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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
4 heart unspotted Is not easily daunted.
 -2 King Henry VI.
Hnme tn Alahama.

Yes ,hat is it--home to Alabama. Fully 4Oo,ot. Alabama-born citizens live in other states, and the hope is that 10 per cent i'll come back to theM native state t., week. If 4O,- 900 come back home he record of other states, particularly l 7t of Ken lucky, will have been equal> Ken tuekians do more talking abou. their native state, as do Virginians, but |. Alsbama-born citizen loves his native state equally as well, and he will, no doubt, show his love for her by ap- bearing here in force this week.
 The state of richest natural endow- ment in all the south is Alabama. We except none. We have more coal, more black cotton lands, more rivers, growing, and easier access to the gulf and to the Panama canal, or rather, we will have when all our rivers are rendered navigable, as they will be in the course of time. When the Coosa is opened to barge navigation, all the state from the state line near Rome, Ga, to Mobile bay, will enjoy the advantages of water transportation. What other state is so richly en- dowed? What other state has so many claims upon the loyalty of her own sons and daughters?
 Let us give the home-comers d warm welcome, and, perhaps, after a while they will let us know that they desire another homecoming day. Every state is having them. and in the state originator of the idea, New Hampshire, every year has home coming day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
Coal Lands of the Government.

President Roosevelt has put an end to the 'cornering" process which had been begun in coal lands Hereafter the coal lands of the government will not be subject to entry and sale, and the "corner" will not be extended be. yond present limits.
 The order of withdrawal is thought to relate more to Oklahoma than to any other section, but coal deposits may be discovered elsewhere. and there is a feeling that any govern ment supply should hereafter be ded- icated to public uses. Leases may be resorted to, but no conveyance in fee is to be permitted.
 This protection of the country's fuel supply comes rather late, but better late than never is a good rule in this matter. The west and the south have thus far escaped the monopolies es- tablished in Pennsylvania by a few huge corporations, and the withdrawal of the government coal lands from homesteading and purchase will oper- ate to keep the people from the grasp of monopoly in the matter of fuel. The step has been taken tardily, but it will still do some good. In Alabama the line has long been drawn between mineral and agricultural lands, and the new order will not perhaps work any change in the situation. It will not do us any harm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
LITERAL OBEDIENCE.

From Harper's Weekly.
 A representative from Q New England state says that for number of years he las been in the habit of fishing with an old fellow famous as guide in the woods" A short while ago he hunted him up with the intention of arranging for a trip. He found the old fellow sit ting deicctedly on a barrel.
 Hello, Uncle Bill, what's the trou- bie?" the representative asked.
 Jest got in from a trip with city greenhorn, the old fellow replied, sadly
 Well what did he do-rock the boat?'
 No; I could CT jest knocked him over i,oard of he had done that"
 Well, what was the trouble
 The old fellow sighed.
 Well, jest before we starts he comes nd asks if there is anything he better bring long. Some good fish bait wouldn't 6t no harm, I tells him."
 ''Well:" the representative asked, try ing not to smile.
 An what you guess that greenhorn brought? the old fellow asked suddenly strengthening up and speaking with deep disgust.
 ''I haven't an idea.
 .sPaitr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
SULTAN AT WORK AND PLAY

At 10 o'clock the sultan returns to his room and takes frugal breakfast He is served by the head butler. Osman Effendi, who tastes each dish before handing it to his master, and nobody else is present, unless it be, rarely some of the children. After breakfast an hour or so is spent in ihe library, where the Illustrated books are most used. Altogether there are soma lOOO9 volumes. At 1 o'clock punctually his majesty retires to his bedroom for a siesta, while one of the eunuchs or Q picked man of the Albanian Guard stands outside the door.
 This is really the best rest he gets, as he often works late into the night, and then goes tired to bed. The siesta lasts an hour and a half, when he is softly walked, and at 2:3O repairs to the study for the labors Of the state. Here he works uninterruptedly often till past midnight. with the exception of the time taken for hasty refreshment about sunset. All documents brought to him are first thrown Into disinfecting box, and then given to him by the first secretary, Tahen Bey.
 On Fridays this programme is interrupt ed by the Selamlik, and often by audien- ces to foreign diplomats in the afternoon. which generally take place in one or other of the garden Mosques Nobody knows beforehand in which room the sultan means to sleep, and he often only chooses himself at the last moment. It is always On the ground floor, however, and the door is always watched by some especially trusted eunuch, or Albanian, armed to the teeth.
 On Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays there Is generally a theatrical represen- tation in the Court Theatre though Sum- day Is not a regular day The theatre ad- joins the dwelling rooms of the palace. and communicates direct with the sultan's apartments. The stage is roomy and well machned, but there are only three or four boxes for the spectators, the rlace generally filled by the pit and stalls being merely covered with a fine carpet. The royal box Is So arranged that the actors shall never turn their backs to it, Gnd for the same reason the orchestra is placed beneath it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
THE MERRY WHISTLER.

