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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
ABOUT THE HUMBLE DIME.

From the New York Mall.
 That neat and fovable little coin, the dime, has had a most useful history As far as we are aware 1t Is unique among the worlds coins having no nearer equiv alent than the English sixpence, which is worth cents more It is one of the handiest of coins, being about as small as silver piece can conveniently be- Being less in size and weight than the nickle, which Is worth only half as much, it is vastly more convenient to keep and hoard. and that is one reason why it is becoming extraordinarily scarce In spite of the fact that more dimes are now turned out of the hints than ever before in the countrys history. There is rage for dime banks" and some of these mechanical contrivances are so pretty, so ingenious and so alluring that they force people to save dimes who have no earth ly occasion to do so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
The Money Market.

Henry Clews in his Wall street letter of Saturdays date says:
 ''rhe monetary situation has been dis tinctly improved by gold Imports, the en- gagements thus far this week amounting to about S20,000,0OO. Good authorities esti- mate that we shall be able to draw at least $SO,0 900, 900 from London this year, if not more. It is also possible that we may secure assistance from Paris if needed, where funds are steadily accumulating, owing to the inertia arising from politi- cal and socialistic agitation. Gold inn ports have of course been hastened by advances of government funds to national banks importing gold The governments action also in deposting funds with in- terior banks tended to relieve the strain in the money market. Until this last step was taken the treasury, thanks to our clumsy currency methods, had locked up about $4S, O00,0OO more than year ago, all of which might have been in the banks lubricating the channels of business but for the ignorance and inaction of Congress. Secretary Shaw has done his best to counteraet the effects of an illo- gical currency system. hut as long as that system remains in it's present form our money market must continue in times of stringency exposed to the judgment of a single individual whose action may not always be as courageous and wise as that of the present very astute secretary MT. Shaw, however, cannot very well present the money he releases indirectly assisting speculation. Money, like any other com modity, always goes to the highest bid der; this being a natural tendency that no government official can arrest.
 Last week our bank reserves touched the lowest point in many years. It should also mark the lowest point for the cur rent season. By means of gold imports, treasury advances, government deposits and contraction in loans, bank reserves must show much improvement. Recent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
NY SHIPS.

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
 If all the ships 1 have at sea Should come a-sailing home to me, Weighed down with gems and silk and
 gold
 Ah we'll the harbor could not hold So many sails there would be If all my ships came In from sea. If half my ships came home from sea. And brought their precious freight to me, An well would have wealth as great As any king who lives in state So rich the treasures that would be In half my ships now out at sea. If just one ship I have at sea Should come a-sailing home to me, An well! the storm clouds then might
 frown.
 For. if the others all went down. StiIl rich and proud and glad I'd be If that one ship came home to me- If that one ship went down at sea, And all the others came to me. Weighed down with gems and wealth
 untold, ii fi/ With glory, honor, riches, gold, The poorest soul on earth I'd be If that one ship came not to me- Oh. skies, be calml Oh. winds. blow
 free,
 Blow all my ships safe home to me! But if thou sendest some a-wrack. To never more come sailing back, Send any. all. that skim the sea, But bring my love ship home to mel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
POETS CURIOUS COMPLIMENT.

From Leslie'S Weekly.
 It was the habit of the late Richard Henry Stoddard. the poet. to always speak well of everyone. No matter how bad the character of a person, the good gray poet invariably found some trait to praise. One day, In his office on Park Row, some friend entered and asked him whether he knew so and so, and if so. what was the mans reputation. It happened that the man had shady reputation, and was well known as a gold brick" operator. The aged poet lighted his pipe and answered.
 Yes; I know him. He is the most ener- getic, progressive, irrepressible, good-na- tured, artistic kind of an unmitigated ras- cal that l ever met
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
From Tt Bits.

