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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
TAKING TEA IN JERUSALEM
Traveller Is Confused BY the Sticky
Oriental Dainties

Jerusalem Letter to the Philadelphia
Record
Jerusalem-In Jerusalem one lives
and moves and has ones being as in
most other places, but with difference.
After walk through the awful old
part of the city, where darkness and
dirt are the chief characteristics, visit
for afternoon tea Is indeed delight,
the invitation coming from Mrs. Her
bert c. Clark, the delightful wife of
the vice consul of the United States
Tea in the Turkish fashion is, indeed,
interesting, and this short account
may prevent somebody from the mis-
take to which one unlucky person
pleads guilty. The servant, in bulky
trousers and gold embroidery hav-
ing admitted and announced the VS.
itor, there is nothing to do but enter
the drawing room, which is like the
marble hail. of the song, the creamy
stone showing, at intervals Of, say
three feet, bands of red stone about
a foot in width. Turkish rugs and
hangings, curio cabinets full Of ancient
articles that are constantly dug up
hereabouts and beautiful growing
plants go to make up splendidly fas-
cinating room.
No sooner has the visitor. been made
welcome, given a chair and said word
or so, than another servant enters with
a tray. Upon it are two spoonholders,
dish of sticky sweet, another Of
Turkish delight and a glass of water
1t is a perplexing moment The servant
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

an the movement now being made
by the business organizations OF BIZ
min CHAM special effort is being put
forward to interest the home consumer
in buying goods made in Birmingham
and surrounding district said well
known citizen This is most COM
mendsble movement and should result
in good for all. Every dollar kept at
home by investors in home industries
is made to serve a double purpose.
"The manufacturers in the Birming-
ham district should be among the first
to respond by cooperative work IN
this movement. They should not hold
back and expect the business organi-
cations to do all the pushing in the
home market before them. The Ala
bama State Fair offers one of the best
mediums of bringing the home manu-
facturer and home consumer together.
Not only this, but it is medium
through which our home industries can
advertise themselves to the state and
adjacent territory.
1.-The state fair association offers
every inducement to the home manu-
facturer to display his goods. While
exhibits from out-of-state or out-of-
county factories are charged for space,
the fair association Is not only will
ing but anxious to donate free space
for exhibits of our home industries.
I'VE believe that this is not as tn or
oughly understood as it should be. For.
if it was it is thought that the eN-
hlbit space now provided in the diff
ferent buildings of the state fair
would be insufficient to meet the de-
mand that our home industries would
make on them. We hope that every
factory of any kind in the Birming-
ham district will be represented by
creditable exhibit at our big state
fair here in October and thus do their
part to advertise to the world what Bir-
mingham is doing and at the same time
promote their own individual business
Interests.
Applications for space should be
made at once, as out of town concerns
are taking space now"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

envy. Then we start home. One day a
steamship steward knocks at our state
room door, hands us the governments
printed form of declaration. and the mo
tice to Passengers. Suddenly. for the
first time in our lives, we find ourselves
bump up against the law. Some of us
cannot understand it, We tremble; our
hearts beat. We have consultations With
friends and strangers. Blood-curdling
stories are told. We can think of nothing
else, talk of nothing else. Where have
we packed our new things, where our old?
Will they dig out everything? VIII they
believe us? Those little presents we have
brought mare they presents until we
have declared them? And so on and so
on until our last days become a night
mare compared with which seasickness
is paradise. Neither is there any man
interpretations which stand most of us
in stead. We must go through the or
deal, as we go through death-alone.
Some women are noble enough to ac-
oept the law smilingly. MY father gave
his life to the making of laws for this
country said the daughter of distin-
guished senator, now dead, ''aud my bust
ness is to respect those laws | pay my
duties gladly, happy to do that much for
the government which protects me-"
Meantime, others of 1.-THE honest rebel,
though If we are honest I'VE must obey
as the old-time child-song has it. There
is no escape from the law as long as it
stands. Sophistries are not possible. The
lox fe l,.f&
memorable, compelling To point, in a de-
Tense of our rebellion, to greater frauds
practiced by those at which the laws adj
ministrators have long winked, is neither
fair nor dignified This thing only we. can
do-agitate the question If we will, urging
calmly and soberly just and sufficient rea-
son why the law should be altered in our
behalf.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
NATURAL LIFE"
From the New York Mail.

