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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
Tr.de Improvement

'There has been very perceptible inn pro0ement in general trade since the supreme courts decision in the Standard oil case" said Wilson H. Carney of Philadelphia. Spring business In most lines of industrial and mercantile opera tions has been quiet, but the general feeling is that there will be great activity the second half of the year. l believe June will be a very good month in- deed, but it will be July, perhaps, be- fore the commercial world begins to make high records. The splendid crop situa- tion helps immeasurably. Bumper crops are promised; the railroads are prepar- ing to handle the crops, and in prepar- ing they must needs spend millions In new equipment. Iron and steel and all sorts of commodities will be in brisk de- mand from now on.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
one-room flats are popular in Chicago.
ANOMALY OF TROPHIES

From the Photo Era.
 How often have we sat directly op- posite comedy face in the street car, for instance, admiring its regular, we'll formed features, when, with a certain turn of the persons head. the illusion of beauty suddenly vanished, the new view presented revealing contours of nose, chin and mouth disappointing in the extreme. The consoling feature, perhaps, is the ear, which, projecting abnormally in so many cases, now as- sumes an air of repose.
 Few faces will produce a profile of classic beauty, and even some of these fail to Yield hattering full face DOT traits. This is one reason that one sees more front view portraits than prohles in painting and photography.
 Incidentally, 1t may be remarked that many a man would look better with his head presented in profile. if he wore a mustache instead of being smooth shaven. Not only does it preserve the harmonious proportions designed by nature, but its removal, in obedience to fashions decree, sometimes results in unpleasant disclosures, such as an ab- normally long upper lip or an i'll shaped mouth, besides imparting undue prom thence to the nose.
 A possibly humorous phase of this subject is the report that patrons of marriage bureaus in large German cities now insist upon both fullface and profile photographs of their prospec- tive consorts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
Interesting Letters

Frank V. Evans is writing letters of unusual interest from Montgomery to his paper, the Walker County News. In the last issue the following is a part of his editorial correspondence:
 Tn addressing the faculty and student body of the Montevallo Girls Technical institute last week Hon. A. D. Pitts of Dallas, who had been the house cham pion for the appropriation measures for this school, called attention to the fact that every cent of state taxes goes to the cause of education and to the sup port of the old soldiers and that all other expenses of the state are borne by the convict fund. Of course MT. Pitts had reference to the direct tax upon prop erty and did not consider the funds de- rived from fees, license, etc.
 While the large appropriations for the schools and for the old soldiers present . considerable proposition. it is not q
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
R-R-REvENGE'

It was a busy hour in tt Park row restaurants. A f1eE eE:4 3 er limp towel draped owe
 hurried by table at whicfs 4. mer was being served. The tS3 XII towel dragged through the scff, E eggs just secured by the custoTotH< H grabbed the waiter. Look here H43E ba1di," said he "Nix on impr6XI III menu, see? Idont like my egs4 erftd au towel. Get that? You ta1ko fhose eggs and that towel back to the kftch- en. And you bring me ham,"
 The waiter glared at the customer. He did not touch the eggs. Instead, he went to the headwaiter, a phleg- matic person of Saxon origin. q r-r-re- slgn,' said the waiter, excitedly. T haf been consult. I haf my deegnity to consider. ze beeg-a man in ze gray suit gr-r-rab me by ze arm, and tell-a me zat l tr-r-rail my towel-a through hees eggs. Bah! I am through. zese Americans, zey do not know how to treat ze gentleman"
 Did you drag your towel through ms eggs?' asked the headwaiter, calmly.
 "Iat Is no natter howled the wait CT, beating himself on the breast He ees consult me. Ina my countree. I sail keel heem. Here-poor Italiano man 'as no rights"
 "Go ahead and. kill him." said the headwaiter. suppressing a grin. T don't care..'
 No" said Garibaldi "No, no, no. no, no. Ref l go to i'm and say, Signor, you haf consult me. I s'all be force to keel you. Wat you t'ink?"
 The head waiter did not think.
 "'E wip me-" shouted Garibaldi "E kick me weez zee feet. 'E sal consult me more. No. One of gees days I sail see i'm again, and zen you know wat I sal do? Ha-a-ah. I sail put gar lie in is ice reaml"--New York Cor respondent Cincinnati Times Star.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

healthful sign that crime Is essential to Q maintenance of governments; and every reader of the News will join me in the hope that the day will one day come when crime will be reduced to minimum in Alabama, and then must follow as the day the night a reduction of the enor- nous financial income from chained crim- inals and unfortunate and weak man kind. Isn't 1t rather paradox that schools for the elimination of crime are supported by the results of crime; and without the profit which arises in Ala ban1a from commissions of crime there could be no support afforded these schools?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
TO THE DAISY

