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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
From the Washington Herald.

From the Washington Herald.
 TT Is doubtful whether any of the crea.
 lures that are born of the authors
 \ fancy to take the role of hero ever
 reach the sublimity of heroic effort that some of the authors themselves have at- tained. Passing by the manful struggles made by such men as poor Goldsmith, the unfortunate young Chatterton. pr. John- son in his earlier days, and the wayward Poe. to overcome hard sociological condi- tions in the daily fight for food, there are to be seen the wonderfully similar as- sumption of herculean tasks by the three great heroes, Sir Walter Scott, General Grant and Mark Twain. These three not ables surprised the world with the eager response that each made to the prompt ings of conscience and the tenets of moral integrity to assume debts which, by recog- nized processes. of law and certain ac- commodating standards of business, they might easily have repudiated without loss of standing or suggestion of dishonesty.
 But the world is benefited by the sight of all of these men at an advanced age settlng resolutely and uncompla1ningly to work to wipe out with their pens enormous debts for which they felt them selves morally obligated. Poor Sir Wal ter, perhaps, fared worst of all. in that he was stricken by death just as his heroic task was about completed, and he had paid off debt of 9135,0O0 Yet, when the status of literature and its emoluments in the days. in which he lived be compared with the time in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
CANDY SALES FALLING OFF

From the New Ork Sun
 This feminine craze for being slender has knocked the bottom out of our bus- ness," said the man in charge of a down. town branch of a big candy concern. SIC worth of candy each week never come inside the door now, and when I seem them trudging past the store with a package of fruit I make up my mind their wives and daughters or sweethearts have taken a stand against candy. One man with wife and four daughters. who used to be splendid customer, told me the other day that he'd as soon come home with viper as with 5-pound box of candy, although a year ago he used to buy two 5-pound boxes each week. We notice the same difference in small sales to women employed in offices. There's not half the number of calls for half-pound boxes. though our sales of sweet chocolate are always big, as lots of business women nibble it instead of taking a regular luncheon. The con- tinual running in of office boys to exc cute commissions for the stenographers and telephone operators is getting to be thing of the past. and lemon drops are about the only sweets these business girls will eat. Every mothers daughter seems to be dead set against gaining an ounce of flesh. and until it's fashionable to be plump again I suppose we'll notice this difference in sales"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
Charleston afd lha Old South

Dear old Charleston with its picturesque bay and historic fort has but 5S,sSS in- habitants, and 10 years ago 1t had 55,s07. A gain of 5000 is not large as southern cities go, but this fact need not trouble the city that has blue water at its docks.
 It has not the population of some cities in the south but it is full of story that goes back even beyond the revolutionary struggle. It has been a focal point of struggles, physical and mental, more than 200 years, and a city with such a record need not worry over population returns.
 No census bureau can obliterate Charles tons long and honorable history, and the fact that it is holding it's own in census tables is quite enough in such town. Like Quebec, it has more history than population Montreal may outgrow Quebec, but 1t cannot erase from the books .ouebec's long story of battle and opin- ion. So it is with Charleston. It is the most historic town in the south, although Mobile and Montgomery and Richmond and New Orleans have some claims in that direction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
MOTHER EAKTH'S BOUNTY
n the Boston Globe

rom lIe DOStOu blODc.
 Too little consideration is paid to the actual financial importance of the grand crop yields with which the Uni ted States has been blessed for the past 10 years. In that period it is es- timated that owing to the value oi various crops, farm mortgages to the amount of s6.000. .O0O.O0O have been dis charged.
 Viewed in another way, 1t appears that the farmers are the riches class in the country, as their hold ings aggregate in value ss.j00, ,00O, ,00t more than the capitalization of al the steam and electric railroads ant manufactories. Since 1900 American farms have produced to the value -o SIS, GOO, ,000,00 at the point of origin This stupendous sum Is the equivalen of 60 per cent of the total assets of tn, nation. The farm, properly managed instead of being despised by the young CT general tion, should be regarded a. one of the best money-makers in tn, world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
ALEONsO HAS LUNCH

From the New York World.
 Madrid-King Alfonso returned to his capital recently some time in advance of the Queen and the rest of the royal family. having travelled by motor car from San Sebastian accompanied only by his equerry.
 Soon after leaving Miranda, near the village of Olon, the royal motor car crossed the railway leading to Madrid. The King felt hungry and stopping at the barrier where an old signal woman lived he asked her what she could give him to eat
 She answered that she had nothing but eggs. bread and some wine.
 King Alfonso begged that she prepare a meal, which she did and which his majesty ate by the roadside.
 Having satisfied his hunger the King showed his appreciation of the luncheon by giving the woman the Spanish equivalent for $5.
 She supposed she had been waiting upon two ordinary travellers and great was her surprise. even consternation. on learning from her son, who had recognized him, that 1t was the King she had had the honor to entertain.
 As did his father, King Alfonso de- lights to mingle with the people with out being recognized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
I STOOD TIP-ToE

