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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
Crops and Business.

Henry Clews in his Wall street letter
of Saturday date says:
| Owing to prospects OF a good harvest
and slight Improvement in monetary con-
| dltlons. a better tone prevailed in the
stock market at the end of the week
curative processes are steadily at work
and contraction of speculative commit
| ments has progressed al a rate which
| should secure very considerable relief in
monetary conditions Bank reserves are
much lower than usual at this period,
and In another two weeks the usual crop
demands should begin to assert them
selves but in this connection 1t is worth
| while remembering that the west each
| year becomes better able to finance its
own crops and depends less and less up
on New York. Crop moving money this
year will come largely from abroad, as
Europe will want our cotton, wheat and
other products badly enough to force
them TO give up considerable gold in
payment. When the $30oO0,OOO Panama
canal bonds obtain a final resting place
they will increase the circulating medium
of the country to the extent of the face
of the bonds by the issue of national
bank currency based thereon. AS a mat
ter of fact, therefore, the Panama bond
issue will result in imitation.
General business, apart from real es-
tate speculation is satisfactory. The iron
trade continues active. and while preva-
lent sentiment is hopeful there Is not
able absence of unreasonable or too OPP
timistic expectations, The textile trades
show considerable Improvement mer-
chants taking hold with more confidence
owing to good crop prospects and
more settled outlook as regards cotton
and labor Both clearing house returns
and railroad earnings continue to testify
as TO the general activity of trade. We
have had another week of good growing
weather and very shortly the harvest
will be under full swing. There has been
no diminution in the prospects for large
wheat yield and the condition of the crop
remains excellent. Cotton Is also pro-
crossing well, with the prospects of an
ample crop of good quality Corn seems
to be somewhat backward, but the plant
is In fine condition and ready to respond
to a period of warm weather, which is
all that is needed to give us large and
profitable yield. Agricultural prospects, as
a whole, are better than usual and have
only once been exceeded in the history
of the country. As a result of good agri-
cultural conditions, as we'll as continued
development OF our national resources,
there Is a strong and hopeful feeling
amongst business men in all parts OF
the country, tempered however, with
more or less conservatism, arising from
the fact that signs of OVERRIDING are oc-
casionally visible. also recognition that
expansion has been going on for period
of unusual length and must sooner or
later run its course"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
Russell Sage MaIIened.

Russell Sage. whose death is chron-
icled this morning" said local banker
last evening when he learned that fact,
was one of the shrewdest manipulators
of money that the world has ever known.
He has been fearfully maligned, too, In
the public print. He was not squan-
derer of money. and not philanthropist
But the stories to the effect that his
penury prevented his having the COM
forts and even .uxuries of life, were un-
true. The saying attributed to him that
a man needs no vacation Is also erro-
neous. I believe. He was to much of
business success not to recognize that old
axiom that all work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy
1.-THE foundation of many of the stories
floated anent those men who have corn
cred the money market can be found In
the desire of cartoonists and humorists
to furnish the world with humor. 1t is
generally believed that while Rockefeller
has all the money in the world, he lacks
that thing most essential to happiness
health.
ut has been reported for years and
years that his digestive organs were not
strong enough to render him hearty and
hale. In this connection l saw car
toon recently which illustrates this point
splendidly 1t was endeavoring to show
that many of our common beliefs are un-
founded. Rockefeller, among other fea-
lures of the cartoon, was seated at
table preparing to eat a tremendous din
ner, with the poor but healthy man
showing an astonishment that was
laughable, indeed.
Russell Sage perhaps never built a
library, nor founded any institution of
common good But he was after all
success in the worldly world, captain
of industry, and entitled to his certain
praise for his certain and remarkable
achievements"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
ENGLAND'S PRIVACY IN
ATHLETICS HAS PASSED

fizzled down to tennis. Haekensehmidt,
the Russian youth with the student face
could throw half a dozen Lancashire and
Cornish wrestlers in half an hour and
leap lightly over the ropes without a
heave of the chest. Jeffries who has re-
tired to his alfalfa farm because there
are no more "pugs' to conquer, might
properly be indicted for felonious assault
or intent to murder If he went into
ring with an Englishman. The old eoun-
try has no swimmer who can take the
measure of sprinter Daniels. The victories
of American collegians on the track and
the inadequaey of England at the Olym-
pie games are depressing memories. The
eolonists play cricket as well or better,
and If 1t hadn't been for Welsh Evanses
and Joneses the black New Zealanders
would have made clean sweep at foot
ball
But the meteor flag" waves over the
tennis court, and Britons will guard their
own as long as the Doherty brothers can
swing a racquet. sad as we'll as a
glorious retrospect. but let us do the Eng
lishmen justice, they may not hold many
championships, but in their devotion to
sport and outdoor exercises they still lead
the worle-they have the best average as
a people.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
KILLED BY FALLING
FROM THE WINDOW

