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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-06

From the Chicago News.
Most of mans hero worship is wasted
on himself.
Misers get more out of the world than
they put in it,
Thieves are bound to their profession
by hooks of steal.
A prayer that is ng-dra wn-out is apt
to be rather narrow.
A good many young men will hang this
summer-on front gates.
A woman begins TO show her age only
when she tries to hide it,
After ALL there are more prizes than
blanks in the matrimonial lottery.
Even the boastful man has but little
to say about his gold-brlck investments.
Instead of marrying for money alone, a
man ought to brace up and rob bank.
Quite often the man who is swift and
a good guesser distances the slow but
sure chap
Few men believe in an everlasting fire
and birthstone punishment-ex except for
their neighbors
Some girls nrt with handkerchiefs and
some with fans. but the majority prefer
to firt with men.
People are always regretting today the
things they did yesterday. Therefore, the
lazy man has The fewest regrets
When woman goes away for short
visit she Invariably borrows something
from one of her neighbors to take with
her.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-06
Chip an Artist.

IF one were to make the statement
that Little Chip is an artist, every one
who ever saw him act would agree at
once. for he is an artist in his peculiar
line" said a constant attendant at the
Bijou But Chip is an artist in more
ways than that. This young comedian,
for he is barely old enough to vote. paints
well, and every now and then one Of his
friends is surprised with a water color
which was done by Chip.
II was very much surprised when
heard dt I have known him for several
years, and never knew he had any tai
ents in that direction until today when the
subject incidentally came up, and he
showed me several pieces he had painted.
Il knew that Chip was very artistic
in putting 'make-up on his face, but
was absolutely surprised when I found
that he could also put colors on call
vas or paper
Chip told me that he had younger
brother in New York. boy only II years
old. who designs all the patterns for gas
and electric light chandeliers for one of
the largest Venetian glass companies IN
the country. The boy is also very skilled
with oils, and Chip has a number OF
pieces he has painted and sent him at
different times"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-06
Meat Insnectlnn in,.Chicann.

Commissioner of Labor Charles P.
Neill and James b. Reynolds spent two
weeks in the packing houses of Chi
cago and they put their actual ascer-
tainments in report that the Presi-
dent has at length laid before the peo-
pie, accompanying it with an approx
ing message. 1t is hardly probable
tLat the statements of the two investi-
gators are exaggerations. They had
no reason for indulging in exaggerated
statements. Beyond all doubt it seems
they found enough filth to render ex-
aggeration superfuous. When expec-
toration. closets and general filth are
mingled, there is no reason for even a
depraved imagination, and the wish
spontaneously arises that the packers.
not the employees, should be condemned
in some way to subsistence on meats
prepared under such circumstances.
The packing companies that consti-
tute the beef trust grow smart and
sarcastic when they cause a couple of
men to say in their defense, The pack
ing house is for butchers, and any one
having any connection with the actual
work has no use for dress suits or kid
gloves, as it is not milliner's or
jewelers. work" Their plea through
out is that their packing houses are as
clearly as packing houses need be.
Professor Neill and Mr. Reynolds
answer all such baseless talk when
they describe a large slaughter and
packing house in New York city. 1t
has ventilation, closets well-placed and
well-equipped, sanitation and cleanli-
ness. 1t has everything that Chicago
has not. with none of the latter's dis
gushing and revolving accompanyments.
1t would say hefnyestigators, revou-
tionize the stock yards in Chicago to
make them like the plant in New York.
The men to hold responsible for the
gruesome shocking stockyards of Chi
cago are not the underpaid workers in
them, but the millionaire packers who
tax consumers by means of monopoly
in return for germ-laden meats. No
punishment can be too severe, or too
sudden, or too direct. Their answer is
no answer at all. Besides, they state
what is untrue when they say that
their plants are conducted under
thorough government supervision"
Inc government supervision is limited
to the exclusion of diseased animals
before slaughter, and does not go an
inch further. This is why we need the
Beveridge amendment This amend
ment is based on the power to, exclude
| from interstate commerce all but in
spected meats. Meats should be in
spected at every stage of the slaughter
house process. The Beverage amend
ment should therefore become law.
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Mr.. Bankhead for Senate

