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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
Eurstinq Bubbles,

The closeness of the money market
and the refusal of the general public,
chiefly lambs, to absorb more water is
leading to the collapse of one trust
after another, every one of which was
organized to become a monopoly in its
chosen field. First came the depre-
citation in the securities Of the fearfully
overcapitalized copper trust, followed
closely by the failures of the asphalt
trust. the Everett-Moore syndicate of
trolley and telephone lines, and the
crude rubber trust. The capitaliza-
tion of the Everett-Moore concern was
s125,000,000. although it's business
covered but small field near Toledo,
Ohio.
A close money market and extended
suspicious among investors may be
remedies against trusts after all. At
any rate such conditions will let the
water out of them, even If it does not
lead to collapses and receiverships. A
monopoly necessarily must continue to
take in rivals as fast as they are estab-
lished for that very purpose, and at
length the load goes beyond earning
capacity. When dividends are passed
down go prices, and the water is thus
evaporated.
All trusts as rule are made up of
properties put in at fictitious values,
and IL other concerns must be taken
In in order 20 maintain the monopoly,
the end is plainly in sight. Already
the country sees what is coming, and
II more collapses of like sort occur no
one need be surprised, and the legit-
innate business OF the country should
not be affected. for it is simply mo-
nopoly and water reaching a true level
from heights that are wholly artificial
Bubbles will burst.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
Discards Divinity Title.

DIR. J. L. M. Curry, statesman and
Baptist preacher, is an L. L. D. and a
d. D. but he dislikes being called min
lister of the gospel and his friends are
asked not to write Reverend before his
name or d. d. after his name" said
an old friend of the distinguished South
ernor.
1.-THE doctor hasn't back slid He is
just as loyat-to the Baptist church and
just as firm believer in the doctrines of
the church as he was when he presided
over the Alabama Baptist association.
But in recent years he has preferred to bo
known as an educator, diplomat, states
man, man Of letters, or anything else
rather than a preacher.
"Dr. Curry is deeply Interested in edu-
'cational work now, and devotes the great
er part of his time to it. He is a man
of large means, or rather his wife has
wealth, but he labors as systematically
as IL he had to make his living"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
A DREAMER.

BY Robert Loveman. +,
He's a dreamer, let him pass,
He reads the writing in the grasss
His seeing soul in rapture goes
Beyond the beauty of the rose;
He is a dreamer and both know
To sound the farthest depths of woA
He Is a dreamer, let him be.
He is dreamer. all the day
Blest visions throng him on his way
Past the far sunset and the light,
Beyond the darkness and the night,
He is a dreamer-God! to be
Apostle of Infinity
And mirrors translucent gleam-
He is a dreamer. let him dream.
He is dreamer; for all time
His mind Is married unto rhyme
The light that ne'er on land or SEQ,
Hath blushed to him in poetry.
He Is a dreamer AL hath caught
Close to his heart. a hope. a thought
A hope of Immortality. IS
He is a dreamer, let him be.
He Is dreamer; 10, with thee
His soul doth weep in sympathy.
He Is a dreamer. and doth long
To glad the world with happy song.
He Is q dreamer-in q breath
He dreams of love, and life and death
oh, man, oh, woman. lad and lasa
He Is q dreamer. let him pass.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
HIS TITLE is "THE PRESIDENT
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.


Governor Shaw, OF Iowa, is going to
be the next Secretary of the Treasury,
and there can be no questioning of his
ability to transact the business of that
most important office to the entire salts
faction of the financial and business
world.
1t is curious that a man so we'll versed
in the affairs of his country should make
the mistake of telegraphing to the Presi-
dent: "If 1t may please Your Excellency
shall feel honored in accepting your
kind offer of the treasury portfolio. .
And yet he has made 1t.
Under no circumstances can the Presi-
dent of the United States be addressed
as your Excellency." The matter OF
titles was fully discussed at the very
beginning of the republic. and for va
rious reasons all suggestions were re-
jected except the very sensible one that
the executive should be known as the
President. and by no other term.
The official title of Theodore Roosevelt
is THE President
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.
SUCCESSOR TO MAcLAY.
John A. kearny Of New York Gets tho
Place.

