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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
The Memphis Population

"The citizens of Memphis are worried oyer their census f1gures,' said Col. w. E. Leedy, who spent Monday in that city on his way from Arkansas, with Senator Joseph F. Johnston. Memphis is one of the most fiourlshing cities in the United States Everyone who visits Memphis frequently, as l do, perceives it's rapid growth. and yet am told that the census takers had counted only be- tween 13o,OO0 and 131OOo inhabitants
 Representative citizens went to Wash ington and prevailed upon the census director to have three wards of Memphis recounted as an experiment. and it was found that these wards averaged TOO more in population than the first report showed. I do not know what will be the outcome of the Memphis matter, but it is safe to say that the city did not get fair treatment in April
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
K1p1ING,s METHODS OF WORK

From the Chicago Tribune.
 When some one asked Kipling how he came to have such exhaustive in- formation of arctic life as he displayed in one of his short stories, he is said to have taken from shelf one of our government reports on Alaska and handed it to his questioner. There' in the matter-o of-fact language of the ethnologist and the naturalist, was con tained all that he knew of the subject He had absorbed from those pages not only the facts, but he had also i'm bibed the very spirit of life beyond the arctic circle, quite as much as though he had lived in an Aleut hut all the long northern winter, fished through the ice holes with spear, or killed the seal and walrus for cloth ing and food. Hundreds of these gov ernment reports stood in public and private libraries, but the only one who perceived the pathos and romance oi that life was the little Englishman who sees things as they are.'
 In his latest book, although 1t Is de- signed for younger readers, he again gives us a peep into his workshop Here we have Philadelphia during Washington's presidency. The Quak- CT City of 1794, with it's political par ties of the formative period, its French emigres, It's cabals, its petty intrigues and conspiracies, stands revealed as few American writers have ever pic tured 1t for us. Only a few words and we have sketched for us Big Hand" as his Seneca friends called Washington Genet, Talleyrand selling buttons, Red Jacket, and Cornplanter, and-when the scene changes to Paris -Bonaparte.
 Hard work, much reading, and the care of detail--these make a good aid if not a foundation, to literary genius
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
Tesfs of Knowledge

Real, practical knowledge of the comE mon, everyday affairs of life is about the scarcest thing to be found among educated people, said business man. ''and it seems to be entirely overlooked in our schools.
 "As an illustration of what I say will tell an experience I had recently. About 10 or F people were sitting in boarding house parlor and talking about various things when someone mentioned drigible balloon. What is dirigible halloon?' asked a young lady, and no one could answer. This started the in- qury into other matters and the follow main unanswered: Why do water pipes burst in frosty weather? Why does a lamp smoke when the chimney is re- moved?' Why does blower help to kindle a fire?' What causes the tides in the ocean? What causes the gulf and potato boil dry? These are just Ia few of the questions and yet simple as they are, no could answer them.
 "Someone suggested that a list of 100 practical questions be made up and sent to the newspapers with the offer of a most correctly. I have my doubts about the effect of such an experiment, but think such a list would be very suitable 10 test the knowledge of graduates at commencement"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Actual and Apparent Rate of Increa

