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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
4 light heart lives long.
 -Love's Labor Lost.
Minneseta's Ore Tied Up

The entire Mesaba and Vermillion ore mining districts in Minnesota are tied up by strikes among the 22,0Oo men employed as dockmen at the lake ports or in the mines themselves. The tie-up is complete, although the West ern Federation of Miners controls but 25 per cent of the Mesaba range min CTS. The dockmen's strike rendered, however, a general tie-up inevitable. The dockmen led the way, and the miners fell into line. Both want bet ter pay and an eight-hour day, and no one at present sees a way to a settle ment of the strike.
 The effect of the strike will soon be severely felt, for every four days cuts off a million tons from the aggre- gate of 42,O0O,0O0 tons of ore that the season had been expected to supply If the strike be not speedily settled the blowing out of furnaces will be begun, and the great scale of pig iron production will be lowered.
 Already there are more inquiries for pig iron, and a prolonged strife in the Lake Superior districts must re- suit in frmer prices for iron, and this district is in a position to reap any benefit that arises in that direction Every day of tie-up in the Mesaba and Vermillion ranges means an in creased demand for Red mountain ores and Alabama pig iron.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
Bamboo Raising in Canebrakes

Canebrake Alabama pay yet be- come one of the bamboo centers of th. country. -The government is pre- pairing to import from Japan 5000 bamboo plants to be transplanted in the canebrake sections of the gulf states. The process of starting the bamboo industry in this country will not be speedy, for after the plants are placed in our soil they will not ma ture in less than four years. We have in Alabama rich alluvial cane brake sections subject to overfows, and in those sections bamboo is ex- pecLed to thrive.
 Japan is the bamboo country of the world. In that country the plant gen erally becomes four or five inches in ulameter and hollow. It's wall is q out an inch thick, and that wall is so stout that it is used, after being split, and flattened, for building pur-
 
 poses and in the making of furniture, screens, barrels, and even paper. It is grown as a rule upon land of little value, and the cost of raising 1t is small, An acre of bamboo readily yields from $50 to $50.
 MT. Fairchild of the agricultural department Is seeking offers of lands for the purpose of starting bamboo nurseries in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Wherever cane will grow bamboo can be produced. The gov. ernment seeks inexpensive lands, upon which it can grow plants for the use of those who will engage in the bamboo industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
Another IrrepressibIe Conflict

The civil war struggle was preceded by an agitation that became active wien the Missouri compromise bill was passed in 1920. From the pass age of that measure hostile influences were set at work alike in the north and in the south. and in 1860 the sub ject was ripe for settlement by the sword. A settlement in any other way had become impossible. And yet in those forty years of agitation the agitators were more frequently voted down than up. The republican party was not organized until 1856, but when it was organized events were rapidly hastening to crisis.
 Let no one imagine that the issue of 1860 is the only great issue this country is to know. It has one today that affects every person in 1t deeply .-the issue that MT. Bryan calls pri- vate monopoly. and that the masses know as the trusts" The trusts were induced by the Dingley tariff to build up monopolies until competition as 1t existed fifty years ago became in scores of industries unknown. The tide was turned and today we are in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
THE PASTORS DAUGHTER.

By George P. Morris. An ivy-mantled cottage smiled,
 Deep-wooded near a streamlets side, Where dwelt the village pastors child, In all her maiden bloom and pride. Proud su1tors paid their court and duty To this romantic sylvan beauty; Yet none of all the swains who sought
 her,
 Was worthy of the pastors daughter. The town gallants cross'd hill and
 plain,
 To seek the groves of her retreat, And many follow'd in her train,
 To lay their riches at her feet. But still, for all their arts so wary, From home they could not lure the
 fairy.
 A maid without a heart, they thought
 her,
 And so they left the pastors daughter. One balmy eve In dewy spring
 A bard became her fathers guest; He struck his harp, and every string To love vibrated in her breast. With that true faith which cannot falter,
 And faithful was the heart he brought To wedlock and the pastors daughter. How seldom learn the worldly gay,
 With all their sophistry and art The sweet and gentle primrose way To womans fond devoted heart; They seek, but never find the treasure, Although reveard in jet and azure. To tn em, like truth in wells of water, A fable Is the pastors daughter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
The Fruit Trust.

