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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
The Sluggish Mississippi.


 The Mississippi river has an irresis'a- pie attraction for person of imaeiha'i'9 inind but perhaps it's most impressiFe characteristic Is the majesty with Wnien us turbid, yellow tide sweeps along pe- tween the shores, impressive by ils Sur Ten murmur and inspiring awe py ils immense volume" said traveller like to stand on the shores of the Mississ- lppi' 1t matters not where-on the busy leyee at New Orleans along the ex- tensive Mississippi plantations. at Mem pnls or at St Louis-and study It's vary ing moods The river is sublime no mat7- ter when or where you view 1t and one has only to catch a glimpse of the yell low flood, yelled by rain or glistening In the sunshine, to fall beneath it's spell.
 If you are alone and can give free reign to your thoughts without the dis traction of friendly conversation or the bustle of commerce you will be most im- pressed by the way in which the great river flows along. It's size will call for your admiration, It's power will oyer-awe you and perchance the sight of steam boat ploughing up the stream will please your eye, but after these impressions have passed away you will turn again to watching the current. At times the river moves so smoothly and peacefully that you are almost lulled to sleep by the gentle purring of the water. that constant eddying and washing sound that Is distinctive of the Mississippi. Then again the water will swirl angrily around hidden snag, or rushing with impet- uosity agaist the yielding bluffs it will cat into the earth and tons of dirt will rumble down only to be absorbed and swept away Perhaps for a moment the water will assume a chocolate color but the influx of yellow tide from above will soon dissipate very trace of what was once an acre of cotton field. Some times there are trees growing along the shore that are engulfed. These fall with a crash into the flood, spin about for a moment and then drift slowly down witt the current, their half drowned boughs rising at intervals from the water as If calling for help.
 This constant sloughing away fills the Mississippi with debris that adds greatly to the interest of the stream. Watching the rotten logs, the aprooted trees ant the driftwood as 1t mournfully passes 1T review one Is reminded that life itself is somewhat like this and that these aim less outcasts. these trees, these decayet logs and limbs of the forest are drifting as surely and as inevitably to the sef as humanity drifts along at the bidding of providence and destiny, call it wha you will.
 "Then when the sun Is setting and th' river is painted ruddy gold, when na ture prepares for slumber and the sounds of evening are on the air the whilrpooli the eddying currents and the driftwoot are sombre in the twilight Then tho immenslty or the great river overwnelmi you and you wonder at the gradeur O. natures great handiwork."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
Due Other Banks.

Due Other Banks" is line in all national bank reports, especially those of New York city. One half of the de- posits of national banks of that city consist of sums due other banks. This means that at least per cent interest is paid on one-half of their deposits. Interest is not paid as a rule on in- dividual deposits, but it Is always ex- pected on deposits belonging to other banks or trust companies.
 It is said that this rule is what is leading so rapidly to the concentration of money in New York city. As things are going a handful of banks in the metropolis will soon hold a good part of the banking wealth of the coun. try. The rapidity of the change is H. lustrated in table relative to the five larger banks of New York, showing the amounts due other banks, as fol- lows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
IN MEMORIAM.

Mrs. Jamie Smith Barrett, the beloved wife of MT. E. w. Barrett, editor of The Age Herald, needed not to die to be an angel she was one here on earth.-Edito- rial in the Birmingham News.
 wonder if the sun hid it's face at Danville, as 1t did in Birmingham, when the spirit of that angel took it's flight Heavenward.
 I wonder if the hills and. valleys and the cancellations, which are but proto- types of the Divine idea, were shrouded by the cloud-veils in Virginia, as they were in Alabama, when she was called to the higher sphere.
 wonder if balm can be found for the wounded soul and the cheerless gloom be overcome and chased away by the beams of supernatural revelation.
 I wonder if sorrow, the night of the soul, Is not lighted by the sympathetic tear-drops of friends, who are themselves sons and daughters of immortality.
 wonder if the sweet-scented rose, the violet and the daffodil that cover the lit- tie mound will not. in their tender fra grance and beauty temper the storm, and speaking to the bereaved, say to him: Look up and live'
 l wonder if she cannot speak to him, and tell him of the glory of that home celestial and eternal where she awaits his coming. FRANK V. EVANS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05