Actual and Apparent Rate Of increase
 Many people think that Birmins- hams chief claim to distinction in the | census table is the percentage of In crease-245. lover ten years ago. said a prominent business man." Well, that big percentage is worth celebrating, for 1t is official, and the only system or rule that the statistician of the census bureau could adopt in computing percentage gain is the one in vogue. If it be said that such per centage gain be apparent and not actual, the answer Is that all the cities of the United States are treated alike "Of course, it Is not for the gov ernment to analize conditions and tell how it Is that Birmingham makes the best percentage showing. Individuals with money to invest in Birmingham or having special reasons for know Ing all the facts about the city's grow ing can easily get such information as they desire by writing to the Cham Der of Commerce without ever coming on the scene.
 But for the critical who find fault with the census bureau by stating the population in 1900 as 3S,415 and In 1910 as 1S2,6S5 without foot notes, here is simple analysis that shows that Birmingham has grown actually as well as apparently faster than ny other city large enough to get in the 100,- eco class.
 MT. R. B. Smyer, who was our cen sus supervisor ten years ago, recently worked out and published table show ing what the population in the present Birmingham limits was in 1900. He had the incorporated suburbs as his basis and as there was comparatively little unincorporated territory to deal with, his estimate of such territory may be taken as approximately correct. MT. Smyers total for 1900 compared with the census figures of this year showed a percentage gain-an actual gain-of 102.
 Now what other considerable city makes so fine an exhibit on actual per centage growth? None! And the striS ing fact in this connection is that with the exception of Los Angeles In apparent growth, not one of the progressive cities, in their census bureau, or apparent rate  Of gain. can come up to Birmingham's actual rate-102. A list of the large cities as given alphabetically, in the cen sus bulletin, with census percentage of ficially stated, follows: Atlanta, 723 per cent; Boston, 19.6; Buffalo, POP; Chicago, 28.7; Columbus. O., 446: Denver, 594; De- troit, 62.1; Grand Rapids, 2S.5; Indianap- oils, 3S.1; Kansas City, Mo-, 51.7; Mill waukee, 31: Nashville. 86.5; New York, 98.7; Omaha, 21 Philadelphia, 1s7; Pitts burg 1S.2; Richmond, 5O.1; Rochester, S4.2; St. Louis, 194; Toledo, 27.s; Wash iEgton, D. C., 1S.S.
 Thus it is seen that in the rate com fnuted by the census statistician not one of the cities named begins to approach Birminghams actual percentage of in- crease of 102 Birmingham any way you look at 1t has more than doubled in 10 years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
HOSPITAL WITHOUT TUBS

Houston Special in the Denver Repub-
 lican.
 A hospital without a single bath tub.
 That is the forward step In sanitary
 construction which Is announced for
 the great hospital building which the
 Hartman lines are now constructing at a cost of nearly 's500,000. In the place of tubs, numerous shower baths have been provided, and it Is claimed this Is done in the interest of both the physicians and the patients. It is pointed out that frequently a patient cannot be moved from his cot or is too weak to be placed in a tub, but that he can be rolled under shower and given his daily bath in comfort. Physicians and surgeons claim 1t is
 much more convenient for them to ster under the shower than to be compelled
 to use the old-fashioned tubs, and in these days of advanced surgery the physician must be as thoroughly ster- ilized as his instruments. The big tub, with its broad surface and many pipes, is also held to be much more in- sanitary than the shower bath with it's dash of running water and simple equipment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
A. .PRACTIcAI.r .rIMn

No fairies trip the velvet sward, Where starry eyes are gleaming, Nor elfn sprites those revels guard In colorful beseeming. No princes ride abroad to fight For castled ladies fair. With flashing swords, in mail bedight, So brave, so debonair. No witches Turk in gloomy caves .-. To weave a magic spell; None works, whene'er her wand she
 waves,
 Mischances strange to tell. We've reached more prosaic age Than merry England knew, When Mistress Peggy" was the rage, And knightly hearts were true. The old conceits. the joy of life, The glamour and romance, When worth was proved in dauntless
 strife.
 To wield the sword and lance, Have passed away and nowadays We've so frreverent grown, The meanest chuff small homage pays A king upon his throne.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 -HE annexation of Hawaii to the
 United States has not proved the
 X glorious success it's promoters an- ticipated The planters, who were pre- sun.ed to be grooming under native mis- rule here, had their labor supply cut or through the operation of the several ex- c,usion schemes, aud the million and a half of customs once spent at home goes to Washington. Roads have now to pc maintained by local taxation. The natives suffer, because the kingdom sent dele- gation of boys abroad each year to DC educated. This has ceased. Promise or federal building and a boom at Pearl City when the naval station Is built is not very real recompense for the harsh economic changes that have followed.
 steamer sailing day furnishes holi- Gov hour at Honolulu. The big Pacific nail dock is crowded with people. The Kanaka band in white uniforms and bursting with melody diffuses familiar repertoire ranging from Dixie" to "Auld Lang syne." Native flower sellers do A rushing business in the many oolored wreaths of fresh blossoms with which all departing friends are liberally decorated. whether men, women or chill dren. Native singers burst into song under tho Impact of the music and the emotion of the excitement, and even Itravel-dulled voyagers feel a thrill as the ship swings away from the shores of this Pacific paradise.
 The natives impress themselves strong Ilv on life in Hawaii despite their lynn phatic temperaments., The vowel-caress- ing language intrudes many of its more colloouial words into the harsh English ltonsue. Names of things and places of course are theirs. Their social customs are more or less engrafted upon the set tiers and their love for and use of flow CTS becomes a second habit with every body. The universal Mother Hubbard gown of the women is a dominating gar ment. Originally designed. 1t is to be suspected by the New England mis-
 sicnaries to vigorously exclude any sug-
 gestion of savage nakedness, at first
 glance 1t creates the impression that the
 wearer is very much undressed-under-
 heath!
 A battered schooner that was once
 the Hawaiian navy lies in the harbor
 at Honolulu. In 1t King Kalakaua once
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
App1AN WAY DISAPPOINTING

