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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
Tariff Revision and the Deficit

Governmental receipts are running
behind governmental expenses at the
rate of about $11 100000 month, or
1892, 100000 a year Customs receipts
are slowly increasing, but the deficit at
the end of the fiscal year on July L
next will assuredly be about 100000
600.
These figures will enter into con-
sideration of the tariff, and the ways
and means committee undoubtedly
knows that the way to increase impor-
tstion is to cut out prohibitive duties.
The Dingley tariff was largely devised
to fill the pockets of manufacturers
instead of the treasury The prohibit
i've taxes should go, but Aldrich and
Hale and Cannon and Payne and Dali
zell are all committed to prohibitive
duties. The maximum and minimum
scheme has been devised to enable
them to maintain present prohibitive
duties without showing their real de-
sires.
The truth is, there must be either q
general cut downward or else new
taxes il receipts are to be brought up
to disbursements. New taxes would
Quoted with an eye single to the treas
ury instead of the already enriched
manufacturers. An honest revision
downward is what consumers desire.
but it is probably what they will not
get from Aldrich, Dalzell & Co.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
scHwAs's PLACE CLOSED.
His 100000 Mansion Found To Be
Too Expensive Luxury.

From the New York American.
After expanding 100000 in the erection
of his magnificent mansion on Riverside
Drive, Charles M. Schwab, the steel mag
nate, is said to have come to the CON-
clusion that the palace is too expensive
luxury. 1t now has the appearance of a
deserted castle. The servants have been
discharged, the windows and door board
ed up and burglar alarms installed.
The abandonment by Mr.. Schwab of his
ambitious design of maintaining the finest
town house In America Is said to be one
OF the aftermaths of the financial panic.
The grounds on which the edifice is To-
Gated comprise the block bounded by Riv-
erside Drive, West End avenue and Sew
enty-third and Seventy-fourth streets.
The stables are at No. 209 West Seventy
sixth street. A string of blooded horses
and fashionable turnouts was installed
there but they have been sold.
Some time ago it was announced that
Mr.. Schwab would make his permanent
home in Bethlehem, Pa, where his duties
as president of the Bethlehem Steel COM
pary require his time. His position at
the head of the steel company, however,
antedated by many years the erection of
the expensive Riverside establishment, so
that he must have contemplated origi-
nally keeping the New York and Bethle-
hom homes open contemporaneously.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
Political Parties.

The political, situation today from a
national point of view recalls the era of
good feeling which characterized Mon
ros's reelection to the presidency said
l.. S. Gathers of st. Louis.
mi. Monroe was the standard bearer
of the democratic party, styled at that
time democratic-republica and so
strcng ana popular was the party found
ed by jefferson that only one electoral
vote was cast against it's candidate for
re election.
"Wnile at the recent election democrats
cast over 100000 votes and carried the
southern states and a few others, there
is practically no soreness on the part of
the defeated democracy but on the other
hard we have an era of good feeling. I
voted for Mr.. Bryan but like host Of
others, l am inclined to think that Taft's
election has turned out for the best. Bus
mess conditions have certainly improved
and thousands of men who were out of
employment are now being put to work.
"rhe question u.s. will the democratic
party ever win another victory? No party
and one of the arguments in behalf of
Bryan was that the time had come for
change in party administration Mr.. Oh
ney wrote strongly on the line and SO
did Mr. Watterson. But business men
were bent on having business admins
tration such as they felt Taft would give
the country end the business interests are
invincible
'Ispt many of us believe that the DEM
ocratc party, now gone to pieces, will
be reorganized for 1912 and If leader
can ne found who will command con-
side cable part of the business vote Of
New York there is every reason to believe
that The democracy will score victory
-four years hence. Mr.. Taft win make
a model chief executive at the start but
before 1912 he is apt to strike big snags.
Since Grants day no President has been
elected TO succeed himself"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
MARKET OF FRIESLAND

