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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
STRANGE HINDOO BELIEEs

FROM the washington Star.
The uneducated Hindu land he Ia In
the great majority believes that the
ghost of a man killed by tiger rides
on the head of the beast that slew him
to warn him of danger and to guide him
to new victims. 1t is declared that God
provides for the tigers daily wants to
the amount of one rupee a day; that
Is to say, If the tiger kills a calf worth
o rupees he will not be allowed an
other victim for five days.
Eating the flesh of tiger is supposed
to give one great courage and alertness.
but the whiskers must first be singed off
the beast or his spirit will haunt the
man who fed off him and he is likely to
be turned into a tiger in the next
world.
In small Indian village in the in
terror villager was killed by a tiger
The police. investigated the accidental
death and rendered this verdict: "Pandu
died of tiger eating him: there was
no other cause Of death. Nothing was
left of him save his bones and some
fingers which probably belonged to either
the right or left hand
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

will be adopted. Z The eleetrifeation
of such a stretch of single track in
a mountain district will stimulate the
movement in all other parts of the
country. for. if motors can pull heavy
trains over the Sierra Nevadas, they
can pull them in any other district
There can be no doubt of the sub
stitution of electricity for steam on
the railroads in the long run. and the
prospect now is that the change will
go on rapidly in all parts of the
country
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
ANTI-SWEAR COLLAR BUTTON

From the New York Herald.
A collar button that absolutely refuses
to roll under the dressing table or the
bed was the piece de resistance at the
Wearing Apparel and Fashion Show. that
opened at the Madison Square Garoen
Saturday. Although the main floor of the
garden and the balcony were filled with
booths in which all sorts Of garments for
men, women and children were on exhibi-
ton the men were thickest about that pa
CODA in which were shown samples Of the
new collar button. AS the orator in
charge of the exhibit explained, there
was no secret in the simple little article.
All there was to 1t was that it was made
with an oblong base instead Of a circular
one.
Can a brick roll under the dressing
table?" asked the orator. mo. Neither
can this beautiful little collar button,
which is patterned after the lowly but
unreliable brick"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

ant work for the public is DR.. Joseph
A. Holmes. we'll known and esteemed
in the Birmingham district. He is
the head of the technologic branch
of the geological survey and is a high
authority on mining He has devoted
much of his time to the investiga-
ton of mine disasters, and has done
good in The direction of safeguarding
the mine worker. His salary is only
$4,000. It is understood that he has
declined many offers from mining
companies. any one of which would
pay him three or four times as much
as he receives at present. But he
is a fixture in the government service
and works as enthusiastically as if he
were drawing a prineely salary.
Clifford Pinchot, the famous forester.
Alvey Augustus Adee. the distin-
guished assistant secretary of state
and Dr. Theodore Gill, of the Smith
sonian institution, are other able men
whose respective places could not be
easily filed, and each of whose pay
is less than $4,000 a year.
Congress should have better regard
for public servants of their class. They
should be allowed reasonably good
pay, as pay for capacity and special
lied work goes in these days of ex-
pensive living. The fact that such men
give the best that is in them to the
government without insisting on larger
remuneration is no excuse for the gov
eminent neglecting them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
COlfSCatiOl Going Backward

In denying that any water is to be
injected into his company President
Milton II. Smith. of the Louisville and
Nashville. recently said the gross re-
eeipts of his road for the year end
ing June. 1909, were s46.S61 ,015. This
was $1,000,000 more than the receipts
in the year ending June, 1906, and
in fact the gross receipts in the past
fiscal year of Mr.. Smiths road were
never exceeded in its entire history
but once, and that was in the year
ending June, 1907 In that booming
year the gross receipts did go to s49,-
$4,000. That record may be exceed
ed when the returns for the current
year are footed up.
The stock of the road is firmly held
in the neighborhood of 1870 points
above par, in other words. For a road
in the course of confscation this is
certainly good showing. Complete
confiscation might, at this rate, carry
the price of the stock to 200 While
the common stock of the railroad in
question is booming it would look bet
ter on President Smiths part to do less
talking about confscation. Would It
not, in fact be wiser to drop that
contention altogether, especially when
the latest returns of gross receipts
of his road show increases of about
10 per cent?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
ALABAMA LEADS.


