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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
YOUNGEST CONGRESSMAN.
Baltimore's Representative Began His
 Career as a Newsboy.
From the Baltimore News.

From the Baltimore NeWs.
 From newsboy to a successful law yer and a seat in Congress before he Is 27 years old, the youngest man that ever sat in the House. Is the record of Harry B. Wolf, who was elected last week to go to Washington as representative of the Third district of Baltimore. MT. Wolf not only defeated an old campaigner, but he carried a district that has not gone democratic in ten years. His opponent, W. W. Johnson. Is a leader in the councils of the republican party in Baltimore, and was postmaster of the city when Wolf was an urehin yelling, Extra. mister?''
 Day and night Wolf worked. He visited almost every home in his district and on the last day of the campaign he sent out something like GOOD letters to doubtful voters. He was ever ready with the glad smile and he has a handshake that Is winning. He made about six speeches ev- cry night. He knows how to handle men and has a magnetic personality. All the foreign element in his district f1ocked to him to a man, because he lives among them and attends to all their affairs that get into the counts He is at their we'd dlngs, their funerals, their christenlngs and their beds of illness, not because he is politician, but because he has grown up among them, and is on familiar terms with every man of them Wherever two or three men were gathered all knew Harry Wolf. It would take nim about an hour to walk around block.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Monument to Poe.

"Richmond Is about to erect monu- ment to the memory of Edgar Allan Poe, Americas greatest poet said a literary man. "The capital of the Old Dominion is now city of monuments and I have wondered why Poe had not long ago been honored with a fitting memorial in marble. When l lived in Virginia some years ago I talked with several old citizens who had known Poe, two or three of them intimately. All those men who saw the poet are dead, except one-George C. Wilde. Mir. Wilde Is now 80 years of age. 1 heard him describe Poe as he appeared when he read in public in the old Ballard house his lecture on The Poetic Principle
 Tn 1877 l had pleasant talks with a Mr Clarke, who was then Mayor of Manchester, Va. This gentleman was a class mate of Poe at the University of Virginia in 1S26-I think that was the year. Mr. Clarke said that Poe was re- garded at the university as a young man of uncommon talents, especially for ac- auiring a knowledge of foreign languages. He had penchant for drawing grotesque pictures in crayon but his poetic genius had not been revealed at that time, all though he wrote verse occasionally"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
FALLEN ASLEEP.

By Frank l.. Stanton. Only a little dust
 So small that rose might hide it; And I trust in God-or l try to trust, When I kneel in the dark beside it. I kneel in the lark and say:
 Only dream that I weep She would not leave me and go away She has only fallen asleep. Fallen asleep, as oft
 She climbed to my heart to rest, Her white arms twining my neck, as soft AS down on a doves sweet breast. Tenderly-unawares,
 Sleep came in the waning light, And kissed her there on the twilight
 stairs
 That lead to the morning light And that she will wake I know,
 And smile at grief like this; It could not be she would leave me so, With never goodnight kiss So I kneel in the dark and say I only dream that I weep: She would not leave me and go away She has only falien asleep
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Isthmian Business.

New Orleans, backed by the Missis- sippi valley and the central west, is en- deavoring to get a share of isthmian business which New York monopolizes because all the government steamships ply between the canal zone and New York alone, touching nowhere else. For that, purpose the Mississippi valley and export association has been organ ized and duly incorporated.
 The movement extends from Chi cago to New Orleans in many states on each side of the big river. The men in this movement demand that the Mississippi valley shall not be ignored in order to aggrandize and gratify New York. They ask that at least one-third of the government ships should be operated out of a gulf port, out of New Orleans, in short.
 The Mississippi valley has come to think that the money of all the people should not be used to boost New York to the detriment alike of the govern- ment at the isthmus and of the people of all the rest of the country. Par tiality of that sort is uncomfortable, and the boards of trade throughout the central west are cooperating with New Orleans for the purpose of breaking into the New York scheme. Chairman Ehonts Is champion of the New York side, but an appeal will be taken from him to the President, and, if need be, to Congress.
 The matter will in form or another be thoroughly threshed out this win ter, and 1t will be strange, indeed, ir New York holds monopoly of the government business against the com bined strength of the gulf states and the central west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
FUTURE OF MIR. HEARST.

