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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
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China'S Forthcoming Parliament

The meeting of a real representative parliament In China was first fixed for the year 1915, and at the request of the newly-constituted senate the crown has advanced the date to the year 1913. Prince Yu Liang, a member of the grand coun- ell, recently said in the senate that "the entire nation from the highest class to the lowest was agreed upon the necessity of the early establishment of a general parliament" The senate agreed with him. All want a real representative body and its coming in 1913 is assured.
 The senate now in session consists of 100 members elected by the provinces and 100 appointed by the crown. This body IS not subject to popular influences, and yet 1t favors the introduction of complete parliamentary system as much as the people do in any part of the empire
 Difficult and huge as the task is, China ie breaking away from its ancient tradi- tions to take a place among the progress sive nations of the world. Japan's ex- ample has proven contagious, and in the course of time there will be new and powerful China. Japan is on guard to keep the robber nations of the west away, while the vast empire is engaged in re- constructing itself.
 The desire for the establishment of con- stftutional rule and of a parliament is ev- tdence of the awakening in the vast popu- lation.. The army is still young, and the Prince Regent is not powerful force. The country is vast in territorial extent, holding an immense population. There is nothing strong to stand behind a parlia- n,ent, but that does not matter. The democratic spirit knows no such word as 'fail." It may make mistakes, but it will go forward gaining strength as it ad- vances. So it will be in China, a country full of hope and new aspirations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

are most favorable instead of marketing the product when the roads permit.
 MT. Finley shows how these great re- suits can be accomplished, and with his customary practicality he discusses the best manner of financing good roads. He reaches the conclusion that the county is the true unit in this matter, as 1t is in many other matters. And he believes that any county can secure good roads by issuing bonds and levying road tax that will pay the annual interest on the bonds and provide proper sinking fund. In this way the immediate tax burden Is re- duced. and much of the expense is post poned until the good effects of the roads are felt. All in all, Mir Finley's address is practical. timely and valuable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
VERY GOOD RECORD

From the Columbian Magazine.
 Before I consent to let you have my daughter" said the grim old gentleman, there are some questions I would like to ask you. Are you quick tempered?'
 Well. yes, to tell the truth. I'm afraid I am."
 "Hm Ever swear?'
 "sometimes, when I become very angry, I do"
 "Smoke?"
 "Yes, but I have never noticed that it injured me-"
 Ever drink intoxicating liquors?'
 T occasionally take drink. but I'm not a slave to the habit, I assure you"
 Have you ever been in jail?''
 "Onee. I took some funds to which ! had no right. but I did not do it delib- erately, assure you. It was the re- suit of misunderstanding.
 "Yes, it generally is. How about your family? What kind of ancestors did you have?"
 Do you think 1t is fair to hold a man responsible for what his ancestors did?" Answer my question:
 well, can't say that my ancestors amounted to a great deal My grand father was-was-in short, he was hanged"
 You've never held job anywhere very long, have you?"
 'I can't say that I have"
 What was the highest salary you ever earned?"
 Nineteen dollars week."
 Ever jump a board bill?"
 q wouldn't exactly call it that I owe lady for several months board that had three or four years ago, but I fully intend to pay her some day.
 Have you ever rocked a boat?"
 'No, sir; never!''
 "All right; you can have her''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
Drifting Away from loWa's Farms

The population of the fine, fertile and not fully developed state of Iowa shows q decrease of 7OS2 in 10 years! This is a shock to the entire middle west, and when the entire middle west from Kansas to Ohio inclusive is summed up it will be found that only the cities in those states have gained population while the agricultural districts in them have gained but little as a rule.
 The drift to the cities and the mf- grafton to the Canadian northwest and to the irrigated lands of the far west accounts for he losses In population in agricultural Iowa. Farms in other words are becoming larger in the mid dle west and the back the-farm movement is not in evidence.
 The situation is not promising, for whenever the rural population begins to grow less throughout the country from that day the decadence of the re- public begins It is too early to say what story the complete census figures will tell. In the south it Is believed the rural population has more than held its own and perhaps in the entire coun- try a better result will be presented than comes to us from Iowa and the remainder of the middle west
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
TRAIN BACKS UP FOR CANDY

