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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
The Farmers Union.

Perhaps there is not another organiza- ton that has grown so rapidly or has gained such strength as has the Farmers Union in this state during the past year. said J. A Vanden Burg, editor of the Union Educator and Diversified Farm, who was in the city yesterday.
 "The Farmers Union was first organ ized in Texas four years ago but only reached this state about year ago. Since that time the membership in Ala bama has reached a little more than 53 GOO and is being increased at the rate of about 1000 a week.
 Local unions are being constantly or ganized in every section of the state and the power of the cooperation of the far mers is already being felt
 We have forty-nine warehouses in the state and two fertilizer factories. We are now building large warehouse at Ans niston to cost $30,0O0.
 The Farmers Union promises to be- come one of the most powerful economic organizations in the country and I believe will result in great good to that class of people who have in the past suf- fered for the lack of proper organiza- tion and cooperation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
Birmingham Great City.

q think that Birmingham is one of the greatest cities I have ever seen.' said Frank G. Carpenter. a special newspaper correspondent, who has travelled all over the world writing special articles for magazines, papers and syndicate which he runs, and who is stopping at the Hotel Hillman, "and it is certainly an industrial marvel It has been many years since I was here, and I was surprised at the marvellous improvement that has taken place. I consider it the city of the south and predict that 1t wdll be the largest city in the south in a few years.
 "I believe that 1t now controls the iron and steel prices for the world. and 1t is considered one of the greatest in- dustral centers in the country. Other southern cities make big claims. but I am told that there is more real, substan- tial wealth in Birmingham than in any of them.
 "Vice President Fairbanks was greatly impressed with Birmingham. I dined with him just before leaving Washington, and he spoke in the warmest terms of his visit to Birmingham. He seemed to be impressed with the welcome accorded him here, and with his entertainment, but moro especially he spoke of the pros- pects of the city and of its greatness in the industrial world.
 'I believe that Mir Fairbanks was more impressed with Birmingham than any other southern city, and now that I have been here, I am fully convinced that he was right in his impressions of the great ness of the city"
 Mir. Carpenter spent this winter in Washington acting as correspondent for a number of papers and writing a series of special stories about his trips He was last in Canada, and went there after a trip through South America Panama and Cuba. He has been writing special ar ticles for the past eighteen years, and is prominent among the newspaper cor- respondents in Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
FAIRBANKS AND DIXIE,

From the Chicago Record Herald
 Vice President Charles w. Fairbanks is bold man. He is starting out to rally some tried and true delegates for the re- publican convention of 1908 in Dixie land. There are omnibus precedents In such a proceeding.
 Perhaps however 1t isn't straight out boldness. but mere reliance on what he knows of recent campaigns for the presi- dential nomination. instead of a useful re- membrance of the fate that has befailen the candidates who have owned the south ern delegates in earlier years, that has led him into his present position.
 At any rate. the news comes from Ala bama that plans are all made, and dates fixed upon for events far in the future to capture the state organization for Fair banks. Alabama always heads the roll call, and so gives the cause for the first thunders of applause for the man whom it delights to honor.
 The conventions of 1900 and 1904 give no hint of what southern delegates can &C., complish for their owner in a republican convention. In neither of those conven- tions was there any contest. In 1906, of course, Hanna had the southern delegates all lined up for McKinley-all. that is, but twenty-six out of total of 222 from the eleven states In question. But then their votes formed less than a third of McKinleys strength, so the outcome that year Is not decisive. In 1892, again, the southern delegates were nearly all for Harrison, a crop grown under his own administration, but again they formed less than a third of the votes that gave him the nomination on the first ballot
 It Is to 1888 that one must go for prece- dents. That was the year of Harrison 8 first nomination, and all the votes from the south that he could muster on the first ballot were 13--which proved to be an suspicious number. sherman and Alger held the bag. Indeed, half of Sherman's s total strength came from the south, and a third of Alger's. The southerners stuck, too. to the final ballot, but for I'll that their two favored candidates had nothing to feel thankful for In the end Or consider the convention of 1884. That was when Blaine won on the fourth bal lot. But 1t was Arthur who had the southern men with him-163 of them to Blaine's as on the first ballot, and 1S4 of them to Blaine's' 67 on the final ballot. They were an administration crop, but what good did they do for Arthur? In 1880, to go still further back. 1t was Grant who had the south with him-12O votes out of total of 190 from that part of the country-and he had more southern votes on the last ballot just before Gar fields nomination than he had on the first.
 Perhaps Vice President Fairbanks thinks that he ought to capture the south, beginning with Alabama, if "~ nothing moret han to prove that somebody at least in the administration still knows how to play the good game of old.
 If so, and if he has really examined the precedents with care, 1t is certainly cour- ageous self-sacrifice on his part. It should do him honor in the circles that admire that sort of thing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
Star No. 46.


