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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
Hindus In WashinntOn

Our Pacific coast is full of race problems. When the Chinese do not trouble the native people the Japs do, and of late the Hindus have been add ed to the race issue in the state of Washington. All are Asiatics, all are yellow men, and all are unassimable. All come here for a season, expecting to return to Asia when their pockets are well filled.
 The Hindus in the state of Wash ington are Sikhs distinct people in the Punjab But they are Hindus, a trife more vigorous than the average East Indian. They are beginning to flock to British Columbia, and once they are landed there they easily find entrance to the adjoining state of Washington. Here, indeed, is a pre- dicament, for Canada cannot well say that brother colonists shall not be re- ceived and no power can then keep them from crossing the line and enter ing the state of Washington. The towns in that state are indignant over the threatened Hindu invasion. A ship load of Sikhs has recently been landed and there vast numbers at home will ing and ready to come.
 A crusade against all Asiatics will probably be the outcome along our en- tire Pacific coast and along the line that separates us from British Colum- bia, in order to avert serious trou- ble treaties excluding all coolies from Asia should be speedily negotiated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
Confidence is Returninq

The offer of $40,0O0,OOo of bonds by New York city, bearing Az per cent interest, was met by bids that far out. run the amount of bonds. The bidders name premiums running up to 3 per cent, and the entire loan will probably be placed at 103. This is not quite so good a result as had been anticipat- ed, for offers of 104 or better had been discussed.
 But the placing of the loan at 103 will have a good effect upon the money market Good crop news goes with it, and the government is sys- tematically doing it's best to move the crops. There is a feeling that liqui- dation has about run It's course-that the corner has been turned, and that easier money and increasing confl- dence will be features of the remain der of the calendar year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
HIS APPEARANCE DECEPTIVE

From the Philadelphia Record
 A slim, anemic- c-looking youth, dressed in light suit, whose cut and style were faultless, wearing a brilliant tie, and with thunderous band around his panama, swaggered down Chestnut street one afternoon last week, evt- dently with no destination in view, but merely to admire and be admired. For some reason he started to cross in the middle of the block. A young lady started over at the same moment A rapidly moving wagon and trolley car moving with equal rapidity in the op- posite direction bore down on them and had them cornered before they saw ei- ther. The promenaders halted, pinned to the spot by the impending calamity. The girls scream called the youth s attention to their danger. Quick as a flash he sprang at the horses head grabbed the bridle, and forced the ami maj back on its launches within a foot of the girl. It was a feat of which any athlete might be proud, and the crowd looked with amazement on this slight. dudish individual. The girl start ed to thank him effusively, but he mere ly tipped his hat, lighted a cigarette, and continued his promenade to admire and be admired
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
Disposition of the Philippines

The New York Herald is polling con- gross on the best disposition of the Philippines, and thus far it finds a plu- rality in favor of getting rid of the archipelago. Senator Johnston and Representative Underwood, Clayton and Heflin think we should get rid of the islands.
 Representative Wiley seems to think the islands are a sacred trust, even if tney were legislated in by means of a five-to-four decision of the Supreme court and wound in the constitution. Those who continue to believe that we have no constitutional right to acquire colonies and to govern them without the consent of the governed will scarcely accept MT. Wiley's views.
 There are those, too, who say we have no right to sell the Philippines. We did not say that when Spain put them on wars bargain counter. We stepped up and bought them, paying thArafore s2o.ooo.ooo. What we had a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12

right, legal and moral to buy we have a right legal and moral, to sell.
 But if 1t would be dishonorable to sell let us give them away. Let us at any rate get rid of them. We can not assimilate Malays We cannot turn them into American citizens and colonies are wholly foreign to our democratic ideas. They are expen- sive, and in case of war they would be a source of weakness. The demo- cratic national platform of 1904 de- clared that the Filipinos should be left to work out their own destiny. Demo crats, as a rule, are in favor of getting rid of the islands, but there are re- publieans who have concessions in the Philippines or who expect to have concessions or fat berths there, who favor retention of the islands, full of unrest and discomfort as they are. The question will not down, and the issue will stay with us until it IS set tied right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
THE STAGE IN AMERICA

