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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
THE PROSPEROUS SOUTH
From Leslie's. is

From IeSile S.
 The southern states comprise the most progressive and prosperous portion or the country today Notably rich in nat ural resources as most of the states be- low the Potomac and the Ohio always were, these are being developed in re- cent years to a degree undreamed or m the old days. Texas produces as much cotton now. as the entire south did Just previous to 1861. In coal, iron anu other minerals West Virginia, Alabama Tennessee and other states or D'xie stand high The south's mills now con sume almost as much cotton as oo those of the north It is great prlVi- ,epa to be alive in these days, so as to see how thoroughly knit are all the sections of the country in naliohal whole. Politics, too, has lost It's oid- time rancor. Republican Presidents meet as cordial receptions in the south as tbev do in the north and west Con- ,aa.rates are in each branch of Con- gress one of them, appointed by re- nuhltcan President, is chief justice of inc supreme court. The Bull Run fra ternization will call attention anew to the fact that the United States Is really ana truly an "fndestructible union of understandable states"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
Massachusetts Rules for Wives

In suit between couple that had disagreed Judge Long of Massachu- sets became a second Justice Dogber- ry. He advised the couple to settle their differences, and then he laid down a set of rules by which they are to be governed, as follows:
 "The husband is absolute lord and master of the exchequer.
 "He is entitled to his meals at any hour he wants them. "He may select such food .as he chooses. If he wants one food and his wife another, the husbands decision goes.
 "A servant girl to whom the hus- band objects must be discharged.
 Finally, man, who pays the bills, and not woman, is boss
 The aggrieved wife very naturally objected to the Long programme, and she said so plainly before she left the courtroom. The truth is Judge Longs saws are valueless, for they do not prevent shrewishness in a wife, and shrewish wife can nullify or render valueless all rules. In these modern days marriage is a partnership and all partners are on an equal footing. Neither is boss. Both pull together toward a desired common result, and when Judge Long gets an assertive wife he will speedily see that his rules are but tinkling cymbal signifying nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06

power. Four millions of people live within the range of this plant, and the people of St. Louis have already con- tracted for 65,OOO horsepower from the new company.
 Possibly the Coosa could be made to yield even more horse power, and it is difficult to estimates the total pos sible horsepower of the Alabma rivers. It is very great. It is great enough to make Alabama the fore most industrial state of the Union, especially if the Alabama rivers are improved so that all products can be barged at low transportation cost to the sea-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Business In July

We are not far enough along In July to show just how business Is go- ing to be, but there are indications of improvement" said H. T. Young of Chicago. There has been much fore- casting recently in favor of prosper ity. It has been said and believed that the second half of the year would be marked by a great business revival and that the fine crop outlook would certainly tend to strengthen dN imistic views.
 "I keep in pretty close touch with the west and south, and from what see 1t Is safe to predict that general trade conditions will steadily improve from now on. I think that by the 18th of this month industrial and mercan- tile interests will be quite buoyant.
 ''I am not connected in any way with the metal trade. but I notice that the pig iron market. which has been very sluggish for year or more, is at last picking up. Business in Chicago is now brisk. The same may be said of business in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. I mention these cities because I have visited them recently.
 "The south as section has made such substantial progress in the past two or three years as to attract more attention than ever. Capital and home seekers are headed this way now as never before. Alabama Is much talked of as a state of exceptional resources. All the states of the south are strong in agriculture. but Alabama has vast wealth in it's minerals and its timber as well as in cotton and other farm products"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
The University of Alabama

The Rev. Dr. John w. Stagg, whose name Is prominently mentioned in con- nection with the presidency of the Uni verify of Alabama, has a wide state reputation, and few men in any pro- fession or calling are so popular" said a citizen who takes lively interest in the higher education.
 "Dr. Stagg would make an excel lent university president. He is not only one of the best scholars in the south, but he knows men and he knows boys. He combines In an unusual de- gree classical scholarship, the literary faculty and business sense.
 T understand that Col. William c. Gorgas of the medical corps of the United States army, chief sanitary offi- cer in the Panama canal zone, is be- ing considered for the university po- sition now vacant. Colonel Gorgas is a native of Afapama and his mother, one of the most estimable ladies in the state, is at present librarian at the university. As matter of sentiment he might be t pted to accept the po- sition of president if it were offered to him, but the probability is that he would decline it. In the first place, he is a medical man who is especially devoted to science related to his pro- fession. In the second place, he is next to the top in his branch of the army service. Surgeon-General George H. Torney will soon retire and Colonel Gorgas will succeed him.
 T feel sure that no high-class man will accept the university presidency unless some arrangement can be made for him to be elected a member of the board of trustees. The present plan by which the president can be kept in the dark touching matters of univer- sity business does not make for a high degree of efficiency The president should be, by all means, a trustee"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
o. this boy Lends mettIe 10 us all. I, King Henry "
Admiral Togo Not a Talker

