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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
Patented Drinks and the Canteen.

The summary closing of the army canteen at end of semi-political move ment in Congress is leading to con siderable reaction, especially In the army itself. Army surgeons almost to man say that the health of the army would be promoted by restoration of the canteen, and the other army off cers say that such policy would give them better control and influence over their men. Scarcely an officer is op- posed to the reinstatement of the can teen. and it goes without the saying that the officers do not need the can teen.
 In the direction of true temperance the agitation against the use and abuse of alcohol in the form of patent medi- cines is not less important than the canteen issue. The commissioner Of internal revenue is bringing out the facts in relation to the use of alcohol in patent medicines, and no doubt the widespread evil will be abated. Golfers Weekly is assisting the commissioner of internal revenue, and the truth is pretty sure to be brought out. Few appreciate how widely pat ent medicines are used as beverages, | especially in "dry" counties. The action of the internal revenue bureau and the disclosures of Golfers Weekly are timely, and will prove beneficial in a high degree. There is vast difference between a legitimate and surrepti tious use of alcohol, and the time seems to be coming when the public will distinguish between the two. An honest healthful beverage does not need to be patented or disguised in any manner. The trend of modern thought and experience leans to open meth ods. and this is why the canteen has many friends, and the concocter of SO called medicines has many enemies The truth once crushed to earth Is rising again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
Norway's Referendum.

Prince Charles of Denmark had no walkover in the recent Norwegian plebescite. He polled in 4iS constitu- encies 233.935 votes, while 62.739 votes were cast against him. The men who voted NO" had nothing against the prince from Hamlet's land, but they were republicans who did not want any king at all. The republicans did ex- pect to poll S3 per cent of the vote, but the returns show they actually put but 21 per cent in the ballot boxes. The republican strength was found t' be Tn the interior and northern districts, while the monarchial majorlties were chiefly cast at Christiana and at the rorts.
 Charles, or Haakon, will be perhaps the only king in the world voted into office, or rather, onto throne so to speak. He becomes ruler by virtue of four-fifths vote cast by the people, and no ruler has better title to office.
 If the people had been left free from outside pressure no doubt republic would have been established. But Nor. way needs the friendship of Denmark neighboring country, and tha selec'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
AUTO RIOTS IN 1880.

"Automobilists who have been fined for fast running, stoned by irate farmers, pes- tered by officious constables. and lam- pooned by newspapers, may take comfort in the knowledge that their original, some seventy-five years ago. passed through the same experiences-only more of them" says Malcom McDowell in an interesting and timely article. "Anti-Auto Riots of 1S3O." in the December Technical World Magazine.
 "The first quarter of the last century developed an automobile craze fully as virulent as the fad of today. In the 1s20s and 1s3Os steam wagons to run on common roads, turnpikes, and toll roads, became so popular with the higher classes in England that the directors of stage coach companies and breeders of horses took alarm. They used their influence to slip a number of little bills through parlia- ment, permitting toll roads to levy tolls designed to be prohibitive on steam car riages and wagons. The steamers were compelled to pay five and ten times as much toll as was charged the largest six horse stage coach.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
QUICK LUNCH IN LONDON.

From the New York World.
 The Hon. John T. Meehan, the "beef and -" expert, who Is too busy to go to Congress, in his valued commentary to the World upon the quick lunch in London says
 The English are slow people-every one knows that. They haven't walked up to the fact that quick-lunch places aren't in the market for people who sit around and read newspapers The English got the uuick-lunch idea from that six-day walker Weston. He proposed the idea to his friend, Judge Davies, now dead. Re- suit was a lot of quick-lunch houses blos- somed out in London. They got along all right at first, when they stuck to the idea that Pat Dolan introduced in New York. They they got to putting up ex- pensive dishes, and that was the finish. But surely the English are not so slow. And surely they have plenty of quick lunch houses in London Ike our Dolans and Hitchcocks and Dennetts and Child ses-and always will have.
 l The London quick-luncher orders tea an scone," Or if ravenous "a beef pie and lemonade'-not real lemonade, but sad stuff in a bottle. The New Yorker 1 offends his mortal part with sinkers, 1 coffee-good coffee is unknown in London short of costly restaurants-pork and baked beans and mince pie. Sinkers would kill a Londoner. Oaten scones would choke New Yorker. It is all merely a difference in taste, rift in the gastronomic ertente cordiale. l But the 'gobble and get away habit is common both in the world metropolis and its successor. It is not unknown even | In Paris
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16

