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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
Reed Sm0ot Wins Out

After contest lasting four years, in
which thousands and tens of thousands
of excellent women took part, Senator
Smoot has been firmly seated as Utah S
senior Senator. To declare Mr.. Smoot
not entitled to his seat a two thirds
vote was requisite, so Senator Carmacll
moved that he be expelled, hoping in
that way to avoid the constitutional
requirement. The Carmack resolution
was readily defeated. Many Senators
were willing to say seat could be
vacated by mere majority vote. When
the formal resolution under the consti-
tuition came up the vote was AZ in favor
of Smoot and % against him.
Only four democrats voted to retain
Smoot-Blackburn Clark of Montana,
Daniel and Teller. Only nine republi-
cans voted to unseat him. Senator
Dubois of Idaho openly charged in the
Senate that the President of the United
States and the republican party were
lined up in support of Smoot. 1t is
well known that Mormonism and re-
publicanism have long been working
partnership Mormons agreeing TO
carry Utah and assist in carrying other
states in return for favors of one kind
on another. Under this bargain Smoot
was seated.
The case was. however, one of many
complications. Reed Smoot has but
one wife. He is an apostle of the Nor
mon church. That church believes IN
voluntary polygamy. Smoot is himself
the son OF Il polygamist. His father
had four wives. The son married a
polygamist child, she being the daugh-
ter of the fourth wife of her father.
And yet the Senate could not see its
way clear to an expulsion Of Smoot
after he had stated his views of polyg-
amy. From his seat I'm the Senate he
said:
Il desire 10 state, as I have repeatedly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
MANSFIELD MAY GO SOUTH,

From the New York Times.
shington.-I. NJ. Arosamino repre-
sentins a group of Cuban, Mexican and
South American managers has been in
Washington negotiating with Richard
Mansfield for tour of the capitals of
the Southern hemisphere. Mr. Mansfield
has not announced his decision
Mr.. Mansfield is almost as well known
in Latin America as in this country"
said Mr.. Arosamino. 1.-TWO years ago
came to the United States to negotiate for
his appearance in Havana, the City of
Mexico. and six principal Mexican cities.
AS that proposition was not backed by
any guarantee his managers refused to
entertain it.
This time I return able to offer a
guarantee of 1920 American money for
each and every appearance, and to guar
antee five appearances q week for twelve
weeks. Our idea is to have the tour be-
gin in May and have him visit Havana
and the principal cities of Mexico; then
the great capitals Of the lower east coast
of South America and Lima Valparaiso
and other cities of the west coast. In
every city on our list are thousands of
English speaking residents In affluent
circumstances
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
TAUGHT WHILE ASLEEP.
Studying Machine Drills knowledge
Into Slumbering Minds.

Chicago Dispatch in New York Herald.
Edward Jacobson, a Northwestern Uni
versty student. has invented studying
machine which not only abolishes the
ravages on the body caused by all-night
sessions with towel-encircled brows over
books of small print, but also saves, he
says, the eyes and the mind
Young Jacobsons device is of phono-
graphic nature, for which he has pre-
pared records on which are concentrated
the essential points of entire courses. He
unstraps his case of records, selects
course No 1, turns out the light lies down
on the bed or couch and, pulling cord
which Is attached to the machine, pre-
pares to absorb learning by the roll.
The machine IL provided with an at
tachment on the order of the works of
AN eisht-day clock. which will run an in
definite period far longer than any.listen-
er will survive. Even If the student drops
asleep the constant ana monotonous
repetition of the records has the effect
OF impressing itself on the seemingly dor
mant brain. for in the morning the stu
dent has the course at his tongues end
and goes TO his examination, in campus
vernacular. prepared Ito knock the
'profs eye OUT
Intricate formulas Of calulus involved
problems of algebra and geometry taught
TO men who think OF taking up engineer
ing and other deep forms of mathemat-
ical lore can all be caught by the ma
chine without skip or miss and forma-
lions So formidable that the eye will not
grasp them become very easy to the COM
prehension when drummed into the brain
through the ear by repeating the record.
The Importance OF the Invention is such
fromtthe student standpoint nat canned
lessons promise to become common on
the Evanston campus.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
Control of the New Duma

