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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
cLEoPATRAs COUNTRY.

From Harpers Magazine.
One famous figure stands out in the
history of Egypt and the Nile, giving
river. country and seaport a lasting
charm. All along the river, from Philae,
sonal with the recollections of the worn-
an than whom no queen was ever more
brilliant, whose CHARM seduction, wit
and human destinations have been made
immortal by the masterpieces of the
world. Antony, as did her subjects, called
her Egypt. And the country whose shape
is lotus, whose emblems are the SER
pent and the papyrus, is instinct with
the grace of this empress. Alexandria
her capital and playground was a gar
den, a pleasure park for her, ban
quet hall where, beside her on her
couch, Mark Antony delivered up Caesar,
Italy, fame and honor into her beautiful
hands, giving all the treasures of his life
that she might dissolve them in the wine
cup from which he drank to her.
In Alexandria, Cleopatra's temples filled
the squares; through the streets at night
touching elbows with Roman, Greek and
Egyptian, with slave and noble, the
of the etiquette that hedges royalty.
Here where she had originally bewitched
Caesar she held Antony until kingdoms
and his old glories were nothing to him;
and here in Alexandria she lifted him, de-
feated, broken. into his tomb, and here,
beside him, she herself died.
So intense is the cartouche that Cleo
patra has left on Egyptian history and
on this marine city that the ugly hustle
of commerce. where Jews, Greeks and
Egyptians fight today for stocks and
bonds and land speculations in the mod
ern cosmopolic, is lost and forgotten as
the old capital rises like a mirage on the
edge of the desert and, as one thinks of
Cleopatra shines again with something
Of its old glow.
The queens pink obelisks Zone of which
is now I'm the New York Central park
are seen again in their old place and the
shouts and cries tremble upon the air as
to Cydnus in the golden barge hung with
purple! The people kiss the ground her
feet have trod; she is a goddess; she is
Isis-IIathor; she is Empress of the Upper
and Lower Egypt, Mistress of the Nile
But she is, above all else, a woman whom
Antony has named his Serpent of Old
Nile" Her ship puts out for sea and the
seaside crowded with citizens is black
like a pail. AS she sails away the
great heart of Egypt goes with her,
and the great river and the land have
in all their history no more sumptuous
memory than the memory of her.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
CHANCES In the Senate

While the House of Representatives
will remain in the next Congress in
I the hands of Cannon, Payne and Dali
zell, the Senate will be so greatly
changed that Lafollette will become al
most a leader in it. For the radical
Bristow of Kansas is to take the place
of the reactionary Long; Governor
Cummins is to to take the seat once
filed by Allison, now dead the pro-
gressive Governor Crawford of South
Dakota is to crowd out Kittridge, al
ways subservient to the Aldrich ma
chine, and Wesley l.. Jones of
Washington Is to supplant the notori-
Gus Levi Ankeny. Nor is this all.
Governor Chamberlain of Oregon, a
progressive democrat, is to succeed
Charles w. Fulton. If to these changes
be added Theodore Roosevelt in place
of the decrepit Plat of New York,
and rafting progressive democrat
from Colorado, the Senate will SCARCELY
know itself after March 4.
So rapidly is the Old regime pa ssing
in the Senate 1t is even reported THAT
Nelse Aldrich, leader \of the rod
Guard and of special Interests. has
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
The Democracy.

1T have been voting the democratic TICK
ct for many years-since T1s76-but am
hearing the first time pessimistic talk
about the party's utter ruin,' said f. b.
Holmes of St. Louis. THAT we have been
ingloriously defeated this time all or us
must admit but l am not one or those
who believe in reorganizing under new
party name.
mo title could suit true Jeffersonians
quite so well as that which we have long
borne. The word democracy still sounds
good to me; not democracy that connotes
populism, or other unsound issues, but q
genuine democracy such as Jefferson mad
in mind and as Samuel J. Tilden and
Grover Cleveland practiced. l hope a
leader will be found who will lead the
democratic party back to saneness by
1912,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
LARGE Loan Placed.

The Birmingham representative of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance company of
New York authorizes the statement that
his company has made a loan of 100000
on one Of the office buildings now under
contract; and it is further STATED that this
company has another million to loan in
Birmingham.
Referring to this investment loan bust
ness local financier says: ut shows
what confidence the Metropolitan has in
Rirninghams future. The company is
doing its part in the upbuilding of tho
city and our citizens will not be slow in
showing their appreciation"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
THE RIGHT TO DRINK.
Social Privilege the Odd Plea OF a St
Louis Woman.

