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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
UNEARNED LONGEVITY.

wherewithal of next Sundays dinner the
distance from barn to tobacco bag. and
the inadequacy of laundry revenues tc
meet the increased expense of chicken and
Cuttings.
Brazlls Oldest nhabitant wouldn't
recognize rule of health if she met it
in the read. She wouldn't know a sani-
tation bulletin from Sunday school tract.
The English alphabet is as unintelleible
to her as Sanskrit. She has practiced no
scheme of physical culture more elaborate
than Is involved in manicuring pair OF
black hands on the seamy side of a wash
board. Doubtless she has consumed cof-'
fee In large quantities and has INDUCED In
something stronger at times In short.
she probably has violated every regula-
ton of right living that has been formu-
lated from the days of Hippocrates to the
date of DR.. Woods Hutchnson's latest
magazine article. She has always done
jest what she wants to"-and she is &c.
and that is going some.''
Senator Jacob Galinger of New Hamp-
shire. said recently that his observation
had been that almost every man in this
country who had been "crank' on the
matter of correct living had died young.
The senator is somewhere in the seven
ties, and it will be conceded that he has
had some opportunities for observation.
What jolt is there for living by rule
Of three or 30! Physicians, dietitians and
diagnosticians dying young and the poor
houses filled with centenarians who
haven't bathed since they were babies,
In the immortal language OF the Georgia
congressman, Where are we at?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
From the Louisville CONVERSATIONAL.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
A n old colored woman at Brazil,
"a Ind.-the word old is used advis-
a eddy, for she is 9s-attributes her
long life and good health to the fact that
she has as she expresses it, always done
jest what l wants to- She is the oldest
resident of town and county, and no one
disputes her claim to that often elusive
title 'the oldest inhabitant.' According
to a correspondent Of the Indianapolis
News. 'she is strong and robust, has per-
feet bearing. good eyesight, and clear.
bright mind. She has chewed and
smoked since she was child and finds
tobacco de great comfort of her declin-
ing years.
The public is not advised as to how
many miles she is able to walk in
day. how many cows she is capable of
milking before breakfast. or how many
handsprngs she can turn in swift sue
oession. 1t is probable she can do all
these things and perform many other
feats besides. including the popular GEN.
tenarian pastme of leaping up in the air
AND cracking her heels together three
times. She iss not a Christian Scientist,
nor pagan scientist, nor any other kind
of scientist. She is oblivious to the the
cries of new thought and to the fads of
new medicine and no medicine. If she has
subconscious mind she is not aware
of 1t, and she has pondered no problems
more serious than the relation between
supply and demand as applied to bacon
and corr meal; the whenceness and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
BEAUTY OF THE Sky

BY John Ruskin.
Not long ago / was slowly descending
the carriage road after you leave AL
bano. 1t had been wild weather when
left Rome and all across the Campagna
the clouds were sweeping in sulphurous
blue with a clap of thunder or two and
breaking CLEANS of sun along the Clau-
dian aqueduct, lighting up its arches
like the bridge of chaos. But as |
climbed the long slope of the Alban
mount, the storm swept finally to the
north and the noble outline of the domes
of Albano and the graceful darkness of
it's lex grove rose against pure streaks
of alternate blue and amber, the upper
sky gradually flushing through the last
| fragments of raincloud, in deep palpi-
tating azure, half ether and half dew.
The MONDAY sun came slanting down
the rocky slopes of La Ricca, and it's
masses of entangled and tall foliage,
whose autumnal tints We're mixed with
the wet verdure of thousand ever
greens, were penetrated with it a. with
rain. I cannot call 1t color it was con-
| fagration. Purple and crimson and
scarlet, like the curtains of Gods taber-
nacle, the rejoicing trees sank into the
valley in showers of light, every separ-
ate leaf duivering with buoyant and
burning llfe each, as it turned to re-
| feet or to transmit the sunbeam, first
a torch and then an emerald. Far up
in the recesses of the valley, the green
vistas, arched like the hollows of
mighty waves of some crystalline sea,
with the arbutus flowers dashed along
their tanks for foam, and silver flakes
around tn EN-, breaking over the gray
walls of rock into a thousand separ-
ate stars, fading and kindling alternat-
ly as the weak wind lifted and let them
fall.
Every blade of grass. burned like the
golden -four of heaven, opening in sud-
den CLEANS as the foliage broke and
closed above 1t, as sh eet lightning opens
in a cloud at sunset the motionless
masses of dark rock--dark, though
flushed with scarlet lichen, casting
their quiet shadows across its restless
radiance, the fountain underneat til
them filing its marble hollow with
blue mist and ftful sound, and, over all
the multitudinous bars of amber and
rose. the sacred clouds that have nc
darkness and only exist to illumine
were seen in Intervals between this
solemn and orbed repose of the stone
pines, passing to lose themselves in the
last, white, binding 1ueter Of the meas
ureless line where the Campagna melt
6ed into the blaze of the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
A DISAPPOINTING DISCOVERY