and her extraordinary performance in Peter Pan," has established a claim to the popularity she had won, largely by charming personality, even before she merted her favor in full Sound training, intellectual insight and artistic conscientiousness have enabled Miss Allen to make a distinct and envious place for herself as an impersonator of Shakes pearean heroines. Mrs. Carter, Miss Walsh, Miss Harmed, Miss ONeill and resses, but not one of these has reached the heights attained by two foreign wom- en who recently acquired the English language and adapted 1t to their con- tinental art-Mme. Kalich and Mme Ma zimova.
 Whatever the cause. the American stage is now lacking in high individual distinc- tion, and this is to be regretted even by those whose preference in theatrical en- tertainment does not lie in the direction of the best dramatic literature The brightest promise right now lies in the American dramatists, who are forging ahead, making better plays than the American stage has produced in many years and inspiring the thought that with better plays will come better acting. more studious application, less thought of mere stellar distinction, finer training and fn- ally a ripening of talent or genius for the greatest things in the drama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
Apportionment of School Moneys

Superintendent Gunnells is trying to ascertain whether he should appor- tion the state school moneys by coun- ties or should send them directly to the districts. IL would be better, no doubt, to send them to the districts, but there is over and above this issue one of deeper importance.
 The basis of apportionment is whol- ly wrong, namely: an enumeration of children of school age made by men who are paid three cents a name to swell the lists. Some of the county lists are notoriously padded.
 But why should the states money be distributed on the basis of children who do not go to school? The money is raised to promote attendance, not non-attendance, education, not igno- rance. The basis of apportionment should be enrolment and attendance in the public schools. Actual school children, not truants. should be count. ed. Governor-tobe Noel of Missis- sippi ran on the basis of this change in the apportonment of school mon- eys in his state. We need a like change in this state, because the school moneys here are unevenly ap- portioned, no little being paid on the basis of truancy instead of attend ance. The more truants there are the more money there is in a county to waste or to eXpend on other children.
 We need either a compulsory edu- cation law or a law passing apporton- ments of school moneys on actual at, tendance and not at all on non-attend- ance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
BLOODY SUNDAY.

From the New York World
 Automobiles on Sunday killed marquis, a baron. an eminent Italian lawyer, rich mans son, a butler boy and girl, while. injuring many others, one fatally.
 On the Sunday before they killed Boston stockbroker and his chauffeur 8 Chattanooga capitalist and a Philadel- phian. On Sunday, August IS, they vir- tually exterminated the Root family of Bristol, Conn.,, leaving only little girl as the survivor of a party of five. The Sundays of July had each their gory record of cars smashed and riders or pedestrians slain or mangled, that of Sunday, July 2s, being redeemed by the action of William Todd Wilcox In un- hesitatingly driving his car into a pile of builders material rather than run down two children in the highway-a rare act of self-sacrifce.
 What Sunday, indeed, from the first spring day till the snow falls, Is without it's ghastly chronicle of lives plotted out by reckless speed-mania? How long Is the slaughter to continue which reaches it's bloody continuation on the Sabbath?
 Every death due to reckless motoring makes a farce of the law. In France. Germany and Switzerland owners and drivers of cars that kill are sent to jail as summarily as if the weapon had been & revolver or knife. What one is be- hind the bars here. where judges bubble as to whether the penalty for over speeding shall be a fine of sloo under the provisions of the state law or slo acording to the aldermanic ordinance?
 Life is cheaper In America. thanks to incompetent railway management, jerry building theatre and tenement fires and a hundred other causes, than anywhere else in the civilized world. But it Is yet worth more than the picayune price at which the speed-mad motorist holds It. From the Washington Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
Looking into Pavements.

