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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
Failed TO MateriaiiZe

The special of II coaches that had been
advertised to start from Birmingham to
20 to Reno, New, and the prize fight
dwindled In the final makeup to single
sleeper which was partly filled. Even
the sleeper might have been left behind
II the hope of securing more passengers
hound for Reno at Nashville had not
been entertained. The number of ringside
enthusiasts in the south is not large, and
1t is to the credit of this section and of
Birmingham in particular that this fact
was established on wednesday night. The
proposed special train to Reno had been
especially well advertised. and when 1t
shrank to one half-filled sleeper this en-
tire section stood indicated from the
charge of seeking entertainment in the
smashing and pummellng of two human
eiants-one white and the other a negro.
Few. indeed. showed desire to seek
pleasure in witnessing prize fight.
The south will be better thought of
among all people who prefer something
less brutal than a prize fight conducted
regardless of race lines and race diff
ferences. No one in the south considers
the supremacy of the white man at stake
cept a big purse of money and the
supported prize fights, but which will
probably never witness another great
smuggling match The world has outgrown
such spectacles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
FAMOUS LOVERS OF CATS

From the late Arthur sTomsons IAN
Artist on the Cat in Art" in July
Century.
A few people of considerable mind
have always known how to treat the
cat with honor 1t is perhaps, hardly
necessary to repeat the ancient story
of Mohammed-how rising from his
seat and fearful of awakening the cat
that was sleeping on his sleeve, he
cut off that part of his garment and
left her undisturbed. Richelieu, also,
found pleasure and relief in the society
of cats, yet he can be regarded as only
incompletely a cat lover As kittens
they appealed to him, and as kittens
only He loved To keep a family of them
in his study until they arrived at GER
tain age; but when they were 3 months
old he had them taken away, and re-
placed by others that were younger.
Moncrieff also loved cats, and wrote
about them, as did Baudelaire. Huff
mann, Gautier and Edgar Allen Poe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
Preparing for a Big Fight

The cackling of the Cannon-Aldricn
newspapers over the congressional meas
ures that the insurgents and democrats
really made possible is subsiding, and
they begin to see the nature of the
contest before them. They begin to fear
after all they cannot elect a majority of
the House in the Sixty-second Congress,
for Cannon has announced that he will
be a candidate for speaker and the Aid
rich tariff will continue to promote the
organization of trusts and a higher cost
of living. These are to be the two is
sues of the November election-the tariff
and Cannonism.
In New York state the Sherman stand
pat crowd are particularly distressed.
In that state Governor Hughes declines
Mr. Rooseyelt's invitation TO run again
for governor, and the Barnes Woodruff
Wadsworth machine has again rejected
the Cobb primary bill The democrats ln-
dorse direct action by the people aN1
will conduct the campaign on that issue
A democratic victory in New York would
pretty nearly determine the result of
the nationwide election in 1872 Tho
democrats of New York are confident
and they are we'll led by Chairman Dix
and Theodore NJ. Osborne of the reform
brigade.
All the states will elect in November
congressman and 30 states will elect gov
ernors and other state officers. 1t Is a
political year. and the chief contested
states will be New York, Ohio, Indiana,
New Jersey, Illinois. Massachusetts, and
perhaps Iowa. In every one of those
states the republicans are quaking in
their boots.
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Control of the Cotton Belt

The Cotton Belt route includes about
1000 miles of track, extending from st.
Louis. Cairo and Memphis to Little Rock,
Texarkana. Dallas, Fort Worth and
Shreveport. This system has been add
ed to the large trackage of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad, and whatever Is
added to the IL & NJ" is added to the
TRANSFORMATION facilities of this district,
II gives this district another route to the
leart of Texas across Arkansas.
The Cotton Belt is trans Mississippi
system, and this district will now have
two systems that tap the southwest, the
Frisco and the L. & n. and one system
that penetrates the northwest, the ILL.,
nois Central
Step by step the railroad system of this
district is perfected, even when other in
ducements lead to changes. The control
of the Cotton Belt was acquired by the L.
N. without reference to this district,
and yet it will add to local shipping facili-
ties, the only drawback being the lack
of direct line to Memphis via President
Smiths ralroadr
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Combinations In the Dry Goods Trade