market place by the railway station upon
the towns edge black and white cattle,
sheep goats and pigs to stock hun
dred farms
The cattle are gathered in stalls ranged
along wide avenues. None suffer from
lack OF space or light, and many trees
temper the suns heat on summer days.
They all seem very healthy, thoroughlys
comfortable but the unusual scenes, the
excitement of numbers have their effect
upon the sentlest beast, and when frac-
tious bull or rebellious pig threatens to
break loose from his guardians there is
noise and commotion indescriba ble
1t is surely no place for timid man.
Through one gate pass and repass con-
tinuopsly huge, placid, mld-eyed cows.
scarcely allie to walk, so heavy with
milk are their udders, but dehorning is
not in fashion in Friesland, and they look
formidable enough to encourage lurking
disbelief in their amiability. Through
another gateway so the bulls. willingly
enough sometimes, very sull.y at others;
occasionally one balks and plunges vi
ciously, and there is great scamper to-
aid or evade the battle
Figs are at Leeuwarden by scores.
Rows and rows of straw-filled stalls
where grunt and sleep dozens of wee
white pglets, rows and rows of pens
where their parents await purchasers.
Up and down the lanes go the buyers,
punching, prodding netting until piggy's
sides must be sore, pggy's tai all out of
curl; everywhere there is chaffering and
bargaining, slapping of hands to bind
sales, exchanges of notes and COIN Ev-
erywhere there are soueals, grunts and
yells of disapproval, the clatter of little
hard hoofs. of hobnailod boots or wooden
shoes as some new owner takes posses
sion and endeavors to persuade or to
force his heavy beastie into the way he
would have it 60
There are far more sheep and pigs than
goats, and as many calves OF all ages
both sheep and pigs together. The
market accommodates 5000 head of cattle:
its sales average $4,000 per year: the
market tax amounts to 25,000 or 10000
forms annually.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
WATTERsoNs TRIBUTE.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
1.-THE result of Tuesdays election shows
conclusively that a great majority of the
people of the controlling section of the
union are well content with things as
they are; that it is better to endure the
conceded shortcomings of the party in
power than embark upon an unknown sea
OF continuous agitation: that Bryan meant
this, while Taft meant rest; in short, a
dollar, thought tainted, in hand, is worth
bush full of patriotic distractions.
Tho idiosyncrasy of the time is COM
MERGE. AS, in the last century, it was
liberty reaching out after institutional
freedom-and measurably attaining tit
markets. The average voter of better
education and intelligence takes no
thought of the hereafter and is even more
Indifferent to the heretofore. He is COM
p,etely engrossed by the present That
which Bacon calls the wisdom of our an
cestors makes as little appeal to his rev.
erence or reason as that which Burns
calls light from heaven makes to his
imagination. He would not exchange the
current crop reports with a rising price
list for all the books that were written
on political economy He either carries
the fool of vicanage with him or else
raises rough dust to blind his eyes and
disarm suffrage.
THE result shows that we diversified the
spiritual and understood the material in
the hearts and minds of the people They
were deaf alike to precedents to reason
and to eloquence; for nothing could sur
pass, as nothing has ever equalled, the
personal canvass of Mr.. Bryan; it's won
drous lucidity and power of statement; it's
splendid intellectual and physical endur-
ance; it's unanswerable argument. Nor did
ignatius Loyola sweep through
world of incarnate evil bearing the cross
of Jesus to triumph with greater force
of Inspiration and truth than did the
heroic son of Nebraska traverse land
gaping with curiosity, but too busy over
its work and play to consider any danger
to the immortal soul of its constitutional
fabric.
There Is something yet better than be-
ing President of the United States and
that is the real sense of duty done. TIL
den will live in history when Hayes 10
foi gotten or execrated. History will say
of Bryan that in three great popular
movements. clouded sometimes by errors
Of judgment and obstructed always by
corruption-as we know by insurmount-
able corruption-he led sublimely; that
he set before his countrymen the stand
ards alike OF God and truth: and that
he went down beaten, with clean hands
and high repute, carrying with him &1e
homage of patriotic me-
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Plea for Religious federation.


