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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
Sugar Fraud Expert Parr

Richard A. Parr, a treasury agent and
Inspector who faithfully worked to I'M
cover the sugar frauds, is to be re-
warded. He is to receive 100000 from
the government. In the old days of
bossism he would have been denoted
and kicked out Now he is to be reward
ed and perhaps promoted. This is dis
tinct gain in the interest of honest gov.
eminent
1t was Mr.. Parr who discovered the
secret spring in the scale by means of
which the government was defrauded of
and the sugar trust benefited by mill
lions, some of which were recovered,
and it is wholly right and wholly SEN
sible to reward Mr.. Parr for what he
discovered and reported TO the govern
ment. The reward he is to receive will
encourage other men to be true to the
government rather than to the rascals.
All nations reward faithful public serv-
Ice England richly rewarded Wellington
for his services at Waterloo. This was
in the military service, and there is no
reason why rewards should be unknown
in the civil service. Heroism and high
service should be rewarded wherever
found. The government has acted wisely
is disregarding all sneers and all criticism
a reward for his important services in
the 'uncovering of the vast sugar fra I'D
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
Ne,x Tcachers Elected

Decatur, June 21.-(Special)-Th boards
of education of Decatur and New De
catur have elected the following teach.
ers for the city schools for the coming
year: Decatur-Prof. J. NJ Collier. sup
erintendent; Miss Ethel Mossison. High
school; Miss Lillian Odom, High school;
Miss Florence Tllman. seventh grade;
Mrs. Fannie Collier, sixth grade; Miss
Madge Jackson, fifth grade; Miss Louise
Collier, fourth grade; Mrs. Cora Cart
wright third grade; Miss Maye Calvin,
second grade; Miss Eleanor Kidd, first
grade New Decatur Prof. w. F. Jones,
superintendent; Prof. r. c. Johnson, prin-
cipal High school, Miss Amelia Troy,
Miss Susie Hatchett. Miss Movie Almon
Miss Eva Nottingham, Miss Susie
Beech Miss Maude Odom, Miss Kate
Bracken. Miss Julia Goodloe, Miss Ethel
Breitling, Mrs r. c. johnson. Miss Kim
BILE Bloodworth, Miss Mabel Blackwell,
Miss Lulu Almon. Mis- Tracyne Baker
Miss Martha HUE. Mist Florence Nelson
Miss Annie Cliff.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22

Nine. Sembrich writes to n current
magazine: whenever I think of my
early operate experiences I delight to
recall a little dressmaker in Dresden,
who literally sold me a stage gown
for a song. I had made my first ap-
pearance and was we'll received. Then
word came that 1 was to appear next
as Violetta in 'Trayiata.' Now in Ger
many the curious custom OBJ ains of
furnishing costumes to tie male
singers and obliging the women to
dress themselves At that stage In my
career a role calling for several eiab-
crate evening gowns meant IL serious
drain on my resources. AT Inc same
time 1 realized that appropriate dress
ing was vitality essential to my sue
cess. Bravely L began my bargain
hunting, but the prices were far be-
yond my fears. 1 was forced to re-
sign myself to do the best ! could
from my own scant wardrobe. But 10
ingenuity could encompass a suitable
ball gown for the third act / started
good fortune bore me this time to a
smart looklHS Ilttle place. Inc pro-
prietress recognized me, and was most
courteous. Just the gown 1 wanted was
the first dress she produced. My voice
trembled as l asked the price. She
named a figure that put it as offectual-
ly beyond my reach as the top of Mont
Blanc, What can you pay, MADAME?
she asked gently, as she read the dis
appointment in my face. Hesita ting
ly l named sum less than half the
price she demanded. ON one condition
the gown is yours she said. And what
is that? I asked breathlessly. L have
a father who is bedridden,' she said.
Never was there a greater lover of
music. Only last night he was fretting
because he might never hear the little
Sembrich, of whom I have told HON so
much since your debut h ere Come and
sing IN aria for him, and the gown is
yours at your own price l kissed her
with brimming eyes and the bargain
was struck. That night, with my hus-
band as accompanist, l went to the
home of the old gentleman and sang
for him. not one, but many arias That
was the first and only time l ever got a
stage gown for song"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22

