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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
Fore God, you have here a good,
dwelling, and rich.
3 King Henry ".
Movina Day

All cities have moving days. Here
tofore October has been moving day
in this city, but after careful consid-
GRAFTON of the climate, of garden MAX
ing and of all other matters entering
into changes of residence or place of
business, it was deemed best to have
all leases begin on April 1. Those that
do not begin at that time will soon be
exceptional and even eccentric.
1t is altogether best to have a gen
eral moving day, and the landlords
who stand in the way should get ready
to accept the date of the majority
April has advantages over May in
this climate. and very many over Oc-
tober 1, which has really nothing to
commend it. The cotton year or south
ern business year is begun on Septem-
Der 1. and no one desires to be both
cred with changes of location month
after the busy season of the year is
begun. 1t is not easy to say how Octo-
Der ] acquired the distinction of NOV
ing day in this city, for no other city
has it, and Birmingham will soon be
glad it had the courage to break away
from bad date in favor of a better
one.
1t is not easy to find any objections
to April 1, and it is plain it will grow m
favor until there are no dissents from
it. The dissenters are even now a
minority.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
WORLDS oUEEREsT CABIN.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
"The queerest house in the world" said
zoologist, sis undoubtedly the famous
bone cabin in Wyoming, near the Medi-
cine Bow river. This cabins foundations
are built of fossil bones.
"Bones of dnosaurs-jaws of the diplo-
docus, teeth of the brontosaurus, knuckles
of the ischthyosaurus, vertebrae of the
camarasaurus, chunks of the barosaurus,
the cetiasaurus, the brachiosaurus, the
stegiosaurus, the ornitholestes or bird
catching dnosaur-all entered into this
Wonderful cabins foundations, making it
the most curious and most costly edifice
In America.
"This hut was built by a Mexican sheep
herder who had happened by chance on
the grandest extinct animal bed in the
world. This was a plot about fifty yards
square, wherein lay in rich profusion the
bones of all the animals of the reptilian
age. The heaviest and the lightest, the
largest and the smallest, the most tran
quill and the most ferocious lay side by
side.
1.-The place was evidently once a river
bar, and the dead bodies that fioated down
the stream were here arrested to lie for
hundreds of thousands of years till
sheep herder came along, and, roofing
among bones as big as powders, set about
the building of the worlds queerest
"a hin -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

sitting Of her legislature, she has Sc
lected two alternates to the seats"
The selection of alternates should
not be misunderstood Those alter
mates were not selected to succeed
either of our Senators at the end Of
their respective terms. The entire
alternate scheme falls by the terms Of
its limitations when the next legisla-
tllre meets in January, 1911. Senator
Morgan will then be candidate to
succeed himself, but Senator Pettus
will not come up for reelection until
the legislature of January 1915, meets.
The Savannah News Ia right when it
says these Senators have a life tenure
of Office and no political upheaval can
disturb them. 1t is the sincere wish
of the country that they may not be
retired by the grim reaper for still a
number Of years. When they are gone
a strong and admirable link between
the present and the past will have been
broken"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
Two Grand Old Men
out.

The Savannah News considers Ala
bamas two Senators refreshing re-
lief from the money-made and trust
made Senators that have found their
way to Washington in recent years.
Senator Morgan" it goes on to say,
sis nearly SO years old and Senator
Pettus nearly sc years. They have
seen the greatest growth and best de-
velopment of the country, and during
the past fifty years they have been
active participants in the making of
the country's history. military and po-
litical And through it all their serv-
ices have been those of patriots. They
have scorned to turn their talents to
the accumulation of money, preferring
that their ability should count in the
making of a great nation of enlight.
ened and self-governing freemen. AS
consequence, in the late afternoon of
their lives they are poor of purse. But
they are incomparably rich in the
yeneration and esteem of their coun-
trymen. AS a mark of her apprecia-
ton of them, Alabama will keep them
In the Senate as long as they live,
Notwithstanding that by way Of pre-
caution, in view Of the Quadrennial
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
BiR MINGHAM.
Constitution

