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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
ontIm,sm Prevails

,.Fhere will always be pessimists, ohs among business men they are now Ie" and fav between" said a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
 .In the country at large the crop situa- ton Is good Some sections will nave bumper crops. Alabama will make us largest corn crop this year, and Tn spite of the boil weevil and other destroying ln- sects we will probably produce l'2oooVu bales
 Great activity has been noted among steelmakers for some time past optlmism prevails and there is a reason. Prosper ity will be in full swing during the Tall and winter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
PERPETuAL YOUTH


 From Current Literature.
 In the large intestine of human be- ing there exist quantities of poisonous substances called phenols and indols. These have been proven by Metchnikoff to be responsible for that slow disin- tegration of the system known as old age. The poisonous substances referred to can be neutralized or done away with, Metchnikoff adds, by sugar only or by the substances classed as sugary Unfortunately, sugary substances. taken Into the human alimentary canal, are digested prior to their arrival in any form in the large intestine. This diffi- culty faces even the tactic acid treat ment. at least to some extent, which as all know. Metchnikoff has advo- cated for quite year.
 How, then. can sugar be produced With in the colon subsequently, to digestion That was the problem confronting the renowned scientist until the other day He asserts that he has discovered mi orobe which produces sugar-glycobac- teria. It mas been established by experi- ment within the intestine of the dog, it's only normal habitat If 1t be objected that the dog does not live very long, Metch- nikoff replies that 1t is carnivorous anl- nal, and animal food produces the lrgest quantity of the poisonous substances which it Is sought to destroy. Were 1t feasible to feed the dog a great amount of vegetables, the animal would become immune, Metchnil1off insists, from dis cases arising through the existence in it's intestines of the deleterious indols and phenols.
 Having established the presence of glycobacteria--a microbe hitherto un- known--in the dogs intestine, experi- ments were made with 1t upon human beings. In every instance the test oi the germ was successful. The poisonous elements from which old age arises were reduced in quantity or expelled Metchnikoff has included himself among the objects of experiment, al- though he insists that old age does not trouble him. despite his 6s years. owing to his care in diet. This comprises mainly vegetables srich in sugar with a due allowance of tactic microoes' Hence his capacity to toil long and ar duously without thinking of period of annual rest.
 Metchnikoff adds that some persons secrete phenols and indols in such small quantities that ordinary care Tn diet will rescue them from old age as we know it. Those who resort 10 the new glycobacterial treatment should use the tactic acid preparations as we'll The aged will in no long time reel a new efficiency, comparable only witn that feeling of perpetual youth so vsinlv sought by Ponce de Leon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, BRAIN PROPRIETOR.

Another musician. Moschelles, sub
 niitted the manuscript of a piano arrange ment of one of Beethovens S compositions. "Fidelio," to the composer. with the senti- ment written on 1t. With Gods Help" Beethoven sent it back with the admin tion, "O man. help myself
 Bitter affiction came into Beethoven's life before he was 30 years old. when he became partly deaf This malady in creased as he grew older, and it was. of course, the most terrible thing that could we'll happen to a composer and musician. But Beethoven refused to be downed by it. He went on writing music with more painstaking care than ever When his hearing first began to fail him, Beethoven was walking one day in the country with his pupil, Ries. The
 younger man pointed out shepherd who
 was playing on his pipe Beethoven had
 not heard him.
 What humiliation" he wrote in his
 so-called will, 'when some one near me hears the notes of a far-off flute or shep- herds pipe and I do not. But I will grapple with my fate; 1t shall never drag me down"
 Thereafter he worked more indus triously than ever. Though Beethoven never married. he was in love number less times indeed, one biographer as- serts that there never was a period after he was grown when Beethoven
 was not in love with someone, though frequently. The Moonlight Sonata was I- ardi, ''who loves me and whom I love. Unfortunately she is not of the same rank in life" Elonora Von Breuning, daughter of one of his wealthy patrons. was loved by Beethoven for a. while; she made woolen comforters for him, but married another man. For four lyears Beethoven was engaged to the Countess Therese von Braunschweig, whom as a pupil he had frequently
 rapped oyer the knuckles for mistakes; but they were never married And there were several others.
 At the age of 45 Beethoven adopted his nephew, Karl Beethoven, and 8 four years suit followed in which the boys
 mother attempted to gain possession of him. Beethoven did not consider her Ait Qcfooll u bfiflk tno idu uP' ptt JSNAAo Karl showed little enough gratitude to his uncle for the money and affection which were lavished upon him. He neg lected his studies and became an expert billiard player; later he attempted to Kill himself and failed, and thereafter lived on his uncle's earnings. treating him with
 arrogance and contempt.
 Iu-'1S21 twelve years after the adop- tion of the boy, now 20 years old. Bee tnoven disd The last years of his life had been wretched enough clouded by Illness worry and lack of funds. but 1t was found after his death that he saved q little fortune to leave the worthless Karl The minor discords of Bes- l thoyen's life must. indeed, seem unm- nortant when We glance over the record of these last years: eccentric through he was. frank sometimes to the point of bru- l taiity. Ludwig van Beethoven had in him the soul of big man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
The Bond Issue Propositions

