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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
Mr.. Ko0nCe Of Houston County

All that Alabaam needs in order to be-
come the most productive state in this
or any other country is about 1000 farm
ers like Mr.. Koonce of Columbia, Hous-
ton county. He it is that has grown
patch for three successive years So says
q correspondent Of the Montgomery Adj
vertiser. And he does not consider he
Mas done anything exceptional or at all
remarkable. He has done nothing he
cannot repeat indefinitely, or any one else
who will cultivate Alabama soil intelli-
gently.
When Mr. Koonce gets ready to make
cotton on his three-acre patch he plows
liz from IL to IS inches deep, This may
take the breath away from the farmer
who grows bale on three or four acres,
but IT is nevertheless what Mr. Koonce
ooSS- iHc sui 10 dSdlH plOuSHeu IN the
spring. The seed is carefully selected and
IL planted with the lint on because a
gin does no seed any good. Then Mr..
Koonce uses 1900 pounds of real fertilizer
70 the acre. With the seed is used 200
sounds, and the rest is applied when the
growing plant needs it,
He picks three bales to the acre, and If
ouy farmer things such farming does not
pay he should get down his slate and
pencil and work the sum over again. He
WIN ascertain in the end that all Alabama
needs is 100000 farmers like Mr.. Koonce.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
God shall be my hope,
ny stay, my guide and lantern TO thy
feet. = King Henry vi.
Drawing a Line In Marriages

A preacher in the Pittsburg district a
Presbyterian has decided that he will not
marry any couple where the prospective
husband has an income less than $1,000 a
year. He really bases his action on the
high cost of living, because poverty, he
says, leads TO divorce, and he does not
propose to boom the business of the di-
vorce lawyers. The high cost of living
leads to the poverty that he says leads
to divorces.
The rule adopted would bar from we'd
lock nine-tenths of the people in this
country of high prices-in this country
that harbors a trust-creating tariff.
What would then become of the country?
What of the race?
Practically speaking the rule of the
Pittsburg divine would permit marriages
among the rich only. The middle-class
and the poor would be doomed to celibacy
No negroes could wed, and but few
whites. If the trusts and the tariff keep
on raising the cost of living marriages
would soon be confined to the limited
few of the strictly plutocratic class.
The minister in question lives at Nc
KEGS Rocks, among the steel workers,
and he should be the last man in that
community to announce plutocratic limi-
tation in marriage. If he thinks morality
and the general good can be promoted in
that way he certainly has another guess
coming to him. Incomes of young BRIDE
grooms cannot be arranged in these days
of the Aldrich tariff and resultant trusts
TO suit the notions OF the McKees Rocks
preacher
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13

an effort TO select a senator to I'LL the
seat of the lamented McLaurin. The va
eancy occurred SO close to the legisla-
tive session it could not well be referred
to the people. and yet perhaps it would
have bean best to have done that very
thing. :
But the wonder is, why does not Mis-
sissippi, which early adopted TIE primary
system. petition Congress to call a con-
yention to submit an amendment permit
ting the direct selection of senator's?
-Four more states are needed and Missis-
sippi should in all consistency become
one of them. Alabama is one of the
petitioners, and no one can see why Mis-
siss.ppi does not add a petition to Con-
gress to Ter settled policy in the matter
OF primaries. for no state is in other re-
spects more fully committed to the prin-
ciples Of direct action by the people.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
Lest We Forset

Said a prominent democrat: Among
me paragraphs in Mr.. Weatherly's
tkoughtfu. letter in advocacy of Emmett
o Meal which appeared in The Age-Her-
oiL of Thursday this one struck me as
being especially forceful:
Mr.. ONeal thinks that the people are
tired of politics and want rest, at least
from new and strange and agitatng ques-
tlCns. Nevertheless he feels lust pride
In this great and growing state and looks
TO its future with Astounding hope. He
will encourage, by all the means in his
power, the upbuilding of Alabamas vast
material interests, the increasing of her
wealth and population, the education OF
her children and the general welfare of
her people. He will belong to no man. nor
set of men, individual or corporation He
is ambitious to make wise, clean gov
ernor, and to leave for his administration
record that will go down in history as
sound, business-like, broad-gauged, effici-
ent and honorable
During Governor Jelks' administration
Alabama was wonderfully prosperous; but
in the past four years we have had a
great deal of hurtful agitation of one
sort and another. Legislation antagonistic
to corporations did vast harm; and
drastic prohibition was almost as dis
quleting to capital as was the tendency
to harrass thebrailroads and the coal and
iron companies, for 1t indicated to out
side investors that Alabama was in the
control Of fanatics and was In q state Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
Heyb IN On Evolution

