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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
Immiurants at Nav Orleans

The Senate has passed bill to estaD-
ish an immigration station in New
orleans, and the bill will undoubtedly
become law. This, together with Sec
etary Straus' excellent decision, is all
he federal aid the south needs or
ares to get and 1t is now up to each
tate in the south to take steps to
lecure immigrants to be landed, not
1t Ellis Island, but at New Orleans.
The establishment of a state immi-
ration bureau with man at the head
If it who knows how to go to CONT
rental Europe and to secure there i'm
migrants, provided, too, with funds to
dyance all expenses, including passage
money. seems to be the road to sue
,ess in this method of solving the labor
problem. What South Carolina has
lone and is doing appears to be the
proper way. At any rate immigrants
ire secured, brought to a southern port
md comfortably placed after arrival.
Alabama needs more white men. The
chances are that this state needs more
White men than South Carolina does,
Tor our industries employ more men
han do the cotton mills of the latter
tate. When the women and children
n a cotton mill are counted not many
Ire left in 1t to be listed. Not so in
his district In our mines and fur
,aces no women are employed, and but
lew boys. 1t is mems work that is
going on here, and this is why We need
immigrants.
The legislature should meet the fed
rial proposition to establish an immi-
,rant station at New Orleans half way.
Il should take steps to bring in immi-
,rants-business steps that will bring
results. Mere advertising and home
ak accomplishes nothing. The state
must send an agent to Europe to get
immigrants and then it must pay their
passage to a southern port, and place
hem after they are landed here. There
Is no other way in which competition
from the northwest can be met and
.onnuered.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
Baroinu Coal In the Warrior

The people of Montgomery are be-
coming excited over the prospect of
recurring coal bearing not over 40 cents
IN transportation charges. Also cheap
IRON, and no doubt they expect cheap
,teel to follow. They see in their
minds eye barges towed by stout little
steamers going from the mines OF
Walker and Tuscaloosa down the War
nor and Tombigbee TO the mouth of
The Alabama. and then they see them
mrn about to go up the latter river
antil they are tied up at the glad
wharves of the capital city. Why not?
i can we'll be done, and ii will be done.
L is done, every day on West Virginia
md Pennsylvania rivers, and it will be
lone on Alabama rivers.
And the railroads will not be hurt a
Dit by the movement, simply because
khe business of the state is growing
\ster than the railroads in it, and the
roads will be glad to be relieved of
eurplus of products offered.
Agreat movement on the Warrior
hweyer. relate more to return
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
Talks on Waterworks Fight.

1--WE are gratfed,' said B. II. Cooper
yesterday, lat the enthusiasm with which
the citizens are entering the fight for
the municipal control of the water works
plant. From every side we can hear
nothing but praise of the movement. and
statements of friendship and interest. The
membership of the league is still growing.
The fight is one stiff from the shoulder,
and one in which victory will be perched
on the head of the league.
"As you stated, there is no intention of
compromise I have heard rumors to
that effect, too, but they are absolutely
unfounded The question has been sub
mtted to the people, and the people will
decide.
Steps are being taken now to get bills
through the legislature which must be
passed before the present plan can be
condemned and turned into the hands of
the people There Is no technicality or
legal tangle that can prevent the NUM-
cipality's acquiring a plant of its own.
1t is practical certainty that within the
next few months the people of Birming-
ham will be furnished water at a price
considerably lower than at present The
fight is on, and as soon as the cam
pagn committees are named in every
ward. active work in the field will be
commenced"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
Publicity the Only Remedy

