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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
MEETING OF THE
 ASSOCIATED PRESS

Montgomery. March 2f.-Editors Of many of the souths leading newspapers will gather in Montgomery next Wednesday to attend a called meeting of representatives of all papers served bv the Louisville-At1anta and Atlanta New orleans circuits of the Associated Press.
 At this meeting suggestions will be made and plans formed for even great CT improvements in the matter of se- curing the news of the world in the most concise form and in the quickest possible time for the newspapers be- tween Louisville and Atlanta and At lanta and New Orleans. Melville E.. Stone, general manager of the Asso- ciated Press, will come to Montgom- cry from New York to attend the meet ing and confer with the southern edi- tors as to the best methods to pursue. Col. Charles s. Diehl, assistant general manager, with headquarters in Chica- go. will also be among the Associated Press officials at the meeting.
 The cities which will be represented at the meeting are Louisville, Memphis, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Nashville, At lanta, Birmingham. Montgomery Mo- bile and New Orleans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
Broken Water Main.

Not many people understand the man. ner in which water mains are arranged" said an attache of the local company. For instance, the other night when there was a break in a large main, some peo- pie wondered how it could be repaired and the pressure restored in so few min- utes. As a matter of fact, the break was not repaired in a few minutes at all. There is such a thorough system of valves that water can be cut off almost any, where. This makes it easy to cut out the block in which the break has oc- cured, and the water supply goes around by another route. When a main breaks the greatest amount of time is consumed in locating 1t. The gauges give some idea but men have to be sent scurrying in every direction to locate the exact seat of the trouble. When 1t is once located it takes but short time to get things going all right. This is one of the req sons why the company appreciates so highly information telephoned into the office about leaking or broken mains."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
THE POET AND NATURE

was primarily a nature poet. This, of course, is absurd. Nature was his me- :, dium his means to an end, never an end in itself. It was his aim not to in- terpret nature, but man through nature. He was first and foremost moral phil- osopher whose subject was man. and whose originality consisted in having found, in natural imagery, and in mans spiritual attitude toward his natural en- vironment way of re-enforcing, with new truth, the precepts and principles Of Christian morality. It Is true that he conceived of nature as able to elevate and to purify mans spirit. This is poet ical and imaginative rather than meta physical and religious. Any effect of na- ture on the soul is due to some active principle In the soul itself ultimately. An brey de We're, in one of the best essavs ever written on Wordsworth's philosophy, does not hesitate to assert that there was in 1t not the slightest element of pan theism. Nor is there in his art a single trace of that refined sensationalism. at once occult and scientific, which is the sign manual of the artist impregnated with pantheistic sentiment
 At the same time it is undeniable that Wordsworth has always been interpreted in this spirit by a majority of his ad- mirers. Thus he has in the main exerted his far-reaching influence. It is certainly one of the ronies of literary history that the poet who mediated
  "On Man, on Nature and on Human
 Life,
 sfior1d have conrrfbuteu to the decline of in this day, through the substitution, on his fancied authority, of nature for man, as the proper material for imaginative expression.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
BOOKS.

By William Ellery Charming.
 God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true Jewellers. They givS to all who will faithfully use them thN society, the spiritual presence of the bes1 and greatest of our race. No matter hoW poor I am; no matter though the pro9- porous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling; if the sacred writ- CTS will enter and take up their abode under my roof-if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and Shakespeare to open to me the world of imagination and the workings of the hu- man heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom-I shall not pine for want of intellectual companion ship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
From the New York World

