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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
A New England Institution

'It surprised me to ind purltahlcai ideas. for a long time peculiar to New England, getting any sort of foothold in the south" said a man of Virginia an- cestry. "The greatest statesmen this country has produced have been southern men. and in times of war no more in trepid soldiers ever bore arms, and no greater commanders ever led brigades into battle than those the south pro- duced Some years after the civil war the south was free from cranky poliucial
 sms. As for sumptuary legislation, southern men had an mate antipathy to anything that suggested laws at variance with our ideas regarding personal liberty, ideas that the founders of our govern- ment strove and fought for. In recent years, however, all sorts of impracticable and crotchety notions have found some earnest advocates in certain of the south ern states. The race problem in several instances was determining factor in white politics, and expedlency was placed above governmental theory.
 q have never felt any prejudice against the north. On the contrary I have always admired northern people as a whole, es- pecialy New England people. But when it comes to New England's puritanism I draw the line. I mean, of course, puri- tansm of the past, for Boston as the capital of New England Is a splendid example of a cultured, broad community. In the rural parts of down east there is still considerable narrowness and some old-time puritanism but 1t is a psycho- logical curiosity how, at this late day, the seeds of puritanism have been seen sprouting in the south. There has been more puritanism in the south here and there in the past five or six years than I ever found in my visits to Rhode Island, Massachusetts or Maine.
 Prohibition is a puritan institution. It had it's origin in Maine. Neal Dow, a good old Quaker, was the father Of prohibition, known as the Maine law. He was governor of Maine In the 5Os, and was the prohibition party's candi- few years ago. Dow. by the way, was a brgadler general in the Union army, and was captured and held a prisoner in Libby at Richmond, Va, eight months.
 T used to read his temperance dis cussions Dow was sincere, but l thought him very much of a fanatic After he had led the cause which made Maine a prohibition state the people began to chafe and, the liberal minded among them soon began an agitation to get rid of prohibition It has been a long and arduous campaign. The democrats of Maine are now leading the fight to take that state out of the non-progressive column and get it in line with states that prosper. In 50 years Maine has had a small rate of growth in population, and in illiteracy and crime it's record is bad. | We are living in highly enlightened age, and it is safe to predict that before we complete the first quarter of the | twentieth century there will not be a vestige of purtianism left in any part of America. In the meantime a small percentage of southernefs who had been | gripped by it will perhaps continue to ad-
 vocate prohibition
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
THE POWER OF LOVE

By Shakespeare. =. When in disgrace with fortune and mems
 eyes,
 I all alone between my outcast state. And trouble deaf heaven with my boot less cries, s,-Sau.assssssf t1F N And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rlch Tn Fca,ur'd like him. like him with friends .aC possessd, M Desiring this mans art, and that mans With what most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost de- Haplv think on thee--and then my state T.ilse to the lark (at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at
 heavens gate;
 Fer thy sweet love remember'd, such wealth brings, a
 with kings. When. to Fthe sessions of sweet silent
 thought
 I summon up remembrance of things past, sigh tho lack of many a thing sought. And with old woes now wall my dear a times waste: s4 "A s5... For precious friends hid in deaths date-
 less night, tf. And weep afresh loves long-since can-
 celi'd woe.
 And mean the expense of many vanish'd
 sight s,sf ss-t f,sssgs--s4 Ther can I grieve at grievances foregone. And heavily from woe to woe tell OCT The shJ account of fore-bemoaned moan, Wl.icE I new pay as if not paid before.
 Bll- if the while think on thee. dear
 friend,
 sAtl aosses are sestorsd. and sorrows fnd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
New Equipment for Frisco

"The Frisco management has ordered from the American Car and Foundry company of St. Louis 34 chair cars and coaches, 26 mail cars and two baggage cars said a railroad official. This equipment Is to be delivered in November and will be used in the St. Louis-New Orleans service; also in the Pacific coast service, which the Frisco has arranged with the Santa Fe The equipment Is to be of steel construction. The chair cars and coaches will be finished in mahogany and lighted by electricity.
 'The 26 mail cars will completely equip every mail train on the Frisco lines with al-stee mail cars Each of the passenger cars is to be supplied with siX-wheel
 trucks, which will add greatly to safety | and comfort'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
A MEDITATION.

