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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-08
The clock upbraids me with the waste
of fine. Twelfth Night.
Russia Planning a New Fleet

The admiralty in Russia includes no
grand duke at present, and it Is planning
in conjunction with the commission of ma
tional defense of the duma the building
of a new navy TO take the place of the
one gathering barnacles at present at
the bottom of the japanese sea. inc
programme put forth provides for the ex-
penditure between now and 1917 OF the
sum of s, o7s, 100000 in the construction OF
a new navy. Some, however, want the
sum cut down to s225, 900, and the duma
may decide to name compromise sum-
Even the lesser sum would construct
about 20 dreadnoughts, and that number
of modern ships would give Russia some
mower at sea. Much depends IN that
country upon the elimination of graft. The
bureaucracy is in the saddle again, but
the grand dukes are not and the latter
were the worse grafters that the coun-
try was afflicted with.
If the duma should decide to spend
Bio 1000 in the creation of new navy
the financing of the project would be
no light task 1t would not, however,
be impossible, for Russia is vast country
and the power of taxation is remorseless-
" exercised. She has never repudiated
an obligation.
Russia will perhaps have more difficulty
In finding competent officers and sailors
for a fleet than she will on building the
ships. AS nation she is nautically In
clined. Her ocean frontage is small-that
is her frontage which is unencumbered at
all seasons of the year with ice. She
has tried hard to secure better 'front.'
age, but Turkey and the European pow
ers or Japan have stood in the way, and
today her sea facilities are not greater
than they were 100 years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-08
WEDDINGS FAITHFUL WIFE

From the Louisville Times.
This is a story of a womans simple
faith in man. Her plain face with its
high cheek bones flushed as she talked.
Her hands were red and knotted with
the toll of years. Ia the next room the
washtub was waiting. Now and then
she nervously brushed the gray locks
back from her forehead In the kitchen
a pot of boiling cabbage steamed and
sputtered
She forgot the washtub; she forgot the
cabbage because she was talking about
him. She did not realize that her 40-odd
years were against her in the mind of
this dashing young fellow who was away.
but who she believed loved her.
The fact that the newspapers said he
was like the sailor, who had kissed a
girl under every sum-" did not worry her
She refused to believe him untrue.
ut has always been. his way" she
said; "ever since we were married-he
always liked the girls. He doesn't mean
any harm, though; you see he is friendly
with everybody"
II must get my washing OUT she
fastened to say to the man that talked
to her, land my cabbage is boiling over
and you must excuse me-" She rushed
to the kitchen, and while the cabbage
boiled and sputtered, she bent over the
washtub and thought of him and of the
reunion that will take place when he ar
rives-from the other side of the CONT
nent. The fact that his wrists will be In
irons did not disturb her, for she will
kiss him and believe in him as she did the
day they were married.
This is the wife of Vending.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-08
A TROUBLESOME INITIAL

From the New York Sun.
by marrying man whose name be-
gins with X I have incurred one trouble
Mat had always expected to be spared y
said the young woman. 81 have made 1t
impossible to buy ready made initial
handkerchiefs. Apparently manufac-
turers do not make handkerchiefs
marked with the letter x. Often when
l see a sale of initial handkerchiefs ad-
vertised 1 start downtown before break
fast hoping to snatch up any embroid-
cred with my letter before the rest of
the Ks arrive. but my haste is profitless.
Early or late the shoppers who need
letter y handkercbiefs fare just the same.
for they are not on the market.
"Since the exigencies of my own case
have driven me to paving over countless
handkerchief counters 1 have noticed sew
eral peculiarities about initial handker-
chiefs. In any lot that has been dumped
on the counter at big sale the SIS, rs, DIS
and BIS outnumber any other letter two
TO one early in the morning, but at night
they are scarcest of all, which indicates
that persons whose names begin with
those letters are right on the job at a
bargain sale. G Is a rare letter in initial
handkerchiefs and z and are almost
as hard to find as x"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-08

THE statement which Mr. Grenfell,
representing the foreign security holders
In the Southern Iron and Steel cosapany,
made in today's Age-Herald is at once
full of interest and full of encourage
ment" said a prominent citizen last
night.
Mr.. Grenfell and the company's at
torney, Mr. Miller, spent nearly two
weeks in Birmingham, and in that time
made a most thorough examination of
the affairs of this large iron and steel
concern, and as result of their work op-
erations, 1t seems, will be pushed, and
large additional capital be supplied for
carrying on the company's business to
the best advantage.
Mr.. Grenfell, being a successful Lon
don banker and man of large business
experience, was able to understand trade
conditions in this country and the enor-
nous possibilities of the Birmingham dis
thict. His bright view of the Southern
Iron and Steel company's future was
certainly bracing to the general business
situation in mineral Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-08
INVENTOR OF FIRST MOTOR CAR

