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Eating Meat.

II know large number of people who
have stopped eating canned meat recently
owing to the disclosures that have been
made about the packing houses, and the
way meat is packed in Chicago" said a
restaurant man yesterday.
1.-THE disclosures commenced when Up
ton Sinclair wrote his book called The
Jungle and now the official report OF
the government has practically substan-
tiated everything that he said in this
book.
THE Investigations have shown that the
conditions are awful in the extreme. and
I am sure that 1T will have an immense
effect on the sale of meat
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05
THE PROSPECT OF DEATH.

BY Robert Burns.
Why am l loath to leave this earthly
scene?
Have | so found 1t full of pleasing
charms?
Some drops of joy with draughts of i'll
between;
Some CLEANS of sunshine mid renewing
storms.
Is 1t departing pangs my soul alarms?
Or deaths unlovely. dreary, dark
abode?
For guilt. for guilt. my terrors are in
arms;
I tremble to approach an angry God
And Justly smart beneath his sin-aveng-
ing rod.
Fain would I say: Forgive my foul Of
fense.''
Fain promise never more to disobey.
But should my author health again dis.
pense "a
Again might desert fair virtues way;
Again in folly's path might go astray;
Again exalt the brute and sink the man;
Then how should l for heavenly mercy
pray,
Who act SO counter heavenly mercy's
plan?
Who sin SO oft have mourned, yet to
temptation ran?
o thou great Governor of all below!- 4
II may dare lifted eye to thee i
Thy nod can make the tempest cease. 10
blow.
Or still the tumult OF the raging sea-
With that controlling passions to confne!@s
For all unfit feel my powers to be
To rule their torrents in the allowed
line;
o, aid me with Thy help, omnipotence d.
vinal
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05
Determinations in Pennsylvania.

President Cassatt of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company is at homo
again, and he practically asks for a
suspension of public opinion pending
an investigation he is conducting. He
does not promise that the employee
who is a CRATER shall be punished, but
he does promise that if it is proven
that he granted favors because of free
stock received, he shall be dismissed
Or otherwise dealt with.
In view of the fact that the Penn
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05
Work Before CONGRESS.

congress may adjourn for the ses-
sion leaving, a good record of work
done, but thus far the free alcohol bill
Is the only great measure that has
been perfected. The isthmian canal
business is only fairly started in the
Senate, and no vote has been taken in
either House defining the nature of the
canal. And yet it is important that the
government should know whether it is
to build a lock canal, or one at sea
level.
Railroad rate regulation is another
great measure, and it is before both
Houses on report from a conference
committee. The present week may de-
termine the terms of this epochal bill.
It is beyond all doubt the chief work
of the session, outranking even the
canal discussion, and yet it may prove
disappointing to the people, for all rate
questions are after all to be settled in
the courts.
Another important measure relates
to new states. The conference report
is in favor of the admission of the
Indian Territory and Oklahoma as one
state, and the submission to the voters
of New Mexico and Arizona of the
question of statehood Either Arizona
or New Mexico can at the polls defeat
a joint state movement. Senator For
Arizona from the bill altogether, and
the question will have to be fought out
On the floor of each House before the
statehood bill can be passed.
The beef inspection bill, as it stands,
is an amendment of the agricultural
appropriation bill. 1t is known as the
Beveridge amendment. 1t went through
the Senate readily, and the Senate Is
the stronghold of Privilege, and 1t
seems strange that a matter which re-
lates to the food of the people should
be tied up in the House. 1t is an ex-
tremely important matter, and Con-
gress dare not adjourn until it perfects
method of inspecting meats and pro-
visions in the packing houses of the
country.
| Another important measure Is the
Knox immunity bill. 1t has been passed
by the Senate. The bill aims to undo
the decision of Judge Humphreys in
the Chicago beef cases. Humphreys
held that the beef trust magnates could
not be prosecuted criminally because
they had furnished information to Com
missioner Garfield The Knox bill cuts
out information voluntarily given, and
confines immunity from prosecution to
natural person only who, In obedi.
ence to a subpoena, gives testimony
under oath or produces evidence, doc
umentary or otherwise, under OATH
No corporation can claim immunity
and corporation may be compelled to
testify against itself. 1t will thus be
seen that the Knox bill is one Of the
sessions important measures.
These are the four big bills pending
the isthmian canal, statehood, rate
regulation and the immunity bill-but
there are also pending the Philippine
tariff bill, the immigration bill and the
quarantine bill. The free alcohol bill
alone has gone to the President. All
| the rest remain in the one House OF
| the other, or in both, to be acted on
besides the regular appropriation bills
An adjournment before July seems i'm
| probable.
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

