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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Weed Cutting Edicf

Said a resident In Avondale: T have been hoping that our new commission government. when 1t issued a positive edict, such as caused law abiding citi- zens to sit up and take notice, meant business; and that such persons as had come to believe that an edict meant nothing more than a grumble, might find that they had mistaken the quality of our new government.
 AS soon as that weed cutting edict was promulged I got scared, and all my weeds were cut-but that has been so long ago that I have a new crop coming on. Meanwhile on Avenue E, nearly opposite the park, the weeds seem to mock me as I pass by. The impinge on the sidewalks waist high. Vacant lots belonging to those who can afford to hold them, remind one of the vacant com mons in courthouse town before the war. When weeds do much abound, mos- quitoes abound and also malaria. Surely some one ought to see that ability to hold vacant property does not carry with 1t the right ignore law, to mar a city's beauty, and to breed mosquitoes and ma laria."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Men, that make Envy, and crooked malice nouris ment sDare bite the best. |, king Henry VIII.
Men. that make
A Citizens Committee

f J. ". Mcqueen made a fine sug- lgestion the other day in an inter- view iDsThe Age-Herald when he pro- posed a citizens committee to stand behind the Jefferson county excise commission in the enforcement of the niquor laws. MT. Mcqueen, as vice president of one of the large corpor- ations, is busy man, but he Is known for his genuine public spirit, Rnd when he offers to serve on a cit izem's committee for the promotion of orderly conditions it means much Hndeed.
 l There have been committees and lcommittees; there have been law and order leagues, but often well mean ling citizens have organized to attempt 1 what was practically impossible. It fis nextt impossible to make the peo- Eple of large community like Bir- mingham saintiy or even abstemious rby legislation. AS Judge Lane pointed ] out with emphasis, prohibition was 5 not workable here, and the reason prohibition did not prohibit was as plain as the nose on mans face. Public sentiment has been against prohibition, and in this, as in other large cities, it always will be against sumptuary laws.
 Birmingham is to have the open saloon strictly regulated. The Smith
 regulation act may not be perfect but it provides for only model saloons and clothes the excise commission with full power to regulate the liquor traffic. It may be assumed that Governor O'Neal will appoint only gentlemen of high character as excise men, but the commission will be greatly helped by all we'll meaning volunteers, and as matter of course, will feel grateful to citizens com mittee organized as an auxiliary to the board.
 Every right minded person desires to see the regulated saloon remain regulated. Birmingham should not only keep within the bounds of the law so far as the whisky trade goes, but it should be known as the model saloon town of the south. And to that end it is hoped MT. Mcqueen will go forward in forming citizens rcommittee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Cotton Crop Reports

The government crop report, is sued on Friday, purporting to show the condition of the crop on August 25, had been fully discounted in the chief cotton markets, and It's publica- ton led to small changes in prices. And yet the report shows that worms and drouths and hot winds had seri- ously impaired the crop in Texas and Louisiana and Oklahoma. In Ala bama the crop in months time had lost IA points and a like loss Is re- ported in Georgia. Altogether the condition of the crop as whole is down to that of the ten year average. It has lost its great promise, and stands today an average crop only.
 What this means in bales it is not easy to cipher out. The government says it means a crop of 12,918, 200 bales. Estimates as a rule are wide apart, and the government figures represent fairly well compromise guess at the outcome.
 On September 12 the cotton growers will send large delegations to a con- ference to be held in Montgomery. Delegates will be present from other states, and Commissioner Kolb is talk ing steps to have this state fully rep resented in the convention. The real object of the gathering is to formu- late plans under which the crop can be marketed to the interests of the farmers. The farmers who really own the bales they have grown need no advice. They can hold their bales un- til the market suits them. A good share of the crop will not, however, be in independent hands, and the marketing of these dependent bales offers problem that the convention will find it difficult to solve. The lien encumbered bale has long been a source of weakness to the growers of cotton, and a way to handle it satis- factorily has never been devised.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
MT. Taft's Tariff Board

