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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
MANTEL OF 1.-THE RAVEN"

To the Editor of the New York Times:
In your editorial on the Centenary Of
Poe's Birth" is a slip to which others
with more intimate knowledge will doubt
less call attention; II not, this will serve:
1t is stated that 1.-THE mantel discovered
last year. was from IT." /. e., the Poe cot
tage at Fordham. AS remember the cor
respondence, the mantel, on which Is
Poe's autograph, was rescued from the
Brennan homestead just before its demo-
lition in 1884 This house stood on West
Eighty-fourth street, not far from the
river, and is the one in which, it is
claimed Poe lived at the time he wrote
1.-THE Raven" All my reading is to the eff
feet that he did not occupy the Fordham
cottage until some time after his best
known poem was published.
CHARLES THOMS.
Brooklyn, December %, 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
LATEST AIRsHIP NOVELTY.
Regular Aerial Traffic VIII Begin In
Paris Next May.

From Paris Letter to the American
Register, London.
A company has been formed in France
for the purpose of constructing naviga-
bic balloons upon luxurious principles.
They are to carry 10 persons including
the captain and two engineers and will
De provided with a motor of 20O-horse
power. The saloons will be made of
aluminium frames, and be furnished after
the style of private pleasure yacht
and provided with every luxury for long
voyages. The company has already two
sneds ready, one at Sartrouville and the
other at Meaux, and it is proposed to
nave others at Nancy, Orleans, Bordeaux,
Toulouse and Pau.
Inc f1rst trips will be over Paris, by
night as well as by day, and visits will
be made to Versailles. Fontainbleau and
San German, and other favorite resorts
in the neighborhood. 1t is said that reg
ular aerial traffic will commence in May
next.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
A SeVen-M illiOn-ACre Trust

The idea has long prevailed that a
trust in farm lands would not be FEAST
BILE or possible, but James j. Hill and
associates are demonstrating in Texas
that this idea has no basis to rest upon.
They have arranged to organize a farm
of 1000 900 acres. This trust farm will
embrace 1-26th part of the Lone Star
State, which is larger than the German
empire The new trust farm is to be
larger than Connecticut, Rhode Island
and Delaware combined.
True, the trust farm is called q
ranch, but it's products will come in
competition with the products Of farms
in every other state. The Jim Hill
cattle, hides and dairy products will be
felt in every market. 1t remains now
to extend the Hill plan until whole
state is covered, and then indeed ii
will be seen that trusts can be organ
lied in almost every industry.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Old Year and the New.

Matthew Addy & Co.'s weekly market
review is as follows:
Here comes the glad New Year. The
old year did not have much gladness as
far as pig iron was concerned. 1t was
a bad year and 1t goes unlamented to
the great beyond. In fact the less said
about 1908 the better for the only good
that can be said of it is that while 1t
was a season of disappointments yet 1t
has been the means of bringing many
economies into the trade and 1t has
stopped an era of expansion of produc-
ton that in the end might have been
disastrous. The year 1909 is coming along
with great expectations. The feeling Is
universal in the pig iron trade that this
year will largely atone for all the troubles
of its predecessor
Some time back, Just after the election
when things began to revive, there was
hope that the process of Improvement
would be very rapid and that we might
almost regain over night what we had
been losing for Il months. for that was
about the period of retrograde move
ment. 1t is evident now that the advance
movement is going to be slower than was
anticipated, but there is not any ques-
ton but that it will surely come.
In spite of the holidays there has been
quite a little business. Prices are firm
and the prospect for large inquiry early
in January is exceedingly good. The
main business of the week was the pur-
chase by large plumbing supply con-
Germ of all the iron they will use for six
months to come.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
Old Time Crowds.

birmingham has borne real metro
politan look for the past few weeks said
an old resident last night. "A few months
back the crowds on the streets were
somewhat slim but recently the streets
have been thronged constantly from early
morn to late at night. New Years day
witnessed the business part of Birming-
ham an ever surging mass of people.
Nearly all of the stores were closed all
day, but soda fountains and picture shows
did a rushing business With the in
creasing crowds business appears to have
taken a new squirt. Statesmen with whom
1 have talked during the last few days
say that the amount of business trans
acted during the last few days has really
been remarkable for this time of the
year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
Volcano at Sea.

