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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
PRESIDENTS PANAMA TRIP

establish and maintain steamship linz
10 Brazil. Brazil is now establishing
line to this country) We have always
held that the best possible way of main
tanning and indicating the Monroe doc
trine would be not to stand at one side
and bid Europe keep hands off, but our
selves to cultivate the closest possible
relationship, commercial, social and POI
litica1 with South America, and make
American influences SO potent there asl
to preclude all danger of European intruil
sion. For President Roosevelt to select
one of those republics as the object OF
the first foreign visit of an American
President cannot fail to create most fa-
continent, and to prove an important
step toward a desirable end.
The Panama canal which furnishes the
occasion of the Presidents journey, Isl
commonly thought of as an east and
west route of traffic. Doubtless it will
be that a connecting passageway be-
tween our own eastern and western
coasts, and highway from our eastern
states to that far east which is the
west. Nevertheless, as a matter of fact,
, the canal runs not east and west, but
north and south, and we shall do well
to bear in mind the great part 1t is to fill
in the promotion of traffic between North
America and South America. In the mar
rowest material sense it will cut the two
continents asunder. In the highest, broad
est, most important sense, 1t will draw
them closer together, and unite them
with indissoluble bonds. 1t is well that
the President is in this unprecedented
manner to identify himself with that
epoch-making work, and with what We
may confidently regard as the opening
of new and mutually benefcent era
in the relationship of the great Ameri-
can continent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
HREsIDENT RoOsEyELTS visit
~ to Panama will be a unique and
suspicious incident in American
history 1t will not be the first time
President has gone outside of the terri
torial limits of the United States, but it
will be the first time one has visited a
foreign country. In that it will set a COM
mendable precedent. In stopping at Porto
Rico ON his way south Mr.. Roosevelt will
do away with the foolish notion that the
outlying possessions of the United States
can never be visited by the President,
because in so doing he would have to
leave the United States. One of these days
we may hope he or some succeeding
President Will vsiit our other possessions
Hawaii Guam, the Philippines, and,
above all, Alaska, which we have owned
for nearly forty years and during the adj
ministration of nine Presidents, but which
because of foolish superstition has not
yet been visited by the chief of its gov
ernment In visiting Panama he will DEM
onstrate that a President of the United
States is not a prisoner, Dalai Lama or
a Brooding Buddha, but is as free to go
about the world as is the French Presi-
dent or the German Emperor.
We must regard 1t, too, as particularly
auspicious that this foreign excursion of
an American President is to be made to
one of the republics of Latin America.
Those countries have, and not entirely
without reason, often regarded the Uni
ted States as either too cold or too pa
tronizing to be an ideal neighbor. 1t is
cause for reproach to this country tina.
1t has so little cultivated intercourse with
those states and has largely left 1t to
them to take the initiative in commercial
or other appointments. (Note, for cur
rent example, that, while the United
states has been unwilling or unable to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
No Landslide in the County

The vote in this county for sheriff in
the run-off was $500; on election day
the vote for sheriff was but 9283-a
loss of 226 votes. The loss in demo-
cratic votes was probably fully thous-
and, because on election day republi-
cans, socialists and all odds and ends
could vote. The qualified republican
vote of the county exceeds 500.
Higdon's vote in the run-off was
1885, on election day it was 5196-a
gain of 40 votes Stiles polled in the
run-off 1853 votes, on election day he
had 40S7 yotes-a loss of 666 votes.
A change of 555 votes would have
changed the result. But no one can
say that 555 democrats changed their
votes between the run-off and election
day, because we do not know how 500
republicans and 200 socialists voted.
They presumtiyely voted against regu-
larity and in favor of irregularity, and
if they did that to a man they decided
the election.
The problem is, however. too liz
definite, not to say obstIuse, for real
settlement. But this mu~l can be said,
namely, the stay-at-home vote and the
voters outside the democratic party
were important factors in the case,
and there was no landslide whatever
in it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
THE 1907 GIRL.
Plans of tine Beautiful New Model Are
Nearly Complete.

