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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
Health and Clean Teeth

The students of bacteriology do not hes itate to say that health is dependent in school children upon clean teeth. The i'm purities in teeth hold, it has been defin- itely ascertained, many thousands of dis ease germs. In some public schools the care of the teeth is taught and even en- forced on the spot. The elimination of germs from the teeth is especially impor- tant because the teeth are at the gate way of one's entire internal system. Germs in whiskers or in the hair of the are undesirable, but none or all of them are in the average so detrimental to health as are germs in the teeth.
 A school that pays no attention to the teeth of students is a school that neg lects both a great opportunity and hy- gienic science. The public school Is, above any other, the best place in which to teach the importance of the care of the teeth, and it is always best to see that the work is done while the subject Is fresh in the mind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
To revenge Is no valor. but to benr.
 -Timon of Athens.
Census Director Durand's Coming Figures

When Director Durand announces +he population of this country at ap- proximately 100000 world of com parisons with other countries and other races will spring up. Our ratio of growth and our birth rate and the ef- feet of immigration will be discussed.
 If we eliminate the uncounted mil lions of China and the vast population of backward Russia, the new census will show that in point of population the United States stands at the head of the progressive nations, followed by Germany's e4,Ooo,0oO, Japan's 47,Ooo,0oo, Great Britain's 43,000,000, Austria's 42, DOC. 900. Frances S9,00o,o0O, Italy's S3, DOG. 900 and Spain's 19,o0o. 900. No col onies or dependencies are included in these figures.
 While the United States leads all the rest in population. yet it must be remembered that this is largely due to immigration. Our birth rate is decreas ing, and some immigrants are becom- ing emigrants either to Canada or to their old homes Sixty years ago the ratio of growth in a decade in this country was 35 per cent; it is now but 20 per cent with tendency to still lower rate.
 The increase on account of the birth rate is probably higher in Germany than in any other country. In sixty years that country has increased in population to the extent of 30,000, 000 while the increase in France has been but 3,00O,0OO. The one has high birth rate, and the other a very low one These and other facts will be brought out when Director Durand makes known the population of this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
THE "MAN ABOUT TOWNv


 One of the sights that nobody has ever seen is that of man saying gravey, Il am a man about town" It is weird phrase, extremely expressive and extra ordinarily indefinite, so much so that New York writer almost had to give up an attempt to define 1t. "A man about town" he wrote at last in a sort of des- pair, lis the kind of man who, when raid is made on the faro saloon and he is there by mistake lights cigar. winks at the captain of police and steps out into the night, while the others are counting the stars and hurriedly thinking of former presidents for names" In Eng land the man about town appears to be indirectly related to the 'faultlessly at- tired f1aneur'' of the less expensive nov elettes. If he exists in the flesh at all, and we devoutly hope that he does not, he is branded as the curse of culinary Bohemia. From time to time, a real, cheap and good Bohemian restaurant floats into the ken of London. This does not happen very often, and never for very long at time. The restaurant becomes suddenly no longer Bohemian, and very much more prosperous; and the cause of the change Is the arrival of the man about town. He has enough money to take the seriousness out of the table hote dinner, and demoralizes the pro- prietors into sound commercial enter- prise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
SOUTH BOOMING COMMERCE

