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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
In Other States.

Florida is to vote on constitutional
prohibition next year. said ]. r. Fra
xier of Philadelphia, last night Il spent
several days In Florida early this month
and nearly everybody 1 nat said the
proposition would carry. But since Ala
bama has voted down that sort of pro-
hibition, think It safe bet that Flor
ida will do likewise.
IT will not make prediction as to
whether Alabama will ever see another
saloon. but I would not be surprised
IL this state followed Georgia some day
and fegaliKe the sale of peer Georgia
will eventually legalize the sale of light
wines And SO long as beer and wine
can be made and sold It will be an
easy matter to keep out whisky. The
abuse of liquor comes from strong drink
not from light beer or light wines.
"A compromise such as have in mind
will probably be adopted in all the south
ern states. Tt would unquestionably pro-
mote the cause of true temperance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
A PINK TEA sWINDLE.

From Everybodys Magazine.
1t was prohibition country. AS soon az
the train pulled up, a seedy little man
with a covered basket on his arm hurried
to the open windows of the smoker and
exhibited a quart bottle filled with rich,
dark liquid.
want to buy some nice cold teaT' he
asked, with Just the suspicion of a wink.
Two thirsty looking cattlemen bright
ened visibly, and each paid dollar for
bottle.
''Wait until you get outer the station
before you take a drink" the little man
cautioned them. 1T don't wanter get in
trouble
He found three other customers before
the train pulled out, in each case repeat
ing his warning.
you seem to be doing pretty good
business remarked a man who had
watched all. "But I don't see why you'd
run any more risk of getting in trouble
II they took a drink before the train
started
Eye don't. hey? Well. what them bot
ties had in 'em. pardner, was real cold
tea"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
SINGING.

By A. Stevenson Nicol.
Nor gold is mine nor prospering state,
Nor the gay soul that laughs at fate;
Yet oft deem 1t good to sing
Until my humble rafters ring;
And Joy to feel each vigorous note
Leaping from my supple throat.
Many delightful airs l know,
or major Joy, of minor WOO;
Many a glad or mournful phrase
Is woven through my chequered daysi
Melodies creeping like faint scents
From ghosts OF persisted Instruments;
Songs of whose tenderness and flre
The living soul can never tire.
But while great joy from these gain,
The unprecedented strain
Sometimes delighteth me the most
Singing that almost is boast,
Free and capricious as a birds.
Unclogged by any useless words,
Arpeggio, run. cadenza, trill,
/ sing till. have sung my I'LL.
And thus I'll troll forth many q note
Ere age hath seized my supple threat
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Tex
as Pacific, with a gain of SIP, 440-all
in September last. The net earnings
of southern roads were equally favora-
BILE, no southern road reporting a de-
crease in that respect.
What is true of the south is true OF
every other section of the country.
The railroads have about all the
freight offered to them that they can
handle. and this is certainly an index
of general prosperity. We will indeed
do well If we go through this season
without experiencing an actual car
shortage
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
A man with pretty wife wants to take
all the credit Of 1t for himself
When a man puts on a loud necktie it's
a sign he would be a gay dog II he knew
how.
Sometimes man can trust a woman
with very blond hair not to be so deceit
full about all things.
What makes girl SO furious with a
man for trying to kiss her is how pleased
she Is that he wants to.
A mans idea of good housekeeping is
when there's the devil to pay in the
kitchen, bit his wife keeps him from
6nding 1t out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
A Large Encyclopedia.

Five volumes of the Catholic Encycfo-
pedia, published by the Robert Appleton
Co.. have made their appearance and the
sixth will soon come from the press"
said prominent layman.
The complete work will embrace 10
volumes The most exhaustive and there
fore the most expensive encyclopedias
published up to this time is the Jewish.
1t is a valuable contribution to litera-
ture and Is found In every large public
library.
1.-The Catholic Encyclopedia is stu
pendous undertaking and in cost will out
run probably any other ENCYCLOPEDIA of
any class. As an example of its COM
prehensive character It contains history
of every country and every state in the
United States. including statistics on re-
ligious, educational and social conditions
and natural resources. The article on
Alabama was prepared by Thomas M.
Owen, state srchivist. The Rev. John
J. Wynne, s. J., one of the editors of the
Encyclopedia. has recently returned from
trip abroad in the interest Of the work.
He has made voluminous report on
the result of his journey to show how
cordially the Encyclopedia has been re-
ceived by the scholars of Europe and
by the Pope himself, with whom he had
a private audience"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
II is unfortunate that the law

It is unfortunate that the laws OF Al
ALBANIA requiring every candidate for
political office to make an affidavit Of
his expenditures, and to whom paid, do
not apply to elections like that of yes
terday. Then the people could know
who subscribed to campaign funds and
who got the subscriptions. If the man
ayers of both sides would make public
a financial statement 1t would make In
teresting reading matter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
WHAT Is A HERo7
From the New York World.


