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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
HISTORY IN HOTEL REGISTER.
Great Ones of Its Day Were Guests at
 the Fifth Avenue.

F. NJ. White in Harper's Weekly
 at one time the most famous and fashion able in the metropolis and bearing on it's register of guests the names of most of the distinguished men and women, native and foreign, who ever visited the city or lived in it, the Fifth Avenue hotel-now doomed to demolition-will hold a place of its own in the annals of the times as birthplace of history A trustworthy statistician has calculated that no other single hotel in the world has ever entertained so many eminent persons as have been received at the Fifth Avenue, and asserts that, begin ming with the Prince of Wales (now King Edward) in 1860, a year after the hotel was opened. never-ending procession of the great men of this and other coun- tries has marched through its corridors" Every President of the United States since the hotel opened, beginning with Lincoln and including Johnson. Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland. liar rison and Mckinley, but excepting Roose- welt. has been guest of the Fifth Ave nue during his term of office. On the day of the obsequies of General Grant, in August, 1885, not only were the family and relatives of the great soldier dom iciled in the hotel whence they took their places in the funeral procession, but President Cleveland and Vice Presi- dent Hendricks with the members of the
 
 with the former members of their cab inets; the Senate and House of Represen- tatives; the supreme court of the United States; the diplomatic corps; the gover- nors of the various states, each with his staff; and scores of other celebrated men were sheltered under it's roof. The Lon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
Southern Iron Production

Iron trade journals continue to call attention to the fact that the south Is not keeping up with the north in the matter of increase in iron production. The increase in Alabama has been steady, but the percentage of gain as compared with the north has been small Every year marks a new rec ord in this district, although the in crease is not large, while the north has trebled it's production in the last seven. teen years.
 Although Alabama has the coal and iron ore in the ground in practically unlimited supply, the work of develop ing raw material production has been retarded by various causes, among them being labor scarcity and car shortage. There was time when capi- tai was inadequate to push develop ment rapidly, but within recent years money has not been wanting.
 Large expasion work Is now in prog ress and production will show very considerable increase within the next two years. Alabama's iron production was a little less than 100000 tons last year. It will go slightly above those figures this year, and 1908 should touch the 2,000, ,000-ton mark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
Learning and Education

The call of the wild is the call of nature; the nearer to nature the louder and more pressing the call, and the more likely to be answered. Man is both natural and supernatural; his passions and appetites to him are nat ural; his reason and his aspirations make him supernatural. Education and environment decide which of these two dispositions shall predominate.
 Wild animals live in a state of na- ture. Guided by instinct alone, they never rise above their origin nor bet ter their condition. Their own preser- vation and the propagation of their species are the sole objects of their szistAnAA- and here again nature has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
SNAkE-kILLlNG KITTEN.
.illiamsport Gazette.

From the Williamsport Gazette.
 George Fornwald. substitute mail car Tier, Bloomsburg, owns a cat which, strange to say. will not catch mouse, but spends it's time In the yards hunting for garter snakes.
 The cat so far this season has caught three snakes and brought them to the house, and after laying a snake down on the porch it goes back again in the yard to hunt for' more. Two of the shakes the cat has caught were captured in one day, while the other was caught day later. These three are the only ones Mir. Fornwald has seen, yet some Of the neighhors say they often see the cat with a snake in its mouth.
 Whether or not the animal would tackle anything larger than a garter snake Is hard to tell yet from the fight It puts up when it gets hold of one of these smaller species 1t is evident that 1t would proba- bly be able to get away with a larger one. The snake-killing cat is not very large and Is still nothing more than a kitten
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
GREAT FLOATING HOTELS

of the sea can find much enjoyment In ocean travel under such conditions. That there are many such, to whom speed is not everything, the fact that many of the new liners are not "racers' abundantly prives. But these vessels are quite as luxurious in the main, as the others Everything is done to suggest the hotel and moi the ship. It would be idle to deny that the public as whole ap- proves. Yet 1t Is a pity that the old savour of sea voyage should be lost and that the sense of a complete change should be no longer possoble. There were inconvenience in some of the old vessels, to be sure. But Is there any real gain to either mind or body in all this modern excess of luxury?
 The new ships are all that the skill of architect and engineer can make them. But ships they are not likely to sur pass in seagoing qualities such triumphs of earlier days as the Britannia and Ger manic or the later Etruria and Umbria, which after twenty-three years of con- stant service are still among the fastest vessels crossing the Atlantic and of
 
 most timid. Nor should 1t be forgotten that even now these luxurious liners have plenty of humber competitors, much liked by true lovers of the sea. There will duobtless always be a demand for the ship of moderate speed, comfortable but not splendid on which the rates are with in the compass of a slender purse. Per- haps 1t would be mistake in policy for a line so firmly established in publ1 confidence as the Cunard to bend all It's energies to building floating hotels" to the neglect of the type of vessel which in the past made good it's. boast of never having lost a passenger. It seems, at any rate, as If the limit of luxury if not of size had been reached. But this has been said before and proved false. The capacity of docks and harbors. rather than the capacity of builders may deter mine the end of the competition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
From the Providence Journal.

