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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
SAVING FALLEN GIRLS


 Annie w. Allen has illumined the oh- scure problem of saving fallen girls.
 True, indeed 1t is, that for such work women of superior quality and acumen are required; none but women and su- perior women can succeed in 1t. Their in nuence is unconsciously exhaled and ab- sorbed and is irresistible. This l know, for it was my privilege to have in service at the House of Shelter in Detroit, Emma A. Hall of sainted memory. That it is sometimes good to 'let one go home and find out how different 1t really is,' to realize the inward changes of taste, un- consciously wrought, is also true. One of the most degraded of girls was re- ceived at the shelter and lived in Mrs Halls family two years and was then discharged on a Saturday afternoon ap- parently incorrigible-her retention was more damaging to others than could longer be allowed. Late the same night she returned and tearfully begged admit tance, saying, "Oh, it all seems so diff ferent and so dreadful Please do admit me" She was admitted again and, after few months further residence, was discharged to the care of new found relative in neighboring state. Years passed when it came to my knowl- edge that she had married; then the wife of a worthy mechanic, mother of two children, and respected member of the community. "Fallen girls" can be res cued the attitude of workers should be scientific rather than sentimental and rescues must be accomplished by women not by men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
Vocational Guidance

Tn Boston next month, under the au- spices of the chamber of commerce and the vocation bureau, is to be held na- tional conference that may touch the lives of a vast number of boys and girls just as they are ready to leave the pub lie schools.
 The vocation bureau has been formed. to use its own words, flor the purpose of cooperating with business men, manufacturers, parents, teachers, young people and the community as whole, in stimulating young people to consider seriously what vocation they are best fitted for, to prepare for it systematically and to follow it with intelligent and pro- gressive motive"
 The selection of life york by young man or a young woman as he or she leaves the public schools Is one of the most important matters to be considered in this republic. It may be said to be largely individual, but no doubt 1t can be promoted and bettered at various points by general cooperation of public spirited men and women. The best avail able information can be put before the boys and girls of the land as they leave the public schools, and in this way per haps there can be lessening of the waste now incidental to the transition from school to work and from job to job. Boston has a high school of com merce for boys; a school of practical arts trains girls to become either good house. wives or to earn their living with bet ter effectiveness. Public continuation schools are training boys to proficiency in special trades. The boys study part of the day while the rest of the time they work for wages in factory or shoI nearby.
 All this is a part of vocational training and the conference in Boston on No vember 15 and Is is expected to offer in formation and suggestions that will wide lly extend the new education. The boy and girls of the south should be helped to the utmost in the choice of what tt do for a living.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
IN HOTEL L.
Visitors Observations of Birminsham

Visitors Observations Of Birmingham
 'I first visited Birmingham in 1897, and was greatly impressed with the min eral resources of the Birmingham dis trict then, but 1 had no idea that this city would become the important bank ing and mercantile center that 1t is to- day" said P F. Southwaite of St. Louis.
 "The last time I was here was in 1902. I think the first steel frame office building had just been erected, and al though there was promise of rapid growth, l little expected to find Bir mingham with population of 1S2.6S5 in 19l0 I have visited Atlanta sev- eral times and have always been im- pressed with the progress of that city, But when one considers Birmingham's comparative youth neither Atlanta nor any other city in this country is in it's class as a fast grower And the best of it is Birmingham is being handsome ly built up. It's business district makes fine appearance and no city in the en- tire south ana few anywhere, that can boast of the beautiful residence sections that are found here.
 Birmingham has now got such a great start that population of 100000 may be predicted for the census of 195o There are children here today who are almost sure to live to see Birmingham lead Louisville in population, and maybe New Orleans as we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
TRAINING COOKS IN ENGLAND