While existing trusts are steadily add
ing to the burdens of consumers by in
creasing their own profits up to the tariff
line, new trusts are being organized al
most daily One of the latest trusts
A In the dry goods trade The Claf1in
United Dry Goods companies, with an
authorized capitalization of 100000, has
purchased a controlling interest in the
Lord & Taylor concern of New York.
Several other combnations. including the
May stores, have been Incorporated, and
the newspapers in the effete east are be-
ginning to wonder If the dry goods busi-
ness is to be ruled by a monopoly also
The New York Journal of Commerce
ing consolidation of dry goods stores.
lone reason" adds the Journal of Com
merce, why many wise merchants are
not being seriously troubled by the aggre-
cation of capital in dry goods merchan-
dising is the consciousness which they
have gained from their own experience
of the limitless difficulties that are placed
in the way of monopolizing the dry goods
business even when ample capital is con-
ceded as one of the possibilities of the
future. In cotton, wooden, silk and linen
manufacture a monopoly would imply the
control of the sources of supply which
are spread out in all quarters of the
world. The remoteness of such a possible
control is obvious and so dry goods men
who are thinking seriously on the sub
feet have abandoned the academic side
of the problem and are giving thought
to what is going to happen when dis
tributing channels are partially monopo-
lized by the methods which the public
calls trusts The sources of production
cannot be monopolized, but it is already
plain to be seen that impediments can
be put in the way of steady distribution"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PARTY

From the Atchson Globe.
A sad-eyed woman, wearing clothes that
were wedding fnery four years ago and
shoes that are insists because they were
cheaper has sent out invitations to her
best friends and relatives to an acknowl-
edgment party. There are those to whom
life has been one glad, sweet song, and
who don't know what an acknowledgment
party is, and they should shake hands
with themselves because of the happy ig-
norance When the guests come to this
party their hostess will say as she greets
each one: II wish to acknowledge that
you were right and I was wrong; he is
worthless, as you said, and l made a
mistake In marrying him. In the books
woman in such a plight will close her
lips in determination. throw her head In
the air and try to look like triumphant
procession returning with the trophies Of
victory, but this woman knows that any
effort to make others believe that the
old cracked jellyglass she drew is a cut
glass tumbler is futile. Hence the ac-
acknowledgement party.
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of animal and vegetable matt{r and this

of animal and vegetable matt{r. and this
substance. it is believed. has bel changed
by natural processes into oil and gas.
Those who believe in the inorganic
theory say that gas and oil have always
existed in the interior of the earth, and
that some of the oil has worked itself
to strata near the surface. Those who
accept the inorganic theory generally
attribute both oil and gas to chemical
action. water and iron being the chief
agencies. Some. however, believe both
theories are true in part. The truth is,
neither theory has been we'll established.
a much more practical question re-
lates to the duration of the oil and gas
fields All individual fields are short
lived, although some wells have beep
pumped daily for 40 years. Both the oil
and gas supply of the world is depend
ent upon the discovery of new fields,
new pools and the drilling of new wells.
In Pennsylvania drilling into deeper
sands keeps up the supply, and Mr.. Clapp
thinks Pittsburg will have gas for do
nestle use 20 years longer, and 1t is still
used for manufacturing purposes in that
city. Some of the gas wells are located
in the city and some of the factories
have gas wells on their premises. MI.
Clapps article is comprehensive as we'll
as interesting and whoever is studying
the subject would do we'll to get his
paper with a view of readinDit from
end to end The story of anticlines is
fully told in it. The antclinal theory
is that oil and gas were originally wide
" disseminated throughout the forma-
lions in which they are found, and their
segregation is believed to be due to the
different specific GRANTEES of oil, gas and
water. If a porous structure contains
these substances, and is tilted by geolog-
ie courses, these substances will arrange
themselves according to specific gravity
the gas on top, the oil next and the wa
ter at the bottom. The Appalachian anti
clinal theory, in a general northeast
some biologists and repudiated by others.
pute
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
Syrian Made Game Fight

