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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
Next Mondays Convention.

The public representatives of this
state will have their inning on Sep
TENDER 10. The people had theirs on
August 81. The two are somewhat
interlinked, but 1t may happen that
the instructions of the people on Au-
gust q will not be controlling In the
convention of September TO- The
nominations in the convention are to
be by majority votes. This applies to
the chief justiceship and to the two
associate justiceships. At first the
delegates are to consider themselves
instructed by their respective couu.
ties, and they are to cast pro rata
votes. If the pro rata votes do not
produce a clear majority then the del
egates are left free to vote for whom
they see fit. They may select men as
nominees of the democratic party who
were not ballotted for at all in the
state primary.
No one has been able to foresee
what would come out of convention
and the one of September 10 may not
be an exception TO the rule.
When 1t comes to the naming of a
state executive committee to serve
through the next four years the dele
gates are left free to make their own
selections. The present state execu-
tive committee was elected by the
people, but the next one covering a
presidential year is to be elected by
a convention.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
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All Is quiet at Saratoga.
TILLMAN; TRADITION sMAsHER.
! Am Rude Man and Don't Care"
Bible Class Address.

In the Worlds Work for October lack
McGhee writes near-at-hand view of
Senator Tillman, from which the following
is quoted:
Near the center of the Senate chamber,
directly in front OF the Vice President,
sits a large, burly, surly-looking man,
with a tremendous square head set upon
pair of broad, square shoulders, the
corners of his mouth drawn down nearly
u the lower margin Of his Heavy, square
jaws. He is clean shaven-that is, he is
shaver; perhaps 1t was the day before
yesterday that he shaved. His thick,
slightly gray hair is dishevelled, and he
wears just such clothes as you would ex-
pect to see on man who says on the
floor of the Senate. 81 am rude man and
don't care" But when he rises from his
seat and addresses the chair In a high
pitched, almost whining voice. standing
somewhat nervously one shoulder slightly
raised above the other, his one dark
brown, glistening eye flashing through the
room like a searchlight, the other senator's
put down their newspapers and slowly
turn in their seats; those walking about
instinctively tread more softly or stop In
their tracks; the many neeks In the visit
tors galleries are Grained to get a better
view, and there is a movement In the
press gallery to get little nearer the
front 1.-THE only thing that ever happens
in the Senate" wrote a correspondent one
day, is Senator Tillman" Beyond doubt
he is the most interesting figure in that
body of exceptionally interesting men.
II may not be able to shed much light
in this body, Mr. President" he observed
one day as he interrupted debate be-
| tween two great constitutional lawyers
with a homely, direct question which went
straight to the point, but l sometimes
manage to break the glass;
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
Mr.. Corners Address.

Mr.. Conner, who is practically gov
ernor-elect of Alabama, has issued an
address to the people of this state, in
which he says the recent primary was
fought and won on these issues,
namely:
1. Georgia classification and Georgia
rates.
2. Liberality to the old soldiers of
the war.
3. Better public schools.
4. Local option.
5. Opposition to immigrants from
southern Europe.
Some features of this programme
may be news to some of the supporters
of Mr. Conner, but there is after all
nothing surprising In 1t. Mr. Conner
tells the railroads they are not to be
hurt. He in fact says they cannot be
because the state as we'll as the fed.
eral constitution affords them adequate
protection.
The execution of Mr.. Corners pro.
gramme depends wholly upon the new
legislature, a majority of its members
having been elected wholly regardless
of the Comer-Cunningham race, or in
fact of the Conner issues. 1t is too
early to predict what the drift and
tendency in the legislature will be.
Every proposition that Mr. Conner sub
mits goes to the legislature for de-
cision and this is why the fifty days
of the session that will be opened on
the second Monday In January will be
an interesting period in the history of
this state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
Old Labrador.