The chairman of MT. Taft's board is Henry c. Emery, a professor of political economy at Yale. He is a republican. Alvin H. Sanders of Chi cago, publisher of the Breeders Gazette, is another republican mem Der, and James B. Reynolds, formerly assistant secretary of the treasury, is the third republican member. MT. Reynolds has long been an active re- publican politician.
 Last spring two democrats were added to the board. One of these is William M. Howard of Lexington, Ga. He represented the Eighth dis trict of that state about ten years, but year ago he was defeated in primary by MT. Trimble of Athens, and the President put him on his tariff board. The other democratic member Is Thomas W. Page, who is a professor of economies at the Uni versity of Texas and California. He is classed as a democrat.
 ''The tariff board," said Mr. Un- derwood recently, lis unauthorized by law. When the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill was enacted it contained a pro- vision for minimum and maximum tariff rates. To carry out the provision of this section of the act the President was authorized to employ certain persons to enable him to make these negotiations and to ad- wise the executive department in ref erence to the administration of the law. No language in the act author ized these employees to act as tariff board to secure information and ad- wise Congress. An effort was made at the last Congress to pass law creat- ing tariff board for this purpose, but it was finally rejected and did not become a law"
 A real tariff board should be under the control not of the President, but of Congress, which Is the tariff mak- ing branch of the government. A tariff board appointed by and under the control of the President is anomalous.
 But as a matter of fact neither party in Congress next winter will pay much attention to the Presidents S pet board. Its recommendations will probably constitute a split and each party will be kept busy next winter in preparing the groundwork for the keenest kind of tariff campaign, and the work of the Emery board will be lost in the shuffle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
that state for president and vice pres

that state for president and vice pres ident.
 Here then are seven states that will send 142 delegates to the demo- cratic national convention who will go instructed-142 out of 1050 delegates. The seven states will act as a rule be- fore delegates are selected in the other states under the old outworn machine plan. The legislatures and the state committees sitting next win ter may add other states to the list that prefer direct action by the voters to gumshoe action by 'the politicians.
 The plan of direct action by the voter himself is spreading rapidly and it is wholly safe to say that the presidential nominations in 1916 will be practically decided by the voters that individually prefer to transact their own public business. The meth ods of Mark Hanna are passing away and there is little chance indeed that the country will ever know another boss of his type and sweep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Sir Oyster Is here in our midst.
THE MAINE ELECTIONS

From Harper's Weekly.
 The September election in Maine this year turns upon the reaffirmation or the
 defeat of prohibition. Indications, as re- ported, fare that prohibition will be re-
 affirmed. Interpreters of the situation
 say that the opponents of prohibition, who
 may be assumed to be the democrats of
 Maine, have missed a strategic oppor-
 unity Their victory of year ago in
 volved opposition to prohibition a pre-
 tense, and they demanded resubmission
 to the popular will Having gained pow
 CT, the democrats should logically have enforced prohibition with the utmost rigor throughout the state. Thereby they would
 have shown the voters exactly what pro- hibition means in practice, and have dem-
 onstrated the unpopularity of the law literally interpreted. Instead of which, it is represented that the democrats nave initiated the republicans by permitting
 the same laxness and probable corruption and the same wholesale evasions of the law which were characteristic of Ie- publican rule, so that the "wetness" of Maine under democratic rule has furnish ed ammunition for the other side. Fur thermore, it appears that the democratic campaign work has been in large part wasted in the larger cities, which will
 be overwhelmed by the country voters This Is the situation to be borne in mind
 when the claim is made as it probably will be, that the Maine election means republican victory-a reaction from las, | year presaging republican success in 1912 | The weakness of the state party and the | local issues indicated may very likely
 bring a republican triumph in September 1912, as well as>this year. But the factor
 of prohibition, made acute by last years l election, makes the election in Maine this | year and next year essentially local, ant
 deprves the results of their usual ma. | tional significance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

teresting and instructive article to The Age-Herald which will be found on another page. He has certainly demonstrated his fitness for the work in hand, and if those behind the farm movement grow not weary great things will be accomplished within the next four or five years. The Birmingham district will become all most as noted for it's profitable truck farms as it is for its industrial activity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
THE "corroN coNGREssMANy

