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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
Possible Re-establishment of Peace

1t is said Germany and England are striving to end the war between Italy and Turkey by securing to the latter an indemnity from the former for seizing Tripoli and Cyrene, with an international guaranty by the powers of the preservation of the Ottoman empire in Europe. This would save the pride to some extent of Turkey, and Italy would no doubt accept this way out as more economi- cal than war would be.
 Christian Europe has grabbed the greater part of Turkey already anc there is not much left to protect. Macedonia and Albania are, however, full of discontent, and the young Turks may be glad to get assurances that these provinces will not also be taken away.
 It is wholly safe to assure at any rate that Tripoli and Cyrene are lost to Turkey. They have become an Italian colony. The city of Tripoli has already passed into the hands of the Italians. How much of the ter ritory is capable of cultivation is un- known. It has a coast line HOO miles long. It is larger than Italy, . and perhaps as large as a dozen states of the size of Alabama. It was once very populous. No one seems to know to what extent it can be rehabilitated, but if any one can do it the Italians can. Algeria has been finely developed by the French, and possibly Tripoli can be by the Italians. That they will have an opportunity to do so is as certain as anything else in this world is. Turkey has lost her only detached colony, and she will be pretty sure to accept the best terms that are of. fered to her, for her navy is power. less against Italy's.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
SHE DIDN'T LOOK FIERCE

New York Correspondent Cincinnati
 Times-Star
 They said Miss Elisabeth Freeman was the most militant of all the English suf- fragettes. Miss Freeman, they said, was positive death on policemen. It got so bad that London hobbies would hide under wagons when they saw her com ing She never liked to retire at night without having broken up at least one political meeting And she will not be denied" said her American admirers. When she demands that the speaker of the evening answer her questions, he must either answer her questions or have her dragged out of the hall Oh, yes, Elisabeth has been dragged out of num- berless halls. She has been beaten half senseless by the helmets of policemen. Time after time she has been locked up and scolded by magistrates and clubbed by policemen. She is a perfect heroine ''
 Well, you know yourself that after that sort of an introduction wou would ex- peet to see a lady about seven feet tall and wearing harness like truck horse. Miss Freeman has been brought to New 1ork 10 lHStFuct the uOIneStlca SuIraSeltes how to lam policeman in the eye imper- sonally, and how to put a meeting on the bum and yet be a lady We all turned out to attend her first outdoor meeting, being moved thereto by the happy thought that she might bite a piece out of the roundsman. Miss Freeman was slender, blue eyed, soft voiced and posi- lively appealing. Her little speech was right to the point, but she didn't illumi- nate it by arson or invitation to murder. Then she waited for questions and none came And that little, delicate, dainty bit of femininity, in her frilly blue dress, positively blushed. "I am so disappoint- cd, she said. wistfully. lover in Eng land some one always heckles us. Isn't there even drunken man here?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
IN THE HOTEL LOBBIES
| Valuable Work

"Those of us who have been visiting southern fairs during the past 12 or Is years remark with much satisfac- tion the steady advance made in many lines of exhibits" said professional man last night. There has been won derful improvement in our state fair within the past four or five years.
 "yisiting this years fair on tho opening day l was agreeably surprised to find that nearly all the exhibits were installed. There is a splendid agricultural exhibit. It is far greater than anything of the sort ever seen before in Alabama Ten years ago. or even five. such thing as a Corn Pal ace would have been almost unthinS- able Of course, there was never a time that a good deal of corn was not raised in this state, but big corn and large yield to the acre were eX- captions to the rule. It is very differ ent now. Alabama has advanced to the point of raising its own food pro- ducts-corn, truck and orchard fruits When one sees the Corn Palace at the fair he realizes at once that he is Tn
 
