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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
retary of Agriculture Wilson

Nestor of the cabinet has astly followed the line of least stance, favoring as a rule strong erests, either political or financial, Ill he today holds the record of service among cabinet officers. is nearly 76 years old and he is rounding up his fourteenth year )ntinuous service as cabinet of He was called to office by Me- ey and he served throughout sevelt's administration, and was ined by Mr. Taft. No one in the ory of the country ever served so as he in a cabinet position. e has done some good things in of the farmers, but whenever he
 CTS a strong adverse interest
 CTS. This has been notably
 in relation to pure food. He
 pported every strong interest has contended for loose con- action of the pure food act. It was who induced President Roosevelt appoint the Remsen board which after a fashion, of the use benzoate of soda as a food pre- a live.
 backbone is not sufficiently
 to enable him to stand up
 st the interests, and his retire
 ian early date would probably
 csf to the President and even
 it ito the country. He has lpTy eoGerstayed his period of use mess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
A Dog Owners, CIuh

"I note the published call for those in- terested in thoroughbred dogs to organ iZe," said a man who has owned several very fine bird dogs.
 There is one feature that can be of great advantage to members: It is CO., operating to catch dog thieves and punish them No real lover of dog will steal one from his master-how could he? For dogs have sentiments of affection and the strongest of ties. Napoleon said that the thihg which most moved him of all others on any battlefield was dog which de- feneed his bleeding master from all corners.
 There are unprincipled men who will employ dog thief to steal valuable aog TOT them, and then run the dog of 10 some other place by express or wagon. | Il had valuable Red Irish setter stolen once found where he was located. drove nine miles through storm to get ] him. The man at whose house stopped,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
TEARS

ev Elizabeth Barrett Browning. ,rhank God, bless God, all ye who suffer
 not
 More grief than ye can weep for. That is
 we'll That is light grieving! lighter. none be-
 fell,
 Since Adam forfeited the primal lot Tears! what are tears? The babe weeps
 in it's cot, - The mother singing; at her marriage bell The bride weeps; and before the oracle Of high-fanned hills, the poet has forgot Such moisture on his cheeks. Thank
 God for grace. We who weep only! If, as some have
 done, ~ Ye grope tear-blinded in . desert place, And touch but tombs-look up! Those
 tears will run rSoon in long rivers down the lifted face. And leave the vision clear for stars and 9 e.t.- sun, f.A.'.l'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
Symphony Music Popular

''Pittsburg, which for several years
 boasted of a high class symphony or
 ehestra, no longer keeps up such an or
 ganlzation, but in the place of it se-
 ries of symphony concerts will be given
 in that city by outside orchestras under
 the auspices of the Pittsburg Symphony association,'' said a music lover who keeps
 up with. current events. "It seems rather
 surprising that now since most of the large cities have symphony orchestras,
 Pittsburg, which was one of the few some years ago to maintain a symphony band recently abandoned the enterprise. It Is understood, however that in year or two the Pittsburg Symphony orchestra will be re-established. and what Pitts burg is to do this coming season for the cause of musical art could be done by cities of a smaller class-Atlanta, Bir- m1ngham, Nashville, Memphis and others. There are half dozen or more very fine orchestras available for tours, and with a moderate guarantee fund the Birming- ham Music Festival association could give a series of five or six symphony concerts during the season. Pittsburg Is to have SIX or seven concerts in its symphony 
 T believe if Birmingham would start with four or five they would prove satis- factory from box office as well as a musical point of view. Symphony music Is fast growing in popularity.
 TO maintain first class orchestra of 45 or 50 pieces requires a good deal of money. Even if the audiences were large the deficit would be anywhere from 5000 to s4000 season. The reason local sym phony orchestras are expensive is due chiefly to the fact that several of the important instruments are not used out side of large concert organizations, and many artist-performers would have to be imported and paid well for the full time during the season."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
Alabama Is Not Inventive