"If were to be asked what Is the most powerful and most perfectly organized of all the trusts and combines in the coun- try. I would answer, the fruit trust" said a business man.
 "Why, you may talk about your beef trusts and armor plate trusts, but they are as nothing to the banana trust Go to any fruit stand in any part of this city or any city in the United States and you will find exactly the same conditions pre- vail. Do you know that bunch of ba- nanas at the wharf in Mobile costs about 30 cents and contains about thirty or forty dozen bananas? These are retaied by the combine at 15 and 20 cents a dozen, which means a net profit of nearly S5 on a bunch.
 But it Is even worse with home grown fruit. A farmer comes to town with a few bushels of peaches or baskets of grapes He sells them to the fruit stand on the corner for 40 cents a bushel and the public pays cents for two peaches, and In the same proportion for grapes,
 T know a man who has gone into the fruit raising business in this county and has made a success of 1t so far as raising fruit goes. but by the time he hauls it to town over bad roads and prevails upon the owners of the stands to buy it, the busi- ness hardly pays expenses.
 'The fruit business Is a monopoly of the worst type. If I don't take what's of fered mo at one stand I can go to an- other to find the conditions and prices exactly similar. So Independent are these fruit sellers that they don't take the trou- be even to be polite to their patrons. In country like this fruit should be one of the cheapest articles sold and at this time of the year should constitute large part of our daily food but the combine serves to keep the supply small and the prices high"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
Father O'ReiIIy
country.

The monument to Father O'Reilly, the beloved priest, who died three years ago today, will be unveiled this afternoon, and as his life was con- spicuous for manifold deeds in behalf of the needy, regardless of creed, race or condition, the occasion will be at once impressive and inspiring. Father O'Reilly was not only a faithful priest, but he was a large-hearted, re- sourceful citizen and seemed never so happy as when doing something for the amelioration of the poor and suffering.
 It was through Father O1Reilly's un- tiring efforts that the sisters of char ity were induced to build St. Vincent's hospital at a cost of over $200,000, and that they maintained it in the first years of it's operation, when 1t was hard to meet current expenses. Later Father O'Reilly established a home for orphans at East Lake. These two institutions, both of them non sectarian, will ever stand as monu- ments to his zeal and charity.
 Birmingham has outgrown its hos pital accommodations and the sisters are desirous of adding a wing to St. Vincent's to cost $50,000. There is pressing demand for this addition right now and a movement is already under way to raise by popular sub scription the necessary amount. Near ly $10,000 has been pledged already and it should not be long before the full amount is subscribed St. Vim cents has done a vast deal of charity work and the sisters will continue to take charity patients, notwithstanding the fact that the county maintains q hospital exclusively for the benfit of those unable to pay for medical and surgical treatment.
 In the addresses at the unveiling of the O'Reilly statue this evening the priests work in connection with St Vincent's will be tenderly reviewed and a prompt and generous response to the fund being raised for building the wing should follow. Certain it is that Father O'Reilly's memory could be no more fittingly cherished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28

a revolution that aims to restore com petition and to destroy private monop- oly.
 The Sherman antitrust act was passed in July, 1890, seventeen years ago. The war against monopoly may be said to have been begun when that act was passed, and progress has marked it's course ever since. It will go on to a elimination, and that cul- imitation will be either the establish ment of a ruling plutocracy or else in the destruction of private monopoly. There will be no compromise in this irrepressible conflict The one result or the other will be reached, but that result will probably come genera ton hence. The problem is more in- tricate and insinuating than that in- volved in the civil war, and it cannot be sooner worked out. It is economic and it may not involve bloodshed, but + is a contest between two irrecon- ciliable forces-monopoly and open competition. The revolution may show concessions, but they will be of brief duration. Either the mag mates or the masses will rule this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
JURY TRIALS IN GERMANY.

