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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

numbers of his polished verses. They
 however, were never so polished as to exelnds the homeliest of matters and im- ages drawn from the life of the country about him, or never so sophisticated as to Ilaee ban upon expression of the serious moral side of his nature, his inheritance from Puritanism. Tn another there might have been pathos in such survival com parable to the pathos which he himself felt and expressed in "The Last LeaP' at surviving his contemporaries But the humor which contemporaries. But the hnmor which underlay his wit. and made nothing human alien to his sympathies, was too deeply imbedded in his nature he was too much a man of the world, not to accommodate himself to a shifting scene to the disappearance of old land marks There was even amusement for him in the march of progress, an amuse- ment that touched the vein of his fancy in such a form as "The Broomsticl1 Train.' His profession also was a pow erful means of self-adjustment. Through it he kert in constant contact with the progressive, intellectual life of the age. h. deed, as his novels especially show, he was an advanced thinker and at all points where his science met matters of me rality and religion, he was even boldly spec Glative. If, as a poet, he is inferior u such fellow poets as Bryant, Lowell and Longfellow, in range and force of imaginative expression. he is, on the whole their superior In poetic art This quality, combined with a true and ten der poetic feeling, a deep-seated senti- mert for the past, and his delightful blend of wit and humor in which blend he is perhaps most absolutely individual, will always preserve certain number of his best pieces. Among them may not be included 5.e~or those numerous poems for occasions which added no little to his contemporary reputation. Yet these are essentially part of himself and a most characteristic expression of the poet for whom poetry was a social Institution. With him this special poetic tradition has largely passed away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
Ball Discusses Prohibition.

s. Mays Ball, who has been in Bir- mingham for a week on the trip he is making through the south to investigate the workings of prohibition, will leave tonight for Jackson, Miss. Mr. Ball will write a series of articles for Leslie's Weekly.
 'I have not made up my mind definitely about conditions in Birmingham" said MT. Ball last night "I try not to have any fixed opinions on the subject myself, for what we want to get at is the actual truth. We want facts and figures, and such articles as I write will be based on facts which have investigated person. ally and found to be true.
 While I have met a great many peo- pie in Birmingham both for and against prohibition, and have drawn them out at length, have not depended upon their information, but have been around the city to find out things for myself. It is in this way that I hope to make my ar articles valuable. The claims of the advo- cates and opponents are really so far apart that an investigator must of ne- cessity get out himself and find where the discrepancies lie.
 "It is one of the most difficult under takings I have ever made, and I think that have worked harder during the past week than I ever did before in my life. But I believe the results will be we'll worth while. You cannot imagine the interest that the north is taking in the working of prohibition in the south, and unbiased, authoritative information is eagerly sought. That is just what I hope to give them, and that Is why I am exerting myself to get at every possible source of information"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
THE QUIET LIFE. By Alexander Pope.

Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air N In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields
 with bread, Whose fiocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield Jim
 shade,
 In winter fire. Blest who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away In health of body, peace of mind,
 Quiet by day. Sound asleep by night study and ease Together mixd; sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please
 With meditation. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone
 Tell where lie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
Interest in Music

The large and eager crowds that attended the music festival held at the Hippodrome in Birmingham last week furnished abundant proof that the music-loving element hereabouts can be counted upon to support lib- orally all high-class festival attrac- tions. There were five concerts and each one of them drew a great con course of people.
 or the five performances, two were held in the afternoon and it is said that no matinee audiences ever seen in this city were anything like so large as those of the festival.
 The rich and varied programmes which MT. Damrosch presented and faithfully carried out account in great measure for the financial success of the festival. Everybody seemed to be delighted with the music and as en- thusiasm ran high a festival for next spring is practically assured. The Birmingham Music Festival associa- tion was organized last December. Committees were appointed and sev- eral meetings were held, but as many details confronted the executive board it was decided that the association would postpone it's first festival until 1910. In the meantime MT. Dam- rosch concluded to give festival here on his own account, and with the as- sistance of local choruses, the event ending Friday night was by far the most brilliant and in every way the most satisfying ever held in Alabama
 The officials of the Festival associa- tion will begin early in the fall to make arrangements for 1910, and among the features in connection with the next festival flower parade should be conspicuous. With ample time ahead for them, the men and women at the head of the festival movement can ar range to make the occasion the grand est thing of it's kind ever undertaken in the south.
 For several years past the little city of Spartanburg, S. c., has, in a music festival way, outclassed all other cities of the south. But Birmingham has made a new start and neither musical effort nor civic pride will flag. In this connection it Is of interest to know that in the large and exhaustive work, entitled, American History and Ency- clopedia of Music," recently published. Birmingham has prominent mention as one of the two cities in the south rank ing as music festival cities, Spartan burg being the other. We will not only live up to our reputation, but next year will easily surpass all previous records.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
EIGHT MILES HOUR
 LIMIT IN WEST END

