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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
 The Iron Market

"The price of iron has remained station ary so long that buyers are beginning to think its price is as stable as that of postage stamps, and this is one reason why there is not more buying" said Mat thew Addy & Co.,
 Consumers seem to feel that they need rot hurry to purchase, even though they believe iron to be cheap, for it looks as if iron would be just as cheap next week or next month. They can see nothing to change present conditions. Of course. sooner or later the consumers who do not buy at the low prices now will feel like the Foolish Virgins. This is certain, for iron is now at the bottom. Either demand must soon greatly increase or there will be such a curtailment in production as will completely change the statistics al- though 1t is believed now that more iron is being melted than is being made. for furnace stocks have recently declined.
 But in spite of the fact that buying is sporadic, there has been fair tonnage purchased recently Things are not as bad as might be imagined from some of the reports. During the week several large orders have been placed and in ad- dition there has been the usual carload lot trade for quick shipment. It must be remembered that the furnaces sold freely in February and shipments are moving at good rate. Only the concerns that depend wholly or partially on the rail roads to keep them busy have any very serious complaint to make.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
ONE ON THE CORN DOCTOR

Massillon (O.) Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Samuel Morgan, gate tender at the West Main street crossing of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, put one over on an itin- erant corn doctor today. Calling at Mor- gan's shanty the doctor discoursed on the wonders of his corn salve Morgan owned up that his feet were on the fritz" but dolefully declared no cure was possible.
 My dear sir. you are just the kind of person l make convert of every time," returned the visitor enthusiastically. fol- lowing this up with a profuse flow of language.
 Morgan listened mournfully. Finally he leaned over. turned some thumb-screws, removed his feet and handed them to the doctor with, Well. go ahead and see what you can do."
 Morgan lost his feet in a railroad acci- dent 20 years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
CulIman Strawberries

The first small shipment of Culman strawberries reached Birmingham yester- day." said a dealer on Morris avenue last night.
 This is the signal for steady supply of the delicious berries from the little mountain city for perhaps two months. Reports have 1t that the crop is unusually fine and the yield will be large. The acreage is being steadily increased and the production improved in every way.
 Four separate shipping associations are handling the crop and a market has been arranged in several of the large western cities as well as Birmingham. Cullman ships some sort of farm and garden prod rct all the year round. Irish and sweet potatoes are important crops and several hundred car loads of these with strawber- ries and other fruits go out of Cullman every year.
 "The German farmers at Cullman are prosperous and have learned the art of having something to sell all the year round.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
DYNASTY OF BROWN BREAD

From the Boston Transcript
 The brown bread of colonial times was not the same as that which New Englanders associate with Saturday night and Sunday morning. In PiI-. grim days brown bread was made all most entirely from corn meal. From very early times the brown bread to which Bostonians are accustomed has been a staple article of food through out New England; but the baking of Boston brown bread as business was started by Asaph Parmelee, who came to Boston from Wilmington, Vt, about 1926. His wife, like many farmers
 wives, was In the habit of baking
 brown bread in her own brick oven for the use of her household, and grad ually the report of her delicious cook
 ing of it spread about the neighbor- hood. So much was 1t liked by her friends and neighbors that soon she
 was kept busy making it for the South End.
 it in a wheelbarrow, then in hand
 cart. and later he invested in horse and wagon for the delivery of the Par
 melee brown bread. When the demand became greater than his wife could supply. MT. Parmelee built large brick oven for his own use. The loaves were hexagonal, with tapering sides, and were sold according to weight In whole half and quarter sizes. In 1S42 Asaph
 Parmelee bought the estate at the | southwest corner of Washington and pringfield streets, where Minot hall | now stands.
 | He then baked beans as well as brown bread. and in time had a general | bakery. For the sale of his goods he
 erected in his yard a small one-story
 wooden building around a magnificent
 old horse chestnut tree that he had been unwilling to destroy. For many years this tree, extending through the
 shop. was landmark. In 1865, owing
 to failing health. MT Parmelee sold his | business.
 | It was in the bakery of Asaph Par melee that his son and his nephews received their practical training in the business of baking brown bread. From about 1926 until 1900, when MT. Lorin Parmelee retired some one of the Par melee name was engaged in baking the ! far famed Boston brown bread.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
The Business situation

"As the first half of 1911 hears it's close the predictions made during the winter are all the more impressive said James H. Larrimer of Philadelphia.
 Early in the year financiers and large business concerns predicted that the first few months of this year would be dis tressingly dull I have had an experience in business of nearly 20 years. and do not recall any period duller than this; but what is cheering is the outlook for the who predicted depressing conditions in the first half forecast prosperity in the last. There seems to be no question now but what, with the great crops in sight. pros perity will rule from June on until the end of the yearn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
Another Battle Against House Flies

