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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-11

From the Kansas City Star
TN the shade of the gallery of coun-
try town hotel little crowd OF men
L sat reared back in the chairs as they
Illuminated and talked. A vagrant mo
souito lit on the back of the hand of the
oldest sitter, Uncle Dan Peters who lived
in the town and owned a nearby river
bottom farm. Uncle Dan lefty swatteo
that MOSQUITO and the act furnished sug-
9estion for a change of conversation from
abstract subjects of religion, politics and
philosophy to the more concrete one OIL
mosquitoes and their ways.
Seems to be some mosquitoes ABOUT
here" said stranger. travelling man.
"Yes, some" piped up Uncle Dan, as
he shifted his tobacco quid, though there
amt so many hereabouts as there used
to be, and. It's so over in the bottoms
where thin skinned folks think they re
pest yet, but in the old times they
was moren a pest in the low ground.
They was real dangerous to men and
critters. They worried them down So
They tell me that before my time 'skeet-
ers' was so all plenty over there that for
days they'd hang over the low land like
a settlin' fog and the only way folks
could know it was a real clear dar or
not was to shove a long, peeled pole right
quick up through the 'skeeter' cloud. draw
1t back sudden, and peek up through the
hole where, II they was quick enough,
they would see for a second round piece
of blue sky and know it was clear day.
But that was before my time and my only
KNOWN is the hearn' about 1t. But l
do know there amt nigh so many 'skeet-
ers' here nor over in the bottoms since
the time when Hump Ballard got snake
bit. which muster sorter cleaned out SO
many shelters they amt never been so
many since. Hump lived them days in
cabin. In clearin' over In the bot
TOMS His hogs had broken loose out of
their pen and was gone some days when
Hump concluded he'd better hunt them
up and 'tole' them back home.
80 he put out into the thickest and
unrest bottom woods, where stray hogs
Is most sure to stray to. He was light
dressed, 1t bein' summer time; just a
shirt, homemade galluses. thin cotton
pants, wool hat, no socks and low
quartered plow shoes. He toted a green
walnut branch to keep skeeters from
botherin' him too much. The smell more'n
the swat of a walnut limb is hateful to
skeeters. Well. whist Hump was STUN
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-11

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
N DOR 10 has tutored his mind and
is growing rich according to an
Omaha correspondent of the New
York Press. Indian lawyers, physicians,
stenographers, bankers and business men,
trained for their vocations, naturally
shrewd and ambitious to excel, are max
ing first rate progress in the trans Mis-
souri, country.
Dr. High Eagle, a Crow Indian drives
thriving practice In Southern Mon
younger Indians who are losing faith in
the methods of the tribal medicine men.
One Bull son of the late Sitting Bull.
who was shot sitting in a most unsports-
manslike manner, by the benevolent as
simiator of the real estate of his fore
fathers, Is a fireman on freight train
and Is soon to be made an engineer Ihe
older Indians in the Sioux nation think
One Bull great man because he knows
how to administer an allopathic dose of
soft coal to a locomotive with results
that are immediate and unmistakable'
They look with suspicion, however, upon
an Indian who attempts to diagnose his
red brother and doses him with less 7ef-
feet. grandson of the great chief Red
Cloud is an expert stenographer and
bookkeeper at the Sioux agency. The
best school teacher on the Pine Ridge
reservation is a full-bood whose fore
fathers thought nothing of the higher ed
ucation and regarded skill in scalpng as
act-a scttry
laude" in manual training. Tom Sloan,
an Omaha Indian, is one of the leading
lawyers of Nebraska, and transacts I'M
portant business for wealthy white
clients.
All of this is interesting, but not as sur
prising as that Trip county, S. D., is Of
ficered almost entirely by Indians, and
Ithere has never been whisper of graft.
1t is also stated that Judge Thunder
Hawk of the Sioux is an upright judge,
as we'll as man of great dignity and in
telligence.
A feature of the situation that is per-
haps more melancholy from the point of
view of the sentimental fiction writer
than from that of the practical man, Is
that the blanket Indians decline to asso-
ciate with the educated Indians of the
younger generation who have fallen so
low as to work for living This results,
no doubt, in the ambitious young Indian
having a gerat deal of time to devote to
his life work which would otherwise be
devoted to fighting feas. His ostracism
is probably not wholly misfortune.
The unreconstructed Indian is pic
turesque. He camps along the outskirts
of a hated civilization, declining to be-
come converted to the frock coat. the
silk hat, the theater, the tooth brush. the
hot water bottle and the steam-heated
fiat. He lives the simple life without ado,
while the enlightened pale-face advocates
it in his s.pagazines and newspapers and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-11
MARY MACLANE AGAIN
VIII Report Prize Fights, But Will
Draw the Color Line

