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Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-12

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
PEOPLE OF MOROCCO

From the Washington Post.
 'The condition of the people of Moroc- co has been distressing for several years. said Robert F. Maclean of New York, formerly in the consular service in that country. at the Raleigh. T spent several years there, and in 1905 and 1906 the suffering was intense.
 Tt was caused by the drought, which spread over the whole country, and from an exporter Morocco became an importer of foodstuffs. It's largest busi- ness was with Great Britain, though France and Germany also sold quantities of goods there. As rule, the people are lazy, and when famine comes they are absolutely helpless
 The pre-Islamic types of blow yoked To cows, bulls, horses, donkeys. camels, or women are used to harrow the soil. which Is exceedingly fertile. When a stone is met, 1t is gently put aside There Is no need for hurry or exertion. The sower follows the plowman or plowwom- an and throws the seed for the wind 70 scatter. Once the seed Is in the ground. the peasant sits down and waits for rain. A plentiful rainfall produces a wonderful crop. but a drouth drives the women to dig for wild arrowroot for food for their husbands and children, and many of the people die of starvation.
 The general health of the people Is poor, largely because of the insanitary conditions. The only disinfecton of the cities is by the rain and sun. The drougt of 1905 drove thousands into the country to find work, which was not forthcoming. and naturally the mortality that year became very high, the people dying from want and its kindred diseases -typhus and smallpox. The crops that year were a total failure. and last year they were not much better, though some rain fell Many cattle were slaughtered just to save them from starvation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
Throw physIc to the dogs, I'll none
 of It.
VIaducis at Crossings

The mayor and aldermen on Wednes- day night decided that in acordance with the recent act of the legislature this city should no longer be cut into detached and isolated parts by switch ing crews conducting cars of highly scented fertilizers and the like. For council on Wednesday night voted to take the first steps to compel the rail- roads to build viaducts, as follows:
 Across Ninth avenue, North, at Nine- teenth street.
 Across Ninth avenue. North at Twen- ty-third or Twenty-fourth street.
 Along First avenue over Twenty eighth street.
 Along Twenty-eighth street from Second avenue to the south side.
 Across Railroad avenue at Four teenth street.
 Across Ninth avenue, North, at Thlr- teenth street.
 The city government should stand firmly ID to the action of Wednesday night, for frmness in this matter will reunite the city, making 1t one home genous whole instead of city of sev- eral parts waiting upon the leisurely shifting of uncounted and uncountable freight cars. Every one of the pro- posed viaducts is needed, and where they are built profanity will be de- creased and the time of citizens better spent at railroad crossings. The rail- roads are needed, but no modern pro- gresslve city permits grade crossings to tax the time and patience of citi- zens at crossings It is not reasonable to permit this. Atlanta has outgrown the grade crossing, and Birmingham should fall in line without unnecessary delay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
An Extra Session Possible

The acceptance by the Atlantic Coast Line of the passenger and freight rates of this state pending a test of their constitutionality in the courts, leaves only the Central Rail- road of Georgia and the Louisville and Nashville in a position antagonistic to the state-in a position that will evolve more friction and ill-feeling than anything else.
 Governor Conner has determined to recall the legislature in special session if on October 1 all the railroads in the state are not making their passenger rate 215 cents a mile, and the freight rates on 110 commodities conformable to Georgia rates.
 The Central Railroad of Georgia and the Louisville and Nashville certainly do not desire to run their hands into hornets nest, nor can they desire to turn the people of this state into ene- mics when the Southern and it's allied lines, the Frisco, the Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard and the new road from Brunswick are winning friends by the opposite policy.
 The Age-Herald repeats it's appeal to the two outstanding roads to accept the situation In the same manner that the other railroads have done. To go on to an extra session of the legisla- ture in October is to act in an un- business-like manner It Is to act in manner that means foes instead of friends and no railroad in these times has too many of the latter.
 The Age-Herald Is confident there will not be an extra session of the legislature in October simply because the Central Railroad of Georgia and the Louisville and Nashville will long before that time have joined the other railroads of this state in an acceptance of the laws of this state pending an appeal to the highest court. Individuals accept laws until they are pronounced unconstitutional, and there is no req son why corporations hould not do likewise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
Under the New Code

