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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

cities may see what they have gained, and follow suit.
 In New York, Buffalo, city hay ing 100000 people, is about to adopt the new plan of city administration. How a bill got by Gov. Dix is not stated. As rule he was thrown into a eonniption fit by bill authorizing a city to vote upon the commission plan. He is old in mind; not In years. Buffalo did, however, secure needful legislation, and it is about to vote on the matter No one doubts the result. The city has suffered great deal from aldermanic rule, and it will no doubt vote to put the new plan in operation. Buffalo will thus teach other New York cities the bet ter plan, and pretty soon the reform will be spread from sea to sea among the progressive and alert cities of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
RusincsS Conditions

.'While the year 1911 is not the best from a commercial point of view, busi- ness in most lines has been fairly good this summer, and it will be still better in the fall" said Jesse F. Norton of Chicago.
 During the past four years many things have happened to check prosperity. The Wall street panic in 1907 played smash for a few months The presidential cam paisn of 1908 kept business back, and since then things have occurred to interfere with great forward movement.
 ''Despite of all irritating political agi- tation and various other untoward infiu- ences, however, business has kept moving along. and with big crops now in sight considerable degree of prosperity the rest of the year may be expected. There is some talk of a boom in the coming fall, but conservative bankers and business men while predicting business improve ment. say there can be no boom rntil the tariff is settled for good and all.
 q have noticed this in the business realm during my active experience of 2S years u used to be that when hard times came they were very hard and us- ually lasted two or three years. We did not get over the effects of the panic of 1893 for four or five years, and In the meantime trade was exceedingly dull But recent financial 1urries have been soon over, and even If conditions have not been altogether favorable there has been large volume of trade at some u,t,o ir i,,Jx of what l recall of this section 10 years ago. It is going forward by steady strides, and if any part of the country is prosper ous the south will have it's share and more"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
Over 900 Feet Long

The new Cunarder Aguitania is to be little over 800 feet long as con- trasted with the Olympic which is Ss9 feet long. The Olympic is a Hamburg liner, and so will the Im- perator be, and the last named is to be nearly 900 feet long.
 The differences in length of the three new liners is inconsiderablc. It does not mean much beyond the op- portunity to advertise the longest one of the three as the biggest ship afloat.
 Every additional foot in length, however, brings the 1000-foot ship nearer, and the world is evidently waiting for ship that measures ur to the round figure.
 When we have a 100O-foot ship the world will no doubt begin to wonder where the line is to be drawn-whert  expenses outrun the receipts from l; great passenger and cargo capacity The line will be drawn where profit dwindle, and not elsewhere. It i strictly matter of revenue, fol naval architects can no doubt b. found ready to make plans for large and still larger ships. Once let i become known, however, that sucl ships do not pay" and all can thel see where the limit on the size O ships will be placed.
 . In the expenses, too, must b, Yeckoned the cost of lengthenin1 piers and deepening channels. Great CT dock accommodation goes with big ship, and altogether we may b approaching the limit in length an, tonnage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
Government Oversight of Bushes

A steady drift towards govern ment oversight of business and espe- cially of corporations doing an inter state business has become a marked feature of trade circles in the past six months. The proposed natural incorporation act was not we'll re- ceived but the demand of Judge Gary and later still the opinion of Attor- ney General Wickersham in favor of price fixing are all parts of a new general movement. The bigger the corporation the more it calls for peace and protection in government oversight
 Nor is this all The pending bank ing reform plans call for an exten- sion of federal authority and so do the many suggestions in favor of more activity in the matter of pure food. The natural authority bids fair to be greatly extended despite all the theories of Jefferson and the fathers of the republic.
 And yet there is nothing in the fed eral government today that is satis- factory The pure food and drugs act is in the state of collapse because of different constructions of its terms. Extravaganza and inefficiency mark every department. Either the public service should be reformed or else |; halt should be called in the publi desire for an extension of govern ment functions.
 No stranger movement is befor the people than that which silentl, approves an expansion of the na tional authority on each and ever, available occasion. The drift is un mistakeable, and the people should begin to see to what it is leading There should be government reform before there is any more government expansion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
HIS DAUGHTERS MADE GOOD

Wellesley Dispatch to the New York
 World.
 One of the foremost women architects in the country, Miss Mary Rockwell, q Wellesley graduate in the class of 1900, is the second of Bertrand Rockwells daugh- ters to make good as self-supporting mistress of a profession.
 Captain Rockwell, a wealthy citizen of Kansas City, recently attracted attention by saying the daughter or daughters of a family, no matter what their station in life, should be taught a profession in which they could earn their own living.
 Miss Mary Rockwell has come into the limelight as an afhitect after Il years of hard work.
 Her sister, formerly Miss Bertha Rock well, and now the wife of Signor Carlo Gino Venanzi of Assist, Italy, has achieved widespread distinction as an artist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