From the PttsNurg Dispatchh.
Artists will soVn announce plans for
the 1907 girl and, es a consequence, ex-
element obtains in modeldom. The
knights of the brush and palette have
practically decreed that the new type
of beauty shall not be masculine, and that
her first requisite shall be mapner. The
minute you look at her you will see that
she has repose. The girl of 1907 will be
extremely simple, although she may not
be an exponent of Pastor Wagner's doc
trine. In other words, she is going to
look as though she were very simple.
Absolute perfection in the art of sweet
simplicity will be one of the features of
the 07 heart breaker. 1t is not a Maud
Muller simplicity, savoring of new-mown
hay, but an artistic simplicity. The girl
of next year will be tall and slender. She
may have to resort to Mile. Champagne
heels and to stretching exercises and she
may have to wear a high Mary Jane top
not, but, in all events, she must be tall
She will be different from any other type
of femininity before her. She will be beau
tiful il she makes her figure conform to
the mold of the artists. and the beauties
of this year will be compelled to quit the
job.
Artists models are now busy preparing
themselves for the new-woman scheme.
The plump ones are reducing their avor-
dupois and taking lessons in the art of
standing perfectly still without moving
their "tootsies' about. Unless she Is a
restful girl she will not fill the bill for
next year According to prominent ar
fist, many professional models are talk
| ing double lessons in massage. One kind
develops and the other takes, off the super
| fuous flesh. The new fashioned girl with
| the new figure has some sharply aecen-
| tuated characteristics Her shoulders are
broad-not like those of a full back but
good and broad. Measurements, bust and
otherwise. have been announced by New
York artists for the new type OF woman,
but what's the use giving them? 1t woulS
simply give many women the blues.
| There are Greek statues which suggested
to the artists the new type of model and
there are New York artists who have
declared that the women who pose for
them must have those characteristics.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
Iiuon johnson.

The recent decision of the United States
supreme court in the case of the state of
Georgia against the Ducktown Mining
company is attracting a good deal of at
tention, as it establishes far-reaehin
precedent. The general effect of the de-
cision Is that the supreme court has jnr-
isdiction in suits brought by states. Here
individuals residing in other states. Here
tofore, in all previous suits, the supreme
court has acted merely as umpire or
arbitrator When the state of Missouri
went into the courts against the state of
illinois, anent the Chicago drainage canal,
the supreme court was merely an arbi-
traitor.
Ligon Johnson OF Atlanta, young at
torney of marked ability prepared the
Georgia case and helped fight it to vic
tory. The Atlanta Constitution says:
Mr., Johnson will be warmly congrat-
ulated by his many friends upon the inn
portant success with which he has met in
the handling of this interesting litiga-
ton"
The young lawyer is well-known and
popular in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
MERE 'PRENTICES.
the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
With stealthy footsteps the burglars
made their way into the business office
of the merchant whose store they had
just entered.
Flashing a dark lantern around the
room they saw that the door of the safe
was partly open.
On small table near the safe lay sew
eral documents.
The burglars inspected them.
One was a bill for automobile repairs.
Another was an ice bill.
Both were receipted.
Pete" said one of the two men in a
hoarse whisper, ''there hain't no use look
in at the other doekeyments. We're too
late,"
Softly making their way back toward
the window through which they had en-
tered they climbed out of the building
and disappeared in the darkness.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
COMPLEXION of New Congress.

In the present Congress the republi-
cans hold 249 seats in the House Of
Representatives; in the Sixtieth Con.
gress they will have 223-a net loss Of
&c seats. The democrats have now 1877
seats; in the next Congress they will
have 163-a net gain of 26 seats. The
republicans now have ia majority in
the House; in the next Congress their
majority will be reduced TO 60
The democratic gains fell 80 per cent
Ut least from party expectations and
forecasts. The disappointments were
chiefly in New York. where a gain OF
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
the Chicago Daily News.

E'r6m the Chicago Daily News.
In the course of time the bottom dollar
of a spendthrift is sure to come out on
top.
People seldom try to discourage your
fads as long as you are willing to spend
money on them.
MANY a man who marries because he
wants to Is compelled to do as his wife
wants him to in after years.
One of the things conceited youth
can't understand is how any girl can be
so foolish as to turn him down for some
other chap,
Somehow the bargains a woman acquires
seldom look like bargains a few days
later. when she has occasion to visit an
othsr stnra >
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Interest In shrievaIty Race.

THE great interest taken in the recent
shrievalty race in Jefferson county by
people in all parts of the state outside
the county is evidenced by the large num-
Der of congratulatiory kilograms that has
been received by Col E. L. Higdon, the
successful candidate" said a friend of
Higdon yesterday
From the tone and number of these
messages it appears that the people of
the state were very much interested not
only in the successful candidate, but in
the issues involved in the campaign.
Many have also beeen received from
people in other states indicating that in
terest in the campaign was not confined
to Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
President Harahan.

