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New-York tribune., 1908-10-11
OUR CHARITABLE CLUB.

Dear Little Men and Little Women: Last Sep
tember five of my friends and I organized small
club We met weekly, and at our third meeting
one of the girls proposed that we do something
for charity on Christmas. were rapidly near
ing that festive time. Originally had planned a
-ocial club but as mothers were all interested
in charitable clubs. also followed suit After
much discussion, each girl promised to dress five
dolls and then give them to some orphan asylum.
We were to furnish the material and the money 10
buv the dolls with. As had decided to have
these dolls inches in height, each doll would
cost So cents, making a total Of 81 50 had a
Vyrographic set, and I thought l could earn come
thing with II, I went among different people
soliciting orders Some ordered handkerchiefs and
glove cases. some photograph holders tahourets
etc until I had enough orders. I then set TO work
and had all the orders filed in abolt month In
all 7 collected S4s5 then took out my mother s
piecebag and rummaEed for materials for the dolls
clothes 1t took about week TO dress one
doll and in six weeks I had my whole set boxed
and ready for delivery. But the most fun was
when we distributed them. and we were fully re-
paid for our trouble by the eXtravagant grateIuI-
ness Of our little prottgeas-
LENA DTLFER (aged 1o).
No 2si5 Third avenue, The Bro7X, New York Clty-
Dear Editor. l received my prize, and am very
much pleased with 1t. Hoping - win another. l
-ar,.ir yours truly DONALD SINGLETON.
No 50 Morningsde avenue, Waterbury. Conn
New-York tribune., 1908-10-11

Dear Editor: My watch came. and thank you
very much for 81. I going away 10 the coun
try for my vacation but l Will find The Tribune
there Ny mother likes the childrens page ever
so much better than she does funny colored pict-
ures and I do, too. I do the puzzles
Yours truly RAYMER FORD.
Jamaica, n. =
New-York tribune., 1908-10-11
DONALD KNEW.

Margaret aged ten. q beginner In history.
Mamma" she asked. what does 'behead' mean
To cut a mans head. dear"
There was a moment Of silent study; then an
other question.
What does defeat mean. mamma7'
Little Donald. aged four, was interested.
Il know, mamma" his logical conclusion.
Defeat means to a mans feet on.'-The
September Deineator.
New-York tribune., 1908-10-11

The former still in existence. The Hegaid" was
a senli-weekly whose contents consisted of matter
taken from the columns OF the daily, 1t is believed
10 have been the first example of a, newspaper in
tended for country circulation made up OF matter
taken from the columns OF a city daily.
While Webster was living IN New York ths ysl>
New-York tribune., 1908-10-11
TRIANGLE

TRIANGLE
7 TIE Hub of 'he Universe
. In the following
Many night from yonder tvied
Easement. ere | went TO rest
Did J look on great Orion
SlopinE slowly 10 the west
g. A word often used in poetry for fathe-.
( \ part of the foot
3 4 proposition
= In New York
New-York tribune., 1908-10-11

Ruined castle at 81. Andrews, Scotland. AZ
the left is the entrance to the famous
Bottle Dungeon" and In the foreground
is very old well.
BY Helen Harrington, aged fourteen years.
No 10 Rockview Terrace. P1ainfeld. n. j.
Prize. "A Trip Around the World in Post
cards.
New-York tribune., 1908-10-11
Billy AND BILLY

By Martha ". Conway. aged twelve
.4rs. Fifth avenue. Highland Park,
Eaw Brunswick. n. J. Prize, an en-
.ra.dery set
New-York tribune., 1908-10-11

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.
ANAGRAMS
: Robinson Crusoe-
z Alice in Wonderland
z The Water Babies
4 Little Women
5 UnCIe Toms Cabin
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
MRS PAT" IN TOPEKA

