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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
UNIQUE MIR. WHISTLER

From Lady St. Helier's Memories
 Whistler had the readiest wit, his re- partee being extraordinary, while his jokes against himself were just as good as those he hurled at others. Well as knew him. he never impressed me with a feeling of being in earnest, and during his checkered life his sense of humor was so keen that it carried him through mis- fortunes which would have daunted and crushed stronger soul. He was the most delightful letter writer and however un- interesting the subject of a communca ton, 1t would call forth letter in reply of quite original character. His letters to me have not been allowed to, publish. His daring recklessness and disregard of the rules which control the actions of or dinary human beings made him unique. He was always late for dinner, arranging his immortal lock of gray hair in its proper place as he came into the room. with apologies and excuses, none of them true-of which he was perfectly conscious, and also of the fact his host and hostess knew that they were not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
PARIsIAN ADVERTISING

fWhirlwind Trip Through Europe" Joe
 Mitchell Chapple, in the National Mag
 azine for May
 Advertising is always making new and novel records in Paris. Probably no other city evolves so many and such bizarre schemes for publicity. The walls of the exclusive Grand hotel, where royalty is entertained, and which figures so prom inently in novels and drama, were ablaze with signs and glowing manifestoes con- cerning chocolate and liquors. The boule- wards are perhaps not so brilliantly light ed as our own Great White Way in New York, and the electric signs are perhaps not so dazzling, but there is nevertheless an undeniable charm and allurement in Paris and in it's carefree crowds who ever seek and sell pleasures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
Atlanta and Birmin g ham

Birmingham makes a success of its music festivals and Atlanta has won derful success with its opera festi- vals," remarked a local music lover.
 "These two cities, Atlanta and Bir- mingham, are easily leaders in the southern musical world. I have spent some time in Atlanta and there is no question but that musical taste Is well advanced there.
 Ten years ago Atlanta was ready to pay for symphony concerts, and the same could be said of Birmin gham. But this city is more eager now for symphony music than 1t was even three or four years ago. The fact that seats are selling rapidly for the ap- preaching music festival indicates clearly that any large musical enter prise here would be literally sup ported. President Holcombe of the Mu- sic Festival association is credited with saying that if there Is profit of 5000 on this years festival he will begin at once to plan for an opera festival next season."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

benefit of normal and agricultural schools. Possibly the governor can hold up expenditures to the amount of $500,OOO if receipts do not come in to meet them.
 There will, however, be left $600,- 900 in increased appropriations while the increased revenue will be less than $1OO,OOO. A deficit of $500,000 a year seems to. have been planned or stumbled into by the leg islature and no one has yet ex- plained how this deficit is to be met. The legislatures generosity far out runs it's business sense. It voted $52,000 for a governors mansion, S20,000 to agricultural fairs, S10,000 to typographical surveys, S7500 to the oyster commission, $25,000 to farm demonstration work, $25, ,000 to boil .weevil experiments, $13,000 to the banking department, $10,O00 to he medical department, $10,O00 to the examination of public accounts and $11,0 1000 to regulate the mining of coal. All of these appropriations would be justified by full treasury and possibly all of them will be met and will prove useful in a state that possesses at present a lean treas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
Railroad Fife ciency

Ideas are worth money; develop them and we'll pay you for them,' is the sum and substance of the latest edict sent road. General notice No. ?, just issued out from the office of the general su- perintendent of the Pennsylvania rail- road at Buffalo, states that the Buffalo and Allegheny Valley division plans to recompense employees for suggestions which investigation may prove to be of sufficient value to warrant adoption.
 "The object of this unique method adopted by the Pennsylvania railroad is to develop in its employees habits of thpughtfuness, originality and initiative and thereby to secure greater efficiency from the men, said former trans portation man. "All employees have al- ways been free to make suggestions. but the company now intends to pay for valuable ideas coming from men In the rank and file, for under the new plan those employees not in charge of men are now requested to submit sugges- tions for which they will be paid.
 'Everythng has been done to facili- tate the working of the scheme and great latitude is allowed the men in thai suggestions need not necessarily be con- fined to the immediate duties or depart ment of the employe to whom valuable idea occurs. General notice No. 2 says,
 An employe of one department may make suggestions for improvement in an-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
The BeautifuI In Nature

