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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
Pitchy night.
 --Alps We'll That Ends We'll
State and Railroads Lock Horns

state policy that affects 2,ooo,ooo Alabamians has been held up py threats of fines and imprisonment. Not aven 2 suit can be filed under the laws of Alabama because the clerks or the Alabama courts are enjoined rom filing or entertaining writ Inc ayowed object of all this business IS to nrevent the state in it's desire and efforts to regulate intrastate rallroads.
 This injunction business means con tinued and increasing warfare, TOT u will go on until it is determined whe is boss in Alabama. The people elected Braxton Bragg Conner to that position, but Milton H. Smith proposes to knock his authority in an all-important mat ter into a cooked hat
 Alabama alone of the cotton states is confronted by a serious rebelilon on legal lines against state authority. Tn all the other cotton SldlcS id"o eAo "S cepted by the railroads until they are declared unconstitutional, and Presi- dent Milton H. Smith has accepted drastic rate laws in Georgia and North Carolina. Upon Alabama falls the bur den of the conflict for states rights, and right here history will be made either in favor of the central govern ment or in favor of the reserved rights of the states.
 Governor Comer's first set of rate laws were practically destroyed by Judge Jones' injunctions, and if the second set are destroyed in like man. ner people will begin to lose confidence in the astuteness of the governors legal advisers to say the least. How ever. the second tilt is but begun, and the people can do little else beyond getting on the fence to watch events in the ring as they come on in legal sequence under the impulse of popular direction on the one side and of cor porate scheming on the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
Resumption Near At Hand

The premium on currency has fallen almost to zero, and call money begins to be in good supply at rates not ex- ceeding per cent. Time money comes into line slowly, but the rate on it is being steadily reduced. Confidence, the basis of all banking, is pretty fully restored, and the public awaits patient ly and hopefully the restoration of the cash-basis.
 Nor is this all Mills and factories that have unified orders are starting up and many of them announce full time schedules. No plant starts up and profits, and the resumption of activity in the chief industrial centers is comforting assurance that the general trade of the country is still sound and strong.
 When our farmers have great crops to sell orders for manufactured prod
 
 ucts will follow as day follows night. The wants of the farmers will be SUD- piled, simply because they will have cash in abundance when they market their crops. The south Is still holding S.000,000 bales of cotton. and the north west is full of wheat, corn and cattle. All things point to industrial resump. ton, and industrial resumption means general activity.
 Comptroller of the Currency Ridgely thinks the banks may decide to resume cash payments on Monday, December g. If so, all wheels may be turning and all crops may be moving market ward before Christmastide. and the entire country will then celebrate it's escape from a general and enduring calamity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
Hide and Seek

Justice Brewers definition of the Presidents double-dealing is being rap idly vindicated. We dp not have to go far to find examples of the game he is conducting. The memory of men is oftentimes short, but still there are some living who recall these words spoken by the President just after the defeat of Judge Parker had been ascer- tained:
 On the 4th of March next I shall have served three and one-half years, and this three and one-half years constitutes my first term. The wise custom which limits the President to two terms regards the substance and not the form. Under no circumstances will I be candidate for or accept another nomination.
 The next stage of the game de- scrlbed by Justice Brewer can be found between the lines of the Presidents recent grandstand play to southern officials, as follows:
 It has been called to my attention that certain officeholders under your depart ment have been proposing to attain cleo tion as delegates to the national conven- ton with view to advocating my re- nomination or proposing my indorsement by state conventions. This must not be. You will notify such oficeholders as may be necessary that their acceptance of election as delegates for this purpose or advocating such renomination, will be re- garded as serious viola ton of official propriety and will be dealt with accord ingly.
 ton at least of the words of 1904, but they were not forthcoming. Besides, if the words of 1904 are still good and are to be made good what need the President care who goes to the con vention or how they are instructed? It is indeed game of hide and seek, and fair and full construction of the letter addressed to various public officers really amounts to declara- tion of his candidacy. He says he does not want federal officials to support him, but he does not say that he does not want the support of other persons. The fair inference is that he does want non-offlcial delegates to stand by him. View the letter as we will it comes very near putting the writer of it in the field as an avowed candidate. It makes good at any rate Justice Brewers declaration that the Presi- dent is playing game of hide and seek.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
lNDORSES STEEL MEMS STAND.
President of National Association of
 Manufacturers Interviewed,

