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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
AlABAMA'S mNJUNCTION-PRO
 RATE LAWS.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 Any one owning a patent process for turning our railroad rate laws that are es-injuncton-proof could proh- ably get immediate employment with Governor Conner of Alabama. The gover- nor will provide the legislature
 Governor Conner has just suffered an other heart-breaking disappointment He had tried one experiment with the Ala bama rate laws and at once found him. self tangled up in some of Judge Thomas Goode Jones federal injunctions. At first 1t looked as if Governor Conner would join Governor Glenn of North Carolina and seeede from the union. On second though, however, he decided to call his Alabama lawyers and Alabama legislators together and enact new ant-railroad laws that Judge Jones could not tenn porarily suspend by any of his federal restraining orders.
 There were about 20 bills in all. They regulated passenger rates. They classi- fled all kinds of freight. They fixed fares for certain distance and between certain cities. They were to 80 into effect De- cember l. And they were injunction proof"
 The legislature passed them all and adjourned Saturday evening. Governor Conner signed the last of them Tuesday night and was waiting for the ink to dry when Judge Jones stepped in with another federal order restraining the state railroad commission; all solicitors, clerks of court shippers and passengers from obeying or inforcing the governors injunction-proof laws until it could be ascertained whether they violated the constitution of the United States
 It was tragic. And to think that 1t was all due to the notions about the United States constitution held by a southern jurist who had fought and shed his blood for the Confectionery, who had once been governor of Alabama himself and who had been appointed United States district judge by that other cele- brated railroad regulator. Theodore Roosevelt! Instead of going into effect next week, Governor Comers injunction proof laws must withstand the test of the courts. And the worst of it is Governor Conner knows that if he interferes he is liable to go to jail by Judge Jones order for contempt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

the Davo Construction company for the building of locks IA and 15 in the Warrior, have been accepted. The plans for locks 16 and IT are nearly ready, and when they are contracted for and completed the Squaw Shoals will have been overcome, although locks IS and 19 must be completed be- fore slackwater navigation is carried to the forks Of the river.
 Already plans are being formed to utilize the new waterway which the government Is improving at a cost of $6,O00,000. This all-the-year naviga- ble river is expected to float to the sea millions of tons of coal and per haps a million tons of iron and steel in all its various forms. A company has been formed in which Charles D. Haynes of New York is a leading spirit to fill the river with steel barges, each of which will carry 300 tons of coal. These barges may be lowed to New Orleans via Mississippi sound and the Lake Borgne canal.
 Mobile is justified in considering the outlook promising, for this district will yet be emptied into its harbor. The port of Mobile is to be extended to this district, and Birmingham will almost have Mobiles water rates if it will build as soon as these stringent times pass by double-track, indepen- dent railroad, 23 miles long, to the Warrior, at point near the mouth of Valley creek.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
kIPLINo A NOBEL LAUREATE.

From the New York World.
 When Alfred Austin was made Poet Laureate of England the absurdity of the choice while Kipling and Swnburne were living inspired bitter criticism Swinburne had a quarter of a century earlier been hailed as laureate of free dom Kpling has since been acceptedo as an unofficial laureate of the British race.
 The highest honor of contemporary fame is now conferred upon him in the announcement that he will receive the next Nobel prize for literature. By this he is ranked with Sully Prudhomme, Mommsen, Bjornson, Mistral, Echegaray, Sienkiewicz and Carducci. He is the first British name in the list There are those who will rank him first among even such peers.
 But it is not the laureat of Britains little wars who is crowned, or worth crowning. Kipllng sings of blood-lust with a schoolboy's regard of conse- quences. In d little misunderstanding about Venezuela, when English and Ger man gunboats hobnobbed, he warned his country to walk wide of the Goth and the shameless Hun When the Czar called the first peace conference-an act, by the way, which Nobel would heartily have praised-Kipling acclaimed against any truce with Adam-zad, the Bear that walks like a man." In dreary verse he has said that the .fannelled fool at the wicket and the muddied oaf at the goal should be learning to kill people. In drearier prose he has painted the happy time when every British schoolboy will go soldering.
 But the pen that perpetrated this stuff has also the double distinction of having put on paper both the finest imaginative verse and the finest imaginative and descriptive prose written in the English language in more than one generation. This is his achievement which well de- serves the prize.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

