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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
SOME TELLING LINES

From ''The Passing of the Third Floor
 Rack"
 In the worlds book, so full of the vul- gar stories of dead love, it is pleasant to come across one with the old-fash- toned ending.
 Nothing, it seems to me, Is more beau tiful than the love that has weathered the storm of life.
 The love of the young for the old-it is the beginning of life But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
 The meeting place of friends is the heart.
 We must talk of old days-and grow young.
 Duty so soon tires-love goes all the way.
 It is the helpless and the fallen that hold in their hands the patents of mo- bility.
 Ugliness Is but skin deep. The busi- ness of art is to reveal the beauty un- derlying all things.
 It is a great privilege to be deemed worthy to suffer.
 It is the thoughts of youth that shall one day make the world young.
 There are generous fellows who love to share their good fortune with their friends.
 So many of the noblest men I have known, men I have loved, have been Jews It is great race, a race rich in honorable names.
 What does any lover offer me? Pow erty-struggle. Hopes-fears. Pajn-joy. Toyp-life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
Chauncey DepeV's Successor

Practically speaking Chauncey M De- pew is not candidate for another sena- torial term. He is taking little or no part in the present campaign. and no bne considers him senatorial possibility. Tn case the old guard controls the next
 kislature of New York, James w. kadsworth. Jr-. would. it is plain, be- Ioms Senator Roots colleague. He is (sasonably capable. and has great dea: $ wealth. and is confirmed member Of ks machine, although he is still young
 In. He has served five years as the beaker of the lower house of the legis- hture.
 yIf the friends of MT. Roosevelt and |fr. etimson control the legislature Her ort Passons is said to be slated for
 nater, proridsd he secures reelection
 congressman from New York city
 w se unfairly cut up ints
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
DID THE RIGHT THING

From the St. Paul Dispatch.
 q hope it will be long time before have such another test applied to my honesty" downtown merchant re- marked. as he returned from waiting on a customer.
 What was the trouble?" asked his partner.
 These near-wool suits. An old fellow came in just now and asked me the price of one.
 Seven dollars I told him.
 c Speak louder he said, holding his hand behind his ear. So I yelled Seven dollarsv
 Eleven dollars. Too muchl I'll give you nine!' he replied.
 His partner looked at the speaker in alarm.
 You, CT, of course, you did the right thing?"
 T guess you can depend on me to do the right thing was the naughty retort. Then he paused. You'd better get some dollar bills when you go to Nhe bank" he remarked. q just gave an old fellow our last one for change.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01

non on both sides and the smell and drift of smoke; but the fighting in front of our eyes was a hand-to-hand con fiict of savage men, in groups of twos or threes or more, shooting with their pistols. clubbing with the, butts of guns, slashing with their bayonets, or wrestling and falling over each other intent to kill. We could see 1t all as distinctly as you see drama on a stage, except when the combatants came too near and there was only play of blue and gray legs, or the fall of broken and bleeding bodies. On the side towards Monocacy bridge a federal howitzer was pounding, and one of the balls struck the Jamie- son house, but fortunately only the din- ing room and kitchen annex, which went down with a horrible roar of falling walls.
 During the lulls of the battle Mrs. Jamieson and her daughters would call at intervale:' Don't fight on the lawn! You are ruining the lawn. Go down in the road and fight. And it didn't seem to me strange Now it does, but it did not then. The beautiful young lives were going out, the brave young bodies were breaking In blood and agony; but the ancestral home seemed crumbling to pieces as well, and velvet lawn and hoary trees were ruined for another generation. I was only Is and a thought less girl, but I seemed caught up into larger spaces where the passions of men were lost in their pain. and I felt a vast pity for each shattered one, the blue or the gray, each dying so gallantly for a principles; and for my lilac bush, and for the drenched and tormented grass and the puzzled tree trunks. yield ing themselves so innocently for noth- ing that they could understandable quar- rels of insenate men, to whom the gentle boughs would so gladly have given peace and shade. I am a pagan in this: I believe the big trees know things-not common things; wise and comforting and that they suffer as well as die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
Premier Briand 0VercomeS the Socialists

