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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
Rushing Food Products Into Storage

Rushing Food Products Into storage
 Agricultural production is not de- creasing in this country. Statistics show that it is keeping step with the increase in population. And yet food prices are advancing. Every we'll in- formed commercial man knows why.
 He knows that. this is the season of the year when food products are accumulated in vast quantities in cold storage houses, there to be held for higher prices. Cold storage gents are ransacking the country for chick ems and eggs, and the butter trust and the beef trust are hurrying their products into warehouses. A Chicago correspondent says 2,500,00O hogs, 800,000 beeves and 1,5O0,000 sheep have already been placed by packers in that city in cold storage ware houses. In addition 2,971 ,000 cases of eggs, 15,623, ,450 pounds of poul- try and 48,5S2, 900 pounds of butter have been warehoused.
 This it is that is carrying the prices of necessaries higher and the banks will be worked to keep the cold storage warehouses full until the consumer is fleeced of his utmost dol lar. None of the warehoused products will be unloaded until cold weather comes, and then capital will endeavor to wiring from buyers great profits, protected as it will be against i'm portations by the Payne tariff and Taft vetoes.
 New York is endeavoring to regu. late this new method of extortion by means of its Brennan act passed last winter. This act places in the hands of the board of health power to regu- late cold storage products. The local board of health is expected to pre- vent unwholesome aging or deteriora- tion in cold storage, and the people of New York are anticipating good re- suits from the operation of the new law. New York is, however, but one of many gold storage centers. Chi ! cago and@ St. Louis are also great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
Next House of Governors

The last house of governors was called for Frankfort. It quickly ad. journed from the dull little capital to Louisville, where it encountered so much Kentucky hospitality that its work and even it's reputation were damaged no little. All had a good time and uniformity of action in the states was altogethaS forgotten.
 On September 12 this years meet ing will be. begun at Spring Lake, New Jersey, and Governor Woodrow Wilson proposes that the governors shall attend strictly to business. Thirty-five governors have already announced their intention to be pres-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
From the Kew York Times.

From the New York Times.
 TT has hardly occurred to northerners
 that the south would ever be afflicted | with a servant problem. Yet 1t has one. and big one The Macon News de- scribes conditions which, it says. "are familiar to the people of all sections of the south and can be duplicated any come in the methods of domestic service rendered by the negroes srnen and women. The d-fashioned nanny and "uncle' have disappeared. Southern mistresses may hire servants to act as nurses, cooks, waitresses, chambernads and dishwash- CTS who will do the particular things ie-
 ating to a particular one of these varied activities. but to no other ,, The lines of work which they have adopted are seemingly promoted to the dignity of professions professions with spe- cialties at that" If the household lacks cook, the other servants permit the mistress to cook meals both for the family and for themselves. The Montgomery Ad- vertiser adds its comment
 'The white family that keeps cook counts on feeding one family of negroes. If they have house girl, they can count on feeding still another family. If com plaint is raised to the servants, milady soon finds herself reconnoiterng for an- other cook and servant girl. In the case of the house girl it is a rare experience a family has in keeping in It's employ the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
Marine Band Concert

Tt seems to be practically settled that
 Birmingham will have the opportunity
 of hearing the United States Marine band
 in a grand concert October 20, said a man prominent in musical circles. "A
 committee has been organized for the
 purpose of securing the necessary guar antee. and as there will be scarcely any risk in the way of a deficit, citizens sought as guarantors will. it is thought, be ready and willing to subscribe.
 MT Oliver Challfoux is secretary and treasurer of the Marine band committee. and he will give large part of his time Monday and Tuesday to the work of can vassing. Whatever is done In the mat ter of securing a guarantee must be eonclhded not later than Wednesday.
 The United states Marine band, as everyone knows, is one of the greatest brass and reed organizations in the world When I was in Europe few years ago had the pleasure of hearing the Cold stream Guards band Lieut. Dan Godfrey director. It is the star band of Great Britain. It was made up in the usual way for concert purposes-siX trumpets or comets four French horns, three trombones. two baritone horns, three or four tubas, eight first elarinets, four second clarinets, four third clarinets, two flutes, two oboes, two bassoons, three sax aphones, a set of kettle drums, bass drum and cymbals and a snare drum A band so constituted can play all of the big concert music, except full grown symphonies, which require strings as well as brass and wood winds. Godfreys included as I recall it, the Tannhauser overture a tone poem, a bal let suite and a symphonic march. On the continent I heard many military bands, but they were all brass In Ger many l heard only one band with reeds, and that was good, but not up to three or four of our high class American bands Everyone knows Sousa as a pop ular bandmaster In the concert world Innes ranks very high indeed He calls his an orchestral band, because in ad- dtion to the brass and wood winds he uses violoncellos and bass viols. Innes has been engaged for the State Fair, and his concerts will form a great treat in- deed But as I have said, our Marine band is one of the greatest in the world, greater certainly, than any band one hears abroad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
THE PENALTY OF ExTREMIsM

