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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

commission all railroad regulatory power, subject to appeal to the United States district courts and later per haps to the United States supreme court.
 Another provision of the bill pro- Vides for a bureau of foreign and domestic commerce to be under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Com merce and labor. This bureau would take the place of the Presidents tar if board. The new bureau would ab- sorb the bureau of trade relations of the state department and the bureaus of manufactures and statistics of the of commerce and labor.
 The vote in the House to abolish the court of commerce was 120 yeas and 49 nays. Many republicans voted with the democrats. The court of must wonder if it is to be so soon done for what it was begun for. The bill creating the court was passed June IS, 1910, and the circuit judges that constitute the court were not commissioned until January, 1911. The court has in a single year in- cured the enmity of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
FAMOUS WINE TAsTERs
Don Quixote.

Don QuiXote
 Depend upon it, I always hit right and can guess to hair. And this is all nat ural in me: let me but smell them, and I will tell you the country, the kind, the flavor the age, the strength and all about it; for you must know have had in my family, by the fathers side, two of the rarest tasters that were ever known in La Mancha; and I will give you proof of their skill
 A certain hogshead was given to each of them to taste and their opinion asked as to the condition, quality, goodness or badness of the wine. One tried it with the tip of his tongue, the other only put it to the nose. The first said the wine savored of iron, the second said it had rather a tang of goats leather.
 The owner protested that the vessel was clean and the wine neat, so that it could not taste either of iron or leather. Not withstanding this the two famous tasters stood positively to what they had said.
 Time went on, the wine was sold off, and, on cleaning the cask, a small key, hanging to leathern thong, was found at the bottom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
Exports of Manufactures

Our exports of manufactured prod ucts in nine months foot up $730, ,000,- 900, as against S656, ,000 in the corresponding months of the previous year. It is believed the total for the current fiscal year will exceed bill lion of dollars! This would show a gain of just about S1OO,00O,OOO in a single year.
 Another fact will be brought out that is of general interest. In ex- cess of all the raw materials that we export for manufacturing purposes, we will export fully $20O,0OO,0OO more in manufactured goods. In other words, over one-half of our total ex- ports will consist of manufactured articles.
 This, however, needs some expla- nation. No small part of our exports consists or steel and copper Tn lngotS and bars, or of petroleum which has passed through one process of refin- ing only, and the like. Our manufac- tured articles are made up in part of partly manufactured articles for fur ther use in manufacturing in foreign mills. It is impossible to separate the two classes of articles. The finished product cannot be distinguished in the published tables from the partly man. ufactured one. We are gaining in ex- ports more or less manufactured, and that is about all that can be justly claimed at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
A Great Restaurant City

.'Birmingh ham is ahead of most cities that 1 visit in the number and the excel fence of it's restaurants,' said Wilson F. Hanniwell of Chicago. q have had oc- casion to eat in four or five cafes in this city and I found the food and service sat isfactory. l have heard other men speak ing the same way of their experience. From casual observation I would say there must be fully 50 restaurants of de- eided responsibility in Birmingham. Some of them are classy but even the poor est of them are said to be better than the cheap restaurants in some of the other cities of the south.
 Atlanta is known everywhere as a metropolitan city. but in the matter of restaurants it is far behind Birmingham D
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

played many beadAiful compositions. The conductor of that orchestra was reeog- nized as one of the most distinguished of the poet-interpreters of artistic musle- Every programme was delightful and yet how many students of Howard college or Birmingham college attended single one of the performances?
 Music of the finer sort, besides being closely related to literature and painting, has it's psychological side. In the expres- sion of the emotions music is considered a universal language It is subtler than any poetry and yet it is the most moving and the most satisfying of all the arts. In Europe no man Is considered educated unless he knows something in music. It may be so in the United States some aay' although that day be far in the distance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
SLANG OF THE COLLEGE GIRL


 From the New York Tribune.
 No thoughtful citizen with a proper sense of his duty toward the community can help sharing the perturbation of 'The Wellesley College News" over the grave question of the use of slang by college girls. It is more than a question of man. ners or morals, as "The News" points out. It is more than question whether the modern college fails of its mission as an educational institution by forcing its students to go far aheld to find ade- quate means of expression for their burn Ing thoughts. It is a question almost fun damental in this day of feminism ram pant, for the real crux of the matter is this: Are these girls, the bone and sinew of the country, mere imtators of man after all?
 College girls slang is a peculiar Ian guage. It appears to be based on the English tongue, but it has incorporated within itself items reminiscent of the stage, the tennis court, the baseball dia- mond and the street. Philologists in their treatises on college slang have shown how similar items became absorbed into the COnVeISdIlOn or lne COleBe lldH, anu how his vocabulary grew and was en- riched until he had acquired a colorful language entirely distinct from his mother English. They have traced the effect of this on the language of the nation at large. but only few of the more daring theorists have yentured to assert that it is from this rich mine, in full opera tion for many years, that the gold of the college girls speech is being drawn. Yet one has only to listen to the college youth and college maiden in soulful idlo- matic conversation to be near conversion to that theory. And once it is adopted, see where 1t leads It can not be staved off as a matter of equal right of man and woman to "cuss" words and forceful expressions, as some of the feminine de- lenders of the college girls slang try to make it appear. They must face the is- sue squarely-a question of plagiarism, of base imitation of the forerunner and inventor man. That issue they must meet themselves, though all the com munity be racl1ed by the throes of its solution. And for the honor of feminism
 it is to be hoped that if they decide to continue slang it will be some new and adequate brand untraceable to masculine ingenuity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
s.rRrI,yATED NIGHTCAPs

