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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
NEw exPERIENcE MEETIN,.

l From the New York Sun.
 Once a year all the negroes who can walk. ride or raise the price of ticket to Tuskegee get together there to talk things over Booker T. Washington open ed the last conference with the advice to get down to facts, and the way the darkies did so was most enlivening.
 One man who began by working on a farm at 50 cents day said that he now owns a store and 200 acres of land. An old man owning a ''nice little log cabin of four rooms and forty acres of land in- vests his savings in horses, cows, buggies and wagons and will put some money in the bank as soon as the "wedder gets warmer"
 A delegate from Leon county, Florida, made start twenty years ago with forty acres of woodland. clearing and ploughing it with the help of two steers which he fed on mulberry bushes and moss. He now owns 500 acres, besides real estate in Tallahassee and a bank account.
 They have got me set down in my county for slo, ,ooo,' said he, but I praise God for it all"
 A woman from Talladega county owns the house she lives in and 300 acres of land six miles from town, also a house in Talladega, which she bought herself. She sells milk and butter. eggs and chick ems every week instead of depending on cotton alone. This fact pr. Washington emphasized to all the women present.
 An old man got up at this point and complained that he knew a great many people who raised butter and eggs and chickens but grew poorer every year. He was effectually si1enced by the womans s instant retort, which was loudly ap- plauded:
 "Yaas, dat's cause de wife stay home while de man go to town an sell de aigs an de chicken an den spen' all de money on whisky"
 The woman who said two years ago that she got her start by swapping a pup for a pig reported that she has left her two room log cabin and now lives in a three room frame house, owns forty acres of land and has never bought any meat since she made the swap. She advised all to get their living 'by the sweat of their eyebrow"
 An old man showed the audience his coat, which his wife had made of wool from the back of the same old sheep that furnished the coat he wore at the last conference
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
MT. Beddow,s Candidacy.

"C. P. Beddow is making a good race for the office of senator from Jefferson county, although his name was not men toned in the policital story which ap- peared in The Age Herald last Sunday" said an attorney. "Omitting the name of MT. Beddow from the list of candidates for county offices subject to the action of the democratic primary in August, was natural, inasmuch as many have recently confused the name of MT. Beddow in con nection with the aspirations for members of the lower house.
 "The fact is, however, MT. Beddow is the only regularly announced candidate for state senatorial honors, and his friends in Jefferson county arc confident of his success at the polls"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
Three State Problems.

The selection of legislative represent atives is going on daily in this state in the minds of electors. at any rate, and the average voter considers per haps personal popularity in the repre- sentative more than what he will stand for, or what influences he will be sub jeot to.
 Three questions will come before each representative and each senator next winter, and all three touch every family, almost every person in this state, as follows
 1. A secret ballot. The present bal lot is unsatisfactory to every freeman, an outrage upon independent express sion at the polls. The present election law subjects the ballots to inspection by the inside managers in every county. No scrutiny of ballots can be proven, and the penalties, if proven, are trivial
 2. Unlimited local taxation for schol purposes. Let no one think this reform can be readily procured. It cannot be- The small counties are wholly willing to loot the large ones to the limit, and Ii order to do that they are willing to condemn unlimited
  local taxationall all the counties. The S.ls,aastice and uRwisdom of forbidding a school district from having as good school as it is willing to pay for is apparent without argument, but the present policy will go on unless the voters study the question, and the illit- eracy figures of this state.
 8. A new school-book contract for five years. The present contract will soon expire, and trust agents are busy. Many teachers have all sorts of notions about school books, and they are con sciously or unconsciously aiding the trust in its efforts to regain monopoly of the book business in this state at monopoly prices. Unless the matter is closely watched new books will be foisted on 100000 children at a heavy expense with no resultant good except to the book trust. The small school district far from central towns and rail roads would in that way soon relapse into a chaotic textbook condition and all the gain that uniformity has brought to them would be lost
 These three propositions should be discussed in every county and election district They concern all, and each and all of them will be brought before the next legislature for settlement-a secret ballot, local taxation for schools, and uniform text books.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Congressman RanIsaead.

Congressman J. II. Bankhead of the Sixth district is registered at the Metro politan, but will leave for Tuscaloosa early this morning He is the picture of health and contentment. He takes his de- feat by Richard Pearson TIobson philoso- phically, even eheerfully.
 The veteran congressman is being urged by friends in every party of Alabama to enter the race for senatorial succession. Many of the prominent democrats of the Sixth district who voted against Bank head in the congressional primary have given assurances of their support in the event that he runs for alternate senator
 T have not decided whether or not I will be candidate for alternate senator, :" said Congressman Bankhead yesterday. T am being urged by friends to enter the race. and it may be that l will announce but l must take little time to consider.P
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
Colonel Johns Preference.

just beyond Owenton college would be an ideal site for Vulcan" said Col. l.. w. Johns. While the representatives of the women's clubs are considering the question of site it would be well for them to take look at the eminence which l am advocating. Vulcan should be placed where he could command the widest range of view. The hill beyond Owenton Is certainly unequalled from that point of view.
 Red mountain is preferable to Capitol park, but why pedestal the statue on Red mountain when the ridge at Owenton is available?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
NocoUErs PLACE AS AN ARTIST.

