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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
Iron Ores of Alabama.

The iron ores of Virginia were
carefully surveyed and investigated
last year by the United States geolo-
gical survey. The ores of that state
were divided into six groups, namely,
the Oriskany ores, the New River dis
trict, the foothills of the Allegheny
mountains, the Blue Ridge magnetites,
and two brown hematite districts. The
ore deposits that were not surveyed
last year are to be surveyed this
year. Much of the field work in Vir-
ginia was done by Edwin C. Eckel.
and the remainder was done by R. J.
Holden of the Virginia survey.
Mr.. Eckel has been assigned TO the
work of investigation the ores of Ala
bama-the investigation that Con-
gresham Underwood induced the
geological survey to undertake this
year. Already Mr.. Eckel has studied
the ores that lie between Chattanooga
and Gadsden. DR.. p. S. Smith will
study the ores in the district south of
Tallageda. He has recently joined
the staff of the federal survey.
The entire district is to be mapped
from an ore point of view, and the
origin and course of each deposit will
be carefully worked out, the whole
study to be published by or before the
close of the year.
If Mr.. Ecl1el and his co-workers can
ascertain the extent of the downward
drift of the red hematites in Red
Mountain he will do more than any
one else has done. No one has been
able to estimate even approximately
the red hematites of this district. The
brown limonites can be Appropriated,
but 1t is said the gray magnetites of
Talladega county are as boundless al
most as the red ores that lie within
sight of Birmingham.
Much information is hoped for from
the survey of the present year, be-
cause this district has never been
carefully Investigated by the trained
men in the United States geological
survey, and their report on the re-
sources and industries of this district
will be widely distributed and gen.
orally accepted.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
Speaker Cannon's AGE Jubilee.

On May Speaker Cannon Will be
20 years of age, and he is one of the
most alert men in the national house
of representatives. He is so brisk that
DR.. Osler would have to skip about in
a lively manner if he should attempt
to apply his theory to him.
A celebration is proposed on May
in honor of the popular speaker, who
entered the House in 1873 at the out
set of Grants second term. He has
served third of century, and in all
that time he has preserved not only
a reputation for integrity and pugna-
city but he has also preserved his
youthfulness. He is apparently as
vigorous and optimistic and ambitious
as he was when he entered the
House, thirty-three years ago. No one
in Washington considers him an old
man, and in the case of a deadlock in
the republican national convention his
chances are as good as the next mans.
Excepting three or four senators all
the leading spirits of 1878 are dead
or retired. and the veteran of Dan
Vile, Illinois, stands erect and buoy
ant today in new political world.
Senator Allison antedates in political
service the speaker. but no one seems
to know when the Iowa senator enter
born to it. He at any rate fatigues
the mind of the oldest Washington
ian, and that is saying a great deal.
Uncle Joe Cannon comes next on the
list of political veterans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Old Landmarks.

Few people are aware how rich IN
Legendary association the envirens of Bir-
mingham are said a citizen. 1T is said
that the famous North Birmingham
spring was well known TO the Indians
for its pure and sparkling waters and
that the rock house ON Red mountain
which attracts so many visitors on pleas
ant summer afternoons, was one of the
haunts of the Red man in the days gone
by, Along one of the slopes of the North
Highlands there runs the dim vestige
of road. and tradition says that IL was
a trail worn away by the feet of warriors
as they passed along the mountain. All
this shows that we do not have to turn
to so-ealled STORED lands for romantic
tales Of human interest"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
RAPID GROWTH OF THE
BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT

cided to carry the molten iron for the
time being direct from the Republic fur
naces to the Ensley steel plant of the
Tennessee company. about two or three
to increase the output of coal and ore
and to improve the quality OF coke. and
in general to utilize every modern method
for the betterment Of the condition of
the property, will be carried out.
The actual amount Of Investment in
enlargement of operations has not yet
probably been definitely decided, but it
is quite certain that within the next year
or two, and as rapidly as the work can
be judiciously advanced $1O,0O0,O00 or 3d.,
900, 900 of new money will go into the OPEN
ing of new coal and ore mines, the build
ing of new furnaces, the enlargement of
the present steel plant and the building
of a new one. and no one who knows Mr..
Gates long experience in the steel-wire
business will doubt that sooner or later
this company will, under his direction,
build a great wire-making plant. Not
only Alabama, but the entire south will
be benefited by the work of these COM
panies. To every man interested in the
best development OF the Alabama district
the complete change in the ownership of
the Tennessee coal and iron industry is
very gratifying. This is one of the great
est properties In the world and only
needs proper management and ample
funds to justify this claim
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
THE SALVATION ARMY.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Has II 22e r,orl,ars oo,ooe ob,tl,a,-


Has 1855 workers among children.
Comprises 1918 corps and societies.
Has 1882 officers wholly employed in
its service
Maintains $50 food depots and shelters
for men, women and children.
Publishes sixty-four periodicals in
twenty-four languages
Accommodates over 81, 900 people nightly
In its institutions for assisting the poor.
Has seventeen homes for former Grim
mails, forty-hve homes for children and
1i6 industrial homes for women
Has eighteen land colonies for vista
ton and assistance of the poor and twen-
ty-four labor bureaus for helping the
unemployed
Employment, temporary and permanent,
was found last year for 1851.
Three million three hundred and ninety
thousand nine hundred and two meals
were supplied at the cheap-food depots
last year, and 1,447,s93 homeless people
We're provided with lodgings.
In the slums no fewer than 1890 FAM
ilies were visited and 1886 sick people were
visited and nursed by the armys work.
ers in 1904.
In addition to a list of special depart
ments, 1t has 479 day schools in India,
fourteen homes for soldiers and sailors
and thirty-one training homes for Of
ficers.
Work was commenced by the Rev Will
liam Booth in WhtechapeI In 1866. and
was then known as THE Christian Mis-
slon." In 1878 the organization developed
into the Salvation army.
Thirty-nine thousand meetings are held
every week, and the average number of
weekly open-air meetings is $1,000. The
average attendance at the indoor meet
ings only every week Is 1,202 1856
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
OLIVE LOGAN.

From the New York Press,
One of the interesting writers of the
day is Angel Matthewson, in the Fit
Plain Standard. He is particularly clever
In the field of "reminiscences. Looking
backward to 1869 he says: "Olive Logan
as lovely as picture, purely original
character as pungent as whole row
of pins, the cleverest woman in the world
as we'll as one of the most brilliant
writer's In the country, the best-dressed
woman in America and the best-looking
woman on the American stage lectured
ON the subject: Paris. the City of
Luxury
Last week the following headlines APP
peared in a New York newspaper Evil
Days For Olive Logan-Dispossess Notice
Served ON the Author of 'Surf'-Her Sec
ond Husband an Ellis Island Watchman
Arraigned on Her Complaint as a Drunk
ard-Seventy Dollars That She Hopes to
Save From the Saloons
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
No Peonaue In Louisiana.

Louisiana have statute which pro-
yides that whoever violates con-
tract of labor, upon the faith of which
money or goods have been advanced,
shall be punished by fine In the sum
of not less than $40 or over 5000, or in
default Of payment. ninety days or
less Imprisonment, at the discretion of
the court, unless the party had first
rendered to the person with whom he
entered into the labor contract and
from whom money or goods was OBJ
tanned. the amount of money, or the
value of the goods obtained.
A case arose under this law. One
Butler Murray, a white man, agreed
TO perform a certain labor, and he re-
ceived a sum of money in advance. He
was indicted under the Louisiana
state law set forth in this article, and
was tried. He plead in defence the
DeODdRe ACT vi the OHlltu DldicS, anu
the lower state court sustained the
defence Appeal was taken to the
Louisiana supreme court, and the
chief justice of that court in the
course of his decision decided that in
asmuch as Murray had not been coerced
into involuntary seryitude at any time
or anywhere there was no act of peon-
age The statute was designed not 10
compel him to serve involuntarily I'M
der his contract, but to punish him for
taking and keeping money under false
pretenses. All the wrongdoing was on
the part of Butler Murray. IF the
question" said the chief justice, Were
before us of an attempt on the part
of the employer because of his labor
ers Indebtedness, to compel him to
perform his daily task, the result
would. in all probability, be different,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
The Money Market.

