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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
DANT E.

By Henry wadsworth Longfellow Tuscan, that wanderest through the
 realms of gloom, With thoughtful pace, and sad, majestic eyes, Stern thoughts and awful from thy soul
 arise, Like Farinata from his fiery tomb. Thy sacred song is like the trump of
 doom Yet in thy heart what human sympathies What soft compassion glows, as in the
 skies The tender stars their clouded lamps res
 lume! Methinks I see thee stand with pallid
 cheeks By Fra Hilario in his diocese, As up the convent walls, in golden
 streaks, The ascending sunbeams make the days
 decrease; And, as he asks what there the stranger
 seeks, Thy voice along the cloistsr whispers
 "Peace!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
AGE-READING BY WRINKLES.

From the New York World.
 Mere man, confronted with the question of a woman's age, perjures himself like a gentleman. It is his pleasure as well as his duty. He has a reputation to main- tain for chivalrous flattery. Besides. he knows that the woman who puts the question has tempted him in order that, like the first of all men, he may fall.
 From their own sex the gentle sisters of time and culture look for less consider ation Hence there can have been little surprise at the Clio club on Monday over the frank and painful words of pr. Jennie de la M. Lozier on the telltale nature of wrinkles.
 When she gets three transverse wrink- les across the forehead she is 27," said pr. Lozier, speaking of woman in the ab- stract, "and when she gets two or three perpendicular wrinkles between the eye brows she is A." After that the deluge or the face doctor.
 It sounds properly professional and ter rible. We hope the Clio sisters were im- pressed. Yet we venture to divert to other minds something of the warning conveyed by the good physician. Let novelists with following beware here after how they permit any dainty heroine to quicker her pretty brows in perplex ity," or to regard with a pretty frown of displeasure" the hero of disturbing incident. The quicker and the frown are sure to be translated from Hateful fic- ton to fashionable fact, and there IS nothing like them to produce wrinkles.
 It would not be playing fair to con- found Dr. Loziers expert reading of age tokens by placing false signs on the fore head of womanhood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
Real Estate Investment.

while money has been lost on real estate speculation just as it has been lost on other speculative ventures. yet investment in realty in growing cities' if made with reasonable judgment, sell dom fails to yield rich returns" said S. F. Pitzer of Washington, D. c. T have watched real estate values in four or five cities during the past 20 years and in most cases these values have reached higher levels every three or four years.
 "In New York immense fortunes have been made in real estate, but in some of the districts of that great city there has been marked decline owing to the shifting of fashion. In the District or Columbia, however. realty in every direction has advanced in value and as a rule this advance has been rapid. A few thousand dollars invested in real estate anywhere in the district 10 years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
LITTLE DoRRIT's PLAYHOUSE.

From London Letter.
 Little Dorrits Playground" on the west side of the borough High street, was formally taken over from the London county council by the Southwark borough council.
 The incident will recall to lovers of Dickens the history of Little Dorrit and her birth and lengthy sojourn in the old debtors prison-the Marshalsea-which was close to the playground, which itself Is almost opposite St. Georges church. where Little Dorrit was christened and married.
 The London county council paid $25,OOO for the playground in 1901 and has paved and boarded off a portion of it as a gym nasium for the younger children, who are provided with swings, giant strides" horizontal bars and sandpit. In place of the old dens there stand within a stones throw of the playground 12 blocks of working class dwellings with 300 ten ants and an approximate population of 45OO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
Causes of Typhoid

