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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-28
Asparagus and Watercress.

Asparagus and watercress make a
delicious salad. Wash the cress and
break it into bits, rejecting the coarser
leaves. When ready to serve mix it
with salad oil, vinegar, salt and pep
per. Heap it in the center of dish
and surround it with iced green and
white asparagus tips.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-28
DEVICE FOR HOLDING BASKET
Ends of Strong Manila Cord of Con-
venient Length Fastened to Hook
Supports Receptacle.

For the picking of fruits, especially
apples and pears, many devices have
been used, and new ones are tried
every year. Doubtless the pivot-han-
died half-bushel basket is the most
popular receptacle for fruit picked
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-28
Deep Planting.

Plant tall varieties of peas for mid.
summer pickings and plant in deep
burrows, gradually filing the burrows
as the plants grow. Deep planting IN
creases yields in warm weather when
1t is impossible to get the hest re-.
suits from this vegetable.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-28

Save the stocking legs. There is
nothing better for busting and wiping
polished wood. Dampen them in
boiled oil and they will give the wood
a splendid polish.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
WILSON Not Radical

I'm the pre-convention contest among
democratic aspirants for the presidential
Woodrow Wilson was consid-
cred radical. but now he seems to be a
good deal of a conservative" said
prosperous citizen who during many
years has been something of politician.
Judging from the inklings of Govern
or Wilson's speech of acceptance the
business world as well as the great
mass of democrats will be satisfied with
his doctrines Those business men
who felt that Wilson was radical and
erratic like Roosevelt. will, think, be
agreeably surprised when they read his
speech. Humanity speaking Wilson is
sure to be elected and his majority
will probably be a record breaker.
II have been a close observer of po-
litical events ever since 1870, and I
will stake my reputation as a prophet
when I say that this country will
start on the biggest boom in its his
tory in less than a week after the pub
LEGATION of Wilson's acceptance speech.
TRADE conditions are unquestionably
sound and business is already very ac-
tive. The only thing that has caused
capital to hesitate is the uncertainty of
politics. but business men know very
we'll that no matter who Is elected in
November the country will be safe.
Roosevelt would certainly be on the side
of the Steel corporation In its relation
to the Birmingham district as he was
when he gave his permission for the steel
corporation to acquire the Tennessee COM
pany in 1907. If the regular republic
an organization should by any hook or
crook re-elect President Taft we could
count on steadier administration than
we have had since 1909. But Wilson
will be the next President. and business
will be safe and booming under his
Administration"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
FINE ART OF REPARTEE

full Towering of the modern novel-as-
serted that ito read good comedy is
to keep the best company in the world,
where the best things are said and the
rost amusing happen" Yet even better
tnan the reading of good comedy en-
teltaining as that may be, is the recalling
of its performance, with the echo of it's
best things in our ears and with the MEM
DRY of its amusing happenings rising un-
hidden before our eyes THE Crushed
Tragedian" was not a very good COM
edy taken as a whole; but Sothern's
performance of the broken down old ac-
tor was delight that no one who ever
enjoyed it would willingly forget. Rising
on the top wave of joyous recollection is
the superb attitude of triumph assumed
by Sothern as the old actor transfixes
one of the other characters with what
he believes to be master stroke of re-
partee.
The other character is an old banker.
who. when he learns that Sothern is an
actor, makes the lordly remark that ct
Is 20 years since l have been in thea
tre." This gives the crushed tragedian
his chance, and with immense scorn he
hurls back the whitening words:
ut is about the same time since I have
been in a banlxi'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
THE CHINESE BARRIER

