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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
Spectacular, Not Effective.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Mir. Richard Olney, in his great Cooper Union speech, said that republican oppo- sltion to the trusts lis feigned rather than real, spectacular rather than effective.' This states the case in a nutshell.
 If the republican party were really hos tile to trusts, said MT. Olney, 1t has at it's command two weapons that would be most effective. It could prevent all favor itism on the part of railroad and other semi-public agencies by which monopolies have been largely built up. But what is still more to the purpose, the republican party might so amend our tariff laws as to enlarge the field of competition and re- lieve consumers of the exactions of in- dustries so well established that they can hold their own in all the markets of the world. The party refuses to do this or attempt it. Hence MT. Olney concludes. and with good reason, that the party Is completely controlled by the very agencies which 1t professes to antagonize
 The republicans have the weapons to destroy the monopolies of the trusts without hurting their legitimate business. They refuse to use them. Their hostility to the trusts is, therefore, purely spec tacular It is not effective. and it Is not meant to be. The trust magnates know this, and they are fighting for Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
Invite the EnuIlsh Spinners.

The British spinners have expressed a desire to send delegation to the cotton belt in this country with view of ascertaining it's advantages, and disadvantages-if any-for cotton spinning. Some of the English pro- ducers propose to transfer their mills to the south even without personal in vestigation. Others, however, prefer to wait upon the fullest possible inyes- tigation. A large delegation of cotton mill men chiefly from England will assuredly come if it Is plain to them that they would be welcome.
 The Baltimore News urges that gov ernors, mayors and business organiza- ticns extend a formal and warm well come to the cotton manufacturers of European countries to visit the south for the purpose of inspecting it's mills and resources and possibilities. Let them in particular be asked to see the water powers of Alabama going to waste, for water power and electricity are the favorite motive forces of mod ern cotton mills.
 Nothing but good could flow from visit in the south of European cotton manufacturers, and the longer they stay and the more closely they look into our affairs, the better 1t will be for us. Let us in Alabama make plain the fact that we desire visit from the spinners of European countries, and that we will do all we can to make such a visit pleasant, convenient and thorough.
 No better opportunity will occur to show what Alabama is capable of, and from Governor Cunningham down to the mayor of our smallest town, an invitation should go out that the cot ton manufacturers of Europe cannot resist. They will not try to resist it, for they desire to come. Alabama will welcome them warmly, and our people will show them everything that they desire to study.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19

address at St. Louis yesterday was the chief feature of the day.
 The Deaf Congress at St. Louis brought together those who have done most for those who are deprived of sight and sound. Professor Gallaudet was there. He is president of the col lege for the Geaf at Washington. Miss Fuller, who taught Helen Keller how to talk, was also there, and so was Millionaire Wade, who is helping those doub,y afflicted, and Alexander Gra- ham Bell, the inventor of the tele- phone, who is firm friend of the deaf and dumb, because of an affliction in his own household. The day was rendered 1ighly significant by the ap- pearance of Miss Keller herself, who is welcomed wherever she goes. She wc5 the heroine of the occasion at St. Louis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
MT. Bryan In the Campaign.

From the Norfolk Virginlan-Pilot.
 The Virginlan-Pilot views with favor the fortnight utterance of Hon. William J. Bryan, in which he declared with un- mistakable emphasis that if he did not want Judge Parker elected he would ap- peal to his friends to defeat him and openly take the responsibility therefor.
 It seems to us that in traducing Mir Bryan at a critical time in the campaign sundry contemporaries who crawled into the blind ditch when MT. Bryan was the nominee but who have crawled out since they fondly and quite enormously
 supposed the party has been recognized are not only unjust to Mir. Bryan, but are making political mistake. unles they still desire covertly to forward the republican cause.
 For, certainly, MT. Bryan's friends will elect Judge Parker, if he is elected at all Mir Bryan Is enthusiastically receiv- ed wherever he goes, and the democratic national committee could not play better politics than to tour him through every doubtful state between this and election day. He would put fire and enthusiasm into the campaign that it has lacked so far.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
PASSING OF THE CIGARETTE.

From the Albany Journal.
 It appears from recently compiled sta- tisties that the number of cigarettes an- rually sold in this country at present IS less by about a billion than 1t was ten years ago. Whether this decrease may be attributed to the operation of anti cigarette laws, to the power of public sen- timent to the placing on the market of great number of cheap cigars that are usually classed as stogies or cheroots, or to all the three causes, would be hard 10 determine. Whether the health of the na- tion will ultimately suffer from much to- bacco smoke, is a question over which doctors will always disagree; but we think we are right in saying that there IS no disagreement as to the injuriousness of the use of tobacco to persons who have not attained their full growth. As it is probably true that the decrease in the consumption of cigarettes is due mainly to prevention of indulgence in them by boys, the fact that there is a decrease, and considerable one, Is gratifying.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
Helen Keller Day.

