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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
New York's Court Recount

The New York legislature has passed by overwhelming votes the bill provid- ing for a recount by a court of the mayoralty vote cast eighteen months ago. The boxes have been carted about no little ever since. At one time they were stacked in the street without guard, and no one knows what hap pened to them.
 The bill now goes to Mayor McClel- Ian for his approval or rejection. If he rejects it, it goes back to the legis- lature, where it will speedily be re- passed and sent to the governor. who will as quickly affix his signature to it. The consideration of the bill by Mayor Mcclellan puts him in another trying situation, but the belief is that he will veto it..
 Mayor Mcclellan has acted unwisely throughout the long recount contest. lie S0OulQ nave WelCOlHeu dnQ ldCl1- tated a recount, but he did the oppo- site, and his political fortunes are ebbing fast.
 When the bill becomes law court will appoint a commissioner for each election district-for each box, and the commissioners will do the counting, and they will refer every doubtful bal lot to the court for decision. MT. Hearst gained friends and adherents while his demand for a recount was refused and evaded. A multitude came to believe he was really elected. and that Tammany counted him out. A recount may take away his political capital-then again it may confirm it. Unless the constitutionality of the new law is assailed recount will be had before the November election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
Poor Cotton in Cherokee.

Cotton is dying in the fields in my county and much more of it will have to be replanted," said J. M Webb, eX-sherin of Cherokee county. yesterday. "A great deal of the cotton land will be plowed up and planted in corn, and there's d whole lot of land that will not be plowed up that will make a poor crop of cotton.
 Since I left the sheriff's office l have been farming, but it's very discouraging this year. l have been reading in the papers about this street car strike or lockout whatever you may call it, so 1 thought I'd run over here and see what 1t looked like. I haven't seen anything that looks like a strike since I've been here, however. The cars are all running and don't see any crowds raising disturbance"
 The situation was explained to MT. Webb, who said that he had expected to see lively times in Birmingham, but as former representative of law and or der, and a peaceable citizen, he was glad to find quiet conditions here
 '1 like this busy Birmingham" he con tinued, and I'm going to stay over till tomorrow and look up some old friends. I like the peace and quiet of country life, but a visit to thriving place like this puts new life into mans veins"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
WOMEN WANT FEM STRONGER.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 At many of the fashionable social func- t1ons of the smart set 1t is the custom to serve cigarets for all the guests. It is remarkable the extent to which New York women have gone in oigaret smoking in the last few years There was a seven days senSation here some years ago when a wealthy hostess introduced the little gold-tipped lung dusters" at a large din- her party. But the matron provided only the merest whiffs, with dainy meerschaum holders for the women while today the rule is the same brand of finest imported Cuban cgarets for both sexes. The guests in one of the Fifth ay enue mansions for merly found amusement in the fact that the wife smoked, while the husband never touched tobacco. But the novelty of the situation has now worn off and the wife now produces her gold cigaret holder without a smile around the dinner table. And with the spread of the habit many women have turned to cgarets of stronger flavor but inferior in quality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
AMERICAN OF THE MIDI"

From the New York American.
 N STUDY of our southern whites with PS regard to the influence of semi- tropical conditions on a people of Anglo-saxon blood is contributed to the Atlantic Monthly by E. N. Vallandig- ham.
 They present the only instance in his- tory of a people mainly English dwelling continuously for six or eight generations below the thlrty-ninth parallel, or in what the French call the Midi. The white population of Australia, with which they might be compared, has not been con- siderable for a period of more than two generations. In the region between Ma son and Dixons line and the Gulf of Mex leo there Is larger population of ap- proximately pure English stock than ex- ists elsewhere outside of Great Britain.
 Some of the qualities of the southern European have been burned into our own southerner by his subtropical climate while he has retained many of his racial characteristics. He Is both fire and snow He is ardent in love- but he at least equals the Englishman at home and sur passes him in his romantic devotion to the other sex" His courage has the fire of the south European and the steadiness of the Englshman. He is soft of speech and amiability itself except when his honor is assailed. He is polite hospitable, unsuspicious.
 Physically also the southerner is an Englishman of the Midi. He retains the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
University Plans

Money makes the mare go and it also booms universities. The Univer- sity of Alabama is the latest example of the power of money. It fairly bris- ties with extension plans and enlarge ment schemes, and faculty additions It's coal lands are selling at s100 an acre and the state is pouring into it's lap great sums
 The university is seventy-six years old, and in all that time no opportunity came until today to carry out the dreams of it's founders. These dreams look to the establishment of a greater university, wel-equipped and we'll endowed. The coal lands belonging to it are alone a great endowment, espe- cially if they are leased on a royalty basis instead of being sold. Coal lands in Pennsylvania are worth 5000 an acre-why should they not be worth that much in Alabama after the Pan anna canal is opened?
 It is plain that the university pro- poses to do the technical training for the Birmingham district, and there is no reason perhaps why it should not. It is in the district and the opening  of the Warrior will bring the univer- sity very much within range. min ing and engineering building, central power house and a museum are to be been strenthened in like direction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
Never man slgh'd truer breath.
 -cymbeIine.
Standard Oil and Turpentine