The northern papers continue to dis
euss Hepburn and his attack upon the
south. Not one of them attempts tC
defend and befriend him, and for that
matter his own colleague in the Senate
Mr. Borah, did not when the vote or
Senator Banlshead's test resolution was
taken A dense silence filled the Senate
chamber while Hepburn was denouncing
the south and southern people. including
Robert E. Lee, and today he is the lone
soonest man in the country
The Newark, n. J., News is an inde-
pendent. republican paper. and one of
the strongest newspapers in the land.
According to the congressional direc-
tory" says the News, weldon Brinton
Hepburn, senator from Idaho, was born
in 1852 This refutes the general i'm
preston that Senator Hepburn is a sur
vival of the Paleozoric era. Evidently
he is not survival, but a 'throw-back. >
Now he is going through the evolutionary
process and has just reached the period
of the Civil War. Nearly half a cen
tury after the restoration of peace Hey
burn has just begun to fight. Tt is moth
ing to him that he is fighting spectres
that have long been laid.
He thrusts his fists against the posts
And still insists he sees the ghosts.
Overwhelmingly defeated in his effort
to bar the statue of Robert E. Lee from
the capitol's hall of statuary, Hepburn
was not dsmayed. He rallied himself
around himself and waited for the next
opening for attack. 1t came when a
resolution was offered in the Senate au-
thorizing the Secretary of War to loan
certain tents, saddles, ETC., for the use
of the Confederate Veterans reunion at
Mobile, Ala, in April Hepburn imme-
diately deployed in battle array. He
threw out his skirmish line, advanced his
infantry and opened with his artillery on
both tanks. Single handed he fought
the war all over again from Bull Run
to Appomattox. It was a magnificent
display of patriotic ardor--and then the
roll was called. It showed 81 in favor
of the resolution and one opposed Need
less to say the one was Hepburn.
"Heyburn's term expires in 1915. Who
knows but by that time he may have
reached the era of reconstruction or per-
haps even the first Cleveland administra-
ton %.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
REMINGTONS PLAINS PEOPLE

form of Indulgence is foreign enough
to his taste. 1T is just-for its directness
and close-packed simplicity that 1 have
made the foregoing quotation, just to
show that he knows how to make an
absolutely clear descriptive statement.
Simple as it is almost to the point of
badness, does it not convey sharp and
vivid impression?
And as he has written he has painted.
simply and truthfuly. He had of course,
to pay the penalty of the artist who
turns from illustration in black and
white to work in color. For consider
able time his pictures We're invariably
marked by a garishness not to be ex-
planned alone by the staccato effects of
a landscape whelmed in a blaze of sun
shine. | have seen paintings of his which
We're as hard as nails. But then came
change. one of the most interesting noted
In some years past by observers of
American art. Mr.. Remington suddenly
drew near to the end of his long pull. He
left far behind him the brittleness of the
pen drawings which he once had scat
tered so profusely through magazines and
books. His reds and yellows which had
blared SO mercilessly from his canvass
began to shed the quality of scene paint
ing and took on more of the aspect of
nature. Incidentally the mark of the il
illustrator disappeared and that of the
painter took its place.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
Ancestral Obligations