And who could count all human teams? Invoice the travail of the years, The futile quest, that never ends
 Till life and hope and love and friends Are left behind for that abyss Where neither night nor morning is? And who is there can eyer say How many shapes of woe dismay? How many cares assail the heart?
 How long, how long we toll and smart Bereath the weight of earthly ills.
 Till death each throbbing bosom stills?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
The Fine Weather

"Everybody is rejoicing in the beauti- ful weather" said an old citizen. "Au- tumn is several weeks off, but these July days have an autumnal feeling, if not a fall coloring.
 We have an invigorating climate here in Jones valley. No matter now high the temperature may be during hot spells, heat prostrations are un- known. August rarely ever brings days as hot as some we have in June ana July, and as for August nights they are nearly always cool"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
HOW TO WIN A GIRL.

From the New York Telegraph. Buy her diamonds
 Buy her more diamonds. ruy her few motor cars ~ Buy her yacht or two.
 Buy Ter a country place.
 Buy her a town house.
 Buy ner candy, flowers and dainties.
 Vote her an allowance of. say, $50o a week for pin money.
 These simple rules, coupled with a handsome presence, inpetuosity and a winning way, will go far toward melting her heart.
 F. s.-Save enough out of your bank roll for aimony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
From the Louisville courler-Journal.

From the Louisville Courlef-JOufnal. VVTTHEN King Mannel was expelled
 Nx/ from Portugal certain enterpris-
 w ing theatrical managers set about finding the woman in the case. They promptly found dancer who, Of course, had nothing to do with the over throw of the Braganza dynasty, and ex- plotted her as the Cleopatra who had wrecked the youthful Antony. To get an obscure and ambitious young woman to stand for the story" as goes the phrase IF the local room, was as simple as roll ing off of a log. It was immediately an nounced that the cause of Manuel's down. fall would be presented on the American stake as a "headiner' in vaudeville at an enormous salary. As the Paris cor ie spondent of the New York Herald dry lv observed at the time, the young woman should have paid for the advertising. It Is new announced that this delayed cele- hrity is coming to America in the au- tlImn, at a still more fabulous salary, and it is of cource announced that Manuel will follow.
 And here is a sample interview writ ten, of course, by the press agent en- poyed by the manager of the manufac- ;ured Cleopatra:
 q have a million francs worth or pearls. hut my favorite pearl necklace is the gift of Manuel and cost S2o,OO0. do not care for diamonds at all, but have passion for pearls. They are nicer than diamonds and much quieter.'
 of course, the press agent goes on to say that the dancer believes that the de- throned Ting should not follow at her apron strings, but should occupy him self with getting back his throne. or course, she coyly admits that she has had 200 proposals since the American pa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
sHAKEsPEARE AN INTELLECTUAL TEST

From the Cornhill Magazine, 1874
 Probably the best means of testing the development of ones own mind con- sists in comparing the estimate formed, at different times, of the value of somc standard work. Of course different .classes of writing shoud be employed to test different facilities of the mind. A good general test may be found in Shake- spcares plays, or perhaps still better in some of Shakespeare's sonnets As the mind grows, it's power of appreciating Shakes peare increases, and the great ad- vantage, of this particular test is that the mind cannot overgrow 1t. It is like the standard by which the seargent meas ures recruits which will measure men O, all heights, not failing even when giants are brought to be measured by 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
FORTUNE

