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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
cuIIman County votes wet


 T have always been a local optionist but I have long believed that only large cities, as a rule. should have saloons, said a prominent citizen.
 If I were living in a rural community would vote dry. but where the majority of people in a city believe in the legalized sale of liquor 1t is better to regulate the traffic than to have blind tigers.
 "cullman county has voted wet and am glad of it. The city of Cullman Is not as large as most saloon cities. but 1t is one of the most orderly communities in the south. Tt is noted, indeed for its law abiding people and it's thrift. There are many Germans in cullman, and always thought it a hardship on them to be de- prived of their beer, which they know how to drink In moderation.
 Prohibition hurt Cullman more than any other agricultural county, perhaps. From the time the last legislature put drastic statewide prohibition on Alabama new homeseekers stopped coming to Gull man county. But now that the people of that county have voted down prohibition hundreds of new homeseekers will settle on farms there within the next 12 months.
 "Cullman county has been very back ward in good road making. Proposed bond issues have been voted down, but now that the county has gone wet the majority of the people will be in a better humor than before By the end of the year a substantial start will be made on sys- tenn of macadamized roads,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
Massachusetts Leads Off

The Massachusetts legislature was in session when the resolution for the direct election of United States sena- tors was sent to the states, and on Wednesday last Massachusetts rati- fled it. The vote in both branches of the Massachusetts legislative was unanimous.
 The Louisiana legislature is now in session and the Georgia legislature soon will be, and if both ratify the proposition it will go through speedily and perhaps unanimously. There is nothing of sectional nature in the amendment. It does not add to the power of Congress in the regulation of senatorial elections. That power has existed 125 years, and the raising of sectional issue in this matter is misleading.
 All who desire the reform of the Senate by direct elections will vote for the amendment. All who want scn-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
The blind cave of eternal night.
 king Richard HI.
Campaign Against the Hookworm

The fourteenth congress on hygiene and demography met in Berlin in l9o1, and the fifteenth will meet in Wash ington next fall. In the intervening time the hookworm disease has been uncovered and made fully known. It is known that over one-half of the worlds population is afflicted by It. The Rockefeller sanitary commission says it is prevalent among 919,S5Ss243 inhabitants in a zone 66 degrees wide. This zone covers 36 degrees of latitude north of the equator and 30 degrees south of it. Eleven of our states have many hookworm cases, and these states contain 2O,OOO,OO0 of people.
 Lt the congress that meets in Wash ington next fall the amplest provision will be made for presenting the effects and history of the disease. Its eco- homie effects will be brought out. It reduces the efficiency of labor about 50 per cent. The hookworm anemic will be fully presented at the coming congress. Dr. c. W. Stiles is engaged in preparing the hookworm exhibits, being aided in his work by both the government and the Rockefeller com mission.
 When one sees what the effects of the disease in Porto Rico are, where 90 per cent of the people are infected, or in India where from 60 to 80 per cent are victims of the disease, then the inn portance of the subject rises at once in the public mind. Nations have been ruined by hookworm, and the south should utilize every possible aid in lie great work of suppressing the para site which produces anemia in it's vic- tins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
The Home Stretch

Oscar c. Turner, chairman of the membership committee of the Cham Der of Commerce, and his splendid team workers have secured over 500 of the thousand new members they set out Monday to enroll before the end of the week.
 To be exact 205 will round up the thousand. It has been a great weeks work, and it is earnestly hoped that the needed 205 will be secured before o'clock today.
 The Chamber of Commerce already had a membership of over 800. With a membership of nearly 2000 it's reve- nues should enable it to do larger work for the general good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
UNCoNvENTIoNALITIEs

