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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
1907 YEAR OF DISASTERS.
York Pa) Dispatch to the New Yorl
American.

York Pa) Dispatch to the New York
American
Lee J. Spangler, prophet" has issued
his 1907 bulletin.
In 1907, he says, the stars will fall.
He says Russia will lose her Car and
Turkey her Sultan in 1907, and that all
OF the kings of the nations will fall He
asserts that the end of the world will be
within two years; that within that time
there will be great famine and the rivers
of the world will be dried up; that many
of the rulers and prominent finaneiers
will hang themselves on account of finan-
cial troubles; that tidal waves will de-
stroy the seaboard towns; that there will
be political disturbances, and there will
be such troubles as the world has never
before seen.
But, most alarming of all. mothers-in-
law are to be arrayed against daughters
in-law; there are to be kitchen woes un-
precedented and families will be unable
to obtain help.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
Millionaires In Two States.

While New Jersey is trying to I'M
load Millionaire Dryden, Colorado is
taking on millionaires freely. Dryden
supplied the money that the state cam
paign was conducted on, but the voters
turned against him, and he was left
with but a narrow republican margin
in the legislature. Three or four indie
pendent republican members of the
legislature declare that they will not
vote for Dryden, and the chances now
are that he will either be defeated or
else the legislature will be deadlocked
when it tries to elect a Senator Mil
lionaires are in disfayor even in that
state.
Strangely enough, they are in high
favor in Colorado. One Simon Guggen-
helm, the smelter king, had planned to
buy the seat now held by Millionaire
Patterson. He bought it, as he had
planned, by financing from his own
pockets the republican state campaign
in Colorado, where the plants of his
particular trust are chiefly located.
But the Rocky Mountain News, owned
by Millionaire Patterson, is indignant
over the purchase of a senatorial seat
by Millionaire Guggenheim. The News
declared that law no longer prevails,
and that the state was not under re-
publican form of government" In one
way or another revolution against
the Guggenheim programme has broken
out, and the name of Multimillionaire
Thomas Ryan has been brought for
ward as compromise candidate
Thomas Ryan is young man who
once lived in Colorado, but who now
lives in Washington. Colorado is be.
coming excited over the strife between
Guggenheim and Ryan. 1t is said to
be a case pure and simple of men stay
ing bought. The legislators who are
about to meet seem to be open to prop
ositions from both Guggenheim and
Ryan, and the party bosses have lost
control of the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
Our Winter Wheat Area.

The condition of the winter wheat
area at the present time exceeds 81,
which is above the average condition
at this time in the season of seeding
and even of growth, for all winter
wheat is well-rooted, showing up above
the surface of the soil. Just at pres
ent much of ii is covered with snow,
which is also a thing of promise. A
blanket of snow means in the winter
/ wheat area many additional bushels.
When it is remembered that 60 per
cent of next years bread will come
from the winter wheat fields, we see
at once how important the first news
from the new crop is to all of us and
to the country. The winter wheat crop
now in the ground covers 31,665,000
acres. Kansas leads off with 5,930,080
acres, followed in order by Indiana.
Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Texas.
The six regular surplus states are
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Miss uri, Kan
sas and Nebraska. Kansas is easily
the chief bread-producing state in the
union, a place once held by New York,
and later by states in the central west.
The development in the production of
winter wheat is now in the states be-
You'd the Mississippi in the neighbor-
hood of Kansas, while the Dalotas and
Manitoba keep UP the supply of bread
stuffs in the form of spring wheat.
Kansas and Manitoba are fast becom-
ing our two wheat centers, the one of
wheat sown in the autumn and the
other of wheat sown in the glad spring
time. Between the two we make our
own bread, with some to spare for ex-
port. In round numbers, we should
grow next year 400,000,OOO bushels of
winter wheat and 300000,000 bushels
of spring wheat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
MAN MERELY SOAP.

