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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
BANkHEAD EXPLAINS.
from the Mobile Register.

From the MOplle heSister
CONGRESSMAN Bankhead has won much
applause by his prompt and cheerful ac-
ceptance of defeat and by his offer to
give Captain Hobson his earnest support
in the campaign The good impression
thus made will be affected injurlously,
however. by an interview had with him
by the Birmingham Ledger, in which the
Congressman explains his defeat by say
ing that the large amount of money ex-
pended by Captain Hobson and his friends
in the Sixth district was one of the adj
verse elements in the contest. Some al
lowance must be made for the Congress
mans disappointment, but the statement
does not accord with his message to Cap
tain Hobson. 1t would have been better
to leave 1t unsaid. Another element work
ing against the Congressman was, he says.
the populist vote. Under the ruling of the
state committee, there is no longer any
such vote in the state. All persons who
can comply with the requirements pre-
scribed for voters who take part in the
primaries, are democrats, whatever their
old time affiliations. OF course, II there
were persons allowed to vote who could
not comply with the requirements, that
would be a Just cause of complaint, but
Mr.. Bankhead does not assert that there
were such persons allowed to vote.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
Tennessee. Senatorial Race.

I'VE are having perhaps the most re-
markable campaign in Tennessee since
the days of Andrew Jackson said a
citizen of the Volunteer state, at the
ST. Nicholas hotel last night.
81 favor the return of Senator CarmaclS
to the United States Senate, and am
confident that at the primary on May
IL. he will defeat his opponent, ex-Gover-
nor Taylor, by an overwhelming vote.
Uniform gains for Carmack are be-
ing reported, and the auburn crested
senator, who has displeased President
Roosevelt and the members of the repub-
lican party on more than one occasion,
during his first term in the Senate, is
battling his way to the front through
the power of his speeches, and his fol-
lowing over the state seems to be en-
Unused to the point where they are conf
dent of victory"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
ABoU BEN ADHEM.

with the proper apologies1
Abou Ben Adhem (may he dwell in
graceD
Walked out one day in the market place
And saw advancing with pleasant smile
Wearing a look that was quite free from
guile,
Ar agent, holding forth a book of gold
The color of the binding. we are told
And to the presence standing near Ben
said
What wantest thou?' The agent raised
his head,
And with a look made of all sweet in
Answered, "To sell this book-its 80
cents"
Not on your life said Abou. NAY,
not So"
Again the agent spoke. in accents low.
But cheerily still, and said II pray
thee then.
Permit me to convince your fellowmen."
The agent bowed and vanished The next
day
He came again, with his alluring way,
And showed the names of others in the
town.
And 10. Ben Adhem said 'Wel. put me
down"
"Do not ostracize the sawbuek and
still expect that things will taste like
those your mother used to make" says
the Phiistine. That Is fine advice, Ell
bert, but there is so much food adul-
teration nowadays that nothing tastes
the way it used to.
CHANGING at Gorymkin's name, we would
say that he Is hobgoblinL but
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
The Whistle NUISANCE.


II was glad te see in Wednesdays Age
Herald that some one had called attention
to the unnecessary whistle blowing in
Birmingham at night" said a citizen
Railroad whistles are bad enough, but
there are others that are worse.
Birmingham is the only city of its
size that | know OF that allows rail-
way whistles to be blown in the yards,
except to prevent accidents I used to
room in the vicinity of the new union
depot and about o'clock in the MORN
ing the switch engine whistles in that
vncInlty kept me awake with the greatest
variety of whistles and whistlings [ ever
heard In my life. I now live on South
Highlands and the yard engines don't
bother men, but there are two or three
other whistles somewhere that get in
very effective work. At midnight and
about o'clock come long blasts that
would wake the dead, but the limit is
reached at 2;30 a. M, when some gentle
man hangs on to a whistle cord Tor 3
minutes (by the watch. At the end OF
each minute he let's go for a second
which raises forlorn hope that the
end is in sight, but always results In
disappointment. Ten seconds is good
long blast and when that is multiplied
eighteen times 1t is maddening.
II suppose the object is to wake up
the employees, and it must be a great
success. unless the employees sleep sounder
than the average person. II some man
will succeed in putting limit to this
thing 1 will vote for him for any office
he wants to run for"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
The Gulf Coast.

ANY one not familiar with our gulf
coast has but little idea of its beauty
and comfort" said j. l.. Darby. Il knew
something of it when a young man, but
then it did not have the great number
of attractive homes and driveways that
it has now. 1t abounds in shade trees
and every yard is covered with flowers
IT is a place to go to rest and get we'll
TO enjoy the society of refined people
and feast on fish in summer, and fowls
in winter.
1.-THE hotel man with whom we stopped
owns fifty acres of land. Upon the prem
ises is a gushing well which furnishes all
the water for the large building and
plenty to irrigate the entire farm. Why
travel so far, when at our doors we have
such a healthy summer and winter re-
sort? To the sck-the old and feeble
the tired BRAIN and wasting muscles.
say go down to our clear waters and
enjoy the breeze. sailing, fishing and walk
ing over the shell roads, it will refresh
and strengthen you"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
High School.