Chattanooga, July 22.-H. X Morgan,
aged 35. a travelling salesman for a local
house, but living IN Asheville, N. G, fell
from a third-story window at the SOUTH
ern hotel at about 2:30 o'clock TINS MORN
ing. sustaining injuries from which he
died shortly after daylight.
That the fall was purely accidental is
confidently believed by all VINO saw the
young man during the evening before and
up to the time he retired, which was
about II o'clock.
The last time Mr.. Morgan was seen be-
fore his untimely death he was in the
best of spirits, even gay His remains were
shipped TO his home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
Topsy.Turvy Russia.

The imperial ukase dissolving the
duma is not surprising. The step has
probably been taken to nip, if pos
sible. the blossom of revolution in the
bud. But the step has been taken too
late. The conflict btWeen the masses
and the classes in Russia, now fairly
started, will go on until absolutism is
overthrown. On account of the size of
the country and the general lack of
education many think the contest will
cover at least twenty years, but no In
telligent observer doubts that nature
of the ending. The people will win a
share In the government of their own
country and their own affairs. If au-
tocracy be stubborn or cruel, it may
be driven out altogether.
1t is said that the bureaucrats have
brought about the dissolution of parlia-
ment, partly because they desire to
check the growing tendency In the
army. to independence, and partly be-
cause they desire to bring the ignorant
peasants in as voters to samp the
educated liberals when the new parlia-
ment is elected next fall or winter 1t
is to meet on March 3, next.
This action is arbitrary. 1t is the
reverse of constitutional rule, and the
recent fall in the prices of Russian
securities foreshadowed it. A con-
tinuance of agitation will follow, and
Russia will follow, and Russia bids
fair to become a hotbed of plots and
counterplots, and general unrest. This,
however, is better than bloodshed. The
hope is that the friends of constitu-
tional government are strong enough
| to bide their time and that they will
not be driven by the socialists and an
archists into acts that invite slaughter
and the Whips of the Cossacks. But
whatever the course adopted may be,
| it will lead on to liberty and the down
| fall of absolutism in backward Russia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Crops are Good.

"All crops are very good in Tallapoosa
county and all through that section, :
said II. A. skeggs. Jr.. of Decatur can
didate for associate railroad commissioner
who was In the city yesterday on his
way home from Tallapoosa county where
he attended a barbecue given by Fletcher
Turner of Hams cut Saturday.
I'VE rode out four miles in convey
anees furnished by Mr.. Turner and l was
much pleased with the fine condition Of
all the growing crops. We drove almost
all the way through Mr.. Turner's farm
and l must say that it is one of the finest
in that section or in the state.
They do not seem to have had as much
rain in that section as in other parts of
the state and no damage seems to have
been done crops so far
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
MODEST MAN.

From the Catholic Standard.
Mr. Bragg-Mlss Gushngton? No: she's
not for me- She told me the other day
that her husband must be handsome
rather than wealthy.
Miss Ascum-Well, you're not wealthy,
but then
Mr.. Bragg-That's just 1t. She literally
threw herself at my head, and don't
like that sort of thing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
A man would like smoking even more
than he does IL II was against the law.
preacher can outtalk stump speaker,
but he has no show against him because
it is wrong for him to lie,
Where plumbers get rich is straighten-
ing out things the man of the house
Thought he was smart enough to fix.
The queer thing about woman is she
can get homesick right in her own house
because somebody else isn't there.
Even when a girl doesn't like sailing
she can have a good time doing 1t with
some man, who would be taking out an
other girl II she didn't %.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
midas Cotton Mills.

