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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
SAFETY RAZOR IN THE ORIENT.

From the Panang Gazette.
 The subjoined alarming communication has been received by a prominent Euro pean in the Straits:
 ITO his Serene Lordship Esq, I, with the greatest of respectar to your honours name begs to bring to your hon. ours notice that have shaved you many long years: pleasure which I am not able to express myself. Your Kindness has always struck my heart for not many men so good. I hope you will continue to me to shave yourself always and please do not forget the poor old barber will surely suffer in dollars and self-re- spect. Boy tell me you got an internal machine. I must warn your bonours self to make careful and beware such terrible inspuments no good surely come of them. When cut face not often get well quick. I never always look very nice man no cuts or eurasions. Trust your lord ship come me quick. will shave face very nice and very proper. From your sorrow ing artisan and sincere Supraa' -Iocdby -" The "infernal machine Is safe ty razor with the introduction of which the ''sorrowing artisan sees. like Othello. his occupation gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
Laroe Sale of Iron.

Word reache ed Birmingham yesterday from New York that the Alabama Con solidated Coal and Iron company had just booked an order for 10000 tons of iron at top prices the purchasers be- ing the Camden Iron Works of Phila- delphia.
 Rogers Brown & Co.'S weekly market review, under Cincinnati date, says:
 "The fter-holiday week saw some fair buying by large consumers, but is particularly interesting on account of the promise held out for purchases in the near future. There are inquiries pending for 8 round tonnage and the market is firm. There is every evil dence of increased activity and a larger melt, which it is expected will increase weekly from now on.
 Forge and steel-making irons are in strongest demand and the supply Is limited The smaller consumers gen orally throughout this territory are buying in small lots for prompt ip- ment and the iron is going directly into the melt
 Coke is quiet and prices unchanged. Manufacture and movement are pro- ceedng we'll with the demand slightly less than it has been. There are many consumers who have been buying from hand to mouth and it would seem that present prices should prove an induce ment to contract. This has been the case and recently an excellent amount of contract business for the last half of the year was done at one or two eastern noints"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
Tariff on Iron.

q think it would be a great blow to the growth and prosperity of the Birming- ham district" said Guy R. Johnston yes terday, should Congress pass the bill lowering the tariff on iron.
 Birmingham people have been laboring under the impression that iron is made here cheaper than anywhere else in the world, when, if the facts were known, Birmingham is beat a block by number of other places.
 "There are points in England right now where iron is being sold at price much cheaper than Birmingham can possibly offer her product. This district depends upon protection, and we should see that our representatives in Congress stand up for our interests.
 'The removal of this tariff would tear down far more than it would build up. However it would be greater calamity to Birmingham than any other section, and we should see that it is not done.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
Records of the LeeiSlature

In discussing the tampering with the Greater Birmingham bill and with the manner of compiling the original jour- nal of the senate the Montgomery Jour- nal says:
 The members. unfortunately, have no opportunity of knowing how and when 1t is done, and must rely upon the ability, trustworthiness and capacity of the clerks to get the record right. The record could have been omitted as to the Greater Bir- miingham bill being reported from com mittee in the copying from the slips to inc original journal for that is the jour- ;a, and the failure to do so. if inten- onal. deserves the severest punishment. If it was done by accident or oversight CT omission in the usual course of the va-k It would be deplorable, bpt pardon -ade. The Journal places the 4lame mo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
Two Biq Families.

Speaking of large families" said Con- ductor Westmoreland of the Seaboard yesterday, there were two on my train today which were en route to Oklahoma which would have given President Roose- welt cause for genuine delight.
 1"The two families numbered 19 people, 15 of whom were children. It required several seats, naturally. to accommodate these transients. It seemed that they were everywhere in the car at the same time The children were of all ages and all temperaments. The two sets of pa- rents were exceedingly young. Everybody was happy save the two babies, which cried all the way from Atlanta to Bir- mingham, the cries, however, not disturb ing the continuity of the parents nor the other passengers The families were home seekers en route to Oklahoma"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

