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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
MEDIOCRE THEATRICAL SEASON

From the New York World. The theatrical year on the New York stage now closing has had little to distin- guish 1t, as appears from the critical page review in another section of the Sunday World
 "The Concert" '"rhe Arrow Maker, "Pomander Walk" "Everywoman." .'The Gamblers and limited number of minor successes remain an agreeable memory, and Mr. Augustus Thomas As Man Thinks the best American play since "The Witching Hour" deserves note as a work of exceptional dramatic craftsmanship. But in general the amount of profitable artistic accomplish ment was exceeding small by compari- son with the effort expended and the plays that furnished real contribution to dramatic art weer few and far be- tween.
 As a matter of figures, 32 more plays were produced than in the previous year. and the season may be credited with a gratifying representation of plays and musical comedies by native authors. But not much can be said for the output on the score of originality, virility and act Ing qualities,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
win Open m Agency Here

Westervelt Terhune Atlanta mana ger of the Columbia Monograph com pany, who has been in Birmingham for several days. returned home yester- day. The Columbia phonograph is one of the best known in the country, and the company will open an agency here about the first of June. The company's headquarters are in New York and its factory is in Bridgeport Conn. It has secured space In the Cable Piano com pany's store on Second avenue. Will liam S. Park. who will represent the Columbia Monograph concern, has been here several weeks looking over the field.
 T am delighted with this city" said MT Park T was a resident of Atlanta three years, and recently have had charge of the Columbia photograph business in Wilmington. Delaware. I am familiar with many cities, but Bir- mingham. taking it as it is today and considering it's near future is to me simply ideal from business point of view. Birmingham has had phenomenal growth and as it has so much to make it grow it's population will increase at rapid rate from now on. I haven't the shadow of doubt about making a success of our agency here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
The Iron Market

Rogers, Brown & Co.'s Cincinnati report of the iron market says in part:
 Now and then is heard a rumor of in qliry for round tonnage. but in most cases these are more in the nature of sounding the market than with any sincere intent. and results are not noticeable.
 There is perhaps little more range in prices, but this has not resulted in in creasing sales.
 Rails and structural steel have inn proved during the week and the outlook is better. Changes in the last few days in financial markets, due to legal de- cisions, have as yet had no influence on pig iron and it will be a question as to when the effect in this direction is felt.
 Coke is slow, as the result of the de- crease in blast furnace operation. Pro- auction and movement are also being curtailed." M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
EAyoRIrE FICTION

From the Chicago Tribune.
 q Wish They Wouldn't Put My Name in the Society Columns So Often"
 Your Esteemed Favor Complaining or Overcharge in Bill, Just Received. yt
 .I Assure You This Is the First Time We Have Had Such Weather in Los An geles For Twenty-Five Years.''e sas9 t
 "Full and Complete Details of the Scan dal." M
 .City of Brotherly Love-
 ''Gentlemen, have the Pleasure of ln- troducing My Successor, the New Mayor Who Will Now Address You.'
 "A Pair of Bouncing Twins Gladdened the Home of Our Townsman, MT. Ardup, Last Tuesday"
 we Offer the Following Splendid Bar gains in Suburban Lots.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
Corn and Soy Beans

The bulletin just issued by Prof. Dan T. Gray, J. W. Redgway and E. R. Eulaly of the Alabama Polytech nic institute concerning swine pro- duction in Alabama contains the con- clusions and figures arrived at in three years experimental work. No higher or better authority on this subject is possible, and the bulletin should be scattered broadcast over this state.
 Briefly speaking Professor Gray and his associates show that the pro- duction of pork on corn alone would cost about 71a cents a pound. If, however, the hogs are grazed in soy bean pasture while they are given one-fourth ration of corn the result is pork made at cost of less than cent pound.
 In other words, soy bean pasture is the key to the meat situation in this state. Hogs can be fattened without the aid of such a pasture, but little net money would be the result. One acre of soy bean pasture affords grazing for ten hogs averaging 45 pounds in weight to start with. If they are fed a one-fourth ration of corn they should be grazed 43 days, when they should be placed in dry lot and fed corn and cotton seed meal during short finishing period When hogs sell for 7 cents pound corn, when used along with soy bear pastures, brings about $4 bushel and this is certainly good price fol corn. The soy bean pastures arc thrown in to produce good results.
 These figures are not at all excep tional. They are not inaccurate They are within the reach of any farmer. The pigs of the Auburn ex periments were purchased iron neighboring farmers. and pigs ol equal quality can be, found in al parts of the state. Any farmer who will procure copy of the Auburn bulletin will have in hand all needfu information. "The people \of Ala. bama," says the bulletin, "ars large meat consumers, but small meat pro dpeers. It is well known that large proportion of the meat used in this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
pusine.s ImproYemcnt

