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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
ROLAND WAS A WONDER
But the Best Place for Him Was | Reform School
From the Dallas News.

From the Dallas News.
 Whats that on your clothes?" asked Hollands mother, brushing some gray smears on his little jacket.
 :"That's off the sidewalk" exnlaines Roland; the new sidewalk In front of MT. Gibson's place. It ain't dry yet. and you can take a stick and write your name in it as e-e-asyi"
 Mercy mer' walled his mother. did you write yours?" Roland nodded
 ''I spelled 1t right, too,' he said.
 The mother looked out of the win dow. and beheld old MT. Gibson bend ing wrathfully over his scared cement walk and groaned.
 This living in town,'' she said to Mrs. Monroe, who was calling. "Ill have to move out in the country. I keep telling John that we'll have to-
 It's no place for children" sug- gested the visitor.
 T should say it's not" said Rich some fresh clothes on you" she said to her offspring, and don't you leave the place until tell you"
 Day before yesterday" she said to Mrs. Monroe, Roland and the two Davis children were putting pistol cartridges on the street car tracks and stopped them.
 "A few days ago they found a can of paint and tried to paint the sign off the icemans wagon while he was away from it, and John had to pay the man s2.
 Tt hasn't been a week since the chii- dren - Roland included = turned the faucet of an oil tank wagon, and it left a stream Of oil over three blocks before the driver discovered if.
 I'm going to the country The city is no place for Roland"
 T think you're wise, my dear" said the visitor. And under her breath she added:
 About the only place for Roland Is a reform school"
 But that was before she had dis covered that Roland had punched a hole through the bottom of her shopping bag.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
BIG APPETITES
French Expert Explains Why Litl.
 Men Eat More Than Large Ones

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Lecturing at the Sorbonne, Louis, the eminent French scientist has endeavored to explain the mystery of why little men often eat more portionately than big men. It is well known that the under sized Eskimos eat enormously more than the tall Hindus. Small animals eat more in proportion than large ones, and in everyday life we will often see a little man eat a big steak and trimmings in a restaurant, while at the adjoining ta- ble a six-foot giant weighing 240 pounds finds satisfaction in crackers and milk.
 Professor Lapicque says that the qaunti- " of food consumed is not determined ty the relative efficiency of the digestive organs. On the contrary, the digestive organs are more efficient in small ani- mals because they are more urgently needed. With smaller furnaces and boil CTS inside them, and a relatively larger cooling surface to provide for, the small CT animals must attend to their stolling and maintain their food supply with much more care than their larger companions. Proportionately to its weight a pigeon requires five times as much nourishment as a man; bengal, kind of Oriental finch, six times as much as a pigeon. That is to say, bengal must eat 90 times as fast as a man or die of hunger. If he took to meat eating bXs, way of saving tirae and energy. he would require his own weight of underdone beafstear each day. At the same rate, and allow ing eight hours for sleep; man would have to eat substantial meal every 16 minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
USES OF ELECTRICITY
Novel Machine Is Now Used for Wax
 ing Floors

rom the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 New household uses for the electric motor are being found one by one. This time it Is a machine for waxing the floor. The apparatus, which has just been in- troduced in Berlin, Germany. where 1t was invented, consists of an electric mo- tor, the bottom of which Is formed by strong revolving brush. The motor is con- nected with one of the electric light sock cts: the chambermaid takes hold of the handle and moves the small motor from one part of the room to another until tho whole floor Is polished. The wax is, of course applied before the polish begins. Thus the work can be donc much uuioA. er more perfectly and without any effort on the part of the operator. Every mod ern flat in Berlin Is being provided with one of these electric floor polishers.
 In the old fashioned way the polishing of hardwood floors requires much labor and strength, for the floor has to be covered with wax and this must be rubbed with brushes until the wood Is as smooth as ice and shines like huge mirror.
 This work takes up much times and has to be done quite frequently. In houses with large rooms 1t is so difficult that the maid servants often refuse to do 1t. and men have to be employed for this special purpose.
 In Germany, where carpets covering the whole floor of a. room have nc CT found favor, regular firms have been \ : abolished and furnish the men for waxing the floors, of which every apartment con tans at least one and often several. These men are adeptg at their work and execute it In queer way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
Coffee Market

