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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
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Balllneer-P -Plnchott Inquiry

While the investigation committee will primarily look into MT Ballingers manner of handling public lands, the plans and purposes of Clifford Pinchot will necessarily obtrude themselves, and the two will have to be considered together. The plans of MT. Pinchot were diametrically opposed to those of MT. Ballinger, and the two will have to be contrasted and discussed.
 The story of Mir Glavis, the first wit ness, will freely present the chief is- sues before the people. and as MT Glavis is represented by lawyer it is plain his entire story will be brought out. The case is so complex that law yers are a necessity at the sittings of the committed They will simplify and clarify the testimony.
 If Ballinger is to be whitewashed by the committee it will have to be done in the teeth of a great deal Of opposition testimony. The chances now are that the whole truth will be brought out and two reports will be presented, the one looking at the mat ters involved through Pinchot spec tacles and the other through Ballinger glasses. A report that the 12 investi- gators will sign is probable.
 A month will probably be spent in taking the evidence in this famous case. Mir Ballinger should not have been made cabinet officer, but it is possible that he will be able to show that his hands are clean, although 1t must be conceded he did not and does not have a high idea of conservation in the developing west. He wants de- velopment more than conservation.
 Thus far the evidence of MT. Glayis is an unsavory story relating to the Taft campaign fund, and If this be kept up and sustained the entire admin istration will be tainted as well as MT. Ballinger. No more damaging story concerning campaign contributions has ever been made officially public, and the democrats are to be congratulated that they have on the Investigation committee four good lawyers in Sen ators Paynter and Fletcher and Repre- sentatives James and Graham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
MAKEUP A LOST ART.
Chorus Girls Mako Themselves Hideous
 By Use of Grease Paint.

By Perry Beaumont in the Philadelphia
 Times
 When you go to a musical show and occupy seat anywhere in the first five have to gaze upon stageful of chorus ''beauties' who have made themselves hiceous through the misuse of grease paints?
 These girls may look all right to those in the gallery or rear of the house. but certainly they can't be expected to make much of hit with those In the front of the house.
 It's quite necessary, I suppose for show girls and chorus girls to make up." but the manner in which they abuse the rouge, grease paint and eye brow pencils is almost beyond compre- hension.
 I wonder if these same girls believe they have made themselves attractive when all this stuff has been dabbed on their faces. without tine slightest re- gard, 1t would seem. for quantity or effect either. As a matter of face there are few things more hideoua. and the limit is reached when they try to smile.
 Invariably they dab too much rouge on the cheeks. too much red on the lips and far. far too much black or blue, which ever 1t may be-on the eyelashes. There may be worse sights than a show girl yer-made-up but they only come to one in nightmares.
 What's the use of looking around for pretty girls to adorn the front rows show girl gowns if they are to dab paint and powder on their faces like white wash on a chicken coop?
 There ought to be some common sense limit to this thing of making up, and some day wideawake musical comedy manager will make a big hit with the people who purchase seats in the front of the house by insisting upon tho girls using some Judgment in the matter.
 And all that has been said to show girls and the ladies of the chorus in this respect might trutnrul1y be said about some of the legitimate actresses although 1t is seldom that the evil Is carried as far by the lights as it is i in the musical comedy. 1 There's a medal due the manager who is first to give us beauty line' i that hasn't been made hideous to those in front by the reckless use of rouge and grease paints.
 Making up" used to be an art, but it's lost one to the average show girl.
 A paint and powder censor could earn a good salary with any musical show.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
DAMAscUe-A GARDEN CITY.

From Robert Hichen's "The Spell of Da-
 mascus' in the Midwinter Century.
 Damascus is a garden city touched by the great desert. Under its roses one feels the sands. Beside It's trembling waters one dreams of the trembling 2 mirage. The cry of its muexzins seems to echo from its mosque towers to that most wonderful thing in nature which Is God without man." The breath of the wastes passes among the poplars as that Bedouin boy passed among the mer- chants when he came and when he went In Damascus one hears the two voices. And when one looks from the sacred mountain upon that city of dream, cradled among the woods. one sees far off the tawny beginnings of that other magic. which locks out from the Be- douin's eyes. And though. perhaps with the pilgrims from Samarkand, one loves to rest beside the fountains under tho hedges of roses, one is aware of the other love- intercourse with which has made Damascus an earthly paradise for them and for you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
FRENCH MENU.
Eat Less Than Half the Meat Per Cap.
 Ita Than Americans.

