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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
Southern Pine Outranking White Pine

The census bureau presents a pre- liminary report of forest products last year. The total cut exceeded 40,00O,- 900 ,O0O feet, as against 375O0, 100000 in 1908. The output of the mills last year was record-making, and 1t will perhaps stand a long time as the coun- try's maximum production.
 The increase of 1907 was 7.2 per cent, and this was due to the increased use of yellow pine. White pine, hem lock. maple and basswood were cut in decreasing quantities last year, while the production of yellow pine rose to 12,S16, ,790 ,000 feet. Even production on the Pacific coast was decreased be- cause of higher freight rates.
 The lessened demand for yellow pine this year will keep production below that of 1907, and it it is not at all cer- tain that the countrys forest output will ever again be carried to 40,OOO,- 900 ,000 feet. It is better for the coun- try perhaps that it's natural lumber wealth should not be swept away in such wholesale cuts. Forest conserva- ton Is rising yearly into prominence, and it may to some extent lessen pro- duction in the coming years.
 The full report of the census bureau is awaited with interest. It will no doubt present state figures that will enable the careful reader to under. stand each states forest wealth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Over In Georgia.

The crops along the Central of Georgia railroad. all the way to sa- vannah. are in fine condition" sad John Ken, a veteran locomotive en- gineer. who has just returned from a vacation trip.
 "The peaches are abundant and well favored the cantaloupe crop was never better, and cotton Is in fine con dition. Teeming orchards have been familiar sights to me for many years but 1 never beheld such stretches Of peach trees laden with fruit as l did on my recent trip. We ran through a succession of preach orchards Tor 10 miles without a gap. It was beautiful sight. and what appealed es- pecially to ones sense of the utilita- rian. was the fact that between the rows of trees eantaloupes were cultl- vated. The economy of the horticu'- tural industry seemed complete.
 At Savannah little heed seemed to be given to the prohibition law. l was told that liquor was dispensed about the same as before statewide prohi- bition went into effect. And at Tibi. where I spent a few days, I saw the bar doing business just as openly as in other days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
Pleased Wish Denver.

As a convention city Denver was all right" said Judge Samuel L. Weaver, who returned home yesterdaY. Judge Banks, formerly of Birmins- ham but now of Denver was most cor dial In his welcome to the Alabama delegation and was untiring in his at tentions to his old friends. During the convention I sat as an alternate dele gate for one of the Colorado districts
 No city could have entertained B great national convention with more satisfaction to the delegates and the visitors than Denver. The crowd was large, but the hotel accommodations were ample and excellent In every re- spect; and the local committees left nothing undone to make the crowd feel at home.
 "The convention that nominated Bryan and Kern made a high record for enthusiasm and all of us felt that the national committee acted wisely ip selecting Denver as the place for hold ing the convention, for 1t will result in large aceessions to the democratic ranks in the west. On my way homo l stopped In Indiana and after mixing with the people I am confident that that state will be carried by Bryan and Kern. Indeed I regard Indiana as safe for our ticket as Nebraska, about which there Is little doubt"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
ASSailinQ the C0l0red Shirt

This is an age of microbes, and the man of science and the pure food brig ade and even the wayfarer goes about suggesting the presence of deadly germs In this, that or the other article. Nearly everything has been adjudged guilty of the crime of disseminating the seeds of pestilence.
 But it was reserved to the London Lancet, high authority among physi- cians, to raid the colored shirt which many men are wearing freely nowa- days. The Lancet says these men wear colored shirts because such shirts con ceal the presence of dirt, and dirt is of course but an aggregation of germs, mostly deadly
 Possibly the Lancet is oyerworking the germ theory. It's correctness in a general sense is not questioned, but is every garment that has been worn a little longer than usual an agent of de- struction? If it be, why are not all stricken down at once by disease tc | the point of decimation?
 As a matter of fact, scientists hold that a person in good health can dine on germs and get fat on the dirt. 4 sound person sheds germs as a duel does water, but there are the unsount and the weakly to be considered, ant perhaps some of them should stee clear of colored shirts and other germ carriers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
Speech Made a Hit.