The reappearance of typhoid in a dis trict in Philadelphia is the occasion for renewed discussion of the theories relating to the distribution of typhoid germs. No one discusses the primary germ, for no one knows where it came from or why it came at all. But, given a primary germ, how is it distributed? the blame on the water supply, on milk, on wells, on sanitary defects in dwellings, on the flies, on oysters, and on defective sewers. All these do no doubt on occasion produce secondary germs, and every one of them needs attention if primary germ is to be kept from multiplying.
 While no one considers any one of the causes named free from blame. yet only one of them accounts for sudden widespread appearance of the disease in a district, and that one is polluted water supply. The water in Philadel- phia is filtered, but there is so much politics to the acre in that city no one feels sure 1t is we'll filtered. There may have been negligence at the flltra- ton plant, and this may have led to a reappearance of the disease in a con siderable district of that city. The other causes named could not well pro- duce secondary germs simultaneously throughout district. Flies do not fly far, and in winter season they do not exist. There are few wells indeed in any city. A milk route is rarely long. Oysters from infected beds are not found on every table, and sewers and defective plumbing appear in scattered places only. The conclusion therefore is in Philadelphia that there is some- thing the matter with the pumping sta tion and filtration plant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
Birminqham Leads,

Tn every city in the south which I have visited within the past six months, and have been in most of the important south- ern towns, I have been struck with pros porous conditions" said William J. Town ley of Chicago But in one. respect at least Birmingham leads.
 "In no city south of Chicago, with the exception possibly of Cincinnati, is there as much construction on a large scale in progress as I find in this city. The magnitude of Birmingham's building oper- ations would do credit indeed to city of 5OO,00O population"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
Taft and ,Possum.

"I hope the 'possum banquet at Atlanta tonight won't embarrass Judge Taft as much as something similar did me once," said a citizen who loves to indulge in personal "reminiscences.
 "In the course of my peregrinations about the world I visited several islands in the South Pacific, and on one occasion was entertained at dinner by chief. The natives of these islands vary con- sderably in their ideas of entertaining visitors, in some cases he is the guest of honor at a feast, while at others he may be the piece de resistance;' it all depends upon whether your host is Fiji or Friendly Islander. The chief who hon ored me with an invitation belonged to the latter group, and as it was neither good manners nor good policy to decline I forthwith accompanied him to his kraal. I was duly introduced to his wife and daughters, who appeared to expect com pany for dinner. judging by their being in evening dress.
 Now, hospitality Is a fine thing, but it is possible to carry it too far, as was done on this occasion. Instead of being given the fin of shark or the fore-quarter of a. lizard as I expected, and which l could have fingered as delicately as l see ladies do fried chicken, l was presented with a banana leaf, leaf on which l found something that looked like scrambled eggs At the same moment I observed that this delicacy was being prepared by the young ladies, who filled their mouths with what appeared to be raw potato, dried fish, cocoanut oil and tan bark, which they masticated as thoroughly as goats do their cud.l This food was followed by a drink made of something like roots of horseradish put through the same pro- cess of mastication and to which water was afterward added and then strained.
 ''Ever since then I consider 1t better to entertain a guest with the dishes to which he is accustomed than to offer him the food which l may consider dehcacy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
The Iron Market.

Notwithstanding the apparent quiet of the pig iron market the tonnage con tracted for this month totals high. TWO furnace interests have sold 2o,0o0 tons each to pipe concerns for delivery in the first half of the year and the small lots sold will bring up the total for the first two weeks of the new year to some- thing like 6O,0OO tons
 Matthew Addy & Co.'S Cincinnati re- port says in part: ''The principal feature of the week has been some large buying of iron for pipe-making, otherwise the market has been slow but steady. We receive great many contradictory re- ports from our travellers in regard to the actual business being done by consumers. Some foundries are full of work, so full. indeed, that they have been obliged to purchase additional iron to keep up with their needs. Other concerns tell us that the new year has not opened up with any special improvement"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
OPERA BOX CUSHIONS.
rom the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 One of the curious things about the renting of box at the older of the opera houses is that if you do so you have to supply your own cushions for the chairs in it. All of the boxes, except few in the parterre row, are furnished with one style of chair that has closely woven cane seat and back, and which, like the frame and legs. Is heavily gilded. Long ago women occupying the boxes made the discovery that after sitting on one of those chairs through a performance the pattern of the cane weaving was imprint ed on the stuff of their frocks, and so some one conceived the idea of having cushions made to use on the night that the box was theirs. This custom has grown to be almost universal. and the cushions are cared for by the attendants and are put in place before the doors are opened, just as the name plates are slid into the frames on the doors of the boxes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
LAD-O'-D

