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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
Miss Mary JOhnStOn'S Success

Miss Mary Johnston lives now in
Richmond, but she grew to woman
hood in Birmingham, and the people Of
this city take warm interest in all
her successes in life. All were glad
when she recovered her strength and
health to the extent that she could
again keep her pen busy.
We have no writer that so finely
blends history and romance, and her
new book, Lewis Rand" is full of
color drawn from the early days of
Virginia. 1t is considered Miss John
ston's best book, and already 5000
copies of 1t have been sold. Miss John
ston has never had much difficulty in
securing place for new book among
the six best sellers.
Not only is Lewis Rand" a feature
of American literature at present, but
so is the poetic drama, "The Goddess
of Reason" recently produced by Miss
Marlowe. This play, too, comes from
Mary Johnston's pen, so that the gifted
writer is earning applause and dollars
at one time from the stage and from
the book stalls.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
THE RAT A MENACE TO HEALTH.

Michael Williams, In Success Magazine
Men and women who keep their own
bodily health good by adequate attention
to the laws of modern hygiene have in
themselves ample protection against the
diseases spread by rats or other germ
carriers, even when the germ is that Of
the plague. Unless exposed to the in
lection for too long a period. or too re-
peatedly, the Clean healthy body Is
fairly safe against the attacks OF the
rats hostile parasites. Dirt and over
crowding in cities and dwellings where
sunshine is not permitted to freely flood
the infected places with It's germicidal
rays-these are the conditions favorable
to the growth and propagation of the rat
and the parasites of the raj. Although
the outbreak of the piagN; In Canton
in 1894 caused the death OF many thous-
ands of natives of the poorer classes,
none of the American or English resi-
dents was affected. During the year that
elapsed, after the plague appeared In
San Francisco in 1907. only one hundred
and fifty cases developed, because of the
7 prompt enforcement OF up-to-date sani-
tary regulations. The awful visitation
which decimated London in 1864 was 80
noticeably confined TO the Sums where
underfeeding had weakened bodies and
yermin, that the disease was called the
poor mans plague"
Nevertheless, we can not rest easily.
| nor can we keep the barriers and de-
| lenses adequate. without great vigilance
while in the Orient the disease remains
eirulent. Always there is the possibility
| of plague-stricken rats reaching us in
such numbers as to spread the bacilli
! broadcast
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Jefferson Hunters Lead.

Jefferson county has more hunters than
any other county in Alabama according
to the record of hunters licenses issued. .
said Sam Blake, clerk OF the probate
court, yesterday afternoon.
"A short time ago some Montgomery
county people we're in the office, and dur
ing the course of our conversation they
claimed the greater number of hunters,
but the report of John Fl. Wallace, state
game and fish warden, does not uphold
their claim.
In 1907 there were 427 state and $50
county hunters licenses issued from the
office of the probate judge of Jefferson
county The total of 1247 tops the figures
of every other county in the state.
During 1905 there were 1890 licenses is
sued in Jefferson county. $40 state licenses
and Ill county licenses.
THE hunters are now keeping US quite
busy issuing licenses for 1909. So far we
have issued 70 state and 80 county licenses.
We will probably be kept busy for a
month or six weeks longer, and then the
rush will subside until September, when
the new hunting season will OPEN"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
Edgar Allen POe'S Centenary

