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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-07
THREE COMPOSERS

From My Life and Adventures by
 George Augustus sala-
 My mother, prior to her widowhood, had known Von Weber during his visit to London in 1926. He was a frequent visitor to our house in New street, and have a water color drawing of the il- lustrious German composer in a gray dressing gown, sitting In a large pink and white striped covered fauteuil, his head sunk on his breast and looking desperately il. Beneath is the inscrip- tion Alas, poor Karl Maria.' The great musician died, indeed in London of consumption, on the 9th day of June, in the year named.
 The animated and witty composer, Meyerbeer, was very attractive socially. and my parents were as fond of him as of his operas, wrote the Princess von Rackowitza. ] became very friendly with his amiable daughter, Cornela.
 Every day she took long walks with her father In the country surrounding Nice and sometimes I was allowed to accompany them. But dS MeyerDeer was mostly In the throes of composition during these walks, it was strictly for bidden to utter a word.
 Cornelias father really only took her with him to prevent his falling or hav- Ing an accident, as he generally rushed onwards with wide-opened eyes wnen beheld nothing but his own imaginary world.
 Meyerbeer and Rossini In spite of all their rivalries were the warmest of friends.
 Rossini once said, "Meyerbeer and I can never agree" When someone in surprise asked why, he replied, Meyer beer likes sauerkraut better than he does macaroni."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-07

Turkey has abandoned the harem skirt and the western nations are about to adopt it in occasional spots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-07

The coronation has small political sig nifcance, but great trade. opportunities.
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Champion Johnsons skull is thick, but the information that he must spend 25 days in jail got through it.
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POLITICS.

POLITICS. Let the people rule," Said an office seeker; stubborn as q mule, Ne'er seemed mortal meeker. When he got his job Soon gave up his attic: cut loose from the mob Waxed so autocratic His constituents Cried out Come and kick us, At our own expense Darn! we've let him trick usr'
 CONSOLING THOUGHT. No matter how fat a woman gets to be, she can still gad about in an automo. bile.
 A SAD CASE What makes the wrinkles on his brow? Hes paying alimony now The courts decree demands much more Than ever he gave up before And oft he wishes he'd dropped dead Upon the day when he was we'd And swears by all the stars above There's no such thing as perfect love.
 IDLE CURIOSITY. Tt was Mark Twain who told how the mules blushed at the jokes banded about by the ladies at the court of King Ar thur"
 Yes. I'd like to see how a self-respect- ing mule would conduct himself at a mod ern problem play.'
 TWO DANES.
 They gan to spat--
 Oh, get the hook!
 One said, You cat,
 You stole my cook,''
 ANYTHING WRONG? Are the midsummer magazines out yet?"
 "No They must be late"
 A QUICK REVERSAL. This rain,' he said, wont vex me much, For I'm cheerful feller," Then roared aloud, Tt beats the Dutch. Who stole my new umbreller?"
 A SEVERE TEST ''Twickle hardly deserves to be called a cynic."
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will be fully developed when the book is published. The wide range of empire, from New York to St. Louis and Wash ington to Mexico, affords the requisite field for the development of plot and pas sions, and a primary election lends the finishing touch to the remarkable things that take place.
 There is every reason to wish MT. Hans brough success. The great American novel has been long in promise, but short in fulfillment. They do this sort of thing better elsewhere-in London, for instance
 But even there the appeal has been more to the intellect than to the heart Dis raeli's statesmen were majestic lay fig ures, rather than real flesh and blood Hrs. Humphrey Wards psychological studies begin in the drawng rooms of staid, ,and commonplace convention, only to end in the dreary moorlands of illogical inconsequence. Ellen Thornycroft Fow- Ter fills the mouthssof her embryo parlia- menteers with impossible epigrams which never man spalxe since the world began, unless it were John Drew, and he has to memorize them carefully beforehand. In our own country. Twain and Warner tried the game in the "Gided Age" but no one remembers any of the characters ex- cept the delicious Sellers, while Mrs. Hodgson Burnett has led us delightedly but unconvincingly through one adminis- tration
 If these master writers have tried and failed, 1t would seem that the redoubtable Hansborough has attempted the impossi- ble. But who can say? It may be that the long looked for is about to arrive. If so, then Hansborough the novelist will be- come immortal, fitted to pass above Dick ems and Thackeray, and sit down by the side of the great Balzac himself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-07

