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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
POOR Lo IN BOOKS AND DRAMAS.

From the New York World.
 Now that the grave has closed over
 the last of notable American savages,
 may we not reasonably expect from nov
 elist or dramatist or musician work
 which shall worthily interpret the char
 aeter of the aborigine?
 The Indian has suffered almost as much
 from fattery as from detraction. We
 are to beware of final judgment based upon Cooper and Mrs. Jackson no less
 than of prejudices based upon the con tumely and bloodguiltiness of the frontier. Like other people, our savages were not all good and they were not all, bad. It is known that the American Indians have produced great leaders, brave and capable warriors, and, considering their environment, diplomatists of consummate skill. In their way they have been or ators poets and philanthropists. They take high rank among the primitive races and tribes of the earth. They loved liberty. They had a rude but admirable sense of justice. They communed with an unseen world. They knew how to die.
 Why should not the great American novel or drama or opera have as one of it's central figures a character in which the rights, aspirations, sufferings. ignorances and faults of typical red man could be depicted with fairness and with truth?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
Cheaper Steel is Welcomed

In all quarters among all sorts and conditions of men the action of the Steel corporation in creating the first open market since its creation in 1901 stands approved. The slashing of priees," says the Springfield Repub- lican, "may prove the very thing needed to start and stimulate business resumption as affecting this industry
 The Chicago News says: More em- ployment for labor, more activity in all lines of enterprises ought to come with the cut in steel prices" "The steel men, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, swould rather have double the busi. ness at a less per centage of profit than continue with mills idle or on half time when there is so much work awaiting a lower scale" The Philadel phia Public Ledger says: Whether the lsusiR Tbs high OF low. the present need
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Excellent Music.

'The Majestic will soon have a large imported band as one of the feature acts" said Manager Gould yesterday. @The band will only be here for one week, just as any other act. But we expect that to be a banner week. for the band comes with an excellent repu- tation for playing both classical music, melodies and rag tIme
 The leader of the band has written me that-he will willingly play for any of the charitable institutions at any time during the week and suggested that I take the matter up with the managers of hospitals and similar in- stitutions. We expect to have several requests for the band and will be glad to accommodate all possible.
 Of course the band could only play in the morning as there is a matinee every afternoon and a performance every night. From what l hear of it., the band is an excellent musical orga n- ization and people who enjoy that kind of entertainment will have 30 or 10 minutes of pleasure when the band is here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
LA GRIsETTE.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes. An! Clemence, when l saw thee last
 Trip down the Rue de Seine, And turning. when thy form had past,
 I said, We meet again. I dreamed not in that idle glance
 Thy latest image came, And only left to memorys trance
 A shadow and a name. The sew strange words my lips had taught
 Thy timid voice to speak, Their gentler signs, which often brought
 Fresh roses to thy cheek, The trailing of thy long, loose hair
 Bent OCT my couch of pain, All, all returned, more sweet more fair;
 Oh had we met again!
 I walked where saint and virgin keep
 The vigil lights of Heaven, I knew that thou hadst woes to weep,
 And sins to be forgiven;
 I watched where Genevieve was laid,
 I knelt by Mary's shrine,
 Beside me low, soft voices prayed;
 Alas! but where was thine? And when the morning sun was bright, When wind and wave were calm, And famed, in thousand tinted light The rose of Notre Dame, I wandered through the haunts of men, From Boulevard to Quai Till, drowning Der Saint Etienne, The Patheon's shadow lay In vain, in vain we meet no more, Nor dream what fates befall; And long upon the strangers shore My voice on thee may call, l When years have clothed the line in moss That tells thy name and days, And >withered, on thy simple cross, ! The wreaths of Para-la-Chaissi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
He hath never fed on the dainties that are bred in book.
 Loves Labor Lost.
Panama and the Gulf Ports

