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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
AyERAGE woMAN,s LIFE

Inez Haynes Gilmore, in Harper's Bazas.
 Then comes marriage. home making. housekeeping. maternity. The average woman is still a financial dependent-a pensioner on her husbands bounty, as formerly she was on her fathers. The great dread of the financial dependent still hangs in the back of her mind. Sup pose in her worked out middle years she be left alone with family of children, what then? And then matrimony Is very different from that ideal communion of the engagement. Inevitably somewhere along the married road comes parting of the ways. More than half the husband s life-and the best and most interesting and most entertaining part-lies beyond sler sphere.
 If she be a wise woman. and if she have the leisure or can make it. she identifies herself as much as possible with that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
TEA TIME IN PARIS

From Pierre de Coulevain's "Sur Ia
 Branche."
 Formerly Parisians used to take cake or sandwiches with a glass of Spanish wine at Cages or Cuvlllier's or at the confec- toners near the Madeleine. Now the tea shop is an institution; the o'clock has become a custom. This little evolution, which has not been without its effect upon our manners, has taken place within the last l5 years. It originated In the Rue de Rivoli, in a shop known as the Sta tioner's of La Concorde. kept by two Englishmen, the brothers Neal. We're they inspired by vision of that brown teapot which between 4;30 o'clock and 5 appears in all city offices? Did they think to un- dertake work of piety and profit by supplying to their compatriots the national beverage? I do not know; but there. at tine end of the counter, amid books and papers, behind a screen, on two tables only, they began to serve tea and bis- cults. For the first time Paris beheId 2 sign with the words Afternoon Tea. " Tea and biscuits in stationer's shopl Only an English brain could imagine such an invention. Never mind; the sign worked wonders. More than one British CT on his holiday, more than one loving couple made the acquaintance of that Iit- tie corner. and remember it with deep gratitude.
 This was the germ of those tea shops. which for the last three years have been growing up as quickly as mushrooms. They are to be found everywhere, in the Rue Cambon. the Rue de Rivoli, the Rue Saint Honore, near the Louvre, and the Bon Marche. Paris has surpassed Lon don in this respect. Does this imply that the French woman has become a tea thinker? Not in the least; and what is worse, she never will. She knows neither how to drink it, nor prepare it. nor pour It. She swallows it absentmindedly as il it were an infusion of no matter what Il excites her nerves without stimulating her. She is too fond of talking, of creat. ing an impression, to give the necessary attention to the teapot, the samovar, ol the kettle. She is quite incapable of re | beating over and over again the liturgica questions: Weak or strong? One or two Jumps of sugar? Cream or lemon? Ant
 when she does bring herself to ask sh,
 never waits for an answer The tea shop
 where, if she be not afraid of appearing too bourgeoise. she takes chocolate, af lords her an agreeable resting place, ii the midst of her shopping and her visit l to the dressmaker, and satisfies at ono
 her desire for sociability and her exclu siyeness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23

nue was noted for its beauty. The res idence sections have been extended and today the landscape effects on the Highlands and up on the mooies'ii' side are singularly enchanting.
 "The high cost of the building does not always mean artistic architecture Many a five thousand dollar house IS more beautiful than some houses tha' cost five times that much.
 "An architect should be practical man and should have practical ideas about construction, but he should also have aesthetic taste Many successful firms of architects have one member who is an artist and one who IS practical constructor This. Of. course, is an ideal combination, but what l wish especially to speak of is the stead ily advancing standard of architecture in this town; and the best of 1t Is, art taste is being used in mercantile build ings as well as in elegant homes. l can remember when a business house was entirely devoid of aesthetic treat ment. Now we have scores of beauh- full faeades in the business district A store building that costs s2o,oo0 or 900 should show some artistic or namentation. The difference in cost between a severely plain front and an artistic front Is only s2O00 to $30oo."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
Debs and Seidel, Socialists

