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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
Excise Com missiOners

1.-The governor has appointed men of the very highest class to the important positions of excise commissioners in Shelf field, Mobile and Montgomery, and we nay reasonably presume that in appoint ing the Birmingham commissioners he will select men of the highest type when the city is ready to issue licenses for the liquor business,..' said public spirited member of the Chamber of Commerce
 Jefferson county will vote in favor of saloons. That matter seems to be prac- to the majority. MT. Well forecasts a majority of over POGO. My guess is tha; it will be between 1900 and 230O, but I will rot lJe surprised if 1t reaches 2oCG. There has been 8 wonderful change here in the last year. A great many business men and good church members who nave been prohibtionists are thoroughly disgusted with present conditions. AS between tho dispensary and saloons 1t is believed by the majority that the latter is preferable.
 "A prohibition friend of mine said the other day, Do you realize that under the Smith regulation law the excise com mission can license saloon right at your yery door? Such talk as that strikes me as being absurd. The excise comlnis- sion. no matter who the men composing it may be, will have to do the decent thing. Public sentiment was never 90 strongly in favor of law and order as now. No matter if the commission could rut a saloon near my home it would no- to it. live in a respectable residence section. I do not want saloons in my neighborhood, but do wish to see d few of them in the business district. No reighborhood will have saloon unless the residents ask for it. Most of the ar guments I have heard against .he sa- looms have been strained. l ameacquainf' ed with hundreds of business men here in mingham-merchants and others-and only one of them tells me that he Is going to vote dry. I have never seen the merchants so united on any public question as now. They want to see Bir- mingham provided with high license sa- loons." t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
Snrinc HiII College

The Rev. Father Fazekerley. S. J., who will preach at the 10:30 o'clock mass at St. Pauls today, is a member of the faculty of Spring Hill college, near Mo- tile, one of the famous institutions of learning in America. It is understood that several Birmingham boys will matri- oulate at Spring Hill in September. A gentleman who takes keen interest in education says: Spring Hill college is rot only great along classical lines, but it has finely equipped technolog1cal de- rartments, and is strictly up-to-date. while its commercial course is notably thorough. The commercial school besides giving instruction in bookkeeping and stenography, includes literature and phil osophy. The one year philosophy course in the commercial department is equal to two years course in some other col ieges, but the aim is to turn out educated men"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
Was a Revelation

DO you know l had never been to there. two Sundays ago, drew me out" said Murray Brown. 'fo say that l was astonished by what 1 saw is putting it mildly. I was almost swept off my feet by the impressiveness of Corey and it's sky line of tall stacks.
 'I had thought of Corey as a suburban proposition that was being developed on rather broad lines and not a city in the making, which 1t really is There is something in the architecture and general plan of Corey which gives one the im- pression that he has been translated into 8 wider range of life. If this be magic, it is the magic of twentieth century intellect and skill"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
Ore Supply of the Tennessee Company


 The effort to make the merger of the Tennessee company and the Steel corporation an attempted "corner" in southern iron ores will surely miscar- " if the facts are brought out before the Stanley investigation committee No one has ever claimed that the Ten nessee company owns more than 700,- 0,00O tons of ore. Some of those familiar with mineral conditions in this district put the amount of it's ore a. 625, 100000 tons. Accepting the larger figures the Tennessee company does not own one-third of the availa- ble ore in Alabama, Georgia, Tennes- see and Virginia.
 The geological survey estimated in 1906 the available supply in the four states at 2,5O0, 1000, ,000 tons of red and brown ores. The ores of Texas were not included in this estimate-only the ores of the southeast. And the estimate included available ores only. Were all ores that deeper mining would uncover included togther with the more scattered bodies of brown ore, the total supply of the southeast would. in the opinion of the geological survey, be carried up to ten billions of tons. The Tennessee company owns but quarters of billion tons, or about per cent of the total supply.
 The estimate of the geological sur vey excludes the ores of West Vir- ginia, Kentucky, Texas and Arkansas. It relates to ores in Alabama, ten nessee, Georgia and Virginia only. This fact should not be overlooked. The focal point of Alabama, Tennes- zee and Georgia is this district, so far as furnaces and ores are concerned. Georgia has no furnaces, and Tennes- zee but three or four.
 The fact that the Tennessee com pany does not by any means control the ores of the southeast cannot be published too often or too widely for the good of the south. No company monopolizes the ores of the four states in the southeast. No company monopolizes the ores within easy reach of this district, all Washington reports to the contrary notwith. Standing.
 In the estimate of the geological survey for 1909, l3 groups of ore de- posits are listed, and in 10 of these groups the Tennessee company does not own an inch. In the other three regions or groups that company has no monopolistic control, although it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
Lower Tariff Rates Looming Up

