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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
TO COIN MANY PESOS.
100000 of Certificates viii Be Sold
to Purchase silver Bullion.

Washington, March 24.-Secretary Root
has been in cable correspondence with
Governor Taft in relation to the Philip
pine currency act and it has been de-
termined to sell s3,o0o,O0O of temporary
certificates for purchase of silver bull
lion for coming into pesos. These certi-
ficates bear per cent interest, are free
from taxation and run for one year. They
will be issued in denominations of $1,000
each and will be sold in this country.
Although the Philippine currency act
authorizes the coinage of not to exceed
SIS, O0O, 900 pesos. including recoinage Oh
Mexican and Philippine coins. It is not
contemplated at present to coin more
than twenty million pesos at ABOUT tne
rate of two million month.
The silver for these coins VIII De pur-
chased in the United States, but unoer
what conditions has not yet been uetel-
mined. The treasury, 1t Is understoou,
will purchase only at the market value
In such quantities as may be neeoeo as
the coinage progresses. 1t Is said tnat
the department will not submit to an ad-
vance in the price Of silver, II II possibly
can he secured at the ruling rate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
INTEREST IN FICTION IS
SAID TO BE PERMANENT

These are: THE Cavalier" with 100000
copies sold; Dorothy Vernon" with 1885,
COO; 1.-THE Man From Glengarry," with
10000; Audrey" with 10000; THE vir-
ginian.'' with 10000; Mrs. Wigs. with
more than 100000; THE Eternal City"
with $4,000, and .srne Crisis" with 4o5.-
900. While these have not yet broken
some of the earlier records the size of the
figures shows that the American people
did not neglect the modern novel last
year.
The list of the twenty-four books Of
which figures are given shows a decline
In the extreme popularity, which attend
ed the historical novel of few years
ago. Three of these volumes deal with the
times of the civil war, but only six go
back to a period that Is now completely
mast and forgotten. The majority OF the
twenty-four are distinctively OF the pres
emf age-"The Hound of the Baskervilles,
MRS. wiggs," "Ranson's Folly "Dono-
van Pasha," and the like. The charm OF
novelty that belonged to the earlier stories
of Revolutionary and medieval Times mas
been lost and such fiction writer's as take
pains to cater to the popular taste seem
to be reaching out for new fields.
But while the liking for historical TO-
nance was fad, the interest taken IN
novels generally is as permanent as hui
man nature Itself. And however trashy
some of the popular books may be- they
have undoubtedly aroused an interest IN
fiction where none was felt before and SO
have widened the market for books to
its present enormous dimensions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
Raer Is Reelected.

New York. March 4.-The directors Of
the Temple Iron company which is made
up of the Anthracite Coal Mining COM
pany, today held their first meeting since
the findings of the arbitration commits
sion were announced. President Baer
was reelected. S. B. Thorne rendered
his resignation as general manager and
Frank Hennelreich was promoted to be
general superintendent, and to perform
the duties of general manager. A. F.
Law, who has been secretary, was pro-
NOTED to be vice president and treasurer.
Nothing was done regarding the fixing
of spring prices for coal, the schedule
not having yet been arranged.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
Waiting for a Chance.

There is deadlock in pig iron.
There usually is at this season of the
year. The meters want cheaper iron,
and the producers desire to maintain
prices. The latter stand ready to sell
iron for delivery in the latter half OF
the year on the basis of SIS or $3.50
for No. 2 foundry at Birmingham, but
buyers are holding off in the belief
that production will outrun consump-
tion and that prices will ease off.
There we're similar expectations last
year In March, and every March here
after will perhaps bring in a waiting
period, but when all see how prosper
GUS the country is-how rapidly rail-
roads are being built and buildings
are going up and mills projected-they
will soon come to see that production
cannot this year outrun consumption.
Buyers are still bidding for foreign
iron, and this fact is much more i'm
portant than the slight additions of
last month to furnace stocks.
Iron will not go down this year, sim
ply because the country is very pros
porous, extensions of all sorts being
the fashion of the times. 1t is said the
steel trust is behind its orders to the
extent of 100000 tons, an aggregate
never exceeded by that gigantic con-
Germ. This of itself shows that iron
cannot be lower this year Buyers will
soon see that they must grab for the
product of the stacks if they want to
keep their customers in foundries and
other plants supplied. They will yet
tumble over each other in order to buy
what is left of the years product. The
deadlock will be broken, and the price
of iron will be maintained throughout
the year without material change.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Cartoon Made a Hit.

