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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
Mr, Bankhead's Victory
germs,

On Tuesday next the legislature Will elect John H. Bankhead to fill out the term that had been conferred on the la. ented Morgan. This term will not expire until March 4, 1913. If, how ever, the state clings to quadrennial sessions MT. Bankhead d's,successor will be elected by the next legislature which meets in January, 1911. If MT. Bankhead should then betre-elected he will serve in the Senate until March 4 1919. This would make him one of the veterans of Congress, both In years and in congressional service. He would would then be TT years old, and his entire congressional service would lack but three months of thirty two years. Alabama seems to prefer veteran Senators, and MT. Bankhead's reelection to the Senate may be counted on as one of the probabilities of the next four years
 MT. Long of Butler did not vote in the caucus for MT Bankhead, but no doubt he will accept the will of the party next Tuesday and the vote of Tuesday will be unanimous unless in- deed the solitary republican from Win ston rises to cast solitary vote for a solitary party nominee.
 The acceptance by the democratic party of the will of the primary of last August closes a significant chap ter in the political history of the state If for any reason or to meet any am bition the will of the democratic rank and file had been brushed aside and disregarded popular selection would have received a blow from which it would not perhaps have recovered. Machine buildin- would then have been in order and the condition of Alabama would soon have been worse than was it's condition before the pri- mary system was established. MT Bankhead fought for direct popular action, and his victory is the peoples victory, and it will so stand when the history of these times is correctly written. The victory will prove i'm portant and far-reaching. The people have come into their own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
HAVE TOO MUCH BUSINESS

leads to a cutting down of orders. But the railroads and other corporations have been forced to continue to purchase large quantities upon them, even though com- pelled to pay very high rates for the money required"
 Judge Gary was asked whether he thought the tightening of the purse strings throughout the country was due more to the agitation than to an expan- sion of business, speculative and legit- mate, beyond the country's financial abil- ity to carry. To this he replied:
 T think that up to the present time 1t is remarkable how little money has been driven into safety vaults by investiga- tions and radicalism. Relatively small amounts appear on this account to have been locked up, but if violent agitation continues unchecked, naturally there will be more and more money drawn out of productive employment and locked up for the time being"
 Have not the exposures of financial corruption proved beneficial to the coun- try?' he was asked.
 They will prove so," replied Judge Gary. "The first effect has been, in some cases, check, but in the long run the results will prove of importance and bene- fit to the public. There are signe observ- able, moreover, that the public is becom- ing more rational in it's Investigations. More discrimination Is used in selecting the particular evils to be corrected in- stead of making wholesale denuciations of all corporations, goods and bad alike The result of such publicity as may be given to these matters are being applied as time goes on to better advantage, and corporations are profiting by the lessons.
 This contraction of business we ex- pect will not be wholly undesirable. We have been going at too high speed We have been pushing forward under too great pressure to increase too rapidly our volume of business. Our mills and factories have been run beyond their ca- pacity. Our men have been worked day and night, and little let up will do everybody good"
 Then there is such thing as too great prosperity?' was question.
 No" replied Judge Gary, mot too great prosperity, but too much business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
Five Biu Products

Alabama turns out five products that These are cotton, iron, coal corn, and lumber. Mark the order, for that or dor is one of values. The cotton crop is easily first, for if the states prod ucts of cotton be put at ,200,0 900 bales, worth $50 bale, we have a total of $60,000,000, even if we do not con sider the value of the seed product.
 Next in order comes iron. The product of this district is just about l,700,000 tons. At S20 a ton this amount of iron is worth at the furnace $34, ,000,000 saying nothing of in- creased value given to it at the home steel mills. Possibly the iron and steel product of the state should be put at $40000,000 as prices go at present.
 The states third product is corn. Some may doubt whether corn is en- titled to third place, but the census bureau put the value of the crop grown in 1899 at $17,OS2,751. The crop of corn now growing will be fully as large as that of 1899. and the value of corn in Alabama is as firm and we'll established as the price of cotton or p iron, because we do not make enough to supply home demands.
 Lumber comes next. A billion feet board measure is the annual cut in this state, and if it is worth $15 thousand feet at the mill the total an rual cut is worth $15,0O0,000.
 Coal is a close rival of lumber. This district produces in round numbers 12000, 900 tons of coal at the mines about one dollar a ton, or s12,000,00O,
 We have then these figures, all in .ouud numbers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Muddy County RoAds.


