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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The i'll manners of New York have been the subject of acriminious comment by F. Hopkinson Smith and sundry oth- CTS, but the worst indictment Is filed by negro who writes to one of the New York papers complaining about the insulting treatment he received from crowd of New York schoolboys.
 The protesting negro says he was wait ing for an elevated train when a crowd of boys began amusing themselves crying Niger at him and adding some of the most objectionable adjectives and epithets in the vocabulary of profanity.
 He continues:
 T did not take that train. I did not mind the abuse they hurled at me, but my indignation and desire for vengeance were very much aroused when not fewer than three boys, as the train pulled out of the station, spat upon my face and clothes.
 q have been in this country four years and have met with all kinds of in- suit from children. but I never dreamed of ever having my face spat upon by them."
 The nom de plume signed to the letter is "Barbadian." Barbados is one of the most densely populated bits of land in the world. About 10000 white persons and 169 600 negroes live upon it. The pop ulation is 11ao per square mile. To say that the density of population in America is 25 is to indicate the abundance of elbow room in this country as compared with Barbados. Yet the whites in Bar bados, who are English. many of them of the same stock as the En"lish who came to Virginia in colonial days. get along very we'll with their negro neigh bors. In Bridgetown, we venture to say, schoolboys never spit in the faces of unoffending black men. Despite the fact that white men of the worst class and negroes of the worst class occasionally clash, with disastrous results, in the southern states. schooboys are rarely so malignant as they sre pictured by Bar badian' as being in New York. In the south-.any south, a gulf state or a coral island-negroes and whites get along bet ter than they do in the northern section of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
Two Decisions on Competition

The federal circuit court at St. Louis decided that the Hartman mer- ger of the Southern Pacific, which had previously taken over the Gen. tral Pacific and the Union Pacific, two transcoptinental railroads, was not in restraint of trade, although the merger took away competition and affected transcontinental shippers in all parts of the country.
 When James J. Hill attempted to merge in his Northern Securities com pany the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern the supreme court held that the requirement of an over whelming majority of the two stocks destroyed every motive for competi- tion between two roads which were natural competitors for business," and that such result was intended by the authors of the merger, accord | ing to the familiar rule that every one is presumed to intend what is the necessary consequence of his own acts, if done wilfully and deliber- ately."
 The circuit court at St. Louis, how ever, decided that the Hartman mer- ger was harmless--that it did not destroy "every motive for competi- tion." The case will doubtless be car ried by the government to the su- preme court, where there will be a hurrah time for the rule of reason when it attempts to reconcile the Hill decision with the Hartman decision. The court will no doubt attempt to reconcile them or else it will reverse the St. Louis decision of the circuit court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
CrOss-Swearing Over Lorimer

The multimillionaires involved in the Lorimer scandal have at length involved President Taft and his trust ed advisers, Aldrich and Penrose, in the Lorimer scandal. Just how far the President went in bringing out Lorimer as senatorial aspirant will perhaps never be known. Penrose says that he himself did not induce Lorimer to run, and the President de- clines to discuss Hines sworn testi- mony. One thing is certain-the President confers with the old guard, with Penrose and Aldrich, not with Cnmmins and LaFollette or Bristow and NClapp. At heart he is a stand batter and is so regarded in all off, s,ficial $ircles.
 The Testimony is chiefly remarka- ble, hdwever, for it's contradictions. One witness swears his predecessor in the chair until Senator Kenyon of the Investigating committee was forced to say, '"There ought to be some prose- cutions for perjury right here." Hines contradicts Funk and Tilden at- tempts to brush both away.
 Two things stand totally unex- plained, namely, money was paid for votes to elect Lorimer senator, and Witness Funk has been shadowed for weeks by detectives. Who contrib uted the money used to secure Lori mer's election? Who placed detec- tives on Funk's trail? These two questions should be answered if the committee of investigation has to sit all summer and next winter to boot. The country is tired of investigations that do not investigate-of witnesses that afe chiefly engaged in putting each other in hole.
 If Hines tells the truth Lorimer was not thought of as a senatorial candidate in Illinois until Taft, Pen rose and Aldrich, at Washington, put him in the race. There the matter stands at present. The next witness may declare Hines perjurer. He seems to be, however, as worthy of belief as the rest of the witnesses thus far called to the stand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01

