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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-24

and contractors, 1877 masons. 545 car
penters, 10 plasterers. 1853 painters,
glaciers and varnishers. 126 plumbers,
24l paper hangers. 2os6 saloon keepers,
44O bartenders and s6.1ss stenographers.
As the Technical World writer says,
THE only occupations in which women
are going backward compared with man
are those in which they might be expect
ed to go forward-sewlng, tailoring and
dressmaldng." There are 641s actresses
among them and S405 clergywomen, and
this writer figures that ut takes about
1000 teachers to make as much stir and
get as much space in the papers as one
stage lady"
In their bulk the figures of women's
employment are surprising, and yet they
tell fact that every New Yorker knows.
even if he has never defined 1t to himself.
There are very few unmarried women
above the age of eighteen in the metrop-
oils who are not either earning their liv-
ing or contributing materially to their
own support. The girl without an oeeu-
patton is the exception-in the tenement
districts the rare and noticed execution.
A large number of the married women
have some gainful calling. They keep
ooarders, or help their husbands behind
the counter, or work in the shops.
Woman's presence in industry Is a
subject for sex pride or sociological con-
Germ. according to the point of view. It
is still a fact too big and too recent to
be digested in all Its bearings on industry
and society.
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THE SOUTH MUST DECIDE.

From the Washington Post
Unless the south acts speedily and with
peremptory resolution the preachment OF
government ownership will surely be in
trenched as the paramount issue in Amer
lean politics. and the battle of 1908 will be
fought on this line: Shall the government
acquire the railroads and operate them?
This Is the thing the people are thinking
about, the subject they are debating and
1t depends on the decision the south shall
render whether it will live or die. Cleve-
land went to the wall solely because tho
south deserted him; Bryan will cease to
interest If the south should repudiate him,
for the south is the butt cut and the upper
crust of the democratic party now, as 1t
has been for more than loo years.
Mr.. Bryan is a generalizer, but the
man who makes the public ownership of
the railroads of this country a govern
mental policy must be a master of detail.
It would stagger the transcendent genius
of Napoleon the Great to adjust. it with
out advantage to one section and to the
ruin of another. AS yet Mr.. Bryan has
given no evidence that he has speaking
acquaintance with detail; in this respect
he is not half the man Bourke Cochran
is, and men do not go to Mr.. Cochran
for things like that. Under our present
civilization railroad ownership and opera
ton are purely business affairs; Mr.. Bry-
an proposes to turn them into that lions
den-poltics, At present railroad expan-
sion results from the ablest business
sagacity, and certain amount of net
earnings is set apart for extending old
lines and constructing new lines as BUSH
ness requires; Mr. Bryan's plan would !
make this thing a matter of political
favoritism.
There are rivers and horbors-a pork
barrel. We have unworthy rivers and
harbors improved in this country that
should never have been touched; there
are other worthy rivers and harbors neg
lected because they were not represented
in Congress by stout and persistent log
rollers. That would be the way with the
railroads; those sections would get most
railroad expansion tibet had most influence
in Congress. The weaker section would
go to the wall The stronger section would
hog the persimmon. He that runs can
read that.
1t is an infinitely bigger question than
IS to l, and infinitely more vicious In
principle. 1t is as momentous question
as secession, and the south knows what
that was. What should be required OF
Mr. Bryan is not voice and verbage, but
fact and figure. Let him give the de-
tails of his vagary The south has nearly
two years to decide
Tell us how you are going to turn the
trick, Mr. Bryan, and the probable con-
sequences.
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The Money Market.