From the Florence Herald
 You never met a man who was an in- veterate whistler and yet thorough scamp.
 The whistler usually is a cheerful be- ing, and when one is cheerful he cannot be thinking Of bad things.
 The chea-, the coward, the blackleg arc not addicted to the open heart and cheery whistle.
 The man vho will get up in the morning and make Il fire, keeping warm with merry strain of Yankee Doodle Boy" hasn't a sour heart over his task
 The man who makes the coffee and filings out tho front door for the bakery, with "El Lapitan' thrilling forth in one big whistle, is never the man of mean propensities, who is keeping tally on his service, to say, later to his wife:
 q make :he fires while you lie abed'
 Have you ever seen a man whistle restless baby asleep? If not, you have something to look forward to.
 And then when the babe becomes the small son, have you ever observed this cheerful faeher teaching his craft to lttla Jimmie?
 Through bis fingers, and through his teeth and then the intrcacies of the liquid double trill.
 Thus, whcr Jimmie gets at the kindling chopping age he has acquired one of the first principles of a good and desirable man-he Is Q whistler like his dad, and the envy and emulation of every neighbor boy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
Situation in Money Market.

Henry Clews in his Wall street letter of Saturdays date says in part
 The best feature in the financial situa- tion is the easier condition of the local money market. Both call and time rates have declined, six months time money being quoted at 534@6 per cent, the lowest rate since the crop movement began. This relief is, of course, due to gold im- ports, treasury disbursements and prob- ability that the efflux to the interior has reached its height. From now on easier local conditions should prevail and bank reserves should rise until the end of the year, provided no disturbances occur dur ing the interval and the shifting back of American loans in London does not pro- ceed too rapidly.
 The Bank of England rate was advanced from to per cent. and the Bank of Germany from to per cent. These are extraordinarily sudden and high advances by these two institutions. They have but one meaning; that is, notice to New York that those markets are closed to us for the financial relief upon which we have hitherto depended. Fortunately, we ae now beyond the necessity of assis- tance from that quarter, having secured over sI0,0OO000 of gold this autumn, so that the precaution is somewhat tardy and intellectual Nevertheless, the action of these two conservative and very influ ential institutions is significant and can not be wholly ignored; for interest rates have advanced in all European centers. It is plain we will get no more gold from
 
 and that further extension of American credit in those markets could only be made with difficulty.
 "The condition of the money market and the high level of prices would make the present inopportune for an active bull market were it not for the irresistible ma nipuaton of a few powerful operators. Prices at times have shown great strength, particularly under lead of the steel issues. which arc making eXtraor- dinary profits: and which are expected to benefit largely by the recent ore deal. So long as general outside conditions re- main so favorable and money reasonably easy. it seems impossible to restrain spec ulative operations.
 Indications suggest an active but ir- regular market The big men seem quite able to advance pricesfa few points, but buyers are few and cautious. so that any considerable outpouring of stocks is quickly followed by recession in values. With the situation well in hand, how ever, the leaders are likely to give the market fresh lift at every opportunity, creating an activity that will delight the nnble trader but make the prudent op- orator the more cautious on every ad- vance. Natural conditions are not in fa- vor of further advance; yet it seems quite within the power of the market leaders to force prices up to higher level on special stocks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
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 by a thick wall. It Is almost a misnomer to call 1t palace as "Yi1diz comprises a number Of very modest-look- ing whitewashed villas and Mosques. any one of which is more like private res idence than the home of a sovereign The study, in which Abdul Hamid passes a third of his life, Is furnished with sim plicity amounting almost to poverty. On the big writing table lie the papers and documents of the day only, which are carried off as soon as they have been attended to. The rule is that nothing should remain more than twenty-four hours on that table, and there is no waste raper basket
 His favorite room is his library, or libraries, of which he has four. The first imperial library was founded by Sultan ahmed III. One of them is devoted ex- clusively to works on Turkey and the Ot- toman domlnions in all languages. It contains a strange collection of manu scripts of books which have never been published, that were bought up in order to prevent their circulation. Another section Is composed of works in Turkish, Arabic, and Persian, and these are kept in the best order, as the librarians can read the titles and catalogue them regu- iarly. which they are incapable of doing with foreign productions.
 The sultan's day begins early. In sum mer at and winter at 6 he rises, and if the weather Is fine goes Immediately Into the park. This Is extensive and laid out in alleys and little forests with several artificial lakes, the largest of which has an island in the middle. On this big pond his majesty generally embarlks in caique, or boat, which he rows himself, or in either small steam or electric launch, and repairs to the island to visit his pets. These are of all sorts-stags, roedeer, gazelles. rare goats. and sheep, and birds of every land. They are all tame, and are said to be very fond of their royal master
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
LIFE OF A BANK NOTE.

