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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
EATING AT MONTE CARLO
Amy Lyman Phillips in the Pittsburs
 Dispatch.

Amy Lyman Phillips in the Pittsburs
 Dispatch.
 K MONTE cARLo.-Most Americans MI remember the trite saying that re- ] ! fers to the establishment of Texas and the reference of its antedating hades, which is supposed to have been fash toned from the residue of building ma terial left over from the Panhandle state. And. if that be true, one wonders whether God did not make Monte Carlo and then make paradise. Certainly, he never made a more beautiful place than this little cor ner in the tiny principality, and although it's name is associated in the popular mind with whatever there is in this world of vice and sin and iniquty, it's appeal to the sense of beauty remains to counteract the effect of it's evil repute and to make one wonder if, perhaps, after all, Monte Carlo has not been given more evil name than it really deserves.
 The man with the epicurean eye will gorge himself at Monte Carlo with a Gar gantuan feast, while as for the inner rnan--nowhere in all Europe will he be able to satisfy his Little Mary so com pletely with the choicest viands and vim tages the world affords than here where princes anG paupers rub elbows and share the common interest of the average wis., itor to Monte Carlo-the stalking of a cer- tain number of francs and louis
 Few persons interest themselves in the early history of Monte Carlo, with it's unreal beauty reminding one of some ex- quistely lovely drop curtain which they expect to see raised almost any moment to disclose a stage ready set for some drama. There are plenty of dramas en- acted at Monte Carlo every day-a few comedies and many. many tragedies. But aside from the perennial interest in the gambling in the beautiful Casino which is getting its second growth. there are many millionaires of America who go to Monte Carlo, not to gamble, but to eat
 After the greed for gold which is para mount comes the instinctive greed of the | gourmet, able to satisfy his cravings with the best the money can buy, for the flesh | pots of Monte Carlo, where. it is said, and truly, that one may dine better than in any other place in all Europe during the season, Paris not excepted.
 | After a few weeks spent here among the persuasive maitres d'hotel who knows so well how 10 suggest expensive things | to eat, man may pat his pocketbook quite as ruefully as though he had stased
 it's contents at trente ct quarante-but with this difference he has had some thing to show for its emptiness. For he has dined well--and perhaps he has gained several pounds avoirdupois which he may or may not have wanted. But he has at least had his moneys worth.
 Next to watching the world gamble at Monte Carlo the most interesting thing 10 do is to watch it eat. It would seem that whenever people are not gambling they are eating and drinking. and ample pro- vision is made for this occupation-for it | is an occupation--in this little rockbound garden spot on the turquoise sea.
 Naturally, everyone who can afford to goes to the smart hotels and restaurants,
 where lie can feast upon the fat of many
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE GAME"

THE CAME" Lets play it out-this little game called . Life, Where we are listed for so brief a
 spell; Not just to win. amid the tumult rife, Or where acclaim and gay applauses
 swell; Not just to conquer where some one
 must lose, Or reach the goal, whatever be the cost; For there are other, better ways to
 choose, Though in the end the battle may be
 lost Let's play it out. as if it were a sport Wherein the game is better than the And never mind the detailed sscore's" Of errors made if each with idauntless
 soul But stick it out until the day is done, Not wasting fairness for success or
 fame, So when the battle has been lost or won The world at least can say: He played
 the game. Let's play it out-this little game called
 Work Or War or Love or what part each
 may draw, Play like a man who scorns to quit or
 shirk Because the break may carry some deep
 flaw; Nor simply holding that the goal is all That keeps the player in the contest
 staying; But stick it out from curtain rise to fall As if the game itself were worth the
 playing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
EniIrirr of Prohibition

When the opponents of statewide sumptuary legislation have pointed out that prohibition never prohibits except Ill communities where public sentiment was strongly supporting the law, members of the And-saloon league have crlea, People who talk that way do not tell the truth ' said an old citizen who is a total abstainer
 But Brother Chain. the prohibition candidate for President In lsOS was Ill Birningham last week and was very frank in what he said. Among other things he set forth was the fact that the consumption of liquor is increasing instead of diminishing. And now mere comes Charles R. Jones, chairman or the prohibition national committee, who says; We will fight for a federal law prevent ing the shipment of liquor into dry ter ritory We talk about dry territory, but there is not foot of ground in the coun- try which is even legally dry. There IS no spot to which liquor does not go.'
 ''To show the need to the dry cause of such a day, MT. Jones has compiled figures which show that the liquor traf- fic, which fell off in 1908 and lsos' Is again on the increase. The united States revenue from spirits for the period from June 30, 1909, to January 31. 1910, went up 9.1 per cent over the corresponding period of the previous year. Receipts for beer, which cannot be shipped into dry territory as con- veniently as whisky, show an increase of but 2.4 per cent.
 "The men and women who really wish to minimize the abuse of liquor go about reform in the wrong way Legislation will not accomplish 1t. Sueh laws as we have In Alabama promote perjury and hypocrisy and should De repealed. We are all for temperance but not sumptuary laws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
WILL CALL FOR BIDS
 ON NEW BOND ISSUE

