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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
NashyiIle's RebiIling Privilcgs

Nashville has long been able to re- ceive grain, grain products and hay, and, after holding them six months, to rebundle and reship them on the original bill of lading at the through rate. This privilege was denied to other southern cities. The interstate commerce commission has, however, decided that the reshipping and re- billing privilege must be extended to other southeastern cities or to none at all. All cities in a section must be treated alike.
 The Nashville merchants may delay this decision of the interstate com mission. They cannot do more, sim. ply because it is just and reasona. ble decision. All grain, grain prod ucts and hay are inc)uded in this de. cision. The identical product need moi be reshipned. for the reblling privi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
CALLING A RLTFF.

They walked into the breakfast room
 at one of the big hotels the other day
 finicky, precise and querulous. They had
 just returned from a tour of Europe,
 and gave that continent the big talk at every chance.
 Have you no South African peaches?" they asked. plaintively. We have been
 stopping at the Savoy in London. and there were plenty of South African Ispeaches.s
 The hotel manager was found. He hastened to the complaining ones. Ger tainly the hotel had South African peaches They were imported especial ly for the hotel guests. Came from the same peach orchard that the Savoy's peaches did. The faces of the travelled persons did not light up with joy and appreciation. as one would think. | How much are they? they asked' with a. singular timidity. Three dollars each" said the hotel
 manager. The travelled persons prompt
 ly protested But we only paid--haw W two dollars and a half for them at the
 Savoy" said they. The hotel mana
 ger expressed his regret at the over
 charge He said they might have them
 at the same price that they paid at the
 Savoy, in London. and how many would
 they like to have?
 Flaw, Alfred" said one of the plain
 tive travelled persons to the other plain tive travelled person. Let us have haw-one of those deah old fawshioned breakfasts of ham and eggs? Right. old dear" said Alfred. The hotel manager went away grin ming softly to himself. He had never
 had any peaches from South Africa. -
 New York Correspondence Cincinnati
 Times Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
Currency Reform

President Taft did not, in his ad- dress before the New York bankers at Manhattan Beach, exaggerate in the least the importance and value to all of currency reform. Our financial agencies are at present unorganized and the hope is that they can be or ganized in a manner that will be both helpful and unobjectionable. The na- tional monetary commission aims to do this.
 Panics and hoarding go hand in hand, and if the one can be ore. vented and the other overcome great good will be bestored on the country. The hoarding that follows a panic is perhaps the more hurtful of the two. It leads on to want of confidence that checks trade and general busi- ness and shuts down industries. By organizing the 1000 national banks into fifteen associations, and placi... over them national reserve associa- tion controlled in part by the govern ment and in part by the fifteen local associations it is hoped to weed out panics and the subsequent hoarding Other countries have accomplished the task-why not this?
 Care has been taken to keep the proposed machinery out of the hands of the politicians on the one hand anc out of the control of Wall street or the other. Each national bank is tc put 10 per cent of its capital into the national association and no more, anc this stock is not transferable. Ir proportion to its capital every nation al bank has voice in the control oi it's branch association and also in the control of the central association. Any earnings by the central association In excess of per cent goes to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Inventor of Artificial lee Machine

"1n a group of club men the ques- tion was asked who discovered the pro- cess of making artificial ice or who in- vented the first ice machine?" said Maj. Alex De valcourt. Encyclopedias were looked up. but even the latest of them one published two years ago-failed to give the name of the man who had done so much for the comfort of humanity and the alleviation of the suffering.
 Under the head of refrigeration one of the encyclopedias gives full and interesting account of artificial Ice mak- ing, but no mention is made of the place where artificial ice was first made or of the chemist who worked out the scien- tihc method. Dr John Gorrie, native of Charleston, S C., was the man to whom humanity was indebted He was born October g. 1903 was educated as physician in a northern college. He then went to Apalachicola. Fla, and In that city practiced medicine and occupied many positions of public trust. He died In l6oo. He was a man Of culture ana deep learning, and it was in 1S47 or 4s' while preparing series of articles for the Lancet tthe leading medical jour nal of hls day). on the subject Of Equilibrium Of Temperature AS curs for Pulmonary Consumption that one of his chemical experiments on air cool ing resulted In the making of artificial ice. Impressed with the value of the discovery, Dr. Gorrie at once proceeded to perfect 1t with the result that the first ice machine ever made and op- tal h ira 1PEn--f q years before it was done in Paris, which city once claimed the discovery.
 "The facts as just related I obtained from an Apalachicola publication.
 "A monument to Dr. Gorrie was erect ed in the central portion of the city Of Apalachicola and was unveiled April 30, 1900. The legislature of Florida has made an appropriation of $1O,000 to have a statue of this great man mod | eled for The Hall of Fame
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
Montgomery's Recall Petitions

