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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
Medicine Rather Than More Peers

The closer the liberals get to a final vote on the veto bill the more ap- parent does it become that the lords are about to surrender. They can stand a loss of some power better than they can the appointment of 800 more peers gathered from the ranks of the people-the people who at present control the country.
 Possibly one amendment will be ac- cepted by the government. Lord New ton proposes to offer an amendment that provides that no bill for the fur ther limitation of the legislative pow CTS of the house of lords shall be in- troduced until after another general election has been held. The govern ment may accept this amendment, but otherwise the bill will probably go through as it was passed by the house of commons.
 Beyond all doubt the King stands ready to carry out the mandate of two general elections. It is his constitu- tional duty, and like his father and granddaughter he is a constitutional figurehead. The peers see what is coming, and they are getting ready to accept the inevitable, distasteful as it is and will be.
 When England has practically a one-chamber parliament, after> the manner of Germany, democracy will be largely promoted It is a step of deep meaning, and it has been com ing in England fully 50 years, Clad stone desired to do what Asquith will no doubt do, and the country will be all the better for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
Words are grown so false, am .loath HG prove reason with them.
 Twelfth Night
Rothschilds and Rockefeller

Trustworthy reports are to the ef- feet that the disintegration of the Standard Oil company is to be thor ough from a technical point of view. The shares of about 100 subsidiary companies are to de distributed pro rata among the stockholders of the parent company. The small stock holders will in some cases receive a fraction of share.
 All this is in accord with the su- preme court decision. A band of less than a half dozen will, however, by standing together, combine to control the Standard Oil and all it's subsidiary companies, and this is what they will doubtless do at least for a season. A common control will in that case be maintained and continued, and no practical lessening of monopoly will flow from the governments prosecu- tion of the trust.
 If the monopoly of the Standard Oil is to be impaired at all it will be brought about by the Rothschilds, or ganized under the name of the Asiatic Petroleum company. This company is now an alert and active rival of the Standard Oil in the far east, and it is stated that it is forming an alliance with independent companies in Amer ica. This would result in a trade war in oil and oil products which has long been needed in this country. When the Rothschilds and John D. Rocke- feller lock horns trere will indeed be a trade battle with all the rest of the world as interested if not innocent bystanders. The Rothschilds are good, healthy competitors, and as the Stand ard does not control the oil fields of either Texas or California they may gain a good foothold in tris country, as they certainly have in Mexico. A battle royal between the Rothschilds and Rockefeller may be impending, and when it comes may the consumer and the independent op- orator derive some benefit therefrom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
HOT WATER BAGS AS GROwLERs

From the New folk Ielegrdpii.
 Eddie Foster. who will be with Lew Dockstaders minstrels next season; Dick Ie Roy, of "The Night Riders" company, and Albert Wheeler of Sam Marion s burlesouers arrived in the city yesterday from Fair Haven, N. J., where they had been spending a vacation. Yesterday they took an apartment at 69 west 1O7th street, where they will nake their home until the attractions with which they are con nected leave the cty next fall.
 Last night about. 10 o'clock the three were in their new place of abode when Foster suggested that refreshments wouldn't be half bad. Wheeler and Le Roy agreed with him and they began a hunt. for what is commonly known to the can brigade as q growler.
 At the end of an unsuccessful search lasting 15 minutes Le Roy looking dis gusted said
 What do you know about that? Here we are paying $50 q month for this fur nished apartment and not growlei in it.
 They were bemoaning their fate wher Foster had an idea. He went to hi: trunk and took out two hot water bags
 How will these do?" he asked.
 "Fine," said Le Roy and Wheeler. Thereupon Wheeler went to his trun, and came back with another hot water bag The three men then repaired to q corner saloon and had the rubber bag. l filled with that delightful fluid which has done so much to put Milwaukee and St l Louis on the map 1 Well, I'll be blamed" said the bar keeper. "Pve filled all kinds of growler. in my time, but this is a new stunt or me-
 The three actor men took their fo water bags home and put them on ice while. At II o'clock they went to bed each accompanied by fine, cool rubber bag full of beer. t
 If you beat that you'll have to cheat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
A VIRTUE OF TIE syRIANs

