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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25
Mr. underWood's Plan

The Age-Herald recommends care ful reading of the report of Congress- man Underwood's discussion of pan ics, even though it be but a summary, delivered in the House on Monday last. It covers almost the entire ground and it will be found difficult to avoid many of his conclusions.
 MT. Underwood has no faith in any emergency issue of the Aldrich sort in any emergency issue so far as the avoidance of panics is concerned. What he seeks is, not remedy for panic after it has occurred, but some means to prevent such an occurrence alto gether.
 He points out that neither a want of currency, nor poor crops, nor low prices, nor the coming of war, nor Q lack of business activity, nor the need of employment for labor precipitated the panic of October. It was precipi- tated. he says, by a sudden want Of confidence in some of the financial in- stitutions, and this sudden want of confidence grew directly out of the re- serve system of the national banks. In New York, Chicago and St. Louis the national banks are required to keep on hand 25 per cent of their deposits. In other cities banks are required to keep 15 per cent, but they may keep three-fifths of this percentage in the New York national banks, where 1t earns 2 or per cent interest. This reserve money is hurried to New York in the spring and summer of each year to be there loaned to Wall street speculators and promoters, and it is called back in hurry in the fall and winter to move crops. The recall of the money reduces credits in Wall street, depresses the prices of securi- ties, and last fall it precipitated a panic and a want of confidence.
 MT. Underwood proposes to prevent duplication of the October furry o1 fo11oncs
 1. Forbid the national banks in the central reserve cities from paying in- terest on the deposits of bank re- serves. Tn that way the reserves of interior banks would be kept at home. They could not be used, but they would not be where sudden recall would pre- cipitate another panic.
 2. About once in four years levy a tax of one-tenth of 1 per cent on the average deposits of national banks This would create fund of $10,O00,' 900. Use this fund to meet all liabili' ties of national banks to depositors | The average annual loss of depositors is but 1,1O4, ,000, and the proposed tax on s1,000,000 in deposits would be but 5000, or about $250 a year. This would greatly benefit the bankers, for it would bring to them much money now withheld. It would not be exactly a guaranty of deposits, but 1t would be an assurance that all depositors would understand, and it would go far toward preventing a repetition of the occurrences from which we are just emerging.
 The Age-Herald urges all who art studying the subject to procure a full report of MT. Underwoods speech. Il will no doubt appear in pamphlet form and applications to MT. Underwood would assuredly cause copies to be sent to all applicants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25
About Persons.

About Persons. B. P. Luce of Bristol is at the New Morris.
 John R. Pill of Carbon Hill is at the New Morris
 J. F. Page of Columbus is at the New Morris.
 ". T. Brightman of HaynesviIle is at the New Morris.
 W. w. Quarles of Selma, a prominent Alabamian, is registered in the city to- day.
 William von Phul of New Orleans, a member of the firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis, is registered at the Hillman. R. E. Tipton, travelling freight and pas senger agent for the Mexican-American Steamship company. spent yesterday in Birmingham.
 L. R. Brooks, deputy paymaster in the United States navy. is visiting relatives and friends in Birmingham. MT. Brooks has recently returned from European cruise, and is waiting further orders from the navy department He was last aboard the DesMoines.
 Will Weller well known travelling man, was in Birmingham yesterday.
 \
 Albert Ullman, a prominent business man of Anniston and head of large de- partment store, spent yesterday in Bir- mingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

Every person in Birmingham should be vaceinated. While there is not much smallpox in this city, due pre- caution is in order to prevent a seri- ous situation. Remember the old adage, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

John Sharp Williams will not take his seat in the Senate until March 4, 1911, and he will be expected to keep still in that body until 1913. This Con- gress is therefore his opportunity for oratory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

Hartman is said to be the power be- hind the Hughes boom, and nearly all the magnates are warming up to Hughes, and yet the latter cannot be said to be an ideal reactionary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

 
 SUCH IS FAME. Renown is but a fleeting thing Oh. where is -Delmas now? And where is Harry Orchard, he Of most unblushing brow? What has become of Carrie N. Who battered up the bars? And Adam Bede who told us jokes. And many other stars? Who talks today of Ruef or Schmitz, Or ever calls to mind The escapade of Artist Earle, The wife he left behind? Where would you look for poor "Bill'
 Sykes?
 Who's feeding Pauline Hall? What has become of ''Nick'' Longworth, Unique among them all? Nobody thinks of Hummel now, Raisulis lost from sight, And .'Hinky Dee and Honey Fitz" Whose fame was once so bright. o tempora, O mores, too, How soon we are forgot! This being celebrated is A most uncertain lot! J. DIV. Cutting, New York broker, is an expert swimmer. Good swimers are needed in Wall Street. People who flirt with fortune are tilted, as rule.
 The scrip habit was so strong in a Kentucky man that he tried to get marriage license cashed.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

