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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
Direct hmm grafton Efforts

While insisting that the nation as a
whole needs a strict immigration law,
the Chicago News is fair and Just
enough to say that Justice requires
that the national government give
careful thought to the southern labor
situation and extend 10 that part of the
nation every possible assistance in its
effort to obtain white labor. With
100000 immigrants arriving every
year under existing conditions it ought
10 be possible for large share of the
newcomers to be diverted from the con
gested foreign quarters of the great
cities of the north TO the fertile re-
gions of the south, where profitable
employment in a mild climate awaits
them"
II similar sentiment existed in New
England, particularly in Massachusetts,,
NO obstacles would be put in the way
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
HER GOLDEN GOWN.
Ethel Levey Appears In Court Dressed
Like a Queen.

Special Dispatch to Cincinnati Enquirer.
New York.-Mrs. George NJ. Cohan,
known on the stage as Ethel Levey ap-
peared today before Justice Truax and
Jury In Part II of the supreme court
and asked for an absolute divorce from
her husband, George M. Cohan' play
wright and actor.
Miss Leyey's black broadcloth walking
suit was decorated with gold braid and
huge gold buttons She wore as much
gold braid as an ordinary pandmaster
while on duty with Minstrel show, and
in the matter of gold braid, gold buttons
and gold tassels surpassed the uniform
of any officer in our army or navy. She
wore a large black hat around which
was twisted about three yeards of thin
cloth of gold. The hat was decorated
with gold buttons as large as silver 90
cent pieces, which bore her monogram.
Through straps of black cloth were slipped
bands of gold braid about two inches in
width and from the braid We're sus-
pended gold tassels. She wore long black
gloves and several gold bracelets outside
the gloves. She carried two gold purses.
One was set with many diamonds and
rubies. Around her neck was a long jew
eled chain. Suspended from her arm
were some twenty-five different gold orna-
ments, including many toilet articles.
The plaintiff left the courthouse with
out losing any of the weight of gold.
Beside her walked two athletic looking
men whose identity remained mystery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21

OF the south. It is plain, however, that
the Lodges and the Coverings and the
Gardeners of Massachusetts are deter
mined to check and curb the south in
every possible manner But their ef-
forts to change the new immigration
bill into a severe restriction measure
We're to some extent unsuccessful. and
each state in the south is left free to
organize movements looking 10 the
gathering of immigrants in Europe to
be landed at Charleston, New Orleans
or other southern ports. Nearly every
southern state is moving in this mat
ter, and the legislature in this state
should lay the foundation for strong
effort to bring to this state more white
men-more white farmers, more cotton
mill workers, more men who will seek
employment in our lumber mills, fur
naces and other industries.
And while We are making this effort
We should also organize against the
four dollar head tax imposed by Mas
sachusetts, which practically may be-
come a tax on the South. It is esti-
mated that every immigrant is worth
as wealth producers S1100 to the
country, and it is unjust to tax a new
conner at ALL There should be no head
tax whatever, and if the south will
unite in demand for its repeal it can
be stricken out in the next Congress-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Carbon Hill Growing.

Carbon Hill is one OF the most progress
sive mining towns in northwest Ala
bama," said the Rev. c. r. Jordan OF
that city, who was In Birmingham yes
terday. The Rev. Mr.. Jordan has been
called to the pastorate of the First Bap-
fist church at Wylam and will take
charge March 1.
Carbon Hille continued the Rev. Mr..
Jordan lis quite unlike a majority OF
the mining towns III the Birmingham dis
trict in that 1t is developing into quite
a business center and has many of the
conveniences of the more pretentious CEN
ters. We have good streets and side
walks, electric lights and water works
with many of the other conveniences
not usually found in mining towns.
"The coal mines are far enough removed
from the town TO relieve us of the dirt
and smoke SO common in such places,
and the town is remarkably clean and at
tractive. The mines are close enough,
however. to allow the operators and EN-
ployes to live in the city.
Carbon Hill has good schools and
clutches and several of the fraternal or
CARNATIONS have strong local lodges. The
population is growing steadily as the min
ing properties are being constantly devel-
oped and new plants opened in the vlcin-
itvn
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
ONIONS EDITORIAL CAREER.

