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The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-02

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Official Directory
United States Government.

President...............T Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of John HAY
Secretary Of Treasury.....Leslie NJ. Shaw
Secretary of .Elihu Root
Secretarw of Navy.......w William Moody
Postmaster General. -. Henry c. Payne
Secretary of Interior....E A. Hitchcock
Attorney-General.. C.. Knox
Secretary of Agriculture. James Wilson
Secretary of Commerce. q. b. Cortelyou
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
Export Rates in Pittsburg.

The cutting down of export rates SS per cent at Pittsburg has brought out Q discussion as to the duty of railroads in an overloaded market Some hold that railroads should not assist in the pro- cess of uisgorging surplus stocks, while others say that railroads should do anything that will restore trade to healthful conditions, thereby bettering the transportation business.
 If all academic questions be shut out, the railroads will naturally do what ever will pay them best. They are sim ply looking for traffic earnings, and If a reduction of 33 per cent in export rates will increase, first and last, their business out of Pittsburg, they will naturally accept such a policy, regard less of academic questions. It is money they seek, not theories.
 Lower export rates out of Pittsburg naturally call for lower export rates out of Birmingham, and as rule the latter have been available whenever they have been sorely needed. It would not be good policy on the part of the railroads to favor one city or one dis trict at the expense of another, and as no one railroad serves all iron districts it is reasonable to conclude that no such favoritism will be permitted.
 Whenever this district has needed low export rates, it has been able to secure them. Pittsburg has obtained a concession earlier than this district has. but it is not doubted anywhere but that export rates will in this dis trict be made to t the case. In 1896 and thereabouts such rates enabled this district to fill the markets of the Old World with iron made in Alabama, and possibly we are coming to a repe- tition of the shipments that first made Alabama iron famous and acceptable to the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
MIR. PLATES wooDcHuck STORY.

From the New York Press.
 Some one asked Senator Platt to re- peat Fay Templeton's word puzzle, How much wood would would-chuck if woodchuck would chuck. A wood- chuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a wood-chuck would chuck wood" The senator did so, and then he ventured the opinion that he knew more about wood-chucks than Fay Tempeton or any one in New York
 "When I was a boy" said the Senator. my uncle had fine field of clover and he discovered that woodchucks were making sad havoc with 1t. On the field was a log and near that log the destruc- tion was the greatest My uncle told me I must kill those woodchucks. I went to the field a number of times, but could not get shot at them. I came to the conclusion that I must use a little strat- egy, so one morning I went to the field about snn-up With my gun. both bar rels loaded with heavy charges, I got a position where I could make a range of the long lengthwise As it began to grow light the woodchucks gathered for their morning frolic. They mounted the log, sat up and looked around to see that there was nothing to disturb them. When l thought the log was nearly covered with them l pulled both barrels at once. The charge nearly knocked me over. When l recovered I went to the log and wasn't any great log for woodchucks, pither.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
T~-~------------@W------- FROM THE ROME REPUBLIC.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
 Emperor Nero announces that as a spe- cial Christmas gift to the Methodists now under arrest they will not be sent to in- terview the lions until after the holidays
 Nil Desperandum, our esteemed fellow townsman and book agent left last night for Cartagena with a new novel by Mary MacLania and expects to bunk the na- tives of that burg to a fare you we'll Good luck to you, Nil
 S Grangibus a farmer. dwelling on the outskirts of our city, paid us a pleasant call yesterday and left ye editor a nice fat shote. Si is one of natures noble men.
 Miss Avia Mutagallia, one of this sea- sons debutantes, was seen on our streets yesterday in a new creation from Paris It is known as the Kangaroo costume" and is certainly the real goods. Drop in and see us, Avia
 Horatius Quidnunc Casey, one of the oldest policemen on the force, was found asleep on his beat last night, and is now guest of Emperor Nero at the ampithe- atre.
 It seems strange that Roman citizens should so far forget their dignity as to neglect keeping their sidewalks free from snow. We have made editorial mention of this matter several times, and are sur prised that nothing comes of it. The only citizen in our neighborhood, excepting ourselves who has pride enough to do a little shoveling Is l.. Omnia Vinct, an esteemed subscriber. Let others get into line and put their shoulders to the wheel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
PROBLEM OF DRESSING
 TO ATTEND "PARSIFAL" :"

