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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
WHAT IS BEER.
n the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 What is beer2' asks the department of agriculture.
 Sometimes it is the contents of the pro- hibitionists' malt extract bottle.
 It is something the English and Ger mans say we never got in this country.
 Something very young men order when they kid themselves into the belief that they are going to the dogs.
 Something oldey men order when they ',kid" themselves into the belief that they have-wen. practically you know-cut out alcoholic beverages.
 Something your friend Jones is drinking altogether too much of-you never take a glass but what you see him drinking one also
 Something you swear you'd give sl0 a bottle for when you think you can't get it and then you kick when you're charged quarter for one. Positively not the thing that is mak- ening the muscles of your legs, bursting out those small veins in your cheeks, giv- ing you d slight palpitation of the heart and affecting your circulation. You al- ways had d tendency toward that sort of thing.
 Something you take just before you go home so that you can reply truthfully to your wife's inauiring gaze: Well yes. did have glass of beer!'
 It can't be what's the matter with your liver. can it2
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 non-produetive and by persistent, intelli- gent effort they have rebuilt the land till t quadruples it's yield as virgin soil. They found the world dependent for lard on the hog supply. In 1911 the exports Of refined oil were half as much as the lard exports, although we consumed at home five times as much as, we exported. They had an oil called edible, but which was in fact an offense to both taste and smell. They have converted it into real edible oil, a delight to the most exacting epicure. They found cotton seed hulls valuable only for fuel and worth little for that. They have demonstrated that they are more valuable for food than ordinary hay and long ago reclaimed them from the furnace. They have shown that cotton seed meal is the richest diet for man and beast and impoverished land. With the market they have made for cotton seed they have converted waste material into value sufficient to cultivate the cotton crop, gather it and gin it and wrap 1t with absolutely no expense to the farmer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
A HOT DAY IN ARIZONA
Kansas City star.

From the Kansas City star
 Tom McNeal quotes Abe Peters as say ing that one summer he lived in South western Arizona, where the mercury stood most of the time at 13o in the shade, but would occasionally get a hump on itself and run to 160. In the sun it was from 150 to 200 All the people who understood the climate took to the coolest places 1t was possible to find during the middle of the day, and stayed there from Il o'clock to about in the afternoon. There was one tonderfoot, however. who wouldn't take any advice. He thought he knew it all. and said that he didn't propose to lie around like the trifllng natives. He would go out and work right through the day, like he did back cast. lie tried it one day, and that settled it. When he went out in the ni6rning hs wsy tail man, about six feet three. When he ean,o in that even- ing he WAS only five feet long. He had melted and run down during the day. His legs were perfectly straish. when he started out, but as t.5e.s sottened up with the heat they bent unees his weight, and when he came in at night he was 90 bowslegged that q two-year-old calf could have jumped through his loop. He really was a peculiar looking sight. His features had melted and run together so that you couldn't tell where his mustache left off and his eyebrows com menced, and his ears had slipped down on his neck. After that he knew enough to stay in the shade during the hot part of the day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
Cation seed Indu.try

c. W. Ashcraft of Florence, president of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers as- soclatlon. was one of the prominent speak CTS at the convention of the American Meat Packers, which opened its annual session in Chicago yesterday. He is well equipped for discussing every phase of the cotton seed industry and for that reason he is in demand at gatherings re- lated in any way to the great interest which he represents. His Chicago speech contained many pieasantries, Some pungent wit and a great deal of business sense. In stating facts here are some ot the more important:
 ''The oil mill interests of America have in few short years converted a waste material into one of the principal com modities of commerce. The total value of cotton seed sold in 1875 was less than s50o, eco. The total value of the products in 1s's was less than s1.0o0,coo. in 1911 it was more than sl7500o. From an insignfi- can property investment they have in- creased to more than sSoo,0oo.oco. From a place of no importance as employers ol labor. they have come to give employ ment to large army of workmcn. TlIey found the cotton piantatons depleted and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
AFTER HE CAME TO