Austria will have to borrow a great deal of money if she persists in staying in the naval game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-07

Chicago begins to think it is about time fourth Chicago man should be named for the cabinet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-07

Buffalo Bill will not wear the attire of 0 wild west hunter if he should be elect ed to the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-07

The republicans think the democratic harmony is too beautiful to last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-07

The snow belt is getting tired of buck wheat cake and sausage weather.
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Perhaps not. but Twiekle confesses
 that he can't help questioning the sin
 certy of woman who pretends to like baseball"
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The professor vote fell below the Hinky Dink vote in Chicago.
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CONSOLING THn1-.

CONSoLING THOUGHT. No matter how fat woman gets to be, she can still gad about in an automo- bile.
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The playful zephyr has no effect on a harem skirt.
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MIR. PERCY,s CONDITION

Mexico is full of post-mortem reform CTS
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And swears by all the stars above
 There's no such thing as perfect love.
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mission government can cut this states man out.
 George Ade has been working for S2 a day as a member of an Indiana jury and yet he did not need the money
  Turkey has abandoned the harem skirt and the western nations are about to adopt it in occasional spots,
  Champion Johnson's skull is thick, but the information that he must spend 25 days in jail got through it. | Austria will have to borrow a great deal of money if she persists in staying in the naval game. Buffalo Bill will not wear the attire of wild west hunter if he should be elect ed to the Senate. Chicago begins to think it is about time fourth Chicago man should be named for the cabinet.
  The snow belt is getting tired of buck wheat cake and sausage weather.
  The republicans think the democratic harmony is too beautiful to last The professor vote fell below the Hinky Dink vote in Chicago. The playful zephyr has no effect on harem skirt. Mexico is full of post-mortem reform CTS
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, | postoffice as second-class matter under act of Congress March 8. 1879.
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SAD CASE. What makes the wrinkles on his brop,o Hes paying alimony now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-02
RULE OF REASON"
 IN WHEAT PIT

Chicago, June 1.-There was a pictur- esque finish yesterday for the alleged cor ner in May wheat, but the scene was not of the sort that was expected.
 Instead of hundred of excited brokers shrieking at each other in the trading pit on "change," the close was of such a diff ferent kind that some of the traders sat down comfortably on the steps and whiled away the time laughing and joking.
 Instead of shorts being squeezed with out mercy. the final price for May de- livery was $1 .04%, a rise of only 1%c, com- pared with the figures at the close of the previous days trading. Wheat kept the market from soaring, and was due to the fact that representatives of the interests behind the so-caled corner let go of enough wheat to supply all demands at very moderate advance.
 Recent activity of the government in prosecuting illegal combinations of all kinds and the action of the board of trade directors in appointing committee to investigate all irregularities in the trade here were ascribed as the principal reas- ons why the men credited with controll- ing the market were willing to relent and show that even in the wheat pit there Is such thing as the rule of reason" and mercy. This at least was the prevailing view. Quite few dealers, however, de- ciared that the conditions which kept the price down were natural ones, and that the holders of wheat were simply giving way to shrewd desire to unload.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-02
COTTON MARKET
 |S VERY QUIET Business Is Evening Up for Federal Governments
 Report Today

