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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
MAIDS FOR BOSTON DOGS.

From the Washington Post.
 Young girls are in demand to fill a new felt want up Boston way. "Can you lead a terrier?" asks the rich lady of the neat bit of femininty who has re- sponded to an advertisement for dog walker" "Yeth, ma am,' lisps the ap- plicant, although she never so much as led a toy spaniel. This sphere of use. fitness is too new to require references as to character and experience, Already baby carriages are being crowded off the fashionable streets by the afternoon pros cession of dogs and maids and the but lers who heretofore have been employed as dog walkers are looking for other jobs. Girls serve the purpose as well as men, for half the pay.
 The Animal Rescue league of Boston puts the seal of approval on the new movement as being step toward the reform the league is working for. Mrs. Huntington Wilson, the president, adds to her word of approval that the work is easy and healthful'' The occupants of the vanishing baby carriages seem to have no claim to commiseration at home, but it is long odds that they will be kept in mind by sermonizers elsewhere, who are wont to point to Boston as guilty of race suicide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24

year master of the situation, always provided he is able to carry his cotton until he is willing to sell it. The crop is a small one. The world is shiver- ing, or soon will be- All the farmer needs is a stiff upper lip in order to obtain all the money from his cotton that he can reasonably demand. It IS reasonably certain that cotton will continue to go up until consumption is checked by high prices, and in the past spinners have not quit buying until the price has risen above 15 cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
UNBEATABLE ENGLISH.

From Tit-Bits.
 'Did you know that there is at least one sentence in English that can be spoken, but that 1t is impossible to writer asked Cambridge university don.
 'eYes. it's correct English, I suppose; and then again 1t isn't. Here Is the sentence, although l vow I don't know how you are going to write it: There are three twos in the English lan- guage.' You see, if you spell two, two, the sentence is incorrect, as 1t is if you spell it either too or to-. Catch the point? Really. it is incor- rect to say it. although 1t certainly should be possible to express the thought This thing has set me going, and it simply goes to show what a tangle the English language is. There certainly is a word two and a word too and an- other to and they are all three pro- nounced alike-two, too, or to-which makes it correct to say, There are three twos,' or three toos' or three tos' in the English language. But what's the user"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
What Ails Alabama9

T read in The Age-Herald with much interest MT. Richard II. Edmonds discus sion of the souths rich resources and of the failure of southern people to develop these resources-especially agriculture as they should be developed" said Fred eriek NJ. Wnlston, a New York business man. who was connected with the United States consular service for three or four years during MT. Cleveiand's second ad- ministration. MT. Edmonds is well known as a strong friend of the south and he evidently talks from the heart. But my business brings me to this part of the country every year Or two, and l would add this to what Mr. Edmonds says, The people of some of the south ern states. notably Alabama, have too much politics.
 Ever since l can remember this state has been either In the throes of @ polti- cal campaign, as right now. or has been getting ready for one. In New York we have frequent elections. of course, but our campaigns are short and sharp, while Alabama are long drawn out. I mean my remarks only in a friendly sense, just as I suppose MT. Edmonds intended his reproof to be for the good of the order
 T was in Mobile in 1906 when Alabama had It's last gubernatorial campaign and was in Birmingham about two years ago when the wet and dry contest was coming to a close. But this present cam paign is about the hottest l have seen anywhere. I am told that most of the prominent business men here are against constitutional prohibition; and that is what I would expect Alabamas S dras- tic prohibition laws are being ridiculed among the best people away from here. Certain it Is that Alabama has closed the door to a highly desirable class of immigration, and if the proposed amend ment to the constitution should be rati- at least practically so.
 Every state that has laws suited to grape growing and suited to vineyards only or chiefly has been inviting vini- euiturists to come and develop this vine- yard industry. Within the past ten years Alabama has been inducing vineyardists to settle here and as a result the man. ufacture of domestic wine has grown to be quite an important commercial bus mess, adding materially to the wealth of the state and at the same time do- ing nothing to cause intemperance It looks to the world as if the people in control in Alabama had lost their heads or had become rank fanatics. But polit- feal greed will do almost anything if it is not curbed
 If the amendment is defeated it will have good effect in eastern financial circles, because it will show Alabama's tendency to swing away from radical legislation and get back to sane levels Surely the people are not going to make things worse by putting prohibition in the constitution"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
Foroetfulness If Moore

