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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
Visit Your NelghbOrS Today

Only one more day in which to work and Jefferson county now expects every man to do his duty. This is a good day in which to visit neighbors and to talk over incidentally the great issues before the people-the bond issue for new courthouses-don't for get Bessemer-the fee issue and the Greater Birmingham issue, for all are at stake tomorrow. They are really at stake today, for this is the last day for election work among the hesitating and the unconvinced.
 But above all things be sure to vote yourself. No patriot in Jefferson coun- ty-no one who loves the grandest county in the state-can afford to stay away from the polls tomorrow. Three great issues will face every qualified elector, and he should be glad of an opportunity to put his opinions thereon in the ballot box. Tomorrow will be day that will be long remembered and recorded in the annals of Jeffer- son county. Stand true to the big county today and all will be we'll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
II. Iron Market.

The pig iron market continues very strong and fairly active. The tonnage contracted for this month will make a good showing for the Birmingham dis triet. Rogers, Brown & Co.'S Cincinnati circular, just issued, says:
 There has been more business within the past week than most people generally imagined, and as a result the market is flrmer and prices on lower grades of iron are strong and have been advanced on those grades which are scarce.
 Basic and Bessemer irons have had strong call, due to the activity in struc- tural steel and rail lines, especially the former, which is assuming quite remark able proportions. The business reported by the structural manufacturers is of the most encouraging character, and in some instances in the central territory is the best they have had and promises bet ter than for two years past Low grades of pig iron are the best sellers and the pipe making grades are scarce.
 The reported advance in price of billets adds to the already strong position of the steel end of the business, and is a reflection of pig iron conditions for the last month or six weeks.
 Building and construction enterprises throughout the country are showing great activity, all of which can only have the best of influences on the pig iron mar ket."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
TRAVEL SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES

TRAVEL SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES. From the New York World.
 To those who look for certain signs of industrial and financial betterment the years travel and summer resort prospects offer an encouraging field of study
 Hotelkeepers of Southern New England are confident of season yielding $5, ,500,- GOO in receipts. For the routes running west, railway managers report tourists bookings already twice as heavy as in former years. The Seattle exposition Is of course responsible for some part of the rush over the Rockies. Yet the railroad men have reason to regard this as an incident only There Is a vast awakening of interest in Colorado, the Canadian Rockies are increasing their draft on travellers who like to combine sport with scenic delights.
 Naturally, such facts as these will en- courage the aspirations of the "see-Amer- ica-first' advocates. Among these people it is figured out that if 100000 Americans should decide not to go to Europe, after all the Old World would fail of about 100000 of tourists money, minus part of the ocean transportation charges. If in addition to giving Europe the cold shoulder this army could be induced to travel the states-but that is another story, and the steamship companies are not In despair over the traffic for 1909
 To return to the better times'' phase of the matter. The World yesterday printed 1501 separate advertisements of summer resorts, the largest number ever prfnfad hxy thfa other The second paper on the list had 546 separate advertisements and the third had 409. The Worlds ..gures tell their own tale of prosperous expectation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
LAST OF THE "GuN MEN,"
The Way to Duck Bullets While Get
 ting Your Man.
the Los Angeles Times.

From the Los Angeles Times.
 "Arizont Jack" Allen, who yesterday pleaded for his own life'-as they say in Charlotte Cushman and frontier gun man."
 He bears rather an astonishing resem- blance to the old pictures of famous &C., tress. It is something of shock to come suddenly Into courtroom and see what appears to be Charlotte Cushman in high heeled cowboy boots on trial for shooting a rural constable.
 Arizona Jack is one of the last of the genuine old border gun men and the story he told on the witness stand yesterday of the shooting of Constable Charles de Mo ranville was a thrilling old border story of a gun fight.
 Waiting In the court room afterward to be taken to jail he told 1t over again with fourishes.
 Jack is a wiry, slender Mississippian of the build of John Sharp Williams. He has the gentle, soft voice and the peculiar slouching, uncertain, rocking walk that seems to be typical of men from Missis- sippi He has the eyes whose fires blaze and die as he talks.
 He spoke of the killing as though it were altogether technical and academic affair; he used it to illustrate the tech- nique of shooting scrapes.
 T didn't get hit because I was bendn' ovah when I fiahed," he explained, scien- tifically.
 When the other man is using colt's," he said, you allus want to lean over. Cause why?
 "A colts is very high-power gun and 1t nearly allus shoots high. A man in a gun fight will allus shoot too high if he is using a Colts. If you're standin' up when he shoots. it makes line shot and he will sho' get you"
 Arizona Jack had jumped up from his chair as lightly as a coyote and his 1.-the, skinny body was bent over as his hand shot to his hip In swift pantomime; his eyes were blazing in quick winks.
 This is the way was standin'," he said.
 It was a dark night had left the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
GLADsToNE'S LONDON HOUSE. From Sixty years in the Wilderness,