Few political addresses delivered this year have been so widely read or have ellcited such words of approval as Joseph M. Browns speech made in accepting the nomination for governor of Georgia" said prominent business man. T read the speech in The Age-Herald a few days ago and since then l have read articles in several papers strongly commenting it. Georgia's governor-to-be has been reve- lation to many of us who did not know much of his statesman-lilxe qualities or his clear vision. The man who could write the speech which MT. Brown delivered of expression which must put him In the front rank of public men.
 Among other editorials on Browns re- marks is one in the New York Sun of Thursday, which starts off as follows: ''The Hon. Joseph M. Brown has no pre- tensions as an orator, made no public ad- dresses in the red hot campaign between him and Hoke Smith, and seems to be q really modest and windless citizen, a mighty rare bird in the species politician In accepting the democratic nomination for governor of Georgia the other day however, he made a speech which wilt give every reader of 1t very high respect for his intellectual and moral quality. Rhetoric and rant are not In his line Be- sides, Georgia has suffered more than enough from those common and fatal com plaints. Mature thought, judgment, re- straint, common sense distinguished the admirable address,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
VERSATILE OWEN MISTER.

Edward c. Marsh in The Bookman.
 Any one who knows MT. Wister's worh will have remarked the variety of his in- terests. If the tale of his books IS not long one, it may be imagined that this is fin part at least because he has been con- cerned with other matters besides the making of literature. To the breadth or his sympathies are due the piquant COIL trasts in his activities which we call para doxes only because of incomplete Kno"i- edge. Born of Quaker family, long set He'd in one of the most cultivated Amer icap societies he became the recorder of the toughest, most primitive contem- porary life of the country. But that Pbiladelphian of scholarly tastes should celebrate the deeds of cowboys Is less surprising than that the most faithful and penetrating interpreter of the best south
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
Actino on Chiefs Suggestion.

Several days ago l made suggestion through the columns of The Age-Herald that people going out of the city for their summer vacation leave the numbers of their residences with the police depart ment in order that the property might be protected during the owners absence, said Chief Bodeker yesterday. T have received several letters of notification from citizens leaving town and I hope all Of those going away will let me know of their departure
 "A great many families when leaving the city simply lock up their houses and leave them vacant while they are away in such cases burglars might drive a moving van up to the house and carry everything off and probably we would never be the wiser. On the other hand if citziens will simply inform the police of their departure, I shall have the scouts look after the property.
 With a little cooperation on the part of citizens the department can cut down the number of burglarles, and I hope citi- zens who intend to spend any time out of the city will not fail to leave their residence numbers at my office."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
Seattle's Growth.

Seattle is growing faster than any city in the far west except San Francisco" said S. W. Hagood of Charleston, who is on his way home from trip to the Pa cific coast 'In 1900 1t had a population of so.ooO and now it's population is fully 25O,O0
 Seattle, like Birmingham, is a young city, and, like Birmingham, it has won- derful future. It was established as far back as 1851 or 1852, but remained a vil- lage until 1880, when it began to grow and take city shape, The great exposition to be held there next year will be well worth seeing. It's exhibits from Alaska will form one of its big features. while in brilliant spectacular displays and bril- liant musical features it will surpass any of the worlds fairs. The exposition Is being planned without government aid, the bulk of the money needed to insure the project having been Subscribed by the business men of Seattle Nearly q. .O00, ,0ol was raised in three days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
cLEopATRA's MUMMY.

By Frederic R. Marvin. A heap of crumbling bones, Black with old Egypt's dust and grime, A bit of shriveled skin, And pointed cloth, Brittle from years, And with bitumen stained. Once were these crunbling bones Clothed in a woman's' beauty, More fragrant than the breath of incense Burned where tinkling bells, And crystal fountains, Filled with gentle music The whispering groves of fair Dodona, And the pale-eyed priestess Breathed the hallowed air. Here lies the dark-eyed daughter Of ilo
 Nile,
 Who nursed on golden bed The sucking asp. The lonely shadows deepen And from the English sunset. Dull and gray as sea-blown mists. Dies the last flickering beam, And all at length is still. The visitors are gone, The doors are closed; The daughter of great Ptoleny, In the London town, Slumbers unconscious of her shAmA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
STILL LOVE PApEREWSkI.

