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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
Paris Cor. New York Telegraph.

Paris Cor. New York Telegraph,
 KT OW that she has landed in the
 M United States and begun to l V garner good American dollars, friends of Mile. Gaby Deslys here are laughing among themselves at the gull libility of Americans in swallowing the story of her wrecking the Portuguese The joke is made better, they believe, because London and most of the other cities the fair Gaby has visited since his indignant subjects chased Manuel out. of Lisbon, were "on from the start and treated the whole matter as a good press agent story, which it was. t.-I
 According to the gossip at the Cafe Neapolitan and other resorts where Parisian journalists gather, Gaby s wrecking of Manuel's kingdom was a product of the mind of a man who is well known here under the pen name or "Beaupere," and who has long been a friend and admirer of Mile. Gaby.
 When the overnight revolution start ed in Lisbon. and Oporto Mile. Gaby was singing in a noted cafe concert in  Vienna, where she had already appear ed once before and been received with some favor. "Beaupere" was also in the Austrian capital. and was anxious to aid his young compatriot in every way he could. .r
 On hearing the early bulletins of the fall of the Portuguese throne and the flight of Manuel it struck him that 1t might not be a bad scheme to connect the name of the young woman with that of the boy ex-ruler. He remem- bered the fame Cleo De Merode and others had won simply by having their royal friendships exploited
 To this end he secured large rope of pearls, or near-pearls, and exhibit ing them among his journalistic friends, remarked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
ORIGIN OF PANIC
n the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
 No word has moved with the times more than panic" Long ago in ancient Greece it was mild fear inspired by mysterious sights and sounds among the mountains and valleys by night, which were attributed to the god Pan Nowa- days it has a by no means supernatural significance on the stock exchange as it nearly did in Berlin the other day. Panic fear was the original expression, and in shortening it to panic. we have all really been as slipshod as the small boy who calls his ''comc paper "com- ic." Shaftesbury, 200 years ago, would have used the word for any contagious feeling that seized upon masses of men. "There are many Pannicks in Mankind besides merely that of fear. And thus is Religion also Pannick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
Tuskegee's Annual Report

The annual report of the Tuske- gee institute presents a good many interesting facts. The enrolment out side of special courses is just about 1700 a year, and one of the teachers at Tuskegee has recently completed pamphlet showing that the aver age wages of the graduates of the institute are between $500 and $700 a year. The average negro person earns $500 or less year. Many of the graduates are teachers, many are trained nurses, but still more are en- gagged in the trades or have farms of their own.
 Like all educational institutions, Tuskegee has many needs. Principal Washington shows that it needs a new heating system, new water supply and new sewers. It also needs more money, although it's endowment fund is now nearly $2,000,000. This fund is increased from year to year, and the head of the big institution does not hestitate to ask for an addi- tional endowment of $3,OO0, ,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
Scales and Measures in the Kitchen

All progressive cities have inspec- tors of weights and measures, but in no city can these inspectors watch all dealers. This fact has impressed the married women of Cleveland, O., to such an extent that they have ac- knowledged that the real inspection and responsibility rests upon them so far as supplies received in their respective homes are concerned. They have, therefore, formed an organiza- tion and every member of it stands pledged to supply herself with stand ard scales and measures, duly tested and sealed, to enable her to know when she gets what is billed to her and when she does not.
 The city inspector can accomplish great deal, but he cannot guaranty full weights and measures in all in- stances. The housewife can, at small expense, protect herself She can get 8 pound when she calls for a pound She can get peck when she pays foi one. The cost of scales and meas ures for such a purpose need not ex, ceed $2, and as a matter of economy every housewife should become hel own inspector. The good women oi Cleveland, O., know that official in. spectors, however efficient, cannot fully watch all dealers. There is 2 world of honest dealers, and there is a world of dishonest dealers, and er- TOTS are possible in both classes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

entire truth. There are many ru- mors, one of which puts the fund of the first Mckinley campaign at $16,O00,0OO It was, at any rate, enormous and unprecedented, and voters were bought in the big cities in vast numbers. The story will never be told in detail and only spec ulations as to it's size and force are possible now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
DID GABY RUIN MANUEL?

