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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-10
Mr.. Roosevelt on Exposures.

Before Mr.. Roosevelt unbosoms him
self in relation to exposure magazines
he should request George Brice Cortel-
you to expose the sources of the CAM
paign fund of 1904. The three last
campaign funds stand unexposed in
this period of exposure, and If there is
anything in this country's affairs that
the people have a right to know 1t is
the source and nature and makeup of
national campaign funds. And yet not
word In relation to them comes from
Mr. Roosevelts side of the house, al
though Chairman Taggart stands ready
to publish the list of subscribers to the
Parker fund of 1904.
The Washington Post presents the
total of the three campaigns, and the
New York Times intimates that the
1904 list at least came from Mr.. Cor
telyou himself The Posts figures are
as follows:
1ao4-Roosevelt fund. .,..............$ 81 900 900
1904-Parker fund ....s,....,........ 100000
1900-MeKinley fund ........ .,..... 1000, 000
1900-Bryan fund .................... 275,00O
overwhelmingly fund ................ 100000
lS96-Bryan fund ..................., 275'OOO
The article in the Post is really a
defense of Mr.. Cortelyou, inspired per-
haps by him. This guess as to the
Parker fund is no better than any other
mans guess. Nor is Mr.. Cortelyou's
explanation of the money collected by
Mr.. Bliss to be trusted, for he deals In
the Posts article with contributions
only made personally to him. What
the insurance magnates or others
handed to Mr.. Bliss he, or the Post s
informant, declines to state.
Such jockeylng with the people
should be ended by publicity, and Mr.
Roosevelt is the man to do it.
All information goes to show that
MI. bryan I"o SdhpdiShs Wole pool
ly financed, but doubts are expressed
as to whether the republican fund of
1896 was limited to six million dollars.
Some believe the money mill yielded
in that campaign nearer fifteen million
dollars. The chairman accounted to
nobody, not even to Treasurer Bliss.
Campaign Doodle reached its height in
that remarkable campaign.
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The Best City

John l. Burcheual, president of the
Buckeye Cotton Oil company and general
manager of the Proctor-Gamble company.
the largest rehners of cotton seed oil
In the world, is the guest of F. G. Kin
ney, general manager of the plant in Biz
mingham.
Mr.. Burcheual arrived in Birmingham
last night and will be here two or three
days. He has visited the city several
times in the past and Is well acquainted
with Birmingham and It's industries.
II am always impressed with Birming-
ham and its wonderful growth" said
Mr.. Burcheual in talking to several men
at Parker's drug store last night while
waiting for a car. Il consider it the
best of all the cities which | visit One
can note the substantial growth and pro-
gressiveness of the city In the class of
the buildings that are being erected.
also notice the signs of prosperity on
the faces of the people and the air of
business that they have. Birmingham is
indeed progressive city,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-10
A corn-Fed Humorist.

From the Reader.
1t is not alone the American of the
cities or of the brisk west, or social Pull
man smoker, who Is a native story-teller.
The dweller in the Isolated valley of the
southern mountains, who knows not the
shrek of the locomotive, and whose expe-
rience of the world is bounded by the
red clay roads of his home county, likes
his little joke as we'll as the best farceur
of them all. Two gentlemen were travel
ing in one of the hill counties of Ken
lucky, not long ago, bound on an explora-
tlon for pitch pine. They had been driving
for two hours without encountering a hui
man being, when they had came in sight
of cabin in a clearing. 1t was very still.
The hogs lay where they had fallen, the
thin clay-bank mule grazed round and
round in a neat circle, to save the trouble
of walking, and one lean, lank man.
whose garments were the color of the
clay-bank mule. leaned against a tree
and let time roll by.
wonder If he can speak?' said one
traveller to the other
Try him." said his companion.
The two approached the man, whose
yellowish eyes regarded them without
apparent curiosity.
How do you do?' said the northerner
"Howdy?' remarked the southerner
languidly.
Pleasant country"
Fur them tibet likes It,"
Lived here all your life?"
The southerner spat pensively In the
dust. Not yit,' he said.
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woMEN's VIOLET FARM.
Venture In Growing Fragrant Bios
SONS Has Proved Successful.