From the Minneapolis Journal
 A matter of tremendous importance stopped an outgoing train to Chicago a day or two ago. The train even backed again into the station, the matter was so very important. And Joe Kilgriff, the caller, hasn't got over his astonishment yet.
 Just as the train began to move, two women, bearing small parcel, dashed madly toward the gates.
 'Is that the Chicago train" they cried
 Tt is.'' said Kilgriff.
 ''Stop it! Oh, stop it!' begged the women. "Oh it must be stoppedr'
 It happened that there was a big crowd of university boys at the station, waiting for the football team to get in. Inspired by feelings of gallantry they began 10 yell:
 stop the train! Stop the train! stor the trainl'' The conductor came out on the observa- ton platform. The station was in an up- roar and the two women were running desperately toward the train. The con ductor hesitated, grabbed theN rope and yanked 1t. The train stopped and began to back in, slowly, while woman also appeared on the observation platform. The two women rushed to the car. One of them handed up a box of candy to the woman on the train. The passenger then leaned down and kissed both the other women good-by.
 Now" said the late corners, 'the train can go. Good-by, dearie."
 "Good-by! "Good-by Write soon." T will. Thanks ever so much. Mot a bit. So glad we got here in time." Yes: so am I. Good-by!" "Good-by!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
The Town of Acmar

"The name of Colonel DeBardeleben's new mining town in St. Clair county is Acmar, and not Sanie, as the papers have been calling it," said Col. J. B. Elliott, fa- piliarly known by the Birmingham dis trict pioneers as the Duke of Leeds.'
 ''In showing the new mines to some prominent visitors recently, I marveled, and so did the gentlemen with me, at the thickness of the seam we measured-13 feet. It is simply prodigious.
 ''Various names were suggested for that mining camp. Laban was one of them, but after Colonel DeBardeleben had re- freshed him memory touching the record of this prominent Bible character, he de- cided that Laban wouldn't be suitable as a name-sake. Then I submitted that as Colonel DeBardeleben's two recent suc- cesses in coal mine development had been at Acton and at Margaret, that this third large enterprise be named in a suggestive way, by joining the first syllable of the two places mentioned-Ac-Mar This sug- gestion was adopted and thus we have the town of Acmar. It is on spur track of a spur track of the Central of Georgia and will soon be one of the largest min ing communities in Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
FIFTY YEARS OF JOHN BURROUGHS Dallas Lore Sharp, in the November At

Dallas Lore Sharp in the November At
 lantic.
 John Burroughs began his literary ca reer (and may he so end itD by writing an essay for the Atlantic Monthly; as good an introduction (and concluson), speaking by the rhetoric. as a lifelong composition need have. That first essay. entitled "Expression,' Ia somewhat Emersonian Expression" says its author, was printed in-fhe Atlantic for November, 1860. which was 50 years ago. Fifty years ago are not threescore and ten; many men have lived past three-score and ten, but not many men have written continu- ously for the Atlantic for 50 years, with eye undimmed and natural force una bated. MT. Burroughs eye for the truth of nature has grown clearer during these 90 years, and the vigor of his youth has steadied into maturity of strength which in some of his latest essays-"The Long Road" for instance-lifts one and bears one down the unmeasured reaches of geologic time, composing the timeless- ness of time. its beginninglessness, its endinglessness. as none of his earlier chapters has done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

bering how he used to say that he never could keep warm in winter"
 NOTICE TO AVIATORS. The first who flies
 Ten thousand feet,
 Straight up, will live
 On Easy street.
 ASKING TOO MUCH. He can manage his automobile. all right "But, can he manage his wife?" T didn't say he was a superman.' RIGHT IN. HIS LINE. Here's an interesting article in this newspaper intitled The Art of Resting.," Better send 1t to Willowby" "Why?" His wife runs boarding house."
 BRAGGING.
 I'm not so wise,
 And yet, and yet,
 I made no fool
 Election bet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
WHERE

