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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
GAVE HIM FAIR WARNING

From the Pittsburg Chronice-Teegraph
 Crash. Sh-rrr-ash, Sh-sh.
 With a low moan tife aeroplane bat tered itself to bits. With a louder moan the aeronaut fell flat among the dozen beautiful pies that had been placed, on the flat roof of the farmhoase by the careful housewife.
 Pardon my untimeiy Interruption, murmured the birdman, as he mopped the mixture from his features. "But----"
 "Ill not pardon you;" snapped the fiery farmers wife, as she stood on the roof and surveyed the wreckage.
 Really. madam, couldn't help it." ex- plained the unhappy flying man. "You see" fl
 'Oh, don't talk to me-" retorted the fi- rous dame. Couldn't help it, indeed! Why, I saw you falling long before you got here, and hollered to- you to go for the hayrick. Couldn't help itl You never paid the slightest attention to what said at all.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Southern Prosperity

"I had fairly successful business trip, ' said Frank Jones of the Diclxerson & Baker Lumber. company, who has recent ly been travelling in Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia. T found business extreme- ly dull in the tobacco growing section of Kentucky. The tobacco situation there was bad, but in Tennessee and in Vir- ginia I discovered a marked degree of prosperity, and I made some good sales of pine lumber. In Virginia got as far east as Lynchburg, and found in the Old Dominion that prosperity talk was quite general.
 T made short trip north of the Ohio river. Trade conditions were unsatis- factory in that section. According to the talk in the north national politics greatly disturbs business at this time. It seems to be generally conceded that the south is the most prosperous part of the coun- try at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
From the Journal of the America Medical Association.

From the Journal or the American
 Medical Association.
 Almost every occupation has it's neurosis, and every new sport adds one to the long list. We have become fa- | miliar with the golfers wrist" the tennis elbow" and the baseball arm' side by side with the writers cramp."
 Trades have their dangers and develop new types of disease. The air induces
 pathologic as well as physiologic eff
 fects. Distances in physiologic balance experienced at attitudes were described | by DaCosta under the name of nal des
 montagnes in the fifteenth century;
 and the dangers of changes in atmos- pheric pressure were made memorable 1 by the eventful and fatal balloon ascen- | sion of Tissandier and his comrades from Paris in 1875.
 The latest accession to the galaxy of maladies Is the nal des aviateurs. With aviation meets as a daily occurrence,
 with a transcontinental flight now an
 accomplished feat. and the aeroplane in actual operation as an "engine of war; | 1t Is not surprising that the medical as- poets of this new vocation should in- vite the attention of the scientist. Pro- fessors Cruchet and Moulinier of Bor- deaux, have recorded observations made
 at one of the large French meets. An aeroplane flight calls for a continuous effort, both physical and intellectual, under conditions to which the human body is not adjusted. An ascent to an altitude of 5000 feet is accomplished in lad Axrr. turn to earth within five to seven mln- utes. To these speedy ascents and all
 most dazzling descents, forming the peculiar mechanical features of certain types of flight. are added the rapid changes In barometric pressure, the at tendant notifications in the compost tion of the atmosphere, and the sudden alterations in temperature (from 68 T.. on the ground to AZ F. at 5000 feet)-a combination of factors including those to which all workers at high attitudes
 may be exposed.
 The data collected are, as yet, too
 scanty to permit of any elaborate dis cussion. Certain symptoms are of par | ticular interest. During the ascents shortness of breath may be experienced
 at relatively low attitudes, accompanied by rapid pulse. These may be a mild buzzing in the ears. but dizziness has
 not been reported. Headaches are lia-
 bIe at an altitude of about 4500 feet
 The sensation of cold becomes intense
 Irregularities in the muscular move. ments are also reported-perhaps the
 expression of the combined effects oi
 cold accelerated heart beat, nervous
 tension, fatigue and other factors.
 As in the case of mountain climbing
 the altitdue at which different individ- uals are attacked varies widely. Cruchet and Moullnier add that probably the
 extreme rapidity with which the avia- tor travels through changing atmos- pheric environment contributes distress
 and even danger to variations In atmos pheric pressure which divers, for ex,
 ample. would regard as relatively
 slight. Some of the symptoms noted ir caisson workers find counterpart in those reported by aviators.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
BEING BORN A GIRL

