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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
DISCIPLINE IN BERLIN.
The Germans Not Only Obey Rules,
 But Are Unhappy Without Them.

Samuel G. Blythe. in the June Every
 body's.
 The Berliners, and the rest of the Ger mans, are the most governed people on earth. They like 1t and howl for more. They have restrictions of all kinds placed on the order of their daily lives. but they are used to it. Indeed, they have arrived at sort of mental state In which they look to the authorities to tell them what to do and how to do it, in every contin- gency. "Verboten!' Is the German word that has the greatest vogue. so far as was able to see Forbidden stares them in the face everywhere: They are regu- lated in all sorts of ways, down to the manner they shall conduct themselves in their houses. There Is certain time for beating rugs, certain time for playing the piano, a certain time for everything else You can move your household goods only in a certain way. You cannot shake a dust rag out of the window. You can- not do this and you cannot do that and, they told me, after you once get accus- toned to it, it is comfortable way 70 live. It absolves you from thought If you know what hours there are for doing your work and how you must do It. If a cab knocks you down In the street. you are arrested for obstructing the traffic Your place is on the sidewalk.
 Every Berlner does exactly what he is expected to do, and you must do the same. As an example of how well trained they are: they are not obliged to have guards on the underground trains in Der lin. The Berlin folks know they are ex- pected to shut the doors, and they shut them. If you observe their regulations you are not disturbed, but if you violate one of them you instantly get into more kinds of trouble than you had imagined could exist All you are expected to do is to walk chalk-line, and you can be happy, if the regulations allow the kind of happiness that agrees with you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
BEATS ALL THE "BEsT sELLERs.'

From the Baltimore Sun.
 Last year the American Bible society distributed 1,S0O0oO copies of Bibles, Tes- taments and Scripture portions. Tho British Bible society also is very active in distributing the Scriptures, and the two organizations send the Good Book" to every part of the world. The Bible has been translated into about one hum dred different languages, and the Ameri- can and British societies thus provide for all races. It is stated that Mrs. Rus sell Sage has offered to contribute $50O,- coo toward the permanent endowment fund of the American society. When it is considered that millions of copies of the Bible. or parts of it, are printed yearly for distribution from one end of the world to the other 1t seems to De clear that religion Is not losing ground. It is said that rationalism is spreading in continental Europe, and even in the United States there are those who profess to see decline in religious faith. Yet the Bible is printed and circulated as never before The ''best sellers in. fc- tion are thought to achieve marvellous. success if the sales reach few hun dred thousands The Bible, or portions of it, goes out by millions every year to the uttermost parts of the earth. It is incomparably the greatest of all books from all points of view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
C0ngreSS and SluSh Money

Congress has no time to pass a bill to prevent the corrupt leakage of crop information. It has no time to pass an anti-fat-frying bill It has time, how ever, in which to pass a political emergency currency bill. The House has already passed the new Vreeland assets currency bill, and it is hoped to pass it through the Senate this week. The bill is demagogical, but so is ev- erything else that the republican lead CTS are doing in this crisis They are badly frightened, and they are hasten ing to get back home where they can begin work on their political fences.
 The Chicago News, which is by no means a democratic paper, calls on the people of Illinois to get rid of do- nothing congressman. It appeals to them to use their new direct primary bill for that purpose. The lack of ac- ton in this Congress on important bills will surely lead to democratic House in the Sixty-first Congress.
 One thing is settled beyond ques- tion. The republicans have put to sleep the Crumpacker-McCall publicity bill. The Senate committee on privi- leees and elections will not report it, and this is confession that another nampaign of slush and vote-buying
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
Artificial Stock Booming