One day Sander pulled on her boots and went out and killed man.
 The man who was murdered was the Rev. John Higgs of Harvey, III.
 Six years ago the Rev Mr Higgs went to the village direct from the seminary, zeaious to serve his generation Being a brilliant preacher. his rise to popular ity was rapid. In a year or so he had added 400 persons to his congregation.
 He constantly mnistered to the needy, the ailing and the despairing
 He accepted a small salary that the church funds might go to the poor.
 He visited the police station and wher- ever he could find the fallen.
 But
 The forked tongue of the church slan- der monger distilled it's poison and ruined the influence of the sacrificing preacher. Discouraged and broken hearted, he re- signed his ministry.
 He left Harvey.
 Removing to Iowa, he took another church. The bitter story. now known to be false, followed him. Again he moved. Slander followed.
 In desperation MT. Higgs left the min- istry broken In spirit. He went to work as a common laborer Discouraged half insane from his trou- bles, he resorted to liquor. Being man of fine sensibilites and delicate temper ament, the drink was his quick undo- | ing.
 Just what the poor creature had in mind is not known, but somehow he wandered back to Harvey, the scene of his suc- cess. The shadow of his cross was on l his soul.
 And then | In the police station where he applied | for a nights lodging he registered as 1 John Higgs. laborer," and unknown. In the police station where he had often eXhorted the fallen he hanged himself to the door of his cell | And the community? When the suicides identity was re- wrenching harvest of remorse.
 It seemed to the people whom he had served that John Higgs, despised and rejected of men, might have chosen this ignominous death to say to them:
 "Ye slew mel
 John Higgs had saved others: him. self he could not save from the poisoned l tongue of islander.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
WHAT THE COOK WAS DOING

From the August Lippincott's.
 While a certain Richmond family were in Europe, the dusky housemaid acted as caretaker, and more than once she re- ceived in the dining room an admirer in the person of one Henry Morgan, cab- driver.
 one evening, as the maid and the Jehu were making merry, there came from the kitchen painful scratching sound.
 Whats dat noise in de kitchen?" de- manded the maids admirer. Must be a dawg tryin' to git in."
 Don't yo worry,' answered the maid dat aint no dawg a-schatchin' at de do.' Oats de cook a-writin' a love Iette, to her honeysuckle."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

underlying conditions are so varied, so complex and so bound up with inter- national dignity that if is fair to assume that considerable period of continued unsettlement in financial circles is still among the immediate probabilities before harmony is finally restored.
 Ut Is matter Of common knowledge that our grain exports must naturally be curtailed by the gradual building up of our farm lands. But we are finding that our manufactures are more than com pensatlng for the decline in our ship ments of farm products. It is estimated by the bureau of statistics at Washing ton, for instance. that our exports of the products of our factories will, during the fiscal year just begun, exceed s10c0,- 0C0, coo. In the F months ending with June the value was s910.Ooo.o GOO. which itself was an increase of 1S1s per cent over the pre- ceding year, and of virtually 100 per cent in a decade. In 1901 the value of our man. ufactured exports was only s466. GOO, 900, and 20 years ago s1Ss, ,0oo,0O0 covered the total shipments under this classification.
 This is movement that Is exceeding " susSeStlVe or the increasing prosperity of our country-a prosperity that must of necessity be reflected in the earnings of our great transportation systems and industrial corporations, and prosperity that from now on, I believe, will be ac- lively increased by the new reciprocal trade arrangement that has just been au- thorized with our neighbors on the north.
 '"rhe technical situation of the market has become a rather uncertain one, and suggests that additional liquidation may precede any general buying movement of sufficient volume to cause any general advance in prices. From the traders standpoint, however, excellent opportuni- ties will undoubtedly be present during the next few weeks for highly profitable transactions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Large Cotton Crop

Notwithstanding the alarming reports about the caterpillar in the cotton field. Alabama will pick a record-breaklns crop, nearly, if not quite, 1,5OOoOO baies' said a Birmingham man who owns large farm in the black belt.
 No matter what happens from now on a 1,2oO. .O00-bale crop is practically made There are bears In the agricultural dls- tricts as well as in Wall street and New Orleans. To- hear some of them talk one would think the crop was going 10 be short. The fact is that in addition to an increased acreage we have had a splen- did summer for the making of a crop. l want to see the price high, but there is no use trying to fool anybody in the mat ter of yield
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
Death of BishOp Fitzgerald