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Bridget, tell him I'm at home, but don't want to see him."
 If you will look at the clock, Mir. Kic shaw, you'll see it's time to go."
 T don't know who the other candida is. old chap, but if you're running for t office I shall vote for him.
 I'll lend you the flyer, Junkins. but only shows that I've got more mon than I've got sense" 1trf
 No, I'm only going to stay few IT ments, Mrs. Kadger; see I interrupt your spanking of the children" K
 T like your voice well enough, NJ Chucksley, but you make awfully ua faces when you sing N
 "Dearie, your talk doesn't bother me bit; I'm not listening"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24

favor of the election of senators by direct vote"
 The raising of sectional issue in this case is out of place and out of date, and the attempt to injure MT. Underwood and to help Governor Will son because of it will miscarry. The Savannah News stands by the amend ment for the direct election of sena- tors, and no doubt the other Under wood papers in Georgia will do like wise, and the amendment bids fair to be promptly ratified simply because it is needed and it is in the best form that could be secured from the Senate as it is at present constituted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
NO WONDER

From the San Francisco Chronicle. { I've found a new use of those grano- phone records you bought last week and which cost such a lot of money" said hls wife.
 How clever you are'' he exclaimed, ."What is your latcst?'
 'ln the first place" she began, II hold a skein of wool over my arm, tie One end O. the wool on reel, place the reel on the gramophone pin and then staIt the machine. The wool is wound up in no time"
 E The fond husband gasped in admiration. E But that is not all, she continued. r'Temcrrow I shall place little bath brick on one end of the records, start the gram Iophone, and so clean the knives"
 Uc is still gaping.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
POETS OFTEN MIsauoTED

From the London Chronicle
 Browning does not lend himself to quo. 'ation. or misquotation, so readily as Ten ayson; he seldom dealt fin obvious word wares, made pretty by a touch of decor ation. The most familiar of Browning quotations occurs in By the Fireside:'
 ''Oh. the little more and how much it is' And the little less, and what worlds
 away.p
 This is case in which the quoter is often ignorant of the source. The other day half dozen men. all writers. were tackled about the lines and only two could place them; and of these two one Insisted that the second line should read. And the little less. and what leagues away Even the printed page would hardly convince him that a common mus quotation was not right. And the people who poster editors about quotations are always inquiring for the source of 70 lyric Love, half angel and half bird" Even Browning himself was asked who had written the lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
THE POETRY OF GREENS

Tom Bodine in the Paris, Mo, Mercury
 4 FTER all, poetry is largely mat
 "A ter of blood properties and of cir culation. Both change color and beauty and take on a different and more subdued form, sometimes vanish com pletely. and that is the real tragedy in growing old. Ask your lover of 25 to sym belize the spirit of spring and he will paint you radiant, tender and beauti- ful maid wearing garlands and carrying lap full of flowers She comes always rose in hand.
 Ask the cooled out male animal of 40 and immediately he conjures up the vision Of an elderly woman helping his plate to fresh mustard and jowl Spring is still insistently feminine, but different withal. less beautiful but more benevolent. She appears with basket of greens under her arm, and if there be flowers they are a matter of small detail and finger in the background.
 The differing conceptions must not be SO contrasted however as to make it ap- pear that there is no poetry in greens, in good greens well cooked There is Than the green of mustard after long and too salty winter there is nothing more beautiful peeps above sod. The heavy and Orient odor of the roses which once bloomed around Babylon and Naish- apur awake no vision so paradisical as the smell of good greens in the pot. The smothered fragrance of all our sweet yesterdays stealing back with the breath of this embowered May time, bringing the faint resurge of lost loves, arouse no ex- pectancy so rich and so eager as me odor that drifts in from the kitcneh' where turnip and mustard cookin yield
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
A SOUTHERN POET