From New York Letter to the Philadel- phia Press.
 There Is complaint that MT. Hearst is running away, as they, call 1t, that he is going to spend time in California and then the winter months in Europe, but it may be that this Is no more than a party of plan he has mapped out which has presidential politics In view. MT. Hearst may be dismayed by the result Of the election in New York City. He may possibly as he looks over the campaign, reflect that he made serious mistake in permitting his newspapers to assail with violent personal denunciation every one who was opposed to him, descending at times to the repartee of Billingsgate That angered many democrats and the friends of many democrats, and 1t was an un- necessary kind of campaigning More over. Tammany was persuaded that if MT. Hearst were elected governor he would not play fair with the organization.
 But in view of the discontent that does
 
 prevail and the reason for 1t, in view of the fact that MT. Hearst did voice when he spoke with dignity and plauslplllty what many have been thinking, and in view of the extraordinary campaign he made and of his enormous resources in money and his unparalleled opportunity to spread his propaganda-and especially in view of his temperament, and his am- bitions, it is deemed absurd to predict that he has been finished as political leader by the election in New York. He may cut all alliance with the democracy. and probably will. He has nothing to lose and everything to gain by that, from the personal point of view. There is no more astute observer than Richard Crok- CT, and when he speaks sincerely, he speaks with a clearness of Judgment of which not many but his intimate friends have had knowledge. Sometimes, he has thought it expedient to speak for pub lication with a certain gift for delphic utterance that may mean anything, but he unquestionably spoke what was in his mind when he said that MT. Hearst had shown wonderful strength and such strength that would make him a factor in the presidential election, either as a candidate himself or as affecting. the chances of the candidate.
 District Attorney Jerome, without the knowledge of the opinion of MT. Croker had expressed, also ventured the opinion that it is but the beginning of national politics with Hearst as a powerful factor, and that he will have to be reckoned with in the presidential politics of 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

She believes, with Thackery's grand- mother that "the best of women are hypocrites. We don't know how much they hide from us; how watchful they are when they seem most artless and confidential; how often those frank smiles. which they wear so easily, are traps to caJole. or elude, or dsarm. I don't mean in your mere coquettes, but your do- mestic models and paragons of female virtue. Who has not seen a woman hide the dulness of stupid husband. or coax the fury of a mad one? We accept this amiable slavishness and praise a woman for it; we call this pretty treaehery truth. A good housewife is of necessity a hun- bug"
 In other words Mrs. Green counsels her sex to stick to the business for which she IS best fitted: namely, that of making a. husband happy by humbugging him into the belief that he Is a great man. No one, said Thackeray's grandmother, can do this so eleverfy and consistently as the wife, and, adds Mrs. Green, she misses her vocation in neglecting it. And one can imagine Mrs. Green saving to her compatriots if this be treason why make the most of it. It Is rank treason. and she should be courtmartialed by Sorosls The inealculable harm this sort of talk from lady in Mrs Greens position of prominence is calculated to cause cannot be overestimated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Lessons of New York.

