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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
Roosevelt Describes a Trek Between
 Twilight and Dawn


 From African Game Trails by rheo-
 dore Roosevelt in the March Scrib-
 ner.
 Slowly the shadows lengthened the light waned the glare of the white. dusty plain was softened, and the bold outlines of the distant mountains grew dim. Just before nightfall we halted on the further side of a dry watercourse. The safari came up singing and whis- ting and with natter and laughter prepared their food. The crossing was not good. the sides of the watercourse being steep; and each wagon was brought through by double span, the whips cracking lustily as an accom- paniment to the shouts of the drivers as the 30 oxen threw their weight into the yokes by which they were attached to the long trek tow. The horses were fed. We had tea, with. bread and cold and then lay dozing or talking be- side the bush fires. At S:S0. the moon having risen, we were off again. The safarl was still in high spirits, and started with the usual chanting and drumming.
 We pushed steadily onward across the plain, the dust rising In clouds un- der the spectral moonlight. Sometimes we rode, sometimes we walked to ease our horses. The Southern Cross was di- rectly ahead not far above the horizon. Higher and higher rose the moon, and brighter the flood of her light At in tervals the barking call of zebras was heard on either hand. It was after mid night when We again halted. The DOT ters were tired and did not sing al they ping, and they at once huddled down in their blankets, some of them building fires. We, the white men. after seeing our horses staked out. each lay down in his overcoat or jacket and slicker. with his head on his saddle and his rifle be- side him, and had a little over two hours sleep. At 8 we were off again, the shivering porters making no sound as they started; but once under way the more irrepressible spirits speedily be- gan a kind of intermittent chant, and most of the rest by degrees joined in the occasional grunt or hum that served as chorus.
 For four hours we travelled steadily, first through the moonlight and then through the reckoning dawn. Jackals shrieked and the plains plover walled and scolded as they circled round us
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
New York, Ohio and Indiana

The democrats are claiming that all three of these states will go democratic next November, and one man has risen up ko say that the ticket of 1912 would be Harmon and Marshall. But Ohio and h. Iliana are adjoining states, both being arts of the middle west It has never zen the custom to take both names on u national ticket from one section. and ! will not be done in 1912 by the demo- | ts or republicans.
 ssuming that New York and Ohio and ,ana will all go democratic in Novem-
 and there is every prospect that they
 the middle west will fill one place on
 national ticket and New York the
 It is too early to say which will re the coveted first place. At pres
 Governor Harmon has bright pros
 s If he does his running mate will New Yorker. It may be Gaynor or
 ay be Osborne, or it may be some not at present prominent in the pub eye. On the other hand, Eff New York
 firs. prize Indiana will be very
 furnish the running mate. The pro-
 of the 1912 campaign is surprising.
 oming November election will fore
 it with no little certainty and Influences. Not in recent years has sidential campaign been outlined so rly as the campaign of 1912 promises
 D by an election held two years be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
Greater Birmingham An Established Fact

Representative Jere King saw his four years task accomplished-fully and final- ly omplished-when the supreme court of Alabama refused to grant rehearing in the effort to upset the greater city. This refusal ended all litigation and all organized opposition, and the new city was at once thrust into the 1oo0oo-class, with possibilities in the life of men now living of getting into the 5O0,000-class, for the first bargeload of Cuban ore landed abreast of the city on the Warrior will be a declaration that this city is to have 5oOooO people.
 But the joy of Jere King will not be postponed to that date. His long, per- sistent battle against all sorts of obstacles stands won, and the census-taker will next month sum up the extent and size of the victory. The new city stretches along the heart of Jones valley shut in on the one side by hills full of iron ore and on the other by hills scanned with fuel, and the stream that flows through this valley may yet float barges itself. Whatever may come to this city, history will say that Mr. King consolidated back in the first decade of the century the scattered municipalities and gave the lcity proper foothold and proper standing. History will reward MT. King even if the people do not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
IRELANp,s POPULATION