ever, the chief seat of fibre that all countries need. In this area is grown five-eighths of the commercial crop of the world.
 The worlds needs is an indefinite phrase. What" says the New York Journal of Commerce, ''is apparently meant is that the cotton supply pro- duced in 1910 was not sufficient for the demand that had been previously established at the price that had pre- vailed. A large crop of cotton with lowering of price stimulates an ex- pansion of the facilities for convert ing it into fabrics for use and in- creases the demand for these. This sets limit of the need for cotton. If this is followed by a materially smaller yield for year or two there is not enough to keep those expanded facilities occupied. Their needs are not satisfied, but the result is an in- crease in price, larger cost of goods and a restricted demand for them. A new limit is set to the needs of con- sumers. They do not need as much silk or linen as cotton and they do not need as much high-priced as low priced cotton"
 It is safe to say that the world will always hereafter take all the cotton that can be grown. True, various countries are trying to grow cotton, but no close observer sees any proba bility of large supply in any of them. The belt in the United States has the right proportions of sunshine and moisture, and there is no reason to fear that it cannot maintain it's leadership in cotton production. As only one acre in thirteen in this belt is planted in cotton it is plain that it's cotton possibilities are by no means exhausted. And all the world wants the crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
"Made in Birmingham.

The population of this district is becoming very large and the state herself has started toward the three million mark. This should induce the alert and enterprising citizen to study how he can make some article needed for home consumption-for use, that is to say, in Alabama. This is the way cities are maintained and ex- banded in the older states, and Ala bama is no infant. She will soon, be 100 years old, and surely the tims has come to make here at home the arti- cles consumed at home.
 No doubt Secretary 4abb of the Chamber of Comme5se could make a list of one hundrSd everyday articles that could be profitably made at home. He believes in diversified in dustriest and the road to diversity reads, "Made in Birmingham h. stead of letting some town in New England or the middle states make the articles that every person needs we should make them at home. The home railway, light and power con- pany is making it's own cars, and this policy means growth and development and the retention of the utmost money at home. Every home and every office is filled with objects that could be made and sold to advantage at home, and no one would be the loser except the railroad companies. Nor would the railroads in the long run be losers, for every person added to community swells railroad re. ceipts. No one would lose in a diver. sification of industries. All would gain. Made in Birmingham" should become our slogan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
THE GAMBLING SPIRIT
From Leslie's Weekly.


 The federal government long ago sup pressed lotteries. New York state. in common with others, has abolished race track gambling, while municipalities here and there make sporadic attempts to close professional gambling places. Any attempt to revive legalized public gambling in this state will be promptly suppressed. And there Is no reason why o,licials charged with the responsibility of enforc- ing the laws may not enforce them suc- cessfully against gambling. Public gam bling had been running wide open for years in Muskogee, Okla. but Coehmis- sioner Cook stopped it the other day in just 15 minutes The names were secured of every man in the city known to be running a gambling game. To the invl- tation to call at the commissioners of- flee, every one of them responded, and behind closed doors he gave the profession little talk. the beginning ans end of which was, Gambling has got to stop in Muskogee.' AS the result, public gam bling ceased in just 15 minutes. But par Tor gambling, with an even greater taine Hof disgrace, goes on unchecked Quiet, suburban Montclair, N. J., has no gam bling house, but as a warning to bridge players Rocerder Yost has caused to be published the law of New Jersey. which prohibits "all playing for money or other valuable things at cards, dice or other games"
 The experience of Montclair young lady, who was a novice at social gam bling, is Illuminating. After pleasant afternoon at bridge. not knowing the cards were being played for money, she was amazed when her hostess took her aside and informed her that she owed her entertainer $40. Under the insistence of her hostess, she turned over hanrsome brooch as security for the payment of tho gambling debt. On relating the incident to her father, he immediately telephoned to his daughters hostess that the brooch must be returned within "A hours Need less to say, 1t was returned. The worst of this incident Is that 1t is only indicative of a condition that is general. When our mothers and daughters cannot meet for an afternoon game of bridge without gam bling it is more of . disgrace than the gambling of professionals. And what sort of ideals will the children of gam bling mothers have?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
PROJECTED SERIAL

From the Magazine Age Limit. By George Jean Nathan in the July Bookman.
 A future novelist possibility recently sent this self-explanatory letter to the editor of one of the New York fiction magazInes
 'Dere sir: I am sending you plot for q seeryal novel snd If you like It l wisht you wood It me rite it for you as I am 1s years cid and am a country boy who goze to country skool and who nose lots about the country. I reed your maeaseen evry month because we sus- kribe to it because wet got set of books free. Respectfully yours.
 HENRY ---''
 The ''plot of the seeryal novep' follows. The spelling has been edited in this case, as it was less amusing than the context.
 Miss Rutherford-is a country school teacher and is very beautiful and Is be- loved by her pupils and by James Varny, a rich farmer. She spurns his suit for three chapters because he is not hand some and because Miss Rutherford is not A grafter In the fourth chapter I want Miss Rutherford to murder James for in- sulting her and William Tracy, city lawyer, who happens to be buying mort gages in the district. prosecutes her for the deed Tracy suddenly is afflicted with a passionate love for Miss Rutherford in the fiftB chapter and she is about to wed him when the police interfere. In the name of the law they arrest Tracy for receiving stolen goods and In the last chapter the ghost of the dead farmer haunts the beautiful teacher so that she is about to commit suicide when she is saved by one of her pupils named Henry (o who marries her, and, if you want some more chapters, will describe the twins they will have"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Band Concerts