"A contributor to your Tn Hotel Lob bies' in Thursdays issue, struck a re- sponsive chord in my heart when he called attention to the sweetness of the melo- dies of the immortal poet and song writer of dear old Ireland. Thomas Moore" said Frank P. O'Brien His place as poet has long been settled in unprejudiced minds and. the highest au- thorities have accorded him the proper need of praise; but today it seems to be good form the direct aim, if not the unwritten law of social ethics, to ignore the poetry and music of Tom Moore, or extend to them cold conventional, half disdainful tolerance.
 T am not quite sure that our Irish societies Secular and religious) are en- tirely guiltless in this regard My per sonal knowledge and scrutiny of pro- grammes of Irish entertainments for many years past would lead me to ask if Moore ever wrote anything but The Harp Minstrel Boy,' Meeting of the Waters and few very excellent songs that have now become tiresome from con- tinued repetition? A stranger to Irish It, erature might naturally enquire If Moore was a writer or simply composer of few ballads were he to draw his con clusions from programmes of some Irish entertainments. Even your enthusiastic lobby column contributor refers only to the Last Rose,' The Harp, The Min strel Boy Believe Me if All Those En- dearing Young Charms While those re- ferred to are truly beautiful In words and music, it is in his extremely patriotic and martial poems that the true light of genius shines forth in Moore's works. The Last Glimpse of Erin When He Who Adores Thee She is Far From the Land No Not More Welcome,' and many others I might mention are rarely ever sung at Irish entertainments in this section of country.
 T think careful reading of the above list of gems will force the conclusion that they are among the most beautiful of the poetic compositions of that day and time, both as to words and music; yet they are rarely heard at Irish con certs. Why is this? Does it not argue lamentable lack of appreciation in our own people to the beauties of Moore and the exquisite tenderness of Irish music. unsurpassed by any of any land, or can 1t be that we have lost or bartered our patriotism, our delicate, poetic sensibil- ities in the mad rush for gold, and prefer instead of execrable doggeral like 'Dooly- ooly' or I'd Leave My Happy Home For You-oo-oo?' This forgetfulness of Moore betokens a criminal indifference to the best Irish literary ideas-yea, a prosti- tuition of good sense and good taste"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
EOnrteen-Cent Cotton In Sight

Cotton is going up, because crop re- ports have become so trustworthy and quick that no one need be ignorant of the approximate size of the crop even before a thousand bales have been gin ned. The farmers know as much about the present crop as Wall street or New Orleans, with all their facilities for procuring information, know. They know the present crop will not ex- ceed 1,000,000 bales and it may be 800 ,OOO bales less than that total. No matter. then, how fast the early bales of the crop are marketed, the outcome is ascertained. This is due to the steady improvement in crop reports.
 About one-quarter of the crop has been marketed at about 13 cents. An other quarter will perhaps be market ed at about IA cents, leaving one-half of the crop to be held by the farmers and marketed when the owners be- come convinced the top of the enarket in the cotton year has been reached.
 The farmer is helped by the specu- lators, who are ever ready to find. a profit in rising as well as falling prices. All prices are alike to a spec ulator, for he is by turns bull and a bear But outside the speculator stands the producer, who knows how much American cotton the world needs, and who has a pretty accurate estimate in his mind of the amount the world will get. The producer is this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
Mrs. pankhnrSt In 0nr Midst