The bill passed by Congress prohib-
iting national banks or any other cor
poration organized under federal law
from contributing to campaign funds is
but a farce even when it is supple
mented by state laws forbidding state
corporations to do likewise. 1t will
stop no corporation from making con-
tributions indirectly through an indi-
vidual. The collections in Wall street
will not be lessened by 1t. They will
go on precisely as they have gone on,
simply because the republican party
will not pass a publicity bill.
Publicity of campaign lists is the
only remedy that touches or will cure
the great evil of piling up corruption
funds. It is the only way in which the
buying Of elections can be stopped.
When lists are published 1t will be I'M
possible to disguise the real source of
contributions. The democrats favor a
publicity law, because they desire to
see campaign funds from Wall street
cut down, if not wholly eliminated. The
republicans, on the other hand, do not
propose to pass publicity bill because
they intend to roll up in 1908 another
slush fund-one that will equal that of
1904, If not those of 1896 and 1900. All
were up in the millions. All were con-
trolling. w. ]. Bryan was beaten by a
slush fund, even if Judge Parker was
not.
Chairman Taggart offers to publish
the campaign lists of 1904, If Chairman
Cortelyou and Collector Bliss will do
likewise. Chairman Griggs, who had
charge of the congressional elections
of 1906, favors the publicity idea, al
though he had last year mo very large
contributions, not over half dozen in
excess of $500, and by far the greater
number less than 800" $50 far as
know" he adds, 'or can ascertain no
corporations were contributors to our
fund" But not word comes from the
other side. The republicans have no
intention of passing publicity bill.
They do not for obvious reasons desire
publicity of campaign subscriptions.
They will go on rolling up corruption
funds, and the vile work will not be
stopped until public sentiment compels
Congress to pass a publicity bill.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
AGED SENATOR'S ILL.

From the Washington Times.
Two of Alabamas famous trio of oe-
togenarian senator's have been very i'll
the past week and neither of them is
yet by any means recovered. These three
men represent a total of 256 years of
very active life, or over eight-ive years
each
The eldest of the three is former Sen
ator James L. Pugh, now resident of
Washington. He is eighty-seven. Next
comes Senator Pettus, eighty-tive, and
decidedly younger than either John Ty-
Ter Morgan a sprightiy young chap, who
will not be eghty-three for several
months yet.
Senator Pugh was predecessor of SEN
ator Pettus and served as Morgan's col
league from 1880 to 1887. He is n we'll
known figure in Washington, and until
quite recently has enjoyed excellent
health. About three weeks ago he was
taken down with grip, and for a time
his condition was critical. his heart being
mHch weakened by the attack He is
now much improved.
Senator Morgans illness has been quite
similar. His health has not been by any
means ROBUST for long time. and when
tired to his home, and his friends have
felt concern about him unt> within the
last two or three days. He is now inn
proving AT an encoura ging rate.
Meanwhile Senator Pettus attends Sem
atorial sessions daily. He is physically
much the most robust of the three vet
eran1-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
BONAPARTE'S SMILE.
Attorney General Smiles and Smiles,
But Has His Own Way.

From the World Today.
Charles j. Bonaparte can be the suavest
man In all creation. He smiles so sweetly
while he talks that people have gone
away quite pacifed and never realized
till after 1t was all over that he had
calmly gone ahead and done precisely
what he proposed to do.
TO return to that smile, it is so like the
poor. No one ever saw Bonaparte who
could think of much else. True, the first
thing one sees on meeting him is the bull
let round head-the Napoleon head-with
its bold forehead just bald enough to
make it yet holder.
Then one notes the nose, a domino ting
nose, the full eyes between heavy eye
brows the short, thick mustache Then
the smile. 1t starts with the eyes, droops
to one corner of the mouth. slips over to
the other then becomes audible i'm a queer
kind of chuckle in the throat which
shakes an increasingly prominent double
chin.
The upper chin is very timid and retir-
ing. but there's a dimple in it which
works in wonderfully with that smile
But don't fiatter yourself. and pat your
self on the back and think the attorney
general is dead easy. That smile is only
a cloak to cover up-you will never know
what.it covers up till you come away and
discover where you are.
lie will cut your throat with feather
while he chuckles and smiles. If you are
not satisfied with being thus graciously
beheaded and answer back you'n find an
adept at sarcasm and irony using a PEN
knife.
ii you still rebel the next you know a
back woodsman will be at you with a
brute OF an ak. But he Will be smiling
and chuckling through 1t all.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
THAW FEARS ALIENIST

