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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
Reductions On Wool

The House has begun the consider ation of the Underwood wool tariff bill. In submitting the majority re- port MT. Underwood explained that the revised schedule is a part of the democratic policy which demands a tariff for revenue only. The present duty on raw wool is reduced over one half, and yet the revenue from GUS toms would not be materially reduced by it. The Underwood programme is not a free trade programme, but programme based on considerations of revenue. The revenue is, however, to go into the treasury rather than into the pockets of the manufactur- ing magnates.
 If the original programme is fully carried out-the extra session pro- gramme, that is to say-a cotton schedule will follow, and the series will be wound up with a food stuffs bill that will be drawn with a spe- cial desire to lower the cost of liv- ing. When all this is done in the House there will be but little left of hot dry summer.
 The Senate-but never mind the | Senate. The House proposes to pass three schedules besides the reciproc- | ity and the Free List bill, and upon the five measures the democrats will be ready to go to the people.
 The wool trust is in the limelight at present. It made Schedule K, and | it had lot of ranch owners as wicked partners. Their. private tariff snap is up for revision. The demo- crats propose to bring it down in the interest of consumers to a revenue basis, and a great battle is coming. The wool grower who gets II cents more per grease pound for his wool and the manufacturer who tacks 50 per cent ad valorem onto his home prices, are to be brought down to the revenue basis. "It is clear" says the Chicago News, an independent paper, "that free wool ought to be granted soon to American manufacturers and that then the tariff on their products lowered to correspond. But the ques- tion of revenue cannot be ignored. Apparently the revision of the wool schedule proposed by the democrats is reasonable in view of the difficulties which would attend greater reduc- tions of duties under existing condi- tions."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08

aroused much opposition. It has led to wide recognition of the masterly manner in which Judge Gary handles the affairs of the steel corporation, but as rule his governmental prop osition is either not taken seriously or else it is silently approved. And yet the people are not ready to hand over to the government the regula- tion of prices as well as a regulation of capitalization and intercorporate relations. The entire proposition de- serves more consideration than it has thus far received at the hands of the press and the people of this broad country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
MAKING ]. MOUNTAIN

Adams Letter in Boston News Bureau. James Buchanan Duke gets a million dollars year in dividends from his American Tobacco stock. He is now spending some Of this money in building a mountain on his country estate at Som erville. N. J. Dukes place is on a level stretch of bottom land near the Wat chung Moutains, and the view from his home is limited. So he is hauling in train loads of earth to build himself a noun tain and thus arrange the topography of his acres to suit his fancy. On top of the mountain he is going to build an- other mansion. If the mountain won't come to an American millionaire he can haul it in.
 The Duke fortune is founded on cigar cites. The original American Tobacco company of 1s90-the year of the anti trust act-was a s25.0oo.oO0 cigarette trust built on s5,00O,0oO of hard assets. The Dukes had a 30 per cent interest in the capitalization. They had built up their business from s2OO,O00 year in 1883 to s4,5o0,0o0 in 1889. and in the last year they spent $500 600 in advertising. It was the costly advertising war in the cigarette trade that brought the five big cigarette companies together. They controlled 90 per cent of the country's output. Duke has made cigarettes popular in this coun- try. The enormous increase in the con- sumption of cigarettes has been the re- suit of his aggressive advertising cam paign.
 As late as 1870 the annual production was les sthan 5O,OOo,OOO cigarettes, or about one for every inhabitant Now it is 1000, ,O0o,0o0, or about so times as large per capita. Only within the last five years the output of cigarettes has doubled. The profit in manufacturing them is enor- mous-this Is the richest end of the Amer ican Tobacco business. When cigarettes were made by hand the labor in rolling them cost about dollar a thousand. Now cigarettes are made in machines at cost of cents or cents thousand for rolling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
Industrial Activity