Mrs. Pankhurst, England's forceful and militant suffragette, is in New York, the lion, or rather the lioness, of the hour And yet she is described as "a small, gentle-looking woman in gray checked travelling wrap" She carries no gun, not even lock and chain to fasten her wrists to a seat.
 But when she expresses her convic- tions she will no doubt be found to be earnest to the core. She stands for suffragettism and she welcomes any martyrdom that will advance the cause she advocates. Her earnestness will impress, no doubt, her American hearers.
 While there is a moderate sentiment here in favor of woman suffrage, yet it will never sweep this country until women themselves desire it. pon of Alabama women taken today would put damper on the suffragette move- ment, but few years of agitation such as Great Britain is experiencing may change public sentiment among even Alabama women. Let us hope, how ever, that the boisterous methods of Mrs. Pankhurst and her followers may never be adopted in this state, what ever may be considered best in New York and Washington.
 Pugnacity is sometimes a good thing even in politics, but pugnacity among women to secure political rights would certainly be irregular and ill-timed in this country while a majority of our women are not sure they want the bal lot. Mrs. Pankhurst should first at tempt to convince American women that they need and should have the right of suffrage, and the task will ab- sorb all the time she can afford to spend in this country America, in short, is backward and non-progressiye in a matter that is clearly live issue in the mother country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
BUT FOR A DAY.

From the Westminster Gazette Sleep, sleep in peace, fallen leaves of fallen roses, Fallen crimson roses, on the grass rain- drenched Forget the sun, the south wind and the dew, Forget the song the gray doves sang to you
 Day closes, closes, The sun fades, the painted torch is quenched. Sleep, sleep, O roses; loosed the wreath and broken The feast is done empty the golden bowl Forget the lips that touched, the hands that met. Joys, sorrows, kisses, tears-forget,
 The dusk has spoken, Death breathes his sleep-spell to the flowers soul. La plus fieur ne dure qu.un jour. to- morrow New crimson petals the green boughs will bear. Sunshine and dew-fall the new dawn will bring, And their old song anew the doves will sing
 And joy. and sorrow Will tread the grass. nor heed that you slaAn thera
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
Excess Baggage Complaint.

T have heard numerous complaints re- gently of the treatment accorded travellers by the baggagemen at Birmingham's two stations said a member of the Chamber of Commerce. "The complaints have been particularly in the collection of excess baggage and the manner Tn which it is done.
 When the complaints came I began to make some investigations and found that Birmingham is one of the few places in the United States at which the excess baggage rates are applied with the great est strictness. People have told me that they had traveled all over the country with their trunks and that Birmingham is the only city in the United States at which they have to pay baggage excess. I had an experience myself which shows how passengers can be offended. I have travelled considerably and I always carry the same trunk and practically the same amount of baggage. In New York even I never heard of such thing as excess on my baggage but in Birmingham the baggageman demanded it. What grated on me especially was the fact that a big negro threw my trunk on the scales and removed 1t almost with one motion and gave a weight to the baggageman The baggageman 0efused to look at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
HENRY CLAY AS A GEAR.

From the New York World.
 Hubert Bruce Fuller has set out to res- cue Henry Clay from "the web of eul- ogy and reproach that a century has woven about him" In his new book on "The Speakers of the House." he pro- claims Clay the greatest of them all He makes out the eloquent and ambitious member from Kentucky to have been veritable czar of the House. And this will be something of a surprise to gen. eral students of political history who have accepted the popular descriptive phrase of "the Great Compromises"
 Clay, as seen by Fuller was the first speaker who really dominated the lesis- lation of Congress-" He became the first great party speaker. Realizing the pos abilities of the committee system, he so framed his committees as to force the war of 1872. He was arbitrary in his rulings, yet so tactful as to avoid in general personal antagonisms. He never gave reasons for his decisions. I'm petuous, swift in decision, unflinching, of an imperative will. he seemed to have an instinctive consciousness not only of his own strength but of his special ca pacity for leadership" Frequently guilty of manipulating the rules, he made sure always of being sustained by the House. Not once while speaker was he over ruled on one of his decisions.
 Taking the speakership, Clay gave up none of his rights as a member "To rule the House from the chair and per- suade it from the floor was clearly his purpose" He never by failing to vote on a measure deprived his state of it's full representation.
 If MT. Fuller is quite right in his pre- sentation of this man of an iron will and hand firm enough to keep John Randolph from the floor, the real Clay is indeed in danger of becoming to the popular mind "a mythical parsonage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
A good mans fortune may grow out at
 heels. king Lear.
Bacon and Shakespeare Again