The artificial marking up of Rock efeller and similar stocks has been Mped out Dy a reaction that was per haps inevitable. Artificial stock move nents are generally followed by a melting away of prices, and the regret is that it carries down values that are reasonable and real. The downward plunge was begun last week, and it is felt this week in the great exchanges. No matter how powerful the men may be who overdiscount business improve ment in the stock markets, reactions will come, and they cannot stay them.
 And yet moderate uplift was who'll ly justified by the conditions of general business. On May 15, for example, there were 5000 less idle freight cars than there were two weeks before. More pig iron is being sold, and steel works are starting up all the way rom Ensley to Pittsburg. The crops are progressing finely, and nothing occur Jed last week or has occurred this week to warrant a collapse in the values of securities. It was all due 10 the artificial nature of the antecedent Eoom Money is easy. Some gold go- ing out, but not enough to harden the price of money. The reaction should be warning to the Standard Oil boom CTS, but it will not be, and in a short time they will no doubt repeat their peculiar tactics. It may be they shear the lambs a-coming and a-gwine in that way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
FISH INVISIBLE IN SLEEP.
the Philadelphia Bulletin.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
 That file fish is asleep said the at- tendant.
 "How do you know?" the visitor to the aquarium asked. But I can't see him., by the way"
 That's how I know. He, like many other fish, changes color on going off. Awake he is mottled with brown and dark olive green, a handsome, sombrely splen- did object Asleep he is a pallid gray, with darke rwings and tail, ghost of a file fish, practically invisible.
 Many of the weaker fish, especially in the tropics, have this ability to change from bright to pale, vague hue when they sleep. Thus they sleep safely. Other- wise the, sltnnber would end between a bigger fshs jaws. "A wonderful natural dispensation, isn't it? Suppose you were a. criminal, being pursued hotly. and whenever you grew tired you could throw yourself under a tree and doze off, conscious that in your sleep no one could see your
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
AVOIDING THE SUNSHINE.

From the New York Sun.
 "Of all people on earth those living In New York are most afraid of sunshine" said doctor. "They put up awnings earlier here than any place else and use them most constantly. On shivery spring days when 1t would seem that the aver age person would be glad to hunt up little sunshine and sit in it folks with west and south windows let down their awnings as soon as the sun crosses the meridian and keep them down till the last rays are out or sight. Since the be- ginning of May this fight against the sun has been waged. The only folk who show any appreciation of sunshine are those on the north side of the street, where they can't get any,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIE ,
The Iron Market.

The Birmingham iron market con tinues exceedingly active This month sales will total large tonnage. The price has advanced to SIP. Some small sales were made yesterday at SIP OH No basis and several furnace com- panies were holding for that figure While large contracts might be closed at s11.50. tine general feeling is that the market will soon harden at SIP.
 prominent sales official remarked yesterday that the recent activity was confined to southern iron. He said that the strength of the market would seem more permanent. of course, 1T noth ern furnaces were selling. If they, as well as the southern companies. were selling freely then it would meal general business improvement all alons the line. As it is the southern market looks good"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
Frustrate their knavish tricks! Confound their politics!-
THE TWO FRIENDS.

By Charles Godfrey Leland. I have two friends-two glorious friends
 two better could not be, And every night when midnight tolls they
 meet to laugh with me. The first was shot by Carlist, thieves 10
 years ago in Spain. The second drowned near Alicante-while
 I alive remain. I love to see their dim white forms come
 floating through the night, And grieve to see them fade away in early
 morning light. The first with gnomes in the Under Land
 Is leading a lordly life, The second l,as married a mermaiden-a
 beautiful water wife. And since have friends in the earth ant
 sea--wth a few, I trust, on high Iris matter of small account to me. the
 way that I may die. For whether sink in the foaming flood,
 or swing on the triple tree, Or die in my bed. as a Christian should
 is all the same to me
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
OUR WOMEN IN CANAL ZONE.
Have Taken Institutions of the States
 With Them.

