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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
To Inspect Raw Material

Charles Catlett of Virginia, the well known geologist and mineralogst, arrived in Birmingham yesterday to inspect the coal and ore fields and the coke product of the Tennessee company and his work will keep him in the district several weeks. He comes under the direction of James Gayley, frs. vice president of the United States Steel corpora ton, in charge of the mining, coking and certain other departments of the great concern.
 . Within the past two or three years MT Catlett has made many investigations in the mineral section of Alabama, and no technical man, perhaps, is more familiar in a general way with it's iron and coal deposits than he. But he is here now to make special investigations for the steel corporation. and will enter systematically upon this work today.
 ''The Birmingham district" said MT. Catlett at the Hillman last night, lis so we'll known by reputation that everybody talks about it. No one questions the fact of it's vast wealth in minerals, and today it is attracting the attention of capital more than ever."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Increase Accounted For.

Aside from the effect of the pro- hibition wave on the liquor traffic it IS a noteworthy fact that far less wine is consumed al those banquets where wine is served without stint than was the case a few years ago, and yet the total consumption of all kinds of alco- holie and malt liquors increases every year, according to the government re- ports,' said l.. T. Luttrell of Louis vile, now visiting Birmingham.
 The drinking habit among the bet ter classes of people is nothing like so common as 1t was in old times. or even up to the beginning of the twentieth century; but I account for the increase in the liquor traffic by the increase in the population of the United States Foreign immigration is coming fast, and with rare exceptions, all foreign CTS drink stimulants, the majority of them mild stiulants. il is true; but they all count up and increase the rev enue of the government"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
Past, Present and Future.

William F. Gordon, Jr, engineer in charge of the construction of the Illinois Centrars new line from Corinth to Haley ville 80 miles, Is at the Hilman He says the road is about completed, and that it should not be long before Birmng- ham trains are passing over it. The coun- try which the Corlnth branch treverses IS uncommonly rugged, but nothwithstand- ing that fact, good progress was made on the construction of the road. One of the bridges is nearly POO feet high, and chlS is one of the greatest structures of it's kind in the United States.
 MT. Gordon was member of the en- gineer corps that built the Georgia Pa. cihc (now d part of the Southern) from Atlanta to Birmingham. In speaking of the growth of this city, he said: "I first came here in 1880. Birmingham had not then got over the effects of the cholera which decimated the young town in 1873 II had very poor appearance. There was scarcely respectable building in the business district, l recall few mean looking wooden saloons and few wooden hotels
 T look at Birmingham today and mar vel at it's growth and it's metropolitan style And the best of it is Brmingh ham IS yet in its infancy. Big fortunes a.e to be made hereabouts on the advance in real estate values, I do not care how high prices may seem today. The Bir- mingham district is destined to surpass the predictions of it's most enthusiastic prophets In few years the city will be as far ahead of what it is today as it IS now ahead of what it was when I first set foot here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
THE TURKISH GENTLEMAN.

From the Washington Post.
 John Uri Lloyd of Cincinnati, author of "Sprlngtown on the Pike" was at the Raleigh last night. MT. Lloyd came to Washington with Cherif Pachi and A. Ramsay, two Turks, whom he visited at Smyrna, Turkey, several months ago. These two men are now returning this visit, and stopped in Washington to pay their respects to the ambassador from their own country to the United States.
 "The man who goes into an Oriental country" said MT. Lloyd, prepared to compare everything there by American standards will surely find things which do not agree with his ideas of life. But to one who goes in the spirit of learning, with broad view of life, the idea that these people are just as admirable or perhaps a little more worthy of praise than our own will surely come.
 There is no finer gentleman on earth than the Turkish gentleman. He is edu cated usually far beyond an American of equal possibilities He possesses a deep knowledge of his own literature, as we'll as that of other countries. He lives
 
