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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
A Do-Nothinu Session.

The National City bank of New York, a
Standard Oil institution, sends word to
it's friends and customers that the long
session of the Fifty-ninth Congress is
to be one Of the do-nothing sort. This
is doubtless what the trusts and specu-
lators In Wall street desire. 1t is what
the City bank hopes for and antici-
pates. The trusts and tariff benefi-
Charles and the spectators and the
City bank are lined up to oppose a
revision of the tariff or any other gen
eral legislation that President Roose-
welt may desire. Here is what the City
bank sends out:
I'm well-informed quarters, 1t is init
mated that the next Congress will have
little to do except to pass the usual
appropriation bills, the elimination of
tariff and financial problems leaving only
the question of railroad legislation for
consideration. As to this feature, 1t is
most likely the executive will be insis-
tent. But so far as Congress is concerned
1t is doubtful II subject so complex
can be disposed of at single session,
with the depository banks holding
above s6o0Oo,0o0 public funds available al
ways for Immediate appropriation, with
s56OO0,0O0 in treasury vaults, and public
revenues looking up strikingly, agitation
Involving tariff changes or additional rev
enue legislation will be put aside"
This means that Boss Aldrich has
decided to defeat the Presidents pro.
gramme regardless of public sentiment,
and this will be done by temporizing
and delay rather than by direct antag-
onism. This Is why reasons were
found against the calling of an extra
session. The senatorial bosses of the
country are standpatters, and they will
proceed to defy public sentiment and
the President by indirection and OBJ
structive efforts. The City bank voices
the wishes of Privilege and the deter
mination of the senatorial clique that
proposes to hold the noses of con-
sumers to the grlndstone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
APES AS cASHIERsl

FROM the Lahore tribune.
In Siam apes are now employed as cash
iers. A year or two ago much base coin
was circulated by a clique of coiners, and
the tradesmen found that it was a very
difficult matter to discriminate between
good and bad money. One large store
kept a pet monkey, and one morning he
was seen to take coin from the cashiers
desk and put 1t between his teeth. After
biting 1t for some moments he threw 1t
on the floor with a solemn grimaee of
dissatisfaction.
The proprietor of the store then handed
the monkey another COIN and after test
ing 1t with great elaboration he laid it
on the cashiers desk.
Apparently the creature could tell a
counterfeit coin from az good one, and
in order to ascertain whether other mon
keys had the same extraordinary gift a
given the test, with satisfactory results.
From that day the majority of the BUSH
ness houses in Siam have kept monkeys
cashiers, and the gifted creatures have
developed the faculty of discrimination
between good and bad coin to such per-
lection that no human being can COM
pete with them.
A little while ago a monkey employed
by a firm of clothiers died, and his cof-
fin, which was of polished oak, and con-
veyed to the cemetery in an open hearse,
was followed by all the cashier monkeys
In SIAM
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
Good Work at New Orleans.

The marine hospital service is slowly
but surely mastering at New Orleans
a scourge of yellow fever that had
gained before 1t came to the task a
firm foothold. The mortality Is small
indeed alongside the daily death lists
of September, 1878. The deaths then
approached one hundred day, now
they are less as rule than one-tenth
of that number.
The marine hospital service has al
ready demonstrated that yellow fever
can be controlled and limited even in
New Orleans, and it may yet demon
strate that it can be stamped out in
that city, which is one Of the most
slovenly, ill-kept and ill-conducted
cities in the world. Frosts of the kill
ing sort are not due in New Orleans
n 4 December has run half it's course,
and before that time the federal hos
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
The Value of Manner.

