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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20
THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT


From the Widow
Two men were clinging to an over
turned catboat. One was member OF
swimming club. The other was more
fortunate--he could nof swim and he
knew it. Both possessed the artistic
temperament
The men had never sailed a cathoat
before. A friend said: 1T is easy If
YOU don't let her jibe." They had let
her jibe. They were now perched on tho
hull side.
The artistic temperament is not like a
dry battery. 1t works quite as we'll
when it is wet. 1t now began to work.
"Tom," said one Of the men, you
have a family?"
80 have I. Blu. have only one liz
tile one"
Yes; and l have four
orhis boat will not continue to suy-
tain our combined weight. They never
do. 1 will drop off. and you will be
rescued. God bless you! The Associated
Press will send out the story. Ola as
1t is, there is nothing ever found to
beat it as a Moniay morning space
filler.'
The artistic ten Jerament of the 9TH
err man took a moment to rest. I'VE
seem to be getting along pretty Veal,
he said. 'let us hang on while long,
err"
At that moment puffy tugboat come
along hauling scow. The steersmnn
of the tug did not observe the two
men on the wrong side of the catbCal,
but an able mariner aboard the scow
called to them. Hang on tight. We are
coming!' he cried.
THE scow is coming to the rescue, >
said one of the shipwrtcked men, with
a questioning look at his companion.
Shall WE
by mudscow? Eeverw Yhey shook
Hands and let go. e
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school 70 days In the year we need not
distressing figures of illiteracy, that the
world. The figures we have, however,
tell the story and Mr.. Skaggs amplifies
and emphasizes them without wandering
from the naked truth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20
Rv Austin Dohson.

BY Austin Dobson.
YE lived in that past Georgian day,
When men were less inclined to
say
That "Time is gold" and overlay
With toll their pleasure; Z
He held some land, and dwelt thereon
Where. forget,-the house is gone;
His surname, Leisure.
Reynolds has painted him.-a face
Filled with a fine, old-fashioned grace,
Fresh-colored, frank, with ne'er trace
OF trouble shaded;
The eyes are blue. the air is drest
In plainest way,--one hand Is prest
Deep in tapped canary vest,
! With buds brocaded.
H wears brown old Brunswick coat,
With silver buttons,--round his throat
A soft crayat;-in all you note
An elder fashion,
A strangeness, which to us who shine
In shapely hats,-whose coats combine
All harmonies of hue and line.
Inspires compassion.
He lived SO long ago, you see!
Men were untraveled then, but we
Like Ariel, post o er lana ana sea
With careless parting; ~
He found It quite enough for him
To srloke his pipe In garden TRIM
And watch. about the fish tanks brim
The swallows darting.
He liked the well-wheers creaking
tongue
He liked the thrush that stopped and
sung
He liked the drone Of flies among
His netted peaches;
He liked to watch the sunlight fall
Athwart his ivied orchard wall;
Or pause to catch the cuckoo's call
Beyond the beeches.
His were the times of Paint and Patch
And yet no Ranelagh could match
The sober doves that round his thatch
Spread tails and sidled:
Fre liked their ruffling, pulled content
For him their drosy wheelngs meant
More than a Mall of Beaux that bent,
Or Bellies that hridied
Not that. In truth. when life began
He Stunned the flutter of the fan;
He too had maybe 'pinked his man.
In Beautys quarrel;
But now his "fervent youth had flown
Where iast tbinGs 80; and he Was grc~a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20
A GENTLEMAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL

As staid and slow-paced az his own
Old hunter. Sorrel.
Yet still he loved the chase, and held
ThathN no composers score sexcelled
The merry horn, when Sweetlip swelled
It's jovial riot;
But most his measured words of praise
Caressed the anglers easy ways
His idly meditative ways
His rustic diet.
Not that his "meditating" rose
Beyond a sunny summer doze;
IIe never troubled his repose
With fruitless prying;
But held, as law for high and low,
What God withholds no man can know,
And smiled away inquiry so,
Without replying.
We read,-alas, how much we read!-
The jumbled strlfes of creed and creed,
With endless controversies feed -
Our grooming tables;
His books-and they sufficed him-were
Cotton's Montague, the Grave of Blair
A "Walton"--much the worse for YEAR,
And Easop's Fables.
One more-the Bible. Not that he So
Had searched its page as deep as we;
No sophistries could make him see
Its slender credit;
1t may be that he could not count
The sires and sons to Jesse's fount,--
He liked the Sermon on the Mount
And more. he read It,
Once he had loved. but failed to wed,
A red-cheeked lass who long was dead;
His ways were far too slow, he said,
To quite forget her;
And still when time had turned him gray
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE
HUMAN SPIRIT, AND TELLS A STORY

The first mentioned girl attended a
counter next; and of a time they would
talk and confer. This girl boarded in a
bit of a room among strangers and was
well content
But one day typhoid fever overlook
her and she was taken to the Hillman
hospital. There she languished. Her
blood, after time. became as of water
Physicians of the place were alarmed
and called upon a specialist to come to
their aid.
Blood must be injected into her from
one who can spare It," said the learned
physician.
The call for volunteers was of naught.
The department store was telephoned and
the question stated. 1t was nearly 6
o'clock-the time for closing. The word
went around. Everybody in the store dis
SuSstu IL. IHe young fneH ana tne young
women didn't know what it meant to
transfuse blood from one person to an
other. They wanted to go home and ask
questions and find out.
The little girl at the counter next aside
the one of the sick girl rushed to the first
street car for home and told her good
mother about it.
you finish getting this supper for our
little family" said she. I'm going to the
hospital and pull that girl through
She went, and there said
Doctor, I'm full of blood. That's a
good little girl. Give her as much of mine
as she needs.''
And the surgeon split an artery in her
wrist and vein in the girls arm about
her elbow, and held the one tight upon
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20
FAYORITIc FICTION

From the Chicago Tribune.
my Friends Are Urging Me to Be
come a Candidate"
"Yes, l Can Drink Booze or 1 Car
Let 1t Alone"
why. Papa, / Don't Wear Half a!
High Heeled Shoes as Other Girls Do.
mo, | Wouldn't Go Across the Stree
to See a Prize Fight"
II Can Sleep Ever So Much Bette
in a Chair Car. Than l Can in a Sleep
err
Shows Great Promise"
I'm Always Glad to Have Frient
Tell Me of My Faults"
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and good all through.

in London. These seem to have been ta-
ken readily enough, and 1t may be as
sumed that French investments in our
stocks so far have not taken deep root,
whatever they may do in the future.
There is a good deal of criticism of our
commercial methods in certain class
of Paris newspaper. This is only dan
gerous from the fact that it contains the
sort of half truth which is more difficult
to refute than an actual falsehood. The
British general election may now be ta-
ken as certainly postponed until 1911,
with no disturbing agitation likely to de-
velop until late in the autumn The Nj
caraguan matter is probably giving our
state department a good deal of anxiety,
but relations with European powers are
not thereby disturbed"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20
THE RIGHT SORT.

Give me the fellow,
Hopeful and bright,
No streak of yellow
Fer brought to light.
Works while he's working,
Plays while he plays.
towards for Striking
That's what he says!
Give me the fellow,
Kindly and true,
Heart-whole and mellow,
Spite of life's rue;
Seldom complaining.
Then half in jest;
Sunshine or raining,
Ais for the best!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20
Earle Discusses Cronx

Paul Earle, one OF the best known
merchants in Birmingham, who Is con-
stantly in touch with agricultural con-
ditions, said yesterday that reports re-
ceived were to the effect that corn in
this section is in the best shape for
the past 10 years. He also stated that
while cotton was short. the farmers
believe with few clear days it will
regain lost vitality and will produce
fine results.
alabama will make the best corn
crop in her history this year." said Mr..
Earle.
II am positive in this opinion be-
cause from other than my own inspec-
lions we receive reports almost daily
and the concensus of opinion is in
confirma ton of this view.
1.-The farmers, however, have been
rather blue on account of cotton be-
ing short. The weeds have played a
conspicuous part in the backwardness
ofthe crops Notwithstanding this the
farmers believe that if a few clear days
are had within the next week they Will
have overcome this and will make
good crop.
"The conditions are very good con-
sidering everything and 1, for one. am
inclined to be decidedly optimistic over
the outlook"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20
About Persons