The other noteworthy increases were Will mington. N. C., TO per cent; Fernandina, Fla, 1O2 per cent, and Brunswick, Ga, 42 per cent. Another matter worthy of cheerful consideration is that. whereas in 1899 the exports from the gulf ports equaled only 22 per cent of the exports from Atlantic ports, in 1909 they equaled il per cent The imports at these south ern ports also show vastly closer touch with the commerce of the world than for merly. For the gulf ports, for instance, the increase in 10 years has been 24O per cent. while for the Atlantic ports it has been only 76 per cent. All the Atlantic ports of the south show more than 76 per cent gain--the average gain for the whole group. The south has money to burn on foreign products.
 The total commerce of the South At lantic ports now overtops the total im- ports and exports at Boston or at Phila- delphia. The gulf ports commerce ex- ceeds by sloO ,OO0 the total imports and exports of all the North Atlantic ports except New York; the gulf imports and exports now equal 33 1-3 per cent of the total imports and exports of New York New York may yet be put on the defen- sive
 Finally, from the dry figures of depart mental reports the southern commercial congress has dug up the information that for the year 1909 unmanufactured cotton alone constituted 251a per cent of the total value of the domestic exports of the -~yf f41 f-k@
 and one-half times the value of the next most important exports-meats and dairy products
 Cotton is king"-but great are lumber, naval stores, iron and phosphate The south is only just beginning to turn her natural resources into cash
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
Party Phones to Be RedeSlgnated

New York and New Jersey are full of party telephone lines, and in the rural districts of those states four party lines are as numerous as black berries. This state of things has lel to . new and superior method of desisna- ton. and no doubt the improved method will spread to other states.
 The new meth cd assigns to each line the number that appears at the switch board, and then the letters J, L, R and W will be used to designate the parties pn party line. The parties on four party line No. 12S, for example. would be known as 123-J, 123-L, ,23-R and i23-W. These letters are to be used because they are easily heard over the telephone and because they can hot readily be confused with other let ters.
 On rural lines it is proposed to use numbers containing fewer figures, an1 possibly the letter may be inserted be. Fore the final figure. For example, No bS4 may become 5s-R-4. New direc- tories are being published in New York and New Jersey in which these changes will be worked out and the new mum Der system made standard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
THE DIPLOMAT AND THE CAT

From the New York World.
 In the biography of Oscar Browning 1t is related that Lord Odo Russell, British papal ambassador in 1S4s, told him of the most delicate affair he had ever adjusted. The exiled Queen of Naples. an excellent pistol shot, lived near Cardinal Antonellis s mother, the houses standing back to back. On the top of the boundary wall between the gardens used to parade a magnificent Persian cat, the property of the Cardi- nal's mother.
 The Queen, who rose very early, saw the cat one morning and the temptation was too strong for her. She fired. and fl fell. The excitement was tremendous, the chanceries Of the Holy City were over whelmed with correspondence, but the af- fair was at last composed by the efforts of Odo Russell, the universal peacema- ker. He told me that up to that time the two most difficult affairs which had faller to his lot to arrange were the embroil- ment of General Fox (who had been chal- lenged by the French commandanD and the murder of Cardinal Antonelli's mothers cat.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
RECLAIMING SOUTHERN~LANDs


 The south wants to know why Amer jeans should seek homes in Canada when there is an empire of fertile land await Ing them below Mason and Dixon's line. The question has been variously an- swered, but the truth seems to reside in the fact that the south makes no special effort to attract immigration. What Is worth having is worth working for, but the south holds to the policy of the farm CT who was too lazy to go after his cows but sat down in his 10-acre lot and waited for them to back up and be milked.-San Francisco Chronicle.
 But 1t isn't fair to level all the blame against the south. For example, bill Is pending before Congress providing an appropriation of $150,0O0 for a survey of the lowlands In the Mississippi valley These lands, now oftentimes submerged, are the richest in the world, and if the water were diverted from them there would be a belt of fertility and production surpassing that of Egypt. Yet, although the project of retaining these vast es- tates has been mooted for many years and many engineers are on record as tc its probable feasibility, nothing is done There can be sustained along the Missis- sippi river an additional population more numerous than the new Canadian en- pire of the northwest can support.
 Western senators and congressman have been most energetic in securing legislatior looking to the creation of great irrigation works. The country, east and south as well as west, is glad this work is beinf done. There will be equal satisfaction fl through federal encouragement there fl similar development of the unused bu usable south. Southern senators and con | gressmen. on whom the initiative is nat urally placed, should show more energy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
JOHN oDoM,. PRoBLEM-soLyER