By John Keats. s- stood tip-toe upon little hill. The air was cooling and so very still That the sweet buds which with modest :. pride Pun droopingly, in. modest curves aside Their scantiy leaved and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those starry disdems Caught from the early sobbing of the
 morn. The clouds were pure and white as fiocks
 new shorn And fresh from the clear brook: sweetly
 they slept On the blue fields of heaven. and then
 there crept A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence
 heaves; For not. the. faintest motion could be Of all the shades that slanted Der the
 green, There was wide wandering for the
 greediest eve To. peer about upon variety; Far round the horizons crystal air to And sna,,s trace the dwindled edsinss of It's To picture out the quaint and curious Of fresh woodland alley. never ending; Or by the howery clefts and leafy shelves Guess, where the jaunty streams rsfrssh { tiienseive3. -''' f q 'ssssr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
Tha Panama Libel Suit

The libel suit that the Roosevelt ad- ministration began against the World newspaper of New York is before the United States supreme court to determine the jurisdiction of the federal courts in such cases. The Roosevelt government claimed, contrary to the custom and practice for 100 years. that the federal courts have Jurisdiction in such cases because a copy or two of the World was sold at West Point. If this gives the federal courts jurisdiction then a sale of newspaper at Fort Morgan or possibly in a government building in any Ala bama city would bring libel suits within the jurisdiction of the federal courts that sit in this state. As the lawyers of the World newspaper say, ''the whole history and life of the country Is utterly at variance with any such construction" The suit begun by the Roosevelt ad- ministration was begun under an act of 17ss-an act passed 112 years ago, and it has been a dead letter ever since. No one in all of the 112 years had claimed that the United States had Jurisdiction
 to punish a libel printed in one of the sovereign states, even if a copy of the libel had strayed into federal reserva- | tion.
 | The question is before the United
 States supreme court and we will soon
 know whether the law of 179S shoudl be
 repealed or modified for the purpose of leaving the press of the country free
 from the control of federal adminis-
 tration, especially of the Ananias sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
HEROES IN LITERATURE

which the others struggled. there is little success that attended any of the efforts or to pronounce upon comparative results. For after all, it is the spirit that ani- mated these men in their laudable acts that counts most for the fundamental basis of integrity and moral rectitude that amid all the sordidness of the times flashes out as brilliantly as did the little candle on a dark night to Portia and her friends.
 The recent probating of Mark Twain's will and the appraisement of his estate must, from the size of the holdings, carry great satisfaction that his self-sacrifice and self-deniai should have brought to him in his declining years the material assurances of the appreciation in which the world holds of the man and his work. That. after all of the vicissitudes through which this national idol has passed in his long life. there should have accrued to him over seoO,ooO over and above his needs and his self-imposed indebtedness is a fine tribute both to his innate worth and to the worlds appreciation of 1t.
 It is especially pleasing to reflect that be. whose aim 1t was in life to spread abroad the sunshine of an incomparable sense ofhumor to tighten the loads under which his fellows were grooming. should have tasted something of the joys of life among the inevitable sorrows to which all are exposed. The same spirit that re- joices at his prosperity would have saved him and the others the sad tragedy of their lives, If it could.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31

drich tariff and his stern determine ton to fight protected interests en- gagged in a joint conspiracy to rob the rank and file of the American people were not buried with him. He knew just what agencies were engaged in increasing the cost of living and in the Senate on the 18th of last June he dedicated his life to a warfare against a tariff made by special in- terests for special interests. His val uable life was taken away, but his of as well as In Iowa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
Senator Deliver Still Lives

