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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Il

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the Philadel-
~ phia Press from Harrisburg
\ shows that mellow drammer'
hath its tragedies no less regrettable than
those of football.
We quote:
James A. Sullivan, young actor in a
play which has been touring the western
part of the state, died here today from
a singular injury. He broke blood YES
sci while engaged in a scene with the
leading lady of the show.
1.-The woman was to fall into his arms
and the shock was too great for him.
In melodrama the actors and actresses
must needs be strenuous in portraying
both good and evil passions. The viii
lain must not show a single spark of
humanity. He must be villainous dur
ing every vanishing second of every wax
ing hour. At night he must dream of
soul-satisfying murder and of profitable
perjury or of arson for revenge. When
he is not plotting something fiendish he
must be perpetrating a dastardly crime.
There are no shadings of chara cter in
melodrama. Ine good are very, very
good. The bad are horrid. They are
just as fond of being horrid as the good
are of being good. And those who are
in love, like the villainous person who is
bent upon villainy and the virtuous who
are hipped upon virtue, must display
singleness of purpose and vim in the
pursuit of lifes main chance. A poet
has set 1t down that mans love is of
mans life thing apart, but that it is
woman's whole existence. Not so in melo-
drama. 1t is his one interest in life. De-
frauded of his estates, charged with the
murder of his greatest benefactor. pur-
sued by disaster, during three acts and
IA scenes. he clings to love as a man
overheard CLUES himself to a life pre-
server And the case with the heroine
is very much the same.
Violent expression of violent emotions
is necessarily a part of meodrama. A
real life girl is quite likely to say:
"Now be careful Don't muss my hair"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
The strawberry grows underneath the
netfle. king Henry V.
Estates Of Presidents

George Washington and Samuel j. Til
den were perhaps the only rich men
that were elected President The estate
of the late Grover Cleveland was, in
New York state, but $4,000, and the en-
tire estate left by him is probably not
large. Mckinley went through bank
ruptcy and the property inherited by Mr.
Roosevelt was placed in the hands OF
trustees Mr. Taft is man of small ac-
cumulated wealth.
There is no haste on the part of any
party to make a millionaire or multi
millionaire a standard-bearer before the
people, although Mr.. Roosevelt may re-
ceive royalties enough from his African
books by or before 1912 to place him in
that class. The popularity of Washing
ton and Tilden shows that the country
does not draw a line against millionaires;
but still it is plain that, all other quail
fications being equal. it prefers a man of
moderate means to a man of large means
in the White House. Mr.. Roosevelt
really attempted at Osawatomie to place
the man with a swollen fortune outside
the political breastworks, and he is
man who knows, or assumes to know,
as a rule which way the wind is blowing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
BISMARCK AND sCHoPENHAUER

From the Westminster Gazette.
In an entertaining account of din
ner party at Prince Bismarck's Berlin
residence which is given him the recol-
lections of the Livonian journalist Eek
hardt, the following, which was a part
of the table talk, shows the host in
a new light: The conversation had
turned on Bismarck's early days at
Frankfort and Eckhardt asked whether
at the table dhote of the Hotel
dAngleterre his host had ever met
Sch openhauer. No" said Bismarck, ''he
had no use for me nor I for him. More
over, I have never had time or desire
to occupy myself with philosophy. While
was a student schopenhaur was still
unknown. 1 know absolutely nothing
about his system"
Another guest, an admirer of Schop-
enhaur, then Joined enthusiastically in
the converse ton and explained that
the philosophers great merit consist
power was the indestructible essence
Of the mind of man and that intelli-
gence was only of secondary import
ance. "That may very well be true
said Prince Bismarck, "at least as far
as I am concerned, for l have often
noticed that my will had already come
to a decision while my mind had not
yet finished thinking about the same
subject
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
INJURED DIGNITY

From Answers
The two extra specialists had pound
cd him and sounded him, and felt his
pulse and tapped his frame till he could
only lie in a cold perspiration of fear
Undoubtedly, it's a case of appen-
dicitisv' said specialist No. / gravely
Undoubtedly assented specialist
No. 2.
"But would he be able to stand an
operation" pondered No. H.
"Ah. would he?'- echoed No. 2.
They dug him in the ribs again, and
he squealed.
"Ah," remarked No. /, II think we
ought to let him get a bit stronger
before we cut into him."
"Confound your palaver! gasped the
pc tient, starting up. What do you take
me fora cheese"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
UNPREJUDICED JUROR
From the Kansas City Star.


