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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
LONDON NEWSPAPERS

From the Washington Post.
 Speaking of English newspaper and how they are gotten out, Richard S. Buzzard of London, who is at the Arl- ington, and who is a practical newspa- per man and publisher of the British metropolis, said; ''The din of the morn ing publication has hardly died away when the evening begins. By o'clock tho offices of the evening paper is be- ing prepared for the work of the day, and by [ o'clock the compositors and the early birds of the editorial staff are on the scene The mail bags have to be opened and their varied content assorted; and the correspondence of newspaper Is no light affair. Letters to the editor stupid, serious and impertlnent; articles good, bad and indifferent; news trumpery, libelous and important they are there in heaps, to be dealt with &C., cording to their merits.
 "Before 8 o'clock everything is in full working order. The editor is considering what subject he will tackle in his lead ing article; his assistants are writing notes on the topics of the day, and giv- ing the finishing touches to the special articles which have been prepared for tho forthcoming issues: the subeditors are boiling down the more important items in the morning journals and pre- pairing the fresh teegrams from cor respondents or news agencies which have already arrived.
 ''As things are now managed con- tirlued MT. Buzzard, "the bulk of what appears in the earliest editions of an evening newspaper must be in the hands of the printers before 10 o'clock; while the leading article, for which a little extra grace Is allowed, has to be fin- ished by about 1O:30. Before II the last of the proofs must be passed, and few minutes more suffice for the corrections to be made and the forms to be sent to the foundry. By il 80 the bundles are being handed over the counter of the publishing office, and the express carts arc driving off to distribute the papers throughout the metropolis and at the railway stations for conveyance to dis tan. suburbs and country towns. Before midday we have thus a complete pews- perer published. and In the hands of the public. The work of the day, is, how ever, by no means over. Four. five and even more editions have still to be pre- pared I doubt, however, the commer- cial wisdom of so many editions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
BEAUTY IN BUSINESS

To the profession of show girls of in dustry, says Miriam Finn Scott in Sue cess Magazine" belong the demonstrator, who, with her fine complexion, wealth of hair or good teeth. advertises alleged mer- it's of different toilet articles; the millt- ner's model who tries on hats before the fashionable customer. and whose pretty head and handsome face make the head gear more attractive in the eyes of the customer; the figure lady" who tries on rich ready-made gowns and cloaks, ard whose form and beauty emphasize the style of the garment; the girl who poses for fashion plates; the manicure and hardresser in public shops; the stenographer in many positions; sales women in certain departments; the ticket seller at cheap shows, and number of other varieties that will suggest them selves to the average woman shopper. Skill of course. is required in such work, but as one girl said to me: It's your looks that hold your job."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
Democratic Doctrines Today

"In order to retain their success ' says Congressman Champ Clark, "dem- ocrats should religiously. so far as in them lies. carry out the promises made in oreer to win the election"
 This Is eminently true. The repub- lican party has become a wreck and m old hulk because its representative men made promises to the rank and file and as soon as they had attained power became the ready tools of Privilege. The people stood this treachery a long time, but when the hour of revolt came the party of Privilege fell
 MT. Clark reads the lesson aright The democratic party should be ex- tremely careful to keep its pre-elec- tion pledges. It should favor at every turn downward revision of the tariff, either as a whole or schedule by sched- ule. No matter how the subject may be brought up every democrat should line up in favor of lower duties. And SO 1t is about the rules of the House. Cannonism was an issue in the last election. All know this, and the dem ocrats stand pledged to change the au- thorfty of the speaker by putting the annointment of the committees in the hands of a committee selected by the House There should be no shuffling over this, for the death of Cannonism was voted on November 8 as plainly as anything ever was voted In this country, And yet a poll of the House made by the Washington Times reports 31 democrats in favor of taking the comm lttee- naming power from the speaker while 6 democrats are opposed to it, and 40 decline to say how they stand on the question. There are 225 democrats in the next House. This Is not carrying out religiously-to use MT. Clark's adverb-promises made dur ing the recent campaign. This is no time for personal programmes or per sonal gain or personal scheming.
 The income tax proposition. the pop ular election of United States sena- tors, and, first and foremost. the steady extension of the primary system. arc each and all doctrines to, which the democratic party is committed. You can't give" says Judson Harmon. "the people too much power for me. In the last analycis you can always depend upon the people to do the right thing and to vote the right way" Wood row Wilson stands squarely on a pri- mary platform. And so does the dem ocratic party. The last democratic na- tionaI platform Is outspoken and frank and explicit as to all these measures, and it Is the duty of every democrat to stand by them. Let there be no shuffling in Congress or out of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
poE,s suoRT STORIES

