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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-19
Sawed OFF Philosophy.

Beauty is sometimes only enamel deep.
We are apt to extol our own pride au
speak slightngly of the vanity of others
A man never realizes what a subu
idiot he can make Of himself till he fall
in love.
It's one thing to get credit for our god
intentions, and quite another thing to cor
vert them into cash.
It's a wonder that some of those pa.
sionate poems couched in words that bur
don't set fire to the waste basket
Many a fellow doesn't realize that \
loves a girl till some other fellow come
along and marries her.
Any married man will tell you that ha
that costs SIS is more becoming to a We
man than one that costs $50
Luck Is what comes TO man when b
has the opportunity of buying somethin
for a mere song, and can't sing. New Yor
Times
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-19
BRANDEIS STORES

works and called attention OF the libraris
to them, The last time he visited severt
of the stores on his route he wrote out
his messages.-New York Press
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-19

r. 7. Heydsn Of Hastings q Heyden,
has gone 10 Chicago TO attend the land
show.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-19
Requires Nerve.

the results that have been attained by
sheer force Of nerve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10

race, Colonel Mallory, made the pas sage of the amendment submission bill possible.
 At the beginning of this campaign little or 10 dosbt was felt as to MT. ONeal's victory in the primary; but as May approaches the thoughtful men of Alabama are bent upon making his majority overwhelming. There is reason to believe that ONeal will re- ceive a larger majority even than was cast against the monstrous amendment 
 A right tendency is great thins. A majority of 3O,0O0 for cNeal will proclaim to tie world the same whole some and helpful tendency that the big majority cast against fanaticisni in November indicated. The people are prepared to achieve a signal triumph. Only a full vote is needed to make O'Nears majority high record break CT. Let's make it such.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
Pig Iron Production In March

Twenty-four furnaces in this district turned out in March 1So,03s tons, as against 152, 900 tons produced in February by 25 furnaces. March is a month of q days. This district did well in March but the production fell short of last No vember's, which was 1S4,291 tons.
 The production in March enabled this district however, to overtop New York's production by 151S tons. New York had 1s modern stacks in blast. Alabama is outranked by Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois only, and this district will this month run a neck-and-neck race with New York
 The entire pig iron production of the country in March was 2,5SS,736 tons. This did not constitute new record, because the production of coke and anthracite iron in December was 2,6S5, $50 tons. The December production stands as the best monthly record of this country. The average daily production in February was S6,747, and this is the highest daily average in a single month that the coun- try has ever known. The daily average of March was S3 3,S71 tons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
METHODS OF THE MAwIA

From the St. Louis Times.
 It is too bad the Mafia had to come to America, together with the Italian immigrants who, in many respects. are we'll adapted to fit into the general plan of developing the race.
 The country has plenty of forms of consciousness of it's own, and the last straw is added when the children from southern Europe come over with their own peculiar forms of depravity among their effects.
 The Black Hand is not so bad, it is true, as certain other imported evils. The stilletto does not touch the innocent by stander, as the bomb does Still. it messes up certain sections of our cities which are none too sanitary as they stand. And the American sees little hope of making a man out of an individual who carries a long knife in his belt.
 The Sciu murder in St. Louis the other day was a particularly revolting example of what Mafa methods are. And the Italians themselves should be the first to see that such squalid tragedies are out of place in their adopted country. They are not slow to discover where their ad- vantages are to be located in the United States. They have a push-cart today. and tomorrow, if they be energetic and discerning, they are at the head of a produce business, in which they have opportunities to commit their malefac- tions more in the American way. It may yet be necessary to take the  Italians and others from their section of the globe in hand. and see that no two families of them are permitted to live adjacent to each other. The little Italics and the little Hungaries may have to be broken up in order that these dark conn plexioned and wllful men may learn to transgress along lines which shall prove less shocking to our sensibilities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
Cotton Seed Flour

Step by step cotton seed flour is com- ing into use and favor. Men nTexas rise up to say it is easy of digestion when bread is made of 1t, and is of high nutritive value. As was done when cotton seed oil was first used cotton seed flour is to be used in a mixture. It will at first be mixed with cereal flour, an then step by step the cereal portion will be minimized until it disappears al- together, and cotton flour will stand out staple article in the making of the staff of life.
 fWhen the lint of the cotton plant clothes the world, and the oil of it is found on every table, and the flour of it is used to make bread, King Cotton will be es- tablished on his throne and no bundle of hay or tassel of corn will affect him in the least. Food experts and economists are at work on the cotton floor prob lem, and they will assuredly put cheap and yet nutritious and palatable flour before the public, and the prejudices in favor of wheat flour will in time be over- come. The tastes and notions of genera lions are stubborn but in the long run k11p a md ri Al A D general victory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
The Music Festival

