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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
Human Strength Instead of Gasoline

Human Strength Instead of Gasoline
 The Wrights at Kitty Hawk, N. G., are turning back to first principles. They are adopting the plans of Otto Lilienthal and Octave Chanute and Professor Langley. All these men proposed to fly as the birds fly. The birds do on occasion apply muscular power to the act of flying. The Wrights now hope to fly by the eX ercise of muscular power only, al though at present mechanical power will be carried along to be used while the new glider" is in it's in- fancy.
 The world does not ridicule the Wrights as it did Langley and Cha mute and the unfortunate Lilienthal. After making 2000 brief flights in his motorless monoplane the last named fell from a height of 90 feet, and was mortally injured.
 The Wrights hope to make possible the dreams and ideas of these great lforerunners of the art of aviation They attempted too much at the out set. The gasoline motor was des- tined to lead the way, and now the Wrights are trying to unload it. Mill lions are awaiting news from them in all parts of the world, for all have faith in the skill and courage of the two Ohio boys who first made aviation in heavier than air ma chimes feasible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
Regarding Men and Saloons

Ut is presumed that we still have with us the men who said before the re- establishment of the saloon in Birming
 ham that they craved the privilege and the opportunity of getting a drink in a gentlemanly way when they wanted it., instead of being compelled to sneak up some dark place after it,' said an ob- server recently, but he is not so much in evidence now Rather than that we are more apt to hear him say Let's go down here to so-and-so's; there are, not so many peo- pie passing there All of which indicates the folly or wisdom-whichever way you look at it-of the law makers in providing that our bars shall not have screens or anything else in front that will obstruct the view from the street. Just whether that provision has a tendency to promote total abstinence or not is a question.
 While I am on the subject of saloons I would like to suggest to the excise commission that the saloonkeepers be given time after the closing hour to clean up their places of business. Whether the cause is natural or otherwise, our eyes will almost invariably wander toward the interior of a saloon when we pass one, and the sight that greets us after closing hours is not pleasant to say the least This is especially true on Sunday, and l venture to say that if the saloon keepers were given a half hour or So on Saturday night especially, in which employees may be kept in the building vvi al lacked the giving the place a thorough cleaning
 they would be glad of the chance to improve the looks of things"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
Party Rebellion in Two Countries

dTty RcDeillon III TWO OOuntrleS
 The tories of England want anoth- CT leader. The real standpat tories have placed "B. M. G." on their ban ners, meaning that "Balfour Must Co.," They call him "The Champion Scuttler," and many other epithets are applied to him, all because he ac- cepted the inevitable when the veto bill came to a focus, when accept ance or a flood of liberal peers made to order were the only alternatives.
 The Halsburyites in the tory party refuse to be conciliated. They reject all appeals for harmony. They are born standaptters of the Pennsylva- mia type. Mir. Balfour, however, ignores them and he goes on lead ing all of the opposition that will follow him. The members of the Halsbury cub decline to keep step to his programme. They are irrecon- cilables. MT. Balfour asks all tories, or unionists as he calls them, to unite to fight the home rule bill to the death. The Halsburyites reply that they want another leader. The landed gentry and the alleged intel lectuals of the country are in revolt, and the split somewhat resembles the split in the republican party in this country. The standpatters proper in this country want no tariff revision at all, while the insurgents want great deal of it. The true standpatter is accepting MT. Taft, but the insurgents hoist, at every op- portunity, the letters CT. M. B."- "Taft Must Co.," Neither MT. Bal four nor MT. Taft is a bit magnetic, and it remains to be seen whether either or both will have to go. Neith- CT commands or is likely to com mand a united party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
Nashville's Rebilling Privilege

It will be remembered that the in- terstate commerce commission grant ed to Atlanta and other Georgia cities the grain rebilling and reship- ping privileges long enjoyed by Nashville. The extension was to have gone into effect November l, but the commerce court has come to the re- lief of the grain reshippers of Nash vile by granting an injunction against the order of the interstate commission. This injunction will hold good until the case is disposed of on it's merits by the commerce court.
 An effort has arisen in Georgia and in Tennessee south of Nashville to destroy the jurisdiction of the commerce court over the interstate commerce commission, and bill to that effect will be pushed in the next session of Congress.
 To favor one town in the southeast with rebilling privileges while to all others it is denied is, on the face of it, unjust, and the more the matter is looked into the greater does the injustice appear. If rebilling privi- leges are desirable in one southeast ern city, they are desirable in all. The commerce court may set things right in the long run by putting all on one footing, but it's injunction is at present building up one trade cen- ter in the southeast at the expense of all the rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
LEONIDAS HUBBARD-HER

