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The Columbus journal., 1906-10-10
A FIERY VOLCANO.

climbers were half blinded BY smoke
and steam and in constant danger
from the deadly gases. but they per-
severed. and finally reached the rim
of the crater. At the crater's edge
they encountered hot rocks and lava.
thrown out by an explosion the pre-
vious night. and these burned through
shoes, leggins and gloves. Through
fear of suff0cation, the ge0l0giSts re-
NAMED but a few minutes ut the
crater. They were able to reach the
timber line before night overlook
them. and they camped on the noun
tain side until the following morn
ing.
The Colima volcano is is5 miles
southwest of this city. in about the
same latitude as the City Of Mexico.
and approximately Is miles from the
nearest point Of the Pacific coast
For centuries-no n knows how
many-COlima has been active, and
during the last 800 years. ut least.
violent periods have been frequent and
often prolonged. During these Pc
RODS of violence the Mexican volcano
becomes the rival of Vesuvius as .
spectacular performer. The thin line
Of vapor that issues from the crater
continuously in days Of compare
tive quiet. gives way to q great pill
lar of black smoke; hot rocks Of W
rious sizes-some of them giant bowl
ders-sand and ashes are thrown into
the air for hundreds of feet above
the crest Of the mountain: flames
leap from the crater and lightning
plays above 1t and terrifying subter-
ranean rumblings and sharp detonA-
lions are heard for many miles. Often
the fall Of sand and ashes Ia 50 dense
as to cause extreme darkness during
the daylight hours In the vicinity OF
the volcano.
Those who climbed to the crater OF
are: w. Harvey Weed. Wash
d. c.; John E. Wolf. Boston:
E. O. Hovey. New York: Rudolf Ruede-
mann. Albany. N. T.; H. F. Cleland.
WILLIAMSON. Mass: HI. F. Reed. Balti-
more: Frand d. Adams and j. Austen
Montreal; A. p. Coleman.
Toronto; George Berg and Rudolf
Stobbe. Berlin. Germany. and Tsu-
manaka Xxi. Toxic. Japan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22

agnostie brother. began to converse with the other. saving. T have been noticing Of late peculiar growth of eyes and feath- CTS and wings and legs. which lead me to think that l am fitted for light and liberty. but I have no proof, other than my inner cogitations. and I cannot be- lieve that l should destroy the home which I have lived in so long; therefore. I will not pip my shell today"
 But the other. whom 1 will name the Christian philosopher. said: .I. too, have been noticing this growth of feathers and eyes and wings and signs which inspire me with a longing for light and liberty. All my instinct urges me to make the effort. and l cannot believe that I would have been so prepared. if not so destined. So I have decided to pip my shell to- day" And shortly beautiful. fluffy, little ball of down rolled out into light and liberty. while the agnostic brother was found the next day dead and cold in the shell. which had served its purpose. but from which he had refused to break :.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22
Prosperity is General.

The money market is easier, but rates are still too high to suit all op orators for a rise. Neither London nol Berlin is in a condition to help New York in this respect, and so we shall have from day to day reports of firm ness at least in money rates.
 This is due to the immense volume of business that is constantly trans acted in this country, and to desire 10 indulge in speculative operations. High money rates are not due to any thing in our foreign trade, for that is extremely favorable. In October our exports amounted to slS7 ,000 900, while our imports fell off to s98 8,O00.O00 thus showing a favorable balance" in Oc- tober of $89, 900 ,000, or s33,000,000 more than in October of last year. Of this gain of $33,O00,0O0 cotton contributed S1S,700,000. If our foreign trade con tinues to show great monthly balances in our favor, we certainly will be able to cancel without difficulty any debts we may owe abroad.
 Our foreign trade, together with the activity of home trade and business, makes Wall street callous to the at tack upon Standard Oil and through it upon all trusts formed in imitation, te =
 the high money rate, to everything els, in fact, and it must be confessed that there are no clouds in the sky that threaten Wall streets optimistic view of the general situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22
STAR BoARpER COULDN'T LEAVE.