Samuel Swift, in Harpers Weekly.
 What Paul Nocquet might have attained to, as a creative artist, must remain un- certain. The sympathetic student of his work could not but see that 1t was in the same state of divided allegiance as the man himself Surely it is no reproach to man or an artist that he be found passing through a preliminary epoch of confused purposes, before the moment of specialization arrives. Perhaps within a decade Paul Nocquet's art might have clarified and taken on a positive and ab- solute character. passing itself definitely upon set of guiding principles. There was fine ambition to spur him on--he looked forward to larger and more sig nificant work than anything he had done. To the writer he expressed wish that he might be enabled to carry out in heroic size his Effort" for some sucn site as the Plaza at Fifty-ninth street and Fifth ave- nue: this subject he deemed especially American, the struggle for the force against matter" It is quite conceivable that Nocquets plunge into the seething life of the New World had deferred the maturing of his artistic. nature. He was delicately sensitive to impressions; here they crowded upon him so urgently that he became dffuse and Gncritical in his involutary haste to express what he felt and thought The immediate effect may have been even similar to what he feared would happen to him in Rome-an over balancing of his interpretative powers by the impact of more than he could for the moment properly aborb and assimilate.
 When all is said Noequet was a man likely to have been factor in American sculptural activity. His outspoken cour- age, fortifying his authentic talent, would have ensured that The world of art will regret his loss his memory will be cher ished and his name will summon up. when it is spoken. vission of happy. inpulsive youth, of s nature that did not live long enough to grow old and might never have done so
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
Banquet to MT. Fairbanks.

Arrangements are being made by the Scottish Rite Masons of Birmingham to give banquet to Charles K Fairbanks, Vice President of the United States, who comes to Birmingham this week as q fraternal delegate from the northern Methodist church to the general confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. Mir. Fairbanks is a thirty second degree Mason
 Tomorrow night the Scottish Rite Ma sons will discuss the entertainment, and appoint committees. The banquet will be given one night early next week.
 While in Birmingham Vice President Fairbanks will be the guest of Col. T. G. Bush, at his home on the South High lands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
CHINATOWN UNDER CHINATOWN.

From the New York Times.
 A curious feature of the San Francisco
 fire is it's revelation of the extent to which chinatown was a place of eel
 lars under cellars and of long passages Tar below the streets, into which white
 men had never penetrated. The existence of these lairs had long been suspected and stories of the terrible crimes com
 mitted in them have been current, but it took the removal of the buildings to show the existence of a second Chinatown un- der the first. The one to some degree in view was bad enough, but what went
 on among the prisoners and jailers of
 the subterranean city probably passes
 the Occidental imagination. In the re- building of San Francisco an effort should and doubtless will be made to prevent any duplication off these cave dwellings They were, of course, the slow growth . of many years. and a new Chinatown would doubtless be content with the ordi- nary equipment of celars-for a while,
 Then the excavation would begin again and in time the old evils would be re-
 newed. The Boston police long ago found 1t expedient to prevent the establishment of such dens by inventing one reason or another to make the Chinese move from house to house occasionally. That would seem to be good p1an-if the reasons for applying it were sufficiently ingenious. Colonies" are always bad-in direct pro- @rtion to their unlikeness to the sur rounding population, and the Chinese col onies are especially bad, not because the
 Chinese are all and necessarily wicked,
 but because their dissimilarity is ex- treme.
 It is stated in the dispatches that the Chinese now driven from San Francisco. instead of returning to their old district
 will found city of their own at a con-
 siderable distance. This is a rather dis quieung scheme and, If carried out it
 will create a Trace problem of an en- tirely new kind. We have, of course. had small towns in which, for a time, all the inhabitants were foreigners of one kind,
 but always there has been the intention
 of final Americanzation, more or less complete. while the Chinese city now pro- posed would have as fundamental princi-
 pie continuous separation from Amer ican influences. It would be an extremely queer place and there Is some question If the addition to our diversites would be desirable. There is, indeed, some difficulty in seeing how the inhabitants of such a city would live, for the Chinese do not come over here to trade among them
 selves, but to make money out of us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

