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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27


roads back to their condition before the
next rain. That condition, 1t may be
added, was not envable(
1T will cost very nearly $4,000 to secure
any degree of work on repairs that Will
be answerable. This expense is only one
item that is yearly encountered by the
local county officials in handling the road
proposition. #
1.-THE position is taken that if the
county would work the felons on the
roads the tearing up of roads by the rains
would cease and by this measure large
repair bill would be saved every year
The Georgia roads are ideal in every
particular and they have weathered the
rains of the past few weeks remarkably
Each county in Georgia has the au-
thority to work its convicts on the roads.
The county does this and also employs
competent foremen. The roads are con-
strueted of nacadam and gravel. Both
materials are fine and the result is that
Georgia may well boast of it's great high
WAYS
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RUSSIAN CHEAP DINNERS.

From The London Tit-Bits.
You must go to Russia and dine in
Russian restaurant, say, at st. Peters,
burg, if you wish to obtain the biggest
dinner in the world and at the cheap
est possible price. Foreigners there u.s.
ually eat but twice a day, and one needs
voracious appetite to even do justice to
the meals given them. Before beginning
the serious business of dinner you are
expected to roam round the restaurant
and help yourself to appetizers of caviar,
olives, sardine sandwiches. vodka, an
chovies and many other things, which
are laid out temptingly on side tables.
You Nit down feeling as If you had al
ready eaten enough, but a couple Of
full plates of good soup are brought to
you, and you are expected to take them
both Then follows a big helping Of
fish; next comes veal outlet, large
enough to satisfy a NAVY, and after that
huge platefus of roast beef, roast goose,
mutton Your BILL including the waiter,
comes to Is Cd, about 81 cents).
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wAsHINGToN,s FALSE TEETH

From the Denver Republican.
Dentistry, past and present, will be
on exhibition as a part of the annual
convention of the National Dental as
ISOLATION.
OF all the exhibits it is hardly pos
sible that any will create greater inter-
est than the false teeth of George
Washington, which have been brought
to Denver under the care of a spe-
cial custodian, DIR. W. G. Ebersole OF
Cleveland, o. The teeth are the prop
erty of the Baltimore College of Dental
Surgery, and a peculiar feature about
Them Is that an insurance policy of
$4,000 is carried by that institution to
protect 1t against loss.
The teeth have an interesting con-
struction, made more so when COM
pared with the methods and applia noes
of modern dentistry. They are carved
from ivory. those of the upper jaw be-
ing attached to a crude gold plate,
while the teeth of the lower jaw are
fastened to a bone base by wooden pegs
1t Is not known from what source the
bone came, but it is SO constructed that
by splicing it the curve of the lower
jaw is secured. Instead of being held
by suction as a modern plate. the upper
teeth are held in position by gold
springs
|. washington must have suffered
keenly from soreness and irritation -
said Decor Ebersole. 1.-THE workings
of the gold springs could not help but
cause pain and trouble"
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MIDSUMMER "PERILs.'

From the Boston Globe.
In addresses before conventions, in Phi
Beta Kappa orations and elsewhere the
deep thinkers have been uncommonly
busy this summer. One of their favorite
our civilization. If the peril WASH
yellow 1t was drab. If it didn't come
from without it had its source within.
II we weren't In danger of foreign in
vasion we We're warned to be on our
guard against over-success, power,
wealth. luxury, ease.
Again and again we have been re-
minded of the classic examples of Baby
lon, Persia. Egypt, Greece, Rome. Their
civilizations were followed by barbarism.
Therefore that will be the fate of our
civilization. There has been, and conse-
quently there will be, no interruption in
the rhythmic rise and fall of nations.
So runs the argument. 1t takes little
or no account of the new light in the
world, of. newspapers, education, tele-
graphs Aand Telephones, railways and
steamships, of hospitals and asylums, OF
the slow but steady progress everywhere
toward self-government. of the gradual
ascent of the great mass of the people
of every color. of the new spiritual power
in the world In short, the argument
assumes that there is/no such thing as
real progress.
Every thinking man knows better.
Every optimist knows better. And for
tunately the optimists outnumber the
pessimists Otherwise the world couldn't
hold together.
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Birmingham 0utClaSSed At Last