they were able to turn him out Of the
Senate for a single term, but he read
lily won his way back to that body, and
when he died he was filing a term
that would not have expired until
1909. He was distinguished looking,
magnetic, and his mind was equal to
any emergency. He was alert, re-
sourceful, and convincing. He was a
great Senator, and history will so con-
slider him when the petty contentious
of the times are lost sight of.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Public spirit is mostly lung power.
A nice way never to disagree with your
wife is not to have one.
1t would make trust man feel worse
If the way the public abuses him cost him
anything.
girl thinks she is mighty sweet to her
mother for kissing her for bringing up her
breakfast in bed.
When man has little money he pre-
tends 1t is more than 1t Is, and when q
lot that 1t is less
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05
ALABAMA PRESS

Mobile Herald: 1t is now easy to I'M
derstand since the grating has been I'M
covered the bond Of sympathy between the
railroad officials and the republican polit-
icians.
Montgomery Advertiser: Virginia has
had Roosevelt and the papers have been
given an opportunity to ullulate about him
and the next thing to be expected will be
for them to be rapping him across the
sconee for some of his misdoings.
Mobile Item: So far as social order is
concerned, the anarchist with his bomb
and the business monopolist with his in
strument of torture producing financial
death, are in the same class. Both are
dangers which threaten society and gov
eminent
Sheffield Reaper: For the first time
in years the Sunday law was enforced
to the letter in Louisville last Sunday.
Saloons. theatres, barber shops and the
like were closed, the lid being on tight.
The validity of the closing law is to be
tested by the saloonkeepers.
Huntsville Mercury: The suicide of
Congressman Robert Adams of Philadel-
phia, because of inability to meet his
debts, his personal obligations exceeding
his resources, is in striking contrast to the
action of Congressman Bowie of Admission,
Ala. The latter finding the salary of
congressman insufficient to support his
family and educate his children, like
wise and honest man resigns and will en-
ter the practice of his profession--the law
again. And yet Bowie is looked on in
Washington as freak for resigning.
Selma Journal Colonel Bankhead has
formally announced for one of the alter
nate senatorships. His views upon cur
rent questions will be found elsewhere in
this issue. Although defeated for Con-
gress 1t remains a fact that he has hun
dreds of friends throughout the state and
he will have to be reconed with the other
candidates for the place he seeks. His
thorough acquaintance with all that per-
tains to river and harbor improvements in
Alabama is a strong card and he will
doubtless play it for all 1t is worth dur
ing the campaign.
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Time to get ready for the Fourth.
REASON FOR LIVING IN TOPEKA

From the Kansas City Journal.
.'Where did you learn the Lord 3
Prayer" asked an Atchison Sunday
school teacher of a little girl.
az used to live In Topeka said the
little girl. "and I learned it there
"Now, let me hear you say it," said
the teacher to the next little girl.
81 don't know it," said the next little
girl; ~ never lived in Topeka
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Congressman Bankhead proposes to
use his defeat in the Sixth district rs
stepping stone to the Senate. You
cannot keep down a man who uses
his obstacles to gain promotion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Recalling Embalmed Beef Alger, it is
easy for General Miles to jump up in
the Chicago beef trust cases, and say
II told you So" So he did, but the
trusts ruled the land when he spoke
ont
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Special Envoy Whitridge seems to
have been the busiest fellow in the
Madrid fracas. He pays his own ex-
penses for the honor of the thing, and
he was trying to get his moneys
worth
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Gorky is overcoming in Boston his
social troubles. Among the truly cul-
tured his departures from the code are
regarded as simply Newportian.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Congress should pass that Beveridge
meat inspection amendment even If it
stays In Washington all summer, for
1t is not paid to attend fetal fences.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