 with the customs of his country. The as- sertion of superficial observers that all Turks are opium fiends, drink coffee to excess, smoke continuously, and are inl- moral are, I believe, entirely false.
 For six months I lived with Turkish family. I found them abstemious to a degree. Few of the Turks that I saw, at least. indulged in any stimulants. Alco- hol is never used by them, as the Koran only in small amounts. Although the Turks grow opium for sale, almost none is consumed in Turkey
 The word "harem." MT. Lloyd said, is entirely misunderstood by most foreign CTS Harem. he said, means merely the family of a Turk, and includes his wife and his children. The Koran, he said, al- lows a man four wives, but few of the Turks exercise this privilege. The son of a Turk marries and comes to live with his father. Another son does likewise. The whole family. under this one roof, is then called harem.
 The Turk, he declared. is content with his life. He finds that In education, in comfort. in being entirely gentleman, 0 man may live in peace and may live to advantage Most of the Turks. he declared, are proud of their nationality, but do not. like many Americans. en- croach upon the politeness of men of other nations by venturlng upon odious comparisons between things In Turkey and similar things in the country in which they happen to be.
 MT. Lloyd said that the two Turks who have come to visit him just two gentlemen" Concerning Turkish customs, MT. Lloyd said that one rule of eti- ouette that seems particularly strange to many people Is that all Turks remain with fez on the head at all times, in doors or out. To enter the house of friend un- covered would be mark of extreme dis courtesy, he said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
 REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 "A girl can write herself love letters if nobody else will.
 Anybody could get money If having 1t was really the root of all evil.
 Some divorces cost d lot but are worth all the almony that must be paid
 The only man who doesn't hate to have gray hair is when 1t was red before
 The best way to safeguard what you own is not to have it worth anything.
 You can never make a man believe that it's as fair for his wife to snore as for him to.
 When a girl is afraid to be in a dark room with a man she relies on him to bring it about,
 Once in a while an investment turns out all right. SO as to make you try again till you lose it.
 There's hardly any fun at all coming home late at night if you don't have to creep up stairs softly because your wife is away visiting.
 A man has a great deal of self-control merely to kick the dog when he really wants to swear hut can't because the children are around.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
About Persons.

J. Fl. Pitts, the well-known Tuscaloosa banker, and treasurer of the University of Alabama, was In Birmingham yesterday. He was in consultation with President W. P. c. Harding of the First National bank and others in the city.
 Atticus Mullin, sporting editor of the Ledger, who has been very i'll of typhoid fever, was able to be out yesterday aft ernoon. He was sick at St. Vincent's hos pital for several weeks.
 James Leath.. lecturer of the Farmers union, returned to Birmingham yester- day after a tour of inspection among the Jefferson county locals. He reports that the farmers are determined to hold their cotton for 15 cents. He reports gen. eral conditions good.
 Maj. James Spence one of the most prominent and best known citizens of Tuscaloosa, was in Birmingham yester- day. Major Spence is a stockholder and director in several of the strongest busi- ness concerns of Birmingham.
 Joseph N. Granade, well--known young lawyer of Marengo county, passed through Birmingham yesterday morning en route to Montgomery. MT Granade was graduated from the University of Alabama in 1903 and since then has made great progress in his profession.
 The condition of Eli F. Smith, who IS very i'll with typhoid fever, was reported improved last night
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
General William Booth

The man who has in his lifetime done more good, perhaps, and accom- plished more work than any other has just left our shores, probably never to return, for he is staggering under the weight of 7S busy, fruitful years. It must be a great consolation to this de- lvoted man that he has lived to see his aife work spread to the ends of the earth without being changed in any respect from his own ideas and meth pds.
 The value of the Salvation Army consists in par in the fact that it has
 I no new revelations. It sim.
 Ns doctrines of Christianity, 7l Sot seek sinners in pala-
 ama goes to the gutters and tt ia4 up the weak and the
 ren the fallen. Its meth uus n.., . 4oisy and some may con sider them even coarse. but experience has demonstrated that they are admir- ably adapted to the end in view. The Army seeks the straggler and the way farer. leaving to the other churches fhe task of gathering in the rich and fhe luxurious.
 The amount of good that General Booths army is doing every day and every night is simply lncalculable. It Is atwork right here ih our own south ern towns. It is evprywhere. for 1t is tast spreading oveF the world. And everywhere it seeks men and women sn the gutters, trying to lift them to better lAing in this world. General Booth vfganized this work, and he has watched its growth 46 years, and his noble, unselfish hand has been con 'stantly felt in it. The world does not hold today an individual leader who has done as much for its betterment as General Booth has done-not one. He stands today the worlds greatest benefactor, and the Army he founded is growing daily in the respect and esteem of all intelligent men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
Too Much Hoarding

