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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
Does a Banking Bulness.

1.-TWO years ago. said man in the lobby, '.the Railroad Young Mems Chris tian association of Columbus. O., started to be as generous as the saloons at Gro gans, in the neighborhood of the Colum- bus, Sandusky and Hooking Valley rail- road construction shops, by cashing the checks of the employees of the railroad company. In the vicinity of the shops there are about two saloons to one gen. eral store, and the wholesale liquor deal CTS were in the habit of sending large sums of money to the retail liquor dealers with which to cash the mems pay checks. This took great many of them to the saloons, as there was no bank at hand, and a good deal of time and money would have been consumed if the men had visit ed the city for that purpose. On the first pay day after the association opened up, checks amounting to s2,1S7SS were cashed. That was two years ago. On the last pay day, 157 checks amounting to se 762. ss were cashed but the largest record was in September, which was for s7. 7.2O4.25. In the first year nearly s5oo0O was handled in this way, and last year 1850 checks were cashed, amounting to $79, 77s.47.
 "At first the saloon keepers made no objection, but their representatives have gone to the owner of the rooms used for cashing checks at least three times and urged him to cancel the lease to the association. This association is one of probably fifty railroad organizations which habitually do this for the men each
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
ONLY sPEcuLAToRs HURT.

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
 There is much sense in the weekly financial survey of Philip King, the finan- cial editor of the New York Sun. 'erhe trouble with our present money system" said this authority, "is not that money is too scarce. but too plentiful. If, in re- sponse to the demands of speculators, congress should reclSlessly ordain fur ther imitation. the most monstrous fnan- cial crime of the century would be per- petrated."
 The present per capita stock of money in the United States (s2s.4S) Is the great est of that of any country except France It exceeds that of Great Britain BIO 4S, that of Germany $S.s2, that of Belgium s6.51, and that of the Netherlands $3.72. It has increased from a per capita oi $21 36 in 1873 or 25 per cent. The total amount of money in circulation Tn the United States in 1873 was $776 0s3, 031; in July. 190O. it was s2.062, ,425, ,49S. Despite the occasional tightness of money in Wall street. there never was a time when legi- innate enterprises found capital so easy. The capital for the legitimate business man, the manuIacLureF dnu the mSrcnanL has not even suffered diminution because of the threatening aspect of the financial: market for the speculative element As MT. King says Legitimate business was never more sound or active. It is this selfsame prosperity that has absorbed, and will continue to absorb. the floating supply of money in the country leaving Wall street in a hapless state"
 The Wall street situation is due to the recent extensive over-capitalization Little ready money was required to float these speculative ventures. Stocks in the con- stitusnt companies were transefrred for stock in new corporations multiplied sev- eral fold, and the values based on pros- pective earnings. Now that an attempt is made to secure hard cash for some of these top-heavy paper stocks the money is hard to find. The money that is so plentiful for legitimate business is be- coming scarce for the speculator. It was inevitable that this should be so when ever a general effort to convert the in- Hated paper into money was made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
Mr. CannOn,s Position Not Define q !.

The middle west, or the country ex- tending from Ohio to Kansas and Ne braska, is beginning to ask, "How does Joseph G. Cannon stand as to tariff revision and trust regulation? ?" He has heretofore opposed all tariff tinkering," as he calls revision, and the members who were elected be. cause of promises made in favor oi the Iowa idea are insisting that Mir. Cannon shall define his position to- wards the tariff and trusts.
 A speaker is all powerful, and if the republican party Is ''to make good" in the next two years, 1t will not do to place the control of the house in the hands of man opposed to tariff revision or trust legislation on MT. Knox's line Thus far MT. Cannon has kept his mouth shut, but he will soon be forced to make plain his attitude towards the great ques- tions that the campaign of 1904 will turn on.
 MT. Cannon's doubtful views are leading to a rise in MT. Babcock's chances of securing the speakership. He is an out-and-out revisionist, and no doubt the battle for the great place will be fought out between MT. Can non and MT. Babcock, and the tariff will be the splitting point. If the Hi nois congressman openly opposes re- vision before 1904, the country will soon see what republican promises be- fore election are worth. It is now re vision or anti-revision, and the contest cannot be lodged in congress or out of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
Corn al Home and in tha Wesf,

The yield of corn per acre this year in the country is put by the depart ment of agriculture at 26.8 bushels, the highest average yield ever re- corded The yield per acre in Ala bama is put at S.4 bushels, the lowest record in the list of states, Texas alone excepted. In Texas the yield was 8.1 bushels per acre. The highest state average was in Missouri, where the yield rose this year to 39 bushels.
 The average reported by the depart ment of agriculture makes the crop of the year 2,55OOO0, ,OO0 bushels, or about 3OO,oO0,000 bushels more than was ever before grown in this country in single year. Two-thirds of the immense crop was grown in seven states-Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
CHEMISTS AT ARMOUR'S
 FIND ACURE FOR FOOLS