Mr. Bankhead announces himself a
candidate for alternate Senator in the
coming primary race. This announce
ment probably completes the list
seven in all. They are John B. Knox,
Richard H. Clarke. Joseph F. Johnston,
" Liam c. Oates, William c. Fits.
Jesse F. Stallings and John H. Bank
head. Four have served in Congress,
and three have not, but all seven are
we'll and most favorably known
throughout the state.
~ Mr.. Banl1head chiefly bases his claim
for consideration upon his long and
efficient service in behalf of the rivers
of this great river state. If he should
reach the Senate he proposes there 10
keep up the good work until there is 50
feet of water on our solitary outer bar
and 81 feet in the channel at Mobile
until all our rivers are rendered nayi-
RdDl6 lIt SOnlluNt
system-until the needful canals are
dug ito complete the system of water
transportation in Alabama" This is
a good. healthy programme, but it is
a wholly feasible one in a state that
nature has equipped with noble rivers
md with heavy nrOducts that call for
water transportation.
Mr.. Bankhead comes out of the Sixth
district race defeated but not cast
down. He comes out of 1t holding the
esteem of the voters, and If his home
district gives him big vote he will
be indeed a warm member Of the band
of seven who are endeayoring to gain
seats in the Senate in succession to
our veteran Senators.
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alcohol unfit for drink, but 1t does not
render 1t unfit for many special uses.
The denaturizer is milder, and It varies
according to the uses to which the alco-
hol is to be put. As rule turpentine
is used in the incomplete process.
Alcohol is made In Germany from
potatoes, or damaged grain and the
like, and at wholesale it is sold below
seven cents a quart. It Is retailed be-
low eight cents quart and In its de-
natured form It is freely used for heat.
ing, lighting and manufacturing pur-
poses. The process of standardization
is inexpensive.
The Standard Oil objected to the
passage of the free alcohol bill simply
because it did not want a rival prod
uct in the kerosene markets. 1t nat
urally preferred to retain a monopoly
of the peoples lighting or lamp fluid.
This monopoly will be broken if de-
natured alcohol is offered in the United
States at eight cents quart There
is no reason why it should bear a
higher price than 1t does in Germany,
when the tax of $275 a gallon Is re-
moved. That tax had no excuse what
ever except the single one that the
Standard Oil needed it in It's business.
The act will not go into effect until
January l, 1907, and it is estimated
that it will be felt in many of the me-
chanical and Industrial arts, and in at
least five hundred mechanical and
pharmaceutical preparations.
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A HARD SHAKE.
From The Kansas CITY Journal.

From the Kansas a1lly JouiIe1
speaking of earthquakes" said Truth
full James. II was in one once down in
Central America. It's an awful sensa-
ton but the Teller who was travelin
with me had a blamed sight worse time
than l did. He had been tolerably I'M
fortunate and was considerably patched
up. To begin at the top, he was bald
headed and wore wig. Then he had lost
an eve and had glass ono In its place.
He also had a full set of false teenth, up
per and lower, and at some time in his
life his nose had been curt Off and an
artificial nose put on. Then he got mixed
up with a railroad wreck and a couple of
cyclones, durin' the course of which he
had lost an arm and both legs and was
wearin' three artificial limbs. I knew
that the Teller had suffered some misfor-
tunes. but [ had no idea that he was
such a work of art as he was till after
we got in that earthquake. There came
an awful shock and when | sort of
gathered myself up and commenced to
look after my companion ! saw some
thing, bat 1t was minute or two before
could make out what 1t was. | swan.
That feller had been Just saook to pieces.
The earthquake had shook OF his wig,
shook out his glass eye and sll Of his
false teeth; likewise his cellrloid arm and
both of his cork legs and his false nose
Never saw such complete wreck 0 a
man - ~ Afs."
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BASEBALL IN ENGLAND,