On Monday next the voters of Jeff ferson county will have the opportuni- ty of expressing themselves by ballot on the bond issue propositions S1 1,000.000 for courthouses and a jail, and S1O0,O0O for the enlargement of the Hillman hospital.
 The county, having outgrown the courthouse at the corner of Third avenue and Twenty-first street, needs a spacious fire proof court building that will be adequate for the next 40 or 90 years. Bessemer needs court house; and large modern jail in Bir- mingham is needed. The question concerning bonds for courthouses and jail will be voted for as one proposi- ton, and the question of issuing $100,- 900 of bonds for the Hillman hospital will be voted for as a separate propo- sition.
 There can be scarcely doubt as to the result of the election concerning the hospital proposition. The majori- ty for the hospital promises to be large. The proposition authorizing s1,000,000 of bonds for courthouses n and jail is strongly advocated by many prominent taxpayers in Bir- mingham, Bessemer and other parts of the county; but some well known nen oppose it.
 The bonds are to bear AZ per cent interest, and will not mature for 90 years. As the present Board of Rev enue goes out of office on the first of January next, little or nothing in the matter of construction would be done during its tenure. The Board of Rev enue has always been made up of honest men. No one familiar with the personnel of this administrative body has ever questioned the integrity of
 
 any of it's members.
 If we are to have the courthouse bond issue, the board should call for hn advisory committee to assist in selecting plans and supervising the |(work of construction. Public senti- ment will have good deal to do with the question of the location of court house in Birmingham, and it is safe to say that the county will get full value for its money.
 Should the bond issue proposition be defeated Monday it would be two years before the question could be voted on again. A vote for the new courthouse will be a vote for progress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
Power Developed in Alabama Rivers

P0Wer Developed Tn AlaDdmd RlNcI
 Both the Taft and the Roosevelt ad- ministrations have shown signs of a leaning toward control of water pow CTS developed by the federal govern ment in the states. This question is broadly raised in the Tennessee river at Muscle Shoals, in the Coosa river below Gadsden, and at the 63 foot dam .in the Warrior river near Bir- mingham.
 Senator Beasley of Fayette takes the position that while the genera government has a right to improve navigation it has no right to sell g single horsepower of the energy founo in falling water. li
 MT. Beasley says the water in 3 river is as much the property of tho state as the soil on it's banks. Botf belong to the state so far as origina sovereignty goes.
 The rivers of Alabama will in the long run prove to be better than SC many gold mines, for there is power enough in them to drive thousand factories and interurban lines, to say nothing of the lighting of homes and even country roads.
 Senator Beasley's position is cor rect, and it comes none too soon. President Taft vetoed bill for the improvement of White river in Arkan- sas because it contained no provision for the collection of toll from the wa ter damned up. All republican ad- ministrations stand ready to fight for centralization against state rights at every turn, and if the state of Ala bama is to retain it's great asset it must begin the fight in earnest. The Fayette senator has in hand live issue, and he should push it until the right of the state in it's great rivers is established. ny
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
WHY AMERICANS WIN

