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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
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 pr. Glenn Andrews of Montgomery presented a statement of conditions in this state at the tuberculosis session of the Alabama Medical association meeting which the State Board of Health is using in it's campaign against the white plague. This plague is even more deadly than typhoid fever, for there are approximately 10000 cases of consumption in this state, from which 4000 die yearly.
 In Birmingham in the years 1901-05 tuberculosis caused the death of 22O whites and 476 negroes, or about If per cent of the total number of deaths. The percentage was still higher in Mo- bile. In the years named 1S,967 died of tuberculosis in this state out of 128,212 deaths from all causes. About ene-seventh of those who die in this state are victims of consumption, a preventable malady.
 Dr. Andrews presents the subject in practical light when he puts the average value of life to the com munity at $500 when a tubercular death occurs. He then says:
 There is an annual loss to the state of $6,00O,OO0, and placing the loss of service at $1 per day and cost of care of patient at $1 50 more per day, for the estimated nine months of helpless ness, there is further loss of $2,700,- | 900, or total loss of $S,700,000 annually A sum sufficient to pay the states debts. As suggestive as is this sum, it only applies to the loss entailed by the illness and death of the unfortunate who perish. During services of one at least is required to attend the patient and entails a cor responding loss, and when death comes to the relief of the unfortunate who as is frequently the case, is the bread winner, family of dependents is thrown upon public charity"
 If all understood that consumption is communicable, infectious, prevent ahle and curable disease this great loss would not befall the state A specific gerrl is the cause of the dis case. It is never inherited. The germ IS transferred as a rule though the dried and pulyerized sputum of a tuberculous subject. The germs are not affected by dampness or cold. In short, it is another filth disease. an- other house disease, another disease promoted and scattered by lazy and slovenly methods. The State Board of Health is endeavoring to teach the value of personal hygiene, and if Dr. Andrews paper could be put in every house in this state great good would be accomplished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
Money Volume and Good Prices

The monetary circulation on April 1 was $95.35 per capita, as against a circulation of $33 91 one year ago, and circulation of $21 Il ten years ago.
 The surprising fact is developed that the October panic and the subse- quent depression have not caused a de crease in the per capita volume of money. This was not the case in 1873 when the per capita volume fell from s.S in 1873 to $15.3O in 1878. A like contraction occurred in 1893, for the per capita volume fell from $24 .56 in 1892 to $21 Al in 1896.
 It is difficult to explain the increase in per capita circulation at present It is sufficient to know that it is in. creasing, and that it stands today at it's highest point in a generation. When money increases faster than population and business it is plain conditions are getting ripe for an upward turn in com modity prices and for a recovery of business confidence and activity. The per capita circulation cannot keep on going up without taking the prices of goods along, and when the prices of goods begin to go up business distrust will speedily disappear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
DREAMS.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 Since the beginning of this earthly cre- ation of the human family the problem that pestered the poet who wrote the book of Job has been unsolved-'If a man die, shall he live again?" It comes to the king on his throne, the peer in his hail, the yeoman on his glebe the artisan in his shop, the peasant in his cot And ali the response is: Death lays the king g scepter beside the shepherds crook'.- levels Solomon to the estate of Lazarus, and makes prince and beggar one. 'Imperous Caesar. dead. and turn'd to
 clay
 Might stop a hole to keep the wind
 away"
 It was a gloomy philosophy Hamlet taught when he spoke of Polonius at sup per-"your worm is your only emperor for det'-and yet, in material sense, how absolutely true!
 Tolstoys view is brighter and noblcr and brings hope to all. What can be a more elevating conception of life and death than these dreams of perhaps the
 
 Our earthly life is one of dreams of another and more real life, and that other life is a deram of yet another, and so on ad inanitum, even to the last life, the life of God.
 Death in youth is as when a man s awakened before he has slept full meas ure Death in old age is as when a man wakes of his own accord after a good sleep. Suicide is as a nightmare, which d man banshes by remembering that he is asleep He makes an effort and awakes."
 Ages before, the wisest of the Greeks. Socrates himself, declared that death is either progress or annhiliation. The pagan philosopher had doubts. Tolstoy seems to have the sublimest faith. and all Of us would get comfort from it if we could but fall in with it.
 Nor is it unchristian. however unortbo- dox. Not an intelligent mind exists that can possibly think that the new life will be as bright to a monster like Martin Schenk, of the Dutch wars, as 1t will be to a ministering angel like Florence Nightingale. of the Crimean campaign. And from it all let us gather that what is good in us is immortal, and what is bad is vessel of wrath fitted to destruc- tion.
 Act well your part, there all the honor lies"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

15. has stimulating effect on the Birmingham district. The Tennessee company is spending millions of dol lars On impro -ements and expansion herosbouts, and it was known that the suspension of work at the steel Plant was only temporary; yet the fact that a time for starting up the rail mill is now fixed and fixed too for an early date, makes this entire valley rejoice. Truly, sentiment plays an important part in our workaday busi- Less world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
THE PRESIDENTS SALARY.
From the Pittsburg Sun.

