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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-31
NEWS OF TIE DAY
 IN SOCIETY WORLD New York Visitor Writes of
 interesting Custom NOTES HERE AND THERE A Stag Dinner Party-Departures and Returns of Summer Vacatlonists.
 Entertainments in Honor of
 MT. Powell - Personals.
BY MYRTLE MILES.

summer visitor in New York city wrote few days ago of an interesting phase of life in the metropolis as pursued by some of its financiers, who are too h. tent upon their places in the world of affairs to spend much time away from the city and are living at their sum- mer homes, from which they are trans ported daily in palatial yachts left at anchor during the day awaiting the re- turn of their owners at the close of the afternoon. There Is whole fleet of these yachts, says the visitor, belonging to these wealthy business men and they lie in the East river off Twenty-fourth street, where one of the stations of the New York Yacht club is located. They arrive there from the country homes of their owners at about the same time every morning and it is a picturesque sight to see them come in scudding gracefully along from every direction, spick and span and with spotless decks and polished rails, and pennants of every color f1utter- ing from their masts. They come from along the sound Or up the Hudson or somewhere along the Jersey coast. There is no ado made over the arrival de- parture of the fleet. As soon as the boats are docked the owners hurry ashore and are whisked away usually in automobiles to their places of business. In the in- terval of waiting the masters and crews of the yachts are left to their own devices but spend the time usually in overhaul ing and dusting so that everything shall be inviting when the hour shall come to head for home again.
 Tl1n lar 1f must present the appearance of a gay regattsl, and the little fleet has caused much interest in New York for in that busy, Nnromantic city 1t is odd to find conditions suggesting the days of Nero and the luxury of the Roman empire.
 Hardly a day passes without the de- parture of number of fasihonables for the coast on mountains, and the few who are left in town prefer perfect quiet, so there is at present little entertaining. Aside from a one-table game of bridge an informal musical a dinner party at the clubs, gayety Is for the moment, utterly stagnant. There are many new automobiles in Birmingham. Indeed, at the present rate before very long the family that does not own a car will be the exception instead of as has been the case, the opposite being the rule. Many remaining at home for the sum- mer and enjoying daily automobile out ing, the most pleasant method of pass ing the summer at home Almost every evening auto parties scale Shades noun tain and pass the evening on its pictur- esque heights. Longer trips are taken to adjacent cities, and this week MT. and Mrs. Dean and Mrs. Thomas Bowron went to Mississippi in their car while the Tonninson family went on an even longer journey to Georgia and later Chat bn of Is, indeed, very happy for the stay-at- home who Is a motor enthusiast.
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yesterday afternoon, was held at the home of her father, Dr. Matthers, on North Gurnes avenue this afternoon, the remains being laid at rest in Edgemont cemetery. pr. J. H. Foster pastor of Parker Memorial Baptist church, with which Mrs. Sisson was actively identified, being a member of the choir, conducted the services. Mrs. Sisson was woman of beautiful character and her death is widely mourned.
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Case Goes To Jury.

Winston Salem, N. C.. July 30.-The' case of Policeman N. B. Williams, charged with the murder of William Free man, a negro, June 15 last was given to the jury tonight, following a brief charge by Judge Jones. Williams shot and killed Freeman while the latter was re- ssting arrest. his plea being self-defense.
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Ressemer Auuriexed.

The citizens of Bessemer are making some protest on the report of the coroner for the past month in which seven vio- lent deaths are reported to have oc- cured in the corporate limits of the city and the citizens feel that the city has been misrepresented in the coroner's re- port The coroner reported three killings in Bessemer where there should be two as the name of one man was read twice.
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NOTES AND PERSONALS.

