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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
THE RULING PASSION

From the Eew Orleans Picayune.
 The gamblers instinct still surging within his breast, although he had lost a fortune at the card table, broken sport IS years old. jokingly staked his life on his hand while playing a friend y game of poker with fellow inmate in the county almhouse at Laurenceburg, Ind, some days ago and lost. After the showdown" his head dropped to his breast and he toppled from the chair dead. The loser had two jacks and a pair of eights, while the winner had two aces and a pair of fours. Heart disease. superinduced by poker sweat is blamed. The dead man was a we'll known sporting man, but since his quittal several years ago on charges of murder, financial and physical reverses have been many, The man with whom he was playing alsS was a successful gam bier, but he, too, had lost a fortune since his acauittaf on charges of murder. And so. even down and out as they were, these steadfast sports played the game" until death seized it's victim and hurled him into eternity: And he staked his life on a card. What poor estimate this un- fortunate had of life. 'Tis true; and pity 'tis, 'tis true.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
Negro Business League

The twelfth annual session of the National Negro Business league is to be held at Little Rock, beginning August 16. Booker T. Washington is president of the league, and the ob- ject of the annual sessions is to stim- ulate hopefulness and individual and cooperative achievement among the negro people of the United States, about 10000, ,00O in number.
 The session lasts three days and those days are taken up with state ments of actual accomplishments by actual participants. For example one delegate tells what he has done in farming and stock raising. another what the negro can accomplish in re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10

tail trade, still another livingtin New York shows how he has become known as the pickle king" and sf on to the end of the list. |
 There is an absence of the academil in the discussions and an abundancl of the practical This is why th( highest officials in Arkansas will welcome the league to Little Rockl All believe it is working on helpful lines, and all stand ready to aid it. Whatever aids the negro race aids the entire south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10

 of the panic. Secondly, that he believed
 the purchase of T. c. and I. by the Steel corporation would not be violation of any law.
 What MT. Roosevelt believed in 1907 he believes now. As to the first article X his creed there is not room for any difference of opinion. The Steel corporation's pur- chase of the T. C. and l. was the begin- ming of fairer weather In the financial world. As to the second article, whether MT. Roosevelt's opinion be correct or not, it was based on the advice, given before- hsnd, of the ablest lawyer in his cab ipet, and his decision was approved an hour after it was made. by his Attorney General The decision was characteristic of all that part of MT. Roosevelt which has made him great man of action. It accomplished what he hoped it would &C., complish, and about it's by-products he did not and does not care. The motives of the distinguished men who saw that panic could be stayed by the Steel corporations purchase of T. c. and L, and who determined to purchase it. may, for all we know, have been mix turc of public spirit and a spirit not so rubIic. Not being searchers of hearts we cannot yet undertake to appraise those motives Very likely the truth will never be precisely known. But anybody who can in imagination put himself back into the autumn of 1907 will find he is even now glad that this purchase was resolved on. and that Mir. Roosevelt felt it no pub lie duty Of his ito interpose any objec- tfons."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
BEAUTY HINTS FOR MEN

From the Emporia Gazette.
 The Hon. Harry Peach has been great ly impressed by the beauty talks by Lil- Han Russell in the Star. Lillian argues that any woman may be beautiful by fol- lowing few simple rules and Mir. Peach holds that the same theory applies to men. It is the duty of every man to be as fascinating as possible, so that the girls will sit up and take notice
 MT. Peach has been looking through some of the standard works on beauty culture and has compiled the following list of suggestions which should be framed and hung over the desk of every Promi- nent Citizen:
 ''The whiskers should be combed care egg shells and other debris. A man with a broad fat face should not wear side whiskers. A man with long lean face should not wear chin whiskers
 False teeth should fit the wearer' s mouth. Nothing is more annoying to peo- pie of culture than to meet a man whose teeth work up and down as he talks.
 "A red nose should be whitewashed be- fore appearing in public. A man with boils on his neck should wear neat and attractive poutices. It is disagreeable to see a large, unwieldy fiaxseed poultice that has slipped around to one side.
 "If you wear glass eye. see that it matches your genuine eye. If your neck is long and scraw wny. wear a high collar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
BULLDOG IS A HERO
From the Philadelphia Record.