Nothing that has happened for some time has had such good effect on the bushes world as the United States SUI preme courts decision in the Standard on case" said a leading member of the Chamber of Commerce.
 The long suspense had a depressing effect on capital and on the industrial world. Not only is the suspense ended, but the adverse decision is nothing like so adverse as the public had expected. In fact, 1t is so broad and liberal that many large corporations that had been waiting somewhat nervously for the decision m the trust cases will now feel reasonably assured that they will not be molested, because their operations are not such az to keep down competition. Take the United States Steel corporation, for in- stance, enormously spoken of as the Steel trust It produces only about 6n or 65 per cent of the total output of steel If it were to close all of its plants to- morrow and keep them closed indefinite ly the Independents would be able, by running at full capacity, to supply the demand.
 Business is improving right along, and since the crop situation is satisfactory, think 1t safe to say that by June this district will be the scene of gerat indus trial activity. It is practically the con- sensus of opinion that the last half of this year will be period of genuine pros perity. It looks to me as if the year 1911 would wind up as something of banner year. One thing is certain. The railroads are badly in need of equipment, and as money is plentiful and cheap tle trans portation lines will soon be in the mar ket for rails and rolling stock on large scale'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
MOVING DAY AMONG THE ANTS.
From Harper'.s Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly. |THE reaper" or harvester ant, an
 insect seldom seen in any but a
 \ tropical country. is one of a num- erous tribe. While the common ants pass the winter in stupor, half benumbed, the reaper ants work in winter as well as in summer Therefore they need provisions for all the year.
 Though these ants cover large tracts of ground, nothing is sen of their prodl- gious activity; they leave no evidences Of their presence save something like in finitesimal mole-hlls, and little heaps of the empty shells stripped from the seeds stored in the underground granaries by the threshers of the tribes. Although some of the seeds are found shelled, many are dragged home by the reapers with shells on to be confded to the busy world
 underground. as farmers confide their sheaves to the handlers on the threshing floors.
 The ants granaries are well arranged and numerous; but now and then, for
 some evident cause, and oftener for a | reason unknown to man, the tribes change quarters. Moving day is preceded by days of reconnoitering. The recon noiterng parties run in a double current between the opening of the ant hill and the dwelling places and granares. The two currents of accommodating march empty handed, doing nothing but survey the rooms and the passages that connect the rooms. For a time the procession
 moves incessantly; then. it halts and, ire ouently, no movement Is seen for several days. What deliberations are in progress during the time of unwonted, quiescence cannot be known. When the double cur
 rent forms in marching order for the second time. every individual in one cur l rent is seen moving in the same direction, bearing one kernel of seed or grain, while every individual in the other current Is
 seen returning from the opposite direc- tion, empty-handed. It is plain to see that the ants are changing quarters and
 moving their household goods. Days and
 nights are consumed in the moving; when
 the old dwelling Is evacuated, the place is abandoned for all time. In one case ob-
 served the reason for moving was obvi- GUS; the grain rooms were found to be close to the bottom of ditch, and much
 too near the heavy rumbing of the traffic
 along the highway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

usually the soft. warm nights of sun, mer are chosen for the time of moving In one closely observed case the opera- ton had hardly begun, when, one even ing, toward sunset. the little ant hill was seen swarming with the blind white wood lice found in all ant hills; insects which having lost their organs of sight. guide themselves with their antennae. aeitating their feelers as if harassed by profound anxiety.
 Naturalists have been unable to discov- CT the reason for existence of these Dit eous beings in the ant hills. They have been watched by night and by day. If $ known that they live with the ants in familiar intimacy in the ant hills. and that they exert all their feeble strength to move with the ants when the time comes to change domicile. Myriads of eager gropers have been seen in the throngs of ants marching to the new dwelling, place. The exodus, begun with determined haste, is pursued with de- creasing intensity until the last seed has been stored anew One day, when the moving was over, and when the tired movers were out of sight in the depths of their new retreat, the beated tribu- taries were seen hurrying over the road to the new residence (presumably), guid- ed by some odor left by the ants.
 It has been noted that, though blind, the wood lice are very sensitive to rays of light, and that the lighe seems to affeo. them very dlsagreeably. like all the blind, these peculiar tributaries-if ap, pearances are evidence--possess an, excess sively keen sense of touch. and an equal ly keen sense of smell. If not endowed with both senses, they would not remain motionless in the old residence during the time of the ants reconnoitering, to run to the new refuge with all their groping speed as soon as the migration begins.
 What part does this insect. groping in it's blindness, play in the life of the pro- verbally active ant?
 This question is problem. Natural ists regard 1t as important because mans psychology Is closely related to the psychology of the beings in the scales be- low the human.
 Certainly the ant, with it's genius for war for a communal civilization, to which man has, so far, not been able to attain, shows a marked similarity to man in it's social and intellectual development
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
secret FrnternnI order.


