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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
IMMIGRANTS FOR SOUTH.
Company Organized to Take Up Work
 On Broad Lines.

From the New York Journal of Com
 merce.
 The Southern Colonizing company, re- gently incorporated under the laws of the state of New York, with offices in this city, is locating settlers in the southern states on what seem to be practical busi- ness lines. The company sells lands on easy payments In lots of 10, 2O 4O 80 or more acres; has agents in northern east ern and western states and in Canada, and is making arrangements for agents in Europe The lands are sold only to those who have money enough to make a first payment on the purchase price, and the remainder of the purchase money is an- nual installments, secured by mortgage of the property.
 This class of settlers are expected to be of untold advantage to the south, whether they come from other parts of this country, or Canada, or from Eu- rope, as they will be practical farmers and understand the cultivation of all farm and food crops. They will enable the south it is hoped, to maintain its agricul- tural position which is seriously affected by the inefficiency of Its negro labor, even WHICH lHty Ttildn Df the ldlulSp while their constantly increasing tendency to leave the farms and seek other employ ment Is an absolute menace to the agri- cultural interests.
 The Southern Colonizing company an nounces that it will not confine its opera tions to any particular state or locality, but will locate settlers in all of the south ern states. Maj, George B. Edwards of Charleston Is president. He Is well known, has lived in the south all his life and Is thoroughly cohversant with the soil and climate of the southern states. transpor- tation facilities, agricultural possibilities banking methods and general conditions. Alexis Le Blanc, formerly of Chatawa, Miss. and now of New York City, is sec retary He has had experience as plant CT, farmer and lumberman. Charles H. Crosley of New York Is vice president and general manager.
 Tt seems only reasonable to expect most beneficial results" the company says, .'enabling many of the large land owners of the south to realize on their now idle and unproductive lands; fur nishing solution of the problem of a proper and practical distribution of the largely growing influx of foreigners to this country and pointing them to pros porous and happy homes'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
MARK TWAIN ON HOWEllS'

,rara, Twain In Harper's Magazihe'
 In tho matter of verbal eXactness MT 11o.r,sl,s has no superior, l suppose. fie seams to be almost always apie to n,'u ,ha+ a,usive and shifty grain or goio' .he r,.,h+ word. others have to put up "i'i' ..e,,,,ox,,,nations. more or less frequently l., haa setter luck. To me, the others .ro ,n,,ers working with the gold-pah- of necessity some Of the eoio "sss over and escapes; whereas, an iis sss'
 Ia is quicksilver raiding down rlFrle- no grain of the metal staios ,iiuon a'a o,,s x, of eluding him. A poweriu ui aeons .a.-, |. ~. ~. ,ssht word: its lights the reader r,av and makes it plain: a close approAi- '',a,son to if will answer, and much travel . ,,,. ss done in a well-enough Fashion by , e ,.a,, b,,t we do not welcome 1t and arr,aud if and rejoice in its as We oo p tha right one blazes out on us. y,rhsnever we come upon one Of those ,,+.nsalv right words in a. book or a ,o,,,snarer the resulting effect is physl- na, ,as well as spiritual, and electrically ,S.a,1nt. if tlngles exquisitely around t1,,s,,,yh the walls of the mouth and tastes as ta,t and crisp and good as the autumn h,,,tar that creams the sumac-befTy. One ,as no time to examine the word and ,-ote unon It's rank and standing, the automatic recognition of its supremacy IS ~. ,r,rediate. There Is a plenty or ac- oo,tahla literature which deals largely in annroximations. but 1t may De iikeneo to a 6ne landscape seen through the ,.ot,,. tha ,.,ght word would dismiss the ,ain then vou would see it better. It doesn't rain when Howells is at work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
ALWAYS KICKING
ADVANCE.

The July issue of the Advance Is out with an attractive Liberty Bell The con- tents for this month are varied and en- tertaining. feature article Is "The Spirit in the Platter's Steam." by John Sparrow, a brisk review of topics of the day.
 What the South is Doing Today" is an- other valuable contribution from Mir. sparrow Spirit of the Southern Press"
 Ihe Girl in Brown on Being Married,
 Panama Little of the Truth" "As Managed by Jack" by Lula Judson Moody; attractive departments, editorials and miscellaneous articles make up the number The growth of Advance con- tinues a source of much qualification to it's readers. Beginning September 1 the magazine will be made a weekly. Many extensive changes and Improvements are contemplated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
Wireless Teleqraphy,

The world at large continues to con- sider wireless telegraph as toy or device of the ultra scientific, but while 1 the masses are thinking of it in that way the wireless experts are rapidly improving the new apparatus, and are Just as rapidly adding the entire meth cd to the worlds equipment.
 It has come to stay just as much , as the wires on land have come to stay, and the one will yet be useful as the other. There are many places In this world that cannot afford the luxury of cable, and that can be served by the comparatively inexpen- sive wireless, and the latter will soon be fitted to all such places.
 The wireless will still further re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
Fourth of July.