New York, July 1.-The market for cor- fee futures opened steady at unchanged prices to an advance of points on con- tinuation of the recent covering moVe- ment, European buying and in sympathy with steady cables. Bullish estimate or the worlds visible supply statement IS ol July 1 helped the market during the morn ing in connection with bullish adVlces from Brazil, continued firmness or the spot situation and larger warehouse oe- liveries, and toward the close buying De- came general, with prices advancing sharply. The final tone was firm ana last prices showed net gains of from Il to 26 points. Sales, 5000 bags. July, Il .2oc; August, Il .15c; September, Il 10c; octoper' Il .O6c; November, Il .03c; December Janu- ary, February, March, April May and June 11c.
 Havre was unchanged to 14 franc higher. Hamburg was unchanged to A ptennlg higher Rio unchanged at 7sx650; Santos, 100 reis higher, As 7sx10O0; Is 6sx5Oo. Receipts at the two Brazilian ports, z5'-
 900 bags, against 32,000 last year. Jundlahy
 receipts, 15,2 POO. against 25O0 last year. New
 York warehouse deliveries yesterday, 22.-
 8s2, against 4S46 last year. Early estl-
 mates indicate a decrease between 6Oo,.
 and 7OO,o0o bags In the worlds visible
 supply of coffee in the month of June, comparing with a decrease of about ooS,-
 000 last year.
 Spot firm. Rio No. T, 1S1sc; Santos No.
 4, 13ssc: both nominal. Mild firm; Cor
 dova, 13115c nominal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
SELECTING CIGARS
Only an Expert Can Pick the Genuine
 Article

From the St. Louis Post-Despatch.
 Do you know how to distinguish a good cigar from a bad one without smoking them? If you do you are laboring under a delusion, according to Sydney Brooks, on English writer, who has been studying the cigar, it's manufacture and cigar fallacies at Havana for the London Times.
 "The best of all my experiences in Ha- vana' he writes, has been to talk with the expert heads of the great, factories and to find them pokng scornfully good humored finger through nearly all the average smokers most cherished the- ories. The average smoker believes a dark wrapper means a. strong cigar and a light wrapper a mild one, and he is ab- soutely wrong. There Is no connection whatever between color and strength Squeezing cigars and smelling them are equally as falacious as tests of quality So, too, Is the color and firmness of the ash: the notion that the whiter the ash and the longer it stays on the better the cigar, is altogether erroneous. The best Havanas burn with clear, steel-gray ash, and It's duration and length are mainly determined by the size of the pieces used in the filters.
 Then again, the men in Havana. heed less of the club regulations they are shat tering. Insist that spotted cigar means less than nothing, so far as quality, whether good or bad, Is concerned that the barometer affects cigars far more than the thermometer; that the silky looking wrapper is as much to be avoided as the veiny one or the one that is oily in patches: that cigars should neither be so soft as to yield readily to the pressure of the fingers nor so dry as to craclSle; that most of the talk about condition is pure ignorance. the Americans being right in preferring a moist cigar and the English being equally right in pre- ferring a dryer one. the vital point in each case being the proper period of recovery from the seasicslness that cigars contrast as easily as their smokers, q period that varies with the length of the voyage; that except for the expert who has given his whole life to the business, there are virtually no outward indica- tions that can be relied upon in ehoos- Ing a cigar and that for the average man, the only real test is somking it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
OLD CROP SHOWS
 SAGG|NG TENDENCY
New Crop Is Sustained By the DrOuth Complaints
 From Southwest

