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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-11
immigration TO be Considered.

Two important conventions are to
be held in Nashville, Tenn, beginning
November IL. The two gatherings are
the Southern Quarantine and Immigra-
tion convention, and the Southern In
dustrial association. To some extent
the delegates to the one will be the
delegates to the other. The needs of
the south will be the uppermost topic
in both conventions. The programmes
of the two conventions will soon be
published, and the expectation is that
the attendance at both will be large
and representative.
Beyond all doubt the most interest
ing problem that will come before
either. convention will relate to an in
flux of white men in the south. We
need more white labor-.more white
tarmers-more white men in our mills
and furnaces and other plants. The
Nashville conventions will do well to
give much time and effort to the prob
lem. A way was found at Chattanooga
to settle the quarantine problem, and
perhaps at Nashville a way can be
found to start the immigration ques-
ton on the right road.
The Age-Herald is confident that the
only true course consists in the land
ing of immigrants at southern ports,
but if any better way can be devised,
let it come. The labor problem is ex-
ceedingly pressing, and each year will
render 1t still more urgent and need
full. The south cannot be fully devel-
oped without the aid of immigrants.
We need a steady, wholesome stream
of them until our waste acres are fully
occupied and cultivated, and our mills
are fully manned.
Governor Jelks will undoubtedly at
tend the Nashville conventions, and he
should take with HIM strong delega-
lions from every section of this state.
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COMPULSORY School Law.

Alabama is steadily increasing her
school funds, and the incoming Conner
administration stands pledged to the
making of further additions of a like
nature. This will bring the state close
to a consideration of a compulsory
school law, which will soon be needed
in order to utilize to the fullest posi-
BILE extent our school moneys, and in
order, too, to reduce the states heavy
percentage of illiteracy. Legislatures
are four years apart in this state, and
some action should be taken by the
next legislature on this important ques-
ton.
The compulsory school laws of the
various states differ widely, but per-
haps the law in Missouri would fit Ala
bama. In Missouri every child be-
tween the ages of and IA, and be-
tween IA and 16 when not regularly
employed, must attend some day school
at least half of the period of tuition
each year, and it must be the first half
unless courts having jurisdiction or
justices of the peace excuse 1t on the
ground of physical or mental disabil-
ity, inability to obtain proper clothing,
unusual distance from a school house,
necessity of labor to support family,
or certificate that the common school
course has been completed. No child
between and IA can be employed I'M
less provided with a certificate that 1t
has already attended school for half
the school year. The penalty for a
neglectful parent or guardian is a max
imum fine of $25 or Imprisonment for
| ten days or both. An employer who
! Illegally hires a ohlld of school age is
subject to fine of $50 and costs.
In the rural districts that have but
four or five months of school each
year. a duplicate of the Missouri bill
would not bring much schooling to the
unfortunate child but little school
ing is better than none at all. A child
that can read and write Is far better
equipped for the duties of life than the
child that can do neither.
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Books Worth Reading.

at haven't much time to spend reading,
nor have l much money to spend on
books" said a young man, "and l would
like to know exactly what books are
most worth reading.
II remember some years ago there was
a considerable amount of discussion on
what comprises the best hundred books
but l was too young then to pay much
attention to the matter. I remember the
Bible and Shakespeare were mentioned
among them and the library I desire to
build up would be of such works as
these.
II would like to know where | could
find some of these lists of books men
toned In the discussions 1 speak of; they
were published in some papers or maya
zine at the time and were the suggestions
of the best scholars of the day.
Andrew Carnegie says that no book
is worth reading until it is ten years
old, and if such be the case, there are
not many books being published today
that will live one-half that length of
time My test Of the value of book
is whether it is worth reading twice
If it will stand that. then 1t will be
worth reading ten or twenty times. have
read one particular book at least a dozen
times and always with pleasure and
profit"
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shake his hand and congratulate him up
on his great race.
He seemed robust and showed no traces
of the strain of his hard fought campaign.
To the fluctuations of his friends. Mr..
Bankhead replied in modest vein. He
said that he felt grateful for the many
expressions of good will which he had
received and that if he was called upon
to occupy a seat in the United States
Senate by circumstances which not only
the state but the whole country must de-
plore he would endeavor to conduct him
self upon all public questions in a mat
ter which would justify the trust reposed
in him by the people of his state.
Judge S. D. Weakley of Birmingham,
who made such an unexpectedly close
race in the contest for chief Justice,
reached the city on a night train. He
came In with a large Birmingham dele
cation and was soon meeting his friends
in the hotel Hobbies. No candidate in the
state primary made more energetic per-
sonal campaign through the state and as
firing as this was. Justice Weakley does
not show the effect of it.
Max Hamburger Jr., the young nomi-
nee for the state senate from Mobile
county, who is editor of the Mobile Her.
aid, was a conspicuous figure in the no.
tel Hobbies. Mr.. Hamburger was an ar
dent supporter of DIR. Cunningham, but
he was none the less popular among the
politicians who foregathered in Montgom-
cry last night.
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ALABAMA PRESS

