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men who can present the subject to tell
them all about it and let them appoint
committees. 10 confer with other cities and
with representatives in legislatures and
Congress to secure the widest possible
cooperation, and let the southern states
have water power conventions by states
and as a group so that their efforts may
be of a somewhat uniform scope, where
the question of river surveys and eXplor-
atoms for reservoir locations can be fully
eanvassed in order to make provisions for
such work by the joint action of several
states where the river is interstate; and
finally. let uniform laws be drafted and
enacted to cover the right of eminent do
main for conservation works with pro-
vision fer reimbursement from fees of
benefited water power opportunities and
others covering the necessary regulation
of water powers to guarantee the people
who confer these privileges against any
abuse of them.'
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JaDap, Germany and America

A good many newspapers do not like
the letters that Kaju Nakamura is writ
ing from Berlin. He says in substance
that the United states is a, wonderful
country full of live men, with almost
nnitless resources. Germany has less
good land and less capital, but that coun-
try is better systematized and scientif-
Gated.
There's the rub-a country needs to be
scientifieated. Japan turns to Germany
because the latter is scientihcated. Mr..
Nakamura does not fully explain the
meaning of the word. He does, however,
say that everything in Germany is made
with the bottom larger than the top. Be-
ginning with washing basins. cups and
the like this principle is applied to the
general social and industrial system.
Mr.. Nakamura who is a native of ia
pan, admits that his own countrymen
have not cool, scientific brains, and he
thinks Americans are also deficient in
that respect. So it may be. The fact re-
mains, though that today the three alert
countries of the world are Japan Ger
many and America. No other countries
are equally alert, equally vigorous. OF
equally successful. The highest life OF
the world is lived in the three countries,
whatever the shortcomings of any one OF
the three may be. Japan seems TO think
that Germany presents today the best
national type of the worlds three pro-
gressive nations.
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THE Artistic AND TIGHTS

From the Washington Post.
What shall be the law of tights for
the fair ones of the stage? Is 1t to- be
left to the within of those who when they
will they will, and when the won't they
won't? Is beauty to have its imperious
way, contracts or no contracts? Is a
fertile field for the fancy of press agents
to be abandoned? These are questions
suggested by a decision of the court of
appeals of New York, which seems suf-
1cienty indefinite what with divided
opinion and indetermlnate presidents.
The trial of~the suit has served to bring
out the interesting record that the ever
young and additionally shrinking Lii
liam Russell once upon a time refused TO
wear tights. But that artistic was at
least consistent She did not base her re-
fusal on ethical grounds, but upon her
fear of catching cold. She was sensitive
about her vocal chords, not about those
lines of beauty, objects of envy upon one
side of the footlights and of frank 'front.'
row admiration upon the other.
Prccedents upon the subject are unsat-
isfactory. In the case of one whimsical
scngstress, the manager gracously as
sented to her appearance In riding
habit. But such a substitute might not
always fit part. Moreover, the right to
change her mind, and consequently he"
Costume, would appear inalienable from
the reserved privileges of a female star.
Rightly considered, this is not prob
lem of fiippancy. 1t is a serious question
of art. When the part requires, and
when the motive of managersis unques-
tionably sincere, there can be no quarrel.
The issue is one of good taste, about
which there can be no argument. The
fact of discussion is. in truth. a refec-
ton upon those who debate A sufficient
purity of mind would Danish the topic
to the narrow view of the happily lin
tied number of persons who profess to
be shocked by what they may behold in
any art gallery.
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HUMoR,s PURPOSE

From Current Literature.
Mark Twain has won unquestioned pri-
macy among us as humorist, but he was
ever much more than that. 'Humor. like
morality. has its eternal verites," he
told Prof. Archibald Henderson of the
University of North Carolina. His mis-
sion was to express those verities. The
history of literature furnishes no great in
ternational figures whose fame rests sole
Iy on the basis of humor. There is al
ways some deeper and more serious i'm
plication which gives breadth and solidity
to the art product. Genuine humor, ac-
cording to Landor's definition. requires q
sound and capacious mind. which 10 al
ways a grave one" Rabalais and La
Fontaine were reflective dreamers: Ger
vantes fought for progress and reality;
and Moliere felt he was doing useful ser.
vice in attacking the shame and vices OF
his time.
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BANANA SKIN AS CAPITAL