Norfolk, January IA volcano at sea
and field of boiling water off the coast
of Georgia are among the phenomena
which British officers have reported to
the photographic office here. While the
steamer Baltic was headed towards this
coast on December g. in latitude 51:14 and
longitude q, First Officer Landmary OBJ
served what he reported as an eruption
of apparently 20 miles distant to the west
ward resembling a volcano action"
The weird disturbance lasted but a
few seconds. The British steamship Lord
Dufferin on December IS, passed an area
of boiling water less than two hundred
miles off the southern coast according
to the captains report.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
Leap Year LIS Gone.

1.-The men can breathe a sigh of relief
now" said Frank Ellis last night in
fact, today has been the only one in a
year that a man could stand in the pres
ence of maid without fear and tremb-
ling lest she propose to him and force
him to accept her. The old bachelors es-
pecially have lifted their voices in one
glad hurrah for the death of 1908. There
are many bachelors who have developed
great wrinkles in their faces and gray
hairs on their heads during this past leap
year all on account of this lodging the
advances of anxious maids
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

Columbus Ledger; The Birmingham
Age-Herald says that Castros star of
destiny is in eclipse.
Houston POST "Outlook Never Bright
err" reads a Birmingham Age-Herald
headline. But it will be; it will blaze
after March 4.
Washington Herald: Japan is happy"
says the Birmingham Age-Herald. This
should tempt Captain Hobson to still
further silence.
Beaumont Enterprise The Age-Herald
says that there are 100 blind tigers in
that city It is doubtful whether Hous-
ton will raise this boast.
Mobile Herald; The Birmingham Age
Herald advertises the fact that there are
more than hundred tigers in that city
with defective vision. That's enterprise.
Charleston News and Courier: Birming-
ham Age-Herald says: Augusta. Ca,
IS becoming almost as well known as Bir-
mingham." Whereby the safety of all
Hay1arlng men is promoted.
Meridian Dispatch; 1.-THE Christmas
counter rush." says the Birmingham Age
Herald, lis now but a memory That's
the bitter part of it. The bills will soon
extend their Happy New Years greet
ing.
Hattesburg News: The Birmingham
Age-Herald has discovered that at least
three Ananiases are mentioned in the
Bible-and the man who wrote the Bible
hadn't seen the private list of Mr.. Roose-
velt
Houston Post: The Age-Herald says
there are 100 blind tigers in Birmingham.
And it might be added that all reports
to the effect that Birmingham has been
eliminated from our itinerary are without
foundation.
Meridian Dispatch If the incompetency
charged against the Alabama legislative
clerks by the Birmingham Herald, is
well founded it looks as If the state of
Alabama is badly in need of a proof
itol.
Charleston News and Courier: 1.-The
Birmingham Age-Herald says that there
are 100 blind tigers in Birmingham and
all reports are false that we have elm
mated Birmingham from our itinerary"
says the Houston Post. The Post means
that at Birmingham it will celebrate it's
centenary.
s
Norfolk Virginian and Pilot: How state
wide prohibition works in cities is illus
trated by conditions in Birmingham. The
Age-Herald states that at least one hun
dred bars are in operation there, with
| scarcely pretence of concealment. In
Mobile things are as wide open as though
no law abolshing saloons had ever been
passed. In Savannah the statute is uni
versally held in contempt. In Atlanta
| liquor can be bought at twice as many
places as when the license system was
In vogue. The same story everywhere.
Prohibition forced on a community by
the legislature does not prohibit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
New Year ushered In.