Lower Tariff Rates Looming Up
 The coalition in the Senate has a good common ground to stand on both the democrats and the insur- gents desire to put tariff bills that would help the farmers or reduce the cost of living up to the President, thus compelling him to show his hand, or at least to plead his tariff board. which would be even worse than pleading the baby act in court. The tariff board is mere political device that deceives no one. Every man knows whether he wants a 30 per cent duty on wool, or one twice that amount, and no tariff board can furnish him any valuable information on that point. So it is with other well-discussed duties. The tariff board is a republican device to delay, first, and then to maintain high pro- teetive duties for the benefit of the wool trust and other campaign sub scribers.
 The President is to be brought face to face with this scheme if the CO., alition between the insurgents and democrats holds good. If it wears well it may put other revised duties up to the President, including the free list bill upon which "a vote is to be taken next Tuesday.
 Not only would the President be smoked out of his retreat behind the tariff board, but the extra session may be prolonged and revision be- yond the cotton schedule begun. Much depends upon the action in the wool conference and upon what the insur- gents do when the free list bill comes to a vote in the Senate. The situa- tion will then become clearer, and the President may wish he had never seen an insurgent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
Recent Texas Election

"I happened to be in Fort Worth on July 22. the day of the Texas election h which the statewide prohibition proposl- lion was defeated, and there was less ex- citement than l had expected to find, said ]. c. Conried of Kentucky.
 while I believe in confning the re- tail iiouor business to cities, have never taken any special interest in a prohibi- ton fight, for, in the first place, l am a total abstainer as far as whisky IS concerned. and think that is the only safeguard In the next place, prohibition always gets mixed up with politics and often with church: and 1t is bad to have a sumptuary measure made either a po- litical issue or test of church loyalty
 But coming back to the Texas election, it seems to have passed off quietly. l had supposed it would be close, and 1t was close, but the day after it was over I heard men who had voted for statewide say they were glad the anti-prohibition- ists had won: and in a year from now all but few fanatics and self-seeking politicians will be glad to look back at the statewide defeat.
 Governor Colquitt total abstainer, and member or the M. E. church. south, opposed most earnestly the prohibition scheme, and for his manly course was ap- plauded by thousands of good men; but one of the church papers scores him se- verely. The time will come, I hope, when a man can vote either. wet or dry with out the risk of having his motives im- pugned understand that thousands of men in Texas who are not at all partial to saloons voted anti-prohibition because of broad views Prohibition does not prohibit in cities, and no progressive state containing large cities can afford to adopt statutory prohibition. The statewide idea has been repudiated in most states, and now that Texas has voted against it we shall hear little in the next few years about drastic prohibition in the south."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

A DIFFERENCE. Trips she forth so cool and airy, Looking, sooth, so like fairy, Sweltering, we fain would ask her, If the question does not task her, How a man may keep from swearing At the weight of clothes he's woaring2 To the stores she fits, inqurng After bargains, ne'er perspirilg, Never fretting, never fuming, Always dainty, always blooming. While man wilts countless collars, Sitting still, and loudly hollers Every time the weather's mentioned So cross-grained and so high-tensioned, One would think, but for the season, That he'd simply lost his reason.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

has in them valuable holdings. Con sulting Engineer Eckel went over all the known figures, and in the Manu- facturers' Record he arrives at this conclusion: "1nstead of controlling four-fifths of the total ore supply Of the south, the Tennessee company must control less than one-fifth, and the two lines of proof ssed in the present paper seem to agree closely in placing the actual fraction at about one-sixth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
WHAT DID SHE SAY?