Nappi's band of 21 men will give con- cert in Capitol park tomorrow afternoon. This will be one of series of summer concerts made possible by the efforts of the ladies of the Music Study club. The band will play every Sunday afternoon and every week night except Saturday, making six concerts a week. In speak ing of innocent amusements an old cit izen said:
 with free concerts by Nappi's band and with the various attractions at East Lake park, Birmingham will be far bet ter off in diversions this summer than ever before. We have usually had good music at East Lake off and on during the heated term, but not until last sum mer had the public been treated to high class band concerts In Capitol park. A year ago we had only three concerts week, and now that the number is to be doubled we are more than ever indebted to the Music Study club In addition to the local musicians employed at East Lake for the summer a ladies band of 30 pieces, said to be the finest female band in the country, has been engaged for a week. The manager of East Lake park told me yesterday that he was bringing this large band at great fex- pense. He said that if the concerts were we'll patronized at the start he would keep the band here two or three weeks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
ON CIRCUS DAY

From .eTainted Tents" in the July
 Metropolitan Magazine.
 q was that year with show called Colonel smams Mammoth Silver Plate shows and Prof. Ebaughs Unequaled Menagerie, Combined During the grand rarade I rode a horse at the head of the proo egsion announcing the grand free ex- hibition to be given on the grounds after The grand street pageant. Later in the day I operated the shell game in the gambling concession
 The veteran paused.
 "rake any of the towns" he contin- ned. Let us call one of them Simpson, vile, for example. When we left Simp- sonville we left a sacked and plundered village. What we did not take with us was immovable or concealed. I spoke of a rrocession There were really two pro- cessions-but one was not advertised Our main parade marched to the fanfare of t.umpets through the main street. Householders evacuated their homes.
 The, lined the pavements intent upon the
 cdu,atjvc features of the mammoth and ueaualed combination This gave a golden opportunity to our second process sion-tnrough back ways. It's recruits were the razorbacks. Razorbacks are canNasmen, and their duties are multiple. 'They robbed the clothes lines of dry l ing linen. In many instances they broke I in through rear doors of the deserted houses. Their haul was satisfactory be-
 causc they were robbing under cover. Our parade was doing for them, in the main street precisely what the -Jostling con f.derate does for the pickpocket in q crowd. It occupied attention while tho trlcl was being turned"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
TOMORROW
el Johnson.

By Samuel Johnson. Tomorrow's action can that hoary wis
 dom, Borne down with years. still doat upon to-
 morrow! -4 The fatal mistress of the young, the lazy, The coward and the fool. condemned to
 lose An useless life in waiting for tomorrow, To gaze with longing eyes. upon tomore
 row, -s .F L lf Till interposing death destroys the prosF
 pect. AZ Strange that this general fraud from day
 to day
 Should fill the world with wretches. un-
 detected! -74a The soldier laboring through a winters
 march,
 Still sees tomorrow dressed in robes of
 triumph Still to the lovers long-expecting arms. Tomorrow brings the visionary bride, But thou, too old to bear another cheat. Learn that the present hour alone p
 mans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
The South to the Front

"The south attracts more and more at tention every year, and 1t is greatly in the public view now as the best farming
 section of the country" said Horace Hammond of Hammond and Byrd, the well known iron brokers.
 Several times a year I visit Chicago, where we maintain branch office, and I have been struck with the fact that every time I hGve travelled back and forth I have met men on the trains who brought up the subject of the south's wonderful resources, and of the especial Inducements offered to homeseekers In the comparative cheapness of frst-class farm lands. In the north and west the farmers have been prosperous, and that very fact has raised the farm land values to a high level and kept them there.
 "The natural advantages of the south as an agricultural section have only been well exploited recently. Now that north ern people are beginning to gather infor- nation about the south 1t is only ques- ton of a short time when every south- ern state from the Ohio to the Gulf will gain rapidly in population. AS well as the farmers of the northwest have done the farmers in the south are able to do even better. Alabama will soon be known as great corn state as well as a great cotton state. Truck farming Is commercially successful in this state, and in a few years there will be few uncul- tivated acres. Now is the time for home seekers to buy farm lands in the south, for the day is coming when these lands will command prices as high as the farm lands of the west and north.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
Not Enough Cotton

The census bureaus bulletin on cot ton in 1910 demonstrates that the worlds production was not equal to the worlds needs, although the worlds commercial crop last year was 17,927, ,500 bales, grown in the United States, in the West Indies, in British Indies, in Egypt. Russia, China, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Turkey,
 la half dozen other countries. An
 in the United States about 1900
 (long and 500 miles wide is. .Nhow-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
The Question of Stat. Highway.

