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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06

From Scraps.
 The late Edmund Garrett brilliant journalist and one-time assistant editor of the Pali Mall Gazette, was a man whom other men loved. But along with his virtues he had an extensive list of pe- culiarities, some of which are humorously exploited in new biography by E. T. Cook
 Garrett had no idea of time and he used to get into some trouble at the of fee of the Pail Mall Gazette for the reas- on This must stop he said to me, and matters must be mended.' A day or two afterward an invitation came from the proprietor to dinner Edmund said that at any rate there must be no doubt about this entertainment and his punctual at- tendance thereat and good deal of fuss was made about getting ready for it.
 Shirts were looked out, white ties and dress clothes were overhauled, and all the resources of our establishment brought into requisition, so that the appearance of the guest should do justice to the host Dinner was at 8, and long before that time Edmund was arrayed in spot less raiment, starting out in good time to get to dinner.
 q stayed, reading in the flat After about half an hour l heard somebody coming up the stairs and heard to my amazement the latch key put into the lock- The door opened and in came Ed mund with a face ashy pale, He took off his hat and threw it on the floor and said
 Hang it, old man. I have muddled 1t again! It was last Wednesday,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
Rusiness OutIoOk

"While general trade has been quiet for several weeks past, the outlook for midsummer business is very bright said John F. Sassons of Chicago, who is con nected with prominent manufacturing concern.
 Tn industrial centers business is quieter than in agricultural sections. This, of course, is but natural. Last year the country made great crops, and bumper crops are again in sight, In those towns whose mainstay is agriculture there has been steady prosperity for two or three years past. I was in Texas recently and found high degree of prosperity in that state.
 Alabama is a great agricultural as well as a mineral state, and most of the towns hereabouts are full of thrift. Taking a look ahead I would say that Alabama would be the richest state in the south in the course of the next 10 years. It, agricultural and mineral resources have been exploited in the right way in the past two or three years, and the state is now better known in the northwest than most any other southern stats. Population will be drifting this way and in time truck farming will add greatly to the wealth of Alabama
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
First Battle of Bull Run

On July 21, 1861, at Bull Run, near Manassas, a railroad junction about twenty miles from Washington, oc- cured the first large battle of the war. Fifty years ago in July! And it is now proposed that love feast be held on the old battlefield to be attended by both Union and Confed- crate soldiers. The idea is an excel lent one, and it is to be hoped it may prove to be the beginning of many anniversary celebrations of a like na- ture. Such meetings would draw the sections of the country closely to- gether, and the war on both sides would become a precious memory. In this way a civil war should always be treated, and in this way such wars are treated in other countries.
 In the battle of Bull Run the two armies were evenly matched in num- bers, each side having about 30,000, and the clash of 60,000 men deeply in earnest shook this country as it had never before been shaken. Beaure- gard and Joe Johnston met there Me Dowell, a regular army officer. l Stonewall Jackson held the left of the Confederate line, and it was there, by the way, that he won the title of "Stonewall" Achievements came up and McDowell was driven in great confusion from the field and forced back in a disorderly manner upon Washington. The federal loss in killed and wounded was 2900, and the Confederate loss was 1700.
 Those were stirring days and the first battle of Bull Run was the real beginning of great civil conflict. Other events had preceded 1.-the organization of the Confectionery, the fall of Sumter, and other occurrences involving small loss of life. When the great clash of arms came at Bull Run then all knew that long strug- gle was before the country. All may not have awakened to a full apprecia- tion of the coming war. All may not have felt that a civil war beyond in extent and seriousness any before or since known in the history of the world was in plain view. All, how ever, saw that an armed conflict had come, and preparations for it went on apace from that time. The fiftieth anniversary of that battle should not be permitted to pass without a joint meeting of the soldiers who fought in ] i, and of their children and friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Met Cardinal Gibbons

