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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
HobSOnISm in South America

Brazil is building three Dreadnoughts in England and the Argentine cham Der of deputies has voted $55,OO0,Ooo for a navy If the Argentine senate concurs in the action of the chamber A race between the two South Ameri- can countries for warships will be in- augurated.
 It is plain at any rate that the Argen- tine government takes no stock in the report that Brazil will sell her ships to Japan. The truth is, both countries desire to absorb Uruguay. Both want to control the excellent harbor of Montevideo Uruguay is small coun- try. but she has been independent since 1925, and she will resist to the utmost all efforts that look to absorption by either of the countries between which she is wedged.
 Brazil and Argentina are not harbor- ing any delusions about big navy be- ing a guaranty of peace They sec trouble ahead and they are getting ready for it. Each is building ships, and the one that "gets there first" will be the one that will find pretext for declaring war over some Uruguayan question. That will start the fracas and it will go on until the one republic or the other absorbs little Uruguay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Odd Fellows Home.

sThe people of Cullman, the progress i've mountain German town, are masters in the art of entertaining" said Grand Scribe w. F. McCartney of the grand eneampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, last night MT McCart- hey was on his way home in Anniston from the GOth session of the grand en- campment, at Cullman
 George Stiefelmeyer, a Cullman business man, was chairman of the local com- mittee on entertainment, and took per sonal charge of all the plans. He was ably assisted by every member of the committee, which really seemed to in clude every citizen of the town
 "The freedom of the town was literally turned over to us and the two days were crowded with eourtesies and pleasant surprises that will not soon be forgotten by the visitors.
 "The Odd Fellows Home now under construction, will not only be monu- ment to the order in Alabama, but to the enterprising people of Cullman.
 "The Cullman lodge donated no acres of ground and S5GcO for the institution This fall the people of Cullman will set out 15OO fruit trees on the ground. The site of the home is one of the prettiest that could be selected in the state. The lands donated are valuable and, the com munity conditions peculiarly fitted for such an institution"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
Jones Had New Ideas.

Hammondsport, N. Y., September D. Charles Oliver Jones, killed at Waterville today, was numbered among the younger aeronauts, but his work in the field had already marked him as one of the most successful opponents of aerial navigation. He came here year ago from his home in Cincinnati, with some entirely new ideas in regard to airships and joined Alexander Graham Bell and others in their experiments with aeroplanes It was Jones who evolved the famous June Bug" which made several record flights for short distances. The June Bug won the Scientific American trophy offered for heavier-than-air machines attaining speed of about 30 miles an hour against the wind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
EVENING.

By Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Mere dith). Already evening! In the duskiest nook Of yon dusk corner, under the deaths
 head,
 Between the alembics. thrust this leg-
 ended And iron bound, and melancholy book For l will read no longer. The loud brook Shelves his sharp light up shallow banks thinspread; The slumbrous west grows slowly red ana,
 red; Up from the ripened corn her silver hook The moon is lifting and deliciously Along the warm blue hills the day aa.
 clines
 The first star brightens while she wait. for me,
 And round her swelling heart the zone
 grows tight; Musing, half sad, in her soft hair she
 twines The white rose, whispering, He win
 come tonight!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
TWo-headed Baby Dies.

New Orleans, September 2.-Little John Bernard Murray, the ''two-headed baby, ]" which has attracted considerable atten- tion at the New Orleans Charity hos- pital for week or more, died today, following an operation which was per formed upon him several days ago. The doctors attending the child said that he really could not lay claim to two heads, the so-called second head being nothing more than bag of flesh covered on the top with hair, which was caused by her nia of the brain before the child was born From the first little hope was en- tertained that the child would live and the operation was only resorted to as a last chance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
Coal and Timber Lands.

Nearly all the mineral properties in Alabama have been acquired by strong companies said an old engineer, but five or six undeveloped coal tracts are still on the market. One of the best of these properties-many thousand acres of excellent coal-has been greatly enhanced in value within the past 12 months by a projected railroad line to be built right through the land.
 ''The tract to which I refer might have been bought three years ago for s5 an acre; today it could hardly be bought for $50 an acre. All good coal property is going up in the fancy values with the next wave of prosperity.
 Many fortunes have been made in Ala bama in mineral and timber acreage. No other investments were quite so surely to bring big returns. All that investors had to do was to wait. Such opportunities be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
No Confirmation of Battle.

