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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15
Liquidation in Wall Street

The well-watered mergers of the Hills
and Harrimans have worked their logi-
cal result. They have undermined pub
| lie confidence iii railroad securities to
! that extent that when high money COM
| pels the throwing of blocks of stocks
on the market no one wants them eX
cept at greatly reduced prices. The
general public has ceased to buy rail
road securities at any price, and the
big and little men in Wall street are
Harrimanism and Hillism destroyed
confidence among investors, but it has
also induced hostile legislation in many
| states, and will perhaps bring about
adverse legislation in all the states.
Led by Hartman the new situation
is driving the railroad magnates to
| President Roosevelt. They do not know
where else to find protection from the
popular storm, and so they are all hur-
rying to the White House. No matter
what they may have said or thought
him to ward off hostile legislation and
hostile public sentiment.
In twenty-eight states bills have been
passed or are pending that the rail
roads regard as crippling, and the only
remedy they see against state action
is found in federal supervision. This
is the most astonishing feature of the
situation, for one magnate after another
is declaring in favor of federal super
vision. There should says B. f.
Yoakum of the Rock Island and Frisco
lines, "be Capitalization of power in
the hands of the federal government
for the control of the railroads. | am
not prepared to state whether favor
a further strengthening of the present
laws, but the federal government should
be in position to protect the roads
from the action of states which enact
legislation unfavorable to the roads,
such as laws for reduction of passenger
and freight rates. BY such legislation
it is possible for one state to upset
interstate rates by compelling the re-
adjustment of through rates"
Mr.. Yoakum broadly states the new
position of the railroad magnates, and
they are hurrying to the White House
to assure the President that they stand
with him in his desire to inaugurate
federal supervision of the railroads.
But, says Mr.. Bryan, in this emer-
gency. must the government refuse to
investigate rotten management for fear
the mismanaged railroad no longer
will be able to fool the public into buy
ing inflated securities?" Here is the
very nub of the issue. Federal super
vision would be easily gained provided
water could be eliminated, and it will
be found that water, past, present or
future, will strenuously object to elm
| ination.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15
THE OLD SOUTH.
Quaint Customs Still in Vogue in Con-
sentative Charleston.

From the Rosary Magazine.
The south is very conservative and
Charleston most of all. In many re-
spects Southerners are like the English.
Family portraits are a cherished part of
their possessions. Mary is pronounced
A.airy. A dress waist is called body,
and the man that waits on the table the
butler. His other duties may include
milking and cooking; still, he is the but
Ter. BY the old school married woman
is spoken of and to as mistress. Many
members of the aristocracy 90 live in the
country on large estates, to which they
assign names; they employ governesses
and tutors, ride horseback, have house
parties, and go long distances to attend
balls. Hedges are in general favor.
Around the old churches are burial
grounds or churchyards; but, as rule,
burial in them is no longer permitted.
Ancestry Is of much consequence in
Charleston. 1t is the sole basis OF social
distinction. After having been there one
understands perfectly how literature was
preserved by tradition. No college OF
herAldry is necessary; the memory is an
infallible repository. The point or a
story is sometimes lost sight OF In gen.
ealogical digressions. In loyalty to state
and in rigid social distinctions Virginia
and South Carolina claims precedence.
Large families have not gone out OF
fashion in the south. Usually the num-
her of children in family Is from six
to ten.
Family ties are rendered complex by
the not unusual intermarriage of cousins
and thus the members of the aristocracy
are more or less closely related to one
another.
The breakfast hour is from to 9, an
earlier hour being hardly possible, even If
desired owing to the fact that negro
servants go home at night. They prefer
to CO. even when they live several miles
away. Until a late hour in the night
the,- indulge in social and religious DEM
onstrations and do not arrive very early
in the morning. Dinner is whenever it
is ready, which is any time from to T.
Dinner is hardly over before tea is an
nounced at 7:3O or 8. This division of
time makes the lays all morning, the
period between dinner and tea being by
some included in TIE word evening.
Calls are made from u to and from
5 to 7, but in hot weather only from to
S in the evening.
Labor is very cheap. but it takes sew
eral negroes to accomplish as much as
five to seven dollars a week for general
homework In small towns IS month
is paid for domestic service; in Charles
ton, seven or eight. A very competent
Coo. and laundress commands ten. Fiji
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15
NINE. NELLIE MELBA.

From the New York Herald.
Nine. Nellie Melba signed a contract
recently with a talking machine company
that calls for the largest remuneration
singer ever received for single weeks
effort.
The soprano is to receive more than $780,
600 for singing in the week ending April
2. This sum will be paid in royalties,
but the company has guaranteed the sum,
equal to the annual salary of the Presi-
dent of the United States, and the total
amount probably will be far in excess Of
that figure.
To fulfill the contract the diva can
ceed a passage to England which she
had engaged for March 20.
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From the New York Mail.

