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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
WISDOM.

From Life,
Wisdom is a friendly thief. often ROD
bling experience of its most formidable
weapon. renorse.
Wisdom is acquired when we are TOO
old to profit by it and then we are only
in the primary department.
Wisdom and education are not related.
Education may be purchased like COM
modify at any university. Wisdom is not
for sale.
There are shades of wisdom, just as
there are shades and degrees of folly
Because a man is not always wise, 1t does
not follow necessarily that he is a fool
II it were so the majority of us would
be wearing cap and bells. Indeed 1t is a
question whether the benefits and results
of wisdom are all that is claimed for 1t
whether it really justifies itself after all
For example, the wise man buys life
insurance at an early age and lives TO
pay his premiums annually with weari-
some regularity. That is because the
company is a degree wiser than he.
Women are wiser than men. II you do
not believe 1t, ask one of them.
Infants are wiser than either. They
are the RECONCILIATION of wisdom. What
a pity that they are not little wiser
wise enough to remain as they are, with
a small area to rule and few slaves to
fan and battle them,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
Restricting immigration

The north begins to feel it has enough
immigrants, but the south has next to
none. The south needs more white
men, but portions of the north are con-
gested, and so the powers that control
both houses have concocted a bill to
restrict immigration. It is before both
houses, and it may be passed, simply
because the north is receiving toe
many immigrants The needs of the
south are not considered. They rarely
are in republican Congresses.
The pending bill would materially
restrict immigration because it pro
poses to impose an educational qualifi-
cation, and to impose a heavier head
tax. The head tax is 81.
Every commercial body in the south
should protest against the pending i'm
migration bill. Every legislature thai
is in session should speak out. Let the
south make the fact known that il
wants no greater immigration restric
tions than those the north has fattened
on in the last fifty years. Give the
south an equal opportunity to secure
whites. The pending bill is aimed
directly at the south. 1t Is sectional
although on its face 1t purports to be
national. II should be voted down, anc
perhaps it will be II southern organiza,
tions will speak boldly and quickly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
Alabama al Jamestown

Alabama Is full of mdeveloped nat
ural resources, and she simply cannot
afford to be the only southern state not
represented at an exposition conducted
by southern men on southern soil to
commemorate a southern event.
And If she is to be represented at an
exposition to be opened in April the
legislature should act promptly and
definitely.
1t and the Commercial club of this
city should put their heads together
over this matter. If the Commercial
club will agree to set up Vulcan at the
exposition, the state would perhaps col
lect specimens of the states various
resources and products. and in that
way Alabama would be represented,
and the total cost need not exceed
$4,000.
The question before both houses of
the legislature and before the CONNER
cial club is this, Can Alabama afford
to ignore the jamestown exposition
when $4,000 would put us in it in
pretty good shape?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
WORK OF A PLAYWRIGHT,

CLYDE Fitch in the Theatre Magazine
The writing and revising of play is
merely the tree putting forth its leaves.
The two years thinking of the play before
il is written is the solid portion of the
tree, its root and trunk and branches. An
idea for play comes to me, usually from
reflection upon some popularity of char
acter l have observed. For instance, the
play, THE TRUTH but it's origin in my
study of several persons l knew who told
lies Systematically, persistently aud,
worse than all, needlessly Then / re-
Elected that one cannot go on lying for
years without corrodng of character.
That was the proposition of what grew
into the play. l thought, what sort of
persons tell needless lies? What kind
of friends have they and what class Of
surroundings" Having gotten acquainted
with the characters l think What plot
will grow out of the characters" Tie
plot. of course, suggests the situations,
then follows naturally the dialogue. That
| write Il plot and write play about 1t
is unfair / have never done that in my
score of years of playwrting. Every play
of mine has come into being by the course
of evolution | have described; first the
idea of the play. then the characters. then
the plot, then the situations and finally
the dialogue"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
Norfolk Booming,

