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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
Steamer Is Overdue

Bombay, June 25.-The Austrian Lloyd
steamer Test, which sailed from Triest
June for Bombay, is four days over
due here and the company has ordered
the steamer Silesia to put to sea to
search for her. The steamer carries pas.
sengers and malls between Triest and
the east and is of 5095 tons gross.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
Mail Carrier in RUNAWAY

Russellville. June 25.-(special.)-Th
team of William B. Norris, rural route
carrier on route No. 3, out from Russell
vile. ran away with Mr.. Norris in the
buggy and injured him in several places.
His collar bone was broken and he sus-
tanned other injuries internally
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
Glidden Tourists In Wichita

Wichita, Kas., June 25.-The official
pathfinder of the Glidden tour arrives
In this city from Oklahoma City about
4:15 o'clock this afternoon, followed at
Intervals by the other cars. The guide
car broke down at Enid today. The tour
lists leave here at a. m. for Kansas City
by way of Emporia and Topeka
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
Forest Reserve BIN Pe.,ed

Washington, June 25.-The Appalachian
forest reserve bill for the conservation
of the watersheds Of navigable streams
was passed by the House tonight. The
bill applies especially to the White noun
tains and the southern Appalachian re-
gions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
Taft Accepts Invitation

Washington, June 25.-President Taft
today tentatively accepted an invita-
ton to attend the celebration of the
250th anniversary of the settlement of
Bergen. NJ j.. to be held at Jersey City,
October 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26

G. r. Lewis, chairman of the repub-
lican executive committee, has called a
mass meeting OF the republicans OF the
district on Monday at u o'clock for the
purpose Of electing delegates to the re-
publican convention which meets in Biz
mingham July 4. The meeting will be
held at the city hall
Mr. J. H. Roll and Miss Nellie Stamps
win be married at the home of the
brides sister, Mrs. j. J. Tyson, on next
Wednesday evening. The ceremony will
be performed by the Rev. M. X. Thorn
ton and only a few friends will be in
vited This is the second wedding Of
Bessemer folk that takes place next
week.
The past week has been dull one for
the police. There have been only seven
teen cases docketed which netted $157 80
In fines. Ninety dollars of this amount
was paid in cash. There was but one
case in the police court this morning. Up
until six o'clock tonight not an arrest
had been made Tonight the usual crowd
o. drunks and crap shooters were round
ed up. The docket for next week in the
city court will be non-jury criminal.
ONLY few cases are docketed and it Ia
expected that the court will finish early
In the week.
There has been great Indignation ex-
presked on the streets today on account
of the action of the railroad commission.
The action OF the board of trade in the
matter is awaited with interest
The Epworth League will meet at the
First Methodist church on Sunday aftef-
noon and all members are requested to
be present.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26

SCORES OF APPLICATIONS
Are pouring into Office for Co.
rey lots. Don't delay if you
would share in future prosperi-
|ty Of this model city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26

HOSE rare phiIosoph patriots
who made the Declaration o.
independence enum "a t d
.nonp the inalienable rights Oh man
life liberty and
"The pursuit of happiness :.
Note the language-'the pursui'
,,,tnosso what a pursuit! Men every
where and always have been seehiis
for happiness and sweating for IL aho
scheming and dying for II. ana ie"
are those who find II.
Why?
Because happiness is not something
Won may discover, lige a gold mine. II
ia something you cannot dig up VI
steal or corner or beg or borrow. iou
do not find it. 1t finds you. That Is
why mere pleasure seekers are u
all men most miserable.
Happiness is Incidental
II is a sort of human byproduct
You find 1t only when you are iooh-
ing for other things. 1t is free gilt
that nature gives when you least ex-
meet II but always-always--it Is given
to you for behaving yourself.
are good you may be happy.
The phrase has gone into the slang
language and is quoted often IN Gym
icism. but it formulates the philosophy
of happiness just the same. You can
not be bad and be happy. But If you
are god you may be happy.
For instance, you cannot be selfish
and be happy. And that is where most
of us miss 1t. You cannot DE proud
and be happy. You will be left alone
with your pride. You cannot be happy
by trying to be happy.
How, then?
Why, nature is kind, after all. You
cannot beg, buy, coax or force happi-
ness from her. She will turn a deaf
ear to your plants and threats. But
She may grant your wish, say, in
your daily work or In your service for
Others
You were made for work.
Old Mother Nature, who knows you,
who made you and who some day will
unmake you, let's you lose yourself in
the Joy of working, and ere you are
aware happiness steals over you. Wise
old mother. She gives when we least
expect.
You were made for service also.
And in doing for others Nature re-
serves her best pay. Call it What you
will, reflex action or what not, this
is the wise experience of the race, ham
mered through the centurie
Forget yourself, seek to make harry
some fellow soul, and that coy maid
en- Happiness, who erstwhile turned
her back on your ardent wooing, will
pause awhile and sweetly smile on
| you.
| An old philosophy? as Old as the
hills-and as staunch.
Old and simple, and yet narrow is
the way. and few there be that find
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
A spendthrift wife