From the North American Review.
Orion got a job as proof-reader on the
New York Evening POST at ten dollars
week. BY and by he came to Hartford
and wanted me to get him place as re-
porter on a Hartford paper. Here was a
chance to try my scheme again. and L
did it, | made him go to the Hartford
Evening Post" without any letter of
introduction. and propose to scrub and
sweep and do all sorts of things for moth
ing, on the plea that he didn't need
money but only needed work, and that
was what he was pining for. Within six
weeks he was on the editorial staff Of
that paper at twenty dollars week and
he was worth the money. He was
presently called for by some other paper
at better wages, but I made him go TO
the Post people and tell them about
it. They stood the raise and kept him.
1t was the pleasantest berth he had ever
had in his life. 1t was an easy berth
He was in every way comfortable. But
ill-luck came. 1t was bound to come.
A new republican daily was to be
started in a New England city by stock
company of well-to-do politicians, and
they offered him the chief editorship at
three thousand a year He was eager to
accept. My beseechings and reasonings
went for nothing I said
You are as weak water, Those
people will find it out right away. They
will easily see that you have no back
bone: that they can deal with you as
they would deal with a slave You may
last six months, but not longer. Then
they will not dismiss You as they would
dismiss a gentleman: they will fling you
out as they would fling out an intruding
tran,Dp
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
Cotton Planting Prospects.

Indications point to large cotton
planting In Alabama this spring" said
j. s. Ut1ey of Montgomery, who travels
extensively through the cotton section In
connection with the fertilizer trade and
who spent last night at the Hotel Hill
man.
'The shipment of fertilizer was slow
starting this season, but 1t is now NOV
ing with rush and the volume of bust
ness will equal that of last year. The
cotton farmers of South Alabama are now
blowing and will be ready for planting
early in the spring.
1 am more familiar with conditions
in the smaller towns than am with the
cities and everywhere I go the country
people seem prosperous and contented
In fact, the evidence of prosperity was
never so marked as now"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
Life In New York.

zone of the advantages of living In a
city like New York is the amount of
entertainment and instruction a person
can obtain free" said travelling man
yesterday.
will read for your information
clipping from daily newspaper which
gives the list of subjects upon which lee
lures were delivered one night last week
in the public schools of the city of New
York. These lectures are given under the
auspices of the board of education and
are very we'll attended, especially by
young people.
Here are a few of the SUBJECTS MI
chaeI Angelo oliver Goldsmith The
Prevention of Consumption. Art and
Life Treatment of Everyday Injuries
Comets and Meteors,' and several others
equally as interesting. Many of these lee
lures are illustrated, which adds TO the
attractiveness and some are accompa-
MED by practical experiments.
Many people who hear of New York
believe it is city of vice and Its VIC
tins, but with such counter attractions
to the saloon and the dance hall, 1t is
purely matter of choice on the part
of the resident whether he will rise or
sink il the social. educational and moral
scale. In a big city like New York he
has the opportunity to acquire an educa-
ton through its museums. libraries, art
galleries and public institutions which
largely overbalance the temptations which
beset his path.
THE young man who goes to or lives
in New York must have moral stamina
to resist the vicious attractions which
everywhere present themselves. His reso-
lutions in that direction are strengthened
by offering him counter attractions, by
providing for him places of recreation and
instruction where he can improve his
mind. 1t is not legislation but selection
which decides what man shall be; and
the youth who has the choice of attend
ing a lecture in a public school building
but prefers to spend his evening in a
dive is sadly deficient in the qualities
that count in the making of a man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
Fate of the PHILIPPINES