Washington, January 6-Secretary Long
has appointed John A. Kearny Of Cohoes.
N. Y. as the successor Of E. 8. Maclay.
the historian-laborer of the New York
navy yard. who was removed by order of
the President for his structures upon Rear
Admiral Schley. The office is officially
designated Special Laborer in the De-
partment of Supplies and Accounty, Navy
Yard, New York. with pay at the rate
Of 81. As per day The appointment reads
"vice e. s. Maclay, and omits all ref
erence to the manner of that individuals
departure from the service.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
South Cardinals Disnenssry.

The State dispensary of South Caro-
lima did thriving and prosperous bus
lness last year. The sales aggregated
s2,328.681, and the net profit was $685.
248. This money goes to the public
schools, and as the sum is annually
Increasing the schools of the State
are In fair way to be supported large
iy from the sales of liquor. 1t seems
to be conceded that the dispensary
system is driving out the blind tigers,
chiefly because it furnishes better
Liquors at lower cost. It is a case of
the survival of the fittest.
The figures represent only the sales
of tue State dispensary, or wholesale
department of the system. The State
dispensary sells at profit liquors to
the county dispensaries. How much
money the county dispensaries made
last year is not known, but it was no
doubt large sum, for it is admitted
that blind tigers are becoming scarce
in the State. 1t is perhaps reasonable
to estimate the profits of the county
dispensaries at half million dollars,
carrying the entire profits of the pub
lie sale of liquors in the State up to a
million of dollars.
1t is mooted question in South
Carolina as to whether the dispensary
system increases or decreases the use
of Intoxicating drinks. 1t abolishes
the treating system, for no liquors can
be drank at or near a dispensary, and
each dispensary is made bleak and
uninyiting. The dispenssry is not the
poor mans club, or any other mans
club. 1t is not supplied with even a
bench. Its chief equipment consists
of hole in partition through which
money goes and packages of liquor re-
turn.
1t is plain at any rate that the pro-
hibition sentiment is declining in
South Carolina, and the inference is
that the dispensary system is gaining
strength and support. At the most
the dispensary is compromise, but
like other compromises II NAV be what
tie people want, and If so 1t has come
to stay in South Carolina at least.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

The Meridian Press, a morning
paper containing twelve well-flled
pages, appeared on Sunday morning.
1t is edited by Frank V. Evans, for
merly Mayor of this town, and Is pub
lished by Walter H. Jeffries, formerly
connected with the Birmingham
Ledger. Mississippi is not fully sup
piled with morning papers, and the
Press is an important addition, and it
promises to rank with morning news
papers anywhere. Nothing is neg
lected, its social page and its market
page being exceptionally good. The
paper as a whole would be credit to
any town.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
ALABAMA SHEEP RAISING.

From the Florence Times.
In round numbers Alabama has about
600 sheep In the blizzard-stricken
state of Montana there are thirty time
that number. Why is this? This state
is better adapted to sheep culture than
Montana The difference is in the peo-
ple-the sheep are all right. The same
difference in point Of view sends millions
of dollars out Of the state for -four, corn.
oats. hay. potatoes. fruits and SO forth.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
Alabama Scholars.