From the Wall Street Journal
 In discussing present financial condi- tions, James w. Van. Cleave, president of the National Association of Manu- acturers, who is at the Waldorf Astoria, said:
 The recent action of the iron and steel men to hold producers of these commod- ities together for the direct purpose of maintaining prices is of far greater i'm portance to our national prosperity than appeared on the surface. The price of pig iron is the most reliable barometer of financial conditions we have, enter ins, as it does, into practically every industry, an increase or decline in it's price immediately affects more than 75 per cent of our manufacturing indus tries and indirectly almost every line of activity in the country.
 Our industries use more than 25.OO0, 600 tons of pig iron each year. A drop in the price of pig iron. for instance, will de- press similarly the price of all other natural products. A shrinkage in pro- duce values means corresponding shrnkage in the value of labor. so that the maintenance of prices is of import ance not only to the employer but to the employe.
 As a manufacturer l know that the action of the steel men, in agreeing to maintain <prlces, will greatly assist in minimizing the results of our present financial disturbances. as it will hold the producers of steel together and prevent ruinous rate cutting, which would have a bad effevt upon every business. More than 80 per cent of the steel IFoduced In America comes from a~few plants, and of the entire total output fully 60 per cent is represented by the product of the United States Steel corporal ation When the representatives of these interests meet and agree to maintaing prices, it means that agreements of this nature make for. our national prosperity. This can also be said of railway agreements. especially in times of financial depres- sion. The absolute prevention by legis- lation of price agreements is economl- cally false. Ruinous competition between industrial factors tends to lessen pro- duction, lower wage scales and reduce earnings When this follows it is only natural that incentive is lost This fact is now recognized. and we may expect to see significant change in the attitude of those having authority to influence anti agreement laws.
 .1 cannot say too emphatically that the action of the steel men In maintain ing the price of pig iron Is the most i'm portant action yet taken to clear up the fnaneial situatiou'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
Didn't Know 1t Was Money.

Goldfeld. New. November 2s.-Nine robbers early today visited the depot of the Tonopah, Goldheld & Bull Frog rail road, overpowered two watchmen and an operator. throwing them into box cars, and blew open the safe. It is said they secured several thousand dollars, but the amounts of money have been taken in through the railroad office. The rob bers tore up a large amount of scrip payable to bearer, issued by the John s. Cook bank, this being circulated in Gold field The robbers evidently mistook its character and value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
Music Festival.

Several of the southern cities have music festivals every year and Blrming- ham should be one of the number, said a well known chorus singer. We had a festival every spring for four successive seasons, but the last of them was given about four years ago.
 '"rhe fine work of the Treble Clef club under MT. Dahm-P Petersen's leadership last Tuesday night revived the festival spirit among the old guard and it oc- cured to me that the same man who brought the female voices to a high state of excellence in ensemble singing could augment his chorus with 35 or 40 male voices and give a brilliant festival next May or June
 ''As some one remarked in The Age Herald the other day, the most expensive feature of a festival is the orchestra; but Damrosch in case he makes his usual southern tour in the spring, could be engaged with his band for two nights at total cost of about $l6O0 One or two vocal principals could be secured without great expense. In other words, a first-class festival of two nights could De gwen at an Outiay or apout szcD. lHc first festival that MT. Guckenberger dl- rested cost only $23OO There was profit of about s400. The second festival cost s2S00 and there was no deficit. In the third and fourth festivals the receipts fell short of the expenses because higher priced solosts were engaged and the Chicago orchestra with the late Theodore Thomas director, was an attraction which cost much more than the Boston festival orchestra, which was employed In the earlier events. Let's all pull to- gether and get up a festival under MT Damn Petersen's directorship.
 Atlanta has a festival every year and many Birmingham people attend. With a festival here many visitors would come to us from surrounding cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
Ncbe! Prize Awards

The Nobel prizes, five in number, are awarded in Sweden on December 10 in each year. Each prize is approx imately $40000, and each goes to living man who has done much for the advancement of the human race. Nobel himself the founder of the prizes, dis covered dynamite, and he seems to have thought that what he had done to blow up men should be atoned for by the establishment of prizes to men that conserve the race.
 It will be remembered that the peace prize of 1905 was awarded to Theodore Roosevelt for what he did in settling the bloody war between Russia and Japan. No other American has re- ceived a Nobel prize, and it seems to be understood that no prize will come this way this year.
 Two prizes are to go, however, to England. Professor Cookes is to get one because he has discovered way to get for commercial use nitrogen out of the atmosphere for fertilizer pur- poses. Four-fifths of the air we breathe consists of nitrogen, and one-fifth of oxygen All plants depend upon nitro gen for growth, and Professor Cookes Is teaching the world ohow to get nitrates out of air, and it is be- lieved his methods will largely increase the production of food on an acre No one need fear that there will not be enough nitrogen left In the air for breathing purposes.
 The other prize that England secures is to go to Rudyard Kipling for the most excellent literary work Of an idealistic tendency" This prize has been awarded in turn to Sully-Prud- homme, Mommsen. Bjornson, Sienkie- wicz, Carduccl, Mestral, and Jose Dchegary. MT. Kipling has not of late made many additions to the literature of the world, but his work in the past is sufficient to place him at the head of English men of letters, and the prize goes to him deservedly. No one will dispute his right to it. His only English-speaking rival Is Mark Twain, and the American may be added to the list next year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
q vEx ME NOT WITH BROODlNG
 ON THE YEARS"
By Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. l vex me not with breeding on the years That were ere I drew breath; why
 should I. then, Distrust the, darkness that may fall
 again When life is done? Perchance in other
 spheres Dead planets-I once tasted mortal tears. And walked as now amid throns Of
 men,,
 Pondering things that lay beyond my
 ken. Questioning death. and solacing my fears. Ofttimes, indeed. strange sense have or
 this,
 Vague memories that hold me with
 spell
 Touches of unseen lips upon my brow. Breathing some incommunicable bliss, In years foregone, O, Soul was all
 not well? Still loveler life awaits thee. Fear moi
 thou. ss tla>4 |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
SUNRISE ON THE DESERT

