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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Nuisance Should Be Abated.

The practice of large crowd gather ing in front of popular resort on Second avenue between Eighteenth and Nine teenth street while baseball games are in progress is being carried to the ex- treme, and this should be abated' re- marked a citizen yesterday afternoon.
 About 5:s0 o'clock in the afternoon the south side of Second avenue is practically closed to pedestrians The crowd outside of the resort is made up to a large ex- tent of negroes, and their talk and ae- tions are quite obnoxious to those who dare venture on that side of the thorough1 fare. Ladies do not venture to pass the place, in fact they would have a hard time getting through If they desired to.
 T notice that the police department has officers on other corners in the business section of the city. keeping the sidewalks open, and those in charge are being com mended for their action by the newspa- pers and others in this. The good work should continue further down the ave nue"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
Democrats In the Next House

The bill providing for publicity In campaign subscriptions is hung up 'h committee rooms in both houses or Congress. Not a word or intimation as to action comes from either, and none will come. The Belmont bill is net retroactive. It relates simply 70 the future. but the republicans either do not propose to recall their record, or else they desire to send out their Blisses and Odells and Tom Platts again as they did in 1896, 1900 and 1904.
 The country sorely needs at this 1uncture a democratic House of Rep resentatives. one that would leave no stone unturned to expose the inside secrets of the three last national cam paigns. It should become the burning issue in the congressional elections of the present year.
 "A ucuOCIdllC SOhAN NAAN would summon witnesses and call for lists that would turn things inside out, very much as MT. Hughes did in in- surance matters. Bad as the insur- ance companies were, much greater, deeper and more dangerous rottenness is concealed in the campaign sub scriptions of 1896, 1900 and 1904 They constitute at once the greatest shame and the gravest danger of the repub- lie.
 There is but one way to put an end to questional subscriptions and con- trol-publicity, and publicity is out of reach while both Houses remain under republican control.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
Preservation of China.

The Anglo-Tibetan treaty has been signed, and England and China will hereafter pull together in all matters relating to the government of Tibet In the treaty the protectorate of China Ill Tibet is recognized, and Great Britain will keep hands off in Tibet while other powers do likewise China agrees to open some of the Iii betan markets to Indian trade, to erect telegraph lines, to give England preference in railroad concessions. md to pay $1,250,o00 towards the ex. oenses of the British expedition to Lhasa in 1904.
 7 The Younghusband expedition has thus borne fruit, and Tibet will soon De opened to and made a part of the Inown world. The two years of nego- iations which followed the expedition md the seizure of Lhasa yindicates he wisdom of Lord Curzons action, Or Russian influence has been driven ut of the western end of China, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

England stands committed 10 a pro gramme that will keep it out. England, in other words, will guard China at the mountain end while Japan stays on guard along the shore of the vast empire. The two sentinels will thus hold China intact and safe.
 In all the vast consequences of the Russo-Japahese war not one is more far-reaching and important than the preservation of helpless China in her formative period. She is reorganized on western lines, but period of twen- ty years is needed in which to achieve results. England and Japan will serve themselves. and all the rest of the world if they will continue to guard China while she is getting on her western feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
Methodist Conference.

'The general conference or the Meth odist Episcopal church. south which con- venes In Birmingham May 3, in quadren- nial session, will be perhaps. the most important body that has ever assembled here" said Methodist layman.
 Several hundred delegates will be in at tendance and the visitors will be even more numerous than the men making up the conference. The Methodists are finan- cially, socially and numerically strong in Birmingham and the visitors will meet with hospital reception. In point of numbers the Methodist church outranks all other denominations in Jefferson county
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
Music as an Art.

''rhe progress of music as an art is slow in this county said a man musically educated. "Americans are naturally as musical as are the people of Europe, but they do not study music as seriously as do the people of France or Germany. In Europe men and women are not consid- cred educated unless they have acquired broad knowledge of the theory of music. To say that German Is cultured is as much as to say that he or she not only reads music, but writes music as well. In America the majority of college bred persons have only a smattering of music"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
Municipal Expansion.

'In many cities a movement is well un- der way for extending the corporate limits" said a public-spirited citizen.
 Tn most prosperous cities under the hundred thousand mark a special effort will be made to get in the larger class in the census of 1910. It is hardly probable that the Greater Birmingham will be con- solidated before the census of 1920 By the census of 1920 however, the cities will be extended so as to embrace nearly all the municipalities of Jefferson county and it will be only a question of time when even Gadsden will be a part of the Greater Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
About Parsons.

