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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
Pure Food and Feed Stuffs

State Food Inspector Billingsley is endeavoring to drive out of this state impure food for man and impure feed for animals. The states pure food act calls for the cooperation in this important work of every municipality within the states bounds, and Inspec- tor Billingsley is now engaged in ral- lying the cities to their appointed tasks.
 The adulteration of food articles and also of feed is a grave offense, and Alabama is dumping ground for such articles. Without expanding the city inachinery the commission of Birmingham can no doubt take steps to bring adulterated articles before Inspector Billingsley and the state chemist. A small effort and a small expenditure would lead. to the pro- lection of 132,000 people from adul- bCLdSCo anu dUu sure ly the city commission can scarcely find any work of greater value to the people of this city. The pure food act calls aloud for the active cooper ation of each and every municipality with the state food inspector, who is now camping on the trail of the dis honest manufacturers who are flood ing the state with impure feed stuffs and worse still with adulterated food articles to be consumed by men, wom- en and children.
 An enforcement in this city of the pure food act together with the work of the federal government in like direction would soon drive out of this state articles that should never be of fered for sale in any state. Let MT. Billingsley proceed vigorously, and it is to be hoped the city commission will give him the aid he needs and that the pure food act calls for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
CARRIAGE AND CANDY
'ess Magazine

FfOm SUCCESS MdSdLlHe
 A Pennsylvania woman claims to have discovered a process. for making candies out of vegetables. If the discovery proves to be of practical value we shall doubt less soon become familiar with the prod uct, though the process may remain a secret Long cooking, she says, is an essential part of the programme, after which the pasty vegetable mass is mold ed into attractive forms. Potato cara mels, carrot nougats, turnlp fudge, beet marshmallows and bean taffy are among the confectionery triumphs announced, It is even solemnly stated that tempt ing confection has been made of parsnlps.
 If all this proves true, the good lady will have accomplished two desirable re- suits at one blow She will have heen the first to convince children that gar den truck is acceptable for internal use. at the same time providing strong com petition for sulphur-bleached marshmal- lows. fudge colored with iron rust, fur niture-polish bonbons-in fact, for all the plittering combinations of chemicals and glue that child with a penny has at his command. M
 A boon to juvenile humanity, surely; we should credit the entire story gladly if it were not for the parsnips.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
Another Bill of Lading

A produce exchange dealer in New York bought grain of an Albany house which held high position in the grain trade. The draft with bill of lading attached was received and was paid, the money being borrowed from bank on security of the bill of lading as collateral. The grain was not received, and appears never to have been shipped, and soon after the Albany concern failed. The suit is brought on behalf of the purchaser of the grain who paid the draft and the bank which loaned the money and holds the security, against the rail road company for the delivery of the goods or recovery of the amount paid for them. The genuineness of the bill of lading does not appear to be dis puted, but the defense is that the railroad never had possession of the property described in the bill or any part of it and is not liable for it or for its value.
 The same old trouble presents itself in this case, although no one claims that the bill of lading was forged. The grain, it is plain, was never delivered to the railroad, and yet the railroad issued to the supposed shipper 9 bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
CURE FOR CONSUMPTION

From Tit-Bits.
 1t is quite within the bounds of possi- bility that the e1. 1.500,0oO earmarl>ed in MT Lloyd Georges state insurance scheme for the building of consumption sanatoria may not be required for it is reported that a new treatment for tuberculosis has been discovered, on which high hopes are based by distinguished men of the med icai world. The man to whom credit for the new discovery is due is Budapest physician, Dr. de Szendeffy, who, as result of exhaustive experiments and ln- vestigations, has come to the conclusion that the injection of a certain preparation of iodine will cure the majority of con- sumptives.
 The results of his experiments certainly justify this belief, for during 12 months 80 per cent of the patients so treated have been practically cured The treatment Is followed consecutively for 30 days and re- sumed after a lapse of 10 days Each infection costs, roughly, about shilling, and the cost of the whole treatment would not amount b more than f5.
 According to experiments-conduct not only by Dr. de Szendeffy, but also by his distinguished colleagues-it has been shown that improvement begins after the first 10 days, and that after month the cure makes rapid strides. The results proved beyond expectation. and Dr. Szen- deffy Is certainly justified in his belief that he has at last hit upon a method of fighting a disease which has hitherto and which if is estimated, carries off annually 5,o00,O0c of the human race.
 The idea of curing consumption by in-
 lection of certain preparations is, of course by no means new. The great diff fculty has been to find the right sort of preparation. The first attempts to treat tuberculosis by the injection into the body of remedies destructive to the bacil- lus-viz, the germs of the disease run ming through the blood-were made by the late Professor Koch. who introduced preparation which he called "tubercu- llin.' But this precaution scarcely brought about the results anticipated.
 | Then Prof. Won Behring, the inventor ot
 an antitoxin which daily saves our chil-
 dren's lives from the attacks of diph-
 theria bacillus, tried to accomplish what
 thousands of other doctors had failed tc
 do, but did not meet with the success an 1 ticipated. tt
 There was also the discovery of Dr.
 Livet. the well-known French physician | and the head of home for consumptives | founded at Roubaix, who came to the | conclusion that the most efficacious treatment for consumption consisted fl the injection of a liquid composed of the extracts of plants found in Chili an( | Colombit. Splendid results were obtained from experiments with this cure, re mark which also applies to the discov cry of Dr. Won Schrotter. the eminen
 professor at the University of Vienna whose method of treatment took the form of inhalation. He invented an inhalint apparatus by means of which the remot est parts of the lungs were reached by th fumes from special therapeutic liquid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
FIXING THE DATE.