The government is the greatest hoarder in the world. It piles up moneys in it's vaults, and every dollar thus hoarded is that much taken from the general circulation. No one pre- tends to defend the system, and yet that system goes on from year to year, and Congress neglects to keep the government money in circulation.
 me state of Alabama formerly did likewise, but it is now placing good share of the public money where 1t will stay in circulation to the great benefit of the people.
 { In no other country is there lock- ing-up of moneys in the government treasury. Not even in Canada is it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
United States Steel Officials.

John Refs and Charles K. Winslow, officials of the United States Steel cor poration, who came to Birmingham last week, returned to New York yesterday. MT. Refs is assistant to President w. k. Cory. He is a blast furnace expert and is familiar with various branch es of the steel industry. While here he looked over the Ensley plants and the ore mines.
 MT. Winslow is the Steel corpora tion's scientific statistican, and is an expert in the matter of economies of production. It is his business to study and report on cost sheets.
 NJ A. Neeland, an engineer of the Steel corporation, who accompanied MT. Refs and MT. Winslow to Birming- ham, is stlll here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
The Boys, Industrial School.

No institution in the state of Ala bama or any other state SO far as that is concerned. Is more worthy of sup port. both financially and otherwise than the Boys Industrial school at East Lake" said d county official
 As an evidence of the manner In which the institution is run there have been only two deaths in the past two years. This Is a remarkable showing when We consider the fact that great many boys are sent to the scho ool who from neglect and other causes are in poor physical condition.
 That they are well trained is evil denced by the splendid band belong ing to the institution. and the various industrial enterprises that are part of the school training. A visit to the school will fully repay the time and trouble"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
INSOMNIA CURE.
rom the Nashville Tennessean.

From the NAsHVlIIt ItfI1IeSSedI1
 ''If you suffer from insomnia.' said H. T. Perkins. of Pittsburg, at the Hotel Duncan, "I have a cure. Go out to the brewery and buy pound of fresh hops. Put them into a pillow and rest your head on them nightly. Within three nights you will begin to feel the effect and in little while sleep will come. You breathe in the aroma of the hops and this acts as sedative. If you will take fresh hops, pour boiling water over them and doink slowly the worst kind of indi- gestior1 Will be completely cured within 10 or 15 days. I tell you this for l have tried both experiments with greatest sue cess'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
DAY IS DYING.

By George Eliot. tFrom "The Spanish Gipsy.")
 Day is dying. Float. song, Down the westward river, Requiem chanting to the Day Day, the mibhty Giver. Pierced by shafts of Time he bleeds, Melted rubies sending Through the river and the sky, Earth and heaven blending; All the long earthly banks Up to cloud-land lifting; Slow between them drifts the swan Twixt two heavens drifting. Wings half open, like a flower Inly deeply flushing. Neck and breast as virgins pure Virgin proudly blushing. Day is dvins Float, o swan, Down the ruby river; Follow song. in requiem
 To the mighty Gives. a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
ExAGGERATION.