Those who think Bacon wrote the plays that Shakespeare has had credit for should procure the March and April numbers of the Nineteenth Gen. tury and After, for those numbers contain articles by Sir Edward Sulli- van in which he analyzes all the pieces of verse that are admittedly from the pen of the great lawyer and philoso- pher, The poetry he left consists largely of translations of certain of the Psalms, published in 1895. We add here the concluding stanza of his yer sion of Psalm CXXXVII.
 And thou, o Babylon, shalt have thy
 turn
 By just revenge, and happy shall he be That thy proud walls and towers shall
 waste and burn.
 And as thou didst by us. so do by thee. Yea, happy he that takes thy children s And dashes them against the pavement
 stones.''
 Sir Edward Sullivan sees nothing in such lines to indicate the imaginative power that the writer of the plays had. He considers Bacon's verse as flat, stale and unproftable as the pro verbal sailors biscuit.
 And yet there are men who find in Bacons translations of the Psalms indications of genius that could have written the plays. The wayfarer will not, however, consider Bacons yer sions of the Psalms good evidence of his mastership in creative art More evidence is needed, and Bacon left few poetic lines of any sort.
 Nor did his essays show that he held views that would have enabled him to write the plays. For example, as Ten nyson has pointed out, the essay "Of Love- is the very opposite of ''Romeo and Juliet". It is indeed difficult to see how one man could have written both.
 Bacon was a busy man. His first volume appeared in 1897, and he died in 1926. No man could have written In 29 years the volumes he did in ad- dition to the plays and sonnets ,ascrib- ed to Shakespeare. The idea is ab- surd- Two men were needed to do the work, and those two did great work and much of it, each in his own sphere One was the master of inductive sci ence and the other was the master playwright of all time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
THE MAGNATEs.

We've timber kings and lumber kings And kings of Iron and steel, And biscuit kings and flour kings. Whose politics reveal But scant regard for common wights Whose lot Is one of gloom, Because they pay high prices for
 Whatever they consume. We've copper kings and silver kings And kings of Standard oil, And packer kings and canner kings Who swell lifes sad turmoil We've kings of shoes and kings of booze And kings of things to wear And many other kings who add
 Unto the loads we bear. It seems that everything we need And everything we want Is ruled by some proud potentate
 Who's not ashamed to Haunt Ills villainies to all the world
 And make us pay his price; In winter time the king of coal, In summer king of ice. We talk about autocracy
 And jeer at Russia's czar, When every man who walks the streets, Or rides a trolley car In this fair land of liberty,
 Is ruled by countless kings Controlling bread and meat and clothes And lots of other things.
 A HABIT THEY HAVE Where do all the chorus girls go?'' ''I haven't the slightest idea where they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
Cannon NsarS His Finish

