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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
THE VISION OF DAVID LANSTON

caught up the fieeev robe around her were rose colored and slender. In a panic 'he harvester saw that the trail- 1us rope swept the undulant gold water. put was not wet; the feet that alternately showed as she advanced were not purple With cold, but warm with a pink glow.
 She was coming straight toward him, wonderful, alluring, lovely beyond any woman the harvester ever had scan straightway the fountains of 2s years repression overf1owed in the breast of the man and all his being ran in a wave of desire toward her. On she came. and now her tender feet were on the white gravel. He opened his lips, but no sound came. He struggled to rise, but his legs would not bear his weight. Help less he sank against the casing. The girl walked to his feet bent, placed a hand on each of his shoulders and smiled into his eyes. He could scent the flower like odor of her body and wrapping, even her hair. He struggled frantically to speak to her as she leaned closer yet closer. and softly but firmly laid lips of pulsing sweetness on his in deliberate kiss.
 Come back! cried the man. Come backl For the love of mercy, where are your
 He ran stumblingly toward the lake. The bridge of gold was there, the little owl cried lonesomely; and did he see or did he only dream he saw a mist of white vanishing in the opposite wood?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
BEER WON AT WATERLOO

William Mathews: Hours With Men and
 Books.
 As a moral institution, therefore, dinner cannot be too highly valued; but 1t has also it's intellectual aspects. Even the literature of a nation, and its intellectual development generally, are more or less dependent on it's cookery. It is easy to assert that the mind of an author should be independent of his physique-that be- ing the nobler part of the man, it ought to rise superior to the trammels imposed on it by the. body, or external influences. Your stout, robustious persons, with nerves of whipcord and frames of cast iron, cannot understand why the delicate, sensitive frame of the child of genius should be .servile to every skyey influ- ence," as Shakespeare calls 1t; or why a man who earns his bread and butter by scribbling on foolscap should not be able to dash off Illiads, Divine Comedies and Hamlets at all times and seasons, just as another man wields the broad ax. handles the pitchfork, or shoves the jack plane It is, nevertheless, stub- 
 only too familiar, that the flow and quail ity of mans ideas may be affected by even such vulgar and commonplace things as victuals.
 The elder Kean understood so we'll the physiological and psychological effects of diet, that he regularly adapted his dinner to his part; he ate pork when he had to play tyrants; beef for murderers; boiled mutton for lovers.
 Are you not afraid of committing mur- der after such meal?" inquired Byron of Moore, on seeing him occupied with an underdone beefsteak. Had Shake speare lived on corned beef and cabbage, he might have produced the monster Cali ban, but he could never have conceived the delicate Ariel, and had Milton lived on pork and beans, 10 chances to one he would have introduced the hog into his description of Paradise. M. Esquiros. an acute Spanish writer, in speaking of the English diet. expresses the opinion that beer, the national drink. has inspired the English poets, their artists, and their great actors.
 'The English he adds, attribute to the use of this liquid the iron muscles of their laboring classes, who struggle so l valiantly, af1oat and ashore, in factories and vessels. for the power of Great Brit ain: they even attribute their victories to | 1t. Beer and wine, an orator exclaimed at a meeting where I was present, met | at Waterloo; wine red with fury, boiling
 over with enthusiasm, mad with audac- it,y rosa fhrica against tha bilI op x.bioh
 stood wall of immovable men, the sons of beer. You have read history; beer gained the day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11

T visited the city of Cullman week ago and rode several miles in the conn- try in an auto car. While the roau would Have seemed all right for buggy 1t was entirely too rough for comfort in auto mobile travel A Cullman friend with me apologized for the condition of the road but said if you come here again in about six months will ride you over as smooth highway as any in Jefferson or st. Clair
 "Cullman Is sandy and hard, and road material will have to be shipped rom chert and slag districts. This fact makes good road building in that section quite expensive. But no matter how great the original cost might be. hard, smooth roads are considered indispensable these days, and are strictly in the line of economy.
 "Culman county. Is noted for its fertil- ity and for the thrift of it's people. Wealth Is being accumulated there steadily, but with good roads prosperity will still more abound" ta,A,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
ThETrueR Ring