From Answers.
 Halo, Jones'" said Smith Are you doing anything special tomorrow night?"
 No, old chap" replied Jones. "'rm not booked"
 What about the day after?' asked smith,"
 Nothing. on," answered Jones. I'm as free asga skipper"
 Really And Friday"
 An, on Friday I'm afraid I'm dining with the Crokers!"
 Bless my soul, but what a pity." ex- claimed Smith, disappointedly. 1T want ed you to come round on Friday for a snack with mel"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
wagncr's Autobiography

"No literary work in recent years has been so eagerly read or so seriously dis- cussed as My Life Richard Wagner account of himself" said an old music lover. "This autobiography appears in two large volumes and is published by Dodd, Mead & Co. The book reviewers have been busy with it for the past two weeks ana during the next six months there Will be few newspapers in Europe or this country that will not have made some reference to it.
 q remember well when Wagner began to attract wide attention as the creator of the music drama, and when his com positions gave rise to the term Music of the Future.' Lohengrin Tristan ana Isolde, Meistersinger' and 'Das Rheln- gold had been performed in Europe, but very little of Wagner's music had been heard in this country. The late Theodore Thomas, the pioneer symphony conductor in America was an apostle of Wagner, and introduced us to the music that was making a furor in Europe. Mir. Thomas gave us selections from the great music dramas. and the overture to 'Tannhauser soon became as familiar as any of the old Italian overtures. It was In 1870 that I first heard any of Wasners music played by concert orchestra, and 1t was some years after that before l had the pleasure of seeing the dramas enacted and hearing them sung.
 "When I was a youth my first recol- lection of musical discussion was over
 ...fo .1e Wagner. Sone experienced musicians and many amateurs of fair musical edu- cation who had bought piano scores of the Wagner dramas said that the world would soon or late hail the new master as the most colossal figure in the realm of musical art Others equally well edu- cated said that Wagner was cruel to the human voice, and that it was next to im- possible for artists to sing the solo parts in his music dramas. Even good orches- tra performers said that a good deal of Wagner's music was unplayable. But it has been a long while since any talk otner than praise has been heard. While musicians and critics may not agree as to the exact measure of Wagner's great ness nearly all unite in ranking him as the greatest composer AHO IdS dilSfii since Beethoven. His direct influence on supcceeding operatic composition can scarcely be overestimated.
 But back to the new publication, My Life Wagner was a man of letters as well as a composer, and his autoblog- raphy as a whole is singularly interesting He possesses a good narrative style, and while some reviewers are criticising the work adversely, sometimes severely be- cause of his free talk about his 'entangle- ments with women.' few persons of the musical world making any pretenuon to culture will fail to read My Life
 "Apropos of Wagner's escapades in his younger days he was an avowed apologist of free love- His two-act opera, Das Liebesverbot,' (Forbidden Love- was sup posed to be based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure but In the libretto Wagner stressed the free-love doctrine most audaciousy. In this respect he went far beyond Shakespeare. ut Wagner being a mighty genius, we never tire of reading about him"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

the one hand, by Sunday afternoon mov' ing picture, and on the other by park concerts. The one throws a visual picture on the screen. the other Q | sound on the air The musicians are paid for their sound pictures. The operator is paid for his visual pictures. The one is permitted, the other is interdieted, as yet.
 "A part of the population evident ly wishes to attend moving pictures on Sunday afternoons. A part does not As no injury can be done, per SC, by looking at a picture any more than hearing one, why should not our com missioners allow the pictures to be pro duced for such as wish them, and al low the part of the population whlch does not desire to attend to put in CT feet it's constitutional right of stay
 ing awayg
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
Entertainment of Togo