New York. July 1.-The cotton market was very quiet today and ruled irregular with the close steady net points lower to points higher. Tn general way old crop positions showed a sagging tendency owing to lower cables than expected and to relative weakness Of the near months in the Liverpool market, while the new crop was sustained by drouth complaints from the southwest, notwithstanding con- July bureau on Monday. The market opened steady at a decline of points to an advance of points. Business seemed to be largely In the way of evening up for over the weekend. the government figures and the holiday on Tuesday.
 There was scattering liquidation of bear positions, and while new crop months eased off after the call under realiz- ing or a. little local selling which may have been inspired by the western belt forecast suggesting the possibility of showers in southwest Texas over Sunday. offerings of the fall and winter deliv- cries did not become aggressive and the close showed rallies from the lowest The condition report of local trade paper making the average S5.9 per cent seemed rather less favorable than private re- ports published earlier in the week, but 1t indicated an improvement of about 2 per cent in the condition of the cron for the month. which, added to the govern ment figures of last month, pointed to an official condition of about So per cent or closely in line with the average of local trade expectations. There was nothing In the days trading to indicate any change of attitude with reference to the government report. and 1t looked as though the expectation of high bureau report was offset in speculative circles by unfavorable Texas reports based on the continued dry weather. Receipts at the ports today. 1860 bales. against S76 last week and 1859 last year. Today's receipts at New Orleans, 63 bales. against 4e5 last year, and at Houston none, against l,5 last year.
 New York Cotton Futures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
HOT WEATHER
 RAISES WHEAT Every Staple on Exchange Is Affected By Wealth
 CT Reports

Chicago, ergly Hot weather today The wheat market in particular was af- fected by apprehension regarding what might happen to the growing spring crop northwest. In consequence closing figures were 1s@54c to Ssc higher than last night. Corn made a net gain of ssc to 7s@1c, oats Ac to 1sc and hog products 21sc to 321ac.
 There were many reports that the area of damage to wheat in North Dakota was spreading. Other dispatches told of ex- tremely high temperatures all over the northwest, and declared the crop in south western Dakota was almost failure. A strip in southwestern Minnesota appeared to be little If any better. Besides the weather the bulls had in their favor the fact that deliveries here were unusually small, only 15oo bushels instead of 2,0oo.- 900 bushels predicted. A decrease in local stocks at Liverpool helped make bull sentiment, and so did less favorable crop advices from Russia. The upward ten dency of the market, however. was checked by traders being indisposed to expand commitments, three holidays im- mediately at hand proving too much of an obstacle. Accordingly, not all of the ad- vance scored was held, put the closing tone was firm. During the day Septem- Der ranged from S99sc to 90l4c and in the end was 1s@54c up at soc.
 The corn crowd paid most attention to assertions that their cereal had suffered in Kansas from firing. Then, too, the weeks receipts at primary centers eX- hibited a. sharp falling off. September fuctuated between 611hc and 62Ac, closing steady at 62c, net rise of Aq7sc. Cash grades were firm. No. 2 yellow finished at 59AG60c.
 Profit taking acted as drag on oats. Nevertheless the market displayed con- siderable strength, heat and the bulge in corn being chiefly responsible.
 High. and low points for September were 44a4c and 44Ac with close 4c net higher at 441ka445sc.
 Provisions swung upward because Of heat lifting the price of corn. At the last bell pork had become more expensive by 25o to S21ac, lard was 21Ac to sc dearer and ribs were increased in cost 121sc to 15c.
 Future quotations were as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
New York Cotton Futures
Daily Cotton Movement

Galveston: Quiet; middling, 15c; net receipts. 143; gross receipts, 143; sales, 4; stock, 1876; coastwise, 1S1.
 New Orleans, Quiet: middling. 15 1-16c net reicepts 6S; gross re- wise, S97
 Mobile: Nominal; middling, 14Ac; stock, 760; coastwise, 15.
 Savannah: Steady: middling, 151-16c: net receipts, 217; gross receipts. PIT; sales 3S; stock, 21,532.
 Charleston: Nominal stock, 5So9.
 Wilmington: Nominal; sales. IF; stock, 290; coastwise, 965
 Norfolk: Quiet; middlng 14%c; net receipts, 40; gross receipts, 40; sales 15; stock, 5755; coastwise, 27.
 Baltimore: Nominal; middling, 15Hc; stock, 913.
 New York: Quiet; middling, 14.S0c; gross receipts. 59 sales, 1908; stock 20, 120; to Great Britain, 536; coast wise, 159.
 Boston: Quiet; middling, 14.SOc; net receipts, z; gross receipts, 775: stock, 9127.
 Philadelphia: Quiet; middlng, 15.o5c; stock 1925.
 Pensacola: Net receipts, 1928; gross receipts. 1928; to Great Britain, 1928.
 Jacksonville: Net receipts, 262; gross receipts. 262; coastwise, 262
 Total today at all ports, net 1860; Great Britain, 1764; stock. 211,963.
 Consolidated at all ports, net 1860.
 Total since September 1 at all ports net S,451,4S5; Great Britain 3,246,222; France, S99,3 30S; continent, 1,994,973; Ja- pan, 14S,766; Mexico, 2075.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
Montgomery Markets

