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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
Waterways Movement

Every river and harbor convention that meets is accepting the programme of the national rivers and harbors con gross, namely, national appropriation ment of rivers and harbors, without specifying any particular work. The Tennessee River Improvement associa- tion, when it met last Wednesday at Knoxville, adopted this programme. The convention that is to meet in this city next Tuesday will make no mis- take if it favors that programme United action is necessary in order to lift Congress out of its present rut.
 No doubt at next Tuesdays conven. tion the proposed canal between the Warrior and the Tennessee will be discussed, but no positive step should be taken until the facts are ascer- tained. True, but five miles lie be- tween Bright Star creek and the head waters of Locust fork. Bright Star creek is a tributary to the Tennessee river, and Locust fork may be said to be the head of the Warrior. Locust and Mulberry forks meet to make the Warrior about abreast of Birmingham. It would seem to be feasible to build a lock canal across this strip of five miles in the upper end of Blount coun- H. not far from the Marshall county he. But the task is not free from Kfficulty. It may even be impossible. All depends upon supply of water to fill the locks that would be needed in surmounting this five-mile section of Sand mountain. Some say the water cannot be procured; others say that fin latitude in which AZ inches of water falls a year water could be i'm pounded and conveyed to the proposed locks. An official survey is needed to hetermine this question.
 { The cost of a survey is. however, a ainor matter, and the convention of next Tuesday will not be prepared to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
FROM CONSTANT READER

From Harper's Weekly.
 Henry White, our Secretary of Embassy at Paris, tells of a brilliant reporter on a French journal, who holds a strong ob- jection to the note book, dear to most of his associates.
 The Parisian newspaper man wears large white cuffs, and on these he is said to jot down such events as appeal to him. with suggestions for his subsequent ar ticles. At first, the story runs, his laun- dress was much puzzled by these heiro- glyphics. but as time went on she be- came able to read them, and apparently derived much benefit and pleasure there from.
 One day the journalist received with his laundered garments slip of paper on which was written:
 Your last washing was very interest ing, but we should be glad to have you give us more political news"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
THE vULTURE AND HIS SHADOW

By Harry Stillwell Edwards. All day long we roam. we roam. my shadow fleet and I, One searches all the land and sea, and one the trackless sky. But when the call of death ascends, my airy flight to greet, As friends around a festal board, We meet we meet! we meet, An, none can read the signs we read, no eye can fathom the gales: No tongue may whisper our secret deeo' for dead men tell no tales; The spot on the plains is miles away, put our wings are broad and fleet; The Wave-tossed speck in the eye or the day is far, but we meet, we meet The voice of the battle is haste! Q hastei and down the wind we speed The voice of the wreck moans up rom the deep. and we search the rank sea weed;
 The maiden waits all the livelong day for the sound of her lovers rect She wonders to see speeding py' sns
 would shudder to seetus meet
 L'ENVOI. Sweening in circles my shadow and l. Leaving no mark on land or sky, The double circles are all complete At the bedside of death; we meet! W
 meet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

nent. The elasticity feature would therefore be confined to 1219 per cent of the issue of a bank. This would scarcely promote elasticity in time of scarcity like the present.
 The bill preferred by the currency committee in the last House will there fore need amendment, and the present demand for currency legislation may lead to plan more acceptable because more elastic than anything the cur reneg committee had in hand in the Fifty-ninth Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
About Persons.

Dr. Cunningham Wilson, who has been at Johns Hopkins infirmary in Balc- more, returned home last night, com pletely restored to health.
 Lieutenant Governor Henry B. Gray re- turned to Montgomery yesterday after noon. He took advantage of a days adjournment of the senate to attend to some personal business in Birmingham.
 Jere King, Jefferson county representa- tive, was unable to return to Montgomery yesterday afternoon, but will leave for that city this morning.
 R. l.. Simpson, general freight agent Of the Southern. was called to Montgomery yesterday afternoon to attend today's ses- sion of the railroad commission. The commission is considering the petition of the Farmers union for a cheaper rate on compressed cotton.
 l.. A. Bonnie, humane officer in Bir- mingham, returned last night from a business trip to New Orleans. He re- ports pleasant and profitable trip.
 Harry C. Gunnels of Montgomery. state superintendent of education, spent yes- terday in the city, registering at the Hotel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
SOME WET AND DRY PLACES

entire state and every county in state show majority against license; state pro- hibiton expected shortly.
 Virginia-Much dry territory.
 West Virginia-Thirty dry counties out of 55; governor publicly opposes liouor traffic.
 Wisconsin-Local option, with $50 dry communities
 Arizona-License.
 District of Columbia-Ra of saloon to population reduced more than half during the last 15 years.
 New Mexico-License.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
May Build Steel Plant.

