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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
BuiIdinu Records.

High records in building advertise a city peter than almost anything else. said F. R. Grafton of Cincinnati. T notice that Birmingham's building oper- ations last month doubled in volume the building of February, 1908. Of southern cities San Antonio makes the biggest showing It's gain in February was 469 per cent over February of last year; and Nashville makes the next best showing "a gain of 336 per cent. As nearly every city in the United tSates shows a gain, there is considerable degree of pros- perity in evidence, notwithstanding the recent talk about business depression.
 "A visitor can see at a glance that Blr- mingham is going right ahead. The hand some office building in course of con- structicn here indicate the substantial character of the city as nothing else could. l doubt if any of the other cities reporting gains in building operations have so muca large and costly construc- ton on hand as Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
CARAN D'ACHE DEAD.
Great Caricaturist of France, Who
 Ridiculed Public Men.

Paris.-Caran d'Ache, the great carica- turist and cartoonist. died here today, and with his passing ''bugaboo' of the pun- lie men has vanished. No political scan- dal escaped him; no great mans foible was unnoticed.
 The real man, like his real name, was overshadowed by the achievements of Caran d'Ache-the Russian synonym for lead pencil"
 No one remembered that he was born Emanuel Poire, the son of a Russian mother and grandson of French soldier, and that he first saw the light of day in Moscow. He was known only as the poor artist who slipped into fame with his Na- poleonic sketches where the silhouette res production of "The Retreat from Russia" created furore in the Cabaret du Chat Noir, and who later held up the Panama muddle to the laughter and scorn of the world.
 The history of the man whose active fancy spurred the fingers into new en- deavor when his physician counseled avoidance Of pen and ink and provided Paris with distinctly funny toys, was remarkable. His grandfather who had followed Napoleon into Russia, was there taken prisoner and ended his captivity by marriage with a Muscovite bride. Ths pride of the French warrior, however, never died in him, and in his sons son he implanted the love of France.
 At r the young Emanuel decided that he must identify himself with the land of his ancestors, and made his way td Paris to enter the army. It was here that he first began to draw for the amuse- ment of his fellows. His work coming to the attention of Edouard Detaille, that famous artist encouraged him to perse- we're. He has often acknowledged his debt to the older artist.
 Caran d'Ache, as he had already become known, lived at the top of big apart ment house at Passy and worked away necessarily, but was often seen in the bo- hemian haunts. His marriage to rich Russian woman changed his habits. He grew to be something of dandy" rode much on the finest horses and was an indefatigable bicyclist.
 While his comic Panama check book, with it's conjugation of the verb ito f1n- ger' is possibly the most widely known of his drawings, he has given some delight ful political turns to folklore legends His caricatures of Emperor William were the admiration and dread of his imperial majesty.
 His toys carved out of wood, were re-l markable for their side-splitting ugliness. Thus something he had begun purely to divert his mind became rage, ana pres ently a factory was established to pro- duce them fast enough to supply the de- mand. Fashionable ladies carried or led raran d,Ache dogs on the street. Each of the animals bore his name and their figures were flattened out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
PURE WATER CONDENSATION
'om Popular Mechanics

From Popular Mechan1cs.
 In the big desert of Chile there is con- siderable amount of brackish water, but no water that either human beings or stock can drink. Science, however, has come to the aid of this rainless section of the country in the form of an ingen- ious desert water works consisting of a series of frames containing 10000 square feet of glass. The panes of glass are ar ranged in the shape of V. and under each pane is shallow pan containing brackish water.
 The heat of the sun evaporates the wa- ter, which condenses upon the sloping glass and, made pure by this. operation, 1t runs down into little channels at the bottom of the V and is carried away into the main canal. Nearly thousand gal Ions of fresh water is collected daily by this means.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07

of prosperity. He knows the man who tolls, the merchant, the manufacturer. the lawyer, the judge and the profes- sional politician. He has been one of most of them, or in close touch.
 No impulse will lead him astray.
 Therefore I would say that no man who is doing honest business in this country need for one moment hesitate to go ahead
 We need not fear financial nor busi- ness troubles. The corporation and the man with the courage of his convictions should go ahead. The cratic is elimin- ated from the era of the next four years of our period. There is an upbuildlng period with us.
 There may be those who would call me an optimist but I have an abiding faith in the great future prosperity of the south of Alabama and of the Bir- mingham district in particular.
 We need nothing here but fairness and to be let alone.
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 As a matter of fact if the politician and his aspiring results will let the industrial and agricultural south alone it will be but few years before 1t will be the gar den spot of the earth.
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 I like to talk about Birmingham be- cause am a part and parcel of it, and because every man in Alabama and of all the south believes in it's future. They all want to see the Tennessee and all the other big steel and iron companies here employ lots of labor and make money ana distribute it to those who will spend it here in consuming the products of Alabama's soil.
 In building up this Birmingham district we build all Alabama and make here the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
Baseball This Season In Birmineham

