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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

to grab it
And two cents off makes prices very
low.
Day after day she scans the morning
paper
And Grams herself with bargain counter
lore;
Hairpins a half cent off-she cuts
caper
And hurries out to seek that very store.
The mornings and the afternoons will
find her
Engaged in toiling up and down the
aisles,
A host of lady maniacs behind her,
Who tear their hair and disarrange their
smiles
In frantic rush to where a pile of stock
ings
Are ticketed dollar. ninety-nine
OF newest silk, original the "clockngs'
And guaranteed to be just superflne.
The which she'll never have chance
to use;
Or gloves-a most amazing sale at Dut-
TOMS
She read about 1t in the Morning News.
When tired enough to drop she hunts a
nickle iaM
And staggers in to see picture show,
Wnere there are many eplSOueS 10 tlckio
And silent actors fitting to and fNp.
And next she buys a sundae or a soda,
10 bolster up her spirits for the fray;
Then back again to find a green pagode,
Where sample bars of soap are glen
away.
You'd think she'd spend an awful lot
of money,
Her fear of missing something is i'm
mense;
But that's what makes the shopping game
so funny
She turns loose Just bout eighty-seven
centSi
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24
Festival Chorus Mt Work

There was a large turnout at the fes-
tival rehearsal Tuesday night, many new
voices being enrolled" said Prof Fred L..
Grambs, director of the Birmingham Ora
torio society 1.-THE music we are re-
hearsing at the suggestion of Mr.. DAM
rosch, the festival director, is from
Tschaikowskys grand opera In three acts,
'Eugen Onegen.' We worked on the
first chorus number the entire evening
and made excellent progress. The singers
are delighted with the music. l am re-
questing the ladies to meet me at the
Jesse French company's plano house
next Saturday to rehearse the chorus of
The Reapers'-for female voices. 1t is
one of the most beautiful numbers in the
opera. The full rehearsals will take place
as previously announced on Tuesdays
and Fridays at m. at Gable hall.
1.-THE Jefferson County Glee club of
Ensley, of which Mr.. Allsop is leader,
has signifed its intention of joining the
festival chorus and rehearsing with u.s.
beginning early in March. This club num-
bers 80 voices 1t is a fine body of male
singers and will prove great acquisition
to the festival forces. Tenors and
BASES are still desired In the Oratorfo
society to balance the womens voices
Our lady singers have como forward
promptly end with characteristic en-
thusiasm in the interest of the music
festival
The festival dates are April 49, 20 and
81 There win be three night perform
ances and two matinees.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

Birminghams opening baseball game
viii be played at Montgomery April "A,
but then the Coal Barons come home
to play on home grounds Montgomery
Mobile and New Orleans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

Cairo, Illinois, has acquired the mob
habit, and yet it is a city of far north
ern state that almost invariably casts re-
publican majorities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24
THAT EATON POEM.


We Nave received a number of inquiries
from various parts of the state. asking
when the poem mentioned in this der
partment Tuesday morning as having
emanated from the pen of ]. JACKSON
EATON, the well known business office
bard, would be given to a waiting world.
kilograms and special delivery letters
have been pouring into our sanctum from
Oneonta, Ohatchie, Rabbit Town, Chula-
fnnee, Horse Creek, Athens, Ala, and
other centers of wealth and population,
crying with one voice, "When?'' We can
only answer, Not yet but soon."
OH-YE-E-E-OWi
Bout fifty times
I've yawned today;
Not 1azy-just
Fatigued, we'll say.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

The story that girl contracted leprosy,
from hair imported from Europe may be
false. The hair certainly was.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

The colonel is marching down the Nile
in a steam launch laden with all the
trophies of historic hunt
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

The Man from Elba is about to steam
down the Nile, and the old stream will
become as famous as it was In Cleo
pratra's time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24
T,mc for Garden Preparations

~''This weather is ideal for preparing
for early gardening and for roses" said
a man who takes much interest in such
matters.
st wish to urge upon those who wish
the best results not to use stable manure
that has not been binned for several
months. If there Is pile from the COW
shed that has been protected from the
leeching showers 1t adds much to its
value to pour fish brine from mackerel
barrels over 1t some two or three weeks
before using.
MANY persons do not break the soil
deep enough in gardening. This does not
mean to say that the clay should be
turned on top; it is to create porosity
for moisture to be stored.
I'm planting roses deep holes should
be excavated and filed with well rotted
rich loan from the forest. 1t is best to
use artificial or commercial fertilizers.
especially prepared to miv with this loan
to avoid grub and other cutting worms
and insects likely to find hiding place
in stock manure piles.
again I wish to urge all who wish
rich, green lawns that will stand the
summer heat to top dress their grass
with Stacked lime or lawn fertilizers
containing lime in proper form. Grass
requires lime, and blue grass especially"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24
A Candidate in His Travels