From the Atlanta Constitution.
Birmingham? Oh, Brminghams all
right. Birmingham's the town for me-"
remarked DR.. Jim Jacobs, an old Albanian
who is now making his home in that city.
1.-The city is growing rapidly and the peo-
pie who live there are in love with it and
working all they know how, and that's
lots, let me say for it. There are num-
Der of old Atlantans over there and they
have not forgotten the Atlanta lick. Just
now the town, like every other place, is
wild on the moving picture fad, and Bir-
mingham has one of the largest and
finest in the south, to say nothing of q
number CT others. A few weeks ago
Colonel Bill Neill closed the cafe at his
hotel and few days ago he rented out
that room for a moving picture gallery,
And what rent do you think he gets for
it? Can't guess? Well, right there At
lanta got skinned a block. He gets $3.50
a month for it, and it isn't a large place,
either. Birmingham Is growing nicely.
Men with money are coming in every
week and where money comes men are
sure to gather. No. the town isn't half
so wild as it has been painted"
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must be a rather dreary life that
is lead by the little brown hen. Her
home is the graveled roof of build
ing down town and there she has spent
her quiet days. Somebody clipped her
wings, SO that she has never been able
to pay visits to other worlds. She has
never seen blade of grass or a flower
and her feet have never pressed the soft
green sod The companionship of the
barnyard has been denied her and nearly
all the little enjoyments that make the
life of a hen worth while are quite I'M
known to her. Yet, the little brown hen
maintains an air of serenity and is never
heard to complain. She wanders about
the roof all day. subsisting on the re-
fuse thrown from nearby windows, APP
parent1y content in her grimy and sordld
surroundings, and scratching the pitchy
gravel as if she expected to find a
luscious worm the very next moment! At
nightfall, needless of the glare of cleo
trio lights and the noise of the streets
that comes up from below, she hops up on
a drygoods box and falls to sleep. Such
is the monotonous life of the little brown
hen, but the cheerfulness and fortitude
with which she supports her lot may
well be emulated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
New York Cotton Ira dino

New York has ceased to be a spot
cotton market, and it will soon cease
to be a contract market, for a contract
that permits delivery of lightweight
bales and unspinnable cotton is con-
tract that no spinners will touch, and
that spectators will soon let alone.
Instead of cutting out three grades
deliverable on contracts the New York
cotton exchange cut out but one-"low
middlng, stained" 1t retains all the
other grades for delivery purposes, and
some of them are unspinnable.
When the general public understand
that the entire New York scheme has
been devised by New England spin
ners for the purpose of depressing the
pri of cotton, they will soon cease to
New York contracts. Through
tracts the New England spin
nabled to post quotations
% cents below the price
SDliOn. NSuolttioIo VI lu'uiNo
such basis become farce, and
even the speculative world is cutting
out New York contracts.
All southern men should stay out of
the New York cotton market. ELM
mate it altogether and for all time.
DE-, with New Orleans, Mobile, Sa-
5annah or Memphis, and never with
New York. where spectators and spin
ners are conducting game directed
against southern producers and south
ern interests. 1t is game TO fleece
the south and enrich the east. Have
nothing to do with it, Cut New York
ont
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Immiuration Commission

