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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

Great Western canal, but we are not able to state how deep the water on it's sills is to be. It is sufficient to know that the Atlanta chamber of commerce is behind it, and that Sena- tor Bacon stands ready to have 1t sur yeyed as a needful preliminary 10 the beginning of dirt throwing in it.
 The scheme is excellent, but notice is hereby given that this district has pre-empted the creek at Guntersyille as beginning of a modest canal to link together the Tennessee and the Warrior. The government is opening the Warrior to six-foog slackwater nay igation anl 1t is overcoming Muscle Shoals, and all that will be lacking then will be a link about so odd miles long to cost about s4,otG 00O. This Is a small matter alongside the At lanta project, but small as 1t Is At lanta should respect 1t. It should not annex all the waters of the Tennes- see or take possession of the creek that comes into it at Guntersville, for our papers were filed in public print first
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
I am not in the giving vein today.
 king Richard III.
New Baseball Park

Those who find enjoyment in the hot months of the year in the national sport will rejoice to hear that new grounds have been purchased upon which stands of the latest and most approved pattern will be erected. No town needs new grounds and new stands more than Birmingham does, and the dryer and the better drained those grounds are naturally the bet ter patrons and players will be pleased. There is plenty of high, roll ing ground at Cleveland where the new park is said to be located.
 But if no purchase has been made at Cleveland, a park should be purchased somewhere else; for the present To- cation is flat, wet and outworn. The stands at West End park are even worse than the site. The association acts wisely in preparing for a change this fall for it affords plenty or time in which to put new park ana buildings in excellent working order before the practice games of next March are begun.
 A new park, new stands, and new team. if not a new manager, VIII re- awaken the baseball spirit In this community-a spirit that became dull and ljstless during the dumb playing of last season. There Is room Tor hope when the association decides to invest good money in new park and stands. for that means that a team will be installed next spring that can and will play ball all the time instead of some of the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
coALINe A LINGO PARADE.

From the New York World.
 In his plans for Pacific coast parade MT. Roosevelt now has to reckon with the American shipping interests. When they first heard of his jingo expedition, they explain, they did not protest against the navy's carrying coal in foreign ves- sells because they believed that a grave diplomatic crisis existed Patriotism made them keep silent. Now that they are officially advised that no grave diplomatic crisis requires the sending of the battle ship fleet to the Pacific, patriotism bids them insist that the navy department re- spect the coastwise laws and employ only American ships.
 It Is a puzzling situation for a man of MT. Roosevelts patriotism to face. Is not the navy expressly intended to protect American shipping, and is not American shipping deserving of large subsidies in order to supply the navy with men? AL ready, ship owners say, the effect of the navy departments employment of foreign carriers Is to check American shipbuild- ing. So there will be a smaller merchant marine for bigger navy to protect and fewer sailors from whom to draw re- cruits for the navy.
 Why, at this late hour when MT. Roose- welt it starting on his bear hunt, do querulous ship owners raise questions of law and policy? Do they not know how important it is that the battleship fleet shall get started early in December be- fore Congress can interfere?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
Atlanta in the Swim

In the great general movement for waterways Atlanta does not propose to be left high and dry on land It proposes to get one while Uncle Sam is passing them out to all corners. It proposes to turn the Tennessee into the Coosa and the Coosa into the Ocmulgee via, of course, Atlanta In other words, it would have the Ten nessee empty into the sea near Bruns- wick instead of wandering through Middle Tennessee and Kentucky to find an icy outlet in the Ohio
 The Tennessee at Guntersville is to be connected by a canal-presum- ably a ship canal-with the Coosa at Gadsden thence up the Coosa to Rome thence up the Etowah to Owl creek at a point 12 miles above Cartersville, thence across hill and dale tc Suwanee near Atlanta; thence southward to the head waters of the Ocmulgee. The estimated cost is but s32. .boo, ,oOO; and $32,OO0,OOO is but a bagatelle to our Uncle Samuel. It is to be called the Atlanta and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
The Episcopal Convention

The triennial general convenhon of the Protestant Episcopal church. of the United States, now being held in Richmond is an imposing body. It consists of all the bishops of the chur in this country-104 in number, and about 600 deputies or elected dele gates-clercal and lay.
 There will be hundreds of visitors. The general convention Is the legisla- tive body of the Episcopal church of as it meets only once in three years, much business of interest to Episco- palians and the Anglican communion in general will be considered and sev- eral important matters affecting the church will be settled.
 Richmond was chosen as the place of meeting on account of the James, town celebration, the Protestant Episcopal church having grown out of the CnuIcu ol iIhSiohu eoiohy piah'eu in Virginia 300 years ago; and owing to the historic character of this con vention and the presence of the lord bishop of London and other distingu- ished visiting prelates, it will be ex- ceptionally notable. The bishop of London bears gift, in the form of Bible, from King Edward to old Bruton church at Williamsburg. Va.
 While the Espicopal church in the United States is not so strong in num- bers as it's mother. the Church of England, it has, by reason of the high character. intelligence. and Christian
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
Meeting of AttorneYe