The three benevolent old gentlemen-ths
alienists-do not pay any particular heed.
They regard all subjects with the calm
disrespect of vivisectionist for a rab-
bit
In his effort to delay the ordeal Thaw
apparently takes refuge in the memory
OF frivolous things, His lips part in a
smile. He listens to the wild, stornn-like
rush of the crowds in the corridors. and
! remembers that he is the protagonist in
great drama.
His mind goes back to the night of the
deed" He remembers the shot-the deep
roar of surprise and alarm-the blur of
powder smoke-the hot-barreled revolver
in his pocket-the pallor of the dead mans
face-and the arrest. He would rather
remember these things than to think of
or look at the three black clad figures
nearby.
But as surely as death and taxes, his
regard comes slowly around to the point
of fear-"the eyes" His gaze travels by
way Of the floor to make it more casual
and careless. Inch by inch, foot by foot,
it traverses the intervening space.
Oh, marvel of marvelsi They are not
even looking at him. The three comfort
able old gentlemen are hearing funny
story. This gives the prisoner license for
a long stare of contempt He drives at
the table with his fist, as though he held
a knife. He could have sworn that he
had felt the fire of their eyes burning
through the foggy moonlight in his BRAIN
Then Mcdonald glances at him-then
Dr. Mabon-then DIR. Flint-glances SEEM
ingly colder and more merciless than
those of the jurors. The latter at their
worst would only convict him of murder.
These men would convict him of In
sanity.
So the silent mesmeric drama has pro-
ceeded day by day So 1t will continue
today and tomorrow and the next day,
until Harry Thaw is acquitted or convict
ell of murder
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
Eibertas and the Weather

State Entomologist Smith of Georgia
sends word to the outside world that
the peach crop in that state has suf-
fered from the continued warm weather
and the cold spell that followed it "but
little damage" A few trees were in
bloom, and those blooms are damaged,
but, adds Professor Smith, there were
not sufficient peach blooms to have re-
suited in any serious damage"
This settles it so far as Georgia is
concerned, and what is true in Georgia
orchards is undoubtedly true in those of
Alabama. The crop has come through
a remarkable January practically in
tact. Like news comes from Missis-
sippi.
Later on, of course, the peach crop
will be killed several times, but the
later killings are an incident of the in
dustry, and the general public rarely
accepts them in an unqualified manner.
Inc dangers of January were not, how
ever, of a fake nature, and when Pro-
fessor Smith says that the peach buds
were not materially damaged In jan
uary he takes away all the real fears
we had concerning the luscious FL
bertas of 1907.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31

cargoes for the ships that come loaded
with coffee to New Orleans. At pres
ent such ships cannot secure return
cargoes at New Orleans, but if our coal
can be floated to them at 40 cents a
ton. they will take it. simply because it
will be the cheapest as well as the best
coal they can carry to their home ports
in Brazil.
Few appreciate what an Open War
rior means. 1t has been long time
coming, and some have become tired
in waiting for it. But it is near at
hand now. One more congressional
appropriation will practically open the
river to the heart of this district, and
capital can be trusted to do the rest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
PRESS POINTS

Columbia State The source of Chan
cellor Days illumination is Standard OIL.
Macon News: Tillman paid Spooner the
compliment of saying that he needed lit
tie more time to eat him up.
Baltimore News: The Kaisers triumph
az the polls is promptly followed by the
announcement that more big battleships
viii be built
Rome Tribune: The Birmingham Age
Herald thinks that Congress did not de-
sire roll call when the salary increase
went through. Well, we guess not.
Houston Post: The London Times de-
elares that "swettenham cuts sorry fig
ure as a British official" A sort of %
figure is what he seems to have cut.
Pensacola Journal: Carrie Nation has
contracted with an Atlanta theatre to do
twenty minute-rapid- Prefecture stunt
between the acts of "Ten Nights In a
Barroom."
Washington Herald: Florida con-
gresham has introduced a bill to sell the
philippines at cost AS nothing is said
about trading stamps, the proposition will
probably attract no attention.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Notwithstanding
the numerous fatalities from that cause.
there must be some instances in which
dynamite is thawed without exploding;
else the practice would be discontinued
Washington Post: A Chicago professor
says American women can't walk, Henry
James says they can't talk and now a
New York man says they can't blush
The explosion will come when some one
declares that they can't cook.
Pittsburg Sun: What happens when
Greek meets Greek will scarcely tighten
gossamer thread compared to the yanks
that will be administered when womans
organization meets womans organization
in the army canteen controversy
Louisville Courier-Journal: Senator Pet
tus says Alabama is proud of Senator
Morgan because he has not become rich.
She is also proud of two senators whose
ages added together make 1857 years, and
whose minds are standing REPUTATION of
the Osler theory
Knoxville Journal and Tribune There
are three octogenarans in the Senate,
two of them from Alabama and one from
Maryland, and of the senators recently
elected, three Of them are yet in their
thirties, one from Montana, one from Ne
braska and one from Colorado.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Rishon Morrison Active.