"Of the several branches into which the
codfishery Of Newfoundland is divided"
says a writer in the New York Times,
that pursued along the rugged coast of
Labrador each summer is the most peril
Gus and toisome, and It's annual record
of disaster and death. hardship and trag
edy, is depressing in the extreme
God fishing Is the chief industry of
the settlers along the east and north
shores of the island, and it's success or
failure means restitution or comfort for
them. It's Importance can be best judged
by the fact that the entire families pro-
coed to the desolate seaboard, the men
and boys to catch and handle the fish.
and the women, girls and young children
to engage In the different processes lnel-
dental to drying and cGring. A visit to
the little hamlets of the Newfoundland
coast in the summer shows nearly every
house unoccupied, the owners having gone
to Labrador for the cod fishing, in which
annual migration some 10000 persons, with
their goats and poultry, household goods,
and portable possessions, engage every
season. The rest of their belongings re-
main safe from disturbance, as the island
laws WISH with SAeiiipidiy ScNtiiiJ ihS
thefts of any property from such houses,
the stealing of fish off the drying plat
forms and the desertion by any men of
the fishery service by which they are
engaged
1.-The magnitude of the perils which be-
set the fishing folk as they sail there
in the spring and return in the autumn
can best be realized by the occurrences
of the present season. On June 10 a fu-
rious gale swept the coast of Newfound-
land and spread ruin amid the scores Of
smacks then bound to the northern traw-
ling grounds. Some were lost with all
hands, others were driven ashore with
more or less loss of life; more were dis
masted and their endangered crews res
cued from the sinking bulls at great peril
to the rescuers, while the great majority,
though they got into harbors, had tenn
porarily to abandon their crafts and take
refuge on the shore until the storm had
abated.
I'm numerous cases these vessels carry
passengers, fish folk who own no craft
themselves, and from 80 to 100 persons are
often aboard one smack
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04

SENATORS IN WAITING.

From the Arkansas Gazette.
The Alabama democrats have just nom
mated two men for alternate United
States senator's, or senators In waiting"
At the same time Senators Morgan and
Pettus were renominated without oppo-
sition. Both the present senator's are in
the octogenarian class. but 1t would be
political suicide for any Alabama demo-
crat to run against either. Under the
circumstances to run for alternate sem
ator is the best ambitious democrats in
that state can do. 1t Is an empty honor
unless vacancy occurs. II death claims
either Senator Morgan or Senator Pet
tus. the legislature. which meets quad
rennally, would be morally bound to
elect one of the alternate nominees to
the vacancy. just as the governor, If he
appointed a senator, would be likewise
held to the selection of an alternate for
the place.
Alabama Is one of the few states that
seems disposed to bestow the senatorial
toga for life. so that the Alabama plan
of naming alternates, or of filing pos
sible vacancies in advance. is not likely
TO become the vogue. At the same time
1t might be argued that the alternate
system Is a logical extension of the pr-
mary election or popular vote principle.
But wouldn't it give one an uncanny
feeling to see the politicians scrambling
to succeed him in case. OF death?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
Ten drinks of water do not make one
drunk
It's worse than useless to advertise for
lost faith.
Even bad man can give others few
hints on being good
No advance in the price of shoes will
keep men from kicking.
Some men don't want to talk about jus
tlce after they get it.
Homemade advice is usually just as
unsatis factory as any other brand.
Don't blame a man for being a strike
agitator If he owns bowling alley.
Some matches may be made in heaven,
but the majority are made by the match
trust.
AS soon as sick man gets well he
should pay his doctor. just to show that
he has no i'll feeling.
Tall men undoubtedly live longer than
short men because short men are never
very long for this world.
1t is certainly more blessef to give up
without a struggle than 1t is to receive
IL in the neck from a sandbag.
picnic she always tries to make the other
she wants to.
A woman's pride has reached the limit
when she is ashamed to have people know
that her husband can't afford to buy her
the things she wants.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
SoUTH'S ADVANTAGES.
From the Manufacturers Record.

