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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-30
Realistic Military Training.

England has reserved a tract of land
 several hundred square miles in extent
 on which her soldiers play at war, ac-
 cording to r. A. albot in Technical World
 Magazine for January. The Russian
 Japanese war served to emphasize the
 radical revolution which has taken place
 in warfare, due to the remarkable i'm
 provements which have been wrought in
 the devsng of long-range and quick-fir-
 ing weapons. combined with improve
 ments In explosives.
 The result of this revolution in warfare is that battle front may range over as much as sixty or seventy miles. Con
 sequently grave difficulty presents it. self in the training of an army to com ply with and to understand these new conditions, since it is essential that an army in peace should be brought to high standard of efficiency which will enable it to cope with any peculiar difficulty that may present itself in actual combat. But to train army upon this basis necessitates a vast tract of land having a conformation of the most difficult na- | ture and far removed from the influences of human habitations, to enable the men | to have the fullest scope in which to prac- | tice the new conditions of their science. | In practising on Salisbury field, as the
 British call their large mock battle l ground the attacking party uses bullets l and live shells, while the defenders use l blanks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-30
Wants Good Immigrants.

Many people nave thought AHdt tho South Carolina authorities were merely seeking to secure immigrants of any kind. Quite the contrary Is true. In the first place the laws of the United States are already severe inasmuch as they prohiolt the landing in this country of immigrants who are afflicted with contagious dis- cases are insane. of proneenced an- archistic tendencies, notoriously Immoral
 or who are likely in the immediate fu- ture to become der ,ndent upon public charity.
 The right of South Carolina to import labor of course. was subject to the re- strictions of federal law in every particu- lar. Furthermore, the people of South Carolina were not after the refuse of >Eu- rope For instance, it was made the duty of the commissioner. in regard to agri- cultural interests, ito secure those immi-
 grants who desire to purchase homes, be-
 come citizens of this state and build up 1 agricultural interests. The southern peo-
 pie have a disinclination to receive the lower grades of European labor, especial ly those from southern Italy and the Bal kan provinces.
 The South Carolina authorities were
 particularly looking for a class of immi- grants who would supply the demand or
 the cotton mills, and thus lay the tounda- | ton of an industrial population, which
 the state probably needs more than any ! tnl1R else. Y or lHlo ltdSoh tht i"" tN"~N~N% 1 by the general assembly contains Tn sec- { tion II this singular direction: 1 "That immigrants shall be confined to
 white citizens of the United States citi- | zens of Ireland, Scotland. Switzerland, i France, and all other foreigners of Saxon
 origin"
 This, of course, of itself barred out the
 class of people who are coming to this 1 country in the greatest numbers. who | work for the smallest wages and who are
 generally deemed undesirable by immigra- l tion experts.
 The South Carolina commissioner there | fore was forbidden to encourage in any
 way immigration of Russian Jews Slavs | and south Italians, and he was required | to eonfine his efforts to the nations of
 the western and northern parts of Flu
 roDp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-30
STUDENT AND THE PROFESSOR

From the Boston Herald.
 The scholarly William b. Byerly, pro- lessor of mathematics at Harvard, was once asked by a student how to develop a retentative memory. The professor answered that ordinary mental exercise was sufficient to secure good memory, | whereat the student asked if he might test the mental capacity of his instructor. Professor Byerly agreed and the student i asked him to listen to and remember several varied items for a test. He be- 1 gan:
 "One quart of whisky" | "JImrp said the professor "Six pounds of sugar. a pint of sour
 milk. three onions, half a gallon of mo lasses, and two raw eggs" 1 "JImn' said the professor
 1.-TWO green aples, twenty-six peanuts,
 one and a half cucumbers, and four
 mince pies.' "IJmi' said the professor. 1 "A package of starch. sixty-seven | cakes of yeast, and the skins of seven l bananas Got that down?' l "Yes," answered Dr. Byerly.
 How does it taste?" asked the stu
 dent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-30

ing that now give exceeding offense to the community ought to be restricted and kept within proper limits If this were effected, the practice would change from the public nuisance that it now is to a function that, in a considerable degree, might couple genuine service to the pub- lie with a presentation of its material in an interesting and even esthetically at tractiVe fashion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-30
Southern Railway will sel

Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets to Atlanta at the special low rate of S6.9O, selling on Dec. 20, 21, %, g, 24, 25, 30, 31, and January 1, limit ed for return until January 7, 1907. Four daily trains to Atlanta, Pullman cars on all trains. Go by the Southern; the quickest way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-30
Notice.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Citizens Savings bank will be held at it's office. 2O03 First avenue. on Tues- day, January s. at noon, for the pur- pose of electing directors for the coming year and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come pefore IL. c. e. DAVIDSON. Secretary.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-30
North Carolina Plan Menace.

NOftn OdTOllnd ffdn UCHdSCs
 In sharp distinction to this extremely sensible and legal method of procedure is the situation in North Carolina Some of the mill owners thers hired men to go to Europe on their own responsibility. Their agents in many cases deceived in- tending emigrants in the most outrageous manner. False representations were made as to hours of labor. rate of pay and gen. eral conditions of employment.
 The result was that immigrants were dissatisfied when they arrived, and number of them were stopped and de- ported because it was quite evident that they came under the operation of the contract labor law. that they had been "induced to como to this country, that they had been promised work in specific mills. and that all of this had been done by persons and corporations in open de- fiance of the contract labor law. The re- suit was that the department of com merce and labor eXerted itself to indict every one of these people against whom evidence could be procured and the cases will be pushed with the utmost vigor.
 Secretary Straus' approval of the decis- ion of Solicitor Earl. by which the state of South Carolina was permitted to do things which individual mill owners of North Carolina were indicted for doing, has resulted in a good deal of confusion and finally in vigorous protest from labor organizations. They afraid they say. that if the states are permitted to assist immigrants 10 come from abroad. the time may come when powerful employers of labor will have sufficient influence with state governments to induce them to bring in immigrants for the express pur- pose of breaking down the labor market, reducing the rate of wages and throwing American wor1ingmen out of employ ment It is believed at the department of labor that this contingency is so re- mote as to be almost fantastic. No state or territory is likely to resort to assisted immigration except in cases where there Is genuine dearth of labor.
 Present System Has Dangers.
 In the south. and in many of the west ern states, 1t would be blessing to the community if the states should systemat- ically encourage bringing into their bor- ders first-class industrial and agricultural laborers The threat and curse of the whole immigration situation today lies in the fact that hundreds of thousands of generally undesirable immigrants from south Italy from the Balkan provinces and from the Jewish pale of hussia come to this country of their own motion with out any assistance whatever and fill up the slums of New York and Boston.
 If is believed by Commissioner General Sargent and others that if the southern states can secure the establishment of permanent steamship lines to Savannah Charleston. Mobile and New Orleans from the northern ports of Europe, as we'll as from the Mediterranean. a good deal of the tide of Immigration which is clogging New York and Boston will be diverted to- ward the south. There Is an immense field for labor there which never can be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-30
Low Rates :
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Christmas Holiday Rates-Round trip tickets will be sold December 20 to 25, in- elusive, December 30 and 3l. 1906, and Jan uary 1, 19o7 with final limit January :. 1907. at rate nf one fare and third plus 9 cents to all points south of the Ohio and east of tho Mississippi rivers also to certain territory in the north, and north west, including Chicago.
 Home-seekers' rates to the west and northwest-Tickets will be sold the first and third Tuesdays of each month. lim- lied 30 days from date of sale, at rate of one fare plus $2.O0 for the round trip
 One-way Second Class Colonist Rates Tickets will be sold the first and third Tresdays of each month joints in Colo- rado. Indian Territory Kansas. Louisiana, Old Mexico Missouri Nebraska, New Mexico. south Dakota, Texas and Wyom- ing.
 For further informatc'~ -'-'''e to or call on P. Sid Jones, D. P A.. or R. G. Peirce, T. P. A, both phones s25. Birmingham. Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-30

