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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
THE DREAMER LIVES FOREVER.

By John Boyle O'Reilly. I am tired of planning and toilfng
 In the crowded hives of men; Heart-weary of building and spelling,
 And spelling and building again.. And long for the dear old river,
 Where I dreamed my youth away; For a dreamer lives forever,
 But toiler dies in day. I am sick of shallow seeming
 Of a life that Is half lie; Of the faces lined with scheming
 In the throng that hurries by. From the sleepless thoughts endeavor
 I would go where the children play; For dreamer lives forever,
 And a thinker dies in a day. I feel no pride, but pity,
 For the burdens the rich endure; There is nothing sweet in the city
 But the patient lives of the poor; Oh the little hands too skillful,
 And the child mind choked with weedsi The daughters heart grown willful. And the fathers heart that bleeds! Oh no! from the streets rude hustle,
 From the trophies of mart and stage I would fly to the woods low rustic, And the meadows kindly page. Let me dream as of old by the river, And be loved for the dream alwayS For dreamer lives forever.
 And toiler dies in day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
Taxing Small Investors

Progressive republican papers of the Providence Journal sort are beginning to wonder where the President stands The man who selected three prominent corporation lawyers as cabinet mem bers, one of them becoming attorney general; the man who came to the aid of Speaker Cannon when insurgent republicans demanded a revision of oppressive rules; the man who now swallows his income views expressed in his acceptance speech in order to defeat an income tax and to aid the Aldrich crowd-where does such a man really stand? The Journal seems to doubt whether he has a mind or will of his own. It cites his frequent con- come of those conferences is invariably against the progressive members of his party.
 Public sentiment in the country un- mistakably favors an income tax. Pub lie sentiment in the republican party does likewise. Scarcely any proposi- tion has come before Congress with a stronger popular backing, and the new Taft,Aldrich scheme will not prove ac- ceptable to a large number of repub- ncans. s'The merit of the income taxV
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
Extension of the Illinois Central

The Savannah News does not shed tears over the practical merging of the Central Railroad of Georgia in the far greater Illinois Central. On the con trary it indulges in bright visions over the making of a great through line from Chicago to the sea. It sees a vastly larger traffic coming to and leaving the wharves of it's city. AS seaport of a vast system the News be- lieves Savannah will become rich and populous. It proceeds to build air castles. It even thinks the importing business of Chicago will be transacted through the Savannah custom house instead of New York, and this is why, says the News, Savannah will need more wharves and warehouses.
 In discussing the subject President Harahan says the Illinois Central now in a commanding position with respect to southeastern rates and traffic. Tn time," he added, "there will be great improvement in the through freight and passenger service between the middle west and the larger centers of the southeast" Chicago plainly pro- poses that New York shall no longer monopolize business in the southeast. It proposes to get on a parity with New York in the southeast. This is really was the recent merger means.
 Savannah welcomes the merger and so does Birmingham, but not a peep has been heard from Atlanta, which is now on asstub branch of the Illinois Central. Americus is on another, and Montgomery on still another. Stub lines are, however, useful. All towns cannot be on the main line, and rates may be as favorable of the main line as they are on it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
WEARING EYEGLASSES.

From the Boston GlODe.
 A Boston oculist Is authority for the statement that the number of persons who wear eyeglasses or spectacles Is steadily and rapidly increasing in this country, especially in cities. The great est defect in American eyesight, he says, is its inability to see at great distances. and this myopia. is due large 1y to looking off at the far horizon or up to the sky, and so we are losing the power to see objects at distance. Skyscrapers are effective Instructions to long range of vision.
 "It makes no difference,' says the oculist whether one be employed all day in small office boring over set of books or whether he Is hurrying about the city streets, he cannot see very far about him. And even In his home the walls of his room have been grouped more closely around him. It is only a question of time when the eyes of those who are compelled to work in artificial light all day long will become so unac- customed to daylight that binders will have to be resorted to-"
 All the glass that is used in the optical puslhSSs III tnis country IS linporteu, LOT American glass manufacturers have thus far been unable to produce glass of the requisite quality for spectacles and eye glasses. And right here the great and unspeakable wisdom and beneflcenee of our protective tariff is exemplified. It i'm poses a tax of about 50 per cent ad yalorem on lenses, thus increasing the cost of a necessity and also protectine an infant industry that Is yet to be born.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
Political Clean-Up In Kansas