The new duma will consist of 524
members, over one-half of whom have
been elected. The left and the groups
that sympathize with and to some eX-
tent work with ii have secured two
thirds of the members elected, and the
indications are that the drift towards
parliamentary government will be in
creased rather than diminished.
Stormy times are ahead for the Rus
sian government. The new ,duma will
fight even it's reform propositions, be
cause it wants greater power, and this
will have to be exacted from the Car
by conflict over any proposition the
premier submits. The social democrats
and the revolutionaries in the new
duma will render government well-nigh
'-'noseihle. and there must be either
sions to the people, or else
solution, and it is difficult
the latter would help the
t.. For 1t is a great mistake
the Russian people have
k in any manner.
,content with czarism and
bureaucratic government is as great as
it ever has been. 1t is truth increas-
ing constantly, and uprisings would
occur if the leaders did not keep them
under awaiting the election Of the new
duma. The revolution in Russia is
moving straight along, but the country
is very large and the people in it very
ignorant, and ten years is not bit
too much time in which to carry the
revolution to consummation. No APP
peal to the people will result in the
free election of a parliament that will
support absolutsm in any form, or
even government pledged to joint
action'by the Gar and the duma. Radi-
calism is in the saddle in Russia, and
it promises to gain control of the vast
country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
VISITING PANAMA.

From the Boston Globe.
A great rush of tourists to Panama has
taken place within a short time, and the
expected trip of the commercial clubs of
four cities has begun with the departure
of the nineteen members forming the
Boston delegation. These gentlemen will
be met at Charleston by the Chicago,
Cincinnati and st. Louis delegations.
The visit to Panama of representatives
of the commercial clubs of Boston, Chi
cago, Cincinnati and ST. Louis was an
nounceG approvingly by President Roose-
Welt n his message to Congress last De
cember. Since the appearance of the
Presidents celebrated illustrated account
of his visit to the scene of the canal there
has h, zen much wider and more direct
public interest in the great engineering
project. which accounts for the large
amount of travel to the isthmus
Inc result must be widely diffused in
formation in this country of the actual
work that is being done on the canal
and of the remarkable scenes accompany
ing the progress of our extraordinary
engineering task.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
,01, as follows:

There are anticipations on the one
hand that the southern properties will
after while be combined in a gigan-
tic trust not unlike the one Mr.. Morgan
organized at Pittsburg. The well-sus
tanned prices of Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railroad are indications that an
evolution of some sort is contemplated
or at least may become possible.
But there are others who say present
prices are too high, and that recessions
will occur very much as they did after
1901 down to the recent rise. The
business of the country has become so
much enlarged that comparisons with
1901 are of little value. The growth Of
the country and of its general business,
and of it's consumption of the great
commercial metal seem to forbid low
prices for iron in any time that can be
foreseen. What was possible in 1901
is not probable now, although there
may be small reductions in the present
high prices for steel.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
eoomIno jamestown Exposition.

II am just out in the southwest ex-
plotting the jamestown exposition; have
been distributing printed matter of all
kinds about it and letting the people
know that we are going to have a big
show at Norfolk" said W. E. Christian,
assistant general passenger agent of the
Seaboard with headquarters in Atlanta.
Il have been all over the west and
southwest, and have left a bundle of lit
erature everywhere [ went. I have talked
exposition in all parts of Texas and the
intervening territory, and now l am
headed for home.
MANY people had an idea that the ex-
position was going to be held on James,
town Island and that it would not
amount to much. They were very much
surprised when they were told that it
was going to be at Norfolk and that one
of it's features would be the greatest
naval display on record anywhere in the
world. They were also amazed when
they learned of the size of the EXPOSE
tion and what it really meant to the
southeast. | think that the exposition
passenger business will be immense.
There will be a very large business out
of Birmingham, which is the gateway
between the west southwest and the
east
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
Regarding Mandy.