1.-THE recent news item from Admission
telling of a thanksgiving service for the
escape of children from a burning school
building recalled to attention." said an
observer, chow little we recognize our
great obligation to the forebears of the
race.
1.-The children marched out safely as a
result of former fire drills. These drills
were practiced because the sad experience
of the world had demonstrated their ne
cessity; because. past history tells of re-
peated loss of life through panics.
THE fact that this was public school
implied the gradual, slow development Of
sociology and government from savagery
TO democracy. School discipline that
made possible this safe discharge from
the burning building, implied self-mastery
by man.
THE building and its equipment i'm
piled the discovery, by our forebears, of
fire, of the isolation of metals by fire, of
the manufacture of metals; implied the
discovery of language and the gradual
evolution, throughout the ages, of the
highly developed language taught in this
school; implied the discovery of written
speech and printed speech; implied the
discovery of drawing and architecture.
And yet, when these parents gathered
with full hearts to give expression to a
feeling of thanl1fulness for the safety of
their descendants, they gave never a
thought to their racial ancestors who.
through ages of slow progress, had made
possible the schoolhouse, the school, the
drill
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
IEdEar Allan Poe

In my youth no literature fascinated
ne so much as Edgar Allan Poes stories
and poems" said widely read man,
and in my mature years l still reYel IN
Americas greatest poet.
This country has>produeed many men
of letters and at least three or four poets
|ilose fame will survive; but none. per-
haps, quite SO charms the reading multi
tude as The author of TO One in Para
disc. 'Anrebel Lee. The Raven, 'tla-
lime, The Fall of the House OF
Usher The Red Death. and many other
rare gems of poetry and prose. The Poe
centenary last year brought out a NUM-
Der OF luminous essays and a great deal
of constructive criticism. but one of the
best articles | have come across appears
In the current Edinburgh Review. the
writer starts off with the proposition that
Poe was a world-author. Taking five
representative libraries Of world-litera-
cure in English. German and italian, Poe's
- the only name appearing in all five
The writer in the Edinburgh Review
concludes as follows: If Poe is, as has
been suggested, the laureate of darkness,
he soothsayer and interpreter of its Sc
crets and sorrows, It's terrors and por-
tentous births. yet he is also the poet
of the silver starlight, with its soothing
stiffness and its dreams, and of the
soul, thrown back upon itself to brood
upon it's own imaginings. Or, If we
would vary the figure, let us say that, In
the vast rambling palace of imaginative
literature, with its splendid halls and
galleries, and pleasant homely apart
inents, there Is ore haunted room. Some
will snun that room as they would shun
infection; others will banker after it as
after forbidden fruit. But over all alike
its name will exercise a spell. Amid the
twilight shadows of the room, in all its
ambiguous silence, what nameless shapes,
what whispers and what footballs, may
not be surmised? Its windows open ever
upon blackness; in It's ante-chamber is
the unknown. And above the Intel of its
doorway is inscribed the name of Poe.
His works will not always be approved,
but we believe that they will always be
read
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
Annlston Wants senboard

u. J. Willett of Admission is now in
New York in an effort to induce the Sea-
board Air Line railroad to build its spur
from Jacksonville on into Admission said
Harry Nj. Ayers, who was in Birmingham
IL st night.
"All arrangements were made for build
ing the spur into Admission some time
ago but the financial depression delayed
TIE WORK. The road has a franchise
into Admission and all the necessary rights
Of way, but these rights will expire next
January unless extensions are secured.
1T is believed that the Seaboard in
rends to build into Admission as soon as 1t
Is convenient for the company to do so,
but the people of Admission are getting
anxious about the matter and every in
iucement possible is being offered for
Immediate action.
''Anniston's industrial interests are very
ective now and the prospects for the
future are very bright. Our city and sec
tion, taken together, is good tonnage
producer and railroads find it profitable to
make connection with Admission.
Mr.. Willett went to New York as
the representative of the Admission cham
her of commerce.
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4
ready TO erect an annex in the rear of
the main building; but responsive to
public sentiment as expressed through
the columns of The Age Herald,
the board has decided to hold the
matter in allegiance until such time as
plan for building a permanent and
adequate structure can be thought out
and submitted
Sterling A. Woods resolution intro
duced in the Chamber of Commerce and
adopted, opposing a make-shift annex
to the courthouse, and his forceful
speech to the resolution struck the
truth and covered the situation exactly
Everybody knows that the need for
courthouse expansion is urgent; that the
present conditions are insanitary and
altogether out of keeping with Jeffer-
son county's imperial position in Ala
bama. But as Mr.. Wood pointed out, Of
flee rooms reasonably convenient to the
courthouse can be rented and used until
permanent provision can be made to re-
lieve the congestion. Jefferson county
can easily afford to spend $3.50, 900 to
$500 900 in order to provide an addition
al building.
The Board of Revenue desires to do
the right thing, and in postponing ac-
ton greatly commends itself to the
public
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
hiSSiSSippi'S Hesitation UNEXPLAINED

