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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
IN HOTEL LOBBTES
Fi,h rhnt Mcre Not caught

T don't like to tell tales on my friends particularly the members of the tribe of Nimrod, who are novices, said Percy Clark. but I can't hold this one.
 "Friday afternoon Sam and (aam is courthouse offieiaD hied out to slope at very late hour to try our luck with the Dowaigac' and the buck -ail.' We took the cent route and hilied it down the public roa9 at four mile galt recause time was precious. About o'clock we started on trip in the flat bottomed scow which is the only boat on the pond. l was at the paddle and was trolling a buck tail with yellow Sally and spinner on the leader, set at about two feet behind a red float, on the outside. Sam was standing up trolling and casting a 'Dowagac.' He had a strike or two and jerked one three-quar- ter pound bass out of the water. but lost it. After long lapse, when we were all most out of heart q had already set my appetite for broiled bass with tartar sauee), Sam made a sweeping troll. and just as he was taking the many hooked minnow out of the water, a four pound bass-to be exact-jumped half way out Of the water after the troll l hollered to Sam to know why in the name of Avernus he didn't let the fish have it. as he seemed so crazy for it. He smiled q Sol Smith Russell grin at me, and said; I was afraid he would bite it off the ine'
 Well, I padded for two hours. while Sam dragged the waters. but no luck came our way. As we neared the dam- the one that holds the water in at the lower end. I mean-we turned across to anchor the boat. The sad eyed moon pceping through the yelling clouds, light cd our way, and I saw something l have never seen before-50 or 100 trout jumping in water at the approach of the boat; but marry strike.' As we approached the little shallow harbor, two or three of the many jumping fish almost landed in the boat. One-about two pounds. I guess firted his tail at Sam, and l could al most see his eye as he winked it. as much as to say, Whats that you're try ing to give us? Only live fishermen and live bait for us-we are trust raised fish, but we don't trust wooden minnows. es- peoially by moonlight '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05

The north is making more foundry iron than it formerly made, and the profits in Birmingham iron have be- come correspondingly diminished. And since excellent steel is made here the logical thing to do is to con- vert the greater part of pig metal turned out in Alabama into finished articles. That is what the Woodward Iron company clearly sees and it will act accordingly; and other companies that have sufficient raw material must eventually do likewise. The Birmingham district has made solid progress; but, industrially,I it is yet in it's infancy. So much the better for Birmingham. Within the next five years the district will go for ward by giant strides.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
No War of Conquest Desired

Speaker Champ Clark, speaking at Fremont, Nebraska, last week, de- clared that we should annex Canada, or rather, he declared that nine tenths of the people of this country favored annexation.
 Just when Canada has distinctly declared that it does not desire any closer relations with this country, MT. Clark goes out of his way to stir up feeling and even dislike in Canada and in England as we'll. Mir. Clark's proposition implies the use of force, and he has certainly mis- counted Americans when he says nine-tenths are in favor of going to war in order to grab Canada. A war with the motherland would be a sad war indeed. The two countries hold many traditions in common. There will be no such war.
 MT. Clark cannot commit the dem- ocratic party to any policy of an- nexation by force. The annexation of the canal zone in that manner will suffice for long time, and Canada will never be annexed until it desires to be, and that will not be the case in the life time of any one now liv- ing. MT. Clark has misinterpreted American public sentiment on this subject, and he has spoken indis. creetly when his official position is considered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
MAKING \ CARDINAL

