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Arizona republican., 1910-01-27
ARIZONA srRAWeERRies-There

is on exhibition in the winds of the Southwestern Realty company lot of strawberry plants from the Blue Rib bon farm. They are eight or ten inches in length and crowned with leaves a little greener and larger than those of the average plant. These plants are of the ever-bearing variety.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-10
LODGING IN 10TH CENTURY

e. S. Bates in the June Atlantic.
Often before the inn came in sight
the traveller would see his italian host
Sometimes the host would have touts
as far away as seven or eight leagues
to buttonhole foreigners, carry their lug
gage, promise anything, and behave with
the utmost servility-till the morning of
them to provide clean sheets was to ex-
pect too much and as the nation was
grievousy afflicted with the itch, it was
desirable for the visitor to carry his own
bedding. In many cases we find the
tourist sleeping on table in his clothes
to avoid the dirtiness or the vermin of
the bed. Still in Italy, as a rule, you
shared your bed with these permanent
occupants only. In Spain you were sure
to do so; one man, one bed, was the
custom there. In Germany the custom
was just the reverse; in fact, IL the
tourist did not find a companion for
himself the host chose for him, and his
bed fellow might be a gentleman or he
might be carter; all that could safely
be prophesied about him was that when
he came to bed he would be drunk. The
bed would be one of several In a room:
the covering a quilt warm enough to be
too warm for summer, and narrow
enough to leave one side of each person
exposed In winter. That is, surprising
there were beds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-10
Cotton Seed Oil Versus Lard

government or rather 1.-The Hon
} Secretary of Agriculture, to use
lords of the Englishman who suf-
a loss, are complaining that the
1ment stamps on a package of lard
nothing. In the case mentioned
Cincinnati Price Current. the Eng
urchasers lost s140o. The lard had
rancid, although it had been in
d and approved by the govern
he other hand, it is claimed that
lhould be kept in storage at a tenn
re of 36 degrees or below, and that
ordinary warehouse it becomes ram
t is claimed that the shipment In
IN was good stuff when 1t was
|. and that poor handling in Eng
aused it to become rancid.
after a while no doubt English
will discover that the cotton plant
erior TO hogs in the production
article needed in every household
: herever else cooking or baking is
1T is clean, free of disease germs,
ONE and does not become rancid
ordinary temperature. 1t grew
hot suns, and 1t is proof against
temperatures. While Englishmen
lard to cotton seed oil products,
i'll no doubt have to take all the
that attend the handling of lard,
ey are numerous.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-10
The Girls School

THE Girls Industrial school at
Mentevallo has several hundred young
ladies. most of whom are there to ac-
quire a practical education to fit them
for the real purposes of life," said a
citizen who takes much interest in the
institution. II would like to suggest
to the fair management, therefore, and
to DIR. Palmer. the president of the in
stitution, that especial arrangements
be made to bring the entire school here
for one day.
Let special train be chartered so
as to leave Montevallo in the early
morning and return at. say 10 a. M,
not more than 80 miles.
THE exhibits will prove very bene-
ficial and instructive. particularly in
Mrs. Reeds department. Then the
greatest MODERN day exhibition since
the invention of steam navigation, the
flying machine, is well worth the trip.
THE students at Montevallo are
from every part of the state. Many
of them are making their own way
through the school to fit themselves
for vocations that will give them a
support and make them to be inde-
would commend DR.. Palmer II he should
decide to charter a train and bring his
pupils here as an opportunity to broad
en- tn cir ideas and a stimulus for their
work"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-10
Blast Furnace Statistics for September

The production of pig iron in Sep
TENDER was 2,o54,275 tons, falling off
of less than $4,000 tons from the fig
ures of August. Six fewer furnaces
were in operation October 1. The pres
ent number of active furnaces in the
country Is 23S.
Perhaps the most gratifying fact is
the return of Alabama to fourth place.
New York had usurped that place, but
in September Nthe production of Ala
bama's coke furnaces was 149, sos tons,
while the New York furnaces turned
out but 14S.999 tons. Alabama is out
ranked at present by Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Illinois (Chicago) only. On
October l there were 20 furnaces in
blast in this district,
Production is going on at the rate
of $4,000, 900 tons year, and this pace
promises to be maintained to the end
of the year despite the fact that there
are some accumulations of stock.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-10
The Fair This Week