Every boy welcomes Christmas and the Fourth of July as days for making noise with explosives said the father of a family. 1T try to restrain my youngsters on Christmas, but I am patriotic and believe in fireworks on the Fourth. would not think much of a boy who did not have a good deal of the American spirit in him. Give the boys chance and let them celebrate the Fourth by exploding their firecrackers.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
DEATH TO ANGoRA GOATS.

From Farming.
 Angoras seem to be able to stand almost any degree of heat or cold, provided they are furnished with a shelter to keep them fro mgetting wet They have proven hardy in Vermont fin fact, a flock that was lost all one winter, and turned up in the spring, is testimony to their ability to stand cold. The fact that they thrive in Southern California and Florida, and in their native homes in Turkey and Africa, shows that they are sufficiently adapted to hot climates. If thelr range is in damp low place, however, they will surely die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
ALABAMA PRESS

Arda1usia Times: Get the prize winning evhibits ready for the State falr'
 Marion County News: The people are thinking more about developing Aiapaiiia thar they are about who holds the or fees.
 cberfieId Standard: The presidehuai boom of J. Sharp Williams mas peeh hacked in moth balls for another SIX years.
 c,mter County Call A cotton factory would be a paying enterprise TOT hpes'
 We have the cotton and we nave the shipping facilities.
 pr,orence Herald: If one must ole oi overdrinlxing, how pleasant It must oe to have the coroner's physician cal u "refined alcoholism"
 Florence Times: Nowhere are 'ne sons more equable, the soils more proouo- five of as wide a range Of necess'ties anu l,xuries than in Alabama. Ashland standard The President mas decided to visit the canal zone next NV venber. It is to be hoped that ms s'ie"- ,o.,t,, yv,u cause the work to progress more rapidly.
 st Chair Herald: Alabama needs d. iilii- lion more people That would ihahe 'n' nr,ce of land five times what IL IS no" | and if would furnish market that "o"io make the farmers rich  coasden Times-News Helping around .ha house and washing dishes IS not l gooa defense in Macon, Ga, when d. ma" ,s arrested on a charge of vagrancy ES, | rec;al,v if he wears good clothes an0 | "a. shes A roll of long green. New Decatur Advertiser: Barnes oi 'n' ,+a rIouse who bounced Mrs. MOTHS the ladv who asked to see the fresioen' and who used much violence towaros hei ond had her Jailed in an asylum mas Jus hoo, confirmed by the Senate as postihas "a, of washington city. The moral oi eii'' | is-well. we give 1t up Sheffield Reaper: Probably the pest rec son advanced why MT. Bryan IS so prom rentlv mentioned for the democra''' ,ras;dential nominations Is cohtaiheu II ,,, statament of Serene s. Platt, edito' 70 aha Wall Street Journal, that since ,ooa the country has grown more r"oic"' ,,n,,a MT. Bryan has grown more CUT | .ervatiye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
ALABAMA'S HOMECOMING,
From the Sheffield Reaper.

From the Sheffield Reaper
 Kentucky having just concluded a suc- cessful Home Coming Week." Alabama will have one October 15 to 20, in Birming- ham, when 1t is expected that thousands of native Alapamians living in other states will journey back to the old home for week of unalloyed pleasure with old friends who have never wandered away, or, if they did so, have returned to live and die here. If all of Alabama s distinguished sons return on the occasion of Home Coming there will be splen- did array of notables gathered in Birming- ham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
Summoned to Atlanta.

M l.. Semon. the well known manager of the Bijou theatre, left Birmingham last evening for Atlanta, where he was called by a telegram from Jake Wells, in charge of the Bijou circuit in the south. Before leaving, MT. semon declared that he knew not the nature of the business concerning which MT. Wells desired to see him. He surmised that possibly 1t might mean the continuation of the present Bijou summer season in Birming- ham for another week or two.
 There Is one thing" said Mir. Semon on leaving the city, T will be tickled to refer to the recent series of baseball games played In Atlanta. To praise Bir- mingham to the supporters of the Fire men, Is almost as dangerous as shaking a red rag in the face of an angry bull"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
= HE fact that the Tennessee-Re- public companies finally closed
 the trade and nurchased the Bir-