Another Battle Against House Flies
 Whenever the sun shines brightly the pestiferous house fly emerges from the horse stables in vast and increasing numbers. The horse sta ble is the incubator of the greatest disseminator of disease germs in this country. The horse stable cannot be abolished, and so it is every citizens duty to put up screens, and above all else to swat every fly that approaches him. Every fly killed in April means 5000 less flies later on, so great is the fecundity of the pest.
 When it is considered that the feet of flies are so constructed that it be- comes a carrier of microbes gathered in the most filthy places it can find, and that these dirty and dangerous feet tread on every occasion bread, pie, butter and other articles of food it becomes plain why screens should be used and every fly within reach should be killed.
 A fly killed in April may save human life. The act may, in fact, save many lives. This would be ap- parent to any one who could see fly's feet under a microscope. This is why this is fly killing time. A man who kills a fly in April is a public
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
TRUTH IN SOUTHERN FICTION

Montrose J. Moses in the Bookman. When asked the way to certain local place. the oldest inhabitant said to the stranger q can't tell you where 1t is, sir, but I'll take you there." This is the spirit in which the writer approaches his task of trailing through the lower south on a literary pilgrimage. Every author describes his favorite locality. knows his particular town, paints the foibles of his special friends. Virginia cre- ated a type of literature enthusiastically virginian the lower south is spread over wide area, and is more democrat- ic Tn it's fiction it is undergoing trans formation, but the localities are to be fixed definitely, however much the social and economic conditions alter.
 Locality in southern literature, as 1t pertained to the lower south is in two directions. In humor and folklore Con- ditions created a type of humorist too little read today, thoroughly human, however vulgar, In situations When Judge Baldwin came to Livingston, Ala, he found the society rudimentary, though his own profession had gained some dis
 
 reached the town, on the first morning. he discovered a snake in his boot, which warned him to be careful thereafter where he slept. There is no doubt on reading "Flush Times in Alabama that most of the characters, most of the incidents, had their counterparts in real happenings at Livingston. "Ovid Boles, Esq" "whose ly- ing came from his greatness of soul and his comprehensivenes of mind" was cer- tainly some citizen of the town, while Baldwin must have drawn on his own ex- perience In the description of the de- fendant who appeared in a case he tried. dressed in the old-fashioned gum top boots and shorts"
 'The American hotel described, with its gaudy inn sign shaking in the wind, brings to mind Badwins almost nightly seances with his confreres, when they used to sit together after day in court and attempt to be literary in their talk. The Lower South was distinguished in it's intellectual coteries; Charleston had a group centering around the form of Simms; in Augusta, Ga, Richard Henry Wilde gathered together a number of intellectuals of his calling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
DEAD FROM A SENSE OF DUTY

From the New York World.
 The brave baggageman on the central Railroad of New Jersey who lost his lie in an attempt to save the lives Of others did only what policemen and firemen are constantly doing. But trainmen are not employed with view to their fitness TOT such rescue work. It is not in thelr line of duty and the fact gives an added hero ism to a deed of self-sacrifice which is to the credit of the service.
 There is more of this quality of cour- ageous devotion to duty beyond the let ter of their instructions among railroad employees than is commonly recognized. An example of it was furnished by the station agent at Croten Lake, on the New York Central, who gave his life to protect the company's property from rob bers. The pension granted to his widow testifies to the roads appreciation of con- spicuous fidelity In the employe. 1t IS present in every engineer who sticks to his post when his locomotive leaves the rails, and in tiremen. telegraph operators and brakemen. 1t was possessed by the Buffalo fireman who was killed while trying to drag woman from the tracks.
 If the sense of responsibility among the rank and file of the service were always matched by an equal efficiency in execu- tive offices there would be fewer occasions for it's exercise at the cost of life. It ought not to be necessary for baggagemen to leap from their cars to give warning of danger or possible for passengers to be killed on the tracks before station. They are not there as trespassers but as patrons of the company under its pro- lection. In the present state of develop ment in railroad operation there is no ex- cuse for such "accidents."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

though he was formerly a leader in the most fashionable set in New York. His grandfather was the late Robert Bayard. and his father the late Alexander s. Brown, both of New York state. At the time the master of the Valfrayia turned his back upon fashionable New York so- ciety late in the sos he was handsome man under 40 years of age. The case came into court through the contention that MT. Brown is now resident of Eng land and as such liable for taxes upon various grounds, among the rest being the large income which he receives from America through his bankers. MT. Browns answer is that the income tax Is for land lubbers, and that sea rover is not residence though it never goes to sea. All this while the address of this wealthy and eccentric American has been Nassau street, New York At Brightling- sea his yacht Is a source of revenue, be- cause as a great curiosity it is constant ly visited by people from far and near, though it's master is never seen when the ship is visited. The decision of the judge upholds the contention of the government solicitor regarding the income tax, and is viewed by the natives as calamity, fearing the loss of so great an attraction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE HAS-BEEN.

