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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-09
RECOGNITION OF TIE SOUTH.
Senator Daniels Timely Protest
Against Partisanship in Public Service

From the New York Commercial.
There are ten or twelve states in this
union of ours that are not adequately
represented in the higher spheres of
American life. The man who says that
there is not in the south good material
for any public mission is nothing less
than a narrow-m minded bigotn
The words are those of United States
Senator Daniel of Virginia. They were
spoken on the floor of the chamber in
the course of debate on an item in the
urgent-deiciency bill providing for the
appointment and the expenses of five
United States delegates to the interna-
tional conference of American republics
to meet in Rio Janeiro next July. The
Virginian was moved to utter them be-
cause this delegation was slated to be
made up of two men from Illinois and one
each from New York, Pennsylvania, and
Porto Rico-but with absolutely no rep
resentation from the entire region south
of the Potomac and west of the Mssis-
sppi, And his argument resulted in an
increase of the delegation to seven menu
bers, with all sections of the country
to be represented" and in a raising of
the appropriation from $4,000 to $4,000.
Senator Daniels protest was timely
based on a truth that is deeply signif-
cant. but too often ignored, albeit not
always purposely or deliberately-and the
Senate was obviously impressed by his
suggestion and argument, for 1t ac-
guessed promptly in both. Unconscious
ly, for the most part, we north of the
line'' often display more of the old AFTER
the-war" spirit than do our fellow-eoun-
trymen whose lot has been cast south
of it. The issues that made the politics
of the late sixties are all buried and long
since deeayed, and down in Dixie one
rarely hears anything of them. The
Southrons are far too busy with devel-
oping and expanding the vast resources
Of their region, with making money and
history to give much thought to day
that is dead. But the party that has
only twice lost control of the Federal
government in the past forty-six years
is far too apt TO let the political spirit
dominate all its policies and acts--is too
prone sometimes to forget that the war
is over. us it not time asked the
Virginia senator, that we should reeog-
nize the fact that the things upon which
we differ in politics constitute only
small percentage of American affairsg
The partisan United States Senate saw
the force of the rebuke instantly and
had too much sense to take umbrage a
it. The whole country will appreciate 1t.
And the incident ought to quicken the
public conscience in matter that never
was and never can be trivial
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-09
Plant 40 Acres In Tomatoes.

Gadsden, April S.--(Speeial.l-T Ellaott
Fruit company, which owns a large fruit
and vegetable farm and canning factory
in sight of this city are preparing to
plant forty acres of tomatoes for canning
purposes, the plants are now being grown
under glass. The factory has u daily
capacity of ten thousand cans and it is
estimated that the forty acres will pro-
duee seventy-hve thousand three pound
cans. The output of this factory has a
ready sale in this and other markets at
a fancy price on account of the superior
goods put up. The process is known
as the cold packed" and the tomatoes
have flavor equal 10 those freshly gath
cred
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Worked Anxwhere.

Friends sometimes ask me- said Mar
tin J. Downs. manager of Cole Brothers
circus yesterday, why | lug shaving
outfit all over the country with me 1nd
perform iaE own tonsorial operations,
but l assure them that l have good rea-
son for it,
I had to stop off an hour at june
ton station in Maine last summer and
in order to save time decided to pay for
a shave. l entered the village barber shop
which contained one old skeleton Of a
barber chair. pool table with part of
the pockets out and a show case filled
with cheap candies. Tie establishment
was presided over by a rough native
wearing a butchers apron
THE man behind the apron made a
mug of lather out of 'Washwoman's De-
light or some other labor saving brand
of soap and after jabbing my nose, eyes.
ears and mouth full OF It commenced
hacking me with the remains of a razor.
lie cut me in three or four places. one
under my chin here that left a scar that
you can see now In little while J told
him l had enough and got up. As I was
paying him, he remarked with a bland
smlle
" Mister callate that you run cross
good many kind of BARRIERS in your
rounds don't YOU?
: 1 do I replied, but you are the
worst I ever met
amt the barber he said with sur
prise run the hotel livery stable and
am Just staying over here to watch the
place while the barber's gone to a fun
eral' +"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-09
THE USED-To-BE.
James Whitcomb Riley.