 doing today in corn production is only beginning of what will be done In the next two or three years. The Ala bama farmer will not only make all the corn and hay he needs for feed ing stock, but will have corn and hay to ship.
 "Another thing that impressed me at the fair was the womans department bread, cakes, preserves. jellies and grape juice. While a man will do a great deal of knocking if his bread is not well cooked-and he is judge of preserves when eating them at the table-he is not competent authority of course, on culinary exhibits. But Tn general way these bread, cake and preserve exhibitions were so tastetully arranged and looked so tempting that tarried some minutes to take them in "The womans department is lh charge Of Mrs. J. B. Reid who has been looking after similar departments throughout this part of the country during the past 10 years. She has dope great educational work. Fine cakes, preserves and jellies used to be ex- hibited chiefly by ladies living in ar fiuence on the large plantations, but l am glad to learn that many of the finest exhibits at the fair are now made by the wives of small farmers or mechanics in the Birmingham district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
What the People Are Demanding

The Mobile Register, like Gov. Woodrow Wilson, wants a great deal of direct action by the people. It sees nothing but good in it. It cites the widespread change in municipal government, which is proving satis- factory to the people wherever it has been fully applied.
 "The same thing" says the Mo- ble Register, lis happening in na- tional affairs. Popular distrust of professional politicians is spreading very rapidly; and the politicians will be surprised to learn how greedily the new doctrine of popular rule is ac- cepted by the people. For years the people have been unexpectant of bet ter things, and disposed to regard the idea of a strictly responsible gov ernment as something of joke; and very many eschewed politics entirely. Now, however, it is learned that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
PeOns At the Polls

The Madero managers, says one correspondent, brought out tre- mendous vote. This means a great deal The Maderoists stand pledged to abolish peonage in their country They stand pledged to teach the chil- dren of peons to read and write, and to abolish the jefe politicos who rob the peon at every opportunity. Once let it become known that a peon has S100 or even BIO, jefe politico trumps up charges against him until he has secured his money. Francisco l. Madero proposes to put an end to this vile practice.
 A peon's lot in Mexico has been more helpless than that of serf in Russia ever was. He is not exactly a slave, but he has no opportunity to rise from his lowly condition. Under Diaz he was held down by a combination of interests. Under Ma dero he becomes a voter and perhaps he will be given every possible op- portunity, as well as humane treat ment. Madero has a great field be- fore him and if he can wipe out the word peon from the national voca- bulary he will have accomplished a needed and lasting reform. He stands pledged to undertake the task.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
A SOLDIER OF SEDAN

Robert Shackleton in Harper's Weekly
 We could see the lines and lines of helmets A bad sight, to see those hel- met spikes.
 And l cannot remember when it was that there crept through our ranks the feeling that those helmets were not only in front of us, but in every direction round about and that we were surrounded. I suppose 1t came from the sound of firing coming from so many directions.
 Ut is at such a time that one feels a helplessness. And the noise-did tell you of the noise? There were Sin gle booms and crashes of volley fir. ing, and then there would be just one great roaring, one great laundering that deafened you, and in, which you could not tell one sound from another
 There was smoke, snf9l<e, every where, and the ground would tremble when the cavalry made charge.
 q would tell you all that I reinem Der of most interest. But is it interest ing to tell you that shells burst and that our ranks thinned and closed up and that I felt more and more tha' we were beaten?
 q would have wept, but I had toe much to do in firing and in watching the lines of helmets
 'It is that soldier gets full of ar exeitedness. You do thinks, and yor scarcely know that you do them ol why.
 "It was early that day that my com rade was killed. And he jumped III twice. So-so And he fell flat on hi. fact I turned him over, and my cap | tain said: No time for that You are | young soldier or you would know ther, | is no time for that"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
MOrs Comets