From the New York Sun.
 A man in a downtown office was com plaining to his associates.
 'I live in a boarding house, he said, that is run by the meanest woman this side of Tophet l haven't had a squdre meal for month. She sets fairly good table. but when l take my place l am served with little cold meat, some stale bread. d cup of tea, and dab of potatoes. Once I was foolish enough to think I could sneak out something after meals, but l reckoned without taking the innate deYiltry of that woman into consdera- ton. She not only locks up the pantry good and tight, but carries the cold chicken and other good things to her owr room and inters them in closet. Be- sides, she turns out the gas in my room every night at S:S0, and I either have to go to bed or sit in the dark"
 You're a fool" interrupted one of the men, savagely, "I wouldn't live in such place two seconds when New York :s literally running over with good board ing houses. Why don't you leave?' "I can't" sighed the man. I'm her husband.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22
Memory of Bishop Tigert.

'To d person who never saw Bishop J. J. Tigert but once, l doubt if many more impressive memories could cling to mind as do those of the great preacher and author as l glance back to the time when l, among others. sat under him on the night of May 20 last and listened to that first powerful sermon after his ordlnd- ton as bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. south" said young man.
 "The First Methodist church was crowd ed that night with an audience of appre- ciative people who followed him breath lessly through deep doctrnal discourse, couched in such simple phraseology that a child could have understood much of his meaning.
 And just as the brightest day in the fall stays to warm the soul far into the winter one little homely Illustration which he used can never be forgotten. His ar gument was for the Christian life, and he begged that he be excused in useing Il home made fable:
 Two little chicks said Bishop Tigert, were nestled closely together in their shells under warm, mothery feathers. One of them, whom I venture to call the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22

avoided provoking 1t by giving any en- eouragement to the Carlists. who would start d rebellion in the northern provinces tomorrow if the bishops and priests would say the word. According to telegram sent from Rome on November Il an au- thoritative declaration has been made on the part of Plus X. that the differences between the vatican and the Spanish gov ernment have been much exaggerated by Spanish and French newspapers, and that as matter of fact the negotiations be- tween Rome and Madrid are most friendly.
 The freedom accorded to Catholics in Russia by q recent ukase may justly be regarded by Plus K as an achievement that reflects honor on his pontifcate. There is no doubt that the instructions is- sued by him to Catholic bishops in Rus sia Poland had much to do with prevent ing the outbreak of aformdable Polish in surrection, and they deserved reuuital at the hands of the Russian sovereign In Prussia there are some signs of tension between church and state because the Pope has thus far hesitated to comply with Emperor Williams request that he cooperate strenuously in the process of manizing the Poles in the province of Posen. It is scarcely credible however, that a sovereign who remembers the les- son administered to Bismarck will under any circumstances attempt to renew the Kulturkampf
 On the whole, 1t will be generally ac- knowledSed that, although Plus X. has had to endure some of the severest trials to which the papacy has been subjected since the occupation of Rome by Victor Emmanuel, he has emerged from them with dignity unimpared and remains a sympathetlc interesting and impressive figure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22
DAVENPORT AND ROOSEVELT.

From the Washington Herald.
 One of the first guests the President viii entertain at the White House on his re- the cartoonist. The friendship between President Roosevelt and Mir. Davenport antedates by several years the election of MT. Roosevelt. They established cordial relations while the President was n police commissioner In New York, and al though Davenport has drawn hundreds of funny pictures of him, MT. Roosevelt has never taken offense at any of them. In point of fact, he has the originals Of scores of some of the most grotesque car- toons made of him by Davenport. Ths cartoonist, like the President used to ls a cowboy in the west, and this formed a bond between them as soon as they met. Mir Davenport is the heaviest importer fin the United States of thoroughbred Arabian horses, and whenever he goes . Arabia to purchase a new lot Of steeds he is armed with special passports and letters from the President. He is also a chicken fancier. and has on his farm in New Jersey some of the finest strains of fowls in this country. He is now begin ming to breed turkeys, and 1t is said that he. and not the Rhode Island man, who. for so many years has furnished the Thanksgiving turkey for the White House, will provide the bird this year for the Presidents family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22
PRAISES ROOSEVELT.
Bryan Lauds the Presidents Fight On
 Standard Oil.