Mr. Carnegie's library benevolence has been extended to Australia, and all Australians are expected to become bookworms, the kangaroos alone ex- cepted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

Bryan is not quitter. He has con victions, and he intends to stand up to them while life remains to him. No one questions his sincerity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

Senator-elect Williams need not now do more toward making up to MT. De- Armond than to make him a formal bow when they pass by.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

A movement has been started to in- duce Congress to print in the Congress sional Record each days prayers of the chaplain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

Leslie M. Shaw has thrown up a $S6,OOO bank job to go into politics. but he comes too late to butt into the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

The banks begin to think that a sur plus of money on which they have to pay interest is almost as embarrass- ing as a deficit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

The turning down of presidential appointments promises to lead to an explosion not far from the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

Winter is making one final effort to aid the plumbers, and it must be con- ceded that the effort has been to some extent, successful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

The tariff benefciaries are becoming alert, and none of them are fond of either Taft or Bryan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

Japan's fleet is safely sheltered in Japanese ports, and it is paying no attention to the movements of Bob Evans ships.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

II the fleet encounters no uncharted nur1canes, all will be well with it. It is even now in the hurricane belt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

MT. Hughes believes in being gov. ernor of New York while he draws the salary of the office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

It will soon be up to petit iurv to afhict the country with a third Thaw trial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

The Pittsburg stock exchange has been reopened. It took a three-month vacation, and it feels considerably bet ter, tank you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

The idle in New York are killing tune by riding back and forth on the Atlantic liners at bargain.counter rates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

General Grosvenor's forecast has had no perceptible effect on bets on the presidential election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

Pennsylvania is getting together q Boyertown relief fund. and every dol lar Of it is said to be badly needed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

f1rst blood for Taft in the shane or two district delegates in Oklahoma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

when money talks silence is not golden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

AMBITIOUS. 'I have no aim in life,' he said, No aim, sir, not bit. And possibly in consequence, Perchanee I'll make a hit
 Philadelphia Inquirer. He had no aim in life-that's why He failed to hit the mark. To live without a purpose is Like shooting in the dark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
BoYLAND.

BOYLAND We're going back to Boyland And days of laughter free, When we were chums with every bird And bloom and honey bee. The leafy lanes are calling us Where silver waters flow. We're going back to Boyland- The Land of Long Ago. We're going back to Boyland- Come, brush away the tears And just forget the troubles that Have come along with years. We'll climb the hills we used to climb And walk the old-time ways, When life was just lifting round Of golden holidays. We're going back to Boyland- A long goodbye to care The haunts we used to love so much They still await us there. Our dreams have never yet come true, We've had a futile quest. So we're going back to Boyland Where weary hearts may rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

suddenly realized I was a kid again and had almost reached the 50 mark. l threw the cover off but the spicy weather made me crawl under it again until reached 50,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

Rubbing the wrong way has been know to cure an itch for office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

MERELY SUPPOSING. If everything that's advertised were true And printed claims were honest, line
 for line, I'd never grab the bait with wealth in
 view,
 Nor drop my money in bogus mine. If beautifiers made all women look { Just like they do in ten-cent magazines, The story of Narcissus and the brook Would be outdone by Mauds and Ger
 aldines. If clothing always had that swell effect The ready-made, the patent hand-me-
 down As advertised, my friend, you might ex-
 peet
 To hear me called the best dressed man in town. If everything that's advertised were true Of paints and powder, pills and other
 'tdope'' The chances that were offered would
 be few
 To make a million dollars selling soap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

MERELY A REJoINDER. Nashville, Memphis and Houston are jeerhg at Birmingham because of the prevailing drouth, but even at that this town is 266 times better than any of her narrow minded, envy-eaten rivals.
 HER VIEW.
 The man who gambles
 Always sins,
 His wife wills
 Unless he wins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25
NATURAL CURIOSITY

NATURAL CURIOSITY.
 A gentleman was seen on a Birming- ham street corner in an intoxicated con- dition. large crowd of other gentlemen tried to find out where he got it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

A FEARFUL HANDICAP. q understand that young Lighterly has gone to the bad.' he couldn't live it down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

To be sure, it is "nonentities," and not "nonenities," but between the printer and the proofreader, what can fellow do but sigh?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25

From the Kansas City Times. Col E. w.
 Stepheh's Letter from Kioto, Japan, to , the Columbia Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-25
NOBODY KNOWS.

NOBODY KNOWS. What becomes of all the chorus girls?' "Where does the wind go?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-30
GOT HER WEIGHT IN GOLD.

