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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
The Late F. D. NaberS

In the death of DIR. F. D. Nabers Biz
mingham has lost one of Its most useful
and honored citizens. He was only boy
a very young student at the University
when the civil war began, but he was a
lieutenant in company made up of stu
dents and served with valor under For
rest He was wounded In Tennessee.
DR.. Nabers was one of those quiet
even-tempered, kindly men, who was
nevertheless recognized by his associates
nc dominant factor in the community
He was a real leader in the business
world and accomplished a great deal In
the wav of initiative. He possessed a
large degree of public spirit, but was one
of the least obtrusive of men.
Although belonging to one of the old
nioneer families of Jefferson county, DIT
Nabers was slngularly progressive in his
ideas. and was one of Birmingham's solid
rrnu,lders. He was the soul of integrity
and. best of all, he was good neighboi
and a willing helper. Peace to his ashes
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
ROoseVeltiSm Defined in a Platform

The Roosevelt platform in New York
commends the Aldrich tariff, even de-
claring that 1t has no part in increasing
the cost of living. 1t is difficult to see
how 1t could further go in indGrsing
Aldrichism. And yet the Wisconsin re-
publicans in their yecent state conven-
ton said; TIE Payne-A1drich tariff is
not cor lance with the pledge of the
repu' lean party in its national plat
,Iofm." To say that some of the New
York republicans do not agree with their
brethren in Wisconsin would be to say
something that all know to be at vari
ance with the truth The Roosevelt plat
form does not distinctly and definitely
say that the Aldrich tariff is a compli
ance with the last national republican
platform. 1t evades that point, and yet
1t commends the tariff and never in a
single line condemns 1t. The New York
republicans and the Wisconsin repub-
licans are as far apart in politics as are
the two poles in the physical world.
But the dash of Aldrichism in the
Roosevelt platform is not its only Of
Tense. Not line in 1t is devoted to
Cannonism. Not a line in its advocates
the adoption of the pending income tax
proposition. No issue is more important
to the masses of the people than the
proposed income tax "such REFORM"
says, the Independent Springfield Repub-
lican, would not only tend to make in
dustrial opportunity more equal, but
would soften the workings of those in
dustrial injustices and inequalities which
might for the time being escape the great
and necessarily prolonged work of their
Correction
The Roosevelt platform permits the
democrats of New York to go before the
people in favor of a downward revision
to a revenue basis of the Aldrich mass
of graft-in favor of change of rules
of the house of representatives which
will render Cannonism hereafter impos-
sible-in favor of the adoption of the
would be platform enough to win on, If
the result in Maine be any indication
and best of public sentiment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
TRIUMPHNT FEMINIsM

From the Boston Globe.
Woman is rapidly winning a perma-
nent place for herself in athletic sports,
and thereby becoming successful COM
petitor with man. In swimming, for
example, the remarkable feat of the Dor
chester 15-year-old school girl swimmer,
Rose Pitonof, in swimming from Charles
town bridge to Boston light, must be
added to- the achievements by women
athletes. The art of swimming once
monopolized by men, is now generally
INDUCED in by women, and they are
adopts at it.
The old notion that women were afraid
of deeds of daring has been dissipated
by their athletic performances In recent
years. They are now to be seen even In
as heroic step as any man cares to
take.
Woman is more fearless than is gen.
orally supposed. She is fond of sports
that have spice of danger in them.
Exciting steeplechase racing appeals to
her fully as much as it does to men.
She likes aquatic sports of every kind
and is not afraid to take chances of
accident on the water.
The activity displayed by her in all
forms of physical recreation is a fine
thing for the human race, as 1t tends to
Improvement in health. For this reason,
If for no other. the steady growth of
interest in athletic sports by women is
worthy of commentator and encourage
ment
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
Where Mr.. Roosevelt Will Stand

From start to finish Mr.. Roosevelt con-
trolled the Saratoga convention. Henry
l.. Stimson proved to be his choice. for
governor and he was readily nominated
Mr. Stimson is a lawyer of New York
city, who was first associated with EIihu
Root and John E. Parsons in corpora
ton and trust practice, but who later
was appointed United States district at
torney by President Roosevelt In thai
official capacity he prosecuted the sugar
trust, which as a lawyer he had advised
and promoted. He stands high in the
social life of the metropolis city, and the
trusts probably do not greatly fear this
pet and darling of New York city.
But whether they do or not, the tasl
Of electing him governor now falls, sas
the cid guard. upon the shoulders Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
And now diamond shines on him."
A LAWYERS RISE.