T had business in Baltimore recent ly. and while there had the honor of meeting Cardinal Gibbons" said Belton Gilreath. q had long desired to know the Cardinal, and when my friend, MT. Michael Jenkins, one of the great cit izens, great philantropists and great Catholics of Baltimore asked me what he could do for me, meaning what courtesy he could show me, I promptly replied that I would esteem 1t highly if he could take me to call on Cardinal Gibbons. He said he would be only Jenkins and the cardinal are close friends.
 When we called on his eminence we met with most cordial greeting. Car dinal Gibbons has been long noted for his grace of character as well as his mental strength and poise He Is un- feignedly hospitable. There I found the head of the Catholic church in the United States, prince of Holy Roman church, as simple in his manner as the plainest citizen.
 Tt Is needless to say that I greatly enjoyed my talk with the cardinal On leaving he graciously presented me with a copy of his Faith of Our Fathers At my request he inscribed the name of Mrs. Gilreath and his own name on the fly leaf. This gift will be prized beyond measure at our home."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
Farming in Nebraska

Says the Nashville Tenneseean:
 Nebraska has citizen it may well be poud of.
 His name is E. L. Bowers. :, "His home is at Nerndon.
 "He recently marketed 1287 hogs within two weeks. They averaged 262 pounds apiece and sold at an average price of $8.26 6-10 per hun dredweight, bringing him in all S27,- 740.92.
 "These hogs were bred, raised and fattened on Mir. Bowers farm, and he used no feed which was not pro- duced on his own land.
 "This deal in pork shows why so many Nebraska farmers are buying automobiles"
 There is just one reason, and one only, why the Nebraska farmer has no competitors in Alabama-our farmers will not undertake the task There is nothing else in the way. Ths tick does not infest hogs, and there is no more hog cholera here than there is in Nebraska. The soil and the climate are here and acre for acre the soil and climate of Alabama can be made to grow as much corn as Nebraska land. The hogs sent alive in car load lots could be marketed in this district alone at better prices than the Nebraska farmer received.
 An Alabama farmer could outdo the Nebraska farmer, but in order to do this he would have to adopt mod ern methods in retaining moisture and in making his corn acreage fer tile. It can be done and the man vii yet arise who will do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
HE WAS CRAZY

From the Boston Transcript
 An elderly man of prosperous appear ance called at the Paris studio of paint CT who had a hard struggle for many years. He is now a fairly well-known looking man said at once that he had not welcome buyers. The prosperous Joking man said at once that he had come to buy. The artist showed him picture. How much?" asked the visit or and said, 'I will take it." the mo- p1ent the figure was named. The artist showed him a second picture. It was bought up with the same promptitude. A third and a fourth were offered and in stantly accepted at the artists price The visitor began fishing out all the canvasses he could find himself, asked the prices and bought them on the spot. Finally, he had purchased every picture the painter had to sell. He gave his name and ad- dress, both well known. and went off
 The artist was left elated at his morn ings business. Then another visitor called and said, apoogetcally, You have just been seeing MT So-and-So. He Is my brother. I am awfully sorry he gave you so much trouble. The fact is, he is not quite right in his head. Nothing dan gerous, of course-he has only one quite harmless mania; he offers to buy every thing he sees We let him do it, as it does no harm to anybody, only, of course, we warn people afterward Please attach no importance to anything he may have told you. I am sure you will quite under- stand. Againa thousand apologies on my poor brothers behalf" The artist bowed the second visitor out with rather a wry f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
Iron Outlook Better

"Whetherdt is the uncertainty of what the present Congress may do or the cer- tainty of lower priced pre- it is difficult to tell, but one or the other, or perhaps both of these causes, is responsible for the quiet time we are now experiencing in the iron trade" say Matthew Addy & Co. We seem to have come to season when men have lost confidence in them selves and in the future. It is very odd. Iron is being sold today at prices that hardly mean a swapping of dollars.
 Tt is an axiom of trade that when you can buy staple commodity at the cost of its production or less you have bar gain. There never in the past has been purchases did not prove in the end to be highly profitable. But just now, in spite of the fact that it would appear as if in the iron market the table were spread with attractive bargains, buying is all most limited to immediate necessities. Of this kind of purchasing there has been quite little this week. But that is about all
 Yet it is apparent that things are changing. Production is being rapidly cut down and furnace stocks are de- creasing. The over-supply that has caused tho trouble will not take long in being absorbed should business revive in nor nal volume. And the best posted men in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
Insurgency Stamped Out in New
 York