Chicago Dispatch In the Washington
 Herald.
 William J. Bryan stopped over in this city long enough on Saturday to again express his appreciation of President Roosevelt
 MT Roosevelts determination to en- force the law against the Standard oil company is commendable' said MT. Bryan. "I might say 1t is bully
 T have never failed to give Mir. Roose- welt credit for the good things he has done. More than any other man, he has educated republicans up to the democratic standard. Mir. Roosevelt is not as radical as the democratic parsy, but the good things he has done in attacking the trusts have been founded on the policies which we have been contending for these many years.
 T am deeply interested in this Stand ard oil case. While I do not know what evidence the government has, l hope the law can be enforced this tme-the crim- inal as well as the civil law. Little can be accomplished by imposing fines on great corporal tions for their violation of the laws. In the case of the Standard oil company. for instance. it would be pos sihle for the corporation to more than make the fine out of the people and in less time than it takes to pronounce the sentence.
 Imprisonment should be insisted on, if the trust managers are found guilty. Dem- ocrats have all along contended that the
 ol,o la., sent to prison just like any other criminal.
 sThis can be done under the sherman law. We have tried to have this section of the antitrust law enforced. l hope Mir. Roosevelt will see that it is done in this case"
 Mir. Bryan sees nothing but silver lined cloud in the present heavens. De- mocracys star is rising rapidly toward the zenith. he thinks, and should be di- rcctly overhead early in November, 1908.
 He declared the recent election had been a most heartenlng one.
 .The whole trend of the voting was democratic" said Mir Bryan. If the dem- ocratic feeling spreads from now until 1908 as 1t has spread in the last two years, the party will have more than an even chance of victory in the next national campaign"
 Would Mir Roosevelt be the strongest candidate the republicans could nam
 Not necessarily; but MT. Roosevelt probably will not be the candidate. He has said he would not be, and I take it he means 1t. In any event. the argument against the third term still holds as al- ways
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22
All-Night-and-Day Bank.

In city to which 100000 outside people at least come to advance their new business enterprises one of the modern banks open at all hours of the night and day would be a public con. venience. Trains are none too ire quent, and they arrive none too often on their scheduled time, and in that way all previous plans are oftentimes upset because the banks are closed We have no right to disregard our large suburban and district population Nearly all of the banking of the district Is done here. Nearly all large negotia- tions are conducted here. There is room therefore for an all-night.and-day bank
 Nor would the convenience of out. side people be alone subserved by such bank. Many home folks would find it useful and handy. Every concern that sends out commercial travellers at all hours would keep an account with it. even if they kept another account else where.
 The long and short of the matter is, Birmingham alone of southern towns seems to need a bank that Is never closed. The first conner of that nature will be welcomed by a big line of de. nOsitOrS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22
Record of Ten Months.

Elsewhere The Age-Herald presents figures covering the ten months that have elapsed of the calendar year. and also comparative figures for core spending periods of other years. It will be seen that despite the payment of s42, ,5o1 for Idlewild park the citys revenue more than meets the citys ex- penditures. including interest on the public debt. With careful manage ment the period of deficits will be ended in this city before a great while. The period of temporary floating debt has nearly gone by it.
 The revenue of the city during the ten months of this year exceeded that of the corresponding months of last year by the sum of s10O,7S6, bringing the total receipts for the ten months up to s596,122. This gain is due partly, however, to unusual collections for fran chses. The total disbursements of the ten months, including interest on the city's bonds, were 63,711-thus show ing a favorable balance in the months of s32,411 Nor is this all, for the city in the ten months bought Idlewld park, paying on 1t SAP. 501 out of cur rent receipts towards the purchase price. The true excess of receipts over disbursements is therefore s749t2, for the park is a good real estate invest ment
 It is true. disbursements were in- creased in the ten months to the ex- tent of $12S,952. but increased disburse- ments are a necessary incident in a thriving, prosperous, expanding city. They cannot be avoided, and it is tu our credit that the citys revenue near ly met the increase, the difference in the ten months being but $2S,165. So long as the total disbursements do not outrun the total revenue, we are on rockbottom, and Mayor Ward and the Board of Aldermen will no doubt see to it that we stay there.
 An excellent feature of Mayor Ward S administration is publicity. He con ceals nothing. He is ready to tell the facts of the situation. and the people know that when he speaks the whole truth is very apt to come out, no mat ter how disagreeable it may be to them or himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22
pr. Dix's Warning.