HE AdcL lhdt tliS @ public companies finally closed
 the trade and purchased the Bir- mingham Southern railroad yesterday would seem to show that the Gates schley party really mean business in the Birmingham district.
 It will be remembered that some five or six years ago the Louisville and Nash vile and Southern railroads bought from the Tennessee company for $l1OO,OOO the railroad properties of that company. Yes terday the combined Tennessee Republic company re-purchased this property for something like $1, 10000. This purchase would indicate that the Tennessee com pany will add to it's plants at Ensley rather than build plants at other places. I am reliably informed that the capacity of the steel plant is to be doubled and that within the next year the output Of steel billets will be more than S0O tons A day. The expenditure in cash at this plant alone will be something more than &. 900 GOO; and the new Tennessee people are giving out the public statement that their plants call for an expenditure OF more than 900 in this district. or course, there is to be a new stock issue but I am told that the entire new caprtal- ization has been underwritten.
 Such being the case, there is no reason why the recent prediction made by John W. Gates-that Birmingham within hVe years will be, next to New Orleans, the most populous city in the south-shall not prove correct.
 MT. Gates and his associates, who the public generally believe to be backed by much of the capital of the Standard oll comnany. evidently intend to make the s+ea1 and iron production of the Bir- mingham district to equal that or the p,ttsh,,rg district. The railroad interests of the south are behind the movement and are lending every effort to build up this district. That is well demonstrated bv the fact that they were willing to ratnrn the railroad properties of the Tennessee company to the former owners
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
SAFE INSIDE.

By Julia Nicely Finch. Rain! Rain on my window pane And the wind blows loud and shriIl; But my fire burns bright On my hearth tonight And my doors fit snug and tight. Gaunt and grey the wolf at bay A-crouch on my threshold there; But my bolts are strong And my loves low song Is of hopc-enduring and long. Weird and wide the world outside; Rugged and rudeits ways; But my love is warm In my clasping arm And my heart knowcth no alarm. little wee bird in the nest hath stirfsf And the mother bird broods above And the magical word That my heart hath heard Is love and love and eowoi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
Slqnor c. Morettl.

"Signor G. Moretti has fine studio at his marble quarry about four miles out from Talladega," said well-Snown cit izen who has recently returned from a visit to that city. "He Is engaged now in executing some statuary for the town of AnnIston that will be sent by that municipality to the Jamestown exposition This work is gratuitous.
 "The people of Alabama ought to feel proud that they have at last found a man capable of appreclating the beauty and the possibilities of Alabama marble and of giving to the world in tangible shape the works of art that may be pro- duced from it. In the studio of Signor Mo- retti are many exquisite creations of his genius chiseled in the marble taken from the Talladega quarry. The sculptor de- clares that 1t Is superior to the Italian marble and says that 1t Is the only formation of its class In the world from which a needle can be made that will not break; so fine Is the grain and so flaw less are the blocks taken from the quarry.
 "It strikes me that Signor Morettl Is the man to design the statue and drinking fount to be erected to the memory of the late Miss Mary A. Cahalan. He is an artist in the truest sense of the word and he possesses creative talent of the high est order. It is known, too, that his in terest in the development of sculpture in this section makes him eager to do the Alabama statues In Alabama marble Let us show our appreciation of the man who Is trying to develop these almost un- touched and apparently almost limtless beds of wealth and beauty in our state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
IT WAS HIS JOB.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harpers Weekly.
 One day last winter Representative Cushman of the state of Washington, was entertaining a constituent at luncheon. A man passed whom MT. Cushman seized by the arm and presented to his friend
 This is the man." said Cushman. con- fidentially. "who has written more stupidi- ties than any other living person.
 The man from Washington was so taken back by the remark, which appeared to him to be the height of impoliteness that he sat in open-mouthed silence. The man introduced, however. took the observa- tion good-naturedly, smiling broadly Perhaps I should add" continued Cushman. ''that this gentleman is one of the official stenographers of the House."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

part and parcel of the city. We have now more territory than we have either police or fire protection for.
 Speaking of police protection. 1t is woe- fully below the limit. The pistol-toters arc in evidence every day. and they use their weapons with a freedom which is almost appalling. Such a thing as a policeman has not been seen in the South High- lands residence section of the city for a long time after sundown. There are a set of young men in that section who seem to have good weapons and are making use of them almost every evening in shoot ing the pet dogs of the residents. Only lew evenings ago as many as a half dozen dogs, all pets and in no way dan- gerous, were deliverately shot down along the section through which Highland ave- nue extends. It may be fun to the nistoI- toeer but 1t Is cruel to the animals and annoying and expensive to those people who desire to have dogs on their premises.
 The people of the residence sections arc entitled to just as much protection as are the people of the business section, and Chief Wier should either afford this protection or else he should call upon and demand of the police commission and the board of aldermen an increased police force
 All of Birmingham apparently approves Dr. Staggs effort to move the county jail. There is no reason in the world why the Jail should be kept in the center of the city It should be moved into the out skirts and the present crowded court house extended on the old site.
 Jefferson county's court house is per- haps architecturally the prettiest build ing in the city. Yet 1t Is fearfully crowd ed, and additional building of the same size is absolutely needed for the proper transaction of business.
 I hope to see the jail removed and an addition to the court house, which will conform architecturally with thes present building, constructed on the jail site.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT IMPROVEMENTS
 IN BIRMINGHAM AND OTHER MATTERS