The Kansas City Star, valuable paper that Is more independent than republican in politics, attributes the political rehabilitation of its state to the elimination of the free pass The politicians opposed the enactment of an anti-pass law, but public sentiment was felt in the end and at length an anti-pass bill became law. This was five or six years ago, and the Star in surveying the changes that have taken nlace in Kansas does not hesitate to declare that it was the most formid- able political evil in that state, for it fostered a crooked and corrupt po- litical ring, machined politics and die tated legislation. When it was gone the people took hold with courage and the politics of the state was put on a higher plane The most potent factor in the revolution was the abolition of the free pass"
 Pass givers always expect something in return. The purpose and intent Of passes is everywhere the same, and Alabama has been getting better ever since passes were prohibited. What has grown out of the movement in Kansas will be developed here, and when our cleanup stands wholesome and complete no one will desire to re- turn to the pass regime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
orlninal Drum corns.

'The famous original drum corps of the L. o. B. Branch camp of Raliegh N. C., was in the cify this week returning from the Memphis reunion," said a Confederate veteran last night.
 "The surviving members of the drum corps are Wiley T. Johnson, James J. Lewis and W. B. Royster. The fourth member of this corps died at Raleigh a few years ago.
 Tt will be rememberer by many vet erans and others that these three sur vlvors formed one of the most interesting features of the reunion m Birmingham a year ago. They carry the same drums and fife that they used in war service.
 "They have never disbanded since the surrender and attend every reunion to- gether."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
Great Presbxterlan Meetina.

''Fhe Alliance of the Reformed churches holding the Presbyterian system, now in session in New York, brings to- gether many of the foremost divines and laymen from both sides of the Atlantic" said a professional man. Tt is not a. legislative body but the papers read and the addresses delivered by delegates may be said to interpret the modern thought of Presbyterianism and are, therefore. of great interest to the members of the various branches of that vigorous and in- fuential denomination.
 "The alliance was organized in London in 1875 Its next meeting was in Edin- burgh in 1877. The organization was then called the Presbyterian council. Later on it was changed to the Presby- terian alliance and finally the present name was adopted so as to make it's scope broader without in anywise min imizing it's Presbyterian character. In the early days of history many notable ministers, long since dead, were promi- nent in the meetings of the alliance. When 1t assembled in Edinburgh 92 years ago the southern Presbyterian church sent as one of its delegates the late Dr. Moses D. Hoge of Richmond. He made a speech which Moncure D. Conway re- ferred to as one of the most eloquent and forceful ever heard In Scotland s capital.
 Able scholars are participating in the New York meeting, but 1t is safe to say that in the matter of convincing oratory the speeches are not up to those that held the listeners rapt in other days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
HOW OREGON GOT ITS NAME. From the Portland Oreqouian

run tii0 OllidHd OIcBO1idil.
 We believe it most probable that the name of Oregon arose out of some cir cumstance connected with western ex- plorations under direction of the French. Earlier than the English, the French had pressed on westward from the Great Lakes to the Red river. to the sas- katchewan, and to the foot of the Rocky mountains. They were ranging the coun- try of the upper Mississippi in search of furs and for trade with the natives; they were full of curiosity and active in inquiry about the great, distant west and the unknown western sea. Of this sea they possessed Spanish charts and probably used among the natives the word "Aragon," as a homonym of Spain When Jonathan Carver. of Connecticut, was on his expedition to the upper Mis- sissippi country in 1767-6S he made all possible inquiries, he tells us, about the country toward the west, the western river and the sea, and the word Oregon" :" and the name was written for the first time so far as we now know or possibly can ever know, in Carver's book, pub lshed in London in 177S. It is a book of little importance or value except for the fact that it gives to the world the name of Oregon, which Carver says he got from natives in the country of the upper Mississippi. Recent writers have shown that much of Carters book is made up of unaeknowledged extracts from Henne- pin, Labontan and Charlevoix, and as Carver had no scholarship 1t is believed the book was compiled in London, partly from Carver's own story and partly from the records of French and Eng fish exploration. It is significant. further. that in Carver's book tribes of Indians and various objects are often designated by French names or terms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Real Improvement.