Now that the Republic company and the Tennessee company are owned by different interests, I think it highly prob able that the former company will build steel plant at Thomas," said a man prominent in the metal trade.
 q am not in communication with any pany but l can see that such an enter prise as l refer to would be altogether logical. It was long the dream of Alex Thompson, while he was president of the Republic company, to build steel works in this district. but after the Gates s-Sehley Oglesbay party acquired con trol of both the Republic and the Ten nessee the owners directed all their at tention in the matter of steel production to an extension of the Ensey plant, which they found already in operation.
 '"The Republic and the Tennessee were never merged, but the control of each being in the same hands their operations here, for all practical purposes were managed by the same officials. The United States Steel corporation having bought the Tennessee company, the joint working arrangement will be speedily terminated. The recent Tennessee United States Steel deal was a great thing for the Birmingham district; and if it results in the Republic-a prosperous independ- ent company-putting up steel plant here. the benefit to this community will be, of course, all the greater.
 MT. Thompson used to talk about a ss, ,0OO,Ooo steel mill at Thomas. Every nA larger and larger lines and if the Re- public does decide to make steel in this district 1t would find it advisable to start with an appropriation for the purpose of not less than s5,00O,O00 or s6,000,O O0O v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
PROFESSIONAL STOlCISM.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The dentiest on the third floor was trea ting a tooth for the dentist on the fifth floor.
 T hope I'm not hurting you he said, as the drill slipped into the nerve cavity.
 There was no response
 "i say I hope I don't hurt you any" The dentist In the chair opened his eyes.
 q beg your pardon for not hearing you, doc," he said. T must have fallen asleep"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press. be rich.
 Marrying for money isn't nearly so profitable as inheriting it.
 A girl wants to get married so she can begin to try to get other girls mar ried
 When a woman has a long foot she is sure it wouldn't be if it wasn't so slender.
 There's hardly anything more interest," ing than how deftly girl with veil on gets it off the right spot when you kiss her after she won't let you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

act in relation to canal between the Warrior and Tennessee until it knows whether water for use in locks can be procured between Bright Star creek and the head of Locust fork.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
AS IT WILL BE SOON,
From Judge.

From Judge.
 St. Peter-You were an American rafl- road president, weren't you?
 New Arrival-Yes, sifi
 St. Peter-You will step over there and get an extra fine halo and then take your place in the first row of the martyrs department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Mobile Herald: A von Moltke sobbing in court is spectacle that shocks ones sense of the fitness of things. when one thinks of the famous bearer of that great name, the stern and taciturn ruler of bat ties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Sees No Signs of Hard Times.


 This talk of hard times is a nuke started by long-tongued busybodies, in my opinion" said Sam Halstead a well known Atlanta travelling man. yesterday afternoon. "I have been on the road for l5 or 20 years. and have been out prae- tcally every day during the last three months. During the last month l have covered nearly every part of Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama close to Birmingham. and have found every one busy with good crops. The country merchants are buying freely and as d rule I have found they are not afraid that hard times are coming upon us.
 This talk of prohibition ruining a town with Birminghams resources appears to me to be of the same brand as the hard times variety. Personally, I would have voted against prohibition if l had lived in this town, but it's all bosh to say that it will give Birmingham empty stacks. l have travelled all over the United States and have never seen a town yet that went dead because of prohibition. It is true, I have been in several slow towns which had prohibition, but they were just as slow as a rule with whisky in them l dislike to blow Atlanta and Georgia so close to home, but the people over there have smiling faces, the sa- , loon leases are being snapped up with profit to the saloon owner and no one doubts but that Atlanta will continue on her glorious path to greatness. The places now being run as saloons will open up as dry goods stores. drug stores, soda founts and cigar stands, etc.
 Nothing can stop Birmingham. The United States Steel corporation will real ize the cheapness with which it can turn out the finished material here and will keep things humming. They can get all the men they want if they pay the right wages, and the fact that these men will not drink will prove of incalculable ben- eft to the company. There are too many men wanting jobs for any plant around here to remain idle on account of in- sufficient labor
 T cant see hard times, and l have talked to over 100 country merchants late ly who see things just as l do"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

there is Chancellor Day. Dr. Long. Sen. ator Foraker, Senator Tillman, Governor Vardaman and Carrie Nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
ADRIFT WITH THETIMES

