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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
THE LOTHIAN GIRL.

From the Dothan Eagle.
 Drif Armstrong has pitched this one out to the Dothan girl:
 Before Montgomery girl enters a theatre she throws her chewing gum daintily out on the sidewalk; when Selma girl goes in she sticks it under the seat in hopes that she will get 1t next time; a Mobile girl promptly and quietly swallows it, but Dothan girl chews it all through the performance Three cheers for the stickibility of the Dothan girl"
 We have very strict laws in Dothan about throwing trash on the streets, and our sanitary department will not permit refuse matter about the prem ises, be it sticking to the seats or on the sidewalks and it's considered bad manners to swallow gum till 1t has been tn oroughly masticated any health authority will tell you that we ought to Fletcherise more That is the reason the Dothan girl chews gum during the performance. It isn't wet enough to swollow. 1t isn't chewed suf- fciently, her training tells her. Emu late the Dothan girl. Don't get dis gusted and throw the stuff away be- fore it is chewed sufficiently. If you do, you're a quitter. We are never quitters in Dothan, and our digestion Is a thing of beauty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
Was Naturally Irate.

"That there is many slip between the cup and the lip Is an old saying which was actually demonstrated In downtown restaurant today" re- marked a man last night.
 "It was at one of the quick lunch counters and the victim certain prom inent, middle-aged business man or Birmingham. The gentleman is verf- tab,e Beau Brummell in his attire. He was just preparing to partake Of . dainty lunch and was in the act or placing a cup of coffee to his lipe when a. man sitting next to him sprang up suddenly and yelled, There goes my car'
 "The yell startled everyone about the place considerably but the daintily dressed gentleman bore the brunt or battle. Not only was his nervous sys- tenn disarranged by the loud yell, but the man in his haste to catch the car had bumped against the other fellow and the cup was dashed out of his hands. The coffee spread over his shirt bosom and it was a badly dam aged Beau Brummell who stormed in dignantly out of the place after the gentleman. There was murder in his eye but the other man caught the car and all chance for immediate ven. geance was gone"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10

natural resources, great in it's men of brains and energy. And since it's pop ulation has largely increased and it's wealth has multiplied fast there is every reason why it should more easily forget panics and get back to normal conditions without long waits. Well, We have had an object lesson to show what can be done in that direction. Since the early summer conditions have been improving at a great clip. And as we approach the last quarter of the year old-time prosperity can be safely forecast. The year 1909 will pass out as a good year and if we have fair crops in 1910 we will then witness unparalleled prosperity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
The Iron Market.

5 The pig iron market is strong and more active. While $14 on a No. basis is the quotation. sales for first quarter de- livery are said to have been made at even a higher price. Rogers, Brown & Co.'S Cincinnati report, just issued. is as follows:
 'The promise last week for lively buy ing during September has more than been fulfilled. Most of the tonnage inquired for was purchased and in this territory several companies came into the market unex pectedly, bought quickly and are now satisfied they did the best they could after waiting possibly month longer than they should. The buying is for all grades and most of the business done is for the first quarter and first half of 1910. There appears to be a considerable scarcity of some of the lower grades, although de- mand is of a most general character.
 Prices have advanced on both northern and southern iron and are now firm, with strong upward tendency.
 "An analysis of the plans that have been made by customers to increase their melting capacity during tho next year shows that in almost every instance con sumers are prepared to melt anywhere
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
Regarding Immigration

All Americans who have given any attention to the immigration question are in favor of restrictive legislation so far as it relates to undesirable for eigners. Every one should protest against the United States being made a dumping ground for the scum of Europe. We want no criminals, dis- turbers of the peace or idlers. But on the other hand this country has room every year for thousands of immi- grants, especially those who are able and willing to till the soil and those who will join the labor forces in in- dustrial centers.
 The Farmers union now in session in Birmingham has adopted resolu- tions urging Congress to abolish the governments bureau for the distribu- tion of aliens in the south and to pass laws excluding the present in- Aux of foreigners" by fixing a stan- dard of money requirements, educa- tional tests and other restrictive meas ures. There has been a great deal of demagogic talk in this country l against immigration. New York, Chi cago and several other large cities have been overrun with ignorant for eigners and the wonder is that those , congested communities have not put forth strong practical efforts to re- strict the landing of "undesirables." But so far as the south is concerned 1 the tide of immigration has never | turned this way to any appreciable extent. Alabama at least needs more tillers of the soil; and the few for 1 eigners who have settled in this sec | ton have been frugal, industrious, temperate, law-abiding and altogether desirable.
 Europeans who come to make their
 homes in the south are ignorant of cotton farming and would. perhaps, never suCseed in that branch of agri- culture; but those who have worked on farms at home make excellent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10

from 10 to 200 per cent more than their largest capacity before. Recent pur- ehases confirm this estimate and many consumers who three months ago were running from hand to mouth are now busy and books well filled.
 The railroad buying, after their re- serve in placing contracts earlier In the year, has been marked and the orders during the last two months heavy for all kinds of equipment, particularly cars and locomotives. This has had the effect of stimulating certain lines to a point where they have not been for the past two years.
 The coke market is at last in an ex- cited condition and prices are firm, with advancing tendency. There have been advances in several districts and, what with the shortage of labor that is ham pering the output very seriously, the impending car shortage and approach of the worst season of the year, further advances are looked for soon. The de- mand for furnace coke Is heavy and some large purchases have been made"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
Mass Meeting Monday