Patrons of the South Bessemer, Pow derly and Cleveland lines enjoyed a snail's pace ride yesterday as the re- suit of the enforcement of the eight miles per hour limit law by the West End authorities.
 Complaint has been made of the speeding of cars through West End, and notice was given the car men some time ago that they would have to slacken the speed It is said, there have been a number of narrow escapes re- gently, eliminating with the running over and killing of Mrs. W. E. Ledford and the probably fatal injuring of her baby yesterday morning.
 Later in the morning West End of- fcers timed a number of cars passing a certain block and, according to their statement, none was running under 12 miles an hour, while others passed the 2O-mile mark. Three motormen alleged to have speeded close to the latter mark were served with notice to ap- pear before Recorder c. c. Ellis of West End this morning and stand trial for violating the speed limit.
 After the arrests the motormen slacked the speed to the lowest possi- ble notch. Matters took on serious air in the afternoon. General Super intendent George Harris took one of the slow rides out to West End and also took the matter up with Mayor Norwood to be met with the statement That the West End officers were only doing their duty.
 The officers charge that the slow pace at which the cars were run yes- terday afternoon was as much under the limit as the speeding was above.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
The Ridinu School.

"It is a very interesting sight to a lover of the saddle horse to visit the rid ing academy and see the splendid ami mals that are used there,' said horse- man of some reputation.
 'I have never seen as fine a lot of highbred saddle horses outside of horse show or a park in the larger cities. Many of them show the discrimination of ex- eellent judges of horses. One of them, by the way, is a young Alabama colt, Fred S., and will soon be in the fancy horse show class.
 ''The ladies of Birmingham and some of the children who are attending the rid ing school have very valuable animals of their own. Some of these cost from s700 to 5000 apiece There are some ele- gant young animals of the high class to be had at $350, but fancy saddle horses are high compared to carriage stock of an average city class.
 Birmingham already has several excel- lent horseback riders among the ladies and misses, and the prospects of many more, judging from the classes at the rid ing academy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
ORIGIN OF THE TERM "GRINGo.v

From the Outing Magazine for May
 To the average Mexican all Americans are "gringos." They are too polite to call you a gringo to your face, but amongst themselves 1t is the term gen. erally used in referring to Americans. It is term of disrespect. just as "greaser'' when applied to a Mexican is an op- probrious term. "Gringo' had its origin during our war with Mexico in 1S47. Bobby Burns song, with the chorus:
 Green grow the rashes, o:
 Green grow the rashes, o;
 The sweetest hours that e'er I spend,
 Are spent among the lasses, O. was very popular then, and our soldiers in Mexico sang it on the march and on nearly every occasion. Green grow" sounded like "gringo to the Mexicans, unacquainted with English, and they quickly learned to speak of the American soldiers as 'gringos,' and henceforth this appellation has been attached to all Americans
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
RightS In a Prescription