One of the most brilliant of the south ern poets is Henry Timrod, of whom Mrs La Sale Corbel Pickett tells us many Interesting things In the June Lippincotts.
 'In the city of his home he answered his own Cry to Arms when the festai guns roared out their challenge" says Mrs. Pickett Had his physique been as strong as his patriotism, his sword might have rivalcd his pen in reflecting honor upon his beautiful city. Even then the seeds of consumption had developed, and he was discharged from field service. Still wishing to remain in the service or his country, he tried the work of war cor respondent, reaching the front just after the battle of Shiloh. Overcome by the horrors of the retreat. he returned 10 Charleston. and was soon after appointed assistant editor of the Daily South Caro- linian, published in Columbia. He removed to the capital, where his prospects be- came bright enough to permit his mar riage to Kate Goodwin. the English girl to whom his Muse pays such glowing trib- ute.
 ..In May, 1864. Simms was in Columbia and on his return to Woodlands wrote to
 fIavne that Timrod was In better health and spirits than for years, saving: He
 has only to prepare couple of dwarf essays. making a single column, and the nlea sant public is satisfied. These he does so well that they have reason to Dc SO. Briefly. our friend Is in a fair way to fat ten and be happy
 This prosperity came to an end when the capital city fell victim to the fires of war. and Timrod returned to the city of his birth, where for time the publica- ton of the South Carolinian was contin- ued. he writing editorials nominally for SIS q month, practically for exercise in facle expression, as the small stipend promised was never paid. With the paper
 he soon returned to Columbia where after 1 time he secured work in the office of Governor Orr, writing to Hayne that twice he copied papers from 10 o'clock one morning till sunrise of the next.
 with the close of the session his work
 ended, and in the spring he visited Paul Hayne at Copse Hill. Hayne says: He found me with my family established in crazy wooden shanty. dignifed as a cot- tage, near the track of the main Geor- gia railroad. about 16 miles from Au- gusta.' To Timrod. that crazy shanty, set in immemorial pines and made radiant i finer than palace. On that windy. frowsy, barren hilh as Maurice Thomp-
 son called il. the two old friends spent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
TAKING EVERY pRECAuTIoN

From the London Chronicle.
 Mir. L.ansbury's concern, as expressed the House, over the military drilling 2 ing on in the north of Ireland. remin one of a story of how Ireland was C casionally taught to shoot in the pa, The war office once sent a famous , ficsr over to inspect the militia regimen and the oflice- after inspecting. ask for a few words with the drill sergeant
 These nien of yours," he said, "cou not hit target as big as the Tower London. You can't have taken much pal to teach them.'
 ''Tache thim to shoot" gasped the se geant. "Of course I did not tache tn to shoot, yer honor; for, bedad, if I d there wouldn't be landlord left in Mu ster"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
The Iron Market

The logical pig iron market continues firm. Rogers, Brown & Co.'s Cincinnati report, just to hand says in part:
 Although in general the buying of pig iron during the week has been quiet, there are some large negotiations being carried on and some large individual sales have been consummated. There is no particr- lar feature to be noted, the situation being satisfactory and the tendency toward better things There are a number of leading consumers in the market, in spite of recent purchases. General foundry buying has been good and continues ac- tive. The situation in the south is stronger, stocks still decreasing with the movement of iron from that point large Prices are frmer everywhere some prod ucts advancing figures recently. Basic iron is in strong demand
 "Ferro-manganese is extremely active with the demand good and prices higher The supply is limited
 Tn the finished lines an unusual amount of business is being done, and the ten dency of finished steel prices particularly Is upward in spite of recent advances iedlifodu puyllS III all ines nus created condition among manufacturers mak- ing railroad supplies which has not beer equaled in years. Most of these companies are well filled with orders for months ahead and it is reported they are having trouble in obtaining sufficient skilled labor to carry on their operations
 Since the beginning of the year stocks of pigr iron a all points have baen e+na dil, decreasing, and the rate at which this has been going on makes the outlook mosi promising"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
REr,E, rioNs OF \ BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 All a man seems to need to get the iig head is little brain.
 Being a snob is so natural to most peo- pie they think it's everybody else.
 Some people make lot of money pre- lending to show others how to make it
 The more a man talks about himself the more disgusted you get that 1t isn't ahou; yourself.
 Some men are so lucky that when. any hodx wants to borrow from them they hayen't cent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
Concerning Tax Assessments