With the dust we'll laid by last week S
rain, we are now promised perfect au-
tumn days and nights for the re-
mainder of the State fair term.
Birmingham is having a great fair,
by far the most attractive and educa-
tive yet held in Alabama; and the
crowds of visitors will doubtless be
larger than ever. There is a very fine
agricultural display and as for the live
stock exhibit it is the best ever seen
in the south.
This fair excels, too, in the woman's
department and in free shows. all of
of view. The concert music is at once
artistic and popular and thousands are
attracted by the musical programmes
alone.
Now that the weather is good the
racing will be exciting; and above all,
the airship will be in splendid form and
every man and woman can surely af-
ford to drop all business, all work, all
engagements to see it's flights. If
there was nothing else at the fair
worth going to see, the aeroplane
should draw and will draw the multi
tudes.
Let Thursday be strictly observed as
Birmingham Day. On Thursday every
merchant should close at noon, and
every business concern should give a
half holiday to its employees. If this
plan is carried out the State Fair asso-
citation will not only come out without
any deficit, but will have a substantial
surplus to carry over to next year.
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or if the capitalizati ton is largely ficti-
tious, 1t may not impose upon the pub
lie the burden of such increased rates
as may be required for the purpose of
realizing profits upon such excessive
value or fictitious capitalization"
This doctrine is all right but the ap-
plication of it to all sorts and condi-
lions of railroads is rightly considered
a difficult and complicated task. The
rights of innocent stock and bond
holders are involved.
Stock watering is still going on
despite the public sentiment concern
ing physical valuations. Indiana has a
recent case. The Chicago, Cincinnati
and Louisville road was recently sold
at receivers sale for $4,000, 900. The
road originally cost about $4,000, 600.
Tie OhtSd ptdhc anu OillO ANdlAN oS
company bought it and at once pre-
pared to cover 1t with a mortgage of
s4OooO,ooO The mortgage is to secure
an issue of per cent gold bonds of like
amount. Governor Marshall of Indi-
ana is endeavoring by means of a new
receiver to stop this job of watering.
and he may succeed But where one
such case is stopped hundred other
cases are carried to contamination, and
then the shipper and the consumer are
asked to foot the bill.
President Hadley has gone to Europe
to study the problem, and President
Taft cherishes the hope that before
his term is ended some way will be
found by which the rank and file can be
relieved of unjust taxation of this ma
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-10
CICERO ON WIT

From Ciceros Oratory.
There are witty sayings also which
carry a concealed suspicion of ridicule,
Of which sort rs that of the Sicilian,
who, when a friend of his made 1amen-
tation to him saying that his wife had
hanged herself upon figtree. said, be-
seech you give me some shoots of that
tree that I may plant them. z OF the same
sort is what Catullus said to a certain
bad orator, who, when he imagined that
he had excited compassion at the close of
a speech. asked our friend here, after
he had sat down, whether he appeared to
have raised pity in the audience Very
great pity replied Crassus, for I be-
lieve that there is no one here so haro-
hearted but that your speech seemed pit.
liable to him.. "
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show boldncss and aspiring conf
,ce king John.
DadeYille'S Town Improvements

