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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
A raveIer Returns.

II have Just returned from a two
months trip through the state" said
travelling man, land when Z got off the
train this morning and walked up Twen-
tieth street the crowds of people I met
almost amazed me-
Il never return to this city but | am
more than ever impressed with its life
and activity. After being among the little
towns of 800 to 1000 population with lit
tie bit of street some two or three
blocks long, to reach a city of this size
and doing such business as is done
here, almost turns ones head
There is a peculiar sensation comes
over a person as he approaches a big
city, especially If that city be a railroad
center. For miles before the city itself is
reached there are strings of railroad cars,
which give the impression that the city is
right at hand. Then come the mills and
factories, putting steam and whirrng ma
chinery; settlements where the employees
live and truck gardens; still the train
keeps going on until the city lights are
reached and even yet there is a long dis
lance to travel until we arrive at our des-
tinaton.
1.-THE faces one sees in railroad stations
are always interesting. 1t affords grand
field for speculation thinking what the
people do for a living, and what are the
characteristics of the place and its inhab
itants. This is the reason [ always prefer
to travel during the daytime, and l like
to arrive in a city about midday. | think
the man who spends his time ON train
during the day, sleeping or reading
trashy novel. is unworthy of sight beyond
his arms length"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
MRS. READERS CAREER.
Remarkable Young Woman In Another
Legal Tangle,

From the New York World.
Out of the tangle Of litigation between
James B. Haggin, the multi-millonaire,
and Elmer Rawls Reader, "diplomatist,
friend of kings and "the Copper Queen
of the Andes,' will come surprising
facts concerning the financial operations
of the remarkable young woman.
She is the president of the Cerro de
Pasco Tunneling and Mining company,
capitalized at 100000, and with officers
at No As Wall street This company was
chartered In Maine about four years
ago. Mr. Haggin owns the Cerro de Pas
co Mining company. The name of Mrs.
Readers company is identical with that
of Mr.. Haggin's with the exception of
the two words "Tunnelling and"
1t is charged that Mrs Reader pro-
cured the reports of two engineers who
had> examined the Haggin mines and in
corporated them in prospectuses descrip-
ing her company in such way that the
average reader would think they were
reports of the properties of that con-
Germ.
1t developed yesterday that Mr.. Hag-
gin is in the fight to stay. His lawyer,
Mr.. Williamson, of Alexander & Green.
appeared before Justice Leventritt in the
supreme court and asked for permission
to amend Mr. Higgins answer in one
of the five suits for SANDER brought
against him by Mrs. Reader. Col.
Alexander S. Bacon, counsel for Mrs.
Reader raised technical objections, and
the matter will be argued Monday.
Mr.. Haggin wants to amend his am
swer by saying some rude things in the
formal document about Athole B. Reader
husband of 1.-THE Copper Queen of the
Andes" Mr.. Higgins fighting blood is
up, and if Mrs. Reader presses her slau-.
der suits the Californian will have some
thing to say at every step of the pro-
ceedings.
1t is the purpose of Mr. Haggin's law
yers to get deposition from Juan Gar
land of Peru, who is now in this city. but
who is anxious to return to his own coun-
try. 1t was to Garland that Athole B.
Reader wrote his remarkable letter about
Mrs. Reader and which also led to Grim
inal proceedings against him in the fed
eral courts
William Van Slooten figured in this let
ter. 1t was learned Yesterday that Van
Slooten, famous mining engineer who
was employed by Mr.. Haggin and his as
sociates to investigate the Peruvian cop
per mines had a dispute with Mr.. Hag-
gin and the others in the fan of 1901. He
worried about the matter greatly, and
on December IA. that year, committed
suicide at his home. No. 81 Sidney place,
Brooklyn, by shooting himself in the
head. His widow brought suit for $685.
900 against Mr.. Haggin and the others,
and the matter was finally settled by the
payment of $4,000.
Van Slooten had claimed that he was
entitled to $3.50 900, or 10 per cent on the
purchase price and cost of equpping the
Cerro de Pasco mines. Mr.. Readers suit
against Mr. Haggin is for $4,000. or 10
per cent of the purchase price of the
mines. whiehs was so, 5oo.ooo. The equip
naAnt was to cost &po0ooo additional
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
Mr.. Corners Inauqural

