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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

sit this winter, and it may pull in the
other direction.
The total disbursements of the state
in the fiscal year recently ended foot
up 1885 900. Over one-half of that
sum went to the veterans and to the
schools--the two absorbing $1,S21 900.
The veterans got $4,000, and educa-
ton all told took $1,375,00O. And no
money was expended by the state that
did more good or that was better de.
served than these two sums. The state
should, and assuredly will, continue to
look after the veterans and the chill
dren.
The registration of voters cost S1S,-
S6S, military encampments, $4,000;
care of the insane, $229,0O0; state
quarantine, $4,000 agricultural de-
partment, $4,000, and geological sur
yey, $500. The state spent last year
but $500 in repairing and refurnishing
the capitol. More may be spent this
year on the capitol, but no chandeliers
of the Pennsylvania pattern will be
purchased Let us hope Pennsylvania
methods will not be imported, for if
they should be all hopes of surpluses
would, vanish al once
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
Local Option Law.

Less than two years ago the Anti
Saloon league began an active campaign
in this state for the enactment of a
local option law and the success that has
been already attained is rather remark
able" said a minister of Birmingham
yesterday.
Speakers have gone into every county
and section of the state and have con-
Quoted vigorous campaign of education.
They have awakened widespread inter-
est in the subject and the candidates
for the legislature in the recent election
have been forced to heed the demands OF
the new sentiment in Alabama.
ut is said by those in charge of the
work Of the league in the state that
more than so per cent of the newly elected
members to both the house and senate
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
GoRkYs OPINION OF AMERICAN
WOMEN

From the Kansas City Star.
that Maxim Gorky makes In his new
book. which is calculated to chastise US
because our ideas about the marriage re-
lation did not agree with those of the
Russian reformer:
In handsome, light equlpages, gracious
ladies, splendidly adorned. Seated amid
the cushions of their luxurious carriages,
there peep out their pretty feet, their
starlike faces. their lovely eyes. beamng
complacently upon ALL They seem to say,
''See how beautiful we are" The tact
turn crowd compares them with its own
women, over-lean. over-fat, ever sickly,
badly nourished, often martyrs TO tooth
aches and stomach aches quarrelsome
among themselves when their husbands
are away. Then appear these ladies and
their children, so neatly dressed. healthy,
with rosy, puffy checks and straight, en-
ergetic legs. The crowd has babies, too;
but their blood is diseased, their faces
yellow and legs dstorted--God knows
why!
We should certainly be good after such
a dressing down as that. One wonders
how Mr.. Gorky observed so analytically
in the short periods of his hasty jour-
neys between hotels. There are those of
us who were born and brought up in this
country and had not discovered the con-
ditions to which Mr.. Gorky so wildly
calls our attention. Indeed, many of the
crowd" as distinguished from the beau
tiful ladies, with lovely eyes who ride in
carriages" are benighted enough to con-
slider themselves quite fortunate in being
of the fourth estate rather than being
over-rich. Fortunately, we do not take
Mr.. Gorky as seriously as he takes him
self. or We would not see the humor of
such polite compliments TO our women
as "over-lean with toothaches
We wonder how he regards the real
Mrs. Gorky, whom he discarded for an
actress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
TOO MUCH STAGE REALISM
From the New York Mail.

From the New York Mail.
fN~ ONT somebody give me a
wv kiss?" sang a young woman
w before an audience in a
Maine college town. The captain of the
football team accepted the invitation,
climbed into a box and then upon the
stage, and duly executed the order. 1t is
presumed that this barbarously literal
conduct was distasteful to the singer, but
what could she expect? Her language was
the audience instead of giving their nat
ural chivalry or elementary jealousy ex-
preston by protecting her from the unto
ward ardor of the young collegian, evil
IDENTIFY looked on him in the light of a
delegate. He was acting in highly rep
resentative capacity.
This incident should do something to re-
press the note OF direct invitation which
runs through so many of the amatory
ditties sung on the vaudeville stage. 1t is
a comparatively recent phenomenon, but
ii has run an egregious course. In the
days OF the Twentythird street Roster &
Balls the blushing members of the or
chestra, particularly the 'cellist, were
made the target for these fortnight
avowals of adula ton from the other side
of the footlights. Then an omnibus appeal
was made to the audience to come and
play with me-" In Sammy the appeal
was made specific, but directed at the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
Crop Estimates.

