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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
White Men Wanted.

Just when steamship lines are pre-. pairing to land immigrants at gulf ports comes a bill to restrict immigration by Increasing the head tax to five dollars and by imposing an educational quail ncation. The bill, however, has not become law, and the hope is that it will not The south needs white farm CTS and white laborers, and if the north will restrain it's selfishness a few years longer the needed supply will be landed at the gulf ports. It is sectional and selfish to restrict immigration at this particular time
 When immigrants are landed at gulf ports the two pet islanders of northern immigration agents will no longer be effective. The yarns they have been telling about lynching will fall flat on ears in the south. They will no longer be told, for no one can at southern ports be misled by them
 And the story that the south pays low wages will also be easily dis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
Bases Were Full.

'I was in small town in Georgia recently and witnessed d baseball game between the home team and the nine from a nearby place. said travelling man at the Hnlman last night. "The game rocked along pretty well until the ninth inning, when the score stood close, l forget the exact figures.
 "The umpire had given general satis- faction until that inning and there had not been q single fight over decision. In the ninth the visiting team came up and filled the bases. The first man up got hit, the second drew d base on balls and the third man reached first in some manner
 "T'he pitcher seemed rattled and gave the fourth man four bad ones. The bat ter started to first and the man on third started home but the umpire soon stopped both.
 You're outn he shouted. There was a howl of indignation. He was called to account for the decision and told to explain or prepare to get a beating. His reply was:
 I had to call him out l called four balls on him, but the bases were full and there was nowhere to put him.. Then the game broke up and the fight com menced."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
Biq Birmingham Plans.

Good things that are also big in their makeup are coming to this district of late in handsome manner. The Ten nessee- Republic company. with untold millions at it's command, is preparing to expend s1O,000,000 in expanding its steel-making facilities and it's mining and iron-making capacities. ltsSplans cover several years, but there seems to be no doubt that the extensions and improvements of the big company will put this district on high plane in the iron and steel trade.
 Nor is this all. The company for merly known as the Brunswick and Birmingham railroad has secured $S,- 100000 in Wall street. and the line will be pushed to Birmingham as rapidly as contractors can build 1t, and a branch to Atlanta will be constructed at the same time. The line is com pleted to LaGrange near the Georgia line, and it will be extended via Tal- ladega to Birmingham, thus affording needed railway facilities to Randolph and Clay counties, which have had to this time but minimum allowance of transportation facilities. The line from Brunswick with it's steamers to Boston and other eastern cities will be warmly welcomed in this district. and the hope is that its coming will not be de- layed far beyond the present year.
 A Chicago special to the New York Sun says:
 ''The Illinois Central is branching out rapidly in the south. For several months tfhe engineering forces of that road have been engaged in making surveys in the states of Mississippi and Alabama, and in every instance they seemed to be head ing for Birmingham. At last it has been made known just what the Illinois Cen tral proposes to do. A road will be built from Jackson, Miss, on the main line. up through the Pearl river valley to Colum- bus Miss, and from there straight across 10 Birmingham. It is understood that the work of construction will begin at once.
 'Rumors that the Illinois Central was going to build the line have been heard k late frequently, but until now they havs lacked confirmation. The territory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
SCIENTISTS CONVEYING
 OLD WORLD ALMONDS

packing them in boxes, and conveying them on mules to the nearest buyer.
 All the knowledge that discriminating mind could acquire through its own ob- servation efforts. the American agricul- tural explorer took home with him. but as no reliable published data concerning the rainfall and temperature exists in Spain, he was unable to determine the de- grees of cold that the almond can sustain while in dormant bud. This is one of the most important questions to be determined in this country.
 Southwest Texas, because of it's semi tropical latitude. seems to offer the most attractive field for experiment in almond culture of the desirable hard-shelled va riety. A late frost would be as excep- tlonal there as it is in southern Spain it's cloudless skies offer no barrier to the almonds complete fruition, while the yer satility of Texan soil and it's predisposi- ton to produce not only everything but the best of everything has come to be recognized by all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
MIR. SHAWS DOG.
Does the Secretary Spend $7.50 Per
 Week for the Beast7