"One of the most interesting stories
OF the courts I have ever heard related
to lawyer who was defending a young
woman charged with having murdered
her lover by giving him a piece of poi
soned cake" The speaker was a man of
the legal profession. 1.-THE evidence was
damaging, to say the least, and the de-
tense was left apparently without hope.
Then the lawyer for the defense arose
and said. Gentlemen of the Jury, the
charges made against this young woman
are absurd He proceeded to ridicule
the testimony offered by the witnesses
for the prosecution and concluded dra-
matically by saying that he would eat
some of the cake alleged to be poisoned.
The cake had been brought into court
to use as evidence, so he cut off a gen.
erous slice and to the amazement of
every one present ate 1t with apparent
enjoyment. The case went to the Jury
and the lawyer went across the street
to his Office, where three doctors were
waiting with stomach pumps. They
pumped him out and after taking a bra
GER he returned to the courtroom in
time to hear the jury return a verdict
Of acquittal" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

Theodore Roosevelt with emphasis ano
distinctiveness. He and he alone nomi-
mated Mr. stimson for governor, and the
logical task of electing him now de-
wolves upon his great patron. This is
the old guards final position.
If he cannot do this. where will the
assertive and pugnacious leader of oys-
ter Bay stand before the people of the
entire country? New York has not had
democratic governor since the days of
Grover Cleveland, and IL the state goes
democratic in November the prestige. not
to mention the hale Of Oyster. By vii
he sadly dented and dimmed. It may
not be wholly destroyed, but it will GER
tainly be impaired in the minds of the
rank and file.
Mr.. Roosevelt proposes, 1t is stated,
to stump the state for the ticket he has
nominated. He will, as an ex-President
direct from Africa. attract large crowds,
but will he in the teeth of the high cost
of living and Cannonism be able to In
duce the curtosity seekers to vote his
ticket? This, to say the least, is doubt
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

From the Benton (Mo.) Democrat
No living man of this age ever de-
liberately choose to adopt trousers" He
was forced into them and all other
eccentricities of dress by women. In
the very earliest sartorial experience he
is swathed in a queer bundle of inco-
herent bandages by a woman. Later
she puts him in cute dresses SO that the
neighbors can't tell him from his little
sister. Still later she cuts off his curls
puts on long pants when she gives the
word, not before.
That is all that man has to do with
wearing trousers Women forced him
into them in the first place, and now
he is afraid to wear anything else for
fear of making sensation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
BUGLE SONG

BY Tennyson. THE Princess"
The splendor falls on castle walls
And snowy submits old In story:
The long light shakes across the lakes
And the wild cataract leaps In glory.
Blow, bugle. blow, set the wild echoes
flying,
Blow, bugle; answer. echoes, dying, dy-
Ing, dying.
o bark, o hearl how thin and clear,
And thinner. clearer, farther going!
o sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns OF Elfland family blowing!
Blow. let US hear the purple giens re-
plying;
Blow. bugle; answer, echoes, dying. dy-
ing, dying.
o love, they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever,
Blow, bugle, blow, set the Wild echoes
flying,
And answer, echoes. answer. dying. dy!
ing, dying.
tfs3 w ~ ~ ~ 49,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
REWARD OF MERIT

From Answers.
The motor car was obstinate. Tt wouldn't
bulge. Industriously, the man in water
proof cap and goggles turned the crank
handle. but without result. He turned
and turned and turned. Then he paused.
Twist 1t agen, Alfred!'
Ire oss!''
go it, Johnson
Thus the crowd.
But to such gibings he was deaf.
Once more he hopefully seized the crank
and turned 1t strenuously. No effect.
Again he paused to remove his cap and
regain his breath.
Observing the action, an elderly gen.
tleman stepped forward and dropped a
coin in the upturned cap.
THANK you, my man-thank your he
murmured. TITS the only street organ !
ever saw that didn't send me nearly deaf
with its noise. You desire a copper"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
ONE WAY TO FIND OUT

FROM the newark star.
Leon Evans tells the story of a we'll
known actor who played in this city
not long ago in a part which in the first
act called for dark stage. In the
gloom he had desperate fight with
another man and was supposed to throw
him from a bridge.
When the man had toppled over into
the depths below it was a cue for the
surviving combatant to cry out: Great
Heavens! What have l done?"
When he was playing the part in New
ark a stake hand, new In the business,
was much impressed with the opening
scene, and when the actor reached the
climax. threw the man off the bridge
and yelled, Great Heavens! What have
I done?" he was startled to hear the
stage hand say in a loud but consoling
voice: Strike match and we'll have
a look"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
WAGES OF sAvANTs