E. s. Martin, in Harper's Magazine for
 December.
 Take 1t by and large, Is it a misfortune to be born a girl and not a boy? That may happen to any of us any time we happen to be born. It's a toss up. It's not the slightest credit to us to be born male, and certainly 1t should not be the slightest discredit to us to be born fe- male; but according as we are born male or female we are born to different duties. If political government is one of the male duties, civilization will not get ahead by having men loosen their hold on it. For my part I suppose that down in the intracacies of my composition have an instinctive conviction, or hunch. that political government is a male at- tribute, and that out of that comes my objection to abdicate, or even dilute. my share of it. Instinctive convictions have great weight in these matters, though the surface arguments they put out may be inadequate or mistaken, as the anti-suffrage arguments are so apt to be. The suffragist expounders demolish them, ana tIlnk tndl they HdNo dcCoHip- lished something; but, alastl the demoli- tion of puerile arguments leaves the ques- ton just where 1t was, with the pith of it still untouched. Still I think the agitation does good, bothering people like me, and making up think; asking us: What does belong to women then, if not votes? How else are you going to give them equal life? What does justice de- mand for them if not the suffrage?
 If the males since the beginning of time have overestimated their importance and erred in regarding themselves as spe- cialists in government, then 1t is only a matter of time when we shall he dis abused of that error and shaken down into our rightful places. But if govern ment-meaning political government rather than domestic-really prospers bet ter in the long run in the hands of males, in their hands 1t is likely to stay that substance of 1t certainly, however that shadow we cali vote may f1utter off. and wherever it may alight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22

1 ical organizations in this country, is in 1 Birmingham. He was last here two or l three years ago with Walter Damrosch
 and the New York Symphony orchestra, I but he has been for a year or more man.
 ager of the Russian Symphony orchestra, and was in Chattanooga and other south ern cities last spring with that famous or ganization.
 "The Russian Symphony will make a southern tour next spring, beginning in | April,' said MT. F'rancke. "I have made | many bookings for that orchestra The Russians will give a concert in New Or leans on April 20. l. hope to be able to arrange for their appearance in Birming- ham either just before or just after our New Orleans date.
 Another attraction which I am now
 booking is the Marum quartet, composed
 of members of the Russian Symphony or chestra-Ludwig Marum, first violin; Her
 man Martonne. second violin; Jacob Altschuler, viola, and Modest Altschuler, cello. The last named, as all well in formed musical people know. is the con ductor of the Russian Symphony.
 "I have been in the south on this trip | nearly a month. have had great suc-
 cess in bookings in Virginia. A new and important field for artists-especially so- loists and small ensemble organizations 1 such as the Marum quartet-is found in the college towns. There is hardly col lege community in the country that can
 not afford to have at least three or four high class concerts during the season. l
 was at Farmvlle, Prince Edward county. Virginia, recently and secured contract there for an appearance of the Marum quartet. I am told that up to a few years ago no professional musician had
 ever visited that historic town-historic
 as the seat of Hampton Sidney college.
 But In recent years a series of five mus
 ical entertainments have been given there
 each season. In addition to Hampton Sid
 ney is a girls college with about 700
 students, and concert audiences in Farm
 vile, therefore, are large and appre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
Lands in the Wiregrass

The value of pine lands in the wiregrass section of Alabama has inst. been demonstrated by company made up of shrewd Michigan men who had seen pine lands increase in value in their own state. They or ganized a corporation to buy pine lands in Conecuh, Escambia, Coving- ton, Butler and Monroe counties, and they kept on buying until they had 45,700 acres at an average cost of 70 cents an acre. The purchases were made from 1884 down to the present year.
 These acres have just been sold to a big lumber mill for $2,000,000. In other words an acre that cost 70 cents was sold for $43,76. The percentage of profit need not be presented. It can be seen at glance without the aid of figures.
 To make the story complete the l5,7O0 acres should be sold after the pine trees had been removed to farm. CTS who will win from the soil ever greater wealth by means of truck farming or pecan growing or other methods of agriculture. That would complete the story, and the lumber mill should attend to this branch oi the subject in order to get from thu land all possible profits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
Improving Business Conditions