Apropos of the present agitation against the eating of meats in the United States the daily menu of the Frenohman Is in- teresting. The French people per capita eat less meat than Americans by half
 Tho French breakfast Is invariably tho same-a bowl of cafe au lait and bread and butter. It is the only time in the day when butter is given to one. At noon one Is served with fish and bread without butter. or vegetable and bread. At night there will be soup, bit of meat, whatever vegetable was cooked in the soup. and wine. Wine is the common beverage of the country, but it is no heavier than lemonade The poorer peo- pie do not live so well as this. They have bread and cafe au lait or chocolate for breakfast and for supper, and . salad (which Is the cheapest of all foods there), or pot au feu for the meal of the day. Dandeloin is served as Q salad, and never cooked. It is in season in November and December.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
WILD GEESE IN kANsAs-
Ate the Grass as Fast as 1t Grew sn
 Early Days.

From the Kansas City Journal.
 .As late as 1873 tho wild geese in Kan sas for a time ate all the grass as 1ast as 1t grew during the time that these birds stayed in this part of the coun- try" said I. J. Beyers. an old settler or Reno county, the other day, to some people who were talking of plaques like the grasshoppers and hot winds. Old time settlers in Reno county Will re- member this, and to the people who knew of the vast number Of geese tnis will not appear incredible.
 "The familiar sight in those years of the long lines of geese in their flight from the prairie to the river with in- cessant noise will never be forgotten by the old settlers. Some doubted whether or not the numerous geese which came each fall would permit the prospective farmer to enjoy the wheat and corn he might coax from an apparently grudg- ing soil.
 Many who wanted to appear wise said that between the dry weather and the grasshoppers on one hand. and the geese and predatory animals on the other, farming was impossible or scarce ly remunerative. and the whole country would ultimately lapse back into either desert or wilderness. or else be merely a cattle country. Of course. the wish to some was the father of the unawrranted expression. m M ''The age which had just preceded had witnessed vast herds of buffalo, roam ing at will, subsisting on the rich herb age of the plains and the country was in transitorial state which was fa- vorable to the development and increase of other forms of life after the buffaloes were slain. The latter fact accounts for the unusually large numbers of wild geese after the buffaioes were exter- minated. and also of the grasshoppers and other insects which gave the set- tiers much trouble"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30

There Is something about this town which has gotten unto itself real move ment-
 We reallv want cheaper meats, but we are after a higher degree of merit
 And we are getting it.
 Look at the two hundred thousand dol lars and more which was raised for new Young Mems Christian association building within ten days; and the sixty thousand dollars subscribed for the Young Uonan,. Christian association building within two daysl
 This means a civic pride; a general sn,r,t to build up; a hurrah spirit great movement, and a foundanonai oe- sire to make Birmingham substanua. strong and perpetual.
 WA v,av not be able to eat meat every day. but we have decided that 1t IS meet unon our part to make Birmingham the sraatest and the most solid city of the great south.
 The snirit is here now. The people are here; and they are doing the work.
 And right in this connection IL IS pul proper to say that the substantial young men who were selected and sent here to take charge of the properties of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company by the haad officials of the United States Steel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
HOLDING THEIR OWN.

