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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-15
OMAHA SANDY
HAS WHEELS

OMAHA, Neb., March Jim JEFF
fries, the undefeated champion heavy
weight pugilist of the world, together
with his wife and his sparring partner,
passed through Omaha last night en-
route to New York, to fill theatrical
engagement. To Sandy Griswold, the
sporting writer, Jeffries said emphatic
ally that after mis- theatrical engage
ment he would meet Jack Johnson. He
said that he felt obligated to the sport
ing public to make an effort to reclaim
the championship for the white race.
He said he was through with the game
up to the time that Johnson won the
crown.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-15

LATEST NEWS ABOUT
BATTLING NEIS(

ATTEST NEWS ABOUT
BATTLING NELSON
Monday.
Battling Nelson has retired,
OF fighting he is tired:
This notice is inspired
BY the Press-Agent.
Tuesday.
The Hyland match arranged,
The date will not be changed.
All writers are deranged
Except the PressAgent.
Wednesday.
Freddie Welsh has made match
And the show should be a catch.
he Is after Nelson g thatch,
Says the Press-Agent.
Thursday.
Battling Nelson wants to fight
Fifteen Britons in one night.
He is feeling out of sight.
(Signed) The Press Agent.
Friday.
This is Bat s unlucky day,
So close at home he II stay.
If you We anything to say,
See the Press-Agent.
Saturday.
Bat attends the football game,
For he used to play that same.
AS half-back he won fame,
Dreams the Press-Agent.
Sunday.
AS this is the day of rest,
Bat puts on a brand new vest.
Oh, you have to give him best
That old Press.Agent.
JACK DENSHAM.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-15
90 Wet for Sports

Puvius called everything yesterday
enthusiastic held unschedud but the leagues held
meetings on
Paddy Walsh appeared Haewa
saying anything
of OF he had walked
Postponements important games already
yesterday whether
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
The MOltgOmery Conference

The conference to be held in Mont gomery next Wednesday will bring to- gether a splendid array of the repre- sentative men of Alabama. It will consider methods for defeating the amendment to the constitution seek. ing to incorporate prohibition into the fundamental law and will be well at tended from every section of the state. All indications point indeed to a very large attendance, and there is every reason to believe that it will be even more generally representative than the constitutional convention in 1901. The convention was composed of patriotic and forceful men. but considerable majority of them were lawyers.
 For the forthcoming conference the call invites all men who are opposed to the amendment. While it was sug- gested that meetings be held in each county for the purpose of choosing delegates to Montgomery, the organ ization of the conference will be, in the nature of things, informal and hence it is that all who feel a sim cere and eager interest in the moye- ment will be welcome. And since it's scope Is to be thus broad the confer ence will embrace the best men from every walk of life-lawyers, farmers, iron and coal operators, bankers, mer- chants and mechanics.
 The conference will be notable from every point of view and will in a large sense mark a new and brighter era in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Prosperity and Politics.

"The industrial situation in the Bir- mingham district began to improve early in the summer and it has been improving eyer since. said a prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce.
 Tn the iron and steel business condi- tions have already reached normal and the coal trade which has been dull for more than a year past, is showing un- mistakable signs of revival. It is reason able to predict that by November l pros- perity in Birmingham and the Birming- ham district will be almost equal to that of 1907. It is generally believed that 1910 will witness new high records in indus trial development and indeed in all branches of legitimate business through out the United States.
 sThe only thing that hampers us in Alabama is too much politics. The cam pagn just now beginning will be, it is ad- mitted on all sides, exceedingly hot. The vote on constitutional amendment seeking to put prohibition in the organic law of the state could have been postponed until the regular election of 1910, but the legis- lature has precipitated the contest upon
 
 quieting to business. At the very time when everybody should be promoting prosperity, the energy of our leading citi- zens throughout Alabama is to be di- rected to the work of more immediate importance-that, of defeating the amend ment The business men of Huntsville Sheffield, Birmingham, Anniston, Gads- den, Tuscaloosa. Montgomery, Selma and Mobile are believed to be overwhelmingly against the amendment. I have talked with scores of representative citizens of Birmingham this week and every one of them is earnestly opposed to the consti- tutional prohibition. They look upon such a proposition as altogether inimical to the best interests of Alabama. But in spite of politics Birmingham will thrive on the revival of industrial operations here- abouts."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09

ndependently-to ask no favors of any one. In order to do this he must grow his own corn and make his own meat
 MT. Seymour sees in the experience of South Carolina and in this years success in Alabama a way to do this, and that way lies, in brief. in the Williamson method of growing corn. On hundreds of farms in Alabama this year the product of corn has been in. creased from 1872 bushels to 30 bush els per acre. In South Carolina the corn production was increased last year 5000, 900 bushels. Mr. Seymour ia confident Alabama will. in the course of three years, make her own corn. So will Georgia. So will South Carolina.
 Possibly the Williamson method and the warehouse system should be promoted side by side. the one aiding and supplementing the other. But if precedence is to be given to either let it be given to the plan that would put the largest number of farmers on their feet in the shortest possible space of time. The delegates now Tn this city are excellent judges of the situation and to them The Age-Herald looks in this matter for direction and leadership.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
Eiaht Over Routes.

