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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
ExhibIt,nr AIabamn Products

I. o. Plunkett. superintendent of agri-
culture for the Queen and Crescent
Route. has shipped to the Ohio Valley
exposition a great array of products from
Alabama and he says the farming inter
ests in and around Cuba. Boligee, York
and Livingston will receive a great deal
of valuable advertising from the exhibits.
One especially convincing part of the
exhibit, according to Mr.. Plunkett Is
that of alfalfa, which was grown In
Greene county AS a result of the wide
spread publicity given the growth OF this
product in this state many inquiries are
heing received from all parts of the coun-
try in reference to the yield. Mr.. Plum
kett in speaking OF the exhibit said: 81
am getting up exhibits of fruits, vege-
tables. farm products and minerals along
the line of the Alabama Great Southern
For instance, l will have a lot of fruits
and vegetables from Cuba. with a card
telling how early the first shipments of
strawberries, peas and beans can be made
from that point; alfalfa, soy beans, corn,
five and six ears to the stalk; cotton
plants, and peaches from Livingston-al
properly labeled; cement rock and alfal-
ia from Epes; two huge watermelons,
now in cold storage at Chattanooga, from
Boligee; minerals and farm products
from Gadsden and Alfalfa, and minerals
from Fort Payne"
Mr.. Plunkett further says since it has
been published that an exhibit will be
made from this section, he has received
letters from people representing colonies
from Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana,
Pennsylvania, Kentucky and North Caro-
lima, asking about lands growing alfalfa
In Greene and Sumter counties. He finds
the land owners are very anxious to have
these people locate among them. and are
alive to the situation, offering their lands
at very low prices to these prospective
homeseekers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
Senator JOhnSt0n'S Work

The minority report of the Senate
committee appointed to investigate
wages and the cost of living, submitted
few days ago by Senator Joseph F.
Johnston. is being we'll received by the
lar democratic papers There were
three democrats on the committee. but
it is understood that most of the work
was done by the Alabama senator. Col
lecting the data involved a great deal
of labor, and compiling it was another
large task.
The high cost of living is a problem
that touches every one, and never, per-
haps, has an economic question been
more closely or more obviously related
to practical politics. The minority re-
port makes the Payne-Aldrich tariff
schedule. in large measure. responsible
for the present high cost of living SEN
ator Johnston has done his party val
liable service. and not only his party
but the public at large. 1t was indeed
a patriotic service.
The report will be read and pondered
in every congressional district and will
influence many a fair minded voter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
MAN AND WOMAN

BY Alfred Tennyson.
The woman's cause Is mans; they rise
or sink
Together. dwarfd or godlike, bond or
free;
For she that out of Lethe scales with
man
The shining steps of Nature, shares
with man
His nights, his days, moves with MIN
to one goal.
Stays all the fair young planet in her
hands
If she be small, slight-natured, miser-
able
How shall men grow?
Let her make herself her own
To give or keep, to live and learn and
be
All that not harms distinctive wom-
anhood.
For woman Is not undeveloped man,
But diverse; could we make her as
the man,
Sweet Love were slain; his dearest
bond is this,
Not like to like, but like in differ
ence,
Yet in the long years liker must they
grow;
The man be more of woman, she OF
He gain in sweetness and in moral
height,
Nor lose the wrestling thews that
throw the world;
She mental breadth, nor fall in child
ward care,
Nor lose the childlike In the larger
mind
Till at last she set herself to man.
Like perfect music into noble words
And so these twain, upon the skirts OF
Time, t f
Sit side by side. full-summd In ali
their powers,
Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-be
Self-reverent each and reverencine
each,
Distinct in individualities
But like each other ev'n as those who
love.
Then comes the statelier Eden back
to men,
Then reign the worlds great bridals
chaste and calm
Then spring: the crownins race Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
Taft and Roosevelt