Union Springs, January l.--(Special.)-
The new year was rshered in here by De
ringing Of all the church bells. Several
watch parties were given last night where
the young people gathered and watched
the old year out and the new year in.
Our merchants are all about through
taking stock and are ready fof the new
wears trade. The streets are crowded
every day now with the black farmer ar
ranging for the new years supplies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
Modan Club Banquet.

Admission, January 1.-(Special. WED
nesday evening the Modan club enjoyed a
10-course banquet at the New Wilmer
hotel, the following members being pres
emit: Frank Thompson, William A. Davis.
Jr., Henry Noble, Miller Ingram, Arthur
Slattery, Arthur Gaboury, Henry Cobb,
Alma Quinn, Albert Johnston, Stott Noble,
Patton Kennedy, Richard H. SticlSney, Jr.,
Leo Seisveldt. The remarks of Henry
Cobb as POSTMASTER were both brilliant
and spicy, and the evening was one long
to be remembered by the club.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
New Years Eve Mishaps,

New York, January IA summary of
the mishaps attending New York's New
Years eve street festivities show that 10
persons were shot, none fatally Eight
ns the shooting cases occurred in Manhat-
tan. four in Brooklyn and one in Queens.
Several fights were reported between the
police and holiday thrOngs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
Mrs. M. e. M. Davis Is Dead.

New Orleans, January MARY Evelyn
Moore Davis, the popular southern au-
thoress and wife of Major Thomas Ed
ward Davis, editor of the Picayune, died
here today. Mrs. Davis home in the old
French quarter of New Orleans was re-
nowned for it's hospitality and many of
the leading literary personages of the
country and Europe have been entertained
there during the last few decades. Major
and Mrs. Davis have also lived at various
times in Virginia and Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
Need for Roads.

ut seems to me- said a suburban
man last night, that if these little towns
are again out from under the skirts of
Birmingham they had better patch up
their roads, and make it possible to get
back and forth from town.
THE connecting links between Avon
dale, Woodlawn, and East Lake, as well
those around Graymont, Fairview and
Elyton are all rough and muddy. County
roads in almost any direction are far bet
ter. l hope the city councils of these
towns will get busy quickly and do things
while their office lasts"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
FINE OLD CONDUCTORS SERVICE.

From the Louisville Times.
With the coming New Year. Maj.
John Gault will enter his forty-seventh
year as conductor of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. Although Major Gault
is nearly Y years of age, he is in fine
physical condition, and bids fair to
be in harness for many years to come.
He gets over his train as nimbly as any
of the younger men in the service.
During his long career he has been
remarkably free from accidents and has
always had the good fortune to bring his
trains into the station in good order.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New YORK TTeSs
There's nothing ever coming to the pub
lie from anybody, and 1t gets 1t.
man daring to kiss her Is that he didn' t
do it before.
A lucky thing about getting married is
that for the one time other people are
stuck for the presents.
No matter what a womans husband
does. she can always find some excuse
for it unless it was about another
woman.
All that is needed for man e think
an occupation is beneath him is ~ him
to be able to make a comfortable living
at it by industry.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
RIPPLES.


IT is announced that Croker will raise
hens. That isn't what he used to raise.
Now that a prophecies has been found
who foretold the italian disaster, it
seems to have been perfectly regular.
A Pennsylvania man who has returned
after an absence of IS years, is silent
about his past. 1t is possible to make
a great many mistakes in 2S years.
whats the matter with Boston?" asks
the Boston Herald. We'd hate to hurt
anybody's feelings in Boston.
That seismograph at Washington now
gleefully claps it's hands and says: II
told you so."-Cincnnati Times Star. That
ought to be sight worth seeing and
sound worth hearing.
mo cause for alarm" says Pennsyl-
vania newspaper. That depends a great
deal on where you are standing.
1t is noticeable that when a man is
blown up by his wife he seldom gets
puffed up about it.
Every now and then some old duffer
elopes with some old dame who ought to
know better. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
Largest Cocoa Crop.