From the New York Mail.
poisoner in a western state has been
sentenced to imprisonment. as the news
dispatches put it. for the rest of his nat
ural life That phrase natural life
bothers some people, who wonder IL the
law recognizes any unnatural life" 1t
does not, but the old common law did
recognize an unnatural death. as we'll as
natural one When man or woman
takes the monastic VOW. people still speak
of 1t as 'leaving The world. In medieval
times that was considered a form Of
death. and the phrase natural life came
into use to describe an existence termi-
mated by the grave, not by the convent
or the abbey.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
Mr.. Taft Waits on Congress

President Taft asked Congress to send
i'm for his signatures;
A railroad bill.
A postal savings bank bill,
Conservation legislation.
texico,
Anti-injunction legislation.
Congress has been in session six
onths to day, and yet not one of the
residential bills has been sent to the
Fhite House. and no one can foresee
hen one of the measures will be passed
= both houses. nor in what form they
i'll go through the congressional mill
at all. And yet the November election
q but five months away.
The railroad bill has passed the House
one form, and is about to pass the
nate in another. A postal savings bank
I'll has, passed the Senate, and will soon
me up in the House in a different
krm. A public land withdrawal bill has
ssed the House, and is on the calen
in the Senate. The House has passed
statehood bill, but the Senate has not.
"a uo,,oa e,,b o,,r,ittao 10. aosa -.
,rk on an anti-injunction bill, but this
,islation has not yet been touched in
IL Senate.
Nj the presidential bills will perhaps DO
zen final shape by Congress, and pei
q DIS the influence of the President viii
kz felt in the conference room. At any
re, the President expects action by
ngress on all his bills, Tb; House
f41ferees will be charged With the duty,
Dill example, of reporting a railroad bill
sElt an uncontrolled House will accept.
Ik. Cannon is but one man in the House
81 this matter. How the House and the
&4late can be brought together over. this
81 no one can fofesee The two houses
Il ically disagree over the provisions OF
postal savings bill, and in fact. over
+ the othgr presidential bills, and alsc
H&r the ,yrovision relating to the tariff
&rd of the sundry civi appropriation
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
VIII Be Handsome store

Within few days cigar store will
be opened up. in this city for business
which will be the handsomest place de-
voted to the sale of cigars and soda
waters that has ever been operated in
the SOUTH" said Clarence A. Boldorf, a
local cigar salesman.
~ speak of the Smoke house, which is
nearing completion. The fixtures are of
mission design and were manufactured
at Queenstown, Ala. Every inch Of the
place is artistic to the last detail The
interior will include a place of rest for
smokers, where seats will be provided.
The interior is arranged to give the place
q pleasing look to the eye, and one of
complete restfulness. The electric fix
lures are of mission design in wood and
correspond in artistic detail to the other
handsome surroundings"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
REFLECrIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press
Some men can get desperately homeslck
having to stay home evenings.
Polite society is where its members are
most impoite to everybody else.
The reason a girl can be sure man
loves her Is If he doesn't say he does she
can say he did.
There's hardly anything so offensive to
a man who wears loud ties as the loud
Socks some other fellow wears.
Nothing makes woman more suspi-
cious Of another than for the lattsr's cook
aeyer to try to borrow anything
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
IGNORANCE Is BLISS

BY Barry Cornwall.
Rains fall, suns shine, winds flee,
Brooks run; yet few know how:
Do not thou. too. deeply search
Why thou lowest me now
Perhaps. by some command.
Sent earthward from above,
Thy heart was doomed to lean on mine,
Mine to enjoy thy love.
Why ask when JOY doth smile,
From what bright heaven It fell?
Men mar the beauty of their dteams,
Tracing their source too WE'LL
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
Girls Go in Pairs

Il am struck with the disposition of
young girls, some of them mere tots, to
go in pairs at picnics and outings said
a student of human nature. rs it a
psychological manifestation coming with
their very birth, shall we say?
"Out at East Lake this week there
were throngs of young girls, a majority,
it seemed. ranging from about the ages
OF 10 to 16 years Now | took particular
notice for an hour of the disposition OF
these children and young ladies to go in
pairs. Frequently they would Irvine
their arms about each other and stroll
along. | noticed quite number of boys,
too, but they seemed to go in numbers
of three to five or six. | have often no.
ticed the prediction of girls to go in
pairs-is 1t the same instinct or impulse
which causes birds to pair off. only the
girls have to wait for years before mat
ing with the opposite sex, If at all?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

girl always wore red of that shade Then
the old woman went home took out her
false teeth that she might not swallow
them in her grief and gave herself up
to Sad Memories. We will bet no woman
will sniff. An incident like this appeals
to the women.-Atchison Globe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
PLEASE DON'T. SNIFF.