The first Poe centenary anniversary
will be celebrated January 10, and the
day is not to go unkept at Poe's Ford
ham cottage near the Hall of Fame OF
the New York university.
This renews the hope that tablet
will yet be placed in the Hall of Fame
to the memory of Poe. In the 1905
ballot of the 100 electors he received
10 votes, falling short of the neces-
sary majority. Two college presidents
voted for him, IA professors OF his
tory and scientists, publicists, au-
thors and editors, and 10 jurists. He
received s votes from New England,
II from the middle states, from the
middle west, IS from the south, and )
from the west.
The next election will take place in
1910. The nomination will no doubt be
seconded by the university senate, and
this would send it at once to the 100
electors to be voted on again. Poe's
reputation has risen since 1905, and
no doubt his memory will easily be
honored with a tablet in 1910.
Not far from the university is the
cottage that Poe occupied from 1914 to
1849. A recent writer thus de-
scribes 1t:
"a number of new buildings have
grown up about it. but the little door
yard Is intact, and according to an old
resident who lives nearby the little
house has not been altered in any
respect. save the application of paint,
since the days when the poet resided
therein. Time has left it's mark, to be
sure. The shngled roof is warped and
twisted, the caves of the porch sag, and
the blinds are of solid wood, the sort
utilized in houses in the Poe era; the
sort, in fact, which hanging crafty
from an old deserted farm house, more
than $50 years old crumbling TO decay
on the opposite corner.
A movement has been started to in
duce New York city to purchase the
Fordham cottage and to place it III
the center of the nearby Poets Park.
The owner of the cottage will throw
it open on the day of Poe's centenary,
and there perhaps steps will be taken
that will lead to the proposed pur-
chase.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
Scylla and CharybdiS

The reported alterations of the
topography of the Strait of Messina by
geologic CONFUSION are not sustained
by later news. The rock is still there
and SO is the whirlpool, and so are the
tides rushing between them. Homer
and Virgil both stand supported by
nature even in her widest moods, and
every legend goes on unchallenged
Even mariners tales hold good, and the
evil spirits Of the locality will perhaps
be multiplied in number by the ap-
palling tragedy of today.
Nature could not If she would roc
rur spellbinders of Scylla and Charyb
dis. It would be cruel to despoil then
OF the time-honored rock and whirl
~ooL Better than the Rubicon. witt
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
WINTER.
By Coventry Patmore.

By Coventry Patmore.
I, singulary moved
To love the lovely that are not beloved,
or ali the seasons, most
Love winter. and 10 trace
THE sense of the TrophoEian pallor on her
face.
II is not DEATH but plenitude Of peace:
Ard the dim cloud that does the world
enfold
Hail, less the characters Of dark and cold
Than warmth and light asleep.
Aud correspondent breathing seems to
keep
With the infant harvest, breathing soft
below
Its elder coverlet Of snow
Nor is in field or gafden anything
l,n,. dulv looked into, contains serene
The substance of things hoped for in the
spring,
And evidence Of SUMMER not yet seen.
On every chance-mild day
Tna. visits the moist shaw,
The honeysuckle 'sdataing to he crost
II urgence of sweet life by sleet or frost.
'voids the times law
With still increase
OF leafiet new. and little. wandering
spray;
Often, in sheltering brakes,
As one from rest disturb'1 in the first
hour,
Primrose or violet bewilder'd wakes,
And deems tits time to flower:
Though not whisper of her fo'ee he
hear.
The hurled bulb does know
The signals of the year.
And halls far summer with his lifted
spear
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
PERPETUAL YOUTH.


orison SWEET Marden, in Success Maya
zine
The elixir of youth lies in the mind
or nowhere. You cannot be young by
trying to appear so, by dressing youth
fully You must first get rid of the last
vestige of thought, Of belief, that you
are aging. AS long as that is in mind,
cosmetics and youthful dress will amount
TO very little in changing your appear
ance The conviction must first be chang
ed; the thought which has produced
the aging condition must be reversed.
If we can only establish the perpetual
youth mental attitude, so that we feel
young, we have won half the battle
against old age. Be sure of this: that
whatever you feel regarding your age
will be expressed in your body.
1t is a great aid to the perpetutation
of youth to learn to feel young, however
long We may have lived, because the
body expresses the habitual feeling, hab-
itual thought. Nothing in the world
will make us look young as long as we
are convinced that we are aging.
Nothing else more effectually retards
age than keeping in mind the bright,
cheerful optimistic. hopeful, buoyant
picture of youth in all its splendor.
magnificence; the alluring picture of the
glories which belong to youth--youthful
dreams, ideals, hopes and all the quail
ties which belongs to young life.
One great trouble with us is that our
Imagination age prematurely. The hard
exacting conditions of our stren-
uous life tend to harden and dry up the
brain and nerve cells. and thus serious
Iy injure the power of the imagination,
which should be kept fresh, buoyant,
al 1fio
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
COLLEGE Boys Back to Work.

