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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
NOT A IRREGULAR GUIDE"
Sometimes That Kind Isn't Needed Ir
 Alaska, Where Men Are Honest.

Rex Beach in November Everybody's.
 As to guides, there were no regular guides in this neighborhood, since there were no tourists-every resident had to earn his money honestly But there were fellows about who knew the woods-Joe Ibach, for instance. He had just come in from a prospecting trip and might care to go a-bear hunting. So we descended upon Joe Certainly he'd go. He didn't care to guide. however, as he had never gid" any, but hed show us lot of bears, he'd carry the outfit, row a boat, do the cook ing, chop the wood, build the fires and perform the other labors of the camp.
 AS for regular guiding, though, he guessed we'd have to see to that ourselves until he learned how. When we spoke about wages, he said he didn't think that sort of thing was worth money, showing conelusively that he was not a real guide. He had long. square jaw and a steady eye, which looked good to us, so we agreed to do the guiding if he would do the rest of the things he had mentioned and see that we did not get lost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
BALLOON JUSTICE.

From the Washington Post.
 A Berlin balloonist, who found himself unwillingly coming to earth, whipped out his last sand bag and flung it between 8 baby carriage and perambulating nurse. The latter's screams so disconcerted the aeronaut that he lunged bag and baggage into a third-story window, smashing wall and roof and arousng the ire of the bespectacled student residing there. The balloonist squared himself with the stu- dent by smothering him under an armful of huge, misshapen, nine-cornered Ger man oaths but not so luckily fared the nurse girl. Against her he lodged a com plaint in the nearest court, on the plea that her screams and confused him and she had no right to do it. The judge took cognizance of it and the nurse girl is now awaiting trial in a donjon keep
 Now, this is quite as it should be. What right has hysterical nurse to dsconcert an errant aerialist? This is the age of the conquerors of the air and they must prevail by the same tactics pursued by the conquerors of the earth when any thing bothers them in their course. Alex ander destroyed cities, the Romans sowed salt on the populous places of their van quished enemies and the Spaniards, in subduing the New World, withered city and citizen before them.
 Therefore, let the aeronaut eliminate from his path all interfering obstacles, though it be necessary even to wipe out buildings and abolish babies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
Planters Versus SpinnerS

While the cotton brokers in New York are predicting a crop of 13, 400, 900 bales, the producers themselves are meeting in Memphis and New Orleans to put the price of the staple up. The problem is one not easily solved.
 The representatives of the Farmers unions sitting in New Orleans seem in. clined to favor a mammoth warehouse in New Orleans, backed by lesser ware, houses in the other producing states. Cotton is to be stored in these warehouses when prices are unsatis. factory, and while it is held in storage warehouse certificates are to be issued These certificates are to be negotiable at the banks. The bankers of New Or. leans seem to think that $50 ,000, ,0OO could be advanced on cotton held in the proposed warehouses
 President Jordan of the Southern Cotton association, now in session at Memphis. also advocates a chain of warehouses. He also urges the farm CTS to hold back cotton pending the building of the warehouses.
 The two big conferences will prove
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
------------ses------ COREA'S CAPTIVE EMPEROR

From Leslie S Weekly
 There has scarcely ever been a more pitiful figure in history than that of the ex-Emperor of Corea, who, since his dep- osition by the Japanese conquerors of his country has been kept virtual prisoner. At the time of his forced abdication of the throne, the ruler was wealthy, his fortune being estimated at s40.O00, 600. But all that money has been turned into the public treasury, and today the eX-emperor is a pauper, living in a small cottage in one of the palace inclosures at Seoul. He is closely guarded by Japanese police and spies, and nobody is allowed to communi- cate with him except in their presence. Even his son, who now occupies the throne, is not allow ed to visit him except under Japanese escort. It is explained that these precautions are taken by the Japanese because the eX-emperor Is sus- pected of inspiring the acts of insurrec- tion recorded from time to time in va rious parts of the kingdom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
ONE TIPPLE FOR TWO coLoNELs.