Persons who have lived in fiat, dreary land, with little or no verdut to greet the eye. with no lines of beauty and no color tones to soften the human vision. would revel in this Jones valley of ours" said a professional man.
 Not many of us, perhaps, are fully grateful that our lots are cast in this pleasant place. From early spring until midsummer nature here Is all tender and humanizing. The orator plays upon the heart strings of sensitive souls, but far deeper is the play of nature, such as we have here, upon the finer feelings of men and women. The iron worker look ing out from his mill and the typewriter looking out from a high skyscraper are touched alike by beautiful landscape. What tranquilizing effect all this loveli- ness of spring and summer has upon the ordinary man only the poet can tell. Suffice it to know that Jones valley Is a paradise, compared with which most other work-a-day spots are fiat, stale and unprofitable."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
HAWTHORNE AND DuELING

From Erskines Leading American Nov
 elists."
 It has been thought by most of flaw thorne's biographers that his theory of the fatality of acts was founded largely upon tragic experience of his own life
 In the belief that a young lady, whom he well knew had been insulted, he chal- lenged the supposed offender to duel, but was prevented from carrying out his purpose by his friends Pierce and Cilley, who showed him that the supposed in suit was entirely mythical A few years later Cilley was himself challenged by O political enemy, and the fact that flaw thorne had been willing to fight a duel is said to have persuaded him not to de- cline; and his opponent killed him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
WORLDS STRONGEST WOMAN

Harriet Qulmby in Leslie's.
 That the perfect proportions of Frau Sandwina's physical development may not be challenged, I submit the following measurements, which were taken before an assembly of physicians by pr. Peter Anderson, who says, Tt is scarcely pos sible that this young woman, who has been exhibiting in European cities for several years, could have come under the notice of the physical experts abroad, or her fame would have been heralded long ago. In every way, according to her measurements, she is perfect woman by all the accepted standards. Frau Sandwina has never been sick in her life. She is 25 years of age. Her measurements are:
 Height, feet 9% inches; weight, 21O pounds; shoulders, IS 2-1O; chest depth, 9S-10; hips, 15 3-10; neck, IA 9-1O; normal chest, 43 3-1o; expiration, 40 S-10 inflated, A 1-10; waist, 29; hips, 43; right thigh, 25 2-10; left thigh, "A s-1O right calf, 16 1-10; left calf, IS 2-10; right biceps, 12 6-10; ex- banded, IA; left biceps, F e-1O; expanded. 13 7-10; right forearm, 12, and left fore arm, F.
 A very common misapprehension about circus performers who do the artistic plays in midair prevails among those who are unfamiliar with the facts. Many inn sgine that the girl who swings aloft from a trapeze and somersaults into the arms of a partner skillfully swinging over the net 30 feet below, has an unusual muscu- lar development, especially of the arms. The truth is quite the contrary, as one can readily learn if he will observe the circus artist as she walks across the arena to prepare for her aerial stunts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
from the Kansas City Times.

from the Kansas City Times.
 THB Rollo books. it is asserted on
 credible authority, are going out.
 A The kids who go to the public li- biary call for The Crimson Sweater, instead of "Rollo in Switzerland" and '"The Young Kentuckian," instead of "Malleville.'' Perhaps it's all right. This is a hustling modern age, and even youth partakes of it's characteristics. Boys now adays, following the example of their leaders, demand action, and the hero must hustle. To such ardent spirits undoubted- ly the Rollo books are slow
 And maybe they are. But, seen through the mist of years, they and all the Jacob Abbott stories were particularly attrac- tive. Rollo toured Europe, you may re- call in company with MT. George.
 Let us go to the cathedral" said MT. George.
 "Why, yes, indeed said Rollo.
 Not exciting, to be sure, but still all the glamour of strange and mysterious lands was brought home to the reader and in those days people didn't run across to Europe every summer, and lecturers weren't on the job with travelogues. and moving picture shows didn't reproduce a trip through the Alps. Rollo and MT. George always travelled through Europe "by diligence"
 That was a fetching word, diligence" It sounded so much more foreign and in- teresting than stage" You went to Cow Run by stage. But you knew if you were going to Naples 1t would be by diligence.
 "Rollo's Philosophy-Wa might not be regarded as thrilling at time when boys are bringing down the threat of fed eral legislation to make them keep off the wireless when the President is trying to telegraph from the Gulf of Mexico to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
President Pro Tenn. Frye