From the Providence Journal.
 9 deutoher Lloyd steamship kr0n-
 prizessin Cecile at New York on Tuesday adds another to the list of gor- geous ocean liners sailing from that port. Unlike some of the later floating hotels for such they are-the Kronprinzessin Ce- ellie Is built for speed as well as for luxury. She made her first trip in a little less than six days, averaging A.S1 knots an hour. She is expected to do better bye and bye, when she Is tuned up," but at present she is not so fast as the Cunarder AIucania, built in 1893. and there is no Likelihood that she will equal in this respect the Lusitania of the same line, soon to sail from Liverpool. The Lusitania and Mauretania, 1t will be re- called, are practically fast naval cruisers, fitted for passengers, and they have been built In acordance with admiralty require ments. Their lines are unusually beauti- full. and their great size makes them !m- pressive; but, like the German ship, they are hotels within, and a passenger who did not go on deck would hardly know that he was at sea-
 No doubt there Is something to De said for all the splendor which cer- tain class of passengers demands When it Is combined with enormous speed-the new Cunarders are expected to make tho passage from Queenstown to New York in five and one-half days-"going abroad loses half Its terrors to those to those who dread the sea. And even If there Is no fear of illness, or discomfort, there are many who always prefer the most ex- pensive way of travelling, who change their sky but not their mind, and whose idea of a pleasure trip is one contnu- ous modern New York hotel. To business men whose chief aim is to get across as speedily as possible, too, vessels like the Kronprinzessin Cecilie and the Lusitania make a particular appeals. But 1t Is hardly necessary to add that no true lover
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Why Produce Is High.

"A solution of this perplexing problem of getting produce is easily accounted for" said a farmer of this state.
 Population and consequent consump- tion are greater than ever before in Alabama Prices have increased 100 per cent in the past twelve years; and 0C per cent of the production of poultry, eggs and other farm products gives as much money to the producer as the whole did ten years ago. Hence the farmers of Alabama are not so energetic as they should be. Their ideas is to let well enough alone.
 However. a new generation Is spring ing up and you may look to see them fill every demand for home consumption from the products of the farm"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
VARDAMAN AS AN EDITOR.
om the Washington Herald.

From the Washington Herald.
 The Daily News of Hattiesburg, Miss, has offered Gov. James K. Vardaman s7500 a year, the same salary he would receive as United States Senator, to as- sume the duties of editor of the paper The governor rather likes the idea, for he has replied to the offer thus: Your telegram of the sth instant saying If you desire to resume journalistic work at the expiration of your term as gov ernor of Mississippi, the Daily News of fers you the position as editorin-chief at the same salary you would have re- ceived as United States senator has been received. I shall be glad to con slider the proposition to take editorial charge of the Daily News. On the face of the proposition it is rather attractive to me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
Excitement at Corona.

There was a deal of excitement at Corona Saturday." said an official of the Corona company.
 "A labor agent came to our place and tried to take some of our men away from us and to other camps. Some of our old men apprehended the trouble and drove the labor agent off. A number of shots were fired and 1t looked at one time as if a bloody battle would ensue.
 No serious damage was done. but ono of the labor agents was shot in the leg, another In the arm and one of them had his cap shot off his head. The natives made it hot for the visitors. We have a quiet industrious orderly mining camp and intruders had better stay away from our place !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
Taft's Speech

As Secretary of War William IT. Taft is the administration candidate for President, his opening" speech delivered yesterday will be read with uncommon interest. No presidential message. indeed, could surpass 1t in its effect on the country.
 Taft's speech is the administration platform for 1908. It was carefully written and submitted to President Roosevelt last wetk k and therefore has the effect of a presidential message so far as it's bearing on present busi- ness conditions goes. It reaffirms the principles of United States rate regu- lation of the railroads; regulation of the trusts and opposition to a low tariff. Taft points out that the rate law needs amendment, but commits himself strongly to government regu- lation.
 The republican party, regardless of the wrong done, plants itself squarely for continuance of high robber tariff The democracy must always stand for low tariff Fighting the trusts and defending Dingleyism will not take with the people in 1908. But for Dingleyism fastened on the coun- try we would have no trusts to speak of.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
PRESS POINTS