 Pittsburg-Residents of East Pittsburg ere marveling at the supercanine intelli- gence exhibited by a bulldog, the prop erty of Policeman Arthur Bennett. For the past several days the borough has been excited as the result of dog suffer- ing from rabies snapping at the children on the streets and attacking other dogs. The police made every effort to capture the animal.
 When they had about given up in dis gust the Bennett bulldog stepped into the breach. Leaving the police station it made a search for the much wanted in- truder and overlook it near the front porch of the Bennett residence. The bull gave one leap and made short work of the rabies infected animal, almost chewing off it's head. Bennett Is fearful lest his brilliant bulldog contracted rabies from the dog 1t killed although there IS ap- parently not 3 scratch on the bulldog body or heal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
yARDAMAN ON THE STUMP

From the Charlotte, N. C., Observer.
 Governor Vardaman developed great strength in the rural regions in the sen- sational primary. To illustrate that they were not keeping up with the industrial procession, he held the mirror up to na- turo in this style:
 What we need is to raise more pro- duce at home and stop buying so much from the northern states Take the av- craze Mississippi farmer. He buys canned ana dried fruits-lilSewise canned foods. Ife .aets up at the alarm of a Connecti- cut clock, fastens his, Chicago suspenders io h.: Detroit overalls. washes his face with Cincinnati soap in a Pennsylvania washbasin, sits down to Grand Rapids ta5'e. eats Indjana hominy. fried with st.. Joseph lard on a St Louis stove, and puts St. Louis bridle on Tennessee mule. lie sits down at night to read a Bible tl.a' was printed ln Chicago, kneels to say a prayer composed in Jerusalem and c,vnrs himself with d New Jersey b,arket, only to be disturbed all night by the howiing of his dog whichais the only nom e~i ksed product on the place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Lnte John ". Gates

John w. Gates, who died in Paris yesterday morning, was one of the bright est and pluckiest men that this coun- try has produced He was a man who could do things. His energy was sre' markable, and his optimism was pro verbal. He was a product of Illinois a fine type of man who rises by his own brains and will power.
 MT. Gates visited Birmingham twice and made number of personal friends here," said a man who had known him for many years. 'He liked BirminS ham and expressed himself with great enthusiasm about the resources of the Birmingham district No one living in this city was ever more ardea at prophet of the district than MT. Gates. The Baltimore Manufacturers Record published an interview with him about five years ago in which he said: I see no reason why Birmingham should not have 100000 people 20 years hence It will certainly be the largest city in America not on navigable waters. If Andrew Carnegie had started out in Birmingham instead of In Pittsburg, I,ii iiiiit5 udiu anu not AlAebaa bf aAi itS opinion would now be the steel and iron center of America His belief that Birmingham might have a population of 100000 in 20 years caused many people to marvel A reader of the Manufacturers Record wrote to Mir. Gates personally to know if he really said what had been quoted, and If so whether he meant 1t or whether it was an exaggeration. MT. Gates reply was, fin substance. this: The interview i1 the Manufacturers' Record was cor rect I wrote 1t myself He went on to say that in order to be on the con servative side he submitted the article which he prepared to the board of di- rectors of one of the companies inter ested with him in the Birmingham dis trict, and the directors thought it was all right.
 MT. Gates had the reputation of be- ing a great plunger He was plum ger, but a better balanced business man I have never known. In business af- fairs he was a 'scrapper' when there was any cause for a scrap, but he was a most genial man and was full of the spirit. He was a born leader and his leutenants were truly devoted to him. MT. Gates death Is a great loss to this country. He was a developer. His business enemies looked upon him as a wild speculator and tricky man ipulator but the fact Is that no man was more frank or honest in his deal ings. He will be missed in the in- dustrial world, and among his personal friends here will be sincere sorrow at his untimely end"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
T. R. AND T. c. AND I.
From the New York Globe.