When they buried Senator Deliver. the great tribune of the people, at his Iowa home. they did not and could not bury with him his example and his great speeches in the Senate. His last speech In the Senate was delivered on June IS, and in 1t he said: How long does the Senate of the United States propose that these great interests, af- fecting every man, woman and child in the nation, shall be managed with bru- tai tyranny, without debate and with : out knowledge and without explana- tion. by the very people that are en- gagged in monopolizing the great indus tries of the world that propose to i'm pose intolerable burdens upon the mar ket place of our country?
 " "So far as I am concerned I an through with 1t. I intend to fight it but intend to fight it as republican and as an American citizen. I do mol propose that the remaining years o. my life. whether they be in public af, fairs or in my private business, shal be given up to dull consent to ths success of all these conspiracies, which 1o not hesitate before our very eyes to use the lawmaking power of the United States to multiply their owr wealth and to fill the market place witt witnesses of their avarice and of theil
 zEe never spoke again in the Senate fr1 won't home i'll and his death soor rl16uo But his opinion of the Al
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
SAD FATE OF A HUNGER

don't have time to settle down before that dealer turns me out of it.
 Then l slips down another right quick sos he know ain't caring anything about such chicken feed-and haven't got my fingers off 1t hardly before the cards come high-low and the dealer chucks that Dill over in the till as carelessly as if It was a. quarters worth of postage stamps.
 T pulls out another one, the fourth of them big bills, and puts it where I'd set the others. The dealer turns the cards sort O languid, like he's bored at such a slow penny-ante sort O game; but he turns nine-four and takes in the money all right.
 And while he's tucking the last of S4o,00O down in the till he turns to the lookout and says: That's a might purity girl l seen you with this morning, Jim mie.' Just think of man talking about purity girls when I'd lost that pile to him in less than five minutes!
 Well, I've got one more bill left, you see, and I slaps that down some vicious on the high card. Turn for thatr I says. He vets the end of his finger with the tip of his tongue, turns out a high-Iow-and drops my last bill over 'mongst the rest.
 That's all, boys" concluded Johnnie with sigh. 'The game was a square one and I didn't mind losing the $50 ,OOO. But what broke my heart was-what broke my heart" he walled, that that of dealer never looked up once to see who was the high roller that was losing all that money!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
anoorNG" A PLAY IN LONDON


 'In England. you know" said Mir. Fred Terry, brother of Ellen Terry, beaming once again, the actor Is called out only after the play. It Is consid- cred dangerous for him to show himself before the curtain until all is over," he laughed. "A boo in the middle of the performance would be sure to up- set him completely.
 "The author runs an even greater risk. In making contract with an author I always stipulate that he shall not answer a call. If an English audi ence doesn't like play 1t is only too glad to let the poor author know 1t. Then. too, If an author or an actor happens to have enemies on the press. these gentlemen may take advantage of the opportunity to say the play was "booed.' One boo can be heard above a perfect tornado of applause. and it may do any amount of mischief. How ever, one of our greatest successes sur vived 'booing' that made me heartsick at the time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
Typhoid Vaccination In the Army

At present typhoid vaccination in the regular army rests with the individual soldier. He can be vaccinated if he so desires, and he is at liberty to refuse vaccination. In the last fiscal year Il, S3s persons in the regular army elected to be vaccinated, and only three cases of typhoid and no deaths were devel- oped in this large number of vacclnated persons. The protective value of typhoid vaccination, says Surgeon General Tor ney, has been as perfectly demonstrated as any fact in medicine, and he urges that it be made compulsory in the army He desires to see 1t become a routine procedure throughout the army.
 It should be carried into private life as we'll Typhoid is the great scourge and fever of this country, and there is little reason why it should continue tc be a national disease when any persor can secure immunity from it by vaccina tion Typhoid vaccination should. at an, rate, be resorted to wherever a case O. the disease appears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31

Frederick Warde, one of the few Shakespearean actors left to us, and che of the best of them, Is meeting with a cordial reception on his southern tour In his fine production of "Timon of Athens" Warde had been out of his buskins for five years, .disporting him. self in the lecture field and winning not resist the call of the stage to come back and once again present Shake sneare. He will be seen In Birming ham Tuesday and Wednesday and will doubtless draw crowded houses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
Talk About Census Matters

There was more padding and attempt ed padding in the census of 1910 than ever before," said Charles F. Felton of | Washington, D. c. 'I was employed in the census bureau some years ago-prior to the census of 19O0-and I often re- marked on the good work of the enumer- ators and at the comparatively little cheating in the case of pretentious cities. Omaha was the only important city that padded as far back as 1880. In 1900 Mem phis was one of the few cities whose cen- sus figures seem to have been padded It was not suspected at the time, but now it Is admitted I understand.
 "Of course, padding hurts a city in the long run. Honesty is always the best policy. Not only has the government de- tected many cases of attempted fraud in the census work this year, but many cases of swollen population figures will have to go unrebuked because the pad ding was done with such moderation as not to create suspicion at the time and because the dishonest enumerators were smart enough not to leak
 Birmingham is one of the phenomenal
 
