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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

stud into the bosom of linen shirt the other day when the weather man came into our office and said: The weather changed severely as 1 said it would on Tuesday of this week, and you can safe ly tell your readers that the circus and red lemonade have flown. I saw a farm CT today bringing in 8 load of old gold pumpkins and the jack rabbit is ripe. The trees are shedding their mantles of green and the politicians are shedding lot of information and damaged facts. If you didn't gather any moss while the bee ane the young colt were on the wing it is not our fault The weather man then arose from Turkish divan lie was sitting on, wrapped his glad features around a piece of plug tobacco and stepped out into the cool autumnal air. Leavenworth Chronicle n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
RODENTS IN FRISCO

RODENTS IN FRISCO
 From the New York Times. Ass $
 San Francisco is being ''ratproofed."
 The word has become part of the San
 Franciscan vocabulary. like "waterproof- ing" and refers to style of brick and concrete architecture that is enforced by condemnation proceedings in portions of the city until now the centers of rat pop ulation.
 Eighteen months have passed since the last capture of rat afflicted with the
 bubopic plague-the "black death" of his-
 tory, which feas borne by the rats spread to human hosts. But the fight to exter'- minate the rodents goes on. According to the report of pr. G. M, Converse, of the United States public health and ma rine hospital service. the sewers are be- Ing poisoned and the rats are being caught in cages and snap traps at the rate of S600 monthly. In Butchertown. in the congested Japanese quarters. and in the wholesale fruit and produce section of the town, the ramshackle buildings are being ratproofed in their .basemefts or entirely replaced with solid structures. By and by every American city may be ratproofed, tickproofed. and mosquito. proofed. until these death dealing vermin are utterly destroyed
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DESTROYING ONES APPETITE

From Scfaps.
 Gordonsville, Va, is noted for Several things. chief among them being the tooth- some fried chicken offered to the passen- gers on the trains by the colored "aunties'' of the vicinity. Having heard of "Gordonsvlle chicken we whetted up our appetites and were fully prepared The chicken was fully up to the advance notices, all right. but just as we were polishing off wishbone fellow passen- ger remarked: Those darkies go up and down the track for miles. picking up those bones and putting the batter back on them."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
Active Inquiries for Iron

While the pig iron market is not as active as furnace companies would like to see it, Inquiries have been eager this week and indications are for brisk buy ing movement at stiffer prices than have been prevailing It is felt by some that the real turning point will be the Novem- Der elections. The predictions are for exceptionally heavy tonnage contracts within the next two weeks. Matthew Addy & Co.'S Cincinnati report, just is- sued, says
 There is a decided increase in both inquiry and purchasing. The week has seen large tonnage placed on furnace order books. And the best thing about the buying is that 1t is not made up of few big lots-on the contrary. it is made up of many scattering orders. But as yet not fifth of the iron on which prices are asked is bought. It is evident that the consumers asking for prices are interested In the market and think 1t Is the time to buy, but they have not quite the courage of their convictions. They sin the almost persuaded' class, as the Scripture might put it. But to the makers or lrOn IL IS IdTu lO see Wlldt they are waiting for, as prices today are really under cost of production. Taking broad view of the market and general condi- tions. pig iron is the one great commod- ity still at bottom prices.
 "One of the interesting Sales of the week was to large foundry that tried in vain to buy at present prices for de- livery over the second quarter of next year. Finally, finding that no furnace would make such contract, they bought iron to be placed in storage in Novem- ber and December, to be paid for prompt ly, but the furnace to carry free of stor- age charges for nine months. In this way the foundry makes sure next year of cheap iron. for the interest charges which will accrue before the iron is melt el will be mighty cheap insurance against an advance in the market
 All of the developments of the week have been on the right side. It is true prices are still unchanged. but the in creasing activity in the market is & good sign. There Is greater demand for spot shipment and it is evident thai stocks in consumers yards are running 1ow-ln fact many meIters are now or a nd-to-mouth basis" se
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 It takes brains not to show off because of them.
 Economizing is a} theory; squandering a fact.
 In a flirting competition girl can do more with her eyes than man with his brain. N
 No doubt blessings are awarded right up in heaven. but they get awfully mixed up in the distribution down here. man wouldn't make much of show of himself over being engaged, the way he does now. if 1t came after marriage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
GREAT MEN AND CATS
From Scraps.