From the Washington Post.
Plain living and high thinking are the
normal ways of the typical scholar.
Bread there must be to meet the need
of brains, which demand as much and
as nourishing sustenance as does Drawn.
while perhaps the Incidental needs of
counted as a necessity. But there has
been complaint of late that professors In
colleges are paid inadequately for their
services Probably they are not SO I'M
pecunious as some country preachers,
but they are not so isolated, having at
least the constant stimulus of intellectual
companionship in men and in books. II
looks as though the chairs OF learning
and instruction in colleges are to be made
more comfortable. Thus the salaries of
professors at Yale have been raised to
maximum of 5000, and alumni of Har-
ward have contributed fund of 20oo,-
900, the interest on which is to be de-
voted to higher payment of the teaching
foice But the college professor is rarely
wise in the specific matter of money
making. He knows not Mammon, not
because of scruple. but because OF train
ing in other directions. There are occa-
sional exceptions, as when a Columbia
professor recently sold an Improvement
in the telephone for large amount ana
an annuity of $4,000
But these exceptions only prove the
rule Louis Agassiz, the great natural
list, remarked, perhaps plaintively. that
he never had time to make money. But
his son, Alexander, became rich through
copper mine, perhaps as much by
happy accident as by design or calcu-
lated effort. But since the time OF Chau-
GERS clerk the garb of the scholar has
been additionally scant, even though
costly as his purse could buy He val
ues his reputation more than his CLOAK
That explains why higher salaries ohered
by some highly endowed universities In
the west have failed to lure savants from
the older, humber academic homes In
eastern states.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
From tn Kansas City Star.

From tn Kansas City Star.
TINE best vocal expression in this
country is found in the theatre. 1t
L may be said. too. that some of the
worst examples may be found in the
same place. 1t would be wrong to hold
up the stage, without qualification, as
the best school of observation. For In
spite of the fact that proper tone pro-
duction, clear enunciation and articula-
ton, correct pronunciation and pleasing
speech in all its bearings, ought to be
the first requisite In any department OF
the theatre, many enter the profession
of acting with no preparation whatever
In this regard. And the degree of sue
cess attained by some who give no heed
to the refinements, or even the common
necessities of pleasing speech Is only an
other evidence of the extent to which
the American public has become Injured
to slovenly English.
Nevertheless, the best speech is In the
theatre, and those who seek the enjoy
ment of 1t, or the improvement that the
observation of 1t may bring, will not
have to seek far to find 1t. When a
worthy play is produced by a painstak-
ing manager the rehearsals are put I'M
der the direction of a competent stage
director This stage director has little
patience with those who lack culti-
walton in speech. So far as possible he
eliminates from the cast those who are
unable to read inteligently, clearly and
in pleasing voice. And in the end, when
the play Is ready to present. the public
may be assured that the lines will be
we'll spoken.
This does not mean, of course, that
errors cannot be found In any perform
ance, whether of company or an indi-
vidual member; but the average is so
much better than one can find In any
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

sible 40 BY the time the calculation had
reached through all the composite dwell
ings of Manhattan and its sister bor-
oughs the upstate man with the pen
would find himself to be the author of
a tremendous accusation.
AS to how far this editors criticism
is justified we do not venture to say. It
is based in the very old complaint of
the family on the floor below. The ques-
ton is one of flat-house ethics; we re-
frain from saying that 1t is one of neigh
borly consideration, since we are told
that in flat-house living there are no
such things as neighbors. The only de-
Tense offered by the family above is that
1t has right to do as 1t will where 1t
has paid the rent.
We confess to some doubt on the score
OF this defensive reasoning The tenant
downstairs. also paying rent, can quote
also that his fiat is his castle. Is his
guarantee of tranquil occupation to be
limited justly to the walls on either hand,
without regard to what may happen the
other side of the ceiling?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
FASHION NOTE.
Fine for
Towsers,
Hobble
Trousers.
FOR EVERYBODY.

FOR EVERYBODY.
Happiness Is free to all,
Do not be SO glum,
And, to know you'll be delighted,
That 1t is not copyrighted,
Help yourself to some.
Neither Is 1t patented,
You should understand,
On claim at once be fling,
You cannot be pinched for smiling
In this happy land
It E. NJ. in the New York Telegram.
Happiness is free to all,'-
What you say is true,
But the wights whose stock of blisses
Overbrims in a world like this Is,
They are very few.
Though a cinch to give advice
In little rhyme,
Bards of optimistic teaching,
We can't practice what we're preaching
More than half the time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
CORRECTED
From London Answers.

