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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
Rates to the South.

The cities of the central west-Chi-
cago, Cleveland, indianapolis, Cincin-
natl and score of other trade centers
are up in arms over comparative rail
road rates to the south to manufac-
tured articles and merchandise. Out
of the smoke of the conflict appears
the fact that thirty years ago the rail-
roads decided that the east should ex-
plot without serious rivalry the south
in the respect of manufactured goods
and merchandise, while the central
west should be given preferences in
the matter of meats and foodstuffs. The
object of the railroads was to prevent
rail competition, the roads leading
from the eastern gateways taking one
slice of the total business and those
leading from the central west taking
the other. All the while the consumers
in the south paid the bills.
L
now become the seats of factories and
jobbing houses, and they have risen up
to demand a revision of the rates first
agreed upon thirty years ago. The
manufacturers and merchants of the
central west are doing the kicking, and
no doubt they will succeed in their
campaign for just and even rates
based on the distance theory, which is
of course the best test in rate making.
To tell the truth, it is the south that
should speak out against the non-com-
petitive scheme of thirty years ago.
That scheme was practically based on
the theory that the south should be
made to pay all the freight would bear,
and under it millions of dollars have
been taken from southern consumers
that open competition would have left
in southern hands. Both the Southern
and the Louisville and Nashville now
concede the justice of REIMBURSEMENT
of rates, and no doubt justice win at
last be done both to shippers in the
central west and to consumers in the
south.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
John w. Gates on Birmingham.

Elsewhere in this mornings Age
Herald will be found Mr.. Gates views
upon the outlook of this district in par
ticular and of the southern country of
which this district is proud to be a
part, in general. When he says that
iron can in modern furnaces be made
in this district at a production cost
less by $3.50 to $3.50 ton than it can
be turned out elsewhere, he practically
explains his prediction that Birming-
ham itself will have million of people
twenty years hence.
Mr.. Gates discussion of the south
ern situation is interesting reading
also. The views of man who freely
backs his opinions with his money de-
serve a careful reading and thoughtful
considered. Mr.. Gates does not
think southern prosperity is wholly
locked up in our mines of coal and iron,
great and promising as they are, but
he thinks a new era has come over the
south, and it has come to stay, in his
opinion. He bases his opinion upon
the souths control of the commercial
crop of the world, and upon its advant-
ages for manufacturing cotton into de.
sirable products. Hundreds of mil
lions of dollars will be spent" he says,
Gin the south in the erection of fac
tories, in the building of large business
blocks in the cities and Of fine planta.
tion homes in the country, and in the
rebuilding of southern railroads, and
my opinion is that the south will en-
joy in the next twenty years what the
northwest has enjoyed in the past
twenty years-the greatest period of
| success
These extracts from Mr.. Gates talk
to a reporter of the Manufacturers
Record assuredly will impel the reader
to turn to the full report of that talk,
to be found elsewhere, and to read ii
from end to end. If it had appeared
before Thanksgiving Day all in this
district at any rate would have de.
clared that they had reason to be
thankful. And they certainly had.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
A PATRIOTS PRAYER.

By Alfred Austin.
--latest poem of England's poet laureate.)
Tho we must die, let me not die
In ingominous strife,
With fate invincible, and sigh
To linger out my life;
With powers decayed, enfeebled mind
And slowly slackening breath,
Burden, of pity to my kind,
And dead before my death.
No, let me perish. sword in hand,
At honors sudden call,
Guarding my menaced motherland
And for her safety fall.
Or mount the scaffold with firm gaze,
Martyr to some great cause,
And end my not inglorious days
For freedoms outraged laws
What is this life except a trust
For nobleness and right
The torch which, while we may, we must
still bear and keep alight:
And when. from our exhausted will
II fiickers, hand 1t on,
That is may burn and beckon STILL
Till time itself be gone.
But IL. in unheroc days.
No great deed may be done.
Let me at least deserve this prase
''He lived and died as one
Who looked on life with fearless eyes
And with intrepid mind;
So leaves, where now he silent lies,
An honored name behind"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
Or. Crapsey's Case.
south.