Mrs. Alex Cecil plans to leave soon for points in North Carolina.
 Mrs. Daisy Wendell, who has been critically i'll for the past several weeks at St. Vincent's hospital, has recovered sufficiently to be removed to her home. She Is with Mrs. Hattie Davenport.
 Miss Floribel Brown will leave today for Bailey Springs.
 Miss Margaret Reynolds and Miss Mary Reynolds. the two little sisters of Mrs. Lucien Brown, who have been visiting her. have returned to their home in Ever green.
 Among the guests at the Bluff Park ho- tell this week was a horseback party com posed of MT. J. Douglass Kirkpatrick and six friends. The same evening a dinner party was composed of MT. S. 'E Thompson. Mr. Thomas Wingfleld, Mir John " Coe and MT. Thomas Berry. A party motoring up for dinner included Mr. and Mrs. James Long, Miss Fern Minor and MT. V. W. williams.
 Mrs. Lucien Brown and her little son
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Drowned While Bathing.

Atlantic City. N. J.. July 3O.-George Gregory, a young man who lived in Phil adeIphia was drowned while bathing off Tennessee avenue here today. and had 1t not been for the prompt work of life guards five of his friends might have suffered the same fate when the strong under-current carried them into deep water.
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Eastern Star Picnic.

Anniston, July 30.-(Special. 1.-The Eliz- abeth Spearman chapter of the Eastern Stars, No. S1, gave beautiful picnic last night at Oxford lake, and in spite of the rain there was large crowd present to enjoy the gorgeously abundant feast.
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Miners Drop Ritual,

Denver. Col. July 30.-At the conven- ton of the Western Federation of Miners today it was decided to do away with the ritual, thus abolishing all use of grips, signs and pass words for entrance and admission into locals. Membership cards will now grant admission.
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reception tonight at the home of Mir Neals parents.
 The Baraca class of the Christian church held a business meeting at the church tonight
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Aqed Woman Drowned.

Rome, Ga. July 3o.-While crossing & swollen stream near Rome today Mrs. William Nix, aged 76. lost her footing and was drowned. She was wading the ford driving her cows home.
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kiIby Is Banuueted.

Anniston, July 30.-(Special.)- )-Former Canada today en route for Europe. was the guest of honor at banquet given at the Alabama hotel last evening by William H. Finn. Those invited besides MT. Kiby were: s. l.. Crook, R. II. Stick ney, Whit Clark. M. B. Wellborn. J. C. Sproull, Talbot Foard, J. W. Conner. J. l.. Wike, w l.. McCaa, w. H. Weather ly, A. Wellborn, l.. H. Kaplan, Q. H. Parker, E. w. Ledbetter, A. J. Good win, J. B. Darlington, H. A. Young and MT. Battri of Mobile.
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MIR. FARLEY TO ENTERTAIN.

MT. Erin Farley will entertain at his home on Avenue G Monday evening in honor of MT. Edward Powell of New York The occasion will be an informal musicale.
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At the East Lake Baptist church Sum- day evening a special song service will be rendered. An interesting programme has been prepared the soloists to be MT. Edward Powell of New York. Mrs. Beggs, Miss Annie Lou Wood MT. Erin Farley, MT. Charlie Brown. Professor Grambs will be the accompanst.
 Miss Ellen Nolan and Mrs. c. N. Roy have gone to the lake resorts. They will also visit their brother MT. Emmett No Ian. at Ann Arbor, Mich, where he is taking the summer course in law at the University of Michigan.
 MT. and Mrs. c. E. Morris of Chatta- nooga are visiting their mother, Mrs. J.. c. Morris, and their sister, Mrs. Gordon Moughon, and will leave for Tybee to spend the month of August on the coast. Little Miss Evelyn King of Anniston is the guest of MT. and Mrs. w. D. Nesbitt. Mrs. A. c. Ellis will leave today for Memphis to join MT. Ellis. They will in the future make Memphis their home.
 
 Miss Ida Mitchell has returned from a visit to friends In Huntsville.
 MT. and Mrs. J. T. Hunt will leave to- day for north Georgia to be away the remainder of the summer.
 MT. Robert Mcclure is visiting in Knox vile.
 