Judge James II. Blount, son of the
Congressman from the Macon, Georgia,
district twenty years ago, presents in
the mid-January number of the North
American his views upon the disposal
of the Philippines, and his article is
attracting wide and unusual attention,
chiefly because Judge Blount spent
several years in the Philippines, and
knows what he writes about.
He says the Filipinos will never be
contented this side of liberty. They
have no Notwithstanding at all-in
common with America. They are
Malays who have had some Spanish
training, and they unanimously and
passionately desire independence. Al
any rate, they have not the slightest
intention of becoming Americans.
They could not if they would
Judge Blount thinks three strong
men should be sent to the Philippines
to promise the people in those islands
independence in ten years, and to aid
them to get ready for the great change.
The sole objection to Judge Blount's
plan consists in the fact that he leaves
the islanders exposed to attack from
many quarters. They are practically
defenseless. 1t goes without saying
that we should get rid of the islands,
but 1t is an open question whether it
would not be better to hand them over
either to China or Japan, both being
Oriental nations in close touch with
the Filipinos. The islands would not
be Independent if left to themselves,
and this country wants no protectorate
burden so far away from the mainland.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
Compliment to King.

1.-THE task of rewriting. the employers
liability bill, which has been given Rep
resentatiye Jerre King by the Jefferson
county delegation in the Alabama legis-
lature, is a high compliment to the abil-
ity of the very deserving young mar,
and a man who is destined to make his
mark in the affairs of this state" said
a local attorney yesterday.
81 have watched this young man with
considerable interest since the campaign
in which he was selected as one of the
representatives from this county, and
have been impressed with his energy and
his great desire to do something for the
good of the public.
His proposition to place county of
flcials on salary which was announced a
few days before the converting of the
present session, met with general favor
over the state, and served to bring Mr.
King prominently before the public eye.
1.-THE framing of the employers liability
bill is an important task and one that
demands ability, but I feel sure that the
selection of Mr.. King for the work is
wise and is a deserving compliment to a
promising legislator
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
Birmingham Morals.

Il recently met a minister of the gospel
who has a large pastoral charge in Mem
phis but who was formerly pastor in
Birmingham and asked him how the
morals of our city compared with those
of his present home city, said the Rev.
Dr. l. d. Steele
"He answered that the comparison was
decidedly in favor of Birmingham. And
come to think of it, this city, notwith-
standing the number of homicides that
have taken place here is, on the whole,
far above the average city in good morals.
Our large church going population is an
indication of the fine character of the
community. Vice is found in every con-
siderable town and Birmingham has about
the usual share of it; but in no city with
which am familiar do the Cody people
have greater influence than here in Br-
mingham. l attribute this wholesome con-
diton largely to the high plane on which
The Age-IIerald and the other papers
here are conducted
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
To mock the expectation of the world.
p King Henry w.
Federal Quarantine.

The Legislature promptly passed a
bill authorizing the quarantine board
of Mobile bay to transfer its property
at Fort Morgan and its jurisdiction 10
the United States. and the bill has been
signed by Governor Conner and is now
q law.
This important measure has attracted
little attention at home, but in other
states it is regarded as an important
step towards safety from imported dis
eases. 1t puts this state in line with
Florida and Mississippi. and the Louis
lana legislature has made similar pro.
vision, and no doubt Governor Blanch-
ard of that state will soon transfer its
port quarantine system to the United
States marine hospital service. This
would put maritime quarantine on the
gulf in the hands of the federal author
tiles, Texas alone excepted Texas
proposes to manipulate maritime quar-
antine in way to embarrass the trade
of New Orleans regardless of the health
of the country.
A state and federal system of quar-
antine at the ports is neither economi-
cal nor trustworthy, and no doubt all
the shore states in the south will fall
in line with Mississippi, Alabama and
Florida. ut will not be possible" says
the New Orleans Pines Democrat, "for
Louisiana to maintain much longer, in
opposition to public sentiment, an un-
necessary and expensive quarantine
system which is proving SO heavy a
burden to the commerce of this port
without any corresponding advant-
ages
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
THE TWO HOBSONS.
! the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
There are two Hobsons. First of course
comes our own eloquent captain, calling
for a hundred thousand or more battle
ships and breathing death and destruction
to Japan. He talks like a house afire,
and those who fail to hear or read him
are short on entertainment Next comes
Hobson OF Belfast, a broth of a boy, who
has come over to warn us against Mr..
Bryce whose object, he tells us. is to
persuade America into an alliance with
Great Britain for the purpose of lighting
Germany. Now If the two Hobsons would
double up" for the lecture platform what
Il stunt they would give, How audiences
would cheer, and gate receipts grow 1t
is the day of rapid firing. whether the
weapon is cannon or a mouth of big
guns and long tongues: of red fire and
red language.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
ALABAMA PRESS