Spokane CWash.) Cor. Seattle Times.
 "Swiftwater Bill" Gates, miner and ex- plorer of the Northland, who massed g. half dozen fortunes in Alaska only to lose them in various exploits, including his matrimonial entanglements, has come to Spokane from one of the boom mining camps in Nevada, where he cleaned up tidy fortune. Simultaneous with his arrival came report from Valdez, Alaska, that his divorced wife. Beebe Gates-Cook, had committed sui eide there. Bill was deeply affected when the intelligence was conveyed to him and he said that her request not to be buried in Alaska would be carried out.
 Gates came into public notice a dozen years ago, when he gave little Gussie La more her weight in gold for a promise to marry him.. She discarded him shortly afterward, and he married her sister Grace at San Francisco, divorcing her after a honeymoon of six weeks. Then he eloped with Bera Beebe, 16 years of age, at Skagway. They were legally separated recently, and Mrs. Gates mar ried Harry Cook. Mrs. lola Beebe, moth- er-in-law of Gates, scored him sharply in her history of his life, which was wide ly commented upon at its publication. Bill talks of settling down, saying he will invest his pile in real estate and business property in Spokane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-30
THE RULE OF THREE.
n Everybody's Magazine,

From Everybody's Magazine.
 These airy crews are generous crowd They earn high pay. When working full time they make $27 week, and, like their rough brothers out on the plains, they are quick to give of their earnings. On Saturday afternoons when they line up at the pay window, the Sisters of Char ity are always there, and quarters and dimes jingle merrily into their little tin boxes.
 Behind this generous giving is super stitious belief that amid risks like these it is we'll to propitiate Fate all you can. For Fate is relentless old machine. and when once its wheels begin grinding. no power on earth can stop them. The Rule of Three is centuries old. You may hear of it out on the ocean, in the steel mill in the railroad camps, and down in the mines. And you find 1t up here on the jobs in the skies.
 "Believe it?' said an old foreman. You bet they believe it."
 DO you?'' I asked.
 'Wen,' he said, "all can say is this: It may be spell or it may be because of the way the whole crew is expecting it. But anyhow, when two accidents come close together, you can be sure that the third ain't very far off"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-30
AIabama'S Gsmt Bird

Thanks to the law drawn by and en- forced by Game Commissioner Wal lace this state is full of game, espe- cially of quail, which is the best of all game birds in the south at any rate. By fostering and protecting these birds against pot hunters eight months in the year fine sport is afforded in this state in the other four months. Those open four months extend from Noyem- Der 1 to March l, and the quail scarce ly know how ruthlessly they will be hunted after the present week.
 Let us hope Commissioner Wallace and his 67 game wardens will give Bob White and his cheerful whistle all the protection the law affords even in the open months. Let no one in that time slaughter in the course of day more than p birds. Let no one shoot game at all unless he be equipped with licenses from the county in which ne hunts and from the landlord whose land he traverses. And if he sells or attempts to sell any of his victims let him be haled in court for the punish ment he justly deserves.
 Commissioner Wallace has certainly won the gratitude of the state, and if he continues to enforce without fear or favor the law he planned he will gain the good will of the people and especially of those who love the crea- lures of our forests and streams. He may yet indeed bring back in goodly numbers the mocking birds, those princes of song in the south. With our woods full of quail and mocking birds we may be happy yet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-30
Castro and Holland

Curacoa is an island belonging to Holland near the Venezuelan coast On May 14 President Castro issued an order prohibiting the transhipment of goods for Venezuelan ports at Curacoa. Holland promptly asked for a revoca- tion of the order by November 1, and Castro declines to withdraw his order, although he.- knows Curacoa's exist ence as a colony depends upon such action on his part.
 The next move will be Hollands, for November 1 is near at hand. She has three war vessels at Curacoa, and Venezuela has no fleet worthy of men, tion or consideration. It is believed Holland will blockade the Venezuelan ports until she can force Castro to terms, and it is also believed that the United States will waive the Monroe doctrine while Holland is punishing Castro.
 A treaty made in 1894 exists be- tween Holland and Venezuela, by -,.e terms of which Venezuelan ports were opened to Dutch commerce.. in return for which Holland promised that she would not permit the harboring of Venezuelan revolutionists in the island of Curacoa, or permit export from those waters of weapons or ammuni- tion to Venezuela. It is this treaty that Holland proposes to uphold. All the privileges she claims are embraced in this treaty, and it is difficult to see why the United States should interfere if Holland endeavors to secure from Castro her treaty rights. Speaking generally, Castro needs good thrash ing, and Holland is perhaps the right country to administer it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-30

inauguration of sectional and racial agitation in the south.
 Mr Taft further said that the fact of race would not be considered by him in any matter which might involve the negro. This apparently means that negroes would be given proportional share of federal offices. The statement needs elueidation, and the speakers at the Hippodrome tomorrow night should go heeled to supply information that will satisfy southern business men. As things stand MT. Taft seems com mitted to policies that would turn busi- ness in the south topsy-turvy, and un- les his statements can be explained away no impartial and bipartisan southern business man should be eX- pected to whoop things up for William Howard Taft
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-30
Mf. Roosevelt In Africa

