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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
\ Visit After Twelve Years

"I was in Birmingham in 1899, and was detained here a week or more in look ing after business matters, but I had not been this far south since then until l stopped over today on my way to Mo- bile and New Orleans said Frederick l.. Newton of Minnesota last night. Twelve years ago Birmingham was much talked about as a coming great city, but, as I recall 1t, it was poorly built, that is to say the business dis trist. There were no modern office build ings and the city had somewhat the ap- pearance of a mining camp town. It is very different now. In fact, I marvel when I see skyscrapers and elegant im- provements of various sorts. The big passenger station is one of the most beau- tiful specimens of architecture I have seen anywhere. There are larger pas senger depots in this country, but none that can make a more pleasing impress sion on persons who have an eye for symmetry and artistic architectural treat IT ent. What little I have been able to see of the South Highlands has charmed me very much. had heard recently that Bii mngham's residence sections surpassed in beauty those of any city in the south, and l can readily imagine that now.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
MORGAN's FEW FRIENDS

From "The Life Story of J. Pierpont
 Morgan" in the August Metropolitan
 Magazine.
 It is said there are scarcely 50 men in the financial district who have a speak ing acquaintance with J. P Morgan Whether the number is correct or not it is certain that his acquaintance is rela- lively small, and that his real friendships are reserved for a very few people chiefly the men whom he has known all his life and with whom he is very likely His dislike of having a meaningless fuss made over him by strangers Is shown by his never. appearing at public meet ings, and by his perennial irritation at the never-say-die reporters and camera men who unfailingly close in. upon him when he is sailing or returning from across the water. In London he insists upon not being noticed when he comes in or leaves his office and has stopped the custom of showering him with defer ential bows which was long clung to by his employees. When he drives up to his house or his office in New York he is out of his cab or automobile and into the building in two strides, swift and pur- poseful. Anyone who hoped to intercept him would carry away nothing from the attempt but the mental impression of the financier's air of extraordinary vigor and the recollection of the intent and piercing expression of his eyes, fixed straight be- fore him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Tariff Revision At White House Door

Tariff Revision At White House Dool
 The passage of the free list bil essentially unchanged in the Senate should enable the democrats and in. surgents to test in a speedy manner the statement that the President stands ready to veto any revision ot the Payne tariff until his tariff board, with a string attached, has re- ported. The wool bill and the free list bill would be all sufficient tests of the presidential will and Congress should never adjourn until they both have been sent to the White House.
 Unless this be done the friends of the President will assert from one end of the country to the other that it was MT. Taft who caused the reciprocity agreement to be negotiated and that he stands ready to revise the tariff ''in a scientific manner" at any time. They would insinuate that the wool bill and the free list bill were not presented to him out of fear that he would sign them.
 The situation can be made as plain as the nose on a mans face by laying before him the wool bill and the free list bill, even if the consistent reve- nue plan of Chairman Underwood has to be departed from in some partic- ulars. MT. Taft has declared the Payne wool schedule to be "inde- fensible" Now, let him have one that is better to say the least. If he de- sires to plead his tariff board, give him a chance. The country under stands the nature of that tariff board It will report when the President says so. It could have reported the wool section months ago. It works as the presidential string is pulled. It is one of the silliest devices ever put before men intelligent enough to judge we'll known facts.
 Give the President then a chance to plead his tariff board. Let him deny relief to consumers on that ground if he so desires. Tariff re- vision and lower cost of living should be laid on the presidential threshold and left there. The voters will then know where the obstacles stand-when the interests and the standpatters secured their pledge and they will then be able to act at the polls in the light of actual tests Clear up the situation. Let the peo- pie see the facts as they exist when fully uncovered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Listz Instead of Liszt

"A name I have found difficult to spell is Liszt, the musician" said a young student. ''I never felt sure whether it was 'stz' or sgt It seems that there are two ways. The brilliant editor of the Musical Courier, writing from Paris, says that the universal manner, of spelling the name of Liszt in France is Listz.
 "I herewith enclose. says Editor Blu manbers. the popular description in vogue and the favorite picture here. Liszt was born October 22, 1s11 at Raid ing. The French account (and I have seen it this way hundreds of times here) is Fielding" and the date 1909. Observe on the French statement that the Grauer Messe Is called la Messe de Grau. But as Maurice Grau died after Iistz, there must be an error again. Obviously, it wold be hypercritical to discuss the Liszt question in France on this basis, nec would l publish this were it not for the fact that, even among the most cuti- vated, the Franz Llszt we know is called in France the Abbe Listz or Franz Lstz or Listz. One never hears of Liszt." :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
This Districts Ores and Fuel