fTOnl ScrdpS.
 While Materlinck has made the cat the villain of his fairy play, ''The Blue Bird," many men of literature have sung its praise. Champfeury wrote an essay on the love and character of cats; Tasso wrote sonnet to his cat; Petrarch had his favorite cat embalmed, and Chat eaubriand's passion for cats was so well known that when he was ambassador at Rome the pope gave him one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
SLIGHT REVENGE.

SLIGHT REVENGE. Heres story in a newspaper about a man who was run down by an automo- bile while picking up horseshoe for good luck"
 That was bad luck. sThe horseshoe partly redeemed itself, however,
 "Indeed?'' "A nail in 1t punctured the automobile ist's tire1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
AcaUITTAL OF ETHEL LENEvE


 From the Washington Post.
 What does the section of the American press which saw so much good in the way Lord Alverstone railroaded Crippen to the gallows think of his lordship's un- blushing partiality toward Ethel Leneve,
 in contrast with his harsh treatment of an editor who printed story that Grip pen had confessed? With the English criminal law in force here, and Lord Chief Justice Alverstone on the bench every one of the editors who commend ed the .'masterful way in which he gives an accused man the short shrift would be under key all the while or go bankrupt paying thousand dollar fines.
 AS further proof of the superiority of the swift and sure" methods of the English jury system, the Leneve trial breaks down completely. With all the cogs carefully greased for verdict of acquittal, his lordship's judicial strength" employed itself in sweeping aside the verdict of the coroner's jury duplicating the woman in the crime and bringing his own pliant jury around to the point of doing his will The absence OI tile iltlc pldCk ShuiiSdP iioAii efiS judges side told the knowing when the case opened what to expect. Its presence would have foreshadowed what 1t did in | the Crippen case. It Is the joke" in the grim drama Of the Old Bailey.
 Thus the farce went on to the end clos ing with the exit of the little woman ir blue, whose personality had everything to do with inspiring the tragic finale that has given America an exceptional oppor'
 tunity to see English justice as 1t real | ly is.
 | The afterpiece-the fining of the offend | ing newspaper man-was as cut and driet performance as the bigger piece. Seem l ingly, the lord chief justice figured tha something would have to be done to off set his weird conduct of the Leneve case So he reversed his mood and put in thu
 saving clause with vengeance. Wht now prefers the English code to th' American2
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HENCE. THE BULGE.

Mack Thralls, Missouri editor says
 When good looking woman from the country climbs into a carriage the stock ngs she shows do not fit as snugly as those shown in muddy weather by the town women. The reason is that the country woman has rolls of bills stuck in her hose that she has received from her chickens, eggs and produce. You don't see any such wads under the town wonans hose. They fit nice and trim. for she has few dimes and coppers, a lot of samples, powder rag, etc, all in thing she calls purse, which is about the size of mans suitcase, and she car- ries it under her arm for a bluff''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
UNsEEMLY HASTE

From. the New York Telegram.
 Cable announces that while November 15 was the date originally set for the ex- ecution of Dr. Crippen, the sheriff has decided to advance the day one week and hold the affair November 8. This beats New Jersey. Can almost hear the doctor asking, What's your hurry?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
OPTIMISTIC.