Abii Ut Bits
 "A ROM addressing envelopes at TS few cents an hour to juggling
 with millions ten years later is a transformation so rapid and so great as to seem almost impossible: and yet there is at this moment staying in Lon don lady who has accomplished it.
 Mrs. Ella Reader of New York has only counted 81 summers. and is described as a pretty. gentle woman and almost the last person in the world one would take for fnaneier. And yet among other IT, tanle feats of the last few years she has organized e2. GOO GOO railway in oppo- sition to Mr Pierpont Morgan; she has won. against a powerful competition, concession for a railway in Johore; has fought and Is still fighting President Roosevelt for concessions in Santo Domin- go valued at e20. 100000; and has settled South American revolution over her breakfast table What gigantic schemes Mrs. Reader will have undertaken by the time she is 50 one dare not even con lecture. but it is safe to say that she has already proved her title to rank among the worlds greatest finaneiers.
 But Mrs Reader. clever and daring as she is, has formidable rival in Mrs. Her mann oelrichs, an American lady who three years ago revoked the power of attorney given to her husband and took her business affairs Into her own capable hands. At the time Mrs. Oelrichs, who Is a daughter of the late Senator Fair of California was reputed to be worth f2 GOO, and so brilliant and successful were her speculations in railway shares that within two years she trebled her capital, "coining money" at the rate of go 100000 a year.
 Much better known than either of the foregoing women of business is Mrs. Het- tie Green, who is probably the richest woman in the world Apart from her bus mess Miss Green has no interest in life. She lives in a small fiat the whole of the furniture of which is said to be worth no more than a a10 note she does her own marketing. carrying home her purchases, and is her own maid-of-all work, and yet every year she is adding to her colossal fortune a round e1,000,O0O, the result of her shrewd speculations. Today her fortune cannot be less than R10 100000, and by some is placed as high as e20, ,o00.
 Another remarkable business woman is Mrs. Richard King, owner of the famous Santa Gertrudes ranch-a ranch so vast that 1t Is bounded on one side by forty miles of eoastline, while inland it is grded by 300 miles of harbed wire fence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
Feeding Americans 50 Years Hence

Cs
 Secretary Wilson and James J. Hill have taken a census of Americans in 1850 and they find there will be 200,- c00000 of them, and they see ahead a very large-sized problem in the feed Ing of that number. MT. Hill is pessi- mistic. He says the farmer in the northwest is letting his land lose pro- ductiveness. The yield in cereals is not one-half per acre what it once was. Secretary Wilson, on the other hand, thinks agriculture is moving steadily forward. The man with a light horse and bull tongue is giving place to the man with four heavy horses that drag a 20-foot harrow. Bet ter animals are bred, better seeds selected and irrigation is coming to the country's assistance. Denatured alcohol will supplant wood oil and coal when they are exhausted. MT. Wilson Is as hopeful as MT. Hill is Respondent.
 But neither stop to think what the south would be capable of toward feed ing the population of 1850 if white farmers enough were induced to come here to cultivate every available acre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
SILENT OPINIONS ABOUT PEOPLE

From the London Spectator.
 Most men have some silent opinions about women. and most women about men. There are certain types of face certain kinds of manner. certain methods of expression even, for which many men and women are utterly condemned in the minds of some of their brothers and sisters disposition to dislike certain types of face is at times so strong as to suggest a previous existence. We do not openly say that all women with sueh-and-sueh eyebrows are hard-hearted, or that man must be a charlatan if the color of his eyes and hair contradict one another; but we act continually upon notions hardly less unreasonable Educated men with small vocabularies, for instance. are di- vlded as a rule by clever women into fools by birth and self-made fools, ac- cording to whether their want of equip ment be ascribed to nature or to affecta- tlon To the first they are indifferent; to the latter they have almost always a more or Jess active dislike. Such men are often aIRlesaa fact their own sex invari- ably recognize. The man whose words are few and ill-chosen may be a man of prompt and reasoned action, who hay ing been brought up among the silent wise or the garrulous silly, deprecates the waste of pains occasioned by the game of talk. All mental athletics bore him just as physical athletics bore others. In the same way the fact that a man pretends to know no more words than savage may be matter of awkward though genuine humility-a fear of pre- tending to a culture he does not possess or an act of superficial conformity to a passing fashion among a small set. It may have no more to do with his real mind than an ugly figure or an ill-cut coat. Circumstances will sometimes con- vince even a clever woman of these facts so far as a given man is concerned, but she will never alter her silent opinion as to the generality.
 Clever women are very hard on the men they imagine to be fools. Able men, on the other hand, are not at all hard on women they know to be stupid. Where youth and beauty are concerned the fact is easily understood but youth and beauty by no means explain the whole of this phenomenon. Many men are inclined to think that the kind of mental power in inverse ratio to their common sense, and serves only to carry them with fatiguing rapidlty through verbal fallacies to false conclusion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Here in Alabama we have few acres indeed that are incapable of oultlya- ton, and yet two-thirda of this state goes untitled. The shortest and best way to sd 9lye the problem raised by MT. Hill aA Id Secretary Wilson consists on turning this way a great tide of white men. The south would welcome them, and sd would tho prospective population of the entire country. We have the soil and climate, but not the farmers that we need.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
RAISING. CROPS BY ELECTRICITY,

From the New 1Ork Times.
 By spreading currents from a statistical electrical machine over a plot of growing carrots Professor Lemstr of Helsing- fors, according to B. Tolkdorf. In the Leipsic Illustrirte Zeitung, has increased the yield by 39 per cent during the first year and 90 per cent in succeeding years, as compared with similar plots not cleo tteally treated. On sman parcels of land experiments with potatoes. the cur rents being generated in the earth by means of copper and zinc plates sunk at
 intervals and connected by insulated wires above the growing vines, have recorded an increased yield of from 90 to 1nn her cent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
GRAIN-TO-BREAD RECORD.