From the New York Times.
 The insignia of the Cardinalate is sent over by the Pope in care of members or the Papal household. and to a cardlhal is assigned the duty of placing the ied berretta on the head of the new member of tho college. In the case of Cardinal satolli it was Mgr. Sharretti, who came to America as the papal ablegate, bring ing the berretta, and standing over the insignia during the ceremonies of the itvestiture was Marchese Sacripante, or the Noble Guards, who brought the zu- ehetto. It was Cardinal Gibbons who placed the red berretta on the head oi Cardinal Satolli, and for this task he was selected by Pope Leo. There was much speculation yesterday as to which Cardi- nal would play this part in the investi- ture of Cardinal Farley, and it was sag gested that if either Archbishop O'Connel or Apostolic Delegate Falconio were 10 ne elevated to the cardinaate before him the part might fall to one of them.
 The famous red hat is round, with a low crown and d wide, stiff brim, rom the inside of which hang 15 tassels, at tached in a triangle from one to five. The red hat is used but twice, one when the cardinal receives it from the hands of the Pope himself and after death. when 1t is put upon the cardinals catafalque and afteIward hung up iu his titular church at Rome or the cathedral of his diocese.
 The distinctive vestments are scarlet cape, cassock and berretta, with 1anoa magma and rochet. The cassock is 'lose fitting garment reaching to the heels, the distinctive feature of all Catholic clerical dress. The cappa magma IS a long, flowing garment, with hood lined with silk or with fur. The rochet IS of laee the sleeves reaching to the hands. The length and closeness of the sleeves distinguish 1t from the suTplice.
 The honorary rights of the cardinals are numerous. They come immediately after the Pope and precede all other ecclesas- tical dignitares, but with the American cardinal his chief right and duty is in the election of a pope. For three centuries the college of cardinals has chosen one of it's own members for the papaey, and it's own members for the papacy, and
 Archbishop Farley's elevation to the cardlnalate would make him eligible to the highest place in the Roman Catholic church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05


 From Chronicle and Comment in the No
 vember Bookman
 The American trails of MT. Rudyard Kipling lead in many directions. Back in the years when he was a very callowi sub editor of an Indian newspaper, whose knowledge of American life was mainly confined from what he had learned by reading the stories of Bret Harte, he wrote tale of San Francisco, which is to be found in the volume Abaft the Fun nel which appeared a year or two ago, In the Naulhaka he stalled a literary claim to part of Colorado, indicated by the town which he playful1y dubbed Topaz Vermont he invaded with some of the yarns incorporated in The Days Work San Francisco, Chicago and New York all play small parts in The Mutiny Of the Mavericks The end Of "An Err TOT in the Fourth Dimension" finds Will ton Sargent done forever with his as I irations to be a Briton, inhabting a, ordly mansion on the unkempt banks of the Hudson river and going to New York city every morning on his steam yacht Columbia; while of the American dele gate to the council decreed by the Ger man Kaiser we know that he had "a girl in Jersey City, who worked on the telephone" But perhaps Kiplng's best claim to American territory Is based on Captains Courageous It is not easy to forget that description of the fishing vil- lage of Gloucester and of the women and children widowed and orphaned by the relentless sea. Nof is it easy to for get the trip of old Cheyne's private car constance" starting from San Diego when the news comes that Harvey has Teen picked up by the fishing fleet, wlirled night and day through space, climbing grades of the Rockies, across the plains to Kansas City and Chicago, finally coming up, restless and panting like an animate being, against the shores or the Atlantic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05

rare treat on last Wednesday evening, actresses played Ibsen's intense play, "A Dolls House. before them "A Dolls House." as might be supposed, is not musical show. In fact. there is nothing musical in it. But this fact cannot be and is not held against it by people Of education. The theme of the play, about which the city dramatic critics always quarrel at fat space rates, is not as deep as a lot of people think It deals simply with a woman named Nora, who finds household tasks not suited to her artistic temperament and who shakes her husband for a career What the career is to be we can only guess, but 1t seems to me all she wanted was change to go olt into the wide open world and see tie sights Ibsen works out this plot in peculiar way. Any modern playwright would not have done so, but 1bsen knew his tools and probably made a lot or rsoney Nevertheless, in spite or thls, his Dolls House. is a splendid piece of drama, the scenery being especially commendable. A careful analysis or this play, however, discloses some points that had Ibsen known about them, might have helped his drama a lot. For in stance the lights ought to be turned low CT than they were on Wednesday hight during the second scene between Nora and her husband. Another point. too that Ibsen overlooked was the manip- ,,iation of the curtains. The curtain ought
 to fall slowly on the second act and not quickly, as it did on Wednesday night. This fault spoils the effect of the climax
 of the act.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
Means Much for the District