THE advent of Monday reminds us fell
lows that it is back to the books for us,
said a college boy who was lamenting his
position yesterday
I'VE have had lively time beyond
doubt, but it is just that matter that
makes it so hard to get back down to
work l do not believe [ have ever known
of so many social events within so short
a space of time, for it seems to me there
have been dances or parties every night
since before Christmas
ITS all up now. however. There are
several hundred college fellows in Biz
mingham who must bid the town adien
and leave for various parts of the coun-
try early in the week, and by the latter
part of the week they will all be gone"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
IN A TELEPHONE BOOK.

From the Boston Transcript.
Poetry in the telephone book! With
fine consideration for subscribers SEN
sibilities. the company has provided
them the wherewithal to WOO the
Muses. while dangling about the re-
eeiver and hoping against hope for
recognition at Central's hands 1 find,
though, that the verses selected leave
much to be desired. Chanting the
praises of the teleph one, they enrage
instead of soothing; whereas an an
thology might easily be collated that
would have more beneficial effect. Why
not some such gems of poetry as
these?
Be PATENT Oh, be patientl
Though the dull night be long.
Waitl for the day is breaking.
&C. H. Townsend.
Full many mischiefs follow cruel
wrath. Edmund Spencer.
Sour discomfort, that quarrels with our
MAY give fresh smart, but not the old
abate.
Sir Richard Blackmore.
Why, look you, how you STORM
Shakespeare.
You shall see-Tll sweeten heri
Cooley Cibber.
This for me to be patient; I am in
adversely. Shakespeare.
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful
thought Addison.
For my voice. have lost 1t with
holloaing. Shakespeare.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
Live Issues In South Alabama.

People down in south Alabama are
already talking a great deal about the
next gubernatorial campaign said AL
len Steele, who travels the southern
part of the state. There are only three
subjects of conversation which you can
get the residents of that section into
prohibition, governors race and The JEFF
ferson county sheriff proposition. Pro-
hibition is the sole topic in Montgomery
and Mobile, especially in the latter
city. 1t doesn't take more than 80 Sec
onds to get into a fight on this par
ticular subject If you are in a pugilistic
mood. But the country people are very
much wrought up over who shall be
the next governor and the opinion ap
pears to be about even for Birming
ham or Selma man to get the office"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
Wonderful Remuneration.

1.-The United States has given another
striking demonstration of its extraordi-
nary recuperative powers" says Henry
Clews in his annual financial review. "A
year ago we were in the very abyss of
depression, suffering from the memorable
October panic. Business had contracted
fully % per cent and more in volume, and
securities had suffered depreciation of
over $350,000,000. Today business is gradu-
ally approaching normal conditions. while
securities have not only recovered all pre-
vious loss, but in many cases are selling
above the boom prices of 1906-07 Such an
emphatic and widespread recovery is be-
yond all precedent"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
Resemblance to Young Bankhead.

1.-The resemblance between James *.
Hackett, the well known actor, and
William b. Bankhead, the Walker coun-
ty attorney and son of Senator John
Hollis Bankhead, Is most marked" said
a we'll known theatre-goer yesterday.
1.-The resemblance is not one of the
face and figure only" he continued,
"but the actions of the two, their very
movements are so much alike that the
one, with little trouble, could be taken
for the other.
"ln The Crisis Hack matinee
performance, there occurred an ana
cronism that caused laughter. The
scene was one of the ante -bellum days.
Tnere was the old fashioned plano. tn
old fashioned window shades, the old
fashioned furniture; the women We're
presented in hoop skirts, and the men
in stocks and the other articles of dress
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