= Being in Atlanta a few days ago." said
R. W. Ewing president of Roberts &
Son, II could not help but compare much
boosted Atlanta with our own Birmng
ham. and here are some of the COMPARE
sons:
None of the fruit stands in Atlanta are
protected against flies and other insects
and bugs which might carry infectious
diseases. In having our fruit stands COW
cred with mosquito nets. wire or gauzc,
we are way ahead of Atlanta.
1.-The streets of Atlanta are, with one
or two exceptions, quite narrow and very
irregular Atlanta does not seem to have
been laid off at all, bu, just grew. Bir-
mingham was laid of for a city, and
looks it. In years to come the advantage
of our well laid off streets will be bene-
fit that cannot now be calculated.
In Atlanta the streets are not num-
bered or lettered, except III very few in
stances, and 1t is practically impossible
for stranger in the city to tell where
he Is. Most of the streets being named
instead of numbered, when he is told that
the next street is ntlmed so-and-so, and
the following street so-and-so, and that
many streets down. it is pretty hard for
him to find the place. The regular num-
boring and lettering of our streets and
avenues in the business part of town,
and the naming of the streets and ave-
nues by suitable signs is splendid thing,
and we should see to 1t that these signs
are absolutely kept in place on all the
streets. 1t is a great benefit to strangers.
Another thing in which we have a
great advantas. over Atlanta is in the
handsome conspicuous signs which APP
pear on the principal corners downtown,
giving information as to the different
street cars that pass by the given corner
minutes for a car, because one man told
me the car passed that corner, but the
car not coming 1 asked another party,
and he advised me that l was mistaken,
and that the car ! wanted passed another
corner as / later TO, ind it did This OF
course, is confusing and causes much
waste of time to strangers.
Our new railroad terminal station is
also away ahead of the new Atlanta rail-
road station. The long, tiresome flight OF
stairs which they have in order to go tc
and from trains is objectionable, and their
station will not compare with our new
structure, as it is not nearly so hand
some commodious or convenient.
Last, but not least believe that the
newspapers of Birmingham are way ahead
of the newspapers Of Atlanta. The At
lanta newspapers do one thing, and dc
1t well. and that is they boost Atlanta
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
Mr.. Taft'S Record With CONGRESS

AS a bill getter President Taft is al
most a record breaker. Some of the bills
are good, some bad, and some Indifferent,
The aggregate has not been equaled
since the civil war.
Including the special session Congress
has passed at the request of the Pres
jdent and in response to his specific
recommendations a tariff bill, a railroad
bill a statehood bill for Arizona and
New Mexico, bill authorizing the build
ing of two battleships. bureau of
mines bill, a bill regulating white slavery,
a land withdrawal bill, bill protecting
Alaska seals, a bill to establish a tariff
board. a bill to abolish immunity baths,
a bill to reorganize the lighthouse board,
a bill to establish business methods in
the government department, bill COM
polling the use of safety couplings, and
q bill authorizing the issue Of bonds for
irrigation projects. bill to establish
postal savings banks doubtless will be
passed before adjournment. The corpor-
alton tax was part of the tariff bill
The submission of an income tax amend
ment to the people was also accom-
plished.
This is a great record, far surprising
anything that ex-President Roosevelt Sc
cured or even attempted to secure. The
Congress of 1905-19o7 that passed rail-
road regulation bill, a pure food law
meat inspection bill and a national quar-
antine act did we'll IN the matter of
great measures, and yet its work does
not measure up to that of the session
now nearly ended. No Congress has
equaled this one in the passage of acts
of large Importance.
his congress Squduuereu ilOuey liooiS,
and when the fsca, year is ended on July
1, deficit will be recorded and another
one pretty well provided for because of
excessive appropriations. This extrava-
gance and even wastefulness will be felt
later on, and the voters will be sure to
consider it when they vote for new men,
bers in November.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
FRIED CHICKEN

