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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
Loved and Lost,

"Of course you know the story of the
Judge who noticing a concealed weapon
in the court room, stated that If the
guilty man would go forward and lay the
pistol with a dollar on the table he would
not be arrested. whereupon forty pistols
ana $40 were secured within half hour"
said a young man yesterday.
'sWen. 1 experienced n most amusing
parallel this afternoon. There were some
thirty fellows gathered around the table
at the Young Mems Christian association
in a fellowship lunch. one of those enjoy
able informal affairs in which everybody
has merry time.
THE subject of discussion was, 'Choos-
ing a Wife and as nearly everyone pres
ent was a bachelor, numerous jokes were
exchanged.
In a lull of the conversation the leader
stated that there was one man at the
beard who by experience was prepared
to speak on Having Loved and Lost
Bushes mounted to the cheeks of every
one in the room. l felt sure that l was
the man. The leader was looking directly
at me, so l rose to my feet amid the ap
plause and laughter of all present. At this
point it was announced that / was not
the man intended after all, and it soon de-
veloped that nearly everyone in the room
had loved and lost We very reluctantly
conf essed "
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tariff revision. The tariff beneficiares
possess and have long possessed
swollen fortunes, and to them the
republican looks for the slush fund Of
1908. It will not therefore attack the
Dingley tariff. However much demo-
Gratis may fovar Mr.. Rooseyelt's in
heritarae tax, or may favor an income
tax, or may desire to combat central
ization they should not forget the all
important basic heed of tariff revision.
The Hattie of 1908 should be fought
on tariff revision lines, and new is
sues should not be permitted to eclipse
or even obscure the tariff issue
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24

| loanable capital has been practically ex-
| hausted by the activity in business, by
high prices and by unusual demands for
financing new enterprises and especially
the increased facilities of our great rail-
road systems. These demands are of an
extraordinary character; the three sys-
tems-Great Northern, St. Paul and
Northern Pacifc-haying alone authorized
| commitments of $50 100000 new capital
during the next two years. When to this
amount is added the requirements of the
Pennsylvania, the Vanderbilt and the
Hartman systems, 1t will be seen that
much of the present stringeney in New
York is due to the extraordinary de-
mands of the railroads, rendered impera-
tive by their inability to handle present
traffic requirements.
"a somewhat better feeling was im=
parted by the decline in foreign exchange
to the gold importing point. Two reasons,
however, appear to have deferred opera
tons of that character: First, fear that
renewal of American demands upon the
Bank OF England would cause an advance
in the rate Of the latter and be so dis
turbing to the situation over there as to
injure the situation here through reflex
action. The Bank of England reserve fell
to 3S.54 per cent, as against f.02 last
week. killing the hope that we would be
able to get money from London before
January /. Another deterrent was the
present cratic condition of the money
market; for an order for gold imports
which might show a profit now might
easily be turned into a loss ten days
later when the gold arrives, owing to wild
fluctuations In interest rates during the
interval, especially as Secretary Shaw
is not now able to lend the government
gold. The Bank of Germany advanced the
rate of discount as a matter of self pro-
lection, while the Bank of France showed
a further disposition to assist the Bank
Of England in case of necessity. The sit
uation abroad, therefore, ON the whole,
is somewhat better, although the i'm
provement is not likely to result in any
further additions to our present large
gold supply. The coming bank statement
should show some Improvement as the
result of government operations, stock
market 1iquidations, and the receipt OF
funds from interior banks, so that the
market is now entitled to fair rallies
after the breaks"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
Voices from MARYLAND.

