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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

eally, if not entirely, the result of the deliberate action of married people. .'
 It is difficult to analyze the commit tees findings beyond the statement that the decline in the bitrh rate is due to some cause which was not ap- preoiably operative fifty years ago. What the cause is does not appear in the summary, but perhaps in the com mittee's full report some light will be thrown on it.
 The truth Is, the love of ease on tue one hand and the fear of poverty on the other is the real underlying and effective cause, and all the committees in the world cannot put this combina- ton out of sight. Plainly, then, the quickest remedy is an eyener distri- button of wealth. When the dread of poverty has been taken away from the average family, education ethics and religion will have a chance, and they will not have a square chance until re- forms in our industrial life are estab- lished and have become generally op- eratiye. This is the long and short of the matter, and the mysterious cause which was not operative fifty years ago need not concern us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
Ores Here and Elsewhere.


 The steel trust, or rather it's tooters and horn blowers, claim that it holds today a practical monopoly of high grade iron ore in the United States. The Hill ore lands added to it's hold. ings in the Gogebic, Marquette and Menominee ranges certainly give it raw material that may outlast the present century.
 It is indeed a great corporation. It is capitalized at $1,350 100000, a sum so large the mind cannot grasp it. The purchase of vast beds of ore give it even a stronger hold upon the future than its capitalization. This is partly due to the nature and location of it's ores. They lie near the great lakes, so that the great steel barge which carries out coal can carry back ore. The ore, too, is not rock, but sand or gravel which is scooped up by steam shovels, and loaded into open cars that quickly wheel to the lake. All of it lies near the surface. All of it can be cheaply mined, and cheaply trans ported. No one need dispute the strength and resources of the great corporation. It is a fact beyond red sonable dispute.
 But the statement that the steel trust has all the iron ore in this coun- try is not sound or truthful There is as much ore in Red mountain as there is at or near Lake Superior It cannot be picked up by steam shovels, and it is not high-grade ore. Iron can, how ever, be made from it at a lower cost of production than iron can be- made at Pittsburg from Lake Superior ores.
 Nor is this all that, is open to this district. When the Warrior is opened high-grade ores can be loaded at San. tiago, in Cuba, and unloaded without breaking bulk at furnaces in this dis trict. Between high grades from Cuba and "old hard red' from Red noun tain, this district has fully as much ore as the steel trust possesses even if we accept its own estimate of its hold ings.
 It can justly be said that the avail able ores are confined to this district and to the steel trust, and the two will do the iron-making of the future be. yond all manner of doubt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
o, they have lived long in the aims basket of words.
 -Love's Labor Lost.
Greater New York.

What hive of busy, buzzing bees from many lands New York is! Take the sixty-five theatres of that city as an example. Only one of the sixty five is owned, controlled and managed by man to the manner born. Joe Weber is the sole New Yorker who controls a theatre in New York city. He was born in the city and has al ways lived in it. The other sixty-four are sons by adoption only. Let us run over the list of the leading owner managers. Charles and Daniel F'roh- man are from Ohio; Al. and Ali. Hay man. from West Virginia; Mare Klaw and Frank Mckee, from Louisville, Ky; A. w. Dingwall is a Canadian of Scotch descent; A L. Erlanger is from Cleveland, O.; the Shuberts were from Syracuse, N. Y; David Belasco, from California; Oscar Hammerstein and Heinrich Conried, from Continental Europe.
 What is true of the theatrical chiefs Is no doubt similarly true in other lines of business. in other enterprises Men are attracted to the country's financial metropolis by it's size and by it's prominence and by it's rewards to the successful. J. J. Hill says the great city will hold twelve millions of people in 1850, and if he be a true prophet it will then be the world S greatest city and financial center, and 1t will then be as cosmopolitan as it is now metropolitan, and the enterpris- ing of all ports of the world will seek
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

