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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
Tannhauser Would Draw.

while the repertoire of the Savage
Opera company includes a number of
favorites, old and new, hope Tannhauser
will be the work selected for present&-
ton in Birmingham" said Henry Taylor
Stats. The management would make
no mistake from a box office point Of
view in giving Tannhauser here. Every
one who loves music is familiar with the
Tannhauser overture and those who have
not heard the opera. even those who are
ed with 1t. While it is one of Wagner's
master works it IS not ultra Wagnerian
and is not over the head of the average
theatre-goer. 1t is full of tuneful gems
and the orehestration is wonderfully
rich"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

the courts in a case started by the
Continental Trust company of Balti-
more. If the law becomes established
it will probably yield fully 100000 a
year, and the tendency will be up
ward.
The balance in the treasury at the
beginning of the present fiscal year
was $1,191,624. as against a balance
one year before of s994,O56 A gain of
nearly two hundred thousand dollars
puts the affairs of the state in easy
and pleasant condition.
This gain may be said to have been
due to the superior handling of the
convicts under the tonnage plan de-
vised by Governor Jelks and the con
Wet board and to the tax on mort
cages. Both of these sources OF
money will continue to fill the public
purse, and altogether we may reason
ably expect to see the state in fine
financial condition when the 1egisla-
ture meets In 1907.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
MEN RUINED BY MINES.

From the New York World.
In several mining counties Of Penn
sylvania the local authorities are at
tempting to secure legislation that will
fasten the expense of .paupers and
criminals upon the coal companies
which brought them to the neighborhood.
In both the anthracite and the soft-coal
regins there are many assaults, robberies
and murders. for which the county treas
uries have to pay. The majority of the in
mates of the county hospitals, poorhouses
and jails are injured or discharged men
from the mines.
The legislation proposed is to require
the corporation which brings the man to
the county to give surety for him in some
what like manner to the bonds required
from foreign steamship companies. The
argument is made that both the safety OF
the miners and the general public, inter-
est demand that reasonable care should
be exercised in selecting the employees
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
From London Tit-Rits.

run AOHuOn 1ll-bllS.
IT HE publication of George Gissing' s
Wy "Varanilda" gives us a master
piece that its author did not live
to finish. That well-nown critic, Mr.. Fred
eric Harrison, considers this tale of the
Roman and the Goth the deceased writ
er's finest work. and though many may
question this judgment, there can exist
but universal regret that the romance
must forever remain incomplete.
A greater work by a greater writer.
Weir of Hermiston,' by r. L. Stevenson,
was left a mere fragment, Of whl0.l the
lurid grandeur proved that Its creator was
taken from us in the zenith of his power
Another romance, st Ives" by the same
pen, was running in monthly magazine
at the time of his premature death. Here.
satisfactory denouement, for the story
was brought to a conclusion by Mr.. Quill
ler-Couch, we'll known under the nom de
plume of o.
4 ndIuly kuOW WHAT 10 say " lHc pun
lie about this abortive romance, though l
pretty well know what the case will be.
l shall never finish it." wrote Nathaniel
Hawthorne, with reference to THE Dol
liver Romance" which he had undertaken
to write for the Atlantic Monthly. rms
foreboding was but too soon verified, ior
the author had scarce time to do more
than lay the groundwork of story ana
write the initial chapters ere death STRUCK
him down.
AT his funeral at Concord the scarce
commenced manuscript lay upon his col
fin. Soon afterward the first chapter APP
reared in the Atlantic, and subsequently
the second chapter, which he had been
unable to revise, was published In the
same periodical. Several years elapsed
when a third fragment, revised and copied
by the novelists wife, was placed in the
publishers hands. The original manu-
script is now preserved in the Concord
public library.
wives and Daughters was running in
the Cornhill when the authoress. Mrs.
Gaskell died. Fortunately the work was
nearing its completion, so that, although
1t was not actually finished by the gifted
writer. the plot was sufficiently ad-
vanced to enable us to make more than a
shrewd guess at the ultimate fate of the
characters, and to take leave of the hero
fully assured of his ultimate happiness
Another serial that was being written
for the same magazine when its author
laid down pen forever was Denis Du-
VAL" Thackeray, indeed, WAS already in
his grace when its publication COM
menced. Three parts and a portion of a
fourth were all that appeared. and the
story wrote the editor. breaks off as his
life ended-full of vigor and blooming with
new promise like the apple trees in this
month of May" With the fourth part
was given a set of notes, taken from
Thackeray's own papers. elucidatory OF
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
HYMN TO THE CITY.

