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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
pEFLEcTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

r. om the New York Press.
 Lots of people are good for lack of the chance not to be.
 woman would rather be loved than honored, and a man enriched.
 Tho fun of trading horses is that If you get cheated so did the other fellow.
 Everybody would like to be good if there was any cheerful company to keep it in.
 X man would rather go 10 the dentist than go shopping with his wife, and sne would rather scrub the floor than lIsten to his ideas on politics
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
HANGING PICTURES
From Gas Logic.

From Gas LOglc'
 The hanging of picture makes ol mars it's success as decoration for the room. If the colors are painted ,i r-inted in bright tones, the degree O.
 light needed is not so greet i,i the day
 ti,nc or in the evening as with colors ol less intense character. Dark corners o
 a room may be perceptibly brightenet by the introduction of pctmes high 1T key-pinks, reds and yellows. Large pie
 tyres should be hung at distance t
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RrisI. Holiday Trade

"No matter how business conditions in general way may De throughout the country, holiday trade is remarkably good" said F. R. Funston of Philadel- plia.
 "Christmas shopping, which starts up immediately after Thanksgiving, is very brisk indeed. l am told it is so in every part of the United States. I have been in the south since the 1st of December and have never found this section so pros porous as now. It is only a question of a few years when the tide of population will turn this way, just as it did to the west 30 or 40 years ago."
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appear to their best advantage. This
 rule applies also to compositions of
 curving brooks and winding roads that seem to disappear beyond the horizon. Family portraits hear relation so intimate to the life of the home that
 they belong to the living rooms, excelt
 when for some reason they suit tho
 scheme of decorations for the formal hail CT drawing room.
 Portraits of authors acquire increased
 interest when placed near their works, and pictures of composers are most at tcntvely studied when hung near mu- sioal Instruments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

Cover CT <Harmons plurality wa. 10O,S77 and Woodrow Wilson's 4e,6so These are ample. anu Governor -eleci Dix plurality should have been ovei 20C.ooo. Il was only 6e,Ooo.
 ---------s-----.------ Gloomy Jim Hill said one day that Che railroads had stopped buying. rails and the next day the Pennsylvania railroad placed orders for 15o,ooo tons
 
 The Congressional Record will go to press today and it's columns will hold an able article from its contrib uting editor, William Howard Taft. | The Washington Post cruelty re- minds members of the present Con gress that it's but a short step from Peacock lane to Lame Duck alley.
 
 A collie ge professor in New York de- clares that college women have made good. He perhaps means they have made good fudge.
  A Texas man has left s7Oo,O0O for the benefit of superanuated preach CTS. He was the Sidney Lazarus of the Lone Star state.
 TO President Diaz inauguration cer- emonie5 lack novelty. He can ga through an inauguration with his eyes shut.
 The moosce in Maine escaped this year, with small losses and they stand ready to pronounce the season excel lent.
 The tcries are finding small com font in the election returns, and Pre- n.ier Asauith is booked to come back
  Tie ruth is. Doc Cook needed the nl9uoy when he first came back, and he so That's the whole case. IT. ConK catches the magazines acomim and agoin'. Few are so alert and interruptions.
 Tie lords may be sent in one bundle to the Dcwn-and Out club. It looks that way at present.
 Claude Grahame-w White, aviator. took his nam back to England intact, and s1OO,OOO to root.
 
 Tie White House calf is dead and the sage of St. Paul is sorry he talked so much.
 New York's proposed underground street will not lie near it's under world.
 Ex-lling Manuel is sawin' wood and sayin nothin' He is wise beyond his years.
 Dr. Cook practically admits he knows the north pole by reputation only.  Senator Lodge never splits an in hnitive or votes against Privilege.
  Tho stock ticker and J. J. Hill do not speak as they pass by.
 
 Tho chief of standpatters lives and rules ir Mexico.
 Arcight rates are trying to initiate tr9 aviagors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
AESCHYLUS
BV Buchanan.