An inaugural address rarely contains
definite commentators, simply be-
cause the people to whom it is adj
dressed are not legislators. A message
will be sent in today that will put be-
fore the legislature in plain terms the
programme of the new administration.
That programme is presented in the
inaugural address in a general forensic
manner only.
The new governor says in the first
place that the mandate of November
must be respected and carried into law
This. means that the railroads should
be made to grant equitable rates, that
the lobbyists should be dispersed, and
that passes should be abolished. After
this is done the railroads, says Gov
ernor Conner, can well afford to carry
passengers at "a cents per mile.
Governor Conner also calls for tax
equalization, and for larger aid to the
old soldiers of The Confederacy. Not a
little of the address is devoted to edu
cation, and every word in it on that
subject deserves consideration and the
support of the people.
Governor Conner is inclined to COM
bat the movement which has for its
object the filing of the state with
white men. Whatever immigration
law we make, says the new governor,
I'VE should make it so restrictive as to
make those who come fit associates for
our own yellow haired, blue-eyed peo-
pie This Is a reflection on the bru-
nettes, and boom for the blondes, in
this state. A majority of our people
are not blessed with yellow hair and
blue eyes, and the chief executive of
the state should not speak disparag
ingly of the majority.
1t is plain that immigration lacks a
friend in the highest Office in this
state. The Scandinavians and, the Ger
mans are full of color prejudice, and
they can with difficulty be induced to
settle in the south. The Italians, on
the other hand, will come, and all who
have studied them say they are indus
trious, sober and prudent, and will
make good citizens.
To all intents and purposes Governor
Conner says Alabama should be re-
served for the use of Alabamians. This
is all very well if in that way the re-
sources of this state can be fully de-
veloped, and Alabama placed, to use
one of Governor Corners own phrases,
first on the roll" Can that be done
if we discourage immigration? Will
not the other states pass us by, leav-
ing us, to use another pet phrase OF the
inaugural address, in the foot position?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
Governor Johnston and the Georqian

The Atlanta Georgian, edited by
John Temple Graves, is ready to bury
the Ratchet, and to seek restoration of
good feeling especially towards ex-
Governor Johnston. 1t says.
Let no one think that the forensic in
terchange of The Georgian with ex-Gover-
nor Johnston of Alabama IMPLIES any feel
ing less than cordial toward that distin-
suished statesman.
THE ex-governor is one of the most
genial and kindly of gentlemen. and one
OF the most popular of public men. His
speech was in charming temper and was
enjoyed by every Georgian as much as
by the Carolinians and Alabamians and
the comments upon it were Just as ami
able in temper and in application.
Ex-Governor Johnston, senator-elect
from Alabama, would make most de-
lghtlul speaker for some of our many
PUBIC occasions, and we sincerely trust
That our people may hear him-both be-
fore and after the location of the sub
treasury in Atlanta"
They should not wait until "a" sub
treasury is located in Atlanta, for that
In the ordinary course of events will
not take place until long after the"
sub-treasury has been located in this
city. The invitation to our distin-
guished fellow-c citizen should not be SO
long delayed, for he is veteran of the
civil war, bearing the marks of several
wounds accumulated in that great I'M
pleasantness.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
Mr.. Oliver the Lowest Bidder