From Diet Delusions,Y by Woods Hutch
 inson, A. M. M. D., in the April Me
 Clure's.
 Some diet delusions are of most mod ern date, like the fad which is now de- vastating our breakfast tables while oth- Among the latter is that very ancient survival, the notion that particular foods are good" for particular things or eff fleets. This is an almost direct descendent of the notion held with greater or less unanimity by nearly all savage and bar barous tribes, that the flesh or viscera of birds and animals possessing particu- lar qualities in those who eat them. Thus lar qualities will be likely to produce the same qualities in those who eat them. Thus Nero used to banquet on nightin- gales tongues in the hope of improving his voice, and the Ojibwa cut out and de- voured the heart of the bear, the liver of the buffalo. etc., believing that the strength and courage of these animals would thereby be transferred to himself. II is probable that the most grewsome of ancestral rites. canniballsm, was largely due to the same belief, although, of course, in Neanderthal days primitive man would have no more hesitancy about eating his enemy after he had killed him than he would in devouring a bear or a deer In fact, the early converts of the missionaries in the South Sea Islands referred to their favorte dish as Hong pig" Every known race has at some time been cannbal.
 There certainly was childlike logicality and naivete about the conception of the Maori warrior who rounded and com peted his conquest of his enemy by eat ing him afterwards and thus acquiring all the vigor and energy which had been wont to oppose him. The story told of the old Maori chief who, upon his death bed, when urged by the missionary and his favorite wife to a death-bed repent ance, and told that in order to do so he must first forgive his enemies proudly lifted his dying head and exclaimed, 'I have no enemies; I have eaten them all" appeals to a slumberfng chord in us even yet While certain most intelligent peo- pie today would indignantly resent the accusation of reverting to such days and ideas, they will vigorously denounce the eating of pork as an unholy thing, on the ground that 'he who eats pork thinks pork" and the more orthodox of them will even declare that while scripture records that the devils entered into swine, we have no assurance that they ever came out of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press,
 Every man who stays married is a hero.
 The trouble with being brilliant is you can hardly ever make living at 1t.
 Mosquitoes show awful good Judgment by not appearing till openwork shirt waists come in.
 A man can make up his mind he has grown old when girl Isn't afraid of him in the dark,
 One good thins about being in debt ls you don't have to lend money to your relatives so they can be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
HE author of a rejected poem writes like this: sBesides being a l.a..ae.

N HE author of rejected poem 0 writes like this: eBesides being
 benefactor to the human race. you are also my benefactor and I shall continue to read your paper above all others" Isn't that an example of Chris tian fortitude seldom exhibited? Instead of this charming humility and jewel-like modesty of soul, how often do we behold the turned down poet wax naughty and blatant? How often do we hear him com- plain that genius is not appreciated and editors do not know their business? How many times have we not been pestered by the noise he makes when manu- script comes back rejected and how of ten do we weary of his Authorizations? An. if all poets could possess themselves in peace like this one. If all would lick the hand that struck them, even as the faith full dog, and bow down to the editorial autoerat who throws back into their faces the product of grinding toll! What sweetness of temper would prevail throughout the literary realm, and how few real poets would ever get a hearing. Weakness of spirit is an admirable thing but faith in ones self is what conquers the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

known at the New Orleans reunion, and many promises were made. Me bile did not present her claims at New Orleans, and it does not seem meet that it should de so now. It is best that all Alabama should pull together in order to bring the 1908 reunion to this state at all.
 The question should perahps be de- cided by hotel capacity and prepara- tions for the entertainment of dele gates and visitors. In 1908 the hotel accommodations of Birmingham will be double those of any other town in Alabama, for to the present list of ho- tels will be added a skyscraper hotel on lot 125x140 feet. Possibly other hotels will be built near the new union station, Trolley Birmingham will readily. too in 1908 double in popula- ton any other town in thls state.
 In view, therefore, of Birmingham preliminary campaign in New Orleans. and of it's intention to raise a fund of S25,000 for the entertainment of the veterans, it seems to be unwise to ere. ate a diversion at Mobile The Item should bide a wee. Let Birmingham have the reunion of 1908, and when later on Mobile desires a reunion no town will support it's claims more cor dially than Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
pamrosch Tomorrow Niaht.

''If all the Birmingham people who en- joy good music attend the Damrosch con cert at the Jefferson theatre Wednesday night there will be standing room only,'' said local musician last night.
 "Damrosch has arranged a choice pro- gramme and since he brings an orchestra unsurpassed in quality, the tone banquet will be notable in every respect. Every number on the programme comes under the head of popular music"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
Wall Street and the Country.