Yesterday was Helen Keller Day at the Worlds Fair Miss Keller holds the distinction of being the only living person in whose honor a special day had been set apart by the fair authori- ties. She was met at St. Louis by her uncle, Dr. Keller, of Hot Springs, Ark, and as coon as she held his left hand she recalled him and recognized him, so keen is her touch and memory. She had not met him in eight years.
 Few persons indeed are more widely known, or highly regarded than Miss Keller. an Alabama girl who grew to womanhood in her native state. She is z Tuscumbia girl, but at present she lives in Wrentham, near Boston.
 Miss Keller's career at college is familiar to all. Aided by Miss Sulli- van. her tutor --I friend, she success fully conquered the tasks of the best woman's college il this country--an annex of Harvard-and she has also conquered her inability to talk, for she -nw delivers public addresses. Her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
Superiority of Knee Brooches.

The long trouser has every fault which it is possible to combine in a single gar ment," says an Englshman now worried over this subject. Tt rubs at the ankle which is not true of the knickerbocker. If you turn up the trouser, then you create horizontal crease which Is just as bad as the rubbing of the edge. A band of leather does not really save the trouser from attrition against the boot
 ''Then, consider the knees. No amount of pressing or stretching will really save a pair of trousers from becoming baggy at this singularly inopportune joint. The man who is true to his trousers must never sit and must never run. Only by standing stil or at most walking slowly can be preserve the contour of his cos tune.
 Here again knickerbockers solve the problem. The chief beauty of knicker- lockers is that they are haggy at the knees. Their virtue is the trousers vice. And there are other advantages.
 On a muddy day a man with long trousers finds that they are covered with dust He cannot send them to the wash, and has to trust entirely to the clothes brush or vacuum cleaner. But in the case of stockings, all he has to do is to put on new pair next morning.
 Tt is therefore no wonder that two pairs of trousers are necessary to last out one coast and vest, whereas two coats and vests are necessary to last out ono pair of knee brooches"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
A WASTED VIGIL.

By Swinburne. Couldst thou not watch with me one
 hour? Behold, Dawn skins the sea with flying feet of With sudden feet that ckim the joyful
 sea, Couldst thou not watch with me? What. not one hour? For star by star
 the night Falls, and her thousands world by world
 take flight: They die and day survives, and what of
 thee? Couldst thou not watch with me? Last year a brief while since, an age
 ago, A whole year passed. with bud and bloom
 and snow. O moon that vast in heaven, what friends
 were wei The old years dead hands are full of
 their dead flowers, The old days are full of old dead loves
 of ours. Born as the rose and briefer born than
 she Cou,dst thou not watch with me? What of the night? The night Is full
 the tide Storms inland. the most ancient rocks
 divide; Yet some endure and bow nor head nor knee couidst thou not watch with msf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
A New Short Cut.

Atlanta is agitated over a proposi. tion that the Southern railroad is said to be considering. The proposition is forced to the front by the wrangle be- tween Atlanta and the railroads and also by the shorter time perhaps that the Seaboard Air Line will probably be able to run its trains in between Washington and Birmingham after January l.
 To meet all possibilities of speed on the Seaboard the Southern is consider ing the building of an airline from Gainesville, Ga, to Rome, Ga, from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
What the sword and the word! do you study them both, master parsonf
 Merry Wives of Windsor.
KnoxvilIe's Progress.

The Knoxville Sentinel sends out Fall Trade and Industrial edition, con sisting of forty-eight handsome pages, all filled with interesting matter attest ing Knoxvilles prosperity and growth.
 Knoxville is the commercial center of East Tennessee. It is near great coal fields. It has, too, a splendid river. In some way it has added to these natural advantages wholesale trade in dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes. All these things are set forth in the Sentinel's trade edition. The jobbing trade footed up in the year just ended $S3,775, 900, as against $23. 060 900 in the previous year. Let this fact alone suffice to show what makes Knoxville progressive and thrifty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19

which town a branch of the Southern now extends to Attalla on the Alabama Great Southern. This would shorten the Southern between Birmingham and eastern points eignty-seyen miles, and a shortening to that extent is no small matter.
 The filling of the gap between Gainesville and Rome would afford a section of Georgia much-needed rail- road facilities, but, best of all, it would give Birmingham an almost straight line to Washington and all other east ern cities. This will certainly be very desirable in the future even if it be l.-erred at present There is no req son why the trade and travel of great states should be twisted out of straight line in order to carry it through Atlanta, and 1t is altogether probable that the Gainesville-Rome gap will before long be filled. Bir. mingham at any rate seconds the mo- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
NATIONAL POLITICS.
cortelyou's Claim.

