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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

FROM New DIRK Press.
| Much is heard these days of the
gambling instinct being developed in
women by reason of excessive devo-
tion to bridge. One would think, to
| Judge from the comment on this sub
| 1ect, that woman's love of gambling
over, that more than 200 years
ago women of fashian lost thousands
nightly at the card table, a circum-
stance that caused no great COM
ment
Pepys writes, in 1867: "I was told to-
night that my Lady Castelmains is so
great a gamester as to have won f15,-
600 in one night and lost $4,000 an
other night at play" This was, of
course. an unusual proceeding, even
for those days, and one that Pepys
might well set down as exceptional.
OF another occasion he says: This
evening, going to the Queens side to
see the ladies' I did find the Queen,
the Duchess of York and one other
lady at cards, with the room full of
ladies and great men, the which I may
add took place on a Sunday" Many
of those grand danes thought MOTH
ing of sitting at the card tables from
Saturday night till Monday morning and
stalking hundreds of pounds.
Charles II. on his last Sunday, is
said to have spent the time p1ayin g
cards with his three favorite duchesses,
Marie Antoinette was a slave to cards,
and Is alleged to have played for SO
hours at one sitting. 1.-THE play at
the Queens table," wrote the Emper-
| or Joseph II, twas like that in a COM
mon gambling house. Persons of all
kinds were there and mingled without
decorum. Great scandal was reused
by the fact that several of the ladies
cheated"
Anne Boleyn is reported to have
been never SO happy as when playing
for high stakes. Records of the privy
purse are full of references to her
winnings from her royal spouse. Even
the pious Mary was not proof against
the allurements of the card table, and
then ito counterbalance these vanities
she paid for the education of a poor
child and the expense of binding an
apprentice"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

HE FORGOT AGAIN

From Law Notes.
Learning, of whatever sort, unless daily
employed has an unfortunate tendency
to desert the brain which laboriously ac-
quired it. Senator Daniel of Virginia is
the author of standard work on NE
gotiable Instruments. On one occasion
he explained to friend how he came
to write it.
at was this way he said. Somebody
asked me whether a sight draft bore
interest, and l couldn't tell him. / was
so ashamed of my ignorance that de-
termined to master the question at once,
and from my study on this point I got
the idea of writing book on the sub
.ject.'
well. senator" asked the friend, docs
sight draft bear INTEREST,""
Senator Daniel reflected for some mo-
mepts, and then replied, Il declare, have
forgotten"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

This banker handles that money as a
trust fund. He is supposed to handle II
well; and if he lends 1t to lend 1t we'll
No less responsibility is there in the
man who is accountable for the conduct
of a newspaper or any other institution
that deals with the public welfare.
This writer happens to be the editor
of newspaper. 1t is his duty as such to
give to the public and the people who
read this newspaper the news as it &C.
ours, and to tell the truth~of every Item
of 1t. 1t is his duty to make of this
Age-Herald newspaper, pure and SIM
pie, telling the full. free and unadul-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
THE CALL OF THE HEART.

Madison Cawein, in Scribners Magazine.
Oh, my heart is on the moorland,
On the old land on the poor land,
Where 1t hears the heather calling
And the gorse shakes with the bee!
Oh, It's there I would be lying,
with the clouds above me flying,
And blue beyond the black thorn tops
peep of purple sea.
oh, my heart is on the moorland,
On the old land, on the poor land.
Where the gypsy bands of dreams pitch
z. camp, 81
The dark-eyed Romany!
Oh, it's there I would be dreaming,
with the sunset DER me streaming,
with her beside my campfire there
Whose voice still calls to me.
with her, the lght-footed maiden,
with her eyes so visiop-laden,
That little sister to the flowers,
And cousin to the bee:
Oh, would that we were going
Against the moorwinds blowing
To meet the playmates that she knew,
That child of Faery.
Oh. would that we we're sitting ..
Beneath the fowls fitting,
Her dark eyes looking into mine
AS the stars look in the sea.
While, dim as autumn weather,
And sweet as scents of heather,
Our campfire trails its smoke of dreams
Like mists along the lea.
oh. heart. there on the moorland,
The old land. and the poor land,
You're breaking for the gypsy love n
You nevermore will see: u
The little light-foot maiden, NJ
The girl all blossom laden,
Departed with her people
And the dreams that used to b. ~
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
Colonial Mobile

A revised and enlarged edition of
Colonial Mobile by Peter j. Hamil-
ton, A. NJ. has just come from the press
of Houghton Mifflin company. 1t con-
tains nearly 900 pages and is well illus
trated and well bound. On the title page
the scope of the book is stated in these
words: "An historical study largely from
bee basin and the Old Southwest from
the discovery of the Spiritu Sancto in
1913 until the demolition of Fort Char
lotte in 1891
No portion of American history is quite
as full of romance, daring or lively color
as that relating to the French and Span
ish colonies. The history of the Alabama
Tombigbee Basin is exceptionally rich in
human interest. 1t is safe to say that
there is not single dry chapter In the
book. In the chapter headed ''B,enville"
is an account of Father Deyion. He was
a typical French missionary and was
much beloved at Fort Louis. I'VE can
imagine him. says the author In writing
of Davion. like Father Felician in Evan
eeline, going on his sacred errands rev.
erently welcomed everywhere. 1t was
fit that he should induct the first regu-
lar pastor but better still, as 1t proved.
would 1t have been for him to have oc.
cupied that position himself
La vente was made pastor with cere.
monies set out In quaint entry found
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
New Orleans HustIing

1T was amazed at the new order of
things in the city of New Orleans said
f. st. Elmo Lewis of Detroit, who at
tended the bankers convention in Bir-
mingham. 81 have just come up from
the metropolis of the gulf after short
visit. I was there five years ago and it
was hard for me to realize the change of
spirit that has come over the town.
Everybody down there is pulling for
the big exposition in 1915 for the celebra-
tion of the opening of the Panama canal
and the effort is inspiring the people
with a new spirit of public enterprise.
Then, too. the young men are coming to
the front and taking the lead in public
matters. They are moving things in a
hurry.
New Orleans is in good way to win
the big show. The people have gone after
it with a vim and If energy and ever
lasting determination mean anything they
will be successful
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
Offensive Picture

Golfers cover design on its number
dated May q, and now on the news
stands, is provoking much unfavorable
comment in this part of the country. #
is entitled 1.-THE Spot-light' and presents
one of those coarse, inartistic dancing
stunts familiar to some of the up-to-
date vaudeville audiences. In the act are
two figures-a white woman in ballet cos
tune, and a negro man, or a white man
with blackened face, which is it? But no
matter whether the original is real
negro or only an imitation, the picture is
disgusting.
Golfers is noted for it's enterprise .
said a Birmingham artist in discussing
the Objectionable number. mo weekly
in the United States employs finer edi-
torial talent, perhaps, or pays more liber-
ally for the stories that appear in its
columns. But if its province is to inter-
pref our national life-one of its boasts
it should be careful to exclude anything
so vulgar or so obviously offensive as
The Spotlight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
A GRAND OLD WOMAN

From the Washington Post.
A great many American men and wom-
en- will be at once pleased and surprised
to hear that Mrs. Mary Andrews Denison
Is yet living in suburb of Baltimore at
the ripe old age of "a years. She is the
authoress of go novels that gave both in
struction and satisfaction to the Ameri-
can readers of periodical literature of
the nineteenth century from it's meridian
till it had fulfilled its eighth decade.
Mrs. Denison is the author of THE Mil
ler's Daughter" delightful narrative
that made her so popular with the youth
of both sexes of threescore years ago.
Perhaps she was not so versatile writer
as Mrs. Southworth, not so intellectual as
Ann s. Stephens, but she was charming,
womanly, inventive and pleasurable.
In the race for popularity Mrs. South
worth surpassed her; but that was due,
no doubt, to the genius for advertising of
Robert Bonner, the proprietor of the New
York Ledger, the literature of which,
though inclined to the yellow" was not
unwholesome, and created a taste for the
better works of Scott, Dickens and
Thackeray, and finally led back to Rich
ardson, Fielding and Smollett.
Caroline LIE Hentz and Mary J. Holmes
were contemporaries with Mrs. Denison,
Mrs. Southworth, Mary Kyle Dallas. Amy
Randolph and some of the others now
all too obscure, and it is a curious fact
that some of the most delicious stories
of plantation life in the "old south" we're
written by women of New England birth
and;H rearing. Charles l. Peterson, q
northern man, wrote the ''Paror and the
Kitchen
But we educate our children upon diff
ferent system now. They put child to
spelling botany before he knows the al
phabet, and set him to reading Franklin
ere he can spell alb. And current popular
literature has changed with it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

From the New YORK Press.
Heaven seems SO much farther away
from home than the other place.
The foolisher a girl is when she is en-
gagged to a man the more she can make
him show it ALL
A mans idea of being patriotic is to
act as If he deserved lot of credit for
George Washington.
There seems to be slot more satisfac-
ton in winning a dollar on a horse race
than in earning a hundred.
What woman likes about having a
man make love to her is it's even more
exciting than il he meant 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

7 AM glad the Alabama State Bankers
association met in Birmingham this
week.
1 am glad these people who conduct the
banking institutions of this state have
rclegated the personalities of the past
and have gotten to the basis of the sub
stantial.
The old-fashioned banker who does bust
ness on the personal friendship basis has
been eliminated. The man in the banking
business today who is successful does
business on business principles. He
gathers together the money of the sue
cessful business man and the woman and
the child who happens to accumulate
something.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

The mayor of Milwaukee has Dor
rowed skilled health officer from the
United States marine hospital service.
This socialist mayor seems to be de-
termined to get competent people to
do tech meal work. He Is succeeding
beyond all expectations
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT BANKERS
AND MEN WHO MAKE NEWSPAPERS

terated truth upon all occasions. 1t Is
the duty and the privilege and the right
never to state one fact in its news col
umns which has degree of color therein.
In other words the news columns OF
this newspaper will tell the facts.
In its editorial columns the man VINO
edits this newspaper proposes to express
his opinions. They may me agreeapie OF
disagreeable to those who read them.
But they will be the opinions Of the
man who writes them, and he happens
to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
Road In Bad Condition

''W7hile all the good roads agitation is
before the public I wish to register a
small kick on the deplorable condition of
the road which runs to this left of the
Boys Industrial school, and which I
have to travel every day." said a truck
gardener yesterday.
Our road is one of the two main ones
leading up the valley, the other being the
Huffman pike. 1t looks as If the county
authorities are set on putting all the i'm
provements on the main road and leave
us to paddle our own canoe. Recently
they have thrown up a little red dirt in
spots, but the road needs good cover of
ebert. In some places it IL so washed
along the sides as to make 1t dangerous
to travel. The city limits end just be-
yond the little ford behind East Lake,
and from there on for mile and a half
our road certainly needs rebuilding. On
built a stretch of new road running
parallel with the old road for over a
mile, and only about 80 feet to the right
of the other. This must have cost $1,000
or $4,000. We have petitioned several
times for a new road, and now that the
authorities seem to be spending all their
time on the other one, we are going to
start kicking good and hard. We have
a beautiful lay of land along the left of
the Boys school, and while the Chamber
of Commerce is pushing its campaign for
more truckers, let it give us help with
our road and we'll bring the goods to
town.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
Prosperity in Etowah County

Alfalfa, Gadsden and Alabama City
are making solid progress" said State
Senator Ed D. Hammer, who was one of
the speakers at the bankers convention
yesterday. These three towns will be
merged some day; in the meantime they
are all pulling together and are all 60
ing right ahead.
THE great plants of the Southern Iron
and Steel company, situated In Alabama
City, are of direct benefit to Alfalfa.
Many of the employees live in the latter
city. and all the houses that were at
one time vacant are now occupied.
"All the people in our section seem
prosperous. The fact is the entire
county of Etowah is enjoying marked
degree of prosperity"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

The scientists are taking refuge In
the alleged spots on the sun. The
ing any material record in the camera,
but the good old sun spots are where
they can be worked for all they are
Worth
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

The lobby at Albany no longer fears
Governor Hughes, and 1t is again do
ing business at the old stand. A lob
by is quick to return when safety be-
comes assured.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

The LawlerTaft-B allinger coat OF
whitewash is to be sadly tainted In a
minority report. The investigation will
settle nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

The e-Herald has received from
the publishers, Dodd, Meade & CO., a
copy of THE New International Year
Book" for 1909. Like its two prede-
cessors, the volumes for 1907 and 1908,
it is designed to serve as an encyclo-
pedia of the events of the year. 1t
gives the leading features of the years
activities in every field. 1t is alpha
betically arranged and is a very, store
house of useful information.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

The soakage is becoming a public
question. gallon of whisky can be
squeezed out of the slaves of whisky
barrel, but the government is moving
against the process
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

Uncle Joe Cannon now thinks every
insurgent republican should be hanged
The question will be decided at the bal
lot box next November.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

California has decided to license the
Jeffries- Johnson prize fight by calling
it an athletic event or something else.
1t is a case of frank pretense.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

The burning of prisoners at Lucille is
calling public attention to Alabama's
convict lease system and the comment
lis not complimentary.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

While the comet goes Teddy is to
come, and he may prove more hurtful
to the stsndpatters than any comet
could be,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

One can now go by trolley from st.
Louis to New York, but he cannot do
this expeditiously as yet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
AN INLAND DREAMER

AN INLAND DREAMER.
I'm sitting by window, -
The night steals over me;
seem to hear, borne on the breeze,
The surf-beat' Of the sea-
Tumultuous whitecaps gather,
With far-receding roar,
And paly CLEANS the risen moon
Upon a foam-fecked shore.
Beyond-a waste of water
A vast and purple deep,
That laves the strands of alien lands,
Where strange-tongued people keep.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
SO 1T SEEMS

From the Washington Herald.
To some Alabamans even the hooking
birds are singing in more liquid tones
this spring.. r5
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

Charles w. Morse does not seem tc
appreciate Atlanta's advantages as a
place of residence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

In dealing with comets all things are
guesses, and all are subject to re-
vision daily.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

John A. Kasson, 80 years old, is dead
He negotiated reciprocity treaties that
standpat Senate proceeded to pigeon
hole.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

There is more blood on the political
moon than there is on the comet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

The comets curves were more puz-
zling than those of the slyest baseball
pitcher
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

George v is a confirmed collector of
stamps. So was George Ill until the
embattled farmers put an end to the
| business,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

The pessimists were not hit by the
comet and they may be compelled to
fall back on the war cloud in the Bal
kans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

at the Orpheum this afternoon at 2:15
o'clock for the benefit of the families
bereft by the recent mine horrors,
should draw an audience testing 1.-THE
capacity of the house.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

The comet scared people into church,
but they are not warranted to stick.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
MISSED SOMETHING.

There goes millionaire who has seen
nearly everything"
Except what he ought to see."
"And what is that?''
1.-The inside of a JAIL
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

The only way to retain the Balm
ger matter is to dramatize it and the
stage does not yearn for it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
REAL ARTICLE

From the Columbia State.
| Natural gas has been discovered near
Birmingham. but there has never been
any unnatural gas about Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
The telephone companies

I Tie leItpIUHt CUIIIPdHieS CUIfIpIdl IN
of scarcity of hello girls, forgetting
that "a raise" in pay would increase the
supply.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
I,eJR ,aeQ
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

hand of the Potter shook. The fact that
you are more fortunate, should make you
all the more considerable"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
WOMEN GAMBLERS