000,000 a year, has put the silver issue on the shelf. where it will no doubt stay beyond the life of any man now living. MT. Bryan has frequently and explicitly stated that government own- ership of railroads is last resort after every possible effort to regulate them has failed It, too, belongs to another generation. The initiative and refer. endum is not insisted on by MT. Bryan, but it is after all but the primary prin- ciple extended from persons to poll cies. It enables the people to call for vote on public policy to the end that they instead of a small backstairs clique may decide it. It is government by the many for the many of the many. Democratic Oklahoma has imbedded it in her constitution, and Switzerland has long prospered under it. New Eng land has it in it's town meetings, and in far away New Zealand it has long been accepted as a quick and efficient method of government.
 No doubt MT. Bryan believes in the initiative and referendum, for he looks at all public matters from the point of view of the many instead of the few, but he no more believes in it than do large part of the southern people. The effort of the New York World to show that there is a widening gap be- tween the south and democracy is really too far-fetched, too preposterous, to call for serious discussion. There Is nothing in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
The United states Steel.

The dinner given in New York Eovem- Der 20 by Judge E. II. Gary. chairman of the United States Steel corporation. to the presidents of iron and steel producing companies. resulted in an important and hsipful policy" said man in the iron trade.
 ''The business situation was discussed. and with one voice those present agreed to plan of cooperation and conciiation With regard to prices and production. The Steel corporation was the leader in this movement. Thus it is that that great concern is getting more and more away from the trust idea and commenting itself more and more to the people. It has es- tabished reputation for fair dealing and liberal ideas. It has never yet Jug gled with it's figures or tried to fool the public. Its quarterly reports are now accepted everywhere as absolutely honest. and in cooperating with independent companies it has proved itself not only wise, but neighborly."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
Shakespeare Plays.

"In my early days the Shakespeare plays were presented frequently, the principal roles being enacted by great histrions," said an old time theatre goer. "There were other good dramas but Shakespeare had the lead in a popular sense. Not only did society ap- preciate plays like Hamlet Macbeth King Lear Richard IT, 'Othello' and Julius Caesar but the gallery gods reveled in them.
 Tn recent years Shakespeare is sell dom on the boards. Has public taste deteriorate1 Has it become vitiated by vaudeville, mediocre comedy, cheap melodrama and musical comedy? It may be that present day actors. as a rule, are not up to Shakespearean roles.
 T doubt if a third of the regular tn eatre- goers of Birmingham have ever seen Macbeth Robert Mantell. who appears here in Macbeth Tuesday night, Is one of the few distinguished actors now living. He Is in his prime and from all accounts he Is as great in that part as the famous tragedians of by gone days. His company should draw large house. and no doubt it will"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
MED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE CONDITION
 OF AFFAIRS IN ALABAMA AT PRESENT

Tho injunctions are here. The whole thing is In a mess.
 We have two United States District Judges with all sorts of referees in bank ruptcy. We don't know who is who. We are in the hands of the law and we don't know who is the law.
 We have Mayor and yet we don't know who Is the power to enforce the law. We have a President of the Board of Alderman and a Mayor who cannot vote at the meetings when anything is done or proposed to be done. Every body can be cone and nobody can know how. It is something the people want to know about.
 So 1t is with the state situation. We have had an executive and legislature. The two have met and met and passed laws ana dppfOpfidliOHS. All SoilS oi money has been spent for all sorts of things No legislature in the history of Alabama has spent so much money. The spigot has been open. Almost every thing and everybody who asked has re- ceived The sluice of the old mill has run in ripples and has run riotous with silvern dollars. Unless the corn comes the grist does not grind. Now is the corn coming?
 Governor Conner got his dander up and called an extra session of the legislature to put in effect his railroad regulation bills, which Milton Smith had objected to. and which Judge Jones had issued an injunction against. Governor Conner employed the best legal talent he could get to draft bills to make effective his laws. He had this legal talent draw his bills and he called an extra session Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