 while not a member of the Order of Knights of Pythias, I was glad to sec the grand lodge of Alabama in session here" said a man who formerly belonged to many secret societies. Tn my young CT days I was Joiner and was about to sign petition to Knights of Pythias lodge when I entered the matrimonial state and became a stay-at-home at night
 ..I remember when the order of Knights of Pythias was organized It was in 1889, and MT. Rathborne of Washington, D. C., prepared the ritual and instituted the first lodge. No secret or fraternal order ever spread so rapidly, perhaps. In two or three years after 1t was organized every large city in the country had many lodges. In the early 7o's every other man I knew was a Knight of Pythias.
 'The order was great on parades in those days. The uniform, different from that of today, was very showy and con- sisted of black suit, coat buttoned to the throat, a baldrick of blue silk edged with yellow red belt, sword in silver scab- bard, buff gauntlets. and nckel-plated helmet With V1sOr CTeSteu Wltn three Dlue plumes The members were. full of en- thusiasm, and whenever a lodge was ordered out on parade the ranks were full After time the parade feature diminished, but the order steadily grew. Today it numbers 707,000. Alabama has about 12.oOo Ohio leads with s2,OO0 In diana comes next with 64.0oo, and Illinois next with 56,O0o. New York. where large numbers are found in most organizations, Is not very high, comparatively speaking, in the Knights of Pythias list. The mem bershp in that state numbers only 25,- IOoo.
 Among secret orders the Odd Fellows are numerically the strongest, having about 1.4C0.0O0 in the United States. Free masonry is almost as strong, with a mem- bership in this country of about 1,250000. A Masonic lodge is found in almost every small town, and one might think that the Masons outstripped all the others. but the degree fees are much higher than those of the Odd Fellows or the Knights of Pythias, which accounts. no doubt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
THE BETTER PART.

THE BETTER PART. I'll. b,Id o1 tinIe is OF the wins, We haven't long to stay; The rose that sweetly smiles in spring Will shortly fade away. So much of life is empty dross, So much of life is vain, We shall not mind all other loss If only truth remain.
 TRECOCIOUS. "Can the baby talk yet?" No, out the little darling has already learned how to swat a fly"
 A STRING PERIL. 1iise up early in the morning, Never cease to stir about, For the hookworm will get you, If Now the lawn and work the garden. Chase the chickens with shout, For the hookworm will get you If
 out Good advice is seldom welcome This you can't afford to f1out, For the hookworm will get you, If
 don't
 watch
 out
 A CLOSE STUDENT. There goes Dr. Buggs, the noted scien- tist.' 'sIs he very learned man?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
r. Finley and the Wage Question

President w. w. Finley of the
 Southern Railway company issues a statement regarding the differences between the company and the fire men employed on that line. The firemen are demanding an advance in wages and readjustment of rules under which they work. Vice Presi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press
 There's nothing that can leak like a pocketbook.
 To woman money means indulgence of her children; to man, of himself.
 The more trips a girl goes on the more she expects to have lots of romances with princes.
 Some men are so mean they can worry about how much their funeral will cost them some day.
 The later man gets home at night, the earlier he'd better have his excuses ready the next morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

Secretary of War Stimson has not yet proposed to take trip to Panama, and he may be content to stay in Washington and attend to department affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

]. Ham Lewis is a candidate for Dom Shelby Culloms seat in the Senate. He seems to think that there is a limit to the stay in the Senate of even the ven erable senator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

The president seems to consider Chiea- go and New York as the true and only training grounds of cabinet offices Five cabinet officers out of nine live in the two cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
Harry Jones in Montgomery

Harry Jones in Montgomery
 The Montgomery Advertiser of yester- day, under the caption, "rhe Passing Throng." says
 MT. Harry Jones, a prominent citizen of Biriningham who has had the reputa- tion of having an influential part in the municipal politics of Birmingham, was among the number of prominent Alabam- ians who came to Montgomery 10 attend the meeting of the Alabama Retail Hard ware Dealers association.
 .'so far as I am concerned, I'd like to have a chance to make this kind or social visit to Montgomery every year, said Mr. Jones. 'I know the Montgomery brand of hospitality and I like it. We have been treated royalty while here, but that was no more than those of us who knew Montgomery expected 1 have been a frequent visitor to Montgomery. and it is the next best city in the state. You have two guesses at the best city in Ala hama.'
 MT. Jones created a laugh, at the social session of the hardware men hep on the steamer Liberty Tuesday night. He al luded to himself as "a near-commisson- CT" It will be recalled that MT, Jones was one of the three men originally agreed upon for commissioners for the city of Birmingham. At the last mo- ment. however. Governor O'Neal appoint ed another man in his stead.
 At the social session Tuesday night Commissioner Mcintyre of the city of Montgomery addressed the hardware men on behalf of the city of .aontgomery He was followed by MT Jones, who said:
 You have just heard a real commis- sioner You have heard of near-beer. In me you see ar-commissoner-one who was almost it. but did not quite make it.''
 Then the band played "Casey Jones'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