From Judges Library.
 Te undertow had been playing rather roughly with Dubbleish. and when they got him ashore it was considered desir- ahel to roll him over q barrel a half dozen or more times in order to send him into liquidation. It was with n sigh of relief that the life savers ob- served his return to consciousness and assured safety.
 By George. boys" said he, as he opened his eyes and realized the sig nifloance of what had happened. thai was a terrible experience! I don't want to go through that again. 'I should say not" said Bildad. who had been instrumental in pulling him out. You had a narrow escape" q guess did," said Dubbl bleigh. And, say, Bill, do you know that state lives over again the whole story of his past life? By Jovel 1t was mighty in- teresting-right from my boyhood up every incident in my life passed in re- view before, my consciousness I was even back in school again, and then in college. and oil those years after grad uation, from my beginnings as a bank messenger up to this morning when l jumped into the surf"
 It's a wonder yod didn't die of nor tification."
 Yes said Dubbleigh; "but I'm glad I didn't. for among other things that came along was a vision of where put that lost promissory note of yours for sse---the one you wouldn't pay because I couldn't produce the document"
 "Geela I'm almost sorry. pulled you ashore"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
Vast Campaign Contributions

Perry s. Heath, former Assistant Postmaster General, was active and well known in the campaigns of Ben jamin Harrison and those of McKin- -1ey. He served as Mark Hanna s right-hand man in the Mckinley cam pagns. He is now business man, and is no longer interested directly and personally in the control of cam Tpaigns.
 But in the Washington Post he ex- plains matter that the public plain ly does not understand. "I do not be- lieve," he says in the course of an in- terview in the Post, "that more than one-fourth of the money expended to nominate and elect candidate has ever passed, or ever will pass, through the hands of campaign manager, or the chairman of na- tional committee. Specific items of money received by the manager of a candidate or chairman of national committee can be easily ascertained by the Senate committee, but the work of the committee will not great ly enlighten the public as to totals expended in nominations and elec- tions. Very frequently in the cam paigns of 1896 and 1900 large con- tributors to the election of McKin- ley, when solicited by Chairman Han na, requested that they be permitted to make contributions directly to can didates or to- state chairmen. We spent close to $3,500,00O through the national committee in 1896. If Sena- tor Hanna were alive today he would testify to that, yet I have not the slightest doubt that sS,000,000 or s10,00o,o0O was expended by the re- publicans in 1S96."
 No one knows more about the cam- paign funds of 1892, 1896 and 1900 than MT. Heath does, and what he says about those campaigns is un- doubtly true of later campaigns. All campaign figures should, in other words, be increased fourfold in order to ascertain the true figures. Mir Heath is republican. He says that most contributors prefer to make ex- penditures lin their own way and through their own channels" and he further says that he does not be- lieve it is possible that any candidate for the presidency could be ignorant of large contributions to his cam paign fund. He speaks from actual experience acquired among candi- dates and politicians. There is noth- ing theoretical in Perry s. Heaths makeup
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
WALLETS BITE NOIRE
From "Eve's Other Children" by Lucille Baldwin Van Slyke

From "Eve's Other Children" by Lucille
 Baldwin Van Slyke.
 T'HEN, suddenly, these days of bliss
 ful delight came to an abrupt end,
 for there rose strange new dan- ger, more awesome than any of those that had yet troubled the little Syrian. On a sticky, humid day came Geraldine Schmidt, the Dutch baker lady's daugh- ter, wailing out her noisy Teutonic grief.
 Mine brother. They takes mine broth err, she howled.
 Nazileh clutched Antar, her own little brother, closely
 100 takes heem?' she demanded, cold dread in her heart. If they" would take stupid Dutch baby like Adolph Schmidt. would not they take Antar?
 "The Fresh Air Fund, walled Ger aldine. They takes him off init train,'
 Nazileh's eyes widened with horror. The very name of the monster was ter rigying. She mouthed it with bated breath.
 "Freeschairfun she whispered. This was a terror more to be feared than the ghouls and jinns of far off Syria. She pushed the battered perambulator home so fast that it's rattling wheels almost lost their spokes. She did not dare con tide this dreadful terror to her mother, but fingered within doors, starting nerv- ously at every strange sound in the noisy railways She was cunning, inventng excuses for staying inside when her mother bade her take the whimperng baby to the street, and when these availed not, she scuttled into doorways whenever a stranger passed
 To be sure, after a few days the first sharpness of her fright slid easily into a somewhat secure >sense of thing past; but always a new effote of danger sang itself through the noisy song of her life. She argued adrotly with herself that some moments were obviously safe for Antar to appear in public. Not even a jim or a ghoul would dare approach while Father Shiskims broad back was within vision, and she followed him, half
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Boston and New York