From the Atlanta Constitution. Birmingham, largest city in Alabama, and third largest city in the south, has overwhelmingly voted a return to the open bar, the root-evil of the liquor prob lem.
 Extremism in legislation is the sole ex- planation of this development. The sig nifcance of the lesson stands out in un- challenged relief for the benefit both of the bona fide and political advocate of the solution of great problem by sheer force of fiat.
 Several years ago Alabama went under statewide prohibition under conditions that should have sounded warning to that large and worthy element honestly striving to advance the cause of temper ance. The gubernatorial and legislative election leading up to the enactment of inc statute had not even remotely hinged upon the whisky traffic. It had turned upon subject specifically and radically divergent-the regulation of railroads.
 The people of the state had had no op- Hportunlty to express their sentiments re- gardng statewide prohibition. There were no adequate means of determining whetber majority judgment favored legal prohibition. local option of what not. In the face of this situation the advocates of statewide prohibition-many of them un- occasionally urged on by the worthiest of motives-jammed through what was prob ably the most stringent and air-tight
 measure ever devised by human in genuity.
 The sequel was not slow In manifesting
 itself In those parts of the state out of sympathy with the idea of prohibition the blind tiger, the boot logger and the secret den sprung up as mushrooms. The vllalnous decoctlons they served Tanned crime and encouraged murder. In short time the law was reduced to a hollow inockery
 In Mobile, Montgomery and Birmingham public revuls.on exhibited it's strongest symptoms And now. at the first oppor- tunity all three have ropudiated fiat legls- laton and returned by heavy majorities tc that feature of the liquor problem which is. admitted the handspring of its curse and tragedy.
 Had a more temperate course been pur sued: had local sentiment and the people been consulted The pendulum would not have swung to its other extreme. as the corner saloon
 with It's train of evils and menaces, wou'c not now be preparing to loosen US ini'u ences again in three of the fairest cues II the southern states.
 It is the devout hope of the constitu
 ton that the public, standing bar VII never return to Georgia. We should view such development as an unmitisatet dissster.k lf 1t ever does-- which God for bid !--itl will be because of the same in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Rusiness Activity

''When I was in Chicago recently 1 met many prominent representatives of tha piano concern with which l am connect ed, and everyone of them was optimistic in discussing the business outlook, sald B. B. Burton.
 Our men who made reports on traoe conditions cover a very large territory Denver on The west and Richmond Va.' on the east These representatives of the company had had wide experience in the west and south, and without a single ex- ception they told of cheering conditions am satisfied that there will be marked prosperity throughout the country during the fall season."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
REFLECTIONS ow A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Everybody in the house gets day out but mother.
 If a woman is jealous about man. it's sign he isn't worth 1t.
 Very few women can take their figures in swimming with them.
 The devil never has to do bit of plan ming to catch aperson with a bad temper.
 A man can spend a dollar on his wife with the right sort of sentimental hour- ishes and make her think it's million.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
INGRATiTUDE

From Shakespeare's "As You Like It. Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unlkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen. Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Neigh. ho. sing neigh ho unto the green
 holly; Most friendship is feignlng. most loving
 mere folly; Then neigh ho. the holly! This life is most jolly. Freeze. free thou bitter sky. That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot. Though thou the waters warp,
 Thy sting is not so sharp
 As friend remembered not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
state Fair Great Institution

Every citizen of Birmingham should boost the Alabama State Fair," said Henry F. Beaumont. While the fair is not local institution, correctly speak ing, being in fact an all southern ex- position, yet it stands to reason that Birmingham and its merchants and manufacturers as class receive more benefit from it than any other commun- ity except the state as a whole, and each and every business man'of Great CT Birmingham should link hands with the management of the fair with view to securing the largest attendance ever recorded.
 The fair nb wdeservingly holds the honor of being the states greatest annual event. For several years past it has been renarkably successful. It is now recognized throughout the entire southern country as being one of the best and largest expositions held an- nually.
 Every incentive to increased suc- cess exists this year and if the mer- enants and manufacturers recognized fully it's great possibilities, every line of commerce and industrial activity would lend more active cooperation. A great fair benefits Birmingham and everything that benefits Birmingham aids every soul living within it's bor- various mercantile and industrial in terests which Is being requested will no doube be granted enthusiastically"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
,ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

dinner. Her eyes gleamed with pleasant participation as>she asked;
 Won was ist es gemaeht?'
 Hitchcock has since abandoned lofty literary conversation. l New York Telegram.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

fuences that led to Its revival in Alas bama-
 Zealotry run riot and, by its ill-consid- cred extremism, defeating ultimately tho identical aims at which it directed its ef- forts.
 The saddest feature of the Alabama sits uaion is that Che responsibility rests al the doors of those who were most ear- nestly striving for progress. The penalty our state is now paying will not have been vainly endured if Georgia and other states seeking an honest solution of a great moral problem will read the lessons
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
NOT MUCH WISER.