Many delegates to the general con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal church
south, have visited the new High school
building. and it is hoped that all the Wis
itors will inspect II before conference adj
journs," said man interested in educa-
tional matters.
Superintendent J. II. Phillips is only
too glad to show visitors over the build
ing.
"Since the High school was completed
hundred or more visitors have inspected
it. Strangers have been agreeably sur
prised to find modern and finely
equipped High school as they found here.
Nothing makes such strong impress
sion on visitors as thoroughly organ
lied school system frst-class street
car system and finely paved streets. Bir-
mingham has all these features
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
GIGANTIC THEATRICAL ~.
COMBINE is ORGANIZED

ing from the show business have doubled
and trebled since the formation of the
syndicate. In former times house man
ager was never certain that a travelling
attraction would arrive according to con-
tract. Frequently the house manager
would be compelled to assist the tray
cling manager financially before he could
play the engagement. This does not hap
pen nowadays.
Regarding our combination. it is to be
formed on a corporation basis. Perhaps
100000 is a pretty large estimate of
the Investment, but / should say that
$50 100000 Is a conservative figure. Each
of the members will retain his personality
and his identity with his present inter-
ests. His holdings may become a part
Of common pool. but in this, of course
each individual will be protected as to his
own holdings. There are ways of organ
ization that make such protection posi-
hle -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
Special to the New orleans Times-D,

Special to the New Orleans Times-Dem-
GRAFT
IN EW YORK.-The most gigantic
III and most important combination
in the history of the theatrical
world, one involving a capitalization of
$50,0Oo.OOO, is virtually contaminated.
Among the organizers of the coali-
tion are klaw & Erlanger, B. f. Keith,
f. F. Albee Kohl & Castle, Morris Mey-
erfeld, Martin Beck. and presumably Stair
& Havland. This group of men control
the majority of theatres in the United
States, whether devoted to high-class
drama and musical plays, popular price
theatricals or vaudeville, and to be with
out the pale of the alliance means to
be the competitor of a force that has
never been equaIed in the amusement
field. According to, report and surface
signs, A. R. Erlanger will be the master
spirit and executive head of the corpor-
alton. \
The first hint of this combination was
given two weeks ago, when Messrs. Klaw,
Erlanger, Albee, Meyerfcld and Beck
bearded a train for Chicago, where they
were Joined by Messrs. Kohl and Castle.
They remained in conference four days,
and returned to New York satisfied but
noncommittal Today Mr.. Albee. Mr..
Keith's general manager confirmed the
story of the coalition.
The objects of this combination are
mutual protection, self-preservation and
the general regulation of the theatrical
10, Ia good. Accord
ing to the best available information the
motives of the amalgamation are not
primarily antagonistic. Conditions have
arisen which make regulation of the
theatrical business absolutely necessary
at this time.
All over the country there are evidences
that point to a certain collapse OF the
entire theatrical structure unless steps
are taken to avert the evil forces. New
theatres are springing up on all sides.
Communities which have not given profit
able support to a single theatre are now
boasting two and three playhouses. The
business has been divided and sub-divided
In other cities by the erection of COM
peting vaudeville and burlesaue theatres,
and by the inroads of the ten-cent thea
tres.
The men back of the new movement
have millions of dollars invested in their
business, and they have proposed the
amalgamation with the view of protect
ing their own interests and keeping the
theatrical business on solid business
basis.
This is a natter said Mr.. Albee to-
night, (which managers have been dis
cussing among themselves, at intervals
for years. 1t has simply assumed definite
shape now We do not intend to wage
war OH anybody. but We do intend to
protect ourselves. There Is no reason why
the combination should not prove val
liable to all owners of theatres and all
interested in the theatrical profession. We
are not out to antagonize the actor. We
merely find conditions confronting us
which must be met, and we believe we
are able to meet them successfully. We
hope to crystalize the business in gen
eraI.
mo sober. mipded man can deny the SO
called theatrical syndicate has benefited
the business in general Many manager
I mean Of financial resources and promi-
nence-have told me the profits accru-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
THE CALL OF THE SEA.