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 The editor of the Richmond Virginian hath a pleasing way of coupling a playful fancy with a serious suggestion. Listen to him:
 '.Emphatically, we do not see that a rushing automobile is the place for free flving hair, however dainty the arm and hand that push it back into it's proper place. If women are to run high powered machines. they need both hands on the wheel and they need Q clear lookout ahead Without venturing to more than suggest remedy, we might say that the new .boudoir caps eoquetishly beribboned bits of lingerie which are designed for the intimate uses of the household. might fill the bill These sublmated nightcaps are entirely too pretty to see them on the heads of their wearers, as well as in the shop windows. Utilized for the autono- bile. they would be not only of great util- ity, but they would add just that friv-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
-Hs----- MONONANIA

From the New York Evening Post.
 oYershadowing every venomous
 and false reiterated accusation,
 hangs over MT. Roosevelt's words a of personal arrogance that can | scribed only as monomania. There more beating about the bush. MT.
 great crime is that he has dared
 himself instead of staying put in u sition the colonel left him. This m feeling, who is shocked at MT.
 making use of private letters to { himself, scales the heights of de, when he charges a President oi United States with trying to s'bit hand that feeds him. 2 The colon minds an outraged world that 1t " Who made Taft in 19aS, and witt finger could have unmade him then. yet this President of the colonels ing has dared to think in ways othei the colonel, this creature of an inf will has dared to defy Omnipotenee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
FAvoRITE FICTION

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Fresh Roasted Peanuts"
 Vote for Goggles. the Peoples { date"
 Lots in This Subdivision Are Like Hot Cakes: Better Buy Now.''
 Refined Vaudeville"
 '.Yes, I Play Poker Occasionally to Pass the Time Away"
 There Has Been a Slight Accid, Our Road, but We Have No Parti Yet"
 The Bridegroom Is Well and Fav' Known Here. and the Bride Is 0 the Loveliest and Most Popular Ladies in Our City,
 Every Possible Precaution Is : for the Safety and Comfort of PassS on Our Line"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
Aid for Flood Sufferers

The mass meeting of citizens, called for 10 o'clock today at the Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of de- vising ways and means for relief for the flood sufferers, should be well at tended. Some aid has already been given by Birmingham people through the Red Cross society, but relief on a much larger scale is now called for. There is untold suffering in the lower Mississippi valley. Thousands of un- fortunate people are in sore need of food and raiment. Mississippi and Louisiana have suffered from floods in former years, but the distress is greater now than ever before.
 The people of Birmingham are pro- verbal for their generosity in times of disaster. Even when there was less wealth here than now. no appeal for charity was ever made in vain.
 Every business man who can possi- bly do so should attend the Chamber of Commerce meeting this morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
FIG GROWING IN ITALY
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 HSHE season for gathering the figs in
 Italy joins hands in October witk
 A the vintage; but it really begins in August. owing to a curious system of culture.
 Early in August the fig gatherers squirm through the twisting branches from tree top to tree top and 'oil the fruit" These fig people are nomadic; they appear and disappear like the wandering harvesters of France. Late in July the masserie are rented to them, a stated sum being paid to the proprietor, a payment that gives to the fig gatherers the right to all the fruit. beginning with the figs and ending with the last cluster of grapes.
 Rude huts matched with straw are built by the proprietor in all his or chards, and in these the gypsylike har- vesters live with their families Some times they supplement their narrow quar- ters with ragged tent. Three sticks placed crosswise and a kettle in the crotch constitute the kitchen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
RouGn ON ENGINEERS

From the Kansas City Star.
 Bill Rain, the veteran engineer of the Santa Fe tells the following: ~"one day when l was in freight service I caught a work train out to a point near To- peka We had orders to work for fore man named Smith. Smith had the honor of being the father of a boy about l9 years old, who, if he had had a little more sense, would have been half witted. While riding on the engine smith said to me:
 Bill. T wish you would take that boy of mine to Topeka with you and get him a job in the roundhouse.'
 What do you want to get him a job in the roundhouse for?' I asked him.
 ".Nvell, l want him to work up to be an engineer he said.
 q asked him. Why don't you give him a job on the section and let him work up to be a foreman.'
 We'll he said, you know, Bill, the boy aint quite bright !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
TOMMY KNEW BETTER
From Harper's Magazine.