From the New York World.
Man is made of soap and not of dust,
according to statement delivered before
the Harvey society at the Academy OF
Medicine in this city by Prof. ]. g. Adami
Man is not entirely made of soap, of
course, but there are scattered through
his body an unknown number of tiny
globules called ''myelns," which are now
believed to be primitive form of true
SOAP 1t is the only pure type of soap
on earth, and scientists say 1t may be
that man was originally constructed on
self-eleanslng principle. All The had to
do was to exercise his will power-thinb
hard-and set his myriads of soap glob-
ules in motion.
The soapy nature of human beings has
been discovered by means of the polarlz-
ing microscope. Prof. Adami gave a his
tory of the curious researches which led
up TO the great find" Fifty years ago
yirehow stumbled on the presence of
myelin globules in nearly every tissue
OF the body. They were plentiful in the
brain. They dissolved in hot alcohol.
Strong alkalies caused them to shrink.
Virchow thought the myelins were albu-
mems.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
Two Points of View.

christmas comes but once a year,"
said a man last night, land come on pal
let's have a good time. Birmingham can't
Won't you take a drink with me? Elk
cuse me, l didn't mean to fall against
you. I'm little unsteady.
Say, / just tried the finest brand In
that saloon around the corner, won't you
have some? Hold me steady while we
pass this policeman. Somehow I can't
walk straight
A little later another citizen was asked
how he enjoyed the day. Had the finest
time of my life," he replied. when l
awoke this morning and watched the
greatest day of the year open up in Bir-
mingham, my thoughts wandered back to
the first Christmas and with it to the
birth of our Savior.
"It was such an attractive line of
scenes leading up to, and on, that great
day just as if 1 were living then. AS
the gray streaks of dawn crept across
the horizon they became mingled in the
mind with the picture of John the Baptist
as he came out of the wilderness. the fore
runner of his master, and then, as the
light became more brilliant. it seemed as
If l were one of the shepherds listen
ing to the message of Peace on earth,
good will to men,. When the day was full
come, had not the Christ been born ?
True, it was still cloudy, for many. far
too many. were still in darkness, but the
light of the world was there.
Il spent the most of the day at home
reading Ben Hur and that same old story
again. The idea was a new one with me,
but really never was a Christmas more
enjoyable
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This is a slight unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent on errands.
Julius Caesar.
is There a Santa Claus"

The Montgomery Times republishes
an editorial bearing the foregoing cap.
ton. which first appeared in the New
York Sun. In the article an inquiry of
a little girl, s years old, is answered,
and she is told that Santa Claus is real
and abiding. The article in question
has become an American classic, and
will perhaps remain one a century or
more.
But our Montgomery contemporary
is mistaken when it says Charles A.
Dana wrote the article. He did not
write it. He could not have written it II
he had tried. One of his "hired men,
wrote it, man not widely known, but
a man highly esteemed by a select
few.
Mr.. Dana for some reason let the
public while he lived think he wrote
the article, and he died without doing
justice to the writer of it. Justice was
tardy in this instance, and the truth
did not become generally known until
the author himself died about a year
ago. He was over so years old, kind
ly man, largely given to the study Of
church and religious questions, and q
writer beloved by a small circle oil
friends and admirers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
GOING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS.

BY Edmund Vance Cooke.
The rattle of the coaches say
I'm going, going home today"
December blooms as blithe as May,
The winds shrek is a roundelay.
I'm going going home today,
Going home for Christmas"
The snowfalxes dance and cry Murray!
He's going, going home today
The skies are blue, or skies are gray.
And life is work, or life is play;
Who cares? I'm going home today,
Going home for Christmas.
My foot beats time, my pulses play
I'm going. going home today
Care turns her back and speeds away,
Love smiles upon me light and gay;
I'm going, going home today,
Going home for Christmas"
oh, fate may bring me bells or bay,
But I'm going home today.
And fortune say me yea or nay,
And fame deny me, or delay,
But mistletoe and holly say
I'm going. going home today
Going home for Christmas"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
Mansfield ToniuI1t.