From the Chicago Evening Post.
 Life in the Panama canal zone has some highly civilized aspects. The men have transported thither steam shovels; the women the institutions of the states" The contrast between existence along that big and unaesthetic ditch and exist ence in California gold camps in '49 js quite overwhelming. Full journalistic data on the former may be found in the breezy little Canal Record, which re- late the doings of the American colony at Panama, Ancon and other points along the proposed water way. We read. for instance:
 erhe meeting of the Ancon Womans s club this week was in charge of the philanthropy department, Mrs. H. D. Reed, chairman. Mrs Read read a paper on the necessity for preventing cruelty to animals and stated that the department would enter at once upon that field. . The colonial tea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
Steel Corporation Officials.

Tt can be truthfully said of the offi- cials of the Steel corporation, including those in charge of the constituent com ranes, they are as free from conceit or swagger as they are able and eff cient' said man in touch with the n- dustrial world but who is in nowise con- nected with any corporation. 'I have met a score or more of the prominent officials and have remarked the utter absence of the ego And yet these men ere the acknowledged captains of indus try, and masters of technical work They are always agreeable and always ready and eager to learn.
 Among the most charming men I have met in Birmingham recently were Mr. Robinson and MT. Thorp of Chicago, off cials of tho Illinois Steel and the Indiana Steel. They came to the district to see the Tennessee company's new steel plant at Ensley and they spoke in unstinted praise of the Improvements that had been made under the administration of Presi- dent Crawford and Vice President Crock ard
 By the way, when MT. Bacon was at the head of the Tennessee company he tried hard to induce MT. Thorp to accept T position here. The latter was then general superintendent of the Clarion works, near Pittsburg. He was quite a young man, scarcely 35, and naturally felt f1attered at the offer. But Thorp req soned it out about this way: If quit the United States Steel and go with the Tennessee I might lose out for it IS only a question of time when the cor poration will acquire the Tennessee com pany's properties; and in that event [ would probably have to go out with the old administration one of the has beens,' so I concluded to hold on to my Job
 MT Thorp has had rapid promotion and at the age of 40 is vice president n charge of the construction work at Gary, Ind, the biggest job of its kind in the world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
JINGLE SAWS BIG FLEET

meet the Americans on the high seas and have saluted them and shown every mark of respect.
 Now, as to the rest of the voyage, there must be many more thousands or miles traversed by the war vessels be- fore they again appear in American waters
 The fleet will call at Honolulu and port in the Samoan islands, after which it will proceed to Australia where warm welcome awaits it.. Two calls will be paid in the far east, China and Japan both having sent urgent invitations. The return to America will be via Suez and Gibraltar.
 It is the hope of all Americans that the voyagers will continue to experience good luck and return safely in due time from their mission of peace and good will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
And left de bones for Parson Jones.
CURIOS OF NAVAL MEMS WIVES.

From the New York Press.
 Naval officers wives who follow the ships often make collections of curios. In the main hall of Mrs. Robley D. Evans home Is brass image of the sit ting Buddha, almost four feet high. This formidable looking god rests, cross-legged on the modern steam radiator. It seems fitting throne, and he really does not appear to mind the heat at all. The idol was given to Rear Admiral Evans hy MT Conger, then our Minister to China, and no other spot in the Evans home seems as fitting throne as the brass heater. Mrs. Seaton Schroeder, whose husband was first governor of Guam, has a cozy corner draped with fibre cloth, ex- quisitely embroidered. The ornaments s are shells of many shapes. Mrs. Dewey s collection of fans has an entire room.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
The Peach Crop.