 Lad-o' o'-Dreams, what wind of fortune Waited you across the sea Of a life's forlorn endeavor. Through the years come back to mo? Sunny days or days of raining, Clouded skies or skies of blue If the world were sad or merry Seemed to be the same to you. Lad-o Dreams how strange our meeting Here upon this desert shore, Where the storms of life are beating And shall beat forever more! Once we played as boys together Down the lanes of yesterday, But you've lost the trick of smiling And your hair will soon be gray. Lad-o Dreams, what castles builded In the air have come to naught? What ambition has time shattered What the goal you've vainly sought? Rest awhile, your heart Is weary, Care is written on your brow; To the last we'll fondly cherish Friendships fair, unbroken vow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
COL. BAILEY ELECTED.

Col. George M. Bailey. the brilliant par agrapher of the Houston Post, has been elected special messenger to carry the returns of the presidential election in Texas to Washington. Colonel Bailey is not camel and is therefore constrained to view with alarm the increasing aridity or the southland. Changes have been made in his itinerary to suit the prohibi- tion movement. While Birmingham is constructively and hypothetically "dry'' as bone, powder horn or hardware store, there are certain combinations easily learned by stranger which will admit him to any number of oases. as 1t were. Colonel Bailey Is invited to pay this town visit. Birmingham would be pleased to study the distinguished per- sonality of the colonel, promising, not above whisper. that his every want shall be supplied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Columbus Ledger: The Birmingham Age-Herald says: That rustic you hear is the turning back of new leaves.
 Atlanta Georgian: The hens should be taught to initiate the ants, says The Bir- mingham Age-Herald. Any good ant will lay 50,000 eggs a day.
 Washington Herald: "A Kansas City boy ate axle grease, thinking 1t was caviare," says the Birmingham Age Herald. We'll was he really dsap- pointed?
 Charleston News and Courier: Br- mingham Age-Herald: "The eggnogg period of the year has ended" Is 1t so bad in Birmingham that they see their "g's' double?
 Savannah Press: Editor Barrett thinks "it is neck-and-neck between Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller as to of the country"
 Augusta Herald: "The deepest joys
  mingham Age-Herald. Strange how they all make this observation when prohibit ton strikes them.
 Washington Herald: Here lies a man., begins Poet Paul Cook in the Birmingham Age-Herald. Well, we sup pose there is always room for one more in the Ananias club.
 Washington Herald: "Who paves his way with fiattery Is apt to slip up soon," says Paul Cook in the Birmingham Age Herald. Yes; but we fear he generally lands on a particularly soft spot, and is usually soon up and away again.
 Florence Herald: The Birmingham Age-Herald says, Theodore Roosevelt will soon be numbered among the outs and a strange feeling will creep over the land" We have an idea that a Theodore.
 Florida Times-Union: Mary Anderson says the stage Is no place for the aver age woman, and the average woman Knew IL all the t1me.-B1rmlngham Age Herald Very true, but does the average woman realize that she is only the aver age woman?
 Gadsden Times-News: Commissioner Wilkinson does right, says the Birming- ham Age-Herald, when he offers prizes for the best acre in corn, in oats, in sweet potatoes, in hay and in truck He offers no prize for the best acre in cot ton. Here again he is right The grow ing of cotton does not need promotion in this state. We make from 1,20000 to 1,4O0OOO bales a year, and do not grow the corn. the oats, the hay, the truck, or even the sweet potatoes we consume | Portland Argus: Prohibition has al- ready gone to the head of the Birming- | ham Age-Herald paragrapher He has ] discovered that the sentence: Pack my | box with five dozen liquor jugs" con- tains all the letters of the alphabet Jacksonville Times-Union. And if 1t is the sort of prohibition liquor that Maine has had experience with, he will find 1t contains all the varieties of jags there are in the bibler's catalogue-and then some
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
THE IDEALIST.

