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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
 POSED AS RICH MAN

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Americas imitation of the "Cobbler of Koepenick" who captured and robbed the treasury of a German town by the ex- pedient of masauerading as an army of ficer, is arrested again.
 The imitator, whose real name is Will jam A. Ilhphen, was taken while waiting in the LaSalle hotel to effect reconcilia- tion with his wife, whom he deserted a few days after marriage January 30. The prisoner .is charged with theft. The complainant is Edward M. Hyzer, gen eral counsel Of the Chicago and North western Railway company. MT. Hyzer's overeoat was stolen from his office a few tectives< assert that Kaphen was the per- son who took it.
 The arrest of Kaphen recalls his exploit at Madison Wis, last August, when he masqueraded as United States army officer and victimized several Madison business firms by passing bogus checks on them. He was sentenced to five years in the reformatory at Green Bay, and escaped from that institution last Octo- per. fNdp0en, WHO IS OHly GU years Olu, came to Chicago after his escape from prison, and obtained employment as a roustabout in the roundhouse of the Chi >cago and Northwestern railroad.
 He soon became acquainted with one of the telephone operators employed by the company, and she invited him to Thanks giving dinner at her house, in Evanston The operator, Mrs. Morrison, was a wid- ow, and Kaphen married her under the name of Robert Southwell. He represent ed to Mrs. Morrison that he was the son of an eastern millionaire, and that he was learning the railroad business from the ground up." He was to be a railroad president, he said, when he had mastered the business.
 week after the marriage he deserted his bride Having some knowledge of army tactics and possessing military bearing, Kaphen found no difficulty in making C. Frank Jobsoh, an architect believe that he was a captain in the regular army MT Jobson introduced Kaphen at the University club as "Captain Tiltou '. S. Az Kaphen ran up bill of $l0o, which he still owes. He also is charged with passing bogus checks on the Mossler Clothing company and the Chicago and Northwestern branch of the Young Mems Christian association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
TO AVOID CONSUMPTION

From the Chicago Inter Ocean. =
 Consumption is not inherited. This is a scientific conclusion, because the health department in it's bulletin has so decreed. The announcement no doubt will relieve many minds. Besides this. the bulletin tells you how not to "catch'' consump- tion or not let consumption "catch" you. Read and obey the following suggestions and you will be able to dodge the germs:
 L Avoid careless consumptives.
 2 Avoid food from consumptive animals.
 g. Avoid dusty places.
 4 Avoid foul air.
 5 Avoid human 'jams."
 G. Live in the sunshine as much as poa- sible.
 [ Live in the fresh, blowing air as much as possible.
 B. Unhouse yourself as much as pos sible.
 g. Build up your resistance by dressing lightly, exposing yourself to cold-lving in cold rooms-the reverse to coddling yourself. (This applies to children and adults up to the age of 60 years). Old men and women must lead more sheltered lives.
 To- Have yourself examined from time to time to discover latent or semi-a- tent disease.
 "What are the conditions of the human body which make it easy to catch con- sumption?" asks the bulletin. That is a question about which we know little and about which we can say little in an affirmative way There are, however, certain negative things which should be said, viz: A man is susceptible to dis ease if he is liable to catch it when brought in contact with the germ of that disease A man is immune when he can come in contact with the germ of a dis ease and not catch the disease.
 with respect to consumption we know little. For instance, physical giant com ing down with consumption is not a rare sight Good robust health does not pre- vent it, probably it does not make against it. Invalids are no more susceptible to it than other peopre.
 Being weak and run down does not predspose to consumption. The man who is weak and run down and who finds that he has consumption is in that debili- ated condition because of his consump- tion-the consumption is not the result of his condition.
 "Consumption is not inherited The lit tie tendency to it which may be inherited is so slight. that it may te easily over come. Probably we inherit more or poor chest capacity-tendency to pigeon breast than we do of consumption. Right liv- ing should easily overcome that"
 Associations for the prevention of tu- bereulosis have been formed in Cuba, Porto Rico and Trinidad, says the bulle- tin, In Denmark the campaign against the plague has been carried on system atically since 1S95
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
AMERICAN INGENUITY