From the St. Louis Dispatch.
Georgas rejected opportunity to be tho
first state to ratify the income tax
amendment to the federal constitution
has been seized by Alabama. 1t is an
honorable distinction which will be priced
more and more as the battle for just tax
alton progresses.
The significance of the income tax
amendment is not fully realized perhaps
by the people at this time, but the COM
prehension of its meaning will come. It's
adoption will mark the shifting of the
burdens of taxation from poverty TO
wealth and the beginning Of the end of
robbery through privilege taxation.
In this great fight against privilege and
plutocracy for the benefit of the people
Alabama leads. Her action is an invita-
ton and an inspiration to other states.
Georgia will repent
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
LOYAL Losers In EnSley

The statements of leading Ensley
citizens published in yesterdays Age
Herald are creditable to their judg-
ment and their patriotism. They were
loyal to Ensley to the last They
fought we'll and they won in the legis-
lature despite all opposing influences
until the governor appeared on the
scene displaying a contrary amend
ment. 81 am proud" said one of their
number "of the fight Ensley made,
end notwithstanding the influence of
Birmingham, had not the governor
jumped into the fight we had the bat
tie won" So they did.
But now that fate has assigned them
an important place in Greater Birming-
ham they accept the result in true
sportsmanlike manner. They propose
to do their utmost to make the greater
city the foremost one in the south.
these declarations are an honor to
Ensley. They go to show that it holds
citizens who are true Americans and
true clear-headed men. The spirit
manifested at Ensley is the spirit need
ed throughout the new city, and the.
task of Mayor O'Bfien and the author
tiles will, in that way, be greatly les
sened. Let all uphold the authorities
in their great task, and that task will
be executed without injustice, and
without undue friction anywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
Too Many Campaigns.

Business in general promises to be bet
ter here this coming fall than it has
been for two years. said a large jobber
1.-The corporations are all quite busy now
Iron is profitable and will be higher and
the steel plant at Ensley is running day
and night The payroll money will be In
bountiful circulation within the next two
or three months and by the holidays trade
will be above normal.
1T is too bad that we are to be
plunged at once into another politica
campaign-constitutio prohibition Oh
no. l believe in party politics and in po
litical discussions, but l think an cleo
ton once in four years Is enough. These
too frequent political turmoils not only
work a positive injury to business bur
they retard the whole state"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
PaSSiag of the Extra Session

The extra session of the legislature
has nearly run its course. Its record
will soon pass into the political his
tory of the state, and that history will
scarcely contain in peace times live
lier chapter. On measures it favored
il was positive and radical. On meas
ures it disliked it never hesitated to
utilize the pigeonhole. It did not IA
vor fee reform. although public senti-
ment throughout the state plainly de-
manded it, and even the Glover con-
stitutional amendment was throttled
IN a senate committee.
1t was not wholly subseryient, how
ever. to the governor of the state, for
while it passed prohibition bills by
the peck it defeated his scheme for
bringing on an election Of United
States senator in January, 1913. As
things stand John Hollis Bankhead
is left to be his own successor.
1t is claimed that the session has
been breeder of politics-that 1t has
developed a candidate for governor
in the person of Judge Weakley. Pri-
maries are, however, uncertain, and
especially a primary that is to be held
a year hence. The counting of polit-
ical chickens before they are Matched
may prudently be postponed at least
10 the year in which the actual out
put is to occur.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
The Coal Trade.

THE coal trade has been very dull but
1t is improving" said Samuel III. Tucker,
vice president of the Hobson Coal and
Coke company.
1.-The railroads of the south were quick
ly affected by the panic and they are
only now beginning to give evidence that
times with them are getting better.
There is an air of improvement about all
the roads and when the roads get busy
all lines of business are showing. busl-
ness-especially the coal business. By the
early fall the railroads will be much
buster than they are now and the coal
trade is sure to be helped accordingly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the NtW 1UTk I
Most people mistake noise for power.
You can tell how insincere girl is by
how sincere she seems.
The Lord made man the ruler of the
world and woman the ruler of man.
The more money a woman has the more
red hair she can have without people
calling it by that name.
The funny thing about a man who is
easily bored Is he doesn't seem to realize
that is the way to do II to other people.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