From the New York Times
Fried chicken, covered with batter and
fat, surrounded on the platter by scarce
ly digestible corn fritters, has never
strongly appealed to the northern appe-
tite. Fried chicken in this neighbor-
hood is generally regarded as a tribute
10 the south, recognition of the south
ron's boosted ordinary supremacy, and
southerners have never hesitated to tell
US that our own fried chicken is a very
Inferior dish to that of the states be-
low the Mason and Dixon line We have
accepted their Judgment, as northern
friend chicken is unquestionably inferior
to almost anything else admittedly edi-
BILE. But we have always accepted the
fried chicken of the south, theoretically.
at the traditional southern estimate OF
its value.
Amusement, therefore, is caused by the
deliberate, revolutionary assertion of The
Columbia Is. c. State that southern fried
chicken owes its vogue principally to "the
difficulty In obtaining 1rst-class article
of roast beef and tenderloin steak" This
conoclastic newspaper declares that fried
cHtcrch 10 economical, tidt Oue CHlchell
fried. with its trimmings, can be made,
with the exercise OF judgment. to serve
family. THE Authorizations about fried
chicken says The State. Ought to be
chilled and reduced 10 a sane estimation. .
These words have beeen printed and cir
culated in the very heart of the old south.
Outside comment is at present uncalled
for, but we cannot help wondering if
the seemingly sudden outburst is a man.
Hesitation of long smoldering discomfort
or merely the expression of a gloomy
mood superinduced by indigestion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
ISSUE UNIQUE CARD
defeated Candidate Tells What He Did
Not See During Battle

]. II. Savage, defeated candidate Tor
license inspector, has issued an unusual
card to his friends and fellow candidates
in defeat. Mr.. Savage says: Much has
been said by the left-outs about the fraud,
rascalty, rings, cliques, combines, etc.
| was on the ground and saw the BATTLE
but saw none of these things.
1.-THE facts in the case are Boggan was
in and we were out. Boggan wouidn
get out and we couldn't get in. Boggan
got too many votes to let us in and we
didn't get enough votes to get him out
that's the facts and all of 1t.
BLESSED Is the man that expeetefh
nothing; he shall not be disappointed Now,
let us join hands and sing that old song.
There's a better day coming, Hallelu-
jah.' and quit our fighting and complain
ing"
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ment and makeup, and the appearance
of their papers is not nearly UP to the
appearance of the Birmingham papers.
and do not believe that their news serv-
ice, either local or foreign, is as good
They do not carry nearly as much adver-
Using, either.
NOW, as to hotels, Birmingham is way
behind Atlanta on that, ami there Is no
dsputing the fact, when it comes to the
number of handsome hotels and also to
hotel accommodate tons. We ought to get
busy and improve our hotel facilities and
build at least one more high-grade hotel
In Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22

The following transactions In real es-
tate in which sums of $1,000 or more were
involved were recorded yesterday in the
probate court
S30O0-Jonas Schwab to Sunset Park
Land company, property in the north
west quarter of the southeast quarter AMI
the northeast quarter of the southwes.
quarter, section 4, township 10 south,
range 4 west
s4o10-I. f. Hood ct al, to ]. IT. B. Hall,
lot 5, block 2, survey Of North Wood
lawn by Hood, Wood B. Wilson.
S315O-W. r. Stewart to J. w. Brass
field, lot 9, block 3, Palmer Terrace add.
ton to Ensley.
$4,000. w. Mills to ]. II. Montgomery,
lot /, Mills resurvey of lots e, F and q
block 2, Phelans addition to Brn1ing-
ham.
s325o-M L. Johnston to j. II. B. Hall.
lots to 4. inclusive, block ST. survey of
Tharpe Place
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
YORK is IMPROVING
Young Man Shot Sunday Now Has
Hope of Recovery

1t was stated last night at Copeland
Solomon infirmary that Ed York, VINO
was shot Sunday night by Mabel wilson,
is resting very well and there is at pres
ent some hope of his recovery. When
York was first taken to the infirmary 1t
was expected that he would die In a
few minutes. He revived after an oper-
alton by DR.. solomon and others, and
although his chances are still very small
for recovery he is now better tnan IL
was expected he would ever be.
Mabel Wilson, the woman who did the
shooting, is still held at the city jail OF
the charge of murder. She claims ina
the shooting was an accident, ana tnis
opinion seems to be the general 'eiei
about the police station. York was con-
sc;ous for a few moments yesterday and
said that he did not know how the shoot
ing occurred.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
APPROPRIATION for a POStoflCe Site