Not only has Mr. Roosevelt's state chairman stepped down and out, but so has MT. Griscom, county chairman in New York city. The entire insur- gent force has been disbanded. Not shadow of it is left in any part of the state, and Boss Barnes, assisted of course by MT. Woodruff and Jim my Wadsworth, is in charge of the party in the big state. The insurg- ents or nationalists or insurrectos or by whatever name they may be known have surrendered bag and baggage, and only followers of the old machine are now put on guard anywhere in New York state.
 It does not follow, however, that the rank and file of the Roosevelt following have surrendered. These men may be sullIing in their tents, or more plainly speaking, in their farm  houses and wayside stores and shops, and what they will do in 1912 remains to be seen. They will not go from open insurrection to machine service without at least some disaffection.
 Already the machine has declared its intention to select a set of dele gates to the convention 1912 tha will to man support Taf fannd Sher man, Sunny Jim may Seede at MI Barnes hands the delegaNgen1ut h can never poll the solid rSas olica
 vote of New York. The sFe nde of the insurgents is, howeve "om plete on the surface, and the fM1s n backed by Messrs. Taft and ST SsfIa a
 is again in control of the p os esAsS si
 New York. The true tesf strength will come in 1912 nc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
PARTING

By Coventry Patmore. If thou dost bid thy friend farewell, But for one night, though that farewell
 may be, Press thou his hand in thine. How canst thou tell how far from thee Fate or caprice may lead his steps ere
 that tomorrow comes? ~ Men have been known to lightly turn the
 corner of a street, And days have grown to months, and
 months to tagging years, Ere they have looked in loving eyes again.
 Parting. at best, is underlaid With tears and pain. Therefore, lest sudden death should come
 between, Or time, or distance, clasp with pressure
 firm
 The hand of him who goeth forth; Unseen, Fate goes too Yes. find thou always time to say some earnest word akt tf Between the idle talk, Lest with thee henceforth, -df Night and day, regret should walk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
T.o c,rs. os Drastic Prohibition

..If anyone could see the humbug or constitutional prohibition and the curse of tbe illicit liquor traffic as seen in Maine he would be cured of sumptuary notions' said oscar F. Doehling of Phil adelphia Maine has been a constitutloh- al prohibition state for something hke half century. but it Is at last about to strike prohibition out of it's constltn- tion. I have visited Maine twice in my life: the first time seven or eight years ago. and the last time last summer. The first time I was there prohibition was farce and I saw more drunkenness than I saw in the state of Pennsylvania; ana on the occasion of my last visit the liouor evil was even worse.
 q have travelled a good deal in the south within recent years, and in most of the prohibition states the whisky bus mess creates a notorious scandal. This is especially so in Tennessee and Geor- gia. In the cities of Tennessee there seems to be no sort of effort to enforce prohibition. In the leading hotels buffets are run openly.
 "In most of the cities of Georgia 1t is about the same way, The prohibition law is better enforced in Atlanta, per haps, than in any other city of the south, but I attribute this to the fact that Georgia has a loophole for the sale or beer. Atlanta is a great beer town
 "I believe In saloons. I have never been connected In any way with the liquor business, but when I arrive in a city and find it saloonless I usually put that city down as partaking of the cross roads. Prohibition is never the sign Of large city, but I find that the people of Atlanta have become so fond of beer that they can well get along with few liquor clubs, and without the open liquor saloon. think that any state that passed statutory prohibition laws made mis- take in not doing like Georgia.
 "The beer loophole may be after all the best solution of the liquor evil. Modern beer has so little alcohol in it that 1t is practically soft drink and if the people who want to drink are satisfied with mild beer why not let them have it; why not encourage beer drinking?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
Diaz's Resignation All Essential

