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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
AIRSHIP TO CROSS OCEAN

as if man were actually sitting in the frame and guiding its movements.
 My system is operated" says MT. An- thony, 'by an automatic cutoff to guard against interference. Even if some one else were tuned to my system he could not control it, because I can lock 1t against any outside control
 This airship of mine can be sent up from the deck of battleship equipped with load of dynamite in any direction and returned, being all the time con- ship. It can be sent away 10 or 20 miles, drop its load of dynamite on another ship or fertilization and made to turn about and return like a carrier pigeon. This machine can be built, I think, for less than the cost of torpedo. It could be equipped with time clock to explode 1t at given time"
 Concerning the aerial warship to be constructed in his yards MT. Lewis Nixon said yesterday:
 '"The ship will cost something more than a,0oo,0Oo. When completed it will probably weigh 14O tons It has been most carefully thought out in every de- tail by MT. Pennington-.Airship' Pen- nington.
 We have been working every day on the design for the ship. have been asked to act as consulting engineer.
 "Thurlow Weed Barnes. who has been known in connection with Chinese rail- way operations. is mentioned as the president.
 There is no reason to doubt the suc- cess of this ship. All of the principles in- volved in its construction have already been tested and found feasible. Of course it will involve a gas envelope.
 'This enevelope fill be of silk or of the new type of linen that has been found to be practical for this purpose, and it will be inclosed in one of steel or alum mum. In fact. we decided upon alum mum at today's conference as the light est and best for this purpose"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
THE OLD HOMESTEAD"

By Eugene Field. Jest as atween the awk'ard lines a hand we loved has penn'd Appears a meanin hid from other eyes; So, in your simple, homespun art, old hon. est Yankee friend, A power O fearful sweet suggestion lies. We see it all-the pictur that your mem'ries hold so dear The homestead in New England far away; And the vision is so nat'ral-like we al- most seem to hear The voices that were hushed but yes- terday. An! who'd ha' thought the music of that distant childhood time Would sleep through all the changeful, bitter years To awaken into melodies like Chris'm mas bells a-chime, An to claim the ready tribute of our tears! Why. the robins in the naples an the blackbirds round the pond The crickets an the locusts in the leaves, The brook that chased the trout adown the hillside jest beyond, An the swallers in their nests beneath the caves; They all come troopin' back with you. dear Uncle Josh, today, An they seem to sing with all the joyous zest Of the days when we were Yankee boys an Yankee girls at play, With nary thought of 'livin' way out vest" God bless ye, Denman Thompson, for tho good v do our hearts With this music an these memories of youth; God bless ye for the faculty that tops all human arts: The good old Yankee faculty of truthi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
CONCERNING PANCAKES

usually applied to cakes made of wheat flour with other ingredients that enter into the composition of the common flap jack.
 Since the making of pancakes-and mak- ing them right-is about as simple pro- cess as is embraced in the whole science of cookery, people who pay rational at tention to the food they eat are often moved to wonder why it Is that so many bad pancakes are foisted on the public. And how does 1t happen, too, that, as rule, the more pretentious and expensive the hotel and the restaurant may be, the worse you will find the pancakes. The stack of wheats" that the waiter slides along to you on the counter of a popular priced restaurant is a lot safer to tackle than the emaciated discs, pale or over done, that are served you at fashionable gustatory resorts in the guise of grid dle cakes"
 As everybody with wholesome, normal tastes is fond of pancakes, why should they not be supplied by caterers of high and low degree in a form satisfactory and we'll pleasing to the consumer? Any cook. or even any chef, whose head Is not solid bone, can take such simple and obvious ingredients as sour milk and bak- ing powder-and make decent pancakes. Why is 1t, then, that so many cooks-at least the cooks of commerce"-go to so much pains to turn out pancakes that are either sour and sticky or tough and taste less, when it is so much easier to produce the real thing?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
A Question of Doubt.

"The statement that the death of the young girl at Pratt City was caused by hydrophobia is erroneous" said Dr. A. H. French, the vetenarian.
 No person affected by this poison ever dies a quiet, peaceful, conscious death. The effect of the poison is to produce paroxysms from over stimulation of the muscles of the throat. I have seen three persons die from hydrophobia. It is true that there might not be any visible signs of a wound, not even scratch but hy- drophobia might be carried from the bite of an animal for months with all signs of the wound removed Also the poison could be passed by the lick of a cat or a dog touching a scratch on a limb. In such cases the poison lies for some time until some favorable condition over-stim- ulates the loci and the germ, when it rapidly reproduces. is taken up by the blood and then hydrophobia ensues. The symptoms of the child at Pratt City point to other causes which l do not care to state but there Is unmistakable evi- dence that the coating of the brain, if not the brain itself was involved"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
He is as full of valour as of kindness
 liking Henry V.
LYnGhlnaS Last Year