Birmingham has large music loving contingent and if every person here abouts who is capable of appreciating good music would buy season ticket to the brilliant festival to be held at the Jefferson next week-April 19, 20 and 21- the theatre would be crowded to over flowing at each performance and the Festival association would not only es- cape a deficit but would carry over a snug surplus for 1911. The tickets are selling at popular prices and certain 1t is that no finer programme were ever of fered than these which MT. Damrosch has arranged.
 Birmingham reputation as a public spirited, cultivated city is at stake. The festival is sure to be a notable success from an artistic point of view. It should be no less of a success financially.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
Annexation Bond Issue

The statement of City Auditor Peter sen and the appeal of Mayor OBrien based thereon should convince every qualified elector that his first duty to- morrow is to go to a polling place where he can vote for a bond issue that will put Birmingham on it's feet in unem- barrassed condition.
 Unless the citizens of this city turn out tomorrow Mayor o'Brien says without qualification that the city would be com pelled to go on a scrip basis in order to meet it's current expenses. That would, indeed, be a sorry beginning of city in the 100000 population class.
 Do not ease your conscience by saying to yourself that your vote will not be needed because neighbors will go to the pools. Each of those neighbors may think and act in exactly that manner, and then the city will go on a scrip basis The duty of every thoughtful citizen tomor- row is plain Go to the polls and vote for the proposed bond issue, for every dollar of the money arising from it is needed in the greater city and will be honestly expended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
ENGLISH THEATRE IN 17s2

E. V. Lucas in the April Atlantic.
 Here again it is not uninstructive to pause and ask ourselves for our views on the gallery in 1732. It had not oc- cured to me that the gods were quite as high-spirited and powerful as MT Moritz desrbes them. In his seat in the pit MT. Moritz became at once their target, but whether it was because he looked foreign, or because he had the effrontery to be able to afford to sit there, is not explained.
 Often and often, whilst I sat here did a rotten orange or pieces of the pee of an orange fly past me, or past some of my neighbors, and once one of them actually hit my hat, without my daring to look around, for fear another might then hit me on the face.
 Besides this perpetual pelting from the gallery, which renders an English play house so uncomfortable, there is no end to their calling out and knocking with their sticks, till the curtain is drawn up l saw a miilers or a bakers boy, thus like huge booby, leaning over the rails and knocking again and again on the out side. with all his might so that he was seen by everybody, without being in Nle least ashamed or abashed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
Reckless Driving

As an example of reckless and dan gerous driving, I saw something that al- most made my hair stand on end this evening" said a citizen last night. Tt occurred on the South Twentieth street hill-that hill which grows more and more dangerous every day. A Lake view car coming toward the city at :3O oclock bowled down there at such a rate that it was completely beyond the mo- torman's control. In the first place, the car did not stop at the top of the hill as usual, but came over the hump at a terrific clip.
 'I was standing at Avenue I and was expecting the car to stop, but it was easy to see that it was beyond control. The motorman was exerting all his eff forts to stop but he did not succeed until the car was almost to Avenue H. A negro drayman crossing Twentieth street on Avenue I fortunately brought his horse to a stop in time or there is no telling what might have happened
 When I see motormen and chauffeurs act this way on that line I tremble to think what is going to happen there some day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10

From the New York World.
 A brief notice in these columns of the death at the age of 62 years of the youngest veteran" of the civl war has provoked a controversy that is highly in teresting as illustrating to what extent the great conflict was fought by boys.
 Within a week five youngest veterans have written to The World to establish their claim to the disputed honor. "Cav- airy" writes from Brooklyn that he 'served two years and six months and is not yet 62." F. Blemly of the Bronx, who served under Sheridan and Custer In the Shenandoah Valley until the close of the war has "a year yet to hang to the saddle before he reaches that age. Younger by nearly six weeks than this veteran, who was born January 31 1S49, is Charles Carr Of Brooklyn, for merly of Company c. Fourth Ohio cav airy. Born on March B, 1S49, he "served throughout the Atlanta campaign under General Sherman David w. Ryno bugler in Company H, Second regiment New Jersey cavalry, is 59. But the honor of youthful military service appears to be deserved by Michael Donoho "an old Six Warder," now of Auburn, N. Y, who was born May 27, 1851, joined D'Eppen- voll's Zouaves and left for the front in 1861, and afterward served with the One Hundred and Forty-ninth New York, volunteers, being mustered out at Syra- cuse August 19, 1s65
 There are records of drummer boys and buglers 10 years old among whom was John Glen, the drummer boy at Chickamauga." That boy of this ten der age, who would nowadays not be all lowed to accept employment in factory, was admitted to share tho hardships and danger of the field, enables a generation to which the war is merely a tradition to realize now large n part was taken in it by T juvenile soldiery, and this not only in the ranks but in the command of regiments and brigades, which were in some instances officered by young men just out Of their teens.
 | As for the honor of being the youngest veteran of the Confederacy, it was claimed some years ego for Col. John IT. Whallen of Louisville who enlisted in 1862 when barely eleven and served for three years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Music in Schools

