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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
EFFORTS OF STUDIOUS
 WOMEN TO LEARN GOT F
From the Chicago News.

from the chicago News.
 HE first appeared at the golf links "1 in the park one day early in 0 June, sat while watching the players, and then went away. She re- turned the following day, and the next also. On the third day she brought with her book, a little black-covered vol ume, on which was splashed in glaring gilt this title: How to Play Golf"
 Her intention was evident She was learning the game.
 With diligent regularity she came every afternoon for five days and studied that book for an hour or two, comparing the players with the illustrations in. the vol- ume. She was always alone, never ad- dressed any person, and was spoken to by no one. There was something in her air that repelled familiarity. She was a foreign-looking woman, tall, handsome well developed, and about-well, a little past the age when birthdays are an un- mixed joy. Her hair was as brilliantly red as stormy sunset, and very luxuri- ant, apparently, though. of course, one can never be quite sure. As if to accentu- ate the redness of her hair, she invariably carried gorgeous red paraso.
 Most ornamental she looked as she sat there on the bench undear her crimson canopy boring over the little book.
 But one sad Saturday she ceased being a bench ornament and became instead a public nuisance. On that particular day she arrived early with a gay plaid bag slung across her shoulder, containing three unscratched. shining golf clubs. In her hand she carried the book-the little black book with the big gilt title. Having procured ticket from the attendant, she seated herself. While waiting her turn she carefully conned the pages. after first rolling her sleeves to her elbows, like the golf girls on the calendars. When her number was called she marched un- concernedly over to the teeing ground. built miniature hill of damp earth, placed on its summit a snow-white ball, drew from the bag the driver. and then consulted the book.
 The crowd grinned, giggled. laughed.
 But to their actions the red. haired one
 
 the open book upon the sand, she went as deliberately to work to copy the illus tration on the page as if she had been alone on the links. After a few prelmi- nary waggles-according to direction-she elevated her club, brought it down to earth with a terrific whack and raised a cloud of sand but left the ball un- shaken on the tee. This seemed to as- tonsh her. but, after consulting the book again, she essayed another trial. This time the ball rolled reluctantly away Il few feet in the direction of the lagoon.
 The crowd shrieked with amusement The red-haired divinity was as indifferent as deaf mute. With unruffled face she consulted the book once more. inserted the driver in the bag. extracted the mid iron, and went after the ball. The trio of impatient boys immediately following her were obliged to walt until she had taken ten strokes-and the crowd had had ten spasms-before she was far enough out of range for them to proceed. By that time she had lost the ball and had ceased
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
DOING BUSINESS IN LONDON.
Dinner Table Is Often Scene and Champagne Agreeable Medium.

Of the business life in London of "Ella Rawls Reader, Financier," Juliet WiYbor Tompkins writes as follows in the Octo- Der Everybody's:
 Business in London is done largely over the dinner table. If 1t is to be tacit business women are asked and the affair has apparently the brilliant irresponsible ity of any other social event; for open discussion, only men are assembled. Champagne is inevitably the ether through which all business projects flow. The role of MT. Sprague's partner was largely that of hostess Every one who could be of service, direct or indirect, to the Multiple Unit Control was given his chance and his dinner, and Miss Rawls presided with a calm grace that never deserted her, even when. as often hap pened. she had to take the table alone woman with ten or a dozen men. Asking brilliant companies to meet an inventor is not always a simple matter; genius is as likely as not to arrive an hour or so late, with a mind above apology and the traces of the beloved machinery clearly visible; but natural ease and firm belief In the control pulled the young hostess through and had their steadily increasing influence in Sprague's favor.
 'To these dinners and lunches came en- gineers M. P.'s, peers of the realm, heads of traction companies, writers for the press. Miss Rawls talked electricity tnd Multiple Unit Control until she was pop- ularly supposed to be leading authority and something of an inventor herself Of course. her great advantage lay in the fact that the system she was pushing was, as has since been proved, the best thing of its kind yet invented. The facts were all on her side; her task was to get these facts a proper hearing. For this, her clear business head, her strong grasp on the salient points, were the best wea- pons. Moreover, as hostess and guest she had the gift of rousing friendliness, and direct. almost selfish interest--both of which inclined men to listen. It was, af- ter all fairly simple"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
DoN'Ts FOR BUSINESS WOMEN.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Don't bring your home troubles to the office and air them there
 Don't criticise those who work with you or those for whom you work
 Don't be late to your work and then expect consideration because you are a woman.
 Don't sprinkle yourself with heavy per- fume Your particular kind of perfume may be exceedingly obnoxious to those about you.
 Don't try to be mannish either in dress or manner. The mannish business wom- an is out of fashion, fortunately.
 Don't expect to be treated as if you were in society You are probably doing the work that was done formerly by man, and if in small ways you are not considered as much as you are at home, remember that you are in busi- ness.
 Don't wear overtrimmed and fussy clothes. Wear plain clothes with appro- priate blouses.
 Don't forget that all of the evil pas sions are traceable to two roots-anger and worry. These are the thieves that steal precious time and energy from life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
OLD AGE.

