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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
REFLECTIONS OF BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Usually there are about dozen men a girl is afraid will make love to her and one she is afraid won't.
 Matinee performances seem so much better to girls than those in the evening oause of the candy.
 The train bound for the fulfilment of tions ever to get there.
 It's just the luck of a man for a girl to go on kissing him from babyhood righ, up to the time when 1t would be inter esting.
 A girl is so supersttious that wher sbe is out on the porch at night with 8 man and sees the moon through the trees it makes her afraid he won't propose fl t turns out to be street lamp.
 Earning money makes it go farther than having it given to you. Nobody trusts widow except men, and that's why she doesn't mind it. A woman could give her children lot Of training if their father didn't need SC much more. There's hardly any kind of fool equa to the man who thinks he was different when he was a boy from what they are TOW.
 A man can get mad at an inanimatt object like a piece of furniture, but he has to take it out on somebody in ths family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
Control of the Senate

The appointment of Obadiah Gard. Ter, democrat, to the Senate ir Maine, increases the democratic membership to 42, as against 49 re- publicans of all sorts. A vacancy exists in the democratic state of Col orado ,and when that is filled there will be 43 democrats in the Senate, and four more may come from New ! Mexico and Arizona.
 Even now the republican leaders in the Senate no longer claim control. The insurgents will not take orders from Senator Penrose, and the stand patters consider Senator LaFollette worse than any democrat. As the in- 4surgents in the Senate are 10 to 12 strong it is plain that republican control in the upper chamber is large; ly a myth.
 So divided and distracted has the party become that even Uncle Shelby M. Cullom, senior senator of the United States, has abandoned his campaign for reelection, and he has been almost constantly in office 50 years. Five years ago he would not have entertained for moment the thought of withdrawing from the senatorial race. The times art changed and even Dom Cullom has changed with them. He is not an ideal statesman by any means, but he is far better than Lorimer,. whom Illinois last seated in the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
NIT. Taft and the Insurgents

The country is bubbling over with politics. The sizzling point has not been reached, but the bubbling point has been. Candidates, or rather "mere mentions" are appearing on every hand, the south included. All are beginning to appreciate the fact that southern men are no longer barred from the highest office in the gift of the country by sectionalism, and every southern state is men tioning a favorite son.
 Among the republicans there is an earnest inquiry as to what the insur- gents propose to do in case of MT. Taft's renomination. Will they go over to the enemy as Carl Schurz and Charles Sumner did in 1872 when Grant was renominated?
 This interesting question will per haps be more fully illuminated when Senator LaFollette starts this week or early next week on his tour to secure delegates in the western states. The language that the Wis eonsin senator employs on his tour will be carefully weighed by all poli- ticians, to say the least.
 There is always danger that the republican party will pull itself to. gether and re-establish its well known political sense. In that case it would drop MT. Taft and nominate some one who stands in Justice Hughes class-probably New York'' ex-governor himself. But oil anC water never have been known to mix and as long as they do not it is diff ficult to see how standpatters of tn Taft sort and insurgents of tn Clapp-LaFollette sort can come to gether.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
A BILLION IN AUTOS

