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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
Peaceful, Happy Birmingham

Peaceful, Happy birmingham
The country and the rest of mankind
for that matter now know that Birming-
ham is a prosperous city in a wonderful
Industrial district, for Uncle Sam has
told them all about it in plain figures.
No city In the south is better known,
better advertised On account of restrict
ed bounds this city long went unappre-
eated, but now that the real Birming-
ham is the civil Birmingham all Is well
with US in the outside world.
And all is we'll with us, too, at home.
The capital we have and the greater
capital that our real population will
bring prosperity, and the next census will
see our population doubled. This is mere
prediction. it is true. but 1t is prediction
based on the story of the census, on an
open Warrior and on the Panama canal
It is possible. It is more than possible
II is probable.
Best of all, this district is fortunate in
having a people that can pull harmon
iously together as employers and en-
ployes Nothing is more demoralizng,
more damaging, more paralyzing to
growth and prosperity than labor
troubles. other cities have had them
this year, but throughout the year now
nearly ended the good people of this DIS
trict have pulled together. We believe
they will do this in the year to come
and perhaps in the decade to come, and
this alone will give us great figures when
our. people are counted again. Everybody
who desires to see the population doubled
by 1920 should strive to keep the district
peaceful and free from labor troubles.
As soon as the great plants are COM
pleted at Corey many more skilled work
ers will be needed here, and today every
man can find employment at good wages.
No town in the United States pays bet
ter wages. In no town in the south or
elsewhere is the working man held in
higher esteem. He is the hope of the
city, and when we make him the basis OF
our prosperity we ask him for his own
good as we'll as the common good to be-
come a working partner in the mainten-
ance of peace. unity and the general up
lift of the city.
The outlook of the coming year is not
and surely will not be married by strikes
in any branch of our commercial or in
dustrial life. Other cities have this year
bean damaged by them. 1t is fashion
we need not and should not copy. We
desire to double Birmingham's popula-
ton before another count of noses is
made and this is why public sentiment
appeals in the breast of every good cit
izen for a continuance of peace between
employer and employe, of cooperation
in the ranks of all, for the upbuilding of
the city without check or backset of any
sort. By pulling together all can be ben
ehted. BY pulling apart all would be
harmed. Birmingham has plenty of
horse sense, and 1t prefers to work peace
fully In double harness. calmly awaiting
a quickened demand for iron, the compile
ton of the Corey industries, the opening
of the Warrior and access through the
canal to a great and almost boundless
Pacific trade.
The Census Jubilee means in other
words peace. unity and desire to pull
together for the good of all in much
Greater Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
DIR. stnxg L. PIensed


st have no reason to feel disappoint-
ed over the showing which We made
at West End this afternoon" said DR..
J. w. Stage. president of the Alabama
Presbyterian college of Admission, in
referring last night to the defeat of
the Professionalism by the Owenton
college team. Our team was shot to
pieces as the sporting writers say,
and 1 feel confident that We would
have won by a score of about 20 to 0
IL we had been in good form.
with Frank Allen, our star half,
out of the game; Captain Klein un-
able to play; B. Allen. reliable end,
out, and Archibald suffering with a
bad carbuncle. we did not hope to win
over the much heavier Arminian CO.
horts. Aliens presence, in the back
field would have balanced Archibald
and the two would have made big holes
in the Owenton line, as well as big
gains around end We also missed
Klein's tackling and his hard work at
quarter.
Football Is a manly sport and when
1t is played by young gentlemen such
as the Owenton and Admission fellows,
1t has most beneficial effect. We have
made good record with our team at
the Alabama Presbyterian college dur
Ing, the three years that we have been
playing. and invite the attention of
Alabama to our werk next year. We
maintain the highest curriculum at our
college Of all Alabama colleges and we
propose to lead In sports as we are
Heading in scholastic work. We have
some OF the Birmingham spirit over
| tn ere, as well as that fine spirit which
| has made Admission, and we. are going
| to grow just as this city has grown
We-were predestined to be in the front
Just watch our baseball team next
season, and keep IAN eye on the stu
| dents that leave us for the business OF
professional activities of life
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

the republican voters of this county. His
tariff Views are exactly those of Mr.. Bur-
nett, who represents DeKalb county in
Congress. and this will be made plain to
all in the next Congress. What more
does the journal desire7
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

Georgia's new senator is Ex-Governor
Terrell, who will hold office until De-
oember. 1911. Hoke Smith will probably
be elected senator next June. but If so
he will not take hold until the December
following.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
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the visitor asked as they stumbled into
the dark, underground room that served
me speakeasy for bar Three kinds
swered. Fifteen cents, 10 cents ana
cents Well. give us the 15-cent
please, ssid the visitor. The proprietor
set bottle and two glasses on the bar
but the old fisherman coughed and mnt,
tered humbly: If it's all the same to You.
SIR, III ask you to make mine three OF
the nickel kind
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

President Taft is coming home with
a new and improved smile on account
of conditions at Panama. Those condi-
tons have made him forget even the
recent election returns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

The prospect of a democratic Congress
that will take away Aldrichism is al
ready bringing prices down. The trusts
and monopolles know how to ward off
trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

A st. Louis girl Is years old has just
Inherited $4,000, coo, and every bogus count
is planning to reach st. Louis at the
earliest possible moment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
PERHAPS.