The hero of Tsushima speaks his native tongue only. He may be ac companied in his tour of this country by an interpreter, but this will not greatly aid the American newspaper men in their efforts to secure "copy' from the silent man of Japan. His reputation for reticence is unequalled in his own country, and it will be en- hanced in this country when he ar rives next month. The London re- porters could not induce him to talk and the American reporters will prob ably not fare any better. What little he does say to reporters is exceeding ly diplomatic, and from such replies no one can gather what he thinks on any question or what his impressions of this country are.
 The man who sank the Russian fleet and smoothed the way to the Ports mouth treaty-who really ended the great war by licking the Russians worse at sea than they had been licked on land-is a great sea fighter and good observer. His tongue, however, is kept under close surveillance and the interviewers in this country will probably be up against silent man when they tackle the great Japanese admiral.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
Hydro Electric Currents

Alabama is a state of many rivers, everyone of which is full of water powers. These water powers can be harnessed until they produce the cleo tric currents that are today the favorite motive power in nearly all in dustrial plants. These currents, too, will soon be needed on all railroads, for the days of the steam locomotive are numbered.
 These currents are produced at the lowest possible cost. As a motive power they are not only more conven- tent but they are cheaper than any other power-far cheaper than cleo tric currents produced by steam power. The hydro electric current is in sharp demand, and the time is com ing when every water power in this state will be utilized to produce them.
 It becomes a matter of public in- terest to know how far such currents can be economically carried. At one time 25 miles was considered the max imum distance, but on the Pacific coast electric currents from hydro electric plants are now transmitted 225 miles. At the present time g gigantic water power plant is being built in the Mississippi river neal Keokuk, Ia., which will have an ulti. mate development of 225,O00 horse
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
From the New York Times.

r rom the New 4Ork Times.
 " HACKERAY, whose centenary will
 be celebrated July 1s read Bal
 \ zac's "Peau de Chagrin" in 1892 and found in it plenty of light and shade. good coloring, and costumes, but no character" It was natural for him to criticise thus in terms of the pain ter's art, for at that time he was bent upon becoming an artist, and thought he could draw better than he could do anything else, and liked it better than any other occupation, so, why not? Had he failed to discover why not the loss to literature would have been quite beyond calculation, and there is not enough in his facile, eager sketching to convince us that art has suffered seriously from his defection.
 Nevertheless, his unwearying concern for the element of character and sub ordination of every other quality to this in both his writing and his drawing lend great vitality and a certain invin- cible dignity to his graphic notes of that "Vanity Fair" whose multitudi- nous variety entertained him, whose vices saddened him, whose goodness touched his affectionate heart.
 MT. Brownell has noted that all his designs. tbough possessing plenty of character, have In them the element of caricature, and that for the plastic ex pression of beauty he had no faculty. Certainly, both comments are just but in the latter only Is there the hint of a defect. Caricature can be honorably associated with the plastic expression
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
MODERATE USE OF ALCOHOL

pr. Alexander Lambert in Success Mag
 azine.
 The above definition, however, must suffice We must fix some standard be- tween moderation and excess, and the more accurately we define moderation, the more narrowly do we confine 1t, Judged by the above standard, alcohol taken in moderate doses does not seem more than to stimulate the digestive processes of the stomach, increase the flow of blood through the heart ln' crease the circulation in the periphery and skin. dilate the capillaries, and make 1t easier for the circulation to complete its cycles. When absorbed into the body in such doses, it can act as a food, and, in fact. as much as IS burnt up by the body does act as food although 1t differs from other foods in that 1t Is never stored up' It can replace in energy-giving prop critics sugars or fats, and being burnt up by the body can give out the equlV- a1ent of sugar and fat in muscular en- ergv. and heat generated and given out bv- the body. It's effect is simialr to that obtained Dy sugar anu io'S "iiSi' are taken up by the body when needed and in the amounts requisite to the bodv at the moment and 1t seems to be treated, as far as can be seen, as other foods for fuel. But 1t is not an econominal fuel because the human organism does not perform its work as well as when there is no alcohol In the ration. Simultaneously when being consumed as food it is exerting its drug action. In this process 1t is the more easily available, and thus the sugar and fats are stored up while the alcohol is burnt up; it spares the fat consump ton. often causing an increase of bodily weight through the putting on of fat To those who are accustomed to it's use, it seems also to spare the protein consumption of the body, but to those unacustomed to its use it has the opposite effect increasing the de- structive breaking down Of protelns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
THE OLD SEXTON

