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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

New York and Chicago are sizzling hot
but Birmingham continues 10 have real
summer resort weather while 1t patiently
and hopefully awaits the coming in of
census returns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

Those who mortgage their homes to buy
automobiles should not attempt to I'M
load the wind-up on Senator Aldrich or
even Uncle Joe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

Uncle Joe may acquire the Chautauqua
habit to the grave neglect of his car
business which he has developed to the
fullest possible extent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

The Outlook pays for Mr. Roosevelt S
west The journal of applied morals is
becoming alert in an advertising sense
in it's old age.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

The town that Is not looking for Dr.
Crippen is simply sluggish and unenter-
prising; Atlanta certainly should find
at least q dozen Of him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

zone Of the most forceful arguments in
favor of working convicts on the public
highways is a comparison of the condi-
ton of the local roads and those of
Georgia. said citizen who recently
visited Georgia.
I'm that state the rains have been just
as constant as In the vicinity Of Bir-
mingham or In, any part Of Alabama.
The farmers nave been given a great deal
of trouble about crops. The rains have
been as heavy and as detrimental to
every class. Notwithstanding this the
roads which are worked by convicts have
not been injured one particle. The high
ways Of north Georgia are as sound and
safe as they were before the rains. while
in this county the Board Of Revenue
faces serious problem In getting the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

Congressman Sulzer is conducting a
campaign of Autographs for the office Of
governor of New York He claims to be
the born image of Henry Clay.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

1t will soon be time to meet to cele-
brate the first anniversary of Doc. Cooks
return from the north pole.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

| If Mayor Gaynor closes the lobster
palaces theatre parties may be forced to
carry lunch baskets.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

Credit is a good thing SO long as it is
not used as a basis for the purchase OF
an automobile.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

The letter carriers are convinced a
mans business gives him all the exercise
he needs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

Some men prefer the simple life and
some the double life and some betwixt
and between.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

Colonel Roosevelt has a most obliging
managing editor who will not interfere
with his engagements to speak.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

It is thought to be President Taft's am
bition to play golf in every state in the
union.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27
WHAT'S POETIC LICENSE?

WHAT'S POETIC LICENSE?
Writing of a Southern girl, Samuel
Minturn Peck says: Beyond a poets
fancies, though the muse had kissed
his chances, is her dimple when it
dances in a SMILE" The muse might
kiss poets glances, but we defy any
human being to do 1t.
Washington Herald.
Isn't a poet to be allowed any lat
titude at all?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

If Panama can eliminate the mosquito
Birmingham certainly can drive out the
pestiferous fly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

King George will endeavor to meet the
increased cost of living with s2,s5o,ooo a
year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

Colonel Roosevelt still declines to throw
any opinion at all on the Aldrich tariff
into the political crater.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

Another hitch and delay has occurred
in the raising of the Maine, but the old
ship is accustomed to such things.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

Dr. Crippen, the American dentist, is
fast becoming the worlds greatest mys-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27
A 'PRELI1DE.

Call 1t midsummer madness
Give it the name that you please;
There's suggestion of sadness
In the wind that signs low through
the trees,
Whispering a message of autumn,
Marching in russell and gold
When harvest fields call to the~reaper
And purple mist broods on the void.
Call it midsummer madness
Smile at the mood, IL you will;
Soon shall it fade, all the gladness
In vesture of valley and hill.
Stormy-voiced Winter, returning.
Shall ride on the wings of the blast
And. 10! where the freight is dancing,
Well dream of a day that is past.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

The Roclefelers, to their credit be it
said, settled their differences without
taking an appeal to The Hague.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27
ANOTHER PERIL

"a newspaper writer says venison car
be made cheap"
Good Lord! Are we up against arti-
fetal venison?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
ALL MEN AREN'T BARGAINS.

