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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23

Gov. 0'NeaPs Plan for Holding Cotton
 Now that distress cotton is well out of the way, there is no reason why the last 3,000,000 or 100000 bales of the crop should not be held for bet ter prices. The one mule farmer may not see his way clear to place his cotton in accordance with the plan negotiated by Governor O'Neal and E. J. Watson, commissioner of agri- culture of South Carolina, and Clar- ence Ousley, representing Governor Colquitt of Texas, but the country merchant with whom he deals can readily render the plan available even to him. and the success of the plan, therefore, depends upon the co-opera- tion and aid of the country merchant. If the country merchant can aid his customer to get on his feet he would surely serve himself as well. The patriotism of the country merchant is appealed to in this matter.
 Governor O'Neal and his associates have secured pledges of a big round sum to carry cotton for southern pro- ducers, and the details of the plan will soon be worked out and published. Up to November 14 there had been ginned in this state 1,198,191 and surely 300,000 bales remained then to be ginned. A loss of 1 cent pound on 300, 1000 bales means a loss to this state of $1,500,000, and the producers need the money. It will not be Governor O'NeaIs fault if they do not get it.
 The truth is the cotton farmer who raises his own supplies is master of the situation. He can hold his cotton until the price suits him, and he can advise his neighbors to do likewise. The O'Neal plan for carrying cotton after giving the producer for imme- diate use $25 bale will promote the holding movement, and good only can come from it to the producers and through him to the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
1n maiden meditation, fnncy-free.
 --Midsummer Nights Dream,
An Up To Date Hotel Wanted

The Chamber of Commerce has be- gun a campaign for the erection of a modern skyscraper hotel, and it is to be hoped it will promote the move ,nent to the utmost-that 1t will not relax a muscle or a grain of gray matter until contract is let for the building of the needed hotel. A con- snittee of 15 is to be appointed spe- cially to secure the building of such a hotel.
 The Chamber of Commerce pledges It's moral support and active interest in the building of the proposed hotel. This committee is to be headed by President Massey and it will stand rharged with the duty of securing the location and erection of a modern hotel in this city. As soon as plans are formulated the committee is directed to report them to the Cham Der of Commerce in order that fur ther steps if need be may be taken.
 The Chamber of Commerce is in earnest in this matter, and the time for mere talk and gabble is ended. IA modern hotel is needed here, and one must be built. Plans are to be drawn and lot selected, and the committee of the Chamber of Com merce will see that action instead of mere talk is had in this matter. The hour to act has come. If one man will not talk hold of this piece of bus iness another will, and the committed of Is will do doubt soon put the sub dect in a crystallizing way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
Numerous Mexican Problems

5. President Madero explained in an Interview granted to a staff repre- sentative of The Age-Herald the sit nation in Mexico more clearly than it had. before been presented by any body. No one understands it quite as fully as the new president of Mex leo does, and he went over the en- tire ground.
 It is plain from this interview that If the United States stops revolu- tionary movements organized in Texas. President Madero will readily put down the Zapatists and all other uprisings "A revolution says President Madero at the end of an interview for The Age-Herald ssbacked by public opinion is revolu- tion to be feared. A revolution found ed on personal ambition is a sad com edy, especially sad for those whose ambitious dreams are so soon to dis appear in bubbles"
 Nearly all the difficulties that President Madero is called upon tc face are of the latter nature, and he will no doubt be able soon to fight or negotiate them out of existence. Be, cause he himself won the presidency in revolution many local leaders think they can do likewise, and tho new administration is thus em barrassed at the outset by armed Troubles. These will soon disappear, lei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
What Clark Howell Writes

Clark Howell editor of the Atlanta Constitution. who is one of the distin- gulshed men of the south invited to the Underwood banquet, will not be able to attend,.' said a member of the banquet committee. MT. Howell knows MT. Un- derwood we'll and what he writes Presi- dent Massey is, I take it, of more than ordinary interest. He says in part:
 T regret exceedingly that it will be impossible for me to accept your invita- tion to the banquet to be given in honor of Hon. Oscar w. Underwood. on the evening of the 2sd instant.
 T should like very much to pay the tribute of my presence on this occasion to one whom hold in such high personal esteem, and to whom not only the demo- cratic party, but the people of the whole country, are indebted.
 It is not often that the history of our country shows in the ranks of any party such brilliant leadership as characterizes Underwoods leadership of the democratic majority of the present Congress.
 If he should finally overcome his modesty to the extent of authorizing the use of his name in connection with the next democratic presidential nomination. I believe that democrats the country over would be glad to follow the standard of Alabama in his behalf'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
THE EGOTISM OF AUTHORS

