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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
Musical Celebrities

'The date of Madam Gadski's recital here will be announced before the end of the week and it will probably be Friday, November 25 in the afternoon" said John A. Cathey of Memphis. who is in in Birmingham assisting his wife in sell ing season tickets for the all-star artists series.
 T am about to leave for home, but my wife will reach this city Friday and con- tinue the work of soliciting subscriptions for the three attractions to follow We started to canvass Birmingham for four concerts at $5 for the season, but as one of the entertainments has already been given, we are now charging s4 for the remainder of the series.
 "Gadslxi is sufficiently famous to draw a crowded house, and the other artists we r-Scharwenka, pianist and com poser. and Francis MacMilan, one of the great violin celebrities-should also draw well"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
JOKE ON CUSTOMS MAN

rom the New York Evening World.
 Mile. Fely Dereyne, dramatic soprano, who was heard at the Metropolitan two seasons ago and is destined for the Bos- ton opera house, was on the New Amster- dam. She was accompanied by her sis ter Ida, who is as beautiful as herself. and by Poiluchun, a fluffy kitten from Buenos Ayres. Mile. Dereyne sang at the Rio de Janeiro opera house last season and was there decorated by the president of Brazil. When she went to the Argen- tine her admirers gave her the kitten in a marvelously intricate and ornamental portable cat cage that looked like a jewel box As she came down the gang plank from the New Amsterdam, Customs Inspector John Ioughrey caught sight of the box and trailed her. It was not men, toned in her declaration.
 Please open that said Loughrey.
 Mile. Dereyne threw out her hands and put forth emotional French like a pin- wnee! Loughrey didn't know it. but she was begging that her own Poiluchun be not taken from her. She had heard ter rible things of these custom laws of the Amerique. Doubtless Poiluchun was to be taken to the end of the pier and dropped into the harbor.
 Loughrey, innocent of French, felt that he had indeed come upon a daring bit of smuggling. He stonily demanded that the box be opened.
 ''Mew," remarked the Poiluchun, at this point, and again, 'Mew, meaiouw."
 Even then the inspector did not wake to the situation. He thought the thing was some new sort of alarm clock and jewel box combined and of great price, Just then some of the singers who under stood English better than Mile. Dereyne, explained things to her She unlatched the door and Poiluchun wobbled forth, a fluffy ball of long fur no bigger than your two fists.
 Inspector Loughrey went away from there unostentatiously.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
Los Angeles and Blrmingham

The last possible rival in the 100000 class was heard from when the census bureau reported the growth of Los An- geles at 211.5 per cent as compared with Birmihgham's growth of 245.4 per cent.
 It is now fully settled that Birmingham has no rival among the cities of over l000oO population in the percentage of growth since the year 1900 Los Angeles was our only possible rival Seattle and San Francisco have not been reported but the rate of growth in neither of them will approach the rate accorded to this city.
 Los Angeles did prove to be a healthy rival. It had annexed a great deal of territory, one strip extending miles and miles away to the sea. including popu- lous shore towns. This. however, should not be laid up against the prosperous city in southern California. All cities annex all they can get their hands on, and Atlanta did not hesitate to invade another county. The annexation of con- tiguous and strictly suburban territory is not criminal or even obiectionable It is in nine cases out of ten praise worthy and laudable. But Los Angeles is remitted to growth of 2115 per cent "a fine rate of growth to the eye unless the rate for Birmingham happened to be near by to cast glamour over it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
She Is an earthly paragon.
 Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Alabama Sound to the Core

John L. Burnett's majority in the sev- enth congressional district will approach about eight hundred votes. He carried every county in the district except Win ston, and no democrat seems to be able to wean the people of that county from republicanism. It may indeed prove to be the only county in the state that cast a majority against Emmet o'Neal and the rest of the democratic state ticket. The democracy of Alabama can not be ruptured and upset as that of Tennessee has been, and today the party is stronger and more harmonious in this state than ever before.
 Governor-elect o'Neal will come to the executive office well-equipped for public duties, and he will have an ample field in the states educational system and in the handling of the liquor problem, and in the abuses of the fee system and a dozen other subjects, in which to win an enviable reputation as the states chief executive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
Jefferson COuRtY's Growth