Eugene Didier in the January Bookman.
 was the most distinguished visitor in 4 the circles that gathered at the houses of the Hon. John R. Bartlett, Dr. Dewey Miss Annie c. Lynch, afterward Mrs. Botta, and others who held weekly re- captions of the best intellectual society of New York. Mrs. Whitman, in speaking of Poe's social prestige, relates an anec- dote showing his habitual courtesy and good nature, which was noticeable to all who best knew him in domestic and so- cial life. The incident occurred at one of the soirees above mentioned. A lady who prided herself on her knowledge of lan- guages, ancient and modern, wished to expose the ignorance of a pretender to classical knowledge, and proposed inviting him to translate difficult passage in a Greek author, of which language he was profoundly ignorant, although in his writings he was in the habit of sprinkling Greek quotations very profusely. Poe was present upon the occasion, and when he heard of the ladys malicious intention he reconstructed with her so earnestly that she was induced to forego the embarrass- ing test.
 Another evening Poe engaged in an in tellectual controversy with the aggressive and self-opinioned Margaret Fuller. This lady, in her usual lofty and autocratic style," was annihilating a young author with merciless scorn. Poe came to the rasoua of tho yannilis sh cd author and in a few sharp. trenchant remarks destroyed all the effect of the learned lady's elo- quence, and completely discomfited her. This was accomplished by Poe in the most polished manner. Some one present whispered, '"The Raven has perched upon the casque of Pallas, and pulled all of her feathers out of her cap"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
MOST EXACT NEWSPAPER.
Punishment for an Error In Printing In the Tsing-Pao Was instant Death.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 China, with all its vast population boasts not quite two dozen daily papers, but among them are the two oldest papers in the world. The Kin-Pan used to be considered by Europeans the oldest paper, but it has been Issued a mere thousand years. The Tsing- Pao, or Peking News, was first published 300 years before the Norman conquest and has been issued without permission for nearly 14o0 years. The Tsing-Pao has the appearance of yellow backed magazine of 24-octavo pages. each page containing seven columns consisting of seven characters"
 Two editions are published-an edition de luxe for the court and the upper classes at a cost of 24 cents a month, and an edition inferior in paper and printing. costing Is cents month. It has a circulation of about 10000, and is really the Times of China, chronicling the move ments of the Emperor and of the court, and printing the ministerial reports. It is probably the most exact newspaper in the word the punishment for an error in printing was, until recently. instant death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
ARSENAL OF A CAR.

From the London Mall.
 The best armed monarch in Europe to- day is the new Czar Ferdinand of Bull garia. His bedroom is filled with weapons which are not there for any ornamental purpose but for use. The sinister col lection includes guns, revolvers, daggers, and here and there on chairs are cudgels and knuckle dusters A small and wick ed-looking revolver, with all its cham bers loaded, lies at the head of his bed. Though he takes all these precautions, Ferdinand is courageous man, but he suffers at night from a constant dread of assassination. A few weeks ago the pal ace at Sofia was wakened at the dead of night by a pistol shot ringing out in the stiffness. No one ever heard what it was all about, but the shot was probably fired off by the prince in fit of nervousness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
Sees Many Changes.

Birmingham appears to have changed greatly even in two years" said John Printup. who resided here for two or three years but returned to his old home in Macon, Ga, some time ago. T hard ly recognized the old town when my train pulled into the Terminal station while the many little changes in the heart oe town have given it a decidedly better ar,nearance Prohibition does give it q quiet look, however. We've the same ex- perience in Macon, but that old town is rocking along in good style No sign or hard times there"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
THE WAITING TIME.

THE WAITING TIME. When the wind is blowing Up and down the street And the weather prophets Are foretelling sleet, Spring seems like a fancy Drifting far away And we'll never live to See the smile O May! When a storm is breaking Der a troubled world And the freezing raindrops 'Gainst the windows hurled, Beat a mournful tattoo, still they seem to say. "Weary Heart, you'll never See the smile O Mayl"
 THE OTHER WAY ABOUT. Smoked those Christmas cigars your wife gave you?' "Yes; they are all gone. They were so fine that I couldn't be economical with them to save my life and burned up 10 or 12 a day."
 SOME WAY OR OTHER.
 Who does his best
 And hates to quit,
 Most always gets
 Repaid for 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
PERHAPS.

In after years, perhaps, when we're de-
 scending The road that leads down to the
 Shadow land, Beyond those hills we climbed in lifes young morning, Blithe comrades of a happy-hearted
 band, We'll learn that after all they're only
 trihes-- The prizes of the world we vainly sought, The slint of gold. the senseless crowds applauding, The selfish plans we made which came to naught.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
WISHING HIM NELL

 And here's hearty bumper to the toiler in the ranks, Who slaves along from day to day and gets no need of thanks; Who bears his burdens like a man and tries to do his part, A smile upon his eareworn face and cour- age in his heart. And here's a wish he soon may find the place of rest he seeks, Afar from din and hustle where the crowded city reeks; Somewhere, perhaps, in lanes of bloom where troubles are forgot And life is like dream and free from any pain or blot. Though fortune seldom favors him and upstart wealth rolls by And looks upon his modest home with cold and scornful eye, I like to think some day he'll win mansion passing fair And Sorrow in a cloak of gloom will never visit there!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
Takinu to New Hats.