From the St. Louis Republic
Basin, wyo-Mary MacLane Of Butte.
Mont, the author of that most extraor-
binary book, The Life of Mary Mac
Lane" which startled the literary world
seven years ago, has again bobbed into
the limelight, under circumstances that
are rather astounding. at least even for
her. The demure little Mary has taken
up pugilism and has been engaged by a
news syndicate to attend and write UP
the big fights in which only white men
participate, that take place in the United
States during the next year.
Miss MacIsanes first assignment was
the 20-round battle between Tony Caponi
and Eddie McGoorty. which took place
at Thermopolis, Wyo., few nights ago.
Mary occupied a ringside seat in the
press section and apparently thoroughly
understood and enjoyed the long. hard
fight from start to finish. She calmly dis
cussed the furious struggle with the
newspaper men around her. and made
notes whenever anything important hap
pened.
Miss MacLane's contract is to run for
one year or more, and she is to cover
all important boxing contests that take
place in this country, with the exception
of the matches in which negroes takes
part Mary draws the color line strong.
and refused big inducements to attend
the Jeffries- johnson fight at Reno, New
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-11
Opening the Warrior

When the president signed the rivers
and harbors bill he commended the u
foot channel to Mobile, but he did not
mention the opening of the Warrior to
this district as a meritorious project
for he signed the bill, and over mil
lion dollars will be expended on the
locks and dams at or near Squaw Shoals
The construction of Lock No. 10 is as
sured, and this will open the river well
up towards the junction of the two
forks.
1t will open the river to a point
abreast of Birmingham.
Unless this district takes steps to
use this river as soon as Squaw Shoals
is overcome the critics will be able to
say that the district does not need the
river and will not use it. This would
prevent additional appropriations to
carry the improvement still higher up
the river and in this way water trans
portation would be lost to portion at
least of the district. The people of Mo-
bile deeply appreciate the appropriation
for the deepening of its ship channel,
and this district should show It's appre-
citation of the big appropriation for the
Improvement of the Warrior river by
taking steps to use the river. This Is
a matter of the deepest Importance and
its careful consideration by the great
Industrial companies and by the Cham
Der of Commerce is called for by every
aspiration and hope of tins district.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-11
THE LAST MAN; BY CAMPBELL

All worldly shapes shall melt In gloom
The sun himself must die,
Before this mortal shall assume
His immortality.
saw a vision in my sleep
That gave my spirit strength to sweep
Adown the gulf of Time.
saw the last of human mold
That shall creations death behold.
Az Adam saw her prime. a.
The SUMS eye had sickly glare.
The earth with age was wan.
The skeletons of nations were
Around that lonely man,
Some had expired in flght-the brands
still rusted on their bony hands;
In plague and famine some.
Eartt's cities had no sound nor tread
And ships were drifting with the dead
To shores where all was dumb
Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood.
with dauntless words and high.
That shook the sere leaves from the wood
As IL a storm passed by
Saying: 1--WE are twins In death, proud
sun,
Thy face is cold, thy race Is run.
IT'S mercy bids thee go,
For thou ten thousand years
Hast seem the tide Of human tears
That shall no longer flow.
what tho beneath thee man put torth
His pomp, his pride, his skill;
And arts that made fire, food ara earth
The vassals Of his will;
Ket mourn / not thy parted s~e
Thou dimmed, discrowned king of day,
For all these trophied arts
And triumphs that beneath thee sprang
Healed not a passion or pang
Entailed on human hearts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-11
The Summer Season

