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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
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The Mobile Register should learn how to support Grover Cleveland without indulging in stabs at MT. Cor man. While it talks the one up 1t need not talk the other down, unless indeed, it thinks it must find some way to press back the rising German sentiment of this state, and of the rest of the country for that matter Says the Louisville Courier-Journal:
 The Globe-Democrat wanders a trihe in it's mind when It indicates doubt about the result of this years election in Mary. land. Warfield will sweep the state. hands down. MT. German will go to the next national convention with a victorious, en- thusiastic delegation and following from his own state. As democratic leader in the senate he will make no mistakes. On the contrary he Is likely to warm up the boys Considerable" It is safe enough thus early to say that the nominee of the next national convention will have to beat German. So much by way of simple jus tice to an eminent democrat to whom the party is largely indebted and under whose congressional leadership 1t will be pres ently marching to the national triumph that awaits 1t in 1904
 The Register may consider that it Is Arthur Pue German against the field. and it may thus consider itself entitled to the right to charge MT. German with republican support and all that. But after all, is it best in this preliminary year to attack the confessedly leading candidate of the party? The Register has, of course, nailed the Cleveland flag to it's mast. It dld that in 1896, and we have no desire to object. But paper that Is usually fair-minded and just need not go out of its way to condemn MT Cor man. Give all aspirants a chance. Let us have large field, and may the best man win. Don't, in other words, get in an 1896 position, but keep in the middle of the road, and stand ready to support the nominee effffect ively and enthusiastically.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
Busy Scene,

Morris avenue presents a busy scene these days. said local dealer yesterday. With the approach of fall weather ship ments have increased in volume and trade has become much more brisk than was the case during the summer months. Fruit is especially active at present. Fine grapes, peaches. apples, pears, and or anges are plentiful. The Florida orange season has opened now and the first shipments are beginning to arirve.
 "As yet the oranges are not very good, but this is probably due to the fact that the crop has been seriously damaged by the recent hurricane and 'windfalls' are numerous. From now until the Christmas season fruit and produce men will be kept busy. During the holidays the traffic along Morris avenue is very heavy and fancy lines are naturally most In demand. Then is when we sell the good. white turkeys, the red apples, and nuts of vari- ous kinds There is no reason to think that trade this year will not be equally as good as that of last year. We hope so, at any rate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
Placing the New Text Books.

Obedience to the law is the hope and safety of society-of all in fact that we hold dear-of civilization itself. The textbook law is the law of the land, and as such it deserves the support of every good citizen. It it not an easy law to put into full op- eration at one swoop, and yet it can not well go into effect step by step. It must be accepted fully at the out set, and this creates friction. The magnitude of the task is aggravateo by those who have axes to grind, and condition arises that calls for the aid and help of all good citizens.
 Two excellent commissions CO., operated in making the list of school books for use in the public schools in this district-two commissions made up of men of the highest standing. Their selections are confessedly of high grade Better books at lower prices cannot be purchased, but the substitution is a task that creates friction. It is big task, and Super intendent Phillips is doing his best, aided by corps of competent teach CTS, to carry the new law into effect They will soon succeed to the satis- faction of all fair-minded men.
 The appeal to the legislature is all most farcical. The new system has not been tested. Contracts are out standing that must be respected, and the legislature should tell all corners to come again in 1907, when the merits or demerits of the uniformity law can be demonstrated. The hot haste of the present agitators is largely due to selfish influences, and it should not be needed at Montgom- cry. Let the agitators take an appeal to the legislature of 1907, but long be- fore that time the new law will have made plain its excellencies, especially in the rural schools of the state, which far outrank the urban schools, both in enrolment and in book de- ficiencies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
Rural Mall Routes.