by Henry w. Lucy.
 March 15, 1S9o.-Dined tonight with Gladstone in St. James square, house he has rented for the season. a roomy, gloomy mansion built when George was King. On the pillars of the porch stand in admirable preservation two of the wrought iron extinguishers in which in days gone by the link boys used to thrust their torches when they had brought master or mistress home or conveyed a guest. Inside hideous light-absorbing flock papers prevail. One gets a sight rare in these days of the gloominess amid which our grandfathers dwelt.
 The dinner table was as loveless in ap- pearance as everything else. Evidently sore lack of delicate taste that knows how to fling flowers about and make tables bright with chastened light and dainty color. There were central can- delabra in which blazed eight candles without shade. On either side stood two others, making hideous bare light over the table It was more than even Mr. G., presumably accustomed to this kind of light, could stand. After while he or dered the smaller candlesticks to be re- moved. The company. including myself. was mediocre; the surroundings such as I have hinted at. The host made up for all shortcomings. He talked with un- broken flow of spirits. always having more to say on any subject that turned up, and saying 1t better, than anyone else Hts memory Is as amazing as his opportunities of acquiring knowledge have been uniaus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
Many Small industries.

I've hear so much talk about Birming- hams need of a greater number of small industries that many people may get the impression we are not making as much headway in a manufacturing way as should be expected of us,' remarked an observant citizen. "Of course, no effort should be spared to secure new industrial plants. We cannot have too many; but I think Birmingham has made good record in the matter of varied indus tries.
 There are scores of little industries hereabouts that are unknown to the ma jority of our people, Take charcoal, as an example. Wagons loaded with char coal are seen coming to town from many directions I have been making inquiries and I find that something like 200 wagon loads of charcoal are delivered to laun- dries, bakeries and other consumers every week. The product comes from the out skirts of Birmingham, and as each wagon load Is valued at about $4 this one modest article of commerce puts good deal of money in circulation. This is one of many industries scarcely observed by the public. and go to make up large volume of business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
Almost Unthinkable.

Ut is almost unthinkable that any con siderable number of intelligent, well i'm formed citizens should oppose the bond issue to provide money for building skyscraper annex to the courthouse, with a Jail on the upper stories. said a tax payer "The improvement is badly needed. There is a pressing need for new jail for sanitary reasons, and the reasons for building an addition to the courthouse are almost too numerous to mention The courthouse we now have Is to stand. It is the best work of architecture in the county, and no one would be willing to see it replaced or changed. But the court house is absolutely inadequate and there must be more room and modern accommo- dations hence the demand for the bond issue"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 NN NE of the most interesting stories V in the fruitful field of American ,' .sa. literature was written by that Last Leaf' of a bygone generation that dropped from the tree last Thursday and is to be laid to rest today-Edward Ever ett Hale. That story, .The Man Without Country" was written under pressure and to accomplish a purpose, as many great stories are. How the story was produced forms an interesting introduce tion to the tale itself
 It was in the stirring days of 1868. In Ohio there was a man named Vallandig- ham. Vallandigham was something Of a politician and was embraced in that CO., terie opprobriously referred to as "cop- perheads" In a speech one day Vallan- afghan declared that he did not desire to live in a country presided over by man who did some of the things Lincoln had done. General Burnside chanced to be in command of the military division in which vallandigham lived. Being of an oblig ing disposition, General Burnside prompt- ly had Vallandigham arrested and es- corted to the Confederate lines. where he would not have to be under the domina- ton of the Lincoln government.
 Of course the incident caused great com ment. Seeing chance to make capital out of the matter, the "copperheads" loudly proclaimed Vallandigham martyr and nominated him for governor of Ohio. Doctor Hale, as bef1tted one of his race, was an ardent patriot. The idea of such man as Vallandigham being elected governor of Ohio appealed to him as a national calamity. As campaign con tribution, therefore, to aid in the defeat of the "copperhead,' '"The Man Without Country was written.
 The story was prepared in short order and was intended for publication in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
Mobile In Auaust.