MT. Stimson got a taste of politics in the district attorneys office, and he has ever since had an appetite for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

A Massachusetts school is using batting averages to stimulate interest in mathe- matics. Those Yankees are full of shreWdneSS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

American farmers own s2,o0O automo- piles. and Alabama farmers who grow corn and raise hogs will soon join the procession.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

The Mexican insurgent officers wear overalls and are otherwise careless in appearance. Such officers cannot become heroes in the eyes of the young ladies or any land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

The best rule for summer: Never com plain about the heat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

Madero simply laid the foundations for a society of the Daughters of the Mex ican Revolution and a husky pension roll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

Texas is so big and varied it boasts that it includes simultaneously snow and strawberries, icicles and ice cream, skates and juleps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

The coronation will be pulled off with out a baseball game and to the true fan it will have small charm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

He would not advertise his goods \ We can not blame him much for it, He manufactured in the woods
 Some quarters which were counterfei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
.II ISTIEIIiD.

"I should say sol He's on intinla terms with millions of microbes. ," 4.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

The son of the original Baedeker, to whom all European travellers pay toll, is dead. He, too, published guide books.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

William Loeb, Jr., collector of the port of New York, is said to be the go-between Of Taft and Roosevelt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

The Jim Sherman boom for President is wholly confined within the breast of Uncle Joe Cannon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

death a dozen years with a broken neck, doctors plume themselves with reason upon the strides that surgery has made But not the least marvel In such cases is the nerve that carries the man througp his trnceess fight with fate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

When an insurrecto insurges against an insurrecto even the Mexican language gives out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

The Taft cabinet Is going to pieces almost as fast as the Roosevelt cabinets did.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

Madero fought until he could secure real election and a chance at the public crib.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

Colorado has but one senator and he is rich enough to keep the average good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

The marriage ceremony is but reef procity agreement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

The sweet girl graduate and the June bride are getting ready for their annual appearance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
AGE CAN NOT wIrHER.' :

AGE CAN NOT WITHER." Airy, fairy. radiant, bird-voiced Lil- Han Russell. Twenty minutes at SEQ a minute" Thus she is billed by vaude- vile theatre in Cincinnati Bless her heart! We never tire of reading about Miss Russells infinite variety"
 NOT EXTANT. Oh, where's the missionary Who wouldn't gin to droop, When eannibals so merry Prepared him for the soup?
 STAGE AND PRESS. Hear the joke.
 IS the joke indelicate?
 It Is indelicate, and then some But the audience is swept by eales of glad merrment?
 Frecisely-it is in family theatre ,ou know s' Sou II newspaper were to print the joke. would these people do thing but indir- nantly exclude it from their homes? Not another thing. No newspaper which printed such a joke could ever Iasn;ra ito DC .famiiy newspaper.-Puck. .si
 POOR MAN. "ls Ponson master of his own house?, No, indeed. He lives under conn mission form of government.s Who are the commissioners His wife and two grown daughters"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

for the total membership being below that of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 1oms
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
AN EXTENSIVE MIspRINr

No one can marry his ideal on a smal income.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

rRECOCIoUS. "Can the baby talk yet?" No, but the little darling has already | learned how to swat fly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19

I'll. bild Of tiuie is OF the wins,
 Ne haven't long to stay; The rose that sweetly smiles in spring Will shortly fade away.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-03-18
ELLEN TERRY ON CLOTHES.

After trying garments Of every
size and shape in private life. I have
ended by adopting the Japanese style
one day and the Greek the next. A
cupboard full of unworn corsets
bears witness to the number, Of pre-
sensations and representations I have
received land disregarded) from
stay-makers and stay-recommenders.
begging me to improve my figure.
But on the stage I have submitted
even to the iron body-casings of the
Tudor period. AS Queen Katherine
I paid my tribute to archaeology in
those awful stays, and added thick
brocade dresses with fur sleeves Of
tremendous weight. But my prefer
encc is for a loose, diaphanous dress /;
l AM always happy in it.-Mc-
Clure's.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-03-18
THOSE LOVING FRIENDS.

Nm-I wish had as beautiful
teeth a. IAl has.
Fsn-Yssr II you had you'd slnils
q often - she does. wouldn't yoas
Aman is never too old to learn that
he knows lot Of things he should
forget.
1t isn't difficult for man to get a
woman to agree with him If she isn't
his wife.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-03-18

Impotence is the worst foe OF I'm
proyement.