( WssC=-Ageey chairman. of the Jef- ferson scounty excise~commission ap- pointed, by Governor O'Neal Satur- hay, on being interviewed by The Age Hezald's Montgomery correspond ent,-put1ined the course swhich would pbe pursued inethe regulation of the piquor traffic shere. What he said Fwas plain. and to the point. His words had the true ring. Chairman Agee. .like all right-thinking citizens, Believe in, the yery strictest enforce Hnnent of the Smith regulation act. ! T have always opposed prohibi- tion, ">said .Mr. Agee. 'I believe that It is wrong, and I am persuaded that 1t will always remain an issue. But u am also persuaded that it will not Doe at all necessary if the provisions of the Smith regulation bill are Sigidly complied with. It gould not have been more stringent even if it had been written by dyed in-the-wool prohibitionists. It re- mains with us to enforce this law, and l can promise the people of Jefferson county and the citizens of Alabama that our excise commission is going to do everything in its power to regu- late the saloons"
 Those who are personally acquaint- ed with MT. Agee can vouch for his grit, and the note of sincerity in his interview will bring him a host of new friends and well wishers from among the law loving people of this community. A large majority of the voters of Jefferson county were dis gusted with the unregulated saloons under the old regime. The licensed liquor traffic prohibited four years ago was followed by the blind tiger, and Birmingham has been greatly scandalized by the extensive whisky business carried on in spite of drastic prohibition laws.
 The people became thoroughly aroused against recent blind tiger conditions, and on August "A voted by a decisive majority for high aicense and regulation. MT. Agee, after his appointment, said that every endeavor would be put forth to make Birmingham not only the model liquor selling city in Alabama, but the esmodel liquor selling city of, the United States.
 t As.The Age-Herald said yesterday. Ino.men are better known in this con- lmunity for their fearlessness than the ithree who compose the excise con- nission-W. c. Agee, Edward Wilk- 4nson and Sydenham Moore. These gentlemen appreciate their responsi- bility and they can be relied upon to perform their duties with firmness and absolute fairness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
Production

Totals 36, ,727,0 900 698,9 900
 The average yield in these states In 1910 was 1912 bushels per acre. The average yield per acre in the United States in that year was 27.4 bushels.in the surplus northwestern states it was about 35 bushels per acre.
 Martin V. Calvin, writing for the, Savannah News, says the south would grow an abundance of corn if it could regulate and control it's share ten ants. These share tenants cultivate 21 per cent of southern farms, and almost to man they are poor farm CTS. The share tenant makes bale or two bales of cotton on a one horse farm, which goes to the landlord. He has no interest in the land, in the mule or in the landlord. It is he who blows in shallow manner and who cultivates his crops afterwards in a listless and slovenly manner. Unless the landlord takes full control of him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11

the share tenant is hendrance, never a help, to southern production and de- velopment. Mr. Calvin urges land lords to control share tenants ''in the crops to be grown, the fertilizer to be used, the seed to be planted, the man. her in which the land shall be pre- pared, and the methods of cultivation to be observed and practiced." MT. Calvin is not an idealist. He is emi- nently practical, and he urges land lords to step in to raise the produc- tion per acre and to keep the land from running down year by year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
UNDERWOOD KEEPING A LEVEL
 HEAD