From the London Globe.
Nicholas Joseph Cugnot is to have a
monument. If anyone asks who Cugnot
was, it may be said briefly he was the
first automobilist Many years before
Stephenson had introduced his railway
locomotive Cugnot, who was a military
engineer, had made a locomotive for
roads. His own folk scarcely knew OF
him until the recent automobile exhibit
ton, but his locomotive has been piously
preserved at the Conservative des Arts
ct Meters. The place for the memorial
Is, as it should be- in the commune of
Void (Meuse), where he was born in 1725
Cugnot died in 1904. His lot was not that
of many geniuses. He did not die In
want. Napoleon had secured him a PEN
sion of one thousand francs-passing rich
on $500 a year. In this respect the pre-
mier consul showed more enlightenment
than he did in regard to Fulton, of steam
boat fame, whom he considerable is dis
tressing to write-an adventurer. Cug-
nots carriage was built to transport arms
and he had designed a service gun. These
achievements alone would he a passport
to Napoleons favor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-08
THE LONDON PIT
Merely Long Benches, Behind the Row,
of Orchestra Stalls

Clayton Hamilton, in the August Book
man.
In the orchestra of a London theatre
there are only eight or ten rows of
stalls; and Immediately behind them is
the pit, which is walled off by barrier,
or fence, that stretches clear across the
theatre. In the pit there are no indi-
vidual seats-merely rows of long
benches on which the people sit rather
closely together. 1t is, of course, i'm
possible to reserve seats in advance;
and people who are going to the pit
have to come early on the evening of
the performance in order to secure the
best places. Hence, in the case of a
popular play, a long queue of people
the pit door all along the sidewalk,
waiting for the house to open. They keep
their places very patiently in line, united
by a common mood of pleasurable an
ticipation.
One manager, while ago, tried the
experiment of selling reserved seats in
the pit at the usual price; but to this
iue PIT peOple oDJecteu blfenuOuSly, OH
the ground that they could seldom know
in advance just when they would find
themselves possessed of that happy COM
bination of money and an evening off
which would permit of threatre-g going
and preferred to take their chances
waiting in line when the fortunate op-
portunty arrived. The pit is patronized
by people of very estimable class, and
is often frequented by well educated
men and women who wish to save
money and do not care to dress. Where
as a seat In the stalls costs half a
guinea Cor approximately $780, a
place in the pit costs only two and six
Cor approximately GO cents; and the
play can be seen very nearly as well.
In the pit the same programme that is
sold in the stalls for sixpence Us sold
for twopence; and the pit has a re-
freshment bar of it's own which Is
cheaper than the main bar of the thea
ire.
OF course the real reason why there
is a pit in the Lonton theatre is that
there has always been a pit; that in it
self is sufficient for the British mind
but it must be admitted that the system
is. on grounds of common sense, an
exceedingly good one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-08
AULD BRIG O. AYR

From the New York Globe.
~ A ULD Brig" appear'd of an
Client Pictish race
= The very wrinkles Gothic in
He seem'd as he wi Time had warstl d
lang,
Yet teughly doure, he babe an unco
bang.
Since the fifteenth century (perhaps
long before: 700 years is its generally
accepted age, when James w donated
10 shillings for repairs to the auld
Brig O. Ayr that structure has been
crumbling, little by little, stone by
poration of Ayr had time and again
patched up It's sacred bones-here a
dose of cement there a new stone,
somewhere else (out of sight one of
those wonderful modern strengtheners,
and time continued relentlessly digging
away at the vitals of the old piers and
arches.
Finally in 1908, although the bridge
had long been limited to foot passen-
gers, the process of dissolution had
gone so far that it became a question
of decent burial or complete removal
ton. Thanks to the generosity of a
number of sentimental folk fund was
finally raised by voluntary contribu-
lions. the services of several prominent
British engineers (also sentmentalists
it appears, for apparently they donated
their services) secured, and the work
of recreation put in hand some three
years ago. and on the oath of July last
the new Old Brig, formally opened to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-08
REHEARSAL WITH IRVING

the audience.
The rehearsal of the Broken scene
proved very unsatisfactory. We could
not come anywhere near the effect re-
quired. We tried to be lost souls, but
our cries of anguish and despair resulted
only in funny little "Ohs" and various
a transformation! We were different
creatures, enthused and inspired by the
personality of Irving. Our street dress
at rehearsal no doubt hindered our get
ting the atmosphere, but at the perform
ance the weird lights, the huge rocks,
the hideous faces and misty drapery of
the spirits. did wonders for us in Great
texture and the lights so arranged that
the complete effect was a seething,
shadowy mass; nothing distinct could be
discerned but the horrible faces and the
clawing hands of lost souls. Then to fin
ish the transformation, there appeared In
place of the benign Sir Henry of the
morning rehearsal, his satanic majesty,
a vibrant figure of fire and color
had long heard this was his greatest act
ing part, and now l knew why He DOM
mated the scene. He was evil triumphant,
compelling-his smile a leer, his tones
freezing In their suggestion and intona-
ton. He compelled the concentration
of the vast audience. There was no sug-
gestion of the gentle Sir Henry of the
morning rehearsal, but instead a. malig-
nant creature before us. Towering on
the rocks, at what seemed dizzy height,
this figure of hell paced to and fro, etched
against the forbidding sky
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A Good Increment

