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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
Nashyille1s Parcels Post Convention

In some mysterious way conVeh- tion has been convened at Nashville for the purpose of condemnlng the narcels post The ostensible object of the convention is to arouse the country store against any parcels most system Many delegates rom Tennessee attended the convention, hut few indeed came from other states. In the list of delegates pub lished by the Tennessean not many Alabama names appear, and not few of these names are borne by ladies. The convention was not ex- actly an impressive or a representa- tive body.
 On Wednesday Senator-elect John Sharp Williams of Mississippi ad- dressed the convention, advocating parcels post legislation based on the distance. an article is carried. He told the convention that the parcels post is coming. Its an evolution" he said, "and if you don't favor the prop CT kind, you will get parcels post with uniform postage or nothing; you need n0t hope to get nothing, you are going to get it. A wise man-never tries to prevent the inevitable - kicking against the bricks only makes sore heels.' Postmaster Willis of Nash vile also advocated parcels post, and the convention that was planned to condemn all parcels post legisla- Nion may indorse policy that will give the farmers what they have long cdntended for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
aIoraI EaucntiOn

"A successful method for teaching ,,,ora,s in the public schools of this country has at last been founo al'er 15 years of hard work by many or our most intelligent educators, sup norted bv few public spirited men and women," said a well known edu- cator "A recent outline or the worN which has been accomplished ana or the plans for organizing nauonai institution was printed at length Tn the New York Evening Post, whlch aiso devoted a highly favorable editorlai to the subject in the aspect or us con trihution to moral political education. Many people will be gratiiied to learn that inc list of national directors Of the organization is headed by the name of Edward Franklin Buchner, A. b. Ph D.. formerly professor Of educa- tion and philosophy in the University of Alabama, but now of Johns Hop kins university.
 ."rhe work of teaching morals isf 10 be done by means of visual instruction along those lines(plost peculiarly ln- teresting to the young minds. The fol- lowing is a brief extract from pa per on the subject: The foundation idea of what we call visual instruc- tion in morals is very simple. The boys and girls discuss morals among vehemently when something happens in their own world having morality involved. I have seen crowd of 20 boys as excited as political meeting of men because one boy re- fused to give up a marble he had found which another claimed. After pro- longed study and observation it was decided that we should photograph these incidents in the real world oi boys and girls themselves make lan- tern slides of them. throw them on screens life size and have stereopticon lessons in morals We believe that IT, while the incident in which the ch1l- dren are naturally interested from the standpoint of morals was on the screen,
 we joined the adult intelligence to the discussion. it would but be an un- welcomed enlightenment. And so 1t has proved"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
By-and-by is easily said.
Fewer Advocates of a Split sessior
Hamlet.

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 As the fortieth day of the session approaches fewer members ot the legislature favor a split session. The calendars are crowded with 200 pills with more coming in daily, and as some member is interested in passing each one of them fewer want an ad- iournment to July or September. Every one of the fifty days will be needed in order to clear the caleh- dars. and this will probably be at tempted.
 The more probable course consists in an effort to clear the calendars or the two houses at the end of the ht- tieth day. All members know that Governor O'Neal will almost certainly call them back in January, 1913, for matters will arise by that time which call for legislative action. The state, if would seem, is becoming too popu- lous and too active to go four full wears without legislation.
 Let the legislature proceed to dls- nose of the bills before it, and leave all the rest to Governor ONeal, who will know what the state needs two years later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
NEGRO WOMEN AS sUFFRAGIsTs