A seeker after knowledge is seldom
half 10 feverish as a seeker after office.
Maybe that is because the financial re-
wards are not at all commensurate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

The Suez canal is Al years old and the
big ditch at Panama will soon be ready
to become the scene of an equally use
full and peaceful career.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
HAT the ratio of the growth of
Birmingham is increasing each day

HAT the ratio of the growth of
Birmingham is increasing each day
and week and month since the an
nouncement of the census report is thor
oughly evidenced by the tremendous
growth of the circulation of Blrming-
hams two afternoon newspapers.
Each one of these newspapers has told
us In three-column- articles on their
front pages during the past week about
the numberless readers they have, and
each has challenged the other under the
code duello, so to speak, that 1t has
more circulation and readers than its
neighbor.
Of course there will not be a show
down. There never is in such cases; but
congratulate both of the splendid Biz
mingham afternoon newspapers upon the
number of readers each has and upon
the belief on the part of each that 1t
has more than its neighbor. I was about
to say its opponent or rival But that
would never do in Birmingham. Biz
n1ingham is so big and so broad and so
generous In the makeup of its people
that all of them want to read both OF
the good afternoon newspapers. I con-
graduate both of them and sincerely
trust that each will double its circulation
during the next year.
Now that the scrap is over let both
of them Join The Age-Herald In building
up and bringing enough people here to
ouadruple the circulation of all Of Bir-
mingham's newspapers.
X X X
speaking about Birmingham, I am glad
to see that the gas and oil company
owning the Fayette gas wells has gotten
into the hands of people with real money
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

No meat prices were lowered until the
packers gave the word. They mark them
ups or down at will, for they constitute
a monopoly under the Aldrich tariff.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

The consumers are waiting to expert
ence the reduction in the cost of liv-
ing before becoming ELUSIVE over 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

Governor-elect Foss spent 1000 to get
an office that lasts but one year and
pays but $4,000. But his grit spurred him
on to a great victory.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

1t Is at Christmastide that a parcels
post is sorely needed. Every Christmas
giver should ask Congress to grant one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

Mexico has no navy and our gallant
tars can win no glory in a war with
that country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

The gates at Gatun dam are 100 feet
high and each weighs 600 tons. What
other nation has bigger ones?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

Fifty-six of the 80 counties in Indiana
lost population. Let the black belt cheer
up and take heart.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
A REFUGE LEFT.

Here's some good news for germs"
What is it,"
Senator Kern will stand by his whis-
kers."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

New York declines to consume the ma
TONS riots" and spots" in the egg
trade, It will go without angels food
cake first.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

The greatest crime of New York is the
permitting of $1,000 bedrooms to exist
without windows
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
oI1ANrIrY BEFORE QUALITY.

QUANTITY bHp VItII Vo]N11t1
nicture dealer credits the following
story to the marine artist Winslow
Homer, who died not long ago:
"The late winslow Homer overfiowed
with stories of fishermen. Most OF these
stories were grave-they illustrated the
hardships and heroisms OF inc nsner-
mans life. remember though. another
of a different sort. A visitor to a Maine
fishing village-so the story ran-took an
old fisherman to a speakeasy for q
drink, what kind of whisky have your
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
Madame Gadski Friday Night

The great musical attraction this week
is Madame Gadski, who comes for song
recital to the Jefferson theatre sFriday
night November rs. To those who have
never heard this great celebrity of the
operate world this opportunity will be
most welcome. Everybody must hear
Gadski; and those Birmingham people
who have heard her In opera, will be
eager to hear her again. The Jefferson
theatre should be packed Friday night.
Madame Gadski appears as one of the
attractions In Mrs. John A. Catheys
"All-Star'' series. Tickets for the re-
mainder of the series, including Gadski,
arc being sold for 81. The other artists
to appear are Scharwenka, the famous
composer and pianist, and Francis Mac
Milien, the popular violin virtuoso.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

Our battleships may have to be re-
called for service in the Rio Grande.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
A SLIM CHANCE.

