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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-28
DISTRIBUTING Rockefeller Money

DR.. Buttrick's general education
board, holding $43,o0o,oOO of Rookie
Teller money, from which it secures an
annual income Of s1,600,000, has begun
to scatter it's largesses. 1t has just
handed over to FIVE colleges $625,000.
M this sum the south gets $4,000, or
4 per cent. The west gets $4,000, and
DIR Butricks beloved east gets the
balance.
There Ia a string tied to all Rookie
Teller donations, as there is to all Car
negie gifts outside of Pittsburg. And
It appears that DR.. Buttrick's state
ment that only the rich need expect
large gifts from the general education
hoard. because only the rich east can
meet the onerous conditions imposed
by the board. To him that hath much
shall be given.
If the recent donations are an index
of gifts to come, the south will get 4
per cent and the west s per cent, leav-
ing s8 per cent to be distributed each
year in the effete and engorged east.
DR.. Buttrick seems to think these
proportions are equitable. and as he
is the general manager and distributor
of the board what he says goes
whether 1t be promising or unpromis-
ing, favorable or unfavorable. More
than per cent of the money was
drawn from the south, but 1t is plain
that the east Is to secure the lions
share Of the money.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-28
MONASTERY BELLS.

Alfred Austin, poet laureate of England,
in The Independent.
Sometimes when, weary, the sad soul
rebels
Against the strife and discord all around,
One seems to catch the faint and far-ofr
sound
OF melody that softly sings and swells.
1t is the sound of Monastery Bells
In solitudes by sanctuary crowned,
From meditation peaceful and profound
Calling grave Friars to prayer from
silent cells.
Then yearningly one Graves to have re-
lease
From the worlds rivalries and worthless
prize,
To find some spot where Glory's selfish
signs
And struggles endles tribulations cease,
To Join in vesper chant as sunset dies,
And pass life's evening in monastic peace
But when resound, as day dawns dim and
drear,
Meanings of anguish. sobbngs of dis
treSS,
From hearthless homes of famshed lone
illness,
with none to rescue, nothing to revere,
Again one feels one still is wanted here,
To aid, admonish, comfort and caress.
Smooth the hard pillow pallid sufferers
press,
stanch the fresh wound, and wipe away
the tear.
So, the one longs as ever to depart.
And to gross sounds ana signs live deaf
and blind
Sorrowing one stays with sorrow, still re-
signed
To work. unhired, amid life's hireling
mart,
To cherish in the crowd of monastic mind.
And in a world profane clustered heart.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Get Increased Pay.

The clerks and carriers connected with
the Birmingham postoffice are very much
eiated over the passage by Congress of
the clause in the general appropriations
bill providing for an increase in the sal
aries of such employees" said L. p. Smith,
a member of the local Postal Employees
association and clerk in the Birmingham
postoffice, yesterday The increase will
affect clerks and carriers all over the
country and will be in effect July 1. Great
pressure was brought to bear on Congress
from all sections of the United States
to make the increase.
with increased pay the postal service
can be made much more efficient, as bet
ter men will be satisfied to remain in the
service. 1t is estimated by First Assist
ant Postmaster General Frank II. Hitch
cock that the increase will affect 1880
clerks and 24227 carriers throughout the
country. The increase in the aggregate
will amount to nearly "A, 100000 a year,
which will add materially to the pay of
the individuals"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-28

prohibited, and the books Of all cor
porations are made subject TO inspee-
tion at all times.
A commission is appointed to nego.
tiate the purchase of the segregated
mineral lands in Indian Territory
valued at many millions of dollars
and state ownership and operation of
the coal mines thereon is contem
platd.
The legal rate of interest is fixed
at per cent and the contract rate at
10 per cent.
A compulsory and separate school
system is established,
Commissions are created on labor
and arbitration, charities. insurance,
railroads, agriculture, oil, gas and
mines.
These provisions are progressive.
They belong to the advanced school,
and the new state will come into the
union uncrippled by any notions of a
dead past. The forty-sixth state will
be imbued with the latest ideas CON
corning education, railroad regulation
and the liquor problem, and every
thing that can be submitted to the
people will go to them for final de-
cision Instead Of working up to real
popular government by slow and
doubtful steps Oklahoma will burst
forth in full democratic blossom from
the outset.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-28
Wall Streets Nervousness