tion of the son of Denmarls king would make Denmark a friendly coun- try. The wife of Prince Charles is a daughter of King Edward, and thus England would be tied to Norway, and the German Emperor would be related to the new King. and he would be con tent if Norway did not establish under his nose a republic. In order therefore to secure at the outset the friendly offices of Germany, England and Den mark, Prince Charles was selected by the electorate, and the result shows the political shrewdness of the Norwegi- ans. Practically speaking the govern ment will be based on the popular will, and the new King will be but figure head
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
Ohio a Doubtful State.

Scarcely had Secretary of War Taft landed at Hampton Roads before he began to discuss the Ohio election, and particularly Boss Cox of Cincinnati. "A machine" he said, "entrenched in power. as is the Ohio machine, can only be made to give up through the earnest attention and work of young men entering politics with the enthu- siastic and unselfish desire to make 1t better and willing to devote all time possible not needed In their daily vo- cation to the organization of political clubs"
 Here we have declaration that MT. Taft proposes to organize a machine of his own to take the place of the re- pudiated Cox-Dick machine, which was first organized by Mark Hanna. MT. Taft is an untiring worker. but he has certainly planned a good deal of work when he proposes to become Ohio's choice for President, and to put his state behind him. He will encounter no little opposition, and the outcome Is by no means free from doubt. MT Taft will certainly not be able to say that Ohio speaks wholly by and through him, and that he carries that state in his capacious trousers pockets
 The truth is, no one can be very sure of Ohio, which has long had a reputation for turning corner ab ruptly. In 1877 it elected a demo cratic governor by 22,250 plurality. lu i. 1882 the democrats elected a secretary of state by a plurality of 19,115. In 1883 they elected a governor by a plurality of 12,529. In 1889 another democratic governor was elected, this time by plurality of 1o,S72. In 1892 me democratic elector was chosen, and In 1905 John M. Pattison, democrat becomes governor by plurality ex ceeding 10000.
 Ohio. in other words, is not hide
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
HoIdinu Cotton for Fifteen Gents.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, for merly an Iowa farmer, says the cotton crop will be about ten million bales" and on that basis and that opinion President Harvie Jordan says all plant CTS and holders of spot cotton should stand firm for 15 cents." The southern cotton association says the crop will be 9,441 ,000 bales, and Secretary Will son says it will be about" 10,000,000 bales.
 The truth is, neither MT. Jordan's proclamations nor Secretary Wilson's estimates will have much control over farmer who has cotton to sell Each farmer will determine for himself when to hold and when to sell cotton. He knows whether the crop In his own sec tion has been picked early or late, or whether the date of picking has been normal. He knows a good deal more about the crop than President Jordan or Secretary Wilson thinks he knows.
 At present he can secure ten cents at the farm or nearest shipping point, and the step between ten cents and the Jordan minimum Is long one, and yet 1t will become easily possible If the crop proves to be below 10000, 900 A lS1 .,i. xxtttl, a dence is this, the, crop outlook and the consumptive requirements of the world fully justify a farmer in demanding ten cents as a minimum first, last and all the time, and the reports from the the census bureau must determine whether a higher price should be de. manded.
 At present estimates of the crop vary between 9000,o00 bales and H.. 100000 bales. No one at present esti- mates the crop at figures higher than the latter sum, and no one puts it be- low the former figures. Even if the crop should go to 11.500,000 bales every bale of it is worth ten cents, and no farmer should accept cent less. Those who can readily hold their cotton will perhaps secure more than ten cents Ten cents should become the crystal. lized minimum of the crop, for all in dcations run towards higher price No slump below ten cents will be more than temporary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
Blrminqham Station.