FROM the new 4Ork MAIL.
~ most people had doubtless OBJ
VIII served, the late John Alexander
Dowies Elijahhood was wrecked
so to speak, on the rock on which it
was founded. The same thing that had
MADE Dowle'sf suovvssf caused his failure
He bluffed prodigiously, and won. He
kept on bluffing prodigiously. and lost.
His decorated and gilded prophetic pre-
tense won him Zion City. He put on few
more decorations and a little more gilt
and opened the faucet of prophecy a lit
tie wider-and total wreck followed. Now.
doubtless the question arose In Dowies
mind as it did in the minds of many
others, how he could have known where
to draw the line? How can a prophet
tell Just how much prophecy the public
will stand? Where is the deadline of
charlatantry? How was Dowie to know
that he should mot have come to the
Madison Square garden?
Dowies closest exemplar. Joseph Smith.
founder of Mormonism, Stopped over
just as Dowie did. He ran for President
of the United States and made quite
theatrical canvass. This was worse than
hiring Madison Square garden. 1t nearly
ended Smith as a prophet: and he, too,
like Dowie, answered criticism by opening
the floodgates of prophecy. He had his
famous polgyamy revelation. The first ef-
feet of this astounding insolence of charla-
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SUCCESSFUL AUTHORS.
e Philadelphia Bulletin.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Marie Corelli has never had line re-
iected. Her first book, "A Romance OF
Two Worlds" was great success, and
all her other books have been great sue
cesses.
H. G. Wells is stranger to the re-
lection Slip He began by writing Poe
like tales that found ready sale among
the magazines, and his first novel, THE
Time Machine" gave him instant repute.
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote
her first story at the age of fifteen. 1t
was accepted and she received for 1t
check for SIT.
Upton Sinclair supported himself at
college by writing dime novels" For
seven years the young man ground out
tales of blood and terror debating some
times 5000 words a day. AT the age OF
eighteen he could write a dime novel
in a week that would find ready sale
at from SO to 500.
Mrs Humphry Wards first serious
work was Robert Eismere," book so
successful that a publisher offered her
So, 600 to write a novel for him.
Charles Dana Gibson's first published
drawing made his reputation, and before
he was twenty-one he was earning s4oO
q naonth-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15
IN THE TWILIGHT.
BY Eugene Field.

By Eugene Field.
The fire upon the hearth is low,
And there is stiffness everywhere,
And. like winged spirits, here and
there,
The freight shadows fiuttering CO.
And as the shadows round me creep,
A childish treble breaks the gloom,
And softly from a further room
Comes: Now l lay me down to Sleep"
And somehow, with that little prayer
And that sweet treble in my ears,
My thought goes back to distant years,
And fingers with a dear one there;
And as hear my child's Amen,
My mothers faith comes back to me
Crouched at her side l seem to be,
And mother holds my hands again.
Oh. for an hour in that dear place;
Oh, for the peace of that dear time;
Oh, for that childish trust sublime;
Oh. for a glimpse of mothers facet
Yet, as the shadows round me creep,
do not seem to be alone
Sweet magic of that treble tone
And Now lay me down to sleep
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15
Stock SPECTATORS.

1T is Interesting to study the men who
watch the ticker closely during these
slump days said an onlooker. 1.-THE
men with money on margins naturally
have q pleased look when the market
comes their way.
But, oh, what a melancholy appear
ance some of them have -yt.~-- -, - al
ket Is wrong. In years past took myers.
[ was always a bull when | should nave
been bear and vice versa. Like most
amateurs l usually bought instead or
selling short / think most of the Biz
mingham traders this week have been
buyers, and more than one of my friends
got wiped out. The best thing to do is to
buy dividend stocks outright and lock up
the certificates in a safe. One must have
a good bank account in order to buy
stocks for investment, but then without
ample means a man is very unwise to
take chances. This may sound like plati-
tude and persons In hurry to get rich
quick will not listen to it. But the
hazard cannot be too strongly impressed,
even on men who have been there be-
FORE +"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15
Mrs. Saqe's Great Gift

