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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-22
Local Securities Quotations

The opening of the Birmingham stock
exchange should prove the way to
listing of local stocks and bonds with
correct quotations of all of them that
have a market value. Many stocks are
closely held. They are never offered
in the market, and such securities cannot
therefore be said to have market
value But there are many securities in
the south that seek larger market
and vet are never quoted in southern
newspapers. For example the United
Light and Railways company which has
taken over the public utilities of Chat
tanooga and many other cities never APP
pears in public lists. and no one IN
The south knows what its bonds or stocks
are worth.
The 4arket for local securities is not
broad or active as a rule, but certainly
the nrice of the last known sale can
be published, and this should stand I'M
til another sale is reported. The OBJ
iect of a stock exchange is to bring
h,,vars and sellers together and to es-
tablish market prices for each ana eV-
cry local security that seeks a market.
The bringing of buyers and sellers to-
gether makes a market.
Newspapers cannot make Market IL
is the man who has security to sell
and the man who wants TO ouy thal
security that make market ms
market may be small at the start, but II
all securities that seek larger market
in the southeast are quoted it will be
widened rapidly enough. The great gain
to flow from local securities market
&c the extension of knowledge as to
local investments At present the in
terest in local investments is limited.
Few know what the value of any local
security is and the new exchange should
endeavor to quote all southeastern local
securities.
"once a good liquid market" says the
| Springfield Republican, for corporate
securities is established, they become
more valuable. They make better collat-
| eral at the banks. A greater mobility
is created for capital, and home savings
become more disposed to stay at home
and outside savings more disposed to
come here" This is all possible here in
| Birmingham, and If the new stock ex-
change will work up to it's possibilities
all home people will soon appreciate its
| field and its local advantages.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-22
AUTOMOBILE ExTRAvAGANCE

'F'rom the New YORK WOrlu
According to a downtown bank presi-
dent the existing pressure for money"
is largely due to 1.-The widespread extrav-
agance of our people, accentuated by the
general use of the automobile by those
who have not the means to use it." And
he further says that bankers are max
ing a serious effort to impress on GUS
toners that these conditions are causing
the most serious inroads on the incomes,
stability and credit of the country"
Has there been any time since the war
when the nation was not charged with
extravaganza? A main trouble with the
present motor car extravaganza is that
its effects are directly felt by Wall
streets chief industry. Every purchase
of $500 automobile represents the in
vestment of a sum sufficient to margin
l5O shares of stock, and the aggregate
of such Withdrawals of funds from "legit-
innate trade in stocks and bonds Is OBJ
viously immense. To say nothing of the
$50. 900 600 alleged to be invested in au-
tomobles in Kansas, the 10000 automo-
bile licenses issued at Albany of them
selves constitute the equivalent, at min
imum estimate, of s1O0,ooo.oOO bond is
sue
No doubt in time the bulk of these d.
verified funds will find their, way back to
Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-22
Prices for Next Years Cotton

Although prices of cotton are high,
predicts they will go still higher in the
next cotton year. He bases his belief
on the information that crop of A.
100000 bales will not be forthcoming
The world will sorely need In September
an America crop of that size, and
America will not have 1t. The Age
Herald gives him the benefit of his own
words. MY crop advices," he says,
from every state are very unsatisfac-
tory, and with average weather from
now on, cannot see how it is possible
for the new crop. to turn out from
within 100000 to 100000 bales of what
the actual requirements of the world
will be for another year. This Is very
unfortunate, as the world on September
will be bare of cotton and cotton goods
and large crop, say l5,oU,00O TO l4,00O,0OO
bales, is absolutely necessary to prevent
famine in cotton before the end of an
other season.
81 expect to see the next crop sell
very much higher than the prices now
ruling Yes. at hishez/prices than have
=
ever been known. The consuming world
will simply have to adapt itself to a
level of higher prices for cotton. as it
has had to do in practically every other
commodity. In my judgment the sooner
the spinners and cotton merchants real
ze the situation and lay in>their sup
piles. the better off they will be-"
/ Mr. Brown, Mr.. Hayne and Mr.. Patten
are bull leaders and perhaps their adj
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- Cannot plain man live, and think
9 ,,.,.ra III
no harm. king hieh"ro III
Pumping In Illinois

