The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

i her beauty, and contrasting the picture 1 with his own unmated condition, he felt that notwithstanding his wealth and po- i sit,on. his life was sadly "out of tune." l He has always been devoted admirer of the fair sex, and as time rolls on, as time undoubtedly does, his admira- tion increases, and yet, though he has l ardently and consistently pursued the
 Little God of Scant Attire" instead of the usual symphony, "Tn be yours for ever," with dim lights and soft music he has generally departed from the abode of the object of his young and tender affections to the tune of No wedding bells for me" Tn other words, she ''trun him down."
 For every effect there is a cause, or for every cause there Is an effect, which ever you choose, and on the occasion mentioned above he tried to figure out the cause of the failure of his matri- monial aspirations. Naturally his thoughts ran to his "unthatched dome" and he wondered how much part it had played In his eventful career.
 l That same top-piece has been the ob- 1 ject of his tender care for many moons, he has nursed and nurtured it with the solicitude of q doting mother; he has been l lavish in the expenditure of time and money in it's behalf Why, figuring the cost of the lnnumerable appliances, cleo trical devices, lotions, pomades and Ire storers.' etc, and putting in his time at l so much per hour, based on his earning
 capacity. the amount computed would
 make the Rockefeller foundation fund
 look like a drumhead collection of the
 Salvation Army on frosty night.
 There are many versions as to the cause of thls balances. Ills own yer sion is that when he was little chap attending school his conduct was So exemplary that the teacher wore his i hair away by batting him on the head and saving. Good boy" Hinds Peevy says that when MT Ramsay was youth he had water on the brain and that the hair fell in and got drowned. The real reason, however. is that early in life he contracted habit of blush ing and being extremely bashful in those days, he blushed so hard it 1 singed his hair, and, of course. it fell out by degrees. These are a few req sons There may be others.
 Sometimes when superstitiously in- clined he believes 1t judgment be- cause, on one occasion he had 'cussed' his tinted locks It happened thus: l While homo from college for the holl- l dx>s he was invited to dance. Ii was his first offense At the dance was a dainty little miss of about 14 summers.
 who was the object of his youthful
 affections He had loved her from the
 time when, at the day school he had
 licked Billy Jones, an Swear old rival
 for saying she was pigeon-toed. To his
 enamored eyes she was divine.
 He entered the ball room with mis- l givngs he was painfully conscious of being all hands. feet and red hair Seating himself, he got rid of his feet temporarily by thrusting them under the chair; his hands he stuffed into l his pockets, but his strawberry tinted i locks stood out like a beacon light. i His fair enamorata was standing near 1 by conversing with a couple of litt:e misses about her own age. They glanced his way and laughed; it made him feel uncomfortable, but when he heard one of them refer to him as "Reddy Ramsayi" death would have l been a relief and right there and then he cursed his red head, with curses not l loud but deep, and wished he had other kind of hair except red. (How de- voutly he mas wished since he had that hair back even 1t was brindled pink J So from that time like the "Jackdaw Of Rheims," who was the victim of Q terrible curse, his hair began to take that journey from whose bourne no one returns.
 When MT. Ramsay arrived in this dis trict he had little more than an alert mind, a clear brain and a capacity for work. His library consisted of a fine collection of technical works, book on etiquette, the Complete Letter Writer and dictionary. He fought his way, 1 step by step, until he became factor in the development of this great dis trict He recognized no obstacles or difficulties, and soon his touch became Midas-like and to him money became q nuisance.
 In the meantime he combined pleas ure with his many duties. He launched into society and the balycon days when he Mayor EXum, F. W. Linn, Paschal Shook and few other congenial spirits were all bachelors together But thev all sooner or later became benedicts and in the words of the poet, They left him alone in his glory"
 snort time ago he took trip to Eu- l rope, visiting the noted places on the continent and roaming over the British
 Isles. winding up his travels at his ances- tral home in Bonnie Scotia.
 l One day he paid visit to the historic i cave where King Robert Bruce, the lb- orator of Scotland, was spurred to further effort after repeated failures, by the per sstent efforts of a little spider. which l induced him ito try again and as a re- suit he drove the English from the land. | Again the Davenport look came over
 his countenance. Bruce had had many failures, but finally succeeded. Why not | Follow the example of the redoubtable warrior and try again in the tilt of | love- He had met many charming girls | in his travels. He recalled the petite rivacious Parisienno the statel-- Spanish
 senorta, the placid German fraulein, the
 dashing Vienpese, the golden-haired Eng
 fish maiden, the glorious Irish beauty, and
 tile Caledonian divinity whose Titan locks
 fivalled the glory of the setting sun
 They all crossed his mind yet his
 thoughts dIifted back to the Southland and dainty little southern beauty, whose
 loveliness was to him greater than. the
 combine charms of all the others, whose