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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
Money Rates and Crons

Money rates are becoming easier. The customary September squeeze has not come, and rates are actually ap- preaching the ten-year average, both for call and time money. When the former can be had at about per cent and the latter at less than per cent there is no squeeze of dangerous pro- portions apparent A year ago time money commanded per cent, and in December, 1905, call money was bid up to 125 per cent. Tn 1902 the call money rate went to 35 per cent, and in December, 1899, to 1S6 per cent. Current rates are mild and easy in comparison.
 No doubt Secretary Cortelyou has powerfully assisted in keeping money rates within reasonable bounds. The stoppage to a great extent of specula- tion has also been an aid, but the factor of most importance is the con dition of the growing crops. No frost has appeared in the surplus corn states of the northwest, where a crop of 2,472, ,000,0 ,000 bushels is anticipated, based on a reported condition of 79. The crop of last year was 1927, 100000 bushels. The yield of spring wheat is now put at 215.000,000 bushels, which, added to the crop of winter wheat, makes a total outturn of 624,000,000 bushels This will answer fairly well, although the crop of last year was 7.5, ,000, 900 bushels. The condition of the cotton crop on August 25 is put by the government at 72.7 a condition not much below the ten-year average. The crops in Georgia and South Carolina are above the ten-year average, and the crop in Alabama is but one point below. In other words, fair crops of corn, wheat and cotton are in sight, and this makes for prosperity and even for easy money in the near fu- ture. Confidence Is returning, and the best observers predict better times by the end of the calendar year than the country has of late known. This means that gold imports will be re- sumed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

why Birmingham should become prohibi- ton. He said Fairfield formerly had forty saloons and has doubled in populs, tion since they were closed Up. Fairfield is a country town of perhaps 3O09 inhabi- tants If there are more than forty store buildings in the whole town I don't know where they are located. As for ever hay ing had forty saloons it is preposterous.
 "It is a good old country town In the southern Illinois apple raising section ! have been going there off and on all my life and the place now looks pretty much as it did in my boyhood days. If it has doubled in population it has been so i'm perceptible during the past twenty five years that I had not noticed it. But t-en we must expect extravasant language these days. Sane, conservative and ac- curate argument is out of the question. heard a leader on the prohibition side say the other day: This is war, and alPs fair in love and war It is the keynote. We may expect to hear anything from now on. A hotbed eof emotional hysteria is no place for sane men. I feel like going back to old Fairfield, where every thing is as quiet and peaceful as a ceme- tery and waiting until this thing is over.
 But after all Birmingham is still baby. Babies must Lave their spelsl of measles and whooping cough, and I sup pose Birmingham, has to go through the gamut of infantile complaints. among them being the prohibition campaign hys- teria"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
NAZlMOVA FRIGHTENED.

Rennold Wolf in Smiths Magazine
 Mime. Nazimova's attitude toward the success that almost swept her off her feet is that of the pauper who has suddenly come into great wealth, and asks his friends to pinch him to assure him of hs wakefulness. She has not grown accus- toned to it. She Is not quite sure that she Is not dreaming; that she Is not the victim of cruel joke. She is fearful of exulting In 1t. Far from exhibiting signs of vanity she continues to regard the tre- mendous interest of press and public with wonder and astonshment
 "I am too happy, far too happy" she said; and her countenance betrayed the awful dread she felt. I'm so happy That I am afraid; very, very much afraid. There is an old German poem of which I am reminded whenever I give way to my happiness. It is the story of man, rich and happy. He. too, was afraid; so one day he threw his favorite ring into the sea that he might win the favor of the gods. And the next day fish was served on his table. When he opened it, there was the ring
 Alas I have no ring What shall throw?'
 Your first night criticisms" I ventured, soniA reply.
 Never, never, never! she exclaimed.
 l wanted to suggest that she throw away dozen or so of her blue gowns, also, but l refrained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
MRS. PALMER BUYS CASTLE.
Will Make Her Home In Ancient Seat
 of Penryhns.