About 14,0o0 rural free delivery routes have been established, and the number will be carried during the present year to at least 10000. Ala bamas proportion would be just about 800. but only ITO routes all told have been established. Congressman Un- derwood has covered Jefferson coun- ty with them, but no other county in this state is well supplied with the great postal convenience. The routes in Alabama should be increased to 800, thus adding 3SO routes to the present number. Each congressman should thus seek to have established about forty routes in order to give this state the benefit of it's full quota. In Congressman Underwood 5 district about fifty routes have been put in operation, but the rest of the state is sadly in arrears in this re- spect.
 Rural free delivery is dependent upon good roads, but no county can afford to have roads that the rural free delivery carrier cannot use. It Is not difficult to bring the roads up to the government standard They should be improved anyway, and per Laps the best feature of rural free de- livery is its incentive to better roads.
 The general government stands ready to bring the farmers and other rural residents in close touch with he rest of the world, if we will put ,ur roads in good condition. When his is done it rests with a section to .equest its congressman to secure the establishment of a free delivery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
IN THE HANDS OF A FEW.

From the New York Journal of Con-
 merce
 In all these vast corporations known as trusts the great majority of stockholders in number are a minority in interest and in voting power and it is next to i'm possible for any considerable portion of them to act together even through repre- sentatives or counsel. The few on the inside or in the management, possibly representing a majority of stock through a small minority of stockholders, but more likely only a powerful interest" with a controlling influence" carry ev- erything their own way, keeping 1t to themselves so far as they deem it de- sirable, and resist any effort to make them disclose more than they see fit. This dependence of a great body Of shareholders upon the will and conduct of a few, like the dependence of working men upon their leaders, is liable to lead to abuses of which they know nothing until they eliminate, and it is calculated to beget distrust of this whole oligarchi- cal system of combination and control of the interests of the many in the hands of the few.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
IneonsIderate Theatre.eoers.

T don't like to kick, but the practice of trooping into a theatre after the cur tain has gone up should be stopped" said man yesterday. s"This struck me a few evenings ago while attending a play at the Jefferson. When the curtain was raised for the first act of Soldiers of Fortune the parquet was far from being comfortably filled. For the next twenty minutes I was able to understand only about one word in five. Late corners trooped in until 1t seemed they would never stop. No one betrayed any desire to find his seat quietly but all tramped down the aisles with great clatter Other unfortunates bobbed up in their seats to let the new arrivals pass and this cut off the view of the stage from those in the rear
 "The entire first act of the play was spoiled by thoughtless persons who can never be on time. It seems reasonable to suppose that if they came for the purpose of enjoying the show they would much prefer to be prompt and thus be able to follow the play from the start. At any rate persons who are late give much annoyance to other patrons of the house and they should be made to re- main In the rear until the curtain de- scends Many of our leading actors will not permit their work to be spoiled by such interruptions and insist that people who arrive late remain out of their seats until the first act is ended"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Water in Lake Superior Ore.

Tn the boom period, or, more exactly speaking, just seventeen months ago, a lot of industries in the Lake Su- perior district were punched together by promoters in Wall street. They were duly capitalized at $102,000,00O, and things went on swimmingly in the new trust until the slump came, and then the trust went to pieces. It was called he Consolidated Lake Su- perior company. It's preferred stock, which once sold at 8S0, is now worth but 2h, and the common stock fell from 36 to a quarter of one per cent. This is certainly falling some. Up to September last this particular trust, like most of its compeers, paid 2 per cent dividends on It's preferred stock. To it's credit be it said, 1t never did attempt to pay dividends on its com mon stock.
 The Consolidated is not a bit ex- ceptional. Its affairs are in no greater confusion than are the affairs of the shipbuilding trust or the asphalt trust. They are all tarred with one stick over-capitalization, water, promoters profits, and the like, and in the course of the next five years a good share of the trusts formed during the pro motion craze will have to be reorgan- ized, and some of them, like the Con solidated Lake Superior company, will go to pieces. The latter is too far gone to be reorganized. It's issues of common and preferred stocks which were worth in the boom market fully $50,000,000, and were eagerly sought by Philadelphia investors, are worth now but $8S5,000! Such letting out of water is very drastic, and very dis astrous in spots at least
 The stock promotion craze Of the three previous years is to be visited upon the present and next two years, and if the losses could be visited upon the men who constructed enter prises from water justice would be 6cne, but such fellows knew the facts,
 <. 4, ,,, andl they quickly unloaded their hold ings bn the general public. The gen eral public will now proceed to pay the losses that must inevitably grow out of the crazy promotion boom. The lesson is and will continue to be A costly one, but perhaps it will be all the better remembered on that ac- count
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY.