From Lands of the Slave and the Free,
 by Henry A. Murray, 1850.
 The Americans have ingenuity and in- vention enough legitimately belonging to them for any nation to be justly proud of without plucking peacoclks' feathers from others, and sending them through the length and breadth of the republic as the plumage of the American Eagle How many useful inventions have they not made in the machinery for working wood? Is not England daily importing some improvement therein from the American shores? Look again at their perfect and beautiful inventions for the manufacture of seamless bags by MT. Cyrus Baldwin. and which he has at work at the Stark mills. There are 12t looms in operation, all self acting and each one making 47 bags daiiy-the bags are a little more than 31a feet long and chiefly used, I believe for flour and grain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
NEW YORK POLICEMEN

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 The typical New York policeman is brave just as he is handsome, without stopping to think about it. If there is life in danger he saves it and finds out about the risk afterward, when he is back on dry land or out of the burn ing building. For that reason we all of us like to read about the annual award of medals. 1t is our public recognition of the quality which we value most high ly among our bluecoats. But the police men themselves, it seems, do not take quite the popular view of the medals. They say that they have gone not to the men who did the bravest deeds, but to those with the gift of the 9ab, who could write out the best stories about their rescues afterward Now, it is a we'll known fact courage and modesty go together and the bravest man is often tongue-tied in trynig to tell what he has done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
EDUCATION UP-TO-DATE
From the New York Evening Post.

From the New I Ork ENeullS I oot
 Many>&eird things c2me' or profess to come. from the University of Chicago, and one can hardly be surprised, there fore. that the highly original plan of popularizing geometry by preparing text book in which theorems are applied to football should be credited to mem Der of it's faculty. Some may be scorn- rul of this innovation in educational methods as tending to lower the stu dents idea of scholarship. But deeper understanding of the well-established principles of pedagogy leads one to the opposite conclusion. It is now generally admitted that an instructor must begin where the pupil is rather than where he himself is. The pupil is on the athletic field. The instructors duty is obvious In the department of archaeology there should be attempts to popularize that subject by means of an illustrated nan ual on the Sports of the Ancients. As for physics, it might easily be made in teresting as well as instructive by taking up the problems of speed and momentum of falling bodies on the football field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
Take my mouth the wish of happy years. king Richard Il.
Condition of Congressional Business

On Saturday next at noon, by flc- tion of construction, the SiXty-first Congress comes to an end, regardless of the status of appropriation or oth- CT bills. The Lorimer case may be un- decided, and Canadian reciprocity may stand on the calendar, and the postoffice appropriation bill contain ing the contested magazine clause may remain unenacted, and yet the Sixty-first Congress will cease to be. Congress always, is congested in it's closing hours, but no one can recall congestion of important bills as great as the Senate has before it this minute. or more determined efforts to obstruct some at least of those bills.
 An extra session would be unevita- ble were not the special interests deeply concerned to prevent it. Messrs. Clark and Underwood have stated that in an extra session three or four schedules affecting the neces- saries of life, especially clothing, would be linked with reciprocity and sent up to the Senate. The issue over the cost of living would thus become well defined and well located. The friends and foes of lower prices would be lined up so that even the wayfarer could make no mistake.
 Two forces are at work in this matter. The Taft administration must secure reciprocity in order to repair it's fences against 1912, and the spe-- cial interests desire to postpone tariff revision. These two forces are felt in Washington as nothing else is, and so far as reciprocity is concerned they may be said to be pulling to- gether this week in Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
January Imports and Exports

