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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07

gon form, and altogether the voters
 in the state will have their hands full
 when they go to the polls next Tues
 day. The application of the recall
 to the judges of the state is advo-
 eated because, it is claimed, those
 judges legislate too freely. In truth, . says one speaker in Califor- mia, 50 overshadowing is the control of the judiciary over legislation that it is almost a misnomer to speak of the legislature as the lawmaking branch of the government. For the power to interpret is the power to amend. The power to construe is the power to construct" The people of California. will decide these impor- tant questions on Tuesday, and in all parts of the country the public ear will be turned on Wednesday morn ing to catch the reports that are coming in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
Hasten to Pay Your Taxes

The taxes due ythe state and county may be paid at any time between October 1 and January 1 without a penalty said Philip B. Bowers, chief clerk in the tax collectors office.
 "The poll tax is due and payable 8 any time from now until February 1. After this date, persons who have not paid the tax due, are disfranchised for the next 12 months for the election and primary to be held next year.
 Tt would be patriotic act on the rart of tax payers, who are so situated that they can do so, to pay their taxes as early as possible as the state needs the money very much. As fast as any amount accumulates in this office, it is transferred to the state treasury. Now all taxes become delinquent after January 1 and theresfs a penalty att tached. l understand that interest on the state debt, which Is not due at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07

From the New York Suns Account
 In the more deliberate search of the ruins today it was found that some queer things were done by the flood. In the house of Father P. c. OBrien of St. Augustines church. a mantel clock stopped exactly at 2:29 o'clock. The priest left his house for a time this morning and when he came back he found that a souvenir hunter had walked in and re- moved the hands. Father OBrien didn t mind the loss. except that it showed that even his house was not exempt from the inqulstive visitors. Tonight the constab- ulary placed a guard over his house to save II from further marauding
 Out in the middle of the swept valley picture frame sO inches square was found today. The picture was missing and the frame itself was damned into the mud, but the glass was unbroken. The diggers in the debris found the bodies of two horses which had been picked up and were caught in the tange of debris as high as the third story of the main street buildings They were still in the torn shreds of the harness, with which they had been hitched to the two seated carriage that was found right behind them. The spot in which they lay is directly in front of the Good year hotel. Apparently they were standing at the door when the water came.
 It has been found that what was the cellar of the Commercial hotel has been filled with soil even with the surround fYr 5 in at least 10 feet o floose earth.
 The house of Patrick Mitchell stood quarter of a mile below the dam It was lifted up. carried 100 yards and set down again with it's walls torn apart On the third floor you could see today a coat hanging upon a peg on the wall.
 All through the swept district lay the evidences of the way households and places of business were caught in the midst of everyday life. Here was woman bending over a heap of debris, sorting out the relics of her home-a sheaf of photographs and sofa cushions that had been mingled with bundle of hay thrown from feed store.
 Here was the broken nozzle of hose that had been upon the cart which was left when its volunteer firemen deserted 1t on their false alarm run. A babys shoe, d suit Of clothes from the general store, the size tag still on it; 9 siphon from the Commercial hotel bar, a piece of radla- tor from some house, kitchen utensil and handlebars of bicycle were mingled together in another heap.
 An automobile with Pennsylvania H. cense 3532O had been rolled over and over from the pulp mill to a spot a mile and half below. It's tonneau was ripped off, the chassis was twisted all out of kilter and the steering post was bent double, but the tires on the three remain ing wheels were still inflated and the glass in one of the headlights was only cracked
 This afternoon the wreekers came upon half of a woman's head lying in the rub bisb. There was nothing else near it. A young girls body with the back part 9f the head severed was uncovered, too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
Colonel Johns Enterfains