St. Petersburg September 2.-The foT- eign office las not received any confirma- tion of the report that there has been a serious battle at Tazriz, Persia, in which Ain-Ed-Dowleh had met his death, and officials doubt the authenticity of the news. According to the latest adyices re- ceived at the foreign office, the Russian consul at Tabriz was endeavoring to ar range settlement between the warning parties, but the parties were at dead- lock over the recognition of political clubs which the Shah positively refuses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
Hisgen and Hearst On Tour.

New York, September 2.-Thomas l.. President, and William R. Hearst started today on a country wide tour on behalf of the independence pArty ticket. Both men will speak Friday night at the Indiana state convention at Indianapolis. From there they will go to Milwaukee, where both are sch eduled to speak on Saturday and then will start toward the south, speak ing in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio on heir way to Kentucky. John Temple Graves, candidate for Vice President, will join the party in that state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
Woman Frightened to Death.

Fort Worth, Tex, September 2.-Mrs. J. W. Merritt, mother of five small chill dren, was frightened to death while camp ing at Mary's creek, near here, early to- day. In the early morning hours the sound of firearms was heard. "Oh, Jim, they are firing at us," she cried, and fell back dead upon the blankets from which she had arisen. The coroner s inquest re- turned verdict of death from fright It is not known who fired the guns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

came seareer every year, but before an- other 12 months passes several important deals now pending will be consummated."
 Rus In Urbe.
 "one of the most beautiful country seats in Jefferson county is The Elms, Col. Llewellyn ". Johns home, just beyond West End park said an artist "The grounds embrace 4 acres, and the mead ows and the premises in general are kept in perfect order. It Is an ideal home for a retired gentleman, and 1t seems pity that the city Is encroaching on it.
 By the way. 1t is in the area of Great CT Birmingham, and after October l. 1909 The Films will be in the city of Bir- mingham. But I take 1t for granted that its owner will maintain 1t unplatted, as at present, so that it may be as of old, country seat. It would then be. in fact, rus in urbe Country in city), and would be as now the scene of elegant hospi- tality."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
Bark Lost at Sea.

Philadelphia, September 2.-The bark Auborndale, which sailed from Turks isl- and five weeks ago for this port is miss ing, and it is reported the vessel went down off Cape Hatteras during the West Indian hurricane last month. The steam- CT Republic, which left Turks island nine days after the Auborndale sailed, has ar rived here. The Auborndale was loaded with cargo of salt Capt. E. B. Haskell was in command Under him was crew of eight inen and a stewardess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
Nominated for Congress.

Greensboro, N C., September 2.-At the republican congressional convention for the Fifth district held here today, John Motley Morehead of Leaksville was unan- imously nominated to oppose A. L. Brooks, democratic nominee, for seat in the United States Congress. MT. More head is a grandson of John Motley More. head, North Carolina's first whig gov ernor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A BOYS WISH.

A BOY S WISH. I'd like. to be a pirate And sail the Spanish Main, If every night when darkness fell, could go home again And slumber in my little bed, So cozy-lil1e and still, Where neither storms nor rolling waves Might come to do me i'll. I'm brave enough in daytime, On land or on the sea, And nothing in the world around Can ever frighten me. But when the ghosts of Shadowland Are stealing through the gloam, Somehow, l always want to be With mother, safe at homel
 LEES UNREALITIES. We are going to a play this even ing"
 "Ahl presume you wish to see phase of life portrayed as it really is?' No; we wish to see it portrayed as 1t really isn't"
 PULLING THROUGH. In the wrack and the roar and the whirl Swing tight to the roof and you'll come
 to no harm. Though tempests may blow and disasters
 may swarm, The sun will be shining tomorrow! There's nothing like keeping your eyes
 straight ahead Till the very last bolt of misfortune is
 sped; Though the lilies are drowned and the
 roses lie dead, The sun will be shining tomorrowl COMING CONFLICT "It seems to be inevitable" What are you talking about?' "Internecine strife between newspaper bards and magazine poets'
 IF. If all our frowns were cleared away And all the winds blew gladly, If every heart were always gay And no man grumbled sadly, What would the luckless doctors do? For ills would leave us quickly; If duty charmed us for while And each should wear a cheering smile, Nobody could be sickly
 Chicago Record-Herald. If all the road were smooth before And trouble troubled never, And nursing pain were given o'er Forever and forever How would the merry eheer-up bards Contrive to make living, When nothing ever did go wrong And life was just grand, sweet song Of gladness and thanksgiving?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
No Action Against Castro.