THE effort made by certain persons
to make Mr.. Taft's connection with the
Unitarian denomination a campaign is
sue for the purpose of drawing votes
from the republican ticket and Presi-
dent Roosevelt's post-election letter on
the subject of religious libe rty, have
concurred to excite interest in Unitari
ansm and caused us to look up the rec
ords of our Presidents regarding their
church affiliations" said member of an
historical club
THE World Almanac, which is ac-
cepted as reliable authority, in its list
of Presidents, with geographic informa-
ton, including church connection,
has the word Unitarian opposite the
name of only one observation-disclosures
but Mr.. Roosevelt mentions John
Quincy Adams as a Unitarian. The
World Almanac puts him down as a
Congrega tionalist. l am inclined to
think that Mr.. Roosevelt is right. The
elder Adams-who succeeded Washing
ton as President, is listed as a Congre-
gationalist and he was such nominally
no doubt, but from my reading /
infer that John Adams, the second
President of the United States, held
Unitarian views, which he might have
done and retained his connection with
the liberal branch of Congregational
ism. In John Adams day there was
no organized Unitarianism in America,
but Unitarian ideas were quite preva-
lent in New England. The term, Uni
tartan was first freely used in about
the year 1915. In John Quincy Adams
day the Unitarian denomination had de-
yeloped considerable strength and
among its ministers were many good
and scholarly men.
What struck me as being absurd
ly inconsistent was the trouble which
some 'holier than thou men tried to stir
up in Taft's case, when Thomas JEFF
ferson, the founder of the democratic
party, was an avowed free thinker and
was to all intent and purposes an
infidel. Mr.. Lincoln was a God fearing,
man, but was a sceptic, and would
have been called in our day an agnostie
Mr. Cleveland another God-fearing
man, was not a member of any church.
Although Mr.. Clevelands father and
his paternal grandfather were Presby-
terrain divines and his wife was an ac-
tive member of the Presbyterian
church, he himself was never a COM
nunicant.
president Roosevelt's insistent and
consistent plea for religious tolerance,
in accordance with the great underly-
ing principle of the American republic
was timely and it will be preserved no
doubt a valuable contribution to
our institutional literature"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
Street DuelS In Politics

The street duel which resulted in the
death of Edward w. Carmack, editor
of the Tennessean and an ex-United
States Senator. in the heighth of his
intellectual power, is before the people
CT Tennessee.
If street duel is to be the way to
adjust political differences then the
man who began one in Nashville
should be acquitted by public opinion.
If, on the other hand, the gun is not
a recognized arbiter of debate in Ten
nessee, he should be condemned, dead
or alive.
1t is not a question of Patterson or
anti-Patterson; it is the question of
law and order In the streets of a city.
The manner in which the courts of
Tennessee, particularly their petit
juries, will handle the cases of father
and son will be the measure of civiliza-
ton In Tennessee, and the rest of the
country will not fail to watch the out
come with interest. The street duel
in politics should either be altogether
abolished or else it should become a
recognized factor in the crisis of public
discussions. Tennessee will soon make
her choice.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAP
MANS HOMER.

BY John Keats.
Much have 1 Travelled in the realms Of
gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms
seem
Round many western islands have 1
been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold
Oft Of one wide expanse had 1 been told
That deep brow'd Homer ruled as his
demesne:
Yet did 1 ever breathe its pure Sc
rene
Till heard Chapman speak out loud and
bold;
Then felt I like some watcher of the
skies
When new plant swings into his
ken;
Or like stout cortez when with eagle
eyes
He stared at the Pacific-and all his
Look'd at each other with wild sur
mise
Silent. upon peak in Darisn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11

