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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
King COtton'S New Year

Richard H. Edmonds Is confident sl oOo.ooo GOO cotton crop is to be harvested and marketed in the cotton year begun yesterday. The crop of last year is put by Secretary Hester at 1O,609, 66s bales, and Secretary of Agriculture James Will son says it yielded $s5o, ,o00,ooo How much of this vast sum went into the pockets of our farmers, and how much of it into the pockets of middlemen, 1t is impos- sible to say The aggregate sum named by Secretary Wilson calls for about sS0 a bale, including the seed, and it would be safe to say that BIO bale of this amount went to middlemen of one sort or another. The farmers did well to get $7O0, 100000 from the crop. leaving not less than s1O0,0o0,oo0, and probably $780, 00o coo, to go to mddlemen.
 The crop this year will be larger than last years, and the demand for it will be keen. The short crop of last year means that much, and this demand is reflected in the prices of contract cot ton. Even cotton to be delivered next May is quoted at 1s1k cents.
 All the farmer has to do is to sir steady in the boat. and to be ready. if need be, to hold his cottan until he can secure an adequate price. The troubles over export cotton need create no appre- hensions in his mind. When spinners want cotton they will find a way to get It, and naked world stands behind the spinners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02

From the Washington Post.
 Womanly beauty is about as rare as birds with four legs, according to an Italian of wealth and title, who has just published some interesting statis- tics in La Roma. According to this Italian statistician. among the French only one woman in every 25OO has any claim to beauty his own race yields a possible one in every 220O; Spanish women of beauty come in the same proportion. The German women he re- fuses to consider beautiful at all. Eng land, he says, has the greatest number of beauties of any one nation of un- mixed blood, the percentage being one in every 12O0.
 This conservative Italian critic re- fuses 10 consider Americans as a race, because he says. they are too polyglot. Considering the one city of New York, however, he finds there more beauties than in any foreign city-about one in every 1900. And by ''beauties,' he says he does not mean perfect beau ties." by any means. He means merely those with a few good features and no eccentricity to mar them.
 The cruelty of this Italian gentleman, whose only distinction has been gained by his present statistics. seems at first glance to be wholly un-Christan. At best, he can only pick out the women who are beautiful according to his own standards. We are sure that there are no women who are not deemed beauti- full by somebody or other; therefore, all must be- beautiful One mans opinion is as good as anothers.
 Thinking the matter over carefully. however, one may find considerable logic In the Italians remark, with re- gard to one beautiful woman in every | 1900 in New York. How could the per centage be higher when Washington has cornered the market?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02

but all are safe in saying that no other republican can be.
 The country wants a race in New York in November between Gaynor and Roose- welt. Such a race would clear the way for 1912. It would size up many things not yet measured in votes It would show the extent and exact power of Rooseveltism. and it would also show who can and who cannot carry the pop ulous state in 1912 Let the race in New York be between Mayor Gaynor and Theodore Roosevelt. between reformed democracy and advanced republicanism. and the country will await the result with hated breath
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
ROSE STALLS WAY
How She "Sixes Up" a Girl Who Wants
 to Go on the Stage

From the Chicago Tribune.
 "Whenever girl comes to me and asks Can I be an actress?' says Rose Stahl, appearing this week at the Chicago Opera House in "erhe Chorus Lady 'I always make her sit down and enjoy herself and get acquainted before I answer. We sit at tea or we go for a ride on the avenue, or to a matinee. By the time she leaves I can whisper in her ear: By all means go on or Don't try the stage and feel that have fairly answered her question
 q managers would follow this policy of watching a girl in her natural, every day life, instead of listening to the parts she has played or giving her a piece to declaim, there would be fewer failures. For it is what is latent in woman that makes her successful on the stage She must not only be comedy. but she must have vitality-be bubblng with life. The one big thing that makes your success on the stage is lots of vitality-life. If you have that, go on the stage; if you haven't, stay off"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02