"The election of j. T. Harahan to the
presidency of the Illinois Central is a
striking example of the rise of a man on
his merits from obscurity to a position of
great honor and responsibility" said an
old railroad official 1T remember when
Harahan, as a youth worked for the
Louisville and Nashville for less than
dollar day | remember him later on
as section boss, and I have watched his
promotion with peculiar interest. When
Mr., Harahan was general manager Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio in the eighties
came frequently in contact with him and
found him to be a well equipped operating
official. Since then his mental horizon
has steadily broadened, and today he is
one of the strongest and best all round
railroad men in the world-without the
advantages of an early education he has
educated himself He is we'll read, and
best of all he is every inch a gentleman.
All honor to the man like Harahan, who
by pluck and aspiration overcomes diff
ficulties and gets to the top, and gets
there. too by honest and straightforward
methods.
president Harahan gave his son, who
Is now fourth vice president of the Hi
nois Central, a college education. but the
younger like the elder, when he entered
railroad service worked up from the bot
tom. After graduating as civil engineer
young Harahan worked two or three
years in the machine shops, starting at
the forge. He was afterwards locomo-
tive fireman Before he was 80 years of
age he was division superintendent, and
before he was SO he was general manager
of the Illinois Central, and at the age
of "a a vice president, Both father and
son have many personal friends in Bir-
mingham. The latter is an active menu
Der of the Knights of Columbus
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
TOO MUCH EVIDENCE.

From the Weiner Caricaturen.
Anthony Preszyniski produced his
wife's ashes and a certificate from a
cremataory company as evidence OF
her death when he tried to draw her
deposit from Vienna bank. The
cashier has since posted a notice that
an affidavit is all that is necessary.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
AS TO THE DECEASED.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Sorrowing Neighbor-Ho was good to his
family In all the years 1 knew him 1
never saw him come home without little
package of some kind for his wife or chill
dren.
The Other Neighbor-Ye-es; but that
didn't prove. of course, that he was good
to his family, 1t only showed that he
was a suburbanite.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

pile of money which gives its possessor
so much pleasure?
Not even the men who were avoweG1y
candidates to succeed Senators Morgan
and Pettus could be induced to enter
the field against them to succeed to their
places while they lived; and thus the
alternate" senators named in the recent
election, were satisfied to wait until the
inevitable end should give them the OPP
portunity for which they waited.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
ALABAMA PRESS

collinsville Courier: The apple crop is
bigger. finer and better in every way
in old DeKalb than heretofore
Mobile Register: Oklahoma In the DEM
ocratc column, shows that the state has
a highly intelligent citizenship.
Guntersville Democrat: Jefferson coun-
tvs sheriff race has rivalled in warmth
the race for Governor n New York.
Mobile Herald: There is nothing more
inspiring than the simple faith of a bald
man that the new tonic will bring back
his hair.
Roanoke Leader: From all indications
there will be no trouble on the part OF
the next legislature in spending the sur
plus piled up in the treasury.
Alabama Courier: The people have
spoken at the ballot boxes and now all
can go home and get down to business.
The fellow who is elected in many in
stances is worse off than the fellow who
is defeated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
CHANCE FOR A BARGAIN.

From the Manchester England Guard
ian.
a lady of title who is going abroad
wishes to dispose of an elegantly made
left side artificial leg; defies detection;
corresponds to gloves 81; quite good for
all sports, dancing. etc. Write Box 1896.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The Scandinavian democratic gov
ernor of Minnesota was the son of \
washerwoman, but he was good enough
on Tuesday to be reelected in repub-
lican state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
ONE AMONG MANY.


The fresh air fiend is wont to ope
His windows all and read the dope
Supplied him by d magazine
That vows to make man who's lean
OF frame and sunken in his chest
A Hercules among the best.
His only thought and chiefest care I
Is bent on getting pure, fresh air !
1t boots not how the weather is,
Nor how the winds of winter whizz,
He sits and shivers in his room,
A picture to awaken gloom,
And wakes petulant and sore
If any one dare close the door.
He's hard to beat. the fresh air crank
For him the "culturists' we thank.
At coughs and colds he likes to scott
Till old pneumonia takes him off.
The average" man can find a lot
life TO console him, If he'll just lo'
around
PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

Cuba has floating debt instead of !,
full treasury. There is no reason now
why there should not be deep and per-
manent peace in Cuba.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
PRESS POINTS
Columbia State: Mr.. Hearst seems al
ways to be a near-winner.

