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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Good Opportunity

'Expositions in the south have
doubtless resulted in great good in an
educative way, but in many respects
the south will derive more direct ben
ent from the Ohio Valley exposition in
Cincinnati, to be open from August 2S
to September "a, than would be the
case If such an industrial and agricul-
tural show were to be held in south
ern city," said Birmingham man who
formerly lived in Cincinnati.
"One of the objects of the Ohio VAL
ley exposition is to exploit southern
resources, and it Is simply UP to our
captains of industry to make credit
able exhibits there. 1t is especially i'm
portant that the Birmingh am district
should make a good showing.
IAN effort is being made by the Br-
mingham Chamber of Commerce to in
duce northern truck farmers to come
and settle in Jefferson county. The
Ohio valley is teeming with just the
class of truckers we need here, and
many of those farmers will attend the
exposition. The farm committee would
miss a fine opportunity if it failed to
be represented at the Ohio valley ex-
position
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
AS the wind that blows.
And the "why'Aof it all
There's nobody knows,
NEEDED LEGISLATION.
ALesh3oraeQ

A Kansas editor is OF the opinion that
all the needed legislation hasn't been put
on the statutes yet, and he makes a few
suggestions as follows:
If George Kaufman IS elected to the
legislature this fall, we would ask him
to introduce bill abolishing large air
holes in bakers bread; a woman from
smelling her husbands breath every Is
minutes; also- a law to prevent agents
from selling a hair promoter that is guar
anteed to make hair on a bald head in ten
days when they know they are deceving
the poor man. We bought a bottle of
hair coaxer from pale, bilious liar about
three months ago and applied it to our
intellectual brow and have waited patient,
ly for results. but as far as we can see
our shapely head is about as bald as
sandbar"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
New Field for Travelling Men

1.-THE Corey Land company has made a
venture that no other real estate concern
in the south has ever had the courage
to do" said J. c. Lusk yesterday.
Three good statesmen have been
equipped for the road and have been
sent out to sell lots in Corey. They will
not only cover Alabama, but will invade
adjoining states as well. While these
travelling statesmen are sent out primarily
to sell lots in Corey they have instruc-
lions to advertise Birmingham as whole
and it's varied resources
1.-THE concern that is sending these men
out expects, of course, to reap an i'm
mediate return, but it is expected that
seed will be sown which will bring good
results to this entire district in the years
to come.
Birmingham cannot get too much
boosting and we feel that nothing will
be lost in sending paid and trained men
out to talk Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
SEINE Masters of Style

Il have read with much interest what
has been said recently in those short dis
cussions in The Age-Herald's Lobby col
umn about how to acquire a good writing
STYLE said an old citizen who, in years
past, frequently wrote for the press.
THE high school or college graduate,
we'll grounded In the rules of English
grammar and the principles of rhetoric,
will, as a matter of course, be able to
write grammatical English; but anything
approaching literary style or the power
of brilliant expression must be the re-
suit of reading, along with practical eX-
perience in composition. 1t follows, then,
that the young graduate who has lit
erary turn should select for his or her
reading approved models. No one who
lacks either humor, sentiment, magma
ton or an orderly mind will ever cut
much of a figure in the domain of let
ters; but with the requisite natural equip
ment anyone, with reasonable applica-
ton. may, by paying close attention to
the style of the best class of authors,
learn to write with some degree of charm
and force.
"Cynics and hypercritical persons are
often heard to say that most books are
worthless; that only few-a dozen or
less-have any real value. Fortunately
these cynics are not taken seriously. The
world is rich in good books, and many
American authors as well as English may
be read with fine profit for style alone.
We all read our own famous men OF
s-Emerson, Hawthorne, Irving and
Poe; and Macauly and Newman are still
generally read. But there are several
contemporaneous English essayists of
high rank, not well KNOWN however, In
this part of the world, who may be taken
as excellent models. l refer especially
to John Morley and Frederic Harrison,
both distinguished for clarity and beauty
of style as we'll as intellectual vigor.
Harrison is now a very old man and he
has not written much for publication
within the past four or five years. The
last thing l read from his pen was en-
titled, Paris Revisited (after 40 years,
If l remember Alright, which appeared
in The Nineteenth Century a few months
ago; and it was one of the most de-
llghtful of all his Illuminating papers.
Harrison has been recognized as the
foremost leader in England of the Posi-
twist school of philosophy, and the
abest Positivist anywhere since Comics
death. AS to Positivism it includes meta
physics sociology and the religion of hui
mainly. Nothing could be more vague,
unless it is Emerson's Characterization
but unlike many so-called free thinkers,
Harrison is never offensive to those who
believe in Christian dogma; and from the
tone of his Paris essay l suspect he is
after all very much of a Christian. If
one cares to buy but a single book by
Frederic Harrison his Meaning of His
tory made up of lectures and magazine
essays, should be selected. l consider 1t
a great book Another of Harrisons sin
gularly attractive publications is entitled
Annals of an Old Manor The last book
he published was a Life of Ruskin'-sym-
pathetic and full of interest from begin
ming to end"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
FELINE INFELICITY,