Beau Broadway in the New York Tele- graph
 "The old National hotel in Washing ton used to be the hangout of the best collection of colonels," said the veteran actor to me
 All of them were habitually broke while looking for government positions. Colonel Calhoun and Colonel Boone scraped up 15 cents somehow this being the price of one portion of Bourbon.
 Have little tipple, Boone? says Calhoun.
 " No, sir; l am abstemious,' was the re- ply
 Calhoun filled his glass to the brim, drank half of it, smacked his lips and spoke as follows: --" That, suh. is suah huff the best lick CT l have ever tasted. No, Boone, taste this and pass judgment. It will recall to your mind the joyous feuds of Kain- tuck
 Well. if you insist said Boone as he hastily gobbled up the remaining booze.
 Thus the pair of them got a drink apiece for the price of one
 "'Can you beat it?' said the barkeep to me-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Frederick wards,s 1 entnre-

Those who heard Frederick Warde in his lecture on Shakespeare and His Plays in the Lyceum course at the High school auditorium last night spoke of the entertainment with unstinted praise. Years ago Mir. Warde attained high rank as an actor in legitimate drama He appeared in a variety of roles | and in all he won the hearty applause of discriminating audiences. He was es pecially successful in the robust char aeters of classic tragedy. including the Shakespeare plays With his ripe experi- enee on the stage, therefore. combined with scholarly reading, literary acumen, and fine sense of humor, MT Warde is a brilliant star on the lecture platform. He evidently finds the lyceum field thor oughly congenial for he is in the best of health and spirits Last night he was indeed in splendid form. He addressed a large and cultured audience and it would not be easy to recall literary attraction in Birmingham in recent years that has given such unqualified pleasure as Wardes evening with Shakespeare
 In the first place Mir. Warde has a rich voice and his manner of speech is eloquent In the next place he is scholar ly without being pedantic. He loves Shakespeare and he has the ready faculty of stirring the imagination and making others see and love the immortal bard as he does. And in the third place he in- tersperses his lecture with poetic lines and profound passages from the plays, declaiming them as only a great his- trione can. Other actors have delivered felicitous addresses on occasions and have given readings now and then but Warde is the only player who has taken up as a distinct profession, so to speak, the plat form discussion and presentation of Shakespeare, from an actors point of view
 MT Warde has a series of lectures on Shakespeares playes and each of them is said to have exceptional literary merit. His discourse last evening was certainly most excellent as a literary composition. It was at once informing and scintillat- ing and it goes without saying that it's delivery was captivating from beginning to end.
 In closing his lecture MT. Warde warned his hearers against the commentators. There had been too much literary anal ysis, he thought Shakespeare had written his plays, MT. Warde said, to be acted on the boards and to be understood by intelligent actors and by intelligent audiences. It was the commentator who was forever trying to find new and hid den meanings in the lines.
 Shakespeare should be read over three times at least,'' said Warde. "The first time you should read for the story, the second time for the poetry and the third time for the philosophy. And read the plays without a commentary. You will need glossary for the archaic words but do not bother yourself about various readings"
 MT. Warde was on the stage an hour and three-quarters but the interest was intense and the time seemed short.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
SeDaratlOn of the Races

The colored students do not want to be thrust into mixed schools. They prefer schools of their own, and the whites wholly agree with them. This is why the decision of the United States supreme court in the Berea col lege case is acceptable to all
 The court decided, first, that the Kentucky statute providing for the separation of black from white stu dents is not in conflict with the char ter of Berea college, and that conse- quently it's enforcement constitutes no impairment of the obligations of con tract. By reserving the right to amend @ charter Kentucky retained the right to do it's amending even in a general statute. The court decided in the sec ond place that under the conditions as to population, life, order. etc, as they exist in Kentucky, it is not an unrea- sonable exercise of the police power of a state to separate the races in the colleges.
 By vote of seven to two-Justices Day and Harlan dissenting-the court upheld the police powers of the states It upheld those states that believe in  giving the negro the rights and privi- ieges to which he is entitled while they keep the two races separate and apart, thus avoiding social equality and many outbreaks. The plan means peace between the races, and that is what all want, blacks as well as whites. The plan of keeping the races apart IS practically handed by the supreme court over to the states, and the more separation we have in public places the less friction will there be between the two races.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
INFLUENCE OF AFRICA.
Foreigner Quickly Deeenerates Who
 Goes to the Interior.

