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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
-------@s - NEGRO AND INDIAN.

From the London Times.
 Of the 100000 of negroes and ne- groids in the United States it Is reclx- oned that one-hfth are nearly white. They have lost all the more obtrusive characteristics of the black race, and they often show in a somewhat extreme form the characteristics of the Cau- cassan type. They can show white skins only too white-bue eyes and fair or even red hair The cranial type is al- tered to the Caucasian models. and in- deed the same is true in a less degree of full-blooded negroes who have been long under white influence. These ne- groids are of all conditions of life, many of them wealthy and highly educated. Yet the racial line Is drawn with una bated severity. They are socially ne- groes and have to consort In public places and railway carriages with the pure negroes to whom they are distantly related There is no use in complaining of this or in moralizing about it.
 We have only to note the fact and we are obliged to believe that there is some reason for it, lying probably far below the region of volition or of con- sciousness. For besides this fact we have the other that, though the Ameri- can Indian is not only widely different from the Caucasian type, but is an hereditary enemy with which white set tiers have had to contest almost every square mile of the country, still the Indian half breeds take their places cas- fly among the white men and are freely absorbed. They travel without ques- ton in white mems cars, as indeed the dirtiest Chinamen may do. while the wiitest of men suspected of having trace of negro blood is promptly elected. It would seem that there are secret links of affinity between the white man and the aboriginal Indians which do not exist between him and the black man, and that some primordial instinct of antagonism overpowers all conscious reasoning where the black blood enters into the question.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
Sharn Contest Over Incomes

The democrats and insurgent repub- ncans have agreed upon the income tax proposition they will present and support. They have dropped for the sake of unity the proposed graduated tax, and they will support the Bailey amendment. The Bailey plan provides for a flat tax of 2 or 3 per cent upon incomes above $50O0 and upon incomes of corporations above the figures named. In order to avoid double tax ation deduction will be made from in- dividuaI incomes in all cases of cor poration stock where the corporation itself has paid the tax.
 Senator Aldrich is about to name a day when vote may be taken on in- come tax propositions, and both sides are lining up for the contest. The re- publicans will ask that the subject be 4ClSllCQ tO CAio JuulCldIy y COIuuulII60 LOT a report at the next regular session, and they claim 45 votes for this propo- sition.
 The democrats and progressive re- publicans will insist that wealth should be taxed instead of poverty, and they claim that the Bailey amendment will poll 31 democratic votes and 16 or IT republican votes. Fifteen republican votes will insure it's adoption, and there are 15 republicans who would vote for it if they would listen to the dictates of their consciences. They may listen to the mutterings of their constituents. The vote at any rate is to be close and crucial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
Marriages Declared Illegal.

Winston-Salem, N. C., May 19.-If a rul- ing made today by Judge Webb of the superior court is sustained by the supreme court, 1t will mean that no less than 800 illegal marriage licenses have been is- sued in Forsythe during the past 20 years. Judge Webb holds that there has not been any legislative act empowering a deputy register of deeds to issue marriage li- censes and administer oaths in this coun- ty and for that reason he quashed a perjury indictment against man for swearing falsely regarding the age of a girl for whose marriage to him H. cense was issued by a former deputy register of deeds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
B. M. Starks in the City.

B. M. Starks, general manager of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, was in Birmingham yesterday. 'I met John Copeland in the Brown-Marx building this morning." he said, and he remarked that I was in and out so much that I might judge the growth of Birmingham better than the average man.
 'I told him that when I used to come here I could see the town, but now I can't see the end of it, and I have to lie fiat of my back to see the top of 1t.
 Birmingham is growing faster than any other southern city. Atlanta seems to have about reached her limit, while this town has hardly begun.
 Plugging along at an even stride. Bir- mingham should be good for continued growth many years. That is far better than this system I see in the forest belt, where they are working with electric lights night and day cutting up the tim Der, which won't last more than few more years at best"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
QUERIES FOR THE MARTIANs.

