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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
American Farmers Held Up

The bankers of both New York and London seem determined to establish the proposed surety companies to act in a syndicate to guarantee cotton bills of lad ing for the use of English and conti- mental bankers. The railroad validation plan is to continue in operation. The syndicate is to consist of the American Surety company, capitalized at ss,oOo.o 900; the National Surety company, 5000, GOO; the United States Fidelity and Guaranty company of Baltimore. s3,0oO,Oo0; the Fi- delity and Deposit company of Baltimore, $4,5O0, GOO, and the Title Guarantee and Surety company of Scranton, 8, 200 900. Other companies may be added. bringing the total up to s2O.Ooo.O0o in capital.
 The cost of guaranty under this plan is to be eight-tenths of mill on each dollars worth of cotton. or about cents a bale at present prices. This is the tax that the scheme proposes to levy on southern farmers, and If the revenue from 1t should prove unsatisfactory to eastern greed no doubt the rate would be in. creased. While the tax would not fall heavily on individuals, the principle is wrong.
 There is no reason why southern farm CTS should pay this tax. imposed without their consent-imposed because the rail roads shirk responsibility as to bills oi Iading Issued by them-imposed on sofh eru farmers because they are unorgap'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
Last Days of a Warm Campaign

l Two weeks from today electlons VIII be held in many states. Thirty-six governors are to be elected and new federal, House of Representatives. to say nothing about senators and other officers. Maine cast & blight on the republican party, and circumstances of later occurrence have not materially lessened that blight.
 The stock market in New York has heen the scene of rising prices. These prices are a discount of the political situation. They mean that capitalism sees ahead new Congress that cannot affirmatively act against corporations because one branch will be controlled by republicans and the other branch by democrats. It sees ahead, too, defeat of Roosevelt and his Osawat- omie speech in New York state. In the closing days of last week brokers in l
 Wall street were offering to bet large sums on Dix at the rate of 2 to l. The race track scandal now going on in New York is increasing the vote that will be cast for Candidate Dix. Some believe that the price against Roosevelt -Stimson will have to go to to before much republican money will be brought out. The best ob- servers in New York consider the Roosevelt campaign the weakest one he has ever conducted. The Saratoga platform has alienated many of his ad- mirers and his support of Standpat Lodge of Massachusetts has also taken away supporters. His inconsistency in general has undermined his position, while republican business men are ral- lying to MT. Dix.
 The new nationalism Is not pop l ular In any state and in Indiana the ex- Presidents name will bring no strength to MT. Beveridge. The elec- ton to the Senate of John W. Kern Is a probability. In New Jersey and Ohio the prospects are bright respectively for the election of Woodrow Wilson and Judson Harmon-both excellent democrats and both, in case of success next month, presidential possibilities. Judge Baldwin may also be elected governor of Connecticut. He, too, is a fine democrat, but account of his TO years he will not become an aspirant in 1912.
 If the states of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Indiana and Ohio
 should all be carried by the democrats the political revolution against tariff revision by grafters for grafters will stand equal to that which led on to
 the election to the presidency of Grover Cleveland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
THE FIRST JAG

Dr. Woods Hutchinson in Hampton's.
 Some greedy plutocrat of the Pliocene having one day gathered in a gourd more ripe berries than he could possibly eat, left the crushed surplus standing where the sun could get at them. His hunger returning in a day or two, he came back to finish them; but to his surprise found them turned into a biting, frothy pulp, covered with rosy bubbles. He gulped 1t down, and in a few minutes began to see things about him as he never had seen them before, and other things that he had never dreamed of. Even when he woke up with 8 headache his dreams came back to him in alluring guise, and by the time he had got the dark-brown taste out of his mouth he decided that the game was worth another trial, and hastened to pick a bigger gourdful of berries and set it to brew. Thus alcohol, the great magician, with the sting in his tail. was born. and adopted as big medi- cine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
A MEpIAEvAL MOVING DAY
G. G. Coulton in Harper's Magazine for
 November