Wall-street prices are carried up
apparently IS readily as they are car
ried down, and the great American
public is beginning to disregard the
operations of the scrambling, combin-
ing, warning capitalists. The people
do not care who controls Union Pa
cific or any other road, and the grand
stand plays of the Erie and the Penn
sylvania in relation TO extensions and
improvements are regarded as efforts
to prevent pending legislation.
1t is very possible that the latest
slump in Wall street was devised to
induce Secretary Cortelyou to come to
the relief of its spectators in the mat
ter of money. If so, it was eminently
successful, for the Secretary, who col
lected in 1904 from Wall street a vast
slush fund proceeded on Tuesday to
dump into Wall street banks $4,000
600 of customs receipts and to prepay
April interest on government bonds
to the extent of 100000, and to ac-
cept as security for bank deposits
whatever classes of bonds the savings
banks of New York or Massachusetts
accept.
ai bounded and flaV
may continue to go up until new com
binations are formed, or until Wall
street decides to hold up Mr. Cortel-
you until he again turns his pockets
inside out 1t will be observed that Mr..
Cortelyou deposits no money where it
can be used to make crops He does
not deposit dollar except in banks
that loan money to spectators in Wall
street.
The speculative element wants two
things, namely, more money, and it
also wants to scare the people out of
their determination to regulate the
railroads. It is proceeding from day
to day with these two objects in view.
The Springfield Republican quotes one
broker, as follows: "The corporation
monarchs and kings of finance have
begun the fight early for Rooseyelt's
scalp. They do not only want his
scalp. but purpose to pillage his camp
and lay waste his policy, leaving such
2 wreck that his successor, be he denf-
ocrat or republican, will not dare to
think even of following in his foot
steps"
1t is reasonably safe to attribute the
violent ups and downs in Wall street
to three things--to warning combina-
tions seeking control of this or that
railroad; the procuring of more gov
arnmental aid, and the buldozing of
public sentiment as a preliminary of
1908. The entire thing is artificial,
for it leads to no failures, and does not
affect the general business interests
of the country. 1t is, in short, a game
by Wall street, of Wall street, for Wall
street, and that is all there is of it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-28
An Up.to-Date Constitution

The Oklahoma constitution has been
completed, and in August 1t will be
submitted to the people of the pro-
posed new state, and in December
Oklahoma will no doubt be ready to
become in every respect No. 46, for
between August and December the
President is authorized to issue a proc
lamation declaring the two territories
a state. The President can disap-
prove the new constitution, but such
action on his part would be arbitrary
and almost unprecedented.
The distinctive features of the new
constitution are summarized by the
Jackson Clarion-Ledger, as follows:
Succession in state Offices is pro-
hibited.
The convention declared for the
election of United States Senators by
the people.
The initiative and referendum idea
was adopted, patterned after the Ore
gon law.
Constitutional prohibition was adopt.
ed, which not only prohibits the sale
but the introduction of liquors into
the state.
The enabling act provides that the
Indian Territory must accept prohibi-
tion for twenty-one years.
Provision is made for a state rail
way commission, to be elective, and a
9-cent passenger fare is ordered.
The issuance Of watered stock is
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-28
INCREASING POPULATION
From the New York Sun

From the New York Sun
EVENLY million persons, say sta
"H tistlcans, can find room in the
- state of Texas. Its present pop
ulation is but 100000. Obviously the
pressing need Of Texas is more popula-
ton Having made up Its mind that i'm
migration is of first Importance. Texas
has started out after It. It has even set
itself a limit of the increase 1t will be
satisfied with. The present limit is 100000
a year, to make total of 5,000,O 900 at the
next federal census in 1910 Then we'll,
it would be like Texas to raise the limit.
The increase of Texas population in the
last census decade was about 1S per cent.
BY natural growth it might fairly be ex-
pected to add 80 per cent in the present
decade, or per cent a year. Three per
cent of 100000 is 10000. leaving 10000
new residents to be secured by special eff
forts for immigration.
An analysis discloses three possible
sources of new population: Residents of
the United States anxious to better their
condition, of which it was easy to COM
pute, there are nearly S0,000,O00; new ar
rivals looking for a place to locate, of
which nearly 100000 are pouring in
through New York Philadelphia and Bos-
ton each year, and people of foreign coun-
tries having the means and the desire to
seek their fortunes in the new world II
they but knew where TO go and what to
do. 1t is not difficult to estimate that this
source also is large.
To reach the native Americans Texas
decided that its opportunities must be
made better known. In other words, 1t
decided to advertise itself. A clause in
the state constitution prohibits the spend
fore the burden had to be borne by indi-
viduals and the railroads. Both have IN
dertalSen the work with a hearty will.
The railroads of Texas, probably be-
cause they realize that they cannot de-
velop faster than their contributary ter
ritory develops, have been especially &C
tive in promoting the state. In fact, the
relations between the railroads and the
people apepar more friendly in the Lone
Star state than elsewhere in the union.
These conditions arc largely due to the
dominance OF B. F. Yoakum of the Rock
Island Frisco system, and its new assoc
ciated roads in the southwest in Texas
railroad affairs Mr.. Yoakum is a native
Texan, with a warm affection for his state
and unbounded faith in its future. The
homeseekers excursions of the system
have been important factors to this end.
They have been widely advertised over a
long period. Their success may be Judged
from the fact that on excursion days as
many as 5000 homeseekers pass through
ST. Louis bound for Texas.
Mr.. Yoakum has organized development
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-28
COLONIAL MANSIONS.
President Roosevelt Will Take Trip
Up the James.