Dillon Wallace, in the November Outing.
 The simple but inspiring end of Leonidas Hubbard, Jr, is impressively recorded by Dillon Wallace in the November Outing His last words were not addressed to an association of newspapers or to the gal lery, but to pot containing a few cari- bou bones to which his belt would soon have to be added for food. Of his dying alone, frozen and starved in the wilder ness, his companion writes:
 1.-TWO of the four men remained with me, the other two proceeded to search for Hubbard. The following morning they returned. They had found him wrapped in his blankets, dead. They brought back his papers. There was a note to this wife, farewell to his mother, and in his diary, under date of October IS, a last entry which had been written shortly after Elson and I had left him. The condition of the camp, the position of Hubbard's body, and the diary entry left no doubt that he had lain down to sleep shortly after attending to these de- tails and had never awakened"
 That last diary entry was long one, ending with this paragraph:
 Tonight or tomorrow perhaps the weather will improve so I can build fire, eat the rest of my moccasins, and have some more bone broth. Then I can boil my belt and oil-tanned moccasins and a pair of eowhide mittena They ought to l help some I am not suffering The acute bangs of hunger have given away | fn ind I death from starvation Is not so bad. But I let no one suppose I expect 1t. l am pre- Iared-that is all.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27

nor in Greene and Hale counties, which are near at hand.
 The insect is we'll lodged in the southern section of the state, and also in the black belt, and the battle against 1t in this state will be begun next season. Fully one-half of the black belt vii. be infested at the close of next seasons growth of cotton, judging from present indications. The lodgment of the insect in Wilcox county may, however, be sporadic, and in any event it is an extension of the invasion in the canebrake counties of the southwest. The ap- pearance of the weevils in Wilcox was at point in the extreme south west corner of it. They evidently flew into Wilcox from Clarke county, where bolls are not abundant.
 It is doubtful indeed whether the mineral district of this state will be invaded by the pest at all, and if it lis not, the Tennessee valley may es- cape visitation. These problems are rather distant, however. The in- sect will traverse the state, keeping to the black belt counties, and what more 1t will do must be left to the developments of time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
Regarding "rhe Gate of Hell,

T have waited in vain for someone here to comment upon the red hot phras- ing of Mary Johnston, the author, at the suffragette convention in Louisville a few days ago when she quoted Tertul- lian as saying that woman is the gate to hell, said a man who delights in the play of wit and the flash of the blade of sarcasm.
 "Tertullan was cynic, but pure and holy ecclesiastic of the Catholic church. His remark was the expression of the sentiment of the time when women were not seen in public, and was in line with his protest that married women should not remove their veils in public places, not even in the church. Now Mrs. Johnston says she would make the gate of Avernus-'hel's gate,' according to her words, more attractive. 1 say, No Already the preachers are firing shafts of criticism at the dress of women-the clothed nudity of many. No, Miss John ston, your knowledge of human nature should make you know that man already has temptations enough in the path you know we must wander in Rather let it be as Ruskin suggested, that woman
 
 comes down from heaven to be our com forter, guide and friend leading us from star to star to better things!
 If woman must vote, let us surrender as Ulysses, our ears stopped with wax, that no sirens voice shall win us to Avernus, but the rather to the Isle of Dreams-dreams of the days when woman ruled, rocked, loved and sang not of mild eyed melancholy but home and motherhood and of heaven.
 "If we must sit in the jury box with the divided skirts and the divided elec- torate, let's have every vote stand for musket-and no hatpins in the con fict. The only thing that can stop the suffragette propaganda from becoming general, will be universal peace-no war ships, no armed troops; unless We shall have the Amazonians-which Diana save uS frOmlp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
Boil Weevils Flying Eastward

Field Agent Carpenter of the state department of entomology reports that the weevil has, in months time, advanced from 12 to 15 miles, generally in an eastward direction. The pest has entered Sumter, Maren- 20 and Wilcox counties in the black belt. The appearance of the insects in Wilcox is surprising. That county is almost half way across the state, lying as it does, south of Dallas county. And yet no weevils have been detected in Pickens county, which lies along the Mississippi line,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27

