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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10

New York Correspondence Cincinnati
 Times-Star.
 Jack Hammond had occasion to take one of MT. McCrea's trains to Philadel- phia the other day. Just as he had set
 tied himself in his seat four men got on
 board. He recognized two of them as professional gamblers. By and by one of the quartet strolled through the train. scrutinizing the faces of the passengers. He paused bNMr. Hammond's seat. Care to play little bridge?" he asked, care | lessly.
 Mir Hammond was willing. He permit ted himself to be led to the stateroom in which the others of the professional troupe had hived themselves. His guide said ccarelessly that the four were strang- CTS to each other. None of them could | play bridge very well. said he. The fourth | man could not play at all. So he camped himself by MT. Hammond's elbow, from which point of vantage he could ue1e- graph the contents of M-. Hammonds S beautifully manicured hand to the others. By and by he went out. Hard luck, pal" said MT. Hammond's partner, cheerfully, as he riffled the cards for another set to. we'll get 'em next time."
 MT. Hammond grinned ominously The scorekeeper said that the Hammond pair had lost SIPS, at 25 cents a point He thought they had best settle at the end of each game. MT. Hammond unfolded his legs and rose to his complete height. Why don't you guys get a new stretch?" he asked. This was old when I was no bigger'n a clam fritter. No one said that this game was to be played for p cents or any other number of cents point. I wouldn't pay lot of cheating scavengers anyhow, knowing as do that every card held was megaphoned to you by the old gink with the weak eyes who beat it just now. But I want some informa- tion, you fat faced peanut thieves. What Is there about me that made your scout DICK me out of the whole blossoming | trainload as the sucker? Do look weak minded. or decayed in the bean?" | Tt was your necktie, party" said one of the professionals. very placidly Don't | get all rusted up, now. If you're a wise | guy, whadda yuh want to wear metrop- 1 oils center flag for, huh?'
 Mir Hammond went into Philadelnhia holding his hand over his necktie He changed 1t at the first haberdashery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
market has realized little, if any, profit on the fruit of his labor.

market has realized little, if any, profit on the fruit of his labor.
 There is enough cotton unsold, how ever, to bring good average profit to the south if the farmers who have much cotton on hand hold for better prices. There never was a time when the southern farmer was so well able as now to hold good portion of his crop for prices that will yield fair return for his toll.
 The arithmetic of the situation is plain. Financiers and farmers of large experience have advised with emphasis the importance of withhold ing the bulk of the crop for market until the price advanced. In an in- terview in another column W. D. Nes- bitt discusses present conditions and gives some excellent practical advice. It is hoped the farmers of Alabama will act on this advice. If they do this state's bumper crop will go long way towards promoting Ala bama's prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
Leader Balfour's Retirement

The growing dissatisfaction in the tory party with MT. Balfour's leader ship has eliminated in his retirement. He has never been willing to accept the imperial programme of the tariff crowd, and when he advised the house of lords to swallow the veto bill as the least of two evils, demand for his retirement arose. In his speech before his constituents he declared that freshness and elasticity are need ed in leader, and he withdraws from the heavy responsibility lest these depart from him when he does not know it.
 In the midst of the home rue fight the tories must now elect new lead CT and it will not be easy to find one as well equipped as MT. Bal four was. No one that has been named is his equal in any re- spect, and surely a strong man is needed to meet MT. Lloyd-George as a party leader.
 MT. Balfour has decided to remain in the house of commons. He served long time as premier and there are no honors in the peerage for a ,nan who has filled that office, and filled it creditably. He will be heard from in the house of commons, but he will no longer be the leader of his party. While he was leader he had no rival, and the belief now is that Lord Landsdowne will share the lead ership with some one in the house of commons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
Corn and Cotton in Alabama

Up to November 1 there had been ginned in this state 1,089,376 bales of cotton, and the production of corn stood at 65,97O,O00 bushels. Only seven states outrank Alabama in corn production. In the south Georgia and Texas each make more corn than Ala bama. No other southern state crowds Alabama in corn growing. The production was increased this year in this state, and so was Geor- ria's. If the latter state had not made more corn Alabama would have outstripped her, and this states rank would then have been next to that of Texas. There is no good reason why Alabama should be outstripped in the south as corn producing state ex- cept, of, course, by the vast empire of Texas.
 It is difficult to say what the  years production of cotton will be in this state. The ginning to November 1 was l 1,089,3 bales. In order to equal the record crop grown in 1904 it will be necessary to gin SsO,624 bales in this state from and after November l. Possibly this may be done. The crop of 1904 was 1,470,000 bales. The chances are pretty good that the total crop grown this year in this state will grow to 100000 bales, and the crop will be known for long time as the state's best crop. The crop matured early but in no previous year has 75 pr cent of the crop been ginned or November l. The presumption is therefore, good that about 100000 bales will be added to the total ot November 1, thus bringing the aggre. gate up to figures that have never heen exceeded in this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
HEROIC DREAM CAME TRUE

