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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
The Music Festival.

'eThe business men in charge of the music festival movement are actively at work and within the next week or two all the preliminary plans will have been completed" said citizen. Birmingham has had many successful festivals. It had them in the early days with Capt Frank P O'Brfen and others in the lead and it had them in later years with Ben- jamin Guckenberger as leader. But it is safe to say that no festival enterprise was ever so well organized as the pres ent one.
 ''It Is to be a great musical event and 1t is to be managed on high class busi- ness lines. J. E. Shelby is president of the Festival association and Captain OBrien is chairman of the executive com- mittee The other members of the com- mittee are A. H. Ford, Otto Marx, R. w. Massey, w. D. Nesbitt. c. w. Ufford and Hugh Martin.
 "The festival will be held on May 3, 4 and 5 and among the attractions Will be Nordica and the Damrosch orchestra.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
A PETAL OF A SHATTERED ROSE

By Samuel Minturn Peck. Wee petal of a shattered rose,
 A tiny mote of white. The sport of every wind that goes To meet the autumn night How eerie in the waning light How piteous it's grace! Where wends it now in feeble flight. To what dark resting place? Where are the mellow bees 1t knew Where is the butterfly, The gallant bliths that came to woo While yet the noon was high? Where all the pretty pageantry
 That made the garden gay? I only catch the cricket's cry
 Amid the grasses gray. The scattered leaves from oak tree torn That in the gust fit by With rustlings weird have strength to
 mourn,
 To voice at least sign; Poor petal, far more frail than they, It dumbly meets it's death, Though pleasures fleet, and hope betray, Sweet to it's latest breath. The day is cold. The year is old.
 There's not star to cheer. It wrings the heartstrings to behold A little thing in fear; A little thing--it aims the eye
 That hath no voice to moan, And only seeks a spot to die
 In darkness and, alone. A moment lulls the piercing blast It f1utters to the ground. And heath a wayside hedge at last
 The long sought rest is found. Thara let the xvrin1xIa6 spider weave And shroud-like be his weft; Ay, let him weave, and let him grieve- There's naught of sumrnerIeft
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
Rivers and HarbOrS Blli

The House committee on rivers and harbors seems to have decided that a general rivers and harbors bill cannot be prepared in the remaining days of the short session. But possibly bill aggregating $10,0O0,OOO may be pre-. pared, covering surveys, emergencies and the maintenance of projects al ready begun.
 This plan could no doubt be stretched to cover an additional lock and dam in the Warrior, and every additional lock in that river brings us that much nearer to an Open Warrior and slackwater navigation to tide. water
 The south pays taxes freely, getting but little in return, and it would be but simple justice to open the rivers and improve the harbors of this section.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
MARY,S WEDDING.
From Lippincott's.

From Lipplncotts s.
 A Maryland man recently married off his fourth daughter, the ceremonies touching whose wedding were given much attention by the society editors' of the country papers in that region.
 A week or two after the wedding a friend who had been north for some time met the father, to whom he made some iocular reference in regard to the re- cent event" II see by the paper" said he. that Mary's wedding well nigh beg gared description"
 Well" said the old man, T don't know about that, but do know it well nigh beggared mel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
JOSEPH JEFFERsoNs GUN.

From the Boston Globe.
 It was an old, rusty shotgun that gave Joseph Jefferson. actor, his real start in life and brought out Rip Van Wrinkle, D one of Americas greatest dramas.
 Forty-ive years ago Jefferson owned the gun in the little Pennsylvania town of Paradise Valley, 90 miles from Phil adelphia.
 The gun is now the property of George Halterman, a carpenter at Omaha, Neb. For the old rusty hrearm the Players York city, has offered $500. which Hal terman declines with thanks.
 The story of Jefferson and the gun is best told by the Omaha carpenter, whe was well acquainted with the verftabie Rip before he entered theatrical life. Jefferson was known throughout Paradise Valley as a shiftless sort of fellow, and fond of fishing and hunting. One day he drifted into the village blacksmith shop, conducted by Francis Keller, to chat with the smithy.
 'If I could raise $40 I woudl go to New York and make some money" remarked Jefferson. the dreamer, as they discussed Rip Van Wrinkle" which both were fond of reading. Jefferson had been out in the woods acting it out" and thought it would make a good play, and it fitted his life thus far to a T-bone.
 The man of iron muscles agreed to let the dreamer have $40. and took the gun as part security. Jefferson hustled away to New York, and upon his return paid back the $40 and requested Keller to keep the gun until he called for it.
 Time passed. Jefferson made a hit with his play, and was soon floating in prosperity. When he returned to visit the little valley again, he gave the gun to Keller, who in turn gave 1t to Hal terman his son-in-law, remarking that if he ever needed a gun he thought he could purchase one.
 Citizens of Monroe county, Pa., have subscribed money for a suitable monu- ment to the memory of Jefferson and have engaged Macmonnies, the sculptor, to chisel the likeness of the great actor in the character of Rip Van Wrinkle. A number of Jefferson's curios are being placed in the museum in Central Park, and Halterman intends placing the rusty gun therein.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
eerman-American Colonization.