William E. Curtis in Chicago Record
 Herald
 It has been a proverb-ever since the time of Solomon the Sage, who wrote SOOl maxims-that there is no cure for, fools. Confucius, the wisest man of the wisest race that ever wore tunics and silk trous- CTS, confirmed the principle, which has been handed down from generation to generation, until it's truth Is universally admitted. But the world do move. Sci-' ence, which is but another name for in- genuity, has overthrown this ghastly ax- dom and the chemists in the laboratory of Armour & Co.,, at the Chicago stock yards, are now producing remedy which will be in such great demand when its properties are known that for the worlds welfare, 1t should be immediately protect ed by an anti-monopoly law.
 Unfortunately, this antidote is effective only when administered to the young. Old fools are yet hopeless, and are sup posed to be more numerous than young. but perhaps this supposition is an error based upon the fact that they are usually more conspicuous. That is matter every citizen must determine for himself How ever, while there's life there's hope and as long as Armour's chemists keep plug ging away the public may have faith.
 This extraordinary remedy is made from the thyroid gland of animals. which, according to the Century Dictionary, is "a large and very vascular body, coil- sisting chiefly of congeries of blood vessels, but not provided with a duct or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
A THRILLING CAREER.
om Pearsnn.s Weel1Iv

From Pearson's Weekly.
 After costing the Italian government the sum of e120,O00, and the services of five regiments for nearly two years, Mus olino has at last been caught and caged.
 But, great as has been the terror in spired by this famous bandit, his ac- tual power was small compared with that of several uncrowned kings whose names are far less known to the public.
 At the age of A. Boris Sarafoff young Bulgarian, attacked single-handed the prison In which his father and grandfath- CT were lying in chains, after cruel tor turing at the hands of the Turks. He was seized and logged almost to death.
 The boy swore to devote his life to re- venge. He entered the Bulgarian army and gained name as a magnificent cav airy leader. His bravery and open-hand- ed generosity made him the idol of the people In 1895 he left the regular army and raised an irregular corps, with whom he retired into the fastnesses of the mountains.
 Since that time he has headed no fewer than Ss4 raids into Turkish territory. Once he captured the Turkish town of Melnek with no more than forty men, driving be- for him 300 Turkish troops. The terror of his name has penetrated to the sultan's palace and his secret agents are said to be found in Constantinople itself. His aim is to organize an immense rebellion in which all the Balkan states shall join, as well as Greece, seize Constantinople and rroefairn a Christian Kingdom of the east Not only Turkey, but Austria, Russia and Britain know that this man holds in his hands the peace of Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
The Pistol Habit.

T am glad to see the announcement as made by Judge Jones of the federal court that he intended to severely punish any one found guilty of carrying coneeaieu weapons in his court" remarked citizen yesterday. Judge oJnes is a man or ms word, and what he says he will do VIII be done. He Is quite right, too, In thls matter. The judge Is usually right. man who goes into court room carrying concealed weapons In defiance of the law ought to be severely punished. Since Judge Feagin of the inferior criminal court started his crusade against pistol toting' there has been a marked decrease In the number of killings in Birmingham Even the dealers in pistols have made complaint that Judge Feagin has hurt their trade and Coroner Paris is also' l understand less busy than formerly.
 "Everv law-abiding citizen in the com munity and in the state is giving Judge Feagin his moral support in this move ment and Judge Jones will have 1t also in his effort to put down this worst or all habits. In a civilized community In times like these, there Is absolutely no excuse for carrying concealed weapons and the man who totes pistol Is at heart savage and knows that he Is put ting himself in a position where he may kill someone, while if unarmeo, he would not. A quarrel and hot blood in connec- ton with a pistol often means murder while if the pistol was left at home there would be no bad consequences. hope the time will soon come in Birmingham as Judge Feagin says is the custom In Paris when even the policemen will not have to 20 armed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

known to furnish any secretion saddled upon the iarnyx and upper part of the trachea. Its functions if 1t has any, arc unknown; it takes no parr m respiration, though associated with the windpipe, and Is apparently a vestigial organ, or the remains of some undetermined func- tional homologue of the lowest verte- brates 1t is the seat of the disease known as goiter, being sometimes enor- mously enlarged"
 Human genius has found a use for this extraordinary and superfious part of the animal system. It is taken from the throats of animals slaughtered at the Chicago stockyards, is reduced to a drug and administered to young children whose brains are imperfectly developed. It is said to be positive cure for "Cretins," who, according to the Gen. tury Dictionary, are children of IA or 10 years of age in a condition of imperfect mental and physical development arising from endemic causes among the inhabi- tants of Switzerland and Savoy, and it is declared that they can be kept in healthy condition of mind ana body so long as this substance Is regularly ao- ministered to them. It is also freely used in institutions for the Predetermined and is claimed to be the most effective brain tonic ever discovered.
 Mr. Armour has not yet tried this upon any persons of his acquaintance, and 1t would be interesting to observe the re- suits of a series of experiments If the Chicago club or some similar organiza- tion would offer an opportunity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
THE JOY OF LIFE.

