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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
Our GroWinu Crops

There is nothing in the crop situa- tion as it stands in these closing days of June to call out pessimistic views. The corn crop is pretty well started, and even the cotton crop is free from grass and is doing we'll The latter crop is overcoming it's backward state caused by late and unfavorable spring season.
 The spring wheat crop is looking far better, and better reports are coming from the upper section of the winter wheat belt "The gist of the supply problem" says the Wall Street Jour- nal, "is the quantity in farmers hands, or rather in first and second hands, on which the trade can count to the credit of the new crop year beginning July 1. Last year the reserves were held at 101, 100000 bushels. The crop of 735,00O,000 bushels gave S36,000,0o0 DuSNSlS TOT uiStIiDullOu. Ol tulS lOU,- OCo,0oo are put down for export. Seed ing would require 75,000,000 and do- mestic consumption 465,000,000. Ex- ports, seeding and domestic consump- tion give total of 690,0o0,O00 bushels for distribution, leaving 146,000,000 bushels with which to begin the new year 1907-oS. If S0,000,00O bushels be regarded as the amount in second hands, the first-hand holdings would be 66,000,000 bushels. There were in farmers hands on March 1 206, 6,644 ,000 bushels of wheat, or 4S,000,000 bushels more than in 1905. If Al ,000 900 bush els of wheat will have been sold be- tween March 1 and July 1, the above estimate would hold There is some doubt of this, and for that reason the estimate of 66,OOo,OOO bushels as first hand holdings seems to be below rather than above actual conditions.
 Let us assume that the amount of wheat on hand on July 1 will be 146,- 100000 bushels. The minimum of the -owins cron is put at s35.ooO. 900 bush
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
To March Through.

No matter if the cavalry encampment is to be held n Selma or Montgomery, l am going to march my company through horseback" said Captain Stewart of Troop D, q want the company to get practice under the long-march idea and to camp in hardship. Passenger coaches are to- easy for real soldiers and cattle cars for horses do not mean anything. The oniy trouble is, that I fear the state will not grant us the allowance in cash for car fare. If this is done I am sure it will pay much, if not all the expense. I arl going to ask for it and if granted, we are in it.
 My company Is composed mostly of working men and they can't afford the expense of such q trip as l propose unless the state provides some of the expense. All 1 ask is a refund of the railroad trans portat.on and such per diem as is usual. I want to make real soldiers of our men and not embarrass them financially. The state can well afford this without extra ordinary expense and the result will be fine"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
Hospital AcCemmoda'

The hospitals of this cit
 crowded, and yet the cit 10 epidemic, and is in a fairly and wholesome condition. The h. spitals should not be blamed The sisters at St. Vincent's have done world of charity work, and the sisters say that at the present time more pay than charity patients are being turned away because of lack of room. Let us be just to St. Vincents. It has done noble work. It was the pioneer in this city of public hospitals, and when it's easterly wing is added it will be one of the largest as well as best equipped hospitals in the country.
 The Hillman hospital is also doing all it can do. It is now a hospital de- voted to the stricken and unfortunate poor. It's doors are no longer open to those who have means or friends. It houses and cares for the friendless and the poor in distress, whether that distress be due to violence, accident or disease.
 It simply is not large enough, and that is all there is of it. It should either be enlarged or else a hospital for negroes alone should be built If the city or the county would give Dr. Pettiford of the Penny Savings bank and his co-workers $1o,000, they would quickly increase the capacity of the institution near Eighth avenue until it would hold every stricken negro in this neighborhood. There is perhaps no better way to solve the pressing and difficult problem.
 Humanity and civilization call for a solution of the problem. In the long run both St. Vincent's and the Hillman will be needed for the accommodation of white patients, pay or charity and an enlargement of the Pettiford insti- tuition seems the quickest and best way to find room for charity negro patients. The subject needs attention at once As a good share of all hospital patients comes from points outside the city 1t is perhaps but right that the county should shoulder the obligation to pro vide for the unfortunate poor of the negro race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
Home NeWSDaperS
king John.

Two features of the sensational sue cession problem surely have not es- ceped the careful observer, namely, the unanimity of the county press and the refusal of any member of the legis- lature to say that he will oppose the primary's first choice, John H. Bank head. These two features go together, and they are really additional evidence of the overpowering weight of public sentiment.
 With the sole exception of the Ope- lika News the county press stands solid in favor of upholding the primary system. The county papers see that the primary is doomed and the conven- ton with it's bosses and intriguing cliques in the course of resuscitation if John H. Bankhead should be de- feated after carrying forty-six counties and polling a magnificent state vote in n field of seven. The victory of John H. Bankhead is a splendid tribute to the influence of the county press. It is really their victory.
 No man can withstand the opposition of a solid county press No one ever did do that, and no one ever will Sen ators and representatives know how close the county newspapers are to the people, and they carefully keep in line. As representatives, of the people this Is exactly what they should do, and 1t is exactly what they are doing in the senatorial succession matter, and also in relation to the bill taxing foreign loans.
 The county newspapers of this state never misjudge public sentiment in their respective counties. They are part of it. They are in the swim and when they are unit the opposition becomes hopeless. The effort to break down the last democratic state pri- mary-the primary that selected the present legislature and state officials Is an excellent example, It had been planned to break down that primary by ignoring it's chief decision, and when the county papers saw what was going on they spoke unitedly, as if they were born, to use Prince Ham, let's words, ito set things right"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
THE SENATORSHiP.