 This immortal piece bears the same re- lation to tragedy that the "Laocoonn does to sculpture; it is absolutely solitary and supremey great. Tn tho depth and in- fnity of it's suggestions 1t is even more pregnant now than it was to the. .-contem- poraIies of it's author; every century adds to it's significance, every literary remove heightens it's grandeur. It has no equal because 1t has no rival.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
Looking After Safety of Men

L. w. Chaney of the federal depart ment of commerce and labor is in Bir- mingham on an inspection of the proper ties of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail- road company. He came at this time to be with the party Of safety department superintendents, who are now going over the properties of the company.
 Mr. Chaney said last night that he had looked over some of the properties or the company and had found them to be
 ideally equipped for the safety of the employees and that they compared well with some of the best plants in the coun- try MT. Clancy will be here through out the meeting of the safety committee of the corporation and will make trip to Ensley today to look over the steel plant
 q find Birmingham to be really amazing city" said MT. Chaney last night. q had been told that Birming- ham was a nice little industrial place, but I was really astounded to see such big center of hustling, bustling people as when reached this city. I am deeply impressed with the industrial strength of Birmingham and should not be surprised to see Pittsburg sitting up and taking notice of Birmingham before great while.
 "As for my trip here I am simply in spectng the properties of the Steel cor poration in this district. They are wonderful and varied Those I have seen ! are truly very remarkable. I lool after the safety appliances and precau- | tions that are thrown around industria
 worlsmen everywhere. I must say thai the precautions that have seen are very good, indeed, and are among the best
 that I have seen anywhere. I am very
 much gratified to find company capablS caring for it's vast army of workmen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
About Persons

President George Gordon Crawford of the Tennessee company returned yester- day from New York.
 Prof W. C. Crosby, professor of geolo- gy of the Boston School of Technology was in Birmingham yesterday. He was here for the purpose of visiting Fayette, where he will make an examination as to the gas and oil developments at that place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
ANGELIC BRIDGE

From the Houston Post.
 Even our bridge clubs declare the gentleness and sweetness of Houston. The sisters play far less ferociously here than in contentious cities like Bir- mingham and Atlanta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
THE WAY oF WORDS

From the New York Evening Post.
 Those who habitually cannot find words to express their feelings will be cha
 grined to learn from latest statistics tn at there are over 100000 at their disposal, ex- elusive of foreign languages While the returns of the census during the past months have been causing various ex- elements, it has escaped general mo- ticc that the little denizens of the dic- tionary have been multiplying, too. MT. figures that tell a startling tale. The first English dictionary in any real sense was not published until 1904 Tt contained 300o "'hard usual English words
 gathered for the benefit and help of la dies, gentle women. or any other un- skillful persons. Then came, to stop only at significant works, the Bailey die ticnary, which was as popular in the eighteenth century as was Webster's in the nineteenth; and little later that by Dr. Johnson, which in Todd's famous edition in ISIS had only 5S,00O words Webster, in 1928. printed 7O,00O; Wor- eester, in 1S46, 5000. Webster's Interna- tional, issued this year.. has more than 1000, and what will be the total of the oxford dictionary when completed one can only giddily infer from the re. cent statement by Sir James Murray thai
 he has 5,OoO,OOO Illustrative quotations stored in an iron room in his garden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
STAGE REALISM.

STAGE REALISM.
 The Kansas City Star tells about a cow boy scene in moving picture show which looked so real that dog ran up to the stage and parked at one of the ponies. Night before last at one of the local theatres a man occupying seat on the orchestra floor got so excited when a lover on the stage showed bacxwardness that he said, "Go on!" quite audibly, and everybody fin that part of the theatre laughed. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
A suCCEss

