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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
Thou canst not in the course of graf
ltude, but be a dIigent follower of
mine.
-CymbeIne.
Cuba and Conuress.

Thus far the President has handled
the Cuban question in his own way,
unswayed by Congress or any other
power in the government, but it is not
probable that Congress will keep its
hands off the island and its problems
1t would be unreasonable to expect
Congress to let alone any subject th9t
deeply concerns and interests the peo-
pie. 1t will do nothing of the sort. If
1t would the President could, after
course of Intervention, hand back Cuba
to the Cubans in his own way and
time. But Congress will not act in
that way.
The control of the purse gives Con
gress all the opportunity it needs. Tie
question will come up in an acute form
when the army appropriation bill is
taken up. Federal troops serving out
side the country are entitled to double
pay, and the extra cost Of their MAN.
tenance and transportation is to be
added. All told, it is estimated that
Cuban occupation has already cost this
country $l,500, 900. When Congress
considers this increased expense the
entire Cuban problem will certainly he
discussed.
Those who desire annexation VIII
favor congressional action, and so VII
those who advocatae a protectorate OF
the sort that England has established
In Egypt. Congressional action would
be needed in either case. If, however
Congress is content to leave the entire
business in the Presidents hands II
can vote the needful money and ad
iourn. 1t will not do that. The sugar
and tobacco interests would prefer non
action on the part of Congress, but the
tobacco trust and the sugar planters
of Louisiana will not be able to con
troll the broad questions iayolved in
Cuban intervention. Congress will act
but how far and in what direction il
will go remains 10 be decided in the
next three months.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
technical Education.

The committee charged with the
building of technical school in Biz
mingham should not waste a particle
of gray matter in discussing the need
of one in this district. Everybody
knows we need such a school. Every
body knows ii is as necessary as a
water supply or coal seams. That
branch of the subject goes without
facts or argument to support ii. II
stands out plain and imperative.
The committee does well. however,
to take all needful time in which 10
ascertain the best way to go about the
establishment of the proposed schoai.
The Age-Herald begs TO suggest the
wisdom of a modest start, leaving the
institution to demonstrate its own use.
fulDess. Ii must it is true, have build
ings and equipment Of the latest aud
most scientific nature. 1t should, too,
have a reasonable endowment The
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
REAL EDITOR REAvEs.

From the Arkansas Gazette.
Let us pause a moment and do JUS
tice to the Hardeman Free Press.
Thousands of persons who have read
deformed spelling paragraphs credited to
that newspaper have thought either that
no such paper exists or that it's editor is
an illiterate man, who actually writes the
uncouth productions credited to him.
NJ w. Connolly started the Free Press
paragraphs while he was editorial
writer on the Memphis Commercial-Ap-
peal. He wrote them for years. and after
going to the News-Scimitar continued to
write them. But the Commercial-Appea
also continued to print Hardeman Free
Press paragraphs. The business started
one day when Editor Connolly
jokingly said to Editor Reaves
of the Free Press: II will make
your paper famous" He then began to
write the paragraphs, and he has made
the Free Press more or less famous.
The facts are that there is such pa
per as the Hardeman Free Press that it
is published at Bolivar, the capital of
Hardeman county, Tennessee. and that
it's editor, Mr.. Reaves, is an eminently
respectable and educated gentleman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
ACCOMMODATING LITTLE CRAB.
Turns Over Claws to Fishermen and
Grows Another Pair.
From lie Temps.