The sentiment of Birmingham is un- euestionably against the proposed amendment to the constitution seek ing to put prohibition in the funda- mental law of the state. And not only is Birmingham opposed to the amend ment but it is known that many prom inent citizens throughout Jefferson county will work to defeat it.
 In order to afford the opponents of constitutional prohibition an oppor- unity to voice their sentiments a mass meeting to be presided over by A. G. Smith will be held at the Jeffer- son theatre Monday evening It is hoped that every beat in the county will be represented at this meeting. The call for the conference to be held at Montgomery next Wednesday will be indorsed and delegates to that con ference will be chosen.
 Several well known and popular cit izens will address the mass meeting and it will be seen how determined the representative people in this part of the state are to spare no effort to defeat political scheme which, if carried, would do more than any one thing to retard development and which, moreover would do immeasur- able harm to the cause of real tenn Derance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
SOM MIA.

By Alfred Lyall.
 Qndia, 1S57.) late moon that sinks OCT river, Flowing luminous, languid, and still; Long white tents that shroud men, and
 shiver
 In the cold morning breeze from the hill. Just a thin veil of darkness above you, While the cool quiet hour is your own; Then farewell to the faces that love you, With the fast fading night they'll be
 gone. Look up, see above you the starland Wanes dim with the flush of the dawn; You are called from your flight to the far
 land,
 And your visions must break with the
 morn. But your soul. by sweet memories
 haunted,
 Still wanders, forgetful and free, To the west, and in echos enchanted Hears the long winding plash of the
 sea. An, sleep, though the falling dews wet
 you;
 An, rest in that home while you may; Other scenes, other sounds, shall beset you When you wake and your dreams pass
 away. When the sun heats aflame on your faces, What the old fighters felt ye shall feel, When the pitiless strife of the races Flashes out in the smoke and the steel. For the plain, bare and burning, lies yon-
 der,
 And perchance, when the war cloud has
 passed Never more. day cr n,ght. shalt thou
 wander, And thy sleep shall be dreamless i, last
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
CHINESE EGG RECIPE.

La Vulgarisation Scientinque.
 The receipt comes to us from pr. Matignon, to whom we arc indebted for so many works on the countries of the far east, which he has studied for many years. Perhaps this mode of treating eggs will not be quite to the taste of European epicures. for it de- bends upon the principle that the egg should not be eaten fresh.
 These 1o0-year- eggs. as the Celestials call them in their hyperbolic language. are obtained by placing the egg (that of the hen, duck or goose, the last being most highly esteemed) in slaked lime with aromatic herbs. There it remains a long time. at least 8 month or six week. The yolk of the egg during this preparation liquefes and changes to a dark green color. The albumen also turns green and coagu- lates. Then the egg Is good to eat and is especially consumed as hors-d oeuvre, even In the smallest Chinese inns.
 Dr. Matignon says 1t gives of a strong odor of rotten eggs, which seems only natural. He adds, on the other hand, that it tastes like lobster and that one rapidly becomes accus- toned to this food.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
ulnarallaled prOSneritY Ahead

The short time it has taken this country to get away from the effects of the panic of 1907 Is as remarkable as it is cheering. It has been less than two years since Wall street ex- perienced the most violent crash in it's history. In many respects it was the worst panic on record. The en- tire business world was paralyzed. In many manufacturing centers the wheels of industry came to a full stop and with few exceptions the mills, factories and mines that continued in operation during the winter of 1907-0S were running on half time or less. The railroads We're among the first sufferers of the panic and yards and side tracks were soon crowded with idle cars.
 The business depression resulting from the panic was so far-reaching that the most hopeful of men were slow to predict an early revival. Judge E. H. Gary, president of the United States Steel corporation, was one of the few persons in the pub lie view who talked as an optimist. Soon after the panic he began to make reassuring statements. He pointed out that the panic might have been worse and that the industrial situation would soon improve. But even Judge Gary, broad-minded, far-seeing and optimistic as he was, did not look for any large degree of industrial activity within IS months of the date of the Wall street collapse.
 Recalling the course of former panics there was little to encourage the public to think that hard times would be passed inside of three or four years Every panic had been, fol- lowed by several years of depression. Many men now engaged in business pursuits were business men in Sep tember, 1873, when a serious panic struck the country. Everything was depressed from that time until 1878 In 1881 there was another financial furry and general depression prevailed until 1885. Tn 1893 came a partic. ularly bad panic. Many fortunes were swept away and it was fully five years before capital regained confidence and industrial operations began to ex pand Prosperity made high records in 1906 and in the summer of 1907 In the latter year it reached it's high water mark But there had been over speculation, and perhaps over produc tion and because of the very fact that prosperity had been running at high pressure experienced financiers feared that we would have to wait for al least three or four years before seeing normal times again.
 This is great country: great in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
MT. Harriman'S Death


