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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-24


tons. The years imports foot up
1,096,226, tons.
Chancellor Day says workingmen
get too much wages, but he does not
consider chancellors of universities
workingmen.
South African peaches sell in New
York at 35 cents each, thus outdoing
the diamonds of Kimberly in net
profits.
1t was not Mr.. Bryan's bandwagon
that ran away and dumped him in 4
snowbank. His bandwagon is storm
proof.
Thomas w. Lawson continues to
make little talks on copper, but he
pays advertising rates for each talk.
as liberty in danger?" queries an
excitable contemporary. Well, she
seems to be pretty well tied up.
The label on the package has to be
searched with microscope in order to
ascertain what is inside.
The open winter has returned smil-
ing and clipper, and the chances are
it has come to stay.
Freight cars should be fitted with
COW bells to keep them from straying
off and getting lost.
The Colorado river flows smoothly
on, never needing the talk or the action
of governments.
Did George Smith marry?" asks
contemporary. See George AIDE about
the cap'n.
Senator Carmack says President
Roosevelt has kidnapped the democratic
platform.
Let us hope the legislature will not
be so inhuman as to bury good bills
alive.
Simon Guggenheim will stand as
corruption's fullest and rottenest bios
som.
Germany will hold the chief elections
this week. Tomorrow Is her election
day.
Cold waves are not agreeable, but
they are better than earthquake waves.
-.s.---
Senator elect Curtis of Kansas has
no honest Injun blood in his veins.
Cincinnati has had more wataer than
beer for the past few days.
The Brownsville incident declines to
pass into the closed class.
Ostrich feathers are not worn as the
ostrich wore them.
A green winter in Chicago is making
fat churchyards.
Clemenceau is a great man to sit on
the lid.
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Insurance
Detroit News

Detroit News.
Insurance Is a provision against cal
amity. It serves an important func-
ton, but 1t does not reach as far as
schemes have tried TO make It ap-
pear in the guise of q profitable in.
vestment instead of what 1t really Is.
1t Is still a deplorable fact that the
class of people who are most in need
Of insurance either cannot AFFORD TO
make such provision or think, they
cannot. The result is that a varied
assortment of men are engaged in so.
Letting insurance. Some of them ars
straightforward fellows who talk
business and deal with facts. Some
are silver.tongued orators of magnetic
personality and who 60 not confne
themselves to fact and the "consum.
er" has to take his chances. Every
man with dependents ought 10 carry
insurance. Those who have failed to
provide for their support when age or
disability puts them out of the earn
ing class need anuuities that will keep
them from becoming objects of char
ity and load on the community. In
spite Of these evident needs the sit
natior Is such that the average man
must be drummed and worried into
taking insurance. The man who does
not accept the offer OF straight,
tusinesslike agent often Yields before
the convincing liar. Hardly one in
so looks to see if the policy he gets
is the policy he thinks he bargained
for with the agent.
All this is crude and much of it Is.
wrong. The time will probably come
when State or federal governments,
after observing the experiments IN
Germany and elsewhere, will attempt
a little paternal correction by which
a moderate tax will be levied against
both employer and employed for the
purpose of giving all who need insur.
ance some degree of protection, i,l-
stead OF leaving everything to chance
ard letting society assume the bur
deus that fall from lack Of insurance.
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Marx Twaln the PhIlosopEer.

