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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
LIVING A WHOLE sToRY-Book


LIVING A WHOLE STORY-BOOK
From the New York World.
man almost a hundred years old
died in New York last Friday. He
had been in, late years an inmate of
a home for the aged; before that
practising dentist, with interests in
singing, physical culture and micro
scopy.
When, this mans obituary was pub
lished yesterday there were revea ed
tales of a running away to sea from the
city as a 10-year-old boy; of mistreat-
ment which led the runaway to jump
overheard off the Madeira shore; of
rescue by foreign sailors; of ADOPTION
by a French diplomat; of a military
education at st. Cyr, service under
the Khedive in Egypt and marriage to
the daughter of a British ambass a dor.
Here was the living through of a whole
story-book in vivid chapters before a
settling down to daily work In a met
ropolitan office.
We wonder how many Libraries of
adventure would be created II every
romance could be told in full which
lies behind business or professional
career now placid In New York.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

The summer is almost gone, and
eouinoctial winds are only a month off.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
A CURB ON GADDING.

A CURB ON GADDING.
She can't run round
Enough to hurt,
The reason why
Her hobble skirt.
If we'd but stop
To look, by jing.
We'd see some good
In everything,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
A cLoTHEsL1NE SCANDAL.

A CLOTHESLINE SCANDAL.
Oh, a little Quaker maid
Hung her stockings up to dry;
When the summer breezes strayed,
Truth to tell, they kicked SO high
That 1t shocked the little maid,
Did such Improperly.
She was very much afraid
That some wicked man might see
How her impish stockings played
With the most abandoned glee.
NOT MUCH FOR LOOKS.
rs she woman of good taste?'
"Oh, yes, but it's very hard to think
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

The annual shortags of chorus girls is
reported. The ranks seem to I'LL up any
how.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
CORE IN GRAND OPER 4

Colonel Roosevelt finds no difficulty
in keeping in the spot light.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
AFFLUENCE.

AT FIUENCE.
"B1iggs seems to be getting more
prosperous every day."
so he is Bliggs used to eat in
place where he was very popular
II he gave the waiter dime. but now
he eats in a place where the waiter
won't look at anything less than fifty
cents"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
PLANS ON FOOT.

so after you have once seen her hus-
band
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

"Reres a news Item of interest to
chiropodists.'
| what about?"
Atlanta is talking of having a corn
| show"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

Thanks, fortune. yet that after all my
Thou givest me somewhat TO repair my
self -Perices, Act ii.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-20

effects" the the numerous pictures where,
for brief instant, a dummy has to
take the place of living man.
Take the case of the representation of
scaffold accident for example The
movements Of the living actor are pho
tographed right down to the actual mo-
ment when he poses for the fall. Then
comes to stop while a dummy, dressed
in similar clothes, Is arranged in his
place.
The fall of this with the scaffold is
snapshotted, but Immediately it reaches
the ground comes another stop. The actor
Is then placed on the exact spot occupied
by the dummy, with his limbs and cloth
Ing arranged, as far as possible, in the
same way. At signal the action COM
mences. and the camera records the
writings of the injured man,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-07

Live hogs (of the eatable sort)
are now worth over eleven dollars
in ST. Louis. No quotations given on
human variety.
The season for rocking the boat,
with the usual result, is open. First
blood won by New Hampshire, and
two girls drowned.
It's a cold and unnatural day now
when one or more politicians in high
places are not on the rack for some
sort of malfeasance in office.
A preacher in Missouri says fash
ionable women are only CLOTHES
horses for rich husbands Perhaps
the preacher has 'been shown"
81
Recent Investigations in Pittsburg
show that six banks had formed a
pool to obtain city deposits by brib-
ing the councilmen That's high
financing some, isn't it?
A Birmingham, Ala, paper asks,
us American business and public
life all founded on graft?" Well, if
an answer is expected, we hope all
won't speak at once
Uncle Sam has issued a new cook
book. Boarding house landladies
will want copies, as fourteen recipes
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-07
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE OTHERWISE,
AND A FEW LACONICS