The country's railroads cost between s1O. 900 100000 and s15.000, 100000 and the Panama canal is to cost perhaps a third of billion dollars. The opening of the canal will profoundly affect the more costly railroads, and today they are getting ready for the new adjust ment. James T. Hill sees plainly what is coming, and he has bought the Colo rado and Southern, intending to extend it to the gulf. All lines in the Missis sippi valley are endeavoring to secure a gulf outlet, knowing that the opening of the canal will create new tariff ad- justments and deeply affect transpor- tation movements.
 It is difficult to say which will be the more deeply influenced-the east-and' west current of trade or the north-and- south business. Both will be changed by the conditions that a government owned canal will create. It will bring new products into the home markets, develop trade in many directions. and produce results not at present antici- pated. The great Pacific will no longer be a closed sea to the eastern half of this country.
 The south will be wonderfully bene- fted by the new conditions that the canal will inaugurate. Trade that has been flowing to eastern ports will seek the gulf, and the railroads leading to the gulf ports will each and all have to be double-tracked.
 To this district the change will be simply wonderful, especially if the Warrior is opened speedily. Our coal will be carried to Colon at rates that the rest of the world cannot meet, and every step taken here should keep in view the changes that will certainly attend the opening of the Panama canal and the opening of the Warrior.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post. N OW and then from some far-off, U hidden source comes little riv- ulet of song which misses the general ear amid the clamorous voices of the time and unless rescued by some one attuned to its simple lay sinks to untimely oblivion. From such a fate we would fain rescue pathetic and poetic ballad entitled '"rhe Selling of the Home stead" by Gilbert Patten Brown, which a happy chance has thrown In our way. It is tale of New England and we shall ask the poet himself to unfold It. In a quiet New England village
 They'd come from near and far: Sturdy farmers from their tillage, Some came in their auto car.
 The true poet is generous. He knows no New England farmer ever saved money enough to own an auto car, but he thinks the farmer ought to have one, and so gives, it to him.
 The hills were rich with golden corn,
 The hay was ripe to mow; All nature seemed in blushing morn,
 To Farmer Tim Barlow. The poet loves all seasons, and his exuberant fancy sees them all at once the golden corn of autumn and the lush verdure of June sway in the same breezes A few lines follow pictur- ing the ravages of time and bringing be- fore us the grandeur of earlier days r,lt nil 0tIr a with the information that Tim had voiun- teered for the war; leaving his father in debt
 | Yes; Tim Barlow was soldier, Had fought to save his land; l Lets don't give him the cold shoulder, | Cause he lost leg and hand Surely patriotism and grateful apprecia- ton could go no farther than that; but we must not finger, for the auctioneer is on hand:
 Here the rich man sought the treasures
 Of anticipated woods; | While Deacon Jones, in measures, | Denounced the sale of goods
 While the rich gloated over the rare antiques soon to be theirs, good Deacon Jones boldly denounced the graspins creditor who forced the sale. Then we are told of sycamore tables and teakwoot chairs in the room where in happier days Tim had wooed his bride. Now the eli max approaches
 At last, the sad sale was started;
 Twas Timothys old chair
 To good Deacon Jones, who parted
 With the price, I do declare.
 There was deacon worth having Whatever else went Tim's old chai should be saved.
 There had come to that sad selling
 Tims comrades by the score;
 And they filled that ancient dwelling
 From attic to the door,
 The sheriff took down the treasures,
 All in his wrath and rage
 To and fro walked Tim in measures
 Like lion in its cage.
 Isn't that a moving picture-the sym pathetic veterans, the naughty, crue sheriff in his wrath and rage, and poo Tim pacing up and down, angry an' helpless, as he saw his treasures fitting ' And now the tale sweeps on with an ex
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
Regarding Lent.

with all of New Yorks high pressure life and social dissipation Lent is more strictly observed in that city than 1t is in many of the southern cities" said lay man, who lived for many years in Goth am.
 services were largely attended by men prominent in Wall street and club cir cles. Episcopalians and Roman Catholics in New York as a rule never enter a theatre from Ash Wednesday until East CT nor do they accept social invitations. I am not particularly religious but I believe that all classes and creeds would be helped by keeping Lent'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
Exposing Our Shame.