"The new union passenger station 10 pe erected fin Birmingham will be even nore pretentious than the Atlanta station said P. Thornton Marye, the architect or the station who spent yesterday and the day before In Birmingham
 "A portion of the Atlanta station IS under ground and therefore it's beauty is marred to some extent. From an arcni- tectural standpoint the station Is not as as handsome as the Birmingham station VIII be.
 "The local station will occupy more snace than the one in Atlanta ana the ground area will be much larger AS all the station will be above ground 1t VIII he spread out more than the station or the Gate City. The location and the gen. eral surroundings permit of a much hand somer structure from an architecturai standpoint.
 "In every way this station will be equal to Atlanta's and in some ways 1t will be superior"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
OLD STEAMBOAT DAYS.

From the Clarke County Democrat.
 The present generation has little con- ception of the business that was done on our rivers fifty or sixty years ago the period antedating the introduction of railroad transportation in Alabama and Mississippi. During the winter season when navigation wa favorable and crops ready for movement. twenty-five or more steamboats would be engaged on each river Many of these boats were fine, costly and large, with tonnage of 2O00 the James Hewitt carried to Mobile, SlOO bales of cotton-the largest cargo ever taken by steamboat to that city
 Then the Alabama river boats nearly all went to the head of navigation-We- tumpka. and drew their cargoes to and from points far west. north and east or that place. Montgomery and Selma were large shipping points, the cotton all go- ing to Mobile The receipts at that place one season were about s00.000 bales. The shipments from the Tombigee' the Little Big bee and the Warrior rivers were also very large. Demopolis. Aberdeen, Colum- bus. Gainesville, Warsaw. Vienna, were all large shipping points.
 In the lower river, south of Demopolis, delay was often caused in shipment of cotton by boats completing their cargo in the upper waters. To avoid this diff culty. many persons would engage stip- ulated numbers of bales on the up trip, the lower river planters regainins the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
"DIVINE RIGHT" IDEA IS . FAST LOSING GROUND

ity of both the new nation and the older nation with which Norway was so long united. Yet even the Danish court insists that the choice be left to the people It does not care to see it's prince king of a minority" Even in it's eyes plebis- cite is better than the vote of any coun- cii of state.
 Spain was all in an uproar recently over the advent of great and influential visitor. The streets were hung with brave colors; flags whipped in the breeze; crowds thronged in the highways, through which he was to pass; even sections of Madrid to which he could not go, wore their brightest decorations. great re- view was held in his honor, and tho municipality voted him banquet, which, like the banquet at the Kings palace, was followed by the most cordial toasts, the premier leading the way with . hearty eulogium on the visitors country. No heaven-sent monarch could have been paid more homage. And who was this? president of a republic. one of the bourgeoisie of France, the son of a peas ant proprietor, man elected for a term of years and soon to go back to his law brief. his desk. and his inky fingersl
 These are signs of the time, signs that government is marching every day to- ward that full expression of the peo- ple's will which our republic has % splendidly exemplifled. The contempla- tion of them ought to make the Amer ican heart rejoice; but it ought, also. to burn in deep the sense of personal responsibility on which all government must depend if 1t is to obtain its power from the people and follow the direction of their will.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
THE PoPE's OLD WATCH.

From the Chicago Journal.
 Pope Plus x. is never ashamed of his humble start in life. Once, it Is related in the presence of a cardinal he drew from his pocket a cheap-looking watch. the guard of which consisted merely of an old shoestring.
 The cardinal at once produced his own magnificent gold timepiece and begged His Holnecss to accept 1t and give him the inferior one in exchange. But the pope refused, explaining that the poor old watch was a present from his mother. who had to stint herself to pay for 1t. As to the shoestring, when the watch had been paid for there was no money left for the chain, so one of his sisters gave him the string.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
BISHOPS. REPORT.