Talk about rapidly growing southern
cities' said A. j. Cary of Virginia, Nor
folk is right in the forepart. | doubt If
any city in the United States is increasing
at a greater ratio than our Virginia city
by the sea. And this growth Is not due
TO the jamestown exposition, but Is in
every way normal. In the last census
Norfolks population was only 1924. To-
day 1t is estimated that 10000 people Ike
within the limits of the city The popula-
ton of Greater Norfolk. Including Ports
mouth, Newport News. Hampton and Old
Point is 10000.
There was never such building move
mont In Norfolk as now Large hotels,
large apartments houses and large mer-
camille buildings are going up in every
part of the city,
Years ago people wondered why Nor
folk did not grow faster. 1t had the har-
Dor, the shipping and the railroads. For
some time II has been the terminus OF
six trunk lines, to say nothing of local
lines Yet in spite of all those advantages
it did not. until recently, keep up with
Richmond. The ciptal of the Old Domin-
ion is still going forward, but NorfolN
will soon leave it in the distance"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
Peaches and Warm Weather

State Entomologist Smith of Georgia
reports that he inspected last week
peach orchards in central Georgia, and
he says that thus far the warm weather
has not caused the buds to swell enough
to endanger the crop. A week more of
warm weather, however, would, in Pro-
fessor Smiths opinion, be disastrous
to the crop-that is to say, a week
more from today. A week more of
seventy degrees weather would send
the dormant sap coursing through the
trees, swelling the buds, and the first
spell of winter weather would nip the
crop in the bud.
Let us hope, then, the weather will
speedily cease to be summary and UNI
seasonable. Otherwise the peach crop
will get ready TO fail in January, and
It will go on falling until September,
and the luscious Alberta will be out of
Itdcn vi the aNNia6C purse.
Peach blossoms are appearing In
every part of Alabama and Georgia,
and IL must be admitted that the peach
crop has a right TO fall under such ex-
traordinary circumstances. The peach
buds have no almanac, and they act
according to temperatures, and a tenn
perature of 70 degrees and upwards is
an attraction that peach buds cannot
resist. They proceed to swell and bios
som. A spell of frosty weather would
do the rest.
The peach crop is getting into haz-
ardous position. 1t is about to fail in
earnest Fake failures come as mat
ter Of course. but it begins to look as
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
The subj reasury.

atlanta people are dying hard on the
sub treasury natter said commercial
traveller. THE local press encourages
them and think that by some hook or
crook Atlanta will get this prize.
IT read a Washington special in one Of
the Atlanta papers this week in which
it was said that Secretary Shaw it was
understood, had written letter to the
ways and means committee saying that
Birmingham was not the place for a sub
treasury. Such dope as that may cheer
the Atlantlans, but it strikes me as noh-
sensical. In the first place the rules OF
propriety would not under the circum-
stances, permit the secretary to write a
letter to the committee showing pre-
ference for or revealing prejudice
against any particular city. The commit
tee did call upon the secretary for mis-
views concerning the demand for sub
treasury In the southeast, and an expla-
nation of the service that such an insti-
tuition would render. This letter was
printed Secretary Shaw made it very
clear that this section of the south needed
sub-treasury, but he leaves 1t to Con-
gress to say where 1t shall be located.
Secretary Shaw doubtless believes that
Birmingham is an ideal place for sub
treasury, but he will remain mum on that
point
THE Atlanta people would rather see
no sub-treaAlry at all than for Birming-
ham to get It, That is a poor spirit, in
deed"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
STORY OF ELEANoRA DUsE.