Il was keenly interested said trav-
cling man last night at the Hillman, "in
an article | read in a New York news
paper while 1 was in Philadelphia recent
ly.
ut seems that an assistant police COM
missioner in New York had died a few
days before the article was printed and
that Mr.. MoAdoo, the commissioner, had
highly eulogized the young mans charac-
ter and capacity, saying that the young
men was a southerner and. like many
other southerners, had won success in
New York by reason of his courage, per-
sistency integrity and courtesy.
THE New York newspaper, in COM
menting on Mr.. McAdoos eulogy, said
that southerners were no more honest
and no more energetic than northerners
but that their success was due In large
measure to their gracious manners This
distinctive quality of southerners, the
paper went on to say, was attributed to
the fact that southern home life is ideal,
and that young men of social position
are taught from childhood the amenities
of social life. In the great cities of the
north where women play an influential
part the quality of taste or manner in a
man is valuable asset
II am inclined to think" the travelling
man concluded, that less attention Is
paid to manner by the people of the
south today than there was twenty or
thirty years ago. Our social life is. fear.
becoming veneered with commercialsm."
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pital authorities hope to perfect their
already remarkable werk The mes.
quite theory stands indicated to-day
in New Orleans,
The hope is that the marine hospital
doctors can wholly eliminate the dis.
ease In New Orleans before frosts fall,
II they can do that public sentiment
will demand that interstate aud Inter-
national quarantine be placed in the
hands Of the federal government, thus
doing away with the rivalry between
states, with all eommerclalism, In a
matter pertaining to health and life.
The public health outranks trade at
every step. The Atlanta Journal Joins
the increasing ranks of those who de-
mand federal control of quarantine.
Public sentiment Is rapidly crystalliz-
ing In all the cotton states In demand
for federal control of quarantine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
Lows and meekness, lord,
Changes in Warships.

70 longer ago than 1898, when the
war with Spain held the ear of the
country, the battleship Oregon was the
pride Of the entire land. Captain Clark
became national hero when he sailed
the gallant ship in six weeks from San
Francisco to Santiago, $4,000 miles,
bringing her into line in time to enter
the naval battle that ended the war.
This was seven years ago. Today
the Oregon, ne pride of 1898, is back
humber and she has been ordered
home from China to be modernized.
She is to be ref1tted and rebuilt so far
as her 10,000-ton hull will permit At
the best she can not be overhauled to
an extent that will put her In the class
of our new battleships. The bureau
of construction will endeavor to render
her a second-elass battleship, which Is
all that can be done with ship of
10000 tons. The modern battleship Is
16000-ton affair. The Oregon is to
have new guns, new appliances, new
machinery, and her active career may
be prolonged a while, but she can no
longer hope to be the pride of the peo-
pie, the glory of the nation. She is but
a second-rater now.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Hash is at the bottom of more divorce
suits than any other influence in the
world
man is old when girls don't mind let
ting him see them In one of their I'M
becoming hats.
A man can get an idea of nearly ev-
erything he doesn't know by trying to
run an automobile
1t makes a woman awful nervous In a
crowded street to see how many men
are following her.
To be a great man one should never be
able to appreciate how much nonsense the
whole game he plays Is
A father thinks he is a good disciple
MARIAN when he gets mad with his wife
because the children won't mind him.
At eighteen girl wants to pretend she
is twenty-five, and at twenty-eight she
wants to pretend the same thing.
No matter how pretty girl thinks she
is you can make her think she is more
so by telling her there are no words in
the language to describe it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
Prosperity Of the University.

The University of Alabama has nu-
merous friends in every county OF this
state, and they Wa be rejoiced to hear
that the enrolment of this year is the
largest in the institutions entire his
tory. President Abercrombie plainly
has the qualities that pertain to sue
cess and upbuilding. He has patiently
planned and striyen, and now at the
opening of the seventy-fifth session OF
the states chief educational institu-
tier he has the satisfaction of seeing
over three hundred young men on the
ground ready for its opening.
The university should be kept fully
abreast of the states growth and pros
perlty. The growth of the state should
each recurring year be registered in
young men at Tuscaloosa. This years
registration Is wholly satisfactory.
May 1t be the forerunner of even
greater registrations. Alabama should
have at the university fully one thous-
and young men, and that number may
become easily possible II the institu-
ton steadily gains in popularity and
effectiveness. President Abercrombie
and the faculty are untiring educa-
tional workers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
Underground Wires.