The druggists and doctors in New York have been considering the owner ship of @ prescription that had once been filed, and the conclusion reached is that the original owner of the pre- scription parted with all his right, title and interest when it was once used. He was neither entitled to it or to a copy of it, and no druggist should fill it again. The Chicago druggists and doctors have reached these con- clusions:
 1. The prescription is an utterance, the prescriber, who alone should direct and control its employment. It should, when ever practicable. carry the name of the patient the age in years, if minor, and the date when written.
 ?. The pharmacist who prepares the medicine should retain the prescription as reference for his services and as record for a certain limited period, not less than five years, for the protection of the prescriber, himself and the patient
 3. The medicine prescribed should be supplied not more than once on the same prescription; D Ir ordered by the pre- scriber mot to be repeated" (N. rep.); 2 If containing medical substances commonly called narcotic or habit forming drugs; (3) If called for by some person known not to be the original holder.
 4. Copy of the prescription may be fur nished and should be written on a special blank. containing a declaration that it is a copy of a prescription which has been delivered to the original holder and is not to be refilled except on order of the prescriber. The copy is made without recourse to possible error.
 In Philadelphia blank is used which limits the use of a prescription to one filling, flor present indications only" and it can be renewed only by the physician who issued it, and the renewal must be in writing. It will thus be seen that prescription is practically limited to one filling, and it carries no legal rights beyond pres ent use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
 1 HE hundredth anniversary of the
 lOD birth of Holmes falls In August
 of this year, but that month be- ing awkward and inauspieious for city celebrations, the centenary of the geniai autoerat the arbiter elagantiarum of tea cup and breakfast table, will be duly observed on next Tuesday night at San ders theatre in Cambridge. Holmes was born in the city across the river, but in a peculiar degree he belongs to Boston, where he made his home during the better part of his life There is a side on which Boston, before the war, belonged to the nation, as the moral and intellectual capital of the country: there is also a side on which it belonged to itself and to New England
 More than any other one of the writers Of the distinguished group with which he is identified. Holmes incarnated the spirit Of this elder Boston. He was born into what he himself was the first to call the Brahmin caste. This birth implied lit- crary as well as social inheritance, and he was fond of tracing his descent from that tenth muse, Onne Bradstreet In him. as in the society from which he had re- ceived them, these two sets of tradi- tions remained inseparable. Holmes was a town poet. as Prior, hls prototype, was a town poet, and as were also Pope, Ad- dison and Gay, the masters of his art, and his familiars on certain sides of his spirit, though he added to what they stand for in qualities of mind, deeper qualities of heart than are to be fopnd in any of them save Addison. These are qualities Of kindliness, of tenderness, of tears, that he could not help sharing with his own century and with his own genera tion In his day Boston grew up into the great modern city, but Holmes continued to dwell in the little old town which was dssolving like a dream about him, creat- ing his own atmosphere when the illusion began to grow thin, and prolonging for others this illusion in the urbanity of his bearing, in the flashing and pointed wit of his discourse, in the neatly ordered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
WINE AND LITERATURE,

From the Rochester Express.
 Eliminate wine from literature and what gap is made! It figures in the Scriptures; it is drunk at Homeric ban quets; it blushes amorously in Anacreon; 1t makes a philosophic appeal to Hor- ace; 1t compensates old Omar for the sadness of many an hour when the wrangling of the sages was more con- spicuous than the truth they unveiled. Fancy Shakespeare without sack-''good sack" which, as Falstaff says, "hath no fellow" Yet Shakespeare was no coun- seior of wassailing, and, recalling some occasion when he drank, mot wisely, but too well,'' he uttered immortal praise of Honest water, that ne'er left man f tn mire!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
TALKING WITH THE LAMA.

From the Chicago News.
 Colonel d'Ollone describes an interview he had with the Dalai Lama. '"The Grand Lama, who is about 36 years of age, sat upon throne placed on a dais He wore an orange tunic, yellow trousers and boots of yellow leather, while a scarf of red silk covered his shoulders. His head was uncovered, showing his closely cut black hair. He has a small black mustache and a tuft on his chin. His features are somewhat European in their cast, but the skin is of a vivid orange tint.
 According to custom, l presented the Grand Lama with blue silk scarf. Three interpreters were necessary-a Chinaman, to whom I spoke French; Mongol, to whom the former translated my sentences, and Thibetan, who conveyed their sense to the Grand Lama.
 "At the close of the conversation he handed me blue scarf, saying he wished me to be the bearer of it to the Emperor of the French and I became a sort of envoy from the Buddhist high priest to M. Fallieres."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

end, many very large bass were caught in the sein that was used to catch and kill the carp It is a matter of regret that carp were ever placed in this fine preserve; they destroy thousands of pros- peetive game fish by eating the spawn.
 "Within an hour or twos ride of Birmingham there are many fine streams, and still bodies of waters for game fish ing that offer a good days sport"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
THOMAS TOMLINSoN.

From the Savannah Press.
 Capt. Thomas Tomlinson, the we'll known owner of the famous Tate Spring and plantations in East Tennessee, and familiar figure in that part of the coun- try, died Tuesday morning at the ad- vanced age of so years. He was known by large number of southern people who annually visit Tate Spring, Tenn, and he was quite a character. Tall, erect, unbending, he was a man who had his own ideas and always spoke his mind. He was honest and fearless. He enlisted in the Confederate army and went through the civil war. Always he was de- voted to the southern cause.
 Residing in a section where the people were divided, and where as many of his neighbors fought on the union side as on the southern, Captain Tomlinson lived and died a southern soldier. When the war was over his troubles did not cease. Gangs of bushwhackers swarmed in Ten nessee. They threatened his life and tried to drive him from his home. But he was not made of that kind of stuff. When peace returned, in fact as in name, Cap tain Tomlinson was still there, and with the growth of his splendid property he prospered.
 He reared a large family of children His son is a member of the national democratic committee from Alabama and the captain himself was a democrat right Several years ago, when John H. Reagan, ex-senator from Texas, and the last sur viving member of the cabinet of Jefferson Davis, was at Tate Spring, Captain Tom linson gave reception in his honor and paid conspicuous attention to this vet eran of the Lone Star State.
 His life was an eventful one, but his last days were those of peace
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
Panic Averted at Fire.