Houston Post: It is pleasing to- reflect
that the ladies who have .'summered"
at the seashore Will at least do their au-
tumning, wintering and springlng at
home.
Sumter County sun: Bryan's govern
ment ownership of railroads does not
seem to be relished by some of the party
moguls. There Is plenty of time yet for
them to consider the matter.
Louisville courier-Journal: The Geor-
gia girl whom President Roosevelt called
the prettiest woman in the south is to
be married. But, gentle stranger, there
are many more at home like her.
Kansas City Star: Mr.. Bryan's decision
to take no part In the Maine campaign
suggests that after career of ten years
in national politics he has learned not to
squander his time In chasing moonbeams.
Dothan Eagle: The Age-Herald re-
marks that Birmingham is resuming the
use of blankets at nights, as all sum
mer resorts do" If that homecoming
is a success, your ladies had as well
give few quilting-bees.
Selma Journal: The cotton association
thinks 10 cents should be the minimum
price for cotton this year. If Mr.. Jor-
dan had been content last year with his
first victory and had not run headlong
into his fifteen cents" effort and de-
feat he could doubtless hold large part
of this years crop for 10 cents. Whether
he can now do 1t or not is doubtful
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-11
Ten Cents a Conservative Price.

Cotton is now selling below nine
cents because exaggerated reports as
to the size of the crop as a whole-par-
ticularly of the Texas crop-have
gained currency, out the Cotton asso-
citation has pledged Its farmers to hold
their crops for ten cents a pound. A
very considerable influence will there
fore pull for minimum of ten cents.
And ten cents is really a conserva-
tive price, no matter IL the crop equals
that grown in 1904. The crop grown
last year brought more than eleven
cents, and that crop, II, 345,000 bales,
failed to meet the demands of spin
ners by 100000 bales. The worlds
consumption now exceeds 100000
bales, and crop of 100000 bales
should bring ten cents. Such crop
will surely average ten cents.
A minimum of ten cents has become
necessary in the south, where labor
has become scarce, where pork is now
worth SIT a barrel, where mules are
worth more than horses, where all
: other articles of necessity on the plant
alton have been doubled in price. In
many sections the cost of producing
cotton is fully nine cents, and this is
why the Southern Cotton association
insists on minimum of ten cents It's
action Is sound, sane and sensible.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-11
THE BUTCHERS SON.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
The Harvard crew-if you go back to
first causes-owe the opportunity of their
sporting visit to this country to the son
of a Southwark butcher, born some 800
years ago in the High street, close TO
London bridge. He came in for the prop
erty of his mothers three husbands, grad
uated at Emmanuel Cambridge, and
though there is no record of his ordina-
uon-was presently, the Rev. John Har-
ward, assistant" to the Rev. z. Symmes,
of the First Church, Charlestown. Mass.
There, at the age of 81, he died of con-
sumption, leaving by a nuncupative will
half his estate and all his library to "a
college agreed upon to be built at New
Town"-afterward Cambridge-and to be
called Harvard college The Rev. Johns
library comprised 800 volumes; the moiety
of his estate stood in the college books at
S7f9 lis Cd. and no similar sum has ever,
probably, been applied to better uses or
produced more remarkable results.
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Speed of Automobiles.