From the New York Morning Telegram
Topeka, Kas., has fallen in line. Mrs
Patrick Campbell, the Interviewers' De-.
light, recently visited Topeka, and her re-
oeption was not exactly the sort of al
ovation rendered by the Romans to their
conquering emperors.
One of the young men, described by the
English actress as poor things, 1 sup
lose they have to do it for living"
writes of her performance as follows:
Having long studied the local dramatic
situation, we have a theory as to why
l either Mrs. Campbell nor The Second
Mrs Tanqueray' struck a responsive
chord. 1t is this: There is not in the
whole play a single comedian CARRIED in a
bald wig and expansive pantaloons of the
coming and going cut. Pinero neglected
to have anybody fall over a chair. None
of his characters talks like prize fighters
al supposed to talk. Mrs. Campbell her.
self was disappointing in that she sang
rekher of those popular favorites, Love
Me and the World Is Mine and That's
What the Rose Said to Me-. We wonder
il this is the reason Mrs. Pat has never
Leen particularly popular in this paIN of
the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
In Favor of Birmingham.

Now that business is improving
throughout the country and the wheels
of industry are humming again. we'll in
formed people are calling attention to the
fact that the period of depression was less
felt in Birmingham than in other indus
trial eenters," remarked a citizen.
In the Pittsburg district the number
of wage-workers out of employment be-
tween January and -dareh was rela-
lively greater than was the case in the
Birmingham district. At Youngstown all
six of the Republics blast furnaces were
shut down. The same company kept one
of It's three furnaces in the Birmingham
district running right along and now it
has two of them in blast. At its Youngs-
town plant three furnaces are in blast
today-one-half of the whole number.
In Alabama about Sc per cent of the
furnaces are now running and that is a
better showing than any other district
makes. By the summer the manufacture
ing world will be, l think, almost nomi-
nal and after the presidential election
prosperity will come along with whoop.
Birmingham is sure to boom.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
No Bio Stick In Il

The Presidents latest special mes
sage denounces nothing, not even pred
atory wealth. The time to make
friends instead of enemies has come
In the hot course of the preliminary
presidential campaign, and President
Roosevelt, deepest and slickest of all
politicians, did his part with great
skill in the message sent to Congress
last week. "If anybody who votes or
contributes to a campaign fund.-" says
the New York World, was overlooked
in the preparation of this special mes
sage it was not because Theodore
Roosevelt does not aim to please" The
Big Stick has become a back number,
and predatory wealth is to have an
immunity bath after one short year,
and the latter is expected in return to
I'll I'D a slush fund Of Hannaesque
dimensions. 1t will gladly do it.
Barring the immunity bath and the
licensing and recognition and protec-
ton of trusts in reasonable" restraint
.of trade, there is not line in the spe-
cial message that was not borrowed
from the progressive democrats. Il
am not going to allow any republican
president to crowd me off my own
platform" said Mr.. Bryan at Pitts
burg on Friday last. II will not" he
went on to say, abandon or give up
nv ,policies simply because a republj-
can President, seeing they are right,
endorses them. But in reality l am
grateful to the President for making
SO many of my ideas respectable"
But when the President came to con-
slider the publicity of campaign funds
he struck a snag. What would please
the plain people would not please the
campaign managers, and the only way
over the snag was the silent way. Not
a word was said about publicity of
campaign funds in a message appar-
emily a resume of all known reforms.
The silence Of the special message
over that subject is more eloquent
than mere words could be.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
BIRD PIANO.
instrument for Training canaries to
Marble Simple Tunes.

From the New York Press.
Miss Ada de Acosta, lately betrothed
to Oren Root is the clever inventor of
no less useful device than a bird PIANO.
For, be 1t known, the young woman is
at one and the same time lover OF ca
nary birds and deep student of music.
She long ago came to the conclusion that
the whistles and flutes used by bird fam
clers in training canaries to sing were
not as good as they might be.
At last she decided no wind instrument
with or without a reed, was what the
trainer needed. The happy thought came
to her that music box would be useful
in teaching the golden youngsters to use
their voices and she had much success
along that line. But the music box was
too mechanical for the best results. 1t
was difficult to keep 1T from rafting
away at rate more rapid than the or
binary bird could follow. So she set her
wits to work and evolved the bird piano.
The tones are produced with silver wires,
which are struck by tiny hammers on
the pianoforte principle By means of the
little instrument tunes simple enough for
any intelligent canary's understanding
can be played as slowly as necessary and
with the insistent repetition essential t.
success in bird training.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29

our farmers would have plenty of time
In which to produce corn, meat, hay,
mules, -four, fertilizers and all other
necessaries of life. The only difficulty
is complete cooperation. In this state
the crop grown in 1907 should be re-
duced 20 per cent, and similar reduc-
tons should be made in the cotton
growing states. How can this be
brought about?
It probably cannot be. 1t could not
have been accomplished If the effort
had been begun when the panic came
on. 1t is too late now to induce the
farmers of the south to raise home
supplies and to plant for a small crop
of cotton-a crop not exceeding 9,000,-
900 bales. The Constitutions CORE
spondent is engaged IN conducting a
herculean task.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
Senator Iohnston's Amendment