From the London Daily Graphic.
 During the hearing of case at the Old Street police court yesterday, Mir Ernest Codrington, an inspector of bank notes at the Bank of England, was ques- toned to the life of bank notes.
 He said that the average life of a f5 note was sixty-two days. of a e10 fifty eight days, e20 to 9100 note thirty days f3O0 to e500 note eleven days. and a e1000 note fifty-five days. He said that they could never tell when a note would come back. It might be many years. They had in their possession f5 note that was out for III years. Misers and old ladies were very fond of hoarding up bank notes. Hundreds and thousands of notes never came back at all. and that was all profit to the Bank of England.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
HE extreme care which King Ed ward has to exercise to live with
 In his income seems ridiculous

\Cp ward has to exercise to live with
 In his income seems ridiculous to Americans, yet abroad it requires CO., lossal annual sum of money to maintain the ruler of a great nation and his num- erous family connections.
 In King Edwards case his annual in come from the state Is $2,2S4,20O, and 1t is said that it is difficult for him to pay his bills out of that sum. Moreover, servants who expected to be pensioned in their old age are being discharged from castles and finding their way to the poorhouse. Heavy taxation is said to be the reason why the King can not obtain more money to main- tain his many residences and relatives in royal style, and it transpires that an an nual income of at least B 000, 900 would be necessary to keep the Kings household, including the numerous princes and prin- cesses, from running into debt.
 The income Great Britain's King re- ceives seems large, but it is really quite small compared with the civil lists of other European rulers. In fact the Brit ishers are surpassed in the matter of lib- eral appropriations for the state house. holds and reigning families by several leading foreign countries.
 In Russia there is no civil list, but in spite of wars and revolutions the czar is in possession of the enormous revenues which are derived from the crown do- mains which include more than million square acres of cultivated lands and im- proved forests. as well as several of the mines in Siberia, his total income reach ing probably s9OoO0.O0o year.
 It is said it is impossible even to ap- proximate the income from all sources of William IT., German Emperor and King of Prussia. This ruler receives S3.143,S59. As the representative of the reigning house he is in possession of a vast amount of property, great landed estates in va rious parts of the country, the revenue from which is largely used in defraylng the expenses of the court and providing for the members of the royal family. The royal crown treasure. founded by King Frederick William III. and now consist ing of a capital of more than 6,OOo,WO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
WHEN THE WINDS SINGS IN THE
 NIGHT.
By Frank L. Stanton.

By Frank l.. Stanton.
 l. You can read the dreams they're dreamin In their rosy slumbers deep; To sweeter song they listen Than the mothers song of Sleep" They see the Christmas angels With their shiny wings O light Hear fairy trumpets blowin' When the wind sings in the night.
 II. For the wind is like a message From the land where Christmas dwells: They hear the frosty reindeer Shake their shiny silver bells, Impatient for the journey Der the housetops, snowy-white- Oh. there's wonder in the music When tAe wind sings in the night!
 III. They're in Christmas land forever In a rosy dream O bliss, When they're singin' in the sunshine, When they're climbin for a kiss; And we'd sigh not OCT the lonesome Weepin years of lost delight Could we dream the dreams they'ro dreamin' When the wind sings fin the nightI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
Brilliant Record.

w T. Warren, young man formerly or Montgomery and only recently moved to Birmingham, has some brilliant things all eady accredited to him as an archi- tact and his career is just beginning" sad a fellow architect last night. He came here to submit plans for the new Southssle Baptist church. After four years in the Columbia School of Archi- lecture he won the scholarship to Paris On completion of his course there he was orlployed by McKim, Mead & White the foremost architects of this country Short ly after his return to New York Mir War len was put in charge of the interior work of Tiffany's new $2.OO0OOO building on Fifth avenue, and later of Dr. Park bursts church, which was completed few months ago.
 'ro have won the Paris scholarship from the School of Architecture of Co., lumbia University is, it is needless to say very high test of talent. But to view the artistic confidence of a firm like Me Rim. Mead & White is even more. 1t is perhaps the most coveted testimonial within the attainment of young archi- tect.
 MT. Warren Is an Alabamian, as I have said. He is from Montgomery and a graduate of Auburn. l am glad that after being so admirably equipped in the two artistic ccnters of the world he has decided to come back to his own state to live, seeing that in the south. which IS awakening artistically as otherwise, is to be found the most attractive field for his work I regard his future as abso- 1Itely secure and l predict for him in Birmingham quick recognition of his tnIeptD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
Two Pennant States,