IT believe" said a well-known lawyer
last night. chat the plan of putting all
wires under ground, proposed at the City
Council meeting last night in resolu-
ton introduced and referred to the mis-
cellaneous committee is a good one.
1T reminds me, however, of one dis
agreeable fact. | should think that it
would call for still more attacks on our
street pavement. Birmingham has been
unfortunate In having a great variety of
pavements, no one of which is altogether
satisfactory 1t has been still more I'M
fortunate in having these pavements
made worse by being continually dug up
to lay pipes for water and gas.
1T would be great thing for the
city to have the wires underground, but
cannot become reconciled to any plan
which will necessitate more tearing up of
our pavements. If any modern scientific
expert can come forward with a theory
whereby the wires can be placed under
ground without disturbing the surface
he will do a great service to the people
of Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
IN HOOP SKIRT DAYS.

FROM the washington Star
Fifty years ago the women of America
were sadly addicted to the hoop-skirt
habit. Quips and jibes on this subject
were common in the American press. In
the star of August 20 appears an ex-
tract from an out-of-town paper illustrat-
ing this tendency. The Star said:
THE Buffalo Republic tells the follow
inc story about the hoops: we were
permitted for the first time in our life
tc accompany a handsome young lady a
day or two since through our principal
streets, she being daintly dressed and
wearing hoops. Hoops-think of that, YOU
local editors who have never come in
contact with anything better than cot
tom duck skirts or grass dittos. Hoopsl
But there was drawback in this flood
OF happiness. We could not get nearer
than four feet of her. and consequently
the conversation consisted Of uninterest-
ing scraps of commonplace, conducted
principally in screams and helloes. Dur
ing our passage toward the young lady's
domicile a small dog attached to small
tin pail in his fright ran against her and
disappeared in the folds of hooped silk.
H"There he was and what to DO she
knew not Finally the dog became quiet
owing to the darkness In the region where
he had disappeared, and the hooped lady
started with tremulors steps toward her
home, we refectively preceding her to
inform the servants Of her catastrophe.
She arrived there perfectly safe. and
after a few minutes. during which time
shovels, tongs and a firebrand were push
ed under the pavilion. the dog was busted
from his place Of refuge and shot from
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
Matched Bio Horse.

IT certainly was fortunate in being
able to match the big white horse that
has been pulling the fire engine at head
quarters for several years, said Chief
Walton of the fire department. The
horse, 'Thad Mullin,' we call him, Is one
of the finest and bSst horses in the de-
partment. The mate to Thad' died over
a year ago and we had long ago given
up hope of ever finding another.
1.-The boys have named the new horse
after me, William p, Walton. The fire.
men say now that the engine is pulled by
the team of chiefs
IT do not believe there Is a handsomer
pair of fire engine horses in the coun-
try than this pair of whites. They are
be tn monsters, but well built and they
can make excellent speed with the heavy
engine"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
ROBERT TooMBs.
Dedicated to the New County Of
"Toon,bs,"

Sam w. Small in the Savannah Press.
Sing We the peans of the Spartan band
That died unconquer'd at Thermopylae.
Or any else who since that bloody day
Have battled to bring freedom to their
land!
Yet let us not forget the valiant stand
Our fathers made against unrighteous
sway,
When the mad North swept justice from
her way
And fought to crush our rights with ruth
less handi
Then shone forth Robert Toombs, the
lion-heart,
Master in forum, senate and field,
Serving his mother-state with every
breath,
She now redeemed. recalling his large part
In bearing up her sovereign life and
shield.
Embalms him on her bosom unto Death!
Brunswick. September I. 1908
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08

The pictorial and industrial edition of
the Columbus, Miss. Dispatch, recently
issued Is one of the handsomest publ
cations of its kind that has reached The
Age-Herald office in some time. The
number is printed on heavy white paper
in clear type and contains many illustra-
lions. The reading matter is well ar
ranged and gives a convincing proof of
Columbus prosperity.
The Dispatch is to be congratulated ON
having iss,Nd truly metropolitan indus
trial edition
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
WORLDS BEST HOTEL is
LOCATED AT YOKOHAMA

