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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
HOW MANY MILLIONAIREs.

From the New York World.
 The estate of a New York lawyer who was considered a millionaire" proved to be worth just $24S.O10. Among the assets were 751,S60 shares of mining stock practically worthless
 It would be interesting to know how many actual "millionaires" there are in the metropolis. If the definition were based on the number who, if all their obligations were paid and their estates turned into cash, would have a million dollars in real money. many of New York's "mllionaires" would be found wanting. By maintaining a luxurious apartment, keeping a few servants and automobiles and entertaining lavishly, 1t Is easy enough in this city to estab- fish millionaire reputation on one half or one-third of a million.
 1. On the other hand, there are many New Workers who, by virture of large salaries or the skillful and rapid turn ing over of capital enjoy incomes equal to the interest on a million dollars and more. Yet few of those who make the show of wealth succeed in accumulat- ing a real million.
 One thing is certain. If there are as many as thousand real millionaires in New York the tax lists do not show it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
Funds for the Camp on Red Mountain

Neither the city nor the county can afford to let the work in the hnti-tuberculosis camp on Red noun tain become slack for the want of funds. In this camp patients are supplied with the best food and the best of care, and they are being rap idly cured. If the city and county each does it's full duty toward the Anti Tuberculosis association it is believed the dread disease can be we'll nigh eliminated in this county. It is B large task and the association is fully aware of it's extent and nature.
 The importance of maintaining the work on Red mountain cannot be overstated. It is fully demonstrated that cases of the dread disease can be cured in the camp on Red moun- tain, and surely the city and county will sustain the association in its noble and useful efforts. No single work in this county is more promis- irg. Not one is more needed. Forty charity patients are waiting for ad- mission to the camp. Every one of these should be invited to stay in the camp until a cure has been effected. The good of the sound and well de- lnand this, and surely neither city nor county will be found lacking in char ity and the public welfare when the question of supporting the camp on Red mountain comes up for consider ation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
Destruction of a Battleship

An uncomfortable fire in the bat tleship Liberte early in the morning was followed an hour later by ex- plosions of the magazines, which rent and tore the magnificent ship very much as the Maine was rent and torn in Havana harbor 13 years ago. There the parallel, however, ends, for the explosions in or under the Maine came without the prelude of fire. The explosions on the Liberte are fully understood. A fire broke out in the early morning hours of Monday among cans of oil, turpentine, paint and other inflammable articles, and it spread rapidly until it reached the magazines. All eforts to control it were fruitless. No fire appeared on the Maine, and today the explosions that destroyed her are as much of a mystery as they were 13 years ago.
 The disaster in Toulon harbor shows at any rate that modern dreadnaught can be utterly torn and wrecked by interior explosions. This is about all the bearing that the dreadful French disaster has upon the destruction of the Maine.
 In the case of the Liberte it can not be truthfully said that any one was blameable for the occurrence of the fire. Fires do occur in the best guarded ships or buildings. The fire broke out on the Liberte and when it was discovered it was beyond human control. The explosions followed as incidents of the fire. ' hsm sisi7a
 This great French disaster comes luckily just as the negotiations over Morocco are well nigh completed. No
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
MADE PETS OF SPIDERS

From Modern Society.
 Of all creatures to choose as pets, spi- ders seem the strangest. One could scarcely imagine woman having such a pet. But many famous men have formed real friendships with spiders.
 There was, for instance, Beethoven. When studying the violin as a boy of alone in little room because it was in- hablted by a spider which loved his mu- sic so much that when the boy played 1t left it's web and came near to listen, and at last climbed upon the arm with which he was holding the bow. The young musician became really fond of the spider.
 Of another great violinist-perhaps the greatest of them all-Paganini, it is re- lated that whenever he played a certain air a spider approached him and stood still listening until he had finished.
 Silvio Pellico tells in My Prisons" how he watched a fine big spider weave his web in a corner of the cell and fed it on mosquitoes and flies. He and the spider became so friendly that it would walk up over his hand and eat out of his fingers
 In the early winter of 1794 General Pich- egru became convinced of the futility of his campaign against Holland, which the Dutch burghers had flooded. He was about to retire when he received a mes- sage from his adjutant general, who was prisoner at Utrecht, informing him that the spiders had predicted a severe frost within ten days. Pichegru waited; the frost came and turned the floods to ice; and the French army marched across it and captured Amsterdam. The soldier who had made friends with the spiders in his cell and had interpreted their behav- for, was rescued and borne back to Paris in triumph.
 King Christian II of Denmark-nick- named the Nero of the North-was taken prisoner In 1531 by Frederick I, who had been chosen King in his place. In his cell he, too, contracted a friendship with a spider. This creature knew the sound of his voice, came when called, and ate out of his hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
HOW RUSSIANS HUNT THE WOLF