The Senate has passed the Aldrich
bill, and it now goes to the House,
where Joe Cannon and the administra-
ton will endeavor to turn it into law.
No doubt they will be able to pass a
bill that gives the section that is load
ed up with state, county and city bonds
a chance to secure 100000, 900 in cur
rency in an emergency
But through the persistent efforts
of Senator Johnston the bill was
amended before passage in a respect
that will deprive the gamblers in the
stock and cotton pits of great deal
of outside money. Under the bill as
1t went through the Senate four-fifths
of the legal reserve of interior banks
must be kept at home, leaving but
per cent of the deposits free to be
sent to New Yorl-. The country is in
debted to Senator Johnston for this i'm
portant change in the bill, and our
Junior senator was wholly justified In
voting for the bill In order to secure
this change in 1t.
Like all else done by the republi-
cans at present, this bill has been
drawn to please New York and the
section In which that city is located.
1t is mere tinkering scheme, and the
banking system of the country re-
mains In the condition that invited
last years panic, and that will pave
the way for destruction of conf
dence in the future If it is not taken
In hand and placed on scientific basis
--on a basis similar to that adopted
in European countries. Panics, how
ever, will come periodically and the
banks should be fortified to the utmost
against them. Senator Aldrich admits
that the bill which ~bears his name
does not go to the root of the matter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29

from the Boston Herald.
The address given by President Alder
man of the University of Virginia at
the Civic Forum in New York on Sunday
night and the address given by Judge
Thomas of Montgomery, Ala, last even
ing before the Boston Congregational club,
go well together as clean-cut, definite
statements of the position Of the educat-
the negro. He is to be trained for citi-
zenship, prevented from lawfully inter-
riingling his blood with 1.-THE white race,
taught as much as he can master, but
With emphasis on preparation for a lifs
Of manual labor, and never suffered to
regain political control The legal eman-
c'pation of slaves effected by Lincoln,
must now be followed by the negro race >
emancipation of itself, thrift and personal
worth being the chief means of progress.
These southerners agree in their diagno-
sis Of the evil caused by granting the
Suffrage to the negro, and in their predic-
ton that in the future "the door of hope
is not closed to those who prepare them
selves for intelligent citizenship" Presi-
dent Alderman going so far as to intimate
that the day is coming when both north
and south, among whites as we'll as
among blacks. the right of suffrage Will
be achieved, not attained automatically
The most. significant fact about these
addresses OF President Alderman and
Judge Thomas is not in their sentiment
So much as 1t is the fact that they are
spoken in the north, at the invitation
CT serious minded northerners seeking
wisdom. Eighteen years ago Henry W.
Grady thrilled the country with words
Uttered in this city before the Merchants
association. Even he soresaw but little
of the subsequent marvellous, CONNER
cial and industrial development of the
south, or Of the broadening and mellow
Ing Of northern attitude toward the south
which has gone on since.
Liberal northern opinion admits now
the error of wholesale granting of the
suffrage after the civil war. 1t admits
the principle of training for citizenship,
hut it continues to insist that when fit
the negro should vote 1t will admit
that for a majority of negroes education
of an Industrial and agricultural type Is
the best kind but 1t also insists that
the race neds leaders of It's own for
whom the most liberal and highest educa-
ticn IL not too good.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
Mr.. Rhodes As DELEGATE