ALL MEN AREN'T BARGAINS.
Wealthy widow who advertised for
husband Is now welded Merely an
other proof that advertising pays.
$ New I orl1 Telegram.
Maybe by this time the widow 10
willing to amend by saying that adver-'
Using gets results.
AN OLD STORY
Since woman's wiles
Are hard to beat,
Mere man must still
Confess defeat #
- And when he thinks - ...ss
He knows the most,
That hour of ALL
Is truly lost.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27
In the Years to Come

Il have been thinking of the years 10
come ages hence when those who are
to follow us will be trying to IND Out
from explanations some of our habits
and our way of preparing food said
thoughtful citizen.
"You know that the excavations OF
Pompei showed many things incident 10
the manner of living of the citizens OF
that buried city. Also the cave dwellers
have left us crude implements and uten-
sils they used as evidences of their crude
workma nship and the necessities of pre-
pairing maize for eating.
What / wish particularly to suggest
is how will we let folks Of. say a thou
sand years hence, know just how to COOK
that healthy but simple, delectable dish'
corn hoecake as 1t is made by the real
darby cook? Who will SO write it or
cook it that it will be known to the peo-
pie who may perhaps be dwelling in
other planets and visiting this old earth
in flying machines"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27
POE oUTCLAssED.

Suppose an imaginative potato-buR
could describi his experiences with
paris green?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27
GREAT SPORT.

"Honk! honk! honk! a bubble wagon,
Coming swiftly down the street;
Here and there an old man hopping
Wildly on his feeble feet:
Here and there poor old woman
Sadly flustered, out of breath,
Grabs a fireplug to recover
From her latest race with death!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27
LOST

I'm afraid there isn't much hope for
Piffle."
Say not So"
II can't help it. He's devotes of
Browning and a vegetarian
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27
In New York Schools


.Rirmingham's public school system
has improved in efficiency, year by year
until 1t is now known in educational cir
cles throughout the country for its ex-
cellence," said a professional man. "Edu-
Gators and other persons especially IN
terested in education who visit Birming-
ham during the school year inspect our
pedagogic work with great interest and
are always impressed with the practical
methods employed in the manual training
departments Pupils are taught. in ad-
dition to books, how to use their hands
and brains together.
II have been reading articles contribute
ed to the New York Sun recently. which
reflect seriously upon the school system
in vogue in the great metropolis, ana IN
letter to the editor of The Sun these OBJ
servations are made:
"In the new syllabus for this state
much attention is given to drawing. |
have seen classes of children put at
the blackboard to do simple Illustrations
of some subject given out to them, and ii
was not only very evident that most OF
them were utterly unable to do 1t, but
their silly attempts or their standing
chalk in hand, making no efforts, showed
lack of interest
AFTER trying them. for a while to see
if they can accomplish anything in any
branch of work, il not successful In
rouslng up any latent talent, other work
should be substituted.
"'A good sound elementary education Is
to be given to all. but only those who
show unusual ability for mental work
should be carried on in its various
branches.
/ :" SO many years of lounging over
desks at school gaining habits of idleness
laziness and mischief while their parents
slave to feed, clothe and pick up after
them, cannot produce good results fol-
work In life.
1.-The girls understand nothing Of
making home, which is the principal rea
son for women's life and worlE Badly
neglected are these ideas, and we yet tn.
results in every phase of American life
We pay much for it, and We ought tt
hide our heads in shame at what W,
get.
I" The loud talking, ill-mannered young
people who line the streets day ant
night, chewing gum and living on un
wholesome moral and physical foods d.
not speak well for the training they ge
| in thes schols.
Education means much m IRE thai
book learning, and the country needs an'
rs not getting good citizens In its averag
men and women"
"In a general way the above remark
apply to school conditions in many cities
They certainly contain much food fer re
Election in deal of moral truth for tn
public at large. Fortunately for Birming
ham, very little of the criticism woul,
apply TO conditions here"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

DULL DAY.
Been fishing?"
yep"
Catch anything?'
1.-TWO lovers spooning"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27
OF COURSE NOT

OF COURSE NOT.
No use to fret
There never yet
Was any good came Of 1t;
Your job won't be
So hard, say we,
As soon's you learn TO love it,
CHEAP AT THE PRICE.
One of The Age Herald's brightest
reporters swears to the truth of this:
TT happened in the music depart
ment of a downtown store
Have you Betsy, the Belle of the
Bathers"?' inquired young man with
dreamy eyes.
I'VE have not demurely answered
the. saleslady.
Then give me ANY Little Girl
That's Nice Little Girl."'
And his wants were filled for 10
cents"
IN THE SAME BOAT
There never was womGn yet
Who didn't like to blab,
But there are lots of men, you bet.
Who have the gift of CAB.
WRONG NOTES.
II had no idea the professor was
so sighted"
"Yes?v
He mistook a crowded piece of fy
paper just> now for the first page of
Liszts Hungarian Rhapsody"
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27
QUITE a RATHER