'"rhe good roads movement is reaching a high degree of enthusiasm in Virginia and North Carolina" said J. Hampton Rich, former resident of Birmingham, but now field editor of the Good Roads Magazine of Atlanta.
 'I have just returned from Lynch burg, Va, where the people are arranging to hold big good roads rally in October Lynchburg is pulling with Greensboro. N. C., for the Greensboro route And Winston-Sal is fighting hard, aided by Roanoke. Va, for the route which runs by Natural Bridge and through Roanoke and Winston-Salem. The whole effect of the agitation will result in better roads throughout the south.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
Tom Lona on the Situation.

''The price of cotton has gone up since the legislature adjourned said Tom Long of Walker county, a prominent merchant and one of the most influential poli- tlcians in the state.
 We will open our campaign against the constitutional amendment in Wal ker county Saturday and from that time on we will keep thing stirring in the state of Walker.
 "As the governor has called all us fellows who are against the amendment and against his methods of emptying the state treasury Balaamites. 1t would be well to say that the mantle of Elisha has not fallen upon him.
 q favor calm, conservative pro- gramme at the Montgomery conference Let us try the prohibition laws. If not acceptable to a majority of the people we can alter or repeal them, but there is no more reason to write prohibition in the constitution than there Is to make the Ten Commandments a part of the organic law"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
Seeking & Collegiate Education

Many of the colleges of Alabama re- opened yesterday for the fall term and practically all of them will have re- sumed by this time next week. A large enrolment Is reported and the two great institutions of the state-the University and the Polytechnic at Auburn-each broke its previous high record yesterday in the matter of new students.
 The, outlook for college work is in deed cheering. A larger percentage of young people in Alabama seem more eager for knowledge than ever before, while thrift in the agricultural districts enables many a father to send his boys to college now who was prevent ed from doing so few years ago by reason of his scanty means.
 The colleges are better equipped this year than ever before. Buildings have been improved and in many cases new buildings have been erected. In the technological schools modern mechan- ical appliances and testing devices have been installed and in nearly every college the teaching body has been enlarged or otherwise strengthened. In view of all the facts, therefore, the year 1909-1O promises to be the most fruitful in the history of education in this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
ALL4A DREAM.

When you've sung all the songs, lad,
 When you've played all the tunes, And mixed with all the throngs, lad,
 And mastered all the runes Of lfe-lived through the shadow days,
 And lived through days of gloom And when at last deaths shadow strays Toward you. twill seem a dream. Twill seem dream, the battle fought, Perhaps you failed to gain, The goal so passionately sought
 Through years of toll and pain; The empty task, the sordid round,
 Lifes coronal of thorns, The happiness you've never found,
 The faith a eynie scorns. Twill seem dream-'tis better so,
 And when you stand at last And wait the call, prepared to go
 Where those before have passed That hour with so much anguish weighed For all the human band Will find you calm and not afraid
 To face the shadow land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
Corn Growing Means Independence

The Age-Herald urges every dele gate of the Farmers union to read the statements made by w. H. Sey- mour, director of the bureau of cot ton statistics. published fin yesterdays Age-Herald Briefly speaking MT. Sey- mour says the farmer must get on his feet before he can exercise full control over the cotton bales he pro- duces. He can get on his feet in but one general way namely, he must raise his own corn and make his own meat. As MT. Seymour expresses tho situation the farmer who has crib full of corn and a smo3kehouse full of meat does not have to sell his cot ton.
 True, the warehouse system looks to | supply of money on warehouse certincateA but thA average farmer is not accustomed to Denking aih ware A~~aa methods. HeNprefers to act
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09

difficult task and failed. Naturally, they are disgruntled that Cook should have accomplished with little acclaim what they failed to do with much more back ing.
 But with those few exceptions, all the world stands ready to accept the return ing hero as pure gold, and honor him as the greatest discoverer of the generation. The flaws in the printed stories make no impression on the general public, which is aware of the proneness of these to steal into print in the different stages of getting the uews to press.
 In the general summing up of the story, with the fuller reports in, it is becoming obvious that the expedition was a marvel of efficiency and good fortune, and the natural result of d happy combination of these. In the first place. Cook was just the man to do this thing. He was free lance, unincumhered by the red tape of supervision on the part of government or society. He had just the backing he needed, without interference He had had a wide experience in the north. He knew the easiest way to the pole. He was man of one idea, and willing to sacrifice everything to it. He was a doctor, and every expedition needed medical man. He was a man of an iron constitution, and only such could make the trip. He was man of indomtable will.
 He went into the far north to the point that offered the greatest opportunities, and stayed there. It was because of this that he made the great discovery that there was a better time than summer to make the dash. pr. Cook had clear weather, also, for the crucial part of his trip which did much toward making it possible.
 He started with a party of considerable size, but every time he planted supply station he dropped some of his men back. The best always went on. When the final difficulties were to be faced he had but two men and the lightest of equipment. These men were the surviving fittest Such an expedition could move rapidly and subsist on next to nothing. It was by doing this that the great feat was accomplished. A man big enough to plan and attempt this thing would hardly lie about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
Business Improvement.