 instead of above the true population. If Birmingham had been as closely counted as some cities it would have shown a population of upward of 10000 instead of 900 in round numbers; when I say so assume that this city's recent school census was correct.
 But Birmingham has the distinction of being the only considerable city In the United States that shows 245.4 per cent increase over 1900. Some people criticise the government for stating the percent age of gain: they say 1t is often mislead- ing. But uniform system must be maintained. There is positively no other basis than the one adopted by which a statistician can make an accurate calcu- lation. Suppose the bureau had not an- nounced the percentage. The percentage fact would remain just the same The population of Birmingham in 1900 was 3S. .415; in 1910 it was 132, ,6S5-an increase of 245.4 A bright arithmetician could see at glance that the percentage of in- crease was something like 245. It is for the government statistician to state facts as he finds them not to analyze condi- tions and say how it is that this or that city came to make such a big showing Nearly all cities extend their limits from time to time, and what is fair for Mo- bile and Montgomery, for instance, Is cer- tainly fair for Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
AN INCONsIsTANT VILLAIN .nn1 Success.


 Charming Pollock cites a certain melodrama. produced few years ago on Fourteenth street, as containing the busiest and most inconsistent villain ever created.
 In the first act. he tied the beautiful heroine to a railroad track just as tn @ limited was due. In the second, he lured her into an old house. locked her in an upper room, and set the place on fire. In the third, he strapped her under buzz saw and set the ma chinery in motion. In the fourth, he tore the planking out of the Brooklyn bridge. so that her automobile plunged through to the raging flood below.
 In the fifth act he started to make love to her. She shrank from him.
 why do you fear me. Nellie?" he asked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
Industries That Help

T read with interest the announce ment in The Age-Herald this morning that a new industry was about ready to start turning out financial products in Birmingham" said member of the pub licity committee of the Chamber of Com merce. 'I would rather see such an nouncements than any other information that goes in a newspaper, for every in dustry that makes finished products means that Birmingham will consume a greater part of her raw materials. Work CTS in finished products draw higher wages, they are of the better class of mechanics, they represent better popu- lation for a city, they spend more money and they are in every way more desir- able We are told that the American Automatic Railway Switch company will employ about 100 skilled worlzmen which represents population of 400 to 5oo peo- pie, many of whom will have to be inn ported to Birmingham. The new indus try means increased payrolls, more money for the city, the bringing of new interests here and increased advertising for the city. e.iT
 'If Birmingham could secure 100 small industries like the one in question, every one of which would grow, there would not be a city south of Cincinnati as large, not even New Orleans. when the next census is taken. There is no good reason why Birmingham should not manufacture ornamental iron of all kinds, farm implements, enamel ware for bath rooms, house furnaces and more kinds of machinery than are now turned out here.
 q want to shout with happiness every time I see the announcement of new small industry, because I know 1t means a finished product of some kind. it means diversified industry, and those are the goals toward which this city must airn''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
Ree.ra,nr Blind Tigers

q have been hearing great deal about blind tigers in Birmingham and other cities of Alabama, and have not been surprised to find this city wide open, for quite a number of men I know call themselves prohibitionists and line up with the ultra prohibition contingent whenever there is a political stir, and yet buy liquor from dealers who oper- ate unlawfully. I was never in a blind tiger saloon. I use liquor in moderation. but. have it shipped to me from Ken lucky; have never violated the prohibi- ton laws in any way.
 'I will always vote against prohibition, but it makes my blood boil to see men who make a clamor against whisky heads and against the police for not keeping the lid on tight, themselves pat ronizing blind tigers. It was only last Wednesday that one of these prohibi- tionists told me about being In a blind tiger where he drank and paid for an excellent quality of whisky. The old story of stop thief now comes to mind. Is this an age of hypocrisy and sham re- formT"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Modern Improvements mostly elim- mate old fashioned comforts.
 A man can get swelled head just by thinking how he hasn't one.
 There is only one long road to heav- en; there are lots of short cuts to the other place. mans sister has to be 50 times as pretty as any other girl for him to realize 1t.
 Maybe people keep up going on ex- cursions because they think if they stick to It long enough some day they may have good time. ..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31

MT. Devlin's recital of the condition in Ireland was when he told about the poor houses and the separation of old couples who had to seek refuge in such places. It-used to be charged against the slave owner that he sold the wife to one pur- chaser and the husband to another, but, in my opinion, that was not near so bad as putting stone wall between an old couple who had lived 50 years together and depriving them of the love and com fort of each others company In their de- clining years.
 q sincerely hope that MT. Devlin's words will come true and that the Irish people will obtain home rule before the world is year older"