Premier Briand, who was once a social Hist himself, was raided on Saturday in the | chamber of deputies. and tumult oc-
 cured that reminded all present of the
 descriptions of similar scenes in the days
 of 17S9. The socialists and some of the radicals demanded his resignation, and ! M. Jaurez. the socialstic leader, charged
 Re recent strikes. He claimed the right
 speak for the wage-earners of France he premier could not gain hearing, so |ereat was the fury and disorder, and fin ally M. Brisson, the president of the chamber. declared the debate adjourned until Sunday afternoon.
 On Sunday afternoon there was no tlamor. and the premier who is a ready speaker, showed that he was in the course pf the strike of the railroad employees no
 Ectator, but simply man of law or or
 hes-a man who stood ready if need be to .sdopt even illegal methods for the pur- bose of preserving the republic The laws proved, however sufficient A vote of was carried-yeas, 3S9, noes, 1Ss. About 100 radicals had joined the social lists. These radicals ordinarily support MT Briand, who is very far from being a conservative. No one is more radical than he when no national peril Is to be met. The recent strike created deep feel 'inss of resentment against the premier, who met it as Napoleon would have done. This is why the socialists cried on Saturday, Resign. dictator, resignr' h. stead of resigning he got the ear of the chamber and was overwhelmingly sus- |tained when proposition for his i'm |peachment was presented. All countries have parliamentary battles from time to time, and Premier Briand was certainly lon Saturday treated to one full of fury. |signifying nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
ro HIs LADY GRoWN oLp

Translation by Andrew Lang. (From the French of Pierre Ronsard.) When you are very old, at evening You'll sit and spin beside the fire,
 and say, Running my songs. "Ah, well. ah
 well-a-day! When was young. of me did Ronsard
 sing" +t None of your maidens that doth hear
 the thing, Albeit with her weary task foredone, But wakens at my name, and calls
 you one Blest. to be held in long remembering. shall be low beneath the earth, and
 laid On sleep, phantom in the myrtle
 shade,
 While you. beside the fire, gran
 dame gray,
 gret; An. love me. love! we may be happy
 yet.
 And gather roses. while tis called
 today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
COLOR BLINDNESS

From the Kansas City Star
 Color blindness is one of the great drawbacks to a large percentage of men who would enlist in the United States Marine Corps, according to the recruiting officers.
 we have box filled with different col ored yarn," Sergt. R. A. Drayton of that branch of the service said. We ask the prospective recruit to pick out green, for instance. If he is color blind he will in- variably pick all the red yarn. We place it all back in the box again and ask him to pick out the red. In nine cases out of ten out will come the green.
 Another strange thing I have noticed is that most persons who are color blind have brown eyes. Once in while per son with eyes of different color is af- fected that way, but as a general rule they are persons with brown eyes,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
New York'S Proposed Ocean Terminal

The longest piers of New York City and liners are coming to that port soon 300 feet long. This creates an awkward situation and movement has arisen in senger seaport of New York As a land ing place for the big ships of the future Montauk Point would be three hours away by the rails of the Pennsylvania railroad. Situated at the eastern end of Long Island, it would shorten the voyage by at least 100 miles.
 time to time in the last thirty years, but now, in view of the great size of the new liners and of the construction of tubes under the East river, the plan seems more feasible and desirable than ever before. The subject is one that in- terests the entire country simply because nearly all liners make New York their American port, and nearly all of the country goes there to begin a trip at sea.
 The truth is New York is in danger of losing the big ships. London did and what occurred to London can occur to New York. The big ships could go in and out of Boston harbor. In order to retain the big ships New York must either extend it's piers or make Montauk Point it's passenger seaport. Stranger things have happened and colossal city may go 100 miles away to build its pas senger piers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
CuIyALRY STILL LIVES