Montgomery, July 1.-(special)- Spot cotton was quoted in Montgomery today as follows: Middling, 149sc; strict middling, 14Ac. zoe retail. Chickens and hens are rating from 20c to 45c.
 Potatoes-Seed, per bushel, $1.
 Lemons-Messina, per box, T.50.
 California black-eyed peas. 6c per pound. Onions, s1 80 to g per crate.
 Peaches $2 to g. 20 per crate
 Bacon--Ribs, 10c; bulk, 91A@9%c.
 Lard-Pure, 9l4c basis; fancy cotton oil lard, SEC; packers compound, Sc.
 Butter-Creamery firsts, 26c and 27c; country. 11c and 15c; renovated. 2Oc to 211lc
 Flour-Fancy, nominal, straights, $3S5 to B. 9o patent, s4.6O to s5: extra fancy patents, s6 to s625.
 Meal-Standard 96-pound bags, $.I; per lection underground, $1.4T.
 Coffee-Ordinary, 14tac to 15lac; prime, 16c to 1Sc; fancy, 2oc to 22c; peabery. 221ac; Arbuckle's, s22.10 per case, New York ba sis; Mocha and Java blend. 271ac. Sugar-Granulated, 5Ac; Y. C., SAC; fancy Y. C.. 0isc.
 Full cream cheese, daisies. 15c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
New Orleans Cotton Market

New Orleans. July 1.-Cotton futures opened steady. ? points off to 3 points up. Cables were considerably lower than due, but no attention was paid to them. The absence of rains in Oklahoma and Texas was the dominating influence and shorts covered on it, while there were indica- tions of fresh buying for long account. First prices were the highest in the early trading. The forecast promised cloudy weather in Texas with showers in the south portion of east Texas, and at the end of the first half hour of business the active months were points down from the highest on 1t. The market was in waiting attitude pending the government report on condition.
 The market was very dull from the mid dle of the morning on. and the range of prices was over only to points on the most active months. The demand was chiefly from shorts who wanted to cover the week end. Offerings came from liqui- dating longs. Brokers representing lead ing long interests showed a disposition to offer support every time the market acted as if it wanted to sag. The close was steady 3 points down to up, com pared with yesterdays closing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
Hubbard Bros. & Co.'S Letter

New York, July 1.-(Special)-W good cables and little change in the Texas situ- ation our market is steady at a slight improvement. waiting the bureau report of Monday and confused by the holidays. The Journal of Commerce estimate of condition was 21 better than last year, but was of no effect upon the market Trading is light, some evening up of in terests and some nervousness over the contradictory private Texas advices. Should rain not come soon the advices of injury will have marked influence they are now offset by reports of good condi- tions. Bradstreet's crop summary is most encoura ging. The market is local, expect ing a high bureau estimate on the Sd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
CRAWFISH STORY
This One Lived for Year Encased
 in Ice