From the New York World.
 The opening in London next Friday of the technical school for training boys as cooks, established by the common council, marks the beginning of a novel experiment in industrial education, from the Anglo-Saxon point of view.
 In the Latin countries, as in Switzer- land and Germany, cooking is a recog- nized vocation for men, and is entered through regular apprenticeship. It has hitherto made less appeal to the Eng fish temperament. and in England, as here, the percentage of natiye-born men cooks, except in chop houses or restau- rants of like character, has been small. Cooking in it's higher branches has been virtually monopolized by foreigners.
 At the London school the instruction will be both practical and theoretical. The course will cover period of three years and will embrace all the details of the art from soup to sauce making, and including the preparation of des- serts, the purchase of supplies and ordi- nary economy French will be taught as "the universal language of the kitch- en- and the gradua:e will be presumed to be equally competent to broil steak or write a menu card in the choicest culinary diction.
 The world will no doubt still have to look to Paris for its chefs. The art which the French have cultivated for centu- ries and for which they display nat ural aptitude is not to be acquired by another nation in day. The interest ing thing is the recognition In England of cooking as a remuneratiye vocation and the encouragement given to British youth to pursue 1t by the institution of training school for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
Nelson Back From Richmond

Frank Nelson, IT,, president of the Elm pire Coal company, returned yesterday after visit of several days to Rich mond. While in that city MT. Nelson was in conference with several of the prominent men of Richmond. He said yesterday that the census report of Br- mingham was the talk of the country, and that 250,0OO will be the figures in 1920 unless every present indication failed.
 Birmingham has accomplished most of her great work in the past six or seven years" he said. And I believe still great CT things will come in the next 10 years. Birmingham has received world of ad- vertising from this census report and great results will surely come from it.
 Coal trade was never better. How ever, just at this time there is no plan on foot for any great extensiork at our mines or the properties in which l am inS terested. 1 have no doubt but that good tonnages will be mined this year from all the mines. Personally think the ton mage this year will be the greatest in the history of the state. The coal mer- chants are exceptionally well pleased with conditions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
Great Cases In the Supreme Court

The United States supreme court be- gan its annual session last Monday This session is to last eight months. At the outset but seven judges will hear cases, there being two vacant seats-the seats once filled by Chief Justice Fuller and Justice Moody The former is dead and the latter has resigned because of chronic illness. These two seats will not be filled until Congress meets in December, and already speculation is active as to the men who will secure them.
 On Tuesday last the court postponed the rehearing of the Standard oil and tobacco cases to January 3. and also the eases involving the consttutionality of the corporation tax. These cases inter- est perhaps more people and more lines
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
Cotton Bills of Ladlng Again

Sir Edward Hopkinson Holden, manag- ing director of the London City and Mio- land hank and chairman of the foreign
 bankers committee on cotton bills or Iading. is in New York, where he Is conferring with New York bankers coE- eerning all the issues and problems con- nected with export cotton.
 "According to bankers best informed . says the New York Journal of Commerce. .there is little likelihood of the present deadlock being broken before October oi, when the resolution goes into effect. IL is quite probable that the foreigners, seeing how earnest our bankers are In tbe,r endeavor to come to some mutual understanding, will extend the time until November 30, or perhaps to December S1 This would give all the parties con- cerned a better opportunity to determine 
 whether the railroad yalidation plan, now |, oneration. adequately meets the re- nllirements for a proper safeguard against fraud As soon as Congress meets. in December. it is proposed to have 1t con- sider the Stevens bill, introduced at the last session, and strong representation ,p, be made bv merchants and bankers for the need of a federal law fixing re- sponsibility upon railroads for the acts of their agents"
 An extension of the time to date that will enable Congress to pass the Stevens bill would seem to be start at least toward a final settlement of the vexed question.
 The Stevens bill aims to make all rall- roads doing an interstate business re- snonsible for the acts of their own agents. When the interstate railroad issues cotton bill of lading it must, under the terms of the Stevens bill, make 1t good
 The Stevens bill was passed by the House to be held up in the Senate. The general public in the south will, it is be- lieved. make its influence felt in the mat tor of the Stevens bill. It will probably become law. This would no doubt prove satisfactory to the bankers across the sea-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
PEARE FRAUDS
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 Title Pages

