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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
Defeat of the Tariff Board Scheme

Defeat of the Tariff Board Scheme
 The proposition to create -repub- lican tariff board to advise and direct democratic House in framing tariff bills is absurd on it's face. MT. Un- derwood and his associates need no advice or direction at the hands of a repudiated party, and they will ac- cept none. They will frame bills in accordance with the declared will of the people and with no regard to the conclusions of a republican tariff board.
 The tariff board idea was origi- mated as an excuse for delay in re- vising obnoxious rates of the Aldrich tariff, and if it had been made a permanent feature of the govern ment it would be utilized in that way whenever the republicans regained power.
 The long filibuster over the tariff board bill points to it's defeat alto gether, and no one will regret it's overthrow outside of administration circles. The determined effort made to secure a vote on the tariff board bill was maintained until the great supply bills were placed in jeopardy. The republicans yielded in order to pass the appropriation bills. The tar if board bill was in fact the dying effort of republican control in Con- gress. Tke loss of their last fight points to the still greater defeat that will overtake them after the demo- crats of the Sixty-second Congress have reduced the cost of both cloth ing and foodstuffs by repassing the reciprocity agreement coupled with revisions of the woolen and cotton schedules and other extremely ob- noxious rates of the tariff bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
County Suberint ntendents of Education

By the close vote of 45 to 43 the house passed the county superintend- ents bill, known as the Hollis bill be- eause it was presented by Mr. Hollis of Choctaw. Mir. Hollis of Walker offered a substitute bill, but his bill was rejected, while that of MT. Hol- lis of Choctaw was passed by the house after a long debate.
 It is difficult to say at present just what the house bill does or does not contain. Under it county superintend- ents are to be paid from 5000 to $500 a year. The county commis- sionets will decide the salary ques- tion within these limits in each county.
 The bill as passed leaves, however, tAe selection of superintendent to politicians rather than to the coun- ty board of education. Herein great mistake was made, although the bill os passed doubtless requires super intendent to hold a teachers certi- ficate. Until the entire house bill is published, it is not possible to say how much further it goes toward securing competent county superin- tsndents. The present county super lntendents are, as a rule, incompetent and the most of them do no superin- tending at all. They are simply dis bursing officers, and most of the dis trict schools drift along without superintendence.
 This matter should be carefully weighed in the senate. Alabama can not have good public schools unless 1t first has good county superintend- ents. It is one of the great deficien- eies of our public school system, and # the senate will mould the Hollis bill into a form that will ensure a competent county superintendent in every county it will do much toward siving 100000 children better edu- cation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
ANNE WARNER

From the New York Sun.
 Anpe Warner, author of Susan Clegg" and "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary was entirely unknown to the public. She then lived in St. Paul, Minn., and recog- milton of her literary efforts did not come easily.
 T wrote joke in 19O0' she says, land it was accepted l wrote story and poem and sent them to a manuscript bu-
 reau. They sold the poem for me for s2 and stole the story. in 1901 I wrote a story and it was accepted. Then I wrote
 nothing else for some time. In 1902 I was in Europe and l wrote 23 stories and mailed them to different magazines and
 kept track of their peregrinations in a book. I believe that I made $25 out or literature in 1902. In 1903 I wrote A
 stories and book. After the book was as good as accepted and Susan Clegs'
 was launched in the Century Magazine
 and had good income coming my way | I went east and saw live editors and pub | fishers for the first time'
 Mrs. French, as Anne Warner is known
 in private life, now lives most of the time I in Germany, though she is at present at her parents home in St. Paul. She does
 most of her literary work in her Ger
 man home after thinking it all out the night before in bed. She scorns the type writer, prNferring to use pen and ink; , all of her manuscripts are neatly and leg | bly written. Already this year she has had new novel published entitled How | Leslie Loved"
 l Write 5O stories,'' is her advice to aspiring authors, leach as good as you can possibly do. As, fast as they are | finished. submit them. inclosing return | envelopes When they come back read
 them carefully over, and if possible inn
 prove them to the best of your ability. 1 Have a book and keep track of where
 each one goes, and send each to the diff ferent editors. When the fiftieth story | has come bacl. the tenth time, If not one l has been accepted it is wisest to give up.
 But if one can persevere to write 50
 stories and to send each out ten times | some will be accepted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
A .sFIRST NIGHTv' IN PARIS

