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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
Movement of Distress Cotton

The rapid picking of cotton is affect ing prices. The dry warm weather not only hastened the maturity of cot ton, but it facilitated the picking of the crop, and the cotton belt is today full of cotton bales. In such a tide of bales there is necessarily a great deal of distress cotton, and the marketing of it affects the price of the cotton in these days of reduced consumption. AS soon as the cotton of those whose obligations compel them to sell is out of the way prices may be better, espe- cially if the demand for cotton goods is increased as the season advances.
 In other words, those who can hold back cotton will perhaps secure later on a satisfactory price. It is reason ably certain that cotton will not go be- low cents. The crop is by no means a large one. It seems the part of pru- dence on the part of those who care 70 hold cotton to do that very thing until the distress cotton is marketed. All cotton of that sort will be sold in the next 30 days Cotton held until Decem- ! Der ought to bring better price, and 1t assuredly will if the mills receive or ders at all comparable to those of re- cent years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
Pulling braYeIY Up Hill

The panic occurred just year ago today. Up to October "A, 1907. gen eral business was active and prosper ous. This was rudely ended by the acts of some banks and some specula- tors in New York, and the country has yer since been engaged in pulling
 self out of the rut that wild specula.
 on had thrown it into.
 Splendid grain crops that are selling high prices and the good sense of le people have enabled general busi- less to recover, say, three-fourths of the ground lost last October Many believe that in the next six months full recovery will be possible. The work of the year just ended has certainly been bravely conducted, and it gives promise of still better results in the year to come.
 Our foreign trade is returning tc normal conditions. Both our imports and exports are increasing. The GUS toms receipts are increasing. The trade balance is still in our favor, but the unhealthy balances of the early
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
PatrlCk'S Fight for Liberty

The appeal of Albert T. Patrick will soon be heard by the United States supreme court, and it may prove the continuation of the braVest fight a man ever put up for yindication and full exoneration. The fight has been going on eight years and one month. for iC it was in September, 1900, that Rice, a Texas millionaire, was found dead in New York. Patrick was accused of murdering Rice, and he was convicted on the testimony of a valet who told at least four conflicting stories. Dur ing four years Patrick was in constant danger of the electric chair, but every time his legal mind-for he is a law yer-found some flaw which kept him out of it. In 1906 Governor Higgins commuted his sentence to life impris- onment, and ever since 1906 he has fought for exoneration and liberty.
 Men who have studied the case care fully have grave doubts. No one seems to be sure that Patrick is guilty. The laws delay is fully exemplified in this case, and there really should be no occasion for spinning out a case eight or nine years. It should in all it's phases be determined within a year, and some day our court procedure will be put on the English basis, and the delays of the law will be greatly ab. breviated. Patrick is not, however out on bail. He is in prison, and he conducts his appeals from within prison walls. He is not wealthy, and he was convicted upon the testimony of degenerate. The complications of the law in his case should be termi. mated speedily and comprehensiyely
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
THE DREAM.

SulIy Prudhomme, trans. Herbert Trench. Make your own bread!" in mine ear the laborer missed, Longer I'll feed you not; scratch earth and sow!" And the weaver cried Make coats yourselfv' and To. The mason: "Take this trowel in your
 hstl'' Wholly abandoned by my race to wrath Of their anathema implacable When I asked pity from the heavens, none fell, But sudden lions stood in every path. Dawn broke upon mine eyes with doubt full pang- Hark, the bold masons on their ladders sang!
 The trades went humming by, the sheaves were twined! And I knew my own good luck; and thank the fates No man can boast he does without his
 mates.
 Nay, since that hour I have loved hu-
 mankind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
Indiana for Bryan,

Many level-headed democrats in Ohio are as confident that that state will be found in the Bryan column after the election as that Alabama or Mississippi will go democratic" said R. s. Fleishman of Indianapolis, but l am afraid that our party will have no such good luck"
 "I am an ardent admirer of the great Nebraskan and think it very safe bet that he will carry Indiana. I was in Ohio last week. The democrats are do- ing splendid campaign work there but notwithstanding the disgruntled republi- cans Taft will poll enough votes to give him the state.
 ''In the event that Taft Is elected, many lukewarm democrats will say that if any man other than Bryan had been nominated the party could have won. But the sincere Bryan men will never ad- init or never think that any democrat would have been stronger than Bryan. At Denver it was Bryan or nobody for a probable winner and if we had the convention yet ahead of us it would turn out the same way. MT. Bryan Is un- doubtedly an idol of the masses and 1 believe he will poll a larger popular vote than ever before."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
"oRIeINAL roPsYn DEAD.

