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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-08

will Aldrich, Hale and all the rest, in
Guiding, of course, the noble Penrose.
CLAWS is to be assailed in order to
get back at Pinchot The word has
gone all along the interests line that
Ballinger is TO be upheld no matter
how peculiarly he acted in the Gun
ningham coal lands in Alaska
The joint committee is to consist, it
is said. of Senators Nelson, Root,
Sutherland, Flint. Paynter and Hughes
and Representative Dalzell, Mccall,
Stevens, Martin, Sherley and Howard.
Not an insurgents name appears in
the list, and the four democrats named
will probably line up with the stand
patters Some think the joint COM
mittee will decide to go to Alaska next
summer, and if this is to be the pro-
gramme no report will be presented
until next winter. But it is a row that
will not blow over. Mr.. Pinchot is a
fighter and he will be sure to keep up
his attacks in one way and another.
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Fortunate Alabama

The Senate commerce committee is
the rivers and harbors committee OF
that body, and the death of Senator Nc
1Aurin Of Mississippi will lead to the
Dlacing of Senator Banl1head ON that
important committee. Alabama will
then be represented on both commit
tees OF the two houses dealing with
rivers and harbors.
Senator Bankhead is veteran in Sc
curing appropriations for rivers, and
what he and Congressman Wash Tay-
1or and Congressman Underwood and
the rest OF the delegation cannot Sc
cure for Alabama rivers it is safe to
saw cannot be secured at all.
The Tennessee and the Warrior will
coon be opened, but there is the Coosa
to be equipped with locks and dams
and the Alabama to be improved, not
to mention the Chattahoochee and
some of the lesser rivers of the state
Alabama really needs representation
in the Senate commerce committee
and Senator Bankbead is the right
man in the right place.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-08
Break In the Cotton Market

The slump In the cotton market has
run its course, and If the holders of
spot cotton will sit steady in the boat
prices will go back to Is cents at least
The crop is confessedly 1000, 900 bales
short of the worlds natural and nor
NAL requirements, and the southern
holders of spot cotton are masters of
the situation.
The New Orleans Times Democrat
thinks the speculator should retire
from the scene where his help is not
needed, for the superfuous assistant is
"a nuisance, and has, therefore, to pay
instead of being paid. Cotton is its
own best friend just now. The duel
between producer and consumer should
henceforth be fought without seconds.
This seems to be the situation at
present. The well-to-do planter and
southern merchant will fight the re-
mainder of the battle, and the chances
are that prices will suit them long be-
fore the hot days of August come
again
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-08
Beautiful Opera.

1.-The Merry Widow is light opera
but the music is artistic from begin
ming to end" said a music lover who
heard it at the Jefferson last night.
Everybody is familiar, OF course,
with the Merry Widow waltz. 1t is
one of the most delightfully."- sensuous
things in waltz literature; but there
are two or three other dances in the
opera that are almost as beautiful.
''Lehar certainly made a great hit
when he composed the Merry Widow
music As for the production on this
tour it is superb, Just as all of Saw
ages productions are The costumes
are more elegant than ever. In the
language of the women folks in the
audience every gown worn in the first
act was creation
Miss Cameron, the prima donna, who
is here instead of Madame Gloze, who
had the leading role when the Merry
Widow was performed here two sea-
sons ago, is an artist of rare grace
and beauty and her voice, while not
strong, is singularly appealing. All
the principals are excellent and the
chorus ensemble is good. But if there
was little talent on the stage instead
of high-class talent as is the case.
Mr.. Savage's Merry Widow orchestra
alone would almost make the perform
ance worth the price of admission"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-08
embrace this fortune patiently,
Since, not to be avoided, it falls on me.
II King Henry w.
MAYORS BuSinesS-Like Message