Mrs. Sage has given $40, 1000 900 of
the fortune left by her husband to a
society that is to be formed to promote
social and living conditions in the
United States. The society is to be
known as the Sage Foundation. and a.
bill Incorporating it has already been
presented in the New York legislature.
The trustees named in the bill are Rob-
ert w. DeForest, Cleveland H. Dodge,
Daniel G. Gilman, John M. Glenn, Miss
Helen Gould, Mrs. William r. Rice,
and Miss L. L. Schuyler, all of whom
have had wide experience in philan-
thropic work.
Mrs. Sage thus explains how she
hopes to better social and living condi-
lions in this country through the Sage
Foundation:
"The means to that end will include
research, publication, education, the
establishment and maintenance OF
charitable and beneficial activities,
agencies and institutions, and the aid
of any such activities, agencies and
institutions already established.
at will be within the scope of such
Foundation to invastigate and stndv
the causes of adverse social conditions,
including ignorance, poverty and vice,
to suggest how these conditions can be
in operation any appropriate means to
that end; to establish any new agency
necessary to carry out any Of its con-
illusions and equally to contribute to
the resources of any existing agencies
which are doing efficient and satisfac-
tory work, Just as the present General
Education Fund, organized to promote
higher education, is aiding existing col
leges and universities.
while its scope is broad, 1t should
preferably not undertake to do within
that scope what is now being done or
is likely to be effectively done by other
individuals or by other agencies with
less resources.
at will be Its aim to take up the
larger and more difficult problems and
30 80, %hav Par In
such a manner as to secure co-opera-
ton and aid In their solution. In some
instances it may wisely initiate move
ments with the expectation Of having
them maintain themselves unaided
after once being started. In other in
stances it may start movements with
the expectation of carrying them on
itself Income only will be used for its
charitable purpose, because the Foun-
dalton is to be permanent and its
action continuous. 1t may, however,
make investments for social better
ment, which themselves produce in
come.
while having its headquarters in
New York city, where Mr.. Sage and
have lived, and where social problems
are most pressing and complicated
partly by reason of the extent and
partly because it is the port of entry
for about a million immigrants year,
the Foundation will be national in its
scope and In its activities"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15
JAY COOKS SIMPLICITY.

From DIR. Oberholtzers Jay Cooke After
the Civil War" In the March Century.
Although money came to him in large
amounts, 1t can be truthfully said of Jay
Cooke that he did not care for riches
on his own account. His tastes were of
the simplest. In travel dress, horses.
yachts, fine foods or social display he
had no personal interest. His own de-
light was to betake himself to some of
natures open spaces, where he might
cast aside convention, don pair of cow
hide boots. an old suit of clothes, and
shoot or fish from dawn until suncet.
What was snowy in his life was in an
swer to no selfish need Of his own, but
natural impulse, which he INDUCED
as his prosperity increased, to dispense
good simple honest, human cheer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15
HE KNEW HIS WIFE,

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Bishop Talbot, for years the Cowboy
Bishop" of Wyoming and Idaho. but now
bishop of Central Pennsylvania, often
found himself faced by unusual problems
In his life in the pioneer west. Here is
one of the host of amusing ones described
by him in his recently published book of
"reminiscences
At the close of one of his meetings
man who was known as the Colonel
said to him quietly:
Il should like to ask you a few ques-
lions If you do not object"
II shall be only too glad to answer
them If I can. Colonel. Please proceed"
well, Bishop. do you think my wife is
a good woman?"
"One of the best I have ever known"
DO you think she Is a Christian?"
IF she is not L should doubt whether
any of us could be so considered"
well, now, do you think she will make
it?"
How is that. Colonelr'
DO you think my wife will get in?"
still determined not to appear to divine
his meaning, the bishop said: Excuse
me, Colonel, but please explain
II simply mean this, Bishop: Do you
think that st. Peter will let the old lady
pass through the pearly gate?"
Il have not doubt of 1t, Colonel"
Then you think you can guarantee
that she will get imp
SO far as my opinion is worth any
thing, I cannot for moment question
it,
well, then. If that is so, I do not think
shall be confirmed. In fact, do not see
that | need to be. You see. Bishop, 1t is
just this way: If the old lady gets in and
they lock the door against the old man
she will simply raise Cain until she gets
ut ls&taiP IN AID she's les sl4Fs t t2 succeed co
convince him of the futilty of such an ar
gument. His faith in his wife's influence
was too strong to be shaken by anything
the clergyman could allege.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15
SLEEP.


While wonderful blessing is slumber to
The journey of life when too rough,
We should like to remark. en- passent,
If you please,
That most of US don't get enough
When we ought to be sleeping the sleep
of the just,
We're eating and drinking in town
Or playing at poker and games of dlstrust
That dwindle our finances down.
Now, IL you would be healthy and
wealthy and wise
OF course you remember the phrase
Have regular hours for closing your eyes
And quit your hilarious ways.
An Illinois man who claimed that the
weather made him drink had a good ex-
cuse. because the weather was bad
How long before whole grandstands
full of people will be having BRAIN
storms?" asks the Washington Herald.
And how long before the umpire will 10
storm center?
IN BRIEF
A word
To you
Don't e'er
Be blue,
For when
You are
JOY stays
Affair.
And so
Success
Does. too,
We guess.
PAUL COOK.
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Eastern Attraction.