From the Springfield Republican.
 The Original Topsy' in the popular melodrama of Uncle Toms Cabin" Mrs. George C. Howard, has died at her home in Cambridge, nearly 80 years old. Her maiden name was Caroline E. Fox, and she was born in Boston in 1929. She be- gan as actor at the Fremont theatre, Bos- ton-a place long since passed out of memory. In her early days she played in support of Edwin Forrest and Charles Kemble. Marrying George c. Howard in 1S44, she acted small parts for years, but when her husband dramatized Uncle Toms Cabin" she was launched upon her almost lifelong career as Topsy the fantastic negro child of Harriet Beecher Stowe's great novel of slavery, who in an- swer to all inquirers about her life, had only to say, 'T spec I growed." Mrs. Howard had the individual genius to idealize and yet truthfully represent the elfin little darky whom Mrs. Stowe copied from many of her class Mrs. Howard was the only actor who could do thls-all other Topsys have been poor things. but her peculiar genius was really the one thing that vftafized the melo- drama which so singularly transformed Mrs. Stowe's novel. Her daughter, Cor della, was also the original Eva. and her husband was the first St. Clair. Be- tween them, though much was sensational and little truly of value-except the great assault on negro slavery--they made it a play which touched the hearts of the peo- pie. Since the days of Mrs. Howard, the play has fallen into queer conditions, with two Topsys, two Uncle Toms and so on, but she was not to blame for that Those who witnessed the original Uncle Toms Cabin55 will remember the quaint and curious personation of this little charac- ter, even when Mrs. Howard has grown old. She was a little woman, and pre- sented the illusion longer than any one could have done who had not a special gift.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

plated postponing their purchases of Iron until next month have been forced into the market for supplies owing to the increase in the demand for finished material. The numerous requests for prompt shipment and anticipation of de- liveries lead dealers in this city to ex- pect the placing of some large business during November in both foundry and basic irons. It Is reported that large order for malleable iron will be closed before the end of the week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
The Iron Market.

The southern pig iron market remains quiet but firm. As November approaches an optimistic feeling is manifest. A brisk buying movement is looked for and all signs point to the greatest iron activity of the year. The following from the New York Commercial is of special in- terest at thts time:
 "One of the largest basic iron orders placed in many months is understood to have been let by the Pittsburg Steel Con- struction company with the Hanna in terests. The iron is to be made by the Dover furnace at Canal Dover, Ohio, and is to be delivered at the steel com pany's plant at Monessen at the rate of coco tons month commencing Nov for five years, bringing the total or der up to 3s0,0O0 tons The price is to be adjusted at per cent above the actual cost of production and is to be made at stated intervals. The same company has also placed an order with the Struth- CTS furnace for 10,O00 tons of basic iron on the basis of s14 at furnace to be delivered at the rate of 800 tons daily. It is also reported that southern interests have been making large sales of basic iron in the St. Louis section recently. 'sThe political atmosphere is uncoubted- | ly having a deterrent effect on the iron buying at the present time but some of | the leading melters who had contem-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
THE JACKSON NEWS.

The Jackson News issued Thursday a state fair editon of 64 pages which is a highly creditabe achievement. The News is closely identifieS with the pros perity of Jackson, one of the best towns in the state. The News is one of the leading papers of Mississippi and pro gressive in every sense of the word
 The advertising patronage extended to the News state fair edition shows that Jackson is flourishing quite as much as previous reports have led outsiders to believe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
THEATRICAL TAKING.
the IndiananOlis Star.

From the Indianapolis Star.
 In the matter of theatrical Taking public sentiment in Mexico has become even more aroused than in this coun- try, being so strong against 1t that the Mexican government has enacted a law compelling, under penalty of heavy fine or imprisonment, the show ing of every act scene or feature promised in the newspapers or on the boards At every performance there is an official witness, who sees that the law is rigidly enforced. So many ar rests have resulted since the enact ment of the law, that the "faker" has practically disappeared from that coun- try.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
Waqe Workers In Demand.

All the mercantile agencies report im- proved conditions in general trade, but to a large extend industrial operations are still waiting on the presidential election" said a prominent business man. Ut is confidently believed that there will be 8 general revival of commercial and in- dustrial life immediately after the cleo uon; and that early in the new year record breaking prosperity will be in evil dence.
 "The Birmingham district has been especially fortunate this fall from pay roll point of view 1 met a merchant a day or two ago who complained of dull trade. He doubted about industrial life being as good as it was said to be. Now the fact Is that as many blast furnaces are in operation in Jefferson county as were running before the panic occurred; it is a further fact that the Tennessee company's payrolls are larger now than they were before the panic; and it is a still further fact that the coal production of the Birmingham district Is greater this month than at any time this year. happen to know that the Tennessee com pany's coal production Is running along at the rate of 1O,OeO to 11,0o0 tons a day and this is practically normal with that company. A high official of the Tennes- see company stated this week that while the steel plant was slowing down tempor- arily, wage-earners were needed, and urgently needed, on new work and that there was no excuse for any able man in the district being idle today.
 Coal miners are making from s2. 50 to $4 a day and wages generally in the Bir- nlingham district are as good as else where, and in many cases better. Taken all in all. 1908 has been far from a bad year for this city,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Williamson Furnace Running.