"A reformer says society is all gig
gles.''
He must mean all goggles"
HOW HOPING HELPS.
Because he lacks faith in himself
No longer loves his task,
No longer dreams about the day
When he shall proudly bask
In fortunes smile and be set free
From all his earthly cares,
grievous weight seems added to
The load he daily bears.
There's nothing makes a fellow feel
That lifes worth living yet
And there are lots of prizes left
Which faithful souls may get,
Like thinking how he'll win some day
And be right in the swim,
Though fate DEGREES nor fame nor wealth
Shall e'er be granted him.
STRICTLY TRUE.
st see where a swindler trimmed a
grass widow"
'Hawi Hawi With a lawn mower?
Exactly"
ooh. get outl'
TITS a fact He sold her lawn
mower that didn't have any blades"
ANNOYING.
So many swindlers in the world,
So many streaks of yellow,
I find 1t harder every day
To do the other fellow.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
rHE sLrMRERLANp rXPREss.

THE SUNDERLAND EXPRESS.
All aboard for Sunderland!
Nows the time to go,
When a million blazing stars
Make the heavens glow,
When from out the caves of night
Purple shadows creep
And a lazy little breeze
Rocks the birds to sleep.
All aboard for Sunderland
Take the through express;
There is not another train
Like this one. I guess.
Every cars a little bed,
Soft and white as snow;
You never feel the slightest jolt,
Or hear a whistle blow.
All aboard for Sunderland!
Leave your cares behind.
Don't let any doleful thoughts
Weigh upon your mind
Travel far from Trouble Town
Into realms of bliss:
Never was another route
Half so fine as this
All aboard for Sunderland
There's no time to lose:
Jump into your night-clothes,
Hustle off your shoes.
Eurryi Here's the sand man
You know him, I guess;
He's the bold conductor of
The Sunderland express.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

Contributions to the fund for build
ing the needed wing TO St Vincents
hospital continue to be received. The
additional subscriptions yesterday
amounted to $3.50. The Sisters of
Charity have almost enough in hand
or in sight to warrant the letting of
the contract for a $4,000 addition to
the hospital.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
PROOF.

Mrs. Ponsonby says she is fond of
roast lamb"
roasting Mr.. Ponsonby and he takes it
like a lamb
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

From the Kansas City Journal.
WAS your first meeting with your wife
romantic?"
Extremely so. 1t occurred at picnic.
I was eating very ripe tomato and
some of it squirted into her eye
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

Extra pay is to be given in New
York to the messenger boys on each
message delivered within five min
utes. If this prove inefficient base
ball bulletin will be installed in the
boys waiting room. That will cause
them to hurry back.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

Tennyson now stands charged with
the crime of writing for the middle
classes. He is dead and cannot re-
wise his writings to meet the notions
of the proletariat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

Premier Asquith may yet have to
resort to airships in order to avoid
the suffragettes who are camping on
=,
his trail.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

When Titusville celebrates the half
century of coal oil discovery it should
not overlook Ida Tarbell, who knows
a thing or two.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

A surgeon on an ocean liner is al
ways ready to operate on the pas
sengers for appendicitis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

Some of the states that have adopt
ed the primary system are compelled
to use bed sheet ballots.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

The theatrical trust drove William
Winter off the New York Tribune al
though he was called to the work by
Horace Greedy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

Chicago will soon acquire new
hotel that contains 500 bath rooms.
This hotel was not built to accom-
modate New Jersey farmers who go
down to the beach once year and
take a bath even if they don't need it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

William Winter goes over to the
anti-syndicate ranks where he natur-
ally and rightfully belongs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
MEDICINE OF ANCIENTS

enem the teachings of the seboo, -.
a.n.e s are largely represented, a school
when mnich In ancient times was as justly eels-
DRAFTED as the one of Kes,
ms ract, although 1t detraets some.
what from the work of Hippoerates
greatly honors the GREGG genius, shown.
90 II does that Greece at that epoch had
many and great physicians,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

Clifford Pinchot, like DIR. Wiley, Is
I'M against special interests who are
reaching for his scalp.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
BEGINNING OF THE ROMANCE.