ioih thc ANc" ioAh 1iooC'
 When you say that somebody's state ment about something is enough to con vince every fair-minded man" you have said very little in it's praise. In any community the proportion of fair-minded men to the whole population is necessar- ily small. Therefore, we prefer to say that Mir Roosevelt's statement before the Stanley committee ought to convince a good many even of the unfair-minded or two things, First. that he believed the assurance he gave Mir Prick and MT. Gary would be the beginning of the end
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
Parting Is such sweet sorrow, That shall say-good night, till 1t be morrow. -ROmeO and Juliet.
Presidential Primaries Next Year

On. March 4 Arkansas will hold party primaries and at that time the people of that state will state their choices for the presidential nomina- ton. The members of the state ex- ecutive committee favor this action and it's adoption in Arkansas seems to be practically settled. North Da- kota will follow suit on March 19; Wisconsin on April 2; Nebraska on April IT.; Oregon on April 19, and New Jersey on May 28 In the five last-named states presidential pri- maries are matters of the statute book.
 When the votes in the six states mentioned are counted the national conventions will have on hand an abundance of instruction. It is safe to say that presidential primaries will be largely increased before 1916, and that the national conventions of next year will be the last national bodies of unrestrained power that will ever be held. Delegations instructed by the people can be trusted to act up to their instructions, and in that way the national conventions will become merely satisfying bodies, and the state primaries will become the real thing. All aspirants will this year endeavor to carry the six states men, toned = Arkansas, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon and New Jersey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
UNFORTIFIED.

He dreamed some day he'd reach a land Where all was sweet delight, With countless blooms on either hand Aud skies forever bright; Where birds sang gaily in the trees And rivers laughed below, And every prospect seemed to please, New 1oveliness to show. But when his Einl was thus intent On visions Wci,dfous fair And many golden hours he'd spent In wishing he was there, Cruel fate would with relentless hand Upon his sho;ilder smite And instantly that promised land Would vanish from his sight. Only somber world would loom Before his weary eyes; No star was there, nor bird, nor bloom, Nor fair uiclouded skies, Bu. only toll and troubles vast And sorrows to resist; And so cur hopeful friend at last Became pessimist. And yet, he was himself to blame The most fer what befell, In that he oou'd not feel the same, If luck chanced i'll or we'll; And in his heart was not the strength 10 rise OCT fate supreme And tferecy realize at length The splendor of his dream.
 AN EYE FOR BUSINESS. T understand you saw very large ice- berg while crossing the Atlantic last week
 Oh yes. And when gazed at it's huge bare walls it seemed pity that SD much valuable advertising space should he po. ing to waste"
 A HARD BUMP. d hhte to be an airman And here's the reason why: No nets are meath an airman Who tunibes from the sky,
 PROOF POSITIVE. Are the Flibbits people of promi- nence?"
 "Oh, dear yes! They have been arrest ca half dozen times for smuggling"
 HOPING. lis ratEel warm in August. But there's thought to cheer: Old Father Time is moving on And w,rter'll soon be here.
 HER BEACH COSTUME. T understand Miss Cutely created quite a sensation at the seashore."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
Money In Sunflowers

'I have always admired the sum flower as an ornament to large yards, but it never occurred to me that it had any commercial value" said a pro- fessional man.
 Tn riding on a train from Pulaski, Tenn, to Birmingham I noticed near the Tennessee line fine farm and on that farm I remarked five or more acres of sunfowers under cultivation. couldn't imagine what use was to be made of this familiar flower that would warrant its cultivation on an exten- sive scale. I asked my friend John L. Parker. who Is in the flower bus mess as well as the drug business, if he could throw any light on the mat ter. He told me that the sunfiower had come to be quite commercial product because of the seed which made the best food for parrots.
 Anyone who has looked at sun flowers at this time of the year wh en the seeds are getting ripe, has observed birds feasting on them. MT. Parker says that all birds like sunfower seeds, but that the parrots particularly ap- precldte lnelr HaVor, It seems that an idea has obtained recently that sun flower seed food not only keeps the parrot in good physical condition, but that 1t enables that loquacious bird to enunciate it's words more clearly and speak more rapidly than it could do when fed on ordinary food. One of the most entertaining traits of we'll fra ined DarrOt is the facility with which he rips out cuss words. Even those persons who do not tolerate pro- fame swearing in men enjoy hearing poor Poll cuss
 There is, it seems, a brisk demand
 for sunflower seed, and five acres of the flowers, it is said, will bring as much money as 30 acres of wheat, corn CT cotton"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10