GuayaquN, Ecuador. Jnngary 1.-The
cocoa crop this season is the largest ever
produced in Ecuador and amounts to 2o5,-
900 900 pounds. The price averages about
80 per cent less than last year, and this
fact has had an unsettling effect on the
financial situation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
Weather for Year.

"Old people will now note carefully the
weather we will have for the first u days
in January" said a man. THE old say
ing is that these days indicate the kind
of weather which will prevail during the
u months of the year and you will find
many an old person whose faith in this
prediction cannot be shaken. II today s
prediction be true we will have a month
of shivers all right
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
A BANQUET.

From the Franklin Times.
The Birmingham Age-Herald last Thurs
day issued special coal mining review
for the Birmingham district which was
very highly creditable supplement to
that bright and newsy morning daily.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

Backed by an income of $15.000,00
a year, Mr.. Carnegie has no further use
for a Chinese wall as a shield and
source of profit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

Just about 25,O00,0O0 Red Cross
tuberculosis stamps have been sold,
and the fund is therefore increased
to the extent of $250,000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
WHAT THE TRAMPS COST

Migrants shall be committed, their terms
to be indefinite. The bill is modelled in
many respects upon compulsory labor coll
onies which have already proved their
success in Europe
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

Pittsburg is waking up to the fact
that by being alert it can pick from
700 900 population enough honest men
to fill it's council chambers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

Calabrians are now convinced the
United States is good country to
emigrate to.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

Mr.. Castro had his common sense
working to it's maximum when he pre-
ferred German sanitarium to Vene-
Zuelan prison.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

A policeman in Chicago was robbed
of his star, revolver, money and billy.
He was turned out on an unfeeling
world with only clew as his capital.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

The Kaiser will be so years old on
January 27, and he is old enough to
hold his tongue on public subjects, and
he is doing it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

The Sicilians in America begin to
see that they gained homes that have
not acquired the seismic habit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

This year has two mines of its own
to attend to without any reference to
the bleachers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

The calendar year is ended and Con-
gress will soon meet to attend to the
fiscal year, which goes right on.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

Tom Platt's memoirs will fill great
books If he tells all he knows about
men and women.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

The ice man and the weather man
are getting together in some parts OF
the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
JOHN BOYLE o'REILLYs HEDGE
Destroyed by Gypsy Moths In Hull

From the Boston Herald.
Gypsy moth have destroyed the hedge
which John Boyle OReilly, the Irish pa
troit and American citizen, planted around
the cottage which he built on the site Of
the old Hunt house that overlooked the
bay from Main street, Hull, from 1910
till 1889.
Mr.. O'Reilly, who was both poet and
gardener in addition to other activities,
received the shoots for this hedge, as
well as many other shrubs and plants
which he tended with great care, from
friends in Ireland, as well as from neigh
bors, who were ever anxious to show the
affection they felt for him. In response
he wrote this quatrain:
A kindly act is a kernel sown,
That will grow to a goodly tree,
Shedding it's fruit when time has flown
Down the gulf of eternity.
When the patriots daughter was told
that the old hedge must go she was much
distressed. ''If the tree warden at HULL"
she said, "could possibly save the old
hedge I will be glad and grateful. The
baby bushes came to my father the gift
Of an old friend, and he planted them him
self, dreaming of the time when they
would make our home like a garden in
closed. Six weeks later we left the viii
lage for good, but the little hedge, cared
for by kindly neighbors, grew and did
we'll, living memorial of the faithful
friendship of papa's many friends in
Hull"
The estate has suffered from the raw
ages of time. Scarcely a tree or shrub
remains alive and the house itself has
forlorn appearance. People in the
neighborhood recall the saying which one
of the tenants of the Hunt house is said
to have originated-that the man who tore
1t down would not live long in the struc-
ture which replaced at.
Mr.. O'Reilly lived in the house just six
weeks and then one Sunday morning was
discovered dead in his chair, q book In
one hand and half-smoked cigar in the
other The cottage is large one and In
its lines suggests the old Dowth castle
in Ireland, where Mr.. O'Reilly was born.
The castle was sold to Professor Mar
coe, with the understanding that the
hedge and shrubbery were to be cared for
by the newcomers. Professor Mavcoe
had no sooner become settled In the
house than he died as suddenly as did
the former owner At present the cot
tage is occupied In the summer by the
Hull villa 90 cl,1D
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
COLD WEATHER.