Seunas MacManus, in Travel Magazine
 Ireland boasted population of nearly 5000, eco in 1S47. Today it is little more than 4,250,O0O, and nearly 5o.000 of the finest strongest, and ablest young people of the country. the flower of the land, are annually emigrating, nearly 95 per cent of them going to the United States, where went at least 90 per cent of the total emil grafton from Ireland in the last century, and where today people with a large per- eentage of Irish blood number not less than e00O0,0o0. At the natural rate of in- crease Ireland should have today, instead of 4 250, 900 inhabitants at least three times that number.
 With 32,c00 square miles of land, the greater portion of 1t exceptionally favor able for the raising of grains. roots, fruits and cattle; with magnificent water power "a water power equaled by few coun- tries-and with its well-lknown if undeyel- oped, great mineral resources Ireland Is capable of supporting in comfort and plenty 20,000,O00 people.
 Emigration has been blessing as we'll as a curse to Ireland. While for 60 of 70 years it has gone on depriving Ireland of all that was healthiest and brainiest and best in the country, thus enervating the race at home, the Irish nation is not at the same time unmindful of the fact that the millions of American money poured home to Ireland In steady stream has helped, through the trying decades that have gone by, to keep alive an Ireland at-home In at least 20 of the s2 counties of Ireland it is rare to find family that has not representative in America. Some of than have four or five. In all the poorer n.suntainous counties that border on the rugged western coast there is hardly comfortable new house erec4ed that has not beereareeted by American money. &
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Convenience in TeIegraphing

One of the first orders issued by Mr. B. Brooks. the nsV' general man ager of the Western Union Telegraph company. is bound to be applauded by the general public" said well known citizen.
 By this order every Bell Telephone subscriber is practically rut into com munication with every part of the world from his residence inhd without previous arrangement of any kind can call up the Western Union Telegraph office at any hour of the day or night and give it for transmission any mes sage he desires to send and have the same charged. to the telephone until the end of the month, the same as has been customary with long distance con- versations. This is expected to prove a great convenience to the public that will be fully appreciated"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
THE TOURIST IN JAPAN

Vera Collum, in Wide World Magazine.
 All Japanese inns, of course, charge great deal more to the globe-trotting European tourist who does not speak |the language, since he or she is not hontlent to travel strictly la Japonaise, an nd worries the entire household with variety of strange demands-extra cu,lts to sleep on (because they find : the floor hard); an improvised pill How; special food (the ordinary guest
 lakes what Is given him and at the khour that his host pleases, and IS
 thankful) knives. forks, and spoons
 gbecause he has neglected to practice Mating his food with chopsticks); a x,ath with fresh water in it (because he tX sill not follow the custom of entering
 ,e bath as soon as he arrives; thus citing the opportunity of first bath nd the water while it is fresh); and alf dozen other requirements. He
 tserves his chadai also until ne 'e ayes, and often the host misunder' apds this action. and, fearing he vii se no recompense for his extra trou' o.q auxments the bill accordingly Tn lese visitors not unusually treat thu w dresses like so many novel play Ings, especially travellers or th' sue frner sex,w ho sometimes fail hope l.s f'sly to distinguish between profes sio ,al eeishas and ordinary maidser
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
NIGHT-BLINDNEss
From the Strand.

IoHi thc 6tf '
 Inability to see by day is matchAd by the commoner nisht-blindness which tnost of us have known in friend or relative. This defect. which includes all inability to see even by artificial light. is congeni- tai with some people and never over come. It is often hereditary. It may also be caused. however, by long ex- posture to overbright light. coupled with fatigue. strange story Is told com corning e ships crew two centuries ago. which was overcome by night -blindnes$ 50 extreme that their captain was obliged to force fight with q Spanish privateeF during the day, knowing that by night his men would be helpless In order to obviatc this difficulty for future oc- casions lie ordered each sailor to keep one eye bound during the daytime, discover ling, to fis sratificaticn. that this eye, hlv inS rosted was then free of tho defect. The pailors were very amusing in t-sir efforts to retain the bandaee we'll over t,e eye that must be rstay for Hi5isiit duty en4 6e method of modifying thas Nouy
 yas discovered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
THAT TIRED FEELING

