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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02

"I don't know Be still"
 How'd you know what's his name, then2
 Well, he lives-he lives in town, somewhere. And one day he went out and saw a tree that was simply full of birds. The birds"
 What did the birds do2'
 "The birds sang. of course"
 What did they sing?"
 They sang songs. Now, If you want me to tell you this story you will have to be quiet So this boy looked up at the birds, and"
 My pa aiamas don't feel good"
 "They never will feel good if you don't stop thinking about them. So this boy looked up at the birds, and-he was a bad boy-and he thought it would be smart to throw a stone at them" Did he?
 "Ye3, he threw stone al the poor lit- tie birds"
 And what did the stone dor"
 "ft made the birds fly. And then" Papa"
 "Well?"
 What did the fly do?"
 What hy?"
 "The fly 1t made the birds into" Robert Gallahue Todd, I am going downstairs and if you are not asleep in two minutes I shall punish youH' Mir. Todd strode from the room, and at the sars he halted, at the sight of woman sitting on the top step with her face In her hands and her shoulders and si-es shaking It was his wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
She Wanted to See Lula.

From the Bohemian.
 Because the curiosity of an actress de- layed a belated Southern train, there are some conductors south of the Mason and Dixon line who are watching care fully for Miss Maude Fealy. Recently Miss Fealy appeared in Memphis her birthplace, and following her engagement there the company was booked for Greenville, Miss 1t seems that d small town. named Lula, was the home of her father before he became postmaster at Memphis, and Miss Fealy wanted to see it. So, when the train left Memphis she asked the conductor to let her know when they reached the station; then she settled down to enjoy the panoramic view of the Mississippi
 Shortly before noon the train was sud denly stopped at what looked like a very well-conducted farm, but what on closer inspection became a railroad station. Just as Miss Fealy discovered the name of Lula on the door of the depot, the con ductors voice was heard through four or five cars crying out the name. Then the cry was taken up by brakemen un- til the length and breadth of the train echoed with the word. But no passenger made any attempt to leave. The conduc- tors anger became something akin to rage when he saw Miss Fealy calmly sur veying the surrounding country and her fathers former abode with marked, though calm, attention.
 "Lulan' cried the conductor almost in her ear.
 "Lula!" shrieked the brakeman, outside her window
 Yes" said Miss Fealy, q see the name on the station. How long do we stop here?'
 "Stop?" said the conductor, i've don t stop here. This Is only a flag station and we've stopped five minutes already. How long do you expect us to walt for you to get of?"
 "On, but l don't want to get off," said Miss Fealy, q just wanted to see the town in which my father"
 But the conductor did not walt for the rest of the explanation. He pulled the rope to signal the engineer and added an- other burning chapter to the report of be- lated conductors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
Putting Robert to Bed.

Wilbur Nesbit in Success Magazine. "Papa!'
 "Wel?"
 Tell me a story"
 "ll tell you just one, if you will promise to go to sleep
 My pajamas don't feel good. Don't think about them. I'll tell you a story, but one will be all. MT. Todd sat beside the bed and began "Once there was a little boy" Whats his name?'
 1 forget"
 Didn't he have any nameY' "Yes. to be sure he hadl Don't inter- rupt me, Robert"
 Then what was it?'i
 Why, his name was-his name was Julius.'
 Julia's a girls name.'
 This boys name was Julius not Julia. He was named for Julius Caesar" q know something about Julius Cae- sar," Robert exclaimed, sitting up sud- denly and quoting;
 Julius Caesar
 Was a wise old geezer,
 But he froze off his feet
 In ice cream freezer. Where did you ever hear such thing as that?"
 Alfred Potts told it to me- Well don't ever let me hear you use that word geezer again. Now, go to sleep
 But you didn't tell me the story" All right Once there was little boy named Julius"
 Julius Caesar"
 NO, no This isn't about Julius Caesar at all Julius Caesar was a king, and he died long time ago" When he froze his feet off, papa?' He didn't freeze his feet This is q piece of stiffness Alfred Potts told you" What is a piece of stiffness, papa" Don't ask me such foolish questions, Settle down and go to sleep, or I'll go back downstairs and leave you alone" Papa. my pajamas don't feel good. q told you not to think about them. Now, listen and I'll tell you about this little boy. He went out one day and saw
 Was his name Julius?" Yes. yesr' MT. Todd answered His name was Julius and he Did he die long time agoY b No. Julius Caesar died long time ago This boy didn't Where does he live now?p
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
PROGRESS
BY ELLA VII EELER WILCOX.

