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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
The Consolidated Companies

The Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron company and the Southern Iron land Steel company are at last, after many tentative plans had failed to materialiZe, about to be merged under the name of a new corporation styled the Alabama Consolidated Iron and Steel company. Joseph H. Hoadley, as president of the Alabama Consoli- dated, and Cecil Grenfell, as chair man of the Southern Iron and Steel, reached final agreement some time ago and, according to the plan adopted, sufficient securities of the two concerns had been deposited with trust companies on Monday to make the merger effective.
 The new company will be organized at once and will be in operation prob- ably before the end of the month. It will have large and valuable mineral holdings, eight blast furnaces and modern steel plant. The two old con- cerns have been seriously handicapped by the lack of working capital, but it is stated in connection with the merger that adequate capital will be provided for larger operating pur- poses, and for betterments and ex- tensive development.
 The consolidation means important economies and for the merged inter- ests a more commanding position in the industrial world. In this day of sharp competition economic operation is, next to wealth of raw material, the greatest factor in profit making.
 The Alabama Consolidated merger is hailed by business men as a big
 
 thing for the Birmingham district, for if half the early development promised is carried out within the next two years, it will mean greatly increased production along finished lines and greatly increased payrolls.
 The merging of the Birmingham Coal and Iron into the Woodward Iron company announced few days ago means much more than appeared on the face of the bare statement is- sued by the Woodward company. It will take little time for the Wood ward Iron company to perfect plans for new construction, but what is a year or two, or even three years, in large proposition such as the Wood wards have under consideration The Woodward company will eventu- ally make steel and a good deal of it.
 Thus, it is seen that the Birming- ham district is coming steadily to it's own. And the announcement of the two mergers within less than weeks time naturally tends to enhance values hereabouts and to quicken the busi- ness pulse. Optimism is a habit with | tho ouorau ua h11cipacc man iy, Pir,,,;,,rr ham and certain it is that as the merging of iron companies will result in industrial expansion, the optimist will find additional cause for his cheerfulness and his boosting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

row of love, and that in consequence he Is 70 be united in marriage to a pretty Miss Nellie F'lournoy of Clinton, Okla, in order mat his wounded heart may be healed once more. His Wanette friends wish tini all happiness on his journey through lifo.-Wanette (Okla) Messenger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 The most exquisite torture is to have somebody you love supremely happy with out your causing 1t.
 man loves his country because poli- ticians spout about it. woman because if Is the soil of her children
 A woman who doesn't feel ashamed in a raiustorm of what simply has to hap ,cu comes very near to being work of art.
 The less a woman can be pround of her husband the more she seems to be able to be proud of how her boy looks like his father.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
GGITE TRUE.

Somehow, We never expect much en- tnusiasm from a man with a malarial cast of countenance.''
 Well, we never get much enthusiasm from a man with that kind of eounten- ance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
TWAS REALLY TOO BAD.

TWAS REALLY TOO BAD. They had lovely little flat
 And seemed to happy be; They very seldom had a spat, Would rarely disagree, Eut when one night his wife declared She'd like to have vote, Twas evident, from way he stared, She almost "got his goat.' Since then, we do regret to say, They've fallen out so oft, Have quarreled still, day after day, Whose talk was once so soft, Frat all the .neighbors round opine, By dolefuh thoughts opprest, he light Of love has ceased to shine Upon that little nest. Alas. to think they might have been Supremely happy yet, If she mad neer become, l ween 4N rampant suffragette, Whose tongue, by practice growing
 sharp,
 And also wondrous long, Her only thought was still to carp On womans deadly wrong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

Baseball is to be continued all winter in tbe moving picture shows, at least in thc back cities The Giants and the Ath- lctics will go on playing, but none of the gate receipts will go to the play CTS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
NO WONDER.

His wife employed pretty maid.
 Forsooth, he much admired her; And now you know just why 'ts said His wife got mad and fired her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

Only one-half of the children of the country go to school, and only one-quar- CT of those that do go stay to enter tI; high school. So says Commissioners Claxton of the federal service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
WHEN MARK WAS A BOY