From the Chicago Daily News.
A violet farm is the latest vesture of
two enterprising north shore women Mrs.
George C. McReynolds and Miss Nina F.
Howard of Glencoe. who have in a year
built up a business supplying the local
florists.
I'VE started our farm last spring in
the face of the most dscoura ging proph-
ecies from our friends and the keenest
York" said Miss Howard in speaking of
the undertaking. but We believed we
could be successful We had studied the
best scientific methods of growing the
plants. had imported the best soil OBJ
tanable and built a greenhouse fully
ahead, and we have found it to be a
paying proposition.
"Our first experiment was in making
cuttings from the violet farm of Miss
Chittenden at Lansing, Mich, a woman
who has been a most successful grower.
These did not thrive and we next i'm
ported 5000 cuttings from the Hudson
river country. where violet culture has
been most successful. 1t is not generally
known that John ID. Rockefeller has the
largest violet warm in America at larry
town-on- he-Hudson. and our cuttings
came from that part of the country.
THE first rule Is to keep the tempera-
ture of the greenhouse between As and
70 degrees. violsts are spring flowers and
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THE COMING. OF THE pAFFopILs

BY Alfred Austin, poet laureate of Eng
land, in The Independent.
Awake. awakel for the springtmes
March daffodils. too long dreaming!
The lark is high in the spacious sky,
And the celandine stars are cleaning
The gorse is ablaze, and the woodland
sprays
Are as crimson as August heather.
The buds they unfurl. and mavis and
merle
Are singing duets together.
1.-THE rivulets run, first one by one,
Then meet in the swirling river.
And in out-peeping roots the Sun-god
shoots
The shafts of his golden CULVER.
The thrush never stops in the hazel
copse,
Till with music the world seems ring
ing.
And the milkmaid hale. as she swings
her pail,
Comes out from the dairy singing.
1.-THE madcap lambs round their staider
dams
Are skipping as. one time, they did;
And, proud of the cheat, will the cuckoo
repeat
Soon the tale of the nest invaded.
The swain and his sweet in the love-
lanes meet.
And fondle and face each other
Till he folds her charms in his world
wide arms.
With kisses that blind and smother"
Then the daffodiis came. afame, afame,
In orchard, and garth. and cover;
And out April leapt, and first smiled,
then wept.
And longed for her Mayday lover.
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1T is a peculiar fact" said citizen
how all classes of people seem to love
baby animals One of the largest New
York merchants said some time ago that
the quickest and surest way to attract
the attention of the public is by putting
little pets In the show window. He re-
CARDS such eye-catchers as indispensable
in display advertising
I'VE see this Illustrated In Birmingham
every day. A number of shopkeepers
have RABBITS, chickens. and other animals
associated with the Easter season in their
windows, and at any hour of the day
people may be seen watching with smiles
the movements of the little creatures"
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pilgrims. but that with our trusty car
we could be easily able to avoid trouble
and so Off we went
AT first our way ran alongside the sea-
and then we came to the great palm
forest of Mahim. and caution was the
word for the road is but a bullock track.
and a too eager turn of the steering
wheel would land as in a smash. "subber
kurro" (Stop the carriage) cried a native
sunddenly to US. for we almost ran over
him. We wished IN a few moments that
we had taken his advice. for We rounded
a sharp bend of the road, and before
we could pull up. saw straight ahead
procession bearing right down on us,
To turn was impossible to reverse al
most equally so, and there in front was
the effigy carried aloft by the bearers,
while the fanatical mob was whooping.
yelling and bowling. We stopped the car
mot the engines. thought and hoped the
procession would pass. but alas! no.
Whether they were blinded by our lights
or drunken with excess of zeal. we shall
never know. but without pause they rush
ed right at us, and in a moment the
figure god was landed on the car, while
lamps were smashed and topis' or hats
were crushed, and we were in the vortex
of the mob.
There was but one remedy, and that
desperate one-ful1 speed ahead. The dear
old Exhaust" saved the situation. We
had cursed 1t enough for its backfiring,
goodness knows, but how we blessed 1t
now. Bang! Bang Bang To us only
backfirng, but to the native mind an
armored train at least They fled yelling
in all directions. and we arrived home
safely
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thirty Per Cent Money.