From the New 1OFh W OIiu
 T HE bachelor who looks forward (CD to an Easter wedding should pro-
 vide himself with buttonhook. Not one of the masterful kind that seizes a button and yanks it into far distant hole across rolls of protesting flesh while the victim holds in her breath and, in the words of Miss Elizabeth A. c. White, president of the National Dressmakers' association, lifts her form," for, while woman in her most tantalizing mood will number on her frock 800 buttons for hubby to toy with, there will be nothing tight this season but the "underneath" (again Miss White, who told the dressmakers' convention about 1t yesterday at Masonic temple Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street,. If the strings in the under neath slacken "the whole of you" slips every time you put your foot down and the flesh hardens.
 As Miss White explained, when there was any annoying excess in the front ele- vation of the feminine figure the stupid dressmaker of other days just kept talk ing gathers till she made little pocket to put it in" This is no longer neces- sary, for when Miss White gets through with her demonstration (on living models) of how you should put on your corset your gown will take the entire respon- siblity on itself If on casual investiga- ton the onlooker can discern the outlines of a shape he must be mindreader.
 The 300 buttons are one of the access sories to the ecclesiastical gown. To be strictly accurate, a few hundred cases are merely applied" and run up and down the straight expanse of woman like so many racers making for goal. But from the neck to the hem of the skirt there are battalions that require the hook. The ecclesiastical in many of its
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
NOAH'S ARK PARTIES FUNNY.

From the New York Press.
 It was thought the word would come! A "Noah's Ark party is one of the latest fads in which Paris has indulged. "The guests filed. in two by two," says a witness of such an affair, and as no indication had been given as to how the characters were to be carried out, the result was a great success. The animals gave vent in speech to the sounds al- lotted to them by nature. and the ball. room was noisy with the lions roar. the barking of dogs, the cooing of doves and so on. Certain of the women tried to make their impersonations pretty and CO., quettish, the effects being most attractive, yet immensely funny, while the men, on the other hand, made their characters as grotesque as possible.~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
Delegates From New Orleans.

New Orleans, March 21.-Much in- terest on the part of local newspa- permen is centered in the Associated Press circuit meeting scheduled for Montgomery. Ala, next Wednesday,. A large delegation will leave New Or- leans for Montgomery Tuesday night arriving at Montgomery early Wednes- day morning.
 Among those who will go from New Orleans are Col Robert Ewing, pub fisher of the Daily States, and national democratic committeeman from Louis jana; Fred Thompson, associate editor and publisher of the Evening Item W. D. Robinson, telegraph editor of the Picayune; Daniel D. Moore, night editor of the Times Democrat and Rich ard F. Beirne, New Orleans correspond- ent of the Associated Press
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
DRESS WITH 500 BUTTONS

phases keeps close to the original. The robes of Archbishop Farley in some church ceremonial could hardly be dis tinguished from those of the feminine members of congregation. Simpler forms initiate the priests cassock, which, be- ing absolutely guiltless of fullness at any stage, gives the unpleasant suggestion that the lady has dropped her skirt some where by the wayside and is escaping in some phase of that mysterious under heath" to which Miss White refers.
 Miss White was strong in praise of the cassock for the suffragette, believing it to be just the costume "to run away with" For the antis Miss White pointed to the gown of the middle ages as a symbol of being behind the times
 The Moyen age, or middle age, is an old-new garment of wonderful possibili- ties. It is the only one of the modern fancies outside of the Louis XV models, which makes any apology for the van- ished waist. The Louis XV. comedies it only with hipless outline that makes it more of puzzle than ever Not so the middle age. Away down below the old geogra phical location of the girdle, just six inches above the knee, you get the hint of a dividing line on the figure. It is really a Sara Bernhardt effect, a sash which begins somewhere near the hips and ties almost any place.
 Florentine gowns of the less severe variety have cuirasses <heavy with en- broidery where the upper portion of the female form divine used to be. Draped skirts tied in little bunch in the front or back are a graceful if somewhat start ling innovation. The tunic, which may be absolutely straight and half length or a shorter and saucer garment, has the effect of the Greek stage soldier. They put guimpes and sleeves beneath it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
Trade Outlook.