From the Kansas City Star.
A remarkable woman is Eleanora Duse
who lies sick in Italy BY many critics ac-
counted the greatest living actress and
certainly second to no other woman save
Bernhardt. an impenetrable mystery has
always surrounded her personality. On
the stage she has been described as a
creature of exquisite fiber with splendid
tragic eyes and 1.-THE and supple body,
possessing a genius for realism that trans
forms her into the character which she
porrays Those who have seen her off the
stage agree that she is a plain and rather
homely woman of As years or more, who
is short of stature and rather stout.
dl essed usually In black and slightly lame,
always carrying a heavy walking stick.
No one save the famous London critic,
Arthur Symons, has ever claimed to have
Interviewed her, and this Duse denies.
A few letters to friends and the stories
of two or three who have been somewhat
acquainted with her Is all that is known
of her private life. 1t is said she loved
d Annunzo and that his hayward, SOM
Der, poetic tragedies were written about
her but afterwards he Tilted her and in
his book, 1.-THE Triumph of Death" it is
claimed that he laid bare to the world
the emotions, the Joys and the sorrows
that they had known together. Duse de-
MES this, and would not return to Amer
lea because the story had been circulated
here.
In comparison with Bernhardt it Was
said of her: "Duses Camille will never
be forgotten. 1t did not electrlfy like the
Camille of Bernhard, and stir the blood
with overmastering passion; it simply
made the heart stand still and lowered
the gaze as though strange eyes must
not profane scenes that were not meant
for them"
Her life has been filled with hardships.
She has known poverty and cruel suffer-
ing Born in a wagon, her parents poor
players, she was on the stage at g. At Il
her mother died and for several years
after she was one of band of strollng
actors. Writing of her life she said: can
one forget periods of life that tore out
the heart, made it bleed and tremble;
made 1t cover and suffer- OF herself
she said, Il would like to live in a ship
thousand miles at sea and never come
nearer humanity than that. Ones hap
piness Is to shut ones door upon little
room with a table before one and 10
create to create life in the isotion from
| life"
Duse hates the mockery of her own art,
| though it has made her the richest wom-
ar on the stage. In Italy she has re-
ceived as high as $1,000 for a single per-
formance Characteristic of the woman Is
one of her ordinations in describing her
admiration Of Maeterlinck: Il have tried
| have failed. l am condemned to play
Sardou and Pinero. Some day anotncr
woman will come. young. beautiful, be-
| ing all of fire and flame and Will do
what | have dreamed; yes, | am sure OF
| ii; it will come, but I am tired at my
age. ] cannot begin over again
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
THE THUNDERER" REoReANlzEp

From Leslie's Weekly.
When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote his
English Traits" he devoted the whole
of one of its nineteen chapters to the
Times, of which he said mo power in
England is more felt, more feared, or
more obeyed. What you read in the morn
Ing in that journal, you shall hear in the
evening in all society. 1t has ears every.
where, and its information is earliest.
completest and surest. 1t has risen year
by year. and victory by victory, to its
present authority" 1t is nearly sixty
years since Emersons second visit to
England, and II is half a century since
he published English Traits" Those
were the pamiest days of the Times.
It's influence is not now relatively so
great as II was then 1t cannot now at
tack its rivals and drive them out of cir
culation "by perfectng its printing ma
chlnery;" but 1t is still the most famous
and the most characteristic English news
paper. Ever since the first Mr.. Walter
obtained control of 1t. the Walter fam
propretorship. 1t is OF interest to learn
that its business management is to be
reorganzed, the mysterious partnership
at will" being discarded In favor of a
limited liability company. though it is
given out that there is no controversy
among the shareholders and no change of
ownership or control is contemplated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
Where Cotton Is King.

IF you want to see cotton you should
visit the docks in Liverpool said a man
yesterday. "I saw ships unloading car
goes of the feecy staple until it seemed
as If all the cotton in the world was
| there.
Another peculiar sight In Liverpool is
the number of men. hundreds, PERHAPS
thousands to be met along the streets
between the docks and the cotton eX-
change. Each man carries a little roll Of
cotton in his hand Just as you see the
farmers carrying it around here in Biz
mingham when they come to town with
their crop. The difference though between
the man in Liverpool, Eng, and the man
in Birmingham, Ala, is that the Liver
pool man is dressed like a tailor's FASH
ion plate and the farmer in Alabama is
sometimes dressed like a scare-crow.
"These men in Liverpool seem to enjoy
the appearance of having been working
in cotton mill, for in addition to the
bunch of cotton which they carry in their
hands, their clothes, hat and even their
hair is 1ecked with the lint. These are
the men who are buying the cotton, ac-
tualy buying, not for speculation, but
for manufacture.
II have met many men who have Wis
tied England and they can tell you about
st. Pauls and Westminster and the
| Strand but very few, If any, ever visit
the scene of England's greatness as a
nation, her docks. l would advise tour
lists to foreign countries to look out for
the sources of the greatness of the ma
ton which they visit, and as commerce
is the source of Englands greatness, and
ships are necessary for commerce, the
docks where these ships load and I'M
load are among the greatest wonders to
be seen.
Even more so than in New Orleans
does King Cotton apparently rule in Llv-
erpool, Eng"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
THE FLY IN THE BEER.
e Chattanooga Times