From the Pittsburg Sun
 Washington had notified his fellow cit izens that he desired no salary. The limits suggested in the first Congress ranged from $15,oe0 to s7O000. The salary was finally placed at $25, 900, and this remained the compensation until President Grants second term, March 4, 1873, when it was increased to $o0,OOO, the present sum. Chap ter 29lS of the law of the second session of the Flfty-ninth Congress, approved March 4, 19O7 appropriated for traveling ex- penses of the President of the United States, to be expended at his discretion and accounted for by his certificate solely, $25,oOo The appropriation for the care of the White House and it's stable and greenhouses was in 1907 S5O,000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
Tariff Revision By Standpatters

In order to keep the opposition from an undue agitation of tariff iniquity that noble reviser Sereno N. Payne, has brought in resolution authorizing the ways and means committee to sit during the recess for the purpose of preparing bill to be considered by a scheme to minimize tariff agitation during the campaign. It has been devised to enable the republican stumpers to say that not only revision Is coming but it is actually being framed up.
 The trusts and monopolists and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

orably in the Confederate army or navy can be taken in. We find that probably one man in three. possibly moreJ had a father or grandfather who fought for the Confederacy and as rule these young men are only too glad to do honor to their forefathers by joining an organization which has for its sole object the caring for the old men where they may need it, and the perpetuation of their valiant records"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
the Chicago News

From the ChfCuSO NeWS.
 Many man is perfect-as nuisance. Induce people to laugh with you in- stead of at you.
 Money makes the mare go to the high est bidder.
 Talent has a gay time spending the coin earned by genius.
 The 'three-ball merchants never ad- vance anything on the rewards of virtue.
 When man doesn't tee. like talking he hunts up some woman and listens.
 Some men are too good to be clever and some others are too clover to oe good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
SORCERESS OF THE NILE

attended by vassal kings from the east. The forces of Octavius Were not so large, though better disciplined; nor was he a match for Antony dn military exper- fence. Antony with This superior forces wished to fight upon the land, but against his better judgment was overruled by Cleopatra, who, having reinforced him with 60 galleys, urged him to contend upon the sea.
 The rivals met at Actium, where was fought one of the greatest decisive bat ties of the world. For while the for tunes of the day were doubtful whom oleopatra, from some unexplained motive, or rom panic, or possibly from calcu- latlng policy, was seen sailing away with her ships for Egypt. And what was still more extraordinary, Antony abandoned his fleet and followed her Had he boon oeteated on the sea, he still had superior forces on the land, and was a match for oeeaVlus. His infatuation euced In a weakness difficult to comprehend in A successful Roman general And never was infatuation followed by more trapic Consequences ~* The battle of ActYlm virtually settled the civil war and the for- tunes of Antony, although he afterwards fought oravely, and energetically. but all to no purpose. And then, at last his eyes were opened and Shakespeare makes him bitterly exclaim:
 All is lostl
 This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me.
 Betrayed I am;
 this false soul of Egypt!
 And with his ruin the ruin of his paramour was also settled yet her re- sources were not utterly exhausted. She retired into a castle or mausoleum she had prepared for herself in case of neces- sty, with her most valuable treasures. and sent messengers to Antony, who re- ported to him that she was dead-that she had killed herself in despair. His wrath now vanished in his grief. He could not live, or did not wish to live, without her; and he fell upon his own sword. The wound was mortal, but death did not im mediatey follow He lived to learn that Cleopatra had again deceived him-that she was sti.l alive. Even amid the agonies of the shadow of death, and in view of this last fatal lie of hers. ne did not upbraid her, but ordered his ser- wants to bear him to her retreat Cov- cred with blood, the dying general was drawn up by ropes and through a win- dow-the only entrance to the Queens re- treat that was left unbarred-into her presence and soon expired
 The fate of Cleopatra was tragic also. She, too destroyed herself, not probably by the bite of asps, as is the popular opinion, but by some potent and subtitle poison that she ever carried with her. and which had the effect of benumbing the body and making her insensible to pain. Yet she does not kill herself because she cannot survive the death of Antony, but because she is too proud to be carried to Rome to grace the triumph of the new Caesar. She will not be led a captive princess up the Capitoline hill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
MAY MOVING.