From the Chicago Journal.
 A record time for converting grain into bread has been established by Canadian farmer. Wheat which was in the sheaf at o'clock in the afternoon was made into scenes before s. When operations began a wagon stood in the barn with about half a load of grain in the sheaf. Beside it was a thresher; con- neeted with this was a gasoline engine. The engine was started, the sheaves were fed into the thresher. and the grain was deposited in a bin. The power was then transferred to the cleaner, and the work of changing the newly threshed wheat into flour was quickly carried through. The rest of the task was easy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
, the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News
 A close-hsted man isn't necessarily a pugilist,
 Adams first fall occurred when he fell in love with Eve.
 friend in need Is a friend in deed rather than in words.
 An actress says the best part she ever had was her own divorce.
 If woman can't convince a man with out an argument the case Is hopeless
 Some dogs are wiser than some men; they bury the bones left from their dn- ner.
 A woman usually has rug in front of her mirror to cover the hole in the carpet.
 Every dog has his day and every cat has his night, but man isn't satisfied un- less he has both.
 Marriage is q serious step and man can never be certain whether he Is step- ping uD or down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
AN oLD-TlME PICTURE.

From the Washington Qowa) Press.
 What stopped the old housewife habit of taking the tabecloth out after each meal and shaking it on the ground, to the edi- fication of the dog. cat, chickens and birds? As boy we used to delight in that shake, especially If a comedy matron or a pretty girl had hold of the cloth No other notion not even the rhythmic dance, set off her figure to better advan- tage, and the minxes knew 1t and always managed to give those fiirts when ad- mirers were handy by. But some one in- vented brush and pretty receiver and a new fashion was set.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
To Cure TuhercnIosls.

The action of the board of revenue of Jefferson county in making provis- ion for the treatment of patients af- fected with tuberculosis will meet with tho approval of the whole com munity.
 Medical science has demonstrated the fact that this disease is not con fined to those alone who inherit it, but that 1t may be, and in fact often is, conveyed from the affected to the healthy. It has been found that the spntum ejected from the lungs of the person suffering from tuberculosis con- tains millions of germs of the disease. When the sputum dries up these germs float around in the air, and are cer- tain to be inhaled by persons who hap pen to be in close proximity to the place where patients expectorate. If the person inhaling these germs is suf- fering from a debilitated physical con germs will find Judgment in his lungs, and thus the disease Is implanted. But fortunately the majority of people are strong and healthy and their power of resistance enables them to overcome the attacks before which the weaker tall.
 It Is well known that certain con ditions of life are favorable to the de- velopmene of pulmonary diseases, among them, chiefly to be noted are close, stuffy apartments, badly venti- lated work rooms, innutritious of in sufficient food, humid atmosphere and sedentary employment
 If these conditions are favorable, it follows, as a matter of course, that the opposite conditions must be un- favorable to the disease.
 In Europe and England much con sideration has been given to this dis ease and it's treatment, and the result arrived at is that the first and most essential step to be taken is to isolate the patients, especially during hours of sleep. For this purpose the chalet system has been adopted and found very successful.
 The chalet is a small wooden hut sufficient to accommodate one pa tient It Is cheap to build, is easily disinfected, and after two or three years is pulle6 down and burned. Segregation of the patients is the point aimed at and, next in order, the i'm mediate removal and distructicr of all germ-infected matter The site select ed for the erection of the chalets is chosen with view to it's affording the patients as much outdoor life as possible. Field work and gardening are the daily occupations of the pa tients, in fact any sort of physical work which will promote circulation of the blood ani deep breathing.
 These remedies have been found beneficial in all cases, and curative in many.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
NOT A FINAL SETTLEMENT.

From the Minneapolis Journal
 The person who settles a matter and settles 1t wrong is in the position of a man who has got rid of the skunk un- der his porch by driving the innocent lit- tic animal under the barn. Then every wandering boy who knows the facts comes along and works for hours with a pole trying to prod the animal. Whether he succeeds or not, the attempt Is ruin ous to the brand of atmosphere used in the neighborhood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
NEEDED A DEBT HAND.

From Puck.
 The farmer already had purchased a number of shares in an oil well. light ming rod, and a quantity of green goods.
 But the man with the gold brick was not cast down.
 ''The old guy is the picture of de- spair,' quoth he. to himself; but, like many another picture, he will stand re- touching by a real artist, I fancy''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
A ISLANDER NAILED.