From lie Temps.
Visitors in Seville see women carrying
baskets full of crabs claws. The claws
are cooked and people nibble at them,
more for fun than for sustenance, just as
the Russians nibble sunfower seeds. But
what is this erustacean? What becomes
of the rest of him-especially, if a craw-
fish of his tail?
AS a matter of fact the crawfish has no
part in the business The carrasquenas-
as the claws are called-are taken from
salt water crab, the Gelasimus tangerf,
which lives along the shores of Morocco,
Spain and Portugal Each little crab,
with his one little wife has a little cave
for home; and adopting the Arab es-
innate of the other sex, he usually keeps
his wife shut up inside the cave, mean
while staying about the threshold HIM
self and making a brave show with his
big claws.
When the tide runs out the crabfishers
prowl along the beach looking for crab
| holes Either the crab is stalking up and
| down seeking what he may devour and
| thus showing whether he has fine claws,
| or he is still at home, and the size of
his doorway indicates the size of the
| householder. In one case the fisherman
cuts off his retreat by blocking his front
door with mud. In the other case he
| digs him out. ANYWAY, he deprives him
| of his pncers and sets him at liberty
| to grow some more.
! Right here appears the happiest feature
| of the whole affair: for the pincers are
not torn away from the crab at ALL In
| stead he presents them to the fisherman
| perhaps even with his compliments 1t
| is fact, easily demonstrahle. that the
| crab can detach his claw by a muscular
| effort. thus making no hemorrhage, but
| leaving the stump in such condition that
a new claw is soon grown. The fisher
men simply take Mr. Crab by the hand.
| whereupon he lets go. leaves the claw
with them, and runs off home without
| it, And as the claw is no longer of any
! use to him or 10 anybody else in the
water, and as it is salable and edible.
tho fisherman naturally takes 1t home
' and sells IL.
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ALABAMA PRESS

Collinsvllle Courier: A minister by the
name of Booze is delivering temperance
lectures in Oregon. His name does not
harmonize with his work
Talladega Mountain Home: Up in New
York they yanked Caruso. of grand opera
fame, into police courts just the same
as If he had been a "rag-time COON
Tuscumbia North Alabamian: Birmlng-
ham wants more courts and judges Bir-
mingham ought to have relief for the
docSets of the courts there are crowded.
Alabamian Herald; The French will
abolish capital punishment. For a eoun-
try in which the death rate SO nearly ex-
ceeds the birth rate this is a wise pro-
vision.
Columbiana Sentinel: Hearst says he
will never again be candidate for Of
flee Generally such resolutions have
string to them, and we do not think this
is an exception
West Point and Lanett News: w. r.
Hearst is decidedly a more successful
newspaper man than an office seeker.
Our advice to our New York friend is to
stick to the tripod.
Union Springs Herald: The Standard Oil
Trust does not seem to mind being prose-
cuted as it hires its lawyers for term
of years and Rockefeller rather enjoys
seeing them earn their money.
Gadsden Journal: Increase of wages
seem to be in the air. The willingness
with which concessions are made indi-
Gates that there is to be a general in
crease in the cost of things the laborer
must buy.
DeKalb Record: Tobacco growing is be-
coming all the rage. Cotton is little
jealous of its promising rival, but a little
competition won't hurt the profitable
staple and little diversification will help
all round Let her chew!
Roanoke Leader: The Southern Immi-
grafton and Industrial association. which
recently convened in Nashville. will meet
IN Birmingham next year. This organza
ton bids fair to accomplish considerable
good for the south within the next few
years.
Mobile Register: Considering that there
are about eighty million people in the
United States, we are not encouraged to
believe that Upton Snclair's New Jer-
sey colony for the solution of the serv
ant problem will end the domestic helm
difficulty with a resident list of thirty
f1Ne adults and fifteen children.
Lar ayette Sun: Farm lands in Cham
pers county are worth from IS to $50 or
more, per acre, and oftentimes the chean
lands are as fertile as those that are
nigh priced. This difference in price is
chiefly due to the fact that the chean
lands are in negro settlements. Hence a
negro can buy a farm to suit his needs
at less than half what a white man
must pay to get one to suit his de-
mands. However, very few negroes have
seen or grasped the opportunity.
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"THE MAN REAUTIEuL.n