From the Washington Herald.
 "It is astonishing how quickly the for eigner degenerates in Africa" said Will liam B. Thatcher, mining prospector of New York at the New Willard last night. MT. Thatcher recently returned from a trip through Liberia, where he went to examine mining properties.
 "The foreigner" continued Mir. Thatch- CT, "is himself conscious of this degen- eracy. but is apparently powerless to over come the downward tendency. Climatic conditions influence the mental and moral as well as the physical and social condi- ton of a European. Africa is the home of some peculiar maladies, among the most violent of which are the fever, the ulcer, the kra-kra, and the yaws.
 "A stranger, in coing to Africa, is sure to have the African fever or it's equiva- lent, which sometimes manifests itself in an ulcer which has been known to fasten itself upon the body, with all it's hideous consequences for more than F years. The climate and the fever leave the pa tient with his energy gone, his health im- paired and his will shattered. Europeans find it necessary to make annual trips to the Madeira Islands or to the continent to build up their strength.
 "The social life of the interior has a degenerating tendency on the morals of the foreigner also. Illustrations in so cial and moral degeneracy are numerous among white and black foreigners. These victims have not been confined to the secular life, but have been found in the religious life also. Men and women who came to teach and to lift up have. been found among the victims. not merely of heathenism, but of wanton immortality.
 Liberia and it's native population have been badly treated Many who go there go apparently with very little purpose to do the natives good Their sole purpose is to get all they can from the country. and out of the people, without any refer enece to the moral and intellectual de- velopment. Their aim is to get rich quickly and to retire to other parts more congenial. This has been unfortunate for the natives.
 Tt is commonly asserted by foreigners. when comparing the natives on the coast with his neighbors in the interior, that they prefer to deal with the latter, who has had no contact with European civili- zation. They say that contact with civili- zation teaches the native to be less hon est less moral and less docile. The ob- servation in many instances is true. The heather has been corrupted; he has been cheated and made the victim of sharp practice; he has been demoralzed by strong drink of tie meanest brand, which has left him sullen and suspicious. It is unfair to attribute this degradation to contact with European civilization. It Is contact with selfish greed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
"chEW YOUR WHIskY.n
Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 A new and novel cure for drunkenness is proposed by the now famous MT. Fletcher, who took a hint from the wise old cud-chewing COW, and invented per petual mastication. MT. Fletcher has applied to inebriates his discoveries rela- tive to mastication, and asserts that his method has made prohibitionists of a large number of hard drinkers. The rem edy is simple. Instead of guping down the usual three fingers in the old, fa- milar way, letting it irradiate its sun shine in ones internal mechanism as pre- scribed in the ancient Bacchic rites, the whisky is taken in sips by the patient or victim, who proceeds to chew it stolidly for 15 or 20 minutes, gurgling it around in his mouth until 1t is thor oughIy insalivated. This Fletcher says, creates a physical intolerance of excess, and it is not long before the victim is taking his tnips'' with a medicine drop per Chew your whisky that's the secret of temnerance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
About Persons.

Julian Fleetwood, formerly connected with the Birmingham and Atlantic rail- road in Talladega, passed through Bir- mingham last night on his way to Hunts vile where he will meet President Me Cord of the Huntsville and Nashville railroad. This road will break dirt next week and MT. Fleetwood will probably take charge of part of the construction work. He is an experienced young rail- road man, having been connected with a number of new roads during their begin nings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
PAWNS.

From Omar Khayyam. We are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes, that come and
 go
 Round with the -illumned lantern
 held In midnight by the Master of the show. But helpless pieces of the game He
 plays Upon this checkerboard of nights and
 days; Either and thither moves, and checks.
 and stays, And one by one back in the closet lays. The ball no question makes of ayes and
 noes; But here or there as strikes the player
 goes
 And he that tossed you down into the
 field, He knows about it all-He knows-He
 knows The moving finger writes. and having
 writ, Moves on, nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure 1t back to cancel half Nor all all your tears wash ont 2, word
 of it. !
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
TOMORROW LAND.

Tomorrow Land, Tomorrow Land
 'Tis where we'd ever be, Where all our dreams shall yet come true And joy shall set LIS free. Beyond the glint of evening stars,
 Beyond the purple glow Of sunset lies Tomorrow Land,
 A land where flowers blow Tomorrow Land, Tomorrow Land,
 O land we most desire, Where youths sweet blossom never fades And pleasures never tire; Where love is monarch of the realm And ruler there for aye, And all the heartache of the years
 Is gone with yesterday Tomorrow Land, Tomorrow Land,
 O land of all delight, Where mornings beams shall dissipate The shadows of the night. And pain shall be a memory
 And care shall come no more To vex the happy traveller
 Upon that golden shore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
The Iron Market.