From Brander Matthews "Poe's Cos
 mopolitan Fame" in December Gen. tury.
 There is in the best of Poe's brief tales a constructive skill, command of design and a gift of decoration, rare in any literature and almost un- known in English which Is ever unduly negligent oe form. And no one need wonder that Poe's short stories wan dered swiftly out of our language Into French and Italian and Spanish, into German and Scandinavian and Bohem- ian, Into strange tongues where no other American authors, except Feni- more Cooper, had ever before pene- trated. His weird psychologist studies have Influenced later writings as un like as Maupassant and Richepin, Fitz- james O'Brien, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard KIpling. His tales of mys- tery solved at last by observation and deduction have been initiated by Dumas and Sardou, by Gaboriau and Boisgobey, by Willkie Collins and Conan Doyle And Sherlock Holmes, the only fic- titious character to win international recognition in the final years of the nineteenth century, is the reincarna- ton of figure first protected by Poe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
SONG OF THE SHIRT

From the December Atlantic.
 This has been particularly perilous season for the man with passion for shirts. By some diabolical agreement all tte haberdashers at one and the same time filled their windows with luscious lavender and faint green stripes and soft silk shirts with com fortable French cuffs, and marking out s2 or $3, as the case might be, wrote $1.5O or S250 below. The song of the shirt was loud in the land, it's haunt ing melody not to be resisted. Is there any lure for woman in all the fluffy mystery of January white sale" com- parable to the seduction for man of a lavender shirt marked down from S2 to $1.50?. I doubt it. Heaven help the woman if there is!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
A Neu Government building

"It may be that the government will give Birmingham a new public build ing that v,'ll be limited in cost, site included, to $1,O00,000. but we should have not less than that amount for the edifice alone" said a business man.
 "Whon the present federal building was erected it was thought to be ad- equate for city very much larger than Birmingham was then; and so 1t was. 9ut 1t was far outgrown before Birmingham stretched out. The new buildinC should be large enough for a city of 50o,o00 to 750,000 population. If it costs anywhere in the neighbor- hood of s1.0OOOO0 1t will be solid enough to stand for century or more. And as 1t is reasonable to think that inside of 30 years Birmingham will have a population of 5O0.000 it would be poor business economy for the gov ernment to give us a building which would not accommodate city of that size.
 "T remember when the government expended over $1,000,000 on a public building for Louisville, and at the time Louisville's population was just about what Brming gham's is today. But there Is this difference: It co lld be seen that Louisvilles growth would be conserva- tive, certainly not phenomenal. That city today is credited with less than 225,000 inhabitants. Birmingham will cross the 200,0 900 mark within 10 years ard the 3UO,000 mark within 20 years,
 "of course. Congressman Underwood fully appreciates the situation here. No ore. indeed, looks further ahead, and in view of our fine census showing, we can trust to his getting an ample ap- preparation for our much needed fed eral building, when the new Congress sits"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
A LAST RESORT

From the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
 When Gertrude Hoffman and her com pany were playing here a week ago her "broilers' who had unknowlingly stopped ar a boarding house in Pittsburg where there had been smallpox, went up to a physician to be vaccinated. She was very anxious to have 1t where the scar wouldn't show or be exposed when she appeared on the stage. "Ah, yes.' said the M. D., stroking his beard. What is your business?" "Why, I'm with Gertrude Hoffman. One of her dancing girls, you know" "Well,' said the man of medicine. as he laid down the virus, 1T guess if that's the case you'll have to take it internally"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
Capitalization of Cotton Mills

