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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
Iron HakInu in the South

Edwin c. Eckel discusses in the Manufacturers Record the relative importance of southern production in the iron industry, which stood ten years ago at 16.44 per cent of the total, and which will probably not exceed ] g per cent next year. Thus far this year southern production stands at 10.54 per cent.
 Mir. Eckel thinks three conditions must be observed before the south can hold its own in the iron trade, as fol- i lows:
 "n). The labor supply must be increased /, and its quality improved. It would be bet i ter to have the entire Birmingham district unionzed, provided that would secure an adequate supply of labor. than to attempt to keep on with the misernbly inadequate supply now at hand.
 "(2). Development work in the mines should be carried on during periods of de- pression, so that the mines can respond quickly to any suddenly increased de- mands.
 "(S). The output of steelmalking irons should be increased, and provision should be made not only for their conversion Into steel, but for their local manufacture into finished products"
 The last-named condition is being pretty rapidly advanced in this dis. trict and all appreciate the importance of full conversion of our pig iron into finished products. This is the goal we are attempting to reach. The lack of labor and the lack of capital stand in the way, but 1t is reasonably certain that by or before the opening of the Panama canal this district will turn It's pig iron into finished products. That is the common hope and the com mon effort
 In 1897 this district made 947,831 tons of pig iron; in 1907 it will make about 1,750,000 tons. If the other iron making states had done as well the south as a whole would have done bet ter against the ores of the Mesaba and Yermillion ranges. This district pro- 1 duces about 50 per cent of the pig iron made in the south. The states of Vir- ginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, 1 Texas and North Carolina are not ma terially increasing their product, while this district is left alone to increase the production of this section. All that MT. Eckel says Is true enough, but he has not perhaps weighed and meas. ] ured the effects on this district of an l Open Warrior and of the Panama canal. These must it would seem carry production and finished products in this district to the maximum, and when that is done we will at any rate keep ahead of Buffalo, Pueblo and Du luth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
ODE ON A eREclAN URN.

By Keats Thou still unravished bride of quetnesss Thou foster-child of silence and slow
 Time, Sylvan historian. who canst thus express A fiowery tale more sweetly than our
 rhyme; What leaf-fringed legend haunts about
 thy shape Of deities or of mortals or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Already? What men or gods are these? What
 maidens loath? What mad pursuit? What struggles 10
 escape?
 What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? o Attic shapel Fair attitudel with breds Of marble men and maidens over
 wrought, With forest branches and the trodden
 weed;
 Thou, silent form dost tease us out of
 thought As doth eternity. Cold Pastoral. When old age shall tnis generation
 waste, Thou shalt remain in midst of other woes. Than ours, friend to man, to whom
 thou say'st Beauty is truth, truth beauty. that Is
 all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
In the Adirondacks.

"I had a most charming trip up in the Adirondacks, returning via New York and the Jamestown exposition, said Judge ZeI Gaston.
 My trip was for the purpose of placing my son Cecil at the University of Pennsylvania and to give him an opportunity to recuperate from the severe tax of taking high rank in a class of eighty-five at Vanderbilt.
 "Our objective point was Scroon lake, away in the Adirondacks. We went by Saratoga to the end of rail transpor- tation, then by stage nine miles to the foot of the lake, and by steamer ten miles up the lake to Grove Point hotel conducted by a broth erin law of MT. E. I. Burn of Birmingham We found excellent accommodations, fine fishing cool nights and pleasant days.
 "The south Is highly appreciated by the people of the Adirondacks. 1 heard much of Birmingham and very many in- ouirles as to desirable investments in this district.
 The more the real northern man of character sees of the true south erner the better they come to understand and like each other. I found 1t so I am more than pleased to say"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
THE PICTURE POST CARD

time may carry c message or a saluta.. ton from the sender on the address as well as on the picture side. There is a great subject for tho industrious literary hack in the rise and spread of the H. frustrated postal card. In time it will have a literature of its own.
 NEXT eoGVERNoR OF MISSISSIPPI From the Washington Herald.
 The Hon. F. E. Noel who has just been nominated for governor of Mis- sissippi at the democratic primaries. which is. of course, equivalent to an election, is a native Mississippian. His ancestors were among the first settlers in the state. moving in as tho Indians moved out. He was born in Holmes county, March 4. 1856. His father served in the Confederate army, was taken prisoner by the Union troops. and became blind while a prisoner. Young Noel worked on his fathers farm. and was educated at the country school house. He got his legal education at Lexington, Ky. where hs road law with his uncle, D. W. Saunders. He was admitted to the bar In 1877. Tn 1881 ha was elected to the legislature, and his first work was drawing up the minority report opposing wenty-hve-year ex- emption for railroads and immunity from regulation of rates In 1887 MT. Noel was elected district attorney of the Fifth judicial district. In 1895 he was elected to the state senate for O. four-year term. during which he framed many valuable laws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
PRESS POINTS