Up to November IA the gins had
turned out 1881 900 bales of the new
crop. This is considered bullish in the
markets, and yet the ginning since
October Is has been going on at an
unprecedented rate. In about thirty
working days 3,621,0 900 bales were
ginned, or about 10000 bales a day.
This pace would soon change all esti-
mates, but no one knows how long it
will last.
Up to November IA of last year
1901 900 bales had been ginned, and
the crop was 11,345,0 900 bales. The
ginning this year is million bales
more, and some would have us think
the crop will therefore be 12,345 900
bales.
Up TO November IA, 1904 the bales
ginned numbered 9,S76, 900. The crop
was 13,436,000 bales. The comparative
shortage of this year is 1,350,00O bales,
and the crop should therefore be 49,.
oS6,O00 bales.
Up to November IA, 1903, there had
been ginned 6S15,000 bales The crop
was 1852 900 bales. The comparative
shortage is 1716,000 bales, and this
points to a crop this year of II 1913 900
bales
If We compare the ginning of the
three last years as one whole with that
of this year, we see that this years
ginning points to a crop below 10000.
600 bales.
About twothirds of the crop had
been ginned up to November IA, and
the Alabama gins had turned out up
to that time S34,S7O bales. Possibly,
then, this states gins may turn out
l LOO, 900, as against 1,3s9,OOO bales last
year, and ,445,13 bales in 1904, which
is Alabama's record year.
The next report of the census bureau
will show the ginning up to December
Is, and that report will certainly be
a better indication of the size of the
crop. At present estimates of the crop
range all the way from 11,500,00O bales
to 1850, 900 as a maximum.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
MARK TwAlNs PHILOSOPHY.

From the Boston Herald.
Mark Twain never looks at sorrow with
levity; only with a. sunny philosophy
that is sort of rainbow-grief passed
through a prism. The current chapter OF
his memoirs in the North American Re-
view has a touching reference to his
daughter, Susy:
Susy died at the right time, the for
tunate time of life, the happy age, "a
years At "a, such girl has seen the
best of life-life as a happy dream. After
that, risks begin; responsibility comes,
and with it the cares, the sorrows and
the inevitable tragedy. For her mother S
sake l would have brought her back from
the grave if | could but l would not have
done 1t for my own.
How few die in the mick" of time!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

Mr.. Harrimans powers. The whole
poundless continent is his. Like the
latest example of literary enterprise, he
publishes simultaneously in fourteen
cities. Where the ordinary citizen takes
surface car to his office the railway
magnate takes special train and is off
to Chicago or San Francisco or any other
city, st. Paul and Minneapolis excepted
what are boundry lines to one who traf-
fics in railway systems as a Stewart or
Claim dealt in dry goods?
The nation is witnessing along with tina
growth of Federalism in the government
the development of the federal financier
whose interests compass the entire coun-
try. 1t is momentous evolutionary pro-
cess. For federal personalities of this
character federal legislation has it's
proper uses-Sherman statutes and Ell
kins laws.
In further burst of confidence Mr..
Hartman made the admission that he
has no desire to become a financial SOW
ereign. He would ''give it UP tomorrow
If he could. And as an earnest of sim
certify he has just relieved Mr.. Fish OF
Mr. Fish's particular burdens in that
line by ousting him from the presidency
of the Illinois Central No doubt Mr..
Hartman would help Mr.. Hill get rid of
his weight of troublesome wealth as he
once attempted to assist Mr.. Morgan to
that end.
But fate has doomed him to bear his
cross. He must continue in the Unwilling
accumulation of railway properties. adj
ding to the 5000 miles of which he Is
master another $1,000 and doubling the
s.. 600 100000 of securities he controls rather
than that less competent hand should
attempt the task. Who cam escape his
destiny? Nowhere outside of the catas-
trophe of a Greek tragedy is there SO
cruel an example of its memorable work.
ing as in the case of Mr.. Hartman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
When woman is willing TO tell the
whole of 1t, it's because it's secret.
A woman hates to argue so much that
she never does it without arguing that
she isn't.
An easy way to get engaged to girl is
to make her think some other girl is go
ing to.
Some men are So self-satiShed that
when they have a dream about giving
away money they are proud of it when
they wake up.
Life seems to be made up of moving
the lawn when there Is no furnace to be
stocked and when there is no moving TO
be done of stocking the furnace.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
ALABAMA PRESS