Washington special to the Cincinnati En-
qurer.
President Roosevelt will take advantage
of his trip to the jamestown exposition
ON April &c to make journey up the
historic James river to visit some of the
famous old colonial mansions on Its
banks.
The Sylph. yacht well adapted to navi-
cation on the James, will be used by the
President, who will transfer to the yacht
from the Mayfiower, on which he will
make his trip to the exposition. The
sylph is commanded by Lieutenant R. C.
Bulmer and is of sufficiently shallow
draught to make landings at whatever
point the President may desire to go
ashore Some of his Virginia friends,
familiar with the lore which clusters
around these old places, will accompany
Mr.. Roosevelt to point out the interesting
features
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-28
oHlo'S EXPERIENCE.
Many Failures In Municipal Ownership
Experiment.

Philadelphia Special to Nashville Ameri-
can.
The state of Ohio. which has more mu-
nicipal ownership lighting plants than any
other In the union, also has the record of
more failures in the operations of such
plants tlian any other state. Reports re-
Gently compiled show that in nearly every
instance the cities and towns which estab-
lished their own lighting plants have
either sold them outright to stop the
wasting of the taxpayers money have
leased them with the same object in view.
or are still running them at a loss, which
the taxpayers have to stand.
In many instances the politicians In con-
troll Of the town councils are deceiving
the citizens by reports that the plants are
paying the cost of operation when 1t Is
evident that certain charges In connection
with them are diverted to other sources
of municipal expense. This compes citi-
zens who do not use either municipal
electric or gas light to aid in paying for
what citizens who do get the service
use.
Reports show the failures are due to
Encouragement, political domination and
negligence such as might be expected of
unsNled employees appointed for political
purposes. Toledo, whose plant cost s1637,-
600, interest included sold 1t for $1,000
sustaining los sof s1,5s2, Ooo Xenia in
vested $4,000 In an electric lighting plant
and sold 1t for $500, the citizens being
glad to be rid of 1t at any price, for the
lamps were costing s103 a year. whereas
a private concern is now furnishing the
same light for $40 year per lamp.
The electric lighting plant at Columbus
is notorious failure. The city has al
ready sunk 100000 in It, and now has to
interest $4,000 more or give it up, as the
plant is entirely inadequate. A deplorable
condition exists at Hamilton. The aver
age cost of electric lights per year has
been 1913, while the investment of S765, GOO
in water, gas and electric lighting plant
requires 80 per cent of the city's revenues
to pay the interest, and the tax rate is
now exceedingly high.
South Brooklyn citizens are complain
ing about their plant because it has
NNupiSu eiC tehfNOS. diiu
mouth have sold their plants; Wilmington
has leased its plant to a private con-
Germ Shelby is going heavily in debt
with Its plant Three councilmen of But
Ter resigned because there were so many
complaints about the poor service. Belize
Vile and Monroeville citizens are COM
planning about the excessive cost of run
ming the plant DeGraff, Jackson, Oxford
and Newark are all dissatisfied with the
costs of the plants and the poor services
obtained. Bellefontaine, which has spent
$4,000 In ten years on its plant must
now spend $4,000 in reftting. For the past
ten years the cost of each lamp at Asia
bula has been on an aYerag> of over 500
yearly, very high rate.
The rates at Manchester, Granville,
Greenwich, Greenfield, Lowellville, Mont
peier. New London, oxford, Plain City,
Plymouth st. Paris and Woodfleld are
all a great deal higher than the average
rate charged by private corporations, in
some cases being two and three times as
much.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-28
HOLY WEEK IN EUROPE