Louise Seymour Houghton, in the Survey.
 Few instances of destructive competi- ton are to be found among Syrian immi- grants. Notwithstanding that disposition to. herd in "colones," which is natural to all immigrants, 1t is certain that the business success of any Syrian is by no mean5 sure to attract others to the same place. In Ottawa, H., for example, a Syrian woman carries on a high-class candy kitchen. She has been there for l5 years and has been very successful yet without drawing another Syrian to that city. A single Syrian had been in Holyoke 15syears, had won a respectable place in that community, and married an American wife before another Syrian set tied there.
 When once fully settled Syrians appear to be stationary Very few, for example, have left Springfield. Mass, or with exceptions to be later noted) Troy. This might simply mean lack of means to go further, but the facts show the contrary. Nearly all the Syrans in Troy went di- rectly here on landing. All began in-bit- ter poverty, having borrowed money to come, and all have achieved at least so much success as IS seen by tbe general possession of a bank account. Some who have been eminently successful have changed their state through the requre- ments of business. A prosperous owner of mines in Montana and Colorado, a large employer of syrian and American labor. has been in his country since 1882, but in Montana only about ten years He had previously lived in Missouri and Colorado. Considerations of climate ap- pear to prevail over expense of travel as is shown by the large number (s0010) in California.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
Model Highways in This State

The state highway commission consisting of Robert E. Spragins of Huntsville, V. B. Atkins of Selma, John Craft of Mobile, Eugene A. Smith of Tuscaloosa, and G. N. Mitch am of Auburn, met on Monday in Montgomery. Applications were received from a score of counties de- string a beginning of the work of building model roads, but no action was taken in this respect except to direct State Highway Engineer Kelley to make surveys in Madison, Jackson, Blount, Marion and Talla- dega counties. A set of rules was, however, adopted, and under these rules all rights of way for state roads must be 50 feet wide. This does not, however, mean that the actual road way will be that wide. The width of the improved hard road will be deter mined by Engineer Kelle: in accord- ance with local circumstances.
 The state fund, when supplemented by local county funds, will enable En- gineer Kelley to build at an expense of S4000 a section of model road in each county each year, and all can readily see that such an effort will pull strongly towards complete sys- tenn of hard roads in this state in the long run.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
Crops in Hot Dry Weather

The rains in Texas and Oklahoma that fell on Sunday caused heavy de- cline in contracts, and even spot cot ton sold for a dollar a bale less on Monday than on the previous Satur- day. The government crop report of Monday did not include cotton, and the course of the market relates to rains and the general condition of the crop which is excellent. Taking the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

and I didn't move so terribly slow. either! T is was followed by the hook and ladder truck and engine wagon, both drawn by horses. and then came the chiefs buggy. If you want to get right good thrill and feel your blood jingle, witness start from a fire station in the early hours of the morning when the streets are deserted, and the apparatus has nothing to do but take the whole street and runl
 ''The thing that impressed me most, however. was the fact that one of the new motor trucks, manned by firemen who had been asleep before the alarm sounded, got out of the station and ran half a block before I could walk 50 or 75 feet. Birmingham property has some pretty good watch dogs and effective ap- paratus to protect it.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
THE HAYLOFT

By Robert Louis Stevenson. Through all the pleasant meadowside The grass grew shoulder-high Till the shining scythes went far and wide And cut it down to dry These green and sweetly smelling crops They led in wagons home; And they piled them here in ,nountain-
 tops
 For mountaineers to roam. Here is Mount Clear, Mount Rusty Nail, Mount Eagle and Mount High J The mice that in these mountains dweEJ No happier are than l. 0 what joy to chamber there,
 q what place for play. With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air. The happy hills of hay:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
Regarding Business Activity /

Until recently there was a good deal of talk about business dullness through out the country, and in some localities conditions may not have been good, but all in all the half year just ended has witnessed a fair volume of trade" said Louis H. Norton of Philadelphia. Tn the industrial world there have been few idle people, and wages have been high as a rule. The iron and steel trade got very dull, but the steel business is pick ing up fast, and I suppose the iron bus. mess will improve later on. The large crops of this summer will give a strong impetus to business, and I believe that the late summer and fall trade will be unusually good.
 "ln the south conditions seem to be better than they have ever been. Agri- culturally, the south has made wonder full progress in the past two or three years. Soutbern farmers are getting to b9 up-to-date in all their methods and economies. Those of us living in the north sometimes wonder why the south with it's varied and rich resources, has not developed more rapidly. Some have Hiaue answer py polhlinS to lne Idls he- gro population. It was said that white foreigners had an antpathy to the ne gro as a fellowworker or competitor, but I will not undertake 10 discuss this phase of the matter. Certain it is that now the south is as progressive as any section of the country, and it is only a question of time, perhaps only 10 or D years, when it will be a veritable garden spOt :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
Efficient Fire Department

-"The promptness with which the firemen
 from the different stations in Birmingham
 set to a fire is often commented upon,'
 said an observer but their quick action was never so forcibly illustrated to me as Monday morning early. when the alarm was sounded for the blaze which threat ened the C. C.. Snider wholesale cigar and tobacco store. Being one of the small army of men who work at night, l was walking home about a. m. l had not gotten more than 50 feet past Avenue ID on Twentieth street when the alarm was sounded at the Avenue D station. Having never seen any of the apparatus come out Uf the station after an alarm was sound- ed, l immediately turned and staSted back Do Avenue D. Before l could get there the new motor truck was out of the sta tion and half way to Twentieth street,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
CHAMPION WHITTIER