Popular education In dental hygiene
and prophylaxis, or prevention of dis
ease, should have excellent results. The
National Dental association is pushing
this work and state and local societies
are ready to take an active part in this
important cause. A movement has been
started to have oral hygiene and prophy-
laxis taught both theoretically and
clinically in all the public schools of the
Dental society is eager to introduce the
work in the public schools of Birming-
ham.
While science has accomplished a great
deal in the past % years in the matter
of promoting health many things under
taken in the name of hygiene are over
done-many Of them are mere fads, but
oral hygiene from the dental point OF
view is no fad. On the contrary, its
practical side can be funderstood and APP
preciated by every intelligent person.
Indeed no work of hygienic nature will
be more far-reaching for good than this
which the dentists have taken up. 1t
should have and will have, no doubt, the
hearty support of the Birmingham pub
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over $4,000, 900 to her Confederate vet

over $14 900 to her Confederate vet
Grams.
Perhaps no other state is doing quite
as well as Georgia in this respect, but
every state that belonged to the Con-
federacy has established a pension sys-
tenn, and the tendency in every one
of tn EN- is to increase the amount paid
annually to the surviving soldiers of
the Confederate army, remembering al
ways their widows.
The method of payment varies. In
Georgia at present the pension is paid
annually in one sum. The money was
formerly paid quarterly, but experience
seems to show that an annual payment
is more satisfactory.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-08
CottonSeed Oil and COttonseed Flour

Or. Harvey W. Wiley, the pure food
government expert, said recently: Cot
ton seed oil is the most wholesome, pal
atable, nutritious cooking, salad and
table OIL No other oil begins to hold
the rank that cotton seed oil does, nor has
1t the future cotton seed oil has" And
yet every grown person can remember
when all palates held cotton seed oil in
extreme disfavor. Every ones sense re-
volted against it. No one wanted it q
years ago; now all prefer it to hogs lard
whether made from sound hogs or hogs
afflicted with cholera
similar battle will take place over
cotton seed flour, and similar result
Will be reached as soon as the taste of the
people can be lifted out of the rut in
which custom has placed It, After a
while cotton seed -four will also be de-
clared '-wholesomeA palatable and nutri-
tious," and all consumers will demand
II as freely as they now demand cotton
seed oil. The victory of the one leads
UP to and foreshadows the victory of the
ofner
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traffic by Lord Rosebery, began its
new lease of life.
Every effort was made to retain the
outward appearance unchanged, the
new framework being covered wherever
possible with old material. The Aud
Brig looks very much today as 1t
did when Robert Burns made his
famous prediction that 1t would out
wear the impudent new brig a few
yards away. Any one desiring detailed
anatomical information, with pictures.
as to the operation by means of which
the Aud Brig has been set upon its
feet Cor piers) again will find such an
account in Engineering for July Is.
The comment with which the Aud
Brig opened proceedings in the most
famous debate of its long history
seems particularly apropos just now:
doubt ma, frien', yell think ye're nae
sheepshans
Ance we were streekit owre frae bank
to bank!
But gin We be brig as aud as me
Tho faith. that date, 1 doubt, yen never
Therell be, If that day come, I'll wad a
boddle,
Some fewer whigmaleeries in your nod
die.
We hope it won't develop any of
these undesirable whigmaleeries in its
own noodle as a result of patched-up
pride, but whether it does or not the
world owes the Ayr surgeons a debt
of gratitude for preserving its SEM
blance of ancient rugged simplicity
1.-The very wrinkles Gothic in it's face
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THAT the Board of Revenue is bad
ly in need of an automobile to be
used in frequent inspections of the
work that is being done on county
roads cannot be doubted said man
who is interested in road work. There
seems to be popular idea that the
board already has ample means OF con-
veyance for inspection trips. or that
1t has the authority to provide such
for the privfte convenience of its mem
bers.
of Revenue of the greatest county in
the south has to rely on the cour-
tesy of private individuals If trip
is to be made over the roads. AS 1t
is, official inspection is by no means
made as frequently as would~seem nee
essary, simply because of the lack OF
the means of conveyance. Many peo-
pie do not appear to know that the
board is helpless to provide for the
deficiency, and that the needed auto
mobile may be purchased only II au-
thorized by act of the legislature.
1T seems to me that in justice to
the county alone something should be
done in regard to this matter. The
city of Birmingham has number OF
machines for the use of the city en-
gineer, street commissioner, fire CHIEF
and other officials, while Jefferson
county has absolutely nothing of the
kind. Even the trips Of the county en-
gineer have to be mado by the ole
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-08
CRIPPEN