The convention of alto
 held this week at St. notable gathering. It wa
 tional nor partisan, for
 publican attorneys ge
 seated in it as democrat
 general A permannt orga
 effected, the president of
 ing Attorney Gene) a Had .dls. souri, a republican, and tn, .reasurer, Attorney General Dickson of Colorado, another republican. All the attorneys general in the union, with two or three exceptions, have expressed a de- sire to participate in the future pro- ceeding of the association.
 At the St. Louis meeting the con Aict between state and federal courts was the expressing subject. It was first presented by Attorney General Young of Minnesota, who expects to be arrested when he returns home. After being enjoined by the federal court from putting into effect Mime sota's new rate law, MT. Young sued out writ of mandamus and ignored the injunction. He proposes to fight the contempt proceedings that will greet him when he returns home by suing out a writ of habeas corpus, arI by seeing that writ through to the end. The subject was freely discussed, Attorney General Garber of Alabama taking part In it. At the end of the discussion the convention unanimously adopted resolutions calling upon Con- gress to enact a law providing that no circuit courts of the United States or any judge exercising powers of such circuit court, shall have jurisdiction in any case brought to restrain any of ficer of a state or any administra- tive board of a state from instituting III ct oicilO OOuit hiJ puiNj VI OShNi appropriate proceedings, to enforce the laws of such state, or to enforce any order made by such administrative board; but allowing any person or cor ,ation assisting such action in a state court any right arising under the constitution or laws of the United States to have the decision of the high est court of such state reviewed by the supreme court of the United States, as ncv provided by law. The conven- tion also recommended that suits In federal courts by persons interested in corporations to restrain such cor porations from obeying the laws O states in which they are doing br mess be prohibited.
 The action of the convention sl that the movement against in ence on the part of the inferior courts is common and widesJ
 is not confined to North Ga
 Alabama. It is as stro'
 York and Kansas and Ind
 nesota as 1t is in the sol.
 gross will be apt to heed u.
 mendations of the national assoc. of attorney general of the Unit, States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
No Ouaii on Toast

The diner in public places in this state must be content with a bill of fare that does not mention quail or other game bird, or any song bird
 Game Commissioner John H. ,llace has said it, and the law says and the violator of the law will fined not less than $50 nor more s1OO for each and every trans sion.
 lere is no open game bird season
 aotel and restaurant proprietors.
 might, it is true, go out them
 es and shoot few quails and
 them on their tables, but they
 not send men out to shoot for
 They must do their own shoot
 year round. No open season is
 im
 It is even questionable whether a restaurant keeper has right to go to the woods and then and there shoot a quail to be served to a GUS toner at his own table or lunch coun- ter, for such a serving would be a sale of game bird, and that is for bidden by the laws of Alabama the year round. No one, says the law, shall sell or offer for sale a game bird in this state. The restaurant keeper must, in other words, eat the bird he kills if he would keep out of the hands of State Game Commits sioner Wallace, or of one of his coun- ty subordinates. John H. Wallace, Jr, means business, and so do the gamekeepers he has placed in the 67 counties of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
FAM E..
By Alexander Pope.

By Alexander Pope. Whats fame? fancyd life in others
 breath A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death, Just what you hear. you have; and what's
 unknown, The same (my lord) if Tullys, or your
 own. All that we feel of 1t begins and ends In the small circle of our foes or friends i, To all beside as much an empty shade, An Eugene living as a Caesar dead: Alike or when or where, they shone, or
 shine Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wits a feather. and chiefs a rod An honest mans the noblest work of God. Fame but from death villains name
 can save, As justice tears his body from the grave: When what t oblivion letter were re-
 sign'd, Is hung on high to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign, but of true desert; Plays round the head, but comes not to
 the heart; One self-approving hour whole years out-
 weighs Of stupid starers. and of loud huz1as; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Caesar with senate at his heels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
John sharn Williams.