Do you remember the days of your boyhood when the word 'Popocatepetl' was q hard word to spell?''
 "Of course I do."
 /'Ah, me Time brings about many changes
 No doubt 1t does, but still consider 'Popocatepetl hard word to spell"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

The so-called tariff board, consisting of standpatters only. is plodding along as per instructions in the earning of fat salaries. It has the Remsen board and the lame ducks of the monetary com mission whipped block, even if it has no law behind 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
SPRECHEN SHE DEUTsCHE?

SPRECHEN SEE DEUTsCHE? It was Raymond Hitchcock who put on his best clothes the other night and went to dine with friends.
 His host placed him next to the stout but wealthy woman. Some one had warned him that she was a high-brow. So he opened the conversation with a choice bromidiom.
 Do you like Ibsen?" he asked.
 His partners mind was evidently on the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
Raising Advertising standard.


 srhe Birmingham Ad club will be up and doing from this time forward said an officer of the organization
 Although we had assurances from 2 number Of business men of desire to join the club and cooperate with us in the effort to raise the standards or advertising in Birmingham, Eve did not consider it advisable either to accept new members or to canvass for tAem until after the election. We have put in the waiting period in perfecting our plan of organization, and are now ready to pro ceed.
 ''rhe provisional committee on member ship has decided that advertising men, advertisers and those interested in ao- vertising are eligible, thus making the scope of the club very broad. The pur- pose is 10 make the club of practical value to every member, and also to CO., operate with the Chamber of Commerce. Board of Trade and Business Mems league in the upbuilding of Birmingham especially in those enterprises in which publicity is essential.
 '.The club vii lbe admitted to member ship in the Associated Advertising Clubs of America as soon as it adopts con stitution and bylaws, which will be done at the next meeting The leading adver- Using men of the country will be invited to address the club from time to time, and we will thus get the best advertising thought of the day. One of the functions of the club will be the elimination of fake mediums and methods, and we ex- pect to be able to save the advertisers of this city many thousands of dollars. This work alone will entitle the 'club to the hearty support of the business commun- ity. The club has great opportunities for usefulness, and l am confident 1t will grasp them.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
Concerning Exci.e Commis.sonl

Since we are to have open saloons I hope no time will be lost in the naattsr of starting,' said one. of Birmingbam's largest taxpayers. "Governor O'Neal, who I believe went east on trip during the week, will return to the capital in two or three days-long enough to consider
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
TIT ISN'T EvERYTHING.

IT ISN'T EVERYTHING. Who could not be happy
 With pile of gold? Nearly everybody. If the truth be told. Ever see fellow | Light of heart and sunnv, 1 Just because he'd gathered Up a lot of money? Something in addition Needs to go along, l'Fore we'll learn the way to | Sweeten life with song.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
SERVANTS IN THE SOUTH

Isame girl for three weeks. The average tenure of service of. the house girl. is two weeks. If the position is too 'exacting' and. the morning paper doesn't come promptly, she wouldn't mind quitting the first week."
 It is even asserted that this sort of gen tlemen's agreement to live out of the white folks kitchen is often encoura ged by some of the negro preachers. The Macon News suggests that the nouse- keepers organize, form unions of their own. and protect themselves against the itiperant servants, who are now assured of finding a new place after a week or so spent in the old, one. They might he res quiped. for instance. to produce "cha,- aeters' from their last place of service. The negroes do not. of course, compete
 with white labor in domestic work But if their terms Unemployment become bur- densome, they may find powerful compet- itors in thefadoption throughout the south of labor-saving contrivances and of meth- ods of scientific management in the homo
 that will largely do away with the need of keeping servants. In the factories and fields they are submitting more and mere Ito the competition of wlhte labor Their cunning and unthrift in domestic mat ters may work to their harm. The do- nestle service problem, however is not more perplexing in the south than in the north It is assuredly one of the gravess of the hour, and one that becomes mere
 annoying year by year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
COMING NEXT
From the Houston Post.

