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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
Votes for Women Defeated Again

By a vote of 19 to 16 woman suf- frage was defeated in the New York senate. This was a pretty close vote, and the legislative committee of the suffragists has announced that it will endeavor to prevent the election of the senators who had voted against woman suffrage.
 Big "Tim' Sullivan supported the measure in the New York senate be- cause it would help women who work to get their rights. Senator New comb said his wife was rearing three !. boys at home. Shed be-" said the senator, "just as good mother if She voted. Votes for women will break the political boss and smash the machine"
 Altogether the subject has got a good start in New York state, and the most populous state in the Union may, after the election of 1912, be- come an example to the other states in this respect.
 The militant suffragettes have, it is plain, given their cause promi- hence, and New York always re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
HOW TO TREAT A WOMAN

From Life.
 The Idealst-Put her in a glass case and kneel at her feet and worship her Treat her as if she were goddess merely tarry- ing with you for while. Close your eyes lest you see her blemishes and your ears lest you hear her tongue too often.
 The Practical Man-Give her a water proof shelter, comfortable bed, plenty to eat as many clothes as you can afford few children, that she may not have time to get into mischief, and allow her to have her own way whenever it is best for her.
 The High Brow-Raise her to your n- teilectual level-if possible. Try to make her your companion and equal Discuss | literature, art and the topics of the day with her, even if you are required to do a tlresome lot of explaining. It is possible fer a woman to be more satisfactory as a companion than man. If she has tact and most women have-she will never tell you that you do not know what you are talking about-and prove 1t. And if she leves you she will accept your opinion as the last word on any subject. | The Low Brow (alias the brute)-Treat her just as you do your horse. Feed her enough to keep her in prime working con- dition. Buy her new harness when the old Is likely to reflect dscredit upon you Say nothing when she works well beat l her when she doesn't. Brag to others | about what true steady butler she is, but don't let her overhear you. When she Is worn out. get another.
 The Average Man-Provide for her the best you can. Love her 8 good deal--in an undemonstrative way after the first year. Be as true to her as the strength Of the temptation will permit. Be brute to her, sometimes, and then repent, apol- ogize and atone Remember that she is not creature of logic, reason or iron, but an inconsistent, lovable, breakable being with faults more numerous and less grave | than your own.
 | The Woman Herself-Give her lots of clothes. Tell her often that you love her | whether you do or not. Listen to her when she wants to talk. Pretend that You like to have her make fuss over | you, muss up your hair and sit on your lap, wrinkling your best trousers, when you are well, and to give yoy nasty medi- | cine when you are sick. Should her love become oppressive, give her children. If you won't or can't do any of these things. do not blame her for turning to a pug dog or an affinity. She must have some l thing to love.
 This is her ideal, but rather than such treatment from a man she does not love, sne prefers being treated like a dog by | one she does love.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
VACATION BROMIDIUMS

From the Chicago Tribune.
 "I don't care anything about it, you know, but the women folk insist on 1t"
 NO, l don't expect to have a good time. I feel worse tired out when I come back than when I went away"
 Its such bore, don't you know-ths thing Of having to pack up and go gadding all over the country under the pretext that you need a rest"
 ''rhe misery of 1t is that you can't get good coffee anywhere"
 And, besides. it always rains when go on my vacation"
 You never meet any but selfish people at summer resort
 "I'll be mighty glad when it's over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
Center of Population

The center of population continues to go northward as well as westward. In the ten years covered by the last census it was moved 31 miles west ward and seven-tenths of mile northward. The movement northward was slight, and if the people of the west should once turn to the cheap lands of the south when they desire to find new homes the movement northward would be quickly reversed. The pendulum promises soon to swing southward. The movement westward is due to the growth of the Rocky mountain and Pacific states, includ- ing those of the southwest.
 The population center is $50 miles east of the geographical center. The former is in Indiana and the latter in Kansas. The population center will continue to go westward slowly, but the time has fully come to reverse its northward tendency. It should in 1920 show a movement southward even if it be but seven-tenths of a mile. The loss of the last decade would then be overcome and the south put in position to make a greater gain in the census of 1880.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
A DOG AND A MAN

From the Washington Post.
 In not doing things sometimes there Is as much heroism as in doing things. and if Andrew Carnegie wants to find real hero for a medal and purse he would do well to make sope inquiries about Will liam Evans, policeman, of Chicago.
 Evans works out in Oak park. suburb of Chicago. An order was issued by the chief of police there to kill all unmuzzled dogs. Policeman Evans started out to do his duty. As he wandered down one of the avenues a yellow cur. muzzleless and tagless. came wagging along.
 Policeman Evans drew his gun. He aimed at the yellow cur. The cur wagged it's tail. Evans drowned and made ready to fire, The cur yowled, sorrowfuily, @aa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
Poor Quality of Matches