Mary Sutley in the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The Appian Way was surprise to me. had always pictured 1t as magnif- cent boulevard, to correspond with the rest of Rome. but 1t is a rather narrow road with stone wall along each side. I thought of the old Romans, who drove out here with their chariots, and won- dered how they kept from pumping into each other
 The sun had just gone down and every thing was glealning with golden light. while the houses at Tivoli sparkled as they reflected the rays. The shadows across the road were getting longer and blacker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
HER EYES

 By Minot J. Savage. As in some deep pool. under shadowy skies,
 At foot of mighty mountains. still and brown
 So deep that 1t seems infinite, so down I gazed into her measureless grave eyes. And there I saw no shallows of surprise. No petty thought of self or silly frown; But womanhood 30 deep that 1t would drown All fiattery. all meanness, and all lies! And Oh, such depth of tenderness was there, Such noble passion, such might of And ali soul-llghted like star-brilliant space. Such eyes, and set within face so fair! A man might prize. all other things above 1ai To see their deeps the mirror of his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
Farmers Wonderfully Prosperous

While the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad traffic Is showing only moderate improvement, yet for new line, developing new territory, we have no cause to cohplain," said Alexander Bonnyman, chief engineer and general manager, yesterday. Here is what l like to stress in connection with the Att lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic enter prse--the country through which our line passes is wonderfully prosperous have never seen farming brought up to such a high stage of prosperity as that which is in evidence all the way from Birmingham to Brunswick. All the farm CTS are making money and they are do- ing 1t by energy and intelligence: and everybody who comes in contact with our tilers of the soil seems to thrive. Hence it is that the future of the Atlanta. Bir- mingham and Atlantic railroad is ex- ceedingly bright, no matter how traffic conditions may be today"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
A WIPES PRAISE.

When a woman loves man she is sure to find some good in him. even fl he Is the sorriest loafer in seven coun- ties. Not long ago a humorous anec- dote went the round of the press which originally appeared in an English pub lication, probably Punch. It told how weeping widow was describing the virtues of the departed and as a fit-
 ting climax to her eulogy she told how only a short time before his death her affectionate lord and master had turned to her and said. Come along now, old
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
.DEAD AS A DOORNAM"

From Scraps.
 The phrase, Dead as a doornail,' orig mated in this way: In early days, when coorknockers were common. the plate upon which the knocker struck was sometimes called a nail. Tn the course of years it was struck so often that all life was supposed to be knocked out of Ii. therefore, when it became necessary to refer to anything hopelessly lifeless 1t was merely an emphatic expression to say that it was as "dead as a doornail."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
The Citizen soIdiery

If there was any disposition on the part of manufacturers or merchants hav- ing National guardsmen in their employ to object to their getting off when or dered out on gala or other occasions, such is hardly the case now,' said a business man.
 "Every broadminded and patriotic citi- zen appreciates the services of our citi- zen soldiery. These guardsmen are to be encouraged, rather than discouraged. and the jubilee next week will show what a splendid body of soldiers Birmingham has,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
REFLECTIONS OF BACHELOR