 II wish the Board of Revenue of Jeff fersen county would hold an election on the question of issuing ssO0,Ooo bonds to improve the county roads, said a farmer from Gahaba valley as he pointed to the mud on the wheels of hIa wagon. That will tell you what sort of roads I had to travel between Birmingham and my home about twelve miles from here.
 1T read In this mornings Age4e=S'ald the speech made by Senator Bankhead In Montgomery last night and I wish to say that hls remarks about the impor- tanee of good roads appeal to every farmer in this county and, ] expect. in every county in the state. If we had good roads l could make three trips to Bir- mingham every week with loads of truck, but as the roads are now I can make only one trip and that takes me from day light till dark.
 "A county road should be laid off by a qualified civil enginer who would con sider the best means to overcome steep grades even if 1t means making the road little longer. There are places on the road travel where the raod Is run in a straight line, regardless of grade, some of which as as steep as the roof of a church, but which could be made almost level by going around the hill instead of over 1t.
 "The farmers would be only too glad to assist the county in making, better roads If the matter.-were taken up in good earnest. but 1t Is disoouraging to see what IS called road repairing done once a year and then all the work wasted because not kept in repair. At times I become heartily sick of living in the country and feel dis posed to move to town to find work in some of the industrial plants"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
The Klckers' Club,

How many things we see to remind us of our mistakes" said a plunger in stocks. Look at that U. P on that box car. It cost me over $4O00 to learn what that stands for-the Union Pacific rail- road.
 "I see the legislature Is about to pass a bill for the protection of the boarding house keepers-wish they'd give the boarders a rider for rebates on apologies, and poor grub" said lean man.
 'FWhen-a laundry pastes your collar band down so hard you have to use a knife to raise the slip for the back but ton it's time to kick; and when the ma chinery chews up your s2 shirt sleeves, and they tell you 1t was already torn, you can't help cussing, can your" said a victim.
 "A colored automobile phaffeur nearly ran over me as I was getting off-a street car yesterday, and I feel like am doomed to be sacrificed to one of the jugernauts of modern progress" said a plain cit zen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
From tho New York world.

From tho New York World.
 @ oRMER JUDGE D. H. GARY. U chairman of the United States Steel corporation, the largest business enterprise in the world, sails for Europe today for a brief holiday. He was asked yesterday by the World how he viewed the financial and commercial outlook
 '1t would be surprising" he replied, If, with the prevailing conditions, there would not be some diminution In the volume of business during the rest of the year. The business of our own company in the last six months has exceeded that of the first six months of last year, and we know that 1908 was a big year. had all the presidents of our constituent com panies here last week for a general talk over the situation before my departure. Every one of them was exceedingly opti- mistic. They could see nothing ahead but sound conditions and continued prosperity. Despite this I look for some contraction" !"
 Judge Gary was asked what the condi- tions were that would produce diminu- ton in the general volume of business. ne
 "To begin with, next year Is presl- dential election year. This has always had the effect of causing a curtainment of orders the latter part of the preced- ing year and the first part of the election year. Business men do not care to under take new enterprises or order quite so heavily in the face of uncertain political conditions
 'The second point is that we have been doing too much business for the amount of money that has been available to finance our needs. It is well known that various corporations, among them many railroads, have had difficulty in securing capital requisite to their continued growth on the scale that has prevailed. The steel corporation, fortunately, has not ex- perienced this difficulty.
 "The increase in the volume of money in the world has not kept pace with the increase in the volume of business. Com panies haven ot been able always to ob- tain funds to make the purchases they would like to make. This, necessarily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
IF WE SHOULD GO TO WAR.
An UnfIattering Picture of the Way
 Things Would Be Bunged.

From the Minneapolis Tribune.
 Heaven preserve us from war with Jaoa until we learn the elementary rules of the game. We are twice as populous and several times as rich as Japan. wa have no army, but we can turn out an armed mob twice as big as hers. We have twice as many battleships, half manned, which we can fill with seasick landlubbers in case of need. We can raise or borrow BIO to her one, and can prob ably make $10 go about as far as one of hers. We are superior to the Jap anese in everything but efficiency, and what patriotic American ever bothers his head about military or naval eff ciency in time of peace? Sufficient unto the dsy Is the evil thereof.
 Unless we are wiser than we were ten years ago-and the newspaper gabble about naval movements does not prove 1.-the history of a war between the United States and Japan may be written m advance by making a composite of parts of the histories of the wars with Spain and Russia. The Japanese navy would be ready a year in advance ito the last shoelace," but nobody would know anything about it. Our navy would be half-ready till six months before the fighting. Then we should get busy with big appropriation and buy everything in sight to the delight of owners of rotten old hulks and dealers in embalmed meat products and shoddy clothes. An enterprising press would record every military naval, financial and strategic preparation in ho rly editions and big red type. The Japanese agents at the end Of the cables would know more aoout cur strength and preparations than our own government. When our far flung battle line" began to move some yellow manias with a megaphone would bawl it's every mile of route, its every weakness of imperfect discipline and nasty equipment from the admral's S bridge to the waiting ears of Japanese agents in Europe and America. The Jap anese navy would disappear as if sunk in mdocean, after throwing an army corps into Manila and fortifying it for an outpost. The Japanese in Tokio would hold the European correspondents with promises and Embellishments, and the Japanese newspapers would discuss the weather.
 We do not care to pursue the parallel. ere and humiliating peace. We should beat them in one year or ten, but it wolld be a bloody and costly job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
HE CAUGHT THE LINER.
San Francisco Banker Sped In Auto From Station and Then Down Bay.
From the New yerk worla

From the New YerlS World.
 Vice President and Treasurer John R. Tebln of the Hibernla bank of san Fran cisco, gave an object lesson In quick &C., tien yesterday when he overhauled the Kaiser Wilhelm IT.. down the bay, out ward bound on her way to the English channel and Bremen. The Kaiser had left her pier in Hoboieen at 6 o'clock.
 Rushing eastward, with not second to lose, dietatng to hls stenographer and typewriter in his coach, the man of affairs saw, when he dropped out of hls train In Chicago, that he would have scarcely any margin left to catch the Kaiser, on board which he had bought his passage. His train was not due in the Grand Central station until 5:2s a. m and would undoubtedly be late.
 He rushed wire to the Chase Ma tional bank to help him. The bank off cials called in Howard Fielding of the United tates Express company, who ar ranged in detail chain of automobiles, tugs and motor boats.
 First, tug was stationed at West Twenty-second street; second, a motor boat was sent to Quarantine, to be re- lied upon in case the tug went wrong.
 A high-power1 automobile was rolled into the portico of the Grand Central station.
 John Drew, the actor, a friend of MT Tobin, waited with MT. Field and the chauffeur. The train pulled in at 6:05 a. m., five minutes after the liner had Jeff Hoboken. Mir Tobin was grabbed off his sleeper steps and his luggage was swept into the impatient automobile.
 The three men jumped into the ton neau, the driver threw the clutch. At third-speed the car tore through tangles of traffic and scooted ahead of trolley cars at crossings. At Tenth avenue the car took gutter and shot the occupants up into the air clinging to one another and coming down together, within the car Skidding up the curb. the auto took off a tire against a pile of junk.
 On three tires the chauffeur whirled his car along, and held 1t up on the Twenty-second street pier with an ex- plosion from the exhaust. Drew and Field ing picked up Mir. Tobin and deposited him on the tug; his baggage was thrown after him, with his golf clubs
 The tug cast off and scooted in the Kai- Quarantine. where a ladder was let over tho rail and the banker hauled hauled aboard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
RIrmlnqham Girls.

The talent employed at some of the moving picture shows has proved a sur prise to me-" said man about town.
 This afternoon I dropped into a place to spend few minutes, and was for. tunate enough to hear two Birmingham girls, and their music is treat. Miriam Fabian is vocal soloist and Rose Fabian is viollnist. I have paid fancy prices to hear performers greatly inferior to these girls'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
By my Chrlstendom,
Grade Crossinus

The bill drawn by City Attorney Smith and introduced by Senator Mill Ter in the upper house and by Repre- sentative Haley in the lower house provides that municipalities containing 35,000 population Or over may pass ordinances requiring the railroads to do away with grade crossings by build ing viaducts, bridges or subways. At present the bill relates to Birming- ham and Mobile only, but Montgom- cry would be benefited by the bill no doubt in 1910
 The passage of this bill is q matter of deep importance 10 this city. At 1anta stood grade crossings until they became uncomfortable, and that city has at length been rendered homogeneous by viaducts and bridges. A similar policy is sadly needed here, where there are railroad freight yards in the very heart of the town.
 The mistakes of the past in this direction can be overcome and cured by the passage of the pending bill. It should be pressed to passage, and when it becomes law and is applied to the local situation we will have 'here one continuous city instead of city cut into several parts by flying switches and incessant streams of box cars
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
Registering From Birmingham

'I think it quite a piece of assumption for those citizens of suburban towns who are fighting the Greater Birmingham proposition to register from, Birmingham when they go away said a business man.
 q have occasion to travel some and notice that every one of those suburban ties registers from Birmingham.
 Also. I have occasion to call on citi- zens of the different places outside of the city and frequently l am told they are in town When I ask which town, the reply is 'Birmingham'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
As to the Franchise.

'I think the legislature should so alter the poll tax feature of the law as to pro- vide that 1t shall be paid by the first day of January, each year. or that a man shall lose his vote" said man who has occupied the highest office in the state.
 Then make 1t mandatory in any event; taht Is, collect the tax by due process if the citizen shall fail to pay the same prior to January of any year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
LINDY's SELECT PATRONAGE.

From Harper s weekly.
 It was during the time of the Spanish American war. An officer of a Massachu- setts regiment, carrying under his arm a bundle of soiled linen, called at the home of a colored woman living on the out skirts of Jacksonville who had made quite a reputation for good laundry work among the soldiers
 Does yo berlong t de Eff, Nah 'land?" Lindy asked.
 "No."
 "To de Hund' ed-an' -fifty-fif Indeany 9" "No."
 "Th'd Pennsellvany?"
 "No."
 "Twen y-second Ohio?"
 'No."
 ''Wale, yo' all clar outen here; Ise kep private wash-lady by does fo' regiments.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
ALASKA AND ITS TIN CANS

have struck pay" are content to fatten out the discarded cans.
 Cut in two, the cans are converted into all sorts of toilet receptacles, serving as washbowls in almost every mining camp of the Arctics. Notwithstanding granite and porcelain ware are now to be bought in the shops, and many homes possess them, no kitchen, however well equipped, Is without one or more five-gallon tin cans, standing on dresser or bench, or hanging outside the dor. The Esquinaux. with the imitativeness of their Japanese progenitors, have not been slow to recos- nize their usefulness and the white mans preference for them. In berry and fishing season they are wont now to discard their vessels of wood, sealskin or walrus hide for the tin can. whose utility they first learned abroad American whaling vessels. Indeed, so broadcast. so varied is the role of the tin can in the northland that no Alaskan would be surprised should the final discovery of the North Pole find one dangling from that long-sought pinnacle.
 -s GUckEN6ERGER AS CONDUCTOR. From the Musical Courier.
 The memorial service held on Sunday afternoon. June 2a, at Mechanics hall. Boston, by Aleppo Temple, included one of the finest musical programmes ever heard in the city, there being a chorus of 200 voices and grand orchestra, incIud- ing fifty members of the Boston Sym phony orchestra, conducted by Benjamin GuclSenberger. The soloists assisting were Marie Sundborg- g-Sundelius, soprano; Mar garet Gukenberger, contralto; Harold Tripp, tenor, and Charles Belmont, bass.
 The orchestra opened the programme with Chopins Funeral March," followed by Verdis Grant Them Rest and Light Eternal" and "Kyrie." by quartette, chorus and orchestra; and the duet for soprano and contrdlto. "Ah. Remembee.' from Verdi's "Requienn;'' Sullive1s Lost Chord" "Reinecke's "O'er All Is Quiet Reigning," for chorus and orchestra, with tenor solo; selections from Gaul's Holy City" closing with Gounod's Unfold Ye Portals CRedemption') by grand chorus and orchestra
 As conductor, Benjamin Guckenberger established himself as one fully capable of handling a large body of musicians with artistic effect, and fully sustained the glowing words of commendation, written him on two different occasions by the late Theodore Thomas.
 Mrs. Guckenberger and Mrs. Sundelius gave the duet "Ah, Remember" most beautifully. The large chorus did itself ample credit in all of it's singing, and ill attack volume and balance was excellent.
 Conductor Guckenberger was over whelmed with congratulations as to hIs excellent training and discipline of those taking part.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
Trom the Duluth Herald

From the Duluth Herald.
 Miss Gurid Laate, a Norwegian girl who is working her way through the Univer- sity of Minnesota. is probably the only college girl in the country who can make her own clothes, from the spinning of the thread and weaving of the cloth to the forming of the fabric into fash ionable design.
 Spinning and weaving she learned in her native country; the art of the mod iste was acquired since her arrival in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

Very few men can afford to lose any more money than being married.
 A girl forgets to know how to swim If it's the sort of fellow she wants to teach her.
 A woman is never proud of being a good cook, but she is mighty proud of ha Ing her family say so.
 There is hardly anybody who hasn't vanity enough to be willing to spend $50 to get a S5 prize.
 Wher woman says she and her hus- band never have a cross word she thinks you will believe it if you aren't mar riad-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
TELL THE TRUTH, WILLIAM.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 It is MT. William Allen White, author of What's the Matter with Kansas" who broadly insinuates that he has heard President Roosevelt use stronger language than By George.' If the President, un- der great provocation, sometimes ex- claims "Dog-on iti'' Mir White ought to come souarely out and say so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
found numbers:
S144.OOO.OOO

What other southern state has five products that turn into home pockets annually 144,00O,0OO? Texas makes more cotton than we do. and more corn, but her mineral products are small indeed, and her lumber product is not great. Her total, including coal oil, far outruns Alabama's total, but when the areas of the two states are taken into consideration Texas is not close rival of Alabama. Neither is any other southern state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
WALES IS A STAMP CRANK.

From the Boston Herald.
 The Prince of Wales owns postage stamp album valued at one-half million dollars. He is never so happy as when pasting in precious stamp, and 1t some- times takes him all day to do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
ANOTHER NATURE FAKE.

From the New Oorleans Times-Democrat.
 A hungry leopard, escaped from some menagerie, is saiid to be terrorizing Plttsburg, If the animal remains in that dfty long, the Pittsburg atmosphere will probably change his spots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12

John D, Rockefeller says his posi- tion as president of the Standard Oil company Is strictly honorary. This Is the only honorary feature that has been disclosed in Standard oil affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
ANOTHER coMMEMoRATIoN.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 On July B. FOOT, an exposition will open in Pittsfeld, Mass, celebrating the dis covery of John D. Rockefeller by Deputy Marshal Frink
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12
SURPRISING,

From the Washington Star.
 It is surprising to see how many pres-, idential possibilities can flourish in the republican party without disturbing friendships.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12

Mayor Schmitz is a candidate for a fourth term as mayor, jail or no jail, but he undertakes the intelligencec of the voters of his city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-12

Jesse Grant is about to tour the south to find out haw many in this section want him to occupy tho White House. He believes in the "son' bus mess.