President Baugh and Manager Moles. worth have brought together a team of husky young fellows who have rep utations to make in order to go higher where latter salaries are paid. They think they have secured a first divis- ion team. And no doubt they have, provided all internal dissension can be kept out of the team and the en- tire home circle of fandom can be in- duced to pull in unison to encourage the young fellows of this years team.
 Young men on new ground are not apt to indulge in schemes and picker
 ings and this lamentable feature of
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.ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

can woo her again. His devotion at least is commendable.
 Kentucky swain paid a fine of s10.s5 for kissing a girl and told the court it was worth the money. He Is evidently 0 connoisseur.
 The man who sleeps most of the time will never wake up to find himself famous. has just been cheated out of a wife. How ever, the fact that he had already had 14 wives saves his reputation somewhat. At any rate, the suffragette movement will never be one to the hip pocket.
 PAUL COOK.
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To Be Congratulated.

w. H. Stewart of New YorK, formerly superintendent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company for Alabama and now superintendent of agents for the south western states for the same company, is in Birmingham for Q day or two.
 Tn the last two weeks I have been through the larger cities of Iowa, Mis- souri and Tennessee and Birmingham has the most widc-awaSe appearance of any place I have visited. You certainly ought to congratulate yourselves on conditions here. I have seen nothing like it, and al- though it seems but short time since l left the town has almost taken on a new appearance. St. Louis, where I spent two days last week, is especially depressed. It makes man feel good to get to Bir- mingham anl see so much activity after the conditions in most of the cities have been visiting"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
A HELPER.
From the Delinearor.

From the Delineator.
 Here boy; Sun and Telegram!"
 .'Yessur; but jest you buy 'em often de little feller, will yer? He's too plumb skeered ter holler papes fer hisselH
 .sWell. now, this beats all! I thought newsboys always worked against each other Or he's your brother perhaps?"
 Nope; but his dads jest skipped, an so he's he'd ter git out on de street an hustle fer livin'i Wot! No change outen a quarter? Thanky-sir! Aw, now, hddie, see de piece O luck yer got right off! Now pitch in an holler, an work dis yer corner fer all it's wirt; it's a prime place!"
 "Evenin' Sun: Woruld; Telegram, sir?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
SHADOW TOWN.

SHADOW TOWN. Shadow Towns a town where trouble Finds himself at home with tears, Still increasing his dominion
 With the progress of the years. Heartache's there and disappointment, Hidden scars and secret pain And the halting note of sorrow Has usurped life's sweet refrain. Shadow Towns a town where morning Brings no golden ray of hope, To the toilers in the valley,
 Where day after day they nope, Signing still for dreams departed, Stumbling on with bitter moan, Low In spirit, gloomy hearted,
 Bending heaven with a groan. Shadow Towns a town where laughter Rarely ever ripples round, Ne'er a song is worth the singing, Smiling looks are seldom found. Neither bird, nor bee nor blossom Strives to make the spot more fair; Should you reach it in life's journey, Hurry on-don't finger there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
MEDICAL MAXIM s.

From Life.
 It's an i'll wind that blows the doctor good.
 To err is normal; to cure is divine. The patient in the office is worth two in the grave.
 Never operate during periods of de- pression, particularly financial. It is better to have operated and lost, than never to have operated at all. E stitch in time saves embarrassment. An ounce of prevention is worth pound of cure.
 When patients relapse. it's natures fault when thy die, it's their own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT CONDITIONS
 AS THEY ARE AND PROMISE TO BE

real hub of the south. Everyone in the south profits thereby
 But to build up any section there must be conservatism. There is an element of kickers here. This element spends it's time in awaiting to kick when the other element acts.
 Kicking is well. where needed. But no man should always be pessimist and de- vote his life to awaiting his neighbors' acts and then entering protest.
 God made man to be creative
 It is the duty of every man to create q conception or an idea for the benefit of his fellow man.
 In Birmingham alone there is much op- portunity to upbuild. We are wasting money here in our fee system for county officials. and we are rural in having dirty looking old county jail in the center of the city. We have lots of faults which good citizens should be parties to rem- edying.
 | line it would be easy to scrape off the barnacles which have attached themselves to our ship of state and make it a vessel of progress, of good, and of prosperity which all the world would applaud and make us love-not only in Birmingham, but in all Alabama-the section which would be the pride of America.
 There may be such things as optimists, hut tbere is one who was born and raised in the south--who has seen its growth, it's development and its prosperity-one who has studied recent conditions; and one who believes so thoroughly that good times are ahead, that If anyone with pessimistic chip his shoulder comes around it will be knocked off by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
S Roosevelt has gone out of office he has given out statements, told what he intended to do, what he