CoIumDla State. MT. titdIst steIIS IL
ways to be a near winner.
Knoxville Sentinel: The south remains
as solid against the encroachments of the
advocates of the trusts and the tariff
as ever.
Pensacola Journal: Mrs. Eddy gracefully
denies the allegation that she is dead
and, like the illustrous Mark Twain, de-
fies the alligator.
Arkansas Gazette The Chicago club
women who have started a pure food
campaign may make some embarrassing
moments for their husbands.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

Tomorrow there will be no Presl.
dent in this country. The government
will have no head ON the mainland. 1t
will be at sea.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The republicans may yet conclude to
adopt Richard Croker and make him
perhaps their candidate for president.
They love him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

# HERE is climax in THE Squaw
w Man" which could not be sur
passed for dramatic skill. Milton
Royle has done nothing else SO effective
in the whole play The scene commands
that tense, breathless silence which is
the highest tribute to an author and to
player. To shield his cousin. who is an
embezzler, the scion of a noble house in
England takes the shame on his own
shoulders, relinquishes the woman he
loves to his guilty cousin and seeks for
getfulness on the plains of Wyoming.
After weary years have passed a lawyer
comes to the outcast's ranch and tells
him that his cousin is dead, that he is
now a lord and the woman of his choice
is waiting for him. Happiness beckons
him back to old England. III the first
transports of his joy he pictures the
pleasures that will again be hs-the
crowds. the busy streets, the theatres,
the clubs and all the rich, teeming life
of the great city that he loves. At the
most extravagant moment of his delight,
when London swims before his eyes and
the voice of the zone woman rings in his
ears, a ha1f-breed child runs up to him
and with joyful cry of "Father!" clasps
him round the waist. The exultant words
freeze on his lips and his eyes vacantly
follow the childs Indian mother who ap
pears at the moment, bent on a domes-
tic errand. In an instant the illusion is
shattered. England is forever cut off from
the sauaw man.
A PETITION IN ADVANCE.
Dear Santa Claus, pray don't reprove,
And say I lack good taste
Because l write SO early and
In such unseemly haste.
The fact is Santa I would like
To send my list to you
And let you know just what [ want
Before a flood is due
OF letters from all sorts of chaps
And people large and small
Who think that Christmas time is just
The finest time of ALL
But to begin: do not care
For jewelry or books,
Nor anything that people wear
To help improve their looks.
No silver match safes, please, for me,
No pipes or smoking jars;
No works of art or bric-a-brac,
No two-for-five cigars.
No handkerchiefs or pocket knives,
No stylish linen collars,
For all want, dear Santa Claus,
Is just a million dollars.
That was an awfully good joke Adam
played on Eve when he said she did 1t,
but life has been deucedly hard on us
ever since.
Don't be surprised IL you should dream
that you see a turkey kicking up his
legs on a platter.
Somehow, we can't believe that Cupid
has much to do with the love affairs of
millionaires and chorus girls.
About the only objection to President
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The per capita apple crop of the
country is just about half barrel, but
there is no law that compels a distri
button of the crop ON that basis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The Penrose ring carried Pennsyi-
yania without any aid from President
Roosevelt. Pennsylvania is joined TO
her idols. Let her alone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

There are no infidels in Fort Wayne,
Ind, but there are ice men in summer
and coal men in winter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

Eight stone maidens ON Cleveland 5
new federal building are too fat and
are having their superfluous flesh
chiseled off
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

Papa Roosevelt said that he was
glad that Nicholas won out, and he
probably told the truth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The chief objection to the stage ves
sion of 1.-The Jungle is that UptoH
Sinclair is playing in it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

Seems to be hard year for the
editors" remarks the Atlanta Journal
Most years are.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The voting machines in New York
enabled the news gatherers to hurry
in the decisive figures.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

A. Comstock is supervisor of art, and
Atlanta may decide to appoint super
visor of literature.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

Peary was not able to bring the pole
back with him, and we are getting
along very we'll without it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

Commander Peary will make another
dash for the pole, and it may as well
get ready for an intrusive visit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09
About Persons.

]. NJ. Barr, former president of the
Seaboard, left Birmingham Wednesday
night for West Virginia, where he has
some large coal properties and other
interests. He had been in Birmingham
since Monday. He was in consultation
with several business friends in regard to
certain properties in Alabama. The mat
ter is still under advisement.
Judge Thomas h. Routine, United
States district attorney, and president of
the Tennessee River Improvement asso-
citation, is at Sheffield, pres oing over
the association meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

No more KS are required from good
citizens this year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The Ute chiefs are going to talk the
matter over with the big pale face in
Washington as soon as he returns from
Panama
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

Blenheim needs behind II a Wander
bilt fortune, for 200 servants are
needed to keep it in good condition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

Hartman is now the cheese in the
railroad world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The rate bill may yet prove to be
bill to regulate Hartman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The modern playwright could dramat-
ize a boiler factory, if it wasn't for the
noise.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

Mrs. Eddy is a human being after
all, just like the rest of us.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The lining-up for 1908 is now in or
der, for there is not much else of n
political nature before the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The weather bureau says that the
grounding is a rank failure as a
weather prophet, likewise the goose
bone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-09

The Monroe doctrine has friends in
this country who will not let Chicago
professor talk it out of existence.