G. G. Coulton in Harper's Magazine for
 November.
 Most of the Percy estates were so close together in the north, commerce was already so far developed and the earl himself was so often absent on business of state, that his household was general ly able to avoid any more serious dis placement than the periodical migrations from Wressill to Leckinfield and back, a distance of some twenty miles. These fittings, however. turned everything up- side down for day or two. For the earl like smaller men, had only one set of movables for all his residences; and, as surviving documents testify, he need ed far greater train for these periodi- cal Journeys than for the contingent Of 523 men at whose head he served In the French campaign of 1513. Only the heav- fest articles were permanent fixtures; all else must be transported-beds. chairs, tables, kitchen utensils, hangings for doors and walls, and even glass case ments for the windows. This book throws a vivid light on such phrases as "the breaking up of my lords house, or This lordship set up his house again. V Sometimes there was a partial breakup without an actual move; when my lord .kept his secret house," dismssing the majority of his servants to live on board wages in the village. and retiring to a corner of his own castle for some such approa ch to the simple life as his modern descendant might enjoy In Highland shooting box. The general migrations, when they came, followed strict rou- tine; each man had his specified share of horse and vehicle for himself and his belongings. A single paragraph will show not only how carefully everything was organized beforehand, but also twhat may be more unfamiliar to some readers) the very primitive sleep ing arrangements which were com- mon in the middle ages. Item, it is ordained at every Removal that the Dean, subdean, Priests, Gentlemen and Children of my Lord chapel. with the yeoman and Groom of the Vestry, shall have appointed them two carriages at every Removal; viz, one for their beds viz, for priests beds after 2 to bed for 10 Gentlemen of the Chapel beds after to a bed, and for 6 children 2 beds after to bed, and bed for the Yeoman and Groom" Out of all the off, cers on these occasions, high and low, six only had a bed to themselves, and not one of the eight migratory priests was among these privileged few. We find even the sixth earl addressing his relative Thomas Arundel as "bedfellow;" for they had been servants together in Wolsey's stately household.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25

ized and can presumably be made to stand anything.
 But no farmer need submit to this tax. The spinners must have American cotton, and all the owner of bale need do is to wait until a man appears before him gold in hand. Cotton is gold, and the southern farmer can evade this tax of about s5o000o a year by standing pat alongside his bales until buyers come with cash in hand. Unless they do this the tax will be taken out of each and every bale through this newA form or hold-up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
MODERN FABLE

Joe Kerr in the St. Louis Times.
 Once upon a time a citizen complained to a physician that he was troubled with a feeling of lassitude on arising in the morning, and after half an hour spent in deep reflection the healer of men replied
 Although 1t is winter, I think you suf- fer from the want of fresh air In the house. Go home and open. your cellar windows and let the ozone sweep through the house at It's wild pleasure"
 But the thermometer stands below zero" protested the citizen.
 'sSo do you Let her stand. Leave the ". flows open all night. That lassitude will be gone when you get up in the morning"
 The citizen did as directed, and at $ o'clock the next morning the cook was borne from earth away by the explosion of the Kitchen range. Four busted water pipes also went into the cascade business with unqualified success, and two children were overhauled, to find that their toes were frostbitten. Five days later. when the plumber had presented his bill and received the long green, he entered the office of the physician and said:
 twenty per cent on s90 is SIS, and here is the same. If you will only advise the old chap next door to leave all his -win- dows open some night to cure his asthma, 1t will mean at least $40 for me and F for you"
 Moral--In helping other people we must always help ourselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
MODERN REPORTING

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 When 29,000 people had paid the price of admission, ss7,0O0, to witness the first baseball game of the worlds series in Shibe park, Philadelphia, last Monday, 150 newspaper reporters as the game pro- gressed sat writing in the press box with in the inclosure, and 55 telegraph wires running out over the land from this box announced the battle, stage by stage. It is a far cry from the press of early days to this modern picture in Shibe park When the battle of Waterloo was fought, in 1915. deciding the destiny of all the nations of Europe, the London Chronicle devoted a third of column to description of the battle-about as much room as modern newspaper would take to report Q small fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
British and American Courts