From the Kansas City Journal
 Bishop Joseph Winner of Louisiana and Bishop Richard Wilmer of Alabama were cousins and intimate friends. In their travels in Italy one summer the bishop of Alabama was pointing out with enthusi- asm certain architectural beauties. The bishop of Louisiana was bored. He said Its all very fine, Cousin Dick, but. nevertheless, a rich field. fragrant with the odor of new mown hay, would please me better. And the bishop of Alabama replied: Cousin Joe there's not an ass in all Italy that would not agree with YOU"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16

bound, rock-ribbed republican state, and the Taft programme will serve to render it's political position in the next few years decidedly uncertain.
 As things look at present, MT. Taft may be pitted, in 1908, against Gov ernor-elect Pattison, and the race will be one of the most doubtful in Amerl- can politics. So Ohio affairs look at present. They may look differently later on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
IN HOTEL LOBgIES
Salary Question.


 "The Southern League meeting" said Rooter Brown yesterday, 'is to be held Saturday week, and the burning question that will come before it will relate to the salary limit.
 New orleans is now willing to do the fair thing. It proposes to meet the other clubs half way by accepting a limit Of $26OO month. and allowing thirteen men to team This would be equivalent to an average of S2OO a month to man, and by using one or two young fellows, it would be possible to pay some men $250 a month.
 Five teams lost money last season. Shreveport, Memphis, Nashville, Little Rock and Montgomery, and a salary limit is necessary but 1t ought not to be placed below S26OO for a lower sum would mean poor ball and lessened gate re- ceipts.
 "The proposition of New Orleans is reasonable one. A club that cannot stand a limit of s9soo should withdraw from the Southern league. and try a league one notch lower down the scale"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
From the Washington Times.

From the Washington Times.
 N NOTABLE change is coming over
 P1 the spirit of royalty's dreams.
 The echo of Kaiser Williams divine right speech is now all but lost in chorus of deference to the people and acclaim to representatives of repub- lies Three conspicuous events-two of them evolutionary-have touched the life of every royal house in Europe in the past month and in every one of them hereditary monarchs have been as in- sistently and ostentatiously watchful in accepting the will of the people for the spring of their action as any president who ever guided a republic.
 The Czar's surrender of his unlimited autocracy was a equalization to prin- ciple. There was no organized revolu- ton against him-only sodden and sul- len opposition breaking into the fire of pillage here and flashing into the flame of mutiny there. Yet the rumbling of this revolt was so portentous that the head of a great army. surrounded by the most dogmatic believers in the doc Urine of hereditary rule, and housed so closely that even the sound of the riot ing reached his ears untitled into cring- ing prayers, could not stand on the rights he had inherited from his fla ther, and he from his, back twenty gen. erations. Is 1t not significant that at this crisis no other ruler by divine authority not even the inspired King of Prussia, interposed in his aid?
 In Denmark, the second son of the ruling house has been chosen to take the throne of the newly independent country of Norway. His election has been accomplished by the established author
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
"PuIr" for Birmingham.

'It is interesting to note" said cit izen of Gadsden the other day, that people all over Alabama pull for Bir- mingham.
 rThey recognize that this is the city by which Alabama Is to be known to the world and realizing that fact they help their state by helping it's foremost city. The smaller. towns in the state are glad to claim relationship with Birming- ham. People all over the state feel an interest in this city and are glad of an opportunity to help advertise it.
 while in Gadsden we have distinct .Gadsden district recognized In this sec- tion we know that in the east and eise- where. all Alabama Is the Birmingham district Gadsden people, when away from home, pull for Gadsden, then TOT Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
WON ON POINTS,

From the Chicago Tribune. The animals were playing football The fox snapped the ball back to the pocupine.
 The porcupine started around the end with it.
 whereupon the other animals fell on the porcupine.
 But they didn't do it a second time. The game ended right there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
THE LIFE WITHOUT PASSION.