her he wrote f1amingly the descriptive couplet. When the teacher returned and Looks" were called he looked steadily at John Briggs. He recognized the pen manship.
 Did you do that?" he asked, ominously.
 It was time for truth.
 Yes, sir said John.
 Come here!' and John came, and paid for bis exploitation of genius heavily. Sam Clemens expected that the next call would be made for the author" but for some reason the investigation ended there. It was unusual for him to escape. His pack generally kept fairly warm from one "failing' to the next
 His rewards were not all of a pun,tjva nature. There were two medals in the school. one for spelling. the other for amisbility. They were awarded once q week. and the holders wore them about the necl; conspicuously, and were envied accordingly. John Robards wore almost continuously the medal for suitability, while Sam Clemens had q mortgage on the medal for spelling. Sometimes they traded, to see how it would seem. but the master discouraged this practice by talk ing the medals away from them for the remainder of the week. Once Sam Clem- ems lost the medal by leaving the first ''r' out of February. He could have spelled it backward if necessary, but Laura Hawkins was the only one on the floor against him, and he was a gallant toy.
 The picture of that school as presented in the book written 30 years later is faithful, we may believe, and the central figure is tender hearted, romantic, devil may-care lad, loathing application and longing only for freedom It was 8 boon which would come to him sooner even than he had dreamed.
 .........ss.ss........... may happen. A dark horse may be in- troduced into the contest. May not the Alabama democrats be figuring on such condition of affairs and preparing for if inv ms lxiro. MI. ITnderuood thair capdt-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
STILL FLOURJSHING

Do you hold with certain pessimistic writers that all romance is dead?"
 do not. So long as fat women con- tune to fall in love with human skele- tons and ossified men with tattooed la dies, it seems to me that romance is still very much alive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

Luther Burbank has invented thorn less blackberry bush and if he will go or until he produces a stingless bumble- zee he will in the blackberry fields be regarded as a public benefactor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

Emporer Pu-Yi, who is five years and the word "dyrasty' means, much less why it is about to fall. Poor little em- pefori
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

Our fleet may be equal to any emer- gency, but the government should take ecious good care that no emergency enlerges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

The experts have decided that the Aus tin. Pa, dam was faulty" This as toi.ndng conclusion was reached at the tnd of five weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

Our old friend Weis' name appears in the cablegrams from Shanghai. sHe ap- peers to be allied with young China. He is certainly a great reformer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

The Canadian Pacific has ordered $1,000,- Go worth of locomotives from J. P. Nor san's locomotive company. The voters v,te one way, but the big concerns buy where the product needed is to be had.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

Colonel Abe Slupsky was candidate for national democratic committeeman from Missouri, but MT. Cobra of St. Louis got the plum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

President Taft's choice of a successor !, Justice Harlan has narrowed down, { Is said, to four men, but the names 'f the four have not been made public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

MT. Taft is coming home next week to write his annual letter to congress and the 'peepul.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

MI. Taft's train recently passed through Washington and the President was sound asleep. It was but way station after ali, to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

Walter Wellman is hestitating between China and >Tripoli. If he wants to chron- ..le big events he will go to China.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

Fortyseven men have thus far in the open season for deer been killed by hunt CTS who mistook them for that ani- nal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

Manchus and pigtails are going out of fashion in China.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

Governor Deneen's broken leg is mend ed and he is about to resume activity in politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

In the wheat corner one broker lost s.,GvJOCo on paper. How much he lost in fs ct does not appear-probably about $EO0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

The first woman jury in California ac- quilted a man in just 10 minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

A month in a Pullman will give the President 8 strange feeling when he's sleeping without motion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
A LITTLE BIRD SINGS.

LITTLE BIRD SINGS.
 1Ee melodious sweet song of bird olteh attracts us and holds our atten- ,ion Tor the time being, and it seems mat this time a most charming little p,rd sang a melody low and sweet, the echc es or which seemed to say that Fay Butler had been wounded by Cupid's ar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

No cigars are named after the Presi- dents pet tariff board, and that settles it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

English golfers prefer girls as caddies In the land of the barmaid all things are possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
The Greatest symphony Conductor

"One of the greatest musical events in the United States announced for tn , spring season is the coming of Arthur Nikisch with the London Symphony or chestra of 100 players said an old mu- sic lover.
 "The American engagement will cover only 20 days--April to 2S. There will be appearances in New York, Boston Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, and perhaps Cincinnati. This famous orchestra will not be heard in any southern city.
 "Nikisch. the director, ranks first among the symphony leaders in Eu- rope. He directs every season in Ser lin and Leipsic and one of the de- lights which every music student ex- periences is hearing an orchestra under Nikisch's baton.
 Many years ago Nikisch was the conductor of the Boston Symphony attended several concerts given by that l splendid orchest and saw Nikisch. remarked then that he was the great est conductor in the world; and be- lieve he is generally conceded in Eu- rope to be the greatest that ever lived
 .The Berlin correspondent of the Mr- sical Courier says: 'Nikisch was greet ed by an overnowing house atHhe first Philharmonic concert. Among the end. less number of concerts given In this 'city every season-there were nearly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