the duties of the Aldrich tariff. In other
 words. his speech at Osawatomie is
 evasive in respect to the Aldrich tariff.
 It lacks application to present issues and present evils. Mir. Roosevelt should have
 thundered At Mir. Aldrich and his rubber trust, at the sS,o25.OO0 stock that MT Aldrieh holds in the crude rubber trust, at the exclusive and lucrative contract that his company has with the manu- featuring rubber trust, and at the fact that hk relatives and friends control the latter. Mir. Roosevelt did not do this. He dealt in general principles and evaded their application to the case before us, contenting himself with the presentation of a piecemeal revision that Congress cannot pass and that would prove un- if it could
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
From the Kansas City Star.

From the hdnSdS Clty fotdis @R. CRUMBINE, who presides over the Kansas health depart 0 ment, has ordered the abolition of circus lemonade. No more at coun- ty fair. picnic or Fourth of July eel ebration will be heard the cry that links the present to every age in the past and has made for every genera tion, from the children of the constt- tutional fathers to the children of the standpatters and progressives the one common cup of joy:
 Lemo. Lemo Lemo!
 Lemonadei
 Made in the shade,
 Five cents @ cup!
 Dr. Crumbine of Kansas has spoiled it all.
 Unh oly and profane lips had added to the gladstone song of the "lemo" vender an intima ton that the great American holiday beverage was "stirred with a spade" but the lemon ade man turned that shaft of the en- emy to his own gain by adopting it as an amendment to his time onored call to the thirsty.
 But pr. Crumbine has added an ingredient that will not jingle either in rhyme or sentiment or taste. He has put his official foot in the mixture
 Who of us can recall the days of our youth without associating the real red letter occasions with the red lemonade that enticed the savings bank nickels from the treasure vault or moved us to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
DOWNFALL OF CIRCUS LEMONADE

part with our "chore money" without the rainy day" against which the fund had been hoarded?
 Dr. Crumpine has plugged the saw ings bank and issued an injunction against the reckless expenditure of "chore money" Henceforth the youth of Kansas must spend his nickels for nothing more invigorating than a ride on the merry-go-round or satisfy his holiday appetite with an ice cream cone, inspected, sealed and stamped with the "Ad Astra per Aspera" of the health department. The Good Old Days of lemonade are gone forever.
 One more sacred institution is to join the old oaken bucket and the common drinking cup in the Kansas scrap heap. The made-in-the- shade lemonade has perished from the fair grounds and the picnic parks, the victim of an overdose of tartaric acid, saccharin and lemon peel. The official doctor of Kansas has pronounced it dead, and the sheriffs, police and constabulary in general have received orders to give 1t decent put decisive burial.
 Stop the band from playing the na- tional aiws and let us have a requiem! Let Old Glory wave at half mast for moment, just to commemorate the memory of an old friend that has cheered us on many an occasion in the days of Auld Lang Syne--before sac charin substances, tartaric acid and health departments became the allied enemies of the American youth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
Desertions From the Army

''In this day of yellow sensations and undertaking there is tendency to hunt up grievances and make much out of liitle," said a man formerly in close tou1h with the regular army. "I have seen ting tendency manifested in many direc- tors It is bad enough to see exas- gerated stories in yellow newspapers
 It is still more discouraging to see maga
 zines printing such stuff. The New York Sun covers the point well when It says:
 "A certain undertaking magazine has taken up the subject of desertions from; the army and is profusly Illustrating It's articles to show that the enlisted men are ha5itually required to~perfoim menial duties undergo needless hard ships. and generally render degrading services. Fifty thousand men have de- serted in the last 12 years,' declares this magazine, and the pictures are given to tell us why. There are pictures that show men shoveling coal into bins. run ming lawn mowers over some dandy officers premises. carrying io,d to the mess rooms and washing dishes after ward, pictures of all kinds. in fact, that are calculated to arouse indignant sym pathy for the enlisted man and make
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
Planning Mansion for the Governor