Il have seen great actors-Booth, Bar
rett, Cusbman and others, now dead-but
of the histriones. now living Mansfield is
the unquestioned premier" said an old
citizen. And. of all Mansfield's plays,
Beau Brummer is his master work.
Partisan Romance and other plays have
been made great by Mansfield, but not
one, in my opinion, has come UP to his
Beau Brummel.'
IN this play Mansfield is on the stage
all the while; is ever before his audience;
yet he speaks but few lines-not more
than 500 In the entire play. 1t is con-
summate acting and no one who appre-
ciates the dramatic art can afford to
miss Mansheld's performance at the
Jefferson''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
SHORTAGE OF MEN MARKED

mand now, as in the past Skilled oper-
atiyes who have worked IN northern rlills
are now found in southern cotton mills.
The west is full of prosperous farmers.
who could not make farming pay in the
east. Skilled artisans have moved from
one state to another and found steady
employment.
There has been a tremendous .expan-
sion of all kinds of business IN the United
States within a few years. In most lines
of trade and in the many new indus
tries which have sprung up of late, there
is a steady demand for experienced II en-.
A man should have proper knowledge
of the requirements of tho calling hs
seeks to enter. A man who goes west
is not asked about his ancestors or now
intimate he is With the elasslcs-the APP
rupt question to him IS. What can you
do?" If he can fill the vacant position
be gyts II at once; L MT, no time =
wasted on him.
America is not unlike other nations
in the matter of having too many in
competent workers. This country, how
ever, is at present plunged into such
sufficient competent workers Is more APP
parent to the heads Of great enterprises.
There is every encouragement fer young
men to fit themselves for the great bust
mss activities of the United States. Mary
squander time at calling for Which
they are diff. This class should strike
out and get into the occupation for which
they are fitted. Pas. failures should not
daunt them. The most successful men
have been failures generally az something
before they succeeded in finding their
proper places In this great working world.
There may be shortage OF eolnpe-
tent men throughout the country. If so
there is encouragement in mat for the
rising generation. Those who determine
not to be failure but to succeed at
something will speedily ind themselves on
the right road. Nor should they rely
too much upon assistance from others.
'TIeaven helps those who help them
aliyes"
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each and all overcrowded. The ORR
entail population in each one of them Is
endeayoring to get away in order to
avoid starvation. This is why Japan
is aggressive. This is why she is seek
ing to extend her limits. She has
seized Korea and opened Manchuria,
but both Korea and Manchuria are
crowded with people.
The Japanese and the Chinese are
therefore looking across the Pacific,
and upon San Francisco is thrown the
chief onus of this Oriental desire. The
Japanese procure passports to Hawaii,
knowing that after a brief stay in or
about Honolulu they can take passage
for the mainland. It is this movement
that San Francisco is trying to check,
and to turn back, and it has two sides
to it, as all unprecedented persons must
see. No matter how intelligent the
Japanese must be, it is plain that the
AngloSaxon and other assimilated
races from Europe will not willingly
permit Oriental immigration to change
for the worse the entire situation. All
the facts should be taken into consid-
Grafton before San Francisco is sternly
condemned in relation to its famous
Oriental school, or its Oriental exclu-
sion leagues.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
Silence lie golden. and yet some people
refuse to keep still.
Shoes may come and shoes may CO. but
men kick on forever.
The louder a man talks, the easier II Is
to not believe what he says.
There isn't much satisfaction in arguing
with "A man who doesn't care.
Some women look as If they had put on
their complexion wrong side out.
It's sometimes as difficult to be right
as it is to prove the other fellow wrong.
Some folks are so fond of the charity
that begins at home that they keep 1t
there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
BRYCE Is AN EXCEPTION.

settlers come from the north, and no
part of the United States has within
the present century received 50 small u
share of European immigration. Slavery
was fatal deterrent while 1t lasted and
OF late years the climate. the presence
of the negro, and the notion that work
was more abundant elsewhere, have con-
tinued to defect in a more northerly di-
reetion the stream that flows from Eu
rope. But the old race, which is, except
in Texas. where there is a small Mex-
can and larger German element, and
in Louisiana, pure English and Scotch
Irish race, full of natural strength, has
been stimulated and invigorated by the
changed condition of its life"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
Wreck Reported In Utah.