From Punch
 He-Mabel, you grow more beautiful every day.
 She (pleased)-Oh, Jack, you do exag gerate.
 Newell then every other day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
LIFTS PoTPOURRI

Life is filled with 1eeting faneies.
 Tender dreams that don't come true, Memories of smiles and glances,
 Summer days and skies of blue. Little plans we loved gone straying, Pleasures followed fast by pain, Tollsome days and days of playing,
 Friends we'll never see again. Here a field of crimson flowers,
 There a hard, uneven road, Here a gold glint in the hours,
 There sigh-a weary load Joys approaehings. then departing,
 Tears and smiles and laughter, too. Sweet today, tomorrow smarting-
 Ever changing, ever new.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
PRESS POINTS

Richmond Times Dispatch: Sell ther- mometers short They are going down.
 Ohio Sun: Maybe that was just false alarm. and Marse Henry isn't out of politics
 Florida Times Union: A Baltimore News headline says: Anne Arundel Democratlc' Anne is a sensible girl
 Washington Post Nowadays an In- diana uprising doesn't get as much space in the newspapers as strike of the servant girls union for shorter hours.
 Portland Telegram: "A Boston ex- change says: There are plenty of lob sters yet" Sure thing, and there ever will be to the end
 Chattanooga Times: It will be interest ing to know from MT. John Temple Graves after he reaches New York. what it was that put MT. Hearst out of poli- tics.
 Charleston News and Courier: The Re- publican club of Kansas City has in uOTSeu OecIcldly ldlts lIdL dt icdol fS- minds us that Secretary Taft is still a candidate.
 Washington Herald: You cannot dim the sunshine of some natures. The Ohio State Journal congratulates Representa- tive Burton upon escaping the tough and more or less thankless job of being mayor"
 Houston Post: John Abernathy landed in the Oklahoma marshalship without any trouble. MT. Abernathy is the gem tleman who captured live wolf with his naked hands in the presence of Roosevelt and such qualifications can not be challenged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Professor Drake of the University of Michigan is trying to steal Chance Days thunder by declaring in favor of making Roosevelt King. But the com ing of Theodore I will not take place this month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Should fame be copyrighted" is a question asked Shakespeare didn't have to have his copyrighted, although a lot of people would like to know who wrote his plays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

man went to a Philadelphia, den tist and asked if he could get set of teeth just like Roosevelt's. Teddy's teeth are the most famous teeth in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

The Lusitania should exult over it's record, for the Mauretania is coming over to smash it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

The movement for a better Chicago reminds LIS that there is plenty of room for improvement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Chairman D. H. Gary is building a $100,000 mausoleum at Wheaton, H., his native town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

The Lusitania was in hurry to place the gold it carried where it would do the most good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

The Trust Company of America broke the record when it paid in the course of run $34,0OO,00O against a total of $57000,O00 in deposits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

The Alabama counties that have adopted prohibition merely got in early to avoid the rush.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

'1t pays to give advice" remarks a contemporary. Sure, if you are law yer or a doctor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

- have come to pay is a concord of sweet sounds.' says the Anniston Star. Not when those words are spoken to some other person than you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

A peace conference is but an invita- tion to caterers to gather and do their best
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

The gold cure cures panics If it be maintained long and strong enough it will cure almost anything.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

The blind Senator-elect from Okla homa will never call, alas, at the White House to see the President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

A barrel of apples represents the high prices of the period better than almost anything else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Politics without principles was jolted out of the wagon when Tammany won in New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

It is about time to declare the cur rency embargo off, for everybody is be- coming optimistic and hopeful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Great big six-footers are in the woods trying to kill lot of little quail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

An exchange publishes an editorial entitled "The Devil In Kansas City" We don't doubt that he is there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

merchants so heavily, when outsiders are at liberty to sell without any cost in the way of taxation or license"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

That Kentucky toga may fall on Henry Watterson, the grandest Ken tucllian alive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

David Jayne Hill, ambassador, should not be confounded with David Bennett Hill. eX-statesman and politician.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

New York would like to keep it's gold, but it sees it must keep crops moving if they are to keep gold on this side of the sea at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Ex-President Estrada Palma desires the United States to annex Cuba He is the leader of the annexationists in Cuba
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Stealing to quiet the nerves is re- gently developed phase of kleptomania.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Foraker does not admire the Euro pean monarchs who are contending for the honoring of entertaining Taft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Rooseyelt's shrewdness as a polti- clan is generally appreciated, and yet he poses as the very reverse of one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

The Ann Arbor professor who is booming Roosevelt for King is logic ally carrying out the third term issue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

A bard who styles himself Poet Lariat" publishes few verses on "Dementia." He proves his ease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
DEFINED.