Oklahoma City will, one is forced to
confess, outrank Birmingham in percent
age of population growth, for it has
grown $40 per cent in 10 years. 1t had
10 years ago 1O,Os7 people; now it has
64,2o5, and has become the capital of the
state.
Birmingham had IS, 415 inhabitants 10
years ago. and if it now has 10000 ac-
cording to current rumor, its growth has
been at the rate of 1855 per cent and
Oklahoma City would therefore take first
prize in the national count among the
cities possessing $1,000 or over Per-
centage of growth is after all the true
test. Birmingham awaits the official
figures with confidence, and If it must
acknowledge the superior growth of Okla
homa City it will do so unhesitatingly in
a true sportsmanlike manner
Already Memphis has concluded that ii
cannot become a congressional district.
Even its county cannot become one.
Jefferson county declines to pull in it's
horns to that extent while it is awaiting
official figures. 1t is still hopeful and
expectant. 1t still expects to be Congress
District No. 10 of Alabama, and it ex-
poets to be represented by Oscar Under
wood, chairman in expectancy of the
ways and means committee. Memphis
can chew on this while the wires are ST.
lent about the two rival cities of the
southeast
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I see some sparks of better hope, whicl
elder years
May happily bring forth.
king Richard ii.
Corn In The Cotton States

Martin Y. Calvin of Experiment, Ca,
writes to the Atlanta Constitution that
the cotton states, North Carolina South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Okla
homa. made last year a good deal of
corn. but the average Yield in the nine
states was but 1874 bushels per acre.
Mr. Calvin's point is that while the
acreage in corn in the south is sufficient,
yet the low yield to the acre defeats
every hope of homegrown food. At Ex-
pertinent from IS to As bushels of shelled
corn are produced to the acre, and a
like increase of production on the, pres
ent acreage in the nine states would
make every one of them rich and indie
pendent
Any farmer who possesses three mules
of 1900 pounds weight each can pillow his
land one loot ueep' anu the eppiiOe'
of about $50 bushels of high-grade fer
tilizer to the acre and reasonably good
cultivation would insure an outturn OF
about 40 bushels per acre.
Some day this will be done, but Director
Calvin will not live to see it, nor will any
other middle-aged person. 1t is re-
form that will come slowly but neverthe-
Less q sSuredlX.
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For Upbulldlng Birmingham

The Chamber of Commerce is maxi
ing fine progress in raising fund
to be used in promoting various move
ments for the advancement of Bir-
minghams material interests
Canvassing committees started out a
few days ago to secure subscriptions
to cover a period of three years, to
the extent of $4,000 year. They
have already raised a third of that sum
and the promptness with which The
subscriptions are being made not only
encourage the canvassers but it shows
mat the generous get-tosether spirit
prevails. The full amount sought will
be raised, doubtless. within the nexi
five or six days.
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"THE OLD BLACK NANNY

From the Atlanta Constitution.
With ever-freshening relief men turn
from the angles, and sometimes the dis
heartening depressions, of the so-caued
NEGRO problem of our day to dwell
with a sigh and a regret upon-the "old
black nanny"
She 1t is who crooned over the cradles
of some of the south's worthiest men of
Yesterday, who handled on her knees
the mighty of the younger generation
and who decked for their nuptials fair
brides who were roses of the old re-
gime.
Here and there one of her type totters
with failing steps and peering eyes
through city streets and along roads
from which the cotton fields stretch a
fair and billowy distance to the crumbled
ruins of de big house, or the more
garish modernity of the twentieth GEN.
fury country home.
But they are vanishing fast; soon
like the brides whose loving and tear
full attendants they were, and like the
great men whom they helped to usher
into this world and out of it, they will
mingle their faithful clay with the kind
" soil that knows no ultimate distinc-
tions.
In Athens they are seeking to rear a
monument to the Old Black Nanny. and
the thought with a very practically ap-
| pication, originated in the mind of a
negro himself of the younger genera
| ton.
| The idea is that of S. F. Harris, prin-
cipal of the Colored Industrial and
High school. of Athens. Five acres
have been secured in the eastern sec
ton of Clarke county AS much more
has been promised. Nearly $1,000 has
been raised with the aid of the white
people, and only $500 additional needs
to be in hand No common monument
here found a school which shall teach
cooking and Industrial work to the ne
gro. along the lines the fidelity and
dizziness of the Old Black Nanny made
notable in southern traditions.
What is to be the destiny of this
particular school we do not know. But
every white southerner knows that II
1t is conducted with the sound sense, II
It incu!cates the answering fidelity 81
| the type of negress for which 1t is nam.
ed. 1t should prove a benefaction to it,
environment.
Do we not need more of these Ole
Black Nanny schools in the southern
| states? The very spirit of the phrase
spells the lifeblood of that solution o.
the racial pCohlem The Constitution ha.
been urging upon the churches and tn,
whites and the blacks of the southern
states.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES


w. NJ. Grubbs. editor of the Decatur
News. is in Birmingham. He expressed
himself as well satisfied with the census
report covering the two Decaturs.
Regarding the census said MI.
Grubbs, I'VE have come out even better
than 1 had expected. The population OF
he two cities combined is over 10000, and
he best of it is we are growing at
faster rate this summer than when the
enumerators were making the count. Our
population has increased fully 500 since
the census work was completed.
Business in Decatur is in a most
healthy condition. The Louisville and
Nashville payrolls are increasing and the
crops in our section are looking excep-
tionally good. We have five banks ana
they are in fine shape. Under these cir
cumstances the Decatur people are nat
urally optimistic.
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ORIGIN OF "GoT YOUR GOAT"


Sitting at table in q Broadway cafe
A well-known turfman, a few nights
ago, told how THE phrase Got your
goat" originated He said 1t was bor-
rowed from the race track stable. He
said that 1t had been the custom of
many trainers to place goat with a
thoroughbred In training for race.
The diversion that the goat furnished
the horse was supposed to play great
part in balancing the animals tempera-
ment. When the time for the race was
near at hand great care was exercised
to prevent the horses friend from be-
ing stolen by hangers-on, who figured
thus to unnerve the racer. The loss
of the goat has been known to worry
a thoroughbred enough to make him
lose a race, and so IT came to be said
that when a horse failed to perform
up to the expectations somebody had
got his goat.
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"THERE IS EVER A SONG SOME
WHEREc

BY James Whitcomb Riley
There is ever song some somewhere, my
dear.
There is ever a. something sings al
way;
There's the song of the lark when the
skies are clear,
And the song of the thrush when the
skies are gray
The sunshine showers across the grain.
And the biuebird thrills in the orchard
And in and out. when the caves drip
The swallows are twittering cease
lessly.
There is ever song somewhere. my
Be the skies above or dark or fair:
There is ever song that our hearts
There is ever song somewhere, my
There is even song sonewhere!
There is ever song somewhere, my
dear
In the midnight black, or the midday
blue;
The robin pipes when the sun is here,
And the cricket chirrups the whole
night through;
The buds may blow and the fruit may
grow,
And the autumn leaves drop crisp and
sere;
But whether the sum- or the rain. or the
snow,
| There is ever q song somewhere, my
dear.
There is ever song somewhere. my
dear,
| Be the skies above or dark or fair;
There is ever song that our hearts may
hear
There is ever a song somewhere. my
+ dear 81. 49,
There is ever = song solnswliersl
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Mine Rescue Station
southeast

The first stations were established in
Pittsburg, Knoxville and Urbana, ILL.,
To these are to be added three, Bir-
mingham, Huntington, W. Va, and
Wilkes-B Pa. Under the plan pro-
posed when the bureau of mines was
Gated in Kentucky, Kansas. Oklahoma.
Colorado, Utah and Montana.
This would make u central stations
with practical mining experience whose
duty it will be to direct rescue opera
lions and to train volunteers, who will be
housed and fed during training. The
men SO trained are expected in turn to
train and establish volunteer squads so
that eventually no mining operation will
be without rescue staff and equipment
A mining engineer is also to be sta
toned in each district, whose duty II
will be to examine the physical condition
of the mines and have general super
vision over the training In rescue work.
As each man will be trained in the
use of the oxygen helmet it is hoped
the rescue work will be able to reduce
the fatalities in mining accidents to a
minimum. AT any rate the best techni-
cal knowledge will be brought to bear
backed up by the latest and best equip
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Trimming a Child Wrong

