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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
GEE WHIz! WHAT A COIN!
om the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 Take a gold coin of the old style and compare it with the atrocity now being turned out by the mint and then figure out, if you can, why in the name of good taste or anything else, the change was made
 On one side of this remarkable produc- tion is the head of Liberty-with a head dress of chicken feathers or something like them. On the other Is fowl of some sort. We are asked to believe that it is an eagle, but we are accustomed to see ing our eagles when drawn upon a. coin, In posture that denotes strength. In this latest pose it is difficult to tell talettes, hen drying herself after hard experience in a rain storm or pouting pigeon. It might be some other creature just as well--a partridge or a guinea chick.
 The $10 gold coin will pass for s10 and will be accepted In every store at Its face value, but no exchange can be made over ities on both sides of 1t.
 There has been such lively protest against the omission of the time- -honored motto, "In God We Trust" that the at tention of Congress is likely to be called to it. The occasion could and should be made use of to order an entirely new de- sign. Or else a return to the old one now discarded.
 We predict a short life for the poutng- pigeon-in- war paint piece.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
Let All Pull Toueiher

Confidence and patience are needed just at present. We should have con- fidence in our crops and other re- sources, and we should know that we cannot overcome in jiffy the i'll effects of eight years of wild booming. Things will soon be- come normal, simply because the coun- try as a whole is sound, solvent and hopeful. All we lack is currency, and this can be supplied by return of confidence and by quick action in Con gress when it meets two weeks hence. Said Secretary Cortelyou, recently:
 .It is time when every citizen should assume his share of the burden. The hoarding of money, the exaction Of un- necessarily harsh requirements in busi- ness dealings, but retard our return to normal conditions. The hoarded money should be put back in the banks and the exactions of bankers and merchants should be proportoned only to actual busi- iitSS HtttSblllts. U QO OlIltlW WlsO lH iioe only unpatriotic, but unwise. I believe that If this money of the country, wher- ever hoarded were at once put back to fulfill it's functions in the channels of trade there would be within "A hours an almost complete resumption of busi- ness operations. l doubt whether we can in any way estimate the loss that has fallen upon those who have, either through selfish misguided motives, thus drawn their money from places of more than reasonable safety to put it where it has been lost through robbery or fire or other misfortune
 All should assist In this all-import- ant business of restoring currency to the banks and the channels of trade All can assist in the national task Every dollar put in circulation is dollar placed where it will aid in start ing up legitimate trade and industry. The money that has been lovingly saved for Christmas shopping can be spent to advantage at this time. It is excellent weather in which to do shop ping, and every dollar turned loose will help the general situation, and perhaps carry bread to the hungry. At any rate the Christmas shopper will this week find the stores packed with choice Christmas goods, the clerks willing and ready, and plenty of room, time and opportunity Everywhere. Buy now, when every advantage is in your favor and you can add to the move ment which looks to the starting up of all trade and all wheels in a crop laden country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
Stall this in your bosom.
 -All's We'll That Ends Well,
Waterways Convention

A Mobile delegation at least 30 strong is coming to this city this morning to attend the waterways con yention. It is to be headed by ex- Attorney General Fits, and the other members of the delegation are Mo- piles representative men.
 It seems wholly fitting that Mobile should take leading part in rivers and harbors convention for it is our sole harbor, and into it's bay flow all our Alabama rivers save the Tennes- see, and a lock canal may yet link it to Mobile. The Chattahoochee is not wholly an Alabama river. There is not, perhaps. another bay and harbor in the country fed by so many miles of abundant rivers, and every one of those miles can be rendered navigable by means of adequate federal appro- prations.
 The real object of today's conven- ton is to see that Alabama, in the gathering national waterways move ment, gets her share of appropriations.
 Every mile of river opened to navi- gation would promote Mobiles trade and prosperity, and very naturally that city takes a deep interest in the work of the convention.
 The convention of today should not lose sight of the national rivers and harbors congress that is to meet in Washington on December 4. If the convention can secure the attendance at the congress of a strong delegation, it will have fully justified it's meeting at this time in this city. A strong state delegation would not be ignored in the congress of December 4. A delegation of that nature would not permit itself to be ignored, or the cause it represents. That cause would be our Alabama rivers and harbors, and their improvement up to the point of navigation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19