From the Youths Companion.
Any one who ina gines that life Is
lacking in amenities among the news
boys In the big city should listen occa-
sionally to their talk. When these two
each with his package of newspapers
under his arm-met one appeared
somewhat glum and disgruntled; where
upon the other benevolently essayed to
cheer him up.
SAY, Bill, you member dat dime
fought / lost yesterday-de one / was
goin' to treat youse wid?"
Sure" assented Bill, sullenly; tn en-
with growing Representatives, of tone
II treated youse twict already. JIM!
WELL" went on Jim, anirhatedly
"wot d'yuose t'ink i found JUS now.
I wuz feeling round in dis pocket, an
l found right here In dis pocket
r." y dramatically timed pause
"Youse found de diner exclaimed
Bill, Frightening up.
Say, Bill, you'se always in a hurry
was trying to tell youse ct / found
de hole dat dime got trough
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Regarding aescue Work

Everybody Is talking now about reseae
work, but that is obviously always the
last thing to be DONE says a German
mine official, writing in the Mines and
Minerals for May. IF there is any rescue
work necessary, there must be already
an accident. disaster which in 90 out
of 100 cases could have been prevented
by wise safety appliances. 1t always looks
| to me that there is not very much TO
write about the rescue work itself unless
the people want to read a very exciting
story about it. There is not much more
TO say than that the rescuers. fitted out
with Draeger apparatus and electric
lamps. went into the mine. One party
tried to re-estahlish the ventilation and to
extinguish the fire or to bar it with par
titons and dams As a preliminary pro-
lection against the heat, Iwagners safety
dam has proved satisfactory. This is moth
ing but an air-tight canvas sack, easily
carried by two men, and into which air
is pumped. Behind this temporary OBJ
struction the rescuers can construct the
real fire dam and take time to do it
we'll. A Wagner dam can be fixed by two
trained men within five minutes. The
other party of the rescuers has u look out
for wounded men. bring help to the sur
vivors and secure corpses. That is about
all that would be necessary to say about
rescue. and all these things go without
saying, supposing they are men well
trained In the use of the apparatus. You
Americans know. of course, as well as
any other nation, what has to be done In
a mine disaster. or what could be done to
prevent terrible accidents. The difference
between American conditions and the Ger
man conditions is that the government in
Germany prescrihes those safety APP
planes, they would laugh and make
large number of propositions how to in
sure safety. They would not do a thing
more than was absolutely necessary to
keep up appearances and not disgust the
great public which does not understand
anything about a mine. These companies
have simply to be compelled to observe
the safety appliances, and the only one
that can do that is the government. I
have been a foreman in a coal mine and
am sorry to state that we should have as
many disasters in German mines as you
have in Your country if we We're not
watched carefully by the government Of
ficials and if we did not have the military
drill system in our mines. Men who have
to fight as an organized corps against an
army or against elements. must be drilled.
They must know that they have to obey
in any and every case, and if they did not
learn In times of peace they would not
do II in time of danger"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
EUROPEAN HOTELS
London Landlord Says They Are SUI
perior TO American HOstclrics