The entire Crippen trial before Lord Chief Justice A1verstone in London last week is a direct reflection on American criminal procedure. The latter is con- ducted as a rule so that the rich and the influential cannot be speedily be brought to trial and when they are they are rarely indeed convicted Thaw trial and verdict would be alike impossible in trial. ealthought sensational and spectacu- lar. lasted but five days all told. A jury was obtained in few hours, and that jury was out but thirty minutes before It returned a verdict The sentence of death was pronounced on the spot, and Crippen will be hanged in all probability in November. The home secretary could hear an appeal for mercy, but 1t is ex- ceedingly improbable that any relief will come to Crippen from the cabinet. '1 .advise you," said the lord chief justice to the prisoner, ''to entertain no hopes that you will escape the consequences of your crime"
 The entire case is one of direct and strong condemnation of American crimi nal courts. The British practice is a. excellent as the American practice is the reverse. This is the truth, and the Grip pen case should make the need of reform plain to American legislators
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25

friends. He is agent for the South and Pacific Express companies at Nat chez, and was for several years con- seeted with the Southern Express com pany at Birmingham, having moved to Match ez in July.
 MT. Trimble boosts Natchez as the finest city in Mississippi" and is very optimistic regarding the future growth of that place. Many new Industries are under construction in Natchez. MT. Trlmble says he expects to be in Bir- mingham for the census jubilee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
SEVERE ON CHICAGO

From the Louisville Times.
 Lord Talbot de Malahide. at dinner al Rye, criticised American ways.
 T like all your ways he said, except perhaps, the cruel derision that one city visits on another. This derision how. ever, isn't to be taken seriously, I'm sure
 Tt is very remarkable, nevertheless You hear it everywhere. Thus. the othel evening, at New York club, one young man said to another
 Anything on tonightT
 No. nothing special the ~ther an swered.
 Then said the first, with a yawn suppose we go up to the Plaza and heal the Chicago millionaires eat soup"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
A GENIUS FOR LYING

From Everybody 's>Magazine.
 In a New Brunswick village a towr verities was a witness in petty trial in. volving an auger. He positively identified 1t as the property of the parties to the suit.
 But" asked the attorney for the othei side, ''do you swear that you know this augur?"
 "Yes, sir
 How long have you know it?' he con tinued
 II have known that auger," said ths witness, impressively, lever since 1t was gimlet."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
LExICoNICs

LExICONICS From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Professor Garner claims that he is en- larging the monkey lexicon, aided by lit- tie simian Susie, his pet pupil and dis tant cousin of the human race. Here are few of susie's words, with their defnitions:
 ''Ohui--want.''
 "Khi-iu--look out!' 'Sou-hou--stampede.'' Rather odd. aren't they? And yet. can they be considered any more peculiar than such human expressions as these7 .Geev'
 -.Huh!
 "Hike!" ~ "Piffle" 'Yep.'
 And really when you scan 'em over and compare 'em, it looks as if we had nott~ ing on the monkey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
ANNIE LAURIE

By William Douglas. Marvellous braes are bonnie,
 Where early fa'si the dew: And it's there that Annie Laurie ~ Gied me he promise true.
 Gfed me her promise true. Which ne'er forgot will be; And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me doun an dee. Her brow is like the snaw drift; Her throat is like the swan; Her face 1t is the fairest
 That e'er the sun shone on: And dark blue, is her e'e;s And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me doun an dee Like dew on the gowan lying
 Is the fa' O her. fairy feet; s, And like winds in summer signing. Her voice is low an sweet; And she's a' the world to me! And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me doun an dee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
THE VITALITY OF MELODRAMA.