Salt Lake City, December pa dis
patch to the Herald from Price, Utah.
says that Rio Grande passenger train
No. 3, westbound,~ was wrecked at
Mounds. seventeen miles east of Price
last night. Engineer McGrath was killed
and Fireman w. B. Vaughan was Sc
riously injured. Two wrecking trains have
gone to the scene The wrecked train
was running as the first section of No.
g. 1t is believed vt ran into a train
which had taken the siding, but failed
to clear. So far as known the pas
sengers escaped injury. There is no wire
connection with Mounds and details of
the accident are difficult to secure
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
SENATOR rises from his seat in
the United States Senate and de-
clares that the present tie-up of

MN the United states senate anu ue-
clares that the present tie-up of
freight in many parts of the country IS
due not so much to scarcity of cars
as to a shortage of men to operate those
cars, which the railroads possess
Another senator states tina. the army
is short of men, there being three guns
to each enlisted man. He desires an in
be more soldiers engaged by the govern
ment Complaint is made also that there
Is a lack of men in the navy
This shortage of men Is new form
of disease In the industrial world, iudg-
ing by the numerous voeations cited re-
Gently as being in dire need CT more men.
It is undoubtedly true that there Is
q shortage of competent and experienced
men in many ca1lings. The amazing pros
perity the country has enjoyed has 50
enlarged the work of the railroads that
many inexperienced men must have beer
employed in the west, with the natural
result xof considerable defective work.
There has been a raise in salaries among
many railroad employees, but with the
vast amount of extra traffic the roads
have been called upon To handle, the tull
force of old men has been kept busy and
many new ones have been hired who were
inexperienced.
The chairman of the interstate conf
MERGE commission evidently has studied
Industrial conditions very thoroughly, for
he is quoted as declaring: 1.-THE whole
country is in a state Of more or less
congestion in the individual rs well as
in the organized or corporate case. There
is a condition of inefhcieney resulting
from demands which exceed present ca
pacity.'
The above is a philosophic statement
of a fact familiar to all business men.
When one sees men out N employment
in the large cities he is apt to forget
the loud call there is in many manu-
featuring sections of The country For
skilled artisans. The experienced worker
is as much, and probably moro in de-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
kAlsER,s CHRISTMAS TREE.

Wolf Won Schierbrand in Lippncott's
Magazine.
The Bescheerung las the distribution of
gifts under the spreading Christmas tree
is called in Germany is divided into two
parts. First comes one for the members
of the imperial household, from the mean
est kitchen scullion upward.
Hundreds of small tables in a large
gallery of the Neues Paais are each COW
cred with presents, and the whole scene
is dominated by a Christmas tree, per-
feet giant of its kind
Each and every one of the servants
higher and lower officials, is spoken to
personally by Kaiser and kaiserin.
The second part of the Bescheerung is
the one exclusively for the imperial fam
lily themselves. 1t always takes place in
tho Observation-Disclosures immense hall in
the Neues Palais, the decoration of which
is in mother-of-pearl and beautiful sea-
shells and clusters of coral of every kind.
For this evening the hall is bordered
on each side by evergreens, holly and
mistletoe, forming two graceful hedges
wherein dark green is enlivened by scar
let berries, making fine effect.
A beautiful little structure representa-
tive of the manger. showing the Christ
child. the Virgin Mother, and the shep-
herd kings in alteration, is set up in a
corner of the hall. This is always the
special task of the Kaiser himself Most
captivating the stern Kaiser is then.
Standing before his own lay out, he
shows all the boyish good nature and
curiosity of his sons-polling his nose into
this box or that case, making pretense
of being unable to unite parcel wrapped
up with particular cunning, glancing
through some new books or a portfolio
OF rare prints. smiling, laughing, and
shouting and being a child again among
childran
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San Franchises Problem.