Out of 32,059 patents granted last year only 1S1 arose in Alabama. We had one inventor to every 11,812 of population. We did a little better than Georgia, but no southern state approaches Massachusetts, which se- cured patent to every 1923 people.
 To the entire south was granted last year 3154 patents, leaving about 29, ,OO0 to be allotted to the northern states. The south, in other words, is not inventive. The south is largely agricultural, and even in it's manu- featuring districts there is no effort made to secure a large number of patents.
 This will perhaps long be the case. The souths allotment is just about 5000 patents year, and there are no signs that the number will soon be considerably increased. Patents and prosperity do not go together. South Carolina is a prosperous state, and yet her per capita patent allotment is the lowest in the Union-one to every 17,620 of her population.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
Paper Bag Cookery

A revolution in the art of cooking is reported to be brewing overseas. The revolutionist in this case is M. Soyer, late chef of Brooks club in London. After many failures he succeeded in securing an envelope, a paper bag, in which he cooks all things. The paper bags he uses do not impart flavor to the food, are not expensive, and retain flavors be- yond all other cooking utensils.
 After the food is cooked there are no pots or pans to wash-the bags are put in the fire. The adoption of paper dishes and cups for the table would complete the revolution, put ting an end to dishwashing, con- summation devoutly to be wished by all housekeepers outside of pluto cratic circles.
 Cooking in paper bags is more quickly done. The oven of gas stove when heated to ITO degrees Fahrenheit is all that is needed. The paper bag secured with a couple of metal clips is put in the oven, and in due course the cooking is accomplished, retain ing all jucies and improving the fla vor beyond what is possible In the present methods of cooking. The saw ing in food is estimated at 20 per cent and the saving in fuel at 40 per cent
 If the plans of M. Soyer prove practical and efficient he should be set down as one of the worlds great est benefactors. The paper bag is by no means a dream. M. Soyer cooks everything in them, including stews and milk buildings. The last named is, however, put in dish inside the bag. Less attention is needed and better results are secured. The scheme is either flat failure or a | revolution, and the world waits to | know which it is..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
LURE OF THE DANCE HALL

Belle I.indner Israels in Leslie's. i
 The storm of dance madness, has come over the young people of New York. Streets in which the dance halls are io- cated are picturesque enough externeliy
 The hall is usually up one or two ngihts of stairs and has as much street froh'- age as possible, framed in Dig winuows of plate glass. Brilliant lights sh"e through. The sounds of waltz or '"o- step pounded on the plano and emphasiAeu by an automatic drum flow out to .ho passer-by Boys and girls fit past 'he windows or slip into the doorway m 'wos and threes, and sometimes compet'hs managers remain outside. announcing the special flea lures of their halls Ihe noise, the lights, the air of excitement anu good time all attract. Inside the story is taken up in two ways. It is dane'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
ART OF MOUTH HARpING

Fror. the North English Qowa) Record. x
 MT. Sam Kirkpatrick was this last week the guest of honor at the second of a series or weekend house parties held at the Chicago residence of Mrs. Amelia Wardeli. Mrs. Wardell is hostess of gracious and pleasing presence, and is a woman of rare charm. Her tastes are slightly eccentric, even Bohemian, while hea' interests center in commerce and music Siie was one of the first to rec os.rize tine musical possibilities of the mouth harp, and under her appreciatiee e influence the pentle art of mouth harp ing has approached perfection in several of her devotees. At least one of these attracted general public attention. but of
 late has given his time and effort to sun rise paro rectals. It will be seen that nis War6ell's tastes are fine and dis eiiminatihg and MT Kirkpatrick sho i'd fee. honcred by the hospitality. shown hini ly lady of such charms and ac- colnplIshlnents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
THACkERAY

