipal of the Powell school, was a sue
cess. Full of the instinct of mother
hood, she gathered about her the children
lovingly trusted to her care, con-
scousy wounded one of these little ones.
In day school and Sunday school she gave
without stint her rich store of mind and
the sick and the outcast.
Restles, striving, careless birmingham.
on the day of her burial forgot its busl-
mes, to stand bareheaded in the street,
or weep beside her bier Parents and
children of the worlds family of ma
lions massed their flowers in an Offering
of delicious incense and mingled their
tears IN the touch of love which makes
the whole world kim
This uniting of the people was Miss
Marys greatest work Large in body,
larger in mind, largest in heart-she
leashed to her by the endearment OF
service or kind remembrance some of all
kindreds, tongues and stations. She was
Catholic in the original sense of the word
broad enough to can the world her fell
low, humane enough to spend herself in
cure of it's hurts.
A peerless teacher, true friend,
noble woman left us. She has joined
THE Choir invisible
OF those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their, presence
To be the sweet presence of good dir-
fused <-
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1eb0,r,zs-
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE TIMES
A thousand hats, or SO.

thousand hats, or SO.
A private train, a private road,
yacht upon the sea,
With forty dozen millionaires
To stand and wait ON me.
I'd like to have Miss Bertha krupp
To be my little wife,
John Sousa's band to play all day
And brighten up my life.
The rarest Viands on the earth
When l sat down to eat,
The choicest liquors ever drunk
With which my friends to treat
Id like to have the weather mild,
And not too cold or hot
I'd like to have an appetite
| think 'twould help a lot.
I'd like TO paint the scenery
The sky a bluer blue.
I'd like to have the ocean red
The earth a saffron hue.
I'd like to telegraph TO Mars
And travel to the moon,
I'd like to boss the Senate when
The Senate's out of tune.
I'd like to have the flowers bloom
At any time of year.
I'd like to have a cinch on bliss
That never knows a tear.
/ know I'll never have these things
And yet. / wouldn't care
If | but had chance to be
A bloated Millionaire.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
If there was a reason for a girl to
love a man she wouldn't
Being good doesn't pay, but the worst
of IL is neither does being bad.
No matter which end of the ladder of
success Is up, the room is always at the
bottom.
Small brothers could tell man lot
about their sister that he will never md
out till ne marres her.
When man doesn't complain to his
wife about the breakfast 1t is a sign she
In away visiting her mother
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
Handsome Decorations.

! was struck by the decorations on the
table at the luncheon rendered Mr.. Fair
banks said a member of the CONNER
cial club. 'They were as handsome as
have ever seen anywhere, and they were
also very appropriate. The bank of grow
ing plants in the center where the four
long tables met was strilSingly beautiful,
and the roses and other flowers were as
handsome as i have ever seen.
II understand that they are all home
grown and came from local greenhouse.
It has not been long since Birmingham
was compelled to go elsewhere when flow
ers were desired for such affairs, but now
a majority of those used here are home
grown
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
An Unusual Clock,

"A clock whose mechanism consists en-
tirely of an ordinary knitting needle and
Two white pine hands less than an inch
wide and quarter of an inch thick. and
which has neither weight, pendulum nor
apparent works. and yet keeps accurate
time. is rare curiosity" said a travel
ing man yesterday.
Such a clock, however, is the creation
of an ingenious German, who operates a
saw mill, grist mill, cotton gin. and also
has a truck farm and Jewelry store in a
little town in the northern part of the
state. Every traveller through that sec
ton is shown the clock by the proud old
German. and the village folk say that
never yet has any one located the power
by which the clock runs and keeps good
time day after day Technical men, men
who are familiar with the details in the
famous clock in Strasburg cathedral,
have seen the clock, but none have yet
hit upon the correct solution of the prob
lem of how it runs.
ITO prove that there is no trickery
about his clock, Kobe, the German, has
made the frame out of ordinary window
glass and has placed it so as to show
clearly that it has no connections with
an electric battery or other power.
"The curious timepiece is about eighteen
inches high and twelve inches wide
About four inches separates the front and
back panes of glass Through holes bored
in each pane an ordinary knitting neeo
Is run, and on this reYolve the two
roughly carved hands. The knitting
needle and hands represent the entire
mechanism of the clock. There is no
weight or pendulun. Yet the clock runs
and keeps correct time. The ear placed
close against the pane of glass cannot
detect the slightest ticking. The hands
often CULVER slightly in making the cir
cult around the dial but they can be
turned in different directions, and ON be-
ing released will Immediately oscillate
TO their proper positions
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
Methodist Conference.