From the New York Times.
 All party socialists are suffragists a great many suffragists are socialists. The socialists in~the north have held so-called "rniscegnation" dinners, at which they sat down with negroes and toasted each other upon the day when all races would be joined together by ties of blood, and the color line between the races would be merged into one neutral tint. We are not surprised, therefore, at the announce ment that leaders of the woman suffrage movement are planning to give a social entertainment to negro women of Har- lem, whom they would recruit with the woman suffrage party.
 It is important not only for their social and racial integrity, but for their physi- cal well l-being, that the white and the black races should live apart Their hy- bridization leads to the forming of a de- generate type; anthropologists declare that some of the most cruel and treacher- ous specimens of humanity are to be found among "mottled" negroes of the south. If the women suffragists wished to gain converts for their cause in the states lying south of the Mason and Dix on line, they have gone about it in a queer way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
 Inserted in the programmes of the Kingsway theatre in London, on tae night Laurence irving and his company pro- duced "The Lily" were printed slips with thic culious announcement.
 "The management begs to state that anyone troubled with a fist n:sht cough twill he supplied with jujubes on applica- tion
 Tho tfalitio, al British metho1 of ey pressing disapproval of a play has been the "boo." but it seems that those sec tions of the audiences which do not like to make themselves conspicuous by shouts of "boo" have hit upon the method of coughing. It is a fact often observed that cough in the theatre, even when 1t is innocent of a design to disturb, has a tendency to start others to coughing and there is nothing calculated quite so effectively to spoil the effect of a speech or play as a rattling vollcy of coughs.
 In explanation of>the Kingsway thea tle programme notice the management exrlans that on several occasions there has been an organized coughing contin- gent on hand first nights, with the pur pose Of wrecking the play The charge is made specific by the allegation that ac- to's out of work, miner dramatists and persons just generally disagreeable have entered into an organized conspiracy to cough 9 pay to death.
 Mr. Irving explains that he does not ob iect to 'bnCs" and misses, but that actors find it almost impossible to withstand the subtly disturbing cough. Hence his in- Cenious offer to supply cough drops to such of tie audience as find themselves troubled with a frog in the throat" Whether cough drops will stop the prac- tice remains to be seen but it is worth noting that the cough, as a means of Wrectng a play. is not at all in keeping with the bodsted British sense of fair rlay. On the contrary, 1t is distinctly cowardy. If people in an audience feel tfat they must express disapproval they should have the courage of their convic- tions even If the disapproval takes the form of tcoting horns and loosing pigeons the methods employed by a hostile audi ence at the premier of "Apres Moi in Paris-or our own rough and primitive practice of disposng of our surplus sup ply of eggs and vegetables
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
Premier Monis Forms New Ministry

M. Antoine Ernest Monis, sena tor and a lawyer, has practically sue ceeded in forming new cabinet in France. He had sat in the senate 20 years and has heen force ill poll tics even longer He is radical re- publican, and he owes his call to high office to the fact that the extreme socialists will not at the outset at any rate assail him as they did M. Briand.
 The socialists upset Briand because he called to the colors the railway strikers and because he was endeav- bring to execute the separation act without creating unnecessary friction. The socialists want more friction in- stead of less in dealing with the re- ligious congregations. Premier Briand labored with distinguished powers, with an eye single to the general good Although he brought in the separation act, he became convinced that it should be applied with every possible measure of appeasement. This policy angered the extreme socialists, and he was deprived of parliamentary sup port to the great injury of the country.
 The programme of Premier Monis has not been announced. He will probably promise more in relation to the separation of church and state than he will be willing to accomplish. The radicals and socialists are to be appeased, and no doubt they will be fed at the outset with promises. The late premier held office nearly two years, and the new premier will do well if he rounds out single year at the head of ministry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
SAM WALTER TOSS

From the St. Louis Times
 The news columns give only very mea- ser spaces to an item relating to the death ofsCam Walter Foss al Cambridge, Mass. Ai,d of the army of people who rad the lev spapers, there will be but a small percentage who will realize that s. W. Floss was a man whose worK they have enjoyed on many oct asoiic.
 MT. Foss was almost the originator of newspaper verse;" as we know it today Of course there always has been verse in the newspapers. Time was when con ventional literary productions in verse were written for newspaper columns; but with the greater activities in the maga- zine fields there grew a feeling that pre- tentious verse should be published in the severer pages of the monthly periodical
 It was then that the form of compo- siton now definitely known as newspa- per verse came into being; and who shall say how many great talent, free from pedantry and pose and pride, welt into ihe making of true songs for the news papers? Is there any real doubt that the newspapers, got the best of the de- cision after all, and that newspaper verse today is of vastly more importance than magazine verse?
 Sam Walter Floss was the forerunner of Eugene Field. of James Whitcomb Riley of w. D. Nesbit and others. He was a contemporary of Will Carlton, though Caretons was a gift of rhymed legend and narrative, and his poems fitted looIe particularly the needs of book pub iica;ion.
 There is no careful newspaper reader of today who has not profited from songs of Mir. B'oss singing. A good many readers of newspaper verse do not re- member the( names of the poet; but they saw little thing in the paper last night that struck them just right. That is the pest tribute to the newspaper poet. It IS the best tribute to Sam Walter Toss.
 2ui the man who has set in motion vihrauon that touches the common heart with nerriment or with faith is one Of the immortal Fire Bringers, whether his name be recorded or not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
MohiIe,s Ri-CentenniaI