Until society provides a remedy for this condition we should have no more exhibitions of this nature said a citizen in the criminal court as he looked at the crowd of over 100 young girls charged with vagrancy.
 T don't know whether this is prosecu- tion or persecution or politics, but it is outrageous to drag these women here and make a public advertisement of something of which we may all well feel ashamed. It positively makes my heart bleed to see those poor human creatures, our fallen sisters, paraded in public and pilloried before the vulgar gaze of this rabbe that stands around here this morning.
 'These women are outcasts now, left to their miserable fate to perish or go to prison as neglect or the law shall decide. but their crime is our crime, their shame is our shame Instead of pursuing them with the minions of the law we should try to save them by words of kindness and encouragement, by acts of tenderness and mercy
 We may boast of our civilization and our progess, but so long as that black spot remains our civilization is farce Who or what has brought these girls to their present condition? Does anyone think that fine or a few months im- prisonment is going to reform these girls? !? Does anyone hope that persecution is the way to reclaim these unfortunate creatures? The Pharisees followed such courses until they were given the most stinging rebuke ever uttered by the Di- vine Master. We should raise the fal- len, not trample on them'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
sana In Historic Church.

When I was on visit to my brother in Messna in 1s9e, said Frank Arrico ''I sang the offertory at mass three Sun days in succession in the historic church that was destroyed in the earthquake. l was invited to sing by the archbishop and was offered by him permanent sal arled position. When I told the arch bishop that I could not accept he said, Is the pay not large enough?'
 Oh, yes I replied the salary part is all right-quite liberal, but I have be- come so Americanized that l must return to the United States
 Tt is sad to think that a church of such historic associations should have been wrecked. It was a thousand years old, and the same furniture and fixtures that saw had been in use for centuries ''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
Kills Wife and Himself.

London, February 24-John Tempest Dawson, 70 years of age, shot his wife while they were together in the national portrait gallery and then committed sui- eide Mrs. Dawson died in a hospital shortly afterward. The couple were be- lieved to be Americans. Papers on the mans body show that the act was pre- meditated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
putlahIe Goods Held up.

Fort Monroe, Va, February 24.-Rear Admiral Sperry issued orders today di- recting the officers and men of the bat tleship fleet not to land any goods that might be deemed dutiable until the cus- toms authorities decide what form of declaration should be made. Most Of the officers and mems purchases abroad were in the nature of souvenirs, or mo mantos of the trin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
Racing In Mexico.

Mexico City, February 24.-According to a dispatch received in this city tonight, racing will begin in the city of Aguas Calientes in April. A government con- cession has been granted an American company, and work on the track has begun. The track will be built by Ameri- can workmen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
FOUND, NEW ENGLAND POET

citing rush that will bear no nterruptina or pauses for comment Just then in came old Cy Powers, To give the rich a dig; Molly, that bed will be ours If I've got to sell my pig "This bedstead," all were listening, Where Washington once slept;" Many a tear was glistening
 And Deacon Jones, he wept Three hundred dollars, mister, Rose on the country air. The kind deacon eyed his sister, And sold to you, right there" Old Cy, Molly, the pig, the bedstead. Washington, Deacon Jones once more to the rescue-all flashed on the canvas by the lightning strokes of genius. We are coming to the end. Merchants watched the pale-faced buyer, The deacon paid the gold; There's one," said he, that's up high
 er,"
 And this is what he told We were in Dixie together,
 And in the midst of strife, When Tim Barlow saved my father; It all but cost Tim his life.'
 ssssg3 Most dramatic was that moment And when the day was OCT, The deacon had the money sent
 To friend Tim, of the moor.
 It is little difficult to trace the exact design in the shining warp and wool as it flashes past us. We discern that the deacon bought Tim chair and paid $3oO for the bedstead, which Dan Gerrish says goes back to Tim, and the last lines tell us that the deacon sent him the money also. The puzzle is, how could the deacon send to Tim the furniture he bought and also the money he paid the sheriff for it?
 But mystery ever was the soul of poetry Was not Browning obscure? The poet sings and the common mortal drinks in what he can. Let no profane voice be raised against Gilbert Patten Brown be- cause he did not stoop to explain the mystery that haunts his verse. Brown and Browning, poets together, have their own inscrutable ways
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR fhn Ynrlr Prase