costumes selected by the ladies of his party. The arbitrary rule which makes the wearing of formal garments before a certain hour in the evening sartorial misdemeanor is, in fact, not a rule at all. but convention between the dudes and the tailors
 Continental example warrants the wearing of what we have learned to call evening dress by daylight on all ceremonial occasions, and while it might be something of strain to do this in New York in the forenoon, it need not be in the twilight of a midwinter even ing, in an artificial light and with even ing close at hand. On the contrary, the well-dressed gentleman in any costume need have no reason to fear that he will find himself conspicuous. We should not advise pink-striped shirts tan shoes. red neclSties, or loud plaids. Perhaps there is no more reason why these should not be worn on "Parsifal' night as we'll as on any other night. but that is beside the fact.
 The very particular man whose happi- ness will be spoiled If he is not progress sivey In perfect form, might do well to consider whether as a third change of dress his pajamas would not be desira- ble. It will be plenty late enough to don them before he is released.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
Cotton Goods for cubans.

The New York Commercial calls the attention of cotton mill operators to the nature of the Cuban trade. Our operators will have great advantages under the new reciprocity bill. For ex. ample, hosiery weighing two and one fifth pounds to the dozen pairs may be sent to Cuba from this country at 36 cents per dozen less than from other countries. Such an advantage would, it seems, hand over the entire cotton goods trade of Cuba to our southern mills.
 But it will not do so unless our op- orators study the tastes and odd mo- tions of the Cubans. What they should buy Is one thing; what they will buy is another. They are Latins; at least they are not Anglo-Saxons, and they are backward, queer and unprogressive, and our mill men must, if they desire to supply the Cuban market with. cot ton goods, make gccds that are back ward, queer and unprogressive. It is easier to do this than 1t is to change the fancies of two millions of Cubans, who have nothing in common with us.
 The Commercial points out that they want no novelties. They want what their grandparents and great grand parents wore. They will buy anything from brown drills to laces and embrod- cries provided there is no innovation involved. The Commercial insists, that it would be folly to attempt to change their tastes.
 This is why the mills of England and continental Europe have supplied the Cubans with cotton goods, this coun- try supplying less than 10 per cent of the quantity annually consumed. The Cuban market should be filled with soutlyern-made goods, because it lies at eur doors, and every advantage of transportation and tariff is ours, but we cannot do this unless our mill men will study Cuban tastes and fancies. Our mills cannot at present make the cheap laces ard lawns and prints that the Cubans desire, but we can make tie coarser goods and hosiery they feed. and in that way we would supply threefourths of the cotton goods they consume. But in order to do this we must study Cuban tastes and bend to Cuban fancies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
Tendency in Holiday Shopping.

Christmas shoppers have throngod the streets of Birmingham this week." said merchant who does a large business on Second avenue. People are learning wis dom every day and I notice that they are inclining more and more to useful things in preference to those merely ornamen- tai And yet the amount of money an- nualy expended for trinkets and toys for presents that are good only to look at and not to use, is enormous.
 "The taste this year seems to incline toward artistic novelties. Some very handsome creations are shown, but per- haps the most pleasing gift that person could find is a Christy or Gibson album The work of these two artists is brilliant enough to compel the admiration of even the most indifferent people, while to a person of artistic appreciation 1t is a treat indeed.
 No doubt both Gibson and Christy turn many an honest penny by their ex- quisite drawings. c. Allen Gilbert and these two artists are, perhaps, the most popular illustrators in the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
Musical Comedy Town,

'I am impressed more and more every day that Birmingham is strictly a musical comedy town" said theatrical agent last night. Plays like The Professors s The Light of Other Days, certainly offer variety enough for all, but they are pre- scented to small houses, while humpty dumpty shows, in which there is a tune. a dash of color, and a pretty girl, draw packed houses.
 Ut is easy enough to see why a great many people prefer Happy Hooligan' to Ghosts because the latter is so depress- ing, but The Professors Love Story Is beautiful pay, and one to finger pleas-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
Oil Mills and Cotton Seed.