Browning in "Pippa Passes." The dying is best part or 1t. Too much Have I enjoyed these fifteen years of
 mine To leave myself excuse for longer life; Was not life pressed down. running
 OCT with joy, That might finish with it ere my fel-
 lows Who, sparelier feasted. make longer
 stay? I was put at the board head helped
 to all At first: rise up happy and content. - Gcd must be glad one loves His world
 SD much. I can give news of earth to all the oeac Who ask me--last years sunsets, and
 great stars That had right to come first and see
 ebb The crimson wave that drifts the sun
 away Those crescent moons with notched and
 burning rims That strengthened into sharp fire, and
 there stood Impatient of the azure-and that day in March, double rainbow stopped the
 storm Mays warm slow yellow moonlit suns-
 mer nights .... Gone are. they, but have them in my
 soul.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
COTTON IN WEST AFRICA.

From the Springfield Republican.
 Sir Alfred Jones. president of the Liver pool chamber of commerce, has just re- ceived reports regarding the cotton grow ing experiments in West Africa. He said to a representative of the Associated Press: We sent out 100 tons of American seed and divided it among all the British West Coast colonies. The results have been most satisfactory. The crops matur- ed in 90 days, and in quantity and quality were quite equal to those of the parent stock. Next season we shall send Egyp- tian seed, and we hope for equally good results. The only question is whether we can make the natives work so as to put big plantations on a commercial basis The native wages are four cents a day But am personally afraid that a number of years will elapse before we can make the West Coast of Africa a serious com petitor of the American southern states"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
GROVER ISN'T BROKE.

From the Baltimore American.
 William K. Vanderbilt and Grover Cleveland received respectively the larg- est and smallest checks ever issued to individuals by the United States govern ment. At one time MT. Vanderbilt owned s5o,0O0,000 worth of government bonds, and on this amount drew annual interest of s2,0OO,0oO At the close of MT. cleve- lands second administration 1t was dis covered, in settling up his accounts for salary, that the government owed him l cent. A check for the amount was for warded to him, and, as 1t has never been presented for payment, it is probable that the recipient preserves 1t as a curi- osity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
HEALTH AND TRUE RELIGION.

From the New York Evening Journal.
 ..The Church League for the Promotion of Athletics" is right move In the right direction.
 There Is nothing wrong in 1t. On the other hard, there is very much that is good.
 Primarily churches exist for the wor- ship of God-for the cultivation. that Is to say, of the feeling that all is well with the world and ourselves.
 Worship-the only kind of worship that is worth talking about--is hope cheerful ness, the assurance that life is good thing, and that 1t Is our privilege to go about its duties and enjoyments in a hearty, heroic fashion
 Now. it is as plain as the way home that the healthier man Is the more likely he will be to cherish just these sentiments.
 Health is the foundation of every form of optimism, just as disease is the cause of all the miserable misgiyings and fears which fit around in the mind like bats in cave.
 With plenty of good red blood in the brain it Is next to impossible for one to doubt that life is a good thing and that the world is in competent hands.
 Calvin groaned his life away and died the prince of pessimists, while Luther sang and romped with the children and died believing that all was well.
 Luther was as healthy as a Maine lum- herman; Calvin was all his life a dys- peptic.
 If the churches are desirous of doing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
seaboard Officials.

John Sl.elton Williams, president of the Seaboard Air Line, passed through Bir- mingham in his private car over the Queen and Crescent route last night. He was on his way from New Orleans, where he had addressed the bankers association, to the east. J. W. Middendorf of Balti- more, third vice-president of the Seaboard Afr Line, and F. w. Pemberton of Baltimore, a director of the company, ac- companied him. The party stopped only five minutes. MT. Williams was in his characteristic humor, bright, jovial and enthusiastic concerning the Birmingham district and the Seaboard Air Line. A.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
ANOTHER KIND OF DISTINCTION.