The population of Jefferson county as announced by the census bureau yester- day is 226.4 .476, an increase of S6,o5s as compared with 1900 being a gain of 61 per cent. This is good enough, and is really more than estimates had made 1t at the time the people were being counted. Twenty years ago the county's popula- ton was SS,5o1.
 Alabama's census population is 2,13s,9S7. a gain of sos, ,s96 over 1900. The percent age of increase was only 16s, which is less than in the preceding decade, when the rate of growth was 2o.e per cent. This may be disappointing to the state at large, but if the work of the enumerators was checked up and the census retaken thing like 5000 people had been un- counted The enumeration was believed to have been a little short in Birming- ham, Montgomery and Mobile, to say nothing of many counties. But we must accept the official fgures-2, ,1sS ss7-and ''jubilate" over Birmingham and Jeffer- son county. Of the county population. fully 10000 belong to all extent and purposes to Birmingham, and about 5000 to the thriving mining towns a little be- 1 yond the street car system. This would leave a goodly balance. on the farms.
 New Orleans parish, or county, is the only county in the south that can ap- proach in population imperial Jefferson, and not one can anything like equal it in industrial activity. And the best of it is Jefferson has just begun to get It's growing pace.
 In apportioning the states for congress sional representation it is understood that 225,oOo will be the basis. Jefferson, 'all by itself" will in future constitute | Oscar Underwood's district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
GinnsrS' Report on Cotton

Up to November 1 there had been g;nned 7,3ss9Ss bales of cotton compared with 7,017.s49 bales last year to November l. s.1e1.557 bales in 1908 and 6,12S,562 in 1907. Alabama's s gins had been kept busy. for they had turned out 747,1e2 bales.
 The figures gathered by the census bureau were considered bearish alike in Liverpool and in this country, and prices went off about 15 points. There seems to be but little sense in this decline, for no one expects the American crop to go beyond the worlds requirements of American cotton for the season. 12,5oo,- coo bales.
 The estimates of the crop vary from I ,5oo,ooo bales to 125oo,ooo bales. and the easy-going observer therefore estimates the crop at 12,ooooOo bales, and he pro ceeds to formulate a price for a crop of that size This is the problem that the N--1 spinners and the farmers are consider ing at present and no one should expect them to agree over it. No farmer is willing at present to accept less than IA cents for good cotton, and as many of them are this year in a condition to hold at least part of their crop the spinners will be apt to play on the losing side of the mighty contest that will from this time on be waged over the bales on the farms.
 Alabama grew this year 6s, S42, 600 bush els of corn. and every one of these bush els go to make the cotton producer more stubborn in demanding this year a high price for his fieecy crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11

form that the democrats will present
 to the people who are suffering from the
 high cost of living. in 1912. .I would re-
 duce the tariff" says Speaker -expectant
 Clark, scientifically and gradually, and
 put into 1t sliding scale much like that in the tariff bill of 1883. Democrats now have a golden opportunity for construc- tive statesmanship, and they should seize 1t and demonstrate once more their fit- ness for leglslating wisely and patriou- cally."
 The new Congress does not meet until December, 1911, and in the year that elapses it will be seen clearly how much tariff revision the democratic House should send up to a democratic-insurgen Senate. It may be the country will de- mand a new tariff from top to bottom. and it may be it will be satisfied with a reduction of the woolen goods schedule K-to revenue basis. A years time will determine the extent of the first stage of the huge elimination of the in terests'' from the tariff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
What the Party Needed

