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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
From the Baltimore Evening Sun.

From the Baltimore Evening Sun.
A NAN of Dickens high imagination
~ and power of rhythmical express
sion, who wrote such eloquent
prose, could not fail to write beautiful
poesy 1t is astonishing, however, how
few of the countless admirers of the great
English novelist know anything about his
poems With the exception of THE Ivy
Green" perhaps the best Rnown of all his
verse, his poetry is a closed book to the
great mass of readers. Thousands of boys
and girls who have shuddered over the
wickedness of Bill Sykes, or the cruelty
of Quilp, the dwarf. have wept at the
deathbed of Little Nell and have followed
with loving eyes the hating, hobbledy
gate of Tiny Tim, never heard of the
"Child's Hymn
Hear my prayer, o. Heavenly Father,
Ere l lay me down to sleep;
Bid Thy Angles, pure and holy,
Round my bed their vigil keep.
And the great majority of grown-ups
whose hearts have gone out to that dear
old humbug, Mr.. Pickwick, who have
laughed at the quaint philosophy of the
Vellers-"spell 1t wit V, Samuvel'-and
have not tried to stop the tears at the
back was bad and whose legs were queer
know nothing of the Word in Season."
a strong. manly protest against the in
tolerance and bigotry of the times
They have superstition in the east,
That Allah, written on a piece of paper
Is better JUNCTION than can come of priest
OF rolling incense or of lighted taper;
Holding that any scrap that bears that
name,
In any characters its front impressed on.
Shall help the finder through the purging
And give his toasted feet a place to
rest on.
1t would be hard to find a more stirring
protest against oppression and appeal to
the patriotism and sense of Justice of a
people than 1.-The Hymn of the wiltshire
Laborers:"
oh, God, who by Thy Prophets hand
Didst smite the rocky brake,
Whence water came at Thy command
Thy peoples thirst to Stake;
Strike. now, upon this granite WALL
Stern, obudrate and high;
And let some drops of pity fall
For us who starve and die!
Like the pealing of the Merry Yuletide
bells rings out the christmas Carroll
care not for spring, on his tickle wing;
Let the blossoms and buds be borne
He woos them amain with his treacherous
rain,
And he scatters them ere the morn.
But my song I troll out for Christmas
stout,
The hearty, the true. and the bold
A bumper l drain, and with might and
main
Give three cheers for this Christmas old
Well usher him in with a merry din
That shall gladden. his joyous heart,
And Well keep him up while there's bite
or sup,
And in fellowship good we'll part
1 believe it is Wordsworth who says
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
THE POETRY OF DICKENA NJ I

that prose and poetry are not esseiI 4 !.
different kinds of writing. and IT 4
markable how much of Dickens n :,
there is which runs. with scarcely =
transposition of a single word, into blaX !
verse. In the Cricket on the Hearth,<
the song of the kettle has rhyme and
musical cadence of great sweetness:
It's dark night, sang the Kettle, and
the rotten leaves are lying by the way
and above all is mist and darkness, and
below all is mire and ella, and there's
only one relief in ali this sad and murky
air. and don't know that it is one, for
it's nothing but a glare. of deep and
angry crimson, where the sun and wind
together set brand upon the clouds for
being guilty of such weather; and the
widest, open country is long, dull streak
of black; and there's hoar-frost on the
flnger-post and thaw upon the track; and
the ice it isn't water, and the water isn't
free, and you couldn't say that anything
is what it ought to be, but he's coming.
coming, coming, coming!
The foregoing versifcation is undoubted-
ly intentional, but numerous excerpts
might be quotel to show that Dickens fire.
quently lapsed into verse by harmonious
accident, of which the author was not
fully conscious. There is a striking ex-
ample of this near the end of Martin
Chuzzlewit." Keeping the exact order of
the words. only breaking the prose into
verse, we have
Thy life is tranquil, calm and happy.
Tom
In the soft strains which ever and again
Come stealing back upon your ear.
The memory
OF thine old love may find voice, per-
haps,
A pleasant, softened, whispering
memory,
Like that in which we sometimes hold
the dead,
And does not grieve or pain thee, God
be thanked. trs
R. H. Horne pointed out years ago
that a great portion of the description of
the death of Little Nell, in the 'Old Curl
osity Shop was written in blank verse of
irregular metre and rhythm, such as was
often used by Shelley and Southey
1t would seem that at this late date to
be well-nigh impossible to find anything
by Dickens that had not been published,
but a poem attributed to him was read
at meeting of the Contemporary club
of Philadelphia several years ago by Mrs.
Alice Meynell of London, who has the
manuscript, which has never been printed
except in the newspapers. 1t is as fol-
lows:
put in book once, by hook or by crook.
The whole race, as l thought, of q
Teller,
Who happily pleased the towns taste,
much diseased.
And the name of this person was
Weller
But found to my cost that one Weller
I'd lost;
Cruel destiny so to arrange it;
love her dear name, which has won me
some fame,
But, great heavens! how gladly I'd
change. it. r. D. 8.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
A "CUssINGn VOCABULARY