Young Joseph, the Syrian, who was
almost killed by a negro brute last night
In the market on Avenue H and Fifteenth
street, is certainly due credit for unusual
GOODNESS, presence of mind and bravery
for the game fight he put up said DR..
H. A. Elkourie, the attending physician.
HE fought the big negro alone, al
though the brute had two revolvers and
a knife He owes his life to the fact that
he pinned the largest revolver to the
floor, and wrested a big knife from the
robber. The place shows where he must
have fought for over five minutes, and
hustled from one end of the store to the
other, while large crowd stood outside
and refused to throw him anything with
which to defend his body.
Joseph is not yet out of danger. The
bullet in his breast has not been ex-
tracted and he has little fever. How
ever, / think he will recover. He is a
manly little fellow, and will make as good
a fight against his wounds as he did
against the negro"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Zu'l,e Coronation Oaf,,

Both Protestants and Roman Catholics
in Great Britain seem we'll satisfied with
the proposed change in the coronation
oath,' said a professional man. In some
of the newspapers the text of the new
formula, which passed its first reading
in the house of commons Tuesday by
vote of SS3 to ~, was not given accurate
ly. 1t would make the king declare that
he was a member of the Protestant
church. There is no such denomination
or ecclesiastical organization styled the
Protestant church, I could not imagine
that Premier Asquith would allow
bill with any slipshod or careless word
ing to be introduced. The phrase used
was this The Protestant Reformed
church by law established in England
otherwise the Church of England, or the
Anglican communion, of which the soy
ereign must be member.
THE oath in its entirety is brief and
dignified. It commits the sovereign
strongly to the Protestant cause without
in any way offending the kings Cain
Ole subjects of which there are ABOUT
12,ooo0 600. Mr.. Asquith, Mr. Balfoar and
other distinguished statesmen made earn
est speeches in favor of the change. Inc
old form of declaration which the late
King Edward had to repeat came down
from the time of William and Mary
but it has long, since ceased to interpret
the spirit of federation for which tho
English people are now distinguished.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
ZEPPELIN MEMORIAL

From Die Woche, Berlin.
The home of the Zeppelin family is
in South Germany. as everybody knows,
pelin, near Butzow, prides itself on hav-
ing been the cradle of the illustrious
family, and furnished the name the
great explorer of the air made famous.
A massive boulder, resting on one OF
still greater size, forms the memorial
which was unveiled in the presence OF
Count Zeppelin. Into the broad side of
the ragged rock a bronze table, has
been sunk recounting Count Zeppelin S
achievements and the pride which the
little town feels in calling him its
son.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
TOILERS OF THE TENEMENTS

engaged here in tenement work, nor of
the trades that they follow. In fact.
both numbers and trades vary from one
month to the next. Loosely speaking.
there are three general types of tene-
ment manufacturers-likely to change or
merge with one another from day to day.
First there are the staple seasonal
tt fades, such as garment finishing, flower
and feather making, etc. Here the de-
mand recurs at fixed periods every year,
and the work is done always to great
extent in the tenements. Then thera
are the sporadic seasonal trades, such
as embroidery cutting. tassel making,
etc. These trades are intermittent, vary
ing with the demand of the consumer.
Lastly there are the ephemeral trades,
governed by changing tastes and FASH
ions, such as lace making, bead string
ing, and the trade in human hair These
ephemeral trades are often managed by
foreign women contractors, who employ
Women of their own nationality and sell
the work to the shops.
The artificial flower industry is one of
the largest and most interesting of the
seasonal trades in New York Seventy
three per cent of the entire artificial flow
err manufacture of the United States Is
carried on in the Italian districts be-
low Fourteenth street. In almost every
house-ndeed, one might say on every
floor of every ,house<-whole families of
Italians from children of 3 and years
old to feeble men and women of great
age, work at flower making night and
day during the busy season.
The season lasts from January to June
The cutting and dyeing of the various
parts of the flyers and certain pro-
portion of the making are done in fao-
tories The tenement workers share may
be "stemming" leaves, that is, fixing
leaves to wire stems and winding tho
latter with tape; making the whole
flower out of its separate parts or
branching" process that involves the
wiring of leaves and flowers into sprays,
and their arrangement in branches or
wreaths.
Such work Is paid for "hy the piece
usually SO much per gross or per gross
of punches. The sum carries from 31k to
s, II. for Is cents grosu. The pay Ia
always too small to provide living
wage, even when whole family Is work.
ing together.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
Oil and Gas GeoloeicaIly Considered