Secretary Roots bold invitation to
progressive Capitalization brought the
two Maryland senator's to their feet at
once. Senator Whyte is an octoge-
marian, but he got in his resolution
first In his resolution he declares the
states hold all the powers not especial
ly delegated to the confederated repub-
lic and he denounces the strained cor
structions of the constitution that the
centralizers plainly invite. But Sena-
tor Rayner's resolution is even briefer
and he Tres more directly at the White
House. We give the lattcr's resolution
i'll full, as follows
Resolved, That in the opinion of the
Senate the functions of the executive be
limited to the performance of tho duties
assigned to him by the constitution and
the laws passed in pursuance thereof; and
there should be no interference by the
executive with the legislative or judicial
departments of the government. or with
inc ItStiNeu IlBilS VI lit SliltSt anu tic
legislative. judicial and executive de-
partments of the government should be
forever kept separate and distinct; and.
Resolved, further, That the states
have no authority to surrender any of
their reserved rights under the constitu-
ton to the federal government"
1t is scarcely necessary to add that
both resolutions lie on the presiding
officers table They will continue to
lie there while the centralizers con-
tinue to conduct the Senate on inn
perialistic, monopoistic and pluto
cratic lines, for Privilege and Empire
are two birds that flock together il
that body on all critical occasions.
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RUBBER FROM WHEAT.

Wheat and hogs, hitherto regarded by
the farmer of the Mississippi valley SIM
ply as food products, have assumed a
new commercial Importance. In brief,
wheat and hogs spittle will produce rub
ber
In an article entitled Rubber Made
From Wheat William T. Walsh writing
in reference to this matter in the Tech
meal World Magazine for January, says:
The Importance of the discovery can
scarcely be overestimated coming as it
does at a time when the world is anx-
iuosly asking from where its future sup
plies of rubber are to come. In half
decade it is said, the annual consump-
ton of the elastic material will be at
least $4,000 tons. Even 100000 tons is
garded by many as a conservative esti-
mate
1t was by accident that Mr.. Carr. the
English inventor or discoverer of the
substance, made the first step in his great
discovery He was but a small boy then.
Passing one day through field of wheat
he plucked a few grams of the cereal,
and, chewing them, formed the glutinous
compound so familiar to every country
lad. Many years later, recalling his early
experience, he began putting his theory
to the test. His first laboratory was
small shed in his back yard; his appar-
atus, coffee-grinder and kettle of
hot water. Later, he was able to obtain
the use of the best shops and laboratories
in England.
After years of experimentation Mr..
Carr has ultimately achieved success. But,
continues the writer, in the face of tae
fact that so many men have failed in their
attempts to produce a similar product.
how can we be 1t all certain that tho
new product will realize our expectations?
There is usually specific test for the
A. .t.,rra~ It, . laa
case of cereal rubber, the test is vul-
canization. This is process of hardening,
through the introduction of sulphur, 10
enable rubber to resist the action of heat
and solvent chemicals. But three sub
stances, so far as is known, can stand
this process: they are natural rubber
gutta-percha, and the new product known
as cereal rubber.
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Csnvicts in Tennessee.

Alabama's convicts are earning Il
good deal of money, but the conyicts
of Tennessee are doing even better.
The net profits of the conyicts in
Tennessee in the last twelve months
foot up s257S48. These profits were
largely produced by method that has
never been adopted in this state. Ten
nessee owns coal lands, and she puts
her convicts at work in her own mines,
and sells the product as any other pro-
queer does. She is too subjected 10
car shortage and other annoyances
just as other coal operators are.
An increasing income from her coal
mines is, however, building up a
sentiment in Tennessee favorably to
the purchase of additional coal lands.
Conyictmined coal bids fair to be-
come. u feature of coal production in
both Alabama and Tennessee. Ala
bama owns, however, no coal lands,
and Tennessee may in the long run
secure more money from her convicts
than we can because we mine coal fo-
others and not for ourselves. Tonnes
see has coal to sell, and we have
none. The difference in methods
seems TO be working in Tennessee's
favor, for her net profits from convict
labor in her own mines are going up
at the rate of $4,000 year.
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From Current Literature.