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Frogs and toads are evidently not the only creatures able to survive a lengthy burial alive. A little common crawfish was recently restored to his native ele- ment, alive and kicking, after being inn prsoned since the winter before last in | a solid block of Ice. This particular craw- fish began his unusual adventure when a small prairie river froze up fer the season and caught him mapping too near the surface. In time his prison became rart of the annual ice crop, and until this spring he slept in an icehouse. Still unnoticed, he passed into the melting salt- pess of an ice cream freezer and thence into dish. There melted out at last, someone came across the crawfish, quite alive, though not kicking very much. That someone was a good Samaritan. He took the crawfish home and gave it the run of a tub of water Once in it's native element the crawfsh appeared little the worse for ite experiences, and soon was SO fit that 1t was given the. greater freedom of neighboring creek z. 1s g
 Just about this season of the year a good many people will be inclined to envy the crawfish the icy dwelling he sd long inhabited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
CANADA'S GOLD COINAGE
Currency Parity of Importance, Espe-
 cially If Reciprocity Is Secured
om the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 For the first time in its history Can ada Is going to have gold coinage of it's own, from it's own mines an with it's distinctive markings. Hitherto the Eng fish sovereign has been legal tender on the basis of S4.S6 The American 50 and $10 gold pieces and their multiples have been legal tender at their face value By a new convention between this coun- try and Canada the gold coins of the latter are to be of exactly the weight
 and fineness of our own and to be inter- 1 changeable as legal tender This h done under. a constitutional provision adopted at time when the United States had no metal currency at all.
 Up to this time Canada has coined fractional silver, and it's government has issued notes for s4. s2 and $1 and for 20 cents, banks issuing larger notes. As a result there is to be an exact parity in the currency of the two countries, which will be of importance in our trade relations especially if reciprocity is secured According to the official statements of the state mems yearbook, there Is a trifle more than a mill in the dollar difference be- tween the standards of value of the two countries, but this may be mis- statement or Canada may be making slight change. In any event parity is to be secured
 canada taxes tnlS acton as Tor her own benefit. and it is the highest tri- bute to the relations which exist be- tween the two countries and which are certain to increase when reciprocal trade relations are established. If there was ever any doubt of the value of the new treaty, President Taft's speech in Chicago last Saturday night must have dispelled it in the minds of right thinking persons. Neither nation is going to give up any special ad- vantages or privileges of it's own. That would be false economy. But a re- ciprocal arrangement which benefits both and injures neither Is what is sought and what is certain to be se- cured unless selfish interests prevent
 It is nonsense to talk of political union between Caada and the United States. but, short of that the relations between the two countries should be complete, especially as very rapidly there Is being injected into the latter coutry such a large number of former American citizens that 1t looks as if a generation hence the red line on the map would be the principal division bA, tween two homogeneous peoples.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02
Live Stock Market

| Chicago, July 1.-Cattle: Receipts POO; market steady. Reeves, $4 4.65G6.75; Texas steers, s4.5O16: western steers, $4.7od5. 75; stockers and feeders, s .25@5.40; cows and heifers, g. .25G5. 75; calves, $5.75@S. Hogs: Receipts 10000; market strong to a shade higher than early for good hogs. Light. s6 .sO96 75; mixed. 6.S5G67 IT; heavy. se. 2o@6 70: rough SC. 2Odl6 35; good to choice heavy, $6. 35@6.70 pigs, s5.90@6.50; bulk of sales, se.506s.65.
 Sheep: Receipts 9000; market weak. Ma lives. S2 5Oa14. 40 western. g. 75G4 40; year. lngs, s4.25G5. 10; lambs native, A.5O@ 7.55; western, s4.5O@7.50.
 Kansas. City. July 1.-Cattle: Receipts 15o, including 50 southerns; market steady. Dressed beef and export steers, $61650: western steers. 4.60d6. 25; stockers, sS. 75G 5. 40; southern steers, S4@5.5 30; southern cows. s2. .6064 .50; native cows, $..400f5; native heifers. s4. 25d4.3o; calves, $416. 70. Hogs Receipts 2400; market strong to , cents higher Bulk of sales, s6. 40d6 50; heavy. S6. .400l6. 45; packers and butchers, s6. 4oa6. .5O lights. s6.4OG6.50.
 Sheep: Receipts 200; market steady. Lambs, s5.7567; yearlings. A.25d4 75; wethers. s3.75@4.15 ewes, $S6S5o; stock CTS. s2Gs.
 St Louis. July 1.-Cattle: Receipts 300, including 100 Texans; market steady Dressed beef and butcher steers. A.50@ GEO; stockers and feeders 2.65q4.75 Texas and Indian steers, SS.2o@6.
 Hogs: Receipts 61OO; market cents higher Pigs and lights, s4.50@6.75; pack CTS. SC. .65@6.75; butchers and best heavy, ss 6566 75.
 Sheen: Receipts HOO; market steady Native muttons, s3d4 lambs, $3d7 50; culls and bucks, $2@2.75; stockers, $l.2' G3 O0.