It will be seen that there is a wide difference between the possible num- Der of voters and the vote cast. The number of men in New York city must be fully S00,00O this year, and vet only 6SS,000 are registered.
 The registration lists this year are very full, but in all years registration lists fall sadly behind the real number of men of voting age. In New York city alone more than one hundred thousand men will not vote, and yet no poll tax receipt or other condition Is required in that city A vast num- Der of men do not vote.
 The full poll of the country next Tuesday may reach fifteen millions, and yet four years ago there were 21 1,329,S19 men of voting age in the country. The ratio of population to males of voting age is 3.6, and if we have eighty millions of people today, as many are ready to assert, we have 22,250,000 voters, or men of voting age in the country. It is generally be. lieved that we will do well to get if teen millions to go to the polls, leav- ing over seven millions who will not go. In other words, two men out of every three vote, and one does not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
NATIONAL POLITICS.
The Nub of ImnerIallan,.

Prem the New York World
 Judge Parker Is making up for lost time. He is concentrating months of campaigning Into a week. Before two great audiences at Carnegie hall and Cooper union last night he deepened the impression produced by his first sledge- hammer speech at Madison Square gar den
 The presence at Cooper union of gath ering of German-Americans who had left an empire ruled by a strenuous war lord to make homes in a sober republic gave MT. Parker an opportunity to contrast the spirit and effects of imperialism with those of the democratic government which until now has been the heritage of our people.
 One of the questions raised by the World in its first open letter, over three months ago, was What will the F1li- pinos do to us?" That, and not the ques- ton of our treatment of the F1lipinos Is what most intimately concerns the American voter. Judge Parker sees that this is the heart of the whole issue When" he observes i've contemplate the moral effect of the policy of conquest and subjugation as t has been carried on and is now defended by the republican party, we cannot but feel serious anx- iety as to the permanency of democratic institutions among us."
 In other words, Philippine conquest is not a Filipino question; 1t is an American question. We cannot deride the declara- ton of independence abroad and honor it at home. Indeed, as Judge Parker says, the declaration is already "scoffed at by many of the leaders of the republican party as a 'glittering generality that has no practical meaning and application; as baby talk, fit for the infancy of this na- ton, but ridiculous in it's present state of 1 power"
 MT. Taft and others have amused them selves by distorting and ridiculing MT. Parker's statements about matters of fact in the Philippines-denying that 200- 900 soldiers have been killed, as eff dead l F1lipnos did not count, and shaving down estimate of the cost of our adventure But if these arguments were as sound as they are strained and misleading, how could they effect the supreme question: What will the Filipinos do to us?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
Not a Cheap Campaign.
Baltimore Herald.