PLEASE DON'T. SNIFF.
There lives in Atchison a woman who
has been happily married 40 years and
who has raised five children. Recently
she was out walking when she caught
sight of peculiarly bright red shawl.
The men will sniff at what happened
next The woman felt a twnge at her
heart; the shawl had reminded her of u
girl who had stolen her first lover. The
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
sULKING BEFORE A MARVEL

From the New York World.
We are sorry for the minister ,ip in
Poughkeepsie who scolded on Sunday be-
cause his congregation went out to see
the Curtiss aeroplane instead of going to
church. An opportunity paused before
his pulpit and he could not rise to It,
One of the miracles of the century,
came to pass there within the preachers
ken. A daring man flew by as with the
wings of dove. Wind, air and weather.
all the elements favored the flight. II
the man at the church believes his own
theology he should have felt that an over
ruling providence smiled benignantly
upon an incident OF human progress that
omnipotence itself was behind the mar
vel.
Obviously, the minister would have been
well in place in the forefront of the
throng that greeted the man-bird. Eyes
agleam and hat In hand, he might have
sung in Cowper's hymnal words:
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform"
There would have been many voices to
join in this chorus. But instead of sing
Ing, the preacher sulked. So far as we
know he sulks alone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

place of rest or protection or perhaps TO
veterinary hospital for treatment Sueh
a vehicle is very much needed here III
Birmingham, and steps should be taken
at once to provide one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
POOR ALFRED

From the Richmond News-Leader.
,,rhe poet laureate's salary is a cask
of wine annually" says the Birmingham
Age-Herald Not very inspiring wine
these days, however, it would seem.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
A Horse Ambulance Needed

'"rhe Birmingham Humane society has
lions as to abuse of dumb animals,
draught animals in particular, on the
poles OF the street railway company"
said a man of humanitarian ideas
Now, the society should see that Il
vehicle is provided, especially designed
for hauling crippled, horses and cows.
called horse ambulance. They are in
use in many cities. When an animal is
crippled so as to travel only with pain
or distress the ambulance is called and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Fifty-four republicans combined with
Springfield grand jury proposes to ques-
ton every one of the SO that deserted Mr..
Stringer. the democratic nominee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Seventy thousand commuters around
New York have felt the rise in commute
tion and are indignant, but are other
wise helpless.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
God moves in mysterious way
His wonders to perform"
TO BE SURE

From the Boston Advertiser.
According to New York preacher.
"ciiurches should have press agents. Per-
hars so, and occasionally too, a little
religion and spirituality do church no
harm.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Jhe executors of the Wyman will will
find more and more tangible stuff. and
the Princeton gift is royal one to say
the least.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

The memory of passengers arriving in
New York is said to be improving. They
now remember what they put in their
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Patten stayed in the crop game until
with a part of his wealth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Just as Lorimer said 1t was all an I'M
correlated lie another legislator jumped
up to say he got $1,000 of the Doodle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
THE CHAMPIoN KIckER.

what made Lemuel leave home?
washing?'
{ Yes; but Lemuel said he couldn't bear
the odor of soap suds.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

John L. Sullivan hopes Jeffries will win,
but he admits that the outlook for Anglo
Saxon SUPREMACY is dark.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

What the people of Illinois insist on
knowing is this-who procured Lorlmer's
sens torship for him?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
A JUNE THOUGHT.

Here's a History of the Kiss"
I'm more interested in present pros
peets.n
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Lorimer's toga begins to scratch his
back 80 that he cannot boss his party
efficiently.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
A GREAT WORD.

A GREAT WORD.
So eloquent, so full of fire,
First sprung from wisdoms noodle:
Let others to new words aspire,
We sing but one, "Flapdoodle."
An orator gets UP to speak
And wags who're in the mood'll
Declare his reasons far to seek,
His arguments "Flapdoodle.
A wight who wields a 'trenchant pen
Essays to Danish Doodle;
Quick comes a host of wicked men
Who loudly cry, "Flapdoodle."
Though dictionaries hold of terms,
AS well you know, an 'oodle,'
OF all that usage still confirms,
The greatest is "Flapdoodle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Defeated office-seekers should not over
look the fact that Kansas wants 10000
harvesters.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

IL now looks as if we would get rid of
JeffIIes and Johnson before we are rid of
Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Halleys comet is backing away from
earth and its message remains unde-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

and is tearing down 40 of its riekety tene-
mems
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Tile bribe business has reached Colo
RADIO ana no state is bomb-proof
against it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
An OLD MANS STORY