From the New Orleans Item.
 They take their plays very seriously in Paris. Recent dispatches from the French capital are full of the riots that took place on the production of "Apres Mo,' the latest play from the pen of that gifted and synical Parisian, Bernstein, known in America for "The Thief" and other pieces of a rather hectic, melo- dramatic sort. These riots recall the forced withdrawals in 1891 of Sardou's "Thermidor,' after two nights unsuc- cessful effort to keep the play on the boards with the aid of the police. The French are by no means uncertain in ex- pressing their approval. Imagine an audi ence in the United States attempting a riot because it did not like play!
 It needs only few instances, indeed, to point this difference between the Gal lie and the American temperaments In the first act, where Lebargy is asked the question. What is the most irreparable thing in life?' a man In the balcony shouted coarse epithet as response. in- stantly the theatre was in an uproar. Cries of Put him out and of No, nor were everywhere yelled. as detectives dragged the offending man from his seat
 This demonstration was followed by cries of 'deserter" and down with the Jews" and it was several minutes before the manifestants ceased and permitted the actors to proceed
 A moment later, pigeons which had been hurled from the gallery caused women in the audience to shriek as they futtered helplessly in the orchestra.
 In the intermission after the first act the "Camelots du Roi'' started riot in the gallery and as they were dragged out, several were struck by adherents of Bern stein. After that scores of spectators, men and women. with threatening ges- lures, engaged in loud arguments for and against the play. In the second act six men barricaded themselves in 1oge' and caused suspension of the play>for five minutes by blowing fish horns The po- lice battered in the door and arrested the disturbers.
 In addition, we are told, there is a sen- sational controversy going on in the news papers that has descended to personal re- elimination. M. Bernstein wrote letter to Le Matn admitting that he had de- serted the army, four months before his time was up, but declaring that this act was due to his infatuation for a woman. He has, moreover, written letter to the premier asking for the temporary release of the Loyaist Lacour that he might fight 1tta1 rr-ff 1,ir ;,,.,& q several months ago for assaulting Pre- mier Brian.
 The first nights in Paris are indeed, different from those of our own play-pro- ducing centers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
THERMOMETERS

TRDMBONETICS { Full many rose Is born to blush unseen, Full many soulful songster sings un- heard. But no trombone performer e'er has been Who did not fret his neighbors, take my word.
 Chicago Record-Herald. Those words you write, methinks, are very true,
 AS anyone who's suffered will avow. This fact, perhaps, accounts for so much No music's in a trombone anyhow
 Birmingham Age-Herald I listen to the trombone's shorts and smile, find a joy in each nerve-raclsing tone: : Because. you see, I'm thinking all the while
 It MIGHT have been a doggoned saxo- phone. Houston Post 1 listen to the trombones awful noise. And find joy in the blood-curdling spiel. In my minds ear hear those vaudeville boys
 Get rich pounding spolles of a wagon wheel. St. Louis Times
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
WOES OF JASPER ARROWWOOD
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier-J Journal
 AsPER ARROWwOOD of Canoe.
 Breathitt county, according to his N own story told In dispatches from Lexington, is a much-abused individual Jasper arrived at Lexington hospital Monday. full of misery and duckshol Pending the interval that the doctors were reducing his weight by picking out 1se shot, Jasper unfolded a tale of woe
 The story had it's beginning in the glad holiday season three years ago when ing the period of peace and good will in the approved Breathitt county style. They were riding along the road, shoot ing holes in the surrounding scenery, when somebody varied the montony by pumping a charge of lead into a mule ridden by son of one Levi Holland. Nobody knew who killed the mule, but Levi figured that somebody ought to pay for it, since mules were valuable and the crop time was approaching. Jasper promptly paid over s35 as his part of the damage. but at that Levi never did seem to feel very good about the affair."" and Lewis son warned Jasper that it would be advisable for him to steer clear of pa for the time being.
 Ten or eleven months ago, there hay ing been no casualties in the meantime. either of men or mules, Jasper went to North Carolina on a prospecting tour. He found work there, and remained until about month ago, when he came back to Dreathitt The rest of the story may be told in his own words:
 After had been home some time levi Holland asked me for some more money on the mule and said he thought I ought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
STORY OF JOHN T. RAYMOND