Ut Is not true that every socialist is an enemy of religion or of the instltulion of marriage" says the Wall Street Jour nal Nor is it true that every critic of religion and of the institution of marriage is a socialist. It is true. however, that there is an intimate connection between the radicalsm that attacks religion and the sacredness of marriage and that radi :. calism which seeks to bring about an economic revolution
 Moreover, it is true that in so far as religious faith becomes weakened, the home ties are broken up and the mar riage relation becomes simply secular union that may be entered into and broken at the will of the two contracting parties, just so far will the whole struc- ture of civilization deteriorate. The rights of property and the whole market for investments are vitally concerned in lhis question.
 Tt is noteworthy that the rector of Trinity church. which stands at the head of Wall street. should from his pulpit, voice a note of warning, calling attention to the extreme to which the radicals of today are pushing their schemes Of sociai revolution. pr. Dix's statement that In the past twenty years there have been 50o000 divorces in the United States against 214.OO0 in Europe, although Europe has five times the population of the United States, deserves to be studied along with the statistics which record the material prosperity of the country. For our material prosperity has no perma- nency if accompanied by moral detericra tion."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22

making such differences so occasional that they will after a while cease to occur altogether.
 The subject is one that deserves very careful attention, for race friction should be avoided and it is more apt to occur in street cars than elsewhere President Jemison would serve Us all excellently if he would devise a sys- tenn that would render in his cars race friction lost quantity. We want none of il, especially in trolley cars in which women and children ride oftentimes unprotected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22
Friction on Street Cars.

The charges and counter-charges in the case of the Rev. T. w. Walker, whu was roughly hustled out of a North Birmingham car will do good service to both races if they lead on to plans that will remove all chance for friction between blacks and whites.
 It is not too much to say that the two races do not elsewhere in this dis trict come into so direct contact as they do in our street cars. Even when partition separates the two races in a car, the possibility of an overflow in either apartment. or the passage through an apartment of those who do not belong in il sometimes leads to trouble. Whisky may be at the bottom of such troubles, but whisky is here and it's effects must be reckoned with.
 The avoidance of race friction is al. excellent desideratum in this district, and President .Iemison is awake to it's importance. He says that if "occa- sional differences" are allowed to be adjusted by conservative, thinking people," little trouble would ensue True enough, but conservative think ing people are not always on the spot when race friction arises. It is the men on the spot that determine the nature and extent of occasional differ aaees and the best policy consists in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22
Brownsville an Issue.

The order of President Roosevelt ordering the discharge of three com panies of negroes belonging to the Twenty-fifth infantry, a regiment of colored troops, because of rlotous con- duct at Brownsville, Tex. was sus- pended by Secretary of War Taft, but yesterday the Secretary heard from the President, and the order stands. On Secretary Taft's action hangs Il tale.
 The three offending companies were stationed at Brownsville, which they "shot up" because they claimed they had been ill-treated in some of it's drinking resorts. One man was mur. dered, and yet the murderers cannot be tried by courtmartial because all the men in the three companies refuse to tell what they saw and know. The only road out seemed to the President to consist in the discharge of the three companies involved in the affair.
 But Secretary of War Taft suspended the order temporarily. The negro vote in certain northern states is factor in the case. Below is the negro vote. as taken from the United States census of 1900, and the vote in the state cleo tions in 1902:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
It May Be Williams.