WHEN THE ROAD TURNS DOWN. Give me a friend or two, a kindly roof To shield me from the cold And of Gods love I'll ask no other proof When l am growing old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Arthur Young's cartoon in Life this week, entitled "The Creepers," is worth study. There are too many creepers in this world, and a lot of them belong to the church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

"When are we happiest?" queries a contemporary. Sometimes when We are full of highballs, sometimes when we are paid off, but never when we are broke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

In this age of aerial utilities bal loon outing costs in Paris $10. This is getting the thing down to a busi- ness basis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Just as soon as Senator-elect Owen of Oklahoma takes his seat he will pre- sent a currency reform bill. He pro- poses to be an up-to-date Senator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

The Japanese wrestling match at the White House must have given the President sense of the versatility and science of the yellow races.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Senator Platt's declaration for Taft is regarded as fatal and conclusive. This country will never indorse what Tom Platt does
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Seats on the New York stock ex- change are getting in the swim. They have been marked down 40 per cent. This is better than meats have done thus far.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Rhode Islands democratic governor is not old enough to harbor presi- dental bee in his bonnet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Annston Star: That westerner who de- clares he has been legally dead for 10 years may be able to tell us something about the personality of old Nick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Mayor Busse of Chicago is going to hunt bears in the canebrakes. He seems to think the President did not extinguish the species.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

The world consumes 1,500,000 bar rels every year of one brand of beer. Evidently there are a few wet spots left.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

King Menelik of Abyssinia has also jumped on the constitutional band. wagon, and he proposes to give his people a constitution that will stick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Mayor Busse of Chicago is coming south to hunt bears. Imitation, MT. Roosevelt, is the sincerest form of hattery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

No matter who furnished the cash to curb and check the panic, J. P. Nor gan got all the glory of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Vice President Fairbanks is studying Esperanto, and he hopes to poll the Norwegian, Yiddish and Ute vote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

The discovery of man who was making counterfeit money to build an airship shows how far the craze to fly has gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

The automobile department of the patent office is it's busiest section.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

The President had no money in the Knickerbocker Trust, but Grover Cleveland kept his chief account in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

The buying of snow shovels is strict ly in order outside of Dixie Land, and a few are needed down in Dixie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Montgomery Advertiser: Raymond Hitch- cock, the lately missing actor, has given just cause of complaint to Atlanta. On the day that he was reported to be in that city he turned up in New York. Some inl- poster played it low down on Atlanta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

A Thaw trial without Evelyn will be worse than Hamlet" without the Prince of Denmark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Taft is expected to close his ears if not eyes when he is passing through Darkest Russia, and this will give him a touch of a real vacation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

It is surprising how soon the loaves of baker hear of rise in wheat, and how slowly they hear of a fall in its price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

The Taft boom is not vigorous enough to stand the support of T. C. Platt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

The Japanese wrestler, Hitachlyama, had the glory of his native land at heart when he did bout in the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Everybody at present Is trying to get off Wall street and on Easy street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Although Dr. Parkhurst declares that buster is useless, he clings to if unchangeably.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Gadsden Journal: New York banks are getting plenty of money into their vaults and if they will Just pass the coin along everything will be lovely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Out west among the sons of Martha scrip is called "Roosevelts."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
ALABAMA PRESS

Mobile Item: When the Helen Maloney question Is settled, we will get down to business and build that new Louisville and Nashville depot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
Abercrombie Praises Cunningham.

Prof. J. B. Cunningham was one of natures noblemen, and in his death the cause of education sustains an irrepara- ble loss" said Prof. J. w. Abercrombie, president of the University of Alabama. who attended the funeral. Tn every rela- ton of life, whether as husband, father, educator friend, or citizen, he measured up to the full stature of ideal manhood.
 During my 20 years acquaintance and association with him l never knew him to entertain a low thought to speak an unkind word to perform an ignoble act, or to be governed in any way by an unworthy motive.
 He was at all times the Christian gentleman, and his death has brought sincere sorrow to the hearts of thou sands"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
TERSE REATARKs

TERSE REMARKS. Get next to yourself. Go after the pelf
 Don't climb on the shelf Get next to yourself. Get next to yourself See what you can do Then carry it through. Get next to yourself. Get next to yourself And study your job. Don't act like a slob- Get next to yourself Get next to yourself, Go after the pef,
 Don't climb on the shelf Get next to yourself.
 MERELY A SUGGESTION. It is announced that Paris is planning to show Secretary Taft high old time Remember, Paris, Secretary Taft is a married man.
 A POINT OVERLOOKED. Said a sad prohi.
 In accents blue,
 Good Lord, we're cutting
 Out free lunch, tool! A Boston woman boasts of having cooked 39iOO0 pies, 2,OOO,OO0 doughnuts and 7Ss, 400 buildings. If it hadn't been for her no doubt a lot of people would be living yet.
 "Over sixty million in gold engaged" announces a contemporary. We should like to be engaged to that amount.
 