QUITE RAIIIER,
What kind of talker is she?'
sixty parrot-power."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

n1ent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-27

Medea gathered the enchanted heroes
That did renew old Aeson."
The Adair County news., 1910-04-06
AIcatSaz Island.

San Francisco, CAL, Mar. Il, '09.
Editor News
AS you were kind enough to
print the few lines penned you
some time ago; / will try and
write you few more notes Of a
soldiers life, their habits, etc.
The weather here is certainly
fine; it is just like May in Ken
lucky. But California has its
drawbacks, just the same as any
other state and earth quakes is
one Of them. Now | don't want
to knock for a knock is always a
boast. Now / don't see it in the
Frisco papers but take it from
me, for | certainly know. Last
Thursday eve the 10th, inst. be-
tween 1870 and IL p. M, there
was felt here 3 distinct shocks
about 3 minutes apart, and of
about A to z seconds duration. so
you see California has its draw
backs also, but I'm not knocking.
Take it all in all this is a fine
state to soldiers on account of
the climate.
We have been having vegeta-
bles here all winter; thanks to
California and Uncle Sam. We
are having a good many prison
ers coming in now, at the rate of
about five a day. Our old stock
ade is very nearly full, but the
large new one will be ready in a
short time and then it will be
better for soldiers as well as
prisoners, as they will have more
room and the new stockade wall
will be extended and more ground
inside the enclosure.
The prisoners gave quite a
good entertainment Washing
The Adair County news., 1910-04-06
COLUMBIA DISTRICT, THIR
ROUND.

The following make up Presid-
ing Elder Hulse's appointments
for the Columbia District, going
over the territory for the third
time. 1t is requested that the
membership keep these appoint
ments before it and attend the
jamestown, Jamestown, April
60.
Russell Springs, Mt. Pleasant,
April 10-11.
Monticello, Tuttle's Chapel,
April 1917.
West Monticello, Bethesda,
April 17-18.
Clinton, Davis Chapel, April
1870.
Albany, Albany. April 2S-
"a.
The Adair County news., 1910-04-06

tops l will bring my letter to a
close, as l will be up all night to-
morrow night on guard. Hoping
that the friends who read this
are enjoying the best of health
and prosperity, | am,
Yours Truly,
Fred AGREE.
The Adair County news., 1910-04-06

Peytonsburg, Chestnut Grove
April 80, May /.
Bear Creek, Rose of Sharon,
May IL.
Renox, White Hill. May 8
4.
BurksviIle, Wesley Chapel,
May rs.
Thurlow, Beech Grove, May
10-11.
CampbelIsville Circuit. Souls
Chapel, May 1916
Spurlington and Early, Poplar
Grove, May 17-18.
Greensburg, Quisenberry, May
Pip.
Evansville, M t. Zion, May
28-29.
Campbellsville Station, May
29-30.
Cane Valley, Clear Spring, June
4-5.
Columbia and Tabor, Columbia,
June Sc.
Gradyville, June 11-12.
Tompkinsville, June 1913.
West Tompkinsville June 2
20.
Temple Hill, June 25-26.
The District Conference will
'e held at Glensfork, KY. June
80, 1910.
T. L. HULsE, P. E.
The Adair County news., 1910-04-06