From the Washington Post.
Heinrich Knoll. manager of vel
known London hotel. who is in this
country studying American hotels, was
seen at the New Willard recently. Speak
ing of American hotels, Mr.. Knoll said
THE American hotels are very fine and
luxurious, but they are hardly as good
as the average English or continental
hotel This is not surprising, as the
Americans live in one great rush and
are always on the hustle.
"In a New York hotel or restaurant.
Continued Mr. Kroll about 1900 to 20Ot
people have to be served between 12:3f
end 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon, while
In London during the same period would
probably not exceed a couple Of hundred
The natural consequence is that the man.
agement cannot afford to be too par
ticrlar as to how the meal is served.
The main thing is that it must be served
quickly. and then the customers can
rush out to make room for others.
Therefore you find that the individ-
ua, care which is given in England to
each client cannot be bestowed in the
same manner in New York. Under the
existing condition, / consider that the
American managers are very good, and II
appears marvellous to me that they do
so well. Most of them, by the way
although American citizens are of for
egr extraction.
1.-The American hotel system is better
than the European system in some ways
but In most ways 1t is not as good. The
American hotels are much larger thar
Ours, and usually have 800 to 1000 rooms
each. In England society people always
prefer comparatively small hotels. while
in the United States they like them al
biz and as snowy as possible. At frs
glance the hotels over there appear to bt
fai below the recognized European stand
ard, but when one views them carefully
an6 allows for altered conditions the fina
conclusion arrived at is far different
from the first impression. The charges
are much the same as here in America
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
MExICo'S CRATER LAKES
Their Placid Beauty Not EGunled Any
where Else
From the Mexican Herald.

From the Mexican Herald.
The mere words "crater lake. carry
with them charm and mystery that ara
akin to romance. But Mexico. with al
her romance, has never given abroad an,
description of some of the most beautiful
crater lakes in the world. Vale de San
tiago. little town of the state of Guam
ajuato. boasts four of the most perfect
and beautiful of such lakes.
The village nestles among II craters
all formed in some past age. by sudden
explosions from the interior of the earth
explosions that blew out a great amount
of earth, formed low cones, and subsidized
without flow of lava or other demon
stration than the single explosion. They
are what are known to science as lex
piosion craters.''
La Alberca is one of the lowest of the
craters, and on one side a portion of the
CT alter wall has fallen away SO that the
approach Is very easy. short climb and
as one rises over the edge one of the
most beautiful views in Mexico Is spread
cut. Half a mile across is the low line
OF the crater wall. and down below 1t Is
the greenest of lakes, calm as plate
of glass, and perhaps the tiny boat which
plies the lake is on the opposite side. close
below the walls of basalt which rims 1t.
These walls, which rise nearly 100 feet
above the surface of the lake, are part
of the native rock which was blown off
like the cork of bottle when the era
ter was formed. 1t rises sheer and erect
above the lake on every side. The col
umns of basalt give truly mountain
Gus, almost Alpine, touch to the scene.
Climbing down the steep road to the
level of the lake, the visitor has oppor-
TURTLES to drink in real beauty. which
here Is more dignified and more like the
Old World than almost anything in Mex
leo. The tropics are far distant, and
here, in the higher lands, verdure is calm
and beauty thing of gentle touch.
The calm restfulness of the crater lake
is unlike anything in the world. One finds
lakes and solitary pools in forests or
n cuntain Businesses, and the calm there
is akin to witchery, but they are stirred
sometimes by passing breezes, and the
trees will wave above the wind. But in
a crater lake there is not breath that
will stir it, and even a stone cast into
its bosom creates ripples that seem as
though they would he swallowed ere
a meaning until one lies silent on the
slope of such a crater, with such lake
at his feet
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
WHAT THEY SAY
From the Detroit News.

