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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25

Frank Goodrow. we'll known south Alabamian, was in Birmingham yester- day He states that the crops in the southern section of the state were fairly good. Cotton picking in Barbour. Bullock and adjoining counties is about two-thirds through. Good prices prevail, and the farmers are not looking for hard times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25
About Persons.

John Wood, the well known travelling man, spent yesterday in Birmingham. 'On my trips" said MT. Wood, "I touch all the principal cities of Mississippi, and declare whisky can be obtained in any of them. You can register at a hotel and ask for quart and receive it. It is, of course, the cheap variety. In Jackson, at regular periods, the officers raid blind tigers, confscate a carload of whisky and assess a bunch of fines. Next day another car arrives in the city and work is con- tinued. The same condition of affairs pre- vails in Hattiesburg. It is an absolute certainty that any man in any Mississippi city desiring a quart of whisky can ob- tain it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25

THE PRACTICAL VIEW. Life is not so long. you know. Just q little while. Hurly-burly, here we go,
 With a tear or smile. Ergo. common sense declares What we should opine. You attend to your affairs, I'll attend to mine. Fellows doing well enough If he worries through All, before he chucks the bluff. That he has to do. Mortals meet lot of cares, Going down the line. You attend to your affairs,
 I'll attend to mine. Ere We know it we are dead And beneath the sod Daisies planted overhead
 In the breezes nod. When a chap his burden bears Others he'll decline. You attend to your affairs, I'll attend to mine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25

Chattanooga Star: If prosecuting crim- inals in high places affects the finance Of Wall street, nobody outside has right to complain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

1 THE TIMES en got one leg out de winder w1d my swag when de cops wuz on mei"
 
 IN SCRIAIAIAGE. Were you ever in a train wreek?p No. but I used to play halfback on 8 college team.
 AS USUAL. What did the Ladies' Missionary so- ciety do today?' Nothing but knock each others clothes"
 A LEMON. The bard doth cudgel all his brains To write a bit of rhyme, And while lis poor for all his pains, It takes a little time. Therefore chagrin must be his lot Whene'er his eye doth range Adown page to find his mot Tagged thus: From an exchange"
 JUST so. There is one thing about love" What is that?' If it's course always ran smooth play- wrghts and authors would have to go out of business"
 REQUIESCAT. The poor housef1y
 Is far from strong. He's singing now
 His goodbye song.
 I9f, His time is short.
 His buzz is low. We all agree
 To let him go.
 Ohio Sun.
 ASKING roo MUCH. Let Me See You Smile" warbled the tenor. T can't replied the victim, "as long as you are singing"
 MUST BE- It is pretty tough when Parsimony gets into Matrimony and then has to pay All- mony.
 A POSSIBLE CONTINGENCY. Tt will be easy to elope when airships come into use" Tt will if the machines don't get stalled in cloud banks"
 APPROPRIATE. Young Pusher is great writer of hot air stories. All right, we'll make him our balloon editor"
 A THOUGHT What tho the rose must have it's thorn And clouds obscure the blue, He can't afford to be forlorn Who has his work to do.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25
AS USITAI.

What did the Ladies' Missionary so- ciety do today?"
 Nothing but knock each others clothes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25

Macon Telegraph: F. Augustus Heinze was the latest to slip up on the "Cloth Of Gold" It is said that the Standard Oil greased 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25
A LEMON.

The bard doth cudgel all his brains To write a bit of rhyme And while lis poor for all his pains, It takes a little time. Therefore chagrin must be his lot
 Whene CT his eye doth range Adown a page to find his mot
 Tagged thus Prom an exchange"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25

Louisville Courier-Journal: There is some consolation in the fact that no mat ter what we tell our girl friends it will not cost us $65 OOO,0O0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25
AsTRoNoMIcALLY PUT.