John T. Raymond, the comedian, of Almighty Dollar fame, was sport. He was not a confirmed gambler, in the accepted sense, but he could not be bluffed on wager. He would take a chance on almost anything if he be- lieved his chance was at least equal to that of the other fellow. One of his friends, with whom he had many times matched coins when nothing more ex- citing offered itself, sat in the audience one night when Raymond was on the stage He caught the comedians eye and held up a gold piece in one hand over the palm of the other. Raymond gave him the nod, as much as to say he was Ion. :" The challenger figured that Raymond would indicate his choice as between heads and tails by some sign, most likely by putting his hand to his head, so he palmed the coin tails. But Raymond pre- ferred tails, and/ to denote his choice turned his back to the audience, put his hands behind him and Tipped his coat tails briskly. Turning again to the man in front Raymond was made to under stand that he had won. Perhaps this is the only time an actor played a part and participated in real gambling at the same time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
Two Bills That Failed.

The passing of Congress leaves two bills affecting Alabama as well as other states on the calendar. One q the Scott bill forbidding dealings ln cotton futures and punishing se- Serely all engaged in promoting such contracts. The southern farmers have generally favored this bill, because they do not like the ups and downs Nhat the bulls and bears in the cot
 ton market produce at will. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04

From the Washington Herald.
 M. C. Barton of Chicago, who is at the Raleigh, and who has just returned from a trip through Italy. where he was on business. said last night that Venice is infested by bold swindlers.
 Americans are the most frequent vic tims.'' said he, "because German and English tourists will not allow them selves to be imposed upon. The swndlers know that Americans are easy game. They will pay blackmail rather than suffer annoyance, and the only way to prevent such occurrences is for all buy CTS to insist upon a receipt for every purchase. no matter how insignificant. It is equally essential to see that bills are accurate and that the change is straight.
 "One evening an American gentleman who had dined at one of the most re- spectable cafes of Genoa took the trouble to add up his account, and immediately discovered that the waiter or the cashier, or whoever had made it out, had added a considerable percentage to the total This trick is common. It occurs every where in Italy, and it is usually done by the walters, who make out the bills, turn in the right amount to the cashier, and keen the difference.
 Strangers in Venice and other Italian cities should have nothing to do with chance acquaintances and guides who ac- cost them on the streets and in public places. The guides attached to the hotels are usually reliable, and if they are em- ployed through the concierge, the latter is responsible. and. indeed. would not dare recommend doubtful character There are ~always volunteer guides hanging around the entrances to churches, mu- seums, and art galleries. usually visited by tourists. St. Marks plaza swarms with them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
Preparing For Extensive Planting

