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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

bank becomes continuously responsi- ble for the redemption of all emeI- gency notes taken out by it's associa- tion. The Aldrich-Vreeland scheme does not provide for withdrawals. On.o in always in. is it's rule.
 The emergency measure is thus rem dered imperative, and the prospect is not good that a second currency asso- citation will ever be organized, for there are other defects in the law. It was drawn in the interest of the bond holding east, and it's provisions bear heavily against the use of commercial paper as a basis for the issue of emer- gency notes. The bill favors the use of bonds. A few banks may put up bonds without the intervention of cur rency associations, but so far as the country at large is concerned it is a dead letter. The notes will be issued under it's terms with commercial paper as a basis. The east does not want an assets currency, and the cunning Aldrich drew the bill to meet the wishes of the interests he particularly represents.
 It is, however, good enough until after the November election, and next winter the currency discussion will be reopened, and the work of preparing an effective bill will perhaps be done. The present bill is imperative, expens' i've and defective.
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Careless About Facts.

with regard to campaign literature and campaign oratory some allowance is made for exaggerated statements ana the habit of politicians to juggle with facts. but I have no patience with the men who make reckless statements or those who grossly misrepresent facts' said an old democrat.
 "The time will never come, perhaps, when an exciting canvass will be con ducted on such a high plane that the campaign lie will be missing, but there is no excuse for men representing political party to take rumors and 1dle reports and present them to the puplc as facts.
 Eugene Debs, in his speech at Oma- ha Thursday, is quoted In an Associated Press dispatch as saying that in Ala bama 5000 mines were almost starved to death.' If there had been shadow of truth in such a statement no one would have criticized Debs for max ing capital of it, but as his statement was made up out of the whole cloth, if was inexcusab1e for him to have given utterance to it. No matter what else might have been said about the miners strike, no one could truthfully say that the strikers lacked food. It was the constant boast of the United Mine Workers who were conducting the strike that the rations distributed to the men ard tn heir families were bountiful Had the strike continued into the winter, there would have been much suffering, no doubt, but in the summer time an abundance of solid food enabled the idle men to live We'll
 q am jealous for the reputation of the Birming gham district and it hurts me, therefore, to see statements such as that made by Debs given wide cir culation; but l suppose there is no way to prevent it."
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clined these invitations he would have gone hungry.
 His discovery of Mrs. Hall mother of a charming group of girl friends in Bos- ton, and of his old friends, Mrs Howe and her daughter Maud, were bright spots in this cheerless period. The dinners to which these ladies invited him were often providential interpositions between him and starvation.
 At length his wardrobe became so re- duced that attendance at any but the most informal entertainments became out of the question, and finally he had to give up these. Soon he was mixing the seams of his coat and wandered about shunning friends for fear they would learn to what a condition he was reduced.
 "Often," he admitted, T stayed in bed and slept because when l was awake I was hungry. Foot sore, I would gaze into the windows of restaurants, bakeries and fruit shops thinking the food dis played in them the most tempting and beautiful sight in the world. There were times when I literally dined on sights and smells.''
 He did every species of dramatic and musical hack work in drawing rooms in clubs. and in special performances in theatres. Sometimes he got into an ob- scure provincial company but he said that his very cleverness was a kind of curse, since the harder he worked and the better the audiences liked him, the quicker he was discharged. The estab- lished favorites of these little companies always struck when a newcomer made hit.
 His humor did not forsake him; but 1t became somewhat cynical. The equal he1plessness of success or failure begot a kind of audacity which broke out in the most unexpected caprices
 In one instance when he foresaw im- mediate dismissal he executed a sweet revenge on a jealous comedian who, with Mansfield and one other. sang a trio. As each came forward for his verse the other two sat back on either side of the stage. then rose, joined in the chorus, danced a few steps, and fell back again into the chairs. While the comedian was work irg hard down front Mansfield ostenta- tiously took a large pin from the lapel of his coat, with great pains bent it as eN cry school boy knows how, and getting his cue, suddenly to join in the chorus, quickly put the bent pin in his own chair. At the conclusion of the dance he swung round before the chair and assumed to sit down with violence. As he was just about to touch the chair he reached for the pin, and the audience which had all this time paid no attention to the come- dian now roared with laughter.
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iCh-Yreeland Act a Failure