a' The Woodward Iron company's ac- quisition of the properties of the Bir- mingham Coal and Iron company is of far reaching importance. No re- cent announcement, indeed, has been Do significant as affecting industrial X development in the Birmingham dis trict as that made in Saturdays Age Herald over the signature of Vice g President A. H. Woodward. It was Enthusiastically brief and conserva- tive, but it told of the purchase of Axtensiye coal and ore lands and of the intention of the Woodward con- rpany to make such developments as will be consistent with it's mineral holdings. The contamination of this trade means large expansion on the part of the Woodward concern in the near future. It means the erection of another steel plant and the pro- SIuction of steel in some finished shape.
 For a long time the Birmingham Sssstrict was known only as pig siron center. It made the cheapest iron in this country, and for years the iron business here was so profita- blo as to fully satisfy furnace con- ..panies, and whenever the question of aeteel making was discussed many of the iron makers answered with the o1d saving, "We had better let well enough alone" But after the Ten n1nsee company had demonstrated tho commercial success of steel pro- 1uctior the Southern Iron and Steel company built steel furnaces and a wire mill; and now comes the Wood sfverd company, owned and operated iby practical and successful men. with srlnns for substantial development a1ong finished product lines.
 The Woodwards were long on ore hut short on coal. Without the acquisi- tion of . great body of coking coal .,6nch as the Birmingham Coal and Tn company owned, expansion on a SGn6de of considerable magnitude ,I1frht have been impossible. But ull1eo the Woodward company has got i1hnt it needed the Birmingham dis. f1fet will become all the better ad.
 rtised as an inviting field for high 6rnde steel production.
 Iho iron situation has changed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT INDUS REES
 AND OTHER THINGS ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

they are having too many executive ses- sions and private conferences, but the commission is composed of the wisest men and they perhaps know best how to bring about the most wholesome results for that they have practically agreed with the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company for cheaper electric ish.- ing both for private consumers and for the city. There is talk of ten years contract. but I should think five years contract would be much better for the cit izcns generally. With the new methods of producing electricity and the continued improvement and reduction of cost it is highly probable that another reducs.oh would be thoroughly in order in five years.
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 an glad to see that the water rates are to be readjusted and the city is to have the benefit of lower rates. As matter of fact. the meter system strikes me as being the best thing for both the city and citizens generally, although there are many who have had such experience with other meters that they become alarmed whenever the question is sug- gested.
 In Birningham's present financial con dition there doesn't seem to be any way 10 purchase the waterworks system, so with proper regulation we shall have to go along as we are for some time at feast.
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 The recent grand jury report is the best 1bis county has ever had. The jury was composed of many of the best citizens and their recommendations would if put into effect mean much for Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH
 KANSAS

From the Journal of the American Med teal Association.
 "Professor" samuels of wichita, Kan, is faker who claims to cure practically every disease in the calendar. He gets
 his victims through newspapers, and he
 evidently gets a great many, for he is able to carly full page advertisements in
 the large metropolitan daiies, to say 1othing of hundreds of smaller advertise ments in less expensive newspapers. His
 remedy is an "eye water" Analysed
 by the chemists of the American Medi-
 cal association, it was found to consist
 essentially of a mixture of equal parts
 of salt and sugar in hydrant water. Sani-
 uels' price for the mixture is $25 an
 ounce. The Journal of the American
 Medical association says that it does not
 take an expert to prove that such mix
 ture will not cure consumption, blindness.
 paralysis, Bright's disease or any of the hundred other ailments that Samuels pro- fecses to treat Expert knowledge is not required to declare the treatment fraud and the ''professor" swindler It is conservative statement to say that man who will take money from consumptive, an epileptic or a. victim of the morphine habit under the pretense of curing his disease with mixture of sugar, salt and water is an unconscionable scoundrel. This man can be put out of business under the existing state laws in Kansas. i1 on no other grounds he can at least
 be declared a swindler for obtaining money under false pretenses. The same scheme was tried in Oklahoma, but the authorities there made life such bur den for the swindler that he sought more complaisant community This is apparently found at Wichita, Kan. Whats the matter with Kansas?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
France in MorOcce