FELINE lNFELlCITY.
Out from an alley
Crept a stray cat;
Seemed as If wounded
By a brickbat.
Oh, he was draggled-
Wretched to see;
Raised up his frowsed head
Sadly to me.
Said, as a cat can,
Piteous and low.
What am 1 here for?
I'd like to know.
Kicked at and spat upon,
Chased by the pups,
Mine is the fare on which
The starveling sups.
Once / was thrust In
A sack to be drowned,
Still with my nine lives,
Couldn't be downed.
Once l was poisoned
Rolled in great pain;
After a week passed,
Got well again.
Once l was shot at
Knocked off a fence,
One of my hind legs
Hurting me since.
Oh, for a home of
Peace and content,
Where, unassailed, my
Days could be spent!
Where a Kind hand would
Fondle my head
And q soft pillow would
Serve for my bed.
All. but to think I'm
Far from that statev
Thus he complained, full
Piteous and low,
What am l here for?
I'd like to know"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
MIGHT HELP SOME.

Il see where it is proposed to establish,
SOLDERING up stations in Chicago"
"A few second thought stations are
sadly needed in that town."
Whats your idea?~
stations where people who have start
ed to get divorce can stop a while and
reconsider the matter
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
The safest way to joke with woman
is not to.
The easier girl can marry man the
more she can make him think he does it.
A woman tries to get even with a man
she likes by being specially mean to
some other woman he likes.
The meanest thing about money is how
little 1t is when 1t is paid to you and how
much when you pay 1t out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

In the election of Mrs. Ella Flagg
Young, superintendent of the public
schools of Chicago. as president of the
National Education association all wom
en- are honored whether they are or are
not suffragettes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
SARCASTIC.

do you known" said Charley Sap.
pington. in less than d week after
l reached the seashore-aw--last sum-
nah, 1 was engaged"
Really" exclaimed Miss Cutter. "As
a waiter at one of the hotels, l pre-
sume?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Sumes

The South Dakota republicans met and
proclaimed their opposition to Cannon
and Aldrich and their policies. This was
done in their state convention and all
Dakotans of the republican persuasion
who do not indorse 1t are insurgents.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

ways the same advantages as other
cities, said young man. 1.-The rate from
Atlanta to Wrightsville Beach for ten
days is the same as the rate to Tybee,
st. Smons and Pablo Beach for the same
period of time. If the rates from At
lanta and other important southern cities
are the same to all south Atlantic sea-
shore resorts, why cannot the rate from
Birmingham to Wri&htsville Beach be
equalized with the other resort points?
THE rate from Chattanooga to Wrights-
vile Beach is only SIP for ten days and
the rate from Birmingham Is SIT. 90. Does
it not look inconsistent for Birmingham
to be charged so much more than Chat
tanooga, while the distance is practically
the same? No doubt more Birmingham
people would go to Wrightsville Beach
for their outings if they were offered
the same inducement as the people of
other cities.
II have visited all of the resorts on
the Atlantic and none of them in my
opinion can equal Wrightsville. The sea-
son there is at it's height and the crowds
since the first of July have been large"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

Secretary Norton is the autocrat at
Beverly now. mo letters, no conferences.
cially," is his rule, and he is applying
it to the head of the nation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

Mr.. Roosevelt's unalterable determine
ton to keep out of politics is now con-
strued to be determination to keep out
of the standpat sort
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

Walter Wellman is preparing to fly
across the Atlantic very much as he flew
to the north pole. He takes a whole year
to advertise himself in.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

President Taft Is taking a vacation
within vacation for 10 days, and Sec
rotary Norton is to see that no public
business reaches him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

Catch Em-Allve Javk Alternately re-
fused to put his boy broncho- busters into
He sent them home IN an
auto, and next fall he will no doubt send
them to school,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