From the Kansas City Star.
 Count de vries. the Dutch. rAleman who even allowed himself toz$ Shot at In his efforts to gain access to John D. Rockefeller, said Of his experience to New York reporter:
 T have tried long time to interest MT. Rockefeller in my project for drain- Ing the zuyder Zee. Now, at last. have seen him. What if the interview was not encouraging? I, like the tired tourists, am not easily cast down.
 Two tired tourists, you know, were tramping in Switzerland. They were on their way to Interlaken, where they pro- posed to dine and pass the night Late in the afternoon, when hunger and fa- tigue began to make walking unpleasant, they accosted farmer.
 How far is 1t; they asked, to Inter- lakenr
 !" Two miles, was the reply.
 And they walked hopefully on. A half hour passed. Interlaken was not yet in sight So, seeing another farmer in a field. they shouted to him:
 Are we near Interiakenr
 Keep straight forward the farmer shouted back, its just two miles
 Tho tired. hungry tourists tSudged on again. Another half hour passed, and still no sign of Interlaken.
 'Is Interlaken very far from here!' they asked third farmer
 No. gentlemen said the farmer. It's only two miles,
 Then the tourists looked at one an- other and the younger sighed and ex- claimed:
 Well thank goodness. we're holding our own, anyhowr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
TIE PICTURED FACE.

By Julia Neely Finch. Thin and wan and old. With many-arWrtnhe eHeo Ano
 crossed The pale and patient faoe within its bands of snowy hesr. rhs tender syss have alnost lost Their hue of biossom-blusi But brave and g1ad they losk as yos Prom orbits sunken deep; Ana men were good and women Dufs And evil had its cure, And womsn were meant to weap! Within the nngsrs' dutter1n9 Told There is the elsam of circling gold Almost worn aparti Another frames face tha& ues Above that faithful heart rai1ant face ana debonnaire with youths snohantinG grace (Ah. many year csnss " wss n'e bsneath . eo6in-lddD Prom out that marrow franc Ny whole life looks ct mel A haby sleeps upon hsr arm m dinnpaed comfort svest and warm A lftt1o child upon her knee Iooka out and laughs at me A maidsn thera beside her gtAAds Dreaming that In her ciaspipg bands ghe holds tho keys to fortune fames To Iove-lit wonderlands That prelude parAdtse. And now rec . woman worn And Wan with weeping. eresp forlorn TO ne upon her motfapss breast And nnA thsrs comfort sotaea rest; 10 bo by eome brave moehGgHWuF1 no hopo renewed and couraGo etirPe1 And noW--I eco no more. my oWn- Vor ah. voop. enA WoGo o11nof nlzz1lnl4ou {G1neUs 31
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
AN unoRArEFuL SUFFERER.

From the Youths Companion.
 Steady nerves. strength and gentleness had all been included in natures gift to Miss Harmon. and she made an excel- lent nurse. But when she saw patient in what she called ''the glums' she never failed to speak a few admonitory words.
 ''Now. see here." she said fin her clear, pleasant voice one morning to Squire Lathrop. slowly recovering from an at- tack of gout which had been severe enough to send him to bed. see hereI I know you've had quite siege. but you just look at some Q your mercies, sQuirs."
 What, for instance?" demanded the squire, who knew her ways.
 Miss Harmon bent an accusing gaze on him
 'Take this bed. for instance" she said. Have you thought how few there are that have the pr1vilegs of being siolk in 2 handsoms black walnut bedstead like yours and have their clean sheets taken out Of such . mahogany linen prese as you've got7 That ought to cheer you up soma, anyway, to think of such privii- egea."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Courthouse Annex.


 'The county Board of Revenue Is made up of ievel-headed, conscientious men, and as an organization it tries to keep abreast of the times. said q prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Progress is the spirit Of the age, but If the board carries out It's pur- pose of erecting a s50.00o annex to the courthouse, instead of giving us some thing adequate and In keeping with the large ideas of this community. grave mistake will be made. The projected an- mex would prove inadequate six months after 1t was completed. Another annex would be built. making g cheap-looking architectural tumble.
 What should be done by the Board of Revenue Is to build on the corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-first street, on the site of what is known as the old jail, now used as a hospital, seven or eight-story. fire-proof annex with foun- dation and walls sufficient to stand five or six more stories in the future. Such a building could be erected for s2oo.ooo, and 1t would be an ornament and a credit to the city. The building planned is in no way in keeping with the city. the coun- ty or the neighborhood.
 Before 1t Is too late I want to sug- best that the board revise its plans and put up suitable building. one that would tend to improve rather than injure the neighboring property, and which would be sufficient to meet future requirements. We have certainly outgrown the make shift stage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
The PhenominaI City.