''The feminine sex appears to be taking to the small fur hats and men are re- joicing,' said man whose neck pore scars which had been made by coming in contact with the wide brim of Merry Widow" "To me the small hats are much more becoming than the wlde spreading affairs and are bound to be more popular with the men. It will now be possible for man and woman to walk side by side down a sidewalk. During the past year the man had to walk several feet in the rear"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
POOR UNCLE ED.

From Lippincotts
 A Baltimore man was recently showing his nice new opera hat to his little nephew, and when he caused the top piece to spring open three or four times the youngster was delighted.
 A few days thereafter the uncle, during a visit to the same household, brought with him a silk hat of the shiny, non collapsible kind. When he was about to leave the house, he encountered the aforesaid youngster running down the hall with what looked like black ac- cordion.
 Uncle Ed, observed the boy, this one goes awfully hard. l had to sit on 1t, but even then I couldn't get it more than half shut"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
.oyERPLAYED HIS HAND.

'Sir," began the bumptious applicant for a job, "I have been told that you are looking for a clerk
 "So am,' answered the man at the desk
 'I suppose you want a person who neither smokes, drinks nor swears and never engages in games of chance? One whose character is the best? One who is honest, industrious and thoroughly cap- able? One who will stop at nothing, con- sistent with his principles, to further the interests of his employer? In short, a brisk, intelligent, all around man who knows business from A to z and will never be caught mapping? If so, am the individual you are looking for"
 You will pardon my diffidence, I hope,- said the man at the desk. If you are half as competent as you claim to be I feel myself unworthy of becoming your boss. Good morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Pressf

As long as a man can keep out of jail he never doubts his natural goodness.
 The confessional that a woman goes to the most faithfully is her looking glass.
 The thing a man likes about travelling with his family is when it's very short distance.
 A maq never seems to need thing after he gets it the way he thought he did when he was breaking his neck to get it.
 The reason a man hates to buy his own underwear instead of his wife is he can never remember whether his waist meas ure is the sixs of his collar or,the amount oS his coal bill. .-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

care to know, and I told him that would always think kindly of him and all that sort of thing, and I meant it, too. He is a dear-only not just the kind of dear could be happy with. And I haven't seen Tom Anniston for months, if you are thinking of him. But all this is silly. In truth I'm so happy that I fear I'm disposed to be foolish. Have patience, dear. You would be foolish if you were in my place. The truth is I have peach of corset that can al- most sit down in'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
EDGAR POE IN SOCIETY

Sometimes, but not often, his child-wlfe, Virginia, accompanied her husband to these weekly assemblages. She took lt- tie or no part in the evenings converse tion, but her pride in the poets brilliant social success illuminated her sweet, girl- ish face. Mrs. Clemm told me that Vir- ginia, Eddie and herself formed an ideal family, and that the poet and his young wife were perfectly devoted to each other. In spite of this, it has been cruelty and reclSlessly asserted that Poe neglected his lovely wife and caused her early death. A shallow English writer, Gilfllan, even went so far as to say that Poe caused the death of his wife that he might have a fitting theme for "The Raven" Mrs. Whitman, commenting upon this horrible and wicked assertion, sarcastica1ly says that serious objection to this ingenious theory may perhaps be found in the ''re- fractory fact that the poem was pub lished more than a year before the event which 1t is assumed it was intended to commemorate.
 Another of Poe's friends, Mrs. E. Oakes-Smith, who met him during this time of his greatest social success, at the houses mentioned above, says his manners at these reunions were pleasing and re- fined, and his style and scope of conver- sation that of a gentleman and scholar; that he delighted in the society of su- perior women and had an exquisite per- ception of all the graces of manner and shades of expression, and that he was an admiring listener and an unobtrusive ob- server.
 Poe's head by ignorant or malicious per- sons that it Is not only a pleasure but a duty to let the world know how he was regarded by those who had the best op- portunity of seeing him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

MT. Lafollette is to start a weekly paper also. Brother Bryan has one and Future Brother Roosevelt will go to one in March. The Fourth Estate is getting some good recruits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

Naval officers are to be required ro ride horseback as test of their fitness for service. The horse marines are yindicated at last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
REPLIES.