HOW RUSSIANS HUNT THE WOLF From "A Russian Wolf Hunt" in the
 October Wide World.
 There are many ways of hunting the wolf in Russia. some very curious and exciting, and others as tame as target practice. The most sportsmanlil1e way Is by means of hounds, and all over Rus sia today there are well to do sportsmcn who hunt the animal in this fashion. Wolves are Aalso taken in pitfalls end shot, while still another way is to drive in a sleigh through the forest in time of hard frost, when the wolves are bol1 with hunger. At the back of the sleigh one or more sportsmen lie snugly under their fur rugs with their rifles ready. young pig is carried in the sleigh, and It's cries soon reach the ears of the iurKihe wolves, who cannot resist following the sleigh, and are speedily shot.
 One of the most picturesque ways or of hunting the wolf, perhaps, is that which one may see in the west of Asia, on the bleak Kirghiz steppes. The Tar tar tribes are WonuerAui HUT ioehiS"' o"N they ride after the wolf in very larga parties. Not only are dogs used to over take the quarry, but because a fleet wolf may get away from them. eagles arc used, being trained to help the hunter in very much the same manner as falcons in olden times. The great. bird sits on the hunters wrist until 1t is let loose; then 1t scars into the air, sails after the quar- ry. and swoops down upon it. Its duty is not to kill, but to "bother" the wolf, by Tapping it's wings in its face and driving It's sharp claws into the animals back. Such hunting makes capital sport for the riders but apart from this, wolf hunt ing is a real necessity in those parts. the brutes being far too partial to ,he lambs and kids of the Tartars' flocks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

most striking things in connection with flying is the responsiveness of ones ma chine to every controlling movement. While one is flying 1t is necessary to be
 making minor adjustments all the time. With ones rudder bar, for instance, one is always more or less occupied The movements are, to some extent, instinc- tive. They are the sort of movements that a bicyclist makes to preserve the
 balance of his machine. All the tmo
 while you are flying your machine is be- ing struck by little inequalities of air and is showing tendency either to move up or down or from side to side.
 | Therefore. the movements one makes | are very small ones to correct this ten
 dency Ones feet move just little to
 and fro upon the rudder bar. This little joggling'' of the rudder is sufficient to
 keep the machine on a straight course. As regards the elevator, one. is moving | the rod in ones hand, a matter of an | inch or so only, and the same applies to the movements in manipulating the ailerons.
 | good deal of misconoeption exists as to the fatigue involved in making an aeroplane flight. Personally, have found l that fatigue is a negible quantity, save
 when one is flying in gusty winds. Then, of course, the constant corrective move- | ments that one Is bound to make and | the strain of keeping so incessant con-
 trol of ones machine is apt to have a very fatiguing effect
 AS a matter of fact, I think there is
 less actual strain in piloting an aeroplane | across the country than there is in driv- ing high-powered car from point to point along the road.
 There Is exhilaration, of course, in driv- ing a well found car on a good road, but this is poor thing when piloting an aeroplane is compared with 1t.
 To be in the air! To feel your motor speeding you on! To hold the lever and feel the machine while in flight answer to your slightest move! To look below and see the country unfolding itself to your gaze, and to know that you and you
 alone are the master of the situation
 the man who Is doing this wonderful thing! Realization of all these points gives you something of feeling of awe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
King AIfonso's Double