Said popular newsdealer yesterday;
when 1 saw the cartoon in the Age
Herald, representing on one side a
southern planter sitting on stump IN a
cotton field, smoking his pipe, while a
negro boy was chopping down weeds,
and on the opposite side a question mark
surmounted by the bust Of negro, IN
front of which stood a northern editor
with pen in hand wrought up TO a
frenzy, l remarked that it would be re-
produced.
II was not surprised, therefore, to see
that cartoon in the Literary Digest, duly
credited to the Age-Herald. 1t was one
of the most telling cartoons that has APP
peared recently. and WILL do more to set
the northern public straight on the
thread-bare negro question than columns
of newspaper discussion or eloquent ora
tory"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
NewIy-coined Word.

II notice that r. w. Glider. editor OF
the Century magazine, coined a new word
last week and 1t is a good one" said a
man at the Morris
AT a banquet given President D. R.
Francis of the Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition company in New York Mr.. Glider
referred to him as a publictician.' Mr..
Francis had Just returned from a Euro
pean tour where he is said to have done
the most successful advertising ever ac-
compllshed by one man in 80 short u
space of time. He went purely in the
interest of the exposition but he was
entertained by all the crown heads of
Europe and in many other ways brought
the object of his visit prominently before
the world.
Mr.. Glider thought press agent was
too undignified to apply to President
Francis. and that 'publicist' was not
expressive enough, and so he coined the
word 'publicitician' and it fills the BILL"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
MRS. SEWELL DISCUSSES
RACE SUICIDE PROBLEM

/ "a years and months. Why we should
deplore this increased maturity at mar
rage and I am unable to understand.
I'VE recoil with horror from the child
| marriages of India while in reality the
change in the custom is quite as great as
the change which Christianity has effect
ca and seeks to effect in India. To my
mind, one of the desirable effects of high
er education is that it does postpone mar
rage Let as bear in mind that to post
pone does not mean to prevent
1.-THE higher education undoubtedly
makes girls more critical of men and
more independent of them. These effects
have both their good and their bad as
poets.
1T is well that girl no longer feels
that in order to preserve the affections of
her own family and to avoid becoming
an old maid, a useless piece Of timber,
ship without a rudder or haven, she must
marry 1t is better for society that the
better developed faculties of the college
bred girl have given her increased indie
pendence
THE wen-educated woman knows that
there is no ideal home excepting the home
created by man and a woman who are
working together to maintain 1t in the
bonds of love; but she also knows that,
| Independent of any man, she can keep
roof over her head, have a charming
position and share many of the pleasures
of life.
Another reason the higher education
of women diminishes the size of families
Is that the better educated they are, the
greater is their sense of responsibility.
Understanding the laws Of physiology, of
hygiene and of heredity, they realize what
is due children in physical equipment.
With this increased sense of responsibility
there comes to highly educated women
a greater sense of personal dignity. that
is not felt by women less developed.
LET us not lament the diminvtion of
families; let us rather remember that
over-p production in a family is one of the
chief causes of asylums and bcorhouses.
Let us remember that wise parents will
consider how many children they can
take proper care Of to how many they
can give the nurture and culture which
will be worthy the incarnated soul, and
which will enable that soul, through the
body, to serve humanity. 1t is to the
higher educated woman, not to her un-
taught sister, that bearing and rearing a
child becomes a serious, conscious, re-
sponsble business"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
Great Railway Project.

The building of railroad between
New York and Buenos Ayres is not an
easy achievement, largely because the
railroad line, lodging here and there
in the search for easy grades, would
be 1874 miles long, while the steam
vessel, following straight lines, would
bring the distance down to 5000 miles.
How then can the rail line compete
with the sea service? 1t could not do
it, and its business would be largely
confined to passengers and local traffic.
The probability is that an inter-
continental railway will, however, be
built by piecemeal. One country or
another, or one company or another,
will add link, and after while the
intercontinental line will stand COM
plete. Mexico is building to the Guate-
malan line, and the Argentine lines
reach northward about thousand
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25