By Heine, translated by James Thom- son.
 Where shall once the wanderer weary
 Meet his resting place and shrine? Under palm trees by the Ganges? 'se Under lindens of the Rhine? Shall I somewhere in the desert
 Owe my grave to strange hands? Or upon some lonely sea shore
 Rest at last beneath the sands Ever onward! Gods wide heaven !
 Must surround me there as here; And like death lamps o'er me swinging
 Night by night the stars burn clear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

note the changes. l should say that Birmingham is 10 per cent larger now than when I was here early last season, and base my esetimate on the number of people see on the streets and in the stores
 "Then the audiences at the theatre give a keen observer a good insight into the condition of the city Last season the people did not have that air of cheerful ness and optimism that is so evident now in the entire city. The people laugh better, enjoy music better and in every way appreciate the efforts of an actor more when feeling good than when feel ing blue over conditions, and this sea son our show Is going twice as well as it did last season.
 q think Birmingham tops any city on the Wells circuit, and I always wait un- tif I reach Birmingham to do my shop ping, for I find better values and better. goods here than in a majority of other southern cities. I notice this season that the women of Birmingham are dressing better than they did last season, or any other season have ever been here, and that denotes prosperity.
 'T have travelled this country from end to end since I was a young girl and can't say that there is any city l like better than Birmingham, and especially any southern city.
 This is not the soft soap story Tor the press agent I mean this-and maybe some time I will prove what l say by coming to Birmingham to live-maybe'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
REFLECTIoNs OF A BACHELoR

From the New York Press.
 What makes woman sure of a man is for nobody else to be.
 A man runs the hardest after woman he can never catch.
 It's the worst gossip that's the most scandalized when it's about her.
 Angels never had to get the furnace started, or maybe they wouldn't be.
 Conscience is such sound sleeper that when it wakes up it can't get out of bed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
Reopened Studios in New York

G. Moretti, the well-known sculptor, writes to The Age-Herald to announce that he has reopened his studios in New York-15 West Sixty-seventh street. He says he will cordially welcome any Of his Alabama friends who may happen to visit New York.
 While Mir Moretti lived in Talladega county he did great deal for Alabama in developing the large marble quarries there and in demonstrating the value of that marble for statuary and wainscoat- ing One of the most attractive exhibits at the Jamestown exposition was Mor- rettis His figure of an Indian, heroic size. was highly praised by critics, and thou sands of persons who visited the expo- sition learned for the first time that among Alabama's natural resources was marble as fine as the famous carara.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
A GIFTED" WRITER.

The Wichita Beacon has a gifted Lady Writer on it's staff whose stuff is so fine that nobody can figure out what it is about. Here is the concluding paragraph from one of her pieces: "Ah, beloved heart of my hearts desire, know all of THIS, for I know myself. We are sweet ening the watered lees and drinking them, else we perish with thirst-but ours alone was the wine and 1t has long been spilled. Forever? Only God knows that Some day, when the bar of the material melts, maybe we will understand that which Is now but mystery and pain. Some day we may walk in fields super nal. May they have no strange splen- dors, no exotic flowers, no chilling rare jewels-let them be just the familiar lanes, with their riches that cost us noth- ing, while in our hearts again is the prayer of great peace."- Kansas City Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
OUR ELLEN

From the Savannah Press.
 Ellen Terry comes back to us not only an actress, but suffragette.- -Birming- ham Age-Herald.
 But Lillian Russell is more of suf- fragette than Ellen Terry. Lillian Rus sell wants to abolish men entirely. and Ellen Terry has always teen willing to have them around.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

Statewide prohibition got additional blows yesterday. Both Florida and Mis- souri voted on constitutional amend ment propositions which sought to unite prohibition in the organic law and in both states the anti-amendists won by decisive majorities. Fanaticism is played out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
HOW ~sHow Low" cor ITS NAME