From Current Literature.
IA e have occasionally heard of
WV certain enthusiasts, to give
w them a dignified title, who de-
sired to disllluslonize the modern mind
of that pretty myth of Santa Claus. They
were fond of taking as their motto, call
a spade a spade" and named themselves
''reformers." Adopting the same motto,
it has always seemed to us that their
photography was at fault, and that they
had got one letter wrong. Their name
should be "deformers." 1t has even been
rumored that the ACCESSIBILITY of relegat-
ing the old reindeer driver to the region
of werewolves and headless horsemen has
formed the subject of discussion in certain
learned coteries. The School Journal, in
deed, has thought the matter so serious
as to give to it an editorial which most
assuredly is worth the consideration of
all who would make the child mind as
matter of fact as their own. Are there
teachers of little children so lacking in
the finer sensibilities and so devoid Of
ordinary tact that they will deliberately
set out to destroy a poetic fancy which is
the joy of youthful hearts? 1t seems in
credible. Yet there must be some. For
each year brings reports of cases where
rnhumaned-they must be that-teachers
have upset their pupils by telling them
that there Is no Santa Claus; that the
stories about him are not true; that the
presents received on Christmas Day are
gifts provided by parents and friends. The
usual result is that the children are great
~ stirred up and the parents become very
indignant at what they regard as unpar-
donable Cruelty on the part of the
teacher.
Are not teachers to tell the truth in all
things? Is 1t not best for children to face
realities? Do not we fail to grasp a splen-
did opportunity II we omit to teach the
children to regard the Christmas pres
ents as tokens of the affection of their
parents and to give thanks to whom this
is due? Is 1t right, instead of doing this,
to leave the children in their belief of
Santa Claus?
The belief in Santa Claus may be the
anchor which holds the child to the moor
ings of the wonderland of happy inno-
eence. Snap It, and you send him adrift
on the sea of doubts on which, in the
wise order of Providence, it is only mans
lot to travel. Let the children be chill
dren as long as their childhood can be
made to last. Childhood is not disease,
as the practice of many misguided edu-
Gators would seem to treat it. Let 1T be
regarded as the Garden of Eden. which
yanishes with the first taste OF the fruit
of the tree of knowledge Once outside the
gates of this paradise, no return Is pos
sible; a flaming sword points out to
life of toll. The Great Teachers warn
ing hand is raised; take heed that you
do not offend one of these little ones!
Why force the misery of disillusion
upon the child? 1t will overtake him early
enough, anyway. And Santa Claus, alas
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
Blaney Plans MeIodramatIc Festival

In a recent interview with Charles e.
Blaney, the well known author and man
ager he was asked his opinion of the
future of melodrama. In reply he said:
Il have for the past ten years placed
before the theatregoing public of the
United States more dramatic offerings
than any three managers in the country.
I really think that the melodrama teaches
a good moral lesson and helps to bring
home to the theatregoers the real SUI
ferng and injury caused by bad men and
women. One of the greatest pleasures
I have, is upon witnessing the first per-
Torrance of one of my new plays, to lis
ten to the applause given to the good
people and to hear the gallery gods hiss
the wicked ones. l have recently closed
contract with Miss Laura Jean Libby,
the we'll known novelist, whereby, she
is to dramatlze all of her novels for the
next ten years to come The first one oil
which, l will open on or about the first
of the year, entitled Parted on Her
Bridal Tour
/ During the past summer, Mr.. Fiske
O'Hara, the latest Irish singing comedian
ana DlSScll, ul1ut q lluAlAoo UP ~
land to get environment for a new irish
piece for him to be produced in 1907.
see by the papers that Charles Frohman
and w. A. Brady are to hold Shakes
pearian festival this spring in New YORK.
| have decided to try to go them one
better. My theatre, which Is now being
built in New York, l hope to have com
pleted by the first of May; if not, l am
going to engage another Broadway house,
and hold what [ term melodramatic
festival; that is, for two weeks, l will
produce a different play every night with
the same cast, scenery and other equip
ments that have been playing on the road
this season. As l have just exactly four
teen shows, I can fill the two weeks very
well'
Mr. Blaney has the proud distinction of
having made the record breaking trip of
the United States in his Pullman auto
mobile. About two moEhhs ago he started
from New York with his Jap valet, and
chauffeur, and visited his seven theatres,
and fourteen companies covering five
states and making the trip in the record
time of seventy-two hours.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
IN HONOR OF GEN. R. E.1EE