The Fifty-ninth Congress provided
for the appointment of an immigration
commission authorized to go anywhere
in this country or abroad in order to
study the immigration problem. The
commission is to report TO the SiXtieth
Congress This commission consists
of Senators Lodge of Massachusetts,
Dillingham; of Vermont and Latimer OF
South Carolina; Representatives How
ell of New Jersey, Bennett OF New
York and Burnett of Alabama, and
Commissioner of Labor Neill, Profess
sor Jenkes of Cornell university, and
William r. Wheeler of Oakland, Cal.
1t is to be organized about May 1, and
the intention to visit all countries from
which immigrants come to us has been
expressed. No limit was named to
expenditures, and the commission will
doubtless spend a pleasant summer in
Europe at government expense.
This is all excellent. provided the
commission brings back trustworthy
information and conclusions. Mr.
Burnett should at any rate visit the
farming districts backsof Naples, from
which Italian immigrants come to this
country-not to the south. He may dis
cover that we could procure poorer i'm
migrants for cotton farming than the
Italians. If he will study the Italian
climate and the Italian peasant he may
find reason to change his general i'm
migration ideas.
The commission should devise way
to change the gold-brick bill that the
New England spinners devised, known
as the Lodge bill. 1t is bill that
hinders the south in its efforts to get
more white people simply because the
advantages of the east would in that
way be impaired. No plan of immigra-
ton can greatly help the south while
the Lodge gold-brick bill remains a
law If needs amendment, and those
amendments should not be drawn by
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, gold
brick artist.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
THE BURTON CASE.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Burton had the evil fortune to be caught
at the critical time in the marcn of prog
ress. 1t is true that ten years ago Bur-
toms activity would have passed unno-
ticed; it is true that under lax and care
less conceptions Of public duty many pub
lie servants who were not at all vicious,
did things which would now be con-
demned and punished; it is true that ten
years ago the directors and trustees of
insurance companies scarcely knew that
they were doing anything wrong in using
the trust funds for their private profit.
They did not know better. The public
did not know any better, but now every
body knows that there is a higher cons
ception Of duty; that the common prao-
tees of ten years ago will not be toll
Grated, and that there is atendency to
hold the United States senator accounts
able to the moral as well as to the stat
ute law.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
France al Morocco

The killing Of a French physician
without provocation was the culmina-
ton of series of lawless acts on the
part of the Moors. The government
at Fee is inefficient. The country is
without railroads or even highways,
and the Sultan of Morocco does not
know what is going on in his own
country. Algeria, belonging to France,
adioins Morocco. In fact, Morocco is
surrounded by France and the sea.
France has decided that the Moors
must be made to behave themselves,
and to that end she has increased the
number of her ships at Tangier, and
she has sent 1000 men to occupy Oujda,
walled town in Morocco near the
Algerian frontier. The French occupa-
ton will not be ended until the French
demands for projection in Morocco OF
Frenchmen and French interests are
conceded and assured.
There is apparently no Interior de-
sign of conquest on the part of the
French government, but it is difficult
10 saw what the occupation of Oudja
may lead to. Premier Clemenceau has
long been an opponent of colonial ex-
pansion schemes, and 1t is not be-
lieyed that he will seek pretext for
the permanent occupation of Morocco.
Germany is not alarmed, although she
NAV yet object to prolonged occupa-
ton.
This country is a party to the Alge-
ciras treaty but it was stipulated that
this country should not be bound to
take any steps to enforce that treaty
We have, therefore, nothing at stake
in the French movement except gen
eral desire to see Morocco opened to
the world and rendered safe to trade
and travellers. We are indebted to
Senator Bacon of Georgia, who added
70 the resolution of ratification dec
laration that the act of ratification was
"without purpose to depart from the
traditional American foreign policy
which forbids participation by the
I1nitad States in the settlement of
questions which are entirely European
in their scope"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
IN STARRY SILENCE.