The hero of the Japanese-Russian war is coming to America early in August. and the state department has asked Congress to appropriate $10,0O0 to defray the expense of entertaining the great Japanese admiral, who, judged by what he has accomplished, is the worlds first sailor today.
 The appropriations committee of the House has unanimously decided to recommend the appropriation. Ad- miral Togo will be received at the White House where a formal dinner will be given in his honor, and he will be a guest at many other official functions.
 The people of America will gladly welcome Togo, who conquered at sea the best that Russia, giant, could send against him. He met them bold ly. and when the battle was over there was no Russian fleet in exist ence. It had been sent under Togo's direction to the bottom of the sea. The people stand ready to entertain a brave man who can shoot straight and who can come out of a conflict almost without a scratch. There is nothing too good for such man, and America will give him a grand reception.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
The stock Market

1 Henry Clews in his Saturday review says in part:
 While selling pressure did not de- velop on an exceptionally active scale, the price level of stock exchange se- curities early this week reflected two influences that for a time received un- favorable interpretation. The mos, potent of these, which was subsequent | ly greatly modified, was the continued dry weather, accompanied by intense heat in important areas of the corn belt The second was the political sit uation abroad, which became so acute as to almost merit the designation Of a crisis in the relations between France | and Germany over the Moroccan situa- 1 ton. In addition the Balkan ghos' again appeared this time as a result of Russia's precipitate action in massing troons. which Turkey regarded as an unfriendly act. .
 Tt is evident that the next few
 weeks must continue period or IT, regularity in the stock market we have fully arrived at the period when reports from the grain sections Of the country will prove day to day lnhu- ences. When this period of transition ends However, we are not unlikely to have a still further advance in | prices of standard dividend paying stocks. Money remains abundant and promises to continue so, and there is no incentive whatever to sell securl- ties, as other profitable channels of in- vestment or employment, such as the requirements of trade and industry, do not exist Excellent information from Washington intimates that Congress will adjourn until the regular session of December on or about August 10, and that whatever changes in the tariff are to be made before the next presi dential election will then have been made This means that trade and in dustry will promptly begin to pick up so soon as the new tariff conditions under which business must be con- ducted become known. But it is quite evident at this writing that the strain of financing the crops will have cul- minated before the active demands for funds in mercantile pursuits become insistent.
 Any long range view of the financial situation, based on fundamental con- ditions, is therefore a favorable one. The immediate outlook is not quite as encoura ging It suggests caution in the selection of investments, and at the same time promises active fluctuations that can readily be taken advantage of by traders who keep well informed on day to day developments that have q bearing on the stock exchange price level"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
THE WAGNER MYSTERY

deathbed ceremony. Another phase of the puzzle is what motives should lead Wagner's autocratic widow slaughter of I,iszt and divorced wife of Bulow, 10 countenance such. as excision.
 The bar sinister may still have terrors for ordinary work-a-day people. but if 1t has them for members of the Lszt and Wagner families the development is very recent phenomenons It is a we'll known fact that Lisat would at one time have married Frau Cosima Wagner's mother, the Countess d'Agoult. The reply of that naughty. dame is completely self explanatory: Never will the Countess d'Agoult consent to become Mime. Liszt" Frau Cosima herself has never betrayed any sensitiveness in the matter even in the toilsome age that has succeeded her agitated youth
 The notorious antipathy, of Richard Wagner toward Jews might have deterred him from writing himself down the son of Ludwig Geyer. Jew. It did incite him to the composition of a book, Judaism in Music," but it did not prevent him from marrying a woman of partly Jewish de- scent. And such a. motive can hardly be supposed to have sinfiuenced that woman. Through the-Ceuntess d'Agoult Cosima is known to have inherited Jewish blood, whatever she may have inherited through Liszt. 6s slff
 So far as, the autobiography is con- cerned the partisans of Richard Geyer have no new proof to point to-. The par tisans of Richard Wagner can even main tain that an excision for propriety's sake is inconceivable in a family for which propriety has not existed, and that their case is, all, things considered, stronger than before. Meantime the subject of the controversy be he Wagner or be he Geyer, towers above the msts the first great Richard of music.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
Fromsthe New York Globe.

| From the New York Globe.
 THE autobiography of Richard Wag- ner, My Life,'' guarded so long, so
 Il jealously, is no sooner published than cry. of disappointment goes up that neither the first page nor any subse- quent page clears away the mists sur rounding the composers name and pa rentage by any such plain declaration as
 My father was Ludwig Geyer Instead, the very second paragraph begins; M father, Friedrich Wagner. was at the time of my birth a clerk in the police service at Leipzig, and hoped to get the post of chief constable in that town, but he died in the October of that same year"
 There is appreciative and affectionate reference to Ludwig Geyer, the intimate friend of the Wagners, who married Friedrich's widow and, in the words of >the autobiography, became a most loving father to the seven children that had been left behind." and Richard relates the familiar story of how as a schoolboy he bore the name of Geyer (not at all an un- usual or unnatural occurrence in fam fly of step-children). resuming the name of Wagner only some years after the step-father's death; but one seeks in vain for a declaration that he was the son of Geyer.
 So much for the autobiography. On the other hand there are those who insist that the manuscript in it's original form, as seen in Wagners lifetime by no less man than Nietzsche and since his death by Mottl contained the expected avowal. If so, the excision must evidently have been done by another hand than the au-, thor's. To be sure, the immediate value of the two witnesses mentioned is im- paired by the fact that Nietzsche and Mottl are both dead. Indeed, the mar riage of the latter to Fraulein Fassbender the other day Is feared to have been a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
Distinguished Hibernian