81 louis dispatch to the New York Press.
When taking a drink, either at meal
time or between meals, Mrs. Clara M.
Burns in answer to her husbands charges
in his suit for divorce, simply aVaileo
herself of the privilege of society woH-
an. Burns is the manager of a railroad
steel spring company and he Formerly
was general manager of the Wabash rail-
road. He asks for divorce from mis- wire
on the ground that she is an haoituai
drunkard. Mrs Burns, In her deposition,
admitted that she drank occasionally. but
she maintained that as society woman
she was privileged to join with others IN
social rounds. She admitted also that
she had been in two sanitariums because
of her drinking.
To show that she was q true and loving
wife. Mrs. Burns averred that when in
one of the sanitariums she met man
who was worth s1s,Ooo,ooo. He wanted her
to marry him and offered to pay the ex-
nense of obtaining a divorce from her
husband. She refused his offer. This
man gave her an amethyst cross winch
she kept, but she returned a cross Of
pearls and diamonds worth $1,000 which
he sent to her.
The case was called for trial today and
Burns testified that his wife left him be-
cause he objected to her drinking and to
her spending money for carriage rides.
He asserted he found bottle of whisky
in her muff one day and that when he
chided her about 1t she became angry
and left the house. Burns testified also
that his wife had penchant for carriage
rides, and while he was able to maintain
her in q good home, he was unable to
meet her bills for carriage hire.
The case was adjourned before Mrs.
Burns was called to the witness stand.
In her deposition, however, she meets
her husbands charge Of wasting money
on carriage rides. She says that only
when she was compelled to go long dis
tances did she hire a carriage, and that
she remembered only one occasion when
she used a carriage to go a short dis
lance. That was when she drove six
blocks with a Mrs. Reyes She admit
ted also that she went for carriage
ride with a young man named Walter
Mcbride, and that she borrowed $40 from
him. She said she needed the money
for car fare, as she went out a good
deal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
Rich County.

MANY democrats who voted for Bryan
said after the election that they were not
only reconciled to Tafts victory, but
that the result of the contest would turn
out for the best" said a business man.
"And it will probably be the same way
with some of our Bessemer friends who
voted for the new county amendment
Now that the amendment is defeated
many of those who desired to see the
formation of a new county will not only
get over their sore feeling but will SEQ
that it all turned out for the best.
This empire county of Jefferson is al
ready great, and with all it's people NOV
ing forward for the development of the
county's rich resources it will soon double
In wealth and population
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE SITUATION
AS lit EXISTS in BIRMINGHAM TODAY

was the same. In the Philippines he
brought order out of chaos. He was
merely a mans man-he was just. In
Panama he was the same.
He is big and rotund and jolly, and
he wears a smile at all times. He
hasn't a grudge against anybody on
earth. He looks upon the bright side
of life He doesn't want to punish
anybody. But he doesn't want any
body to punish him or to punish the
American people. Though he might
wear smile and cleverness of ex-
preston and of speech, he wears
ramrod down his back which might
lead to the punishment of the corrupt
when such raises its head above ths
surface.
am democrat But I do not be-
lieve that the people OF this country
have ever elected a man as President
who will make a more just conserva-
tive. honest or a greater President of
these United States than will Mr.. Taft.
He knows the business. lie has had
experience. He not only knows the
interior but the exterior. He has
visited and knows our island possess
sions as well as our Panama canal
requirements.
1t is well for us. 1t is well for the
Birmingham district that we have
future which means business pros
perity.
Things are going ahead. Every bank
and every business has a bright out
look. Were I a merchant 1 would
put in double supply of goods.
do not mean to advise, but If there
be not good times ahead there is one
man who is mistaken and that man is
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
Alabama-Auburn Game.

"Now that It seems to be a settled fact
that the annual game OF football be-
tween Alabama and Auburn will not take
place this year, much disappointment is
expressed by the lovers and patrons of
the game said football enthusiast. Il
don't really understand what the differ
ence between the old time rivals are,
therefore / am not in a position to crlti-
Csc, but | do know their failure to meet
in annual contest will cause much DIS
appointment, not only among the alumni
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

Ffom the New YORK Press.
The reason a tnan belongs to polit-
ical party Is so he can damn everything
about all the others.
The thing that makes 'man sure he
understands public question is nobody
else thinks he does
One of the most enjoyable things
about travelling is how you caihsay you
went to all the places you didnf.
A. woman's notion of an IDEAL man is
the kind that would make his own
father rather have him ainlrobber.
Sometimes a woman can keep within
the allowance her husband givesther il
she can charge everything she buys, to
his account
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
THE PASSING OF MOTHER.