Prom the Cedar Rapids Republican.
 While in Waterloo. Secretary Shaw ask ed the Times-Tribune of that city to deny the silly story that he was paying s7.5O a week for the board and care of a bulldog which his daughter is said to have purchased in Paris. The story was sent out by Washington correspondent and has been widely published.
 The denial is rather important, both politically and economically There is something wrong with a man who would lavish $7.50 a week on a bulldog It Is a bad state of society in which such an expenditure would be permitted without comment or criticism A dog is not worth that much. and as long as there is a would be an economical and therefore a moral sin. There is many a family even in this favored land of ours which has to subsist upon $7.5O a week, and pro- vide not only for the physical necessi- ties and comforts of the family but for children. The thousands of section hands on the railroads. for instance until very recently received sl 10 day, which is only sG.60 per week, if the Lord in his provi- dence provided the man with health all the time. To spend 90 cents more than that on a dog, though bulldog, would be criminal. almost. We confess We were shocked when we read that Washington item, and that now We feel relieved to know that 1t is base misrepresentation No man who spends sf.50 on a dog. per week, will ever be elected President of the United States
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
BOYS COLLEGE EXPENSES.
rom Harper's Weekly,

From Harpers Weekly.
 The class-book that tells as much about the Yale seniors of 1906 as they are will ing to divulge discloses that the high scholars in the class spend about SSl a year each and the low scholars about SPA. The significance of this is that book study is one of the cheapest forms of en- tertainment a college affords. It would be gratifying to point out that the col legians who spend only $1S1 year find their college experiences much more prof itable than those who spend Sl2ii, but that is not always true. Social experience has it's value as well as scholarship. What Is both true and consoling is that youths who have no money to spare and are the more constrained to work hard because that is the occupation they can best afford are apt to find in hard study abundant compensations for the time being and important resulting advantages for the future. To he somewhat strait ened in means in college and constrained to work hard Is to be in position of considerable advantage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
A NATIONAL DICTIONARY.

From Life. Democrat-An extinct animal which formerly wandered over parts of New England, the west and south. Was also extensively seen in the largest cities, where even now specimens are occasional ly captured.
 Spoils-See republican party.
 Uncle Sam--A cartoonist's model Senate--A large body of cash, entirely surrounded by grafters.
 Baby-Obsolete.
 Mint-A place where the raw material is made that is used by the trusts. Trust-A process of extracting luore from people, sanctioned by the govern ment.
 Home-A former habitation.
 Hell-The same
 Gold-The only religion practiced on week days.
 Rockefeller-See Tarbell.
 Boss-See cook, wife.
 Carnegie-A popular nuisance.
 Lawyer--An obstructionist.
 Surgeon-See appendix.
 Waldorf-A brfc-a-brac shop, for the display of plated, painted and tainted ware
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
sky-asprind and ambitious thoughts.
 king Richard II.
Senatorial Primaries.

The Washington Post has not a word to say about the need of reform in the makeup of Mr. Aldrich's Senate, nor has it word to say in regard to the selection of Presidents outside of the spirit of the federal constitution. But 1t feels wrong, even outraged, by the decision of the democratic state eX- ecutive committee of Kentucky to hold a primary for the selection of United States Senator to fill the seat now held by Senator Blackburn.
 Its opposition to the selection of Sen ators in state primaries is really base less. It says the federal constitution Is an instrument drawn, not to carry out the peoples will, but 10 protect minorities. But how, pray, are minori- ties protected in convention and legislative causes? The lobby may be protected and cliques may be pro-
 
 strengthened, but no minority was re- spected for a minute at any step in the old-time political methods, unless in deed it could scoop in something in the general dicker going on.
 Minorities of the honest sort have a chance In primaries. They have none whatever in legislative caucus. That Is matter of bargain and sale, of scheming against the people. To claim that the old and rapidly disappearing convention and caucus system repre- sented a majority or a minority of the popular vote, is mistake. It simply was dicker carried on by the smallest possible number. It was as selfish ps 1t was corrupt, hollow and rotten. It fell because it had been tried and found wanting in any good quality.
 The protection of minorities and the so-called federal feature of the Senate are two pieces of nonsense that have nothing to rest upon. There is nothing in either. and in a short time both will disappear from American politics, and the people will begin to come into their own. and the machines will be handed over to historians for final treatment and excoriation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
About Persons.