Henry Clews in his Wall street letter of
Saturdays date says:
The shock resulting from the San Fran
cisco calamity has been well resisted by
the stock market, but must nevertheless
in the long run exert a depressing eff
feet The chief weight of the disaster will
fall upon an already much strained money
market. Millions will be required to make
good the losses and for rebuilding the
city; considerable funds having already
been sent westward with more to fol-
low. As a result currency which ordin-
arily comes to New York during the next
few weeks will be retained at the west
and the chances for easier money rates
ae still further diminished by this catas-
trophe. San Francisco viii unquestionably
be promptly rebuilt. and on a grander
and more substantial scale than in the
past The opportunities of a growing COM
merce both at home and with the Orient
are altogether too magnificent and en-
ticing to be withstood. American enter
prise win quickly come to the rescue
and San Francisco, like Chicago, Calves
ton and Baltimore and Boston, will ere
long rise to a prouder position as Paci
fic coast city than ever before. On the
stock exchange there was more or less
recession in values, particularly among
the Pacific railways and Pacific coast Sc
curities. The fear that stocks may be
freely and Immediately sold by insurance
companies to meet losses should not re-
ceive too serious consideration. Such loss
es are first paid gradually out of funds
in bank or by means of temporary loans
insurance companies not being In the
habit of sacrificing securities when it is
better financing to borrow Most of our
insurance companies are strong and per-
fectly sound institutions, and no serious
embarrassments to them are TO be an
ticipated, unless in one or two possible
instances. The losses upon mercantile and
industrial establishments will. however
be heavy, and possibly disastrous in some
cases. The occasion is one. therefore, that
will call for all the consideration and
patience that our bankers and fnaneiers
can extend toward distressed commune
ity. The California banks. although most
of their buildings have been destroyed
will not lose the money In their vaults
which aggregate about sl0O,0oO 900, all be-
ing in gold.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
From the Manufacturers Record


6 He Tennessee Coal. Iron and
w Railroad company has advanced
the price of its steel rails to $29
ton, or one dollar ton above the price
at which the other steel rail companies
are selling. This advance is made on ae-
count of the favor with which the basic
rail has been received by the railroads,
the claim being made that the basic rail
made by the Tennessee company is super
Tor to any other rail made in the country.
and at this advanced price heavy orders
are already being booked for 1907 delivery.
1t would be difficult to present more
striking illustration as a fulhllment of
the predictions made many years ago by
the Manufacturers Record but discredit-
ed at the time by many critics, that the
south would become leader In the steel
industry of the country. The success of
the Tennessee company in the rail bus-
ness, as indicated by its marks one of
the milestones in southern progress. The
new owners of the Tennessee and the
Republic companies are prepared to spend
a good many millions OF dollars in the
enlargement of their operations in Ala
bama 1t can probably be safely stated
that one of the first steps in this work
will be to double the capacity of the steel
works and to increase the output of rails
to 1000 tons a day. In this connection 1t
is quite possible that instead Of building
a new plant at Thomas the location of
the Republics furnaces. It may be de-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
REGARDING the Site.

vulcan should he set up on the hill
just beyond Owenton college said Col.
l.. ". Johns THE eminence TO which
refer is about 80 feet higher than the
college. In my opinion it would make an
ideal site for the Iron Man.
IF Vulcan goes on Red Mountain he
will overlook only a small part of the
Birmingham district, whereas from the
hill near Owenton he could see this city,
he could see Thomas, he could see Pratt,
he could see Ensley and he could see
Bessemer. Let the people who have
charge of the colossus consider the mat
ter well. And when they do consider l
believe they will agree with me.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
Value of Immigrants.