@HARLES H. GRASTY, publisher of . the Baltimore Sum- read a paper O at the recent national convention of advertising men in Boston, on "Thc Goods We Sell" He said:
 The business of a newspaper is made upstairs in the editorial rooms While energy and efficiency in the advertising department are essential in developing business, the primary and fundamental work is done by the editors and reporters. The goods you have to sell must be right if the salesmanship is to be effective Over-keen solicitation does more harm than good over period of 20 years, and no shorter time ought to be consideerd in determining the lines upon which a news paper should be conducted
 There is no sort of growth not even that of walnut tree, in which time is a more essential element. Public confidence is the root of the whole matter. There Is no way to get 1t except by deserving it. That takes time. The weary waiting which confronts the newspaper striver has this great compensation: After he has worked the scheme out, the public will be just as slow to take away tho precious gift of its confidence and bestow it oh some one else. Promises and profes- sions are not listened to by a naturally and properly skeptlcal public. Popular faith comes only after the most sincere tests of sincerity.
 If you have something to sell, you can go to a job printer and have a lot of bills struck off and distribute them around town. That is advertising in the crude state. Put the same matter in any kind of a newspaper, and that is adver- Using in a more advanced and effective form. Insert the same copy in a newspa- per that goes into the home, with a hold upon the affections of the family circle. and that is advertising in the highest state. If newspaper establishes itself in the family circle, the advertising will come to it.
 Tn my opinion, square dealing with the advertising body exerts an influence in building up a paper that extends far be- yond the matter of good relations with the advertisers themselves. I have dwelt at length and with as much force as pos sible upon the question of confidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
MAYBELLE GADDY's PLANS.

MAYBELLE GADDY'S PLANS. "Maybelle Gaddy has her programme for the remainder of the summer completed. This week she is entertaining a girl friend rom Alma, and at the end of the. week she will accompany the girl friend home anc spend the first week in August with h9r Then she will come home for two days to give her mother time to do up her clothes again, when she will go to Wamego to spend the remainder of the week with a girl friend there. The Wamego girl friend will return to Man hattan With Maybelle and spend the third week in August with her here and the fourth week Maybelle will spend in Junc- tion City. Her Junction City hostess will spend the first week in September at the Gaddy home and the second week in Sep- tember Maybelle will go to Clay Center for weeks visit. If she can get the mother of her Clay Center hostess to do her washing and ironing, Maybelle will go out to Concordia, where she will spend the third week of September, but if the Clay Center mamma refuses to be worked Maybelle will have to bring the Clay Gen. ter hostess back to Manhattan with her for weeks visit, and she won't be able to go to Concordia until the fourth week in September. By that time it wAl be necessary for her to start to school."- Manhattan Mercury.
 