From the Washington Star.
A leading English criminal lawyer
has been retained for DR.. Crippen. Now,
We shall see what his course will be,
and what an English Judge will al
low in such case There would be
something of circus in this country.
What, with the labors of the sob
squad, the slow work of licking a
jury, the badgering of witnesse, the
solemnities of experts. the theatrical
rows of the attorneys and then the
perfervid summings-up at the close, the
country would be entertained for
weeks. But England has the reputat ior
of ordering such things better.
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@S''' 80 august HcdlIc R1dBdZlHcA
Vl HILE there was nothing to sug-
M gest age'in Irving's appearance,
w he was distinctly venerable, and
dignity itself. In the Broken scene In
Faust there were used about a dozen
beautiful girls, who presented to the aud
fence a most ethereal appearance. Their
stage costume was Salome-like in the ex-
IRENE, and consisted of little else than
pink tights and some gauzy drapery. The
scene where they had a dance around
Faust did not please Irving, so in order
to show them what he wanted he danced
with them himself. The contrast of his
appearance In civilian dress, with these
giddy ladies In STAGE costume, was incon-
ceivably comic and bizarre in the ex-
tremc. 1t was a picture of amazing in
congruity, which will never fade from
the memory.
In physical apr earance, Irving at this
ttme--only few years before his COL
lapse-betrayed no sign of weakness; In
fact one never associated age with him.
He was simply, as he had ever been, a
luminous, moving, vivid individuality. His
remarks at times to members of the
company were trenchant indeed. | re-
call that one of the actors had a tur-
bulent scene. The passion and temper
of the actor were very evident, never
theless but few words could be heard. The
young actor seemed to think he was maxi
ing a striking impression, but alas for his
vanity! Finally Irving's voice broke
out: Il think, my boy, if you feel your
part little less, and get your words
out a little more, it will be better for
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Regarding Cotton Prices

There is great hope In the hearts of
the southern planter, predieated on the
high prices of the fall and winter posi-
ton of cotton in New York and New
Orleans said J. A. Caldwell.
AS we approach the marketing of cot
ton, 1t has seldom been the privilege of
the planter to dispose of his crop on
the basis of IA cents. l only hope this
dream will come true. Just think what
1t would mean to the south if we could
obtain these prices. In about three years
American continent.
AT last the south is coming into her
own. I am optimistic on this country,
but 1 fear we are approaching the limit
on cotton. The bulls have been eminent
ly successful, Brown, Hayne, Patten.
Rothchild, Thompson, ct ais, deserve
credit and the praise of the south for
the manner in which they have con-
Quoted this campalgff,- but let us be
conservative. Present prices discount
all the conditions. Last year the small
factors laid down on Europe. 1t is i'm
possible to estimate how much Europe
lost as a result of this condition. Fol-
lowing this very unfortunate circum-
stance, we had two failures that almost
paralyzed the financial world By rea-
son of this combination of conditions Eu-
rope has passed the south up, as a fl
nancial degenerate. We justly belong to
that class unless we make amends for
our conduct Instead of buying from us
they are entering the contract market in
New York and New Orleans, where COM
merclal integrity obtains. 1t seems to me
their requirements have been fully met
and nothing short of a crop disaster can
bring about higher quotations. In Ala
bama crop conditions have greatly i'm
proved, and are ideal. In Texas and
Oklahoma weather conditions show I'M
provement. The cotton market is to my
mind approaching a period of danger
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-08
Confederate Pensions
other.

The southern states are compelled to
pay as a penalty of war heavy nen-
sions to federal eX-soldiers, but this
has not hindered them from providing
pensions for the disabled and needy
among their own Confederate soldiers.
In 1906 there were in the south 3D.
e49 Confederate pensioners, and in that
year they received S3,S75,Ooo. The aver
that year than $40.
Alabama pays to about 1880 pen
sioners nearly 100000 year. A tax
Of one mill on the assessed dollar is
levied for that purpose and to this
sum $150,000 to be paid annually
was added in 1905.
Georgia paid to 1879 pensioners
last year $93S,55o. She pays to in
digent soldiers and to the widows of
Confederate soldiers $50 a year, and
she pays higher annual rates in many
specific cases. Those veterans who can
not see receive $3.50 year; those who
are unable to labor receive 500 a year;
those who have lost hand receive
e1oo, and so on to the end of the
fxt To date Georgia has distributed