The breach was sure to come, and it
came on time. President Taft and Ex-
President Roosevelt are now political op-
ponents. They are rivals for the presi-
detail honors to be awarded by somebody
or some party or some faction in 1912.
Starting out in national politics few
years ago as boon friends Mr.. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Taft kept up their intimacy un-
til the latter was indicted into the execu-
tive office President Taft owes his
high preferment entirely to Roosevelt.
It was Roosevelt who brought pressure
to bear on federal officeholders and dele
gates to the national convention in the
interest of Mr.. Taft. In fact. he used
his steamroller and used it effectively to
make Taft's nomination sure.
According to authorized announcement
the nominee had promised to carry out
the Roosevelt policies, some times known
as my policies
For a time the Taft administration
rocked along smoothly and without Great
ing friction or discord among the parti-
sans of Mr.. Roosevelt. But at length the
v-1,;+o rIa,..o i,oao,,a +l,a scapa IF strap
uous politics once more, recalling the
days of Roosevelt, the ruler. Taft got
himself a steamroller an dbegan to roll II.
Seeds of party discomfort were sprouted
There were whisperings of graft in high
officialdom and then came charges and
counter charges. It was not long before
the White House was a very storm CEN
ter and Washington all agog.
Roosevelt, while on his European tour.
had learned from Former Chief Forester
dent Taft, all that had been done while
he, the ex-President, was hunting in
Africa.
The return from Elba'' was the occa-
sion for demonstration. President Taft
got cold feet and republican politicians
were up in the air. The President, eager
to be his own successor in 1912, and the
ex-President, having his eye on his old
job, greeted each other as friends. but
Mr.. Roosevelt did not like the looks OF
things and the two republican chieftains
got farther and farther apart. There will
be war to the knife. in the republican
camp.
With the republican situation turbulent
as it is the democrats are assured of the
next House of Representatives, and II
they do not elect the next President they
had better go away back ana sit down.
The democratic outlook for 1912 grows
very bright.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
SOME MOVING PICTURE TRICKS

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
"HE most popular Of the trick pic
lures displayed at the moving pic
i ture shows is that where ipanimate
objects act with an intelligence which
many a human being might envy.
In one a lazy man while dressing falls
asleep in his chair. The bewildered audi
ence then beholds his clothes detach
themselves from their hooks, move across
the floor. and AT themselves on to their
owner. his hair gradually gets smoother
and smoother as If attended by an IN
visible brush, ill., finally, 1t Is beaut-
fully parted, and his collar fastens around
his neck, and his tie creeps up and arr
ranges itself in a neat knot, his undone
boots lace themselves up, the laces creep
in1 In and out OF the eyelet holes, ana
fastening in bow at the top
To begin with the boots were photo
oranbed unlaced. Then came stop to en-
able the photographer to put the laces
through the first eyelet hole. He snap
shotted this, stopped again to put the
laces through another hole, and SO on TIL
the boots were finally laced up. Each
eyelet hole represented stop and fresh
photograph; but when the picture was
completed the pauses were cut out and
each snapshot Joined up. The result was
the audience saw the laces quickly wind
In and out of the eyelet holes of their
own accord
Suppose, again, 1t is desired to show
Golliwog having walk. Photo No. l
shows the doll in position. Then stop
while the photographer lifts one of tho
figures feet for photo No. 2. The next
photo will show the foot on the ground
again, and it's fellow-member raised. and
thus several snapshots are: necessary to
record single step. Multiply these by
some hundreds. and join them all together
to run in quick succession. and--hey
presto-you have Mr.. Golliwog not only
walking, but jumping, dancing, riding oil
an equally live Teddy bear, and generally
behaving in the way one would expect
such an eccentric looking gentleman to
behave.
Coming within the province OF trick
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
Mr.. AldriCh'S Tariff Law