Until recently it was said that not withstanding the high cost of living one commodity used by all classes and con- ditions of people remained inexpensive" said a man. 'I refer to the match
 "I am a constant smoker and strike a light 50 times or more during the day and evening. Still my match bill amount ed to very little. Not so now, however The match manufacturers, or those whose goods 1 use, charge no more for their product than they did a few years ago, but matches are of such inferior quality now that I have to strike several before I get a light The wood is bad, and unless one is very careful the match breaks while it is being struck. The combustible material seems to have lt- tie strength, and between poor wood and poor combustion there is great waste.
 My tobacco costs me hardly as much now as I pay for matches. In house. hold economy there is much cause for complaint over this match question. We have a pure food and drug law. I hope the government will find authority for looking into this deterioration of matches" ,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
rom the Louisville courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courer-Journal
 NURING the general prosperity that | characterized all other branches of 0 trade last year the cotton mill in dustry of the south suffered marked de- pression. Speculation has been rife as to it's cause, because in business as in medicine, the right remedy can only be reached through a prior and true dag- nosis.
 When many mills had closed down some of the time and some had closed down all of the time and all had been running at little or no profit overproduction coupled with high-priced cotton was gen. orally assigned as the cause by the bank CTS the merchants and the millers who knew the situation best. But we are now assured that this surmise is not correct. The real efficient cause of this deplorabe condition is proclaimed to be the notorious passng of the petticoat, together with general reef and curtailment In womans s habiliments Speaking before the Geor- gia manufacturers last week, Captain Smith, the president of the American Cot ton Manufacturers association, said:
 When 100000 women in the United States stop wearing petticoats and use only five yards of cloth to make skirt instead of 12 or 15 yards, and when no sleeves are worn and there are no braid or trimmings on their skirts, then the braid mills suffer, the yarn mills suffer and the cloth manufacturers suffer. and it is to be devoutly hoped that the fash ,.y;I in he ot thaY di- rection and that a larger demand will be made by the women for the production of the southern mills"
 Pleased with this explanation which fol- lows the time-honored example of Adam
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
SAMPSON REPORT HANDICAPPED

From the New York Times.
 When the Sampson board of inquiry
 made, a few days after the sinking of the
 Maine, an examination of the wreck as
 nearly complete as the facilities at its
 command permitted. the members reached
 the conclusion, founded chiefly on the
 reports of divers. that the ship was de- stroyed by a submarine bomb, the ex-
 plcsion of which had exploded two or
 more of the Maines own magazines. In
 other words. they found that there had been both outside and inside explosions
 the latter doing the greater part of the damage to the hull. but itself the direct consequence of the former and therefore
 not to be regarded as a causative factor in the case.
 The board expressed no opinion as to ho placed or fired the bomb, and that question remains unanswered to this day. Of the many stories that have been told. some duplicating the Spanish authorities of the island and some the revolutionists,
 none has been supported by evidence even to the point of plausibility, and all have ultimately been dismissed as mere inven-
 
 | fered, but were sure to suffer, from the destruction of the Maine in this way. while it was likely to bring, as 1t did bring, advantage to the rebels, whatever | argument can be drawn from> motive and profit is against the Cubans rather than the Spaniards, but to hold the Cubans guilty on any such ground as that Is to
 carry logic into absurdity, and the safest
 and fairest thing to do is to assume that | t,le crime was committed by some irre- sponsible person, as likely to be on one
 side as on the other, and acting without
 any official authority or order from
 either.
 | This position, long maintained by every l body who was content to go no further | than the known facts carried him and did
 not have a theory or a prejudice to en-
 force on others is not changed or weak
 ehed by anything discovered now that the caisson around the Maine has been enptied of water and all of the wreck not sunk in mud is visible. On the con- | trary, the findings of the Sampson board | the accuracy of which had been so often doubted or denied, are not impugned, but | vindicated All can now see what the divers dmly saw-parts of the keel and
 bottom blown upward through the ships decks. This can mean only one thing, and the one thing is an initiatory outside | explosion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
uNTERWOOD

From the Oneonta Southern Democrat.
 The ssirmngham Age-Herald comes out in 8 strong editorial indorsng Hon. o. w. Underwood for the presidency. MT. Un- de rwood is no doubt presidential timber, and the time is not far distant when he is to be reckoned with for this honor. He is statesman whose ability as a leader is rapidly becoming known throughout tie country, and the time may not be HOW, but it is coming when the great democratic party will call upon him to lead her to victory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
UNDERWOOD ROOM