From the Denver Republican
 The trial of Karl Hau. formerly pro- lessor of Roman law in the George Washington university, Washington, D. C., on a murder charge in Germany, the method of conducting such trials in Germany and in this country
 In the course of the trial In question it took but 10 minutes to secure Jury, Subsequently the defendant was sub 1ected to searching examination by the presiding judge. who brought out the dama ging effect of the defendants refusal to answer certain questions, and drew differences from the provision in the will left by Mrs Hau-who died by suicide last month-that her daughter should take some other name than that of her father
 In an American trial the defendant would not be compelled to take the wit ness stand at all and, while If he were to do so he would be crosse examined. comment upon his refusal to answer questions would be confined-at least. as rule-to counsel for either the prosecution or the defence.
 In all probability the provision in the wifes will would not be admitted in evidence in an American trial, being at most only an expression of the opinion of the author of the will. This expres- sion of opinion itself can be arrived at only through differences such as the presiding judge drew.
 The theory of Anglo-Saxon law that every man Is innocent until he Is proved guilty, may be wide of the truth in a majority of cases where men are charged with crime; for, as a matter of Judicial proceedings few men are brought to trial for offences with which they have had nothing whatever to do Nevertheless, the protection of the real ly innocent is a consideration of such high importance that men of the Anglo Saxon race will hardly set aside this theory, even though 1t be shown that under It many guilty persons escape the punishment they deserve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
Attractive Exposition,

T endorse every word of c. B. Ryan s interview on the Jamestown exposition which appeared in the Hotel Lobbies' column last Friday" said Major E. T Taliaferro.
 T spent several days at the exposition and was greatly interested in what I saw It is splendid show, mo matter what knockers may have said. Several feat ures, notably the history buiInng and the Smithsonian exhibit are of surpassing in- terest and educative value. The exposi- ton architecture is certainly ahead of any thing of the kind yet seen. No intel llgent, receptive man or woman who visits the show, now that 1t is finished, can fail to be delighted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
LITERARY NOTE.

A new book is to be published shortly by the Rev. R. J. Campbell, whose re- cent work 'The New Theology" has resulted in making his name perhaps more widely known than thats of any other preacher of the day. The new vol ume will contain a number of MT. Camp bells sermons at the City Temple in London which were the prime cause of the theological storm that has waged for the past six months in England and America. I connection with the con troversy which Mir. Campbell's book has aroused. it is interesting to note that a writer in The North American Review, Mir Charles Johnston has reviewed The New Theology" in connection with Sir Oliver Lodges new book. ''The Substance of Faith,' for the purpose of showing that the conclusions of the New The oiogy and of the New Science are iden- teal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
THE DAY OF THE FARMER.
Comic Paper Glbes at the Filler of the
 Soil Are Little In Vogue Now.

From the World Today.
 The farmer who Is not an amateur is a really increasing factor in today's life. In fact, farming is rapidly becoming one of the professions. We have our agricul- tural schools, just as we have our law schools.
 It is getting to be a business as well. Farmers have their trusts, like other manufacturers.
 It is a far cry from the New England farmer, trying to arrange an exploded granite quarry into a stone wall that he may have room in which to plant his crop, and that master of capital, science and black earth ten feet deep who blows with a traction engine and reaps with a 10-horse team. And between these two types of farmers the drift Is steadily to- ward the latter.
 The comic paper does not laugh at the granger" as frequently as 1t used to laugh It wants his subscription.
 The capitalist does not foreclose mort gages on the prairie farm now. He bcr- rows money of It's owner.
 And. what is vastly more important, the entire country looks with respect bordering upon apprehension on this new type of American who has decided views on railroads, trusts and. in fact on every subject from the green bug" to the lec- turer at his chautauqua. This rise of the farmer into national significance Is vel come in view of the innundation of great cities by immigrants who have siGnifi- canoe only en masse.
 The farm Is the nursery of individual ism. If you are a cliff dweller in the city send your boy there this summer, and let him see what 1t means to create wealth with the help of nature rather than with the ticker. You will help make him better American.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
NEW VEGETABLE IVORY

