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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
Governor Marshall of Indiana

The public hears a great deal more about the Harmon boom than it does about the Marshall boom, but the latter exists and is a force in the middle west at least. The Harmon boom is promi- nent because Judson Harmon is running this year for governor of Ohio. Governor Marshall is satisfactorily serving out a four-years term, and he will remain governor of>Indiana until January, 1913. Both Harmon and Marshall are excellent governors; and both have shown fine quail ities of leadership.
 Perhaps the best feature of Thomas R. Marshalrs character is his directness and straight-out democracy. He stands for revenue tariff-tarif for revenue only and it was this sort of democracy that elected Grover Cleveland both times. He is A capable man, of even brilliant quail ities, and he stands to his principles un- hinchingly.
 It is, however. too early to choose be- tween the Harmon boom and the Marshall boom. When the elections are held in November we will know pretty clearly how both Ohio and Indiana will be apt to vote in 1912, and the one boom or the other, or even both booms, may disappear. Both may, however, remain, and then democrats will have an opportunity to choose the stronger one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
Cornntzer in City


 | N. Cornatzer, assistant general passenger agent for the Frisco system was in Birmingham yesterday consult ing with Capt. James R. McGregor in regard to the special trains that Will be operated from Birmingham to Chi cago and St. Louis Saturday.
 "Our road is in fine shape now' said MT Cornatzer, and we reel that we are taking no risk in making faster schedule such as planned on the Eagle special Saturday. We nave heavy, new equipment and the trains can be operated with perfect ease.
 q anticipate fine days business from Birmingham this year. We were not one of the disappointed lines last August and we seldom make a mis- take in lining up a town to receive the benefit of the special concessions. Birmingham shelters hundreds of per sons who went our way last year, ana who have awaited the announcement of the rates on our lines this August before making any definite plans Tor vacation. These facts lead me to be- lieve that the Frisco lines will be at the forefront Saturday when the St. Louis Chicago crowds start to leave. Tn the meantime I want 10 say that every care will be exercised in bring ing the passengers back home. In oth- or words, I do not wish the impression made that we are taking folks away from home without planning to get them back on good time and in con- fort"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
TABLES TURNED
From the National Monthly.

From the National Monthly.
 A good story Is told of Congressman H. W. QIank) Palmer of wilkes-B Barre, Pa
 Hank" has the reputation of being quite a story teller and is at all times ready to spring something funny at the other fellows expense but 1t happened that this time Hanks joke was turned on himself.
 It was back in the early eighties, when the scarf stickpins were so much in style. Hank purchased a conspicuously large pin, the design of which was a potato bug, green in color. When asked Irish potato bug"
 It was up to United States Commits sioner Honn of the same town, who is a typical German, and very unassuming, to turn the joke on the funny Hank, who had been having a lot of fun with his Irish potato bug. tn he ran across the little commissioner who eyed the pin very closely, but failed to make any re- mark about it. fearing that Hank had some joke attached to it.
 Honn was about to walk away. when Hank said to him: "Mr. Honn, what do you think of my new pinT'
 MT. Honn adjusted his heavy glasses scrutinized the pin very closely, and asked: Hank, vot iss dot?"
 That's an Irish potato bug" said Hank.
 well, vel," said the commissioner dots der largest bug efer see on such small potato"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
INDIAN SMOKE SIGNALS