Some months ago I wrote for The Age Herald an article urging that 8 system of state highways be formu- lated and that the legislature. then in session, take the initial steps by directing the proposed road commission to take up this work first" said Percy Clark
 "As the matter is being agitated in spots, I would like to call attention again to certain details The appropri- ation made by the last legislature Is a mere pittance when we come to view this all important work. As there has been only 5000 appropriated to each county this sum contingent upon a sim liar sum being raised by the county, is is evident that only 5000 can be counted upon under this plan in any None county. Now. this sum will con- struct about one mile of macadam road under favorable typographical and eco- nomical conditions as to road mate rial. As it would be well to make some practical showing in the great work of a system of state highways I sug- gest that in the matter of a standard ized road from. say Athens to Mont gomery, that the sums available under the legislative appropriation be utilized in surveys and the purchase of now rights of way in the matter of straight ening the route or reducing grades.
 If at first fairly good roads are con
 structed and the value of such be
 demonstrated all along the line, then there will come from all citizens de-
 mand for even better roads, and by that I mean roads so constructed as to
 be easily kept in repair and roads that heavy rainfalls will not injure
 'Dr. Vines, a member of the Board of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
In Memory of a Lady

"The friends of John R. Gaudin, for merly of Birmingham, but now of Fort Worth, Tex, will be interested in book of poems just issued from the press, dedi- cated to MT. Gaudin's young wife, who died about a year ago. said one who Knew and admired the deceased lady.
 "The poems were written by Mrs Gaudin's father. Walter J. Doherty, a prominent citizen of Forth Worth. The book contains nearly 70 poems and em- braces about 115 pages. The poems are touched with grace, and many of them are very beautiful. MT. and Mrs. Gaudin lived in Birmingham a short while after their marriage and then moved to Fort Worth, where the good woman died. The book is Illustrated by a picture of the author and singularly fine picture Of Mrs Gaudin.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
INGENIOUS YouNGsTER.

While visiting school in the southeast section of the city Mr. Brunlbaugh was asking the children to give him figures .o Write on the blackboard. One chid eailed out 56 and the superintendent wrote ooWn to. No comment. MT. Brumbaugh asked for another number: 25 was given ana ne wrote down 52. still no comment.
 NOW, one more, and I want you to watch closely and see if I set it down. right. Who'll give the next?' asked the superintendent
 A chubby faced and mussy little urchin raised his hand and shouted, T bet I give you one you can't turn around-77.. Philadelphia Ledger. ,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
A GENTLE ART

A GENTLE ART. Ever been to a barbers' college?' NO. Why do yo,, ask?, was just wondering if there is such thing as chair of chinning."
 FALSE OPTIMISM He warbled songs
 With shrill delight And seemed to be
 A hopeful wight.  But later on We found he'd had The wherewithal
 To make him glad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
. Pleased With pr. ClaxtOn

'T am delighted with the appointment of Dr. Claxton of the University of Ten nessee as United states commissioner of education" said Dr. J, H. Phillips yester day. His selection for this office is a high compliment not only to pr. Claxton, but also to the teachers of the south.
 No man in the country is better equipped for the duties of this important office than Dr. Claxton. In no instance has President Taft shown better judg- ment than lin this appointment. I predict that under his administration the bureau of education will enter upon an era of expansion that will make it more eff cient in service to the work of educa- tion, not only in this country. but throughout the civilized world''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01

One man at least has felt the oppression of great wealth-the emp1oye of the San Francisco mint who was buried under s9, 100000 of gold coins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01

All the teachers who attended the Sun have gone homo excpt one-ex-Mayor Schmitz, who conducts a Sunday school class in the penitentiary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press
 A little ribbon can make a lot of girl.
 The bravest soldier is the man in a family squabble.
 Digging takes out more potatoes than profound thought about it.
 preachers sermon seems about 10 times as long as usual when he comes to make. a call.
 You can tell man is a farmer by the way he wants rain when 1t isn't raining and doesn't want it when 1t is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01

Even the standpatters begin to favor tarifr revision. but each one wants no lower rates on the things he has up his sleeve
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01

General Wood sees war coming because 
 this country is so rich. He seems to think the country should impoverish it. self in military preparations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01

The crowns that Penrose wore and the one that Gallinger wanted to wear have been removed and cast into the scrap heap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01

New York has decreed that cold stor- age eggs must not be over ten months old when offered to consumers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01

Logically speaking, Pinchot and Glavis should be reinstated. Secretary Fisher may not, however, have the nerve to do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01

The direct plan of electing senators is up against the jackpot plan and the former is gaining ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01

A life insurance company proposes to make money by furnishing it's policy holders with free medical attendance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-01

King George and Queen Mary can now say they have achieved the crowning event of their lives.