The Oliver Bangs combination is the
lowest bidder for the entire construc-
tion of the Panama canal at 6.75 per
cent above its estimated cost. The
presumption is that the work will be
awarded to them, for the combination
is a strong one, both branches of it
possessing ample capital, and both hav-
ing had wide experience.
Mr.. Bangs is a New York contractor.
He built the great locks at the 500,
the Delaware breakwater and the Buf-
falo breakwater, each costing about
$2,500000. Mr.. Oliver was born in In
diana, but his entire active career has
been southern. He is but SO years of
age, and he came to the south twenty
years ago, beginning as a contractor at
Langley. S. c. Four years ago he re-
moved to Knoxville, where he pro-
ceeded to establish a large general
machine shop. AT present he is build
ing the Stevenson extension of the
Southern railway, boring under Look
out mountain. AT the same time he is
constructing a great dam in the Ten
nessee river at the Suck" near Chat
-tanooga. He is energetic, alert and
competent. and the OliverBangs com
bination will dig the canal if the con-
tract is awarded to them, as it I'M
doubtedly will be.
The award of the contract to Will
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
Naming the War OF the SOS

The war between the north and the
south-between one lot of states OPP
posing the secession from the union of
any state and another lot of states in
sisting on the right of secession-was
renamed by the United States Senate
last week when a service pension bill
was taken up and passed. The name
of the clash between the states was
styled in the bill the late War of the
Rebellion and this has been its Off
cial name over forty years. 1t is here
after to be known as THE Civil War;"
especially if the service pension bill
becomes a law.
The remaining of the great struggle
of the last century led to an extended
discussion in the Senate. Senator Car
mack began it. 1t was he who pro-
posed to call it the Civil War" Sen
ator Money preferred Alexander H.
Stephens title for it, 1.-The War Be-
tween the States" but this was deemed
inadmissable because the border states
were on both sides. Senator Patterson
said it should be called the War of
Secession" Senator Bacon objected to
the word, rebellion" Senator Scott
of West Virginia brought the discus
sion to an end by contributing a human
interest story of a West Virginia citi-
zen who fell fighting for the Confed-
crate cause at Rich Mountain and was
buried with the Confederate flag wrap
ped about his coffin. Forty years later
the body of his son was brought home,
having fallen at the battle of San Juan.
and was buried beside his father, with
the Stars and Stripes thrown over his
coffin Mr.. Scott suggested that this
historic parallel ought to suggest to
Senators that the war was over.
This brought the discussion to an
end, and the Carmack amendment was
adopted, and good feeling prevailed,
and the Tennessee Senator was warm
ly congratulated.
1t is to be hereafter not ''the late
war of the rebellion" Init 1.-The civil
war; and that settles Off
eial records go.
! Very few nennle rol keen
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
Hippodrome Decorations.

1.-THE Board of Trade has placed the
decorating of the interior of the skating
auditorium, where the sessions Of the
cotton convention will be held, in the
hands of Mr.. A. d. Moore, window
dresser for one of the large stores of Bir-
mingham," said John Sparrow last night,
land 1 think l am safe in saying that
the public will be delighted with the eff
fects of the decoration. 1t is said that
the window dressers Of Birmingham rank
with the best in this country, and Mr..
Moore is recognized as one of the leaders
of his craft. Why he said to a friend
to whom he had shown his plans, this
will cost more than the appropriation,
but will carry it out If I have to go into
my own pocket Then spoke the true
artist"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
THE COTTON CONVENTION

agricultural conditions on earth We
ought TO be able to establish the best
educational system to build the best
roads and TO create the most attractive
nome surroundings of any farming popu-
iatlon which the world ever saw. This IS
All within our grasp, and unless we are
recreant to our God-given opportunities,
the south will come together for handling
its great staple in such a way as to pro-
duce these results The Birmingham con-
Vehtlon ought to be power for good in
lhls direction. and 1t ought to take a de-
clued stand for uniformly higher prices
ana better handling of the whole crop.
r. II II
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

W give. '5 sa'ss.' to o" %'s@1's
do we see the professors as
semble on the campus and dance in
merry-making groups? Do their hearts
beat more lightly than before, and do they
look forward to golden future when
they will be able to buy more than two
suits of clothes a year for themselves and
more than two hats for their wives? No.
we do not see any of this, save insofar
as facultymen feel impelled to show an
apparent jubilation over the success of
the institution with which they are con-
nected. Their eheerfulness is, however,
merely a surface exhibition to hold their
jobs. Deep down in their hearts they
don't feel any better than they did be-
fore. Why is it that the poor college pro-
fessor, pilling along on his $500 or 5000
per annum, does not leap high into the air
when a celebrated man of millions gives
away the income of a day to that partic-
ular institution? The answer is easy. No
college professor ever gets any of the
hand-out. Rich persons in search of
unique philanthropy should divide with
the pedagogues.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
SONG.
By Thomas Hood,