''The world eontains many doubles persons not related but resembling this one or that one," said a citizen. T saw a man the other day on the street who bore striking resemblance to the late Grover Cleveland. He was not a large man like MT. Cleveland, but his face re- sembled the distinguished President when first saw him in 1885.
 q have seen men who looked like William Jennings Bryan, and one of the older members of the Birmingham bar, now deceased always reminded me in his general appearance of Henry Ward Beecher. But the most striking example of the double in this city is a popular bank official,' one of the best known cf the younger set of hustlers, Tom Bow ron, assistant cashier of the First Ma tional. He looks just like King Alfonso of spain MT. Harding, president of the bank, saw half tone of the young Span ish King in one of the paper recently. and at a glance took 1t to be Assistant Cashier Bowron.
 "The King was dressed In military uni- form, and MT. Harding, before he had time to read the name under the pie ture, thought that Mr. Bowron had been appointed a colonel on the governors s staff or to some staff position in the National Guard. When MT. Harding showed the picture of the Kins-a prohla
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
A JOKE THAT FAILED.

Some years ago a famous American comedian was engaged to play star engagement with the Moore & Burgess minstrels in London.
 Recognizing the difficulties to be en- countered on account of the proverblaA differences between the English and American ideas of humor the comedian spent several days in studying his aud fence before making his debut. After sizing up the situation the Ameri- can expressed to the manager his grave doubts as to his success.
 Never mind," laughed the manager, If you don't make good remember, the re- turn boat leaves Friday"
 Resolved to spring what he considered a sure fire joke at the very outset the comedian said to the English interlocu- tor:
 You ask me why is an old maid like tomater?"
 Yes"
 And I will answer, because it's hard to mate 'er, tomater, to mate 'er; see?' The interlocutor said The saw When the curtain went up the house was crowded and the comedian anxiously awaited his turn.
 With a grandiloquent wave of his hand the interlocutor put the question: And now, Mister Bones, why is an old maid like to-mah-to?"
 Recognizing the utter futility of his answer following the English pronunc- ation of the word, and seeing the pros poets of his London engagement gone glmmering, the comedian disconsola.ely exclaimed:
 The boat leaves Friday.'-YoungstoY Telegram.
 A SNOB
 He ne'er was known
 To pay a debt,
 But brides himself
 On "our set"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
SENSATION OF FLYING

From "The Story of the Aeroplane," by
 Claude Grahame- White.
 KY OTHING is more graceful than the
 M way in which an aeroplane leaves
 the ground. It does so without any suggestion of an effort. All one sees, in watching it. is that the wheels, which moment before were on the ground, are now passing along foot in the air
 On this point it is curious to remember the experience of passengers when start the change from moving alone the ground to rising in the air that very few of them ever know when they have actually begun a flight. What happens is that they suddenly look down and discover that the ground has begun to fall away below them.
 When you want to rise, you know per- fectly well what to do You tilt your elevator to a little more acute angle and the machine responds at once. After wards. well. as one flyer puts 1t, "You just fly" AS you pass along through the air you very soon begin to lose the feel ing that your engine is making very great noise.
 You find yourself glancing below. When you are flying fairly close to the ground the fields and country appear to be slip ping away very fast. But as you ascend higher you lose this sense of speed. AS a matter of fact at a good height you seem to be moving quite slowly.
 As to the fascination of flight, what is it? I have studied 1t carefully and have compared my own sensations with those of others. One of the best defini- tions you can find of the general feeling a man has when he is flying is that it is a great, curious sense of power
 This may not seem very satisfactory explanation to the reader, but 1t is one of the best can give. I think that, in the back of one's mind when one is flying, is the realization that one Is doing something that man has striven in vain to do for many centuries.
 It is partly a feeling of conquest. And now you can imagine yourself climbing steadily upwards, with the ground fad ing away below. There is no finer sensa- ton than this, I imagine. One of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
M.ETERL1NCK AS CHAUFFEUR