@ ing contest sI. will take place oa,o- interesting, in view of the approaching battle of the keys, and the fact that most of the contestants will be young women, for committee of experts to compile statistics on the results obtained. showing whether blonds, brunettes or
 'demis" hold superiority. There be some who avow that blond stenographers are speedy enough with machine and de- sirable, in most cases to have about the office from an ornamental point of view, but that they fall off when concentrated thought is demanded. Others declare that the brunette, while as a rule we'll equipped with brains and neat enough, is apt to have temper. Still others declare that they are in favor of the "demis'' every time, as combining most of the good. qualities and few of the bad traits asso- ciated with the two extreme types. whole lot of people are anxious to find out what style of stenographer can make the best showing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
NEGROES FOR THE CANAL.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 A number of our contemporaries are advocating the employment of southern negroes for work on the Panama canal. If the work Is to be done by contract, as now proposed, we suppose each contractor will be at liberty to choose the kind or lobarers he prefers, and to employ them in such numbers as is best, in his estima- tion For that reason, a number of pa pers in the south advocate the employ ment of southern negroes, and one of their arguments is that by this means the dangerous congestion of colored people in our cities would largely be removed.
 Speaking only from the standpoint of the south's own welfare, we confess to some doubts on the subject. If only the idle, the vagrants and the vicious Of our negro population could be induced to take jobs down there, we can see that it would be a great benefit to the southern cities and would really be beneficial to the better class of negroes who would remain here, but there is the problem, as we view it. When the agents come amongst us in search of hands, it is like ly that those who refuse to do honest work at home will engage themselves to work on the canal where the labor will be exacting and conditions severe, com pared to those here? Is it not more probable that those who would go there would be of the class most desirable among us? This is the way we view the matter, though we may be in error. If  the selection of those who go could be left to the southern whites, we might be able to get rid of very undesirable class of citizens, but as that could not be done, we must confess our doubt of the benefits that would come to this sec tion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 @ HE National Purity Congress in \0 Chicago has decided, after an
 impartial and broad survey of the field. that the United States is on the down grade. Nearly everything is wrong. The revelations in connection with peek-a-boo waists, for example, are startling; people eat too much, and lose the sense of proportion; they drink too much, too, and the effect of their pota- tions is seen in their children to the 'steenth generation; shop girls are under paid, with consequences so horrible that the imagination totters in contemplation; the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting more numerous, and so on.
 It is not an agreeable thing to take is sue with such a body af savants as the National Purity Congress. The delegates to the congress are experts on all mat ters of social, political, economical, and commercial purity, of course, or they would not be there They know purity in any form or guise, however 1t may try to hide itself. The very name of the congress suggests that if there is any purity anywhere it will be brought to light and property tagged.
 For this reason we fail to see why the National Purity Congress should go out of its jurisdiction to deal with things impure, and unwholesome, and un- pleasant. Why discuss matters that are not all compact of sweetness and light? Why not speak of the good things, such as the pure-food bill, and untainted money, and the feverish strides being made in the regeneration of the heathen? We deny the specific allegations arrayed as causes of American degeneration.
 The peek-a-boo waist is not becoming more frank in it's disclosures. On the contrary, the past week has witnessed a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
Excellent Fair Arrangements.

Birmingham has most excellent plant for holding a State Fair" said w. E. Gahagan, representative of The Horse- man. a weekly published in Chicago. '"rle track Is very fast, the buildings are substantial and ample for the present pur- poses. and all in all there is no reason why Birmingham should not have a great fair every year.
 "The racing here at this fair is good. The pacers and trotters are making fine time in all the races, and some of the best horses that ever raced in the south are here.
 T wanted to come to Birmingham and write up the races and horse show for The Horseman. had heard that the fair arrangements here were adequate, and I was eager to see Birmingham. This is good, hustling city, and I like it very much"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
THE LABOR SCARCITY.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 There is general complaint from all parts of the south that the labor supply is scant, and that many industries are un- able to develop to their full scope owing to the inability to secure the number of laborers required. This is the season of the year when the crops are being har- vested, and large numbers of hands are required in the fields to pick cotton, gather in the corn, and save the other important crops. The increased number of cotton mills, saw mills and other fac tories in the south, have absorbed large share of the usual plantation labor. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Brotherhood of St. Andrew.

Many delegates to the annual convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at Memphis passed through Birmingham yes- terday.
 One of the most popular and influential organizations in connection with the Epis- copal church is this Brotherhood of St Andrew.
 The brotherhood i9 composed of church. men who devote their energies to the moral uplifting of young men, and who seek to advance the interests of the Epis- copal church along lines that will strengthen it's claims to the respect and affection of the public
 This organization is particularly strong in the north and east where it has many chapters in connection with every Epis- copal church. The rules Of the society re- quire It's members to lead good, Chris tian lives, especially on the subjects of temperance and morality.
 A convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew is in session in Memphis from October IS to 2l, and delegates from all parts of the country are present.
 This Is the first time convention of this society has been held in the south ern states, and t is expected that the re- suits of the meeting of delegates will be such as to inspire life and ardor into church members who have hitherto neglected to join the brotherhood.
 The city of Memphis feels justly proud of the honor of entertaining the delegates to this convention, and has left nothing undone which could promote the pleasure and comfort of the visitors.
 The convention will close with a fare well service on Sunday, after which the delegates will return to their homes, leav- ing with them the seeds of future action, which are sure to bear good fruit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
Hounds Train Themselves.