 sweet girl in a hammock summer novel read; Some dainty slippers on her feet, Some false hair on her head Her cool attire was stunning As ever you did see: A creature framed for winning love, So very fair was she. The rope broke of the hammock, She fell upon the ground; Surprised. she sprawled moment there And uttered not a sound. A young man who was watching Rushed o'er to lift the maid; Just then she found her tongue and o!i shocking word she said. I'm sure she didn't mean it. Please don't put blame upon her; The place she mentioned s twice as warn As Yuma, Arizona
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
FLOWERS

By John Milton.
 Ye valleys low. where the mild whispers
 rise Of shades, and wanton winds, and gush-
 ing brooks,
 on whose fresh lap the swart star
 sparely looks. -.4sf srn ~. Throw hither all your quaint enamelex
 eyes.
 That on the green turf suck the honeyeS
 showers And purple all the ground with vernal
 flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken
 dies, The tufted crow-toe. and pale jessamine, The white pink. and the pansy freaked
 with jet. The glowing violet, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive
 head And every flower that sad embroidery
 wears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BAcHnL0a
rom the New York Press,

From tht NeW YOfk Pftss.
 F'lattery Is its own sweet sauce
 Big men don't ever have to say so; they act it.
 some people so get the haDit Of being in trouble they grow very homesick with cut it.
 Relying on a sure thing Is a good pre-. scription to teach man to be prepared for the unexpected.
 Information to anybody that you arc making money is an invitation to him to try to get 1t away from you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
LOANS By LONG DISTANCE

Ernest Schayer, young New Yorker, las a hospitable heart, and hahosoHe apartment fitted up with al the moaerh among which IS teiephore at the side of his bed His last guest was a young fellow who Just dropped m for a few days and who stayed much longer. schayer. who had begun to won der when the visit would end, returned
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS From the Twice-a-Month Popular Mag

szine.
 Every time oscar Underwood. chair man of the House committee on ways ard means. has nothing to do. he reacs the newspapers of Birmingham, Ala, to see what his home folks are saying about his attempts to lower the tarin schedules. especially the steel schedule. since Br- mingham owes its life to iron and stees. His funniest discovery was this para graph
 owing to unsettled conditions. another lsteel foundry was closed down yesterday. batting eo men out Of employment In addition to this, 3O0 mules were laid off
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
UNDERWOOD THE LEADER

T iohi tHt INtWs.
 Chairman Underwood has shown that he and not Speaker Clark is the leader of his party In Congress MT. Clark wants to raise all the dust he can and raise it now. MT. Underwood is more and objects to alarming the country by general oyerhaullng Of everything In the hope that something may come of 1t to the, advantage Of their party. It Is the more cautions man who has the vote of his party with him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

Why should anyone say because the forefathers of the child of championship, of right of merit. of conservatism. and all that makes up the spirit and pr9ttlce of the pure and progressive, advocated one or another cause. that the son should be set aside in awards of merit.
 Absurd and absolvent of justice. America should as we'll become an Hay tian republic.
 Government Is of the just A republic means that the people are protected that there. be honesty-that rights of classes and masses are similar-that the laws and the execution of the same be of all people and classes as one.
 So the man is the mainstay whether he be of Maine or Minnesota, Alabama or Arkansas-who oaresa The man is the one to whom we trust our lives and in- terests.
 Let us always select the man of con- servatism. of ability, balance and big parts.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

Mark Twain left a trunk full of manu- sorints that magazine editors had re- iected before he became famous None of them can have one of them now. They are valuable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

E. Hines may be behind the movement to have the International Harvester com rany Investigated. He may desire to get even with the tattling MT. Funk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

All Chicago outside the slums stands ready to he summoned to testify before the I.ormer investigation committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

The 35 Standard oil companies will te distinct enough on the surface, but under the surface the hand of Johndce will be uniformly felt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
so THEY WILL.