with dreary, cold rain, we thanked Him again that progressive mind had insist, ed upon it's request being carried out, and that by a compliance with this wish we had been saved the ordeal which Is called mistakenly "A civilized inter ment," but which Is more barbarous than any heather rite.
 Cruel to the dead cruel to the living.
 Everything loathsome and unlxind Is as- sociated with the burying of the dead in graves.
 Everything purifying and merciful is associated with cremation.
 The world must come to this realiza- tion. It is coming to it.
 1 never looked on a grave in my life, of any stranger without a shudder
 I looked upon the inches where the graceful urns stood on shelves at the crematory without one unpleasant sensa- tion In one I saw two urns side by sido-husband and wife. Were they my parents, show much more beautiful would seem to me to think of clean, pure ashes in those visible vases than of rotting bodies in .rotting caskets under six feet of earth
 And still more beautiful Is the thought to those who love for time and eternity of the ashes of two bodies mingled in one vase, while two immortal spirits journey forth together from heaven to heaven. from star to star.
 For those who wish their ashes given to the elements there are flower be Is about the crematory where they may be scattered.
 How much more lovely the thought of deepening the bloom of rose or a ger anlum rather than feeding the maw of a worm.
 Thank God again, and vet again. for Progress.
 --e World Does Move
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
Must Not Smoke In Public.

From Medison (Wis) Dispatch to the
 New York World.
 The assembly today. acting under the influence of Speaker Ekern, ordered to engross Nent by almost unanimous vote the bill prohibiting the smoking of cigar cites by adults or boys in public places Speaker Ekern told how the big tobacco companies are violating the spirit of the state law by teaching children how to get cigarettes outside the state, and made the point that persons to whom cigar ette smokking is offensive are entitled to rights as we'll as smokers.
 MT Heilbron, of Milwaukee, believed the law unconstitutional. Indiana had knocked out such law, he said. He wanted to send 1t back to the committee
 MT. Reynolds wondered what was the matter with Milwaukee, any way. Tho assembly should not be afraid of things that interfere with the constitution, he said.
 Dr. Miller said it was demonstrated that cigarettes were no more harmful than any other form of tobacco though he admitted children preferred them ant used them to excess. He would suppori a bill prohibiting any form of smoking in public places.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
BIRMINGHAM COLLEGE
Commencement Next Wednesday Will
 End the College Year.

Commencement week began at Birming- ham college last Friday night with the training school Reclamation and. historical symposium contests. Next Wednesday is commencement day and the final day of the college year.
 Several well known men will deliver addresses during the week.
 Bishop H. c. Morrison will preach the commencement sermon at the First Methodist church. Earl Pettus will de- liver the literary address on next Tuesday morning.
 The address before the Alumni associa- tion will be delivered by the Rev. S. E. Wasson of Tuscaloosa Tuesday night
 Chancellor J. H. Kirkland of Vanderbilt university will deliver the baccalaureate address on Wednesday at Il a. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
An Irish War Vessel.

From the New York Times.
 On certain railroad in this state there is a small drawbrldge over a dimlnutive creek on which a factory is situated. One day a train came to a stop a couple of hundred yards from the drawbridge and showed no inclination to proceed. One of the passengers finally became rest less and got out to see what the trouble was. On his return a fellow passenger asked him what he had discovered.
 There's an Irish war vessel stuck in the draw" was the reply.
 "A what?'
 An Irish war vessel, I sald''
 why, man. you must be crazy. There's no such thing as an Irish war vessel. Ireland isn't nation"
 Well, get out and see for yourself, then,4 returned the first passenger. in an injured tone.
 "well, what was it?" asked three or four passengers who had overheard ths conversation.
 "A brick barge" replied the disgusted one, wearly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
STATE SUPERINTENDENT
 IS PLEASED WITH WORK