Every woman in the land could read
THE Spendthrift with profit.
The book, which is now also popular
play, contains the story Of a husband
aged and broken before his time by the
eytravagances of spendthrift wife.
The woman In the case is pretty and
sweet tempered, but frivolous, willful and
selfish.
She was not like THE Vampire" who
Is pictured as deliberately sucking the
ufeblood of her victim. Nevertheless she
takes all she can get from her man
and then. like Oliver Twist. holds W
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
Work ON Industrial Cen.u.

1t is reported in Bessemer today that the
industrial census for the Bessemer district
will be completed by July /. Representa-
tives OF the census bureau have been In
Bessemer for several days, completing the
minor details of the work The industrial
enumerators have found the same trouble
with corporations that Mr.. McEniry found
with the people. They do not like to give
Information. 1t has not been found neces.
sary to call in the law as yet. but 1t viii
be done il some firms do not respond
While nothing definite could be learned
from the enumerator it can be seen that
Bessemer will have a good report to
make In the Industrial line. The de-
velopment of the Bessemer district in the
past ten years has been wonderful and
1t Is probable that Bessemer will rank
high with the cities Of Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
Tied to a Post

Tied to Post
A pathetic picture of mans inhumanity
to babes is that of the poor half idiotio
boy of years who was tied to a stake
every day in the yard of poor farm In
New Jersey.
The newspapers got hold of the story,
and the brutal practice was stopped.
1t came out that the little fellow was
accustomed to tie himself to the post
He had been ''staked OUT like horse
for SO long that he had come to believe
1t was a necessary part Of his life, SO
that he would rush to the post and put
the rope around himself.
The poor child was sadly demented of
course, and for that reason was entitled
to particular care and attention and to
the sympathy that society extends to the
unfortunate.
| The picture sticks in memory. And it
| is not pleasant.
But do you know there are tribes of
humans who are INJECTING upon them
selves a self tyranny and subjecting
themselves to a self abasement as COM
plete as those of this boy? They are tying
themselves to a post.
| Voluntary slavery is common.
Men are tying themselves up to bad
habits and evil practices that interfere
with their rational freedom as complete
ly as IL they were tied to a post
| There is a man who drinks to excess.
| By force of habit he has accustomed him.
self to the drink slavery. He has come
to believe that this servitude is neces-
sary to his life. Like the boy, he goes
voluntarily to his stake and binds him
self hand and foot.
If you seek to unite him he protests
that you are interfering with his liberty.
Thousands-both men and women--sup-
posed to be neither childish nor idiotic,
are daily counting such self-infiction.
Tens of thousands tie themselves up to
the post of ignorance. They know Moth
ing OF the freedom of mental emancipa-
ton and care nothing.
Others will tie themselves to the stake
for superstition, and all their lives long
are ruled by fear and apprehension OF
evil.
Others rush to the post Of fashion and
bind themselves fast with its dictates,
enslaving themselves by extravaganza
And some bind themselves both day and
night irrevocably to the stake of business
and so shorten their lives.
Some tie up to the money stake nd
some to the post of office.
Slaves all!
They are not idiotic or childish.
They are merely foolish.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
Ball Player Injured