FioERI NHaWt viz EhbSS@f4AiNAs
No humorist has ever won perma-
nent fame by virtue of his humor
alone. The jokes Of Aristophanes were
excruclatingly funny in their day, but
If our appreciation Of this old Attic
comedy depended on its power to
keep us laughing now, the shelves
wherein 4 reposes woald be even
dustier than they are. Mark Twain
holds his place because he has thought,
deeply and seriously, about mankind
and It's needs, This thought has been
colored, of course, by his own situa-
ton and experiences. Once, when he
was young, and the prizes OF life were
fresh and sweet, and the road from
success to success stretched inviting.
" ahead, and the Great Divide seemed
a long way OF. his feelings were Opt.
misdc. he looked on the bright slee
Of everything. II everything was not
for the best in the best Of all possible
worlds, things were at least doing
very well, and this was pretty good
world. Later, when bereayements
came, and disappolntments and the
rough edges OF life inruded where
their touch seemed proclamation, and
fame seemed to have less enchant-
ment in the possessing than had glow.
ed about It in the winning, and the
snow fell upon the hair Of friends,
and life offered little more TO look for
ward to. his thoughts became more
somber. But the character of his
philosophy has never changed. From
the first to The last he has fought the
good fight. Whether he has fought in
the bouyant certainty Of victory or in
the resigned expectation OF defeat, he
has always been on the same side
He has always tried to tighten the
worlds Ills, to abolish injustices, and
to help the victims Of oppression,
whether the oppressor be an Ameri.
can boss, or Russian Gar, or a Bel
gian understanding king. Nobody ev-
er needs to ask where he stands. 1t
is enough to know that a wrong has
been committed to know that he is
against It. The sufferer may be an
American negro, an Indian, China
man, a Filipino, or Congo savage
he will find a defender in Mark Twain.
And with all that there is charity for
the oppressor, too. unless he has sin
ned against the light. The sympathy
with the slave in "Huckleberry Finn
was no more perfect than the SYM
patty with the STAKEHOLDER who sut-
fered from the same system. That is
why the world is learning to call Mark
Twain something more than "humor-
ist."-From Mark Twain, Doctor of
Letters" by Samuel E. Moftett, in the
American Review of Reviews for Aa-
gust.
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COMMENT OF LEA pIts d ,RsPt
PERs ON ARLETY OF TOP.
lcs-BARYLANp DEM
ocRATs.
Pittsbnrg Times.

Pfttsbnrg Gazette:Ttmes
The Democracy OF Maryland ap-
pears to be in bad shape, II We are
to place any confidence in the con.
LESSONS Of the leading party papers.
The state convention Is only a few
days OF. yet no patriot has been
found expressing q willingness to
take Oh his coat and hustle for DE
nomination for governor. 1t Is a
rather unusual situation for a State
that has been noted for It's strenuous
politics and repeated attempts to
shake OF what is anomalously desis.
mated as negro domination This
apathetic condition was so apparent
that a few days ago a conference OF
party leaders was called to consider
the matter. 1t was in the nature Of
coroner's inquest. There was a
great deal of talk, but no action. In
stead of promoting harmony, the con,
ference had the opposite effect. Coz.
ernor warheld told the conferees
frankly that party conditions we're not
promising and that the people were
getting tired and Indifferent.
No wonder the leaders are concern
ed about the future. There Is sug.
gestlon that the old fight between the
conservatives and the radicals has
not been composed. Some evidence
of this is furnished by the action of
the Charles county Democratic con.
yentlon, which in its resolutions "felt
constrained" to say that the course
Of the governor and the attorney gen.
eraI on the disfranchiseemnt amend
ment was a source Of keen iisap-
poIntment to our people" This re-
lates to the defeat of the ubiquitous
Poe amendment a legacy Of the Ger
man regime
In sharp contrast to Democratic
apathy is the vigorous manner in
which Maryland Republicans are con-
Quoting their affairs. The party has
never shown more Yirility than at the
present time, and hopefulness Of sue
cess Is half the victory.
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I will mail you nee, 10 prvve merit
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mean Stomach weakness, always. And
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Weaken these nerves and you lneyita'
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Also for blosting, billiousness,. bad
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ne stepped aside. relinqulshine her
arm. bis hat IL hand. but she did not
move from where be LEFT her.
'Ii-it hurts me. she faliered for
J truly desire you 70 think Ia that way
81 me. and 81 don't know Wat i
best 70 Dc. III Ten yor viz ] gished
70 come Alone. yon might naisnndel.
stand. and Il ! reinse, then you VIll
suspect wrong ana 90 away despising
me-
sincerely wish you might repcse
sumcient confidence IN me as . gentle.
man to believe ] never hetray q trust,
never pry. into q, lady sectet"
eoh, ] DO, Lieut.. Brant II Is not
doubt Of you at an; but ! am not sure,
even within my own heart, that ] am
doing just what is right. Besides, it
will be 50 dihicult to make you, almost
a stranger, comprehend the peculiar
conditions which influence my action.
Even now you suspect that / am de-
celtful-a masked shan like those
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Tariff Revision.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
The reason that tariff revision can
not be vltalized into dominant is
sue is that the people are much more
concerned about more immediate, In
portant and pressing questions. Since
the Dingley rates were adopted 10
years ago the change of conditions
has probably, made some of them in
equitable and excessive; but at the
same time imports have greatly in.
creased, and American production has
so advanced that the rates are of less
consequence. Whether the duty on
steel rails shall be a few dollars more
or less when the great bulk of the
steel rails we use Is sure to be made
on American soil anyway is a ques.
ton that is not deeply agitating the
average American breast, The aver.
age American citizen is not thinking
so much about what the Steel Trust
is making the railroads pay as about
what the trusts that deal with food
and transportation and all the mat
tiers of daily life are making the ayes
age citizen pay.
In short, the people are much more
interested in questions OF corporate
abuses and combination Of predatory
wealth for self,enrichmsat at the sen.
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erai expense than they are lns tarifl
revision and any attempt to super
sede the former With tie latter win
end In failure Issues are not made;
they grow out Of events. The pub
lie mind Is now dxed on he evils
which hare gown up with the deyeI-
opment Of great combinations and on
the measures which must be taken
for their suppression or amelIoration.
and It viii not be diverted by the
thresdbare discussion Of tariH reEi-
sion. That win come in due time as
a part Of a progressive eour.e Of ad.
minlstration; but the live issues VIII
be those on which the public thought
has been concentrated for the last
three or four years.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-09