Talladega Mountain Home: Divorce con-
ventions are now in line.
Roanoke Leader: Politicians are now
trying the sound of Bryan and Hearst
as a charm for 1905
Ashville Aegis: Women should strive to
keep out of the courts rather than to
run into them as witnesses.
Albanian Herald Mr.. Fairbanks al
most realizes what it means to be
dressed in a little brief authority"
Greenville Advocate: Oklahoma went
democratic, but Uncle Joseph" can still
congratulate himself that Oklahoma was
not twins.
Columbiana Sentinel: The editor of the
Sentinel would rather vote for John Sharp
Williams for President than for any other
living man.
Montgomery Advertiser: They may call
the past few days Indian Summer if they
like, but we don't believe the Indians
had anything to do with it.
Guntersville Democrat: If it be true, as
asserted that mans hair indicates his
character, are we to conclude that a man
without hair is also without character?
Gadsden Journal: Hobson is again wor-
rying about the Japs taking the Philip
pines. The rest of us are worrying be-
cause the Japs haven't taken them long
ago.
Livingston Southern Home: Secretary
Bonaparte says the trusts are "hogs in
a PEN" Most people agree with him
about their being hogs. but all the trou-
BILE seems to be getting them into the
pen.
Union Springs Herald: Count Boni has
just exhibited the length of his ears by
taking a dog-fall out of the French
divorce courts, and now the Duke of
Marlborough will give us a double hand
spring from the same matrimonial gang
plank of international divorce law. Next!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
Condition Of the Treasury.

The income of this state outran it,
disbursements in the fiscal year ended
September 80 by the sum OF $411O0O.
THE annual interest on the bonded debt
has been reduced by the recent refund
ing to the extent of $4,000, so that the
surplus In the present fiscal year will
be fully 100000 without taking into
consideration the increase in taxable
values. A legislature is. however. TO
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Soda Founts and Saloons.

II believe that twenty years from to-
day soda fountains, will have almost dis
placed the saloon" said a soda water
clerk yesterday.
Il have been Jerking soda water in
Birmingham for fourteen years, and
speaking from my own observation there
are not as many saloons now as when l
first came here. considering the growth of
the city, while soda fountains have in
creased rapidly.
I'm the north, and as far south as Ken
lucky, | know that the soda fountains
serve wine as well as soda water. This
practice is in its infancy in Birmingham
today. There are certain fountains in the
city that serve claret and sherry wines
in certain drinks dispensed. This privi-
lege. although pretty heavily licensed, will
eventually lead to the dispensation Of
liquor in various and stronger forms.
1.-THE extent of the soda water business
is not generally known. I am employed
at one of the largest cigar stores in town
and the drinks we sell return more profit
than any other factor in the business. A
good man can jerk from $50 to SIS worth
of soda a day, and in the summer time
the large founts take In from 800 to $500
per day.
And yet the business is still in its
infancy. No man is going to pay from
$4,000 to 5000 for a soda fountain unless
he knows there is something in it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
The Musical Set.