From the Indianapolis News.
There is a custom in China, or at least
so rumor has 1t, that a good Chinese
may grow beard until he is grand
father. Reports on the razor business at
Swallow would seem to indicate indeed
that no good Chinese is able to grow a
boards are not of that tantalizing vigor
The Chinese face is generally as smooth
us the proverbial oriental tongue and
boards are not of that tantaliving Vigor
seen in the northern countries. AS a re-
suit OF the queue cutting consequent on
the recent revolution, an increased de-
nland for certain BARRIERS supplies has
been felt Barber shops were the excep-
tim rather than the rule in China in the
OLD days, itinerant BARRIERS attending to
their customers home. The tendency in
sNatow seems to be to do away with the
barber entirely and substitute therefor the
razor in the home Many families now
own their own hair clippers, which, ac-
oording to consular trade reports, seem
to be regarded as the only instrument to
use In hair cutting. The Chinese, as a
rule, do not nave heavy boards. In the
old Manchu days when the head had to
be shaved, the scraping of the Chinese
pate was a serious matter. Now, how
ever, with a clipped head, there is little
shaving. The safety razor is being ex-
plotted in Hongkong and Shanghai.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
Local Politics

THE announcement through a dis
patch from Admission published in The
Age-Herald that John r. Hornady
would probably be a candidate to sue
coed Culpepper Exum as a member of
the city commission" said a follower
of political events. caused very little
surprise. A great many people have
known for some months that Mr.. Hor-
nady's ambition was turning toward
the commission.
There will be great number of
candidates, for, in addition to Mr.. Hor-
nady and Mr.. Exum, George b. Ward,
M. II. Mcdowell, J. B. Drake and Tom
Mcdonald are seriously contemplating
the campaign. 1t might be exceedingly
difficult for Mr. Hornady to win next
year. although IL he runs and Keeps on
running thereafter there is little doubt
but that he will achieve his desire.
"Jere King was more instrumental, 1t
is probable, than any other one man In
making Greater Birmingham. But he
was defeated when he ran for the
mayoralty Mr. King made the mis-
take, however. of ending his campaign
as soon as his defeat was certain. He
should have continued the race. I hope
that Mr.. Hornady will profit from Mr..
Kings experience"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
Direct Election of Senators

at is WE'LL" says the Atlanta Jour
nal, a"that the general assembly of
Georgia deferred its own action on
the amendment until the matter could
be thoroughly threshed out by COM
petent committee and now that the
committee has reported there is no
doubt that this states approval of
the proposed change will at least be
withheld until the Objectionable fea-
lures are eliminated"
The Journal goes on to talk about
the Bristow amendment and all that,
but it neglects to put its finger, so
to speak, on a word or line or Sec
ton of the congressional resolution
that should be eliminated The Age
Herald defies it to name a single
change for the worse in the resolution
now before the states. 1t defies it to
state what "the Bristow amend
ment" is.
Article 5 Of the federal constitution
provides that Congress may propose
amendments whenever thirds of
both houses shall deem it necessary"
This has long been construed as re-
curing thirds of a quorum in each
house, and no state, however dema-
gogical, can change the practice of
125 years.
The entire position of the Georgia
legislature and of the Atlanta Jour
nal is one in the interest of the
Barneses and Penroses and Guggen-
helms of the country and it is one in
opposition to the reform of the United
States Senate and in opposition to di-
rect action by the people. 1t is a po-
sition that is not fair and open. 1t
is an underground effort to arrest a
great popular reform, and it will fall
to the ground when the light of reason
is thrown upon it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07