very unfortunate accident happened
this afternoon while the game between
Bessemer and the Birmingham Railway
Light and Power company was being
played. Tn the third inning, John Glover
came to the bat. Tucker sent in a fast
in-shoot and as Glover threw up his
arms and stepped back to avoid 1t. the
ball struck him just over the heart The
ball was coming at terrific speed AM
Glover dropped as If shot. Kennedy
ambulance was called and he was hur-
ried to the Robinson hospital. where his
injuries were examined 1t was foun
that a rib had been broken by the forcs
OF the blow and that the shock had
severely injured him. He recovered
enough to be taken to his home in Biz
mingham. All of the players regret the
accident very much and Tucker feels
very badly about it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
Heart To Heart Talks
by EDWIN A. NYE

married twice. A dark haired man and a
blonde woman are mixed up in my des-
tiny, and an entry will cause me trouble
The gypsy asked me the date of my
birth, and my horoscope shows" etc.
And both women agreed they had been
considerably worried by the bablings of
some swarthy crone or tile alleged reve.
lations of some palmreader or skyreader.
Foolish onesi
II one is to judge by the advertisements
of the clairvoyants and psychic palm
lists and trance mediums and card read
ers and solvers of the riddle of the stars,
there must be great host Of persons who
patronize these modern fa1irs.
Silly tribe of humans.
What do those poor mortals, who go on
their taking itinerary about the world and
who live from hand to mouth, know about
the future?
To be sure, they reveal little of a
startling character when you come TO an
alyze their paltry projections
If you live long enough you are likely
to cross some water, IL one amounts to
anything he will have at least one en-
envy, sorrow Is the common heritage of
the race, there are a lot of black haired
men and light haired women in the world,
and most persons have some sort of for
tune coming from over seas.
Is there not trouble enough In front
of us without reaching out to borrow
some-ahd pay a good 50-cent piece be-
sides?
Witless patrons! How the world has
been blindfolded by pretentous folk who,
from the days Of the witch Of Endor, have
posed as being able to Summon spirits
from the vastly deep for a small price in
hand paid!
The future is yelled.
And happily So Nature wisely has hid
den from us the forthcoming days. Do
you think for a moment she has revealed
her secrets to greasy gypsy woman or
to some soothsaying peddler of lies?
Let the future be and do not waste the
present.
He who tries to peer into the vista of
coming time is like the one who goes into
maze where. as old Omar says, you
come out by the same door wherein you
went"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
Lodges Active

All the lodges of the Bessemer district
have been very active during the past few
weeks and are increasing rapidly in menu
bership. The past two weeks have been
election time among the Masonic lodges
and all the chapters in the Bessemer dis
trict have elected officers.
The Johns lodge. No. 511. A. F. and A.
M. has elected the following officers for
the coming term: F. NJ. Parsons wor-
shipful master; w. c. Head. senior war
den: Joseph Sachs. Junior warden: w. G.
Page. treasurer: r. Sively, secretary: p.
A. Morgan, senior deacon; T. J. Dickey,
Junior deacon: W. H. Weaver. chaplain;
B. r. Zimmerman and w. C. Dicky, stew
ards l. Levy. tyler. The Johns lodge Is
in very prosperous condition and looks
forward to a more prosperous year.
The Bessemer lodge of Masons has
elected the following officers: w. E. Sur
rat worshipful master; Arthur Jacobs,
senior warden: J. H. Phelps Junior war
den; L. B. Bradley. treasurer; w. D.
Lanier. secretary: T. A Hines senior dea-
con; ]. H. Push, Junior deacon F. X.
Hirsch, chaplain. and ]. NJ. Ship and
w. M. Cobb, stewards. The membership
of this lodge has increased greatly in the
past year, and It is one of the strongest
lodges In the district. The public instala-
ton of these officers will take place IN
the city park on July T.
With the consolidation of Myrtle and
Linton lodges on next Thursday night the
Knights of Pythlas will have the largest
membership of any order in Bessemer
The Myrtle Linton Lodge, as 1t will be
known. will have about 800 members. The
election of officers will take place on
Thursday night and they will be installed
later. The lodge is planning for an i'm
mense banquet to be given, which will
celebrate the joining of the two lodges.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
Fortune TeIIers