Provisional President Madero sub mits this proposition as the basis of the peace negotiations at Fl Paso: "In order to assure the immediate qualification of Mexico and to lrnish to the world an example wh.eh will increase the prestige of our country, both co.tending leaders, Gen. Por- forio Diaz, as well as myself, as pro- visional president, and vice president of the republic, Ramon Corral, shall resign and in the interim, the minis ter of foreign relations, Senor Fran cisco De La Bara, shall be president, calling a general election according to the constitution.
 The impression prevails that no
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
A POET WITHOUT HONOR

From the Minneapolis Journal.
 Owen Mister, the novelist, was talking in Philadelphia about poet whose works sold poorly. s' f9
 Poets are usually without honor he said. Remember WordsworthsS case. The great Wordsworth, you know, was in the habit of spouting his poetry aloud as he took his lonely walks. Thus he polished and elaborated his lines. Thus, too, he got the repatuoitn'r among the Rydal Lake folk of being bit daft.
 'Well, John, what's tine .news?' Hart lev Coleridge once asked an old stone- breaker by the lakeshore.
 ".Why, nowt varra partickler,' the stonebreaker replied; only old Words worth's broken loose agin.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
COMPARISON.

Look around you. look around you,
 When your burdens hard to bear. Others ills will quite confound you,
 Sorrow dwelleth everywhere. Name the wight in whom is gladness Still supreme, year after year: Who has never met with sadness,
 Never shed a bitter tear. Look around you. look around you,
 When misfortune follows fast; Others limbs so straitly bound you,
 Wonder how such woe could last. Others hearts with anguish riven,
 In the valley of despair, To the verge of madness driven
 By the cruel gyves they wear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
STRANGE LANGTJAGE.

Joseph Tut, while climbing onto his house last week to find leak, fell, strik- ing his back porch.-Merrill (Wis) Advo- cate.
 What a delicate way of describing a catastrophe.-New York Herald.
 What a strange name to call a back porch.-Houston Post.
 If Joseph is as fat as Judd Lewis, it's lucky he didn't land on his bay window.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
At TarbOn Hole

well known local fisherman re- marked: There is quite a clever story in a recent issue of the Saturday Even ing Post dealing with the experience of party of novices fishing for tarpon.
 Ut reminds me of my first expert- ence in landing the silver king. Be- lieve me, when he was ready for the gaff, after giving me half hours sensation, I was ready to call 1t day and quit. I landed this fellow down at Pass Christian in what Is called the Tarpon Hole,' where, the day l was out six were landed, weighing from 9S to 165 pounds and measuring five feet nine to six feet eight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
THE BOON-A VAGABOND

By Douglas JerfoId.
 Books! their worth is a matter of fancy say of weakness to the weaker part of mankind; they have no standard value, none at their birth Hence the unknown maker of a book-I speak especially oi the time when l first sinned in ink-is a sort of gypsy in the social scale, pie turesque vagabone, who somehow or the other contrives to live on the sunny side of the statutes, but is nevertheless vehem- ently suspected of all sorts of larceny by respectable householders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
Real Estate Values

Birmingham real estate market Is fairly active" said w. N Malone. Realty values here naturally seek higher levels. If the resources of this district were sufficient to make real estate values substantial several years ago there is cer- tainly more reason for high values today. Birmingham has been growing rapidly and it will continue to grow fast, and with its increased population real estate will command better prices"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
The NIusic FestihaI

"One of the best indicators for the financial success of the music festival to be held May 22 23 and 24 is the fact that nearly every one I meet is going to at tend the opening concert" said mem Der of the festival executive committee. "A great many season tickets have been sold-a far larger number than I had ex- pected-and this is another good sign, of course.
 Large parties are coming from vari- ous sections of the state, and many will come from Mississippi. Although the festival is yet a little more than two weeks off, it can be seen now that the Orpheum will be crowded to overfiowing. Birmingham stands in great need of a large auditorium where festivals and con ventions could be held. The Orpheum, where the music festival is to be given, has a seating capacity of less than 140O
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06

The lectures of that delightful prince of the Chautauqua circuit, pr. D. H. Grlggs, will be the chief feature of next week in this city. No one else in the lecture field is so crowded with engagements simply because no one else is quite so entertain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06

The Mexican revolution is recessing in the hope that peace terms can be patched up Much depends upon the extent of the patriotism of the men on top.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
SOMEWHAT SEVERE.