By Edmund Clarence Stedman.
 Could we but know The land that ends our dark. uncertain travel, Where lie those happier hills and mead ows low,- An, if beyond the spirits inmost cavil Aught of that country could we surely know,
 Who would not go?
 Might we but hear The lowering angels high imagined cho- rus, Or catch betimes, with wakeful eyes and clear, One radiant vista of the real before us,- With one rapt moment given to see and hear.
 An, who would fear?
 Were we quite sure To find the peerless friend who left us lonely, Or there. by some celestial stream as pure, To gaze in eyes that here were lovelit only This weary mortal coil, were we quite sure.
 Who would endure? ooiwa ,hyes:oavBGwYPJPJ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25

route, and he will surely see that the request is satisfied.
 Five hundreI free delivery routes in Alabama would be mighty agents of enlightenment. They would render life on the farms much more agree able, and as general uplifting agency 1t Is difficult to overestimate them. Let the full quota of the state be secured. Let every county con sider the subject. Information as to what must first be done in improving the highways to be used can be ob- tained from the respective members of congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
Barber Shop Equipment.

q am glad to note," said man who is shaved frequently by barber, that the tonsorial artists of this city are begin ming to realize the importance of abso- lutely pure and clean equipment.
 ''I was in a hotel barber shop yester- day and noticed sterilizing devices. which not only removes all germs from the ra- zors, but also removes all chances Of contagious disease from towels by thor oughly disinfecting them.
 T believe this is the first to be installed in Birmingham. It has an outfit for sterilizing razors and scissors, and the barbers are required to use it fre- quently. thus keeping their tools in a thoroughly sanitary condition.
 Tn the top there are two divisions for placing towels to be sterilized. One of these compartments is dry and this Is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
About Persons.

E9Sd1 FVt tSSbos
 T. c. Parsons of the Washington Timcs is visiting friends in the city. Mir. Par sons formerly lived in Birmingham and was connected with the Age-Herald.
 James Spence, distinguished citizen of Tuscaloosa, is registered at the Hillman. T. T. Harris, a prominent dry goods merchant of Blocton. is in the city.
 J. w. Loeb of Dayton, O., was late arrival at the Hillman last night.
 