What can be the matter with all the women when they will still storm the platform when Paderewski plays, with the same energy as they break the prime minister's windows in Downing street, or flock pell mell at the Denver conven- ton It doesn't matter so much what the cause of this strenuous feminine outburst is only once give the signal, and the dear creatures are all up in arms, and are swept off their base. Fancy after all this time that Paderewsh should excite the enthusiasm of his audience in London to the degree of making the women be- have like a mob. At the close of the programme the other day the scene was astonishing Ladies occupying the So seats rushed to the platform and "de- manded" four extra pieces, precisely as the suffragettes shrieked to the House of Commons for the right to vote. The artist graciously acceded to the s5 ladies' desire. for he made on his afternoons s work the cheerful sum of s7500!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
LET EVERY MAN DO HIS DUTY

acted promptly and wisely in calling out the m to riotne Birmingham district
 this district who would working dealt with to whites we'll paing shooting working These mobs have regularly depuzed officers of will be permitted
 regret suffer but the law Let the military companies and we'll them arrest the lawess deser to be with
 duty officials the we'll as the orators and good estopped 
 the officials of the state of Alabama county they do so
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Savannah Press: The Birmingham Age Herald does not think 1t would be loyal of Roosevelt to shoot elephants.
 Washington Herald: Nothing works harder than idle curiosity" says the Birmingham Age-Herald. Or pays less.
 Columbus Enquirer-Sun: DO we eat too much?" asks the Birmingham Age-Her- add Possibly; watermelons are plenti- full.
 Beaumont Enterprise: The Birmingham conditions as approaching normal, which
 Columbus Enquirer-sun: MT. Taft has tions of the south.
 Atlanta Georgian: An Indiana man denies that he is dead" says the Bir- mingham Age-Herald. Who was it? Vice President Fairbanks?
 Roanoke (va.) World: "Denver's shout of welcome Is a mile high" says the Birmingham Age-Herald. But fellow has to climb to the top to get it. Three strikes and outi'
 taken to playing baseball, and the Bir- mingham Age-Herald remarks that in November he may hear the people yell; Three strike sand outi"
 Washington Post: According to the Birmingham Age-Herald, ''an Indiana man denies that he is dead,'' Some peo- pie go too far in their efforts to make business poor for the undertaken.
 Washington Herald: The world is full of people who can't look the truth in the face without blinking" says the Bir- mingham Age-Herald. And Birming- ham is full of people who can't look d soda water clerk in the face without winking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
TRUTH ABOUT MULLAHS.
SaintIy Personages Upon Whom None
 Dare Lay saorilegious Fingers.

From Pearson's Weekly.
 Ever since the beginning of the now constant troubles in India good deal has been heard about the Mullahs.
 A Mullah, or, as 1t Is more properly written, Mollah, Is a title given in India, and throughout the east generally, to Q religious leader of any description.
 Thus, the Sultan of Turkey is a Mollah, because he Is the supreme head of the Moslem world. The hostile Somal leader, who caused us so much anxiety between 1901 and 1905, and whose name occasion ally crops up even now in the daily pa pers, was also a Mollah. And there are hundreds of others.
 To most of the more conspicuous among them we prefix the adjective mad" This. however, must not be taken to mean that they are insane, the word being used rather in it's Oriental signification of 'in- spired.'
 The influence yielded by the Mollahs, who are now stirring up against us the border tribes of Afghanistan, is enor- nous. Clad in their sacred robes, bear ing aloft the green standard of Islam. they go up and down the valleys shrllllng the Mohammedan war cry. and woe be to him who refuses to heed.
 The person of the Mollah is sacred. True, the Amir the other day was re- ported to have ordered that any of them caught preaching the jehad (holy war) should have their tongues torn out. But if he really issued such an edict-which &H,,l ;< meant for European ears. Not even the mighty Habibulah himself would care to lay a sacrilegious finger on one of these saintly personages. If he were to veII- ture such an unheard-of thing, vengeance would surely overtake him. For 1t is the cardinal principle of the Ulima-as the Mollahs are collectively ternied-that an injury purposely caused to one of their number can only be atoned for by the death of the individual inflicting it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
PuhlICltY-RafOre and After