The awards made by the Carnegie Hero
and illustrious conduct" indicate that the
commissions definition OF heroism is tho
commonly accepted one-an exhibition Of
physical courage in a moving accident by
hood OF field. or display of hardihood
In the imminent deadly breach Such at
least Is the idea obtained from the award
of fifty. medals and sums OF money ag-
gresating $4,000 for daring rescues Of
children from rivers and from before rail-
road trains, stopping unmanageable
horses, carrying helpless persons from
burning buildings. etc. No doubt Hora-
thus at the bridge would have headed the
list of recipients of medals from an Old
Roman Carnegie hero fund.
This Is the popular understanding OF
the word, and there is no desire to criti-
else the laudable efforts Of the commits
sion to encourage what after all Is one
of the commonest attributes of humble
life. But one looks in vain for an award
for moral courage. for q medal bestowed
in recognition of "illustrious conduct" in
that which involves physical risk only.
Is there no one in the country who has
deserved such a decoration by putting his
political future in jeopardy for the sake
of his principles? Medals for mayors who
defy bosses, for district attorneys who
follow trails OF corruption to their
sources and senators who afKront preda,-
tory interests would contribute greatly
to stimulate civic virtue. Tho public has
no lack of applause for spectacular physi-
cal courage, but it has . yet deeper APP
probation Of moral heroism. The Carne-
gle hero fund commission could we'll sup-
tt-when found.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

From the New York Sun.
THAvE Just been reading in an English
magazine "A Pilgrimage To the
L Tomb of Omar Khayyam,' by Major
Sykes, an eminent British officer in Per-
sia, In which there is the astonishing
statement. with regard to well-known
lines in the poem, that the generally ac-
cepted idea that the poet referred to
roses is due to an error In the translation
of the Persian gul.' which means a flow
er, and as Prof. Browne proves. refers
to peach and pear blossoms and not
roses"
Then where did they get the rose tree
which Is planted on F1tzgerald's grave in
Norfolk, Of which have a photograph
before me at the present time? 1t is said
to have been brought from the poets
grave at Nishapur. A rose, not peach.
It is many years since paid a visit to
the grave of Omar Khayyam, and l have
been ransacking what the scientists call
the cells of my peripheral sense organs.
7 certainly saw roses there. / am aware
that sometimes Persian poets write of
flowers as "gul," but not often, and gu
lab. or rosewater is common In all parts
of the East.
NV pilgrimage was made before had
read Fitzgerald's rendering of the "Ru-
baiyat" of Omar Khayyam and when my
knowledge of Persian was imperfect. but
I was accompanied by an Afghan hazl
who was a devout follower of the Vol
tsire of Persia and made the great poem
his guide In life. Omar's grave is outside
the shrine of Imamzada Muhammad,
erected by Shah Abbas. and is an ordi-
nary grave plastered with cement. When
T saw 1t 1t had no inscription, but it was
surrounded with peach trees and rose
trees and the whole environment was
such as Omar would have sought for his
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
New Era In Everything.

Here in the Birmingham district
We are entering upon new era of
prosperity" said member OF the
Chamber of Commerce. I'VE have had
high tides of prosperity in the past
but the large development and general
thrift now in sight will exceed all
former records of progress.
THE extensive improvements which
the Tennessee company is now making
and the plans which United States Steel
interests have formulated for the near
future would Of themselves mean
wonderful growth hereabouts. but In
addition to construction work of great
magnitude already announced many
, small Industries will be established here
within the next IL months.
Jefferson county will go into the
next census with a population of fully
100000 as against 100000 in 1900; but
If census taking were postponed two
years the countys population would be
found with 100000 souls or more.
with the new era in material pros
perity will come a new era In politics.
and new era in church religion. Ala
bama politics will be sane and pro-
gressive instead of radical and hys-
terical and religion being divorced
from politics, will, 1t Is believed, become
pure and undefiled, as II formerly was.
The churches Will henceforth go for
ward untrammeled."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
TURKEYS AND APPENDICITIS.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The scientists of Harvard have discov-
cred that turkeys are dying In large
numbers Of appendicitis. In New Eng
land. once noted for its production of tur-
keys. the birds have become scarce be-
cause of the inroads of the disease. 1t
has spread as far south as Virginia and
has invaded Michigan.
Those persons who have been wonder
ing why the Thanksgiving turkey gets
higher every year may find tho reason in
the reports of defamation made by the
Harvard scientists. The turkey is threat
ened with extinction by reason of the raw
ages of appendicitis. Unless science
comes to the rescue the national bird"
will cease to decorate holiday tables and
some substitute will have to be found.
There have been no reports of the Ken
lucky turkey suffering from appendicitis.
or from anything else, barring adiposity
and over-confidence. If the disease has
reached Virginia. however, it will invade
Kentucky in course of time and may put
an end to f1ourishing industry. When
ever, in the course Of human events, 1t
becomes necessary for a farmer to en-
ploy q surgeon to look after the welfare
of q flock Of turkeys, the business of tur-
key-growing will take a slump.
The turkey-purchasing public is crit
ical and fastidious 1t would never take
kindly to a gobbler that had undergone
an operation for appendicitis. 1t demands
turkeys that are without spot or blemish
and considers itself entitled to them be-
cause of the constant trend toward higher
p1tces. 1t wants turkeys that are healthy
and happy--at least, such as were healthy
and happy UP to the hour of execution
TIE tnefraceabie mark Of surgical OPP
eration would never escape the eye Of
the buyer, and gobblers bearing evidence
Of having been tempered with by physi-
ciaps would be left severely alone.
Prices of turkeys have already scared
TO an altitude which makes them prohibi-
tive to vast numbers of the great COM
mcu people. II appendicitis is to cut
swaths In the available supply, turkey
Will become a luxury to be enjoyed only
by nillionaires.
The attention Of John d. Rockefeller
should be called to the fate that Is threat
eSinx the American turkey. 1t is regret
table that there are some indications that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