Montgomery Advertiser: Birmingham'5 new fall "soot" will probably be black.
 Washington Herald: We have brew cry and half dozen distilleries,' says the Chattanooga Star. Knoxville, Bir- mingham, Atlanta and Mobile, please write.
 Talladega Reporter: The Alabama Iiib- rary association met in Birmingham this week The new interest in books, of what the best thinkers thought, is also good sign for the future of the state.
 Chattanooga Times: The Baltimore Sun says that Baltimore comes prancing to the front with blue ribbons pinned all over her" Better be careful of this rib bon'' business Just see what the white" ones did for Knoxville and Birmingham.
 Marion Standard: Birmingham still keeps in the limelight. She now has or ganized fullfedged Bryan club, and an anti-Bryan club. Both clubs are headed by some of the best citizens of the city. The anti Bryan faction favors John Sharp Williams of Mississippi or Culberson or Texas for president. They don't want Bryan at any price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
THE EVENING HOUR.
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Florida Times Union; The Birmingham Age-Herald is already practicing so as to attune its voice to the speakeasy.
 Columbus Ledger: The Birmingham Age-Herald suggests that Bryan and Gray would be a good ticket for the democrats to name next year."
 Washington Herald: "The giving of wedding presents is going out of fashion, says the Birmingham Age-Herald. An other result of the increased cost of living, doubtless.
 Talladega Mountain Home: Lynchng bees without whisky will be difficult. The chief inspiration will be lacking after 1908. -Age-Herald.
 Correct Go up second to head.
 Huntsville Tribune: They say there arc 5000 actors out of jobs. If this is not a sign of hard tinies then it must be sign of a decadent state. -Age-Herald.
 And yet you hear every day of some one wanting to enter the dramatic field.
 Austin Statesman: Says the Birming- ham Age-Herald: MT. Bryan took ad- vantage of the arrival of the psycholog- ical moment to announce his candidacy" We really overlooked the fact that 1t had arrived, but we guess so; hope Q anyhow.
 ashington Herald: If we were the King of England, we would hate like sixty to kiss the Emperor of Germany" says the Birmingham Age-Herald. Never theless, the Emperor doubtless would put the best face he could upon the per- formance.
 Dothan Eagle: ~+The Age-Herald won- ders if the President can afford to eat his own words as to the third term. That man, you know, has an enormous ap- petite, and when he's treating it. no thought Is taken of digestion. He might need little salt for tummie's sake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
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 'If to these figures,' says MT. Eckel, Eve add the ores occurring at deeper levels in the states named, and also the red and brown ores of Maryland West Virginia and Kentucky and the magnetic ores of the other southern states, it is probably fair to assume that the total southern ore reserve will amount to very early 10000, ,000,- 900 tons, or five times that credited to the Lake Superior region. Much of this ore is, of course unavoidable at the present day, but all of it should be counted on in any estimate of total ore reserves"
 The southern red ores average from B to 43 per cent of metallic iron. but they carry so much lime as to be al- most, if not quite, self-fuxing. The brown ores, as washed, will range from 40 to 50 per cent in metallic iron The principal reserves of red ore lie in this district, while the Russellville district in this state is considered a promising brown ore section.
 Two facts should not be lost sight of in discussing the ore reserves of this country. The first relates to the probable exhaustion of the Lake Superior ore deposits in about 30 years and the second to the acquisition by the steel corporation of about 100000 900 tons of iron ores in this district. These two facts point to a concentra. ton of the iron and steel industries in the south long before the present cen. tury has run it's course.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
TOmbiqbee- Warrior Locks