From the Hardeman Free Press.
 We air lookin fer a certain fossy guy that has been circulating lie about us. He has been telling 1t around that we was drunk on wood alcohol on last Mon day It's despisable islander. We was drunk on wood alcohol, but 1t was Chews- daV
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

"Dey say now dey gwine ter change all de spellln."
 Lem change 1t! Bless God, never could spell my own name, nohow"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
HARDLY WORTH THE EXPENSE

From the Indianapolis News.
 It Is still a question even with the more enthusiastic chauffeurs whether the pres tlge accruing from being arrested for violating the speed limit is really worth the fine that is imposed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Havana is both scared and i'm perilled, and this is why it turns out to cheer American cruisers when they arrive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

General Trepoff's life was so stren- uous in the guarding of the weak little Czar that it gave him heart trouble, and this killed him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Fortunately Roger Sullivan is not even a step brother of John L., and he is not, therefore, dangersous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

The war correspondents should hurry to the brush in Cuba. That is where the war is located at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Big Russia has succeeded in hang ing the devoted and heroic little woman who killed General Min.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Rebuilt Chicago and rebuilt Balti. more are urging Frisco to join the procession. It will do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Banker Stensland should omit to state that his trip abroad has but made him a better American. He need not state what all his predecessors have stated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Heroic surgery can set up that Phil adelphia bank, but it cannot put Zion or the Stensland bank on it's feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Banker Stensland and Wrecker Hip pie worked a common vein. each in his own way with nearly common re. suit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Honest alfalfa seed is rarely seed It is adulterated with the seeds of weeds. some of them being vicious Dodder seed is one of the adulterants
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

England and the Isle of Pines may insist that Uncle Sam shall do his full intervention duty in Cuba.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

While the hot weather lasts Vice President Fairbanks will be welcomed wherever he appears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Another week of warm weather will put the corn crop close up to the three billion mark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Annexation is again in the air-thls time it is Cuba and sugar and coffee and tropical fruits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Uncle Joe Cannon will soon have business at home, for MT. Gompers has him on his list.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Let us all rejoice that David Ben. nett Hill. retired. is still a democrat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Yiddish books are sometimes mis- takenly purchased as the new Roose- welt spoilers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Stensland has not much on hand except to pick out the trade he de- sires to learn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Let the other fellow do the worry ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Get the office; the salary wll come of itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Grover Cleveland wants no simpli- fled spelling in his'n. He looks the other way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Which ever party In Cuba gets Taft on it's side will turn the balance in it's favor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

The usual number of mendacious gentlemen will be found on the streets Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Mayor Mcclellan and Boss Murphy will proceed at once to get busy in politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

It is not better to have run and lost, etc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

In Chicago everybody has returned to town except Stensland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Motto for today: Let not your angry passions rise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

pie worked common vein, each in his own way with nearly common re. suit.
 England and the Isle of Pines may insist that Uncle Sam shall do his full intervention duty in Cuba. While the hot weather lasts Vice President Fairbanks will be welcomed wherever he appears. l ----s---. Another week of warm weather will put the corn crop close up to the three billion mark. l -s-- l Annexation is again in the air-this time it is Cuba and sugar and coffee and tropical fruits
 
 Uncle Joe Cannon will soon have business at home, for MT. Gompers has him on his list.
 Stensland has not much on hand except to pick out the trade he de- sires to learn.
 Yiddish books are sometimes mis- takenly purchased as the new Roose- yelt spoilers.
 Grover Cleveland wants no simpli- fled spelling in his'n. He looks the other way.
 Which ever party In Cuba gets Taft on it's side will turn the balance in it's favor
 The usual number of mendacious gentlemen will be found on the streets Tuesday.
 Mayor Mcclellan and Boss Murphy will proceed at once to get busy in politics.
 Pulling the wool over a mans eyes Is not as cruel as pulling his leg.
 --s.---- Patti has decided to make another farewell tour in this country. In Chicago everybody has returned to town except Stensland. Motto for today: Let not your angry passions rise.
 
 Some men plant sawdust and expect to grow pine trees.
 
 Who will be the great pasificator, Root or Taft?
  Will 1t be a landslide or "squeeze?"
 Get the office; the salary wll come of itself.
 Let the other fellow do the worry ing.
 It is not better to have run and lost, etc.
 Trepoff's death disappointed many.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Will 1t be a landslide or "squeeze?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Pulling the wool over a mans eyes is not as cruel as pulling his leg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Some men plant sawdust and expect to grow pine trees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Patti has decided to make another farewell tour in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Who will be the great pasificator, Root or Taft?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Washington Bureau Ags-Herald 1421 O. street N. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

Trepoffs death disappointed many.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17
NOT HIS EuNREAL.

Election bets cannot be paid in scrip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-17

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