The Williamson furnace. situated inside the city limits. is again In blast, after being idle long whle. It Is being oper- ated by B. F. Wilson and he made his first run of iron there yesterday.
 The starting up of Williamson is an- other evidence of returning prosperity. Mir. Wilson was superintendent at the Tennessee cofpany's oxmoor furnace last year. He is a Boston "Teek' man and is one of the best metallurglcal engineers in the south. He belongs to the younger set of metallurgists and his friends pre- diet for him great future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The easiest way to get reputation is to inherit one from your father.
 Ideal marriages are contracted at the altar but fulfilled at the dinner table.
 The trouble with knowing how to SUD- port lot of people is you will always have to do 1t.
 The reason a girl is willing to kiss any of her male relatives without a fight is she doesn't mean it.
 A mans idea of economizing is to wear an old necktie and then spend in one aft ernoon four times what a new one would cost treating his friends to show them 1t isn't because he is short of money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
Election Bets,

Many election bets among friends are being made here this week. but I have heard of none involving large amounts" said q man about town.
 Until recently bets were made on the general result, but now state majorities are beng wagered. A well-known dem- ocrat offered to bet that Taft's majority in New York state would be under 100000, and another democrat took him up and bet even. business man made a bet yesterday with a prominent lawyer that Taft would carry New York, Ohio and In diana. If Bryan carries either one of those states the lawyer wins the money. Both parties to the bet are good demo- crats, but they bet and put up their money just to be betting.
 "I remember the campaign of 1884 quite well. The professional gamblers of New York bet heavily on Blaine, but Cleveland was elected. It was one of the few times that the gambling fraternity failed in their judgment or insight. But after all they didn't miss it much, as MT. Cleve- land carried New York by less than 100, and he needed New York to elect him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
Inspectinu Furnace Plants.

Joseph H. Hoadley of New York, presi- dent of the Alabama Consolidated Iron and Coal company, reached Gadsden yes- terday, where he was met by Guy R. Johnson vice president and general man. ager, with headquarters in Birmingham. The two officials inspected the company s Gadsden plant and will spend today in looking over the plant at 1ronaton. Mir. Hoadley will arrive in Birmingham to- night or Sunday.
 All four of the Alabama Consolidated s furnaces are in blast. and President Hoadley reaches the district just as they are making new high records. The com- pany's make yesterday was $50 tons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

You may suppose so, but as a matter of fact that bundle contains quart ot liquor which he but lately purchased ol the village blind tiger"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
MERELY HOPING.

I hope when I depart from life And quit this mortal scene, I'll go to where I'll never get A whiff of gasoline, And where no chauffeur, goggled-eyed, Along the road will race And make his blooming auto car Throw dust into my face! Paul Cook, in Birmingham Age Herald You need not fear, my dear Paul Cook, The whiffs of gasoline; The place to which you are bound for Presents another scene, Your hot air will surely lift you Beyond the goggled-eyed, And the reward that you deserve Will come when you have died,
 Florida Times Union.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

Taft may lose his own state and still win the presidential office. Polk lost Tennessee in 1844, but still he defeated Henry Clay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
Ahopt Persons.

H. S. D. Mallory, candidate for gov ernor, left Birmingham yesterday to re- turn to his home in Selma by way of Montgomery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

In a week and three days informa- tion will supplant prediction, and the 'T-told-you-so" fellow will be in full control of the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

Weyerhauser the lumber king, does not fear forest exhaustion. The more exhaustion the more money will go into his pocket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

It is Princess Catherine of the Kama wha now. She had to become a princess before she could become a wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

The landslides that have been in cold storage all summer will soon be brought out for practice and. inspec- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WHEN A RARp IS RnArEN.