Ere the Washington Evening Star.
 Boston-Patrolman William Noble of Dorchester dreamed that he was standing in Peabody square when runaway iire horses rounded the corner In his dream he saw five little children in the path of the mad animals. He seized the horses by the bits and brought them to a stop within three feet of the children-and then he woke up.
 St,l pcndering over the dream Noble vixen off duty walked to Peabody square and told another "cop" about the dream. Just. as he had finished two fire horses dashed around the corner, running wild toward a group of children in the square, At the risk of his own life Noble seized the bits and stopped the pair within a yard of the nearest child Then he coun!- cd the children and was astonished to find there were just five.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
The Iron Market

Rogers-Brown and companys Cincin- natl weekly circular just issued, says in part
 Not for years has the opportunity Of fered for the purchase of iron and steel products at prices as low as they are to- day, and the last few weeks have seen an ging change in the attitude of the railroads toward supplies and equip ment. That they have finally felt they can purchase to advantage is not the best feature of their action, That they realize the tendency and are preparing for the rush and pressure when it comes, means they are alive to the situation sind there Is a spirit of optimism present in their calculations which bodes well for the future. This Is significant, as they are the biggest Consumers of iron and steel and their action affects a wide range.
 "The quick recovery in stocks after last week has imparted encouragement to other lines and there is a better seati- ment generally in business conditions. It is sounder and more cheerful and for the present it is sufficient to note that there Is turn in this way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
PETS START A FAMILY WAR

From the Los Angeles Herald
 The prospect of living in Los Angeles, where in the winter they could admin ister to the wants of a dog, a cat. a parrot and a squirrel instead of being forced to provide quarters for them In their home because of the winter cold has solved the matrimonial problems of a Chicago family blocked a divorce pro- ceedng and led to the happy reunion of Arthur K. Miller with his wife. He Is an attorney of Chicago
 MT. Miller and his wife arrived with their children at the Alexandria on their second honeymoon. They brought the dog, the cat, the parrot and the squirrel, the cause of their trouble The pets are lodged in the basement of the hotel and the family is happy because it is going to rent house with a. back yard and barn for the pets.
 'I own the dog" said MT. Miller. My wife owns the cat and our two children. Jimmy and Eva. the parrot and the squirrel. respectively
 What I went through during the past three years because of this assort- ment or pets none put InySelI VIII ever know. It Is all over now, however, but not until after the family had been split in half, my wife taking the chill dren, and then I hear they mixed up because of their pets.
 Both my wife and myself are very fond of animals. Our children have inherited this fondness for pets and both of them are very much attached to the parrot and the squirrel. The dog and the cat. however, not only fight among themselves, but each attacks the parrot and the squirrel at the first op- portunity. For this reason we have found 1t very difficult to care for the pets in winter, and it is practically the cause of our coming to Los Angeles where we can get a house and yard and barn for the pets in winter.
 Less than a year ago I left home because of the dog, the cat, the parrot and the squirrel, and for no other reas- on; only I took my dog with me. My wife was about to institute divorce pro- ceedings when proposed that we move into a country where it is summer in winter, and here we are"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
---ss.----- MAETERIINCK,S COUP
From the Louisville Couirer-JournaI

From the Louisville Couirer-Journal.
 Says the Chicago 1nter-Ocean:
 '"rhe Paris Figaro quotes a letter from Maurice Maeterlinck in which he says;
 There has never absolutely never. been question of my going to America with my wife, Georgette Leblanc. She will 20 alone In December Maeterlinck recently wagered several hundred dollars that he would come here with his wife and escape detection by the American newspaper men. Puzzle: Is he scared out-or is he taking the first steps to win the wager?''
 It would be somewhat difficult to an swer the question, but there is one thing that can be said about Maurice Maeter- linck, and that is that he knows what he s about. If he has bet several hundred dcllars that he can come to America and not be discovered by the newspaper men he has risked a paltry sum and made SUI c Of er enormous amount of publicity that is worth various prices per square in various publications.
 It Is strange that the seemingly un- worldly author of 'The Bee'' and '"rhs Elue Bird" should be the first European to hit upon this simple means of stirring up the interest of the press to the utmost and getting a profit upon its successful effort to make him lose bet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
ON BEING NBRoKE,