Charles II. Greer editor of the Marion
Standard, known as one OF the most IN
duential papers in Alabama, was In Biz
mingham yesterday. He is candidate
for the position of secretary of state,
subject to the democratic primary.
1T am making an active canvass OF the
state,' said Mr.. Greer. 81 have already
visited several counties and I am greatly
encouraged over my prospects for Win
ming the nomination on the I'd of May.
About IS per cent of the state papers
are supporting my candidacy ana that
counts for a great deal"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

Eat sparingiy," is no longer incui-
Gated. High prices have made 1t unnec-
essary.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

Baseball will soon make politics look
like 30 cents. The sap is rising.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24
THE REST TIME

IItE BLSl
The smiling face of morning drives the
shadows all away
And tricks the world in rainbow CLEANS
of hope;
There's naught can match the gladness
of newly-risen day,
When the dreary forms of night have
ceased to grope.
The sound of sweetest music charms the
valleys and the hills
And wakens every bloom upon the
plain;
The welcome call of duty then each toll
er's bosom thrills
And every Earring notes in tune again!
A BORN OPTIMIST.
Poor old Biffkins has been wrestling
with trouble again.
And trouble threw him, I presume?''
Yes, as usual; but he got right up
and said he had a new strangle hold
which he felt sure would help him to
win next time"
NEVER.
"A philosopher says a woman ar
cues much the same way as she gets off
trolley car
do you believe that?'
mot for a minute. You never see a
woman get thrown down in an argu-
ment."
SAD WORK.
II see where a man who never smiled
is dead"
What business was he in?"
HE wrote ragtime music"
"Ahl That explains a great deal"
PLAYING SAFE.
. "A Selma editor wants to bet an oyster
stew on a certain proposition"
Conservative mani Only plunger
would want to bet steak"
A QUEER LOT.
1T takes all kinds of people to make a
world"
Including the people who applaud at
a moving picture show"
A WINDY PERSON.
Its too bad that Galley isn't a
sailor"
..Why?"
Because if he were there would al
ways be wind in his sails
THE BARGAIN HABIT.
When once woman gets the bargain
habit,
There's nothing else to do but let her GO:
Each remnant that she sees, she'll want
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

1t will be more difficult to whitewash
the tariff than it will be to apply a good
coat to Mr.. Ballinger
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

The man who devised the cold storags
system was the ultimate consumers worst
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

Cold waves and snow storms are no
longer desired north of the Ohio river.
The people have had a surfeit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

The good qualities of Benjamin Ryan
Tillman are recalled and recounted in
these days of his illness. He had many.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

The Comerite legislature passed laws
but the supreme court of the United
States vetoes them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

Cairo has secured a sheriff of the right
sort-a sheriff who lets the mob fur
nish its own eorpses. Birmingham set
the pace
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24
New Duties for Building Inspector

1T seems to me that something should
be done to compel landlords or then
agents to make needed repairs on build
lngs,' said renter.
There are many alien landlords owning
property here in Birmingham who it
would seem care only for the income from
their rentals, wholly Indifferent to the
appearance Of their property as to paint
or repairs needed. Many persons do
rot care to undergo the expense and vexa-
tons of moving and they are forced to
submit to gross neglect of any semblance
of fair dealing with these landlords
or their agents. l suggest that. an ordi-
nance be passed permitting renter to
call in the building inspector to pass
upon repairs needed, and that after no.
tice. If the landlord or his agent fail
or refuse to make said repairs within
reasonable time Ito be decided by the in
spector), that the tenant be authorized
to make such repairs and deduct the
same from the rents. This should also
apply to painting houses If we are ever to
attain city beautiful"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

If Halley's comet will abolish this o. f.
winter it will be doubly welcome.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

The grounding will come out of his
hole soon. for he will be curious to see
the comet
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

Billiards that linger on the way be-
come as harmless as a summers rain.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

The consumer now buys a pigs foot al
though in past years he bought pigs
feet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

The making of unconstitutional laws
was habit on the Conner legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

No city desires to match weathers
with Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.