Business conditions were not much affected by the panic of 19O7.'' said & F. Hainsworth of Chicago. q visited Gal weston, Houston. Dallas and Fort Worth in the early part of 1908 and while bus mess in those cities was somewhat quiet then, I heard little talk of hard times. On my return to Texas few weeks ago I found business fairly active; much more active than year ago.
 "The outlook for fall trade throughout the south and southwest is very encour- aging. The merchants are now ordering stocks for the fall on a much more ex- tensive scale than at any time since 1908. I look for a general improvement in business early in the summer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
From the Boston Herali

From the Boston Herald.
 X@ oRDsWoRTH has been made NyI sponsor for so many vagaries,
 w intellectual and aesthetic, that one will scarcely be surprised to find a French critic, Andre Turquet instituting a somewhat bizarre comparison between the English poet and the Angevin novel; ist Rene Bazin, on the side of their common attitude toward nature. M. Fur ouet defines the modern spirit that seeks expression through art in the following terms:
 "In literature we have a minute search after suitable words to express the infiu- enee of nature upon our minds; in paint ing most subtle notation of the effects of sunshine playing upon wall, tree or human body, an orchestration, as It were of the waves of atmosphere; in philosophy, the pantheistic theory which anmates material objects with an intel ligent soul and sees the whole universe informed by a common life.''
 Of this spirit the writings of Words worth are, and will be, according to M Turquet, "the central and elementary expression" Yet, he says:
 Although he remains the great patron saint at whose shrine all devotees of Pan must pay reverential homage, he has been surpassed by a few of his un- conscious disciples, and these, strange to say. are all French"
 One of these disciples is, of course, Bazin, who. we are assured, has never read Wordsworth. Others, we suppose, are Francis Jammes and Mime. de Noailles. It may be possible to be an unconscious disciple of poet, but to surpass him at something he never at tempted-that passes comprehension. The assumntinn seenns tn be that WnrdsMnrtIn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
German Steamer Warned.

San Francisco, March 21.-The Ger man steamer Ella, which arrived to- day from Central America, reports that she was held for an hour at La Union, Salvador, while officers of the Central American rebuplic took possession of her and warned the passengers and crew not to attempt to land or leave the harbor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
Noted War Chief Dead.

Guthrie Okla. March 21.-Wolf Face, one of the most noted war chiefs of the Cheyennes died at his home near Colony. okla. He was nearly 100 years of age. Few Indian warriors had the record credited to Wolf Face, his bat ties including the Washita, Black Ket- tie and Sandy Hills
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
Steamer On a Reef.

San Francisco, March 21-The coasting steamer R. D. Inman, which sailed from here yesterday for Portland, was driven on Duxbury reef, % miles north of the Golden Gate during the severe storm last night and totally wrecked The 21 sailors and officers were rescued.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
Mysterious Death.

A. Abraham was brought in to the Hillman hospital yesterday morning from Coalburg in an unconscious con dition, suffering from convulsions and never regained consciousness, and died this morning at 130 o'clock He has no relatives here so far as known. Green & Go. have charge of the body, which will be buried by his friends at Coalburg. Abraham was about 50 years n1d
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
Austria Postpones Note.

Vienna. March 21.-The Austro- Hunga- rian government has decided to postpone sending its note in reply to Servia in order to enable the powers to intervene at Belgrade. Baron Won Aehrenthal, the foreign minister, according to the Neues Wiener Tageblatt, has expressed the be- lief that war will be aVerted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
RAIN SONG.
By Robert Loveman.

By Robert Loveman.
 It isn't raining rain to me, It's raining daffodilsl
 In every dimpling drop I see Wild flowers on the hills. A cloud of gray engulfs the day And overwhelms the town It isn't raining rain to me It's raining roses down. It isn't raining rain to me, But fields of clover bloom, Where any buccaneering bee May find a bed and room. A health then, to the happy, A fig to him who fretsl 1t isn't raining rain to me It's raining violets!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

MT. Hartman says SG,nr0,p00 peo- pie have stopped spending money and are now engaged in making it and saving 1t. He generalizes too much. If he were wholly correct the times would indeed be hard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
Conference On Charities.