Jerome K. Jerome: Idle Thoughts of
 an Idle Fellow"
 One becomes used to being hard up, like one becomes used to everything else, by the help of that wonderful old homeo- pathic doctor, Time. You can tell at a glance the difference between the old hand and the novice; between the case hardened man who has been used to shift and struggle for years, and the poor devil of beginner, striving to hide his mis- cry, and in constant agony of fear lest he should be found out. Nothing shows this difference more clearly than the way in which each will pawn his watch.
 As the poet says somewhere True ease in pawning comes from art, not chance" The one goes to his "Uncle.s' with as much composure as he would to his tailor's-very likely with more. of his first pop" He hangs about the outside of the shop until he has succeed ed in attracting the attention of all the loafers in the neighborhood, and has aroused strong suspicious in the mind of the policeman on the beat. At last, after a careful examination of the con- tents of the windows, made for the pur- pose of impressing the bystanders with the notion that he is going to purchase a diamond bracelet or some such trif1e he enters. trying to. do so with careless swagger, and giving himself really the air of member of the swell mob. When inside he speaks in so low voice that he has to say 1t all over again. When In the course of his rambling conversa- tion about a friend" of his, the word "lend' is reached, he is promptly told to go up the court on the right and take the first door round the corner He comes out of the shop with face that you could easily light a cigarette at, and firmly under the impression that the whole population of the district is watching him. When he does get to the right place he has forgotten his name and ad- dress, and is in general condition of hopeless imbecilty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
Business Improvement

q have heard a good deal of the south's prosperity this fall. and hav- ing visited several southern states within the past three weeks l am glad to think that this prosperity talk has not been exaggerated,' said John F. Whitson of Philadelphia.
 '"The crops of the country at large did not come up to the early summer forecasts, but the south, from what I can learn, has produced a larger volume of farm products than ever before. If the price of cotton could only be pushed up this would turn out to be the souths greatest year from both an agricultural and commercial point of view. As 1t is, business in this section is better than in many of the northern states. The south is at tracing more attention today than ever and it is safe to say that within tn next three years Alabama will have the greatest boom in its history <
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
PunL1c sHAKEspEAnE WROTE FOR

From a lecture, What to Expect of
 Shakespeare" by J. J. Jusserand.
 Literary fame as dramatlst troubled Shakespeare not; but present necessities could not be forgotten; chief among thaul the necessity of pleasing his public. His average public, the one he had chiefly in view, whose average heart and mind he had to touch and delight, was that of the Glote, large, much-frequented house, which drew popular audiences, and where accidentally some ambassador might appear but the fate of the play would depend not upon the ambassadors applause or some learned critics blame, but on the impression of the crowd; tcisterous crowd, warm-hearted, full blooded, O. unbounded patriotism, lover of extremes, now relishing the sight of tortures, now moved at the, death of fly. a lover of the improbable, of unex- pected changes. of coarse buffoneries, bubbles. common wittcisns easy to un- sderstand.s of loud noises of any sort, bells, trulnpets, cannon; men, all of them OF an encyclopaedia ignorance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
TURKEY HAS NO RED CROSS

From the Westminster Gazette.
 Among the nations of Europe Turkey is the only one which flies no Red Cross in time of war. Though a party to the Geneva convention, Turkey has stead lastly refused to use the emblem of that convention. the Greek cross. to protect It's sick and wounded in time of war. In place ot the cross the Turkish army med ical corps makes use of a red crescent on white, ground, but this departure rom the recognized international emblem has never ~received the sanction of the na- tions signatory to the Geneva conven- ton. There is little doubt that Italy will look on the crescent as equivalent to the red cross
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
important New Industry

Birmingham does not receive and ship
 as much cotton as Memphis does, but 1t
 seems to me that the influence of this city upon the cotton situation is wider and more significant than that of Mem- phis,'' said former newspaper man. "A Birmingham banker is one of the leading advisers of the cotton growers. Two of the plants of the great Continental Gin com- rany are located here, and another indus try has sprung into existence in Birm.ng- ham that will contribute materially to the welfare of the cotton grower. I re- fer to the manufacture of the Bowers & Franklin cotton seed cutler now being pushed on an extensive scale in the knit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
BALLADE oF HIS BOOKS