 The national flag on the coming Fourth of July should, in order to be strictly correct and up to date, present forty-six stars. The change will not De officially made by the government in it's flag until the succeeding Fourth of July but Uncle Sam is slow and deliberate, and the enterprising citizen need not wait upon his action. The flag is really a growth. As designed. by the Continental Congress on June 14, TIT, it had thirteen stripes and thirteen stars, and the present form was not adopted until April, 1918. The thirteen stars then began to grow as the states grew in number. Alabama was admitted to the union December IA, 1919, and her star is No. 22.
 Oklahoma, whose star is number 46, comes into the union with approxi- mately million of people, and five members of Congress. Oklahoma and Indian territory joined together have 0,430 square miles, being just about as large as Georgia, and both are rich in agricultural and mineral resources. In Oklahoma there are 14,000, and in Indian territory 53,000, Indians-a to- tai of 67.000 Indians In million of population about seven per cent, which will leave the new state in the control of the white man. The dash of Indian blood will scarcely be perceptible a hundred years hence.
 The passing of the Indian territory into the union as part of state has historic features, for it is almost the last appearance of the American In dian, the aboriginal, on the national stage. The Indian here and there, in cluding the Creeks, Choctaws and Cherokees of Alabama, were induced to give up their holdings in the cotton states, receiving in exchange lands in the Indian territory, where they were to have a permanent home, unembar- rassed by white men. This pledge to the aborigines was good in 1928, when it was made, but in 1906 it is not good at all. The red men are to be woven into a white mans state, and their grip upon that state will be indeed light The story is sad one in many particulars, but this is a world after all that believes in the survival of the fttest.
 Utah was admitted ten years ago. and now Oklahoma comes in. The statemaking business is nearly ended. There remain on the mainland but two territories, New Mexico and Arizona, and if they should accept the terms of the new law, the flag would have AT stars and the statemaking function | would become a lost art, unless in deed Congress begins to turn our prov inces or dependencies or whatever else they may be called-our nonde- script holdngs-into states. But inn | perialism forbids, and the country is at present imperialistic and will be- come more so if the republican party stays in power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
STUNG.
From Harper's Weekly.

In the cross-examination of a woman called to the witness stand in a recent trial at Pittsburg one of the first ques- tions put to the lady was:
 At what time of the night was 1t thai you saw the prisoner in your room?"
 About 2 o'clock" said the witness.
 Was there a light in the room at thai tme?"
 No; the room was quite dark
 Could you see your husband at your side?"
 No, sir"
 Then, madam" observed the attorney. his eye gleaming with triumph, you will kindly explain to this intelligent jury how it was that you could see the prisoner and yet could not see your hus- band?"
 Because my husband was at his club," quietly responded the lady.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
German Immigrants.

A prominent lumber man from Mont gomery said yesterday: German labor is being brought to Montgomery by the wholesale. Recently a big lumber com pany had thirty German laborers to ar rive at one time and more arc to follow.
 The negro laborer must give way to them as fast as they arrive for they cer- tainy are more thrifty and industrious, and can do more work, two to one. than the negro laborer. This Is a significant immigration straw, and at this rate 1t certainly wont be long before the African laborers will be supplanted by foreign labor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19

