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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
By Fiona Maclead.

By Fiona Maclead.
 F KNOW man who keeps a little
 store in village by one of the lochs & of Argyll. He is about 50, is in- significant, commonplace, in his inter- ests parochial and, on Sundays, it is painful to see his sleek respecta- bility. He lives within sight of the great mountains stand; across the kyle is fair wilderness; but to my knowI- edge he never for pleasure goes upon the hills, nor stands by the shore, un- less it be of Saturday night to watch the herring boats come in, or on a Sab bath afternoon when he has a word with friend.
 Yet this man is one of the strangest men l have met or am like to meet. From himself I have never heard word but the commonest, and that in man her somewhat servile. I know his one intimate friend. however. At intervals Sometimes of two or three years. lat terly each year for three years in suc- cession) this village chandler forgets and is suddenly become what he was, or what some ancestor was, in unre- membered days.
 For a day or two he Is listless, In a still sadness; speaking, when he has to speak, in a low voice and often look ing about him with sidelong eyes. Then one day he will leave his counter and or fO a ha cb stand for a time frowning and whisper ing, or perhaps staring idly, and then go bareheaded up the hillside and along tangled ways of bog and heather, and be seen no more for weeks.
 He goes down through the wilderness locally called the Broken Rocks. When he is there he is strong man, leaping like goat-swift and furtive. At times he strips himself bare and sits on rock staring at the sun Oftenest he walks alone~the shore or goes stum- bling among weedy powders, calling loudly upon the sea. His friend, of whom I have spoken, told me that he had again and again seen Anndra stoop and lift handfuls out of the run ming wave and throw the water above his head while he screamed or shouted strange Gaelic words, some incoherent, some old as the gray rocks. Once he was seen striding into the sea, batting it with his hands, smiting the tide swell and defying it and deriding it, with stifled laugh ter that gave way to cries and sobs of broken hate and love.
 He sang songs to 1t. He threw bracken and branches and stones as it., cursing; then. falling on his knees. would pray and lift the water to his lips and put it on his head He loved the sea as a man loves a woman. It was his light O love; his love; his God. Than that desire of his I have not heard of any more terrible. To love the wind and the salt-wave and be for ever mocked of the one and baffled by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
And time that takes survey of all the ,rid must have stop.
 king Henry ".
ms and Losses In the Fisheries Decision

N not easy to say which country has ined the more in the decision rendered The Hague court of arbitration in } fisheries contention. By it American ippers can hereafter employ alien ews, and American boats are exempt ,nn custom house dues or searches. |,ut on the other hand American fish |nen must obey Canadian regulations; Id they are now shut out by The Hague |,ision from the bays of the Canadian last. The last point gives the Cana
 tn an advantage that they had not pos Esed. The mackerel follow the indenta- |ns of the shores, and the native fish, |nen will hereafter have a monopoly in bays.
 The practical advantages seems to run favor of the British and the Cana kns, for they do gain from it new rights, hne the Americans gain no new adyan-
 ge.
 t. however. makes for peace to have 2 rights of each country defined and way marked out for the settlement of
 " future differences. The decision is III received in both countries, and no
 ubt it will be considered a settlement
 a matter that has been in dispute fully years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
.cHEIRo.. THE> FLIMFLAMMER
m the Chicago Record Herald.

From the Chicago Record-Herald. "Cheiro," the palmist, as he dawned upon this community in worlds fair time, was a very finished young person. While he was here he finished off a good many other persons. During the intervening years he has finished off many more else where. and finally the English law is about to finish off 'Cheiro'' himself. He has been adjudged bankrupt and is also booked to spend a year or more in Jail.
 With this bland soft-spoken, delicate young adventurer palmistry and black mail went hand In hand. He quietly put up an enormously pretentious front, geniousy, and retired from our simple minded country with a fortune.
 Since then he had divided his time be- tween London and Paris, taking title to his taste and opening out into the banking business. But he flew too high and too daringly, and Scotland Yard has finally brought him down.
 Those who lack a sufficiency of imagi- nation and of the historic sense to real ize Casanova and a Cagliostro might get some help toward grasping the careers of these great historic rascals by study ing that of "Cheiro," their successor. It is to be hoped-unless the theme be too painful for local consumption-that, like the former, he may write his me moirs, or else like the latter, he may find some modern Dumas to immortalizc him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
THE PINE TREE