"Tf a carriage and pair of horses came
along the street at the same rate OF
speed as | have seen automobiles driven"
said ploddng pedestrian. there would
be a panic among the people.
zone day last week l took the trouble
to calculate the speed Of one of these
machines and found that 1t covered
block 400 feet long, in just ten seconds.
This is almost 80 miles an hour A fast
horse will not exceed IL miles an hour on
the street, and on a race course not much
over 20; but the machines come along
at a pace that would outrun the fastest
horse. and simply because they do so
without any clatter little or no notice
is taken of them.
"Along open country roads the automo-
bile is all right, even when 1t burns the
wind. but in crowded cities and in places
where people are likely to be knocked
down and injured there ought to be strict
laws regulating the speed.
'I have seen men badly injured by
BICYCLES, but the idea of being struck
by an so-horsepower auto makes me Won
der how much of me would be left after
the collision"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-11
Our University Boys.

One of Brminghams school teachers
who accompanied the eighteen boys to
Tuscaloosa last week returned to the city
Saturday. He said last night: Il left
the fellows In fine health and they were
taking their hazing meekly and in good
spirit.
Going down we were met by a body
of sophomores and put through a series
of performances, one of which was an
imitation of an automobile. Two boys
were paraded through the full length Of
the train. the first representing the horn
footing at the top of his voice, while
the other walked behind holding his nose
and saying at intervals, I'm the SMELL y
"Thelr old friends would not recognize
the Jolly laxative crowd with whom they
shook hands last Tuesday in those sober
meek looking rats who never look to
right or left and speak In an undertone
even in their own rooms.
"The High school graduates entered
without examinations, and, although some
are feeling slightly homoslek, they are
beginning to settle down to study and to
football"
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peserter Rejected.

Tampa September 10.-Information
from Cuba today says that Alfred La
horde and hunured men deserted to
the insurgents; that Pine Guerra, the
leader of the insurgents, sent Laborde
back 10 the authorities saying he did
not want such men, but adding that
he was grateful for the men and NUM-
tions that came with the leader. La
borde was charged recently with muir
der and was placed in Jail near Ha-
vana. He offered the government that,
If he should be paroled, he would or
ganize hundred men and fight for
the government, agreeing to return for
trial after the conclusion of hostilities.
His offer was accepted with the result
that he deserted with his command to
the rebel leader Laborde was promi-
nent as a filibuster for Cuba previous
to the Spanish-American war.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-11
New Jesuit General.

The hope had sprung up that an
American would be elected general
of the Jesuits, but the choice of
successor of the late General Ludo-
vico Martin fell to German, Francis
Xavier Wernz, who was expelled from
his own country by Bismarck in 1872.
The leadership of the rich and influ-
entail society goes elsewhere for sea-
son, for a general of the Jesuits Is
elected for life. His authority within
the body is unquestioned. He has in
fact no superior save the Pontiff him.
self
The makeup of the society is high in
quality. but its membership never ex-
ceeded 22,266. 1t numbers now only 15,-
las, including about 5000 priests. There
are only 21O0 Jesuits in the United
States. About one-third of the Ameri-
can Jesuits live in the New York
Maryland province, where they have
thirteen residences and nine colleges.
The society conducts the highest and
best Catholic institutions of learning.
Springhill college near Mobile is one
of the oldest in the country.
The Jesuits reach back to 1884, and
every since that time they have been
a force in the world. Nearly every
power has at times expelled them, not
once only, but several times. France
has driven them out seven times, Eng
land five times, and Spain thrice. Dur
ing a period of nearly fifty years they
were under the papal ban. This period
extended from 1873 to 1914. The power
of the society lies more in its great
student life, in its wealth, and
It's devotion to its church. Its new
head is believed to be capable as
well as learned man, and no doubt
the society will in his hands go on to
new successes alike in its institutions
of learning and in the mission fields,
notably In China.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Nature,s Secrets.