Admission Star: Those who can no longer
ride on passes should thank the governor
for signing that 21a cent fare bill.
Mobile Herald: Chicago is having q
hardware show. Knockers here is your
chance to view the 1907 model of ham
mer.
Mobile Item: To be in clover Is to get
the endorsement of Conner. This is not
poetry, but a fact il one is to judge by
the way Conner measures are railroaded
through the legislature.
Selma Journal: The rivers of Alabama
are attracting great attention all over
the country. 1t is Just being realized
that Alabama has as fine a natural sys
tenn of waterways as can be found in
the same territory anywhere in the world.
With artificial help there is no forecasting
what the beautiful streams of this state
may mean to the industrial development
of it's many resources.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
TROUSERS FOREVER!
From the Montgomerv Advertiser

T IUTI INC -hUIItSUIItTy AuNertlSef.
.Shall trousers be surrendered? ?" asks
the New York Mail. Not while the bird
of freedom is able to mount the air and
say things. nor while a single drop of
lurid blood courses through the veins of
American patriots. The Scotch writer who
is advocating the abolition and retirement
of breeches can't work his scheme over
here. Let him wear kilt and stockings, if
he chooses and glory in his garb. IL he
is built that way. He may don petticoats,
for all We care. but he must not lay
hands on our trousers. We are willing
TO have them suspendered. but not sur
rendered,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
THE LATE CAMPAIGN

Gadsdn Times-News: Mayor Ward re-
ministration when the high character of
mis- opponent is considered. There is no.
where a man of more charming person
atty than Frank p O'Brien, and certain
~ Birmingham has no better or more pa
triotic citizen. Mr.. Wards majority was
small, but he should consider any sort of
victory a compliment to his most able adj
ministration and to himself personally.
This vote of confidence should be encour-
aging to all public officials who are in
clned to do their duty as they have sworn
to do 1t.
Montgomery Journal And Frank P.
O'Brien made a good race for Mayor of
Birmingham. He came so near and yet he
failed. Montgomery felt great interest
of friends here of Frank OBrien who
wanted to see him succeed-wanted him
elected Mayor of Birmingham. He Is a
Montgomery product and Montgomery has
furnished the best brain and enegry of
the Magic City.
Gadsden Journal: Birmingham has re-
elected Mayor Ward. This is as it should
be. The Magic City could not expect the
doing of duty to become popular with its
chief executive if for no better reason
than this the incumbet was to be kicked
ont
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21