From Harper weekly.
 When Professor Pickering gets that fashophone of his working, thereby put ting us in communication with Mars, we should be ready with our questions. It would be absurd to establish the con- munication at an expense of $l0,0OO0OO and then not have anything to say. Hence it is that we take the liberty of presenting a few inquiries which should be put before the phone gets out of order:
 l. Is it hot enough for you?
 g. What do you think of William Jen- nings Bryan?
 B. Have your scientiests yet been able to discover exactly where Moses was when the light went out?
 f. Have you any authoritive knowledge as to the age of Ann?
 5. Who struck Billie Patterson; how much did he strike him for; who was Billie Patterson, anyhow, and where did he get it2
 6. Have you seen the man higher up lurking around any of your tow-paths?
 2. What are your impressions of Amer ica?
 8. Should women smoke. and if so, what?
 9. From where you are does the earth look like a pinhole in a rubber blanket, or microbe floating around through space?
 10. Have you planted your early spring beets yet7 H. What will you give us for Emma Goldman, Carrie Nation and Abdul the Dimmed, f. O. b. or c. o. pr
 12 How are the shad running this year 13 Are your canals locked or on the level?
 l4 From where you are sitting can you see an English joke with the naked eye? 15. Whom do you consider the greatest living American? 18 Do you hold that if the opener of a jackpot is obliged always to put his dis card under the chips in the pool, whether he is going to split or not this discard | cannot be touched even if it is necessary to gather up the dead wood to complete | the deal for the draw?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
COTTON SEED MEN MEET.
Montgomery is Chosen as Head
 quarters for Committees.

Memphis, May 19.-Delegates to the h. terstate Cotton Seed Crushers convention thronged the fair grounds today and lis tended to able addresses and reports of committees. Previous to final adjourn ment for the day reports of the perma- nent arbitration committees were called for and submitted by the chairman of the several states These reports are exhaustive and will be printed in pam phlet form and distributed A resolution was adopted naming Montgomery, Ala, as headquarters for the state arbitration committees which will be named by the president.
 One of the ablest addresses of the day was that of Prof Felix Paquin of Gal weston, Tex, a noted chemist He re- ferred at length to the application of analytical chemistry to the valuation of cotton seed products as an aid to the man. ufacturers fin furnishing necessary data which will enable them to obtain the best result in the mills, market their products at the full value. and intelli- gently settle all disputes which may arise as. to proper classification. This, he said, was a comparatively new business method In the cotton industry.
 The convention will adjourn tomorrow after electing officers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
GRAND LODGE OF
 ODD FELLOWS ENDS

Columbus, Miss, May 19.-(Special.)- The session of the Mississippi Odd Eel lows grand lodge came to an end this afternoon. And after having selected West Point as their next place of anal gamation the odd Fellows adjourned. h. vltatlons were extended by both Jack son and starkville. but West Point proved too strong for them and secured the next meeting with ease. The progress of the grand lodge under the administration of Hon. P. W. Maer, the retiring grand master, has been most gratifying and the members showed their appreciation of his work not only by electing him rep resentative to the sovereign grand lodge but by adopting practically every sug- gestion offered in his report There were nearly 30 of these suggestions and all save one were adopted.
 Among the most important suggestions was one to the effect that the body have an official organ and it was decided to continue the publication of the Mississippi odd Fellow under the auspices of the grand lodge. The publication of this pa per was inaugur ated by the retiring grand master soon after his induction into of flee and during his administration it has been published monthly and sent to diff ferent members of the craft throughout the state. The choice of Grand Master Maer as representative to the sovereign grand lodge was unanimous
 Grand Master Maer was presented with a handsome loving cup by Union lodge No. 35 of this city. The banner for the lodge, showing the greatest increase in membership during the past year, went to the Greenwood lodge.
 The only office for which there was any contest was that of secretary and w. s. P. Doty of Grenada, the present in- cumbent, won out over J. R. Young of Aberdeen by a handsome majority. Fol- lowing is complete list of the officers elected: R. c. King of Greenwood, grand master: R. s. Brumfeld of Summit, dep- uty grand master; H. Katz of Hatties- burg, grand warden; W. s. P. Doty of Grenada. grand secretary; J. F. McClurg of Walden, grand treasurer; P. w. Maer of Columbus, grand representative.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
Birminoham Restaurants.