toxication of amazement at their wonder ful performance The mountains then sank slowly down again upon their bases; then they jumped up and down quickly several times just to make sure that they had mastered this accomplish ment new to the mountain family. After taking thought for a moment our gym nastic mountains proceeded to turn hand springs, alighting sometimes on their heads and standing there in most mar velous manner. considering how top heavy they must have been with their prodgiously big feet thus up in the air Their neighbors seemed to regard this exhibition with a spurt of envy which sometimes broke into emulation; but this emulation proceeded no farther than tho evolutions of quadrille, advancing and receding, lowing and scraping, right hand to your partner and all hands round
 Firing at last of this form of amuse- ment, our surprising mountains now en- gagged in another-one not less astonish- ing. They became workers of magic, painters, scene shifters, and was treated to a most wonderful display of modern cities and medieval castles; floating bat tie ships and cathedrals of massive and intricate architecture; scenes of peaceful rural life with sleeping lakelets and feed ing herds; Indian tepee villages and streets of Chicago skyscrapers. It was truly an exhibition of most bewildering magnihcance and variety, and I know 1 must have watched 1t with mouth agape.
 But something meanwhile was happen ing to our lake of fire. It was drying up, and all at once condensed into a huge, blazing ball. hanging clear of the horizon. Our mountains, whose antics were thus so near to being revealed in the broad light of day, swiftly sought their accustomed places, and after 8 final tremble or two. reassumed the se- we're demeanor, the unmoving attitude and stony stare that their kind always pre- sent to the world-except at daybreak on the desert.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
John Sharp Williams F

John Sharp Williams For Bryan.
 Now. that John Sharp Williams has declared for MT. Bryan" said John W. Tomlinson, 'as the Associated Press says he did at the banquet Tuesday night of the United Democracy of the District of Columbia in Washington, and as Senator Culverson has done the same thing on several occasions re- gently, 1t is to be. hoped that those who have been pushing the southern man idea will cease their opposition to MT. Bryan on this line
 Tn 1904 1t was said. give us an eastern man and we can win and we all know the result. It is now said though l think 1t will be said no long er-giye us southern man, but no one suggesting this has predicted that democracy could win with such a can didate. In 1904 in this state the Bryan democrats stood aside and without op- position let a delegation go to the national convention for Judge Parker. Now when the Bryan forces believe they can win, why not let them make the effort unhampered?
 "It has been said by the leader of the opposition that MT. Bryan has never carried Nebraska. While that state Is republican, Mir Bryan did car ry it in 1896, and will again carry it this campaign when there is discon- tent. He Is blamed for Kentucky, and yet he carried it in 1896 and carried it in 1900 with the loss of one elector, but in 1900 the country was prosperous and satisfied.
 If he is to be blamed for Kentucky which was caused by local conditions, why not give him credit for those dem ocratic victories in other states. Does he not deserve some praise for adding the new state of Oklahoma to the dem ocratic column? And what about Tom Johnson's victory in Ohio?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
WHOLESALE KIDNAPPING.
Police of Mexico City Are Working On
 a Big Case.

San Antonio. November 2S.-A special to the Express from Mexico City, says:
 The police of this city are actively at work on one of the biggest Kidnapping cases that they have ever had. It Is evident that for at least two months an aged band of kidnappers has been oper- ating in this city. Forty-nine children 22 boys and 2 girls have been stolen from their homes. What is done with them or who might be taking them away and by what means Is not known. The ages of the children vary between 2 and 12 years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
. National Bank Reserves

When the panic burst upon the coun- try on October 23 the New York banks owed the country banks $600,000, 900, and to this day only about $70,O00, 900 of this amount has been returned. All this seems wrong, but when the nature of national bank reserves is looked ordinary.
 The national bank act practically invites a concentration of bank re- serves in New York, Chicago and St. Louis-chiefly, however, in New York, the country's chief financial canter. Ranks in New York, Chicago and St.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
Demand For Rails.