What is fenee?" "A partition for women to quarrel over"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Alabama is proud of poet named Fill more Lott. We are told that Pegasus eats sugar out of his hand and the muses woo him fervidly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

REVENGE. I would that I were monarch, With armies at my command And a chorus of daisies who'd murmur
 my praises
 And struggle to kiss my hand. I'd look up a certain school house, With a smile of internal joy, And I'd punish the fellow who oft made
 me below
 With lickngs when I was a boy! Let us hope that the recent floods in Italy will not injure the spaghetti crop. This is no time for vaudeville legis- lation,7 observes a Louisiana contem- porary Carry the news to Montgomery! Paul Cook writes it "houston, tex" Think of a Brutus-like stab of that sort from a town that will be as dry as wooden leg in about seven weeks-Hous- ton Post
 How dry is a wooden leg, George? 
 WELL KNOWN TALE.
 How oft we've seen
 A man full wise
  b A pair of eyes,
 Anent our recent kissing carnival a sweet singing bard, who hides under the nom de plume of Shades Valley con tributes to an exchange six sympathetic stanzas. The last follows: On sweethearts sweet and rosebud lips Like thunder peals they burst; The more we take the honeyed sips, The stronger grows our thirst. The theory that ostrich plumes trans init disease germs will be seized upon by the male population with avidity Fame comes to us every month. It is an advertising journal.
 drama without a hero is no melo- drama. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

 Here is street called Petticoat Lane '' Tt must lead down by Millinery Row" A BALLAD OF TROUBLE IN THE
 KITCHEN. Eftsoons, the man who purchased ice And cursed the dealers strange device His scales, base falsfiers That played the very deuce with buyers Will give a fancy price, I think, To have it taken from his sink. 'Tis ice I mean, no more, no less A plumber'H do the job, l guess, And then therell be a mighty howl, An oath or two, fearful growl, And oh the cruel words he'll say But all the same, you'll see him pay!
 HE'LL SAY YES 'Is Roosevelt a great man?a Ask him.
 LULLABY
 Rock-a-by, baby,
 On a tree top,
 Nursie Is wooing,
 Woong cop.
 Something is doing,
 As you may see.
 Rock-a-by, baby,
 Up in a tree. AN EYE TO BUSINESS. Do you think Plunger will love his wife?"
 "He will as long as her money holds out"
 THE HEART THAT IS ALWAYS
 YOUNG. Tho pitless storms may buster and blow And a sorrowful tale be told, . There's ever a gleam of the long ago In the heart that never grows cid. Tho troubles may come as we stagger along And the wearisome days unfold, There's ever laugh and bit of d song In the heart that never grows old No matter how gloomy and cheerless the way, How empty the honors we hold. There's ever the dream of a luckier day In the heart that never grows old
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12
SUSPICIOUS

He called her his "lovey,7 His duck" and his "honey, ]" Said she, T believe you
 Are after my money"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

The money famine calls aloud for postal savings banks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Florida Times Union: A Baltimor, News headline says: Anne Arunde Democratic" Anne is a sensible girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

NATURAL INFERENCE. Here is street called Petticoat Lane. :" Tt must lead down by Millinery Row."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Washington Post Nowadays an In- diana uprising doesn't get as much space In the newspapers as strike of the servant girls union for shorter hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Richmond Times-Dispatch Sell ther- mometers short. They are going down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-12

Ohio Sun: Maybe that was just a false alarm. and Marse Henry isn't out of politics.