From the Nashville Banner.
 Chairman Cortelyou of the republican national committee in his first issued fore cast of the electoral vote is not in the least modest in his prognostications. In- deed. about the ony part of the political the solid south. The rest he pitches into his Roosevelt band wagon with an easy assurance that 1t is only necessary to wait until November to lay the whip to the bronco horses to haul 1t away into kingdom come. The only shovelsful that he is disposed to drop by the way as a concession to the democratic need are Colorado and Nevada. MT. Cortelyou counts BIT electoral votes for Roosevelt and allows Parker the 151 votes of the solid south and the eight votes of Colo rado and Nevada combined.
 Whether this big claim of the republi- can committee Is made with the sincerity of confidence or for the purpose of politi- cal boosting, 1t is thrasonical brag that has the ring of bombast in it. It Is claim ing more for Roosevelt this year than was ever accorded to a presidential candi- date. The highest electoral votes ever given in the college for candidates within the last seventy-five years were as fol- lows; Tn 1S4O Harrison, 294; In 1852, Pierce 254 in 1864, Lincoln PIG; In 1872, Grant 292; in 1888, Harrison 233; in 1892, Cleveland 277 in 1896, Mckinley 271; in 1900, Mckinley, 9o2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
People Gathering Hickory Nuts.

While on Red mountain the other day." said a wanderer, T saw at least two dozen persons In the woods gathering hickory nuts. It seems that these nuts grow in abundance on the side of the mountain, and I can frequently see chill dren running about In the woods while 1 am walking out that way I am told that there are some very fine hickory nuts on the mountain. there being several va rieties. The large nuts are there in abundance, and I am informed that there are hundreds of 'scaly bark trees full of nuts. As you know the a,aly bark has al- most as thin a hull as does the pecan There are very fine chestnuts on the mountain"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
COST OF RUNNING A YACHT.
MT. Astor's Monthly Bill for Nourma-
 hal Probably Foots Up $25,o0o.

From the Saturday Evening Post.
 The cost of running steam yacht nec- essarily varies with its size. says Rene Bache. A sixty-footer may be kept in commission for $500 month, not count ing food supplies. For a 150-footer the monthly expense would be $3,000 perhaps. But when 1t comes to a pleasure craft like Pierpont Morgan's Corsar, 304 feet on the water line, or John Jacob Astor Nourmahal, which Is even bigger, the outlay is enormously greater. It cost about $200OO a month to run the Corsair, and 1t is probable that MT. Astors bills for the Nourmahal in the summer time amount to not less than $25,OO0 every thirty days The pay roll of the officers and crew of such a vessel, which IS a good sized steamship. will touch $4,5OO or possibly 5000 a month.
 A first-class steam yacht carries crew of fifty or more men. The Aphrodite, owned by Col. Oliver H. Payne, re- quires sixty-two. There must be three cooks, a steward. two assistant stewards and six or seven men who serve as "chambermaids" and walters. The Nour- mahal also has couple of stewardesses, for the convlenence of lady guests on board. Thirty sailors draw pay at the rate of s30 per month; the captain gets $20O a month-Howard Gould pays his captain $5000 a year-and two mates are employed at s75 and $50, respectively. The chief engineer draws sl25, the assistant engineer S100 and an oiler $50 a month. To these must be added four firemen at $40 a month and four strokers at the same wages. Of course the chief cook is likely to be a French chef, at s4O0 or $500 a month.
 Such a boat consumes twenty tons of coal day, and at that rate, If she is kept going five months in the year, she will burn up something like 5000 tons, the item of fuel alone coming to s10,000 for the season. For the rest of the year she is laid up in a basin. at an ex- pense of S200 a month, and the cleaning and painting she has to undergo cost pretty penny It takes two weeks and an expenditure of S1,000 to lay her up, and a couple of months and $5,000 to put her into commission again.
 From these figures 1t is easy to under stand where the money goes for steam yacht, though it should be realized that bills for food supplies (not reckoned in the above accourfD are simply huge. es- pecially when much entertaining is done. Anybody would be interested to know what is costs Cornelius Vanderbilt on his recent trip abroad. to entertain En- perior William on board his yacht, and to meet an appropriately sumptuous scale certain other social obligations which were imposed upon him by his in- timacy with the great ones of the earth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
About Persons.

William Halls. Jr., of New York, vice president of the Hanover National banR and vice president of the Birmingham Realty company, who was the guest of A l.. Fulenwider for several days left for the east yesterday evening.
 