It Is fortunate that the city is to be fully organized under the new munich pal code before the task of forming Greater Birmingham is taken up. The board of aldermen formally placed this city Wednesday night under the terms of the new code. All ordinance incon- sistent with the code were repealed at once and in toto, and an ordinances In conformity with 1t were confirmed and continued. To make assurance doubly sure Alderman Parker was in qnick succession elected president of the board of aldermen, thus eliminat- ing the mayor from that body, the executive having hereafter the veto power, but no legislative voice in the city government President Parker will preside over the board until his successor Is elected after the next city election.
 Birmingham has therefore begun to be conducted under the new municipal code, and the longer 1t Is thus con ducted the less friction there will be. A single ordinance, and that short one, completed the transfer, and the council Is to be congratulated upon its expeditions and positive action. The vote was 10 yeas and nays, and Mayor Ward was not present when he was deprived of a vote in the board of aldermen.
 The new code does not extend the terms of the mayor or the present aldermen, and the next city election will take place on the third Monday in September, 1908. The present city officers will, however, serve until May, 1909. The mayor and other officers elected In September, 1908, will take office in May, 1909, to hold on until October, 1910, for in September, 1910, a new mayor and other city officers will have been elected. No ones term of office Is therefore extended, and the men who are to organize Greater Bir- mingham will be chosen in September, 1908, always provided the voters who go to the polls say the greater city shall become fact. The coup d'etat of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
Foraker's lndiunation

In a chautauqua assembly speech at Georgetown, O., Senator Foraker fired this shot at candidate Taft:
 "I would know also what the views of an aspirant to the presidency may be about the new rebellion that has broken out in some of the southern states. not ably North Caralina and Alabama, in the form of open defiance of the authority of the United States courts. Is this spirit to be checked and restrained, or is 1t to be allowed to feed upon itself and grow strong. to the point of menacng our in- stitutions?"
 Let the Ohio Senator restrain his virtuous indignation, for railroad after railroad from Virginia to the Missis- sippi line is accepting the laws of sov- sreign states while an appeal is pushed to the highest courts. Pretty soon there will be no menace "of our insti- tutions," for pretty soon all will be serene and orderly, and the laws of the states will be respected alike by corporations and individuals. There will then be no new rebellion" not even an issue except a legal one be- fore the courts, which will be sought In a quiet and peaceful manner There is no excess of love in North Carolina. Virginia or Alabama for government by injunction, but pretty soon, as things are going, there will be no in- junction. This will take the point away from the Ohio Senator, who is in sore need of telling points, for he has been repudiated bag and baggage by his own state, which has declared for Taft, whom he dislikes beyond expression.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
circumstantlaI Evidence.

Do you know that clrcumstantial evil dence is the strongest evidence available in criminal proceedure?" asked a lawyer in the lobby. Well, 1t is so.
 AS an evidence of this let me relate that the late George Vest of Missouri was once defending young man from the charge of larceny. The evidence against him was purely circumstantfal but strong.
 The lawyer, of course, claimed that no man should be convicted upon circum- stantial evidence alone. Why, said he when l was a boy I know anotherS lad who, while his parents were absent. went to the pantry and nearly devoured a large eustard pie. Then fearing the conse- quences, he found means of hiding the traces of his guilt. Seeing a cat he took her, smeared her face and paws with the custard and then taking her into the back yard. he shot her. As he did so the boy observed, There goes one more victim of circumstantial evidence Vest won his case"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
WHITE HOUSE OF THE MooRs.