Col. Llewelyn w. Johns and Mrs. Johns entertained MT. and Mrs. George Evans at "The Films" night before last. Mir Evans is at the head of the Honey Boy Minstrel troupe, and being a Welch- man by birth and rearing was received with open arms by Colonel Johns. tae best known and most popular Weich- American in this part of the country. Among the guests were Arthur Thomas and his brother, who are other well known Welch-AmericaDs.
 George Evans is a composer of no mean merit" said Colonel Johns, and when it comes to singing popular songs he is right at the top. One of his hits is The Good old Summertime. II is one of his own compositions. and it not only made a hit at the time 1t was first published. but it will always be in favor. After the entertainment at The Films l took the Evanses back to town in my automobile in time for the evening performance. They seemed to enjoy greatly their visit to The Films
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
A Shoe Exhibit

Birmingham is building up large Joo- ping trade, but compared with other cities of anything like Birminghams size It's wholesale business in several lines Is inad- eauate. AS every merchant knows, city in order to be recognized as a jobolng center must have not only large grocery houses and large dry goods houses, but there should be many concerns engaged III every branch of jobbing. Ten years ago Birmingham had very little wholesale busi- iress Today 1t has considerable volume of jobbing, but only recently has 1t add cd shoes to it's wholesale merchandise ac- tivities. In speaking of southern cities that had developed rapidly along indus trial and mercantile lines since the war, a well known member of Birmingham's Virginia colony said;
 Tn a visit to the State Fair Thurs day I was particularly struck with an eX- lbit of shoes made by the stephen Put ney Shoe company of Richmond, Va. I lived in the Virginia capital for many years. and was personally acquainted with the late Mr Putney and with Mir. Lewis Fl. Blair, the present financial head of
 
 a partner of MT. Putney, who by the way was an old shoe man, the business was only of moderate volume-of small volume as volume goes these days But NIT. Blair vas a man of large experience in the commercial world, and having brains and pluck, he pushed the business from the start. Soon after Mir Blair had got things in full swing the company increased its facilities, and recently it has erected a building of immense area in which light and ventilation are distinctive factors. I haven't the statistics of the shoe busi would think it safe to say that the Stephen Putney company's trade is the biggest in the south. ] doubt whether there is any shoe house in Baltimore do- ing such a large business. This Richmond concern sells shoes not only in Atlanta as far west as Denver.
 INT. Blair is a natural born economist, and being a student as well as a mer- chant, he has been able to compete all through the south with shoe manufac- turers. The Stephen Putney company has maintained a permanent sample room in Birmingham for several years. It Is on the third floor of the Chamber Of Com r-erce building, and is in charge Of MT. c. NJ. Clarke, who is well known and pop ular in the trade. The exhibit at the fair is in special charge of MT. Royal TT, .,ri,, of Richmond
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
SOUTH CAROLINA'S GOVERNOR

lay with tho supreme court by law and by the constitution, and the appointment With the governor. The governor took the bull by the horns and said he would appoint whom he liked, and told the su- preme court to designate those persons The matter has not yet been strengthened out, but 1t has made one of the unpleas- antest impressions of the entire Blease administration
 The governor of South Carolina can par con every convict in the state peniten- tiary if he wishes to without consulting the legislature, the attorney general, the courts, or anybody else. Blease found this to his liking. and never before in the history of the state have so many erim- irals been discharged from the state peni- tentiary as the result of executive elem ency. newspaper printed the list of the rardons the other day, and one of Bease's home papers, commenting editorially on the matter, said the list looked like "a circus programme In the exercising of clemency murderers and thieves were not overlooked. On one occasion the governor went to the pententiary and sent for a certain convict. The convict came out, not knowing what the governor could want with him.
 "Go home," said the governor, and the convict went forth free man. That is a good example of the Blease way of doing things.
 One of the really great things that Till man, as governor, did for South Sarolina was the establishment in Rock Hill of the Winthrop College for Girls one of the best equipped institutions for the training of women in the south. The graduation exercises of that institution is an event in South Carolina, and the governor as chair man eX-officio of the board of trustees presents the diplomas. In June of this year that honor should have been the gov ernor's, but the girl graduates decided otherwise. They held a meeting and mo- tihed Dr. Johnson, the president of the college, that they did not want to receiv, their diplomas from the governor of tle state. The protest was so positive Il at Dr. Johnson and not the governor of South Carolina handed them their sheeD- skins on graduation day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
MORE ABOUT EVELYN