It has been generally agreed in the commercial world for six months past that nothing like boom or high pressure prosperity would be in evil dence in this country until after next years presidential election, but the fall trade has developed fair volume of business, and there is good reason to believe that a healthy condition will continue throughout the winter. Owing to the governments antitrust policy and disquieting politics gen. erally, there was much pessimism in Wall street early in the fall, but the sky has cleared somewhat and pes simism in New York has given place to optimism; not optimism of very pronounced type, perhaps, but still feeling in financial circles is opti- mistic by comparison, at any rate.
 The railroads are buying, or are getting ready to buy, rails and roll ing stock on larger scale than at any time in the past few years. In the south business conditions are par ticularly good, owing to the large crops harvested this year. While the low price of cotton has been some what depressing in the cotton belt the price is advancing and the farm CTS who have withheld their staple from market will yet realize good profits.
 Southern prosperity this year has caused favorable comment through out the country, and has done great deal to advertise the south as a rich field for investors, immigrants, and especially for agricultural home seek. CTS. On the whole the year 1911, fl not the south's greatest year, will go on record as year of plenty and az ricultural and commercial progress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22

At that point 40 acres will be culti- vated in accordance with the best known methods, and variety of crops will be grown next year. The resident farmer has been slected, and he will soon be at work on the Ster- rett's farm.
 This farm will be an object lesson to this section of the state. On it the best rules of Auburn will be ap- piled alike in the preparation of the soil, in planting, in cultivation and in harvesting. It would be we'll if a table of costs and expenses could be kept, so that the net profit of the farm could be shown also. If high cultivation can be shown to be profit able the case would stand complete. The salary of the resident farmer need not be considered in this case. Let the expense of each crop be kept and it's outcome. If each crop shows a profit then the old time farmers would have nothing to go on. Their methods would stand completely con- demned at Sterrett's.
 Mir. Chastain, the agricultural agent of the Central of Georgia rail- road, can readily attend to this branch of the subject, and The Age Herald trusts he will be able to say to every visitor at Sterrett's that every crop is money maker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
JOSEPH PULITIzERs AMBITION

James Barnes Tn Coller'S Weekly.
 One day while cruising off the Atlantic coast our talk had drifted from actors whose performances we had seen and heard to the plays of Shakespeare, and MT. Pulitzer spoke of the beautiful scene between Brutus and his wife, He began to repeat it, and never have I heard a finer recitation. It was 70 full and round- ed, so tense with proper emphasis. From that he gave both Forum speeches I grew more and more surprised. He would stop at the corner of the deck and, while still holding my arm, he acclaimed to the open sea.
 Tt was my desire once to be an orator, my great ambition. used to practice those speeches by the hour'
 It was the only time in all my acquain- tance with him that found him in this mood. But l never shall forget it-his tall, gaunt figure on the swaying deck, and the strength and melody that seemed 50 suddenly to have been born into his voice. It was a note chat I cannot re- member ever hearing again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
PASSING OF THE PRAIRIE DOG

From the Louisville Courier-J ournal.
 IF anyone has anything to say in be-
 half of the prairie dog-if anyone \ knows cause why he should not be lawfully exterminated-let him speak or forever hold his peace. The prairie dog is passing with considerable rapidity. He is doomed to follow the American bison into a quiet place in the soporific pages of natural history and become tradition in the places that now know him as a somewhat picturesque pest, but systematic and ruthless campaign is be- ing prosecuted by western agriculturists against him. Ten years ago, according. to a report upon the mortality rate among prairie dogs, there were 5000 square miles of dog villages in Kansas alone. Now Kansas produces wheat, corn, republican insurgents and other more or less valuable crops upon the sites of nine-tenths of these villages, and the farmers who frisk along the frontier of agricultural development upon their way to wealth are after the rest of the dogs with fire and sword or their equiv alents. Poisoned wheat distributed about the villages gives the prairie dog a momentary thrill of delight, only to dis illusion him a moment afterward and send him to his long home. Bisulphide of carbon burned at the entrance of his den suffocates him if he declines the poison. State and federal supervision of the crusade combine, and the ultimate result is as certain as how Kentucky will "go" in the approaching presidential cleo tion.
 The prairie dog has been interesting to passengers upon transcontinental trains and vexing to ponies whose legs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
IN THE ART MusEuM