 MOST TOO EARLY. @
 Early to bed
 He went, all right;
 If truth be said,
 About daylight,
 
 REPLIES
 Doctor Wiley's goat is still the property of Doctor Wiley
 Still, if John Jacob Astor decides to live abroad with his girl wife, far be fe from us to object.
 The proof of the pudding is in the chem- ical analysis and the proof of a shape is in bathing suit
 GOT DAMAGES. Upon the witness stand the while Most angry was her mood. But later on she gan to smile The heart balm" did her good
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
Conyicts Under the Lease System


 To the convict there is wide diff ference between 40 cents and 75 cents a day when he is engaged in paying by labor a fine or fees or both. The subject is before the court of appeals, now sitting in extraordinary session at Montgomery. A former act named 75 cents a day as the price of con- vict's labor per day so far as fines and fees are concerned; subsequent act, for reasons unknown, reduced the credit the convict would receive to 40 cents a day.
 The convict himself is not in court. He cannot hire lawyers or conduct a legal battle. His rights are mere in- cidents of the struggle, although the welfare of about 2000 convicts who are, after all, human beings, is at stake in the contention.
 The court of appeals fully appre- ciates the gravity of the questions in- volved, and no doubt it's forthcoming decision will make clear all the points involved. The influences be- hind the change to 40 cents in the statutory law may, however, never be explained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
Farmers Friend

''The farmers of the southwest gre to be congratulated that they have such an active and practical friend as Chairman Benjamin F. Yoakum, of the Frisco lines" says writer in the RailSay World. Within the last two or three years MT. Yoakum has delivered several addresses in that section of the country. the advice in which if taken advantage of as it's value demands, would nndoubr- edly lead to a great improvement, par ticularly In the business methods em- pIoyed by farmers in marketing farm products.
 His latest address, which was deiv- cred in College, Texas, on July 2S, was entitled The High Cost of Marketing,' and MT. Yoakum forcibly illustrates the manner in which the 'middleman' pro- cures the great bulk of the profits from the results of the farmers efforts It is pointed out that improvement over pres ent methods would not only increase the profits of the producer, but would also bring the products of the farm into the homes at a much lower figure than they are. at the present time, available Tn other words, the middleman's' profit, measured by the service he performs, is grossly exorbtant. and imposes an un- justifiabe tax both upon the farmer and the consumer. MT. Yoakum recognizes. however, that the installation of better business methods, into the marketing of farm products, cannot be accomplished without prolonged and concerted ef- fort, and in order to facilitate such a movement. he recommends the establish ment of a bureau in the department of agriculture, which could disseminate in formation on the best methods of selling and marketing farm produce In 20 years our entire system of commodity distribu- ton has wholly changed in conseuuence of organized business combination. Farm products-so far as the farmer is con cerned-are still handled in the same old and wasteful way until after he has sold them. The middemans' 8 methods of dis position to the actual consumer, however, are of the highest type of organization, to his own great advantage but arot to that of the farmer or consumer Mr Yoakum would have the farmer organize his own selling agency to split the mid dleman's' profit, increase his own and lower the cost to the consumer
 Tsventy-nve Years' Service
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
Foreign Labor

'There used to be some prejudice cially cheap European labor but it is not so now among industrial operators" said a man who keeps in close touch with the iron trade.
 "The Italians in this district have proved to be highly desirable. They are sober, industrious and frugal. Nearly all nationalities are represented in Jefferson county and as rule foreigners are as well behaved as natives. In fact, all that I have known have been models Of thrift and decency. There is a steady in- creasing demand for honest, intelligent labor and always feel like extending warm welcome to Italians and Slays.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-10
Low Five-Day Tickets

Manchester is a junction point on the Atlanta, Birmingham and Allan tic railroad. It is located in Talbot county, Georgia, about 30 miles from the Alabama state line. The railroad in question is about to issue tickets good for five days at very low rates to and from Birmingham, thus enab- ling merchants living on or near the western 150 miles of the railroad to buy fall and winter stocks in this city.
 If every other railroad entering this city would do likewise Birming- ham would soon become a great job ping city, and the railroads them selves would be benefited. The pro- posed tickets of the Atlanta, Bir- mingham and Atlantic are to be good throughout the month of August.
 The railroads can make this job ping city, and that, too, speedily by adopting the policy of the line from Brunswick The proposed popular tickets will give every holder five days in this city. Nothing better for making this trade center could well be devised, and our commercial or ganizations and our merchants and all the rest of our people should rise to an appreciation of the new policy of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Allan tic railroad.