Just at present the Aldrich newspapers
are doing great deal of cackling over
the new tariff because it is bringing
great deal of money into the treasury.
So perhaps it is. but from whose pock-
cts did the money come and how just
and fair was the abstraction?
These are the questions before the peo-
pie. The law may be a 'crackerjack'
as revenue producer. but if consumers,
particularly in the SOUTH are unduly and
indirectly taxed in order to I'LL the pock-
cts of northern manufacturers, no amount
of revenue will prove satisfactory
Most of the country wants duties de-
vised with an eye single to revenue in
stead of an eye focused first of all on
private monopoly with revenue as an in
cident. The larger the revenue as
rule the better are monopoies served
A fair adjustment of duties regardless
of the interests is demanded, and in the
long run it will be obtained A strictly
revenue tariff is demanded and this will
be the great issue of 1912 A tariff made
by special interests. for special interests
Is exactly what a very large part of the
country does not want even If it is a
great revenue producer, simply because
the manufacturers proceed to exploit the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

particularly gratifying to note the grow
ing tendency toward diversiication and
the increased acreage in corn, hay. oats
and peas, showing that our people realize
the importance of raising their own food
crops
Should there be no unfavorable weather
conditions between now and November,
and with no great recession in prices, it
seems probable says Mr.. Harding, that
the values of farm products in Alabama
will be s4o.oooooo greater in 1910 than in
1909 And s4o.oooooo in excess will have
stimulating effect on every branch of
business in this state Birmingham, Mont
gomery, Selma and Mobile will feel 1t in a
degree. and prosperity will be
in evidence in every corner of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
NOT MITCH FOR T.,
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
O/HETHER we shall take the re-
M cent insurance estimate of

W/HETiHER we shall take the re-
M cent insurance estimate of
w 1880 as the number of suicides
In the United States last year. or
that sent out with the apparent
sanction of the committee of one hundred
on national health, which places the num-
Der at 1900 the undoubted increase in
the number of crimes of this class, cou-
pied with the appalling Indifference as
to the sanctity of human life shown by
the enormous number of murders annu-
ally committed In this country, should
give a strong impetus to the demand for
the creation of a national department or
bureau for the study of problems of ma
tional health. For there is undoubtedly a
close connection between the apparent in
crease of insanity and the annually grow
ing number of persons who commit crimes
of violence against themselves or their
fellows. And 1t may be concluded also
that there is an intimate relationship
between the causes responsible for these
alarming symptoms and those to which
are attributed those chronic ailments to-
ward the elimination Of which modern
medicine is making such imperfect prog
ress.
That these conditions are not altogether
a popularity of our own particular type
of civilization may be judged from the
fact that they are found in other lands.
and in some instances in far greater in
tensity than here. But the increase of
suicides and murders, and of known cases
OF insanity, at a rate far greater than
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
Alabama'S Great Crop Year

Alabama crop news continues hiehlv
favorable President w r. H.rd,ne ~
the First National bank Of Birmingham
has inst comniled renorts IN cron rros
poets and general business conditions
from 15o corresnondan+s inc,ud,rr eor,,,
ers, merchants and bankers covering all
the counties in the state, and the result
is most cheering Mr.. Harding's data in
dicates cotton crop of not less than
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
Merging Express and Other Business

One hundred and twenty-four of the
leading boards of trade in the country
have asked the interstate commerce com
mission to investigate the express compa-
MES These companies have imposed ex
cessive charges and are able to declare
big dividends and cut melons" of
very Juicy nature.
A sentiment is springing up that the
country as well as the railroads have
outgrown the primitive system of farm
out the parcels business to other cor
porations This divided system it is
parcels traffic than in the general freight
traffic. The European practice does not
know the divided system of our Ameri-
can railroads. Tn some way" says the
Springfield Republican. fair to the just
interests of investors in express com
pany stocks, the railroads should be com
PEELED to take over and conduct the ex-
press business directly themselves. Let
insurgency next time surge a little in
this direction
Either the railroads should do their
own parcels business or else the people
should demand a parcels post up to the
maximum of the European systems. The
entire parcels traffic should be put on
reasonable and just basis and excessive
charges should be abolished
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
rRED.s DISCOVERY

From the Delfneator.
Fred. aged 8, had been a naughty boy,
and his mother had punished him. He
felt very much hurt and complained to
his auntie about his mammals spanking
him. Auntie said, TT is not you that
mamma spanks, but little devil inside
of YOU who makes you do naughty
things" After sitting very still for five
minutes he said, TT beats all, how 1t
hurts me when that devil gets
spanked"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
REFLECTION OF A BACHELOR
Eror,n the New York Press.