St Louis Times: We knew Wall street would settle down as soon as 1t settled up.
 Nashville Tennessean: Wall street has panic now.
 Augusta Herald: Wall street might now be written Wall street without mourning the charge of wrong spelling.
 Dallas News: One objection to elbow them without getting a crick In the neck.
 Nashville Banner; A man who would carry a pistol two feet long is entitled to days wages, even if he does nothing else. Arkansas Democrat: If the Cortelyou boom Is a blind some blind man must be leading It. for it is not getting any where
 Washington Star: The firm that organ ized bicycle monopoly Is now in diff cultles. But for one trust that fades dozen flourish.
 Washington Herald: A scientific gentle man ayers that cucumber Is 95 per cent water. Doubtless 1t Is MT Harriman's favorite vegetable.
 Ohio Sun: The democratic candidate for mayor in Akron in making a shrewd bid for popularity. He has issued state ment in which he says he can't write poetry.
 Washington Times: We shall have a new respect for the suitcase, hereafter, now that one has been found full of s470O in bills instead of rumpled shirts and mussed collars.
 Portland Telegram: We are told that John D. Rockefeller may live to pass the age of 94. To the mind of the oil king this should rather accentuate the hopeful admontion, While the lamp holds out to burn"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
Louisville & Nashville Muddle e

The United States Attorney General is now taking a hand in the railroad litigation in Alabama. The order of United States Judge Thomas G. Jones restraining solicitors and sheriffs of this state from interfering with the operation of the Louisville and Nash vile will be enforced by the United States government, regardless of con- sequences.
 Theoretically, Judge Jones had a perfect right to issue his order, as a matter of course, but the Louisville and Nashville. in asking for 1t, dis played a great lack of judgment.
 The Southern Railway company was confronted with the same question whether to fight the state of Alabama through the medium of the United States government or put into effect the legislative acts providing traffic regulation The Southern, through it's executive officials conferred with Governor Conner and after full dis cussion of the situation, decided to keep on the side of Alabama. The Southern never more fully rose to the occasion. It acted periodically and made friends by the thousands. It Is unfortunate for all parties concerned that the Louisville and Nashville did not do likewise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
,m the New York Press

From the New York Press.
 Did anybody ever see a girl buggy-rid- ing with a one-armed man?
 Maybe this world is preliminary pur- gatory to get you used to 1t.
 Hammocks save some people from be- coming engaged by not getting in them.
 A girl likes to have you fatter her so she can think it over and decide you meant It.
 A woman saves money to spend 1t: a man to let somebody else get 1t away from him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
AT THE CONCLUSION.

From the Philadelphia Press
 Trotter-He told me about this time last year that he had arrived at the con- clusion that a trip to Europe would do him good.
 Holmes-Yes, and he's there yet
 Trotter-In Europe?
 AHolmes-No; where he had arrived When you saw him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
GREATER BIRMINGHAM.

From the Hanceville Hustler.
 The passage of the Greater Birmingham bill Is one of the best things done by the legislature. It gives Alabama a city of big proportions, of large population and 1t will help the whole state. It Is a matter of pride to us, and there Is no limit to the good wishes we have for the great city of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

otSNNh pA hAiSf
 THE BRIGHTER SIDE. Divorce Is the curse of this country" remarked a reformer.
 Yes" replied a woman in high life, "but think how much worse 1t would be If there were no alimony"
 AFTERMATH. The plangent waves are dashing on the
 shore,
 The orchestra is playing, as of yore. No doubt. some beauties stroll upon the
 beach,
 Full half a dozen men in love with each. The razzle-dazzle and the fun are there. But they may fade away, for all we care. To tell the truth, we haven't figured
 yet
 A way to liqudate the heavy debt We fell into while posing for a week As loaded down with money, so to speak An Indiana man thinks he is a part ner with President Roosevelt in the Pan anna canal and the owner of 100 cities along the canal route, of the Northern Pacific railroad and many business blocks. We agree with the song. 70 gee, aint 1t great to be crazy?'
 If the paragraphers don't keep quiet about 1t George Ade will go down in history as the only man who ever said, T am making more money than l can spend"
 THE SPEED PEND.
 He rides so fast
 It takes his breath
 And then he dies
 The auto death. "Will my soul pass through Ire land?" sings Poet Dennis O'Sullivan. Arrah, me hearty. 1t depends on where your soul Is going!
 New York Women up in Arms" says headline. It is an old joke. but we can't resist the temptation to ask, Whose arms?
 The sultan of Morocco Is said to be sincere in his desire for peace. Know
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
Lowe on Crop Outlook.