From the London Chronicle.
 Cassa Blanca, the scene of the latest Moorish trouble, is so called in Spanish as the equivalent of D'ar ell Baida, which In English is simply white house. The town and its name date only from the end of the sixteenth century, though famous city called Anfa formerly stood on the same spot. Captured by the Amir Yakub II in 1260 Anfa became one of the most important trading cities in Af- rica; but, as it combined piracy with legitimate business. Alfonso V. of Por- tugal sacked and destroyed it in 146S. 1t remained a mere collection of ruins un- til the Portuguese rebuilt it with it's new name just over a century afterwards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
REPUBLIC STATEMENT,
Toppin Says There Is Falling of In
 New Business.

From the New York Herald
 John A. Topping, president of the Re- public Iron and Steel company. and chairman of the board of the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad company. says that there has beeii a moderate falling off in the volume of new business. taken as a whole, but that this shrinkage so far had not adversely affected the steel industry to any material extent.
 He says there has been an increase In general products orders of about 10 per cent. as compared with August. 1906. He believes the condition of his companies to be only a fair reflection of the condi- tion of other iron and steel producers. While there has been halt in pig Iron purchases, sellers are heavily sold, and under these conditions buyers are more anxious for delivery on old contracts than to take on new order obligations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
SUNDAY IN THE TENDERLoIN

New York Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Did you ever see the Tenderlon on Sun day morning? There are few people SUIT ring there at o'clock. There are more there at 3 than a few hours later The change from the noisy crowd that whirls ont of the theaters at il o'clock to the few figures that sneak about in the hrse daylight is gradual. From Il o'clock the thousands that crowd Broadway gradu- ally disappear. Some of them go to res taurants; some, and they are the smaller number, go home, and others seemingly find amusement in walking about to look at the parade of pleasure. Within an hour after the theaters have closed there are very few persons left in comparison with the first great outpouring that overfowed both sides of Broadway, but the lights behind restaurant windows and the long lines of hanson sand automobiles waiting along the sidewalks or at the cab stands show that the Saturday night crowd has not vet gone home. A second outpouring comes nearer 1 o'clock. It is from the restaurants It Is not so great as the theater crowd, nor is it so sudden, nor does 1t end so quickly. Gradually the restaurants are ernptied. but they are so crowded on Saturday nights that the pro- cession is> continuous. There is an occa- sional outburst of hilarious and shrill merrlment. Occasionally friend helps into the street a too enthusiastic merry maker and departs quietly with him in the cab. After awhile even the windows of the restaurant grow dark. The pedes- trians on Broadway are few then. AL most the only life in the early Sunday of the Tenderloin comes from the big hotels After the servants are housed an occa- sional patron makes his way to the bar Der shops. Like all those who follow him later he is furnished with a newspaper That is the symbol of the day for him. Breakfast, the barber and then home to the routine that the Tenderlon Sunday holds for most of its dwellers Life is more evident later. There are in the aft
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
Taft and an Income Tax

The more the Columbus speech of Candidate Taft Is studied the plalner It is seen that he was playing for sup port from the capitalistic element as we'll as from the masses. He rode two horses, going in opposite directions, at Columbus.
 He did, 1t is true, advocate tariff re- vision eighteen months hence-by pro- tectionists-and he dA advocate plenty of Rooseveltian railroad regulation, but the careful reader no doubt noticed that he stands opposed to 8 graduated inheritance tax or graduated income tax except in a time "of great national need"-in other words, a great war. And he would not even then resubmit The income tax question to the supreme s,urt. although the decision by which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
PRESS POINTS