Belgian Princess has just married
a pretender to the throne of France.
Pretending to the throne of France is
about as hopeful an occupation as sitting
bv a gooseberry bush waiting for 1t to
bear cocoanuts.- Courier-Jour-
nal
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

What Mexico needs is a barbed wire
fence along her northern border.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

The Texans begin to think they burned
the wrong man. He comes back in spirit
to plague them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

Milwaukee is now called the MARKHAM
city Of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

It costs $1,000 year to educate a
young girl fashionably in New York. The
result is few such girls keep husbands
long.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

Minnesota has social democrat. He
must have been insurging.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
HIS WEAK SPOT.

HIS WEAK SPOT.
why should you hesitate to go un in
an aeroplane. Mr.. Chubsley? You ara
bound to come down again."
Quite true. Miss Plumper. but I'm a
perfect crank about my equilibrium.
PAUL, COOK
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
THE sTALWART KIND.

PA, what Is an OPTIMISM
IAN optimist. my son, is a man with
II cents in his pocket, who doesn't grow
sarcastic when he reads that his coun-
try's per capita wealth Is s37"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
INSPIRATION.

INSPIRATION.
AS fishing songs are out OF date
And rhymes of roses too,
A bard will simply have to wait
Till Spring trips into view!
Birmingham Age-Herald.
AS an alternative he may
(Some do the like we know
Pluck up the nerve to write lay
That has to do with snow.
youngstown Telegram.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

IN THE FIRELIGHT.
I'm waiting for the Spring
I'm in no mood to sing.
For Winter time has chilled me to the
heart.
No blossoms to inspire,
No woodlands feathered choir,
No greening hills their gladness to i'm
part.
But what's this in the blaze?
A dream of summer days,
While Fancy fits on golden wings
afar;
Once more tho worlds in tune
And down the lanes of June
Titania drives abroad her fairy carl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
A BOLTER,S PLIGHT

He always had an answer
To any sort of question,
Except when some one asked him how
He got the Indigestion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
rHry DON'T AGREW.

'sThe poet said, All that IL Is right
did he not?''
Eyes"
you can't make the republicans be-
lieve that"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

Extortion In food and standpatism go
out together,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
A TALENTED MAN.

There goes a man who makes a good
living Initiating animal cries."
us he in vaudevilleT
mo; he puts the squeals In toy pigs"
THE PESSIMIST.
If days be cold,
Or days be hot,
He still bewails
His luckless lot
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
MODERN KNOWLEDGE.

I'll bet he can't name the nine gods
of war"
mo; but he can name all the major
league pitchers"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
MIGHT HAVE BROKEN 1T.

MIGHT HAVE BRUKEN IT.
1T see where man was arrested for
beating his wife with his cork leg"
VERY thoughtless of him."
1T should say sol Cork legs are ex-
pcnsive"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
Anniston and Birmingham

''The magnificent showing which Bir-
mingham has made under the recent
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
rzu 11TTrMATE CONSUMER.

,sWhat started widgeham to abusing
the rubber trust?''
HE tried to buy a rubber ball for his
little boy and found he couldn't get one
for less than quarter"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

THE SADDEST EVER.
When the bonnie frost is blinking
And the folders in the shock,
Then fellow falls to thinking
or his overcoat In hook.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

THE CRAZE FOR FURS.
We're going some,
If, as tits stated,
Mere rabbit skins
Are initiated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20

All the courses of my life do show
4 am not in the roll of common men
II King Henry ~.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
A SION on pRoGREss

A SIGN OF PROGRESS.
It's dead town that isn't facing some
kind of crisis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23
A Man First Advocate of Women's RIGHTS

man with man in eternal war. and we
cultivate in you that humanity which
makes you feel for the m:sfortunes of
others, and our tears forewarn you of
your own danger. Nay, you cannot be ig-
nOrant that we have need of courage not
less than you. More feeble in ourselves,
We have perhaps more trials to encoun-
ter. Nature assails us with sorrows, law
sensibillty and virtue claim us with their
continual conflict. Sometimes also the
name OF citizen demands from us the trib-
u1e of fortitude.
when you offer your blood to the state
think that it is ours. In giving it our sons
and husbands we give more than our
selves. You can only die on the field OF
battle, but we have the misfortune to sur
while your ambitious vanity is uncea sing
~ laboring to cover the earth with stat
ues. with monuments and with inscrip-
uons TO eterniZe. IL possible. your names
and give yourselves an existence when
this body is no more. why must we be
condemned to live and die unknown?
Would that the grave and eternal forget
fulness should be our lot Be not our ty-
rants in all. Permit our names to be some
times pronounced beyond the narrow cir
Gle i'm which we live: Permit friendship
or at least love. to inseribe it's emblem on
the tomb where our asnes repose and
deny us not that public esteem which, aft
er the custom of ones self, is the sweet
est reward OF we'll DOUG
Uphoiding the rights of women was not
the only claim which Thomas Paine has
to fame. and is perhaps the one of which
he is the least recognized. 1t was his
writings in connection with the American
and French revolutions that gained for
him niche in fames temple.
Born at Thetford, Norfolk, England,
January %. 1877. he was the son Of
staymaker and was brought up to be-
come his fathers successor in bust
ness. This. however, did not meet with
young Pa1neS ideas, go. he secured
position In the customs and also be-
came manager for n tobacco manufac-
tory. Even with these two sources of
income, however, he was not able to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23