One of the many evidences of the pros perty of German-Anferican colonization in southern Alabama is the modern and business-like appearance of the Onlooker. weekly paper published at Foley" said a commercial traveller.
 Foley is comparatively new town. Its inhabitants are chiefly German-Amer- ican who had migrated from the cold northwest to the far south, and they seem to be happy in the change. These peo- pie are intelligent, industrious and frugal, and add every year to the wealth of Ala bama.
 The paper referred to is in it's second year. It is edited by Frank Fesler and is at once breezy, clean and progressive. It is so far in advance of the old-time country weekly as to suggest metropolitan environment. I regard the Onlooker as a fine object lesson in behalf of the immi- grafton movement"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
The Iron Market.

Considering the quiet prevailing in the business world in general the pig iron market is holding up very we'll" said well known broker yesterday. We have a SIS market. No iron is being offered at a price below that figure on a No. 2 basis.
 While the buying is nothing like so brisk as it was a month ago. considerable tonnage is being booked for delivery in the first half of the year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
What Greater EnsIey Means.

'"rhe annexation of Ensley and Wylam means great things for the Steel City" said W. R. Stewart. president of the Ensley Commercial club, mot only from the standing the increased territory and population will give us, but in many other ways. The effect will be far reaching. It will be much easier to locate indus tries here, money for improvement will be cheaper, branch agencies will be es- tablshed, and capital for various other establishments will be attracted by city of 250O0.
 Now the election is over I hope all past differences as to the merits or de- merits of the proposition will be forgotten, and ~aat every man will put his shoulder to the wheel to help to raise Ensley to state of material prosperity such as has never been witnessed in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
NEEDED CHANGE.
From Iippincott's

From IIpplHCOtt S'
 The navy department recently receiv- ed from the commander-in-c of the fleet an official communication relative to certain changes recommended by him to be made in the uniform shirt of the enlisted men. In accordance with custom this letter was forwarded to various of ficials for comment or expression of opinion, the remarks of each officer being appended on an endorsement slip. Each endorsement introduces the subject mat ter of the letter in brief, and one of them thus tersely explained the con- tents: "Commander-in-ctiA dasires to change shirt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press

From the New York Press.
 The ony thing that can try woman s patience more than being married Is not being.
 Most people are more concerned with keeping out of hell than with getting into heaven.
 A woman is always proud to say she has fashionable dressmaker, especially if she hasn't.
 The first time man makes love he's afraid the girl won't believe him; ever afterward that she will.
 Practically every man has a sneaking suspicion that there is something dis graceful in being useful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
Arral6nment Of Senator Tillman

Arraignment of Senator Tilman
 President Roosevelts course in rela- ton to veteran Senator whose integ- rity had never been called in question was utterly without precedent or de- cency. He embraced in a letter to Senator Hale charges against Senator Tillman, and without waiting to let the Senator from Maine make public the letter or to ask for action on it the President himself gave it to the public.
 The entire attack presents on the part of the President an aggressive, not to say venomous, desire to get at those who have assailed him. He is naturally cumulative, and his attack upon Senator Tillman is of the sort he delights in. He is scarcely happy un- less he has a scrimmage on hand.
 He is trying to magnify a small af- fair into a great national scandal, and when the final verdict is rendered he will not be apt to appear to advantage in it. Briefly speaking, MT. Tillman endeavored to buy for himself and his family and his private secretarty, nine in number 1440 acres of Oregon land at s2.50 an acre. A Hartman railroad controls in Oregon 10000 acres, part of which MT. Tillman wanted. The railroad refused to sell the land to pur- chasers at $2.50 an acre in accordance with the terms of its grant. MT. Till man did not buy the land, and when be stated in the Senate that he had not Undertaken" to buy the land he was, to use his own words, perhaps disin- genuous"; but" he added, "a mo- ments thought will convince any hon. est-minded man that as l had not signed any papers and had not paid any money, had taken nobody's re- ceipts, the usual processes by which one undertakes to buy land I was speaking accurately and not falsely"
 The other point in the matter relates to his efforts to compel the Hartman Railroad company to sell the 100000 acres in accordance with the terms of its grant. The general public will say that Senator Tillman was acting up to his duty in so doing, whether he wanted any of the land or did not want any of it. It was his duty as a Senator to open to the public those lands, and he had right to buy portion of them in common with all other citizens. Even Senators have a right to buy lands open to all on public terms.
 The entire matter has been referred to a subcommittee of the Senate's committee on appropriations. This subcommittee consists of Gallinger of New Hampshire, Hemenway of Indiana and Clay of Georgia. This committee should and will sift the facts, and it's report will soon be presented, for this Congress has but six weeks left in which to transact business. This sub committee consists of two republicans and one democrat, but Senator Tillman confidently awaits it's verdict. What it says and what the Senate says and what the whole American people say Ean be patiently awaited in the belief that the sum total and the final yer dict will fully vindicate Senator who has faithfully served his state and bis section more than 30 years without in- curing single suspicion touching his Integrity. His rugged honesty, we may be sure, will be fully established
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