Special telegrams announce that the |. Standard Oil is buying huge tracts Of timbered lands in the gulf states, and that it has or will gain control of the American Naval Stores company, which handles so per cent of the tur- pentine products in the south.
 The Standard Oil should not be per mitted to gain control of the output of turpentine and rosin, two articles that pre necessary articles of commerce. Its grip upon the people is now heavy its tax-levying power surpassing that of any state and almost equaling that of the general government. If 1t an- nexes turpentine and rosin it's hand will be in every pocket.
 The worst feature of the reported movement will be the inevitable crush ing out of small producers in the south. So far as is possible the sap of the pine tree will be carried away to great factories, and the small producers will be driven out of the industry. The Standard Oil is an expert in destroy ing competition. Miss Tarbell tells the story of it's past in relation to the petroleum, and we may be sure the story of it's action amid the southern pines would not be materially different.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
Federal Control of Railroads

The Presidents much-heralded speech at Indianapolis was chiefly directed against Harrimanism. He pro poses to discourage the activities of the man whose only concern with rail roads is to manipulate their stocks. This fits all the magnates-all the ticker crowd. He would prevent any man hereafter from plundering others by loading railroad properties with ob- legations and pocketing the money in stead of spending it in improvements and in legitimate corporate purposes. D" Any man acting in such a fashion" !" he went on to say should be held to a criminal accountability"
 But he throws a sop to the railroads .when he says they should be permit tsd to make traffic agreements and to gather up lines that are not parallel. He thus favors the plan of his friend Mellen for a giant line from Maine to the Gulf
 He wants, in short, complete federal control, and he lntimates that the Far rar post-road doctrine is sound. This doctrine looks to the control of itra- state railroads by the general govern ment. A big political battle will have to be fought before the states will yield their rights over the railroads they have chartered and that lie without the state that authorized their con ! struction.
 The doctrine put forth blythe Presi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01

dent is based on the constitutional pro vision that says Congress shall have power to establish postofices and postroads." It has established and does control within each state post offices-why may it not then establish and control postroads? But all this doctrine points more plainly to gov ernment ownership than to control of state-created corporations. MT. Far rar, New Orleans lawyer, first pre- sented the post-road scheme, and the President at once accepted it. He really wants, however, full federal con trol of all railroads without federal ownership, and there is about where the legal and political will be fought out. "In so far" says the President, "as the common carriers also trans port the mails 1t Is, in my opinion, probable that, whether their business is or Is not interstate, it is to the same extent subject to federal control under that clause of the constitution grant ing to the national government power to establish postroads and, therefore, by necessary implication, power to take all action necessary in order to keep them at the highest point of efficiency"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
THE TUB.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times
 In pricking the bubble of the English mans bathtub. Miss Jeanette L. Glider has destroyed a tradition very precious to the Anglo-Saxon race, but her service to the cause of truth, in her spirited de- fense of Americans in Europe. could not have been effectively rendered had sne not been courageously and sweeplngly lcono- elastic. We had an idea in America at one time," remarks Miss Glider that the English were great bathers We have changed this idea since we have known England better"
 That the average Britisher has always been fond of his morning tub cannot, of course. be denied but Miss Glider is right in her contention that the size of his tub must be considered when an English man assumes an air of naughty superi- ority, as regards cleanlines, over the rest of the world. A stalwart Brton, over six feet in height and weighing 25O pounds, should not look down upon all foreigners because he endeavors daily to take a real bath in a tub three feet long, two feet broad, and one foot deep. real bath, Miss Glider convncingly contends. is not possible under such conditions Tile Englishman's intentions are good. his persistence is praiseworthy, and there Is something sublime in his egotstical con- viction that he is the only habitual and simon Pure bather on earth; but the fact is-and Miss Glider has the courage to say so-that England must turn to Amer iea for those ingenious appliances that raise bathing from maHeshift to a fine art.
 It is sometimes to be regretted that our governmental institutions make no special provision for rewardng loyal Americans who perform some noble service for the republic abroad. If Con gress had power to confer decorations upon those of our coun;rymen who have given international evidence of their patri- otism, the American Order of the Bath should surely be the reward won by Miss Jeannette L. Glider
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
War on Weeds,

"I notice that Street Commissioner John McCartin has already begun the summer campaign against weeds" said retired newspaper man last night. "He is d month to six weeks ahead of time, and therein manifests the sgacity for which he enjoys a well-sustained reputation. With the probability of wet summer ahead the sooner the weeds are taken in hand-literally in hand, that is pulled up by the roots-the more certain our de- liverance from an unsightly growth of vegetation which is the favorite ambus- cade of the misunderstanding mosquito. 1 understand that some of the large prop erty owners are going to wage warfare at once against weeds on their holdings, and if the householders followed this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
ALABAMA PRESS