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
 Representative Underwood is keeping lis head wonderfully we'll when most of those about him are losing theirs. It was not very nice in him to speak of MT. Taft's tariff board as being composed of ''clerks"-we believe that it's members are really very excellent. we'll informed men of affairs and are doubtless making 8 careful study of the tariff question from a scientific point of view. They are prob ably not better qualified to deal with the subject than the members of the ways and means committee of the House; but their report will be worthy of consider atioI.
 NIT. Underwood will not reject any good suggestions this board may make sim- ply because of the source from which they shall come; but will regard them with an open mind. At a recent dinner of the National Italian Democratic league in New York, he said that he awaited with patience the Presidents message next December, and that if the President is willing to give honest, just and fair relief to the American people the democratic Congress is willing to uphold his hands. as we did in the Instance of the reel procity pact. But if we are to be told to pass restrictive, prohibitive tariff bills that are only makeshift and not re- vision downward we will carry this great question to the American people and con- idently await their verdict"
 That is playing the game fair that is taking the tariff out of politics. that can understand and the sort of politics that will win. It means that MT. Tafts tariff board will have to cut the present 'indefensible'' tariff law all to pieces, and that MT. Taft must be prepared to sup port genuine tariff revision at the next session of Congress. He has pledged him. self to this course, and he will find Un- derwood and his democratic associates in the House standing with him on the reciprocity issue when nearly all of his own party had fed If he shall fail to recommend at the next session of Con- gress thoroughgoing tariff revision down. ward, Underwood and Underwood's party will carry the fight to the people. If the people had not fooled us so often on this question, had not neglected their own in- terests from a mistaken sence of their party obligations, we should be confident of the result of the campaign. The prin- cipal issue in the next presidential cam paign will be the tariff issue, unless it shall be disposed of by the Congress at the next session, and to this issue the party must be held.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
A QUESTION OF TIME

From the New York Globe.
 Not far from the Brooklyn Bridge Is news stand over which an exceedingly alert woman presides. She does a thriv- ing trade, and her tongue Is rapid wofK- CT. On a recent Wednesday evening passenger halted. noticing fresh issue or a weekly publication that was not usually on sale until the following day. He pur- chased copy. remarking at the same time upon it's early appearance.
 .Oh, yes." calculated the live wire news woman. You see, 1t generally comes to- morrow. but tonight it came today"
 The purchaser passed on with daxed expression.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
Next Sundays Concert

'"rhe concert to be given at the Jeffer- son theatre next Sunday, September II, for the benefit of the Jackson highway movement should be well attended" said a prominent citizen.
 "The Daughters of 1872, who have been working energetically for the Jackson highway-a fine public road which will ultimately connect Chicago with Mobile via Birmingham-have been greatly en- couraged. They have awakened public sentiment not only in this state. but in states north of us.
 Every ticket bought for the concert will mean a substantial contribution to funds needed to carry on the campaign of education. Nappfs full concert band will be heard in several popular numbers, and ere or two vocal soloists will add pleas ing variety to the programme. The Jeff ferson should be crowded
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
From "The Harvester" by Gene stratton


 Porter.
 <<HHE owl continues it's song, the
 Harvester initiates the cry ard
 4 at once it responded. The moon pade a path of gold that rippled and shimmered as the water moved light ly, but it appeared sufficiently material to resemble a bridge spanning the lake. 'He could not see the bird, but in the deep wood where he thought 1t might be, he began to discern a misty, moving shimmer of white. Marveling, he watched closer. So slowly he could not detect motion it advanced. rising in height and taking shape. .. "On came the figure, and as 1t drew closer he could see that it was a very tall, extremely slender woman, stepped along the slender line of the gold bridge with grace unequalled. As she neared the shore, the harvester's blood began to race in his veins and his lips parted in wonder. First she was like a slender birch trunk, then she resembled wild lily, and soon she was close enough to prove that she was young and very lovely. Heavy braids of dark hair rested on her head as a coronet. Her forehead was low and white. Her eyes were wide open wells of darkness, her ronrded cheeks faintly pink, and her red lips smiling invitation. Her throat was long. very white, and the hands that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
---ses--- TO THE EVENING STAR