The north and east are suffering from
excessive heat. On reading The Age-Her-
AIDS telegraphic news, it will be seen that
yesterday was the hottest day of this
summer and that many deaths resulted
from heat prostrations. The summer is
only beginning and yet this is the second
time this season that New York has had
prostratlon temperature.
Here in Birmingham we are having a
touch of summer heat, but it is alto
gether seasonable. 1t rs Just the temper
allure needed for garden and field. In
the southland all nature is rejoicing and
only ill-disposed persons fret because it is
hot.
In comparison with the north, there
fore. this section is highly favored in the
matter of temperature-summer as wei
as winter The summers in Jones vale,
are usually delightful. The heat is sell
dom oppressive and as for sunstroke, II
Is almost unknown.
It is believed that only one death from
heat prostration has occurred In Birming
ham within the past ten years. And We
many northern people there are who have
notion that Birmingham is In tropi
cal region and that sunstrokes are com
mon here. The fact is that as place Of
residence in the summer season Brminl
ham is we'll nigh ideal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-11
RICH LOS TUTORED MIND

at his club, but abhors 1t with all of the
adherence of which he is capable. But
the sun of the Indians unfettered freedom
is setting The great spaces he loves and
which contribute more than anything else
to the longevity of the Individual and the
happiness of persons who do not battle
with any degree of regularity or enthusi-
assn, are rapidly lessening The astute
politician misbranded statesman gets
into the national law-makng body and
conspires with the resident swindler In
the Indian country to hornswoggle the
simple aborigine out of his lands and min
eral rights. Smaller caliber thieves con-
trive to get possession of a good deal OF
the ready money that crculates among
the red men. 1t has become necessary,
for purposes of self-preservation, for the
Indian who could get along in the world
to fight the white man with his own
weapons as a competitor In business and
the professions. The white brother offers
him education and tuberculosis, trousers,
cuff buttons spats and an opportunity to
develop a naturally vigorous taste for al
colohilc beverages or indulge in football
and an adaptation of the war-whoop Of
his daddies, IL he will come to school.
And If he survives the experience in con-
diton to begin a lifelong struggle to pay
his debts and life insurance premiums he
may compete with the white man on an
equal footing. II he prefers the simple
life the white politicians will undertake
to simplify 1t as much as possible by re-
lieying him of his money, which, as Ten
nessee's partner remarked to the young
man who was handing over his wallet is
a misfortune to the possessor In that II Is
a temptation to the evilly disposed.
A distinguished Yaqui chieftain down in
Mexico was quoted upon one occasion as
saying that his people had considered the
advantages of civilization from every an
gle. and had quite definitely decided that
upon the whole they preferred death.
That alternative the Mexican government
had been sincerely promising the faquis
for about four centuries. 1t had been de-
layed in delivery because OF circumstances
over which the Mexican exercised no con-
troll There are apparently good many
Indians on this side of the Rio Grande
who prefer the gradual reduction OF res
ervations and resources to the hardships
and uncertainties of the industrial war
path. They are in the hands of people
who rarely. leave undone those whom
they find an opportunity to do, and whose
tactics are hardly as dilatory as those OF
the Mexicans. Eventually the North
American Indian must become self5sup-
porting If he would survive. In little
while there will harly be enough room on
the continent for Indian reservations.
The noble red man, like the humble hog.
must root or die The example Of DR..
High Eagle and his kind will be followed
by those who are less incorporating
than the Yaqui chieftain. AS time passes
a greater number may recognize the un-
wisdom of remaining advocates of So
cial order and condition that cannot con-
tinue to exist
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-11
sKEETER CURE FOR SNAKE BITE