Buffalo, N. Y. March 2.-Announce- ment was made today of the prelimi- nary arrangements for the thrty-sixth national conference of charities and cor reetions, to be held here June 9-16, in elusive. Local committees are preparing to entertain 2o00 philanthropists and social workers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
Robbers Dynamite Safe.

Danville, Pa, March 1.-Safecrackers visited the Farmers National bank at Exchange, near here, early today, blew open the vault with a charge of nitro- glycerin and escaped. The vault con tained over $5000, but it is not known how much cash the robbers secured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
-----'s' ornanist Drops Dead.

St. Louis, March a.-Mrs. Georgia Wheeler organist at the Gibson Heights Presbyterian church. dropped dead today as she entered the organ loft to play the first hymn of the morning services The congregation was dismissed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
President Diaz Honored.

City of Mexico, March 21.-Emperor Nicholas has conferred the Order of the Grand Cross of Alexander Nevslxy upon President Diaz. The order is one of the highest within the gift of tn e Russian sovereign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

The American department store has fully arrived in London, and it is caus- ing the old-time merchants to sit up and take notice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

A Bareback in Servia would not last long, for the little kingdom contains only 2,0O0 ,O0O people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22
Boy Commits Suicide.

Philadelphia, March 21-Despondent be- cause his teacher had scolded him for drawing during school hours, 14-year-old Attello Gallegano committed suicide today by taking sulphate of strychnine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

England fears German invasion, but she has more reason to fear the present and actual American invasion in the form of department stores.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

President Eliot would never sanction a fight between Jim Jaffries and Jack Johnson in which there would ba nee cessarily a racial mix-up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

No sooner had Editor Roosevelt got job than he was granted a long va cation. Few newspaper men are so fortunate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

Boss Aldrich views the new tariff bill with satisfaction, for it contains all of New England's demands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

Charles w. Morses wife has sold her jewelry in order to help her hus- band and his creditors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

It costs $50 a month to board an automobile, s25 a month to board a horse, and a nickel to board a street car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

Twelve years ago Congress was cen cocting the Dingley tariff to pluck cen sumers and to fill private pockets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

Uncle Joe denies Champ Clark's al. legation that he has paresis and de- fes the allegator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

Uncle Joe's crown is three sizes smaller than it was, and it is not who'll ly comfortable to our ezar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

The President goes to church every Sunday, but he goes to almost any church within walking distance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

Los Angeles has not only the recall but a Hartman control of it's street car lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

Twenty-two republicans faced the czar and they stood true when 29 dem ocrats hickered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

The steam roller has been brought into use again. and a Cannon attach ment has been fitted to it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

The belt line of fashion is pretty near the floor this year. Waists it seems are movable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

Mir Bryan says he never promotes the best sellers in the world of fiction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

Profanity over the telephone has been prohibited in Texas. The wires were unequal to the strain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

The dogs that bite people are in al- most every instance dogs out of hu- nor. They are not technically mad"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-22

The dogs that bite people are in al most every instance dogs out of hu- mor They are not technically mad"
 --s.--- The President goes to church every Sunday, but he goes to almost any church within walking distance. Uncle Joes crown is three sizes smaller than it was, and it is not who'll ly comfortable to our czar. The steam roller has been brought into use again. and a Cannon attach ment has been fitted to it. Profanity over the telephone has been prohibited in Texas. The wires were unequal to the strain. The belt line of fashion is pretty near the floor this year. Waists it seems are movable.
 Twenty-two republicans faced the czar and they stood true when 2S dem ocrats lickered.
 -.ss-- Los Angeles has not only the recall but a Hartman control of it's street car lines.
 
 MT. Bryan says he never promotes the best sellers in the world of fiction.
 -es---
 What Mr Roosevelt needs in Africa is a noiseless typewriter.
Evening star., 1909-03-05
NEW FOREST RESERVES.
President Signs Proclamation Add
ing Nearly 100000 Acres.