From the chicago Tribune.
 To a man who has just paid for new tires, carbureter, a couple of springs and a new pair of lamps, the cost of automobiling as a pastime is apparent. But it is doubtful if, even at the mo- ment he unfolds the bill and first views 1t in all it's magnitude, he realizes that automobiling has already cost the Unites more than s1,000, ,000,0 900, enough to wipe out the national debt or to pay twice over for all the dreadnoughts ever built or building for the navios of the world
 Even this figure hardly expresses the cost which the world is paying for it's joy ride. The number of machine own CTS is increasing at an astonishing rate. Ten years ago there were only $500 cars owned in the United States. At the end of 1909 there were 25OOOO; now there are 100000. In 1908 only 55,000 cars were manufactured in this coun- try. The following year the number
 increased to S0,000. In the 10 months of 910 to November 1, 175,000 machines were produced. Automobiles were ex- ported. Automobiles were exported to the value of s11, ,1s0,220. Two companies were incorporated one with capital of S6O, 900 900, taking over 200 subsidiaries. and the other with s16,000,000, bringing g together eight or 10 smaller producers.
 The public has been staggered from time to time by the naval construction plans of the great powers. As the cost of a man of war his lifted steadily from s3,OOO, 900 to s10OO0,000, the people have continued to shake their heads at the dreadful outlay. The British dread nought was thought to have been the last word in leviathan construction with it's 17900 tons displacement and it's staggering cost. But now Great Britain has II ships of equal or greater tonnage and armament in commission or laid down. Germany has F, the United States eight, Russia four, Brazil three Spain three Argentina two, Italy two. France two and Japan two. Fig uring these 52 dreadnoughts at a cost of s10, 900, 900 each, gives d total of s520, 100000.
 But this grand total does not look large when placed beside the total American expenditure for automobiles and their maintenance during the last 10 wears. approximately S1 ,056, ,OOO,00O The American joy rider. had he chosen could have built the entire navies of the world, from battleships Co dingies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
OLD CASTLES

George Elliot The Mill on the Floss
 Those ruins on the castled Rhine have crunbled and melowed into such har- mony with the green and rocky steep,s that they seem to have natural fitness.
 like the mountain pine; nay, even in tha day when they were built, they must have had this fitness, as if they had been raised by an earth-born race who had in- herted from their mighty parent sub lime instinct of form. And that was a day of romance,
 If these robber barons were somewhat grim and drunken ogres, they had cer- tain grandeur of the wild beast in them they were forest boars with tusks. tear ing and rending, not the ordinary domestic grunter: they represented the demon forces for ever in collision with beauty, viitue and the gentle uses of Life; they made a fine contrast in the picture with the wandering minstrel, the soft-lipped princess, the pious recluse and the timid Israelitc.
 That was time of color, when the sum light fell on glancing steel and floating banners time of adventure and fierce struggle--nay, of living religious art and religious enthusiasm; for were not cathe-
 lrals built in those days and did not great emperors leave their western palaces tc die before the infidel strongholds in the east. Therefore 1t is that these Rhine castles thrill me with sense of poetry they belong to the grand historic life oi humanity and raise up for me the vision of an epoch But these dead-tinted, hol- low-eyed, angular skeletons of villages on the Rhine oppress me with the feeling that human life-very much of 1t is narrow. ugly, groveling existence which even calamity does not elevate, but rather tends to exhibit in all Its bare vulgarity of conception; and have cruel convic- ton that the lives these ruins are the traces of were part of Q gross sum of ob scvre vitality that will be swept Into the same oblivion with the generations of ants and beavers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
Affairs in China

The national assembly is in session in Peking, and when Yuan She -Kai replied to the edict appointing him viceroy of the disaffected provinces near Hankow that his foot has not healed and that he has other ills, it requested him to "get well quickly '' It is evident that Chinas Bismarck has no intention of supplanting Gen. Yin Tchang in the field with the rebels pressing him on every side.
 The chief trouble of the imperial ists seems to be that the Chinese regulars are not trustworthy They stand ready to desert to the rebels and the latter are winning victory after victory. They now hold the mountain passes between Hankow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
CrentOre Today

Creatore and his famous band will be heard at the Jefferson theatre tll's afternoon and tonight. All musicians and music lovers are familiar with the high reputation of Creatore, and a large audience will be expected at both performances.
 "Of the four or five great concert bands In this country, Creatore's ranks second to none," said Signor Nappi. "Creatore is a great musician, and a great conductor. He puts his whole soul into everything that he presents to the musical public and his inter pretation is satisfying to all critics and discriminating audiences"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
LOVE-MAKING ON THE STAGE