MADAME Sembrich assisted by Eli
son Van Hoose, the distinguished tenor
will be the great attraction Easter week,
said a member OF the Southern club,
land her company will draw even better
than Nordica's. That is saying good
deal. | know, hut Birmingham never
fails to turn out to hear famous singers,
and Nordica hat nearly $1,000 house,
in spite of the act that she came on
Ash Wednesday. The best time or the
year for musical performance is just
after Easter
Van Hose is close kinsman of our
Mr.. ]. A. Van Hose, and is socially, as
well as unsteady popular in Birming-
ham,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15

as outlined in the dispatches received
by him, will not be interfered with by
the federal government either under
the existing or the new law to become
operative next July. He discussed at
length the whole matter with the At
torney General, and he is convinced
that the opinion rendered by Mr.. Bona
parte will not interfere with the intro
duction of immigrants whose passage
money had been prepaid, always pro-
yided they meet the other require
ments of the law.
This supports the assurances given
to Governor Hayward and Commits
sioner Watson, and it should encour-
age all who desire to promote immi-
grafton to go forward hopefully. The
Age Herald is confident it is better at
present that Alabama should work UNI
der and through South Carolina, partly
because Charleston is to have an I'M
migrant station, and partly because
Governor Hayward and Commissioner
Watson are successful commissioners
who know just what should be done TO
keep within the new immigration law.
A year of work under the leadership
of South Carolina would certainly
prove beneficial, and there Is certainly
a minimum of risk in plan of that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15
WHY sPooNER RESIGNED.

From the Austin Statesman.
1t is seriously doubted II senator
Spooner. who resigned his United States
senatorship the other day, was entirely
candid In giving his reasons for the
course he pursued He did not say IN MS
letter to the governor of Wisconsin,
which accompanied his resignation, that
the La Toilette wing Of the republican
party in Wisconsin Is In the saddle and
won't even let Spooner ride bareback.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15

We believe no county is SO backward
and so wanting in energy and proper
pride as to do that. Let each school
district that wants better school
house begin at once to take steps to
secure 5000 from the state, for the
fund is now available, and State Super
intendent Gunnells is inviting PROPOSE
tions from the districts at the rate of
five TO a county.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15
ONE SECRET SHE KEPT.

From Tit Bits, London.
1t was the same old story of man who
refused to tell his wife the outcome of a
business transaction, in which, naturally,
she took a deep interest.
NO" he sneered, II won't tell you. II
l did you'd repeat it. You women can
never keep secret.
John" said the woman, quietly. have
/ ever told the secret about the soli-
taire engagement ring you gave me eigh-
teen years ago being pastel"
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From the New York Press
Just because a man is honest he isn't
always a fool.
When a girl is awful pretty it's sign
she isn't an heiress.
A good way never to be a millionaire
is to acquire the habit of having law
suits.
The more a girl likes you to kiss her
the more her mother believes she doesn't.
People may decry riches, but they are
mighty respectful TO those who have
them.
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Peach Orchards.

THE peach orchards are late in bloom
ing" said John r. Towers. This is
good for the prospective crop, of course.
but while l look for large yield
fear that the fruit will be defective. ow-
ing to the budding in January and the
freezing spell that followed.
Many persons said that the orchards
were rot hurt. but the wish was father
to the thought The peaches next sum-
mer are apt to be of inferior quality"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15

Denver manages to keep her mar
riages and divorces about equal. The
record for the first nine days of March
was fortyfour couples wed and forty
four parted.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15

teen dollars is a big price. dollar and
half or two dollars for making a dress.
even though 1t Is much trimmed is a not
uncommon charge by dressmakers in
small towns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15

George w. Perkins handed back the
to the insurance company, and
the public handed back to him his
former high reputation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15

The Cortelyou presidential nomina-
ton has been postponed to 1912 on &C
count of the smell that comes from the
slush fund of 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15

A Chicago woman says that 30 per
cent of the women in that town would
sell their husbands for $4,000. NO
doubt they would, but who is going to
offer such price?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15

Thus far Governor Higgins has not
been able to drive Boss Brayton out
of the sheriff's Office in the capitol of
Rhode Island.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15

st. Patricll's day falls on Sunday,
and this in some cities necessitates
three st. Patrick days, one on either
side and one in the middle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-15

George w. Perkins reimbursed the
New York Life, and the public begins
to wonder who reimbursed Perkins.
Cortelyou should have done it.