Yesterday for the first time the elect
ors of Alabama had an opportunity of
voting on any phase of the prohibition
question, and they expressed them
selves with powerful emphasis. There
is nothing like hearing from the people
direct
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
GOING THE LIMIT.

From the washington Herald.
All the steamboats, in AlabamA Will DO
required, under the new prohibition law
to eliminate the word saloon" from their
advertising matter and from their pnysa-
bal properties. They will not even rtust
the water wagons unnnaltaAdaE In Ala
barua nQEada4a.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
NOISY PLACE.

Says an exchange:
Two women, walking along one of the
business thoroughfares of New York,
heard a great shouting of 'Extry, extry.'
and looked about to see where all the
noise was coming from. Across the street
they spied one very small newsboy shout
ing with all his might. One of the wom-
en-, attracting the boys attention. called
him to her and bought paper; then. as
she dropped the pennies into the little
fellows hand, she said: You mustn't
make so much noice, my little man; you
can sell your papers Just as well with
out yelling So For half a second the
boy looked UP at her In surprise. then
exclaimed: You don't understand,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
A DREAM COUNTRY.

I've never been to Already
And prob'bly neer will go.
Where life is free from toll and care
And sweetest blossoms blow;
Where everythings as t ought to be
And nothing Ger goes wrong
And happiness sits in the hearts
OF all the human throng.
I've never been to Already,
Except, OF course, IN dreams,
But sometimes when the sun is bright
And all is fair. 1t seems
That Already is. not SO far
Not half 30 far away
AS tbs when clouds bedim the skies
And trouble is to pay
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

There is always time and a place
for the political falSir. The place has
been Birmingham and Alabama. The
time has arrived when the political
ringmaster will be welcomed in his de-
parture for foreign parts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

From the Kansas City Times.
Two men whose offices were on the
second floor were on the first floor watt
ing for an elevator.
You're not looking extra well, I,ond-
SELL remarked the lawyer
mo. Rangle," replied the real estate
man. Think I'll join an athletic club.
I need the exercise"
Me, too"
Still they waited for the elevator.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
ENTOMOLOGIS,rS.

How doth the busy little ant invade our
pantry shelves and make our careful
housewives get a hustle on thems elves.--
Boston Globe.
And when the busy lady finds the ants
within are gone, she has to hustle out
to chase the brown tails from the lawn
Gloucester Times
How oft we find at the hotel the chef
has worked coup upon the lively cock
roach and has put 1t in the soup-Hous-
ton Post
We gaze into our coffee cup sometimes
and heave sigh, to think about tho
dreadful fate that overlook fly
COMMENT.
Every few days the newspapers tell
about somebody hugging a pretty school
teacher. Not that we object. of course.
1t just makes fellow restless.
A Chicago man cut his throat because
he lost his false teeth just before time
to eat his Thanksgiving dinner. He es.
capped indigestion, anyway.
It seems that 'Dickie" lie Gallienne
and William Watson used to lend each
other money. Maybe that is why they
are now at daggers' points.
An old man who died in West Virginia
the other day was buried with wings,
according to his direction. He didn't take
into consideration the fact that he might
get them singed.
An old baseball player who was often
struck on the head in the days before
the catcher wore a mask. is suffering
from dementia. He seems to have had it
coming to him. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
GRAVE OF OMAR KHAYYAM