The experience of the summer shows that the Aldrich-Vreeland makeshift currency act is a failure. Only one currency association has been fully organized, that of Washington, D. G.. and it is improbable that the Washing ton association will ever take out any emergency notes. Seven or eight other applications have been filed, but no steps are being taken to perfect any of them.
 The reason of the prevailing inaction on the part of the banks is found in the fact that the crude act which was passed as political necessity pro- vides no means whereby bank can withdraw from currency association once 1t has joined it. Once in one a
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the buying is the fact that it is scattered and that all kinds of iron are being bought in all sections of the country This shows the fact that general conditions are in better shape. In fact, the whole his- tory of the iron trade at the present time is that of a convalescent market The market has been very sick indeed, but for six months now a steady improve ment has been noted. It has been slow but it has been sure.
 ''There is no boom in the trade at the present time. and there is no boom in sight, but that things will keep on grad ually growing better and better seems certain. Consumers of iron are having more places to put their product and they are using more and more iron. It is highly encouraging, too, to note that the iron trade is at the present time in such a fair situation, remembering that the railroads have been buying nothing, and that this very large element of prosper ity in the iron trade has been lacking. Just now the railroads seem about to wake up again."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05
I,eDer John R. Early

The North Carolina officials have discarded Citizen Early, his wife and child, although they are each and all North Carolinians who have honoraple records. Early enlisted in the army and was sent to the Philippines. He had a girl wife, and the pair have a little child 3 or 4 years old. After he had been served out his term of enlist ment he was honorably discharged at Washington, when the doctors discov- cred that he had become leper. He was isolated, and when his wife anu child were called to Washington they were cared for by the Salvation Army.
 But the story does not end here. Early's misfortune came to him in the course of duty in the Philippines and the government is about to grant him a pension of SIP month, the highest allowance that the law permits. He is to have a house in a distant corner of the extensive grounds of the Sol diers' Home, and the good people of Washington are subscribing money that will enable Mrs. Early to build a cottage near the enforced residence of her husband. The people of Washing ton have tenderer hearts than the peo- pie of MT. Early's own state, and the afflicted man and his good wife are very grateful.
 Both MT. and Mrs. Early are honest and trustworthy. They are to see eacn other daily, but are not to come within touch. The Washington Times pre- sents picture of days visit paid by Mrs. Early and the little child to Mr.
 Early They sit within conversational distance. The case is deeply pathetic, but between the government and the good people of Washington it is to be relieved of the bangs of poverty. All that can be done for the family of three will be done, now that the commis- sioner of pensions has found a way to pay MT. Early a pension without re- l ceiving back paper that he had l handled. The pension is to be paid to l the commandant of the Soldiers Home.
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LIBERTY.

By John Hay. what man is there so bold that he should
 say "This, and this only, would l have the
 Sea?' For whether lying calm and beautiful, Clasping the earth in love, and throwing
 back The smile of heaven from waves of ame-
 thyst; or whethep freshened by the busy winds, 1t bears the trade and navies of the
 world To ends of use and stern activity; Or whether, held by tempests it gives way TO elemental fury. howls and roars At all its rocky barriers. in wild lust Of ruin drinks the blood of living things, And strews it's wrecks OCT leagues of
 desolate shore Always 1t is the Sea, and men bow down Before its vast and varied majesty. So all in vain will timorous ones essay To set the meters and bounds of Liberty. For Freedom is it's own eternal law; It makes its own conditions, and in
 storm Or calm alike fulfills the unerring Will. Let us not then despise it when it lies Still as sleeping lion. while swarm Of gnat-like evils hover round it's head; Nor doubt it when in mad, disjointed
 times It shakes the torch of terror, and its cry Shrills o'er the quaking earth, and in the
 flame Of riot and war we see it's awful form Rise by the scaffold, where the crimson ax Rings down its grooves the knell of shud-
 dering things. Forever in thine eyes, o Liberty! Shines that high light whereby the world
 is saved, And though thou slay us. we will trust in
 thee!
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Southern Cotton Mills