Julian Street III Eyerybody's Magazine.
When one speaks of Broadway, one
does not think of the steamship offices in
the canyon of lower Broadway; the whole
sale shirt, cloak and suit, feather and
umbrella district above City Hall park;
the old department stores between Union
and Madison squares; but of that strange,
sordid miie-and-a-half which is given
over to amusement, and which-with its
unimportant buildings and its general
cheap look only partially redeemed by an
occasional fine hotel-must be bitter
disappointment to. those who, having
heard George M. cohans patriotic songs
about it, see it for the first time.
Yet the street has interesting features;
1t is the hottest, tawdriest street on earth
at midday in the summer, the coolest,
oruelest street at midnight In the winter;
and if inhabitants of other planets, gaz-
ing at us through their telescopes. see
brilliant flashes in the night and think
that we are signaling to them, it is be-
cause commercial gentlemen with goods
to sell are signaling, not upward to the
heavens, but downward to the earth
GpT inc rest Will QOtS i'ioohNetS ciiNf
us? Theatres named for other theatres
in the European capitals; European ac-
tors playing European plays in European
clothing; restaurants called after famous
Paris eating places; French cooking,
French cocks, French walters, and French
wines.
So far as our restaurants are con-
cerned, the French invasion is not to be
Ceplored. No one who is civilized, or
even semi-civilzed will mourn the loss
of the strictly American restaurant
which fiourished in such numbers upon
Broadway until a decade or so since.
Gone are its checkerboard marble floors,
its heavy, plush upholstered chairs. its
a1mored plates and sidedishes, its Irish
walters Seasoning the soup with their
thumbs) its unimaginatiye. uninviting
bill of fare, set in type once for all when
the establishment first opened. and never
changed save when a dish or two was
added in peculiar purple handwriting.
Why | wonder, were all those ancient
bills of fare written in purple and in the
same illegible hand? 1t is one of the un-
solved problems of our unlovely gas
tronomic past. Suffice it that the eating
house of other days has gone to an ur-
hcnored grave In its own greasy gravy
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
Cotton Estimates in August

The governments estimate of the
condition of the cotton crop is lower
by IL per cent than one year ago.
The reported condition of the crop is
761s per cent of a normal output. This
estimate is per cent below the aver
age of the past 10 August estimates.
The reported acreage is, however,
larger than that of any previous year
except 1911. 1t is about 100000
acres larger. A good season from this
time on to October may, therefore,
lead to a crop of 13,OOo,0OO to 14,0oo,-
600 as against the 16 100000 of the
present cotton year. Rains have fall
len in some sections of Texas, and
there is sufficient moisture in the dis
tricts east of the Mississippi.
AS a rule the traders in the various
markets are hesitating to take either
side. The size of the growing crop is
a problem now as 1t is every year IN
August. The worlds supply of cot
ton is larger by 40 per cent than it
was one year ago, and crop of a.,
600 900 bales would suffice, but crop
of 10000, 900 would not. The spinners
are befogged, but they generally are
in August. The size of the growing
crop remains as rule a problem all
through the present month, and the
experts will disagree even in Septem-
her
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
ADVICE TO vAcATIoNIsrs

From the Spokesman's Review.
Frederick S. Lee. professor of physiology
at Columbia, certainly has rare courage
in avowing his scientific convictions He
boldly affirms that it is folly for an ex-
hausted professional worker to tramp in
vacation or row or climb mountains till
he is ready to drop.
The doctor, of course, refers to the
abuse of vacations. He believes in vaca-
tons properly used. But his seemingly
paradoxical assertions rest on broad and
sound foundations.
Fatigue is drain on vital resources.
The faded brain taxes them as readily as
the tired muscles. firing the body when
the mind is tired adds to the strain on
vigor.
Professor Lee insists that the way fer
the tagged brain to recover tone is not to
turn to some new activity, supposedly
muscular, but to rest in sweet donothing-
ness. Work with the brain taxes the body
as truly as the mind, one hour of mem
tai effort being equal in exhausting eff
feet to three of muscular exertion. and
what the worker with his head needs is
rest for body no less than for brain.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
WORLDS CLEANEsT CITY