From the Houston Post
 Bouquets are falling at the feet of oscar Underwood from all directions. Did we say all? Well, all but one, and just at this moment we haven't the Pullman car located.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

carefully the applications for excise po-
 sitions here and make the appointments. | "The governor has given Mobile and Mentcomery excellent excise commissions.
 and it goes without saying that he will
 strive to satisfy the best people of Bir-
 mirsgham in making up our excise com mission.
 .'I voted for the open saloon, and my pro-
 hibition friends called me in fun whis-
 ky head, although it has been fully lo years since I took drink in bar room and it will be a long time before. saloon ever gets any of my mopey But think place of Birmingham $ size should nave saloons, and there Is no reason why they should not be well regulated. When took up my5residence here nearly l5 years ago I was something of a drinker. Bir- mingham still showed signs of being q mining town, and one of the few objec- tionable things I saw was the tough crowd that I usually had to elbow when I got a drink One bar which I patronized at that time, however, was In the Morris. Mr Nabb was the proprietor of fhe hotel, and he had strict rules and regulations which were well carried out. The Morris bar was all right. The bartenders were intelligent and courteous and without go ing out of the way to speak unkindly to anyone who came for drink they polite iy infornsed all mcouth or low down per sons that they could not be served. If the uncouth one started to raise rough house he was bounced so quick that itl made his head swim-and he never came back any more.
 "frhere may have been few other model saloons in Birmingham at that time, but I happened not to be familiar with them. As I say. I.voted for the open saloon this time, but if we do not have the best of order, then I will be ready to vote out the liquor business. The saloon lepalized by law being on trial will am sure, be properly conducted. It will eer- tainly be to the interest of the propris- tors, those who pay the heavy license, to have them so conducted.
 When it comes to model commissioners, MT George B. Ward. former mayor, known personally from one end of Jeffer- son county to the other. and with the right sort of a public record on the liquor question, would make most efficient ex- else man. He is full of grit; nobody can fool him, and he is always fair and square His appointment would certain ly give very general satisfaction.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

The Gainesborough portrait of~ the Duchess of Devonshire stayed lost 20 years before it came back, and Lsonasdo's great portrait may be lost to an entire generation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
EVER HEAR OF 4 MORTGAGEs u tha IIolietou Post

Houston ought to be known as The City without Hysteries. Everything in and about Abe town is as plain as day except how in the devil some people manage to own and operate automo- biles,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

centers and they have no hygienic laws to control their cold storage warehouses. A limit on the term of storage is neded in every state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

Secretary Wilson knows more about farming and horse trading than he does about chemistry, and Iowa is calling loudly for him at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

If Paris does not stop this Mona Lisa bus,p ness, some one may yet carry off it's justly famous arch of triumph.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

Secretary Fisher is studying Controller bay in view of prospective as well as present attempts to monopolize it. The Gnggenheims are believed to Ne awaiting the subsistence Of popular interest in that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

Dr. Pearsons aged go, is the best give away. die poor philanthropist the coun- try has ever known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

The flags supply of stars is complete, and nothing remains but the arrangement of them in official ranks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

Anti-administratio editors are wanted in Cuba The risk of deportation be- comes rather inviting down there after a while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
WAITING.

The skies are wondrous blue today, A
 The hills are wrapped in dreams, An errant breeze from far away
 Speaks low of woodland streams And quiet wales where autumn's reign
 Will very soon begin, With falling leaf and drear complain
 And storms untoward din. Fit prelude to old Winter bold,
 Who harries all the land And yields to Spring reluctant hold,
 When April, smiling, bland, Comes back to win the world to bloom
 And make us sweet amends For darkling days of frost and gloom
 When life with sadness blends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

Some of the railroads, notably the Southern Pacific. are resorting to an eight hour day in order to reduce ex- penses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

Coatesvire, Pa, hopes the public will soon forget it, but Governor Tener thinks differently. He is an ex-ballplayer, and he proposes that some of the lynchers shall be put where the dogs cannot bite them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

The golf balls at Beverly begin to wish Congress had not adjourned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

St. Louis declares that this is to be corsetless winter, but St. Louis plainly has another guess coming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

Admiral Togo saw more and said less than any living traveller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

The Louvre officials are not going around with the Mona Lisa smile on their faces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

The removal of Dr. Wiley Is still de- layed in the mails from Beverly, Mass.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

The two new states Nshould shake the alkali dust out of their hair and get ready to do Business as states in Decem- Der next.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

The thief who stole Mona Lisa had A hours to disappear in, for the portrait was not missed until that length of time had elapsed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

Europe will not sleep soundly until that Moroccan dispute is finally and fully set tied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

The Lorimer inquiry is to be reopened in October, the melancholy month of the year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
TIME WILL TELL

TIME WILL TELL. In the drear November When the skies are gray, Shall we still remember All the songs of May? Shall oar hearts keep singing As they used toj do, When the blooms were springing, When the skies were blue?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
An ovrnDOsE OF TIGERS

From the Atlanta Consultation.
 Did Birmingham setsnoush. or. rather foo little, in short ofder5 \,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

The eldest living daughter of Grover Cleveland is to be married. Time do fly.