By William Wordsworth. With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Daisy! again I talk of thee,
 For thou art worthy Thou unassuming commonplace s Of Nature, with that hoTely face, And yet with something of grace
 Which love makes for thee!s ssa Oft on the dappied turf at ease I sit and play with similes, Loose types of things through all degeess
 Thoughts of thy raising; And many fond and idle name II give to thee for praise or blame, As is the. humor of the game,
 While am gazing. X nun demure, of lowly port; Or sprightly maiden, of loves court. In thy simplicity the sport or all temptations; A oueen in crown of rubies dressed; 4 starvelling in g. scanty vest; Are all, as seems to suit thee best,
 Thy appellations A little Cyclops, with one eye Staring to threaten and defy, That thought comes next-and instantly
 The freak is over, The shape will vanish. and behold A silver shield with boss of gold, That spreads itself, some fairy bold
 In flight to cover! I see thee glittering from afar-- And then thou art pretty star; Not quite so fair as many art
 In heaven above thee! Yet ikea star, with glittering crest Self-posed in air thou seem'st to rest May peace come never to his nest,
 Who shall reprove thee Bright flower! for by that name at last, When all my reveries are past, call thee. and to that cleave fast,
 Sweet silent creature That breath'st with me in sun and air Do thou, as thou art wont. repair My heart with gladnesg. and shars
 Of thy meek naturel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
From Birmingham to Montgomery

The Good Roads congress will ad- journ today after an useful and high ly interesting session. It has turned all who have attended it's meetings into advocates ofs improved modern highways. Something of practical nature should, however, be among the fruits of the congress, and perhaps nothing better could be devised in khia state than the building of a dard highway from Birmingham
 Montgomery These cities are
 ated in the heart of the state, and T model road connecting the two Cities would form part of any great national north-and- road, while it would be an inspiration to the other counties of this state.
 The proposed road would lie in counties of Jefferson, Shelby, Chil-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
nEFLEcrIoNs OF A BAcHELon

From the New York Press.
 The greatest invention would be how to inherit money
 Just the same, when thieves fall out over the spells the public never gets any of it back.
 A woman is so mighty intelligent she can tell man is in love with her when he can't himself
 curly -haired grandmother for hours, wondering how she did it.
 Something to remember before mak- ing mistakes Is that being sorry about 1t afterward won't unmake them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

Wall street considers Woodrow Wilson radical Because he advocates publicity in all municipal transactions. Wall street believes in a maximum of gumshoeing and backstairs negotiations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

Attorney General wickersham thinks he can strip the bark from the lumber trust, but he will find he is dealing with an adroit offender.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

The German government has selected eight models of shoes for men and women and forbidden the production of all the restS That government is nothing if not autocNatic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

The lumber dealers think the Attorney General is ''unreasonable,' thus making reciprocity do double duty, which is reas- enable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

Dr. Wiley has ascertained from 30 pie manufacturers that meat is not a neces- sary ingredient of mince pies, nor cherries of cherry pies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

Abe Ruef Is in prison and ex-Mayor Schmitz is penniless in Mexico. The way of the transgressor is hard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

The innocent bystander even though he be a prime minister is not exempt from accident and disaster.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
SYMPATHETIC.

T have no patience with Dubbins. He sneers at Velasquez."
 Well, don't care much for foreign CTS myself, but If Velasquez is a friend of yours, don't blame you for get ting sore"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

George Washingtons chief mistake con- sisted in locating the capital at place which does not have an endurable sum mer climate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

President Taft will never make his sum- mer home in the state in which his great blunder was committed-at winona
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

Colonel watterson says we should sell the Philippines to Japan. His political sense does not desert him in his old age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

Pretty soon the returning fisherman will declare. honest to goodness. the one that got away was two feet long!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
CORONATION WILL COME HIGH

celebrations in Great Britain and Ire- land; and we must allow considerably more for our hundreds of millions of fe- low-subjects across the seas, who will raise their thunders of cheers to George, F, "Goc bless him!' on coronation day.
 And what will the total cost be? He would be bold man who would hazard guess without stipulating for margin of a few millions. That it can fall short of 9So,oO0000 the present writer declines to believe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

ONE SIGN. You say he Is an active reformer?'' Well, he gesticulates a great deal" LOVE IS BLIND. A man may lead
 wretched life, Because he has A jealous wife, Who somehow does Not seem to see Her spouse is plain As plain can be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

No one in Illinois wants the Lorimer case dropped until the whole truth has been brought out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

Bring me a constant woman, And to that woman, when she has done
 most, Yet will I add an honour, great
 patience. king Henry VIII.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

The London market is overstocked with mummies from Egypt, some of which date to 2ooO B. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

The man who refuses to wear a straw hat is guilty of undue restraint of trade
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

The electric fan is the busiest and best thing of the hot season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

The Senate is evidently keeping Cana dian reciprocity on the ice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
THE HOT WEATHER BARD.