The pig iron market is firm and active, but there is no excitement. The north ern furnace interests had experienced dull times prior to the election. They had been quoting about s1 under the Birming- ham schedule, but now that they have marked up prices and southern and north- ern irons are on parity, the tendency will be decidedly upward. The Tennes- see, the Sloss and other large concerns continue to quote SIS for No. 2.
 President J. c. Maben of the Sloss. Sheffield said last night: q have not felt as optimistic for a long time as l dc now. The improvement in business con ditions is on a substantial basis and the outlook for the new year is growing brighter and brighter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
The world is full of rubs.
 king Richard Il.
President Kayanaugh's Victory

President Kavanaugh has won an ether victory, for he has defeated the attempt of the Eastern league and the American association to reduce the Southern and the Western leagues to Glass B. The former cannot, therefore. despoil the latter of players by the drafting process.
 In their anger the Eastern league and the American association bolted the meeting of the National association then sitting in Chicago. and the status of the bolters remains at present un- defined. They have apparently trans formed themselves into outlaws, but they declare they are not, and they will probably neegotiate themselves hack into good standing in organized hall playing.
 Be that as it may, the Southern league remains in Class A, and the best way to strengthen it's grip on that rating is to raise the level of the eight teams that constitute the league until it is fully as high as that of the East ern league or the American associa- tion. The four weakest teams of last year should be brought up to higher level, and then there would be no at tempt on the part of any league or any body to put the Southern teams in the bush-league class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
Too Much Legislature In Georgia

If says the Atlanta Constitution, "quadrennial seessions are sufficient in Alabama-and the people who are most interested have no doubt upon that subieet-certainly Georgia could get along with one legislative meeting every two years"
 Georgia is one of five states that have annual legislative sessions. Ala bama is the only state that has a regu- lar session only once in four years. Alabama refuses to return to the bi- ennial system, and Georgia begins to think she has too much legislation. The Atlanta Constitution thinks "a 50- day session every two years would af- ford abundant opportunity for all the legislation Georgia needs, and more. It appeals to the legislature to put the needful amendment before the people.
 The biennial plan is no doubt the happy medium and when this state is ready to go on that basis all along the line perhaps a popular appeal would indorse it. In the recent voting an at tempt was made to put the legislative branch of the state on a biennial foot ing while the executive branch was left on the old four-year basis. The two should go together. What is good for the one is good for the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
 REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A very honorable thing about politics is not to be in it.
 A woman can remember a compliment g man paid her years after she has for gotten his name
 When a woman shows her greatest for titude is in believing all a man braes about himself when she knows 1t isn't true.
 Nature doesn't permit babies to talk under year so they can learn all the queer kinds of language women use to them
 A womans idea Of excitement is won dering if her husband win be rich enough on her birthday after next to give her a pearl necklace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13

educational even if they are not able to devise a successful method of putting Up the price of the staple when the markets are full of newly-ginned bales. Education is what the farmers need, and the more conferences we have the better will the farmers of the south understand the situation.
 The Memphis and New Orleans con Ventions are huge affairs, and when the delegates go back home they will see more clearly the relations of demand and supply. They may go back de- termined 10 grow more corn and less cotton. They may go back convinced that the shortest road to better prices lies through lessened outputs, for a crop of 100000 bales would soon in- Guce the spinners to increase their offers for raw cotton. They would in that case soon go to bidding against each other. At present they are prac- tically combined against the farmers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13
Business Revival.

T think business men as a rule are well satisfied with trade conditions" said L. M. Needham of Cincinnati.
 Business began to improve two weeks before the election in anticipation of TaftF victory and now that the campaign is more than a week behind us industrial activity is being seen in many centers that has been depressed since last win ter. It is generally thought that all branches of business will be nearly nor nal by December and that prosperity will make a new high record in 19O9."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-13

A NUISANCE. Of pleasures the simplest he held but snare, When people would laugh he said, Don't" He left all his burdens for others to bear His heart was a stone and his presence a bore He saw not a vestige of good In anything done, and when others got sore He'd make them feel worse, so he would. Now, person like that is a blot and blight And nobody wants him around; If his neighbors were vengeful, some dark, rainy night At the end of a rope<he'd be found!