far beyond the precincts of the royal
abode.
On this day the emperor and empress
attend divine services at the cathedral
and at its close the kaiser. as on New
Years day, walks, accompanied by all
the princes of his house. and the chief
dignitaries of the army, to the main
guard in order to give the watchword
for the day. Full dress uniform is de
rigueur, not only for every officer, but
likewise for every soldier who shows
himself In public on this day. In the
afternoon Easter eggs are hidden for the
royal younsters and their friends to seek
the Easter egg institution being one of
the old Roman Catholic usages that have
been retained by the Lutherans. For
some reason or other. Easter eggs are
supposed to symbolic the resurrection.
ana at the courts of Madrid. Vienna and
Munich painted and glded eggs are of
fered to the sovereign ut the close Of
the Easter high mass and are then dis
trlbuted by him among the members of
the royal encourage present
until 1870 Easter was celebrated in the
most impressive manner at the court of
the vatican. Shortly after midnight the
entire square in front of ST. Peters would
be thronged by people of every class
of society, from the grandest partricians
down to the humblest contadini or peas
ants The greater part of the papal
army, all its members arrayed in full
dress uniform, were drawn up in the
center and along the coonnade on either
side, and then every one would patiently
wait for daybreak. Just before the sun
appeared on the horizon deep and SOL
emn silence would settle over the i'm
mense assembly, and then the Pope, fol-
lowed by a great retinue of gorgeously
attired prelates, would appear In the log
gia or open gallery above the huge gates
of the cathedral. Stretching his hands
In a sweeping gesture, the Pontiff, crown
ed for the occasion with his jeweed tiara
would. Just as the sun rose, pronounce
in a loud and resonat tone of voice the
blessing "Hendicat vos," and moment
later the cannon of the castle of St. An
gelo would boom forth the Easter morn
salute, while the various military bands
in the square would strike up the tie
Deum," the music being almost drowned
by the reclamation of the crowd.
This impressive ceremony has been
abandoned ever since the establishment
of the capital of the kingdom of Italy
at Rome. Both the late and the pres
ent king of Italy repeatedly have en-
deavored to persuade the court of the
vatican to revive 1t, assuring to the Pom
tff all the manifestations of respect due
to fullfledged sovereign. With the i'm
provement of the friendly relations be-
tween the vatican and the ouirinal, which
has been progressing without interruption
since the succession to the throne of the
present Pontiff, Plus X, there Is a pros
pect that the church may eventually yield
to the wishes of the crown and of the
nation III the matter and that the PontiR
may once more show himself from the
loggia above the great doors of st. Peter
to bless the people as the sun rises on
Easter morn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-28
.PURER BEER NOT WHOLESOME.

From the Philadelphia Record.
THE restrictions which are being en-
forced because of the. pure food law are
having some curious results said we'll
known physician, land although the law
is all right some OF the results are work.
ing against its fundamental pui ,ose,
which is, of course, to preserve the health
Of the people. In the matter of beer,
for instance, it is being found that the
salicylic acid which was put in a good
deal of the beer as a preservative was
really beneficial in the processes of di-
gestion, and now that it is being left
out the beer, when it has not been prop
erly aged is found to be productive of
intestinal disorders. In the end. how
ever. this will work good instead of
harm. as it will result ultimately in laws
requiring the beer to be aged for a GER
tain time before 1t is sold. Some Amer
leans beers are already submitted to this
ageing, and in Germany there is a law
which requires 1t and which 10 strictly
enforced"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-28

companies to provide cheap lands in small
parcels to his homeseekers. has backed
irrigation enterprises to make these lands
quickly available for production and Or
ganized information bureaus in the cities
to guide the footsteps of the uncertain to
Texas And what Mr.. Yoakum has done
the other railroad managers are doing.
Tho peoples share in the promotion of
Texas has been placed In the hands of
the Texas Five Million club of which
John Fl. Kirby, the lumber king of the
state, is the moving spirit. The club is
pledged to make an active fight for the
total of 600 Texans at the next CEN
sus. It's fight is now on A large sum
has been raised by popular subscription,
led by Mr.. Kirby with the gift OF 5000 to
organize a bureau. All inquiries concern
ing work, land, investments or other OPP
portunities are turned into this bureau.
Literature covering the field of the IN
quiry is at once forwarded. followed by
personal letter giving all available infor-
nation and references In the meantime
reference is made to card register sys-
tenn In this all members of the club,
the state, are entered with their require
ments in labor, settlers or investments
and their financial responsibility Notif-
cation of the application IS then forward
ed to all members having corresponding
requirements, SO that the intending new
conner is at once put into direct commun-
ication with those who are best able to
help him.
In the work OF directing the nations
present tide of immigration to the south
west the federal government is soon to
take an active part In 1904 the first small
shipload of European immigrants entered
the United States by way of Galveston.
They were Immediately taken in hand by
the railroads and were soon settled on
farms or provided with suitable work. In
that first year, which ended on June 30,
1908, Galveston received 1917 immigrants
direct. In the following twelve months
there were $40 arrivals. The total so
far is, of course, inconsequential as COM
pared with the total immigration and the
demand, but the authorities believe that
1t can be increased by more general effort.
II is probable that in the next Congress
provision will be made for immigration
stations at both Galveston and New Or
leans, and Secretary Straus of the de-
partment of commerce and labor is on
record as favoring every proper effort
to divert immigration directly to the
south and southwest where 1t is most
needed. The immigration direct to Gal
weston so far has been through one steam
ship line. With the establishment of land
ing facilities Ii is hoped that at least
two more lines Will establish direct Eu-
Galveston service. and others are
planning to reach out at once for this
business.