This is one of the baubles which cost Manuel his throne" 's
 Of course, he was questioned, and, of course, let it slip out that Mile. Gaby, who was appearing at such and such cafe concert, had fascinated the young king, who had practically bankrupted his treasury to prove his affection.
 It was a good story. Any story about Portugal was good then, and the Vienna papers promptly printed r. Corresponds cnts sent it on to Paris and London. where the truth was Known or sus- pected, and it got little slowing. ex- cept among the 'yellows.'' It was cab1ed to America, however, and nearly every paper bit" From this start the myth spread until 1t has assumed propor- tions which make even some wise Pari- sans wonder whether there may not be some truth in It. 44
 Mile Gabys friends here declared however, that it is baseless They do not deny that she may now know King Manuel. She appeared in London where Manuel was in exile last winter. Her friends believe he may have had his curiosity suffiently aroused to have looked Mile. Gaby up. They know. how ever, that the young singer had never laid eyes on the king prior to the fall of the monarchy.
 As matter of fact, there is further confirmation of this belief in the well known character of the Queen Mother. The boy king was rarely allowed to wander far beyond the reach of hss mammas S apron strings. If he had any little amorous adventures they did not extend far beyond his Lisbon palace. He made only one visit to Paris while he was king, and that was an official one, when his every moment. was so taken up by various ceremonies that his op- portunity to see or meet the pretty singer were none
 
 tinople the seat of the Eastern Empire, which ended in 1453, when the city was. |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
CONAN DOYLE ON DIVORCE

If l were given supreme power pow CT as great as both houses of parliament for a single day, writes Conan Doyle in the October Strand, I would exercise 1t in the direction of the reform of the d1- vorce laws. The divorce laws in England are so arranged at present that divorce is practically impossible for poor man, that people are tied without hope Of re- lease to lunatics, drunkards, and crim- inals, and great numbers more than 2oo,- coo individuals are separated by la"' anu vel are not free to marry again-a fact which cannot be conducive to public morality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
FINGER NAIL PHOTOGRAPHS

From GOpuldr MecndDlCS.
 One of the latest fads in Germany is the mounting of photographs on tn E finger nails, the idea growing out of the whim of a cousin of the Kaiser who had an enameled portrait of her fiance worked on the nail of her little finger. This portrait was d work of art and cost S90. but now the fashionable mani cures of Berlin have taken up the idea in the photograph form.
 The feature of this work by mani cures is rendering the photograph wa terproof, which is done by coating it over with a shelac like substance burned upon the nail It is said that with careful handling. photograph so mounted will last about four months without renewal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
Tennessee Company's Great Exhibi.