From the Louisville Courier-J Journal. "HE passing of melodrama," which
 has been tearlessly ehronicied by
 \ numerous writers upon the con temporary popular price stage in Amer ica, is followed by revival of that style of entertainment in London at both the lower price theatres and the more fash ionable houses. And New York is now seeing in several theatres plays that are mere '.thrillers," but are. enhanced for morbid audiences by the Introduction of an element of uncleanness to supplant the virtue-triumphant flavor of the old fashioned drama of heroics and improba- hilities.
 The New York Herald's dramatic cor respondent in London wrote a short time ago of the financial success of young Buffalo" He is a hero in. cowboy clothes and firearms. His military exploits upon the popular price stage in Louisville con stitute substantial part of the treas- ured memories of the playgoers who like to take their drama with dash of vil- leinous saltpeter, and who can laugh when vilainous characters lie cold in death in midstage where they met merited pun ishment at the hands of the righteous.
 According to the same correspondent fashionable theatre in London Is now making money by presenting crude mel odrama called "The Shop-soiled Girl" It follows "The Sins of London and "The Bad Girl of the Family whose titles are explanatory.
 The correspondent writes of "The Shop soiled GirP' as follows:
 'eThe heroine is, of course, the shop soiled girl. When the polished villain has betrayed her for some inexplicable reason he has her discharged from the shop. In drawing rooms, in the street and every where, her che-ild is the one expressing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press
 man isn't ashamed to be liar, but he iss to be called one.
 To girl romance Is most anything that's preposterous.
 Maybe 1t will be heaven because there will be so much less music than here.
 The average woman wouldn't give up her long hair for all the political rights In the world.
 You can hunt trouble and find fifty times as much as you want; happiness and hundred times less.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
ADRIFTl WITH THE TIMES

fear not. My life has been series of disappointments."
 TIME AND SPACE. I've worked half an hour without any uplet, And the only result Is this here witless couplet.
 --Ted Robinson. We've worked half the morning attempt ing to verse 1t. Reviling our lot and exclaiming: "Oh. curse iti'' And all we could get was this tenuous tercet.
 Franklin P. Adams We 1abored lot And we added our brain; And all that we got Was this feeble refrain.
 Bert Lesion Taylor. This came as easy As can be. How some people find it hard to grind out poetry We can not see.
 George Fitch. We have worked till we're thin, And as wan as ghoA, And except for this dope We are left at The Post.
 Judd Lewis. Oh, fiddle-de-dee, And fiddle-de-do. That rhyming's cinch This quatrain will show. s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
STUDIES OF THE yERNAcULAR

 From the Chicago Tribune. "Sayliz, hoozat?" said the girl at the notion counter. Y "Hoozoo?" queried the girl at the glove counter. S "Jessa ziffew diddeno!' 'Lookeermin, -wotcha mean?" "Fewdon't knowliz, wotchablushin- bout?'
 "Aintablushin!" r. 'Yartoo!" 4e "Minjones yunobetterl" Swat yar'' "Hoojo mean, anyhow?" 'Fellerspoke wennypass choorcoun- ter" f
 'Diddunsee anyfeller." 'Diddunteeim, either, didja!" "Coarsnot'
 "Awkamoff!'
 "Sayookids," interrupted the floor walker. quitcherchinninner I'll re- porcha!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25

topic of conversation. The murders and the attempted train wrecking by the vil- lain are only incidents. Everything is highly colored.. even the scenery. The drawing-room has blood-red upholstery and curtains, and the grass mats in the garden are of the most vivid green. The villain meets lingering death by being dragged for five hours through the: street by the honest lad from Lancashire, who naturally marries the shop-soiled girl.
 This is the sort of play that makes money in London. I suppose it's a sign of something, but don't know what
 Melodrama, good or bad, will continue to hold a place in the affections of the playgoing masses. It may sometimes pay better to disguise it for the smarter audi ences. Dramatists must cater to. the tastes of persons who delight in thrillers, but do not like Ito display the elementary emotions that respond to the heroic do- ings of the hero in plain old-fashioned melodrama where the wholly good and the totally depraved are pitted against each other. The simple device of making a bad man the hero, and allowing tho professional thief to nlystify the represen- tatives of organized society by stunts" as impossible and as thrilling as those of the virtuous villain foiler has returned fat royalties for the dramatist in more than one instance. ~
 There is nothing so satisfactory to the greatest number as the play tha. unfolds a tale which causes knotted combed locks to part and each particular hair to stand on end like the quills of the fretful porcu- pine. And the widest improbabilities of nelodrama are often more probable than the proclaimed realism of rlaywrights who vivisect unclean lives for the delecta- tion of persons with unclean tastes, mak- ing the excuse that there is precept in the warning example.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
Cleveland.