arranged themselves in good taste, l thought. 1 am certain that the women of the south, as a rule, are models of modesty. l heard some comment upon the shortness and the narrowness of the skirt seen on the streets of Bir- ngham, but the criticism was based entirely on a question of esthetics. It seems that in Atlanta crusade has been started against this falls feminine styles. A special to the New York Sun of Wednesday says in part;
 Declaring that the dresses worn in the streets by Atlanta women are in decent" and "a disgrace to womanhood" the clubwomen and the preachers have begun a crusade for reform. The club women today joined the preachers and it was decided 10 launch a campaign to force women to cease wearing ''in- decent" dresses in the streets.
 Miss Daisy Eckert, general secre- tary of the Young Women's Christian association, said; conditions are worse in Atlanta than in any other city l have been in. I have been in New York and other large cities of the east and the west, ana WOHen ultSS iilblc bidAChly in Atlanta The way Atlanta girls and women dress would stamp them as deni- 2ens of the underworld in any other city"
 Mrs. Laura White, a leading club woman, says: Tt is disgusting the way Atlanta girls dress for the street, The fathers of these girls know exactly what the young men of today must think of their daughters. The abbrevi- ated skirts are bad but what is worse is the way these fashions outline every feature of a womans form
 According to the crusaders, Atlanta women use more paint and powder than those of any other city. The crusaders say they intend to ask council to pass an ordinance regulating street dresses of women
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
IN THE HOTEL LOBBIES
In Ohio nnd nfher stntes

q had a pleasant vacations, said s. E. Thompson, who returned recently from months vacation.
 T spent part of the time at my old home in Oberlin, O. Afterwards I visited New York Boston and Canada. In Ohio everybody was talking for Harmon This, of course, was to be expected. Ohio people have an idea that their state is the recognized successor of Virginia as the mother of Presidents. But outside of Ohio 1 found as much Underwood talk as anything else. In New York and Boston Underwood is looked upon as an ideal man for the presidency. When an Underwood movement was first started l thought, with others in Birmingham, that it was merely complimentary But it is seen now that nothing is being con sidered more seriously than the Gnder- wood boom"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
THE PHYSICAL CULTURE GAME

New York Correspondence Cincinnati
 Times Star.
 There's quiet and select little school of physical culture uptown, where ladies of wealth and fashion go to be reduced to human proportions It never gets into the newspapers, no one ever knows the names of it's patients, and it's manager is making more money than he ever did in the palmest days of fighting and footracing, and he did fairly well with both arts. He stood in the lobby of one of the big uptown hotels the other day. I'm waiting for and meet her. She's got Venus looking like a waitress in a quick lunch joint. Eyes, complexion, figure ginger-be- lieve me. son, if she doesn't put ticket on a pup millionaire before long it's because she doesn't savvy opportunity when it knocks at her door"
 Tine young woman was all that her enraptured employer declared her. She was also intelligent quiet, and of we'll bred demeanor His statement that he only secured her services because fall In the 1amlly fortune forced ner to go to work was born out by her appear ance and conversation. She laughingly confessed that she was bit lame from
 the series of violent exercises she had been going through since she had signed up as a teacher of physical cul- ture. After she departed, the old man ager was called on to answer a ques- ton. What does that girl know about
 her job.
 Not blooming thing" said he. she never had a dunn bell in her hands until I hired her-and believe me, she'll work with mighty small dumb bells now, for fear her perfect proportions may be in- jured. I'll tell her what to do and what to tell her pupils, and she will bo the greatest success I've ever had Tn the gym. Just remember this; the girl who teaches physical culture to wom- en needn't know anything about the game--but she must look as though she does. I hired her because of her | figure--and I've been afraid ever since that she'll spoil it exercising"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
ARMY SURGEONS SCORE VICTORY

From the November Popular Mechanics
 Magazine
 ,f'fe work that has been done by the mill itary surgeons at San Antonio Tex, fur nishes the first definite proof of material advance over the system followed in 1898 and the great value to the army of the discovery of the anti-typhoid serum. The big maneuver camp furnished the first ol cortunity for this sort of work by req son of the fact that it was the first time large body of troops has been gathered in one camp under anything like the con- ditions that existed in 1s9s The problems the medical men solved at San Antonio were actual, and dealt in none of the fic- tions the working out of the tactical ma neuvers made necessary, because the con ditions were precisely similar, the dan gers not one whit less, than would meet an army in war time. The victory, there fole was real not confined in binding of ifs" and showed an astonishing ad- vance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Being a matrimonial martyr IS the job Of the big majority.
 It is more useful to know how to run the furnace than the government.
 A rich man could borrow money from his poor relations if they had to steal it to lend to him.
 If a man could hold his own allowance down the way he does his wife's he'd lave plenty of money.
 When a girl has her photograph taken it's sign she won't show it to anybody if it looks like her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
SUNNY JIM', WAS FRANK.