Maj. w. J. Walden of Uniontown, one
of the best known men in the state. was
in Birmingham yesterday Major Walden
is candidate for state Senator from the
Eighteenth district, comprising Bibb and
Perry countless and there is every indica-
ton that he will have no opposition for
the place.
Il just came up to Birmingham to do
a little visiting with my friends" said
Major Walden. you know, everybody in
Alabama has to get to Birmingham once
In while nowadays. 1t has grown to
be the center from which the states
great activities seem to radiate
1T is very gratifying to me to know
that there will probably be no opposition
to my candidacy. In our district the Sem
ator usually alternates between the two
counties, and this time it is Perry's turn
to furnish the man.
'uniontown is prosperous and we are
undoubtedly in the center of one of the
greatest farming sections of the SOUTH"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24
RULES ON BATHING

Pork chops are now marked for mil
lionaires only"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

A WINDY PERSON.
IT'S too bad that Galley isn't a
sailor"
.Why?"
Because if he were there would al
ways be wind in his sails
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

THE BARGAIN HABIT.
When once woman gets the bargain
habit,
There's nothing else to do but let her go;
Each remnant that she sees. she'll want
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

PLAYING SAFE.
. "A Selma editor wants to bet an oyster
stew on a certain proposition"
Conservative mani Only a plunger
would want to bet steak"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

A QUEER LOT.
1T takes all kinds of people to make &
world
Including the people who applaud al
a moving picture show
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

|
will be played at Montgomery April A.
but then the Coal Barons come home
to play on home grounds Montgomery.
Mobile and New Orleans
Cairo, Illinois, has acquired the mob
habit, and yet it is a city of far north
ern state that almost invariably casts re-
publican majorlties.
The Man from Elba is about to steam
down the Nile. and the old stream will
become as famous as it was In Cleo
pratra's time.
Cairo has secured a sheriff of the right
sort-a sheriff who lets the mob fur
nish its own corpses. Birmingham set
the pace.
The good qualities of Benjamin Ryan
Tillman are recalled and recounted in
these days of his illness. lie had many.
Cold waves and snow storms are no
longer desired north of the Ohio river.
The people have had surfeit.
The story that a girl contracted leprosy>
from hair imported from Europe may be
false. The hair certainly was.
The colonel is marching down the Nile
in a steam launch laden with all the
|tronhiee of a historio hunt
1t will be more difficult to whitewash
the tariff than it will be to apply a good
coat to Mr.. Ballinger
The Comerite legislature passed laws
but the supreme court of the United
States vetoes Them
-s-
The grounding will come out of his
hole soon. for he will be curious to see
the comet.
The consumer now buys pigs foot al
though in past years he bought pigs
feet
Billiards. that lnger on the way be-
come as harmless as a summers rain.
The making of unconstitutional laws
was habit on the Conner legislature.
If Halley's comet will abolish this o. f.
winter it will be doubly welcome.
Baseball Will soon make politics look
like 30 cents. The sap is rising
No city desires to match weathers
with Birmingham.
Pork chops are now marked, for mil
lionaires only
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24
A BORN oPTIMIsT.

SAD WORK.
Il see where man who never smiled
is dead"
What business was he in?"
HE wrote ragtime music"
"Ahl That explains a great deal'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

Enterted at the Birmingham Ala.
postoffiee as second-elass matter uhuei
act of Congress March 3, 1873.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

o. E. Morgan ard T. S. Millsap are the
only authorized travelling representa-
tives of The Age Herald in its eireula-
ton department.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24

Washington Bureau Age-Herald, 1424
C street, n. W.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-18

measure, which seems TO be held by
many farmers OF Vermont. He told
Montpelier journal representative yes
terdav that the proposed law would not,
to any appreciate degree, enlarge the
farmers liability, and the nature Of the
farmers business and his methods ex-
clude the farmer almost entirely from
the operation OF the proposed law. In
explaining why the farmer would not
be materially affected by the measure,
Senator Gordon says He employs a
comparatively small number OF laborers,
his machinery, so far as he uses any,
is simple and safe, the use of explosives
is rare. he does not have scores OF men
huddled together in a space hardly larg-
er than barnyard, with dangerous ma
chinery all around and above them, the
opportunities Of escape in case OF threat
ened danger afford safety because Of the
very openness of his work, great speed
is unknown, quick action and accurate
Judgment are unnecessary, and mistakes
Of Judgment are rarely, il ever attended
with injury, where there would be
liability under Senate bill No. 2"
The occupation of farming was inelud
ed in the operation OF the proposed Law
in order to get around constitutions
objection to a law which did not include
the farmers. It might be said that
Senator Gordon is making considerable
lheadway in removing much OF the preju
dice against the bill and that the pledges
OF the two parties are in fair way t
be fulfilled in this respect
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-18
The typical Topical Song.