From the Detroit News.
(When new family moved into the
fiat across the hall.)
Il don't know who they are, but they
have some mighty pretty furniture"
II think I'll Just run across ana
ask If there's anything ! can do for
them; they seem like nice. quiet PEG.
ple.'
That's a mighty good looking girl
that Just saw going in there; I'll
have to get next"
II hope that baby isn't one OF the
kind that squalls all night"
He seems to be pretty well OF, ana
he never goes to work until almost .
o. clock; wonder what he does?'
IT hear that she entertains goo0
deal; I'll have to call as soon as they're
nicely settled"
II hope their girl and ours won't get
so chummy right away as the one With
the last family did"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

FISHING.

| seem to hear in fancy
The murmur of a stream,
Where golden rays are glancing
And water lilies dream;
" here sycamores are rearing
Their peaked tops to the sky,
And laden with magnolia bloom,
The south wind eddies BY
How cool and sweet the shadows,
The stream a yellow band
That flows by fields of cotton
And willow-fringed strand
Anon weir o'erlea ping.
Or stops to turn a wheel,
And loud the fall roars in the ears
OF the angler, with his reel.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

d. F. Turnbull district manager of the
Southern Bell Telephone company, Is
visiting the large cities of the north Tor
the purpose of observing the telephone
here to Chicago and his itinerary Will
include Cleveland, Buffalo, New YORK,
Philadelphia and Baltimore. He VIII De
absent from Birmingham about MONTH
Kenneth NJ. Bradley, director of the
Bush Temple Conservatory of chicago
after delivering lecture before the
Music Study club yesterday afternoon
left for Jacksonville, Fla.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
A LOVE NOTE

Frank l.. Stanton in the Atlanta Const1
tuition.
The mockingblrds with painting bosoms
Are singing-singing in the blossoms;
But birds in blossoms and in dew
Sing not so sweet,
Sing not so sweA 4
As sings my dreaming soul of you;
OF you, dear heart. of you.
Well for the blossoms and the birds,
All music set to human words
Songs sadly old or gladly new,
Are not so sweet
Are not SO sweet 5
AS songs I love to sing to you,
To you, dear heart,
20 you!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
SELLS PEELED ORANGES


From the New York Press.
woman fruit vender who has a
stand on cellar flap under window
in Angel Court, near the Change. In
London, is making a small fortune by
her quickness in perceiving the needs
of her customers. She worked up Z
speciality of selling oranges already
peeled to brokers' clerks and messen-
gers who are so busy in the middle Of
the day they do not wish to take time
20 peel oranges. Thousands OF men
rush by her stand every day and she
averages sales of almost 1000 oranges.
The busy men find juicy oranges ready
peeled, and they gladly pay a penny
more for them. She has become to
busy that she has an assistant. II used
to peel oranges for a few of my Gus
TONER'S" she said "but there began to
be an increasing demand for them, and
now l am kept busy from the time the
market opens until the evening. I run
a knife around the fruit twice and then
tear the peeling off in four pices."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
The Iron Market

The pig iron market continues dull.
The Birmingham prices range from s11.5d
to s12 on a No. 2 basis. A year ago
iron was selling at 81. but that was rel
atvely better price than s11.50 for the
advances in wages in this district have
brought up the cost of pig fully 81 a
ton.
Wages are high here" said man
prominent In the iron trade. Common
labor is particularly high-sl.40 to $50
day. But when we consider the high
cost OF living the wage worker is get
ting not a cent too much. Even at pres
ent high wages the worlkmen find it no
easy matter to make both ends meet.
The iron market has a way Of becom-
ing active all of a sudden.
Production is being greatly curtailed in
the north and materially curtailed in
the Birmingham district. | look for
brisk buying and upward prices before
the end of this month"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the Chicago News.
Everybody has conceit; a few succeed
in concealing 1t.
Fat is the sort of thing women can
always get unless they need it.
The way to get woman to be polite
TO another is for her to hate her.
You are entitled to feel you are rea-
sonably sane when YOU don't think
nearly everybody else is crazy.
Next 10 wanting to hirt with a man
there's nothing can make girl do II
quicker than for somebody to want her
cot to.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
LET HER STRUT
From the Houston Post.

