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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
Looking Two Years Ahead

| It has been eighteen years since the
democrats controlled the popular branch
of the national legislature. The election
of a democratic House in 1890 was fol-
lowed by the election of a democratic
president in 1892, Grover Cleveland. So
| it was in 1882. The democrats carried
the house and made Mr.. Carlisle speaker,
and in 1884 they elected Mr.. Cleveland
president And so 1t was in 1874 when
tbev controlled the House. Two years
later they elected Mr.. Tilden president
General Grant refused to install him IN
the white House. but no intelligent per-
son seriously disputes the fact OF his
election.
IT will thus be seen that democratic
House has been followed as rule since
the civil war by the election of dem
ocratic president, and history may be
about to repeat itself in 1910 and 1912.
The November elections are approach
ing. and If the democrats gain control Oh
tho nonular branch of the Sixty-second
Congress- It is reasonably certain they
v,,, elect in 1912 a president. Champ
Clark. the democratic leader in the
House thinks democratic success in the
next House is assured, and he proposes
in that ease to enter into partnership
with the insurgents in the Senate 10
reduce the tariff to a revenue basis. to
CIT down appropriations to the wants OIL
the government economically and effec-
lively administered; restore our mer-
chant ma rine not by ship subsidy but
Ihy a return to the wise measures py
which democrats made it the glory OF
the high seas for half a century; investi-
gate the waste. extravaganza and cor
ruption of the departments in every
branch of the government service; force
a thorough and honest criminal prosecu-
ton of the trusts, which have done SO
much to increase the cost of living;
they should be taught that criminal
statutes are intended for the punishment
of big criminals as we'll as for small
ones-big ones preferred, and force the
discharge of every superfluous tax-eater
now upon Uncle SANS pay rolls.
This programme means democratic
president in 1912, and valuable reforms
in the meanwhile. 1t would unity the
democrats and insurgents and give them
control of the executive branch OF the
government
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
or Modern Education
government

Educators and all other persons who
Fac, an interest in the training of youth
and in college work in general should
read John Jay Chapman's article in the
Julv Atlantic Monthly on the lack of
learning in America. That distinguished
lawyer and essayist opposes the modern
tendency to minimize the classics ana
in the place of polite learning to exalt
science and push more than ever tech
meal studies of commercial value.
This tendency was observed first in
of the savants of Paris boldly advocated
the dropping of the dead languages from
the curricula of institutions of learning:
and in very recent years some promi-
nent educators in this country have in
sisted upon discontinuing or at the least
minimizing, the teaching of Latin and
Greek and other studies having no direct
relation to business or money-making
pursuits. In discussing this up-to-date
but pernicious idea Mr.. Chapman says:
'In its place [education1 we have a
crude world, Indifferent to everything ex-
cept physical well-being. In the place
of fine arts and the crafts. we have bus
mess and science. Business is. Of course.
devoted to the increase of physical we'll
being; and science is. in all except its
highest reaches of thought, mere ex-
| tension of business.
Science is the theory of world BUSH
| ness. race business, cosmic business.
Science saves lives and dominates the
| air and the sea, science does 100 wonders.
and all of us are incredibly in debt
to science. and we should not be
ungrateful. But science does not express
| spiritual truth. 1t neither sings nor jokes,
| it neither prays nor rejoices, 1t neither
loves nor hates 1t respects only it's
own language and its own habits of
thought and puts trust only in what
| is in It's own shop window"
| Mr.. Chapman is right, and he does not
| present the matter in too strong a light.
In the nature of things. this country, in
it's eagerness to outstrip the world in bus
mess, is in danger of being altogether
commercialized. Mr.. Chapman, as does
every thinking man, appreciates the great
debt we owe to science, but this craze for
electricity and chemistry and this push
ing ahead Of technical education at the
expense of Latin and rhetoric and aes-
thetics will, unless 1t be checked. make
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
TINE steamship Inverie of the Amer
lean and Oriental Line has Just
L unloaded at Pier 4, Bush docks,
cargo of Oriental imports, of which the
most remarkable consists of 7o5 cases OF
human hair from the heads of Chinese
men and women. This is the largest
single shipment of Chinese hair ever to
arrive at this port, and it is enough TO
furnish rats for good many thou-
sand American women.
Physicians and laymen both have called
attention recently to the possibility OF
transmitting disease through false hair,
especially hair from the Chinese markets.
In the Orient such diseases as beri-beri,
or Japanese itch, leprosy and bubonic
plague are never really stamped out.
with the idea of finding out just how
much danger accrued to the women who
wear human hair not grown on their own
heads, an Eagle representative started
out to investigate the cleansing process
through which imported hair Is put be-
fore being manufactured into switches
puffs, wigs, rats and the other shapes
and fashions used.
An importer and manufacturer in
Brooklyn who does a large business eX-
hibited the process. The bulk of the hair
used comes from Italy, Germany, Aus
tria and Russia, only about 20 per cent
of the total the lowest grade, being i'm
ported from China.
Upon receipt of case Of Chinese hair,
which is chiefly used for rats and the
cheaper and coarser sorts of rolls and
puffs, It is first given bath in strong
solution of muriatic acid. This, so the
manufacturer declared, is in itself thor
oughly cleansing in character. 1t remains
in this solution from five to six hours.
Then it goes into a bath of hot water,
soap and washing soda, where the acid
is scrubbed from it and in which it
remains from three to four hours.
From this bath 1t goes into one of
ammonia water, where it stays five hours.
The next process is another five-hour
bath of hot water and some sort of
washing powder This is rinsed from the
hair in hot water and then 1t is dried.
After this 1t soaks not less than seven
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by adopting business methods. and the
people may at length be indaced to make
the change. Whether this could be done
without changing the constitution very
materially is a difficult question. Posi-
bly, business methods could be introduced
without material changes in the form of
government.
Change or no change in form the peo-
pie will demand reform until an gov
eminent in this country Is put on
business basis thereby wedding out ex-
travagance and corruption and lessen
ing the burden of government.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
She In nm earthly paragon.
Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Ross Rule In New York State