That fellow has an enormously wide mouth.''
 So he has, but there's bright side to everything Just think how easy it is for him to push his food into his face without spillng any" ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
HIS ONLY REcouRsE

From the Louisville Courier J Journal.
 It someone is going to call the colonel a liar every time he calls some one else liar, what oratorical advan- tage will the colonel have, except that he may console himself by crying "copy-cat" at the American stump?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
Doub,,n~ the Cotton Crou

Many people, may not agree with a government economist who took the view several years ago that the cotton crop of the United States, on the existing acre age, could easily be doubled," said a writer in the Wall Street Journal.
 The crop then was 100000 bales, and one of 22, ,0o0O00 bales was claimed as prac- ticable, provided the methods of cultiva- tion were changed from the extensive to the intensive practices of farming.
 "A correspondent in the Charlotte Ob- server reports an even greater achieve 'ment than that of doubling the yield of cotton per acre. In this case William E Springer, former mayor of Wilmington N. C., selected land of trifiing value and highly fertifized it for growing cotton with a result that instead of growing the average of less than 200 pounds an acre he grew POGO pounds or four bales an acre The stalks. .saocording to the writer, were from to feet high, fruited from top tt bottom, presenting a cotton field such al had never been seen even in the best cot
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"rhe Sacred Lord of Lives and by other titles suggesting the veneration in which he is held. He is absolute monarch of all he surveys and of the unsurveyed regions
 of his country, concerning which the out
 side world knows little and his own
 court not a great deal more
 Europeans began intriguing in Siam
 in the early part of the seventeenth century. The Portuguese and English sent expeditions and missionaries; Greek, Constantine Phaulcon, became prime minister and tried to incite revolution during the last years of the
 Europeans were expelled, and with the exception of a brief period during which
 a Burmese King ruled over Siam the country has been under native govern ment since that time. The late king was an enlightened monarch He tray- eed in Europe, introduced modern ma chinery and agricultural implements into his country, drove an automobile, chose his foreign advisers from different coun- tries that no European power might be too heavily represented in his capital. and Automatically pretended to hold the sacred white elephants in veneration in common with his loyal subjects.
 The Siamese are not quite as ignorant in real life as they. are in comic opera. In very business-like manner they ex- port rice to Manila to feed the Filfpinos, while the less well informed lawmakers at Washington lay an import duty on
 Philippine rice to prevent the surplus crop of the islands from bankrupting the rice planters of the United States. " Chowfa Mana Vajiravudh was edu- cated abroad, and is described as every inch king. He measures about e inches if he is siamese of average size.
 but he is a proud sovereign of an un- conquered race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
FINE RESULTS.

why, this picture of old Sleezck shows him with pleasant look on his face. I wonder how that happened?' ''It was due to a ruse of the photog- rapher. He arranged for tenant to ap- pear and pay old Seezick some rent just before the picture was taken.'
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
OH, PIFFLE!

From the Columbia State.
 If Charlotte and Birmingham had as many people, and Tive" people. too, to the acre as Columbia has, what cities they would be!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
ON THE TWILIGHT FOND

By William dillingham;. A shadowy fringe the, fir trees make, Where sunset light hath been; The liquid thrills to one gold flake. And Hesperous is seen; Our boat. and we, not. half awake, ss. Go drifting down the pond,s While slowly calls the rail. ssCfak
 crake,'' 1 ',s From meadow flats beyond,
 ais- %fss . <. This happy. circling, bounded view, Embraces us with home; ,f To far worlds kindlfns in the blue, Our upward thoughts may roam; Whence, with the veil of scented dew That makes the earth ,sp- sweet, A touch of astral brightness, too; 4 peace-which is complete.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
A FAMOUS SAYING.

Albert w. Aiken, according to The Bill board, playwright popular 20 years ago, wrote that famous line, And the villain stlli pursued her" Peace to his ashes and long life to his fame, 'The villain still pursued her. is a good line and the quintessence of melodrama It has been trife overworked, however, of late yeafs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
INDusTRfAL NOTE

From the Baltimore Evening Sun
 Birmingham is showing prosperity in every line. Burglars are so active there the people are beginning to get alarmed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
SHOCKING coNDucT.