"There are hundreds of people in
Birmingham, as there are in every city
of Birmingham size, who really appre-
ciate high-class music and this being
the case, one could hardly account for the
small audience at Cable hall Tuesday
night to hear Frieda Siemens, one of the
worlds greatest pianists,' said an ANA
teur. 1.-The management made a mistake
perhaps in fixing the charge at so cents
instead of 81. Fifty cent concerts are
never fashionable. A dollar sounds bet
ter and dollar concerts draw better. Miss
Siemens played to not more than fifty
people.
Where is the Treble Clef club? Where
is the Music Lovers club? Where is the
Music Study club? There are music teach
ers here by the score, but it is safe to
say that not six of them heard the
virtuoso Tuesday night These facts are
not creditable to the musical spirit of
Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
MR.. HARR RIM AN.

From the New York World
Mr. T.. H. Hartman styles himself "a
citizen of the United States Hitherto
American captains Of industry have con-
fined their activities to limits more or
less circumscribed. The Astoros have
been content with single city, the Car
negies and Schwabs with two bonanza
kings with a couple of States at most
and Mr. Rockefeller with a snelI group
of common wealths.
But no such pent-up Utica contracts
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
Birmingham a Decade Ago.

"To a stranger, the story of Birming
hams growth in eight or ten years
sounds like an Arabian night narrative"
said ]. D. Collins yesterday.
"Ten years ago Birmingham was COM
paratvely village. The business of the
county was greatly depressed The money
market was tight and the whole country
felt the effects of hard times. Business
was quiet here. There wasn't much to be
sold, and not much money with which to
buy. l remember l used to make spe-
cialty of ladies' shoes at SO cents, and I
made about Q cents on a sale, but you
should have seen how many pairs L sold.
TO do any business in those days l had
to sell cheap goods. The people who
come in my store now and pay s. or Sc
for shoes used to be shod with $1.50 and
81. so goods, and that was the way in
every business. The town has been built
almost in ten years. OF course a number
of the older business houses are still
standing, but the town has grown in
every direction from the original business
district We hardly thought about a
sky-scraper for Birmingham then. First
avenue was about the Invest street in the
city, and l used to see grass growing be-
tween the car tracks right in front of
my store
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

Mr.. Hearst's $256,O00 campaign coli
tribution does not include the cost of
his campaign in procuring nomina,
ton This may have been as much
more
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y
and from the ball room came
the dreamy cadence of a waltz, where $50
couples swept over the polished floor in
honor of Geraldine de Peyster's debut.
Strains of music and at intervals, bursts
of laughter, came to them where they
stood in the shadow of a mass of palms,
but the world seemed cut off. In the uni
verse there were but two hearts and two
souls, those belonging respectively to
Geraldine de Peyster and Harold Ford,
her fiance, who loved her with all the in
tensity of his nature A crisis had come
in their lives.
Geraldine" said Harold his features
pale and set, his lips dry and his fingers
clnched till the nails cut into his palms,
II am going to make confession 1t may
destroy my happiness and wreck my life,
but honor will give me no peace For
days l struggled with my conscience. At
last 1 have surrendered"
The girl swayed slightly. The color fad
ed from her face.
What is 1t, Harold?' she asked, clasp
ing his hand and gazing up at him in
fear.
voice, Il wear wig!'
A smile stole over the face of the lovely
girl.
Don't worry, Harold" she whispered,
II wear one myself"
HARD LINES.
Sometimes we start out with will
To write some dandy stuff,
But when the day is ended we
Have scarcely writ enough
To fill a quarter-column space,
And then, as like as not,
The product Of our labors apt
To be pluperfect rot.
A mighty chaser, in the form of
clcudburst, fell upon Louisville.
1t is rumored that the price of titled
husbands will be marked down to s1.ss.
Cettingje. See?
Some philanthropist might provide
raised cards SO the blind could play
poker.
A FLUKE.
Oh me, oh my,
What shall we choose
For theme today
To WOO the muse?
The flight of time?
A woman's way?
Our neighbors and
The things they say?
Poor Bonis plight
He's in the soup.
Or Mister Hearst,
Who looped the loop?
Some politics?
The candidate
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
THOSE DEAR GIRLS