From the Baltimore Herald.
 The statement sent out by the republi- can managers that only about $2,000, 900 will be expended for campaign purposes seems so absurd as to be ridiculous. Presidential campaigns are, 1t is well known very expensive for both parties In some campaigns within twenty years the figures have been put as high as $25. 100000 Those who are engaged In the practical work of politics know that the general public Is unaware how much money is necessary for the legitimate purposes of a campaign. to say nothing of other expenses. This has not been a cheap campaigns for the republicans.
 MT. Roosevelt has not been a popular candidate with many of his party, and it is costing money to keep the backs of the lukewarm stlffened up sufficiently tc pre- vent them from absenting themselves on November 8. Mir. Cortelyou's plan of call captains office would have no meaning if only s2O0O,OO0 were needed Some years ago. when a trust magnate was on the witness stand he testified that his con- cern contributed $5OO,0O0 to the campaign fund in a presidential year, and was glad to get off with that amount. Many of the trusts would be Awilling to pay $2,000000 each if the members could be assured that congress and the courts would let them alone. The sum of $2,O0O,- 900 is but drop in the bucket in the ex- penses this year of the republicans. The people cannot be deceived by such a silly declaration of cheapness as this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
HABITS OF TIBETANs.
The People Delight In Snowy and
 Massive Jewelry.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 A traveller from Tibet reports that the native dress consists of essentially of a very wide gown five and a half feet long, with long sleeves, frightened in at the waist and gathered up so as not to fall below the ankles of the men of quality, or the townsmen, nor below the knees of the common people, who have much walking and work to do. Thus gathered up, the gown puffs out at the breast. forming a huge pocket. At night the wearer lets it fall and is thus wrapped up from his ears to his feet, as in a bed Tibetan women wear the same gown-it is called chuba"-letting it hang down to the ankle. Their dress varies accord ing to the locality to which they belong.
 Tibetans. like all peoples of low civil ization, delight in showy and massive jewels. A man is only poorly adorned with heavy silver earring, coral-mounted. The women wear regular jewellers shops on their heads. Among the nomads their hair, arranged in innumerable small tresses that involve more than a whole days work, is decorated with three great bands of woolen stuff or red silk strewn with rubies, shells, artificial pearls, corals turquoises. amber heads, red agate, gold, silver or copper reliquaries
 Tibet Is not a country where cleanli- ness and godliness go hand in hand Neither the men nor the women take any care of their persons. They wear their clothes very long without changing, brushing or shaking them, keep them on even at night, use them as clusters and towels and take them off only when they drop off of themselves. They never wash their )dics and only in quite exception al cases wash their faces and hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05

the missing nine millions of dollars have been sent to the cotton belt to pay the negroes who pick cotton. When" adds MT Keep, "the cotton bolls begin to make the fields white, the banks of the south begin to ask for silver, and the treasuries and sub treasuries to supply it.
 The reasons given why the cotton pickers prefer silver are altogether faneiful. They prefer it because 1t weighs more, is brighter, more endur- ing and more satisfactory in their pockets. It is handler for their uses, and the cotton picker ever will prefer silver to rag money.
 The truth is, everybody prefers for pocket change silver to paper money, which easily becomes soiled, if not ragged, concealing germs of various sorts. In an investigation held not long ago in New York it was estab- lished that silver money carried a minimum Of germs, while paper money almost invariably was well stocked with them. But aside from germs siL yer money is popular throughout the south, and ever will be, so far as small payments are concerned. Silver is much more freely used in sums below five dollars than 1t is in the north, where one dollar bills are in common and general circulation. Much of the silver earned by cotton pickers will be retained in the south, and not a few will hoard it, using as place of de- posit the traditional stocking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05