MT. Roosevelt will hunt as private individual in British East Africa, where he must take out a z 50 or 9250 license from the colonial office in Lon don. Under such license he may shoot 10 hippopotamuses, 21 antelopes, ? buffaloes, earth hogs, ? earth wolves, 10 chevrotains, monkeys, ? marabon storks. 3 ostriches, 2 ergots and 1 chim- panzee-60 animals all told, no matter how long he stays or what offices he had held. But he may shoot without restrictions all the crocodiles, leopards and lions he wishes to kill, always pro yided those animals do not hunt him.
 As the ex-President proposes to stay in Africa a year or more it seems cruel to restrict him to 50 animals, not in cluding lions, leopards and crocodiles. The harmless giraffe cannot be shot at all, nor can the wild asses, the secre- tary bird and some other harmless and desirable species. Africa is no longer dark or ungoyerned. It has game laws that would turn Commis- sioner Wallace green with envy, and MT. Roosevelt will have to conform tu those game laws, however much he may desire to exterminate all the big game in Darkest Africa.
 If he keeps an account of game killed by notches on his gun he will need several set of notches in Africa. After all, he may conclude to hunt lions only, and the chances are that he will find the African lion a vastly diff ferent animals than the mountain lions he had hunted in this country. The African lion considers that he has some rights as an aboriginal that white men are bound to respect. MT. Roosevelt has hunted at home the oc- topus, but the lion in Af: Il takes no appeal to Judge Groesbeck, and this fact should not be lost sight of.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-30
The Iron Market.

The pig iron market is somewhat more active this week than last, and first quar- ter delivery is strong at s13 for No. 2. A very brisk buying movement is expect- ed early in November for the fact that on the eve of the presidential election in- quiries are increasing is taken to mean a healthy demand on the part of melters
 Rogers, Brown x Co.'S Cincinnati report for the current week says:
 "A satisfactory run of small orders for prompt shipment and larger inquiries with an earnest tone, have characterized the last week of the waiting period before the doings of next Tuesday. The volume of sales made have evidenced feeling of confidence on the part of customers who have heretofore been reluctant as to their requirements during the balance of this year and early portion of next.
 ''The business recently placed has fixed some furnaces so that they are practically out of the market for the balance of this year, and while they are still somewhat undecided regarding figures for next year, are stronger in their tone.
 'At some points in the east pig iron sellers are firmer in their views, with an advancing tendency. good tonnage is under consideration and will probably be closed in the next few days.
 "The demand for steel making irons continues good and movement of iron on contracts is keeping up splendidly. Re- port of the steel corporation for the third quarter is better than was anticipated, and, considering the period which it cov- CTS, rather unusual.
 Railroad buying has been better, as evidenced by increased buying of pig iron by some malleable concerns, carshops and locomotive builders Car wheel mak- CTS report their business improving.
 Structural steel orders placed make it evident that there will be a larger pro- portion of manufacturing capacity active by November 1 than was anticipated could be at the rate things were going two weeks ago."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-30
PARRY EXPLAINS LETTERS.
He Does Not See What Hearst Is Driv-
 ina At.

Indianapolis, October 29.-D M. Parry said late tonight in connection with the letters read by MT. Hearst in New York, said to have been written by Myron D. King to his former secretary, John Max well and himself, that he did not know whether these letters were ever written by MT. King or not. He added: But even if the letters were written by MT King I fail to see the point MT. Hearst makes. Myron D. King and John M Maxwell were employed by me to help in the work of building up the National Association of Manufacturers, because believed they would make efficient em- ployes.
 MT. King was employed by manufac- turers to present their views in connec- ton with certain labor bills. After he had done this MT. King had no further interest in the issues. It is only nat ural that he should congratulate me on my reelection to the presidency of the association.
 ''Mr. King has been a democrat all hIs life and by profession is an accountant. l imagine he has been twice entrusted by democratic national committees in im- portant work in the auditing department because of his inherent honesty and abil- ity-not because he has any views on la- bor matters. While I have been fre- publican all my life believe in fair play, and in justice to MT. King and the demo- cratic national committee. I am conn pelled to believe MT. Hearst is engaged in childish sort of performance in this particular matter"