From the Chicago News
Stella-Did you see the engagement ring
Jack gave Maude?
Ethel-Yes. Its the same one l wore
last season.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

nearest stage box. Now in its specif
form 1t is. launched at various quarters
but directed at the nearest stage box.
Now in its specific form it is launched
at various quarters of the audience. Arch
young women, who really ought to be
ashamed of themselves, stretch out their
arms and gaze with eloquent eyes on sus-
ceptible auditors urging them to come
right up on the stage
This is too, too much" as the Nor
mon widows said to Artemus Ward In
every assemblage of men there are kind
hearted individuals who cannot look upon
lady in distress without seeking to as
suage it, There are also a number of
men who hate to take a dare or listen
to song that in a direct way imputes
insensibility. Fear of ridicule restraints
most but not all of them, and the result
is a more or less painful and altogether
silly exhibition.
1t is time that these stage songs were
toned down bit and sung with less
Observation-Disclosures stout nets should
be stretched across the stage The in
terests OF art seem to demand it, Good
Wine needs no bush, and q moving love
song can make it's point without anv
grimaces or gestures aimed at a suscep-
tible audience. Its appeal should be in
ferentfa1, not direct else it ceases to be
lyrical and becomes a sort of feminine
harangue
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

Hamilton Sum- Senator Plat says that
he will resign after January l. He could
cause better celebration of Thanksgiving
day by doing it now.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

Another cabinet shift is expected in
December, but that will be little too
early to let Cortelyou catch on to a
new berth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

Naturally, a machine TO make money
found more favor among certain people
than the idea of making it with the
sweat of ones brow.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23
EVENING SONG.

BY Sidney Lanier.
Look off, dear love. across the sallow
sands,
And mark you meeting of the sun and
sea;
How long they kiss in sight of III the
lands
All! longer, longer We.
Now in the seas red vints 90 noon
sun, D pm.
As Egypts pearl dissolved
And Cleopatra night drinks 10 a. m
Love, lay thine hand in I ~ p m
y. P. A.,
Come FORTH sweet stars.
Heavens heart:
Glimmer. We waves, rot -
ed sands f--
o night divorce our sur II NE W0s
Never our lips. our hs
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

David Starr Jordan has bolted the
bobtailed spelling scheme. He was
afraid ii would assail his middle name
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

New York has a horse show, the
grand opera and the Thaw case on
hand, and it is forgetting Hearst and
Croker and McCarren.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

Sir Thomas Upton proposes to bring
over two yachts next time. 1t is not
number, but quality, that wins in a
cup race
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

plugging" grain with chicken food
is "A gentle art practiced by Chicago
elevator companies, it is charged.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

voliYa is reconstructing Zion on a
common sense money basis at any rate,
no matter how crazy its religion may
bp
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

Walter Wellman says he could reach
the north pole tomorrow morning. The
six-months night is on up there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

OF making books and newspapers
there is no end, but there may be when
the forests and wood pulp gives out
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

Pittsburg thinks its wave of crime
has passed. but its wave OF divorces
and chorus girls is still at flood.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

Wages are being put up partly to
avert strikes, but chiefly to prevent a
general outburst against Dingleyism.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

Florida Times Union: The New York
state treasurer-elect is a baker, and in
the discharge of the duties of his office
he will handle the dough.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

Richard Croker declares that heaven
interviewed to defeat Hearst. Most PEG
pie thought it was MeGarren.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

Youngstown Telegram: The next time
San Francisco asks for relief funds she
will have to furnish a bond
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-23

Five ice men in Philadelphia were
fined $75 each. The whole affair seems
to have been quite joke.
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PRESS POINTS

Houston Post: That Mrs La Monte in
New York seems to be a member of the
three-card family.