Eugene V. Debs, an almost perpet- ual candidate for President among the socialists, boiled four years ago 420,- 900 votes, and the total vote of two nominees in 1908 was 434,000. The socialists now claim to represent 100000 voters, but expert observers think that they will do very well if they poll 6O0,000 votes in November. With MT. Debs is associated ex-Mayor Seidel of Milwaukee, as a candidate for Vice President.
 In their convention at Indianapolis they refused to shoulder the problems of the labor unions, or even to indorse them. They did, howevAr, denounce violence and riot. As a party they are academic, although they do main tain a political machine. It is said this machine will endeavor to re-elect Congressman Berger and many more like him this fall.
 The socialist party does grow, but it's rate of growth is slow, and the times do not promise any outburst of growth this year. Debs and Seidel as a ticket does not appeal strongly to the masses from whom the eccentric parties are drawn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
The Trucking Interests

''The wet weather in the late winter and early spring was bad on the truckers iu the south. but the strawberry crop Is ex- ceptionally large, and the summer veg etable crops may turn out to be very profitable" said a man who is in close touch with the small farmers.
 "The Birmingham district is an invit- ing field to northern homseelSers of truck farming experience. Within the past two years several hundred truckers have bought farms within radius of 20 miles or 30 miles of Birmingham. They have thriven, and within the next four or five years Jefferson county will be noted for the large volume of it's trucking busi- ness.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23

From the Washington Post
 Gov Emmet o'Neal of Alabama is en- thusiastic over the part which he believes his state is going to play this year in national politics, and in the. general prog ress of the country. At the New Will lard he discussed the chances of Repre- sentative Underwood for the democratic presidential nomination and several re- forms which he is inaugurating in his state.
 Alabama is for Representative Under wood first, last and all the time Its dele gation to Baltimore will know no second choice.' he declared. "The other southern states are going to be with us, because they, like many other parts of the coun- try. believe that Representative Under wood possesses the record on which the democratic party can best go forth with hope of victory"
 The Alabama executive then touched upon his campaign for law reforms and equitable taxation in his state. He an- nouneed that the people of Alabama were looking forward to the convention of the leading jurists and lawyers which will convene tomorrow. to endeavor to eradi- cate teehnicalites and expedite trials
 We will endeavor to obtain legislation which will not permit a higher court to reverse a lower tribunal unless the rec ord shows that the ends of justice are be- Ing defeated by the lower courts ruling" l" he said
 At present we levy taxes on a 60 per cent basis, but only collect about 30 per cent Much of the personal property escapes taxation, while the system now Tn force does not levy on real estate on uniform basis throughout the state.
 Our cotton crop Is late throughout the south added Governor oNeai, but Alabama is forging ahead rapidly. We are now practically free from dependence upon the west for meat and corn. Our lands yield from 250 to 300 bushels of corn to the acre. This is more than the west ern lands are yielding today The last census showed that while agricultural in- crease in the west had been 5s per cent, that Of the south had been 156 Der cent. We still have much untitled land. which can be purchased cheaply, and will pro- duce more than bale of cotton ner acre Alabama is the land of progress and tie whole south the field for investment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
A City of Restaurants