Mayor O'Brien's message submitted
to the council at its last meeting was
clear and business-hke. 1t set forth in
detail but without any waste of words
the result of his inspection of the fire
protection equipment of the municipali-
ties recently annexed to Birmingham
and of the water supply conditions at
North Birmingham. Accompanied by
Fire Chief Bennett, the inspection of
fire department property was thorough
and the recommendations were practi-
cal. On looking into conditions at
North Birmingham the Mayor was ac-
companied by Street Commissioner
McCartin, of long service and proved
efficiency.
While this message of Mayor O'Brien
deals with no complex problems, it is
of more than ordinary importance at
this time, because it shows that the
work of organizing Greater Birming-
ham and assimilating various annexed
communities will be done fairly
and intelligently. Birmingham to-
day is Just about double the size
st was ON the 31st of Decem-
Der. Captain OBrien has made a vigil
liant, fearless executive of the city as
he found it, and he has gone far
enough with Greater Birmingham to in
dictate his ability to cope with the
large and difficult problems that are
almost sure to arise.
His administration will be clean and
business-like to the end; and, after ALL
municipal government conducted on
honest and business-like lines should
give any city proud eminence.
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Florence Man in City.

A. A. Berger, president Of the Alabama
Stave Manufacturing company of Flor
ence. spent yesterday in Birmingham,
leaving last night for Mobile.
Mr.. Berger managed the campaign in
I.auderdale county against the proposed
amendment to the constitution and the
worth of his effort was reflected in the
magnificent majority piled up in that
county against the measure.
'I.auderdale county and everybody
therein" stated Mr.. Berger last night
at the Morris, sis heartily in favor of
Col. Emmett O'Neal. Even those people
who voted for the amendment, or the
great majority of them. will support him
for governor From what I can learn,
Colonel o'Neal has an excellent chance
of election
Another well known man who was at
the Morris last night was Judge John
Lancaster, probate judge of Gilmore
county.
I'm political sense stated Judge
Lancaster, Gilmore county is very peace
full at the present time. We are awaiting
the word of the political leaders before
getting in action"
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CATCHING a Burglar.

IAN amusing experience with nlght
Waterman has been called to my aeteh-
ton said we'll known citizen IT ap-
nears that a certain store in Birmingham
had been robbed for several nights and all
efforts of the owner to catch the roooer
had failed. He then thought of hiring
special Waterman to stay In the store an
night. In order that the Waterman might
be properly armed he brought down his
own hne shotgun a $50 weapon, and told
the watehman that he was going to leave
1t with him and he gave the man instruc-
lions to shoot and shoot to hurt. lie
did not want to take any chances "lth
the cuIprit who had been botherins MN
so long
The Waterman sat down by the lire IN
the rear with the shotgun across ms
knees. and while the winds howled out
side and the fire cracked in the CRATE
he finally dropped off to sleep. The rob
her seized the opportunity. Entering the
store by his accustomed route he care
fully removed the handsome weapon from
its resting place and disappeared IN Inc
darkness. You can imagine the watch
mans chagrin when he awobe. but TINS
was nothing compared TO the owners cha-
grin when he came down next morning
and heard the news. D..
Another attempt was made night or
two afterward the Waterman being IN
side and the owner in a house across the
street The robber appeared again ana
is now in a hospital with whole iot Oh
buckshot under his skin. He may get
well and he may not
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-08
cARLoTTA AND EUGENE.

Il lOIl tut I0oStOu lTdfl5CTipt.
A pathetic history is brought back to
the worlds memory by the statement of
a Brussels dispatch that King Leopold's
sister, Poor Carlotta," has not as yet
been informed of his death. Whether
her faculties would enable her to seize
the meaning of the information IL 1t was
given her Is doubtful. For more than
40 years she has been a most moving
survivor OF the tragedy of French inter-
vention in Mexico. She is now So; she
was young woman when her mind gave
way under sorrows experienced and sor-
rows apprehended Married to Maximil-
liam at IL. she was a widow and mad ut
27. Whether Macmillan deserved the love
she lavished on him is a point on which
those who knew him differed but her
heartbreak has pleaded in mitigation Of
the New Worlds judgment of him. An
other woman whose unhappIness is trace
able in part to the Mexican adventure
is Eugene, who at SO must look back
through mist of tears in which the fig
ure of Macmillan looms. When Mexican
soldiers at Querataro, June 10, 1867 fired
the shots that killed the usurper they
inflicted wound on the Bonapartist ira
dition, which Napoleon Ills own folly
made mortal. There were those who
watched the whole Mexican episode with
eyes that accurately measured its place
in the imperial policy. and correctly
gagged the scope Of the disaster. Bis
marck quietly noted. even If he never
quoted, the action of the United States
in forcing the French to withdraw from
Mexico, and from that withdrawal flowed
the tragedy of Queretaro. Eugene. of
stronger mind and will than Carotta, has
survived for almost 40 years greater
wreck of ambition, and in the Interval
has sustained as great loss Of love.
These two women one mad. the other
bowed both with years and grief, are
living ghosts of that imperial regime
that once dazzled q world that mistook
tinsel for gold.
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The COST OF LIVING.