There are those who think Mr.. Under
wood should have secured a larger ap-
preparation for a public building site iii
this city. He did try to get more and
was compelled to accept 100000 or moth
ing. He accepted an item of 100000, and
every intelligent person in this city will
commend his action.
If one will take map of this city
and ascertain where the midway land
lies between the two railroad terminals,
he will see the 100000 will there buy
at least half block 100 feet deep to al
alley. The trouble is, too many want
the new building next to a skyscraper or
next to some store or on some crowded
downtown corner
When it is remembered that the mails
come and go by railroads and that those
railroads enter and leave the two ter
minals mentioned 1t will be seen at once
where the government will naturally de-
sire to locate the building. The court
house is not far from the midway point
The Age-Herald building is almost at
that point, and Birrningham's new pub
lie building to be put up with an eye
single to the future will in all reason be
located not far from the courthouse and
The Age-Herald building. And 5000, 0c0
will buy in that quarter all the lan1
that will be needed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
LYsANDER JOHNS DINNER

From the Atchison Globe
Lysander John Appleton, whose wife
sends him his dinners in bucket, was
recently invited out to supper, when
he surprised his hostess by mixing the
potatoes, meat, salad, pie, ETC.. on his
plate, and stirring III EN- together with
a spoon. "He is used to eating that
way" his wife explained; everything
gets upset like that in his dinner
bucket, and now he will eat no other
way" Then she sighed in the way
women have of signing after telling of
the peculiarities of the men,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
Progress of City Work

Until the city work that is now being
carried on in the suburbs of Greater Bir-
mingham has been fairly well completed
there will be few more public improve
ments started said City Engineer Nj
cholson yesterday evening.
I'VE have a comparatively large amount
of work on hand in Elyton, West End.
East Lake and other suburbs that was
under way when those places came into
the corporation of Greater Birmingham
and every effort is now being made to
finish them up under the direction of the
city officials. When these are completed
we will then look for new fields for pub
lie and civic improvement"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
CHORUS GIRLS AS HUMAN BEINGS

to express her exuberance, how it almost
panied her to remain quiet.
Il adore itl' she burst out. Some
times after rehearsal I'll be nearly
dead and I'll swear I'll leave the next
day, and then In the evening, with the
lights, the music, the people, I'm carried
away! Once you've been on, you can't
do anything else It's greatt'
"Oh rubbish" another girl interrupted.
You don't know what you're talking
about. When you've been at it as long
as have, you'll hate it, she said, We
hemently. I'm so sick of it that l have
to hold myself back from smashing
things as | dress in the evening. Every
day the same old story and every year
like the one before I've been on ten
years and I'm no further than when 1
began. And l never will be- she added,
violently.
Gracious. No reason for taking it so
seriously" still another interposed I'm
just going to stay until I marry"
Marry 1 thought you were just di-
vorced?"
well, so I was, but that's no reason
for not getting married again."
A girl came over to me with a little
confidential air.
THAT girl what said she liked the
stage is the funniest thing" she began.
Really, she's awful bright. She's
real good girl, too She keeps her mother
and her little brother it seems She acts
well, and / bet she'll get on before long.
No, | don't think she'll get stuck up
She's sensible. But did you see the girl
who plays the maid? You've seen the
show, haven't you? Well. she used to
be in the chorus, and. my. she was sweet
and all that. Then one day she was
given that part. 1t amt much-shes only
got two words to say, but she's 'princi-
PAL and you wouldn't know her now"
Later during the show, one of the
other chorus girls, resting on a bench
near the dressing rooms on the first
floor, said to me-
1T takes all sorts of girls to make a
chorus. You have girls from most every
state of the union and from nearly
every country of the globe. You have
lively girls and melancholy girls improv-
ldent girls and girls who save-girs
who are fond of autos and champa gne,
girls who are bridges and never go out.
The average chorus girl is hard worker
she has to be-and she is, rule, a
good girl, although she may be careless
in her speech and enjoy a good time"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
It's good luck not to risk TO much
money on your luck,
A woman has natural genius for
being understood by all men except her
husband.
If a man chews tobacco he can get
just as mad as anybody else with peo-
Pile who chew gum.
The time young man thinks he
amounts to most Is when he can't get
anybody else to think so.
If a man happens to remember the
year some horse won a big race he
thinks he knows all about breeding
Oh orouKhbreds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
North Carolina Seaside Resorts