From the Sheffield Standard.
 The democrats of Alabama have de- clared themselves in no uncertain terms in regard to the senatorial succession. Public meetings have been held in many counties, and leading men all over the state have made haste to place them- selves in line for the preservation of party integrity and the carrying out of the primary election.
 Under ordinary circumstances this ac- tion would not have been necessary: but the utterances of the governor, to the effect that he did not regard the result of the primary as binding upon the legsla- ture created a feeling of uncertainty and distrust which culminated in a great pop ular will. It was evident that Governor Conner, smarting under what he deemed a curtailment of the executive preroga- tive in naming the senators by popular vote, would have overridden the will of the people, had he been able to control the legislature. However. as a sufficient number of the members of both branches of that body have declared themselves in favor of the election of Captain Bank head, in accordance with the result of the primary, there is now no longer any doubt about the result. Governor Comer's $ little coup de'etat fell stillborn, and his humiliation is no doubt sufficient pun ishment for his reckless and unscrupu- lous disregard of the popular will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
LADDIES CALLED OUT
 BY SMOKING CAR

If the Brown Marx or any other of the large buildings of the city had caught on fire last night, the fire department would not have turned out any quicker, and with more force than it did when an alarm was turned in from box No. 112 because one of the Twentieth street Loop cars came into town and stopped near Second avenue and Nineteenth street with a small volume of smoke issuing from be- meath the air ppmp.
 One of the connections underneath the car burned out while on it's last trip and the current was transferred to another connection. This caused hot resistance fin the box containing the air pump, and the result was small blaze.
 After the connections burned in two the car was forced to stop, and 1t happened to be on Nineteenth street, between Sec ond and Third avenues. Some one who was either overexcited or else very anx- ious to have some excitement ran to the alarm box on the corner and jerzed down the little lever that brings forth the hook and ladder wagons and fire engines. Ev- erything in three Of the stations turned out
 There was no one on the car at the time except the men in charge as it was on its way to the barn, and after all the run of the fire department the blaze was not extinguished, as 1t could not be reach- ed The car was coupled to another and lowed off down Third avenue to the barn, still smoking, as it had done from the first.
 The car, which was No. AT, seemed to have been ili-fated last night, as it was the same one at which a negro took shot with a pistol on Avenue G and Twelfth street. It did, however, escape injury from the bullet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
KILLED MANY TREATIES.

From the Washington Herald
 Senator Bacon of Georgia, who will be the ranking minority member of the com mttee on foreign relations now that John Tyler Morgan Is dead, will have to pre- he equals the record of his predecessor in that respect During the thirty years he was aAmember of the Senate, Mir. Nor gan probably killed more proposed con- ventions with other powers than any other man in the history of Congress. He seemed to get much satisfaction out of his opposition to various treaties which came before his committee, and very fre quently his resistance had the effect he desired. Usually, too, the treaties he de- feated were of the kind which deserved no other fate The Isle of Pines treaty and the Santo Domingo convention were two which he fought vigorously in the last years of his Nfe. American residents of the Isle of Pines, who have always contended that that island belongs to the United States, appreciated the stand of the Alabama senator very highly. Last winter, as a manifestation of their feel ing in the premises, they presented him beautiful cane, made of Isle of Pines ebony. and bearing a heavy gold head, suitably inscribed. Senator Morgan con tended that the island, as we'll as Porto Rico, passed under American dominion under the terms of the treaty of Paris, which terminated the Spanish-American war, and that the Americans who settled there in the belief that it was American territory would be greatly wronged by any agreement which would make the island a part of Cuba.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
FIRES ONE SHOT
 AT MOVING CAR

Because Conductor c. w. Yock ordered him to get off of the front platform in- side of the car, a negro, whose name is unknown, since he escaped, fired at an in- coming Twentieth street Loop car last night about o'clock.
 In accordance with the rules of the company Conductor Yock asked the negro to get on the inside of the car, as it was not crowded, and some words followed between the two. The negro got off of the car at Avenue G and Twelfth street and after it had started running he drew a pistol from his pocket and fired toward the car.
 The bullet went wild, however and evil dently did not hit the car at all. The negro, too. went wild, and probably bit more so than the bullet. The last that was seen of hi;n he was tearing out down Avenue G with a tiny cloud of dust rising at every fall of the fast moving heels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
Seaboard Air Line.