Daniel J. Sully insists that the sale of cotton seed to the oil mills is result ing in the planting of inferior cotton seed, which In turn is reducing the yield per acre of lint cotton, and he has caused his recent article on the suD- feet to be put in circular form, and IS distributing it through the cotton states.
 The oil mills demand the best seed. They refuse to buy inferior seed, and they are experts in judging seed. But inferior seed leads to inferior cotton, and already the president of the Amer ican Cotton Oil company complains that seed Is of late of poor quality, pro ducing oil of an inferior grade, and less than normal qualities to the ton. The cottcl seed mills thus suffer from their own practices.
 But beyond and above the welfare the oil mills stands the welfare of the farmers of the south, and the mainten- ance of their great cash crop. MT. Su'- ly contends that the yield of lint per acre has run down from PA pounds in 1S97-9S to 176 pounds in the present year. He further contends that seed sterilization is at the bottom of the de- cline in yield This is question of deep importance, and congress and every state should take hold of the subject until it is sifted to the bottom.
 It is easy to see that if the oil mills refuse to buy inferior seed, demanding the best only, the farmer pressed by debts would sell them his best seed, re- serving for use in planting what the oil mill would not buy. This practice if long maintained would certainly have the effect that MT. Sully asserts has oc- cured.
 All farmers know that the best seed of any crop should be planted-tEat the planting of inferior seed-be 1t of wheat, cotton or what not-is ruinous both in yield and quality. II our farmers have been doing as MT. Sully says they have, a halt connot be called too soon The oil mills take from the soil it's fertilizing material, and if they are also taking the best seed, some legal regu- lations may become necessary in order to protect the cotton crop which is all- important alike to the south, to the na- tion and to the industrial world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 1.-THE question how the man who g wishes to ,Ds.. be in r.. strictly naly,., good i'd profoundly agitating the community. The Panama embroglio, the grave problems of the Orient, the municipal slate. the open shop-everything, indeed. which claims public attention as of expressing interest, is for the moment subordinated to the question. how should a gentleman dress for this two-part opera of indeterminable length which begins an hour before the proper time for evening dress and may continue until evening dress will become as ncongruous as it usually appears at breakfast?
 Those who are willing to forego food during the interval, and will devote the time to running home and changing their clothes may dismiss the matter from mind. For them it is not problem at, all. They can. come in the afternoon in frock coats, and reappear in the afternoon in the som- bre glory of the expensive shirt front and the regulation swallow tail But for the average man this is scarcely possible. He must elect day or evening dress. If he chooses the former, he will realize before the night Is over that his indiscretion Is expressed in cresendo until, somewhere about midnight, it will attain to what the musician will recognize as fir.
 On the other hand, if he prematurely as- sumes evening dress. he will have the sat- isfaction of knowing that the offense is expressed in the diminuendo and that within an hour of the opening of the opera it will have ceased to be, leaving him in perfect form. Probably most Of the fashionable men will choose the lat ter alternative. In the artificial light of the opera house even critical people will forget (during the first hour, at leastO to look at their watches, and when this occurs to them the dress coat will be all right.
 What is most to be feared is that young men who lack the moral courage either to anticipate the mystic hour Of 6 D. m. or to be caught after that time in other than the conventional costume, will have recourse to the expedient of the dinner jacket and the removable false front which temporarily covers the shirt This is subterfuge no self-re- specting man should be guilty of. It will be indicative of a total lack of indepen- dent convictions As a matter of fact, 1t makes no possible difference to, any one how any other member of the audience than himself is dressed. He would do well to consider the weather, and the l costumes of his attendance, and the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24

and more satisfactory part of life, is restored. No man can participate actively in the great gift season of the year without regaining the emotions and some of the imaginations of his early days. The delights of the chil- dren he serves react, and the man himself becomes on Christmas day a child again. Let it not be called then a 7childrens day. It is a day for all, both great and small.
 It is true the Christmas season be- comes the happier to a man if he can gather about himself a good lot of boys and girls, and the more exuberant they are the better. But the point we desire to make is this-the children do not get more than a full half of the happiness of the occasion. not even if they believe as they should that Santa Claus drawn by prancing reindeer ascends the roof and chambers down the chimney of each house Their happiness creates deeper happiness in the man who is thus led to recall his own boyish anticipations of long ago. It is a season when all are happy when care is dismissed if for but a day-when youth comes again to the man of cares and troubles, and he lives over scenes long forgotten. Even if he becomes practical and careworn on the following day the good of the Christmas season will remain with him to some extent, softening his nature, bettering his inner life, until another Christmas day is at hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
A CHRISTMAS FoLK-soNc.