Walter Damroseh is a great believer in music in the schools" said a musician who is greatly interested in the appear anee of Damreseh's New York Symphony orchestra in Birmingham under the au- spices of the Festival association April 19, 20 and 21. Tn Savannah several days ago Mr. Damroseh gave the following interview on the subject, which will be read here with great deal of interest,";
 T cannot express myself too strongly upon music in the public schools said the distinguished conductor. Tt is a question in which I have been vitally con cerned for years. l think 1t is essentially a part of the true education of everyone to have knowledge of music. Not necessarily an extensive knowledge, but sufficient for it to serve it's beneficial pur- pose.
 Most people look upon music as an art to be cultivated by woman alone. That is a grievous mistake. Music is a manly art and high one not for any one sex but for all mankind. It is an important feature in the life of each per son. For real recreation there is noth- ing which gives more genuine rest and pieasures After the busy hours of the day what is there that can take the place of music to relieve the tension? It is beneficial in both mental and physical manner.
 q" TO begin when young is also an essential. I do not think it is proper to postpone the introduction to music, to acquire love of it too late in life, when the youth of the country can be given the opportunity earlier in their careers to know music and appreciate it. The connection of music with the public school system is as important part of education as anything I can think of, and I am sorry your state, Geor- gta, is somewhat behind in this. At least, so I understand. Music broadens one, it is helpful, and it is distinct pleasure. Every one is benefited by it and you will find in many states that 1t is being given marked attention in connection with their public institutions. '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
Harmon, Gaynor and Clark

The democratic presidential canvass of 1912 Is young and yet it is eX- ceedingly vigorous and hopeful. Tie democracy is not simply unterrifed but it is also becoming aggressive and its smile of victory refuses to come off Not since the days before the war have the auspices been so favorable to the old historic party as they are today, and the more the new tariff and the trusts it promotes gets in their work in the average household the bright ter will become the prospects of a great dem ocratic victory.
 This condition is bringing out num- crous favorite sons. As Mir Bryan has taken himself out of the running the three leaders today may be said to be Judson Harmon, Mayor Gaynor and Champ Clark, and the lightning may strike any one Of the trio. All three are capable men, goo democrats and upright citizens. Any one of the three would make a good president.
 MT. Harmon was a member of a Cleveland cabinet and is now governor of Ohio. He is a candidate for re-elec- ton to the governorship and the election is to be held this fall. He will doubt less be reelected, but as MT. Taft is almost sure to be renominated the question arises, can MT. Harmon carry Ohio against MT. Taft, who is also an Ohio man? Mayor Gaynor would be- come a strong aspirant if he should be elected governor of New York this fall He has already shown his independence of Tammany, and he is winning the favor of the masses at every turn. Unless, however, he shows that he can l carry the state or NeW l OrK ne WILL not become a formidable rival of Jud- son Harmon. Let no one, however, overlook the position of Champ Clark, minority leader of the House of Rep resentatives. He is a democrat of large experience and ample equipment, and he would place Missouri back in the democratic column by a majority that no one would soon again question.
 All three-Harmon, Gaynor and Clark-are excellent presidential tim Der and every hair in their respective heads is democratic. Each and every enc of them is as sound on the tariff question as Grover Cleveland was and the tariff and it's effect on the cost of living is to be the leading issue of 1912
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
The Bond Issue

''The $4O0,0Oo bond issue is an urgent necessity" said an old business man." and from plain, common sense point Of view every taxpayer should be eager to cast his vote for. it.
 "The debts of recently annexed munich palities must be taken care of and as we now have an opportunity of financing the city on a 5 per cent interest basis, as against per cent which borrowed money costs, the saving to Birmingham alone in interest will be well worth while. A bond issue of $400,OO0 for a city of Bir- minghams size and property values is a comparatively insignificant thing after all.
 Estimating our population at 125,000, these bonds, which are to run 30 years, would be equal to an assessment per cap ita of less than 1 cent a month. And there is hardly any one so poor as not to be able to pay that much.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
NEW COTTON OUTLOOK