NdtufES SSCTStSs
You hear a great deal of talk about a
woman not being able to keep a secret"
said an agnostie yesterday woh dabbles in
a dilletanti way in nearly all branches
OF human knowledge, 'but a glance at
the record of old Mother Nature will
readily disprove this time honored axiom.
The mind Of man since the first faint
dawn of time has sought to wrest from
her some of the things she knows yet
her lips have remained as closely sealed
as those of the Sphinx. In many things
she his as garrrlous as any other of her
sex, but In many of her moods no amount
Of fiattery, or cajolery sufflces to get
even the faintest glimpse into her real
thoughts.
we might go back into the remotest
period of history for examples. but a few
that are well-known of all men will suf-
flee to illustrate what 1 mean.
Perhaps the greatest secret Nature
holds is the mystery of life and death.
Apparently there is no reason why man
who lives we'll regulated life should not
continue TO live indefinitely but the stern
fact IS that his time is certainly allotted
Men have sought In vain to solve this
problem But not one year has been ad-
ded to the sum total of human life by
all the researches of the scientists. Ponce
de Leon sought in vain the Fountain of
Eternal Youth and Brown-sequard's
elixir that was to arrest the rayages Of
decay, proved as unavailing as de Leon s
search for the Founain.
"Alchemists of old devoted their lives to
discover a chemical process that would
transmute the baser metals into gold
but after centuries of research only old
Mother Nature holds the secret of the
formation Of this precious meal. Newton
worked out the correct theory Of the law
of gravitatlon from the incident of seeing
an overripe apple fall from a tree, but
all the aeronauts of all time have been
unable to discover a way to overcome
this law and we are still bound to the
earth as by iron chains as far as prac-
teal purposes are concerned, as air ships
and balloons are only dangerous toys
and bid fair to remain so to the end Of
time.
"LaPlace mapped out the courses of the
stars and outlined nearly all We know
of the solar system, but not a single
fact of real benefit has ever resulted from
our little knowledge. We theorize, but
can not prove. and Nature only smiles at
our defeat. The poles of the earth are In
accessible and not even the highest noun
tain peaks and the lowest depths of the
sea are known of man. These examples
might be multiplied indefinitely, but these
few of the bigger problems of life show
that Natures secrets are safely guarded
from the prying eyes of man. We are
but an atom in the universe. We know
not whence we come nor whittier we go.
All we know is that we live and that
our little life is ended with sleep"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-11
BROTHERS ARRESTED.
Are Charged With a Murder Commit
ted Eleven Years Ago.

New Orleans, September 10-Dis-
patches from Jackson, Miss. cay Eu-
gene and VIII Terrell, while passing
through Jackson today en- route for
Texas, were arrested on charges con-
Meeting them with the murder of Ne
Vile McCree, which occurred eleven
years ago. Only a short time ago,
after a lapse of over ten years. two
ether members of the Terrell family
were arrested on in iictments charging
them with This murde', but the case
against them was mol pressed.
Eugene and VIII returned to Mis-
sissippi on a visit shortly after the
dismissal of the charges against the
other members of the family. Today's
arrests were on warrants sworn out
by brother of the murdered McCree
boy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-11

From the Philadelphia Record
Lookout for absinthe DIN bonbons,
says a large candy dealer "They are on
the market and they are loaded. I doubt
If any are on sale yet in this city,
but they have been offered to us and
have seen samples of them. I have no
doubt they will soon be seen here. It's
likely that their stay will be short, how
ever, for the authorities and the temper
ance people will surely be after them.
Four of the kind of bonbons that were
sent to us would make a pretty stiff
drink of absnthe. and an innocent Gus
toner might get laid out cold before he
knew It, Those sent to us were from
Europe, where, I understand their man.
ufacture has resulted from certain re-
strictive legislation concerning the sale
of alcohol
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THE LAND o. THE LEAL.