= Y degrees the quivering soul of
R John D. Rockefeller is being laid
~ bare. We are now informed by
one who claims to have made an "Inti-
mate character study" of the magnate
that he is bashful. In fact, Mr.. Rookie
feller's diffidence is extraordinary" to
quote this same authority, and while his
money talks with a voice that thunders
round the world and makes the simple
Fiiian tremble on his island, Mr. Rookie
feller's own voice, as we'll as his lovable
personality, is drowned out by shouts of
reckless disapproval. Is it possible that
Ida Tarbel was mistaken in her man?
Have we erred? More light on Rookie
feller! Let's give everybody a square
DEAL even if they are rich!
WHAT'S THE USE OF ARGUING?
There is a chap, you know him we'll
Who's always in the right,
And when you don't agree with him
He wants to pick a fight.
He'll wrangle over any thing
The world is round or fat
And when the smoke of battle clears,
You'll find him standing pat
A controversialist is he,
A power in debate.
He shows you where you're in the wrong
And says, I'm here to state"
He garbles facts and figures and
Can't see beyond his nose,
But he'll stand up against the wind,
No matter how it blows.
He spends his days upon the street,
Or at the village store,
And as the empty years pile up
He argues more and more.
He barely earns enough to keep
His needy familee,
And while he talks from morn to night,
An idle man Is he.
Both fame and fortune pass him by,
Since time and tide won't wait
For any chap whose wagging tongue
Contrives to make him late
He wears his trousers out behind
He spits tobacco Juice,
And to his fellows on this earth
He's not of any use.
A truce to foolish argument
Forsooth, this life is brief
Too short to waste it trying to change
Some other chaps belief.
Let each one think to suit himself,
And should we not agree,
The need of falling out for that
Is more than l can see.
"Wait Till the Sun Shines. Molly" runs
popular song. Do that or take an UNI
brella along, dear.
LOOK OUT!
Shuttle, shuttle,
Sneeze away
Ills the grip germs
Busy day!
The father of an clipping son in West
Virginia took him to the woodshed. Love
laughs at 1ocksmiths, but you could hard
ly expect him to laugh at a trunk strap.
WINTER SONG.
Father swears and mother trembles,
All the children yield to fear
At the loud, paternal thunder
That they cannot help but hear.
o, there's trouble, trouble, trouble, =
And a plumbers bill TO pay
When the bathrooms overlooking
In the morning cold and gray.
On a still day you can hear the weekly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
NIGHTS HARMONIES.

From 1.-The Merchant of Venice
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon
this bank,
Here We will sit and let the sound OF
music
Creep in our cars; soft stiffness and the
night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patnes of bright
gold
There's not the smallest orb which thou
behold st
But Ia his motion like an angel sings,
Still curing to the young-eyed cherubims.
Such harmony is in eternal souls:
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close 1t in
We canot hear It
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
Marked improvements.

B. Steiner of New York, formerly of
Birmingham, is here looking after bus
mess interests and shaking hands with
old friends. IT was in Birmingham two
months ago. but paid only a brief visit"
said Mr.. Steiner. ut had been nearly a
year since [ remained long enough to
look around and observe the progress
being made hereabouts.
II was in Bessemer this week and have
been on several of the suburban street
car lines within the past day or two.
There is marked improvement on every
side. Birmingham has made strides and
there can be no doubt about It's great flu
tUren
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
from the Washington P

FROM the washington fOSl.
IA It'll a mighty yawn, a rapid ris-
wv ing of sap, and a painful burst
" of song, the editorial trouba-
dour of the Los Angeles Times awakes
and announces that spring has arrived IN
his neiehborhood. He sees indubitabie ev-
tdence OF it in the matrimonial activities
of thrushes and larks and in certain land
scape effects; but mostly the evidence is
in his own heart which awakes and
MARBLES in inebiated unison with the pipe
of nesting birds. Listen to the Minstrel
as he rises above the trammels OF gram
mar. surveys and scenery, and makes the
splendid discovery that twilight arrives
when the day is done:
soft lies the emerald wales today
sleeping between the mountains and the
sea. Soft they lie in the glow of the
magic mornings and in the purpled twl-
lights when the day is done. Never was
there a land like this. never hath the
eyes of man seen its like
The bard, choking with emotion and
noting the unprecedented rise in real es-
tate values, finds relief in copious quo
tations from the Song of Songs more or
less relevant to conditions in southern
California. But he insists that he IS
awake and to be awake is still to dream
ut is to dream of sunlit trails and
wandering days a-many that the heart
now waketh. The ear listens and hears
the tlnkle of falling waters in far-off call
yons. The sea is calling and the hills OF
glory beckon. The blue dome of the flash
ing skies is filed with the sweep of wings
The wild geese cry in the night as they
cleaye a pathway through the dust of
stars The pipe of the quail is heard in the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
SOlONS AND ASSES.

From the Houston Post.
The Washington Post says: Another
Carnegie hero medal-quck. A West Nir-
ginia legislator wants to tax all jack
asses in the state, and the Fairmont
Times declares that tax of that kind
would bear most heavily on the legisla-
ture." These jackass jokes when legis-
lature is in session are great injustice
TO some mighty good men. They are also
an injustice to some mighty good jack
asses,