Illinois minority representation seheihe
ts serving the bosses better than II
does the rank and file In each legisla-
tive district the voter is entitled to three
ryotes because three men are to De Sc
1oeted. The minority party is controiled
nv bosses. and these bosses determine
where the name of but one minority
candidate shall be presented. The voter
sn,av then vote for two men of his own
marty and for the single minority eandl-
date.
u Pumping. too Us freely resorted to in
the boss controlled primaries. The
,plunnper may cast three votes for one
candidate, or he may cast one and one
half for two candidates. or one vote for
each of the three candidates when the
minority party presents but one.
"a Altogether minority representation of
Illinois is not all gold 1t suits the
bosses excellently and they are using it
flor all it is worth in the primaries es
etablished under the new law.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-22

From the Washington Post.
A writer in the London Chronicle de-
clares that Daniel Defoe, author of Rob
inson Crusoe,' was the first man to con-
ceive the project of the savings bank that
has proved so intellectually beneficent TO
the Industrial classes of both hemispheres
The savings bank makes labor a capital
list and when labor comes to a proper
conception of that fact, as 1t must sooner
or later, II the political demagogue and
the walking delegate will allow, co-opera-
ton will prevail and strikes will come to
be regarded as pestilential, like Asiatic
cholera or Indian bubonic plague or Gu
ban yellow fever.
Defoe was a wonderful man. with ge-
MUS almost in the radius of that of Dean
Swift himself 1t was impossible for De-
foe to write a narrative like "A Tale of
a Tub It is doubtful If Shakespeare
could have written it. 1t is certain that
Balzac could not have conceived 1t. 1t
is one of the most stupendous productions
of literary genius, and 1t will stand a
classic as long as men read the English
tongue.
But Ine0 OWlty ildtcliiCoo as iiS WIS -.
verisimilitude could not have written the
Memoirs of Cavalier" There you have
a. truer picture of the civil war of 1640-47
than you will get out of any history
even Hume. Walter Scott Is the one ro-
mancst that paints the tremendous strug-
gle better, and he did 1t because he paint
ed it oftener. Indeed, Lord Chatham, who
was ignorant that Defoe was the author,
held the Memoirs of Cavalier as au-
thentic history, written by a soldier who
participated In the struggle as trooper
on the side of the King.
Like Swift, Defoe dabbled In politics,
and had he lived in a later age, In the
time of Burke and "Junius' and Wilkes.
doubtless he would have been mighty
mower in the creation and direction of
public opinion.
He might have saved America to Eng
la nd
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! Modern Democratic Doctrines

=, Senator Overman of North Carolina re-
Gently defined democratic principles, as
follows:
y "a tariff for revenue only, so adjusted
sAs to operate alike on all classes, all
sections and all industries.
< Enforce the law against the unlawful
trusts.
Enforce the law regarding rates in
favor of the people.
"Down with Cannonism.
"Down with plutocracy.
Back to the slogan of 1S7e-Retrench-
/ ment and Reform"
Recently the progressive democrats of
10 counties in New York met at Albany.
4 and they asked the democrats of the
state to get together on this platform:
Advocacy OF the largest possible ex-
CONSTRUCTED tariff.
direct nominations, unlimited in oper-
alton.
adoption of the initiative. referendum
4 and recall principle.
Home rule for municipalities and
i counties, with power to own and operate
I public utilities, II desired, by the people.
abolition of personal property tax.
"A federal income tax.
1.-THE nomination by the approaching
democratic state convention of a candi-
date for United States senator and the
Endorsement of the election Of senators
~ popular vote
The democrats OF Indiana and the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-22
MERE MAN IN FICTION