Henry Clews, in his Wall street letter
of Saturdays date, says:
'"rhe stock market continues under the
influence of the monetary situation. The
most significant feature at the moment
is the world wide frmness in money rates,
and the advance in time money at this
center to 6Ha@7 per cent. Up to date, we
have imported or engaged about $50, 00O, 600
of gold. Since large portion of this was
made Immediately available by treasury
advances, corresponding amount of cur
rent imports will have to be returned to
the treasury upon arrival The result is
locked up in the treasury than a year
ago; nothing but temporary relief from
outside sources having been afforded by
the treasury through advances on imports.
Cecretary Shaw has not yet increased his
deposits with the banks; a means of re-
lief to which the government will appar-
entity soon be imperatively driven. Mean
while, the facilities for gold imports are
diminishing. London, Paris and Berlin all
show an increasing indisposition to per-
init gold to come this way. The bulk of
our imports-about sl6,0O0O O0-have thus
far come from London. 1t was estimated
that London could spare $2O,OOO,0O0 but
that amount will not be taken except at a
high price The Bank of England has to
meet important South American and
Egyptian demands; hence, New York
could not expect to secure all of the spare
gold from that institution. The Bank of
l.
no doubt spare us a considerable amount
of gold; but there, too, is a decided ncli-
nation to restrain the effiux to this coun-
try, and also to be in a strong position
for meeting future Russian demands
London and Paris are the two main
foreign available supplies of gold for the
American market In all probability, we
shall secure further sums from one source
or another, but not without paying good
rates for the same, and our bankers are
securing the world to secure any surplus
holdings. Trade is active the world over
and the demand for money and credit
more general than ever in the worlds
history.
1T looks as If the big cliques who are
holding stocks were well provided with
time money with which to carry them, and
are. therefore, entrenehed in their posi-
ton. AS their holdings average far be-
low present prices, they can afford to
take big risks every time the market
rallies. they feed out to the public enough
stocks to satisfy the demand, and then
buy back what they have sold, on the
next break. In this way they accumulate
no new stock, but the profits on their
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HOW THEY SAVE LIGHTS.

From the London Globe,
On sunken reef $50 feet distant from
stornoway lighthouse is remarkable bea-
con, which warns mariners with the help
of light which Is only apparent. The
beacon is a cone of cast iron plates,
surmounted with a lantern containing a
glass prism. This prism derives its light
from refracting the rays emitted from
the lighthouse, and the optical delusion
is marvellous. Mariners naturally sup
pose that there is lighted lamp on
the beacon itself and many of them will
not believe otherwise. But the object
of the beacon is obtained when the navi-
gator sees the reflected light, which ind-
Gates the perilous rock below. This bea-
con in the north of Scotland has been in
use more than half a century and since
it was fixed in position others have been
placed in other neighborhoods to make
clear points of danger. 1t Is an ingeni-
Gus and very effective safeguard against
peris of the coast.
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PASSION OF THE CROWD.
Germ of Hysteria and Panic Always
Characteristic of Multitude.
From the New York Sun,

From the New York Sun.
The excitement among the $4,000 per-
sons or so who went to see Mr.. Roose-
velt's eldest daughter unveil the McKin-
ley memorial at Columbus was not at all
curious; nor would 1t be fair to attri-
butte any part of it to toadyism. The
germ of hysteria and panic, of rapturous
applause of fear, of murder Is found
wherever considerable numbers are gath
cred together. The girls who faint away
one after another in a factory; the rash
and sudden temperaments that yell
Lynch himl" when some motorman runs
over a child; the vociferous rowdyism
of the baseball ground; the eommunica-
tive ardors and frances of an old-fash-
toned revival; the blind, senseless scurry
after some poor devil when the cry Stop
thefr' is raised; the panic in a theatre,
the cheering at a great mass meeting,
the notorious ease with which one wag
in a city can assemble a multitude of
fly-gobblers by gazing seriously up at
window or down into hole; all these are
manifestations of the often inexplicable
Catching" and spreading of a thought,
idea or motion.
We leave 1t to some more expert och
lologer to trace the similarity or analogy
between great epidemics and these surg
ings of the crowds. Enough to say that
when one reads that the women at Co
lumbus made a wild rush for the rib
bon with which she Mrs. Longworth)
had drawn the veil.' for 1.-The wire WI
had held the ribbon in place. and that
most of the women appeared as if they
only cared to touch the Presidents
daughter" one sees the travelling fury,
the gathered passion of the crowd. To
the philosopher there is nothing rldicu-
lous in those almost lunatical proceed
ings.
The Crusades and the French revolu-
ton did but discharge more copiously
the electric current. sacred, crazy, pitt
less or patriotic, that runs between man
and man.
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BrYan's Personal Opinion.