been creosoted, are laid, and will
practically prove indestructable.
OF course, a road of this sort is
out of the question for country
roads, but the crushed stone and ce-
ment, on a clay foundation, would
save thousands of dollars to the
farmers, stimulate the production of
crops, solve the problem of trans
portation, and bring urban and SUI
burban life in close touch
It's only in the comic papers that
hayseed and whiskers adorn the
farmer; the real thing is rather
live proposition in the matter of up
tO-date machinery
If he will now realize that there
is good bit Of consideration coming
to him in the matter of water and
good roads, he will have no need of
special legislation when crops are
bad, and the best way for him to be-
gin will be to see that his Congress-
men are on the job early and often.
Yep: you can take 'em off now.
Mt. Etna and Joe Cannon are
both in state of eruption.
The Boston Herald speaks of "po-
litical reaction" There's been so
much of it lately it's a hard matter
to imagine it ever becoming sta
tionary.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-07

for cooking beans and ten for prunes
are given.
A milliners shop in a Southern
city has also a sign out, Notary Pub
lie" Well, we've seen some hats
that we'd want the affidavit on be-
fore we would believe the price.
Now's the time when we see (be-
sides spring lamb, strawberries, an
sich) the announcement of the can
didate who belongs to no combine
nor clique, but is The Peepuls' can
didate." Oh, Ananias, how thy de-
scendants have increased!
*
In widespread strike among
miners $4,000 will be involved. If
there is any calling whose members
are in greater need Of consideration
and better treatment than the miners
of the United States, the man forgot
to put it in the book. Here's hoping
them success in their demands.
Chicago is still in need of mission
aries who will render first aid to the
domestic heather. In their efforts
to break up gambling dens the police
have also to face the dangers from
dynamite bombs which are being
used to destroy the dives. Fanatics
are never satisfied with peaceful
efforts.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-07
WATER AND GOOD ROADS THE
FARMERS NECESSITIES.

to farm development which the peo-
pie of the United States have been
slngularly blind to the value of.
Water and good roads will do all
left undone to solve the problem of
how to keep the young men on the
farm
In our cOnceit, we are prone to
regard the Romans as a people who
were below the standard of Ameri-
can development, as we understand
it, but if we would emulate their
road building and their irrigation
methods, our farms would be invest
ments to which no gold mine could
compare.
Aside from the need of abundant
water for irrigation, there is also a
great need for household purposes,
but the average farmer thinks first
of the stock to be watered, then the
crops to be moistened, and the ''wo-
men folks " needs come last.
In the matter of arranging for the
conveyance of water to any part of
the farmhouse, stable, stockyard
or field-recent inventions have
made it possible for any farmer to
install a gasolene engine whose mo-
tive power is generated at small
cost.
Nature has long been regarded as
more or less the enemy of the farm
er, but while she may withhold her
bounty sometimes in the matter of
rain; and while the heat of the sum-
mer sun and winds often prove dis
astrous, there is always some way to
procure water
Of late years the United States
1o~
dollars for irrigation purposes.
In certain parts of the West it has
cost great deal of money to install
the elaborate system of pipes which
are needed to make tillable lands
which have SO long been desert.
By studying the plans used in
these cases, many farmers would be
able to establish less elaborate, but
equally successful, systems, assuring
their crops uniform moisture, and
the successful result is readily recog-
nized as possible.
In the matter of roads, isn't it
marvellous that the American farmer
has supinely accepted "hub-deep"
mud in the spring, and impossible
roads in the winter?
Isn't it wonderful to think he has
permitted his crops to depend on the
condition of the roads over which he
must carry them to the market, or
the freight station for shipment?
Isn't it almost unbelievable that
he has paid taxes for years and years,
to derive scarcely any benefit, except
ing the knowledge that he is sup
porting a representative CD in Con-
gress?
And the farmer can't blame any
one but himself. He has been the
newer of wood, the drawer of water,
the producer of the foodstuffs for the
dweller in the city, and has failed to
even ask for what the consumer has
demanded-and secured.
In the matter of road building,
the Introduction of concrete has
been one of the greatest factors in
this line of development.
In the South, particularly, the use
of wooden blocks, either square or
round, was regarded with favor for
many years, until hygiene became
so potent a factor.
In Jacksonville, Florida, cypress
blocks of round shape were used for
many years on the principal streets,
but were discarded for the vitrified
brick, which has nothing to recon-
mend it but it's durability; Atlanta,
Georgia has recently adopted paw
inn h nh IL Ill
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-07
Guaranteed 3 Years
80 Days Driving Test