DR.. Davidson will be missed, not only
in the Southside Baptist church, but in
the community. He has been useful,
efficient and influential
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

The meat trust drew the line at the
explosive point. All rottenness that
would not generate gases and explode
was acceptable-to them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

The Chicago packers mixed in not
only rotten meats, but also rotten eggs
gathered from the cold storage houses.
Nothing rotten escaped them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

The team work of the Panama canal
is slipshod and ineffective. It draws
salaries, but does not throw much dirt.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

An overhead electric wire DETECTED
Morales bomb and saved the lives of
the lovers. Don't abuse overhead
wires.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Tommy Burns the pugilist is said to be
so inflated by success that he aspires
to be a fashion plate Mayhap, Farmer
Jeffries could reduce the size.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Boodler Burton is about to be blue
penciled out of the Senate, and Smoot
should go with him. Two cherries
from one stem.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Trains are now running through the
streets of Dawson. Nine years ago the
town was unknown.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

The cry now is in the meat trade,
Give us an inspection that inspects"
not an Alger inspection.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Congressman Adams suicide is now
charged to his losses at bridge whist.
Looks as If it should have been poker
in Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Standard Oil gave 800 to the Boston
lfremen, and it is safe to say that the
money will never be missed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

The Gar is In the limelight all the
time and searchlights play over his
palace at Peterhof.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

President Cassatt says the guilty are
to be punished The public is anxious
to see the list.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Ena has no doubt good. healthy
spell of inconsistencies. She Is wholly
excusable.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05
EASY

A monarch gives his bride a chest
Of gems that make her thrill.
He doesn't pause to count the cost
His people pay the bill.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Attic they show up pat enough
When seen In clothing folders
I never could procure a coat
That fits around the shoulders.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

The cotton crop Is coming on finely,
and naked world should rejoice, also
the planters.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Anarchist Morales was the one man
in Spain who did not love the lovers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

The republicans will not contest the
Seventh district enough to hurt.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Maxim Gorky's reception in Boston was
all that he and Boston could wish, not
to mention the acting Mrs. Gorky.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

The open door at Mukden is one
that no one will want closed In winter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Automobiles will be higher next
year. You had better buy now.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Richard Garfield is wise In combining
his remarks to art.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

A Louisville man who smoked fifty
cigars a day is dead.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

If alcohol can be denatured, why not
onions?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

1t is easy to see. that Baer is after
Cassatt's job.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

The Kaiser is looking forward to
being a grandfather.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Cananea is quiet. and Mexico will
not be annexed this year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

There is also demand for denatured
automobile juice.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

may find an opening as President of
Venezuela.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

The government is the Jungle's press
agent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Buster Brown when he is year
OF two older. monopolized attention in a
Birmingham hotel last night. The boy
was seated on the office counter while
clerks, a coterie of drummers and lobby
loiterers united in showering him with at
tentions. Whenever some fellow made a
jest about the child he was rewarded
with a bright smile from the mother, and
at intervals some were bold enough to
hazard a remark to her that she had
fine little son." While the boy was pleas
ant enough, he didn't seem to be excep-
tionally laxative. Neither was, his con-
versation seasoned by wit, but his
mother was a picture of feminine lowell
ness. Can you guess the secret of his
popularity?
1t is now denominated the "beef trust
horror" from which we may infer that
matters in Paclxingtown have reached
crisis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05
THE PATCH MAN.

President Roosevelt is so strenuous in
a patch on his trousers that the muse
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

Many a woman can play a first-class
game of moth balls who does not know
first base from second.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05
PAY DAY.

When fellow gets up early
Bent on rushing off to town,
And forgetting all his troubles,
Lays aside his heavy frown;
When he can not keep from smiling
And he's CHEEKY IN his talk,
It's a sign that it is pay day
And the ghost is going to walk.
When he looks into shop windows,
Choosing things he wants to buy,
Sizing up new suits of clothing
With discriminating eye;
When he banishes from mem'ry
All the work he's struggled through,
It's a sign he's near his money
And pay envelopes due
Gee, We'd hate to toll and labor
If the ghost should never walk
If he should refuse to know US,
Showing tendencies to balk,
Then this life would be so dreary
Happiness would fade away,
For we wouldn't do much laughing
If we didn't get our pay
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE TINES

handed Us the following verse while on
her way to the postofflce. The tempo Is
summer:
If a patch is on your trousers
Then you needn't ever mind
Indication of advancement
Is the cloth you wear behind.
Been swimmin' yet?
There are no curves in the Rockefeller
mouth. 1t is straight, severe and COM
pressed
This is my busy month";" said Cupid as
he mopped his brow.
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Representatives of The Age-Herald in its
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05
ANOTHER MENACE.