planes OF hell with fOrked ton
CUES of fire and glazing eye-ball,
leap to deyour; reptiles creep and
hiss and lacerate; shreeks and
wailing echoing from the cham
Der of horrors located within
the delirious mentality consti-
tute part of the delirious enter
tainment, and thus demented,
demoralized and destroyed the
drinker dies.
This pen picture is but a faint
portrayal of the reality of the
condition and experience of the
drinker whose will power and
life are swallowed up in alcohol
ism-lost to self, to family, to
friends and to usefulness, and
his character perverted from that
of good to bad good aspirations
DETECTED, bad aspirations Great
ed, evil associations courted.
home influence ignored, domes-
tic ties violated and contaminat-
ed, and on down the open de-
clivity into a bottomless pit of
alcoholic death; homes invaded
by the feindish enemy, are
darkened, disgraced and demo-
lished; a mothers heart, a wife's
heart words can't tell the story
of their suffering, but these avail
not against the insideous, in
sinuating. invading vampire, tx at
blights and blasts home and
hope.
Tongue, and pen pictures star
tie listeners, and readers, but
Oh, to see and hear the poor
alcoholic ed and demonized sub
ject when in the grasp and grip
of drunkenness, is to see and
hear the very extreme of human
suffering-excruciating torture
and torment.
Drunkenness is tide of death
That draws within its fold
So many thousand souls year
From ranks both young and old:
Drunkenness, like felons blow
Cares not for life nor pain,
For, if at first it don't succeed,
1t will try, try again.
Drunkenness is a burning pit
Of motion human lives,-
A pit of human flesh and bones
AS boundles as the skyes.
The Adair County news., 1910-04-06
What Whiskey Win Do.
Written for the News:

Livery user, TO any eXCenC, OI
Intoxicating liquors as a bever-
age, and every user of noxious
drugs, comes to experience the
dangerous effect of the use, yet
this experience, nor advice, mol
warning apparently is not heed
ed; every drinker, and every
user of drugs exposes his health
and life Knowingly to an extent,
and it is only when death threat.
ems, that some men seek proper
medical treatment. Every drink
er is suicide on the installment
plan, and some drink the last
installment.
Every drunkard was once a
moderate drinker, and as gravi-
tation is the process of gravity.
so is drunkenness a process of in
toxicating beverages these pro-
cesses differing in that, gravita-
ton sustains, but drunkenness
distroys-life Every drunkard
of today was once sober man
and moderate drinking was the
beginning Of his drunkenness,
and drunkenness is synonym
for death-see the graveyards.
Some systems seem to endure
the strain, stress and stimulation
that intoxicaDts produce or cause,
but this endurance has a limit
and this limit is terrific and eye
Ionic when it comes-it is des
peration, disease and death; and
while some systems seem to en-
dure and withstand and recover,
the great majority of systems
can't and won't endure alcoholcic
attacks and this shows the dan
gerouS effect of alcohol on the
human system.
The drinker whose system
seemingly stand up under intox-
icants unframed, is the drinker
who is in the dark amid demonic
environment; he is over the vol
canic certainties and eruptions of
approaching alcoholism, but the
drinker whose system revolts
quickly, whose stomach refuses,
whose nervous system goes down
after or during a spree, such
a drinker is indeed fortunate in
being so warned and he should
then flee from the wrath to
come.
Every Stomachkeeps it's own
record of every Intoxicating
drink and a post-mortem tells
the story-the awful story of
self obstruction; every accoholiz-
ed mind-poisoned to insensibili-
ty-goes down into and through
the Valley of the Shadow of
Death, and this shadow is the
awful warning, but Oh, some
never survive the warning, for
death comes and supplants the
shadow and thus another soul is
transported into eternity by the
alcoholic route.
Every heart of every drinker
reaches an altitude in pulsation,
and drops below the normal pull
Sation as the alcohol dies out, and
in either case, the drinker is
nearer deaths door than he
knows and many drinkers pass
through this door on to death
another drinker, another drunk
ard gone beyond recall, and so is
man unwise, unthinking unto his
own, doafh
The Adair County news., 1910-04-06