Governor O'Neal says that he is in thorough accord with the work of the state tax commission in Jefferson county. According to Montgomery dispatch in yesterdays Age-Herald the governor said: "It is a well known fact that many of the large corpora tions in that county (Jefferson) have heretofore not been properly assessed, some of them not paying on as much as 10 per cent of their real value. The criticism which the state is receiving as result of the commissions assess ments Tn the county is unjust" The governor, it is said, took the view that most of the protests regarding tax as- sessments 'had come from the big cor porations, and the smaller concerns, which in most cases had been taxed to the full extent of their value, had of- fered little objection to the work of the tax commission.
 It is great mistake to think that most of the protests come from the big corporations. There is a very general protest on the part of indi- viduals and small business concerns. But suppose the large corporations were making most of the complaints. Every interest in the Birmingham dis trict is dependent on the prosperity of the corporations. All realty values of Jefferson county are affected by the operations of the large corporations. The big corporations are what have created values in general in and around Birmingham, and whatever retards the coal and iron companies retards progress in all mineral Ala bama.
 Kentucky has system of taxing mineral companies that is at once just and reasonable. Land from which coal and iron has been mined during the year is taxed for that year at the rate of "going" mineral property; say $100 an acre. Undeveloped mineral proper ty is assessed on farm land basis; say $10 an acre.
 This state of Alabama needs just such system. In the meantime as- sessment officials should learn to take broad and reasonable view of the situation. The big corporations of Jefferson county have vast mineral holdings upon which bonds have been issued. The greater part of the land will not be mined for long years to come. It is not right, therefore, to place high tax rate assessment on such lands, immensely valuable from future view point, but at the pres ent time n-productive.
 Public sentiment in Jefferson coun- l ty was never more united than it is on this question of the tax commissions recent increased assessments here. It is hoped that when citizens represent ing the tax payers and the state tax commission confer satisfactory ad- l
 justment will be made. It is safe to say that Governor O'Neal will, after looking thoroughly into the question, see that the resolutions adopted at mass meeting held in the Chamber of Commerce last Tuesday were based on truth and justice.>
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
EVENING IN PARADISE

s1y MlItDl- Now came still evening on, and twilie
 gray Had in her sober livery all things clad Silence accompanied; for the beast a
 bird. They to their grassy couch, these to tn,
 nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful night
 gale; She all night long her amorous desca sung. Silence was pleased; now glowed the I
 mament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that 1 The starry host, rode brightest, till |
 moon, Rising in cloudy majesty, at length Apparent queen. unveiled her peerls
 light, F and Q' sr lhe dark her sil ar r,a a :,t t{- lrs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24

ators selected by the backstairs route will vote against it. This is where the amendment stands, and Louisiana and Georgia can start a great reform along at rapid pace by ratifying the amendment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24

up the delights brewed down in the hes of hundred spring times-at least T when you are past 40.
 It is a witches cauldron. the pot whel In they boil; the crucible of an unfat omed alchemy. From it, as if by mag arise pictures of forgotten Arcadies. T white of apple blossoms, the pink peach bloom and the flutter of new VI lets mingle with the melodies Of field a meadow and hidden place. The you chicks chirp at the doorway, cock cro melodiously from some remote barn va, child across the street shouts as it 1 holds the first jonquil bursting into vie and everywhere your minds eye turns looks down intending vistas of pure ( light. drinks in the rhapsodies of ava ening life, and is filled and sated.
 You forget that which should be ft gotten, forgive life it's jibes and stin and defeats, and reaching for a seco helping-it is always permissible to ''reac when there are greens on the tabled conscious that some benign influence h entered your life, feel the faith of great humility and the soft, on-creepi content that exalts the low1y and { commonplace and which finds each q some loved adventure in the little hul drum round of things. No fretful hou to mar your tomorrows, all .menor sealed with forgetful kisses and iiidd away beneath the petals of dead c.h springs, only the eternal Now and more. Greens, most sweet, most tend greensl What benedictions lie in th what sweet forgetfulness of things. H, often shall yon moon wax and wane time unborn and you. returning. find O with an inverted pot? An, could we, 10 but what's the use3
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
The Live Wire Campaign