Law and order got a setback in 1908, for there were in this country 100 lynchings, as against 51 in the previous year; 66 in 1905; and ST in 1904. In 1903 there were 104. The number had been decreased since 1903 until the year 1908 came in.
 Of the 100 lynchings last year 97 occurred in the south and in the north. Alabama contributed 4 to the number in the south. Seven whites were lynched in the country and 93 negroes.
 These figures are not creditable to the south and to this country. For eign critics do not hesitate to tell us they are not, and they speak correctly. The administration of criminal law in this country is slow and cumbersome, and this no doubt is a factor in lynch ings. All know speedy trial is i'm possible, and many turn at once to Judge Lynch. It is damaging to the section and to the country, but until all criminals who provoke violence are quickly punished we need not look for the disappearance of lynching. Gen eral education leads to higher civili- zation, but general education will never abolish lynchings while criminal trials are slow and subject to almost endless appeals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
COSTS TO EAT SUGAR BOWL.
the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Learning by experience in New York is expensive business said an out of town man. "The other night lesson cost me just SS.5O and was cheap at that. You see, I had little dinner for a few friends in a private room at one of the best restaurants. Everything was just right and I was mighty well pleased One thing was especially pretty, and that was the dish of spun sugar in which the fruit was served. It had all sorts of little flowers and bowknots sticking out from it. and every one of the crowd broke off piece to nibble on. When l went to pay the bill one item surprised me, sS.50 for a dish was something didn't under stand. Whats 1t for?' asked, pointing to this item. And it was then and there explained to me that a dish of spun sugar was just as much the property of the establishment as one of cut glass or sill yer and any damage must be paid for. It was all right enough, but it was new to me-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

From the Kansas City Star
 N Hiawatha, Kan, a family of three recently ate at one meal 76 pancakes. X This would, as even tyro in di- vision can see, gave 25 pancakes to each member of the family, with one to divide or to fight over In most households ad- dicted to pancakes, what is called the sweet cake'' goes to the dog; but 1t seems to be a plausible proposition that a family equal to 70 pancakes would not stop at 76.
 Now, as everybody knows who Is wise on the subject. pancakes are something that one can eat more of than anything else you can mention. Only few days ago a well-to-do citizen in this community with at least an average digestive equip ment was heard to remark that he had not, in all his life, eaten as many buck wheat cakes at one time as he wanted; which meant, by plain and simple pro- cess of deduction, that his desire for buck wheat cakes had never been fully sat isfied
 We may all recognize the wisdom of stopping short of satiety in buckwheat cakes, which, as experience teaches, should be indulged in "discreetly, ad- visedly, soberly," if not "reverently and in the fear of God" But there are pancakes to which this limitation does not apply, and of such it may be implied were those of which the Hiawatha family cleaned up 76. While buckwheat cakes and corn cakes are it Is true, of the genus pancake the name pancake Is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
From the New York Telegraph

From the New York Telegraph.
 N N aerial warship TOO feet over all PU and 80 feet beam, able to carry 100 men and an armament of guns and ammunition, and food and fuel enough for trip across the Atlantic, is to be built at once in the Nixon yards at an estimated cost of $1,0O0,0OO by the Aerial Navigation company of America, now in process of organization, according to MT. Pennington-"Airship" Penning- ton, as MT. Lewis Nixon calls him.
 This may look something like military domination of the air, but there is an- other aerial weapon underway that may make it useless. It is the discovery of Mark Anthony and is nothing less than a dirigible air torpedo, steered and con trolled by wireless electricity for a dis tance of from 10 to 20 miles.
 Mir. Anthony is an electrical engineer of this city, who began to study and ex- pertinent with the wireless control of airships three years ago.
 He has discovered he says, that an airship can be controlled perfectly by wireless electricity, and his system has now been perefectd to point where a balloon 22 feet long, with capacity for 600 cubic feet of gas. Is moved about through the air entirely at the will of the operator, who remains on the ground and merely manipulates an electrical key board.
 So positive are the inventor and his friends that a great discovery has been made that they are now having a large balloon built and are arranging to give official tests before government officials at Washington.
 MT. Anthony and several witnesses de- clare he has demonstrated a perfect con trol of the balloon at distance of more than 10 miles. and that with the balloon 100 feet in the air, near Newark, he has placed his wireless apparatus on the top of a skyscraper in Manhattan and for nearly an hour caused the balloon to perform all sorts of evolutions as easily
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
Dr.. Eliot As An Ambassador

The career of splendor and social ostentation that Ambassador Whitelaw Reid has been leading is to be cut short, it is said, when the new admin istration is begun. MT. Taft seems to think we should have a representative at the Court of St. James who repre- sents something more than the Amer ica of dollars, dinners and diamonds We had forceful men in the past, be- ginning with Benjamin Franklin, but of late we have sent to London chiefly men of great wealth and great desire to display it.
 When MT. Reid comes home the hone is expressed that a man will be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
A Great Pianist.