At last nights session of the Board of Aldermen Mayor OBrien was authorized to advertise for bids on the s40o,000 bond issue.
 That the council is expecting neat sum for the bonds also developed. Pres ident of the Council Harry Jones made comment on the fact that recent puoiica- tions stated that 1.04 had been the high est amount which Birmingham had ever received for bonds This is not correct" said Mir. Jones. Instead tho highest price Birmingham has ever been paid for her bonds is 1.05.0S. Therefore, the bid ders must know that we expect them to do even better than this at this time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
Favors stock Exchange

L. A. May, president of the New York and London Finance company, is visit ing friends and relatives in the city. Mr May formerly lived in Birmingham but of recent years has made his home
 in New York. In speaking of the in- terview in yesterdays Age Herald with J. A. Caldwell, MT. May said:
 Tt was one of vital importance to the district. Of course, Birmingham is well known all over the world; the business people of London are well ac- quainted with this district. but you need a stock exchange here. It is not only an advertising medium, it is help full in more ways than that; it would bring capital here; it would facilitate the Notation of new enterprises; it would help the banking interests in
 judging their collateral. It is a step in the right direction. and the substan- tial business men of the city should
 and I believe will, wake up to a full realization of such an enterprise. I am interested in the district in many ways and I hope to see the day that we will have well organized body of the sub- stantial business men banded together in such way that it will rank first in the south as 0 financial district It is coming as sure as you are born.
 Already eastern capital is making inquiry concerning oil and gas in Ala bama It is here in great quantities and not so far away from Birmingham that I expect in the not far distant fu-
 ture to see this city coupled to the gas fields less than a hundred miles away
 There is nothing on earth that booms community like oil and gas. I predici
 that the influx of money and people tc the district is going to astonish vol before iong. I am a big bull on Blr mingham. Go ahead and organize ( stock exchange, and in less than { year you will have brokers coming this way from the east"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
nIohn C.rter," The EHgllSh Poet

'.John Carter is the pseudonym of lad who was kicked off freight train in Minnesota in q binding snowstorm. Cold and hungry he robbed the railroad station of s24, for which he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment; four of which had expired when he was released from prison by a pardon
 While he was in jail he wrote poetry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
SOME WAR EXPENSES

From the New York American.
 The Napoleonic wars cost England 4,32o ,000 900. The war of 1870 between France and Germany cost $3,3O 100000. The Cri- mean war cost si,7OO,00o,OoO, and the civil war in tho United States exacted a toll from both sides of over $6, 0o0,0O0 The Boer war cost England over s1,O ,0oOO0o, and the struggle between Russia and Ja. pan cost more than twice that sum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
REV. BROWN TO HOLD
 SPECIAL SERVICES

Evangelist Brown. who is conducting the remarkably successful series of meet hold special services for children Satur- day morning at 10 o'clock and special services for women at o'clock Saturday afternoon. The interest in the meetings continues unabated and the service last night was one of the best yet conducted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Sentiment fills womaD's life just the
 way square meals do a mans. We hate men for their successes and
 despise them for their failures, Truth might be lot more popular if 1t couldn't get people into so much trouble. | A girls family tries 10 run her love affair with a man and she succeeds in
 running his with her. A man can get blamed just as hard for trying to do good and failing as for try ing to do bad and succeeding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
Gallery seats All Right

The only seats to be had at the Jef- fersop for tonight's festival concert the closing performance--are in the gallery. The entire gallery will be set aside for white persons. It has. . large capacity, but it is almost sure to be filled. One side of it was well filled last night. A gentleman who sat in the last row in the gallery to hear Eugene Onegin," said The gallery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

is all right. The music sounded fine from where I sat and the decorum in the gallery was excellent--just as goea as the deeorum downstairs. saw hahs ladies and gentlemen in the gallery and persons of my acquaintance told me afterward that they enjoyed being 'high up because the music sotslded all the better LID toward the roof
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

The scratch of Colonel Rooseyelts pen means something, especially when he is working it in the interest of uplift mag a5ines. The upllft crowd get no discount from the Colonel's regular price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