 ''The cry of dreamer is pathetic to hear"
 Indeed it is, when he cries. Take lem offl Take 'em offr !"
 THE MAN WITH A MESsAGE. He takes his stand upon the stage Where all the world may see, And with a. blow upon his chests He cries, Just look at mel I've come to you with tidings glad. I'm here to lead you out From shadow lands of unbelief And mazy lanes of doubt My fellow citizens, one wordf.- And then he starts to speak And points the way with wondrousszeal For all who care to seek s.Nirvana," or the "higher 1ifefs Or freedom from such ills As stomach-ache or shattered nerves, Or simply unpaid bills. The world is full of cranks like him. You meet them everywhere Who have some sort of message which With generous hearts they bear, To make this earth a pleasant place And all bad people good, So everything will turn out well And be just as 1t should. They seem disinterested, yet Suspicion in me grows That they are not so all-fred bent On fighting human woes, As they are set on passing round The contribution hat, From which they draw the wherewitha1 To make them sleek and fat.
  And every time wi1d-eyed chap Comes up to me and says, "Oh, brother of the wasted life. Wouldst not amend thy ways2" I just reply, Most gladly now Would I take your advice, If I were only sure, kind sir. That it is worth the price,"
 POOR PA. 'Ma, what-are comic cutsT' saThe kind your father gets when he shaves."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
Birminqham Leads.

Nearly every Birmingham merchant visits New York at least twice a year." said P H. Linnehan, and many of our citizens travel extensively through the north and east.
 While all agree that New York and Chicago are great cities, come to think of it Birmingham, taken all in all, is the best city in the country to live in and do business in. We have a flourishing city today and no city in the south is growing at quite so fast a rate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
THE RESURRECTION.
From Success Magazine.

From Success Magazine.
 See here!" demanded the indignant subscriber, 'this obituary notice is all wrong. I'm not deadr'
 '1f the Herald says you're dead" sternly replied the editor, you're dead. But" he added magnanimously, If you don't like being dead. we'll print your birth notice."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

An actress who holds 200o letters written by Stage-Door Johnnies threat ems to publish the entire lot This would outdo the Hearst-Archbold incl dent at one fell swoop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

The restaurants that harbor mock mince pie may yet offer us near baked beans and pumpkin pie that would not know pumpkin if it saw one coming down the pike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

Any days sitting of Congress that does not contribute to the pending contest with MT. Roosevelt will fall short of public expectation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
BARD OF THE SOLID SOUTH

halcsyon time the mocldng bird shall bray like the ass, and the bullfrog sing like a lark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

The old Greeks would be astonished if they could read of the number of Marathon races pulled of in this coun- try every week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

The solid south is not melting as rapidly as some expected it would. It shows, on the contrary, some signs of hardening.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

Letter files are again active in poli- tics, and this time the Standard Oil's letters are not before the public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

The President and the Congress fell out before the new year was ten days old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

Governor Hughes message explains why he and the bosses do not agree. He wishes to drive them out of poli- tics by the direct primary route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

The Tennessee night riders do not admire the jury system that this coun- try has adopted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

President Roosevelt evidently pro poses to make the rest of his term as merry as it is short.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

The Red Cross flag is even more picturesque in Italy at present than the scenery, lovely as that is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

Night riders who took the law into their own hands have found one court they cannot manipulate to suit their needs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

All Washington asks at the hands of the weather clerk is freedom from snow falls on March f.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

The government sleuths have other sleuths to watch 'em. This is a sleuthy administration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

The long drouthy conditions of 1908 still remain in spots, and no section has received a normal amount of moisture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

When Tillman and Roosevelt scrap some think it is time to take to the woods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