The fact that the Tennessee company s steel works and rail mill at Ensey will resume operation on the Fist of this month is having a stimulating effect on the business situation hereabouts," said a well-known financier. Tt is understood that the Dimmick Pipe works will start up again in July, and as that concern creates big pay roll the direct benefit to the community will be felt at once.
 From the present outlook every indus try, large and small, in the Birmingham district will be running by the middle of July In view of the great crops practi- cally in sight. along with revival in the iron and steel market that is sure to come. it is safe to say that the last half of this year will go on record as ban ner period
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
Exposing the Maine to View

No doubt in the long run the Maine will be raised and cast away some where. At present, however, the gov ernment is simply letting it rest in its oozy bed while it pumps away the water within the coffer dam. The water within has been lowered five feet. and on June 15 the water within will be reduced another five feet. The pumping will go on from time to time until the battleship that was suddenly sent to the bottom of Havana har- bor thirteen years ago stands open to the inspection of all critics and all curious people.
 A great mystery may be solved when the water is pumped out. The coffer dam is standing all strain ad- mirably. The harbor is closely land locked and no great tidal pressure is ever felt within it. The old ship will pretty certainly say whether the de- structive explosion occurred in the ship or under it. This is about all the exposure of the wreck can determine and surely experts will be able to de- termine that question when the old hulk lies in the mud fully exposed to human inquiry and speculation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
FICTION AND HISTORY

street. Tor which our tongue no Ian guase yields" next door to a pastry sbon that claimed to have furnished the misc en scene for the Ballad of BouiI,o ba,sva, :, and I often followed the trail of ronis Doinlnlc Cartouche down that lonely and crooked byway that, setting forth from palace yard, led finally to the rear gate or den of thieves" An, well-a-davi nave known my Paris now twice as long as Thackeray knew his Paris and ner- haps my Paris has been as interesting as ms Paris, for it includes the Empire. the Siege and the Republic.
 l knew and sat for months at tabla With Comtesse Walewska. widow of the son of Napoleon Bonaparte. The Duka de Morny was rather a person in his way and Gambetta was no slouch, as Aitmarsh would himself agree. The Mex ican scheme, which was going to make every Frenchman rich. was even more picturesque and tragical than the Mis- sisslppi bubble. There were lively times around about the last of the Sixties and the early Seventies. The Terror lasted longer, but it was not much more Iurid than the Commune; the Hotel de Vile and the Tuilleries in flames, the column gone from the Place Vendome, the re- gions equally of the beautiful -Opera house and of the venerable Notre Dame running streams of blood At the corner or the Rue de la Paix and the Rue Daunob they called 1t then the Rue St. AugustinD 30 men, women and boys were one day stood against the wall and shot. volley upon volley to death In the Sa- cristy of the Cathedral over against the Morgue and the Hotel Dieu, they show you the gore-stained vestments of three Archbishops of Paris murdered within az many decades
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
Postmasters' Salaries

"One of the best indications of any city's progress is found in the increase of postoffice business said a we'll known business man, "and as the salary of the postmaster Is based on the reve- nres of his office 8 glance over the sal ary list is always interesting. In most of the Alabama postofflces the postmas- ter's salary will be increased on July l. There are to be only nine decreases in what are known as the presidential of fioes-offices whose postmaster receives as much as 5000 in salary.
 "The Birmingham postmaster will re- ceive S39o0 instead of s3S0O as last year. The business of our postoffice increases steadily, and the salary Is almost sure to reach s4OO0 next year. Up to S40OO the increases or decreases go by the sloO unit, but from s4O00 up the increase jumps s1Oo at a clip. Six thousand dollars is the maximum with very few excep- ticns The New York postmaster re- oeives 5000 and I believe the Chicago office has been put in the same class.
 "Of the larger offices in Alabama Mo- bile and Montgomery stand still in the matter of salary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
ORIGIN OF GALLIPoLIs, OHIO