By Park BenJdInln s sf Nigh to a grave that was newly made Leaned sexton old on his earthworn spade; His work was done. and he paused to
 wait
 The funeral train at the open gate. A relic of bygone days was he, And his locks were white as the foamy And these words came from his lips 50
 thin: q gather them in-I gather them in! "I gather them in, for man and boy, 4 Year after year of griefsand joy; I've builded the houses that lie around Tn every nook of this burial ground, Mother and daughter father and son, Come to my solitude, one by one; But come they strangers or come they
 kin. gather them in--I gather them in! "Many are with me. but still I'm alone; I'm king of the dead, and I make my
 throne On monument slab of marble cold. And my scepter of rule is the spade 7
 hold,
 Come they from cottage. or come they
 from hall, va Mankind are my subjects-all, all, ali N Let them loiter in pleasure of toilfully gather them in--I gather them in "I gather them in, and their final rest Is here, down here, in the earth's dark
 breast" And the sexton ceased, for the funeral
 train
 Wound mutely o'er the solemn plain. ~ And I said to my heart, When time iF|e
 told. Ho A mightier voice than that sexton's oli4n Will sound OCT the last trump's dread full din. -
 T gather them in. gather them in!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
THACKERAY AND DAUMIER

of beauty, as Honore Daumier long since proved, and Thackeray could not indeed approach the rich simplicity of that masters aesthetic ideal. But in more than one respect he resembled Daumier. Both were true masters of caricature by their special gift of ob- serving with sagacious discrimination the effect upon the features of certain emotions and states of the soul, and of indicating without excessive emphasis the humility of a Dobbin, the egoism of Pendennfs, the domesticity of bour- geois, the vanity of a vulgarian. A
 Thackeray had, moreover, Daumiers sympathetic touch upon the foibles of the good middle class at whom he laughed without scorning them. and whom at heart he loved. When he drew family party out for an airing, parental pride in the ascendant and dis proportionate to the charms of the off, spring, he had precisely Daumier's wise humorous delight in this familiar sit uation, which often occurs in his de- signs.
 Thackeray looked also with Dau- miers equalizing eye upon the world of men and women when it was a ques- ton of putting them into visible form. In his writings he showed sympathy with men, pity for women; in his draw ings, slight as they are, a closer bal ance is maintained
 In a word, both Thackeray and Dau- mier belong to that noble class of car icaturists who possess qualities of style dependent upon their zeal for the sig nificant aspects of human nature and through whose raillery works strong moral force.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
A DREAM PLACE

Douglas Jerold, As-You-Like."
 The second deliberative assembly was called the House of Workers. No man could be one of these who had not made known to the world his wisdom-his jus tice-his worship of truth for truths sake. No worker was returned upon the mere chance of his fitness. The duty of the assembly was to make laws; and as these were to be made for all men, it was the prime endeavor and striving of the Workers to write them in the plainest words, in the briefeSt meaning. And whereas, here with use we give our chill dren "Goody Two Shoes" and Jack and the Bean Stalk as the easiest and sim plest lessons for their tender minds to fasten on, it "As-You-Like" the little creatures head the Abridgement of the Statutes for their first book; so clear, so lucid, so direct was it in it's meaning and its purpose.
 Nevertheless, as there was some dull and giddy folk, who, after all the labor of the House of Workers, could or would not know the laws, there were curtain meek and loving kind professors called goodmen guides. answering to our attor- neys, whose delight cit was, for the very smallest imaginable sum, to interpret and make known the power and beauty of the statutes. So in "As-You-Like, did these goodmen guides give a part of their time to the passionate and ignor- ant, advising them to refrain from the feverish turmoil of the law: showing them how suspense would bake their blood and no naip u-aa ieyh down mans noble spirit. And thus these goodmen guides, would say I say, with a silken string, lead men back to content and neighborly adjustment. When men could pay for such counsel, they paid a moderate cost; when they were poor, they were advised, as by the free benevolence of the mediator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
Regarding Club Decorum