Total wages per hour
 for 12 classes ...... 1 .4166 2.0954 4.2071
 It will thus be seen that in the case of Germany, taking the average of the twelve trades cited, one hours work rep resents. approximately. 12 cents of earn ings; in Great Britain, 17M cents; and in the United States, 35 cents. The British employer pays 46 per cent more for labor than the German, and 191 per cent less than the American. In the thirteen years 2l.s per cent in Germany, 11.s per cent in Great Britain, and 20.7 per cent in the United States.
 Those pessimsts who are continually crying out about tine increased cost or living in America and trying to show that the prosperity of the workingman Is more apparent than real might prohtaoiy study the report of the consul at Zittau' Sax ony. MT. Pike says that the worst form of German industrial misery exists in the district of Erzgebirge, In the trimming. lace. and flower trades While up to ' cents an hour may be earned In the trim ming industry, a wage of 2h cents an hour Is considered high in lace-making, and rate of Ia and F cent is not seldom known. Children generally assist their elders, and the workshop is usually kitchen and bedroom as well. In the town of Pirna the hourly earnings at fiower-making are sometimes not more than l cent or even less. The greatest misery is found in the toy industry, in which, in the majority of eases, the earn ings are below 1L cents an hour.
 Following are the prices of foodstuns prevailing in this region: Beefsteak 2S cents. pork 20 cents, bacon 21 cents' nam 29 cents veal 19 cents, mutton IS eents' and butter 30 cents per pound; chickens os cents each, eggs 20 cents per dozen, milk cents per quart, tea AS to 90 cents' anu coffee 2s to AS cents per pound' nour s''of per barrel, apples s1 and potatoes ~ ceh's nor bushel. When the foregoing rate or wages is considered in connection with these prices. comment, as the consul says Is unnecessary.
 The Badische Landes-zeitung of Mann heim publishes the following suggestive paragraph;
 Two sorts of animals for slaughterins nurnoses have never until now reached as large a consumption as In the fourth quarter of 1905. namely, horses and dogs. While the number of horses slaughtered in the fourth quarter of 1904 amounted to hut 35. .s66 it rose in the fourth quarter of ,oos to 62 hsl ss In Mecklenburg- strelitz were slaughtered % steers and lo. horses; in Mecklenburg- g-Schwerin 7S horses and only 2b6 steers. Very high figures are reached by Anhalt, with sos horses slaughtered as against 12 steers and at Lubeck, with s6s horses and Il. steers-all in the fourth quarter of 1905
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
About Persons.

w. P. Jenkins, a retired capitalist of Chicago, is in Birmingham, the guest of MT. and Mrs NJ. M. Rlchey, to attend the Richey Ramseur wedding tonight. MT. Jenkins was for a long time connected with several of the large railroad sys- tems of the west, and afterward was tlaf- fic manager for the Hammond Packing company.
 F. L. soper of Athens was registered at the St. Nicholas hotel yesterday.
 G. H. Lewis of Opelika was registered at the St. Nicholas hotel yesterday.
 E. S. Noble, circulation manager of the Montgomery Advertiser. was registered at the Birmingham hotel yesterday
 Robert Marshall of Greenville was regis tered at the Birmingham hotel yesterday G. Burton of Lafayette was registered at the Hotel Hillman yesterday.
 
 Mrs T. J. Robinson and daughter of Montgomery were registered at the Hotel Hillman yesterday.
 T. Sidney Frazier of Union Springs was registered at the Hotel Morris yester- day.
 J. Altmayer of Montgomery was regis- tered at the Hotel Morris yesterday. Luther McCay of Anniston was register ed at the Metropolitan hotel yesterday. J. R. Hall of Dadeville was registered at the Metropolitan hotel yesterday. ed at the Metropolitan hotel yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
High Commodity Prices.