From the New York World.
The London Daily Mail has been in
vestigatng "the entire toilet of the man
beautiful" 1t has found that nearly
so per cent of the customers of the
beauty parlors" of London are men.
The barber shops in England do not
offer the ineidentas to be had in the
ordinary American barber shop, and men
so to ihe beauty parlors" to have their
compilations cleared by the application
of hot towels, skin food and facial mas
sage, as we'll as to have their nails
manicured. One Specialist in good looks
tells how hands are whitened by the
sl<ilful use of powder, and says men
love to be manieured in this manner"
The beauty parlors" aid men to re-
duce their weight, and there can be
learned the valuable secret of how to
get bald. This recipe is delightfully."- SIM
ple do not irritate the roots of the hair
by unnecessarily disturbing them harsh
ly with combs, brushes and rough towels.
According to the beauty specialist"
in the Mail:
A woman has little tact and no graft
tude where we are concerned. 1t Is use
less to point out her improvements to
woman. She always wants more. But
man expects nothing and is thankful
Then the woman who delights in re-
storing the appearance of youth tells with
what heartfelt earnestness one man. after
viewing himself in a mirror, said: Il
look young again
There seems to be a worldwide cpl
demc of fatty degeneration of the waist,
for the periodicals and newspapers OF
New York. London, Paris and Berlin
contain an increasing number of remedies
for obesity, chief of which seems to be
the corset, under such aliases as waist
band, centure, dress belt and health
brace. The fact that these corsets for men
are advertised shows that many men
buy them.
The day seems TO be coming, if it
has not arrived when of the male sex
as well as the female it can be said that
"gracefulness is deceit and beauty is
vanity"
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A Word About Baseball.

Birmingham is patiently awaiting the
for last summer We say all adyisediy,
for those in the bleachers and on the
grandstand worked as well as those on
the diamond. All pulled together
throughout a harmonious and success
full season. But New Orleans is stin
the champion city, and it will continue
TO be until December 81, when Biz
mingham will suppant it. What iowa
will supplant Birmingham year later.
if any, remains 10 be disclosed next
summer. There are seven hopeful cam
didates.
But the awarding of the pennant Will
be a formal matter only. The live
issue of the coming meeting is the
salary limit. President Kavanaugh
says it should remain at this year S
figures, $270O, and yet Judge Kava-
naugh knows that any salary limit is a
humbug without alloy. No one re-
spects it, No one cares what it is, for
il puts no undesired limit upon ANY
team. 1t is a rule that calls for lot
of precise bookkeeping on the surface,
but none down below Why retain it,
Judge?
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Loyal Birmingham Girl.

wasn't New York about like Bir-
ningham when it was the same size as
Birmingham is now said a pretty girl
a; one of the hotel exchanges.
"Wel. these fellows that come here
and register and stand around and say
they wish they. were back in New York;
that Birmingham is too slow for them
must be new ones. mean that they
Just happened into New York perhaps
they came from some village and now
they are all puffed up about it. l can
tell real New Yorker. He is quietly
dressed, has a business way about him,
doesn't hang around much, tell you what
he wants and can generally find his way
about without asking for a guide. But
those ST. Louis and New York fresi,
oies make one very tired l think Eir-
mngham is all right, considering it's
age, don't Nou?n
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
A Great Loss.


The death of a man such as Samuel
Spencer is something more than the loss
of one among millions of men, said
Lieutenant Governor-elect Henry b. Gray.
MIR. Spencer was a great man and when
we stop to think of his career it must be
recognized that his loss is indeed great
He had been identified prominently with
ralroading for nearly thirty years, and
always his star seemed on the ascendant
not only in railroad affairs, but on those
wider lines that go to help our country
in progress and to broaden the view Of
men on many questions. The south had
peculiar pride in Samuel Spencer and
he will be sadly missed by hosts Of
friends in all walks of life. His ending
was so sudden and so terrible that the
very thought of it brings a shudder and
impresses us that life is after all a fragile
web likely to be brushed away in a twink
ling by the hand of fate"
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Great Cathe drals-