Among the last official acts of Presi-
dent Roosevelt was the signing of procla-
nations creating additions to national
forests in Nevada, South Dakota, Cali
fornia. New Mexico and Arizona, ag-
gregating 1880. 1856 acres. These procla-
nations were all signed last night. This
new forest land brings the total national
forest area up to 85.O139SO acres.
The national forests which have been
enlarged and the size of the additions
are as follows: Lincoln national forest.
New Mexico. 81 ,1S7 acres; Alamo national
forest New Mexico. 34S,9ll acres; Carson
national forest, New Mexico. $4,000
acres: Apache national forest, Arizona
4S3OO0 acres: Sitgreaves national forest
Arizona. III, 80 acres; Zun national
forest. New Mexico. c1O9S1 acres: Tahoe
national forest. California and Nevada.
40 acres; Mono national forest, Ne
vada and California. 6S9.5SO acres: Sc
quota national forest. California. 2S.16O
acres; Lassen national forest. California,
517794 acres; Trinity national forest.
California, S1.SOO acres: Shasta national
forest California. 567 CTS acres, and
Plumas national forest, California, o2.S9o
acres.
All of the land will be put under admin
Evening star., 1909-03-05
WOMEN THROWN FROM VEHICLE
GUESTS OF HEURICHS AND A
FRIEND ARE HURT.
Car Collides With Carriage-Visitors
on Way to Union Station to
Take Train for Home.

A street car on the tracks of the Wash
ington Railway and Electric Company
struck a two-horse carriage belonging to
Christian Heurich this morning at the
intersection of North Capitol street and
Massachusetts avenue.
Four women in the carriage were
thrown to the muddy pavement. sustain
ing painful injuries. They were Mrs. Ed
ward Friedman, Mrs. NJ. Miller and Mrs.
Arthur Solinger. out-of-town guests of the
Heurich family, and Mrs. Albert Butler.
a friend of the visitors, who lives at 41d
H street northwest.
William Gillian, driver of the team,
was also thrown to the pavement He
was not injured.
Policemen and pedestrians assisted in
removing the injured to the Red Cross
hospital in the Union station. There they
received treatment.
Mrs. Butler sustained a painful cut over
her eye. Her companions were badly
shaken up and bruised. None is seri-
ously hurt.
The three visitors were on their way to
the station to return to their homes. Mrs.
Butler accompanied them to see them off.
Traffic on the car line was interrupted
short while by the accident.
Evening star., 1909-03-05
Deaths Reported.

The following deaths were reported to
the health Office during the past twenty
four hours:
Eleanor w Keach, 20 years, 1906 l
street northwest.
Hugh Brown. 81 years, Government Hos
pital for Insane.
Elsie Butter, II months, 31S Sd street
southeast.
Powell P. Withers, months, 170S Sd
street northwest.
Infant of Samuel and Ellen Brinkley. "a
hours, 1920 South Capitol street south
east.
Alberta Boove, 81 years, Washington
Asylum Hospital.
Louisa w. Van Sykel 81 years, 1916 G
street northwest.
John A. Brown, IS years, 100 Saith
street northwest.
Elias NJ. Swami, 81 years, 1871 AZ
street southwest.
Annie Shanks, Sc years, 1861 Benning
road.
Henrietta Diggs, ca years, "a Massachu-
setts avenue northwest
Daniel Robinson, 33 years, 62S Browns
court southeast.
Ada Lewis, 81 years. 2131 9th street
northwest.
Lawrence Dodson. 3 years. Childrens
Hospital.
Isaiah J. Taylor % years, o7O3 X street.
William r.. West, 80 days, Hamilton
road.
Evening star., 1909-03-05
Births Reported.

The following births were reported to
the health Office during the past twenty
four hours:
George B. and Lila Nj. Wheelock,
March >, girl
Joseph w. and Bernice Z. Weight
man, February 26. boy.
Andrew and Louise White, February
., boy.
ruary %, boy.
George and Della Brent, March I. boy
Benjamin and Rosa Smith, February
25. girl
James and Mary Tolson, February "3,
girl.