There is a lively stir in Virginia over the presidency of the Richmond, Fredss- ieksburg and Potomac railroad, running from Richmond to Washington. This is the road used by the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line between those two cities Recently Judge Leake of Rich mond, a prominent lawyer. resigned the presidency of the road. and the Pennsyl- vania Railroad company. which, 1t seems, controls a majority of the stock, filled the vacancy by naming one of it's men as Iresdent. But the state of Virginia owns block of the stock, and the charter an instrument dating back many years, pro- vides that the commonwealth shall have the veto power in the matter of the officers Of the line. Governor Swanson protests against the domnancy of the Pennsyi- vania road, and the Pennsylvania's agent will have to step down and out and a n an agreeable to Virginia be selected.
 The Richmond Journal, in discussing the matter. says:
 If Judge Leake should prefer to re- main general counsel of the Richmond. Fredericksburg and Potomac. why should rot Mir John Skelton Williams be select ed for the presidency? He is d native here and to the manner born. His ca pacity. as a railroad man is recognized through the country. and his character is above reproaeh. He, of course, has his I.er sonal enemies even here in Richmond. but cnmity itself cannot deny him tic possession of those qualities which, in spite of great reverses, have made him one of the foremost business men of the couth and compelled the admiration and respect of even those who make no pre- tense to being his friends. He is Nir G'nian and a southern man. and we pe- lieve he is in every way fitted to serve and protect the interests of the state that are so gravely threatened by the designs Of the Pennsylvania railroad in reference 10 the Richmond Fredericksburg and Po- tOmac
 If called upon to take over the mtn- cement of this great property as the It presentative of the state and the stock. holders, we believe he would execute the t.ust with unselh. hness, capacity and courage.
 His selection would be accepted oy the public as a guarantee that this com pany was not 10 be exploited and wrecEed Tor the benefit of alien interests-that 1t was not to be poisoned in a consecra-ed wafer, or stabbed in a friendly embrace,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22
Southern Steel Officials.

Chairman C. P. Perrin of New York President Moses Taylor of New York, and the New York directors of the Southern Steel company. now inspecting the prop critics of the company, will arrive in Bir- mingham tomorrow night. The party left New York last week and travelled Ala bamaward by the way of Cincinnati They stopped at Chattanooga Monday and in- spected the company's blast furnace there From Chattanooga they visited I1stele, Tenn, where ore mines are located, and Dunlap and Shell Mound, Tenn" where the company owns valuable coal mines After inspecting the properties in Ten nessee the party visited Ballette, and from that point proceeded to Rising Fawn, Ca, where one of the companys furnaces is located The officials reached Carters- vile Ga, last night, and will spend to- day in that section, inspecting the brown ore properties. They will reach Gadsden Thursday night or Friday morning for the purpose of inspecting the company's large blast furnace and steel plant.
 From Birmingham the party will make excursions to Ensley to inspect the com pany's extensive wire and nail mill, and to Trussvile to see one of the company s best furnaces.
 The Southern Steel company, with it's four blast furnaces and other industries and its rich coal and ore. ranks as one of the strongest concerns in the south, It is capitalized at S25.OOO,O0o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22

The negro vote in Ohio, Kansas and Illinois is equally controlling and this is 'the nigger in the woodpie." This was why the Secretary held up the action of his chief
 But President Roosevelt, in spite of the politics that Taft saw in the incl. dent, acts with his usual frmness and independence. He acted with the evi- man to take back or hedge because of party scare"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-22
STORM.
Bv Henry Abbe,

By Henry Abbey. The pale day died in the rain tonight. And it's hurrying ghost, the wnd woes
 by: The mountains loom in their silent might, And darky frown at the sea and sky. The petrel wings close to his surgins
 home, And stabs with shriek the shuddcring
 night; The mad wave beckons with hands of
 foam Dipped in the blood of the sea towers
 light So, in my heart, is storm tonight Gloom and tumult that will moi eease, And my soul, in bitterness. longs for the
 light.
 For Inc waking bird and the dawn of
 peace.