From the Columbiana Peoples Advocate.
 The celebration of the census jubilee and the state reunion of the Confederate veterans held in the city of Birming- ham last week was success from be- ginning to end. Birmingham is great city and knows how to entertain her visitors.
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peeted to exceed Ss.oooooo a year. The tolls in the suez canal which is to q certain extent rival are francs sl eentimes net ton. or about Sl.5o.
 From the question of tolls the President passes to the method of supplying yes sels with coal. oil and other ship sup plies" He unhesitatfngly proposes that Uncle Sam shall become ship chandler at both Colon and Panama. Uncle Sam is to be ships carpenter also. He Is to have e dry dock to boot. The resi- dent intImates that the government ean do all this at better rates and to better advantage than individuals or corporations, foreign or native.
 The manner of buying coal, oil and other ship supplies Is not suggested. In fact, the details of the supply schemesare left to be worked out by Congress, and Congress surely should take good care that the Pittsburg coal combine or some new trust in West Virginia with pull does not secure a monopoly in the name of the government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
conccrnins stopping Place.

q don't know whether the street car conductors are acting according to in count in not calling out the names of tine streets and avenues along their line of route," said a daily passenger. Tt does not matter very much to me, as l kpow exactly where to get off,Abut I have had several passengers ask me to tell them when they reached a certain place.
 Sometimes I have heard conductors oull out the name so .indistinctly that it was absolutely impossible to tell which 'eenth' street the car was passing. aud
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
Ian IrSIrAL OBJECT

Not because her hair was curly, Die the duke pursue the maid; On the beach and in the city still his dapper form displayed. Not because her smile was winning, Not because her heart was true; Not because her style was stunning And her faults, at most, were few. All the dukelet ever pondered, As he sought her everywhere. Was the dot she'd get from father, A Chicago millionaire.
 TRAINING FOR DEFEAT. That boy of ours is destined to be politician some day" Why, hubby" Look at him trying to eat his toy crow
 INDEX TO CHARACTER. Just let a candidate come forth And all the voters cry, Both east and west and south and nortL, How does he eat his pie?"
 RAFFLES IN THE ROUGH. "So you captured a burglar in your house last night?" Yes Was ns an interesting persona" Not at all. Why, he was shockingly vulgar and nc didn't even smoke Sul- livans."
 NOT YET WRITTEN. Iris quite in vain the world awaits A greatly needed book, Complete with charts and color plates, On How to Fire a Cook"
 A PAINFUL DISCLOSURE. She says she wouldn't wear a hob ble skirt.s Brave girlw However. suspect it's because she's sc pigeontoed."
 so MEAN. Tic wight deserves case of cramps, Who won't invest
 In Red Cross stamps
 AGAINST ODDS. "IIe nas succeeded in life, you say "Yes, and in spite of a great han dicap" What was that?' He used to be an infant phenom- enon."
 THE SHAPE COUNTS.
 diving queen
 Upon the stage
 Would not, if lean,
 Be such a rage.
 Birmingham Age-Herald.
 She knows that she
 To get the cash
 Must able be
 To make splash.
 Youngstown Telegram.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
THE FASHION IN TOYS

, musket at rest: the gallant trooper on his leaden horse, or the toy dog with his senile smile appeal In their place to- day is offered for the delectation of the youngsters miniature moving picture out fits toy aeroplanes, marvellous mechanical automobiles, imitation dirigible balloons. toy telephones, queer electric appliances, about which our distant childhood never dreamed, and other purely material toys that show how sadly the advance of science and invention has encroached upon the old. happy, minimizing days of childhood long ago.
 For us, children of a larger growth, there remains little but regret voiced by MT Bangs. A new childhood, apparent ly, has come to pass, with new joys, new aspirations. new ideals, and with MT. Bangs we may say:
 Each rare little toy, as 1t comes to my
 hand
 My hand that is withered with years, Brings back to my spirit that beautiful
 land Now yelled in the mist of my tears, The beautiful land of the long, long ago,
 The scenes of the playtime of yore, When deep in my soul with it's radiant
 glow
 shone the sunlight of days now no
 more"
 It is, after all, the old, somewhat sad, Tennysonian cry of 'the dear, dead days that are no more" The gulf that yawns between the workaday present and the days of our youth seems wider, and deep CT. and more impossible to bridge about the Christmas season. Yet, we must De careful, perhaps, that in regretting that the tastes of the youngsters of today are more sophisticated than were the tastes of the children of years ago, that no | longer do the simple joys delight them, there should be no trace of bitterness. | The change in the fashion of the Christ was toys is but another sign that "the world doth move," and, perhaps, it is at the Christmas season that we. who are getting to be old fogies now, feel most out of touch with our time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
THE SAD TRUTH.