J. M. North Jr.. of the Fort Worth Cfex) Star is in the city. stopping at the Hillman. Said he last night: "The ob- ject of my visit to Birmingham Is to look into the matter of street paving Journalism in Texas has assumed inouisi- torial proportions It sends out it's at taches to look into all questions of public interest, sparing no expense to reach act ual facts, and just now Fort Worth has under consideration the question of pav- Ing many miles of streets The people want the best and the paper with which am connected wants them to have 1t: therefore it sent me to Birmingham.
 Here l find that you have Belgian block, brick and the bithulitic pavement: and l am looking at each and all of these with view of reporting my observations. l shall tell it as 1t seems to me.
 By the way. yours Is a wonderful city. and your paved streets are certainly an attractive feature. I took delightful ride over them today and am much inn pressed by tho smoothness of your bI- thuitic streets"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
Egypt Looks This Way.

"Of all the interesting letters ever re- ceived in my office Is one from Alex andria, Egypt" said City Engineer Ken drck last night
 This letter comes from the engineer of that far-off city, and he wants an opin- ion on the subject of paving. telling me that he has read much concerning the street improvement work done in Bir- ming, and asks for further information. Of course I shall tell him all I know about 1t, but the interesting part of the epistle Is that the ancient city of Alex andria Is looking to the young city of Birmingham for guidance and direction
 ''Verily it does seem that these magnetic hills and mountains draw attention from abroad. awaken the old and the sleeping and will yet reiuvenate this world Let us all help them out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
On Railroad Facilities.

'It Is 8 fact, as MT. Flowers stated in an interview several days ago." said Hampton S. Smith, who has large saw milling interests on the Mobile and Ohio railroad in Bibb county that the Louis vile and Nashville railroad Is a great factor in our material prosperity and their methods of handling traffic and their ability to furnish cars to their patrons meets our heartiest approval and commendation, but I take off my hat to the Mobile and Ohio from Vice President Russell down to all the employees when 1t comes to courteous and efficient treat ment and an expressed desire at all times to conserve the best interests of the ship pers and industries located on their rails. Colonel Russell Is idolzed by his men, therefore the esprit de corps of the Mobile and Ohio is something wonderful. He Is as approachable to the smallest shipper as he is to the largest corpora tion and I trust his connection with this road may long continue.
 ''The people of Birmingham should vel come the building of the Mobile and Ohio to this place. for it means a great deal to this district"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
PEACEFUL AT THE HAGUE.
Several of the Prominent Delegates
 Are of on a Visit.

The Hague, September n.-It is not probable that anything important will transpire at the peace conference until next week. This is indicated by the de- parture for a few days from The Hague of M. Bourgeois and Baron Marschall Non Biebersten two of the most impor- tant figures at the conference In the meantime the examining committees and the smaller committees will continue the work of preparing the projects to be sub mitted at the plenary sittings.
 The Italian and Argentine delegations here have been empowered by their re- spective governments to conclude an ar bitration treaty which will be signed with great solemnity in the Hall of Knights. The two countries selected Queen Will helmina as their arbitrator in the inter- pretation of the wording of the treaty. in case of a divergence of opinion, and her majesty willingly accepted the task.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
The Juvenile Law.

"The act of the last legislature exempt ing boys and girls under IA years of age from criminal prosecution by the courts of the state for any and all offenses seems to me to be a dangerous proposi- tion,' said lawyer and man of affairs.
 Young boys sometimes present most formidable propositions in criminal life. and many of them are more vicious and cunning than men of mature years. In many of them Is born the very instinct to do wrong-to rob, to kill and to mur- der, and they should be held accountable according to their ability to discern right from wrong, and juries should decide this very question.
 Take for instance the matter of prohi- bitory laws against the sale of liquors Suppose boy under IA indulges in the blind tiger trade and reaps rich reward therefrom, how Is he to be punished? The law ought to be repealed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
ATTACK MADE ON
 NON-UNION GAR MEN