From the New York Press.
 Mrs Potter Palmer henceforth will passs1ttle time in Chicago. As it was in that city her husband made his millions. she has held it her duty to spend at least a few months in every year within it's borders, not only that part of her income might be bestowed on the tradesmen, but that society might have the benefit of association with herself
 But the ever young widow contem- plates cutting the months down to weeks. She is reported to be about to close contract for the purchase of Penryhn castle, near Bangor, and hereafter will put in about ten months of the year in the United Kingdom. The castle is the ancient seat of the Penryhns, and Is one of the finest in Edwards realm. It's suites of drawing rooms, reception rooms, libraries and other apartments are de- scribed as "nobly imposing There are seventy bedrooms. Possibly Mrs. Palmer will sleep in different room every week, to get her moneys worth. She will have 20O00 acres of ground over which to shoot. if she cares to enter the ranks of the Dianas. Of the T,000 acres 2000 are grouse moor. So the Chicago society woman may have the satisfaction of shooting the grouse to be served on her own table,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
Dr. GiIlespy's Report

The report of pr. J. S. Gillespy, clerk and register of the city court of Bir- mingham, is frank and comprehensive. It is ingenious and altogether satisfac- tory, and it's author deserves the thanks of the people for promptly do- ing his part in clearing up the mystery of the fees.
 Let the good work go on until every other county officer has fully and frankly met the demands of the June grand jury. In that way the people of the county will be put in a way to understand their own affairs, and the officers themselves will be relieved of exaggerated stories touching the fees they have collected
 The report of Dr. Gillespy is good beginning, and other reports will no doubt speedily follow. A suspension of public opinion in relation to fees would be timely until the reports are all filed About a dozen reports are still due, ranging all the way through the court house from the office of the probate judge to that of the coroner, The public awaits the successive chap ters of the untold story with deep in- lereSt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
NICkNAMES OF PRESIDENTS.

The calling off President Roosevelt Teddy is popular speech in only carry ing out a practice in regard to many Of the chief executives of our country. Many of them were known by nicknames. "The Father of His Country" was the most familiar name applied to George Wash ington, though he was also called by the classical-minded of his day America Fabious." "The Cincinnatus of the West, Atlas of America" "Flower of the Forest" and Savior of His Country Lovely Georgius' was an application applieN to him in derision by the British soldiery. President Adams was called "The Colossus of 1ndependence,' Thomas Jefferson was "The Sage of Monticello President Monroe was The Last Cooked Hat" J. O. Adams was "The Old' Man Eloquent" Jackson was "Old Hickory and Hero of New Orleans" Van Buren was "The Little Wizard and King Martin the First" Tyler was Young Hickory" and "The Accidental Presi- dent" Taylor was "Old Rough and Ready" "Old Zach" and "Old Buena Vista" Fillmore was 'The American Louis Philippe." Later presidents up to Theo- dore Roosevelt seemed to have escaped nicknames. although Grover Cleveland after his first term-was dubbed by Dana 'srhA Stuffed Prophet."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
From the Sea to Brunswick

The main line of the Atlanta, Bir- mingham and Atlantic has been com pleted to Wadley, Ala, and has been put in operation. Wadley Is a new town fourteen miles west of Roanoke In Randolph county. The company now has ASA miles of track in operation, and the construction of the gaps to Bir- mingham and to Atlanta are under con struction. Money is in hand to con- plete both The entire mileage of the road will then exceed six hundred miles, and it will prove to be one of the best feeders that enters this city and district.
 While the Brunswick enterprise is laying track to the east of us the Hi nois Central is coming in from the southwest. The latter will soon se- cure entrance here, and in the course of another year the Brunswick road will be completed. This will add to our transportation facilities all south eastern roads, for the Mobile and Ohio Is already here by means of the South ern, and so is the Atlantic Coast Line through it's control of the Louisville and Nashville.
 2 There will then be no railroads to secure unless we look beyond the Mis- sissippi, where the Gould system and various other systems are halted The Gould system touches the big river at several points, and from one of them line may be and profitably could be built to this district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
Turn to the Riuht,