Retired Merchant Writing in the New
 York Times
 we are slender, spare, muscular, have re- serve power and repose; because we live
 in free country, where every one have equal chance and the best wins; because we are abstemious and largely vegetarian because we are moderate and temperate because we didn't depend entirely on our muscles, but used our brains to direct them; because we have self respect; be- cause we feel that we have the true moral strength and walk in the truth; because we came with determination. but are graceful loser. In . word. because VI are Americans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
THE IRIsHMAN's REPORT

From T1t-Bts.
 While carrying a ladder through the crowded streets of London the other day a bir Irishman was so unfortunate as to break plate glass window Ill shop Immediately dropping his ladder he broke into run; but he had been seen by the shopkeeper. who dashed after him and caught him by the collar.
 .See herei' ansrily exclaimed the shop Keeper when he had regained his breath You have broken my window Sure have" assented Pat; and didn't YOU see me running home to get the money to pay for it?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
BANNoCKBuRN

By Robert Burns Scots, wha hae wi Wallace bled- Scots, wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed,
 Or to victorie! Now's the day and now's the hour; See the front O battle lower; See approach proud Edwards power
 Chains and slaverie Wha will be. a traitor knave? Wha can filr a towards grave2 Wha saes base as be slave?
 Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedoms sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand or freeman fa'-
 Let him on wi me! By oppression's woes and pains, Bv your sons in serviie chains. We will drain our dearest veins,
 But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low. Tyrants fall in every foe, Liberty's in every blow,
 Let eps do, or eiel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
Wilson, Roosevelt and Taft

Tt looks bad for Taft" said Charles F. Wheaton Of Chicago. "A week or so after the republican convention had nomi- mated Taft I thought the fight would be between the democrats and the g. o. D., but 1t looks now as If Taft would carry few, if any, states
 T have always voted the republican ticket-have been voter since jsS0-and will probably vote for the nominee of the party once more. It looks now as if Roosevelt would carry a good many states. He will certainly carry Cali fornia. l think he will carry Illinois, and it will not surprise me to see him carry Ohio. As to New York, I am inclined to think that Wilson will have the plural ity in that state, and if he carries New York he will carry other doubtful states and will be elected.
 Many republicans say they are com mitted to the republican ticket, but many of these republicans that meet are half hearted. If the democrats win in Novem- ber history since the war will probably repeat itself. The democrats will be in power only four years. I do not think that Roosevelt will ever be President again, but I predict that the party he has founded will he victorious in 1916.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

Philadelphia territory and some big contracts for steelmaking irons have been placed In the west.
 southern Ohio furnacemen are Hel- ing very independent, as most of them have very little iron to offer for the balance of this year.
 "The whole situation is more prom ising than it has been for many months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
Pecan Growing in Alabama

| At the farmers summer school at |dburn Professor Williams told his erers how to graft and bud oceans,
 to select rarities, and how to It, fertilize and cultivate an or q of pecan trees.
 Ie truth is, oceans are better than ches in this state. The trees do
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 The reason a man gets mad with his wife is. if he doesn't, she will with him.
 A girl grows up to years so fast be- fore 20 she has to grow down from them after 30
 one grand thing an old bachelor has in his record is that he never made any woman's life one long misery.
 yThe girl with the naturally curly hair is the most suspicious of all that there isn { any more on the heads Of the whole world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
Hookworm Eradication in This Stat