When the sweet forecast of summers
in the air
And Spring her fancies weaveth every
where,
In truth, tits easy still to wear a pleas
ant smile
and harbor frolic spirits all the while.
1here's something in old Winters chilling
breath
That seems to do our vagrant dreams
to death
Ana roos us of the bold emprise to roam
Altar aheld. Instead. we stay at home
And WOO the radiator or the CRATE
And lie in bed each morning very late.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

The state oil inspector of Missouri is
now restricted to olive oil, castor oil
and cod liver oil.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

The opportunity of the American an
archist to pull whiskers Is not good
except at Albany, N. Y.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

The charter of the Ananias club ex-
pires, dear friends, at noon, March 4
next.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
YEA. VERIFY.

"A woman in Michigan who runs a
boarding house wants a divorce from her
husband on the ground that he jawed
the cook"
"Well. she ought to have it. When
a mans wife supports him the least he
can do is to keep his mouth shut"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

The Gomez family never misses a
presidency it contends for.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

Between a red-tape constitution and
slovenly legislators Alabama Is In a
sadly muddled condition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
SURE.

Now, simply keeping at 1t
And doing still your best
Of course, each day reserving
A certain time for rest
And taking frequent chances
To smile cherry smile
Fen though you win no prizes,
VIII make your life worth while!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

Castro is perhaps the best living
judge of the psychological moment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
UNFOLDING A DRAMA.

UNFOLDING A DRAMA.
The house is a sight and the children
unkempt-
Poor father gets nothing to eat;
| He can't find his collars, he can't find
his pipe,
Or the slippers he wears on his feet
All the comforts of home they are thrown
to the winds
My soul. but there's trouble to pay!
We're talking in whispers and walking
tiptoe,
For mother is writing play.
She says there's a problem she wants
to exploit
| new definition of love
That never was known in the regions
| below,
! Or heard of in heaven above.
1t deals with the faults of society
And tn evils so rampant today
Oh, the world and its manners will soon
get a shock,
! For mother Is writing a play
She has picked out an actor to take the
chief part
Who stands on the top round of fame;
I'm sure that you know him and you
be surprised
If I would just mention his name.
Inc doorbells removed and the telephone,
too,
And callers are staying away,
For the word has gone out to the neigh
bors around
That mother is writing a play.
Why she doesn't write plays by the
score
And epigrams come to her when she's
at her desk
That she never had thought of before.
No doubt, she will soon get a. wire from
the trust,
Declaring how much it will pay;
Then fame will be ours and riches to
burn,
For mother is writing a playl
TAKING NO RISKS.
81 presume that the love songs of mar
ried poets are inspired by their wives?"
Not always, but the married poets are
very careful to inculcate such a belief
in the minds of their wives.'
BEYOND ALL DOUBT.
Who plays the game
AS best he may
And bears the brunt,
Day after day,
OF fortunes slight,
With constant heart,
Hath-win or lose
A heros part.
ALL ABOARDi
Gee, what a crowd on the old water
wagon,
While it goes numbering down the road
Every man jack of them turned from the
hagon-
Ladies' you know never take on a load.
Looks they are wearing of strong determi-
nation,
Having said goodbye to all strong
drink;
Fallng-off town is the very next sta
ton
The trip will be a long one, l don't
think
IN THE MOOD.
docs he give tips?"
only when he's tipsy.'