The commission of five appointed by Governor O'Neal to govern Mont gomery has never been wholly satis- factory, and now petitions are being signed asking for a recall of the en- tire board. In these petitions it is alleged that the commissioners are rot in sympathy with the commission form of government; that the legis- lature should have made the commis- sioners elective instead of appointive, and that the commissioners, who are paid S3000 a year do not devote full time to the city's business.
 The commission has been in office but two months and in that time it has accumulated large crop of ene- mics, and recall election may bring the entire appointive incident to a close, for presumably Montgomery s special act enables the citizens of that city to elect their own commissioners in case of a recall.
 The judgment of all the people is always better than the judgment of one of the people. Popular govern ment has never yet proven a failure when full vote can be had. A minority or clique vote can go astray but not full vote of all the people A clear, full expression of the psopl, acting directly is well-nigh infallible
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
A PIRATICAL VOICE

From the New York Evening Mail.
 Sixteen men on the dead mans chest.
 To, ho, ho, and bottle of rum,
 And then Patrolman Joseph Mury stopped short, cooked his head sideways and listened in wonder.
 The sun was squnting over the sky line along the East river, southward the upper bay stretched calm; Battery Park was deserted save for distorted heaps of newspapers beneath which lay at in- tervals sleeping mendlcants of the town.
 Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Hard down on your helml''
 Patrolman Mury swung his night stick the dope. Nothing but the troubled ghost of Captain Kidd, or old Silver or Black Dog, or some other cut-throat wandering forlorn and forsaken. groping for for gotten landmarks of other days.
 Patrolman Mury had never conversed with the shade of real pirate, and he was CuT1Ous. SO ne tTle0 tO ma the source of the sepulchral voice. He found it in one of the leafy trees in the center of the park.
 = Hello" Mury said. Come down and let me frisk your
 .'Avast you blankety lubber. BlaR- kety pieces of blankety eightn'
 Mury is r.. M. C.. A. man and he hiS Tho ne paper about the park moved groaned and took life. Certain sections of the yer nacular of the pirate ghost were familiar music to their ears. One by one the mendicants gathered about Mury and his tree, and strove to vie with the spook in terms of the enraged.
 Then Mury divested himself of his hel- met. night stick and coat, and went up the tree to arrest the shade for disor- derIy speech. The tree was wet, and Mury came down suddenly. At this mo- inent flock of sparrows descended on the tree, and instantly there was a com motion among the thick leafiness of the branches.
 Help. Help! You landsmen. They's raising the devil with me.' shrieked a voice.
 Mufy and his mendicants couldn't help, so they waited. And in moment big, green parrot burst from the foliage and ioped aerially down the bay and out to- ward the open sea. Mury pondered mo- rlent
 "It was Captain Kidd all right he said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT COMING
 ELECTIONS AND OTHER THINGS OF INTEREST

terday's FAge-Herald. This report shows that 2o,0o0,ooo gallons of whisky were shipped into the prohibition states last year; and that Chattansoga alone shipped 7s6,OOo gallons. Perhaps half of Chattanooga's shipments were made to Alabama points; and Pensa- cola shipped 2s7,76O gallons. Jackson vile. Fla. is reported to be the largest shipping point in the south' sending out from three to four thousand pack ages of from one to two gallons daily.
 This report further says that the movement is much more active in the south than In other sections of the country partly because of the extent of the prohibition territory in that section partly because of .he 1.rge quantities of very cheap whisky man ufaotured and shipped there for the consumption of the negro population"
 That mean whisky-the vilest sort or stufr-is shipped into and sold in Bir- is evidenced by daily scenes upon the streets. Tn all the residence sections of the city there are blind tigers kept by negro servants, who supply the servants of the nelghborhood with poison- ous connections sold as whisky.
 It would be much better if we had a limited number of straight-out open saloons properly regulated and inspected daily for quality of liquors sold and for proper conduct.
 With the license high and the number limited the saloon keepers themselves would become practical officers in the abolishment of existing blind tigers. They would do so for self-protection in their trade.
 I feel confident that the people can de-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
NO FAT WOMEN NOWADAYS

Jean Darlington. on Fashions, in July
 Columbian.
 The straw huff is new whm, and rather nonsensical one, it does seem; but Paris is wild over summer muffs match ing summer chapeaux, and these big mufs are carried to the races with the thinnest frocks of lace and yelling. Of course the muff-like the parasol-is 10 times more valuable as an aid to grace ful poses than 1t is as a protection from the weather and. the slender woman who has learned how to pose In hundred fas- cinatng ways with her big huff need not give up this allurement just because
 it happens to be summerj time. One speaks of the slender woman's posing, taking 1t for granted that the fat women will not be so foolish as to attempt pos ing of any sort. Nobody is fat these days, anyway and the hopeless one who simply cannot take on superabundant curves by means of exercise dieting and massage would much better go in for frank camaraderie sweet temper and tact and leave the fascinating arts to her more willowy sisters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
Prohibition In Missixsippl