satisfied by negroes The south never can be developed as 1t should be developed until white labor can be induced to come into the southern states in large numbers. The only people who would have right to complain of this would be the colored men themselves, because 1t might drive some of them out of employment. The probable result on colored people, how ever, would be to stimulate them to work, because when they no longer form the sole labor supply of that section they could not afford to remain in fdleness.
 Threefold Benefit Seen.
 This today is the greatest curse of the labor situation in the south. The negroes have no competition. They work a little while and knock off whenever they choose. because they understand only too we'll their places will be waiting for them when their vacation time Is over, when bacon and corn meal are out. and when they have to go to work to satisfy their hunger
 With a white element in the labor field, the tendency will almost surely be by sharp competition to teach the negro that he must work steadily and well to escape starvation. so that in the long run the diversion of Immigration toward the south ought first of all to relieve conges- tion along the north Atlantic seaboard; secondly. it would have vast effect in building up the resources of the south; thirdly, it ought to uplft the industrial capacity of the negro. and at the same time, by reducing his numerical propor- tions take away from the south the old bogyman of negro domination. which, af- fer all. Is the real root of all race preju- dice.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-15
MANY NAMES ARE NOW
ENROLLED ON LIST
NEW HAMPSHIRE ASSOCIATION
HOLDS MEETING
Rain Prevents Large Attendance, but
Members Show Much Enthusiasm
and Future Meetings Will Be spir-
tied 1t Is Predicted

When you meet man in woe,
Walk right up and say hello!
And, how do you do?
How'S the world a-using you?
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-15
DEBATE OVER PHILIPPINES
Reveals Difference of Policy in Which
Bryan Bobs UP
y Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Incidental
to the passage of the Philippines appro-
priatiOn bill, which was accomplished
by the house today, a lively debate was
kept up throughout the investigation
of the difference between the Republic
can and Democratic policies with refer
ence to the Philippines and also the
difference between army and navy Off
GERS as to the place where a naval sta
ton and fortifications shall be estab-
lished in the archipelago.
The debate availed nothing so far as
the legislation was concerned, as the
two amendments ON the proposition
first, not to appropriate anything for
fortificatlons in the Philippines, and
second to forbid the expenditure of
any money at Subig bay were de-
feated.
The minority took some pains to
make plain the position of Mr.. Bryan
in his campaign for the ratification of
the Paris treaty of peace that Mr..
Bryan wanted first to acquire the Phil
ippines and then give their inhabitants
freedom. This was accomplished finally
by having placed in the record let
ter written by Mr.. Bryan some time
ago on the subject.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-15
TO EXCLUDE THE.
FEEBLE MINDED
SENATE CONSIDERS STRICTER
IMMIGRATION LAW
Landing an Allen Improperly Under
New Bill Ia Made a Misdenneanor.
Even Certain Young People
Are Barred
BY Associated Press.

BY ASSOCIATED Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator
Dillingham;, chairman of the senate
committee on immigration, today in
troduced n bill making a number of
changes in the immigration laws.
1t proposes to exclude all alien inn
beetles and feeble minded persons and
persons not oomprehended within any
OF the classes now excluded by law
who are certified by the examining
surgeon as being mentally or physical
ly defective, such mental or physical
defect being Of a nature which may
affect the ability of such alien to earn
q living, aliens who admit their belief
In the practice of polygamy, women
or girls coming into the United States
for any immoral purpose; children un-
der seventeen years of age, who are
unaccompanied by parents, unless COM
ing to join parents, brothers or sisters
already in the United States"
An attempt to land an alien not duly
admitted is made misdemeanor in
stead of an unlawful act, as at present.
The provision of the present law
ship companies for bringing persons
afflicted with a loathsome or a dan
gerous contagious disease is extended
to- include idiots, imbeciles, feeble
minded persons, insane persons and
epileptics.
1t is also provided that masters of
vessels carrying aliens from ports of
the United States to foreign ports
shall furnish complete descriptive lists
or manifests of all outgoing aliens.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-15
TWO BURNED TO DEATH
ST. Louis and San Francisco Passenger
Train Consumed by Flames
Following Accident
BY Associated Press