From the Washington Post.
 Very often residents of my home town when in Washington are asked the origin of the name" said Roscoe Maucl Switzer, member of Congress from Gal lipolis, Ohio, "and 1t is explained that the town was laid out by party of French emigrants in the early part of the cen- tury. They had been assured of fortune and all comforts in this land of the free, but they had rather hard time of 1t at the start. They called the county Gallia and the town Galipolis in honor of Gaul, which was divided in three parts, as we read in our Caesar during school days. Out of this French settlement grew a good town, and several descendants of the first settlers are living there today. famous citizen of Ohio. Samuel F. Vim ton, lived in Gallipolis and represented the district in Congres many terms. He
 is buried in our cemetery His daughter, Mareleine Vinton Dahlgren, lived long in washington. She was the wife of Ad- miral Dahlgren. Vinton was one of the great men of his day, and he lived in an era when his total expense in a congress sional campaign was never more than @2. v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
State Socialism Without Ownership

State Socialism Without Ownership
 The Roosevelt proposition asks for the control of profits on the part of the government without assuming any risks of loss. In order to make plain what is now demanded we give the Colonel the benefit of his own words. ~What is urgently needed he says, lis the enactment of drastic and far-reaching legislation which shall put the great interstate business corporations of the type of the Stan dard Oil company, the sugar trust, the steel trust, and the like, at least as completely under the control and regulation of the government in each and every respect as the interstate railways are now put. To break up the Standard Oil company, as the re- cent decision has broken it up, does a certain amount of good; but it does not do anything like the amount of good that would be achieved from the standpoint of the public if the proper governmental body were given the same supervision and control over it as the interstate commerce commits sion has established over certain of the railways of the country"
 James F. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation, prac- tically endorses this plan, which is a long advance over the first proposi- tions for governmental control of corporations. The government now dictates the rates of interstate rail- roads, and the Roosevelt-Gary plan looks to the doing away with com petitive regime in industrial plants by letting the government dictate the prices of products.
 The regulation of prices by the government in the great field of in- dustry means that competition is a delusion and snare. It would be an acknowledgement of it's failure. h. stead, they say, let us have monopoly under government control, and the socialists look on with delight. True, full socialism calls for government ownership, but the socialists would be pleased to see a step taken towards their ideals.
 The country is not ready for the Roosevelt proposition, and yet its sanction by Judge Gary has not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
Atlanta Getting Into Line

The Georgia legislature is about to meet and Hoke Smith is about to be- gin a new gubernatorial term. He may, however, decide to put on a toga, for Georgia has an anticipated constitution and the governor-elect is free to go higher at once if he can command the needful legislative votes.
 But this is neither here nor there. Atlanta is moving to secure from the legislature and from the governor elect commission form of govern ment. A petition of overwhelming proportions is to be presented to the | legislature asking for a grant of the commission plan in the place of a charter declared to be "obsolete." It is obsolete, no doubt, so far as the conservation of the rights and inter.
 ests of the people in the city is con
 cerned, but it is not obsolete in the
 respect of graft and office holding The people of Atlanta desire change and no doubt they will get what they want. Aldermanic rule is everywhere failure, and alert Atlanta proposes to shuck it off at an early day. Speed the change.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
POE, THE MAGIC TALKER

By R. w. Griswold.
 The conversation of Edgar Allan Poe. the gifted Anerican poet, was at times almost supermortal in it's eloquence. His voice was modulated with astonishing skill, and his large and variably express sive eyes looked repose or shot fiery tum- ut into theirs who listened, while his own face glowed or was changeless in pallor as his, imagination quickened his blood or drew it back frozen to his heart. His imagery was from the worlds which no mortal can see but with the vision of genius. Suddenly starting from propo- sition exactly and sharply defined in terms of utmost simplicity and clearness. he repected the forms of customary logic. and, by crystalline process of accre- ton, built up his ocular demonstrations in forms of gloomiest and ghastliest grandeur. or in those of the most airy and delicious beauty-so minutely and distinctly, yet so rapidly that the atten- tion which was yielded to him was chained till it stood among his wonderful creations, till he himself dissolved the spell, and brought his hearers back to common and base existence by vulgar fancies or exhibitions of the ignoblest passion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
DERBY PLUNGERS
Cor New York Mail