 Tennessee Company's Great Exhibls
 It is generally agreed by those who have attended the State Fair that this years exhibits, both industrial and agricultural, easily surpass those of former years.
 In the industrial building the Ten nessee company makes by far the largest display. This is what might have been expected, for the Tennessee company leads all industrial concerns in the south in the extent both of its raw material holdings and its operations. But the splendid exhibit at this Fair is a revelation, even to those reasonably familiar with the in- dustrial situation. In other years the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail- road company made creditable ex- hibits, but they were meager com pared with the one now presented. Specimens of coal, ores and limestone are attractively assembled, and the products of blast furnaces, steel mills and rolling mills are exhibited in amazing variety. Even a hurried view of the Tennessee company's exhibit stirs the imagination and makes the optimist all the more ardent prophet of the Birmingham district.
 As far back as 1898 the company was putting the finishing touches to a steel plant at Ensley, but it was several years later before there was any feeling of assurance that steel products could be turned out here with commercial economy. In 1906 great improvements had been made on the company's plant, and the com mercial success of rail making was little questioned. But it was not un- til the fall of 1907, when the United States Steel corporation acquired the Tennessee company, that the future of Birmingham as a steel-producing and rail-making center was absolutely es- abolished. Previous owners of the company had shown great faith in the district and great enterprise in developing their properties. But with the entrance of the Steel corporation, combining great capital and great talent, it was felt by the intelligent, far-seeing people of Birmingham that a new era of progress had begun.
 The Tennessee company as a sub sidiary of the United States Steel cor poration has more than fulfilled all the promises that were made three years ago. The best rails made in the world are made here.
 Millions of dollars have been spent by the Tennessee company recently, and disinterested visitors who have seen the work that has been done and is being done have testified that every dollar has been intelligently spent. The company's State Fair ex- hibit, now being admired by the pub lie, should be kept together as a per manent display of the rich resources of the Birmingham district. This city needs in the business section a permanent industrial hall for show ing just such exhibits as, this referred to, but until there is such suitable building temporary arrangements might be made for installing the Ten nessee company's exhibit in the Chamber of Commerce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
Modern Bands

"The concert band familiar to music lovers in this country is a compara- lively modern evolution" said. F. N. Innes, the distinguished a conductos' whose band is now feature at the state fair. "The late Patrick S. Gil- more Twas the first band master to appreciate the possibilities of brass and reed band in the concert field. Gill more organized the national peace ju- bilee at Boston in 1869 where he had an orchestra of 1000 and chorus of 10000. In 1872 the worlds peace ju- bilee was held at Boston, and there Gilmore doubled the previous number of players and singers. Gilmore brought many foreign bands to this country to take part in the jubilees. It was in one of these jubilees-that of 1872. I believe--that the fine French band of the Guarde Republicaine' attracted the especial attention of musicians and music lovers. Up to the time of the
 Guarde Republicaine bands visit Gill; more used a few clarlnets, but no oth- CT winds except brass. The great French band had in addition to many clar- inets, these instruments Flutes, oboes, bassoons and saXaphones. Soon after ward Gilmore reorganized his band and made the reed section prominent. Grad ually the large concert bands in this country were made up on the Gilmore brass and reed model.
 "I have brought my band forward along an orchestral line by adding bass
 viols, violoncellos and a harp. Here in Birmingham on this engagement didn't bring the violoncellos or the
 harp, because those instruments are
 not suited for open air music. Bu
 usually when my band has its maxi
 mum strength l employ four contra basses, four 'cellos and one or two
 harps.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
REFLECTIONS OF 4 BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A man is willing his wife should have some of the bed covers till cold nights come.
 You can hate man good and hard for liking to get up early so that he is held up to you as an example.
 girl doesn't have to fool her moth- CT about how she isn't crazy over men her mother fools herself about It.
 If tho baby never stopped yelling it's mother would say it was just envy that made the neighbors mention it.
 It's easier for your lawyer to get money out of a lawsuit for-you than for any of it to be left over for you to get out of him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
Valuable Poultry

Alabama is coming forward fast as poultry state" said William Lind say, who was speaking enthusiastically of the chicken display at the fair.
 w. J. Root. of Ensley has just bought of J. F. Peterson of Thorsby. Ala, a Houdan hen, the price paid be- ing $500. That hen is to be. taken to New York for exhibition and would not be surprised if the new owner did not sell it there for s5O00. Those Thorsby Houdans are becoming famous"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
SMOKING.