From Harper Weekly.
 The traveller on the plains in the early days soon learned the significance of the spires of smoke that he sometimes saw rising from a distant ridge or hill and answered from different direction It was the signal talk of the Indians across miles of intervening ground, a signal used in rallying the warriors for an at tack or warning them for retreat.
 The Indian had a way of sending the smoke up in rings or puffs, knowing that such a smoke column would at once be noticed and understood as signal and not mistaken for the smoke of some camp fire. He made his rings by covering the little fire with his blanket for moment and allowing the smoke to ascend, when he instantly covered the fire again. The column of ascending smoke rings said to every Indian within 30 miles, Beware! An enemy is near!' Three smoEes built close together meant danger One smoke merely meant attention Two smokes meant Camp at this place"
 Frequently at night the settler or the traveller saw fiery lines crossing the sky shooting up and falling. perhaps taking a direction diagonal to the lines of vision He might guess that these were the sig nals of the Indians, but unless he were an old-timer he might not be able to in terpret the signals. The old-timer and the squaw man knew that one-fire arrow an arrow prepared by treating the head of the shaft with gunpowder and fine bark mean the same as three column. of smoke puffs. An enemy is near. Two arrows meant danger three ar rows. "The danger Is great" Several ar rows indicated. 'The enemy is too power f,ll for us'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
An hmsriCan's Achievement

Aviation is fast advancing to the com mercial stage. John M. Moissant of Chi- cago flew across the English channel yes- terday, and took a passenger along with him. This achievement marked a new record in aviation, it being the first two-man flight from the continent to Eng land. And the fact that 1t was an Amer lean who accomplished this wonderful feat shows that this country is still developing men combining brains, skill, daring-men full of ambition and the get-there spirit
 Despite many difficulties and in the face of appalling accidents, aviation has come to stay, and not only come to stay. but it will not be a great while before flying machines will be as common as automo- piles.
 The nineteenth century was crowded with invention and achievement, but from the way the twentieth is starting out all former centuries will look trihe com monplace. The genius of man seenfs to know no bounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Dirt During Hot Season

Now that we are having our first real spell of warm weather In blr- mingham I am putting Into practice one of my pet theories" said well known citizen. T have always contended that the discomforts of hot weather are augmented many fold by overeating.
 when the really hot weather comes I actually fast; I go hungry most or the time. Experience has taught me that nothing can make me feel worse than to eat a heavy meal on not day. Fried things are especially 10 be summed. During this weather ht- tie oat meal and cream or eggs ana toast are sufficient for breakfast. For lunch like a couple of raw eggs with salt and pepper and lemon Juice. MY heaviest meal Is In the evening" or course. but even then l am careful To leave the table hungry If l get spe- cially hungry during the morning ono afternoon I go out and get giass of good cold buttermilk. Buttermiik is the best hot weather drink in the world. for it is not only refreshing and cooling, but it has nourishing qualities which are fine for a man who Is on light diet.
 This is the season when most peo- pie complain of feeling dull and stupid; when they are subject to stomach dis- orders and when they feel that vthey are in danger of having an attack Of fever. Let them try dieting. It will make a great difference. We eat too much anyway. both in winter and in summer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
Nr. Hayes Lean Year Theory

5 MT. Hayes, who is the acting Secretary is recruiting the granary of his brain, presents the old theory that wet and dry seasons alternate, moving in cycles, and that we are now entering the dry period This period, says Prophet Hayes, will inhict upon the country dry summers for at least 10 or 12 years. with attendant short crops and high prices. The wise man, he adds, will stock his cellar and his granary against the days of scarcity and famine.
 This theory may be accepted in some of the states that have been drouthy this summer, but 1t would arouse scorn, not to say jeers, in Alabama, where nearly Il inches of water fell in July and where il inches more may fall in August. The Hayes theory is a misfit in the south- east, however well it may fit the north western spring wheat belt.
 All such theories have little indeed to rest upon. There are no known weather cycles in any part of this country. The wind bloweth where it listeth in all parts of the United States, observing no known rules, and the rains fall alike on the just and the unjust with small respect for weather cycles or even the weather bu- reau.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
Strides il Agriculture
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The south as a section is making marked progress in agriculture. Com pared with ten years ago the advance has been indeed wonderful. And among southern states Alabama is perhaps mak- ing the greatest strides of all
 Notwithstanding the damage to cotton from excessive rains in June and July Alabama will produce this year a crop of about 1,2o0,0OO bales. It's corn crop is about double that of last year, while hay, oats, truck and orchard fruits are abundant and commercially valuable. All of this agricultural thrift is the result of intelligence and eagerness to learn how to apply approved new methods on the part of the men who till the soil
 A few years ago the farmers of Ala bama were content to make cotton as their one money crop. Only a few raised enough hay and corn to feed their stock Now there is scarcely large farmer of any ambition in any part of the state who is not producing corn for the market One of the governments agricultural ex- .perts said that recently he found Alabama farmers not only appreciatiye of demon stration work, but that they were, as a rule, more responsive to up-todate meth ods than the farmers of any other state
 Alabama has entered upon new era of ssosperity. # its resourres were only
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
AMERICAN MUSIC IN THE PARKS