The New York World says;
"Platt nominated Morton.
.Platt nominated Black.
"Platt nominated Roosevelt.
"Platt nominated Odell-
"Odell renominated himself.
"Oden nominated Higgins.
roosevelt nominated Hughes.
Roosevelt renominated Hughes.
Roosevelt will now nominate the best
man for the office. :"
This tells but one side of the New
York story. The other side includes Tam
many Hall and Fingy Connors and va
rious other bosses.
In regard to the governorship Mr..
Roosevelt said recently in taking charge
of the party machinery: Il want to find
the best man for the office; the man who
is most acceptable to the rank and file
of the republican party and the independ-
ent voters" But instead of letting the
rank and file and the Independents select
the man, he proposes to select him HIM
self. and the man is said to be the faith
full Loeb, and the time of his public des-
fsnation is to be September q at Sara
toga
In view of these facts and the long Pc
Rod of machine rule in New York 1t is
not strange that the demand for direct
action by the members of party In
primary is becoming insistent, and even
outspoken. No man who Is ambitious Is
now opposing primaries in New York, and
the action of New York's new boss makes
even palmer the need of them. A boss
is a boss whether he rules in Tammany
Hall or makes hay at Oyster Bay. The
DAYS OF the bosses in both places will soon
be ended.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

A lot of trouble isn't so any longer
when you stop thinking about it.
A woman won't think her real
t'eoughts out loud unless they are Cos
sip.
The crookeder man Is the more IN
dignant his wife can be with anybody
who thinks so.
It's absurd how society looks down or
people In jail, considering those who are
In politics.
It'Yiust as rational to think you are
having fun at church picnic as to i'm
agine you are flying when you are fall
ing Off a twenty STORY building.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
Standard of Picture Theatres

ut Is pleasing to me to note that man.
ayers of moving picture theatres are
abolishing the vaudeville features which
have so effectively cheapened and detract-
ed from the entertainments offered at
ouch playhouses." said a man who oc-
casionally drops in at picture shows.
Moving pictures films Endorsed by the
national board of censorship are often
instructive and highly entertaining, but
many people do not care to see them If
they must swallow in addition nauseat-
ing dose of cheap vaudeville. The casual
observer can easily tell the difference be-
tween the types of amusement seekers
who patronize the picture theatres for
the vaudeville, and those who go for the
sake of seeing the pictures. Theatres
which offer pictures only and no vaude-
VILE specialties cater to quite different
element than the crowds that seek the
other places, and I am glad to see that
such theatres are increasing in number
In birmingham.
IF the theatre managers would exer-
else little more care in selecting films
to be run, and would exclude all the pic
lures which are in the least vulgar,
the moving picture stheatre as a place of
real entertainment would be greatly i'm
proved. All the managers claim they will
offer pictures not Objectionable to the
most sensitive but many persist in show
ing the semi-vulgar French films of the
broad humor type, which are never funny
and always disgusting. 1t is not to be
doubted, however that moving picture
films are increasing in merit and II
the public is offered the best and the
cleanest obtainable. the patronage of the
theatres will increase both in tone and
quantity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

of us eventually a coarse and prosaic
people-a nation of "Philistines."
Educators of the true quality will bark
back to the old ahumanities." Let us do
what We can to advance in science, but
at the same time let us cherish as in
other days those branches that make for
spiritual uplift and solid culture"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
II. F. Cary In City