Frcm the Youths Companion.
 An able English medical write
 lately written a most interesting
 bearing the title, "On Being Tirel pape'
 n-hot nov serve a." in ~ u,,o bava heeras an a,an,os;s rarv dis
 It 1. a scientific fact. proved b, haustiye experiments with delicate r9 eA- .,u,,,,ant. that fat,sue has A dcord- A ,As, th. hodv manufactures sihem- fatigue toxins more rapidly than theX o"n be thrown off; and It Is quite pos eaN that there are persons who inheHslpie special tendency toward this unfortull form of manufacture, and they areIha persons described as born tired. GIN
 There are others who although
 born tired fall into condition WI no' they either manufacture their toxinaer' fatigue too rapidly or, through some f o of metabolism, fail to throw them fui fast enough. oi
 Many such sufferers would find th{ selves helped, as if by miracle, if eubfm ted to a course of treatment tenqingIh Ihe thorough purification of the liver and t' testlnal system, and for this reason t'n treatment advocated by MetchnikoKl lh' :.ecping the intestinal tract under q daily influence of doses of tactic acih eit1cr in tablet form or in milk tre4tio with it. may cure cases of pern,a4ete ,iredness that have resisted other tf4tIn nieuts. Ml'
 It IS small wonder that those who MA fer from chronic fatigue should be foun1 very irritating by their fellows, for tn reason that work is the only thing thel seen, to balk at. When the iSle Britisl wo, kman says, "I eats well. I drink well, I sleeps well, but when l sees jol of work comin' along I'm all of trem ble," 1t is natural to think of thrashine as the best solution. But modern science steps in and says, "No keep the thrashini till the last. First examine lhis eyes. hi! heart, his digestive system; but his body in perfect condition. cure hirl of poison ing himself, make him well, fpr few vel persons are lazy"
 in that form of chronic fattkue caused by q weak heart muscle mucht good ma, be done by a system of living which tendl 10 strengthen the heart and improve th' circulation, for muscular sy1tem i'm perfectly fed by the blood can}pt be fl good condition.
 In such case exercise should grad uated and increased very slow iron day to day, and may be much Ind ped b, some form of tonic treatn.ent. Mani persons whose laxiness takes the rm O baking at reading. or writing, o othe concentrated mental effort recou4r as i by magic when properly fttet witt glasses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
TAKE CAB
Concentrated Purpe
 tery o- Key to Mas

tery ga key '' From the St. Nichoh
 Many a boy misss-H HgazIne. man, many a girl -pning great great woman, by fa E becoiiiihs aim. It's important to take eoou as we can just whaih out as early ! our special talent Is, 1can oo' "ia' utmost energies at th hen olrec' oof The men of single,l be target. | pose are the ones w~eentrateo pui hard things of the waSfcompiish 'ne number of school bos years aso Philadelphia school, W, temoers oi ,eoohars to sh;neton aken by their Lincoln in the White see Presiaehe When the celemonie P.
 Lincoln turned to the b-fre over ni' Boys" he said, a ked
 ing about his features, smile pay in your school teach the teacheis take aim and fire? Do tivaow 10 ioao' ;r,nortance of hitting bach you the time? AaFrset e'o'S 'Ive known some peophp
 | went on, "who had fnNhe fresioei'' but they just went out pklng guns u,ithont mncb aim. an blazed away amount to much. It's aHney oiun have good guns. But anN1at thihs 'o that hits the mark is bs4d or gun other kind that doesn't 4 than any n,,s,ard shot that hits thkNsignificant is better than 8 United StaFsee's poss' t,a+ yoes vhizzing away Earmy shell aimlessly explodes." Hspace anu In these words Mir Linck
 phasizing, in language thdX was enF understand, the need of lPys coui' purpose for any one who eYP cen'i a'e' .o sccomnl;sb something eEted really o..4.s ,,r,,osa ,S tY4be world aim.
 And he was himself an ex#
 tration of the lesson that hd fnt i'iuS to teach. Whatever he did he did
 might. He attended faithfull all III ject in hand and did nothing the op uo ,.ont ,,,s yy,+s an intens vy halves to what he was doing and wdI oirec'e s...,.. s vol, that he ted so ef 1, ficiently and well, that ne
 habit of accomplishing what III LII to do. A person may have a whoH
 bewildering talents, but if theA seiies tered and i'll directed nothing are so"' complished. Concentration Is De ''
 u-s oil ,,nou how if ia witlhe key. clouds of steam as they rise, fca''e' and harmlessly, in the atmospI' 1' if those same cl9lds of steam gre D' | fined under pressure in a boilsere eo, connection with an engine, thl anu have the power to lift us or "ou'
 .,, ,,.,nant. and ocea ripeed | A boy Is fond of reading. Buti ing is objectless. Now, if he WIS ie"' | properly direct his efforts along piu on sou,tn,ta tha,,, an narticulalhis lin =, s.,,a,, ha u,o,,d ohtain res1 brand
 ,,,a .s.on;s, himself As his dts th' ..o,,,s,s n,o,,,d coon he transforHjectle
 a,,,a, asterv of a literature or fd in It's the same with artists anfcie"' keepers and students, and busine iio"e
 nd h,dd;np lawvSs m doctors and farmers. Whatever
 anoa cod in thine
 A ho,a aood e pri That is what the President meal - l kev to mastery in any and every t. ment of lifa is concentrated purpodepa'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
A Mechanics' Institute