I rom the New 1OTk w OTlu.
Mrs Charlotte Perkins Gilman COM
plains that the novel is principally an
account of a mans pursuit of a woman,
ending with the accomplishment of his
desire to marry the lady of his choice.
In the preface to Man and Superman,
on the other hand Mr.. Bernard Shaw
explains that there is no such thing as a
pursuit of woman by man; that the chase
is really the other way about, but so art
fully conducted as to make every Don
Juan fancy himself the pursuer.
1t is delicate quarrel into which to
enter, but the Irish satirist at least has
read life. We are driven to wonder if
Mrs. Gilman has read novels. For now
els must be founded upon life, else they
make no appeal, as the critics and the
lists of best sellers assure us; and to Mr.
Shaw, as well as to greater philosophers
and to poets and historians of many
ages, this life appears clearly to center
about the eternal woman. Where has
Mrs Gilman found her fiction which is
subversive not pnly of the universal or
der but of the scheme of publishers
profits? Can she give us a list of favor
lite books in which, however ostentatious-
y the hero may figure, it is unnecessary
to seek the heroine?
We fear that Mrs. Gilman has been
high-school- essaying her suffragist friends
in Greenwich; that she has attained rhe-
torical sound at the expense of state
of things II novels were as she repre-
sents them, her sex in general would
sooner go eternally without votes than
read them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-22
NATURE TAXING AGAIN

From EVerybOdys lMHBaziIo'
commercial traveller driving from
town to town through the pine "oods OIL
Florida saw az drove of erflaciated razor
back hogs rushing wildly from tree to
tree. He halted at the palings of a
crackers" home and asked a woman in
sunbonnet what was the matter with
the swine.
well, you see." the woman explained.
my old man is deaf and dumb. and
when he wanted to call the hogs to
their swill he learned them to come when
he tapped on one Of. the trees. 1t work
ed all right when they first got learn
ed, but them woodpeckers is maxim the
poor things run their legs Off"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-22
80, EVER THUS FROM CHILDHOOD's
HOURS"

By Thomas Moore.
How sweetly,'' said the trembling maid,
OF her own gentle voice afraid,
So long had they in silence stood,
Looking upon that tranquil flood
How sweetly does the moonbeam smile
Tonight upon yoh leafy isle!
Oft In my fancys wanderings
I've wished that little isle had wings,
And we, within its fairy bowrs,
Were waited off to seas unknown,
Where not pulse should beat but ours.
And we might live, love, die unknown,
Far from the cruel and the cold
Where the bright eyes of angels only
Should come around us, to behold
A pardise SO pure and lonely
Would this be world enough for three?'
Playfully she turn'd, that he might see
The passing smile her cheeks put on;
But when she mark'd how mournfully
His eyes met hers, that smile was gone;
And bursting into heartfelt tears.
Yes, yes,' she cried, my hourly fears,
My dreams have BODIED all too right
We part-forevcr-part tonight!
L knew, I knew 1t could not last
Twas bright, twas heavenly, but tits
past!
20, ever thus from childhoods hour.
I've seen my fondest hopes decay:
never loved tree or flown,
But twas the first to fade away.
never nursed dear gazelle,
To glad me with its soft black eye,
But when 1t came to know me well.
And love me, it was sure to die!
Now, too--the Joy most like divine
OF all ever dreamt or knew;
To see thee, hear thee, call thee mine
O, misery must I lose that, too?
Yet go-on peril's brink we meet
Those frightful rocks, that treach'rous
sea- N@
No. never come agnin-though sweet,
Though heaven, II may be death to thee.
FArewell-and blessings on thy way,
Whereer thou goest, beloved stranger!
Better to sit and watch that ray,
And think thee safe, though Tar away.
Than have thee near me and IN Danger
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-22
THE PRIzE-RING.

