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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-06-26
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
Birmingham's Progress

Birmingham not only looks far more prosperous than it did two or three years ago. but it is about the most prosperous city l have seen in the south,. and the south is noted for thriv- ing cities" said Alexander Cooper of Chicago.
 q first saw Birmingham about b years ago. and have been here three times since. My second visit was 10 CT II years ago, when the first steel frame office building was being erect ed. It was generally said at that time that Birmngham's first skyscraper marked a new era in progress here. Enthusiastic prophets pictured this as the great southern city of the future. It has more than fulfilled all optimistic promises. Birmingham today must be A revelation to all occasional visitors like myself By the time the next cen sus is taken Birming gham's population will doubtless be above the 3O0,0o0 mark and there are young men here now who will probably live to see 1t with a population close to. if not fully, 900 000"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
Lorimer and Stephenson

Any senatorial campaign expense beyond $10,000 should be considered evidence of presumptive guilt. This is the sum named in the campaign publicity bill. The presumption is and should be that any greater sum was wrongfully used without regard to any law.
 The country, or rather the United States Senate, has before it two out rageous cases in which large sums of money were confessedly employed. In the Lorimer case it is difficult to prove the size of the sum actually used. Enough was used to break down party lines, and republican standpatter was really elected by democratic votes. In the Stephenson case victory was secured at last by procuring the absence of democratic members of the legislature, thus en- abling Stephenson's supporters to elect him in reduced joint session.
 Both Lorimer and Stephenson are standpatters and reactionaries of the Aldrich-P -Penrose type. This need not, however, be considered. The fact that S100, ,0O0 was spent to elect Lori mer and s107,000 to elect Stephenson, is quite enough. The burden of proof is on each one of them. He who can not show that every dollar spent was lawfully used should, and in the pub lie mind will, stand condemned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10

I have received from Acting Director Paul D. Sargent, under date of Wash ington, October :, the following:
 Referring to the road models which we will exhibit at the Selma convention, I have to state that we will supply those showing the following methods of con- struction: Earth, gravel sand clay, plain macadam, bituminous macadam, penetra- tion method, surface treatment or main- tenance of old maeadam, and model showing different forms of drainage. All of these models are three feet wide by five long. with the exception of the drain age model, which is three and a half wide by five feet long.
 ".As I have inferred by our eorre- spohdence with MT. w. S. Keller, state highway engineer of Alabama. that he might wish to keep these models some time after the Selma meeting I have ad- vised him that I would ship them con- signed to him, and have asked him to look after theirs proper installation in. the ex- hibit space. These models will not be ready for shipment until about the middle of next week, and I trust their exhibit will add interest to your convention If necessary, in arranging for the space for the exhibits, suggest that you corre- spond direct with MT. Keller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
Tabulating the Religious Census

No doubt the various churches of the city will acquire from the new census the information they need concerning attendants and non-at- tendants at church and Sunday school. It is, however, expecting too much that the tabulation will show the correct population of the city. It was not taken for that purpose. It was taken without special instruc- tions on that point. It was planned to. separate the sheep from the goats, and this it will do.
 Between haste and errors there is small prospect that the count of heads will be complete. It will, how ever, supply data of a definite na- ture in great detail to the 99 churches of the city, and in that aspect the labor done will surely bring results.
 Following the census will come a campaign that will have for its ob- ject the gathering in of those who expressed church preferences to the census canvassers. The weather was excellent, and if any one went un- counted he should make the fact 1,,,or,,,, +o CaparoI Ma1onar C;r,c o+ the Orpheum theatre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10

suppose the farmer should now de-
 eide that for the time being he would
 withhold a good portion of his crop yet unsold? In the event of the hap pening of any of the foregoing con- tingencies, the demand for cotton would be voracious to the point of frenzy. The climatic and weather contingencies are problematical and are within no mans control; but the curtailment of supply below the re- quisite and expected volume is ab- solutely within the power of the men who are most vitally interested in the issue, namely the producers of the crop. By a concerted resolution to market supplies, not in lump be- tween now and Christmas, but grad ually and equally throughout the months until next August, the farm CTS, in perfectly legitimate endeavor, can cause a stampede for cotton dur ing the next few months, the like of which has been seldom seen. The market in it's very weakness has con- ceived a giant of strength. The farm CT has the opportunity of a genera tion. Will he avail himself of it and benefit not only himself, but the southern country at large? Or will he dump his cotton on the market and enable the spot and contract shorts to satisfy their necessities at their own price? The farmer holds the issue in the hollow of his hand"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
Ercaf Musical Trent