"Prohibition in states containing large cities will never be satisfactory to the ma aiority of men in those states, but In states having no large cities statutory laws against the liquor traffic seem to work all right" said travelling man who represents a Birmingham concern.
 q have Mississippi in mind as state where prohibition laws are fairly well enforced. I visit Mississippi two or three times during the year and have host of acouaintances over there. Every now and then I meet friends in Mississippi who say that prohibition is not well enforced, but these persons do not represent the general sentiment l never expect to see the day when Mississippi will give up It's statewide laws.
 Tn Alabama, of course, 1t Is different. Not being much of a drinker myself l would, from my own personal point of view, be very glad to see Birmingham keep out saloons. But knowing human nature as l do I think 1t would be bet ter to have a few saloons strictly resu- lated than to continue the blind tiger evil I drink a little beer, but have yet to taste whisky. But so long as millions of dollars are sent away from here foc tho purchase of whisky I think 1t would be better from every point of view to allow the sale here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

FrOm tHe NeW ! OTk Press.
 It's so easy to make a thousand prom sises that it's hard to keep one.
 A girl has such an imagination she can expect to have curly hair any min ute.
 It's harder to do right than wrong. but it wouldn't make any difference to most people if it wasn't.
 If the average man owned a bank somebody could come along and trade ao old spavined horse off on him for It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
EVENING IN PARADISE

Milton, "Pnradfse IOst. - n T
 Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in ,her cober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful night ingale;
 She all night long her amorous descant sung. Silence was pleased; now glowed the Armament
 With living, sapphires; Hesperus, that
 The starry host. rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queer, unveiled her peerless light,
 And OCT the dark her silver mantle
 threw.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

pend upon the present commissioners oi Birmingham to sec that the saloons are properly regulated and that the laws gov erning them are enforced.
 The fact that the steel mill in Ensley is in full operation and that the con- struction of from thirty to one hun dred residences at Corey by the Ten nessee company and the Corey company is to commence immediately means the dawning of a new era in this district. The great dam to supply water to tho steel plant and the other industries at Ensley and Corey has been completed and already there is some 40 feet of water at the dam. The reservoir will cover hundreds Of acres, and will con tain sufficient water to supply twenty times the industrial plants now in opera ton ana Tn course of construction. The new by-product coke ovens are well under way and will be completed in a few months.
 The announcement was made last week that the railroads of the South are on the verge of improvements which will amount to s1oo,oooooo. Much of this money will be spent for rails and other products of iron and steel produced in the Birmingham district. It means that next year will be a great year for us-- possibly the greatest by far in the his- tory of Alabama.
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 Indeed all along the line-in every branch of busness-there is better feel ing, more cheerfulness and a spirit of expansion
 Prospects are indeed bright for good times ahead
 Z.A2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
PROGRESS.

Man is constantly improving his lot by exercising his inventive faculty. For instance, there was a time when there were no facilities whatever for eating corn on the cob. Nowadays the ear reposes in neat silver tray, well adapt ed for holding butter sauce, and handles are provided for the ear, which makes 1t possible for person to devour his corn with neatness and dispatch. It only remains for some one to invent & muffler which will deaden the sound somewhat and conditions in that par ticular phase of gastronomy will be truly ideal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

There were many knee brooches on coronation day but John Hays Ham, mond wore the only official ones of this republic on that suspicious occasion. He should bring them home and put em in a glass case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

Andrew Carnegie, who knows it all or nearly all, says England will never have another coronation. This will have tendency to mark down American heir- asses loaded up with diamonds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
Corn. Hay and Cotton

W H. Maxim, manager of the Tennes- see Mill company, has just returned from Macon, Miss, where he spent a few days inspecting the crops of that section.
 "When I arrived at Macon I was met by several farmers who gladly took me over some of the best farms in the neigh borhood,' said MT. Maxim. Better crops it would seem almost impossible to find anywhere. Cotton was looking fine and the prospects for a corn yield were very bright indeed. Hundreds of acres of all falfa were planted this year, and i'm mense crops are being harvested I found in the community between fifty and sixty carloads already baled ready for ship ment just as soon as weather conditions permit The people claim they will be able to make four cuttings, the third to be made in about three weeks. One man told me that he had 120 acres in alfalfa which would net him as much as $2000, and after looking over his fields his state ment appealed to me as being not at all unreasonable.
 while in Macon I met people living within radius of 50 miles of the town, and they assured me that the crops in the more outlying sections would easily compare with those in the immediate vi- cnity.
 Another thing which impressed me dur ing my visit was the favorable way in which the agricultural implements used there compared with those used in the north and west. All farming utilities seemed to sbe up to date in every re- spect.
 "The planters in both Mississippi and South Alabama are endeavorlng to pro- mote the growth of grain and hay in those sections, and, judging from the successful crop being made this year, it will not be a great while until this city will afford no open market for west ern feedstuffs. Southern grown crops will be ample to supply Birmingham and | other large cities of the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