A Kansas professor is endeavoring to
ascertain why the freely carries its lamp
astern instead of on the bow. When he
has determined that problem he may
tackle the age of Ann.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

Colonel Roosevelt does not often eulti-
vate the highbrows, but when he nudges
up to cabot" he should also send for
Brother Boies of Pennsylvania.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

The weather man should request that
barometic trough in the Mississippi val
ley to move on.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

The light that beats upon a throne is
weak and puny alongside the fierce light
that beats day by day on the colonel at
Oyster Bay.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

Instead of compulsory education a bill
Is wanted just now providing for COM
pusory vacations.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
TRYING ORDEAL.

ut must be very painful for Dubbs to
brush his hair"
IT don't understand"
when he brushes his hair he has to
stand before a mirror and when he does
that he sees himself"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
SIC TRANSIT.

SIC TRANSIT.
This life is a game
OF give and take;
And some Of it's true
And some Is a fake.
But die we rich,
Or die we poor,
When once we depart,
We return no more.
And the world rolls on,
In the same old way,
When we have gone down
With yesterday,
As quickly forgot
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

Governor Hughes has not been regarded
as live politician since 1t became known
that he has one foot in the supreme
court
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

1t is impossible in this country to lose
been a dull summer without him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

Gary thinks travellers will after while
be told where Chicago used to be.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT MODERN
NEWSPAPERS AND SEVERAL OTHERTHlNGS

fering a large sum to the first person
who will build dlrigible balloon which
will cross the Atlantic The prizes are
sufficient to make experts go to work,
Just as the prize offered by the war
department at Washington caused the
Wrights to perfect the first aeroplane
The war department paid them $4,000
for an aeroplane that they can easily
build and sell now for $500.
So the best people are now encour-
aging the building of automobiles by
giving~prizes to long distance contests
and races generally The automobile
has been so perfected that practically
all the governments of the world are
now using 1t for armies and otherwise.
It appears that it will only be a few
years before the aerop1ane will be used
for the transportation of fast mall
tremendous fortune is awaiting
the man who perfects a practical ma
chine for commercial use.
new government building for Bir-
mingham is now a certainty and prob
ably the work on the structure will
commence in the near future And l am
told that public spirit has been so
aroused during the past week over the
necessity of great new hotel that the
company is being organized, and vol
untary subscriptions have already been
so large that its construction is prac-
tically assured.
The people of wealth of Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

1t is hoped that the new Louisiana SEN
ator is real, rather thanla sugar, DEM
ocrat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

One New York horse car line was estab-
lished 80 years ago, and the company has
yet TO buy its first broom.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
OF COURSE. NOT.

do you think Lyman Abbott will blue
pencil any of Roosevelt's copy?"
IF you were a sparrow would you perch
on live wire?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

The estate of Richard Watson Glider
poet, consists chiefly of debts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

have finally taken hold of the matter
in a practical and common sense way,
and within month l expect to see the
company organized, the subscription
list filled, the bond issue provided for,
and everything ready for practical con-
struction.
The men who are behind the move
ment are those who do things on a
big scale.
There will be nothing better in the
south than Birmingham's new hotel 4;
A word about automobile speeding.
1t may be due to people testing their
cars out for the races which were to
be held yesterday, but it is an outrage
the way the automobiles have been
speeding up and down Highland ave-
nue. between Twentieth street and the
Cabaniss corner during the past week.
birmingham mas not Suff1elent police
force to catch all these racers upon the
streets of the city, but it is the dutN
of every man in town who owns an
automobile to curb the reckessness of
his chauffeur. If they do not the city
government will be compelled to adopt
such strenuous laws and get special
plain clothes men to enforce them that
the pleasure of owning an automobile
will be as nothing. Even in the bust
ness center of the city there has been.
all sorts of recklessness recently. Let
this be stopped and stopped at once.
lo2oo
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
THE SECRETS OUT.

PA tried to fix water pipe yes
terday," announced little Robert Smith.
kins.
wei, did he fix it?' asked the
visitor.
Nom; that's why we're goin' 10
have some new wallpaper in the bath
room.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
QUITE A CUT-UP.

IF the sea were full of mermaids"---
A sly thought came to him
IF the sea were full of mermaids,
I'd teach them how to swim!p
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

The suburban burglar takes no vacation
summer or winter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
A PRIVATE MATTER.