The imports during January last fell off about $3,O00 1000, while the exports were increased $52,5O0, ,00O-compari- son in both cases being made with January of last year Exports were in the first month of the year far in excess of the imports, and this IS certainly a good beginning of the calendar year. Only once, in Jan uary. 1908, had the exports of last month been exceeded. The hand some result was largely due to the high price of cotton. There was gain from this source alone over the January of last year of nearly S4O,- OOO, ,O0O, or from S37,800,0 ,00O to $77,- 50O,0OO this year. For the seven months of the current fiscal year the increase in cotton exports rose from s323 600 .OOO last year to $443, ,1uv,vJ0 this year. or more than $120,00v,voO. This left but $52,000,oo0 of increase in exports to be accounted for by other articles.
 The country could not well get along without it's cotton crop. It certainly could not retain much gold if it had no cotton crop. It could not secure a favorable balance of trade one year in ten, if it had no cot ton to export. Cotton is, in short, the hope, the dependence, and the power that turns the balance of trade in our favor. Long live King Cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
FRENCH STATESMEN RISE EARLY

From the London Bystander.
 It's the hardest thing in the world to persuade the Englishman that the Paris ian works at all. He always seems to be eating" remarks the tourist, for be- tween II and 1, the time when the Eng lishman is beginning his day, the French mans is half oyer, and he is indulging in his .'solid meal' and game of domi- noes before returning to. work till S.. When an. Englishman received word that the finance minister would see him at S:30 o'clock in the morning he thought at first it was joke, but such appoint ments are quite usual hera. M. Briand receives at in the morning, M. Clemen- ceau rises at 5:30, summer and winter, and M. Rodin, the veteran sculptor, starts work never later than 6. His private sec retary, who lives in Paris, has to start his work at Meudon at ' punctualy, and as Meudon is half an hours journey from Paris this means his starting from Paris at 6:30!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
New Food for Cattle

"C l. Cook, millionaire dairyman and market gardener of Marinette. Wis. has just given to the world the results of several years study on the problem of securing a cheap and effective food for cattle of all kinds that promises to revolutionize dairying in the northern portion of the country this year, and which in a short time will be taken up by all the newly settled district of the entire country said man who recent ly made a trip to Wisconsin
 MT. Cook has completed the working out of a process whereby food for cat can be secured from the limbs, branches and twigs of trees and shrubs which ac- cumuate during the clearing of lands.
 "The discovery of this process reads like romance to those who give 1t but a passing thought, but to the student of agriculture and dairying methods it is simply the adapting of old methods to new uses.
 MT Cook before he took up farming to any great extent was a wholesale grocer, and still owns large interests in this line. He has always been a stu dent of nature and a lover of out-of-door life Some years ago, while hunting in Northern Wisconsin, he noted that the deer had eaten the ends of the branches of shrubs and trees down to point where the limbs were over one-half an inch in diameter Having just purchased 35OO acres of wild overlands, which he intended to develop for. dairyings and market gardening, his next thought was naturally the adapting of this woody food to farm animals. He reasoned that the digestive organs of deer and a COW were in all ways similar and that the COW would thrive on this same food if properly prepared in palatable form.
 "A little later he Secured some of the branches of an alder shrub and beat them into a pulp with a hammer. He then offered quantity of it to COW, but. bossy promptly turned the mixture down and would have nothing to do with it. A quantity of 1t was then placed before her and her regular food ration was cut off. Upon returning next day it was found that the COW had eaten all of the pulp and that she relshed it. More of it was supplied and strict tests as to quantity and quality of milk were made.
 "Within few days clover and timothy had no charm for the COW when wood pulp was available. The milk tests showed a heavier flow of milk and MT. Cook then come to the decision~that he had run upon a discovery that called for further attention"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
THE .HAREM SKIRT

From the New York Press.
 When Amelia JenSs Bloomer more than half century ago startled London with the celebrated costume to which her name is given, though 1t was the invention of Elizabeth Smith Miller, she did not set the town by the ears the way a woman still unknown to fame did the other day when she appeared in Re- gent street wearing a so-called harend skirt. The latter incident caused jeer- ing mob to collect and hold up traffic.
 This revolutionary feminine habiliment did not as is commonly supposed, origi- nate in Paris, where it is worn by one of the characters in Henri Bernstein s latest play. Lady Haberton, the Eng fish dress reformer long advocated the use of a modification of the Turkish trouser costume, and, while she had not the courage of her convictions so mark edly as was the case with Mrs. Boomer and the devoted disciples of Elizabeth of English design, just as bloomers were emphatically American. !.
 In New York. where really fashion, able folk rejected the Nextreme hobbe. the use of the harem costume is also likely to be restricted to the musical comedy stage or to adventures promoted by theatrical press agents. It is not sufficiently susceptible to modification to have any influence on the fashions of the coming season A woman affecting such attire in the Easter parade, in Fifth avenue or on the Atlantic City board walk would invite the solicitous attention of the local cens.abulary as a disturber Of the peace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
From the London Times.

From the London Times.
 "HE design for the coronation dress
 is not finally settled. Princess
 x Louise, Duchess of Argyll, IS be- 1ieved to he making the drawing for the embroideries and the Royal School of Art Needlework will carry them out
 There is reason to believe that Queen Mary will wear the train worn by Queen Alexandra in 1902, as the King will wear the coronation robe worn by King ho- ward VII Queen Alexandras tram is A glorious ruby-red velvet affair, GOV cred with a maze of gold emproioers' the effect being heightened by the al ternate use of glittering and dull goiu. Crowns, roses and missiles are on It, anu no child's dream of a royal robe was ever more worthy of Queen Queen Mary has been inspired by artistic feel ing in her choice of various state dresses, for they are all to be simple Tn hne' cut princess shape, and, for the most part' with draped bodices; we need not say also that they are without tied-in or, indeed, very narrow skirts. The gown for the opening of Parliament will be
 
 predominatingly black
 The train which we have reason to be- leve will be worn by the Queen ana which, as stated above. was worn by Oucn Alexandra at her coronation, is IS feet in length and about 5 feet In width, lined throughout with miniver. It has a cape from the shoulders about IS inches deep of the same fur and is bordered all round with an edging or ermine 3 inches wide. It is powdered or seme with imperial crowns embroidered partly in glittering plate gold and partly in Chinese gold, the crosses and fleur- de-lis in what is known as purl, the balls along the arches of the bases of sparkling silver thread. These crowns are set IS inches apart every way and are 90 In number.
 The whole train Is surrounded by very rich golden border divided into three parts, between the first part of which and the ermine border is strip of the velvet showing and making a fine contrast to the fur and the gold. The first part is of cloth of gold with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28

years ago. His name was Winfield Scott. -f if "A wealthy but eccentric New YorlSer arrived at the hotel early in the season and Scott took charge of the table He took his three meals at the same hours each day. At the end of the first he solemnly handed the waiter one cent Scott was wise, so he bowed and showed his teeth and said,- Thank yuh, suh.' The next meal the same thing happened, and so on to the end of three months when the visitor was about to leave Scott waited on him with the greatest punctiliousness at every meal and never hinted that the tip he got was not per fectly satisfactory.
 "After he had finished his last meal the visitor said to the waiter: Scott how long have l been here"
 'Jes' ninety days suh,' was the an- swer.
 TT have given you something after every meal haven't I?' '' Yes, suh.'
 How much does it amount to?'s "Scott told him. Have you, got all those peniIies? the visitor asked.
 "Scott said he had, and the visitor told him to bring them. Scott returned with a bag of pennies and handed them over. "I'll take them, said the man. Now this is yours and he handed over to the waiter S90."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
Cooperative Hotels