From Scribners Magazine for November
~ RIMARILY, we went to Lieut.
n" warden because of its great cat
tie market We had gone to But
termarket in iceland Cheesemarket in
many a Holland town, Beefmarket in
Gelderland, and the spell of trade was
upon us. IN the autumn there was Trek
ell with its great sheep sale. and Tiel,
where the big, glossy, long-tailed horses
were sold by hundreds, but weekly at
Leeuwarden there is held a Veemarkt, a
cattle market in which 1000 domestic ami
mails have been sold in a single morn
ing.
Some one has dubbed Friesland a COW
paradise, and, indeed, the rich green
meadows where milady pastures so luxu-
riously in summer and the dainty stalls
where she Eliminates at leisure upon win
ter days looking out comfortably
through the whitest lace curtains, the
shiniest of polished windows upon a
frost bitten landscape, would seem to
have earned it.
Ee at Leeuwarden some Friday when
every boat, every road is bringing in
SCORES OIL catll6 Ut OtncT ldTu QIOuuGlS
to the great market. You will not be up
early enough to see the first conlers ar
rive, but at 9 they are not yet all in.
That is the time to see the Tristan boer
and the boerin at their best, for they
come not only to sell in the city's mar
kets, but to buy lavishly In the citys
shops and amuse themselves in it's cafes
No poor, struggling peasants are these,
but wealthy cattle breeders whose huge
farmhouses mark the green Tristan
meadows where thousands of placid pie
bald cows and big, woolly sheep roam at
posture.
Although the glossy. 1ong-tailed, high
stepping Tristan horses are famous in
northern Europe, you will find few of
them at the regular weekly market; the
great horse sale takes place but twice a
year. There may be a hundred rather
sorry steeds, but they make small show
ing in a market which holds a thousand
cows. Every Friday morning there come
in bewildering numbers to the great open
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
Regarding Too Much Politics.

Few states have the political turmoil
year in and year out that Tennessee
keeps up" said a member of Birming-
hams Virginia colony. North Carolina
and Georgia have frequent hot campaigns
and Alabama takes turn at politics now
and then, but Tennessee seems to keep
the political cauldron boiling all the
time.
'1n Virginia we had wrathful politics
from 1879 when General Malone entered
the arena. until 1885,. when Gen. Fitzhush
Lee was elected Governor. With. the ex-
ception of the six years covered by that
period political turmoil in the Old Do
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
Hioh Class Music.

Music lovers have genuine treat in
store in the next entertainment of the
Music Study club, November 10, when
Frank Croxton, basso, and Eleanor Stark
Stanley, pianist, will be the attractions
said a critic. Mr.. Croxton gave a re-
cital here last season and it was an
exceptionally fine musical event. He
cane without much heralding and a more
modest gentleman one seldom finds, but
not many of the distinguished singers are
equal to him. He has a splendid voice
and musicianly training and every classic
piece he sang was delivered with beau
tiful finish and interpretative authority.
II have. never heard Eleanor Stark
STANLEY but she enjoys high reputation
as a pianist.
THE entertainment will take place
at Cable hall and it will be a mat
inee--2:S0 o'clock"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
Gathering the Crop

The dry, favorable weather is hurry
ing the crop to.the gins and to market.
Up to November l there had been gin
ned S199,7 S2 bales as against 6,12S.562
bales at the corresponding time of last
year.
The cotton crop of the year ended
September l last was 11,571, 966 bales,
but it does not follow that the crop of
the present cotton year will be 2000,-
600 bales more because the ginning to
date outruns the ginning of last fall
to that extent. The forwardness of the
crop on account of favorable weather
should be taken into consideration.
Still it is undeniable that the crop is
turning out larger than many had pre-
dicted. A crop at least / ,000,0 bales
larger than that of 1906-07 is probable,
and the world needs crop of that size.
In Alabama S94,123 bales had been
ginned up to November 1. The crop of
this state last year was LII 900 bales.
Last years crop in Alabama will be
exceeded this year, but no one expects
this years crop to rise to the record.
breaking crop of 19O4-05. That crop was
100000 bales, and it will probably
stand good while as this states rec
ord crop.
The rapid picking and harvesting
throughout the cotton belt is counter
balanced BIZ the ending of the strike in
the Lancashire mills, and the opening
of additional American mills. The con,
sumptive demand bids fair to be ma.
, terially increased, and the price of the
staple is steady when not going up
ward. The outlook can by no means
be considered unfavorable when all the
spindles are whirling. 1t is a rising
market.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
BRYAN's PET STORY.
New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram.
The pet story of William Jennings
Bryan, according to the Chicago Tribune,
is this:
"A man under the influence of liquor in
vaded a dance somewhere down in Texas
AS soon as he wandered on the floor the
chairman of the reception committee spot
ted him and gently led him from the hall
1.-The Woody individual stood on the cor
ner for few moments, and then returned.
This time he was pushed somewhat vigor-
ously into the hallway.
He took walk around the block and
returned for third time. This time the
entire reception committee kicked him
down stairs. Just as he landed on the
sidewalk friend came along and said:
Bill, what's the natter
bill scratched his head, felt his bumps
and bruises, and said:
I know what is the matter with those
people UP there. They can't fool me.
They don't want me in there
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THE SIMPLE LIFE.