SHOCKING CONDUCT.
 You tried to grab more than your due
 And scornful fingers point at you, Tacoma. To pad her figures wonlan's game, For towns to do 1t is a shame, Tacoma!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

Chicago has turned from baseball to jackpotters, and there is some hope that it will get even on Tuesday week by
 knocking the latter out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
NCIlILY,sv NAME

From the Springfield union, culpeppsr Exum sounds like an adver- tisement, but 1t isn't. It.. or rather he, is the new Mayor of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
A FLY IN THE oINTMENr.

A FLY IN THE OINTMENT.
 In his account of a wedding which found Its way to the news room, the cor respondent described the happy event in detail not emitting the compliments suit able for such an occasion, and concluded as follows:
 'The only Drawback to the hole ocasion in my mind was him (the bridegroom, perhaps) being a Union Boiler Maker to have employed scab musicians which in my opinion was not consistint with uniamism. Otherwise 1t was a most en- joyable affair."
 A WEATHER PROPHET.
 'We were trying to jam a diamond
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

Tener will not withdraw in Pennsyl- vania. Those that say he will do not understand the machine and it's access to the plum tree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
EH?

Scuse me, please, I forget. Done your Christmas Shopping yet?
 Birmingham Age-Herald. No we ain't, Not quite yet, Cause we made a Lection bet.
 -Springfeld Union.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
A POOR MATCH.

A POOR MATCH. Welded to art" Sounds well, oh, yes; Poverty street Is the address, Nine times in ten, Beg we to state, When a chap takes Art for his mate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
QUESTION ANSWERED.

Are there men lower down?" asks an esteemed contemporary. Yes, a great many in coal mines hereabout.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

What. friends and fellow citizens, shall we do with an exPresdent after Novem- Der s? That's the question.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

Dirigible balloons are dlrigihie only when they move with the wind. They cannot buck the wind as a real man-blrd does
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
OCTOBER SUNSHINE.

OCTOBER SUNSHINE. The sun shines brightly out Of doors, The world around is fair; No cloud obscures the tranquil skies, No shadow anywhere. A day of smiles, day of hope, When every venture thrives And, gladdened by the summer glow The aged year revives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

Mems thoughts run to flying in this particular period of time, and yet the man-birds have almost a whole century to work in. f4s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

London seems to be viciously inclined. for it proposes to hang an American dentist on the American election day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

|. President Braga of Portugal has writ ten nearly lso books. He turned to poi- ties as a relief from lettsrs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

Thousands of persons have not regis. tered in the New York cities. and no enc seems to know the reason why.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

Goldfish is scarce and high, and fish. ball trust is suspected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

Ex-Senator Foraker was butted off the track by the new nationalism at any rate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

The one-man party in New York state is confessedly becoming top heavy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

Persimmofis are just now flirting with the frost. They are optimistic for No vember Is near at hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

The colonel does not deny that he called Judge Anderson of Indiana bad names. That settles it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
A LIGHTWEIGHT.

T see where MT. Featherhead, who was defeated for office in South Carolina, has been invited to Kansas"
 He'd stand fine chance in cyclone, now wouldn't hep
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

Andrew Carnegie returned home feeble and applications for additional libraries may be hastened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
Al FAN,s FATE.