'It Is a strange thing to me that, con sidering the metropolitan aspect of B-N mingham in every respect, the people on the streets do not seem to have learned to keep to the right of the sidewalk in passing" said NJ. c. Willard, a we'll known New York travelling man. yes terday.
 "I have just come in from a stroll about the most prominent thoroughfares of the city at the time when the streets are congested, and my observation leads me to believe that not more than half the pedestrians realize that they should keep to the right in passing the stream coming from the opposite direction.
 "Burly negroes, ladies, and men whose appearance indicates that they should know better, walk on the left half of the pavement, in the mdidle, or on ans other portion where they see an opening When each pedestrian keeps to the right of the street no confusion results. and think that the congestion on the prin- cipal streets would be decreased in a great measure if more care were taken iN this connection
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
Iananese and Caucasians

The unwhipped hoodlums of Van couver, British Columbia, outdid their disreputable cousins in San Francisco. They pursued the unoffending Japan- ese and Koreans until the spasm in San Francisco was far exceeded and almost eclipsed. There was scarcely any insult they did not offer the new corners, but as few were hurt. and none killed, and as the property dam age was not heavy, no doubt the out age will be fully adjusted in Cana iian currency.
 The facts are to be duly laid before Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Can ida, fair-minded and capable states man, one of the best Canada has ever pad. EngIaEd is the ally of Japan un- fer a treaty that has many years to run, and a speedy and satisfactory set dement, or the trouble will no doubt De worried out
 After all, it should be plain to the authorities of Japan that an irrecon- iliable feeling against the yellow races If the Orient exists throughout Anglo Saxon America. It is perhaps more Q the point to say that among our lnskilltd workers there is opposition o Japanese rivalry and Japanese labor ,rices. LOG king at the matter from III points Of view 1t is better to keep Il Japanese coolies out of America and .anada, and also out of Mexico. for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
A TOAST.

By C. $. Gauden. To Birmingham, great Birmingham, Surrounded by her hills, Whose endless store of coal and ore Her magic fame fulhlls. Here to her wales, athrob with indus
 tries, That spread their murky banners to the
 breeze.
 Who for her triumph fought; Wko, in this grand, God-favored land Results eternal wrought. Our hearts we pledge within proud
 mem'ry's glass To these, whose mighty deeds shall never
 pass Here's to her danes, her peerless danes, With pride of home endowed To daughters fair as lilies are, Unselfish. gentle, proud. Here with the choicest wine our cups we
 fill, And drink to these. our rarest treasures.
 still To Birmingham, proud Birmingham, This loyal toast we drink: To crush her foes. to heal her woes Let not our courage shrink. Here to the mighty things her prophets
 see That shall achieve her matchlsss dAsitn--
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
Plantinq Trees.

q planted every tree on my prem ises some years ago, and each one to- day affords excellent shade" said Con gressman Underwood, whose home is on the South Highlands.
 'I would not take money for any one of them, and I wish l had planted more. I am a strong advocate of forestry pre- servation, and try to prove my ad- vocacy in a small way by my works. The national Congress has been much awakened on the subject of late years, and the Appalachian forests are to be the subject of much consideration. We possess here In this district a large area of this range, and every tree is of great value to the people from the standpoint of health, beauty and cli- matic influence.
 "The old song, 'Woodman Spare that Tree" is impressing itself as never be- fore in the history of this country. and l rejoice at the awakening. Let us all plant trees for our children"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
TROLLEY AREA IN AMERICA