From the manufacturers Record.
Give free rein to your Imagination and
let 1t picture the future of a section which
has one-half of the iron ere of the United
States, nearly three times as much coal
as Great Britain, Germany and Pennsyl-
vania combined, which holds a world
monopoly on cotton production and is
rapidly becoming a great cotton manufac-
turing center, which dominates the phos-
phate rock and sulphur trade of the world
which has much of the richest oil terri
tory known, which has one-half of the
standing timber of the country, which pro-
duces all the sugar, all the rice, most of
the tobacco. and adds to these S00,000,000
bushels a year of grain; and then think
of its water powers, its splendid rivers,
its great seacoast, its expanding commerce,
and remember that it's cotton crop alone
annually exceeds the total gold and silver
production of the world, and that every
dollar of gold annually mined on earth
is not enough to pay the south's bill
against Europe for cotton. and you will
get just faint conception of the future
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
GROWN MEN IN SCHOOL.
Enthusiastic Students Come After a
Days Labor to Evening School.

Springfield. the "City of Special Schools
offers a wonderful opportunity to its
laboring men in the Evening Trades
school, which Marion Melius thus de-
scribes in the September Everybody's:
ut is an inspiration to visit this even
ing school and watch the mentor th"v
are all skilled laborers and not untutored
boys-worldng eagerly almost feverishly,
in the machine room, the pattern-making
room. the plumbing room, the electrical
laboratory, os the mechanical drawing
room, trying to perfect them selves In
their particular line or, rather, tn broaden
out their particular knowledge. For SO
many men this school has meant enianci-
patton from one monotonous machine
which has been taking the life and am
btion out of them, and 1t is rapidly maxi
ing them all-round mechanics. They are
striving for a more advanced education
in order that they may command higher
wages and possibly. in time, become a
power IN the manufacturing world; and
they are tremendously in earnest. They
never beg off to enjoy some social event,
they never plead weariness-although the
majority of them have been toiling eight
hours for their daily bread; they never
wish lessons were over. On the contrary,
they asked that the school be open six
nights a week and when this was denied
them, pleaded that 1t be run from Z
O'Clock to 10. But they have been obliged
to boil their enthusiasm down to five
nights a week. with three or four hours of
work each evening"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04

The rapid increase in the per capita
consumption In this country is due
primarily to the use of btuminous
coal in the manufacture of pig iron.
Without the aid of soft coal we could
not, in other words, turn pig iron into
steel and thousand other products.
The figures presented cover the
product of our blast furnaces only. No
estimate of importation is made, nor
Is the consumption of scrap included.
If all were included, 1t is believed that
the consumption of the present busy
year would go to 34,000,000 tons, OF
about 900 pounds per capita. Certain
1t is that we will soon be consuming
pig iron or its equivalent at the rate
of 1000 pounds per capita. gThe rise
from five pounds per capita to 1000
pounds Is a wonderful illustration OF
our industrial energy and activity. 1t
is a great country, and great is pig
iron.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
Canned Music.

John Philip Sousa protests most Wig
orously in Appleton's Magazine for
September against machine music
against the talking and singing phono-
graphs and the mechanical piano play
ers, into which the soul cannot be
poured even for second. Heretofore,
says Mr.. Sousa, the effort in music
has been "along the line of making 1t
expression of SOUL" but the mechani-
cal contrivances are but the express
sions of trade and mechanical skill.
No soul, 1t is claimed, goes with trade
and mechanism-no individual soul at
any rate. Individualism In music is
gradually disappearing, and in its place
we are to have a combination Of social
ism and machinery.
Mr.. Sousa says this means a musi-
cal cataclysm, the decadence of music
alike In city and country. He even
says the COuHlIy DdHu with us VlSl
getic renditions, its loyal support by
local merchants, its benefit concerts,
band wagon, gay uniforms, state tour
naments, and the attendant pride and
gaiety, is apparently doomed to van
ish In the general assault on person
ality in music"
All this is very sad because 1t is
very true. When the national throat
and the national piano fingers fall be-
fore musical automatics, we will cease
TO be musical people, and music in
its fullest sense will become lost art.
We will have something tuneful, but
the individual soul will no longer be
poured into 1t. The day of canned
music is upon us, and the day for hear
ing the best tone quality will soon
begin to pass away. This, alas, is a
fleeing, tickle world, much given to
change and machinery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
GENESIS OF o. HENRY.