 Chattanooga Star: The captains of In-I dustry are all right, but the pirates ofS finance ought to be hung at the yard arm Nashville Tennessean: The announce ment that MT. Taft's next speech at Lex ington, Ky, will be an appeal to southern democrats sounds like a proclamation from the fishermen to the fish that the bait is attached and they may come and be hooked.
 Dallas News: Beaconsfeds famous characterization of Gladstone-"He is sophisticated rhetorician inebriated by the exuberance of his own verboslty-" as recently rendered in American slang is; When Gladstone talks he hands himself a lemon"
 Hattlesburg News: If woilen could vote every candidate on the ticket would have to produce a pedigree from his birth up to the time he expected to die.
 Washington Post: Although soup and pie are being knocked by medical special ists, they will continue to be popular so long as they are not specially mentioned in death certificates.
 Newark Star: It's mighty funny. but the very minute a man gets the itch for office he begins to figure that he is the people,"
 Houston Post: The Richmond Times Dispatch extols the fine old chickens of Virginia, showing that the editors of that paper are boarders who know absolutely nothing about fried chicken showers which are features of living in Texas Nashville American: A New York man killed himself with the pistol with which his father and grandfather killed them selves. It is a regular family suicide weapon.
 Memphis News Scimitar: "Strlpes as well as fines" Is an expression of grow ing popularity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23

1t was upset was a five-by-four one. He proposes in a national emergency to procure a constitutional amendment authorizing a federal income tax. This simply means that he is opposed to both an inheritance tax and an income tax, and this will go long ways to- wards the capture of the capitalistic vote and capita1istic campaign sub scriptions. For the capitalistic ele- emnt dreads an income tax capped by a graduated inheritance tax more than all the other propositions put forth by Mir. Roosevelt.
 Candidate Taft appeals in this way for the support of capitalists, and he knew exactly what he was doing. He discussed swollen fortunes freely, but when he came to practical measures for the reduction of such fortunes he went over to the capitalistic or repub- llcan side. The democratic party will meet him squarely in this matter, for that party is already committed to an income tax and a graduated inherit ance tax. In the changed membership of the supreme court the present in- come tax might fare very differently than it did when the f1ve-byfour de- cision was handed down about fifteen wears AFT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
FORTUNE FAVORED BOOTH

W H. Crook in September Harper's
 N OW that I have told the story of 0h my three months association with
 \ Abraham Lincoln, there are two things of which I feel that l must speak The first question relates to the clrcum- stances of the assassination of President Lincoln. It has never been made public before.
 have often wondered why the negli- gence of, the guard who accompanied the president to the theater on the night or the 14th has never been divulged. So lar as I know, 1t was never investigated by the police department. Yet, had he done his duty, I believe President Lincoln might not have been murdered by Booth. The man was John Parker. He was a na- tive of the district, and had volunteered as I believe each of the other guards had done, in response to the presidents first call for troops from the district. He IS dead now and, as far as l have been able to discover. all of his family. So it is no unkindness to speak of the costly mis- take he made.
 It was the custom of the guard who accompanied the president to the theater to remain in the little passageway outside the box-that passageway through which Booth entered MT. Buckingham, who was the doorkeeper at Ford's theater, re- members that a chair was placed there for the guard on the evening of the 14th. Whether Parker occupied 1t at all do not know-Mr. Buckingham Is of the im- presslon that he did If he did, he left 1t almost immediately; for he confessed to me the next day that he went to seat at the front of the first gallery so that he could see the play. The door of the pres idents box was shut; probably MT. Lin coin never knew that the guard had left his post.
 MT. Buckingham tells that Booth was in and out of the house five times before he finally shot the President. Each time he looked about the theatre In a restless, excited manner. I think there can be no doubt that he was studying the scene of his intended crime, and that he observed that Parker, whom he must have been watching, was not at his post To me It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
EaaoIoay and Economy.

There is immense economy in the egg" remarked a countryman. who en- courages the hen, with the assistance of the rooster.
 Tn fact, the hens food crop produces more money than even the cotton crop of all the southern states; and I get some what tired of the ridicule and the propo- sition to reduce the importance of this product. Eggs constitute a fine, health giving product, full of nutriment and lm- mensely powerful in producing muscle and brain. High-blooded stock has been introduced on the hills and in the valleys of Central and North Alabama, and you would be surprised at the introduction of the new and modern methods of produce ton if you would only take a ride through the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
Birmingham and Cincinnati.