 From the Atlanta Constitution.
 John odom, aged 70 years, and one of those ante-bellum negroes to which the southern white refers with instinctiye af- lection as an "old darky," is in himself an illustration of that solution of the race problem for which the Constitution has been contending. John is an ex-slave He was reared in that ante-belum patriarchal environment wherein our grandfathers and grand mothers, without fear of .he taunt of negro lover,'' carried practical religion and education to the negroes. He is a perfect product of the old regime, that regime that brought forth useful and self-respecting ard intelligent workmen.
 A few days ago John heard that former Governor Candler was desperately i'll. Years ago he had plrsed the former gov- ernor through an attack of measles. The faithful old negro conceived the idea that he alone was competent to bring healing to MT. Candler. Also, the gratitude so rare these days had been nurtured into existence under the old system. He had never visited Atlanta. The quiet and security of the plantation held strong lure to his uncertain eyes and slow footsteps
 Yet duty, or his conception of 1t, point ed the way. Old, crippled. tottering, he came to Atlanta to nurse the man who had been his friends as well as his master.
 | Our present handling of the negro is not producing such fidelity. such grati- tude. ~he most conservative authorities in the south say it Is, instead, manufacturing sn~sninals-at least ineffectives-that im- peril the south's civilization.
 Judge John L. Hopkins last Sunday tes- tif1ed that true religion, without preju- dice to the bridge of social separation after the war, must be the sole depend- ence' in solving the problem l human document from the patriarchal era, John Odom, and those few of his type surviving, seem to clinch the matter with tolerable fnality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
nm the New York Commercial.

From the New York Commercial.
 I/ EEP your eye on the south! That
 N great region is daily springing \ A surprise on the world and causing the earlier developed and less progressive communities to sit up and take notice.
 Who ever regards the south as great wheat growing country? Possibly, she has not been fully awakened herself to what she is doing in that line. But here is the prosy reading of the last crop report by the bureau of statistics in the United States agricultural department projecting the information that 241s per cent of the country's winter wheat area is in the southern states, and that, with Missouri included. more than 30 per cent of the winter wheat area is so situated Something better than that, tool This report also shows that on June 1 the av- craze condition of this crop in the south- ern states was s7 points, exclusive of Missouri while Kansas shows an average condition of only 67 points. The west must look to her laurels in this matter of wheat growing.
 And, as if wonders would never cease where the south is concerned, it now ap- pears from the latest foreign commerce report by the department of commerce and labor that exports from the gulf ports for 1909 increased no per cent from those of 1899; meantime the increase in exports from the Atlantic ports was only 121a per cent. Of the IT Atlantic ports showing either large or small increases during the 10 years, seven are southern ports. The greatest increase in exports made by any one of the seven was s26, ,S70 5S4 at Savan- nah, Ga, showing growth of more than III per cent over 1899. The greatest pro- portionate increase was made by the St. Johns, Fla, district (Jacksonville), which showed an increase of over 700 per cent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
X Model California Road

One of the most difficult pieces or road engineering that is to be found In the entire west lies between Santa Cruz Cal, and the Big Trees. about F miles distant" said a man who has travelled.
 "The road makes a gradual cline atter leaving the city until an elevation or about 1700 feet above the city is reached From beginning to the end of the lz-mlle trip the road hugs the mountain and in some places fearful ehasm yawns just underneath the travellers.
 'I made a trip over this road In an automobile The car was operated by young fellow to whom good roads were taken as a matter of course. lie salu the road we travelled was about three years old and was the result of a large sized political fight before it was con strncted. The road was surveyed and in many places it was found that the average buggy or wagon could not cling to the slippery side walls of the terrifying mountain. The engineers went rev feet below the surface of the road but out side the roadbed. Slight dtches were dug and these filled with concrete. The con crete walls were then filled and when the surface was again reached the road was several feet wider than at first The road was constructed of sand and noun tain rock mixed with white clay. The bed was of fine material and has worn very little In almost every place turns are made and wagons can be passed With out danger. The mountains above send torrents of water down the sides all dur ing the rainy season and it would seem that this would tear the road to pieces. Such is not the case, however. The sides ditches are deep, the road is well rounded and the surface is kept free from mois- ture The road has guttered underpasses every few hundred feet and the water IS carried off without any damage to the roadway.
 .'The road is maintained by gang held in emergency at the road construc- tors headquarters and any break in the mountain road is repaired within few moments after the offices are notified
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
Woman Wins Fine Farm