Times band is a revelation to crowds of visitors now in Birmingham to at tend the state fair" said member of the executive committee "It is a noteworthy fact that the ,country peo- pie who have little or no opportunity of hearing famous bands play artistic music enjoy popular programmes such as are presented at the fair and show considerable discrimination in their ap- plause. Hundreds have listened for the first time within the past few days to big concert band. Of the four or five great brass and reed organizations in the United States, the Innes band is second to none, and in the opinion oi many it is the premier concert band of America"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Republican Politics

T. H. Aldrieh, who is supposed to be the leading candidate for the Birmingham postofficeship, has just returned from Washington where he spent last week.
 q did not look up any of the prominent politicians in Washington; did not visit l the national capitol on political business, but while there I heard politics discussed and learned a good deal about the repub- lican undercurrents," said Mr. Aldrieh.
 Senator LaFollette Is an eager candi- date for the republican nomination for the presidency and is busy organizing his forces. He has headquarters in Washing ton and I understand that his headquar- ters will be the center of extraordinarily activity from now until the time for the national convention to meet. I.aFollette will make a special effort to secure southern delegates It was said In Washington that he would soon have an active organization in Alabama. But President Taft is sure to be nominated.
 All that Senator LaFollette can do is to muddy the republican waters. The talk in Washington is that, while Roosevelt will not fight the President openly he is backing LaFolette quietly"
 Asked when the vacancy in the Blr- .mingham postoffice would likely be filled MT Aldrich said he had no information regarding that matter He was inclined to think, however, that as Congress would meet-so after the Presidents return to- Washington no recess appointment would be made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
Pellapra in Tennessee

The Legislature of Tennessee ap- pointed a state commission to inves- tigate pellagra within that state, and it's report has been made public. The commission found cases of the dis ease in 67 of the 96 counties of the state.
 In no instance did the commission find any evidence of any infection except possibly "a house infection" All the evidence it could gather goes to sustain, to some extent, the hy- pothesis of food transmission, and the commission is inclined to consider the consumption of corn meal the source of the disease. It practically con- siders it a product of poverty, bad hygeine and the use of corn meal.
 And yet the commission found cases in well-to-do families in which good sanitation had long been estab- lished. The cases in Tennessee are widely scattered Nothing in the form of an epidemic appeared at any point. Perhaps 95 per cent of the 316 cases examined used as food corn meal, lived in humble, unscreened houses and drank water from springs or wells.
 The Tennessee commission does not for a moment consider it's findings conclusive. Those findings simply add to the increasing knowledge of the disease as it exists in this coun- try. Many statements have been pub lished going to show that the use of corn meal has no part in originating cases of pellagra, but the closest ob- servers still say it does. It is to be hoped the study of the dread disease will go on until the medical profes- sion finds theory relative to its origin and prevention that they will accept. At present physicians are very much puzzled by it. No theory is generally accepted, and the scien- lists are doing great deal of pains taking work in an endeavor to ascer-
 tain how the malady can be eradi- ! cated in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
How the Crop Should Be Marketed

W. B. Thompson, president of the New Orleans cotton exchange, re- views the cotton situation. Be the crop great or small it should be marketed gradually to the end of the cotton year. It is the avalanche of the early months of the year that gives spinners their opportunity. The spinners are buying from hand to mouth in order to depress still fur ther prices. If producers would market their bales with deliberation- if the farmer who has 100 bales would resolve to sell 10 bales a month-the effect would soon be felt by the spinners, and they would make haste to buy cotton.
 We cannot do better than to give MT. Thompson's concluding words. "The spinner" he says, "has either bought contracts to protect his future needs, or else, sharing the general expectation of lower prices, he is speculating upon securing his SUD- plies when the expected avalanche is precipitated in the fall. In any and all events the necessity for mon. strous supply during the months oi October, November and December has been already created. Suppose this supply should not come to mar ket? Suppose an early frost should fall. or that the weather conditions should change from ideal to bad? O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
INFLUENCE OF MAUDE ADAMS