T have had bad luck. with my peach orchard on Coosa mountain" said Frank Leonard, a well known and popular citi- zen of Birmingham, who has orchard in terests in St. Clair county. "All the peaches have fallen off the trees which IS quite serious loss to me. l was expect ing a fine crop. I do not know whether 1t was the cold snap or not. Very likely il was the frost that caused the blight.
 Tn the valleys the peaches are all right, and from information I have from Selma and other parts >of the state the crop will be large and profitable"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
VI foster nurse of nature is repose.
 king Lear.
lOust Hoods for Street SWeeperS


 use of dust hoods on street s"oepo- in Los Angeles suggests the use VI 'i in Birmingham also. Such hoous ~ ,erhaps $10 apiece, and they eo'o e entire machine, the uii'oi one excepted. No dust is epi o'' passers-by or carried ihoo spread over lawns or pii'''e ii ces in Los Angeles, and 'heie N on why sweepers should be permitted ,,sso,,;no+a dust in s+his city.
 se city, sider that dust is regarded by scientific men as a dangerous agency in the spreading of disease germs, particlarly those of tuberculosis, they will scarce ly hesitate to put hoods on the street sweepers used in this city. Once let a street sweeper create a cloud of dust. no one can say who will inhale or eat that dust and all the germs 1t car ries. Street sweeping in business streets should be dustless, for there is to be found the food that the people of this city are to consume. An ex- pense of about s10 machine will rem der street sweeping in this city innoc- uous, whereas now it is source of discomfort and disease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
Cotton improving.

Tn sections with which I am familiar cotton is picking up," said J. K. Powers of Athens. Tn the Tennessee valley it Is looking all right. There has been great improvement with in the past few days.
 T hear that in South Alabama where the crop had been injured by rain and storm it is looking better now. On the whole there Is promise of big crop in Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

you think?" That isn't sang froid-it's malaria"
 SHOPPING. Unmoved by all the stir she made, Demure, petite and unafraid She went into a dozen shops, Ate ten cents worth of chocolate drops; A spool of thread she had sent out. Bought two stamps-liclked them with pout, And slightly cross and tired to death, Confessing with a little sigh. She had so many things to buy!
 STARTED. '.FIow did he get his start in life?' ..TIis governor kicked him off the old home place."
 BAD AIM There was a young maiden named Grace Who put dabs of paint on her face. And when she got through She looked picturesque, Cause the left dab was way out of place.!
 IDLEASE. In the Land of Sweet Content, Where all harmonies are blent And the days How on as softly as Q dream, Men have ceased to think of gold. With its misery untold, And as worldlings do, no longer fret and scheme But the roses bloom for aye, Tbro,lqh forever and a day. Ard there's never any cloud upon the sky. When you know land like this, stop and think how much you miss, If you let the chance of finding 1t go by!
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 THE REAL TEST. 'fIe seems to have lovely manners "5ow does he behave on trolley car?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 The prouder a woman is of her husband the newer he is.
 A pleasant thing about heaven will be If there is no washday dinner
 Most of all the fun of having children seems to be bragging how smart they are.,
 A man has a chance to win once in a while at speculation unless he does 1t on judgment.
 There's nothing a man can admire more than a pretty woman in a pretty dress to didn't have to pay for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

There are, no doubt, other crop possi- 6ilities. Commissioner of Agriculture Wilkinson is cooperating with the members of the Alabama soil survey in this useful and highly practical work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

The evolution of the open-work stocking is leading Cleveland women to walk bare-egged in the woods in order to become as beautiful as the maidens of ancient Greece.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

It is thought that Mrs. Corey will not, after associating with Russian grand dukes in Paris, speak to any member of the 400" after she comes home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
About Persons.

President ". P G. Harding of the First more.
 c. w.. Ufford and Mrs. Ufford left yes- terday for Wisconsin and Illinois, where they will spend the greater part of the summer.
 Maj. J. F. Hanson, president of the Central of Georgia. w. A. Winburn, vice president and T. s. Noise, general man. ager, will arrive in Birmingham today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

What the party wants is winner said Gov. John A. Johnson at Nor folk, and the convention will therefore proceed to nominate MT. Bryan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

Mineral waters must hereafter be truthfully labeled, showing whether they are natural or artificial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

A thousand years ago our esteemed ancestors worked, ate, rested and slept in a single suit of leather garments, and never on any account took bath.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