The awful thing to girl about flirting IS when there's nobody to do it with.
 Even if a man was on his way to heaven he'd like to stop on the road' to watch a scrub game of baseball. The only time man can think up a good excuse for doing something foolish is when he hasn't done it.
 A queer thing about a woman is how she will put on her engagement ring to go and read her old love letters.
 The thing that makes mother sure the baby Is going to be great man is how he didn't howl any louder when he Was bantiaed-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
PROFEssoRsIIIPs.

 You say he is a professor" "Yes"
 'of dancing, pugilism. contortlon or merely Greek?"
 THE VALUE OF AN oPTIMIsT trifiing sort of fellow, but his smile was wondrous bright, The words he spoke they seemed to make the gravest troubles light. He didn't have bank account he'd won in money mart, But priceless treasure of pure gold was stored up in his heart. The world has need of chaps like him, of unaffected cheer. Who meet misfortune with a laugh and seldom shed a tear; Who make the best of everything and should they chance to fail. Just thank their lucky stars above that they are out of jail. If everybody only dreamed of getting on in life And toiled and slaved from morn to night, with vain ambitions rife The gracious art of smiling would be speedily forgot And this old world we live in would become dreary spot!
 THE ONLY DIFFERENCE. "Everyone knows that there is a dis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
The Iron Market

The pig iron market continues dull and some furnace interests are now quoting s12.5O instead of sis on a No. basis.
 No one seems to expect anything like an active buying movement before spring said a sales agent. T am in- elined to think there will be some inn provement in March and a good trade In Aprll OF Nav
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
MICH TO LEARN

Leo Carrillo, the Chinese mimic, says he overheard the following conversation in Judge Feagin's court the other day: Gambler. aren't your" asked the judge of a colored prisoner before the bar. "Yassuh, 1edge Is gambler" How long have you been a gambler7" "'Bout two years"
 DO you gamble with dice?'
 ''Yassuh, mostly wid dice"
 And how long have you been familiar with that gamer"
 "Jedge, I ain't familiar wid 1t yitr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
REVERY

REVERY. Dream, dream, dream While the crimson coals are glowing And the worlds asleep and the night
 winds creep And the blooms of the past are blowing. Iris O for the lit of yesterday When we blithely roamed the heather, As free from care as the sunlit air, A girl and boy together! Dream, dream, dream While the crimson coa1s are dying And the firelight falls more faint on walls And the winds of the night go signing. Iris O for the glimpse of a grass-grown
 mound
 Where the hope of life is resting, While a weary thrall, heath sorrows 8
 pail,
 The tide of time is breasting!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

The waste in public printing has re- suited in the accumulation in Washing ton of 9500 tons of useless matter and the problem now is to get rid of the emf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
Fraternity In Convention.