 From Outing.
 Show Low, parched and poverty stricken in appearance, miserable col- lection of log and abode cabins, was reached at midday. Down through the little valley in which the village stands flows Show Low creek, from which the water is diverted to irrigate the small surrounding ranches. Some 20 years ago Show Low formed part of the extensive cattle ranch and range of Cooley and Tuning, and 20 years ago 1t received its name through a game of seven up be- tween the partners for ownership heard the story from MT. Cooley himself, still large rancher and one of the best known cattlemen in Arizona. This is the story as he told it to me:
 "Huning and I were playing a game of seven up to see who should make bread for supper and wash the dishes We stood 5 to6 in Huning's favor. Seven you know, is the game. Diamonds were trumps. On the last hand drew the ace and the trey. banked on the deuce be- ing still in the deck, the ace counted one, and if Tuning didn't hold the deuce the trey was low and the game was mine.
 Make the game worth while says Let 1t be $l0.0O0 or the ranch
 It's a go,' said Tuning.
 T covered the center spot on my trey.
 " Now said I. show low and it's yours.'.
 And. damn him, he showed the deuce and won"
 Hunipg later disposed of the ranch in small parcels to settlers, the little village came into being, and took its name, as did the creek, of Show Low, from that game of cards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
Prosperity fin Texas

T am just from Texas, and never have I found business more active" said Henry P. Chenoweth.
 'I visited Dallas, Fort Worth and near ly all the other cities, and everywhere I went people were in buoyant spirits. Texas is a great state, and the oftener l go there the more l am impressed with it's wonderful development"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Art Works Leaving Alabama


 "As soon as Birmingham has large public library building, a start should be made on an art gallery" said a success ful business man. '1t might be a good idea to have a library and art gallery combined; for one is about as educational as the other.
 Painting and sculpture, like fine music, are singularly humanizing; and as Bir- mingham is growing in metropolitan ways al well as in population we must strive to have everything here that pleases and elevates. The Calhoun collection of art at Huntsville, which Mrs. Humes, the owner, sold to a Los Angeles man for s6O,OO0 will result in a loss to art siri- terests in Alabama of what is perhaps the most valuable group of paintings in this part of the south. It is pity that Birmingham art lovers were not ready to avail themselves of such a bargain. In 10 or 15 years from now that Calhoun collection will have double its commer- oial value of today. Several of the pie lures would probably sell in New York of Boston now for 5000 a piece"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

this old world, and here, under the shad- ow of St. Mares. should likeN to give you my impressions of three My hearts reverence quite given to the Duomo of Milan, for if there is any temple in this world more beautiful than that white spired marble miracle, mine eyes have yet to behold it. The cathedral of Cologne is more perfect in it's Gothic architecture, it is more majestic. 1t looms into the vaulted heavens more grandly. It's noble futed columns expand into the vast arched roof in perfect symmetry and proportion. Its truth is wholly satis- flying. It inspires to awe and worship It is monument of the ages. But that creation at Milan is grace and beauty captured and materialized in stone. It's lovely proportion. It's whiteness and artis- tic finish, more dainty and beautiful than fine old lace. It inspires to love and gladness. and it grows upon you in won- der and endless pleasurable emotion. You love to worship there, led by its sweet-toned organ and silvery voiced choirs.
 This al San Marco is a marvel in mosaic which cannot be appreciated un- til studied at close range, then you wonder how human patience, human skill and human genius ever accomplished it's beautiful, incrusted frescoes in gold, stone and glass, of great pictures after old masters, 1t is a vast jewel. Yet for all its angels, it's saints, it's Byzantine -domes and wonderful golden garniture, 1t, to my mind, in no wise compares with the grandeur, the majestic dignity and beauty of the other two.
 Adieu, dear Venezia When shall I ever visit thine enchanted shores again?
 ALMIRA JOHNSON,
 Grand Hotel, Venice, October, 1910.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

Now that William vaughn Moody, author of the Great Divide" is dead, there is an effort to place him on a high pedestal The effort should have been begun before he got wholly beyond it's range
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

Judge Baldwin, who is elected gov ernor of Connecticut on the demo- cratic ticket, is the gentleman whom Colonel Roosevelt characterized as crook and jackass; but his triumph at the polls should be revenge enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
Watches Birmingham Grow

'I can tell the difference in Birming- ham this year and last" said Sybil Bren- nen, prima donna in Tn Panama" at the Bijou this week. 'I spent a long time here last season and l am pretty fla miliar with the city, and am quick to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

Geraldine Farrar enlarged the diction- ary when she said dukes are not worth a ding. She got them down right even if she did have to add a word to our stock of classic slang. rl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

Postmaster General Hitchcock is striv- Ing to reorganize his department, and Secretary Ballinger is keeping still hoping tc be forgotten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
HIGHLY SPECIALIZED.