W. B. Leedy leaves this morning for the east on a vacation trip. In discussing real estate values and business in general MT. Leedy said last night:
 When the extra session of Congress adjourned there was an improvement in the business situation. When the extra session of the Alabama legislature ad- journed there was a further improve ment. If the amendment to the constitu- tion Is defeated in November there will be very marked improvements; but in my judgment prosperity in this part of the country will not reach the zenith until the term of the present administration is so near its close that there will be no danger of another extra session being called"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
In the Tennessee vaIIey,

we have had fine crops in Lauderdale county" said J. K. Powers of Florence. There is no richer agricultural section in the south than the Tennessee valley.
 If the large farms wer cut up into small tracts and each little farm thor oughly cultivated the Tennessee valley would produce enough to support teem- ing population. Something has been done in the direction of selling off small acre. age and newcomers who have cultivated from 50 to 60-acre farms have greatly prospered. But what Is needed is a more general movement in dividing up the large stretches of agricultural lands.
 Business conditions in the tri-cities- Sheffeld, Florence and Tuscumbia--are excellent. We have a model electric car system and Sheffield is forging right ahead as commercial and industrial center It is estimated that the three cities combined have population of be- tween 2O,o0O and 25,Ooo'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
Elections This Year

Ohio and Iowa no longer hold cleo tions in the "off year. and Pennsyl- vania is about to follow suit. The movement to avoid off-year elections has become so general that few cleo tions will indeed be held this year.
 Massachusetts and Rhode Island elect governors and other state of ficials every year. These states are old fashioned, believing in an annual appeal to the people. Maryland will this year elect a controller, a legis- lature and vote upon suffrage amend ment. Virginia will elect governor, other state officers and a legislature. Nebraska elects minor state officials. New York elects the members of the lower house of the legislature, and New Jersey elects lower house and one-third of the upper house. Penn sylvania will elect judges and minor state officers, and Kentucky legisla- ture. That is all.
 There is small opportunity for con- tests in these elections. No doubt the income tax amendment will become an issue in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Virginia Maryland, Kentucky, New York and New Jersey, but nothing decisive is expected from these cleo tions. The chief issue in New York relates to the primary system.
 The elections of this year will, as a rule, be tame and uninteresting, but next year a new federal house of rep resentatives is to be elected and warm contests will take place in all of the states. The warmest will be in the districts represented by insurgents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
What Alabama Did Last Year

The commercial crop is not exactly a seasons growth, but it is near enough to it for statistical purposes. Secretary Hester says Alabama's cot ton crop in the last cotton year was 1y428,000 bales, as against 1,171000 bales in the previous year. Last year stands second, however. to the crop grown in 1904. That crop was 1,470,- 900 bales, and the crop grown in 1908 was its close second. The crops of 1904 and 1908 were each in round numbers 100000 bales larger than the average crop of the state-about IT per cent larger.
 The Alabama cotton mills consumed last year 1,S71 bales, or about 46,261 bales more than they did in the pre- vious year. The mills of North Caro- lima now consume more than that states crop, and the mills of South Carolina will soon do equally well. Georgia and Alabama have a long way to go, but there are men now living who will live to see the crop of both states spun at home, leaving Texas and the far west to grow the worlds commercial crop of cotton. But that commercial crop will in the long run go, not in bales, but in the form of yarns, and then the south will be just at the beginning of it's manufacturing possibilities in the handling of it's great crop. North Carolina, which grew last year 747O00 bales, shows what can be done-what must be done if the south is to get from its magnificent crop all the good it holds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
CITIES AND PROHIBITION.
Temperance Wave Has Had Small Ef-
 feet in Large Towns.