Birmingham is a city of restaurants,' said man who travels in all parts of the country. Tn every city as large as Bjr- mingham one expects to find a number of good cafes, but I have never seen any city of approximately Birminghams size with so many high class eating places. There are several excellent hotel cafes here. and outside of the hotels they are countless. Many of the eating places with comparatively cheap rates serve good food. and serve it well.
 "Im am told that there are in Birmlng ham as many as 50 restaurants, and of this number about 20 keep open all night, which shows that this is a live and en- ergetic town.
 "of the highest class of restaurants one thing is essential for continued suc- cess-the proprietor or some one in au- thority very close to him must be on duty all the time, When the proprietor is in sight the service generally moves along smoothly and if the patron knows that he can register kick with the proprie- tor if the service does not suit him he is better satisfied than If he took it out in grumbling at the waiter. or the cash girl. or cash boy.
 Some years ago one of the famous in stitutions of Chicago--and it may be just as popular now--was Kinsley's. It was centrally located, and there were dining rooms where expensive meals were served, private dining rooms of the most ele- gant appointment and inexpensive lunch counters where messenger boys and poor but respectable working girls could get piece of pie and a glass of milk for nickel Also at Kinsley's was the finest bar in Chicago. MT. Kinsley stood in the vestiblue of his establishment and welcomed everyone that came along. He held in fact. an informal reception every day from 12 to 1 o'clock. He was a New Englander by birth, but was pio-
 neer citizen of Chicago. He was most agreeable old gentleman when I first knew him, and many a pleasant five min
 ute chat I had with him. Mir Kinsiey
 had built up his business from n small beginning and after he had built It up and became rich he continued to look after it.
 .In some large business operations de- tails can be handled we'll by trusted agents, but a hotel or restaurant is all the better if the proprietor or general manager gives it personal attention and comes in contact with It's patrons"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
overcrowded Dockets in This Count,


 The fee system is becoming more and more burdensome. A fee is col lected every time case is called in court, and the fee brigade is crowding the dockets with cases. The criminal court docket is over 4000 cases behind. This means an overcrowded jail. The civil dockets are crowded with jury cases. Judge Crow recently stated that 50 cases week are placed on the docket in his division when two jury trials day is days work in the average.
 All dockets are deluged with cases, and unless the people in November vote to lift Jefferson county out of the net into which it was plunged by the constitution of 1901 Justice will wave her hand and take her leave of this county. She can stand a good deal, but she cannot buck against the fee system much longer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23

From Pearsons Weekly. H oNNoT, the Paris motor bandit, put up a game fight to a finish O against the soldiers the other day.
 So, too, did the anarchist murderers trapped in the burning house in sydney street just over 16 months ago.
 Fully as grim and more picturesque was the battle waged in Wyoming some little time back under similar circumstances by Nate Champion and Nick Ray.
 Champion and Ray were professional cattle thieves, with several murders to their credit. They fortified cabin in the bad lands" of wyoming and dared all comers
 The news travelled back to the eastern states, and a number of young Harvard graduates and multimillionaires' sons thought it would be good sport to organize a party to go and capture or kill the desperadoes.
 The graduates chartered a special train from Chicago to Wyoming, and the two cattle thieves were taken completely by surprise, Ray being shot and mortally 
 cabin door at daybreak in answer to a summons. He was dragged inside, how ever, by Champion, who then settled him self down for siege.
 The attacking party, who numbered about 40. were splendidly armed, and they fired thousands of rounds into the strong hold of the outlaws, but without doing any further damage.
 At o'clock in the afternoon Champion walked out into the open holding aloft white handkerchief tied to a stick. Say, you fellersr' he shouted, I'm going to the well to git some water fer my pard. He's most done for and orful bad. You kin shoot me if you like and be alarmed ter yer!"
 Cease freY' commanded the leader of the graduates. and Champion passed safe ly across the open to the well and back again. An hour later the besiegers tried
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Splendid Team Work

The Live Wire teams of the Cham Der of Commerce started out Monday to get a thousand new members during the present week, and that number will be secured" said a Chamber of Com merce official last night.
 The number of new members al ready secured totals over 500. The teams of the membefship committee in- 'elude in pound numbers 70 men. These team workers can be greatly assisted in their efforts if all the members of the chamber would ask friend to join. Enthusiasm counts for great deal, and every man in the Chamber of Commerce should lend his aid in keep Ing the ball rolling.
 Oscar c. Turner chairman of the membership committee. says there is no doubt about getting the thousand mem bers by the end of the week, but it would be a feather in Birmingham S cap if that number were completed be- fore Friday at noon."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
A Good Roads Year