By Henry w. Longfellow. It Is too late! Ahl nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpi-
 tate. Cato learned Greek at SO; Sophocles Wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his com-
 peers, When each had numbered more than four
 score years: And Theophrastus at fourscore and ten Had but begun his Characters of men," Chaucer. at Woodstock. with the nightn-
 gales, At sixty wrote the "canterbury Tales" Goethe. at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust" when eighty years
 were past What, then? Shall we sit idly down and
 say The night hath come: It is no longer day? The night hath not yet come; we are not
 quite Cut off from labor by the failing light; Something remains for us to do or dare, Even the oldest trees some fruit may
 bear. For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself. though in another
 dress; And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisable
 by day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
THE EDITOR EXPLAINS.
From the Adams (Ga) Enterprise.

From the Adams (Ga.) Enterprise.
 We announced early last spring that hereafter we would only accept sub scriptions on a cash (money) basis; but the keen weather warns us that win ter is approaching, and we are constrain- ed to recede from our former position. and to say that we will now accept from subscribers-new and old-wood. groceries, cows, hogs, turkeys, corn. cotton and any other little odds and ends that we can get; but we can no longer give sewing machines. gold watches and town lots as premiums to subscribers at one dollar a year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
AND FACE THE FEVER?
the Pensacola Journal

From the Pensacola Journal.
 Seven years ago Birmingham lawyer bought lot for s275. and a few days ago he sold it for s1o.Ooo. Come to Birmignham and get rich suddenly.-Age-Herald
 Eighteen months ago Pensacolian was offered block for s6o0-and didn't buy it. Today the same property is valued at ss5OO. Come hither and get rich suddenly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
IN HOTEL LOBBEES
Taxes of Saloons.

"fhe saloons of Birmingham salo ah alderman yesterday, "are taxed silzo' ana many of them consider the liquor license rate here very high, but in New hofk 1t is s12OO. and in Boston it goes to S2ooo- In Salt Lake City it is $12OO, and in Phiia- delphia s110O
 ''on the other hand. the license rate IS $250. and in Cincinnati $350 In Washington the rate is $sOO which may be said to be the average rate of the larger cities throughout the country.
 New York has 105S7 saloons, and Chi- cago has 7o17. The license rate in Chicago is but $500, while in New York 1t is $izoo' Washington has but 495 saloons"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A good way to arouse anybody's con science is to catch him.
 A man has to get married to know all the reasons he ought not to.
 A good many more girls can make angel cake than know how to broil steak.
 A mans family can always save money for him by not leaving him any to spend.
 Generally a man is lucky if he goes to buy a 15-cent cigar and finds his wife has left him enough change in his clothes for him to pay his car fare if he doesn't buy nickel cigar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

Cullman Democrat: Dr. J. R. Rosson Of Cullman. is the only North Alabama man to offer for state office, but the black belt fellows don't appear willing to yield even one job.
 Columbiana Sentinel: The Conner organs are getting uneasy or impatient because their idol fights shy of making any decla- ration as to his future intentions in re- lation to the governorship.
 Montgomery Advertiser: "The dangers with public speakers and writers, and yet 1t is a danger that very few try to dodge, even if they should see 1t coming.
 Mobile Item: The hunting season in Maine opens auspiciously-for the hunted if not for the hunters. The record in one days news was four men shot. No cas- ualties among the deer were reported
 Union Springs Herald Reports from over the whole section seem to indicate that the farmers are determined not to take less than 10 cents for their cotton At this price the producer gets only a fair profit. and this he should have.
 West Alabama Breeze: The Warrior river will be open in a few years to per- ennial navigation Cthanks to our efficient congressman, Hon. J. H. Bankhead), and it will be simply amazing to see the great business done in carrying coal. timber and iron down to the Gulf at Mobile
 Jasper Mountain Eagle: Conner and Cunningham spoke from the same plat form one day last week. Both told what they didn't know about farming and ad- vised the farmers about things general ly, but never alluded to the thing up- permost in their mnds--the governor ship.
 Collinsville Courier: Cotton is being rapidly gathered in this section and 1t will not be many days until it Is all out of the field. The crop in the southern part of the cotton belt has practically all been gathered. The crop is short and the farmers should not sell for anything less than 10 cents.
 Talladega Mountain Home: Grover Is having warm time with the female suffragists. He may beat them in argu- ment, and swelling periods in which he may eject an occasional new phrase. or novel form of expression. But his femi- nine adversaries may be relied on to have the last words.
 Mobile Register: The weekly press of the state is printing a broadside headed "Congressman Bowies Convincing Ar gument for Extra Session of the Legis- lature." As the man to be convinced is the governor, and the governor decided last week not to have an extra session, the convincing argument" seems not to have been convincing. We will say how ever, that it was a good argument. and, possibly, had not the governor found a way of meeting the difficulties that pre- sented themselves, he would have adopted MT. Bowle's programme and called the session to carry 1t out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
Discovery Day.