Bishop Morrison. said a warm friend
of that divine yesterday. rs a young
old man. indeed. For his years, there is
not a minister in the state so active and
so energetic in the prosecution of the good
work which he has accomplished. and is
still accomplishing He has only recently
returned from a north Alabama city
wherein he delivered a series of sermons,
and did a great deal of good.
TT is indeed true that the majority of
the bishops of the church are elderly,
but it is fallaey that Bishop Morrison
is feeble, or in bad health. He is active
and energetic, is often to be seen on the
streets visiting his friends and the par
ishioners of the church.
NO man who has eter served the
church in the state is more reverenced
than is Bishop Morrison, and that he still
is in good health and still is active is
source of great comfort
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
TWILIGHT.
Frank L. Stanton in the Atlanta consti-
tuition.

Frank L. Stanton in the Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
The days last, lingering kisses rest
Lovingly on the fragrant land;
The song bird fiutters to its nest
In the messed oak, by the south winda
famed:
And twilight steals along the sea.
And weeps to think the day is dead
But none will ever weep for me,
Or breathe blessing ON my head!
IL.
The "l1isses of the south" are cold
The winds that watt them here are sad
The stars are not the stars of old,
And lost seems all the light they had!
Yet still they shine in heavens of blue,
And still they rise from out the sea;
Yet nevermore, in dawn or dew
Shall any bright star rise for me!
Ill
Calm evening, with thy kisses sweet
Soothe my sad lids. and bid me rest
Even as child that hears the beat
OF mothers heart on mothers breast!
For all the world seems vain to me-
Too long by its false dreams beguiled,
l long once more-once more to see
The world I dreamed of when child
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
SWiNBuRNE IN THE CLOUDS.
-om the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
Studies in Eccentricity" having stirred
up the London papers to match remins-
censes of great men placed at disad-
vantage, this is related as an example
by the Chronicle: "A lady of Putney re-
turning from a walk. thought she was
late to lunch. She met dapper little
man and asked him the time. He drew
himself to his full height and flashing
a whitening glance at her. exclaimed.
with a, motion of his hand. Get ont of
my way. womanl" II was Mr.. Swim
burne. disturbed In his converse with the
Muses."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
Presiden+ Jordan Victory.

president Harvie Pordan Of the South
ern Cotton association has scored his
first great victory in his fight on the
New York Cotton exchange" said b
Dixon Armstrong who has just retired
from the position of auditor for the as
ISOLATION.
Before President Jordan began his
campaign against the unfair practices of
the exchange that institution had an ar
bitrary system of grading and CHASING
cotton.
THE exchange has just corrected some
of these evils complained~.of by Mr.. Jor-
dan, and has not only changed its sys-
tenn of grading and classifying, but has
dispensed altogether with seven of the
lower grades.
"Fornnerly the differences between
spots and futures were arbitrarily ad-
iusted not oftener than once year, and
was without regard to weather, crop or
other conditions This has been changed,
and more frequent meetings of the mem
hers of the exchange are being held to ad-
just the differences.
''At the time that Mr.. Jordan instituted
his fight against the exchange the Wall
street people, and especially the imam
cial journals in sympathy with the ex-
change heaped all sorts of derision on
the effort and laughed Jordan to scorn.
The concessions that are being made IN
dcates Enthusiastically the fear the ex-
change has for Mr.. Jordan's power and
influence. and consider it a great vic
tory for the president and also for the
Southern Cotton association"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31