'I wish you would take trip through East Alabama and look at the crops of corn, cotton and general feed stuffs," said Robert J. Lowe, who is now a verit- able planter and genuine farmer of Bar bour county and who is stopping for a day In the city.
 we can show you prospect of which the state would be proud. Of course we may yet be knocked out on the cotton proposition by an early visitation of frost; but we anticipate no such dis pleasure on the part of Providence, that great and grand ruler of the universe. l think He means to do well for us farmers this year and to indulge us. It all looks good 10 me; and having tried both, would rather be farmer than a politician"
 Asked as to his opinion on the subject of the controversy between the state and the railroads, and the action of the fed eral court, MT. Lowe, who is a lawyer himself, said: T do not pose as an oracle, nor as a judicial adjuster; there fore I can not at tls time render a de- cision nor pronounce judgement. Of- course. I am much interested in the proposition which confronts the people of Alabama and the railroads, which enter this state. The state Is soverign.-yet the railroads have rights Federal courts have been established for a purpose-likewise have state courts. I would regret exceed ingly to see a real conflict btween them and I trust there will be none of serious consequence"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
THE WALTON TRIBUNE.

The Age Herald has received the in- dustrial edition of the Walton Tribune, published at Monroe, Ga. This edition contains forty-eight pages and is creditable achievement. Ernest Camp is editor and publisher of the Tribune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
ALABAMA PRESS

Anniston Hot Blast. Sympathetic strikes and hysterical legislation keep us in mind of the fact that thls is midsummer.
 Bullock County Breeze: Roosevelt has strike. This is one time our strenuous President has failed to butt in.
 Mabile Register: That near-panic in Wall street serve the good purpose of convincing the American people that we are not going to have a real panic just yet.
 Mobile Herald: Bishop Potter has again protested against thes self-indulgence of the rich. But the worthy bishop has no intention of abandoning hls periodical Flu ropean trip.
 Montgomery Times: A story is going the rounds that Rockefeller Is In dread of robbers. He is needlessly alarmed; the ethics of the profession should guarantee hls immunity.
 Dothan Home Journal: Resolved, That the Southern railway has been grossly mistreated by the emperor of Alabama, and the serfs in humble obesance must pay the price in finis
 Huntsville Mercury: 70, we'll, every thing will be all write now" says the Indianapolis News. Not exactly You will have to take some things through the telephone or get left.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
BEER SWIMMING HOLES.

From the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.
 A writer in the Birmingham Age-Her- ald contends that swimming may be learned without water. That may be so, but "swimmin' holes' filled with beer would be awfully expensive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

A flock of twenty geese rendezvous every day on Main street. In Calvert, Tex, says the Calvert Chronicle. If the editor is referring to a bunch of lady gossips, he is impolite, to say the least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

Strickland w. Gillian was injured in a railroad wreck the other day and as soon as he is in shape to woo the muse he will probably release some brand new wreck rhymes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

A Springfield bank clerk who went to a Maine summer boarding house with $470O in his suit case had evi- dently been up against that racket be- fore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

A contemporary has an editorial en- titled, Carrying Sympathy Too Far" " An example of that would be carrying sympathy out to San Francisco to Abe Ruef.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

The poor man will probably dream a long time before he sees the S100 automobile coming down the road at forty miles an hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

While we were celebrating the cen tennial of steamboats, somebody should have remembered to celebrate the steamboat poker game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

The announcement that the Empress of China is about to retire does not mean that her highness is merely go- ing to bed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

The candy cure for alcoholism is usually taken so early in life that it's effects are worn off by the time a per son Is old enough to drink.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

"Telephone neck" is a new disease. Telephone wrath is quite an old con- plaint.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20
w. H. Skaggs Here.

W. H. Skaggs, a former Alabamian who dwelt for long time in Talladega, and who was once mayor of that city and largely instrumental in raising that town to It's present importance, is in the city. stopping at the Hillman.
 Said he last night: "I am living yet in Chicago, but still pulling for the south and for Alabama I am here now rep resentng a company which proposes to develop some coal fields in Walker, Jef- ferson and Blount counties, as yet un- touched. My people mean to bring these lands into full development and thereby add largely to the wealth of the state.
 T will tell you more about our prop osition in the near future, but we are not yet in the boosting list. We mean business, and that business will rebound to the good of my native state.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

John D. Rockefeller "has nothing more to say" The old fellow did some tall talking while he was at it, how ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

An alarm clock cured a West Vir- ginia man of blindness, when all in the world 1t was ever made to cure was laziness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

Listen to the triliobite," says the New York Times. What kind of noise does trilobite make?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

Booth Tarkington denies with some heat that he will abandon Indiana for Paris. A man should always stay where he cuts the most ice
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

A Michigan lover stole his sweet hearts Ffdo, and his chances of ever getting that girl are exceedingly slim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

Submarine boats must find it hard to live up to the venomous names given them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

The activity of Wellman and Peary has put Nansen into the notion of go- ing pole hunting again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

"A brick is a brick" says the Pitts burg Dispatch. And by the same token gold brick is a swindle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

Judge K. M. Landis-doesn't his name look funny that way?-continues to dodge near-fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

The noise publishers make over their respective authors is getting to be so loud that we can't sleep at night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

The summer stock that some people have been playing in is not the kind that the billboards tell about.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-20

don Times said that this was the most notable assembage ever gathered in the United States