Tliyra Samter in the Chicago Tribune. Il idol"-
 \ That was in song they sang in one of ,he musical comedies last year. Maybe that was q perfectly good song last year, but to be loved by the leading man in most of the plays that are now running in Chicago is my idea Of no way to be loved
 In the good old days" when meller- drammer reigned supreme and when, on stage. a love affair came before instead of after the marriage license, the plays were filled to the bursting point with love scenes. The hero made long speeches, promising everlasting devotion, standing in picturesque attitudes up stage, and the hero wine. clad in simple white with the always present pale blue sash, flung herself into his arms and they clinched and hugged, and the spotlight worked overtime, and the orchestra played Hearts and Flowers slightly off key.
 And after the play was oyer, and the last curtain had descended, the girls would walk slowly up the aisles and look at their escorts and wish that Jimmie, or Edward, or whoever the escort happened to be at the time, could learn to make love like that.
 But that is all over now. The audience prefers clever, sarcastic epigrams about society to soft sentences about love, and 1t likes Imaginable situations peter than long kisses. The lovers are no longer heroic young things with the whole world plotting against them. They are older. more cynical. Maybe the average audi ence prefers them that way Maybe we are growing up.
 James k. Hackett has always been con- sidered an authority when it came to stage love making. Every young person had picture of Mir Hackett stuck on her dressing table mirrors, just above where the cold cream stood, and hoped some day she would find lover who had taken a course In the Hackett school of love mak- Ing In "The Grain of Dust" MT. Hack ett has abandoned the crushed tight meth cd and has adopted a love making which consists of stroking of arms. T love you more than all the world,'' says Mir. Hack ett, and he gets behind the Grain of Dust, puts his arms around her and-strokes her hands.
 Even after he has been married to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
WHERE yoLTAIRE LIVED

Theodore F. Wolfe: "A Literary Pilgrim age"
 For 20 years this home of Noltaire was the center and pharos of the intellectual world. To this court kings sent couriers with proffers of honors and assurances of esteem: hither came legions of litter ateurs, acadamicians, politicians. eager 1 to hail the savant or to secure his con- mendation.
 "4All roads then led to Ferny as they once did to Rome" and the Inequalities of the chateau were so taxed that Vol taire declared he was innkeeper- for all Europe. He habitually complained of the climate here. "Lapland in winter, Naples in summer;" during some seasons Thirty leagues of snow were visible from his windows but on the July day of our visit tho atmosphere is exdulsitely delightful and voltaires desert seems a paradise.
 Behind us rise the vineclad slopes of Jura, below lies the lake like an ame- thystine sea, afar gleam the snow crowned peaks. and about us in the old gardens are the golden sunshine, the in- cense of flowers. the twitter of birds and all the charm of sweet summer time. AS we finger in the spots he loved it is pleas ant to recall the good that mingled in the oddly composite nature of the daring old man who inhabited this beautiful scene and created much of fits beauty; to remember that dumb creatures loved him and fed from his hand; that the des- titute and oppressed never vainly applied to him for succor or protection; that in varying phrase he solemnly averred, in letters of counsel to youthful admirers in his own and other lands, we are in the world only for the good we can do."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
LITTLE SURPRISES

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Dear Sir: Your book has gone through six editions inclosed find check for amount due to date"
 I'm not going to light it, maam; I was rolling 1t to occupy the time"
 You ordered a small steak, did you, sir? Well, this porterhouse won't cost you any more" You needn't hem and haw, young man; I know what you've come for You can have her"
 Yes, sir, this is an old and exceed ingly rare coin. can give you sS5 for 1t. "Is that MT. Stiggins? Your ticket won the auto"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

long ago stretched, with his sanction, across the city at Cooper Union. Once within the tabooed district, the distin- guished poet and Century editor cast an aprrehensye glance about him and then marched swiftly and resolutely down the bowery. Late that night caught another glimpse of him standing in the middle of one of the side streets that lead to the iast river and gazing thoughtfully at the tops of the tall tenement houses on either side of him. e
 I could not help wondering what strange errand had loriugft him to that crowded quarter of the town, for not many months before one of his own trusted subordi- mates had blandly informed me that there 'as nothing in New York to write about, excepting, of course. such phases of its social life as had been portrayed, moro or less truthfullys and vividly, in the pages i. of MT. Gidcr.s own magazine. sf
 I was still marveling at the spectacle of tho poet in search of facts when came across sone of my East Side acquain- tances who had seen and recognized the Century editor, and from him learned that he was pursuing his studies of what
 Is known in the magazine offices as Tow life, not that he might write about it or be capable of judging the manuscript of those who did write about It, but by virtue of his office on the tenement house commission. .s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
THE POET.