W densed history or tough olo citizen:
 The king of drunkards has just died at Saint Ouen, in his sixty-first year. He was elected to that proud position few months ago at a conclave of fellow-tip- plers A ragpicker by trade, he made snug little income, s9 per cent of which he spent on drink He despised luxuries. and looked upon a glass and well-hlled bottle as the only necessities of life. At a pinch he could easily do without the glass He lived in hut in which fittings and furniture were reduced to mini- mum, the latter consisting of a straw mattress and a three-legged chair. All expenditure on anything but drink was in his opinion, wanton extravaganza. He gloried in his capacity for tippling and boasted that he could not remember hav- ing once gone to bed sober since he was grown up His lowest daily average consumption of spirits was fifty glasses, and he ate very little food to that mon strous deal of strong drinks. He appar- ently thrived on this diet, and hardly ever knew what Illness was enjoying good health to the last, and expiring In drunken sleep. Going to bed intoxicated last night, as he had done regularly every evening for over forty years, he was found dead this morning, having sue cumbed to congestion brought on as 'ne doctor determined without difilcuity' py alcholic excesses. On the. occasion ol HIS sixtieth birthday the old toper was enter tafned at dinner by a party or 1elloW- ragpickers with congenial tastes Alter a nrodisious quantity of drink had been mt away the assembly voted Itself into a ,.enresentative congress of all the hoozars of France. and elected him their king
 Readers with long memories will recall somewhat similar cases developed by in- vestieation in England and Scotland-and bv the way established on unquestionable testimony. Strange as it may seem in these days of scientific progress, with new and more deadly germs, microbes. baccilli. etc, revealed to us at every turn the authenticated association of longevity with hard drinking is set on firmer grounds as the light spreads and testimony multiplies. Quite recently it was shown that hundreds of hale and hearty old gentlemen in the United King dom had gone to bed drunk every night for half a century and still retained an amazing capacity fo usefulness by day and wassail later on. Grizzled but stall wart witnesses unblushingly declared that they had used whisky and tobacco con- stantly ever since they were tall enough to look over a bar and had enjoyed the very best of health up to the moment of their respective dispositions. The effort to prove that drink undermined the con stitution and entailed whole catalogues of physical ills went down in miserable failure.
 But this story from saint-Ouen breaks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
Profitable Investments.

"There are many inviting fields for capital in Alabama" said a conservative capitalist, but l know of no better in- vestment for idle capital than the timber lands or coal lands in this section.
 "A few years ago I had s2O,oo1 available and put 1t in timber tract. I could get something like s40,000 for this property to- day. will not sell it. but after I am dead my children will be able to realize a snug fortune from It's sale.
 "As every one knows, timber land Is becoming scarcer every year. It Is diff ficult now to body up large timber acre age. Every acre we'll timbered will double in value within the next ten years 1 am not so familiar with coal property as am with timber, but all good coal land is going to be much higher a few years hence than it is today"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
Admired and Beloved.

From the Danville Register of Nov. 3.
 The death of Mrs. Jamie Sutherlin Bar rett. wife of Mir. E. w. Barrett, editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald, which oc- cured at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. W. T. Sutherlin, in this city at 9:10 clock last night, will carry sorrow and affliction to the hearts of her many friends throughout the south. where she was perhaps as widely known and gem orally beloved and admired as any young woman born and reared South of Mason and Dixons line.
 The young mother and gentle wife was confined to her bed but a little more than a week, and though all that the highest medical skill of this city and New York could render was done and the constant attendance and tender care of devoted grandmother and equally de- voted husband, and the solicitude of countless friends, were bestowed yet the fatal messenger could not be stayed.
 Mrs. Barrett. who was Miss Jamie Sutherlin Smith, the beautiful and only grandchild of the late Major w. T. Suth- erlin, was born in this city October 21, 1872. Her mother died while the bright and attractive daughter was but child. Her father, Colonel Frank L. Smith, Is a prominent lawyer and citizen of Alexan- dria, Va.
 Mrs. Barrett was married to MT. Ed ward W. Barrett, then the Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Constltu- tion, December IS, 1895.
 Deceased Is survived by her husband, grandmother, Mrs w. T. Sutherlin, and infant daughter, Jamie Sutherlin Barrett, who Is only six days old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
Senator Pettus.

Senator E. w. Pettus, Alabama's junior senator came in last night from speak ing tour of Bibb. St. Clair and other counties. For the past two weeks the senator has been engaged in active cam paigning, making three and four speeches a day He arrived from St. Clair at mid night, stopping at the Metropolitan. He will leave this morning at o'clock for the northern part of the state to resume his campaign.
 Senator Pettus is in excellent health and spirits and said last night that his health was as good as it had ever been.
 At every point we have been greeted by large and attentive crowds" said the senator. At Centerville we held mon ster meeting, 1t looking as If the whole county had turned out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
PROSPERITY IN ALABAMA.
rickshurg Herald.