Farmers in Greene county are pros perous," said P. B. Minor, prominent merchant of Eutaw. Preparations are be- ing made for large cotton acreage, and corn planting will also be very large
 "The farmers of Alabama have made steady nrogress in intensive agriculture and they are easily abreast with the farm CTS of any section of the south. The largo increase in corn and hay production in Alabama last year has been very stim- ulatng both to agricultural and mercan- tile interests, and I think more corn will be made this year than ever before. l expect to see a bigger cotton crop than usual. The boil weevil is causing some alarm, but it is not thought the pestifer- ous creature will do much damage this year. For the very reason that the weevil is due the farmers will put forth all the greater effort to make an especially big crop before the insect becomes well es- tablished in this state.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04

to give him more than I had. I told him I'd pay him anything that was right if ne would agree to hold no hard feeling. toward me. He agreed to do that and I paid him 5 more than he asked me.
 Last Friday he asked me to come over 10 his house to dinner. His boy told me l had better stay away, but I thought everything was fixed all right, and went anyhow. After a while Hollands son came to me and told me had better get away, as his father was going to kill me I started away, and when I was about 15 yards from the house Holland came out and called me. Just as I turned he shot me in the left hip with one charge from double-barreled shotgun. Most of the shot struck some 32 pistol cartridges I had in my pocket and glanced of Then l pulled my gun and shot at him just as he fired the second charge of shot into my hip. l did not hit him and he hadn't been arrested when I left. When I be- gan to shoot young Holland grabbed me and then helped me over to Canoe and came down to Athol in a boat and from Athol I came here on the L.. & E. train Sunday afternoon"
 Levi Hollands affection for his depart ed mule is both strong and touching, if we are to believe the narrative told by Jasper Arrowwood. love for dumb brutes is commendable but it really does seem that having had three years in which to recover from his grief and hay ing touched" Jasper twice in the mean time, Levi was piling it on rather strong when he invited him to dinner and shot him. It was,an act for which there is no Justification in equity, ethics or etl- quette. /
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
The Iron Market

The local iron market is without special feature. Matthew Aohy & Co.'S Cincin- natl report, just issued, says;
 "While the past week has not seen quite the activity of the two just pre- ceding it, nevertheless the market is very strong, and great interest Is being shown in every direction. Inquiry is in great measure confined to the last half of the year, although it develops that sur prisingly large number of consumers have not fully covered their require ments up to July 1. Buyers are making a strenuous effort to force the furnaces to sell for the last half at todays market price for prompt shipment, but in the south especially they are not meeting with success; there they are generally asking an advance of 50 cents over present prices for deliveries from July through Decem- Der. The fact of the matter is, there is no money in pig iron at today's prices, and furnacemen generally believe that by the time the second half arrives they will be selling at a considerable advance Nat urally they do not want to dispose of their future output at losing prices by accept ing today's quotations.
 Buying this week has been confined to certain territories and has not been general In Chicago and the surround ing country inquiries are large and num- erous and a number of sales are report ed. St Louis has not been so active, and while central Ohio has been very quiet, our Indiana neighbors have been busy closing contracts and some of them are still in the market. The liberal buy ing of steel-making irons short time ago has eased things up in that direction, and comparatively few of them are out with inquiries now. Business in most lines is good and shipments are moving at lively rate, There are very few hold ups in deliveries, and when a man orders his iron out he generally accompanies his requisiti6n with request to trace shlp- ment through. All of this speaks well for the market. There is decidedly healthy tone and prospects are undoubt- edly very much brighter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
Fast Growing CitieA

q spent some time in the west last fall and was especially impressed with the rapid progress of Portland, Seattle and land. But Birmingham has as promis- ing a future, I think, as even the largest of the cities mentioned According to the recent census showing Portland has population of 207,214, an increase of 1922 over 1900. Seattle had been claim 2S7,1s4 percentage gain of 194. Spokane. that had only 36.S4s in 1900, has now about 1o5,o00 These cities will continue to grow fast, but I think it reasonable to predict that Birmingham will catch up even with Seattle by 1880, if not before.
 Those northwestern cities have rich resources, of course, but Birmingham 3 steel industry combined with agricultural resources should put this city's popula- ton across the 50o,CcO mark inside of 20 years. find that people living at dis tanee from here have an idea that Bir- ming is chiefly mining and manufac- turing town. That is what thought un- til I came here. But see that Birming- ham is metropolitan city in appearance with most beautiful residence sections; that it is a strong financial center, and that it is coming 10 be quite jobbins; center. Birmingham is an uncommonly attractive place in every way, and thou sands of newcomers will be settling here within the next P months
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
MOTHERS ADVICE TO EDDY FoY