 The death of Bishop Fitzgerald at the age of 82 was not altogether un- expected. He had been in i'll health several years and at length his strength proved insufficient to ward off disease.
 The venerable Methodist church. man was formerly a newspaper man and up to his last illness he is said to have taken a warm interest in newspaper work. He wrote for the newspapers freely throughout his active life, and one of his sons, now dead, became newspaper man in Tennessee where he edited at one time the Nashville Americana
 Bishop Fitzgerald was nearly 30 years old when he left newspaper work to become a junior preacher at Savannah. In 1890 he became a bishop after having served several years as the editor. of the Nashville Christian Advocate, a paper that may be said to be a stepping stone to bishoprics.
 His death at ripe old age will be dely mourned throughout the Meth dist church, south, in which he was much beloved and highly esteemed. He used both his tongue and his pen for the promotion of that great de- nomination, and his place will not readily be filled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
POPULAR SONG

Translated from the XVI. Century
 French, F. G. S.. in the Tuscaloosa
 News Gentle cavalier of France,
 Who dost ride away Harnessed for the clash of war,
 Greet my love. I pray" How shall I greeting give
 To him I do not know?" "Why he is fair to recognize,
 His mail is like the snow. ''He wears a cross of purest white
 And spurs of yellow gold; silver blade gleams on his lance As keen as the winters cold" Hold back your tears, sweet lady. No more shall he feel pain, For low he lies in Brittany, Lies low among the slain. Where meadow meets the woodland I have seen them scrape hole. And friars four 8 mass have sung For the welfare of his soul"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
Com mission Government

Trenton, the capital of New Jersey end town of about 100000 popula- tion, and Passaic, which has fully half as many people, have adopted the commission form of government, while four New Jersey cities have rejected the plan. Trenton and Passaic are enough to set the com mission pace in Woodrow Wilson's stats, and many other New Jersey
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
The Stock Market

Henry Clew, in his Saturday review, says in part:
 'As was to have been expected, our own market has this week participated in the general feeling of international financial unsettlement. Political affairs abroad have not, at least on the surface, shown increased strain. But an attitude of un- easiness has nevertheless been apparent in foreign banking circles, and it is not at all unnatural that this should spread | to this side of the ocean, especially in view of the active sales of American se- curities by foreign holders'that have taken place.
 As has been repeatedly emphasized in these advices, the cable and the telegraph have converted all the great financial cen- ters of the world into single market, of which the various branches such as Lon- don, New York. Paris, Berlin. Amster-
 dam, etc, act instantly in harmony. Any
 broad-minded view of financial condi- tions today must, therefore, be the inter- national view and we can hardly expect strong and confident market in New
 York when the great financial interests in London and Paris are so obviously
 concerned over the political outlook.
 Taken altogether. the foreign situation IS undoubtedly better than week ago. but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
LOOKED OMINOUs

From the Houston Post Mabel, what are that young mans intentions?"
 q don't know, papa, he is keeping me in the dark"
 That is the reason am asking. Tell him not to turn down the light any more when he calls"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 TWO women try to show their fond- ness for each other with kisses; two men, with kicks.
 The kind of girl every man wants to marry Is the kind his mothe, doesn't want him to.
 The reason man likes blood and thunder in novels is he's so mild and gentle in real life.
 The average man would rather have you think he had fine taste about neck-ties than that he was a good citizen.
 man can get so excited about the way his shirts were laundered that he wouldn't know if there was . stock market panic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

Tuberculosis is declining and the hope is it can be stopped altogether in 30 years more as typhus and lesrosy have been in civilized countries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

The real test of greatness in this corn- try. is to be summoned before an inves- tigation committee. tI outranks Who's Who"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

The government in it's report on the condition of the cotton crop on July 25 cut in between Miss Giles report and that of the Journal of Commerce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

The new way of proposing is this: T don't like your last name" lff the girl agrees to this it is all settled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

In big cities the business at the for eign money order office window decreases as the deposits increase in the postal berks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

The republicans are troubled because Leader Underwood is furnishing no rope iy which the party can hang itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

The,snubbing ,of Miss Beers at Annapolis has led to the transfer of two officers. and more may have to go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

Just at present more land Is sliding to- ward Oscar Underwood than any other presidential candidate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

Upton Sinclair, anarchist, was sent to jail in New Jersey because he played ia VII tennis on Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

Big liners and tall slIyzscrapers are soon outdone and then theyifall backtand are forgotten in the rank and file.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
In the Educational Field