By William Cullen Bryant.
Not in the solitude
Alone may man commune with heaven,
or see
Only a savage wood
And sunny vale, the present Deity;
Or only hear His voice,
Where the winds whisper and the waves
rejoice.
Even here do 1 behold
Thy steps, Almightyi-here, midst the
crowd,
Through the great city rolled,
With everlasting murmur deep and
loud
Choking the ways that wind
Mongst the proud piles, the work Of
human kind.
Thy golden sunshine comes
From the round heaven, and on their
dwellings lies,
And lights their inner homes;
For them Thou filrst with afr the I'M
bounded skies,
And givest them the stores
OF ocean, and the harvest of It's shores.
Thy Spirit is around.
Quickening the restless mass that
sweeps along;
And this eternal sound
voices ana looidhs u 'iie
throng-
Like the resounding sea,
Or like the rainy tempest speaks OF
Thee.
And when the hours of rest
Come. like a calm upon the md-sea
brine.
flushing its binowy breast
The quiet of that moment, too, Is Thine;
IT breathes of him who keeps
The vast and helpless city while 1t
sleens.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
Fixing Railroad Rates.

"In my judgment" says President
Roosevelt in his recent annual mes
sage, the most important legislative
act now needed as regards the regu-
lation of corporations is this act to
confer on the interstate commerce
commission the power to revise rates
and regulations, the revised rate to so
at once into effect, and to stay in eff
feet unless and until the court of re-
view reverses it,"
It is claimed that this stand of the
president was taken at the dictation
of the governors of Iowa, Minnesota
and Wisconsin, and that 1t indicates
the direct tendencies of controlling in
fuences in the republican party. AS
such it has, so it is claimed, created n
furry in Wall street, and will unsettle
the value of all stocks and bonds.
All this is chemerical. In the first
place neither the present nor the next
congress was elected to fight the rail-
roads. On the contrary they are full
of men who will serve the railroads,
and no such legislation as Mr.. Roose-
welt proposes has any chance of be-
coming law. There is deep discomfort
over railroad rates in the middle west,
and perhaps it would be fair to add,
in some other sections of the country,
but before legislation can be secured
antagonistic to the railroads a con
gress must be elected on that issue.
No adverse legislation need be appre-
hended before the meeting of the six
tieth congress in December, 1907 a
date far distant.
Nor is the slump in Wall street due
to presidential suggestions. The
prices of stocks had been carried up
to the sky, attracting to Wall street
many small spectators who were car
rying stocks on small margins. The
export of gold and the known fact
that stocks were too high gave the
bears a coveted opportunity, and they
took advantage of it. The interstate
commerce proposition had no more to
do with it than the Man in the Moon.
A long and hard fight will take
place before the government is given
power to fix railroad rates. At pres
ent the interstate commission can de,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
Good Roads and COnvlCts.

Purely and wholly as matter Of
business the labor of the county con
victs should go to the county. The
coal companies would not desire theii
labor If there were not money in It
The convicts earn good money for the
contractors over and above any price
the latter may pay, and Mr. Craft OF
Mobile, who has given great deal OF
time to the subject, showed in the
course of a talk with an Age-Herald
representative that the county OF
Richmond, in which Is located Au-
gusta, Ca, shrewdly takes advantage
of that fact. 1t thus procures labor
for the improvement of its roads at a
total cost of "a cents day, instead OF
going into the market and hiring men
ut from four to eight times that figure.
Jefferson county needs the labor OF
convicts more than Richmond county.
Georgia, for we have twice the popu-
lation and thrice the extent of terri
tory.
Mr. Craft shows that farmers
products are taxed "a per cent when
they are carted over poor roads
whereas over good roads the ta3
would be but Z per cent. A difference
like that goes to the heart of things
cutting down values and injurin
every interest.
The Age-Herald renews its e,
preston of confidence in the clea
business sense of the board of rev
enue. 1t puts for the moment human
ity out of view, and asks that thu
county convicts be put at work on thu
county roads purely and wholly as |
piece of BUSINESS and practical man
ngement. a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
Condition OF the Treasury.

The sixty-seven counties of the
state paid in during the last fiscal
year $2,42s,417, of which amount s429,.
221 was drawn from Jefferson county.
In other words, Jefferson now pays
over one-sixth of the state taxes. 1t is
edging up to one-fifth. AS nearly four
hundred thousand dollars was col.
lected in this county through the con.
vict department, it is probable that
a close analysis would show that one
fifth of the states money is drawn
from this county. Jefferson certainly
has no ambition to pay larger share.
The tax upon the recording of
mortgages produced in the last fiscal
year, but $59.321. The law had, how
ever, been in operation up to Septem-
Der 30 but about six months. It's con.
stitutianaJjtx Il now being tested in
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clare rates unreasonable and unjust,
but 1t has no power to name reason
able and just rates and put them IN
operation. 1t is in fact an academic
body drawing fat salaries. 1t Is
striving, however, to secure more
power, and the president has given it
lift. Nothing, however, will come
from 1t until the question is brought
squarely before the people for final
settlement.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
QUALITY OF EGGS.