In southern county of Missouri
years ago, when the form Of question:
ing was slightly different from now,
much trouble was experienced in got
ting a jury In murder trial.
Finally an old fellow answered every
question satisfactorily?he had no pref
udices, was not opposed to capital
punishment, and was generally consid-
cred a valuable find. Then the prose-
cutor said solemnly:
Juror, look upon the prisoner; pris-
oner, look upon the juror"
The old man adjusted his spectacles
and peered at the prisoner for a full
half minute Then, turning to the
court, he said:
Judge. burned If don't believe
he's guilty"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
THE LOST OCCASION

BY Robert Louis Stevenson.
Farewell. fair day and fading light!
The clay-born here, with westward sight,
Marks the huge sun now downward soar.
Farewell, we twain shall meet no more.
Farewell, I watch with bursting sigh,
My late condemned occasion die.
linger useless In my tent:
Farewell, fair day, SO foully spent!
Farewell. fair day, If any God
At all consider this poor clod,
He who the fair occasion sent
Prepared and placed the impediment.
Give me to sleep, give me to week /
Girded and shod, and bid - IA
The hero Of the comm II
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
TOO MODEST

From the New York Tribune
IAN actor should be modest, and most
actors are" said James K Hackett. at
a luncheon in Pittsburg. But I know
a young actor who. at the beginning of
his career, carried modesty almost too
far
This young man inserted In all the
dramatic papers a want advertisement
that read:
Engagement Wanted-Small part,
such as dead body or outside shouts pre-
ferred. "
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
moves contemplated to bring the tele-
gram closer to the people,
Large and Prosperous City

Memphis has been greatly improved in
recent years." said Edward B. Crawford,
assistant cashier of the American Trust
and Savings bank, who returned recently
from his vacation spent in that city.
1T is going to be one of the handsom-
est cities in the south, too. Its census
population has not been announced, but
Memphis impressed me as being a very
large city. Its streets are crowded with
people, and altogether the city has an
air of wonderful prosperity.
Like all cities with modern sanitation,
Memphis is a very healthy place, even
in the summer months"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
WOM.ANLIKE

From Judge.
Gramercy aroused from sleep)-'That
isn't a burglar you hear in the room.
It's only a mouse"
Mrs. Gramercy-"Gracious! Isn't that
Just as bad?.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
A man learns less and less in life by
studying his own opinions.
Wedding Journeys suggest beginning in
an automobile and ending on foot.
It's the loudest noise that wins the
largest admiration from the crowd.
Happy marriages depend good deal
more upon bacon and eggs than upon
ideals.
man who will go into a restaurant
and order cold lunch would raise Cain If
his wife gave it to him at home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Looks Like Good senson

This looks like a good theatrical sea-
son from the manner in which it has
opened, and 1 believe Birmingham pa
irons of the play houses will see the best
line of attractions ever brought south, :"
said regular theatre-goer.
The Bijou opened last week, and Man
aser Semon tells me that it was one
of the biggest weeks in the history of
that house. He says that his bookings
this year will be 80 per cent better than
last year, and that he will have many
great attractions.
The Shuberts will be here with their
galaxy of stars in new plays and the
best of the old ones, and that means ex-
cellent bookings for the Shubert house.
We will see there many famous actors
who have not been south In years, and
in plays that have never been to Bir-
mingham.
Manager Douglass has stated that his
line of attractions will be superior in
every way this season. He opens the sea-
son rather late, but once opened, good
attractions will follow one another in
rapid succession.
THE Orpheum will probably have
Proctor and Keith vaudeville this season,
or high-class stock Jake Wells has not
decided which class of amusements will
be at this spacious theatre, but those
familiar with the situation are inclined to
believe that 1t will be high-class vaude-
vile. A circuit of 10 and 20-cent vaude-
vile people are anxious to get the Or
pheum, the Proctor and Keith interests
would gladly extend their field to Bir-
mingham and Jake Wells has one of the
finest stock companies in the country at
his disposal.
$50, all in all, it looks as If Birming-
ham will have plenty of amusements and
of the best class in years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
CHEMISTS HELPFUL TO POLICE

blunt instrument. The detectives who
took up the case found a hammer some
distance from the corpse. Upon it wero
couple of gray hairs, and a medical
man declared that they came from some
ones eyebrows OFcomparing the hairs
with those of the deceased's eyebrows
they corresponded. The two hairs on
the hammer brought the murderer to
Justice.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