Oftentimes a girl who looks like an an- gel has an appetite that Is anything but heavenly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

ENTIRELY DIFFERENT.
 No wonder that hand-organ man died rich; didn't he spend his life grinding out money? Washington Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
HIS ONLY CHANGE.

HIS ONLY CHANGE. Has he ever been mentioned for any public service?'
 well. yes. He has been told that It would help the town a great deal if he would move away"
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changes mentioned speedily and fully. He is right in all he asks in this impor- tant matter.
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A FINE BOOST. We don't know anything about NJ Dwight Fortner who went to the peniten- tiary yesterday. He may or may not be guilty. His wife, however, is the gamest, tEuest little woman developed lately. She certainly Is a mighty fine woman to have the daddy she has. A man who won t stand by his own girl, right or wrong. isn't much of a man. One woman like this is worth a carload of squealing, kick ing, scratching suffragettes Any man who goes within 50 miles of her hotel and cont stop there ought to he com pelled to go hungry and sleep in an ice- house.-Moberly Democrat.
 CHEER UP.
 Smooth the wrinkles
 From your brow
 Bacon's getting
 Cheaper now.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. To laugh again I am resolved, The sugar trust Has been dissolved(D
 -Regrabyl, J. J. Huntsville, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

rr. Cork catches the magazines aeomim and agoin'. Few are so alert and interruptions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

Tne lords may be sent in one bundle to the Dcvn-and Out club. It looks that way at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
TRAINING FOR DEFEAT.

That boy of ours is destined to be politician some day"
 Why, hubby"
 Look at him trying to eat his toy crow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

Claude Grahame- White, aviator. took s1OO,OOO to toot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

4 ccli,s se professor in New York de- clares that college women have made good. He perhaps means they have madn eooa fudge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

ble skirt.
 Brave girl"
 However. I suspect it's because she's sc pigeou-toe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

AGAINST ODDS. "IIe i1as succeeded in life, you say?" 'Yes, and in spite of a great han d;cap." What was that?" He used to be an infant phenom- enon.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
INDEX TO CHARACTER

1ADlsA lO C11AitAl 1ElN. Just let candidate come forth And all the voters cry, Both east and west and south and
 nortE, How does he eat his pie?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

Tho stock ticker and J. J. Hill do not speak as they pass by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

NOT YET WRITTEN. greatly needed book, Complete with charts and color plates, On How to Fire a Cook"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
LEES UNsELFIsH HERoIsM

Arcight rates are trying to initiate Id avia1ors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

Tie White House calf is dead and the sage of St Paul is sorry he talked so much.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

Dr. Cook practically admits he knows the north pole by reputation only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

A Texas man has left s7Oo,000 for tho benefit of superanuated preachers. l Gtnr stotN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

Tho chief of standpatters lives and rules ir Mexico.
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Vain hope. They will probably con- tinue to walk in a dim, irreligious light, due to smoke and chorus girls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

New Yorks proposed underground street will not lie near its under world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

The Washington Post cruelty re- minds members of the present Con gress that it's but a short step from Peacock lane to Lame Duck alley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

so MEAN. Tic wight deserves A case of cramps, Who won't invest In Red Cross stamps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

Ex-King Manuel is sawin' wood and sayin' nothin'. He is wise beyond his years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

Senator Lodge never splits an in hnitive or votes against Privilege.
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GoverI.or <IIarmon's plurality was f00,377 and Woodrow Wilson's 49 $50. These are ample. and Governor elect Dix S plurality should have been over 20C. .OOO. Il was only 66,000.
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Nope; tunes.