St. Louis, June 19.-Mrs. Mathilda Ru- dolph, No. West Oak street, Chicago, was tonight announced as the winner of the five-acre Missouri farm for having formed the greatest number of words of the letters comprising Missouri Homes.'' Governor Hadley will tomorrow transmit the deed to the property to Mrs. Rudolph. More than 15000 lists were submitted, coming from every state and territory in the union. The committee decided not to announce the number of words in the winning list in order to prevent endless correspondence in answering questions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
Uniaue Texas Badge

..One of the most unique and one of the prettiest convention badges that l nave ever seen was that worn by the Houston, Tex, visitors here Saturday night said a man who has attended large number of convention.
 '.The badge was in four separate pieces and was headed with the word Texas. Underneath this was Twenty-frst Annual Convention, Chattanooga, Tenn, June 13-18. 191O.'
 Below this, which was highly polished in gilded brass, was the state flag. The lone star was in its regular and well re- membered corner, while the T. P. A initials were worked in the center wit the regulation blue and white spaces.
 ''The lower part of the badge was large Mexican sombrero done in fine wire material banded with the Mexican scarlet and peppered with silver strings.
 While only five of the badges were in Birmingham they attracted a great deal of notice downtown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
Ask Spanish War Vets. To Come Her,

Birmingham may be the scene of the
 first reunion of the Spanish American suggested that Birmingham would be 2 fitting place for such gathering, and the movement will be taken up by the Alabama State Fair association to bring them to Birmingham during the fair in October.
 The south furnished big quota of the bravest warriors in that brief struggle Many of these have already expressed hearty approval of the plan. It is prob able that such a-reunion would bring 3 large crowd from all parts of the coun try as a very low rate could easily be secured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 The better a mans wife feeds him the less he tries to deserve it.
 An extra hard way to get good Is to have 1t preached at you all the time.
 woman is a good deal happier being miserable in love than joyous out of 1t.
 Virtue has an inexhaustible patience to keep on waiting for that promised reward without ever getting 1t.
 man can spend so many hours wish- ing he was rich that he has no minutes e spare on trying to get over being poor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
Boys Leave Today on Camping Tril

The boys of the Y. M. c. A. will leave this afternoon for Camp DeSoto to spend 10 days in the woods and on the waters of the prettiest little river in north Ala bama.
 Physical Director Cubbon returned Sat- urday from Mentone. where he has com pleted all arrangements and has the tents already pitched. There will be about 30 in the party The boys have been excitedly complet- ing their arrangemonts for the pact week and they expect to have tho tint of their lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
DO YOU NOT HEAR THE SEAT.

By Keats. 1t keeps eternal whispering around Desolate shores. and with its mighty
 swell
 Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till
 the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy
 sound. Often 'tis in such gentle temper found, That scarcely will the very smallest
 shell
 Be moved for days from whence 1t
 sometime fell, When last the winds of heaven were un-
 bound. Oh, ye who have your eyeballs vexed
 and tired, Feast them upon the wideness of the sea; Oh, ye. whose ears are dimmed with up-
 roar rude. Or fed too much with cloying melody Sit ye near some old cavern's mouth, and brood Until ye start. as If the sea nymphs
 quired!
 April 1e 1st7s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20

the trusts will multiply. each lot beeom- ing more greedy as time runs on. The trusts believe in making hay while the republican sun shines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
Tendency to Improvement


