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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
AdVantaeeS of ElgllSh Mills

English mills claim that raw cotton Is carried from Galveston to Manches- ter at as low transportation rates as 1t is carried to Fall River or even to Charlotte. As a matter of fact no Galveston cotton is carried to Char lotte. The mills about Charlotte get plenty of raw cotton from adjacent cotton fields. So far as the transporta- tion of raw material is concerned Charlotte has a marked advantage over any English mill, although Fall River may not have because of do- mestic steamboat and railroad charges
 The English mills claim difference of 10 per cent in their favor in labor costs. This, too, relates to Fall River, and not to Charlotte. The wages paid in the Charlotte district are no higher than those paid in Lancashire.
 The other advantages claimed by English mills are per cent in the distribution of goods; per cent in sales direct by mill men to the buyers of the world, thus cutting out mill agents and other middlemen; 21a per cent in a banking system which ex- tends into market centers the world over; 2h per cent in inherited skill, and 2h per cent in abundant capital and cheap interest rates. In all 171a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
OCEAN GOLF.
Played On Deck of Steaner-AII Rules
 of Game Observed.

From the New York Evening Journal.
 Ocean golf. played on the broad deck of steamer, is the latest pastime for transatlantic passengers. and to MT. and Mrs. J. H. Conrad of Chicago is given the credit for the creation of a sport bound to become very popular among the voy- agers of the deep.
 Probably most of the credit for the in novation belongs to Mrs. Conrad, who is not unknown among the golf experts in the western metropolis. She, with her husband, was a passenger on the Ham, burg-American liner Kadserin Auguste Victoria, just arrived here. The Conrads suggested to their fellow passengers the adoption of the game, and before the voyage was fairly begun ocean golf was quite the rage. Four days of fine weather were devoted to the game many women participating in it. Charles L. Bishop of Loc1port, N Y, captured all records, his best effort being 27 points. Mrs. Con- rad was second in the honor score, with one mark behind MT. Bishop. Miss Eliz- abeth Dow a handsome New England girl, was next in the winning. Then fol- lowed Kurt Stark MT. Conrad and Bd- win Vollrath, wealthy young German of Blankenburg.
 ''The game of ocean golf is played on the steamers deck over. a nine-hole course" explained Mrs. Conrad, who is young and very pretty, "and we use the disc and other implements of the snuff feboard game. I can assure every one that ocean golf is a sport and diversion just too lovely for anything. All the rules of regular golf are observed, though the holes, bunkers and all other obstacles to be overcome ere drawn in chalk on the deck. Just say to all skeptics that ocean golf Is the finest game aboard ship that ever was"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
"A Cure For Cruelty.

Nothing would please me better than to see a dose of their own medicine handed out to some of those rufhans who unmereifully fog horses and mules for no other reason than merely to give vent to their cruel and brutal dispositions" !" said a citizen.
 There is too much cruelty to poor dumb animals being practiced every day in the week. Take the matter of carry ing chickens by the feet and permitting the head to drop; that is cruelty, and if any person doubts it let him try the eff fects of that position on himself Then there's the milch COW moaning with the pain of a distended udder while the owner tells of the five gallons daily.
 Anything and everything that causes or infiiets pain needlessiy is cruelty and the person who is cruel, especially to poor dumb and defenseless animals, is of depraved disposition and should be con- vinced of the tortures which other crea- lures suffer by being given a taste of them himself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
Judge Wood In City.