From the New York world.
An excitable New York man. gasolining
through his native Virginia, offered $1,000
for a new crossword to express his emo
lions when his machine baked. He was
disappointed. He must SO remain. For
one lowered with Saxon speech to crave
aid in expletive is like seeing Goals in
Newcastle. What surcease Of his muted
sorrow can Germany offer. where "Thun-
derweather. and "Potsthousand! are
blasphemy supreme; or France. with its
sacred Blue!" and Name of a Pipe!'
or Turkey, where you murmur Destiny"
when a wheel breaks; or Italy, where
too-deliberate donkey is invited to put
one foot before the othcr;' or spain'
where one may bid persistent beggar
go in speace.. little frother?" EloQuence
Of expression, northern races may indeed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
ALABOR SAVING DEVICE

From the New York Tribune
DR.. Simon Flexner, the chief Of the
Rockefeller institute, referred. at a din
ner in Philadelphia, to the increasing
number of clean-shaven doctors.
ut is cleaner, safer to be clean-shaven, -
he said. Certainly, as far as physicians
are concerned, there was more truth than
pietry in the dialogue Of the two little
boys on the street corner:
Don't you hate to have your face
washed?" said the first little boy.
"Oh, don't I. thought the other an
swered. you bet. when I grow up I'll
wear full whiskers."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
AN OVERSIGHT

FROM I1t-B1lS.
Scene: A crowded railway carriage.
Bald-headed, Pompous Old Man (ad-
dressing passengers)-Talka about the poor
of England; it's their own fault. Now,
just look at me. I'm a self-made man.
and proud to say so. I started with moth
ing but brains, and look at me now.
Suffering Man in Corner (who is seen
endeavoring to speak)-What d-d-do you
call yourself-a sel-sel-self- made man?
Pompous Old Man-Yes, SRA self-made
man. Can you contradict me-?
Suffering Man-Oh, n-n-no. Only
thought that If you-you-you were a sell
self-self-made man, why the d-d-dickens
didn't you-youtyou put some hair on your
head?
Collapse of baldheaded, pompous old
man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
WOMEN WRITER'S TRUE REALISTS
From Harper's Magazine.

From Harper's Magazine.
Every step in the advance of fiction
since the middle of the Nineteenth CEN
fury has been toward the representation
of life in the light of its native unfold
ing, just as during the same period every
advance in science has been toward the
disclosure, not of wonders attributable
to nature, but of those which natively be-
long to her and which she herself re-
veals to mans waiting vision.
Meredith and Hardy were, in differ
ent ways, the prophets of this ultra
modern fiction, and the disciples of Mere
dith, or at least of his prophecy-such
men as Conrad and Hewlett and Henry
James-have been mastery creators and
interpreters; but the real development
in this new field has been due mainly to
women because of their more intimate
sense of life in its near and common as
poets and in it's natural becomings, and
because that kind of mastery which made
the old art did not come in the way of
their progress toward the new natural
ism.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
THE CHILD MUSICIAN


BY Austin Dobson.
He had played for his lordships levee,
He had played Tor her ladyship's whim;
Till the poor little head was heavy,
And the poor little brain would swim.
And the face grew peaked and cerie.
And the large eyes strange and bright,
And they said-too late-"He is weary!'
He shall rest at least tonightv'
But at dawn, when the birds are waking
As they watched in the silent room,
With the sound of strained cord break
ing,
A something snapped in the gloom
Twas the string of his violincello,
And they heard him stir in his bed T
room for tired little fellow, II
King God!' was the last he said. II
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

of the cotton gamblers of the land and
of Europe. Every farmer should make
plans for the holding of his cotton in the
coming cotton year in case the price is
forced below true value. The neighbor-
hood merchant or banker will perhaps
aid the farmer to secure fair and just
price for his cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
THE WAY OF THE MAID