From the Houston Post.
There are jealous people and papers
who are disposed to sneer at Alabamas
pomposity. So far as we are concerned.
there is no objection. Alabama has done
nobly and Is entitled to strut.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
Advertising BirmiDg ham

The Jemison Magazine for May is we'll
illustrated and will prove fine adver-
Using medium for Birmingham. 1t Is a
sixteen page issue, and one of the most
interesting illustrations in it is a plate
showing ten houses designed for Corey.
These are types of dwelling to be built
there. They combine architectural style
with solidity and comfort. Frank Fl.
Bell is the editor of the Jemson Maya
zine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

If people are going back to the farm
someone should rise up to explain Iowa S
decrease in population. Iowa is nothing
if not agricultural.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
Democrat Who Voted For Chain

"The national prohibition party Will
make its campaign in 1912 chiefly on
an anti-shipping plank-a declaration
against the federal government allow
ing liouor to be shipped into dry
states" said Robert r. Weatherby of
Chicago. II voted for Mr.. Chafin for
President in 1908 1t was my first
vote as prohibitionist and 1t is to
be my last. / have been democrat
nearly all my life, but / was also in
favor of trying prohibition. l thought
Mr.. Bryan had been the standard bear
er of the democratic party at least
once too often and l therefore gave
my vote to the prohibition party. But
1t is plain to see now that prohibition
is a failure. The anti-shipping plank
might have met with favor among dem
ocratic congressman two or three years
ago VIII en- prohibition was making po-
stical progress But the whole pro-
hibition movement is under hack to-
day.
| Il believe the national prohibition
party touched high water mark in
1908. Such prohibition laws as were
| recently passed in Alabama has re-
suited in great reaction. The de-
feat of the prohibition amendment last
fall by a landslide ma jority showed how
the people regarded extreme legislation
and the choice of an -prohibitionist
for governor gives unmistakable proof
of the fact that the statewide policy
does not suit the people. / am as
strongly opposed to the liquor traffic
as ever, but 1t is the opinion of many
able men in both democratic and re-
publican parties that local option after
all is the only system that is fair and
just" :
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

Billy Lorimer was born in Manchester,
England, and he started in as news
boy to get to the United States Senate
by the bathroom route.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

Bathroom Bob is the latest addition to
Illinois list of political celebrities. He
holds political consultations while sitting
on the edge of the porcelain tub nervously
lingering $1,000 bills.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

Lorimer's political scullion took the
Illinois legislators into a bath room in
another state when he distributed among
them $1,000 bills. They could have washed
their hands of it readily, but they. didn't.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

Billy Lormers Indignation knows no
bounds now that he knows someone else
bought his senatorship for him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

Warm waves approach Washington
slowly this year, and there will be no
talk of adjournment until they have fully
arrived.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
ANNOUNCEMENT

Oh. the food gates of tets
Will be opened. one iiearsl T. a.~
There's a great deal of tampness in
sight.
With E'rochard and Pierre.
And Louise, the poor DEAR
THE Two Orphans" as billed for
tonight
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
WORKING OyERTIME

From the Washington Herald.
The recent election In Alabama GER
tainly has trotted host Of I-told-you-
SOS out Of their lairs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

If the comet comes too near the earth
it will violate the speed laws and may be
jagged.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

The Coal Barons play ball to the fans
taste whenever they pull together with
real baseball ginger.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

The census takers secured introduetions
to the best society by insisting on replies
to all sorts of questions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

The Hon Billy Lorimer cannot handle
great national problems to advantage
when he has TO defend tainted seat title.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

Colonel Roosevelt was popular with the
kings as with the masses He catches
them a-coming and a-going
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

BY waiting until next week you can see
the comet by staying up late instead of
getting UP early.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12
A DOTING FATHER.

Have you broken your boy from the
fabit of using sang?'
Not yet. Somehow 7 can't make the
kid get wise to the fact that I'm in
ernest
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-12

The bribed legislators in Illinois are in
vited to step right up and avoid the rush.