THE PITTSBURG ATMOSPHERE. The sudden goodness of Chicago makes us hope to see Pittsburg trust magnates walking in a dim religious light
 Atlanta Constitution
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Tie truth Is. Doc Cook needed the lonoy when he first came back, and e so That's the whole case.
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POLITICAL. GOSSIP. fss (Contributed) Teddy's in the hole, Cannen's on the jump, sf Taft is shedding bitter tears And Ballingers ehump
 -"Junks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07

Gloomy Jim Hill said one day that the railroads had stopped buying rails and the nezt day the Pennsylvania railroad placed orders for 15O,ooo tons.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-08-08

Professor David, who occupies the
chair Of geology in the University of
Sydney, and who accompanied Sir
Ernest Shackleton to the Antarctic,
has been making some interesting
remarks on his discoveries there,
says the Westminster Gazette. The
fossil woods he had found showed
that pine forests had flourished in
the vicinity of the south pole at a
remote geological epoch. The coal
seams he had discovered suggested
the same conclusions. At that time
there was more or less continuous
land from Australia to the south
pole. The climate all over the world
was at that period probably much
milder than at present.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-08-08
FRANCE is
FACING A
BIG STRIKE
EIGHT GREAT RAILROAD SYS-
TENS ARE INVOLVED AND
MORE THAN 100000 EN-
PLOYS ARE READY TO TAKE
PART IN THE STRIKE-DE-
MAND 1O-HOUR DAY AND 10
PER CENT INCREASE IN PAY.
UNITED PRESS LEASED w1nB.l

Paris, Aug. S.-Following the
move of railway men in Nordeaux
and other cities, the railway en-
ployes at Toulouse today voted unan-
imously in favor of a strike and it
is practically certain that a general
railway walkout will be called with
in a few days.
1t is estimated that 3S,56 kilomet-
ers of road will be tied up. Bngi-
neers and fire men on the lines in
volved number 22,O92 and the num-
Der of general employees is 290,713
of whom 26,500 are women ticket
takers. Eight great systems in
France probably will be involved.
The men are demanding four con-
cessions-first, a weekly rest day;
second, a minimum daily wage of 81,
and an increase for all of about 10
per cent; third, a 10-hour maximum
for a days work, and, fourth, more
generous construction of the pension
laws now in force.
The men of the state road have
little grievance but it is believed
they will go out in sympathy with
their fellows.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-08-08
Proposals for Bids.

Sealed bids will be received by the
county court for the county of Mar
ion, state of Oregon, up to 10
o'clock a. m, the oath day of An
gust, 1910, at which time said bids
will be opened by the county court,
proposing to construct a macadam
road from the city limits of the city
of Silverton, Oregon, to the pine
Tree Four Corners"on the Mt. An
gel and SCOTS Mills road, distance
of about four and one-third a 1-3)
miles, in accordance with the plans,
specifications and grades shown on
the profile, prepared for said i'm
provement and now on file in said
county clerks Office
At least one mile of said road inn
proved shall be fully completed by
December /, 1910, provided the
contract be awarded to one person
or company, and in the event that
contract for one mile or more and
not more than one-half of the entiee
distance be granted to one person,
one-half of each mile contracted for
shall be completed by December /,
1910, and the remaining portion OF
said work shall be fully completed
on or before October 1, 1911, pro-
vided however, that the contractors
shall keep a reasonably large force
of men at said work from May /,
1911, and work faithfully and con-
tinuously until said work shall be
fully completed.
Bids will be received for the con
struction of all of any portion Of
said Improvement not less than one
mile in length.
The county court reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
Done by order of the county
court upon the 3rd day of August,
1910. r. d. ALLEN,
County Clerk for the County of Mar
ion, State of Oregon
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