 Vice President sherman is called Sunny Jim" because of his frankness and good nature Kind-hearted and obliging he does not hesitate to speak his thoughts and opinions under any circumstances. A few years ago it was charged that he was the head of an ice trust in his home town, Utica, N. Y.. A newspaper reporter weAt to see him and made the statement: MT. Sherman you are charged, in the first place, with having raised the price of ice last summer How did that hap pen?"
 We'll said Sherman. very solemnly, that was a hard summer The heat was terrific, and ice was fearfully scarce. It cost us a lot to get any ice into town" well how about this summer?" pur- sued the questioner. why is the price up now?"
 'Ill tell you" said sherman with an air of great secrecy; I've fellows need the money. ."--The Twice Month Popular Magazine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27

convincing. But he had sufficient com mon sense to attach no undue importance to his proof" and to refrain from wild generalzing. The only moral he drew was the simple, homely, prosaic one that authors should not write at home, but have an office or library away from home and spend their working hours there, after the manner of business men, What is bad for marriage, he concluded, was too much propinquty, too much monot- ony, too much interference.
 Petty annoyances and quarrels over trifiing sayings and doings should be avoided or prevented, and the author who is always at home cannot help get ting in the way of his wife or finding her, in his way.
 One brilliant woman once said to her husband right after their honeymoon: q love you very much, but-don't come home for luncheon.'
 We suggest to literary men to try the preventive or cure of not coming home for luncheon regularly and of doing their writing away from the family seat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
RARE CASE.

"1 don't suppose Gygly would ever be capable of taking his fellow mans life under any circumstances.
 Probably not. Why, Gygly is so kind hearted he doesn't even enjoy getting his fellow mans goat.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
From the Houston Post.

From the Houston Post.
 ~ ENATOR BANKHEAD' praise of
 Representative Underwood of Ala A-< bama is all deserved, and the de- mocracy of Alabama is offering his name to the country as a man worthy of the presidency can do so in the knowledge that his character and public services are entitled to the grateful recognition of all democrats. MT. Underwood, now In his fiftieth year, is in the lrme of an active, useful life and his course as ma jcrity leader of the present House of Representatives has stamped him as a wise leader and a statesman of honest purposes.
 As chairman of the ways and means committee, under the new order, MT Un derwood has been given great respon- s!bilites-much greater than have here tofore ever attached to that important office. Nearly all the power which here tofore made the speakershp a great of fee has been transferred to the ways and means committee. It was a power that might have greatly injured the majority party in the House had it been yielded by a less capable man, but Underwood accomplished the task of organizing the House and securing greater harmony than any democratic speaker of a generation has been able to do.
 It was freely predicted when the dem ocrats took over the control of the House that they would disagree over the tariff and split into factions, but Underwood led with such skill and formulated the tariff policy of the party with such wis dom and tact that he had at all times a united majority behind him. Ii was the first time since the war that the party
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
Atlanta Gowns shocking

'I was surprised to learn that there was a great commotion in Atlanta over the style in which the young ladies of that city dressed" said a club man. T have not visited Atlanta since last spring. but when I was there the ladies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
OPTIMISTIC. VERY.

He always wore a cheerful smile
 And made his nelgl1bors think That he was happy all the while, Fen when quite on the blink.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
LITERARY MEN AND MARRIAGE

TTOn tfle w dSIIIIIS tUH I'USt'
 Mrs. Margaret Deland is moved to pro- test against the assumption that authors necessarily fail as husbands or wives, or that something in the literary temper ament initiates against domestic harmony any happiness.
 A year or two ago a clever writer ex- amlned the historical record and proved that as far as appearances go literary men are not meant for wedlock. His ilz lustrations were numerous and seemed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
FAT woMAN's DILEMMA.

The new S corsets which encase one to the knees are often responsible for em- barrassing their wearers The other day at a card party fat lady dropped card
 She, made several intellectual dives trying to pick it up. Finally with a purple face
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

she gasped out: "Will somebody wearing dollar corset kindly pick up that card for me?'-Cherryyale, Kan, Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
A SHATTERED DREAM.

A Look in s vest pocket he carried On How to Be Happy Though Married" Before he could thoughtfully sound it. His wife, who was peppery, found it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
AVIATION AND ACRoBATICs.

When his new glider turned turtle in the air the other day Orville Wright saved his life by seramblng nimbly over the machine as it turned. We are con- yinced that it takes an exceedingly ac- tive person to become a successful avia- tor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
CALLED OFF

From the Houston Post. s,t67
 A poor Illinois minister fell heir to half million dollars and the Lord immedlaite- ly relieved him of any further work in the vineyard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
VERY PLEASANT

When morns are brisk, sss,.
 How sweet are maps, fs Whate'er the risk, To lazy ehapsl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
AND THAT'S WORTH WHILE.

Rennold Wolf the dramatic critic. agrees with Robert Mantell, the actor. that if Booth and Barrett were alive to- day, they would be looked on as archaic. That is, no doubt, quite true and it Is just as well, perhaps, that they are dead, but their achievements in dramatic art will ever be a splendid tradition.
 PAUL COOK.