A representative of The Age-Herald could not refrain, upon meeting Bir- mingham's amateur astronomer, from asking him. what about the comet?
 "This matter of comets is getting a little irksome,' said the astron- omer. Mother Nature has evidently been much disappointed in Brooks comet which everyone can see in the tail of the evening nearing the end of the big dipper in northern skies. So, l presume. to cover this disappoint- ment, she has given us another comet, for the benefit of those who rise early in the morning. Morning comets are early risers. and, like morning glories. fade rapidly before his majesty. the king of day. But if anyone should De an early riser or, perchance, should be called early to get place in line for glass of beer in this present strug- gle for such worldly comforts, and will turn his eye eastward, he vii. find a small comet with tail to 1t, and if he searches diligently, the big
 dipper, by this time. will have made it's revolution around the north star,
 and he may be able 10 see the faint
 nebulous mass of Brooks comet at the same time.
 "The new comet may be located thusly: Venus is now the morning star and at 4:30 a. m. shines more brightly than any woman's eye ever
 gazed upon lover; about 10degrees due | north of Venus and some five degrees
 at right angles to such point will be found the new comet, allowing for ap- parent measurement about IS inches to @ degree.
 But the best way to see the new comet is to lie abed and wait for The Age-nerald to tell about it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
Birmingham's Progress

"When I first visited Birmingham in 1898 I could see that this town had great future, but I never imagined that it would become such a handsome city as I find it today said J, NJ McNamara of Chicago.
 T have been to Birmingham three or four times, but had not visited this city in recent years until now. The business district is beginning to make very hand some show. When the 20-story bank building at the corner of First avenue and Twentieth street is completed, mak- ing four steel frame structures at the Twentieth street intersection, Birmingham will compare favorcbly in respect to mer- cantile structures with northern cities Three times the size.
 But Birminghams greatest glory from the viewpoint of an occasional visitor IS found on the Highlands. There is not single city in the south that can be compared in beauty with Birmingham, and nearly all this attractiveness is the result of development in less than 10 years.' st A Efe tt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
COLONEL MOsBy,s MEMORY

From The Twce-a-month Popular Mag
 azine.
 Col. John s. Mosby, the fire eating guerrilla chieftain of the Confectionery, walked into a Washington bank one morning, slapped down a check in front of the aged cashier and demanded the money on it.
 1T will have to find some one to identify you" said the cashier. This check is made out to John s. Mosby, but identifica- tion is a rule which we must observe"
 About 100000 shafts of blue lightning were darting from the colonels one eye, when another employe of the bank hur- ried up and said he knew Mosby.
 That old man should have known you, colonel" said the acquaintance. "He was ar officer in the Union army"
 Now that he stands with his back to me, l recognize him perfectly" salu Mosby "I remember having seen it twice -durin gthe war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
WOE.

WOE. A tear-drop dimmed his eye, We asked the reason why Q And then did issue forth this doleful an-
 swer: 'I have nagging wife, With whom l live in strife To put her down I do all that can, sir. But often when I think She's just about to shrink And I will surely get the upper hand,
 sir, She comes so hard at me, I'm shortly forced to flee And even call for help, to beat the band,
 sir.'' Although his tale was sad We muttered this: "Egad. How in the name of reason, can you
 stand, sir, To have your life so harried Fen though to her you're married?" Alas" he sighed, ''the blows that she
 can land, sr.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
A PARABLE.

"There was once a pinch hitter in a baseball team. Every time he went to bat the scorekeeper gave him credit for safe hit. But he was puffed up and troubled with disease called ego. One day this pinch hitter was playing in a game of ball when the score was 1 to l in the tenth inning, and when he came to bat he lost the ball in distant weed patch. He ran around the bases until he came to third base and the great crowd of spectators cheered him loudly. Hearing the great applause, he stopped at third base and taking off his cap he made a very graceful bow to the grandstand. In the meantime the ball had been gathered in from the weed patch and the pinch hitter was put out just before he reached the home plate. Moral: You may be a pinch hitter, but if you stop to congrat- ulate yourself at third base you will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
Unneighborly and Misleading