New York Correspondence Cincinnati
 Times-Star.
 Have care how you walk, Cuthbert. Evelyn Thaw-ever hear that name be- fore9-has been rediscovered by highbrow writer. In addition to all the old stuff about that very wise little woman, he is pulling a lot of her 1912 press sheets. 'I always watch closely persons who walk On their toes." said Evelyn. That is an infallible sign of insanity. I knew that Harry was loose in the dynamo the mo- ment that I saw him teeter about on his claws.'
 Trouble is that Evelyn Is somewhat of dead issue. Her various excursions into restaurants. her trips ,to Europe. her pet snake, and all the rest of her promis- ing mental circus has lost it's attraction for the New York public. With Beulah Binford not long lost, and with Gaby Deslys, the star attraction at one our big gest theatres. we must not be asked to recall the child wives of yesteryear. Not even the rediscovery that Evelyn is learn ing to sculp sends a thrill down the municipal back That. too. is three years old.
 Anyhow, said an old reporter. "I wouldn't believe Evelyn any more-not if l told her what to say myself. l remember the big night of the Thaw trial. when the arguments had all been delivered. and the judges charge read to the jury, and that buch of intelligent yeomen had been locked away in the sheriff's room. I had been watching Evelyn through the last hours of the trial, and I had been pre- Tared to swear that her heart was wrung.
 Her courage is superhuman. said I to me. She is preserving an emotionless eX- terior by wonderful will power
 Then, that night, l fell into gather ing consisting of Evelyn and some of the lawyers who had been engaged in the case. The wine bottles were being opened sc fast it sounded like Chinatown when Togo knocked at the door. Evelyn sang a little song and did little wiggle. Out in the other room that lack brained hus- band, loose lip dropping, and dull of eye, Y Yaited with his mother and sister to hear his fate. l quit caring deuce of a lot about Evelyn right then
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
THE QUEEN OF PIPES

From M. A. P.
 The queen of pipes belongs to tile Shah of Persia. Why is the great chieftain of pipes queen? Probably because a pipe is a feminine noun in French. The little Shah's pipe was smoked by his father before him and by his uncle and by his grandfather and how many more of the rulers of Darius kingdom we know not The pipe Is adorned with ali kinds of precious stones and is said to be worth $5o,ooo. It is constantly guarded by high court functoaary, whose dnties al- low him as much leisure as the superin- tendent sof the Persian arsenal; sbut as there is no arsenal in Persia, thes extent of the sinecure may, be judged. Suill, this functionary is responsible. This is how his office was created: Once grand vizier was found trying to pry out q stone from the pipe with his poniard. Then the office of guardian of the imperial pipe was created. What became of the grand vizier Is not recorded
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
UNCLE sAM's SUCCESSFUL REsTAU
 RANT

Albert Edwards in Success Magazine
 If you visit the Isthmus you will eat at a government table.
 Not content with managing the trans portation, not satisfied with being a sion has become a restaurant keeper waiter and cook.
 Here is a statement of the length to which this heretical tendency has been carried.
 The cost of running the messes for gold" European and negro employees during the six months ending December 31, 1909, was over s700,000, and the re- ceipts and expenditures practically bal anced
 It is an eloquent tribute to the gov ernment's crusine that 3375 of the 4sOd European laborers-who are free to eat where they will-prefer the mess halls to anything which individual initia !. tive" has to offer. There are three "club" messes run by unmarried white men in opposition to the commission hotels. Perhaps 100 canal employees use them. But in spite of the large in come from the "bar" these privata messes are more expensive and very little better than the government S meals.
 No private contractor in the world I feeds his employees as well IS the 18th milan canal commission. There are very few of the employees who ever ate bet ter meals, slept In cleaner, more com fortable beds, or amused themselves III more wholesome clubs than those fur nished by the government
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07

