The age-herald., 1900-09-30

with the difference between the mine op- orators and operatives in Pennsylvania and the same class of people in Birmingham District. Up in Pennsylvania the miners ria1e demands which go unconsidered, and then they strike and riots occur and prop erty is destroyed and troops are called out to quel1 the disturbance, while down here the miners and the operators, when they fail to agree, quietly meet together and discuss their differences and settle them. It must be that either the miners or the operators, or both, down here are more sensible men and are more charitable to the interests of one another. Certain 1t is, that the differences between our people, which occurred here in July, were settled quietly and amicably and to the satisfaction of both sides after few days discussion, while in Pennsylvania there was rioting and bloodshed and but for the interests of politicians the strike might have continued for many long months to the detriment of both operator and miner.
 During September in New York the hotels, the theaters and places of amuse- ment, and indeed almost everything seems to be supported by Southern people. I was 
 one hundred thousand Southern people visiting in New York at that time. There are several hundred thousand Southern residents in New York and almost without exception they have gone to the top in whatever profession or calling they may be engaged in. I observed with much in- terest that fully thirty per cent of the writers on the New York papers are South- erv1- -bor rnap of Alabamians, Georgians and Kentuck- fans on all of the New York papers. The Journal, the World, the Herald and the Times staff are made up largely of South erners.
 The principal men of some of the New York stores are also Southerners. I. S. Jonas of Atlanta has charge of the adver- Using department of R. H. Macy's great department store Of course he draws handsome salary, and I was surprised when he told me that he spent thirty thousand dollars a month in advertising in the New York newspapers. He spends as much as sixty thousand dollars annually in one New York newspaper alone, and Macy advertises in nearly all of them. However, a great department store like this averages from thirty-five to forty thousand dollars sales a day.
 
 Speaking of New York one who visits there, goes to the theaters and stays about the hotels, does not imagine it to be much of a religious city. Yet, I was told in one of the big department stores where they sell everything, including books, that the Bible was the best seller on their book counters.
 We sell," said the head of this depart ment, from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty Bibles every day of the year. During Christmas times we have sold as many, on an average, of one thousand day for a week or more, and it is rare that we ever sell more than one copy to a single person. You might think New York is a heather city, but our sale of Bibles does not indicate 1t by any means"
 When asked what book sold next to the Bible, he replied" That depends upon cir eumstances. For the last few weeks TO Have and to Hold has been the biggest seller, but we can't tell how long that will last"