 The poet sang a tuneful lay in accents sweet and cleai, The people paused in many lands the mel ody to hear. They heard him sing of love and life, and death and cruel wrongs They loved the poet, but, alas, they never bought his songs. ". R. Rose, in Cleveland Plain Dealer.  He twanged his Tyre to many themes, of birds in wildwood trees, Of moolng cows in shaded pools, and of bazoomng bees. The people harked the songs he sung and went down winding lanes With him. but he starved, for they did not go down in their jeans.
 Houston Post. He sang to greet the mornings light and warbled every eve, He showed the way to happiness, though sorrows might bereave; The people seemed well pleased to hear him sweetly tune his Tyre, Bu. how his own sad life was lived none troubled to inquire.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. B.it soon he took tumble to himself and tuned his Tyre To sing about the things that people have to buy or hire; He sang of dessicated prunes, soap, real estate and tar, And now he has bank account and owns touring car.
 -Springfield Union. But some are left who puzzle us with dope beyond our ken; Their words are vague, all is obscure whene'er they seize their pen. They may be grown. but it appears that all are in their teens We mean the stuff we have to read in monthly magazines.
 Chattanooga Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

Grain of Dust and she has exchanged hc.' working dress for white, lace trimmed morning frock, he still prefers
 the approach from the rear. All the
 Grain does Is to stand perfectly still and
 look disdainful.
 There is a really, truly kiss In "The
 Faun." Miss Julie Opp, as the kissee Is
 whole chapter on "how to act when be- ing kissed, but the kiss is supposed to be by-proxy one at that "The Faun' Is just trying to awake the soul, or sorne-
 thing like that. of Lady Alexander, who is Miss Opp. and he does, too. A kiss
 like that. but, 1t really can't be described.
 MT, Faversham is the kind of man whom
 anyone would like.
 In lover Night folk are too busy get
 ting wrong husbands and things to have
 time for mere love making. It's a shame
 not to give Miss Laurence a chance with
 a love scene other than the inevitable reconciliation. Wallace Worsley does his best with a bit of love making on a flight of stairs. but he has too thin slice of it really to count. a1i faIsfszd f But Rebecca, in "Rebecca of Sunny brook Farm" even when she is grown up, IS lOO young kltJ to De redlly III love.
 Edith Taliaferro makes a heroine who is sweet enough to wait years for, so when
 she says, "The princess says, Won't you just wait little longer, MT. Aladdin, and the curtain falls, the folks in the au- dience rise and pretend that they have
 cold while they dry their eyes and go home and have all the fun imagining what will happen when Rebecca grows up. In "The Dolls House" there are love | scenes, three of them full of unrest and gloom and gray In the first 1t is a
 married" love scene ,and poor little Nora (Mme. Nazimova) has to let Torald Brandon Tynan) call her song bird and a little dove and other foolish things and
 doesn't dare show her real self at all.
 And in the next love scene poor old Doc
 tor Rank tells Nora of his hopeless love. After all. nothing could be sweeter or tenGerer than the little last love scene in "Tte Fortune Hunter" when Will Dem
 Ing, in a perfectly good looking suit and
 with most alluring smile and an irreslst-
 ible way of making love, tells all about
 everything just as the rain begins to fall. That Is the kind of love scenes folks like
 best, the kind without any dreadful trian- gle or plot, or double life or disappointing ragt. .. st
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
IN THE HOTEL LOBBIES
A Popular Mans Visit