'"rhe schools and colleges will open for the fall term early in September, aud the enrolment of students will De un- usually large" said a man who takes great interest in educational work "The colleges in Alabama have been very pros- porous in the past year or two, and the coming scholastic year will witness con ltinuance of prosperity.
 "I have read with much interest articles in The Age-Herald in which there was an insistence on a thorough English course. Most of the larger institutions have raised their standards materially
 within the past five years, and the gradu- | ates of several popular colleges write good English, but it should be so in ail
 even in the smaller industrial institutes. l When a boy quits a school of technology
 he may know a good deal of arithmetic, algebra and geometry; know a good deal
 of natural philosophy may be able to apply chemistry to farming or to blast | furnaces; he may be fairly capable en- gineer, and yet if he lacks the culture
 side he will fail to get ahead in the world. "A man pursuing any calling requiring technical knowledge must be able to ex- press himself well on paper. I can re- member when most of our successful men | in the industrial world, as well as in
 the commercial world, were 'self-made' I
 never liked that term, for all men who
 do things are in certain sense self-made. l But the time when the fellow without education can get to the front by mere
 industry and ordinary intelligence has passed. He must know something of theory we'll as practice. Too much at tention cannot be given in our colleges and technical training schools to English composition, and while I am on this sub
 iect let me say that a considerable per centage of stenographers who start out to earn wages are deficient, not only in grammar and vocabulary, but in spelling as well. Many stenographers with whom 1 have come in contact are well educated and thoroughly competent to perform | high class work, but all should be prop erly equipped. All commercial schools
 teach spelling and grammar, but those | ambitious boys and girls who can afford | it should be well grounded in English be- fore they start to learn stenography."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

SO grew together, Like fo 2 double cherry, seeming parted, But vel Hnion in pRrtition; Two lovely cherries moulded on one stem.
 --aIidSummer Nights Dream.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

Secretary Fisher is going to Alaska to lock the garage door and to find out who stole 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

Those good old corking times are out of fashion in the present administration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

If potatoes are to become legal tender cash registers will have to be rebuilt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

St Louis is sure it's shoe merger is wholly and utterly reasonable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
Bring Back Wandering Alabamians

'"rhe back to the south move is on the rising tide of affairs in the northwest ana the west" said a man who keeps well informed.
 T know of three families who have re- turned to Alabama during the past three months, two of them from Oklahoma. They are not poor folks either, but fairly prosperous. l hope the immigration de- partment of the state government will reach out after this class, for really they are the people of all peoples to aid in building up our state to its great destiny. The railroads lured many of these people with printed matter and pretty pictures these last only showed the favored spots, | to ignus fatuus Eldorados. 'I would like to see a propaganda started by lectures and printed matter to bring these wanderers back, and I believe many of them would bundle and go quickly if the band played I'm Gwine Back to Ala bama.'''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
JOHN HIGGs, CRUcIrIxIoN

There is more vacation weather left than vacation money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

The children of Washington have.c caught more flies than its baseball team has,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

The wool-growers want no revision downward at this time, or any other time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

New York feels in this hot weather that it cannot have too many subways
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

Thomas A. Edison is actually taking a vacation. He has sailed away to Eu- rope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

Harvard is beginning to consider its tereennial, although it is 25 years ahead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

must be a member of the cling fam ilN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
TELEPHONES

TELEPHONES Bell 6privafe exchange connecting all departmental. No. 1900. PeOples-EditOriaI rooms, 231; busi- ness office, 230.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second-class matter under act of Congress March 3. 1872
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07

New Orleans Times Democrat: RepuD- Iicans, who had all but lost faith in their own prophecy that the democratic party's
 control of the House would result in such
 bickerings and dissensions as would in sure it's defeat in the national campaign
 of 1912, will doubtless try to rebuild both their faith and their hopes upon the con
 troversy. between MT. Bryan and Chair man Underwood of the House ways and
 means committee. To democrats
 whether their sympathies lie with the one
 disputant or the other. the spectacle IS
 distinctly modifying. Yet it Is not easy
 to see how the Alabamian could be ex-
 pected, for the sake of party harmony, to overlook the direct attack of the Nebras- kan and pocket the insult which 1t i'm piled, or how such a course would pro- mote harmony. Plainly the row has been provoked by MT. Bryan, and we do not
 see how he can justify his charge against the motives and integrity of the democrat ic floor leader save by producing the proof to sustain It. In his reply to MT. Under woods remarks in the House. he said yesterday that his accusation was based upon a Washington dispatch published 
 by an Omaha newspaper. Surely, a charge so serious, and an attack so clearly cai- culated to break the democratic concert
 and divide the House majority into picker | ing and impotent factions, should have had a better foundation.
 | New York Post The extraordinary
 scene in the House of Representatives yesterday may or may not prove to be the coup de grace to MT. Bryan as one of the potent forces in American politics. The very completeness with which MT. under-
 wood demolished the Nehyaskan's prepos- terous accusation may prove to nave TOT
 MT. Bryan a saving quality, Tor It VIII render 1t possible for. him to make' m
 manly fashion. an equally complete and unqualified retraction and apology. An ac-