On August 80, William Jennings
Bryan delivered an address in Madi-
son Square Garden in which, it was
stated, he defined the issues on which
the democratic party might make the
Presidential campaign of 1908.
Mr., Bryan holds no commission
from the democratic party to define,
authoritatively, its issues. Everyone
knows that Mr.. Bryan is a democrat;
that he twice carried the standard of
his party and, from all indications, will
be entrusted with it again. His words
carry great weight, and are gospel to
millions of Americans. His recog-
nized integrity and ability assure him
a prominence not alone in his political
party, but in the nation. He is a
man who has opinions of his own,
and he expresses those opinions
openly and candidly, but until the
democratic party has nominated
Bryan as its candidate for President,
1t is not right to hold the party re-
sponsible for his all individual opin-
ions.
1t will be recalled that Bryan, in
that famous New York speech simply
gave expression to the conclusions he
himself had reached with reference to
government ownership of railways.
He used the pronoun 81" and not
I'VE" He did not even promise to
undertake the task; he merely direct
ed the attention of the country to the
question. These are his words:
II have already reached the conclusion
that the railroads partake so much of the
nature of monopoly that they must ul-
timately become public property and be
managed by public officials In the inter-
est of the whole community in accordance
with the well-defined theory that pubic
ownership is necessary where competition
is impossible. I do not know thai the
country is ready for this change. I do not
know that majority of my own PARTY
favors It,"
Since making that speech, Mr..
Bryan has made it clear that his gov
eminent ownership proposition was in
tended to be only tentative.
The platform of the democratic
party will not be prepared by Mr.
Bryan. That platform will not make
government ownership of railways
one of its planks, The rate regula.
ton law has not been tested yet. II
1t is a success the railways will re-
main the property of private owners;
If it fails, some other remedy may be
applied,
Whatever may be the remedy or
whoever may be the man to apply
time alone will tell, but 1t is well to
know that when the time comes, If
1t ever does, the remedy and the man
will be on hand.
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WOMAN AND DINNER PAIL

From the New York Mail.
II HERE were 5,sls.ss7 females and
w 2s,753.ss6 males over ten years of
age engaged in gainful oocupa-
tions in 1900. writer In the Technical
World" does not put the situation strong
" enough when he says that while in
1890 one woman in every six went to work,
IN 1900 the proportion had increased to one
in every five" As matter of fact, one
American woman out of every four, IL
we exclude from the calculation girls
under IA and women over g. is earning
her own living. Woman's invasion of
the galnful occupations is proceeding at
a far faster pace than her increase In
population. As Americas Industrial army
is now organized, one dinner pail out of
every four Is carried by a girl or
woman
In all but eight of the s05 gainful oc-
equations named In the census women
are represented. There are no women
soldiers, sailors marines, fremen, street
car drivers, apprentices to roofers and
skaters, helpers to brass workers or steam
boiler makers But there are women
roofers and skaters. brass workers and
steam boiler makers, and there are two
motorwomen. There are 100 women
lumbermen and raftsmeu, 11S woodchop-
pers, IA horse doctors, rs civil, electrical
and mining engineers 665.791 farm Ia
borTS 307,7ss farmers. planters and
oyerseers, $4,000 teachers, $50 builders
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The Rural TeIephone.

mo other agency perhaps, unless it is
the rural free delivery mail system, is
doing as much to tighten the burdens and
add to the comfort and convenience of the
people in the country districts as the
building of telephone lines across the
country" said gentleman at the Morris
hotel last night.
Il have just returned from country
trip through some of the counties in North
Alabama and was very much interested in
the extent to which this service is be-
ing carried.
May lines are already in operation and
1 saw several squads of linemen stretch
ing additional wire and putting up new
lines. I find that the people are taking
to the system we'll and almost all farm
ers in reach of the lines are subscribing
for the service.
''rhe rural free delivery of mails and
the telephone are marking a new era in
the life and condition of the farmer"
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ALABAMA PRESS