Every time city makes a fine record in public spirited team work material advance is recorded ip civic and com mercial betterment." said business man.
 When team workers raised the money to build the T. M. c. A. and to complete the Y. ". c. As home the whole city derived benefit. The Chamber of Com merce team work this week marks an- other period in Birmingham's forward movement
 oscar c. Turner's membership com mittee started out to get 1000 new mem- bers this week. and that number will be rounded up by Friday. When the cam paign began the chamber had S5l mem bers. It was a big thing to go out and secure 1000 new members. but the efforts of the team workers have been appre- ciated and rewarded"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
Cmrn,. Advance

"Corea, the hermit kingdom which was the cause of the war between China and Japan, and of the later and greater war between Japan and Russia, which for 2O years has been the football of con tending powers. is at last making pro- gress" said well informed man who was once a professional stenographer.
 Among the many recent signs of this progress is the announcement that for the first time in history a typewriter has been built to write the Corean language.
 This machine, the first models of w..ich have just been completed at the Smith-Premier Typewriter works at Syr- acuse, is a curiosity among writing ma cl.ines. and it's completion required the assistance of native Corean talent.
 unlike the Chinese and Japanese lan- guagcs. the Corean language has an ai-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A PREVENT LOT.

@A 4 A@AA . 1LAN I 1EAJ The poet band. Throughout the land, Are Hitting far and near: Ills bosom swells As each one tells
 How June will soon be here. They sing the rose In garden close,
 The bird upon the bough; The Lady Moon, Who shines in June, With splendor to endow. The poet wights Scent keen delights, They all declare, in June; But time will show How much they know, Or prove them liars soon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
The Blind Tiger

"One of the arguments used by the local optionists, who voted for saloons, was that the blind tiger would cease and that from a moral point of view 1t was better to have high license and regulation than the illicit dealer In llquor," said a prominent business man.
 "It was a noteworthy fact that Bir- ming gham was overrun with blind tigers before prohibition was defeated. I have heard the number estimated all the way from 600 to 1000. I never took a drink in a blind tiger-neyer bought any blind tiger iiauor-but I saw many evidences of the liquor business in Bir- mingham before the return of the sa- loon Of course there are not as many blind tigers in Birmingham now as there were under prohibition law, but still, from the newspaper accounts, there are quite a number am sat isfed that all of them will be eventu- ally closed up. It is certainly to the interest of the men who pay big license to help put stop to the blind tiger traffic.
 T have lived in several southern cities and while I never was much of barroom drink CT I kept in close touch with what was going on. There was no such thing as blind tigers in a saloon town in the old days.
 "The blind tiger is a product of pro- hibltion. The prohibition field is invit- ing to law breakers and the blind tiger has many patrons in prohibition towns. There is no justification for the blind tiger anywhere; but here in Birming- ham, where the liquor trade is licensed, ! 1t should be next to impossible for a tiger to get a start. some of those who are engaged in the illicit business have learned how and are reluctant to give it up, but they must be made to give ! it up. Public sentiment here Is cer- tainly strong now against the blind tiger, no matter what it might have been this time year ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-24
NO JOKE.

It's easy enough to be pleasant And to sing of joy and good cheer. But the man worth while Is the man who can smile When the doctor cuts out his beer.
 Cincinnati Enquire It's easy enough to be pleasant Fen when we're forbidden to swill, But the man worth while Is the man who can smile When the medico hands in his bill.