{ there was no higher call to duty and no
greater privilege for him than to spend
tie remainder of his life in endeavoring
to influence young men in mental and in
moral and in spiritual DEVELOPMENT. So he
became president of Washington college,
and hither hocked the youth of the south.
For four long years they had been largely
deprived of opportunities for higher edn-
cation, and even then few colleges and
universities in the south were in a posi-
tion to open their doors, closed by the
ruthless hand of war.
During the five years that General lee
was spared to preside over the institution
and impress his influence upon those
committed to his charge over 900 students
were enrolled His estimate of the impor-
lance of that influence in just one dfrec-
ton may be Judged from the passage
In his letter of acceptance, written in
August. 1865 in which he writes: 81 think
1t is the duty of every citizen, IN the
present condition of the country, to do
all in his power to aid in the restoration
of peace and harmony. 1t is particularly
incumbent on those charged with the in
struction of the young to set them an ex-
ample of submission to authority" Such
sentiments, impressed by such a man on
nearly a thousand picked young men,
gathered from all parts of the south,
could not fail to have counted for much
toward 'the restoration of peace and
harmony" which he so earnestly sought
1t is interesting that the orator at the
coming celebration. the man who comes
to honor the memory of the man against
whom he fought now more than a genera
ton ago. should be Charles Francis
Adams. The family of the one is as close
ly identified with Massachusetts as that
of the other with Virginia; the anees-
tors of both were prominent among the
makers of our country" each was ready
in 81 to offer his life on behalf of his
own view of patriotism. The coming &C.
casion, as Massachusetts and Virginia,
the dead leader and the living statesman,
are brought together, in peace and not
i'll war, is evidence, if evidence were at
all needed, that this is today indeed one
united country.
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HIST FORE CHRISTMAS
BY Eugene Field.
BY Eugene Field.
ATHER calls William, sister calls me WIZ
ftC Mother calls Willie but the felers call me
Mighty glad I amt girl-ruther be a boy,


ATIIER me william, sister calls me VIII;
TO- Willie, but the elers call me bni'
/ Mighty lad I amt a gir-ruther be boy
an Faunteoy!
Love TO chawnk swimmin in the lake
JJateto the they give for belyacne'
round there amt no MES on me-
cot q elled dog him on the cat
First thin she know where she at!
Cot A. clipper sled an kids goes out to shde
Long he all hook ride;
Rut ines VIII
He a with his whip an arrups up ms moss
then I af teched me!
T3t lest m as kin be-
Granma she hopes to be man
ri be a missi brother Dan,
AS ct up by cannbals that live IN Ceyon Isle
Where an only man is VIE
R,t gran ma she snever beent O a Wild West SHOW
Buff an cowboys enough ror me,
jes foreC Christmas, when I'm sooo as hin pe'
And then he like an still
theys Whats the matter little BnF
wonders wpat cecome
But l am operlte a esarnesty to biz
mothe 70
But father havin' a hssef. suspicious
When Jest foreC kin be-
For candies cakes an toys
kids for naughty boys;
SO yerfa an an mind ps and
shoes
Say. Yassun to "Yessur' to the
An vhen plate pie
But. hinkn of like that
fore Christmas be good as yer kin be-
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From the New York Post.