From the London Saturday Review.
F ONE excerpts the Schweizer Hof at
Lucerne, which cannot be approached
by any rival In any country the av-
erage English hotel is more luxuriously
and tastefully furnished than the average
foreign hotel. But unfortunately one can
not lunch off saddlebag lounges or dine
on alabaster pillars. The food supplied by
the palaces which line the coasts of our
island is abominably bad.
Some people there are. no doubt who
are accustomed to good cooking in their
own homes. but who feel 1t a matter Of
patriotism to put up with the garbage
which Is served up under pretentious
names; they think of the British inn as
national institution which must keep
its tail up In the presence of foreigners.
But why do the foreigners, who have
no such motives to sustain their mar
tyrdom, suffer the ordinary hotel manager
and his menus? Well. the number of
French and German visitors in our sea-
side hotels is small and being In minor
ity In a country whose brutality they are
honestly afraid of they do not like to
make a row
The American tourists stick to the
large towns, which absorb the best food
In the country. The majority of the guests
In the holiday hotels are drawn from the
rich shopkeeper class.
Abroad IL Is a very different story.
Everybody in and about foreign hotel
from the head waiter down to the under
cooks, takes an interest and a pride in his
business. In a British hotel the servants
seem ashamed of being caught ministering
to the creature comforts of others, and
even the Germans and Italians catch over
here the surly, listless air of English
cooks and walters. How sweet is the sale
a manager of the foreign hotel, with its
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
NEW YORK GIRLS GROW GAY.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Imagine lady shaking dice with men
over the proposition as to which of them
shall pay the/dInner check. This scene is
not uncommon in certain Bohemian re-
sorts along Broadway where a dinner
may cost all the way from "a to $50. Some
of the Italian and French places where
a table d'hote is served make a prael
tice of providing leather boxes and dice
for this purpose. 1t makes the girl think
that she is smart and up-to-date. and
it saves money for the cheap skate who
is willing TO make the game go that
way
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
phenomenal Prosperity.

I'm former years we used to point to
one or two things as evidence that Biz
mingham was growing" said public
spirited citizen, "but now facts proving
this city's progress crowd upon us. The
word boom has dropped out of the bust
ness mans dictionary. If 1t were still
in use people would say that birmingham
was on a great boom. But the prosperity
that is now upon us is of the solid kind.
Everybody feels 1t, for everybody Is
sharing in It.
This thrift is simply phenomenal, for
nothing like 1t was ever known here be-
fore, and this city is not stranger to
big things in commercial development
Industrial concerns are earning fat divi-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08

Els lair like ball from a musket. The
last seen of him he was executing some
very interesting pirouettes. with the tin
pan accompanying him around the cor
ner The lady was not at all embarrassed
by the unexpected companion, except
that an occasional sound from the tin
pan would attract the attention of pass
ers-by, who looked in vain for the cause
So much for hoops
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08

aendsl merchants, wholesale and retail
are as busy now as they used to be just
before christmasi banks deposits are
swelling, the population Of birmingham
is increasing at rapid rate, and real
estate values are moving to higher
levels,
The year 1905 will make a prosperity
record In the Birmingham district that
viii make former years seem small In
comparisons"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
HIcH.PRlcED COWS.
m the Mobile Register.

From the Mobile Register.
Mime. Patti advertises cows for sale "for
song" If Nine. Patti rates the price
of her cows with the price the public
has paid for some OF her songs. her fig-
ures will "skin" the Vanderbilt sale of
thoroughbreds long way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
Bank CAPITAL.