London Cor. New 1ork Mall.
 J. B. Joel, owner of Sunstar the Derby winner, won s15o,O0O on the race. But at that he was not the largest winner.
 pr. Bolton, Trinidad's agent to engage ooolies in Calcutta, drew Sunstar in the Calcutta Turf clubs sweepstakes and won sweepstakes, s17O,O0O, was won by MT. Au- berry, master of the Warrington Work house, whose salary is 5000 a year. Sted- fast ran in the place, but unfortunately | for MT. Auberry, however, he had sold a half share in the ticket for $6oO0. | The ticket in the sweepstakes cost 8. .25 each Nominally they were sold only to really they could be obtained through any one of the East Indian banks. Last year Captain Raban drew Neil Cow in the Sweepstakes. Neil Cow was first favorite and was ridden by Danny Maher, the crack American jockey, and Captain Raban sold his ticket for $1OO,OOO. But the horse didn't run one-two-three. The Derby is becoming more and more a trace between horses owned by million aires. This year all the owners, with a
 couple of exceptions, are millionaires, their aggregate wealth being estimated at $300, 0,OG0 000.
 | It turns out that sunstars leg trouble is not serious. ana it is expected now that he
 will gain what the sporting world calls
 the triple crown by winning the Don- caster St. Leger, having already won the
 Two Thousand Guineas and the Derby Bets on the Derby will be settled next
 Monday. It Is known that several big
 bookmakers had to borrow money to set
 tie because of the plunge on Sunstar. They lost $5,000.0O0 on the races, it is | said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
A WEDDING SONG

From Alfred Tennysons Day Dream' And on her lovers arm she leant,
 And round her waist she felt 1t fold, And far across the hills they went
 In that new world which Is the old; Across the hills and far away
 Beyond their utmost purple rim, And deep into the dying day
 The happy princes followed him. And OCT them many a sliding star
 And many merry wind was borne, And streamed through many a golden
 bar.
 The twilight melted in the morn, And OCT them many a flowing range
 Of vapor buoyed the crescent bark. And rapt thro many a rosy change
 The twilight died into the dark. And OCT the hills and far away,
 Beyond their utmost purple rim. Beyond the night, across the day.
 Thro' all the world she followed him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
The Cultural Side

Glenn billiard Gum of Chicago, in dis cussing musical matters In the columns of the Leader, says certain true things that will fit all cities. For instance, this:
 Everything that contributes to the joy of living adds to the sum of the city's advantages, and is therefore to be con- sidered from it's commercial as well as it's aesthetic and ethical aspects. Chicago cannot base its claim to consideration among the great cities of the world on financial and commercial importance alone. It is obliged to regard the Chicago opera, the Thomas orchestra, the Art in stitute, the better class of theatres and it's several libraries and museums as as- sets upon which it realizes profits in those qualities of heart and mind that form the real wealth of the community
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New YOrK Press.
 As long as a woman can hide. where she is stout she knows she isn't.
 It's very clever of girl the way she has so many beaux she can count more.
 The more a man could learn by study ing a subject, the more he thinks he knows about 1t without doing It.
 A girl gets so good looking every time she peeps in mirror it's queer it doesn't last long enough afterward for other peo- pie to see.
 If man would work at some employ ment half as hard as he will trying to get . public office at low salary he could make fair living.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
LORIMER AND ANTI-LORIMER SEN-
 ATORS
rom the New York World