Guess weight in ice wagons SHOULD
be abolished.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

The nine-foot bed sheet is spread
ing eastward and it may become an
issue in Alabama next year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

Mr. Wellman and his ideal weather
and the north pole are all parts OF
a complex problem which may or may
not be solved soon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

All are in spirit high flyers this
week. and Rheims will set the pace.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

No law ever framed is worth the
naner il is written on when ma
iority considers it unwise or unjust
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

The aeroplanes will not increase oul
grade crossing problems.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

Don't hesitate to tell the census
taker your age. He has sworn 10 De
discreet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

When water plants in this valley go
a-begging at a dollar apiece no one
need be without one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
THE PRICE OF ADMISSION.

When g. b. Shaw comes over here
And tries to get too funny,
We soon can make him disappear
By holding back the money.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
NEWS

FAUNAL NEWS.
A lot of skins from Africa
And bones of which tits stated
By expert hands in Washington
They'll be articulated.
And when they've strung together been
The waiting world will see
What Teddy let the daylight through,
As dauntless as could be.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

The earth is one big, hard, un
charted rock to the crippled aviator
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
TWO's ENOUGH

Some talk about the third eye" S heard,
1t doesn't bother me;
With just two lamps I'll 'vestigate
Bout all l want to see
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

AS soon as he heard that Harri-
man is going to pay s50,O0O,OO0 for
a control of the New York Central
system the Duke of Marlborough was
suddenly seized with a desire ITO
make up with the duchess, who was
formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

1t took four great powers to con-
vince the Cretans that they must not,
just at present, be true to their con-
victions. They have agreed to wait
a bit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
STRABISMUS.

STRABISMUS.
Father, is the goddess Of reform star
eyed?"
mo, my son. She's cross-eyed."
THE REAL REASON.
Because a married man doth call
His wife turtle dove
And other gentle names, ii may
Not mean that he's in love
With her so much, that he's done
Something he hadn't ought
And wants to square himself with her
For rashly getting caught
COMMENT.
An artist could put great deal of
pathos into a picture OF an Alabama
colonel brooding over his mint bed.
A person of an inquiring mind wants
to know why is a mouth organ? The
answer is the same as the answer to
why is a Jew's-harp?"
A Cleveland sporting writer says he
expects Napoleon Lajoie to get 1t where
Gretchen wears the beads" meaning "in
the neck" Isn't that pretty?
An old woman is dead who lived for
more than 80 years in Washington.
Heaven is none too good for her after
such martyrdom on earth.
When a girl turns out to be a lemon
she is not worth squeezing.
The fact that IA chicks were Matched
out in case of strictly fresh" eggs,
shipped to Chicago from Missouri, seems
to indicate that the shipper was unfor-
tunate in describing those eggs.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

God be praised, that to believing souls
Gives light in darkness, comfort in
despair! 2 King Henry vi.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

Father, is the goddess of reform star
eyed?"
mo, my son. She's cross-eyed."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22
EVERYBODY MOTORS.

"a reformer says society is all gig
giles"
HE must mean all goggles"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-24
HAWAII YACHT CLUB
WILL MEET To TALK
TRANsPACIF|C RACE

There will be a most important meet
ing of the Hawaii Yacht Club at the
Bungalow next Wednesday evening at
eight clock.
The main purpose of the meeting is
to talk over the prospects of a trans
pacific race next year. It is the pur-
pose of the present regatta committee
and the officers of the club generally
to communicate with every yacht club
from Vancouver to San Diego and see
whether they viii enter yachts or not.
The idea is to get the San Fran
cisco boys interested, They have al
WAYS shown themselves good sports,
and the only reason the race was trans
ferred from the hay to Los Angeles
was that they had had some slight
rilikia in the way of q fire in the bay
city.
Had it not been for the efforts of
the Hearst newspaper in Los Angeles,
there never would have been a race
81 that time. The Los Angeles Exam
iner spent much money on cables on
the subject, and went SO far as to de-
tail three reporters to DO nothing else
but work up the race.
Pictures were taken, people were in
terviewed. poems We're written and pub
Hshed, and the whole staff was worked
up on the proposition. The other pa
pers took it up and the South Coast
Yacht Club was forced to come in and
make good.
This year the South Coast Yacht
Club is not making a noise like com
ing in. Commodore Wilder and others
are quite sure that the Hawaii can
DO better. It Is up TO the yacht club
members to come round and attend the
meeting.