Montgomery, June 1.-(Special)-State Superintendent of Education H. c. Gun nells is greatly pleased with the work of the university. and especially with the spirit of progress noted there in the new movements begun.
 Ut is gratifying not only to the alumni of the University of Alabama, but to the friends of education everywhere and es- peeially to the friends of higher educa- ton. to note the prospects for an enlarge ment of the work at the university" he said today.
 "The last commencement was one of the best in the history of the institution" continued MT. Gunnells. "The meetings of the alumni were business-like and en- thusiaste. The meetings of the board of trustees were characterized by single
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
FAKE CIGARS ARE
 SOLD ON STREETS
Two Spaniards Work Smooth Scheme. But Are Finally Driven From
 Town by Authorities.

Buy-a dis box-a cigar. Brung 'em over from-a Cuba. Worth-a 10 cents. Sel-a 'em cheapa." Such was the manner in which two Spaniards faked several dozen people on the streets yesterday. They presented a victim with fine Havana cigar and on the strength of it he bought a whole box. On arrival at home he op- ened his prize and found his purchase to be less than cheroots in value.
 Two men who were mutually indigna at went to the Mayor about it. and Mayor Ward gave the strangers the ultimatum to leave town on the next train or go to jail. They left
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02

ness of purpose on the part of each mem- Der of the board and a determination to build wisely with the appropriation which the legislature had given. There was ab- solutely no friction in the board meetings. but on almost every question the board was entirely unanimous The construo- ton of the buildings was left to build Ing committee to be composed of the gov ernor as ex-offoio chairman and four members to be appointed by him.
 Possibly the most important action taken by the board of trustees was the enlargement and strengthening of the school of mines. The recent development of the mining industry has made the strengthening of this department an ab- soute necessity. In a few years the Uni versity of Alabama will be enabled to furnish all of the expert mine labor needed in the mineral districts. Every thing looks bright for the university"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
PERSONAL

Wesley Sorrell, who for several years has been assistant manager to George McCleery of s. H. Kress & Co.,, has ten dered his resignation and will leave in a few days for South Alabama. where he will become connected with his father in the lumber business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
Odd Fellows Memorial Services.

The committees appointed by the sev- eral Odd Fellow lodges in the city on memorial services will meet Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock at the Red Men s hall over the Western Union Telegraph office. A full attendance is desired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
nImIIlInlIInIIIIlIllIlIuIIIu

It might have been Furthermore, If we do not gird our Joins to the fray, the Panama canal will be done before we realize it, and 1t will become a water way for the European and Asatic mer- chant fleets rather than for our own"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
Perfectly Clear.

From the Philadelphia Press.
 Miss x-Young Simmons has about the clearest head of any man l know.
 MT. Y-That's right; there is absolutely nothing in It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
Barrett Speaks.

Mr. Barrett said in part:
 The President of the United States sends greetings to Seattle and to the northwest on the occasion of the ground breaking for the Alaska Pacific exposi- ton. He wishes you success in your great undertaking and expresses regret that the pressure of public business pre- vents the acceptance Of your invitation, so some member of his cabinet should be present.
 1 am moved to express the hope that under the Pacific supervision of your ex- position you may see fit to invite the party representatives of those Latin American states that border on the Pa ciic ocean. and whose growing ports can be easily and directly reached by vessels sailing from Puget Sound, the Columbia river and San Francisco har- bor. There is impending in Central and South America new era of peace and prosperity that will make us sit up, rub our eyes and wonder why we have all ways talked and dreamed about the orient and Asia, giving hardly a pass ing thought to the resourceful and po- tent ne etion to the south and southwest of our contented selves. If we do not study. exploit and master the foreign commerre of these advancing, ambitious nations of Latin-America, Europe cer- tainly will, and we will be left to our own sweet singing of the Swan song,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
BREAK DIRT FOR
 PACIFIC FAIR Seattle Scene of PeageantS
 and Speeches PRESIDENT REPRESENT TED John Barrett, Director of the Inter national Bureau of American Re- publIcs, Speaks for MT.
 Roosevelt.
PRESIDENT REPRESENTED