SMOKING. To lie upon Ones back and smoke Doth make this life Seem like a joke.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. You may smoke "cigs'' When lying fat, But do not try A pipe like that
 New York Globe. One could not lie There worth a slam Were he to try To smoke ham.
 Youngstown Telegram. This is no joke The mans mutt Who tries to smoke A halibut.
 -Springfeld Union.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

nalls, living near the bridge. The fol- lowing day we got Nunnally to bring us in a wagon to the newly laid out Magic City We came by the way of Elyton and it was there that l drank my first soda cocktail We found only four business buildings occupied and one of these was used as a saloon."
 MT, Gulledge within the last few years has traversed every state in the union except West Virginia and Yer mont. He has seen all the great cities of the United States and Canada, and he says that none. of them appeal to him from a viewpoint of thrift as Bir mingham does, except possibly Spo- kane, Wash, which is practically q copy of Birmingham, though it is not so large.
 T have just finished a trip of eight weeks, covering 5000 miles," said MT. Gulledge T was totally at sea more than three-fourths of the time as to what was going on in the south. But wherever l could get an Age-Herald learned of foreign countries, the south, and the section I happened to be in at that time.
 T am a great believer in Birming- hamb and I sing it's praises wherever go. Birmingham is well known to the ends of the earth .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

A NEW TYPE. The lady aviator goes
 A-sailing through the air, And if her hats on straight or not, She doesn't seem to care. A wonderful machine it is l mean the aeroplane- To make a woman quite forget Her trick of being vain. And lift her far above the thought Of finery and dress, While proving at the same time she Has courage, none the less.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

Wars between countries that have bat tleships whose names no foreigner can pronounce are unsatisfactory to the mass os mankind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

Johndee was, it appears, related to just al out all the early kings of Scotland, England and France. He paid for his lineage and he seems to have got his moneys worth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

With two pretenders in the field in Por- tugal, the republicans feel quite comfort able. They are wholly willing the two pretenders should fight each other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

Senator Stephenson has got the seat he bargained for, and he does not see why ancient history should be ransacked to ascertain how he got it. He believes in letting well enough alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
THE "sOMEWHERE. SONG

From the Providence Bulletin.
 Governor Wilson of New Jersey will be applauded in some circles for his insurgent reference to the some where" song that was sung al a large gathering of Sunday school folk at Trenton. silly and meaningless, he called it. He would wish never to have to listen to song like that. Some where in his audience, 100, no doubt. somebody was shocked at his rema rks. The governor conceded that the writers of such songs means well. Some who sing the songs probably enjoy. some exaltation, which does them no harm and may do them some good. His idea is that the same satisfaction can be derived from more sensible verses than this from the Beautiful Isle of Some where:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

Uncle Ike Stephenson spent $50, 900 for beer and cigars when his henchmen went out qo convince voters that Uncle Ike vas Aheir man for senator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

If the mails are to be sent in aero- planes, the parcels post when established will use the tanned dirigibles, and all be content.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

CRITICISING THE "BOOKSMITH."
 Why is the smoker popular hero in fiction and the chewer utterly ig- nored? In every popular novel we have the scene in which Chauncey Van Puy- ster licked the ashes from his cigar and said Isabelle, it is a beautiful night" Why doesn't some booksmith change his tactics and say occasionally. Silently but Geftly Reginald Devere spit at a crack in the porch floor before replying, sDaphne, I love you"-Manhattan Mer- cury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

The Moros in the Philippines have been eisarmed, but the Americans on the main land still have full hip pockets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

Liver navigation has been resumed be- tween Kansas City and New Orleans with DO nigger squat on the safety valve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

Attorney General Wicllersham is trying to force the wall paper trust to the wall, and it should take to it naturally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
WEARIED.

WEARIED. Can you picture to yourself beauti- ful American girl reading about the Duke of the Abruzzis heroism with a wildly beating heart?"
 "Oh, I dare say I could do that, but to tell the truth, I am getting tired of that beautiful American girl and her Italian duke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
After Twenty-five Years

After remaining away from Bir- mingham for 25 years A. c. Lampkin. retired merchant of Atlanta, is in the city. He is related to Capt. Joe Wiley of the Southern railway, and the two of them have been seeing the fair and remarking the changes in Bir- mingham since MT. Lampkin was here
 Tt almost staggers the mind in an effort to grasp the multitude of im proyements that have taken place here in 25 years," said Mr. Lampkin. The last time I was here Birmingham was little more than a wide place in the road. l came this week to the fair and I find the city metropolitan in every way. l have never seen such phenomenal growth in any city in this whole country. The changes here to my mind suggest the further possibil- tiles of Birmingham and I hope that as time passes the greatness of the city will continue to amaze those who come back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
TELEPHONES