ASTRONOMICALLY PUT. That young fellow must be the star boarder.' No. He's the son of the house."
 REQUITAL. There's ever a song At the close of day For the man who walks In the sunshine way. No matter what grief May assail his heart, He still has the strength To make new start. And even when life Is flickering low, He dreams with a smile Of the long ago.
 IMPRUDENT. Love thy neighbor as thyself.'' T can't do 1t. My neighbor is married"
 CATCH THE POINT9
 Oh, welded life
 Is hard to beat
 For finding out
 Who has cold feet.
 THE EMPTY WAGON. 'Is conceit a sign of insanity?'' No, but 1t is characteristic of inanity."
 EXACTLY. The world may think you lucky and The world may think you wise And when you pace along observe You with admiring eyes. And yet, in spite of this you know Your place is on the shelf. You may deceive your neighbor but You can't deceive yourself.
 HIS TOUGH LUCK. q never had a chance" said No. 1004, with a sob. Poor man." murmured the sympathet- ic prison visitor. Fate was against you, no doubt. /"Inded 'twuz, lady. I hadn't no more
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25

Nashville Tennessean: Everything IS looking up in St. Louis this week-no. not prosperity, but the balloon races.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25

State Senator R. H. ~Hoodrich of Lous- iana was registered in Birmingham yes- terday. The senator has just returned from a visit to the east, and attributes the stress on Wall street to the specula- tion of high financiers." People had prophesied this stress for sometime, in spite of the fact that legitimate business is good. l remember seeing In The Age Herald some days ago while passing through the city en route east, a state ment. from Lieutenant GoveVor-Gray to the effect that the speculatorA were cry ing hard times, in spite of the fact that legitimate business was good. The ac- curacy of Mir. Gray's remarks has been proved"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25

B. H. Prudo, a well known citizen of Montgomery, spent yesterday in Birming- ham, leaving on the afternoon train for home. "A very big fair started In Mont gomery today" declared MT Prude. "and during the ten days operation the man. agement expects to play to 100000 people. The management is making speciality of agricultural exhibits, and all the space Tn all the exhibit buildings Is occupied. In addition, there will be excellent races, far better than you had in Birmingham, and several of the vaudeville features which you had. There will be an excel lent midway, too"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25
PRESS POINTS

Florida Times-Union: Airship naviga- ton will develop a race of rubbernecks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25

JUST SD, There is one thing about love" What is that?" If it's course always ran smooth play wrights and authors would have to go out of business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25

Newark Star: They are figuring on the man who is to succeed Rear Admiral Evans, but to this date haven't found one whose vocabulary seems to fill the bill.
 Portland Telegram: From Mir Harri- mans latest procurement on matri- mony and large families, it looks just pos sible that he might be induced to vote for Teddy. after all.
 New Orleans Times Democrat: A New York scientist is responsible for the state ment that 250,oOO deaths are caused an- nually as the result of mosquito bites There is some consolation in knowing that we kill as many of them as they do of us.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01
THEY MUST HAVE
HEAVIER ROADBED
There Has Been No RadiCa
Change in the Same for
Many Years.
WILL BE REIN STATED,
PENNSYLVANIA EXPERTS TO
MAKE REPORTS TO HIGHER OF
FICIALS ON SATISFACTORY
ROADBED MATERIALS.

One of the principal subjects being
nection with the Improvement pro-
gram for next year, which is now be-
lates to plans for a better rOadbe |.
Faster train service. heavier freight
traffic and the Increased capacity of
cars and locomotives are responsible
for the proposed changes, and inter
eSting announcement from railroad of
ficials who have this matter in charge
IS expected. High officials Of certain
railroads hold that the steel rails and
ties are not entirely to blame for eX-
listing conditions. and claim that the
roadbed in many cases should be re-
built.
Last fall some of the roads appoint
ed special committees to experiment
with various kinds of roadbed. the
tests to be made during both winter
and summer. The Pennsylvania has
been making a large number Of teests
with new roadbed along the main and
branch lines during the past year. This
work has been in charge of experts auC
= report is to be made shortly. II is
claimed that the concrete rUadbed be
ing tested in the eastern section is not
satisfactory and will not be recon-
mended by the committee.
1t has been pointed out that while
the weight and capacity of cars ant
creased in the last ten years, practic
ally no changes have been made 4
that time in the roadbed, with the eX
Ception of more attention devoted t
ballasting.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01