 MT. and Mrs. T. J. Carson are expected to return tomorrow from the west.
 Miss Marie Haddox of Nashville is the guest of Miss Gertrude Mccormack. She has been the especial guest at several pleasant social affairs this week.
 Miss Loulie Compton, Dr. Frank Comp ton and Miss Hattie Morton returned Thursday from a delightful western trip The little house party guests of Miss T,lizabeth Massey returned yesterday to their home.
 Mir Peyton vanvalkenburg is expected 10 return today from Savannah and Ty- bee.
 Mrs. M. Wertheimer left this week for Waukesha, Wis.
 Miss Nora Roberts of Huntsville is vis- iting in the city.
 MT and Mrs. Leonard LeBrown Lyons are now in New Orleans.
 A de,ightful time was had at the Vine street Presbyterian church in West End Tuesday night, the occasion being the formal opening of the new Sunday school room. A programme was carried out, while refreshments were served and a social hour enjoyed.
 Those participating in the programme were MT. Mant Hood, Irish reading; Miss Kate Basenberg, solo; little Miss Thel- ma Capps, recitation Miss Ernestine Buckshaw, piano solo; Mrs. c. z. Mer- rell. recitation; MT. Charles Eile, 'cor- pet solo; Miss Louis E. Keeling, solo; the Misses Hancock vocal duet; little Miss Ruth DeJarnette, recitation, and Mir E. B. Williamson. solo,
 The Sunday school room Is place tof beauty and is also practically arranged. Work on the completion of the church edifice Is progressing rapidly and will be finished in a month or two A $2500 pipe organ is to be installed, and the church, when completed will be one Of the finest in the district.
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Dr. and Mrs. Montague and Miss Maud Montague are spending three weeks at Bayou le Batre.
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Mrs. Agnes Ieftwich of Florence is vis- iting her daughters, Mrs. Carmichael and Mrs. Harris.
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Mrs. Wilbur Kelley and Miss Picker ing spent yesterday at St. Clair Springs.
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At the East Lake Baptist church Sum day evening a special song service will be rendered. An interesting programme has been prepared, the soloists to be MT Edward Powell of New York. Mrs. Beggs Miss Annie Lou Wood, MT. Erin Farley MT. Charlie Brown. Professor Grambs will be the accompanst.
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Miss Ollie Miles has gone to Cook Springs to spend several weeks.
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Mrs. Sisson's Funeral. Anniston, July 30.-(Specal)-Th fu- neral of Mrs. w. E. Sisson, who died
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Miss Ellen Nolan and Mrs. c. N. Roy have gone to the lake resorts. They will also visit their brother MT. Emmett No Ian, at Ann Arbor, Mich., where he is taking the summer course in law at the University of Michigan.
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Miss Floribe Brown will leave today for Bailey Springs.
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Mrs. Alex Cecil plans to leave soon fo points in North Carolina.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10

TT is surprising to me that men of the
 supposed standing in the community
 of those who have signed the preced- ing card should jump pellmell into print and assign motives to the writer of an article which every observant person in town knows to be true.
 It would be better for these dlstin- guished personages to have themselves sworn in as deputy sheriffs, or make themselves supernumerary policemen for the purpose of reporting and punishing violators of the prohibition lawl Neither The Age-Herald nor Ned Brace has ever assumed to be constituted detectives or prosecuting attorneys. Ned Brace him. gle blind tiger in the city of Birmingham. Yet if he cared to go out and find them be no difficulty in doing so. Any man who signed the foregoing card can find them. Yet these people prefer to write news paper articles and place themselves upon pedestals of virtue. assuming to ascribe undue motives to those who do not agree with them. I venture the assertion that Sheriff Higdon will swear each and every one of them in as deputy sheriffs if they will make the request.
 