Bud Brier in the Boston Glepe.
 An incident on an "L" train awakens the thought that the days of chivalry are not yet departed. It was on busy morning and every seat in the car had it's passenger and every strap its hang er" There were also persons in the car who had neither, and 1t was then that one mans politeness shone out as all good deeds do in this naughty world. He was hanging on to his strap, but beside him was woman WHO hao nothing to which she could anchor. The gentleman, noticing her predicament, tipped hishat with his free hand and said:
 Madam. may I offer you my strap; it is the best I can do.'
 The woman smiled and took 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
I wear not motley in my brain
 Twelfth Night.
Smaller GreenbaCkS and Bauk Notes

Secretary Macyeigh has reached the oint in his campaign for smaller paper money where he sees that national bank
 otes must be reduced in size when the
 ze of the greenbacks is cut down. The prmer cannot be reduced until the word- lg on the national bank notes is changed, nd this calls for an act of Congress. The
 ze fad of MT. Macveigh is. therefore,
 ,stponed until next spring. at any rate.
 But in the meanwhile the Secretary of ne Treasury proposes to retain all green acks of s2o or over and to issue in their Itead large supply of one-dollar green backs to supplement the sl silver certifi- bates, which are not sufficient to meet lhe demands.
 There are 55O,oOo,oOo of standard silver dollars in circulation and represented by certificates. The Wall street people de-
 re 10 eliminate greenbackS altogether Ind they are objecting to an issue of s1 Ereenbacks. They say the silver certifi- oates of s10 and upward should be re- placed with ones or twos. But they are over critical and over finicky. No harm Gill come from an issue of $1 greenbacks,
 nd Secretary MacVeigh will doubtless
 sregard the Wall street clamor, which
 As no rhyme or reason in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01

From Anne Dana's Civil War Story
 Stockings and Pumps" in the Novem-
 Der Lippincotts.
 4 FTER breakfast we all sat on the "A wide front porch and the Jamie \ son girls and I talked of what we should do next, finally deciding on a horseback ride through the shady woods so runs the story. "Why no one knew or guessed of the impending battle I cannot imagine, except that, as have said, the coming and going of troops were common occurrences. As yet there had been no fighting within 30 miles, and no fear of it. As we arose to prepare. for the ride, three officers in blue trotted rapidly down the pike and called to Mr. Jamieson to take his family and fly to the woods. The rebels were coming. Before we had time to do any thing, other officers came along, shout ing. TO the cellar with you! To the cellar. the colored servants fled to the woods, leading horses and driving cattle and pigs in front of them. They had been told what to do in just such an emergency. They were faithful crea- lures, those black people, and brave. MT. Jamieson sprang for his gun, to fight on the union side I packed my hat trunk-I wasn't going to lose my pretty gowns if I could help it-and dragged it down to the cellar, where mother and daughters and I took refuge; all on the right side, all praying that our cause would win.
 And with us were the old black man. my and the old black cook. In order to reach the cellar, we had to go around to the side of the house and down steep stone steps. And so it was that I saw the battle of Monocacy through wide barred windows, and 1t lasted from 10 a. m. to APO sp. m. by the clock. Everything was different from what I had expected There was the the batter of bullets, the screaming and bursting of shells, the thunder of can
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
"No OPENINGS NowHEREsy

From the Indianapolis News.-
 She is fortunate in having girl chums who draw roses from their friends now and then. The other afternoon one of her rosy friends pinned a bright red one on her and she sallied forth into the street to, make other women en- vious. She had not gone far when she felt tug at the shoulder and turned to see a strange woman.
 "Where'd you git that rose2" asked the stranger covetously.
 "A friend of mine gave it to me-" was the answer, produced with some chill.
 A friend of yours? In store?"
 No. not in store"
 Well. haint there no openings mo- wheres?"
 Not that I know of "Humph! Just my luck. I'm just crazy for rose and when I saw you I just knowed there was a fall opening 'somewh ere.'' s.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
AN ELEGY.