Henry J. Meyer a Birmingham boy who was reared in this city and educated In our public schools is in town shaking hands with his many friends Mir. Meyer has been resident of Cincinnati for the past five years, where he is connected with one of the largest mercantile houses of that great city. Said he in the lobby last night: 'I am much pleased with the general progress of Birmingham, and am agreeably surprised at its upward tendency. Birmingham taught me all I know of active business life except the knowledge I have attained in Cincinnati. The two cities are linked together by bands that cannot be broken-not even by railroad or prohibition agitation. In fact Birmingham and Cincinnati are much alike"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23
ALABAMA PRESS

Montgomery Advertiser: Blackberries are things of the past, the watermelons will soon join them, but bullaces are getting ripe. There's always something coming on If We know how to look for 1t. Anniston Hot Blast: That near-panic in Wall street will serve the good pur- pose ot convincing the American people that we are not going to have a real panic just yet
 Huntsville Tribune: The southern farm CT doesn't care much what happens in Wall street
 Mobile Register: And now the announce ment is made that in November Mir Bry- an is to sound the keynote of the cam paign of 1908. He has sounded many notes in the past, some of which smack of the "ragtlme." Many who have tried to keep step have become weary in the effort.
 Lafayette Sun: The news comes that woman afflicted with a cancer has been cured by the bite of a rattlesnake. We imagine that a rattlers bite is a sure cure for all other ailments.
 Mobile Register: After years of pacif1 cation, the Filipinos want to walk on the American flag. Possibly we are not a success as managers of possessions" Perhaps we'd better send Luke Wright back there.
 Roanoke Leader: The Louisville and Nashville should come down while 1t can light easy.
 West Alabama Breeze: The state of Alabama Is forcing the railroads to lower their rates and at the same time the state from the people. If the state would first get the beam out of its own eye, 1t could see how to get the mote out the eyes of the railroads
 Union Springs Herald Georgia has pulled down the "bars' and the water wagon rattles through; but runs against an occasional locker
 Alabamlan- Herald If bench warrants are to be served on all who criticize the decision handed down by Judge Jones, preparations had as well be made for quarters for three-fourths of Alabama
 Ella Clipper: Has Alabama reached the point where the abuse of corporations is the only sure road to public favor?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-23

yard of a north side residence which consisted exclusively of stockings-a great many pairs If Anthony Com stock lived in Birmingham he would jump to the conclusion that some peo- pie here don't wear anything but stock ings.
 contemporary speaks Of "A great day in prospect" Must be dreaming about Thanksgiving. Jackson. Miss, man whipped his wife for visiting selling -out sales too often. He never would have done 1t if he had seen the price list.
 POOLING. chap pretends to like your ways, handsome compliment he pays, But don't believe a word he says Iris only bunk Two women kiss upon the street, You'd think 1t was a dandy treat. Go way, you're crazy with the heatI 'Tis only bunk!
 ''The fingers of the stars are round my throat" sings a magazine poet. Hark We hear somebody say, "rd like to see him chokedp Sometimes railroads forget" says an eastern paper. That must be the time when wreeks occur.
 STILL BUSY. Give us changer sh outed the loud mouth ed reformer.
 Underwear or weather?" Queried tha Ch eerful Idiot.
 QUITE TRUE. Where are you going?" a tramp was asked.
 The fellow bowed his head And then in most despairing tones, I'm going to seed" he said. John R. Mclean will present Cincin- natl with a drinking fountain. Atlanta will need one after January 1. It is quite fad these days to parade alarming figures" Some of them be- long to women.
 SAY!
 If you are mad,
 Forget itl
 If you are bad,
 Regret 1t! Early consignments of Christmaa verse are being shipped in. Oh, for the frost on the punkinl
 PAUL COOK.