CLARKsBURG, Aug: S. = A ten
thousand-dollar damage suit was In
stituted Wednesday in Circuit Court
by Mrs. Villa Wolfe, of Mt. Clare
wife of Wade Wolfe, by her attorney,
e. C. Smith, against Charles E. Lam
berd. manager of the Watts.Lamberd
Company, merchants. Recovery is
sought for an alleged assault and de,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-09

The Kelley.Findley Lumber Co. IS
this week unloading a big car Of red
cedar shingles, and can now supply
The Eanes Of all those needing shingles.
They always carry asbig stock Of the
famous Redwood rooang also. 81
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The Traitor by Thos. Dixon, Jr.. on
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ELI WILSON,
Administrator.
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Middletown transcript., 1907-09-21
GEORGE .. sHAw's VIEW OF AMERICA

nThe woman is intellectually, the
better man ia orr country" suggested.
There are interesting things about the
American woman. She does really be.
lieve in enjoying herself. She has no
conscience. I"
.sNone at aiI7' inquired.
"No. She comes over here and delib.
erateiy sets out having what you call q
good time There is very cufie6e
movement here. For long time we have
had complaints OF the American woman.
II you read our novels which profess to
deal with society, and our social articles
or listen to the conversation OF men about
the American woman, you will find there
are two complaints always recurring.
One is that che has no conscience, which
makes her very hopeful social phenom-
enon, and the other is that she has no
sex. / dou't profess to know why other
people say tiIis. think, Of course, the
American women will probably get rid OF
all this intellectual diecufsivenees and
this power OF interesting ltrself in all
manner OF things when she gets educated
by living in really civilized cfuntry in
stead OF that hopeless, provincial, colonial
place on the other side OF the Atlantic.
But as she throws off all that intellectual
discursiyeness and that second hand stuff
she gets out of books and centres herself
more and more on herself and her immed-
late feelings, she will probably get q con-
science, and she will alaa get what Eng.
lish people call sex. That Of course is q
very doubtful advantage, because the ten
dency OF the English woman is to have
too much sex. 1t is because she eats too
much. don't know what the American
woman eats, added Mr.. Shaw interroRa-
lively.
1--WE have much better food over there
than you do here--inore vegetables and a
great deal Of fruit explained.
ssWell, tile English women, Of course,
| say that you don't know what eating is,
and that You have bad compiexions but
that appears to me to be q litel.' said Mr..
Shaw calamity. You certainly know
how to take care OF yourselves, but, 81
course, we are now talking about Ameri,
can women who command money The
actual mass Of American women are
simply slaves. Tbs exploitation oI
women in America is ht rror; itssis hid,
eous. .n-IntsFview with g. B. Shaw IN
J the Cosmopolitan.
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-21
TN Augusta, Me.)
NABBED THE GIRLS
Police Break Up Vaudeville Psrforman