The testimony brought out before the investigation committee headed by Mir. Stanley is favorable to this district. Its iron ores and coal de- posits are extolled, and the fact that iron can be made several dollars cheaper a ton than it can be made in Pittsburg, and $3 less than it can be made elsewhere in the world, is very comfortable reading.
 But when committee attempts to show that the United States Steel corporation has secured even a major percentage of the ores and coals of this district, it is seeking error. There are many unutilized ore bodies and coal deposits in Alabama, Ten nessee, Georgia and Virginia. There | is plenty of independent ore here and considerable independent coal. The Tennessee company's holdings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Excellent Educational Work

i Jesse c. Foster, financial agent es | Camp Hhl school situated. .sn Taneeeess county. on the Central oe Georgia fail- road, is in Birmingham and will remain | here several days. He is the accredited representative of the institution founded Scme years ago by Lyman Ward for the
 purpose of educating worthy boys whe
 might be in poor circumstances Mn Ward Is a northern man of fine education
 and high ideals. He came south seen
 after he left college in order to look
 round for barren field where he could
 do good by establishing an industrial
 school and enabling poor bows to work
 their way through a sound educational
 course. He selected the Camp Hin site
 as especially desirable for the philan-
 thropic work he had In view. He had
 no means of his own, but by energy and
 economic management he has made his
 school self-sustaining and has paid for
 400 acres of land for his school farm,
 q was one of the boys educated at
 Camp Hill," said MT. Foster My par
 ents were not able to send me to school
 after I was 12 years of age. l worked
 on a farm and at the age of 20 round
 myself sadly deficient in education. I then
 enrolled myself at Camp Hill and was
 farmer and student there at the same
 time. Principal Ward is the very man
 to have charge of boys. He is splen-
 did teacher and is doing a grand work. He is well-known among the prominent philanthropists of the country. Andrew Carnegie Is among those who have made gifts to Camp Hill school. We need an endowment there. and I am trying to in terest men of means in Alabama who will aid us in this enterprise. If we get a good start in our own state there will be no trouble about raising money in wealthy philanthropic centers of the north Thes Camp Hill buildings are sub stantial. The central structure is of brick and is very handsome indeed. With am- pier means MT. Ward would greatly ex- tend his work, of course, and few men anywhere are doing more for the intel | ectual and ethical development of youth | than he"
 MT. Foster. after graduating at Camp | Hill, studied law at the university, and | Is now a practicing lawyer in Tuscaloosa. | He has fine credentials, and will, no loubt, meet with encouragement in his | effort to raise funds for his Tallapoosa | alma mater.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03

are valuable, but they are not and
 never were monopolistic. This is the
 point in the case, and the truth aS te
 this point should be clearly brought
 out before the Stanley committee,
 For this purpose the reports Ss the
 geological survey should Ae laid be- fore the committee as evidence, and MT. Echels and other expert engi- neers who are or have been con- nected with the geological survey should be summoned as witnesses.
 There is scarcely an intelligent man here who considers the Steel corpora tion. a monopolist in this district. It brought here vast capital. It has been a distinct and positive benefit to this district, and it has never shown a desire here to become monopolistic. So far as supplies of ores and fuel are concerned 1t could not be monopolistic if it desired to be. This is the situation and it should be plainly presented before the Stan ley committee.
 And if the Steel corporation, through it's control of the Tennessee company, has no monopoly in this dis trict, how can the purchase ot the atter by the former be considered an effort to monopolize the ores ot the country and through them the iron and steel industry of this broad land!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
REEVES RouGEs ET NoIRs

Marion Dorothy Shainwald, in the Forum. They tell me drowning men have dreams; That as the waters mock their screams And wrap them in the undertow, Sweet scenes and dreams come, back to
 them .tt
 To brighten life before they go Before they go far out of sight Into the cold. black depths of night. They tell me this, whose life is done; When in the warmth of youth. and sun Al moments madness I loved her sol could not know I'd killed her. when she sought to go | My Ndays are nights. I 1oathe the sun. My love is dead, my life is done. They tell me drowning men have dreams; That as the waters mock their screams And wrap them in thes sundertow, Sweet scents and dreams come hack to
 them
 To brighten life before they go They tell me this-and yet no dreams Have come to me ' ' TO me Who drown in Life's dark sea.
 And yet no dreams have come to mel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
THE PEOPLE LIKE X MAN