blin' along In the cloud and fightin' his
way through the vines and the tangles,
and wavin' his walnut brush about MS
head, he stepped into a blunt-tailed moe
casin what was layin' asleep. Inc moe
casin come awake and he bit Hump on
his bare leg just Tbetwixt and between his
shoe top and the bottom hem of them
cotton pants. 1t was almighty serious.
thing for Hump. bit by a pizen snake
and the closest whisky three mile Off in
the bluffs at Bill Toler's house. where
Bill always had two-gallon jug, more
or less full, for 'ager' and snake bites
and lonesome feelins'. Skeered as he was,
Hump knowed the only thing for him to
DO was to git to Tolers' mighty quick
and he set right in dom it. He tore
through the brush. the briars and the
willers like a runaway harrycane, not
KNOWN or carin but to git to Tolers'.
He drapped his walnut limb and he run
high headed and frustrated, not noticin'
where his feet lit and he run ker-bunk
into a big sycamore log what had laid
there since the flood of "A 1t throwed
him SO hard he was stunned. and he lay
right there. his bit and bleedin leg UP
on the log and the rest of him all sprad-
died out beyant.
HE never knew how long he lay there
stunned 1t muster been hours, for he
started out soon in the mornin', and when
he come to the sun was over and past
noon high. He was a big, full-blooded
man. strong as mule, but when he come
to he felt mighty puny and soon's he got
to noticin' things he sees his hand and
1t looked like It was paper and hadn't
no more blood inside than piece of pith!
He felt SO weak that he never tried to
rise to his feet. but riz up his head a
mite and took a look at that there snake
bite leg of his n restin' on the sycamore
log. He couldn't see no leg or foot there
at all. but he did see big gray pile like
| somebody had split wagon load of light
ashes, and then he riz right up. mighty
weak and lottery, to find out what them
ashes was. They was millions and mil
lions of dead skeeters what had sucked
that snake bite, drawed out pretty nigh
all the blood there was in Hump and all
the snake pizen out of him into them
selves. They was most all the skeeters
there was in that bottom, and they was
all pizened dead from the pizon they
drawed out of Hump.
ut was far along in hominy and sau-
sage time before Hump got his strength
back and there amt never been the
| skeeters in that bottom so many as they
was before. So long. gentlemen. I got to
go bone now and do up some chores"
When Uncle Dan was gone the stranger
found his voice and said: well, I de-
clare! and him SO old and SO truthful
looking" nr s.
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ed, but public sentiment would place
ex-President Roosevelt at the head of
#. Until the commission is appointed
not much can be said in estimating Its
work.
The Bennett. resolution directs the
commission to inquire specifically into
the practicability of securing a limita-
ton of ornaments and the institution
of federation of powers, the DEGREES
of which should be sustained by COM
bined ornaments.
It would be seen that the commission
is not directed to study an academic
peace but a peace based on joint and
united force. An international peace
must have military power behind it
The Bennett view is that the world
should be compelled to lay down ia
arms by combined ornaments.
This seems illogical but it is prob
ably better than any dream of univer-
sal peace by general consent. Either is
extremely difficult, and if the commits
sion takes one step forward it will dc
well indeed. The world should keep
on seeking universal peace, no matter
what obstacles present themselves.
Wars are becoming less frequent but
this is perhaps due to the fact that
they are more expensive than formerly.
The Bennett commission may accom-
plish something, however. 1t can at
least show that the United States is
not nation that goes to war every
thirty years. It can demonstrate that
We prefer arbltral or even AIMED peace
to war.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-11
New Bedford. Burnley.

The British family has $1.I more at
the end of the week than the American
family. The difference is due to the in
crease in the cost Of living. In England
no tariff and no trusts based on a tariff
exist. and the Burnley housewife buys
the best American -four for 40 cents, for
which in America she would have to pay
70 cents. she gets 25 pounds of granu-
lated sugar for 81, whereas if she lived
In Louisiana or Michigan. where the SUI
gar is made, she would get only 16 pounds
for a dollar; her rice costs her cents
a pound, and she would have to pay 10
cents a pound for it if she lived in South
Carolina, where it grows; a pound OF
soda, costing 5 cents in America, may
be had for l cent in Burnley; gas is "a
cents per thousand; car fares cents,
and no straphangers
The commission that is to investigate
the cost of production in this country
and abroad will have some difficulty when
1t attempts to show difference between
Burnley, England, and New Bedford,
u. s. A., that justifes high duties The
wages paid here are higher but the man.
ner in which those wages are absorbed
in this country turns the scale in favor
of Burnley, England. All prices of neces-
saries have been carried in this country
the trust spirit is fostered and promoted
by the tariff.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-11