Birmingham is a city of restaurants and the fact that the number is steadily increasing Is one of the best>signs of our growth" said a business man. T have lived here 10 years and in that time Bir- mingham has taken on a decidedly metro politan air In the matter of handsome buildings 1t is ahead of every city in the south. And when the s1.5oo,oO0 hotel is built Birmingham will outclass in hotel accommodations all the other southern cities. Tn the meantime high-grade res taurants are multiplying, and the best of 1t Is all of them seem to pay. Among the more recent eating places Is the Turn Verein's Rathskellar Several new res- taurants are to be opened in the fall. One of these is to be in the basement of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
SENATOR JoHsToN's SPEECH.

The Washington Post says the tariff makers forgot the storm of the previous day and laughed heartily al the humorous speech made by Senator Johnston of Ala bama, who in serious moments deplores high taxes on necessities. The Post goes on to say:
 .The debatefyesterday was not marked by the aerimony of Friday. There was 8 flash now and then. but only for a mo- ment. The Senate would have been mutinous, indeed to have continued in ill-temper after listening to the delight ful speech of Senator Joseph F. Johnston of Alabama. delivered during the earlier hours of the session. MT. Johnston is one of the wits of the Senate, and the humorous fashion in which he dealt with prosaic tariff facts by way of introduc- tion convulsed both republican and democrats with laughter, and compelled close attention to his observations when he took up the more serious phases of the question"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
Delegate to Typo Convention.

Meridian, Miss. May 19.-(Special.}- Maj. W. F. Palmer of the Dispatch com posing room was this afternoon unanl- meusy elected by Meridian Typographical Union No. 153 as delegate to the Interna- tional Typographical union convention which is to meet in August in St. Joseph, Mo. This makes the third time Major Palmer has been elected a delegate to the International Typographical union. Hs represented Chattanooga in 1894 and Vicksburg in 1904 and each time his elec- tion was by unanimous vote
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
Bessemers Prosperity.

"Bessemer is enjoying a high degree of prosperity" said George H. Stevenson, president of the Bessemer board of trade. "All the industries in and around Besse- mer are in operation, and business has not been so good in our end of Jefferson county since 1907 as it is now.
 ''Bessemer is not only a center of pay rolls, but our merchants have a good country trade to count on. There is a large population within a radius of three or four miles, and even when blaA furnaces are idle Bessemer is still pros perous''
 Asked how the people of Bessemer felt about the Board of Revenues proposi- tion to build $10O0O0 courthouse and jail in their city, MT. Stevenson said that so far as he knew the voters regarded it with hearty approval. "A $1O0,00O court house should give very decided satisfac- tion,' said he. "Bessemers importance certainly entities it to substantial recog- milton, and I am glad the Board of Reve- nue is taking that view of it.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
NEW GRAND JURY
Oklahoma Land Fraud Gases Will Be
 Probed.

Tulsa, Okla, May 19.-The third federal grand jury called to reinvestigate the frauds was completed here this after noon A motion of the defendants to dis miss the jury was overruled, and after Judge John A. Marshall had instructed the jurors, the examination of witnesses was immediately taken up. George w. Strawn of Wagoner was selecte das fore man of the jury.
 Judge Marshall instructed the jury as to what constitutes a conspiracy, explained the statute of limitation and called at tention to the Creek Indian agreement under which the lots in question were scheduled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20

The fact that theer is a line o steamers between this country and South American ports is the real point in the case. In the long run steamers will sail from New Orleans to the west coast as well as the east coast of South America, but at present a line from New York to the east coast will have to suffice. It is clear gain over what we have had.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
Gift to J. P, Moroan.