Before the Crapsey incident is wholly
dismissed from the public mind It
seems but fair to note some of its dis
tinguishing features. The frank and
eloquent letters of DR.. Crapsey in bid
ding farewell to his priestly Office and
to his parishioners attest alike his
courage, his sincerity and mis- capacity.
Those letters are deeply pathetic, and
they but serve to show what a loss the
city of Rochester has sustained in the
dismissal of DR.. era psey from ST. An
drew's church.
81 Not a word has been said against his
personal character, and it can almost
be said that no bitterness has grown
out of the case. In standing by his
convictions the eminent preacher prac-
tically admits that the courts of the
Episcopal church did but stand by the
terms of the organization. For this
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reason DR.. Crapsey declined to take an
appeal to the civil courts. He bows To
the will of the church courts, and his
only appeal is taken to the men and
women of his age acting in their indi.
yidual capacities. He appeals, in other
words, from the churchmen, big or lit
tie, to public opinion, and a minimum
of bitterness is the reslduum.
When it is remembered that st. An
drew's church, over which Dr. Crapsey
had presided twenty-eight years, did
not desire his dismissal, it is at once
seen that in this age of free and search
ing inquiry after the truth, creeds and
articles" that are anywhere from 200
to nearly 1000 years old will not be un-
deyiatingly construed. Some latitude
for individual opinion should be grant
ed. 1t is easy to say man should
leave an organization when its rules
DO not suit him, but is that IN all cases
the better way? Is it not better to
loosen the old straps and letters SO
that disruption of the Rochester sort
will not often occur? Not man or
woman in st. Andrews church desired
the expulsion of DIR. Crapsey-not one.
What does that mean? Do they not
thus become disaffeeted, possibly alien
ated? More latitude of Interpretation
seems, in short, to be the essential les
son of the Crapsey case. This lesson
does not fit the historic Roman and
Greek communions, which cling loyalty
to authority, but it does fit the Protest
ant churches, for in them each man
nowadays is a pope or metropolitan
unto himself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
The New Station.

The changes in the railroads that enter
Birmingham as to occupying the new sta
ton will at first bring many surprises
to those accustomed to walk over block
or two to their train," said travelling
man at the Florence.
In the matter of late trains a man
now frequently gets an opportunity TO
run over and attend to matter of bust
ness. make purchases or see a friend that
he had overlooked In his limited time
After January 1, according to the present
programme, those bound out OF the city
by any railroad except the Louisville and
Nashville must take a car or cab up to
the new station. OF course an informa-
ton bureau properly conducted at the
new station, which will furnish accurate
information to the hotels by phone, would
help the travelling public to be recon-
ciled to the change. 1 don't just like
it myself, but what can one do but fol-
low the railroads.
The new station is to be the most mag
nificent in the south and will be of course
a great ornament to Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
kLEPTOMANIA.
Is Said to Result Sometimes from Gloss
Study.

Kleptomana is occasionally induced by
continued and close application to the
study of a particular subject. A singular
case was recently reported from Germany.
A well-known professor was found to
have transferred to his own private col
lection many of the valuable butterflies of
which he had charge in his official capac-
ity.
The existence Of mental arrangement,
says the Boston Transcript, was clear
from the facts that came out in the course
of the investigation afterward made by
the museum authorities.
1t was found that the professor had Of
ten sent his wife out all day to catch but
terfies so intense was his passion for
these insects. On one occasion the pro-
fessor, while hunting a butterfly, was
nearly run over by an express train; at
another time he fell into river, and once
both he and his wife fell into pond.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
CAR AN ATHLETE.
From the Caselrs Journal.

From the Casells Journal.
The Car is below medium height and,
though he does not look it, is something
of an athlete. In a walk he can easily
outdistance the average man. Pedes-
trianism is, in fact, the exercise that APP
peals TO him most. He can go miles and
miles without requiring q rest. but now
adays he INDUCES in but few rambles.
He does not fear death for himself, but
he believes that God intended him to
rule, and therefore he avoids unnecessary
risks. The tales that are circulated Pc
riodically to the effect that he rambles
for his safety throughout the livelong
day are as untrue as they are absurd
Nicholas III. is also fair oasman. When
he was over in this country some years ago
he patronized the Thames frequently,
going down to certain boathouse unat-
tended and hiring a single sculler by the
hour. Now and again he cycles. He finds
no pleasure in pomp and ceremony, and
were he free to consult Ills own wishes he
would chcerfully vacate the throne to-
morrow.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
WORLD GROWING SANER

we like to look back to the days of our
fathers and to pride ourselves on our
strenuosity. as compared with the lives
they led; but | have no doubt that they,
too, did the very same thing of making
similar comparison between themselves
and their forebears. But, after all, the
whole thing is matter of habit, and
one can grow accustomed to almost any
thing in the way of high-pressure living,
and 1 do not think we have anywhere
near reached the limit of pressure in the
lives we are leading today. | have no
doubt that our grandchildren will con-
sGer us very slow-going people. Take
the units of society today, and there
isn't much difference between the finan-
cier who deals in millions a minute and
the man who lives pastoral life, with
never a worry in the whole course of his
existence. The one will live about as the
other, and the one will be about as sane
as the other in the long run
do you not think that. the nervous
strain incident to life in the great cities
is conducive of diseases affecting tho
nervous SYSTEM" DR.. Whalen was asked.
II cannot do better than quote for you
al, editorial discussion of this very SUBJ
ject In a recent issue of the Journal of
the American Medical association" was
his reply: Simmons said in his ed-
tcrial, 1t seems to afford kind of pleas
ure to this generation to look on itself
as the victim of high pressure. We hear
much on all sides of the hurry of the
time, of the pace that kills, and of the
disturbing and demoralizing effects OF
modern industrialism and commerciaism.
There is no lack of remedies for the ex-
listing order. We are told that we must
concentrate, not dssipate, our energies;
that we must forsake city life and re-
turn to nature in the guise of 100000
farm, or at least of commuters gar
den; that we must altogether give up
trying to be rich, and must rest content
with the common lot Z"
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From the Chicago Record-Herald