George Gordon Crawford president OF
the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad
company, left yesterday morning for New
York.
Charles Leman, travelling auditor Tor
the Frisco lines, was in Birmingham yes
terday, checking the local passenger OF
fee. Business is very good said Mr.
Lehman, land we will show a good IN
crease in business over last year.
H. B. Foster, judge of the Tuscaloosa
county court, was in Birmingham yester-
dav en- route to Alebrtville where ne VIII
attend the state Baptist convention
Judge Foster is superintendent or the
Rantist Sunday school of Tuscaloosa.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The Berlin Deutsche Tages zeituns
shouts at the top of its ink, Must we
ask Washington's consent in dealing
with Central America affairs?'' Alas, and
also alack, you must, dear Zeitung, for
and doing business from the Rio Grande
to the Horn, inclusive.
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the other until the white face of the
young patient tingled with the red of
blood rushing into it, and the pulsating
was seen in the veins in the temple and
until the little girl was able to gasp:
"Thank you, feel better"
The surgeon tied up the artery In the
wrist of the good woman who had given
her blood and asked her how she hap
pened to come, and her name.
Never mind" said She "she's my
child's friend. Will she get we'll doctor?"
II think So" said he. Typhoid Ii al
ways dangerous. 1 shall endeavor In the
spirit you have; and we shall pull her
through IL human will and skill can do
So"
The good predominates. Yet, how few
told tales there are of it,
OF the bad the types tell 1t daily
How much better should the tales tell
of the truth, of the good, of the generous
and the grateful of the doings.
wouldn't any man or woman of heart
and brain rather read a true story as
told above than of some nasty scandal or
murder or robbery or something equally
horrible?
There is human and good and gen.
erous spirit in all mankind, that merely
needs development. If the humorous be
brought into it and clever little story be
injected here and there to bring forth a
peal of laughter 1t will take the place of
all the pills in the universe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The census bureau is letting out few
population figures every day OF two, but
no bulletins showing Alabama results
have vet appeared Birmingham's fate
will be known, however, before the end
of July. Up to date Director Durand has
done more announcing for Texas towns
and counties than for any other commun-
itioS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The man in Missouri 81 years old, who
boasts that he has taken only five baths
in his life, certainly is not able TO say
what his mother did to him before he
became a hardened Missourian,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The taking of ones wife to Europe to
murder her is new induskfy, and a
very vicious one. 1t, however, pretty
safe when Italy and Phiander Knox pull
together.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

Some say that the colonel viii get out
of the spot light before 1872, but he has
popularity. And he is not the man to
hide himself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20
Complimentary Ramarks

II listened to the band in the park, >
said Lewis B. Mcclure of Cincinnati last
night, land I would say the music was
well rendered.
But what impressed me most favorably
was the perfect decorum of the large
crowd in attendance. I seldom fall to
look up an open-air concert whenever
am in large city. for all important cities
provide such entertainment for the people
during the summer season. In most cities
fairly good order is maintained. but there
was an air of refinement about the Biz
nlngham crowd that seemed PECULIAR,
southern. I would judge that all classes
of society here are marked by exemplary
behavior. And the young men as well as
the women folks appeared to be models
the matter of good manners.
Free concerts in the parks are real ed
ucators, not in the school sense, but III
their refining and humanizing influence
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is bad in the world.