John A. Sleicher in Leslie's.
I have found the cleanest city IN
the world Very properly 1t is the
worlds oldest watering place. for water
means cleanliness. 1t dates back over
90 centuries 1t is a little city of not
more than 5000 inhabitants, though this
number is auadrupled during the height
~ the summer season, when all the
world paws tribute to the remarkable
efficacy of its salabrious warm baths.
For the wornout, overworked Ameri-
can. these baths have a peculiar fascin-
alton. Year after year the visitors from
the United states include men or al
fairs, many notable in financial, busi-
ness and profession circles. 1t Is sur
prising that the rush of overwrought
Americans to this famous health resort,
which has been so long favorite rest
ing place for titled Europeans, is not
much greater. I am writing OF AK
les- Bains, or, as 1t is commonly called,
AK.
AK is in southern France, near the
Swiss border. The snow capped peaks
of the Swiss Alps, rising above and
all around it, give to the clean little
city a Heterogeneous and seclusion
all It's own. Two warm springs, gush-
ing from the mountain at the rate OF
.Ooo. 900 gallons daily form the reason
for the existence of AK. These wa
ters possess io-activity, and their
chemical elements, including chiefly
sulphuretted hydrogen, render them
most efficacious for govt, rheumatism
and similar physical ills, the result OF
oyerwork, a sedentary life, lack of
exercise and too liberal diet.
The famous springs of AK belong to
the state. Its center of attraction Is
the bathing pavilion-a massive gran
tie structure, with an imposing front
and lofty wrought iron doors. 1t stands
at the head of one of the principal
streets. and contains abundant accom-
modations for all the visitors. and the
baths are of the greatest variety. The
thermal waters are used only external
ly. The popularity of the bath at AK
Is that it combines the douche with
massage. I know of no other resort
that gives anything exclusively OF this
kind. and n other springs, | am told.
have the same chemical and radio &C
tivities that have made the waters OF
AK SO efficacious for over 20 CEN
turtles. or since rs years before the
Christian era.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07

about the wage worker, but in his
effort to catch the socialist labor vote
he stresses the necessity of minimum
wage scales, and of scales that will
provide the laborer with money in suf-
ficient amount "for education, recrea-
ton, care for immature members of
the family, maintenance of the family
during sickness apd accumulation of
reasonable savings for old age" Such
ideas are certainly humane and we
may never have ideal social or indus
trial conditions until every man who
is willing and ready to work is able
to support his family in comfort, and
provide them, too, with some of the
innocent pleasures of life; but in his
confession why does the colonel stop
at the wage worker-the man or
woman who tolls for so much per day
or per week? He should propose also
a measure that would provide a COM
Portable living for all people and in
sure an accumulation of reasonable
savings for old age" for everybody.
The colonel loves politics, and he is
talking politics in Chicago. He has
many admirers and will capture some
of the electoral votes. Many shrewd
politicians predict that in the electoral
college the Roosevelt electors will out
number the Taft electors. In the
meantime the Bull Moose will be ex-
pected to talk to the gallery and oc-
casionally add to the gayety of ma
lions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
wonderful Animals

I'm my long years of experience in
seeing amusements I have never had
the pleasure of witnessing such dis
play of animal intelligence as that of
the two balloons at the Orpheum this
week." said Tom Shields, the well
known hotel man. "Those animals are
almost human, and I have seen many a
human being who displayed less sense
than Emperor and Empress. Monkeys
are known to be among the hardest
animals to train and have never seen
one before that would go through an
entire act without being held with a
string and told what to do. These two
so through their act without the man
ager and without hitch. | believe the
children will flock to the Orpheum by
the thousands this week to see these
animals
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
GREEN GROW THE RAsHEs o.

BY Robert Burns
Green grow the rashes o.
Green grow the rashes o;
The sweetest hours that e'er I spend
Are spent among the lasses o.
There's naught but care on ev'ry han,
In every hour that passes O:
What signifies the life o. man,
Ant were ma for the lasses O?
The warly race may riches chase.
An riches still may fly them o;
An though at last they catch them fast,
Their hearts san neer enjoy them o!
Give me a canny hour at cen,
My arms about my dearie 0,
An warly cares an warly men
May all gaze tapsalteerie o!
For you sac douce We speer at this.
Ye're naught but senseless asses o;
The wisest man the warl' eer saw
He dearly lo'ed the lasses o,
Aud Nature swears the lovely dears
Her noblest work she classes o;
Her prentice han she tried on man
An then she made the lasses Oh
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
PIGS For THE ZOO