Birmingham Is one of the very few big cities of the country that did not celebrate Discovery Day yesterday" said a citizen. "Interesting exercises were held in number of the principal cities of the southern states, however, and the day was made memorable.
 ''The Knights of Columbus all over the country make it a rule to celebrate dis covery day and appropriate exercises are usually held wherever the patriotic order has a council. There is fourishing council in this city but the members did not outline any particular programme for the event yesterday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORT ID

disastrous visitations that have come to the city in past years. The battle waeed by science in New Orleans against one oi the worst diseases to which man can iall victim, has been intenselr' interest," Ing and a brilliant success for the doctors who had control of the situation. It has demonstrated that science can whip yellow fever under the most dIscouraging circumstances. This should be a great comfort to the people of New Orleans. They know now what concerted action will accomplish. The people of Pensacola may know it, but they are a trifie late in learning their lesson.
 Many learned and long-winded disserts- tions have been written recently on lazi- ness. The laziness worm has been dis cussed and various reasons have been as- signed for humanitys most common weakness. Some men don't have time to accomplish much, others are tempera- mentally unfit for their work, still others are handicapped by poor health many claim they are tied down by their obli- gations, and so on through an indefinite list of excuses, all of them lame and all Of them nothing more than confess sions of weakness. As a matter of fact. there is no excuse for laziness, and while the reflection Is painful to most of us, 1t is true. nevertheless.
 man died recently who was for twen, " years member of the chorus of an opera company. You never hear of a woman carrying a spear for that length of time but if the secret were known. 1t is probable that several could be found who beat that record
 Edgar Allan Poe did not get niche In the Hall of Fame, but thousands of devoted Poe admirers will think none tho less of him for that.
 Death Valley Scott makes another bid for publicity by issuing a challenge 10 E. H. Hartman for a race across the continent on special trains on a wager Of $35.OO0. Such a contest would be speo- tacular to degree and would undoubted- ly result in the advertising which Scot ty' craves, but 1t will not take place. It is not generally believed that MT Har- riman is as big fool as MT. Scott 
 Wood alcohol continues to be an effec- tive remedy for making good Indians out west.
 THE REAL MENACE
 A1tho winters
 Drawing near,
 lis the plumber
 That we fear.
 
 President McCurdy has left off his white spats for the probable reason that they no longer harmonize with his spotted rep- utation.
 A New York painter kept three wives under the same roof. If he is not a mas- ter of matrimony there never was one. IT there was way to fine people for exceeding the speed limit of life there would be marked decrease in the num- Der of human wrecks
 REAL MONARCHS. Of all the rulers in the world,
 Those dead and yet unborn.
 You1l hardly find a pair to beat
 King Cotton and King Corn.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
Neoro Baby Show.

An interesting and unique feature of the state fair" said Secretary Bapb or the Commercial club, twill be the Inter- state Negro Baby show, to be held in the negro building October 27 Three prizes will be awarded as follows: A silver cup for the best male baby under years of age and $5 in gold for the best baby, either sex, under years of age.
 Two famous old negro characters of Tennessee, ''Uncle Walsh" of Columbia and Uncle Bob" of Belle Meade farm, will be the judges of the contest and will award the prizes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
FLAT AND EMPTY.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Tn the exchange of epithets by our po- litical pots and kettles "nepotism mas been a favorite; but in the light or recent revelations in life insurance circles what an empty word nepotism is compared 70 McCurdyisml
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
EASY FOR GRAY.
Nashy,,1e Banner.

From the Nashville Banner.
 The Selma Times says Henry B. Gray will "have a walk-over" for the lieuten- ant-governorship in Alabama. His only probable opponent that we have seen mentioned in the Alabama press Is man named Hamburger of Mobile. So able. affable and good d-looking a candidate as MT. Gray should be able to make saul sage meat of him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
MT. Mahen.