THE BUSY HUMORIST.
A while he quips about the crush
of crowded trolley cars
And then he rings the changes on
The filters in cigars
On other days he writes joke
On bills soon falling due,
And If its summer time, you know,
He marks the peek-a-boo.
The traits of friends and relatives,
Likewise his ma-in-law
And all the grouchy magnates whom
We're bringing up TO taw
The price of ice. the price of coal,
The funny things we eat
Then. switching off, he mocks the chap
With corns upon his feet.
A lot of fun he likes to poke
At those possessed of wealth
And exc the poor dyspeptic who
Has never any health.
The ehappy is a target fair,
While femininity
Is easy for the funny man
Who jokes continually.
The little things He says to Her"
Those brief domestic tits
And bright remarks that issue from
A little boy in kits.
The trihes that make life a bore,
Poor father with his purse
And when hard pressed, the weather,
which
He swears could not be worse.
IT'S thus he treats of this or that,
You'd think 1t was a clnch
And yet, the hard-worl1ed humorst
When cornered. at "a pinch.
Is oft so dry of pheasant quirks
And troubled for a jest
That he must take a drink or two
To give his stuff a zest.
A prisoner in Ohio was so Disconnected
by the appearance of a woman juror
in the box that he pleaded guilty. He
is probably a married man.
Heard from W. Ellis and Mabelle
lately?
Since 100000 bacteria can move about
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31

A man in New Jersey got mad and
kicked the valve-head off of a water
main, so that 10000 gallons of water
was wasted. 1t must be great relief
for a man to be able to do so much
damage when he is hot under the col
In
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
Wants Fifth Avenue Clear.

"T do not think that the majority OF
the property owners on Fifth avenue VINO
signed the petition fayoring the Tide
water Development company running It's
line on Fifth avenue have thoroughly
considered what 1t all MEANS" said T. H.
Motion Yesterday First, 1 am opposed
IN any kind of a car line on Fifth ave-
nue.. believing that the cross lines on so
many streets give sufficient service with
out a line to parallel the avenue 1t must
be remembered that one has to go TO
the street crossing in order to get a car
even though 1t runs parallel with the
avenue.
"In the second place, If We have a
street car line on Fifth avenue 1t should
be operated mi connection with the en-
fire street car system so as to accom-
modate the greatest number of citizens
living in all sections of the city.
'But the most serious objection is to
allowing any street car line to pass
through the tunnel under the new depot.
This tunnel, as I understand 1t, is only
thirty-six feet wide in the clear, and 1t
is to have a row of steel columns through
the center. At least sixteen feet of this
tunnel must be used for pedestrians. pro-
viding eight feet on each side, leaving
only twenty feet for vehicles, ten feet on
either side of the proposed row of col
umns in the center.
IF a street car line were permitted
to occupy this limited space private We
hicles would be practically shut out from
passing through the tunnel. 1t must be
remembered that the tunnel is practically
the OILY means of crossing the railroad
tracks on Twenty-sixth street from Third
to Seventh avenues. AS stated above I
do not believe people understood the
situation when they signed the petition
favoring the use of the tunnel under the
railroad tracks"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31

The people of Illinois say Uncle
Shelby Cullom has already begun to
make his plans for sixth term to end
in 1919, when he will be 80 years old
He is an alert as well as an ambitious
old man
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31

Governor Highs does not propose to
be a co-tenant of the Rhode Island
capitol with the disreputable Boss
Brayton. He proposes to drive him
out But Nelse Aldrieh has been heard
from, and he owns the state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31

Governor Swettenham has Withdrawn
ample apology, and the Dreadnought
will not blow a hole plumb through
this country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
NOTIONS.

Everything is sterilized nowadays ex-
eept the private lives of our million
aires.
Most of the waves which sweep over
the country are not the sort that leave
1t cleaner.
One disadvantage of leading double
life is that the secret part usually costs
twice as much as the part your neigh
bors know about