The propositions before Congress
call for the placing of a head tax
upon immigrants of from five to forty
dollars. The present head tax is two
dollars. Mr.. Blaine was accustomed
TO say that the value of an immi-
grant to this country was $1100, and
in view of this estimate, which has
never been upset or even reduced, it
seems strange that Congress should
be beseiged with applications for in
creases in the head tax.
In Canada a different policy pre-
walls Canada pays a bounty-three
dollars for each man, two dollars for
each woman, and one dollar for each
child. and Canada is getting a vast
number of immigrants. She is get
ting about $4,000 Americans a year
TO begin with, for Americans can be-
come immigrants as well as any other
people.
Canada paid out $102, 663 in the way
of bounties to immigrants She pays
as high as CT for Icelanders, but for
Englshmen she pays but seven shill-
ings a head Her particular scale
needs no attention at our hands, but
the fact that she pays bounties should
keep us from imposing an additional
head tax. Two dollars head is really
t,iro do1larc too much
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
Robert Lawrence.

Those of us who met Robert Law
renee and heard him sing hope he will
carry out his intention of taking up his
residence here next fall" said promi-
nent musician. Mr.. Lawrence was in
Birmingham last Friday as the represen-
tative of the New York orchestra, OF
which Walter Damrosch is conductor. lie
was member of the Savage Opera COM
pany for several years and as one of
the baritone principals achieved great
distinction. He has an exceptionally rich
voice and his engaging personality is re-
marked by all who know him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
EVENING.

BY Lord Byron.
Ave Maria, blessed be the hour.
The time. the cline, the spot, where
l SO oft
Have felt that moment In its fullest power
Sink Ger the earth so beautiful and
While swung the deep bell in the distant
tower
Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft,
And not a breath crept through the rosy
air,
And vet the forest leaves seemed stirred
with prayer.
Ave Maria! tbs the hour of prayer!
Ave Maria! tits the hour of love.
Ave Marial may our spirits dare
Look up to thine and to thy sons above!
Ave Marial o that face so fairl
Those downcast eyes beneath the AL
mighty dove
What though it's but pictured image?-
strike
That painting is no idol--'tis too like
Sweet hour OF twilight, in the solitude
OF the pine forest. and the silent shore
Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial
wood,
Rooted where once the Adrian wave
flowed DER
To where the last Caesarean fortress
stood,
Evergreen forest: which Boccaccio's
lore
And Dryden's lay made haunted ground
to me,
How have loved the twilight hour and
thee.
The shrill ccaias. people OF the pine.
Making their summer lives one cease
less song.
Were the sole echoes. save my steed's
and mine.
And vesper bells that rose the boughs
along; s.
The spectre huntsman of Onestis line.
His hell-dogs. and their chase, and the
fair throng
Which learned from this example not to
fly
From true iover-shadowed my minds
eye.
o Hesperus thou bringest all good
things
Home TO the weary. to the hungry cheer
TO the young bird the parents brooding
wings.
The welcome stall to the o'erlabored
steer,
Vhateer Of peace about our heartstone
whate'er our household gods protect Of
dear.
Are gathered round us by the look Of
rest;
Thou brng'st the child. too. TO the moth
er's breast
Soft hour which wakes the wish and
melts the heart
OF those who sail the seas. on the first
day
When they from their sweet friends are
torn apart:
or fills with love the pilgrim on his
way, D.
As the far bell for vesper makes him
start,
Seeming to weep the dying days de-
cay.
II this fancy which our reason scorns!
All. surely nothing dies but something
mourns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
REFLECTION OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
EVERYBODY would want to tell the truth
if 1t did the work better than a lie.
Faith in a thing is knowing you wouldn't
have it if you tried to reason it out.
A girl is innocent when she isn't afraid
to call what she walks with what they
are.
one of the sardonic things of life is
that when "A man is lucky to die he
isn't here to enjoy IL.
When woman has a good-looking hus-
band 1t is a sign she is suspicious of the
design of most all her friends.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