Lizette woodworth Reese in Lippenoott's
 Magazine.
 The little Jesus came to town; The wind blew up, the wind blew down; Out in the street the wind as bold Now who would house Him from the cold! Then opened wide a stable door. Fair were the rushes on the floor; The OK put forth horned head: Come, little Lord, here make thy bed" Up rose the Sheep were folded near: Thou Lamb of God. come enter here" He entered there to rush and reed, Who was the Lamb of God indeed. The little Jesus came to town; With OK and sheep. He laid Him down; Peace to the byre. peace to the fold, For that they housed Him from the cold!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
"hON.v

From the Springfield Republican.
 Sam Jones of Toledo did good thing when, in the midst of talk with some visitors in the mayors office Friday, he arose and cut out of chart on the wall the abbreviation Hon." which was printed before his name. and threw the bit of paper in the cuspidor. Newspapers that dispense with frills have long since cut out Hon." in their mention of sena- tors, representatives and other officials, as piece of stiffness. The only effect i've place to use 1t is when quotation marks are placed on either side, as in the case of certain statesmen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
Value of Christmas.

Christmas is popularly considered a day devoted to a great extent to the happiness and delight of children. No child, it is true was ever made too happy on Christmas day, but the hap piness the Christmas season ushers in is by no means confined to the chil- dren. The aged and middle aged re. new their youth in that season by par ticipating in it. All the legends of their young days are thus brought back to them. and romance, which is the better
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press. To the near-sighted man beauty is only eyeglass deep
 Santa Claus might not be so generous if he had to work for his living instead of driving around in sleigh.
 No amount of philosophy can compen- sate for furnace that acts as If 1t were to be refrigerating machine.
 A college education will not do a boy much harm if he is willing to try to learn something after he comes out.
 A woman likes to cry over a magazine picture of a baby and puppy so she can be appalled, at her husbands hard heartedness for not doing it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Cotton in Alabama.

Newspaper advice and book-farming chat is very good, perhaps" remarked a cotton planter in the lobby last night, ''but the southern farmer will never be persuaded to abandon the planting and cultivation of cotton.
 These lands and this climate are naturally adapted to the production of this, the greatest staple on earth. The commercial world Is ever ready to buy it, and a bale of cotton Is ready money anywhere and at all times. There has never been such thing as it's over-pro- duction as has been the case in the corn producing sections of the west. Diver sifed farming is the correct theory, but cotton is the money crop of the south and ever will be.
 Look continued the man from the black belt, 'how the production of cot ton has declined since 1s9S when the south produced 11.199.994 bales and now they tell us this years crop will be only supply the demand Then too, the world isn't half clothed yet, and the demand must increase as the market are opened and civilization advances.
 "The boil weevil is theatening to de- stroy the cotton industry in Texas and to advance eastward. I do not think 1t will cross the Mississippi river before another crop is made. but with the re- ductlon in Texas and other states west of the Mississippi which are threatened with the pest, the farmers who may not be so soon cursed by the weevil will find a ready and high market for their cotton for long time to come, and they will plant it. My judgment is that ten- cent cotton on the present basis of values is a thing of the past"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
NO KNOCKOUT DROPS NEEDED.

From the Kansas City Star.
 The story about the man in Parsons. Kas., who was overcome by knockout orops In whisky, must be fictitious or the person who used the drops was guilty of needless extravaganza. Now, if any, body were caught putting Kansas whisky into knockout drops-well, that would look suspicious
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
Time to Get Aboard.

From the Kansas City Journal. Porter, is my ticket good on this train?'
 ''Yes, sah. Step right in. sah." 'This Is fast train, ain't it?"
 Its de fast mail sah."
 How fast does it run?''
 'Sometimes a mile a minute, sah." 'Whew! Does it ever leave the track?" 'No, sah but it sometimes leaves de passengers. Better git aboard, sah.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-24
Large Passenger Travel.

"I noticed twenty-two passenger coach- es belonging to three railroad companies standing on the tracks at the Union Pas senger station yesterday afternoon, be- tween and o'clock" said a travelling man. "These coaches made up three or four outgoing accommodation trains and every seat, it seemed to me, was taken on the trains, but still crowds attempted to get on board the trains. All of the pas- sengers were laden with packages of every description
 During the holiday season thousands of people come to Birmingham from all parts of the state to make their holiday purchases. I notice, too, they all have a good deal of money to spend. This, of course, greatly helps the town.
 While coming up on the train the other day I met friend from Montgomery We were both bound for Birmingham and during the course of our conversation asked him what he was coming up this way for. He replied. to buy Christmas presents, and he appeared to be serious too when he made the remark"