From the Century Magazine.
 Of the s7 plays usually ascribed to Shakespeare only Is were printed before his death in 1916, and these only in cheap quarto form without covers A 17th play. "othello." was published in quarto In 1922. The remaining 20 plays, more than half of Shakespeares dramatic work, were printed for the first time in the bound folio of 1923 As no manu- script copy of any of these plays has come down to us, these quarto texts, faulty as they are and in many cases plainly unauthorized, constitute the only contemporary record we have of the dramatic writings of England's greatest poet Of any one of these 16 earlier | Shakespeare quartos we may say that Shakespeare himself might have thumbed its pages; but we can say the same of no other text of a Shakespeare play. Some of these quartos were reprinted in several editions. The number of copies of any edition now in existence is very small, ranging from one. two or three known examples to 20 or 3O A defective or stained copy of the commoner quarto issues is worth not less than $500; if per feet, it will usually bring between 5000 and $2500o. Clean and perfect copies of the rarer issues have brought much as S10,000 Shakespeare quartos, next to Shakespeare first folios, are probably the highest-priced books that come down to the market.
 Yet some of these quartos are like some people, not what they pretend to be. Some of the dates upon their title pages are false dates, and for that reason some of the editions have wrongly been given precedence ovr other editions that really were earlier. Within four years the trustees of the Shakespeare Memorial Library itself, at Stratford-on-Av Avan, desirous of acquiring play texts that were contemporary with Shakespeare, have purchased copies of the date of 1600. "A Midsummer Nights Dream" 1900, and King Lear" 1908, that were neither printed in those years nor during the lifetime of Shakespeare, but some years after his death; arl the proof that such is the case may be found upon the title pages of the copies purchased, where any one who will may trace it out. Also, in America, MT. Marsden J. Perry's recent acquisition of Shakespeare quartos in cludes not only these three plays, but also two others, sir John Oldcastle,' falsely ascribed to Shakespeare, 1900, and Henry "" 1908, that likewise were not printed in Shakespeare's lifetime, but at
 least as late as 1919, as is demonstrable from their title pages The only early Shakespeare quarto owned by the Con gressional Library at Washington is copy of "A Midsummer Nights Dream bearing the date 16Oo but printed not earlier than 16l9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
ALABAMA

By Samuel Minturn Peck Why shines the moon so wan and white? Why drift the shades so thick tonight Beneath tho winds that wall in flight
 Across the sobbing foam? watched the happy swallows flee Beyond the lurid autumn sea; They fled and left the gloom to me,
 Far-far from home. Know st thou that balmy southern land, By myrtle crowned, by zephyrs famed. Where verdant hills and forests grand
 Smile meath an azure dome? Iris there the stars shed softer beams As if to bless the woods and streams; Iris there wander in my dreams,
 Far-far from home. I long to hear the murmuring pine, To see the golden Jasmine twine For there my fancy builds her shrine
 Where CT my footsteps roam. o sunny land! for thy sweet sake A thousand tender memories wake; For thee my heart is like to break,
 Far-far from home.
 (From Cap and Bells. Copyright by White, Stokes & Allen) iR
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
GROWTH OF SOUTHERN CITIES