By Thomas Hood
o lady. leave thy slken thread
And fiowery tapestry
There's living roses on the bush,
And blossoms on the tree
Stoop where thou wilt thy careless hand
Some random bud will meet:
Thou can'st not tread but thou will find
The daisy at thy feet
It's like the birthday of the world,
When earth was born in bloom;
The light is made of many dyes,
The air is all perfume;
There's crimson buds, and white and
blue
The very rainbow showers
Have turned to blossoms where they fell.
And sown the earth with flowers.
There's fairy tulips in the east :
The garden of the sum-
The Very streams reflect the hues
And blossom as they rum
While morn opes like crimson rose.
Still wet with pearly showers;
Then. lady. leave the silken thread
Thou tviuaSt into dowers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
STATESMEN AND THEIR DIET.

From the Washington Herald.
Now that the Senate lunch hour is pub
licly figuring in legislation visitors to the
capitol are manifesting curiosity to learn
what the nations great men eat at midday
Only a comparatively few of them are
sumptuous diners, and nearly all of them
as far as can be judged by the orders
they give for lunch eat the simplest
foods For example, Senator Cullom eats
every day about o'clock one piece Of
pumpkin pie with Il glass of sweet milk
to wash 1t down. Senator Spooners daily
lunch in the Senate restaurant is one
portion of plain hominy, literally sprink-
led with salt and pepper. Senator Elkins
fares more bountifully than e. Yer of
these. and nearly always hae lunch
served in his committee roo. arts
with a dozen raw oysters an, up
with rare roast beef or steak "
Foraker is a voracious eater at !,
and seems Indifferent to the kind
riety of the food he orders, merely
ing to 1t that there is an abundance
it, Senator Lodges favorite dishes
poached eggs on toast, followed bv
of sardnes. and after this blac
Senators Aldrich and Hale freque
vert their Senate lunches into
social affairs and Invariably ha
served in their committee rooms,
or not they have company. TIL
islander entertains society lea,
these lunches two and three times
during the social season. The
from Maine also is fond of having
or |
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

AdllaueBa Reporter: Santa Claus was
little bit delayed in getting the sub-treas-
ury for Birmingham. but she got her
deserts
Mobile Herald: John Wesley Gaines
arises to ask, whats Fnipino?" If
he's fishing for descriptive profanity. this
column, at least, is not the place for it.
Tri-County Weekly: If the railroads
don't get to running trains nearer on time,
they'll make the Man in the Moon"
erossed-eyed watching the different
wrecks.
Bullock County Breeze: John d. Rookie
Teller has given Chicago university Sc ,OOO.-
coo more. It seems that Chicago university
is like all the rest of the schools, it never
knows when 1t gets enough
Montgomery Advertiser: Mr.. Hearst de-
clares that he will never again go a-can-
didating, but we've heard that from poll
ticians before, and don't bank much
on It,
Troy Herald: After ALL that jeff Davis
of Arkansas has said that he will do
and will not do when he comes to the Sem
ate, the only safe bet is that he will
draw the salary attached to the job.
Tuscaloosa Times-G Gazette: Since Gray's
appointment of committees in the senate
seems to be in line with the administra-
ton, everything looks all the lovlier for
the new governor. Never did man go
into office more substantially supported.
Sheffield Reaper: The only objection
that Sheffield can interpose to Birming-
hams securing a sub-treasury is that
some of these days when Sheffield wants
one itself it will be argued that it Is
too close to Birmingham.
Florence Times: One of the features Of
the administration of Governor Jelks,
which will come to close next Monday
has been the educational department.
which has scored a great success under
the able, aggressive and patriotic leader
ship of Hon. l. w. Hill, the state super
intendent. Under Mr.. Hills management
the department has not been run simply
in a perfunctory manner. Life, vigor, new
ideas, progression have characterized his
work. All honor to him for his patriotic
administration
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
CONFLICTING STATEMENTS,