In my household Blackman's Mandy
page, which is a feature of The Sunday
Age-Herald, is greatly enjoyed" said the
Rev. Frank Willis Barnett, editor of the
Alabama Baptist. And here is humor-
Gus side to it that is not known to the
artist. Our cook is named Mandy, and
in appearance and temperament is not
unlike Blackman's. Now the joke of it
is our Mandy thinks she is the artists
original. Her friends think so, too, and
when they first saw Blackmans page
they expressed wonder that she should
have been reproduced so accurately.
When they asked Mandy had that 'dar
newspaper man got her down so fine,
she explained that some time ago she was
in a crowd and a genmn was there
making marks on paper. She said she
couldn't figure out at the time what he
was up to, but after seeing herself in the
paper it dawned on her that he was taxi
ing her picture.
Mandy didn't realize that there was
such thing as imagination. Blackman
has never heard of our cook, much less
seen her; but all the colored folks in the
neighborhood accepted her story as the
true version "
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
Mt. Pinson Road Is Bad.

81 would certainly like to see the coun-
ty put the Mt. Pinson road in frst-class
condition. said a man who drives fire.
quently and who also owns an automo-
bile. "A large part of tn road from Bir-
mingham to Mt. Pinson is in fairly good
condition, and it is a pleasure to ride on
it, but at other places it is mserably
kept.
"A few wagon loads of dirt or Stag put
down on the road would help 1t q great
deal, especially at the approaches to the
various bridges. At. some bridges there
are ruts six inches deep all the way
across the road. and it makes driving
very hard for buggy or an automobile
THE foundation of the road is excel
lent, but it needs some repairs on the top
which could be made at a nominal ex-
pense, and which would be a great con-
venience to the pepole of the county"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
Assisted immigration

The state immigration bill com
manded in the House but few friends
outside this district and the Black Belt
and il was defeated by vote of II
mes and "a yeas. This result should
not discourage those who desire To see
more white men brought into Alabama.
A continuous wellsustained agitation
until June will give the bill another
inning. and Representative Kirby an
nounces an intention to reintroduce It
in the after-recess days Of the session.
There is general inclination IN
Congress and in the department of
commerce and labor to favor a diver
si0n Of immigration in part at least to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22

the south. Immigrant stations are 20
be established at Charleston, New Or
leans and Galveston. Congressman
Burnett of Alabama and Senator Nc
Laurin of Mississippi are, it is reported,
TO have places ON the committee of
nine to be appointed to investigate i'm
migration, and they will be sure to
speak a good word for the south. Sec
rotary Straus and Commissioner Sar-
gent warmly favor the movement that
South Carolina, under the leadership
of Ex-Governor Hayward, has inau-
gurated and that the New South well
comes. Secretary Straus sees no viola
ton of the law in assisted immigration
when conducted by a state The clause
that the state enables individuals and
corporations TO avoid or eyade reads
as follows:
1T shall be unlawful for any person,
company partnership or cOfpOTdIon III
any manner whatsoever. to prepay trans
portation or in any way assist or en-
courage the importation or migration Of
any alien or aliens or any foreigner or
foreigners into the United States, its terri
tories, or the District of Columbia, un
der contract or agreement. parol or spe
eial. express or implied, made previous
to the Importation or migration of such
alien or aliens. foreigner or foreigners,
to perform labor or service Of any kind
in the United States. its territories or the
District of Columbia
If Alabama persists in refusing to
take charge of immigration the people
in this state can bring no immigrants
from Europe, and experience shows
that they cannot get them at Ellis Is
land. Only one-third of Alabama is
cultivated, and yet the legislature will
not put us in a way to get more white
menl Public sentiment surely will not
uphold this decision, especially when
every other southern state is moving
in this all-important matter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
Or. strona's Impression.

