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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
SOUTHERN WEALTH.

From the Memphis News-Scimitar.
A census bulletin is the basis Oh an
estimate that the true value of property
in the south in 1904 was slo,SSzoV'oVV'
against s12 100000 in 1900. In the iast
two years according to the Manufactures
Record, the increase of wealth has peeh
rapid and the true value" Is now quite
SIS. 900 ,OO0, 900. In the year 1900 the num-
Der of patents issued to southern IN
ventors was 27o1, against 2771 in 1904
and 27ss in 1908. There has been a SINH
liar dlminution in the United states a.
large from 27,ss in 1908 to 1859 in 1904
and 2s.7ss in 1905 This diminution mas
heen wittily explained by assuming that
If necessity is the mother of invention,
prosperity is the father of Incidence, but
the real reason may be in the slow work
ing of the patent office which Is unaer-
manded because they may is insufficient to
attract and keep an adequate force OF
skilled examiners of applications.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02

bama constitution of 1901 is no excep-
ton to the rule.
The quicker the legislative provisions
are weeded out of that constitution the
sooner will the people of this state be
content to live under it. The constitu-
ton makers foresaw all this when they
adopted steps to make the amending
of the organic law easy and feasible,
A three-fifths vote will submit an
amendment, and a majority of the votes
cast upon it will adopt it. No one can
reasonably ask for an easier method
of amending a constitution.
The legislature should keep the con-
stitution in touch with the people, and
in order to do that they should submit
to the people propositions freely, for
the responsibility Of adoption rests, not
upon the legislature, but upon the peo-
pie, and they are the states legitimate
sovereigns and rulers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
The Neqro Problem.

1--WE have been treated to quite a va
| riety of views upon the race problem
within the last few days. said a man
yesterday but 1 cannot find it possible
to agree with any of them in their en-
tirety.
ITO start with it is hardly possible to
get thoroughly impartial expression of
opinion from any of these men who have
discussed the question, Notwithstanding
their desire to rid themselves of prejudice
or partlality. The man who was reared
among the environments that existed
when slavery was factor in the south,
cannot ever completely rid himself OF
the sentiments which he then entertained
towards the negro. His youthful impress
slons are tamped upon the mind, and
he still regards the negro, to certain
extent, as an irresponsible and depend
ent being, who should be cared for as
| valuable ANIMAL not to be harshly
treated or trusted to his own guidance.
IN like manner, the man who thinks
he fought and made sacrifices to liberate
the negro, takes an interest in his protege
commensurate, not with the value of the
negro himself as a person. but rather
in proportion to the sacrifice he made.
AS an illustrate of this feeling, man
will think more of person he saves from
drowning at the risk of his own life than
he would think of the same person had
he not Undergone the danger.
'rhese two are the classes of men who
are attempting to solve the negro problem,
emitting the negro himself, who is least
competent of all, and the solutions pro-
posed do not, as a rule, seem to offer
much prospect of success.
ut is mistaken idea that education
alone is to constitute the solution of the
negro or race problem. 1t is not by run
ming man through the corridors of a
college that he becomes educated. Edu-
cation is as much, or probably more,
matter of character and manner than
mere book learning. Civilization is a
plant of slow growth. 1t has taken the
white man centuries of struggle to reach
the point where he stands today, and it
is too much to expect the negro who
fifty years ago. was little better than his
ancestors on the banks of the Congo,
to reach at a bound what superior
race has taken long years to arrive at.
The negroes reformation must begin With
his manners and morals: after that it is
time enough to talk of college and profess
sons
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
Gov. Hayward Is COMING