ple message of helpfulness to bring to the world, not only because she brings u With talent, but because she brings it humbly. 4s 1 'ftA fft3 f4 RFf
 This humility is most evidenced in tbe ueep respect she shows for her audi eneeS' upilke many of those possessed or what Is called "the artistic tempera ment' she has the highest regard for ina onngations which she has Undertaken Shs has never missed an advertised ner- toTmance since she has been upon ina Stage-her whole life, lacking the first ii'ne months. But once in her entire ca reef dld she keep an audience waiting mat was a Thanksgiving Day when her moter car was blocked on the Williams burg bridge between New York and brooklyn. Instantly she continued on her waI on foot and ultimately reached the theatre, partly in bridge car and partly in q communicated private motor, Tho curtain at the Montauk theatre was held one minutes. That one minute is all the tine she owes the public.
 And as she holds herself to the strict est account in her relations with the public, so she holds others. Off the stage she is notoriously soft hearted, respon- sive to every appeal, ready to make ex- cuses for every shortcomings But once behind the proscenium arch her cast iron motto is Play the part, sick or well; Ilay 1t so that not even the other actors will notice faults; or else notify the stage manager and have the understudy play" No excuses are accepted here. Outside the theatre if an actor is worried or in trouble she will help him. If he is ill she will pay his bills in a hospital and take care Of him. But on the stage he must play his part like a man. It is his obligation to the public and she is respon- sihe that he fulllls it.
 or all this public the portion which holds first place in Miss Adams esteem IS not that sitting in the high priced seats CT boxes, but the men and women who crowd the balcony For her quick sym rstEy with suffering and weakness af- iects her point of view about her art and the purposes. of drama, as it does. about all things in her life. She believes that the theatre can do much toward comfort ing and inspiriting trouble worn human ity, that 1t is the most potent source of Inspiration that poorer people know, and that the evolution of the stage should make it more so. When on tour 1t is customary for her manager to raise the price of the orchestra seats but she will never permit the price of the gallery seats to be advanced. -
 "They are my people up there," she declares.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
HIGH PRICE OF LIVING
the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
 If you go into a grocery store to buy pound of butter, do you get pound? ? Is there not the weighing of the wood en tray, together with the butter, and do you not pay butter prices for wood? If you purchase a chicken, are not the head and feet and crop weighed5i in the scale with the white meat and drum sticks? Ask a dealer for lamb chops. They are so much without being trim med, and cents more a pound if the chops are trimmed. And then the deal CT weighs the bone, which he cuts out and keeps, although it has been bought at meat prices The flesh is weighed first and cleaned afterward, and so with everything else.
 Some day the American citizen will wake up to the fact that he is paying fearful tribute for these little niceties. But until he does, one of the worst evils in the list that goes to make up the high price of living will remain un- remedied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
VERBAL HYPNOSIS

From the Chicago Evening Post.
 That literature can make one thirsty, that good description can make a read CT long for water. milk, tea, coffee or similar simple drinks" is a theory launched in the London Saturday Review and illusirs ted by him with descrip- tlon of buttermllk that is most tantaliz- ing.
 In all Imaginative people," writes MT. Young, the seusatior of thirst is almost as much literary sense as it is a phys ical enc; it is extraordinarily stimulated by words and ideas. Most of us know some particular food or drink the desire for vhich is stimulated in us by reading ehout it. But the writing must be skill ful. CT, ii not skillfu, artlessly good.
 "The cruder method of the stage pro- duccs the same effect: all smokers have eXperieno ed the almost overwhelming de- sire to smoke which comes upon them when someone lights a cigarette on the stage; and on me, at any rate, those strange ana rapid restaurant meals of the fashionable theatre, when a party sits down at d table and is whrled through six courses in about five minutes, sur rounded by champagne bottles in ice buckets and trays of liquors, have an absurdly exciting effect.
 Tobacco, food and drink are the things which most lend themselves to this kind of treatment-one may call it verbal hyp- nosis. It is a science as yet only par tally understood by advertisers. When 1t is fully understood, advertisements will only be written by the most skilful and imaginative literary artists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
UNREFUTABLE ARGUMENT

From the New York Herald.
 When Mr. James E. Watson, now a practicing attorney in Nashville, Ind. but formerly the republican whip of fhe House and labor republican nominee for governor of Indiana, was once rebuked for applying to a department head for the appointment of one of his followers to q position just vacated by the death of the incumbent, he told this story:
 There was an old fellow out in my town whose wife died, and he proceeded to get her successor in about three days Some of the neighbors didn't think his haste in yoking himself up again was al all proper, and undertook to take him tt task for it.
 See here, Uncle Billie,' said thei spokesman, aren't you rather rushing things? Your wife's been dead an. buried only day or so, and here yol are preparing to get married again. l doesn't look decent to us "'Well, Jeems,' Uncle Billie replied Mandy was always good wife to me but she's dead, isn't she?' 'Of course they had to agree to that. | 2 Well, he continued, do you thini she'll ever be any deader than she il already?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
HOW TO CHEAT TIME
From the London Chronicle.

From t1e LOnuOH fCuTOHlCle.
 Among the most intimate of the Chinese friends of the late Sir Robert Hart was a high official, Wu Ting Fang, who prided himself on his alert manner which made him appear much younger than he was-and boasted that he intend ed to live two hundred years. He once explained how this feat was to be ac- comlpished "The first thing, naturally, is diet" he said. "The man who would cheat Time should live on nuts like the squirrels. Under no condition should he touch salt, and he should begin and end each meal with a teaspoonful of olive oil I have hung scrolls in my bedroom, Wu Ting went on to explain, with these sentences written upon them in English and Chinese. I am young. am healthy I am cheerful Immediately enter the room my eye falls upon these precepts. say to myself, Why, of<course am. ant thereforefI am!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
GRATEFUL.