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
IT HE recent declaration by Forbes
Wy winslow' the noted London
alienist, that insanity is vastly
on the increase. and that unless its pro-
gress is checked by some radical action,
in a few years the ane man will be the
exception rather than the rule, has so
startled the medical profession and
health authorities all over the world that
they have begun digging into their statis-
tics for confirmation and for the causes
in few years the sane man will be the
proves to be true.
Health Commissioner Charles j. Wha-
len of Chicago, among others, has given
the matter deep study in the past few
months, and he has long arrays of fig
ures to prove that the statement is un-
true.
'It is not proven that insanity is vast
ly on the increase" he said yesterday,
"at least it is not the case here in Chi
cago. On the contrary, the records of
the bureau of vital statistics of the
United States bureau of the census de-
mcnstrate the contrary. In the annual
summary of this office for the last year
it was shown that nervous diseases, in
GLIDING all forms of insanity, continue
to decline in Chicago. Last year there
were only 81 deaths per 10000 of the
population from these diseases, and the
rate has been steadily lowering since
the year following the great fire in 1871,
when the rate reached the enormous
figures of 1873 per 10000. And in the bull
letin of the department for the week
ended August 5, 1905, there was published
table in further confirmation of pre-
vicus assertion of the general decrease
OF nervous diseases, including insanity,
in all the large cities of the country"
DR.. Whalen does not think we of this
generation are subjected to too high
pressure. 81 rather think" he said, that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
Likes Birmingham.

II like Birmingham" said very INTEL
ligent woman waiter in a restaurant.
II came from Pittsburg here from one
of the leading hotels, where 1 made good
wages. / don't mind telling you that a
waitress life here Is what she makes it.
1t is the best paying thing for woman
who knows her business, and is suited
to it, Yes, l make with tips something
like s125 month, and l soon have a reeu-
lar line of patrons. Like everything else
that a woman goes at it largely depends
on the woman herself as to how she Is
treated by men. OF course, have 10 cail
down a fresh one every now and then.
DO you know. | find. my work pecu-
liarly interesting here in the south. 1t is
such field for studying human nature.
| can soon tell the well-bred soutnerasc
from the mushroom growth. l mean what
we children called frog umbrellas that
spring up in the woods. Some OF these
are very poisonous, seei"
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Opelika Post: The poets write columns
about the beauties of autumn, but We
poor mortals must remember the coal
bins.
Eufaula Times: The tramp thinks this
| is the worst winter so far he ever en-
countered. Everybody seems TO be want
ing to give him a job.
Jacksonville Record: Whatever other
I.criticisms the President may have to
make on Panama he cannot complain of
| having had dry time while he was there.
Dothan Eagle: Bad coal is one of the
reasons given by the railroads for not
making time. We hadn't discovered that
the coal was inferior in quality by the
price.
Andalusia News: The startling sugges-
lions about matrimony that are con-
stantly being made, never make any diff
ference in the business done by the mar
riage license clerk.
Talladega Reporter: After all that talk
about arresting those Ice trust men, they
were only fined SIS after being found
guilty. Worse to shoot craps, than to be
an Ice trust brigand.
Alexander City outlook: 1t seems that
Alabama will produce enough cement to
hold the world together. If we can do
this, we have other resources that will
keep it wagging merrily.
Abbeville News: Cotton will reach 121a
cents before another crop is planted, but
the grower of the staple will not care
continental just then, because he will
have it in his hand
Dadeville Spot Cash: The poultry indus
try is an important facttr today, and
there is money in it for those who take
it up, either as a side line or as an ex-
elusive industry. Poultry commands
good price the year round.
Cadsden Journal: The fact that Senator
Tillman lost his eye as result of spend
ing too much time in a swimming pool
will not keep the old "swimmin' hole
from being duly patronzed ON all suit
able occasions.
Baldwin Times: 1t is said that nego-
tiations are pending looking to the sale
or exchange of the Philippines to Eng
land. We don't know anything about the
proposed sale or exchange, but thirty
cents or a litter of pups would look good
to us in that deal. The Philippines have
been an expensive article to us and will
ever be a source of torment to us.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
Death Penalty in France.