From the New York Globe.
If the charges brought against the lady
who is locked up in the Tombs because
of her many accidents be well found
ed 1t would seem that one can make a
comfortable living on no more capital
than several slippery banana skins and
permanent bodily affection. This lady.
it is alleged, experienced 16 falls during
the last four years, from which her in
come has been about $1,000, collected from
transportation companies on whose prem
ises these falls were experienced. or, as
1t Is alleged, executed. Usually she was
launched or, as ii Is alleged, launched
herself on a banana skin. After each fall.
according to the implications Of the al
legation, the permanent bodily affection
was brought into play-and the transpor-
tation company In question settled quick!
But If one is going into this sort of
business he or she should have the dis
erection to spread his operations-to OPP
crate extensively rather than intensively.
1t does not pay to have many falls in the
same city for if one does there is grave
danger that hospital authorities or the
transportation companies themselves Will
get "on' to one And then one may be
prosecuted. The lady in the Tombs is be-
ing prosecuted on a charge of larceny
of $500 from the New York Central Rail-
road company. which sum. 1t is said, was
paid to her for personal injuries result
ing from one of her banana skin launch
ings. Many of her falls had occurred
or as it is alleged, had been incurred in
this city.
But, starting out with a few banana
skins and a physical affection that may
be made to look sufficiently bad on oc-
caslon, any one fairly expert in this bus
iness-provided he hceds the foregoing
counsel-may expect to make money rap
idly. 1t is well known that transporta-
tpn companies are, as a rule, eager to
come to immediate money settlements In
all accident cases. 1t is equally wei
known that juries have soft hearts fol
accident victims
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Specialization In Medical Science

Science has rapidly advanced in medi-
cine in the last so years, and the move
ment forward has been so rapid that it
has called for specialists in all of the
more important features of either medi-
cine or surgery. There are specialists
in almost all of the ills and diseases and
troubles of mankind, and an army of new
specialists is coming forward every year
The aspiring city physician aims to be-
come a specialist, and IT is predicted that
SOON we will have at every turn In all
cities specialists in every known az
Fiction
This means that the old family physi-
clan, with all of his equipment and SYM
pathy and general confidence. is to be
gradually weeded out except in the rural
| districts And in those districts the fam
| lily physician will largely be a guide to
the best or at least the nearest special
list. This is one of the changes of mod
ern thought and evolution that many will
regret It is. however, inevitable, SO rap
| idly is the science of medicine moving
forward. 1t is conducting to the establish
ment of great centers for the treatment OF
difficult cases-centers like that of the
Johns Hopkins at Baltimore, and St
Louis is today endeavoring to found q
| similar center, Other central cities viii
the work of specialists-a work thai
pre- misses to absorb the more difficul'
! care Of the old family physician,
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ful that we were justified in expecting
even better things during the present
season. and 1t is a pleasure to record
that expectation was not only realized.
but vastly exceeded.
1.-The Theodore Thomas orchestra was
one of the attra ctions at the festival, and
among the famous vocal artists who took
part were Madame schumann-Heink.
David Blspham and Evan Williams. Mr..
Williams sang in Birmingham at one OF
the Guckenberger festivals eight or nine
years ago. He was a great tenor then'
but from all accounts he has now reached
the very top of the list He easily car
ried off the big honors at the North
western festival.
1.-The large works, including chorus,
heard at the festival were Saint Saens'
oratorio, Samson and Delilah' and Verdi s
Requiem Mass And very pleasing
feature on one of the programmes was
childrens chorus of 1900 voices
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VVTHEN you were a tadpoie and l
NJ was a fish,
w In the Paleozoic time,