The editor of the Galaxy calls modern literary critics "Hell-bent Boosters of Balderdash and Bosh." Is it possible that the distinguished gentleman has lately been up against the gaff?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06

The learned justices of the supreme court should not forget to bring down town those big trust decisions tomorrow morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 You can forgive man for most any thing but being popular.
 There's heap of good bread-and- but ter brains wasted trying to do something in fine arts.
 When sentiment is so cheap it's queer how stingy men can be in giving it to their wives.
 It takes man about the rest of his life to recover from an attack of holding public office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
Regarding Liberty to Drink

Sydney Smith, the famous Anglican clergyman, statesman and wit, who lived from 1771 to tS45, wrote thus on a sub ject which happens to be of absorbing interest today:
 ''There has been in all governments a great deal of absurd cantng about the consumption of spirits. We believe the best plan is to let people drink what they like, to make no sumptuary laws either for the stomach or the back. In the first place, laws against rum, and rum and water, are made by men who can change a wet coat for a dry one whenever they choose, and who do not often work up to their knees in mud and water; and in the next place, if this stim- ulus did all the mischief it is thought to do by the wise men of claret, it's cheap ness and plenty would rather lessen than increase the avidity with which it is at present sought for"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06

All connected with the coronation be- lieve in putting on the traffic all it will bear Hotel rates have been advanced 300 per cent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06

The Annapolis crowd snubbed a young lady because she earned her living, and then the President and people snubbed the snubbers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06

Our consul general at London is pro- testing against the stage Americans as seen by the British theatre-goers. He seems to have very little real work to do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06

We cannot readily mobolize an army near Fez because we are kept busy in main taining one along the Rio Grande.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06

San Francisco is looking for an exposi- tion site warranted to remain uncracl1ed when the town shakes again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06

Professor Merriam spent s13S GOO in try ing to become mayor of Chicago, and he has frankly told where he got it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06

The northern papers are constrained to say that one touch of summer would make the whole world grin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
PEssIMIsTIc WOMAN.

Woman, according to Capt. Jim Churchill, is a hopeless pessimist He thus paraphrases the poet: Woman, In her hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and apt to sneeze." And as the proprietor of a big Broad way restaurant. he manages to get a line on some varieties of womankind. The other night young man and young woman had been sitting quietly in a cor ner drinking champagne. They had been engaged in that delectable occupation for two hours or more. Although they were perfectly well behaved, snatches of their conversation occasionally reached the ears of their neighbors, when the chestra came up for air. q believe you, Tommy" said the girl. Tommy gazed fondly into her eyes. He reached across the cloth and tapped her little white hand fondly. You know I believe you, don't you, Tommy"
 Tommy made cooing noises in assent. 'Tll always believe you after this, Tommy" said the young woman, affec- tionately. And yet" she added, medi- tatively, Tommy, I bet you're lying to me right now.-New York Correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star.
 THE YOUNG BATRACHIAN. Behold the little tadpole. Who is always in the swim. Ere long he'll be a bullfrog. With exceeding length of limb.
 WELL, HARDLY.
 The end-seat hog
 Will soon be here.
 But that Is not
 A thought to cheer.
 WHY LINGER?.
 Goodby, Winter,
 On your way.
 Don't you know it's
 Almost May? '-.-4.-5s-
 Birmingham Age-Herald.
 We never thought
 Any man
 Would 'fess up 'bout
 Birmingham.
 St. Louis Times
 CRUEL WORDS. He's always airing his French" Tt needs airing"
 PAUL COOK.