 The people praised his lofty stand And hardened to his eloquence; They came to meet him with a band, excitement growing so intense. They cried, Our leading citizen! Three cheers to greet him, coming
 homei A pattern he for public men, A senator of ancient Rome!' While "Oom, tah. rah, rah!' played the
 band,
 A mighty shout to heaven rose; He doffed his hat and waved his hand. And mopped his brow and blew his nose. And all the time his bosom sweled, To think what honors were him paid; To henchmen round who loudcst yelled, Complaeent Thank you, sirs," he said One year has passed, we see him now In quite another frame of mind; No laurel wreath is on his brow, No crowds along his path are lined. Ignored forgotten by the throng, IIe sadly ruminates his fall; Another hears the victor-song, The honored guest in banquet hall. But such, alaclx, alas, is fate And politics--a shifting game; The poor defeated candidate Shall never more look quite the same.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
HYMN

 By Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Sung at the completion of Concorn mon-
 ument. April 19. 1S36) By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to Aprl's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the
 world.
 The foe long since in silence slept, Alike the conqueror silent sleeps, And time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaword
 creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today votive stone. That memory may their deed redeem, When like our sires our sons are gone' Spirit! who made those freeman dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
SHIP THAT NEVER SAILS
} Kansas City Star.

A case in the law courts of England calls attention to yacht with steam all ways up which has not budged for P years. Moored fore and aft in the river at Brightlingsea, 200 yards off the Essex shore and flying the American flag, the yacht valfrayia has kept her steam up for almost the fourth part of century, and yet never moved one instant in all that time She has crew of IS and her equipment is perfect throughout, and yet in g years it is said her master, Mr. M. Bayard Brown has never left the yacht
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Try raising flowers at home so as to appreciate that you can buy them in a shop.
 A man is 10 times pleased with a bet he wins as he is with 10 times as much that he earns.
 The cook wants you to raise her wages because she can make. good coffee and be- cause she can't brol a steak just the same
 little feet before she marries him doesn t seem so very much interested in kissing her lips after she does.
 The later a man stays out at night the wiser it is for his wife to pretend she believes him when he sayE the next morn ing he came home early.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
THE GUIDE AND THE MUMMY

From Mark Twain's 'Innocents Abroad
 We have made 1t interesting TOT this Roman guide Yesterday we spent three or four hours in the Vatican again, thar wonderful world of curiosities. We came very near expressing interest, sometimes even admiration-it was very nara to keep from it. We succeeded, though. No- body else ever did, in the Vatican mus eums. The guide was bewildered-non- nlussed. He walked his legs off nearly hunting up extraordinary things, and ex- hausted all his ingenuity on us but 1t was a failure; we never showed any interest in anything. He had reserved what ne considered to be his greatest wonder till tbe last-a royal Egyptian mummy, the best preserved in the world, pernaps' He led us there. He felt so sure, thls time. that some of his old enthusiasm came back to him:
 "see. penteelmen! Mummy! Mummy"
 The eyeelass came up as calmly as de- liberately as ever.
 "Ah-Ferguson-w did I understand you to say the gentleman's name was?
 "Name? He got no name! Mummy! 'Gyptian mummy"
 "Yes, yes. Born here?"
 NO! 'Gyptian mummy!"
 "Ah. just so F'renchman, I presume?'
 "No!-not Frenchman, not Roman-born in Egypta.'
 "Born in Egypta? Never heard of Egypta before. Foreign locality, likely. Murnmy-mummy! How calm he is-how self-possessed Is. ah--is he dead?"
 "Oh, sacre bleu; been dead 5000 year"
 The doctor turned on him savagely:
 Here, now. what do you mean by such conduct as this! Playing us for China men because we are strangers and trying to learn! Trying to impose your viie secondhand carcasses on us!-thunder and lightning! I've a notion to-to-if you,ve got a nice fresh corpse. fetch him out,-or. by George, we'll brain you!"
 We made It exceedingly interesting for this Frenchman. However, he has paid ,us back, partly without knowing 1t. He came to the hotel this morning to ask if we were up, and he endeavored as well as he could to describe us, so that the landlord would know which persons he meant. He finished with the casual re- mark that we were lunatics. The obser- yation was innocent-and honest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
THE IMMORTALS.