s India, say Consul Fee at Bombay,
planted about 20.OOO,OOO acres in cot
ton, against about 30,O0000O acres
planted in this country. The yield in
India is comparatively light, but the
entire produce rose to 100000 bales,
and the indications are that America S
chief rival will be India rather than
Egypt. The part of last years crop
that was exported was 2,125,000 bales.
About one-quarter of this amount was
taken by japan. and Germany. Bel
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

ence In principle or in the effect upon
the public mind that for the old instru-
ments of torture are substituted the main.
OF modern ecclesiastical court procedure
In method and result the new process
differs but little from the old; both are
essentially unjust, Intellectual, and equal
ly inconsistent with the spirit and pur-
pose OF true religious faith. Truth
is not, and cannot be. arrived at by way
of heresy trials. The. make for a
bigotry, Intolerance. and reaction. and
never for freedom. charity and prog
ress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
THE scAREcRow.

By Joe Cone in New York Sun.
Behold the scarecrow; see him stand
Upon the newly planted land;
A figure ragged and forlorn.
The silent watcher Of the corn.
His dangling legs, his arms spread wide,
The lone man of the countryside;
Uncouth, the butt of pen and tongue
Unheralded, unframed, unsuag.
To you, old scarccrow. then this lay,
To cheer you on your lonely way;
Would that all men their whole lives
through
Served some good purpose. cen as you.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
A PROPER KICK.

From the Philadelphia Press.
"Our laundry Is the best in town"
The man said, none compare"
Cried Jones: you've done my shirts up
brown
But I prefer them rare"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
EVEN BREAK.

From the Chicago News
The Barber-Beg pardon, sir, but this is
a bad quarter.
The Victim-Oh, well, don't you care. 1t
isn't any worse than the hair cut you
gave me
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Senator Morgan should not attempt
during the dog days to turn all Ala
bamians into canal experts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
TWO SEATS.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel
do you think a man can be in two
places at onee?"
mo; but hog can. I saw one do it in
the street car today"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

CUR penitentiaries may become over
crowded if Louis A. Gourdian is en-
couraged by the courts In his present
effort to butt into one of them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Nebraska people feel complimented
by having the name of their state
given to battleship. but they will not
be fully satisfied until it lies in the
raging Platte.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

The nagging. grumbling passenger
is more wearing, said the captain of
a liner recently. than all navigation
and all responsibility. and the pas
senger cannot be dropped overheard,
although he oftentimes deserves to be.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

The manhood of the Russian people
will now be tested as 1t has never been
tested before, and freemen everywhere
hope they will prove equal to the &C.
caSiOn
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Pity Mrs. Thaw. the mother, who
has a son that bids fair to be either
a live lunatic or dead criminal
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
CURTAIN RISES ON LAST
ACT OF RUSSIAN DRAMA
tcontinusd from First Paas.)

- >-----~~--------~----~
Of asking for warshlps, or at least OF
hiring steamships to take off foreign sub
jeets in case of necessity, but no action
was decided upon.
Tonight the trains are filed with for
eigners departing abroad.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Thanksgiving turkeys will need be
numerous this year to keep the step
with blessings In sight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

The ladies who have been reported
to be engaged to George AIDE should
meet and organize Ladies' AIDE So
ciety
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

The stay-at-homes are the ones who
can be trusted to talk up towns eli
mate. They are the ones who are fast
making Birmingham a summer resort.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT.

From Puck.
The Boss of the Beanery-Run out an
hail cop. Lizzie. quick. The guy there's
q suioide.-He's just ordered potted ham!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
NO MORE HERsEy TRIALS.
rom Leslie's Weekly.

From Leslie's Weekly.
heresy trial in this day and age
is an anachronism, It smacks of
mediaevalism, of the rack, the stake. and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Mr.. Dooley goes down to Oyster Bay
frequently, but it As not stated that he
wears the cap and bells.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Capt. Alfred Dreyfus' triumph was
complete when he was decorated with
the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Michigan democrats are booming
John F. Bible for vice president. Where
did Mr.. Bible sink his Merrimac?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

No more French Lick citizens will
be chosen democratic chairmen. One
is enough and to spare.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

The German sausage is not, it
seems, dream. 1t is vile compound,
like all the other sorts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

The Pan-American conference meets
today at Rio Janeiro, with Mr.. Root
many miles away.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
SHOOTING WIN Be orderly.