It is practically an unwritten law In
almost every one of the southern states
that a successful and respected news
paper man is sent as one of the dele
gates-at-large to the national demo-
cratic convention.
Rufus N. Rhodes, the editor Of the
Birmingham News, has been chosen
and is practically the unanimous choice
of the newspaper men as well as a
majority of the citizens, for this posi-
ton. The Age-Herald thoroughly ap-
proves and hopes the unanimous vote
of the state will be cast for Mr. Rhodes
as one Of the four delegates-at-large to
the Denver convention. He has not
only been successful as editor and
principal proprietor of one of the best
newspapers in the south, but he is
able and conscientious, and in the
making of platform would be capable
and WISE
Mr.. Rhodes is entitled to the honor
and The Age-Herald believes he will
be chosen as one of the delegates at
large.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
Shall we now
Bessemer's C Cooperative Store

A cooperative grocery store is ap-
parently considered feasible in Besse-
mer, whatever may be the situation N
Birmingham OF elsewhere. Enough
subscribers for stock have met, organ
ICED and will soon put in operation a
store that proposes to sell groceries
at cheaper prices than are now de-
manded for them in Bessemer.
In conducting a cooperative gro
Gerry the proof of the pudding is, of
course, in the eating, and The Age
Herald does not claim to be able to
read the future. 1t is, however, able
to say that the Bessemer subscribers
have the courage of their convictions,
and that counts in the solution of any
problem.
The Bessemer cooperative store will
tackle the problem of prices in the
most direct and practical way. 1t does
not propose to maintain prices that it
may wax fat itself and declare big div
idends, but 1t proposes, it is plain, to
sell to all corners goods "at little
cheaper prices" Purchasers are to get
dividends on the spot. But there is NJ
need to anticipate. A years conduct
of the new store will be the test after
all
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
Mammoth Terminal Station.

Birmingham is a young city, but so
rapid has been it's progress that it has
cutgrown all its public buildings, but the
Terminal station has been built on
scale large enough to answer its purpose
for many years to come" said L. c.
Fritch, high official of the Illinois Gen.
trail, who spent Friday here.
ut is one of the largest railroad sta
tons In the United States and when it
is entirely finished will be one of the
most beautiful. 1t is a mammoth affair
end will be sufficient for city of 900
population. But Birmingham win grow
faster than ever and 1t is reasonable to
say that boys of today will live to see
this city in the million class. 1t MAJ
be that even in 10 years the sheds of the
Terminal station will have to be con-
sieerably extended to accommodate the
trains"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
Lataere Sunday.

In the Latin church today is known as
Lataere Sunday-the fourth Sunday of
Lent-the name being taken from the first
word of the introit appointed for the day
-Lataere Rejoice). In early times when
Lent was observed with more austerity
than at present, the rules were slightly
relaxed on Lataere Sunday. In England
the day was known also as Mothering
Sunday, because young apprentices away
from home were permitted to return to
their mothers for a brief visit. Mica
RENE (Mid-LenD is an old Norman word,
still used in French communities, to
designate the Fourth Sunday in Lent
Next Sunday will be Passion Sunday,
and the Sunday after that will be Palm
Sunday, which is the Sunday just before
Easter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
Building Materials Cheap

All agree that building materials, as
we'll as labor, are exceptionally low,
and that this is an exceedingly favora-
HE time for the construction of build
ings. So low have prices become that
many anticipate building boom as a
direct result. This will certainly be
the case as soon as money can be bor-
rowed at 6 per cent interest.
Some builders say house that
would have cost $4,000 year ago can
now be constructed at cost of $4,000.
This, however, is an extreme view of
the situation. 1t is doubtful, indeed,
II 80 great difference could be Sc
cured from present prices. Perhaps
an experienced builder, who had plenty
of cash in his pocket, could save one
third, and any one can effect a saving
of one-ffth under the price Of con-
struction one year ago.
This will surely lead to a great
deal of building in this district, where
expansion and activity are certain to
come as soon as business conditions
are normal again. Values will not be-
come permanently lower in this dis
trict, whatever they may become else
where. This fact, together with the
abundance of materials will certainly
lead to the erection Of hundreds, If not
thousands, of homes in this district
this year And the man that builds
will not only gain home at low
price, but he will keep at work In this
district large number who might
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
At the Fork Of the Road

A correspondent of the Atlanta Con-
stitution appeals to the farmers of the
south not to raise a crop Of cotton
running from 12,O0O,OOo to $4,000, 900
bales, for such a crop in this season
of slackening trade would not bring
more than cents, and that price
would be no more than the cost of pro-
duction. year, therefore, would be
wasted without special effort the
farmers of the south can now grow a
crop ranging from 100000 to. 4,000,-
900 bales. 1t takes united and con.
certed effort to grow smaller crop.
The Constitutions correspondent
thinks crop of 100000 bales would
suit the present year admirably, bring
ing good price, and leading to indie
pendence.
BY growing . crop Of 100000 bales
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
Great Orchestral Band.