 They say that The Age-Herald prints whisky advertisements. Of course it prints whisky advertisements and it proposes to continue to do so, but it does not print the advertisements of whiskies except those which are authorized to be sold under the pure food laws of the United States government. I doubt if there be physician in Birmingham who does not prescribe whisky under certain circum- stances. The hospitals all keep 1t for i their patients The hospitals likewise keep cocaine It is the abuse of these ar ticles which does the great damage.
 No newspaper in this country sought
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Ae51.exs-
4 DIsSeytat1on Or "Nonsense"
By J. c. HIDEN, D. D.

tolerable. She is perhaps, the most portentous bore in all English fiction; and yet, figuring as she does in one of the most widely read of all of Dick ems marvellous creations, Mrs. Nick leby, with her nonsense, influences a larger mass of English speaking peo- pie than does the magnificent imagery , of "The Earle Queen." or the sublime eloquence of Samson Agonistes." l Mrs. Nickleby's nonsense was writ ten to amuse; but there is good deal l of serious literature from which the general reader can extrect no glimpse l of meaning. Note the following sen tences CD:
 Man is the whole of arithmetic competed, however. out of all num- bers-he can. therefore. produce mum bers out of himself" Arithmetic is the truly-absolute or divine science The ology Is arithmetic personifed." For God to become, real He must appear under the form of a sph ere. There Is no other form for God. God is a rota- ting globe; the world is God rotating" "Self-consciousness is a living ellipse."
 
 he finds the prophesying goddess sit tug upon the tripod. What majesty Is in creeping snaill What reflection. what earnestness, what timidity, and yet at the same time what firm conf dence; Surely a snail is an exalted symbol of mind slumbering deeply within itself"
 Now, If some drunken idiot with a mind slumbering deeply within itself.' under the fumes of bad whisky, had got off such stuff this, we might perhaps. account for 1t; but these quotations are taken from & sober treatise. namely the 'Physiophilosophy" of Professor Lorenz olSen of Lurich, very able and learned man, an eminent physiologist, to whom science is indebted for important discov- cries in "cranial homologies." He was not fooling, but intended to say what seemed to him to have serious meaning. What he expected his readers to gather from such jargon. the present writer can by no means divine.
 The cultivated Athenians thought that Paul was uttering nonsense. when he reasoned in the Market place. They called him "a babbler;" but he was cer- tainly serious, for he was reasoning on the great doctrine of the resurrection.
 Porcius Festus thought that Paul was talking nonsense when he was preaching the resurrection; and the Roman judge pronounced the Jewish sectary crazy. What the Corinthian critics called 'the foolishness of preaching" the inspired Apostle called "The power of God and the wisdom of God" Dr. Harvey dis covered and published the fact of the circulation of the blood, and lost his prac- tice by his nonsense" Jenner worked out the theory of vaccination, and was called fool for his pains. The mon sense'' of yesterday Is the science of today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10
A Chameleon Caterpillar.