From the London Times.
The great fight of 1860 lasted for some
40 rounds before 1t was stopped by the
police. The account of the punishment
inflicted upon both men is no doubt dis
gushing. Heenan was almost blind 'as
he left the ground, and Sayers early In
the fight lost the use of his right arm
But the unflinching pluck which both ex-
hibited-and especially that of Savers,
who in height. weight, strength and
length of arm was greatly inferior to his
giant. adversary-must extort the admir-
alton of Quaker. Undoubtedly 1t APP
peals, and 1t always, we believe, will APP
peal, to the average man of British blood.
He may recognize, and he does now gem
orally recognize, that prize-fighting is
brutal and that brutality is wrong. But
in his heart he has sincere respect for
the misplaced valor of the bygone heroes
of the ring.
The Reno combat ended In the victory
of the negro without affording, 1t would
appear any great display either of science
or of endurance. A Knockout blow In
the fifteenth round settled the fate of
Jeffres, whose right eye had been already
closed in the sixth round. The fighting
seems to have been pretty much of the
kind which was expected by good judges
in this country who knew the men. 1t
was, of course, carried on upon a sys-
TEN which has been introduced since the
days of the prize-ring. The Knockout
blow on the end of the chin does not
seem<to have been known to Savers. and
the "crouching' and "clinching' which
played their part in the tactics of the
Reno fight are largely innovations In their
present forms.
The modern boxing is In many respects
a more highly developed art than that
followed by the fancy in the days of
our Frandfathers II is less revolving to
look upon, for the use of the gloves les
sens the amount of blood spilled and
prevents the hideous gashes and bruises
of the ring. Whether it is really safer
or much more humane is another mat
ter. The pace of modern boxing, the in
fighting and some of the blows put ire
mendous strain upon the combatants.
Jeffries, it is said, had never been knocked
down in his life. Tt is probable that he
never would have been knocked down I'M
der the old methods
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-22
EnsIey Is Thriving

"Ensley is growing very rapidly
said j. NJ. Perkins yesterday.
1.-THE building of various large indus
tries near Ensley, of course, helps us.
In addition we are carrying forward
a large amount of work in Ensley.
We have three or four large store
houses going up and numbers of resi-
dences. The entire city is buzzing with
life and the natural result is every
one is satisfied and contented with con-
ditions.
1.-THE new road construction through
Ensley Highlands may be finished some
time soon, which will give us a fine
roadway direct to Birmingham. This
work is costing a great deal of money
and requires a great deal of time.
Although every suburb in the dis
trict is progressing as fast as possible,
Ensley will be sure and contribute her
part to the general march to great
ness
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MosBY THE RAIDER.

From the New York World.
The engagement between the Monitor
and Merrimac was recently fought over
in our correspondence columns, and now
contest is raging in the same quarter
as to the merits of the Confederate raid
er, John S. Mosby. These controversies
may be taken as the first flush, so to
speak, of the general discussion of war
issues which the approaching semi-cen-
tennial anniversaries of the great con-
fict may be expected to provoke.
Mosby was a young college graduate
and Hedging lawyer when he entered the
Confederate service under Joseph E. John
ston in the Shenandoah. Stuart made him
a scout, and in 1863 he recruited the force
of rangers, afterward organized as a bat
talon of Virginia cavalry, whose exploits
were to make him famous. He won a
majors rank for capturing General
Stoughton at his headquarters. harried
the TANKS of Meades army after Gettys-
burg, swooped down on the Union rear
before Fredericksburg. raided Maryland
surprised and captured Sheridan's sup
ply train, tore up railroads, made night
attack on Harper's Ferry, captured fed
eral paymasters, and by the dash and
briliancy of his movements contributed
greatly to the picturesqueness of the war.
He left the service a colonel. returned
to his law books and was subsequently
United States consul at Hongkong. Until
recently he was a special attorney in the
department of justice.
Mosby's methods of campaigning were
not such as are wholly approved in
civilized warfare. But 1t is not neces-
sary to fight that Issue over. involving
as it would commanders of higher rank
on the northern side, to acknowledge
qualities in Mosby which link him with
the cavaliers of old. Guerrilla, partisan
leader" ranger or what not, 1t Is un-
necessary to sickle over names. Mosby
was one of King Charles or Marlbor-
ough's men in a suit of Confederate gray
a leader of the Prince Rupert type, as
a correspondent suggests whose military
faults are obscured by features of ro-
nance which attach to his dashing ex-
ploits.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-22
THE DIME NOVEL