, New England continues to build cot ton mills even if Alabama does not. No matter how much the stocks of the formers mills are watered they earn large dividends, and Alabama's do like wise, but stil no one seems to be in . hurry to build more Alabama mills.
 The truth is, cotton mills cost money. "A recent estimate" says the Provi- dence Journal, "of the cost of mill in the south where conditions are fla vorable for economy in construction calls for s25 a spindle" This means mill ready for operation and If the sum named be correct mills cost twice as much to build and equip as they cost 20 years ago. Many an old mill is today capitalized at s10 a spindle, but this is largely due to the expendi- lures or earnings in extensions.
 But when new mills containing 1O,- / 900 spindles can. be built complete at s250,000 it ought not to be difficult to find capital. alike at home and abroad, for such mills amid the cot ton fields of this state. Given a lead or who hes managed his own affairs successfully any town can build a 10000 spindle mill and such mill is large enough at the start. It can be trusted, if well managed, to build it's own extensions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06

no doubts. It is the duty of the rail- roads that enjoy a privilege in this city to so conduct their business that citizens can use in safety their own streets. All court questions touching the matter have been adjudicated over and over again, and the city stands fully sustained by the law. Just how and when the law shall be appealed to sests with the City Council.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
CIT IS TIME TO Blc oLp-

Emerson Terminus" It is time 10 be old To take in sail;- The god of bounds,
 Who sets to seas shore. Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more! No further shoot
 Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy
 root. Nk4 Fancy departs, no more invent; Contract thy Armament To compass of tent Tn eres not enougii for this and that. Make thy option which of twoi Economize the falling river, Not the less revere the Giver, Leave the many and hold the few. Timely wise accept the terms, |'softcn the fall with wary foot; A little while still plan and smile, And--fault of novel germs.- Mature the unfallen fruit,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
WEATHER.

 Our preacher is a pious man, But practical, that's plain. lie always looks at the weather reports Before he prays for rain.
 Cleveland Leader. Old Probs Is not pious man, With pain we must confess; He never asks how the preacher prays Before he makes his guess.
 Chicago Tribune. But he must be a pious man Who, having forecast heard For fine and clear, gets rained upon And never says a word.
 New York Telegram. We don't object to rainy days So very much, and yet, Wed like them even more than now, If they were not so wet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
KELVIN COULDN'T LIGHT A FIRE

From the London Chronicle. sT ' Lord Kelvin. like Lord Morley, oncc amused a Scottish audience with dis play of ignorance. At lecture in Edu- burgh. with Lord Kelvin in the chair, the Duke of Argyll was taken suddenly Ill.,
 when the aged peer was carried down to one of the antcrooms." wrote local paper, lone of the first things to be thought of was the lighting of fire. and this task was tackled by the dukes host, Lord Kelvin. But instead of placing some paper in the grate and some wood on that, in the orthodox manner. he amazed the onlookers by desperate efforts to kin dle handful of sticks at a gas burner. Ordinary mortals may be pardoned for taking some satisfaction in the fact that even so great philosopher as Lord Kei- win does not know how to light fire."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
AND NOT MARRIED!

From the Berlin Tageblatt.
 "A young lady of a highly-esteemed an6 noble family, as beautiful as Helen as thrifty as Penelope, as economical as the Electress Marian of Brandenburg as sprightly as Mme. de Stael. singer like Mile. Breval, a dancer like La Ger ite, pianist like Rosa Kastner, violin lst like Teresita Mialnollo, a. harpist like La Bertrand, a sculptor like Princess Marie d'Orleans. as austere as Lucrece as, charitable as Saint Elizabeth of Hun gary, as devout as Nightingale, having a. command a large fortune, lacking masculine acquaintance. seeks a husband by the newspapers agency
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
The Red crosn stamps