By Gertrude Hall. He stands where the white light shower In his wonted high recess; The dust has woven soft veil
 Over his comeliness. Beneath the pensive eyebrows
 And lids that never beat The same glance floats forever
 So sad and solemn sweet; s The same peace seals forever
 The full lips finely curled- I'm come to this his dwelling To bring him news of the world. "Once more the Spring hath mantled
 With green the lasting hills Hast thou no faint remembrance , Of daisies and daffodils? Their stems still lengthen sunward
 As when thou vast of us; My heart swells with it's sorrow
 For thee-Antinous."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
But yet I'll make assurance doubiy sure, And take n bond of fate. -Mncbeth.
o'Nears Defense of Constitution

Governor O'Neal's address before the New York chamber of commerce was thoughtful defense by close student of the representative scheme of government as entrusted with a system of direct legislation and ac- tion. The subject is one that goes to the very bedrock of the federal constitution and our entire form of government, and rarely indeed has it been more fully treated than it was by Governor O'Neal in his New York speech.
 He contrasts in the strongest and dearest manner legislation by two chambers, one of which is freed by its longer term of service from the passions and follies of the hour, with unrestricted action by the numerical majority. The latter is blow aimed at both the executive and legislative departments, and when the recall is added all the coordinate branches of the government are attacked.
 Governor O'Neal goes on to show that there must be, to qualified ex- tent, delegations of public duties and we'll considered divisions of public power and responsibility. "We would ignore," he went on to say, "the un- mistakeable teachings of history if we failed to recognize that every nation which has achieved political and or derly liberty has done so through the representative system, and that every government which has abandoned it for the despotism of monarchy, or for the turbulence, tyranny or uncer- tainty of democracy, has fallen into decay and suffered the loss of it's ami mating and sustaining principle"
 The dangers and evils of the initia- tive and of it's corollary, the referen- dunn, are set forth by Governor O'Neal with clearness and viger, and his masterly speech is brought to a close with warm tributes to the merits and flexibility of the common law and of the permanence and vitality of representative government. Whoeve, desires to have his faith strengthened in the foundation principles of this republic as they are set forth in the x federal constitution should procure a copy of Governor O'Neal's speech be- fore the New York chamber of com- merce, and he should read and re-read it whenever he is tempted by discon- tent or by the appeal of charlatans to depart from the wisdom of the fathers. It is great and comprehen. sive speech, and it will long rank among the noblest utterances of American statesmen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
MARK TwAIN's BEGINNING

In Harper's December Albert Bigelow
 Paine. Mark Twains authorized
 biography tells of the beginning of his
 literary career. Orion Clemens, Mark
 Twain's brother. owned a paper. He was
 compelled to go away to attempt to
 raise funds.
 made a trip to Tennessee to see if some
 thing could not be realized on the land.
 leaving his brother Sam in charge of the
 office. It was a journey without finan-
 cial results. yet it bore fruit, for it
 prompted the beginning of Mark Twains
 literary career.
 Sam, in his brothers absence, conclud-
 ed to edit the paper in way that would liven up the circulation. He had never
 done any writing-not for print-but he.
 had the courage of his inclinations. His local items were of red pepper variety
 and his personals brought prompt de-
 mand for satisfaction. The editor of a rival paper had been in love, and was said to have gone to the river one night to drown himself. Sam gave a pic turesque account of this with all the
 names connected with the affair. Then he took couple of big wooden block letters, turned them upside down, and engraved illustrations for 1t, showing the victim wading out into the river with a stick to test the depth of the water When that issue of the paper came out the demand for it was very large. The press had to be kept running | steadily to supply copies. The satirized editor at first swore that he would thrash the whole Journal office, then he left town and did not come baAx any more. The embryo Mark Twain also wrote a poem It was addressed TO Mary in Han-
 nibal.' but the title was too long to be set in one column, so he left out all the letters in Hannibal except the first and the last, and supplied their place with dash, with q startling result. Such
 were the early flickertngs of smoud- ering genius. Orion returned, remon- strated and apoligized. He reduced Sam to the ranks. In later years he saw his mistake.
 CT could have dstfmced all competitors even then,' he said, If had recognized Sans ability and let him go ahead. | merely keeping him from offending
 worthy persons '"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
The Banauet Hour