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
 Everybody praises Underwood" says the Columbia State. Everybody ought to praise Underwood. He is one of the most refreshing characters developed in the political life of the country for many years. Declaring that it would not dis cuss the secret of his popularity and in- auence our contemporary puts it's finger exactly on the spot when it says that ..the test of his character was when he stood by his tariff reform principles at a time that pressure was exerted by the immense influences of the steel, iron and coal interests of the Birmingham district to make him swerve from them" Had Oscar W. Underwood allowed his democ-
 racy to be corrupted because some of his constituents were tainted with protec- ton sentiment, he would be rated in Con- gross today as a politician of the second
 or third class and not as statesman of the first class All of which is true, and is worth the consideration of other mem- hers of Congress and other men engaged in political life who are always thinking about how they can keep in instead of showing by their work that it would be worse for the public interests if they should be turned out.
 There is one example in the political history of the south which we delight to hold up for the emulation of those who would serve the state. It is the case or l.. c. c. Lamar of Mississippi, who was United States senator from that state in 1878. He was strongly opposed to all schemes involving the debasement or un- due imitation of the currency. He was asked by the legislature of his state-a legislature which had not elected him-to resign his seat. He denied the right of the legislature to instruct him as to his duty in this matter, refused to re- sign and went before the people of his state for vindication. It came with en- thusiasm, and his course was sustained. 1t is nearly always so. The people ad1 mire courage in their public servants. They are ready to pay tribute to the | ability and integrity of their representa- lives when they are proved. They de-
 spise the weak, the ignorant. the corrupt; ] the men who change this way or that as
 the wind of popular favor seems to blow; | the men who have no initiative, no
 other sense of making themselves solid with the boys. 1 The country has been attracted to Un-
 derwood by his ability. his honesty, his courage, and they would support him be-
 cause of his manliness in doing the best
 thing that in his opinion would contribute
 to the general welfare. If there were more
 like him in our public life. and In the administration of the industrial analrs l of the country as well, the sober secohu
 sense of the people would speedily man 1 fest itself and questions of great public moment would he settled on their merits
 and not in response to the demands of ' the demagosuA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
DISCOVERY OF ANETHEsIA

During all of his course as a. medical student in the University of Pennsyl- vana pr. Crawford w. Long was eager to find something that would alleviate jain in surgery, and believed that some where in the universe the Creator had placed an agency sufficient for the need," writes Rosa P. Chies in Munsey's Mag aSine.' "In those days he was fond of ex- pertinent. and was recognized as a man of independent thought. It was, however, by accident that he finally found the agent for producing oblivion to pain. His genius lay in applying the accident to the need which appealed to his sympathies and experiment quickly followed.
 ''Dr. Long, when he was about 26 years old, inhaled 1t with other young people, and at times became uncomfortable under it's influence, falling over objects and bruising himself quite badly. Feeling no rain at the time, and being unconscious of injury until afterward, it occurred to him that the safe agency for painless surgery had been found. After consider ing the matter carefully, on the 3oth of March, 1s42. he successfully performed the first authenticated operation without pain to the subject. This fact has never been disputed
 James M. Venable, a young man who had inhaled ether at ether frolcs,' con- sented to have a tumor removed while under the influence of the gas. He had postponed the operation from time to time in dread of pain, and was glad to try the new agency of oblivion He was SD amazed at the success of the experi- ment that upon recovering consciousness he refused to believe that the tumor had teen removed until Dr. Long showed it to him. Two months later the same man had another tumoreremoved with equal ei.ccesS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
ReapportiOnment Bill

Today the Senate will act on the House reappointment bill which has been favorably reported to the Sen ate. This bill provides for a House consisting of 433 members as against 391 in that body at present. Under this plan Alabama would have ten members instead of nine, Georgia twelve, Florida four, Louisiana eight-a gain of one member in each state, and Oklahoma would gain three members, and Texas two. No state would lose member.
 The greatest state gain would be in New York. That state now sends 36 representatives to Congress, and under the pending bill she would send 43. Pennsylvania would gain four members, California three, Illinois two, Massachusetts two, New Jersey two, and Washington two.
 The chief objections to the House bill relate to the large size of the membership in that body, and it may lead to removal of the desks, thus putting it more nearly on the basis of the house of commons. By taking away the desks members would be brought more closely together and it would probably reduce the number of long-set speeches which rarely if ever promote useful legislation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
ENVYING BIRMINGHAM
, Inc Montgomery Advertiser.