are compelled to pay for their music. There are not many works by native composers on the programmes of the concerts directed by Gustav Mahler, Wall ter Damrosch or any of the symphony conductors who are to be heard during the winter. nor do they appear often on the programmes of the popular concerts given at the opera houses. Presumably they are not there because the public does not demand to hear them. It is quite possible, moreover, that the audi ences which pay to hear Beethoven. Schumann, Bach and Mozart might not care to pay to hear the works of our own composers. If there were any great demand from the musical public to have them performed, and if there was a cer- tainty that large audiences would buy the tickets when these works were ren- dered, conductors would be delighted to play them.
 People who listen to the park coHcerts because they cannot afford to pay for others have Just as great a right to hear the masterpieces of musical litera- ture as those who go to Carnegie Hall. When the city sets out to provide them with an aesthetic and educating pleas- ure it should be just as high in quality as any other. Because the audiences have not paid for the delight of listen
 ing to a concert in the park is no req son why they should be compelled to hear music that has not shown itself in demand on the programmes of other con- certs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
SORROW AND LOVE

Helen Lanyon in September Ainslee's. Sorrow and I have parted fellowship, Sorrow and I have parted company; Now shall Lifes golden hours as smooth-
 ly slip
 As beaded pray'rs upon rosary. For 1a,. Love stood waiting on the highway And led me from the noise ofshurrying
 feet
 Into garden full of spice and song And wonder flowers rich with nectar
 sweet. laughed aloud as laughs child al
 play, F Dancing and singing through the golden When ioi There stood before me in the
 way ' Sorrow and Love. linked lightly hay
 In hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
MUSICAL COMEDY.

M O OClSAi1 AONl lEDI Il. See the merry villagers
 Dancing on the green, Soon the bland comedian
 Ambles on the scene. Chucks a little flower girl
 Underneath the chin, Looks upon the audience
 With foolish grin. Rattle-bangi the orchestra Swings into his song, Interspersing side remarks, Follows he along. Neither rhyme nor reason in What he has to say, Still he made an awful hit On Broadway. Forth the prima donna comes, Dazzling to behold. Regal in Q Paris gown,
 Slippers all of gold. She's a beauty, we'll confess Have no other choice; All she really lacks is just Some kind of a voice. Forty-'leven chestnuts are
 Banded bout the stage, Nimble as they ever were, In, despite of age. Chorus wins much favor for What 1t doesn't wear, Up and down the baldhead row, Where there's little hair. That's the "girly-girly" show, Hlghbrows can't endure; Still, 1t draws a crowded house And I'm very sure Most of us. no matter what Openly we say, Much prefer that kind of show To an Ibsen play.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18

From the New York Sun.
 THE patriotic efforts of the conduc-
 tors of the free concerts to find
 A a place on their programmes TOT native music will delight sympathizers with the theory of perhaps the most noted American composer, Edward Mc- Dowell, believed that the works or HIS colleagues should be heard at misceiia- neous concerts, and not at special re- r,ta,s organized to show that we really have men whose works are worth hearing. He would never allow his works to appear on any programmes at so-caiieo concerts devoted to American music. There could be no musical performances of A more popular character than those given in the parks, and few or the "ln- ter time concerts are provided with sucn miscellaneous programmes. So those American composers whose music Is n,ayed there have to take their chance along with the musicians of other na- tions, which is just what so many Amer jeans think Is the best thing for them and their creations.
 But there is no reason why the music of our composers who are not heard Tn regular concerts should be allowed to have a place on the programmes of those free concerts given for the benefit of listeners who presumably cannot af- fond to pay for their music. This looks too much like forcing an audience that cannot help itself to listen to numbers that are not played where the hearers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
LONDON
How the Retail Shopl<eepers Keep
 shop in the Great City