Judge William J. Wood of Evansville, Ind, is in Birmingham as the guest of his brother Sterling A. Wood. Judge Wood has served for the last four years as president of the state railroad commis- sion of Indiana, which commission has been engaged in lowering rates and in- creasing the safety of employees and the public, and in all of this work Judge Wood has been prominent He was re- gently appointed president of the com mission for a second term of four years.
 While in Alabama Judge Wood served as a state senator several times as the first state tax commissioner and in many other positions of trust and influence. He is now taking short vacation from his duties and will return to Evansville in a few days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
Uniform Rates In Alabama

At o'clock this afternoon the laws of this state in relation to freight and passenger rates on railroads will go into full effect. Passengers will pay 21a cents a mile on all railroads, and freight rates will be almost as low as those of Georgia long have been.
 This Is undoubtedly a final settle cotton crop and arenewal of industrial activity will give the railroads all they can handle, and when their gross re- ceipts are at a maximum it will be difficult, indeed, to convince a jury that they are in course of being used up-"confscation" is their favorite word for the process.
 The state is to be congratulated upon a settlement of the rate trouble, and upon her supremacy in her own affairs. The states are slowly coming into their own, and the swing Of the pendulum is still their way. While this remains so 1t becomes the duty of the state to treat the railroads fairly, even generously The sovereign state should sternly insist on her rights and at the same time she should foster
 
 road activity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
FORTUNES IN BEEN BOLT"
Man Who Wrote the Verses Never
 Made Penny From Them.
From the Washington Post

From the Washington Post.
 Various persons have made an aggre- gate of more than a million dollars out of the song Ben Bolt !" said Arthur English, lawyer of Charleston. W. Va. at the Raleigh. but my father. who composed the verses. never realized one penny"
 Mir. English is a son of Thomas Dunn English, the poet, who served in Con gress as representative from New Jer- sey in the early '9Os.
 "Three of the verses of the poem were written by my father a long time before the poems first publication" continued MT English. Tn fact he had cast the incomplete poem aside, when one day a request came to him from N P. Willis and George Morris, the latter the author of 'Woodman, Spare That Tree for a contribution for their magazine, the New Mirror, which was then about to make its initial appearance in New York. They told my father they were hard up and that any contribution he might make would really be contribution, as he was to expect no pay except their sincere thanks.
 "As a consequence of the letter the poem was taken up again, two more verses were written, and it was sent on to Newa York, where in due time it ap- peared in the New Mirror. copy of the paper is still retained by my family.
 Since that time it has been published and republished throughout the world. It enjoyed a second life through the me dium of Du Maurier's 'Trilby.'
 An itinerant song writer, brother of H. R. Kneass, then district attorney in Philadelphia, took the poem and adapt ed to it an old German tune. He sang it in Pittsburg and afterward in various parts of the country, and Ben Bolt became a popular air. This man, who was then singing between the acts of a theatrical production of that day, enti- tied The Battle of Buena Vista died while at Chllicothe, Mo-. and near that city a monument has been erected over his grave which is to the memory of the author of Ben Bolt"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
BURNING JUDAS IN MEXICO.
. London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
 Holy Saturday in Mexico Is devoted to the villfcation of Judas Iscariot On Good Friday morning booths are erected In every part of Mexico City for the sale of the most grotesque effigies of the betrayer, and these are bought by per- sons of all ages and both sexes. The city on the following day Is transformed into a vast place of execution. Ropes stretch across the streets from house to house, and from every rope hangs an atrocious- ly ugly Judas, filled with straw and gun powder. The inhabitants devote the morning hours to hurling curses and in- suits at these images, but the cursing ceases a few minutes before 12 o'clock, and the crowds line up the streets and listen for the monday chimes. As soon as the cathedral bells ring out the images are torn down amid frantic yells and cast into bonfires. There they explode, and each explosion is greeted with renewed curses, as representing the soul of Judas fleeing into hell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

per cent. to which 212 per cent may be added on account of abundant cheap labor-total 20 per cent so far as Charlotte is concerned, and 30 per cent so far as Fall River is concerned.
 The English mills claim clear ad- vantage of 30 per cent over American mills as a whole. This claim may be good as between English mills and Fall River, but it Is not good as between English mills and Charlotte, which is given as representative of southern mills. It is not true as to the latter because they get raw cotton cheaper than Manchester does, and their labor costs are no higher. Dingleyism does, however, handicap southern mills, and it may be that English mills are on strict parity with southern mills, while they have an advantage over Fall River mills ranging from 20 to 30 per cent. This is why they are paying good dividends and are Increasing iii number
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
pr. Stagq Is Surprised.