was startled at the possible competition of the great city stores. Then he found he could solve the problem by the use of the means of transportatino which has brought the city competition home to him. All he had to do was to increase his stock add to his variety, discard un- salable types, and study modern styles. Dealing in goods by wholesale, the freight charges alone would insure him a good profit while the individual customer would go to the city only so long as the city furnished better styles or smaller prices either in clothing or in kitchen utensils. The small cities of the state have been built up by the interurban rail- road and the merchants and bankers of of cities like Danville, Champaign, and Decatur are the first to acknowledge this fact.
 At the same time there has been an ex- traordinary impetus given to the social life of the farmer class of the country. A boy can remain at home, do his work on the farm during the day, and yet take his girl to the theatre, or to lecture, or a dance that night, and get home in time to do the chores in the morning at least. The farmers are coming oftener to the city. They find they can get city types of clothes as eheaply as they formerly could the antiquated garments which once distinguished the agrculturist.
 The gawky country boy and girl is dis appearing so rapidly that there will soon be little material left in that line for the comic Weeklies, because the type is being wiped out by the interurban railroad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
Ed eeers. the Horseman.

That goodly fellow, Ed Geers is now the chief figure in the big Ameri- can circuit races" said a lover of horses and an admirer of horsemen. "He is the dean of drivers, and has recently won more than $11,0oO in the harness campaign.
 Ed Geers is a Tennessean, by birth and general raising, but is well known and much respected in Alabama and all over the south. He is not d gambler, but real horse trainer and driver. He Is familiarity known as the silent man. A New York man, speaking of him the other day, remarked that he recently saw Geers at Poughkeepsle. Said he: TO the casual observer the dean of trotting horse drivers looks but little older than when he first came north and started in with the process sion at Cleveland. about thirty years ago. His weath er-beaten face, with it's innocent, kindly smile, may have taken on a few wrinkles in the hard campaigns It's owner has weathered, but otherwise there is little to indicate that this modset, reserved man stands at tn head of his profession, and has made more history than all the rest of is contemporaries pJr together. His training work is veritable giants task, for he does the bulk of the actual preparation himself. and averages close to a hundred miles a day the year round, either in the seat of sulky or a jogging cart.
 Tn the past few seasons Geers has had no record breakers in his charge, nor, in fact, excepting Dan Patch, have any of the world beaters been In ac. tive service. His most famous pupil was The Abbot, who dethroned Alix for the trotting championship seven years ago, when he did the mile In 2:o3A. Very few of the topnotchers have been trained from colth ood by the man who finally landed them in the first place, but Geers did this not only with The Abbot, but also with Hal Pointer, who held the pacing honors in 1892 the year the present bike" sulky first came Into use. As a money winner the veteran has headeds sthe list many times, and though his present stable has not fulfilled its early expectations, he closed the week just passed at Buffalo, close second. J. D. Springer, his younger rival, has gathered in s11,S00 in purses so far, chiefly with his star pupil, so- noma Girl and Geers, who has won several more races than the westerner, has placed s11,27b to the credit of his string
 When your Birmingham horse show proposition is well organized, con- tinued the New Yorker, you ought to get Ed Geers down there to show how. I find that he is well known in your city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
Sale or No Sale of Liquor

The Board of Aldermen has taken steps to increase the license fee of saloons in thirteen central busi- ness blocks to s32o0, and that of saloons in fifty-eight surround ing blocks to $16o0, both to take effect on January 1 next. Nor is this all the aldermen are considering the aldermen, that is to say, who support President Parker. Their plans look to the utter wiping out of ''the poor mans cl,tA" for each saloon is to be rendered as bare and uninviting as a dispensary. There is to be in it, no music, no pool or billiard playing, no dice or dominoes, no chairs or tables, and all lounging or loafing in it is to be an offense against the law, rendering the offender subject to ar rest.
 This plan has been long delayed. If it had been adopted years ago-even condition of the people In this city, considering them as a unit would be higher than 1t is today. However, thorough and drastic regulation has come in sight at last and the people of this city are now in a position to test it.
 The contest over the liquor question is now between drastic regulation and drastic prohibition, and every qualified elector will soon sit as juryman to decide the issue. Drastic regulation is about to be adopted as a strategic move of the anti-prohibitionist but that for the time being need concern no one in the least, for the choice should be between the thoroughly reg ulated saloon and the policy that drives out all saloons. The choice at this moment Is before the people in all entirety and completeness, and it will soon be up to them to name the liquor policy of this city.
 High license and strict regulation has been Mayor Wards policy all along, and it Is the true policy in every large city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Postoffice Growth.