fiscal agency until January l, is for warded, however, It days in advance, against any contingency. By January 10 all tax collectors must settle in full with the state for collections for this tax year The state win have money sufficient to meet it's demands, but 1t Is the period between now and Jan uary 1 which shows a lean treasury and heavy demands. This necessitated the governor having to borrow, as is stated in public print, s1OoooO in New York, and sSOO.0OO from Montgomery banks, pending the collection of the taxes now due
 Those persons who pay now, or be- fore December at least, can be more promptly attended to. In December the rush is on and sometimes tax payers haveea long wait in line with as many as loo or more. This crowding increases as the approach of the penalty day, Jan uary l. draws nearer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
a day in China is important money"
HIS ONE REGRET.

Bat Masterson sat by the ringside on the night that Jim Flynn made a Spanish omelet or Carl Morris, the white hope from. Sapulpa. The old plainsman had been carrying a sort of mental hunch that this was due to happen-had ex
 pressed it widely, together with a declar- ation that if Flynn didn't win he--Mas- terson-planned to go through F1yhns safe deposit vaults with lantern-and therefore didn't feel positively sorry when the event came off Pm sorry for this Morris man. though,i said Master son. He acts like a big game boob, but something more than size goes to the making of champion. He makes me think of the time that John L. Sullivan swung around the country as a young ster, agreeing to stop any man in four rounds Out in Kansas City was a big lob who worked in the packing house. He told his friends that he'd get Sullivan sure. And so they fought"
 MT. Masterson grinned to himself. Sullivan let this lad get away with two rounds" said he. 'Then the green horn .stung the old scout a little. and Sullivan smashed him. The porll-packer rose in high curve, slid off the stage through the orchestra and stopped roll ing about half way back in the audience. He didn't thoroughly come to until the next day. one of his friends came in to see now he felt. "A leetle sore. said this packing party, just a mite bruised. you know, where I hit them chairs and things sliding down the aisle. But Tm only sorry for one thing. When I come a-bustin' through that orchestra I brolSo a good bull fiddle for a friend of mine" Cincinnati Times-Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
SHE DID WISELY
Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
 "I cant. I can't, l can't.' he groaned
 Can you not?" she said. sympatheti- cally. The girl loved him.
 No" he cried. ''T have a past and it is only fair that you should know. I would marry no girl on false pretences. She might find it out afterwards. nave g past"
 Reveal it. she cried. softly 'I could forgive you anything" For the girl loved him.
 "I told you that left my home town to geek my fortune' he said, hoarsely. That Is not true I had to fee it.
 "One day-about 6 o'clock it was, well l remember the time-a fellow townsman passed me with his little boy. Suddenly the child fell. slipped stumbled, to the street.
 "'Ah, see it is son down. l remarked, gazing up at the sky.
 "A number of citizens heard me; the news spread, and-well. to make a short story shorter. the town got too hot for me. Can you forgive me that?'
 Shudderng, the girl shrank away from him. Her lips moved, but the power of speech mad deserted her. Sadly he reach. ed for his hat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
Back on n Visit

H. l.. Ray. who lived here for several years and who is now editing one of the best weekly papers in his state of Missis- sippi, is back here for a few days visit.
 The people of Birmingham do not realize how fast the city is growing, said Mir. Ray. After one has been away for awhile and returns he sees improve ments going on in every direction
 "The greater part of Mississippi LOOKS to Memphis and New Orleans for whole sale market, but they appreciate the Iact that Birmingham is destined to-be the metropolis of the south. Birmingham State fair is getting bigger and better every year and it is good to see the in- terest manifested by the home people Tn this annual exhibition of Alabama products"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
The Iron Market