! overheard this:
What do you think? l had my fortune
told today!'
Yes? And what did the woman tell
your"
"Oh, a lot of things! Do you know !
cannot help believing there is something
in 1t. She told me had fortune coming
from the old country, and that's true.
| am to take a journey across wide wa
ters. And my life line is crossed by a
great sorrow. And
Let me see
"Oh, yes. How absurd! I am to be
head developed and he died from the eff
fects of an operation. The body will be
Inferred at the family home in Missis.
sippi.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26

James Trotter received a message from
Princeton, n. j.. this morning, apprising
him of the death of his nephew, Walter
Trotter, Jr of Winona, Miss. Young
Trotter graduated this year from Prince
ton with an A. B. degree and his death
Is greatly regretted by his relatives. It
seems that he went into the pool In the
gymnasium and Owed, injuring himself
to such an extent that an abcess In his
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
Fourth of July Celebration


Plans for the celebration of the Fourth
Of July In Bessemer have been we'll de-
veloped, and many arrangements made by
the committee. The feature of the morn
ing will be the monster parade by the
business firms. schools lodges, and other
institutions in Bessemer. Over 40 firms
have notified the committee that they
Will have floats by the Fourth. Among
those firms taking part are:
The Bessemer Gas company, Bessemer
Water Works company, Bessemer Trans
fer, Birmingham Railway, Light and
Power company, T. J. Batson, City Gro
Gerry company, J. c. Curry & Co., Cti-
zens bank. Martin Furniture company,
Huey Furniture company, Hood-Whittle
Furniture company, Lewis Hardware COM
pany, Lois Forest, w. D. Taylor, A. K.
Williamson, Bessemer National bank,
Bessemer State bank, Fulton Brothers,
G. II. Stevenson & Co.. Rarden e Sons,
Pegram-Palmer Drug company, Armour
Packing company. Dupont Powder COM
pany, M. Vines, Marks Produce company,
the Bee Hive, Bryant Cycle company,
Waller Rutledge, Randle g. Milton, r.
M. Mingea, w. A. Simmons, Long-Lewis
Hardware company, Lewis Drug COM
pany, Sullivan Brothers Plumbing COM
pany, Karr & Sons Kelly M. johnson.
There will be a magnificent barbecue
prepared by experts which will be free to
all. This will be the feature of the noon
hour. In the afternoon there will be con-
tests. the game between Bessemer and a
City league team. Promoters of the en-
terprise are enthusiastic and believe that
the celebration will be great advertise
ment for Bessemer. 1t is expected-that
large number of country people will at
tend
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26

~ HOSE rare philosopher-patriots
who made the Declaration o.
i independence n u m a q
The wageworker., 1910-03-26
STEAM ENGINEERS BUSY.

Organization Under Way and Great
Interest Is Manifest.
The steam engineers of this vicinity
perhaps you would recognize them
easier under the title of stationary en-
gineers-are getting together for the
purpose of forming a local of that
craft. A meeting was held at the Lin
coin hotel last Sunday afternoon and
fourteen names placed upon an appli-
cation for charter. A number of
engineers who were unable to be pres
ent have expressed a desire to be en-
rolled as charter members. The ap-
plication for a charter will be held
open for few days, and early next
week another meeting will be held and
temporary organization effected.
There are in the neighborhood of fifty
men in Lincoln and Havelock who are
eligible to membership, and it is be-
lieved that 95 per cent Of them will
get in the game. *S VI. ao' -
The stationary engineers had
local in Lincoln several years ago, but
through care1essness or Indifference it
was allowed to die of dry rot. The
need of thorough organization is now
more fully realized than ever before.
and the indications are that inside of
thirty days there will be live local
of that craft in Lincoln
The wageworker., 1910-03-26
WHAT UNIoNlsM DOES.
Benefits Paid by Labor Organizations
for 1908.