The worlds championship games have vindicated the courage and skill of the American Indians. Great Chief Bender in a tenth inning lose a game by single run
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
MADE TO ORDER.

Young Shippers seems to have devel- oped fine pair of shoulders. Did he get them by the club swinging method?" No; the Clipper method.''
 Who's Clipper7'
 Shippers tailor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
THE MODEL WIFE.

 No more she rises from her bed At seven in the morn And creeping to the cold fireplace, All shivering forlorn, Kindles the fire while hubby sleeps And gets his fill of dream. They're living in the city now, She just turns on the steam.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25

The colonel is hampered somewhat in his New York campaign by the Hon. Seth Low. who wants to plump himself in Chauncey Depew's senatorial seat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
EASY.

'I see where young woman of wealth has just made her debut, who never be- fore had spoken to a young man.
 There's fine chance for a chauf- feur to marry money"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25

The razor and the carving knife will
 soon be needed by the boy of the house.
 hold when he carves his halloween jack O o-lantern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
FARMER.s upLIFT.

"IIon. Clark Smith, one of our most progressive and up-to-snuff agriculturists. this week acquired possession of brand new photograph of the latest and most modern design. It plays for four minutes at time and Is certainly a dandy"
 Rockville Booster.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25

Walter wellman and his equilibrator have parted. but one comes back and the other does not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25

It seems to be admitted that the Cubs had buck ague as soon as they got be- fore the Mackmen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
A MEAN MAN.

1ff<H1Ns
 There was to be a party in Atchison the other night, and during the afternoon woman called up her husband and asked: What shall l wear?' "Never mind, now" her husband replied; don t be coy. You're going to wear that bla ok dress, the only thing you have, and you know it."-Atchison Globe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25

The tops of the angry seas convinced Walter Wellman that he was sailing over no mill pond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
THE GREATEST EVER

''The Colossus of Rhodes is a famous straddler."
 ITO be sure, but not in the same class with Roosevelt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25

The hurricane in the gulf country and the mortimer in Texas have both taken to the sea. where they are free to wander at will.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
THE UNEXPECTED.

THE UNEXPECTED. "Withers seems to be dazed. I won- der whats the matter?'' He called at an information bureau this morning and found out what he wanted to know"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
HERE IT IS AGAIN

From the Washington Herald. When we learn that John W. EGates says that Birmingham, Ala, is to be a
 secohd Pittsburg, we cannot help won dering what it Is that makes prosper ous cities deteriorate. sr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25

One charge against pr. Crippen is that he looks remarkably like the late E. H. Hartman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25
The AII-Star Artists


 Mrs. John A. Cathey of Memphis, who Is here in behalf of an all-star list of famous musical artists. started to canvass for subscribers for $10 sea- son tickets but she stated yesterday that owing to the sh ortness of the time and her desire not to run her attractions into the spring lest they divide interest with the Birmingham music festival, her proposition would be cut in two. Instead of eight con certs as originally proposed she Is pre- pared now to offer four at 35 for the season, the attractions to be as follows: On November 1, joint recital of Rita Fornier, dramatic soprano of the Met ropolitan opera house, and Anturo Til baldi, the celebrated violinist; later in November, Madame Gadski. dramatic soprano; in December. Scharwenka, the distinguished composer and pianist, and in January, Francis McMillen. violinist.
 Music lovers and professional musi- clans alike express themselves as eager to hear these artists in Birmingham. Many persons had already subscribed for season tickets at $10; but now that the schedule has been changed to $5 proposition musicians say there should be no difficulty in completing the sub scription list within the next two or three days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25

London considered the Crippen trial al most as exciting as a Derby day or a dash at Brighton Beach.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-25

The crossing of the ocean in balloon has practically been remitted to future generations. the further off the better.