AN OLD MANS STORY.
I'm weary and old,
My history's told
In letters of light and shade,
I've followed afar
Hopes wavering star
And many pause I've made
When fears overprest
And the heart in my breast
Was riven by sorrows hand;
Oh, the fight of the years
Brought sunshine and tears
And griefs l could not understand.
I'm lettering and blind.
The Day lies behind
The, future is dark with the Night,
But | treasure my dreams
And fancy yet teens
With the visions of vanished delight
hear the old songs
Forgotten life's wrongs,
The thorns that have wounded my feet;
And loved voices ring
Down Youths hahowed spring
And the byways with jasmine are sweet
TOO COMFORTABLE.
This collar can't be stylish.
why, Felice?'
ut doesn't choke me-
AS A RULE.
1--WE noticed one thing while journeying
through the vale of life
And what is that Mr. Biffkins?"
''As rule, the man who can quote
Shakespeare by the yard can also make
list of all his real and personal property
in the correspondence section of a souve-
mir postal card
A SAD STORY.
There goes old man Pinknham. He's
70 years old and has fought 70 rounds with
Trouble =
You don't say! And how long did
each round last?''
Twelve months"
DECEITFUL CREATURES
Alas, we find
Men everywhere,
With none or else
With little hair;
And many danes
Are bald, we hear,
Which, thanks to rats
Doth not appear.
THE CHAMPION KICKER.
Didn't his wife support him by taking in
washing?"
Yes; but Lemuel said he couldn't bear
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Pullman car cannot well, be a hotel
while IL has no clerk with the big dia
mcnas.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

The elephant-killing in America out
runs even the record of Teddy in Africa.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

OF ell the Hudson river excursions to
late CGrtiss' outranked them all.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

For truth is truth, 10 the end of the
reckoning. Measure for Measure.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
WE PREDICT.

Merrily, merrily, the June-time is with
us,
The mountains are calling and calling
the sea.
The weather is really and truly quite
summary.
But not yet as warm as it's certain to
he
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Those desiring productive employment
should go to the Kansas wheat fields.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Lefmer is trying to remove the price
marx from his toga
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
FROM THn uEART nIIT

Life is mostly pretense. don't you
thinl?''
That may be true in some particulars
but the howl of the ultimate consumer Is
no pretense.''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Illinois wants to know where the bride
money came from.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04
A SAD STORY.
DECEITFUL CREATURES.

DENEI T z d CAER I Q II I'D.
Alas, we find
Men everywhere,
With none or else
With little hair;
And many danes
Are bald, we hear,
Which, thanks to rats
Doth not appear.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

MERE CURIOSITY.
so you want to raise Hades, do your
asked the genial policeman.
NO. said the lady summer. II mere
ly want to peep under the lid and sea
what it's like"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

CHANCE FOR AMATEUR JoKERs.
In the month of May 80 people commit
ted suicide in Philadelphia. Now, If You
feel that you have pretty wit here
Is an opportunity for you to be funny.
At least 100000 sschestnuts" have been
sprung at the expense of Philadelphia.
but that is no reason why you shouldn't
try your hand at another. OF course,
these 80 people killed themselves for
various reasons. but the idea is to say
that they all shuffled off for the same
reason-some facetious reason. See what
you can do.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Washington Bureau Age-herald. 1915
New York avenue
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

GEN To ;.
The poet of the Caldwell, kans., News
has a singular gift for rhyme One Of
his late efforts begins thusly:
Mary Ellen's papa has
Newly painted front piazza
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

Kentucky is the greatest liquid corn
state in the union.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-04

TOO COMFORTABLE.
This collar can't be stylish
why, Felice?''
ut doesn't choke me-"
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Puzzle to Trace the Lost Pennies

chase is the smallest that can be
made. But OF late there have been
more demands for pennies from the
west, and the government experts
have declared that this is a sign OF
increased frugality.
In the east, the chief use OF the
penny, outside of filling the childs
bank and buying the daily paper. Is
for the purchase of chewing gum and
one-cent candies. The increase in the
number of enny-in-the-s.ot phono-
graphs and moving picture machines
in the last few years shows another
way to which the public has taken to
get rid of its pennies.
Uncle Sam takes in many pennies
for stamps and post cards, and many
of them flow into the contribution box
in the churches and religious societies.
But all these ways in which the penny
is put to nse does not explain where
they eventually so or what makes
them disappear in such vast quantities
every year. Even the government
coinage experts do not give satisfac-
tory answer to the problem.
They give the following reasons for
the disappearance of the coppers-falli
ing through cracks into holes and dark
places; used in various arts and
crafts; locked up for years in chill
dren's banks. etc. but these explana.
tions do not seem satisfactory when
the number of new pennies coined
each year is taken into consideration.