"A11 lovers of music here are de- lighted to know that Madame Julie Rive-King. the famous pianist, will be heard in Birmingham next Thursday afternoon" said an old concert -goer. She Is one of the few native-born Americans to gain recognition in Eu- rope. and as well as I can recall is the first who was a real pupil of Listz.
 T was living in Cincinnati when Julie Rive, prodigy of that city, made her appearance in a public entertain ment. Her mother was Madame Dive, a highly esteemed singer. The young pianist was sent to Europe where she studied assiduously; and when she made her professional debut at the age of about 20 she created quite a furor.
 Madame Rive-King is now about 45 years of age and when I heard her in New York recently she played with more fire and artistic beauty than ever"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
The Cameras Eye.

How wonderful is the work of science and art, the handmaids of nature" said an enthusiast.
 Recent experiments with the camera have brought unique results. A homing pigeon has been utilized to take pictures of inaccessible points and places by small photographic apparatus adjusted to it's breast with representative plates In geopogy practical results have been at tained by a small camera lowered into cavities or borings, the light being fur nished by phosphorescent rays lasting for some hours. In taking the under ground impressions the needle of com pass is used which registers in the pie ture showing the direction of metallic veins.
 I've have conquered the surface of the earth, the waters, the air and now sci ence has taken a look into the very bowels of the earth. so to speak.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
WHERE REJECTED TIES GO.

From the New York Sun.
 A man was buying tie and carefully laid aside one or two as not worthy of further consideration. The salesman picked out one of the rejects and placed it in a separate box, which prompted the buyer t9 ask if it had been placed with those he was looking at by mistake.
 "Oh, mo-" was the response, but we have orders when five or six men turn down a tie as they look over a box to take it out and put 1t aside"
 ''Then what becomes of it?"
 We sell them to women who come in here to buy ties for men,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
LOVE.
By Robert G. Ingersoll.

By Robert G. Ingersoll.
 Love is the only bow on life's dark cloud. It is the morning and evening star. It shines on the babe and sheds it's radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art; inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher It Is the air and light of every heart; builder of every home: kinder of every fire on the hearth; it was the first dress of immortality. It fills the world with melody, for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter that changes worthless things of joy, and makes right royal queens and kings of common clay. It is the perfume of that wonderful flower, the heart and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it-earth is heaven and we are gods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press

From the New York Press. The thing 8. woman suspects about a
 strange man in a car who won't look at
 her is that he is trying to. A girl can cry over how, if there were
 any sleigh riding. she couldn't go because
 she hasn't the right style of furs. Generally a woman's reason for doing
 thing is she hasn't any. and it turns
 out much better than with a man, who has.
 When a woman wants to be particular ly proud of her husband. she speaks of his
 whisky bottle in the pantry as the wine cellar. The average man seems to be able to
 get more fun out of going to a funeral
 with his friends than to the theatre with his family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
Amusement Bill.

'I consider the bill at the Majestic this week the strongest vaudeville bill I have ever sent to Birmingham" That is the way MT. Muckenfuss, booking agent for the Majestic circuit, sums up the attractions which include five dis tinct headline acts, three others of merit and the new motion pictures.
 The bill includes Galetti's musical mon- keys; Frank T. Tinney, comedian: Car rie Ezier and Josette Webb In a comedy sketch, "The Actress and The Maid'' f; Charley Harris, impersonator of grotesque characters; Miss Grace Wilson, singing comedienne; the White Zola in Black Art James and Sadie Leonard and Dick Anderson. an extra added attraction in the burletta, "A Night In Rome, and the Delno troupe of comedy acrobats. The Majestograph completes the bill.
 The engagement opens with a matinee this afternoon and a performance to- night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
The Monetary Situation.

