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The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-09-01

Mrs. A. j. Bennett of No. 8 North
Hill street, spent the week with her
mother Mrs Black, at Jefferson,
Tenn
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-09-01
Negro Located.

This afternoon Higley Henry, Ne
gro 1anitor, noticed a strange Negro
hiding under a box car near the Ok
lahoma Central railway station. With
the aid of two other Negroes, who
had armed themselves, the Negro
janitor pulled Carter from beneath
the car He was taken to the main
street of Purcell, where a great crowd
had gathered.
Turn that niger over to me-" said
a tall farmer, who suddenly seemed
to assume command of the crowd
The janitor and his two aides
obeyed. Carter was taken across the
street, and in an instance many men
and boys were gathering brush and
placing it at his feet. At this juno
ture Deputy Sheriff Hayes and I'm
der Sheriff Farris arrived and pleaded
with the mob to turn the prisoner
over to them.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-09-01

Mrs. w. H. Young sometime ago
bought a share of stock on the Para
fine Oil Co., of Denver. She was ad-
vised that the company had struck
it rich and that her stock had a
tremendous value Mrs. Young is to
be congratulated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Mir. Maben Returns

President J. c. Msben of the sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company re- turned from New York yesterday after an absence of several weeks. He said that business was unusually quiet at this time; just when the situation would im- prove he was not prepared to forecast.
 The iron market is stagnant," said MT. Maben, but, of course, it cannot remain dull indefinitely. The cause of the present 1atness in business is largely the uncertainty regarding the forthcoming decisions of the supreme court and their effect on the general business world. It was said in New York that the supreme court had reached it's conclusion in the Stadard Oil and American Tobacco cases some time ago, but that a decision would not be handed down until Congress had passed a national incorporation act which would meet new conditions in a way that would prevent anything like revolutionary results.
 June may witness some briskness in the iron trade. The price of iron is certainly low enough to tempt speculators At the present schedule of prices investors would be safe in buying iron and holding it in- definitely. It is bound to be much higher some day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
RaiIrOad Relief Work

"The reports of the relief department ot the Pennsylvania railroad system just issued show that during the month of March, 1911, nearly s25O,O00 were paid in benefits to employees of the company or their families" said local railroad of ficial. Since these departments for both the lines east and west of Pittsburg were established the amount paid out in bene- fits has reached a total of s30, 437, ,051 .15.
 "On the lines east of Pittsburg and Erie during the month of March pay ments to the amount of $15S, $40 3t were made by the relief fund. In benefits to the families of members who died s5S,- 057 .09 were paid while to members in- oapacitated for work the benefits amount ed to $100, 5S3 g. The total payments on the lines east of Pittsburg since the relief fund was established in 1886 have amounted to s22, ,119, AS. A.
 Tn March the relief fund of the Penn- sylvania lines west of Pittsburg paid out total of $G4, ,725. 25 of which s12s0O was for the families of members who died, and S51,925.25 for members unable to work. The sum of sS.317. .60s.7 Il repre- sents the total payments of the relief fund of the Pennsylvania lines west since if was established in 1Ss9."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03

Edwin Bjorkman in the Forum
 Ibsen is being read more today than | he was ever before, particularly in this country, where he remained overlooked or scorned longer than in Europe. He is even finding a foothold on the American stage at last And I believe that he will be more read and played tomorrow than he is today Yet l fear that the under standing of his work has not moved abreast with the spreading fame of his genius. Where you find one person speak ing inteligently and sanely of his dramas. you meet ten who claim an insight they ddAnot possess and hundreds who openly profess themselves baffed and repelled The very men who feel most keenly that he has a message in store for them are often heard to remark that "he never said just what he meant"
 To one familiar with the mans genuine spirit such words are fraught with a hor- rble irony. For fond as Ibsen was of clothing his sallies against sham and humbug and shallow indifference in the guise Of subtlest sarcasm, this inclination was always subordinate to a sincerity that could rest satisfied with no express sion falling short Of the greatest attain able clearness. Above all other motives or tendencies actuating him stood his un- relenting sense of duty as an artist And the logical outgrowth of his attitude was passionate craving for understanding as the highest reward that could be reaped by the artist. Success, praise, renown, these were to him little moro than inc obvious dues of his endeavor. In a sym pathetic comprehension, making a com plete fellowship of soul between prtist and reader, he saw the one truly satis- factory compensation for the labors Of creative genius. In the lack of 1t he saw S1nrema miSfOrtlne
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
MLLIoNAIREs BooK-coLLEcToRs