Progress in good road making has been in evidence in Alabama during the past two or three years, but the coming sum- mer and fall should witness more good road work than ever before,'' said mem- Der of the Alabama Good Roads associa- ton.
 sThe exceptionally wet winter made many highways impossible. The old style of dirt road. with a little work done in thu spring, used to seem good enough in the summer, but the people have gradual ly come to appreciate the economic value as we'll as pleasure resulting from mac adamized roads. Every county should have roads that are as good in wet weather as in dry. Good roads and first class ele- mentary schools form the basis of real progress.
 For many years past New York and Massachusetts have been building macadamized roads. but a year or so ago each of those states issued s50,O00,o00 of road bonds for a more extensive system of hard roads. Some of the New England states that were going backward began to build roads few years ago and ns result of this work those states are now enjoying a higher degree of prosperity than at any time In their history.
 "The counties of Alabama have good credit and there is not one of them that cannot afford to go forward in good road making"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
WHAT HE MEANT TO WRITE

From the Saturday Evening Post.
 Spike" Slattery, sporting editor of the San Francisco Call, whose speciality is baseball, had delayed his account of the opening game of the season until after the little dinner that followed. He rushed into the local room. threw off his coat. settled himself at his typewriter and glanced at the keyboard to get his bear- ings. He squinted little closer, wiped his glasses, took 8 good look and began turning out copy with his usual speed. As he worked, his eyes wandered round the room. If anyone thought he would not be able to get his stuff in on time he'd show him Half an hour later the copy reader glanced at a pile of scrupulousiy neat sheets, rubbed his eyes and looked again.
 What in seventy splattering blaze5 is thisr' he bawled. as he read:
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 There was page after page of it-and Spike had gone. It was passed mp to the puzzle editor. and in half an hour he dis- covered the key Spike. who used the touch system exclusively. had started one row too far to the right on his keyboard and had kept to it. Deciphered, the open ing paragraph read If Danny Long expects to win a pen nant this season he had better get a troupe of trained seals with fppers big enough to slap a lobster on the wrist once in ten tries. A pickled crab at a typewriter couldn't tumble worse than the bunch he has!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
THE THREE KISSES

By Elizabeth Barret Browning First time he kiss'd me, he but oni
 kiss'd
 The finger of this hand wherewith
 write; And ever since 1t grew more clean an
 white, Slow to world greetings. quick with il
 70. list" When the angels speak. A ring of amf
 thyst could not wear here. plainer to my sigl1 Than that first kiss. The second pass'd
 height The first. and sought the forehead, an
 half miss'd, Half falling on the hair. o. beyond meet That was the chrism of love. which love
 own crown, With sanctifying sweetness, did preced The third upon my lips was folded dow In perfect. purple state; since when, II deed, I have been proud, and said. My lov
 my own!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
HOW LION PREPARES MEAL

Tn an article on lions in the June Amer ican Magazine, Stewart Edward White describes the manner In which lion kills his prey.
 'The lion generally springs on his prey from behind or a little off the quarter By the impetus of his own weight he hurls his victim forward, doubling us head under, and very neatly breaking its neck I have never seen this done, but the process has been well observed ana attested; and certainly, of the many hun dreds of lion kills l nave taken the pains to inspect, the majority had had their necks broken. Sometimes. but ap- parently more rarely, the lion kills its prey by a bite in the back of the neck have seen zebra killed in this fashion, but never any of the buck. It may be possible that the lack of horns makes it more difficult to break a zebra's neck because of the corresponding lack of lev craze when it's head hits the ground side wise.
 "Once the kill is made, the lion disem- bowels the beast very neatly indeed, and drags the entralls few feet out of the way. He then eats what he wants; and, curiously enough, seems often to be very fond of the skin. In fact, lacking other evidence, 1t is occasionally possible to identify a kill as being that of Hon by noticing whether any considerable DOT ton of the hide has been devoured. After eating he drinks. Then he is likely to do one of two things-either he returns to cover near the carcass and lies down, or he wanders slowly and with satisfaction toward his happy home. In the latter case the hyenas, jaekals and carrion birds seize their chance. The astute hunter can often diagnose the case by the general &C., tions and demeanor of these camp fol- lowers. A half dozen sour and distin- guished looking hyenas seated on their launches at scattered intervals, and tree fuls of mournfully humpbacked vulture sunk in sadness, indicate that the lion has decided to save the rest of his zebra until tomorrow; and is not far away. On the other hand, Tapping, snarllng Kii- kenny fair of an aggregation swirling about one spot in the grass means that the principal actor has gone home. It is ordinarily useless to expect to see the lion actually on his prey. The feeding is done before dawn, after which the lion enjoys stretching out in the open until the sun is well up, and then retiring to the nearest available cover. In an undis- turbed country. or one not mucn hunted, the early morning hours, up to say 9 o'clock, are quite likely to show you Hons sauntering leisurely across the open plains toward their lairs. They go little, stop little, yawn, sit down a while, gradually work their way home. At those times you come upon them unexpectedly face to face; or. seeing them from afar ride them down in Q glorious gallop."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
BATTLES WITH FELLOWS