Paris Cable to the New York World.
 All the artists and writers are vastly amused by the report that Maurice Mae- terlinck will disguise himself as a chauf- feur when he accompanies his wife, Mile. Georgette Leblanc, to Boston this winter.
 Naturally most timid and retiring, she author of 'The Blue Bird" Sister Be- atrice," an 'Monna Wanna" will pose as a chauffeur in the hope of remaining unknown and of escaping sensational pub- licity and American reporters, whom ne fears.
 Georgette Leblanc who will sing in "Pel- leas and Melisande," will take to Ameri- ca an automobile which is receiving the finishing touches The motor car is unique It is in the style of Louis XIV, its interior is lined with pink satin like a boudoir. The wits suggest that while it would be an anachronism, Maeterlinck should wear the costume of a chauffeur of the same period.
 But Paris doubts if MaeterlinclS will carry out the purpose ascribed to him. The universal opinion is he will be rec ognized even if he slaves off his profuse hair and wears black goggles in the at- tempt to hide his dreamy expression.
 His charming wife will not protest even if he wishes to disguise himself as a lackey One of the rules Mile. Leblanc has laid down for the conduct of wives is
 Speak only in agreement; disapprovai is best expressed with the eyes,"
 And others are:
 ''When your husband is in bad temper don't develop similar symptoms; when he is merry initiate him unfailingly."
 If he has the gout don't insist on walking"
 Don't fondle him before mealtime. bles to parched throat"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

MONEY MUSK By Benjamin F. Taylor. In shirt of check and tallowed hair The fiddler sits in the butrush chair, Like Moses basket stranded there
 On the brink of Father Nile. He feels the fddles slender neck, Picks. out the notes with thrum and
 check,
 And thinks 1t a weary while. All ready: Now he gives the call Cries, Honor to the ladies!" All M The jolly tides of laughter fall
 And ebb in a happy smile. Down comes the bow on every string, First couple join right hands and swingl And light as any bluebird's wing
 Swinging once and a half times
 around! Whirls Mary Martin all in blue A Calico gown and stockings new. And tinted eyes that tell you true,
 Dance all to the dancing sound H'ry She fits about big Moses Brown, Who holds her hands, to keep her down. And thinks her hair a golden crown, And his heart turns over once! aig cheek with Mary's breath Is wet, It gives a second somerset! He means to win the maiden yet
 Alas. for the awkward dunce! Your stogo boot has crushed my toe! I'd rather dance with one-legaed Joe, You clumsy fellow! Pass below!''
 And the first pair dance apart. Then Forward six!" advance, retreat, Like midges gay in sunbeam street. Tis Money Musk by merry feet
 And the Money Musk by heart! Three quarters round your partner
 swing!''
 Across the set!" The rafters ring, The girls and boys have taken wing And have brought their roses out! 'Tis Forward six" with rustic grace. An, rarer far than "'swlng to place." Then golden clouds of old point lace, They bring the dance about. Then claspins hands albright and
 leftw Nj All swiftly weaves the measure deft Across the woof in living weft.
 And the Money Musk is done Oh, dancers of the rustling husk. Good night. sweethearts, 'tis growing dusk. Good night for aye to Money Musk For txJSs1fetvy march begun1 x sF
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

Here's to Lieutenant Governor Seed of Alabama says the Newark, N J., News. May he sprout vigorously, grow rapidly he is planted" But he may decline to be nlanted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Feminine axiom: It's comfortable and beautiful if it's in style.
 A woman Is happy with a new hat, hap pier with two, and happiest with three.
 The happest homes are the ones plan ned by engaged couples before they have a chance to try it.
 Everybody knows it's risky to gamble, but he hopes 1t will be riskier for the fellow he gambles against.
 man has to come home awful late at night not to. try to prove the clock in his wife's room is three hours fast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

Senator Tillman announces that he will be a candidate for another term. Sena- tor Cullom does likewise. These men of the past desire to project themselves into the future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
DEEPLY ECTEp