 He stands upon pedestal, With calmly folded arms, As one who all undaunted bears The shock of worlds alarms. He holds that right will yet triumph And hollow shams decay, And all the mists of unbelief Ere long will roll away. Deep in his heart conviction rests, There's purpose on his brow; The motto of his life doth read, Translated, "Do 1t now" About his feet lies manuscript Through inspired nights he wrote; His eyes traverse empyrean depths. As if the stars to note. He sounds the narrow paths men tread, The sordid quest for gold; The grave mistakes of human life His lips have often told. A demigod you think he is? My friend, you're far from right This chaps a lyceum lecturer At fifty bones a night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press
 The easiest way to write a letter home is when you can telegraph.
 Many a woman has faith in a man be- cause there is nothing else left her.
 The difference between a compliment and flattery is whether you get it or some body else
 A woman's idea of delicious dinner Is where she received more compliments than any one else.
 When a man gets to know lot about thing he has achieved complete success at also knowing how to be a bore about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
Likes Rirminqham.

birmingham Is a well built city, said John Watson, a young manufacturer of Petersburg Va, who Is stopping at the Metropolitan. "I have spent week here and will be here until spring. The more T see of Birmingham the better I like it.
 "This is my first visit and l am glad to say that Birmingham comes fully up to my expectations. It is not only finely built city. both in the business district and in the residence sections, but it has a progressive air that makes splendid impression on stranger"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

The farmers uplift commission has not reported and it is in a way to be- come sidetracked and forgotten. In the meanwhile the farmers are pitch ing their crops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

The Emperor William is standing discipline remarkably well, and In the end he will make friends by what he has undergone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
NOT THOSE DAYS.

"Ah, wouldn't you like to live the old days over again?"
 Not the days when the minister took dinner at our house and little boys had to be seen and not heard"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
UNDOUBTEDLY.

"A college professor says a boys con- science Is never stimulated by spank ing"
 His circulation is."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

The spring training schedules of the baseball teams are surer harbingers of spring than the robins or the early strawberries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

A number of legislatures are con- pretty soon the movement will secure a start and it will spread like wildfire to all parts of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

France is again using the guillotine, but she will no doubt keep it from act ing in the wholesale manner of the days of the Revolution of 17S9.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
NOTORTETY

Actions speak louder than words"
 Particularly if they happen to come under the head of misdeeds."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Senator Depew proposes to criticise, it seems, all nominations sent to the Senate. He wants high-grade nomina- tions only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Jack Johnson is receiving so many challenges he may be compelled to use a card index to keep track of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Turkeys new motto is a good one Work, peace and progress"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Burton of Ohio will re-establish in the Senate the reputation for the fam fly name that Burton of Kansas dis credited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Harvard's registration is also de- creasing. This is all the stronger be- cause she won all athletic events last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

The Knox-Hitchoock cabinet refuses to disclose itself and suggestions are coming in daily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Winter is half gone and groundhog day is near at hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

As things are going whisky will yet have to be distributed in tabloid form, to be dissolved in hot water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Harry Thaw does not deeply appre- ciate his right of asylum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Despite her low birth rate France has set her guillotine going again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

All statesmen of the inner circle are expected to take lessons in golf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Carnival in saloonless Mobile will be novelty such as New Orleans will never enjoy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette: Birming- hams Mayor Ward is now being spoken of as a gubernatorial possibility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
AS YOU GO.

Hold fast to hope and confidence,
 Through pain and trouble rife. For that's the way good losers learn To make the best of life!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

King Winter has been inaugurated almost everywhere except in the balmy southeast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Congress is having short and crusty session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
WHO KNOWS?