ties Of the noted Virginian and of the
safely be said that the women were with
out reproach. In 1.-The Virginians' and
elsewhere Thackeray has pictured the
womanhood of that day. Thackeray was
admittedly partial to Americans, but his
portraitures were faithful, and he only
revivified that society which he so fully
appreciated and in which he loved to
linger To most of us the constant COM
partnership of the little lady of Castle
wood would have been a bti trying, and
benenath the overpowering grandeur of
her bearing our admiration would have
become submerged in awe. But while it
is a relief to know that there has since
been an abatement in the rigors of the
social CODE it is question whether we
have not gone much too far the other
way.
1t does not matter so greatly about the
young men, and as for the girls, we do
not wish them to be Pamelas. And still.
though they do know all that's to be
known we do wish they would not let us
know that they knew It, Hewlett makes
the pretty young American girl of 1e
speak Of Sir Marcus Ordayne as "a
quaint, gentle old guy who talks awful
rot which no one can understand, and Is
all the time thinking about something
else" And Sir Marcus acknowledged the
truth of the observation and admired the
girl immensely; but at the same time he
felt trifle annoyed. We also believe the
American girl is the incest in the world.
that she is, if we must say it, a peach.
For that very reason we desire that she
may preserve her freshness and her bloom
unimpaired.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
Former Friar Causes Panic

Rome, August Pa former Fran
ciscan friar named Beltrami created a
panic in the basilica of the vatican
during vespers this afternoon by firing
air. The worshipers fed from the
church and services were suspended.
Beltrami, who was arrested. said that
he desired to attract attention with a
view of securing reinstatement to the
priesthood.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
HarmOn's Chances

Governor Harmon's chances for re-
election to the governorship of Ohio seem
very bright" said Clarence McCurdy of
Chicago. II have just spent week in
Ohio and not only found democrats conf
dent of democratic state victory this fall
but several close friends of mine in Gin
cinnati who happen to be republicans told
me they thought it was safe to bet on
Harmon.
Governor Harmon, from all accounts,
has made a most excellent executive, and
he seems stronger today than ever. 1
was a partisan of Grover Cleveland, but
voted for Bryan three times in order to be
regular. If Hartman should be the DEM
ocratic standard bearer In 1912 I would
hail him as the greatest party leader since
1892, and there are hosts of other demo-
Gratis who would do likewise"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
It's much more serious for girl to be
bilious than lovesick.
It's harder for mean man to spend
money than 1t is for generous one to
make 1t.
Champagne in a speaker never made
him witty; sometimes in his audience II
makes them think he IL.
Women deserve SO much which they
never can get that some men seem to
think 1T isn't worth while giving them
anything.
1t takes q woman to be able. while she
is saying her prayers In church. to count
all the buttons down the back of the
woman in the pew ahead and not miss
one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
Die. From His wounds

New Orleans, August 8-Paul Verges,
proprietor of a coffee stand in the French
market. who with his brother. John ver-
ges, was shot by Mexican, Joseph Rios,
last night. died today from his wounds.
His brothers. recovery is doubtful. Rios
is held for murder.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

The rubber boots that Americans pay
$3.50 for can be bought in Europe ct
As cents Carry the news to Mr.. Al
drich
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

Senator Cullom is evenly balanced on
the fence between the progressives ano
the reactionaries. His heart is with
the latter, but his political sense tells
him to join the former.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

The New York republican state COM
mittee includes 20 federal or state Of
ficeholders. This is almost up to the
standard of the postma ster states.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

No state campaign leader is wildly
demanding speeches from Joseph G.
Cannon. The present fear Is that he
will volunteer to make some.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

The cities that had no suburbs to
annex are faring poorly in the census
results. But Director Durand should
not be blamed. .
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

Mrs. Nat Goodwin's trouble with the
custom officials of New York should
qualify her for admittance to the best
society of that city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

Professor Garner says the vocabu
larry of monkeys is confined to 90
words, although he did not study that
of the female members.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

But just suppose every senator had
to account for his election expenses
a s Joe Sibley is about to do
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

Tim Woodruff feels like taking to n
cave or to an airship. He wants to
get off the New York earth at any
rate
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

All who are trying to break into
bag.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

Colonel Roosevelt and Hoke Smith
came back with both feet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

The colonel is carrying a fine lot of
epigrams along, and he Will be pretty
sure to fire them off before he returns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

The politicians feel insulted when
Colonel Roosevelt announces that he
will fight the crooks in his party.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

Nearly every republican candidate
for Congress is going on record as OPP
posed to the re-election Of Speaker
Cannon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

study In warmer climes. When a Latin
says "Caramba!' or "Diavolor' 1t amt
so much wot e says as the nawsty way
e says IT, as the British sailor explained
when charged with assault.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

Airships are still quoted at $4,000 up
to $500, and these prices put them
cut of popular demand.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

The photographers unanimously say
that the Hon. Hoke Smith has come
back.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

Sunny Jim evidently thinks this is a
time when silence is golden
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

No Cannon democrats need apply for
public favor, for they will get none.
Georgia decided that point in the mega
tive,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

Sunny Jim comes out of the political
turmoil in even worse condition than
Joe Cannon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

The silence of the Hon. John Dalzell
almost equals that of James School,
craft Sherman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

1.-THE band concerts in Capitol park
have proved even more popular, than
predicted they would" said a citizen
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

Joe. Sibley deserves to call it quits
and he cannot see why the rest should
not acquiesce.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

Why, what's the matter,
That you have such February face,
So full of frost, of storm, and cloudi-
ness. Much Ado About Nothing.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1910-12-24
THE PUMPING IRRIGATION PROJECT.
Mr.. Parrish 10 Return 10 Burns Soon ant
Remain Until Plant Is Installed.