ing round the throne" it was thought capital joke to cite about him. In such a case we see the egotism of the author in reverse. as 1t were, and taking on the guise of modification.
 In the common opinion, one Of the most frequent manifestations of literary van ity consists in writer's concern about the public reception of his book. it's crit ical reviews, its sales, what people say about it, how the publisher is satisfied, and so on But this, when it exists--and, no doubt, it often does-is modified by circumstances which the outsider is not always in a position to appreciate. There is, for Instance, the lapse of time which must come between the completion of the manuscript, or even the reading of the proof. and the actual publication of the book. During that period the authors interest may have passed entirely to an- other theme. When one book is pub lished he may be half way through the writing of another. Imagine the uncer- tainty which would arise in the minds of Arnold Bennett if anybody congratu- lated him on his latest novel; It might be the third or fourth back of his really latest. And we presume that he and most other successful writers are more indifferent to Solicitations by friends, and praise or blame by critics than most of us non- bcokmakng folk suspect. If an author has done really fine thing, he does not need outside voices to tell him so As M. Bergson has explained, it is only when we are doubtful about our sue cess that we look eagerly about for rec ognition and encouragement. And if self assurance of the writer as respects his own work Is a form of egotism, 1t may at least be of the silent and inoffensive kind. After Carlyle had finished his
 'French Revolution," he muttered to himself as he passed the crowds in the park, There isn't one of you that could not have it." But he left it for Froude to reveal that scornful vanity to us after his death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
NIGHT LIFE IN NEW YORK

New York Correspondent Cincinnati
 Times-Star.
 We needn't go to Paris to find tough all night resorts,' said recently re- turned Cincinnatian. He was sitting in the wide dining room of ''lfoteP' on Upper Broadway It was o'clock of a Sunday morning. Every table in the room was taken, and people were stand
 ing ten deep in the entrances and about the walls, waiting for chance to sit down. The noise was deafening. Dishes clattered against each other, corks popped half drunken men and women shrieked conversation in an eff fort to keep their voices from being drowned by the frantic efforts of two violinists and a plano player. Eddy ing waves of cigarette smoke filled the air, so that one could barely recog nize an acquaintance across the room, Walters, perspiring so that their duGy coats showed wet black patches, ran at top speed,
 Every woman there had some claim to good looks. Most were young and all were expensively dressed The men were of all types from gaping visitor from what Broadway calls the bushes' to the black haired, thick nosed, be- diamonded men who were there on what they would call business" Now and then some young and pretty woman just bit queer about the eyes, per haps-would approach one of them and whisper a word in his ear. Every one bought drink as fast as he could get the attention of busy waiter. If he did not, he was made to understand that hls table had been engaged" Now and then the walters had to cease their money getting vocation to help an in- toxicated man or woman to a waiting cab. Hardly any smiled at the inter- ruption. It was a matter of routine. A fight or two was suppressed by the alert bouncers. Then a male trio stepped on the stage. The clamor ceased, for the throng wanted to hear the song. "I heard 'em sing that sort of thing at the Dead Rat in Paris" said the recently returned Cincinnatian, but thank God, I couldn't understand the language. Come on out. I think I'm going to be ill."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
WILL FREEZE OUT LEpRosy


 Philadelphia Correspondence New Yorl
 Herald.
 pr. Ralph Bernstein, dermatologist oi the Hahnemann Hospital and Medical college, a worldwide authority on skin diseases and cancer specialist, com menting on the discovery of two cases of leprosy here declared tonight that he could conquer the disease by freezing with sol. idified carbon dioxide. This is the method he has successfully used in treating cpl thelioma or skin cancer. The solution placed on the skin causes the cells to ex- pand and nature then breaks them down and carries them away.
 "Leprosy can only be contracted through the medium of an open wound," said pr. Bernstein. Even this is doubtful, for it has been tried scientifically to produce the disease itself by direct innoculation of the germs in the healthy human living tissue, and it has been absolutely unsuc- cessful.
 T have come to learn that we need not fear an epidemic of leprosy. It is to be borne in mind that those who have con tracted the disease have been poorly fed and usually live under poor hygienic con ditions, and that it rarely attacks those whose surroundings are hygienic.
 My method is to apply modified, sol idifed carbon dioxide to the infected DOT tion, which causes an intense freezing of the part, producing what the physician would call thrombosis of the various ves- sells, which means, in other worlds the cutting off of the supply of nourishment of the infected part, and in this way causing its gradual absorption, leaving in it's place a smooth, scarless area with a normal skin covering.
 ''The freezing substance is applied some 120 degree sbelow zero. It is practically painless, and I have great hopes that it will in the near future be universally used as a cure for leprosy.
 If you take a bottle of water and place it out of doors on cold night the low temperature will cause the water to ex- pand and break the bottle. Well, it is the same in treatment of leprosy. By apply ing the dioxide, the temperature of which is, as l said, 12o degrees below zero, the cells will expand and become ruptured, thus ridding the patient of the disease'
 Dr. Bernstein's method of curing cancer, which is similar to that advanced for cur ing leprosy, was loudly applauded by dele gates to the American Congress of Sur geons, who witnessed his removal of a cancer that gave indications of spreading over the face of the patient, but which was destroyed by the freezing method. The visiting surgeons are unanimous in their opinion that wonders will be worked if the leprosy method suggested by Dr. Bernstein is tried out wherever the dis ease appears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
More Delay for the Beef Barons