DEEPLY AFF ECIEp Mrs. Fiddlestix read an article .c magazine the other day about the p,~ babies in tenement districts" Was she affected by the narrowing details?''
 So much so that she shed tears and gave Fido an extra titbit"
 A CALLER.
 A knock on the door
 Iris Fame, by Hector!
 What beastly borei
 It's bill collector. rf
 THE POOR. MUSES. We frequently see poetical references to the Attic Nine.'' ~ 'Pshawl I'll bet there wasn't a man on the team who could run bases like Ty Cobb,'
 so COMBINING. The modern jail's 'luxurious' And nothing is to pay there;l Yet-'tis fact that's curious-5 Nobody likes to stay there.
 WAITING FOR HIM., ae ''The first man who flies across the Att lantic ocean will strike it rich" Wont he. thought He'll fill an aching void in vaudeville"
 A MISADVENTURE. He made the best of what befel, fact put to the proof When an airman, with a dreadful yell, Came crashing through his roof.
 REPLIES. Nobody speaks good word for .septem- Der. a a sf few straw hats are still observable, here and there. paucity of ideas seldoms keeps any body from talking. A tear for those poor fellows on the Liberte!
 Nothing hurts the cause of militant suf- fragettes more than having their pictures published in marching regalia. They look so foolish. We wonder how the notion ever got about that bald-headed men are not aes- thetic?
 An actor hates camera almost as much as the average woman hates a mirror. Somehow, autumn poety gets our goat even worse than the spring variety.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
GREAT HEADS

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Danger of head-on collision between Aviators Ward and Fowler was averted by their prompt action in landing their machines. one in New Jersey aud the other ifi >Cafifotnia. TT 7'-'''ss'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

A mishap in the Olympic caught mill lionaires, stokers and steerage passen- gers all in one boat and all fared alike. It was an exceedingly democratic acci- dent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

Judge Grosscup's resignation had a string hitched to 1t. This enabled him to pull it in until all charges against him as a corporationist are cleared up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
Future of Picture Show Bushes.

'"The possibilities of the picture show business can hardly be overestimated, said William Colley
 "One of the latest features in the pie ture show is the running of series of pictures showing the happenings of the week previous, very much like the illus trated weekly papers. Now, the photog- rapher, like the reporters on the after noon editions of papers in the larger cities, is coming to be well nigh ubiqui- tous. When anything happens if he isn't there he soon will be. I expect to see the happenings of day shown on the film of picture shows that night for the matter of taking pictures and developing and making films is becoming more ex- pedtious.
 NO, I do not think that the coming of the saloon will affect the picture show business here in Birmingham. While it is probably true that the passing of the saloon four years ago did give the pie ture show the patronage of men who de- sired to rest for an hour, at the same time entertained, yet I am sure that the habit formed will hold most of them Then, too, the educative and entertain ing class of pictures being shown and the progressive policy of film makers in up- lifting the business, will help hold the picture show business at a steady tide through all seasons, come what will"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

Gov. woodrow Wilson wants direct ac selection of presidential candidates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
A SERIOUS MATTER.

"He wouldn't drop me line once.' "oh, well. Correspondence is a deuced bore, any way"
 But was drowning"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

Even a peaceful retreat by the resigna- ton route was denied to Judge Grosscup, the friend and defender of Standard oil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

Governor Foss of Massachusetts is a candidate for reelection, and no repub- lican has risen up who can defeat him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

The big trusts. are following the exam pie of the historic coon and and are com ing down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

No wild goose has yet flown south, and yet predictions of long hard winter are numerous. The wild goose knows better
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27
Unixersity,s President-Elect

"The trustees of the University of Ala Dr. George H. Denny president of the in stitution.'' said the Rev Dr. John W. Stagg.
 'Dr. Denny. as is generally known, is now president of Washington and Lee university, at Lexington, Va. He is one of the strongest men in the south. He Is not only a great educator, but man of fine executive ability. I think he Is for the presidency of the University of Alabama. While he has not yet accept ed. I feel quite confident that he will do SO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

Canada has less population than the state of New York, but it is much more of factor in American affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

The war department says we can get along next year on 5000 officers and men, and estimates will be made accord inPly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

The high cost of living remains in our midst and "the best tariff law we ever had" is becoming nervous.