w. F. Penny, representing the larry
moore Hotel Co., of Wrightsville Beach,
n. c., is registered at the Florence. He
will remain in the city several days and
while here will make his business head
quarters at the office of Capt. Jack w.
Johnson, district passenger agent of the
Seahoard Air Line.
"Wrightsville Beach is only few
miles from Wilmington" said Mr.. Penny,
''and is reached by the Seaboard. Cheap
round-trip tickets are sold from Birming
Birmingham families have already Sc
cured reservations at the barrymore
hotel. The seaside resort business is very
promising this year and Wrightsville Will
get a fair share of it,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
Regarding the Prince of Wales

1.-THE other day some one asked why
King Georges eldest son, the heir ap-
parent. was styled Duke of Cornwall and
Rothesay instead of Prince of Wales, -
said a professional man. 1.-The answer 70
that question is simple enough. The royal
scion referred to is not Prince of Wales,
though he be the heir apparent
1.-The sovereigns eldest son inherits as
such several titles, the highest of these
being Duke of Cornwall, and the smalles.
being Baron Renfrew. But the title of
Prince of Wales Is not hereditary. 1t is
a title of creation. AS well as I can re-
call, it is the custom of the sovereign
on ascending the throne to wait few
months, usually until after the corona
ton, before comforting any titles. Tn due
time the present heir apparent will be-
come Prince of Wales; until then there
will be no such prince.
1.-The title was first bestowed upon Ed
ward, who afterwards became Edward
H., in the fourteenth century. The dis
tinguishing badge of the Prince Of Wales
is the plume of three ostrich feathers
with the motto Ich dien-I serve"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
ION THE MAKE.

ION THE MAKE"
o sad to see a toiling host
Who do not understand
How much of life worth living's lost,
To fill some greedy hand.
o sad to see the lust OF gold
That breaks so many hearts,
While shining Youth turns gray and OLD
In money-making marts.
o sad to see the end draw near
OF one whose worldly store
Must be resigned with futile tear
On Deaths uncharted shore!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Uncertainty of Politics

Nothing in this world is quite so I'M
certain as politics." said an ex-ofsice
holder, "and to this assertion all defeat
ed candidates, no matter whether their
experience was In municipal. county,
state or national contests, will readily
agree.
In national politics democratic victory
next fall seems practically assured, but
looking to 1912 it can be only guess work
as to the men who will head the respec-
tive presidential tickets.
Just now many people feel confident
that ex-President Roosevelt will be nom
mated by the republicans and elected
This idea is based upon the assumption
that President Taft will not be in the
running. l have heard many republicans
say that Mr.. Taft's administration is a
disappointment and that he could not be
elected if he were nominated. But my
prediction is that Mr.. Taft and not Mr.
Roosevelt will be the republican stand
ard bearer in 1912; and unless the demo-
Gratis put out an exceptionally strong
ticket. Mr.. Taft will be reelected. The
present administration made a poor start
but | can see now a favorable change
in the public estimate of President Taft
and | believe that when 1912 rolls round
he Will be the most available man in his
party. His record will make fine show
ing His fame will increase from now
on. while the Juror over Mr.. Roosevelt
will soon cease. Roosevelt is a man of
engaging personality and the day will
never come when he will not be personal
ly popular; but unless the people feel
that the republic has outlived its pur-
pose and that a dictatorship is needed
the man of the big stick will not be Sc
riously considered for the presidency two
years hence"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-22
GHOSTS.

Some days the chambers of the MIND
Are thronged with haunting memories
Borne back to us on wings OF WIND,
Half heard in murmur of the trees
When twilight falls pale shadows grope
In doleful unreality;
And here's a wrath that once was Hope
Though pain fulfilled her destiny.
And here's a figure. somber-clad,
Whose muttered words l leave you
guess,
A smiling visage once she had
Her other name was Happiness.