Boston Globe: That earthquake down in the Danish West Indies hasn't attract ed as much attention in the United States as 1t might have done if we had given up s4OOo,oOO for the islands.
 Savannah Press: It is announced that John D. Rockefeller has quit talking. Too bad. He talked so well.
 Nashville Banner: The Hague confer . ence Is holding a long session, but that is infinitely better than long war.
 Dallas News: Society has decreed that the teddybear must be dressed. A Rough Rider uniform ought to be becoming.
 Washington Herald: Governor Conner, of Alabama, the great reduced rates warrior of the south, Is to spend two weeks at Atlantic City. He will be given run for his money all right
 Houston Post: A San Antonio school teached says it Is impossible to make a pessimist of a 12-year-old boy. Go way, man. Tell one to whitewash 200 yards of fence and he will thing the whole world s going to smash.
 Richmond Times-Dispatch From the way Rameses II, is catching it, one would suppose that he was a trust magnate and took rebates.
 New Orleans Times Democrat: There is trouble in Turkey as well as In Moroc- co, Apparently all of the old world s national "sick men" have suffered a re- lapse at the same time. The Balkan trou- ble crop will probably be harvested a little later
 St. Louis Times: More ominous than other news from abroad falls now upon us the intelligence of the strike of dress makers in Buda Pesth.
 Youngstown Telegram: Science says a spider can live ten months without food How'd you like to be a spider?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
Whichever Wins.

"The membership committee of the Public Library association would lilS @ to suggest to the workers for and against prohibition that In the event of either winning, the reading room which is to be an integral part of the public library will offer an attractive. costless and improving haven for the young men of our city" said worker.
 "If prohibition wins, we should pro- vide a tempting place for our homeless men to spend an occasional evening at least. If the present status of affairs is to continue, we might proftably sup ply competitive evenings entertain ment to the ones now existent. This aside from the incidental profit to the individual.
 "The association earnestly solicits the membership and the aid of all our citizens That we need 1t, that 1t is a pressing social want In our midst, can not well be gainsaid.
 Several tn ousand membership cards are being distributed through the kind ness of our merchants, and we call on all our people who would add anothe and much needed moral factor to our city to sign and forward these cards"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
Musical Attractions.

At the opening of every season the question Is asked among local music lov- ers, what are we to have in the way of high class muster" remarked ell-lsnown amateur q am glad to learn that the outlook Is bright-far better indeed than 1t was last year.
 "At the Jefferson theatre these attrac- tions are already booked: Madame Schumann- -Heink, the famous operatic star and the greatest of all song recital artists; the Savage Grand Opera company in Madame Butterfly and Kubelik, the violinist who has created the principal furore during the past few years. In ad dition to these great treats we will have probably the Damrosch orchestra and possibly the Pittsburg or the Chicago, or chestra. would suggest that some of our musical coteries bestir themselves and make sure of the cohing of at least one symphony orchestra.
 "Of local music we are to have the Saengerfest concert at the Hippodrome, Monday night, September 23. and series of Sunday afternoon chamber concerts under the direction of MT. and Mrs. Gus sen of the conservatory. The Sunday musicals at the conservatory last season were at once delightful and educative and were largely attended by men and women who listened intelligently and seriously.
 There Is a great deal of musical ap- preciation in Birmingham and if the city continues to grow the time will come when a local symphony orchestra will be maintained. With anything like liberal support Memoli could organize and con duct an orchestra of thirty-five or forty musicians that would be a credit to Bir- mingham and certainly a source of re- fined pleasure to many people"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
Alabama Confederate Stamps.

"I am about to publish an extensive work dealing with the postage stamps issued by the Confederate states, and different southern cities In 61-65," writes W. Smith of Grand Rapids, Mich.
 My information is very meagr con cerning the stamps issued by the post masters of the following Alabama cittes in 1861: Autaugaville. Bridgeyille. Greenville, Greensboro. Grove Hill. Liv- ingston, Macon. Montgomery. Selma, Tuscumbia, Tuscaloosa and Uniontown-
 For this reason I would be very thankful to receive information from your records bearing on the subject, and to hear from anyone having new or used specimens of these stamps in their possession, which might be purchased for the purpose of Illustration"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
Veterans of Mexican War.