T. r. Dale in the Outing Magazine.
 The following story, which has just reached me from a well known Devon- shire clergyman, shows how the life in the kennel is frightened by play:
 Some fifty years ago I was visiting Mir Garths kennels, when the first whip showed me tunnel in the airing ground about six feet long, which the hounds had dug themselves and utilized as fol- lows They used to choose one of them selves and start him to run round the yard. they being in full pursuit, till he had enough. Then he went to ground in the tunnel, while another hound took his turn to be hunted and go to ground.
 This is one way in which hounds train themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
DoLcINo TO MARGARET.

By Charles Kingsley. The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterdays sheer and yesterdays froWn Can never come over again.
 Sweet wife; No never scome over again. For woman is warm, though man be cold, And the night will hallow the day; Till the heart which at even was weary and old Can rise in the morning gay,
 Sweet wife; To it's work in the morning gay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
ALABAMA PRESS

Columbus Ledger; The Birmingham Age-Herald now refers to it as "denatured spelling" That's the limit
 Columbia State: A periodical of London has admitted that it libeled Richard Crok- CT. The thing was considered impossible in this country.
 Atlanta Journal: John D. Rockefeller told d policeman the other day that he felt better than he had done in years. Lookout for another rise in oil.
 Louisville Post: It Is declared that Fraulein Krupp, who is to be married today, Is in no sense a beauty. The same thing cannot be said of her fortune.
 Richmond Times-Dispatch: It is not thought that the recent slaughter of Turks by Arab rebels will perceptibly di- minish the output of genuine Turkish ci- garettes, and New Jersey knows the rea- son. S
 Memphis Commercial-Appeal Russia s Czar would kill all suspects and Rus sia's people would assasinate all officials Both Car and people ought to know that the death of the individual does not kill principle.
 Hamilton Sun: The elopment of Vice President Fairbanks son recalls a simi- lar matrimonial escapade indulged in by the young mans sister several years ago. Eloping seems to come as natural to the Fairbanks children as being chilly does to their dad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
 When a girl has cold feet she pretends it is her ears
 Good habits are mostly keeping from being found out.
 A man could do a lot of work with half the energy he uses trying to get out of it.
 It's a mighty poor lawyer who can't draw will so that he and the rest of them won't have to fight over 1t after ward.
 The way the world discovered that ap- pearances are decetful was in watching how women look at home and when they so calling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

The chandeliers of the Pennsylvania capitol seem to have been bought by the yard or the pound. Art on that basis is necessarily expensive, espe- cially when the buyers are members of the Penrose gang.
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are still short of the requisite help. This activity among the mills has robbed the farmer of a portion of his help and made plantation and farm labor scarce.
 In another few weeks the harvesting of the sugar crop of Louisiana will com mence. The cutting of the cane and the operation of the sugar houses, as well as the preparation of the land for fall plant ing, will give employment to an army of laborers. Each succeeding year adds to the anxiety of planters on this important subject of labor, and although Italian and Porto Rican immigration has been utilized, the problem has not yet been satisfactorily solved
 Just at the present time there is a good deal of railroad building going on in the state, and although the construc- tion departments of these roads are pay ing high wages and are advertising ex- tensively for laborers. they are not secur- ing the supply they require
 All these facts indicate that labor is scarce all over the south. It is no longer a question of price, but matter of secur- ing the actual number of laborers re- quired Whatever the inducement may be for home seekers to come south in search of betterment in their condition, there are ample evidences that liberal wages are awaiting ordinary farms and factory labor in this section. These are facts which, however embarrassing, still attest the great prosperity prevailing in this part of the country. The secuon appears to be developing more rapidly than the labor supply
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

A federal court in Oklahoma has de- cided that 'possums are not game ani- mals. They may therefore be hunted at any time. Carry the news to John H. Wallace at Huntsville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

Indian summer weather is due at any time and 1t will be doubly wei come, because we will appreciate it for what it is, and we will also remem- Der what we have already had this fall in the weather line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
About Persons.

Caut. Matthew F. Steele of the Sixth United States 4evalry. stationed at Fort Leavenworth, and T. F. Steele of Green wood, Miss, are visiting in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

Tom Watson says Colonel Mana owes him 5000 on account of back salary, and the two have parted be- cause they could not agree over the back-pay issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

St. Louis is becoming high-toned, for it is trying to build both a coils scum and an art museum. It has plenty of boozetoriums, and now it wants to give art an inning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
Distribution of Public Debt,

The census bureau brings the debt figures of the country down to 1902, and one of the recent bulletins pre- sents the following per capita debt comparisons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

There is a growing belief that Uncle Sam is in Cuba to stay. Senator Car ter has joined Senator Beveridge in this matter. and other recruits are ex- pected daily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

All cold snaps come too soon. No one ever thinks of inviting their ap- pearance, at least no one whose coal bin is empty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
ALABAMA'S FAIR.