Many people imagine that brown
shelled egg is better than one with a
white shell. This is purely imagination.
and the only way to test the richness of
an egg is to break 1t and look at the
yolk The deep orange yolks are the best
and the pale yellow ones the poorest
City hens or those which are badly fed
and whose runs and roosts are poorly
ventilated and badly cleaned lay the pale
yellow egg. Those which live in the coun-
try lay the rich orange ones, as do all
wild birds. Anaemic eggs contain less
iron than rich ones, and are far less nu-
tritious; but there is only one way to test
an eggs quality, and that is to break it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
Not Room Enough for Cotton.

This is the most cotton l have ever
seen in Birmingham at once time" said
]. H. Williams, farmer who lives about
eighteen miles out. At the time he was
talking he was at the warehouse on Sec
ond avenue looking at the hundred of
bales piled up In the street. You see,"
he continued, "bales Of cotton are piled
up in the warehouse and in Second ave-
nue. from Twenty-fourth street to Buzz
zard Root and in Twenty-fifth street from
First to Third avenue. 1 don't exactly
know how many bales there are but there
must be at least 5000. / have been coming
to Birmingham with cotton for many
years but l have never seen the like Of
this in my life. understand it is the same
way at the warehouse on the Southside.
We are a little bit disappointed at the
falling off in price but we are still get
ting enough to make a good profit I am
going to hold some of my cotton as 1 look
for an increase in price"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
1t makes a woman's feet get very cold
to see her neighbours new fur for the neck.
A cheap way to get popularity with her
is to refuse TO eat anybody's biscuits but
your wife's.
About the time a man struggles to his
feet from the summer vacation expenses
Christmas heaves in sight
If man doesn't like to be kept awake
all night by the baby his wife is just as
likely as not TO suspect that he is leading
a double life.
When a man in his pajamas bumps his
shin on a rocking chair it is surprising
what a weak washy thing his vocabulary
seems to him. i
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
Classic DESIGN.

''The facade of the Birmingham Realty
companys new building on First avenue
is a beautiful specimen of the classic
in architecture and shows how, at
comparatively small cost, mercantile
structures can be made ornamental as
well as strong" said man of taste.
THE difference in cost between a plain,
straight up and down front and an ar
tistic design, such as the Realty company
adopted, is only about $500 and this $500
is well spent, as a thing of beauty is a
ioy forever
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
sNlDE LIGHTS ON HISTORY.

From the Chicago Journal.
Henry of Navarre's snowy plume waved
in the firing line at Ivry. and his gallant
knights were keeping an eye on it, as he
had instructed them.
But there were several knockers In the
bunch.
Huh" they sneered, Ibis nibs is show
ing the white feather
This gave them an excuse to hunt their
holes.
Herodotus, the Father of Lies. was
travelling in the Nuhan desert when he
stumbled over the remains of petrified
man.
Alas" the historian exclaimed that
poor devil certainly had hard finish.
And softly chuckling to himself, he
thence marched ten parasangs to supper.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
Question of Habits.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
When a man gets into the habit OF
doing anything 1t is hard for him to
break off. over in Birmingham Eng
land, there is man who has signed
the pledge forty times and the habit
seems to have become as much con-
flrmed one as is the drink habit. He can't
quit either.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
ALABAMA PRESS.
The Glorious Future.

From the Cullman Democrat
When the world wakes up to the riches
nature has heaped on Cullman county
the Birmingham district will have a fifty
mile extension and coal mines. coke ovens
and iron boundaries win dot the old hills
of cullman as thick as they are now in
West PENNSYLVANIA.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
TIp for Vulcan.

From the Fort Payne Journal.
Seeing in the newspapers that Vulcan
the iron man, is at ST. Louis, dead broke
and in debt at home besides, a Fort
Payne lady suggests that he go into
voluntary bankruptcy and get a fresh
start.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
Real Race Problem.

From the Prattville Progress.
The race problem down this way Is
between the niger and 'possum just now,
and there's nothing but peace and
plenty of it.
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Easy in Chattanooga.

From the Gadsden Journal
1t ought to be asy for any woman IN
Chattanooga these days to find a burglar
under the bed and not half look.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

All quiet at zeigler, but a 1anking
movement no doubt impends if Rich
ard Harding Davis is seen in the off
ing, SO to speak.
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just a Reminder.