Eugene Foss of Massachusetts turned a republican plurality of 1A,000 into a democratic plurality of nearly 6000. ames I. Ravens did his best with republican plurality of 10,167 two years ago. He. too, secured democratic plurality of nearly GO0o. These are not straws-they are cyclones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

Birminghams music festival is turn ing out well in every way The per formanees are being well attended and as the Jefferson theatre is almost sold up for both this afternon and tonight packed houses are assured. The festi- val closes tonight.
 Only the Jefferson theatre gallery is unsold for the closing concert of the music festival tonight The entire gallery is reserved for white people and for music the seats there are as good as any in the house. 1
 An almanac of 1867 was recently sold at S5S5, although the jokes in it would fit no one except Chauncey DepeW.
 
 Although the census was begun on a Friday it is coming oil successfully, and no census taker has yet met harm. | --s The Finnegans of the period are win ter fiannels-off again. on again. gone again, in this April weather. |
 When Mrs. Ballington Booth succeeds in boiling the cats to save the birds she is benefiting the rats also.
 --s.--
 The dirt throwing in the Panama canal was begun in 1906 and the last shovelful will be thrown out in 1914. 1 ---s-- 1a ,f- not f.., sizing up the first dozen games. There will be others. | A poet has been pardoned, and an out put of poetry from the pententiaries is now feared.
 The insurgents and democrats simply benzine.
  It is a mistake to say all the world is a stage. Some of it is a baseball dia- mond.
 President Taft seems to become both hopeless and tactless under, criticism. --s-- The limelight will feel overworked when Wilhelm and Theodore meet
  Uncle Joe tries all methods of smoking except the pipe of peace.  Thus far this season anglers agree that the biggest got away. Evelyn Thaw is securing the simple life | by living in Paris. --ss-- | And the Coal Barons got into the first division, glory be! ---s.------ Beware of the book agent in census mems clothing. There should be no repeating before the census man. Chicago boasts 46 cemeteries, all well nafronized
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
A NATURAL SERMON

 In woodland ways where blossoms
 blow And small things fair fit to and fro, And silver songs of tinkling streams Make music for a poets dreams; Where murmuring pines mock oceans s
 roar And rocks uplift, with mosses hoar, And now and then a glimpse of blue Is caught, leaf-laden branches through ; And peace broods OCT those alleys
 green, So free from passion, so serenel Ah. what were gold and worldly cares, The bonds the slave of custom wears, The wasting strife, the sordid mart, Whose profits friend from friend dis
 part
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

The baseball games are bringing out the first straw hats of the season. The games are warm and seasonable, even if the weather is not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
A QUEER SORT.

What sort of fellow is Lathers?' He puts the accent on the first sylla- ble of the word .hotel'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

The unfavorabie March balance in the foreign trade of the country is the first one in lS yearg The flood of imports has yn1.ch to answer for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

The Hearst offer to merge does not seem to interest the democrats of New York, for they have not acted upon it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
-Grantland Rice.
A CLEAR CASE

Little Willie withers is the brightest and best-behaved boy in the ineighbor- hood"
 Allow me to deduce."
 "Go ahead"
 You don't know little Willie and you've recently been chatting with his mother"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
ORIENTAL HUMOR.


 An exceedingly ugly man, says Jani, was once in the mosque asking pardon of Allah for his sins. One who over heard his prayer said to him, Where fore. oh, friend wouldst thou cheat hell of such a countenance? Art thou re- luctant to burn up face like that?'' Once again. the story writer tells us that a certain person with a hideous nose was once on a time wooing a woman. Describing himself to her, and trying to make an attractive picture, he said, "I am man devoid of lightness and frivolity, and am patient in bearing af- fiictions" "Ayei" said the woman, ''wert thou not patient in bearing of affictions thou hadst never endured thy nose these 40 years!' All of which is more witty than kind. Hardly less sharp is this next tale: Bahlul, we are told, once came Into the presence of the famed Caliph of Bagdad, the good Haroun- al-Raschd. One of the viziers accosted him. saying, Rejoice oh, Bahlul, at these good tid- ings! The Prince of the Faithful has made thee ruler over apes and swinev' Take my orders, then," quickly retorted Rahlul, flor surely thou art of my sub jects!"-Charles Johnston in Harpers Weekly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
A HARD DRINkER

Does he drink like a fish?"
 NO; he drinks like camel at the end of eight days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

The Finnegans of the period are win- ter fiannels-off again. on again, gone again, in this April weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