From the New York World.
Baseball is declared to have AT last
hrm ioothold in England. The game was
introduced there in 1874. when the Phra-
delphla Athletics and the Bostons made
tour of Great Britain. Fifteen wears ,ster
interest was revived by the world tour
of the All-American teams. 1t il not sur
prising that people which has endured
cricket as national pastime for two
centuries has taken a generation to real
ize the possibilities of baseball.
Cricket Is serial game One attends to-
days instalment down to the "to-be-
continued" line, goes again tomorrow If
he has British patience, and PERTAINS
catches the conclusion the day after
Baseball Is a short story with snap to #
We congratulate the Britons who are to
get more of It.
In 1889 game of baseball was PLAYED on
historic Remington Oval The King was
there. But so was a truly English for
and the enthusiasm of the occasion was
lost in the mist There have been games
since. Buffalo Bills cowboys played a
Hltlc WHiie a1ter the Remington game
Later the National Baseball association
was started, also the formally Incorporate
ed London Baseball association. Along In
the nineties five clubs were playing reg
ularly in and about London.
In the present tanning of British base
ball interests American Rhodes scholars
at Oxford have had a hand. Two weeks
ago match game was played in London
In which all the players were English ex-
cept the catchers. The man behind the
bat has yet to be fully developed in
Britain. So has an understanding of the
slang of the game. The crowd at the
London contest missed many fine points In
falling to appreciate the professional re-
marks of the American catchers.
1t is prophesied that before the summer
is over at least twenty league clubs will
be playing in England. International
championships may be expected in early
years And a mutual interest in the score
should be no mean factor in the relations
between the two English-spealdng nations.
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New York Y. M. C. A.

1.-THE Young Mems Christian associations
in Greater New York have just completed
a series of canvasses eliminating in New
York City with one for $4,000" said an
association official.
In the borough of Brooklyn. the sum
of ssOoOOO was rounded out In February.
This provided for the erection of three
new buildings, costing from S15O,OOO TO
$500, 600 and the payment of the mortgages
on two others. This gives the associa-
lions in the borough of Brooklyn prop
erty worth s., 900. In New York City,
$40 business men gave $S17.0 600 to clear the
fifteen buildings. now worth $2,700OOO, from
all debt. and to make large additions TO
their dormitories There were two gifts
of $4,000, two of $4,000 one of $4,000 and
fifty of $1,000 each, and more. Four-fifths
of the Brooklyn fund was given In sums
of from $1,000 up to 100000
Greater New York is the greatest as
ISOLATION center in the world. 1t has more
than forty organizations and 10000 MEM
bers has 400 secretaries and employees and
$500 of its members are officeholders and
committeeman. Its largest building the
Twenty-thlrd Street branch cost S1,16O,-
600 and has $500 members. Branches are
in all parts of the city, and are extend
ing up into the Bronx and out into the
parks In Brooklyn.
I'm the gymnasium in the three cities
are 10000 men. and boys In the educational
classes. which teach everything, from
manners to an office boy to running an
automobile or the science of banking or
bookkeeping, or the common branches. are
over GOO men and boys. The libraries are
extensive and In the reading rooms 1900
periodicals are on file.
over one-half of the 20o0 soldiers go
each day to the association rooms at the
six forts about New York harbor. There
are organizations in all of the colleges
and two student club houses More than
1000 young men away from home have
apartments in the association buildings. A
new $4,000 dormitory building, with IA
rooms. was opened last month in connee-
ton with the Twenty third Street branch,
and filed in three days
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Denaturized Alcohol.

The free alcohol bill is in the Pres-
dents hands. and it is, or soon will be,
law. 1t provides for the denaturiza-
ton of alcohol under government SUI
pervision for uses in the arts and man
ufactures. 1t is denaturized to render
1t unfit for drinking purposes. De-
naturization has long been practiced in
Germany, where the process is well
understood and freely practiced.
Complete Decentralization is accom-
Aplished by adding 10 every twenty-six
gallons of alcohol about half gallon
of denaturizer. The standard denatur-
Ter consists of wood alcohol, pyriden
and little rosemary, and TO this is
added about half a gallon of benzol.
1his renders alcohol unfit for anything
but heating, lighting or the various
processes of manufacture.
Incomplete Decentralization renders
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KEEP HOUSE ON SIC A WEEK.

