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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
Tie south's Progress

T have visited the far south only twice before now, but l have kept up with the progress of the section south os the Mason and Dixon line for many years, and l am glad to see it going ahead faster and faster" said Edward II. Nor ris of Philadelphia
 some one was telling inc that the Baltinore Manufacturers Record was about to issue a book, reviewing the progress of the south during the past % years. The Baltimore Manufacturers Record is recognized as authority on southern statistics, and it's book will be in demand. I was first as far south as Alabama in 1885. Birmingham was a considerable town, but it never occurred to me that 1t would be in the hundred thousand population class. This city is a marvel, and 1 can now see that it will never stop growing. Some of the young men of today will live to see Blrming- ham with a population of million.
 .The south has made indeed gigantic strides in 30 years, but after all it is just now coming to it's own. I believe in five years the south will have made greater progress than it has done in 30 years.
 Southern agriculture is being rapidly nodernized and the south today is said to have the best crops of any section in this country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
New England Autumn

In the New York Sun Charles Meyers Holmes of Boston writes this of autumn
 "October's foliage will soon begin to fade, and autumnal breezes will whirl the fallen leaves across our pathway Octobeg's reign will soon be over, and November's wolf wind will whine along the country roads and city boulevards
 "On high. Queen Venus is indeed reg nant, shining with unusual firmamental glory; and Queen Vega is still with us, although Queen Capella is fast deposing her from her throne. King Sirius is scintillating splendidly, after midnight with all the sidereal majesty of winters glorious galaxy sparkling above him. Down below, mans harvest is over, and Nature is preparing for her long sleep. A succession of cloudy and rainy days may visit us; but cheerful and sunshiny wealth. CT will follow; though the melancholy days of November come nearer and nearer. Once more the baseball season is at its end, once more the football sea- son is approaching it's height. Once more the radiator warns our dwellings, the overeoat is in evidence, and the closed trolley or cable car rolls along our thor Oughfares.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
No Highbrows in Our Midst

"f," says the Springfield Republi- can, "a real live highbrow should ever be caught on American soil and haled before the bar of public opin- ion, it would go hard with him. One might almost as well confess to be- ing poet"
 It is difficult to locate the high brow. If man has bulging brow he is pretty sure to disguise the cause of it. The college highbrow uses slang and bad grammar to dis guise the part. All are ashamed to be known as highbrows, for only lowbrows are popular. The word "highbrow" has, in fact, come to be one of derision, and no one sets up a claim to a highbrow standing. All desire to be known as lowbrows.
 The Remsen board of referees, who think benzoate of soda is good in hu- man food, that they themselves dc not eat, is supposedly full of high brows. This defense of benzoate o1 soda has, however, increased the un popularity of the entire highbrov fraternity.
 Nearly every community has som alleged highbrows, and yet every on of them stands ready to repel tn charge with indignation. In all tn land it is difficult to name a typica highbrow-one addicted to Henr James and Johann Sebastian Bacf and the deuce only knows wha else-one who avoids easy, pleasan books in order to study Greek o mathematics-who never sits on bleacher at baseball game-who, short, is devoted to the abstruse an to a lofty conception 4sof himsel America is not, indeed, as the Spring field Republican says, congeni; place for the highbrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
IN THE HOTEL LOBBIES
prcal,Ientlhl Campaigns