W. w. Dies of Greenvlle was registered at the Metropolitan hotel yesterday
 J. T. Brooks of Gadsden was registered at the Morris hotel yesterday.
 B. H. Bever of Talladega was registered at the Morris hotel yesterday.
 c. P. Page of opelka was registered at the St. Nicholas hotel yesterday.
 George c. Moore of Montgomery was registered at the Hotel IIlllman yester- day.
 Jack Crawford of Jasper was registered at the Hotel Hillman yesterday.
 W. K White of Troy was registered at the Metropolitan hotel yesterday.
 w. A. Cobb of Selma was registered at the Metropolitan hotel yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Farmers Union Day.

q believe that the State Fair associa- ton should set aside u day during the coming exposition 10 be known as Farm ers' Union Day said J. A. Yandenburg of Anniston at the Metropolitan hotel yes terday.
 "The Georgia State flair gave such an event in Atlanta last year and the result was that thousands of the best farmers in the state gathered on the grounds that day, and 1t was pronounced one of the most successful events of the fair
 There are over 50oO0 members of the Farmers union in the state of Alabama, and I believe that a day devoted to their interests in the fair would be of great benefit to them and also to the fair asso- oiation
 "A special programme of contests of in terest to farmers on that day would make a good drawing card and would also be profitable 10 those taking part in them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
GOOD ADVICE
For People About to Travel on Ocean
 Liners.

From the Chicago Record Herald
 Beware of large and beautiful blonde ladies who banker to play bridge whist.
 Look out for gents" who wear dark mustaches and claim to be friends of c. M. Schwab.
 Run when you are approached by a man Ill clerical garb who offers to let you haze a half interest in a wonderful mine which he has discovered if you will promise never to tell anybody else where 1t is.
 Keep your hand on your watch
 Don't permit dark-eyed, beautiful little ladies whom you don't know to. sit behind you and see your cards when you are playing cards with other strangers.
 Don't lend large sums of money to peo- pie whom you have never seen before.
 Carefully avoid shaking dice for big amounts with unknown men who offer 10 furnish the dice
 Do not be induced to bet that you can tell which shell the pea is under
 It is well to keep away from strangers who insist on putting their hands in your pockets whenever you happen to fall into a doze.
 If your wife is with you let her carry your cash in her stocking
 Beware of sweet, beautiful ladies who smoke cigarettes, use poor grammar and long to be loved" by somebody who is noble and generous.
 Go to bed early.
 Don't let on anything. not even that you are alive or that the ship is surrounded by water.
 Don't fret if you happen to be so sea- sick that you can't leave your berth. No body Is likely to break in and take your money away from you there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
ALABAMA PRESS

Gadsden News: A regular 'four-flush" presidential ticket would be Hearst of New York and F ok of Missouri.
 Mobile Herald: According to the Selma Journal, MT. Corners comment on the memorable debate in that city was "They handed me a large package" Not very elegant, but very expressive remark.
 Montgomery Advertiser: Brunswick, Ga., claims to have uncovered the remains of prehistoric monster thus getting into the Kansas class. It may be the body of the original popullst, however
 Selma Times: Yesterday a Cunningham man offered to wager s100 on the re- suit in Dallas county. A Conner man stepped up promptly and drew his check for the amount, when the aforesaid Gun nlnSham man failed to come across with his check. Conner has lost nothing here in Dallas by the joint debate, and every body who is at all posted knows this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
THE ANARCHIST