"HERE is bad in the world.
It was seen the other night when
a wrestling match occurred at the
Jefferson theatre and burly boys in the
audience wanted to mob and break the
neck of wrestler who apparently didn' t
do the square thing. They thought there
was a strangle hold and dirty doings.
They wanted a square game and they
were ready to fight to have it on the
square.
These boys were bad In a way.
Yet. if the devil be rampant, how must
he be curbed but by the devil himself
doing his duty in fighting the old fellow
with his own fire. The lighting spirit in all
It's phases is sometimes necessary. If
you've got to fight, flight like hell" as
old General Sherman said-and whip It.
Then tell the fellow you whipped that
you were sorry you had to do it-you
were sorry it occurred. and you hope it
will not occur again.
That's the human spirit.
y
But of all humanity there is nothing to
compare with the motherly love.
In department store in Birmingham
-Steele-Smith by name-two young girls
worked at counters showing ribbons or
laces or frills or furbelows, as a man
would describe them. One girl came here
from a middle state. She was of herself
and alone. The other lived in a suburb
and was possessed of mother and
others of a family. Her mother was
stout, healthy and of great god nature
and good all through.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

Jack London, psychologist, and also
combination of an ape Ind a tiger. He
should not, at any rate, judge women by
-s
himself
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Virginia History and Politics

Said a. Well-known Bessemer man: IN
reference to an old unwritten law men
toned in Hotel Hobbies in Sunday'a
Age Herald, as a Virginian venture
to remark that two governors OF VIZ
pinia since colonial days were from
Richmond, Beverly Randolph, elected
in 1888, and John Rutherford, elected
in 1sa1 The latter was Born and
reared in Richmond and lived there his
entire life but the former died In cum
berland county. Nd senator mas ever
been from Richmond and announcer re-
markable thing not mentioned in the
SUNDAY article is that with the excep'
tion of Gilbert Walker no governor CT
Virginia since the civil war mas oeeh
elected to an office by the people, al
though several have tried to lanu-
"The old war governor, Honest John
I.etcher. was q candidate for the iegis-
laturo during readJuster days, but was
defeated. Fitzhugh Lee after his -FOUR
wears as governor failed to secure the
coveted seat in the United States Sem
ote nresent Senator Thomas S. Mar
tin defeating him. Later Lee had the
legislature investigate the eiecnon =
Martin but nothing came OF 1t. Again
in recent years Gov. J. Hoge Taylor
tried to land the senatorsh'p but failed
and IL has become well-known say
ing In Virginia: TT you want CO re-
tire from public Office n Virginia serve
term as governor. 1t may be that
Gov William II. Mann will appoint ex-
Coy Claude Swanson to the vacancy
caused by the deoth of the lamented
Daniel, but If so 1t win be an exception
to the rule
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

PhilanderS Knox is entitled to one-third
of the credit in averting war between
Ecuador and Peru. The other two-thirds
goes to Brazil and Argentina.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The Kaser's new newspaper will start
well equipped with everything except
subscribers and advertisers and he may
have to apply some pressure to get
these.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

Peaches are more abundant and more
luscious this summer than in several
summers past. And everybody can afford
to eat peach pie.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The only punishment that Philander
Knox seems to think should be meted
out to Porter Charlton is blaczballing
by some club in his home town.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The colonel Is trying to keep in the
middle of the road under all circum-
stances. The effort is very trying to
n inn
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

From the New York Press.
A soft head isn't any use, even for
a pin cushion
Experience teaches a man to fall
again in a different way.
People are not anxious to prove what
heaven is by visit to it.
A woman who marres for money may
get none at all; but a woman who
marries for love can get 1t in her
children.
On warm day woman can dress
for the street In a way that would
scare her to death II a man saw her
In her bedroom ,t
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The census figures are coming out
chiefly by counties, but the cities will be
dug out and tabulated in course of time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The latest yellow outrage consists in
the dropping of oranges by Glenn Cur
tiss on yachts at Atlantic City.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

I'm afraid you are mercenary."
why SOP
You swear by thunder
Still l don't understand.
Thunder always has a ROLL
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

Judge Kenensaw Mountain Lands
poration is no shield at all.
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SMALLER THAN CLAIMED

From the Rochester Democrat and Chron-
icle.
warming: mo census was ever taker
that pleased all communities" Censuses
have been taken of some communities
however, that pleased all their rivals.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The defiation Of a population boom is
nervously awaited in Memphis as well as
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The law of gravitation is asserting IT.
self in aviation. 1t has not had so good
an inning in a long time.
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2eJt39ueQ
,ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
TO BE SURE.
.......................s........,

will either refuse or comply, will make
the temperature drop at least 20 degrees"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20
OFTEN HAPPENS.