Mobile takes courage from the fact that the government is pushing work in the Tombigbee and Warrior rivers under the appropriation of $1,S00, ,d6O made by Congress last winter. The construction of locks and in the Tombigbee, about 40 miles above Me Crews, has just been let to P. H. O'Brien of Anniston, and the bids of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

Total ..,,.. ....,.lZ9Sts
 He refuses to walk on Sundays, and Sunday rest enabled him to walk on Monday, November 25, 96 miles! At four miles an hour this would have taken the entire 24 hours of that day Four miles an hour is pretty lively walking, although MT. Weston is said to be capable of sustained gait at the rate of five miles an hour. Few men indeed walk as fast as four miles an hour, and the man who believes he can readily walk four miles an hour should attempt it, watch in hand.
 When MT. Weston's age is consid- cred it must be conceded that the record of 96 miles in single day, over roads none too good, near the close of a long walk, is remarkable. It was never, perhaps, equaled, all circum- stances considered.
 There is value in this feat of Wes- ton. 'It would be much better" says the Philadelphia Inquirer, flor all of us who are in health if we would walk five to ten miles a day. In the cities our ancestors used to do it before the days of rapid transit. It is one of the most health-giying forms of exercise and when once one becomes accus- toned to it there is little fatigue and great enjoyment. Nowadays walking has gone out of favor. We jump a trolley car to ride six blocks. The favored ones have automobiles or car riages, while in the country the man who does not hesitate to work all day in hay field will hitch up horse to ride a mile to the postoffice. This is a pity. We do not take enough exer- else and at the same time we are eat ing more and living in hotter houses. If Weston's example would only lead people to walk more and ride less there would be happiness all around"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
Good Houses in Demand.

Houses in our best residence sections are in good rental demand" said real estate agent. Early in the fall it looked as if we would have many houses for rent on our hands, but for the past three or four weeks, inquiry has been brisker than usual. It shows that newcomers who can afford to live well are here in large numbers. My experience is doubt less the experience of others in the real estate business.
 Building operations are naturally quiet now, but I predict that building contrac- tors will be. busy again next month.''~<
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BAcHELoR.

From the New York Press.
 When girl isn't married by 30 she acts as if she would soon be old enougi, to go to school.
 When you didn't lose your money in a panic you have to give 1t to your rel atives and friends who did
 A reception is place where women don't have a good time if they are in- vited and get mad If they aren't.
 The list of invited guests to a wedding given to the papers by the brides family are the ones who don't come.
 If man doesn't make much noise ex- blaming how much he knows about q thing he probably understands it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
The Coal Trade.

'The steam coal trade has been keep Ing up fairly we'll" said John R. Ryan, vice president of the Corona Coal .& Iron Co.,, but I think the mining business will be dull after the holidays
 Just now we are filling several big railroad fuel orders, owing to the fact that the railroads always accumulate enough coal to carry them over the Christmas season when the output at the mines is always light. Transportation officials want to be on the safe side and have large stock of fuel on hand at this time of the year.
 After the new year coal operators will probably have to curtail production until wages come down to lower level"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
MEA CULPA
BY A. LATADY.

BY "A. LATADY An me; if thou didst know how differently My ghostly from my earthly being is made; Thou couldst but pity: unftngly My spirits clothed in this poor masquerade For feshly weakness of the scrptural kind Is strong sinews of fine tempered steel When 'tis compared with what my mirroring mind Doth to despairing consciousness reveal One long estrap tSrlent twixt the mind and heart The sopss aspti from what's gross away: But bteing marie this earthly part
 To tdeath must gind to its disgusting, sway "VNork is well+ong," is the souls refrain. Which this sad hQtey echoes. but in vain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