The bonds the slave or custom wears, The wasting strife, the sordid mart, Whose profits friend from friend dis
 part!
 ADDING INSULT TO INJURY. You. are charged with assaulting a census taker while performing his duty"
 Your honor, didn't assault him for that. After I had answered all his questions he insisted on raking up a relationship with me-
 LOOK WHO'S HERE!
 I thought twas spring,
 But, goodness me!
 Old Winters back,
 As bolds can bel THE WORLD IS GETTING BETTER. I'm told the Latin quarter in Paris is not what it used to be-. That's what I hear. It's getting sd these days that there is hardly any place, except headquarters, where the devil can feel perfectly at home"
 A DIAGNOSIS.
 You say you don't
 Feel like colt?
 Perhaps your liver
 Needs jolt.
 EXPLOSIVE. Name, please?"
 "Owowsky.'
 Do you always use an exclama tion point after your name?"
 OH, WHERE? Most men are pleased who wear new
 duds,
 As often has been noted, But where's the man who buys the
 suds,
 Because his tongue is coated?
 USEFUL STUFF. "A man who was the black sheep of his family died and left a fortune to his brothers and sisters T see. In spite of the fact thaS he was black sheep, they were glai to get his wool"
 BASEBALL BALLADS" Grantland Rice, sporting editor of the Nashville Tennessean, who has made an enviable reputation as a writer of base- ball lyrics, as well as poetry in more serious vein, has recently had published by the Tennessean company a book of verses entitled Baseball Ballads" Mir. Rice is not only a feicitous rhymer, but his humor quite equals his technique" and his book will bring joy to the hearts of fans everywhere. The book is collection of ballads about baseball which have appeared in the Tennessean and else- where. Many of them are familiar to newspaper readers who have followed MT. Rice's successful career with inter- est and appreciation. Baseball Lyrics" Is attractiyely bound and printed, and is illustrated in capital style by c. H. We'll ington. The list of contents covers variety of themes, all related in one way or another to the game of baseball. Here is one of MT. Rices poems, taken at ran dom, in which he mixes baseball and philosophy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

When Mrs. Ballington Booth succeeds in boiling the cats to save the birds she is benefiting the rats also.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

The dirt throwing in the Panama canal was begun in 1906 and the last shovelful will be thrown out in 1914
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

Although the census was begun on d Friday it is coming Oh successfully, and no census taker has yet met harm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

A poet has been pardoned, and an out put of poetry from the penitentiaries is now feared.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

An almanac of 1867 was recently sold at Sss5, although the jokes in it would fit, no one except chauncey DepeW.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
SuOWERY

SHOWERY. She was caught in a shower, But she didn't get wet; Twas a shower of rice, Such as brides often get, a
 Chicago News, She was caught in shower, But didn't seem to care: She had on silk stockings That made people stare.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

The seasons pennants are not won by sizing up the first dozen games. There will be others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

And the Coal Barons got into the first division, glory bel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

Evelyn Thaw is securing the simple lif by living in Paris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

The insurgents and democrats simply said that Uncle Joe should buy his own benzine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

President Taft seems to become both hopeless and tactless under criticism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

Thus far this season anglers agree that the biggest got away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

It is a mistake to say all the world is stage. Some of it is a baseball dia- mond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

Beware of the book agent in censu mems clothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

Uncle Joe tries all methods of smoking except the pipe of peace
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

The limelight will feel overworked when Wilhelm and Theodore meet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

Only the Jefferson theatre gallery is l unsold for the closing concert of the music festival tonight. The entire gallery is reserved for white people, and for music the seats there are as good as any in the house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

USEFUL STUFF. "A man who was the black sheep of his family died and left fortune to his brothers and sisters "I see. In spite of the fact thaS he was black sheep, they were glad to get his wool"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
DIVORCE IN ENGLAND

Chicago boasts 46 cemeteries, all well patronized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
OH, WHERE?

Most men are pleased who wear new duds,
 As often has been noted, But where's the man who buys the suds,
 Because his tongue is coated?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

Washington Bureau Age t1erald. 1t16 6 New York avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
ADDING INSULT TO INJURY.

You are charged with assaulting a census taker while performing his duty"
 Your honor, 1 didn't assault him for that. After I had answered all his questions he insisted on raking up a relationship with me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

There should be no repeating before tht census man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

z. E. Morgan and T. s. Milisap are the only authorized travelling represen- tatives of The Age Herald in it's cireu- lation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
EXPLOSIVE.

Name, please?'
 "Owowsky.''
 Do you always use an exclamatio point after your name?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21

No communication will be published without it's authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are inelosed for that purpose.