From the Philadelphia Press
Some people," said the earnest seeker
after knowledge, ARE saying that YOU
made most of your money in politics.
well, but there are Others" replied the
machine leader, who are saying that 1
made most of my money out Of politics
So who are you going to believer
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
REFLECTIONS OF A sAcHEl

From the New York Press.
A womans remarks are either t,
or catful
There wouldn't be much fun in gam
if you could afford it,
Men could be lots more religious
weren't for the plumbing,
II men didn't insist on eating
wives coald have lots more furs
teUals.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

Pensacola Journal: And even John Wes-
ley Gaines wouldn't stand for being called
a liar. The people will some day learn
that 1.-THE lie is something native-born
southern man will always resent, whether
it be uttered on the street, in the church,
or even in the United States Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

Chattanooga Times: A paragraph is 60
the rounds to the effect that Nashville
ministers have declared Shakespeare's
dramas immoral. The story is untrue.
Nashville ministers have been very chary
OF dalying with the drama since GER
tain episode once in which Emma Abbott
fiRnrad
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

E. H. Hartman controls railroads
capitalized at two billions, but he gets
sick like common folks, and some day
he will go off the hook, and he VIII not
be able to take foot of track with
him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

The iceman knows now the price of
ice will have to be doubled next sum-
mer because this is a mild winter. His
logic does not fit the south naturally,
but he will force a fit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

Richmond Times-D Dispatch: Mrs. Lang
trys newest name is Lady de Battle.
Sponge or immunity?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

The Cars new poem has a sombre tint
You could hardly expect him to stay
where he is and be cheer up poet
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

Mr.. Bryan's lecture talk is not cheap
talk, commanding as it does a rate of
$500 per installment, but most of his con-
versation is as free as air
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

The telephone girl in France does
not say "hello." She says "J'econte,"
which means as much.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

Five eggs were thrown at a bur
lesquer the other night from the gal
lery and every one hit him. The boy
who did the throwing is being watched
by baseball fans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

uncle Joe" Cannon, who knows
how to manipulate the screws is up to
his old tricks again.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

PA" Gilman has two more daugh
tiers, and the other Pittsburg million.
aires need not despair.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

Raisuli will soon be where he put
Pericardis, and he will see how things
look from that point of view.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
PUBLIC SPIRIT,

The man who dearly loves his town
Is often off his base
And can't conceive how folks can live
In any other place.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

Japan consumes five hundred tons
of whale meat a month, and this may
be what makes them spout in all parts
of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

One advantage Of being an arctic
explorer is that one can pick up tidy
sum on the side as lecturer
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15

Mayor Mcclellan wants Caruso's
monkey house abolished, but he should
await the recount before he tears down
one of New York's famous structures.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-15
TWO OLD CRONIES.

From the Washington Herald.
1t is the exception rather than the rule,
for senator's from the same state to be
wan personal friends. The most notable
exception of this kind is found in Ala
bama's representation in the upper cham
Der. Messrs Morgan and Pettus are in
variably pointed out to gallery visitors
as the two oldest. senators in point of
years, but 1t does not seem to be gener-
ally known that for more than fifty
years they have been almost like Damon
and Pythias. The home of each is at
Selma, another unusual variation from
the rule generally pertaining to the cleo
ton of senators, and they have practiced
law in the same courts, nearly always on
opposite sides, since long before the civil
war, in which both won distinction. Each
Watches the health of the other now with
interest that is genuine and that has
ouch . hos. Their shadows are
ard the east, but they
So eceding sun with steady
unafraid. Their sue
nate already have been
eople of Alabama, who
ons have followed the
two fine old survivors
he men think was bet
pite of their advanced
mbers of the Senate
4 legislation than they
majors are more regu-
They think together
s, vote together. And
Merry jokes together
ther men half their