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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-02
Universities Responsibility.

Wallace Irwin, in Saturday Evening Post.
President Roosevelt has Yale temper
ament with Harvard training, much as
Secretary Taft has Yale training with
a Heidelberg shape. And here the ques-
ton naturally arises: Have sur UNIVERSE
ties been responsible, after all, for the
shaping of our great national figures?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-02
Hartman Warlike.

The railroad situation in the northwest
Is certainly warlike. Hartman, Hill and
Van Horns are paralleling, extending, in
vading and rate slashing at a lively rate,
although the latter crime is mostly of
Hill initiative down to present date. The
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-25
In CHATTANOOGA.

Said Captain Parkes. conductor of the
Alabama Great Southern railroad, yester-
day afternoon;
am led to believe from experience
as well as from what l hear. that the
bad feeling between the whites and
blacks of Chattanooga is something like
that which has existed between the whites
and blacks in Atlanta. This can naturally
have but one effect.
Atlanta, in my opinion, is guilty of
having done a bunglesome piece of work.
Some twenty-five years ago, Meridian
had a similar trouble, and in three hours
all of the negroes of the city had been
either driven TO parts unknown, or had
met their deaths. There are comparative
ly few people in Birmingham who remem-
Der that horrible night in Meridian. The
town was wild for revenge. The guns
began to shoot and the negroes were
driven out
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warded. Even small tracts would then
be valuable. 1t is perhaps safe to say
that every well timbered acre will
then be worth one hundred dollars.
But there is some consolation in
the rapid cutting of the pine forests
in this state-it means more cheap
lands for the agriculturist and truck
grower. It invites immigration. and
the invitation will in the long run be
accepted. Perhaps after all there is
more good than harm in the depletion
of our forests. Good will certainly be
the result if more white men ara
through it attracted to this state, aud
this has been the case in The neigh
borhood of Mobile.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-25
ARKANSAS,

From the Memphis Commercial-App
Arkansas is a wonderful state. 1t looks
like that all anybody has to do is to go
to Arkansas in search of something and
straightway he finds it,
THE Maker of the land finished the
other states first" declares a patriotic
Arkansan, then he gathered up the best
of the scraps and made Arkansas"
Even so it seems. for Arkansas goes
forth to the world as the possessor of all
things. From the grain of rice to the
bale of cotton; from the juicy berry to
the big red apple; from the ear of wheat
to the large corncob, all these and every
thing in between finds congenial nourish-
ment in the soil of that state. while be-
meath the soil there are treasures of all
sorts.
One fellow swears he has tin over there
Another shows the world zinc in I'M
limited quantities. manganese crops out
apace, asphalt shows itself in spasnls,
iron, coal. lead and, we believe copper,
can be found, while ochre is common as
earth Silver, to, Is not wanting. and
gold said to be in Arkansas sands. We
know pearls in paying quantities have
come from Arkansas streams and We
are now told that diamonds have been
found for the searching
Truly Arkansas is a dandy. and we are
glad and happy to be located so close to
this state teeming with the things pre-
cious as well as useful to mankind.
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Truck Farms instead OF Forests,

Il am not much impressed" said
Chairman Burton of the rivers and
harbors committee, speaking at Mont
gomery last week, by the big item of
lumber shipments done at any port.
When lumber is the biggest item in
the business done, | hurry on to the
next largest item. The lumber indus
try is not a permanent industry 1t
takes more than 1t gives. 1t takes
more than it leaves. 1t leaves no per-
manent prosperity. In my opinion the
southern forests are being cut away
too rapidly"
There Is much truth in Judge Bur-
toms observations, although Alabama
is doing just what Michigan and half
a dozen other states had done in his
own section of the country. The man
who holds a tract of timbered lands
twenty years would be richly re-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-25
Changing Sentiment.