WHEN A BARD IS BEATEN. In vain the bard
 Essayed to rhyme; Forsooth, he was
 Not feeling prime. The more he tried. The less his brains Inclined to free Him from his pains. He tore his hair And heaved a sigh, The while the time Kept slipping by. One hour, two
 And nothing done; Three hours, four Their course had run. And still he strove To woo the muse The jade, it seemed, Would not enthuse; While Pegasus,
 The poets steed, Was busy with His morning feed And wouldn't scale The peaks of song And take the bard Himself along. A dreadful thing
 It is to face A task like this
 In such a case. What was to do He didn't know; Despair would soon Have laid him low, Had not he shut
 His eyes to fate You see. in fact,
 He couldn't wait To be inspired,
 As poets do Who work for weeks On stanzas two Newspaper bards
 Who did that way Would soon be cut Loose from their pay Had not he shut
 His eyes and thumped Along until
 He really slumped Into the slough
 Of fell despond, And what is more, Fen went beyond That dreadful point
 'Oh, woe Is me- He groaned, ''I would A farmer be, Or something else There's nothing Than making rhyr
 And writing vers And having brushed Away a tear, He swore some more And quit-right herei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

Should Bryan and Lafollette and Roosevelt all become editors the octo- pus will have his hands full in dodging leaders and things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

MT. Hobson's advice has been needed in England. where battleships are be- ing built with all possible dispatch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
THROuGH THEN

q suppose there are times when you lose all interest in your work?"
 "Oh, yes" answered the jokesmith. Usually when it goes to the printers '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

 other is the headline in the Birmingham Age Herald. Just little playful gun went off too soon.
 Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Aeroplanes are now held at s4GOO but the Birmingham Age Herald is worried by the thought that they may go up." Savannah Press: Mir Taft says he is seeking in the south amity and good fellowship not votes. The Birmingham Age-Herald thinks he has horse sense.
 Savannah Press: The Birmingham Age Herald says that Richmond Pearson Hob son should be excused if he displays ner- vousness as the fleet approaches To- kohama.
 Austin Statesman: The Birmingham Age Herald reports pig iron on the up- grade in price. AS iron is the acknowl- edged barometer of trade conditions this announcement is encouraging. Florence Herald: Small boys cannot  Birmingham Age-Herald. No, but they can make life burden to airshp passengers with target rifles.
 Opelika Post: The Birmingham Age Herald thinks that the three best cam paigners that the democratic party has had were Theodore Roosevelt, James Schoolcraft Sherman and Nicholas Long, worth.
 Florence Herald: "Who is liar?' asks an Alabama editor. Solomon said all men, and while he said it in his haste, he was right-Paul Cook. Then we are all eligible to mem- bership in an Ananias club. Florida Times Union: It is Michael Con- rey, not MT. Levy who is to be w. 1 Bourke Cockran's place in congress. Cochran and Tamanny do not pull to- gether-Bi Age-Herald.
 Mike may take Bourke Cockran's seat 1 but he will not be able to fill it. Florida Times Union: Castro is well and he may get into the Balkan situation after awhile At present the Dutch mo- nopolze his attention.-Birmingham Age l Herald
 Castro has been in Balkin situation l for years.
 Dothan Eagle: Alabama did enjoy the good rains of last week, says the Ago. 1 Herald That part of Alabama might have been needing rain. but we in this section who are good to the preachers and keep them paid, had no trouble ip
 getting rain when we needed 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

Associate Editor Roosevelt of the Outlook will have a chance to talk back, a thing he dearly loves to do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

It is the solemn duty of partisan papers to deceive their readers in these closing days of the campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
THE LAST STAGE.

"The Swingers seem to be getting away up into society,"
 Indeed they are. They have reached the point where they consider the father of the family impossible"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

Senator Beveridge has obliterated the democratic party. but he still has Debs and Hisgen on his hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

War Secretary Wright has enlisted for the campaign, and he is> stumping for the Black Republican ticket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

The torchlight procession cannot be revived, for whoever does it would have to pay tribute to the Standard Oil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
THEN BURNED.

'How is the poetry crop harvested?i
 Why. don't you know7" I'm not a bard'
 Tt Is plucked from the nerveless fin- gers of poets by editors and thrown into waste-paper baskets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
FACTS IN THE CASE

"There goes the village poet"
 "Ahl I suppose that bundle under his arm is manuscript"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

Fighting Bob Evans uses pen now instead of a sword, and he is aggress- i've wherever you find him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
Drift to Bryan.

The St. Louis Republic, adverting to the drift toward Bryan, which is shown by many signs. including the straw votes, says that the one question is as to the extent of the drift. It asks:
 "Is it to go unchecked for the two weeks that remain before election? And, if it does, will it's force be great enough to overcome the republican preponder- ance in the necessary number of states as that preponderance was indicated four years ago?
 While republican campaign managers are giving out rosy statements and mak- ing extravagant claims for public con- sumption, they are deceiving neither the people nor themselves. They are plainly alarmed. Their main and most plausible argument is that. despite the great change in popular sentiment, their numerical ad- vantage will not be all overcome. The question is merely how far Bryan will cut into the republican vote, not, will he cut into it?'