Tn reading the comments of Warren P Adams of Boston, on Boston and New
 York, comparing the two cities in favor of Gotham, I felt that he was not fair to the old New England city" said a lcosmopolite.
 T like New York and I like Boston, but for a place of residence l would
 much prefer the latter. Not only has Boston's culture always had a strong appeal but Boston hospitality is pro- verbial-almost as proverbial as south
 ern hospitality.
 ''I have a particular liking for Lon don. It is the friendlest large town in
 the world. In this country Boston
 seems something like London When it comes to statistics relating to morals and crime Boston, I would say, makes
 far better showing than New York. l never hear of any police graft scandals in Boston. It is an exceptionally well behaved community. It may not have as many churchgoers as New York, yet scores of churches are well crowded every Sunday. But whether Bostonians go to church or not they are God fear ing and law-abiding compared with the
 masses in New York.
 ITO me the particularly attractive thing about New York is the large op-
 portunity for diversion. The theatres in New York are the best I know of
 anywhere. And New York is getting to be quite an art center. But the in- civility on the part of the people I
 meet on the thoroughfares is character
 istic and must be, of course, offensive
 to strangers. The people of Chicago,
 high and low, are more civil to visitors
 than the people of New York, generally
 speaking. But to my mind, of all the
 large American cities Boston is the
 best
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
Very Attractive Shans

"The Dangaix stores at the corner of Nineteenth street and Fourth ave nue are lvery attractive small struc- tures," said business man.
 They are all occupied, and they present a nice shop appearance in tho foreign terms. With white tile fronts and one-story, they were erect ed to supply a present day demand and will be torn down in few years when business conditions and progress de- mand.
 T understand that in a few weeks Judge Grubb will begin the erection of handsome building on the adjoining property on Fourth avenue, where the markets are now located.
 T think Mr. Dangaix deserves the commendation of those who are inter- ested in the growth and the apeparanee of the city It were better to have hand. some appearing one-story structures than two and three-story unsightly buildings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
THE CITY IN THE SEA

By Edgar Allan Poe. Lo. Death has reared himself a throne In strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the
 worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest. There shrines and palaces and towers tTime eaten towers that tremble nou Resemble nothing that Is ours. Around. by lifting winds forgot. ResiGnedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie. No rays From the holy heaven come down On the long night time Of that town; Put light from out the lurid sea Streams up the turrets silently, Cleans up the pinnacles far and free: Up domes, up spires. up kingly halls, Up fanes, up Babylon-like walls. Up shadowy long forgotten bowers Of sculptured ivy and stone iowers, Up many and many a marvellous shrine Whose wreathed friezes intertwine The viol. the violet and the vine. Resignedly beneath the sky The melapclnoly waters lie. So blend the turrets and shadows there That all seem pendulous in air, While from . proud tower in the teWn Death looks Gigantically down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15

a block or more behind, on his daily jour- neys through his parish. But one evening, while this unconscious protector stood in plain sight from the corner where she had stationed herself. Antar let out a sudden cry, as the heat rash chafed his dusky skin. When Nag ileh flew to comfort him with gentle scratches she saw that two women were stopping over the idilapidated hood of the i cart one, with odd little bonnet strings beneath her chin, was smiling at the baby ptyingly.
 Has the baby been sick very long?'' she asked.
 ''He ees nod seeck,' answered Nazileh. patiently. "Eet ees more heat than he likes, an he cries also of tn bite of tn muskeet.' Poor little soul.' said the woman thoughtfully, with one cool hand on An tars wrist. His temperature is way up. Where do you live, dear?" 'Forty-neen of Deex street, please" answered Nazileh The other woman wrote something in a little book, straining her eyes in the 1 fiickering glare of the arc light.
 
 | Bonner" she said regretfully. Every one of the south districts tickets are gone, and unless you can get transfer stub from the Bridge street fresh air | fund"
 l Without a seconds pause. the two startled women found themselves star l ing down the street after child who ran stumbling but feetly-a child wilo was pushing a riekety cart with all the strength of her Frightened little self.
 Heart of my hearts.' whispered Ma | zileh in rapid Arabic, with one grimy 1 little hand over Antars thick lips, mot | so loud-bas baqua.' Her breath came | in uneven jerks. She was shiyering with | terror.
 | "Oh thad Freeschairfun'.n she moaned softly. T like thad eet was dead. dead. dead. 1 weesh"--she paused in grim de- | light of the deadly American oath she was about to utter-'I weesh' gosh on eet!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
Birmingham's Progress

Within the present year Birming ham has made great gain in the number of general agencies that have been established here. Many more are now planning to secure office space in this city. Northern manu- lecturers and northern interests of various kinds, in establishing south ern headquarters turned largely to Atlanta. The general agency busi- one thing, perhaps, to the building up of the Georgia metropolis.
 But Birmingham is the geographical eeuter of the south and, it is safe to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
Worlds series Plcturc.