J. NJ. Lewis, in Houston Post.
l can hear the bang and clangor
OF the busy city street;
But | also smell the far-brown,
Faint perfume of meadow-sweet;
And all intermingled with it.
Just a touch. it seems to me,
OF the sadness and the freshness
And the glory of the sea
Where huge ships are idly lying
While men break their cargoes out,
And the white-winged yachts and
shallops
Tack and jibe and come about.
l can smell the purple clover
| can catch the faint perfume
From the dim Quietly distance
Where wild flowers bud and bloom;
But all fretted and all inlaid
And all colored seems to me
BY the wildness and the sweetness
And the beauty of the sea;
And ] see the ships up anchor,
And the men shake out the sails,
And the ,whitecaps racing shoreward
Herded by the April gales.
There are children playing youder,
weaving clover blooms in chains,
While I'm chained to books and led
gers
Counting losses, counting gains;
But my soul has winged out yondeg
Past where rolling prairies be
To where rails are heeling under
As the ships put out to sea-,
And feel the tautened cordage
Straining to the rising gale,
And I'm standing looking seward
In the shadow of sail
Out of where comes this insistent
Coaxing voice that talks to me
Qn a language that my soul knows)
Who have never known the sea,
Who have never felt the planklng
or a deck beneath my feet,
Who have never pulled a sheet home
At the sailing Of the feet?.
Still IL calls and calls and caps me
Till see the pillows comb,
Tumhling laughing, ninging LANDMARK
Like white horses racing home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
About Persons.


II. II. Abrens. STAFF correspondent of the
New Orleans Picayune is in Birmingham.
l.. W. Nichols of Fort Payne is stopping
at the Birmingham.
W. w. Dees of Greenville is stopping
at the Metropolitan.
John p. Till of Carbon Hill, is at the
Morris.
j. II. Lovelace and c. W. Lovelace of
Dadeville are registered at the St. Mich
olas.
]. l.. Echols of Decatur is at the Metro
politan.
Will T. shsehan, stan correspondent of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

the Montgomery Advertiser Is In Biz
minsham attending the conference.
e. H. Blan of Troy is registered at the
St, Nicholas.
william Nabers of Decatur Is stopping
at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
BEE IN BIRMINGHAM.

From the Savannah News.
The Presidential bee will be buzzng in
Birmingham this week. The quadrennial
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church. south. begins tomorrow and Vice
President Fairbanks will be among the
honored guests
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

oadsden Journals Mr.. Conner is reported
as wearing game rooster feathsr In his
hat. He must feel cock sure Of the re-
suit.
Talladesa Mountain Home We believe
rich people are appreciated more now
than they were before the San Francisco
horror.
Gadsden Times-News; John d. Long.
former secretary OF the navy, says that
tariff revision is certain to come. So is
the millennium.
Columbia sentinek An Ohio man has
been cured of consumption by living in
tree. Was the tree fitted up with
Dowies Leaves OF Healing"
Mobile Herald: A Chicago musician has
been sued for 100000 for breach of prom
Use. The young lady claims he has been
playing with her affections.
Roanoke Leader: It's hard to make the
bears believe a small crop of cotton is
being planted when a large crop is going
in the ground.
Northport West Alabama Breeze: The
poet who can not write a few stanzas on
spring, when 1t comes, Is the manufac-
tured article and not the born kind.
Ala bama Courier: The first gift on rec
ord from Russell Sage Is $4,000 to the San
Francisco sufferers. 1t is we'll that some
thing appealed to the old money-bag $
heart.
Admission Hot Blast: Mayor Johnson of
Cleveland is said to have invented a ma
chine that will travel six miles a min
uate. There was never anything slow
about Tom.
Jasper Mountain Eagle Senator Ben
Tillman has refused an invitation to dine
with Teddy at the White House. Ben
things he is as big a man as Ted and is
fully as bull-headed.
Guntersville Democrat: 1t is stated that
when the walls of a fiye-storyN hotel in
Frisco fell on a crack football player he
shouted foul! foul'' until he was rescued.
II had been dreaming.
Mobile Item: Newspaper writer's who
are advising Hobsen to give up kissing
in the hopes to make a record in Con-
gress forget that he can get at home all
the advice he needs on that score. He
is a married man now. He may be a
democrat, but in one respect he has
ceased to be free trader.
Montgomery Advertiser: Anybody re-
member one Mary Ellen Lease? She used
to go about saying things but has fallen
into desuetude, or something of the kind.
Lately she has brought forth another re-
mark to the effect that lit Is woman who
pursues man, not man who pursues wom-
an" Getting ready to dodge, are you,
when she comes your way? especially II
she is named Lease.
Selma Journal, The Senate tried for
| two hours to confirm Barnes, the woman
ejector of the White House, as postmasr
| ter at Washington but failed to do so.
| Senator Tillman is determined that he
shall never be confirmed and he Is doing
| all he can to prevent it. A man who would
| be guilty of the conduct attributed to
Barnes. and proved by abundant testi-
mony, is not fit for any public position
and Senator Tillman is right in keeping
him from having one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
GRIEF THAT PuRlFIEs.