From the London Standard.
 A Melbourne correspondent states that an extraordinary amount of devastation is being accomplished in the wheat area between Horsham, in Victoria, and the borders of South Australia by a grub of the caterpillar species about an inch and half long. The grub, which attacks the wheat at the top of the plant and works It's way right down to where the stem emerges from the ground. has the faculty of changing its color from green or yell low to the hue of the earth. and on the approach of human being the grubs. warned apparently by the vibration of the earth. at once fall from the plant which they may be attacking and burrow in the earth. The pest only appears to be able to live in the loose ground. and so far has only attacked the late sown crops, which are more tender than the early ones
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Y T is an oftfepeated assertion that as regards sane scheme of living we X of America have much to learn from the Europeans. It Is argued that we lay too much emphasis on that part of our nature which bids us acquire which bids us achieve temporal bene- ft-dwarfing the while those better ap- peals which make for enlarged living.
 Whether or not we can be lessoned by Europe with advantage to ourselves may be reasonably doubted. No nation or group of nations, perhaps, can as yet uphold system of life which might be adopted advantageously by all peo- ples. There are temperamental riddles first to be solved. And to one who is aware of the aptitude of a new people to lend its particular energies to the business of owning things" it seems quite clear there can be no recasting all a at once the nature of Americans. This is generally granted to be the chief concern of us at the momenh But we are learning things the while; we are coming into a Knowledge of their sta bility of heaped-up properties, of gild- ed successes, of the insanity of greed Along with those good efforts we ex- penu Tn Tedlty -BellluB, III Socih, eiiot our bank credits increase, 1t may be insisted that we still find time to lead the earth in pursuits of material ad- vancement mechanical architectural, inventive and what not
 In a word there is much to be said of us, or any nation for that matter, pro and contra. We may as well grant at the start that the thought and ac- tion of any people reflects with minute nt n fC no, urffx ot a tftna 70 the greatness of any people is more or less determined by the number of great minds 1t produces, and that the num- Der of these great minds is large or small as the needs of that people re- quire. That one nation produces the highest in art another in literature an- other in music; that among one people the millionaire is the chief citizen, and in another the poet stands first, is not to be deplored. Seen in the abstract, the difference in the production of peo- pies Is purely temperamental. As the idles of the masses are enlarged, as tn cir concepts of what life means broaden, so shall the personnel of the teach CTS and leaders change. This we may be right certain of. And upon you and me, who are as essential units as any in the mighty scheme of our na- tion's upgrowth. devolves share of the building.
 Through whatever channels that growth shall be, it is assuredly the part of wisdom that we at all times, with the best tools we have of mind and body, lend our efforts to the upbuild- ing.
 NPerhaps at no time in the history of kta4 world has it been more imperative |, that each man should think for him. self. Props. supports, avail no more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10
By JULIA 8. TUTWiLER.

1 up this cross; and they give their chill dren to childless families for adoption. Tn this case they must generally give them | up altogether, and promise to see them
 no more."
 The captain showed me the photos of | quite a number of children whose moth-
 CTS had kept their infants with them and had sent their pictures to her to show
 their growth and beauty; and ineed many of them are beautiful. Kindly nature sets
 no exterior mark on the child of shame:
 but for their simpler clothing these pie
 lures might be those of the fortunate children of millionaires.
 The youth of some of the mothers is pit , iful beyond expression. Two girls were lately sent from neighboring city, one It years old, one IA, both about to become
 mothers; and both ruined by the relative
 in whose home and under whose care and control they were living. Poor little chill dren! Whose was the sin and whose should be the shame? When such things can happen, how great is the need of such a home.
 But not alone maternity cases are shell tered here. Any girl who is weary of sin ard hungering and thirsting for mother love can knock at this door at any hour
 of the day or night and find here helping
 hands and loving hearts.
 There are now about 20 homes and hos
 pitfalls of this character under the care of
 the Salvation Army in the United States. About 1000 girls were received during
 1906 and still more in the following year.
 Eighty-five per cent of these have been
 restored to the paths of virtue. Some
 have become self-supporting; some have
 gone back to their parents home, and some have married.
 All the work of the home is done by the inmates; many of them receive thus their first lessons in cleanliness. neat
 ness and order. They learn not only the care of house, but cooking, fine laundry work and plain sewing. A kind, Christian
 lady, Mrs. Little of Avondale, comes twice a week and gives them lessons in embroidery. and they take great pleasure
 in this work. Captain Evans showed the visitor beautiful pieces of linen. mats.
 CuSnlOn covers, pluoWSHdInS, WOrkeu Dy girls who had learned entirely from these lessons.
 It is very hard to meet the expenses of the home; $50 month from the city be-
 ing the only certain and regular source of income. The captain says it would be a great help if the benevolent ladies of the city would take the time and trouble to come ard purchase these ar ticles and give orders for more. There are three donations from private individ-
 uals; two friends give cash $25 year and one gives SIP But this amounts to only s5 per month. "If only we could be sure of $50 per month. it would relieve us of such a strain of anxiety" said the cap- tain.
 Perhaps she would not like to have the visitor repeat little story which uncon- sciously welled up from her burdened
 heart to a sympathizing listener. "One of
 the women's clubs invited me to speak to