 D. H. Hartman had been lingering on the verge of the grave ever since he returned from Europe and for a week past his death had been momen- tarily expected. He was not only a great railroad man and a great finan- cier, but he was kind and eompan- ionable and in his personality he was singularly engaging. His passing away therefore causes public regret and among a wide circle of devoted friends sincere lament
 But as MT. Harriman's death had been fully anticipated the announce ment of the end yesterday afternoon had no serious effect on the financial world and the stock market today will have nothing of the panicky character that might have been expected had 1 death come suddenly. MT. Hartman controlled a larger railroad mileage than any man who ever lived. and he was the last of the notable men whose power was distinctiyely dominant in the vast systems they built up-and directed. But he had been planning to retire from active participation in Wall street and the management of his railroad business and with re- tirement in view he had shaped his affairs so that his policies might be carried out by his lieutenants. It is reasonable to say, then, that the Har- riman lines will be kept intact and be operated without any appreciable change.
 MT Hartman, unlike mighty rail- road kings of the past, was construc- tive and not destructive. His genius was for making every property he bought dividend earner no matter how unproftable it might have been before. He was ambitious to be known as an upbuilder and the more the public learned of his policies and his methods the more it admired him. He had done great deal for the south. And the people of the Bir- mingham district had felt an especial interest in him ever since he acquired control of the Central of Georgia rail road and made it part of his Illinois Central system. The Central of Geor- gia had large earning capacity before he bought it but his purchase made it all the more valuable. It is, in fact, one of the best lines entering Birmingham and it will serve this dls- trict and the entire section it traverses with increasing efficiency.
 Since MT. Hartman had become closely connected with Birmingham he had taken a deep interest in it's development and was one of the dis trict's most substantial friends and one of the city's most ardent proph- cts. And in the widespread express sions of regret at his death this con- munity may fittingly and sincerely join.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10

truck farmers in the south. Alabama has thousands of acres of productive lands that go untitled because the laborers are not here. Of course the action of the Farmers union is not directed against that class. Farmers and all other good citizens will agree, therefore, on the general proposition of restricting undesirable immigration. But it will be well for Congress to take a calm view of this whole matter and not be influenced by the indis- eriminate agitation against foreigners which sometimes breaks out in the eastern states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
LADY MEMBERS OF THE GARTER.

From the Court Journal.
 It is not generally known that at one time there were lady members of the Or der of the Garter. Each lady of the or der wore on her left arm garter similar to that of knight. was considered member of the order and was styled Lady of the Society of the Garter" Nothing Is known of the form or man. ner of the reception of female members, but the description applied to them in rec ords leaves no doubt of their having been regularly admitted.
 The lists in existence of lady members of the Garter are full of interest and contain many noble names. Among them are Joan Plantagenet. the fair Maid of Kent, widow of the Black Prince, and many other royal ladies. besides numerous ladies of noble and gentle birth. The last lady Knight of the Garter was Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII an dafterward wife of the first Earl of Derby, but in the next reign a change came over the scene. With Henry VIII on the throne there was no longer devotion to women of King and knight, and woman's rights were for gotten. The ungallant Henry discounte- nanced female association with the chiv- airy of St. George, and the orders bril- liancy was dimmed. Attempts have been made to repair Henrys deed, but nothing has come of them.
 There are two places where effigies of lady members of the Order of St. George with the garter on their arm, carved in stone, may be seen. One is at Ewelme church, in Oxfordshire, whefe is the tomb of the Countess of Suffolk, daughter of Sir Thomas Chaucer and granddaughter of the poet, with her left arm encircled with the garter. In the same county, at Stanton Harcourt, the ancient seat of the Harcourt family, six miles west of Ox- ford, the effigy of Lady HArcourt, daugh- ter of Sir John Byron of Clayton, and wife of Sir Robert Harcourt, who was elected a K. G. in 146l, is also represented with the garter of the celebrated order of knighthood on her left arm. In this monument not only is the garter tied around Lady Harcourt's arm. but at the head of the tomb are the bearings of her husband, impaling within garter the lady'S own arms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
COOK A DEMOCRAT.