NFUh1l IHG .MUItgUIIleTy AuVef0ISeT'
 According to a statement of The Bir- rninghain Age-Herald of Saturday, the operating expenses of the city of Bir- mngham during the month of July, 1911. were s53,600 less than. for the month of May, 1911. If our city commissioners would take the people here into their con- fdence and make publication of what \ as being done here in the way of reduc- ing expenses and providing way for liv- ing within the. city's income, there would be a better feeling as to the efficiency Of the commissioners in doing what was ex- rected of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03

From the Kansas City Star.
 To the Star: Your editorial calling at tenton to the better earnings of writers of these days contrasted with those of the so-called Golden Age of Queen Anne, '' Was true enough. But the usual excep- ton to the rule is found.
 Alexander Pope received G900O Cs45 O00J for his .ranslations of Homer-or, as Ed nlund Gosse calls them, "paraphrases " Probably s45.oo0 in that period was the equivalent of s150,eoO today. Quite a nifty sum for a writer of verses. What presen, day poet can equal it?
 Pope was one of the few literary mer 1 If his time who could be independent o | patronage. He said, Thanks to Homer. | ne "could live and thrive indebted to nc | prince or peer alive"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
MODERN SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE


 From the Portland Telegram.
 From Los Angeles comes the story that the emissaries of ex-King Manuel are whereabouts drumming up American re- cruits for an army that is to make trium- rhal entry into Portugal and restore the old order and the young King.
 As we fancy there is no such excitement about recruiting headquarters as to re- fuire the attention of the police; but we arc told of a few ex-revolutionists, re- gently of the Lower California trouble, who are anxious to enlist in any country and under anybodys banner so long as there is the promise or better still, the assurance of a square meal. Los An gees, in fact, seems to be the rendez- vous of this class of American soldier of fortune
 There was a time and not so many years ago at that, when patriotic young Europeans of good family and splendid education, for the most part, were driven from their own country. and from one land of exile after another, because they were fighters for what they believed to be human rights. Many of them were men who had received military educa- ton and had acquired military experience fighting for the cause of political liberty in their own country. They were soldiers Ly profession, but soldiers with high ideals, as many of them proved who came to this country during the civil war and engaged with the Union forces in tbe fpht against slavery.
 There is no parallel between this class and the handful of measly adventurers who went marauding into Lower Califor- nja. Those latter are foolish nondescripts who seek cheap notoriety, from whom society will never get any benefit unless it should happen that at some time or other they should be put at breaking rock ol sa wing wood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 It's not as easy for a man to fool . baby as a woman 8 man.
 The reason a girl knows so little about some things is she could tell q lot more if she dared to.
 the end of his vacation to go home and rest up from it.
 A man can know all there is to know about scientific finance without ever :nak- ing cent out of 1t.
 Just as soon as man sets out not to get married some woman seals his fate by setting out to marry him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Flies and Milk Pollution

g tracing of the typhoid fever mic in Mobile to two dairies sell milk in the eastern section of city, where the infection almost lily exists, clarifies the situation. few cases have appeared in the ern section of the city. At the airies in question typhoid cases listed. The flies did the rest.
 b-stations in the city where
 ,ml the two dairies were sold
 m /the centers of infection.
 she old, old story-typhoid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
From Answers.

From Answers.
 TT was as if in the beginning of time a
 giant had cut off the top of a mann A moth tree with a chopper, and, :ak- ing the 60O-foot stump, had set it in the midst Of the ocean, where, through the ages, it petrified and became black-gray rock Tilis rock was so utterly sheer that nothing, not even a gull, could find nest ing-ledge upon it, and men said that no living creature made it's home thereon. And they were wrong.
 The top of the rock was fiat, but sloped, as if the giant had not cut quite true, and it was covered with a deep, soft black seil, all starred with nodding sea-pinks, which bent and whispered to the everlast- ins wind of the place that shaved all down to turf level. Also. the turf was rock-marked all over with little holes, smaller than a rabbits.
 Now, because no man had ever set foot on the top of that rock, the aviator thought he would like to do so. There fore, he made his preparations and a wager, and. one fine summer day, won it, toats standing by to salvage the corpse. Ee stepped out on the sprfngy turf and walked to the edge. and. being an avia- tor, looked over into nothing, without foolishly turning giddy and going to his fathers. Then the little holes struck him. He knelt and was aware of the smell of oil.
 By love-" he said ''something does live here. after all. Rats ?"-and put his hand into a hole.
 Very quickly, indeed was the hand withdrawn, and most disgracefully ill was that aviator. Something had smoth- cred his hand in thick, oily fluid, and Look here, you know the smell of a skunk? This wasn't in the least like the | smell ot a skunk, but 1t was nearly as bad. The winds of high heaven saved that aviator from asphyxiation, he says. He also says that gleaming eyes glared at him. Then he came away. When night had thrown her wet, gray tresses over the lonely seas. the owner of that hole came out, and, standing in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
Prosperous southern Cities

Business is active in the south, and, from my point of view, has been decid- edly satisfactory this summer" said George R. Trippe of Chicago, we'll known representative of the Cable Piano company. q have recently visited Knox vile, Atlanta and Charleston, and I am going from here to New Orleans. Birmingham seems to be growing steadily. It is one of the best cities in the country, and 1t will not be many years before it's 1910 census population is dou- bled."