BY Frank l.. Stanton.
If death be sleep that's endless-faith, we
have naught to fear,
But God will make a Heaven for the
souls that suffered here.
They shall know that they're at rest,
From a stormy life unblest, ~
Or fade in starry silence, where no keen
thorns wound the breast.
II the edict of the Master shall be the
endless sleep.
In the unreplying shadows-why, then,
let sleep be deep.
Deep in the dust and dew.
With not one dream in view:
She earth your couch of quiet, calm skies
to garland you.
Be it life or sleep--what matter If we
reach a stormless shore
Where the ships are safely sheltered
where the pillows beat no more?
When the life has left the leaf
When the harvest is in the sheaf,'
The seal of Gods own silence, or His
glory for cur griefl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRIcH's DENs

From the Boston Post.
In Ponkapoag the Aldriches had their
summer home-an old-fashioned, two-stor-
led house, built at the beginning of the
last century.
Another summer abiding place of the
Aldriches, purchased somewhat later, was
the house at Tenants harbor
Mr.. Aldrich found it possible to work at
both these places with their pleasant,
spacious rooms. 81 could not create a
large work in a small room," he said,
SO Mount Vernon street, Boston, was
built to meet this requirement. 1t is at
the top of the dwelling house, and is
reached by a convenient elevator.
Thither the owner was accustomed to
go early every morning, the time that he
liked best to work, and a little later his
mornings mail, hauled up from below in
a wire basket by means of block and
pulley, followed him.
There. in an atmosphere of comfort and
an odor of good tobacco, surrounded by
his books and fine old furniture from his
grandfather's Portsmouth home, with a
wide view of the city spread out before
sat and wrote at a desk once owned by
Charles Sumner.
The 100000 he had by II. L. Pierce
will ten years ago made life very easy
and comfortable for him.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

mans reputation depends largely
upon whether he gets caught or not.
There is nothing a doctor is so chary
about as taking his own medicine.
The trouble with this cost of living
problem is that the only way to get all
prices down is to get everybody's In
come down.
One of the worst things about modern
inventions is when a man stays down at
his office to work late at night his wife
can telephone and fnd he didn't.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
sembrlch Tomorrow NIaht.

Madame Sembrich, who ranks first
among the worlds famous sopranos, will
be heard here Thursday night, and II
the High School auditorium, where she
Is to appear, is not filed to overhowing
will be surprised" said Robert Seals.
Those Of us who have heard Sembrich
never expect to live to see the day when
any singer will come upon the stage
quite up to this great artist. She has
the sweetest voice of all, and no one
with any love for music will miss hear
ing her. Sembrlch is assisted by Ellison
Van Hose, one of the finest of tenors,
and the duo from 'Boheme' will be one
of the big numbers"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
Hatten Attains Prominence.

"The friends of William II. Hatten in
Birmingham will be glad to know the
prominence he is attaining in the state
of Wisconsin," said lumbernan yester-
day. "Mr. Hatten has many friends
here as the result of his connection as
vice president with the Lathrop-Hatten
Lumber company.
1.-THE Review of Reviews for April has
an article on Mr.. Hatten's work in rate
reform His photograph is published and
he is prominently spoken of as candi7
date for senator from Wisconsin, to suc-
coed Senator Spooner.
MIR. Hatten was president of the Wis
consin state senate which passed the
rate bill outlined by him and it has been
law in that state for about a year and a
half It is regarded as model of its
kind and its features have been incorpor-
ated in state laws all over the country.
Mr.. Hatten is b-other-in-law of E. IL
Lathrop of Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

Ex.secretary shaw's decision that
frogs legs are dressed poultry is ere
ating trouble. The officials who de-
cided that frogs skins are leather are
confronted by the Shaw decision. I'm
der the first decision the skins should
have been declared to be feathers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
Cold Water On Inventive Genius.

"rhere is one thing that the trusts of
this country have DONE" remarked a
travelling man at the Hotel Hilman yes
terday, and that is they have stopped
progress in inventive lines In many of
their combinations. This is not we'll
known to the general public because the
trust magnates have been pretty careful
to keep this fact in the background.
Take the harvester trust, for instance.
When the combine was effected all ma
chimes were of course under the control
OF one organization hence there was no
effort to improve any one machine. There
was no need to make one harvester
any better than the other as the retail
dealer could furnish only the machine
which the trust allowed him to sell.
The same thing is found in other lines
of business and you will find that in
vention is repressed and progress is re-
tarded by combinations of ownership.
Whenever trusts exist competition for
trade is dead and no incentive exists for
improvement in the manufactured prod
uct. Our greatest inventions and the
products of unhampered minds with the
idea of putting before the world some
thing for the betterment of mankind and
not for sordid profit.
1.-THE inventive genius who labors for a
trust must let all his efforts go to waste
for his inventions are controlled entire
ly by his employers who see to 1t that
they do not get publicity and the prod
ucts of the inventors brain are stored
away where they will profit no one and
finally become destroyed"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