Mobiles bi-centennial celebration in connection with Mardi Gras was sue cessful in every respect" said N. F. Ragland of St. Louis. 1T spent several days in Mobile and while l was not there because of Mardi Gras I enjoyed the festivities none the less. l had seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans sev- eral years ago and although the Mo- bile pageants were on miniature scale compared with those of the Cres- cent City all the features were artistic and were carried out in good taste.
 Mobile has not grown as fast as some other southern cities, but it is a very substantial business center and socially few cities anywhere are equal to it. Its streets are finely paved. A great deal has been done in street paving in recent years. When l last visited Mobile many of the streets were sandy and dirty. but now I believe that one may go in every part of the city and not find single unpaved block. While Mobile has grown slow ly in these 200 years, having now a population of only a little more 5O.000. it is certain to become a large city in the course of 10 or 20 years. l pre- dict that it's growth will be rapid after the Panama canal is opened. The cen sus of 1920 will probably give it. a population of S0,000 or 90,000.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
The Iron Market

Rogers, Brown & Co.'S Cincinnati week ly report, just issued, says.
 "The improvement of the last two weeks is still in evidence, and the pig iron mar ket is brighter, in every way. There mas been some large buying and while south ern prices are stiffer, there has been no advance. It is reported that at some points in the east there is slight advance or withdrawals of furnaces from the mar ket. In the local territory there is no manifest difference except, perhaps, better tone. with good tonnage booked and inquiries being presented freely.
 There are still, even after large buy ing, prospects for additional tonnage of steel-making irons, and it Is generally considered in the main conditions are in better shape than they have been for all most a year past.
 ''The recent railway decision has had it's effect as was to be expected. but not as broadcast as was feared. This is shown by some orders held back, but it is felt this hesitancy is simply for the time being. It has not had any noticeable ef- feet on the market"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
REST CURE FOR moBsoN
From the New York Sun.

run tiS NEW IOTk ouil.
 The mental strain of preparing the country for war wvSh Japan. fighting the demon rum on the lecture platform and getting his signed articles printed in the Congressional Recorq has been too much for Representative Hobson of Alabama. On his account we should regret an ex- tra session of Congress. Back to nature and a dict Of corn pone and fresh milk should l,e prescribed for him. and we rec ommend Lubbub Creek, in Pickens coun- ty, as sufficiently remote from the hurly- burly to insure him complete rest and medtative moments. He should be pro- vided with corncob pipe, some plug to- bacco and tackle for lifting catfish out of the muddy waters of Lubbub. The people of Pickens county should be warned not to mention Japan to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
Panic Worse Than the Boil Weevil

Alfred H. Stone and Julian II. Fort. farmers of Mississippi, recently visited a number of Texas counties, and they contrast those counties with Adams county Mississippi, and the lesson drawn from the contrast should be we'll studied by the farmers Of Alabama. In Adams county, Missis- sippi. merchants, landlords and ten ants become demoralized and panic stricken by the advent within the county's bounds of the boil weevil. Be- fore the insect came Adams county made about 24,000 bales of cotton an- nually; after they came the annual product fell to 1700 bales. The ne- groes left the county in droves, and there was almost no one left to face the problems of cotton making de- spite the pest.
 Turn now to Kaufman or any other Texas county where the Mexican in- yation was met with courage, skill and intelligence. Kaufman county made in 1905. wet year, 20,0O4 bales. Ii had then no weevils. In 1908 it made with an abundance of weevils 60, ,60S bales. Think of that! Contrast it with panic-stricken Adams county in Mississippi. It is the difference be. tween panic and firm determination, between skillful farming and the ten ant system, between demoralization and intelligence.
 When the weevil comes to Alabama our farmers can make enough cotton if they will plough deep and hasten the maturity of the crop by careful cultivation, and Men they should grow corn and other cash crops. Above all else they should preserve their cour- age and mental balance. AS an aid to all this they should write to the First National bank of Greenville, Miss, asking for a copy of the report of Messrs. Stone and Fort The bank published this report and copies of it can be procured by application to Greenville's wide-awake and patriotic hank
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
stendy Improvement Remarked,

William c. Seddon of Baltimore. dl- rector in the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron company and prominent in banking circles. after a yfsit to Birming- ham of several days will return home in the morning. He was in the party ot President Joseph H. Hoadley of the Ala bama Consolidated and looked over some of the Consoldateds properties. MT. Seddon has long represented important interests in the Birmingham district, and, having visited this city periodically for many years past, few men are more fa- miliar with it's growth and industrial con ditions than he.
 Birmingham has pushed ahead consio- erably since I was last here, about year ago." said MT Seddon. 'Its large census showing has attracted the attention or investors throughout the country, and the growth of the city will doubtless be more rapid than ever from this time on vis- tied Corey on this trip for the first tune. It is called the model industrial city, ana if seems to be a model in every respect Not only are it's streets better paved thaN those of most of the big cities, but the work of the landscape architect is strik- inslv in evidence Corey is going to be beautiful city as well as clean, sanl- tary city,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
HE MADE TRACKS
From the Portland Oregonian.