II was a most unwilling listener to q
conversation between a bright little boy
about years old and a man of 90 on
the street cars recently" said citizen.
THE child addressed the man as grand
pa and in childish inquisitiveness asked
many questions, and these showed he
was from out of town. To the questions
about the Sloss furnaces and the coke
ovens ablaze, the child's guide an
swered that the first were coffee pots
to make coffee in, and the others were to
fry bacon on And then the man began
to show a crouch. He told the child
that all the meat eaten in Birmingham
had been stored six years, and for blocks
loaded the innocent little fellows nina
with all sorts of ideas of prejudice. lie
would point out every negro he saw ana
call him burrhead.' Passing negro
houses he called the little boys attention
to the fact that they encroached upon
the sidewalk and that If they belonged
to white people it wouldn't be allowed.
Passing a lumber yard with big black
cat sign, the boy was struck with IT.
whereupon his progenitor launched forth
into the proposition that everything 'ha'
is black has the advantage in Birmine-
ham.
Now I want to suggest that this man
is sowing the seed in a young mind tha'
will some day make this child negro
hater.' or rather that he will grow up
with such ideas that upon the slightest
provocation he will feel called upon TO
kill a Niger as the brutal too ofteh
proclaim it."
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ABSENT-MINDED wORKMEN.

From Answers,
The boss" was a hustler. Two OF
his men were not. Long experience
however, had made them wise In their
way.
Nov, then, where are you going?
asked the foreman on one occasion.
please, SIR responded one OF the
men, we're takin this ere plank up
to the sawmilf.'
plank? What plank?" snapped the
boss Il don't see any plank.
The man looked down at his hands,
then over his shoulder, and turned
blandly to his mate.
why, bless me. BILL" he exclaimed
"if we amt been an forgot the plank
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About Persons

1.-THE Fayette Oil and Gas company
has the largest and most complete well
drilling apparatus near Fayette that has
even been put in operation in Alabama"
said Frank II. Bell yesterday. THE
derrick Is so feet high and has a drill
ing capacity of 5000 feeet. The Fayette
Oil and Gas company is digging a well
a few miles from the town of Fayette
and expects to find gas and oil"
w. o. Becker, general passenger
agent for the Queen and Crescent route.
will be In Birmin CHAM today for the
first time since being appointed to the
head of the passenger department. Mr..
Becker is engaged in a tour of in
spection of the passenger offices and
is carefully working out his organiza-
ton.
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Carnegie Zero Fund
mainland

This fund was established in March,
1904 and since that time the commission
has made awards in 1886 cases. and has
paid out S2,s6S. The fund consists OF
a, 400. GOO in per cent Steel Corporation
bonds, and the commission is therefore
accommodating money unless indeed its
current expenses are high. These ex-
penses are not reported.
In the six years of the life of the com
mission it has examined about 5000 cases
of herosm, finding only 1856 good. There
must be actual peril to ones life in or
der TO become a hero according to the
Carnegie standard.
In all this time the commission has
discovered only one hero in Alabama,
and he got from the commission but a
silver medal Perhaps it is ali he would
accept. Lochln NJ. VIM is our sole
hero. At Clayton he saved in February.
1906. three men from drowning. The
three men were thrown into a pond at
night three hundred feet from the shore
by the capsizing OF boat. One who
tried to swim to shore was becoming be-
nurnbed by the cold when W inn swan
out about sixty feet and helptd him to
shore This greatly fatigued VIM, but
he successfully swan the full distance
r. the other two and helped them tc
s..o,s, although the second rescue had
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ut Is felt in Ohio among many re-
that Governor Harmon will be re-
elected this fall and that he will be
the national standard bearer of the
democratic party in 1912" paid Harold
McKeith of Chicago. II was in Ohio
last week and I have seldom known
such confidence among democrats as /
found in that state.
THE national democracy is better off
today in good presidential timber than
for many years past; but if Harmon
wins in the Ohio campaign in Novem-
Der 1t is a good bet that he will be the
next president"
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From Everybody's.