w. K. P Wilson of Mobile, who is here attending the annual meeting of the Ala bama Association of Underwriters is q member of the executive committee charged with the duty of financing the Knights of Columbus convention to be held in Mobile in August. He says he Is not a Knight of Columbus but that as the convention is to be a large affair of na- tional scope and is to be attended by many distinguished men, everybody in Mobile is ready to work for the success of the event
 We are making elaborate preparations for entertaining the Knights of Colum- bus" said MT. Wilson, "and we feel that no matter how great the crowd may be no visitor will go away disappointed at the arrangements made for his entertain ment.
 Mobile is no warmer In August than 1t is in other summer months and as to the mosauitos, our stiff summer breeze scatters them and blows them away While many a city In the north Is a. scorcher in August Mobile is singularly pleasant as a rule. The Knights of Co., lumbus and their friends will meet with a wholehearted welcome and it is safe to say that this will be one of their most delightful outings"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Newhall saloon and was walking up the track.
 All of a sudden I heard some one yell Hands up!' behind me.
 T turned quick and slipped on the rail, falling to one knee as I turned (IIis body went crouching to the noor)
 Then somebody shot and the bullet just skinned along my hand"
 Arizona Jack looked around akd said softlyi 'I can draw gun pretty quick when I'm prodded to it. I just whipped her out. Gle stabbed out one thin finger the way borden men shoot)
 Another shot grazed my shoulder and when he fired the third shot I let go a couple of times at the blaze in the dark"
 Arizona Jack raised his thin white hand, with one finger shot off at the knuckle.
 If l had been a standin' thisaway,'' he said. q would got it; but I was bendin over, this way (bending over his hand just like fell"
 Arizona Jack seemed to lose interest in the narrative at this scientific point, and began to tell about prospecting in Ari- zona.
 The man at the other end of the gun fight lost interest at about the same point.
 Jacks unerring bullet (unerring bullet is the correct tern) clipped off two of De- Moranvilles fingers where they held the revolver, plowed a streak along his arm, cutting the sleeve five times, and went straight to his heart. He dropped stone loo1 a +. aolr lad nxa
 Arizona Jack, supposing as he said, it was some bandit who had tried to hold him up, went on down the track letting the body lie there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
visitIna Railway Officials.

J. S. B. Thompson of Atlanta, assist ant to the president of the Southern rail- road, and c. H. Ackert of Washington, D. C., vice president and general man. ager, were in Birmingham yesterday to attend a routine meeting of the Terminal company. MT. Thompson returned to At lanta and MT. Ackert left for Chatta- nooga.
 '"There is a slight improvement in rail- way traffic over our lines," said MT. Thompson, "but I think 1t will be some time yet before we are crowded with freight. Business throughout the coun- try is improving in a substantial way and as the northern industries are again active general industrial activity will soon be in evidence here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The reason a girl can be sure her eyes are blue is they aren't
 widow knows how to be just as much interested in man as if he was inter- esting.
 One reason women have such good time talking so much IS they nave so little to say.
 The more subscriptions you make to charities, the more the people who drag the money out of you act as if they sup ported them.
 A mans idea of comfort is when his wife thinks 1t would be disgrace to her for sny of her friends who call in car riages to see him dressed that ways
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Coal and Iron company, left for Georgia yesterday and will proceed next week to New York to see his daughter, who is at a boarding school in that city.
 ". J. Harris, president of the Georgia Fire Insurance company, and for many years private secretary to Senator Clay, and W. S. Coleman. treasurer of the Georgia Fire Insurance company, both of Atlanta. are attending the sessions of the Alabama Underwriters association in Rirn1ingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
THE HILLS OF MORNING.

THE HILLS OF MORNING. Beyond the hills of morning, What prize awaits us there, When once we've left behind us The vale of life's despair? Who knows ?-perhaps the fortune Acquired at such a cost, May many times repay us
 For all we've ever lost! Beyond the hills of morning,
 When hearts are growing old And youths ambitions blazing Through stress of years grow cold The heartache and the sorrow Will seem but trifles then And the cares from which we've parted Will never come back again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
THE OUTCAST.

By Dorothy Paul. Oh, the bees are on the clover, and the
 swallows on the wing, And the world is mad with freedom, and \ it's pulsing with the spring. For the willow buds are breaking, and
 the wind is on the lea, And the old, old message comes again-to
 every one but me! Oh, every dusty sparrow has treasure
 in some hedge And there's honey for the bumblebee in
 cloverbloom ands sedge. And I'm longing for your riches, ye, free
 folk of earth and sky, For we've had a weary quarrel
 Fate and II
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Since the army board or engineers has condemned a 14-foot channel on the Mississippi as unwarranted the people of that valley have concluded to demand a 21-foot channel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Birmingham has accommodations for only one-half of it's negro children, and yet compulsory education is said to be near at hand, and the color line cannot be drawn in 1t, and should not be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Republican statesmen are trying to reconcile Aldrichism with a programme they would be willing to place on ex- hibition in next years campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Julia Marlowe is to play Hamlet this following season in the footsteps of Sarah Bernhardt and many other tal- ented women.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Lorimer thinks his seat in the Sen ate will keep while he loiters in the House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Bipartizan Lorimer may attempt to sit as democrat in the Senate and as a republican in the House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Mrs. Russell Sage is dispensing her wealth at the rate of $2 a minute. She and Andrew Carnegie are entered in novel marathon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Canada will be compelled by it's climate to put it's new navy in cold storage in the winter time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Mr. Bryan will win a senatorship next year or else go on the retired list The year will be memorable one in his career.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

If MT. Hartman turns his genius to- ward a pan-American railroad we may yet see through trains from Boston to Buenos Ayres.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
About Persons.