"The marvellous growth of Birming- ham is best indicated by it's postoffice business" said Postmaster Carter The postoffce Is a real business barom- eter. In 1900 the office employed eigh- teen clerks and twenty carriers. On the first of October 1907, our list will be seventy-fve clerks and sixty-two carriers. Besides we have nine rural routes going out from Birmingham, averaging about twenty miles each every day except Sunday.
 Do you know" asked Postmaster Carter. that the business of the Bir- mingham postoffice is equivalent to that of any five postoffces in the state? It is true, according to the figures of the department at Washington. and is growing by leaps and bounds every year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

A LITTLE SONG OF THANKS l like to hear the songbirds sing, l like to know the sun, I like to watch the stars come out At evening one by one. l love the twilight and the dawn, love the land and sea And all the big. wide world contains That bringeth joy to me. Concrete telegraph poles are to be in trodueed. They will be hard On wood- peckers. The Panama canal diggers are to have a newspaper For name we suggest "The Scoop"
 TO A DOUGHNUT. Invincible nothing. surrounded with dough. Insulting our stomaehs wherever we go. The man who can eat you and not want to die Could live forty years on chemical pie The day of your baking no mortal could name And none can say when you got into the game. So rancid and clammy and spongy and cold, Your lunch counter form seems thou sand years old. There are 3S,S04 spinsters in the city of Westminster. A census of the tabby cats has never been taken.
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 RUFUS JONES.
 A fashion plate
 Was Rufus Jones'
 His clothing cost
 Him many bones.
 And yet, in spite
 Of all his pains,
 He could not hide
 His lack of brains. The Etruscans filled teeth 2so0 years ago and it is possible that the standard dentist chair joke was in use at that time.
 WHERE THE GOAL LIES. Down in the valley the shadows are fall ing, Vainly, despairingly toilers are calling, Calling for the light of the sun. High on the mountain it's brightness is gleaming Warming the climbers who sing to its beaming, That's where the battle is won. What tho the journey be wearisome. brother, Climb for the summit and think of no other Courage will take down the bars. Failure will come to the dreamer who tarries Long in the valley, but victory carries Hearts that are brave to the starsi An unfortunate resident of Jefferson county had $500 and a bottle of gin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
What These Rains Mean.

What are these rains doing to the crops?" was asked a farmer at the Florence last night.
 "Fine for corn, and not hurtful to cotton in my part of the state just now" he answered. Cotton is not opened sufficiently now to be injured by storm and rain in my county, and I see nothing alarming in the present outlook. In fact my honest belief is that Alabama has made an enormous corn crop this year, and other food crops in proportion, and that the state is going to average up well on cotton. The only question now is, what is to be tho price charged for cotton? Good food crops mean independence and in dependence means hold for a fair price. The rain don't hurt"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11

when they are landed in Mexico they do not stay there. Much friction can be avoided by keeping the unskilled Japanese away from these shores. Send them to South America-any- where else, in fact-except to this country and Canada. Japanese pride should pull for this policy, and if Can ada will stand by it the battle will be more than half won.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 You can learn a good deal about women by not trying to understand them
 When girl won't deceive her father about her beaux she hasn't any father.
 Cooks are very useful to keep men from doing all their talking against the gov ernment.
 The trouble with having money of your own is you can't be happy without other peoples. too.
 When man knows better than to invest his money so not to lose all of 1t he has alr ready zone and done it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-11
GERTRUDE'S LAUGH.

From the Columbus Ledger
 newspaper correspondent ayers that Gertrude Atherton wears secret laugh" Up her sleeve, most probably Birmingham Age-Herald. We'll if she does she must have a different kind of sleeve to the fashionable ones worn these days. They are not long enough to cover the arm, and certainly no sort of a laugh could be gotten into one of them.