It is we'll nigh impossible to ascer- tain from the current maps of equa, torial Africa just what part of the French Congo is ceded to Germany in return for free hand in Morocco. It appears to be, however, an exten- sion of the German Kameruns so that the German territory will extend from Lake Chad to the Congo river.
 In return France is left free to an-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
"rRosT TONIGHT,

Edith M. Thomas in Harpers. Apple green west and an orange bar, Ard the crystal eye of lone, ore
 star <s
 And, "Child, take the shears ana cut
 what you will, Fros- tcnight-so clear and dead still.' Then, sally forth, half sad. half proud, And l como to the velvet, imperial crowd, The wine red the gold, the crimson, the
 pied The dahlias that reign by the gardenside. Tne dahlias I might not touch till tonight! A gleam of the shears in the fading light, And I gathered them all--the splendid
 throng, And in one great sheaf bore them along. In my garden of life with it's all late
 flowers heed voice in the shrinking hours; -"Irost tonight-so clear and dead
 still s'' Half sad. half proud. my arms I fill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
Underwood the Logical Candidate

l = AoNA HOOu bhC
 The people of Alabama take de- | light in honoring Oscar Underwood,
 and yet some of them are hoodooed 1 This hoodoo has existed ever since the civil war, out of which it grew. These good but hoodooed people be- lieve that a southern man cannot be elected President, simply because the north is the more numerous and it fought against the Confederacy. This hoodoo keeps it's victims from becoming more than academic ad- mirers of the great Alabama states man. It deprives them of that faith in a future event that leads to good works and victory.
 The Age-Herald desires to say to it's hoodooed subscribers that they are this time in error beyond all req sonable doubt A southern man, if he be sane and level headed, can be elected President. The north does not date things from the civil war as we do in the south. That war was not so great an event to the average northern man as it was to the aver age southern man, and the north has put all the feeling and bitterness of the war behind a united country. It is history to them, nothing more. The hoodoo in the south has, therefore, nothing to rest upon.
 The very fact that the north has ceased to fight the civil war over again is attested by the hearty re- ception of Oscar Underwood's name in connection with the presidency in all parts of the north and by all kinds of people. They are studying him, and the hoodooed in these parts may soon find that they will be forced to accept and vote for Oscar Underwood, a southern nominee forced by public opinion in the north.
 When MT. Underwood goes back to Washington to take up again the work of tariff revision to revenue basis he will proceed to weed out graft, or as he calls it, protection for profits, and he will utilize the reports of MT. Taft's pet board or anything else that comes to hand. He will utilize anything that will enable him to put through the House bills that will make for a lower cost of living bills that will cut down the outrage ous rates on the necessaries of life. These bills may or may not become laws, for we have a republican Sen ate and republican President. Whether they go through or not, they will, at any rate, show to the con- sumers from one end of the country | to the other where MT. Underwood
 stands, and these bills will make him the logical candidate for the demo-
 cratic party for President. The con-
 sumner knows what is draining his pockets, and he will vote up to his | knowledge. Have no doubt as to that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05

the greatest human interest. It is no new thing that serum has been found hos tile to the bacili of this dreaded disease But there has hitherto been failure to get the serum into the blood of the infect ed person. By injection, however, into the cerebro-spinal membrane, pr. Flex- ner declares that this can be done and the disease rendered one-tenth as danger ous as 1t has been.
 This has been one of the most elusive and deadly diseases afflicting mankind. Tie mortality rate from this cause has increased greatly. New York city has es- pecially suffered from the trouble in epi- dcmic form. It's victims among the chil- dren have been many, and large sums of money have been devoted to the discovery of check and remedy. There is no reason to question, in the delayed and deliberate announcement of Dr. Flexner, that means at last are in hand for overcoming this mysterious agency of death
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A man might be crazy to go to church, too. if he was more interested in hats.
 4 .iri feels as safe with love letter under her pillow as man with pistol under his.
 The trouble with lot of people IS ;l0 in cash looks so much quicker to them than $20 in check.
 The worst luck woman can have is to be rescued from a fire when all her best things are in the wash.
 The way a woman knows it's mice. not burglars, downstairs in the middle of the night Is how anxious her husband Is to gC down to meet them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
Vanity of Vanitics