When in the current Wall-street liqui- dation a 25-point drop occurred in Great Northern. J. J. Hill, who is pres ident of that railroad, quietly remarked that not Great Northern, but somebody else was weak This presents the sit uation almost in word. Prices had been unduly boomed until the entire Wall-street market had become top heavy, and no one wanted securities at prevailing prices. As soon as some securities were thrown on the market the bottom fell out. Spectators could not borrow money to sustain unreal values, and prices have been reduced all along the line.
 The prices of railroad securities have been marked down, and yet the rail roads are crowded with traffic, and the crop outlook presents no dark spots. Industrials are lower, and yet every plant has more orders than it can fill. The country is prosperous, happy and busy. There is no trouble anywhere except in Wa street, and the trouble there is solely due to over-speculation, over-borrowing and over-inflation of prices Wall street will soon be back to normal, and the great business of the country will keep right on un- checked Wall street is no longer the whole country, although it be still considerable part of it from financial point of view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
"skY-RoRN MUsIc.'

By EmeTSUI. Let me go where'er 1 will I hear a sky-born music still; It sounds from all things old. From all that's fair, from all that'f
 foul,
 Peals out a cheerful song. It is not only in the rose, It is not only in the bird, Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest. meanest things There alway. alway something sings. '1'is nor in the high stars alone. Nor in the cups of budding flowers. Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone; Nor in the bow that smiles in showers. But in the mud and scum of things There alway. alway something singA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
About Persons.

W. W. Battles of Jacksonville is at the Metropolitan.
 w. J. Chambers of Montgomery is stop ping at the Morris.
 J. E. Lacy of Jasper Is at the Metro politan.
 w. H. Penchall of Henderson and J. F. Penchall of Garnsey are registered at the Morris.
 T. NJ Garfield and J. G. Garfield of Mobile are stopping at the St. Nicholas S. T. Walker of Selma is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
A QUESTION.
the world

<A NS1 1ANA5 lO-Ns
 Will he do it?
 Will he stand
 Up once more so
 All the land
 Can admire his
 Mighty frame
 And bequeath him
 Greater fame?
 Think ye, he will
 Take the chance
 To put one more
 In a trance?
 Tell us prophets,
 If you deign,
 Will Jim Jeffries Fight again? A man wants divorce from his wife because she was too indolent to cook pies Poor fellow. Wonder if he liked lemon? Father Gapon might send a souvenir post card just to let us know whether he is dead or alive. It might as well be said here as any where else that the latest cyclone in Texas didn't kill as many people as one feud engagement would in Kentucky. It seems that B. Franklin was nearly everything but an alderman.
 CHANGED. Feeling fresh and fine today, Full of fun and rather gay. Tell you why, if you won't scoff. Just this morning took them off. If the present rise of the mercury con- tinues it will soon be possible for any body to have hot time with propriety. In avowing that he is not afraid to compete with Paderewski, a champion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
Confederate Veterans In 1908.

The Mobile Item urges Mobile to make an effort to secure the 1908 re. union of the old soldiers of the war, 1irmingham's candidacy was made
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

Gary proposes to be the first city in Indiana, and if it should spread over the Illinois line it will begin to crowd Chicago for first place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01
DAVIS OF ARKANSAS IS
 A "CORNFIELD" LAWYER

been made good after election, and he has made tactful use of his appolntive power. He is quick to sec a decision, is a master of details, knows everybody in Arkansas and Is conceded to be a good lawyer. Those who claim to know him best say that his methods will be more refined after few months resi- dence in Washington
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

John Alexander talks in Zion City to carpetbaggers, while voliva holds forth to those to the manner born, the real simon-pure Zionists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

Uncle Joe Cannon has intensified the hot season by declaring that Congress will remain In session until the last days of August.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

Father Thomas Sherman, who is marching through Georgia over the route followed by his father, General sherman, can't expect to arouse much enthusiasm among the natives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

The rise of Funston and Hobson shows that heroes have their innings as well as other folks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

Bishop David H. Moore says that idolatry is better than no worship at all. This vindicates the girls at the baseball games.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

Czar Nicholas and Czar Cannon will soon each have douma to attend to, and that will be business enough for either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

Blanche Ring explains the psychol- ogy of the stage kiss. That is sim pie matter overburdened with big name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

The Jersey mosquito and the Jersey corporation are becoming the twin af- fiictions of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

The affection with which Nicholas Longworth will welcome Richmond P. Hobson to Washington will not be alto gether disinterested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

The Danville News, published in Joe Cannon's home town. has nailed his honored name to its masthead for 1908. Few papers outside of Illinois indulge in mastheads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

Wall street hopes the earthquake waves will soon pass by. It is accus- toned to things it can control.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

Spotless-Town poetry in street cars leads many unsuspecting people to think that we are as people becom- ing really and truly poetic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

Begging is a profitable business in London, where a mendicant averages five shillings a day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

Father Sherman does not in his march through Georgia lay waste to the country or kill the helpless
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-01

Pretty soon people will flock to Frisco as rapidly as they recently flocked out of it.