But here no such question presents
ITSELF After discussing similar
statutes in Alabama and South Caro-
lima, the chief justice said, If no man
has right to keep another in in
voluntary servitude, no man, by false
words, has the right to obtain the
property of another and keep 1t as his
own That settled it. The statute
was declared sound and constitutional.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
HE KNEW.
From -Hnrner,s Weeklv.

From Harper's Weekly.
The first witness called in recent petty
lawsuit in Cincinnati was an Irishman, of
whose competence as witness opposing
counsel entertained doubt At their in
stance there was put to him, before being
sworn, the usual interrogatory, do you
know the nature of an oath?s
A broad grin spread over the face of tho
Irishman, as he replied;
''Indade, your honor, I may say that it
is second nature with me-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

From Harper's Weekly
The wife of wealthy irish contractor
of Kansas City. who was travelling
abroad was ever watchful lest her speech
betray her Celtic origin. On one occa-
sion she was heard to say that while she
had visited Vesuvus, 1t was her regret
that she had not seen the Creature"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
THEORIES DRAWN FROM
THE LATE EARTHQUAKE

future phenomena of the forces of nature;
but moral fibre and stamina have been
given to man to help him to rise superior
to such great Affections as that from
which our grand city on the Pacific is now
suffering Without delay San Francisco
will begin to repair her material losses
and her stout hearted people will bend
every energy to re-establish all their en-
terprIses as soon as possible
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
SUPPLIES Dispatched d.

Tacoma. Wash, April 22.-The steamer
Queen was dispatched for San Francisco
today with $4,000 worth of disinfectants.
medical stores and food supplies ordered
purchased here by the Mayor of Philadel-
phia. The United States cableship Burn
side will depart Monday with another
cargo
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
GOING TOO FAR.
the Chattanooga News.

From the Chattanooga News.
Everybody well informed knew that
Maxim Gorky had an adopted son, but
the announcement that he has an adopted
wife is somewhat Earring.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
AN EXCEPTION.

From the Florida Times-Union.
An Indiana man killed himself because
he did not know what to do with his
money This is the reverse OF the aver
age suicide, who kills himself because he
does not know what 10 do without it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

Henry d. Clayton walked away with
the honors in the Third district. A
preaeher-editor need not hope to Guido
in politics a veteran who has filled
his district with rural free delivery
routes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

The Conreid company was produc-
ing Wagner opera in San Francisco
but II does not stand to reason that
this caused the earthquake.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

Dowie and Voliva should stop their
long-range fighting, and get where
they can pull each others hair.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

Judge Humphrey does not seem to
know where he is at-at least, he is
keeping as still as a mouse.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

Newport society is forgetting
monkey dinners in its distress over
the supreme court decision in the
Haddock case.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

All are Californians when Califor-
MIA calls for aid. Millions are to be
poured out to give food for the hungry
and shelter to the shelterless.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

Bourke Cochran concludes that after
all there are but two kinds of poll
ticians-rogues and lunatics. He de-
clines to name his place among them
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

Judge Humphrey has SUNK out of
sight. He has not word to say in
reply TO the President
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

This is the day of ballots in the
Sixth congressional district, and the
result will divide public interest with
the baseball games.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

Dowie is always going to do things,
but he fails to leave his Chicago
hotel to do them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

The Coal Barons are climbing to-
wards that old percentage 1000" but,
alas. they can never get there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

Rural free delivery is the touch
stone in congressional elections. The
more routes the more votes for the
congressman who secured the routes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

Pittsburg boasts mayor who re-
fused a season baseball pass. He
stands alone in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23

Senator Plat says he will not seek
reelection in 1909. and the people will
not insist that he shall.