What do you suppose perfectly
good man says when he bumps his
head in the dark?"
II don't know. Nobody knows ex-
cept the good Lord, the good man and
possibly his wife,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

AM glad to observe that the tone
of the modern American newspa-
per is becoming higher and more
r
elevating day by day.
The scandals and sensations that
formerly filled the columns of the
newspapers are now relegated to those
of the ysllow type.
The great newspapers of the country
are devoting their space to actual news
of development wherein something is
accomplished, and to sports of the type
of automobile races and aeroplane
flights. Such things are encouraged by
the United States government and all
the governments of the world These
things develop something; they bring
forward inventive genius, which finds
profit in making something that up
builds.
this country simply told the actual
news of the recent prize fight between
a negro and a white man, without dis
playing all manner of pictures of the
contest and running detail stories all
over their front pages.
The great New York and Chicago
newspapers are now Offering prizes
running into the thousands of dollars
for the best aeroplane flights between
different cities, thereby encouraging
the development of aerial navigation in
this country. And now two New York
and one London newspapers are Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
WHAT ELSE?

"Brodie l.. Dukes fourth wife mar
ried him for his money"
What makes you SO positive?"
I've just seen a picture of Brodie.' =
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

Rates to SeashOre Resorts
1.-THE people of Birmingham who pat
ronize the seashore resorts have not al
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

Reno? Let's see. What state is it In
anyway?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
ADRIFT WITH THE TINES
A POETIC POSE.

The poets sing the good old days
OF long ago,
And backward still sweet fancy strays,
Where blossoms blow
And tender songs steal on the air,
Up from the land,
Where Youth and Hope, lovely pair
Went hand in hand.
The gentle art of looking back
The bards affect
To learn how much in, life they lack
You'd ne'er suspect
The present holds a single ray
From heaven caught;
The Muse, enrapt with yesterday
Seems so distraught,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
A GREAT SNOWMAN

All insurgent roads now lead to Oyster
Bay.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
A TRUTHFUL STATEMENT.

A little, "broiler,"
Now and then,
Is relished by
The bald-head men.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

ascertain why the freely carries its lamp
astern instead of on the bow. When he
has determined that problem he may
tackle the age of Ann.
Catch Em-Allve Javk Alternately re-
fused to put his boy broncho-busters. into
vaudeville He sent them home IN an
auto, and next fall he will no doubt send
them to school.
L
Colonel Roosevelt does not often culti-
vate the highbrows, but when he nudges
up to cabot" he should also send for
Brother Boies of Pennsylvania.
President Taft Is taking a vacation
within a vacation for 10 days, and Sec
rotary Norton is to see that no public
business reaches him.
Walter Wellman is preparing to fly
across the Atlantic very much as he flew
to the north pole. He takes whole year
to advertise himself in.
Mr.. Roosevet's unalterable determine
ton to keep out of politics is now con-
strued to be a determination to keep out
of the standpat sort.
The light that beats upon a throne is
weak and puny alongside the fierce light
that beats day by day on the colonel at
Oyster Bay.
Governor Hughes has not been regarded
as a live politician since 1t became known
that he has one foot in the supreme
court.
Instead of compulsory education bill
is wanted just now providing for com
pulsory vacations.
The weather man should request that
barometic trough in the Mississippi val
ley to move on.
1t is hoped that the new Louisiana SEN
ator is real, rather thanla sugar, DEM
ocrat.
Gary thinks travellers will after while
be told where Chicago used to be.
The estate of Richard Watson Glider,
poet, consists chiefly of debts.
The suburban burglar takes no vacation
summer or winter.
-s-
Reno? Let's see. What state is it in,
anyway?
All insurgent roads now lead to Oyster
Bay.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-06-20
Good Taste in Vases.

Dear Miss doom:
/ have just moved into the suburbs
where a beautiful garden has become
mine / want to have flowers in every
nook of the house. Will you give me
a suggestion about purchasing vases?
BRIDE.
You cannot possibly be too careful
in the choice of your flower vases, for
the effect OF even the loveliest blossoms
will be spoiled entirely If the colors of
the jars or vasee clash with those Of
the flowers. or even If they obtrudo
themselves too forcibly upon ones no.
tice. Nature gives green leaves to all
her flowers. no matter what their own
color may be. and you cannot do better
than follow in her footsteps and choose
quiet and inoffensive shade Of green
for most Of your flower vases. The
pottery that sells SO reasonably now
and comes in soft greens and browns
IL ideal.