''I have not felt the improvement in business so unmistakably as this week, . said Oliver Chalifoux, the well-known clothier. There is more trade and the outlook for still further improvement is bright.
 Genuine prosperity seems to be close at hand. At any rate before the summer is over industrial conditions in the Bir- mingham district should be normal; and business promises to be unusually brisk by the early fall"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
THE DIPLODOCUS.
n the New York Sun.

From the New Iork Sun.
 The sovereigns of America, regarding with stupefaction the prizes which the Thane of Skibo is bestowing upon the soyereigns of Europe, are a serried inter rogation point. We lay at their feet such poor information as is here re- quired of us:
 'ro the Editor of The sun-sir: As no one else seems to have the moral courage, I'll bite. What is a Diplodocus'?
 "C. F. S."
 Sea Gate June g."
 The Diplodocus or Doublebar was sauropod dinosaur by profession. Save in the slight eceentricity, if eccentricity 1t be, of wearing ''the rami of the ischia straight. not expanded distally,' and of having "a weak dentition,' probably as the result of biting off more than 1t could chew, it seems to have been in the same precinct with the rest of it's tribe. What, then, was common ordinary dinosaur? Sometimes 1t was as big as all out of doors. Sometimes it was no bigger than a chicken or MT. Carnegie. Sometimes it weighed 25 tons. just half of the Pitts burg Tolstois fighting weight when he is full of moral indignation over rebates or the duties on steel and iron. It could weep like a crocodile, or like the Thane deploring war or hearing that his offer to buy the Philippines had been refused. It had saltatory limbs, on which it danced the Hieland fling, and cnemlal crests with the motto: T Get All There Is." It was a brother of the ostrich, that delicate and diplomatic bird. Sometimes 1t wore a horn and blew it so that the eternal hills had goosefiesh and the citadels of pro- lection had to be propped up. Often its "prominent feature was the size of its head (dinosaurus megalomaniacus). It was as much at home and just as popular on water as on land. It usually crept, but sometimes stood on it's hind legs; and 1t had prehensile claws even on its toes. Like that of the pterosaurians, it's charac- ter was "reptilian,' and yet in many re- spects 1t was "a bird" It was carni- wore and a vegetarian, presumably eat ing grass for the sake of dying poor.
 In short, the Diplodocus, if we may judge by it's brothers and sisters. was a gifted and unusual being, suffered to grow up in those wild Jurassic ages that In the fitness of time it might be memento and memorial of another unusual and gifted being in the hearts, the courts and the museums of Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
HOT WEATHER HINTS.

People are prone to get fussy in hot weather Peevishness never did pay and in the summer time 1t makes the per- son peeved feel just that much worse. However, keeping ones temper on ice, figuratively speaking. is not the only sensible thing to do. Here are some other good suggestions by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Don't try to keep your horsepower up with meats. Loaf along under low pres sure alongside the vegetable wagon.
 Keep your wind shield up at night Sleeping in draught kills the engine about as regularly as anything known. Never mind the speed records for while. Stop in the shade now and then, make frequent repairs and ride sitting up.
 Don't try to carry too much gasoline. Just enough in the tank to keep the spark alive and saturate the parts now and then with a soft drink
 Don't worry. Nothing is going to break You are not going to run into anything. Aour tires are all right Peace"
 NOT WORRYING.
 "Is he an optimist7"
 Either that or thoroughly selfish. It doesn't seem to make any difference to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19