Times orchestral band, which comes
nearer being a symphony orchestra than
any wind organization in the world, will
be the great musical attraction here in
May" said a musician.
Every man in this band is an artist
ard Innes' salary list is as large as that
of the endowed symphony orchestras. The
lowest salary is at the rate of s35 week
with extra allowances for hotel bills and
many get $50 a week. One of lines
soloists receives $3.50 a week. His reel
players are exceptionally fine and this
fact accounts for beautiful string eff
fects."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
A SPLENDID PICE OF WORK,

FROM Harpers weekly.
1t was great help to the spirits to
have it announced that the Knickerbock-
er Trust company would resume business
The resumption was made possible only
by long, hard, persistent struggle, led
for is weeks by Mr.. Satterlees indefatiga-
BILE committee, and helped by as many
good men as could find places on the
open those doors was job worth doing,
and 1t was splendidly done. Its direct
fiscal effect Is important, still more so its
moral and indirect effect. Well done,
gentlemen! You have made us all your
debtors
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
Need For New Building.

1.-THE Commercial club ought certainly
to own a home of its own" said Secre-
tary ]. b. Babb yesterday. Mr.. Babb
was speaking of the great advantages
that have been brought to Birmingham by
the conventions which the club has Sc
cured for this city. He happened to be
in a retrospective mood and narrated in
quite an interesting manner the great part
the club has played and the wonderful
activities which 1t has advanced under
the able leadership Of young business
presidents.
THY organization is perhaps the strong
est of its kind in the south. Seldom has
1t ever started to get anything or to ac-
complish an end that has not been sue
cessful OF course. it took some time to
get Vulcan off our hands, but 1t was
done.
1.-THE erection of structure three or
more stories in height seems to be in
line with present policy. A committee
is now actively at work on the propo-
sition."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
PRESIDENT HUGHES.

by w. q. Evans.
we read of a statesman named Hughes,
Till three years ago reclughes,
Whose soul Is now aching,
While plans he is making,
r o stand in the Presidents shughes.
BY vote Of the Gentiles and Jughes.
l hear he is quick to REFUGEES
To give the reporters his vughes.
But like "Brer Rabbit"
He's got a sly habit
CT winking his nose quite profughes
When asked If he knows any hughes.
He's silent to them that abughes,
and don't say a word they can ughes;
But keeps up his thinking
His nose still a-winking,
And speaks only when he might chughes7
This habit is one to excughes.
They say he'll be President Hughes,
But don't let 1t give you the blughes,
It's thought he'll be ready,
AS ever was Teddy,
To give tina old devil his dughes-
And that's where you're solid with
Hughes.
Birmingham, March %, 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
DISTINGUISHED Veteran.

Gen. C. Irvine Walker of Charleston,
S. c., commander of the Army of North
ern Virginia department, United Confed-
crate Veterans, spent a few hours in Biz
mingham yesterday. He was a gallant
officer of the Confederacy and Is one
of the best known and most popular
men In the south
Great interest is being manifested in
the approaching reunion to be held in
Birmingham in, June" said General Wal
ker "A large crowd will cone from
South Carolina and I am looking forward
to the occasion with keen pleasure"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

FrOm the New Ork Press.
girl likes to dance so as to be too
tired next day to help her mother
A woman's idea of good complexion
is when you can't guess whether it Is
real
A comfortable feeling Is to have relal
tives visiting at your house when you
are away on business trip.
A man who can pass through a stock
market panic without losing his head viii
20 wild If his shaving water isn't hot
enough. 4.
When man goes to political meeting
he yells at the speeches and finds out in
tie newspapers the next day what they
were about.