BY Ae1t ciated Press
FORT SCOTT, Kas., Feb. H. -- st.
Louis e. San Francisco passenger train
No. IL, northbound was wrecked mt
Columbus, Kas, early this morning.
Harry Roundtree Of Fort Scott, the
express messenger, and a newsboy,
name unknown, were burned to death.
George Woods, the engineer, was badly
hurt, and W. r. Runyan, the fireman,
sustained broken leg. The passenger
train ran into a string of box cars
that had broken loose from a freight
train and ran back down onto the main
line. The entire passenger train except
the sleeper was burned.
The wrecked train Is known as the
Joplin, Oklahoma express and ran be-
The train, which left at O'Clock last
night, consisted of a baggage, smoker
and two chair cars.
A few passengers were slightly hurt
The flames from the freight cars
caught the coaches and chair cars and
all four were consumed. Several MEM
bers of the train crew were pinioned
beneath the burning express and mail
cars. The passengers made strenuous
efforts to save Roundtree and the news
boy, but were driven back by the
flames. A. II. Herke of Weir, Kas.,
reported among the dead, was among
those who escaped from the coaches.
He was engaged later in the rescue
work when he suddenly dropped dead,
evidently from heart disease, the result
of excitement and overexertion.
c. f. Waddell Tuscombia, Mo-, and
two women, names unknown, from Jop-
lin, were slightly hurt.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-15
CHICAGO VOTES CHEAP GAS
Aldermen Do Business There With
Squads of Police Guarding
the Building
By Associated Press.


CHICAGO, Feb. 14.-The city council
at a special meeting held today took
action ON three important propositions
affecting the city.
An order fixing the price to be paid
for gas by consumers at So cents, in
stead of 80 cents and 81 as heretofore,
was passed over the veto of Mayor
Dunno by vote of 81 to 10; an ordi-
nance placing the saloon license at
$500 instead of $500, the present figure,
was adopted by a vote of 35 to 80, but
Mayor Dunno ruled that the measure
had failed of passage, because 1t did
not receive 36 votes, the constitutional
majority. The $1,000 license ordinance
was then reintroduced but it was re-
ferred to the license committee to be
presented again at the next meeting of
the council on February 26.
1t was also ordered that the question
of voting SIS, 900, 900 for the purchase of
the street railways for the city be
submitted to the voters of the city at
the next election.
The Importance of the pending
measures and the excitement which has
attended their agitation drew an enor-
nous crowd to the city hall late today.
Special guards OF policemen were sta
toned around the building and all the
doors were guarded in order to pre-
vent a dangerous jam inside the build
ing, but despite these precautions the
council chamber and the hallway out
side were packed to suffocation.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-15

w men you meet Il man III woe,
Walk right up and say hello!
And, how do you do?
How'S the world a-using you?
Slap the fellow on his back,
Bring your hand down with whack!
Walk right up and don't go slow,
Grin. and shake. and say hello!
The foregoing are the first lines Of a
poem written by Sam Walter Foss and
recited from memory by Jesse w. Sar-
geant last evening at the initial meet
ing of the New Hampshire association
in the chamber of commerce assembly
hall.
A. S. Morrison, who has been in
strumental in getting many of the New
Hampshire people here through con-
ducting excursions from that state
within the past year, was elected chair
man and Robert r. Ross secretary pro
tenn.
There were but few present owing to
the rain, but what was lacking In
numbers was made up in enthusiasm.
c. H. Parsons, formerly of Iowa, was
introduced and spoke words of encour-
agement from his experience in SINH
lar association.
DR.. r. b. Clark, ]. F. Chandler and
C. NJ. Virgins We're chosen to report
at the next meeting regarding the
names of the permonent officers to be
elected and the bylaws and constitu-
tion to be adopted.
The list of names enrolled last even
ing numbered about ninety. At the
next meeting lin two weeks it is eX-
pected that large increase will reward
the efforts of the promoters of the
association.
Mr.. Foss, the author of the poem re-
cited by Mr.. Sergeant, was the or
ganizer five years ago and first presi-
dent of the New Home Week club, a
state organization of New Hampshire
l.. f. Dearborn, the present president
of the club. was present at the meet
ing last evening.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-15