Nowadays people are very proud Of themselves if they can trace their line- age to some feudal knight"
 That's so, but in fifty years from now the descendants of baseball pitcl'- CTS will be unbearably naughty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
A SHINING EXAMPLE.

<a Sf1lNlNb E<NtAME "I teach my little boy not to use slang ' Mrs. Wuffer to her visitor. q think it tends to make children vulgar and coarsens their manners" q agree with you heartily" said the visitor.
 Just then the youthful wuffer came romping into the room.
 Come here, Wilie,' said Mrs Wuffer, and tell me what you have been do- ing"
 'Ive been out on the street." answered. Willie
 ''Who was with youF'
 Sammy Blinks."
 T told you not to play with that con- mon little Blinks boy''
 "Aw, quitcher kiddin'. ma. I wuznt playin' with i'm. He called me some n an I jus give i'm a swift swat on the jaw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30


 the act of running his publications. And, believe me. it takes a man of fore sight, hindsight, energy, courage, honesty and good, old-fashioned, all-wool-and-a- yard-wide backbone to conduct a big metropolitan newspaper in the straight rom-the-shoulder, elean-eut, progressive way that the Baltimore Sun is conducted by it's publisher, Charles H. Grasty.
 ''Pe.haps no newspaper in the country reflects the uprightness and fearlessness of its publisher in exactly the way that the Sun mirrors those qualities of Mir Grasty. Ever since he secured control of that newspaper, something like 15 months ago its policy has been his policy-it has been fearless exponent of all that Is clean and wholesome and true in individ- ual. civic and national life.
 Just word of history before we get close to Mir Grasty and listen as he tells man who, from an obscure and struggling sheet, with barely enough revenue to keep the wolf from the door and with little or no weight in the community, built up the Baltimore News to one of the foremost afternoon newspapers in the country. And he did that in exactly 16 years. When MT. Grasty took charge of the News it was weak, almost bankrupt, just ready to crawl off in corner some where and quit the game. When he sold it to MT. Frank A. Munsey in February, 1908, for a consideration of s1500,0o0 1t had developed into a powerful, influential, re- spected and revered newspaper-the de- light of lovers of clean journalism and the bane of all those who did not have at heart the welfare of the community served by it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
NIT. Hanna Before probe committee

MT. Hanna Before Probe tonhh''ee
 "The testimony given before the con
 gressional committee investigating the
 United States Steel Corporation mas pee"
 read with much interest by the people of the Birmingham district, and am glad to think that nothing will come ol the effort on the part of some poiltleiahs to show that the corporation violated the anti-Sherman law in acquiring the Ten nessee company" said prominent el'i- zen who is not connected with any mn eral or manufacturing interest here.
 ..The testimony of Mr. l.. C. Hanna of Cleveland, one of the syndieate own CTS of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rall- road company before the Steel Corpora ton entered this district should convince any fair-minded person that the deal made during the Wall street panic of lSf helped to avert general smash-up. MT. Hanna said in his testimony before the committee; I think from your line of ouestions that YOU believe the sale of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad com pany was a plot I never thought SO I still wish I could have held on to my stock. but it seemed absolutely necessary to sell it to avert serious trouble. To the question. Did you ever hear that the deal was a deliberate driver MT. Hanna replied, I've heard gossip about it. l think l heard MT. Gates discuss it, and probably others talked about the rumors afterwards. I never felt that way my self, and did not believe anyone would have been so foolish or so dishonorable as to attempt such thing
 NO matter about the details involved in the trade accomplished hurriedly dur ing the panic period of 1907 the Gates schlev syndicate had made a fine start in developing their valuable Tennessee company properties, and had 1t not been for the panic the syndicate to which MT. Hanna belonged would have continued 10 push forward. But when the United States Steel Corporation purchased the Tennessee company new era began, ana the vast millions of money expended in the last three years on new construction is but an earnest of what the corporation will do in this district within the next five or six years. MT. Hanna, who tes- tified Friday spent a week in Birming- ham when the prominent men of the Gates -Schley syndicate were looking over the Tennessee company's properties In order to plan for large improvements. He is a quiet. cultured gentleman and made a fine impression in this community, and his testimony, given in few words, re- gard as of exceptional value
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