Henry Clews in his Saturday Wall street letter touching financial mat i ters says in part:
 The local monetary outlook is en- tirely satisfactory; unless 1t be that rates may again become too easy. Funds are now returning more freely from the interior. and the banks have gained from Treasury operations, the result being that both call and time money are showing a declining ten dency. Indications point to easy rates for at least the next two or three months, for general business is com paratively quiet. and the uncertainty of tariff Legislation is likely to put a ch eek on commercial operations until definite action has been decided upon There is little prospect that the tariff question will be settled during the present session of Congress, it being well understood that President elect Taft will call a special session for the purpose of considering the tariff aft CT his inauguration. Should the tariff debate be continued unexpectedly long, it Is possible that midsummer might arrive before uncertainty was relieved. This would of course prove a, very un- desirable and protracted period of de- lay. and it is hoped that it will be averted. Neverth eless. it is one of the contingencies that must be taken into consideration.
 One of the best features of the sit uation Is the excellent demand for high grade bonds; there have been numer- ous issues of these during the last few months, and approximately s1o0,- 000,00 were offered this week and arc being rapidly absorbed by investors who show a very decided preference for bonds, probably because their prin- cipal would be safer than if invested in stocks at present figures. Thus far the bond market does not appear to have been oversupplied with such issues, but in view of the large sums already authorized and those which are known to be forthcoming it is a ques- tion whether or not the supply will not soon prove greater than the demand if the present rate of issue continues for any prolonged period. The nec- essities of our railroads, however, are imperative, and this is their sole means of successfully raising capital"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

The Edinburgh Scotsman rises to say that Minister Reid will be permit ted to amuse London society four years more. But the Scotsman may not know what is going on at Au- guSta Ga
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

The great question now at Washing ton relates to the length of member ship in the Ananias club. The mem bers do not know whether they are t0 be released on March 4, or whether they are 'in" for life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

If the Italian opera singers at pres ent in this country send months sal ary to the earthquake sufferers the Red Cross will have it's hands full of money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
Restaurant Business Brisk.

From a restaurant point of view bus iness in Birmingham is quite brisk" said Albert Fasnach, the Second avenue cater CT. .The number of out-of-town stopers increases from year to year and of this class of trade the restaurants get a good share. The restaurant business here has greatly increased in volume during the mast five years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Medicine Hat was not strenuously unkind to the rest of the country last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

King Edward is about to visit the Kaiser. provided he can find his re- treat. He should put his sleuths at work, following in that respect the autocrat of America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

The events in Sicily and Calabria have created united Italy, something that had not existed since the days of Old Rome
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

The courts are endeavoring to con- sider joy riders guilty of grand lar ceny, and they hope to put an end to the practice in that way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

New Mexico and Arizona are unitedly working to secure divided statehood something they have long been en- titled to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Tom Johnson made MT. Burton Sena, tor, but he did it by building better than he knew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Arizona and New Mexico's only crime is a penchant for democracy, and this is why Aldrich and Joe Cannon will not admit them to the union.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

The golf stick is about to supplant the Big Stick as an administration emblem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Lawyer Shearn, the Hearst lawyer, is camping on the trail Of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

The men of the battleship fleet are working for humanity, and this is bet ter than working the guns anywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

A flower parade would go we'll with the Birmingham music festival the opening date of which is set for May 8.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

At $1 a word the President would soon earn an increased salary by writ ing special messages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

By all means let the Ananias club be assigned a place in the inaugural parade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

The flaw in the earth's crust at Mes sina continues to adjust itself with nc accompanying volcanic violence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

The Wright brothers should not let Europe, effete as it is, monopolize their efforts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Dry territory continues to extend, and the brewery output continues to increase.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

The ice crop is now assured in all the border states, to say the least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

The English nobility now contains a large percentage of American blood, but the English mannerisms are ae- centuated as much as ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Up in Nome the ice crop is crystal lizing at the rate of an inch a day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
About Persons.

MT. and Mrs. T. M. Davidson have re- turned from three weeks visit to MT. and Mrs. D. D. Kennedy of Cordeie. Ga
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

The battleship fleet has quit junket ing and is to do good work at Messina
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Up north they say zero weather amounts to nothing after all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Washington, D. C., as a center of news, holds it's own we'll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postofice as seoond-class matter unoeF act of Congress March 3, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Knoxville Journal and Tribune: The people evidently look upon Hon. Frank Hitchcock as one who is go- ing to be an influential part of the next
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Chattanooga Times: Birmingham an- nounees with some pride that she has only 100 blind tigers. But the year is young and Birmingham is city of great possibilities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Centreville Press: President-elect Taft has consented to visit Birmingham on his return from the Panama canal He could not resist the Birmingham delegation, who went up to extend him an invitation. MT. Taft will receive most cordial welcome from the people of Birmingham and the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Chattanooga Times: If they should suc- ceed in passing a statewide law Chatta- nooga will have the benefit of the ripe experience accumulated in Knoxville, At lanta and Birmingham of how it is done'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

Shreveport Times-The city of Birming ham, with a population of nearly 100000 souls, has been dry for one year, and reports as to how the year 1908 com pared with the year 1907, which was wet, will be read with an unusual amount of interest.