From Harper's Weekly
 Thackeray is, in spirit, very modern writer, and the muck-rake world of our day sees things much more as he saw them than the world of his own time did. He saw down into the foundation of life. He knew religion and was always preach- ing it. He knew this world and the people who live in 1t; knew values and what is worth the getting and what is not-a very great man. a great preacher, great master of the literary art. great depos- tary of talent.
 Nobody forgets that Kipling was born in India. He lived there long enough to im- press the fact on the minds of all his Thackeray was born there too. It is as though these two greatly gifted British men started life in a hotbed. Thackeray vas very early transplanted, and never vent back to India. and of course never knew that country except by hearsay, and never put it into his books except through it's representatives in England.
 He was an oldfashioned man of the highest Victorian standards, who shoul- dered heavy burdens of life. and trudged on with them. and died at 52, worn out but with every obligation met, and a great character made and a great treas ure added 10 English literature in the meeting of them. Clever and popular writ CTS have succeeded him in England in our day who seem to have no facilities, and to think life is best lived when obligations are shGked and burdens avoided They are interesting writers, some of them
 put their vogue is transtory. Not to them Will their successors turn for in- ! splration, nor lovers of them by the hundred thousand take new thought of them when their hundredth birthday
 comes around
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Prosperous Business Conditions

"If there was complaint of dull trade in the spring one hears only prosperity talk now" said L. NJ. Wayne of St. Paul.
 There has been a marked improvement within the past three or four weeks The big crops form the basis of improved con ditions. The south seems especially favored in its great staple crop. Every body in this part of the country is talk ing about the splendid condition of cot ton. Not only is there an immense crop but more corn is being raised in the south than even last year, when there was record breaking crop. All branches of business will be active this fall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
From the New york sun.

| OTHY, you ask. does a chicken eros. | W Broadway? In groups and elus. W ters and bevies, clumps and
 street at Forty-ffrst street yesterday fore | noon to get job from Proxy Ned Way
 burn. some time president of the Way burn school of vaudeville. who yester- day from about 10 O clock a. m. until dusk was surrounded by the largest collection Of chorus girl applicants ever corralled at one time-perhaps 800 in all. .
 Postcards had been sent out to 2500 girls. The 100 who failed to report yesterday at the Broadway theatre were delayed, it was explained, because they had to lock up the estate personally before taking a train to town. The explanation was made not by Proxy Wayburn who was TOO busy sorting large mediums small show" "A New Yorks.' "A roads," "B" and 'C' "smalls" and 'ponies' to do any explaining. A MT. Sil of the Society of Colonial Wars. Sons of the Revolution, Descendants of the Survivors of the Bos- ton Tea Party, and generally known as one of the most prominent descendants we have along Broadway, explained from his aisle seat why so many of the girls will not report until today.
 Every Billee, Trixie Foxy. Jack or Hazel who reported carried her postcard as she entered the stage door.
 "Cut out this personal letter of intro duction,' began Proxy Wayburn when the time arrived where it was evident that the theatre held all the girls it safely
 could hold. q don't care who wrote 'em for you. There's too much work to be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
SITTING GIRLS FOR A CHORUS

done here to waste time reading letters Of introduction. Any letter presented to me will be knock, not a boost. Get me?
 Stop talking back there. Any talking to be done around here I'll do it. Line up for the fash"
 For the next half hour regiment after regiment was shot down by the fiashligffI oatteries- First a row Of tried and tr,I I oancers' all postgraduate English ponies| rom Tiller's dancing school. Manchester and all sure of a job in some one of the Lew Fields aggregations this season. was shot at' Next Proxy took up the over now most or them with no stage experiI ence, and the lines were moved dow until the press department was gorge.l with negatives. }
 It took every minute of a Broadway a. II Tor Proxy Wayburn and facultv N coatless assistants, six of them. to U the names and addresses of those ahoua to matriculate. And perhaps Prexy didn'A get provoked every time one of the gi so far forgot herself as to hand O, the letter of introduction. s6s
 Didn't I distinctly say that I can bother with letters Of" Fl
 But this was written personallt by"
 "I don't care. Name and address q make room, Next line.''
 Everybody, so 1t seemed, got a sli1i of paper whereon 1t was written that thd bearer is to report for rehearsal at given date. But when the rehearsal Start in and cases crop up where fnlmed7 ately it is evident that the bearer of th4 slip of paper isn't nearly so good as sbi z thinks she is-good night. 8&t y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
Reciprocity or a Canadian Election