existence was first demonstrated by He;n- rich Hertz in 1888, and which have made wireless telegraphy and wireless tele- phony possible. appear to physicists sus- ceptibe of use in the transmission of power If they can carry sound without the use of wires, for SO miles or more, as is now done successfully in Germany, it would not seem impossible to make them transmit other forms of mechanical force.
 When that shall have been accomp- lished, it will matter little to the world at large whether the price of copper is up or down. or whether telegraph and tele- phone poles are cheap or dear, for the Hertzian waves are independent of wires and poles. It is said that the waves in- crease in intensity the further they travel. and that there is no loss In power. The only difficulty lies in getting them started and in stopping them, Does the solution of the problem seem like g. wild and ini- practicable dream? That Is exactly what every successful invention of the past l50 years seemed before 1t was realized. Every step has been ridiculed as an ab- surd impossibilty, and it requires not the least stretch of imagination to see Tn Hertzian waves the possible solution or many a grievous industrial and economic problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19

From the Washington Star.
 Let no man now say that Mr. Tilman is without a sense of diplomacy Ob- serve him at Danvlle, Ill.,, among the friends and neighbors of MT Cannon, confidently predicting the nomination of Uncle Joe for the presidency. Was not that the thing to do? MT. Tllman, who does not love MT. Roosevelt might have expressed suspicion of the latter's third-term declaration, as many demo- crats are doing. But he counted MT. Roosevelt out. and picked MT. Cannon. How much of prophet MT. Tillman Is remains to be seen. Maybe his words would have conveyed more comfort to MT. Cannon's neighbors If they had not been followed by an appralsement of Mir. Bryan of the most extravantly complimentary character. The man who considers that MT. Bryan is fitted above all his fellows for conducting the af- fairs of this country may not be good judge of a political situation. It was but a jolly as to MT. Cannon. Was it the same as to MT. Bryan?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19

the extreme left. There is room for hopeful and helpful legislation in the stand taken by NJ. Khomyakoff, and if he stands sternly by it he will be able to promote beneficial laws that will commend the support of the coun- try. Russian liberty Is by no means lost quantity. The education of the Russian people may have been con ducted in whispers, but it has been extended to all the back districts, and little-fatherism is no longer the power among the peasants it was before the war with Japan. An autocracy of the old sort has. in fact, become impos- sible, and the chief question before Russia seems to relate to the scope and extent of constitutional rule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
Land and Liberty In Russia

President Khomyakoff, an october ist, is proving a very independent, out spoken leader. In one of his recent statements he declared that Russia is a constitutional monarchy, the douma a real legislature that would not take its orders from the government, and that especial attention would be given to laws relating to Hand and liberty
 The new president comes from the centre, and he seems to desire all to know that he has as little respect for the reactionaries on the extreme right as be has for the revolutionaries on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
SERVING TWO MASTERS.

By c. s. Gauden.
 She bought a stylish bonnet, With pile of trimming on 1t, And she wore 1t to the church one Sun-
 day morn.
 The holy place she entered With her thoughts devoutly centered- On the dazzling gear that did her head
 adorn. The minister with passion, Soundly scored the sin of fashioh' But the maid preserved a placid sahcuts' He held those to derision Who obstruct anothers vision, But her conscience was from sucn of'
 lending free.
 With mien contrite and prayerfui, She continued to be careful That the hat retain fashionable poise' She knelt in sweet devotion, With a sigh of chaste emotion, That imaginably cut the carna joys, She heard the benediction With the comforting conviction That the Sabbath she religfously ha1
 kept;
 Then, thinking of her bonnet. With the silk and feathers on 1t, t From the edifice complacently she swept
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
COLLEGE GIRLS LONG SLIDE.
Sioux City "Co-eds" Thrilling Escape
 From Captivity.