New York, May 19.-Announcement was made today that Emperor William, in rec ognition of their good offices in connec- ton with the exhibition of German con temporary art, recently held at the Metro politan museum, has presented to J. Pier pont Morgan, president of the museum, his portrait bearing his signature; to Di- rector Sir Casper Clarke and Hugo Rein singer, the commanders cross of the Order of the Crown of Prussia and to Edward Robinson, assistant director, the officers cross of the Order of the Red Eagle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The noblest thing about mother is that she isn't father
 Most of a mans education is acquired by unteaching himself what he learned at school.
 A man gets so nervous waiting to learn whether it's a boy or a girl that he cant be much worse if it turns out to be twins
 If there's no other way to have onS a woman could pour kerosene oil over the doghouse sc to be able to speak of it as the garage.
 The thing that makes woman proud est of her husband is for somebody to get him mixed up with another man of the same name who Is famous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
Georgia Peaches Will Be High-PriCed

The peaches of Georgia and Alabama will this year be fine in quality be- cause they will be deficient in quantity. The trees bore a bumper crop last year, and they are simply incapable of repeating that crop in the following year. No peaches have been killed by frost. The trees, however, are not equal to the task of producing 1000 cars year in and year out. They will, to some extent, recuperate their vigor this year, and the crop in the two states will not exceed $500 cars.
 These peaches will be sold in the organized California manner, and as rule the grower will receive his money at his shipping station before the fruit is trundled away. Some growers ex- pect to receive $3 a crate in the orchard.
 The first shipments of this year. crop will be ready about June, and until July 15 the growers will reap a golden harvest The Elbertas will be the last and the best product of the season. It is a mistake to assume that. the. south. is. growing. enough peaches to meet the needs of the coun- try. When the peach crates are prop erly distributed the country would absorb twice the quality that is grown in the south, and there are no indica- tions that the supply will outrun the demands of an increasing population.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
No Lonqer Depression.

"A year ago business was depressed throughout the east and in nearly every section of the south,p said J. C. Weemis of Philadelphia, "but so great has been the improvement that times begin to look very prosperous once more.
 q was in Baltimore a week in April and in coming south from that city l stopped in Richmond Norfolk and Charlotte Within the past ten days I have visited several Georgia cities and everywhere people are talking about re- turning prosperity. I have not heard a pessimistic remark since last February Every business man feels that the period of depression Is well behind us and that a new era of industrial and commercial thrift is just ahead"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
HAS SUMMER COME WITH THE
 ROSE?

By Arthur Oshughnessy. Has summer come without the rose? Or left the bird behind7 Is the blue changed above thee, O world, or am I blind? Will you change every flower that grows. Or only change this spot. Where she who said 'I love thee,' Now says q love thee not?
  Be false or fair above ne, Come back with any face, Summerl-do I care what you do? You cannot change one place. The grass the leaves, the earth, the dew,
 The grave make this spot, Here where she used to love me, Here where she loves me not!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
Wages May Be Reduced.

Fall River, Mass, May 19.-A reduc- tion in wages amounting to per cent in the pay of 25,0Oo operatives in the print cloth mills of Fall River is pos sible on June IA, according to an an- nouncement made tonight. Under agreement between the textile manu- facturers every six months wages are adjusted to correspond with the mar gin between cotton and print cloth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
JUST AS GOOD,
the St. Louis Post-pispatch.

From the St. Louis Post-pispatch.
 Professor Pickering had received tele- gram stating that a country paper in Texas would provide the necessary $1O,- oOo,ooo if he would signal Mars from west Texas.
 That puzzled him little but he took the precautton to answer:
 Have you the money in cash?'
 The reply confirmed what he had heard of country papers It said:
 NO; but we've got 1t in wood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
Mrs, Tucker Gets No AlImony.