From the st. Louis Republic.
A pair of pigs for the zoo is the inter-
esting offer made to the Geological So
ciety by George r. Laage. He thinks
collection of domestic animals would
prove interesting to many city people
who have but faint ideas as to the ways
of sheep and kline anywhere but on the
butchers block.
The idea is well worth the consideration
which the Geological Society promises to
give it. What proportion of city children
ever sees a litter of little pigs? They are
as interesting as most wild animals. In
deed. they are themselves wild. What is
there less suggestive of the domestic than
a row of little pigs all with ears erect
and noses quivering as they eye an APP
preaching stranger and then break into a
scampering stampede? What is there
more likely to throw a child into a spasm
of joy than the sight of litter of I'M
weaned pigs at meal time? It might be
a surprise to many a grown-up st.
Louisan to find some day at the forth
coming geological garden that a sheep is
naturally a long-tailed animal and that
its young really do skip and play.
If a complete exhibition of domestic
animals should seem unadvisable to the
Geological Society they might at least
plan a spring exhibition a farm yard
scene, with pigs, lambs. calves. colts,
f1edgling fowls, goslings, ducklings, and
their progentors. 1t requires no gift of
prophecy to foresee crowd around such
a show
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
Colonel Rooseyelt,s Doctrines

President Roosevelt, popularity
known as the Bull Moose, head of a
new party, gave to the world yester-
day what he terms his Confession of
Faith" 1t contains many things that
look we'll on paper, perhaps, but that
can never be applied practically. The
document is socialistic in the main;
in some respects ultra-socialistic.
One of the great issues, if not the
paramount issue, of this years presi-
Dental campaign will be the tariff.
Colonel Roosevelt has never shown
much interest in the tariff. He has
never understood its workings. Like
national finance the tariff question is
complex and full of difficulties. The
ex-President has never had liking
for problems that he could not readily
grasp. His reference to the tariff is,
therefore, general and his ideas touch
ing the matter have no suggestion of
constructive craftsmanship.
The ex-President is a man of great
mental force, but many of his pro-
nounced views are utterly impractica-
hle. Roosevelt says some good things
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
THE "BELLE OF THE BENDS

From the st. Louis Republic.
The river news has 1t that the steam
boat Belle of the Bends is coming up
from New Orleans. She is to be placed
in the excursion business and her future
home port will be ST. Louis.
The name smacks of the dying romance
of the river. 1t rings of the old life when
the broad Mississippi resounded with the
hoarse hooting of whistles and the dip
din of broad paddle wheels. The Belle
of the Bands is name that ought 10
touch the fancy of even the light mindeo
excursionist. 1t whispers or yeiio"
reaches of river under the moon ana
wooded points where the bars swing down
into the tides.
1t is in keeping with the names that
we're once household words along the DIE
river. There was fine poetic fancy III
some of those names. There was tne
North Star and the Belle of the Prairie
the Great Republic and the Effie Alton
Gray haired folk recall the voyages ano
the excursions of the Gussy Gordon, tne
Natchez and a whole line OF Eclipses
whose gorgeousness belied the sombe'
name There is Kate Adams now ply
ing out of Memphis and there is worle
of "reminiscences in her name. What
could roll more Economically from the
tongue than such names as the Crane
Turk, the Blackhawk and the Altoona
OR the ]. NJ. White when that famous
steamboat was establishing record fol
swiftness that has never been equalec
on the Father of Waters?
Folk who go excursioning now do so II
such prosaic vehicles as chair car 567, OF
high back coach 6e1. Only in the coaches
built by the descendants of Pullman Is
there a touch of leaping fancy. There !:
more of romance in an excursion boa
named the Alex Scott. the Shotwell or the
City of Alton than there can be in Z
vanished coach. numbered like con
Wet or telephone.
The Belle of the Bends is welcome fol
heI name il nothing more.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07

Today at O'Clock a meeting of citizens
viii be held in the Chamber of Commerce
TO discuss plans for conducting warm
campaign for the ratification of the con-
stitrtional amendment which would en-
able the people and the legislature to cut
out the fee system in Jefferson county.
The utter economic waste of the fee sys-
tenn is known to all In this county and
there is little need to dwell upon it here.
But the vote upon the pending amend
ment will not be confined to jefferson
county. 1t is to be a statewide vote.