The feature of the local market is the decrease in stocks Shipments are going forward steady. The Sheffield com pany reduced it's stock 12,0O0 in September and 1400o tons in August Prices remain unchanged Matthew Addy & Co.'S Gin cinnati report says:
 Tn spite of New York there are some unmistakable signs that point the right way in the iron trade. Shipments are being urged on every order for foundry coke on our books. Consumers of iron are urging faster deliveries of coke and in many cases they are asking for larger mated requirements. As coke is not thing that is accumulated and stored in stock, but as a rule Is used as fast as 1t is received, the conclusion is inevitable that a large quantity of iron is being melted. Not only is coke being shipped in this generous fashion, but iron on old orders is going forward in a way that does not permit of complaint. Iron that has been bought is being taken and fur mace stocks are being reduced, and we know that the iron is being melted.
 "The two things that makers and sell CTS of iron are finding annoying are the extremely low prices and the small amount of new business. Yet this week there has been a great increase in in- quiry, particularly in the west Tom nages running up into the thousands are under consideration-nearly all the iron being wanted for next years delivery. Furnace order books for this year are well filled No one is desirous of selling for forward shipment at the present low prices. Altogether our report is more cheerful than week ago, for things are looking better"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
THE LAPFUL OF NUTS

By Sir Samuel Ferguson. s N Wheneer I see soft hazel eyes 7 And nut-brown curls, I think of those bright days I spent < Among the Limerick girls, si4 Whens up through Cratla woods went Nutting with tfee & And we pucked, the, glossy clustering
 fruit + S
 From many.a bending tree. 5&s Beneath the hazel boughs we sat, Thou, love. and [; W And the gathered nuts lay in thy lap, & Beneath thy downcast eye: s But little we thought of the store we'd
 won, a., l, love, or thou; HH For our hearts were full and we dare not The love that's spoken now. NA Oh. there's wars for willing hearts in
 Spain.
 And high Gernanie! And I'll come back, ere long again With knightly fame and fee; And I'll come back, If l ever come back Faithful to thee, ~ That sat with thy white lap full of nuts, Beneath the hazel tree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
Nut Growers Increasing

The nut growers have increased in numbers and importance until they have reached the national convention . point. They are in session this week in Mobile. Several cities are com peting for the honor of entertaining the convention of next year.
 The peanut growers are as numer- ous as the pecan growers, and the two sets constitute a great national industry. Practically speaking this country is the home of the pecan, and 1t is the home of the best peanuts found in market. The chestnut is by no means to be despised in national sense, and the walnut and the butter nut and the chinquepins are in de- mand.
 Beyond all question the growing of oceans of the best varieties is to be- come one of the south's leading prod ucts, for trees are being set out in great numbers in all the gulf states. The pecan tree lives long and hardily and once grove is established and brought into bearing 1t becomes so valuable that the owner cannot af- ford to neglect it. Pecan trees need, however, small care after they have reached productiveness. No doubt the pecan will become the chief American nut, and possibly it holds first place today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
Pleased With Birmingham

Birmingham has not only grown rap idly. but it has improved In every way, said W. J. westbrook of the Westbrook Elevator company, Danville. Va. T spent day here five years ago and thought then that Birmingham was substantial and progressive. but now Birmingham strikes me as being really marvellous city. At glance one can see 1t grow.
 Mir Westbrook said that Danyille, his home town, was going right ahead; that 1t was growing in population as well as developing commercially. Danville is now the fifth city in Virginia, the rank being Richmond, Norfolk, Roanoke Lynehburg and Danville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-07
Death of William E. Curtis

The Associated Press briefly an- nounces the sudden death in Phila- delphia of William Elleroy Curtis, a member of the staff of the Chicago Record-Herald. Scarcely any news paper writer was better known. With short exceptions when he entered the diplomatic service, all the years of his active life were spent in newspa- per work. Perhaps no writer had in- vestigated more subjects than he, and he brought new light to bear on every subject he took up.
 He was born in Ohio in 1850, and in 1871 he was graduated at the Western Reserve college. Two years later he became a newspaper man. and his pen was kept busy in writing books of travel and popular economies and in newspaper writing to the hour he was unexpectedly stricken down in Philadelphia.
 His career was characteristically mondern and American, and all his work was done thoughtfully and opti- mistically. He believed in the great ness of America, present and to come. It will be difficult indeed to fill the vacant place.