From Harper $ Magazine.
 Mr. A, who was planning to build an outdoor sleeping porch at the back of his house, had an expensive new saw sent home from a hardware store. He left his office early the next afternoon, with the intention of>getting the porch well under way before dinner, and, as he was very much interested In doing the work himself. he donned pair of overalls and went at it in good spirits. An hour or so later he came trampins into the house, his face dark with exasperation, and flung himself down in disgust
 That new saw | bought isn't worth 5 cents," he stormed. "Why, the thing won t cut butterl'
 "oh. yes, it would, daddy.'' he said. earnestly. Why, Ted and I sawed a whole brick in two with 1t just this morn- ingr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
.yoy OF LIVING

From Saul" by Robert Browning. Oh, the wild joy of livingl The. le
 from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs froi
 fir tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunse.in a pools living wate
 hunt of the bear. And the sultriness showing the |
 couched in his lair. And the meal, the rich dates vel
 over with gold dust divine, And the locust flesh steeped in the pi
 the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river cl
 where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go Wa
 so softly and well. How good Is mans life. the mere
 how Tit to errploy All the heart and the soul and the
 forever in Joy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
No Adjournment in Sight

A dilly-dallying Senate, governed by neither progressives nor stand patters, by neither democrats nor re- publicans, is responsible for the non action of Congress, which has rem dered long sweltering session last ing perhaps to October, possible and perhaps unavoidable. A recess may be taken covering the two convention weeks of June, and then both branches will return to continue their politicat- ing work. Everything that is done is done with reference to the shower of ballots in November, and especially is this true of tariff bills.
 The democrats favor a revenue tar if because it would decrease living expenses, while the republicans stand by protection for manufacturers profits because they want campaign fund that will make Lorimer and Stephenson mere tyros in the game of politics.
 Both sides and all the members of both branches have abandoned all ex- pectation of adjournment next month, and they are preparing for long siege in political year in one of the hottest towns in the country--a town that is down to the level of the sea and yet is far from its cooling breezes and temperatures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
AN EXTREME CASE

From the Chicago Record -Herald.s
 An Englishman makes the sugg that the Bacon n-Shakespeare contre may be settled by the opening of sf peare's grave. fIn order to escap consequences of the bard's c Cursed be he that moves my bones, the Englishman proposes to hay grave opened by women. It seems that this would be about as far as pie could go in their efforts to tab vantage of a technicality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
REFLECTIoss OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press
 It takes long to win good name that you can lose it in minute.
 1t makes a man very peevish for his wife to think he ever could be.
 The reason man wants to be a hero is so as to get photographed looking that way.
 Even when a girl has spring cold in her head she san't lose all faith in her beauty
 The reason a girl can't walk a mile without wanting to fall down is she can dance seven and be crazy to keep on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
ADFIFT WITH TH MES
LOOKING

 When June is here And far and near
 Warm waves of heat Rise from the street. And sultriness
 Doth all oppress.
 We'll wish that We Once more might be Nipped by the frost. Whate'er the cost. And when July. With blazing sky. Comes on the scene.
 Iris then, I ween. We'll mop and pant And still descant On winters S lure How we endure The coldest days, But summer stays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

Shortly after their arrival the Of forcing the fruit is begun. methods employed are curious. | wad of cotton is dipped in oli, and gently rubbed on the flower of the fig. Fig by fig Is thus tr, and in eight days the fruit is read tho market.
 Another method consists in ga ing in the spring the half fc fruit, which is strung on ropes. ropes or garlands are thrown owe branches of the tree and are all to decay under the burning sun. is born of this decay an insect pierees the growing fig and in rapid maturity. .~ The fig, when perfectly ripe, e. "a drop of honey sweet juice a neither end. which never falls but there, a standing temptation to dren and to bees. When fresh D at this stage the fig has @ rich entirely lost in the dried fruit ''s''''''s's'''s'''s..s. 's..s.....s...s..s.....s olous touch that should go with a 9s woman bossing a two ton motor c
 More power to the R. V. pen, sand its owner, however dazzled by berib bits of lingerie, never forget to the riotous rush Of those beauty g cars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
AboIishing the Court of Commerce

When the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill goes to the Senate it will contain provisions that are, to say the least, novel. One of these provisions would abolish the United States commerce court, thus restoring to the interstate commerce
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

STILL DENIED. "Dubbs is a man who wants what he wants when he wants it." Just so. Does he always get what ho wants when he wants it?" Seldom. if ever."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
HRINH