w HEN S we: s : ''..' ''''''' ana
w In the Paeozoic time,
And side by side on the ebbing tide
We sprawled through the ooze and
slime.
Or sheltered with many caudal flip
Through the depths of the Cambrian
FEM
My heart was rife with the joy of life.
For | loved you even then.
Mindless we lived and mindless we loved,
And mindless at last we died;
And deep In the rift of the Caradoc drift
We slumbered side by side.
The world turned on in the lathe OF
Time,
The hot lands heaved amain,
Till we caught our breath from the womb
of death,
And crept into light again.
Then we were amphibians. scaled and
tailed
we coiled at ease meath the dripping
Or trailed through the mud and sand.
Croaking and blind, with our three-clawei
feet
Writing language dumb,
with never a spark In the empty dark
To hint at a life to come.
!.
Yet happy we lived. and happy we loved.
And happy we died once more;
Our forms were rolled In clinglng moiu
OF a Neocomlan shore.
The cons came. and the cons fed
And the sleep that wrapped us fast
Was riven away in a newer day,
And the night of death was past.
Then light and swift through the jungle
trees
We swung in our airy flights.
Or breathed in the balm of the fronded
palm
In the hush of the moonless nights
And oh! what beautiful years were these.
When our hearts chung each to each;
When life was filled, and our senses
thrilled
In the first faint dawn of speech
Thus life by life. and death by death,
We passed through the cycles strange,
And love by love. and breath by breath,
We followed the chain of change.
Till there came a time in the law of life
When over the nursing sod
The shadows broke, and the soul awoke
In a strange, dim dream of God.
was thewed like an Auroch bull,
And tusked like the great cave bear;
And you, my sweet from head to feet
Were gowned in your glorious hair.
Deep in the gloom of fireless cave,
When the night fell DER the plain,
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New York a battle-ground in November

The Louisville Courier-Journal intimates
that the opposing candidates for President
two years hence will be Governor Thomas
NJ. osborne of New York and ex-Gov-
ernor Theodore Roosevelt also of New
York. Stranger things. it says, have hap
pened.
aThe coming leader in democratic circles
IN New York is at any rate Thomas NJ.
osborne of Auburn, who resigned a $1,000
place on the upstate public utilities com
mission in order to take hold of the reor-
ganized democracy. The new chairman
of the democratic state executive commit
tee. John A. Dix. is friend and CO.
worker of osborne, and the two can be
trusted to put the democracy in a way
to sweep the state in November
Mr.. Osborne is a fine leader. He is
man of culture and of brains-a man
whose public and private life is without
q stain. He can command the support of
every opponent of standpatsn and Al
drichism from one end of the state to the
other. The democracy is indeed fortunate
In having in this critical year leader
who recalls the younger days Of the Sage
of Graystone, for the new leader natur-
ally brings back the time when Samuel J.
Tilden first became the democratic nomt
nee for governor.
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Population Moving Southwark

As Richard II. Edmonds of Baltimore
pointed out in his animating address de-
livered before the Georgia School OF
Technology at Atlanta last week, the
Drain on the white population of the
south during the dark days that fol-
lowed the war was infinitely worse in its
effect upon this section than the loss and
destruction by the war itself From 1866
70 1900 it is estimated that 2,5OO,00O south
egn-born whites left their homes ana
settled in the north and west. This mi
grafton was readily accounted for by
the fact tina business opportunities were
limited in the south, while other Sec
lions thrilled with activity But of
recent years" says Mr. Edmonds. tho
tide has turned; population is once more
moving southwark
There is work for everybody in the
south today. Every man who is willing
to work can find employment at high
wages. And never were such inviting
opportunities open to the intelligent, am
bilious youth of the country as are now
opening to him in the south. In nearly
every southern state there has been
large develoI ment within the past ten
years: but this development will seem
small when, ten years hence, one looks
Lack.
THE demand for men is equally great
in the industrial field and in the agri-
cultural districts. Large tracts of good
land. now only partly cultivated, will
be divided into small farms for new
corners and before another decade passes
the south will not only raise cotton as
its great commercial crop, but the south
will be selling corn and hay and every
other product of the soil. The truck
ing industry has been growing but it
will grow faster Not only will the
south produce all the butter, chickens
and eggs it consumes, but will have a
snrnlus to shin north. Alabama is excep-
tionally rich in all natural resources, and
as TO agriculture or horticulture few
mercantile enterprises can be made to
nav quite so we'll as the business OF
tilling Alabama soil.
The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
has inaugurated its farm movement at
a, ausnicious time-a time when it will
be easier than ever before to induce
home-seekers from the northwest to set
lie themselves in this county. The com
nittea having this work in hand is for
mulating its plans in a business-like way
and inside of two or three years 1t should
be able to show large results. 1t is rea-
souable to think that with systematic
effort on the part of the Chamber OF
Commerce and with proper cooperation
Jefferson countys farming population will
/ be increased by 10000 souls inside of five
years. And the best of it is these farm
ars will be adding very materially to the
wealth of the county The last decade
witnessed rapid growth and vast i'm
provements in and around Birmingham
But from the present outlook the decade
lust begun will be nothing short of phe-
! Eomenal in material development.
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O. HENRY's PEOPLE