From the Pe1l C1ty Progress.
 The worlds champion whittier, T. S. Millsap, was in Pell City Monday. Ex- cept when he was eating or asleep, MT. Millsap has whittled continuously for some 40 odd years with just one other exception and that is when he pulls out his fountain pen to take the signature of a new Age-Herald subscriber Mr. Millsap was once mayor of Pell City and a bully good one, too. He has many friends here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press. A woman never gets so fat that she can't thank heaven she isn't stout.
 A man takes devotion from his wife in the matter-of-fact way she takes tracing stamps
 It takes so much money to pay for some peoples luxuries that they have nothing left for the necessarics.
 The reason a girls hair doesn't curl naturally is she knows it does, 'but the other girls won't admit it.
 It's queer how nlarr who has even sense enough to keep out of law suits won't have enough 10 let other people do all the family quarrclilg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
A DRAWBACK.

 A picture of a bathing girl, A vision fair to see; A mermaid where the pillows curl, AS lovely as can be. The sight it makes one wish to go Forthwith down to the shore, Away from all the city's woe, And finger evermore. Where salt spray foams along the beacf And sands are gleaming white And every now and then "peachp Bedims fellows sight. But there's a thought to give one pause And make one hesitate: He cannot stay for aye, because, Although the fun is great, The big hotels with fancy fare And rooms so cool and large, Could drive fellow to despair Just by the way they charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
Alabama PoIytechnic Institute

The Alabama Polytechnic institute catalogue for 1910-11, recently issued, contains 16S pages, is well illustrated, and is full of interest. The institute, as everyone should know, is situated at Auburn. Its sub title is "State College for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts" Of the 65 or 70 men composing it's faculty not a few of them are educators of high distinction. Several of those engaged in technical education have strong national stand ing.
 "The Alabama Polytechnic institute, of which Dr. c. c. Thach is president, is one of the oldest colleges in the south" said professional man. T have watched its work with keen interest for the past 10 years. In that time it has grown steadily in public favor. and it's efficiency has been ever increasing. All students are required to study English. Latin, French and German are taught and opportunity for their study is offered to students in any course. While technical training is foremost at Auburn, it Is insisted more and more that students should have a thorough English education in order to get the best results from their scien- tific knowledge. The fact is that no technically educated man can achieve much in his profession or his life work upless he has enough of the culture side to express himself clearly and con- vincingly on paper"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
Men in the Spotlight

Tt may be matter of interest to
 note that four men now looming large
 ir the public eye were students at the
 University of Virginia during the pe-
 rod from 1879 and 1882" said a mem-
 Der of Birmingham's Virginia colony. | The men l refer to are Woodrow Will
 sen, governor of New Jersey; Joseph w. | Bailey a United States senator from | Texas: Oscar w. Underwood, a repre- 1 sentative in Congress from Alabama,
 aid chairman of the ways and means committee, and Leroy Percy, United States senator from Mississippi. I lived io Albemarle county-the county in which the university Is situated-and
 l was particularly well acquainted with Woodrow Wilson. He came fresh from an academic course at Princeton and entered the law class at the univer- sity Studying under John B. Minor With his, glasses, side whiskers and striking face he was a marked indi- yIdual. In the Jeff literary society he was a leading figure. He spoke often and was known as the most advanced
 student of political and social problems
 connected with the society He had a hhHCh ol SdyIS lHlHSS CIedTly. lie was uncompromising in his views was combative, militant thinker, coura geous and even pressing for intellectual right and moral principles in general. I re- garded Wilson then as a man whose iGeas of right would never swerve.
 While at the university Woodrow
 Wilson contribated two papers to a prominent magazine, one on John
 Bright and the other on Gladstone In tEese articles he traced the growth of British democracy and the close touch Of the British people with the govern ment and showed how much more dem ocratic was the English government than our own. They were luminous ar ticles, and one of the Richmond papers in discussing them editorially called at tention to the value of such work at the university, and predicted a career of great public usefulness for MT. Wilson. This eminent southerner is a prominent candidate for the democratic nomina- tion for the presidency. Whether or not he ever reaches the White House he will continue to be a commanding
 figure in this country's political life"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
TO TELL THE TRUTH

TO TELL THE TRUTH Boston girls are not all cold. Therei are women in Chicago who have small feet.
 There are few native born Americans in St. Louis. \ Also in Milwaukee.
 There are a great many southern people who don't say "Suh" and You all' for the singular You"
 We are personally acquainted with sev- eral Georgians who are not colonels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
T HAPPENED IN ArcHIsoN.