The squeeze in the call money rate
In New York last week was severe. 1t
was not, however. wholly unexpected.
1t has been in the air some time. On
Monday of last weel the Wall street
rate for money was 20 per cent on
Tuesday 1t rose to g per cent; on
Wednesday, to 10 per cent, and on
Thursday 1t went to 30 per cent. The
loss in surplus reserve CT The New
York city banks of last week was ST.
$4,000, and that reese We shows today
& deficit of about two million dollars.
Since the early eighties, says the
New York Evening Post. "the only
years in which call money has gone
above even 10 per cent, this month,
have been 1908, 1899, and 1887 OF
these years, the sequel in 1893 is
familiar enough. In 1902, tight money
persisted throughout the year, with a
very severe wrench in September and
December. but also with great strin-
gency in May. In 1899, the June money
market was seriously upset, and ex-
orbitant rates from September OH cul-
minated in the 1856 per cent of Deem
Der IS. In 1887 the July settlements
brought a call money quotation of i4O
per cent
But these instances prove nothing,
The truth is, the country is SO pros
porous and speculation so active there
is not money enough to go around.
Some are looking, not without reason,
TO gold imports for relief. The bal
ance of trade in our favor is immense,
and gold should flow this way, it would
seem, in heavy volume But no one
say what gold will do No one can
name the rate of exchange which will
bring gold this way. The rate that
operates to move gold in one year will
not move it perhaps in the following
year. A gold import point is as shift
Ing as a gold export point. The com
plexity of international settlements
renders exactness in such matter i'm.
possible. Gold imports are, however,
probable, and that is about all that can
safely be predicted as to relief to the
money market from overseas.
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HAD NERVE DISORDERS.
Nearly All Famous Characters suf-
fered From Incurable Diseases.

From the London times.
OF supreme captains of the world there
are but six or seven and scarcely one
among them exhibits genius in its health
lest colors In ambush for nearly all of
them some form of nerve disorder turks
Grotesque as the statement seems eplep-
sy, manifest in greater or less degree,
revolves upon their destines. Charlie
magne the great and wise captain of the
Franks. who stands for feudal civilization,
who 'snatched from darkness all the
lands he conquered" and who reared an
empire that no hand but his was able to
control, is almost the sole exception.
What says the bead-roll?
At 80 Alexander the Great, who had
reckoned himself a god, died during, or
just after, one of his frenetic orgies.
Caesar, the foremost man of the ancient
world, had strange commissions in his lat
er years, and 1t may be that the dagger
of Brutus saved him from declining into
madness. Marlborough, who was mar
rled to violent woman, and whose only
son died in boyhood, was epileptic during
his ten last years of life.
The adventurous and daring Give,
world famous and conqueror of India, at
40 was decidedly neuropath. In his menu
orable duel with a brother officer ne
missed his aim, flung away the weapon,
and cried: Shoot and be damned! | said
you cheated and l say so STILL Give was
passionate, morbid, equity and an opium
eater. At 40, rich and of unstnted reputa-
ton, he committed suicide.
wellington was distinctly eplleptic. His
faintng fits after Waterloo were frequent,
and it was an attack of epilepsy that
carried him off. The Romanoffs have
been homeopathic for nearly three CEN
turtles, and one of the epileptc fits of
Peter the Great is said to have lasted
three days" Charles " whose mothen
was insane, had fits in his youth, and was
equity, bald and scrofulous. Frederick the
Great (from the face of whose father,
when he took walk, says Macaulay,
every human being fled'D, reared In
perfect hell of a palace. had certain
general unsoundness of mind, to which
mercy was altogether foreign. The stock
of Oliver Cromwell was not overhealthy,
and of the homeopathic tendencies of the
Protector himself there is sufficient evil
dence. Mohammed-but let Mohammed
rest.
Joan of Arc. the divine girl-woman,
seer and soldier, who came from her
sheepfolds of Lorraine to make victorious
the orifamme of France, Joan heard
voices and saw visions and was kissed,
she said, by the celestials
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seaboard's General Office.