keep out Of debt, and 1774 was dismiss
ed. 1t was then that he came to
tically nothing in literary way before
he began to write as soon as he had
settled here. and it was in a PhiIadel-
P pm magazine, in August. 1775. when
ne was thirty EIGHT years OF age, that
the article on women's rights appeared
1t was in the following year that he
nrst earned recognition. This came
With the appearance Of pamphlet en-
forth his views: in regard to and his ad-
vocacy of the cause of the colonies
against the mother country. This stand
friends. among them being Washington
and Franklin. Congress also showed 1t
friendship for him. when at the close
to the committee on foreign affairs. In
1887 he went to France and later to
England. in both of which places he
won many influential friends. In the
The Rights of Man." the enmity of
the British government became so great
that he was forced to fee to France.
Here he again got into difficulties and
was imprisoned. and was only released
at the intercession Of the American
government 1t was while he was in
.Deism." scoring both atheism and
Christianity. which brought forth such
storm of abuse.
Returning to America in 1902. he re-
tireu To private lire, spending the last
years of his life at New Rochelle 1t
was while making visit to New York
that. on June s. 1909, he died in a house
in Grove street With only his land
lady, her daughters and a Quaker to
follow, the man who had won interra-
tional fame was buried a short distance
from New Rochelle 1t was several
years before the grave was even no
ticed but then "a handsome monument
was erected on the spot. When this
was done, however, the grave no longer
contained the remains Of Paine, as Will
liam CobDett had previously removed
them to England and deposited them
no one knows where.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23

tears and open humiliation because of
this change in matters social. And next
summer the situation promises to be
even worse.
went up to Newport at the flag end Of the
past summer and expected to have the
time of her life. She is young and very
popular at home and has always. from
having been spoiled by the men of her
family and set, regarded herself as
sort of uncrowned queen
she arrived in pouring rain. A very
naughty coachman and intimidating foot
man met and conveyed her to the mag
ntficent domicile of her friends-at lea ST.
they had seemed such when she met them
fast winter down in South Carolina No
one greeted her in the huge hallway and
she concluded everybody was dressing for
dinner. A trim servant showed her her
room. and her own maid prepared to ar
ray her mistress 10 customary dinner garb.
In few moments a housema.d appeared
to ascertain whether the guest would dine
down stairs or in her private sitting room
lust as she preferred, of course.
But the others?" asked the visitor
blanky, feeling like child who has been
bad and not allowed to come to the ia
BILE.
oh" the domestic replied, with the
superior smile only a snobbish help can
ever quite achieve. "they are dining out.
"oh, | see," said the girl. They knew
I would not arrive in time"
dressing. she had chummy little meal all
by her lonesome in her room.
+
1t was not until luncheon next day that
she met her hostess-the husband was
away on some vague business. She was
greeted as casually as though she had
been in the house for months. Before
leaving home she had been warned not to
expect introductions by women who spend
almost every summer at Newport as a
guest of the really and truly sort where
she is revereq because of her wit and
brilliancy as dinner guest. So she was
prepared to get acquainted as best she
might. The men readily sought her out.
but some of the women fought Shy. She
is really very good-looking girl AS the
afternoon waned a debutante OF last win
ter asked If she was going to the Blanks
dinner.
rs our hostess going?" the southerner
inquired.
"oh, yes certainly: it is quite an event"
Then. dare say. l will go, too the
girl replied. pleasantly.
Now this debutante. a really kind
hearted girl, saw that the fair southerner
failed utterly to realize the new situation
BY skillful fencing she learned that the
girl had not received an invitation, but
expected to be carried along with the
others. Tactfully the bud advised that
tie HcWCo"SI IOisH d HedudCHe. SO lIlG
others present then would not know.
Eventually it developed that headaches
are contagious. for this hostess had a fad
for bringing together clever. refined. peo-
pie. regardless of their NEWPORT standing
and was then entertaining. At least five
of the disconsolate ones dined together in
mournfu grandeur in the great dining
hall. Breakfasts and balls and barn
dances and all sorts of affairs followed as
a wind-up of the summer, but at only one
of them-that given by he- hostess-did
the girl appear. She. endured it because
happiest day SO far in her life was the
one on which she said goodbye to the
woman who had received her SO royalty!