Members of the Southern Travel CTS association at a meeting recently held in Savannah, Ga, took into serious consideration the plan of building cooperative hotel in that place." said traveling man yesterday. The at tempt would be bold one, but it seems that this is the only way out of a difficulty which has arisen be cause of the indifference of the hotel propretors of that place to the de- mands of the commercial travellers. In the plan for the cooperative hotel it is proposed that the men from all parts of the country who visit that city more or less frequently subscribe from $100 to $500 each, and in return for this fund each man will be accordingly given stock in the enterprise. The whole proposition however. would be under the direction of some one living in that city who could always be on hand to look after the details.
 "It is more than likely that the plan will materialize, because there are enough men travelling regularly in and out of Savannah to make the proposi- ton a success. The action of these men who have shown>their determina ton not to be dominated by local conditions in the matter of comfortable living should be a signal to the com mercial travellers of other cities over the country to assert their independ< ence of the would-be hotel tyrant. While the idea of cooperative hotel is entirely new it is not altogether all experiment for there have been those who have already~Droven long ago how satisfactory is the plan of the cooper ative apartment house to which the plan of the cooperative hotel seems so closely akin.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
OLD JOHN BARLEYcoRN.


 There is one thing you can say for Old John Bareycorn. He plays no favorfte. Old John doesn't stand on the street cor ner and pick out his victi1s ns they pass by. 'Whosovere will maWcome.' The rich, the poor, the high and the tow; the strong and the weak, they all look alike to Old John. He has no. more respect for the king on his throne than he has for the unlettered Mexican toiling in the ditch Old John never forsakes those who stand by him. He will follow them into their place of business; he will go with the into their happy home; he will be at their heels when they journey to distant cities In the closing days when poverty stalks into the home and strength and beauty have fled, Old John will be there to replensh the fire and keep the fever running high. Drive Old John from your door and he will stay away just so long as you refuse to recognize him. But give him one faint smile and he will return to his old place and treat you as warm as he did in the days before you summed him. Old John never in the world lost patient that played with him.
 Osborne Farmer
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
THE LAST WORD

By Matthew Arnold Greer into thy narrow bed, Creep and let no more be said. Vain thy onset! All stand fast, Thou thy self must break at last. Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans and swans are geese, Let them have 1t how they wilTt Thou are tired; best be still They outtalked thee, hiss'd thee, tor,
 thee? Better men fared thus before thee; Fired their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged-and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall. Find thy body by the walll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 You trust people more because you do than because they deserve 1t.
 It seems to be a woman's mission in life to like people in spite of their faults.
 Temptation, like matrimony, takes off the mask after the contract is made
 The devil wouldn't retire on pension of twice his salary if he could have it.
 There's something about a scolding that makes the person who 1t want to do it right over against and this time escape getting caught.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
WATERS REWARD
the New, York Sun.

From the New York sun.
 ''The shrewd waiter will accept tip no matter how small it is. and pretend that he is satisfied" said a hotel mana ger the other day. When I hear of persons giving extraordinarily small tips it reminds me of an old negro waiter we used to have at Palm Beach a few
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
BUSY

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
 'sPa, who were Damon and Pythias?'
 Eve kind of forgotten now whether they were champion bowling team or whether they were a battery some club got from the Texas league. I wish you wouldn't bother me. Can't you see that I'm busy readin' about whats goin on in Wall street?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
MAINE WILL VOTE

From the Washlngton Herald
 Maine is to vote on the repeal of no prohibition law. Let it not be forgotten that Maine has not only the oldest pro hibition law, but also holds the record for the largest percentage of arrests for drunl<ennesS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28

There are those who think they can handle the Lorimer case, the direct elec- tons of senators and the reciprocity agreement in a way to bring on an ex- tra session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
ciews, Cotton Letter

Harry Clews, in his cotton letter Cf Sundays date says:
 "Politics is a factor of considerable importance in the cotton market at the moment and prices respond quickly to any sort of news from Washington, eith- CT pro or con, relative to the Scott anti option bill. Sentiment is rather general that there is no chance of the passage of the bill at this session, notwithstand-