FrOn IOnuUH XATISWtTS.
Gussie was knock-kneed, angular. and
und-shouldered. He had a terrible
sauint, and mouth like a steam roller.
All the same. he reckoned on making
something of hit at the fancy-dress
ball, and his costume was as elegant as
his figure was unlovely.
With fast-beating heart he stepped
iauntly from his automobile outside the
town hall, where the ball was being held.
The hall porter stepped backward at the
unsightly apparition.
Great Christopher Columbus!" he
gasped as he regarded Gussie.
mo, no, my good mani" chirped Gus
sic, as he tripped through the portals.
"Chawles the First, my dear fellow
Chawles the First!'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
THE Family OVERHEAD

From the New York World.
1.-THE family on the floor above" writes
an out-of-town editor, lis the most ag-
gravating thing in fiat life"
Upon the thoughtfulness of how large
a majority of such a population as New
York's this comment reflects we sup
pose this editor had no realization as he
wrote In single 10-story house with
four apartments to a floor his remarks
would apply to So families out Of pos
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
TO PREPARE INFANTS FOOD

From Judges Library.
Mix one pint of Dope Digesto. one ounce
of cream, three quarts of pounded brown
bread, one gill of essence of buttermik,
two teaspoonfuls of top-milk, four gall
Ions Of water, and one tablespoonful of
lime water.
Cook on hot stove until you reach
boiling point, stir yourself black In the
face, cool gradually In sterilized spoons
by moving gently up and down or around
the block.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

Piety begins where fin ends.
Service has long way to go before 1t
gets to be loyalty.
safe way to stay out of jail is to be
very good, and q safer, to be very rich.
Most people are so satisfied they are
doing better that they can't see they are
doing worse
Any way you look at IT, It's better TO
think you are wire man than to know
you are q fool
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

The halo of the woodruff westcoat
and the Barnes smile will no longer
be a part of the outfit of the republican
nartv. They have been eliminated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

The old guard is comforted in defeat
with the fact that defeat of the Slim
son ticket in November will cast wet
blanket on the colonel
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

The government declines to receive
in a royal manner the Sultan of Sulu.
and vet he is our only potentate and
we may never have another.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
ADVICE
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
Doctor" cried little Bingle, over his
telephone. my wife has lost her voice.
What the dickens shall doY'
why" said the doctor, gravely, III I
were you I'd remember the fact when
Thanksgiving Day comes around, and
act accordingly"
Whereupon the doctor chuckled as he
charged little Bingle two dollars for pro-
fessional services.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
M0NOTONY.

MoNoToNY.
wistfu sort of fellow
Said he would like to see
That happy land, you understand,
Where everything is free;
Where money grows on laden boughs.
In easy reach to pick,
And people pave the streets with gold
And diamonds are so thick.
They're in the way; to linger where
All sorts of food and drink
And clothes to wear and Injuries
More rare than one could think,
Are not denied Oh, foolish man!
To dream a dream like that
If such things ever came to pass,
The world would be so fiat,
We'd be so used to rolling high
In brightly gilded scenes,
There'd be world of novelty
In eating pork and beans.
WORSE YET.
HE never minces words"
'Ah! but he's been known to split an
infinitive."
FASHION NOTE.
Fine for
Towsers,
Hobble
Trousers.
THE NTFTIEST NAP-TIME.
ut is sad to hear the milk wagons rat
ting in the morning"
why sop
Because you are awake II you hear
them"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

The Rochester convention is moi
spectacular but 1t will today name the
winners in a contest that attracts the
attention of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

Senator Lorimer was In no hurry 70
have the stigma removed from his
seat In the Senate. The committee
however. decided to prod him up to it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

Austria considers Standard Oil en-
ployes undesirable aliens and is about
to deport a bunch of them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

The Sultan of Sulu wears plain
white string and low collar. In Rome
he believes in doing as Romans 90
rather than what the Suiufiahs oo'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

The Sultan of Sulu is entitled by law
to four wives, but he says one is
enough. He surely Is right In these
davis of the high cost of living.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

The census announcements for the
cities of the country are almost as
exciting as the winnings In a sharp
baseball race.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

Pretty soon Aviator tombstone will
give the Birmingham air a try-out.
He will be here every day of the fair.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

Ballinger still denies resignation ru-
mors and no one seems to think that
his denials make any difference.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

The former Sultan of Turkey knows
he can no more come back than can
Uncle Joe Cannon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

Ezra Meeker desires to remark and
perhaps re-establish the old Oregon
trail. Western history seems to call
for 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

Party platforms have the look of
conscious rectitude whether they have
1T or not
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

The old guard met it's Waterloo this
year at Saratoga, but 1t may come
back.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

The ex-President's candidate for gov
ernor may also be beat to a FRAGILE"
1t is a game that the old guard can
also play at
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

When the Cinnamon cut off their
queues there will soon be a dearth of
raw material in this country for puffs
and the like
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

1t seems to be George AIDES duty to
see that the Sultan of Sulu's royal
throat does not suffer in the dry dis
tricts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

Birmingham got 1855 more In the GEN.
sus than the Chamber Of Commerce
claimed. The chambers letterhead has
been bearing the legend, Estimated pop
ulation, 125,0oo" And most citizens
thought that 10000 would have done
pretty well.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-30

The Sultan of Sulu cannot read Eng
lish and he therefore does not pat
ronize a clipping bureau or employ a
press agent