From the Chattanooga Times.
The late Gen. William r. Shafter de-
veloped during his residence in California
a dislike of the Chinese.
Some time ago at a dinner in San Fran
cisco General Shafter pointed to a fly
in glass aid said
watch a man when fly gets In his
glass of beer and you can tell his ma
tionality.
AN American will pay laugh and or
der a fresh glass.
y Spaniard will pay, but quietly walk
off without drinking the beer.
"A Frenchman win pay and go, but
make a tremendous fuss.
AN Englishman will throw away the
beer and demand fresh glass for moth
ing.
German will carefully remove the
fly with his finger and then drink the
beer
"A Russian viii toss OH ny, beer and
all.
"A Chinaman will first rescue the fly
and eat It and then drink the beer to
the last drop."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
MAN.
From Life.

From Life.
A mans life Is full of crosses and temp
tations.
He comes into this world without his
consent, and goes out against his will,
and the trip between the two is exceed
ingly rocky. The rule of the contraries
is one of the important features of the
trip.
When he is little, the big girls kiss him;
but when he is grown, the little girls
kiss him.
If he is poor, he IS bad manager; II
he is rich, he is dishonest.
If he needs credit, he can't get it; If he
is prosperous, every one wants to do him
a favor.
If he's in politics, it's for pie; IL he's
out of politics, you cant place him, and
he's no good for his country.
II he doesn't give to charity, he is d
stingy cussl if he does it Is for show.
IL he is actively religious, he is a hypo-
critic: ii he takes no interest in religion
he is hardened sinner.
If he shows Affection he is a soft speci.
men; If he seems to care for no one, he
Is cold blooded.
If he dies young, there was a great
future ahead of him; II he lives to an old
age, he has missed his calling
The road is rocky, but man loves to
travel it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
LOVE ENTHRoNED.

BY Daniel Gabriel Rossetti.
marked all kindred Powers the heart,
finds fair
Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with
eyes upcast;
And Fame. whose loud wings fan the
ashen Past
To signature Oblivion's flight to scare:
And Youth, with still some single golden
hair
Unto his shoulder clinging, since the
last
Embarce wherein two sweet arms held
him fast;
And Life. still wreathing flowers for
Death to wear.
Loves throne was not with these; but
far above
All passionate wind of welcomes and
farewell
He sat in breathless bowers they dream
not of;
Though Truth foreknow Loves heart.
and Hope foretell.
And Fame be for Loves sake desirable,
And Youth be dear, and Life be sweet
to Love
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17