New Orleans, February 24.-The 14th annual convention of the Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternity, composed of 34 chap ters in medical colleges of the country, was called to order at the St. Charles hotel here this afternoon. About 100 delegates are in attendance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

March may not come in like lion, but the chances are that it will get up its usual buster by the 4th. Wash ington, D. C., would hardly know itself with a spring-like inauguration day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

Hetty Green has the son-in-law prob lem on her hands at present, and she finds it is worse than tanning bulls and bears in Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

The bill forbidding profanity over the telephone loses sight of the man who has struggled 15 minutes to be told at last "the lines busy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

Missouri may go into partnership with the oil trust, but the fear is that she will get all the experience while the trust pockets the profits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

Jacob H. Schiff has come out in favor of an income tax, and he stands a chance to be expelled from the Mill lionaires nnion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

MT. Taft will be supported by 1000 armed men, and he will no doubt be able to reach the inauguration stand. The country needs a President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

In St. Louis it costs s25 month to keep an auto. and husband and wife toss up to see whether it shah be an auto or a hired girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

Uncle Sam's fleet of today grew out of the Monitor and Merrimac fight of 45 years ago, and the new fleet is on the spot today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

After the recent summer heat the south welcomes a return of winter The groundhog is again yindicated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

Justices courts are disappearing in all parts of the country One by one landmarks are being swept away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
CYNICIsM.

Cupid carries bow and arrows, I believer"
 "You are mistaken. He carries an axe," said the defeated candidate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
MOTHER AND THE GIRLS.

 Father tolls from morn to night Down where traffic whirls. Just because he hates to slight Mother and the girls. They must have the finest clothes, All the luxurles; Though he suffers. no one knows They're the ones to please. Father is a slave no less; Wearily he grinds That the grist may go to dress Those whom folly blinds, Till they never realize How the poor old man Tags his brain and aims his eyes For hat or fan. When his toll is done at last And he sinks to rest, Still the habit holds him fast And his hearts opprest By the fear that they may be Some vain wish denied In the after years when he Can't indulge their pride.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

Steel coming down will help sky serapers to go up. Now is the time to build the Hotel Mortimer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

Baseball heroes should not assert themselves as national heroes until March is safely passed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
AN OLD STORY

Iris now the season of the year
 When baseball managers appear
 Upon the scene with thoughtful brow And gravely tell fanatics how Although they much dislike to brag- The home teams bound to win the rag"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

Geronimo was just about the last chieftain of his race. He was S6 years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
LOOKS LIKE IT

IODkS LIKE IT. "An Ohio preacher says a kiss is a worse intoxicant than drink" "What do you think of that?" q think he's been kissing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
BOUND TO CROP orT

Tt has been discovered that George Washington wrote poetry
 well. don't suppose a great man ever lived who didn't have some kind of weak ness"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
FORECAST OF THE sEAsoI

Twill soon be time for us to make
 A little bow to spring, And signing swains ere long will be
 In love like everything
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

President Roosevelt must be tempt ed to sit up all night to get the most out of his expiring term
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

There is no place for smokers in the pay-as-you-enter cars, and this is one of their good features.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

A POOR BUSINESS. I hold it true
 With those who say That peacemaking Doth rarely pay. Kind-hearted fools Who step between, Are apt to get A clip, I ween, But never will
 Receive, mayhap, Due thanks because They stopped a scrap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

The best ocean run thus far is equivalent to 760 land miles in a day, or 32 miles an hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

A liner recently received a wireless message sent 230o miles away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25
RfpPLHS.

REPLIES
 It cost a. man in Tacoma $30 to kiss an Indian squaw. There may be squaws in musical comedy whose kisses are worth s3O apiece, but they are not real Indians.
 Just because a husband is noisy when taking soup is no ground for a divorce, although the wife would be justified in hitting him on the head with a fiatiron. What with trying to grow a mustache and studying how to fly, King Alfonso is as busy as can be.
 A Chicago preacher has quit the pulpit to manage an automobile tire company. He will be able to reduce profanity by selling a tire that will not burst.
 Yesterday morning an obliging makeup man put "The Vision of Mirza2 for a head over this department, making it appear even more out of place than usual. An alarm clock went off with Har- lem burglar. That is, it rang when he started to carry it away with the rest of his swag 1t is hard to make a woman mad when she knows she is the best dressed woman in sight. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-25

No place has been assigned to the Ananias club in the inaugural parade