NM 1rHoUT meaning to detract in VN any way from the greatness of
 w Wilbur and Orville Wright. the airship men, it can be claimed that but for a woman they would today prob ably be repairing bicycles or automobiles for living, unknown and unsung. That woman Is their sister, Miss catharine Wright, who has recently returned home with them after enjoying the favor of Kings, presidents and princes on the con- tinent.
 There is no prettier story than the de- votion of the members of the Wright fam fly each to the other. There were five children-four boys and girl. One Of the boys left home early and now re- sides in Kansas. Another became a bookkeeper married, and had a family of his own to look after. The sister fitted herself for teaching and secured a place in the public schools of Dayton, Ohio. Wilbur and Orville remained at home with their parents and this sister About the time the two brothers got through school the bicycle craze was at Its height and they engaged in bicycle repairing as a business.
 It was while conducting this business that they began working upon ma chine which developed into the flying machine. Their original idea was to make a toy, a sort of aerial toboggan upon which a fellow could have fun. They constructed a plane of that kind and found that so long as it moved forward 1t would support them. Then the idea of attaching a motor to 1t and driving 1t forward entered their minds.
 It was at this critical period In their careers that the aid of the sister was sought She had taken an interest in the gliding machine, but when they began talking about flying machines, she grew enthusiastic. Right away Wilbur and orville Wright, with the aid of their sister, took up the serious study of aero nautics. They read everything printed upon the subject, the sister ordering the books for them as they learned of the volumes that had appeared. But they did not believe everything they read in the books, and that was their salvation, in a sense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
A New Industry.

Several new industries have been es- tablished in Birmingham recently and a number, will be located here shortly, - said a member of the Chamber of Com merce.
 Hastings & Bibro, sole proprietors and manufacturers of the celebrated H. & B. salt and popped shaker, are building d factory here. which will be in operation In about 50 days. Such industries not only swell the payrolls and add to the volume of Birminghams trade, but play an im- portant part in advertising this city as a mannfac curing center"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
Steady Iron Market.

While there is no large buying move ment in the pig iron market. a good tonnage is being booked and it looks now as if June business in the Birming- ham district would make a far better showing than was predicted 10 days ago. Small and moderate lots will make sur prisng total.
 Matthew Addy & Co.'s weekly report says:
 There is no pessmistic note in the business chorus. From every quarter comes word of a steadily expanding vol ume of trade. The iron business has not been heading the procession in the re- vival of industry; on the contrary it has been tagging behind other branches. But 1t looks as if the slow and steady bet terment of conditions in the iron busi- ness meant that general improvement had come to stay. There is not feature of the present situation that Is not on the bull side. By this we do not mean that there Is anything like a boom in pros pect, but conditions are all promising. In the south. order books are in fine shape. They have been gradually filling up until tAe d55iS6deo tohhdSc isf illSiiy sdtlsldc- tory. And in the north there has been and Is much free buying. Prices, of course, have been at bottom figures, but they are firm and have a rising tendency.
 This week business has consisted of a good many small lots of foundry iron and a few good sized lots of malleable and basic. The most favorable sign we have noticed is the urgency of many con- sumers for faster shipments. They want iron in a hurry, and they want it for actual use. There are some kinds of iron that are in exceedingly short supply. notably low grade southern metals"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
SPENDING HIS WEALTH.

From the Catholic Standard and Herald.
 q can't last much longer. my dear" said old MT. Kloseman, who was near ing his end; ''but, ah it's good to think that even after death I'll be near you and watch over you"
 ''Well-er-really,' replied the soon-to- be young widow If that's true, Silas I'm afraid my extravagance will pain you terribly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
IN 1o5O.