a.sI have been a voter ever since the war,
 but the most interesting and altogether i tue most stirring campaign that I recall
 Fas that of 1SSi." said an old democrat. In 1892. when Horace Greeley ran as a hbelal. with democartic indorsement We all knew thet General Grant and not the
 famous editor would sweep the country.
 a1n 1S76 Samuel J. Tilden was the don- inant democratic statesman and he had practically all Ae party following. He Wae elected, but was counted out. In isa there was very little heart in the derl cratic campaign. because it was gen. erally felt that General Hancock, the standard bearer and the campaign man asers had made tactical blunders from the start General Garfield. who headed the republican ticket, had an easy vietorys
 By the time 1884 had rolled round, WAS taking active part in politics at my old home in Virginia. There were several exceptionally strong candidates for the nomination. No one man had what We Wauld cal in modern parlance cineh, M. Tlden. who had declined the nomlna- ten' in 1880, had grown old-was well along in the 7fs-but he seemed to be coauetting with his party. and was eon- sldered receptive candidate. The state of Virginia, assuming that MT. Tilden could he induced to accept the nomination again. instructed her delegation for him. Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware was praminent and energetic candidate. He haG strong following among the young men. l belonged to his organization in Virginia.
 Grover Cleveland, who won the nomi- nation in 1884. and who became Presi- dent, vas much in the public view .as governor of New York. and was consid- craby mentioned for the presidency, but he did not seem to be anything like SD strong with the people as Mir. Bayard. Yet when the convention met the great Delaware statesman hadn't the ghost of a show
 In 1888 MT. Cleveland was renominated. but was defeated by General Harrison. In 1892 there was pretty lively fight over the nomination between Cleveland and Hill, but Cleveland received the honor and swept the country l talk rem iniseently because there are many young democrats who never tire of hearing about party matters from people who had lived through many campaigns, and who can narrate facts at first hand From now until the national convention next year there will be politics of un- usual interest. There will be lively times in the republican party; likewise lively times in the democratic party. l do not knew what the prohibition or the social ist party are up to, but from present ap- pearances neither the prohibitionists nor the socialists will he strong enough to be reekoned with.
 Tn the 1912 democratic convention, liar mon and Woodrow Wilson will each have a great deal of strength, but the eondi- lions are just right now for statesman of the Jenersonian-T -Tnden-C Cleveland type to be honored with the nomination. Os- car Underwood is the man of the type referred to- I believe he is going to be nominated and elected"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25

Theodore F. wolf: "A Literary Pilgrim
 age
 One must visit this spot if he would appreciate the absolute fidelity 10 nature of the "Elegy;" it's imagery is the exact reproduction of the scene lying about Us, which is practically unchanged since that | time so long ago when Gray drafted Alis poem here.
 Above us rises the square tower, man. lad with ivy and surmounted by ta- peling spire whose shadow now falls athwart the grave of the poet; here are the rugged eln1s with their foliage sway ing in the summer breeze above the Iowly graves wonder by the church porch is the dark yew whose opaque shade covers tho site of the poets accustomed seat on the needle-earpeted sward: around us are scattered the moldering heaps beneath which. leach in his narrow cell forever Iaid" sleep the rustic dead Some of the l humble mounds are unmarked by any token Of memory or grief, but many bear the "frail memorials often rude slabs al wood. which loving but unskilled hands have graven with "uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture" with the names and ,aars of the unhonored dead, and many holy text that teach the rustic moralist t5 die
 Some of these lowly graves hold the l5refathers of families who. not content " tn the sequestered vale of life which sufficed for these simple folk, have sought on another shore largesses of fame or fortune unattainable here. Among tho names spelled by the unlettered muse" upon the stones around Us We see those Of Goddard, Perry, Gould, Cooper Geer ans many others familiar to our American cars
 The oYerarching glades of the woods Vh'ch skirt the sacred precinct were the haunt of the youth to fortune and to fame unknown;' the nodding beech, that '.Nreathes its old fanatic roots so higaa in the grove at nearby Burnham, was his favorite tree. as it was that of Gray; afar through the haze of a golden after glow we see the antique towers" of izton, the stately brown of Windsor, with ite royal battlements, and nearer the wave of woods and fields and all the dteamlike beauty of the landscape upon which the eyes of Gray so often dweit, a landscape that literally gimmers in the sading light.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
PRIZE FIGHT IN FICTION