speculator who does this is commonly
called a bear, and his greatest delight
is in SCATTERING prices. Short selling
therefore, is simply allowing reward
to the man or clique of men who can
bring about a reaction in any stock or
commodity and doing this is generally
the country's business with the CORE
spending hundreds of thousands #
marginal transactions. BY the pres
ent system Of marginal transactions d
man can put up with his broker S1O.-
600 and the broker will borrow $780,
600 more from d bank in order to en-
able his customer to purchase $780,
900 worth of some stock. The custo-
mer risks $4,000 of his own money
and the bank risks $4,000 of its de-
| positors' money. This, of course, ap-
! plies to the New York banks and not
! 10 our country banks tndL are lar re-
moved from stock market activities.
Marginal transactions are not nee
essarily wrong, but they should so be
carried on by law that a bank cannot
loan more than fifty per cent. on the
| face value of a stock or bond and the
Spectator should be required to put up
the rest. In this way the bank would
be running practically no risk for its
depositors.
And last, but by no means least all
the present gang of New York specu-
lators should be ousted from the vari-
railroads and corporations also.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01
JUDGE BARNARD
ROUSES RESENT
MENT IN WAYNE
Continued From Page One.)

his last term. Whether he will sup
considered by some to be one of the
crisis of the republic, that is, whether
the government or the money barOns
shall rule the country, or whether on
account of his well known utilization
with the Fairbanks machine in Indi-
ana, the "whiD" will use his influence
against the president and in favor of
the corporations whim the vice presi-
dent represents SO Staunchly. Both
Mr.. Watson'S friends and enemies
agree upon one point in this relation
and that is if he does show hostility
towards the president his prospects
for the governorship of Indiana will
go glimmering.
DR.. Veneer. one of Wayne county's
candidates for congress, is keeping
the public a great deal in the dark.
How his campaign is progressing the
breezy doctor has not yet designed to
state. Nor has he animated yet
whether he has really begun his cam
g,
state that he is out with the gummiest
Of gum shoes over produced in gum
shoe campaign.
J. i X
Prosecutor Jessup has not yet been
able to get down to his campaign ow-
ing to his manifold duties. If they
continue much longer the prosecutor
will have to make one Of the swiftest
campaigns on record
1. T. /.
Democrats in Wayne county seem
to be unit when it comes to the
choice of the district chairman They
are one and all for George Harris OF
Fountain City and the general opinion
among all good democrats is that in
the selection of this man a blow will
have been struck against Boss Tag
CART and for cleaner politics.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01
VETERAN RErIREs AT SEVENTY


Yesterday marked the close of the
active service of Pat Mcclure as an
engineer on the Grand Rapids < Indi.
ana road, who is very we'll known in
Richmond. Mr.. MCGUIRE, who is one
of the best known throttle men in the
employ of the road, has passed the sew
entieth milestone of his lifes journey.
which fact, according to the pension
rules Of the company, makes it Obliga-
tory that he relinquish his run and re-
tire on pension. The veteran. engi-
neer, although he has seen hard life.
which is usually the part of an engi-
neer on modern railroad, still looks
as though he were capable of handling
d throttle for many years to come. The
rules of the company are. however, eX-
plicit, and Mr.. Mcclure is not the first
man to be retired who would possibly
be able to continue in the service for
several years longer. The safety of
the public. however, demands that no
opportunity be given for man to be-
come physically unfit for duty because
of the encroachment of old age before
he is retired on a pension.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01
TWO DAYS OF FREEDOM
SEEMS TO SUFFICE
MoIl Lewis, Character, Again
In Tolls.
DRINK WAS HER DOWNFALL

Out agin, drunk agin, in agin."
Moll Lewis, a police character after
two days of liberty is once more CON
fined in the women's prison at the
Home for Friendless Women. For a
period of over twenty-five years Mon
has been a familiar figure in the city
court. Only one charge is ever placed
against Moll-tiat of public intoxica-
ton. But for her hard drinking she
the life at the Home for the Friend
less and it is certain she wiz spend a
greater rart of the winter there. Mol
was arrested on North F street Sat
urday afternoon by Officer Gully She
was beastly drunk.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01
IMPORTANT COMMISSION
Rudo Fromme to Build Forest
Trails.

Rudo L. Fromme, son of Frank W.
Fromme Of This city and now acting
superintendent of the Priest River
National Forest in Idaho, has been au-
thorized by the government to begin
the construction of more than 1873
miles of trails in its forest at q cost
Of over $4,000. This work is under
taken for the purpose of rendering
more effective the work of safeguard
ing the forests against destructive
fires and also for rendering the for
ests more accessible. The work will
be completed before neat summer.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01
c., c. G. L. TRAlNMEN ROBBED.