"A strides one of It's citizens has
 made
 To the supposed even-keeled Alabamian that one of this state should become presidential probability may seem a bit of an overdrawn estimate.
 But has not Alabama done well in all that 1t has attempted? Has not Alabama forged tofthe front In the iron and steel business and made Itself such that 1t Is the wonder of the world and the weapon so feared that the best business Judgment of America came to corral as it could and be of Alabama When the men Of money and manufacturing experience came they frankly said you have the stuff and we are with you and of you. They accepted the goods beacuse such were good.
 Now why not in men as well as in min- erals?
 Is not the cline, the ambition and the activity; the brain and the brawn in &C., ton here? Does not the soil, the waters and the air produce as in any other sec ton?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

 England will get more traetahle peers cut of the present creis. and the Earl of Halsbury and Lord Cecil will be asked 10 go way back and sit down. The Long Island railroad has been re. quested to establish graveyards near its grade crossings for the convenience ef surviving relatives. Harvest hands are widely needed to harvest those crops ruined oy hot-drv :, eather when the good old summer time vas in our midst.
  King George is to get still another be ioweled crowd at the Indian Durhar next fall He will soon have a good sup rly of them
 The Canadian electors can be trusted 10 accept a good bargain when they see oae. Reciprocity is one of that sort for .teth sides.
 --s.----- The Hague tribunal and all peace arbi- tration treaties will stand dlscredited i. France and Germany go to war over Mo rocco.
 An ambition to go over Niagara Falls in barrel is one that should not be en- outraged. It is too exciting.
 c Direct primaries have taken all the ginger out of party platforms. Few read them and none heed them.
  The new comet is becoming brighter 1ut no one expects it's tail to swish this cid time-worn earth.
  The creation and revelation of .he Dick to-Dek postscript still remains deep of dcal mystery
 Our warships are not inconsolable at sea. for they now receive baseball news by wireless.
  Winning a French duel is considered al most as thrilling as winning game of croquet. The standpat lords are not good losers. Standpatters never are in any country.
  Summer will come back. Trust ii t9 Go that in these midsummer days.
  No team is at present trying to butt the Rarons out of second place.  July is accounted an early autumn month in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
AUTO ETIQUETTE

She didn't speak to you when you bowed."
 "Of course not. I was speaking to her poodle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
REVIsED YER SION.

When the devil was sick, with a sigh he
 declared "Ill never joy-ride any more.' But when his poor health had been somewhat repaired He burned up the roads as before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
southern Prosperity

'rhe south has enjoyed great prosper ity within the past few years said b. F. Owen of Chicago. who represents large piano manufacturing concern, anu the south's crops are larger this year than usual fall trade should be very brisk indeed. was in Charleston lew days ago and as [ looked ou, upon the fields between that city and Birmingham was struck with the splendid eohui''o" of the cotton crop. l spend a good deai of time in the south, and l never Sd" such great crops as are now maturing
 Business has been quite satlsfaetorF from my point of view this summer, ana the fall will Witness marked prosperity in all branches of trade
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

King George is to get stin another be :. jeweled crowd at the Indian Durhar next fall He will soon have good sup rly of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

He doth, indeed, show some sparks that are like wit.
 --Much Ado About Nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

Harvest hands are widely needed to harvest those crops ruined oy hot-drV \ eather when the good old summer time vas in our midst