President J. c. Maben of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company left for Richmond yesterday evening. He will
 go from Richmond to West Virginia and
 from West Virginia will proceed to New York.
 MT. Maben is a native of Richmond and was member of the famous Light Infantry Blues before the war" He
 served in the Confederate army from 1861 to the close of hostilities. He removed from Richmond to New York in 1868 but has never lost his affection for the cap ital of the old Dominion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

It seems rather bad form for Senator Money of Mississippi to say that he is glad President Roosevelt will not visit the state on his southern trip. That sounds too much like Vardaman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

From tho Memphis Commercial-Appeai'
 A Parisian writer declares that Miss Alice Roosevelt is violating the consutu- ton. We'll if she is, she comes by IL r,ot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
Col. James R. Randall.

Col James R. Randall of Augusta, Ga.. was in Birmingham yesterday en route to New Orleans where he goes to assume editorial charge of the Morning Star. He is one of the most versatile and luminous writers in the south and his weekly let ter in the Columbian has long been a great feature of that paper.
 Colonel Randall has many friends in greeting when he comes this way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

The corn husks are thin, but the goose bone has not yet handed in It's vote on next winters weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

After all, J. E. Market will not en- joy that $5O,000,OO0 piece of pie in Panama. It was taken from him at the last moment, and he is entitled to a few swear words.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

The man who robbed the Adams Ex- press company needed haircut, and he stopped to get it. He is now fully equipped for high finance and the in- surance business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

A Russian named Dragshinoff is a member of the Cornell football team. A man with a name like that ought to do well in football.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

Josiah Quincy, former mayor of Bos- ton, is to be married to Miss Mary Honey of Newport With name like that, she ought to be a sweet thing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

The race issue is well defined in Maryland, and the Poe amendment IS the focus of popular interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

No campaign subscriptions have been coughed up by the insurance Of ficials, but the patience of the policy holders will soon be exhausted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

Pat Grove could not have held
 Rockefeller up, for the latter IS Ill that game himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

Again the fatal toadstool gets in it's work. A Chattanooga family were the victims this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

A banker in North Dakota has been
 arrested on a charge of cattle steal ing. Wasn't he satisfied with taking money?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

MT. Rockefeller as a sponge and Fa- ther McCurdy as a boss missionary are evidently humorists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

It is interesting to speculate on what Theodore Roosevelt will try after he has reformed football.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

The candidate is going up and down the land spreading whitewash on him self and red paint on his opponents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

Rudyard Kipling says no man un- der forty years of age should write a long story, and Osler says a man Is in his decline and fall-off above that age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

Joseph Ramsey tried to gain con trol of the Wabash, but hot air is not potential when proxies are counted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

The grafters regret the trend of in quiry, for 1t comes just when the Pan- anna melon is about to be cut.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

The Rockefeller programme IS charity on the one hand and higner oil on the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

"Pat" Grove can go on the vaude vile stage if he will promise not to write book
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

Dr. Fletcher seems to think that we have sorely misjudged the cigarette Well, let the cigarette prove it's case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

It is noticeable that they nearly all ways take some money before they disappear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

Jerome K. Jerome. the bookmaker, and William Traves Jerome, the dis trict attorney-don get them mixed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

The administration has dissolved partnership with Shoots bosom friend from Omaha, MT. Market
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

Attorney Hughes could not be lured from his trial by an offer or nisn oi' flee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

Judge Hamilton still fingers on the other shore, out of reach or the SUD poena servers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

The Mutual Life was even more or a family affair than the Equitapie "aS under the Hydes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

How do you like the sound of it- Senator Schwab of Nevada It Is said to be on the slate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

temporarily to be a retarding force in the game.
 In three hours she had reached the third hole, her course thereto being marked bv zig-zag line of plowed-up sod and fol- ioweo py volley of hot English, exple- tives expressive of rampant emotion.
 For three weeks she appeared daily on The links, oblivious alike to heat or wind or criticism During all that time the only improvement noticeable in her playing was the absence of the little black book.
 Then she stopped coming and has never been seen since Had she become discour- aged? It hardly seems possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

It ought to be any easy matter to keep that "woman in blue" or the trail of the President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

The steel mills are bravely endeav bring to prevent steel famine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

The policy holders have been chm mated from the game. MT. McCurdy did it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

Gavnor and Greene came south as members of a personally conouc'eo excursion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13
INHERIT ED.

Immune Hyde has lost his once keen appetite for publicity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

It's the man with champagne tastes and a beer income who often comes to grief.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

The citys policemen need more pay and they will assuredly get more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

Edward c. Cunliffe of Pittsburg may vet give the detectives run TOT 'na' money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

Providence fights on the side or the most proxies in all wars Tor corpora'e control
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

The McCurdys are the cats that have eaten the canaries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-13

New Workers are fleeing from a re- nublican nomination for mayor.