Reading the accounts of the consecra-
ton of the magnificent Catholic cathedral
in Richmond, Va, the gift of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas r. Ryan, the fact comes to
mind that within the past few years great
progress has been made in ecclesiastical
architecture in America" said a man of
culture. Up to the time that St Patrick S
cathedral in New York was dedicated
about twenty-five years ago. there was no
great religious edifice in the United
States. Today there are, completed or IN
course Of erection, many notably the
Episcopal cathedral of st. John the Divine
in New York, which will be about the
fourth or fifth in size and magnificence in
the world. Recently splendid Catholic
cathedral was consecrated in Pittsburg
costing s3,500,000. Mr. Carnegie, a nom
Catholic, donated the organ. 1t cost $l0,-
coo and is the largest and grandest ever
built in this country.
Archbishop of Ireland is building q
100000 Cathedral in st. Paul. The list
of subscribers was headed by James j.
Hill who wrote his name for 81, 600, 600. The
Catholics of ST. Louis are building a
$1,5OO,OOO cathedral and the Eplscopalians
of Washington, d. c., are ust about to
erect a splendid cathedral. The Rich
mond cathedral is in the Romanesqt/
renaissance style, but all the others re-
ferred to are of pure Gothic design"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND

By William Shakespeare
Blow. blow, thou winter wind.
Thou are not so unkind
AS mans ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen
Although thy breath be rude
Heigh no. sing heigh hoi unto the sraer
holly.
Most friendship is feigning most loving
mere folly:
Then, heigh hoi the holly,
This life is most Jolly.
Freeze. freeze, thou bitter sky.
Ihou dost not bite so nigh
AS benefits forgot:
Ihough thou the waters warn
my sting Is not SO sharp
AS friend remembered not.
Heish ho, sing heigh hot unto the green
holly:
Most friendship is fegning. most loving
mere folly;
Then, heich no. the holly!
This life is most jolly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-30
Spot Cotton,

'The wide difference in the future and
spot market in New York points to some
thing of the nature of sensation in
cotton in the next few days" said a sta
tistician.
1.-THE New Orleans market is rapidly
coming to be the barometer of prices,
because of the fact that future contracts
there call for the run of the market, and
many OF these contracts involve an actual
delivery of the staple. In these deliveries.
the run of the market on grades is the
custom much of the cotton being classed
as it is unloaded, from the cars, and yet
other from the presses and warehouses.
A buyer in New Orleans can swap cotton
and very nearly get an average class de-
sired, but not so in New York
1.-THE traders of cotton in New York
may be cotton of low ordinary grades
that has been in the warehouses for years.
The whole purpose is to discourage buy
ers taking the actual cotton. Not so in
New Orleans, for the business life of New
Orleans, in a measure, largely rests upon
cotton( and cotton futures in New Or
leans are looked to by buyers of the real
stuff for their engagements to mills and
export just as the grain elevator business
in Chicago means grain on contracts. The
future of the cotton business centers IN
New Orleans. for there the real stuff can
be had When the call comes for actual
cotton on December contracts in New Or
leans watch the cat hop New York
we'll, New York will just have to fol-
low"
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TRUsT-BUSTING THAT BUsTS.

From the Baltimore Sun.
American trust methods do not take
in England. A combination of soapmakers.
with capital of $G000o,o 600. has collapsed
under the active hostility of public senti-
ment. The sale of trust soaps fell off 50
alarmingly that the manufacturers in the
combination found that there was more
trouble and loss confronting them than
they could stand. and they backed down
The trust has been dissolved, and the pro-
motors of it admit in a public statement
that it has been received with such
disfavor by the trade and public as to
make ii unworkable.' Schemes of trust
manipulation in England lack the polit-
ical pull that is essential TO such sue
cess as trust methods have obtained in
this country. English manufacturers have
no way of fixing the tariff. or Of bossing
party organization. or of influencing the
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Kinq Leopold as Granter.