"It is a remarkable fact" says the
Boston Herald, that the State of Ala
bama, in the later years of the last
century, had three men of combined
distinction in political and literary
achievement"
Henry Washington Hilliard was the
Oldest of the three men mentioned by
the Herald. He was born in 1903 in
North Carolina, and in 1881 he went
to Athens, Ca, where he practiced law.
In 1881 he became a, professor in the
State University at Tuscaloosa and he
filled the position with distinction three
years. He then resigned and resumed
the practice of law, this time at Mont
gomery, and he also became lay
preacher in the Methodist Church. In
1912 he was appointed minister to
Belgium, and later he served as a
Wing Congressman. After the war he
removed to Georgia.; and President
Hayes appointed him minister to Bra
zil. His pen was ever busy, and among
his publications was at least one novel.
He died in 1892.
DR.. Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, the
second of the Heralds two, was born
in Georgia in 1925, but he removed to
Alabama as soon as he was out of
college, becoming member of the
Legislature, a Congressman, and In
1866 he became president of Howard
College. Since that time his life has
been chiefly devoted to literary and
educational efforts. This work was
interrupted by his service in President
Clevelands first administration as
minister to Spain. He is general agent
of the Peabody fund, and trustee of
the State fund, and his addresses and
papers would fill many volumes.
Hannis Taylor was also minister to
Spain, and, like DR.. Curry, he has
many years of usefulness before him.
Mr.. Taylor's work on the constitution
of England is no doubt the most widely
known book that an Alabama man has
contributed to literature. 1t is q text
book in English universities, and 1t
may be considered standard work on
at subject. Mr.. Taylor is young
enough and vigorous and well-equipped
enough to add largely to his achieve
ments in literature. He should see
that the line of Alabama scholarship
is maintained at least until the fourth
man appears upon the scene.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
EXPENSIVE ECONOMY.

From the Prattville Progress.
''It is expensive economy for Alabama
farmers to buy Western meats at IL
cents; Western -four at IS per barrel and
Western corn at Is cents per bushei with
6 cents cotton when they can produce
those commodities for 20 per cent. less
and still have a margin of profit to play
nnnn :"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
Ohio's Senatorial DouialI.

Senator Mark Hanna controls the
Ohio House Of Representatives, and
Senator Foraker controls the Ohio
Senate, and each will continue to bat
tie for supremacy to the utmost, de-
spite all pledges. The Associated Press
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
A PROSPEROUS COUNTY.

from the FIOrence IInes.
Sumner county. Tenn. the last year,
just closed shipped to the city markets
5000 hogs and 5000 head OF cattle and
many thousands Of sheep and lambs.
Sumner is an exporter OF farm products.
and her people are rich. Our good coun-
ty of Laudcrdaie is an Importer of these
thinra
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

President Palma has nearly as many
people to rule as President Washing
ton had, and the former have not got
half as much sense.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

King Edward will not accept an
official jester at the coronation. This
spoils the entire medieval scheme.
for an ancient King without a Jester
was no King at all. Alfred Austin
does not fill the gap.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Lots OF people will forgive their enc
mics, but won't stop lying about them.
A woman can stand stays or shoes be-
ing tight or most anything but a man.
We hate cold winter In winter almost
as much as hot sumner in summer.
When we hear angels wings fiuttering
around some people It is time wonder
what new deviltry Satan is planprg for
thann-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

The brigands in Bulgaria did not
swear off on New Years Day-at any
rate they did not ship Miss Stone
home to Boston.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
Wages and the commIssarIes.

THE advance in coal miners wages in
this district from 521s cents to IS cents
ton will be maintained for many months
to come, probably for over a year, and 1t
will mean a difference on the pay rolls
in the aggregate Of $4,000 a month";" said
prominent merchant yesterday
This increase in wages means much
for Birmingham in a general way. but
when the matter is stated fully it
amounts to this: The commissaries get
the greater part Of the increase To be
sure money is turned loose by the mil
lions in the course Of year, but IL it
were not for the commissaries we mer-
chants would get rich rapidly As 1t is
we only catch enough trade to live COM
fortably and lay UP little for a rainy
day.
Last week I asked coal operator how
he was getting along. All right was
his reply.
How much money do your men get
after their commissary accounts are SET
tled?' 1 asked.
I'D little was the reply.
This operator was working on a COM
paratively small scale but he said he
made a good profit on his commssary
business; more in fact than he made on
his coal'
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

The Mckinley monument fund has
now come to linger a generation or
two. Monument funds always do.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

The man who carries creature COM
forts to his fellow-man is the true
philanthropist. The others. are monu-
ment builders.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

Professor Loeb may have discovered
the microbe of death, but he has not
discovered way to circumvent and
entrap tae bug.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

President Roosevelt does not pro-
pose to let Czolgosz's ghost scare him
out of shaking hands with admiring
throngs.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