From the New York World
 In rejecting the La Toilette resolution creating a special committee to make a second investigation of the Lorimer case the Senate decided in favor of the stand ing committee on privileges and elections. which made a perfunctory Investigation of the case at the last session of Con- gress. At the same time 1t was agreed in advance that the subcommittee of eight which will conduct the active in quiry into the bribery charges should in- clude only four senators who are on rec ord as Lorimer men.
 Of the subcommittee, Senators Dilling-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

reached the stage wherein French is be- ing taught her. Young Miss Allison does not approve of her French teacher. She doesn't like the language, she doesn't be- lieve that anyone really talks such frivo- lous stuff. and she particularly objects to the pedagoguess' manners. "I just can't stand 1t any longer, father,' she said. Madame Jeanne just hugs and kisses me all the time."
 MT. Allison sought gravely to repfuvs. her. q have often talked with Madame Jeanne," said he, and she never tried to hug and kiss me-
 ''Well,' said little Miss Allison, ''yolZ~ better touch wood. ."-Cincinnati Times. Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
Mobiles Prosperity

'NTnile Mobile has not grown as rap ioly as some of the other southern cities, it makes steady headway," said Maj. w. F. Tebbetts, former collector of tie port and one of the best-known and most popular men in Alabama.
 Mobile has large commercial and ship ping interests, as everybody knows, and it's importance will be more than ever in evidence when the Panama canal is completed In the meantime our growth is satisfactory. This is good year in Mobile, and next year promises to be even better"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
Handsome office Buildings

q have visited nearly all the large cities in this country, and most of them are progressive. but I can recall no city where the improvements in the past 10 years have been so marked as those see in Birmingham said Charles F. Gala gher of Philadelphia.
 q was in Birmingham for the first time about 15 years ago. The business district then made a fairly good impress sioI on me- but there was nothing to excite especial admiration. Today 1t is did showing in the way of office build irgs, to say nothing of the wonderful development in the residence sections.
 "One of the best signs of city's growth and up-to-date ways is the erection of an elegant skyscraper on the site of sclid building that had In It's day been regarded as adequate, not to say inn posing. very good building was razed to make room for the mammoth Brown Marx building, and now I see the old bank building at the southeast corner of First avenue and Twentieth street is be- lns pulled down to make room for the American Trusts 1s-story structure. On one of my early visits to Birmingham I considered that bank building good enough for many years to come. But Birmingham now has the skyscraper habit, anc I will not be surprised to find the number of such buildings doubled in the next six or eight years. It looks good to see fine buildings erected on va- can, lots, but when fairly good office buildings are demolished in favor of towering buildings one may know, with oat asking, that the city is prospering and going ahead at phenomenal rate."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
MALCONTENTS.

All-up and down this world of care The weary pilgrims go; Through sunshine and through shadow-
 days.
 Through blossom-time and snow. fhe poor would fain be rich, you wis, The rich envy the poor, And happiness resides, they say. Beside cottage door. Ana some complain in lowliness And some are vexed in pride; NO matter what their lot may be. They're never satisfied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
"PRoPs. oF PoEsY

l wonder what would poets do,
 1T We should have a month of June Without in daytime skies of blue,
 without at night a silver moon. Methinks they could not sing one song
 In truly sentimental mood. Describing how sweet fancies throng
 When some fair maid is fondly wooed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08

The President repudiates Senator Roots paper-trust amendment of the reeiproci- ty agreement. and all other amendments. He wants the bill as it passed the House to become law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08

Eighty per cent of the Mormon con- verts in Europe are women. It seems to be a new way to get cheap rates from there to this country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08

The Mexicans of Lower California have elected a president of their own, and they will have to be coaxed back Into the republic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08

The world is requested to mind it's own Miss Catherine Ell5ins alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08

The gentle art of clipping stuff
 Is not such wearing work, But helps fellow make a bluff
 When he's inclined to shirlx.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08

MT. Taft should secure patent on his refrigerating desk and office chair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08

Only %, O00,OOO of the new Hill bonds will be offered in the immediate future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08

Judge Gary is so frank and confiding when discussing steel that no one likes to be cross toward him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08

A strange wild animal seen in Africa has been named "The Rule of Reason"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08

Conditions are normal or rather they will be when the second Lorimer investi- gation gets down to work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08

Governor Wilson Is back on the job, and his salary has been restored on the old basis.