 Henry Clews in his Saturday review says in part:
 .The tendencies in financial affairs ap- pear to be in the direction of improve ment All known unfavorable features have been so literally discounted and prices have suffered such q prolonged de- | cline that moderate recovery seems at | least a reasonable expectation. Appar- ent1y stocks have been well sold out, and the market has reached level where the attention of careful investors is more easily aroused. For some time past cor rective influences have been quietly at work, the effect of which Is now being seen. Liquidation has not been confined to stocks, but has also extended to grain, cotton, copper, land and other specula- tive ventures. Bankers In all parts of the country have been retrenching and hus- banding their resources. The feeling of extreme conservatism which extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific has also resulted in a general application of | down brakes,'' the result being a gener- al strengthening of financial conditions. Money is. easy, and promises to remain so
 
 rates of interest at their present point, | and good stocks often selling on a per | cent basis, 1t is plain that some sort of adjustment must follow. If money rates do not advance, stocks probably will "One of the most favorable events of | the week was the passage of the railroad bill very much in the form which Pres ident Taft first desired. A few years ago such a measure would have created con sternation in Wall street. Today it's pas sage has been thoroughly discounted, and as railroad officials and investors become accustomed to its provisions, it's restric- tons will appear less distasteful than at one time anticipated. The bill may con- | tain minor defects, but is certainly the best that could be passed, and will work no harm to the railroads; in fact, 1t may prove a benefit, for it will disarm public hostility and insure fair treatment for l both railroads and shippers The rail roads will soon adapt themselves to its provisions, and 1t is quite safe to say that no important new railroad legislation vii
 be attempted for some time to come. The question of rates will now fortunately bt left open for discussion. Advances wil
 not be impossible, but the railroads wil have to justify such steps before making them; thus protecting the public iron exorbitant charges and giving railroadl freedom to advance rates when justified.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
Regarding the Presidency

.I om looking to 1912 with hopes of a democratic victory said prominent citi- zen .T have never failed to cast my ballot for the democratic ticket since I was old enough to vote. which was in 1888. I was then living in Kentucky and was an enthusiastic supporter of Seymour and Blair.
 Tn my younger days was always con fident that the democrats would win, but after years of political experience l be-
 came somewhat pessimistic' regarding
 party victory. I knew we had no chance
 to win in 1908 or in 1904. But 1t looks diff
 ferent now. We have splendid material from which to select our standard nearer. while the republicans are worse off in available men than ever before. Roosevelt is the only man in the repub- ucan party who might possibly be elect
 ed. even in spite of the supposed preji-
 dice against a third termer; but I be-
 lieve that he will be prevailed upon not to allow his name to go before the con- vention in 1912.
 Now as to the objeiction to third term, about which we have heard SC much. there Is really little ground for 1t Statesmen, party leaders and editors who have taken a serious view of third-term- Ism and have sounded notes of warning have overlooked the fact that several de partures from early political practice have been made without hurting the re- public or without jarring on American principles. It was as much of an un'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20
A WINNER
From fife

From Lffe.
 "Yes, Inkem got up a summer novel
 that immediately became a best seller" That so? Something new in the plot?' "No. But when 1t came to the page where he described the looks of the he-
 roine he had his publisher insert a mir TOT"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20

The colonel will no doubt get the tennis net up before he proceeds to the ringside of the prize fight. he life of third party leader is busy and strenuous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20

It is reported that T. R. called Taf. "a sad disappointment" If so, 1t goes to show that T. R. himself is not in- fallible, for he picked him out to be come his successor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20

The insurgents in Congress are more than ever convinced that Vice Presi- dent Sherman and Speaker Cannon should pay their own cha uffenrs and buy their own gasoline.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-20

The fashionable colleges for girls insist that alumnae returning to alma mater shall not bring their babies. The line must be drawn somewhere.