Castro does not mind the absent treatment given him by the Yenezue- lans, and is doing well in Berlin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

Scylla and Charybdis are still at their old stands ready to have things steered between them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

The subsequent earthquakes were tempered to the homeless sufferers. They are frequent, but not severe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

Wilbur Wright denies that he is a high flyer excepting in aeroplanes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
REFTTGH

REFUGE Tn the golden land of dreams. Where the star of promise gleams, All our heartaches and our troubles are forgot; In the golden land of dreams Ardent fancy still redeems Foil from weariness and life from every ' blot
 WORSE STILL. "A man who was stealing & ride to over take the man who stole his wife, got ar rested.e
 Tough luck. stin, it might have been worse"
 Flow so2''
 ''He might have gotten his wife back.'
 THE EFB.DCT.
 A little liquor
 Now and then,
 Doth make kings out
 Of common men.
 A BAD SIGN. haven't much confidence in that tenn perance reformer who fs speaking" '<why?'
 livery time he mentions whisky hi. upper lip twitches.-
 THE FIRST LESSON.
 Who doth aspire
 To fame or pelf,
 Must first learn how To conquer self
 RIPPkEs The most stucl1-up man in town ba. n New Year resolution left that he hasn't broken yet
 A New York paper discusses --sops Da- void of Nutriment." That's the Kind A, sops the average newspaper man gets The auditor is not the only person who shares in the 'agony of opera" Tho i'm. presarfo has troubles of his own. ''silver may disappear" says the Beau mont Enterprise. Not from the lining of clouds. we hope. Wonders thicken," says contempor- ary. Asking pardon for introducing a wellworn theme, we beg to say that the soup continues in statu quo, A Pittsburg man is being sued for di- vorce because he threw knives at his wife. As the couple were not in vaudeville. there was no excuse for such conduct MT. Jeffries says the only way Mr. Johnson can get a fight with him is for MT. Johnson to step on the tail of MT. Jeffries' dog. A moving picture of MT. Johnson stepping on the tail of MT. Jef- fries dog would be interesting.
 PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

The Bowery bread line is said to be growing as the winter wears on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

All life is change-why should we fret
 When the shadows gin to creep And the Friend we've never known as yet Would close our eyes in sleep7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
SEEING THINGS.

.'Nonsenset I'll bet she doesn't even know how much money he owes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
FOOMsH WOMAN.

rshe says she knows everything about
 e count and Is not afraid to marry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13
GROWING n1n

NIItN1 V i4NNI UIIJ. This growing old with the flight of time. Der which 'tis vain to sigh, Is nothing more. when set to rhyme, Than telling the world goodbye. There's never rose that blows but dies At the close of a summers day And low in the dust her beauty lies. Her perfume stoln away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

''The cry of a dreamer is pathetic to hear"
 Indeed it is, when he cries, gTake lem offl Take 'em offr "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

THE EFB.DCT. A little liquor
 Now and then, Doth make kings out Of common men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postofhce as seeond-elass matter under act of Congress March 8. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

Washington Bureau Age-Herald. 142l c street N. w.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

L. H. Russ and Z F. Morgan are the only author travelling representa- lives of The Age Herald in Its cireuIa- tion department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-13

A BAD SIGN. haven't much confidence in that tenn perance reformer who fs speaking" ''Why?' livery time he mention. vh,.r,, h,. upper lip witches"
Evening star., 1909-06-22
CHAMPIONS RETURN.
George Washington Rifle Team Back
Home From Sea Girt.

The George Washington rife team ar
rived in town last night from their victory
in the fourth intercollegiate rifle match at
Sea Girt.
Capt j. r. Fehr was very much ssur-
prfsed to hear of the protest made by the
Massachusetts Agricultural School to the
effect that Skinner was postgraduate
The secretary of the university Mr.. II. c.
Davis, when seen today. stated that Skin
ner was regularly registered in the uni
versity for the degree of bachelor of arts.
A certificate of the good standing of all
of the members of the team was fur
nished to the rifle association by Mr.. Da-
Wis. The protest of the Bay State School
will therefore without a doubt be thrown
out as groundless.
Capt Fehr was very well pleased with
the fine showing Of his team, which won
the match by good seventeen points
over the next competitor. This makes
the third consecutive time that George
Washington University has won this
match. having won it In 1905 and 1905
there having been no match in 1907
Princeton won it in 1905, it being the only
university represented that year. The
schools entered in the match this year
were George Washington. Massachusetts
Agricultural College. Columbia University
University of Pennsylvania and Delaware
College, each finishing In the order named
The whole team expressed great salts
faction with the way in which they were
treated at Sea Girt and with the way the
match was run.