Gadsden Times-News; And to think
that Predictor Jones of Arkansas should
dare question the wisdom of his patron
saint
Sheffield Standard: President Palma
should adopt the tactics of the American
trust magnates and get out an injunction
against the insurgents.
Tri-County Weekly: The Cuban baby
republic has the collie bad, and DR.. Uncle
Sam has gone down with few ship loads
of soothing powder"
Ashland Standard: New sorghum is
now on the market. Now We can have
something that is sweet and good to eat,
with no glucose in 1t.
Montgomery Advertiser Wish our gov
eminent would hurry up that job of
forcing the hens to increase their lay.
Eggs are too high for newspaper folks.
Gadsden Journal: Mr, Bryan showed
by his Birmingham speech that nothing
can keep him from expressing his view
not even his friend, ex-Chairman Jones.
Huntsville Mercury: Hon. s. j. Bowie
of Birmingham IN a letter to The Age
Herald makes an unanswerable argument
in favor of amending the franchise clause
of the new constitution so as to wipe
out the poll taxes in arrears, make the
poll taxi debt, no property exempt from
its collection. Make every citizen liable
to pay that tax and then let him vote
or not as he likes
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All Niqht Cars.

New evidences of Birmingham's
metropolitan growth are constantly being
presented" said a business man last
night.
THE all-night lunch counters was one
of the first things that came from the
general demand Of a great and sleep1ess
city At first there were only few of
these all-night eating places. but now
there are a dozen of them scattered over
town, and they all seem to be doing
good business.
THE next enterprise to follow will be
the operation of cars all night I I'M
derstand that the Birmingham Railway,
Light and Power company is arranging
to put a car on the South Ensley line to
leave the city between and o'clock in
the morning This will give almost
continuous service on this line. I under
stand that this car will be put In opera
tion at an early date.
ut is possible that more frequent ser
vice will be put on other lines in the city
in the near future"
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SimpIIfied Spelling in China.

At last a country has been found in
which simplified spelling is a long
felt want That country is Climatic
New China that has sprung up in the
light of Japanese success-and the
development of telegraphs and post
offices in 1t has led to a desire for
something simpler and better, espe-
cially in the presentation of proper
names. Wan-Ping director Of the I'M
perial Chinese telegraphs, announces
that commission has actually been
appointed to Romantic Chinese "eity
names"
When city names are subjected to
Romanizatiop of a satisfactory sort,
it will not be long before demands for
an extension Of the plan in this or
that direction will be heard in China,
and then the hen-tracks of Chinese
photography will disappear altogether.
The Roman alphabet is the thing aft
err all.
The Romanization of the Chinese
language will throw the little gray
blue Roosevelt speller in the shade.
The latter would then be considered
tame and conservative, even dull. And
Mr.. Roosevelt could not claim that he
started the Chinese crusade, for it was
started long before the Carnegie board
had caught the Presidential ear.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-24
Hiuh Record Crops.

The figures of the department of
agriculture call for a wheat crop
amounting to 1851 900 bushels, or
11,21O.000 bushels in excess of the
crop of 1901, which has long stood
as the record crop of the country. This
years crop is 10 per cent larger than
last years crop.
The corn crop may yet be shortened
by frosts, but if frosts do not come
until next week the crop promises to
be 2,7SO, 100000 bushels, or about "a
600 900 bushels more than last years
crop. which was the largest that had
then been grown in the country. The
third great crop, cotton, cannot yet be
estimated, but if it should, too, prove
a record crop, the country will ex-
perience an agricultural windfall from
all important directions at once. All
other crops are subsidiary to corn,
wheat and cotton.
Great crop years have not always
been years of booming markets, but
three out of every four have been.
The exceptional year was last year,
when money became stringent, but
foreign capital flowed in, and general
trade held its own we'll and bravely.
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WILL HAVE A PARLIAMENT.