(American Nariety.) The anarchists a funny beast, An awful crank, to say the least He prowls around and talks a lot, Suggesting things that he should not. His hair is long. his eyes afame, He hates to play waiting game. He'd like to tear up-build anew, But that's a thing he dares not do. So he contents himself with fuss A sort of wordy blunderbuss He waves a flag that's very red And wishes many people dead. He speaks to hearers who avow The time for trouble is right now. He does not work-the anarchist He Is too wise for that but, hist, He works his Jaw until it aches And then small collection takes. When a woman says, "The ideal" it's a sign that it's so.
 To be exact, Oklahoma became a state at S:O5 D. m., June 19. 1906. Some school boy will have to answer that question before long,
 "This country is a hell of success" said Uncle Joe' Cannon, which is true, tho profane.
 Dr. Lyman Abbott predicts a new age
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
THE MAKING OF MAN.

pSeo..o a"tno", 4,,o ,ae,,, .e , If There came to the making of man, Time, with a gift of tears;
 Grief, with a glass than ran; Pleasure with pain for leaven;
 Summer, with flowers that tell Remembrance fallen from heaven,
 And madness risen from hell; Strength without hands to smite;
 Love that endures for breath; Night the shadow of light,
 And life. the shadow of death. And the high gods took in hand ], Fire and the falling of tears; And a measure of sliding sand
 From under the feet of the years; And froth and drift from the sea
 And dust of the laboring earth And bodies of things to be
 In the houses of death and birth; And wrought with weeping and laughter, And fashioned with loathing and love, With life before and after
 And death beneath and above, For day and night and a morrow That his strength might endure for .
 span
 With travail and heavy sorrow,
 The holy spirit of man. From the winds or the north and the
 south They gathered as unto strife: They breathed upon his mouth,
 They filled his body with life; Eyesight and speech they wrought
 For the wells of the soul therein; A time for labor and thought,
 time to serve and to sin. They gave him light in his ways,
 And love. and space for delight And beauty, and length of days.
 And night, and sleep in the night. His spech is burning fire;
 With his lips he travailsth: In his heart is blank desire'
 In his eyes foreknowledge of death. He weaves and is clothed in derision;
 Sows, and he shall not reap His life Is a watch or vision
 Between sleep and sleep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A man seldom ever yields to tempation when it isn't around.
 People may love their children Tor thedr faults, but mighty few others.
 Girls don't get much fun out of going in swimming unless there is some man around to show them how.
 Even if a baby understood the language the women talk to it he'd be ashamed to admit it by answering.
 One of the meanest things a man oan do when his wife has point In an argument that cant be beaten is to agree with her. fs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
AIabama's Coal Production.

The United States geological survey puts the production of coal in this dis
 trict in 1905 at II ,S66,O69 short tons, a gain over the previous year of 6O4,023 tons, or 5.3 per cent. A brief table snows at glance the course of coal production in this state and district,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
HE IS WEARING

From the Philadelphia Bulletin. Colored hat bands. Monogram belt buckles.
 Check silk neclSties
 Flannel outing shirts
 Braid trimming on his clothes. Rainbow colored underwear. White flannel tennis belts. Leather ankle supports for tennis. Waistcoats and shirts to match. Neckties, stockings and handkerchief of the same color
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
POINT IN HIS FAVOR.