BY James Whitcomb Riley
Beyond the purple, hazy trees
OF summers utmost boundaries
Beyond the sands-beyond the seas
Beyond the range of eyes like these,
And only in the reach of the
Enraptured gaze of Memory.
There lies a land, long lost to me-
The Land of Used-to-be.
A land enehanted-such as swung
In golden seas when sirens chung
Along their dripping Drinks and sung
To Jason in that mystic tongue
That dazed men with its melody
Oh, such a land, with such a sea
Kissing its shores eternally,
Is the fair Used-to-be.
A land where music ever girds
The air with belts of singing birds,
And sows all sounds with such sweet
words
That even in the lowering herds
meaning lives so sweet to me.
Lost laughter ripples limpidly
From lips trimmed DER with all the
OF rare old Used-to-be.
Lost laughter. and the whistled tunes
OF boyhood's mouth of crescent runes.
That rounded through long afternoons.
TO serenading plenilunes-
When starlight fell so mistily
That, peering up from Bonded knee
dreamed twas bridal drapery
Showed over Used-to-be.
O land of love and dreamy thoughts.
And shining fields and shady spots
OF coolest, greenest grassy plots,
Embossed with wild forget-me- nots-
And all We blooms that cunningly
Lift Your faces up to me
Out of the past. l kiss in thee
The lips of Used-to-be.
And love We all, and with wet eyes
Turned glimmering on the skies.
BY blessings like your perfumes rise
Till DER my soul silence lies
Sweeter than any song 10 me-
Sweeter than its melody
Or its sweet echo. yea. all three
Ny dream of Used-to-be.
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GUS, transeendental and Incompetent
sible. The second line wabbles. The third
is commonplace. The whole first stanza
has an uneasy air Of desperate but futile
effort. And SO on down the poem. In all
the twenty-eight lines there is not a
new thought or new phrase or a new
word or a new mode of spelling Wit
ness the last stanza:
Then the daffodils came, afame. aflame
In orchard and garth, and cover;
And out April leapt and first smiled, then
wept,
And longed for her Mayday lover"
This may be poetry but we doubt 1t. It
may be beautiful. but we deny It. It
may be sublime. but we yell "Nayl Nayle
The Hon Mr.. Michel has written poetry
infinitely superior. Professor Geddes has
done better with both hands tied behind
him. 1t is poetry of the third grade, and
it would be dear at forty cents stanza.
In all seriousness, this new poem of
Mr. Austins is but a renewed proof of
the fact that the late Queen Victoria
made a mistake when she gave him the
post of poet laureate. There are in Eng
land today twenty poets of superior at
tainments. One of these is Mr.. William
Watson. Essaying the same theme as that
tackled by Mr.. Austin in his present eff
fusion, he once produced the following
gem:
April. April
Laugh thy grlish laughter;
Then the moment after
Weep thy girlish tears.
April, that mine ears
Like a lover greetest;
Let me tell you, sweetest.
All my hopes and fears.
April, April,
Laugh thy golden laughter;
Then q moment after
Weep thy golden tears"
Here we have real poetry Mr.. Austin's
apostrophe to the daffodils is flub-dub
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
Next to having freclSles, a girl feels the
worst about a low instep.
Once in a while a woman tells the
truth about her children, but not out
loud
When a girl marres an old man for his
money she wears sanity look to make
IL seem natural
The strongest moral argument to stop
women from smoking cigarettes is that
II spoils their complexion.
A man who has no more judgment than
to try to show his son how to do a
problem in geometry will try to stop a
leak in the plumbing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-09
HoBSON IN GUN.
Leaves After Speaking For His Home
In Greensboro.

GUM. April S.-(Special1-Cap Rich
mond Pearson Hobson spoke here yester-
day in the interest of his candidacy for
Congress There was an unusually large
crowd here to hear him, and his speech,
which lasted for more than two hours,
was well received, and loudly applauded.
His speech was along practically the
same lines as heretofore with few excep-
tons. The captain is much stronger in
this county than he was two years ago,
and ii is expected that the race will be
very close between him and Mr. Bank
head in this county.
The captain left on the afternoon train
for his home in Greensboro via. Birming-
ham
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counties to Florence in one direction
and to Mobile in another. to say moth
ing of an extension of the Gould sys-
TEN from Natchez or some other river
points. No, indeed, our railroad sys.
TEN is by no means complete.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-09
HEAR! HEAR!

From the Bessemer Rustler Missis-
sipps penitentiary is filled to overlooking,
which is quite a reflection on MISSISSIPPI
pians.-Age -Herald.
1t may be possible that Mississippi has
jurors that convict criminals If Jeffer-
son county had a few jurors of the
Mississippi brand there would be less
criminals abroad
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which he is sittin. 1t would be just as fair
prescribe him as to deny the railroad
president his right to be heard and put
him beyond the pale. Railroad presidents
have visited the White House to talk with
the President about amending the Hep
burn bill. and they have gone 10 the
the impropriety? And why a senator or
representative should consider himself on
the defensive when taxed with holding
communication with railroad president
while the rate bill is before Congress, no
one, we think, could explain without hum
bug.
There is a good deal of such hypocrisy
in Washington, owing to the tom-tom
beating of the yellow exposers. But when
called to account no senator or represent
tative with the taunt on his lips is able
to justify himself Mr.. Dolliver of Iowa
made sorry figure when he tried TO ex-
plain away his ugly insnuation that sem
ators were plotting with railroad presi-
dents behind the scenes to prevent rate
regulation. Il have never dreamed he
was constrained to say, that there was
any improperly in consulting with presi-
dents of railroads. / presume hardly q
man here but has sought the counsel and
suggestion of those who were practically
familiar with the railway business" We
ought to hear no more of the foolish
patter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-09
SPRING FASHIONS.