From Publishers Notes.
y Take the late George Gissing and
Petit Ridge, and Jerome, and Arthur
Morrison, take all they know, all they
have seen, all they have written of Lon
don of yesterday and today. and, well
20. Henry is to New York what these
four are TO London" So writes New
Zealand admirer of the distinguish ed
short story writer who has just passed
away. From this far corner of the worl1
n little article on o. Henry has reached
his publishers, Doubleday Page Co.
Among other things we are told what 1t
| is to know and understand Q. Henry.
ION my book shelves before me as
write" says this reviewer, ARE three
dumpy little red ba cked volume, The
Four Million The Voice of the City,
and The Trimmed Lamp Read them.
understand them-here and there the
'slanguage' Is just trifle baffling--and
you will know New York-at dis
lance. You will know the Honorable
Patrick ]. Graftigan, Tammny Sachem'
with his bull neck, his big diamonds,
and his fat cigar; you will know, too.
foxy-eyed Mat Feeney, who runs the
saloon in the 'Tenderloin,' corner OF
Sixth Avenuoo' and Thirty Fourth you
shall see the barman opening wine
for the boys at the behest of sen-
erous Dan Murphy. who has had .
stroke of luck round at Jake Flosh-i
STEMS faro bank you shall meet and
admire Sadie and Hattie, and Mamie.
and a host of other pretty and virtuous
typewriter girls, or 'Pompadour'-h aired
young ladies from the big department.
stores. You will be up In the slang
of Wall street, and the slang of the
men who sit on rockers all day mi
Broadway hotels, and smoke-and chew
AS they listen to the tale of joy
or woe-told them by the never idle
ticker These you shall know, and
others, the western buyer who 10,
taken round the sights by young Ike
! Goldsten; and the brok en- down ex-l
scion Of the Five Hundred who sleeps
en- a bench in Union Square is in more
tai fear of the cops and has his recog-I
nized place in the bread row. Also.
you will have been INTRODUCED to vast
crowd of artists, reporters. 'bunco.i
steerers,' musical and dramatic 'artistess
from the opera house variety down to
the performers in .five-cent Bowery
men, to men who own big palaces upl
the Hudson and ten Thousand dollar
automobiles (no motors in New York;.
and to men who don't know where theif
next dime Is coming from
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EVOLUTION: BY LANGDON SMITH