go, let oblivion's curtain fall
Upon the stage of men,
Nor with thy rising beams recall
| Life's tragedy again;
It's piteous pageants bring not back
Nor waken flesh upon the rack
OF pain anew to writhe:
Stretched In diseases shapes abhorred
Or mown in battle by the sword
Like grass beneath the scythe 81,
Even I am weary, in yop skies
| To watch the fading fire;
Test of all sunless agonies
Behold not me expire.
My lips that speak thy dirge of death. :
Their rounded gasp and gurgling breath
| To see thou shalt not boast,
The eclipse of nature spreads my pall-.
The majesty of darkness shall
Receive. my parting ghost
"This spirit shall return to Him
| Who gave Its heavenly spark,
Yet think not, sun, II shall be dim
| When thou myself art dark.
MOI 1t shall live again and shine
In bliss unknown to beams of thine.
| BY him recalled to breath
Who captive led captivity,
Who robbed the grave of victory
And took the sting from death.
go, sun. while mercy holds me uo
| On Natures awful waste
TO drink this last and bitter cup
| or grief that man shall taste
Go tell the night that hides thy face
Thou saw'st the last Of Adams racd
| On earths sepulchral clod
The darkening universe defy
To quench his immortality
Or shake his trust in GOD"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-11
IN HOTEL .LOBBIES
Character Study


Rainy days like those we have been
enjoying regularly offer good oppor
tunity for the study of human nature"
said an observant citizen. "A mans
manner of carrying a closed umbrella
is in my opinion usually a good index
to his character or at least his tenn
permanent.
Notice, for instance a man whom
you know to be a leisurely, good-na-
tured sort of fellow, when he walks
the streets carrying an umbrella lie
will grasp the handle in the manner in
which it seems intended it should be
held, and will use his umbrella as O
walking cane, letting 1t tap the side
walk regularly, but without any show
of effort.
"A precise man, who gives attention
to details, will never swing his UNI
brella, but will either carry 1t sus-
pended at his side from his forearm, or
will touch the ground with 1t at meas
ured intervals. The nervous man, l
have observed, carries his umbrella in
any of a number of ways. At times
he will grasp the handle and tilt his
umbrella TO sharp angie III IroHt VI
him. Again. his hand will glide down
below the handle, and his umbrella Will
be carried horizontally at his side. Ike
roll of papers, He will never hold 1t
steadily, but keeps 1t always in mo-
ton.
AT times I have seen absent-minded
men carry their umbrellas as one would
l. IL I'll with the handle
pointed downward or forward, and the
instrument grasped firmly about the
ribs l am not sure whether this Is a
sign of determination and strong VIII
or an evidence that the gentleman Is
expecting trouble.
II may be wrong in these specula-
lions, but at least find the observation
of such trifles interesting"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-11
The Stock Market

Henry Clews, in his Saturdays review
of the stock market says in part:
THE country is still passing through
a process of readjustment rendered nee
-essary by an unusually long period of
activity, prosperity and extravaganza.
Reaction was Inevitable when the up
ward movement had exhausted ITSELF
the point of exhaustion being marked
by weakening of the nations pur-
chasingNpower. For some time past 1t
has been self-evident that the latter
stage had been touched. Securities, lux
uries and commodities had all reached
a point beyond the power Of buyers,
and reaction was unavoidable. Forum
ately it has come without any symp
toms of panic. There are many reasons
for recent declines; none of which, now
ever. would have been so potent as they
have been had it not been that the
time was ripe for readJustment. Inc
reaction was unwelcome, as all such
movements are, being accompanied by
more or less depression, and symptoms
of political irritation. The truth is thai
underlying conditions rendered return
to lower and more stable levels I'M
perative. The gun was well loaded, and
only some unfavorable development was
necessary for pulling the trigger.
1T is premature to assume that the
final turning point has yet been reach
ed, and no surprise need be expressed
If later on the market again reacts. On
the other hand, many stocks look ex'
ceedingly cheap at present. prices es-
pecially when compared with current
rates of interest. Good stocks more
than carry themselves at these figures,
and this is a condition which appeals
powerfully to operators of prudence
and means. Rumors of dividend re-
auctions on several important systems
have proved false, the old rates on st.
Paul and Atchison having been declar-
ed. The wheat crop situation is not
very satisfactory, but the outlook for
corn and oats is good The Indications
are for an irregular market. Securities
of proven earning power bought ut
present prices will eventually yield
handsome profits. But until the polit-
zeal and financial clouds disappear
more completely, 1t will be safe to use
exceptional caution in all speculative
operations.