When the legislature meets in Jan uary it will be confronted with iuil- aedged proposition to erect a s1oo'- Ooo mansion for the governor of the rtate in Montgomery. Such a mansion would outshine the statehouse ltsell' The canitol is old and historic but not fine. A governors mansion to cost s1Oo 900 would be finer than any other residence in the state and this is per hans not altogether unreasonable There is really no reason why a state Of great natural resources and over 2.ooo.- GOO of people should not build gov ernor's mansion.
 Senator Frazier of Union Springs says he will introduce the bill, and Senator Michael Screws says he will get behind it. The plan will be fully Formulated before the legislature meets and no effo1t will be spared to  house the next governor in a gov ernor's mansion. It is high time in fact and in all pride that the state had such a house for the use of her chief executives. Let the mansion be built and the next legislature can be trusted to designate it's cost
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
LIVING IS HIGH IN BUENOS AIRES

Meanwhile. Lewis Nixon had been mak- ing arrangements for an automobile. He found one that would do, but decided not to take it.
 They are not going to get $50 day of my American money for any auto- mobile," he said.
 About this time John Bassett Moore returned from walk down town with two books under his arm. They were or neglected to buy in New York before leaving. He seemed delighted to have the books, "but," said he, what do you suppose they charged me? Ten dollars, gold, apiece! And quite ordinary vol umes!"
 why, that's just what I paid for . derby hat, $10 gold" answered Cabot Ward. "Who was it said this place wasn't expensive?'
 The laundry bills were coming in to the delegates marked $1s.5O. $27. 80 and the bills for clothes pressing were pretty well keep ing pace
 One of those in the party had a tear half an inch long in a coat, such a mat ter as would prompt one to give a tailor a cigar in New York for drawing 1t to. gether.
 the Argentine -Hi5ernian maid when asked to send it to the tailor. Any kind of sewin' here is viry expinsive."
 What a new suit of clothes would cost no one has dared inquire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
No Cholera Danger In This Country

For two years cholera has ragged in Russia, causing more than 50,000 deaths Many cases have occurred in St. Petersburg In Italy t0O' the dis ease has appeared, but the number of deaths in that country has not been large. The appearance of the pestilence at Berlin and Spandau is alarming, but Germany is alert and no doubt the known cases will be isolated and the spread of their germs prevented.
 France and England are watchful, and no suspected cases will be per- til the two countries become contam- mated there is little danger of an ap- pearance of the disease in this coun- try.
 Cholera is a well understood germ, disease. It no longer travels in the air. Its germs travel down the throat in food or water and it cannot be caught in any other way. The isolation of known cases is necessary. It re- eembles typhoid in the manner of con- munication, although its germs are perhaps rather more aggressive than those of typhoid. The isolation of any case that might be brought to this country would be speedy and thorough and no epidemic of the disease need be apprehended here. The world knows more than it did when cholera ap- peared here in epidemic form 50 or GO years ago. Its nature and origin arc we'll established and it's germs well known. Isolation of individual cases soon stamps it out in all countries ex- cept Russia where intelligent action is almost impossible. Ignorance is reapIns Its penalty in that country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
Roosevelt f0r Governor

Those who doubt the nomination of MT Roosevelt for governor at Saratoga that unless he be nominated the demo- crats would have a wa1k-over in the most populous and richest state of the union. It goes without the saying that the ex-President will control that conven- tion. and he can i'll afford to let the movement he started against the bosses and in favor of primaries be over whelned at the polls. He would lose prestige if he did.
 1t is simply impossible 10 name any one oIse who could lead the New York re- 1iblicans to victory. Many names have 5een mentioned from seth Lowe's to Whn Mitchells, but no, one of them could Xthstand the impending democratic tidal
 Eve. As matters stand in New York the
 <ublicans of New York must choose < Tween Mir. Roosevelt's nomination and
 &lninious defeat. No one is authorized
 " that MT. Roosevelt can be elected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
Hot Campaign in 1912