 T. c. Murrah, the popular chief clerk of the Florence hotel, leaves today for Columbus, Ga. where he goes to accept a similar position with the Racine hotel of that place. MT. Murrah has been living in Birmingham for several years and his friends, who are legion. regret his departure.
 D. M. Andrews, A prominent citizen of Montgomery is at the Hillman.
 R. w. Stewart of Florence Is at the Morris.
 John J. Lamar. a prominent lumber man of Rollins, is at the Metropolitan. Ex-Senator Frank S. Moody, promi- nent banker of Tuscaloosa, Is in the city. J. J. Yeates, formerly chief clerk of the Florence hotel, but now with the Blount Springs hotel. returned today from pleasure trip to Mobile and other points on the coast.
 c. H. Everett, we'll known chemist of Atlanta, is at the TIillman.
 H. Lee Harvey of Charleston was among the Hillman's late arrivals last night.
 c. c. DuBose of Columbiana, Is regis tered at the Florence.
 Louis Reese. chief clerk of the Ala bama hotel of Anniston is in the city. MT. Reese Is one of the most popular hotel men in the state.
 L. C. Gunter of Knoxville, is at the St. Nicholas.
 II. c. Farley of Montgomery is in the city.
 B. NJ. Allen returned yesterday after noon from a three months tour of Eu- rope. MT. Allen is in excellent health and has a large stock of good stories on hand to relate to his friends.
 Walter NeSmith, a prominent lawyer of Vernon Is In the city.
 A. H. Bryan of Boston is registered at the Hillman.
 Vice President and General Manager Charles McCrery of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company who is now in Europe, is expected home between the 10th and 18th of October President Don M Bacon said yesterday that he would remain in Birmingham until MT. McCrery returned
 R. c. Hicks, commercial agent of the Seaboard Air Line has returned from An napolis. where his son William Is a naval cadet He was accompanied on his trip by two of his younger sons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 7 HERE is a finger beckoning in the (0 hills, and voice calling to the
 free spaces out under the sky. Happy are they whom good fortune has kept till now in the country and they whom their own self-restraint or the dis pensations of necessity-harsh in the en- during but benevolent in retrospect-al- low a vacation now in a season invested with the best and most compelling charms of the year.
 The prophecy of a splendid autumn is in the air. Young oaks by the river side are purpling; ruddy wine is spilling over the tops of the sumacs; the naples are lighting their torches in the embers of dying summer. The birds have broken up housekeeping and are at frolic with their families in the woods. They hate to take up the flight to the south until they have seen the departing summer lay his finger on all out of doors and touch 1t into that wanton chromatic splendor into which au- tumn hereabouts is wont to flame.
 Already the copious color is spread with full brush along the edges of roads and banks of creeks. and dabbled in great asters. marigolds; gay old fashioned flow CTS riot in deserted gardens--zenias and salvia and dahlias.
 There Is satisfaction in the orchards; contentedness. with amplitude of fruit fulness in corn and cattle ir the fields. Cbastnuts ara ripeninP and tha ho1aIs and walnuts; the eyes of the lads have spotted the likeliest yields. The acres lie at rest, their seasons work accom- plished, the corn awaiting the frost, with the pumpkins between the furrows.
 The aisles through the woods are a little sunner, for the butternuts and a few other early-fading trees are begin ming to lose their leaves; but down their solitudes the alien foot of man scar ,ely disturbs the busy squirrel From the reaches are a little broader; the hills, half hidden in haze, stretch away toward some longed-for Carcassonne; the roads wind, white, dotted with slow moving wains, or hayricks of which every bridge takes toll.
 Morning, these rare days. comes like a shout, like the sound of a hunting horn in the hills. There is a zest in the air; an inchor tingles in the veins. But the full day has its suspicion of melancholy sweet, not sad-and the evening it's un- escapable solemnity, even with all that pomp of purple and crimson aud gold
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 It's funny how sorry an old maid can feel for an old bachelor. Chorus girls are very frank about show ing you their reasons for going on the stage.
 The girl who wants to go on the stage has about as much reason for it as the young man who wants to go into poli- tics.
 Once there was man who never went around giving his friends a tip on a good thing, but it was because 1t really was good.
 When a man says he is worried over his business his wife seems to think it wouldn't be that way if he took her ad vice about wearing muffler when he went out in the evening.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
Returning From Abroad.

"The tourists are returning home." said a New Yorker. 'F or a month past the big liners have brought numbers of Amer jeans back from the old world, where they have spent a pleasant summer in sightseeing There have been many inn portant events to take place during the past four or five months and the Amer ican tourist has been much in evidence on every occasion. He stood on the seven hns of Rome while Pope Leo was pass ing away and was one of those who waited anxiously in St. Peter's plaza for Ia fumata' to announce the result of the conclave's vote; he stood on the shores of Naples and watched the impressive spectacle of Vesuvius in eruption; he was an important parsonage at Kiel and at Portsmouth he has witnessed the fright ful massacres that have stained the pages of modern history in Servia in Russia and in Macedonia Altogether it has been a stirring season among the na- tons of Europe, with the American tour ist an ever present spectator
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
Musical Comedy.