From the Argonaut.
 Congressman James Thomas Heflin of the Fifth Alabama district. is sartoria dream, and it all comes from the Alabama mills, from the talkative cotton necl1tie to the white cotton shoes he sometimes hides his blushing cotton socks in. In warm days the .cotton Congressman" dons his soft ecru cotton shirt, packs his wildly communicative cotton vest away and coolly goes about his business in the House of Representatives, keeping in mind the things his constituents sent him there to get for them. Down in his home district they raise cotton and they op- crate mills. And Heflin Is q grand ad. vertiser of home products. Up in Wash ington they wear smoked glasses and turn on the electric fans when he appears in full cotton regalia. The Honorable Thomas smiles genially, sips his mineral ice water, and when he goes back home his people look him over and decide he looks heap like another term, because he has not returned with an outfit that looks like q college clothing advertise ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Successful Movement

Anyone who thought that the farm movement inaugurated by the Cham Der of Commerce of Birmingham about a year ago was somewhat im- practicable had not given the matter much attention. To many business men and corporation officials that movement commended itself at once. Those who take broad views felt that the farm movement was not only feasible, but that it would have, in due course of time, large results.
 The committee seeking to bring home seekers to the Birmingham dis trict employed MT. Hechinger, well known and esteemed German-Ameri- can, who is an authority on immigra- tion and horticulture, as it's secretary. There may have been few impatient members of the Chamber of Com merce who expected to see hundreds of families coming from the northwest or from Europe and settling in Jeffer- son county within the first few months after the farm movement was started. But men of practical ideas knew that some time would be re- quired for a big showing. In move ment of this kind selection is an inn portant feature. Better have only 20 or 30 of the right sort of new corners than 100 of the indifferent sort. If MT. Hechinger had brought only a dozen truck farming families to this county the first year he would have done well, but he has ac- complished more than that. And his foundation work has been excellent.
 Every successful truck farmer is an advertisement that has a far reaching effect, and the end of the second year should show a much larger number of new settlers than the first. The ratio of increase will be rapid after the first two or three years.
 Mir. Hechinger contributes an in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
The Iron Trade

Matthew Addy & Co. of Cincinnati in their iron market review of September ? say in part;
 Tn the south there Is a stronger feel ing, and higher prices have been held to with more determination than when the advance was first made. As mat ter of fact, s1O f. o. b. Birmingham, for No. is not an attractive price, even to the furnaces that can most cheaply make iron. All of the iron produced Is not No 2. A good deal of low grade iron is made even by the best ironmakers, and this brings from 90 cents to $1 less money than No. ?. There has been lot of nonsense written about S6 iron.
 Some of this nonsense has even been
 repeated fin Congress. The people of Br- mingham who boasted of $6 iron never did a more foolish thing. Some iron years ago undoubtedly was made in Alabama at that cost. But then they paid labor not to exceed sl a day, and they had rich ores on the surface, not mines half a
 mile in the ground as today. And at a producing cost of $6 there was no margin for depreciation or repairs, no accounting lOl wear anu ho Nhoi oC 'iOi capital invested, let alone a reasonable profit. In no sane scheme of bookkeeping
 were the furnaces then getting back a new dollar for an old one.
 Tn these days labor is getting fair wages, raw materials are vastly more ex- pensive than 10 years ago and bondhold- CTS demand their interest regularly, while shareholders modestly expect now and then some little return. Ten dollars. Bir- mngham, means that raw materials-the potential wealth of the country-are being
 consumed simply for the sake of consum- | ing them At that price, If a blast fur | mace were like a steamboat, so to speak, | it would be tied up to the wharf and allowed to wait until there was more water in the river. The south, if it's iron | industry is to thrive simply must get more money. This is being realized, and
 the policy of selling just to sell at any old price is not so much in vogue as once was the case.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

widely known song-writers on Broad way. The other day MT Lewis had occasion to visit friend in Brooklyn. At the conclu- sion or ms visit he started for the eie- vated road, and, like every other Man hattanite who ventures into Brooklyn,s & trackless wilds, he got lost. By and by he found himself at the gate of an enor- nous cemetery. A cab came along, driven by a negro.
 Here said Sam, holding up his cane.
 The cabman stopped. What you all want?" he asked, suspiciously
 q want to take your cab," said Lewis.
 Where you all want to go?' asked the cabbie.
 rBack to New York;" said Lewis.
 You can't fool me-" said the driver, whipping his horse. You might ies' as well go back to your grave.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Direct Votes For President