How the Retail ShoplSeepers Keep
 Shop in the Great City
 London Correspondence. in New York
 Sun.
 of the London shopkeepers; they will go to any length to please a customer. At hatter's in Jermyn street tried one derby after another-"bowler' is the Eng fish designation-and then they offered to make one for me to the measure of my head with suitable crown and brim. The idea of having a derby hat made to order was so novel as to be startling. and would have been accepted were it not that had knocked around in straw hat until October 8. The shoemakers habitually make special lasts to the con- tour of .each foot; the tailors take no end of pains; after haberdasher has made shirts to measure he takes 1t for granted that he is to make collars also to measure that sit properly on the shirts. A young man at the jewellers took the trouble to carry watch that pleased me in his own pocket for three weeks to test Its accuracy, and then frankly told me that as 1t had varied as much as 20 seconds a day he could not recommend 1t. To the tobacconist I returned box of cigars, saying that they were too strong. He asked me to come in in q day or two, when he thought he would have some cigars just to my taste. I %l,o xat,, f,rr to my apartment noticed the same slight defect, and that the label was that of the box returned; the cigars, however, were mild and agreeable. At the time of the next purchase I was told that it was the same box, and the same cigars but they had been subjected to a cer4 tain aeration that allayed their high flavor.
 It Is easy to understand why London speaks of shops and shopkeepers. There are not many of the retail establish : ments which we designate as stores, and the principal one of these is a re- cent American enterprise. Many of the shops in which goods are retailed have a depth of no more than twenty or thirty feet, and the stocks are not large The shopkeepers makes what the customer wants or orders 1t from the manufacturer. The furnisher had but three suits of woolens of the required size, but telegraphed to the mill in Scotland for the remainder of the order. The stationer had but one box of the desired typewriter paper. but said that he would have the two other boxes the next day. This all seems to be sur yival of the medieval period when arr tisans made the things they used In a community as they were needed. Tn the United States we began at an early day to make things in large quantities by machinery, and all over the country we find things of all sorts ready made ready to use, and ready to wear. In many of the London shops no attempt is made at attractive display, eith ey in the windows or on the counters. This does not apply. to the more pretentious fronts in Regent street, but even here window dressing is seldom done with the care that produces such artistic results as in the show windows of the better establishments in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
NO MORE POLITICS FOR HIM


 From the Chicago Tribune.
 "Yes, slr," said Uncle Zeke, politics is a dirty business. You don't ketch me mixin' in 1t any more Never again. l know when I've had enough
 ''Youve been candidate for officer
 "wunst That's enough fur me-"
 "Got beat. did your
 "Yes, sir, I got beat. but I didn't mind that. It was the loss of confidence in my feller citizens, the findin' out that our politics Is rotten all through, and that you can't depend on a man. prom ises. That's what hurt"
 "Was it an abusive campaign?"
 Abusive. They circulated report that had corns in the palms of my hands. They said I took out my false teeth when I eat my dinner, so l wouldn' wear 'em out They charged me with cuttin' my stogies in two when I smoked 'em so's to make lem last longer. One O. the papers printed the story that my grandfather on my mothers side was an Algerine pirate. They got man tc e~-oar that I never had my hair cut in L.. dark of the moon. They accused me of belongin' to a non-union church. They said I drunk my soup instead Of eatin 1t with a spoon. They said my breath always smelt of onions, and that my dog had feas."
 What office were you running for?"
 'I was runnin', sir.' answered Uncle Zeke, with impressive dignity. flor the office of coroner"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
Niceties of Justices