From the New York World
 In a city there is no more reason why people should move on May 1 than on June IT or August 12, but man is a crea- ture of habit; in this respect the habit is older than history.
 Among the northern European races from which most of the early American population was drawn, spring was the time of tribal raids as far back as the first association of men in clans for mu- tual protection. When the iengthening days unlocked the frozen streams and seeding time drew near, the restless tribes went out to gain more fertile val leys by the simple process of driving away the previous occupants, settling down in time to get in their crops.
 In more orderly times young men and maidens usually paired, as they do now. after Easter and moved into their new homes in late spring, and farmers chang ing from one home to another would nat urally do so just before planting time. So the initiative fiatter will get into his new seven-by-nine apartments just in time to hive his best swarms of bees, get in his cabbage seed and SOW barley for the fall brewing-if he had any room for these seasonal activities.
 The British farm laborer in olden days was hired for the year at Mchaelmas. September 29, which in the old calendar was equivalent to our October 8. The crops were all in, the harvest moon had been celebrated and Giles in his smock- frock was free to better himself if he could. Michaelmas is still the date of the opening of British courts and uni- versailles, and it is in towns tho principal one of the four quarterly rent-days.
 The October 1 moving day in New York derives responsibility from the Michael mas quarter-day of British cities, May moving from the immeasureably older spring land-quest of the Teutonc tribes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
CAPE COD FOG.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the PhIIadeIphIa Ledger
 Yes" remarked the Down Easter, i've do have fog along Cape Cod sometimes. I'll tell you. One night tho fog came up and in the morning when went to milk I couldn't find the old COW. Knew where she was in the habit of lyingA though, and followed her easy enough. Got to her just in time, too"
 How was that?"
 ''Why, just went through the hole she had made in the fog-sort of a tunnel like and pretty soon I came up to her. She was almost smothered. You see, the fog had packed ahead O. her, and she'd damned her horns into it and got stuck. Had to chop her out. You may believe it or not, bur I'll show you the cow any time you come round"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
SONG.

By Bayard Taylor. Daughter of Egypt veil thine eyes! cannot bear their fire; Nor will touch with sacrifice
 Those altars of desire For they are flames that shun the day And their unholy light Is fed from natures gone astray
 In passion and in night. The stars of Beauty and of Sin,
 They burn amid the dark Like beacons tEat to ruin win
 The fascinated bark. Then Veil thgir glow, lest forswear The hopes) thou canst not crown. I And in the black waves of thy hair 4 My struggling manhood drownl 3
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
The New Camp of Sons.

q have been very much surprised" said Robert D. Johnson. Jr., at the club yesterday, fin working on the or ganization of our new Sons of Confed- crate Veterans camp to find how mary men there are in Birmingham who are eligible for memb ership.
 According to the rules of the or ganization all male lineal descendants of a soldier or sailor who served hon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
GETTING RESULTS IN ATLANTA.

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
 ''Yes," said the Blue-Eyed Deckhand pensiyely, q have went to Georgia and returned, and I aint none the worse fer wear. How about prohibition? Why, I hadn't been in Atlanta two hours before l had solved the problem. The law down there allows a beverage containing less than per cent of alcohol. The old beer contained about 5la per cent, and the near-beer has about 1a per cent. So when ever l wanted a glass of beer I drank two glasses and got the same result. Of course, it takes more time to drink it, but then feller ought to be willing to take some trouble. The remedy over there is to double the dose.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

It will cost s3O,OOO to take the Penn sylvania delegation to Denver and back home again and the party in that state is trying to find way to finance the business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

Mir Taft is dickering with President Amador to obtain fair poll and an honest count in Panamas next elec- tion. At first sight this would seem to be none of orr business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

It is estimated that 2OO0 cats, pos sessing 18,000 lives, were lost in the Chelsea fire A fire that cat cannot es- cape from must, indeed, be sudden and sweeping.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

The Emperor Francis Joseph has reigned sixty years, and in that time he has not once asked for a second elective term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

San Francisco saw its bluest days in May two years ago, and it's gladdest days in the present month of May.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

The Pennsylvania railroad is now owned by 60,000 persons, but about 10 of them control all the rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

Gen. Leonard Wood objects to being called doctor" He desires to forget that part of his career, it seems.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

Minister Wu has discarded chop suey to adopt a vegetarian diet. He does this to double the length of his life and inquisitive powers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

The housefly has been convicted of a desire to annihilate the human race Beware it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

The resumption of the steel plant at Ensley on June Is confirms the belief that this district will begin to become normal in the fall when great crops are ready to be marketed and the railroads are offered more business than they can handle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

Today the republicans in the House will make a final effort to agree on currency bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

The Chicago News comedies Ala hama to John Albert. When he gets Alabama he can, indeed run along down the entire alphabet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

Our wasteful methods cause a bushel of coal to be lost for every bushel that is sold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