From Life.
Where is the old-fashioned mother who
used to tuck us up in bed at night after
we had said our prayers; who spanked us
when we needed it, and then cried with
us over the pain: whose charity for our
faults was infinite, and who, as we came
up more and more into a consciousness OF
life was an unfailing receptacle for all
our troubles?
Some of her is on an excursion to Cali
fornia; some of her is in Europe. Some
is attending an afternoon session at the
womans club; some is besieging a mod
ern intelligence office; some is drinking
in the odor of cylinder oil at 40 miles an
hour, and some is playing bridge.
Mother, while she lasted, was good
thing, but the necessity for her Is now
past. Her patient, cheerful face, her OBJ
solete notions, her thrift, her folded hands
when resting and her genuine piety have
all gone out.
We realize now our mistake. She meant
well, but she didn't know. We think of
her with that kindness, that hearty
sympathy, that broad-minded tolerance
which we are every ready to accord to
sincerity, even though it is misplaced.
And then it must be remembered that at
the time she existed there was in reality
a necessity for some one like hr. We
didn't know so much then as we do now.
We were more or less dependent on
mother, as crude as she was. Now, how
ever, that we are educated so early, and
there is so much enlightened method
about everything, we really don't need
help from home. The newly born infant
will soon be able to rise from his crib
and go himself to the nearest hospital,
where he will have his tonsils removed,
be properly vaccinated and noculated
with the latest serums, and go back to
/ the push button and radiator all ready
! for business
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

a spirit pregnant in the whole of Bir-
mingham and in Jefferson county to build
up and make this the greatest industrial
and manufacturing center not only of
the south or of the United States, but of
the world
I am not an optimist, nor would I be
'hot air. artist; but have a natural
pride in this community and this dis
trict. believe in it. I am of it. There
is that to it which means more to each
and every one of us who are a part
and parcel Of it than we really know at
the present time.
There are men who have come into
this district and who have made for
tunes and gone elsewhere. There are
men who have come in to represent other
people who have invested money here;
who are spending it, and who are laying
the precedent to make great dividends
upon the money invested.
I like the work of the young men who
are here. like men who attend to bus
mess. I like men who know what they
are doing and who after sleeping over
night, can say in the morning hour in a
few words. what they have decided to
do. I like the mechanic who can execute
the idea of the man who has thought It
out.
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The successful man is that man who
thinks and plans and executes.
The men who have made the Birming-
ham district are those who have proceeded
along this line.
The man who has been elected President
of the United States is the man who has
proceeded along this line. Mr.. Taft has
been a working man. Take his career.
As Judge he decided cases not only as the
law prescribed, but as an honest, con-
scientious, Just and humane man would
decide. In his governmental service he
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

YOUTH.
Holding hands with happiness,
Tread a measure gay;
There'll be time enough to weep
When we're old and grayl
Ere the darkling shadows steal
Softly from the tomb,
Sweet it is to dream Of life
When twas In Its bloom.
Holding hands with happiness,
Tread q measure gay;
Though tomorrow bringeth tears,
Wen be glad todayl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
Mrs. Peasants Injured.

Huntsville, November 7.-(Special. )-Mrs.
Mollie s. Peasants, mother Of Shelby S.
Peasants and sister of Judge David d:
Shelby OF the United States circuit court
OF appeals, tripped yesterday as she
stepped from a carriage and broke hef
right leg below the knee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
AocoRpING TO FASHION.

ACCORDING TO HASf1IOtN.
.sThe government mints at Philadelphia,
San Francisco and Denver have begun
coming a new five-dollar gold piece"
"Will these coins pile easily?'
at is SO affirmed. Do you expect to
pile any Of them?"
mo"
..Then, why do you ask the question:
ut is the conventional question, I be-
lever
"Quite true"
.Well. I'm a conventional person"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
A GOOD REMEDY.

"A Philadelphia girl only seventeen
years old has elopad four tmes.''
.srrhat's a bad habit
''Quite right. What would you recon-
mend to break her of the habit?"
do you remember what your mother
used to do to you when you choked the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

France and Germany are never so
happy as when they have differences
that the diplomats can expend words
upon before they reach an inevitable
settlement War has gone out of fash
ion
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
| HOPELESS RAKE

"A tOHELESo hAhG.
Often in the morning,
When he leaves his bed.
Woefully repenting.
Bounder holds his head;
Wishes that he hadn't,
So it doth appear,
Mixed a dozen highballs
With a tub of beer.
Tongue is just like flannel
And the clink of ice
In a water pitcher
Sounds like paradise.
Seeing him so pensive,
Maybe you'd suppose
That he'd no more venture
Where strong liquor flows.
That's where you're mistaken
Soon as he gets right
And repairs the damage
OF that awful night,
Bounder will forget his
Morning after" pain
And he'll blithely start to
Celebrate againI
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

THE MONEY WIZARD.
The Money Wizard is a chap
Who has an office grand
And gets rich quickly fleeing all
The suckers In the land.
He has winning line Of talk
And his prospectuses
Can't be resisted by the wights
Who live on bread and cheese.
The Money Wizard Juggles stocks
And all the time he knows
He can't lose out, no matter where
The wind OF fortune blows.
He has lead pipe cinch. think,
And lives in stunning style,
With motor cars and many sorts
OF pleasures to beguile.
The Money Wizard claims to be
As honest as the day
Is long, and yet makes crooked deals
All i'm a crooked way.
But now and then he goes too far
And with pensive wall,
Declares it is a grievous wrong
To shut him UP in jail
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