The Empress Dowager will soon be
back in Pekin after as good shaking
up as a mortal ever got in this world.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

The wireless telephone will not be
more etheric than the megaphone-at
least, we hope not.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

Poet Austin is trying to outclass
Yankee Doodle Dandy, but his jingle
is not equal to the task.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

Emperor William speaks eight Ian
guages, but he knows better than to
try his old language on natives,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

The European governments swore
off war making on New Years Day.
This is ominous.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

The Pan-American Congress is a
fiasco, or words to that effect.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

The dog fall in Ohio settles nothing
except that the factional war is to go
on to a finish.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

Between race horses and tiger with
a sea between, Richard Cookers hands
are full of work.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

Jug-handle reciprocity is what the
trusts and other robbers want.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

Congress is face to face with treas
ury surplus, but it is not the least bit
scared.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

The scramble in Ohio is calculated
to make William Mckinley turn in his
coffin.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

Pacific cables are laid on paper. II
is easier and less expensive.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
but is confined to no particular class.
The only rule is good fellowship.
Rode Bicycle to chIcauo.


Mr. I'd NJ lourant of Atlanta. South
ern representa- I've for several eastern In
vestment and loan syndicates. ana form
erly a member Of the editorial staff of
the Atlanta Constitution. was in Birrh-
ingham yesterday looking after the inter-
ests of his companies. He has placed
several large investments in this district
recently, and is enthusiastic regarding
its future.
Since his retirement from active news
paper work Mr.. Durant has become prom
inent in Southern investment and bank
ing circles. In his days of newspaper
work he was considered one of the best
reporters in the South. He was in Atlanta
with Mr.. Walter Howard. who achieved
an international reputation as the Eu-
ropean correspondent of the New, York
Journal, and was later editor-in-chief of
the Atlanta Daily News In their younger
DAYS Mr.. Durant and Mr.. Howard were
pittied against one onather in local work
and much rivalry existed.
During the Worlds Fair the two rode
bicycles from Atlanta to Chicago op a
wager Durant represented the Constitu-
ton and Howard the Journal. Durant
claimed to have won the race by a few
blocks, but both men acknowledged that
their physical conditions were consider
ably injured.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

Sig. Marconi still has to confront
skeptical world.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
About Persons.
Handley of Roano'

Mr.. W. A. Handley of Roanoke, Va, is
at the metropolitan.
Mr.. L. C. Riggs of Chattanooga is at
the Hillman
Mr.. Jack Hastings a prominent attor-
ney connected with the office of Hon.
Hoke Smith Of Atlanta, is at the Hill
man.
Mr.. w. G. Blair of Kanaas City is at
the Metropolitan.
Mr.. Sid Harrison of Nashville is at the
Florence.
DIR. f. r. Keans of New Orleans Is at
the Florence.
Mr.. w. D. vassar of Atlanta is at the
Florence.
Mr.. H. S. Latham of Montevallo is at
the Florence
Mr.. l.. ". Hough of Mobile is at the
Metropolitan.
Mr.. Ernest Jackson of New York is at
the HiiIman.
Mr. Thomas A. Moore of Tuscaloosa is
at the Metropolitan.
Mr.. A. E. West and Mr.. e. q. Sykes
of Aberdeen are at the Florence.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07

The Hanna-Foraker feud is to be
continued in Ohio's nest.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-07
Church Statistics.