Though l am native here, And 10 the manner born-it is q custom More honOr'd in the breach than the ob-
 serNancc. -Ham1et.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

The wireless has succeeded in sending dispatch from san Francisco to Japan, a distance of GOOD miles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
CONSIDERATE.

CONSIDERATE. "Smckles is an alfruistic driver of au- tomobiles." 'Is he, though?" "tnquestionably. He only runs over very old people who haven't much longer to live, anyhow"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
Somewhere the sun is shining, Somewhere the angels wait, Somewhere the clouds are rifted Close by an open gate.

The governor of course, would not venture to include in his sweeping con- demnation the epic poem that concludes with this verse:
 Oh, somewhere in this favored land the
 sun is shining bright, The band is playing somewhere, and
 somewhere hearts are light And somewhere men are laughing, and
 somewhere children shout But there is no joy in Boston mighty
 Casey has struck out.
 If Woodrow Wilson ever speaks dis respectfully of this classic he will never be chosen President in primary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
Yes; in an empty powder box"

for the winter?'' @ Yes; in an empty powder box
 fsse-s A HE ONLY TOUCHED THEIR HEARTS The poet sang a tuneful lay in accents sweet and clear,l The people paused in many lands the melody to hear.-.s They heard him sing of love and life. and < death and cruel wrongs They loved Sthe poet, but alas, they never bought his songs W, k. Rose, in Cleveland Plain Dealer He twanged his. Tyre to many themes, of birds in wildwood trees, Of mooing cows ineshaded pools, and of bazooming beesS The people fsrked the songs he sung and E went down winding lanes With hirS but he starved for they did not go down in their jeans.
 Houston Post. He sang to greet the mornings light and warbled every eve, He showed the way to happiness, though a sorrows might hereave W The people seemed well pleased to hear him sweetly tune his Tyre, .s But hoy his own sad life was lived none troubled to inquire.
 OBITUARY. = He thought he'd found some mushrooms fine, txs& ii fa His joy was most intense; He later on sat down to dine aIfl 84 And toadstoos took him hence.
 SOURCE OF OPTIMISM.
 Tn world is fair,-
 His troubles light;
 His liver's sa.there' taA
 And working right WICKED FASHION PLATES, The fashion plates Showing fine look ing, elegantly dressed youths with cigar cites and pipes in their hands or mouths have great and subtle powers of sugges- ton. It issinsidious animation that a boy must get the smoking habit in order to be "in 1t. Somebody ought to tell these clothing manufacturers few things. Parents who are trying to get their boys through the fool age wlien such things seem manly, have enemies enough to fight without taking on the fashion plates-Jewel1 County Republicans. a4. e zTANTALIzING..
 Her hatbrim's low f On either side,
 Her face-such wool
 I've never spied.
 It may be fair
 Such things do chance;
 I'm in despair .s,.
 For just one glance.
 If she. my dove,
 Should have mug
 Crawl in, true Love!
 Your grave is dug,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

h0, inclusive, Tribune building, New York city; western business office, Tribune building, Chicago. The s. c. Beckwith Special Agency agents for eign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

tinople the seat of the Eastern Empire,
 which ended in 1453, when the city was captured by Mohammeds II. E
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

The bosses are not bit cast down ia New York, where new primary law has been passed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

Remittances can be made at current rate of exchange. The Age Herald will not be responsible for money sent -s-ough the mails Address
 THE AGE-HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

PLENTY OF ROOM. Has Gladys put away her bathing suit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12

Tourists continue to flock to Shakes rcares tomb, keeping clear altogether of Baeons.