The republican Congress that refused to pass publicity bill and the Chicago convention that refused to demand publicity snapped their fingers at pub- lie sentiment, very much as Wander bilt is said to have done 30 years ago, but their assurance and their disre- spect for public opinion did not exceed MT. Taft's and that of his slush gath erer, George Rumsey Sheldon. Their declarations that they will see that the New York publicity law is respected proves to have been a smart trick for postponing publicity until after the election, for this is what the New York law calls for. The voters are calling for publicity they can act on. They will not get it from the Taft party, for MT. Taft himself recently saids
 ssThere is a New York law covering the collection of campaign funds and their disbursement, and 1t is the purpose of the national committee to see that that law Is t1s1dly adhered to. All moneys collected viu be reported to Treasurer Sheldon. and ho will comply with the statute"
 Mr Sheldon, being interviewed al fhe game time, made this statement:
 ..rvery dollar received and disbursed by shs Republican national committee during 4h,s esuapeixn win be accounted for fN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18

the pubic. There may be an assistant treasurer, but there will be but one treas ury. and that in New York. No matter where the money is collected or where It is spent every dollar contributed to the campaign fund will be reported to me at New York, and will go on my books ana when the contest Is over statement Of receipts and disbursements will be pub lished"
 The contributions to the democratic fund are to be published before the election. Those made to the repub- lican fund are to be published after the election. This is what the resortft to the New York law means. It is polit- ical trick that will deceive no one. The republicans dare not publish list of their campaign contributions, coming as they will from tariff benefciaries; that is to say, they dare not publish them before election The corrupting influence of big slush funds is to go on, and the business is to be kept close secret until after election. The New York law is a mere excuse for eyading a great public duty. The democrats will set an example of straightout pub licity before election, and the voters can iudge themselves why the repub- licans will not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18

derful advancement from the position of alderman in his native town to the presi- dency of the United States, with some insignificant remarks about his policy at- tached. At Cleveland he appeared be- fore a large audience. according to abundant testimony, in drunken conoi- tion. Indeed, the character of his speech cannot be explained in any other way. He descended to the lowest tone of par tisan stump speaking. He bandied epi- thets with some of his hearers who in terupted him. The whole speech was mixture of insane drlvel and reckless aspersion. His visit at Chicago passed without any particular scandal. But the speech he made at St. Louis fairly capped the climax. He accused the republicans in Congress of substantially having planned the New Orleans massacre. He induleed himself in muddled tirade about Judas, Christ and Moses. He de- clared that all his opponents were after was to hold on to the offices; but that he would kick them out; that they want ed to get rid of him, but that he dehed them. And so on. At Indianapolis disorderiy crowd hooted him down and would not let him speak at all.
 He returned to Washington an utterly diseomfited and dsgraced man, having gone out to win popular support, and having earned only popular disgust. The humorist, pictorial as well as literary bounced upon the swinging around the circle, as a fruitful subject for carica- ture or satire, turning serious wrath into a bitter laugh. Andrew Johnson became the victim not only of detestation but or rfdieule
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
SWINGING ROUND THE CIRCLE"
Andrew Johnson's Last Effort To Re
 deem Himself Was a Failure.
From Carl Schurz's Reminisct McClure's.