From Epicurus.
When any man may, if he please, thus
live at peace and liberty abroad In the
open fields, or his own gardens, what
reason is there why he should affect and
pursue honors and not rather modestly
bound his desires with the calmness and
security of that condition? For to hunt
after glory by the ostentation of virtue,
of science, of eloquence, of nobility of
wealth, of attendants, of rich clothes, of
beauty, Of garb and the like-seriously it
is altogether the fame of ridiculous van
ity; and in all things modesty exacts no
more than this. that we do not, through
rusticity, want of a decent garb or too
much negligence, do anything that doth
not correspond with civility and decorum.
For it is equally vile and doth as much
denote base or abject mind to grow In
dolent and lofty upon the possession of
these adjuncts of magnificence. as to be-
come detected or sunk in spirit at tho
loss or want of them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
Jobbers, Business Increasing.

three weeks before November and trav-
cling statesmen found business almost nor
NAL in many sections of the country; but
now that the campaign is a thing of
the past, merchants are buying with more
confidence and the general tone of trade
is vastly improved" said the representa-
tive of a Philadelphia jobbing house.
Business will continue to improve until
we approach the holiday season and
think it safe to predict that after the
middle of January trade will be brisk
throughout the country"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
ThanksaIvina Day.

Thanksgiving Day of last year came
soon after the panic but the great ma
jority of people had much to be thankful
for" said business man. "They gave
thanks because the panic might have been
even worse than it was.
THE approaching Thanksgiving will
find nearly everybody in a thankful mood,
for prosperity is returning and good times
are just ahead of us. In view of the i'm
proved conditions, therefore. Thanksgiving
will be a joyous holiday and will be OBJ
served with unusual whole-heartedness."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
HE PAID HIS FOOL BET.
al to the New York World.

Atlantic City,. f. Smith, said
to be a rich western visitor, to settle
an election bet knelt at every crack in
the boardwalk in front of Young's Ocean
Pier this afternoon and yelled: ~ voted
for Bryant He wore dress suit with
the trousers turned around
BY doing this he saved $1,000 put up as
forfeit. A jeering crowd of friends of
both betters carried magophones,
through which they called attention to
the feat being performed by the per-
spring victim.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
the New York Press

Where a girl is so clever with men
is making them think she thinks they
are.
The only mission a good many peo-
pie worthily perform in life is when they
get out of 1t.
The reason people seldom ever learn a
thing we'll is they begin at it by think
ing they know all about It,
A bride has such an imagination she
can 20 on believing 1t is still the honey
moon when It's just housekeeping.
womans explanation Of why she
played a hand Of whist the way she did
is as convincing as mans illumination
Of how he ought to have won bet
but lost II.
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minion has not been fierce enough to
disturb business.
"A lively campaign about every four
years is a good thing for a state. but
when campaigns are in progress all the
while business feels the excitement and
the people grow weary The defeat of
the amendment making biennial sessions
of the legislature of Alabama possible
seems a clear indication that the people
of this state desire political rest"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
OMISSIONS oE History.
I'M the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
The Pilgrim Fathers had just landed at
Plymouth Rock.
Just the thing" they exclaimed with
enthusiasm, for a New England farm!
Whereupon they proceeded to plant the
tree of liberty right there
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Iron Market,

The pig iron market is showing in
creased activity but it is free from ex-
citing features. The price is well hard
ened at s1S and all indications point
to gradual advance 1t is generally
believed that the price will reach s14
before the end of the month.
The Birmingham tonnage contracted for
Within the past two weeks is estimated
at something like $1,000.