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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
TOY CnNNnIssEIRs

From the New York Evening Sun.
 A famous toy shop which has re- gently moved uptown onto Fifth avenue presents a broad expanse of shop win dow filled with tin soldiers, dolls of wax and new patent washable dolls mechanical teddy bears, hobby horses toy groceries and toy stables and toy garag ges, doll houses and every article for a dolls universe, and with each and every creature out of Noahs ark, of more or less dimensions and mate rials. As might be expected, this en- gazing display attracts continuous spectators. A long line of interested admirers is to be found before that window from early dawn till dark. Do socks and curls predominate in the crowd? Oh, not at all. Short skirts and knickerbockers. perhaps? By no means. The crowd that presses it's nose against those windows and expresses itself In gurgles of delighted longing Is made of the sex that votss and of the sex that does not vote indifferently, but one and all alike are of a voting age. And the children pass decorously by down the avenue intent upon the more serious affairs of life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
New Jersey and New York

T usually vote the republican ticKet' but I intend to vote for Dr. Woodrow Wilson for governor of New Jersey said w F. Berryman of Trenton, who stopped over in Birmingham yesterday on his way to Texas, where he goes 10 look after some land interests.
 Not being very active in politics l cannot say how our state election is going to turn out, but it seems to be in the air that Wilson is winner. l am not personally acquainted with Dr. Wilson, put he is an able man of affairs, as well as an able educator. He is not only democrat from an academic or theoretical point of view. but he is, take it from reading his speeches, a thorough-going party man. so far as honesty and self respect will allow a man to go in the matter of partisanship; yet I mean to vote for him for governor because I am satisfied that he will be a great improve ment oyer republican administrations we have had in New Jersey recently.
 T do not know how I shall vote in 1912, but if Wilson becomes governor. and he or democrat of his type should head the national democratic ticket think I would support such a ticket.
 T was in New York few days ago and some of my old republican acquaint- ances there said they intended to vote for Dix. I would not be surprised to see landslide for the New York demo- cratic ticket"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
SOme nnOnt,S" from q Bishop

- Bishon Neely of the Methodist Episco-
 pal church northern) recently addressed
 class of newly-hedged preachers at con- farance and among other things he told .A them what they shouldn't do, as follows; - .Don,t preach partisan politics, for every man has the right to vote any
 ticket he pleases.
 .Don,t nreach against amusements for is4the chances are that you will only arouse se ,,aonle,s curiosity and lead them to in vestigate.
 .a4 Don't become incorporate in preach
 ing temperance. Intemperance is not ssonly overindulgence in liquor Don't make calls, for they are dan gerous and may lead the neighbors to 5 talk"
 No doubt the bishops list of 'don'ts' will be freely criticised. A southern bishop would hesitate before he con- demned the system of pastoral calls, and yet the old practice of making the rounds of congregation is being abandoned. It Is being abandoned because it takes up
 more time than it is worth. It is not being abandoned for the reason stated by
 Bishop Neely, but it is falling into disuse
 because the pastor has other and more sg
 ' important work to do. E None of Bishop Neely's don'ts will es-
 cape criticism and perhaps none of them K will be closely observed, but after all it will be found that all are founded on
 the best practice. Their observance leads ; to good results, and they are as appli- cable to the church south as to the
 church north.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
Alabama'S Balance Sheet

Ir The fiscal year was ended Septem- Der 30. It was not year in which the states receipts exceeded the statc B disbursements. The deficiency of the [ year was sSS0,2SS. The receipts were s5.ses,144, as compared with s4,707, 245 in the previous year. This shows q gain in receipts amounting to s660, seS. The disbursements of the year lust ended went, however, to $5,69S, ,4o2 IS against s5,37S,o4s in the previous year. The increase in disbursements was ss2O.SS5.
 State Auditor Brandon expresses satisfaction with the increasing wealth of the state, but it is plain he Is not pleased with the increase in disburse- c ments. He wants a revision of the rev. snue laws from top to bottom and he especially desires changes in the laws
 
