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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
PoE,s FAME SECURE.
Too Late Now to Dim the Lustre of
 His Name.

From the New York Times.
 Edgar Allan Poe will be admitted to the Hall of Fame of New York uni versity this sumer if Chancellor Mac Craoken's idea that the men and women honored by admission to that Pantheon or Walhalla are not chosen because somebody thinks they ought to be fla nous, but because they really achieved fame. Poes fame Is secure whether or not his name Is ever inscribed on a panel feet high and 2 feet wide in the smlcircular colonnade on University Heights He must receive 51 votes of 100 cast to- be honored by admission to the colonnhde wherein the memory of Emerson. Hawthorne, Longfellow, Irv- ing, and Whittier is already perpet- uated.
 The greatness of Poe is not question ed by anybody competent to judge of literary worth, though his genius has never been quite so highly extolled in his own country as in France, thanks to Baudelaire and his followers, who received with enthusiasm even the pseudo scientific and extravagant Flu reka." AS a poet, if imagination and melody and beauty of form are attri- butes of poetry, Poe surely ranks above some who have already been admitted to the Hall of Fame. AS prose writer, with a matchless style, and facility of invention unequaled in American let ters, he has been the inspiration of a whole generation of writers in various languages. The opposition to sculp- tured recognition of him on University Heights has been based on a narrow view of life and a misunderstanding of art. Poe was a man of dazzling genius. The decision provoked by the original proposal to place his name on one of the panels has annoyed many intelli- gent persons, and if it has only amused larger number, it has certainly served to create a false impression of the purpose and dignity of the colon made on the hilltop.
 This is comet year. A contributor to one of the newspapers points out that Poe was one of the first to imagine the destruction of the earth by a huge comet. One of that sort is now rushing toward us through space, big fellow with tail loaded with cyanogen. The universitys tribute to Poe should be hastened. Let him be honored as prophet. if not as a poet and writer of exquisite prose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
LET IFS LIVE.

LET US LIVE. We bide a little while and then we go away No more to gaze upon this mortal
 scene; And some are glad to go and some there
 are would stay, But one and all beneath the grasses
 green Come, soon or late, to lie. That's why
 think we should Drink deeply of the cup held to our lips And take our fill of sea and plain and
 sounding wood, Be happy where the form of Fancy |. trips, Be comrades of the summer sun, breathe
 tonic airs, For every bloom and butterfly af1oat And every golden geam the brow Of morning wears Give thanks; for Music's soul-absorbing note And all the dear delights of careless song be glad, So when at last the summons comes to go, We shall be dreaming of the joyous days we've had. And Death will lose his pallid front of woe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
Expe.ted of Birmingham.

If Birmingham 6oes not give good account of itself in the census, the pee- pie of this county will be disappointed, . said j. F. Horsford of St. Louis.
 "The cities below the 500,000 population class that are most talked about now are Los Angeles, Seattle, Spokane in the west and Memphis and Birmingham in the south 1 have just returned from a trip east and in New York, Washington, D. C., and Pittsburg l heard more peo- pic discussing Birmingham as city with a great future, than any other southern city. The general impression is that Birmingham will come into the next cen- sus with population of between 10000 and 150000."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
Our National Millipnaires' Club

Although he is worth s500,o00 Senator Flint of California says he cannot longer afford to incur the expenses of election and the expenses of living in Washington, and he declines to stand for reelection. The truth is the Senate is fast becoming, under the fostering hand of the repub- lican party, body of patricians. 1t already contains 90 millionaires, and the number shows tendency to become greater. The multi-millionaires are the following:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Always Wanted to Come Back.

John c. Lusk. formerly division passen'
 ger agent of the Southern railway, ar rived in Birmingham yesterday morning | to assume his duties as assistant to the president of the Jemison Real Estate and Insurance company, for which position he left the Southern to accept.
 Mir. Lusk is one of the best known and most popular railroad officials of the south, as was shown by the large mum Der of articles which appeared in nearly every newspaper of the south about his coming to Birmingham to make his home. There are several hundred of these ar ticles about MT Lucks change, and each of them was an excellent advertisement for Birmingham, for invariably they men, tioned the fact that MT. Lusk was coming here because he thought the city had the greatest future of any city in the south.
 Mir. Lusk has numerous friends in Bir- mingham, not only among the railroad men, but among merchants and business men, and he was busy yesterday renew
 ing his friendships.
 In speaking of his return to Birming- ham, MT. Lusk said:
 'I left here in 1904 and l have always had hankering to come back to Bir- mingham. l have always felt that Bir- mingham is essentially a young mans town, and that no young man with grit and get-up-and-get could fall to make success of life in Birmingham. When this opportunity presented itself to me l felt that it was the opportunity of a lifetime. especially as 1 was to be connected with the Jemison Real Estate and Insurance company, which Is the talk of the entire southern real estate world on account of the development of the new town of Corey and the other large undertakings of the firm.
 And by the way, Birmingham is the most talked-of town in the south today. While with the Southern railway I trav- eled many of the southern states, and everywhere I heard Birmingham. During the past year. since the recent acquire ments of the United States Steel corpora ton have become generally known, the word Birmingham is on the peoples lips so much that 1t seemed like the very town was being drummed Into my ears. The re- suit is very evident.
 I have recently been interested in land developments in Florida, and the taste of real estate was so attractive to me that l felt I would like the real estate business as a prominent thing, and there is no city in the south where the real es- tate business is so well-handled and so we'll advertised as in Birmingham. Neither is there any city which can rec ommend to my friends as much as I can Birmingham for investments that will pay good returns on the money.
 Since the announcement was made that had resigned from the Southern railway and was coming to Birmingham I have received numerous letters from friends consratulating me on my affiliations, and business as permanent thing. and there for good investments for them in Bir- minsham. So feel that will be able to bring some out-of-town money to Bir- mingham for investment, and nothing ad- vertises city so much as a large number of outside investors, who are naturally interested in the city where their invest ments are located, and who therefore nat urally boost the city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
 WHIP?

Collector of the port says women whS smoke can bring in free 300 cigarettes or fifty cigars. but no pipes. Thankee for nothin'. Why should the dude woman be favored and the horny handed matron with the dudeen be diseriminated against? Why should the bearer of the box of Teamster's Regalias be bowed off the pier and the possessor of a briar, hookah, nar- ghile, bubble bubble, chibouk, calumet, cutty, corncob or long and 1ordly church, warden be hurled into dungeon? Got a light? After you.-New York Telegram.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

It will be observed that the south fur nishes no multi-millionaire, and the only mil,ionai from this part of the country is McEnery of Louisiana. sugar planter who votes with Aldrich and Shoot on tar if questions.
 The rich mans club will continue to gather in millionaires unless the primary system is adopted in the middle and east ern states. Scarcely a millionaire comes from a state that selects senators by direct vote. Shoot was seated by the Mormons, and Bourne did secure seat from Oregon. The other millionaires come from states in which the posses and conventions are all powerful.
 And yet with this tendency and this re- suit before them states like Mississippi neglect to call for a convention to au- thorize the election of United States senators by direct vote. There does not appear to be man in the Mississippi legislature who is willing to bring the matter before either house. An adjourn ment without action on the income tax question and the direct election proposi- tion must mean that some deep and hid. den influence is at work in Mississippi's s{a1 nft
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
Fine Rifle Shooting.


 "The story in the Age-Herald of Daniel Boone's markmanshfp reminds me of some fine work with a rifle which I saw in my youth,' said a man who uses the target rifle frequently.
 T spent one. summer on the Coosa in Talladega county. visiting relatives. l envied a country boy who had an old miuzzle with bullets hand-moulded with cut patching This marksman could nail woodpeckers to old dead trees by their bills. I have seen as many as eight hanging to old bark-skinned trees in one lot. He could do the trick 75 yards dis tant. Early in October we were out turkey hunting and scattered flock He succeeded in calling two young turkeys within 80 or % yards and cut their heads off with well aimed bullets. About two weeks after this had the satisfaction of killing four turkeys at one, shot with a 16-bore muzzle-loading shotgun, the pride of my life. We had been killing squirrels sitting under hickory-nut tree where they came to cut the nuts. After a good shot, bringing down squirrel, when had just completed, re-loading, my companion, another lad, touched my arm and whispered turkeys AS they seemed to be walking 80 leisurely I said tame? He said 'no-wld.' Now I had always heard that turkeys would put up their heads when they came to aq obstruction Az there was four or five rails in two ol thre panels of a fence left the river sat perfectly still waiting the heads-up ol tho turkeys. When they took the ex' pected look I fired one barrel and tho result was most exciting. Four tur' keys shot through their heads and necki AVere Hopping on the ground and beating
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
Method of Choosing Senators.

Seeing in the papers that the law stu dents of Yale would debate the method of eleoting United States senator's" said D. B. Grace, q wrote to Isadore Shapiro calling his attention to an article in the North American Review by Hon. Emmet O'Neal, and received in reply 8 letter saying. I am indeed thankful to you for your kind reference to MT. O'Neals arti- cle on the election of United States Sem ators by the people. I have read prac- tically every word ever written on this subject, but can truthfully say that Mir O'Neals article Is the most precise and logical of them all "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
Many Appeals to Taft.

Washington, February 21.-President Taft is receiving a number of letters and telegrams daily urging the repeal of the corporation tax law. In the replies he has found to make to these communications the President has said that he thought the law should be given thorough trial. and that there should be mo question of its repeal until the trial was had.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
Egg. Are neeiAeaIy Cheaper.

Decatur, February 21.-(Special.)-- Hen eggs have dropped during the past few days from 40 cents to 22z cents a dozen on the market of the Decaturs. The local supply of eggs is now greater than 1t has been for a number of months. Meats of all kinds arc higher in the Decaturs than they have been before
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

with their wings. I was so excited failed to use the other barrel on an old gobbler which had taken to perch on q small cedar with his 'put-put. l did put back for the gun I had laid down but the gobbler was onto me and away he flew"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
THE OLD PENsIoNER,

By W. B. Yeats. I had chair at every hearth,
 Wben on one turned to see, Win Look at that old fellow thero
 Ands who may hee be?" And therefore do I wander now,
 And the fret lies on me. The roadside trees keep murmuring-
 Ah wherefore murinur ye. As in the old days, long gone by,
 Green oak and poplar tree? The well known faces are all gonaV
 And the fret lies on me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
WHAT'S THE USE?

Sing a seng of money
 Stake your heart and soul, All your dreams of heaven, Just to get a rollI Sing a song of money
 Scheme and toll and fret, Trample down your brother,
 Whom you'd fain forgetl Sing a song of money, Till you're sad and old; Then you'll sigh and say goodbye To your hard-earned gold!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
HE WANTED TO KNOW.

HE WANTED TO KNOW.
 Down the street came the fire engines. Driving along ahead, oblivious of any dahl ger. was a farmer in ramshackle old buggy. A policeman yelled at him: Hi therel Look out! The fire departments s coming." Turning in by the curb. the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
NOT PROVED.

See here! You stole that joke from mel"
 'I did nothing of the sort"
 'fRut the wording of it is identical with mine." Maybe so, but the punctuation is in- tirely different"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
No Longer Popular.

"I think it a safe bet that the Virginia leagues bill seeking referendum on a statewide prohibition question:" said a member of Birmingham's Virginia colony
 "The legislative committee on privileges and elections has heard arguments by the statewide advocates and arguments by the -prohibitionists and 1t is now holding executive sessions. Just what the complexion of the committee is I do not know, but I look for an adverse re- port. because, on a sane, conservative view of the matter Virginians are apt to stand by the democratic doctrine of local option, rather than favor fanatical agi- tators who are endeavoring to force puri- tanical laws on everybody
 If this question of statewide prohibi, tion had been introduced in the legisa- ture of Virginia a year ago. the chances would have been strongly in favor of an Anti-Saloon league victory. for at that time hysteria seemed to have possessed the south. Feather-legged politicians were falling over themselves to get in the prohibition bandwagon. But the wave of drastic prohibition has receded. vir- ginia, I think will remain In the local option column. Even should the legisla- ture of the Old Dominion adopt the ref erendum bill, the people would be almost sure to vote down statewide prohibition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
ANNOUNCEMENT.