Chicago, May 19.-Mrs. Dolly Logan Tucker, who is suing her husband, Col w. R. Tucker, U. S. A, retired, for sepa- rate maintenance, was denied temporary alinony by Judge A. c. Barnes in the superior court here today. An affidavit by Colonel Tucker was read, showing that Mrs. Tucker has property worth s10o,00o Mrs. Tucker in her affidavit said that her income was $1750 a year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20

While Roosevelt goes gunning for bull rhinoceroses, his ex-private secre- tary Is loaded for crooked customs off cials. The latter Is serving the people while the former is keeping in the limelight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20

Empire building, and is to be conducted by J. R. Brown, the tobacconist.
 Those who express wonder at the large patronage which Birmingham res taurants receive seem to forget that this city has more than doubled in popula- ton within the past few years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20

There has been too much talk abou. this road through Red mountain. If the right of way really is secured why not break ground?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20

The people of Missouri at least will have to be shown before they will be- lieve that any one has the Wright brothers beaten to a frazzle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE CHICHESTER.

 The man who makes suggestions makes A fellow want to fight, Particularly when forsooth, He's very seldom right. He seems to thinks he knows 1t all, But If the facts were told, The sum of all the brains he has A thimble small would hold He likes to pry into affairs Of other people so And prove to all the neighbors round How much he doesn't know, That if the world were to make oer, The ocean and the land It's just as sure as anything He'd want to lend a hand!
 SOME NEW BOOKS. Hard Luck Tales of a Traveller" by Cypriano Castro.
 twisting Lions Tail." by Bwana Tumbo.
 An After-Dinner Dissertation on Golf" by William Howard Taft
 "The Troubles of foor Married Man." by Abdul Hamid.
 "The American Husband Viewed as Shrimp" by Carrie Chapman Catt. Preparations for a Black Mans Funeral,7 by James J. Jeffries.
 RtJFTLED. q called on a retired capitalist last night"
 And what did he say7" "He said, Why in the dickens didn't you come around before went to bed9"
 PRUDENT MAN. 'I never run the risk of an automo- bile collision. unless"
 "Unless what?"
 ''Unless I'm sure the other fellows car is considerably lighter than mine."
 FO1BLES. Balzac wrote Men are very fierce and 80 are tigers: but neither tigers. nor vip- CTS, nor diplomates, nor men of law, nor executioners, nor kings, can in their ut most atrocities come near the gentle cruelty the poisoned sweetness, the saw age scorn of young ladies to each other when certain of them think themselves superior to others in birth, fortune or grace, and when marriage Is in question, or precedence, or, in short any feminine rivalry" And no other man who ever wrote had a surer grasp of human nature, or a clearer insight to the weaknesses of lis fellows, yet the master was very, very proud of the aristocratic particle before his surname and the heavens would have fallen had he signed himself any other way than Honore de Balzac.
 SHADOW DAYS. Shadow days, shadow days They come to one and all; Into each life, the poet says, Some drops of rain must fall. And each one has a cross to bear, His battles still to fight,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20

The Martians evidently secured re- ports on deep waterways long before this old earth did, and they proceeded to act upon them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20

The faithful Loeb nabs almost every day few rascally persons who are engaged in cheating Uncle Sam out of customs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20

Major Theodore Roosevelt, IT, is now but private, having declined to serve on the staff of Acting Governor Weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20

The new Aldrich tariff will not be celebrated on July 4. It will be too inchoate at that time to rejoice over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20

Any footrace of more than 200 yards Is now called Marathon, so fast has the word degenerated in this land of the free and the fleet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
PERHAPS

Who reaches home at break of day Mayn't be a wicked wight. Perhaps, to keep the wolf away,
 He has to work at night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
APPLAUSE BREAKS SPELL

man to his left, and in his glance at the man from Georgia was scorn unut- terable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20

In this country 37,000 laws are en- acted yearly. This is why more ill-
 considered legislation is enacted here
 than in any other country In the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
A BAD START.

Are you getting a good start this new week, brother?-Altoona Tribune
 No. brother. We drew our salary in ad- vance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-20
so SHE WOULD.

The loud rampageous suffragette- I'd hate to b'long to her, you bet.
 She'd twist me round her finger and Just rule the roost to beat the bandl