Atlanta is making strong effort to
have the Seaboard Air Line move its gem
eral offices from Portsmouth, Va, to
that city. and an effort equally strong
is being made in Virginia to prevent the
offices being taken out of the state,' re-
marked Virginian at the Morris. The
Richmond Times-Dlspatch says:
The action of President Leigh of the
Chamber of Commerce. in seeking to
arouse the public interest of the cities of
Virginia to keep the Seaboard Air Line
general offices within this state cannot
be too heartily commended. The Times
Dispatch earnestly desires to see these
offices located in Richmond. but Rich
mond will combine with any other city
to keep the seaboard Air Line offices in
any other city In Virginia rather than
see them go beyond our borders "
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Railways in Siuht.

The Railway Age says there are 49,.
OLA miles of railroad under contract or
construction, with S433 miles in live
projects still to come. The new mile
age of 1906 will exceed that of 1905
if the needful labor can be procured.
The needful capital will be forthcom-
ing, but the needful labor is uncertain,
and so Is the procurement of rails from
the steel mills.
The states In the northwest from
South Dakota to Washington inclusive
will lead all the other states followed
by Texas, Louisiana, and the Indian
and Oklahoma territories.
In the new mileage Alabama is cred
tied with PAS miles, made up about as
follows. Atlantic and Birmingham, $50
miles; Illinois Central, 35 miles; South
ern, 40 miles, leaving about 20 miles to
be assigned to lesser extensions of
other Alabama ROADS.
The year promises to add about two
hundred miles to our new mileage, and
that amount of track each year would
soon give us about all the transporta-
ton facilities we could reasonably ex-
pect The Panama canal should OPP
tnt. a
200 miles year in this state.
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wither and droop IL the temperature IL
not at the right degree. Most people think
the double violets have no fragrance be-
cause most of those we get in Chicago
are grown in New York and lose their
fragrance in transit.
we supply 1000 flowers week and as
ehey reach our patrons within two or
three hours at the most from the time
OF cutting they retain their fragrance.
Ihey are also larger and of a deper
color than the New York flowers Next
year we hope to go in for violet Gull
ture on much larger scale.
While the work is not hard said
Miss Howard, 1T requires infinite care
and vigilance while the little plants are
growing As career for woman violet
growing offers greater inducements than
anything ! can think of. particularly to
women who wish to remain at home ana
who are fond of country life
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NEGRO SHOT OFFICER.
Policeman at Avondale Wounded BY
Adams Pearson, Who Was Killed.

While attempting to arrest Adams
Pearson. negro. charged with assault
with intent to murder, on First avenue
and Thirty-ninth street Sunday. Police
man John r. Brent of the Avondale force.
was badly wounded. The negro was
killed
Chief Franklin and Officers Brent and
Dean were looking for the negro and
when they found him they told him to
consider himself under arrest. The negro
made vicious attack on Brent, biting
the officer painfully. Finally he managed
to get hold of his pistol and shot Brent
twice, in the arm and in the breast
He was subsequently shot down and
killed.
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WIRE ROPE $500 FEET LONG.

columet Correspondent Detroit Free
Press
In short time Calumet NAV i,,st,v
eiailh 10 nave the largest steel wire rope
IN the world. The new rope will be used
IN the No. shaft of the Calumet branch
of the mine
me rope will have a length of $500
leet' winch is not quite two miles in
lehsth- The diameter of this cable is Ia
inches, which is somewhat heavier than
.he ordinary rope which Is used in the
mihe work, At the present time the Calu-
met and Hecla has some cables which
equal the one TO be secured in length.
put they are not as heavy as the new
steer rope. 1t can be safely said that the
new rope will be the longest of this
character and thickness in the world.
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From the New York Sun.

From the New 1Ork sun
~ Or several years vesuvius has
IT, been almost constantly in erup-
ton, coming out of a long sleep
on September Z, 1902. at a time when all
the volcanoes of the world, both those
known to be living and those reported
dead, seemed to start into simultaneous
activity. 1t was in the summer Of 1902
that Mont Pelee erupted and destroyed
ST. Pierre Martinique.
AS early as 1901 Professor Montetucci.
a well known student of Vesuvius, warn
ed the Italian government that the vol
cano was awakening from its long sleep
and that a break might be expected at
any time. The activity which started
again in September. 1902, has continued
with intervals of quiet until the present
eruption, which is said to be the most vio-
lent for many years.
This is the record of Vesuvius:
In SO A D., during the reign OF Nero.
the volcanic nature of Mont Vesuvius
first manifested itself in series of
earthquakes, which destroyed much
property and damaged villas at Pompeii
and Hereulaneum.
In 64 A. D., an eruption and earthquake
damaged Naples and frightened the peo-
pie.
on August "a, 10, in the reign OF Titus,
the volcano erupted with its most APP
palling fury, Overwhelming Pompeii
Herculaneum, Stabiae and other villages
of the district
vesuvius went into sleep of ia years
IT,, 10
reign of Alexander of Severus. In the
year 472 an eruption took place which
was so violent that stories were told of
ashes being carried as far as Constan-
tinople. Between 472 and 1900 nine erup-
tons are recorded.
vesuvius slept again from 1900 to 1851.
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VOLCANO OF VESUVIUS
WAKING FROM ITS SLEEP