Peoria, H., May 2.-Three hundred peo- pie tonight walked under an arch or flame In an exit from the Crescent Nickledeon, following an explosion in the lamp room which resulted in setting fire to the front entrance of the build- ing. Two women fainted after reaching the street and the moving picture operator was severely burned. Cool heads averted what threatened to be a serious panic. The loss was small.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the>NeW York Press.
 No man knows himself as well as he thinks he knows his next-door neigh . bor.
 There is nothing a girl can be so perfectly natural about as her unna- turalness.
 If a woman has a patent hair-curl- CT she would like to give the impress sion 1t Is an automobile.
 A woman has to believe in miracles so as to feel sure when she grows stout that she will retain her figure.
 A man is so satisfied with his brains that it never occurs to him to wonder how he can teach a woman to do a thing better than he can.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

MT. Roosevelt has shot a wildebeest and hartebeest and three lions but no snark or boojum. But he is young in the jungle and he may round up all the big beasts. Give him time to hunt in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

Scoops from Mars are still some what indifinite and uncertain. No guaranty is forthcoming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

Little Adele Boas who discovered herself should sue her rich father for the S5000 reward he had offered. She simply wanted to see a little of the world. There are others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

Chinese officeholders are not permit ted to vote. The "outs" are thus en- abled to oust the "ins" in that ad- yanced country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

Chauncey Depew celebrated his 75th birthday by cracking a few jokes of equal age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

The world will feel lonesome-like when Abdul Hamid of Turkey, Abdul Azz of Morocco and Abdul Castro of Venezuela are lost to view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

The paragraphers respectfully de- cline to accept Hetty Greens advice as to the wisdom of attending to ones own affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

The consumer is voiceless at Wash ington unless trust finds 1t can turn him to account.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

At present MT. Roosevelt seems to be hunting for comfortable planta- tions in Africa, and for large parties all well armed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

Professor Pickering declines to guar antee reply to any message sent to Mars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

Castro left his money buried in Caracas, and this is believed to be why he desires. to return to his na- tive land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

Liners go in and out of New York regardless of tides through the new Ambrose channel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

The lionesses and the mother rhi- noreeroses are warning their babies to beware of a man with eyeglasses and an abundance of teeth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

Weston's average walking gait at the age of T is 1. 3 miles an hour and he can keep it up 12 hours a day He has kept it up until he has reached and passed St. Louis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
CITY OF CONSTANTINOPLE

age that go with modern warfare. But in the early days he was a conqueror wherever he went.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

After all it was a daughter in Hol- land, but second Wilhelmina is good enought for any country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

Instead of burying the hatchet on her Arkansas farm Carrie Nation will now proceed to build new ones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

Carrie Nation has become a great landlord. She carved her way to it with her little hatchet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

Guesses on the next census of the mainland are coming in. They swing around 90,O0O000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

The Mesdames Abdul Hamid have not been heard from in an interview since they were carted away to Sa- lonilli at o'clock in the morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

The chief Mohammedan doctrine is after all Kismet-it is fate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

Turkey simply has the recall, that's all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03

Washington Bureau Age Herald. 14:1 3 street. N. W.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-03-11
SOCIETY NOTES
Mrs. HiISddle Entertdins the Sans
SOuCi Club, and the HydCinth
Club has a Picnic

One of the protest entertainments
this season was the luncheon given by
Mrs. Jennie Hilsdale to the members
of the Sans Souci Circle and q few
friends on Tuesday Afternoon. Every
member save one was present. The
pretty table and dainty service were
thoroughly enjoyed by all, as was the
delicious luncheon served. During the
afternoon there was an impromptu
musical program and time flew by un-
needed. Itwas fully six o'clock before
the guests remembered that there
were husbands at home waiting for
supper.
The Hyacinth Club entertained a
permanent member of the Ananias
Club at Ward Springs on Saturday OF
last week. He reports that he had a
royal good time and from his appear
ance The Herald is forced to believe
that he speaks the truth for once, in
spite of his membership in the Anani-
as Club. The Herald is informed
that regular weekly meetings of the
Ananias Club are held in the office OF
Chan Marshall where applications fol
membership by those qualified may be
made. \