The Coal Barons can pull them selves up to the top if they Will play ball as they know it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

South Africa in adopting American machinery takes good care to reject the American political machine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

Bob Evans is far from being a well man. He has been relieved, and in August he will go onto the retired list He is an efficient sailon but he has no great record behind him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

We feel another return of spring and the warm weather has probably come now to carry us over Mo sum- mer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

Frank Gould and his wife have made up thus depriving society of one of its favorite topics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

Helie and Anna will have to be con tent with a civil marriage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

San Francisco is overwhelmed in a tidal wave of naval guests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

Baseball games after all are lost and won by pitchers,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

too, had political end to gain and was too polite to give way to anger and re- breaches. She was anything but the im- pulsive woman that some suppose-but a great actress and artist, as some women are when they would conquer * But his passion for Cleopatra could not long be suppressed, neither from reasons of state nor from the respect he must have felt for the admirable conduct of Octavia, who was devoted to him, and who was one of the most magnanimous and reproachless women of antiquity. He had not been two years Tn Athens, the headquarters of his eastern department before he was called upon to chastise the Parthians, who had thrown off the Roman yoke and invaded other Roman provinces. But hardly had he left Octavia and set foot again in Asia before he sent for his Egyptian mistress and loaded her with presents not gold and silver and precious stones and silks and curious works of art merely, but whole provinces even-Phoencia, Syria, Cilicia and part of Judea and Arabia-prov- inces which belonged not to him but to the Roman empire 4
 Antony, perceiving desperate contest before him. ending in his supremacy or ruin, put forth all his energies, assisted by the contributions of Cleopatra. who fur nished 200 ships and 10000 talents-about O,OOO,00o. He had 800 war vessels, besides galleys, 100000 foot and 12,OoO horse--one of the largest armies that any Roman gen. eral had ever commanded-and he was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

Washington Bureau Age-uerald. 1421 G street, N. W.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-02

which he lIIa previously CeterE-Iueo
to devote the evening.
He wondered increasingly to. whom
he was indebted for the good meals he
had enjoyed in prison. Now he would
endeavor to find out.
4 hanson took him TO Holloway,
but the first efforts Of the driver failed
to discover the whereabouts of the
Royal Star hotel.
At last Philip recollected the ward.
ers added direction-''opposite."
He dismissed the cab and walked to
the prison entrance. Directly in front
he saw a small restaurant called the
Star. It's titular embellishments were
due to the warder's gift OF humor.
He entered. A woman was knitting
at a cash desk
Until Yesterday" he said. you sent
food regularly to boy named Arson,
who was confined in the prison
yes" interrupted the lady. 81 on'y
heard this mornin' that he was let
out"
would you mind telling me who
paid the bill? I suppose it was paidT
"Well, as a matter of fact. it was
overpaid." was the reply. You see,
the pore lad was remanded for a week,
and Mr. Judd. man 90 lives in the
harrington road. KEN ERE an ar
ranged for rs weeks board. Hav' We
heard wot 'appened to 'imT'
Philips heart was in his mouth, but
he managed to answer that the boy
was all right; there was no charge
against him. Then he escaped into
the street. The one man he had for.
gotten was his greengrocer friend
who had indeed acted the part of the
good Samaritan.
There was some excuse for this, but
the boys Astounding good nature would
admit Of none. He hastened to Far.
ringdon road with the utmost speed
and found his fat friend putting up
the shutters Of his shop.
The restaurant next door was open
Philip approached quietly.
"Good evening. Mr.. Judd" he said
holding out his hand.
"Good evenin', SIR" said the green.
grocer, his eyes revealing not the re.
hottest idea of the identity Of the smart
young gentleman who addressed him
so Familiarity.
Don't you know me. Mr.. Judd?"
"Well. sir, I can't exactly bring to
MIMI
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-02
undertaking of the fall festival.
This is another crisis.

JnfS Is dnOLHer crlSlS.
We still have the pessimists with us.
But Richmond has awakened and the
lethargy of the pessimists and the
New Era is here.
AS a sample of the enterprise and
energy and good management OF the
leaders in this movement which is an
answer to the pessimists, take for in
stance the decorating of Main street.
At eleven o'clock in the morning the
decorations had scarcely begun-they
mad reached fourth. BY four O'Clock
of the same day the street was a
wilderness of extreme beauty. Fes-
toons of flags, bunting, loops of cleo
trio bulbs-all these were in place up
to be done. Such work as this is what
we mean when we say that Richmond
is undergoing a egeneration-A New
Era.
To all the outside world Richmond
wants it known that the fall festival
is going to be a success. 1t believes
that no one can fail to recognize the
increased business facilities and that
the title to the Trading Center of
Eastern Indiana is unquestioned