"The people of Birmingham will rejoice to learn that John Sharp Williams or Mississippi Is to appear before them at the Jefferson theatre and deliver ,ec- ture on a selected subject said the Rev. Dr. West.
 "He has promised to come on october r, and l am sure we are to have a rare literary treat and a diversion from the usual trend of political and social ques- tions. MT. Williams, lcaoer of the demo- cratic forces in the national House of Representatives, Is a remarkable charae- ter. He Is a man of tact, of alertness, of good nature and wit. He Is a man of extraordinary education. He grasps economic and political principles in a firm and impressive way and has the happy faculty of driving home truth by homely illustration.
 Birmingham will receive John Sharp Williams with outstretched hands and with purpose to do him high honor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

the exercise of it's corporate powers, and contests are being made or prepared, affecting the revenues of the city, and the authority of the city government, as now constituted, Is being questioned on all sides, and the power of the Board or Al dermen to adopt and put into effect, at once the machinery of the municipal code is denied; and,
 ''Whereas,-it appears that the various question which have been raised relating to the city government can only be set tied by a decision of the supreme court of Alabama.
 Now, therefore, be 1t resolved. That pending a decision of the supreme court upon the questions and matters in dis pute the Mayor and aldermen of the city of Birmingham refrain from any and all Legislation which may involve the city or any of it's inhabitants In any f1nan- | cial liability or controversy; provided, that this resolution shall not, in any manner operate to suspend the police power of the city.
 Be 1t further resolved, That pending such decision of the supreme court, the Mayor shall continue to exercise all the power and authority vested in him by the charter of the city and by the muni- cipal code of Alabama, when not in con- fict with the charter; that he shall also exercise the powers and perform the duties of chairman of the finance commit tee; that he shall approve the bills of the city for current expenses, and ap- prove and audit the payrolls and see to the payment of all obligations of the city; and he shall be charged with the duty of caring for the faith and credit of the city in relation to its debts and other liabi1ities' Kt
 Stockmar Asks Question. When Alderman Stockmar came to vote he asked the Mayor Why did you and John Weahley draw this bill go to Montgomery and fight for it. and now don't want it?" Mayor Ward re- piled that he did want to abide by the law, but that 1t does not provide for or ganization until after the election. On motion of Alderman Cooper the board adjourned.
 Immediately Attorney Smith made an- other bolt toward ONein from one direc- ton and Steve Smith, the attorneys cousin, started from the other. They were both caught by the police, however, and held until O'Neill had left the build ing.
 The crowd slowly filed out, and con- tinued to converse on the subject for several hours. Messrs. Parker, O'Neill and Burnett went home, and the nights battle was over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
Conditions at RIocton.

The Rev. Father Downs of Blocton was in Birmingham this week. "Blocton is prospering," said Father Downs.
 'The Tennessee company is operating it's mires there very successfully, and while we have not quite fully recovered from the depression caused by the union miners strike of 1904, conditions are al- most normal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BAcHELo

From the New York Press.
 The human race is moderately sane eX' cept when 1t is engaged
 Nearly everybody is your warm friend till he has chance to prove 1t.
 A man has to do lot of drinking so as to make himself think he is good fellow.
 You can'timake a woman see that there is no use of Uncle Sam having par gain sales n postage stamps
 A woman gets very little fun ou. writing a letter if she has anythips interesting to put In it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
$ Is not a wild
 consumer of cock lound unawares forty dis table on a public oc-

lie slump in Atlantic cable stocks Is attributed to Marconi, who is about to open to the public his justly cele- brated wireless and cableless system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

Bank bills in different colors to show their denominations is a suggestion of the bankers convention. Rainbow bills may yet become popular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

An exchange attempts to say why men are lazy. Some are born that way, others acquire it and some have it thrust upon them by riches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
THE SITUATION.

From the Dothan Eagle.
 It's funny how big place like Birmingham and Montgomery SC about prohibition, thing they on.y fitted to country towns and woods districts, and then how the just eye glasses and take a more ous view of the situation, when they so many of their citizens favoring 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

ne cutting of hardwood lumber has
 eadily decreased since 1Sso and l be- ieve there will be a severe shortage in the supply of this necessity in the near future even though organized efforts are made to replenish the supply at this time.
 'pThe cut of hardwood timber. which includes maple birch, chestnut, oak, hickory and similar trees, is declining. Last year the contribution to the coun- try's production of this commodity fell off IA per cent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

devotion of its members, lay as well as clerical, always had far reaching effect for good and today it's power is more in evidece than ever before. The proceedings at Richmond will be marked by the splendid decorum for which the chuch has long been cele- brated, but it vill be decorum without stiffness, for the discussions at all the general e,nventions are at once earnest, anim.ted and practical. Not in many years has the general convention net in southern city. Only the larle cities of the east ar west have )een considered in competitive dass. But in view Jamestown celebration, Richp vitation was readily accert is safe to say that tb old Dominion will quate h respect but vi sur of its
 cial
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

The lattleship Alabama has Q cracked head and cannot go to the Pacific. She should be content to stay where her namesake is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