Traffic continues brisk" said L. Sevier, vice president of the Seaboard Air Line, and the outlook for summer and fall business is very bright. Our line will naturally catch large part of the James town exposition travel. The Seaboard is growing in popularity with the travelling public and we are prepared to handle the crowds in good style.
 "The exposition Is already we'll worth seeing and by the early part of July 1t will be complete and will surpass in many features the great worlds fairs held in this country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
IN MEMORY OF DAVIS.

From Golfers Weekly.
 The great Jefferson Davis monument at Richmond was unveiled on June in the physical presence or vast crowd and the moral presence of the entire south. Business was suspended in many southern cities, while the ceremonies were in progress. The unveiling was performed in connection with the annual reunion of the Confederate Veterans Mir William J. Bryan was present as the guest of the veterans, but while he re- ceived an enthusiastic welcome every where, calls for 8 speech from him were promptly suppressed as violation of the non-political character of the occasion
 Although Jefferson Davis cap never command the sympathy of opponents as unreservedly as Lee or Stonewall Jack him in the north has largely disappeared, and the purity of his character has won deserved recognition. During his lifetime he was the victim of that popular in- justice that personifies causes and de- mands scapegoats for unpopular move- ments. Thus all the accumulated pas sions of war were concentrated upon the one man whose position made him repre- sent the enemy In the popular mind. He was the lightning rod that drew the northern wrath from associates who dif- fered from him in nothing but the acci- dent of official station The people can see more clearly now, and Jefferson Davis is coming to be recognized as rep. resenting type of statesmanship whose austere integrity would be useful in this commercial age, notwithstanding its mis- taken views'on the great political issues of it's time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
ANNABEL LEE.

By Edgar Allan Poe. It was many and many year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden lived, whom you may
 know
 By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other
 thought Than to love and be loved by me. was a child and she was child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with love that was more
 than love,
 I and my Annabel Lee With love that the winged seraphs of
 heaven
 Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that long ago. In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of cloud chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee! So that her highborn kinsmen came, And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre, In this kingdom by the sea. The angels, not half as happy in heaven, were envying her and me; Yes, that was the reason (as all men
 know)
 In this Kingdom by the sea, That the wind came out of the cloud by
 night,
 Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than
 the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we, And neither the angels in heaven above, nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever discover my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. For the moon never beams, without bring
 ing me dreams
 Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise, but I feel the
 bright eyes
 Of the beautiful Annabel Lee: And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by
 the side Of my darling-my darling-my life and
 my bride,
 In her sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
ALABAMA PRESS

Bullock County Breeze: One way to keep the boys on the farm is to hire pretty dairy maid.
 Anniston Hot Blast: This glorious sum- shine is putting sugar into the water melons and nectar into the peaches.
 Hartselle Enquirer: A machine has been perfected that counts paper money rap idly and accurately. We don't need it in our office, 1t would get rusty.
 Andalusia News: jury at the Golden Gate has found Mayor schmitz guilty. Returns have not been received from the other place.
 Eufaula Times: By George" don't mean anything harmful even though the President says it. We heard man say, By mighty"
 Montgomery State: If Colonel Bankhead should fail by reason of the legislature and carry out his announced intention of running for governor, he would sweep the state from eend to eend" and then some of his majority overiowing to states contiguous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
Jamestown Show

The James exposition was far from be- ted when it was formally Til 26 and even now perhap, xhibits which reached the e. e been set in place. But lat, cate that the grounds are in 'd that the various buildings 'uch more attractive appearal " did a few weeks ago.
 No great exposition was ev,
 feet order during the early days
 progress, and it would have been
 reasonable to expect the Jamesto, show to have broken the record, espe cially as government aid was slow in materializing. Yet this worthy enter prise has received more knocks than any of the worlds fairs of the past. It is safe to say that most of the fault finding has been unjust. From all ac- counts the exposition will be in fine condition by the middle of July. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
Irish Jiu Tui1es.