From the Portland Oregonian.
 Every one in eastern Oregon calls State Senator Bowerman Jay" and thinks that when it comes to trying a hard fought criminal case there is none better. Not long ago the late candidate for gov ,rnor defended a participant in a shoot ing scrape at Fossil and a material point in the case hinged upon the testimony of all aged Tcnncsseean.
 Where were you when this shot was fired?" oueried counsel for the defense. f q were about 10 feet behint the feller what got shot" And were you there when the marshal arrived?f
 "No. sah; I want nowhere nigh the place"
 You must have travelled pretty fast? suggested Mr. Bowerman. The witness projected his goatee ovel tee rail of the witness stand and in g | confidential tone of voice said
 well. Jay, I'll tell ye; l made jes' three tracks between Knox's livery barr aud the cotebouse.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
After Ten Years

T was in Birmingham 10 years ago, but had not been here since until came recently to spend a few days" said Will liam Kaul of Pennsylvania, a brother to John l.. Kaul. This was considered quite city when 1 was here before, but recalling it now as it appeared then 1t was rather poorly built. The improve ments in 10 years have been wonderful. Birmingham today has handsome busi- ness district. and it's fashionable resi- dence sections surpass in beauty and gen. eral attractiveness those of any city have visited.
 T nave just paid a visit to Corey, the model industrial city of the Birmingham district. and 1 found 1t all that had been claimed and more. It is a beautiful place, with elegant avenues and park ways and buildings of artistic design This town of Corey will prove great asset of Birmingham. and will do as much perhaps, to advertise it through out the country as any other feature. Most of the visitors to the city will, as a matter of course, take look at Corey, and all who see that place and the United States Steel corporations inn mense plahts nearby will go away talking about Birmingham as the south's great industrial center and predicting all sorts of great things for it's near future.H
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
THE GAS BILL
rom the Fliegende Blaetter.

From the Fliegende Blaetter.
 Frau Huber on the advice of her phy- scian spent the month of October in the south. On her return her husband re- lates how he spent the time during her absence.
 70, the long, long evenings at home"r said he. At 5 o'clock I lighted tho gas. and then sat in thelibrary and read, and read, and read!'
 Just then the maid brought a letter ana handed it to her mistress. She read it and tossed it to her husband, land ex- claiming "Wretch" left the room in a passion.
 On the paper stood these words:
 Karl Huber, to the City Gas Co.,, Dr. To gas furnished Tn the month of Octo- Der. 15 cents.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
Relief From Fees in Sight

Tn the general election of November fin the coming year the people of Ala hama will vote on an amendment that leaves the legislature free to act upon fees and costs in Jefferson county without regard to other counties in the state. This segregation of Jefferson county promises to command the sup hort of everybody, and the active sup port of the sheriffs of the ether coun- ties ;n the state who want chance to secure higher fees without inter- ference from the fee-ridden county of Jefferson. All know how powerful the sheriffs' ring is, and we may therefore reasonably expect that the segrega- tion proposition will go through with bells on.
 There can be no real and compre- hensive relief from the fee system in this county until the constitutional proposition is adopted. It has been duly submitted by the legislature and signed by the governor, and nothing remains but the ratification of it by a majority of the voters who vote upon the proposed amendment. Section z84 of the constitution says: And if 1t shall thereupon appear that ma 1ority of the qualified voters who voted at such election upon the pro posed amendment voted in favor of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03

the same, such amendment shall be valid to all intents and purposes as parts of this constitution
 It is up to the voters of Alabama to say whether the sheriff of an Ala bama county, for example, shall or shall not have a princely income wrung from the weak and humble. The proposed amendment is the true remedy for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03

many before their eyes and in the par liament he has frequently denounce1 her warlike threats as bluffs He says that her allies, Austria and Italy, will not support Germany in an aggressive attack upon Trance and that by an entente England Russia and all the minor powers will unite in defending her against German invasion. Incidents of far less significance have brought on wars before now and this one may precipitate the collision which the world has regarded as inevitable Tor more than 30 years past
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-03
WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS

By Thomas Gray. Lo, in the vale of years beneath . A grisiy troop are seen. The painful family of Death.
 More hideous than their queen; i, This racks the joints. this fires the veins, That every laboring sinew strains;
 These in the deeper Wtals rage; To! Poverty to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand,
 And slow-consuming Age. To each Nhis sufferings; all are men,
 Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain.
 The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah Why should they know their
 fate, Since sorrow never comes too late.
 And happiness too swiftly fiies?F Thought would destroy their paradise; No more--where ignorance is bliss 'Tis folly to be wise.