bloom these insects will follow and hoves about him for several days.
 The group of flowers produce a large, roundish fruit from to 12 inches in di- ameter, and weighing when ripe about twenty-five pounds It is covered by a hard, woody coat, everywhere embossed with conteal angular tubercles, and is composed of six or seven portions, each containing from six to nine seeds. These seeds, when ripe, are pure white. free from veins. dots and vessels of any kind, presenting a perfect uniformity of text ure and surpassing the finest animal ivory, and it's substance is throughout so hard that the slightest streaks from the turning lathe are unobservable. It looks very much more like an animal than a vegetable product, but close compari- son will enable one to distinguish 1t from the ivory of the elephant by it's bright ness, but chiefly by it's minute cellular structure
 This curious hard material is the store of food laid up by the plant for the nour- ishment of the embryo or young plant contained in the seed.
 It corresponds 10 the white of the egg of hen and is called the albumen of the seed. In its early condition this ivory exists as a clear, insipid fuid which is often drunk by travellers to allay thirst Afterward the liquor becomes sweet and milky and In this state it Is greedily de- voured by bears, hogs and turkeys. It then gradually becomes hard and what Is most curious of all is that this hard mess again returns to it's former soft state in the process of germination.
 The young plant is dependent upon 1t for some time for food, and If the seed be taken out of the ground after the plant has appeared 1t will be found to be filled with substance half pulp and half milk, on which the plant lives until it is old enough to obtain it's food on it's own account.
 From the small size of the seed-the largest not being more than two inches across It's greatest diameter-the vegetable ivory can be employed in the manufac- ture of small articles only, such as beads, buttons and toys. What Is wanting Tn size is often made up In the and ingenuity of the workmen, who joint together seV- when 1t Is easy to hide the joints from view, or make a lid from one reed and a box from another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
The Habits of Men.

q notice a very marked change in the men one meets in the midnight hour and after and those that throng the streets earlier in the evening" said night watchman.
 "There seems to be something about the night worker to make him more serious than the more fortunate man who goes toward home as the shadows fall. You don't hear any loud laughs, no great noise of buzzing conversation even in groups at corners, awaiting cars. Any way its part of the life of city that many men are abroad until the wee sma' hours and not all are newspaper men, to be sure"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
E TOT the Denver Post.

F TOT the Denver Post
 N7o settle an argument will you 9 please state what is vegetable
 ivory, and is it made from the potato?
 Answer-The products of the animal and those of the vegetable kingdom are so different that even the most careless ob- server Is expected to distinguish them at once. Yet there are thousands of articles in daily use which are made from the vegetable ivory and pass for the product of the elephants tusk.
 The ivory plant is a native of the north ern region of South America, extending northward just across the Isthmus of Panama, and the peculiar thing about the ivory plant is that it banishes all other vegetation from the soil in which it grows.
 It has the appearance of a stemless palm, and consists of a graceful crown of leaves 10 feet long, of a delicate pale green color, and divided like the plume . of a feather into from 20 to 50 pairs of long, narrow leaflets.
 The ivory plant is not, however, really ShCluicSSi put lliS WeiSHl ol luo lOlldke and the fruit is too great for the slender trunk, and pulls 1t down, where it is seen like a great exposed root stretching for a length of nearly 20 feet among the old plants.
 The new leaves of the ivory plant are employed by the Indians to cover the roofs of their cottages.
 Each flower of the ivory plant does not contain stamens and plstils, as in most British plants, but, like our willows, one tree produces only stamen flowers, while another produces only pistils. Such plants are said by botanists to be doecious. Both kinds of the plants of the vegetable ivory have the same appearance, and dif- fer only In the form and the arrangement of the flowers. In one kind an innumera- ble quantity of stamen flowers is borne on cylindrical axis, four feet long. while in the other a few pistilate flowers spring from the end of the flower stalk. Each plant bears several heads of flow CTS
 The fragrance of the flowers is said to excel that of any other plant, and to be very delicious and so diffuse that the air for many miles around is alive with my riads of annoying insects After a trav- eler has been in the vicinity of the ivory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Saloon Regulation.