From the Rome Tribune.
Fashion calls for green shoes and Law
ender shirt" says the Birmingham Age
Herald. In that case. everybody ought
to lay down their hands and let fashion
take the ante
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-09
THE WAYS OF THE FANTASTIC

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
AT the Tuskegee celegration ON Thurs
day last, President Cyrus Northrop OF
the University of Minnesota greatly Oh
Tended Mr.. William Lloyd Garrison by
expressing the opinion that the enfran-
chisemenr of the mass of negroes at the
close of the civil war was colossal
blunder. The Associated Press tells us
that sharp issue was taken by Mr.. Gar
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Catholic Lectures In Huntsville.

Huntsville April s.-tspecial.)-Rev.
Father osmond of the Catholic university
of Washington, d. c.. opened mission
in the Catholic church here today and will
remain more than a week. His lectures
are for the benefit of the general public
on the truth concerning the Catholic re-
ligion.
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prevailing is the active use of money
throughout the country. a large part Of
which is tied up indefinitely in enter
prises. The increase of our circulating
medium has not apparently kept pace
with increase in the country's develop
nept So long, therefore. as this condi-
ton of affairs continues money is liable
TO command higher rate of interest"
About Persons.
John W. Moon of Florence is at the
Morris.
a. J. Murphy of Norfolk. Va, is stop
ping al the Hilman
c. G. Tissier and w. A. Cobb Of Selma
are at the Metropolitan,
F. L. Miller of Montgomery is register
ed at the Morris.
c. C seoville and G. H Williams of
opellka are stopping az the st. Nicholas.
Paul B. Ray of Pine Hill is at the Hill
man.
King Riddle of Gadsden is registered at
the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-09
SPRING In SELMA.

From the Selma Times.
The beautiful wistaria is now in bloom,
and in few days many tall oaks in
the city of Selma will have purple
crowns of glory.
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Our American Mountains.

The Geological Survey has recently
revised it's table attitudes in the
United States, and many changes
have been made in the figures Of our
champion peaks. The interior Of
Alaska has. however, not been eN.
plored, and it is possible that the
highest mountain in this country has
not been found The following is the
list of the highest known mountains
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in this country;

There are 317 peaks in the United
States more than $1,000 feet in height
The mountain state of the country is
Colorado, but California and Wash
ington are not far behind the land of
gold
The highest mountain east of Ms
Mississippi river is Mount Mitchell an
North Carolina, and 1t is only GIL
feet high. Mount Washington in New
Hampshire is 6,279 feet high and
Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks Is
5,344 feet high.
But Mexico Chile. Argentina. Peru,
and Bolivia. each contain noun tains
outranking the highest in this country.
The highest mountain in aVl the
Americas appears to be Aconca| gpa in
Chile. It's height is 23.0S0 feet, and it
is not far from the sea. The active
volcanoes are confined to Central
America, Colombia, Equador' ami
Peru. The mainland of this country
has no active volcano, and has not
had one in its entire history, nor is
1t known that Alaska has (been any
more spectacular. Over in Hawaii,
however. we have some INF active OPP.
Grafton, and We have sonte volcanic
possibilities in the Philippines.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-09
SONG OF THE SOUTH