ANOIHEK MENACE.
/,
Authorizations everywhere
In everything we eat;
In butter, pies and currant jam,
In beef and potted meat.
II.
Tho such abuse is rampant now,
My greatest fear is this:
1t may infect the summer stock
OF unalloyed bliss.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

The biscuit trust strikes us near
home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05
They're off The Longworths.

Pretty warm weather to rake muck.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

The Senate gently reminds Chairman
Shonts that actions speak louder than
words.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

The house in which T. c. Platt was born
has been sold for $40. The house in which
Abraham Lincoln was born is being ex-
hibited TO reverent thousands.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

No communication will be published
without its authors name. Rejected man.
uscripts will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
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Entered at the Birmingham Ala, post
office as second-class matter under act
of Congress March 8, 1879.
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THEY NEVER PAN OUT.


THEY NEVER PAN OUT.
Attic they show up pat enough
When seen in clothing folders
never could procure coat
That fits around the shoulders.
Maxim Gorky's reception in Boston was
all that he and Boston could wish, not
to mention the acting Mrs. Gorky.
College graduates in search of a job
may find an opening as President of
Venezuela.
The Senate gently reminds Chairman
Shonts that actions speak louder than
words.
Youths in various parts of the country
who are passionatey IN love with Ethel
Barrymore will rejoice to learn that she
has broken her engagement with Captain
Graham.
The patent medicine habit, say archeo.
logists, dates back to the ancient Egyp-
tians who also knew that it pays to ad-
vertise "Menas Glorious Water" was a
hot favorite in those days.
At the hour of going to press Alfred
Austin conceded that nature is greater
than he.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-05

PRETTY woman and baby. a lit
tie chap who will be a typical
Buster Brown when he is a year
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Washington Bureau Age-Herald 142l g
street. n. W.
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\ ERLIN. June 2.-Every throne in
n Europe is enveloped in tobacco
smoke EXCEPT those of Holland
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-05-11
COUNTESS OF WARWICK
FIGHTING
KING

7 10 ssslunoo sqL II HpW 'NO0NO.
sWarwick's ardor in the cause OF
- militant Socialism makes her bu
very large in the public eye at pres mt N
these islands.
For some time she had abandoned So
ciesy. and now she has sacrificed even
her jewels in the cause.
The jewel incident, by the way. is
rather mysterious. She wrote Mr.. W,l-
shire that she had sold '.all'' her jewels
TO subscribe to the election fund of the
Social Democratic Federation. Once she
had some of the finest gems in Engl md,
but all she contributed to the election
fund was $500. 1t is assumed that her
stock of valuables had become seriously
depleted before she resolved on this his
toric step. Anyway, there is no doubt
about her energetic exertions In aid of
the Socialistic party. She goes up and
down the country addressing meet lgs.
where she works hand in hand with the
grirniest son of toll.
On May day she spoke at a meeting
of w~orkingmen from a platform in Hyde
Park. within sight of Brooke house. Park
Lane. now the property of Sir Ernest
easel, the scene of some of her famous
entertainments when her ambition was
still to be a society queen.
Among hr own order she is regarded
as a renegade. Her name is anath sma
to them. and they aver that in her Ires-
ent line of action she is actuated solely
by a vindictive desire to undermine tn
authority of the throne, for whose oc-
cupant, once counted an admirer, she
is alleged to have conceived an int nse
hatred.
If she is actuated by any suel rcr-
sonal vengeance as her former intima es
attribute to her she must feel consider
able qualification at playing so large a
part in bringing about a poiiti al up
eaval which more than any that has
ever occurred inthe Constitutional hitory
of This country threatens the power ana
influence, in politics at least. of tn
class to which by birth she belon- $. ami
of which she was for long an acknowl-
edged leader.