"A r AIN $ AT ID.
 "Twiggs seems to be drinking a great deal more than is good for him.'
 ''Yes, it's too bad about Twiggs. You see. the baseball team won so many games this year that Twiges got the eel ebration habit and he hasn't been able to quit.''
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ton growing counties of the Atlantic sea

ton growing counties of the Atlantic sea I board.
 The peculiarity of this experiment wat
 that the land had already in the current
 season produced two crops of early vege-
 tables before 1t was planted to cotton I The result was that the cotton crop got
 the full advantage of the highly fertilized enrichment of the soil in the same season. The average yield of cotton for ten years past has been 156 pounds an acre. At 300 pounds an acre, or nearly double the | average, it would practically mean 20,000,- GOO bales of cotton The problem is large- | ly one of the treatment of the soil with lfertilizing materials, the natural re- sources for which are to be found in abundance in the southern states. The manufacture of fertilizers to meet vari- ous southern soil conditions is highly advanced industry.
 ''The problem would not, therefore, seem so remote of solution as might appear. 2O,0000OO bale crop of American cotton would be of incalculable advantage to the southern producing world, as well as to spinning interests in every country where the manufacture of cotton fabrics enters largely into It's own prosperity"
 Regarding the Dead March in Saul
 '"I have read with interest recent refer ences to Handefs famous Dead March In Saul :" said Prof. Fred L. Grambs. Edwin Markham, the poet and critic, in writing the phrase. the unworded and unearth1y harmonies,'' betrayed an ig- noranee of musical matters, for nothing could be simpler in harmony than the composition in question.
 Ut seems rather singular that so classic and at. the same time so beauti- ful march as that from the oratorio of Saul should ever go out of vogue. This dirge is still played. at state funerals in large cities, but it used to be played on the smaller bands as well as on the or- gan. I have a copy of 1t and when I had charge of the music at O'Brien's opera house a few years ago the orches- tra' played 1t in the funeral scene in Richard H. That is perhaps the last time 1t was heard in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
COTTON OIL. HOGS, OLIVES

Dishity in Roosevelt campaign is all unknown quantity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

Bacon is 40 cents a pound It should disregard way stations and go to s1 at once. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

The betting on Fosss the democratic candidate for governor in Massachusetts, is at even terms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29
ABOUT THE KING OF SIAM
From the Louisville courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier Journal. CIAM is best known to the average
 busy American as the scene Of a A comic opera in which De Wolfe
 Hopper and Della Fox appeared when Miss Fox was a young girl. The death of King Chulalongkorn, and, the
 succession of the crown prince, Chowfa nounced in the cablegrams from Bang
 kok, create little or no stir on this side of the globe, yet Siam is a proud coun- try which boasts that it is unconquered by white men.
 Siam is a neighbor of Burmah. which the English took over some time ago, removing King Thebaw from the Lily
 Throne at Mandalay, and neighbor of TonlSin, Annam and Cambodia, which the French control. Its integrity is guaranteed under an Anglo-French agreement, and it's inhabitants count themselves freemen because their king does not report to. European power.
 The King of Camboda, who sent the white elephant to the Siamese ruler in the comic opera, was the successor of
 line of monarchs to whom the Siamese
 kings formerly paid tribute, but the glory of Cambodia had departed before
 the French took possession of the king dom.
 The Siamese are of small stature, peaceable, domestic in their tastes and not especially industrious. They have moral code that forbids them to steal, to drink intoxicants. to tell falsehoods, to commit impurity and to kill either
 men. animals, plants or seeds. The pop
 ulation is Spnly about 100000. counting the Malay, Chinese and Laos who are residents of Siam Yet the Kingdom has contrived to remain independent. The King of Siam is addressed as
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DOESN'T MEAN IT.

"Is he a very vain manP'' You just ought to hear him say, My humble self.'"
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On November s New York will decide whether vox populi is after all vox Roosevelt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

No one denies that somewhere the sun is shining. It shines in Philadelphia prin- eipally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-29

Belmont Park is but practice ground for a contest in the air at Birmingham's census jubilee.
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men I ever met, and most wonderful talker His wit is prodigious. his fund of anecdote inexhaustible, the strength of his lungs overpowering.
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They say you are melancholy fei- lov As You Like It.
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Quincy, H.. grew but l per cent in 10 years. Distileries do not seem to irl- yite the stork z
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DUMAS WAS GOOD COMPANY

By Gronow.
 TIMELY EXPLANATION