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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-07-31

you such hitter partisan?' Well
Mr.. Speaker. that's pretty good. com
ing from you, isn't it?' replied.
Never mind me- he replied. But
why are you such bitter partisan. :
Well, I'll tell you,' I said. You
know, I never saw republican It'll
i was 3S years OF age. and I can't
get used TO them, somehow He
looked at me rspr0schfully and walk
ed away without another word -
Kansas City Star.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-07-31

ROYAL NEIGHBORS OF AMERICA
meets every Tuesday evening IN
Sprague Hall. Visiting neighbors
cordially invited. Grace Wood
run, Recorder. Jennie L. Bart
lett, Oracle. tt
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-07-31
Remember.
Why He Was a Partisan.

John Sharp Williams once ran afoul
of Tom Reed. This is the way he tells
the story himself: 81 met Mr.. Reed
coming out of the clOakrOom, and
he said to me in that peculiar drawl
of his. Williams, whatever makes
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-07-31

Reaction will not lack earnest cham
pions so long as the small boy pleads
for the good old time Fourth of July
racket his grandpa tells about.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-07-31

Cuba wants the loan of few Amer
lean plumbers, very easy proposition
unless the plumbers refuse to emf
crate.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-07-31
INSURANCE BY THE BANKS.

An experiment in insurance is now
under way in Massachusetts which
may revolutionize savings institu-
lions and have a far-reaching effect
on the insurance business. By the
enactment of the new statute the saw
ings banks are authorized to estab-
lish life insurance departments minus
solicitory, collectors or agents. Those
who want bank insurance must go to
the banks for it, as they would go to
a grocery store for sugar.
Should this form of life insurance
succeed, it should result in great
saving to the insured, for it will do
away with the big salaries and COM
missions paid to agents and solic-
Chronicle.
-OOO-
Remember.
When the thermometer has scaled
The sultry heights it knew of old,
Oh, then remember how you walled
Because you thought is rather cold.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-07-31
THE LOCAL PHONE SYSTEM.

The progress of the Farmers Tele-
phone company as local institution
is matter worthy of comment. Or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
am nothing if not critical.
 -Othelo.
$7 Flour For Consumers

There is talk of $150 wheat. It has gone above the dollar line and is climb ing up week after week. This advance has carried flour up to $7 a barrel to the consumer Flour that is worth in wholesale lots $6.40 barrel was worth one year ago $5.7O, and two years ago $435.
 The bakers in New York are pre- pairing to increase the price of bread. The law prohibits them from making therefore compelled to increase it's price if they are to secure a profit at all
 The consumer is today paying not less than s7 a barrel, and this is an unusual price. It is due to a short age in this country of just aout 100,- 100000 bushels and to the failure of the wheat crops in several European countries. Europe is buying our wheat freely. and the home market feels the unusual demand. Flour shipments to other countries are far outrunning those of a like period last year, and very likely we shall see $1.50 wheat and $750 flour or possibly $S flour. This means an increase in the cost of living, and a general tax in increased volume upon the homes of S0,0OO,OOO of people. The south refuses to raise it's own bread, and it will have to pay a good, full share of the tax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
Sober Workinu Men,

'I was greatly impressed with the crowd at the antl-prohibition rally in Ensley Friday night remarked L. P. Ray, a new resident of Birmingham. Not being voter 1 attended the meet ing simply from curiosity thinking 1t would give me a good idea of the char acter of men who earn wages in the Steel City. While not all the men present in the great throng were mechanics, q large majority of them seemed to belong to that worthy class I lived in a northern iron center and l am glad to say that never saw more intelligent, orderly sober body of men than l found at Ensley. They gave eager attention to the speak ears and judging from the applause the audience was virtually one way of think ing on the prohibition question. An other thing that impressed me was the practical manner in which the business men on the programme presented the anti-prohibition side. Every speaker was earnest. without any attempt at orator- cal pyrotechnics MT. Crockard made the closing speech. It was short and to the point; that is to say it was full of food for thought. Ensley, by the way, seems to be on solid boom. Before I came the Ensley steel plant and the great sale of open hearth rails to the Hartman system. That sale was the best adver- tisement the Birmingham district ever had"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
New Field for Younosters.