From the Sioux City Tribune.
 Tied to a chair in the attic Of the A. J. Sman home at Morningsde by the girls of the freshman class, Miss Ivan Bloom. sophomore, broke her bonds and made her escape by sliding down a rope from the third story, a distance of 30 feet. At about the same hour Miss Clara Lockin made an attempt to escape by crawling onto the roof or the house where she was imprisoned and dropping to the porch roof, one story below.
 The whole affair was incidental to the class scrap at the college between the sophomores and freshmen. The fresh men girls were particularly anxious to discipline Misses Bloom and Lockin, who so cleverly foiled the entire freshman class the other evening at their masked party and enabled the sophomore boys to steal the refreshments of the lower class.
 Miss Locnn was captured by a crowd of freshmen girls at the place where she rooms and Miss Bloom was found in one of the society halls of the college. Know ing the cleverness of these 'co-eds." the freshes placed a heavy guard over each.
 
 basement of the Slman home, but after nearly escaping, was taken to the attic, where it was thought she would be Safe. The captors had not reckoned with the quality of sophomore spirit and as soon as they left her Miss Bloom secured a clothes line which was strung around the attic Next by prying out the windows with an old case knife she dropped out the rope and after fastening it to rafter slid down and out to safety.
 When seen afterward Miss Blooms first words were:
 'Please don't put my name in the paper. Really l didn't do much.
 Well didn't you get out of the third story" queried the reporter.
 Yes but that wasn't much. Do you suppose l was going to sit up there when 1 could get out. It wasn't far and didn't think of the danger. The girls treated me nicely. They went away and left me- I had an invtation out to dim ner and so I went"
 Miss Bloom is slender young woman. She and Miss Lockln are both very 1opu- lar at the college Neither she or Miss Loclsin seriously feels the effects of their. athletic endeavors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
HELD CULLlNAN DIAMOND.
om the Houston Post.

From the Houston foSl.
 J. c. Boyd of New York, a we'll known travelling salesman, who recently returned from four years trip abroad, more than two of which were spent in South Africa has held in his hand the famous Cullinan diamond which was presented by the Boer government to King Edward, on the occasion of the British monarch's s birthday last Saturday. MT. Boyd is a guest at the Rice hotel, where he will be joined today by Mrs Boyd who ac- companied her husband in his long jour ney abroad.
 ''I was in Pretoria when the diamond was brought in from the Premier, where 1t was found" said Mr. Boyd. Tom Cullinan. principal owner of the mine which is controlled by English capital, was a good friend of mine, and he gave the stone to me. that Is to hold. Realizing the enormous value of the gem, I felt as if I would like to run with it. but they were watching me too close.
 "As Is well known, this diamond weighs 3O2S carats. It's value has been estimated at all the way from sl,00o.- 900 to s2,0O0,000. But it is still in the rough and 1t would be impossible to tell anything as to it's purity or its exact value until after it has been cut
 "Cullinan, who has grown immensely wealthy in the Transvaal, was contrac- tor until he discovered the Premier mine. which is located about 10 or 12 miles out of Pretoria. Although an English man. he has been Boer sympathizer, and when they resumed control of the government he was made member of the ministry. He Is a fine fellow and exceptionally popular all over South fri v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
PETERSBURG AND BIRMINGHAM.