Well may he pause and smeditate
 On what to wear ana what to eat Who hath discovered. here of late.
 He simply cant make both ends m
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

Jefferson county, Alabama, should not point the finger of scorn at Carroll ccun- ty, Virginia. Remember Lewisburg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

The art of making collections of presi- month to run.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

One term of six years is enough for one man. He would do remarkably we'll to outlive so long nervous drain from the hurlyburly of politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

Judson Harmon is now in the dark horse class. and Ohio cannot lift him out of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

Birmingham's contribution to the flood sufferers should be bountiful, and it will be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

Bret Harte's daughter says the men of Boston are impossible, and the men of Boston have no word to say in reply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

It will not be as easy to probe the steel trust as it would be to probe the butter trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

The colonel proposes. ito beat MT. Taft to frazzle in Ohio in return for the beating Mir. Taft gave him in his own New York state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
PA KNOWS.

"Is truth stranger than fiction. pa Tt is often so, my son, and it Is nl always more difficult
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

Six years of contention with politicians is certainly all any reasonable man will covet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

The contested delegations from the south will not reduce the republican vote. Nothing can reduce vote that is down to the officeholding line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

Not a veteran died while attending the reunion just closed at Macon. This is record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

The declaration that the Rev. c. V. T. Richeson was a Mormon elder has elicited indignant denials from leaders of that church. No wonder!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

Gen. B. H. Young, new commander-in- chief of the Confederate Veterans. learned to ride before he could walk A typical son of the old south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

Upton Sinclair. true to his principles, declined an audience with the King of England. Few novelists indaed turn their backs on royalty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

Roosevelt's old time strenuosity was tame compared with his third term cam paign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

A messenger boy in Wall street was given 25 cents for restoring $52l,Ooo worth of bonds. How different 1t is in life out side of Wall street!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

The colonel has cheek enough to at tempt to grab MT. Taft's own state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

Now and then a day passes without re- cording an advance in the price of meats. There was one last week. Such days are abnormal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

The leaning tower of Pisa continues to stand, although the vertical campanile at Venice tumbled down and had to be rebuilt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

Colonel roosevelt has decided to invade the Buckeye State This is degree of assurance that could come from the head of the creek only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

The latest Chinese warship was chris tened by Miss Chang Wuy, wearing an occidental costume and picture hat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
HE'LL GET LEFT.

"Jibbs is not the sott of man who waits anxiously for Opportunity to knock on his door"
 "No indeed. He. is the sort of man who expects Opportunity to write a note beg ging for an appointment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices zY.Le instruments to scourge us.
 king Lear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
LIL RUSSELL AND MARIE IRX

ILL RUSSELL AND MARIE IRH|
 There can be no question that NIisl Han Russell was at one time a rs ingly beautiful creature. Equally can be no question that she Is nd day. She confesses to 90 odd years double chin is not to be concealed, an breathes with a creak when she tri sing. And yet she wins the same turous applause in New Yclk thapsl ways did. When she walks towarl footlights in her generously dec gown, jingling with diamonds. the
 ence almost goes off it's collective el And I'll tell you why said one of Russells companions for years. "It because she is beautiful. She was she isn't now. It Is because. she hd ways been so sweet and helpful and erous. Never a man or woman plav her company but refers to her as Nd that is her real name. you know every one of them is indebted to Ind a kind word, when that word had above gold. or for some thoughtfnl al for a bit of pull with the n,anape exerted without the knowledge of fI cipient of the benefit. Nellie doesn, fl books with herself. She could mol you how many girls she has saved. i way or another, or induced to go home, or helped with the advice Ill sometimes without price. She has tered her money broadcast in this fag but she has never preached, or ass a superior air, or said an unkind
 about a fellow being -who is down out. That is why she is loved by
 who know her-and that love has in way been communicated to the audid
 It recalls Marie Irwin's quip. She ! have had as good a disposition as Russell, she always insisted, but sh, been spoiled in the making. IN nose." said she, lis a model. But at mine! When I was put togeth guess they just used the first nose turned upi'-New York corresponds the Cincinnati Times-Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11
HER PRIDE SPARED.

 Mrs. Jobson, your husband was run over by an automobile just now and seri- ously hurt. He is at the Peoples hos- pital." Dear me! I'll go at once. What kind of car ran over hlm?' The Whiffers' new s7OOO limousine" Thank heaven. it wasn't one of those common little runabouts."
 PHILosOPHIc. Now don't get cross At every loss And give up to the 'sblues." But just be glad That you have had The wherewithal to lose
 EASY. You think you have an Iron nerve. don't your" Yes" T dare say you could fall asleep in dentists chair?' Sure, if the dentist was out.'
 A GOOD GUESS.
 My muse is dull.
 My muse is flat.
 Spring fever? Well,
 It may be that.