1t is fortunate indeed that Governor
Duncan C. Hayward of South Carolina.
as well as Commissioner of Immigra-
tion Watson OF that, state, are to be
present at the convention of the South
ern Cotton association, and will dis
cuss immigration before the delegataes
and the people. Governor Hayward is
an excellent speaker. and both he and
Mr.. Watson have given immigration
careful consideration.
In every part of the south state aid
for the promotion of immigration is II
topic of increasing interest. The de-
cision of Secretary Straus in the Witte-
kind case has wonderfully strengthened
the immigration movement in the
south, for it made plain how it could
be accomplished through state action
Georgia, acting through Commissioner
of Agriculture Hudson. is moving in
this matter. and from that alert state
agents are to be sent to Europe and a
steamship line from the old countries
to Savannah is to be established.
No doubt every other southern state
will meet the problem squarely and
fairly, and the Southern Cotton asso-
citation should formulate an immigra-
ton programme that each and every
state can safely follow. No more inn
portant business will come before the
convention, and not one is more press
ing in point of time and not one has
deeper relation to the prosperity of the
south in the long run.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
REHABILITATION OF oDELL.

From the New York Sun.
Edward H. Hartman, for half a dozen
years described as the hnancial packer
and personal friend of b. B. odell, Jr.,
of Newburg, formerly republican state
chairman and governor of the state, Is
reported to have said only few days ago
to a republican United States Senator
'rll spend s1o,ooo,ooo to rehabilitate
-Odell''
Following quick upon this story land it
comes from a source entirely responsibility
was the news last night that Mr.. Odell
is to leave Newburg for the rest of the
winter and take up his residence at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel3 Mr.. odell has en-
gagged apartments at the hotel which he
will occupy with his wife and daughter
for several months. He is expected at
the hotel the day after Christmas. Mr..
Odell usually has put up at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel when in town on business
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
"Draw 1t MIDI

A student and observer of Birmingham
said:
1.-THE ancient Romans had a famous
proverb, Fas esk alb haste doceri.' that
is 1t is right to be taught by an enemy
If they had not followed this principle
they would never have conqured, absorbed
and assmilated the rest of the world
civilian L. Marcy was a very decided
and determined democrat, an able and
accomplished acknowledgements of New
York, Secretary of War under Polk, and
Secretary of State under Pierce. Pro
nounced democrat though he was, Mr.
Roosevelt might learn something from
his example. Mr.. Roosevelt has distin-
guished himself as a great paeifieator
among the nations, but he somehow man.
ages to keep on hand miscellaneous and
assorted stocks of personal quarrels, and
in these manifold disputes he frequently
uses language which resembles that Of
Bllingsgate, where they sell the best
fish and speak the plainest English
"That brilliant writer James Parton,
in his Life of Andrew Jackson, says
of his hero that he had the capacity to
extract from any given subject all the
contention that it could possibly be made
to afford From some of Mr.. Roosevelts
writings one would suppose that he held
no very high opinion of Andrew Jackson,
but It is quite evident that he can initiate
him upon occasion.
"But to return to Mr.. Marcy, when
he was Secretary of War he had con-
troverslal correspondence with General
Scott, who was then in command of the
army, and IN this correspondence the fa-
NOUS general came off second best In
the course of the controversy, Mr.. Marcy
had occasion to deny some of the state
ments of General Scott. but he was not.
disposed to give the lie direct or afro
eious, or circumstantial, or deliberate
to the commanding general of the army,
and so he invented for the occasion one
of the neatest euphemisms / ever saw or
heard ] quote from memory:
Such statements about matters With
which you must be presumed to be fami-
liar can scarcely be reeonciled with any
desire to be accurate. 1t was a terribly
hard blow. but the hand of the smiter
was gloved in the softest kid, and the
blow was none the less effective ON &C
count of the gloves. Mr. Roosevelt may
well learn lesson from this decided, but
mild-mannered democrat"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
Third Term Movements