l Greater New York gave one of the candidates on the democratic ticket 1 144,00Q majority. It could have given MT. Hearst as much, and he would have been elected. but Boss McCarren and Mayor Mcclellan assailed him | openly, while Boss Murphy fought him under the surface. This reduced his majority in the big city until the up state voters could control the election and elect MT. Hughes.
 What does all this mean? Out of all of it." says the Washington Post, "only one thing is manifest, and that is that the American people have just begun the chase of the octopus. They are terribly in earnest. The republican pack has the course, and If they do not fetch results, the democratic pack will be put on the trail two years hence." This is, no doubt, true. If the ad-
  ion of the tariff and graduated in- come and inheritance tax the republic ans may win in walk in 1908. This is large-sized eff" especially when 1 the Senate is controlled by "the inter- ests," but the republicans are in d nervous condition, and the reputed Roosevelt programme may be put through.
 What then? MT. Roosevelt will not even then necessarily be the nominee, for he would have to encounter the unwritten law about third terms, and l political experts are inclined to think 1 that Charles E. Hughes has an oppoi- unity In the next eighteen or twenty months, covering two legislatures in New York, to add in wise way to his reputation as trust-buster, and that he would then, living as he does in a close and pivotal state, become the logical nominee. The next eighteen or twenty months will make or break MT. Hughes. At present he has all opportunity for outrunning that of MT. Taft, Mir. Shaw, Mr. Root, MT. Fair banks or any other rival.
 1 The democratic nominee clearly will be either MT. Bryan or MT. Hearst, foi neither is out of the running. Either is in a position to take advantage of any acts of omission or commission the lapses of the reactionaries of the l Senate-the underground work of the tariff beneficiaries-and either stands ready to extinguish private monopoly and to give the plain citizen square chance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
CRIME IN PITTSBURG

l thief or burglar you are battling with an insane man. Few of them will hesitate to take life to gain their ends. They believe they are only protecting themselves when their victims give battle
 ''1f man holds revolver at your head don't fight unless you have excellent chances. Remember the man is a maniac. Give him what you have, and get him later, if possible. To fight in the face of leveled revolver In a thief hands is al- most suicidal
 Don't come downstairs after a burglar unless you have gun and can shoot we'll. Be sure there is no light near you, or you will offer yourself as a target. Above all tread stealthily and make sure of your man. But never search unless armed and prepared to use your weapons.
 'The best plan is to have a police whis- tie and sound it from your bedroom win dow. If not that, open your window and shout for assistance. Call the police That is the safer plan. The burglar downstairs is crazy.
 Do not hide your revolver under your pillow when you go to bed The burglar will get your gun the first thing when he comes to your room. Put it under your dresser or under the bed, and lie still When the burglar leaves, then get your weapon and get him as he is leaving If you don't hide your gun, .ne burglar will take it as well as your valuables Don't fight unless you have the advan- tage. Human life is dearer than riches, but the professional burglar thinks other wise, and will not hesitate to take it.''
 Pittsburg was confronted again today by deeds of lawlessness which intensity the terror of this crime-ridden com munty. A prayer made by the Rev. Dr. David R. Breed was echoed in the hearts of all citizens.
 "Oh, God, help the policemen of Pitts- burg to protect the lives of her citizens,'' was the invocation of Dr. Breed this afternoon at the funeral of Harry Firth Smith, who was murdered In his home by a burglar on Sunday morning.
 To the record of crimes was added to- day a daring attempt at abduction made within a block of police headquarters; detective held up and robbed by wom- an in the street, and the chase by cti- zens of a burglar who was discovered and fired upon, and the attempted strangling of woman. It is known that t.4e police are not reporting all the crimes which are being committed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
All Should Decorate.

Birmingham is ahead of most southern cities in many respects, but is behind in the matter of decorating for festive oe- oasions,' said M. V. Joseph. "As the Southern Cotton convention. to be held here in January, is to bring by far the biggest crowd that it has ever been our privilege to welcome, it would be fitting for every building in the business district to display flags and bunting during the presence of the visitors.
 Tt costs comparatively little to deco rate, In all the older cities a gathering of any importance means gala dress for all the business houses, to say nothing of residences. With some concerted effort think all the business concerns can be induced to put out decorations in Jan uary"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Income Iaxation.