'"The good women of Birmingham who are selling the Red Cross seals in order to raise money for the local Tuberculosis camp should meet with hearty encourage ment," said citizens. ''The stamps are offered at 1 cent a piece and the Red Cross society hopes to dispose of fully 2OO,000 of these little tokens.
 Two hundred thousand is large num- Der but 1t should not seem large when the object is considered. There is scarce ly any one who cannot buy a few of the stamps and if all will help fund of 5000 will be easily raised"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
Greatest Composer of Opera

'Giacomo Puccini, who wrote La Beheme,' which is to be heard in Bir- mingham for the first time next Mon- day night ranks now as the greatest liv- ing composer in the operatic fleld," said a music lover.
 He wrote Manon Lescaut.' Madame Butterfly and La Tosca," all of which have been performed in New York under his supervision; and his latest work, Fan ciulla del Vest founded on the Ameri- can drama, The Girl of the Golden West will shortly have its premier at the Metropolitan Opera house.
 "Puccini was born at Lucca, Italy, in 1858 He was fairly good organist be- fore he was 21 years of age, but like most Of the famous composers he had strug- gles and sore disappointments before he achieved any notable success. Some of his experiences and severe trials were used as details in La Boheme.' an opera which has been in great demand in Eu- rope and in this country.
 'The success of Madame Butterfly, which was first produced at La Scala in 1904, has been almost phenomenal Tn his music Puccini is said to combine the old and national characteristic of Italian orera with modern dramatic power and orchestral coloring. Verdi predicted for Puccini an illustrious career and that prediction has now been abundantly full filed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
POOLING THE MARE
From Success Magazine.

From Success Magazine. Twice, as the bus slowly wended it's way up the steep Cumberland Gap, the door at the rear opened and slammed. At first those inside paid little heed; but the third time they demanded to know why they should be disturbed in this fash icn.
 Whist" cautioned the driver, "doan't srake so loud; she'll overhear us"
 "Who?"
 "The mare. Spake lowi Shure Oim desavin tn crayture? Every toime she sears tn door close, she thinks wan O yez is gettin' down ter walk up tn hill, an that sort a raises her sperrits."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
THE nURGLAR's PRAYER

From the London Evening Standard
 Sir Herbert Risley, speaking of he cafes of eastern Bengal at a meeting of the Royal Anthropological institute, said curious system of religious wor- ship prevailed among a caste who were professional burglars They made a space in the ground and a man then cut his arm and prayed to one of the earth gods that there might be a dark night and that he might succeed in obtaining great booty and escape capture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
REFLECrIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A man hates to accept excuses just as much as he loves to give them.
 People who have to wear wigs can act as if 1t was sin not to be bald headed
 There's always some woman that a wife is glad she got her husband away from
 A woman learns lots of things right just by instinct; a man learns more wrong by reason. Fathers have mighty short memories to think that courtships run up the gas bills very much in the dark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
STILL TALKING

From the Goodwater Enterprise.
 The growth of Birmingham's popula tion proves not to be of the mine days wonder" class, for, notwith standing that the information was heralded sev- eral weeks ago, comments on same show no indication of let-up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
HARMON ON WILSON

From the New York Evening Tele-
 gram.
 With the party at the Wafdorf- As- tor'a is John w. Tomlinson of Birm- ingham. democratic national commit teemnn from Alabama. MT. Tomlinson has strong hope for democratic suc- cess at the next presidential election, and his first che as a candidate is Governor harmon of Ohio. He said that pr. Woodrow Wilson, governor elect of. New Jersey. had many friends after Governor Harmon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
Moves to Birmingham