Y. A. Lang, from '"Ballades in Blue China"
 Here. stand my books, line upon line They reach the roof, and row by row They speak of faded tastes of mine, And things did, but do not know; Old school books, useless long ago, Old Logies. where the spirit raied in, Could scarcely answer "yes' or mo- The many things I've tried and failed inl Here's Vilon, in morocco fine, (The Poet starved, in mud and snow), Glatigny does not crave to dine, And Rene's tears forget to flow
 And heres work by Mrs. Grove. With hosts of ghosts and bogies jailed ini An, all my ghosts have gone below The many things I've tried and failed In! He's touched, this moldy Greek divine. The Princess d'Este's hand of snow; And here the arms of D'Hoym shine, And there's a tear-bestained Rousseau; Here's Carlyle shrieking "woe on woe," CThe frs. edition, this, he walled in}; once believed in him-but oh, The many things I've tried and failed inl
 ENVOY.
 aAahisesS Prince, tastes may differ; mine and thine Quite other balances are scaled in; / May you succeed, though I repine- l~ "The many things I've tried qnnt
 failed int"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10

ting mill plant at North Birmingham, which has been remodeled for that pur- pose. The cutler gives the farmer perfect planting seed and thereby enables him to grow more cotton and cotton of a better quality on the same acreage, demon strated fact which gives substance to the assertion that this Is the most important invention for the cotton grower since the advent of the gin. Those who know the merits of the invention are predicting that the manufacture of the cutler will develop into one of the largest and most important industries of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
Truck Farming

"Cullman county has had a fairly prosperous year." said .Ienry Wander butte, who looks after the marketing of Cullman's strawberries and sweet potatoes notwithstanding the large number of prosperous men engaged in trucking in my county there is sttll sone excellent farm land near the cit;' of Cullman for sale at very moderate prices There has not been much i'm migration to Cullman county of late, but when the people vote out prohibi tor, which I think they are almost sure to do, more truckers will settia there.
 "The Birmingham Chamber of Com merce did a good thing when it or ganized a farm movement for the pur pose of bringing settlers from the north to engage in horticulture. Jef' ferson county presents good field and if the Chamber of Commerce will have patience and keep up it's farm move ment important results will surely fol low :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
KEEPING ETERNALLY AT IT


 KEEPING ETERNALLY AT TT From the New York World.
 By persistently sticking to the west ward flight, c. P. Rodgers has won the credit of being first to cross the con:i- net in flying machine. This constitutes almost the sole notable, feature in .he achievement. He has broken no record in any single flight. Others have sur- passed him in speed. in. duration of time in the air and distances covered eithe,. in a given time or in the total flight But these others have flown in comparatively short circuits, such as the trip around England, the trip around the north of France and the trip from Paris to Spair- flights that followed the's epoch-makng feat from Albany to New York. No other has approached the magnificent dis tance that lies between the Atlantic and the Pacific. .5sf-
 While this triumph obtained by patieaoe and perseverance is repeated efforts tu- ward a single end is not so spectacular as those won by sudden and swift dashes of enterprise and daring, 1t is none the less deserving of honor. Greater things have often been attained by patient in- dustry than by genius. AS the Saxon proverb runs. Tt is dogged that does it." There Is nothing like keeping eternaly at it.. Rodgers has shown the way across the continent. Others will follow with better luck and better machines in better time. But none can take away from him the credit of the continetal pathfinder cf ft,a o;r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Writes Ahout Underwood

"There is no doubt as to MT. Under
 woods steadily increasing popularity as 8
 presidential proposition," said Leo K
 Steiner of the banking house of Steiner
 Bros. 'Not day passes that does not develop good pointers for MT, Under
 woods prospective candidacy. l have just received a letter from MT. B. Steiner, formerly of Birmingham, but now of New York. This is what he writes:
 Nothing would give me greater pleas l use than to be present at dinner gwen l to Congressman Underwod, but other im- portant matters will keep me here during the month of November, and prevent my visit to Birmingham.
 Alabama in the next presidential con- vention, as in each convention Of the past, will have the first opportunity to express it's choice, and Alabama has this year candidate all her own-Oscar Un- derwood.
 Tt is a great tribute to the growth of Birmingham and Alabama that one of their sons is thus honored. It is great tribute to oscar Underwood that he is prominently mentioned. for the democ- racy would normally look to a doubtful state for its candidate: but the record of work well done is turning the atten- tion of the thoughtful democrats Of the north to MT. Underwood as a probable candidate of the democratic party.
 Oscar Underwood is regarded by the thoughtful business and financial inter- ests of New York as a clean and con- servative man, and the next President must be conservative. Under his able leadership democratic House has shown know how to govern, and Underwood is the man to whom credit is freely award ed for the fine achievement of a demo- cratic House of Representatives.
 "A prominent city official in New York, who knows MT. Underwood well. having served with him in Congress, said to me the other day: MT. Steiner, Underwood is my choice for President. He is an able. clean and conservative man. I know him well, and mark my prediction, he Is made out of the stuff that presidents in this country are made of.
 "'These are my sentiments, and they are the sentiments of many of the f1nan- ciers and business men with whom I have come in contact within the last few months, and when his candidacy be- comes a settled fact, I am confident he will be welcomed by the democracy of the north as a candidate in the coming election And when Alabama proposes his name, I feel confident that it will meet with great fejoicing and acclaim