England has long levied an income tax. She levies it, no doubt. because 1t is just tax levied on those who get the most protection from a govern ment, and Is moreover tax most easily borne. The incomers taxed i.. Great Britain aggregate 4552 million dollars. From those incomes were col lected this year 155 million dollars, or about BE per cent. No one opposes an income tax in Great Britain be- cause the government needs the money, and all know those who have large incomes should pay more than those do who have none. Our tariff policy is based on theory directly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
NEW MONTE cRISTO.

cTOIn the NeW Orh ddil
 Monte Cristo was a poor fellow. He seemed the true superman to his creator and the whole reading world of our fa- ther's day. But Edmond Dantes was a pauper in mind, morals and money, com- pared with a score of men now living. The whole fortune of Dumas hero was little more than s20,O0O GOO. Pedro Alvarado, of Parral, gives half that sum as single gift in a single day. But there is a far greater difference than the mere amount of wealth between the Mexican miner and his prototype of romance. And in that difference lies the whole story of the spirit of the age
 It was no libel on humanity, a genera ton ago. to picture a poor man. sudden- ly possessed of great riches, limiting his expenditures to personal ostentation, tho execution of personal vengeance and benefactions to personal friends. Today, the man who gains fortune of many mill lions is impelled by force, which he may misunderstood, may misname, but which is superior and irresistible of the community and the betterment of un- known individuals.
 Senor Alvarado might find 1t difficult to explain, with exactness his motives and reasons for helping 10000 poor peo- pie of Mexico to independence, with his ten millions. like giver in this coun- try offered a faulty solution when he said that .it is a crime to die rich" It is not wealth but selflshness that is the new crime. Dives in our day Is an al- truist, In spite of himself. He can neither rest nor revel in comfort while there is want and ignorance outside his gates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
From Various pittsburg Papers.

From Various Pittsburg Papers.
 H01 1T1ZENS are arming for self-pro- " lection. In shake up' of the
 police today several captains were transferred, some were discharged, and inspectors were shifted in the hope that new faces might not be recognized by criminals in their chosen haunts. Much attention was centered on the investiga- tion into the crucifixion of Mrs Jean Mitchell on Sunday in her home at 2407 Forbes street. This inquiry tended to prove that the woman's assailant was not her husband, but one of the criminal terrorists, who Is still at large. Mrs. Mitchells hands are helpless from the ter rible wounds inflicted when she was nailed to the draining board of the sink. She told her story as follows to Caotain Egan today:
 'I was alone in my apartment on Sun day morning, when I fell from stunning blow on the head. When 1 regained con- sciousness my hands were nailed to the sink. I did not see the person who as- saulted me. 1t could not have been my husband as he was out of the city, and he would have had no object In treating me so.''
 William Mitchell is under arrest in Canton, O., whither came Chief of Police Smith and a lawyer today bearing af- fidavits that Mitchell was in Canton on Sunday and had been there since Satur- day. Mrs. Mitchell ridicules the report that Mitchell has a wife and child in Can ton. Neighbors of the woman told the po- lice today that at the time of the as sault they heard her screaming in her apartment:
 Don't drive nails through my hands. 'Bill.' I'll do anything that you say"
 When asked about this the woman an- swered that if she said anything of the kind it was spoken in her delirium. She insisted upon leaving Mercy hospital late last night, and returned to her apart ments She was formerly Miss Jean Mel lon of East Pittsburg, and was credited with enjoying the friendship of young William Thaw, a cousin of Harry K. Tha'w, who is now figuring in the courts.
 Superintendent of Police Thomas A. McQuade has issued in the form Of a statement to the terror stricken citizens of Pittsburg the following suggestions for self-protection in case of attack by crim- inals:
 "When you fight with a professional
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
THE IVES, DEAR" WOMAN
From the New York Globe.