Chicago Cor. New York Evening Post.
Diplomas certifying that the recipients
are qualified to keep house for husbands
receiving $40 a week, were given yesterday
to several young women at Chicago COM
mons. The graduates. all of whom are to
be married soon. were members of a class
in economical housekeeping and cooking
The economical graduates offered these
in the way of exhibits of breakfasts
luncheons and dinners. that were attrec-
tive. had cost little, and were palatable
Each dish bore card indicating its cost
breakfast was shown that was prepared
at an expense of 10 cents, and would suffice
for four persons. Dinners ranged some
what more expensive, one consisting OF
meat, two vegetables. a salad and a pud-
ding for four. being rated at 40 cents.
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kENTucKVs GREAT GATHERING.

r. e. Hughes in Beslie's Weekly.
New England for score of years. but
Kentucky is the first of all the states to
children, wherever they may be. to return
to one of her cities at a specified time.
She is the first who has undertaken to
secure the names and addresses of all
her former residents, and already there
are on file at the Louisville Commercial
club, under whose auspices homecoming
week is to be held. over $4,000 names.
and it is expected that this number
will be increased to 100000
According to the last federal census,
there were in 1900 nearly 100000 former
Kentuckians living in other states and
territories OF this number the greater
part live in the great west; and no
matter where the traveller goes west of
the Alleghenies he will find among the
leaders in business and politics, in law
nd literature, the names of Kentuckys
sons and daughters. Kentuckys generous
soil has ever produced big-boned, big-
hearted and bfg-brained men, while her
daughters are at once beautiful and Gull
tured, To the upbuilding of the west she
has given some of qer best blood. A
simple glance at the record will show
that there are few states in the union
which do not owe a deep debt of graft
tude to Kentucky. Missouri owes half of
her governors to the Blue Grass State.
while the present chief executive of Kan
sas was born in Kentucky, and many
United States senator's and congressman,
including Senators cullom of Illinois, and
Pyles of Washington were born there.
The Clays, the Crittendens, the Brock
inridges and others of Kentucky's dis
tinguished families have always stood
high In the councils of the nation while
In Lincoln and Davis Kentucky gave TO
the north and the south their war pres
idents.
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HONOR AND EDITORS.

From the Mobile Item.
The press of Alabama is highly esteem
ed at the University of Alabama, and
nc a mark of this esteem the university
Maid it's tribute by comforting the de-
cree Of III, d. upon three Alabama edi-
tors-Wallace w. Screws. OF the Mont
eomerv Advertiser; Rufus \. Rhodes, OF
the birmingham News, and Erwin Craig
head of the Mobile Register. Major
Screws Is dean of the editorial corps OF
the state, having been Identified with
tho press of the state for the past half
century. and is known from one end of
the state to the other Mr.. Rhodes name
Ia identified with the history of the
Birmingham News, which he founded ana
successfully built UP. Mr.. Craighead s
newspaper life, 1t may be said, began
while In school In Nashville. Tenn at
which time he was one OF the eoitors
OF, the college paper. Afterward ne became
better known through the press py ms
te,te,s from Europe, written while he
was there prosecuting his studies at
Heidelberg and elsewhere Shor'iy ai'er
his return from Europe he accepted WORK
on the old New Orleans HINES ianu'ns
IN the Crescent City just in time to pass
through a yellow fever epidemic 1t was
here that he got his first experience OF
real newspaper life, an experience which
in the end proved happy one II not
only welded him to journalism, but was
the introductory training which proved
70 he so valuable TO him In after life.
since that date his life. has been idenu-
fed with the newspaper business in every
form. coming to Mobile in the eighties
a. citv editor of the Dairy Register, to
which paper he has since given uninter-
rupted service. He was onered the eoi-
torship several years ago, and since then
he has conducted the Registers editorial
columns to the credit not only of him
self but to that of tbs paper. 1t may
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cent but that the increase. in the use
of commercial fertilizers is not less
than 10 per cent, and IS probably 10
per cent. A serious lack Of labor is
reported throughout this state, but thus
far the crop has been well handled,
and all cotton that opens will be picked
If the price be satisfactory. A large
state crop is at any rate possible.
Alabama grew cotton on 3,571,61S
acres last year, and the government
says we have $3.50, 900 acres in cotton
this year.
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Cost of Living.