 MT. and Mrs. Sol Haas who spent a part of the summer and early fall in Novia Scotia have returned to Birming- ham. MT Haas has recovered his health and his friends are congratulating him on looking hale and well.
 c. c. Hudson of Williamson. N. Y, is at the St. Nicholas.
 J. D. Langford of Meridian is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 G. Whitfield of Demopolis is at the Morris.
 J. A. Fuller of Selma Is at the Morris. J. c. Talley of Knoxville is at the Nor. ris.
 A. J. Miller of Richmond is at the Nor ris.
 w. P. Hunt of Greensboro is at the Metropolitan.
 Eugene Smith, a well known business man of Sylacauga, is at the Metropolitan S. E. Delk of Norfolk is at the Colonial  H Kahn of Cincinnati is at the Colonial J. L. Ray of wilsonville is at the Met polltan.
 J. H. Purnell of Opelika is at the Hill man.
 S. D. Siler of Atlanta Is at the Hillman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
From the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Globe.
 IF THERE Is little poetry in shoe
 there Is a striking field of romance in ' the shoemaker considered as a craftsman, which the world Is sometimes apt to forget. We have all heard of St. Crispin, the patron saint of the shoe makers. In fact, there were two heroes in the third century known as St. Crispln. They spent their childhood in the streets of Rome. They became Christians and went to France, where they were perse- cuted to death, and hence up to this day, the 25th of October, is still celebrated as the festival of St. Crispin.
 That a shoe manufacturer Is to be our democratic candidate for governor this year in Massachusetts Is quite in order. It may not be known to many that no less than seven shoemakers have had the honor to sit in congress at various times, These were Roger Sherman, Henry Will son, Daniel Sheffrey. Gideon Lee, William Clafiin. John B. Alley and H. P. Bald- win. Of the literary calling J. G. Whittier, the Quaker poet, was skilled in the trade and paid part of his schooling by mak- ing slippers. He loved the craft and wrote one of his finest poems in commendation of the "Shoemakers."
 Henry Wilson of Natick Mass, is an- other 9 cobbler who became famous throughout the United States He learned shoemaking in all its intrlcacies and was an expert. He became a Sstate senator and later United States senator and vice president.
 We must not forget that another Amerl- can cobbler of note was Noah Worcester, the apostle of peace" The son of a farmer, he learned the cobbler's trade. He fought in the revolutionary war at Bunker Hill. By hard labor and untring hard ships he received the degree of M A. from Dartsmouth and that of D.D. from Harvard, and was the founder of the Massachusetts peace society.
 Who has not heard of Hans Sachs the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
Colonel Shook.

Col A. M. Sho ok of Nashville. after spending two days in Birmingham, re- turned home yesterday. He shook hands with hundreds of his old Birmingham friends, and as he was leaving remarked that he had enjoyed every minute of his time here. Colonel Shook was one of the f1nanciers of Birmingham, and as vice president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company aided greatly in developino the resources of this dis trict.
 T shall never lose my interest in this city" he said, and yesterday I read every line In the local papers, even the advertisements, big and little.'
 Speaking of Nashville, Colonel Shook said that it was progressing steadily. 'The agricultural interests of the section tributary to Nashville is wonderfully rich, and this has been year of abund- ant harvests and big prices," said Colonel Shook. within a radius of forty miles we have population of over 100000 and this fact naturally accounts in large measure for Nashviles thrift
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-19
OLD TIME MINISTRIES ARE
 RAPIDLY PASSING AWAY

given and met the man l had hired. He was looking at large bill and turned on me suddenly, hot in the collar.
 See here, MT. Barlow he said. T thought I was going to have the star part. l haven't seen no bills with the star part on
 T pointed to his twe1ve-inch name on the three-sheet and asked him what more he could expect.
 Do you mean to say that's my name?' he asked. told him it was. Oh, all right, then. said he I'll go on
 "There was another peculiarity about the minstrel business in my time,' con- tinued Barlow that caused no end of fuss You wouldn't think that you would have to tell men earning from $40 to $50 week when to put on clean linen, to black their shoes CT to keep themselves look ing neat and respectable. And yet this had to be done in the leading companies. The men had to be watched like children. In some companies we had roll call at a certain hour and all who did not report were fined That was the only way we could be sure that If we advertised twen- " III lIle llTSl part lWCill3 HSuio ~ And 1t would surprise you to know how many salaries have actually been paid out of the money collected for fines"
 It is perhaps not generally remembered that Barlow was originally a printer and perhaps from that grimy trade inherited his love for the black art. He was born in Lexington, Ky, in 1s4s, and when F years of age became a printers devil in the office of The Cynthiana News. Two years later failing health forced him to quit the trade and he went to work on a Missouri farm. When he was 1T he re- turned to Louisville, and at the outbreak of the war enlisted in the Confederate service where he worked as printer un- til 1867, and then made his debut as a minstrel with the n-Emersonian company in ClLmbus. His subsequent his- tory has been told in the news stories of his death, but 1t may be worth men tioning that 1t was in 1877 that he made the popular song "Old Black Joe" though authorities differ upon the question as to whether he was really the first man to sing it.