 n front"
 UPSET. He had a philosophic mind At least, that was his boast, Eut often uttered words unkind About his breakfast toast, When that it reached the table cold, Or else he had to wait; Twas then he'd fuss and fume and scold lii manner most irate.
 RARE RETICENCE. There goes Miss Flouncer. She's U very remarkable girl." HSh Tn what respect?'' Il had known her six months before she told me she had been abroad"
 DEFIANT When Trouble followed on his trail He turned round with a smile And shouted back, 'Pl lead you race for many a weary mie!'
 AVOIDING DANGER. Alas, I can not cook" said she. And heaved doleful sigh, 'L little care, my dear" said he. Just so you do not try
 Birmingham Age-Herald. "I can not chlrp an oden song,'' She said, and wiped her eye, He said: Love, I'm not very strong Please promise not to try'
 Youngstown Telegram. q don't know how to make shirt.r All weepingly she said. Said he: If you'll neer try it, Cert Tomorrow we will Wed'
 Houston Post. T can't invite mama to make Her home with us,' she sighed "Cheer up. I'll bear it for your sake" Her noble spouse replied.
 Springfield Union.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
\ RAY OF HOPE

 80 you are the father of twins?' "Yes. They look just like me, tooi'' Oh wei, I wouldn't worry Some children. when they get older, don't look at all the way they did when they were babies.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

may happen. dark horse may be in- troduced into the contest. May not the Alabama democrats be figuring On such condition of affairs and preparing for it py making Mr. Underwood their candS- date?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
t NOT COMMITTING HIMSELF.

Was your new play received with a storm of applause?"
 Well. there was some kind of a storm n front"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
Regarding Adverse Comment

Much has been said from time to time in an adverse manner, about the taesthetic decorations, beautiful fixtures and elegant appointments of a certain down town saloon." said an observant
 citizen. "The inscriptions, apt and
 otherwise, have been quoted and much said about the shopping territory being invaded.
 The result of this notoriety has worked to the advantage of the drink
 cry in question, for many persons have journeyed thither to view the much touted magnificence. It is almost a parellel case with the famous gal-in- the-fountain' controversy that arose during the great campaign for governor
 of Georgia when Hoke Smith and Clark Howell were the opposing candidates, in which it was sought to discredit Smith through the columns of the press by charging him with owning an inter- est in the Piedmont hotel, (which by the way at that time was the pride of every Atlantian) in which was main- tained a bar, and in it fountain pre-
 sided over by partially clothed statue Ol d WOHldI.
 "The opposition attempted to make
 much capital out of the gal but in- vestigaton proved the statue was a copy of a noted work of art and was not in the least objectionable. The gal in the fountain became famous, however. It was made the subject of special articles in one of the New York papers, and as 8 result nearly every visitor to the Georgia capital went to see the bar and statue so much dis I cussed.
 And so it has been with the Bir-
 mingham saloon in question. It is be- i ing visited daily by those who have
 read of it's magnificence, and has thus
 reaped the advantage of adverse criti- cism.
 Speaking of Inscriptions in bar rooms, one of the most apt that has
 ever come to my notice is written or
 the mirror behind bar near the Ter
 minal depot, and reads thus: 'Wea thel Forecast for Sunday, Dry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

so DEPRESSING. Who has a cold
 Is apt to think The whole wide world Is on the blink.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08
RARE RETICENCE

DEFIANT When Trouble followed on his trail He turned round with smile And shouted back, 'Ill lead you a race for many a weary mile!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-08

a Efice, Rooms AS to ue building. New
 business office. icago. The s. c. ency, agents for
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-06-16
Publicity Law Badly Needed,

Connecticut. District of Columbia,
Kansas, Maine, Maryland. Michigan.
Mississippi, New Jersey. New York,
Rhode Island and Vermont, have laws
which provide specifically for the re-
porting Of tuberculosis and which
make provision for the proper regis
tration OF living cases Of this disease.
In fourteen other states, laws or regu.
lations Of the state boards Of health
require that tuberculosis be reported
simply as n of a list Of infectious
diseases. The following % states and
territories have no provision what
ever for the reporting Or registration
OF tuberculosis cases: Arizona, Alas.
ka, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, ILL
nois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri.
Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio.
Oklahoma, Philippine Islands, Porto
Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Texas, Virginia. West Virginia and
Wyoming.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-06-16
STONE IN BLADDER REMOVED
IN REMARKABLE WAY

A year and . half ago I wal taken with
I severe attack of kidney trouble that
panied me to such an extent that NOR
phine had to be given me. Was attended
BY . doctor who pronounced it as stone
in the bladder and prescribed Lithia
Water. I took Lithia Water and tablets
for some time and received no relief from
them. I stopped taking medicines for some
time and having some DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root in the house, I decided to
try it and felt much relieved; while taking
the second bottle commenced to pass
gravel in urine until I had passed in all
at least a half q dozen or more and have
not suffered the slightest since and in all
have taken n bottle and q half and feel
very grateful to DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root.
Yours very truly,
H. W. SPINKS.
Camp Hill, Ala.
Personally appeared before me this
10th of August, 1909, H. w. Spinks, who
subscribed the above statement and made
oath that same il true in substance and
In fact.
A.. B. LEE,
i.ss.rs: Notary Public.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-06-16
OUR GOOD PUBLIC HIGHWAYS
Laws Are Being invoked On This I'm.
Portant Question and Much
Work Has Been Done.
(By g. II.