Indianapolis, March %. = Mrs. May
Wright Sewall, president of the lnterna-
tional Council of Women. has made the
following reply to those who see ma
tional danger in the fact that families are
not so large as they used to be;
"Our country has always suffered from
the delusion that size counts for every
thing; we measure value by bulk and
by numbers" she says. This is sur
prsing mistake. History teaches us that
1t is not the countries of the greatest ter
ritorial extent that have produced the
greatest civilization; it is the small coun-
tries that have served humanity the most
effectively. For example, Judea, which
gave us our religion; Greece which pro-
duced our art; Rome, which originated
our laws, all were small countries.
'It is the same erroneous judgment
which leads us to measure national I'M
portanee by territorial possession that
leads us to measure the Importance of
families by the number of children pro-
duced in them. Is 1t not time that we
should attach rather more Importance
10 quallly imam 10 Slzes
LAS for the decadence of American
families, I believe 1t is chiefly in the
newspapers that American society is de-
caying. 1t is undoubtedly true that the
average number of children born to a
family at the beginning of the twen-
tieth century is smaller than the average
number born to a family of the same
class at the beginning of the nineteenth,
eighteenth .or seventeenth century.
Il dare say. however. that 1t is much
better that home shall have from two
10 five children, strong in body. vigorous
IN mind, all of them so equipped that in
the course of nature one may expect
them to live to maturity, than that there
should be from twelve to eighteen, hall
OF whom are doomed to die in infancy and
less than half of whom will be fairly
educated and equipped for life.
II quickly admit that the higher educa-
ton of women has a tendency to diminish
the number of children born to a family
The reasons are obvious. First, it post
pones marriage. The higher education
of women is not the only factor that has
contributed to this postponement, but II
is an important factor.
AT the beginning of the nineteenth GEN.
fury tho average age of girls who married
is reported to have been 16 years and 4
months; at the end of the nineteenth cen
fury the average of the same class was
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25

BY Stephen Collins Foster.
The morn of life is past
And evning comes at last
It brings me a dream Of once happy day.
OF merry forms I've seen
Upon the village green,
Sporting with my old dog Tray.
Old dog Trays ever faithful,
Grief cannot drive him away;
He's gentle, he is kind.
I'll never, never find
A better friend than old dog Tray.
The forms 1 called my own
Have vanished one by one;
The lov'd ones. the dear ones. have all
passed away;
Their smiles have flown;
Theirs gentle voices gone;
I've nothing left but old dog Tray.
Old dog Trays ever faithful.
Grief cannot drive him away;
He's gentle, he is kind;
I'll never. never find
better friend than old dog Tray.
When thoughts recall the past
His eyes are on me cast;
! know that he feels what my breaking
heart would say,
Although he cannot speak,
I'll vainly, vainly seek
A better friend than old dog Tray.
Old dog Trays ever faithful.
Grief cannot drive him away;
He's gentle, he Is kind;
I'll never. never find
A better friend than old dog Tray
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
EDISON PATENTS NO. 7e1.
Washington Telegram to the Philadelphia
Public Ledger

Washington Telegram to the Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
The clerks of the patent office began
several years ago to keep a systematic
account of the patents issued to Thomas
A. Edison. They have the wizards va
rious inventions tabulated and indexed so
that they can put their hands on each
different idea he has protected by patent
from the beginning of his marvellous ca
reer of invention. When a pending claim
is allowed, as it no doubt will be this
month, Mr.. Edison will have received 791
patents in all. He Is not adding to the
list as many ideas nowadays as he did
some years ago. Up to 1895 he had taken
out Ill patents In all. Since then he has
added to the list from three to twenty
three patents each year. Last year he
took out nineteen. This year so far he
has received six. In ordinary fees for pat
i, ents Mr.. Edison has spent more than $780,
nOn
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
BirminQham's lean.

Manager O'Brien will soon have his
team on the ground, and he will then
proceed to develop it, with a view to
getting out of it as occasion requires
all the athletic sport it is capable of.
What it will accomplish remains to be
seen. Mr.. OBrien does not himself
say what he will be able to accomplish.
He is here to find out.
The manager of a modern baseball
team in league as fast as that of the
South undeniably is, has no easy task.
He must not only display rare general
ship on the field of action, but before
and between the battles he must bring
out the unified strength in team work.
The team must be trained to work to-
gether, and they must have confidence
in each other, and ambition to win as
a team. And there cannot be effective
work unless the men sleep at night.
They cannot fight the tiger at night
and successfully combat rival teams in
daylight So that a manager must, If
he is to succeed, keep his eyes on his
men night and day.
Given good team work, and men that
sleep at night, and a third baseman
who covers the ground assigned to
him, the game is not after all so much
of a pitchers game as it is often
cracked up to be. The swift ball loses
its terrors, and the rest of the players
come into the game.
Manager O'Brien will soon show
what kind of a team he has in hand.
While other managers in the league
are winning the pennant with their
fluent tongues, the Birmingham man.
ager is sawin' wood and saying nothin'
He evidently thinks that games won in
the actual field are better than those
won in imaginary ones, and both he
and the friends or the game In TINS
town are willing to await the toss of
the first ball in April before venturing
an opinion as to the outcome.
1t is plain, however, that faster ball
is to be played this season in the
Southern league than it has known
since it was first organized. The line
up of the various teams justifies this
prediction. The winner this year will
indeed be a good team, and the four
that make up the first division will be
punched close together. 1t will be a
fight for places in the first division
from the very outset, and it would be
bold man who would undertake to
name at this time the first four teams
of the league.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE WOMAN DIES.