There is a growing sentiment against
capital punishment especially when con-
viction is had upon clrcumstantial evil
dence," said a visitor to the criminal
court
"In the opinion of a great many per-
sons capital punishment has totally fall
ed to accomplish the purpose for which
1t was institutde. IRE frequency of muir
der and other offenses punishable by the
death penalty is just as great today as 1t
was twenty years ago With this proof
of the failure of the institution 1t Is only
reasonable to think that men would be-
gin to see the futility of pursuing a
course of action which is naturally alb
horrent.
when a jury Is being selected to try
a man charged with a capital offense, the
judge asks every juror individually a
certain set of questions among them be-
ing two which always seem to cause EN-
barrassment These questions relate to
capital punishment and conviction on cir
cumstantial evidence,
when people become ashamed of an
institution 1t is about time to abolish it,
and 1t Is quite evident that many men
in jefferson county are averse to and
ashamed of capital punishment"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-25
ANCIENT CAR
In Which Fisk and Josie Mansfield
Made Merry Is crumbling.


Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati En-
quirer
Marion, O.-Adjoining the city building
until today stood crumbling frame hulk,
which is said to be a part of what was
once the elegant private car in which
Col. Jim Fisk and beautiful Josie Mans
field cracked champagne and made merry
years ago.
Professor" John Augenstine, self-called
champion heel and toe walker and world
beater by BIRTH" an eccentric town char
acter, lives in the old hulk and calls it his
private car" Until recently the car
stood along the Erie tracks and Augens-
tine lived there. Then a policeman jok-
ingly suggested to Augenstlne that he
bring his private car" up town, where
he could exhibit his many medals, some of
which were made in blacksmith shops.
The next day Augenstine hauled his
private car" alongside of the city build
ing Mayor Scherff and Chief of Police
Cornwell angrily demanded that Augens-
tine remove 1t, but the "world-beater by
birth refused to bulge. However, Street
and Sewer Superintendent George Blum
had the car hauled to a point along the
Erie railroad, where Augenstine was in
formed he could exercise a "squatter' 5
claim"
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Future of Negro Race.

No statistics are needed to prove
that the negro race is deteriorating.
Casual observation in agricultural sec
tions and in Industrial centers reveals
a lamentable state of affairs. Up to
ten or fifteen years ago the negro was
good laborer. Today, when the
laborer's services are more needed
than ever, the negro whose name Is
on a payroll does not, as a rule, work
one-third of his time. Here In the Bir-
mingham district, where wages are
high, negroes could make money and
save a good deal of 1t, but instead of
keeping pace with prosperity they be-
come more and more worthless every
year.
Among the negro race there are a
few substantial, self-respecting men.
and 1t behooves such men to do mis-
sionary work, and do 1t quickly. Every
negro educator and every negro who
has acquired property and Is therefore
looked up to by the rank and file of
his race, should constitute himself a
committee of one to counsel the negro
masses and lift them, ii possible, to a
level above the vagrant.
The negro has been well treated by
the southern people. Without contrib
uting to the revenues of the state, he
has had the school opened to him and
has had ample opportunity to become
a useful member of the producing
class. He has had great opportunity
to improve his condition, but he has
refused to avail himself of it, and the
percentage of blacks who sink to the
level of the brutes increases to an
alarming extent.
In every southern city of large size
thousands of negro men may be found
who do not try to earn living. There
are thousands of them who do not earn
dollar from one years end to the
other. We have vagrancy laws, and
the police should enforce them rigidly.
If these laws We're enforced in this
community today, Birmingham would
find its population reduced suddenly
! by thousand or more. A great rid
dance it would be. If these negro
drones were driven from the city to
the country, they would be compelled
to work on the farms or go to jail.
With the combined efforts of the
better class of negroes in the mission
sionary line and the police in enforc-
ing the vagrancy laws there might be
some hope for the black race. Unless
extraordinary measures are applied to
present conditions the negro will go
from bad to worse. The lesson from
the Atlanta riots should not be wholly
lost.
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In the Picture.