From the Philadelphia Record
The things that contribute In great
est degree to swell the cost of living in
the United States may be very briefly
set forth:
A tariff levied ostensibly for revenue,
but actually to advance the price of COM
modities In the home market
Costly naval and military outlay;
inflated pension payments;
Extravaganza in all departments of
the public service; and,
Vast municipal expenditure.
Billions of dollars are thus annually
drawn from the pockets of the people in
the shape of higher rents, costlier cloth
ing, dearer food and increased taxes. The
distance between producer and consumer
is further increased by the intrusion
of combinations and hungry and exacting
go-betweens who all compel enormous
tribute
Is it any wonder 1t is such far cry
from the OK to the steak? From the
sheep to the blanket?
OF course there are contributing causes
of dearness-the swelling supply of gold;
the drift from the land to the marts;
the growth Of demand consequent upon
disproportionate growth of population to
growth of production-but these causes
are of worldwide operation. They do
not explain why 1t costs more to live
in the United States than in any other
civilized country. When we pull down
the barriers to trade we shall also pull
down prices. When we restore econom-
ical government we shall restore lower
cost of living.
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PEAcocKs FEATHERS UNLUcKY.

From the London Chronicle.
Supersttious playgoers will learn with
horror that paacocks' feathers are to form
the basis of the costumes in the long de-
layed production of NJ. Rostand's Chan
ticler." Few English actors would be bold
enough to wear these i'll omened feathers.
In 1890 procession of gods and goddesses
was shown on the stage of Drury Lane,
and although Juno appeared with her pea
cock at the first rehearsal, before the
play was produced the company persuaded
the author to cut the bird out of the
cast, in order to avoid the bad luck which
It would certainly bring. On the opening
night of the present Prince of Wales
theatre several people were taken i'll,
and this was attributed by many to the
fact that the stalls were ornamented with
a design in peacocks' feathers. The man
ager went to the expense of recovering
the whole of the stalls with a less I'M
lucky pattern. NH
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Impressed With BIRMINGHAM.

Robert Sweeney of New York, who has
been registered at the Hotel Hillman since
last Sunday. returns home this morning.
He is a young lawyer and capitalist as
well. He is a friend of Joseph III. Hoad-
ley, president of the Alabama Consolidated
Coal and Iron company. and accompanied
him in making a tour of inspection of the
company's properties. He visited among
other places Gadsden, lronaton ana
Searles.
This is my first visit to Birmingham
said Mr.. Sweeney last night "Of course
/ had heard great deal of Birmins-
ham and the Birmingham district had
heard of its wonderful natural adYan-
tages, but since | have been here and
learned from personal observation more
about this district $ raw material wealth.
can better appreciate its marvellous po-
tentialities Mineral Alabama has indeed
a splendid future.
II have been agreeably surprised IN BIT
minghams appearance. 1t is an elegant
city and it seems to be city of wealth.
1t is destined to become one OF the
largest cities in the United States
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MOVING PICTURE PLAYS