Even the New York cotton exchange acknowledges that the takings of the southern mills in the last cotton year exceeded those of the northern mills. The facts and figures are presented in the annual report of Superintendent King, as follows:
 This year Last year Southern mill talNngs.. 2,079, ,434 2494 569 North'n mills & Canada 1,9S9,614 2646347 Total.-.................. 4,O6904S 5,140,916
 The race between the mills of the two sections has of late been close and to some extent in dispute, but there is no dispute about the takings of last year. The southern mills promise to maintain the lead they have at last gained.
 There really need be no rivalry be- tween the two sections, for both have long way to gb before they jointly spin one-half of the crop. One-third Of our crop is spun in this country, and tNo-thirds in foreign lands. When Inls country spins one-half Of it's crop we will have reached the limit perhaps of the home textile industry. The mills of the south would in that event have to be doubled in number and in spin dies, for the size of the American crop will be increased as the years go OH. In ten years a 10000 ,OOO-bale crop will not be at all surprising or inconveni-
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AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Houston Post: The Birmingham Age Herald calls Donald c. Mitchell An hA- ouisite Dreamer" And yet the old man has now just begun to dream
 Washington Herald: The Birmingham Aee-Herald thinks it is going to be dif- fcult to measure the strength ana tne weakness of Governor Hughes
 Montgomery Times: Walls The Birming- ham Age-Herald: Campaigns, alas are not won in banquet halls" No, but champagnes are all the go there.
 Beaumont Enterprise: indictments are plenty at Springfield, H., says The Bir- mingham Age-Herald, but no cohvlc- lions" It was ever thus. It is getting to become distinction to be indicted.
 Columbus Enouirer-Sun: "Hisgen is sure of one vote in New York, that of MT. Hearst" says The Birmingham Age-Hef- ald And, we suppose, Graves is by the same token sure of one vote in Massa- chusetts, that of Hisgen.
 Washington Herald: 'The trouble about train wrecks is, they nearly always in terrupt a funny story in the smoker, says The Birmingham Age-Herald. mat lacks a whole lot of being trouble some- times, to our way of thinking.
 Columbus Enquirer Sun: Says The Bir- mingham Age-Herald: 1.-The season of cholera morbus and politics is in our midst" How awful the combination of ills must be if the effect of the one IS the same as the other. or If both hurt fellow in the same place.
 Jackson News: The Birmingham Age Herald tells us a thrilling story of a cat whipping a rattlesnake in that state. We are not at all surprised. During Governor Corners regime even the rattlesnakes of our sister commonwealth have been sui fering from degeneracy.
 Jackson News: The Birmingham Age Herald has found new fault with train wrecks that is worthy of serious consid- eration. "A train wreck almost invariably interrupts a funny story being told ty some man in the smoker" plantively com plains The Age-Herald. This ought to Dc attended to at once.
 Florence Times: Weeds in cities" says The Birmingham Age-Herald, "are not only a landscape blemish, but they are harbors for mosquitoes, and mosquitoes are apt to create malarial diseases. No weed should be left standing within the city's bounds This is the way to secure public health and public beauty"
 Talladega Mountain Home Candidate Chain is willing to accept the votes of those who are not total abstainers, pro- vided they accept the prohibition princi- ple But how can a man be said to ac- cept a principle he does not live up to?- Age-Herald. Do you practice every prin- cipe you advocate. or are you like most of us who are like the preacher who said: Don't do as l do, but as l say do.'
 Altoona Tribune: The Birmingham Age Herald is excited over the fact that the United Mine Workers in the Birmingham district are teaching social equality of whites and negroes in the mining districts. The Age Herald says: Here in Alabama it will not be tolerated at all This so- cial equality movement among United Mine Workers must be stopped at once.'
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Knew Strike Was Ended.