Norvel Lapsley of Anniston passed through Birmingham last night en route home from Livingston. where he was an attendant at the Brown-Tart wedding.
 J. O. Jacobs of Scottsboro is stopping at the St. Nicholas
 c. V. Matthews of sulligent is at the Morris.
 S. Auxford of Palos is registered at the Metropolitan.
 w. L. Sibley of Warrior is stopping at the Birmingham.
 w. T. Culver of Ludington. Mich, is at the Hillman.
 R. M. Harper of Tuscaloosa is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 S. J. Patterson of Faulkville is regis tered at the Metropolitan.
 Rabbi E. Frisch of Pine Bluff, Ark, is at the Hillman.
 J. H. Cross of Gadsden is stopping at the Morris.
 w. A. Cobb of Selma is at the Merto- nolitan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
Decoration Hahit.

Birmingham is making good progress in the matter of public spirit" said an observer yesterday, but it is far be- hind other cities when it comes to decorating in honor of special occasions. Even when President Roosevelt paid us visit the decorations were meager.
 "On this memorable day the Jacobs Pharmacy was the only business house that displayed the Confederate eolors This concern observes at least four holi- days Or semi -holidays-St. Patrick's day. Memorial day, Decoration day and the Fourth of July. II would be well if all our merchants caught the decoration habit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
TO A LATE-coMER.

Julia c. K. Dorr in the Atlantic Why didst thou come into my life so late? If 1t were morning l could welcome thee With glad all-hails, and bid each to bs The willing survivor of thine estate, Lading thy brave ships with Times rich
 est freight: If it were monday I might hope to ses On some far height thy banners float
 ing free, And hear the acclaiming voices call thee
 great But it is nightfall and the stars are out; Far in the west the crescent moon hangs
 low,
 And near at hand the lurking shadows wait;
 Aethes black stream is near it's over
 flow
 An. friend dear friend. why didst thou
 come so late?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
ALABAMA PRESS

Livingston Southern Home: Many q sending her flowers as he did before marriage forgets entirely how much more he has to pay for those that bloom on her Easter hat
 Collinsville Courier: The head line in the daily papers, Another Negro Killed at Springfield" is to be kept standing for future use.
 Montgomery Advertiser: At this late day The Buffalo News asserts that there was no truth in Judge ParlSer's charges about campaign contributions. The News should wake up.
 Lafayette Sun: The 'Friscoans are talk ing the situation philosophically and ood-humoredly, while sympathetic world showers upon the sufferers bounti- full and substantial expressions of love for suffering humanity.
 Eufaula Times; man or a newspaper that has no greater mission than the furthering of a political scheme where a division of spells is the main feature, is nuisance to the general public and sbuld not be allowed to exist.
 Mobile Register: There is mystery in the muck rake" speech. The dailies coincided with it and the popular magazines say 1t never touched them. Perhaps the Pres ident will specify later on.
 Talladega Mountain Home: Even in the baseball season the Vulcan problem is still discussed in Birmingham.
 Columbana Sentinel: Alderman Snow now has the joke on the fellows who were going to shovel him off of Chicago.
 Decatur News: There is a negro Elijah causing excitement in Planfield, N. J. Alexander Dowie will recognize that imi- tation in the sincerest fattery.
 John Alexander has been thown into involuntary bankruptcy. and miracles are not potential in that branch of the nIhlic service
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
TIE GEORGIAN.

The first issue of The Georgian. the new paper established in Atlanta by John Temple Graves, presents an imposing ap- pearsnce. 1tds every way an up-to-date newspaper and a credit to the south The Georgian has started of auspiciously. with large circulation and plenty of capital John Temple Graves is editor-in- chief. He will . ve tho assstance of a strong editorial s.aff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
HAT was a great game of base ball played last Tuesday in Bug
 vile. All the bugs for yards

" ball played last Tuesday in Bug
 vile. All the bugs for yards aroua were there and the birds would have beer. present too. if they had known. The game was played by the pennant- ehasers of Beetletown and the husky club of Bugvlle. Mir. Caterpillar got mad be- cause some ants insisted on usinp his back for grandstand, but there was A noticeable absence of ebeehng.s altho the crowd was one of the largest ever as sembled in Bugville. The features of the game in addition to the base running of Red Ant for the Bugville team and the baekstop work of Charley chlneh Bug for the Beetetown aggregation, was the pitching of Daddy Thousandlegs. Every time one arm gave out he would start in on another. He was as fresh at the close of the ninth as he was in the last half of the first. Bill Cricket. the Lajoie of BugYille's peerless pinchers. knocked three home runs and clinched the game. The umpiring was done by MT. Cockroach and not a single complaint was made against his decisions. Two bed bugs were prostrated by the heat, and a ladybug had mysteries. but there were no fatalities. Oh, the score was IA to in favor of Bugville
 DEATH As the sun sinks down behind a western
 hill
 And the many varied works of man are
 still;
 Au m uhu 1ac af 1I1 5.fI
 rout,
 So it is a weary human life goes out. 2. The Damrosch orchestra. which will play in Birmingham next week, Is under going a trying experience After a weeks engagement in Spartanburg, N. C.. a strictly dry town, it will go to Columbus. Miss, for an engagement at the girls college there. All in all. the musicians will be about ten days without beer. It is difficult to conceive of what hard ship this Is to a company of Germans true to the traditions of their native land.
 A CHEERFUL CHAP.
 An optinlist he leaves his bed
 And huns a roundelay.
 To every one he sees he says.
 T think we'll win today"
 By the way. what became of breakfast in San Francisco on that memorable morning?
 Chairman Shonts speaks more encourage ingly of the Panama canal than Poult- ney Bigelow. It's his job.
  Monte Carlo might get in line by do- hating a days receipts to the relief fund
 GETTING READY.
 Preparing to increase the sum
 Of peoples petty ills,
 The willy skeeters can be heard
 A-honing of their bills
 What is an earthquake to me-" asked the stork, contemptuously. and he straightway began to deliver a number
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
ABSENCE OF JAMAICA GINGER.