I'N 'Is IT WE'LL
 Fortune, like justice is blind, but there the. likeness ends Fortune is frivolous anT carricious, bestowing her bounty without regard to merit or necessity. She plays her favorites and her favorites are often fools and llnaves. She laughs alike at human justice and the economy of na- ture, Eence we sometimes see man driv- ing Eis s5000 automobile whom nature in- ;onGed should drive a municipal trash cart
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
LIMITED.
A MANUFACTURED CLEOPATRA

-pers announced that she had caused a Portuguese revolution. Of course, it is announced that her turn" is a bedroom scene and that the marvelously beautiful Par;eserne appears in delicate night attire" in bed with gorgeous trappings that was a gift from the king And of course there may be many readers of the truly remarkable literature of press agen- try who swallow the bait, and "hook. line and sinier," as the fishermen say.
 Everyone who has studied Portugal rather than the fiction of press agents knows that if the Portuguese had been inclined to manifest righteous wrath over the immortality of.their kings there were several predecessors of Manuel on the throne wno, married rakes whose af- fairs were notorious, would have caused trouble. And the many newspaper corre- spondents who have visited Lisbon since the revolution know that the dancer is better .nown in New York, thanks to the press agent, than in Lisbon, where a niaioritysof Manuel's subjects never heard of her till the theatrical managers launch ed their hopeful enterprise.
 It makes little difference to the peo- plo of tie United States, and to the press it certainly matters less, whether call low linglet gave pearls to a dancing glfl for the ultimate enrichment of a vaude- vile circuit" in America. But the con- dition of the news service from Europe needs the attention of the press when press agentry is allowed to make Ameri- can newspapers perform the function of panderer to harlotS, to theatrical man. agers equally as professionally simmor- al," and to the pruriency of patrons of theatres who will plank down cash to see dancing girl merely because she struts upon the stage boasting that she has been kept woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
Cost of Living in Cities

Des Moines has a commission form of government. It got it early, and 1t has utilized it in every possible direction. It cares nothing at all for precedent. All problems are solved regardless of precedent. Every tub in the Iowa town stands on its own bottom.
 One of the latest efforts of it's com- mission relates to the high cost of living and it is solving that problem by turning over to actual prowers the city hall lawn on which growers and consumers may meet each morn ing without the intervention of mid dleman. New potatoes are now sold on Des Moines' city hall lawn at 45 cents a peck as against the former price of S3 to $4 bushel. Apples are sold at 10 cents a peck as against 20 cents, the former price.
 Birmingham has no central park that coull be turned into market place. It has, however, plenty of closed ends of streets, and if the com- mission would turn one of these in every populous section of the city over to the growers the experience of Des Moines could be repeated here. Growers and consumers must be brought together if the cost of living is to be reduced in this city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
REFLECTION OF A BACHELOR

From the New York. Press.
 A miss IS good for smile.
 The reason a girl is such a good dancer k she can make men telr her so.
 4 man has a grand vacation at ho ne when his wife takes the children away on theirs.
 The fellow who wants to make heap of money for you wants to begin by get .ling some of yorS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
RHYMES AND RHYMING.

I like such words as wish" and "dish,' Such rippling explosives as "Pish!' Because they rhyme so we'll with fish,"
 Baltimore Sun. For me such words as "rice' and price" Or some such phrase as, "Ain't 1t nice2" Because it rhymes so well with ice"
 Los Angeles Express. For me such words as "thnk' or ''clink," Or somo such phrase as Have drinlll" Because it rhmyes with skating rink" Milwaukee Sentinel. For nc such words as wig" and ''wag," Or some such phrase as "cop the slag," BecaLse it rhymes with "pennant rag"
 St. Louis Times. For me such words as "try" or "by" Or "nhy'' or sigh" or ''fy'' or sky" Because, you see, they rhyme with pie"
 SADLY MISTAKEN. "Dubson is rather inconsistent" "Why do you think sop "Just because he happens to be stick he thinks he's presidential timber"
 PENSIvE.
 Her heart Is sad,
 I'll tell you why:
 So much, egad,
 She can not buy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
RnpIdly Growsng southcrn Ci0e.