Frederick G. Clapp, formerly of the
United States geological survey, and now
q consulting geolog.st of Pittsburg, 6is-
cussed at length before the Engineers
Society of Western Pennsylvania oil and
natural gas, and his paper is presented
In the May number of the society S
monthly publication.
Mr. Clapp believes in the organic the
ory of the origin of oil and gas This
theory holds that the various sedimentary
strata were originally deposited on an
Client sea bottoms. Animal and plant
matter existed at that time and hence
large amounts of organic matter mus,
havs been buried The bituminous sab
stance Is the result Of the decomposition
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES


Ing car yesterday morning in front Of
residence"
Yes
s'Along came a NANCY cur and stopped
to take look at the panpered pup
Go ahead"
Then the NANCY cur began to growl
and the pampered pup leaped TO the
ground"
You needn't finish. know what
happened. The pampered put got chewed
up for being a canine molycoddle.''
Nothing of the sort. He landed ON
that NANCY cur with his mouth open,
and it seemed for minute as If there
were IA dogs fighting. Then the NANCY
cur beat 1t down the, block for all he
was worth and the pampered pup re-
sumed his nap in the touring car"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
GHOSTS


Alfred Moves in the Westminster Ga
zette.
o to creep in by candle light,
When all the world is fast asleep.
Ont of the cold winds, out of the night,
Where the nettles wave and the rains
weep.
@ to creeprin, lifting the latch
. So quietly that no soul could hear,
And at those embers In the gloom
Quietly light one careful match
You should not hear 1t, have no fear
And light the candle and lools round
The old familiar room;
To see the old books upon the wall
And lovingly take one down again,
s And hear--O strange to those that lay
So patiently underground w
The ticking Of the clock, the sound
OF clicking embers
watch the play
till the implacable cali
OF morning turns our faces gray;
And, or ever we go, we lift land kiss
Some idle thing that your hands may
touch,
Some paper or book that your hands
let fall,
And we never-when living-had cared SO
much
As to glance upon twice. -
But now. d bliss
To kiss and to cherish. it, moaning our
pain.
Ere we creep to the silence again.
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I'VE are struggling with a hard propo-
sition in this state" said a promlheh.
officer of the law last night, ION account
of the way some of our courts are CON
Quoted and also on account OF the sioVehis
way of guarding men who are sentenced
to work on the street gangs
1--WE arrest people here in Birmingham
for serious offenses and have clear case
to prove against them. When the triai
comes up they are given a light me ana
maybe a short sentence. The prisoner
usually pays the fine or escapes from the
street gang in a week or two, ana we
have him to catch over again.
"A negro is never fined more than
year or twos here for serious thel.s,
while l know other states where they afe
sent up for 10 and II years. Our courts
are not strict enough and 1t is great
danger to the efficiency of a law-enfore-
ing department if they cannot feel that
they are loyalty backed up by the police
and criminal courts. Many cases are tried
in the police court that | THINK shoula
he hound over to the county criminal
court Prisoners are given light sem
tence and soon are out stealing again. A
short time ago l caught the worst negro
chicken thief in the city and he was SEN
fenced to year; A week ago | arrested
a watch thief who had stolen $io
watch. He was given short sentence
sent to the Southside jail and escaped In
a day or two"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
THREE LARGE WOMEN.