J. L. Dean of Opelika, member of the Alabama association of underwriters. is here attending the annual meeting. He is one of the best known business men of his city. Het reports the crop out look in his section as encouraging.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Out in Kansas a judge has ruled that a red-haired person cannot be a criminal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
STORY OF FAMOUS BOOK

October issue of the Atlantic, for which pr. Hale was at that time working For some reason, however the story did not appear until December. In the meantime Vallandigham had been defeated by 1OO OO0 votes.
 It must not be supposed, however, that because "The Man Without a Country was written hurriedly and in the heat of the exciting days of civil strife it was one of these full-blown blooms which the minds of men of genius are supposed to put out without effort when the divine af- fiatus stirs them. The story was pro- duced rapidly, but the author had put in years of preparation, storing his mind with the facts that later poured forth so readily in the form of fiction. Many years before the story appeared Dr. Hale con ceiyed the idea for it and had begun to prepare for it. Speaking of the book, Dr. Hale once said
 T began to read for the book at my summer home in Worcester. Day after day I spent In the library of the Anti quarian society. First l went through the reports of the navy department from 1789 to 1861 that I might be sure of my local color and never, by any accident. place vessel where 1t actually was at the time mentioned or name an officer in such a way as to annoy real man. It was necessary that use naval terms, and so I did. The Levant was indeed a ship in the service, but 1t had disappeared from off the face of the earth long time before the story was published, the latitude and longitude in which l placed 1t at the time of Nolans death was in reality spot of very dry land, | up in the mountains of South America"
 The book was an immediate success and gave it's author an immediate national fame. There is still an active demand for 1t. Some states have made 1t a text book in their schools.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Prof. Jack Johnson, champion of the world, is still looking for white man who is willing to try to whip him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE HuRRY-HuRRY PEOPLE.

THE HURRY-HURRY PEOPLE, The hurry-hurry people, you can find them everywhere Can tell them by the gait they go, the hurried look they wear They hate to walt for trolley cars, they fume whene'er train Rolls up five minutes after time it gives them quite a pain To tarry even for a breath, so hurried all the while They hardly ever stop to joke or wear a pleasant smile. The truth to tell, they chase themselves at morning, noon and night Until their health is shattered and their tempers are sight, And never see the flowers bloom and never watch the stars, And never stand enraptured by the sun sets golden bars, And never know what 'tis to have a twilight revery, And never learn how wondrous fair a day in June may be, And never take a story book and read themselves to sleep, And never drift a whole day long where water lilies sweep, And never taste the sweetness of life of simple ease, And never know what loving is, some trustful heart to please, And never do get out of life one-half there is to get, But hurry, hurry all the time and fret and fret and fret. And yet, despite their hurry and their worry and despair, To save my soul, can't see how they TO getting anywhere!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Chicago is considering the building of SS00,000 cooking school. Good cooks are scarcer than good states men,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Crude rubber is being boomed by automobiles to record prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

The wrecking of the Canadian Soo canal has put damper as well as positive limitations on a Canadian navy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

The battle of the levels has been re. viyed by the accident at the Soo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Coyotes are increasing in Kansas while T. & K. Roosevelt are away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

No man mortgages his automobile to buy home, but many reverse the process.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

in the air, no matter what later indi- yiduals may accomplish
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

They are jailihg parents in Penn- sylvania who do not send their chil- dren to school.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
MIGHT AND MIGHT NOT.

"A millionaire says there are no more hard times"
 Do you think he would know it If there were?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

Belva Lockwood has no vote but she has become an LL D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

TO A FRIEND.
 R. J. A. He fought a good fight And now he is sleeping, Forever set free From toiling and weeping. The wind of the south His grave Is caresslng, The lilies around 1t And tenderly pressing. Brief was his journey And now he's at rest, Peacefully dreaming On earth's ample breast,
 ONE FORM OF IT. What does that orator mean by the price of peace?" "Alimony, I guess"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
HE GETa- -NEITHER

DO you think the world owes poet a living?"
 Sure thing, and an apology"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
OF COURSE HE WOULD.

T see where burglar in Pittsburg was routed by 26 trained nurses in pajamas." Huh, Bwana Tumbo would run from an onslaught like that!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18

ADDED RISK ''It is now proposed to play baseball games at night" 'sHow sop Think of him having to go home in the darkp'