"The republican party received what was due and am glad of it,' was the terse language used by Eugene Hawkins, prominent New York lawyer, who ar rived here last night with party of directors of the Alabama Fuel and Iron company. MT. Hawkins was accompanied by Everett Macey and Joseph Colgate to this city last night.
 ''The party needed a good dose of rnedicine,' said MT. Hawkins, "and we got 1t. I am republican. but I was very much pleased with the election.
 Roosevelt thought the people of New York did not have sense enough to run their own affairs and set himself up as the savior of the people. That was the time for us to get in the hooks deep and we did not fail to do it. I think the election will have solidifying effect upon all commercial pursuits and that above all we will have peace from MT. Roosevelt for some time. From every indication business will go forward with bound now that politics is out of the way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
BLANE'S GRAVE

From E. B. Clarl1's Washington Letter
 to the Chicago Evening Post.
 "A Sabbath days Journey" took me to Oak Hill cemetery, where I looked for and found the grave of James G. Blaine. The grave is on hillside which slopes down to Rock creek. Great oaks are everywhere. and they make a monument fit enough for the man from Maine. Blaine's grave, how ever, is marked specifically only by a simple headstone not more than two feet high, a much more humble stone than are many of those which mark the resting places of persons whose names today have been forgotten. There are four graves in the Blaine lot, that Of the father and husband, and those of the wife and mother of the son. Walker, and of the daughter who mar ried Gen. Coppinger of the United States army
 It took something of search to find the grave of Blaine. It takes nothing of search to find the grave of a man concerning whom no one today knows anything, and which is less than 100 feet from that of the statesman. Over this second grave is a monument of marble which looks like the exaggerated Cupid s palace which in the old time it was cus- tomary for the confectioner to erect on top of a bridal cake. So pleasing to the designer-stonecutter was this specimen of his art that he cut deep into the stone in letters as large as in the name of the dead man whom 1t was his duty to honor these words, Copyrighted in the year 1887 by Franklin Jones'" The year and the name here are changed, but they are set forth on the monument where all men and women who will can read them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
IN HOTEL, LOBBIES
Estimated nnd AcfunlIy Counted

l
 Jefferson county makes better show ing in the census than most of the es- inmates had called for,p said an old cit izen. 'The guesses had been. as rule, between 215,o0o and 22OOoo. The official figures-226, 476-will make a great i'm pression on the outside world
 'Dr. J. H. Phillips, who as superinten- dent of the public schools of Birming- ham, makes a study of population statis- tics. has long held that in this part of the country the number of children of school age multiplied by three and one half would give approximately the full population; and the recent results of the government enumeration of the city and of the county prove that his rule Is con- servative enough and to be depended upon.
 The school census of Jefferson coun- ty taken in July was in round numbers 65,0oo. Those figures multiplied by three and one-half give 227,5OO The school enumeration of Birmingham showed Ss,O0o children of school age, equal to a population of 1S6,5 ,500 The census bu- reau gave us only 132,6S5 for the city. but it was estimated at the time the government enumerators were finishing up their work that the count was short by probably 2Oo0 to 5000 souls. because of the lack of cooperation on the part of boarding house keepers and others.
 The public at large pays little or no attention to local estimates of popula- ton, especially within four of five years after a report has been made by the census bureau; but 1t would be worth while in the future for the school au- thorities, when making their biennial count of children to take complete cen sus of Birmingham and of Jefferson county; this for our own satisfaction at any rate.
 Tt is safe to say that Jefferson Is the most thickly populated county in the south, excepting only New Orleans par ish."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
A WIRELESS DIRECTORY

From the Rochester Democrat and
 Chronicle
 This is the age of directories. There are city directories, street directories, so- cial directories, telephone directories and many others with which the public Is familiar. But Washington dispatches an- nounce something new in the directory line. The government has just published the first wireless telegraph directory. In addition to the novelty of the publica- ton it gives an idea Of the extent to which the wireless is now used. It lists 1920 stations, including shore stations and ships, but does not include the war ships of foreign governments, or the hun dreds of stations equipped and operated by amateurs. The directory was com piled by the bureau of steam engineering of the United States navy. It is most comprehensive. giving call letters, wave lengths, power, range and character of stations. The shore stations number about 7O0 scattered all over the globe"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
Looking Ahead t0 1912