>The ending of the miners strike has had an appreciable effect on Birmingham trade.' said J. E. Shelby, manager of the Cable companys business in this sec- tion of country. T was out of town Sun day and Monday and did not learn that the strike had been called off until I re- turned late Monday night; but when l walked along the street Tuesday morning I would have known the trouble was over, even if l had not seen a newspaper.
 Last week local business was at com plete standstill, and everybody here felt depressed. While it was generally be- lieved that President Lewis of the United Mine Workers, after conferring with the governor and others, would call off the strike, there was a feeling of anxiety for no one knew just what might happen. But with the issuance of Lewis order came sunshine.
 Our companys sales here have been larger since Monday than they were dur ing the entire month of August. The out look for a brisk fall trade in Birmingham is now bright indeed"
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Reoardino Minina Conditions.

"The Empire Coal company took Vaca- ton to make some needed improvements at it's mines while the strike was on. These Improvements will be completed about the middle of this month, and we will then resume operations" said Presi- dent Frank Nelson, Jr
 'gThe strike being thing Of the past. mining conditions will be from this time forward more satisfactory than ever-sat- isfactory alike to the miners and the op- erators."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05
WHILE AWAY FROM HOME.

Birmingham people who are leaving home for vacation trip should have The Age-Herald follow them and thus keep informed about what is taking place in the city and state during their absence. The Aee-Herad will be sent to them at any address at the regular price, and the address will be changed as often as desired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05
DOUBTFUL COMPLIMENT.

From the Chicago News
 Criticus-I overheard compliment at the art exhibition on that painting or yours entitled, "A Decayed Forest.
 DeAuber-Indeed!
 Criticus-Yes. A stranger, after look ing it over carefully, remarked that It was rotten
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PERHAPS IT WAS.

From the Chicago News
 Pa-Yes, Ostend, old Ponce de Leon went into tho wilderness to find the foun- tain of youth.
 ostend-Gee, pop Was it soda water fountain.
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The Iron Market.

"The developments of the week have all been on the right side. Buying has been scattered and of really good vol ume.' say Matthew Addy Co. Prob ably the most satisfactory thing about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

SOME DAY.
 The poorest wight
 May reach the skies,
 Sustained by hope
 That never dies.
 In life and death
 This low refrain
 'srhe price of peace
 Is earthly pain"
 What though we shed
 Unnumbered tears?
 We'll be repaid
 In after years.
 SERIOUS ACCIDENT. "What's the matter? Been in fight?' Did you ever eat corn on the cob?" Sure thing 'Well, that's what I was doing yester- day, and the cob slipped.' .se.
 ABSURD. ''But, have nothing to wear" she pro- tested. Well should hope noti' exclaimed the stage manager. What is your idea of the Salorne dance, any way?'
 THANKSGIVING HINT. Ere long we'll hear those foolish quips We've often heard, Because the jokesmith never skips The turkey bird.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

Robert l.. Burdette, once a humorist is now a Baptist preacher in Los An geles. He breaches in big church to big congregations, which shows that his humor is still appreciated.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

WHEN THE CROSS GROWS HEAVY. lis easy enough to be happy In the glow of the mornings light. But the fellow worth while is the one
 who can smile When he creeps into bed at night. There is hope in the gleam of the sun
 shine
 And joy in the sparkling dew, While 9 perfumes shed from the roses
 red
 And loves in the violets blue. But the test of your strength and your
 courage
 Will come when the shadows fall And the gloom of despair fills the heart
 that you bear And pain is the lord of all.
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There is nothing on Sunday at At lantic City but water, boardWaik anu holdup artists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