San Francisco September n.-As the result of an attack made on non-union car men by a crowd of strikers early today, five men were injured and are now in St. Luke's hospital. The injured:
 Morris Rosenberg, non-union conductor
 Roy Perkins, conductor.
 J. J. Cotter, motorman.
 Harry Cohens, conductor.
 Frank Smith, conductor.
 The trouble occurred when a wrecking men was approaching the car barns at the corner of Utah and Twenty-fourth streets. As the car was passing a tent occupied by union pickets, stones were some of the car men, but none was hit
 inc car continued on its way to the barns, where the crowd had assembled Some of the men alighted and the trou- ble began.
 Policemen L. Wade J. Miller and A. Bigelow appeared on the scene and or dered the men not to shoot. It Is said this command was disregarded, where upon the police used their revolvers, five of the car men being wounded. The union pickets, who occupied the tent where the disturbance began, say that they were informed that wrecking crew was going to make an attack on them at the time the car approached.
 H. Greene, a non-union car man, was placed under arrest on suspicion of hav- ing fired one of the shots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
Spindles Nerth and South

The Fall River correspondent of the New York Tribune shows that, not only are the cotton mills of New En- gland prosperous, but they are increas- ing their spindleage as rapidly as the capacity of cotton machine shops will permit. "At the end of 1902" he says, Georgia had 1,3S9,815 spindles, and this was increased to 1,711,008 in 1907. Alabama increased her spindleage 50 per cent in the same time-from 608,- 3S9 to 913,672. South Carolina in creased from 2,526,946 to 3,561 ,0S6 and North Carolina from 1,762 ,311 to 2,646,- 0S6. In the same period Massachu- setts spindles were increased from s. 59S,340 to 9,2O6,733, Rhode Island about 100000, Maine 35,000, Connecti- cut 0,000 and New Hampshire about 10000. At the present time Fall River has 3,390000 and New Bedford 2,200,- 900 spindles, these figures being used to show only the relative importance of the states and sections.
 New England has recovered from It's panic over the establishment of southern mills, for it now sees there is room for both sets of mills in the phe- nomenal trade in cotton goods and the phenomenal rise in prices accom- panying it. While New England is adding to her spindleage, England is doing likewise. The latter now has nearly 50,0OO,OOO spindles. The indus try is everywhere prosperous. More mills and increased dividends in old mills is the story of today.
 The correspondent of the Tribune thinks the southern mills have practi- cally exhausted the supply of native labor, and he goes on to say that southern community life Is not yet at the stage where all races rom other lands are made welcome" These points seem to give him comfort, for he judges that the south will not be able. on account of its limited labor supply to unduly undercut New En- gland mills. He does admit, however, that the southern mills are making more fine yarn fabrics. and that it's ambition in that direction will be de- veloped.
 The truth is the northern and south ern mills should pull together with a view to the spinning of one-half of the American crop. At present they con sume only five-thirteenths of it. and a pull all together should soon carry them up to a full one-half of the crop. This is reasonable American ambition, and it can readily be reached, for the needed skill and the needed capital are here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Suuar Cane In Market.

T bought stalk of sugar cane on the street today and paid cents for It." said a man from the north.
 ''They tell me 1t is not fully matured, but chew of the bottom joint indicates It's sweetness, and I am much delight> >1 at the delicateness and delghtfulness of the sugar cane. I am informed that from 1000 to 2ooO stalks can easily be raised per acre in Central Alabama and double much in the southern part of the state; then 1t must be a profitable crop.
 Much to my surprise, I also learn that In Shades valley, just across Red mountain, and within few rhilas of Br- mngham on beds of iron, is grown in excellent proportions real sugar cane. and that the farmers and gardners who give attention reap rich reward there from 1t. To me this looks like a remark able fact"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
LUSITANIA MAKES
 SPLENDID RECORD