From the Vicksburg Herald.
 Says the Birmingham Age-Herald: The taxable property of this state has risen from $3OS, 62500O in 1903 to S323.165 BIO in 1904" This increase marks a very credit able and gratifying height of the prosper ity wave in Alabama. Though 1t falls short of the personality increase alone, in Mississippi by some three millions. The lest feature of the showing in Mississir pi is the spread of the increase all over the state. There is not a county in the state. by the way, with as great a total as ten millions of assessed valuations. Alabama is more fortunate in respect of having greater centers of values-three counties aggregating one hundred millions, or near a third of the whole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
NovEMB BIER.
el Longfellow.

By Samuel Longfellow. The dead leaves their rich mosaics Of olive and gold and brown Had laid or the rain-wet pavements Through all the embowered town. They were washed by the Autumn tenn
 pest.
 They were trod by hurrying feet, And the maids came out with tnelr
 besoms
 And swept them into the street, To be crushed and lost forever Meath the wheels, in the black mire
 lost The Summers precious darlings, She nurtured at such cost. o words that have fallen from mol golden thoughts and true! Must I see in the leaves symbol Of the fate which awaiteth youf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
Tender Sympathy.
from the Atlanta News.

From the Atlanta News.
 The announcement of the death of Mrs F. W. Barrett, wife of the editor of The Birmingham Age-Herald, carries sadness to the hearts of hundreds of the friends who knew and loved her in life and mourn with her stricken husband In the hour of his bereavement. Mrs. Barrett was strikingly beautiful woman, pos sessing gracious charm of manner which won friends wherever she went. The press of the entire state of Georgia, with which MT. Barrett was for so many years identified goes out to him in the tenderest sympathy in this distressing hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
Voters Actual and Possible.

New York city holds more voters than went to the polls in the entire country in 1882 and elected Andrew Jackson president. The registration this year in New York city is 6SS,775, and it probably holds over 100000 more men who are not registered We give below the number of possible voters accorolng to the census returns of 1900 and the vote cast in 1S96,' as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
Republican Charges.

From the Washington Post.
 Republicans are answering the demo- cratic charge of partnership with the tusts with counter charges that some of the most objectionable of the trusts are particularly anxious that Judge Parker should be elected. Senator Knox assumes responsibility for the charge that Stand ard oil has contributed largely to the democratic campaign fund, and is using all It's vast influence to bring about the election of Parker. It is declared that this influence is being exerted particularly in Indiana, where money is said to have been furnished not only to the state but to county democratic committees.
 Governor Odell, by insinuation, accuses Judge Parker of having profited flnan- cially through the organization of at least one trust. He refused to specify. but declared that the examination of the democratic candidates bank account would show a profit or else a loss, through his connection with trust promo tiOn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
Silver in the South.

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Keep says the cotton picking season is distinctly felt in the sub-treasuries of the country. On July 1 the sub treasuries held standard silver dol lars to the amount of $1S,5O3 800; they hold at present but little over nine million of such dollars. MT. Keep says
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The way to keep friend is to be care full not to get friendly with him.
 A woman can pick up a good many years without suspecting other people suspect 1t.
 Womens clothes would be awful queer of women weren't so awful queer them selves
 woman hales to have her husband waste his health on cigarettes and his money on cigars.
 It makes a girl indignant at stranger who stares ct her, anu wonder at him If he doesn't.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
Soil Survey Beinq Made.

Florence, November 4-(Special)- IA soil survey of Lauderdale county is under progress which is being watched with great interest by the farmers, because it will be of much benefit to them. The survey is being conducted by F. A. Bon steel and E. P. Carr, who are acting as agents of the United States government. to ascertain the possibilities of the soil and what crops are best adapted to it. It will take more than a month to complete the survey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-05
KING OF DRUNKARDS HAS
 PASSED AWAY IN TRANCE

Fifty drinks a day, with perfect health 730,000 balls in forty years, and then die with his boots on. peacefully-who would have thought to see decadent France wrest from boastful Albion this proud distinction?