New York, June 1.-The cotton market was very quiet today and fluctuations comparatively narrow, with business the government crop report tomorrow and with the close steady. net 3 points lower to 1 point higher.
 The opening was steady at an advance of 214 points on better cables than ex- pected and rather lower condition report than looked for from a local trade paper. Prices eased off from the best during the early trading. however, owing to the re- ports of showers in the Carolinas and another condition report from a local au- thorty which was more in line with ex- pectations as to the showing of the gov ernment's figures tomorrow.
 There was no aggressive selling on the set back On the contrary trade interests were buyers around the closing figures of yesterday and following the official fore casts for dry and continued warm wealth CT In the south. the market steaded up on covering or scattering bull support. Ralizing checked the advances after &C., tive positions had shown a net gain of from 2 to points and the market later eased off, with the active months closing generally to point lower.
 Of the two private crop reports issued today, one eublished before the opening, made the condrion S3.8 per cent and fore casted an increase of 5.5 per cent in acre age. The other. which was made public just after the opening, reported a condi- tfAp af t.ap cnnf nd acftv tad oaf age increase of 5.4 per cent. A canvass made of local trade resulted in GA esti- mates averaging 85.4 per cent as the prob able showing of the government today. and it seemed to be the idea among local traders that an acreage increase of from 5 to 6 per cent was most generally ex pected. The government report, which Is due at noon tomorrow, will compare with S2 per cent last year and S0.9 per cent the 10-year average
 High temperatures in the southwest at- tracted much attention during the day but seemed to stipulate no fresh buying of consequence on the eve of the official re- port:
 Port receipts today 3703, against S027 last week and 5516 last year. For the week 5000, against 41,159 last week and A,743 last year. Today's receipts at New Or leans 414 bales, against 3212 last year. and at Houston 6S3, against 713 last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-02
STATE NORMALS TO
 ELECT FACULTIES

Montgomery, June 1.-tSpecial.) )-Presi- dents of the state normal schools will meet in Montgomery at the state capitol on Wednesday morning. June ', for the purpose of agreeing upon course of study for these institutions. On the fol- lowing day the state normal school board will hold a session at the capitol, at which time the result of the normal college pres- iderts' agreement will be presented to the board.
 Announcement of these two meetings have been sent out by Superintendent of Education Henry J. Willingham, who is the ex-officio secretary of the normal school board. In writing of the meet ing of the board of trustees of the nor nal school. Superintendent Willingham said:
 This meeting Is of the highest im- portance, being held for the purpose of selecting faculties, adopting rules and regulations, and, in fact, reorganzing the work and the management of these institutions. The governor urges you to be present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-02
Montgomery Markets

Montgomery, June 1.-(Special.-Spot cotton was quoted in Montgomery today as follows: Middling, 15Ac; strict mid ding, 15ssc.
 Eggs at retail are still selling at 2Oc wholesale price, 15c.
 Chickens Broiling size are selling for 25c; frying size for 35c: hens are going at 50c.
 Dried apples: Dime brand, TIC pound; {; one-pound cartoons, Sc pound; 4s pack ages to case.
 Florida grapefruit: Size S0 s325 box; size GA, s35O box; size 46 and 54, $3.75 box.
 Florida oranges: 126 size, $2.15 per box: 15O, 17e 20O 216, $2.50.
 Lemons Extra fancy Messina (new crop), SAYS box; fancy Messina, 36O. $4.5O box.
 Prunes: Griffin and Skelley, package 4o-5O, 25-pound boxes, Sc pound; 59-6O, 25-pound boxes, TIC pound; 60-7o, 25- mound boxes, 7c pound.
 Danish cabbage. in sacks. 11kc per pound.
 Onion sets: Reds, 32-pound bushel crates (sman stock), $1.60 per crate; yell lows. 3o-pound bushel crates (small stock), $15O per crate; whites, 32-pound bushel crates (small stock), $2.30 per crate.
 Turnips = Canadian stock. barreled sacks, S2 per sack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-02
Hubbard Bros. & Co.'s Letter

New York, June 1.-(Special)- Liver pool the weather report was construed
 adversely to the crop and relatively ber- ter market prevailed there, especially upon the October position These advances brought about better market during
 the morning but slow decline in the afternoon due to showers in the Atlantic states, the consideration of the crop re- ports of the Journal of Commerce, the Chronicle showing an increase in tho acreage of from to per cent and bet ter condition than last season in the large producing states. Small transactions were the feature of the day, as few de- sired to have any definite position before the publication of the government acreage tomorrow at noon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-02
ACTIVITY IN THE
 GRAIN MARKET Five More Cars of Missis- sippi Alfalfa Are Ex-
 pected Soon