The trial of the packers under in- dictments of long standing has been deferred to Monday next, and a stay order from a justice of the supreme court may yet be obtained. The ef- fort to bring to trial the indicted packers has been going on nearly ten years, and yet the postponement of the trials goes steadily on.
 The cases before Judge Carpenter involve the criminal side of the Sher- man act, and the country awaits with interest test of that part of the act. The packers are unwilling to face the issue, and one delay follows another until the entire matter is fast becom- ing national scandal.
 The indicted beef baron should be tried as well as the thief who steals because he is hungry. The one has no more right to thwart justice than the other, and yet appeal follows ap- peal and the indictments go untried. Something is surely wrong when a beef baron cannot be brought to trial, although petty criminals can be on almost any day of the week. The case of the packers is attractin general attention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
DIR. GEORGE H. DENNY
the Mobile Register.

From the MODue 1teSlSlef.
 pr. George H. Denny, late president of Washington and Lee university, and now president-elect of the University of Ala bama, arrived Friday in Birmingham, where he was hospitably received and en- tertained by the alumni At the Uni versity in January he will be welcomed by faculty, students and citizens gen erally. The coming of Dr. Denny to the headship of this ancient seat of learning is regarded as an event of much im- portance. promising great development in the work of the institution. With full vigor of manhood. intellectual strength and a. fine reputation as uni versity president, Dr. Denny is equipped to do all that is expected of him; and The Register, in extending him welcome to Alabama, wishes for him the achieve ment of his ambition to make the Ala bama university second to none in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
-T-sos---- A SAFE RAILROAD'

From the New York Tribune.
 Chauncey M. Depew frequently depre- cates the comparisons that are drawn be- tween American and European railways These comparisons are unfair to us," he once said at banquet in New York. When I'm told how very safe the Eu- ropean railway is I think of the Nola Chucky line
 The president of the Nola Chucky me once waited on me to request an ex- change of courtesies interrogated him. and he said proudly:
 On our line, sir, not only has a col llslon never occurred, but on our line collision would be impossible,
 'lmpossible? said l. Oh, come. I Know that the latest automatic safety de- vices are excellent things, but impossible is large word.'
 It's literally true with us, sir he replied.
 How can it be?' said I.
 Why said he, we own only ono train.' '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23

us hope. The new administration should be left in peace to pursue the many reforms it's head had promised as a candidate to put through con gress and to carry into effect. These reforms are greatly needed and just as soon as it is seen that President Madero is in earnest in carrying out his policies the people will rally to his support and he will be able to render the republic as secure and peaceful as it was under Diaz, the autocrat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
A MON sTER JEWEL
From the Chicago Tribune.

Jewel experts throughout the world have been thrown into state of excite ment by the appearance of a beryl that weighs 243.1 pounds, and is 1S9 inches high and from 15.75 to 165 inches in width. This is the largest beryl ever found, and is reported to have been sold by it's finder for nearly $250oo. The beryl was picked up by Turk in the state of Minas Geraes. Brazil. It's color is greenish blue and it is absolutely free from im- purities. It is estimated that this one crystal will furnish at least 100000 carats of jewels of various sizes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
A Citizens Criticism

'I saw two arrests this afternoon that should not have been made,' well known citizen who is a model of so- briety said last night.
 "One of the arrests referred to was at the corner of Nineteenth street and Second avenue and the other was at the corner of Twentieth street and Second avenue. Each of the victims was evi- dently plain workingman. Each had been drinking and each seemed to be slightly tipsy. Neither of the men was drunk. have been living in Birmingham a long time, and occasionally I have seen men of prominence staggering drunk who were not arrested, but on the contrary were assisted into cabs by policemen and sent home.
 When I saw the two men yesterday placed under arrest when they were fully able to take care of themselves, and were molesting nobody, my blood boiled. Chief Bodeker's policy has been both sane and humane, and generally approved, I be- lieve, in the matter of arrests on frivolous charges. Some months ago I read an interview of his in The Age-Herald in which he said he had instructed his men not to arrest a man on a charge of drunk enness, unless the individual was really intoxicated. No citizen, no matter what his position in commercial or social life may be, should be allowed to make scene on a public highway and escape arrest But when men slightly groggy move along the streets quietly the police should not take them to the jail"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
ON FIRST READING CHAPMAN.S
 "HOMER"