Because of poor health Senator Frye has resigned the office of presi- dent pro tenn. of the Senate, which he has held since 1896. He is S1 years old, and he stands today not only the oldest in years but also the oldest in service of all senators.
 The retirement of this veteran presiding officer of the Senate is all most pitifu1. He has grown old in the Senate, and it was to avoid this that Senator Aldrich refused an ad- ditional term. He did not want to grow old before the eyes of the na- tion.
 Senator Gallinger of New Hamp- shire will take Senator Frye's place. The old guard in the Senate is rap idly passing out of the chamber, and today Senator Frye's colleague from Maine is a deniocrat. The Senate of today is not the Senate in which Sen ator Frye has spent almost a gener- ation. His senatorial service began in 1881, and he had served in the House twelve years before he was elected to the Senate to fill seat vacated by James G. Blaine. His total congressional service exceeds forty years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
THE PAST

THE FAST By Barry Cornwall. Mourn for the rose! The rose who left her vernal halls un-
 blown; And fronting all the winds with bosom
 bare,
 Was overthrown! Mourn for the past The past that was so pleasant once, so
 bright, The dawn. the noon, before we felt the
 eve That brings the night. The temple falls, Afytf N1 And the bird, buideth in the ruined
 tower ilt,Nf JA,sfsfs And we, who once were strong, are
 crumbling fast, Power by power tN s No life, no love fr' Resumes its morning. What Is past. Is
 past! Ay, even time, if Hebrew songs be true. Must die at last. , sst
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Any kind of lawsuit is huge mistake, even for divorce.
 The more ideals anybody has the less he Is able to do with them.
 Tell a girl she has a beautiful smile and the more you can't believe it the more she can.
 Even when there's plenty of whisky and cigars at a musical afternoon a man can't fool himself into thinking he's having a good time. A woman seems to have a notion that to prove what a good wife she is she ought to worry all the time about how hard her husband works when it's over- eating and smoking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
MAJ DE MFR
From the May Lippincott's.

From the May LIPp1ncotts'
 A Philadelphian, on his way to Europe, was experiencing sea sickness for the first time. Calling his wife to his bed side he said in a weak voice: Jenny, my will is in the Commercial Trust com pany's care. Everything is left to you. dear. My various stocks you will find in my safe deposit box" Then he said fervently: And, Jenny, bury me on the other side. I can't stand this trip again, alive or dead"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
TWO BREAKFAsTs IN BERLIN

"Whirlwind Trip Through Europe" Joe
 Mitchell Chapple, in the National Mag
 azine for May.
 There is not much to be got by the Ber- lin citizen in the way of breakfast-sim ply cup of coffee and a roll or two-but along about il o'clock everybody starts for the cafe for a second breakfast" generally meat or cheese sandwich. He makes up for his light regimen at the 1 o'clock Mittag gstich of soup, meat vege- tables, preserved fruits. pudding and wine or beer at discretion. Then he does not hasten back to business, but plays or jokes with his children 15 or 20 min utes. rests or sleeps for 30 more, has a chat, a cup of coffee and cigar, and returns to business at o'clock again. perhaps to work until or g in the even- ing Then he comes home again 10 q supper of cold meats. salads, cheese and beer, which will probably be followed by more beer as friends drop in to smoke the black German cigars and play "skat' or "66."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
Prosperity In June