After March 4 there will be a demo- cratic House of Representatives fresh from the people and a democratic-in- surgent Senate, and President who hopes to be reelected in 1912. Monopoly has therefore but little to look forward to-
 In national politics the campaign of 1912 is already begun, and the struggle will increase in intensity month by month. Neither side will lose sight of November. 1912, for single moment.
 The republicans, led no doubt by the progressives in their ranks, will endeavor to pass in the short session as much progressive legislation as they can. The President can be trusted to stuff his an- nual message with recommendations of such measures including perhaps par cells post. In these recommendations and in the laws of the short session a basis win be laid for the campaign of 1912. The short session will meet in about three weeks, and between appropriation bills and a congressional redistricting bill it will not have before March much time to give to campaign measures.
 Congressman Champ Clark cannot &C., coinplsh much in the short session, but in the long session which meets one year hence he hopes for beginning of re- auctions in the tariff until it is brought ''to revenue basis" revenue tariff i4 in other words. to become the plat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
GRAVE OF SINGER MARKED

From the Indianapolis News.
 London-Through the efforts of an American woman, Mrs. A. Mosher of Boston, a memorial stone now marks the grave of Margaret Fullup, singer be- loved in Brittany, who was buried in a paupers grave.
 Margaret F'ullup was born of poor peo- pie, and had wonderful voice and an equally wonderful memory. She was by profession pelerine par procuration, which means that she performed pill grmages for sick Bretons who could not undertake journeys themselves. Wher- ever she was entertained at hospitable dwellings she sang for the inmates and their friends like the minstres of old, and 1t is largely through her that many of the ancient tallads of Brittany are still known, for she learned all that she could discover and sang them throughout the country.
 She died in poverty. and though every Breton knew Margaret Fullup's name. 1t was the task of an American to see that her grave was honored. 9s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11

From the St. Louis Times.
 Will Earhart of Richmond, Ind comes forward with the statement that Home, Sweet Home'' is a "rotton song.''
 We are familiar with Home, Sweet Home" and we are not acquainted with Will Earhart of Richmond, Ind; never theless we would like to protest Against that chaste and severe musical sense which holds majority of the homely gems in contempt
 It has been related that Richard Wag- her regarded "The Watch on the Rhine' as a no-account composition and ap- pointed himself committee of one to compose a worthy song to take its place. We forget what the title of his compost ton is, but we still take great delight in hearing "The Watch on the Rhine'' whether it be sung by the faltering voices of children, as it often is. or by the husl1y-throated men whose eyes look at nothing in particular while they sing, and who are not put out by the joining in" of those who are not letter perfect in the good old piece.
 Home, Sweet Home'' is not much for curlycues and furbelows But 1t does strike a happy medium between those baleful "clmaxes" which are the end and eim of the popular ballads of today, and the bewildering uncertainty of the classic things, which go up when you expect them to go down, and vice versa.
 And there are so many tens of thou sands of sweet homes" in America which go on thriving on simple virtues and simple fare-which hold their own in the face of "the insolence of office," ''the laws delays" "the spurns which patient merit from the unworthy takes, and ''the slings and arrows of outrageous for tune in general, that we cannot help be- lieving that the immortal little song has been of inestimable help to whole world of men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
FLYING MACHINES AND RIVERS

From Augustus Posts ''The Evolution of
 Flying Man." in November Gen.
 tury
 The rivers, once the chief lines of in- tercouse on the earth's surface, were made to give up their prestige to the railway. but the new champion of travel, the perfected flying machine, will bring back to the rivers in near future the credit of being the highways of com merce and travel. Their flowing ex- panses of smooth water will offer to passenger and burden carrying flying machines surfaces from which to rise and upon which they may descend in safety. And the ocean itself may yet prove to be the scene of the greatest exploits of the aviator Something be- sides his wings sustains the flying man 1t is his confidence backed by the confi- dence of the people. Crowds used to gather to see him fall; now they come to see him fly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11