Seattle, Wash, June 1.--With impress sive ceremonies ground was broken to- day for the Alaska Yukon Pacific ex- position, which will be held here in 1909, opening just two years from date. The day was a holiday
 Seattle presented a gala appearan e and amid the blare of trumpets the marching of a military pageant, inspir- ing speeches and banqueting, the inau- gurarion of active work on the Pa cifie worlds fair was celebrated.
 Many prominent men, mayors, legis- lators, governors and state officials, att tended the ceremonies and visitors from nearby cities were present.
 The Hon. John Barrett, director of the International Bureau of American Republics, as the personal representa- tive or President Roosevelt, was the principal speaker of the day and the guest of honor
 President John Edward Chilberg of the exposition after appropriate re- marks, turned the first spade full of earth, while the band played "The Star Spangled Banner" and the thousands in attendance cheered
 The other addresses were delivered by Gov. Albert E. Mead of Washing ton and Mayor Moore of Seattle.
 The ceremonies started with A big military parade at noon. It passed through the principal downtown streets and ended at the railroad station, where special train was taken for the expo siticn grounds.
 It is thought by the mana cement that two years of strenuous work on the slO,O0c,O0o worlds fair will find 1t completed in every respect June l. 1909, the opening day.
 The purpose for which the exposition is held is considered to be worthy of the expenditure of so large a sum- Brief ly, It's primary object is the exploitation of the possibilities of Alaska and Yukon territories in the United States and Can ada and to make known and foster the vast importance of trade on the Pacific ocean.
 The exposition site which embraces the unused portion of the campus of the University of Washington, is 25O acres in extent and borders for more than a mile and a half on Lakes Union and Washington.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-04-27
PRESIDENTS SONS.
Record Of Twenty One Who Have Grown tC
Manhood
"Buena Vista.

Strictly speaking, only twenty-one
Presidents sons, concerning whom
there are available records, have grown
to manhood.
Six Presidents-W Washington, Madi-
son, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan Ca bache-
Ior), and Mckinley left no children.
Two-Jefferson and Monroe = left
daughters only. President Johnson had
two sons, but both died before he was
President, and so do not count.
The sons of thirteen Presiden ts-Joh
Adams, John Quincy Adams, Van Bu-
rem, William Henry Harrison, Tyler,
Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, Grant, Hayes,
Garfield, Aurther and Benjamin Harri-
son-have lived to mans estate. The
sons of Cleveland and Roosevelt are
still boys.
Of the twenty-one Presidents sons
who have reached manhood, nine have
bulked la"oa il the public eye on their
own account, and all but one or two
have been solid, substantial citizens.
The prominent nine are John Quincy
Adams, President, diplomatist and Rep
resentatiye; Charles Francis Adams
publicist and statesman; Robert Tyler,
Register of the Confederate Treasury;
Richard Taylor, who served with dis
tinguished gallanty on the Confederate
side in the Civil War; John Van Buren,,
prominent in State politics, and just en-
tering National politics when he died;
Robert Todd Lincoln, Cabinet Minister,
diplomatist and President of world
famous corporation; Frederick Dent
Grant, diplomatist and general in the
army; Henry A. Garfield, lawyer,
banker and professor Of politics in a
great university, and James r. Garfield,
State Sentor and United States Civil
Commissioner, and Commissioner of
| Corporations in the Department of Com
merce and Labor, now in the Cabinet.
| Besides the nine who have climed so
high, there is John Scott Harrison, who
had the unique distinction of being the
son of one president and the father OF
another. He was a man of force and OF
great influence in his own state, though
he was not a prominent figure in Ma.
tional sense. Counting him in, and he
surely "made good" as the saying is.
ten, or only one less than halt the Presi-
dents sons who have reached manhood,
are entitled to be named on the roll OF
| honor.
Practically all of the Presidents sons
who have grown to mans estate have
been good citizens; their lives have been
clean, wholesome and credit alike to
their parentage and their country, while
ten Of the twenty have won unusual dis
| tinction. 1t would be hard to find any
other clsas of prominent Americans
whose sons have done so we'll at those OF
the Presidents.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-04-27
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ing your mother or wife alone at home
and what would the result be?