 'The leafy month of June will be ush- cred in with marked prosperity" said John H. Hutchinson. an official of large manufacturing concern operating in Chi cago. "I say marked prosperity, because that is the general belief. When June rolls round certain vexing problems stern problems, I might say-will have been settled. Standard oil and American Tobacco will know their fate. The de- cisions in these celebrated cases will have a far-reaching effect on corporations gem erally. But the supreme court is not go- ing to do anything violent and four weeks hence everybody will be breathing freely and prosperity will be we'll in sight.
 Birmingham is as prosperous today as any city in the United States. I first visited this city in 1892. Birmingham had a good future then, but it was not until 1900 or whereabouts that I reckoned with it as being beyond the problematic state so far as steel making was concerned. The steel plant at Ensley seemed to me to be a commercial certainty 10 years ago, but it was not until 1907, when the United States Steel corporation entered this dis trict, that the world at large felt conf- dent that Birmingham as a steel center had not only come to stay, but that it was to be very progressive.
 "Financial depression will be felt now and then; hard times we may have now and then, but the Birmingham district will more than hold it's own in the indus trial world no matter what happens"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
HIS SPECIALITY.

HIS SPECIALITY.
 T see where a village sissy-boy has returned to his native town with enough money to pay off the mortgage on his parents home" -s-~4
 'I guess the village cut-ups are sorry TOW they ever made fun of his feminine ways"
 "Yes, indeed. He's getting a large sal- ary as a female impersonator in vaude- vile" PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
NOT WORRYING.

The White Mans Hope' seems hard t
 find,
 Sports look for him in vain. If he should never turn up, mind, From food we'd not abstain. Nor would we moan both night and day, In accents of despair, Because, the simple truth to say, We do but little care.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
LANE EYRE AND ANN VERONICA


 From How Women Propose" By Edna
 Kenton in the May Bookman.
 And since sociology has entered in rather a lively fashion into fiction of late, novelists interested in living women are bound to deal with them as they are, and not with long accepted types. When writers begin to write the truth in novels which will not be generally done until people will read truth, of course-some of the most cherished ideals of the bourgeois home are bound to crash into dust, and, shorn of the trickeries with which it has bedsoned itself so long, our Bourgeois civilization will seem a degree worse than savagery, in so far as children playing with taboos and believing in fetishes are only pathetic where the older generation so playing and believing is hopeless.
 Well. the novelists are beginning to make. not their adventuresses, but their heroines, propose. Brave little Bronte in Jane Eyre, came as near it as the older generation or writers dared to come, when she made Jane galvanize the ascetic clergyman into something akin to emotion by boldly choosing to seek another man. Jane was an epochal heroine, not so much because she loved a rake, as because she trumphantly and proudly loved him. Yet Jane did not propose, even at the end where, with the blinded man, she might have properly followed any queens ex- ample, and put the question. But she forced it, word by word from Rochester s stubborn lips, and we are rather inclined to blame Miss Bronte rather than Miss Eyre for the latters failure to antedate Ann Veronica.
 Of course MT. Wells Ann Veronica chose her man for herself. Equally, Of course, she proposed to him. She would have stopped his proposal in full sweep had he forestalled her, and with her hand upon his parted lips, have uttered the words herself. She would not have been Ann Veronica if she had not pro- posed and MT. Wells knew this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
IN SET.E-nErrNrc1

"scribbs smokes a pipe nearly all the time"
 "I suppose he gets inspiration from to- bacco?" NO. I think he smokes because the family across the hall is very fond of boiled cabbage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
"oUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BAB

"OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES" l"
 Not thousand miles away from here on recent Sunday farmer in church very eloquently supplicated the Lord to help the needy and poor in the com munity When going home his little son very artfully remarked: Say, pa, if had as much wheat and corn in the barn as you have I'd help the poor myself and not bother the Lord about it. "-Ex- change.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WHEN.