THE meeting of the general conference
here has been fine thing for Birming-
ham, both directly and indirectly" said q
layman.
Undoubtedly it will count greatly to-
ward the moral uplift of the town. Even
those who did not attend the meetings
will be imDued to some extent by The
religious atmosphere. Besides the rare in
tellectual treats enjoyed, the meeting of
this body has left an indelible spiritual
Impression upon the community"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
Bishop Allen.

The Right Rev. T.. p. Allen, bishop OF
Mobile, is in Birmingham, and today he
will be quite busy administering confirma-
ton. He will confirm a class at the Church
of Our Lady of Sorrows at the end of the
o'clock mass and a class at St. Pauls
church Immediately after the 1880 o'clock
mass.
AT night the bishop will confirm large
class al st. GATHERINGS, Pratt City. AS the
ceremony is deeply impressive, the various
churches will be filled to overlooking.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
= HE anti-railroad spirit seems still
to be abroad in the land. But
with it all. railroad stocks are

r HE ant-railroad spirit seems still
kO to be abroad in the land But
with it all. railroad stocks are
going up. and the people who have in
vestments in them seem to be eminenty
satisfied. The shippers are also prosper
ing. The merchants and the manufac-
turers throughout all America are getting
the best facilities, and all of them who
are conducting business on business prin-
eiples are prospecting. Yet there is an
element in the land kicking against rail-
roads, and, indeed, kicking against every
thing which is making good and earning
in proportion to the amount invested.
The Senate of the United States has
just passed a railroad rate bill Yet there
is very little to it more than exists in
the present law.
The debate on this question in the SEN
ate has been the political making of SEN
ator Bailey of Texas and apparently the
political undoing of President Roosevelt.
1t has undoubtedly developed the fact
that Senator Bailey is straightforward,
honest, honorable, and has the couraae
of his convictions. 1t has developed the
further fact that President Roosevelt has
been so much enthused over the idea of
fatherng and getting through a railroad
rate bill that he has been willing to COM
promise and play politics to the fullest
extent Rather than take the chances
of losing, he has resorted to that which
is known as trading in politics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
OTHER EDITORS.

The Headand Post. published at Head
land, Ala, has installed new Hoe press,
Job presses and gasoline engine. New
TYNE have also been aided TO the equip
ment of the Post which is one of the
most nourishing papers in the state.
The Moulton Advertiser. enc of Ala
bama's oldest newspapers. has installed
a Linotype machine and is keeping
abreast o. the times.
The Clio Free Press, published at Clio,
Ala, is recent addition to the state
papers. G. Ernest Jones is editor. The
first issue presents a neat appearance
The twenty-fifth anniversary number of
the Iuskeeee Student Is devoted largely
to an account of the recent celebration
held at Booker T. Washington'.s school.
II also. contains much interesting infor-
mai OF reisuns to the resources CT the In
stituiion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
THRIFTY.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Tim asked the passenger on the rear
platform of the antiquated wheeled
cable car. whats in this covered stone
jar see out here nearly every time l take
a trip on your carr
That's my wife churning." answered
the conductor. zone round trip on this
old rattletrap brings the butter every
time. Saves her lots of trouble"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
About Persons,

r. j. Shelton. prominent citizen of
Livingston. is spending few days in
Birmingham.
w. l.. Maypather, vice president of the
head of one of the largest street-paving
concerns in the south, is at the Hill
man.
w. l.. Haypather, vice president of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, and his
private secretary. L. S. Locke, have re-
turned to their headquarters in Louisville
after a brief visit in Birmingham. While
here they were informally entertained by
George Dewitt at his home on Fourth
avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT NATIONAL
AFFAIRS AND THINGS OF INTEREST HERE

date to succeed himself for chief justice
of the supreme court, and preferring that
will be chosen by the people for It. But
II he could be induced to run for governor
instead of chief justice. or if some man
of his sturdy type could be induced to do
So the people would undoubtedly rally to
his support with an enthusiasm recently
unknown in the politics of Alabama.
AS matter of fact, | don't know of
score of men in the state of Alabama
who are absolutely pledged and enthus-
iastic in their support of either one of the
candidates for governor of this state.
There Is too much sameness about them.
There is too much of a spirit on the part
of each to Guido the other In his am
tSgonism to those people who have some
thing and who are doing something for
the development and the upbuilding of this
state.
Perhaps there will be another candidate
yet.
The anti-pistol toting campaign con-
tinues to progress. The people are be-
coming aroused and the mayor and the
police force are beginning to develop an
activity which promises to bring about
practical results. If the people will take =
hand birmingham will soon beoome a
safe city, as well as a city of great pros-
perity and business activity.
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20

Anarchist Berkman comes out Of prison,
after serving fourteen years, an anarchist
still He proposes to become journalist
also. He feels above being plain news
per man.