Mr.. Bigger, elisor, is fast becoming
national figure. He is holding Abe
Ruef in custody firmly and continu-
ously, and Abe does not enjoy it. No
one ever did feel the halter with good
opinion Of the law.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
I4OAFING.

ALI It's sweet to leave old worry
Back in town where troubles stay
And to ramble in the country
For a stolen holiday.
To forget that we are living
At a blind, soul-warping speed,
All intent on getting money,
Money that we do not need.
Sweet to lay aside the problems
Which confront us back in town
And amid the blooms and blossoms
For while to lay us down.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
Truck FARMING.

'aThere is steady demand for truck
farm property in the Birmingham dis
trict," said b. f. Eborn. Fruit and
vegetable farms of from ten to fifteen
acres within three or four miles of the
city can be bought for 500 an acre. Fur
Their out the price for small FARMS is all
the way from $40 to $50 an acre.
1.-THE Italians. like the Germnas. make
horticulture pay well. They understand
all the economies of the market garden
and the orchard and are right up-to-date
on what is known as the intensive farm
ing. A few years ago something like
fifty Italians were engaged in truck farm
ing In jefferson county. All of them made
money. Most of them accumulated suffi-
cient capital to retire.
.'Of course. the Birmingham demand for
vegetables and poultry is growing rapidly,
Fully two-thirds of the country produce
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

Cucumbers are selling for 10 cents
each in Boston. After the doctor Is
called to attend to sick stomachs they
will be found to cost more than 10
cents.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
BISHOP GRANBERRY'S DEATH

close student and hard worker. The
church has never had more earnest la
borer, a more consecrated minister or a
servant of higher or loftier character.
Personally he was a most attractive and
lovable man, and numbered his warm
personal friends by the hundreds
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
HOPES FOR A POLITICAL STRIKE

From the st. Louis Republic.
Vice President Fairbanks may feel en-
Outraged now that the lightning has
struck the Illinois residence OF his
brother,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03
NOT LIVING.

From the Washington Herald.
Hello Jinks. hear you are living IN
boarding house"
~"You heard wrong. I'm boarding in
hnarding- house,
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WILLIE'S DEFINITION.

From the Philadelphia Record.
willie Green" said the teacher, "you
may define the word memory
Memory" said Willie, Is what we
forget with
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

Birmingham's proud moment will
come when that flag is pulled up that
pole. The entire city will be there to
see it done.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

The Filipinos will cast their little
brown ballots on July 20, regardless of
the fact that they will have no voice
in selecting their House of Lords.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

They are investigating in Pennsyl-
vania the capitol grafters, but are not
swearing out warrants for them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

There is bulldog in Maine named
mick Longworth with Alice Blue
Eyes" He doesn't wear all of his name
except on Sundays.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

The descendants of Capt. John Smith
are expected to swell the treasury of
the jamestown exposition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

New York Is suffering from I'm.
digested immigration. Nearly seven
teen thousand new citizens came in on
one day of last week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

It is not surprising to learn that a
man as strenuous as President Roose-
welt has a female relative named
Maude.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

Senator Stone says Japan wants the
Philippines, and everybody knows we
do not want them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

President Roosevelt, like Mrs. Eddy,
had to go to dentists office. Neither
faith nor official rank will put down a
toothache.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-03

The mayor of Boston says specula-
ton in the stock market is worse than
cards. Wonder IL he got stuck?