From the Louisville Courier-J Journal.
 'I suppose you had hardships in your early days, grandpop?' Yes; many a-time I got up of winter morning and walked four blocks to bor- row book from a Carnegie Library. They didn't deliver the books in those dox
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the NeW 1OrK FTtSs.
 The great objection to exercise is 1t is good for the health.
 What makes women so good is trying to shame men out of being so bad.
 A girl Is hardly ever entirely satisfed with herself unless nobody else is.
 The meanest thing about having people visit you Is when you have to go to visit them in return.
 A man might just as well make up his mind to like being fooled by girls be- causa he's going to be anyhow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
DTvERTING HER THOUGHTS.

"Dearie" said Mrs. Ponsonby, as she was glaneing over the morning paper, "I see where Mrs. Howard Gould changed her clothes at least three times a day and T."
 "Yes, yes" interrupted MT. Ponsonby, with an uneasy expression of counten- ance. Would you like to take a little outing with me this evening at one of the city parks?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19

copper and iron, waterpower greater in volume and cheapness than any other section of the country, the northwest has future which dazzles the imagination.
 And new type of American is being evolved in this almost virgin country. impatient of traditions and conventions, hungry for results, with making good" as the ideal of civic and personal action, the new northwesterners are militant op- timists with that energetic faith that re- moves mountains. They are growing rap idly in numbers and influence, and the time is not far off when they win have a much more potent voice in national af- fairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19

Katherine Clemmons Gould paid out about $120,O00 a year to maintain her station" Evidently she had changed stations" since she was member of Buffalo Bills company on the road.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19

General Humidity and Old Sol are in partnership to the great distress of the people of this section. Fortunately they are not aided by Colonel Stegomyia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19

Ragtime music and the colored comic supplement seem to be going out or fashion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19

Pittsburg's ambition is not confined to chorus girls, for 1t has recently pro- duced a mushroom weighing 331a hounds. but 1t has no steak to match 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19

The short-weight sugar trust will be the test of the present administra- tion's tendencies. The esteemed Wick ersham is furnishing the official law, if should be remembered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19
SUCCESS OF THE WRIGHTS

Miss Wright made the calculations, and her brothers made the experiments. The
 three worked together Before any dem-
 onstration was made, before her broth
 eres had tested the machine they were
 building, Miss Wright knew that it was
 possible for man to fly. She was the
 first woman in the world to know it pos
 itively. She knew it because she herself
 had made the calculations. She was will
 ing to stake what little money she had
 saved from her salary as a school teach
 CT, along with the smaller amount her
 brothers had saved, upon the outcome of
 the device to be made according to her
 calculations. She staked it, and she won.
 When the machine was completed and
 was found to be success and it became
 desirable to get in touch with the nations of the world it was Catharine Wright
 who brought the aeroplane to the atten-
 ton of the men who would have to be
 dealt with. The letters which the repre- sentatives of foreign governments received were written by this woman in the namA of her brothers.
 All this time Miss Wright was going daily to the schoolroom. Even their neigh DOTS QlQ not knOW She LOOK any interest
 in the flying machine. They knew that it was characteristic of the Wrights to be devoted to one another. But they
 did not know that this patient school teacher had mastered the intricacies of the air and that she had been in cor respondence with governments, carrying I on the promotion end of the flying ma chine
 Even after the Wright aeroplane had become famous and her brothers were demonstrating 1t to the world, Miss Wright continued her occupation of teach | ing. It was not until Orvile Wright
 met with the accident at Fort Myer,
 which came near costing him his life. that she gave up her position and has tened to him. She remained until he was able to travel took him home, nursed him to health and accompanied him on his
 recent trip to France.
 Miss Wright has always been modest
 and retiring. In the school room she was popular despite the fact she was exact ing. And she Is one woman who has ] proved that she could keep a secret
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19

The aeroplane is even safer than the automobile to the innocent bystander.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19

Cowcatchers in Africa are loaded nowadays, to the sorrow of the wild beasts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-19

Society is now engaged in tucking itself away in summer colleges and taking on tan.