From the New York World.
 A significant feature of the census has been the renal kable growth of the south ern cities. Figures are not yet complete. but as they come in they accentuate the fact. Scarcely city in the south has failed to make a great gain, and the percentage of increase there is larger than for any ether group, with the pos sible exception of those on the Pacific coast headed by Los Angeles and Seattle. from which we have yet had but scanty returns.
 Until recently the south was practically without cities of size. At the close of the Revolutionary war Charleston had about l6,Ooo inha btants, Richmond about 5000 and savapnah about 5000. Besides these the territory which later made the il strictly southern states contained only villages. The urban growth remained exceedingly slow. In 1860 these Il states had but one city, New Orleans. with population exceeding 10000. Charleston was in second place with 46,OOO and Richmond was third with 5000. Three other towns exceeded 10000 Mobile with 3o,oOO and Memphis and Savannah with 23,00O each.
 After the civil war, growth, except in a few instances, remained slow until about 1900 Birmingham, which was not in the census at all until 1890, has jumped from ss,0OO inhabitants in 1900 to 1SS0O0 in 1910. reaching the size of Syracuse or New Haven. Atlanta advanced from 9O,OOO to l55,OO0 and Is larger than New York was in 1920 The increase in Richmond for the decade would alone make city the size of Richmond itself when it was the capital of the Confederacy. Texas sud denly appears with four cities approach Ing 100000 apiece in population. Norfolk. Chattanooga. Lynchburg and other places have increased 30 per cent or more. Jack sonville has more than doubled. Mobile has grown more in the last 10 years than in the 40 years preceding, and the story could be continued through the list almost without exception.
 It has been claimed that the north has too many large cities; it can be said with equal truth that the south has had too few. Cities with all their faults, are cen ters of thought and energy and give an impetus to 9 country. This new devel- rise of the south.
 opment surely points to ths industrial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
ANOTHER DOMESTIC PROBLEM

FTOin GNeI1p pOuy Anu6o1iio' The prospective bride and groom (coi- ored) were not known to the minister and so, to perform the ceremonh conscien- tiously. he asked lot of questions. The man, he learned, had come recently from the south and was working in a hotel in town where his desired bride was wait ress.
 "Have you been married before?' to the conventional black.
 'Yas, sah.''
 Wife living?'
 "Yas sah.'
 Where is she?"
 Down south, sah.
 .'Why doesn't she live with your"
 ''Well, sah, she lef' me"
 Why did she leave your
 Don't rightly know. sah. I was away when she lef."
 And they sought another minister.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
Distinguished German-Americnn

"Dr. Charles J. Hexamer of Philadel- phia, president of the National German American Alliance, who IS to de- liver an address at inc Turn verein hall on next Wednesday night, is not only the executive head of our great German-American organization, but he is a brilliant scholar and charming gentleman said Birmingham man who is personally acquainted with him.
 He was born in Philadelphia in 1862. His father, himself a man of culture and strong leadership, was a political exile from Germany in 1S4s.
 "Dr. Hexamer's uncle, William Hexa- mer. served with distinction on the union side In the civil war, having commanded Battery A of New Jersey, better known as Hexamer's battery.
 Charles J. Hexamer, who Is to visit Birmingham, is Ph. D. and an IL. D. He is civil engineer by profession, but he is such many-sided man in scientific attachments and in broad scholarship that he may well be called a savant. He is the author of several books.
 Three years ago the Emperor William conferred the order of the Red Eagle on pr. Hexamer for his splendid services in diffusing German culture in America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A girl understands men so well because she pretends not to.
 The greatest of mistakes is thinking you can't make them.
 Some men can cook up excuses for themselves even for being in politics.
 When a woman can keep from talking in card game it's sign she will never play.
 When a girl gets so along in years she has to cut down her age. the strong est believer in her figures is her mother
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
ADRIFT WITH THE TIM
MILE. .DEsLYs.