Our Vehicles are covered
with our binding THREE
YEAR guarantee, which is
the STRONGEST and most
LIBERAL that has ever been
placed on 8 line of vehicles,
0na-vear guarantee. Onr We.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-07
IN THE WORLD

Illustrating and describing
n Q arly Two Hundred Styles
Highest Grade Runabouts,
Speeders, Buckboards, Top
Buggies, Stanhopes, Phae-
tons, Surveys, Spring Wag-
ons, Mail Wagons, Farm
Wagons, Road CARTS, Auto
Seat Buggiss and Harness at
actual factory cost, with but
one small, legitimate profit.
Our plan of selling direct
SAVES . you the Jobbers',
Agents and Dealers Profit.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-07

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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-10
The European Reputation
of President T0ff

1t is the misfortune of President
Taft to be absolutely incOmprehensi-
BILE to his cOuntrymen. William
Howard Taft is cosmopOlite, where
as the typical American is provinc-
ial. The traits which make him such
riddle in his own land render him
al the more ineligible to Europe.
They are noble traits-the finest
sense of honor, an unaffected self
effacement, and that dignity which
will not stoop for the mere plaudits
Of a crowd. 1t would be better for
President Taft did he cherish more
delusions THAT exalted fervor of
faith in the divinity of the people
which SO becomes the ruler of great
dem ocracy-t is not in President
Taft. Who knows?-perhaps in his
heart Of hearts he deems the people
a bore, if not stupid. Unlike the
fortunate Roosevelt" President
Taft, too, is afflicted with the sense
Of humor" and-unlike the fortunate
Roosevelt again-President Taft
comes into constant contact with his
intellectual interiors. Moreover,
President Taft, being neither a
Methodist church deacon like the
late Mckinley" nor 'the conven-
tional barefoot boy, reared vulgar
ly,' can not atone to the masses for
an alOofness of attitude which might
otherwise be forgiven. Theodore
Roosevelt, as we are assured, al
though, like Taft, "a gentleman born
and Bred is forgiven all that be-
cause he mingles gladly with the
mob, whereas President Taft mingles
with it sadly.-Current Literature,
(November.)
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-10

and worked and voted with the des-
pots who have been the enemies of
the masses for over a hundred years?
What duty does any Democrat owe
representative who deserted his
own party and aligned with stand
pat Republicans to help save an in
fernal system Of rules which have cor
rupted and stagnated honest legisla-
ton for a century? Where are the
constituents of these deserters who
are going to keep them in the halls
of congress after they understand the
real meaning Of their boiling? Ring
rule, autocratic domination and pre-
dominated systems have been de-
priving the masses of the sacred
privileges guaranteed to them by
the Constitution of one of the great
est nations upon the face of the
globe, and as long as the people con-
sent for unworthy Do-nothing Con-
gressmen to represent them in the
legislative branch of the government
they may expect inequality; the sys-
tenn has it's Representatives on the
floor, and unless the honest repre-
sentatives join hands with each other
and fight the common enemy we may
expect inequality; we may expect
ring domination, and we may expect
a system of rules even worse than
Cannon's, and it should be the aim
Of every free citizen of the republic
to throw off this yoke of domination
and defeat every servant that has
voted with the SYSTEM" we will
then restore the rights and enjoy the
blessings that were intended by the
founders for all to enjoy equally and
lnhindered.
GROVER C. EDMONDSON.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-10
NOTICE.

The publication Of The American
Whip has been suspended, the issue
for Oct. Is, 1910, being the last. Ill
health and other causes compel this.
The publisher, however, is deter
mined to carry on the fight as
strength permits, in other forms,
against Romanism.
EZRA j. WEAVER, Lancaster, Pa.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-10

Read the editorial notice of the
organization of the Jeffersonian Pub
fishing Company. Then refer to the
coupon on page nine These coupons
will be given preference in the allot-
ment of shares.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-26
.EXENPT PLANTS
MUST PAY TAXES
Action Of Old Manchester City
Council Held to Be
Unconstitutional.
TEST BY CAMERON COMPANY
Many soutllside Citizens on List
OF Those Delinquent in
Tax Payments.

