The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Two Christmas pont,s.

As l am very much interested in Christmas, and particularly those people who are sending gifts away, 1 desire to call attention to some of the errors they | probably will fall into," said a man fa- | miiiar with the postal laws.
 The stamps issued by the Red Cross society are not good for postage, but are contributions to the fund for fighting tu- oerculosis. They are supposed to add something to the gift-giving by their use. In sending presents by mail only those packages which have firstsclass postage rates can bear any writing on the inside or the outside, except locations, senders and information which would enable the postoffice department to find the senders where there has been any mistake made in addresses.
 Don't write upon package on which only second or third-class postage has been paid, Not to be opened until after Christmas You can, however, do this with a printed label or even a type written one This is one of the rules of the postoffice department in which it would appear there is a distinction with out & difference
 Don't let the children send any let ters in the mail addressed to Santa Clause unless there is a house number address or postoffice box. All other mail so addressed goes to the dead letter office.
 Do not risk things of value in the mails without registration; this is the time of the year when the light-fingered people are at work, and no one can tell just where they get in their thieving"
 The Passing Of Types of Men.
 "The next decade will probably see a great majority of the different types of men conspicuous In life during the last GO years gathered to their fathers" said a man conversant with southern history. T was very much impressed with a newspaper notice of the death Of a negro, Samuel Barksdale Mims, relic of the slave-holding days, who died November r, 1909, in Chiffon county He was pur- chased March 4, 1s45, by the late James R. Mims; he was then 12 years old. His former master was c. Barksdale of vir- ginia, who lived upon the Dan. He abided with the Mimses generation after generation. and was kindly cared for during his last days by his master g grandchildren. He was pious and tenn perate and respected by all. lilies demise was so sudden that it is said that not even the shadow of death seemed to take from his face the calm and peaceful look which he wore the last years of his life.
 And the great white men of the south are passing away rapidly. Soon all of them will be but memory. It does not seem that there are any to take the places of the history-makers of the last 50 years. It is true that times make men, but even with that the new idea, so-called new thought, and the spirit of commercialism do not promise to give us the great preachers. profound thinkers, statesmen and jurists that came upon the stage early in the birth of this republic, with continuous line of successors, remark , able in many respects
 "An of the great Indians are dead; most of the great statesmen of the south and of the north have ceased from their labors soon all those shadows fsocial life of the south in its best and happiest days-the old slaves-will also have nassed away'