eenators elected by magnates who con-
troll political bosses naturally represent
the interests of those magnates and this
n Why the American Senate has ceased
TO represent public sentiment. Its. Aid
riches, Kesns, Hales and Lodges repre.
sent special interests, and in that respect
+ Is as plutocratic and far more rotten
thsn the house of lords which is about
- be placed on an elective basis.
10 the American Senate is to be reformed
senators must come directly from the peo-
re. They would then represent the state
1tflly a. much as they do now, for the
paOpls are the state. not the political
nogses or the magnatos.
Mississippi has long selected her United
states senators in primaries. In this way
1cs,n Sharp Williams was selected. de-
eating Ex-Governor yardansn. Just at
6upeent the legislature Is deadlocked in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
Water transportation Almost Here

The rivers and harboHs bill which has
been reported to the House and which
will be called up tomorrow and pushed
to passage, is a tribute in its Alabama
items to Congressman Washington Tay-
lur and Oae ar Underwood Here are the
proposed appropriations for Alabama: Mo-
bile and Mobile bar sA64, GEO; Alabama
river $4,000; Black Warrior, Warrior and
rolnbigbee rivers. locks and dams, $780,
800 cash and $4,000 authorized for con-
tinuing contracts. Tombigbee in three
sections, $4,000 altogether; Coosa river,
Alabama, dam No and lock No. 4.
Alabama fares excelently in the report
ed hill, which totals s42, $50 Co., or Tess than
sl,00o0oo in the average 10 a state. Ala
bama gets much more than $1,000, 900,
ard there are no reasons for apprehend-
ing a decrease in the Senate.
Now, what does this fine appropriation
mean? 1t means that locks Nos II. Is and
10 will be rapidly completed, and the
river will be opened to the forks of the
river to a point above the mouth of VIII
lage creek; to smooth water above squaw
shoals abreast of Birmingham, and not
more than u miles from the citys wester-
ly bounds. All this may be accomplished
in the next fiscal year, certainly in the
succeeding enc.
Shall BIZ ningham stand still when this
81, 0Ot 600 Improvement stands almost COM
plete? Shall it refuse or neglect to use
a river open the year round 10 slack wa
| ter navigation six feet deep? Is water
Transportation valuless in this district? Are
water rate as. good as those of Memphi
not worth striving fore
This city should wake up. The hope
of this district lies in water transporta-
ton. It is nearly ready fo:- use, but we
lack independent access TO it. This is the
loI and short of the situation, and this
city and this district should begin to think
and TO act
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
NOVELTIES FOR 1910.
6 New York World.

FROM lnc New 1OIk NOfl0.
IL reports from the unyeracious em-
ployes of Coney Island amusement parks
are to be trusted, the summer season of
1910 is to bring forth thrilling novelties
for the air and the earth and the tun-
nels beneath the earth.
For the air there Is the new biplane hat
glide advertising ten thousands thrills for
dollar. Simply tie the ribbons of a
biplane hat under your chin, or, il your
hair is all real, you may put your trust
In hatpins. Then stand on the edge of the
'drome platform and dive off. II the wind
is not too strong you will be waited away
like a thistle to the next landing place.
For the surface of the earth the latest
sport is motor tenpins At the nominal
cost of fifty cents the proletariat may
enjoy a luxury of the very rich. High
speed automobiles and dummies on a
track are the essentials of the new game.
1t is played for points, child, ten points;
blind man, five; an ordinary foot pas
6enGer, three, andsa newsboy, one. + e
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
DIsPLACEs SOCIAL CALLS.