King Leopold, an individual, and a
pretty fallible one at that, has just
decided the Congo Free State to Bel
GUM. He owned it in the same sense
and to the same extent that mali
owns a farm or a city lot in this coui.-
try. and when he tired of it he decided
it to Belgium.
He thus handed over to Belgium a
pretty big farm. He gave her a tract
equal to nearly ninety Belgiums, foi
the little kingdom has an area of but
1878 square miles, while the area of
Congo is 100000 square miles. He gave
her a fertile and populous country
about equal in size to twenty Ala
bamas, holding an estimated popula-
ton of 30,000,O0O. He decided more
rubber trees than one could shake a
stick at. and more wild tribes perhaps
than exist elsewhere in any country IN
the world.
The King Leopold deed is perhaps
the master deed of the world-cer-
tanly of modern times. The Kings
title is flawless, and Belgium Is no
longer small country. 1t is as big as
the United States was before Jefferson
iockeyed Napoleon out of his Louisiana
holdings for a consideration too small
for mention.
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From The Boston Globe.

From The Boston Globe.
NJ HE old familiar warning to his
w clerk by tradesman, Don't
take any bad money" is not as
necessary in these days as it was when
the population was smaller and there
were fewer handlers of bills and coins
in every community.
Counterfeiting of money is not pursued
as criminal occupation to the extent
IL was formerly, nevertheless there is
enough of it to keep the secret service
department at Washington more or less
busy. The stringent means taken to pre-
vent the manufacture and distribution of
bad money has much to do with the
diminution in this class of crime.
There is, of course, somewhere in the
country a large quantity of counterfeit
banknotes, but it is such ancient paper,
and has been described so accurately by
the proper authorities, that every banker
and merchant is on the alert when he is
rendered these old bills and is pretty
sure to know whether or not they are
counterfeit.
1t is even asserted by the Counterfeit
Deteetor'' that in these days "Photo-
graphic notes are not dangerous, as no
invention has been perfected by which
the various colors on note can be pro-
duced,' and it adds that ION the recent
counterfeits that have appeared the tints
OF the seals and numbers are excellent
and nearly as good as genuine but the
general appearance of the notes is so bad
that an ordinary person handling money
can readily detect them
The days of the noted criminals who
could secure the necessary paper and put
up the expensive plant necessary for
counterfeiting purposes have disappeared,
but as no one can tell how soon other
ingenious rogues, dabbling in chemistry,
may appear to take their place, there
must be constant vigilance by the author
tiles.
New counterfeits of bills appear fire.
quently, but the work upon them is gen.
orally so imperfect and there is such a
hue and cry concerning them that the
makers cannot realize much profit, and
with the present police facilities prompt
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buildings of the future can, however,
be left TO the future. Do what is best,
in other words in the present, trusting
that the future will take care of itself.
Those things that are biggest when
first born may buzz finely for a while,
but they are not as a rule successful
and lasting. Let us be moderate az
the outset, doing more perhaps in IN
endowment way than in the construc-
tion of great buildings.
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BoNl IRREMEDiALLY RIDICULOUS.

Paris Dispatch to the Chicago Recorl-
Herald.
All sorts of amusing stories are gong
the rounds about extraordinary attempts
by Count Boni de Castelane to keep his
head above water.
one report had him parliamentary sec
rotary to political adversary. This is
easily disproved by the fact that BoMi
is VIGOROUSLY incapable of compiling even
the least inspiring speeches or presenting
an even mildly convincing argument, lie
himself paid the biggest sums ever known
to whole bureau of newspaper men 10
compose his sclntillating speeches and
write articles for him on foreign politics
A second rumor credits him with sup
plying scandalous revelations in high life
to a sensational journal for an enormous
salary His tid-bits are said to be spicCG
with all manner of slurs on the American
element.
But perhops the most probable and he
most enjoyed of the reports concerning
the little count is that he is taking COM
missions ON mems clothes. Boui was al
ways AN arblter Of masculine modes. His
waistcoats have been the envy of those
who paid the debt of nattery in imme1-
late imitation. Ills jeweilN was also
copied, and he made the reputation of
his furnishers of the Rue de la Pax
among the gilded youth Now lie Will Weas
their creations for other than personal
satisfaction, and while pirouetting about
in his plumage will pocket handsome
percentage.
His club friends are roaring over ne
story that Boni received an offer of Sc
e0 to become head waiter at the Cafe
Martin in New York.
But the keenest of all the Counts sui
ferngs in his present extremity is the
knowledge that he has become ut las IL
remedially ridiculous.