Montgomery Times: A matrimonial cpl demio will break out next weke
 oneonta Southern Democrat: Governor Conner has been hinging some Roosevelt language at one of the Selma newspapers,
 Anniston Hot Blast: It looks as If Jay Gould piled up his millions in order that some of his children might be matri- monially unhappy.
 Fayette Banner: A Vassar girl has suc- and ten inches high. There must have been a mouse after her.
 Franklin Times: The negroes in Ohio appear to be cutting considerable figure in the fight among the republicans of that state who wish to be bosses.
 Greensboro Watchman: Montgomery and Birmingham have both had street car strikes. Atlanta will get jealous and doubles put on one in short while.
 Prattyille Progress Out in the west one fellow chopped off another's head be- cause he snored. If that fad should be- come common here the population would be rapidly decreased.
 collinsville Courier: With Abe Ruef confessing his guilt and Abe Hummel in stripes for a year, there may be said to be streak of reform reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
 AbbeYille Times: The plum crop in this section is poor on account of so much rain. However, the blackberry crop presages to be a good one and the country editor will never perish to death as long as blackberries are plentiful.
 Brewton Standard: The thing that Is worrying a lot of our contemporaries, viz: Whom will the democrats nominate for president?" is not troubling Us little bit. Just any of the fellows that are being mentioned will do
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
THE CAVALIERS SONG.

By William Motherwell. A steedl steed of matchless speed, A sword of metal keene All else to noble heartes is drosse, All else~on earth is meane The neighinge of the war horse prowde, The rowlinge of the drum, The clangor of the trumpet lowde, Be soundes from heaven that come And ohl the laundering presse of
 knightes,
 When their war cryes swell May tole from heaven an angel bright, And rouse fiend froUx hell Then mountet then mdLhte, brave gall
 lants all,
 And don your helmes amaine, Deathe's couriers, fame and honor, call Us to the field againe. No shrewish tears shall fill our eye When the sword hilt's in our hand Heart whole we'll part, and no whit sig1 For the fayrest of the land; Let piping swaine. and craven wight Thus weepe and pulling crye: Our business is like men to fi9,h And hero like to die! s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
Thought They Were Held Up.

A man who attended the banquet at the Country club Thursday night. yes terday related an amusing incident of his trip.
 We were the last to leave,' said he. and a pretty large crowd gathered at the station on the avenue about 12 o'clock to catch the last car When we at last saw 1t coming several of the young mon ran up the street to meet 1t.
 All at once we saw the car stop some distance from the young men, and they soon reached 1t and climbed aboard. The rest of us thought it curious that the car didn't move on, so we all ran out and got aboard. An uproar of laughter greeted us as we saw the motorman and conductor with hands up in the rear of the car as if they were being held up.
 "The laughter calmed the fears of the two men, who confessed that they thought they were being attacked. With very sheepish looks they again tooK charge and we came on back to town, but the men were the butt of hundred jokes on the way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01

lead the appearance as well the health of the city would be enhanced. Half an hours work in the morning or late in the evening would keep the average premises clear of these introdueers. Weeds are undoubtedly the worst advertisement town could have, and I hope that a crusade against them will be begun before they become en- trenched in their rankness of growth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
'rom the New York Press

From the New York Press.
 A woman seems to think cold feet are an indictment of her social standing.
 A woman calls it putting on airs by somebody else when it's only new clothes.
 What a woman likes about travelling is the fun she has crying when she starts.
 The only women who have more to bear than those who are married are those who are not.
 There's hardly any place where you can send good dollar after bad one the way you can in lawsuit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
Worlds Fairs.

The Jamestown exposition is not only well worth seeing, but in many respects, such as the naval features and the his- toric landmarks nearby, it is the most al- tractive of all," said a railroad official who recently saw the show.
 But a mistake that the Jamestown management makes, and the same Inis- take has been made by all the worlds fair arrangements Is In running it-so long. The exposition opened on April 26 and will continue until December 1. Four months is as long as any great show should be kept open. Comparatively few people can visit expositions except during the summer months. School teachers and college professors and students have their holiday then and the great army of bus mess men and clerks can go travelling only in the summer when trade Is dull and work less exactlng. If Jamestown had planned to open about June 1 and to close about October 1 the net results would have been better And this sche- dule could have been applied with equal benefit to Chicago, Buffalo and St. louis. The first two months of the worlds fair dl CHicdso Ap ioVo Vh h"SSSu o4o"9 "s '" heavy loss. The crowds ddI not begin to gather until July.
 "The attendance at the Jamestown ex- position has been relatively as large as it was in Chicago up to June l. There is every indication that the crowds at Jamestown in July and August will be enormous. It is the first great national show held in the south and it reflects high credit, indeed, upon the virginlans."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01