From the Washington Post
 If Pittsburg shall ever be forced to sur render the primacy in the manufacture of iron and steel to another American city, it will be to Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburg has coal and stone at her doors, but she must fetch her ores all the way from Lake Superior, while Birmingham has within a radius of 25 miles everything neces- sary to the production of iron and steel in quantities sufficient to supply the entire world for centuries, at the present rates of consumption.
 But Pittsburg has an advantage that. If 1t can be held, will secure her domina- tion in iron and steel definitely-cheape- transportation. paternal government has lavished millions to improve the waters of Pennsylvania. West Virginia. and Ohio. tributary to her, while her rail- roads, the best on the hemisphere, have done everything to stimulate enormous production in her immense iron works, glass works, and other industries.
 The railroads are business concerns, and operated by men of brains They know that production Is the thing on which railroads live, and that cheap transporta- ton is the very life of production. If the Pennsylvania railroad were a bankrupt concern it would work incalculable injury to the business men of Pittsburg.
 And if the governor and legislature of Alabama shall succeed in bankrupting the Louisville and Nashville railroad, Bir- mingham will feel the injury as the ten derest plants feel the touch of frost and wther accordingly.
 The interests of the Pennsylvania rail- road and of Pittsburg areSidentical The one cannot prosper without the other get tiong corresponding benefit, and the one cannot suffer without the other feeling the states The Louisville and Nashville and the city of Birmingham have the same relations-their interests are abso- lutely identical.
 But we have fallen on times when rail- roads are not to build up the country and make cities opulent. They are mere play things for demagogues, cast for the role of statesmen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
ON HAPPY" BINDINGS

So splendid and complete is the sacrifice does not permit his wife ever to hear of it. Charlie Steele does it for her, yet she never knows Could sacrifice be more superbly drawn? Could heroism be more thoroughly cheapened and made futile than by a happy" ending? Could ever this one of 'The Right of Way by 8 diversion of its motive and a brightening of the gray life it depicts?
 The average playwright who plucks play from a book is not usually so con- sderate and tasteful as this one is. Or- dinarily, he can tear a motive to pieces without a bat of the eye or a twinge of the conscience. Nothing must stand in the way of that happy finale. When Monsieur Beaucaire' in play form was give happy twist at the end the charac- ter of the royal hero was destroyed and the whole idea of the story ruined. When "The Light That Failed" was treated to a happy ending the story. one of a mans tragedy was spoiled and the Individuality of Dick Heldar was taken away. It was not consistent with Dick Heldar's charac- ter and life for him to get Maisie at last; he was born to misfortune and his mis- fortune WAS the keynote of the story; into commonplace mediocrity. We wish the dramatist of "The Right of Way success because he deserves 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
Proposes To Offer Reward.

T feel disposed to put an advertise ment in the newspapers offering $25 reward to the first policeman who cap lures and convicts some person who throws banana peels on the pavement" said a business man. If there is no other way of expressing this form of nuisance I would suggest that the sale of bananas be altogether prohibited
 T read In the papers a few days ago of several accidents caused to pedes- trians by stepping on banana peels, and 1t was only yesterday that l met man of my acquaintance who carried his arm in a sling as the result of a fall from slipping up on the pavement. I heard of young lady who sprained her ankle lately from some similar cause.
 A broken arm or a sprained ankle may mean two or three weeks idle ness for the person who meets with such an accident, and it may further mean a very great financial loss to the man with a family to provide for. If the same injuries were inflicted upon man by railroad company a con tractor he would have some redress, but against the city he has none.
 When the trash boxes were placed on the corners 1t was generally ex peeted that this form of nuisance would be abated, and, in fact for time there was a great improvement. but now the people have gone back to their old careless ways and are utterly regard less of the consequences of their acts.
 Pm going to wait a few days longer to see if Chief Wier or Judge Feagin mentions this matter to the police, and if they fail to do so I will offer the reward if for no other reason than for my own protection"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
ALABAMA PRESS