It took 12 tugs to dock the Olympic when she came in. Some ports have not that many tugs, and the Olympic will naturally avoid touching at them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

The coronation cage included 1so pounds of butter, sugar and hour, roc eggs and 200 pounds of almonds and liouers It weighed 500 pounds, and John Hays Hammond is coming home with a slice of it in his hat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
steady Improvement

Business conditions are far better to- day than they were month ago. ana I believe they will be very much better by the middle of July than they are now" said s. B. Arnold of Chicago.
 Three months ago the business out look was anything but encouraging, put after the United States supreme court had rendered it's decision in the Standard oil and the American Tobacco cases and when bumper crops seemed reasonably assured. there was very decided im- movement in financial and commercial circles, and this improvement has con tinued.
 "The transportation lines will be over taxed to haul the crops, and in view or big traffic the railroads will of necessity buv equipment more freely than they have been doing. Some of the larger companies have already announced bet torment plans which call for immense expenditures. More new construction work will be undertaken within the next two or three months than in any period of the past five years. It does not take much of an optimst, therefore, to see good times ahead"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

!. G. Cannon Is still a member of the House of Representatives, very still one. He may begin to think he had talked too much, and is trying to improve his average.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

And now it appears Colonel Roosevelt Is to have a silver wedding on Decem- Der g. This thing may yet outrun the production of the mines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

THE city bond issue election, , to be be held July 8. and the election to 4 decide upon a solution of the | liquor problem in Birmingham, to be held some time in August or Septem- Der. are absorbing topics at present. All three of the city commissioners are strongly advising the issue Of s1 300, 900 of bonds to pay off the debts of the city and for other purposes. They are backed up by every banker in Birmingham and by the great mass of the business people and property holders. It is absolutely necessary that immediate financing of the city's af fairs should be brought about. These bonds can be amply taken care of in the future
 Whatever be the solution of the H. ouor problem, itF will be solved In a manner to increase the revenues of the 
 city. It Is also certain that taxable values will be increased as actual values have increased in Birmingham in the past year or so.
 As to the liquor problem, it seems to be the general consensus of opinion that the election will carryin favor of the re-establishment of a certain num- Der of saloons under very high H. cense tax. Under the commission form of government. these saloons would be regulated as they are in Washington city where there is said to be less drunkenness than in any city in America.
 That more whisky Is consumed in Birmingham under prohibition than during the days of the saloon is evil denced by the report of the interstate commerce commission. printed in yes-
 
 when his attention was called to the matter, had a strong incandescent light placed in a tree near the corner of West Twentieth.
 sThe Young Women's Christian asso- citation is on west Twentieth, and some of our best taxpayers have their homes on that street. A public light shoulo pc installed in front of the Young women Christian association building and another light a little further out Every light IS equal almost to a policeman. The pre- vailing darkness naturally invites high- waymen. It is hoped that the commits sion will attend to this matter without delayh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

After all state ceremonies are but puppet shows. says Heine, and the latest Tone in London appears to have been no I lexception to the rule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

Queen Mary's hair stayed in place and she came out of the coronation with honor and acclaim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
Dark Streets

"The business district of Birmingha m is well lighted. and the same can be said of some of the resident sections, but l happen to be familiar with cer- tais thickly built up residence streets that are in total darkness at night,' said man whose business keeps him out late.
 "One of the streets I have in mind is West Twentieth from Park avenue to
 Eighth avenue It parallels Capital Park,
 and while there are some lights in the park-not as many as there should be- however-this street is about the black est, darkest thoroughfare I have ever | known. I have remarked the absence of 1 light this week especially. The clouds have been heavy, the night before last West Twentieth seemed darker than
 usual. Up to few years ago Park
 avenue, leading into West Twentieth from Nineteenth street, was in total darkness at night But Alderman Klotz
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

Baltimore is alert. It now claims to be the real home of the Woodrow Will son boom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

The fear still exists that Ali Austin will let loose coronation ode despite the well known distaste for it of the King and Queen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

King Georges hard weeks work is ended, and he can soon take a few days off
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
A CONFIRMATION.

[ wish to thank the anonymous con- tributor who sent me the anecdote en- titled "A Bon Oratah." It was published in this department not very long ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25

The United States Senate will have, let us hope, long hot summer. It per versely deserves one.