A number of robberies are reported
to have been perpetrated on the c.,
c. & L. trainmen during the past few
weeks. articles of value being taken
from their cabooses at the various sta
tons along the line.
1t is claimed that last week while
some Peru trainmen, a conductor and
the brakeman were asleep in the ca
boose at Brighton, thieves enterer the
car and robbed them or fifty-three dol
lars.
1t seems there is no hotel accommo
dations at Brighton, which is true OF
number of other small stations alone
the line. So the trainmen have tc
sleep in the caboose.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01
DECATUR TOWER OPERATING.

The tower and interlocking plant
governing the movement of traffic on
the Grand Rapids Il Indiana, the Chi
Cago x Erie and the Cincinnati. Bluff
ton & Chicago railroads past the june
ton point at Decatur, Ind, has been
placed in commission. A suit is at
present pending in the Wayne Cir
cult court through which the G. r. &
|. hopes to be released from paying %
per cent Of the cost of the installation
of the new plant which latter obliga-
tion the road was put to through a de-
cision Of the state railroad commits
sion several days ago. In an agree
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01
HAGERSTOWN, IND.

Haserstown, Ind, Nov. 3o.-Mrs.
John Teetor and mother, Mrs, Lydia
Rowe, have gone to Bradner. Ohio. 10
visit Will Rowe and family. Mrs.
Rowe will remain for the winter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Byram Elliott Of Pitts
burg Pa. came Thanksgiving 10 visit
his mother. Mrs. Elliott and sister, Miss
Georgia Elliott.
Kirk Hughes spent Thanksgiving
with his family.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01
ARE GRANTED MORE TIME
Y. M. c. A. Contractors Given
Extension.

An extension OF time has been grant
cd the contractors for laying the fou1-
dation OF the Y. NJ. c. A, building, Is
the officers of the association feel bet
ter results will be obtained if the work
is not performed too hurriedly. The
outside walls of the foundation have
been completed and the remainder OF
the work will probably be finished in
about ten days if weather coalitions
are favorable.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01
WAYNE COUNTY RICHER
Gains $6,843.9O From Tax
FerretS.

Wayne county is the richer by So
1850, realized from the collection of
delinquent taxes amounting to S9,717,
collected on property belonging TO the
estate of the late John NJ. Westcott and
to Henry Gennett. These taxes were
brought to light by w. +. Charters,
the tax ferret, who received 80 per
cent. for his services, OF $2,933.10.
MAY SHRDL
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01

ment drawn up between the G. r. & |.
and the Erie several years ago, and be.
fore the inception of the c., B. K c.
the defendant agreed to pay for the
work should the movement of traffic
past the junction ever demand that
such protection be taken.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01
KUHN LOSES LEAD
IN VOTING CONTEST
l.. Ert Slack Gains Lead in the
HOLSTERS Primary Vot-
ing Contest.
KUHN is THIRD CHOICE.
IF CONTEST.lS ANY CRITERION
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
NEXT YEAR WILL CONTAIN A
STRONG LOCAL OPTION PLANK.

On the third ballot of the primary
voting contest of the Hoosier. the
state democratic organ, the Rev. z. H.
Kuhn of Richmond, who has hereto
fore been in the lead. dropped pack
to third place. l.. Ert Slack of Frank
lin, took the lead with vote of over
a thousand in excess of his nearest
opponent.
Democrats in Richmond are espec-
tally interested in this voting contest,
though they state the drop Of the Rev.
Kuhn from first place to third has no
special Significance and that his adj
mirers and supporters are enough TO
land for him the democratic nominal
ton AS to the state platform for
democrats in the next campaign local
option seems to be most favored. And
strange to relate, the High License
plank and No Temperance plank are
running a neck to neck race. The
standing of the three questions that
! are now confronting Indiana demo
Gratis follows:
For Nominee for Governor,
L. Eert Slack. Franklin. ......... go:
| Samuel NJ. RalstOn, Lebanon. ..111-
| Thos. H. Kuhn, Richmond. $1,000. 1854
! Daniel W. Sims, Lafayette. Isl!
John A. NJ. Adair, Portland. $1,000. 404
Thos. r. Marshall, Columbia City. 40;
r, w. N1iers, Bloomington. 1890. 90
Richard X. Irwin, Decatur. 20;
| +. NJ. Griffith ............ 10.
James McCabe. Williamsport. -. 10
NJ NJ. Hathaway, Winnamac ..... 10.
Benz. F. Shiveley, South Bend. -. 10
F. Z. Bowser, Warsaw. ...... 10
VIM. G. Zerface, Elwcod. ...... 10.
S. E Voris, Charlottesville. ..... 10.
For State Chairman.
Gilbert Hendren, Bloomfield. ..373
John w. Kern, INDIANAPOLIS ......171t
T. Kirby Risk, Lafaye tie. ....... 1872
Stokes Jackson, Greenfield. .101
Adam Heimberger, New Albany. 10
w. H. O'Brien. Lawrenceburg. -. 90
w H. Eichorn, Bluffton. ... 10
r. W. Mers. BLOOMINGTON. -. ~. 10
For State Platform.
Local Ontion Plank. .273
High License Plank. 213
No Temnerarce Plank. .212
Prohibition Plank. .............. 81
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-01-27