By Shakespeare. They have the power to hurt. and will
 do none,
 That do not do the thing they most do
 show, Who. moving others. are themselves as
 stone,
 Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow. They rightly do inherit heavens graces' And husband natures riches from ex-
 pense; They are the lords and owners of their
 faces,
 Others, but stewards of their excellence. The summer flower Is to the summer
 sweet.
 Though to itself 1t only live and die; Brt if that flower with base infection
 meet,
 ae basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their Lilies that lester smell far worse th-a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
ALABAMA PRESS

LaFayette Sun: Many will be the farmers who will be their own supply merchants next year.
 Gadsden Journal: When bosses meet these days we wonder what they have to talk about. Certainly the converse tion is not cheerful.
 Huntsville Mercury: President Roose- welt will be commended and endorsed by the people of the United States in his characteristic action in opposing the destruction of natures wonder. Niagara Falls, by it's sacrifice to industrial and commercial greed,
 Mobile Item: Some of the Judges" who are retained against Hearst are holding up their hands in holy horror at the proposition to violate the sacred ballot by opening the boxes and having a recount. They should be made to hold up their hands. by the force of modern western methods, and submit themselves to a careful search.
 Montgomery Arvertiger: In view of the death of a young student at an Ohio college. directly as the result of hazing, and of a young cadet at Annap- oils as victim of a false sense of pride as to individual rights and duties, it would seem proper for the college author- tiles to intervene and adopt methods for preventing things which led to these un- fortunate and fatal troubles. Hazing is brutal to the last degree, and cadets at  Annapolis are upholding brutal code. when they have unwritten law to provoke fight with any student who reports violation of rules, and does so in strict conformity to his sense of duty and obli- gation,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
AN OFFICIAL COACH.

From the New ork Mail
 Under the present system of nomination the President is more truly the voice of the people than any other man or body of men. Let us recognize the fact by pro- viding the President with a drawing room car of his own--a sort of official coach and by the adoption of law compelling all railroads to draw this car gratis. If the people require the presidency to he a more or less peripatetic function, let the fact be publicly recognized and provided for. ...
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16

advantage from those of the upper rivers.
 But those days have passed, never to return The railroads have diverted ship ping and shipping points. Mobile not getting more than half the cotton she write. The cotton goes to other points by railroad and goes, much of it. before our falling rivers would allow shipment by boat.
 Mobile we are glad to add. is doing much better than when she received so much cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
A PERFECT LADY.

From the Kansas City Star.
 A Blairstown young woman, while in Kansas City recently. went to a hotel cafe for dinner. When asked for her order by the waiter she almost floored him by saying: 'I guess I'll have several frogs limbs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
About Persons.

The Rev. J. H. Foster. pastor of the Parker Baptist Memorial church at An niston, is at the Metropolitan.
 w. L. Sibley of Warrior is at the Bir- mingham hotel.
 T. E. MacKnight of Atlanta is at the Hillman.
 Charles c. Neal of Knoxville is at the Hillman.
 A. L. Green of Atlanta is at the St. Nicholas.
 A. P. Ward of St. Louis is at the Morris.
 Judge Peyton Norvell of Jasper is a, the Morris.
 J. D. Thornton of Atlanta is at the St. Nicholas.
 M. J. billiard of Florence is at the Morris
 J. A. Snodgrass of Decatur is at the Morris
 J. L. Rax of wilsonville is at the Metro politan.
 Lawrence Cooper of Huntsville is at the Hillman.
 w. G. Roberts of Nashville is at the Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16

A millionaire who has been a re- former, philanthropist protector of the red man and editor will take up the study of art. He Is man of some yer satility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16

A German statistician has ascer- tained that the average woman spends ten months of her life at her mirror, while the average man puts in but seven at his.