| And the moon hung red Ger the river
bed,
We mumbled the bones of the slain.
| | faxed flint to a cutting edge,
And shaped it with british craft;
| broke a shank from the woodland dank.
And fitted it, head and haft.
| Then hid me close to the reedy tarn
| Where the mammoth came to drink;
| Through Drawn and bone I drave the
stone,
And slew him upon the brink.
Loud I howled through the moonlit
wastes,
Loud answered our kith and kin:
| From west to east to the crimson feas.
The clan came trooping in.
| Ger the Joint and grstle and padded
hoof
We fought and clawed, and tore.
| And cheek by jowl, with many grow,
We talked the marvel DER
| | carved that fight a reindeer bone,
With ruds and hairy hand,
| I pictured his fell on the cavern wall
| That men might understand.
For we lived by blood and the right Of
might.
Ere human laws were drawn.
| And the Age of Sin did not begin
| Till our brutal tusks were gone
And that was a million years ago,
| In time that man knows
Yet here tonight In the mellow light
We sit at Delmonico's;
Your eyes are deep as the Devon springs,
Your hair is dark as jet,
Your years are few, your life is new,
Your soul untried, and yet
Our trail is on the Kimmerdge clay,
And the scarp of the Purbeck flags.
We have left our bones in the Bagshos
stones.
And deep in the Caroline crags;
Our love is old. our lives are old,
And death shall come amain
say
We shall not live again?
God wrought our souls from the Trema-
doc beds
And furnished them wings to fly;
He sowed our spawn in the worlds dim
dawn,
And | know that 1t shall not die.
| Though cities have sprung above the
graves
Where the crook-boned men made wa,
And the ox-wain creaks Ger the buried
| Where the mummied mammoths are.
Then as we linger at luncheon here,
| Ger many dainty dish,
| T ct us drink anew to the time when you
| Were a tadpole and was f1sh.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES



Il think it would be a good idea 10
give names instead of numbers TO the
wards In the city of Birmingham, said
an old citizen, and in the selection OF
the name attention might be paid to the
point that the name indicate the location
of the ward.
Although we have annexed the suburbs
and call the whole city Birmingham, sun
to most people the name Ensley repre-
SCENTS place they know. while to mention
It as the Sixteenth ward conveys no IDEA
of its location at all. In the same
manner we lose the Identity of Woodlawn'
North Birmingham and all the rest.
Even the nine original wards could be
named with advantage, and instead OF
speaking of the Fifth ward let 1t be
called Courthouse ward. or else name 1t
for the public school and call 1t Powell
ward.
Numbering streets and avenues IN reg
ular order is all right and is great I'M
provement on names. but II we were 10
number the counties as we number our
wards and precincts 1t would puzzle
genius to locate them
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BACHELOR KINGS DEFEAT

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
In the class with the fool who rocks the
boat and the fellow who didn't know 1t
was loaded Is Charles Doyle of Illinois,
known as the king of bachelors. who an
nounced himself as a candidate for the
nomination for state senator against Ed
ward Bealle, the "Stork Mayor" of AL
ton.
or course, Mr. Doyle's coldfs have been
trampled in the dust. He met fate nc
more richly deserved than openly court
ed.
The result of the forced withdrawal
and confessed defeat of this Benedick
who hasn't found his Beatrice is his con-
version-a political deathbed repentance
to advocacy of votes for women, wives
for confirmed bachelors and children for
every household. Upon this platform he
hopes to get elected to the Illinois house
o. representatives. He expresses spe-
cial admiration of red-headed women re-
CARELESS of freckles or other blemishes.
Whatever the politicians opinion upon
the question of woman suffrage may be-
only a candidate without judgment Will
enter a political race as an announced
woman hater and an enemy of suffragett-
ism.
Quite naturally Folly clapped her
hands and Wisdom stared when MT
Doyle proclaimed himself Now that ne
has famed the fires of suffragettism tc
dame his change of front does not prom
ise victory His only chance lies In
marrying a red-haired suffragette widow
with three or four children SO that he
may face his opponent with his record
cleared and a ready-made family 10 prove
the sincerity of his newly announced
Views. In any event the victory of woman
over the most offensive and most willfully
offending type Of marl-the bachelor who
tdeclares his celibacy the result of convic'
ton and not OF misfortune-is complete.
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cHARACTERIsTIC WORDS
the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript
Blood will tell said the man who
shaved himself and didn't want people
to know It,
1.-THE older grow the stronger get."
remarked the well-used pipe.
1.-The game is up" said the hungry
diner, noting the advance In price on
the menu.
Anything for change observed the
chorus girl, as she applied peroxide to
her locks.
Its time to get dressed for dinner
said the lobster as the cook took It from
the refrigerator.
ut doesn't bother me II food is high"
said the giraffe as he nibbled away at =
tree top.