In answer the general raised his arms
in imitation of soldier bringing his rife
to his shoulder adding:
But in orderly fashion," recalling the
opinion he expressed during the rioting
in October, when he contended that bull
let's and bayonets were the kindest means
for ending the trouble.
Gen. Won Schwanebach was not certain
that other changes in the cabinet were
involved by the accession of NJ. Stolypin
to the premiership. All the ministers, he
said, had placed their designations at the
disposal of M. Stolypin as he was en-
titled to make any changes he deemed
wise.
The general said there would be no
final meeting of parliament tomorrow to
hear the ukase ordering its dissolution.
1.-The life of parliament has terminated
he declared Assembly tomorrow would
simply be made the occasion for sedi-
tlous speeches. perhaps necessltatng
bloodshed If the members attempt ia
enter the building they will ma 1t in
the possession of the troops
General Schwanebach said that the
members of parliament would not - ar
rested neither for their acts or speeches
in parliament, however, reasonably they
might have been. as they are covered by
legislative immunity, but he did not con-
ceal the purpose of the government to
hold the men hereafter strictly account
able for open acts OF treason.
In conclusion the general expressed the
hope that the dissolution of parliament
as bad as It looked would turn out for
the best and did not hide the joy with
which the government at the present mo-
ment would welcome the support of con-
stitutional democrats.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Washington has business dreams
between sessions of Congress. but its
dreams are harmless.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

The Joliet penitentiary should carry
burglar insurance. for Gourdain still
has his eye on it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Too many diamonds shortened the
lives of Alfred Belt and Cecil Rhodes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

When juries demand baseball bulle-
TINS as well as food and drink, the
limit is reached.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

The Elias are to meet in Philadelphia
next year. and they may wake up that
city in earnest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Tom Lawson's vocal chords are
taking a long-felt rest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Graft in Tulane university is an old
evil in a new spot.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Russia will soon feel lonesome If a
revolution does not impend daily.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23
A Great Iron Year.

General Manager Swank of the
American ron and Steel association
industry in the United States that
make plain the fact that the year 1905
outranks any other year in the mag
nltude of the business. It did this,
not in a single direction only. but III
all important branches of the great in
dustry. We give Mr.. Swank's chief
footings, as followings
Articles dn gross tons) 1904 1905.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

There are no microbes on American
rifles, at any rate. Some countries will
have no other.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Mr.. Jeromes errand down south is
also puzzling the northern editors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Plat and Odell are chummy again,
and the machine has the smile that
never comes off.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

The rolling mills were especially ac-
tive in 1905, turning out 40 per cent
more rolled iron and steel than they
did in 1904. We now make more iron
than Great Britain and Germany
taken together, and we mine more coal
than Great Britain, long the leader in
that industry. England can never re-
gain her former ascendancy, and Ger
many lacks the ore with which to equal
our output. Large as production is in
this country it is really all needed at
home. This is a more remarkable fact
than Mr.. Swank presents in his inter.
esting figures for the past year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

The drydock Dewey is pretty well
anchored and naturalized now in the
Philippines.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Washington Bureau Herald 1927 G
street, n. w.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

A Birmingham summer is a summer
resort of the most enjoyable sort.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

The country Is not losing Senator
La Toilette even when Congress is not
in session.
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Dissolution Seemed Imperative.

Ten days ago his majesty was pre-
pared to accept a parliamentary min
istry, but the constitutional democrats
and their mad inslstence on impossible
conditions deliberately rejected the op-
portunity. Thereupon the Emperor con-
ferred with men of all shades of politi-
cal opinion. dozens of them every day,
and finally became convinced that disso-
luton was Imperative
Does the delay in announcing the date
of the new elections involve the inten-
ton of change in the base of repre-
sentation to universal suffrage?" was
asked.
Not necessarily" replied M. Won
Schwanebach. ION that point no definite
decision has been taken
Where do you anticipate that disor-
ders win break out?'
Certainly not In st. Petersburg. Prob
ably they will be worst In the south. l
am convinced that the army Is loyal. The
discussions which occurred among the
troops have not Slapped their fidelity as
a whole, and once they are engaged
against revolutonaries who do not hes
itate to resort to the throwing of bombs,
they will do their duty"
What is the governments intention in
the matter of suppressing street rioting
and revolt ?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Maud Come Mcbride is no Irish
Joan of Arc, for Joan was not a
divorce.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

A brave soldier never couehed lance,
A qentler heart did never sway in
court. II King Henry vi.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-23

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala, post
office as second-class matter under act
Of Congress March 8, 1879.