From the Augusta Reader Magazine.
The following account come from
Pittsburg newspaper office of one of o.
Henry's earliest appearances in. his de-
scent upon the east: THE Sunday editor
was repeating his rosary of profanity be-
fore buckling down to work At this crit
ical moment the door opened Every nov
elist who knows the B of his trade
when his story is getting slow, knows
enough to write There was a rap at the
door, and straightway, If he has any
faith in himself at ALL he will be as deep
ly interested as his most impressionable
reader could be, to see who is going to
enter But the man who blew into that
newspaper office that afternoon did not
take time to rap. He was in a hurry be-
cause he was hungry. He had an inside
coat pocket bulging with manuscript, and
a vacuum in the compartment consecrated
to small change. His clothes were past
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
WONDERFUL FALLS.
Located In South American That Rival
Those of Niagara.

From the National Geographical Maya
zine.
In the heart Of South Africa, at the
Argentine and Paraguay-nature has
chosen the site for a masterpiece of scenic
grandeur to be compared only to the
mighty Niagara in majesty, and pro-
nounced by some of the few travellers who
have seen it to be even greater than its
North American counterpart. The falls of
Iguazu occur at the junction of Iguazu
river with the Upper Parana, in terri
tory famous as the original locality of the
Jesuit missions, establsher in the six
tenth century, the ruins of which may
still be seen by those who visit the falls
About twelve miles above the falls the
river Iguazu makes a sharp bend, almost
at right angles, giving them greater ex-
tent and more varied character than those
or Niagara, which to some degree they re-
semble As the river makes the sharp
bend already mentioned, the main volume
OF water PUSHES around the inner bank
and is discharged into long, narrow
gorge, at one point making a clear plunge
OF 40 feet Not all the volume of the
river is received at this place. however
the rest of the water running out past Il
into the wide elbow formed by the bend,
and circling along the further shore
among many rocks and Islands before
reaching the edge of the cliff, over which
the descent Is made in two great leaps OF
100 feet each, in a vast sebficircle of 5000
feet. The total length of Iguazu Falls, If
measured, at the upper edge of the cliff,
through their broken contour, including
interesting islets, is twice as great as
that of Niagara, including the intersection
of Goat island.
The double fall of Iguazu is the most
striking feature of the cataract, the rocky
shelf or platform that divides the leap be-
ing in some places more than fifty yards
wide and in others only few feet
The scenery surrounding Iguazu Falls is
in peculiar harmony with the solemn
grandeur of the cataract and it's varied
character. The roar of the waterfall is
more impressive for the. solitude OF the
spot and the eternal silence that reigns
in the dense forests that mark its border
into which the white man has scarcely
penetrated For several miles beyond the
falls are reached the river is mass of
huge frowning powders and whirlpools.
and the first view of the great cataract Is
often disappointment, from the fact that
I it must be seen from many different points
to be appreciated In all its beauty
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
Home Comma Week.

The preliminary work of the home
people has been accomplished east of
the big river. They have sent word
far and near inviting Alabamas wan
derers to come home, and they have
secured a one-fare rate for the round
trip on nearly all the railroads east
Of the Mississippi river.
A similar ratae from Texas points in
needed, and perhaps the Commercial
club will be able to secure that during
the present week. There are more
Alabama-born persons In Texas than
in any other state, and thousands of
them would come back to this state In
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04

the Homecoming Week if they can
come by paying one fare for the round
trip.
As soon as a Texas rate is procured
the work at home will be well started,
and the home-comer will proceed to
do his part Let him know at any rate
that he will be warmly welcomed in
Home-C Coming Week. The old state,
now nearly century old, will leave
nothing undone to make the return
visit of her sons and daughters joy
Gus and happy She may have her
hands full, but that is just what she
expects and is preparing to meet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
PRESS POINTS