The Knox delegates from Pennsyl- vania threaten to swing to Roosevelt instead of Taft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

Speaker Cannon's 20-inch cigars keep the Washington air full of smoke and nicotine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

In the effete east-an automobile took fright from T. W. hat and ran away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

MT Taft expects to spend an hour or two soon in the war department, over which he is supposed to preside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

The horses that are pulling the Taft band wagon must feel that a change would help them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

It is all over but the shouting so far as Denver is concerned. Bryan is a winner hands down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

Predatory wealth will have to use yery small type if it gets anything into the platform of any party this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

Platt is to be retired from the Sen. ate next winter, but Depew cannot be bounced until 1912.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

The man who captured Miss Mae Woods heart will not attend the Chi cago convention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

Some are born to be chauffeurs and some ayiators, and some have great ness thrust upon them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

Newspapers will soon have a regu- lar aero department with a balloon editor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

"Llie is short" said Julia Ward Howe recently, and she is 89 years cid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

Between the suns and the rains the green stuff does grow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

If Miss Wood will make her front name Mary" all will be forgiven.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

From the New York World
 Women of the Confederate choir of America have fitted new words to Dixie, beginning
 Oh, Dixie land is the land of glory, The land of cherished song and story.
 Y In thinking that the old words-"cinna- mon seed and sandy bottom" and tho rest-are not good enough the ladies are mistaken. What set Dixie" going, what made Lincoln call it the best song or the war, what makes New York's theatre and restaurant audiences thrill with 1t, though they may never have been further south than Atlantic City, is Its spirit The words have "go." By the memory of the lips that have sung them they should be protected from change. only so can the song retain it's history and it's sentiment.
 Old words fit old songs. America IS poor stuff, but no attempt to fit new words to the tune has succeeded. Custom will save it. God Save the King Is no better. There is not much poetry in
 Frustrate their knavish tricks!
 Confound their politics!- but that is the way it goes, and will go. The attempt to suppress some of the fight ing words of "The Star-Spangled Banner" deserves to fall. There are impolite ex- pressions in ''Lillibullero" and "A Health to King Charles" but they can i'll be spared. Could any new words fit tho "Marseillaise" so we'll as do those that de rIsle dashed off in one nights feverish excitement? What German would tamper with "Koerner's Hymn or the Watch on the Rhine?'
 If the old songs could speak for theni- selves they would all say, Let us alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29

HER "SEASON'' ENDS. The college widow takes her toll As each sad swain departs, And till next autumn calls the roll She'll break no freshman hearts
 PLEASURES OF OBSCURITY. "obscurity has it's compensations." "Meaning?"
 '1 can go to Europe without jolting the stock market or assuming an alias"
 LOOK AT THE BARONS!
 Iris hard for a. fan
 To wear grin,
 When the home team sim
 Ply WILL NOT winl
 REPLIES. Most theatrical angels have bay win- dows.
 The 1908 styles in watermelons are pleasing.
 What seo a Day Means is the title of an editorial in the Spokane spokes- man-Review 'Twould mean a suite of rooms on Easy street for us. And now they are calling him TOO Late Johnson," says the Florida Times Union. He is really Too Soon Johnson. You never see any women high brows. They always put on switch. An encouraging feature of the Platt- Wood case is the sympathy Mae Wood isn't getting.
 Helmets will come back into use when air ship passengers begin to throw out empty tomato cans on the heads of peo- pie below.
 A poet in the Washington Herald signs his verses "SlSiggins." It is a wonder that the muses will stand for such name.
 It costs 30 a head to convert Baptists in Kansas City. A bath out there must cost about s27.
 If everybody is expected to play harp in heaven, 1t is to be hoped that the aVer- age of musical talent there wilt be greater than it is in this world. z PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-29
SURE.

I guess there'd be
 More cheerful giving, If more of us
 Could make a living.