Business with the feed merchants of Morris avenue was exceptionally good yesterday. No shipments were received. but the markets were well supplied. and all orders were easily taken care of. Five more cars of Mississippi alfalfa are ex- pected to arrive within the next few days. The hay which the Mississippi farmers have been shipping in Is fine looking and dealers are failing In their attempts to se- cure adequate shipments to satisfy the unceasing demand.
 No changes were reported on fowl Thursday. Hens are offered at 12c per pound, while spring chickens are selling for 25c per pound. Fresh eggs retain the price of 17c per dozen.
 The following are current quotations:
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cash quotations were as folloWs:
 F'lour-Steady.
 Rye-No. ?. 91G93c.
 Barley-Feed or mixing, 60d70c; fair to choice malting, S0d90c..
 Flax Seed-No. 1 southwestern, nom- inal; No. i northwestern, nominal. Timothy seed, $12.
 Clover, $1575.
 Mess Pork-Per barrel, s15615.25.
 Lard-Per 100 pounds, $S.10.
 Short Ribs Sides-Loose, $7.371a6lS. .121s Short Clear Sdes-Boxed. $. 121s9S .25. Butter-Easy; creameries, 1Sd22c; dali res, 16G20c.
 Eggs-Steady; receipts. 27,s7o cases; at mark, cases included, 12612s4c; firsts, 14c; prime firsts, 15c.
 Cheese-Steady: daisies, 111kd11%c; twins, 10s4@11c; young Americas, 111aa11Ac; long hornes, 111kq11kc.
 Potatoes-Steady; new, $1 .10@1 .15; choice to fancy, old, 37940c.
 Poultry-Firm; turkeys, live, 12c; fowls, live, 13c; springs, dressed, 22@26c.
 Veal-Steady; 50 to 60-pound weights. 70 71kc; 60 to S5-pound weights, 8G9c; S5 to 110-pound weights, 9G10c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-02
BUYING FORCE RAISES WHEAT Statements By the Crop Ex- perts Help to Put
 Prices Up

Chicago, June 1.-Energetic buying force appeared in the wheat market to- day, and put prices up with the help of statements by crop experts intimating the condition in the winter belt as 3 to per cent less favorable than month ago. At the close the advance varied from 1c to 1a4c higher than last night All the other leading staples. too showed a net gain. corn A9Hc to %c oats 7sc to 1lsc, and provisions 71aq10c to 25c.
 At one time July wheat reached a level Pc above the final figures of yesterday. As a result the question was promptly raised as to whether new "corner" was being attempted, although the echoes of the May deal were still to be heard. Ac- cording to some authorities the leaders who have recently been prominent on the bull side were taking hold of the July option and were doing so on big scale.
 A favorite theory to explain this action was that the trade had been too generally bearish In the new crop months, expecting a development of weakness with May contracts out Of the way. In this con- neotion 1t was noticed that there was much selling of September on the part of tho chief purchasers of July.
 Very little reaction from top prices took place, and the day ended with opinion divided as to whether the bull interests were lined up for only temporary drive or had in view long pull taking chances on crop accidents later in the season. During the day July ranged from S9Ac to 911sc. closing firm 1s4c up at 807sc. Corn was well supported all day. Lightness of country offerings furnished one of the main reasons. Another cause was that the Argentine surplus was officially re- ported to be so small as to leave nothing for export July f1uctuated between 63Ac and 54ssc, with the close steady at 54lsc, a net gain of a4QBc.
 Trade in oats was lively and prices sharply higher. Country sold very little, and the east bought in a manner that was decidedly brisk. The shortage of the hay crop was decided factor. Figures were also current purporting to show the condition of the oats crop Is the lowest since the failure of 1907. High and low points reached by July during the ses- sion were 36%@367sc and 35asc, with last sales 5sc net higher at 36ssc.
 Buying of provisions was stimulated be- cause of the grain strength and the good cash trade. In consequence pork at the end of the day was 20G25c dearer and there was an advance of 715010c to 1O6 121ac for lard and ribs.
 Future quotations were A follows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-02
D|NSMORE WRITES
 OF THE H0OKWORM