On December 16 of the latter year
terrible outbreak of lava occurred. Hugo
clouds of smoke and ashes cast a gloom
over Naples in the middle of the day
and extended with remarkable rapidity
over the southern part Of Italy, as far
as Tarentum. The earth was convulsed
by violent earthquakes, and seven
streams of lava poured from the crater,
overwhelming Bosco Tore Annunziata,
Tore del Greco, Resina and Portici. AT
least 5000 persons lost their lives.
In 1907 there was an eruption of a vio-
lent nature which lasted nearly four
months and covered Naples with dense
showers of ashes greatly terrifying the
citizens.
There were eruptions in 1887, 1850 and
1867. in which streams of lava poured
from the crater and showers of ashes
descended on Porticl and even reached
Naples.
In August, 1779, the outburst of the
volcano was so violent that redhot
stones were thrown 1000 feet in the air
and the country was covered with ashes
and mud The eruption of 1794 destroyed
400 lives. Lava flowed to the sea and
ashes were carried many miles.
Eruptions occurred in 1904, 1905, 1922,
1850 and 1856. During another in 1858 the
crater sank about 1876 feet below its for
mer elevation. December g. 1861. an OUT
break occurred which devastated Tore
del Greco.
There was a period of quiescence, but
the volcano became active once more In
January, 1871. The eruption eliminated
on April 2s 1872. huge stream of lava
issued so suddenly from the mountain
as TO overwhelm 20 per cons who were
watching the spectacle. Mass and san
Sebastiano were partly destroyed. Red
not stones and lava were hurled over
400 feet in the air. Terrific EARTHQUAKES
shocks accompanied the eruption.
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Free State of Jones.

Speaking of unique bits of history"
remarked a man, did you ever hear of
Jones county, Mississippi?
well, the people of this county were
a peculiar bunch. During the war they
did not like the idea of secession, nor
could they quite find 1t in their hearts
to sympathize with the north So they
took the middle course. The result was
an historical anomaly: The free state of
Jones.
Those were strenuous times in the
south Men were hurrying to the front.
Fort Sumpter had just been taken, troops
were being mustered and all was intense
excitement. For a time Jones county was
forgotten But when it was called on for
men 1t seriously and steadfastly main
tanned all the rights of free and SOW
ereign statehood.
"A governor was elected, I've heard
and a regular form of independent gov
eminent set up. And the Free state of
Jones stood pat, until a battalion was
sent to whip 1t into line"
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UNCLE JOE IN DANGER.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
An Oklahoma editor. noting the state
ment that some one has given Speaker
Cannon a hickory hat" adds WED
like to give him a jolt with a homespun
hickory club" That's for his muish OPP
position to the statehood bill.
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Illinois Primary Law.

y The legislature Of Illinois at the sug
restion of Governor Deneen passed a
acompulsory primary bill, and the su
= preme court of that state has pro
oounced it unconstitutional. Governor
Deneen does not, however. propose to
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FAME IN GEORGIA,

From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun
A Georgia hall of fame is to be estab-
lished In the Gambler building in Atlanta.
The Georgian who has swallowed the
greatest amount of Coca-Cola should for
ward his picture and the necessary data.
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GAME OLD sronY.
9 Baltimore Herald.

From the Baltimore Herald.
Secretary Taft and a whole army of
other famous Americans are at Tuskegee,
Ala, celebrating the anniversary of Book
er T. Washlngtons excellent institution
for the education of the Afro-American.
And yet, when election day in Baltimore
rolls round again, the same old gentle
men of color will sell the same old votes
at the same old bargain prices.