The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07

With each other by means of system Of clearing house loans and credits. Thus, It bank had a debit balance of $25O. .0OO IL would be required to put up approv ed collateral with the clearing house back ing a loan to it m this amount. If bank On the other hand, had a credit balance it would receive a certificate from the clearing house in this amount having the pledge of the associated banks behind it.
 In the panic of last fall the clearing house again came to the rescue. It not tnly eased the money situation, but t succeeded in eliminating certain danger ous high financiers from the banking bus mess, much to the relief of the depos- itors.
 Every day now there are suffragette meetings in the streets and parks of New York. The favorite spot for the suf- fragettes is Madison Square, where three or four women fresh from red touring car hold forth every afternoon. No sooner do they begin speaking than per- sons in the crowd begin shouting ques- tions at them. A gruff masculine voice interrupts:
 having the right to vote if they want 1t. but only the working women!'
 The speaker fires back:
 "There are five and half million work iGg women in the United States at the present moment; if you'll give those wo- men the ballot we'll take care of the rest without bothering you"
 The gruff man isn't quick with his to ngue, and the opportunity passes
 But youngish man takes it. He has a receding chin. but indomitable energy. He has stood on the outskirts of the crowd for two meetings, jeering loudly. This day he has reached the third row from the speakers platform, and his jeer- ing mood has changed to one of open an tagonism.
 "Women aint got any right to vote. It says so in the constitution. What have they ever done to entitle 'em to vote?'
 "What have you ever done?'
 The crowd waits anXously. Sentiment Is with him on the outskirts, whatever it may be at the core of things
 The young man would shift from one icot to the other if he had room, but he hasn't He is busy summing up his quail fications. Finally he says. little lamely, as even his most ardent admirers have to admit:
 'I'm twenty-one."
 '"Twenty-one, repeats the suhragette, with a satirical laugh. Heres young man that thinks because he's twenty-one ae's entitled to the privilege of the fran cnise, and can't think of any other req son. Well, I'm tWeHty-oHe, Loo
 Fletcher are," says voice. Much as twenty-two aint you?'
 The speaker, who has admitted short time before that she is the mother of 8 grown-up child, smiles amiably at this attack.
 Perhaps it is the chivalrous touch of the question, however, that prompts her next statement:
 ..They say that when women vote the age of politeness will be passed. They also said that we'd lose our seats in the cable cars Well, we've lost the seats anyway, so we'd like the votes, please. We'd like something"
 There is a middle-aged man with large turquoise scarfpin and melan- choly droop of the upper iip who says:
 ''Well, they're (the women) friends 70 you all right in prosperityl"
 Then he turned his back and walked stay and say some more things that ne really meant.
 It is at this moment that the supper man. comes in sight. He has attended every meeting since they began.
 ''I want woman to cook my supper!" he shouts. That's what a woman's for ito cook a mans supper"
 It was at the second meeting that the speaker leaned toward him and asked:
 Are you providing any beefsteaks for a woman to cook?"
 He didn't say that he was, but that Ee was ready to.
 q know your kind" said the speaker. sarcasticaly. "The man that's got the poorest tenement is always the one that