In the midst Of the craze for these mu-
steal plays
Which hold suen remarkable sway
When an item like plot doesn't matter
iot
And art has "a very small "a"
At times il will hap that the usual snap
Is lacking, and something goes wrong
stl, You can reply it will go by and
BY
with typical topical song
Here's subject or two that often win
do,
If sung with confident nous
The nigh price OF meat the people VIII
with shouts that win bring down the
housed
If the tariff you chaff, twill elicit a
laugh;
And the subway's especially strong
snd a touch on divorce can't be missing
Of course.
With a typical topical songl
Then the suffrage cause win win great
applause
The comet will prove a big draw,
Ioy riding. a strike, chauHeurs, and th'
like.
THEY'LL an 81 them bring a guiiaW
Il won't matter a bit, i the play not
a bit;
You'll find that the public will throns
10 the musical piece. which viii take
new lease
With a typical topical songl
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-18
Vermont Politically.

Some one writes to the Woodstock
tVt.) Spirit OF the Age, raising the ques
ton. "Why not turn the state into
national park like the Yellowstone I
This suggestion is evidently born OF
great disgust over the unehanglng and
therefore depressing character OF YER
mont politics. Prompted by a man
greatly interested in conservation and
kindred matters, and greatly at loss
to know why state, whose politics
never change and whose population
changes as little as the politics, should
have any politics, he writes;
NV friend has come to the conclusion
that the work Of recording votes each
year, Of Vermont citizens, mas been for
many wears quite unnecessary About
80 years ago everybody knew what
everybody in Vermont thought, ana
everybody in Vermont thinks to-day
lust what everybody in Vermont thought
so years ago. This is a comfortable
state Of affairs. 1t disturbs nobody s
beliefs. it removes nobody from office,
1t makes it quite unnecessary TOR pot
iticians to have any interest IN the
state or to work for it's welfare. Al
Sc. it makes it quite unnecessary to
register opinions on matters Of public
concern.
Therefore why not make park OF
the state? 1t would have the effect
only Of eliminating the politics which
have become so useless. There is somt
point to his humorous extremity o.
view. vermont's political stagnatior
is no doubt to a degree, caused by
stagnation in population and industrial
growth. but may it not also be said thai
/ the dead set in politics Of SO many
wears standing is effective for stagna
I fion in other directionsl As is said j.
the above quotation. it has become un
necessary for politicians or for any on
aspiring to public place to have any IN
I terest IN the state or work for its vel
fore. II is only necessary to gain tn
favor Of the self-perpetuating Repnb
lican machine, and the people never fai
10 ratifv the choice. A great disturb
ance which would turn the state pollti
Ically upside down would unquestionabl
prove mighty stimulus to more pro
aressive and growing tendencies in tn
whole life Of that commonwealth
Springfield, Mass, Republican.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-18
Honefnl For Fair Haven.

The census of the state Of Vermont
has been given to the public and while
the figures are not such as to thru one
to the point Of ecstasy, they are not
such as to totally discourage. The state
might have done better and it might
have done a great deal worse. In our
neart of hearts we really feel worse for
our own town than we feel for the
state for we had expected larger and
better things for Fair Haven. One resi-
dent of South Main street declares that
he helped the town to increase SIX N
population in the past ten years and
intimates that if others had done ike
wise we would nave some different fg-
ures for the census enumerator,
So much has been laid to the strike
Of three years ago that it seems almost
shame to put anything more upon i
hut there is no question but that 9
strike of years duration had its effect
upon the population of the town. Fan
Haven is again slowly but surely com
inc into ner own. The people are again
coming in instead Of going out lht
growth in the past has been slow but i
has been sure. This is a condition that
we expect to see stoy with us and thl'
means more and more people as the
years roll around. The people lind Fan
| Haven to be good town to live IN anl
those who live in it leave it with regret
Many who leave it return to again taxi
up their lives here for the reason tina
1 tlley are seldom perfectly satisfied will
the changes that different location
brings
So not withstanding the census fig
ures, paltry increase Of three per cent
III ten years, we are still hopeful for tn
future Of Fair Haven. Fair Haven Era
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-18
POPULATION INDICATIONS IN
MAINE.

If the rural sections of Maine show a
sluggishness similar to the rural sections
of Vermont and great many other
states Of the union, both East and West,
then Names percentage of population
Increase will not be a great deal more
impressive than is Vermont's gain OF
Be- per cent. Two Of the largest cities
bf the state are Portland and Lewis
Ion; and the census bureau reports that
the percentage Of gain in the former
was 1863, while in the case of the latter
It was much smaller, being l0.5, As
compared with those two cities, Yer
mont's leading places gained more rap
dly, outside of Burlington, which is now
lnly ten per cent. more populous than
It was in 1900, and yet their increase
was able to bring the states average
10 only SO per cent Therefore it seem;
likely that Maine will have to be content
with small percentage Of increase
Judging by the reports already re-
leived.