Lurana w. Sheldon, in New York Times. The pine trees are glorious now!
 They rear their tall heads to the sky; As the wind waves each feathery bough Soft whisperings come from on high. Sometimes I look up to the bower
 That screens the blue arch from my
 sight,
 And yearn for a vestige of power
 To read the trees message alright. So wise, and so noble it seems,
 So filled with the knowledge of days, My heart in it's eagerness dreams,
 My fancy in wonderment strays. I long for the secret each tells,
 As gently the branches entwine- The secret of mountains and dells.
 Soft murmured by hemlock and pine. l. Mans pride, how 1t crumbles and fades Mans might. how it shrinks to decay! Beside the proud pine of the glndes. ]. The murmuring treetops that swayI
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From the Chicago Inter ocean.
 Tennessee's claim to be a state of sincere haters has generally been sub ordinated, to that of Kentucky. Per sons familiar with the situation, how ever, declare that people hate just as fereely and just as long in Tennessee as they do or ever did across the state line. Why shouldn't they? Tennessee has a large population of mountaineers and good deal of mountain blood in the lowlands. And these people, with their ideas of personal vengeance. their traditions of hating people out of a community are notoriously tho haters who give Kentucky one of it's distinguishing characteristics. In Tennessee, as in Kentucky. the old ante-bellum line of division between mountaineers and lowland planters between the aristocrats and the poorer set, which cast the latter into the arms of the union during the rebellion largely because the others went the other way, though no longer main tained is still discernible in a certain added popular capacity for hating. But it is not necessary to go into the racial historical or traditional arguments to show that Tennessee is entitled to place by the side of Kentucky. Recent political events would alone be suffi- cient to establish the fact beyond all cavil When even an independent democratic convention" indorses a re- publican candidate for governor, the force of bitterness in a southern state al least, can no further go."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
GOING ACROSS THE PACIFIC
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 CTRANGE people they who voyage
 across the Pacific. The saloon 0 passengers are mainly mere globe trotters who converse of Cairo and Kan dy. who denounce the hotels at Rangoon and sigh for the comforts of Singapore. Wonfen of the missionary families of the east are numerous and clannish. School ma'ams drift from Manila and Hawaii backward and forward to the states. each with her burden of complaint--and an inability to let go of the yellow and brown But 1t Is in the second cabin and steerage that true adyenturers abound tall Hindoos, Chinarnen, fat and lean, stocky, determined Japanese, Moro and Malay faces from the Philippines, drift ing to the new world to fill some vague ambition, with now and then the wooiy head of the Negrito type. How happily hurnbug makes it's way in needless world! The half-clad, snaky-eyed Malay woman sitting on the hatch, carrying a naked child, can enter the United States, but pretty O'Taki- San, clad like butter fly and every inch a lady, must stay at home!
 Food is 'chow'' in the east, meals are 'tiffin'' and an I. o. U. is .'chit." China and India making these additions to dietetic nomenclature.
 The most shocking sartorial thing vis- ible in the east is the dinner jacket of white duck affected by the British, and alas! by some expatriated Americans!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
HIS ONE GREAT SPEECH

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat
 Monsieur Bamberger, a native of Stras burg, librarian at the Paris museum who died few days ago at the age ot S5 years, was known to fame as the maker of single short speech in tn, assembly 40 years ago. The question was on the voting of the treaty whicl gave to Germany his native province. H, rose and simply said There is but on, man in France who should sign such treaty: Napoleon II1r' The entire cham Der rose in one burst of patriotic ap plause, stifiing the timid protestation of the last few friends of the Napoleoni' regime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
THE SEA-MADNESS