When all the skies are blue above
 And festive poets singing, Each one about his turtle dove,
 Whose arms are white and clinging, Forsooth, we can no more deny,
 With any show of reason, That winters gloom has all gone by And tis the vernal season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

them. Right across the Atlantic the Eng lishman who makes f2 week or the Frenchman who earns as much as 50 francs is doing extremely well and is the envy of his associates; but Americans are not yet ready to accept the foreign stand- ards of living or to be content with what elsewhere is thought enough
 They may be compelled to come down to the European level if the freetrade or riff-for-revenue- only democrats are a lowed chance to put their theories into practice but it is hardly conceivable that they will eyer be so blind to their own
 interests as to permit this to come about. Nor will the man who knows that he could not command SIP week abroad be content to receive no more here. He will aspire to earn wage on which he and his fam fly can live without it's being necessary for the wife and children to help, and he will be right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

The hogging of the senate committees will not smooth the path of the regulars who have campaigns for reelection to make in the near future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

The government has many trust busters however willing he may be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

Business men should take a deeper in- terest in politics, but the big people of Chicago are entitled to vacation from politics and they should take it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

In Japan baseball is popular even when the players adopt jiu jitsu tactics in dealing with the umpire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

The suffragettes of New York will have a great parade in Fifth avenue on May S. chanting the Marseillaise as they go. ~-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

A s15,oc0 poodle has been lost in Penn sylvanla, and the fear is that the finder will not consider it worth 15 cents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

After all, there are but 127,2Se automo- piles in this country. Some no doubt think they are reckoned in millions. They look that bad at times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

In one province of India bubonic plague killed in one month 95,SSS persons. This Is appalling, but it is not one bit more so than the deaths from consumption in this countrY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

The men who translated the Bible into English 300 years ago knew the language better than any of the Smart Alecks of to- day do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
HARD TO KEEP LIP.

Says a Kansas editor:
 "The trouble with our national air is that they change it too often. Just as everybody gets acquainted with Has Any body Here Seen Kelly? along comes Casey Jones'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

The coronation show is rehearsing daily, or rather the king Is under Sandow's in- struction. He has been cast to play the star part.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

Some are classifying MT. Bryan as a presidential candidate emeritus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

This country wants no more senators elected on the Lorimer process, and half the senate was shrewdly chosen in that WAY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
Bondurant Visited Madero's Camp

George Bondurant, the well-known young lawyer, returned home yesterday from a trip to the Pacific coast. He was gone three weeks, and after looking after important business matters in California, he took a dash down Into Mexico. Stop ping off at Fl Paso, he became saturated with the war spirit, and, crossing the bridge strictly guarded by Uncle Sam's soldiers, he found himself, before he knew 1t, in Maderos camp.
 "All along the border" said Mir. Bon durant, 'I found the sympathy of Amer jeans was strongly with the insurrectos. I will not undertake to say who Is right or who is wrong in this Mexican revolu- tion, but it is matter of common knowl- edge that the insurrectionists included many able and patriotic men. Madero himself is a man of splendid boise. He is a thoroughly educated gentleman, and is respected by Mexicans generally.
 Tt was believed by many people in our country that Madero was a fierce brigand, hut anyone who gets as close to the sit- uation as Fl Paso learns the truth about the personality of the rebel leader But the war is about over and Mexico will be all the stronger for this little jolt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
ES IT TO HEART.

TAKES IT TO HEART. He al-
 Ways grins, If tn home
 Team wins.  But when
 It loses, He goes
 And boozes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

In the Bible the world 'girl'' appears but once. Modern literature is making the average of the centuries good, how ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

Debate over the wires has been substi- tuted for battles along the border in Mex ico
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

No man has right to shoot on his OVID property if the bullet goes over the line fence. He must foot the bill that the bull let creates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

All the war on earth is confined to F'ez ard it's neighborhood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02

c. F. Wiehe of Chicago hands out money for a senatorial slush fund while he keeps his tongue wagging against newspa- pers. He has the most bloodthirsty tongue ever brought before the public.