From the Washington Post.
It is an actual fact, if not an &C
cepted truth, that, per capita, urban
Americans eat more cheese than any
other people, not excepting the Ger
mans or even the English of the dairy
districts Here we eat all sorts of
heese. mostly of home manufacture
and the aristocracy of it bears a for
eign label.
To the educated taste Roquefort, di-
rect from st. Etienne, is the finest
cheese in the world; but of the enor-
nous quantities of that delicacy we
consume perhaps one pound in ten
comes from France where they make
it from the milk of the sheep, where
as we get it by rascally commercial
evolution from the milk of a COW "just
as good" If you don't know the diff
ference, and, of course, you don't. And
it is confidently asserted that Amer
lean Limbourg cheese beats the real
stuff all hollow. even to the odor it
self
1t Is more or less authentic history
that In the southern Balkans dwell
people whose chief diet is sour milk,
which they get mostly from the goat,
and there longevity is greater than in
any other country in the entire world
where vital statistics are collected.
That people consume little fish; their
food is cheese, fruits and bread. Their
drink is sour milk. 1t is not eXtraor-
binary among them to find men and
women who have seen the suns of three
separate centuries rise and set.
But after all do these folk
Who live to the age of 10,
And die of fall from cherry
tree then
Get more out of life than we, who
die at less than half the age? Perhaps
not. But theirs is the simple life.
Read Don Quixote on the Golden Age.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

Out in Dakota a republican senator de-
gressive. This means, no doubt, that he
is on the fence in this period of polit-
ical storms and trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
ynIue of the Telegram

1.-The telegraph Is regaining its lost
ground over the telephone" said e. e.
Williams. formerly of Birmingham, but
now of Atlanta, and 1t is now almost as
much of a necessity in its field as is the
telephone.
'Our company, the Western Union, is
seeking in every way possible to educate
the people up to the use of the telegram
for everything cutting out the mails al
most entirely, just as the old use of the
messenger with a note has become obso-
lete since the advent of the telephone.
''The company is going out after bus
mess as it has never done befores You
would be astounded at the enormous
amount of business done under our night
letter privilege. This is just one of the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

julius Caesar Burrows finds the insur-
gent Rubicon a deep stream that he dare
not cross. The old special interest guard
are rapidly disappearing from public
view,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

The cities have grown, the suburbs are
full of people, and the rural districts
have as a rule held their own. This, in
brief, is the story of the census.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

Sunny Jim and Uncle Joe are trying to
see which can be the more silent They
have discounted David Bennett Hill al
ready in his great speciality.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

London may yet have to organize a
100000 club, though it is difficult to see
why it should desire that almost in
credible number of people.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

The congressional committee appointed
to investigate the Lorimer bribery
charges will find a choice lot of neatly
covered tracks
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

The 90-degree temperature overstayed
its welcome, and all are glad that it
has departed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

In making a hit the colonel utilized
the socialists in Milwaukee and Billy
Lorimer in Chicago. He is nothing if not
theatrical
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

Every election drives Uncle Joe little
deeper into his hole. The Maine election
today may cause him to pull the hole
in after him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

Baseball is entitled to a senator while
wool has Lodge. paper has Crane and
rubber has Aldrich. Let California do
her duty
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

Individual drinking cups are to be fol-
lowed in plutocratic homes by individual
bathrooms.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

Aldrich, Hale and Burrows have fallen,
and Lodge is dreadfully afraid he will
go too. Chauncey Depew knows he him
self will.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

Insurgents rise up spontaneously from
the soil of the middle west. The regulars
are astounded at every manifestation they
make
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

A. G. Spalding. a baseball man, seems
to be booked to take Senator F'lints seat.
California is full of sporting blood.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

King George is not a trouble hunter
and he has no wish to be called the
Emperor of the British.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
The Dead Sportsman

THE press SENS to have overlooked the
death of Fred Gerhard at Garden City.
L. l.. Thursday, last said a man who
notes the passing of prominent men.
"Gebhard was a thoroughbred sport of
the first water. He rode well, kept a fine
stable of good race horses at one time,
and was quite one of the best whips this
country ever knew. He drove a splen-
did four-in-hand. He owned the great
race horse, Eole, bred by Hancock of
Albermarle Virginia. he was killed in a
railroad accident in Virginia.
His conspicuous devotion to Lilly
Langtry scandalized society brought on
two or three personal difficulties, and a
challenge from Colonel Cunningham, edi-
tor of the st. Louis Globe-Democrat, which
paper had published an article in refer
ence to their relations In the ST. Louis
hotel during their visit there. Gerhard
declined the challenge.
''ln 1894 Gerhard married a celebrated
Baltimore beauty, Miss Louise Hollings-
worth. They We're divorced in 1901. In
1906 he was secretly married to divorced
woman, whose stage name was Marie
wolf, member of the Fioradora COM
pany.
I" Freddy. Gebhard was the perfect
dressed gentleman without any extremes
and always wore white shirts
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