A poets one supposed to hear
 The music of the spheres, When oftentimes he finds. more cheer
 In half a dozen beers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

The Ohio legislature has adjourned until June. It Is trying to get away from the dictagraph.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

Doc Cook and Doc Owens should be har- messed together-the worlds biggest hum bugs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
SURE

Oh, why not still be happy.
 Though much, in truth, is lost? The quickest way of winning
 Is not to count the cost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

Than go through life denied The wondrous thrills that hide In lips where germs abide,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
CAREFUL GIRL.

Where are you going. Gladys Maud?"
 Down town to get novel for mother. It is hard these days to find a book that IS fit for ones mother to read"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

The hot wave in the northeast still has a stiff back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
ADRIFT WITH THE

"why do you logist with such fe # z
 My dear fellow, 's,s 4 harem skirt" ssss s:s E, ss;,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

We'd better try that kind,
 Which isn't to ones mind, For close contact inclined,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
From Tit Bits.

From Tit Bits. <<XV7HEN Kynges are crowned
 A/ much gold dothe fiye,'
 W wrote a chronicler of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
IFS THE rR1Tu

The disinfected kiss
 Is rather short of bliss, Though oonnoisseurs say this:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26

Attorney General Wickersham thinks he can strip the bark from the lumber trust, but he will find he is dealing with an adroit offender.
 Dr. Wiley has ascertained from 30 pie manufacturers that meat is not a neces- sary ingredient of mince pies, nor cherries of cherry pies. l George Washington's chief mistake con- sisted in locating the capital at place which does not have an endurable sum mer climate.
  The lumber dealers think the Attorney General is unreasonable" thus making reciprocity do double duty, which is reas- enable.
 
 Colonel Watterson says we should sell the Philippines to Japan. His political sense does not desert him in his old age.
 Pretty soon the returning fisherman VIII uSoidie, uoHeSt tO BOOuneSS, tHe one that got away was two feet long"
  President Taft will never make his sum- mer home in the state in which his great blunder was committed-at Winona.
  Abe Ruef is in prison and ex-Mayor Schmitz is penniless in Mexico. The way of the transgressor is hard.
  The innocent bystander even though he be a prime minister is not exempt from accident and disaster.
  No one In Illinois wants the Lorimer case dropped until the whole truth has been brought out. The London market is overstocked with mummies from Egypt, some of which date to 2o0O B. c.
 The Ohio legislature has adjourned until June. It is trying to get away from the dictagraph.
 Doc Cook and Doc Owens should be har- messed together-the worlds biggest hum bugs.
 ------e.--- The man who refuses to wear straw hat is guilty of undue restraint of trade.
  The Senate is evidently keeping Cana dian reciprocity on the ice. The electric fan is the busiest and best thing of the hot season. The hot wave in the northeast still has a stiff back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
One Revolution Sufficient

,.. rrrderwood makes plain the famous
 oe +be House on the Norris reso- ,,,+,on of last March. The Norris resoiu- as not referred to any committee ,,+ was taken up and passed on the spot ,rh,s was simply without precedent-it was revolutionary. There were no guns .,, bnt the action of the House In s..i,r the Norris resolution was none the less revolutionary.
 MT. Underwood shows that the reFoiu-
 aoassarv because the rules com m,ttee of five stood in the way of the VIII .,a Iouse and of public sentiment. .of course" adds MT. underwooo' ...,,,,a circumstances arise where there was a deliberate blocking of the VIII .e tho majority of the House, I have no ao,bt another revolution would take ,.cs and he justified, but until that time arrives the House must be governed pS .ts rnles in order that 1t may transact husiness in an orderly way
 Tn the Fuller-Mann squabble Of the nresent week there was no occasion TOT
 -evol,,tion. There Is no despotism or a,,. ,,,o, to he overcome. No one Is block .rg the will of the House. The revolution of March ratified in November has abol- .sbed cannonisn, and the House did right .rbe, if voted this week to stand by prec- edents and orderly methods. Revolutions in other words are not needed every day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14

any other: that if made crime it may be punished like any other crime. and that an -lnjustifed withdrawal from the promised service without repayment may be declared sufficient case to go to the jury for their judgment; all without in any way infringing the thirteenth amend ment of the United States
 It is too late to reinstate the states contract labor law. but Justice Holmes opinion shows how differently men may regard any statute. Justice Holmes lives in Boston. He is a son of Oliver Wen dell Holmes. and was appointed to thc supreme bench by President Roosevelt who no doubt held in high respect the literary fame of the jurist's father
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
She looks as clear A. morning roses newly washed "''n dew. z,
 Flaming of the shrew.
Nont6omery Needs More Barges