By Baroness Marin.
I'm wearin' ava, John.
Like shaw wreaths in thaw, John,
I'm wearin' ava
To the land o. the leal.
There's nae sorrow there, John.
There's neither cauld nor care, John.
The day is aye fair
In the land o. the leal
Our bonnie BARNS there. John,
She was bath guide and fair, John;
And oh! we grudged her sair
To the land o. the leal.
But sorrows sell wears past. John.
And Joy that's aye to last
In the land O the leal.
Sac dear that joy was bought. John,
Sac free the battle fought, John,
That sinfu' man eer brought
To the land o. the leal
OH dry your glistening ee. John,
My soul langs to be free John,
And angels beckon me
To the land o. the leal.
Oh. baud We leal and true, John.
Your day it's wearin' through, John,
And I'll welcome you
To the land O. the leal
Now fare-ye-weel, my ain John,
This wards cares are vain, John,
Well meet, and we'll be fain
In the land o. the leal-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-11
RAILWAY COLLISION.
Express Messenger and Child Were
Killed.

Puebla, Mexico, September 10--The
passenger train which left here yester-
day over the Mexican railroad for Mex
leo City was struck by a mixed train
at Panzacola. The collision is said to
have been caused by the failure of a
.switchman to set switch. The bag
gage and mail cars of the through
train received the full force of the col
lision, and was also completely de-
stroyed. Express Messenger Romero
was killed. The third-class coach was
also badly wrecked, and among the
passengers there was one child killed
and eight persons more or less severe
ly injured.
The engineer and fireman Of the
mixed train saved themselves by jump
ing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-11
SOCIETY OF JESUS.

From the New York Sun.
The proceeding for the selection Of a
general of the Society of Jesus is almost
as solemn as the election Of a Pope and
scarcely of less interest to the clergy Of
the church, for the head of the order is
the Holy Father himself. The first gem
eral was st. Ignatius Loyola, a noble
man of Biscay and a soldier of great
valor, who resolved to take up the work
Of the church while recovering from
severe wound which he received while
defending Pampeulna against France in
1921.
As might be expected from the man
and the time, military and monar-
chial spirit pervaded him. He resolved
to establshsin his order "a general whom
all, by their vows, should be bound to
obey, who should be perpetual and his
authority absolute, subject entirely to the
Pope but not liable to be restrained by
chapters"
This power the general of the order
holds today and the discipline of the
Jesuits is absolute. As the society has
thousands of highly educated members,
skilled no less In diplomacy than in the
ology, who owe direct allegiance, not
to the bishop of the diocese in which they
are stationed, but to the general of the
order, whose headquarters are at Rome,
1t can easily be seen what a power the
head of the society Yields. Among the
general there have been Spaniards Ital-
ians, Germans Poles and Belgians, but
never, 1t is said, a Frenchman, an Eng
llshman or an American.
The rules of the society are most Sc
we're as laid down by the founder. The
fourth vow that he prescribed was that
of going without question wherever the
Pope might think fit to send them for the
salvation of souls. Hence the great mis-
sionary enterprises they established in
China, India and this country in the early
days. AS to property, he resolved that
the professed fathers of the society
should possess no real estate or revenues,
either individually or in common. He
gave his followers no particular habit
because he designed them to live in the
world and to be continually mixing with
It. None could be received who wore
the habit of another order A Jesuit
must canvass for no office and take no
ecclesiastical dignity unless constrained
by the Pope under pain of mortal sin.
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avoid prosecution the directors in the
Nipple bank have united in support of
a plan that will render the bank strong
and solvent even in city of strong
and solvent banks. Its reorganization
will prove a great relief to many de-
positors, including the Northern Pres
byterian church, which had placed
nearly all of its surplus money in the
hands of the trustee Nipple.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-11
n CLAW Pierce Arrested.

St. Louis, September 1O.-H. Clay
Pierce, chairman of the executive
board of the Waters-Pierce Oil COM
pany, was arrested here today on an
attachment issued and served several
weeks ago to compel his attendance as
a witness in a civil suit. From the
sheriffs office Mr.. Pierce was taken
before C. B. Allen, commissioner Of the
st. Louis circuit court, who had issued
the attachment. The case upon which
the attachment was issued Is a suit
brought against the oil company by
John P. Gruet, former secretary, for
salary.