only man who could not, upon, invita-
ton, be present at the ceremony, ~.
In making up the list of people to
whom invitations were to be sent
President and Mrs. Roosevelt suddenly
thought of the queer predicament in
which they were placed as regards the
Clevelands, and it was only after talk
ing the question over and trying In
every way to prepare an argument
which would. perchance, enable them
to make an exception to the rule In
this particular case. that they finally
resolved to bow to the established Gus
tom and omit the ex-president and his
family from the list of invited guests.
Wa ashington society is naturally deeply
interested in the coming event, and
nothing has appeared in the page after
page of gossip concerning 1t that has
attracted as much attention as will
the above announcement.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-15
ScHWERIN BLAMEs UNIONS
Says Treaty Provisions Buried by
Assertive Labor Influence
Rv Accoaiatad praea

= NEW YORK, Feb. AR. p.
Schwerin, vice president and general
manager of the Pacific Mail Steamship
company, whose business relations with
China have been intimate for a dozen
years, regards the situation in China
with grave apprehension. He con-
siders the manifestations of disorder as
primarily anti-American, but with the
sentiment of "China for the Chinese. ;"
underlying the eruptons. the trouble is
certain, in his opinion, to spread and
become an anti~foreign uprising that
will make all other nationalities ex-
eepting the Japanese the objects of
attack.
Speaking of the prospects of trouble
Mr.. Schwerin said:
The present situation is certainly
exceedingly serious and Tie safety Of
all the missionaries in the empire is
MANAGED. Indeed | should not be sur
prised at any time to read of a whole
sale massacre. And if it should come
to such "a pass-which / fervently hope
may be avoided-we simply would be
paying the penalty of our folly aad
reaping the fruit of our outrageous
treatment of the Chinese
The Boxer Uprising in 1900 was one
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-15
EXTEND THANKS TO MEMBERS
Oregon Development Association Ap.
preelatss ceurtesies Shown by
Chamber of Commerce

In q letter addressed to the chamber
OF commerce, the Oregon Development
association thanked that body for the
coultesies extended the two hundred
members Of tho Oregon Development
association, when they visited here
some weeks ago.
At the meeting of the board of di-
rectors OF the chamber of commerce
yesterday a vote of thanks was ex-
tended to President KoepAl for the
courteous manner in which he has pre-
sided over that body during the past
year
Yesterday was the last meeting OF
the board as the terms of office Of the
members expired recently,
The following were elected to mem
bership In the chamber; r. II. Ed
wards, j. J. Forbs, Frank C. Clark
arthur Fava, S. Bodrero G. Aubrey
Davidson, Crescent Furniture CO.,
Thornton Fitzhugh, Aug, " Han
dorf, l.. A, College Osteopathy, l.
A. Realty Sign Co, X. NJ. Armour
Geo. Hanson.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-15

Of the evidences of the ferment OF
anti-foreign feeling, but when order
had been restored no people stood
closer to the Chinese than ala tne
Americans. And as a result our traos
with China has increased by leaps ana
bounds since the end Of the Boxer OUT
break.
"But the anti-American boycott has
not ONLY checked the development OF
trade relations but the complete de-
struction Of what had been built up Is
now threatened. All Of this Is only the
reflex of the active and aggressive
methods of certain labor ORGANIZATIONS
on the Pacific coast.
"The clear intent Of the treaty OF 1889
has been perverted. It defined the ex-
cIuded class. but in response to the
constantly assertive labor influence
regulation has been piled upon regula-
tion until the treaty provisions nave
been buried out of sight.
"Then, again, the labor organizations
OH the coast have applied the boycott
not only against Chinese goods inn
ported into the country but against the
merchant who would buy the garden
products of the Chinese farmer IN the
coast states. And the result has been
that the Cinnamon have turned the
weapon upon the Americans who
taught them by example the power 1t
possessed"
\ Mr.. Schwerin expressed the opinion
that the administration at Washington
was fully alive to the seriousness of
the existing situation. He said that
while the passage of the Foster bill,
now pending in the house, might make
IL possible for the Chinese authorities
TO hold the people i'm check and avert a
massacre of the American contingent
in China only the complete elimination
of friction can give promise of re-
establishing the waning trade between
China and the United States.
Mr.. Schwerin came east to testify be-
fore a congressional committee on the
exclusion question.