Every city in the south is growing so far as my observation goes and have visited most of them within the past fe years,' said Walter R. Fael- ton of Philadelphia.
 Richmond, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville, Memphis, Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth, to say nothing of New Orleans. show unmistakable signs of sub stantial progress, but the one phenom- enal southern city is Birmingham The occasional visitor to Birmingham can but marvel at the strides this city has made since 1900. I was here in 1899 for the first time. Birmingham then seemed to have a big future; but seeing the city today with It's skyscrapers. it's magnifi- cent passenger station, its crowded ho- tels, its miles of beautiful residences and its fine streets, I look back and re- call smell town just getting a start.
 One does not have to ask questions to learn that Birmingham is making rapid strides. There is hustle hero not found in any other city of the 100000 class. It requires no stretch of the imag- nation to forecast a population of Do- 900 to 100000 in 1920"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
LOVE WILL FIND A WAY.

From Everybody's Magazine.
 Oberlin was the first coeducational col- lege in this country. Tn the early days they had a rule that in case there were but one man and one woman in a room, at least one chair should be between them. One evening an instructor. pass ing one of the small sitting rooms. was mortified by beholding young man and a young woman occupying the same chair.
 Sir" he demanded of the man stu- dent, what is the meaning of this out rageous behavior? Do you not know the rules of the collese?'
 ''why-er-dont they say that If man and girl sit alone in a room they shall have one chair between them?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
TO ENTERTAIN ROYALTY.
Prince and Princess of Wales VIII
 vlsIt South Africa.

Cape Town, January 29.-(Speciai.) .)--Lord selborne has summoned . conference of representatives of the states to elaborate details for the reception of the Prince and Princess of Wales on their visit here during the first parliament of United South Africa
 Their royal highnesses will arrive at Durban on September and will afterward leave for Victoria Falls. Tho Prince and Princess will remain at Livingstone Rho- desia) 10 days for big game hunt on the Batoko plateau.
 The royal party will reach Cape Town at the end of October to open the union parliament.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
Gadsden Is Growing.

"Gadsden is on the eve of the great est industrial boom in its history" de- clared W. P. Hofferbert, who was in Birmingham yesterday.
 "The new steel plant of the Southern Steel and Iron company is being rapidly pushed to completion. This will require many new men for operation and the real estate people are being pushed to pro- vide homes for the new population.
 "All arrangements are now completed for the paving of the main business streets of Gadsden and this improvement will be hurried This will add greatly 10 the appearance of the city.
 'The prospect for the proposed new passenger service from Chattanooga to Birmingham over the Chattanooga South ern and the Louisville and Nashville by way of Gadsden is bright. The Chat tanooga Southern is ready to put on the service if the other road will co-oper- ate."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
oLp-FAsHIoNED NoAH's ARK.

From an Exchange.
 An Indianapolis toy dealer tells an anso- dote about Booth Tarlington- '.Mr. Tark- ington." he begins ''came into my shop one day at Christmas time and said; I want . Noah's Ark. please. Not one of your modern Noah's Ark, but good. old fashioned ons-ons wherein Noah is the same size as the elephant T think I've got what you want sir.' remarked, up in the attic And soon brought down to him . dusty old Noah's Ark of the kind that had sold when he was little boy in bib. MT. Tsr1einston opened the lid, pssrsd in and saids Aha, this is tho ticket There they all are. There is Noah, the same sizs ss the dove. and the dove h the same size as the ele- phant. But, to make sure that this b . genuine. old-fashionsd, Noah's Ark l wfu appiy one last test. 4 will cir, with yous permission. tasts Ncah's head And Nr. Tarkington 1auehed. prstsnded tc tasts the bri6ht point on the head of the patriarch. and paying his bill. walked out vifh the eld~fnshionel Meeh'e Ark unr Hcg M aGDk* :. A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30