From Carl Schurz's "Reminiscences, in
 McClure's.
 As a last effort to redeem himself in the eyes of the people in the campaign of 1866, President Johnson took to the stump. His journey, the famous swing ing around the circle,"-a favorite phrase of his to describe his fight against the southern enemies of the union, the se- cessionists, at one time and against the northern disunionists, the radical re- publicans, at another-was series of the most disastrous exhibitions. At Philadel- phia he was received with studied cold ness At New York he had an official reception. and he used the occasion to rehearse his often told story of his won
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 A woman can get thin worrying over anything except how fat she is.
 Women like religion and men politics for the same reason-they don't under stand it.
 One of the most annoying things in the world Is the unreasonableness of people whom you annoy
 When a man doesn't care how his wife keeps her figure he does about how some ether woman keeps hers.
 A man is sure to be making a lot of money in business if he remembers tc take a dollars worth of flowers home te hiz wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
WHILE AWAY FROM HOME.

Birmingham people who are leaving home for the summer should have The Age-Herald follow them, and thus keep Informed about what Is taking place in the city and state during their absence. The Aee-Herald will be sent to them at any address at the regular price, and the address will be changed as often as desired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18

ern aristocracy should have been born and bred north of Mason and Dlxon's line. Even the combination of novelist and scholar, though by no means new, is un- common enough to cause remark. MT. Mister is a doctor of laws of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, where he was university orator year or two ago, de- livering an address that contained the germ of his book on Washington. He IS Harvard graduate of the class of s2- two years later than his friend President Roosevelt-and his comprehension of "col- lege spirit is to be read in that capital little comedy of Harvard undergrad uate life, "Philosophy Four" It is on record that at his graduation he took honors in music and philosophy-whlch pect to hear of the author of ''The Vir- ginian" remark of one of his liter ary fellow -townsmen deserves rescue from oblivion Years ago, when MT. Wister was beginning to write, this friendly critic said: ''Owen Mister has written some oreditable stories but so, to be sure, have a great many others. His real strength lies in musical criticism" It is an opinion that will scarcely stand the test today. The traces of this early in- terest are strangely few in his books, though at least. one of his short stories, Padre Ignacio," deals with music in thoroughly understanding way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
ADRIFT WITH, THE TIMES
THE BETTER PART.

THE BETTER PART. A little love to speed the day VIII make this life a rose-strewn way And rarer beauties still unfold Than earth has ever seemed to hold. A little pain--of sorrows brew Makes hardened hearts to throb anew, And ehastened by griefs mordant flame, We're not so quick to harbor blame.
  A little kindness as we go Turns earth a paradise below And brightens all the world about, One given OCT to gloom and doubt A little hope. little cheer And gladness blossoms everywhere. Cur troubles cannot finger long When toll is sweetened with a song.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
Corn and Cotton.

Both the corn and cotton crops in Ala bama are looking we'll" said Dr. John K. Powers of Athens. "The weather condi- tions are just right. Corn in Northern Alabama is more promising than 1 have seen it for years, and as for cotton we are going to have a bumper crop unless the growing season ends bad
 Dr. Powers left last night for Oklahoma CitV
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18

Some editors are disposed to ridicule the formality of notification speeches of acceptance, but if all the candidates make addresses as wise and business like as Joe Brown in accepting the nomination for governor of Georgia, the puD.c will feel well repaid for the peruSal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18

Stuyvesant Fish seems to be sorry because the farmers instead of the Newport crowd will be benefited by the growing crops. This Is very sad. It Is not right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18

In tne early days dreamers who talked about flying machines were classed with perpetual motion idots, but now the airship is a reality, even if the perpetual motion machine IS never to materialize.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18

In some of the northern states it is said that party lines are to be crookeder'n a snakes back. The air Is full of fiopovers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18

Bluff Park on Shades mountain is becoming as popular as summer re- sort as the famous resorts of North Carolina and Virginia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18

The politicians should not expect to expect to interest the fans in their campaigns until the baseball season is ended
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18

Ticket No. 6 has an unfamiliar sound, neither Chain nor Watkins pos sessing any individual fame.