By John Keats. Much have I travelled in the realms of
 gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms .s5 seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. oft of one wide expanse had I been
 told W That deep browed Homer ruled as his de-
 mesne; @ Yer did l never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud
 and bold; Then felt I like some watcher of the
 skies When new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle
 eyes --es- 3stel. He stared at the Pacifc-and all his men Looked at each other with a wild sur. Silent. upon . peak in Darien.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23

the erection of. Birmingham's first steel frame structure-the Woodward. Many skyscrapers have gone up here since then but people never tire of watching the steel frame workers as they rush their part of tall building. Every modern office building under construction makes everybody here buoyant. The American Trust and Savings banks building will represent an outlay of s1,oOO.0oo or more.
 sI hope the next skyscraper will be a freproof, up to date hotel"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
PERMANENT. There are some things We can't forget; The cost of living Is with us yet.
IN DIRE STRAITS.

 Robert Edeson, playing in "The Cave Man," tells a story of a dusky Hercules that thrusts all former champion divers into oblivion.
 "A brawny negro" said Edeson, twas once employed as stevedore on the docks at Memphis to help unload a cargo from the steamer Anna P. Silver. The negro was carrying anvils ashore, and so great was his strength that he carried one under each arm. Tn crossing the narrow gangplank with an anvil under each arm the negro slipped and fell into the water. He came up puffing ana blowing. 'Frow down CT rope, he yelled. '"The men on board laughed at him in derision.
 'Frow down CT rope pleaded the ne- gro. treading water vigorously. Getting nothing but jeers, the negro cried eXcitedly:
 Fer de lan's sake, man, frow down CT rope or I'll drop one CT desc anvils. '- December Young's Magazine.
 THE BASEBALL FAN.
 He waiteth grum,
 As in a dream,
 Till spring shall come
 And bring the team.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
DEPARTED GREATNESS.

There was man in our town
 Who talked at every chance he got, Untif he won wide renown
 For being "Johnny-on-the-Sp But when his earthly race was run
 And low he lay, the honored dead, Nobody meath the splendid sun
 Recalled just what it was he'd said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
FOOTNOES TO BAEDEF< ER

From the Berlin Foreign Times.
 Every stranger should know how to dis tribute tips. In restaurants or beer shops the waiter who serves you should receive on an average of 10 per cent of the total bill. for quite small bills seldom less than 10 pfennig. In large coffee houses the waiter should receive 10 per cent and the aid who carries the victuals and drinks should get small tip besides
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23

In 1915 the centennial observance or peace in the English speaking world will be observed, and it is proposed that every person in the countries interested should be quiet five minutes. That kind of a celebration would not be appreciated by the children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23

A GAY DECEIvER. Absorbed in work" He wired his wife, ''I won't be home. Light of My Life,' Who softly said,
 "'Tis fiattery. Suspicious thoughts Awake in me-" She caught a train To reach the scene, And hub. was caught Out with a queen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
A MERE GUESS.

A MERE GUESS. A suffragette May fight and fight, And still look under The bed at night.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. But if she found A burglar there She'd yank him out And pull his hair.
 Boston Transcript. And while she had The robbers goat, She'd make the laddic Pledge his vote.
 Youngstown Telegram. Or maybe she, With courage grim, Would pause to make A speech to him.
 Chicago Record-Herald. Why not propose (If she would wed) And marry the guy Beneath the bed? Spokane Spokesman-R Review. If that guy were Nat Goodwin. he Would marry her Immediately.
 Springfield Union. And if it were Our Colonel Green He'd quickly beat It from the scene.
 Houston Post.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
Birminsha,n skyscraper.

'.The erection of the first steel column for the American Trust and Savings banks 20 story building is an important and cheering event in the history of Bir- mingham," said a business man.
 "The public watched with keen interest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23

The Chicago News concludes that there
 are too many low brows, rough necks and ossided consciences in the Illinois legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23

All the bankers in New York but two wear moustaches. Smooth shaving is not personally applied in the highest finan- cial circles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23

The Camorrist trial at Viterbo drags or, but Americans have Los Angeles be- fore them and have not a word to say.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23

The Mahommedans are in trouble both in Asia and Africa, for the Persians are followers of the prophet also.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23

A doctor operating for appendicitis cut doubt thought he was left handed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23

Wriggly dances on the stage are becom- ing unpopular, and civilization is begin ming to assert itself.