HIGfiD1 SPECIAIIZED.
 The Lawrence Journal tells about a Lawrence girl who went off to school to study domestic science' and acquire some finishing touches" She was com blaming bitterly about having no cook, when someone asked her, Why don't you do the cooking? You studied that very thing?' Me?" exclaimed the girl, in surprise. Why, that's not supposed to be used every day"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

An American manager Is really pre- raring to perpetrate Gaby Deslys on an innocent people. But there Is no compul- sion in theatrical attendance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

The biggest Rhode Island turkey be- gins to see trouble looming up on his horizon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
- NOVEMBER.

NOVEMBER. Iris good to roam the desert hills, Or stand where some loud torrent spills, And there commune with glory dead, Half-heard at heart pale Summers tread Iris good to dream in pensive mood Ger withered leaf and aged wood, So that our souls in harmony With all inanimate may be, And we may learn, with sadness fraught, Those lessons deep from Nature caught, Which teach the moralist to die Sustained, in that all things must die.
 RISKING HIS LIFE. "Youngwed is a man of iron nerves Why do you think so?" You ought to see how calmly he sits down to one of his wife's meals.'
 A SONG OF PASSION. Girl of the red mouth Love me! Love me! Girl of the red mouth, Love mel 'Tis by it's curve. I know, Love fashioneth his bow, e And bends it-ah even so! 0 girl of the red mouth, love mel
 Martin MacDermott Girl of the kimono, Love mel Love me! Girl of the lximono, Love me! Don not your party best; Iris as now you're dressed 1 will see you oftenestl girl of the kimono, love me!
 John D. Wells. Girl of the hobble skirt, Love mel Love me! Girl of the hobble skirt, Love me! Through thick and thin I'll stick To thee. Iris polite Dressed thus you can not kickl o girl of the hobble skirt, love mel
 -E. Tracy Sweet. Girl of the apron big, Love mel Love me! Girl of the apron big, Love mel Without thee what am 1? l Just poor hungry guy! I love your punkin pie! o girl of the apron big, love me!
 Judd Lewis. Girl of the million plunks Love mel Love me! Girl of the million plunks, Love mel I'm but a poor press wight Scarcely a meal in sight! Wouldst make my sad heart light? o girl of the million plunks, love me!
 WARM NOW. Poor Blinks is dead" q presume you deplore his taking away?' \ "Yes; but I console myself by remem-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

ChIna's parliament will be elected in 1913 and Illinois advises her to be care- full not to put any iackpotters in 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

The Portuguese republic is still uncer- tain whether it Is gaining or losing ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

Premier Briand unloaded his unwelcome associates by resigning, but MT. Taft hes itates to unload Ballinger in that way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

New Jersey got lively educational course in politics and she appreciated her teacher
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

Some men are sent to the legislature and some to the penltentiary, and in Illinois the two lists become confused.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

Champ Clark was reelected and those mules should go into training at once. The country's reputation is at stake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

The worry over 1912 is after all de- cidedly premature. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

Even Aunt Della" of MT. Taft's fam fly supported MT. Floss, the democratic nominee for governor in Massachusetts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

Now that the election is over the edi- tors who discuss in New York Mir. Roose- welt will be able to keep within the limits of the English language.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

The Joe Cannon supporters are few and far between this morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

Chinese officials must give up their jobs or their queues. The latter will naturally have to go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

Premier Briand may resign but he never quits. He comes back faster than the colonel ever did.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-09

Rome indulged in baths but it never no. never. indulged in a bathtub trust.