From the London Globe.
Prince Nicholas of Montenegro has just
promulgated the decree under which the
grand old race of fighting mountaineers
will shortly go through, for the first time
in their history, the experience of elect
ing a parliament. The election takes
place on September 27, and the deputies
will be elected for four years. Every
captaincy, as the districts are suggestive
ly named. will return member as will
each of the six towns of the principally.
Every adult male of q is voter, and
every man of 80 paying about 10 shill-
ings a year In taxes is eligible. The
following have also seats ex-officio: The
Orthodox Metropolitan, the Roman Cath
Ollie Primate, the Moslem Chief Mutt and
members of the Privy Council of the
High Court, of the Court of Accounts, and
three Generals of Brigade, nominated by
the Ministry.
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lines to southern ports. Ship sub
sides are not popular IN the south,
but it may become necessary to sub
sidize a line or two IN order to land
new Corners where they are the most
1.rdod
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turns reduce the average cost Of their
holdings. AS the eliques sell their stocks,
it gives them a corresponding amount of
their time money to loan out on call, 50
in that way they are in position to con-
troll the stock market and the money
market as we'll.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
operetta Rehearsal.

Ben NJ. Jerome, composer of THE Royal
Chef THE Isle of Spice" and other
comic opera successes, will arrive In town
today from his home in Chicago for the
purpose of rehearsing his new operetta
THE Lady Buccaneer,' which will be
presented on the stage for the first time
this week at the Majestic theatre.
Mr. Jerome intends to enlarge upon
THE Lady Buceaneer" and make 1t a
complete comic opera, after it has been
tried out" on the Majestic circuit. The
composer believes that he has the ground
work for an opera that will equal his f0r-
mer successes.
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TO ANY READER.
BY Robert Louis Stevenson.

BY Robert Louis Stevenson.
AS from the house your mother sees
You playing round the garden trees,
So you may see, If you will look
Through the windows of this book,
Another child, far, far away.
And in another garden, play.
But do not think you can at all,
BY knocking on the wondow, call
That child to hear you. He intent
Is all on his play-business bent.
He does not hear; he will not look.
Nor yet be lured out of this book.
For. long ago. the truth to say,
He has grown up and gone away.
And it is but a child of air
That fingers in the garden there.
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STRONG!

An Indianian who never bathed and
lived to be eighty years old Is described
as lone of the best-known merchants
of the country" Doubtless he could be
readily identified even in the dark of the
moon
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GOOD SHOW.

From the Memphis Commercial-Appe
Why doesn't the street car company
of Havana extend Its tracks to the scene
of the revolution, and build a grand
stand so that the spectators could take
Il In at their ease?
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CLOSE SHAVE.
the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
Little Rock tArk) man sent 5000
copies of the Lords Prayer to Chicago,
and but for an eagle-eyed proofreader 1t
would have been reviewed in one paper
under the head of New Publications"
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Food reform looks good to us.
TYPO NEEDED.

From the Dothan Eagle
This paper is short, as usual, this week.
for we haven't as many printers as we
could use. Could use a tourist now
till he got drunk.
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PROSPERITY IN KANSAS.

From the Arkansas Gazette.
Senator Long is campaigning In Kan
sas in an automobile. The price of wheat
and corn has made the Kansas bit
chesty.
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A LITTLE LEFT.

From the Columbus Ledger.
Looter Nipple did not get all the money
In Philadelphia, it seems. since 1t is re-
ported that his bank is to be reorganized.
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ISLAND GOSSIP.

From the Louisville Herald.
do we need another island?" asks the
Birmingham Age Herald. We could stand
a few more.
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The nickelodeons are increasing in
every city. and soon no block will be
complete without at least one of them.
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The game of football seems to have
forgotten that it was abloshed last fall
by college presidents and professors.
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Hard cider no longer holds a mo-
nopoly in Maine, for blind tigers are
beginning to push 1t to the wall