From the New York World.
 Even dealers in rare books are shocked at many of the high prices paid at the Hoe Library sale. It is not in their na- ture to protest, for they have goods to sell. Nevertheless, they speak disrespect- fully of the ignorance of wealthy collect ors who know nothing about market values and bid without limit in indulg- ing their weakness for rare editions
 The old-book craze is taking as violent form as the tulip craze in Holland in the seventeenth century. when a single specimen of a certain bulb sold for as much as $50o0 and respectable merchants speculated in bulbs that did not yet ex- ist.
 The s50,ooO paid for a fine copy of the Gutenberg Bible would stock a Carnegie library. Yet it is probably not an excess sive price, for the two volumes hold a unique place in the history of printing, and no other copy is likely to be available for private ownership. But when a small volume of Bryants juvenile verse, writ ten at the age of 13, sells for 140 times what MT. Hoe paid for it some years ago, "hat iaNe PHSeS 'o uo Wltn Ndlues! The day of the small and industrious collector, who was able for 50 cents to pick up now and then on the book stalls some rare volume of real value because of his personal knowledge of books and edi- tions, is passed The street railway mag mates and bankers and captains of indus try with their millions have ruined the | hobby as a poor mans pastime. Money has displaced knowledge in the game, and loving cpnnoisseurship must make room 1 for unlimited extravagance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
Water Powers Going to Waste

Texas laments the waste that goes on year after year in her water pow CTS. She hopes to see the Brazos, the Colorado, the Guadalupe, the San Miguel, the Neuces and the Medina harnessed until they furnish power for the spinning and weaving of her entire cotton crop, immense as it is.
 But the mighty state of Texas has less water power than Alabama, which is often called the river state of the Union. The mileage and pow CT of the Coosa, the Tombigbee and Tennessee and their branches are simply immense, and scarcely any of it is utilized This, however, is to be the country's great electric century, and possibly the work that has been accomplished at Tuskegee, Columbus and Chattanooga will be duplicated at scores of other places in our all most endless rivers.
 If the plan for utilizing the water power at Muscle Shoals should ma terialize there alone would be power enough to spin all the cotton grown in the Tennessee valley. To say what the Coosa is capable of would be to tax the figures of arithmetic. It is almost boundless and incalcula- ble., That river traverses the length of the state and the Tombigbee is not far behind it, while the broad Tennessee sweeps across the north ern counties of the state. This takes no account of the Chattahoochee or of innumerable branches, every one of which could at least furnish power for the lighting of homes and the driving of small machinery.
 Pretty soon a syndicate will swoop down on this state and these great unrtilized streams will be picked up . for a song, and then the people of this state will begin to appreciate the value of the water powers they dnce possessed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03

taken b. tween the dates of September 26, 1s65f and January 9, 1866.
 Ut is an interesting speculative in- quiry as to why Ben Jolly, an attor- ney, collected on December 10, 1896, two-t thirds of 21 claims mostly from Greene county the amount paid Jolly being s70.63S5I These claims show some s35.O00 still remaining as Jolly only received two fnirds
 John Duncan collected December 20, 1ss6, four claims, one of them credited to unknown owner, s15,701.SS All these show a ratio of two-thirds ex- cept the unknown This last was for 50 bales shipped to New York January 5. 1885, which netted s4,796.44. Duncan collected only $14S1.26.
 There are 5697 accounted for from Alabama and Georgia and of this only 1911 bales from Georgia. This cotton fetched s75o, 7o2OS in New York. After deducting expenses of some $S7 per bale or s2o9, ,SSs5S there remained in the hards of federal authorities S45S,- s52.S6. The gross average price per bale was s10S.
 There are some 2O,0OO bales claim ed by Alabamians unaccounted for by federal agents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
The Presidency and 1912