Making Good at Panama In Every
 bodys Magazine.
 Jamaicans are apparently Jacks of all Trades Hungry for the big wages of Panama, school teachers, barbers, shoe makers. store clerks have focked to the isthmus to find employment as masons. carpenters, blaeksmiths and painters, in- differently They are wasteful; they are utterable hatred of exertion other than conversation. preferably religious or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A girl knows how to iatter a man just by the accent of her voice.
 A girl nearly always likes q man unless she tries to make him think she does.
 A girl has very hard time wishing she wouldn't keep wishing she was boy
 A woman never has a good time at a party if she has to wear the same clothes she wore at the last enc.
 A inan could, earn a million dollars hy hard work and he woisld never brag abost i. the way he does about ten-doliar bet he wins
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE TIMES

of suspicious looking packages in Golden Gate park.
 Every now and then ray of divine sunshine strikes man and he rises above himself; but most of the time he just plods along in darkness. There will no doubt be a lot of confusion in Washington when Baron von Hatz- feldt- -Wildenburg succeeds Baron von Dembusche-H -Haddenhausen as first secre- tary of the German embassy.
 POLITICS. A queer old game is politics . Oh, listen to my song Where everything isn't that ought to be And all that is is wrong. Uncle Joe's" birthday will fall on May I. Buy your presents now. ticket speculator insulted the wife of James J. Corbett the other day. He will recover.
 KEEP SMILING. Amt got no cause for grievin'.
 Dis life don't trouble me. Why folks is always sighin'
 Is mo dan I kin sec Why don't dey look fur sunshine
 lnstid CT mopin' so? Ef CT man don't keep on smilin'
 He Jes' ain't got no show. Isn't Is surprising. Peggy, how much champagne you girls drink in a year? Lots of headaches in 4.5OOOOO quarts. There is no evidanca to ,oro,,o 41,a4zxxy Ellis Corey nearly tore down telegraph office while trying to hear from his wife in the Frisco earthquake.
 SOCIETY. Woman gives little party.
 Cards and iced frappe. you know Then she tells daily paper
 Of her little social blow Kansas City paper kindly volunteers the information that Governor Folk is in earnest Again we say, "'Rah for Follx!,' Woman who, in suing for divorce all leges that her husband cut the table with an ax, should go slow Maybe he struck at the steak
 The mean suspicion sometimes rises in ones mind that Mark Twain has not had all the funny experiences that he tells about. But, of course, he has; else how could he remember all the particulars so perfectly?
 ENUFFi Ahypody can write poem on spring. Let's sing,
 Of some other thing, And trill
 If you will,
 Of a thug, or the humble bed bug. Or the man who digs ditches, Getting mud spots on his breeches- Something coarse, cheap and plain Let's cut out this overworked refrain On springs sweet moods and phases Darn the daisies. Thank heaven John Paul Jones is de- cently inferred at lastl
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
SOME STARTLING COMPARISONS.

From the Kansas City Times.
 Rockefeller's fortune is estimated at from $500 100000 to $1,oooo00,ooo
 Suppose that 1t is $500,o00 GOO. And sup pose that it earns , per cent per annum. That would make Rockefellers annual income s25, 100000 or more than s6S,OOO per day. including Sundays.
 Kansas City, with all it's generosity to the San Francisco sufferers, has collected less than Rockefeller's daily income.
 Rockefellers girft of s1000o0 to the stricken city is less than his income for two days.
 And Rockefeller and Carnegie will mako millions of regular business profit out of structural steel needed in the rebuild ing of San Francisco.
 And these multi-millionaires will make millions more out of the tariff graft of s10 per ton on steel, which the government allows and they exact.
 Is it any wonder that President Roose- welt has expressed the personal convic- ton" that the government must soon do something to put a limit on the stupen- dous concentration of wealth in the hands of few men?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