Another story credited to the late
Justice Brewer has 1t that while he
was Judge in a minor court he was pre-
siding at the trial of Wife's suit for
separation and alimony. The defend
ant acknowledged that he hadn't spok-
en- to his wife in five years, and Judge
Brewer put a question.
What explanation have your" he
asked severely. FOR not speaking to
your wife in five years.
Your honor" replied the husband,
II didn't like to interrupt the lady,"
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THE FIRST WINDMILLs

From the London Globe.
Windmills are said to have been intro
duced into England by the Knights of st.
John, who observed them In use among
the Saracens In the Crusades; but how
long they had been in existence before
this 1t is not possible to ascertain. A
watermill was built in Bohemia In the
year 7l9, for an old chronicler mentions
1t, going on to say that before that time
all the mills in Bohemia were windmills
set upon the summit of hills"
Windmills became so common through
out Europe In the thirteenth century that
the Pope compelled them to pay tithes
to the church, and landed proprietors
and the clergy were forever quarreling as
to the ownership of the wind! In zea-
land certain abbot built mill to grind
his corn In spite of the violent opposition
of his landlord, who said that he was the
owner of the wind on his property and no
one else had the right to make use of it,
The Bishop of Utrecht was appointed
arbitrator, and he, when told of the mat
ter, flew into rage. declaring that what
wind there was in his diocese belonged to
himself and the church, and he proceeded
to prove his contention by at once grant
ing the abbot full power to build a wind
mill when and where he close
For hundreds of years windnills were
among the most important adjuncts of
industry. yet they hardly changed from
the rude and primitive design of earliest
days. They were fixed in one position,
and SO could only be worked when the
wind blew from a certain quarter; while
the four sails boosted no stats or check
ing apparatus of any kind, which must
have been most announcement at times.
The first idea of arranging a mill SO
that 1t could be worked "wheneer the
wind did blow" was that of lettering an
ordinary mill in the middle of a pond by
means of ropes. When the wind shifted
the ropes were loosed and the mill
dragged around until the sails were
| caught by the mind. and it was then
again tethered as before
Later on a great pole, which was
worked on the principle of a turntable,
was affixed to the mill Not until 1900
did Hollond, the land of windmills, intro
duce movable dome carrying the sail
axle. The dome ran on rollers and was
| shifted around by means of the pole mem
| toned above. These ancient mills were
often of massive build, being made of
brick or stone. and later entirely of wood.
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From the New DIX FTeSs.
A man loves what he wants to. a
woman what she has to.
Self-control never seems to be lying
around handy when you need 1t quick
What makes a man SO proud he is 60
ing to be married is he won't be six
months after he does.
A hard thing to teach yourself is moi
to try to teach other people a lot OF
things you don't know yourself.
woman coaxes man to do some
thing he ought to, and then he claims
he did IT because 1T was his duty. In
spite of everybody trying to hold him
back.
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almost exhausted him. Our Alabama
hero we'll deserved the silver medal he
received.
AS rule the commission finds the he
roes in Ohio, New York and pennsyl-
vania, and It's agents reluctantly come
into the cotton states
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DISCOVERED: THE MEANEST MAN

be ostracized for having uttered a SLAM
ger against an accomplished musician,
whose fame has endured through the
ages. He, and not the nightingale, should
be exiled from Vienna. Compared with
him, Atilla, who pilaged the place some
10 centuries ago, was a well-disposed man,
and solyman and Kara Mustapha, who
besieged 1t. We're model citizens
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The bathtub trust has been indicted In
nine states, but New Jersey is not one of
them. In that state the farmers go an
nually to the seacoast where they take
bath whether they need it or not
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When the Donkhabors burn all their
clothes it becomes plain that Canadian
summer weather is not the real Bir-
mingham summer-resort sort.