IT HAPPENED IN ArcHIsoN.
 "A number of young women came across a boy lying face downward in a gutter the other evening and they de- cided that he was dead; probably mur- dered. While one ran to telephone the others tried to pick up him. Doggons you said the boy you have told on mel And a little girl around the corner began to yell, One, two, three for Johnny
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

The late Emperor dowager of China left a fortune of s4O,O0O,00o. And yet her hus- band was not a captain of industry He watered no stocks and the Chinese tariff is very primitive and crude. How did she get it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
SOUNDED THAT WAY

From Judges Library
 How is your new village barid getting on with It's rehearsals?" we don't have rehearsals: we started tight in giving band concerts"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

The New York Central lines have com pleted a s2O,OOoooO station in Chicago. and the Pennsylvania railroad is about to build one also.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

It Is plain that the Hobson Japanese war will be postponed until Admiral Togo is bacll>on his flagship ready to give the order to fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
For Benefit of Band Concert Fund

The profits derived from meals served at the Gold Lion restaurant in the Brown-M Marx building today will be do- mated to the Music Study club for the benefit of the open-air concert fund, and in addition to the usual luncheons at noon there will be a special meal service in the afternoon after the base ball game for the benefit of the con- cert fund. In view of the popular in terest in open-air music this summer it is believed that the Gold Lion, al ways attractive, will be unusually busy today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

Among those prostrated by heat in New York we regret to see the name of Will liam Iceberg. He bids fair to resume normal, however. next winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

Fifty years hence old citizens will be telling exaggerated stories of the pres- ent heat wave and summer. It's not so bad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
SIZZLING.

Up, up, up, The mercury Is rising; The heat that sets the world ablaze, It truly Is surprising And still the cry, "A little breeze Is what we most desire. Or else a heavy fall of rain - To help put out the fire!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

The weather may be cooler but no biting frosts have been reported in this lati- tude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

Admiral Togo and Congressman Hobson should be brought together next month regardless of consequences.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

The Aldrich monetary plan under any other name would still be pretty full of centralization It may as well stand un- der it's original name
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

When the Maine is pumped out all should strive as hard to forget as they had striven to remember it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

A new heat wave is affecting Wash ington. The Senate has, however, equipped itself with electric fans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

Uncle Ike stephensYn knew better than 10 send sout a Hines to collect campaign money Hefwas his own jackpot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

There are not few who think the re- call should be applied to Professor Moore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

Even in Medicine Hat the thermometer goes to 90. and the sidewalks are pretty nearly clear of ice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

Haley's comet was held responsible last year for the weather. This year it is blamed on the weather clerk alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

No matter how hot Indiana becomes she continues to produce American literature at good rates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

Senator Lorimer's toga Is an uncom- fortable garment in the present hot weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

The ghost of the battleship Maine is do- ing the walking act just at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

Thunder unaccompanied by rain is about as empty as a Senate speech on reciprocity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

When a fiy-eating frog gets hold of a wasp he begins to wish he had adopted change of diet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
DEPARTED.

The hand of death has, laid him low And here's his epitaph: He loved the moving picture show, The kind that made him laugh"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

It's no ones business where Castro is no one, that is to say, outside of Venez- uela.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
Up, up, up,

Thermometers agree That summers strictly on tho job And busy as can be.
 We may hold out till winter confss, 'Tis rather hard to say; But less the warmth abates a bit, ! I fear we'll fade away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
COLONELn HARVEY's INFoRMF,

COLONEL, HARVEY'S INFORMED.
 The proud forty knights who hold tho Order of the Garter must be glad that fashions were not the same insthe time of Edward the Third, when the Queen lost one of her two insignia while going upstairs and so inspired the King to cele- brate the circumstance by creating the most distinguished order of the realm Such a happening, we are informed, could not take place under sthe scientific con-, struction achieved by the inventive gen-s jus of the present day.-Harper's Weekly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
CHILDREN ON THE STAGE

Up north 1t is just one hot spell after another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

l am thinking seriously Of getting married" That's the way 10 think of it.'
 LUCKY. A certain barefoot dancer, We've recently been told, Has been upon the stage for years And never caught cold.
 Birmingham Age-Herald, A certain barefoot dancer, Of whom you've all heard tell, Got roasted by cur ministers, And certainly caught-thunder.
 St Louis Times.
 DISTINGUISHED. He has punch that made him famous. "Prize-fghter? No. Expert miXologist"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
EASY TO PLEASE,

EAS1 IO FLEA6E, An optimistic chap, egad, And here's a fact will prove him so: Though bout to melt, he says he's glad He doesn't have to shovel snow.