"As the next presidential year ap- breaches there is naturally good deal of speculation as to who will head the dem ocratic ticket,' said Edward H. Ather- ton of Indiana. Tt looks now as if the democrats have a good fighting chance. have long been democratic voter and at one time took an active part in politics. Not since 1892 have the democrats had a. ghost of show until today. It may be that President Taft will be able to suc- ceed himself, but 1 think it an even bet that a democrat will be elected And the democrat is almost sure to have the prefix title of governor. Governor Marshall of Indiana, Governor Harmon of Ohio, Gov ernor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey and Governor Dix of New York are all strong and available men. In many re- spects Harmon would be an ideal candi- date, but he would not be able to carry Ohio against Taft. Governor Marshall has fine record and is just the sort of statesman to make a most admirable President. But as betting proposition I would come very near putting up money on Woodrow Wilson,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
Cotton Shipments to Tidewater

The barge line that the Montgom- cry merchants have established be- tween their city and Mobile will yet cause Birmingham merchants, manu- lecturers and operators to sit up and take notice. On Monday last the towing steamer and its barges ar rived in Montgomery loaded, so to speak, to gunwales with oats, sugar, rice, dry goods, flour and other prod ucts from New Orleans, Kansas City, New York and other eastern ports, and yesterday the steamer and its barges were started toward tidewa- ter bearing 2800 bales of cotton. Since September 1 this barge line has carried to Mobile 12,0O0 bales of cot ton.
 This barge line now issues through bills of lading on cotton sent from Montgomery to foreign ports, and it's weekly round trips show weekly ln- creases in both outgoing and incom- ing cargoes. Each barge lowed car ries about fifteen carloads of goods, or nearly train load, and the num- Der of barges lowed can be increased to meet the business of the mer- chants associated together to estab- fish the line. The pluck and energy of the Montgomery merchants are fully rewarded in the speedy success of their new barge line, and if that line is pot duplicated on the Warrior and Tombigbee as soon as dilatory contractors finish the dams in the latter Montgomery will simply have trade rates and advantages that will not be matched this side of the Ten nessee river
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
Estimates of the Cotton Acreage

The greater part of the cotton crop to be grown this year is planted, probably fully three-fourths of it. Just at present numerous rainfalls are interfering with the planting of the crop, but all estimates agree in putting the acreage at from to 2 per cent above last years. All in all the planting season has been favorable. No heavy forsts came in April, as they did last year, and no general replanting will be necessary. The crop has better start on a larger acreage. The New York Journel of Commerce presents re- ports from 1000 correspondents in the cotton belt indicating an increase of 5.5 per cent in the acreage over that of last year. Every state reports increases except Mississippi, state that has not as yet become accus- toned to the boil weevil. Louisiana reports an increase of 15 per cent in acreage, having, like Texas, over come boil weevil troubles. The in- creases in both Texas and Oklahoma are heavy. In Alabama the corre- spondents of the Journal of Com merce report an increase in acreage of A per cent and an increase in the use of fertilizers of 13.6 per cent. All sections have received plenty of mois- ture and more fertilizers by 10 per cent are being used. The planting is perhaps week late in the aver age, but otherwise the crop has a good start.
 No one anticipates too large crop because stocks were never lower. The world is prepared to take large crop at good prices, even crop of 15,000,000 bales. Cotton now supplies nine-tenths of the clothing of the world, and naked world calls for a large crop. The United States grows three-fifths of the worlds crop. The home crop grown last year brought S550, 0,o00,000 into the country, and the crop stands today the country's greatest asset. With the opening of the Panama canal more cotton should be manufactured in the south to be shipped directly to the Orient. We have the needful water powers and the raw material, and there is every reason why more cotton mills should be built in the south, and especially along the Alabama rivers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
POTATO HILL PHILOSOPHY