"The march of musical comedy has be- gun" said a theatrical manager. "A number of good shows of this variety are booked for the Jefferson and the Bir- mingham public will get it's fill of this popular entertainment. Musical come dies do fine business here and It is usually safe to make an engagement with a first class attraction. Last year nearly all the better class companies drew we'll filled houses until the fear was ex- pressed that we were having too much of a good thing. However I have no cause to fear that the desire for musical comedy has lessened during the summer and feel sure that the patronage this winter will be excellent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
Baseball Catcher on Currency.

During a recent discussion of the cur rency question. Pat Millerick, the well known catcher of the Birmingham base ball team, tells of an incident which he says proves conclusively that no money is needed to carry on business. While on hunting trip in Novia Scotia last winter" said Mir. Mllerick, "I found that the peo- pie did all of their trading by exchang- ing articles of commerce instead of using money. Returning from a hunt one day walked into a saloon, accompanied by a friend, and called for a glass of beer. I laid a dollar on the counter and the bartender looked at me in surprise for moment. but quickly walked to the rear of the saloon and brought back large package, which he laid on the counter. What is that?' asked.
 That is your change he replied.
 ''I opened the package and discovered eighteen dried herring. demurred at first, but the bartender assured me that they were good for centh each anywhere I wanted to trade. Stuffing the herring in the pockets of my hunting coat. I walked down the street and later dropped into another saloon.
 Do you want to get rid of some of that changer asked the second bartender as he sped the herring bulging from my pockets.
 With the greatest of pleasure, l re- piled, and soon had eighteen herrings laid out on the counter. To my surprise and consternation the accommodating barten- der reached under the counter and handed me a cod fish about two feet long,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
AN AUTUMN POET TAKES
 NOTICE OF THE WEATHER

piled up in the sky. For the sun. these last few days, has set the west afiame with the lordlier and unfamiliar splendor, which makes the heart almost ache; for it is like the mirrored effulgence of anoth- CT world, where angels toss trumpets of brass and sing Holy, holy. holy! Heav- en and earth are full of Thy gloryi'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
A BIT OF A LAUGH.
No Longer Appropriate.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 His Physician-You are burning the candle at both ends
 Rich, but Irritable Patient-Any cheap, old-fashioned doctor could have told me that. When I pay you $50 for an opinion you ought to use a metaphor more in ac- cordance with this age of gas and elec- tricity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
A Visiting Uncle.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
 Did Johnny entertain you nicely, Uncle Abner, while I was out?'' asked the niece the old man was visiting.
 He did very well" was the rather con strained answer. He spent most of the time making me promise to let him come to my funeral"
 Dear little fellow. He's so thoughtful"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
His Little Game.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 T understand you have lost your pock- etbook containing valuable papers. I didn't suppose you had any valuable pa pers'
 "I haven't, dear boy. But just see the impression the advertisement makes on the community"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25

used for the ordinary towels. while the other side is steam heated and keeps damp towels which are used after a massage.
 If all barbers would secure this kind of equipment It would be a good thing for those who patronize the shops, as it greatly reduced the chances of disease spreading"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
HINTS FOR INVENTORS.

From the Denver Post.
 Airships are not built in secret and tried on the sly. The regulation way to build an airship is to get all possible pub licity, so that the stock may be disposed of Then it is secondary matter wheth- CT the thing flies or not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25
MUST STOP SOMEWHERE.

From the New York World.
 When stock is booming nobody can tell when it will stop, but when one is making new low record every day, like Steel common, we have always the satis- faction of knowing that it is bound to stop when 1t gets to the bottom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-25

Mark Hanna says bull market and the boom can be restored by defeating Tom Johnson and re-electing himself to the senate All republicans have a similar recipe.