1 the other; to lift heart of flame and have the bleak air quench 1t; to stoop, whispering, and kiss the wave, and have it sting the lips and blind the eyes; this indeed Is to know that bit ter thing of which so many have died after tears, broken hearts and mad ness.
 His friend, whom I will call Nell, once anne upon him when he was in dread. Neil was in boat and had sailed close inshore on the flow. Ann dra saw him and screamed:
 T know who you are! Keep awayr' he cried. T know you for the One- Eyed Watcherl''
 1 Then Neil said, 'the salt wave went out of his eyes and he knew me and fell on his knees and wept and said he was dying of an old broken love. And with that he ran down to the shore and lifted painful of water to his lip, so that for a moment foam hung from his tangled beard. and called out to his love and was sore bitter upon her. and then up and laughed and scrambled out of sight. though I heard him crying among the rocks" I asked Neil who the One Eyed Watcher was. He said he was man who had never died and never lived.
 He had only one eye, but that could see through anything except gray gran ite and the gray crows egg and the gray wave that swims at the bottom. He could see the dead in the water and watched for them; he could see those on the land who came down near the sea. if they had death on them. On these he had no pity. But he was un- seen except at dusk and in the gray dawn. He caine out of grave He was not man. but he lived upon the deaths of men. It was worse to be alive, and see him, than to be dead and al his feet
 When the man Anndra's madness went away from him-sometime in a week or two weeks or more-he would come back across the hill. In the dark he would slip down through the bracken and bog myrtle and wait while among the ragged fuchsias at the dike of his potato patch. Then he would creep in at the window of his room or perhaps lift the door latch and go quietly to his bed. Once Neil was there when he returned. He was speaking to Anndra's sister, who kept house for the poor man. They heard noise and the sud- den Hurried clucking of hens.
 Its Anndra," said the woman with catch in her throat; and they sat in silence, till the door opened He had been away five weeks and hair and beard were matted and his face was death white; but he had already slipped into his habitual and looked the quiet, respectable man he was. The two who were waiting for him did not speak.
 Its a fine night he said 'Iit's a fine night an no wind. Marget, it's time we had in mair O thae round cheeses fra Inverary."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
Wave no Longer Rolls

while in Florida last week-two days in Jacksonville and three days in other parts of the state-I learned that the prohibition amendment measure was prac- tically dead" said R. H. Lester of Chi cago.
 ''The amendment proposition in Florida has been pending more than two years. I believe. I was in that state on the first day of October of last year and then it seemed that the ,prohibitonists were going to win. Not only were the pro- hibitionsts themselves confident but quite a number of antis told me that the hys- terical wave had struck Florida and would sweep the state in November 1910 I would have bet my last dollar tha. it would. But many things have hap pened since October of 1909. Alabama's decisive vote against constitutional pro- hibiton last November had telling ef- feet in Florida, and after that state wide prohibition got knocked out in Vir- gnia, Maryland and Texas, while in many northern states towns that had gone dry held elections and voted wet Then, too, the democratic victory in Maine was a direct protest against constitutional |
 | prohibition. After nearly 50 years Maine | is about to drop out of the prohibition | column The radical prohibition wave has certainly receded in all parts of the country l have never seen such a cheer | less campaign as that which the amend | ists in Florida are conducting. half | dozen or more Florida friends of mine who had been lined up with the prohibit 1 tionists told me the other day that they | had changed their mind and had no in- | tention now of voting for something that
 Alabama and other states turned down | and that Maine was about to get rid of after long trial.
 "A real temperance crusade will be in | order Prohibition will not prohibit in | large cities, but certainly earnest men
 and women should be able to devise some | reasonable plan to promote the cause
 of sobriety. I used to be whisky drink
 CT but it has been over. five years since
 tasted anything stronger than beer
 Mild malt liquor is comparatively harm
 less and it should not be included ir
 total abstinence pledges; at any rate
 that is my notion about it..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
A SURPRISED BISHOP