that characterized that period. Just as
ones thoughts We're travelling at
great Clip in a period 40 years ago
one of the soldiers calls back the mind
TO the present by presenting and -four
ishing a Smith & Wesson revolver, the
model being of 1908.
while it was a mere trife. 1t caused
amusement in that stage where one
should have been thrilled and chilled
with awe and expectancy."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Girls are awful deceitfnl to make vou
think they aren't.
The reason woman car be so happy
is she knows how to think she is.
A man never gets over a1mir;ng how
smart he is to have so nearly made a
success at anything.
II Spectators had all tha best seats in a
church to sell on the sidswaiK men would
be just crazy to CO.
The commonest disease is how many
men think they had good singing voices
hasorA thAy sm0lxAd "a munh
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
TILE Cay on A ToILER-

AAAA OAAA Of "A 1O1l1Eh-
Tired of the toll and hustle,
Tired of the sounding streets
And the crowded lanes of the CITY
Where the heart of trouble beats;
Tired of the ways of people
Whose dream is a dream of gold,
Who follow the quest unheeding,
Till the fires of love grow cold.
Tired of the ruthless hurry,
Tired of the shock and din
And the hopeless brunt of a struggle
Where little there is to win;
Tired of the tears unbidden
And the cares that never cease.
Till we sleep where the stars bend DER us
And the night wind whispers, Peace"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
RIPPLES

RIPPLES
Alas, Messinal On the toe of a boot ia
a bad place to live.
Among those to whom Santa Claus
brought nothing was Boni.
When the earth gets the collie there is
the deuce to pay.
It wasn't much credit to Methuselah to
live long time when he did There were
no automobiles then.
Huntsmen say the shooting is good al
Reelfoot Lake. That is the impression
which generally prevails.
Beatrice Fairfax tells what happens
when married lovers disagree. AS a rule
the neighbors poke their heads out of
windows.
Castro says his only fear is the fear of
God. Still, It isn't strong enough to make
him good.
Sixty-fve persons committed suicide in
pie do away with themselves in the course
e.,
1t Is a wonder that the entire population
of Houston. Tex, doesn't commit suicide.
The obituary notices written over the
remains of John Barleycorn by Alabama
editors would draw tears from a Chinese
IDOL
Since the skyscraper church has been
proposed, 1t may yet be possible to take
an express elevator to heaven.
more islands await u.s." says a contem-
porary. For heavens sake, let's turn
the ship of state In some other direction.
A Cincinnati paper discusses what the
old year has seen. It will be long time
before he forgets the sheath gown.
A story comes from Connecticut of a
kitten that is fed every morning by
gold fish. All who believe this story will
please stand on their heads. Old maids
are excused.
According to the law, mothers-in-law
can't boss wives. Mothers-in-law con-
stitute law unto themselves.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
CALLS 1T TARANTISM

suffrage bill, which automatically ceases
to exist as a pending measure with to-
days adjournment of parliament The
bill. converted into a doll, will be drawn
in a sham hearse in a procession to the
square. where speeches will be made over
1t. Then 1t will be cremated at the
rooms of the Freedom league
The suffragette campaign, if it has ac-
complished nothing else, has secured a
complete revision of the rules for the ad-
mission of strangers to the house of COM
mons. A special committee has submitted
a long report which will probably be
adopted at the next session. The prin-
cipal change provides for the admission
of women with male escorts to the
strangers gallery on the application OF
members. Theoretically. no woman has
ever been admitted to the house of COM
mons. hence the maintenance of the grille
in front of the ladies' gallery. The law
also proposes making any disturbance Of
the proceedings police court offense.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
LEARNING HOW TO LIVE.