Bradstreets shows that on June 1 the prices of staples had been in creased in seventy-two instances, whilS those of twenty-two had been de This is a years record. Flour, beef butter, coffee and sugar are lower than eggs, potatoes, yellow pine, brick, rice and hay are higher.
 The general tendency of prices is towards higher levels. Compared with he low point of July, 1896, prices are now 45 per cent higher, and they are ] per cent higher than they were one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
PROMINENT development conn company advertises gold mine stock at one cent per share. How

N PROMINENT development com- W company advertlses gold mine I stock at one cent per share. How can feverish mortal resist? Here is a golden opportunity to get in on the ground floor" Most assuredly, 10 cap itallst. no matter how grasplng, could desire to get any closer 10 the ground than one cent per share. The tempta- tion to become q plunger under such circumstances Is Vverpowering. If you are worth but thirty cents you may take on thirty shares and unload at pleasure; if you have but tho price of an "ham and eggs" you may purchase there with sizeable blcck of stock. Verify. these be the days when Opportunity, in- stead of knocking once upon the door and hurrying away. hangs around a man and annoys him by her persistence.
 IT PAYS.
 I seem to hej.. t..i ..ousand tongues
 Say. Advertising pays"
 And then q chorus of the poets
 All singing noundelays,
 Protesting that this is a truth
 Which every man should know, And hearing it so many times,
 guess 1t must be so.
 The ratio of Mexicans killed at Cananea to Americans was twenty to one, which ought to soothe American patriots. It seems about as hard for q. rich man to so to jail as 1t is for him to get to heaven.
 Remember. your flag must have forty six stars after the Fourth. Take no other.
 Schwab says that the story of how he ran short of cash at Monte Carlo is ridic- ulous. Preposterous, we should say. Charlie.
 KEEP MOVING
 It's hard to keep on working when
 Your courage flckers out,
 It's hard to keep a-humping when
 You'd much prefer to pout;
 It's hard to keep on digging when
 You think you'd like to shirk,
 But when you hate your joh the most,
 Why that's the time to work.  It is said that Boni is repentant. So would you be, if you saw your meal ticket about to disappear
 Would any principal so far forget him. self as to hug a teacher in the presence of other teaehers?' asks one who is charged with that offense. Most ly not. If he knows his business. he will take the subject to a retired spot and hug at leisure.
 At time when extremists are threat ening to remove their clothes entirely, an,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
ALABAMA PRESS


 Gadsden Times-News; Pure food-O, whats the use. there isn't any any more,
 Dothan siftings; We have been eating | blaekberies long enough. 1t seems to us, to change to watermelons. Jacksonville Record: Of course, John Knox Is going to win for the United States Senate. Can't help It you know. Elba Clippers Georgia is in the same fix as portions of Alabama. A Georgia paper says grass is growing several inches a day.
 Huntsville Mercury: A homecoming week for Alabama would largely depopu- late sections of Arkansas. Texas and the territories for few days
 Cullman Tribune: Conner will carry every county In north Alabama with an overwhelming majority. He will carry Cullman county practically solid,
 Jasper Mount Eagle: If things are as bad in those Chicago packing houses as reported, some millionaire meat packers will be hanged if they get justice. Sheffield Standard: There appears to be no connection between the Nursery mems convention to be held in Dallas and the Mothers Congress- recently held at Washington.
 FF4..4 other name would smell as sweet" but the odors arising from the Chicago pack ing houses cannot be stifled under the title of Selected Meat"
 Tuscumbia North Alahamian. Getting money by false pretenses is punishable by fine and Imprisonment. Getting busi- ness by the same methods is punishable CD by high place in society.
 Bullock County Breeze: Many of the ladies of San Francisco think they have solved the servant problem. In the wreck and ruin of the great earthquake and fire their husbands have learned to cook
 iNhSicy pl1sp. II fTtSlueilI MOOSE welt never did anything else commendable, his part In the Chicago packers investi- gation and his vigorous recommendations to Congress should endear him to the pure food loving people of the world
 Tuskegee News: The Montgomery pa- pers gave very full reports of the speech on the labor situation delivered last Sun day by Booker Washington In that city. He gave his people solid truth. They must become more faithful workers or forever lose their opportunity.
 Marshall Banner: William Jennings Bryan is again forging to the front as a presidential possibility in 1908. The pro- portions assumed by the Bryan presi- dential boom In Washington and other places Is little less than amazing Hardly democratic member of congress can be found who Is not for the nomination of the Nebraskan in 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
WHEN LIVING IS WORTH WHILE
By Phil H. Armstrong

By Phil H. Armstrong. When Is living worth while you ask As you take up your daily irksome task And work when the low declining sun Has disappeared and the day Is done. And you wander home in the dim twi-
 light.
 Feeling that life knows naught but blight But fair hand smooths the frown away. And life is worth living then you say. When the days and weeks grow into
 years,
 When you pass through the valley of
 Unshed Tears, When you take up the old familiar grind, And think of the days that have gone
 behind
 You say: ''1 will give up and end 1t all." But you never do though you faint and
 fall,
 For you lift your eyes to the blue above, And you're glad to work when your
 boss b I0ve
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
SAME OLD STUMP.