I'm looking over fresh statistics of re-
ligious denominations was surprised to
find that the Lutherans were vastly
stronger, numerically considered, than
any other Protestant body" said one of
Birmingham's representative pastors.
THE Lutherans. German and English
combined, number in round figures $1,000
900. This is nearly a third of the entire
Protestant population of the world. Next
to the Lutherans come the Anglicans,
including the Episcopal branch in the
United States, with a total Of O,000,000
The Methodists are not far behind the
Church of England communion. In Eng
disappearing countries there are nearly
100000 followers of Wesley. and the
foreign field brings the number up to
1950o.oo0.
Il do not wish to criticise any Christian
body. but as a minister who does not be-
long to the Lutheran church, the Epis-
copal church. or the Methodist church,
would give it as my opinion that Meth
odism is more unified and aggressive to-
day than Lutheranism. 1 speak broadly
and do not question for a moment the
energy of Lutheran pastors. But Meth
odism is more potent now than 1t has
ever been, and this is saying a good deal.
for the Wesleyans have been character
lied from the start by their evanglizing
zeal.
las for Protestant orthodoxy no one
will question the fact that Methodlsts
hew to the old lines more closely than
most other denominations.
IF all the Lutherans in Germany were
like Emperor william, they would be
models of Protestant faith and practice
His majesty is man of deep piety, and
a firm believer in church But the
trouble is many of the Lutheran theologi-
ans are busy with the higher criticism,
and as a result Of recent discussion the
laity are becoming, nay they have be-
come, skeptical regarding the Bible and
ecclesiastical landmarks. But the Metho-
dists are conservative and are as staunch
in their faith in the twentieth century as
John Wesley was in the eighteenth.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-05-16

Tne Number ssThrec, In the Bible.
When the world was created, we find
1t and it's surroundings composed of
three elements-air, water and land
the whole lighted by the sun, moon
and stars. Adam had three sons men,
toned by name, and so did Noah, the
patriarch. Daniel was thrown into a
den with three lions for the crime of
praying three times. Shadrach, Me-
shach and Abednego We're rescued from
the fiery furnace. Job had three spe-
cial friends. There were three patr'-
archs-Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Samuel was called three times; Elijah
Frustrated himself three times ON the
dead body of the child; Samson de-
ceived Delilah three times before she
discovered the secret Of his great pow
er, and the Ten Commandments were
delivered on the third day.
Jonah was three days and nights in
the whales belly. "Simon, lowest thou
me?" was repeated three times. Paul
makes mention Of the three graces-
faith, hope and charity. The famous
allegorical dreams of the baker and
butler were to come to pass in three
days. Then we have the holy trinity
Father, Son and Holy Ghost; the sacred
letters on the cross were three in num-
Der, they being l. H. S.; so also the IA
nous Roman motto was composed of
three words-viz, In hoe signo.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-05-16
sleisht of Hand POISONING.

A very curious item in Psychological
lore CHANGED to light upon, wrote
George Augustus Sala in one of his let
ters, may be called the feat of poison
ing by sleight Of hand. You were jeal.
GUS of lady, and you wished to kill
her. Well, you asked her to lunch, and
you caused very nice peach to be
served at dessert. You cut the fruit
with golden knife, one side Of the
blade of which was endued with q
deadly poison. You presented the poi
soned half Of the peach to the lady,
who ate it with much relish and then
dropped down dead.
The wholesome half you ate your
self and laughed in your sleeve and
went on slicing more peaches for the
ladies of whom you We're Jealous till
you were found out and broken on the
wheel. Aye, there's the rub! What
high old times we might have, to be
sure. but for that plaguy contingency
of being found out!
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-05-16
HILLS PIONEERS COMING.
Planning an Excursion Sometime in Jun
to Hot Springs.

Planning an Excursion Sometime in June
to Hot Springs.
The directors are at work with the
management of the Burlington and the
Elkhorn roads with reference to an ex.
cursion to Hot Springs for their annu.
al outing and picnic, which if satisfact.
orily arranged will occur some time in
June, after the eighth day of that
month. The directors have planned a
journey to the beautiful resort on one
of the roads and return on the other
which would give those desiring to
make the trip plenty of time at the
Carlsbad and also a scenic view of
some of the most picturesque scenes in
the Black Hills. The directors of the
Pioneers are now awaiting to see if the
railroad companies will give a good
rate that will make the trip one which
can be afforded by all. In the event
that the decision is made favorable to
Hot Springs trip will be had that will
be worth taking by all who admire the
beauty of Mother Nature as she puts
on the beautiful coats, at the time that
the trip will be taken. AS soon as the
officials of the railroads are ready to
submit their rates the directors of the
society will hold meeting and de.
termine whether or not they will accept
them.-Deadwood Independent u2).