Besides. a draw meant another fight between them with plenty of money In the house.
 This evening in >fstiana was perhaus the most powerful single experience which influenced Al at this period of his life. For a long time he sat silent beside Moxey on the return trip. pom dering the physical beauty of Johnny and the Kid ruefully comparing their bodies with his own.
 He sighed. And now I s'pose your cousin will go out and Kill it tonight?"
 Not him." Moxey reassured; "he never touches it in any form or shane. understand?"
 He's training all the time?'' cor- tinned Al, bent on deciphering the se- cret ways of greatness
 Yep. So you might say"
 "Oh," then Al relapsed into silence to wrestle with the angel of training all the time.
 Like most young fellows, Al regard ed his body as the source of all the happi- ness that amounted to anything. The brain was merely it's adjunct, Its money maker and guide. Its operations might lead to life, but they were not life like the body's.
 It flashed upon him in the train bound home from the fight that he might achieve joy in either of two ways, V going in for sports or sport ing,' by perfecting the animal in him by abusing it. by getting into as good shape as Kid O'Mara or into as bad shape as the pale waster crumpled in the seat across the aisle.
 So began q struggle in him, not yet ended; between the Ormuzd and Ahri- man of physical condition. His high achievement thus far has been sixth place in a river Marathon swimming race, his completest failure 3S suc- cessive drunken hours in the restrict. ed district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
High CInss Musical

"The concert committee, of which Oli- yer Cholifoux is the secretary-treasurer, is negotiating with the Cincinnati Sym rhony orchestra and the Barrere ensem- ble for ono performance each during the present season. said a man of the musical set. "rhis committee brought the United States Marine band here, and as that engagement turned out. well financially, a correspondence with tine two organizations referred to was at once started. The Cincinnati orchestra ranks among the best. It is widely known, and It's appearance in Birmingham will be a great treat.
 "The Barrere ensemble is a New York organization, and although but recently formed 1t has made decided hit. It takes ils name from the leader, M. Barrere, the solo flutist of Damroschs New York Symphony orchestra. MT. Damrosch inn ported Barrere from Paris four or five years ago on a large guarantee. H'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
AX.ATroN,s WASTE OF LITE

From the New York World.
 With the regret al the death of the brilliant young aviator, Eugene Ely, is mingled a feeling of resentment that an other valuable life has been wasted to amuse a gaping crowd at a country fair
 Ely was one of the most competent of aviators. In his brief career he had made useful contributions to the art of flying and was confidently expected to do more fo~ it's advancement. He was one of the group of intelligent. experienced and re sourceful young aviators to whom the public looks for the fuller development Of flying on its practical side, and that he should be sacrificed untimely to the pop uar craze for circus stunts is deplorable.
 A round hundred of avators besides Ely have lost their lives in aeroplane acci- dents. Many were the victims of their own inexpertness, but the list is a long one of trained birdmen whose skill has not availed to save them from the fatal results of a flaw in the wind, a defect of mechanism or only too often of their own | oVcrconfdence.
 For those that have died in furtherine the advance of aviation there is the com pensation that exists for the deaths ol pioneers in any field of human progress his life in response to the demand of the | crowd for new sensation is only less than criminal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
Regarding Drinking on Trains

q have heard considerable complaint about drunken men on trains running out of Birmingham" said prominent of deial of one of the big mining compan- ies.
 Tn fact have seen a good deal of drunkenness since saloons were reestab- lished in Birmingham I am a total ab- stainer on principle, but, if Birmingham can have saloons strictly regulated, and ii drunken men will keep out of my sight, | will not worry. In other words l am willing for Birmingham to have a chance to show what it can do in the way of saloon reform.
 T do not vote in Jefferson county, and l might be induced to become a local optionist if decency among drinking men got to be the rule, but if sober, self re- specting passengers are to be annoyed ty men with jags, it will be only a question of time when Alabama will have state wide prohibition again. Granting that there was a good deal of whisky drinking in certain places when blind tigers were the dispensers. A year ago 1 seldom saw a man take q drink or q train. It Is different now.
 Tt seems to me that the railroads should be very strict in thIs matter They can certainly help the situation and make it possible for saloons to exis by not allowing a man in his cups tC board train, and no passengers should be allowed to take q drink on a train.
 Since the sale of liquor is legaizet in the large cities of Alabama, all O us, prohibitionists and anti-prohibition ists, should unite in trying to mlnlmiz, the liquor evil"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
WEST ALABAMA FOR OSCAR UN-
 DERWOOD