ing your mother or wife alone at home,
and what would the result be?
Here is the Vardaman idea-express-
ed in the Governors own language:
''The negro should never had been
trusted with the ballot. He is different
from the white man. He is congenitally
unqualified to exercise the most respon-
sible duty of citizenship. He is physi-
cally, mentally, morally racially and
eternally the white mans inferior. There
is nothing in the history of his race,
nothing in his individual character,
nothing in his achievements Of the past
nor his promise for the future which en-
titles him to stand side by side with the
white man at the ballot box.
"This inestimable privilege was thrust
upon the negro, snatching him out of
the twenty thousand bar6aric years and
placing him shoulder to shoulder with
the heir of all the ages. This was q
stupendous blunder, worse than any
crime, and the sober second thought OF
the nation should correct it.
"We must repeal the Fifteenth and
modify the Fourteeth Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States.
Then we shall be able in our legislation
to recognize the negro's racial peculia-
rites, and make laws to fit them. This
would leave the matter nrpciSplV aS was
intended by the fathers of the Republic. -
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-04-27
THE TIME FOR REGISTERING.

The Attorney General of Mississippi
has given the following ruling on the
question of the time for registering in
order to vote in the August primary
elections:
"Under the law as it now exists it is
sufficient for a voter to be registered
four months before the general election
in November, to render him qualified to
vote in the primary"
The general election will be held on
the 9TH of November, and therefore any,
one registering prior to July 5 can vote
in the primaries TO be held not later
than August 10. All must be qualified
to take part in tie general election in
order to participate in the primaries.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-04-27
A COOL MILLION
Given by Old Maid Quakeress to Educate
Negroes.

Philadelphia, April ga gift of one
million dollars for the establishment of
a fund for rudimentary schools for
Southern negroes was announced here
today. The donor is Miss Anna T.
Jeanes, a Quakeress eff this city. Booker
I. Washington and Hollis Burke Frizel,
president of the Hampton Normal and
Industrial Institute, are named as trust
ees OF the fund, but neither of the insti-
tutions they represent will share in the
gift. The income of the million dollars
is to be used for the sole purpose of as
sisting in the Southern, United States
community, country and rural schools
for the great class of negroes to whom
the small rural schools are alone avail
able"
The deed of gift was executed yester-
day, and in it Washington and Frizeu
are empowered to appoint board of
trustees in connection with the fund.
The Pennsylvania company for insur-
ance on lives and granting of this city
will act as fiscal agent for the trustees
Miss Jeanes, the donor, is about eighty
years old and is from an old and wealthy
family that has been prominent for
more than century in the Society Of
Friends. She has long been interested
in the welfare of the negro and has been
contributor to institutions for their
education. She has known Washington
for decade,
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-04-27

by their teachers to pay proper homage
to their Chief of State, We commend his
selections and recitations in poetic
thought; the ethical pathos OF musical
verse, well recited, always stirs the
heart. Let some of them emulate the
example, to search out and commit Joa-
quin Miller's 'tBfayery OF Battles. Its
ring carried me back to the first time
listened to its touching truth as it fell
from the eloquent lips of that queenly
New Orleans born woman, Mrs. Frank
Leslie, for whose paper my old friend OF
the Sierras wrote it.
Gov. Vardaman's estimate of Bryan
as the foremost Democrat in our coun-
try to-day was congenial to hear; but
political timber for the White House
may yet become a iugglery OF politics,
and the best may not come to the top
in convention.
Let us remember that no man is infal-
iible. Gov. Vardaman has made his
mistakes in his career; but wise one
puts it truly, "the only one who makes
none is the man who does nothing;
the only true greatness is to be self
searching, living to learn, keeping in a
teachable attitude, profiting by our mis-
takes, and climbing thereby
son stepping stones Of our dead selves
To higher things"
Our retiring chief executive, hold it,
is to be Urus ted to take care of Missis-
sippi's national interests.
H. L. B.
"Buena Vista,'