POINT IN HIS FAVOR. The man of narrow mind, forsooth, Who doesn't advertise Will never leave his relatives A fortune when he dies He'll never know the soothing Joy Of smoking fine cigars, He'll never have a chance to keep A dozen auto cars. And yet one recompense will give To him q smiling face. A lot of cranks and agent folk Will never find his place. A Pittsburg man has discovered 8 unique way of punishing his wife by burn ing her with a sweet potato Apply piping hot where the spot will not show and use whenever needed. Suicide ceased to be popular in San Francisco after the earthquake. Fools were brought to their senses
 BAD SIGNS. Lives of rich men oft remind us That it will not do to stake Too much confidence of heaven On the footprints that they make. The President would have an easy job, if it were not for Congress
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
fA@ @ HAT is a 'peek-a-boo? asks w gnlleless contemporary.
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" Shapes of neeting hamad- ryads! Is it possible that in this enlight- ened age where the opportunities to ob- serve are so great-is 1t possible ?--notice, We repeat-that there dwe1ls an editor in his sanctum who knows not the mean ing of a "peek-a-boo?" Are we to believe that there lives a person who has never seen one? who has never experienced that inde1nable emotion which such airy in- yestiture always arouses when worn by a suitable person? who has never enjoyed the edifying spectacle which 1t pre- sents? Alas, if this is true. a pity 'ts, 'tis true Many definitions have been given of the ''peek-a-boo.' It may be styled a col lection of holes surrounding a girl. or a perilous attempt to make something out of nothing. It's chief characteristics are ven tilativeness and open-work. Nothing could be more open than a 'peek-a-boo." Also it is a topic of the day. the garment of the hour and a possible pointer for re- form. The editor who has never met 'peek-a-boo' should go out and get ac- quainted at once
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

The summer school at the University has been prosperously inaugurated. It is one of Alabamas most hopeful institu- tions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

A Philadelphia man accompanied h wife on a shopping tour and died from heart disease superindueed by exhaustion. Couldn't ask for any stronger proof. The bargain counter should be abolished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20
as follows

The recession in 1904, chiefly due to strikes. has been overcome, and each year promises hereafter to be a new record. The production of 1906 will almost certainly exceed 12,000,000 tons, and production will scarcely ever again fall below that aggregate.
 In 1905 the four distinct regions in this district produced coal, as follows:
 Tons. Plateau in Winston, BIount and
 Cullman counties .....-............ 5bl' ioS C'oosa hasin 1S6J95 Cahaba basin .. ............,........ l.o4llSl Warrior basiu ..... .............. 9,7699S2
 ,, o.. lOtal .....+.s.. II toop .'' There were in operation last year eleven mines in the plateau region; six in the Coosa field; twenty-four in the Cahaba basin, and 14S in the busy Warrior section in Walker and Jeffer- son counties The Coosa mines are in St. Clair county, and the Cahaba mines in Bibb and Shelby
 The use of machines is increasing each year. In 1905 the coal undercnt by machines aggregated 1,7S6,479 tons, as against TAI, ,170 tons In 1904, and 577.317 tons in 1903 The yearly ton mage per man is increasing. The num- Der of men in 1905 is put at 19,595, or just about ten per cent more than were employed in 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

giant nine feet tall has come into New York as an immigrant This is over doing the immigration act fully three feet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

Colonel Lumpkn is going up against tho Timan pitchfork, but his prospect TOT service in the Senate is not dattering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

The duma declines to be dissolved. and any attempt on the Emperors part to do it would precipitate a revolution
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

The packers are still reconstructlng and cleaning up. But how about the poNteu chicken department?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

MT. Bryan looked the duma straight in the face, but he could not converse nu- ently with many of it's members.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

Europe holds Bryan, the Longworths and John D. Rockefeller and yet the equilibrium of the world is pretty well maintained
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

Chancellor Day is not to blame. NO one who wears mutton-chop '5hiskers IS accountable for his opinions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

When Secretary Shaw hears from the Iowa republican convention, he will be ready to reiterate his statement that he is not a candidate for President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

Ex-Presidential Candidate Alton B. Par ker is praeticing law and sayln nothlh about politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

President Roosevelt is writing the meat inspection bill, and Chairman Wads"orth is taking a long-felt vacation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

The proposed debate between Conner and Cunningham in Birmingham Is live topic. Local politicians are anxious for the bout
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

The colleges raised might crop of LIDS, and the state university made n record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

The abuse of wealth continues una hatea vet YOU don't see anybody aban- doning the pursuit of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

Chairman shonts will be driven out of the republican party if he makes any more remarks about "the lawless rich, for that is one thing that party will not permit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-20

The new state of Oklahoma is larger than Ohio and Illinois, and Is better morally.