minor people depend upon instruction at
rehearsal to learn how their movements
and expressions are to help interpret a
story they may never know.
While the stage manager is drilling the
players the operator is adjusting his CAM
era, an expert is controlling the amount
and direction of light and the stage hands
are fastening the last grips, or possibly
hanging practical door to be used in
the scene. One notices that some players
are natural pantomimists, while others
which are supposed to direct their ac-
tons unless they have lines to speak.
As picture-play manuscripts consist
largely of descriptions of character, ex-
plantations of emotion, instructions for
entrances and exits, and other stage d.
rections, and contain but few lines land
those merely for guidance). those play
ers who must talk to act exercise their
wits in inventing lines, sometimes with
surprising results.
Picture plays must tell stories which
can be plainly interpreted by action, and
that they are so told, and generally well
told, justifes dictum OF Hugh Ford, wh6
produces plays for the Liebler firm. To,
an anguished playwright lamenting cuts
of his lines, Ford replied, Every substi-
tuition of action for lines increases the
stead of bloomer.''
A full-length picture-play film is about
1000 feet long and contains about $4,000
separate pictures of play which takes
about Is minutes to perform" is.
to be projected on the familiar screen in
the darkened theatre. 1t win surprise
those who have seen these picture plays
that the pictures on the film are but three
quarters of an inch square; but that sur
prise will be nothing to that Of the anna
teur photographer when he learns that
the export workman who develops is neg
atives at once could, with perfect COM
fort and propriety, wear white kid gloves
while doing so, for all that process, so
dire and dirty to the amateur, the wash
ing, fixing, drying and whatsoever else
which harrows the mind and blackens
the hands Of the amateur, is done at the
studios in and through and by electrically
operated watts and drums and spindles and
whatever. The long roll of film. having
been developed. 10 sent to the department
whore are made as many duplicates. posi-
tives. as are required for the trade. The
distribution OF the reproduced reels
throughout the world is in the hands
Of agencies, who act for the manufacturer
as distributors Of periodicals act for mag
azines publishers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-08
PInchot- Ballinger Fracas

The proposed investigation by a
aoint committee Of Congress of the In
terror department and the forest serv-
Ice will, IL possible, be turned more
into an attack on Forester Pinchot
than one upon Secretary of the Int
rior Ballinger The old guard is rally
Ing to tho defense of Ballinger, who
can be trusted to stand by the inter-
osts. Cannon win be on hand. and so
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-08
HISTORY NORTHUMBERLAND

J. F. Rhodes in Historical Essays
I cannot recommend the profession of
historian as a means of gaining liveli-
hood. Bancroft and Parkman. who had
a good deal of popularity. spent mora
money in the collection and copying OF
documents than they ever received as in
comes from their histories. A young
friend of mine. at the outset of his ca
reer and with his living in part to be
earned went for advice to Carl Schurz,
who was very fond of him. What is
you aim?' asked Mr. Schurz. II pro-
pose being a historian was the reply.
"Ahar' laughed Schurz, you afe adopt
ing an artistocratic profession. one
which requires a rent ROLL Every as
piring historian has, | suppost, dreamed
of that check of 100000, which Maeaulay
received as royalty on his history for its
sale during the year 1856. hut no such
dream has since been realized.
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FROM WOOD NOTES.
I Ralph Waldo Emerson.

BY Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Whose walketh in solitude.
And inhabiteth the wood,
Choosing light, wave, rock and bird,
Before the money-loving herd,
Into that forester shall pass,
From these companions. power and
Clean shall he be, without, within,
From the old adher1ng sin.
Love shall he, but not adulate
The Affair the all embracing Fate;
All Ill dissolving in the light
or his triumphant piercing sight
Not vain. sour. nor garrulous;
Grave chaste. contented, though retired,
And of all other men desired.
On him the light of star and moon
Shall fall with purer radiance down;
All consultations of the sky
Shed their virtue through his eye
His Nature giveth for defense
His formidable innocence;
The mounting sap; the shells. the ssa.
All spheres. AL stones his helpsrs be.
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G. B. sHAWS MOTHER.
am Armstrong, in Ainslee's.