MILE. DESLYS Since Manuel is out for good And doesn't stand chance, sir, We're hearing more Than eer before
 About a certain dancer. She glorles in her shoddy fame The fact is not surprising; Forsooth, she gets, Without regrets,
 A deal of advertising. The papers say she's very fair, With eyes of "baby blue,'' And winsome air And ripping hair
 Of sunny golden hue. But when it comes to morals.--well, Please do not think me rude, If I avow, Right here and now, She's not at all prude.
 EVIDENT. "Is he much of campaign orator?'' You should see him mop his brow.''
 GIRLS. There was young maid from the East, To look on her face was a feast, But her foot was so large Bout the size of a barge That she never was loved in the least. Paul Cook In Birmingham Age-Her- aid. There was young maid from the South Whose face was at least two-thirds
 mouth,
 But she'd offers to spurn For the maiden could burn Enough poodle to bring on drouth. Charles Lecdy in Youngstown Tele- gram. There was young maid from the
 West Pulled a polecat right out of it's nest, She thought twas a kitty! And that ends my ditty- You'd die If told you the rest. Judd Lewis in the Houston Post.
 OFTEN THE CASE. 'Is the school of experience ever a correspondence school?'' "Yes;- when a man writes love letters to a woman who afterward sues him for breach of promise"
 ALAS! ''No more, no morel' the poet cries In accents of despair; And rolling still his frenzied eyes, He rumples up his hair ''No more, no more my weekly wash Will be returned on time; The laundryrnan insists on cash And won't accept rhyme!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
Wilkinson Talks of Crops

Commissioner of Agriculture J. A. Will knson, who is in attendance on the good roads convention, and is taking in the fair, in discussing the general crop con- ditions and farming in Alabama, said;
 "The cotton crop in the state will likely reach 100000 bales. The crop in the northern part of the state is better than last year, and not so good in the southern portions The price will make up much of the loss in size of the crop as all in- dications are that cotton will rule close to 15 cents
 "The corn crop is 50 per cent better than last year or about 20 bushels to the acre as compared to IA last year
 Then. too, there was large increase in amount of corn planted.
 "The hay crop Is large and good. There has been a marked increase in the cul- tivation of alfalfa and legumes.
 ''The small grain crops were unusually good. with an increased acreage.
 "The raising of fine stock has had a wonderful impetus during my four years administration. I would like to see all of our farmers abandon trying to raise race horses and turn to mules, service anil mals and beef cattle. Year by year the farmers of Alabama are raising more hogs, more poultry, some sheep and goats
 There is a general advancement all along the line in farm life, and work and comfort. Improved barns, silos, labor saving machinery, new homes, and better roads in many counties are calling many back to the farm.
 'Verily this season of 1910-11 will be a winter of content, prosperity and hog and hominy among the farmers of the state"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
WENT BACK ON HER

God doesn't love me any more,' sobbed Mary to her mother one day
 "Why, dear, God loves everybody; what do you mean?'
 'Oh, no. He doesn't love me, I'm sure, for tried Him with daisy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
Musical Attractions


 Birmingham Is to have a number of excellent music attractions this season." said a member of the Oratorio society "In addition to the three private sub scription concerts that will be given un- der Mrs. Truman Aldrich's auspices Ernest Hucheson, piano; Liza Lehman and her quartet, and Maud Powell, violin the Music Study club brings Louise Homer and our Oratorio society will bring at least one artist here for recital probably an organ virtuoso. The tamous Kneizel quartet (strings) announces a southern tour for next April and with a little encouragement they could be in duced to give concert in Birmingham. Of course, we are to have spring festi- val in 1911, but that will probably be in May instead of April
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
sTENoGRApHER WITHOUT HANDS

A beggar holds out in mute appeal two haunting stumps of arms. Miserable apologies for arms both hands are missing. Poor fellow! He'll never be able to do anything people think. and he reaps toll from the passing crowd.
 Well. what can he do? More things than at first seem possible" as is pointed out in The Survey. "Ie can learn sten. ography. This is not f1ppant joke Au- gust Greubel of Munich, Germany, was born without hands. With the aid of special apparatus he writes with Den and has become fairly proficient as a stcnographer, Other kinds of possible work are tending newsstands or serving as timekeepers and watchmen. Special employment bureaus for the handicapped In New York and Chicago have had marked success in helping cripples to find suitable work and do much n save many from being reduced to beggarys
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-13
HARD TO BEAT

From the Columbus Commercial.
 That Birmingham's growth has been marvellous no one can dispute. In 1900 the city had only 3s,415. now they have 132, ,6S5. What city can beat 1t?