From the Wall Street Journal.
 From this time until the end of No- vember the price of raw cotton, and to a great extent the prosperity of the cotton consuming industries, will depend on the weather. Cotton belt weather as whole will from day to day influence the spec uytive, industrial and jobbing markets. The course of the weather in Texas will probably have more to do with the esti- mates which the trade puts upon raw cotton than any other single factor. Re cent rains there now insure a normal area at least Texas in 1906 grew 4066,000 bales of cotton out of total crop of 13305, ,265 running bales, or 90 per cent of the en- tire crop. Last year the Texas yield was only 2,600, GOO bales, or 36 per cent less than the crop of three years ago.
 Next to the weather as a determining factor in the size of the cotton crop, is the boil weevil pest. It is estimated that the ravages of this insect reduce the yield of cotton by a million bales year. Under the present scope of it's operations it includes nearly the whole of Texas, a portion of Oklahoma and Arkansas, all of Louisiana and nearly half of Mississippi.
 But this is not all of the territory af- fected, because growers on the borders of the infested districts are inclined to abandon cotton in favor of other crops in advance of the peril, so as to antici- pate the inevitable. In fact, the sub stitution of other crops is regarded as one of the best defenses against the fur ther encroachments of the boil weevil.
 Under favorable conditions of climate, such as prevail in the cotton states east of the Mississippi, and with the weevil crippled somewhat by the cold winter, at least a fair increase of acreage may be expected. In 1909 the area planted was slightly under 32, 100000 acres. An increase Of a million acres would be necessary to add a million bales to the yield in 1910 The smaller increase is entirely probable and the latter is a possibility, but from present indications rather improbable
 Outside of the weevh infested district any gain in acreage might easily be off set by loss within that district and the economic effects of the high prices of cot. ton on the acreage planted would be neu- tralized. If however, there were 8 yield such as that of 1906, of 2O2.5 pounds to the acre, or like that of 1904 when the aver age yield was 2o49 pounds an acre; even on the acreage of last year, there could be grown a crop of 100000 bales. That would probably mean 10 or Il cent cottor for the mills of the world. Many think that with Texas restored to her own by ample rainfall this is within the range of reasonable expectation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
TO THE MEMORY OF HOOD

By James Russell Lowell. Another star heath Times horizon
 stopped;
 To gleam OCT unknown lands and seas; Another heart that beat for freedom
 stopped;
 What mournful words are these! 7ne o, Love Divine, that claspst our tired
 earth a9Ja And fullest it upon they heart, .irf Thou knowest how much a gentle soul
 is worth fTf7 fff To teach men what thou art! His was spirit that to all thy poor Was kind as slumber after pain: Why one so soon thy heaven-deep QuIets
 door edI ff And calls him home again? Freedom needs all her poets it is they Who give her aspirations wings. G' And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings. Yet thou hast called him, nor art thou
 unlSind, ,s nelds O, Love Divine, for twas thy will st aH That gracious natures leave their love
 behind sii d7-s To work for Mercy still. yaa .iis Let laureled marbles weigh on other
 tombs rs sI4z Let anthems peal for other dead, ss Q. Rustling the hammered deepth of ministers o'
 glooms a With their exulting spread. His epitaph shall mock the short-lived
 stone, No lichen shall its line efface, .ft,,as He needs these few and simple lines a
 alone
 To mark his resting place
 Here lies a Poet. Stranger, if to thee His claim to memory be obscure. If thou wouldst learn how truly great (
 was he, Go ask 1t of the poor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
AtIanta's Opera Festival

Many members of the Birmingham Music Study club will attend the opera festival in Atlanta the first week in May" said railroad official, and if as many as 70 persons, members of the club or their friends, will agree to go a special car will be provided for the round trip at very moderate cost. The most attractive opera bills will be on Wednesday, when there will be matinee and night perform ances-'Aida' with Caruso and all the other stars in the cast at night. If a party of 75 is made up a special car will leave here Wednesday morning and leave Atlanta for Birmingham after the opera Wednesday night, and the cost of the entire trip, including meals and opera tickets will be S15 Mrs. L. J. Haley of the Music Study club has charge of the arrangements In order to secure reserved seats at the opera festival Mrs Haley should be communicated with not later than the coming Monday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
Value of a Right Tendency

The fact that the proposed proh lbi- Alabama was defeated last fall by q large majority-upward of 27,0O0-had C. splendid effect upon the fortunes small. even then all liberal minded men would have had cause for re- ;oicing. But the defeat being crushing effect far reaching for good.
 Alabama had fallen into the clutches Of narrow and frenzied politicians, but tunity of expressing themselves at the polls on the question of tate-wide drastic legislation the conservative ele- ment came to the front in all it's mief and emphasized it's utter disapproval of anything like fanatical tendency Tn the decisive victory won by the de- lenders of the constitution the bus mess world was made to feel that tue tendency in Alabama was to be hence. forth in the direction of sane policies and away from radicalism. The up- building spirit prevailed and the up- builders of Alabama came once more into their own.
 The very size of the majority against the amenders made for the well be ing of the people and was worth mil lions of dollars to this state; and SC 1t will be when the voters round III a vast majority in favor of ONeal fol governor in the democratic primar! three weeks from tomorrow. ONea,! leadership made the defeat of the pro hibition amendment possible, just ~ the leadership of his opponent in this