 According to Col. Bill Aulielx wha in- vents such good press stuff about Tieblrr % Co. Garden of Allah" company that | the newspapers just have to print t. ono or his friends is the box office individual m an uptown theatre. Last winter that theatre housed show which. was a trapped lemon. Billed as a comedy, there wasn't wasn't even a slow smile from the time that curtain rose until it droDped .sSo it got on my friends nerves.,'s said Col ohel Aullck. "One night savage look Ing man, all black mustache and glarine eye, thrust big hand through the win dow. Two seats, he said. in a voca which was a slightly softened roar. For my wife and me-
 My friend was peevish He eave +hot determined looking, muscular persona pe two seats-one on either side of a hugo pillar on the ground floor of the audit tof1um Either ticket holder must hava got up and walked to speak to the others At the end of the first act the furious looking person appeared again in front of the box office window. He turned a level gaze upon my friend, from beneath eyebrows that bristled like wolf skin rugs. My friend began feeling for the box office revolver, when the desperado handed in cigar. Smoke it. he rum Died. It's good. I have enjoyed this show tonight as l haven't enjoyed show in 20 years
 My guilty friend took the cigar and quivered. My wife hasn't been able to say a dern word to me- continued the ruffian on the outside. Are you mar ried man yourself, pal? ''-Cincinnatf Times-Star
 WHAT SAY YOU?
 It takes a wight
 With kindness stored
 Not to sheer at The tariff board.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
New York's Direct Primary Law

The new law is but a start in a boss-ridden state. It does not apply to places on the state ticket-only to district and county officers and mem- bers of the legislature and political committees. A candidate for govern or cannot be selected under it's terms.
 It favors party at every turn. A party committee can make up ticket to suit itself and have the first posi- tion on the ballot. Independent tickets must go to other columns and be got together by petition of per cent of the party strength insthe dis trict concerned.
 The bill has gone to Governor Dix, who will sign it. He plainly does not consider it an ideal law. In a state like New York beginning must be made, and the new law will answer as beginning. The people will soon make the fact known that they con- slider the new law but an initial step, and they will soon demand that the rest of the journey to direct action be taken. In this revolution no state takes a backward step, and New York will not. The mere fact that in a boss-ruled state any primary law at all is adopted is encouraging
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
soufhern ontimism

There is strong tone of optimism in the south that makes me feel good, said Lawrence Sloan of Philadelphia
 In the east business conditions have improved since the first of october and there will probably be fair volume of trade from now until the end ot the year. Of course no one is eXpectlhS a boom ill the near future but owing to the splendid crops in the south this whole section of country Is sure to experience solid prosperity. It is gen erally said that the south as a whole is better off this fall than any other part of the United States. There Will be a general industrial revival, 1t IS thought, in 1913. When boom period does come the south will go forward by leaps and bounds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10
uoImau Hupt,s Great Art

Ford MadoX Hueffers comments on the famous artists of the Victorian period are trenchant and often most illuminat- ing. In his book, Memories and lm- pressions," Hueffer describes Holman Hunt. the painter, breaking away from the religiosity of conventional schools. He tells of the great artist destroy ing "the image of Simon Peter as the sort of artists model that you see on the steps of Calabrian churches, fur lively combing out, with the aid of a small, round mirror, long white hairs depending from his head and face
 MT. Hunt" says Hueffer, lin the realms of modern thought, enormously aided the discovery of wireless teleg- raphy, and in no way damaged the prestige of the occupant of St. Peters chair" In that connection the author goes on to say:
 This truism may appear paradox, And yet nothing is more true than that clearness of thought in one de- partment of life stimulates clearne ss of thought in another. The great ma terial developments of the end of the
  great realistic developments that had preceded them in the arts; the one was the logical corollary of the other. Jus. as you cannot have healthy body in which one of the members is unsound, so you cannot have a healthy national life in the realms of thought unless in all the departments of life you have sincere thinkers, and this is what MT. Hunt undoubtedly was-a sincere thinker.
 ITO say that he was the greatest painter of his day might be superfiuous he was certainly the most earnest be- voild all comparison. That we should dislike the vividness of his color is perhaps the defect of our degenerate eyes, which see too little of the sun light. And such painting as that of the strayed sheep on the edge of the FairIfght cliff, near Pitt--such paint ing is sufficient to establish the paint CTS claims to gifts of the very great | est You have the sunlit sheep, you | have the dangerous verge of the hill you have the sea far below, and from these things you find awakened in you such emotions as Providence has rem dered YOU capable of This, withou doubt, IS the province of art--a prov I ince which perhaps Mir. Hunt, in his hunger and thirst after righteousness | unduly neglected"