I'll. F. Cary, general passenger agent for
the Southern Railway company, was in
Birmingham yesterday. Mr.. Cary has
a week inspecting the various OFFICES and
said he finds traffic on the passenger
lines to be very fine.
Mr.. Cary announced that the company
has placed an order for 70 new Pull
man cars which will be used on the lines
of the Southern, and stated that the first
consignment would be placed in Brming-
ham very soon.
Our cars will be solid STEEL" said Mr.
Cary, land the Pullman company has
promised to let us have them as soon as
possible. The steel cars are the best that
can be made. The entire weight of wood
used is less than 125 pounds, SO one can
realize that the steel is really the con-
structisn. The drawing rooms and state
rooms are simple in treatment, but are
very artistic by the same token. The
berths will be longer and wider, afford
ing plenty of room for occupants. The
improvement can scarcely be realized,
by those who have never inspected cars
of the new style of manufacture"
In speaking of business, Mr.. Cary said:
Business has been very good through
out the summer especially to New York
and the east. We will show a good gain
over last year, comparing this month and
July of last year.
Passenger travel on every line has
improved. and the general belief is that
far better results will be noted this fall
than in any like season in several years"
Mr. Cary will be In the city today. Yes
terday afternoon he visited Corey in COM
pany with John A. Lusk and E. L. Ed
wards. The visit was very impressive to
Mr. Cary who said he could scarcely
realize that new town had sprung up
in Alabama within the last few weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

When one goes up a mile in the air
he needs at once an overcoat and heavy
gloves. This may In time be the means
of cooling off quickly and thoroughly.
It is more efficient than dip in the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

ago that HarInon's reelection was prac-
tically assured. I hardly ever fall to
vote for republican nominees in my state,
said this Ohio man, but in the coming
election intend to vote for Harmon. He
is one of the best governors we have
ever had and he should be, and will be,
reelected
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
Studying Human Nature

Sam Brown, the keeper of the boat
house at East Lake-a sort sof major
domo about the grounds-takes great in
terest in the pleasures and comforts of
children and looks we'll to their protec-
ton. Speaking of the character of peo-
pie who mostly frequent the park he
said:
''You will notice a decided change for
the better in the general class Of persons
who come here for recreation. We rec
ognize the fact that mothers come here
to give their little ones fresh air, ex-
ercise and healthful diversion, therefore
we look out carefully that nothing that
makes against this end comes in the
way. Under no circumstances will any
bringing or loud, rude or boisterous con-
duct be allowed In these grounds. 7 fully
realize the responsibility, as I have chill
dren of my own, and l am in full SYM
pathy with parents as to their children's
pleasures and protection.
"And right here is good place to
study human nature. We have sometimes
very vexatious matters to handle, but
patience, courtesy and firmness will meet
any situation, and then, too. most peo-
pie are we'll disposed when out for health
giving pleasure
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
HorticuIture and ArricuIture

DR.. A Masberg of the Eugene Jacobs
Pharmacy cultivates hobby as a side
line which proves commercially profita-
ble-farrning.
Three years ago he and NJ. E. Lime
han bought in partnership 14-acre truck
farm in North Birmingham, now in the
limits of the city of Birmingham, and
two years ago the same firm bought a
60O-acre farm in Barbour county. In
speaking yesterday of his horticultural
and agricultural ventures Mr.. Masberg
said:
Farming pays. At North Birmingham
we raise all the vegetable crops. I was
out to look at the truck farm last Sat-
urday and found every thing in excellent
condition.
Trucking in jefferson county pays
we'll The Birmingham Chamber of
Commerce will do beneficent work in
pushing its farm movement Mr.. Hechn-
ger, the secretary of the farm commit
tee, seems to be the right man for the
place. 1 have read his interviews and
articles with great interest and 1 be-
see fine results from the movement re-
ferred to.
"A German, Scandinavian, or italian,
with family including two ar three
boys, and with experience in market gar
dening, can buy or lease ten acres of
land in Jefferson county and in five
years time save enough money to be in
dependent. We have in the Birmingham
district the right soil for trucking and we
have the market. Few branches of bus
mess In the commercial world offer bet
ter inducements for investment than
truck farming"
In few years the North Birmingham
acreage owned by Dr. Masberg and Mr..
Lifhnehan will be too valuable, perhaps,
for horticultural purposes and in that
event 1t will be plated and sold off In
town lots. In the meantime as a truck
farm 1t is yielding a large return on the
investment.
Masburg and Linnehan's farm in Bar
bour is leased out on shares. The corn
and cotton crops there are reported to be
in satisfactory condition. The deep plow-
ing system Is being employed in raising
corn and a big crop is promised. DR..
Masberg says that both corn and cotton
are growing fast.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