From the New York Herald
Girls of Atlanta, Ga, in welcoming Mr..
Carnegie sang candy Is a Dandy" which
certainly takes the candy" and illus
trates the crying need of Libraries in that
city.
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Dothan Eagle Now quit grumbling
about coal and wood and get season
| ticket TO the ice mans show.
| Talladega Reporter Longworth is to
run for Congress again. Hope he will
be reelected on the account of his wife.
Camp Hill Times: Steve Elkins effort
to look as though he would not know
railroad if he saw one, does not carry
conviction.
Coosa Argus: One of the faith healers
offers to cure poverty for 50. a treatment.
Here is another chance for poor people to
get rich quick.
Ensley Sun: Now that the Standard
Oil company comes out against the free
alcohol bill now pending in Congress VIC
can see its finish.
Florence Times: In those families where
the song Everybody Works but Father
is most popular it is safe to say the mem
bers are never so busy as when work
| ing father.
Carrollton Alabamian-Her Keep cool,
brother. Don't get excited. Your can
didate may not be elected but you will
never know the difference unless you have
money up on the race.
Demopolis Times: A recent census re-
port says there are only about three
| thousand of the Pulajanes on the Island
of Samar A few more battles like the
recent crater fight will "civilze" them.
Huntsville Tribune A joint debate be-
tween DIR. Cunningham and Hon. b. B.
Conner seems universally demanded. 1t
seems however that Mr.. Conner has ex-
pended too much of his wind before
the race began in earnest.
Mobile Register One word from a
southern man would be worth thousand
from President Eliot. DIR. Abbott or Editor
Willard as to what the Tuskegee institute
is doing for the negroes of the south, yet
no southern man was on the speaking list
at Tuskegee's celebration of Wednesday.
! Jort Payne Journal: Judge Parker, in
his late speech did not say 81 told YOU
So" but he again expressed the opinion
that the republican party is rotten to
the core" which even President Roose-
Welt will now hardly deny in view of re-
cent exposures
| Gadsden Times News: Montgomery has
opened a magnificent new hotel and Chat-
tanooga has two in prospect Birming-
ham can be counted on to build them
whenever it needs them. Gadsden is be-
| hind them all in hotel accommodations
Even Admission is ahead of us in this
| respect.
Monroe Journal: Those newspapers
which have exhibited so much apparent
concern over the alleged abandonment
of the race for governor by DIR. Cunning
ham may now console themselves with
the knowledge that their anxiety was
groundless DR.. Cunningham will be very
much in evidence from now until the
| ~ Of
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AS long as Mr.. Hartman stands be-
hind Odell he will remain the repub-
lican boss. Let no one think that the
tie that binds the corporations and
the republican party together has
been severed.
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COMING AND GOING.

From the Shreveport Times
They have a Conner running for gov
ernor in Alabama. Well. we have a
''goner' running for governor in Louis
lana and the election is two years off
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An Ohio court has decided that a
school teacher may lawfully be dis
missed whenever she becomes en-
gagged. Her usefulness in teaching the
young idea how to shoot is ended.
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James Whitcomb Riley's literary
summer hotel should be enlarged. It
is located at Bear Wallow. Indiana
and that state fairly swarms with
liter'y felers.
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Hanging has been abolished in New
Jersey but not in Chattanooga. The
victims of the law in New Jersey are
TO be electrocuted hereafter.
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From the Boston Globe.
sWreathed in Girls. Who wouldn't be
Mark Twain?
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The fans begins to dream of long
luxurious afternoons ON the bleachers.
Those dayk are just ahead.
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France proposes to build six man.
moth battleships. The race for big
ships is warm and exciting.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-09

The nomination of Bouncer Barnes
for postmaster of Washington has
raised another issue that may stay
with us a long time.
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Postmaster Barnes is a trihe too
strenuous and robust in his methods
to handle mail with delieacy and dis
match
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The downtrodden fatters are begin
ming to organize themselves, and
pretty soon it will not be prudent to
rush rents up on them.
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Those who go up to the clouds in Il
balloon take more chances than those
who go down to the sea in ships.
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Russell Sage is retiring from his
business interests, but not from his
income. He proposes to be frugal to
the last.
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The next Hague peace conference
will not let us hope, be followed by a
bloody war. as the first one was.
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A clash if not a smash is due at
Zion City this week, for John Alex
ander is coming full of war and
threatenings.
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Japan says she is not going about
buying white elephants, but the Fill
pinos are as yellow as the Japanese.
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Let us igive the balloon credit for
one thing lit is not in the habit of
running oter pedestrians.
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The consulship at Birmingham
would resent an appointment outside
of the Halstead family.
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Coosa Argus: One of the faith healers
offers to cure poverty for So, a treatment.
Here is another chance for poor people to
get rich quick
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Ensley Sun: Now that the Standard
Oil company comes out against the free
alcohol bill now pending in Congress VIC
can see its finish
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Florence Times: In those families where
the song Everybody Works but Father
is most popular it is safe to say the MEM
bers are never so busy as when work
ing" ia ther.
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Hitehing a chariot to a star is all
right. provided it is not one of the
musical comedy sort.
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Camp Hill Times: Steve Elkins' effort
to look as though he would not know
railroad if he saw one. does not carry
conviction.
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GLoRIous FATE.

Easter hats are nearly ripe.
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Senator Jeff Davis should attempt TO
live up to his name.
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This is Easter bonnet weather.
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Carrollton Alabamian-Herald Keep cool
brother Don't get excited, Your can
didate may not be elected but you will
never know the difference unless you have
money IN on the race
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Dowies remarks about his deposit
ton are not really printable.
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Zion City may yet become the scene
of combat and war Dowie seems to
be ready for either.
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Autocracies are going to the dogs
alike in Zion City and in Russia.
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Demopolis Times: A recent census re-
port says there are only about three
thousand of the Pulajanes on the Island
of Samar. A few more battles Ike the
recent crater fight will 'civilize" them.
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ALABAMA PRESS

Dothan Eagle: Now quit grumbing
about coal and wood and get a season
ticket TO the ice mans show.