Acting on advice of City Attorney
Pollard, City Collector of Taxes Gun
ningham through his deputy, j. +
Robertson, has notified nine manufac-
turing plants In South Richmond that
their agreement with the former city
of Manchester for exemption from city
taxes for period of five years was
entirely Illegal, and that they would
be. expected to make full payment like
cthef manufacturers In the city.
some years ago the Council of the
city OF Manchester, in an effort to
attract manufactures TO the South
sioe, made. a general proposition that
any manufacturer who would locate
taxation for period of five years
Several Richmond plants took advant.
age of the offer. and rebuilt their fac
tories on larger lines. Among others
to take the exemption were the South
ern Manufacturing Company the Win
go. Elicit &: Crump Shoe Company
the stephen Putney Shoe Company
winch after renting quarters in Man
chester for the tax exempt period
later moved out on West Broad Street
ard several furniture factories and
Woodworking plants employing alto
gether large number OF people.
Action Was Illegal.
It has been generally conceded thai
the action of the Manchester Council
in exemptlng these firms from taxes
was OF doubtful Legality. City Attor.
ney Pollard ruled years ago that the
city Of Richmond could not take such
a step. and 1t has been openly stated
that any citizen and taxpayer of Man
chester might have gone into court
and secured a mandamus to compel
the collection of the taxes from all
the exempt firms,
During the annexation debate the
Southern Manufacturing Company and
several of the other exempt firms
came out squarely for union holding
that the increased police and fire
protection and the consequent city
improvements would more than com
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-26
INSPECTION TRIP
OF new RAILROAD
Especial to The TImes-Disnatch.

Especial to The Times Dispatch.
Minston-Salem, N; c.. November %.
The inspection trip over the newly
completed Winston-Salen1 Southbound
was a glorious occasion. From the
start this morning at Wadesboro to the
close at Winston-Salem at 3 O'Clock
this afternoon, the train. with it's pas
sengers, received one continuous ova-
ton. The hosts of the occasion were
Fl. Z. Fries. president; w. II. Johnson,
superintendent; S. P. Collier, Jr., gen
eral freight and passenger agent, ana
John w. Cannon, commercial agent OF
the Atlantic Coast Line at Jacksonville,
Fla. The train, consisting of three
coaches, was in charge of C. S. Maserve,
conducted, and A. Barnes, engineer.
The commissioners of the various
counties through which the road runs
made a careful inspection OF all pub
lie road changes and crossings, and
were satisfied.
AT Albemarle, when the special train
pulled into the station at 1915 o'clock,
a great crowd, With brass band and
the children from the graded school,
was massed along the track. The band
played, and then the children sang pa
triotic airs. Everybody was happy
The new roadbed is a marvel The
maximum grade is Clio of / per cent.
southbound, and per cent, north
bound. The entire distance is eighty
nine miles from Wadesboro to Win
ston- Salem, and II per cent is straight
track. The rail is all heavy eighty
tlve-pound rail. and the Southbound Is
tirst-class road
Along the way the company has
erected eighteen overhead highway
crossings of STEEL SIX overhead cross
ings of wood, and three under cross
ings of concrete. Tho road runs
through four counties and touches
corner of Montgomery.
When the train reached Winston
Salem the entire party was taken over
the city on the electric cars and enter
tanned at the Zinzendorf Hotel as the
guests of Mr.. Fries. Tonight, at an
informal reception, gold watch fobs
We're presented to President Fries and
Chief Engineer o. II. p. Cornell, as q
token OF the appreciation OF the mem
beers of the party. The presentation
address was made by L. w. Chambliss,
Of Wadesboro. The special train will
return to Wadesboro Tomorrow.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-26
the Commonwealth and asked to be
allowed to annear hefnre the Grand |

the Commonwealth and asked to be
allowed to appear before the grand
Jury on a charge OF sale OF liquor to
him, he claimed that he was under age.
He swore to having bought liquor
twice. once at the Homestead and once
at the clubhouse. The grand jury
brought indictments for these two
sales. It developed while the trial was
going on that the older man was
detective, and he represented an eff
fort to find out from the younger man
his name and from what place he came.
the names of his parents and such
data as would enable the company to
find out something about him. An
effort to photograph these witnesses
was defeated by the accompanying de-
tective covering UP his face. Neither
he nor the detective talked to any one
except O'Brien and his counsel. When
the trial was over both left, presum-
ably for New York. from which place
they were registered.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-26
GOOD PROGRESS MADE
IN BUILDING ROADS
Improvement Continues In spotsyl-
vnnia-Schoolho at Brock
Road Burned.