The Rev. DIR. Josiah Strong, who deliv-
cred a lecture at the First Baptist church
last night under the auspices of the Pas
tors union, reached the city yesterday
morning and will leave early this morn
ing.
This is my first visit to Birmingham,
but hope 1t will not be my last" said
Dr. Strong at the Hotel Hilman. II
find 1t a great town already and can read
lily understand its great possibilities. No
wonder the people here are full Of con-
fidence and enthusiasm when they refer
to Birminghams future.
II visited the high school soon after
my arrival and was most favorably i'm
pressed with the building and with the
system of instruction which 1 found in
vogue there. Any city might be proud of
such public school system as / find
here"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
Secret Societies.

''rhe membership of fraternal orders in
America increases rapidly" said an or
der man" last night. 1T remember when
the Masons and Odd Fellows together
numbered less than 1000 600. Now the
total membership of all secret orders in
this country is 100000.
For long time the Masonic fraternity
was in the lead. Today the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows Is numerically the
strongest secret society In the United
States. 1t numbers 1.235.0O0 members The
Masons come next with 1,130,OO0 affiliated
members in lodges of the third degree.
The Knights of Pythias rank next to the
Masons with about 100000 members
THE Masons fix their degree fees higher
than the others and this probably ac-
counts for the fact that they fall be-
hind the Odd Fellows in point of MEM
bership. All the fraternal orders so far
as | know, are prosperous
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
GOLDEN BALLOONS.
Are Sighted After Wandering For
Many Long Years.

Lesueur (Minn) Cor. Chicago Chronicle.
The citizens of Ruston were much de-
lighted today when there fioated over
their little village shortly before sun
set. at a distance of not moro than half
a mile a part and at an elevation OF per-
haps half a mile, three of the famous
golden balloons which were sent up sew
enteen years ago by George Peabody Of
Georgetown. and none of which have ever
been seen in this country before.
This George Peabody, a strange, &C.
centric character, was an enthusiastic
aeronaut in his earlier days and after In
life and a short time before he died, near
twenty years ago, he constructed some
dozen or more balloons of pure gold,
about five feet in diameter, and filling
them up with gas he sealed them up and
allowed them to float away into the air,
stating that they would never return to
earth again; that the gold was drawn
out SO thin that they We're almost as
light as silk and yet were abundantly
strong to resist the pressure of the gas
from within, and that they were and
would permanently remain wholly inn
pervious to the gas, retaining it entirely
undiminshed for ages II necessary.
Since that time the balloons have been
heard from many times in different parts
of the world and have excited the most
intense wonder wherever they have APP
peared.
In 1895, in January, one of them was
brought down to the earth with bur-
den of ice and sleet, which had gathered
upon it in a winter storm at Haadon,
Norway, and was captured by police
man and taken by him to the police sta
ton, where it was gazed upon by dozens
of wondering Norwegians who could not
make out what it possibly could be: Aft
er 1t had been admired at the station Tor
a time the policeman took It up to carry
it home, but In going out of the double
doors-it would not pass through the
other doorways-he struck it against a
post and the ice covering over 1t, which
had been loosened by the heat of the
station, broke entirely away and the
balloon escaped from him and at once
mounted far away out of his reach.
In Cape Colony, in 1897, one of the bal
looms was captured by Pet Saasmann,
an expert marksman, who shot a Mauser
rifle ball through it at a height of over
half a mile bringing 1t to the ground
He crumpled 1t UP and melted il and, as
the report goes on to say. spent the pro-
ceeds in wild debauch.'
They have been reported as being seen
in Japan and Australia and many other
widely separated portions of the world
and John Shipton, a sea Captain In the
East India trade, asserts that during a
terrible storm In the Indian ocean one
of the balloons was driven across the
deck of his vessel so close to him that he
stretched out his hand and touched the
golden ball while 1t was passing"
There Is no report. however of more
than one Of them having even been seen
at one time until the conjunction OF the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
THE Jewellers.