Comet scares have been declared off
for at least a century.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22

on the first page of the venerable baptis-
NAL register still preserved in the origi-
nal French text in the archives or the
Bishop of Mobile. La Vente's installa-
ton is attested by Davion, Bienville, who
was then the French governor; De Bois-
briant, and De la Sale, and the entry
reads as follows: 81, the undersigned
priest and missionary apostolic, declare
to all 1t may concern, that the 18th OF
September in the year of Salvation 17o4,
in virtue of letters of provision and col
ation, granted and sealed July 20 of last
year, by which Monseigneur, the most
illustrious and reverend Bishop of Que
bee, erects a parochial church in the place
called Fort Louis of Louisiana, and OF
which he gives the cure and care TO M
Henri Roulleaux De la Vente, mission
airy apostolic of the Diocese OF Bayeux'
have placed the said priest in actual ana
corporal possession of the said parochlal
church and of all the rights belonging 10
it, after having observed the usual and
requisite ceremonies, towit, by entrance
into the church, sprinkling of holy water
kissing the high altar, touching the mass
book, visiting the most sacred sacrament
of the altar, and ringing the BELLS wn1ch
possession I certify that no one has OPP
posed, Given in the church of Fort
Louis the day of month and year ABOVE
in the presence Of Jean Baptiste de Bien-
VILE, lieutenant of the King, and COM
mandant at the said fort; Pierre du de
Boisbriant Major Nicholas de la SALE
clerk and performing function of COM
missary of the marine Signed Davlon'
Bienville, Boisbriant and De la Sale.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
A CAT STORY.

A CAT STORY.
The following anecdote was published
in the Hutchinson, Kans., Gazette:
"a little girl whose father was a COM
mercial traveller sat on the porch hold
ing kitten and, creeping up close, her
mother heard this: kitty said the young
miss, I know you an I know your
mamma an 1 know all your little broth
ers an sisters, but I amt never seen
your papa Then, after a brief pause, i
spec he must be a travelling man. "
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
WHILE WE ARE HERE.

WHILE WE ARE HERE.
Mummers We through varying weather
Sunshine and storm and heat and cold;
Stumbling along, poor clods together,
Till the tale of life is told.
One will be rich with a brimming Golfer
One will be poor and be richer still;
Sinners and saints! who'll make us an
offer,
A seasonable way the time to kiln
Blare of bugles and trappings of glory
One is but sound, the other dust;
There'll come an end to the longest
What is there left but to live on trust?
Here struts san, a man. thinks the world will
overblown midget he'll pass like the
What are the odds. II we praise or hiss
him?
weaklng still. though he ranks with
the best!
Heigh-ho! pain. but 1t doesn't matter
Twill be forgot when the years grow
long;
Death is abroad-what need to scatter?
Never a dart goes wild In the throng!
So! Let us journey, If we may. without
quaking.
Each in the strength of a dauntless
heart.
Biding the time when there's no more
waking,
Up with the dawn and play your part!
THE COMETS POWER.
IT take off my hat to Halley's comet"
''As a mark of respect?'
LAS a mark of respect. MyNwife looked
at it for five minutes without saying a
word.'
A PAINFUL REMINDER.
'Why does he object to house with a
southern exposure?"
He was exposed down south. That's
why he came north
POOR WOMAN.
''Mr. Ridgeway is an enthusiastic po-
mologist.''
Indeed said Mrs. Twobble 'Im sure
it must worry his wife terribly. She's
mortally afraid of bugs
A GOOD SORT
Always happy
Feeling fine;
Never scrappy,
Rain or shine!
FOR REMEMBRANCE asxs :
sBut can't marry YOU -, ~ So
.All right. Well call this souvenir
spoon.''
SUN SPOTS.
''It's fortunate that most sun-worship-
ers have dark skins"
"And why, Gladys Maud?"
''Otherwise they'd get terribly freck-
1ed ,,