Mobile Register: Raymond Gilbert, a young actor, thinks he Is Edgar Allen Poe reincarnate. Let him write some Poetry, and prove 1t.
 Mobile Item. Ex-Senator Spooner and Teddy" do not play in each other back yard any more, to judge by a recent speech of the former.
 Montgomery Advertiser: The next Thaw trial promises to be a tame affair If Mrs. Thaw refuses to go on the stand. The tanner 1t is the better it will be for the public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
From the Louisville courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier-Jo ournal.
 3 HE dramatist who made Gilbert \0 Parker's novel, "The Right of
 Way" into play has eschewed conventionalism by ending his play much as Gilbert Parker ended his book He has disdained the temptation to give the story happy termination by bringing Charlie Steele and Rosale together or by restoring the wife to place in the law ed the final issue by leaving the ulti- mate union or separation of the lovers to the ina ginaton of the spectator. In the book, it will be recalled, Charlie Steele dies. So, though the dramatist has varied the ending to some extent, let the grati- at least preserving the motive of the story.
 The book is an exemplification of a re- claimed life; the new birth of a dead soul; the sacrifice of a man in order that his wife might have the right of way over his existence. Charlie Steele takes upon himself the shame of his wife brother to save her happiness; his wife believes him dead and he forbears reap bearing to her because it would mean an end to her joy with her new husband, whom she loves; he loves young Rosalie with madness, and Rosalie loves him, yet he allows himself and her to starve for the happiness they might get from mar rlage because of the others right of way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

It wouldn't be so risky to be lawyer if there wasn't next world.
 When girls hair Is nice and curly she never has any religious doubts.
 A man thinks he has a generous nature when he gives up the bathtuh too late for anybody else to use it.
 The nice thing about having a lot of rich men in financial trouble is you can pretend that's why you are.
 The later a woman is when she is going out with her husband the surer she is at the corner to remember she didn't kiss the baby good-by and must 20 back and do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
HERMAN WAVES.

F
 Of greater interest and significance even than any news from that great dyn- annie center in the White House was the announcement yesterday that famous inventor is devoting his time to the dis covery of means whereby the Hertzian waves may be utilized in the transmits sion of power. and that he is sanguine of success. These waves in the ether, whose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
LITERARY CALAMITY.
.ha Cbicago Trihuue.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Borus struggling author)-"You book reviewers were unnecessarily severe on that last novel of mine.
 Naggus-"Why, you ungrateful hound with one accord we pronounced 1t one of the cleanest and most uplifting works of fiction that had appeared this season. ''
 Borus-'That's what I mean. I haven't sold a single copy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19

 got. Another definition of an optlnist is A man who thinks his wlfe's relatives won't visit them after they are married. "The kaiser is reticent," asserts a contemporary. Surely, not about himselfi THE UNvARNIsHED TRUTH. We've sung of this, We've sung of that The price of coal, a. Priscilla's hat The need of clothes And underwear The football youth. With fulsome hair. We've sung of love In forty ways The mystery Of autumn days; The 'possum and
 The pumpkin pie, The penalties
 Of going dry" We've sung of bliss, Of sorrow, too, Of pleasant things
 And bills come due; Of smiling eyes
 And laughing lips. And rainy days
 When Maudie trips. We've sung of toll Q. And eke of play, Of watered stocks
 Down Wall Street way; Of politics
 And city strife, The double and
 The simple life. We've sung of pain, We've sung of woe And lots of things
 We didn't know. We've rhymed it with A cheerful air And bid you say
 Goodbye to care. We've nearly sung Ourself to death, . We're out of words And short of breath. Then why not stop, If that is so? Gee whiz, we need
 The money, bo!
 THIS IS OURS. There are times
 When life looks shoddy. of days come To everybody. An eastern contemporary expatiates on "The Riddle of the Duma." We'll if the czar can't solve It, he can dissolve it. As Thanksgiving Day approaches the air is filled with little songs of joy. AIT we'll around the pie belt!
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19

Champ Clark says "he is not can didate for governor, active, passive, receptive or tentative" That certainly settles it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19

While the blatant Houston Post brags about everything else in Texas, you will notice that it has very little to say about Buffalo Bayou.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19
THE QUIET HOUR.

On day we're kept from walking
 By the rushing of the rain And the wind against the shutters
 Beats a wandering refrain; When the clouds are clouds of winter And the world Is dark and drear- That's the time when home and freside Have a meaning doubly dear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19

In the Seventh ward of Chicago there are only 20 bathtubs for 66,O00 people. which goes to show that much of the criticism directed at Chicago is based on facts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-19

Bryan and Johnson" of Minnesota form a proposed ticket. while some think John Mitchell, whom all respect, would make a good running mate.