When Dr. John W. Stagg. pastor of the First Presbyterian church saw men, ton in the afternoon press that he is to succeed Dr. Sterling J. Foster, who was forced by ill health to resign the pres idency-of the Presbyterian college at An niston, he was greatly surprised" said a personal friend of his.
 He said the announcement twas so vague and unfounded that i/ reminded him of an old negro who applied to a magistrate for a divorce. The negro said: Judge, l specs I'll have to get 'vorce from dat oman On what grounds? said the magistrate. She's de 'stravagantest 'oman I ever seed Don't you think you had better try to worry along with her?' said his honor. Deed not, sir Well how Is she>extravagant? Give me some idea how you judge of her habits; what do you give her to spend?' T ain't never give her nothin' yit.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
Protectinn Fruit Stands.

"[ think there is just as much sense in putting bananas oranges and apples inside of glass cases as there would be in putting cocoanuts or potatoes" said a business man.
 Now, I'm not in the fruit business but l occasionally buy a few bananas or oranges and I always peel them before l eat them, and If there is anyone who has no more sense than to eat the skin of fruit he ought to have all the germs that's coming to him. The fy-screen or dinance is like other things that become a rage for the moment and then die out Everyone will admit that meat and milk which are the great attractions to flies, should be scrupulousy protected from in- lection, but if we are going to extend the ordinance to the protection of eggs and watermelons then 1t will become impracticable and fail. It is trying to overdo things that causes their undo- ing.
 While talking of screens I would like to know what is the good of screen doors when the doors are kept open? suppose the ordinance says that all doors shall be screened but forgot to say that the doors shall be kept closed, and if the doors are kept closed how are peo- pie to enter and leave a store?
 "The fly should be attacked in his lair and killed in the egg. The stable. the trash can. the garbage dump is the hatchery of the fly, and so long as these places exist the fly will be with us. It would be worth while enquiring what means were employed on the isthmus of Panama to fight the pest and apply it bara
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
"PAlD IN FULL"
WagenhaIs & kemper Have Made For-
 tune From First Walter PaIy.

| From the New York Morning Telegraph. Inasmuch as Paid in Full" is known to every hamlet in the United States by this j, time data concerning its earning capacity may prove interesting. The piece was first produced in Montreal on December 23, 1907, by Wagehals & Kemper. It did not reach the Astor theatre in this city until the following February, and then 1t ran there until August 15, 1908. On that date it moved to Weber's theatre and re- mained until November 21
 Including engagements subsequently, played at the Grand Opera house, the original company appeared in Greater New York for 4S weeks. It afterward went on tour, thus rounding up a sea- son of Il consecutive weeks.
 A second company meanwhile made a run of 73 weeks in Chicago and on tour played solid year without loss of a single performance.
 | Three other companies were organized. One played consecutively for 43 weeks In the far west. Another played for 40 weeks throughout Pennsylvanias sand the middle west. The Atlantic" company toured through New England for SS weeks.
 Altogether 2012 performances of the l play have been given, and it Is estimated that more than 100000 persons have at tended them. The enduring qualities of Paid in Full' have induced Wagenhals | & Kemper to organize five companies for next season. The remarkable popularity of the play is best shown by the fact that last season the companies were kept l going over the same territory repeatedly. It Is estimated that in it's first season , Paid in Full has earned for it's man. | agers about one-fourth million dollars. | Eugene Walter, the author, has reaped. l fortune in royalties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
HOW DO LOVE THEE7

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. How do I love thee? Let me count the
 ways.
 I love thee to the depth and breadth
 and height My soul can reach when feeling out of
 sight For the ends of Being and Ideal Grace, I love thee to the level of every days Most quiet need, by sun and candle
 light.
 love thee freely, as men strive for
 Right I love thee purely, as they turn from
 praise; love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs and with my child
 hoods faith: I love thee with love seem to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with
 the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my lift! And if
 God choose. I shall but love thee better after death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
Jefferson County Congressional District