MT Began of St. Paul, national presl- dent of the Ancient Order of Hibernlans, who will spend Wednesday In Birming- ham, is a fine speaker-one of the best in this country-and a treat is in store Tor those who will hear him at Germania park Wednesday afternoon" said a prom inent Irish-American.
 'rhe local Hibernians are to give grand barbecue at Germania park in the distinguished visitors honor Irish men from every part of the district are expected to attend the barbecue and the friends of the ancient order are ln- vited 10 join us on that occasion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
REFLECTIONS A BACH
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 A man can be much prouder of his good reputation than pleased with what he gets out of it.
 Once in a while man succeeds in keeping a good resolution for a while by forgetting he made it.
 A poor excuse to a wife improves inn mensely when backed up by box of flowers and five pounds of candy.
 Ii man has priclsly heat he's afraid it's the smallpox; but if he has alcoholic dementia, he's sure it's only Indigestion
 A girl can get two miles away from home and then go back to run in a diff ferent ribbon where nobody could see it. anyhow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
Bathing and Fishing

Col. l.. w. Johns and Mrs. Johns are at Saint Simon's Island, where they are enjoying the breeZes, the bathing and the fishing. The colonel writes to friends at home that the fishing is especially fine this season, and as for gay bathing cos tunes they surpass anything he has ever seen "A stay of a few weeks on the isl and" he says, Twill add many years to the life of the average man or woman .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
AIRY NOTHINGs

From "The Tempest" Our revels now are ended. These are
 actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this
 vision, ks The cloud capped towers. the gorgeous
 palaces, The solemn temples. the great glohe itself, Yea, all which 1t inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant aa faded, Leave not rack behind. We are such
 stuff. ~ As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

President Taft has decided, it is said, to urge Congress in his next annual mes sage to establish a general parcels post without qualification. He knows what the people want.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

Lorimer's election was due to an upris- ing of big people With open pocket books.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
The Hightide of Summer

"The month of July marks the high tide of summer" said man who has a touch of sentiment in his makeup.
 ''All the months, of the year have their names in poetry or classical lore save July. And yet summer is the ripening month of nature that is to say the trees have reached there fullest and greenest foliage, and with the passing of this month the turning of the tide of good old summer time begins. The grass has begun to ripen into seed. The corn will this month cease to draw milk from the breast of mother earth and gradually will thick shuck coat, to be ready for old Jack Frost's nipping.
 .'To those who have not risen early these lovely mornings l want to say, you have missed the very wine of life. .s At 4 O clock the dawn begins to mingle with the pink sky of the blast furnace glare; nature awakes with the chatter of birds, and presently the fowls sbegn to walk about in the grass hunting seeds and pure air, free from soot and dust that fills the lungs. makes the heart pulse with the glad thought of what a pleas ure life is when nature is in her brood ing, softest hours. Then
 Sweet the breath of morning Is
 Der dew damp fields of green;
 Yelling mists. mountains cloud kissed,
 All nature blushing at the scene.
 'The July nights are delightful for sleeT here in this sun kissed valley. wher' the soft moisture-laden breeze from tn gulf meet the cooler draughts from thu vales and the heights of the spurs of tn Alleghenies. and mingling, baptize u with frequent cooling showers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

The business-llle commission form or government is much better than the happy-go-lucky omission form it sup planted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

policeman has actually been found in New York who gave information cour- teously
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

Moderation in all things, is a good rule moderation in temperature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10
A SHIRT PUN

From the Pel City Progress.
 Is Editor Barrett on to his job? Shirt insiy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

An advertisement reads, "Wanted-A girl to paste labels on." No self-respeet- ing girl would care to have labels pasted on her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

The native Moroccan Is almost as pow erless as the native Korean. The big fish in this world swallow the little ones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

"A drought once started is said to be like typhoid fever-it can't be easily head ed off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

The trusts sat back to grin when we boasted on the Fourth of July of equal ity for all and privileges for none.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

Your Uncle Samuel is now in the Beth year of his great career.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

Castro. is not as lonely in Venezuela as Jack Johnson was at the coronation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

A trolley car may get overloaded but it never gets tired. Think of the poor little mules that preceded the trolley!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

New Jersey school ma ans refuse to tell their ages even when their pay is withheld.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-10

The Lorirner case is too interesting to admit of summer vacations. It must gO on to a finish.