"I have been more interested this year In the worlds championship se- iies than ever before and l find the pictures which are exhibited at one of the local theatres the most inter- esting I have yet seen,' said a base ball fan
 'The pictures are taken during the action of the game; they are devei- oped within an hour; negatives are placed on glass slides for use in pie ture machines, and the slides are shipped before midnight of the day on which the game is played. l could see Monday afternoon the pictures of the Saturday game in Boston and the Fri day game in New York. That is won derful work and demonstrates that great progress in photography. Thu pictures show some of the crucial plays, as well as the immense crowds and the grandstands."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
Next Years State Fair

The great attendance at this years State Fair will be felt next year, fol already the determination is ex- pressed by the management that the fair of 1913 shall be carried to the rank of expositions. It is possible now to render the fair in Birmingham 8 southern exposition as well, and this should be done.
 New buildings are to be erected, and when this is done one of them should be devoted to the exhibits of women and another to automobiles This would leave the present largest building to be filled by agricultural exhibits, and it will be filled from top to bottom. More stalls are needed for horses and mules. While the ex- hibits of dogs, chickens and hogs in the recent fair were fine and even great, there was lack of horses and mules bred in the south. This feature of the fair should be extended and promoted.
 All in all it was a great fair, and its reputation will be increased when it is compared with those in Meridian, Montgomery and Macon. The man. agement does right, however, in raising the banner Excelsior" by starting out to make the fair of 1913, better still.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15

some time. But with the high pres sure prosperity now felt all through the land it need surprise no one to see iron reach $16 before the new year.
 There is large profit to furnace companies in iron at the present price but when high figures soar rapidly we will have runaway market, and a runaway market is quickly followed by heavy slump.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
ADRTFT WITH THE TIMES

began to fold his paper and looked around the car.
 Serves who right?s demanded the red- laced man sitting beside him.
 Serves Roosevelt right" replied the little man.
 What serves him right?' asked the big man.
 J. Adam Bede is on his trail,' said the llttle man, with an air of confidence
 what do care if J. Badam Ede is on his trail?' snorted the big man.
 Who said you cared?" demanded the little man.
 Don't come bullying me with your Bay Jadam Meade,' yelled the big man. T don't care who he is and I don't care who you are.'
 You are an insolent pup retorted the little man. You are -"
 But traffic officer boarded the car ana loaded what was left of the antagon, ists into patrol wagon.--Cincinnati En- quirer. 's 2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
-Humor of the Dog show

T think there was a touch of humor that came into the dog show when the smallest dog, with the longest name, and the tallest master. had to be strongly held to keep him from tack ling the great bull dog Jim Cerberus in the sweepstakes showing that closed the judging" said Percy Clark.
 And then when Harry W. took the prize for Spaniel bitches, winning the special prize of trousers offered by n business firm, somebody suggested dog pants.
 "Of all the fool questions I heard asked, those by a fellow who wanted to know why they called a pointer a pointer and a setter a setter;' and when told that they were bird dogs, he wanted to know if they could 'ketch ds.'-fact. We'll, I looked at him and went out and took glass of colored water called cider,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15
SUBTLE FLATTERY.

"Blobsiey is a crafty fellow
 Why do you think sop
 He was telling me yesterday about his winter sleeping arrangements. During cold weather he and Mrs. Blobsley turn off the steam in their bed-chamber and open window before retiring"
 Just so.''
 The next morning when they wake Blobsley tells his wife she is the dearest woman in the world. After that he pre- tends to doze. Then she slips out os bed, pulls down the window and turns cn the steana."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-15

bered through his animal shows at White City. They were the best and most as- tonishing spectacles of this character. It was Bostock who trained the twenty. seven male lions that first appeared in . single cage at the Pan American exposi- ton. with Capt. Jack Bonavita as the exhibitor It was Bostock, man of su. perb courage, who went into the cage when the lions were beyond Bonavitas control, and dragged out that savagely nangled trainer.
 The famous snowman had attempted te secure possession of the Hammerstein opera house for his special form of en. tertainment, but death ended his plan. ming.
 If to please and instruct countless thou. sands of fellow mortals constitutes q mission, then Frank Bostock's busy life was not lived in vain-and many Clsye- flanders will approve thls claim.