Mark Twain, like great many people
in Jefferson county and Alabama. was a
believer in good roads. 1t is not known
whether the experience described in the
following story converted him to that
belief or not. However, it might have
done SO. The story:
II once had 30 miles'-Mark Twain be-
gan-"to go by stage in Mississippi. The
roads were terrible for it was early
spring. The passengers consisted of five
men and three women.three large, well-
developed women, swathed in shawls and
wells, who kept to themselves, talking
in low tones on the rear seat. Well, we
hadn't gone a mile before the stage got
stuck two feet deep in the black mud
Down jumped every man of us, and for
10 minutes we tugged and jerked and
pulled till we got the stage out of the
hole. We had hardly got our breath
back when the stage got stuck again,
and again We had to strain our hearts
out to release her. In covering Is miles
we got stuck eight times. and in going
the whole 80 we lifted that. old stage out
of the mud II times by actual count We
five male passengers were wet tired and
filthy when we reached our destination,
and so you can imagine our feelings when
we saw the three women passengers re-
move, as they dismounted, their vels
their shawls and their SKIRTS and, 10 and
behold! they were three big. hearty, ro-
bust men. AS we stared at them with
bullying and ferocious eyes, one of them
said: Thanks for your labor, gents. We
knowed this road and prepared for it.
VIII you licker?"
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wants weather Report

II do not believe that the United States
government has any more right to take
the office of the weather observer away
from Birmingham than 1t has a right'to
take, the postoffiee away" said citizen
last night. II think the whole affair is
preposterous and 1 think the citizens
should not lose a moment in getting to
the bottom of the matter
The weather report is of the greatest
interest and value to some classes of
people and certain lines of business
Especially the agricultural and truck
raising districts will be damaged by the
discrimination of the weather report. If
the government has right to take the
report away from US we have right
to protest and ] believe that We can
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
MARKETS OF PARIS

Mrs. John Van Worst in July Lippin
colts.
1.-The Paris Halles, or Central Markets,
cover a surface of $1,000 yards" Mrs.
Van Worst goes on to state. 'One hun
there in a year, 1900, 900 pounds of chick
en- and a number equally appalling OF
bushels of potatoes and vegetables o.
pounds of fish and butter, of dozens Of
eggs Aside from the people who come
to buy at the Halles Centrales, and the
vast number of hotels and institutions
which provide themselves with food at
this source, there are 90 smaller mar
kets held In the different quarters OF
Paris every day. which have no other
supply than the Halles. The reason for
serving themselves thus through an i'll
tern.edary instead of applying directly
to the suburban truoksters and the coast
wise fishermen is that thereby are avoid
ed the. complications involved by the
laws of hygiene, which are very strict
in Paris.
Every particle of food admitted to the
counters of the Danes des Halles must
first have been Inspected and judged flt
for the human palate, by a commission
who hold their seances between midnight
and o'clock in the morning, perform-
ing test experiments upon hungry guinea
pigs
The men who accomplish the difficult
task of unloading the wagons of food
as they arrive from the railroad are APP
pointed to their positions by the protect
de police He makes no further tax upon
them morally and physically than that
they shall be honest and able to carry
from one end to the other of the market:
a load weighing 24O pounds! For this for
midably hard Job" the remuneration
/. never less than $500 and attains to as
much as $1,000 year"
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JUST ABOUT NOW.

JUST ABOUT NOW.
Hurry, worry and heat
Trinity hard to beat.
Better 60 slow In the month of June,
July and August-autumn will soon
Give you a chance to make up lost time
This is the season and this is the cline
Fittest for sapping primordial vim
And making ones chances of pulling
through slim.
Better go slow
Summer, you know,
Isn't the time to put on much steam;
Get you fishing rod angle and dream
Study the cloud-ships up in the sky,
Doze in the shade, let the world go by
Happiness, Happiness, where are you
now?
Not where the masses are toiling, I'll
vow,
Out in the fields where the grass grows
deep
Far in the coves where the waterfalls
leap,
Where the wind sings low to the oak and
the pine
And a big trout tugs on fisherman
line;
Where mountain streams swirl round
boulders gray
And the cares of the world seem Tar
away