In Chicago a Roosevelt third term
national league has been organized,
and it is proceeding to scatter its lit
erature over the entire land. The pres
ident of the Chicago movement says
Theodore Roosevelt is the only man
the people can trust. His name is Ed
ward A. Horner. and he comes from
Leadville, Col.
But this voice from the wild and
woolly west is not peculiar or lone
some. There are other third-term
voices. For example, Charles G. Gates,
son of John w. Gates, while stopping
lii New Orleans last week, freely ex-
pressed the opinion to a reporter of the
New Orleans Times Democrat that Mr..
Roosevelt would be renominated. "Wall
street" he said, "has agreed that Pres
ident Roosevelt shall be nominated By
reclamation for the third term. This
is the opinion have formed after hear
ing expressions from some of the lead
ing financers of the country, and who
two years ago were saying some hard
things about the President They seem
to have changed their minds now, and
are anxious that Mr.. Roosevelt be the
next President on account of his fore
sight. believe that the financial in
terests regard him as a safe man, that
he should be placed in the great office,
and they are going to do their utmost
to persuade him that it is his patriotic
duty TO accept the nomination."
AS we approach 1908 Fairbanks and
Root and Shaw and even Taft, in the
eyes of many, fade away, and Theodore
Roosevelt looms up in the republican
camp. His denomination is reasonably
well assured, but the election of u
third-termer in violation of all prece-
dent and in violation of his own con-
victions publicly expressed is quite an
other thing. While he would stand on
a democratic platform in many re-
spects, yet he is a practical standpat-
ter, and between Dingleyism and third
termism Ii ought not to be difficult to
elect next year William Jennings
Bryan with good southern running
mate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
Pistol Totina.

"Withn the last few weeks we have
had pretty conclusive evidence that pistol
totng has not been wiped out" said a
citizen, and L doubt If it can be.
''Thly matter was referred TO by Colonel
Bush In his speech introducing Booker
T. Washing and he said he hoped the
next legislature would take some action
on It, The question Is, what action will
the legislature take? We have laws now
prohibiting the carrying of concealed
weapons; our police court judge imposes
the extreme penalty In all convictions and
yet we find storekeeper shot dead in
his store because he tried to prevent a
negro helping himself to some of the
goods exposed for sale, and hardly a day
passes without, some one being shot on
account of some trivial affair.
~ have no hesitation in saying that
l believe the laws as they exist now
place the good and peaceable citizens at
the mercy of the thug and ruffian. My
business takes me across town at all
hours of the night, and I must either
violate the law to protect myself or else
run the risk of being held up and robbed
and beaten to death.
when doctor is called out at night
to visit a patient, he is taking chances
to lose his life If he goes unarmed, and
his liberty If he goes armed. Being a
law-abding citizen and not familist with
the purlieus of the city where police are
seldom to be seen, he is an easy victim
for the robber who feels safe where the
citizen feels unsafe,
II hope the Legislature will grapple with
this subject, and either make the act
of carrying concealed weapons life SEN
tence in Jail or else repeal the law al
together and let every man protect him
self
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
Amending The Constitution

In his american Commonwealth
Mr.. Bryce shows that the average state
constitution contains a great deal OF
legislation that does not rise to con
stitutional dignity. Some of it was
placed in the constitution so that it
could not be upset by passing wave
of public sentiment; some of it was
inserted by those who had things up
their sleeves, and some of 1t springs
from heedlessness and incapacity. Gen,
eral governmental principles and mere
Legislation jostle each other in state
constitution as a rule. and the Ala
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
The Vampire.

BY Rudyard Kipling.
A fool there was and he made his prayer
Given as you and ID
To rag and homeland hank of hair
eve called her the woman who did not
care),
But the fool, he called her his lady fair.
Gwen as you and ID
Oh the years we waste and the tears
we waste,
And the work Of our head and hand
Belong to the woman who did not know
(And now we know that she never could
know
And did not understand.
A fool there was and his goods he spent
Gwen as you and ~
Honor and faith and sure intent
(And It wasn't the least what the lady
meant,
But fool must follow his natural bent.
Gwen as you and ID
Oh, the toll we lost and the spoil We
lost
And the excellent things we planned
Belong to the woman who didn't know
why
(And now we know she never knew why)
And did not understand.
The fool was stripped to his foolish
hide
Gwen as you and ID
Which she might have seen when she
threw him aside
(But it isn't on record the lady tried
So some of him lived. but the most OF
him died
Gwen as you and ID
And it isn't the shame and it isn't the
blame
That stings like white hot brand
It's coming to know that she never knew
why
Seeing at last she could never know
WHY
And never could undersand
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
PRESS POINTS