to rush the cabin. But Champion shot tw of them dead and wounded three others.
 Then they set fire to the place and rit died Champion with bullets as he ran ou
 Meanwhile, however. some hundreds ( angry men, among whom were many. es cattle thieves, had come fiocking to tn scene and the graduates were attacked their turn.
 They occupied neighboring ranch, an held 1t gallantly, but they would all ur doubtedly have been killed but for the oI perfume arrival of body of United State cavalry, who raised this second siege an took the graduates into custody. The suffered no punishment, however, publ opinion being all on their side.
 As in the case of Bennot of Paris. dyns mite was used effectively so recently 2 November in Lodz. an important mant featuring town in Russian Poland desperate anaychist named Banasiak wa trapped in house and completely SUI rounded.
 The chief of police summoned him surrender. Banasiak replied that he woul never be captured alive, but would f1gf until the end, keeping nis last cartridt for himself.
 This was between and o'clock in th afternoon. Troops were called out and regular siege began, which lasted 70 hours
 Banasiak fired repeatedly on his assaii ants and after several policemen had bee hit, two machine guns were brought u4 and the house was riddled. When the o4 der Cease fire'' was given no one imae ined that the bandit could possibly hay, survived, and several policemen incaI tiously ran forward to try and effect d entrance.
 But the foremost of them fell dead wit a bullet in his brain, and the rest seal tered to cover. In the end the hous was blown up, and Banasiak was foun among the ruins stone dead but sti grasping a revolver in one hand and Mauser pistol in the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
A SUPERIOR TYPE OF CRIMINAL,

From the New York World.
 Postmortem examinations of two of the Paris motor bandits showed them to be Tn the pink of physical condition. They exercised regularly and lived on A. vege- table diet. and the scrupulous care they took of their persons is evidenced by Gar nlers beautiful manicured finger nails. They abstained entirely from alcohol. what might not Jack Sheppard have achieved had he kept away from the bot tie, which caused his undoing at the un- timely age of 22l
 Ihe Paris bandits appear, indeed. to have been of a superior criminal tyne. With many of the characteristics, partic- ularly as respects, their daring and dash. Which have idealzed outlawry from the times of Robin Hood and Claude Duval to those of the James "boys." Apparently mechanical invention mas caused no de- terioration of the highwayman's art. though whether bandits who operate with motor cars and dynamite can ever become as picturesque figures in romance as the old knights of the road is a question.
 But the Interesting thing to criminolo- slsts is their obvious pride in a lawless profession for which they trained as rig orously as athletes train for Olympic games and to which they brought unusual resources of mind and body. They seem to have had none of the physical stigmata or the conventional criminal. none of the earmarks of criminal degeneracy. They were fine specimens of physical manhood. and their energy and industry in their chosen work might have won them dis tlnction In some legitimate pursuit. So- ciety Is confronted with a serious problem when talent of this order is attracted to crime