By Thomas Campbell. Star that bringest home the bee, And sets the weary laborer free! If any star shed peace, 'tis thou
 That send'st it from above, Appearing when heavens breath ana
 brow
 Are sweet as hers we love. Come to the luxuriant skies Whilst the landscapes odors rise, Whilst far-off lowing herds are heard
 And songs when toll is done, From cottages whose smoke unstirrd
 Curls yellow fin the sun. Star of loves soft interviews, Parted lovers on thee muse; Their renembrancer in heaven
 Of thrilling vows thou art, Too delicious to be riven |. . By Rbsence from tho heaft. ~. ss.r E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Advice hastoo much wrapper for what s in the package.
 An encouraging thing about the green horn is he doesn't often get any greener.
 A woman can put more meaning into one look than man can into 100000 words.
 A man would rather have his wife think he's good card player than good citizen.
 girl needs to know a heap more about dancing than cooking to get a husband. and still more about cooking than danc- ng to keep him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
NEWS FROM GOODS COUNTRY

NEWS FROM GOODS COUNTRYo County Correspondence in the Ozark
 Times.
 O. H. Mathews is moving the alfalfa out of his fence corners this week.
 The peach cutting at P. Mathews last Wedne sGay night was largely attended anl all report fine time.
 Boys, don't bother Otis J. Mes water melons, for he says they are loaded.
 Everything is fiourishing in Strongtown at present.
 The Pierce x Runion cheese factory IS doing big business lately.
 George Dunigan is the proud owner of fine gray mare which he purchased of Mir. Lane.
 Every ything seems to be lively about Toledo (Mo).
 J. F. Evans had a mule cut on wire a shcrt time back.
 The Toledo nine went to Igo last Sat- urday to play match game with the Pond Fork team.
 Some people may get tired of travelling t'io same road every Sunday, but George Paris, Jr.. does not
 We are glad to see the Rome mill going again.
 The Rome picnic, held about five days ago, seems to have been a polical af- fair.
 Raining again. ~Esi Health is pretty good In this part of the neighborhood. Several persons from our ridge attend ed church at Sand Ridge Sunday. Dewey Hogard can be seen passing down our ridge almost every Sunday. He seems to be interested down about Ben Iooney's. Mrs. Jessie Markham. daughter of J. J. Blacksher started Thursday a. m en route for her home in Kentucky. | The meeting at New Hope has closed with eight conversions. Frank Nipps of Dilla was one of the converts. | Sheriff Conklin and Lyman Stevens were at meeting Sunday night trying to arr rest Bill Shaw. Lyman got hold of Bill on his horse, but could not hold him. and after quite an exciting chase B..l made his escape from the officers Sheriff Conklin was in town again this week on official business. Been having some miserable warm days fin this part of Gods country this week. | A regular old fashioned gully washer visited this section Saturday night with | the results that North Fork and Little creek swelled their tide till they done hrrdreds of dollars worth of damage to l ferms, fences, crops, etc. Large trees.
 haystacks, watermelons and pumpkins
 were seen going toward Arkansas. 1 John Stone, who has been in Kansas for the past two years. has returned with | his family to live at home in the Ozarks
 We are glad to have John with u1 | again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
More Cheerful Tone

Henry Clews in his Saturday review says in part:
 At times more cheerful tone prevailed in financial circles. The labor outlook is less threatening and present indica- tions point to an adjustment of western trcntles without resort to strikes or other violent methods. There is also a de- cided betterment in the Moroccan situ- ation. Industrial considerations alone rendered war between Germany and any other great power improbable. Germany is preoccuped with great internal devel- opment and has made large financial com mitments in consequence. War would se- riously complicate, if not impair, these obligations; cause serious financial dis tress, and throw large numbers out of employment. It is evident that some sort of an international adjustment is close at hand, and if Germany secures certain economic advantages in Morocco, together with assurances that no other power will lay hands upon that territory, she will doubtless be satisfied, and the present controversy soon pass into history.
 within the last few days advices from the west have been more cheering. Dis couraging news has subsided, and indi- cations of moderate trade revival have already begun. This, of course, is due to the harvest, which is proving more sat- isfactory than at one time deemed prob able. September thus far has been a ncnth of steady improvement for crops in nearly all sections of the country. Better reports are forthcoming con- corning the iron trade, which showed an increase of 13S,oO0 tons in production of pig iron during August. There may
 have been some irregularity. in prices. but concessions have certainly stimulated or ders, and this of itself is encouraging. Conditions are also unusually favorable for export trade, and 1t is worthy of note that in July our exports of iron and steel | were valued at SIS. 600, compared with | s16,000000 year ago."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
MARsHALL's so PEACErrJr.