The major leagues, as well as the minor leagues, have finished their sea sons, and all Illinois is rejoicing be- cause both emblems of victory have been secured to 1t through the ath- letic skill of the teams in that states chief city. The victory is notable one, although only one pennant was battled for, the other coming in walk-away contest. In the American league the contest was not decided until the last week of the season.
 But let not Illinois unduly exalt her self. She is not a whit more fortunate than Alabama, where two pennants will also freely flap in the breeze next year, the one at Birmingham and the other at Mobile. True, the major leagues do not consider the leagues in Alabama their equals, except when they desire to fatten and fortify them selves, and then the Southern and the Cotton States leagues are prop erly appreciated. Fortunately they cannot take by draft many from the Southern league, and even their big rolls of money will buy but few from the pennant winners of Alabama.
 Let Illinois fly her double pennants. So, too, will Alabama, and the home pennants will flap as joyfully and free ly as the more pretentious ones in far away Illinois.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
Between Seasons.

q believe you see more poorly dressed men in town at present than at any c!her period of the twelve months.' re- marked an observing young man yestei Cay.
 it were. As rule, the Birmingham men divide the year into two seasons suiamer and winter-and there's whole lo- of them who buy only two suits a year. The man who is wearing his sum-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
AND NAPOLEON, TOO,

From the Kansas City Star.
 The Peoria Transcript thinks it looks absurd to send Funston to back up Taft, doubtless referring to the avordupois of the pair. Well. why not? Did not dimin- utive Joe Wheeler have to rescue Shaf- ter in Cubl. and was not the little Ala bama general smaller than Funston, and is not Shacter more abese than the fat Taft? Go to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
Cotton Speculation.

There are two sides to the cotton brokerage question: just as there are al- ways to the cotton market" said flnan- c:er. If those who recently have shown SD much bearishness on the former had had their wish and closed up the wire houses in Birmingham those of their friends who were legitimately bearish on the latter would have been in pad shape. For just surely as the merchants sue cess depends upon keeping fin touch with his slow-movlng dry goods or shoe mar kets by mail, so does the cotton mans very life, commercially speaking, depend uron wire connections with the cotton markets of tho world, which always move lKe second hands on a watch and some times go off like an alarm clock. If by reason of inadequate telegraphic commit rications the cotton buyer had during the last few weeks been unable to hear these awakening sounds in the cotton riarket furnished only by means of con- tinuous quotations, he would now most likely be as high up in the afr as the mar Eet itself And all because, perhaps, in enc of tho markets sudden burst of speed be would have been unable to ger on or rather legitimately speaking, to pro- tect himself.
 Public wires execute orders all right, sooner or later, but a nan likes to know when he Is executed. If by chance the bear didn't rush to cover during the re- cent chilly nights, the chances are now lie doesn't care for either public or pri- vate wires, and the name of cotton is mathematical in his sleep. But cot ton man may legltimate1y refuse to buy cotton when he thinks 1t is going lower, even if he has orders to fill. So is it legitimate, as the farmer will testify, for him to buy cotton even when he has no orders to fill. And such unquestionably spinner, just as the merchant may de- cioe to wait or not before buying his stock. Snce this much of tho cotton business Is not unfavorably regarded by the pub lie at large, many cotton men contend that if they are to exercise discretion in the matter of buying, they must ex- ercise the same discretion in the matter Of selling. and to do this they must keep in continuous touch with the exchanges, wherein made the markets of the world, upon which their business depends. " neither facilities for these operations are furnished by the present system of ex- change connections of the brokerage houses having offices in Birmingham is matter for the legislature to decide. But that continuous quotations must be furn- ished reliably by means is indispensable 10 the cotton business of Birmingham. It is said that the existence of broker age offices where future contracts are Cealt in fosters speculation and has a de- rloralizing effect This may largely be tue but 1t also may be largely true that without speculation the spot cotton bGsiness could not exist"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15
Handsome Publication.

The catalogue and premium list of the Alabama State Fair, recently issued, is handsore publication, neatly arranged and filled with information. The adver- tising ratronase is also liberal The sue cess of the catalogue was largely due to ;hc efforts of l.. r. Hill, editor of the Ensley Enterprise, who looked after the advertisement, and s. J. Stockard, super intendent of publicity for the fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-15

The dollar campaign fund failed be. cause lot of people knew that they would not lose any money, no mai ter who was elected. With the cor poration coughers up it is a different proposition.