From the New York Globe
 "9 who sits by the a's.'as and
 says. Yes. dear to every stpuid remark her husband makes" Thus declareth, and presumably opineth, Mrs. Hetty Rowland Robinson Green, the greatest woman financer of the period. At the age of T, when her beliefs and opinions may certainly be considered ma- ture, and long battle with the wies of men in the open market place weights her words with the wisdom of experi- ence, she comes out for the simple life declares that the Hausfrau is happier than her sister who, in vulgar parlance, does things" and says women should not bother their poor heads about poli- ties"
 If it were conceible that Mrs. Green could descend to irony in discussing her sex the temptation would be irresistible to consider her remarks as made in a not entirely serious vein. But such a supposi- tion Is negatived by this lady's well known business-like directness and contempt for subterfuge. It appears, therefore that despite her own emlnently successful career outside the home, she believes the average woman Is better fitted for, and hence happier when practicng, the do- nestle arts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
CLEVELAND AND THE LoAFERs.

From Grover Cleyeland's $ New Book,
 Fishing and Shooting Sketches"
 Not many years ago, while residing in a transporting but delightfully."- cultured and refined community, l found that con- siderable indignation had been aroused among certain good neighbors and friends because 1t had been said of me that I was willing to associate in the field with any loafer who was the owner of dog and gun. I am sure that I did not in the least undervalue the extreme friendliness of those inclined to intervene in my defense; and yet, at the risk of doing an appar- ertly ungracious thing I felt inexorably constrained to check their kindly efforts by promptly conceding that the charge was too nearly true to be denied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
GOOD AND BAD LUCK oMENs.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 To sneeze on Friday presages msfor- tune.
 To see a shooting star means all sorts of good luck.
 To pick up an opal argues the accept ance of some ones evil fortune.
 Finding piece of jewelry portends the bestowal of wealth.
 To put on a stocking wrong side out, and the left shoe first are both lucky. Finding an unopened letter means the reception of good news.
 To dream of d funeral is a.l excellent omen.
 To chase away a black cat means the throwing away of good luck.
 Bad luck will pursue you il you carry tlie handle of your umbrella down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
NO NEED TO WORRY.
the London Opinion.

From the London Opinion.
 Tailor-"When are you going to pay my account? It's enough to worry one to death.''
 Undertaker-"O, never mind, old man; if the worst comes to the worst, take it out in trade.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Narrow Escape From Burning Home

Huntsville, November 1S.-(Special.) )-Mr. John Johnson, wel-known citizen of this city, came near losing his life yes terday in the fire that burned his resi- dence. MT. Johnson was never awaKened by the fire and was almost suffocated when negro, Sam Burgess, went into his room and brought him out to the street in an unconscious condition. He was re- vived by heroic treatment, and is still very sick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

President Roosevelt did not go to Panama hunting for the last ditch. He intends to make it the first ditch in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
HAD TO BE SHOWN.

From the Washington Herald.
 A Missouri man pulled a mules tail the other day just to see how l. felt" &C., cordng to an innocent bystander. Up to date he hasn't been able to tell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

The Boston Post says that Maine throws a stone. Yet, the huntsmen manage to hit each other and the guides.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

The fight for tariff revision is in or der simply because the republicans dare not go into the campaign of 1908 as standpatters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

President Roosevelt did not go to Panama to lay a cornerstone, for ca nals are not equipped with nonsense of that sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

Governor Elect Hughes is in the Adirondacks, where he wears a red cap so that the hunters will not destroy the value of his plurality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

Congressman Wadsworth, who was elected to stay at home after March 4. can move to Chicago and be in the midst of his dear stockyards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

Just when everybody was feeling good over the report that Senator Platt would resign, he announces that he will consider the matter later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

All other countries but this have parcels post, but the other countries have no express companies that die tate legislation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

MT. Fairbanks is a good man, and, of course, he has no sneaking hope that the President may fall in and get drowned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

The Presidents message will show whether the President has the cour- age of his orthrographical convictions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

What. judges ride on Pullman passes? Can such things be, and not overcome us like a summer cloud?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

Governor Odell fears the opposition ticket in 1908 will be Bryan and Hearst. He says it would be "a hard one to beat"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

The Utes were simply hunting out of season, but they have been duly round ed up, and will be duly, but kindly, dis ciplined.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19

The peonage hunters should investi- gate baseball circles where men are sold to the Highest bidder.