From the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
 A former resident fo Marshall, Mo-, was asking about the old town.
 T understand they have a curfew law out there now" he said.
 No' ms informant answered, they aid nave one, but they've abandoned it'' "Whst was the matter?"
 we'll the bell rang at o'clock. and almost everybody complained that it woke them up."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11
Calhoun.s Inviting Field

"The roads of Calhoun are most ex- cellent and there Is a general uplift over the county" said Percy Clark. who is a native of Calhoun.
 .I spent two days in the lower end of the Alexandria valley, that very fer tile section lying between Anniston and the Coosa river and watered by many clear. cold streams that join and make Cane creek. This section would move rapidly to a better and more prosperous condition if some of the large land owners should sell to small farmers, say 150 acne tracts. There is a tract owned by one family of 5000 acres. but it has become well nigh im- possible to get tenants to work it. With automobiles built for traffic purposes it is now possible to establish agricultural vallages; villages of say 25 or more families, with churches, schools and telephones, and supported by diversi- fled farming. The milling business alone would pay handsomely in Cal houn, provided the lands were titled by fine water powers only partly utilized,
 with old fashioned mills.
 There is need in the country districts for the refining influences of villages to stimulate pride. through educational advantages and the polishing attraction of social contact between families Where the school teacher and the preacher make their homes and lend their services to the general welfare there is better condition than the wild, careless growth of boys and girls many of whom seek the towns ana cities. And l am now convert to
 this latter life for boys and girls un- less they can have these influences in
 their daily lives in the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11

New York wants to know what to do with ex presidents from other countries, for General Simon, the deposed President of Hayti, is about to settle down in one of its negro districts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11

aborigine in the known world" His pen name Is "lshi," which means man" Ill the southern Yahi tongue. He is 60 years old, wears buckskin thongs in his ears and nose for his souls sake and can shoot things with bow and arrows
 ihere used to be lots of red people in 'iiis country who could have chummed with lshi, or scalped him, as the case might be- White men took no svmna- thetic interest in them, possibly for lack or anthropologists Some of the ..uncon- 'am'hated' aboriginies were relieved of the adjective by whisky and contagious disease. soVe turned from ghost dance and council fire to running gangplougbs and selling prime steers to the beef trust some are elevating the drama But A. great many the simple pioneers reformed With rifle bullets so that they presently were not
 How different Ishi's fate, When he 'fa"s ms arrow head to the bow, nobody uses him for target His simple ward robe is enriched with pair of trousers and gift shirt which he wears while asleep for safekeeping The shrewd old boy beguiles the scientists with tales of now fire was brought to the Yahis by their totemic coyote. He has plenty to eat and the makings of cigarettes. He is on Easy street and in fair way to be- come as other men and quite uninterest- ing.
 How inconsistent these nalefaces are, why oiont they drill Ishi beyond arrow . a no xwttt.
 | ianee "itn an army musket? Is 1t pos siple that the slaughtered hosts of red skins merely lived before their time? If they were still with us, would they get the glad hand and prompt employment in the folklore faculties of modern colleges
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11

pr. David Jayne Fill still holds back the name of the villain interest and the mystery remai.s as deeply mysterious as before This is an administration moved only by the interests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11

Connecticut has not done any redistrfet- ing since 1912, and the legislature hesi- iates to cut the state into new districts because an additional congressman is to be elected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11

The Presidents western trip is to be 1s,- 900 miles iong, but a close calculation would doubtless take it out of the '1s' class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11

Tke mosquitoes will soon go and the spelltinders are getting ready to take their places. There is no rest for the weary in this world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11

Some other paintings should be tempo rarily stolen in order to render them pop ular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11

St. Louis has ordered a dikdik for it's forest park geological gardens. That town is trying to be fully up to date.