N AA<NNs 9 with its full quotum of vices, but
 hypocrisy. we believe, is not one of the number. If it were, we might hold a service of thanksgiving that New York is not, as other cities are, subject to great natural calamities. We might claim that We are especially and purposely fa vored-that we are shielded and protected, as kind of pet of Divine Providence. Well, may Divine Providence saw us from that attitude!
 But though we are not pharisaical enough to set up any such claim, we are lucky, to put it mildly. This city has never been visited by natural calam- ity of the first magnitude. To some of the disasters that menace lesser cities, we really appear to be immune.
 Floods? They cannot touch us, save in the shape of an occasional backing up of the water into the cellars of West street-a class of calamity which, in rela- tive magnitude, is much less than Lone somehurst's loss when the lightning strikes Deacon Hodges hen house.
 Earthquakes? Nothing serious of that kind has ever visited Manhattan island, and there is no reason to fear that it ever will. We are as near to being i'm mune as any spot on earth may call itself.
 Tomatoes? Cyclones? We are not in the belt of those calamities. High winds come but they have never done any note worthy damage, and probably never will do any
 Fires? We have reached condition where we are reasonably assured against great confagrations. We have never had one of the first magnitude. The fire of December 16-17, 1885, known as the great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

The country is beginning to wake up to the fact that Richmond Pearson Hobson is to be it's most picturesque lawmaker, thus putting Nick Long worth and John Wesley Gaines noses out of joint
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

Captain Hobson has no intention of room of the House of Representatives Let the members calm themselves. All will vet be we'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
IT WAS TUESDAY,.

Translated for Tales from "Le Rire." You know. Emile dear"
 "Whati Emile! You mean Charles-'' "Of course, how stupid am. I thought today was Wednesday,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27
TALENTED ARTIST.

From the Guntersville Democrat.
 The artist who draws the ball players for the Age-Herald's sporting page has certainly caught the facial expression and characteristic poses of his subjects.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

f Birmingham, Shreveport and New Orleans are punched, and the games
 the three are playing interest all low CTS of base ball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

John Temple Graves has concluded that a daily newspaper and sena torial race are conflicting. and he wisely puts the latter aside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

The first Russian national assembly will simply be evidence that the world do move when the Japanese get be- bind it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

ethical topics. Here are some more statis- ties from my friend, the foreman of the painters: Hospital 54 is a building about forty feet square; the amount of white lead required for the paint to be applied to it would be, here in the states, about 70 pounds; 1t was necessary to use 250 pounds of white lead on the Job; none of it was stolen; none of 1t was carried away; that white lead and all the other wasted materials which were mixed with 1t are chargeable to the Jamaica negro's ineffi- ciency. Yet the canal must be built with Jamaican labor. in the main. Some york; men are being brought from Galicia in Spain; some have been imported from Martinique a few, very few, have como down from the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

The Richmond Times-Dispatch says. Down with the mosquito" That is easier said than done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

The magazine exposers say they use typewriters instead of rakes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

There is a fear that earthquakes would unlock any locks placed in the Panama canal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

Prosperity moves right along un- checked by earthquake, fire or panic, or all three combined.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

Seventeen thousand canal diggers are throwing dirt at Panama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

Matteucci has the greatest pet in the world-Vesuvius.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

San Francisco is adopting the tent cure on large scale, and the season is favorable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

West Point dislil1es to reconsider it's opinion of Gen. Fred Funston who swan the Bag-Bag river.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

s.Bathhouse John" having purchased a sacred COW, is expected to be more in the limelight than ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

This is lazy weather, but the anvil chorus is never too tired to knock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

San Francisco has room for hope, but Sioux Falls is in the dumps to stay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

The ashes of John Paul Jones rest in peace at last in the home of the hazers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

MT. Carnegie was so dazed by the Atlanta incident that he is not now sure what did happen there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

That suburban resort near San Fran cisco. spelled Birmingham, is pro nouneed "Blingham." It is a social center.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

It Is hard to beat a southern man at making speeches and telling funny stories.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

The armies of the Confederaey have captured New Orleans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

Pittsburg wants the Dingley tariff to stand untouched and sacred even if San Francisco cannot get structural steel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

San Francisco sends out a hurry call for architects and structural shapes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

The earthquake shook over $20,0O0,- 900 out of willing and charitable poclk- cts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

Old Glory waves from the topmost girder of Birmingham's new sky seraper and workmen are dressing it in brick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

A well known star is appearing in a play without a name. The critics Will find something suitable, no doubt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-27

Earthquakes don't disturb castles in the air.