The world does move even If the sun
do not for the third republic in France
is about to substitute life Imprisonment
for the death penalty. The new Glen.
enceau ministry is committed to the
proposition, and already the parlia-
mentary committee to which the sub
ject was referred has reported in favor
of it, the vote in the committee being
eight to two. The change will no doubt
be pushed through by the ministry, and
France will lead the nations in that
respect.
The contrast between the action OF
the first republic and that of the third
republic shows that progress holds its
own if you give it time enough. In a
little over century France has gone
from an overworked guillotine to bill
abolishing for once and for all the
death penalty. Once abolished in
France 1t will never be restored, and
this is why we can say that the world
is growing better. Progress brightest
chapter can be written in France by
simply placing in parallel columns the
story of the guillotine in the first re-
public and the bill that M. Clemenceau
of the third republic is about to pass
abolishing the death penalty.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
Regarding Higher Criticism.

THE Rev. j. c. Hiden who will discuss
the so-called higher criticism of the Bible
before the Pastors union at the First
Methodist church Monday, is one of the
most attractive speakers hereabouts,"
said professional man. There have
been few Baptists since John A. Broadus'
day equal in power of logical expression,
wit or eloquence to DIR. Hiden. In this
generation Of new theology and new
exegesis and the poohpoohing of the
apostles creed and other cherished SYM
bols, it will be refreshing to listen to
the remarks of minister who is abreast
of the twentieth century in his reading.
but who at the same time believes in the
virgin birth of Jesus and the resurrection
and ascension
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

Prom The New York Press.
\ girl is never interested in 4 man ex-
cept. when she says she isn't
Probably Delilah cut off Samsons hair
because her own was coming out.
When you have stimulSnts prescribed
for being i'll. it seems sort of short
sighted to get well.
The only reason her children aren't
out-and-out angels, as their mother sees
1t is because jealous people won't add
nit it.
\ girls idea of being bad is to look
at u strange man without feeling insuted,
and a mans of being good is to get
home before 3 o'clock in the morninA
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02

it is probable that the surprise over
the Bulgarian statistics is misplaced.
Those statistics are probably not
founded on anything better than the
active imaginations of the Bulgarian
peasants who can neither read nor
write
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rion's -Four Hundred to Logansport as a
reception committed, The indignity of
having the Longworths whisked off by
little exclusive crowd. while the main
body of delegates were not only shut out.
but could not even get anything to eat!
These things called for retribution and
the obvious course was for the head of
the house to retaliate at the polls. And
he publication of politics by woman
is Initiated in Indiana.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
st. Vincent's Hospital.

The Sisters of Charity, in charge of st.
vincents hospital, state that the Thanks
giving donations We're numerous and
generous Checks are still being received
by mail and some time this week Sister
Chrysostom will furnish list of the con-
tributions for publication. Last year the
amounts given to the hospital as thank
offering totaled about $1,000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
LOST OVER $500 INTEREST.

From the New York Telegraph.
A West Virginia man gave his wife a
$50 bill forty yeats ago when they were
married.. The other day when the man
died his vile paid the identical bill on
account of his tombstone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02

At the battle of New Orleans Old
Hickory had seven men killed and six
wounded. Football killed this year
II and injured 104. The battle was
immortal while football was very NOR
tai
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02

Caruso has one lot of people that go
to grand opera to hear him and one lot
that go there to see him. Between the
two he is getting rich.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02
. PRESS POINTS

Columbia State: Senator Tillman es-
capped with his life-and his share of the
gate receipts.
Pensacola Journal: There was no mon
key business about the rousing reception
given Caruso in New York on his first
appearance in grand opera.
Arkansas Gazette: Yes. Mr. Root, Mr..
Taft is not only zone Of the best all
round men in the world" but he is one
of the best men who is all around the
world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02

The price of board began to advance
as soon as news came that thirteen
carloads of prunes had been burned in
California.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02

When Plat resigns and Shaw leaves
the cabinet then we will all be happy.
We may get both in our Christmas
stockings.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02

j. p. Morgan and ]. J. Hill are the
men who will name Samuel Spencers
successor. The Minnesota melon cut
ter may yet look with favor ON this
district
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02

When Grover Cleveland and Theo-
dore Roosevelt are both seated in the
Senate all the world will know what
we do with our ex-Presidents.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02

Centenarians Here and Elsewhere.

The world stands surprised over the
differences disclosed In centenarianism
by German statistician. This is what
he finds in European countries:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02

Calves blind lover is not Eugene
Higgins. If you desire to know his
name you will have to ask her press
agent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02

Benjamin Ryan Tillman with body
guard of forty detectives was a sight
that made Americans either laugh or
weep.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02

An Iowa editor, having been twenty
six years in the harness, has decided
that he needs a college education.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-02

1t was Christopher Columbus who
made Thanksgiving Day possible, for
he discovered the place it is held in.