A few men are so lucky that when
they ask a girl to marry them she re-
jects them.
II man hasn't any morals, he'd bet
ter have a tidy sum of money II he
wants a good reputation.
There may be red-headed angels in
heaven, but how does II help things
to have such tempers there?
1t seems as IL woman would rath-
err LOOK pretty in her photograph than
actually be so in her own person.
It's awful bad for the youngest child
to get spoiled and that's why the fam
lily think they don't do 1t. but they do
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

Col. w. B. Leedy has returned from
Madison county, where he had been at
tending a reunion of the survivors of the
Confederate company in which ne served.
The veterans were entertained by Cap
tain Gurley who has a magnificent farm
In Madison, and who is famed for his hos
pitality.
"Old comrades had very enjoyable re-
union" said Colonel Leedy, in speaking
OF his trip. I'VE were sumptuously en-
tertained by Captain Gurley, and all OF
us hope to be spared to attend similar
reunion next year"
Colonel Leedy said the crops in Madison
were very large and everything was In
an uncommonly fine condition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
THE "GRANDsTANDER."

THE grandstander we always have
with us. / belong to lodges and we
have him there in all his glory You
belong to church and you know that
he shines there like an electric head
light on foggy night. You will see
him in politics and in the business
world. I don't care where you go, you
will find the grandstander. have even
seen him do a stunt at a funeral. You
Will notice him in the baseball game
and in the parade. And surely, after
our labors on this bright planet are
completed and we wander on to that
bourne from whence no traveller re-
turns, we shall find the grandstander
there working is hours a day. I fully
expect it and shall be disappointed If
mistaken. But the grandstander does
very little real harm. He makes a
person very tired on a warm day, but
there is no real danger in him. He
runs his brief course and then his place
Is taken by another performer who puts
on different stunt, but 1t is always
the same old grandstanding perform
ance in the end. julius Caesar grand
standed when on the Lupercal he thrice
refused the crown. and the world has
been at 1t ever since In one way and
another"
B. P. walker in the Osborne Farmer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

SONIA.
SILLY. silly horseman'-
OF course you've heard that song,
By Franz Lehar's sweet melody
Enraptured swept along.
o Sonia, of winning ways
And lissom form so fair.
Whose haunting eye of slunbrous fire
Doth match your midnight hair"
Wilt come to us but once again,
Our longing hearts to thrill?
Pray cease your plant, o bard, for her
Press agent says she WILL
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
Senator Bankhead Returns

Senator John Hollis Bankhead returned
to Birmingham yesterday afternoon from
the Farmers union meeting at Montgom-
cry, and will be in Jasper today. Sena-
tor Bankhead said he found the farmers
very much encouraged over the crop sit
uation and feeling sure the crops would
be very fair on an average.
"Of course, everyone of them was not
happy" said the senator, but the audi
ence faced was made up of the average
farmer, and they seemd to be in fne fet-
tie The question of good roads affects
the farmers very largely, and l am for
better roads in every hamlet of this
state"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
VERY SAD CASE.