Jefferson County a Congressional DlSlTlCt
 The ratio of population to a member of the house of representatives new stands at 194,1S2 having been raised in 1900 from 173,901. Possibly the ap- portionment under the census of 1910 will be increased to 225,O00. It may not. however, be over 220,000.
 This raises an interesting question, namely, will the congressional district represented by Oscar Underwood, now consisting of Blount. Bibb, Perry and Jefferson counties, be reduced to lief ferson county only?
 The population of Jefferson county in the year 1900 was 140, APO, and an addition of SO,0O0 10 S5,0OO people in 10 years would make imperial Jeifer- son county a congressional district.
 The decision of the question pretty plainly depends upon the degree. of activity in our coal mines and iron and steel plants and the lesser indus. tries in April, 1910, when the next enumeration will doubtless be made. If crops alt good rail orders will be apt to come in. The rod mill, too, at Ems ley would doubtless be started up, and even the Republic company pos sibly could be induced to put in oper. ation their rolling mills. We have here about 30 blast furnaces that should be in blast. Given industrial activity from about November 1, it is a safe guess that Jefferson county will be- come a congressional district, and that, too, without absorbing a county as Atlanta proposes to do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

None of these articles would be taxed less under the Payne or Aldrich bills. None of the articles are i'm ported. The taxes named go to swell manufacturers profits and to deplete
 
 the pockets of consumers.
 The Aldrich bill Is constructed to in- crease the profits of special interests, and this is why the Rhode Island manipulator wants no income tax. He wants all possible leeway for grinding the ultimate consumer into the earth while he enriches the manufacturer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The more bargains the less buy.
 man likes to be generous about some thing so he can feel what a fine fellow he is to do it.
 The happier man could make his wife by taking her on trp with him, the more she oughtn't to expect it.
 The first time girl is engaged she is afraid other men will try to flirt with her; the next time that they won't.
 When a woman says she has nothing fit to wear it's sign she would be mad der than a hornet if somebody else said 1t. S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
 SCHEMERS.

The world is a world of schemers
 Who strive all their days for a chance To climb OCT the heads of their fellows And the size of their fortunes enhance. And they're not the persons to worry, If a trick on some other is played If the game Is not quite on the level
 And a questionable dicSer is made. For all they can see is just money
 Piled high in a glittering heap; They struggle all day for the dollars And dream Of the same in their sleep. And somehow, they seem to've forgotten They're scheduled to die some day And perhaps there will be an account
 ing
 For the treasure they can't take away. And somehow, they seem to've forgotten The fairest of prizes men hold Are not to be had for mere money And can not be purchased with gold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

Henry H. Rogers will has been pro bated. He left an ample fortune, al- though it may not prove to have been as deep as Rockefeller oil well nor so wide as Carnegie library door.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

On MT. Roosevelt's staff in Africa are a number of native women who carry packs on perfect equality with the men. The principles of the suf- fragettes are marching on even in the jungle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

As soon as the news of ex-Senator Hopkins defeat reached Aurora, his home town, many chimneys were top pied down by an earthquake. It does not pay to offend the inner ring of the 2. 0. D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
KNEW III. MAN

"I had a glorious dream last night" exclaimed MT. Grasper.
 Did you really?" asked his friend. And how much money was in the sack you dreamed you were holding?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

As soon as the battleship Mississippi went back to the sea the big river began to fall. It rose to the occasion.
  There are seven Smiths in Congress, and they may decide to organize the entire Smith family as a national party.
 --.--- Captain Fremont of the battleship Mississippi is very popular on the Fathers of Waters below Natchez. Farmer Patten and the wheat crop are working partners. Their relations are truly amfcable President Taft is initiating Governor Stuart in the looping off millions in his mind.
 The opponents of woman suffrage in England have but one policy-they run.
 The House of Representatives meets daily for publication purposes only
  The chief defenses of the Panama canal are to squint toward Japan.
  The beef trust is marking up beef just because wheat is higher
  Castros conduct is now accounted for-he is a morphine fiend
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