Hon. Jet Wimp, dean of the academy has put out the welcome mat for these worthy candidates: Miss Ruby Dingle- dine Pocatello. Idaho; Wen Yapps, Wau- kesha, Wis. HI Jubb, Decatur; Hon. J.. Sam Ham, Clarkdale, Miss; Fundy Shoudy, Bentor Harbor, Mich. Walz Doozier, Mattoon; Nick Knack (say 1t fasD, Moline, and (say it slow) Henry Alirenshoersterbaeum St. Louis.-Chi- cago Tribune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
A FINE EXAMPLE,.

When called upon to make a curtain speech, a well-known comedian Init it off'' in happy way by saying, When I was young was told never to speak when my mouth was full. My heart is in my mouth!" He not only expressed him self feecitously and was deservedly ap- plauded, but he set an example of brev- ity that might be followed to advantage by all persons who make public speeches. particularly the kind of speech that is neither informing nor witty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
CHARITABLE

You never wonder, with the rest of the neighbors, what good qualities Mrs. Purple can see in her husband.'
 No. give Mrs. Purple credit for hav- ing microscopic eye"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
SHE SAVES FOR LITTLE ROSE"
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati E,

Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati En-
 quirer
 NT. LOUIS, Mo-Miss Rose Robin
 son, 61 years old, for 13 years has 0 lived on s2 a week, while she has saved the rest of her meager earnings as a seamstress for the future care and edu- cation of some orphan girl whom she de- sires, after her death. to take her name. She is an Englishwoman and manifests gentle breeding. Her remarkable self sacrifice was brought to light through loss which endangered the hoarded sum today.
 An old mahogany box containing her certificate of deposit for the amount or the savings, $e3150. and the will in which she beoueathed the whole amount to the Christian Missionary society, for the ben eft of the futule little Rose. disappeared a few days ago from its accustomed place in her small bare room In the rear of 14l5 North Thirteenth street.
 Hurrying to a bank when she discov- cred her loss, Miss Robinson was re- ioiced to learn that the money was intact. Put to regain possession of 1t she was re- nuired to advertise the loss of the deposit certificate, and she will also have to give bond for twice the amount of the deposit. She began advertising Immediately ana notified the police of her loss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

The Providence Journal thinks the democratic national convention will be bot enough without going to Bessemer in summer weather
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

The Postmaster General stirred his ref erees in South Carolina up to an indorse- ment of Taft in 1912. All referees are ex- pected to follow suit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

In the coming summer presidential booms will be tried out very much as baseball players are tried out in the glad springtime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

When an army in one country kills non combatants in another. a knotty interna- tional problem is raised to the delight of the lawyers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

Colonel Roosevelt made many speeches in the west, but the public ear was turned in other directions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

Chicago reaceepts a Harrison admins been there before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
Human Interest story

'I happened to be standing in a pawn shop the other day. said man who. is about town a good deal. "when a young woman dressed in deep mourning walked in. One of the proprietors waited upon her and after few moments conversa- ton saw her slip plain band ring from her finger and place 1t in the mans hand.
 "She signed the regulation certificate, received some money and walked our, with an expression of unutterable sadness upon her countenance. I was deeply moved for it must have been her wed-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

When Wu Ting Fang comes back for the third time he will no doubt have new set of questions in his throat ready to spring on an unoffending people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

The American towns on the border can not be moved back, but the incidental bullets can be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

The trouble is, Uncle Sam did not put this sign along the Texas border. No shooting on these premises"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

Diaz should not wait until he is pushed out by Mauser rife. This is his best time to go, for go he must.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

King George will formally accept th' job he has been filling in June.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

Dr. Jowett comes to New York to preach and a Brooklyn clergyman goes to take charge of the London Tabernacle. This is reciprocity in a new direction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

Tennessee should ask Alabama to eX tradite the rump legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

Boundary lines may be imaginary, but bullets that cross them are not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

The inaccuracy of the Mexicans serve: to preserve lives along the border.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

The Senate now contains 13 progressive republicans, including MT. Kenyon of Iowa. Lafe Young is a lost quantity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

Colonel Roosevelts recent gumshoc trip through the west has added another mystery to the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
A PRUDENT ALTRUIST.

"Diggs Is a firm believer in the brother hood of man."
 That may be so, but he won't lend his money at 4 per cent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

MT. Hines will never be selected to elect United States senators. but the people will be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

People will flock to London to see the King and John Hays Hammond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
ABOUT RIGHT.

She didn't make so great a hit
 Miss Garden-up in Louisville; A critic says she can't sing much,
 But she knows how to cause a thrill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

Few or no Americans will see the coro- nation. There is small standing room in Westminster abbey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22

The Mexican insurrection is exceedingl, noisy for one of its size