fee pot; then he stretched his other hand to the decanter of cognac at his elbov
 filled a liquer glass; took tentative sip.
 and poured the brandy into his coffee cup."
 Ihat night Waythorne watched his
 wife pour coffee for him. She set down the coffee pot and reach
 ing for the decanter of cognac, measured off liqeur glass and poured it into his cup. Waythorne uttered a sudden exclamation.
 What is the matterY she said,
 startled
 Nothing-only I don't take cognac in
 my coffee ,..-, ..s. 1....s....s
 " Oh, how stupid of mel she cried.
 Their eyes met and she blushed sudden, agonized red"
 Filson Young's ',rhe Sands of Pleas
 ure' is decorated with intimate disclos- ures of famous French cafes and res taurants. Richard and Lauder lunched
 at Marguery's, and had: Hors d'oeuvres. eggs, fish, fowl, salad, pastry. cheese.
 dessert. coffee. cognac. Richard learned to drink absinthe, which Marthe | insisted on preparing for him. tcoOhhi6 ulfi uOW 10 pour the water.
 drop by drop, through the sugar on the perforated spoon''
 Later Richard and Toni diner at the
 Tour d d'Argent, and watched Frederic pre- pare unnumbered dishes of caneton a la
 presse. "The delft way in which, as one duck after another was brought to him. all hot and missing, he laid the knifc under the flesh and with few mester- ly strokes removed all the meat; the crushing of the carcass beneath the hand press, and the spout of blood and essence or juice of duck from the little tap; the making of this juice into a wonderful
 sauce that kept simmering and bubblng on spirit lamps and was gradually ladled over the whole savory dish-these were 1 fascinating sights'-to the epcure, was
 not to Toni, who. the novelty gone, was l insulted that she should have been brought to so dingy and common place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11

recent events have shown that he was anything but shrewd or deep" said an old politician.
 "It was very plain when the ex-Pres- ident emerged from the jungles of Africa that he was bent on being President again. He was extremely popular with the masses when he landed in New York. He had been received by the crowned heads of Europe as an actual ruler, and everywhere he went extraordinary hon ors were accorded him. His country. without regard to party, felt proud of him.
 Now, If MT. Roosevelt had come home and acted with the same sort of dignity that had characterized other ex-Presi- dents, he would have stood a good chance of being elected President, if not in 1912, in 1916. It was not in his nature tc remain quiet and no one wanted him to keep out of the lmelight; but he lost his head completely. His vaulting ann bItion o'erleaped itself, and instead of holding his old admirers he soon dis gusted the people with his wild and brutal talk. No dictator ever revealed more of the tyrants temper. He had been preaching a fair deal.' but he failed to practice what he preached. His pre- tensions were hollow and the country soon began to regard him as menace to liberty and good order.
 'In our American politics we have had many self-seeking men and unconscion- able tyrants and they have all fallen and been forgot. But never in the his- tory of this republic has any one or Roosevelt's exalted position been such a disappointment. He is said to have been a student of history; but in his reading he evidently failed to grasp the philosophy of events or note the causes which brought the mighty to grief. Theo- dore Roosevelt Is not without talents, but in attempting the role of dictator he betrayed the weakness of an unre- strained child. He has learned now that he couldn't come back, but he has mo- body to blame but himself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
EFFECTIVE
From Life.

FTOm LfIt.
 Admiral Evans said that the ports of Maine were the worst ports in the world to put a sailor ashore in. Forthwith Maine went democratic, with a plank in the platform to revise the liquor laws.
 Keep the admiral on the job. His com piaint of the Maine ports was a sound. practical complaint. He testified out of his experience that the Maine laws made for the production of the quickest and craziest forms of intoxication that he knew of.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Wed all rather be right than President til we get the chance.
 The worst about trying luxuries is that. once you do, they become necessaries.
 Some men work harder trying to get out of doing a thing than it would take them to do it.
 There's no woman that does not hate to admit she wears clothes underneath that will keep her warm.
 Great honors exist only in the imagina. ton of fond women who are heroic every day in the littlest thing.