''I have been struck with the different styles of music in the moving picture shows" said a man about town. "In the majority of them the tunes are of the so-called catchy variety and must be dis tressingly monotonous to people engaged in business in the neghborhood. Poor, trivial music is like any other rubbish.
 But some of the shows offer good music-light but artistic. One of them has speciality of Irish jgs and any music lover would enjoy hearing these lively pieces. Another show has a fine orches- trelle that plays beautiful music of the pathetic sort. just such music as one finds in popular orchestra programmes. Good music Is refreshing and wholesome, but musical trash soon becomes wearing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
PRESS POINTS

Providence Journal: MT. Edward Box has received another honorary degree. Isn't it Ruth Ashmore's turn?
 Louisville Courier Journal: Let the beef trust do it's wo17t. The passing of the blackberry cobbfer will soon begin.
 Washington Star: It must be very diff ficult for Mr. Bryan to keep away from the first person singular when anybody inquires what a democrat is
 Nashville American: General Bingham, New Yorll's police commissioner, wants his salary raised from s750O to s15,OOO a year. He wants to be able to eat meat.
 Youngstown Telegram: Is there any significance in the fact that the women are overwhelmingly in the majority at the Gift of Tongues meetings at AL liance?
 Spokane Spokesman Review The fin al' closing of the New York poolrooms from day to day is something like the annual farewell tours of certain actors and actresses.
 Arkansas Gazette: As the Alabama leg islature will meet In July to settle the disputed United States senatorship there will doubtless be warm times for more reasons than one.
 Washington Herald: What would Thomas Jefferson say to the democratic party, were he alive today?" asks a southern contemporary. Quit squabbling ; get together!' probably.
 Knoxville Journal and Tribune: Some of the Alabama papers are charging that Governor Conner will If he can, coerce the legislature to ignore the senatorial primary of last year so far as it applies to the alternate candidates chosen. The indications are that the voice of the pri- mary will be the voice of the legisla- ture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26

els. We will therefore have for distri- button in the year 1907-OS an aggregate of 781, ,0O0 900 bushels, as against S36,- 900 0000 bushels in the year that will be ended Sunday night. The deficiency is but 55,O00,0O0 bushels, and we can in the coming year sell, eat and SOW as much as we did this year, and car over nearly 1OO,OOO,OOO bushels to following year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
MISS THEIR CHICKENS.
Fountain Heights Residents Troubled
 With Night ProWlers.

What MT. Coon is doing for the chick en fanciers in the neighborhood of Foun- tain Heights is plenty.
 In one particular neighborhood there are two neighbors who were day before yesterday very proud of lot of very fine fowls which they had raised Some un- known prowler, who is believed to have been dark skinned man with bag slung over his back, raised the whole chicken house night before last and one of the unfortunate two reports the loss of eight birds, and the other says he is shy twen- ty very choice Plymouth Rocks
 If you live in Fountain Heights. lock up the chicken house good tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
Has 9 Bio Contract.

Anniston, June 25.-(Special.) .)-Mr. P. H. O'Brien will leave Annlston next Monday night with 100 mules and harness and a large force of hands for Cincinnati, where he has secured q $75,00O grading contract that will take two years to com plete. The work to be done is the con struction of an immense reservoir for the city of Cincinnati. The reservoir will be situated nine miles from the city. MT. O OBrien will carry all his labor, mules and harness, but will ship no machinery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
IS NOT SAFE.

From the Memphis News Scimitar
 The governor of Alabama has followed the instructions received from the peo- pie Of the state and has appointed John H. Bankhead a senator of the United States to succeed the late John T. Nor gan. The legislature will just as prompt ly elect him to fill the unexpired term. It Is not safe to go against the posi- tive Instructions of people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A nice thing about being engaged to a girl is maybe she will break 1t off.
 A woman likes to have children so she can be sorry for those who haven't
 A man has to be careful when he is going up stairf with his shoes off not to try to wear them for a hat.
 woman has to be mighty nlistrustful of herself nSt to feel she can't trust D man who isn't to be trusted
 The best lining about trip to Europe is that whea you get back ycu sdon NF Se to hear All about it frora some othersYsl- low who went
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
Transaresslnn Too Ear.

Guatemala City, June 25.-There is much unfavorable comment here at the action of President Zelaya of Nicaragu in in- vadng San Salvador. It is thought nor unlikely that either Mexico or the United States will take cognzance of this ac- ton.
 It is declared that the presence of Jose D. Gamex, the Nicaraguan minister of foreign affairs, In Mexico. was due to the desire to secure Mexican support for his government against the other central American republics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26
Tries to Commit Suicide,

San Francisco, June 25,--Overcome with grief and humiliation over the action of the bar association that he be impeached for gross intemperance if he did not inn mediately resign as supervisor Judge K C. Hebbard tried to take his life today in his chambers at the Temple Israel He was saved from death after he had pressed the barrel of a revolver against his temple by a reporter who took away the weapon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-26

If it be true that tue Terminal com pany had intended to grant exclusive privileges in the new passenger sta ton to one telegraph company, it should reconsider and give the public the benefit of both the Western Union and the Postal. The station is to be the largest and mast elegant thing of the kind in the south, and, to be com plete in it's facilities for serving the travelling public, the Postal as we'll as the Western Union must be installed there.