Police Break Up q Vaudeville Performance
at Togus, Monday Evening
In response to a telephone massage
from-Togus last evening which stated that
some yoang fellows and girls were out in
that vicinity conducting themselves in a
way that was not exactly within the limit
of proper sty, City Marshal Fletcher and
Deputy Marshal Parmenter went out to
look the. matter up.
The place where the alleged exhibition
was going on was in the locality known
as the ''snow plow," and near the Smith
house, and on arriving there the officers
found the girls, but the boys had skip
ped.
Two girls named Mary O'Brien. aged
20, and Marcia Crummett, aged about %,
were arrested for being drunk and disor-
derly and were brought into the city.
They will be given hearing at the mum
icipal court this morning.
The Monday morning budget OF busi-
ness at the municipal court included four
cases, all of which resulted from arrests
for drunkenness, The prisoners were
Charles Seeley, of Augusta. who was given
10 days on the hill. and Frank Baker, of
Gadriner, and Charles Jones and Charles
Hassan, of Alma, each of whom was fined
$5, and all paid.-Kennebec Journal,
Augusta, Me-, Sept. 10.
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-21
Boycott in BiddeSord-Full Measure De-
manded

Boycott in Biddeford-Full Measure De-
This boy colt is aimed at rum-sellers,
alleged druggists and others, who are Civ.
ing short measure.
Il isclaimed that these rumsellers are
not selling bad Ehiskey at good money
prices, but that they are handing out the
stuff in bottles that are an ounce or two
short in measure.
Pint bottles are handed over thet coun-
ters and bars that hold scant IA ounces
and half pint bottles that not more than
6 ounces instead Of 5 can be squeezed into.
Patrons OF these joints declare they
will not submit to this imposition, that
it is bad enough to have to put up with
washing fluid and other poisons in the
shape Of whiskey. for which they are
called upon to pay gilt-edged prices,
without having the measure cut down
two ounces on pints aud half pints.
For this reason boycott has been
organized or is shortly to be organized
against the short measure artists.
The new boycott had its inception in
the lower part Of the city, where regular
and frequent patrons of the joints have
banded together, or are about to band
together in an iron clad agreement TO
patronize no place where short measure
bottles are used. They will demand that
full measure be given for their money or
they will transfer their patronage 10
rumshops that give eight ounces for 4
half pint and l6 ounces for pint Tbsy
declare they are sick Of being robbed.
With well directed boycott aimed at
Them and carried out some Of the joint
keeikra would be forced to turn their
signs to the wall. -Biddeiord, September
IL.
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-21
rHE sEHrINEL,a ExpasR

The Record was surprised upon taking
up the Waterville Sentinel tlds morning,
to find the expose OF the rum situation in
Biddleford. 1t was not expecting any
thing of the kind and had no intimation
that any Sentinel man had been here on
such an errand
The Record has repeatedly stated the
conditions as being just as the Sentinel
found them, except that when the tene-
ment dives and kitchen parrooms are
included 100 places where liquor is sold is
althgether too low an estimate.
And he tells the readers Of the Sentinel
just how things are in Rfddeford, just
what We all know them to be. He does
not exaggerate. There is no occasion to.
He tells the truth and tells it mildly at
that.
Middletown transcript., 1907-09-21
From the Portland, Me-, Express, Sep.
tember 9, 1907
THE COURT ovERFIows WITH DRUNKs

THE COURT 0vERFL0WS WITH DRUEKs
The Municipal Court room was unus-
ually crowded this morning, all the avail
able seating capacity being taken up be.
fore the opening of court. The dock was
filed from end to end with respondents
charged with intoxication, and the over
flow was taken care of in the seats reserv-
ed for witnesses. Many of the, respon-
dents we're old offenders whose faces have
appeared so often in the dock that, as
Recorder Whelden said this morning, he
was tired of seeing them. They are no
sooner out OF Jail than they are brought
in again for fresh sentence, and it would
seem from the nonebalance with which
man Of them receive the decree Of
the. court, that they. would rather
live in jail than anywhere else. One
man who was in court the last OF the
week and was permitted to pay fine in
stead OF being sent to Jail, on condition
that he would never again appear before
the court, was in the dock again this morn
ing and the recorder lost no time in CIV
ing him 80 days.
Although John McDonough denied
committing an assault on his friend Sears
he admitted that be was intoxicated and
could not account for having in alterca-
tion with him, but the testimony of Off
Ger Thompson and also of Sears, who
was present in court, showed that the
assault was brutal and unprovoked, and
the respondent was found guilty on both
charges, his sentence being $40 and costs
for assault, and s. and costs for intox-
icating.