From the Chicago Record-HerRld. A
 When Eddie Foy was at the height of his popularity in Chicago he got tickets for one of the performances for his old mother. She never had seen him act, although the whole town was laughing over him. She sat s0lemnly through the whole performance and rode home with her son without a smile. At last Foy asked her: St0
 "Mother, how did you like it?''
 "Eddie." she replied, fool 'em as long as you can" ; -s-- se's.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
The Birmingham School System

Superintendent J. II. Phillips annual report of Birmingham's public schools for the year ending June 3o 1s10 is of un- usual interest and should be carefully read by every citizen," said man who comes in contact with educational worii in various parts of Alabama. s
 When it is remembered that the city's revenues have been restricted in recent years it is wonderful what excellent work has been done under the authority of the Board of Education and under the personal oversight of Dr. Phillips.
 'The Birmingham school system is fav- orably known in educational circles throughout the country. and understand that there is a steady request for copies of the supefintendent's recent report from school superintendents in distant nort..ern cities.
 lowing to Birminghams rapid growth the Board of Education is handicapped by the lack of larger accommodations for the children. When the Central High school was erected only. 400 students were in attendance there but within four years tho enrolment has increased to about 1900. But before a great while another high school building will be erected, and it will be larger than anything of the kind here now.
 ''Dr Phillips accounts for the rapid de- velopment in the, Central High school interest by the fact that the school of-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
: REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 It's safer to bet on most anything than judgment.
 It's investing when you win and gam bling when you lose.
 woman writes sentiment with the same capital letters man does money.
 Tlh more a man works late at his of flee at night the oftener it would be easy to find hini at the theatre.
 A woman who can write big checks can get admiration without herself going to the looking glass for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04

Although there are 4l1.S22 federal of fees theer are not enough to go round, especially in the south, where every re- publican expects to get one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04

tains an item looking to the discov- cry in this country of large bodies of potash salts that are as available commercially speaking as are those of Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
THE COUNTRY. CHURCHYARD

r~ - By Thomas Gray The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power And all that beauty, all that wealth
 e'er gave,
 Awaits alike the inevitable hour The paths of glory, lead but to the
 grave.
 Nor you be proud. impute to these the If memory OCT their tomb no trophies
 raise Where through the long drawn aisle and
 frctted vault
 The pealing anthem swefs the note
 of praise. r ', Can storied urn or animated bust Back to it's mansion call. the fieeting Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust Or fiattery soothe the duh, cold ear of
 death? aSa MfYU Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some healt once pregnant with celestial
 fire,
 Hands that the rod of empire might have Or walked to ecstasy the living Tyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample Rich with the spells of time, did ne'sr
 unroli, aN Chill penury repressed their noble rage And froEe the genial current of the soul. Tulls many gem of purest ray serene | The dark, urfsthHra'All. eayes of ocean
 bear,r ts N Fpll ma.sy a fiowsr>ss born y.,' pnI.n un= And waste its sweetness on the desert airseea sis<...-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04

The friends of MT. Sheehan are now saying the opposition to him in his own party is due to his reliigon. He is a loyal member of the Catholic church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04

Boss Cox was once butcher boy and he became a boss, bat Charles P. Taft is preparing to take away all of his po- litical power
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04

The Marquis of Landsdowne's Rem brandt. valued at s5o0OOo, may. go into the National gallery and then again it may be brought to America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04

The French chamber of deputies in- surged against Aristide Briand, the ablest constructive statesman France has had iii a generation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04

This milk looks chalky." said the housewife.
 'So it does,' answered the modern milk man. After each of our cows is given her morning bath and massage she is sprinkled with talcum powder Some of it must have accidentally fallen into the milk