 feet to privilege tax and that would re- place the franchise tax on foreign cor porations with tax similar to that imposed on domestic corporations. He :, sees ahead the need of more revenue, n for legislatures cannot be trusted to practice economy when they are mak- ing appropriations from the common $ purse.
 hTe present state administration has never practiced economy, and it will < 10 out of office with an adverse bal ance sheet. A deficiency of $33o,00o is i. not alarming unless long continued. The legislature that meets in January will have Auditor Brandons figures be- fore them and possibly they may con olude to keep the outgo down to the : probable inflow of the present fiscal year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
THE HILL O. DREAMS

By Helen Lanyon in Atlantic Monthly My grief! for the days that's by an done, When I was a young girl straight an
 tall.
 Comin alone at set O sun, Up the high hill-road from Cushendall. thought the miles no hardship then, Nor the long road weary to the feet For the thrushes sang In the deep green
 glen, An the evenin' air was cool an sweet. My head with many a thought was
 throng,
 And many a dream as I never told: My heart would lift at wee birds Or at seein' a whin bush crowned with
 gold
 An always I'd look back at the say, Or the turn O the road shut out the
 sight
 Of the long waves curlin' into the bay, An breakin' in foam where the sands
 is white. was married young to a dacent man, AS many would call a prudent choice, But he never could hear how the river
 ran,
 Singin song in a changin' voice; Nor thought to see on the bays blue
 wather s,.
 A snip Wltn yeloW SAILS un1urled, Bearin' away kings young daughter Over the brim of the heavin' world. The way seems weary now to my feet. An miles bes many, an dreams bes
 few;
 The evenins airs not hear so sweet, The birds don't sing as they used to do, An Pm that tired at the top O the hill That I haven't the heart to turn at all To watch the curlin' breakers i'll The wee round bay at CushendalI.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
BIRMINGHAM AND TUSCALOOSA

From the Tuscaloosa News.
 Birningham's wonderful growth as re- fiected in the census returns recently announced is the subject of comment by the press throughout the United States.
 Tuscaloosa joins with peculiar pride in congratulating the great southern me- tropolis on the magnificent increase in population. Before anyone dreamed of the future greatness of the southern PittsburgOthe prophecy had gone forth from Tuscaloosa that at or near the city of Elyton there would some day be a great manufacturing center Dr. Tuomey and Dr. Smith directed the search for the great mineral wealth of the Birmingham district, and since those early days Tus- caloosa has contributed the talent and energy of her best citizens to the upbuild- ing of Birmingham.
 Tuscaloosa rejoices with Birmingham because those things that have made Birmingham great are factors also ir
 the building up of Tuscaloosa. In the heart of the Warrior coal fields and prac. tically at the head of navigation on the Warrior river, Tuscaloosa must grow witt Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
Our County Population

Jefferson county's population has in- creased from 23.272 in 1880 to about 225.ooo in 1s10,' said an old citizen. Our county population may not be announced by the census bureau for some weeks yet. but taking our school census as basis the county population is now between 225,0oo and 2S0,000 There was a great percen- tage of increase between 1880 and 1890, for in the latter year the population was SS,000-a gain of 2s2 per cent over 1880.
 Tn 1900 the county population was 14o,- coo, and If 1t should now be 1000, as some one has estimated it, the ratio of increase in the last ten years would be about 62 per cent, and not 262, as the types made 1t in Saturday morning s paper. But just think of the strides we have made since 1880. when we were boasting of our population of 23,OoO."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
Colorado Mining Business

There are many swedes in Colorado engaged in the mining business" said Charles Sumner, who returned last week after developing placer property for Birmingham interests.
 "The property we are interested in is in Park county, and there are a good many swedes there. and there are new arrivals continually. Now there is only one negro in the county, and he boasts that he carries the negro vote in his pocket. old Dave as he is known, is from Montgomery. Ala. He has been in Colorado over a third of a century. For some years he has worked with Swedes, and he speaks their language. few months ago a party of newly arrived Swedes came to Alma and old Dave spoke to them as soon as the hit the town. They were amazed when he told them that as he was. so would they be- after sojourning in that country. They were so much alarmed they wanted to leave at once, until satisfied that old Dave was only joking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
Accsniancs of the Republic In Portugal