AN ELEGf. How still the grandstand seems today, Out at the baseball park; No fans deride, no rooters bray, No umpire sees the spark Of hatred run the bleachers round And flame in every eye; Tense silence reigns, there's not sound,- Not cen a small boys cry. Where once the fat man mopped his face , And ever loudly roared, When some stout batsman reached home
 base
 And by slide had scored, The autumn rains beat drearily And all that mighty throng, Who sulked in gloom, or laughed in glee, Have gone like summers song.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE
 AIIT0f

N. T. Taylor in Lesies
 The great majority of retail automo- bile dealers in America are conducting their business with but a very small amount of ready cash. When a sale Is made, the dealer usually receives a de- ppsit from the prospective purchaser. If he has not the cars already on his floor. he has to order them from the factory. The factory ships them to him with bill of lading attached The cars reach their destination and are dnloaded. The weather becomes most indictment and the roads absolutely unnavigable. The prospective purcnaser is duly informed that his car is ready for delivery. He, after some cogitation, uecides that there
 is no use in taking the car off the deal CTS hands until he can use it, which Is an absolutely natural condition of af- fairs. Very shortly the. dealer finds that his ready cash is tied up in cars which he has on the floor, on which he can not realize until the weather clears up At the same time he cannot order cars from the factory, because he cannot pro- vide for the bill of lading when it ar rlNes, ana IL was Just at lnls punt 'h"'' during two of the hest selling months of the year, the automobile industry was tied up on account of the weather
 As perfectly logical consequence, there was considerable money tied up in auto mobiles and when the twise ones" saw cars stored up the country over, they decided that there was an over-produc- tion and the automobile industry must go to Track and ruin.'' Matters have now become adjusted, and there were more cars sold during July and August than In the best four months the auto- mobile industry has ever seen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
SIGNS OF A. SOUL MATE

From the Buffalo News.
 There is an old, old superstition which comes from ancient Egypt. and so inter- estlng is 1t that 1t is strange palmists do not more frequently mention 1t.
 It is that unless the impoxtant lines on the hands of two people resemble one another these two are not really soul mates.
 Look at the lines of the heart-that long line across the palm of the hand beneath the bases of the fingers. Notice the 'nii and generally broken one that rises .o' ward it from the wrist. These are the two above all others that should be alike in the hands of betrothed pair. Call it coincidence, what you will' this resemblance will be found in almost every happily married middle-aged pair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
EASY FOR TOM
HAS O~ v ~ From Scraps.

Percy D. Daughton. the Harvard football coach, was praising a new halfback. Hes novice," said the noted coach, but he plays like a vet eran To the clever everything comes easy. Like the story of Tom and Bill. Tom and Bill grew up in the. same town. Tom was clever and lazy, Bill an industrious plodder. Tom is still shiftless. I suppose?' said an old res- ident on returning to the town after 20 years absence. And poor old Bill is dead, eh. and he's left over mill lion! Yes, that's right a native re- piled. But the latest news about Tom
 is that he's goin to marry Bills wid- der"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
FLOW TO PRIDE

From Tit-Bits.
 In the dining room of hotel in Nice on a huge placard posted over the man. telpiece you read the following:
 Our English visitors are kindly re- quested to address the walters and serv- ants in English. as their French is not generally understood" str ea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
ALLOW AND ALoFT.

headline in a Washington paper, which reads, 'BALLOONISTS ARE SAFE," merely refers to those balloon ists who were lost for a time in the wilds of Canada. No balloonist is safe while he is ballooning. It is only when he is on the lecture platform, or is writ ing for the magazines that he tastes the sweets of security.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
LONDON DUsTMEN
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
 During the hearing of a case at Wool wich yesterday it was mentioned that a man who made living by raking over dust heaps earned from $6 to $1O weekly, while one witness said that he knew man who made $40 week "out of the same stuff"
 MT. Chapman, the magistrate: We had better all become dustmen.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
PAS BRILLIANT IDEA.

souri
 Father and son were talking about mas approaching birthday. We ought to get her something, pa, for she worked hard all summer, doing the chores. cut ting stove wood and tending the chick ems, but to save my life, I can't think of anything to get her. said the son. That's right. We ought to get her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
DESTRUCTIVE NAPOLEON

From Kielland's "Napoleon's Men and
 Methods
 He was destructive by character and custom. He stuck his paper knife into the costly chairs that were provided for him everywhere. He wasted huge quan- titles of paper. Whenever he took up anything that was frail or finely worked he was quite certain to demolish 1t or damage it before he put 1t down. He pulled up the choicest plants in the hot houses, and, when he could do it with out being seen, he used to shoot Jose phine's rare birds
 One day the Emperor shot out one of the eyes of Massena. the Duke of Rivoli. but nothing was said of it. Berthier took the blame for it, probably because he was master of the hunt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
YOU GAN NEVER TELL.