From the Gadsden Journal
 The Underwood boom is seemingly growing nicely without any organization behind it. If 1t can do so well unattend- cd what might not be accomplished with a well organized effort? We are not one of those who as yet can feel that he is the available man, but see no good reas- on why the state delegation should not be sent in his interest when convention time comes. The general sentiment of the con. vention in the end will determine who is the man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
REFLECTIONS OF BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 It makes a. girl very good-looking to see herself in the mirror.
 A woman is wise to know how to cook. and wiser never to do 1t.
 Money may not bring happiness to a ran, but it gives him the equipment to go, exploring for it.
 The man who balks the hardest at Bible miracles can be the most credu- lous about everything else.
 Some men meddle so much in other peoples business they never have any time to think of their own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
The Park Concerts

While many persons among the thousands attending the park concerts care only for trivial, commonly called trashy, music, the ma jority show a preference for light but artistic pieces but now and then they want something classic" said an old music lover "A gool waltz played with taste is bet ter than most of the pretentious music performed witho intellectual grasp or interpretative authority. A great man / selections from musical comedies ar- worth while, notwithstanding the fact that critics speak slightingly of all such stuff. But the poorest of all music, according to my notion, is the sentimental song that protes so popu- lar on the vaudeville stage.
 q only hear Nappi's band on Sun days, and the Sunday afternoon pro- grammes are varied, with the majority of pieces artistic enough to please dis eliminating listeners. Mozarts 'Magi.. Flute overture was admirably rendered. Another fine number on the programme was Rollinson's paraphrase of that beaLtiful old hymn tune, Jerusalem, the Golden Nappi played it a few nights ago for the first time, and 1t was repeated Sunday. It Is sure to be come a favorite and will doubtless ap- pear on many programmes by request, In the paraphrase the melody Is brought out on the sonorous bass, while short variations come softly from the reeds. Jerusalem. the Golden is melting, but being treated In musicianly style it is the opposite of sentimental. As som one pointed out recently. this old hymn was revived by Clarence Eddy, the or gan virtuoso. Any one who has heard Eddy in two or three recitals Is almost sure to have heard this piece work ed up with great technical brilliance. At ter Eddy had popularized it the late Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore arranged it. or had 1t arranged, for his band. He played it in Central park frequently Since then there have been several band Arrangements. John Baseler of Rich mond, Va, made an excellent arrange ment, but I like Rollnsons better thai any of them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
HOT WORK

From the Bessemer Standard.
 Walter Harper of The Age-Herald, who is doing Congress these hot days, has been working on the Congressional directory, and he has found nine Smiths in the two houses. That's pretty hard summer work to try to land sall of the Smiths in the leadin: column @.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
THE COMEBACK
From Answers, London.

From AHSWtTS, II0HuUH.
 You used to say, she complained, "that you counted that day lost when you did not hear the sound of my voice."
 "Yes, I know" he replied and I shall never cease to long for those dear lost days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
Brisk Business In Sight

"The railroads will be crowded with {; affic within the next three months, and it." said J. B. Meriweather of Chicago.
 "No matter what damage has been done to crops in few states. the harvest, all in all, is immense.
 'Geperal trade is feeling the stimulus of the crops, and in two or three weeks from now I look for great activity all over the country. The very fact that the capacity of the railroads will be taxed to the utmost means prosperity in a large degree. August is usually considered a dull month, but the coming August will witness marked commercial briskness."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
The Stock Market

Henry Clews in his Saturday review says in part:
 "The financial markets this week have won improvement in undertone. and, at times, indications of distinct strength. In this they have reflected more reassuring reports from the srain fields. thus fur nishing another instance of the wisdom of refusing to accept at anything like their face value first reports of widespread crop injury. When we consider that about 52,0O0,ooo acres are included in our wheat producing area and that our corn fields extend close to 1l6,0OO.O00 acres, is will readily be appreciated how damage in quite extensive areas can be severe and spectacular, how it can cause concern and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Temnernnce Cnuse

"Although prohibition laws are not en- forced in large cities, the active efforts made by prohibitionsts will result, event. ually, I believe, in sane temperance movement" said a well-known citizen who declares he was never saloon thinker. "I voted wet in the Jefferson county election in 1907. although I was aware that the retail whisky traffic was not as well regulated as it might have been, but in a city the size of Brming- ham there will always be a great deal of liquor drinking, and I felt that the saloon, as objectionable as it was a few years ago, was nothing like so bad as the blind tiger would be.
 Every man who has seen much of the world should know that the blind tiger ties that have a dry law The unlawful liquor trade has been even worse in Bir- mingham than I imagined 1t would be, and l am sure that hundreds like my self who are practically teetotalers, will vote for saloons on the 24th of August. great many of my prohibition ac- quaintances drink at home. They make their purchases in cities outside of Ala bama where liquor is legally sold. Thou sands of men who are not prohibitionists have been having whisky and beer shipped to them, which is lawful under inter- state commerce ruling. Since this coun- ty went dry millions of dollars have been sent away from here for liquor. This money should be kept at home in cir culation. Commercially, prohibition has done Birmingham immeasureable harm, and 1t has, according to my way of think ing, accomplished no moral good"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