Herald. w4>x wn.ch am connected, ls doing It's part in it's splendid new build- ing on Fifth avenue, and that it shall move into that new building within the next three days.
 The quicker spirit of Birmingham is manifest in everything, that is doing. It has permeated the entire state and was manifested early last week by tho decision of the democratic executive com mittee to call an early primary. and to do that which is to be well done quickly. We are to have whirlwind campaign and it is manifest that there is great activity in politics by the number of can- didates who are announcing for all tho political offices in the state. counties and cities Look at the columns of Tho Age Herald this morning and see how many men want offices There are lots of good ones, but there are not near enough offices to go around among them
 So. after this primary of May 2, we shall have a whole lot of good big men left over to go into the industrial pur- suits and help to build up this great community and this great state.
 All of them are good workers and the industrial world shall be assured of a full complement of brains. energy and labor in early May.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 4 woman's mirror tells her the truth; she interprets 1t falsely
 Even man with sense can prove he hasn't any when he makes a speech.
 A married man brags more about 1t in the first six months than all the rest of his life.
 A man can get a reputation for most anything if he has enough money ts prove 1t. dozen ways to make money. but . n11Iten e iaas AA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
Interest Rates In Postal Banks

The probable passage by the repub. lican party of postal savings bank bill begins to attract attention so far as details are concerned, and no point is of more interest than the rate of in- terest that the government will pay on deposits. In the Carter bill the rate mentioned is ? per cent, and this rate will no doubt be adopted.
 The large savings banks in New York and Boston have been paying 4 per cent interest, but recently some have reduced the rate to BE per cent. In much the greater part of the coun- try the rate is per cent or more. Whether the government can attract de- posits from the savings banks by pay ing per cent interest is, indeed, ques. in which the government would have the only savings banks, and the timid would at any rate become depositors in them.
 The best service of these banks will come when they are extended to fourth class postoffices, and this will speedily be done. There is no press ing need of postal savings banks ex- cept in fourth class postoffices, and it would not be strange, indeed, if Con. gross should decide to carry the postal banks to the fourth class offices at the very outset
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30

The downward drift of food prices is bringing more and more into the boycott, and by the time Ash Wednes- day comes the movement will be at its height. Ash Wednesday comes next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
ADRlFT WITH THE TIMES
2esnGer,eQ-

you ever saw. They never lose the scent and" But the visitor had fled.
 A NEAR-HERO. For honesty and manliness No sorrier excuse h CT loomed upon the landscape than The gallant" Captain Loose.
 PAIL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
A WIsM DOCTOR.

Beg pardon, sir" said the doctors as- sistant There is . man at the door who wishes to see you at once. He declares he can't eat anything"
 "0o back and ask him if hs can't eat anything because he hasn't any appetite or because hs hasn't the price. He may be an ultimate cosumsr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
4 FEW yEARs HENCE.

From Harpers BaEar.
 KnAcisr; You look tired.
 Becker: Yes, was up an night hyins tho baby.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30

The Nebraska democrats say the ticket of 1912 will be Harmon and Shallenberger. The latter Is now serv- ing as the democratic governor of Ne hraSka
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30

Governor Hadley of Missouri advises everybody to keep hen, but the peo- pie of that state will have to be shown before they will accept his advice
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30

MT. Ballinger's biography is being prepared by Editor Knute Nelson and his colleagues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30

The law of supply and demand doth protest too much when the packers ex- plain it. It is at any rate sitting up and taking notice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30

Those Cunningham coal lands in Alaska are to be woven into political history, and some one besides MT. Ballinger will have to bear the blame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30

The Panama libel suit went up like a rocket and came down like a stick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30

Standpat congressmen are already beginning to claim that they were the
 original insurgents. Insurgency has
 become fashionable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
RICH IN nxPER1ENcn.

Though clammy grows his ancient brow And Death at portal waits, He smiles and says, well, anyhow I've gone a lot of gaits.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30

Congressman Moxley. butterine maker, finds that his task of upholding Cannonlsm is more strenuous than the making and marketing of bogus butter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30

Food prices are going down, and the news will yet reach the ears of your grocer and your butcher.