One of the most useful educational es- tablishments in Richmond is the Me- chanics' institute, and a similar institu- ton would, l believe, flourish in Bir- mingham; it would certainly prove help ful to many young men, said J. H. Bradley, former resident of the Vir- ginia capital.
 ..The Mechanics institute is simply night school, where boys working in shops have an opportunity, for nominal tui- ton fee, to learn mathematical, natural philosophy something of chemistry and electricity, freehand and mechanical drawing and how to write good English. The institution in Richmond was started about % years ago. without any fnan- cial bottom or backing, and was main tained then, as it is today, by tuition fees of s3 a year, supplemented by asso- ciate membership dues of s3 year. The paratively small, for the instructors are selected from among the teachers in local schools and colleges, who are glad to help the cause by teaching few hours each week for little pay. The institute occupied rented quarters for good many years, but the late Maj. Lewis Ginter gave SIC. GOO as the nucleus of fund for as- surfing permanency. This fund was more than doubled by other donations, and now the Mechanics institute has hand some home of its own, well equipped with mechanical appliances. was pu- pil at the institute while working during the day to support my mother, and not only was I myself greatly benefited, but saw what a helpful thing 1t was for scores of ambitious boys apprenticed in machine shops.
 "The Y M. c. A. In Richmond main tains a good night school but the. Me chanics institute and the association in nowise interfere with each other The Y. M C. A. membership Is $75O a year, which is low enough for the privileges 1t covers; but the boy who Is trying to educate himself for career in the mechanical field finds the atmospher of the institute more stim- ulating for his purpose and it costs al most nothing.
 "The visitor or newcomer to Bir- mingham is apt to ask, why is it that there is no school of technology, espe- cially no school of mines or metallurgi- cal engineering? But when it is learned that a fine engineering and mining school is being built up at the Uni versity of Alabama at Tuscaloosa which Is situated in the Birmingham mineral district the question is satisfactorily answered. But every manufacturing town and especially every town of Bir- mingham's importance in the iron and steel world needs a mechanics insti- tuition such as is maintained in Rich mond.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
GEORGE AIDE PANS EDITORS

select and appreciative,' and not, like Mr. Ade. to S. R. o. at all performances included. "On the contrary, quite the reverse as one of Dickens well known characters would say with respect to the latter. Or Is It one or MT. Ade's characters who so expresses himself? Probably it does not matter. What is the difference between friends, anyway?
 MT. Ade has presented the editorial writers lemon" they will not relish, but which, for reasons best known to themselves, will not be hurled back de- fiantly. nevertheless. It calls to mind a story of his most gracious masjesty King Edward VII and very fashion able, very successful. and very much self-impressed London tailor The King and his loving subject were fellow guests at a social function given by recently ennobled politician. A pretty party, this, said the loving subject. But it is pleasure to greet your majesty, surely. One meets so many kinds of people here, you know" Tut tut, man.' said the King. Make the most of it. Remember we cannot all 1 be tailorsv'
 Mr. Ade should be charitable Not all
 editorial writers could have written
 those Fables in Slang nor yet "The
 Sultan of Sulu," of course.
 | Besides, inasmueh as that other scin-
 tilating Yankee Doodle" genius. MT.
 George IT. Cohan, never turns out | box -office winner without it's appre-
 ciative tributary line to MT. Ade, why
 should not MT. Ade be content to let Il
 go at that, and twinkle grandly among
 the fixed stars, without freighting hii
 mind with thoughts of those humblt
 ones hopelessly Host in the shuffle' along the editorial Milky Way?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
From the Washington Herald.