If its faith in human nature, rather than it's own unimportant life, was about to
 be destroyed. Instead of running away,
 however. the dog crept up to the police
 man, wagging it's tail gently. as if to say:
 "Why sould you kill me? I have done no
 harm to you. If you must do 1t, I am rot going to run away, but have I not always been the friend of mankind? Why, then, should he become my enemy?' The policeman simply couldn't shoot.
 Probably he, too, remembered that the dog is the one animal that has almost
 bridged the chasm between -man and
 heast: that its record has been full of loyalty and service; that when all other friends fail the dog remains to lick the
 empty hand, and even pine to death over the lonely grave of it's master.
 That yowl just took the heart out of
 me, chief" Evans said, half an hour later when he appeared at the station. q sup pose it was a case of shoot or lose my job. so Pm here to quit.'
 The chief accepted the resignation, but while Evans lost a job he won the es- | teem of the great world that loves . | dog
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

The Lorimer investigation committee is turning out men qualified for member ship in the nearest Ananias club. Every witness thus far stands charged with pre- yarication of the baldest sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

The beautiful blind woman (Fortune) tn most mistake in her gifts to wom- .. For those that she makes fair, she srce makes honest; and those tbnt e makes honest, she makes very ill., svouredly. As You Like It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

The manufacturers of adulterated food stuffs are making the battle of their unsavory careers when they try to have Dr. Wiley dismissed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

A referendum between Dr. Wiley on the one hand and Wilson and Wickersham on the other would soon rid the cabinet of two unworthy members.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
LAM rHr CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL

By W. E. Henley. Out of the night that covers me,
 Black as the pit from pole to pole,
 I thank whatever gods may be
 For my unconquerable soul
 In the fell clutch of circumstance l have not winced nor cried aloud Under the bludeonings of chance My head is bloody. but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
 It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishments tho scroll. l am the master of my fate: ssl am the captains my soul. 4a4l F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

Nearly every city is having troubles with the ice barons-those gentry that share up prices as readily as they cut town the size of ice blocks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
YEA. vERILYi

From the Houston Post.
 Whisky Is liquid that loved too well produces much misery and hated too wildly causes a man to make fool of himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

The Congressional Record is full of in- teresting matter. but it's cover designs are certainly old-fashioned to the point of plainness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

Send your Christmas candy without will come but not before Christmas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

One of Marie Corelli's novels was found in the wreck of the Maine No one, how ever. attributes the explosion to Marie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

The Missouri supreme court has decided that any mans bank account can De uncovered for the purposes of taxation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

The President should do a heap o heavy thinking before he bounces Dr Wiley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

From the London Globe.
 "HE incoming tide laps gently against
 the old stone quay, until, creeping
 j. slowly upward. it covers gray bar nacles and green of clinging seaweed. One by one boats, which have lain for some hours sideways on brown mud, begin to right themselves; the water beats first against their sterns, then lifts their bows, till at last they float, fretting against hindering ropes. The life of the village centers round the quay. Here. on summer evenings, open-air services are held, Wesleyan local preachers address ar attentive crowd. Here, buying and selling is frequently conducted-the butcher, indeed, an enterprising man, not long ago removed his shop from the vil- lage street to the quay itself; the bar Der followed his example, and in both cases, to use a local idom, trade has freshened "moren bit The town orier, whether he is announcing dra- motic entertainment to he given by vil- Iage talent or the loss of brooch, in variably rings his bell first upon the quay; all public notices, too. are posted on the stone walls-specks of yellow and red against the gray.
 Rising tide strikes the quay to life. Four or five pilots stroll over the cobbles and down seaweed covered steps; from thence they will be rowed toward the pilot boat, which losses at its moorings a quar- ter of a mile away. Each man carries oilers over his arm and in his hand stout wicker basket; 36 hours or more may be the length of his boats watch" at sea, and for refreshment during this period he is provided with many saffron buns and with pasties passing good. Soon a tug puffs up to the quay, and in it's wake a coal vessel-coasting schooner with blackened decks. There follows much churning of the still water, with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

Champ Clark says non-voters are men, ace. Alabama has 100000 white non voters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

We are to have week and half of rool weather and this will give the peo- pie a well-deserved rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

Dr. Wiley Is in his honeymoon. "Wher a mans married his Troubles begin"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

The Lorimer jackpot will keep both rarty conventions of next year out of Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

One has to practice at least a week in orGer to drink with satisfaction at a bubbly fountain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24

Dr Wiley is not a politician; he is sim Fly and wholly pure food expert and chemist.