the legislature and passed these bills and made them the laws of the state.
 Then Milton Smith, for the Louisville and Nashville and other railroads, em- ployed legal talent and proceeded contra. Julge Jones. of the United States district court, promptly. upon appeal issued in- functions against the acts of the gover- nor and the legislature and put forth an array of United States officers to prevent any arrests or proceedings under the acts of the Alabama legislature.
 So here comes the conflict
 Somebody must eat dirt. A state has rights or it has not. Someone is right and someone wrong. It is now up to Governor Conner and his legal advisors on tho one part and the legal talent of the railroads on the other.
 Being not one learned in the law It would be absurd to advise-but being a practical citizen it is not amiss to ex- press ohes opinion in good old plain English by saying that the people are sorely tired of being made toys of.
 Let one or the other of the contending elements in all this hullabaloo in Ala bama make good, and make good quick iy. We people who want to go ahead are tired of your personal wrangling. Whip the other fellow. Drive him out. Fight to a finish and fight quickly, how ever you may want to do 1t; but don't keep the whole state and all Its people who want to go along in the placid and good walks of life upset because gov ernor and railroad president want to "bedam' one another.
 Fight it to finish and quit. Alabama will applaud the victor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

S ED BRACE, somehow, says what XO he thinks when he writes. Some
 times he offends his friends He is sorry they take 1t to themselves. But if the cap fits. he don't care. Let the fellow who wears the cap fret and fume and get mad if he wants to; but what's the use7
 We people of Birmingham and Ala bama are a people who want to live a long time and profit in the living. We want to build up homes and families, and banks and stores and commercial enterprises. We want to build steel plants, and iron furnaces, and develop iron and coal mines We Vspnt to make things that will build up homes; and those of us who can get little homes of our own want to get chicken yards behind the house and raise something we can call our own. We really want bullet we can name, and dog, we can call Jack or Bob; and then we aspire to horse to be named Bullet or something else that goes fast.
 All of us want something we can call our own. We want to be a part of the real thing.
 Now we read about financial troubles, and about the great rumpus between Governor Conner and MT. Milton Smith. One is governor of Alabama. He goes hunting on Thanksgiving day. He gets a salary from the state of something ..Ae $5oOo year, and he has worked hard to earn it.
 Then Milton Smith fights to fathom the fiction of the fanatics. He gets his back up and appeals to the United States courts to jump in with injunctions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

Japan has received a check from Russia for SPA 1902 900 for care of pris- oners during the war, and Uncle Sam is expecting daily check for 29,200,- 900 from the Standard oil on account of rebates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
Our Iron Ore Reserves

Edwin c. Echel, in an article that appears in the Manufacturers Record, estimates the workable iron ore re- sources of the south at 2,500, ,000, 900 tons, as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

Dingleyism expects to defeat revi- sion a-coming or a-gwine. The stand patters, led by Joe Cannon, say you ticklish lest it may make them worse, and you cannot lower it when times are good lest it may upset things. The few have got the many at their mercy either way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
SHE LOST.

From the Houston Post.
 "I lost the price of new dress on the races yesterday"
 T did not know you bet on the races.' 'I don't, but my husband does.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

Walker Weston at the age of 69 is no mollycoddle. No mollycoddle could walk 96 miles in 24 hours through slush and mud in the teeth of a north west breeze.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

The King of Portugal is getting a touch of popular upheaval, and he may get a touch of it as it Is felt in Russia, where it is sometimes very sudden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

Nancy Hanks was sold for only Slooo. Even horse must grow old in time and be only "has been."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01
Holiday Weather,

Now that We are having perfect weather bright skies and bracing air, holiday shopping will continue with rush. said a merchant. "One week of sunshine will result in a record breaker in the matter of sales. It looks as if Christmas purchases would be larger in Birmingham this season than in any pre- vious year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

People who are not related to q trust will be excused for close figuring on the Christmas expenditures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

John Sharp Williams says the sui eide of the republican party gives him much joy, which is heartless on the part of Mir Williams, to say the least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

The turkey, potato. Indian corn and tobacco were born in this country, and from here they have spread to all parts of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-01

The ghost of Andrew Jackson. dem- ocrat, forbids the establishment of a central United States bank.