Birmingham, with population of 150,000 or more, is as orderly as most cities of it's size. All large and rapidly growing cities are full of hustle and the police here, as in other populous communities, are kept busy. Bir- mingham's police records show that under prohibition arrests for drunk enness ran high in numbers. There were fragrant violations of the pro- hibition laws just as there have been and always will be in "dry" cities of large size.
 It was never claimed by advocates of high license and regulation that with the return of the saloon the abuse of liquor would be altogether a thing of the past. But the claim was made that there would be less violation of law, less hypocricy and less degradation than scandalized this city in prohibition days.
 Birmingham has had saloons un- der the Parks-Smith acts one week and from all appearances moral con- ditions have improved. Relatively speaking Birmingham is a clean, de- corous city, as decorous as it is pro- gressive. Prohibitionists may at- tempt to paint it otherwise. By garbling facts certain prohibition sore heads convey the impression to neighboring communities that Bir- mingham is an unsafe town for visi- tors.
 The Gadsden Evening Journal l prints under scare head lines an in- teryiew with "a prominent Gadsden man" calculated to deter timid per- sons from coming to the State Fair. In introducing the interview the Journal says:
 "Will people be safe at the Bir- mingham Fair under the existing con- dition of affairs in that city? This is the question that is being asked by many here"
 And "the prominent man" starts off in this insidious manner:
 ''Is it safe to attend the Alabama State Fair at Birmingham? If safe for men do you not think it very dan gerous for ladies to go to Birming- ham during the Fair? Is it not par ticularly hazardous for ladies to now take advantage of the cheap Satur- day rate to Birmingham on shopping tours as they have been able to do heretofore, before whisky selling was resumed in that city?"
 Now there is not an intelligent, well informed man or woman Tn GadS- den but knows that Birmingham is just as safe city as any other great wide awake center. Prohibition may be a good thing for Gadsden; if pub lie sentiment in Gadsden is on the side of prohibition, then that city will continue under prohibition laws and should so continue, But why should any one in Gadsden be so unneigh- borly as to attempt to keep people away from Birmingham's great State Fair?
 PaonS Al fhe P0llS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press. Small communities are 40 per cent sleep and 60 per cent scandal. A cuddly woman can scratch as sharply as the rest of them when the time comes. You can always tell when girl is go- ing to marry man by the way he thinks she isn't.
 When man suspects you of suspectng that he is lying, there is no doubt what he is doing.
 A man gets all tangled up trying to
 light pipe and talk at the same time, but woman can visit over the telephone, feed the baby. and read letter all at once,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
She, where she comes, appareIrd like
 the spring. -PericIcs
Alabama's Presidential Primary

The precedent of 1908 is a prece- dent still. In that year a presidential preference primary was held, the contestants for the vote of Alabama being Gov. John A. Johnson of Min nesota and William J. Bryan. Shall the democratic policy of 1908 be fol- lowed in 1912?-that is the question. The Mobile Register and the Mont gomery Advertiser say it should be. The rank and file say it should be- come an established policy in this one party state.
 If it is not to be followed the peo- pie will want to know the reason why. They will demand the names of those who reversed the policy of 1908, and they will secure them. Have no doubt on that point.
 There would be no need of nam ing specifically a second choice in a presidential primary. Oscar w. Un- derwood is unquestionably the first choice of the state. The second choice would be the man who re- ceived the second highest vote. The plan is plain and simple. The peo- pie want 1.-the rank and file, that is to say, and the rank and file have rights that all will respect when they assert those rights in good season and in an unmistakable manner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
The Pre-Raphaelites

"One of the most entertaining and in certain degree Illuminating chap ters in Ford Madox Hueffer's Memories and Impressions is the tenth, cap toned "A Literary Deity said an old Boh emian. This chapter contains in- deed deal of solid truth as well as spice. 1t starts off thus:
 |" The log rolling of the seventies eighties, and nineties might be sedate and scientific as in the case of the older organs, or 1t might be uproarious and truoulent. as it was when Henley and his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
UNDERWOOD

From the Knoxville Journal and Tribune.
 Besides making some speeches in his own Alabama district, Congressman Un- Gerwood will speak in other parts of the country. The indications are that he will rot run away from presidential nomina- tion, if one should happen to come his way, and the truth is, his party could do no better than to make him it's candidate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

The Miesion Indians in California use the bath tubs furnished by the govern ment as beds. This is better than to use them as coal bins, as many do in city tenement houses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
OuR CHESS.