Y he has given out statements told
 what he intended to do, what he has done, and what he wanted to do. He tells what the other fellow might not have done; and what as private eiti- zen he proposes to do, and what other citizens should do.
 We have read this in print.
 Demerits we have all had. Merits we would have. Ambition is in every Amer ican mind To achieve success, in what ever our undertaking be, is the dream, the ambition and the prayer of every one possessed of true humanity--whatever be his birthplace or his subsequent loca- tion.
 Roosevelt rled lots of people. He de- stroyed some. He made others. There was a something about the man which inspired activity, and the doing of some thing at every minute. Impulse at times butts into judicial temperament But when the man believed that impulse and the environment which really created 1t to be correct was actually correct he quickly told the judicial and the legislative that his conception was correct, his ideas were right and he would stand out for them.
 Lots can be said here. But the man believed himself correct and honest, and he did his best, whoever might say other wise.
 Now new man comes in. He is of judicial temperament. There is nothing of the wicked, nor of the pretended wise about this man Taft who becomes Presi- dent of these United States. He has been a boy a student, a lawyer, judge, a cabinet officer and everything that every honestly raised American boy has ever been. He has seen days of diversity and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
The SIoss-SheffieId.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Soss- Sheffield Steel and Iron com- pany will be held in Jersey City next Wednesday. President J. C. Maben is now In New York and 1t is understood that he carried with him highly satis- factory report. The fiscal year of his company ended November 30, and not wthstanding the depression resulting from the panic of 1907, quite a large sum will be added to the surplus.
 There are no vacancies in the board of directors and no changes in the or ganization will be made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
MEN WHO CHEAT THEMSELVES.

I have known employees actually to work harder in scheming, shirking, trying to keep from working hard in the perform ance of their duties, says Orison Swett Warden, in Success Magazine, than they would have worked if tbey had tried to do their best, and had given the largest, the most liberal service possible to their employers The hardest work in the world is that which Is grudgingly done The youth who is always hagglins over the question of how many dollars and cents he will sell his services for little realizes how he is cheating himself by not looking at the larger salary he can pay himself in increasing his skill, in expanding his experience, and in making himself better. stronger, more useful man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
Business Men Feel Better.

Business has been dull in many sec- tions of the country and especially in manufacturing centers ever since the first of the year, but thers are unmistakable signs of improvement" said William Hainey of St. Louis.
 'The railroads are beginning to order new equipment. and the vast building operations in the large cities can but re- suit In great benefit not only to the building trades but to thousands of wage workers. These and other facts are mak- ing business men feel better and 1t is generally felt that there will be a steady improvement right along. I believe it is a safe prediction that by the summer a new era of rIoseprity will be on us.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
Will Make This His Home.

J. K. Dimmick who has been calling Philadelphia his home for several years past has decided to take up his perma- nent residence in Birmingham While he has-important business interests in Phil adelphia his largest interests are here, and he will give closer attention than ever to the Dimmick cast iron pipe works at North Birmingham.
 The fact that MT. Dimmick is to be- come a citizen of Birmingham affords sincere pleasure to his friends in this district. Few men hereabouts have so large an acquaintance as Mir. Dimmick and besides his sterling business traits he is known in social circles for his charming comradeship His residence here will be regarded therefore as a distinct
 As acquisition from any point of view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
DIFFICULT TO DRAW.

From Success Magazine
 A teacher asked her class to draw picture of that which they wished to be when they grew up, and all went dil- igently to work except one little girl, who only chewed her pencil.
 Don't you know what you want to be when you grow up, Anna?" asked the teacher.
 Yes. I know replied the little girl. ''but I don't know how to draw 1t. want to be married.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the NsW 90fK Press.
 The thing that worries man about being r.ch is how he can get richer.
 The redder a girls hair is the safer it is to tell her that it is silken sunshine.
 One thing that helps man to be a good husband is not caring whether he enjoys life or not.
 Quarrelsome people can get just as mad with you for agreeing with them as for differing from them.
 People think they know how to raise children when they don't even know enough to raise vegetables.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
HEAVENS FIRST LAW.
From Success Magazine.