<,r It's last trip the steamer Liberty anu ,.s ,arses. plying between Montgomery and Mobile, carried down 2oOo Daies 0'
 .ssad cotton for export and carrleo h.ck os carloads of miscellaneous lreis"' Cor Montgomery merchants. ihe DUST ness of the line is increasing so rap''ls
 two new barges are being con devoted and they will soon be reaoy for use.
 This line is owned by the Montgomery
 and it is proving its Vaiue . a+ savings in freight rates. HIS norse line gives Montgomery an ah-"a'ef ,o,,,a not only to Mobile but to Ne"
 ,, .,a all other Atlantic and gun ports.
 r-be dav is fast coming when blrIiiiie- ham will wake up to the value or an open warrior. but at present no one seems to appreciate fully the S'ooo'Voo 'iia' tho eovernment has expended to open the warrior for the benefit of this dis'rio''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
Liberty of the Press

"The decision of the United States supreme court in the case of Theo- dore Roosevelt against the New York World shows that the liberty of the press is as much an enigma at present as it was In the time shortly follow ing the framing of the constitution of the federal government said a well known man, "and it at once brings to mind what Alexander Hamilton once wrote in the federalist papers of the comprehensiveness of the term, when he took the liberty of the press as an illustration for showing how futile would be an attempt to incorporate in the constitution bill of rights.
 "The extract is taken from paper LXXXvII of The Federalist on The AL legged Defects of the Constitution and 1t runs S follows: What Is the liberty of the press? Who can give 1t any definition which would not have the utmost latitude for evasion? l hold it (the incorporation of such bill) inn practicable; and from this I infer that its security, whatever fine declarations may be inserted in any constitution re- specting it, must depend altogether on public opinion and on the general opin- ion of the people of this government "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
Abuse Can Be Corrected

The fee system has long been op- nosed hv the best interests in Alabama but its iniquitous features in Jefferson and other industrial counties are smore in evidence now than ever before. With the rapid development of the coal, iron and steel industries the labor ques- tion in the Birmingham district has become A most grave problem and the increasing scarcity of common laborers may be traced almost directly to the fee brigade.
 In view. therefore. of the great abuse of thea system and the serious conse- onences that follow, the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has taken up inc matter in earnest, and through It's able committee, of which Sydney J. Bowie is chairman, it is hoped that leg islatton correcting some of the worst features of the present lee si i"o9 practice will be adopted by our law makers at Montgomery.
 The report submitted to the Cham- her of Commerce yesterday afternoon has been carefully thought out by E. T smyer and MT. Bowie and perhaps other able constitutional lawyers. They are zealous for the best interests or the district and they are practlcal ous- mess men as well as lawyers.
 The constitution has stood Tn the way of reform but if the plan Which MT Rowie's committee recommends IS enacted into law, arrests for trivial ot- foneas will no longer be made With o,,+ warrants. and raids" once stopped the abuses of the fee system will be at least greatly minimized.
 The Chamber of Commerce has mad m more important business before II than that of reforming fee abuses and 1t will have the hearty support or all thinking men hereabouts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
THE WHISKER.


 AS we remarked once before, the anti whisker crusade has gone too far The fact that certain Kansas newspaper men have been conducting a campaign against the vine-clad face has been commented on by large and influential papers as far east as Chicago and New York. It puts Kansas in a wrong light It makes 1t look as though the whisker propaganda had been carried to an extreme in Kan sas, which it hasn't. The acreage of whiskers is no larger in Kansas than in any other state, but such big hullabaloo about it makes the half-baked humorlsts of New York think that there actually must be. a lot of them. The Chicago Tribune recently printed a facetious article of about a column in regard to the campaign. The anti-whiskerites are defeating their own object, for by their campaign they give the impression that what's the matter with Kansas Is that she needs a shave. We hold no brief (we read that expression in a magazine article once) for the whisker. We don . own and operate one ourselves, but we rise to a question of personal privilege. We maintain that a man has as much right to wear whiskers and can do so with just as good grace and peace of con- science as the man who is in the habit of wearing his hair on the top of his head. The well-tended whisker Is just as sanitary and healthful as the aver age mop of hair or the mustache The anti-whiskerites offer an unjustifiabe insult when they insinuate carelessness as to appearance, etc We are not eulogizing the whisker. We merely suggest that the unjustifable persecution thereof and the consequent undesirable notoriety as to Kansas being freak state, be stopped. ."-Cimarron Jacksonian.