With few exceptions the cities of the south made fine showings in the last census, and they will do even better when the next census is taken,' said s. T. Mcdonald of Washington, D. c. While there are only six cities in the south. not including Baltimore or Louis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

Gov. Woodrow Wilson prefers "a gov ernment in cities under one mans hat" He is light: it is much quicker and more efficient.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
THE DARK SIDE

Fly Mark Twain.
 Every one is moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

There are two things the people desire to see--Dr Wley's defense of his action in employing pr. Rushby, and the amount that has been paid to the Remsen board of llighbrows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

IDsseac e talking about .Lorimer this ealntry was 90 years ago talking about the first Battle of Bull Run and the in- nocent bystanders who skedaddled from the fed of battle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

In smoking cars it is always better 10 discuss the weather and the crops if one wants to keep out of the hands of con gressional investigators.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

The earl of Halsbury Is England's chaplrion standpatter, and he will be voted down as all standpatters invariably
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

Tie city of Hazard, Ky, has determined 10 heeoine the city beautiful. for it has notified all hogs to remain at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

The British lords have reached the last ditch and they will soon. no doubt decide to turn back from it in disgust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

tCEicago wants penny telephone sy5- teri. and it believes such a system can Lc proftably conducted if all water ca3 be kept cut of 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

MT. Edward Hines is no doubt in a frame of mind that promises to give the Illinois voters asNoce in the election Of their own senators hereafter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

Train robbers in North Dakota now escape in automobiles, thus showing how prosperous the profession has become in that state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

The Investigates begin to lose conf dence in Nhitewash as protection against the general public, who are to a man unkind critics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

Our navy now engaged in mimic war has a gun that shoots beyond the hori- zon, which is certainly shooting some.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

In Chicago they say Lorimer's eyebrows are acquiring large muscular develop ment. JIe has held on by them a long fire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

The summer is waning and yet no man appears who is willing to admit that the qsh he caught was larger than the one that got away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

cate of the real article and the real war correspondents ignore It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

N her the lords are called upon to choose between political power and social position they give up the former with out sisl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

King George has his hands on the wheel ready to grind out new peers by the hundreds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

The center of population is on Salt creek lrI the widest part of Indiana, on a lonely farm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

President simon of Haiti Is by no. means the Simple Simon of the childrens rhylne book.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
SOMETIMES OvERcoME
MEETING AT THE TRAIN.

 '1s he an able after-dinner speaker?" Yes; when he's able to speak,"
 MEETING AT THE TRAIN. Down to meet nie at the train, & MaTy, Liz' beth, John and Jane; A& Little toddlers, but, to me, Fill of strange authority. Bh They command and I obey: CatcE the ''5 o'clock each day, IA Just because, at Fishers lane. " They'll be waiting for the train. fs John as he's the only "man," Always occupies the van Nat q moving varfl te-heei- He. stands out in front, you see: When the engine rushes in " T'ooh: he doesn't care a pin, Trough his sisters, 1t is plain. Sss View stspiciously the train. &H ftE a4 f#sl.s4 H Gentle friend. I trust that you ta3 Have your little toddlers, too, sa Conins, when days work is done, To embrace you, one by one. And I hope that at the end asf' ' or life's journey, gentle friend, After all the heat and strain, They shall ''meet you at the train"
 Philadelphia Ledger.
 DAINTY FARE. Whats good for chiggers?' 'T don't know anything better for chig- gers than a soft white arm"
 THE GREAT REDUCER. af 'T wonder why it is that some men shrink from matrimony?" 'Maybe it's because matrimony has made so many men shrink eze
 
 LIMITED. 'I haven't much confidence in Squidder. the landscape artist"
 'Isn't he man of talent?" "Oh, yes; but he doesn't seem able to do any thing with empty cans."
 OVERTAKEN. .s An eeroplane swooped from the sky And mashed poor pedestrian; Twas thus, alack, he came to die, Although both hard and fast he ran.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

Kius George knows how to cure stand paitisra among British peers, and they know it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

The chlcken that wrecked a motor car never crossed the road It was itself wreck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

has not been found and never will be fopnd by the prohbitionists. Their rule means ruin and the swapping of some honest devils for a lot of. sly and ma- liciOus witches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
NOTHING WORSE.