You can talk about political influence and the like that are required to land d position on the police force or the fire department, but some fine qualities are necessary to secure a position as skate boy at tho skating rinks in this city," said a lover of the sport. "Of all the fat jobs the youngsters of this city have fallen into, the skate boy job at the rink has the best of them driven Into solar and lunar eclipses.
 The skate boys are paid largely by tips. No charges are made for readiness to serve, but there are very few pat rons of the rnks who fail to reward the youthful attendant. Nickels, dimes, quar- ters and frequently halves fall into their open palms.
 There are about 15 to % skate boys at each rink, and they are lined up and slated on a long row of small stools, re- sembling the stools used by statesmen In shoe stores, all eager to strap and remove the skates from the rinks pat rons. It is the easiest of the legitimate juvenile get-rich-quck schemes in the town if a glance at the bulging pockets containing tips may be taken as any in dication Many of the boys are mem- bers of good families and have got neat bank account. while others contribute generously from their earpings to their relatives daily
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
THE RESIDENT AS MAYOR.

From the Providence Journal
 Mir. Jacob A. Riis has found a new task for the President. contingent upon his leaving the White House year from next March. In a lecture at Roxbury on Thursday evening he said; You aren't going to have him up here as President of Harvard We want him at home as mayor of oNew York. That would be the finest kind of democracy" MT Roosevelt would undoubtedly make an interesting executive for the metropolis. but it is not certain that he could carry it in the face of Tammanys opposition Some of his bitterest enemies live on Manhattan ls and as well as some of his warrnest friends, and even ''wlirlwind' campaign might not suffice to elect him in such a democratic stronghold. It may he re- membered that Mir. Roosevelt ran for mayor of New York 21 years ago, but in vain. Times have indeed changed since then, but as lately as 1904 Judge Parker beat him in the city. 32e 900 to s93.SS0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

year. In other words, the 12 counties can procure state aid for seven school houses, and they should proceed to do it.
 The law is an admirable one, and the state will soon have comfortable rural schoolhouses if the people in each county will do their part. The response to the bill has been gener- ous and gratifying, and the belief is that every dollar appropriated will be called for Jefferson needs many new rural school buildings, and the various districts that have poor buildings should take steps to build better ones. The state stands ready to do her part.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

are seeking to get in hereto make for tlfnes They would take away from those who have developed, in any way they can. In finance it is like in love and war-everything is fair.
 The policy Is to break down in every thing-be it by local or state legislation. It is to put out the fellow who is trying to do something now-the fellow who happened to get In first and is doing some- thing
 This prohibition campaign in Birming ham is not the real thing any more than the campaign for an extra session of the legislature has been the real stuff. I give credit to Governor Conner and his friends for not being bluffed, but there seems to be a wheel within a wheel.
 It would appear to a close observer on the outside that there is an element look ing ahead to havoc in Alabama that they may be able to pick up bargains later. Right now the iron companies and other concerns here cannot borrow money. Development has been estopped because of fears of antagonistic legislation. This legsla tive extra session for November has cut out many prospective foreign investments in the state. It is playing havoc with some who have gone ahead upon faith Loans expected have been cut off; and the outside financial world is as scared of Birmingham today as of a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
COCKTAILS LOSING OUT.

New York Correspondent Pittsburg Post.
 It seems important to note, because of the amazing life and activity of the Fair banks cocktail incident, that the before dinner cocktail is losing favo rat formal dinners. Not many years ago, at big dinners. guests were offered choice of two favorite cocktails and nothing else; then being served from buffers trays In the re- ception room. Then a decanter of sherry was added, the decanter being placed m a silver ice pail and guests taking 1t if they preferred it to either cocktail.
 At private dinners lately have seen the choice of appetizer restricted to sherry and another sweet wins with no cocktail in sight
 At club dinner recently where there were 75 guests. l noted that majority of the guests in the reception room de- clined the cocktails and took sherry. Of course, little sandwiches of caviar ere segvedewithethse sestesss dinner ,dsinkA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
The Practical Point of View

It has been proved by incontestible evidence that statutory prohibition does not prohibit. Prohibition leaders as a rule do not hesitate to reject carefully compiled figures bearing on the liquor traffic. They even reject the official statistics furnished by the United States government, because the facts show that in spite of an expand ing dry area in this country, the consumption of liquor increases at an enormous rate. Some of the more conservative advocates of prohibition admit that the abolition of the licensed saloon does not put an end to the drinking habit, but they contend that it does minimize the whisky evil. Now, leaving statistics out of the question, observation makes it clear that any alleged intimidation of the abuse of liquor resulting from prohibition IS more than offset by the appalling evil of the blind tiger The character of trade in certain communities may be changed, but the sum total of liquor consumption is not lessened. It Is often increased.
 No matter what may be said by tenn perance people regarding the liquor business. it should be manifest to every one of average intelligence that the city in which saloons are licensed and properly regulated stands on much higher moral plane than the saloonless town with its illicit whisky shops. There are morals and morals. In the nature of things good morals can never be subserved by sumptuary legislation. A distinguished minister of the gospel once said: You cannot legislate religion into men," True re- ligion is a matter of reason, conscience and moral discipline. And so it is with temperance While many men drink in moderation and with perfect impu- nity. others who are weak in self-re- straint cannot indulge In stimulants without being hurt. For these infirm creatures total abstinance is the only safeguard; and yet they are the very ones above all others who most ire ouent the blind tiger in "dry" compu- mites; these and small boys who are not allowed to enter a saloon furnish a large part of the tiger joint patron age.
 Thus 1t is seen that prohibition from a moral point of view is delusion and a snare. It is mainly political. It not only debases morals, but it deprives the state. county and city of large rev enue, and in industrial sections knocks the bottom out of property values.
 The thoughtful. practical developers of Jefferson county, the men who are the real friends of temperance, want none of it, and The Age-Herald feels confident that when the time comes to vote on this stirring issue-one week from tomorrow-a majority of inc ballots will be cast against prohi- hitiOn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
Rural School HouS es