While it is true that the railroads are doing comparatively little con struction work just now, within the next eighteen months a new prosperity era will begin and the demands for rails will be greater than ever be fore" said furnace operator.
 James J. Hills estimate of the enor- nous amount of new railroad track that would be necessary within the next ten years was not overdrawn. Crops become larger and larger and the railroads will have to lind some way of handling the immense traffic that will offer. More cars and more locomotives, as well as more tracks. will be the cry. and iron and stee producers will be worked over time, It will be good for the Birmingham district"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New YOrk Press.
 The more friends you own the more you have to let them get out of you to keep them.
 Brains won't help a man to win wife. but they come in handy afterward to support her.
 Even the man who waters his whisky and dilutes his religion wants to take his politics straight.
 It's a mighty smart boy who can earn enough to pay for his neckties after a college education.
 If girl can't get even with a man any other way for not asking her To marry him she will jilt him in her im- agination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
Gate City School.

Thanksgiving was duly observed at the Gate City public school At 10 a. m. the school room doors were thrown open to a large crowd of interested patrons and friends of the school. who witnessed with enthusiasm the efficient rendering of a rich programme of songs. recitations. and dialogues under the direction of the teachers, Miss Bessie Scholars, principal. aud Miss Grace Ledbetter, assistant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
HIS RIVAL

What do you think of it? Hard hit, and
 me going on fifty-fvel I'm dead in love with pretty. girl, as
 sure as you're alive. l like to stand and watch her go a-trip- ping sweetly by Oh, the way she looks, and the way she
 smiles and the love-light in her eyei No doubt. you think me foolish and you'll
 say l stand no show. Get out. you snug young rascal. why that
 proves how much you know, She's all in love with me-what more.
 she says so every day, And every glorious time she does kiss
 she has to pay! An, ha! that makes you think a bit-I
 knew it would. egadl But don't despair-shes fathers girl and
 I'm her dear old dad"i
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
Farmer Kills himseIf.

Lafayette, Ga, November 8.-John Massey, a farmer living near here. today shot himself with rife, the bullet pterc- ing the heart. He then placed the gun against the house. took off his coat and called to his family who were picking cotton in a nearby field. He was then seen to fall from the porch and was dead when help reached him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
GENERAL JAsTREMskl DEAD.
One of the Most Prominent Men of Louisiana Passes Away.

Baton Rouge. November 29-Gen. Leon Jastremski, a Confederate veteran. candi- date for the democratic nomination for governor of Louisiana and formerly grand chancellor of the Knights of Pyth- ias of the United States, died here today He was stricken with paralysis a week ago at the height of his campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
Christmas Shoppinq.

christmas Is in the air" said re- tail merchant. The shopping has be- gun earler than usual and each day adds to the crowds in the stores. l am safe In saying that the volume of holiday trade this season will exceed that of last. Saturday Is sure to be big shopping day and I look for crowds all of next week"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
Free Football Game.

Pittsburg. November 2s.-Free collegiate football was inaugurated here today when the Lehigh university team and the II of the Carnegie Technical schools played at Schenley park oval before a crowd estimated at 25.000 persons. Lehigh won by the score of 21 to 0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
eitulithlc Committee ronioht.

The bitulithic investigation committee will resume its hearing at the city hall tonight. Every effort is being made by the committeeman to find some basis for the rumors and charges that have been floating around and they are anxious to give all parties fair chance to testify.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29
Moors In Hard Battle.

Magador, November 2S.--There has been heavy, continuous fighting between the forces of Caid Anfios and the adherents of Mulia Hafid. in which there was great slaughter. The result appears to have been favorable to the Cad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29

Gold, bright and yellow, hard and cold, is pouring in to be boarded by the banks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29

Set the Mauretania on end and it would overtop the Singer building, which is 42 stories high.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29

The views of Justice Brewer are in- dividual. They are not handed down except to reporters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29

If Justice Brewer keeps up his pres ent lick he will drive Chance Day out of his great speciality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29

St. Gauden's gold eagle is food for the cartoonists. One of them puts patched trousers on him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29

The American eagle can again assert himself at least until Christmas time comes round.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29

President Roosevelt should be glad Justice Brewer did not enJoin him. The latter simply talked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29

Few men, young or old. can reel off 70 miles day as Weston did.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29

Jacob Riis says New York has 36O,- 900 dark rooms that people live in and children grow Up in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-29

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal publishes an editorial entitled, "Chunk- ing an Empty Beehive" That's the safest kind to chunk.