From the New York Post.
N CELEBRATION of the one hun
fNP0 dredth anniversary of the birth OF
= Gen. Robert E. Lee will be held
at Washington and Lee university, Lex
ington, Va, on January is and 10 next.
The celebration will open on the evening
OF the 18th with exercises by the Graham
Lee Literary society. On January 10 at
Il a. m. Charles Francis Adams of Mas
sachusetts will deliver an address. At
p. m. luncheon will be served to the
Confederate Veterans by the Sons of the
Confederate Veterans. At 8 p. m. the
alumni who were students during Gen.
Robert E. Lees presidency Of Washington
college now Washington and Lee uni
versity) will have a supper.
To the world at large the fame of Gen.
Robert e. Lee rests upon his reputation
as great general. To a more limited
number, who knew him personally, or
who have learned to know him through
those biographies which have revealed his
private life, his personal character as a
Christian gentleman has outweighed even
his skill as a military leader. By COM
paratively few has the greatness of Cen
eral Lee as an educator been recognized,
and yet this was the field to which he
consecrated the best energies of his ma
turest years.
When the war closed General Lee was
offered many positions of honor and emol-
ument. In some of these positions his
ability would have meant great Success
to himself and to those associated with
him. Through other positions it was deli
cately sought to give him we'll deserved
rest and peace for his last years, where
he would be free from all cares regarding
an income. To all these he turned a deaf
ear, but when the call came from a lit
tie struggling college in the valley of
Virginia, college rich in historic asso-
citation but poor in equipment and en-
dowment; a college which has never
looked to state for aid, and which, found
ed and largely patronized. by the sturdy
Seotch-Irish, had been free from denom-
national prescription and control; when
this call came the great leader felt that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Before a girl refuses TO marry man
she gets a guarantee from him that he
will ask her again.
When a man doesn't get mad with the
way a girl plays whist It's sign she Is
mighty pretty.
A woman tries to make other people
believe she trusts her husband in tho
hope she can make herself believe it.
Next to lodging the custom house. a
woman seems to like best not having
the street car conductor collect her fare.
Marriage would be A great success If a
mans wife would let nm wear his old
clothes and not make him put OH rubbers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Late Trains.

Talk about late trains in the south,
those arriving in Birmingham are doing
well compared with the trains out west
said J. d. Waller at the Metropolitan.
IN New Mexico, Colorado and other
states which I visit, trains are thought
to be doing well if they are not more
than twelve hours behind time. Trains
south of the Ohio river do not regard
schedules as do the trains in the east,
but person coming here from the west
thinks the schedules are comparatively
we'll observed -
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THE UTEs.
From the New York Globe.

From the New York Globe.
Fire Chief McHugh of Deadwood wrote
to Secretary Taft that the Utes had had
enough hot air and needed rations and
clothes. -Birmingham Age-Herald.
If the Utes are anything like most In
dams what they need Is bucket of soap
and curry comb for each.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24
THE SUB-TREASURY,

From the Pensacola Journal.
Montgomery, birmingham, Atlanta and
Memphis are all candidates for the loca-
ton of the sub-treasury. May the best
town win.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24

There are twenty thousand newspa-
pers in this country and the editors of
evey one of them is worried about
having to do without railroad passes
after January |
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The candidates for parliament in
Germany will have to put their Christ
mas money into the canvass, and they
should recoup the money from the
Kaiser who forced on the election.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24

Simon Guggenhem is the last mag
nate who will be elected Senator in
Colorado, for that state is about TO
adopt the primary system.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24

Carrie Nation surprised Chattanooga
by going into a saloon and not using
her Ratchet. The proprietor was no
doubt agreeably surprised.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24

The gin mills of Brownsville are
what led to the shooting up of the
town
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The ship subsidy bill is getting into
position to receive its annual wallop-
ing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24

Santa Claus buys toys for children
instead of seats in the Senate for their
daddies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-24

The price of ice has been reduced in
Boston. but people who can hack it off
the pump every morning are not re-
jocing
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The ship subsidy bill should crawl
back into its little pigeon hole there
to remain until December of next year
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Christmas is now screaming reaii-
ty to the procrastinating shopper.
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congressman would not throw away
their dictionaries even to please the
President and Matthew Brander.
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Andrew Carnegie seems TO think an
inheritance tax will do what he has
not been able to do.
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The prudent shopper is now making
a list of what she will buy in Decem-
Ter, 1907.
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1t is not believed that President
tomorrow, it being Christmas day.