he annual report of Mayor Rylance
Dadeville is an interesting document
hough the town lost all revenue from
Tor yet it stands today without a
ny of floating Indebtedness. 1t has 2
lded indebtedness that totals s2S, 900.
.se bonds were issued to provide the
n with electric lights and TO build
oolhouses.
Mayor Rylance's term nearly three
es of cement sidewalks have been laid,
Ugh school costing $11, 800 has been
t, brick street crossings have been
to the number of q, scavenger
EN- established, a fire bell placed, a
I'd provided for, and all the people
ired with the idea of creating a Town
ltiful. All this was accomplished by
expenditure of only $500. Private sub
,tions and a bond issue came, how
to the city's aid in the building
choolhouses. Nor is this all The
telephone was induced to install its
I'm in Dadeville, the Southern express
ION to begin the free delivery of ex-
! packages, and cemetery has been
led, and an accurate record of all
Ills is hereafter to be kept. The
bic light plant is self-sustaining.
~ all this was done in three years
Ia half, and the total current ex-
was. hut s210o! The town has no
ne Indebtedness. What town has a
E recordl What town has been put
modern basis at an expense of but
And the town is accommodating Il
hg fund with which to meet bonds
On as they mature. Dadeville should
'atulate itself on the efficient and
,nical management it secured in
Rylances term of office.
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on to the decks of imitation battleships--
these things are the realities of today.
and they beat the imaginngs of the,
dime novelists all hollow.
And yet, after all, the question of CEN
sorship over what youth shall read is,
we believe, a question for individual
parents and guardians, rather than for.
government Undoubtedly, some healthy
boys, with too ripe imaginations, were
led, through the old-fashioned dime
novels. to run away from home to fight
Indians, or even, in extreme cases, 10
hold up trains, in emulation of Jesse :,
capades did the boys much harm. They !
were only make-believe, after all, and
even the scientists are not wise erougn {
to tell us of the strange workings Of the ,
mind of an average American boy. OF
course. the dime novel was great slim
ulator to the Imagination. We have the
testimony of SO great literary artist .
as Robert Louis Stevenson that When
he was mind-tired from writing his
gave him so much relief as reading such :
trash as The Robbers of Bloody Gulcn''
or Jack Harkaway's Last Case.
But the enormous spread of education,G
no less than the general improvement in !
public tastes. has sounded the knel of /
the dime novel of the olden kind. In,
stead of trash written by hack-writers
whose sole object was to get thrill in
every chapter, there can be purchase
now, for a dime, the best works ofsfhe
greatest writers-and they are being
bought largely. The modern boy can get
Treasure Island or 1.-The Arabian
Nights or Cooper's "Leatherstocking
Tales for a dime. So we do not need 70
do what Germany is doing. BY natural
process, by the law of the survival OF ;
the fttest, the good is ousting the bad;
and though with our progress in print
ing and publishing, we shall. probably,
always have good novels for a dime, the
old dime novel; is rapidly passing. and
soon shall be seen no more.
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PASSING OF THE DIME NOVEL

From the Washington Herald
TN Germany. where they go good deal
further in the direction of parental
i care of the people than we are will
ing that our government should, they
have put in motion plan to discourage
the sale, and SO prevent, the reading of
that class of literature which We know
as the dime novel" Curiously enough,
many publishers and booksellers have CO.
operated with the German government In
the movement, so that 1t bids fair to be
a success
We do not need any such governmental
censorship in this country. because. Curl
ously enough, the dime novel seems to
have died a natural DEATH When, as
sometimes happens, a messenger boy In
a comedy on the stage, Is depicted as
hating with his message because he is
absorbed in the pages of dime novel,
the joke seems to have lost It's point.
No longer do we see their gaudy covers
in the shop windows, or their soiled
pages sticking from the pockets of the
youth of the land. 1t Is probable that
the advent of the cheap magazine, the
rapid multiplication of the low-priced IL
Illustrated weekly; to say nothing of the
daily newspaper with its recital of Incl
dents quite as startling as any that were
known by the heroes of the old dino
novels. Even the mysterious Beadle,
whose name appeared so often as the
writer of lurid stories. could hardly vie,
in his best days, with the actualities of
our time. Not for a mere dime could
an author be expected to imagine such
tragedy as the Crippen case, for instance,
with its chase of the murderer. by wire
less telegraphy, from one continent to
another What dime novel could have
beaten the case of the loss of the
steamer Republic, with Jack Binns, the
dashing wireless operator, frantically
ticking out his call for help. Or the
aviation meets, which are of daily oc-
currence; the men who go a mile high
into the sair and drop sham bombs
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-10