"The recent death of General Pettus," said IT. K. White, "removes anoth CT heroic figure from the thin gray line (for they are all gray or white haired now) of the veterans of the Mexican war. It Is hard for us younger men to realize how far back these veterans helped make the history of our nation. General Scott with the American army, entered the city of Mexico in Septem- Der. 1s47-just sixty years ago, and tn ese veterans were in the flush of manh ood then. I personally know only three more veterans of that historic war, and they are all native Alabam- fans, and live here. They are ex-Gov- ernor Rufus W. Cobb, who has rendered distinguished service to his state fn peace as in war: pr. Frank E. Davidson, tall, courtly, who carries his years with soldierly bearing, growing old grace fully--as fine a type of the southern gentleman of the old regime as could be pointed out; and Capt. John White, formerly of the law firm of White & Howze, now retired, and watching from the sunny crest of his home on Shades mountain the shadows length ening to- ward the west"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
CONTRIBUTION TO LITERATURE

From the WashinSton Host.
 Winthrop E. Stone, president of Purdue university, in an address on Lafayette. said of ignorance:
 Ignorance makes all it touches ridicu- lous. Nothing, not even culture, is in- mune to its attacks. Did you ever hear of the ignorant millionaires library?
 Well, there was millionaire, cattle man, who led visitor into great room lined with thousands of volumes.
 "'see them boolxs?" he said.
 Yes said the visitor.
 They're all bound in calf, ain't theyf Yes" the visitor agreed; they seem to have a uniform calf binding
 "The millionaire chuckled proudly.
 "'Wen, sir he said, I killed all them calves myself' "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
I'll. .JOIRNEY

You toddle there and don't know what the future holds in store The heartache and the longing and the tears, Nor what regrets for him who leaves mother-guarded shore To make his way across the sea of years School days and flower ways and ram bes free from care, A little while-but time is rushing on And ere you've had chance to breathe the rose leaf perfume there The days of happy childhood will be gone. And then the dreams of eager youth, some disappointments. too, Those first encounters with frowning world. still shines the sun. however and tho sky is fair and blue, Your banner in the fight Is but un- furled More years, more years to try and man hoods over-wrought estate, Tho soul-absorbing battle for success, And in your heart of hearts to say some day you will be great. Tho obstacles oppose you none the less. Meridian the sun descends, old ages snowy locks, Your voyage. for good or i'll. draws near a close. God grant that no unbidden storm may drive you on the rocks. And may you weather every wind that blows. So, coming to the Sunset land, the land of lost desire. All glowing with the light of other days, Lie down to sleep dreaniess sleep while others slave for hire And fight the battles out in earthly ways.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
ALABAMA PRESS

Marion County News; The railroad question will soon be brushed away, and the next problem to be solved is the sale of whisky in Alabama. Prohibition is certain to be tried
 Andalusla News: One Andalusla lady will never again wear artificial oats on her hat-not this year. Recently the good lady attempted to unite horse and the animal got a bite of oats that fooled him about as badly as Conner fooled the people.
 Ft. Payne Journal: Every republican and some of the alleged democratic pa pers in the north side with the railroads in their fight against the authority of Alabama. The reason Is easy to see. Ala bama is a democratic state and the question of states rights is also in volved.
 Sumter Sun: It has been announced that kissing removes freclSes. Whether this Is true we do not know. We do know. however, that too many freekles will remove kissing.
 Marshall Banner: The Southern rail- way will make more by playing the part of the unresisting martyr than by rais- ing the question of states rights
 DeKalb Record Everybody is watch ing Governor Conner Judge Jones and the railroads now. ,Ve are bettin on Gov ernor Conner.
 Prattville Progress: There are 200,000,000 copies of the Bible scattered throughout the world. And yet we never run across anybody sitting in 4 hammock reading one.
 Franl1ling Times: The trust still has the country in it's strong grip and the c. O. P. is not likely to give 1t any serious trouble, ss they will want to stand pat until another national election fig pulled off.
 Wilcox Progressive Era: One Georgia editor admits that he Is unperturbed by the prohibition victory in that state He says he can still get intoxicated by the beauty of Georgia girls. We had heard them called spirituelle, but never spirit uous.
 Mobile Herald: The administration at Washington wants to get at what Mir. Rockefeller knows about oil and what MT. Hartman knows about water.
 Anniston Hot Blast: Judge Parker thinks there is too much nasty and ill., considered legislation. Score one for the judge. He is evidently still safe, sane and conservative.
 Oneonta Southern Democrat: Governor Conner evidently got the idea that the editors who went to Mobile on the Ala bama river got free transportation, and to avoid a repetition of the trip he had the legislature, at its summer session, put steam boats under the control of the railroad commission. He need not to have worried the commissioners with that matter as we paid our fare on that trip and paid 1t in cash too, not adver- Using.
 Roanoke Leader: Secretary Taft has been down across tho Ohio, flirting with the Solid South. No, thank you, Mir.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