Wilemstadt September 2.-The feeling is spreading among all classes here that The Netherlands government has unnec- essarily delayed taking action against Venezuela in a matter that vitally con- cerns Curacao. A member of the coun- cil. speaking on this subject today, said that Curacao was too insignificant for Holland to act against Venezuela in it's behalf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
Wilbur Wriuht Is ILL

Lemans, France, September 2.-Wilbur Wright, the aeroplanist of Dayton, O.. is having much impatience over the delay in the conduct of official trials with his aeroplane that has resulted from the in- element weather of the last few days and the strain of the situation Is having an injurious effect on his health.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
WHILE AWAY FROM HOME.

Birmingham people who are leaving home for a vacation trip should have The Age-HeraId follow them and thus keep informed about what Is taking place In the city and state during their absence. The Age-Herald will be sent to them at any address at the regular price, and the address will be changed as often az desired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
From the New York Press.

If man has good digestion, he at tributes 1t to his fine business judgment.
 There's no kind of clothes woman can have such contempt for as when they are comfortable.
 Poets are all well enough if they are not in your family so that you have to support them.
 The way girl catches young man she wants is pretending to try to catch an older one she doesn't want
 When man brags how liberal-minded he is it's about how people oughtn't to criticise him for the time of night he gets homo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Maryland made 411,S33 tons, not a little of which came from Cuban ores, but perhaps for the purposes of this article it would be better to add her output to the southern total, making all told 8 3,445,221 tons. This amount of pig iron was drawn, says the United States geological survey, from 6,427,- ls5 tons of iron ore. These figures show that southern ores as a whole contain at the bottom of the furnace a trifle more than 52 per cent of metallic iron. The only element of doubt re- lates to Maryland and the Cuban ores that She imports. But however Mary lands figures be considered it seems certain from the official figures of the American Iron and Steel association on the one hand and of the United States geological survey on the other that the ores of the south are good for 90 per cent of metallic iron in the fur mace itself.
 It is not easy to ascertain what iron was made from Lake Superior ores in 1907, but if we take from the years aggregate, 25,781,36 tons, the iron made in the south, in New England. in New Jersey and in the far west we have left 21,475, 346 tons. This was drawn from 41,638.744 tons of Lake Superior ores The Lake Superior ores yielded last year therefore just about 51h per cent in metallic iron.
 The best obtainable figures therefore show that southern ores are as rich in iron content as the Lake Superior ores Whoever doubts this will have to go outside of the most trustworthy reports to prove the contrary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

The Presidents bunch of farm up. filters proposes to abolish the farmers best room or parlor. It Is something dreadful. that's a fact. The farmer himself ehuns 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

The republican party cannot, if it would, break itself of the Joe Cannon habit. He Is part of the machine that stands hopelessly committed against popular rule, and the repub- lican party is in that line of business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
A NECESSARY PRELJMJNARv.

From the Baltimore American
 Have you decided on the site for your egg farm yet?"
 Not yet want first to see the lay of the land"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Massachusetts is expending $100,000 in an effort to destroy the common house fiy-musca domestica, to use the words of Boston itself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Rockefelier's forthcoming autobiog. raphy is to be published in 12 lan- guages, but no one can be led up to a volume in any one of tho 13 languages and be- made to read it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
Pittsburq and Birmingham Compared.

PittSburg and Blrmln9nam OoIhPaIS"'
 ". J. Bryan of Birmingham, we'll known young mechanical engineer, re- gently returned from an extended trip north and east.
 T was in New York, Pittsburg, Chicago and Cincinnati, and wound up my travels with a two-weeks' sojourn at Tate Spring" said Mr. Bryan. "The business improvement in the north Is not as marked as 1 had hoped to find it, and as for the Pittsburg district a great many rusty smokestacks are still to be seen there. I am now more than ever inn pressed with the fact that the Birming- ham district has suffered relatively less from the panic of last fall than Pittsburg. The fact is that had 1t not been for the miners strike conditions in and around Birmingham would have been close to normal. Now that the strike is ended, there will be a general industrial re- yival here, and substantial progress all along the line"
 MT Bryan is native of Cincinnati, and that being so, he naturally took a special interest in Ohio politics while at his old liOiISs I1e odyof uOlNltilSldiAbih6 iAAC AcNe that Ohio is usually counted a sure republican state, many close observers say it is an extremely doubtful state.
 Prohibition is an exciting issue in Ohio, said MT. Bryan. Harris, the re- publican candidate for governor, is pro- hibitonist, and the liquor interests are moving heaven and earth to defeat him. How far the republican presidential ticket will be involved in the fight over pro- hibition remains to be seen. But Bryan and Kern are certain to gain some votes from the Personal Liberty, or anti-pro- hibition, organization"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Wall street has an A. o. Brown taste in it's mouth, and it begins to think the dellrium tremens variety of specu- lation should be cut out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

because he was afraid it wouldn't fly"
 Some people in this world are too blamed particular
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