From the New York Tribune.
 It has been discovered that pr. Cook is charter member of an anti-Mc- Carren Democratic club in the Will liamsburg section. This will be sad news to Brooklyn's elongated exemplar of Jeffersonian statesmanship. What if the ti-McCarrenites put forward the Arctic explorer as a candidate for the democratic nomination for borough president?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
AGAINST THE AMENDMENT.

From the Decatur News.
 After a careful and mature consider ation,. we have decided to oppose the pro- hibition amendment to the constitution. We do this on the grounds of expedi- ency; for the best interests of church and state, and the welfare of the people of Alabama
 We are opposed to the proposed amend ment because it springs from a mesal- liance of religion and politics, laying dangerous precedent for union of church and state, the separation of which is as vital to our form of government as is breath to the human body. We are op- posed to it because every inch of Ala stringent prohibition laws ever enacted by any state, and that was possible for mortal mind and legal skill to conceive and execute. Incorporating this amend- ment in the constitution will not add ono jot or little to the strength and effective ness of these laws, and will forever hang a millstone around the necks of tho peo- pie in the event they should at any future time desire remedial legislation.
 we are OppOSeu lO IL DcCduoC SuCh all amendment has no more rghtful place in the organic law than the interdiction of any other misdemeanor, felony or crime. It is not self-executing, and without sta- tutory provision has no force and effect and opens wide the way for the giving away and sale of liquor in every nook and corner of the state, because of the absence of penal clause. It was con ceived in political lust, born in a hotbed of personal ambitions and greed for office, and wet-nursed by the paps of official trickery and treachery.
 We repeat. from the standpoint Of ex- pediency; of conservation of the best in- terests of state, people and church and the non-co commitment of a folly that would entail disaster that succeeding gen. erations would live to repent. we hope the proposed amendment will be de- feated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
Prices of NeCeSsarles Going Higher

The latest figures published by Bradstreet's show that the prices of necessaries are rising steadily month by month On August 1 they were higher than they were on July 1, and they were higher on July 1 than they were on June 1. Every one," says Bradstreet's, knows that commodities are high and that as a result house. hold budgets in homes of limited in comes feel the burden of this upward tendency. In fact in some quarters, economies have to be rigidly prac- ticed in order to make both ends meet, as it were"
 Between the great production of gold and an upward revision of the tariff it is plain that a higher cost of living has come to stay, and how far the trend is to be carried is daily becoming a deeply interesting qnes- tion to many deserving people. Be- yond all doubt the new tariff will pro- mote higher prices and the standpat- ters will indeed have a difficult task when they attempt to justify their work before oppressed and oyerbur- dened consumers. And the more pros- porous the times are the higher the prices of necessaries will be apt to go. The man who sees his bills going up month after month will not take kind ly to a party that taxes him without bringing him relief in any direction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
DON'T WORRY.

When you have played the game That all must play And neither wealth nor fame
 Has come your way. And reft of happiness
 And robbed of peace, You pray the long duress
 Of life may cease When you have played the game With careful hand And fires no fate could tame, Yet, loser stand, Shed not a single tear,
 Nor beat your breast Think only thoughts of cheer You did your bestl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
A SENSIBLE PLAN.

Get acquainted with yourself,
 Make list of all your faults; Fools rush in and break their necks When man of reason halts. If you know what you can do
 And how far your strength will serve Having made a fair survey
 Of your stock of brains and nerve Know the distance you can go
 And the pressure you can stand, Why, you'll have a better show
 In the winning class to land It's the chaps who think that they Are type of supermen, Mighty figures in the realm
 Of the sword or of the pen, When they're not, who soonest fall, Soonest flicker in the race, Having overtaxed their strength
 And set up too swift a pace. If they'd judged themselves aright, Doing what they best could do, And no more, perhaps they might
 Have escaped a world of rue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

wife go to the door last night when some one knocked.-Atchison Globe.
 stiil' the man might have been taking a bath at the time. or he might have been right in the middle of the latest north pole story, or he might have thought it was somebody come to see him about a money matter. There are many good reasons why a man would ask his wife to answer knock at the door.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
SUCH A SIGHT.

From the Decatur News
 If Brooks Lawrence didn't put bull ring in the nose of B. B. Conner and lead him around the tail-end of the legisla- ture, we're fatal victim of horribilis spectacu1um that's all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10
ONE OF I1FE,s TRAGEDIES.

He felt just like a little faded flower And had look of such impressive woe That people came to see him every hour Ana said by jinks, they'd surely like to
 know What blighted all his life and brought
 him sorrow; And after waiting long the sad one
 said, "The man who promised me loan to-
 morrow
 Is lying in his coffin. cold and dead"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-10

All Birmingham had hoped to sec President Taft in game of golf but since he has stricken the golf item from the programme we must be con- tent to shake hands and hear his pleasant voice.