resting place. Ny friend the kazi was
deeply impressed, and devoutly raising his
hands, prayed for the repose of the poets
SOUL Then he took his volume of the
"Rubiayat' and with great emotion re-
cited the quatrian which I find Roe cor
rectly renders:
Wide yawns the tomb where you and I,
sweet friend,
Shall each, In turn, to lifeless dust de-
scend.
oh, draught of death that sleeps the
very soul
In dreamless sleep, unconscious to the
end.
The old city of Nishapur is In ruins. but
we traversed almost every yard of it, and
the kazi very graphically explained the
poets parable of the game of the ball.
the chessboard and the potters shop. The
valley of Nishapur is well watered by ir-
risation and the hills in the distance were
covered with snow. The lower ranges
seemed to be of red sandstone.
There has been some dispute as to the
date of Omar's death, as it is not record
Cd on his tomb, but the Hindu historian
Khusgo gives it as A. II. 517, which is the
year 1923 of our Christian era Is it not
remarkable that through the poetic gen.
ius of Edward Fitzgerald, who could not
have been a Persian scholar, this little
volume of his rendering of the ouatrains
of Omar, the tent maker, has become the
most popular Eastern poem in the Eng
lish language after a lapse of about eight
centuries? 1t shows what the efforts of
one man can accomplish in his day:
Like helpless chessmen on the checkered
blocks
We're hitl1er, thither moved, till heaven
knocks
The luckless pieces from the crowded
board
And one by one returns them to the box.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

Cuba is in a receptive mood for
smart itinerant political parsons. Per-
haps the ex-political ringmaster might
find employment down there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

The cost of living is going up and
so is the cost of canals. The Panama
canal has been marked up to 1885,
100000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
A TIMELY MOTTO.

Hang up in your office,
Where they'll catch your eye,
These words on a placard:
Root, hog, or die,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

very well agree with you In the
hopes of him; it is gallant child; one
that indeed physics the subject, makes
old hearts fresh.-Winter's Tale.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

Don't buy your food by phone say
the women Of Boston. go yourself
and see what the shop looks like. -
Good horse sense.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

Frank B. Kellogg is the lawyer
who whipped the Standard Oil trust in
court, and he did it without blowing
his own horn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

Colonel Watterson comes back ready
to bet that Taft and Roosevelt are at
daggers drawn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

The stock of the aeroplane companv
may be aired but 1t will not be wa.
tered.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

The trouble with some of Alabama's
politicians was they had not learned
just how to keep their ears to the
ground.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

II Mr.. Loeb's arm gets tired In
swinging the ak, he should buy a
gufflotine. One is for sale in France.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

Political importations are now on
the export free list in Alabama. 1t
may go at will.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

vox Populi has been heard from and
all is well. Members of the legisla-
ture thought they heard 1t last sum-
mer but they were simply mistaken.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

Football has retired on its laurels
and fatalities, and the people will have
years rest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

Air chariots will hereafter be issued
by million-dollar company headed by
the Wrights themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30
ALABAMA ITSELF AGAIN

The result of the constitutional amendment election in
Alabama yesterday is as The geHerad predicted.
It Overwhelmingly against the adoption Of the pro
posed constitutional amendment.
1t the downfall of the regime which has dominated
Alabama politics for the past years and which has brought
the into srepute and made the laughing stock OF the
honest dgnd conscientious business people of the
try.
Alabama is itself again
The business people, the producers, the men who own
something and who would do something for the development
and the upbudng of the state in the saddle again They
are at the helm and they will this good old craft of Ala
bama future in the right channels They will build de-
veop and it that which always intended by the
Creator of the Universe that Alabama should be-
There will be pulling down. The upbuilders are
the The upbuders the throttle They will
that speed which conservative and necessary for the
upbudng of equitable balance Of the
great state of Alabama.
Now let all get together forget differences and be
of the and noble type and not looking to the selfish
but to the general good of all.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

No one escapes the steam roller in
the long run-not even Surveyor Clark
son of New York.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

New York's judges in the trial courts
now get $4,000 year Law comes
higher in New York than it does In
Alabama
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

Chancellor Days opinion of the Stan.
card Oil decision has not yet been
handed down.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

1t is feared that Secretary Carpenter
will not be able to secure so exciting a
future as Mr.. Loeb did.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

Somebody should tell the marines
that they are going to Nicaragua.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

After that Thanksgiving dinner go
out at once and do your Christmas
shopping early
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

The Sheffield Standard thinks "Un-
Gle Rus Cunningham should take Brer
Corners temperature" about now.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

Beef is so scarce In Denver the peo-
pie are going to have a beef show, so
that they can see what 1t looks like.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

The million-dollar aeroplane compa-
ny has no gas or hot air or water in it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

This life's a game of give and take
And passing hard to live,
Cause ten you'll find inclined to take,
For one inclined to give.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-30

The suffragettes do not care how
soon either house of parliament, as at
present constituted, is abolished