A Kansas City church employs IS automobiles to bring laggards to prayer meetings An elephant in harness is needed in some cases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

When President Taft gets the Aldrich-Payne bill he will see at a glance that downward revision was but an iridescent dream
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

St. Louis is to have a parade of 300 motor boats. It should put flat bot toms under its automobiles and send them into that parade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

stitutional government would quiet ly settle down under an autocracy.
 Therefore. I foresee much trouble in Turkey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

The legislature of Missouri neglect ed to provide for the reopening of pri- mary ballot boxes, and rascality is de- yeloping rapidly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

The New York Evening Post thinks the man who walked into the treas ury at Washington and demanded a million dollars went to the wrong place. He should have gone to Aldrich and asked for clause in the tariff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
ON THE .JoB.

O, it's hustle. hustle. hustle
 And it's labor all day long; Never any time for dreaming, Never any time for song, Never any chance to wander
 From the beaten path away, For the voice of duty's calling And a toiler has to stayl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
pOPIuAR

Bwana Tumbo had the ladies Toting packages for him
 Afrfc ladies. Nothing to It. Bwana Tumbo's in the swiml
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

Milkmen may object to a shifting of the day two hours ahead, for this might cause them to get up the night before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

''Thickly is an obliging sort of chap" How so?"
 "Whenever he tells one of his funny stories he pokes you in the ribs so you can laugh"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

Porto Rico is not the land of free. hand drawing at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
POOLING THE MOE.

"Tell me why that malefaetor of great wealth Is crying in the market place for justice?"
 He Is merely making a grandstand play, knowing quite well that be has some of the shrewdest lawyers in the country in his employ and there is not one chance in hundred of his ever being convicted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
WAITING

WAITING. Still patient and true, Forgetting his sorrow, In spite of the rue, He dreamed of tomorrow, When trouble would cease And care would be ended And his heart would find peace In world he'd befriended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

BUT THEY'RE PLEASED. "Cannibals are ultimate consumers ' "Of what?" Missionaries"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
STUCK.

s''FTe said she was the rose of his heart" Very poetic. How did the romance end?"
 He got the thorn"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
REPLIES,

"Clean up today" advised the Mem phis Commercial-Appeal of last Saturday. The ry-Saturday-night crowd must be large in Memphis.
 No matter how light a soubrette is on her feet she is always lighter in her head
 Mrs. Carrie Nation was really sensible when she advised some young women in Kansas City not to marry men to re- form them.
 A barber shaved a man out in Missouri in cage where there were five lions but he didn't talk much while he was doing it. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
LIMITED.
OBLIGING.

'He has his limitations. Married, eh?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
A DOMESTIC IDYL

UOMEOIIC IIJ1 IL Sing a song of married life In the by and by; Every morn at o'clock Baby starts to cry. Father walks the floor and fumes, Down bit and back; Then, his luck deserting him, Steps upon tack. Mother rises up in bed, Questions, Are you hurt?" Gee, I'd hate to write the words Father wants to blurtl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

Captain Fremont of the battleship Mississippi is very popular on the Fathers of Waters below Natchez.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
IN A JIFFY.

What if the poets of this country should striker"
 They'd strike out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01

Castro's conduct is now accounted for-he is a morphine fiend
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-01
WHEN DO THEY WORK?

WHEN DO THEY WORK? The chaps you meet are debonair
 In Story Land; They face the world with dauntless air
 In Story Land. But what with making love, you know, And laying dreadful dragons low And bravely faring to and fro
 In Story Land, I'm fain to stop and wonder when,
 In Story Land, What one might call the leading men
 In Story Land The heroes there-when they contrive To make enough to keep alive; Although, somehow, they seem to thrive
 In Story Land.