Oregon, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Florida have direct primary laws which enable voter to express his individual choice for president and vice president. In these six states the voter will act di- rectly and individually instead of de- pending upon the politicians to act for him. The Texas legislature passed, too, resolution providing that on the approval of Governor Col quit every democratic voter can name his choice in next years primaries in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

all sorts of good things to eat and drink. There Is scarcely any beverage, soft or alcoholic. that is not set forth in this recipe book Like all cyclopedic works, It's subjects are arranged alphabetically I turned to liqueurs, and found several pages devoted to directions for mixing cordials, most of which were more or less familiar to me.
 "I was always fond of chartreuse as an atfer dinner cordial, but l had no idea how many ingredients made up this de- licious drink. According to the 'Scien- tifc American, here are the things that compose chartreuse: Mace, China cin- namon, lemon balm (dried), hyssop in flower tops, peppermint (dried), thyme. balsam, genepi, flowers of arnica, an gelica seeds. angelica roots, coriander, cloves. nutmeg, aloes, cardamon, calamus, tonka beans. alcohol, S5 degrees, and last, sugar (white) Most of these herbs are known to the average man, woman and child, but some of them looked strange to me. AS l read the list of ingredients was wondering what had become of the alcohol, for I knew that chartreuse, like all liqueurs. was stimulating. But there was alcohol next to the bottom.
 'I was struck with this fact, that while the cyclopedia informs us as to what Is in chartreuse, there is no hint at the pro- portions or how the cordial is com pounded
 Those prohibitionists who practice to- tai abstinence and have practiced it since youth never tasted chartreuse, and some of them may think a book that would give space to such an alluring drink should be put on the index, so to speak, but according to my anti-prohibition mo- tions, chartreuse Is all right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
REMEMBERED

By W. E. Henley. When, in what other life, Where, in what old, spent star, Systems ago, dead vastitudes afar. Were we two bird and bough. or man and
 wife? Or wave and spar? Or the beating sea and you the bar On which 1t breaks? l know not, l! But this. o this. my very dear. know: Your voice awakes old echoes in my
 heart; And things I say to you now are said
 once more; And sweet, when we two part. feel have seen you falter and finger so. So hesitate, and turn, and cling-yet go, As once in some immemorable before. Once on some fortunate yet thrice blasted
 shore. s~f Was it for good? o, these poor eyes are wet And yet, o yet, Now that we know. would not. if
 could. Forget.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
THE WANING YEAR.

Ere long we'll roam the autumn woods,
 Mid crimson hues and gold, Where leafy, wind-blown solitudes
 Their vistas rare unfold, The while nameless pathos fills
 The dreamy landscape round; The winding wales and creling hills,
 Seem bowed in grief profound. We'll sigh In vain to hear the bird That sang the summer through, In bowers by cool breezes stirred,
 When all the skies were blue And sweetly swayed the vernal blooms
 Upspringing from the sod, To pay each sunbeam that illumes With courtesy and nod Those magic voices will be hushed
 That rose to greet the morn, The streams that once so gladly rushed Will murmur now fororn And something strange, full-fraught with change, Will haunt each sylvan path, Forebodng storms that wildly range And winters coming wrath.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 For his own lean joke a man has a fat laugh
 The devil would have just as big a snap if he weren't a trust.
 Rosy automobile dreams, with a girl on the front seat, can turn to dark ambu- lance realities.
 Nothing can astorsh a girl more when she means to fiirt with man than to have him begin it first.
 woman has to keep on good terms with her servants so they won't be 50 mcan to her as not to give her all the gossip of the neighborhood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