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 West Alabama is for Underwood for President first, last and all the time" said MT. W. F. Herbert of Demopois If l had to take a second choice should prefer Governor Harmon, but I relieve if the delegation to the national convention has second choice instruc- lions, it will be an admission of weak ness in the candidacy of MT. Underwood. We should let Alabama stand for him from the beginning to the end of the fight MT Underwood is taken seriously all over the country. He is recognized as the ccuntry's greatest master of the principal issue of the day, the tariff.
 MT. Underwood is exactly the man to trim MT. Taft, in case of that gentleman's examination.
 -'The people of the east and west vote On issues, more than men. We have the issue and MT. Underwood is recognized as man equal to the occasion. If he Is 1 put up to lead the party he will appeal strongly to the independent voting ele- mcnt of the country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
HUSBANDS IN JAPAN


 In the Greater Learning of Women" we read: "A woman should look upon her husband as if he were heaven itself and thus escape celestial punishment. The five worst maladies that afflict the female mind arc indocility, discontenr, islander, jealousy and stiffness. Without any doubt these five maladies afYltct seven or eight out of every ten women, and from them arises the inferiority or women to men. A woman should cure them by self inspection and self re- proach. The worst of them and the parent of the other four. Is sillinessl"
 The above extract shows us very clearly the position which women have, until quite recently, taken in Japan. As German writer says her condition Is the Intermediate link between the European and the Asiatic. On the one hand, Japanese women are subjected to no seclusion and are as carefully edu- cated as tho men and take their place in society; but, on the other hand, they have absolutely no independence and are in complete subjection to their hus- bands. sons and other relations. They arc without legal rights and under no circumstances can wife obtain a di- vorce or separation from her husband. however great his offense. Notw4ln- standing this, in no country does one find higher standard of morality than amongst the married women of Japan. Faithlessness is practically unknown. although tho poor little wives must often have much to put up with from their autocratic lords and masters. They bear, all, however. silently and uncomplainingly, their characteristic pride and reserve forbidding them to show to the outer world what thcy sIifYer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25

Out of each dollar that the con- sumer pays the farmer gets but Il cents. The remaining 56 cents goes to the agencies that transport the food, prepare it for sale and deliver it at the consumers door.
 It is such facts as these that are inducing Commissioner Weatherly to stand firmly in favor of a market place in this city at which the farmer and the consumer can be brought to- gether In Des Moines and in other cities where the open market for farmers wagons has been tested prices have been reduced to the con sumer about 50 per cent, while the farmer gets more for his products.
 Certain it is that an addition of 66 per cent between the farm and the kitchen is too much on food articles. When the farm is within easy reach of the city the consumer and the farmer should be brought together, and all middlemen should be elimi- mated. The last named absorb alto gether too much money. Mr. Weath- erly has the right end of the subject of food supply, and if he can bring the farmer and the consumer togeth- CT he will benefit both.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
AN AERIAL NEWSPAPER.

Tie Tulsa, Okla. World recently issued souvenir edition in mid-air, aboard L. w. Bonney's Wright aeroplane, Miss Cheyenne" Eugene Lorton, managing editor of the World. was the man who took his life in his hands," as the phrase gees, and "got out" the aerial extra" claimed to be the first ever published. Of course. this number is not very large, since the space on board an aeroplane, as such craft are now made, is at best somewhat limited. but the Worlds aerial edition is quite breezy and is a striking example of newspaper enterprise In part Of the country that was known not long ago as wild and wooly." For cory of the paper this department Is in- deoted to MT. Otto D. Garis, formerly 8 resident of Birmingham, who, with Mrs. Garis, is now appearing in vaudeville ss
 HICKS and Hicks.' PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
FATHER WALLS.