From the New York Evening Sun.
Sociability is rapidly dwindling to q
matter of ten-minute chats ON the tele-
phone. No one will be dragged from
her home if she can possibly protect her.
self Ingenuity and artifice are used to
insure uninterrupted days and evenings
of lazy Quiet. An enticing dinner invi-
tation, if played carefully, may get peo-
pie out, but they leave early and never
look reassuringy permanent There is
So much to do in New York that every
one has social indigestion and refuses
to do anything at all.
The first two hours of the morning ev-
cry woman in the city, it would seem,
sits down at her telephone, chats and ar
| ranges, accomplishing in a short period
of time and most easy manner what used
+, take afternoons of calls and mornings
of business meetings The rest of the
day is lett open for the unexpected and
the diver'ingly unnecessary. The old
phi asses of Il haven't a moment" and
we are all SO rushed to death are still
greatly in use, for it is half owing to
their influence that one is enabled to idle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
BANkHEAD AND WHITE

From the Florence Times.
The announcement of Capt. Frank s.
White of Birmingham as candidate for
the United States Senate again brings
Senator Banlshead distinctly into the lime
light; and his services, ability and eff
ficiency as a representative win again
come under review by the people. That
Senator BanlShead has been faithful and
loyal to his constituents, capable and in
fuential, cannot be doubted. We doubt
IL there Is a member OF either house Of
Congress from the south today who oc-
oupies more useful position in that
body, or who more efficiently serves his
people. To retire him, therefore, 1t seems
to us, would be something out of tho
usual way, and not demanded by any
condition of the public interests.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13

THE Story of Coal and Iron in Ala
bamo," by Miss Ethel Armes, is regarded
by prominent citizens who have read it
as not only valuable history but charming
literature. 1t is spoken of as a wonderful
ly brilliant achievement for young wom-
an. 1t was certainly very pluclSy under
taking on Miss Armes' part.
The book is finding wide circulation, and
many men distinguished among the cap
tains of industry have already read 1t and
written words of appreciation of it. One
of the interesting and useful features of
the publication is the chronological table.
This makes it especially handy as a ref
erence book.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13

hysteria. New and strange doctrines
were introduced and propagated. and with
the aid of the Conner administration seeds
Of d.scord were sown broadcast among the
PEOPLE.
But the people. driven to DESPERATION
rose IN in their might and defeated by
landslide majority the obnoxious measure
which a Conner legislature sought TO
rasten upon us. The large majority cast
against the proposed amendment 10 the
constitution raised Alabama many degrees
In the eyes of the outside world. Ihls
state was advertised far and wide as nav
ing risen to the occasion and reouNeo
fanaticism. Now it behooves US not TO
allow the fruits of November's victory to
come to rought. Mr.. Weatherlcys le''er
should be circulated as campaign lltera-
tnre. Every voter should read II ana
nonder it well. We must be constantly
reminded of the recent past. it seems lest
We forget
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
The Courthouse Question

Public opinion is well crystalized in
opposition to the proposed $4,000 an
mex to the Jefferson county courthouse
The Board of Revenue, approaching
the pressing need of additional room
for courthouse purposes. was getting
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
ORIGIN OF "RULL CON-

From the New York Sun.
Bull con- a slang phrase which means
/, flatter. to praise with Interior motives,
had it's origin in the west years ago.
When the gold brick game was started
the bunko men sprang a fine. high sound
ing combination of words upon the sim
pie farmer They called it an investment
in "bullion consolidated" Years after
the words were cut down to bull CON-"
and came to mean any graft that de-
pended upon the gift of CAB. Still later
i. was used to describe the method OF
flatterv.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13

From the Philadelphia Times.
After ALL 1t takes a woman to create
'home atmosphere" whether it be in
private or on the stage.
1t is for this reason that the first act
of 1.-The Lottery Man" is a gem among
realistic scenes. for not only was the
author OF the play woman-Rida John
son Young-but 1t was staged by a men,
Der Of the fair sex, namely, Edith Ellis
In most dinner scenes on the stage
only "props' are used as viands, but In
The Lottery Man" both author and
stage director insisted on having real boil
ing hot coffee served, and when steam
is seen rising from the cups, 1t adds just
that touch of realism that makes q play
seem real.