When Doctor Crippen stretches hemp
 And fits to the Beyond, His lady-love, Miss E. Leneve,
 May sail across the pond, And prancing forth upon the stage,
 Head-liner of the bill, Become a real sensation in
 The realm of vaudeville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
FOR PILLOW SLIPS

From the National Magazine.
 Make pillow slips of outing flannel for winter use; also wear boomers made of outing or real flannel instead of so many heavy skirts They are warmer and more comfortable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01

ADVICE TO NEWSPAPER MEN. Inspect your hundred-dollar bills,
 In making change go slow a bit; Some chaps who tired of tapping tills Have lately made a counterfeit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
,SCIISE PLEASE.

A jingle published in this department Philadelphia Telegram, should have been credited to the Philadelphia Tele- graph.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
COIILD BE WORSE.

His wife makes him stand around, and that's no joke"
 Standing around is not so hard. She might make him move pictures"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Well Advertised City

'sIf Birmingham had a population of 1s2,es5 last April. would think it req sonable to say that 1t has fully 10000 now" said w. F. Easley of Washing ton, D. c. q was there in March and looking back seven months I can see signs of considerable growth since then. In the early spring Birmingham had the appearance of a prosperous, grow ing city, but it's strides were not so marked as they are today.
 This has long been well advertised city, but the recent census has caused mere favorable comment in the east than anything that has happened since the United States Steel corporation entered the Birmingham district three years ago. was in New York the other day and heard more people talking about Bir- mingham than about any city of the south or west. Many cities have made splendid showings in the census, but Birmingham, the Plttsburg of the south. has certainly the greatest future of any city now in the 100000 class"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
NOT TILL THENf

From the Jacksonville Record.
 When the cesus of 1920 Is ended Ala bama will show one of the greatest cities in the south-Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
The Iron Market

"The pig iron market Is still weak so far as prices are concerned, although the demand Is somewhat better than it was a month ago. said a representative of one of the furnace companies.
 After the elections next week a de- cided improvement in the iron trade is expected. The business world usually prefers a republican victory when the political situation has a national bear ing, but this is one of the times when the financial interests of the country are on the side of the democrats. Wall street discounted the election of Dix in New York month ago. But the iron market never responds to political fore casts. It waits until after the election In 1896 Wall street discounted McKin- ley's election, but the iron trade remained sluggish until the returns came in. The day after Mckinley defeated Bryan iron advanced $6 ton.
 "The election of Dix, democrat, which will be taken to mean the elimination of Roosevellism as a national issue, will have a good effect on the iron market. look for prices to advance and some- thing of a brisk buying movement"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
BROKEN NEcKs IGNORED.

"What did old man Gribble say when you asked him If he thought aviation was worth what it costs?'
 He said he didn't consider gasoline very expensive"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01

, Candidate Dix wants the colonel to apologize when he knows he could not
 possibly do it comprehsnstvely before election day. e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01

Judge Anderson of Indianapolis is con- vinced the colonel has no proof to show that he is "a crook or jackass." He awaits the evidence rather than an apol- ogy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
QUICKLY AVAILABLE

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. i A sso0O.o00 federal penitentiary is to be erected near Atlanta, probably to avoids tfe tong haul
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
BEYOND REGRET

"A man who once owned 300 acres of land in Chicago sold his property be, cause it was too boggy."
 "Is he dead now?"
 "Yes" That's fortunate"
 why so?"
 '%If he were alive. think how sore he'd bet' PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-01
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE MODEL WIFE.

something. Suppose we. get her a new ax,' said Thoughtful Pa