Montgomery. June 1. - (Special) = Dr. William W. Dinsmore, the execu- tive head of the Rockefeller commission In Alabama, has written an article for the Worlds Work showing the method of treating hookworm patients in this state. In his article, pr. Dinsmore deals largely with the dlspensary system of treatment, which has been operated with great success in Alabama.
 The total number of patients treated up to the present time is 9525. and five counties have been visited by the field workers. The greatest number of pa- tients in any one county has been in Coffee county, in which there have been 3951 patients. The number of cases in the four remaining counties are as fol- lows: Houston, 576; Geneva, 1929; Dale, 1915, and Covington, 235f.
 Dr. Dinsmore's article shows that there are three field men engaged Tn the work, and that the total number or dispensaries that have been operated for the treatment of the disease IS zo. The average per day since the commis- sion has been in operation in this state is S9 cases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-02
CONF|lEH TONE
 ON SlQ[k MARKET Weakness Disappears and Hopeful View Removes
 Recent Misgivings

New York. 56bt:1| pfbe strong and con fident tone of the stock market today seemed to indicate, fiat the misgivings which were felt sok recently had given way to a more hopeful view. The acute weakness of yesterday disappeared the recovery which began shortly before the close of the preceding session being car ried forward steadily. The announced plans for the readjustment of the finances of the HiIl railroads was perhaps the most powerful factor In improving sen timent
 That the management of the Hill roads should have selected the present time for the announcement of such huge finan- cial transaction was accepted immediate ly as manifestation of confidence that the present situation at the bottom was sound. It also was pointed out that such a transaction, leading to closer union of the Gerat Northern and Chicago, Bur lington and Quincy might have been un- dertaken less readily before the rendi- ton of the Standard Oil and American Tobacco gave a more definite idea in which way the Sherman law was to be construed, Great Northern preferred ad- vanced points and North Pacific almost as much, making new high records for the year. Chicago, Burlington and Quin- cy joint 4 per cent bonds advanced from M to nearly par in anticipation of their possible retirement through a new issue secured by the s6OO,0oo,0O0 mortgage.
 The American Tobacco decision was viewed in a more favorable light in the financial community. today, chief em- phasis being placed upon the feature of the decision which definitely stipulated that re-alignment of the various com panies shall be accomplished under the supervision of the courts. The attitude thus indicated on the part of the high est tribunal was regarded as distinctly as assuring to corporate interests in spite of the sweeping terms of the decision.
 Some further uneasiness was also shown by holders of American. Tobacco securities, although there was none of the violence of yesterdays decline. The common stock fell 20 points on the "curb' today and American Snuff, subsidiary, sold points below the previous transac- tions last week. United States Steel, which -fias borne the brunt of recent bear attacks, was impervious to pressure and gained more than point on the day. While steel orders have not reached large proportions as result of the cut in prices, conditions show some betterment, it was reported today.
 Several of the large eastern systems announced their earnings for April, that of the Pennsylvania being especially note worthy by reason of the decrease of about s1 100000 in expenses. Both the Pennsyl- vania and New York Central reported gains in net earnings. although Read ing's profit fell off
 The bond market ws.s firm. Total sales par value, s41,S55,000
 United States government bonds un- changed on call.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-02
CALIFORNIA AND RETURN
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SPECIAL RATES
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VERY LOW SUMMER TOURIST RATES to points in the North, East and west. Tickets on sale May 18th to Septemner 30th, with liberal limits for return. Buffalo, N. Y., and Return .$:O.40 Tickets on sale June 18th, 18th ana 18th. Limited for return until June 30th, 1911.
 New Orleans, La., and Return .$1O.OO Account Tulane University Summer School. Tickets on sale June 14th to 18th inclusive, and July 5th. 9th and 7th. Final limit for return days from date of sale, can be extended to August 31st. 1911. by deposit and payment of fee of $1.00.
 Philadelphia, Fa., and Return S.35 Tickets on sale June 9. 10, 12, 16 and 19. final limit June 29th can be ex- tended to July 31, 1911 by deposit and payment of fee of $l.0O.
 For other information, confer with F. Sid Jones, D. P. A.. Birmingham. Ala. Both phones 977.