When the First National bank of Biz.
mingham doubles Its capital In October
Il will be one OF eight banks In the south,
including three in New Orleans having
as much as u million dollars of capital"
said Newspaper man. II do no include
st. Louis or Baltimore In the south, but
there are some strong financial centers
this side Of those cities and north of New
Orleans. The First National bank will
have shortly surplus of s5oO.O00, and with
its 100000 of capital will be one of the
notable financial institutions Of the coun-
try. In the matter Of deposits 1t nov
ranks fourth In the SOUTH"
About Persons.
@. H. Upchurch of Mobile is at the
Morris.
Edwin w. Dwight of Boston is in the
city.
w. S. Forman of Asheviile is registered
at the Morris.
H. B. Schiller of Chicago arrived in Bir-
mingham yesterday.
w. b. Lamkin of Reidsville, N. C., 10
at the Morris.
Renfrow Jackson. railway man Of
Atlanta, was here yesterday.
J. w. Bandy of Montevallo is in the
city.
II w Ala, NJ Nashville was here last
night.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08

The Rev. DIR. Parkhurst's new church
is called "stein" by neighboring resi-
dents. This is no reflection on the
morals of DIR. Parkhurst. but was in
spired by the shape of the building.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08

Have you ever heard the story OF OF
man Amos Smith who founded a news
paper out In Missouri about ten years
ago?" asked story teller. well, 1t was
this way. Smith struck a good town and
decided to launch a weekly paper. He
vowed that he would give his sheet no
common name. Such titles as The News
The Clarion The Bugle,' The Gazette
ct cetera, did not appeal to him, SO he
named his paper the Weekly Smith
Wow! The exchanges aid lot of fun out
of old Smith and he fired back quite lust
ily. The paper came to be widely known in
Missouri, where The Smith inspired
many jokesmiths. The papers name was
its chief claim to attention, but old Amos
managed to get living out of II. until /
he died The old mans boy undertook to
run the paper and just to show his
humorous disposition, he changed its
name to the Weekly Smiths Son. That
was more than the subscribers could
stand. They let the weekly Smiths Son
die natural death. The boy got a Job
clerking in a store He always said he
was not cut out for newspaper man."
Mrs. Walter Scott, formerly Mrs. Mol
ineux, will attempt to realize on her re-
cent notoriety by entering vaudeville. 1t
is the acquisition of such persons that
makes the lot of a vaudevillan unen-
viable.
A mustache fad is said to be sweeping
over Newport. If fad is ambitious to get
a start in the world Newport is the best
place for it to go. According to the Sun
day papers, Newport is the summer
Mother of Fads. James Hazen Hyde is
only one of her recent adoptions
The present era of building In Birming-
ham is only one of the sure Indications
of the towns great prosperity. In all
parts of the city substantial public build
ings, business houses and residences are
being erected at a rapid rate. 1t is easy
TO watch Birmingham grow. Day by day
changes are apparent and not week
passes without the town being seven DAYS
nearer the golden age of her development.
when Greater Birmingham will be assured
and the eyes of the world will turn in
admiration to the Queen City of the
South. Birmingham's star will never set.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
LAWSON NOT GUILTY.

From the Washington Post
Give Tom Lawson credit for not trying
to sprinkle broken glass In the grass
through which Mr.. Rockefeller takes Ills
morning walk barefooted
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08

Bunau-Varilla is again In our midst.
He came over from Paris to confer
with the board of consulting engineers
at Washington regarding the Panama
canal
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08

The international literary celebrities
are but four in number-Mark Twain,
an American; Tolstoi, a Russian,
Ibsen. Norwegian, and Kipling, an
Englishman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-08
In HOTEL LOBBIEs
Escort for President.

I would suggest said prominent
military man yesterday, that In addition
to the regular military representation, the
committee on that feature of the Presl-
dents reception provide special military
escort consisting Of the officers who
served In the Hpanish-Ameriean war and
who live IN and around Birmingham.
About twenty-five officers who were
In the war with the Alabama regiments
live In birmingham, and inasmueh as
President Roosevelt distinguished him
self In that war think It would be APP
propriate to form guard composed of
these officers. This of course would be
additional to the other features of the
military parade, and would not. I should
think interfere with the other represen-
tation,
Among the officers In this district who
served In the 6panish-American war are
Hughes B. Kennedy Charles Ledbetter,
Felix Wood, Mayor T. 4. Huey of BESSIE
mer, ]. A. Houston, Lucien Brown, George
r. Byrum, j. M. Perkins and Romalne
Boyd. There are other well known Of
hcers that l do not recall at present"