In this fiscal year $67,000 is avail rural schoolhouses Between the ad- journment of the legislature in March and October l there were built 124 new school houses, and 67 were re- paired. It is estimated that $100,000 was thus expended between March and October. Ten counties drew out their full share These quick results are indeed a tribute to the wisdom of the legislature and a credit to the state.
 Jefferson county built no rural law, but it can build in this fiscal year seven schoolhouses and obtain s200 in aid of each one from the state The district desiring a new schoolhouse must furnish the site and expend from it's own resources at least $200 and it can then secure $200 from the rural schoolhouse fund for the present fiscal year.
 The counties should be alert in this matter, and nearly all of them were in the last fiscal year. All built new rural schoolhouses except Barbour, Chambers, Clarke, Colbert, Henry Jefferson, Lee, Lowndes, Mobile, Shel- by, St Clair and Walker-12 out of 67. The F should wake up and get their share of state aid this year. The counties that built no schoolhouses last year have sAss available this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
HARRIMANIsM IN THE CONGO

From the Minneapolis Journal.
 An ivory dealer uttered a cry of rage.
 Done again. he said. Done out of $50"
 And he laid aside one of the tusks from the great heap that he had been exam ming
 Tt is ballasted with lead he said. .'That is common Congo trick. The native. when he gets a good, big tusk of eighty pounds or so, melts up ten or l5 pounds of lead and pours it down into the tusk's hollow. He fills 1t, so to speak. as dentist fills tooth.
 we dealers know the dodge, and every tusk is gone over carefully for a lead filling. My new trader, though, is rather careless, and this is the second filled tusk that has been worked off on him in the last quarter.
 The dealers frown vanished and he smiled
 "Ot course ths trader and not | will shass- -te stand -thes slossi' he -said&
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
Not Wholly a Failure

After sitting 122 days in the Hall of Knights at The Hague the second in ternational peace conference has come to an end. The plan of compulsory arbitration of all differences between two nations was voted down, and so was the scheme for the abolition of contraband in the case of war, but still some progress towards peace was made Thirty-eight states voted to es- tablish a permanent court before which international conflicts may be brought for adjustment. Obligatory ar bitration is far in the future, but per haps the establishment of perma- nent court may aid the third confer ence to find way to it and to the millennium.
 Thirty-nine states voted to require debts before collection by force can be resorted to- The creditor nation must offer to arbtrate, and if the debtor ma ton refuses the offer force may be ap- piled. This renders the South Amer ican republics pretty safe from Euro pean oppression. for what the Monroe doctrine cannot accomplish arbitration may
 The conference signed 13 conven- Mons and passed seven resolutions. Zone of them are epochal, but all se for peace and the unity of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
Southern Manufacturer and Farmer

The Southern Manufacturer and Farmer is a recent addition to the monthly publications of Birmingham. It is issued by the Southern Manufac- turer and Farmer Publishing company, of which G. Y. Brazleton is president and T. c. Mccain is secretary and treasurer. The magazine Is neatly printed and ably edited. The first mum Der makes a fine showing that will do much to launch it upon successful career.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
Y T is a nasty fight we are having in
 Birmingham, the Birmingham dls-

IT is nasty fight we are having in
 Birmingham, the Birmingham dis 1 triet, and the state of Alabama.
 If it continues I would look for re- ceiverships in some big corporations and a setback to the district that woum hurt everyone in it.
 Jealousies, and old i'll feelings, and past grievances are cropping out on all sides. It would seem that everyone wants to punish the fellow whom he conceives has done him a wrong in the past. There appears to be dignfied Breathitt county, Kentucky, feud on, all around and about us. in this hub of Alabama and center of the south.
 Some natural prohibiuoni1ts are fighting prohlbltion and some. at heart antis. are favorng the ultra campaign and sub scribing money to bring in the profess sional sentimental ordator to make much-ado about it.
 It looks to me like there is ''nigger in the wood pile" Certainly lots of nn- natural things are going on
 .
 But this little prohibition campaign in Birmingham and Jefferson county IS only one part of the game for future gains.
 Recently it has been demonstrated that the mineral surface of Alabama has been but scratched in showing it's real wealth. The Birmingham district has within it an ore and coal supply surpassing any other section of the world. Men of money
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
Why He Souuht An Affinity