FATHER WALLS. Hush, children, hush, In a bargain counter rush Your darling mother nearly lost her life. Some silks $l.99, For these she gan to pine And plunged into the thickest of the
 strife g The doctor, dear old man, Will do all5 that he can To save Tier, who is now a nervous
 wreck. Hush. children, hush. In a bargain counter rush Somebody stepped upon your mothers
 neck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
TWENTY YEARS HENCE

By Walter Savage IAndor. Twenty years hence my eyes may grow. If not quite dim, yet rather SO: Yet yours from others shall they know,
 Twenty years hence. Twenty years hence, though itgmay ha D That I be call'd to take. asnap In a cool cell where thunder-clap
 Was never heard. .4 There breathe but OCT my arch of grass A not too sadly sigh'd 3AlasM And shall catch, ere you can pass.
 That winged word.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A man lends money on faith; he bor- rows it on nerve.
 The reason a girl isn't afraid of a big man is she is of little mouse.
 Being engaged can take more of the average mans time than being mar ried.
 When woman manages to run the house on half the money she needs for 1t her husband thinks he does it.
 A man won't stay home nights if there's nobody there but his wife, be- cause it's dull, and if she has family visitors. because it's rackety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
PREPARING THE SURPRISE

he little maid stood In the doorway, ore hand on the handle. For a moment she gazed thoughtfully at her father, who was preparing to take his afternoon sicsta
 Papa" she said, "do you know what I'm going to give you for your birthday when 1t comes?"
 .'No, dear" answered her fond father. "But tell me-"
 "A nice new china shaving mug with gold flowers on it all round," said the iit- tIe maid.
 But my dear" exclaimed her parent. papa las a nice one, just like that, already
 No, he hasn't" his little daughter an- swered, thoughtfully, 'cos-'cos-Tve just dropped it!'-Newark Star
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
Sewers and the Hookworm

In an address before the Johns Hopkins Medical society, Dr. Welch recently dwelt upon the benefits of sewers in the elimination of all dan ger from hookworm. In thoroughly severed districts all danger of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
What the Middlemen Get

Chairman 1oakum of the Frisco railroad published a table not long ago showing the difference in food prices on the farm and in the kitchen. His table is worthy of a rereading, as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25

l The high price of oVereoats ma5 hereafter limit the attendance at th, worlds series of baseball games.
  The wild geese are coming south tc secure a lower cost of living. The weather is no object to them. John Franklin Baker is his name, and Philadelphia is convinced that nothins Is too good for him.
 
 Perhaps Mr. Taft is glad to eompro- mise with Nr. Roosevelt Silence is to fe the compromise.
 The Chinese population is not at any rate increasing where the civil war Is the hottest .-One more home run would place MT. Baker of Trappe, Nil, among the i'm mortals.
 Some think Aldrich has revised his currency plan downward instead of up- ward.
 The Manehus are getting an install ment of accumulated wrath, that's all. Home Run Baker is not, alas, a col iege graduate, the more's the pity.
  The sweetest music on cold mornings is the coal running down the chute.
  Chicago claims to be the greatest harborIess port in the world. Supermen are evidently not wanted on the AfcNamara jury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
TWOULD RE FOOIHARI

TWOULD BE FOOLHARDY.
 You can't compliment a woman by calling her a landmark.
 No, you can't. And, furthermore. did you ever hear of man who had the corrGge to tell a woman to her face that she was landmarko'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25

Few indeed have seen more of our 4S states than President Taft has, but he was not studying scenery in his recent trip so much as he was public senti- rnnnf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25

played flute solo at one of the festi- val concerts in 1910. His chamber band the "Ensemble''-is unique, it being made up of all wood wind players. It is com posed of 10 men and they make beautiful music"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25
TELEPHONES

1ife's but walking shadow, a poor
 player. That struts and frets his hour upon
 the stage. And then is heard no more; it is n tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Si=nifyinG nothing. -Maebeth,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25

The effete east laughs at LaFollette, but he who laughs last laughs best. The Wisconsin senator may show the conceited east some new tricks in pol itics
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25

The Manehus may have to retreat be- hind that great wall unless some friendly ship comes along going to Japan It is either Manchuria or Japan for them,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-25

The profession of politics gets a black eye whenever witness remem- bers anything in either the Lorimer oI Stephenson investigations.