Maurice Maeterlinck, in one of his de-
lightful essays, 1.-THE Measure of the
Hours" tells how Hazlitt found Latin
inscription on an old sun dial near Ven
ice, which, when translated, reads, IT
count only the hours that are serene"
There you have the true secret of hap
piness. Musing over this legend, Haz-
lit wrote:
What a bland and care-dispelllng
feeling! How the shadows seem to fade
on the dial-plate as the sky lours and
time presents only blank. unless as its
progress is marked by what is joyous
and all that is not happy descends into
oblivion. What a fine lesson is conveyed
to the mind to take no note of time but
by its benefits, to watch only for the
smiles and neglect the frowns of fate
to compose our lives of bright and gentle
moments, turning always to the sunny
side of things and letting the rest slip
from our imaginations, unheeded or for
gotten"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

Theodore e. Burton is a bachelor,
but that fault is overlooked in the joy
over his victory and the defeat of the
machine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
AN IDLER.

Golden heart was all undaunted
BY the press of worlds alarms;
Walked he still through wales enchanted,
Where the smile of nature charms.
Made he friends with bird and flower,
Drifting down Nepenthe's stream;
Destined for nor wealth nor power,
Quite content was he to dream.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
A DIRE PREDICTION

A DIXIE PRODUCTIONS.
The man who has the money
Is welcome anywhere,
Except, forsooth, in heaven
'Twon't help him any there;
That is, always provided
He gets to heavens gate.
Some people are for saying
He'll meet another fate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

Former neighbors of Charles w.
Morse, the ice king, recently met at
Bath Me-, and offered him an immu-
nifty bath so far as they had power to
do So
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
MENACE OF A WOOD FAMINE.

Roland Phillips, in Success Magazine"
Today, to supply public needs and to fill
their own pockets, individual exploiters
are sweeping away the forests three times
as fast as they grow. This means that
many Of the hardwoods are already gone;
that the total supply of hardwood, which
used to furnish the better-grade furniture,
fittings and SO on, will be exhausted. for
commercial purposes, within Is years;
and that the entire wood supply of the
country will not last longer than 20 or
30 years. 1t is as though some foreign
invader. or some deadly pest. should sud-
denly appear on our shores and ravage
the entire forest area of the country, at
the rate of two states year, until every
tree were gone. Do you imagine for one
moment that as the years go by your in
terest in this great question will become
less vital, or less personal. than it is
today?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
A TERsE REPLY.

sHow is the color line drawn down
south?" an easterner asked.
''Taut," answered the gentleman from
Mississippi.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

Prosecutor Heney holds that the rich
briber is more guilty than the political
boss whom he hires. The difference,
however, is not great. morally speak
ing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

In Nevada gold is carried from the
mills to the banks in autos, and then
it takes wings and flies away in detach-
ments.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

President Roosevelt can be trusted
to make the first two months of 1909
interesting to Congressman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
AT THE WEDDING.

1.-THE bride had on lovely going away
gown"
1.-THE groom seemed to have on his
down-and-o clothes"
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INTERRUPTED.

A poet sang about the rain,
But mortal flesh is weak:
He soon cut short his blithe refrain
The roof had sprung a leak.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

The Taft majority over all was 422,-
311. In many elections the country did
not get get majority President.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

What we want for the minority in
Congress is a consumers tariff supple
mented with income and graded inner
itance taxes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

This country did not ship gold from
San Francisco to Denver to keep the
Japs from selling 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

The new year came In on Friday,
but that fact need not be considered
damaging to its character or luck.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

The electors will soon meet to make
Mr.. Taft our President-elect. At pres
ent he is but a citizen and a golf
player.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

Let us hope this will be year with
out any earthquakes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

Aeroplanes and automobiles have
one habit in common-a readiness to
turn turtle at every opportunity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

Pug Johnson may be as black as he
is painted, for he is a master in his
difficult profession.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03
AN EARLY RISER

To what does he attribute his sue
cess?'
To the fact that his alarm clock never
failed to ring at $50 in the morning"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

Mount Etna kept right along during
the earthquake in its old smoldering
way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

President Taft wants a Dreadnought
cabinet, made up of big guns only.