ut seems to be pretty generally con- that ex-Presdent Roosevelt will be nominated for the presidency In 1912 either by the regular republican party or by a new progressive party" sa Id A. P. Maddox of Chicago. of Governor Harmon carries Ohio this fall Presi- dent Taft will be practically elim- mated from the race.
 q spent several days in Ohio in August and as I am democrat I was greatly encouraged at the democratic activity and confidence which seemed to prevail in that state. Should Mr. Roosevelt be the republican standard bearer in 1912 and Judge Gaynor or Governor Harmon head the democratic c ticket the campaign would be the most exciting in the history of this coun- try.
 Roosevelt would be very objection able to Wall street, while a sane con stitution respecting democrats lika Gaynor or Harmon would be accepta ble to the business interests of the coun- try. Up to this time-at least since the war-no candidate for president has been elected when Wall street was against him. How it will be in 1912 remains to be seen."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02

From the Boston ,srald.
 A DvICES m Buenos Ayres are
 "A that each United States delegate 4 \ to-. the Pan-American conference was assigned a reception room of his own, which adjoined his sleeping room so that he could appropriately receive visitors from the other delegations or such other persons as he wished. The entire arrangement proved very satisfac- tory to the Americans and also to the hotel management, which thereby en- riched itself s4OO day from the s1oO,ooO appropriation made for the delegation by Congress.
 To infer for moment that this price was exorbitant would be merely to mis- understand that Buenos Ayres is living up to its reputation of the most expen- sive city in the world. Exposition prices are fanciful in many places, but when one gets the combination of exposition prices and Buenos Ayres prices the re- suit can be easily understood.
 The responsiveness of Buenos Ayres comes to one insidiously. Besides the American gold dollar there is in circu- lation the silver dollar or peso, the value of which is A cents. So when you are informed that your room and bath is to be $11 or sl2-a day you made a rapid mental division by 100, multiply by A, and reason that since it is less than a five-dollar bill 1t is not very much, espe- cially in view of the accommodations you are getting.
 About the first thing you do after reach ing the hotel is possibly to take a car riage ride about the city after leaving clothes. for the presser and laundry for the wash. You return, perhaps, after to give him what you like. You give him s5-about B gold-and he clearly shows his delight
 Then you go in to dinner in the brilliant and artistic dining room, with the or chestra in the gilded balcony above and the tables far apart, and the prices do not frighten you. The dinner iy s5, which seems reasonable when you have eaten it, but here you notice that there are the price up. The waiter expects at least s1 for tip, and you have found that the rarest thing dn the dining room is water.
 A story is going the rounds about La mar c. Quintero, who went into a cafe for lunch, following it with a cigar and cordial. The lunch was q, the cigar q. 50 and the cordial $2.5O.
 But the delegates Idid not really find out how expensive Buenos Ayres was un- til they had begun to settle down. One member went out to get new top hat and hatbox about the second day in the city. He found what he wanted, price 80.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Burning of Carthage

q understand that the railroad com mission of Alabama is to have meet ing next week." said Dr. Cunningham m Wilson yesterday, ito see if some plan cannot be devised by which the rail- roads can put in some sanitary equip ment at the railroad stations. in the small towns.
 "The large majority of. small rail- road towns in Alabama have no wa ter or sewerage systems and it is a great problem to know what to do with garbage and waste matter; and If 1t is
 in order for an outsider to make d suggestion I would recommend that the commission and the railroads try T system we have just installed at the tubercular camp on Red mountain, which is working with splendid suc- cess. ft is a system of burning up all garbage and waste matter with tirely without odor and free from all objections so far as I have been able to ascertain. This system is very in expensive and can be installed much cheaper than the ordinary water closets.
 q understand that the Birmin gham Water Works company, the United States army and others are using this system with great success, and it seems to me it would be well worth thorough investigation and trial by the railroad commission.
 "The disposal of waste matter is probably the greatest problem with which the health authorities have to contend and if any general system which is cheap and effective in it's re- suits could be introduced in this state for burning up this waste matter 1t would help solve our typhoid, hook worm and many other problems which now confront us"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
A MONUMENT TO REMINGTON .L frhico oco Record- Herald