From the centreville Press.
Out of the abundance of your harvest
let the Lord and the editor have their
1.-THE.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

By coming south President Roose-
welt has the chance of his life to get
next to the race question.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

The rarest person at Christmas
time will be the one who does not
receive a Christmas present.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

The theatrical syndicate seems to
be confronted by a dramatic critic syn
dictate composed exclusively of knock
ers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Pepper is reported to be selling for
SO a pound in the Klondike. The ma
tives are probably not doing any
sneezing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
Fishing at East Lake.

They are gradually letting the water
out Of East Lake so as to put in a new
gate" said W. W. Crawford yesterday
and when the water is all out there will
be a great chance to catch fish. You
probably know that the lake Is deeper
right at the outlet than at any other
place. The stream leading into the lake
is cut off and the water is allowed to
escape gradually. This is done to keep
from flooding the lands below When all
the water is out of the main part of the
lake little pool is left right at the gate
and this is always filled with fish. 1t is
an easy matter to catch them and I
have been invited out to enjoy the sport.
We are expecting to have a big fish fry
as there are hundreds Of fine black bass
and trout in the lake. Some Of these fish
weigh as much as four pounds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Mr.. Carnegie says he can avoid the
disgrace of dying rich without resort
ing to the aid of Mrs. Chadwick.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

The south has the color line and
the boil weevil, and the north has
snow and Tom Plat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Mrs. Chadwick was carried to jail
in collapsed condition, but her vic
tins were that way themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Saxony's new king is very hard up.
He has only 1887, 300 year, with six
young children to support.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

A lock of Thackery's hair was sold
at auction for 1880 the other day II
some barber had saved the tonsorial
clippings of the novelist, he would
have left a rich heritage to his chill
dren
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Cotton snow and crock" candy
icicles will be about the best we can
do for Christmas weather.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

The Russian navy at Port Arthur
is between two fires 1t catches hot
shots a-coming or a-gvine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

The house of representatives was
like a flower garden on the opening
day, but 1t will hereafter resemble
more a bear garden.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Judge Parker has gone to New
York city to live. 1t gave him plural
ity of 1851. No other town was SO
good to him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

About the only opening for the
southern negro these days is hard
work, and plenty of it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Massachusetts may rest assured
that it has an adjutant general who
will outshine all the rest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Santa Claus will probably have q
great many blue stockings to fill in
Bawston this year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

The presidents extra session for
tariff revision is still subject of
warm contention among the tariff
barons and their political henchmen..
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Pastor Wagner's lecture fee was
5000, and the disciples of a complex
life do not charge more
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Miss Bertha Krupp, the daughter
of big guns" has an income of $2,4o0,-
600 year and is pretty. 1t is her own
fault that she is not yet married.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Old Roads and New Roads.


Il am delighted at the stand your
paper has taken in favor Of better roads
said Sol caheen yesterday. Il want you
to keep It up. It may develop IN giving
Jefferson county great road system
Nothing could be of more benefit to a
county than good roads. We have ABOUT
twenty exceilently graded roads out OF
Birmingham but they are in a depioraole
condition.
by the way" said Mr.. Caheen' Mayor
Drennen has suggested that the board OF
revenue take up the matter Of continuing
the Warrior river road to the edge OF
Blount county. He says Blount county
will continue it from there to Blount
Springs This would give sixty-mile
road and would mean an immense
amount OF trade for Birmingham. as
farmers could haul their products all the
way in from one to three days. The auto
mobile owners are very anxious for this
road. 1t would be a great driveway for
everybody. In addition to the improve
ment of the old roads l think this matter
ought to be seriously considered"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Automobilious persons are being
consoled by the six-day bicycle race
in New York.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

The treasury building was not de-
signed for fisticuffs, although it may
have ring.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Banks and their money are soon
parted when the Mrs. Chadwicks ap-
pear on the scene.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Oklahoma and Indian Territory do
not propose to share one star. They
want one apiece
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Zelgler is quiet because Richard
Harding Davis has lot yet arrived at
the scene of action.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Owl banks should not be estab
lished in frontier towns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

The Reed Smoot issue is shoulder
ing, ready to break into flame at any
moment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

General Stoessel would probably
like to flnG pie in his stocking
Christmas morning.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Christmas is called out west the
Grand Annual Swap.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

A wealthy Arkansan has actually
been discovered, but he was found
dead.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Turkey, turkey, who has the axe?"
will soon be popular refrain once
more.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10

Hypnotized finance, is a degree
worse than the frenzied sort.