Wy W.. II. ALI OND.)
The best evidence of a high type Of
educated and refined civilization Is
the building and maintenance Of irst-
class public roadways. This is more
fully evidenced by the incessant and
continuous demand Of the whole
American nation for Improvement in
our public roadways. County, state
and national laws are being invoked
on this important question, and in
many sections magnificent roadways
nave either been projected and COM
pieted or are under construction. Good
ROADS mean better schools, more
churches and an increased social re.
lationship in the various rural neigh
borhoods. From an economic stand.
point. the value of the first class high.
ways can hardly be estimated. The
annual loss by farmers in the con.
tinual wear and tear on horsepower,
breakage Of vehicles and loss of time
IN travelling or bad roads amounts in
the aggregate to a fabulous sum each
year. With the exception of taxation
for educational purposes there is no
in the interest of our rural
population to which the taxes of the
people could be directed to greater
benefit than the equipment and main.
enance of first class public road.
ways.
The federal government could not
expend a part of the public funds to
better advantage than granting large
annual appropriations to be distrib-
uted among the various states to aid
In public road improvement. We have
neve been able to understand why
h national government could annu-
ally appropriate millions of the public
money to the maintenance of the pub
lie waterways and harbors and In the
construction Of magnificent public
buildings in centers of commerce and
do practically nothing toward the i'm
provements Of the public highways of
the country. We believe that the ma.
tional government should earn year
appropriate an equal amount Of money
for the improvement of our public
highways that is expended on water.
ways, harbors and public buildings.
II this amount was prorated among
the different states on the basis Of
public road mileage, not population,
and each state would then raise q
special revenue equal to the appro-
priations Of the federal government,
We would o on be able to make rapid
Roadway in road improvement. With
the general Introduction Of fine maca.
dam roads. farmers could introduce
the use of motor vehicles and reduce
the cost Of marketing their products
to a minimum.
We have taken the position before,
and adhere to 1t now, that the best
return on money invested by the
state or nation is appropriations made
In the interest of farmers and the de-
velopment of Dur vast agricultural re.
sources. There should be a good
roads club in every community and
county to cooperate with state and
national organizations. A steady &C.
tive campaign should be taken In the
interest Of this work all over the
country, and especially In the south.
Let US have good roads first, last and
all the time.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-06-16
Inat Mluht Be lnducement.

1t was during a hot spell and on
the hottest night of the week that a
South side teacher took a number Of
her little charges for a car ride. In
the public square they piled out and
were marched to the telescope set up
by a man who vends peeps at the
heavenly bodies at so much per peep.
The children were told that they
might look at the moon, a little lee.
ture accompanying the lesson that the
was a cold body.
Teacher" spoke up one little
South slider, when you look through
the glass, does your face get cold ~
Cleveland Leader.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-06-16
seIf-settino Rabbit Trap.

shown In Fig. 2,~which represents the
back side Of the door. Sheet metal or
tin is cut to the proper size and
tackled around the edge Of the hole.
This prevents the animal from gnaw:
ing its way out, also provides a way
to make the hole different sizes for
squirrels or other animals. The hole
In the door should be about two inches
wide and four inches high for rab'
bits. The door IL made to swing free
ly on two large nails driven through
the sides Of the box. The hole In the
door being only large enough to admit
Z small portion of the rabbits head.
the rabbit will push its way through
to the bait, causing the door to swing
back and up, which will close OF tts
own weight when the animal Is In
side. n small door is provided In the
other end to remove the animals
caught
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-06-16

preventing a large portion Of this
loss.
me Hessian fly has at times, until
made . special study. levied an an.
nuai tax upon u wheat of from
300 ,Ooo,o 600 to 5000, 600, 900, while the
cooling moth. until remedies were
FOUND for 1t by entomologists, de-
stroyed each year at least SO, OOo, 900
Wort OF apples in the United States,
Inc corn root worm took nearly or
quite $1,000 ono. 900 eac. year out Of
the Mississippi valley, until entomol.
oeists found the proper means %
combat It..
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-06-16
A Compliment.

Senator Depew, at a dinner In his
honor, said of his notable o~ratorical
gift:
Il have received many compliments
on my skill at after-dinner speaking,
'"t the naivest compliment CT al
came from an upstate farmer.
SENATOR said he, you might have
typhoid and recover, you might have
pneumonia and recover, you might
have yellow fever and recover, but If
you ever have lockjaw you'd bust!'"