From the Providence journal.
The Observation-Disclosures dime novel is
held responsible for the attempted sui
eide of a youth of Is in New York city;
his mother thinks he must have read
a thousand of these sensational tales,
and urges the authorities to devote to
the suppression of such pseudo litera-
ture some of the energy they are now
employing against nude statuary. But
there are at least two points to be re-
membered-frst, that thousands Of
American youths have read this sort
of stuff without shooting themselves or
anybody else; and, second that boy
who devoured thousand of the yarns
before he attempted suicide must have
found a homeopathic dose of evil, at
the worst, In eachl of them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-22
New York Central Man Here

o. L. Mitchell, general southern agent
for the New York Central lines In Chat
tanooga, was in Birmingham yesterday
He said business was very good and that
his company believed the passenger rev.
enues this year would outstrip those of
1909. which We're considered favorable.
Birmingham business men continue TO
assist us in making the monday train to
New York on our line popular" said Mr..
Mitchell while boosting" his company.
The midday limited was inaugurated
for southern business men and it is do
ing fine service. Our returns this year,
believe, will be far in excess of the
business in 1909. The Birmingham dis
trict continues to give us fine freight
business and we stand at all times ready
to aid this district in whatever manner
we can"
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TRANSLATED.
rom Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's WeeKIy.-
Pepper" said little Willie Billups,
what does the paper mean when It says
that when it comes to getting next to
the people, Colonel Binks has all the
other candidates dashed to the mast?'
THAT is the slang way Of saying, my
son." returned Billups. that for keeping
his eye peeled old man Binks has his
opponents skinned mile
There are people in this world for
whom the English language Is not good
enough when they come to the expression
Of what few ideas they have In their
mental -sarayes.''
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THE ACTOR IN SUMNER

affection for him. Oddly enough, only
the workaday winter season reveals
some of his least admirable traits. Sum-
mer shows merely the surface flaws.
Like a great, good-natured grown-up
child, he loafs through his hot-weather
months, gayly clad, with little thought
for the morrow. but with a keen zest
in the present and in the friends about
him. Though the summer may deprive
him of his livelihood, it at least gives
him greater opportunity to become
human being according to his own
lights
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Josepb return. From Maine

M. v Joseph, one of the best known
merchants of Birmingham, returned
yesterday afternoon from motor trip
through Maine and other states, Mr..
Joseph has a cottage in Maine and his
family is now spending the summer
there.
Birmingham for me every day.
said Mr.. Joseph yesterday. Il went
through the entire state of Maine and
although they have aggressive mer-
chants who are great boomers, Biz
mingham has the entire place beaten
easily. I more and more appreciate
out city after l thoroughly inspect 9TH
er states and cities that have made
large bids for popularity"
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vice should be received with caution.
They are, however. correct when they
say the world needs an American crop
OF 14,00o,00G bales. and every southern
farmer is on the spot to Judge whether
the world will secure a crop of that ex-
ar.
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CHIDE THIS MAN
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.

FTOHl tI6 TIIIIdutIpIIId ItItBTdpH.
prize fight pictures are barred, but
Salome dances are not. This is a queer
world, my masters. Birmingham Age
Herald.
Surprised at you, old mani Where Is
your boosted Southern chivalry in COM
pairing couple of pork and beans prize
fighters to the lovely ladies who trip
the Salome dance?
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From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
Missouri has man So years old who
has never taken bath. He should join
the Indians Of New Mexico. Birmingham
Age-Herald.
Nay, nay. brother. not there He should
join the bathers at Atlantic City or some
other place where he could get 4 wash.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

Pull off your shoes, leave on your socks.
lie down In the bluegrass, lay your head
on your right arm and stay there until
you wake up. If 1t rains turn over on
your back. which will keep your mouth
above water.-Kansas City Star
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-22

From the New York Press.
1t takes courage to refrain from pre-
tending to be brave.
Friendship seems to be able to stand
a much heavier strain than love.
A man never knows how much he
needs money till his family teaches him.
You can see through a womans rea.-
sons for wearing some of the summer
clothes she does by seeing through them.
When q man starts in to fix the lawn
mower it's a sign his wife would better
send the children to spend the day with
their grandmother so as not to learn .
lot of new languages.
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When an aeroplane flies from New
York to St. Louis, 1000 miles, its long
distance possibilities will become estab-
lished provided it does not indulge too
much in stopover privileges.