From the New York Press
 Faith seems to be all superstructure and no foundation.
 woman can be proud of her curly hair even when it's all wig.
 Kiss a girl once to get her angry and then again tQ get her over it. Lots of men act as if breakfast with the family was the tail end of a night7 mare they had.
 if he knows, from readiDg it fin the news papers an actress favorite flower.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
HOW IT FEELS TO BE RUN OVER From the London Chronicle


 'When was run over," writes a corre- spondent, 'I had not seen the car ap- preaching The first thing knew was that I was on the ground. kicking up- ward with my legs in an effort to get from under the car. Then I felt wheel going over my chest, which bent as it passed over. In the intervening second or two I went through several minutes worth of feelings, I had the sensations of astonishment at being on the ground, of wanting to roll aside and away of bracing myself-and my chest especially stiff to resist something, whatever it might be- while lightning flash of fear was dimly there and a subconscious query, What on earth next?' Yet 1t was hardly fear, because there was no time for such a durable sensation 1t was rather a sense of being suddenly con- fronted with a grave reality. of doubt fui, obscurely terrible import"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

Charles E. Hughes, gowned and unper- turbed, sat above the strife of parties throughout the recent campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
A MERE SJJPPOSITION

Can you imagine the predicament Of a man who is called to real festival and can't come?"
 Yes, in a way. I guess there's nothing worse. unless 1t Is the chagrin of woman who buys hobble skirt that doesn't really hobble."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

The democratic entries for 1912 are nu- merous-Wilson, Gaynor, Harmon, Bald win, Plaisted, Marshall, Toss. and of course Bryan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

we are all up in the air" says Speaker Cannon. But the colonel is not. He is in his cave and will not come out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
ALMOST HUMAN.

Our furnace seems as knowing As any weather clerk; Just let the morn be frosty,
 And it declines to work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

Speaker Cannon will preside at the post mortem to be convened on the first Mon day in December in Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

Four women now sit in the Colorado legislature, and still reform legislation is slow and uncertain in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

Four thousand places in Chicago are to be allotted in conference at French Lick even if it is In another state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

Milwaukee is preparing to install a municipal pawnshop to be followed by a barbershop no doubt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

The colonel might at any rate emerge to begin new campaign in behalf of simplified spelling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

The colonel came back from Elba to encounter a Waterloo. History is fond of repeating itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

Editor Harding of Ohio has retired from politics. and he says there will be no fare. well appearance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

dragg1e-tail." In a similar veinAa Mis- souri woman said, There Is one good thing I can say, for my husband. He doesn't wear out his socks very fast. AND APPETITES ARE KEEN. Never would have thought it. We'll, l do declarei Democrats no longer build Castles in the air. Something more substantial Seems to take their eye: Soon we'll hear the faithful say, Pass around the pie" p
 AN EYE FOR HEADLINES. T wish Belle Elmore could be found" "Then you are sorry for Doctor crip- pen?s
 Not particularly I was thinking what corking newspaper story her discovery would make" ~
 WHO? Who beat the bosses in New York? Who used the big stick on the stork? Who pinned the tariff on his fork? Please, mother, pass the pickles.
 Milwaukee Journal. /. Who went up in an aeroplane When he had said he would refrain? Who said he ne'er would run again? Well, look at Walter Wellman.
 Houston Post. Who with enthusiasm warm Once tried the spelling to reform. Then turned and fled before the storm?
 