"Yes, am following the tide that is following so strongly toward Birming- ham, said Dr. F. M. Mason, a brother of Dr. J. M. Mason, who has just moved to Birmingham from Montgomery, where he was connected with the state board of health. Ut seems that there are many people moving here now and if looks to me as if this city has the best prospects in the state, if indeed not Tn the entire south.
 q could hardly imagine Birmingham so large as the census showed it to be. used to live here, and hunted through all that territory where Glen Iris is now located. To think that Birmingham has grown to It's present size is little short of marvellous
 we all naturally want to move to a growing city and especially one that is apparently growing at a greater rate than any other city in America. There are opportunities in a city like Bir- mingham that cahnot be found in older and more established cities.
 T have been here off and on ever since I moved away and the growth of the city has always struck me as phe- nomenal, but I was like the rest of sthe people in that I did not think Birming- ham had grown sufficiently to be the third city of the south.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

I'm not. To be perfectly frank with you, your hard-luck story is about as interesting to me as poker story is to a man who doesn't know the difference between a full house and two-spot."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
IN HOTEL LOB8IES
Inquiry for Farm Lands

There Is a very active inquiry for farm lands in Alabama" said l.. F. Hill. 'and especially for small farms in Jefferson and adjoining counties. Within the past few weeks the inquiries have been more numerous than usual.
 I expect to see hundreds of new com- era settled on small farms hereabouts between now and spring."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
NIGHT VOJcEs

Q wailing winds, 0 waillng winds,
 hear you in my sleep: All up and down the hills you roam
 And ghostly vigil keep. The sere leaves whirl upon your blast,
 The earth shakes to your tread, And evermore you seem to mourn
 The days forever fled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06

The tilt of Uncle Joes cigar is un- changed and the belief therefore is that he has come back ready to fight insur- gents on short notice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
LACKING THE EARMARKs

From the Atchison Globe.
 We believe that Doc Robinson, town drp.kard bohemian, and horss doctor, is the only thoroughly shiftless man we ever knew who owns neither a fiddle nor a shotgun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06

woodrow Wilson proposes to be the actual leader of his party. This is right, and he is also right when he fayors Jim Maritime for senator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06

The Associated Press failed to report what the governor of North Carolina said to the governor of South Carolina at the Frankfort conference of gover- nors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06

Detroit is lining the drivers of auto- mobiles for footing their horns unneces- sariS thus robbing them of half the pleasure of their lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06

MT. Taft uses 4O0Oo words in his mes sage and 1t is to be hoped he is not trying to see how little he can say in a flood of words.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
FOOLISH PRIDE.

'If the south side of town is the stylish side of town"
 ''NNen?'
 'gThat explains why so>many women who live on the north side of town can't see the sunny side of life"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
THEY COME HIGH.

Gladys says she is crazy to marry man with a past''
 She seems to forget that the man with a past usually goes broke paying for it. '"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
SHOWING OFF.

pfIO W IINNT UT Y Mary has a set of furs, For which her father paid Ard so much silly pride is hers, She's always on parade.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Mary had a near-seal set Her father gave to her. Folks wondered how the seal could get So near and yet so fur.
 Springfield Union.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
MORE ABSORBING.

MORE ABSORBING. Here's an interesting astronomical es- say on The Occultation of Venus" Don't bother me. I'm reading about Chicago's occultation of Salome.' Q
 A FALLING OUT. I had a little chicken Twas very hard to match, And all that chicken ever did Was scratch, scratch, scratch. It dearly loved to visit, In other yards to roam; In fact, that little chick of mine Would seldom stay at home. And shortly came my neighbor To pound upon my door; He used so many ugly words, We don't speak any more.
 THE COLD SHOULDER. ''You don't seem interested in my hard luck story"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06

Abdul Hamid is now up against seven physicians, and he considers attempted assassination and actual deposition as slight affairs in comparison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
EXTREME MEASURES.

"A young woman wants to know if she should marry a youth who calls her 'kiddo," said the editor of the "Heart Helps" department.
 '"Tell her." growled the managing edi- tor, ito buy pump gun and learn how to shoot"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06

There are three women in the Colorado legislature and they will have power in it far beyond their numbers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06

Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd George is a probable premier in the course of another decade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06

Pittsburg was compelled by the weather clerk to accept 12 minutes of sunshine In eight days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06

TT. R." Is getting his wish. He want ed to be let alone and his wish is being fully gratifled.