The Times-Herald has just re.
ceived letter from w. C. Par
rish, who was here last week
looking into an irrigation project.
Mr.. Parrish was very much en-.
couraged in his proposition tc
water land by means of pumps.
He says in part:
Il am preparing to come tc
Burns soon after the first of the
year to locate permanently, or
until the hydro-electric pumping
project is an accomplished fact.
The Harney Valley offers such
unusually favorable conditions
for such an enterprise as COM
pared to hundreds of other local
tiles where they must pump a
hundred or more feet that it is
utterly useless to doubt the is
sue. AS about forty per cent.
of the cost of the project is re-
presented in labor, there will be
an opportunity for the people Of
more moderate means, but with
time and horses at their dis
posal."
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1910-12-24
SATURDAY. DECEMBER q, 1910
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:

Very few if any more fortu-
nate sections under the sun will
enjoy the Christmas festivities
as the people of Harvey county.
Here there is no need of that
good fellowship" practiced in
the larger cities where charity
boards furnish names of poor
children for the good fellow"
to play Santa Claus to. The
Times Herald knows of no family
in Harvey County but will have
plenty for dinner tomorrow and
every child will be remembered
by the good old Saint.
Though many are facing the
hardships and disadvantages of
pioneering on this vast frontier
where they are preparing per-
manent homes, they have abun-
dance as compared to many and
cheerefully look forward to a
Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1910-12-24
NEW STAGE LINE.

Y A new post Office has been es-
tablished at Princeton and mail
route was inaugurated this week
to cover that territory more
thoroughly and get mail through
to the southern part of the coun-
ty in much less time. The route
joins the Venator stage line at
Hartman and serves Waverly,
Princeton, Smith, Alberson and
on TO Andrews, connecting with
another contract south to DEMO.
The new route is being conduct
ed by Walter Gray.
This gives a more direct route
for mail service to the south and
will no doubt prove more salts
factory. C. b. Smith was the
main factor in securing this new
service.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1910-12-24

Buck Anderson, of BLY,, was
placed under arrest for having
purchased a Durham COW from
an Indian. 1t was one of the
bunch furnished the government
by Bill Hanley year or so ago,
and it is said some spayed heifers
were mixed up in the lot and the
Indians to whom these were al
lotted wanted to get rid Of them.
Lakeview Examiner.
Burns Milling Company wants
teams to haul lumber from mill
TO Burns.
A new line of dry goods, fur
nishings, shoes, hats. etc. can
always be found at Hagey e.
Richardson's.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1910-12-24

The Oregonian's Salem special
published Monday say Hill is
afraid of the new tax law and
may not start any new work un-
til he finds the disposition of the
people toward the new method.
1t looks very much as though the
Oregonianwas borrowing trouble.
The new law may be a rather
radical change but it certainly
will not be abused in any such
manner as the Oregonian article
suggests. 1t is foolishness TO
suppose that any county would
impose tax upon one thing to
cover its entire expense.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1910-12-24
Inyents Solid FueI For Autos.

Fuel for automobiles in solid
form is one Of the joys which the
near future holds, according to
advices received here from
abroad. The "solidified petrol"
is the invention of a Roumanian
doctor.
1t is said to have many virtues.
Among other things, it burns
without smell or smoke, its cost
is two-thirds that of the liquid;
it eliminates wear on the carbur-
etor; it is perfectly safe burning
on a wooden box or even wrapped
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1910-12-24

Oregon wants more railroads
and will get Them. During the
past few weeks the big men OF
several railroad systems have
visited the state and according to
the Oregonian each have said
the attitude of the people and
legislation will govern the ex-
tent Of the new work of the rail
roads.
In plain words they have taken
this particular time, just before
the converting of the state legis-
lature, to take advantage Of the
desire of the people for railroad
development to suggest that
there be no legislation touching
railroads. They even suggest,
indirectly, that the State Rail-
road Commission have nothing TO
say. This seems rather foolish.
The extension of railroads into
the interior is necessary TO the
development of Oregon and the
people are not going to be antag-
odistic; on the other hand public
officials are going to do their
duty regardless of any sugges-
tions by railroad interests. We
have been bottled up a long time
and rather than accede to un-
reasonable demands of railroad
interests we might stand it a few