Pensacola Journal: When Yardaman
goes to the senate he will miss the excite
ment of those little hurried trips" with
the soldiers of Mississippi
Baltimore News: The Sultan to Raisuli:
You must CO." Raisuli: You can't make
me go" Alarms. diplomatic activity and
more conferences among the powers.
Kansas City Star: Denouneing st. Pet
ersburg as the worst capital in the
world" looks like discrimination against
Dover, Del. Harrisburg, Pa, Trenton.
n. J., and Providence. R. I.
Shreveport Times The grass widow of
James G. Blaine. Jr., threatens to take
unto herself another husband. Just why
we publish this information along with
nearly all the other newspapers of the
country is mystery.
Washington Herald: Texas Woman says
that women are not a tenth as credu-
Ious as men. 1t may be so, but it Is
difficult to recommend this view with
the well known fact that women buy
90 per cent. of the porous plasters sold.
Chattanooga Times: No sooner had the
talk of southern man for the presidency
begun to expand than Mr.. Bryan got his
name in the papers as very recep-
tive candidate. Mr.. Bryan may be ex-
cused this time; he hasn't been can
didate for nearly seven years. and the
situation is growing bit monotonous.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Wonder If in heaven You have to call
boys fifty times before they will get up
In the morning.
useful thing about the telephone is
the way you can lie over it without being
seen how you are blushing.
When you hear a woman describe a re-
eeption to which she was not invited you
would think it was a search for the north
pole.
Even when a woman buys her husband
a Christmas present with his money she
finds on that morning some one else has
been forgotten and. takes it away from
him to use on the other.
The man who imasines he is going to be
n sort of Chinese idol when he is married
generally winds up by finding himself
carrying il milk bottle, the bird cage and
the cat when the family travel.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
ALABAMA PRESS

Montgomery Advertiser: Now comes a
crank who AYERS that man is made Of
beyond a doubt.
Mobile Register: AT the beginning of the
'steenth round Birmingham seemed to
be putting on more steam and getting
decidedly the best of Atlanta in the sub
treasury fight.
Lineville Headlight: Birmingham has
made a strong campaign for the sub
treasury which will Se located either
in Alabama, Georgia Or South Carolina.
Birminghams chances are good: All Ala
bamans should pull f31. her magic city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02

From the New York Globe.
N S THE result of small rabbit
P hunt late last summer out near ar
Omaha the antiquity of man in
America Is in fair way of being pushed
back to a now record of primitiveness-
according to Prof. E. II. Barbour, state
geologist OF Nebraska, to perhaps $4,000
B. c., or even earlier. The few instances
when human bones of apparently great
antiquity have previously been found In
America have gone the way of the Ia
nous calaveras skull of California, which
was finally declared by experts of a
TYNE similar to that of Indians still liv-
ing in the region: so that the new dis
covery, If genuine, Is of great Importance
The bluffs along the Missouri river IN
Douglas county have long been famous
for their contained human bones and rude
implements of primitive man. But never
before has anything approaching the
boarv age of the human relics discovered
nv Mr.. r. F. Glider last September been
dug ont of their burial mounds and refuse
heaps.
While walking through wooded tract,
writes Mr.. Glider in Putnam's Monthly,
IT found upon the summit or very hlgh
mill a small excavation where boy hunt-
ers had dug out rabbit. In the earth
thrown out noticed several small pieces
of human bones" He procured a spade,
enlarged the rabbit hole and unearthed
considerable number of human bones, In
GLIDING parts of several skulls. Some OF
these calvara showed signs of unusual
antiauiEy, and are, there now seems every
reason to believe, the oldest human relics
ever discovered in America.
Immediately after hearing of this find
Prof. H. F. Osborn of Columbia university
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
AS TO MR.. la TOILETTE.

From the Washington Post
Those excitable persons who expected to
see the cold shoulder and the stony stare
given to Senator La Toilette by his col
leagues of the Senate on his return to
Washington have been sadly disappointed.
The disputatious Wisconsin statesman
had some very hard things to say about
numerous members of the Senate in his
Chautauqua lecture last summer and
autumn and at the time his severe ar
raignment of the Senate was thought to
be the precursor of a chilly reception
in Washington when he should return
here at the reopening of Congress. But,
apparently, his colleagues have over
looked and forgiven him for his criticisms.
At any rate, his association with them
seems to be as cordial as 1t ever was. It
cannot be ~ med that he has yet at
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
KEEP BUSY.