Dr. Percy Nixon. one of the most skillful and prosperous dentists ia Alabama and former citizen of Bir- mingham, but now resident of Qpe- lika, spent yesterday here. Very few people have such a wide circle of friends as pr. Nixon, and hundreds greeted him coru.ally on the street.
 "Opelilza is one of the most flour lshing town in Alabama said pr. Nixon. "It is in fine cotton section and the farmers whereabouts are very prosperous indeed. The low price Of cotton makes business a little quiet at this time, but expect to see the mar kets advance before much of the crop is sold
 As to politics one hears little eX- cept along presidential lines. Every body in OpelilSa and Lee counties that I meet Is for Underwood for Presi- dent.
 The Idea prevails now that Under- wood will not only get the Alabama delegation, but that he stands good chance of being nominated and elected ,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
A SAINTED LEG

From the Home Herald. VI
 Little Girl--Your papa has only got ( leg, hasn't he? fl
 Veterans Little Girl-Yes. Little GirI-Where's his other one? {
 Veterans Little Girl-Hush. dear. Heaven.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
"YOU'LL LOVE ME YETI

Browning, ''Pippa Passes E Youll love me yet! And can tarry Your loves protracted growing; June reared that bunch of flowers to,
 carry, 4t
 From seeds of April's sowing. I plant heartful now: some seed
 At least is sure to strike, And yield--what you'll not pluck indeed, Not love- but, may be, like You'll look at least on loves remains.
 A graves one violet:
 Your look? That pays thousand paina !. Whats leathY You'll love me yeti
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
MADu TuE pOwEnY A STUDY

James h. Ford. The Literary Shop.
 one summer evening not very long ago I snw. to my intense surprise. MT. Rich arr. Watson Glider crawl cautiously through Inc barbod wire fence which was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
The Cotton Situation

Henry Clews in his review of the cotton situation says in part;
 Climatic conditions, with the eN- ception of a few cool days, continue favorable for late cotton production, and as yet there is no development necessitating the revising of bumper crop estimates. The frost period Is here however, and until October has passed the market will be under the influence of the weather menace as affecting the development of a top crop. The earliest killing frost of which there Is record occurred in the sec ond week of October, 1906. but there have been few instances where October frosts have done any damage. It IS probably because of this that the trad ing element continue their bearish at titude, but this is to be expected; en- couraged by their enormous success I the short side their aggressiveness in creases rather than diminishes as the decline proceeds. Speculative history Is simply repeating itself, but as is usu- ally the case the inclination is to press an advantageous position a little too far and in this instance 1t would now appear that further bearish activities, if persisted in, will result sooner or later in some nasty covering on less favorable terms than are now obtain a h1e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

''rhere goes u man who is in al all the time.
 'TIis business keeps him on the jump. eh?" Not particularly. He plays a great deal of poker"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

The suffragettes in California can no longer conduct campaigns. All they cai do is to vote and they feel as if their occupation had departed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
TIMOROIS.

"I'll make you rich,' said Fortune bland The novice hesitated; My thanks. I fear 1 ne'er could stand To be investigated"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

That Cincinnati man who said nobody ,oyes a millionaire overlooked the hotel walters, the foreign aristocracy, and the chorus girls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

Street cars for women in London were regarded as a Jemima Crow affair and no one desired to ride in them, and they have been taken off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

The mayoress of Hunnewell, Kan, has gone on the chautauqua circuit, and in this way she will get even with her refractory ciiv council.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WINS AND LOSES

ling of last week. A pstavirp jolly
 time is reported.-Rich Hli, Mo, R
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

The Thanksgiving shopping may out rank the Christmas shopping IT the cost of living keeps on going up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

The bears in the cotton market are worse than the varmints that are over running that 5OOo-acre farm in Georgia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

The man who drinks banana whisky will go down as quick as if he had q banana peel under him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-24

ltaIy's latest big battleship, just launched. is called the Genlio Cesare. It S o,,r old friend Julius rendered into Italian.