 PUZZLED.
 Said he, What is
 'Au gratn'?
 I'm slightly off
 On Latin" Gentlemen burglars always kiss the baby in the house they rob. Pittsburg distinguishes between vaude- vile and refined" vaudeville As a rule. Pittsburg does not make distinctions. It is stated that a number of Ameri- can authors will remain in Europe this winter Now is a good time for starting a movement to have them declared unde- sirable citizens so they can be kept out of the country for good.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

A VERSATILE STAFF. Where's the sporting editor?" Oh, he's doing pr. Wakely's sermon today. The religious editor is on jag"
 MARKING BACK. Oh, we'll do I remember
 When l was a little chap. The hand that rocked the cradle Later on applied the strap
 HARDLY. "A thought has struck me-" "Incrediblei' Having bull fights for charity in Mex ico is not charitable to the bulls"
 REPLIES. Being sore head won't get you any, thing.
 A wink is equal to a drink in dry town
 Automobiles are all right as far as they go.
 It is a poor fortune teller who cant predict good luck. Man wants but little here below but woman wants the earth, including man. "Who is ridiculous?" asks the Louis Vile Herald. Well, to name only a few,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
BREACH OF PROMISE.

BREACH OF PROMISE Writing love letters to Charming Eyes, Filling them full of the sweetest lies, Kisses and blisses and half-spoken sghs--
 Alas for love! Writing love letters to Charming Eyes, Saying, Dear maiden, l prithee, get
 wise To an affection that others would prize"-
 Alas for lovel All of them laid in a neat little row. A, "B' and "C" are exhibits. you
 know, charming-Eyes sues me and I'm deep in
 woe
 Alas for love!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

Both MT. Taft and his boom are at sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
A suGGEsTEp. .THoUGHT.

Vanity, vanity, all is vanity" re- marked King Solomon. He was prob ably looking over his bunch of wives at the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15
Prom Bar and Rnffat

From Bar and Buffet
 AN ITH four states "dry" by stat !" ute, and local option prevail
 w ing in many others, it is said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-15

MERELY A SUGGESTION. It is announced that Paris is planning to show Secretary Taft high old time. Remember, Paris, Secretary Taft is married man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-06
Series Of Accidents,

While crossing Pennsylvania avenue neal
Az street about o'clock this morning, ]. T
Connell, fifty-eight years old, of 610 New
Jersey avenue northwest, was knocked
down by car of the Capital Traction Com
pany and was painfully bruised about the
face and head. He was able to continue
on his way to his home nearby.
Miss NJ E. Phelps, twenty-five years old
of 1924 Both street northwest. suffered a
severe sprain in her back this morning. by
slipping on the icy sidewalk at 7th and
F streets northwest. She was sent to the
Emergency Hospital, where medical aid
was given her.
While P. ]. Morrison, 304 Maryland ave-
nue. southwest, was driving along AZ street
near it's intersection with Maryland avenue
last night. the wheel of his carriage sank
into the slot of the car tracks and was
smashed. The damage is estimated lat
about sos.
Charles Corson, twenty-seven years old,
of 1901 18th street northwest, called at the
Emergency Hospital this morning and asked
surgical aid for two severe cuts on his head
and face. He said that he fell at 18th
street and New York avenue northwest
last night thus receiving the injuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-06
Released on Personal Recognizance

When Frank Walter and John FraWley,
each about twenty-five years of age, were
presented before Judge Mullowny In the
Police Court today upon charges of petit
larceny they entered pleas of guilty. 1t
was alleged by the prosecution that early
yesterday morning as Policeman Ricketts,
Of the eighth precinct was passing the drug
store of Paul Pearson at 18th street and
Columbia road he observed the defendants
rifing the cash register behind the coun-
ter He at once effected an entrance and
placed the men under arrest.
Walter was formerly a clerk in the
employ of Mr.. Pearson and when the for
mer employer contemplated the position of
the young man and his friend and their
statement that both were under the influ-
ence of liquor at the time they broke open
the cash register, he relented. Upon mo-
ton of Assistant District Attorney Given
Judge Mullowny caused their personal
recognizances taken to appear for sentence
at any time that the court may desire.
The course taken is a virtual parole, so
the assistant United States attorney stated,
and was taken SO as to give the young
men another chance to show that they In
tend to live honest and upright lives. The
amount of money alleged to have been
taken was IS.