Alas, tlle most delightful breeze IS spt to make fellow sneeze. And when he has a. summer cold lie feels hundred winters old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
EXPLAINS SOME THING

EXPLAINS SOME THINGS. by Deslys says she has had over 2eo proposals of marriage,
 "oh. well, dare say there are quite a number of persons in the world who are moi particular,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
ASKING TOO MUCH.

A young man who is rather slangy and keeps up with all the newest express sions, using all such phrases literally in his conversation, has worried all his friends by his incessant use of the "be- lieve me- which followed almost every remarl: he made While talking to young lady he had used this phrase few dozen times, and she finally criti- cised him, saying that he should abandon his slang. He was not offended, but in- quired what he should use instead, and was told that he might say "discredit me not but that was too much for him, and he will probably shift to a less par ticular girl.-Greenville, Ky, Record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

'Hs he an able after-dlnner speaker? Yes; when he's able to speak,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

His wit is as thick as Tewkesburg mustard. -2 king Henry ".
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second-class matter under act of Congress March 3, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

DAINTY FARE. What's good for chiggers?'' "T don't know anything better for chig- gers than a soft white arm"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

THE GREAT REDUcER hse "I wonder why it is that some men shrink from matrimony?"
 'Maybe it's because matrimony haS made so many men shrink" eeaf
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-04-20
Shoe Trade Notes
By TT. W.

1t is predicted by tanners that
leather of all kinks will be higher in
price.
The Howes Brothers, of Boston,
were callers last week at the office
of the Western Shoe Co. They sell
large quantities of sole leather in all
parts of the country.
Orders for Fall goods come roll
ing in daily. The country is still
prosperous.
Speaking of Prosperity" ship
ment of shoes was made recently to
the town Of Prosperity, Missouri
one thing is evident, hard times can
never move this town to holler for a
change of name.
The Brown Shoe Co. of st. Louis.
Mo-, employ 100 travelling statesmen,
have 500 styles Of shoes and do a
business of about so millions year.
Considerable of a rumpus is being
made in the shoe trade over the
tricks. 1t is alleged that sugar is
used to make the leather flexible
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-04-20
Boobies
By A Fan.

George Stone refuses to play with
Milwaukee and will try farming.
The Athletics took three out of
five games in the recent series with
the Phillies.
In St. Louis the Cardinals beat the
lowly and down-trodden Browns
seven straight. Some kind of a
whaling.
The New York Americansh handed
the Cincinnati Reds some cold turk
ey in the intes-league series recently.
Ford and Vaughn were the slab art
lists for the Highlanders.
Catcher McElvey, of Minneapolis.
in recent game with the Evansville
club got four home runs, double
and single, out of six times at bat.
This is the record performance for
years and the only regrettable thing
about it was that it was not league
game.
The National League now has a
lady magnate. By the terms of
Stanley RobinsOn's will the owner
ship of the ST. Louis Cardinals is in
herited by his niece, Mrs. Helen
Hathaway Robinson Britton. The
latter announces that the affairs of
the club will go on as usual under
her direction and that there will be
no change in the management. An
offer of $3.50, 900 for the club has
been turned down.
After yainly trying to settle their
differences on the salary question
Manager McAleer sent Walter John
son home without contract. When
the latter arrived at his home in COT
feyyille, HAMS, his parents urged
him to settle the matter with
McAleer. So after an exchange Of
several kilograms Johnson finally
agreed to sign contract calling for
salary of 81, 100000. This is FIVE
hundred dollars less than the original
figure he put on his services.