J. JACKSON EATON, the well known business office bard has written some lines~which we are thinking very seri- ously of publishing. However. we shall play fair. We shall announce the date of publication in advance, so that persons wishing to buy extra copies of the paper can do so. You have heard it said, 'See Venice and die." Read Jacks poem and you will be glad to die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

Shoot shores with Aldrioh the disgrace of the new tariff and he says all the trouble over the cost of living is due to extravagant living. He is a multi-mil- lionaire as well as a man of many wives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

misuse it. and there will be many more unless present tendencies are checked. This country stands quite alone in the ex- eessve use of coffee. We have the cof- fee habit far beyond that of any other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

Senator Root has placed an unchartered rock in the way of the postals savings bank bill, and other esatern statesmen are engaged in like task.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

Paris has forgotten the flood and is rejoicing over the success of "Chanti- cleer.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

When all the snow in this country melts there will be an abundance of moisture and no drouth anywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

Boston comes forward with a frock coat that buttons up the back-but who wants frock coat anyway?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

In the New York subway some have acquired the strap habit. and they stand in preference to taking seats.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

Chief justices live long. Both Marshall and Fancy served beyond fourscore, and fuller is v.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

Theodore and Eleanor cannot have a quiet wedding because the bridegroom Is son of the returning hero of the jungle and of Elba
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

Mir Taft goes about asking people 10 love the Aldrich tarin. and none of them will do it in view of the present cost of living here and in Canada.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

A race between a comet and NJ. Paul. hans biplane should be negotiated for the Business Mems league.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

What has Texas done to bring upon her the candidacy of John W. Gates for governor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

Senator AIGTicn unioaaed m Ine interest of q grasping few an unfortunate and vi- eious tariff on the republican partq. and his central bank scheme will do up that burial only
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

Mir Taft is going to Alaska in order to give the home-eomer from the jungle more room in the east to air his views.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

The man who thinks the tariff ques7 ton is settled will receive a startling message from the people next Novem- ber
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

When Halley's comet comes in plain view the spring style in comets will be fully established.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
IN THE WASTE BASKET.

Now, Cupid/sighs with discontent, And frowns are gathering on his brow. The valentine SO fondly sent Is nothing but waste paper now.
 Washington Star. '1s nothing but waste paper now" But he is not disposed to mind Who, with frown upon his brow, Received, alas, the comic kind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

The name of Dr. Jean Charcat's Ant arctic ship is "Pourquoi Pas which is in English, 'Why Not?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

Mir. Taft cannot massage the republic an party back to it's old form, while
 Aldrich and Cannon continue to con trol it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

black cotton must be an enemy of the dyehouses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

The postal banks would get the money that now goes into old mattresses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
Real Estnte Tranafera.

The overlong hat pin Is a dangerous wea pon in Chicago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
TEARS. IDLE TEARS"
F COURSE NOT

'Tears never yet wound up clock or worked a steam ingin"-Sam Weller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

farmer watched hhe hose cart salvage wagon and engiSe whzz past Then he turned out into the street again and drove On. Barely had he started when the hook and ladder came tearing along. Tho rear wheel of the big truck slowed into the farmers buggy smashing it to smithereens and sending the farmer sprawling into the gutter. The policeman ran to his assistance Didn't I tell ye to keep out of the way? he demanded grossly. Didn't tell y- the fire depart ment was comin'?" Wall, consarn ye,'' said the peeved farmer. q did git outer the way for tn fire department But what in tarnation was them drunken painters in sech an all-fired hurry fer?'-Every- body's Magazine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

'T see where the granddaughter of a king is doing general housework in Evan ston, H."
 "Oh, well, I don't suppose she is more autocrauc than she would be anyhow"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
PESSIMISTIC.

l think this is the saddest song That I have ever sung: The whole wide world is made up of The stingers and the stung.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
How's THIS?

There are two kinds of feminine nesli- gee.''
 "Wel1?.
 "One kind makes you love a. woman and the other kind makes you want 10 turn the hose on her."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
PARADISE.

I dreamed I dwelt in a land
 Where a tip was never given And I said-in my sleep, understand
 ''Oh, gee, but this must be heavens
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
JEALOUS.

''The good looking young minister seems to be very popular with the feminine portion of the congregation
 "So he is. There is a doubt in my mind as to whether he considers himself a missionary to their hearts or their souls."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

THE THREE SWEETEST WORDS. Three sweetest words? They are, by
 heck,
 That lovely phrase, Enclosed find
 check" Chicago Tribune
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22

Far sweeter words, I think, are these: "The moneys yours; buy what you
 please"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-22
UP IN THE AIR

Cf7 IN IFfE AII. "There is a great work in store for aviators.". And what is that?'' Conveying the republican party back to earth"
 PAUL COOK.
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TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1910-04-04

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