use OF lntOXlcantS; nothing cap
tivates, to distroy, like the stimu-
lating influence of such beve-
RACES; no deception is more hid
den from the drinkers senses
than the magic of intoxication
no cause of sorrow however cruel
or heinous, compares to the sa-
tanically born and Economical bred
alcoholic microbe; the brood of
evils spread and inoculate with
poisonous infection irrespective
of person, or consequences like
unto the vigorous death evil
alcohol-taken into the human
system as a beverage.
What is that hurtful, hideous,
heinous thing, whose Venal, Vip-
erous, Vamperous sting, dis
eases. degenerates and destroys
life? Whisky-"booz
What is that foaming, froth-
ing, feeting thing, whose cheer
ing, catchy, cooling fling falsly,
fiatteringly fools the drinker?
Beer-"booz."
What is that exhilerating. ex-
citing, enticing thing, whose
sparkle, spirituous, spraying
tinge, fatters, feeces and found
ers men? Wine-"booz."
Every part of the drinkers
anatomy and his mental and NOR
al capabilities are exposed to the
dangerous, degrading and degen-
Grating effect of the excessive,
or even the moderate use of
alcoholic stimulants, and obser-
walton and experience teach, and
science demonstrates the particu-
lar and general health impairing
and death causing certainty of
alcoholism, and no tongue nor
pen could tell the story, but
both agree to a verdict and
/ u d G m ent of condemnation
against this hydra.
The stimulating effect of in.
toxicants, and the lulling infu-
ence of noxious drugs are decep-
tive and this deception is the be-
ginning or initial of the danger
to the drinker or user who is
really unconscious of the extent
of alcoholic power or stimulation
and over-stimulation, and the
user of drugs is deceived by the
falsly soothing charm of the
drug, and thus the victim is
carried into the vortex of mental
dethronement and physical i'm
pairment, the sad climax of which
is,-death.
The moral sense is the first one
to become impaired and deaden-
ed, the next is the mental and
then the physical organism, and
the real better self of the man is
insulted, ignored and imprisoned
as alcoholism gradually ascends
the throne and banishes reason,
penetrating, polluting and
poisoning the circulatory system,
and nerve cells causing dessolu-
ton; burning and consuming the
red corpusels until the entire or
whole health foundation is dis
troyed and the mental-super-
structure falls under the excru-
ciating and violent work of de-
lirium tremens and in the grasp
and grip of this boa-constrictor
that coils its power of death
around human life by which
The Adair County news., 1910-04-06

1
guards were invited to attend.
They had quite a good comedian
play and also gave a couple of
boxing bouts. There is some
good talent among the prisoners.
The night of the 10th l went to
Fl. Mcdowell to a boxing con-
test. We pull off something
every week among ourselves.
Thursday, the 18th, we are
giving dance and supper here
at Alcatsaz, expect quite a few
people here from the different
cities in the near vicinity, as we
are surrounded by cities. 1t is
no trouble to get as many people
here as we can take care of, and
| assure you it is a treat to them
to visit our Island and partake of
the hospitality of the soldier boys.
We have quite a good band here,
also two pianos, and several of
the boys play the violin. So we
don't have to look outside for
our music.
l am sending you an invita-
ton to our little blow out, wish
you could be here, but / don't
much look for you.
Time passes fast here for
guard duty is getting a little bit
harder as we have quite a few
sick in the hospital, are only get
ting four nights in at present,
and Mr.. Carter, my chum says
that's pretty tough, but we all
think that, so / guess that is
about right. | am on guard to-
morrow { monday come off Tues
day, do my old guard Wednes-
day and go on again Friday.
That's the way we count the
guards. We call it four nights,
counting Tuesday the first night
in. There is a good deal of ex-
element here among the soldiers
about the big fight that is to be
pulled off here July 4th. | ex-
pect to see that boiler maker
whip that blackman until he is
yellow.
| saw the gamest man whippe d
that ever put the gloves on, when
Walgast whipped battling Nelson,
Washington's birthday. All sold
iers are lovers of good sports and
like to see good men box, but /
never want to see another man
get beating like Nelson got.
We were going to pull off a box
ing bout here between the navy
boxers and the army sports, but
owing to the fleet leaving for
target practice at Magdelany
bay, it is postponed until further
notice.
We are losing one of our best
officers, Lieut. Delaplain, he is
going to join his regiment, the
18th Infntry and Lieut. Russell
of the 9th Infntry takes his
place here at Alcatsaz. This is
going to be quite a city itself in
the near future, as | understand
| TInclp Sam ic orOinU RI inctoiI a
factory here for convicts to make
Government clothes for soldiers.
see from the papers that
there are quite a lot of buildings
going up in and around Adair.
/ just heard from father and he
tells me that he is going to build
a house and barn. / don't sup