From the Washington Herald.
 vX TYR. GEORGE ADE, author or MI those Illuminating and enter lVX taining Fables in Slang pro drcer of that uplifting and sparkihe near-operatic gem, "The Sultan or su- 1u." and so forth and so on, has soureo on the editorial writers of the iand and nronounces them punk" MT. Ade thinks there is no uplift in the editorial page; that it bears the same rela'ioh to the newspaper as a whole that ihe after-dinner speaker does to the usua' banouet-that both, at best, are 10 De rated no higher than necessary evils peonIe accept an editorial leader, says MT. Ade as they accept the orator incident to an occasional good reed the former to get the other stuff that goes along with it; the latter to get the dinner.
 We suppose there is precious httie doubt that MT. Ade is an approximate llv ultimate authority in matters or thls kind: hence we should hesitate to dis
 nute his assertions, even though we Inclined to a "scrap." What he says | is important if true. On the merits of the proposition, we alx oecorousis
 and. perhaps, discreetly dumb. We oe venture respectfully to suggest
 however. that MT. Ade be not too harsf lin his criticism of the editorial writers
 They do the best they can. As rule. they do not ride in automobiles generally, indeed, they walk or pat ronjze the street cars--at six ticket for a quarter, moreover. If what the.
 say merely "gets a hand from the gal llery"-to borrow one of MT. Ade's pic
 turesque expressions-theys sare glac The editorial writers realize that the cater. ordinary, to audiences "small, bu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
THE vo1CELnss

By Oliver wendell Holiness We count the broken Tyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers elum-
 Der, But o'er their silent sisters breast The wild flowers who will stoop to num-
 Der?
 A few can touch the magic string. And noisy fame Is proud to win them. Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!
 </ l. Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their heart's sad
 story. Weep for the voiceess who have known The cross without the crown of glory. Not where L,eucadian breezes sweep Der Shappho's memory haunted pillow But where the glistening night d4ws weep On nameless sorrows churchyard pil- low.
 | o Hearts that break and give no slen Savs whitening lip and fhding treeses Till death pours out his longed for wine. Slow dropped from fnisery's cyushine | presses.
 If sinsing breath or echoins chord l To every htdden> pang WQre g1ven l What endless melodiet wero poured. " sad as |edrth- q swset as he531se|
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
MT. steeIe's Popularity

Nenan l.. Steele. who has been nonli- mated by the President to be postmas- ter at Birmingham. is the recipient of congratulations from all classes and con ditions.
 Few citizens have larger personal acquaintance than MT. Steele" said a prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce, ''and I do not know any one who is so generally esteemed. His se- lection for the position of postmaster Is regarded as a happy solution of prob lem that has been very much alive in the postoffice department for several months past
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
AS MoDJEskA SAW MARY

AS MODJEskA SAW MARY From Modjeska's Memoirs in the March
 Century.
 When I arrived in New York Mary An- derson was playing her repertoire at the Fifth. Avenue, where I was to follow. I saw Her as Parthenia in "Ingomar'' and in "Fazio," and was amazed to sec such tragic power in so young person.
 Her beauty also struck me as being un- usual, because it vas not only beauty of face, but tine harmonious perfection of the whole body. Very tall, and with long. beautiful arms, she made, without effort or study. gestures which were the natural motions of her classic figure, and, in con- sequence, could not help being graceful. l Her voice was deep and mellow, and I admired her without reserve and predicted l for her gloriousi future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
The GeographIcnl Hub

"In addition to the large industrial op- erations hereabouts that go to build up Birmingham. this city has great com mercial advantage in being the geo. graphical hub of the south" said w. F.. wiltshire of Chicago.
 ''while the big manufacturers and other business interests in the north that have to maintain general agencies and distrib- uting depots in the south havevfelt for some time that Birmingham was the log ical point for their southern branches. yet aup to recently Atlanta has led in this re- spect. Atlanta got the start years ago. and as it had adequate office accommoda- tons some time before Birmingham was NJ own to be in the skyscraper class. sA pern Headquarters business continued to Asve] steadily toward the Georsia mqk l2ps. But now Birmingham is fast .br k known as an important distrib-
 ter, and within the next 12 or 11 A his real hub Wlll be attractinG Hest. will mako the predlctlon
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