Jingle as they read the story Z,
now was accomplished the seem.
ingly impossible?
And yet the men who today are
the pilots of our coast are just
such sturdy. stalwart men, but
were one to say romance to them
they would laugh, even as it is
the custom of the seafaring man to
forget the dangers and toll of his
profession the moment the harbor Is
reached and the mudhook finds the
bottom OF the Bay.
To meet the pilots as men to man
is a pleasure. Their trade is a
calling that few pursue, not because
of its hardships, but because of
circumstances OF which l will tell
later, and they are. in every sense
of the word. chosen few who
exist that the commerce of our great
country might be all the more aid
ed.
AS in most lines OF business, that
OF plotting has undergone a change
during the past half century, and
now 1t has been placed on "a plane
where it is a bushes sproposition,
but at the same time it represents
a tremendous advance in the COM
munion interests.
From the beginning OF the use of
vessels as means of transportation
there have been pilots. Thus their
calling Is an old and honorable one.
The monarchs of the Mediterran-
can heaped high honors upon the
pilot. He wore the richest en-
blems of Office and in his particular
sphere he was the monarch of all
he surveyed. And well he might
be, for, even in those days, there
was ever present the dominating
thought Of what use is a vessel If
there be no one to direct her in
and out of the tortuouG channels,
keep her from the threatening shoals
and rocks and bring her safely
home laden with precious merchan-
disc. 1t was the instinct OF com
mercialism developed abnormally
even for those times and was it
not fitting that the guiding spirit
of the great fleets be signally hon
ored?
AS the first pilots pilots were do
man, the word is naturally derived
from that source, and. of course,
its meaning is obvious, but as ship
ping developed and towns and cit
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-01-27

Kinds was another, and the men
handed for mutual protection and
benefit. a half dozen or more
would build n feet little schooner
and sail about off the harbor await.
ing incoming vessels.
1t was not long before another set
of pilots would show up with their
schooner, and thus began the days
of competitive plotting which will
always be remembered and of which
so much has been written. AS the
number of boats on any one station
increased the little vessels would
be sent scaward in their quest, and
1t was not uncommon for n pilot
boat to cruise off shore for days,
and even weeks, without sighting n
sail and put back into port, with
water and provisions exhausted.
While each boat was cruising In
dependently it sometimes occurred
that lookOuts on two or more would
sight sail or smudge of smoke at
the same time and then would en-.
sue race such as would be deemed
Incredible Mt the present time.
1t mattered not to tile men on
the opposing boats whether the wind
was blowing half a gale or seas,
running mountains high, the first
man to reach the deck of the COM
ing vessel would get the pilotage,
and that was the all-important
thought to them. Watching each
other like hawks, the boats would
head for their quarry, and every
bit OF canvas that could be carried
was set and away they went, each
boat staggering through the heap
ing seas, burying her rails beneath
solid green water and taking the
crests Of the waves in cataracts
across her decks. In such races y
was not uncommon to blow away
sails. lose masts and even members
of the crew and yet it was these
races that led to the development Of
fast boats and the pilot schooneIs
held Interpolation of being the swift.
est craft of their kind afloat.
1t is stated on good authority
that the pilot boat Henry Clay. own
cd by the Maryland pilots. was used
as a model for the lines of the
famous schooner yacht America,
that won the Queens cup.
In calm weather, when the fleet
of pilot boats could not be sailed
toward the incoming vessel, the