Cannon Is irritated and worried uo scolds and fumes and denounces bis opponents in his own party. This. says the Chicago News, indicates his noliti. cal downfall. He wants twenty insur. gent representatives and seven insur. gent senators thrust out of the nartv
 ine twenty-seven decline, however to be thrust out, even to please Josanb G. Cannon, Nelson W. Aldricb and William Howard Taft, for these three pulled together when the present tariff oil was passed, and they will pull to- gether hereafter. The last named oP the trio follows the line of least resist. ance, and this renders him a mart of what has come to be known as Con
 nonlsm, or Aldrichism, in the repub. ilcan party. Despite the assistance MT. Taft is lending to the Cannon. Aidrich coterie, the Chicago News published on the spot, as it were. saws 'the indications are that Joseph Can non is serving his last term as Sneak CT of the national House of Represent atiyes. He has had his day"
 If Rhode Island had been able to se. cure against the machine the primary system, Nelson W. Aldrich, too. would be driven out of the Senate. But the ma chine is his'n in his state, and he can not at present be driven out of office. No insurgent senator save one comes from state that retains the conyen- tion system. Insurgency, in other words, is product of the primary sys- tenn, and as it spreads from state to state insurgency will spread. True political progress is bound up in the pending movement in favor of con stitutiona1 proivision for the selection of United States senators by direct vote. All know that men like Aldrich, Depew, Penrose, Burrows, DuPont, Guggenheim, Lodge, Stephenson and perhaps a dozen others would be among those who also ran in nopu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
STEAMSHIP TIPPING.
from Gentlemen's Journal.

From Gentlemen's Journal.
 As ship hears land after trip across the Atlantic, inexperienced travellers are always in ferment in regard to the proper tip to give their various stewards. Of course, one may give what one chooses, and, no matter how small, the amount will never be questioned by the recipient, though his looks may mean much I may say, however, that it Is customary to give the table steward about s. Your bedroom steward should receive not less than $2, the steward that polishes your boots of a morning $1, and your bath steward s2. Tn the very large boats, in which there are lifts that run between the E and A decks, saving you the climb of five flights of stairs, should
 your cabin happen on F. deck, 1t Is now customary to give a "pourboire" to the boys who operate the cars It is advis- able, by the way. to engage a position for your deck chair and indicate the time at which you desire to take your morn- ing tub at the time when you engage your passage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
THE FALSE TEETH TRADE. From Tit-R

Some idea of the general use of false teeth may be gathered from the state ment that twenty millions of them are exported from America to England every year. When we consider that probably not more than half the inhabitants of Great Britain indulge in the luxury ~of false teeth, no matter how many grinders they may have lost, these figures would seem to indicate that nearly every one in England suffers from defective or missing teeth. As far as observation goes the United States is no better off than England in this respect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
The Game Season.

"Before many days the hunting season will open and there are plenty of quail and many wild turkeys" said a lover of the rod and gun.
 "The game laws have protected the game but they go too far as to permit ting the sale of any kind of game. It deprives many person of one of the greatest table luxuries, many of whom have been at some time accustomed to making bag themselves, but are so circumstanced now that they are de- prived not only of the great pleasure of hunting but also of the opportunity to share the luck of more fortunate friends"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24

lar election. Not one of them would submit his claims to the scrutiny of popular vote. This is why progress and insurgency are bound up in the primary question, and this is why every special interest from Aldrieh and Cannon down is opposed to prima- ries. And yet primaries must come, even if they disrupt both of the old parties. The people will surely come into their own after letting eliques and selfish intrests rule the country a full century.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
RIuebirds and cold Weather.

'T have seen scores of bluebirds this afternoon and knew the cold weather was coming" said resident of South Highlands.
 ''When these little birds begin to come south in such numbers you may rest assured that cold weather is not far be- hind them. They are unfailng weather prophets and when I saw so many of them today at once began to make prep arations for big fire in the furnace with in the next few days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
Reoardniq Local MiIIlonalres.

'In the list of Birmingham men pub lished in The Age-Herald of Friday as being millionaires I remarked the ab- sence of the names of several citizens who are reputed to have crossed the mil lion-dollar mark" said club man. Al one of the clubs the matter was dis cussed in a gossipy way by group or gentlemen, including lawyers and bank CTS. and 1t was generally agreed that list supplemental to that published Fri day should include R. S. Munger, Gov B. B. Conner. W. H. Hasisnger and pos- sibly B. NJ Allen. Birmingham has per haps 15 or % near milloinaires and half a hundred men worth between s250,- GOO and s300,0o0. And the best of it is that most of the rich men-all of them, so far as I know-have acquired their wealth by brains, industry and honest dealing'