From the Columbus Dispatch.
 Count Doughless-To make a favorite impression I would smoke every time called on the American heiress.
 Baron Broken-But didn't you find diff ficulty in smoking such a strong cigar after smoking stogies?
 Count Doughless-No. The difficulty was in putting it out and slipping 1t in my pocket until the next time I called
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
From Leslie's Weekly.

N MEXICAN workmen have long pU held pre-eminence among the
 workers of the world as the best paid and most prosperous. A recent bull ietin of the department of labor adds official weight to the general statements to this effect, and shows how much the wage-earner of the United States Is bet ter off than his European fellows in the two countries which are Americas chief industrial rivals. The following table gives the wages In twelve common em- ployments during the year 1908, the figures expressing in decimals of dollars the rate of one hours work:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
SARAH'S HAUL,

From the Memphis Commercial- Appeal.
 The Divine Sarah has bidden us fare- well. Not to be outdone, we have bidden farewell to 3O,0OO of our hard-earned dol lars. It seems to be very expensive to say good-by.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19

Charlie Schwab proposes to use his pocketbook to break into the Senate as a Nevadan. He takes Addicks' place in the general scheme of the plutocratic party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19

Castro will not resume the presi- dency of Venezuela until after the Fourth of July. He must be thinking of exploding a few cannon crackers on that day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19

Dowie's story as to how he became Elijah and the First Apostle taxes even the credulity of the credulous. He is entitled to the blue ribbon in the display of humbugs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19

| humanity swelters beneath a torrid sun, Richmond paper sedateiy advises us ts take of our winter underwear.
 THE FAN. When the snows of many winters Rest upon the old mans head And his narrow. stopping shoulders Bear the mark Of seasons sped, Will he look into the future With an eye that's calm-serene7 Will he seek some preparation For an carly change of scene? No the chances are you'll find him On the bleaohers. as of yere, Yelllngl lllSo red skin chisftain When the home team ties the score. Watermelons are cut.
 Chicago preacher has omitted the word Obey from the marriage ritual. There Is not much more to tell, ex. eept that he is rich now.
 cocky mayor up in Massachusetts re- fused to close the schools for q circus and there were aO0o truants that day. Served him right. 4 man who has no re- spect for clowns, elephants and pink lens onade Is fit for any kind of secret work. IT'S HERE ALL RIGHT. Ice man, Buzz fan,
 Open trolley car; Peek-a-boo, Skeeter too, Busy at the bar. June bug,
 June hug,
 Happy is the bride; Baseball Beats all- Picnics on the side. Soft drinks, Heart links. Pretty girls galore; Great fun, Tho the sun Freckles more and more.
 Looks like
 Any tyke
 Could, without rhyme,
 Tell that Great scatr- Iris the summer time. Cupid wouldn't have to work so hard If all the girls looked like those on the fashion page. After the fireworks comes the fifth. When your life is not bed of roses the best thing you can do is to accustom yourself to something harder. Tiaras are out of date-an announcement that doesn't concern people who live close to the ground PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19

in Alabama would certainly revive rec ollections of Mobiles sweetest singer, but aside from famous sons and daugh- ters are 100000 wanderers who desire to be called home again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19

Cotton and corn are growing to meet the expectations of the world. Both are trying to make new records, and If the weather clerk will help them to September, they will do 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19

Just as the sun the cartoonists pic tured him to be, Bryan disappeared be- low the western horizon and came up in the east looking chlpper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19

Reformer Jerome and Reformer Folk have fallen out, and the public is in- clined to think the former has gone over to the enemy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19

New York Is represented, construct ively speaking, by two political mum mics. But neither is as good or blame