Luther Burbank says his fruit trees exceed anything in grating results this side of Pennsylvania.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

The cherry in the Fairbanks cock tail was not related in any way to the cherry tree and hatchet of the esteemed father of his country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

Forty cocktails, all innocent of poll- tical guile, have certainly butted into the presidential campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

James Hazen Hyde says he will never return to this country. Who, pray, has asked him to come back?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

n Northern Australia there is but one white man for every 700 square miles. In that case the color line is extremly tenuous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

A Philadelphia banker wore clothes so loud that he frightened horses in London. Still they say that Philadel- phians are slowl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

The Japanese consider the California labor question local issue. There is nothing imperial or warlike about 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

There is said to be a woman in Pittsburg with a double bass voice. Her husband probably gives close at tention when she speaks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

With the President whooping things up along the Mississippi, Secretary Taft whooping things up in Japan and Secre- tary Root whooplng things up in Mexico, the Roosevelt regime Is making great noise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

Christmas shopping" begins to draw upon the man who dreads the increased price of living.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

world like the autumn sunshine warns toward the Alabama violet-mov- ing pictures not excepted Advertiser
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
SURE

If true love always did run smooth And lovers quarreled never, The plays we see, the books we read Would be the dryest ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

When overcoats are taken out this nth there will be a smell of moth
 p every street car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

If J. Hamilton Lewis should ever get lost he could easily be located by his pink whiskers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

An Illinois farm hand says his employ CTS young wife presented such a pretty picture while milking a COW that he couldn't resist the temptation to kiss her. It Is seldom that you find such an aes- thetic nature in a hired man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

With the prices of beer, diamonds and food staples going up, we might as well hire an airship and go up ourselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
About Persons.

The Rev Hugh Mccormack, who has had temporary charge of the Southside Ehptist church in Birmingham, will leave this morning for Washington, to which city his wife and three children have ptececed him. From Washington Rev. Hr. Mccormack will sail for France, khereEhe will be engaged in missionary work, having France, Spain and Switzer- Hand as his field. He succeeded the Rev. J. c. Davidson as pastor of the South side Baptist church. and during his year and a half residence in Birmingham made many warm friends.
 R. E. Ricksen of the International Amusement company. arrived In Birming ham yesterday morning, and Immediately was placed in charge of the amusement department of the State Fair, which opens next week. MT. Ricksen has been in Bir- mingham on other occasions, and has many friends here. That he will make a success of lis present undertaking is as- suredl
 c. s. Peterson, city auditor, who has recently intented an improved system of accountnglfor public Improvements, was complimened yesterday by having the city of Welt End formally adopt his sys- tenn. His hethod is fast gaining circula- tion in Ahbama. Its strict compliance with the niw laws of the state is making it popular
 Three n9v surveyors of soils appointed by Milton Whitney, chief of the bureau of soils, Washington, will arrive In Ala bama thi5 week, where they have been assigped ito work The gentlemen are Henry Jhnngs G. B. Jones and E. R. fAllen. fhey will report first to J. A. Wilkerdn, commissioner of agriculture. Montgomery, and from that city will ass 5ned work in different portions 'e Atate.
 "A. Smith, who is seeking to em-
 to aid in the digging of the
 nal, said yesterday: There. Is
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
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THE BLOOM TIME. Let others sing of middle age And years of peace and plenty, There's not a well provided sage But wishes he were twenty!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

Nobody can blame the editor of The Austin Statesman for liking pumpkin pie, but he will certainly be criticised for praisng moving pictures s.-Birming- ham Age-Herald.
 Paul. don't you know when an editor Is full of pie he warns toward the whole
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
A soRDID QUEST.

Sing a song of dollars,
 Moneys hard to find, So we trample beauty,
 Lose our peace of mind, Rob our dearest brother Practice every guile, That we may have money, Toiling all the while. Yet, when we are dying
 And this life Is done, And the years we're counting Over, one by one, How we dwell on childhood And those happy days, Ere we learned to follow
 Money-making ways!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
LOSING HER TAN.

LOSING HER TAN. The autumn's here
 And most forgot Are summer days
 We thought so hot. But surer sign
 Of times swift flight Is Maudies skin
 That's turning white. No more touching example of devotion is on record than that of the Brooklyn man who paralyzed himself eating his wife's pies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

ident has decided to accept
 constitution and Minis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
OPEN SEASON.

How dear to my heart is the placid young oyster
 serenely ahoat on the crest of a stew!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03

Southern California has been having a cucumber harvest. The undertaker's
 harvest will come later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-03
.,lwood Forests.

fall, assistant forester of agricultural department, zen Investigating forestry conoi- che Appalachian mountain range,