From Idea,
 The children of an infant school in
 Wales are taught very much by signs. The hand of the teacher sloped signifies
 ''oblique;" the hand held flat, 'horizon-
 tal;' the hand upright, "perdendicular. T One of the Welsh bishops was preach ing one day on behalf of the school when observing several children whis- pering together, he held his hand up right in a warning manner, meaning thereby to impress silence, on which
 almost the whole school in the midst oi the sermon shouted out 'Perpendicu- | lar."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
EDMOND RosTAND,s BARBER

Paris Letter to London Telegraph.
 One of M. Edmond Rostand's most fervent admirers is sad and almost despairing man. For years Ble has felt like tearing his hair with Imortifi- cation, and time only increases his chagrin. He is the poets barber and he has never heard the poet speak He has shaved him daily and cut his still plentiful locks weekly for years at Cambo, but he has never managed to make him open his lips, though he has thrown out the most fetching sug- gestions. made the most ludicrous ob- servations, given the most exasper- ating hints that the conversational knowl- edge of the barber can devise, but he has never moved M. Rostand toNwords either in interest. sympathy or rage. The poet may have winced, frowned, smiled. may even have shed tears at the hairdresser's persistent efforts to draw him, but he has never been drawn.
 The tortured barber of Cambo suffers the more because other great men have spoken to him. When genuses go down to visit M. Rostand they get NJ. Rostand s barber to shave them; they speak to him and. what Is worse, speak to him of M. Rostand. Coquelin was shaved by him and spoke to him. Signor Gabrielle d An nunzlo has been shaved by him and has spoken to him. Mir Rostand alone is silent. The despairing barber, who has never been to Paris, has made up his mind to come up the next time M. Rostand comes, and to force or worm his way into duchesses' drawing-rooms, where he has been told that the poet some times recites verses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
THE sECRET

 From the Pail Mall Gazette. built myself an icy citadel When, from the heavens like grass the pitiless sun Poured down its rays. and shelter there was none, Nor breeze, nor floowing stream, nor bub- bling we'll And there sat in cool. green depths of peace, And you who languish for a like release, Shall know whence came the ice where with wrought It came from out the glaciers of my thought. | built myself ci' s-i nf flowers, When all the eis sfiard <-ar arI cold and dei Bereft of all its noer 5sflaF aatf- CTS. It's very faith iq fe@iff sot.oh Hed-- And there I sat tss St4di F 5oy And you who l. Fa f9s
 ploy, Shall know whertr 4iaA, eic.rr
 where-with & They came fron sff adrr ps
 my thought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
THE CHAMPION SNAKE STORY
om the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Anatheus Martin, farmer of Scott township, went into the garden yesterday to pick some tomatoes. He encountered big rattlesnake. The reptile struck at Martin, and the farmer caught it by the
 tail and cracked it's head off There were
 still signs of life about the snake, and Martin, securing a revolver, fired two shots into it.
 An hour later his little granddaughter
 ran into the house and declared that the snake was still alive-that she had
 seen it's body moving. Martin took a
 hoe and just as he cut off the upper
 portion of its body young sparrow hopped out. The bird seemed none the worse for its experience.
 Martin thinks the young bird had been
 swallowed by the snake just before the reptile was killed, and that it's strug- ges for liberty caused the snake to move after it was dead. Considering that this story did not come from Winsted Conn.,, | and isswell vouched for, it tops the sea- | sons record for snake stories.
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which he has been connected in his long histrionic career. A feature will be the Greek dances. given at Timon's banquets. These dances have been arranged by Miss Atalanta Nicolaides, young Greek lady, who is known to have given her country's history and archaeology the most exhaustive study; and who has ma terially assisted MT. Warde in his re- searches. The dances include panto- mime of 'The Senses,' in rhythmical action, and a Baehanalian revel. MT. Warge says these dances will constitute really a great artistic feature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press One reason why a woman can't pity poker is that she generally wins. After all, there's only one real trouble with life-t's a thousand years too short The most economicai woman hates tc be caught in the rain without silk stock. ings. At any rate, the man who contradicts
 himself saves somebody else lot oi trouble. When a summer girl can't find her wa, to the most romantic corner of tho veranda in the dark it's time to consult an oculist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
IN ANCIENT DAYS