 The Rev. Dr. Frank Crane tells of a bride who refused to answer the ques- ton, Twill you love, honor and obey?' Her friends interceded but 1t was of no use. Finally the intended bridegroom gathered up his hat and started for the door. Instantly she sprans after him ard leading him hack, looked up meek ly and said, 'I will"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
HUSTLING TIMES

HUbTL1NG TIMES. Hurry at your labor, Hurry at your play, Every day you're living Make your hurry day. Only fools are resting Sweetly while they can; Don't you take life easy Join the hurry clani Hurry, hurry, hurry. Hurry up and down, Through the crowded buildings, All around the town. Hurry, always hurry, Minutes are to save; When the scramble's over Hurry to your grave!
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When Mr. Taft said in a recent ad- dress. Those of you who read the Congressional Record" it is thought he had in mind the proofreaders il the government printing office.
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When the road lies dark before you And your tAars are falling fast. And 1t seems that you are destined For ignoble sleep at last, Plunge anew into the battle,
 Like a soldier seek the fray Who, though twenty times defeated. Hopes to win some other day!
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Hetty Green is busily engaged in cutting down domestic expenses and in eongratulating herself that she has no more girls to marry off.
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The Taft family has certainly come into it's own, and the President says the lady of the White House did ir.
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A governor of a state who goes to the Washington inaugural exercises loses all sense of the ego, and he nas to go home to regain it.
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Washingtons country cousins gum- skoed to the station sadly disgrun- tied lot.
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The exauguration was even more noteworthy than the inauguration.
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When MT. Taft took over the Roose- welt policies he should have asked for Roosevelt weather on March 4 also.
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Wall street is now willing to swap it's Rooseveltian days for the simple life, but it cannot be trusted to refrain from shearing the lambs that come Tn.
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A s75,000 salary would have scared George Washington out of his knicker- lockers.
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The Taft administration lacks the teeth of it's predecessor, but even this deficiency may be overcome and com pensated for.
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Mr. Roosevelt is now the little brother of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
FROM HEAR OFF,

''Ie seems to be only distantly acquaint- ed with German"
 Quite so I believe he studied 1t at a correspondence school'
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T. Roosevelt may in the eye of the law be private citizen, but in the eye of the average man he is still lion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07

Washington and Lincoln still have first and second places cinched, and Teddy will have to be content with place No. 3.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07

Until March 23, when the ex-Presi- dent departs for Africa, carrying a three-barrelled gun, Oyster Bay will be in the limelight.
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QUITE A STRAIN.

'It is said that MT Roosevelt has faced the camera 37,OO0 times"
 T don't see how he stood it."
 "I don't see how the camera stood it."
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Over in Georgia the moelzing birds are singing amid the blossoms of the peach trees, while Billy 'Possum looks on from the nearest tree with a hole in it. It is a grand old state.
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Irrigation in the far west begins to be ranked as President Roosevelt's s greatest achievement
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POPULAR

POPULAR. Farewell, Teddy" is the word Sounded far and wide; That lot of praise is heard Can not be denied. While 'tis true he stirred up strife And with Congress rowed, He stands high, you bet your life, With the common crowd!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07

New York has 4,422,6S5 inhabitants, but they are not all full-fedged Ameri- cans
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Taking it by and large, the batting of the Big Stick was pretty high.
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The prosecution of the T. c. I. ;ner- zine has gone where the woodbine twineth.
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the most active ex-President she ever knew.
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A COMMERCIAL AGE

What made you turn that fellow down so curtly?"
 "IIe wanted to interest me in an ele- gant funeral for s7s dollar down and a dollar week from my estate until paid for."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07
FIRST LESSONS.

How does a school of young whales re semble club of youthful pollticians?'' "I give it up. How do they resemble?' Both are learning to spout"
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sTRIcTLY A LA MODE
DON'T GIVE UP.

Tt is stylish to be slender, you know" " My rurse IS stylish"
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No one was sunstruck in Washing. ton on inauguration day.
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GO HE THINKS

Huh, beefsteak isn't angel food'' Tt is when Clara Bell is my vis-a-vis at table"
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REPLIES.

An old sweetheart of St. Louis won- an threatens to make her widow so he
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NO WAY TO PROVE IT. John, do you love me?" "Yes, dear, but I'm broke today"
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AN OPTIMIST,

When shadows gloomed along his way He didn't start to pining,
 But turned !he clouds of somber gray And found silver lining!
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WOR SEE STILL.

"Did she say 'No'?" "No."
 '"Then she accepted you?" "No; she said Nix"
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ALL SERENE

ALL SEREN E. The ship of state Will safely swim, While at the helm Stand Bill and Jim.
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SO TT GOES

The road to ru- In briefly stated: A pair of eyes Infatuated.
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Be thou chaste as ice, as pure as snow, Thou shalt not escape calumny.
 Hamlet.
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala' postoffce as seeond-elass matter under act of Congress March 8, 1879.
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Washington Bureau Age-Herald, 142i c street, N. ".