OUR GUESS.
 The distinguished walloper. John Arthur Johnson, reiterates and asseverates that he will retire from the ring Will he? We feel quite sure of it. Thus: Mistah Johnsing flat on his back, referee count- ing slowly, some other large chocolate person standing by in an attitude of vic- tcry. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

There are said to be 100000 words in the English language, although William Shakespeare had occasion to use but b. GOO of them, and he expressed his ideas fairly well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
A RARE FIND.

Did you enjoy your vacation last sum- mer?"
 "Oh, immensely. There was a man at the hotel where I stayed who actually seemed to think knew a thing or two."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
ANOTHER WAY TO BORROW MONEY

ANOTHER WAY TO BORROW MONEY From The Twice-a-month Popular Maga-
 zine.
 A stranger blew into a town in New Mexico, and, when he recovered conscious ness, found himself in a poker game, where he gazed into the militant face of the dealer.
 Tn this town," the dealer was saying, "all flushes are barred. We don't play a fiush.''
 ''Ts that the rule all over town?" queried the stranger.
 Tt is,'' said the dealer.
 The game progressed without special in- cident until o'clock in the morning, at which time the stranger found himself holding four aces. It developed later that one of his opponents had gathered to- gether four kings. They bet all the money, all the jewelry, and all the clothing ther had.
 "This hand of mine," the stranger fln- ally said, Hooks good to me. Will you fellows give me two hours to raise moro money.
 They said they would.
 The stranger went to the only bank in the town, and roasted on the steps until the president went in. The president had sat in the game for short while tho night before.
 'T want to borrow s2O,000," the stranger explained to the bank president.
 What collateral have you?" asked the money man.
 For reply, the stranger showed him the 
 breast pocket. The presidents comment was equally brief. He handed the stranger the $90,000.
 This story sounds like a dream too good to be true, but politician from the south- west told it-and politicians never lie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

The newspapers have decided that it is well nigh impossible to work up row between France and Germany. They know better than to fight each other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

pr. Wiley, who is spreading the gos- pei of pure food, receives more chau- tauqua invitations than he can fill. so- licitor McCabe, on the other hand, gets none
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

It has been showing in the Adiron- dacks, but no snow has even tried to fall in Alabama. Under a 9O-degree sun ii would not fall far.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

Pittsburg is boasting the installation of the largest portrait of Andrew Carnegie ever painted. Is size, however, a good standard in art?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

The work on the peace palace at The Hague is progressing even if the calen- dar of cases to be tried is not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06
FINE TRAINING.

 Mrs. Hanch Glover of Howard took elo- cution when sine was a girl and used to shout Back, monster! Not one step near er" and she could make the winds go woo-oo-oo. It was good for her voice and now she can call her children three blocks further than any other woman in town Howard Courant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

The dream of world peace seems 10 have been an illusion. At least it seems so in the neighborhood of the palace in Constantinople.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

The tariff boards appropriations are about to expire and its December report moneX
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

A Long Island millionaire, crack-brained and twisted is preparing to bring Tat tershall castle into an environment that it will never fit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

Turkey is a good deal like a man in Texas who wanted a gun-she wants a navy and she wants it awfully bad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

Africa will soon be parttioned among it's strong European neighbors. To them that hath more shall be given.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

American football promises to be fuller of bloodshed and fatalities than the Tur- co-Italian war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

Tripoli Is not worth having. but Italy feels that il must have something in Africa. even if it be but worthless sand hills,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

MT Taft no doubt begins to fear the crowds that greet him will not vote as they cheer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-06

Governor Floss was overwhelmingly re- nominated, and his opponent is to be Lieutenant Governor Buckingham.