Leader Borden of the conservatives
 the Canadian parliament has brought his followers together. Some had been pro-reciprocity men, but the bugaboo of annexation of the United States has been employed to Lput each and every one in opposition 10 the reciprocity agreement that Sir
 7ilf4ed Laurier's government had
 sgotiated.
 Rather than stand their obstruc-
 ve tactics the dominion premier has
 length decided to dissolve parlia-
 lent and to take an appeal to the
 eople, many of whom have products
 sell. Sir Wilfred does not view
 situation with alarm, although
 he tories are appealing to all to
 tand by England rather than the
 United States. The general election s to be held September 21, and the lew parliament will be summoned to meet October II.
 It is openly asserted that the in- terests in this country and in Eng Hand are pulling together to elect an anti-reciprocity parliament, and a large fund might create some changes in that body. Then, too, the tories say that there should not be new election until the new census has been completed and the parliamentary districts reallotted. To do otherwise would be to deprive the western pro- vinces of many seats to which they are clearly entitled. The western provinces will not, however, care much about that, because they favor and need reciprocity.
 2 The dominion has one-chamber parliament, but the minority in that body possesses the right of unlimited debate. When, however, prime min ister decides to have popular refer endum on a subject the discussion is considered morally binding on the majority and minority alike. The new house of commons to be elected in September may exist four years despite the new census. The s1peal to the country will relat"< almost wholly to the reciprocity agreement, and Canada wiIl.r1n the next two months ,.e the seat of heated popu- lar cAmpaign. Sir Wilfred Laurier and all his ministers will take the stump, and in every province cam paign of the hottest American sort will be conducted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
Tells About Underwood.

Hearing a great deal of late about the tact and diplomacy of Oscar Underwood,' said Charles Ingram, a local attorney, and looking for some of the reasons for this characteristic power of his, I am reminded that he has for many years been exercising tact and diplomacy, even
 in little vexng questions.
 AT resided for several years in Blount county which is in MT. Gnderwoods district. A good many years ago when populism was more strongly entrenched in Alabama than now, and about the time the stock law was first agitated in that county, the democrats had nomi- hated candidate for the legislature upon the stock law issue. which was indeed live wire Many democrats were openly threatening not to support the democratic nominee for Congress. The rest of the county ticket seemed safe, but it looked as if the democrats would lose their rep resentative. That fall MT. Underwood made series of speeches before the elec- ton. He fully understood the situation, but from his speeches no one would have known that he had been told of the trou- be. He had more sense than to mention the words stock law but in his quiet and earnest manner he expounded the principles of democracy, appealing to party loyalty, making it plain that in party organization the will of the minor ity must sometimes be subservient to the majority. The democratic nominee was elected, and I have always believed that it was Underwoods tact that did 1t.
 "I have seen patrons of rural mail routes so wrought up over the estab- lishment or change in some rural route that it seemed that no human agency could harmonize affairs. for neighbors were fussing with each other. Both sides would lay their grievances before MT. Underwood. l have seen him come to the scene of trouble, go over the route, look over the situation and take 1t in. Something was done and all factions seemed satisfied.
 q only mention these little incidents to suggest the idea that the wonderful tact displayed by him in the past six months in handling national affairs and in cementing party harmoney has not come to him by luck or by any new dis covery of his, but is a result of close observation and steady growth which had it's beginning several years ago in hand ling the little problems"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
ALABAMA GETTING WET AGAIN