read by authority of the president and not by the authorityfo fof congress Presi- dent Roosevelt has absolute power down there, and all he has to do is to say the word He can put stop to all this inl- morality. I do not believe the president knows what is going on, for I believe he would have stopped 1t if he did,
 Ferguson told of the arrival of two girls, one from Jonesboro Ark, and the other from Memphis, Tenn, who had been away from home, were picked up by woman and taken to Panama and who he found drunk in a room in East street, Sunday last. He says a syndicate exists to furnish young girls for immor- al purposes in many American cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
PRAISING HIGDON.
From the Demopolls Times.

From the DemOpo1IS Times.
 The whole state Is commenting sheriff Higdon for the admirable way in which he prepared to keep order during the street car strike. He not only had his force in readiness but published exactly what would be infractions of the law. His action doubles went long way toward preserving order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01

The jurors so far accepted in the Haywood trial were permitted to go to the circus, and the clowns were re- quested to do nothing to prejudice the noble state of Idaho.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

WITH A LAUGH AND A SONG. Over the hill lies happiness. Sweet peace and rare content. 90 we'll hurry along with a laugh and Ere the light of the day Is spent. Sometimes the way is hard to find. But the goal Is still in sight, 30 we hurry along with a laugh and a song And never care for the night. woman in Ohio gave m chewing to- baoco to keep her husband from going to the Workhouse. There is nothing a woman won't do for the man she loves. The Austin Statesman nraises tba hon In fact, if the Statesman were a rooster 1t couldn't think more highly of Dame Partlet.
 JUNE 1.
 Good morning, June!
 We welcome you
 Your sunny days
 And skies of bluel
 You bring the rose.
 The blushing bride.
 And wedding bells
 For lovers tied.
 And other joys
 That it the time
 And make poet
 Fall to rhyme.
 Again we say.
 We welcome you,
 But there's one thing
 Will never do.
 Don't follow in
 The path of May,
 Who made us sad,
 Instead of gay.
 Foresooth, We chirped
 About her smiles
 And missed our guess,
 A thousand milesl The world is surely growing better.' says tfe editor of the Andalusia News. Last Tuesday a fellow dropped in and paid back subscription bill of s4, and on Wednesday another fellow dropped in and paid back subscription of s5.p The world seems to be s9 better for him. anyway.
 HOPE SURVIVES. For one must win and one must lose So runs the world away. We play the game who can not chose. But we hope to win some day. 'The latest news from San Francisco is of the murderous assault by two Japa-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01

Lawyer Delmas should not attempt to apply the unwritten law or Ameri- cana dementia to the indicted million aires of San Francisco, whom he has been retained to defend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01

The exquisite irony of fate is re- vealed in the paragraph of an Alabama editor, who says, Theodore Triton, of Henry Ward Beecher fame, died in Paris, May 25'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01

The citizens of Topeka who procure for supplies of the ardent do not recover, and yet they do not ask for any change in the prescrip- tinnr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01

tall stature of his race, but he is ant to be dark and slender rather than fair and large. He cares less than the Eng ilshman for systematic athletics, but is given to an outdoor life. He is handy with weapons, fond of horse and dog. 'It is hardly to be denied that the southern youth has suffered morally from his con- tact with an enslaved race. and continues to suffer from contact with the same race in a state of freedom"
 He has suffered too, MT. Vallandigham thinks, by reason of his political isolation. Though the union Is now intact politfcal ly, the south remains in some measure provincial It has shown the supersen- sitiveness to outside criticism character istfc of an isolated people. Tn matters Of taste also it has remained proyiu- cial and archaic"
 Yet 1t appears to Mr vallandigham that our "Englishman of the Midi' has gained more than he has lost by his long sub- tropical residence. In particular he has acquired a warmth and color from the generous sack of his own sunshine" which the temperate and thrifty Yankee lacks. His future will be best promoted if he will "break the bonds of isolation. rid himself of his provincialism and enter into every field of endeavor in friendly competition with his brother of the north for the promotion of national progress becoming not alone politically but intel lectually and spiritually one with the rest of the union.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01

General Kuroki has at length visited the honorable stockyards of Chicago. where he met the country's perfume and drift
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01

A contemporary suggests that Doctor of Literature would be good degree for the night editor. The stuff he handles is not literature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01

A seasons baseball payroll foots up $4,000,O 1000, and it is doubtful if an equal amount of outdoor recreation can be had elsewhere for the money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01

May Irwin has decided to permit her husband to retain his bachelor name, provided she does not have to use it on the stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-01

European surgeons say there are too many operations for appendicitis. So there may be. but doctors need in- comes.