Cape Race, N F, September 1.-The maiden voyage across the Atlantic is ex- pected to eclipse all ocean records, came In touch, through the wireless telegraph with the American continent early to- day At 5:20 o'clock this morning a mes sage received from the steamer says that vessel was 225 miles southeast of Cape Race at that hour
 The indicated position of the Lusitania is about 1125 miles from Sandy Hook, so that the big steamer if she can main tain the rate of 25 knots with which spede she is credited, will reach the en- trance to the port of New York about 1 a. m. Friday which would make the time of the voyage about four days and IS hours, more than thirteen hours bet ter than the record trip between Queens town and New York of five days, seven hours. and twenty-three minutes, held by the Cunarder Lucania. Such time. if made, would also wrest the best Atlantic record from the Germans, now held by the Hamburg American steamer Deutsch- land When heard from this morning the Lusitania had travelled about 1655 miles of the PESO between Queenstown and New York in approximately seventy hours rh.J would make her average speed up to that point trihe better than 2312 knots per hour
 It is known that fog materially inter- fered with the speed of the Lusitania for many hours after she left Queenstown her speed at times being reduced to 20 knots, so that she since must have steam ed much faster than 231a knots to secure the average. The run from Cape Race down the coast is generally made at top speed. as conditions are favorable, so that shipping men who learned of the Lusitania's position this morning, conf dently predicted that barring accidents, the Lustana will be hailed as queen of the seas when she reaches port early ErdaN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
Abused His Authority.

Paris, September 11.-Special dis patches received here from Casa Blanca relate regrettable incident at that port A well known French resident caught two Spanish soldiers in the act of robbing his house. He summoned as- sistance and secured the men and was marching them off to the authorities when he met a Spanish officer. This man abused him roundly and forced him to release the soldiers. The Frenchman has lodged a complaint at the French consulate against both the officers and the men,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 woman is so deceptive she can have a temper without even red hair
 No matter how much a summer vaca- ton costs it's worth the money to get home.
 When a man Is sane he doesn't know the first thing about writing love let ter.
 A woman can hardly ever afford any tn ing for herself that she is sure sh 6 can afford for her children.
 There Is something about the aver age shirt waists women wear that makes you wonder how they look when they have clothes on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
GREEN BE THE TURF ABOVE
 THEE.

By Fitz-Greene Halleck. Green be the turf above thee,
 Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, None named thee but to praise. Tears fell when thou vert dying, From eyes unused to weep. And long, where thou art lying,
 Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was proven Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth; And I who woke each morrow
 To clasp thy hand in mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow. Whose veal and woe were thine; It should be mine to braid 1t
 Around thy faded brow. But I've in vain essayed 1t.
 And feel I cannot now. While memory bids me weep thea Nor thoughts nor words are free The grief Is fixed too deeply
 That mourns man like thea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-12
PRESIDE DREAMS.

 Soon we'll paint. of winter nights, Pictures in the flames, Other days and lost delights, Ghildhood's happy games. Faces that we used to know, Lips we used to kiss In the days of long ago, In the land of bliss Airy fairy fances there, Leaping with the flames, Dreams before we learned to care, Half-forgotten names. Songs we'd like to sing again, Words we'd like to say. While the roar of winter rain Speeds the time away.
 THE SCIENCE OF NURSING.
 CFor young women)
 FIRST LESSON. Get millionaire widower who is sick.
 SECOND LESSON. Be kind to him.
 THIRD LESSON. Say "Yes" when he proposes.
 A MEMORY OF SUMMER.
 A jewellers bill
 Recalls the thrill
 He had for Clara Jane,
 But the diamond ring
 He gave the thing
 Will ne'er come back again. THE DECADENT PRESENT. There used to be a time when I en- joyed reading" When was that?' Before theatrical press agents monopo- llzed the magazines"
 AUTUMN. Now, when an autumn breeze Comes OCT the lea And whispers in the trees To you and me Of greater work to do In broader fields, Each sere leaf falling through The lattice yields An inspiration sent To hurry on, Before the golden years are spent And life Is gone! The eyelids of the average man are said to open and close 100000 times a year, but the figures are probably larger in a dry town where a person has to wink so often in a drugstore. If we keep building larger ocean steam CTS the time will come some day when there1l be no more room for whales. It is reported that otero. the famous