The monarchial principle is becoming weaker in all parts of the world, and the weakening in Portugal was certain ly hastened on the tone hand by the cxtravagance and corruption which loaded the little country with debt, and on the other by the prosperity Of Bra gil in republican hands. Brazil was once a colony belonging to Portugal. The people of Brazil are Portuguese, speaking the language of Portugal. When Brazil became a republic and became in a few years prosperous this set men to thinking in Portugal It. self and after a while the revolution came and it was almost bloodlessly successful.
 The provisional president, Theophile Braga, is a professor of history and philosophy and the cable informs us that he, at the end of a days work returns as usual in a second-class com partment of the train to his unpre- tentious little home in the suburbs of Lisbon, quietly receiving the congrat- ulations of the richest and the hum- blest of his friends and depre- eating the ovations of his fellow pas sengers. He is in other words a com muter now as he was before the reyo- lution occurred.
 This is pretty picture, but many | fear it will not be enduring. Only one | fifth of the adult population of Por- tugal can read and write, and 1t is difficult to see how an orderly and efficient republic can be maintained by people largely ignorant Everything Is backward in Portugal, including ag- ricuiture. To maintain a republic un- | der SuCn circumstances IS 1nueeQ a dl1- 1 fcult task but the plan that succeeded well in Brazil may be duplicated in Portugal. The effort calls for great fortitude in the leaders and much dis cipline in the rank and file. Lisbon and Oporto turn enthusiastically to the republican cause and perhaps the rural population will wei come a change from the rule of the impotent Braganzas.
 The dismissal by the boy King of Premier Franco in 1908 was his first mistake and things went from bad to
 worse In the little Kingdom until a revolution became natural and log ical event. The task of the republic
 is but just begun and 1t would be idle to predict it's future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09

the ship was blown up from the inside let the truth be brought out This coun- try is big enough to stand it. The samp- son inquiry is by no means final. Moth ing will be regarded as final except a disclosure of the wreck inside a coffer- dam.
 Spain has always insisted that the ex- plosion was not external-that 1t was in fact internal So it may have been, and the United States may by surrounding the Maine by a cofferdam be upsetting its own theory of the explosion. So let it be if that be the truth This country Is ready for the whole truth no matter who is hurt or helped.
 When the work is in actual course of completion both Spain and Cuba will be invited to have present experts to whom every facility of inspection and observa- ton will be extended. This is right. Let both Spain and Cuba see for them- selves what the old wreck has to dis close
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
A wEsTERN RECEpToN

Dillon Wallace, on his trip through the Rockies in behalf of the Outing Maga- zine. has encountered unusual experi- ences, many of them humorous. In the October Outing he discusses the first stage of this trip and says regarding his introduction to the west: "It was Sum day evening and probably because it was not customary for the limited to stop at Holbrook, Ariz., the usual assemblage of townfolk was not there to meet the train While I stood uncertain which and booted, in shirt sleeves and wearing jaunty sombreros, observed me from a corral opposite and sood-natureRy came to my assistance.
 ." T reckon you want a hotel.' said one of them, taking possession of my suit case without further introduction and with self-reliance and air of proprietor ship quite refreshing. "'I reckon I do,' assented as we turned up the street to the northward
 "'Buyin' broncs?' he asked ".No'
 |, .Steers?
 "'No.' '''Wool agent? :. No just came to look around
 He was silent for few yards, then expressed his opinion of my visit in ac- cents of disgust
 "'well, you've come to hell of a place just t look around. Reckon you've some town.''
 had time since the train left t see most all there Is t see here. It's plumb lone-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
BIRMINGHAM