''In social clubs about the same rules Of decorum obtain in all sections of the country, and in all sections of the world for that matter" said a travelled man. "Of course, one finds some difference in pertinent in general have observed that customs were the same in London clubs which I visited as they are in Boston, New York, Chicago or Birmingham.
 Tn no well regulated club is profane or improper language permissible in the gen. other part of the club. In the slums of London foul language is used, but in the respectable walks of life Englishmen do not indulge in profanity. They use ex> pletives, but their phrases, 'By-Jove!' and the like are inoffensive. I visited the Con- stitutonal club in London frequently and was introduced to fully 100 members of that wel-known social organization, and never did hear any language that could be objected to by man or woman. never heard so much as theS byzwords, damn it!' regarded by many Americans as an innocent by-phrase to accentuate remarks that might otherwise seem tame
 Another matter of club decorum con- cerns man and his coat. Should mem- Der be allowed to sit coatless on the front porch or other porch overlooking a street? In some clubs men are required to keep their coats on, except when they are in the bar, pool room, card room or barber shop. This rule, I understand, is strictly enforced in Baltimore and many northern cities. But there is some excuse in the far south, owing to the long g-drawn-out heat, for men keeping their coats off ex- cept at meals. I have rubbed up agains, all sorts of people and never cared much for exacting etiquette. The only thing I would insist on in a club is reasonably clean speech and reasonable degree of sobriety. If man will drink too much he should keep out Of sight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESS

THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESS George Griswold Hill in Leslie's.
 About o'clock each Tuesday afternoon the newspaper men gather at the White House office building and are shown into the cabinet room. They occupy the chairs of the members of the cabinet, crowd the ample davenport on the right and dispose themselves over the few easy chairs on the left, while the late com CTS stand about the fireplace at the foot of the table. Two fixed rules of long standing are all that restrict the news paper men. First, mo- one may, under any circumstances directly quote the' President. His mental attitude may be described, the reason for this, that or the other policy may be given, but never may the direct quote be used. Secondly, whenever the President indicates that any portion of the conversation Is. confidential. the confidence must be strictly observed.
 What would happen if the confidence were broken? Well, it never has been but once. and that was in the case of a foreign correspondent during the last administration, and he was promptly consigned to the Ananias club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
Earu, Land VaJue.

T was much interested in an inter- view with MT. Calhoun, the we'll known lawyer. that appeared in the Lobby column a few days ago, in which the gentleman quoted compared farm land values in Ohio with farm values in Alabama" said man familiar with agricultural conditions. Some farms In Ohio are valued at $200 an acre. but s135 seems to be a fair average.
 Up to few years ago farming in the south was not progressive, but it is different today. One has but to travel through counties that 10 years ago looked distresslngly poor and see how prosperity shines now. No sec tion in the south. or in any part of the country might say, is richer than Ala bama's black belt Farms in that part of the state will be, fin the course of a few years, worth upwards of S1oo an acre. and there is scarcely county Tn which the land cannot be made to pro
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
Backbone Broken

'The backbone of the hot weather In this district seems to be well broken, below 90 after the middle of July" said an old weather prophet.
 August usually brings cool nights and before September comes we may expect some chilly days as well as chilly even ings With all the discomforts we have had from the torrid temperature the fact that the farmers are benefited should make us of the city feel glad and forget the suffering of the past few weelSs.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 The reason a man is an optimist is so he fcan get taken In by everybody.
 It's better not to know how to read and write than to get into the love letter business.
 The only crazy people in the world who don't try to convince you they aren't are engaged couples.
 When mans wife wants him to write her check he can have a sudden attack of writer's cramp
 It's no use to tell a pretty girl sine is pretty she knew that long before you did. The place to work it In with suc- cess is where girl isn't pretty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
A SYMBOL OF HOPE.

Ef S1 4AbO11 OF- ftOPE. Because he had a dauntless heart, He walked unbowed through troubled
 ways And strove amain to do his part, In spite Of grief and shadow-days. Said, when misfortunes followed fast. And when the night was filled with
 woe. "Life's mood of winter can not last Spring flowers dream beneath the
 snow"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
The Band Concerts

"The weather conditions have been more favorable for open-air music at the beginning of the present series of concerts in Capitol park than they were last summer" said a citizen.
 Last year the concerts were often interrupted by rain. and. of course, there will be some indictment evenings before this summer Is ended. But the first week starts most auspiciously.
 The city will probably be able next year to build a music pavilion in the park large enough to seat 1900 or 150o people. The band would then play every night regardless of rain. One thing is certain, and that Is the band concerts have become so popular that open-air music may be considered a fixed institution" a,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06
HIS HARD LOT
m the Chicago News.

FEUHI UTE CH1CdBU NeWs'
 My lot Is a hard one! he muttered; and his face wore look of despair; too true were the words that he uttered, as he paused with his spade in the air. He'd thought to make garden that day and his pulses with pleasure had flut- tered. but he struck solid rock, and 1T say. my lot is a hard one." he nut tered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06

The real political prize behind the scenes in Mexico is the choosing of di- rectors of the Mexican National rail- ways. The Maderos are attending to it
 - with care and provision.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-06

Admiral Togo will be the honored guest of this country r days, and the yellow panic paragraphers should go on a vacation while he is here.