From the New York Telegram
 Psychologists have just dug up tho statue of Amenemhot. a scribe of the eighteenth dynasty, which was probably carved about 150O B. c. The scribe, whose face resembles that of "a sphinx in soft ened mood,'' wears a headdress covering the back of the neck, Is sitting down with hands notwithstanding for copy no doubt-and is only two feet in height The headgear indicates that the work was executed in the fall, after the straw hats had been called in, and the height that In early days the reporters were boiled down as well as the news.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
HEROINE OF THE BORDER

From the New York World.
 A statue has been dedicated at Portage, N. Y, to a singular figure in American history Mary Jemison, the white wife of Hiokatoo, one of the most warlike and cruel of all the Seneca chiefs. She was captured and adopted among the Indians when George Washington Twas a young officer in his majestys forces in America, and yet there are people still alive who have met her in the flesh.
 It has been said by Europeans that Americans, living so close to the vast TO- nance of their early history, are almost
 unconscious of 1t, and probably they are right How many people have heard Of Mary Jemison? Yet a great deal of the border history of both New York and Pennsylvania is dependent upon "a book that she wrote in her old age, be- cause she was in the thick of 1t all for nearly a half century. When Stone wrote his celebrated life of Bryant, more than 70 years ago, he borrowed freely from Mary Jemison, and her narrative Is the sole authority for the details of many important events.
 Her husband, Hiokatoo, was much older than she, and in many respects he was the fiercest of barbarians At Braddock's
 defeat he captured two English soldiers and afterward burned them both alive
 with his own hand. His wife testifies in her book that he killed babies, gen | erally tortured captives, and that wal
 was the very breath of his being. But she says that during the 50 years they lived together he never spoke an unkind
 word to her and always treated hei
 with the greatest gentleness and consid l eration.
 l Mary Jemison did much to mitigate the
 sufferings of women and children. carried
 away by the English and Iroquois after
 their raids upon the Mohawk and Gen esee valleys. She lived past 90 and diet respected among the people on whom hel husband had made such cruel war.
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into a store there the proprietor of which could neither read nor write. dently a regular customer.
 "'I owe you some money, don't IF he inquired
 "The storekeeper went to the door and turned 1t around so that the back was visible.
 "sYes,' said he; you owe me for a cheese
 "'Cheeser exclaimed the customer, I don't owe you. for any cheese
 'The storekeeper gave another look at the door.
 "'You're right said he. It's grind stone. I didn't see the dot in the mid- dle.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26
A SLIGHT MISTAKE

From Llpplncott s.
 Its curious to observe says a Maryland man, "the manner in which many illiterate persons prosper. I once had business that used to take me at intervals to a certain place on the eastern shore. On one occasion l went
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26

It is cut very short, barely reaching the suspender buttons, and flares widely in front. High collar and black tie com plete the abominable combination. Yet no Briton can eat his evening meal with out being thus garbed. While duck
 pants" of course cover the unmention- ables. The white suits of Mark Twain and Frank Vanderlip which once excited New York are outdone and quite as matter of course.
 The success of the Englishman in the east, if 1t can be truthfully so called, puzzles the observer. It can only be credited to a certain dull minimizing per- sistence. There he is and there he staysi His concern for his personal comfort far exceeds his interest in business or his surroundings. His bath, his whiskey and soda, his afternoon tea and his dinner coat must follow him, even to the wilds of Papua. He sits in dignified forlorn- ness, following out his delightful regimen or bath, drink and dress, and lets the 'niggers' work which strangely enough and after fashion they dol If he has any feeling it Is one of dim amazement that he should come to such a country, but this produces no manifest emotion. Like the Long Island farmer he sets the rest just sets.' Beside the alert, forceful American he seems pitiful ob- ject, but the former wears himself out against obstacles. while the latter wears out the obstacles!
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All cities in the brush league are ann bilious to get into the 100000 class, but in the cotton belt there will be but five such eities-New Orleans. Memphis, At lanta, Birmingham and Nashville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26

The men in the American navy are re- quired to take a bath each morning. This ply is ample.