Hookworm Eradication in This State Dr. w. W. Dinsmore, state director of the hookworm commission, is send ing out more field workers, and the time is soon coming when every coun. ty in this state will have been edu- Acated up to the effects of the hook. worm evil and to the means of it's |eradication.
 Let no one think that Alabama is Dpeculiar in hookworm culture. The hookworm exists in 35 degrees of latitude op either side of the equator It thrives in fully one-half of the habitable world. It is as common ir oIndia or China as it. is in America of in the countries about the Medi. terranean. sea. Alabama is in the hookworm belt
 The disease is distressing, but it is leadily eradicated, and each ano very county visited by the physicians pt out by the hookworm commission \puld lend ready ear to their teach
 |. They should accept their ad
 e, for each and every one of then
 studied the subject carefully. Tn.
 ucation of the people is important
 d to that end the aid of local physi
 ms is all needful When loca iysicians aid those sent out by tn, ehmission good work is accomplishe,
 county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
Club Barbecu- Today

"The Southern clubs stag entertainment at Roebuck Spring Saturday will be a pleasant affair, said Secretary Randall last night. Those members of the club who are without automobile or other pri- vate conveyance will be transported from the street car line at East Lake to the grounds free of charge.
 "A barbecue dinner will be served be- tween l and o'clock. Nearly every mem- Der of the club, who is in the city, has signified his intention of taking part in the outing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
A CONFESSION.

care not what you may retcrt.
 My lack of learning to impeach; I hold this life is far too short
 To read a presidential speech.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
ALTERNATIVES NOT BAD.

My idea of the most discouraging thing in the world to do," says Noah Count of chiggerhite Ifs to make love to a 6eaf girl tried 1t once and before l got her to understand. everybody in the township knew that I thought she had the most beautiful eyes I'd ever seen. In such a case the laying on of hands is the only system."-Kansas City Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

A national convention of the personal sort has at last been held. but the bet ting in New York is still to ? to 1 in faN or of Woodrow Wilson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

Mrs Sarah Wilson of Fanwood, N. J., is an aunt of Governor Wilson. She is 9l year sold, but she expects to visit her nephew in the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

Sixty years of protectionism has driven the A nerican merchant marine off the seas. It becomes. the duty of the demo- crats to bring it back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

'Ex-Boss Jim smith of New Jersey speaks of the democratic standard bearer as the Doc" but the latter carries New Jersey readily against all the bosses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

The general verdict on Governor Will sons acceptance speech is that it came from the brain of man who is safe and sane enough to be trusted under all cir cumstances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

Champ Clark won an additional term in Congress readily when the old Ninth Mis- souri district voted on Tuesday in . primary. He is booked to be speaker of the Sixty-third Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

So many women are running for office in california the men are deeply and truly alarmed. The old monopoly bids fair to be broken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

Jane Addams was scarcely outranked in the bull moose convention by Roosevelt, Johnson or Beveridge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
OUEFR WNATHFJ

A sudden shower hastens up,
 Unwary wights to drench, And then 1t stops as short as if
 'Twere turnsd off with a. wrench.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

The big moose still stands at Armaged- don. but he will soon have to unlimber and proceed to stand at the head waters of almost every creek.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
HAD HIS FAILTS.

If it is true that the late Emperor of Japan was in the habit of writing 50 poems day. it's q wonder he reigned so long and. died comparatively popular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

The political zoo will not be complete until the populist nominee Is put in the field next Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

Candidates for vice president are as faintly outlined in the public mind as gloom at fashionable wedding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

The bull moose battle cry in Illinois is Funk and fraud" Funk is their mill lionaire candidate for governor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

The bull moose party claims to be the
 only one that ever stood at Armageddon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

Germany is endeavoring to compel tramps to work, and they are leaving their native land pell-meIl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

The best keynoter halls from Indiana, and hls middle name is Jeremiah.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

The colonel now acts wholly regardless of what he did in the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

The colonel proposes to see to it that there Is not too much Johnson on the ticket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

Governor Wilson's term as governor does not expire until 1914, but he will give up the office about March ]. 1913.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo is in- clined to blame the police graft on the courts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

LIFE little rue, little holly, little mirth and melancholy, little fhn, q little folly,
 And that Is life.
 Rochester Post=EAprcss. little booze, e little sag. A little more. little jag, A little walk. little talk,
 And that is life.
 >Sohenectady Unioa-Ssaa. A little wife. little hat. little pun, a little rat, A little hill that knocks you flat,
 And that is life
 Springfield Union- A little smile, a little tear, little woe, a little cheer, | little finish drawing near,
 And that is life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
EASY.