for 1908.
A sufficient reply to all the villifica-
ton and abuse of the Posts and Parrys
is to quote the following summary
from the twenty-third annual report
of the Federal Commission of Labor,
1908:
The following is a brief summary
of the expenditures of the national
union benefits fund for one year, as
far as reported:
Temporary disability. IS 832,76O.69
Death of members ...... 5,164, 1886. .O6
Death of members wives. 55,O2O.OO
Death of widowed mothers $4,000
Permanent disability 80. 684,775.00
Superannuation ...... 198.618.65
Other benefits ....... S92,321.6
The wageworker., 1910-03-26

connected with the labor movement
in Fall River, Mass, for more than
twenty years.
The Trades and Labor Council of
Guelph, Canada, is asking the Domin-
ion government to amend the immi-
grafton act, by which strike breakers
coming into Canada under contract,
would be regarded as undesirable cit
izens.
Morris Biller, secretary of the Ger
man Workers District Council of Bos-
ton, states that the high cost of living
has driven the men to a point where
they must seek an increase in wages
He says that the wages paid now are
lower than five years ago.
The exhibit which the international
Typographical Union had at the Alas
ltaYukon Pacific Exposition has been
turned over to the Washington State
Board of Health, and will be shown
in the larger cities of the state dur
ing the remainder of this winter and
next.
The wageworker., 1910-03-26

work, baths, etc, and push the sale Of
it's cigars and tobacco in these estab-
lishments.
Nothing definite in the way Of a
compromise was forthcoming from tho
second meeting of the sub-scale COM
mittee of miners and operators from
the central competitive field in Gin
cinnati this week.
Matthias Kramer of Fort Wayne,
Ind, has won his second suit against
a correspondence school which con-
tracted to teach him boilermaking by
mail. Teaching trades by mail can be
set down as a fake every time.
The Montpelier, VT, Journal has
signed with the Typographical Union
and now carries the union label. This
is the first of the nine daily newspa-
pers, six of which are strictly union,
in that state to hoist the emblem of
good workmanship.
The wageworker., 1910-03-26

sary to reach an agreement with the
operators, the resolution, however, be-
ing predicated upon the promise of
the miners leaders that the demand
for increased wages shall not be elm
mated entirely. The action paves the
way for a compromise.
There can be no final determina-
tion of the controversy between the
mine owners and mine workers of the
United States until some day next
week. The joint conference of oper-
ators and miners of the central COM
petitive field has placed the entire
matter back into the hands of the
joint scale committee. That COM
mittee has referred it to it's own sub
committee, adjourning until Monday
TO await the report
The wageworker., 1910-03-26
G. A. WALKER
lathers' Union
LABOR BRlEFLETS.

Some Little Items About the Toiiers
in All Sections.
Plumbers International has in
creased it's membership from 1000 to
10000.
Canadian industrial accidents in
January totaled 271 and 81 were fatal
AS early as 1897 law was passed
in New Hampshire making ten hours
a legal days work.
On April 4, at ST. Paul. Minn., In
ternational Association of Fur Work
ers will convene.
Chas. II. Miller, a barber has been
chosen as united labor candidate for
mayor at Seattle. Wash.
Many unions have declared in favor
OF the formation of an allied print
fng trades section of the American
Federation of Labor.
The United States Bureau of Labor
states that the fatal accidents to
wage earners in the United States are
between 10000 and $4,000 year.
A miner who had not extinguished
a safety lamp which had become un-
safe was fined $3.50 and costs at
Rotterdam, England.
1t is expected that by the time the
next meeting of the California State
Federation is held in Los Angeles,
more than so new unions will be en-
rolled.
Frank II. Mccarthy, New. England,
organizer for the American Fedora
ton OF Labor, will aid in organizing
a new Central Labor Union in Wal
than, Mass.
The Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany's revised rules for employees, just
promulgated, has caused consterna-
tion. because one of them prohibits the
use Of tobacco in any form on passen-
ger trains.
An increase in wages is expected by
the members ce Boston Operative
Plasterers' Union, No. 10. The new
scale calls for 65 cents an hour, which
is said to be an increase of 21a cents
per hour.
James Whitehead, secretary-treas-
urer of the National Federation OF
Cotton Viewers has been prominently
The wageworker., 1910-03-26

Posts would rob us of to prevent the
good work, if they could. Not by
stealing it, but by denying ourselves
of some of the necessaries of life to
make preparation for a rainy day
Contrast the noble, charitable work
of the labor unions with the starvation
of it's employees under the open shop
of the scab Manufacturers Associa-
ton, and then say. Who is doing the
work of God and man? Certainly not
Kirby ct al-United Mine Workers
Journal.