Amsterdam, N. Y, March 24.-Until an
autopsy was performed Coroner Pierce
refused to issue death certificate in the
case of Mrs. George A. Putnam, a be-
lever In the Christian Science doctrine.
who died suddenly Saturday. Surgeons
announce that death was due to an in
ternal hemorrhage. A microscopic exami-
nation will be made of the stomach and
bowels. The funeral, which will be pri-
vate tomorrow, will be conducted by a
clergyman of the Reformed church, not
withstanding the dead woman was an ac-
tive member of the First Church of
Christ, Scientist, and during her Illness
had been treated by members of that
church, refusing to be attended by a ply
Sician
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
From the Kansas city star.

From the Kansas City Star.
n FEW years ago some of the new
W novels suddenly became aston
ishingly popular. The publish
ers began to give out bewildering an
nouncements of sales leaping into the
hundreds of thousands. Such books as
David Harum" and Richard CarveP
were advertised as the great sellers" Of
the year. But the public soon became ac-
customed to the idea of the sale of novels
by the half million copies and the re-
cords then made have been hard to
equal So of late not so much has been
heard of the circulation figures of recent
books. One may look through the adj
vertising pages of current issues of the
magazines without coming upon staring
type announcing the extent of the sales
of popular volumes. Occasionally the
figures are given, but they are less prom
inent than formerly.
The casual reader might easily infer
that novel reading suddenly became a
fad, which is now waning; that devotion
to the romance of the day was as tickle
as the affection which the bicycle once
claimed. This opinion, however, is In
correct. The Bookman has taken pains
to get the figures on sales of the books
which have appeared on its monthly lists
as in greatest demand during the last
year. No statistics could be secured on
few of the volumes, but the sales of
twenty-four were reported to have
reached the enormous total of "a million
copies-an average of 10000 for each
volume. Eight Of the twenty-four have
record of 100000 or more.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
The Presidency.

President Roosevelt is almost sure to
be his own successor in $780," said a
banker IT had been hoping that we
would have a good sound money demo-
crat next time. but the award Of the
anthracite strike commission strength
ems Roosevelt lmmeasureably. If the
country is going to have republican
President l would greatly prefer Senator
Hanna, but Hanna might as well stay
out of the race. Roosevelt will be NOM
mated with a whoop.
"Of course, If the democrats would get
together and agree on an uncommonly
popular man for standard bearer there
might be little chance for victory, but
l do not believe that the Bryanites and
the Clevelandites will ever get together.
Neither one of these men will be nomi-
mated, but their friends will be strongly
in evidence in the convention and will
bitterly oppose each other"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Men make deserts Of gardens and wom-
en- gardens of deserts.
1t takes a fur around a woman's neck to
keep her feet from getting cold.
When you begin to talk about the moon
an experienced woman always gets sus-
picious of, your intentions.
When man is so absorbed thinking
what would have happened If he had filled
his busted flush in a big jackpot the night
before that he does not hear his wife when
she reminds him of a promise to take
her to the theatre, the safest thing for
him to do when she gets mad about 1t is
to come to life with start and tell her
how happy it makes him when he gets to
thinking of the first time he ever kissed
her.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25

young men in the city. left yesterday for
Chicago. where he has accepted a good
position with a large firm.
W 2. Whips of Gadsden is at the
Morris.
]. s. Shannon of Carbon Hin is stopping
at the Metropolitan.
J. B. Jones Of Montgomery is registered
at the Norris
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-25
About Persons.

A. R. Noble of Admission is at the Hill
man.
James L. Pugh and wife of Eufaula
are stopping at the Morris.
A. Steinhart of Greenville is at the
Metropolitan.
w. H. Taylor and wife of uniontown
are at the Hillman.
John t. Boyer of Cullman is at the
Morris.
w. e. Fitzpatrick of Bedford City. Va,
is registered at the Metropolitan.
C. C. Landers of St. Louis is stopping
at the Hillman.
Hinton Clabaugh one of the best known