The Outlook gets from the Roosevelt
trip a great deal of advertising at cost
not exceeding $4,000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

insurgency is now considered the regu-
lar thing and standpattism eccentric, not
to say silly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

Blessed are the poor, for they are not
subject to arrest by William Loeb, Jr.,
for smuggling.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

In the south the straw hat is not dis
carded until 1t is necessary to wear a
vest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

Latin America contains 100000 of PEG
pie and several ex-presidents.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
ABOUT CHEESE

Seats on water wagons are not tena-
ciously held.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

Washington Bureau Ase-Heraid. iflS
New York avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12
Who live to the age of 10,
And die of fall from a cherry
tree then

Get more out of life than we, who
die at less than half the age? Perhaps
not. But theirs is the simple life.
Read Don Quixote on the Golden Age.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

Every election drives Uncle Joe a little
deeper into his hole. The Maine election
today may cause him to pull the hole
in after him.
In making a hit the colonel utilized
the socialists in Milwaukee and Billy
Lorimer in Chicago. He is nothing If not
theatrical.
Aldrich, Hale and Burrows have fallen,
and Lodge is dreadfully afraid he will
go too. Chauncey Depew knows he him
self will.
Baseball is entitled to a senator while
wool has Lodge, paper has Crane and
rubber has AIdrich Let California do
her duty.
Insurgents rise up spontaneously from
the soil of the middle west. The regulars
are astounded at every manifestation they
make.
A. G. spalding. a baseball man, seems
to be booked to take Senator F'lint's seat.
California is full of sporting blood.
King George is not a trouble hunter
and he has no wish to be called the
Emperor of the British.
The Outlook gets from the Roosevelt
trip a great deal of advertising at a cost
not exceeding $1,000.
Blessed are the poor, for they are not
subject to arrest by William Loeb, Jr.,
for smuggling.
insurgency is now considered the regu-
lar thing and standpattism eccentric, not
to say silly.
In the south the straw hat is not dis
carded until 1t is necessary to wear a
vest.
Latin America contains 100000 of peo-
pie and several ex-presidents.
Seats on water wagons are not tena-
ciously held.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-12

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala,
postoffice as secoad-class matter under
act OF Congress March 3, 1879.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-01-27
NEAR farmers
enter PROTEST

Minneapolis, Jan. 26.-Near-tarm-
ers Of the twin cities winners in the
Standing Rock and Cheyenne Indian
reservation land opening in the Da'
kotas, met in the mayors reception
room at the city hall last night and
raised their first protest as farmers.
More than hundred attended the
meeting and voted for a resolution
petitioning the general land office to
change the rules governing filing on
reservation lands so there will be
inly one filing point instead of four
as planned now.
Long shots are the lot of land
seekers, the speakers last night said,
and it was even demonstrated that
under the present arrangement one
who holds a comparatively low num-
Der might lose his chance to try
farming on the Indian lands. The
government has named four points
as filing points and has divided the
lands to be entered into four dis
tricts.
The land-winner must file at the
Office for the district in which the
land he most desires is located. He
must appear in person, and if it hap
pens that all the land in the district
has already been taken by others
who were attracted to the same
quarter of the reservation, he loses
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-01-27
$20o,000,0oo LOSS
CONTINUED from page 1.O

gers. New areas are being inundat-
ed, quays are collapsing, yawning
chasms appear in streets. The wat
er of the Seine has invaded the en-
tire labyrinth of underground Paris.
1t threatens ruin and destruction
everywhere.
What new disaster will come to
the water-logged city before the
Seine begins to fall no one can pre-
dict. Already the damage is ofici-
ally estimated at $20O,00O,00 and
every hour adds millions more The
catastrophe promises to exceed the
limits of national disaster and be-
come international. The death roll
also is growing at frightful rate,
and when the epidemic which nav
appears inevitable, breaks out, it
will run into thousands. Already
scarlet feber has appeared among
the refugees at Ovry.
The authorities are facing the sit
uation with brave hearts, and are
bending their energies to rescue Of
the imprisoned and to the succor of
the homeless. The public subscrip-
tions opened by the newspapers have
reached nearly 100000 while the
Red Cross and other relief societies
have gone nobly to work.
The extent of the floods in Paris
may be judged by the fact that about
half of the length of the quays with.
in the city are under water which is
pouring into the streets and thous-
ands of laborers and soldiers are
working like mad to build cement
walls to hold back the current. The
foreign Office and the hotel Palais
D'Orsay have been abandoned, as the
cellars are full of water. The CONT
mental hotel and many residences in
the aristocratic quarter are rapidly
being evacuated.