Theodore Rooseyelt's hands will be
full II he attempts to preside over Har-
ward university and to edit the Out
look while he is hunting big game in
Africa
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

"Who was that fellow, Willy Nilly?"
asked Mr.. Ignoramus.
dunno for sure said Chucldebits,
''but guess he must have been the orig
inal topper"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

Cincinnati has been the Oyster Bay
of the country and it feels its oats,
even IL its river does refuse to rise
above low water mark.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

of the two colleges but to the people
generally
Each year has seen increased inter-
est and increased patronage of the game,
as for a number of years it has been
case of Greek meet Greek, and fine
game has been witnessed. I never at
tended either college (nuch to my regrep,
but have always thoroughly enjoyed the
games and always wore the colors of my
choice. 1t is only of late years that the
Tublic has taken decided interest in this
particular game, and 1 have not the
least doubt had the rivals got together
this year the attendance would have
been enormous, for the interest IN
the Alabama-Auburn game easily out
Swallowed all others in the state. | sim
cerely hope the differences may be set
tied and that next year I may again
have the opportunity to cheer the boys
to victory"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

Instead of a presidential boom
Uncle Joe now has a speakership
boom on his hands, and Congressman
Fowler of New Jersey is camping on
his trail.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

Candidate Jacobson of Minnesota
+ will now proceed to eat his pie with a
fork. He was defeated while eating
! il with a knife.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

Mr.. Hearst's ticket may not have
polled many votes, but Mr.. Hearst
himself was never a negligible guam
tity in the campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

Socialist Morris Hillquit was de-
feated for Congress in an East Side
district in New York. The socialists
hopes We're centered on Hillquit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
GOING THE LIMIT.

What would you consider diplomat?'
"A man who is courteous to his cook"
Even when she happens to be his
wife?'
Even then"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

When business enterprises are based
ON public confidence they are sure
winners, and that is the situation at
present
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

1t is to be Senator John Worth Kern
after March 4, and the Aldrich ma
chine loses a supporter when Heming-
way goes out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

]. Warren Keifer fell by the way
side. and Crumpaclser will have to re-
dute southern representation single
handed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
GULLIBLE.

Josh Plum had reached green old age,
And this is why
There wasn't any gold brick made
He wouldn't buy.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
NOT AT THE BINDERY.

81 knew a man once who was bound in
Morocco"
"Oh, get out,''
Sure he was-hand and foot, and the
bandit cheftain wouldn't let him go till
big ransom was paid
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
so IT SEEMS.

''Do the people in Who's Who have
to know what's what?'
mot necessarily
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

Mrs. Eddy's new automobile has GER
tainly been well advertised, and she
got it in the height of the recent CAM
paign.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

Gumshoeing seems to have been vim
dicated in Missouri. 1t is called politi-
cal sagacity in that state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

The Empress Tsi-An is "a years old
but she goes on ruling 4OO,00O,OOO Of
people regardless of that fact.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

The Sherman style of whiskers won
over the Kern style and there is no
help for it until 1912.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

The man who does not carry cabi-
net slate in his mind is no friend of
the administration.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

The society editor and dispatches
from West Virginia are now IN the
saddle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

The Dingley tariff is edging into the
limelight as we recede from the cleo
ton returns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
THE RESULT.

''Pa, what is fatalist?"
"A man who has been married ten
years"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
rs All over. and it was a landslide.

IT'S all over, and it was landslide.
It was as Webb Crawford predicted
it. Next to Marcus Well he knows
more about politics than anybody in Bir-
mingham. He is the banker of bankers,
and he knows how to tell about every
thing which will bring prosperity to the
Birmingham district. He told it this
time when he predicted the election of
Taft.
There are those who say that Erskine
Ramsay advised him ian making his pre-
dietions. But there are others who claim
that these people belong to the "Ananias
club
Crawford is the only responsible party,
say the claimants.
As matter Of fact, Webb Crawford is
real good politician and a most excel
lent banker. He never lends anybody
money unless they have two-fold collat-
eral. He is really trying to be as strict
as is Harding, Tom Smith and Henry
Gray. They are all young men and they
are good men for handling the money
of old men and women, both old and
young.
Really, we have a set of young men
in Birmingham at the head of the banks
who are careful and conservative. They
delve a bit in politics at times when their
big stockholders are interested and when
they are interested as bankers in build
ing up the community. They want to
make Greater Birmingham. They want
to bring more people and more indus
tries here incidentally each one of them
wants more deposits. They have a nat
ural pride in building up their institn-
tons. They can not do this without
building up the Birmingham district
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08

The new election hats are worn on
one side at an extreme angle.