q am glad the Chamber of Commerce banquet committee, which is arranging for the Underwood banquet, to be given at the Country club Thursday night, has moved up the hour for starting from to o'clock" said a we'll known business man.
 "The banquet is to be 8 very elaborate affair, and if it began as late as o'clock 1t might be after 12 o'clock before the speaking was over. But beginning at ' it will be concluded by F or 12:So o'cIock--in time for those without auto mobiles to catch street cars. Seven o'clock is the regulation hour for banquets in Washington city and New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
NoBLEssE oBLIGE.

NOBLESSE OBLIGE. You shall go first. I've tarried long, But I'll stay longer yet" He bowed full low to one whose face Betokened wild regret. "I won't. precede you Say no more. My friend. I'll gladly wait. What do I care, though duty calls And the hour is growing late? You're next. prithee, don't protest Herewith he took his seat The other, with a haggard look, As one about to meet The horrors of the rack within Some chamber of despair, Cast one wild glance around, then climbed Into the dentists chair.
 JUST WONDERING. Mrs. Pipper won't look at anything that isn't recherche" Good heavens! Do you mean to tell me that she never looks at MT Pipper?"
 FOR BREAKFAST.
 Cares little what
 His neighbor eats,
 Just so he gets
 A stack O wheats.' MIGHT HAVE BEEN EMBARRASSING. T dare say there are great many per sons in this country who are glad the scheme for annexing Canada fell through
 Politicians, you mean?' No; gentlemen occupying positions of trust who are planning to skip across the border.''
 THE SMALL BOY.
 Ere long, by fond
 Emotions stirred,
 He'll watch pa carve
 That turkey-bird.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22

on MT. Goodwin's estare, made possible by a n,enuptial agreement. Mir .Good- win is to pay all expenses. including $500 due for a board bill contracted by his last wife at the Hotel Ansonia, in New York.
 The payment of the s65,o0O must be made. to Miss Goodrich by December 15, othekwse the agreement is void.
 M;syor Dudley admitted today that he worAd have to sell part of the Goodwin estate, or at feast mortgage either the Lafayette apartment house in San Fran cisco or an orange grove of G1 acres in Grange county, which are included in the sSO0,0Go estate held by him under the trust agreement executed by Goodwin at the time of his marriage to Miss Goodrich.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
THE SMALL BOY. Ere long, by fond Emotions stirred, He'll watch pa carve That turkey-bird.
A RARE FEAT.

"A RARE FEAT.
 It would seem impossible to ride a mule all the wa5 from Atlanta to Savannah in a single night, without either the mule or his rider being any the worse for the ex- perience. A Birmingham printer in his wandering days accomplished the feat. He was 'nosing" about freight train one night with the idea of installing himself in a convenient .sde-door Pullman" when a brakeman loomed up and gave chase. Without considering eventualities, the printer dived into the nearest freight car. which happened to be a stock car, and landed on the back of an old gray mule. The mule was warm, the brake man had been baffled in his pursuit, so the printer clasped his arms around the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-22
WHY NEWSPAPER REPORTERS DIr
 YOUNG

From the Chicago Tribune.
 "Do you take your notes down in shorthand?"
 Ut must be nice to get free tickets 10 all the theatres"
 Are all reporters college gradu- atesY
 How do you know when there is a fire or 8 murder?"
 "Do you also make the pictures for your articles?'
 "I suppose you know all the police and firemen?"
 Please don't put my picture in the paper"