Have you ever noticed how eager most
people are to get in a picture when the
photographer points his camera towards
a public bullding?" said man who takes
notice.
Just let a man with camera plant
his tripod in the street and begin to look
at bank or church and you will find
people edge that way and assume an at
titude of dignifed ease as much as to
say they own the place. Although that
may be as near as they ever get to either.
Other people like to be in picture where
some prominent man appears, little think
ing that the contrast will not be to their
credit.
when photographer sets a man at
the base of a monument or against a
public building 1t is merely to show the
proportions of the two objects. In the
same manner, when a man sets himself
beside Roosevelt or a Bryan he only
helps to show the difference between
himself and his company"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-25
For his county,
There was no winter in Il.
Antony and Cleopatra.
Georqia's State Railroad.

Georgia has long owned railroad
i5S miles long, extending from Atlanta
to Chattanooga. 1t was built before
the war, and some of the most stirring
scenes of the great struggle were en-
acted along its rails. 1t really enabled
Sherman to march to the sea.
After the war the reconstructionists
conducted the railroad, and the longer
the state conducted it, the greater be-
came its scandal. The road was at
length rented to Joseph E. Brown and
his associates at the rate of $4,000 a
month. The state thus secured net
revenue from the road of $4,000 a
year, instead of paying a deficit rang
ing from 100000 to 100000 each year
of actual state operation. At the end
of the Brown lease 1t was extended at
the rate of $4,000 year, and the
extension has yet thirteen years to
run. Already the state has received
an offer of S72000O a year for the use
of the road. and the hope is enter
tanned that it can be rented before the
present lease expires at a million net
dollars a year.
These figures show the difference
between a railroad-in Georgia-man-
aged by politicians, resulting in an an
nual deficit, and railroad turned over
to railroad men for definite rental.
In other countries national control is
feasible, but in Georgia it does not
seem to be.
At present the people of Georgia
are troubled with threats that their
little railroad is to be bottled up by
the big railroad systems, and a move
ment has been started to extend it to
the sea. Such an extension would,
however, call for an extension to the
Ohio river at least, and thus the state
road would become an interstate road
1t IS, In fact, a state road now, for its
northern terminal is in the state OF
Tennessee, and it is subject to the
terms and limitations of the rate bill
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-25
Wouldn't Work Twice.

when the same person tries to work
the same scheme on you twice in the
same day" said the man who had the
floor, 'it Is time to push your hat for
ward
Yesterday morning woman gave nc
story about wanting - 20 II Besse-
mer, but was a nickel short on car fare.
l readily advanced the amount for which
she thanked me and went her way. Later
in the day l met the same good lady
who again related the same little tale.
Looking her straight in the eye l took a
dollar out of my pocket and said. DO you
see that? 1 will give it to you IL you tell
me in what particular member of my
physlognomy you see easy mark" writ
ten. If it's my nose. I'll go home and
cut 1t off, BY this time she had recog-
nlzed my voice. and bursting into laugh
she hurried orf."
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PRINCE oE KING CORN.

Mr.. David Rankin, down in Missouri,
From the Home Magazine for October.
often puts 1900 acres In corn alone. and
his crop in year has amounted to nearly
a million bushels-enough to feed for a
week all the people who live in New
York City. When blowing time comes.
Mr. Rankin sends out sometimes $50 plows
at once. The seed he requires would
make a good-slzed corn crop on an cas-
tern farm. When his crop goes to mar
ket, he ships 1t not by the carload. but
by the trainload. Perhaps he is the most
extensive corn planter In the United
States. That Is his reputation but you
can find in any of the western states we
have named. as well as in Oklahoma and
Nebraska, men who think nothing of
gathering the harvest on eooo 5000 and TO-
600 acres
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-25
APPEAL FOR LAW AND ORDER.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
Following the tragic events of the last
forty-eight hours, two supreme duties face
the resolute and courageo people of At
lanta
Absolute protection of the womanhood
of the city and surrounding territory.
The finding of such methods as will in
iure the firm. patient and intelligent dom.
nation of law and order in the COM
munity
The outbreak of Saturday night came as
the logical elimination of series of
crimes which had wrought Anglo-Saxon
patience and endurance to a preternatural
tensin. The several almost simultaneous
attempts on the same day came as the
finishing stroke They let down the bars
to frenzied. half-blnd resentment which
in the very nature of things, could scarce
ly be expected to reckon at the time of
its own deeds and their consequence.
Viewed from any standpoint. the thing
is deplorable. 1t gains fresh horror from
the fact that in the indiscriminate fury
OF the moment several innocent victims
were deprived of their lives. Persons who
have. for several weeks, been living in
an atmosphere OF such fearful anticipation
as mere language cannot describe and
such as those unfamiliar with the bedrock
conditions can never understand, are in
no frame of mind to adequately weigh
their actions. This fact, however, can do
little more than palliate nightmare re
collection on which the mind cannot dwell
save with feelings of genuine regret and
commiseration.
Credit is due the authorities, county,
state and municipal. for the energetic
manner in which they handled the situa-
ton. as soon as its gravity became ap-
parent, and but for their prompt and reso-
lutte action, backed as 1t was by the con-
servative sentiment of the community. it
is possible that the whole city may have
been involved in chaos.
Atlanta confronts condition Of stress
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CUBA.