if fakes of that sort would be a super
fluffy this year.
And yet the official mercury has not
risen to 70 degrees, as it did on jan
uary II, 1890. In 1876, 1880, 1883 and
1890 we had summer weather in Jan
uary-that is to say, we had days in
which the mercury went above 20 de-
grees, but this year we have had more
days of that sort than ever before
since official records were started, and
that is why the peach crop is about to
70 II
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
From the Kansas city Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
IN STRANGELY fascinating story of
(P1 the supernatural has lately come
4 out of the turbulent little country
of Servia on no less authority than Che-
do Miiatovitch, who was once SerVlan
minister to Great Britain and for thirty
years has served in the Servian capinet'
It tells of the visions Of certain litter
ate Servian peasant Matheas of kremna'
forty wears ago, which were written In
the countrys records, fortelling the poiit-
ical events of Servia in the greatest de-
tail. all of which have so far come to
pass as prophesied, amt now 1t but re-
mains that King Peters reign shall soon
end violently. Then, according TO the
prophecy. a foreign army will invade the
country, causing much suffering; man
will rise from the midst of the people ana
drive out the foreigners uniting the Ser
VANS under his reign and long era OF
peace will be inaugurated. And wheh
these events shall have happened the VS.
ions of Matheas will have been fulfilled.
The story of Matheas is uncanny. One
day he appeared on the streets of Bel
grade weeping and shouting, They are
numbering the prince" He became SO
frantic In his appeal in behalf of Prince
Michael Obrenovitch, then ruler of Ser
via. that a great crowd collected and he
was locked up as crazy. A few hours att
erwards the news came that at the mo-
nient of his vision Michael was assassin
ated in distant UJitza. Then his repute as
a seer grew and the government reduced
his prophecies to writing. He foretold that
a boy should reign and marry unhappily,
have one son and divorce his wife, LEAD
in wars, have several years of TROUBLE
abdicate and die while still young in a
foreign land. The exact words or me
,,,o,heov were as follows. "HiS son Will
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
MRS. CHADWICK BROKEN.
Shadow All That Remains Of Former
Queen of High Finance.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
A wear behind the walls Of the penn
Tertiary has transformed Mrs Cassie L.
Chadwick formerly of Euclid aNehue'
CLEVELAND one of the most notorious
woman sv,ndlers in the criminal annals
of the world, from an aristocratic laoy
nlumed with all the gorgeous hnery tnat
thousands of dollars could buy, to
MO, aforementioned woman, broken IN
spirit and body.
Rv orders from the government. some
time within the next ten days Mrs. Chad
n,,ck Is TO be transferred from the Ohio
renitentiary to the government prison at
nt,undsville. w. Va, where she will COM
r,ete her ten-year sentence for the ruin
brought about by her astonishing finan-
cial transactions.
For the first time since the second i'm
prisonment of Mrs. Chadwick, photo
graph of the so-called witch of finance
has escaped beyond the offices of the
penitentiary, where the prison records are
kept. The two poses shown We're taken
in anticipation of the transfer OF the
woman to another prison. 1t is the first
photograph of the woman to be printed
in any newspaper showing the famous
female swindler as she actually appears
adorned with a convict's number and
dressed in prison clothes
Less than three years ago Mrs. Chad
wick was living in palatial home. She
was driving about the streets of this
city In an automobile, and borrowing
immense sums of money as though 1t were
water. She would hardly be recognized
now by those with whom she engaged
in big transactions in the days of her
regal splendor.
Interest in the transactions of Mrs
Chadwick has bean rsviyad by the ordA'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
Avenue In Darkness.

"Brmingham's business streets are
well lighted and most of its residence
sections are fairly well lighted, but 1
paid visit few nights ago on Avenue
NJ and was surprised to find it In dark
ness said an old citizen.
Few streets are more beautiful than
Avenue NJ, and the residents of that sec
ton and their friends who pay social
call after nightfall should not have to
grope in the dark. Let the property
holders bring the matter to the attention
of the alderman and an arc light will
be placed on every corner"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

~ GRAY-HAIRED man threaded
WI his way through the evening
crowds. paying but little heed to
the swift changing throngs about him.
HIS head was bowed and his features
wore a thoughtful expression. Had you
followed him, you would have seen him
take a car. ride few squares and alight
near conventional apartment house. lie
went up the steps, entered and a few
minutes later unlocked the door of his
bachelor quarters. His face lighted up as
the comfortable interior met his eyes.
Slipping into a dressing gown and be-
slowing himself comfortably before
wood fire, he picked up several beloved
volumes that lay on the table, touching
them with an inimitable caress. after
all" he sighed life Is worth the living.
the world may call me lonely and friends
may forget, but in these there is inspira
ton and comfort. Through the alchemy
of Imagination anything is possible and
in the realm of thought a plodder may
soar above a king. With my books l
shall fare well, tho fame elude my grasp
and fortune mock my pleading"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
NOT WORST.

From the Houston Post.
Tell me the worst" insisted the man
of the doctor who was treating his
mother-ln-law.
There's no worst about It," replied the
doctor.
Then she is going to recover?"
NO" replied the doctor, "she isn't"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-17
FRIEND OF BIRMINGHAM.

From the Pensacola Journal.
Florida is with Birmingham in the lat
ter's fight for the sub-treasury. Birming-
ham is not only the natural and logical
place for it but Birmingham is destined to
be the biggest city in the south, and as
such the importance Of locating the sub
treasury there will become more apparent
as the years go by.