From the New York Sun.
 H. ". Cochran. of Lin county, Is 9L He has never ridden on railroad train or street car-Kansas City Journal.
 A fortunate man in his way, and of real distinction. But the fortunate man of the crowded times and places of the young century will be whom cars or automobiles have never ridden on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Having big ankles is wasting 1t in the wrong place.
 The surest way for woman not to get a man is to chase him.
 Generally a red-haired disposition goes with the same kind of hair.
 It is distinctly dishonorable to kiss girl and get caught doing it by somebody else.
 It is all right to talk about practiciag what you preach. but doctors prescribe lots of medicine that they don't have to take themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

the most that is possible for true re- ligion as against the false religion of the dyspeptics on the one side and the no re- all that they need to do is to go on with the work that is proposed by the Church League for the Protection of Athleticnn League for the Promotion of Athletics and they will not be disappointed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
SHOULD SAY so.

From the. Philadelphia Inquirer.
 By the ways wouldn't 1t be a good plan for those innocent young girls who ara invited out to have drink and then get knockout drops not to accept the invi- tation to go out and have drink7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
HERETool

5ronlIhs Chicago News.
 The Danes aeem to pe like certain Chi eago propertys owners. They will neither sell noz4mprove.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

President Roosevelt notifies the re- publicans that they have been given two years in which 'to make good" This is a blow aimed straight at Ding leyism and It's trusts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

Apostle Shoot has not practiced polygamy. because women could not be found who would accept such name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

General Young, who Is to succeed General Miles, is a good soldier, al though he was never hazed. He en- tered the army as private.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
About Persona.

11Ils met the 5tdDOoia RaA V dea- Ai3 short visit here.
 About Persona. Ralph Bloom of New York Is at the Morris.
 R. T. simpson of Florence Is registered at the Morris.
 Bradford Hardle of Montgomery is at the Morris.
 F P. Glass of Montgomery is at the Morris.
 R.H. Slams of New Decatur Is at the Metropolitan.
 A. M. Tunstan of Greensboro Is regis tered at the Metropolitan. W W. Johnson of Montgomery Is at the Metropolitan. Frank Julian of Tuscumbia is at the Me- tropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

Lily Whitism has at any rate at tracted the attention of the entire country. A small thing sometimes goes a long ways.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

General Corben says the army is no place for loves young dream, but that the senile sort is wholly admissible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

A grindstone trust has been organ ized, thus bringing the two chleI grinding elements together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

Congressman-elect Hearst boasts a majority of 16,000,. and challenges his colleagues to show better figures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

The attention of the University of Chicago is called to the south, II It Is still in the market for bugs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

The Atlanta man who puts up the sign, Boy wanted. No crapshooters need apply" got no bids.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

There is a suspicion that the Mad Mullah is General DeWet m burnt cork on a new field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

The good luck party will soon stand naked and exposed to the bears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

New York has woman's bank, but it will not offer bargain discounts on Monday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

President Castro has captured Car acas again, but it is town that does not stay captured long.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

Gold is going out. despite the fact that the republicans are in power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

The released Molineaux is going to take the backwoods cure for six months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

Prosperity tips have given out in Wall street, and republicanism is at a discount.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

Corben and Crunshell, what a pair! The army and the navy forever
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is profes- sor of success in his Bible class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

Shamrock III is very swift-on pa per. It is to be built on new lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

All the lambs are shorn in Wall street and a new lot must be enticed in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

The auto-mounted cop is bobbing up in one city and another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

L. Fulenwider and one or two other cltl- zens met the seaboard party during it's short visit here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14
TIE OILY DAIlY HTWsPAPIR IN GIAssHI

Now spurs the lated traveller apaee To gain the timely inn.
 Macbeth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-14

D. O Jones and M. ". Carlisle are the only authorized travelling representatives of The Age-Herald in it's circulation de- partment
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-07-15
H0RTICULT URAL UNION
MET AT CITY HALL
j. N. Perry Elected General Manager
Union in Good Working Order
With 80 Members.

Yakima County Horticultural Union
met at the city hall last Saturday at |
O'Clock p. IN. and elected j. NJ. Perry as
general manager. The union has now a
membership OF so very enthusiastic
workers. The union is now in good
working order and expect to get every
thing in fine shape for doing business
in the next ten days. They expect to
have membership of 200 by August
first. The people are just beginning to
realize the Importance of union. They
are positive of realizing saving on
boxes and shipping rates at least 40 per-
cent. We find after corresponding with
the unions of California that since they
have got their organizations in good
working order that they have doubled
in their prices on fruit, and, what Cali
fornia has done Washington can do.
We will meet again on Saturday July
Goth at the city hall at l O'Clock p. m.
everybody is especially invited to attend
and hear and see what we are doing
whether you become member or not.
If we do you no good it will surely do
you no harm. Don't say that you have
not time to attend for there is no man
that is so busy that he cannot investi-
gate our plans and methods of doing
business. Once you look into the mat
ter you are not only convinced but con-
verted. So please don't forget the date,
Saturday July 26 at l o'clock p. III. at
the city hall. w. L. WRIGHT Pres.
J. VI Brown Sec.