William Armstrong, In Ainslees.
In the days before he had quite pegged
his literary tent, George Bernard Shaw
lived, together with his mother, in a tall
old-fashioned house, In the once grand
neighborhood of Fitzroy square, whose
big trees it overlooked. And that mother
To me. no hour was more delightful
than the favored one when / drank .
cup of tea with her at the end of her
days vocal teaching. Musical London
she has known for some 70 years, since
tho time when Jean de Resske sang as a
slim, young barytone, before Sbriglia had
made him over into tenoro.
With all her knowledge OF things past,
Mrs. Shaw has kept keenly alive the
spirit which SO seldom goes with it. one
of thorough interest in the present, and
her age 10 now 70.
When Shaw was enjoying his period of
musical and dramatic criticism, awaken
ing Truth from her slumbers with less
gentle touch than that Of the prince in
ural, II it could be natural to him to re-
ly on any others opinion than his own,
to turn to his mother in such seldom mo-
ments of doubt as assailed him.
George writes clearly, and know
what he means. He IL terse," was her
comment on his literary style. and I
love terseness. loaths prolixity and
long sentences, that you may have to be-
gin all over again to get at the nomina-
tive 1 was reading something the other
day that was spoken of ~ beautiful in
a literary sense; could not stand It,"
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ing everything out of the property pos
sible, with no pride as to the city.
There should be some legislation had
to compel landlords to put property in
a decent shape, and require them to
paint houses at least once in decade.
What has become of the city beaut-
fnl, ,novament 7''
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

FTOin Tue NEW IUIh fTess,
An extra easy way to. lose a girl IL to
be sure you've got her.
1t is great temptation to do an easy
thing the hardest way.
When man really learns all about a
thing he can stop showing of about it.
The more sons a man brings up the
more he proves he doesn't know how to
do 1t.
A woman wouldn't be willing to gel
old even to cash in an endowment policy.
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THAckEHAv pIsLIkED FLArrERv.

HTUm tns WestHfnstor 0eSotte.
The Hon Sir 4. Chandos Leigh says:
81 knew Thackeray pretty we'll. Thack-
cray prefectiy abominated anything in tho
nature of fattery. / was with Thackcray
one night when man came up and for
fve minutes administered to the great
novelist the most fulsome fattery. When
the man had gone l said to Thackeray,
who is that?' Thackeray replied, He
calls himself an artist, but i think he
paints as much In butter - he does in
oils
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Bwana Tumbo wears a veil as a pro-
lection against insects. but he takes it
off when Kermit throws the camera
on him.
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1.-THE cold blooded neglect of any
semblance Of fair treatment by some
property owners as to their houses
rented to others is what makes life
one darn thing after another for
those compelled to rent" said dweller
In rented house.
Just look at some of the shabby,
weather beaten. houses that respectable
people are compelled to occupy in the
close-in neighborhoods. You can just
bet that those in the less desirable
locations are very particular to keep
their property In repair and fresh
ensd up.
Il live In a house up near Capitol
park that is really falling down, In
places. The rent is S4s per month. In out
ward appearances AS to paint 1t would
be disgrace to any CROSSROADS town.
The blinds are broken and are falling;
the gas pipes are old and leak; the
wall paper is falling on The owner Is
nonresident. and OF course u sQueez-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-08
WYOMING NOTES.

WYOMING NOTES.
The following news items were written
by the Big Bend correspondent of the
Riverton, Wyoming. News:
Major Young gave his wife new alarm
clock for a Christmas present SO that
she could wake up these cold mornings
and build the kitchen fire. - We only
had to shoot up two subscribers this
year to get them on the paid-in- advance
list. We hope to cut the number down
to one next year. See that that one isn't
you. 49, Tom Evans Ia one of the most
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-08

When the Man from Elba really
starts for home every standpatter will
sit up and take notice.
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The Teddyafricus come. back again
is stirring the waters of national poll
tics as nothing else does.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-08

When Halley's comet is visible to
the naked eve then the old rule, LOOK
up. not down., will become popular
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-08

The Consumers league calls for a
boycott by million families of trust
made goods. Even busy federal Judge
could not send that number to prison.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-08

The railroad presidents We're caught
asleep at the switch Their true field
is Mr.. Aldrich's Senate.
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Mayor Gaynor has been asked to be
the best mayor New York ever had,
and he may accept.