From the New York Times
The failure of Secretary Taft and Mr..
Bacon to bring to an adjustment the diff
ferences between President Palmas gov
eminent and the insurrectionists makes
forcible Intervention on our part appar-
emily inevitable. The step, 1t would seem,
must be taken this month, and such a
disposition OF our forces has been made
that we are ready to take 1t.
1t will be understood we hope not
only by the people of the United States
but by the world. that Intervention Is
not annexation. We must first restore
peace in Cuba as we restored 1t when
we put out the Spanard Then, when
the passions of the Cuban people have
cooled, we must give them an opportu-
nifty, as we gave them an opportunity
before, to express their will at the polls
and to put In office a government Of
their own choosing.
This will be the extent of our present
duty, and it is our plain duty. 1t is our
wish that the Cuban people should be
free and self-governing 1t Is only when
they demonstrate their incapaclty for
self-government that the ultimate step
will be taken.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-25
SAVANNAH THEATRE BURNS.

Savannah Dispatch in New York Sun
The Savannah theatre. built in 1918, and
next to the oldest theatre in America
was destroyed by fire tonight. The fire
was first discovered in the gridiron above
the stage, and at midnight the famous
play house was a smoldering ruin.
The theatre was owned by the Green
wall Theatrical Circuit company, and was
worth $4,000. The houseawas remodeled
about ten years ago, but the walls and
interior were the same as when first
erected.
The house was managed at one time by
the late Joseph Jefferson and Charles F.
Crisp, once speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives. appeared in 1t as a child
when his father was its manager.
The most famous actors and actresses
in America had been seen in the house.
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SimpIified Crusaders.

The simplified spoilers, spurred on
by Carnegie money, are never idle.
They are pushing adhesion cards"
into every nook and corner of the land,
and they claim to have received terms
of acceptance or adhesion from 242
school superintendent. A list of the
adhesionists is printed by the simpli-
fed who fill the Carnegie headquarters
in New York city. Printing bills Are
not considered in that place.
To the 242 Alabama furnishes but
one name-rlat of N. R. Baker of Mo-
bile. Virginia furnishes but one; North
Carolina, one; Kentucky, one; West
Virginia, one; California, one; Kansas,
one; Oregon, one; Colorado, none;
Delaware, none; Florida, none; Idaho,
none; Louisiana, none; Maine, none;
Nevada, none; Utah, none.
1t will thus be seen that not even
adhesion cards have been able to carry
the entire country off it's feet and
sweep it into the Carnegie simplified
net. Many states and school superin-
tendents are still standing pat, and the
language of Shakespeare and Milton
still survives. 1t Is still lawful to
use it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-25
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Suburban Politics.