When trouble tries to put you down
Keep busy.
Instead of taking time to frown,
Keep busy.
There's nothing better for the dumps,
Especially when fortune slumps,
Care hates the man who blithely humps
Keep busy
When all your ventures go dead wrong
Keep busy.
When too chagrined to sing a song,
Keep busy.
Twill make the time just fly away
And bring another, better day,
So when the DEVILS owns to pay
Keep busy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
huntsville Prosperous.

Huntsville is growing steadily and is
making substantial progress in every
way" said Shelby Peasants. a prominent
young attorney of the Spring City who
spent fed days in Birmingham 1t is
one Of the best towns in the state and
our people have had an exceptionally
prosperous year.
Every time / come to Birmingham l
remark its strides, II is growing rapidly
now and 1t requires little imagination to
see II in few Years as one OF the
greatest cities Of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02

THE INTERIM.
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming
OF the summer time,
When the peekaboo doth
Figure most in rhyme.
When it's warm and sunny,
And the breezes blow
Breath of roses, bringing
Back the long ago.
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming
OF a shady pool
Meath the whispering willows
Silent there and COOL
With the cork a-bobbng
And the birds in song,
And the laughing waters
Frolicking along.
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming
OF the flower fields.
Where the sun is beaming,
Where the violet yields
Place before the lily,
Modest as of yore,
Sweeter than all other
Blooms the bards adore.
Dreaming, dreaming. dreaming,
Tho it's winter time
And the bells of New Year
Have but ceased to chime.
Waiting, waiting, waiting
Till she comes again
April, tickle April
Laughing in the raini
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
AMERICA IN YEAR I8,OOOB. c..

and the Museum of Natural History now
also director of the Smithsonian institu-
tion) started post haste for Omaha to
investigate He gives his conclusions re-
garding the new old bones in the January
number of the Century. These portions of
skull, he says, indicate, so far as they
go, a man of small cerebral capacity, hav-
ing a brain inferior to that either of the
Indian or the typical mound builder. The
stature was about S feet 1015 inches"
They are, he continues, of moro recent
type by far than those of the Neander-
thai man, and may prove to be of more
recent type than those of the early neoli-
THO man of Europe.
For many obvious reasons discoveries
of the remains of primitive man have
beer more numerous in Europe and the
east than in America. The most famous
and important of these foreign discov-
cries are, according to Professor Osborn,
first, the Trinil man of Java, named by its
discoverer, Du Bots, Pithecanthropus
Erectus second, the Neanderthal man, or
homo primigenius, found in cave near
Dusseldorf, and, third, the so-called neoli-
thic man typified by a number of primi-
tive skulls. According to the evolution
lists the first of these was intermediate
between the anthropoid apes and man.
The Neanderthal skull, however, belonged
to a distinct man, and the neolithic rem
mast are those of still higher grades of in
telligence.
1t will be seen, therefore, that while
the Nebraska Loess Man." as Professor
Barbour suggests naming the new Doug
las county bones, may antedate any hui
man remains previously discovered in the
United States, the antiquity of man in
America will still remain comparatively
modern record.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

IT HERE is something unutterably
w sad in the passing of a year.
The old glance with wavering
eyes. at the calendar and mark another
mile stone passed down the slope of life
which leads to the grave; the young real
ize with sharp intake of breath how
much yet remains to be accomplished,
tho the months fall lightly upon their
lives like rose petals strewn by fairy
hand and the road winds away into the
golden haze of the future. Philosophy
may feign contempt and pleasure give it
the lie. but time rolls inexerably on. and
there is never pause in the moving
show.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-02

The Congressman is saddened by the
thought that he must pay out real
money TO the railroads when he rides
back to Washington. He begins to see
the railroad problem in a new light