Near beer in Georgia sometimes oversteps the line to become trlhe more so than the original article.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

Between a pair of blackened eyes and stay in jail the Earle affinity match is strictly normal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

Wilbur Wright in France and Orville Wright at Fort Myer are the hope or the heavier-than-air crowd.
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There is no joy in Pittsburg, and not much security of feeling in Chicago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

Life is scarcely considered worth living in Pittsburg, now that it has lost it's grip on the pennant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

Some shops are offering more than 57 varieties of canned stump speeches, not one of which bears the label Of the pure food commission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

Maryland's snow storm is still a source of paragraphic comment. It is history, however. and the paragraph CTS association cannot wipe it out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

Our ambassador in Mexico was run down by a bicycle, and splints instead of diplomacy will mend the matter
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PAINFUL PARTING.

PAINFUL PARTING. What is that dreadful racket over in the northern part of the village?' That's old Tightwad giving up dollar to the democratic campaign fund.-
 NOT YET-POSSIBLY SOON.
 used to dream about the day
 When fortune would be mine,
 And all along lifes thorny way
 The golden sun would shine;
 When happiness would take my hand
 And lead me ever on.
 Still waiting round you see me stand,
 Though many years are gone!
 REPLIES. Love licks are never delivered with a rolling pin.
 The greatest of all luxuries is running for office.
 An Ohio infidel who was the author of 'rwenty-one Battles With Relatives and Intolerance has passed away. Death licked him to a standstill. New Jersey has au office boy who is 69 years old He probably buried his last gr&numotner long ago
 Alas how easily things go wrong!' sings poet. Especially automobiles. The Baltimore News discusses Short weight Rascals." There are also few fat rascals.
 An aged gentleman lost his temper the other day and beat a would-be highway man half to death. Much cheaper than losing his purse.
 There are a lot of people in this coun- try who will never believe that Uncle Russell Sage was stuck for more than $1 100000.
 A Cincinnati man who was taken to a hospital threatened to kiss every nurse there. He had evidently sojourned in a hospital before. PAUL COOK.
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The fans of Chicago are getting all the thrills they need as the baseoall season hears it's end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

The stage will be occupied this sea son chiefly by Salomes, and lmitatioh Devils from Hungary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

A man who was standing in one of New York's bread lines was robbed of cents. The hand of the robber knows no limitations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

Oyster Bay will go to join Esopus at the end of this month. Summer capi- tals are shifting and temporary, but so for that matter is the rest of the world
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The Chinese province of Sechuan contains as many people as does the United States, and it has no Carnegie or Rockefeller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

Frontiers cannot be patrolled when the sky becomes full of airshlps'
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The anti-Hughes delegates in the re- publican convention of New York will represent a lonesome lot of petty bosses
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I'll be as patient as a gentle stream, And make a pastime of each weary step.
 Two Gentlemen of Verona.
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Not even an artist should thrash his soul mate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05

The republicans of Minnesota fear Governor Johnsons winning ways, and he is about to begin a whirlwind speak ing campaign that will cover the state. Mir, Jacobson, his opponent, is in the dumps, although he is a Scandinavian.
 South Dakota will on November 3 decide whether it will retain or abolish her quick divorce mills. On this sub- jeet the cities are pitted against the country districts.
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VERY PROUD

Why don't you let your mony work for you?'
 'Umph. I'd be ashland to let thirty cents work for me-"
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PRoLoNGING LIFE.

1hOGONGlNG LIT IL. When a fellow meets a fellow With quart of rye, Need the coppers start to below, If he winks his eye? Who knows but the bold bootlegger May desire to save Some poor, rst-possessing began From an early grave?
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GREETING.

GREETING. Good morning the city man, He makes a little bow; And then he strokes his chin and says, Its getting cooler now"
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HAVE RECKLESS CHAUFFEURS. "rhere are a few misguided editors in this country"
 T shouldn't wonder. Every now and then you hear of one being thrown from an automobien