Looking for a rainbow
 In the darkest sky; Bear your part with patient heart, Till the storm rolls by! Looking for a rainbow
 And the bliss behind 1t; If you'll just look long enough, Maybe you will find 1t!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

The made-in-Augusta cabinets are now before the people for review and criticism
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

The cabinet guessers are now busy, and they are trying to build plausible whole
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

England proposes to abolish it's play censor. The office is sadly out of date.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Gadsden Times-News: An earthquake couldn't be persuaded to come to Birming- ham, so a building in the Magic City just fell down by itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

Selma Times: "The Devils" to play in Birmingham. The devils usually to play in that place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Memphis Commercial-Appeal: The dry town of Birmingham had 21 homicides in November. Rah for prohibitionl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

couldn't be persuaded to come to Birming- ham, so building in the Magic City just fell down by itself
 New Decatur Advertiser: Birmingham and Nashville both have ordinances against splitting on the sidewalks. What is New Decatur waiting for?
 Hattiesburg News: Birmingham is to have a 12-story hotel to cost $1.0OO,Oeo. yet people tell us that Birmingham was hit harder by the panic than Hattiesburg.
 Richmond News-Leader: A number of men arrested in Birmingham for drunk enness would not tell their names. May be they couldn't after indulging in the blind tiger stuff.
 Selma Times: Birmingham boasts of be- one has yet had the temerity to question it's right to that distinction, even from a moral standpoint.
 Montgomery Times: Birmingham can at least be proud of her basketball team. This is ventured to serve the void in prideful feeling that other organizations 1t seems have brought about in that city.
 Montgomery Times: The starting up of a projected town in Jefferson county with a reported cool million behind the scheme is a pointer going to show that things are looking up in the vicinity of Birming- ham.
 Walker County News: The Birmingham iron and coal masters are protesting viz orously against a reduction of tariff on
 coal and Iron. That's where Birmng- ham likes the republican policy of gov ernment.
 Charleston News and Courier: The
 Washington Post says that Atlanta is
 technically dry but the truth is that
 Atlanta. Savannah, Knoxville, Augusta
 and Birmingham will never be dry until they are hung out.
 Franklin Times: President-elect Taft has promised to pay Birmingham a visit at an early date or some time during his administration as chief executive All Alabama will extend to him cordial
 welcome at any time. LaFayette Sum- Birmingham takes third rank among American cities in the increase of building operations for the year 1908 over 1907 That's a fine record
 and is further proof that Birmingham is destined to be the greatest city in the south.
 Montgomery Times: "Is it not strange that MT. John D. Rockefeller did not choose the gusher town of Birmingham for his winter residence?' asks the Charleston News and Courier. Not strange
 at all. You see, MT. Rockefeller deals in oil, not hot air
 Opelika Post: The Birmingham papers are mad through and through over the
 mutilation of the King bill, and they are not to be blamed for it. It is reflection on the intelligence of the legislature when thing of that kind is allowed to get in without being detected.
 Columbus Enquirer-Sun There is much talk of Greater Augusta. a Greater Br- mingham. a Greater Columbus. It is not strange that our neighbors aspire to be like ksonville.-Jacksonville Times Union. Now wouldn't that make you most split your sides a-laughin'? Franklin Times: Judge Feagin of the Birmingham police court has given out as a warning to the violator of the prohi- bition law that he will give Jail sen- tence in addition to the fine hereafter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

New Decatur Advertiser: Birmingham and Nashville both have ordinances against splitting on the sidewalks. What is New Decatur waiting for?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

Singers Seen but Not Heard" is a headline in an eastern paper Those must be popular singers. PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

court. Judge Feagin is a man who be- lieves in strictly upholding the laws
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-16

''Honkl Honkr' says the Nashville American, making a noise like an au- tomobile.