The Manchurians have never been
asked how they like the Japanese Rus
sian agreement. The consent of the
governed in the Far East is no more
regarded than 1t is In machine ruled
Pennsylvania.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
OF THE IMPROPER USE OF WORDS

w
From the New York Sun.
In the news column of an esteemed
contemporary yesterday man oil 60
was persistently and with malice pre-
pense called "old man." In a neighbour
ing column a person of over IS" was
described as aged" 1t may be said
that these are the insolences of juvenile
reporters, who are to be pardoned
since youth is an stuff will not endure.
Are these misjudgments not rather
instances and therefore to be mon
toned in reproof of error of a linEer-
ing ancient misconception of the proper
limit of old age?
In the spirited days of the race, TO the
end of the Middle Ages and longe be-
yond, what with hard fighting, harder
drinking, Incredible insanitation, q
medical practice often as wise as that
Of darkest witcffcraft ridden Africa. It
was difficult to live; and men were re-
garded as old who in this improved
time would be called mere boys In
these happier days the metes ana
bounds of no longer morose, a cheer
full and golf enlivened age, must be set
and have been set much further for
ward. Nobody who cares to be either
accurate or polite will call anybody
under 100 odd" man of so or IS
Is on the last stretch of youth or in
the vestibule of middle age: no more
but so. Infants in the twenties. chill
dren in the thirties. striplings in tho
forties, younglings in the fifties, please
observe and preserve.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
THE DIFFICULTY
BY Heine'

About my darling's lovely eyes
I'VE made no end of verses;
About her precious little mouth,
Songs, which each voice rehearses;
About my darling's little cheeh J
1 write splendid sonnet;
And-if she only had heart
I'd write an ode upon 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
General Clarke Goes Abroad

Gen. Louis v. Clarke and his daughter
left yesterday morning on their second
trip around the world in less than
year.
General Clarke returned from his latest
tour about four months ago with sew
eral prominent Birmingham people. He
will travel through the whole of Europe
while away, and will visit practically all
the points of interest on the continent.
While in the old country and absent
from Alabama. General Clarke, who conn.,
mands the Alabama National Guard. will
be succeeded by Gen. Bib Graves. The
latter will have charge of the troopers at
the annual encampment at Chickamauga.
which begins this week.
General Clarke and his daughter will
arrive In New York tomorrow and will
sail the following day on their long jaunt.
They expect to be absent for several
months.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
EDITORIAL REBUKE

From the Pine Hill Blade.
We rise to suggest to the Washington
County News that as matter of news
paper courtesy, 1t clip a few Of its
CLASSY editorials from some other
sources than The Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

President Taft is trying to shed Fat,
and If he will read all that Is sent out
from Oyster Bay he will come out as
lean as a match before Christmas
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

The best route to Buenos Ayres from
this country still lies through London.
This Is shame to Uncle Sam.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

Memphis has marked it's population
estimate down to $4,000, and is no
longer ambitious to become unaided
congressional district
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

The colonel at Sycamore Hill swings
his own ak and refuses to turn any
standpat grindstone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

The colonel Is trying to wean the
country down to 40 lines a day from
Oyster Bay but the demand for more
is still insistent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

A Taft-Roosevelt controversy is In
evitable if the colonel explains his views
on Ballinger and the Aldrich tariff in
Indiana.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

Neither Uncle Joe Cannon nor Nelson
w. Aldrich has acquired at oyster bay
the smile that does not come off.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

After all, there are more than two
citizens in New York state, and some of
them may not be admirers of the faith
full Loeb.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

Judge Harmon is showing the lynch
on the job.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

Faithful Loeb is willing to become
governor, but he does not desire to Re
again the goat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

There is still room al the top in avia-
ton, although to make record one
must begin at 610O feet up in the air.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18
Harmon,s Chnnces Good

II think it a safe bet that Governor
Harmon of Ohio will be reelected this
fall" said a prominent citizen OF Biz
rningham, who always votes the repub-
Iican ticket in presidential elections.
From time to time / meet we'll
informed Ohio men-most OF them demo-
grassland they have been telling me
that Harmon's chances are first rate. But
what regarded as very significant, an
Ohio republican said to me few days
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

The crops are aiding the Aldrich tariff
In increasing the cost of living.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

Kermit says he is going to Europe
for recreation. That boy must need
lot of it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

1t is not necessary to explain why
Jeffries lost The truth Is, Johnson hit
him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

Ella Flagg Young should publish I
schedule Of her campaign expenses.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

No student of silence has ever yet
reached the record of David Bennett
Hill.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-18

In Indiana inebriates are sentenced
to live in dry" counties.