Life is a series of ppointments,
sighed Tibbles.
Whats the matter now?" asked Club
bles.
when was little chap I spent hours
trying to catch a toad sitting on toad
stool, but without success, and now that
am man, I don't believe I'll ever
see sea-serpent."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

Huntsville. August 19.-(Special ALEX
Davis, a Decatur man who was arrested
o. day or two ago on a charge of COM
plicity In the Illicit making of liquor In
Decatur over Carter's soft drink stand,
was given a hearing before Commission
er Greenleaf yesterday afternoon. Davis
was bound over to the grand jury of the
federal court and falling to make bond,
was committed to jai1.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
A WOODLAND IDYL.

a NOODLAND I'D u.
Across the void a CLEAN of sun,
1lluming cloistered lanes,
Where green and golden beetles run
And the murmuring pine complains:
Where spiders weave their silver nets
And messy beds invite
To dreams that Danish all regrets
And minister delight.
Across the void a shadow steals,
A cloud looms In the sky;
No threat of rain its front reveals,
And so with placid eye
The shades accepted; comes a breeze
With odors doubly sweet.
In that still world among the trees
All tranquil pleasures meet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
SETTING MATTERS RIGHT.

Miss Clifton took flyer at. Monte
Carlo"
Nearly everybody does who goes
there"
You don't understand me. They are
to be married in October"
What are you talking about?''
Miss Giltons love affair. Her fance
Is an aviator"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
THE FINS OF A FISH.


Lee Shippey sings very sweetly:
I sigh not, "Oh, for the wings of
dover
In the good old summer time,
Though that may have been the slogan
of
Some bards who were more sublime.
But I sigh, "Oh, for the fins of q fish,
For at least about week.
With nothing at all to do but swish
About in shady creek:
Without any clothes at all to wear.
Without any debts to pay,
While fishermen brought me food to
spare,
And some hooks with which to play"
All, many delectable dreams of bliss
'Tis within my power to dish
BSt the only sigh I sigh Is this
"Oh, for the fins of a fish,"
WHEN 1T MATCHES
IT never like to board in place
where the landladys daughter has
straw colored hair"
You don't? And why not?"
Because 1t is very difficult under
those circumstances to see a hair in
the butter"
PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

From the census figures thus far an
nouneed urban population is still on the
increase. And it can't increase too fast
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

Fight Promoter Gleason has been asked
to tell something Of the game" to vau-
great deal about the Reno affair that
most people don't know.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

T. r, may have had cold feet momen-
tarily after the New York state commit
tee acted, but he is getting in the game of
presidential politics, and is going to make
somebody sorry. ,z5.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

1t is reported that there are fish in
Porto Rico that will eat out of an anglers
hand. There are FISH in a great many
parts of the world that will eat on an
anglers hand is he gives them half a
chance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

Detroit came out with flying colors in
the census. 1t has a population of 1885,
TIA gain of SO per cent over 1900. 1t
was only claiming 100000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

The Sultan of Sulu should not be given
too much credit for supporting IA wives
on a monthly salary of SIPS He plays
poker and thoroughly understands the in
side workings of a rake-off.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

When a fellow can't get away for va
cation he consoles himself by boosting the
climate of his home town.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

Uncle Joe Cannon begins to think
there is cussed cold bloodedness in re-
publican high places
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

A fashion expert says that millionaires
are not the best-dressed men. OF course
not They don't have to dress up.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

The national sweet tooth is enormous.
Sugar destroys the taste for whisky.
Cheer up, prohibitionistsl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

Every now and then Lloyd Bingham, the
fair Amelias husband, whips an actor
just to keep in training.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

Germany is nalming off her old tubs on
Turkey for battleships, but she doesh
call them old tubs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

The Chicago Record Herald has dis
covered a baseball pitcher named Fan
well. Most pitchers do when they are
at the bat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

Tn TO date nobody has succeeded in fas-
tening a well-known anecdote to Dr. Grip
men
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

Uncle Joe" Cannon's swan song is be-
ing constantly interrupted by inimicable
persons who want him to cut it short.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

Good crops make for solid prosperity,
and any sort of prosperity makes Tor
more automobiles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

When a dancer wears a mask in vaude-
vile it's a sign that she isn't gong TO
wear much else.