From McClures Magazine
 About 1,s5000O people living in cities of over approximately per cent of the total population in these cities-are in places covered by no-license laws. Of these S4O,000 were made dry by state law. Another 450,000 are residents of suburbs of large cities, where liquor can be bought over an imaginary boundary line. within the or 10-cent limit of the local trolley line. There are then some 560,000 resi- dents of cities, or 21a per cent of the city population. who at the height of temper ance campaign can be said to have delib- erately shut themselves off from immedi- ate local access to saloons by majority vote of their population. Two-thirds of this 21z per cent is made up of large Mas sachusetts cities, which went dry in the last temperance wave of the late eighties, and whose lapse following that, with their general record and makeup, shows that they can scarcely be counted as perma- nent additions to prohibition soil-Massa- chusetts cities voting every year on the question of license. These figures-at the top of wave of temperance, which has put third of the population of the coun- try on ''dry soil''-explain the essential attitude of the present city population of the United States in the prohibition move. without other comment It Is also shown by the sentiment of the cities. who were captured against their will.
 Three-quarters of this group of dry cities have been forced to give up their sa- looms during the recent temperance move ment In the south-for the old prohibition states were highly rural, with but few cities in them. Practically all of these southern cities went under prohibition laws against their wills, and with loud protests. One of them, Mobile, Ala, ex- pressed it's feeling In spectacular but ineffectual threat that it would secede from the state. In the great majority of these southern subsequently, the cities of Georgia and most of those in Alabama the enforcement of prohibition became a farce almost immediately. By trick in the Georgia legislature loophole was promptly made by which beer Is sold openly throughout the cities of that state In one large southern city the mayor has expressed himself in an after-dinner speech in favor of entire disregard of the state law.
 q was elected by the city of -----, not the state of -, and propose to ad- minister the laws as the people Of --- want them administered"
 This sentiment may not be good law hut 1t represents the inevitable attitude Of the local politicians in city which has been made dry against its will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The sandwich as a food article, says a writer in a German paper, has It's 15Oth birthday this year. Of course, this does not apply to any particular sandwich de- spite the ancient and weather beaten ap- pearance of some of them which tourists encounter at railway stations. and stand ing luncheon counters But 1t Is 150 years since the fourth Earl of Sandwich. who was an inveterate card player, had his servant bring him a slice of meat be- tween two pieces of bread, so that he might continue to play while he ate. We have our own butterbrochen and our kalter aufschnitt," writes the German man authority, "but the card players makeshift is better fitted for the man in a hurry than these. and there Is probably no restaurant in Germany where the sandwich Is not known and served, and the name of the noble earl appears on many German bills of fare, Germanized into sandwitsch."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
SAD BUT TRUE,

From the Selma Times.
 The Birmingham Age Herald had a very suggestive, and at the same time la mentally sorrowful if true, cartoon in its issue of Sunday. On the dirty sea of politics were represented the Bible as a raft on which were sailing under the sail of prohibition piratical crew. Governor Conner was seen in front with a pair of glasses. declaring. 'I can't see land yet" while on one corner Brooks Lawrence played the guitar. Over on another cor ner, dressed as buccaneers, were Mallory and Wealzey fighting with daggers. Alas the cartoon told pitiable truth and por- trayed to what depths politics when taken into church will lead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

sea is broken up in foam. and ths u,o,os rage high, then lift l mine eyes unto tha earth and trees and fly the sea, and the Iano IS welcome, and the shady wood well pleasing In my sight, where even if the wind blow nigh the pine tree sings her song Surely an evil life lives the fisher man whose home is his ship, and his leoors are in the sea, and fishes thereof are ms wandering spoil Nay, sweet to me is sleep beneath the broad-leaved plane tree; let me love to listen to ths murmur of the brook hard by soothing not troubling the husbandman with its sound. ' From the Greek of Moschus. by An-
 drew Lang.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
THE SHEPHERDS TOWER.

By Eden Phillpotts in New Age. I saw it when the dawn was nrst oe-
 clared- His tower, whose body generations reared. Its soul the Shepherds own. Not blue the ambit of the twilight sky, But clear and warm as ancient ivory, Enshrined that fower-like stone. As ivory unstained, and then there flowed Through the wide eastern heaven rays
 that glowed
 Into the upper white. With delicate fire and gentle lawn. The campanile's summit answered dawn And heralded the light. Upsoaring from the silence. where still
 kept Blue shadows while the lily city slept, Child of the morning sky, You floated into flame, yourself a flame Above all wonder and beyond all fame A glorious mystery. One with the Armament and not with
 earth, ~ Melting into the very mornings mirth. To heavens high self avowed, wrought of the roseate dayspring. pierced
 with shade Of pearly eyes, night luted, rainbow
 rayed,
 Widowed with purple cloud Thy colors echo morn and night and noon, Moonrise on earth and sunrise on the
 moon,
 White Venus and red Mars; The deep green shadows of mountain
 grove, The foam that glimmers and the waves
 that rove
 
 Under the setting stars. Pillar of fre Symbol of the Re-birth, Lifted forever on this radiant earth By Tuscan Giotto's might, Laud we the dust he piled in Arno's plain To beckon Italy. ere yet again His own dust sank to night