BY Walter Harper.
The grief that mellows and makes pure
the soul
Burns deep within the breast and has
voice.
It's smothered fire gives energy to love;
consumes
The dross from the pure gold of our
intent,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

General Duval, stationed in Atlanta,
must begin to wonder what his Father
Sherman campaign was begun for,
now that it has been done for.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
THE DEATH BLOW.

From the Atlanta Journal.
The price OF beer has been raised %
per cent In the German university towns.
This will probably prove death blow to
German university education.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
A WARMING.

From the Florida Times Union.
Theatrical companies are hereby put on
notice that Chicago is receiving heavy
consignments of eggs from the west
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

There is such thing as making
philanthropy fad.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

Souvenir booklets of Captain Hob
sons congressional campaign are now
on sale. Colonel Bankhead is also
souvenir.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

General Duval begins to see that the
people of middle Georgia have long
memories
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

When President Castro arrives in
the United States he might pick up
some easy money by playing the kero-
sene circuit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

The republican primary for senator
in Oregon resulted in the choice of
Jonathan Bourne, a native of~Massa-
chusetts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

From the Charleston News and Courier.
Next the Congress of Mothers will be
demanding the union label on all babies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

DR.. Crapsey desires to interpret his
own creed, instead of letting other
men do his thinking.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

An Indiana man boosted that he
would have ten wives before he died.
He is now being divorced from No. 2.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

The republicans call the Hobson
presidential boom craze. but they
may think differently in November,
1908.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

Before alcohol can be freed from
tax it will be necessary to denature
Nelson w. Aldrich of Rhode Island
and No. 26 Broadway.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

Wall street is repudiating its own
prices. and no lamb goes near 1t.
Lambs shun bear markets as they do
a pestilence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

The San Francisco people are train,
ing themselves to stay in their tents
when the earthquakes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

The cost of living Is higher than
1t has been in sixteen years, and the
trusts do not seem to care how far
that fashion Is carried.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

Lots of excitement is caused in New
York when woman finds her nus
band with another woman and chases
him down a crowded street
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

The general public is becoming
anxious to hear from John D. III. He
has done nothing of note in two whole
DAYS.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

The Gar knows little about parlia-
ments, but his parliament knows a
great deal about Cars.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

The drydock Dewey did not attempt
to be the queen of the May in the
Suez canal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

Although the Sultan can't pay his
debt, he has recently purchased a
camera for $4,000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

General Duval's campaign in Geor-
gia has been cut off just behind its
Resacan ears.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

ing itself to the coming of Hobson as
a full-edged M. C.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

Mayor Adam of Buffalo Is no closer
kin to old Father Adam than any of
the rest of us.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

When the anvil chorus can find
nothing else to do it goes after the
police department.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

The dramatist named Dam is dead
That is What the critics did to his play
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

Governor Hoch came very near go.
ing to ruin by the labial route.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

Twelve tons of gold and $4,000 i'm
migrants were brought in last week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

General Tribe Tribe is going to n.y.
phenate at the Rio peace congress as
a relaxation from home revolutions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

Our own Hobson is bigger man
than Ohios Nick Longworth any day
in the week
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04
THE GIRL.
In fluffy gown and hlmy lace

In fluffy gown and filmy lace
The sweet girl graduate
VIII face commencement with an air
Demure. correct sedate.
She'll have string of medals which
Her scholarship has won,
And now. with knowledge most profound
Her college days are done. ta
She'll get load of flowers. too
Fine candies by the pound.
While plaudts of her friends, ] wis
VIII make the hall resound
She'll journey home brmful of plans
To win undying fame
And hand down to posterity
great, unsullied name.
TITS later Her diploma framed,
Recounts the work she did.
Her dream of life's forgotten while
She spanks a squalling kid.
A Birmingham man tipped waiter with
a counterfeit dollar and escaped while
the poor fellow was chuckling over his
good luck.
The Gaekwar of Baroda is coming over
to this country for a visit. Welcome,
Gaek.
Marriageable women are in demand at
Goldfield, Nevada. They are in demand
everywhere. Chat Ought to please them).
1t was next Sunday in Chicago. Here,
at least" remarked Gorky, they won't
mind"
Help and we will whip Standard
OIL" say the Ohioans. Wonder how much
help they want?
Whoa! Mr.. Shawl
NOW said Nicholas, 81 can afford to
do it, and he forthwith gave Count White
a swift kick. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

l.. B. MHsgrove told the New York
leaders that Hobson Is the greatest
man in the country. under forty years
of age. and he elinched the assertion
with the fact that Hobson's lecture re-
ceipts have been 20 per cent larger
than Bryan's. and Bryan is clearly
presidential timber.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

1t is raining in Texas, and a WEI
wave will be soon due in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

Party lines, alas, separate Hobson
and Hoch.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-04

Superintendent Maxwell of the New
York schools compels the children IN
his case to carry their books under
the right arm one day. and the left
the next He does not want lop-sided
children In his schools.