From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
 The Alabama State Fair opened aus picously yesterday. Such a great state could hardly have less than an interesting fair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

SOMETHING DOING IN HUNTSVILLE.
 Tomorrow is liable to be an off day in our city and county. With Barnum & Baileys circus here night and day, and 'The Clansman" here at night, we will all be off We are also told that the nat atorium, two skatetoriums, the Thea torium and Congo park will be wide open. Whither are we drifting, parson? Tell us quickly and tell us truly. We are having fun even if 1t leads to -.-Huntsville Tribune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

The republican situation in Penn sylyania is considered affective by it's despairing friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

The British battleship Dreadnought was built from lessons taught in the Japanese-Russian war, and she is the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

The western papers say the frost was on the pumpkin, all right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

Atlantic City hello belles have been ordered to leave off peek-a-boos, as # anybody wanted to wear peek-a-boos at this time of the year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

Dairymen in Los Angeles have been requested to remoEe their whiskers Microbes, you know.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

No one expected to see a Romeo emerge from an ice house, and yet the Fairbanks family certainly has pro- duced one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

Croker doesn't propose to let British newspapers put him in the Tweed class unless they can make good be- fore jury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

New York and New Jersey propose to elect ex-Presidents Senators, thus solving veXed problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

Candidate Moran of Massachusetts declines to recognize national issues in state campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

Parkhurst probably eulogized Stan ford White to show that he had the nerve to do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

The New Workers are registering, and election day is only three weeks away.
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Editor Tom Watson declines to edit while his salary stands unpaid
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The President has a house to rent in Washington that is not the White House
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

The baseball season was finally closed mid snow and ice. It was very persistent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

The weather man and our airship man should get together and fix things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
Anachron,stic.

From the New York American.
 Reform party in Teheran-sounds like a gasoline car in the Arabian Nights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

Cuba has settled down in order to begin to settle up with the farmers whose horses were stolen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

Bishop Fallows believes that we are what our food makes us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

A Massachusetts corset company has decided to enlarge everything except it's corsets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

The baseball fever has sruck Chi cago's preachers. They are a trif1e late.
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a newspaper correspondent would write story about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

Amateur mushroom eaters continue to go the toadstool route.
 A PEST. The practical joker doth make us regret That human jaekases are aourishing yet. His brain is the size of the tiniest pea There's no ehnmp alive who is greater
 than he. There's a smrk on his face and some
 wheels in his head And the world would be willing to see
 him drop dead. A faint odor is still to be detected rising from the Boer war scandal.
 DISGOURAGING. What would you have me sing about?" A poet said my friends, speak out Then said a man of pleasing wit be dumb, if thou wouldst make a hlt.''
  Cuba will have to pay fee of s1oQ0,S CO., but Dr. Taft won't get any of it. | It takes a brave woman to wear a warmed-over hat when she can afford to buy new one. Plaintiff in divorce case denies that she told her husband to sit on tack.
 QUITE TRUE. The cheer up verse that's writ each day Doth help the poet man to pay A lot of bills he never could Wipe out if he were chopping wood Governor Magoon will make the rhym- ing business easy. Here are a few that will fit:
 Boon.
 Coon.
 Groom.
 Dune.
 June.
 Loon.
 Moon.
 Noon.
 Prune.
 Rune.
 Soon.
 Tune. cure has been found for agrophobia. Have you it? A gloomy day will make knockers of the lest of men. There is nothing more distressing than the front view of a pawn ticket. It is a far cry from the litle red school- house on the hill to where you are now, hut you wouldn't be too tired to start ever again. PAUL COOK.
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QUITE TRUE.

Plaintiff in a divorce case denies that she told her husband to sit on a tack.
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Cuba will have to pay fee of sl000,S coo, but Dr. Taft won't get any of it. |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18
DIscOURAGING.

A faint odor is still to be detected rising from the Boer war scandal.
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DISGOURAGING. What would you have me sing about?" A poet said my friends speak out" Then said a man of pleasing wit; 'be dumb, if thou wouldst make a hit."I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-18

It takes a brave woman to wear Narmed-over hat when she can afford to buy a new one.
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Richard Croker is ready to tell the court where he got it.
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REMARKABLE.

Young wife made some lovely biscuit, Husband ate them and was glad. Bet you never heard story
 Half so strange as this, egad.