at the original price paid, with merely betterments included.
 The building up of these iron and steel properties mean the building up of the railroads. And it further means the build ing up of Birmingham and the Birming- ham district.
 In this connection 1t is wise for the city and the city government of Birming- ham to keep pace with the times. That Mayor Ward has already taken active steps toward providing a great park for the city is wise movement. He should continue the work of paving the streets and sidewalks; should build up the fire department and the police force and should keep pace in every respect towards making the city of Birmingham proper the center of that which Is to be the most industrious and populous districts of all the south.
 %
 In this connection l am inclined to the opinion that the Greater Birmingham" movement Is a mistake. Some of us in the past have advocated making the city extend from East Lake to Bessemer, in- oluding North Birmingham, Pratt City and the adjacent towns. As matter of fact, a Greater Birmingham" would drive out many of the industries which are now located adjacent to the city To put many of these great industries with in municipal bounds and annoy them with exchanging administrations and the in reference of such, would drive them to other sections, as has been proven prac- tically within the Greater New York ter ritory. It is better to make the real and actual Birmingham model city and not to try to take in all the outlying district simply to get a bit more in the shape of revenue. If you get the revenue you will have to spend it on the outlying districts, and 1t will be in such small proportion to the territory that there will be endless trouble and opportunities for political graft Therefore, I should say let Bir- mingham remain as it is now and simply take in that territory. as 1t develops by building operations. which is entitled to be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
Secured Railroad.

"It required about one year of earnest endeavor to get the Seaboard to run a line into Anniston" said Joseph A. Ga boury of Jacksonville yesterday. "One year ago I agitated the matter and the Seaboard officials considered the matter with me. They feared that 1t would be too expensive to them. They finally agreed to build if I would get the rights of way and the franchises.
 q went quietly to work and bought a large block of property in the center of the city. No one knew for what purposes the property was being purchased, so managed to secure 1t at a very reasonable price. After everything was arranged we petitioned the council of Anniston to grant us the franchises over the streets, which was done at the meeting this week. That was the last step in the matter, and now the road will soon be in Anniston."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 One way to be good is to be sick abed. When girl has beau she talks about it as if he were fifty.
 A man who won't lie to his wife about his bad habits is a brute.
 There is more fun in being sick abed than visiting your wife's relatives.
 Marriage wouldn't be so serious # it didn't last so long.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
A cINCH.

From the Sheffield Standard.
 It now looks as though Henry B. Gray had a tail hold and a downhill pull on the lieutenant governorship nomination. MT. Gray's Birmingham friends are especially active in his behalf, while he has enthu- sastic supporters in all parts of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
IN SELF-DEFENSE.

From the Washington Star.
 why do you yell at q baseball gamer"
 Because" answered the man who is evidently dignifed, "I dislike to hear the yelling of other people l sacrifice my throat to save my ears"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
HE one-thousand-eigh ght-hundred- and-frst mouse trap has just
 been patented. Mice in all parts

/3s tE OU6-lHOuSdiiu-OiSh ht hAANi - (OD and-frst mouse trap has just
 been patented. Mice in all parts of the country are laughing heartily up their sleeves, so to speak, and between nibbles are polcing fun at mans futile ef- forts at extermination. There are ai- most. but not quite. as many mouse traps as there are mice, but the family continues to prosper and all the cats in Chr1sten- dom have been able to do nothing more than make matters interesting. The gen. erally accepted theory that women are afraid of mice is preposterous. All they are afraid of is what mouse may oo. Historically speaking pardon our discur- siye manner of treating the subject-dnlce date back to early times. They are not older than cats, however, for If the Gre etor had given mice even few years handicap there would be no living with them now. It is the opinion of students that when the first mouse was made a cat was there to give 1t chase.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

Trainmens hours will not be limited by law, so the practice of working men until they fall asleep from exhaustion and permit terrible accidents will con tinue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

Alex Smith is this much different from the other Smiths-he is golf champion of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

Waists in Cleveland are said to be growing wider, which is a sign that arms are growing longer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

If you are euphagist you do nos take eating seriously and you are in a position to be happy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

The King of Cambodia says that French women wear too many clothes. He was not speaking of the chorus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

Now that the auto car is being used to take up church collection the devil can afford to laugh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

Votes in Kansas were quoted at 50 cents each the other day. Somebody ought to bull the market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

An Indianapolis attorney is going to Toledo to learn the art of prosecuting ice magnates.