From the Washington Post.
 When, at Appomattoxs twoscore and five years ago, a North Carolina regiment fired the last, volley that came from the
 matchless infantry of the old Army of
 Northern Virginia, what is become the city of Birmingham. Ala, was a track
 less forest Now it Is great center of industry. ssfs
 For the decade 1s0o-1s1O Birmingham increased in population from 3S415 to 132,6s5, or 245 per cent No other urban community of any considerable impor- tance has discovered anything like this progress It is startling in its tale of
 advancement.
 A few years after Appomattox a citizen
 Of Alabama appeared in the office of the
 great New York capitalist. Abram Hewitt, and exhibited to him specimens of iron ore, limestone, and coal that he declared could be found in lmitless quantities within a stones toss of one another in northern Alabama. Hewitt
 was incredulous and curt in the expres-
 sion of his disbelief, saying: "why, man, If you had those things down there you
 would work them." vs
 They had them there, all right, and
 they worked them, and today Birming- ham is an actual rival of Pittsburg as
 the iron center of America Nowhere else in the world are the raw materials of pig iron so near together as at Bir-
 mingham, and there pig iron can be pro- duced at less cost than at any other in- dustrlal center in. the world. This Is the age of steel, and that accounts for
 the marvellous growth of this Alabama town. which will contain 100000 inhab- itants ere the twentieth century is half done with this world
 But Pittsburg, that must get its ore from Minnesota or southwest Virginia, has one great advantage In water trans portation, though canal connecting the Tennessee and Alabama rivers might neutralze the ascendency of the Penn sylyania town in that particular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
Good Roads Here and Elsewhere

The national good roads convention met last week at Oklahoma City. and on Thursday it adjourned without select ing the meeting place of next years con- vention. The subject was referred to the executive committee of the national asso- citation. The three cities that desire to welcome the convention of 1911 are Col orado Springs, Birmingham, and Chatta- nooga.
 When Senator Bankhead returns home he will doubtless be able to explain the situation. He is man who usually se- cures what he goes after, and perhaps Brminghams selection has become as- sured through his action.
 Alabama needs the impulse that the na- tional convention would give and every effort should be made to bring the con- vention here next year. The Alabama good roads convention is to meet in this city next Wednesday, and a representa- tive body of men from all parts of the state will be present. These men can aid in bringing the national convention to Birmingham. Resolutions to that effect will no doubt be offered and adopted The Chamber of Commerce. too, should act. Alabama needs that convention and an effort all along the line will bring 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
Regarding Certain Poets

"As Sidney Lanier's fame has been steadily increasing since the poets death, nearly 30 years ago, so will John Canister Tabb's poems long after the death of Virginia's poet-priest. said a reading man.
 Edgar Allan Poe was Americas s greatest poet-at least many of us think so; and the best critics of Flu rope accord him first rank. Lanier is regarded by many as ranking next to Poe and Father Tabb comes close after Lanier. Those book lovers who know Tabb only from reading his second volume. entitled Lyrics should read his first volume, called Poems While many of the Lyrics are fine the volume as a whole is not to be com pared to the Poems Among the
 Poems are a dozen or more that Poe or Tennyson might have been glad to have written.
 "Tabb revels in Poe and one of his finest sonnets is on the author of The Raven.' Tabb evidently believed, like Poe, in the short poem. for few oi his efforts exceeded three stanzas. Ir that most satisfying of all lectures on poetry. Poe's Poetic Principle the immortal genius starts out with tho critical dictum that long poem doei not exist. If 1t be asked, how aboui Paradise Lost? Poe would reply tha' that great work might be considered critically speaking, as series of minor poems. He insisted that "a poem de serves It's title only inasmuch as i exists by elevating. the soul
 "In illustrating his lecture Poe in troduced many beautiful short poem by various authors. and with sympa thetic analysis he at once illumined hi appraisement and evidenced the cath olicity of his own taste. Were he livinl now he would, fancy, include amonl the poems used in his lecture Tabb'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
Surrounding the Maine