In St. Louis they are beginning to inquire why all street cars are painted yellow. The people of that city desire to try one of another color.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Death, says a scientist, can come in b200 ways, but not all at once.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
SUCH A PITYi

"An Alabama woman who stood on Sunset Rock on Lookout Mountain says she was tempted to leap below"
 And did she?'
 No; she wrote a poem instead" ''Then it's pity she didn't jump"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

The reports of frost in various locali- ties go to show that Vice Presiden. Fairbanks is travelling freely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Asbury Park indignantly denies that 1t receives ton of liquor a day. Cases, it says, should not be weighed in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
Value of Sonthern Iron 0raS

The American Iron and Steel asso- ciation states that the production of pig iron in the south in 1907 was as follows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

The late Tony Pastor originated the variety show and he refused to call 1t vaudeville" He considered the latter term sissifled and Frenchy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

William Nelson Cromwell's donation of S50000 to the republican campaign fund still stands unexplained
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Evelyn Thaw's nervous breakdown gives the papers chance to use their cuts once more
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Typhoid germs caught in the rural districts are readily developed in urban surroundings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
MOST ANNOYING.

He had a scheme to make me rich I met him with frown. One feature much displeased me, which Was twenty dollars down. To pile up wealth, a goody store,
 I'd gladly seize the chance, But what appears to me bore
 Is paying in advance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

The cotton crop and the mosquito crop are both in the bump line. Both are bumpers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

John D. belongs to the humorists of America but his jokes are of a prae- tical nature and they are fired at the American people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Work on the Panama canal is going ahead regardless of the pennant races in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
ASPIRATION.

ASPIRATION. I'm always wanting something out ef reach And maybe, never will be satisfied; Contentment is an easy thing to preach, But very hard to practice when It's tried.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Iris sad to hone for something out of reach, And never to be satisfied, dear Paul; But holy smoke. when you picked out a peach Why did you not select one not so tallf
 Houston Post. But it does not seem that he picked the peach, For if one may believe dissatisfied Paul, The peach he longs for is still out of reach, And short or tall, will not be his at alL
 Florida Times-Union.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Governor Fort may have been listen ing to what the wild waves were say ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Johndee and the press jokesmiths are again getting together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Soul Mate Earle has beeen caught in the act of beating his affinity, and she has fled. He has no second affinity to take her place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Stroud Alberta Roberts, Marcoot; Rosa W. TeBow, LaFayette; Kate Fuller La Fayette, Route B. Dorothy Wyche, La" Fayette, Route 4; salle Hayes. Notasul- ga; Opal Reynolds, Maude Shirley, camp Hill; Irene Barber, Buffalo.
 Colored.-Mrs. J. B. Hutchinson La- Fayette; Amanda J. Allison Waveryi I' q Jackson. Standing Rock Mary J. Askew. Dadeville, Route 5; Birmarch A. Pearson, Lafayette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Tony Pastor, now dead, never did indulge in advanced" vaudeville, al- though he originated that variety of entertainment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

Wise men ne'er sit and wall their loss, But cheeriy seek how to redress their
 harms. -3 Kino Henry VI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03

The Caruso episode may not affect his popularity as a singer for the "400," but it may lower his standing at the house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
FINICKY.

q see where the manager of an amuse- ment park refused to let an airship go up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE

Fair summers on the wane- An, let her go! Who wishes to complain, I'd like to. know? "Don't over-vex your soul, Is good advice. I'd just as soon buy coal N As pay for ice.
 PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
REPLIES.

REPLIES.
 This isn't lean year in politics. A preacher says he is going to drive the devil out of Arizona. If we were the devil we'd be glad to go.
 There is no conjugal happiness like that where both the husband and wife are baseball fans.
 A bard sings, ''I'd like to be appreciat- ed" If that is the case, he should quit the poetry business.
 An eastern man bet he could eat glass and won Darned if we'll put any flowers on his gravel
 A scientist says butterfly can go S days without food No society butterfly would care to do that.
 Jack Frost, the well-known artist on window panes will. soon return from . vacation spent at the North pole. An Indiana man killed himself in a St. Louis hotel Disappointed in literature, no doubt.
 The Louisville Courier Journal pulp fishes an editorial entitled "Boo-hoo!' Does the esteemed CourierJournal as- pire to Join the "sob squad"?