Especial to The Times Dispatch.l
Fredericksburg, Va, November 20
The Spotsylvania road Improvement Is
progressing rapidly If the weather
holds good two more miles of road Will
be completed in November.
Dick English and Seymour Withers,
two youths Of Stafford county, have
made record this season on oposslms
and coons. They have so far caught
this season with their two dogs TWEEN
ty-eight- opossums and five coons.
The steamer MiddleseX, of the Mary
land, Delaware and Virginia Railway
Company, which plies the Rappahan-
mock between Baltimore and Freder-
icksburg, is now at the shipyards at
Newport News, having her machinery
raised. Another deck, giving more
staterooms, will be added to the steam
err
The public schoolhouse at Brock
Road. in Spotsylvania county, WIS
burned to the ground Wednesday.
School was In session at the time, but
the teacher and pupils all escaped. All
of the furniture was lost. The fire
originated from spark from the
chimney, which fell on the roof.
Mrs. Ida D. Jaynes, whose residence
in Spotsylvania county, near this CITY,
was destroyed by fire Monday night,
has moved with her family to this city
to reside.
Mrs. Elliott @, Garner tripped on
Mace of mating at her home here anu
fell. breaking her arm at the elbow
At meeting of the Rappahannock
Valley Medical Society, held here, Dr.
John o. Cole read a well-prepared pa
per on "Infantile Paralysis" Or. 5, L.
Scott was appointed to read the prln.
cipal paper at the January meeting OF
tbe enctety,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-26
Social and
Persona

" WO large and handsome entertain
ments engaged the attention
Yesterday of Young society PEG
pie who attended a dance at the
Jefferson Hotel, given by Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas NJ Garter to Miss Isabel Garter.
their daughter. making her debut this
winter. and Went on to 4Oi West Frank
lin street, wlIcie Mr. and Mrs. A. Berne
Blair were at home in honor Of Miss
Fanny Carter Scott, their debutante
niece
Receiving With Mr.. and Mrs. Blair
arrived at 2 o'clock yesterday after
noon, TO remain over sunday. Judge
and MIS-. H. Carter scott. the father
and mother of the debtitante. and Mr.
and MrH. Thoma9 j.. Moore.
The dance and reception were in all
details among the prettiest entertain
ments OF the autumn. all the buds and
the younger society contingent being
present al both.
Miss Anne ipe r fras fr' viii entertain a
Darty of friends at the Country Club
this evening.
1inpper--Dechcrt.
Tho wedding of Miss Lillian Ann
pec:ert. daughter of Nj. and Mrs WI.
Vie Happcr. a Richmond insurance
man. son Of Mrs. Mary Il. Harper Of
Durham. y, g.. vas celebrated AT EN-
manuel Episcopal Church, IN Harrison
burg. "Wednesday night. The, ofiieiat-
ing CLERGYMAN was Rev. John Long
Jackson. rector OF Emmanuel church.
Mrs. r. y. Lee Williamson, OF Baltt-
more. was matron OF honor. The
bridesmaids were Miss Mary Ford OF
ST Joseph Mo. Miss Lillian Talbot.
OF Chorlestown. w. Va: Miss Minnie
Engert. OF f.ynchburg. Va. Miss En-
ma Kothe. OF indianapolis. and Miss
Ann CASTOR of MONTGOMERY. Ala. The
flower girls were Harriet Oihausen and
louise Dechert.
The best man was F. H. Briggs. ~.
of Raleigh, n c.. while the groomsmen
were George D. Happier, OF. Durham,
n e.: william Hunter Bell. OF Norfolk;
igames NJ. Young. OF RicsMond: Robert
r. Michael or Baltimore and Hugh l..
Meek, of Columbus, ohio, The ushers
were \. y. Clemens. of Baltimore: Toler
C; Lemley, 4. Is. Fletcher, Jr, and Algie
Chandler. OF HarrisSnburg,
On November 20 Mrs. Happer will be
.ratron of honor at the wedding OF Miss
Mary Ellen Harris. in Montg omery.
lAla., an old schoolmate at Mrs. Sem
piles school, In New york.
After January ! Dir. and Mrs. Happier
will be at home at Gresham Court,
Richmond.
Itidenour-Snunders.
4 pretty marriage was celebrated