we Il sing happy days, and many of them.
With trucesto all worry and care.
Wen Danish remorse and we'll play out
the game,
Let sober men yield to despair
Well frolic together until the gray dawn
And then we'll go reeling to bed.
There isn't much chance for the living,
you know,
And well shed no more tears for the
dead.
So throw off the letters and let us set
On an ocean of pleasure and fun,
With a crew of boon comrades and fate
al the wheel,
To the realm of the slow setting sun.
With a laugh and a jest and bit of a
song
Well hasten the hours away,
And never a thought for tomorrow's re-
turns,
VIII lessen the joy of today.
Come, fill up a bumper and drink to the
health
OF the fellows who struggle no more.
Well try to be merry. tho poverty glooms
And death is on guard at the door.
For life is an incident, plaything of time,
We're pawns of decree, at the best.
So here's to good friends and here's TO
good wine
To the devil, say we, with the rest!
We are surprised to learn from Sena-
tor Bailey that there are so many liars
in Texas.
Secretary Shaw favors religious trust.
A great many people think they have a
monopoly of Heaven now.
PRIMER LESSON FOR TODAY.
Today, dear little children,
George Washington was born.
We don't remember, soothly,
If it was night or morn
When this important event
Did certainly take place,
Tho we are quite familiar
With Georges noble face
He was the countrys father
OF course you all know that.
He never told a falsehood,
And when we had a spat
With soldiers of Great Britain,
Who put us under ban,
George sent them all skddooing
And grew a famous man.
\ contemporary in discussing the HUI
NOR of Drink" reminds us that the
humor does not appear until we have
had three or four.
Reed Smoot will stay in the Senate
We presume that will hold the women's
clubs for a while
The state supreme court OF Mississippi
has decided that a boy has an inalienable
right to climb trees. 1t is reasonable to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
Men are ashamed to have lot of
children and women not to-
No woman ever thinks her dress is be-
coming If she knows it cost less than
her next door neishbors.
A man likes to visit her relatives 80
she car let them know how much better
things she has at home.
\ woman takes her religion as seriously
as man his politics. but she doesn {
get black in the face about it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
BRIGHT is THE RING OF WORDS.

BY Robert Louis Stevenson.
Bright is the ring of words
When the right man rings them;
Fair the fall of songs
When the singer sings them.
Still they are carolled and said
on wings they are carried
After the singer is dead
And the maker buried.
Low as the singer lies
In the fields of heather,
Songs of his fashion bring
The SWANS together.
AMI when the west Is red
! With sunset embers, =
The lover fingers and sings,
And the maid remembers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
MERELY AN OFFER.

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
with eggs at 80 cents dozen, how is
1t that you can offer three fried eggs for
10 cents?'
BECAUSE answered the proprietor,
nearly everybody that comes in brings
up this question and then orders some
thing else, just as you will probably
do"
And be did
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
TIP FOR LEGISLATURE.

From the Tuskegee News.
If the legislature of Alabama could be
taken on a trip to the Birmingham dis
trict alone and be intelligently shown
the prodigious enterprises now in course
OF construction, and could be shown the
costs of such matters, maybe they would
broaden out a bit in their syinpathies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
PATENT FACT.

From the New York Mail
DR.. Wiley says that If a man eats less
he will lose weight and Il he eats more
he will gain. We should hate to sit in a
doctors anteroom for an hour looking
over a November magazine and a copy of
his class book at college and have him
charge US SO for telling us that.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-22
Iron and Steel RoOms

All metal and fuel industries were
booming in 1901, and the prices of their
stocks at that time were considered
high, but with the sole exception of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron, the prices of
those stocks are higher today. We
give below the prices of those stocks
now and in 1901, as follows: