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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
Draining of SWampS

The country is full of both wet and dry lands, and the government is today engaged in furnishing irrigation to the | dry lands up to the sale of public lands in the arid belt. All approve of | the reclamation of arid lands, and it | was hoped that there would be a simi- lar approval of plans for the reclama- tion of wet lands.
 Alabama has more than a million acres of swamp lands,-while Florida has 1S,000,OO0 acres. All told, there are 7S,473,700 acres of swamp lands in the country. A bill was agreed upon which provided that all moneys from sales of public lands in Louisiana, Ar kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota and all states east of them should be paid into drainage fund which should be loaned for the purposes of drainage This money was in every case to bs returned to the drainage fund within ten years. Government lands and lands belonging to states and individ. uals were to be drained, but in each case the money expended was to be returned
 The bill was favorably reported in the Senate, but the Senate has thus far refused to pass it, and the subject goes over to another session, and pos. sibly to another Congress. No objec- tion can be brought against it that does not apply to the arid lands bill, the service in each case being similar. | and the chances are that in the long run the wet lands will be reclaimed as the dry lands are in the way of being treated. What is sauce for the dry goose will yet prove to be sauce for the wet gander Public sentiment will turn that way, and time will yet set l things even.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
FOR GETTYSBURG PILLS" CRAVE. Floral Horse To Be Life Size and To
 Contain 5000 or More Carnations.

Pittsburg Special to the New York
 World.
 One of the strangest decorations of a tomb in the history of Pittsburg will be shown here when the friends and rela- tives of "Pittsburg Phil" the late noted turf plunger, will meet on Memorial Day to dedicate a life-size floral horse which is being made to be mounted on the mausoleum of "Phil' in Uniondale cemetery. The order for this horse has been placed with a Pittsburg firm by William Smith, a brother of the plunger
 One of the specifications is that the florists shall use not less than 30O0 white carnations in building the animal, as that flower was the favorite of the turf plunger.
 The mausoeum on which the horse is to be erected is in Itself novel, as Phil in his days of great prosperity super intended its construction himself, and he paid $12,0 GOO for it. It Is massive af- fair of stone and granite The plunger always feared grave robbers. The floral horse will cost s15OO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
He tests at scars that never had a wound. Romeo and Juliet.
New York and New Orleans COntrasted

Future trading in cotton is conducted through either the New York or the New Orleans cotton exchange and Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, discusses in the second installment of his report the classified. ton of cotton deliverable on contract. Mir. Smith does object to some details of the New Orleans plan, but the en- tire scope of the New York fixed-dif. ference plan is condemned Let one quotation from MT. Smiths report suf- fee, as follows:
 "A specific instance of deliberate over grading took place in the latter part Of 1906, when the board of appeals of the New York exchange instructed the clas- sfcation committee to admit to the certif- cated stock all cotton which passed the preliminary and informal examination of the assistant inspectors at the dock, al- though the same might later have been held rejectable by the classification com hiANCC Oi iNS AiiidA SiehSSiAiSoNiOhs IlilS cotton, thus forced in, was to take the lowest grade of certifcated stock.
 "This ruling was in direct conflict with the bylaws of the exchange. The classti- cation committee entered a protest and even noted upon certificate clips of such rejectable cotton, should have been re- ,ected. When the new management of the exchange came into office In June, 1907. this practice was stopped"
 And yet the New York cotton ex- change has done nothing to clear itself of this charge. It does not enter de- nial. A system that is capable of such acts is not one that any one should trust or do business with. MT. Smiths criticisms of the New Orleans exchange extend to details only, leaving the in- tegrity of the institution unstained. In ether words, New Orleans is criticised, but New York stands indicted.
 A federal grand jury in New York has intensified the situation by finding indictments against several members of the New York cotton exchange for tampering with the cotton information gathered by the department of agricul- ture. These men stand well in the New York cotton exchange, but they did not stand well enough in the grand jury room to escape indictment. The trail of the indicted men will no doubt throw more light on the peculiar meth ods of the New York cotton exchange. pr of some of its members at any rate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
Railroad Men Entertained.

A number of the visiting railroad of- ficials who were in the city Saturday to attend the Illinois Central celebration re- mained over yesterday and were enter taned by prominent citizens. MT. Walker Percy entertained number of the Illi- nois Central party at his home at dinner MT. Ross c. Smith gave a dinner at his country home beyond East Lake, at which were present Maj J. F. Hanson president of the Central of Georgia; W A. Winburn, vice president and traffic manager; T. s. Noise, general manager; George Gordon Crawford, president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company; F. H. Crockard, vice president and general manager of the Tennessee company, and a number of Birmingham friends.
 Most of the visitors left the city last night and the remainder will leave this morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
The Furnace Stacks.

"At night the casual observer in Bir- mngham now sees signs of industrial ac- tivity that were missing early in the spring, and within a week these signs of returning prosperity will have in- creased said a man about town.
 Two months agoNthe Sloss-Sheffield' S furnace plant at North Birmingham was idle and on May 1 that companys city plant was still shut down. Now both the city furnaces as well as one at North Birmingham are in blast, and at night We see the heavens lighted from the stacks all round Birmingham, North Blr- minghan, Vanderbilt, and on the west of us, Thomas The Tennessee company 8 Alice furnace in Birmingham, is starting up, and will be in blast in few days When the Republic companys Birming ham rolling mill resumes, then industrial conditions in this immediate neighbor- hood will be normal. In the meantime the light from the furnaces is very grate- full to behold, for 1t makes us feel that Birmingham is doing business at tine old stand'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
GREAT PROFITS IN GRAIN

not a large one in either corn or oats portions, particularly in corn, and few in oats, but most of the oats have been delivered by the sellers, who are Armour and the other elevator interests.
 The oats cost on an average about 4 cents, so that there is a profit in mer- ohandising them even at lower prices than the present market. Patten has been selling oats at i to 11k cents under the May price delivered in Buffalo, and in the past two days has sold over 100000 bushels for shipment, selling 5O.OOo bush els to Memphis.
 The sales of corn at all times have been al a discount of to cents under the May, and of late the discount was greater. In closing up trades today the average price for the day was made at the finish, the high and the low point be- ing s21f cents and TIA cents. with the finish at 8016 cents. The line of corn cost the bull leaders about 56 cents, a large part being bought below 53 cents.
 All of the trades were closed up on wheat and oats today but in corn there were oeIaultS or loo,VV DuSheiS, mostly through clerical errors, and the trades with the exception of 550O0 bushels, were adjusted after the close.
 Deliveries after the close were 1,25o,000 bushels wheat, mostly by Bartlett Fra zier, and paid for by Armour, making a,500,O 600 bushels this month. There were also 615000 bushels corn and 345 0000 hDshalS oats sent ont today which went to the Patten house. It was necessary to extend the time of delivery 30 minutes to clean up all of the trades.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
TRIBUTES TO "PETEu DALEY.

From the New York Evening Journal.
 When I heard the news of Petes death I could not realize that it was true" said James J. Morton, who un- derstudied Daley at one time when with the old Weber & Fields Co.
 He and I have had many jolly times together, and we expected to have had many more. It was he who gave the name of 'Elevatorville' to Kansas City playing together, some years ago."
 Mason Peters added to the tributes given the dead man. Peters was per- haps one of the closest friends that Daley had in New York and he ex- pressed in feeling terms the loss he had suffered in the death of his old companion.
 T never thought when I saw Pete leave for Chicago a few days ago, that l was saying the last goodbye to him. said MT. Peters. "We were to- gether up to the last minute before the train left, and he waved good bye to me as long as the train was in sight Souio lci you llduy dHeCuOleS dDOuL him, but just now my heart is too sore.
 T cannot think of the good times we had together--the jokes we played and the humor of his remarks. l San only think of the little acts of kindness he so often performed-the many unknown good deeds which are to his credit and ba h his way to help broth CT in the pro- fession who was down and out and was sufficiently repaid by the knowl edge that he had followed the dictates of his heart"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
A Great Entertainer.

Polk Miller of Richmond is known by reputation to all field sportsmen and he is known by reputation to the public generally as a great entertainer in negro dialect" said Robert Bidgood, native of Virginia, but now a resident of Bir- mingham. Miller and his banjo will be among the attractions here during the reunion, and no one who appreciates the humor of the old time darkey can afford to miss the show that the popular Ylr- ginian will give here. As the late Fitz- hugh Lee said, when you hear Polk Miller you think he is nigger and when you hear nigger you think he is Polk Miller. Mark Twain. Bob Burdette and the late Bill Nye heard Polk Miller anl all spoke in high praise of him. The fact is no one in his line of entertain ment Is in his class"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
AldriCh Cunning Triumphant

The session that appropriated some thing over a billion dollars-the first In the history of the country and em- rhatically the first to do this with a deficit staring it in the face-has ad- journed. It refused to pass every mer- itorious bill the President asked for {; it refused to stop corruption in federal elections; it would not check even the leakage of crop information in ad- vance-it simply did pass a currency bill.
 A close inspection of this bill shows there Is a good deal more of Aldrich cunning in it than Vreeland fair play It provides for a direct issue of emer. Eency notes by the Secretary of the Treasury. This currency is to be based on bonds issued by states, cities, towns counties ''or other legally constructed municipality or district" The more expeditions methods named in the bill relate to this bond-secured currency
 In order to get any emergency cir culation based on commercial paper banks must first form currency asso citation. Not less than ten banks, eact having a capital of not less than $500, GOO, in contiguous territory, must gel together and form an association. This cannot be quickly done, for large re sponsibility rests upon an association It is not probable 1t would be done al all, but suppose for moment an asso citation had been organized, what then In order to secure any currency or commercial paper that paper must bc first submitted to and accepted by the association, and then the association must submit it to and secure its ac ceptance by the comptroller of the cur rency and by the Secretary of the Treasury. If the association and the comptroller and the Secretary are will 7 ing, the currency will be issued, but the route to 1t is devious and dilatory We state these facts to show that lr tha political dickering the cunning
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
Kid Jackson ereets Friends.

T weigh 50 pounds more and am entire iy free from my old habit" said "Kid' Jackson, who used to be a familiar figure on the streets of Birmingham At one time he was the picture of dejection, lean and lost, always under the influence of cocaine. After giving a sensational in- terview to The Age-Herald In which he described the terrors of his habit, he Tas assisted by a number of Citizens 10 reach his home in Georgia, where he mastered himself, and is now the picture Of health and manhood
 He is singing at one of the moving picture shows and has fine voice. At one time he had one of the best voices in minstresy and it was while on the stage that he contracted the cocaine habit
 'I have been around on circuit" he said, and am enjoying life immensely. l have cut out the drug for good Any man can do it if he has friends to help him and any will whatever left in his body''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
BARNEY OLDFIELD'S WIFE IS
 BADLY INJURED IN AUTO SMASH

2 car on the boulevard north of the city Barney Oldfield of Toledo, O., the auto mobile racer, suffered his first road 1e- cident late tonight, the car being over turned and Mrs. Oldfed badly injured, while another occupant. Joseph O Brien of Boston, suffered an ankle fracture. Oldfed and Robert Allen of Hartford, Conn.,, and pr. Park of Andover Mass who were also in the car, escaped with slight bruises.
 The car skidded at a sharp curve aud was overturned Mrs. Oldfield Is sui fering from a gash over the eye and q spinal injury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01

Aldrieh, acting for the east, outwitted the rustic Vreeland acting for the west and the south, and that the bill holds out little or no relief in an emergency except to those banks that are loaded up with bonds. The magnates of the east are as a rule easy winners when the republican party is in power, and the present currency bill is no excep- tion to that rule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
Returning Prosperity.

While it is too soon to feel the effect of increased pay rolls incident to a re- sumption of operations at certain indus trial plants retail trade is improving" said Third avenue merchant Safes were better last week than in any week fin the month. As June 15 approaches, the date at which the Tennessee company's Ensley division will be in full opera tion, the general improvement will be still more marked; all this as a matter of sentiment based on anticipation When the pay roll money is turned loose, later in the summer, trade will be really brisk. I look forward to very prosperous business in July and August"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
Special Dispatch to the St. Louis Globe Democrat

Special Dispatch to the St. Louis Globe
 Democrat.
 E0A HlcAGO.-Not in the history of
 S the Board of Trade have three
 O deals been made in grain for May delivery and successfully pulled off. There have been many May deals in wheat, corn and oats, but never three at one time or three like those that closed today, as they have been the most successful ever run.
 Pattens profits on corn are s1 ,O00,0 GOO and on oats $5O0. GOO. There IS the best of information for this statement. W. II. Bartlett has profits of s1 100000 on corn. The Armour Peavey interest, which has run a little squeeze in May wheat, has cleaned up S2o0, 900. Fatten had paid for d,00O,O0 bushels of corn and over 5000. 0)c bushels of oats, and sold D per cent of his corn and 60 per cent of his oats. In all, he has paid for over 100000 bushels of corn and oats this month, pay ing out over S7OO0,00O At the beginning of the month he had s4,000000 in the bank. and has been able to carry on his deal without borrowing any money.
 The corn operations have been the most successful ever run in that cereal, al- though there have been others of larger proportions, but none have made profit like the present, nearly 30 cents bushel being secured on part of the holdings and 9 cents on over 100000 bushels The aggregate holdings of corn at their largest was 100000 bushels between Patten and Bartlett, and of oats Patten alone had 100000 bushels bought for May. Over 5,0O0,0o bushels have been sold at a profit of 10 cents so that the corpse is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
A MATCH.

By Algernon O. Swainburne. If love were what the rose is,
 And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or signing weather, Blown fields or Powerful closes, Green pleasure or gray grief; If love were what the rose is,
 And I were like the leaf. If were what the words are,
 And love were like the tune. With double sound and single Delight our lips would mingle, With kisses glad as birds are
 That get sweet rain at noon: If I were what the words are.
 And love were like the tune. If you were life, my darling.
 And I your love were death. Wed shine and snow together Ere March made sweet the weath CT + With daffodil and starling
 And hours of fruitful breath; If you were life, my darling,
 And l your love were death. If you were thrall to sorrow,
 Ana were page to Joy, Wed play for lives and seasons With loving looks and treas sons And tears of night and morrow
 And laughs of maid and boy; If you were thrail to sorrow,
 And I were page to joy. If you were April's lady,
 And I were lord in May, We'd throw with leaves for hours And draw for days with flowers, Till day like night were shady
 And night were bright like day; If you were April's lady,
 And I were lord in May. If you were queen of pleasure,
 And I were king of pain, We'd hunt down love together, Pluck out his flying feather, And teach his feet a measure,
 And find lis mouth a rein; If you were queen of pleasure,
 And I were king of pain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
MIR. PRESIDENT!
From the Portland Oregonian.

TTOm tht FOTlIHfu OreBOn1an.
 Elijah Cosgrove of Quincy, Ill.,, a fisher man of repute, relates that 10 years ago he was fishing Tn one of the famous resort lakes of Indiana when he drop ped $10 gold piece into the water and saw a pickerel swallow it. Since then he has fished assiduously for the pickerel, and a week ago last Saturday caught it. Opening the fish, he found the original s1O and $S. 59 in small change-being the interest that had accrued while the money was on deposit in the fish. That story could be beaten by almost any of our Portland fellows who go a-fshIng In the Trask river or other of our coast streams, and we know 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
Suicide From Despon dency.

Charlotte. N. C., May Missing since Friday, Louis Murphy, "A years old, was found dead in the woods near this city today with a bullet wound in lis head. A pistol tightly grasped in his right hand told the mehner of his death. Murphy lost his position with a local foundry several days ago and has since brooded deeply over his mis- fortune
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
Sad End of Promlsino Career.

St. Louis, May 31.-Louis Bendorf, once a wealth merchant of New Or leans and for the last ten years de- tail in the wards of the city hospital of St. Louis, committed suicide here last night by drinking carbolic acid Bendorf, who had been a wanderer for many years, lost his family and for tune in yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
EIopino Couple to Wed.

Lucerne, May 3i.-Princess Ameiie Louise of Fuerstenberg, and Gustave Ko- zian, an employe of an automobile firm with whom the princess recently eloped, accompanied by Kozians mother, have arrived here. Negotiations are now pro- ceeding with the family of the princess to secure approval of the marriage, but in the event of failure in this, 1t has been decided that the wedding will short ly take place in this city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
HONOR FOR ALABAMA.
Gen. Bibb Graves Is Appointed on the
 National Board.

Montgomery, May 3l.-(Special)- )-Gep- eral Bibb Graves, adjutant general of the Alabama National Guard, has been ap- pointed one of five of pational military board, composed of state guardsmen. As the board is assembled from all over the United States this is distinct compli- lnent to the state well as to the man. The first meeting of the organization will be held June 15 in Washington
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
Declare Underwood Nominee.

It is matter of interest as well az political record" said E. K Camp bell yesterday, that the Ninth congress sional executive committee after can- wasting the returns of the election last week declared Oscar w. Underwood tie nominee of the democratic party for congressman from our district
 The committee met and formally de clared him the nominee This is impeia a - tive before his>name could be placed on the ticket and the state committee has nothing to do with it'
 MT. Campbell is chairman of the dis trict committee and he presided over the meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
Constitution Amended.

City of Mexico, May 31.-Congress !; dopted an amendment to the consti- tuition today to restrict immigration to the extent of enforcing rigorous physical examination on all who would enter the republic and to bar such as were found to be suffering with loath- some or contagious diseases. An amendment was adopted limiting the law of "amapar" in civil cases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
GREAT STEAMER IS REPORTED
 WRECKED IN THE NORTH SEA

Paris. May 31.-A special to the Petit Journal from Brussels says it is ru- mored that the Red Star steamship Vaderland has been wrecked in the north sea in dense fog. There are 1900 pas sengers aboard.
 Lloyds do not confirm this news, which, however, comes from what is usually con- sidered a reliable source. There were three collisions in the north sea today and passengers on the Dover-Ostend mall declare that they saw the vessel cast away on the Goodwin sands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
Bad Neuro Lynched.

Dixon, Ky, May 31.-The race riot which occurred on March IA at Provi- dence, village near here, had l sequel early this morning in the lynch ing of Jake Mcdowell, a negro, who confessed to being one of party If negroes who killed one travelling man and wounded another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
Two Killed By Explosion.

Philadelphia, May 3l.-It developed ta- day that two persons lost their livos through the explosion of gasoline tank on launch In the Delaware river last night when a boat containing Is per- sons was wrecked and IA were injured. Frank Cassidy, one of the party, waa thrown overheard by the explosion and his body has not been recovered John Schnidleichen was the other victim. None of the 14 injured will die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
of on a Cruise.

Washington, May 31.--Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied hr her daugh. ter. Miss Ethel Roosevelt. left yester day for a trip down the Potomac river stoard the Presidents yacht Sy'r'l. The Sylph is expected to return to Washington tomorrow morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 If a man really has any virtues he apologizes for them.
 About -99 per cent of bad luck Is q misnomer for bad management.
 One of the great problems of life is when there Is so little in 1t how much less Is there out of it.
 The clever thing about a girl who thinks she's in love with a man is shc can make him believe he Is, too.
 The reason women get so much en- joyment out of novel is they have imag gination enough to make believe they are the heroine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-01
Lafayette's Grave Decorated.

Paris May 31,--The American em- hassv nnd, ccnenIate flew the American flag in honor of Memorial day yesterday.
 ya utIn1teI uf Americans, headed hv consul General Frank VI. Mason. in accordance with traditional custom, decorated Lafayette' grave at Plcpus cemetery with flowers.