From 1.-THE Fortune Hunter in the CO.
lumbar for October
The day was of young June, though
gray and a little chill with the discour-
aged spirit of a retarded season. Though
the hegira of the well-to-do to their sum-
mer homes had long since set in, still
there remained in the city sufficient of
their class to keep the avenue populous
from Twenty-third street, north, to the
Plaza in the evening hours. The sug-
gestion of wealth, of luxury, of moneys
illimitable power, pervaded the atmos-
phere intensely, an ineluctable in
fuence, TO an independent man heady,
to Duncan maddening He surveyed the
parade with mutny in his heart All
this he had known, part of it had been
upon a time. Now = the shafts
of his rowing eyes here and there de-
tected faces recognizable of men and
women whose acquaintance he had once
owned. None recognized him who stood
there worn, shabby and tired He even
caught the direct glance of girl who
once had thought him worth winning,
who had set herself to stir his heart,
and-had been successful. Today she
looked him straight in the eyes, appar-
entity, with undisturbed serenity, then
as calmly looked over and through and
beyond him. Her limousine hurried her
on enthroned impregnably above the en-
vious herd.
He sped her transit with a mirthless
chuckle. You're right he said. dead
right You simply don't know me any
more, my dear-you mustn't; you can't
afford to, any more than 1 could afford
to know you"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
IdeaI Weather for the Fair

With such a perfect day as this Sun
day has been it was quite reasonable to
expect a goodly attendance at the Ma
Vassar band contest at the fair this
afternoon, but the attendance was much
larger than l had even hoped for said
President j. H. Holcombe last night
There were nearly 1000 paid admissions,
and that beats any Sunday record at
FORMER state fairs. Such a turnout was
certainly gratifying to the manage
ment.
L think we will have ideal weather
all the week, and If so the crowds viii.
be immense. With Thursday observed
by the merchants as a half holiday, a
new high record in gate receipts will be
established, and this years fair will go
into Birmingham's history as the great
est ever >,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-10
THE CALL OF THE SOUTH

The families that during the years
since the war have settled in the south
imbibe this love for that region. and
those that will join them in the future
will be retained by the glamour of the
soft skies, the murmuring rills and the
balmy groves.
The call of the south is now on the
entire nation, and the practical New
Englanders and the shrewd and sturdy
westerners alike appreciate the advan-
tages of the SOUTH encircIed on the north
and west by population largely depend
ent upon its products and it's patronage.
and upon the east and the south by the
oceans which give it access to all the
ports of the world
The south contains in itself all the nat
ural elements of powerful nation
It's soil, its mines, its natural re-
sources, so numerous and so varied; its
rivers, its ports, it's position upon the con-
tinent, and it's relative position with the
states of such greater rigor of climate,
are magnets to those who desire health;
with wealth, ease with prosperity.
Medical genius has freed it from the
dreadful fevers of yore, and today its
Atlantic and gulf coasts are sanitariums
for the world
The manufacturers OF Cincinnati, the
merchants of Cincinnati, the other active
business men of Cincinnati, will build
wisely, well and profitably by establishing
themselves solidly with the business ele-
ments of the south.
Great as has been the gain of popua-
ton by the south for two decades. the
next ten years will show greater gains
than the twenty that have passed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-10
IYsieal Valuation Of Railroads