T think the idea I heard advanced to- day by a man who has studied the ques- ton closely a most excellent one" said member of the police board.
 "It is that the license of saloons be rais- ed only sufficient to cover the expense of putting into operation a system of saloon inspection. There is to be a capable in spector to be elected by the board of all dermen, who is to be under the control and direction of the mayor The police commission Is to appoint many saloon officers are required for places that are not orderly or where men consregate or loiter the expense of this office to be paid for out of the increased license paid by the saloon. The inspector Is to visit all the saloons deemed needful of inspection. He with the mayors sanction, can move a saloon officer at any time from one sa- loon to another. This officer is to see that there is no disorder. He is to remove intoxicated persons and see that men who are vicious and are drinking are not served, and that there Is no lettering in front or any obscene language used in the saloon, or on the immediate outside. z If such a step as this is taken with the additional proviso that no dive is to be licensed, at any cost, with the early closing law, there will be no further har- assing of saloon men, less complaint, no repetition of the dastardly crime of a few days ago, and Birmingham can go on to her destiny of a great, prosperous, peace fu1 citvf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
Jamestown as 1t Stands Today

The habit of talking down the Jamestown exposition has run it's course, and all well-informed persons are now talking it up, for it stands to- day the most beautiful national ex. hibit that the country has ever known. The buildings, now complete, are beautiful, and they look out on blue waters that fairly reek with histori- cal associations. Within sight the cpochal battle between the Merrimac and the Monitor was fought. Near by is Yorktown, and just across the James river is the peninsula that Is dotted with the triumphant battles of Robert D. Lee. The Virginia build. ing on the exposition grounds is crowded with historical objects of in- terest. Students, and particularly young men, should visit the exposition
 
 But there are other exhibits of value and interest, especially to the people in this district. The mineral exhibits from Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia have never been equalled in this country. The govern ment has dealt generously with James, town, and 1t is today completing a pier that will cost over $400,000. On the War Path are manifold attractions for the multitude, and altogether the exposition stands today splendid and entrancingly beautiful represen- tation of our national wealth and re- sources. The blue waters are full of battleships from many nations, all filled with ideas of latest design and construction, and all well worth a trip to the waters of Hampton Roads.
 The long and short of the matter Is, General Manager Barr has lifted the exposition out of the rut into which it had fallen, and the tide of vacation seekers should be turned towards Jamestown, for rates are low, and nowhere else can so much of interest and beauty be so conveniently seen and studied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
GOOD THING, TOO.

From the Boston Transcript.
 It was a Texts man who, when ap- pealed to by a new arrival as to the advisa bility of carrying pistol, re- piled: Well, you moughtn't want 1t for a week, or you moughten't ever want 1t. but when you did want it. you'd want 1t mighty sudden" Yet a law has just gone into effect in that state imposing a tax of 50 per cent on the gross earnings of the whole busi- ness of all who sell revolvers. This is discouraging native industry with a vengeance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28
A PULL WITHOUT PAY.

From the Saturday Evening Post.
 A San Francisco dentist went to luncn- con one day lately and sat at a big ahle with a dozen of his friends He was si- lent and sad.
 What's the matter?" asked somebody. Why, I've had an ulcerated tooth. and yesterday 1t got so bad I had to pull 1t myself"
 Didn't you get relief"
 "Oh. yes"
 Then why this grouch?"
 why this grouch? Because you idiot I once got $500 for treating a tooth just like that"