Don't forget the annual picnic of the children from the East Lake orphan age at the state fair grounds on Labor day. The entertainment will be en- joyable to children and adults alike. Remember the time and the place-on Labor Day at Fairview.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
ADRIFF WITH THE TIMES

WISDOM TABLETS. Altho a mule Be sweet and kind. Just walk in front, And not behind.
 Birmingham Age-Heraid. Another hint: According to Hoyle, Don't start a fire With Standard oil.
 St. Louis Times. And when you pass His muleship by, Keep on him Your weather eye.
 Ohio Sun
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

Nobody would lie if it was unselfish.
 A girls notion of ideals is high-hown talk that sounds like real language
 It takes terrible long time to get rich by merely trying to earn your money. A nice thing about wife is when yhc doesn't nag you because she is away vis itiug her mother.
 It scsres a woman almost to death to think how scared she would be to have a strange man apeak to her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

"Ie who affirms that Italians, as a race are undesirable, has never read the history of the world" appears at the head of our Italian contemporary, L'Yanguardia, and 1t certainly is the truth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

There Is a merchant in Hot Springs, Ark, named Godbehere, but the chances are that he would be perfectly willing to have & good customer there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

Trainer Muldoon need not try to make Secretary Root strong enough to grapple a presidential boom. He comes from Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

The Taft managers are counting chickens before they are matched when they claim 518 votes. with "A more "as almost certain" They claim a solid south
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

The Wall street fist asserted Itself at the Illinois Central meeting, and 1t may be prudent to speak low when criticizing that street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

It is reported that West Virginia had black rain. Wonder why some body didn't draw the color line?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

Judge Parker freely discusses topics of interest, but the reporters who sug- gest his return to political life have forgotten 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

It is more than suspected that the blow which Stuyvesant Fish handed to Harahan was really stored up for Hartman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

M. Witte has become a banker, and he is no longer within the bomb range in his country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

The deceased wife's sisters are in an expectant attitude under the new and esteemed English law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

Secretary Root may put some of his new vigor into diplomacy, and if he does things will begin to hum In all parts of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

What Is liiss?" asks college pro- lessor with a name like pied line. Sometimes 1t is an indiscretion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

The brunette ruler of Morocco is not easily slain, and the recent stories to that effect may prove to have been misleading
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

Congress has not yet ordered the coal to enable the battleships to steam to the Pacific.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

When the auto and the trolley meet the coroner gathers in fees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

The news from home would prob ably keep Mayor Ward awake if he could get some of it fresh right now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

Richard Mansfield published "Blow Away" a book for children, and sey- eral poems of undoubted merit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

The new tennis champion is vet eran of a dozen seasons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

It is getting to be habit nowadays for near-poets to write new words for Dixie" The old words are good enough for us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

No one questions MT. fraft's right to a lower berth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

Governor Hughes is making 8 stir in his party by demanding honesty in public office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

The British army is seeking good luck by ordering 100, 1000 American horseshoes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

Speaking of melancholy Danes, has MT. Battling" Nelson cheered up yet?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

Evidently one black eye is not enough for Judge Parker. He wants two.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

They are soaking the railroad pres idents, but Hartman still goes un- scotched.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

Farmer Muldoon stands ready tC take on another cabinet member.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
GIMBt

Don't look for rewards in the valley, There's work on the hills to do. Push on with a cheer for a rally
 And courage will pull you throughi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01

School days are approaching to the deep regret of the average healthy child.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
HoNoRABLEs ON PARADE.

HONORABLEs ON PARADE.
 Csee daily papers.) The Hon. J. Stacey Lucas, who was re- gently arrested on a charge of having wrecked the National Depositors' bank was allowed bail yesterday in the sum of s1ooOO.
 The Hon. Malet Dobbs, who has been named as correspondent in the Whoop divorce case, declares that he will give out no more interviews
 The Hon. c. A G. snaggs, who was in- vestigated last year on the charge of having received bribes while a member of the state legislature, is prominently mentioned for governor
 The Hon. James McGawlx, prominent In ward politics and boss of the Sixteenth has just opened a new saloon on West Three undred and Eighty-f1fth street and Motion avenue.
 The Hon. Jimpson P. Weed returned to his home and family yesterday after serving a sentence of ten years in the federal penitentiary at Rockville for forgery He announces that he will run for alderman
 NOT HIS WAY
 The meaneSt man
 l ever saw
 Was never known
 To break the law.
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 Prince Wilhelm says he found Presi- dent Roosevelt even more strenuous than he had anticipated. Did the Swedish prince think that Mr. Roosevelt was only strenuous as the kaiser7