From the Chicago Hecord- Herald
 Tn Remington's pictures all the most vivid and characteristic features of the western pioneer life which IS just closing are set forth. and he has commemorated forever the men of the plains and the mountains as they are. The cowboy Is his favorite type, out the mining prospector the frontier farmer, the man who guides the OK wagon or mule. team, the soldier, the Indian-all appear"
 So spoke Theodore Roosevelt at Cheyenne and he suggested that the men of the plains and the mountains would do we'll to provide a monument for the great artist in that city.
 The suggestion is an excellent one and we mistake the temper of those who heard 1t If they do not cause q monument to be erected that shall be worthy of the subject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
LUCKY HOTEL CLERK
Bet on the Races and Is Now $3O,OOO to
 the Good

From the New York Sun.
 Stories were current in ssme of the hotels yesterday about the money won or lost usually both, by clerks and bellboys on the race track during the last few weeks.
 There is a young man at one of the hotels who is credited with having beaten the bookies in the last eight weeks to the tune of s30,OOO. He got next to the owners of some successful horses on the local race tracks and ac- cumulated quite a bunch of Cs and D's, and when the ponies went up the state he was able to follow them and returned with some bigger notes. The first setback he got was the day be- fore yesterday, when on excellent in formation he had placed 5000 so that he stood to win $S00O. His horses were in the lead until few feet from home, and he did not bet yesterday.
 There Is a, bellboy at another hotel who went up state when the horses did to emulate the late "Pittsburg Phil" In the last two weeks previous he had saved $500 out of his wages of $2o month and tips and what he did with the tips. He stayed up there three days, and came back at the end and applied for his old job. For the three days he had made no bet less than 10 times his former salary.
 A clerk was heard of yesterday who in the space of two weeks accumu- lated $2S00 and then decided to spend his vacation with pair of field glasses. First, however, he bought fur-lined overcoat, several suits of clothes and some silk underwear. These last he still has. and he will be able to get the overcoat out by the time winter IS here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
desertion look like solemn duty fol

desertion look like solemn duty for all high spirited persons
 "There is a great deal of desertion. No doubt the undertaking figures are cor rect. Desertions have been steadily increasing ever since the canteen was abolished. The soldiers life is one of rather colorless routine. Of course assignments are regularly shifted and there is a rotation of duty and locality Enlisted men are at intervals transferred from Fort Smelling or Fort Riley to Washington or New York, Chicago, Att
 anta, and so on, where the cloistered rumshop supplants the once sufficient charms of the canteen.
 Less than ever before are the en- listed men of the army today required to go outside their strictly military duties. Cooks and assistant cooks are enlisted as such. Men care for the horses, etc., of officers under their own application, by their own preference, and ar extra pay. They do not need to do it unless they wish to make the money. The mess room service is arranged by regular detail, and then only Dy Heioeis oi the mess. Much of the menial work IS performed either by civilians hired for the purpose or by prisoners sentenced for good cause to temporary servstude. Our enlisted man under the present dis pensation has more privileges than he ever had before, better pay, and more considerate treatment. With his allow aaca for quarters food and cl DthirC he is better off so far as conearns mere money than the average city employe at s75 month, and if he wishes to he can. lead wholesome and sell-respecting fife And promotion with much higher pay and perquisites is within his reach, ]"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02
Dilatory Paving Work

'T am thoroughly disgusted with the way some of the city streets are being paved this summer said Northside resident yesterday, whose house borders on a street which has been undergoing pavement work all summer. "The street In front of my house has been out or use since early spring. It is closed up now and not soul is working anywhere on it. I doubt whether it will be finished this winter.
 'It is great inconvenience to the property holders and to everybody in general who has to get about over the city. Why the work is not completed is a mystery to me. They work for week or two and then move away and shut up the street. Their work is all right if they would only keep at it and get 1t finished.'