An observing woman describes the affinity seeker in words that fit all countries and all localities. Every community has such cases, some with affinities and some without them. She says:
 He did all the courtlng before marriage. He never talked over his affairs with his wife.
 He thought of his wife only as cheap housekeeper.
 He never dreamed that wife deserved praise or compliments.
 He thought his wife had very easy time
 He married an ideal, and was disap- pointed to find it had flaws
 He paid no attention to his personal appearance after marriage.
 He treated his wife as he would not have dared to treat another woman.
 These lines explain why many mar riages are failures. In other words, if he had reversed the lines quoted there would have been no divorce, no case in court, no difficulty, no indignant neighbors. and no sorrows to children.
 No doubt the woman in married life is sometimes to blame, but in nine cases out of ten it is the man, and the foregoing lines are an acute analysis of the nature and source of wide spread trouble in the family, which is the unit of civilization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
MED BRACE TALKS ABOUT POLITICS.;
 BOTH LOCAL AND IN THE STATE

Yet the legislature in its extra session will do nothing radical. Watch itl
 All the dark and dire talk is merely a flashing in the pan, so to speak.
 Values. it is true, are demoralized; and the insiders, or better, the alert, are picking up bargains.
 When the political game is over there may be those out of jobs. but whatever is done, Birmingham is going ahead. It is. built upon a foundation so strong that nothing can overturn it. Conspirators may retard its growth for time. but with all it's petty politics, jealousies and other mushroom messes, there's nothing which can prevent It's great future Men may come and men may go, but the real men of faith and fact. who hold tight to their property are the men who will win with the real Birmingham which Is anchored here
 Whats the use in being pestered by pirates when you know there is protec- ton. They can't take a thing away. Whatever happens legislatively or polit- ically it is share and share alike here at home. We've all done well; and we shall continue to do so if we be honest. Those who are not will get their just deserts
 So whatever be done let us all say well done. At least, so thinks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20

nations. The palace of peace is to be constructed and when the third con ference meets in it the nations of the earth, from the largest to the smallest, may begin to see that arbitration is better than force in at least nine diff ferences out of every ten. Wars must now and then occur simply because humanity is imperfect and selfish. War is, however, becoming every year more expensive, and in this fact lies the best hopes of peace. The waste and expense of war may yet mean peace and finally a limitation of arma- ments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

Eufaula Times: Birmingham is having the biggest of times Its fair has called people from all over the south.
 Columbiana Peoples Advocate: The Alabama State fair in Birmingham closed Wednesday, and it was success in every way
 Clio Free Press: Birmingham feels most as good over having a municipal scandal as if she had won the pennant again.
 Nashville Tennessean: The Alabama State fair at Birmingham has broken alY records of attendance and interest. This is a great fair year.
 Talladega Mountain Home: Birming- ham has pleased the state with her fair this year better than ever before. The Magic City Is improving in all lines.
 Marion Standard: Things are again se- rene among the Birmingham municipal officers. The committees appointed to try Aldermen O'Neil and Burnett for graft and malfeasance in office have vindcated these officials.
 Montgomery Times: Birmingham has the foreign spinners with her and, of course, extended the glad hand. After sizing up the slag pile our foreign friends should come down and take in real Alabama city.
 Huntsville Journal: Prohibition is stir ring Alabama and especially Birmingham to the depths But the question is Can Alabama, or Birmingham, or Montgom- cry find a prohibition that prohibits? There's the rub.
 Anniston Star: One Birmingham alder man has been vindicated by the investi- gating committee. Perhaps, after all, the tempest in the Magic City's municipal cir cles has been of the teapot variety-much noise. but little substance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
A WORD oN LIVING.

A WORD UN LIVING. What is life? you ask. A heeting while to bask In Gods sunshine, before We set out for the shore, Whence none returns to say What sort of welcome may Ava the soul at last, When sorrows doom is past. Therefore, 1t does no good To languish, when we should Learn how to realize The present, for time flies And all too soon we go From what at least we know To what Is all guess, A chance-no more, no less. And those who scorn this life, It's heartache and its strife. Should stop and ponder this: Suppose that we should miss The after -world-what theh? An, thrlce-deluded men, Hark ye, live now or never, Lest night descend foreverl