From E. ". Howe's Monthly.
 The trouble with modesty is that half the time if you don't butt in you don't get in.
 Every widows money is exaggerated.
 A prophet and seer occasionally makes a good guess; but usually he is insane.
 Employer and employe know each other almost as we'll as husband and wife, and are almost as quarrelsome.
 have robbed myself oftener than others have robbed me.
 Your dog doesn't amount to anything, of course. but you hate to see another man kick it or another dog whip it.
 What contempt an idle mans women folks have for him,
 Hell disappeared long ago, except as members of the human family raise It.
 Unless man amounts to good deal he should not say he has done his best
 Every man must do his own reform work; he cannot delegate a leader to do 1t for him.
 When man wants to fight, don't hold him; let the man he wants to fight hold him.
 Had the old-fashioned children acted as the present generation are acting there would have been no children their pa- rents would have beaten them to death. A certain woman has caused three men to be shot in six years. That's too many.
 The best of them like to play a little with fire.
 Why are womens stockings so long and mems socks so short?
 Whatever a mans age, when he hears a dog barking in the woods he has a desire to go and see what the dog has t"eed.
 When man can't afford to build a two-story house his wife calls it bunga- low
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
THE COLLAR

From Harpers Weekly
 If the anarchists only appreciated the really vulnerable point, what curious revolution they might work If they knew what was really good for their cause, what would vastly augment their power they would save time and breath Tn declaiming about equality. or in clam bring for collectivism, or in prating about an equal distribution of goods-they would simply abolish the collar. That is the true line of demarcation the real barrier between the classes and the masses. Never trouble to cut off mans head when to cut off his collar would be so much more effective. Your sansculotte would be as nothing to your sanscollier. For when We once begin to abolish dis functions, those outward and visible signs then the inward strengths and graces will sooner or later go as well. And what is so obviously and helpless demo- cratic as the collarless man? The collar gone, everything seems to be forgotten and dsregarded, and to be collarless is to be truly equalized, simplifed, leveled. To realize that the collar Is somehow and
 in some sort the beginning and end of
 mans social strength, one has only to think away this vital article of his dress. | What would evening clothes be without a cellar? A ghastly farce. How would frock coat and high hat look with no collar? What the cestus was to Venus | is the collar to the modern man the very
 citadel of his outward civilization, the | simple device that gives all else it's worth | and meaning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
AN EYE FOR COMPOSITION
he Youths Companion.

From the Youths Companion.
 T know Ames comes in for a lot Of praise because he hunts with a camera instead of a gun" Fobes began, in a slightly acrd' tone. Tt never seems to strike people that there may be more than oiie kind of brutality"
 Whats the matter with Ames?" Fobes resumed, 'I went off by myself one day when Ames was fiddling over his kodak and l stumbled on a black bear. Be cause I was the only thing in sight, became the immediate object of her at- tentions. l had only a slight lead. but was going pretty well when Ames poked through the brush and took in the situa. tion.
 Hold on there. old chap. he yelled You're too far ahead l can't get you both in "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03

republicans voted with four demo crats against the Sutherland amend ment, while five of the old guard voted for it. Insurgent Senator Brown of Nebraska did not vote on the Sutherland proposition.
 The proposition as it passed the House was then ordered to be favor ably reported by vote of 2 to 5. Senators Chiffon, Overman, Culber- son and Bacon, democrats, were joined with Senators Cummins, Borah and Brown, insurgent repub- licans, in this final vote, and Senator Borah has already reported to the Senate the House resolution. AS re- ported the state would be left free to determine the qualification of electors and to exercise jurisdiction over Elections.
 The most significant feature of the transaction is the willingness of the insurgents to join the democrats in procuring progressive legislation. Senators Cummins, Borah and Brown surely represent the twelve insur- gents in the Senate, and when the twelve vote with the democrats the passage of the proposition in the Senate by a two-thirds vote is as- sured, for a few regulars will sup port the proposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
THE WANDERLUST
From the Milwaukee Free Press.