Shreveport Times. A Kentucklan left
his wife because her cooking didn't suit
him. He began to live in boarding
houses with the result that a reeoneilia-
ton was easily and quickly effected.
Washington Post: When they come to
the viewing with alarm stage of the
proceedings, the democrats will find
enough in New York state to keep them
busy for some time.
Houston Post: An alternate senator
from Alabama. Colonel Bankhead will
occupy pretty high rank, but he will not
be quite so close to the disbursing officer
as Hohson.
Savannah Press: The question is will
Mr.. Bryan's government ownership plat
form be too strong for the democrats
and the country to swallow?
Florida Times Union: Wisconsin sa-
loonkeepers have resolved In convention
to forbid shooting in their saloons. It
muses. up the floor and interferes with
business.
Louisville Courier-Journal: The Ameri-
can magazine says a man may get drunk
1000 times and live through It, But how
many times can a man get drunk and
make a living?
Memphis Commercial-Appeal: Mr..
Rockefeller wants to get in touch with
the common people; and we would ad-
wise the common people to sew up their
pockets.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
A FUTURE STATESMAN.

From the Philadelphia Record.
"Stories of precious children have often
been told, but one Of the best l have
ever heard happened to schoolmaster
in a small town which visit twice a
year. said a commercial salesman while
swapping stories with his fellow-drum-
mers In the hotel corridor. The class in
arithmetic was being qulzzed when this
poser was put to them: Suppose that in
a family of five there are only four po-
tatoes for dinner, and the mother wants
to give each of the children an equal
share--how Is she going to do 1T? For a
few minutes there was silence in the
room while everybody calculated hard
Finally one of the little boys rose to his
feet, and after attracting the attention of
the schoolmaster, gave this unexpected
answer: Mash the potatoes, sir p"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
NOT A HoRsELEss AGE.

From Leslies Weekly.
1t seems clear from statistics presented
in Congress at its last session, while the
agricultural bill was under discussion,
that, notwithstanding the increasing use
of automobiles and the substitution of
electricity for horse power in street cars
and elsewhere, we are still long way
from the ''horseless age" In fact, 1t ap
pears that the equine tribe is increasing
rather than otherwise. The aggregate of
horses in the United States on January
1, 1906. stood at 1S,7lS57S, against 14,364,6 67
at the corresponding date of 1897 Their
total value increased from 1852 $40, 1886 in
1897 to 81 ,5l0,s S9,9O6. This startling rate of
increase in value Is no more marked
than that of mules, according to the same
government authorities. There were b
215.6a mules in 1897 and 3,4o40e1 In 1906
and the values were respectively $780,
90 and 1884, eSo.5oo.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-04
FARMER is PROGRESSIVE
From the Chicago Post.

From the Chicago Post.
M Nm the thoroughly up-to-date farm
- of the heavy work.
The advance In farming methods is
shown in numerous instances in the vi
cnity of Chicago. Along the line of the
Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Electric rail-
way many farmers have taken advantage
of the opportunity to purchase power. No
longer do they fiirt with the laborious
bucksaw at dawn, nor do they grind away
by main strength at the feed MILL The
coming of electricity has worked marvels
in their methods.
1t is true, however, that farming by
electricity is in it's infancy. yet the sue
cess of such enterprise, where 1t has been
undertaken, has been SO great that the
sale of electrical power by interurban
railroads promises to develop into one of
the most important branches of the bus
mess.
In the vicinity of Elgn, Aurora, Bata-
via and at other points along the Aurora
line the use of electricity by farmers is
common. In other parts of the United
States, as we'll, the electrical method is
finding favor
Farming loses much of its slavery when
electricity is applied to it. Little Johnny
Farmer, when his mother tells him to put
in the time before breakfast saving wood,
goes gleefully forth to the woodshed, pulls
a lever saws half cord, and then splits
the chunks with rapid-fre device that
puts to shame the old-fashioned method of
our grandfathers.
When 1t comes to shredding and crush
ing corn, the electrical farmer can ac-
complish as much in a day as he could
in a month by hand. The time-saving
value of the motor Is almost beyond esti-
nation.
The district around Elgin has many
large dairy farms, and to these the use
of the electrical power furnished by the
railroad has come to be a necessity.
Enormous quantities of feed are ground
by electricity. Within five or six miles
of Elgin about fifteen big farms have