 Chicago Tribune. Who got himself in one bad fix When in New Yorks affairs he'd mix, And then bumped into this man Dix? Back, back, to Oyster Bay.
 Denver Post. Who's feeling like an orphan child. All newly plucked and wondrous mifdf Joe Cannon, once dictator styled. Watch out for Champ Clark's mules! A BLAST AGAINST WHISPERS. Walt Mason paid a visit to Topeka re- gently and this is what he said about whiskers in that town: "It is painful to turn from a con- temptation of the handsome new build ings, and see whiskers everywhere. It may be that Mayor Billiard established fashion when he carried his spinach into office. For that or some other reason Topeka runs to whiskers in disgrace full way. If you walk block you will seei enough whiskers to load a hayrack. What the town needs is a breakfast food plant of the Battle Creek description, so that the whiskers may be worked up into a marketable commodity"
 THE BUSY TIME.
 Life Is a gamble,
 That's no joke.
 My, how we scramble
 When we're brokeL
 GOOD NEWS FROM PARIS
 Cheer up, cheer up
 And don't complain.
 The hobble skirt
 Is on the wane.
 PAUL COOK. Z
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

The placing of the ex-republicans on the federal salary lists is the next task in sight for this standpat administration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

brother. T. B. Norris and will be absent fl om the city several days.
 Asa
 Judge N. B. Feagin, judge of the police court, returned yesterday after a two weeks vacation, which he spent at Union Springs and Midway, and will resume his duties this morning. Judge Feagin tells of an unusually pleasant trip, and says he is feeling fine after his much needed rest. He reports that Bullock county IS heavy with the atmosphere of prosperity the farmers having realized a good price for their cotton and a splendid yield oi from S5 to 95 bushels of corn per acre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

New Orleans exposition fund has been raised to ss.OO0,OOO by the action of the voters of Louisiana.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

It was a payroll revolution in Chicago, and 1000 men will soon be looking for non political jobs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

And even Los Angeles has 10000 social lsts. No town nowadays seems complete without them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

Some candidates have been defeated while some have been beheaded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
THINK THE SAME WAY

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Florida and Oregon are wide apart geographically, but in their attitude to- ward prohibition they are one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
ONE GOOD TURN, ETC.

From Tit-Bits
 Wandering over field one day a man came across large stone, inscribed:
 Turn me over
 After much difficulty, he succeeded in turning 1t over, and found on the other side of the stone the words:
 Now turn me back again, so that l can catch some other idiot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

The job of curtaillng the powers of the house of lords has been resumed at the old stand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

Earthquakes are creating islands off the coast of Alaska for the benefit Of the sealskin trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
AERIAL DuNNING.

AERIAL CUNNING.
 For heavens saker' exclaimed a business man of 1920 to his stenograph- CT. ''Who is that fellow buzzing around my office windowT
 That" answered the stenographer, as she peeped out from the fifty-fourth story. "is a bill collector from Skinnim & Haul. He was here yesterday and said he would keep buzzing around here until you settled your account"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
Ahout Pernonn

John E. Morriss was called to Mobile yesterday by the sudden detah of his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
GLIMPSES OF HAWAII

set sail for the South seas to take the other archipelagos under his protecto- rate. The ship was too well provisioned and liquored to get far, and her break down ended the Kings ambition, with the help of some hints from the great nations that he had better mind his own affairs. Just the same. Kalakaua was no fool. He knew the proprieties of his position and could think wisely. The joys of island living spoiled this last of the kings, but they still talk of him. even though the famous lyric that cele- brated his spectacular visit to America. ''The King of the Cannibal Islands," has gone the way of all comic songs.
 The night-blooming cereus, which the neighbors crowd in to see by iamplight when one blossoms in the states, is a wayside flower at Honolulu. It keeps open long after daylight it's powerful scent f1avoring the morning air.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16
PUMPKIN BREAD

From the Washington Post.
 Here was what Grace Mckinstry hao to say of one of the most lordly ol fruits, that has been perverted for more than century:
 Oh, golden pumpkin, big and rouno'
 Thanksgiving's here once more! Ia flaky crust you will be found,
 As you have been before. And when I go to grandmas, Shall feast of course, on pumpkin pie'
 New England never knew what to do with pumpkin. The Yankees createu pie of 1t, and made 1t aoominaple with spices The pumpkin and wheat flour remind of Kipling
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

All admit that the democratic party has come back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

The standpatters must now see that the world do move.