Perhaps after all we should not blame
the whites of San Francisco oyermuch.
They are acting no doubt as we would
act under like circumstances. The real
trouble in our chief port on the Pacific
is that the Japanese laborer undercuts
his American co-worker, and the JAP
anese merchant is smart enough to get
his share of trade. This is the essence
of the contest.
And it does not relate simply to 5000
Japanese now housed in San Francisco,
but it relates to 10000 more Japanese
who are in Hawaii. About one thous-
and a month arrive in Hawaii from
Japan, and about that number sail
away from Hawaii to the mainland,
and the brunt of the problem falls upon
San Francisco. These facts come di.
rectly from Commissioner General Sar.
gent OF the bureau OF immigration, and
they may be accepted az at least APP
proy1nately correct.
These facts explain why exclusion
leagues have been organized in San
Francisco--why Mayor Schrnitz and
the labor leaders are vigorously com.
batting what they are pleased to call
'the Japanese hordes." The school
question arose as an incident of the
general situation.
The fact should never be lost sight
OF that Japan. China and Korea are
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
WRECK IN OHIO.
Big Four Passenger Train Crashes Into
Rear of Freight Train.

Springfield. o., December 25-East-
bound Big -Four passenger train due here
at SIS a. M, ran into the rear of freight
train No 96 In the western part of the
city The list of injured includes eigh-
teen passengers. none serious. The crew
of the passenger train jumped.
The most seriously injured are:
Mrs. Alice King, Horshman, o.
Susie Kaliler Osborne o.
Mrs Mary Redmond, Osborne, o.
Three freight cars were demolished and
the engine of the passenger train was
slightly damaged The engineer of the
passenger engine says the brakes failed
to work.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
consienees Should Unload Promptly.

Topeka, Kas., December 25.-Referring
to the congested condition of the rail-
roads at present J. e. Hurley, general
manager of the Santa Fe. said today:
"Consignees might relieve the conges-
ton II they would unload cars. expe-
ditionsly. There are today 1900 loaded
cars in Galveston waiting for conslgnees
to empty them and turn them back into
commission Since January l. 1902, the
Santa Fe system has purchased $50 en-
gines and 2O256 freight cars of various
classes. We have received only $50 of these
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
Arrange Russo-Japanese Treaty.

st. Petersburg, December 25.-The last
conference before the Christmas festivities
on the questions between Russia and ia
DIR. Monoto, the Japanese minister is 60
ing to Paris to spend the holidays and the
conference will be resumed on his return
and detailed report of progress of nego-
tiations for the contamination of a Russo
Japanese commercial treaty is expected to
appear shortly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
Would Prevent Stock Issue.

Minneapolis, Mimi. December 25-Attor-
ney General Young will file tomorrow
his papers in an injunction suit of the
state seeking to prevent the additional
issue of $780, o0o 900 in stock by the Great
Northern railway. The Great Northern
railroad is a Minnesota corporation and
under the state law is required to secure
the consent of the state railway and
warehouse commission before issuing new
stock or other securities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
A Good Christmas.

Christmas of 1906 has come and gone.
Here in Birmingham it was a good
Christmas. 1t was not only prosperous
from money point of view, but better
still, the great Christian festival brought
joy to thousands and came as a lesson
and benediction to the people at large.
This Christmas just passed was indeed
the best of all. 1t was a merry Christ
mas and the New Year will be glad
and happy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-26
FLYER HITS TROLLEY CAR.
One Killed and Fifteen Injured In Ac-
cdent at Ashtabula, o.

Ashtabula. Ohio, December 25-The Buff
alo-Pittsburg flyer today struck a troll
Icy car on the Ashtabula Rapid Transit
line at the Lake street grade crossing
of the Lake Shore railroad. The street
car was demolished. One person was
killed and fifteen injured.
The dead: Leonard Newbold of Ashta-
bula, aged II
The injured: c. J. Bullock and William
Raignehart of gainesville, Robert Bap-
tiste. Erie, Pa; William Cook, Jasper
Horton, Mrs. James Whelpley, James
Whelpley, Mrs. Rorace Johnson, Clayton
Gardner, Mrs. Clayton Jenkins, Frank
Capltani, John Capitani, Rosalie Jeirgin.
A. Cosino, Rowley Newbold, all of Ashta-
bula.