q feel sorry for many young women who are making their own living, who are caught by the vanity of so called style" said a man who has helped worthy girls to secure employment.
 "It does seem that they are separated from their wages by all sorts of foolish faGs and fancies. Since the early fall sea- son there have been three distinct fad dish offerings of hats in the millinery stores. It seems that these girls are just bound to jump from one to the other. Then there came the handbag craze-somc of the handbags very expensixe-but many, alas, some who could hardly afford them, had to, have these baubles that. are for few weeks only.
 "It is my judgment that the best dressed man or woman is the one who follows good taste elegance and whose clothing shows refinement just as good manners will. The apparel to the purse, as Shakespeare so aptly says
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
IBSEN IN KANSAS

From Hamlet in the Hamlets By George
 Jean Nathan, in the November Book
 man. f+'f at
 One more "criticism" remains to be submitted for the readers consideration before this brief transcript of the docu- inents in the case is brought to close. It needs no preliminary comment or fur tier characterization than a chronicle of i.s identity. The "criticisns' in point, then, appeared in the weekly journal of d tone night stand community situ- ated in easterp Kansas.
 The art lovers of our town enjoyed a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
The Late F. I. Jenkins

Fred l. Jenkins, the well known coal operator of the Birmingham district, who died suddenly in Belgium while on a va home fin Baltimore last "Wednesday. "Fete,' as his friends called him, was gentleman of the fine old Maryland type. He was manly and chivaFous-as chlvalrous as any knight; and he was as gentle and lovable as child.
 His friends in Birmingham were bound to him by hooks of steel, and their lament It his untimely taking off is deep and tender. Flowers sent from this city were aid on his grave as fragrant tributes Of esteem. The memory of this good soul will be long and fondly cherished. Peace 10 his ashes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05

ryy HE fact that the Woodward Iron
 company has purchased the Bir-
 mngham Coal and Iron company and its furnaces and forty thousand acres of the most valuable coal and coke lands in Alabama means much for this district
 It means that the Woodward company, which has always been practical in inc strictest sense of the word. always great producer and a magnificent money-maller Is reaching out and that it will eventually go into the finished product business.
 There were some fears manifested in this district when the government brought it's suit to dissolve the Tennessee com pany from the Steel corporation. There were fears that things would sag some what in a manufacturing way in the Birmingham district. But the fact that the ApOOWdfu Colllpdhy III itSS oA NiAi7 iS branching out and is going to spend nil- lions of dollars in development means that no pessimistic powers however man. ifested can retard this district in the slightest degree.
 T. may be true that steel and steel rails have been made at Gary cheaper than in the Birmingham district, possibly pe- cause of the low grade of our ores But We are developing every day and it will not be long before we can make steel in this district as we are now making pig iron cheaper than any other place In the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

THE LAND OF NE ER-TO-BE. All along the highways
 Sweetest blooms are blowing, On the frolic breezes
 Odors rare bestowing. Birds are gaily singing
 Anthems to the morn; Happy hearts are found there' No one is forlorn. Blue the skies above are,
 Fair the world below; None does ever frown or
 Wear a look of woe. Silver-lilxe the streams run.
 Musicak and gay, Cleaning in the sunlight,
 Dancing on for aye. Happiness supreme there,
 Joy is most complete One could spend a life there,
 Trouble never meet. Where's the land I speak of?
 Would I only knew. a 'Tis the magic realm where
 All our dreams come true.