Here is a brochure by a chap who
claims to be pathfinder in a new world
of thought"
II dare say. If the facts in the case
were known, he has merely lost his way
in the old world of thought"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The colonel may aspire to become a
contributory editor to state platforms or
his party this fall also.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

King Edwards funeral cost 500, 900.
The cut rates of Baltimore could not be
applied in London.
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Foreign Condition.

The Wall Street Journal sums up for
eign political conditions as such condi-
tions affect business as follows:
"At no time In years has the foreign
political situation been quieter. An in
defensible attempt to work UP German
scare over the Nicaraguan question was
the only ripple OH the political pool, and
the effect of the effort was trifiing, es-
pecially as 1t was promptly discredited
There is a good deal of domestic I'M
rest in Spain. sometimes reflecting itself
in the Paris Bourse. and there has beer
some liquidation at the latter center
with French selling OF American stocks
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SAFER

Let Curtiss mount his aeroplane
And skim the upper skies;
I'll follow him, as quick again,
But only with my eyes.
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DESPERATE REMEDY.

DESPERATE REMEDY.
Its awfully hot In this theatre"
so It is. Suppose you ask the woman
IN front of us to remove her hat
How will that affect the temperature? 2"
1.-THE extreme frigidity with which she
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The world in the neighborhood of New
York seems to depend upon Billy Loeb,
Jr., for motion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

THE TRUSTFUL FOET.
The poet sings of Already,
With all his heart aglow,
Despite the fact that Already
Is where he'll never go!
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will either refuse or comply, will make
the temperature drop at least 20 degrees
TO BE SURE.
I'm afraid you are mercenary."
why sou
You swear by thunder"
Still l don't understand"
Thunder always has roll
THE TRUSTFUL FOET.
The poet sings of Already,
With all his heart aglow,
Despite the fact that Already
Is where he'll never go.
THREE MORE.
when many fiction writer's try
Their thoughts to give us hot,
We get e-rot-ic novels, with
The accent on the rot
-Lippincotts.
When some hair-dressers seek to give
Us hair to fit the hat,
We get cratic coiffures, with
The accent on the rat. sf
-sH7id7 = irsrrc Boston Traveller
And when the fisher leaves the pool
And gladly home does HE,
We get some likely stories, with
The accent on the lie
Topeka Capital.
Methought, when fair Salome took
The bald-head row by storm,
Her dance was quite informal, with
The accent on the form.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
And when needy friend drops in
A busted pal or such
He tells a touching story, with
The accent on the touch.
Nashville Tennessean.
We print these little verses from
Full many poets quill,
And feel quite philanthropic, with
The accent on the fill.
New York Mail.
We came in later than you did
And got more. We feel great!
In fact, we feel elated, with
The accent on the late.
Houston Post.
FATHER TIME.
Each morn my father winds his WATCH y
Said little Bobby White;
1T wonder who it is that winds
The watches of the night?"
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

IMPERTINENCE
Mrs. Hefty's banting now.
All the neighbors say,
Quite regardless of a row,
How much off today?"
CHUMPLEY VISITS HIS GARDEN. .
How is Chumpley getting along with
his garden?'
II saw a large cabbage head out there
yesterday"
"Indeed?"
Yves; 1t was on Chumpley's shoulders. -
NO.
Regulate the weather."
That's a splendid plan-we
Sure would like to do 1t, but
Can we?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

The moneyed smugglers are not taking
kindly interest in the new Loeb boom.