G opinion Is running plainly to-
Z, public valuation of railroads
asis alike for taxation and for
No ono has yet presented an ac-
. basis Of physical valuation
] matter has at length been SUBJ
to q commission which may
to bring forth a plan just to
,erned.
lent Taft desires a physical
n Of all railroads to be made
interstate commerce commits
It until the Hadley commission
report this will not probably
rawing Of the line between real
:it1ous values is a difficult. one.
the supreme court Of the United
lsclared that, "If railroad COR
has bonded its property for
INT that exceeds its fair value.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-10
SOME TRAITS OF MANUEL
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
~ the young Portuguese King s
kindness and courtesy there are are
~ many anecdotes, of which the
following, told not long ago by the LIS
bon correspondent of the London Daily
Chronicle, are characteristic:
Young lieutenant on duty inside the
palace received an urgent message con-
yeying the news of his mothers serious
illness. The officer communicated the
matter to his superior officer, who, in
his turn, reported 1t to the King. His
majesty summoned the officer to his
presence, and in granting him leave of
absence said:
Take my 40 horses and go immediate
Iy. with Gods help I hope you VIII
find your mother better"
few weeks after his accession, accom-
panied by several of his adjutants, King
Manuel was taking an incognito walk In
the vicinity of Belem palace. pretty
flower girl, with that impertlnence COM
mon to girls of her class, stepped for
ward, pinned small bouquet on the
lapel \of the Kings coat, and left with
out saying a word. The King ran after
her, stopped her and shook her Warmly
by the hand to thank her for her bou-
quet.
..What imprudence!' exclaimed one of
the adjutants.
"It IL better to be imprudent than to
be discourteous,' replied the King, "and
don't forget I descend from Henry w."
He is good linguist, speaking French
we'll and English easily. He Is fond of
music, almost as good a shot as was
his father, and a fine tennis player.
Fencing, however. is his favorite sport.
Every day, almost without exception, he
has been In the habit of receiving his
fencing master soon after breakfast. He
delighted In bouts with the Officers of
the guard on duty inside the palace,
and they seldom displayed more PROV
ess than the King. -ss.
After his fencing the King was in the
habit of spending the rest of the morn
ing on affairs of state, He read the
Portuguese and foreign newspapers care
pie of some other monarchs in having
secretary cut out for him the items
regarded as worth his perusal.
"You may forget the most important
and useful articles-I mean the most
disagreeable Ones" he Is said to have
remarked when it was suggested that
time would be saved by adopting that
plan
After luncheon the King would play
game of pyramids in the billiard room
and then usually went to the library
where his favorite books were those Of
the early explorers. Vasco da Cana, Ca
bral, Almeida and Albuquerque. The
King, ever since he was a schoolboy, al
ways manifested a. strong penchant fol
travel literature. As Duke of Beja he
had a keen desire to become Portu.
suese Abruzzi and in the royal Italiar
Dukes sachievements as . traveller and
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
vests, the mining and manufacture
= ing reports, the prosperity and ac-
tivity in southern cities and the agricul-
tural districts of that section all concen-
trate upon the south the attention of the
people, not only of the United States but
of the world.
The states south of Mason and Dixon
line are now having the same influx of
population, the same increase in the &C.
tivities of the business affairs, the same
rise in values of real estate, as had
the states of the middle west a half CEN
fury ago, and the great northwest ex-
perienced in the seventies and eighties of
the last century.
But no one must think for one moment
that the south has nearly reached its
zenith of wealth. prosperity and infu-
ence.
Its fertile soil and balmy climate invite
scores of millions of producers, who will
add to the resources of those states and
the nation.
The population of no states in the
Union were so attached to their homes al
were the people of the southern states
before the civil war.
Broken in fortunes by that struggle,
forced by the results from the land they
were so proud of and loved so we'll, many
of them we're compelled to seek in other
states the liberty and opportunities that
reconstruction denied them at home.
southerner once, however, remains al
ways a southerner, and whether he be to
the manner born, or has settled there,
his heart is always with Dixie's land.
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Choice of NeNyspapers

The London Times weekly edition
keeps at the head of its editorial col
umns this extract from a speech deliv-
cred by Woodrow Wilson at the bankers
banquet in New York last January: L
have to get a country newspaper to OBJ
tain the news of the United States and
to get the news of the world l subscribe
for the weekly edition of the London
Times, " said member of prominent
social club. while DR.. Wilson doubt
less exaggerates the difference between
the country weekly and the great metro
politan daily in favor of the former, L
am entirely with him in his appreciation
of the London Times.
Il spent several weeks in London 16
years ago, and while there l read three
morning papers every day and the Times
was one of them. The daily edition was
full of interest then, and l read it Gag
erly. l only see the weekly now, bu.
it is so admirably edited that l find it
treat indeed, and altogether satisfying
in the matter of presenting the news of
both hemispheres. l am nothing of an
Anglomaniac, but if 1 could take only
one paper outside of our local papers, l
would subscribe for the weekly edition of
the London Times