President Tafts record lies wide open but there are many crooks and turns nation. Hence the tour that Is to cost the coluntry s1S0OO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Southern Progress

The Manufacturers Record of Balti more, shows the progress of the south including Missiouri and Oklahoma, by the following figures:
 Agriculture:
 Farm lands, value 1900, sS, ,2sS, ,4s2, 900; 1910 &, ,29s, ,3S3, 900.
 Farm buildings, value $500, ss55, 10S, o0o 1910, s1,672, 100000.
 Products, value 1900 s1,56o 900, 900; 1910 g, ,975, ,oOO, 900.
 Producs. value 1900, sl.5so,Ooo; 1910, g., s75, 5,OOo,OOo
 Manufacturing:
 Factory capital. 1900, s1.1s6So2, 900; 1909 2,SS5, ,0s4,o0o.
 Factory products, $500, si,ee4, ,1s4,ooo; 1909 S, ,16o, ,S1s.OOO.
 Mineral products, 1900, s131, 100000; 1909 s327, ,421. GOO.
 Lumber cut, feet, 1900 IA, 444965. 900; 1909 24, 46c, 100000.
 Railroads mileage 1900, 61 ,sSo; 1910. S7,0S4 Exports, value, 1900, siSi,644,177; 1910 s67S, S,n4,121. =
 National banks:
 Resources, 1900, s705, ,594; 1s1O' si,S3o,- 095, ,231.
 Individual deposits, 1900, sss4s4s,e7o; 1910 $S99 .203, eos.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

MT. Vaniman, who Is preparing to cross the Atlantic in a balloon, was the engi- neer of the Wellman balloon. He will not. however, use an equilibrator in his new balloon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
A Popular Liqueur

while l was in the public library a few days ago my eyes fell upon volume with which I was unacquainted but whicli proved to be a great compendium of useful facts--the Scientific American s Cyclopedia of Recipes, Revised Edtion,' ? said citizen.
 "The large volume contains recipes for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Excise Commission

| Many high class citizens are being
 urged for appointment to the Jefferson county excise commission and I am sure
 Governor ONeal will select three men
 who will give general satisfaction" said a member of the Chamber of Commerce. Some of the candidates have made
 formal application; others have not. Among those whose names are prom inently mentioned are Dr. Samuel Ullman. Jones G. Moore, Sydenham Moore. E. Wilkinson, George B. Ward, M. H. Me- Dowell of Ensley, pr. B. L. Wyman, Joseph T. Collins, Marcus Well. Gardner
 Boodwyn of Bessemer. pr. Gwin of West End. W. c. Agee and Sidney Lazarus. 'I am a fairly good guesser, but I find | it difficult to make up my mind as to the winners. I am personally acquainted with all the men here mentioned and l know each one would fill the bill. Tine two Moores-Jones and Syd-will probably
 be among the three.
 There is an impression among some Of my friends that the law provides for enc of the commission being a resident of the
 county outside of Birmingham. But there is no such provision. l am not an au- thority on constitutional law, but I would say that if such provision had been in- cluded in the legislative enactment it would have been declared unconstitutional | by the supreme court. Jefferson county | being in class 'A'-a class to itself-the excise commission that will have the regulating to do for Birmingham and T3es- semer must be county body, and the governor is free to select all three of the commissioners from Toadvine, Bes- semer or Birmingham. It might be good policy, however, for him to pick two
 from Birmingham and one from Bes-
 semer
 "The chairman of the excise commits
 sion will receive a salary of s9600 and the
 salaries of the others will be 5000.
 While the excise duties will take up con-
 siderable time, there is nothing in the
 law that requires a commissioner to give
 up any business or profession in which
 he may be engaged. With the city com
 mission it is difficult. Cupepper Exum, Judge Lane and James Weatherly are paid for their full time.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
WEARY OF FAME,

WEAfl1 OF FAM ID. He's not an office-seeker, you say?" No"
 Maybe he believes in the office seeking the man?'
 VI think not He was constable of this village once and says he's had enough of public life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

The Maryland democratic machine squeezed Arthur Pue German through as candidate by one majority. The ma chine in that state begins to think it is not the whole thing.