Now that the state and county political
campaigns have been about closed with
the exception =. The contest over lie
sheriff's office, .hc people are turning tn -ir
attention TO municipal affairs and several
interesting campaigns are blossoming In
Birmingham and its suburbs" said a SUI
burbanite yesterday.
Mayors and other city officials in sew
eral of the towns clustered about Biz
mingham are to be chosen within the
next few months and in one or two in
stances the contests promise some excit-
ing features.
"Ensley is preparing for very warm
contest over the offices of mayor and
board of aldermen and other towns in the
district will follow soon"
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TELEPHONE TEXTS.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
His number is 666.-Rev. kill, Is.
Thou didst call mel. Sam. ill.,, g.
He tellest the number.-Ps.. cxivii., 4.
1 understood the number.-Dan., TX. @
There is no speech nor language.-Ps..
XIX, 3.
When 1 call, answer me speedily.-Ps.,
Gill;, 2.
l said in my haste, II am cut off"-Ps.,
XXI, %.
l called him, but he gave me no answer.
Cant, ", g.
They could not take hold of his words
Luke, Xxx, 26.
We use great plainness of speech.-II.
Cor, ill.,, r.
His name should not have been cut
off.-Isa. Xviii, 10.
Call now, If there be any that will an
swer thee.-Job, v. l.
Ye have heard my conversation In time
past.-Gal. l., 10.
If he cut off. and shut up. who can
hinder him?-Job XII. 10.
Then they waited according to their or
der.-I Chron., vi. 80.
Wnere is the receiver !--lSd.' NXANl., ~.
Let every man be swift to hear and slow
to speak.-James, t., 10.
Call thou and l will answer, or let me
speak, and answer thou me.-Job, xiii, %.
Except they give distinction to the
sounds, how shall 1t be known?-I. Cor.
xiv. T.
l had rather speak five words with my
understanding than 10 OOO in an ,lnlxnown
tongue.-I. Cor. xiv, 10.
Except we utter words easy to be under
Stood how shall 1t be known what Is
spoken? Forge shall speak into the air.
|. Cor, xiv, 8.
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Early next month the Tennessee
company will take steps to add $780,
100000 to its stock issues. Some of
this increase will be used to perfect
the long-anticipated merger of the Ten.
nessee and the Republic companies,
but there will be millions left after
that has been accomplished to be ap-
piled In extensions and improvements
in this district. The increase in CAPT.
talization has practically been deter
mined, and the coming meeting at
Tracy City, Tenn. will be but an off,
cial formality.
This important step is of great sig
nificance in this district, where the
surplus millions will be expended I'M
der the vigorous leadership of Presl-
dent Topping in accordance with far
reaching plans already adopted. Thu
determination to develop the great
properties of the two companies is
manifest, and this means that the pos
sibilities of this district will yet be
made plain to an incredulous world.
Our vast ore bodies and coal beds will
be made to furnish what nature in
tended they should furnish, and when
that point Is reached Jones valley will
s IMPLY be full Of an Industrious and
contented population.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-25
QUAKER BONNETS GONE

Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati En-
qurer.
~ edmond 1nd'-The eishty-slxth
W. annual session of Indiana yearly
meeting, the largest body of
Quakers in the world, will be begun in
Richmond next Tuesday and continue ten
days. Six hundred delegates, represent
ing quarterly meetings of Friends In In
diana and parts of Ohio and Michigan,
will be In attendance, besides hundreds of
visiting friends from this and various
other American yearly meetings. Per-
haps, never in the history of the Quaker
denomination has there been so much in
terest taken In its affairs by the religious
world in general as at the present time.
This is due to the fact that there is a
great evolutionary movement going on in
the ranks of the Quakers, which is
sweeping away old traditions In a manner
that is, to say the least dscomforting
to some of the old members of the
church. Younger blood in the ministry
has been responsible for the elimination
of some of the old doctrinal teachings,
though the essential truths of the original
organization are to be preserved.
For long period the Quaker church
grew scarcely at all, and in some of the
I American yearly meetings actual losses
were shown in membership from one year
to another. There evidently Is an awak-
ening now that is to increase the ranks
of the followers of George Fox, and Indi-
ana yearly meetings probably will take
greater strides than any of the others.
The popular mind conceives men and
women who are attred In the styles of
William PENIS days when thinking of
Quakers, but in dress, as well as in relig-
ious customs, there is a radical change
going on. The Quaker bonnets, which the
women always wore a few years ago, are
seldom seen now, though, at the annual