From Harper weekly.
 Alabama's experience of statewide pro- hibition has been brief, but it seems to have been sufficient. One legislature passed the law. The next legislature, which adjourned only few weeks ago, repealed it, and passed instead local option measure with excellent provisions for regulating the liquor traffic in such counties as should choose to have it. Four counties have already voted on the question of license or no-lcense. Two of them, Mobile and Montgomery, have con- siderable cities in them. The other two, Colbert and Russell, have no cities of any considerable size. Yet all four have voted for license. and in Mobile and Mont gomery the majorties were comically large. Jefferson county, which contains | Birmingham, is still to act, and there
 much more of fight is anticipated, as
 Birmingham is stronghold of the prohi- 5 bitionists-they carried the county by a small majority just before the state law l Was passed-but the odds are on the vets
 Quite probably the reaction will go so
 far that good many counties which were 1 dry before the statewide experiment was l tried will for a time readmit the saloon.
 1t is not unnatural that there should be
 a reaction, and strong one. The people
 of the state were not consulted as to whether or not they wanted prohibition by
 act of the legislature. A legislature elect
 ed on a local option platform was swept
 off its feet by a ssdden craze, mobbed
 by women and other enthusiasts, and pro- | ceeded to enact that the whole state
 should be dry. Of course the law was
 evaded and violated in the larger cities. It is said that in Birmingham there are so
 many blind tigers and "bootleggers" that their votes, which will be cast for
 continuing prohibition, will be big factor in the election,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
M0RGAN,S CIGARS
From "Morgan-The Man Himself' In

From "Morgan-The Man Himself' In the
 August Metropolitan Magazine.
 Mir Morgan owns the Santa Clara prov ince in Cuba, where a particularly dark and fragrant variety of tobacco Is grown' his cigars are made for him out or tnis special leaf and these large black cigars of his figure in innunerable anecdotes. Here is one which he once toio nm self 'I was going aboard the yacht and found that I had nothing 10 hsht my cigar with so ventured to ask one of the men on the pier for match. n os my ciears-which think good deal of. He accepted it promptly.
 " rrhanks to you.' he said. I was just out of tobacco
 ..rhen he broke it into little bits and stuffed it into his pipe!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
stop the ~yyar of the Roses.

q do hope that there will be satis- factory solution of the disputed question of the right to the refreshment privi- lege in Capitol park between the two sets of ladies, both having laudable purposes in wishing the profits therefrom,' said a music lover.
 This fWarNof the Roses shall we say is deprivng thousands of people of an expected pleasure during the summer aft ernoons and evenings. The band stand and park seats, together with the hun dreds of porch seats of homes surround ing Capitol park, make 1t distinctly the best place, all in all, for the free con certs.
 Now I have been for years patron of church bazars and lunch places, par ticularly at the state fairs, and. therefore. I have, I think, a right to protest when the great body of the people, without re- gard to creed or sect, are, to say the least, inconvenienced, and in manner deprived by reason of the desire to help one church. If the Music Study club can raise the money without the use Of the refreshment-sale right, 1t is hoped they will do so.. I believe they can. I will myself undertake to raise $50 in S1 sub- scriptions to help end the controversy; and then there'H be no sale of anything in or about the park, and, frankly think this would be the best solution"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31

and who knew me. when my arrival was
 announced, hastened out to a corn field
 and hid in a crib. His wife joined In the attempt to steal the dog, and they
 were so-called respectable people, too. was told my dog was in another county, some miles away. I was forced to spend the night at the house. Late in the night the dog-stealer came in with my set ter and even then tried to bluff me as to his being my dog. The wife then en- deavored to wheedle me out of him. I had at one time refused $50 for the dog and, frankly, money could not have induced me, or any member of my fam ilv fo mart with Leigh :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press
 A short sermon makes a fat collection plate.
 People who marry money pay heavier interest on 1t than if they borrowed it.
 1t seems very queer the way a girl will pick out her ears to get red from being kissed on the mouth.
 A man with big family learns even how to think boiis aren't the worst things in the world to bear
 Some parents aren't satisfied with hay ing boy look like his father, but want to give him an extra handicap of the same name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31
COMMON CONTRADICTIONs

From the New York World GOOD 5-cent cigar. A TRUTHFUL press agent. A DELIGHTFUL summer hotel. A TASTEFUL soubrette. A WISE old cove.
 A F'AIR-MINDED rooter. A GOOD trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31

It is useless to blame Lorimer on any body besides the Illinois people. They alone in the last analysis must shoulder the shame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-31

Gary, Ind. proposes to have sane Christmas by refusing to give or accept Christmas presents outside of ones im- mediate household.