From the Milwaukee Free Press.
 One of the surest signs of spring is the breaking out Of the "wanderlust" As sure as the od-time tonic of sulphur and molasses which mother always made up in the springtime, to be swallowed by the barefooted small boy with a grimace of disgust, so surely comes that irresponsible desire to hike for the grassy dels of the country or the purling trout brooks when the soft, warm breezes float across the face of Mother Earth quickening the flow CTS and the buds. The desire to cast aside all cares and a journey free and untrammeled will not down. It is then that the railroads begin to do a rushing business, and with each passing day the crowds that haunt Milwaukee depots STOW larger. What happy faces may be seen there. the smile of content at q long fclt want that is soon to be satisfied. Spring, the youth time of tho year. brings with if. youth. health and happ.n. ss. All Lail, welcome, sprin>C
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
Birmingham's Deadly Grade Cross- inPS

Dangerous as the First avenue crossings unmistakably are, yet the building of viaduct over them is broader and more far-reaching than simply the overcoming of those crossings. The First avenue viaduct is in short an effort on the part of the city to abolish in the long run all grade crossings within the bounds of the city. The First avenue crossings are named first because in degree they exceed in danger and general obstructiveness any other. All grade crossings are, however, sources of danger and delay and all should be abolished.
 The viaduct agreement concerning First avenue is before Commissioner Lane for final determination, and the entire city awaits the result with deep interest. The confidence reposod in the commissioner is, however, an assurance that the interests of the city will be conserved and that just conclusion will be reached, and that too, speedily.
 There is really TO reason why Com missioner Weatherly should not in his new capacity act and vote in this matter. He no longer represents a railroad company. He represents the city now. He has no other client, and he is over-sensitive and over-prude5.i when he refuses because of former service to act in this matter.
 However, the subject is in gooc hands, and a just conclusion will soor be reached. Sooner or later tht grade crossings must be abolished by carrying the streets traversed by ar increasing population over or under them, and the people hope to see 8 good beginning made in First ave. nue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
THE UNDER WORLD

Rv Edith M. Thomas, in Harper's Maga- zine. tfa
 So much of me is dead--Oh, why not all The years are cast upon me as a pail; The hairs are turned to ashes on my
 head;
 My footsteps are through ashes every
 where
 So much of me is dead, c'But not the living fiery spark of thy de-
 spair.' ? E # So much of me is dead--Oh, why not all Those who once called me dear are past
 my call RI Into the boundless Night they all are fed l lived in them, and they in me by right
 So much of me is dead. cBut not thy Memorys steady alabas-
 Urine light.") ef ff kst ss<TN'ss So much of me is dead--Oh, whY not all !! Hourly, from mine own self aw3y tfall. Hope and Desire and Will alreedy shed. And knowledge fading as a candle spent So much of me is -dead N cBr. not some kindling KnG ledge of
 the Immanent.')
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-03
Prosperous Sections

While general trade may not be as buoyant this spring as 1t was last, there is a healthy business in most sections of the country" said John L. Carlton of Philadelphia.
 i"I visited several western states early in the spring, and have been pretty well over the south within the past three weeks. In all agricultural districts business Is remarkably good.
 The south is in better shape than it has ever been before, and this sec tion will attract more capital and more people within the next five years than any pr iOus pericc's gke same num- Der of years.
 "The state of Alabama is now being talked about as the best agricultural state in the union. Every crop can be grown here. This fact was not gen erally known until within the past few years It used to be thought that Alabama was simply cotton state. It is and will always be a great cot ton state, but it also has high rank as an alfalfa state. In corn and other food products it can be brought up to the Kansas standard. It is a truck farming state of the first rank, and 1t is safe to say that within the next l ten years Alabama will be not only 1 the richest state in the south, but one of the richest in the United States"