"The anecdote in Wednesdays Age Herald of William Alden Smith as to the Irish justice of the peace who didn't want to hear both sides. had almost a counterpart in a justices court here in Jefferson county a few days ago.,
 said an Age Herald reader. The case involved money lost at craps game some two or more years ago. It ap- pears that A lost his role and B, hav- ing much more, urged his partner to shoot 'em again while he laid the stakes. They lost, and time passed by. B, claiming that he let A have money to bet, sued him in a justices court. The evidence as to whether A DOT rowed money from B was contradictory. The justice declined to rule. because, he said: If I decide for A 1t makes B a liar, and if decide for B 1t makes A a liar And justice was unable to decide who was telling the truth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Next to a lecture-advice is about the most useless thing.
 Not only is marriage a gamble, but it's on very slim margin. Some people seem to get their only fun out of spelling other folks
 If a man found a million dollars he'd find the same number of relatives the very next minute.
 When a man Is trying to take nap and the flies bother him he can't get half as mad with them as he can with his wife about 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18

The Age-Herald, always open to free discussion of all public questions. per- mitted MT. Hill Ferguson to print within it's columns long card yesterday &C., cusing it of knocking" the higher edu- cational institutions of the state. MT. Ferguson was once upon the reportorial staff of The Age-Herald. Neither then nor now were such things as 'knockers' known of The e-Herald makeup. MT. Ferguson's imagination is playing havoc with his good judgment of former days. He is the first person ever to find line in the columns of The Age-Herald not urging the upbuilding of the State uni versity, Auburn, Montevallo and all other institutions of learning in the state. The Age-HeraId has, however, always de- manded that the common schools of the state should be developed in proportion to the higher institutions of learning, and proposes to continue to do so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
MUSINGS OF THE GENTLE CYNIC

From the New York Times.
 Many a man marries with no higher ideals than. to have his socks alarmed.
 The hand that never forgets its cun- ming Is pretty girls.
 A woman's idea of perfect man is one who thinks she Is perfect.
 Some men are like their whiskers. They always want to take opposite sides.
 When the wolf Is at the door he at least keeps the pedlers and book agents away.
 Some of us seem to expect oppor- unity to drive up to our doors with an automobile and take us for q spin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18

nothing of the profit the companies col- lect in their high prices for sleeping car accommodations. If the companies made no other profit, the tips it forces from the public would be enough. Tipping Is outrageous but save your mitigation for the companies behind the porter, and do not vent it all on him. Your tips really go to the companies and they count on them as part of their profits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
A NEW TAD

From the Louisville Courier-Journai
 A pilgrimage to Oberammergau seems to be as necessary to an American actress nowadays as a surgical operation was to an American society woman when appendicitis was fashionable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
A YORKSHIRE PLASTER
From London Tit-Bits.

A friend on a viist to Yorkshire caught a chill and was confined to bed. His hostess thought to give her sick visitor a treat during his confinement. so she baked a yorkshire puc6Ing and took 1t upstairs.
 Just try that" she said; "it'll shift yer cowd." Then she left him.
 Going up some time later she inquired:
 well, ave va etten 1t up?''
 "Etten 1t? Etten it?' gasped her visi- tor; No; I'm wearin' 1t on my chest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
WORSE AND WORSE.

'The long. smooth, zzz-pp of the tire gliding over the highway is true music to the trained ear of the otorist."-Advt. The wretched pedestrian has to content himself with the monotonous jjj-qq of his new boots on the pavement.-Punch. Pes simist. Suppose it was the eternal eee-kk of a cork leg you thought everybody was to.-New York Telegram.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-18
A sLEEPLEss TOWN

From the Rochester Herald and Demo-
 crat
 Tn some cities,' says the Birmingham Age-Herald, mo one can be admitted to the ~best circle of society unless he hus a sleeping porch.' Rochester Is not in- cluded in the number Even the porches are wide awake here.