II hear many people say that the cost
of living in Birmingham is 10 to 20 per
cent higher than 1t is in other southern
cities of similar size, but I do not find
dt So" said a young married man.
Rents may be a little higher here than
in other southern cities, but l have lived
in two northern cities where marketing
was more expensive than here. In the
matter of clothing, there is no difference
between prices here and elsewhere. The
man who can support a family on $500
a year in Louisville Cincinnati or Mem
phis, can live just as we'll in Bir1ning-
ham on the same amount"
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Senatorial Candidate.

William C. Fits of Mobile, candidate
for alternate senator, is at the Hotel Hill
man, He arrived On Birmingham yester-
day, and will remain here until tonight.
Mr.. Fits has many friends In the BIZ
mingham district, and he Is naturally
counting on good support in sthis sec
ton.
Il will make an active campaign sadd
Mr. Fits, land l feel that my chances
in the primary are first class. am re-
ceiving encouraging report from many
parts of the state"
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Cotton in Alabama.

The crop of Alabama grown last
year is put at 1,260, 314 bales, The gov
eminent says the acreage in this state
is per cent larger this year, and the
newspapers report an increased use Of
commercial fertilizers. There is
chance therefore that Alabama will,
under favorable conditions, equal, if
she does not exceed, her record produc-
ton, which was ,467 400 bales, grown
in 1904.
lmes-Democrat from Alabama gener-
ally anticipate large crop. Evergreen
reports increases of 10 per cent both
in acreage and the use of fertilizers.
Opelika says about ten per cent more
of fertilizers has been used New De-
catur. ditto. Athens says more acres
have been given over to cotton and
20 per cent more of fertilizers has
been used Admission puts the increase
in fertilizers used at 10 per cent. Dade-
Vile sends like report. while the
dealers of Greenville say sales stood
nat only. Union Springs puts the in
crease in fertilizers at 10 per cent. and
A.Jeville admits that commercial fer
tilizers have been freely employed.
The conclusion is irresistible that
the increase in acreage in this state
is not less than 3. nor more than s. per
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PRAISE O IA SOLITARY LIFE.

Drummon of Hawthornden Q5SS-164s)
Thrice happy he who by some shady
Grove.
Far from the clamrous World, doth live
his own. d.
Though solitary. he Is not alone.
But doth converse with that eternal Love;
o how more sweet Is Birds harmonious
Moan,
Or the hoarse sobbings of the Widowd
Dove,
Than those smooth Whisperinss near
Princes Throne,
Which the God make doubtful, do the Evil
approved
0 how more sweet is zophyr's wholesome
breath,
And Signs embalmed, which newborn
Flow'rs unfold,
Than that Applause vain Honour doth be-
queath
How sweet are Streams to poyson drunk
In Cold
The World is full Of Horrors. Troubles.
woods harmless Shades have caiy true
DelShtA
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IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Board of Trade.

Speaking OF board Of trade matters.
former President J. d. Collins said yes
terday: "Our organization is in a SPLEEN
did condition In the election Of officers
for the ensuing year, men of high busi-
ness ability with the best interests of
the community at heart have been Sc
lected. The president, Mr.. J. 2. Shelby
is a man of just this description. Al
though he has been living in Birmingham
not more than four years, he well rep
resents the progressive spirit of the CITY,
and will undoubtedly do good work in this
position. His popularity has been at
tested in numerous ways. among which is
his election TO high office in the Benev-
client Protective Order Of Elks.
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ALABAMA PRESS

Mobile Herald: college professionally
of earthquake prediction is proposed. In
happy the guesser who fills it.
Montgomery Advertiser: Aside from all
other considerations the late Princess Ena
has two new causes for prominence; she
has been made queen and has had bomb
thrown at her.
Gadsden Times News: The Panama
canal commission ought to take a few
lessons in canal building from Germany
Gadsden Journal: Col. j II. Bankhead
has SHE'D his castor into the senatorial
ring and will have to be considered by
those making guesses at results.