''What do resolutions come to?'' asks an exchange. Nothing, as a rule.
 Now that the "automatio hired man. has been invented, we may soon have au- tomot1c cows giving automatic milk.
 A New Jersey man set out to begin serving a penitentiary sentence attired in evening clothes flor the sake of his family" It is difficult to say where the pride of some people begins and ends.
 A wealthy California man made 50 wills before he died. Another distressing example of the curse of riches.
 When a woman's mirror tells her that she is distractingly pretty, she doesn't seem to care much if she ever gets chance to vote or not.
 A Cleveland woman named Mrs. Bill is keeping house for her husband until the court decides how much alimony he shall pay her. Waiting on Mr. Bill seems to be habit that Mrs. Bill finds hard to quit. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
A SONG FOR THE DAY.

A SONG FOR THE DAY. Any sort of weather,
 Cloudy skies or blue, Learn from life this lesson Hope will pull you through! Even when you're ,quaffing From the cup of rue, Somewhere there's promise Hope will pull you drought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

Fried strawberries are popular in New York, and if the cold wave be- comes intense frozen strawberries may be added to the menu.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
NEVER FAILS-

wonder why people persist in strik- ing light to find gas leak?''
 Possibly because that is the quickest and surest way to find it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

The goosebone prophet who pre- dicted cold, hard, old-fashioned win ter is now trying to vindicate himself. It is about his last chance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

Hartman is gobbling railroads in Mexico, and 1t is only matter of time when he will cross the sea to find roads he can scoop in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
STOP, TTIIEFl

'I saw fellow drop a big roll of money yesterday"
 ''Speculating?"
 ''In a way. He figured that the man he got it from would soon overtake him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

China seems to have turned her back on reform to seek Confucian ideas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

One of the anthropologists says man descended from the hog, and the end seat specie is still intact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

The sleighbell factories will be de- lighted when they see genuine cold wave crystalline.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

When the suffragettes become pow erful Sapphira club may become a feature of politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

Theodore Roosevelt will soon be numbered among the 'outs" and a strange feeling will creep over the land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

The President-elect has more men on his eligible list than a baseball manager.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

The director of the mint reports that few nickels were coined last year, and yet, no coin is in greater demand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
ITS A FACT.

The man with funeral face Stands a poor chance to finish lifes race In the lead, but the fellow who grins At his luck nearly always winsi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

Explosive presidential messages see their end approaching.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

The United States will perhaps be in advance of all other nations in sending aid to the afflicted in Italy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

Near pugilists are hastening to offer to fight Jack Johnson on impossible terms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

During his term of office President Roosevelt shook hands with 61 ,053 per sons and organized the Ananias club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

One-fonrth of Alaska is a coal field and a good deal of the product will be needed on top of the mines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
What I love best in all of the world

What I love best in all of the world Is a castle, precipice-encurpd, In A gasl. of the wind-grieved Apennine. Or look for me, old fellow of mine of I get my head from out the mouth O the grave, and loose my spirits bands, And come again to the land of lands)- In a seaside house to the farther south, Where the baked cicala dies of drouth. And one sharp treev'tis a cypress
 stands,
 By the many hundred years red-rusted, Rongh iron-spiked, ripe fruit-o' 'ercrusted, My sentinel to guard the sands TO the waters edge. For, what expands Before the house, but the great opaque Blue breadth of sea without a break? While in the house, for ever crumbles Some fragment of the frescoed walls, From blisters where scorpion sprawis. A girl bare-footed brings. and tumbles Down on the pavement, green-hesh
 melons,
 And says there's news today-the king Was shot at. touch'd in the liver-wing, Goes with his Bourbon arm in sling; She hopes they have not caught the
 felons.
 Italy my Italy.
 Queen MarSss saying serves for me
 (When fortune's malice
 Lost her--Calais)---
 Open my heart and you will see
 Graved inside of 1t, ''Itaiy
 Such lovers old are I and she So it always was. so shall ever Dc!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

St. Valentines day is all that is left in the way of holidays this winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

Less than two months more of Theo- dorei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

Congress has met to sing its swan song.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

TENDENCY OF THE TIMES. 'arhere seems to be 8 craze for change" 'fYes-small change"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
DE ousTIBus.

By Robert Browning. Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees Of our loves remain),
 In an English lans, By cornfield-sde a-1utter with peoples. Hark, those two in the hazel coppice- A boy and girl, if the good fates please, Making love-say,-
 The happier they! Draw yourself up from the light of the
 moon, And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-hower's boon, And the blackbird's tune,
 And May, and June!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

'fWhat do resolutions come tor asks an exchange. Nothing, as a rule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala., postoffice as secondclass matter uhoer act of Congress March 8, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-12
IN BED AND OUT
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 She Feels Like New Person

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