4 dispatch from J. D. J. Kelley. com- nander. United States navy explains why the work of raising the Maine would
 be expensive. It will not do to raise the Maine by pulling and hauling in the changes must be made in the wreck. It Is necessary therefore to surround the usual uplifting process because no vessel with a cofferdam, upon the empty ing of which the old ship would be brought to view just as it has been ly- ing over 12 years in the mud of Havana harbor.
 The cofferdam plan is the right one. The country wants the truth about the explosion which destroyed the vessel. If
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
PHOTOGRAPHERS NOVEL CHARITY

From the BOStOn 1eralu
 There is man in New York who has his own notions about charity, and who believes there are more ways than one of brightening the lives of the poor. He is an amateur photog- rapher He takes with him into the East Side a dozen plates and hand camera and offers to make a picture of the family for persons who cannot af- ford to go to a photographer. Two prints is all he ever gives. one being to keep, the other to send back to the old folks at home. He says there are many thousands of these poor people who never had a picture taken in theii lives The curious part of 1t is that when he offers to make them for noth- ing they frequently refuse. fearing that there is some trap or scheme in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09

After indorsing that Saratoga platform MT. Roosevelt proceeded to select as chairman of the republican state commit tee a man who dislikes direct primaries. The coloners methods are mysterious and past finding out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
REFLECTIONs OF A BACHELOR

Joy riding Is mostly for the unmar- ried.
 It seems as if nobody would care to have anything unless somebody else wanted 1t. Poor people pay their bills prompt ly so that rich men can wait as long as they please. Some men get an idea they're pop ular because they've been tarred and feathered. man who comes home to dinner or time every night may not be Q good husband, but his wife is sure he is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
Every RuiIding Rented

Nothing speaks so well for Corey, per haps, as the fact that every house and store built or being built there is rented, said Frank H. Bell. who handles the Corey advertising. Some of these places are leased before they are completed and there is still a steady demand for dwellings and stores
 Before other houses can possibly be completed there will be a still greater demand for them, and even now some of the men employed in the construction of the $4,o00,000 wire plant and in the Tennessee companys by-product coke ovens are forced to sleep under tents for want of houses.
 Figures show that for the next few months there will be constantly in- creasing number of men employed on construction work at those plants until early next summer, when the number will have reached between 20oo and 25Oo The wire plant will be completed and in operation some time next year.
 Prom what T know of the conditions that exist believe that 100 houses could be rented at Corey by the time they could be completed, and I know there will be a demand for them before the first of March.
 Tt will be remembered that in our Co., rey advertising campaign we gave as one reason why we were selling the prop erty before it was completed was the great demand there would be for homes, and our desire that the public help in solving the problem. The same condi- tion is accentuated now more than ever and the property owners at Corey can find ready means of making their ven ture pay a good interest on the invest ment and enhance 1t rapidly in value by building and doing so without delay"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09

Provost Harrison of the University of Pennsylvania has resigned after Is years of service. He was. formerly a business man, and his business talent was ex- pended in extending the university's work. He practically doubled it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09

Osawatomie and Saratoga are too in- consistent to be reconciled to each other, and no one knows at present whether the colonel is an osawatomie republican or Saratoga republican.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09

President Taft's lease of the White House will remain good next summer, but his lease of a summer White House at Beverly cannot be renewed. He is look ing for a new summer capital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09

'Robin.' for this is something that Poe himself might have written.
 Father Tabb died not quite a year ago. and his Poems are now sell ing faster than ever"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09

President Taft does not intend to be fooled in selecting supreme court judges. He can be deceived by tariff bills into in- dorsements he regrets, but he knows lawyer when he sees and tests one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
STRANGE CALL OF THE SEA

have spoken in Iona" who went to the mainland. but could not see to blow be- cause the brown fallows became waves that splashed noisily about him; and how he went to Canada and got work in a great warehouse, but among the bales of merchandise heard continually the singular note of the sandpiper, while every hour the sea fowl confused himN with their crying.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09

MT. Roosevelt brings south a com plete set of his esteemed policies, in- cluding his very latest. but he does not bring along that Saratoga platform.