Now and then I hesitate over the plu- ral of 'hippopotamus.'
 That's nothing to worry about. Just say hppos.'''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
A SORRY CITIZEN

A SORRY CITIZEN. He had few friends And this was why: He ne'er was known To swat a fly. His tender heart
 You fain would praise? He Was not that kind,
 Bust just too lazy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10

Wherever the colonel is. is Armaged- don-make no mistake about that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
HARD TO SHAKE

HARD TO SHAKE. Oh.~this life is far from pleasant When old Trouble, ever present, Follows fast upon our trail, where CT
 We go. Putting forth his hateful power, I'll the very heavens lower And the winds of fell misfortune gin
 to blow. Trough his presence greatly grieve us. Nothing, sooth, could make him leave Us And our hearts grow weary, weary of
 his thrall; Morning, noon and night his laughter, Harsh and cold. comes shrilling after And he doesn't seem to mind our tears
 at all. Up the hills and down the valleys, Where the flower army rallies, And the birds are known to sing their
 sweetest strain, Still his baleful shapes pursuing, Woe and darkness aye renewing. Till we sometimes fear we'll never
 smile again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
A Popular Musical work

"One of the most popular musical con- positions in so far as it pleases the null titude as we'll as musicians Is Rossini s 'stabat Mater, two or three numbers from which are frequently seen on brass band concert programmes. said an old music lover.
 ''The 'Infiammatus' from Rossini's Sta bat Mater is heard as often, perhaps, as anything arranged for brass. The 'Cujus Animam' was written for the solo tenor. but in recent years it has been heard frequently as trombone solo.
 "The number on Nappls Capitol park programme entitled Selection, Stabat Mater RossinD. Is a new arrangement of familiar airs from this famous work. The arranger styles it Overture on Sta bat Mater. signor Nappi evidently saw the incorrectness of the word overture and substituted the proper word. 'selec- tion. Overture on would be bad gram mar, not to question, the technical use of the word AS the word overture means an opening or introduction, we say overture to-, but some of the modern composers have written independent over lures, such as 1s12' by Tschaikowsky. It is not followed by any proposition be- cause it is not an introduction to any thing. The independent overtures might be called properly symphonic poems. 'Stabat Mater was sung in Birming- ham a few years ago under the baton of Walter Damrosch with the accompa- niment of his New York Symphony or chestra. -Rossini, usually f1orid was par ticularly fiorid In his Stabat Mater The words were written by monk in the thirteenth century. It is one of the most famous hymns of the Catholic church and treats of the seven dolors of the Blessed Virgin.
 "Pergolesi, long before Rossinis day. composed a 'Stabat Mater that will al- ways be known to critics as classic, but 1t has been heard rarely, if ever, In this country. The greatest 'Stabat Ma ter music of all is Dvorak's. This had its first performance at festival in London in 1883. It has been given at some of the great festivals in this country. The late Theodore Thomas gave it at two at least of the Cincinnati festivals It may have been sung in some of the larger cathedrals, but as 1t calls for a sym phony orchestra, as we'll as a large chorus, it is not available for many churches. Liturgically, 1t belongs to holy week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
WILSON'S SPEECH

The colonel proposes to stand at Arm- ageddon up in Vermont state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

The composer sent the card back with this addition:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
MUST HAVE THE GOODS.

Are candidates supposed to look sur pIised when formally notified of their nomination?'
 | No. And neither are they supposed | to say, My friends, I did not expect to | be called on for speech"