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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
Flags and Flowers

"I was glad to read the suggestion in The Age Herald few days ago that not only the business houses, but the residences be decorated during National Good Roads convention week which Is also music festival week. said member of the Business Mems league.
 Birmingham made most festive ap- pearance during the Confederate Vet eran's reunion in 1908. That was the year of the great flower para de-prob- ably the most extensive and the most bautiful floral pageant ever seen in this country.
 "Flower parades are not as easy as they look. Some one of artistic taste and experience in directing people is the most important factor. No mat ter how many willing members may serve on floral parade committees the chief work devolves upon the chairman or director. To MT. Hugh Martin. the debted for the magnificent success of the flower parade in 1908. I happen to know that Mir. Martin is very busy man, but he is also a gentleman of civic pride and it may be possible to induce him to get up another pa- geant for the gala week ahead of us. But whether or not we are to have a flower parade everybody can do some thing to add to the festive appearance of the city by decorating with flags and bunting'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
ON "GOING FANTEE'

From Tit-Bits.
 A sensation was created recently by the finding of baronet who has been living the life of hermit for many years on the fringe of the Arctic regions.
 While on an expedition in the Yukon territory. he mysteriously disappeared apparently of his own free will. After waiting for the usual period, the courts granted leave to presume his death, and his wife married again, while his son as- sumed the title and estate.
 When I was living in Jamaica I was well acquainted with man who is second in succession to an old Irish peerage
 At one time he was a familiar figure in London and Dublin society. and he had plenty of money with which to sustain his position. But he grew tired of the social treadmill, and decided to dwell among the Jamaican negro peasants.
 He retired to a remote part of the Pe- dro mountains, wheer a white man is seldom seen, lived in a palm matched, wattle and mud hut cultivated few sweet potatoes and bananas, and married mulatto woman. She was just an ugly,
 
 ble to read, write or speak English
 When I last visited him in his hut he was lying in the shade of a bread-fruit tree, drinking rum and cocoanut water and smoking in company with two negro cronies, whose yam patches adjoined his own.
 His three coffee colored children were playing with the little hlacl, nios in tba sty near by. The eldest boy came run hing up to me.
 Beg you one quattie, nasal" he cried asking the stranger at once for copper And some day he may be the legal heir to that Irish peerage!
 In Panama, in the days of the French Canal company, knew of Fernch mar quis who had gone fantee in a similar way. His name is blazoned all down the tors stood at the right hand of Bourbon after Bourbon.
 He was keeping a little rumshop and gambling den in the lowest quarter of Panama when I made his acquaintance, and his patrons were negroes, half caste Indians and Chnamen
 He was very wealthy man, owning large estates in France and Martinique but he let his money accumulate, only drawing on it now and then to get some hardup compatriot out of a mess.
 I have seen this eccentric Frenchman fell hulking negro with such a stun- hing blow that the man was unconscious for day, and 1t was said that he once broke Chinaman's neck with his bare hands, as you might wiring a chickens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
THE MAD WHIRL

From Tit-Bits.
 On the occasion of the visit of a trav- cling circus to a small provincial town the jeveniles of the surrounding coun- try were all agog with excitement, raised by the large posters and gorgeous pro- cession. The young son of notoriously father and eagerly importuned him for sixpence with which to "see the circus"
 "What!" exclaimed old Skinnint, ''six- pense to see the circus, and here only last month I let you go up to Farmer Jones' field to see the eclipse of tho moon! Young man, do you want your life to be one perpetual round of gay- oty?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
LETTER FROM STEVENSON

rioii oCIlDHtIS MdBdZlne.
 My dear Baxter, word in your ear Don't you wish you were fool?' How easy the world would go on with you-literally on casters. The only req son wise man can assign for getting drunk is that he wishes to enjoy for a while the blessed immunites and sun shiny weather of the land of fooldom. no excuse at all. That is happy land. If you like-and not so far away, either Take fools advice and let us strive without ceasing to get into it. Hark in your ear again: 'They allow people to reason in that land" I wish I could take you by the hand and lead you away into it's pleasant boundaries. There is no custom house on the frontier, and you may take in what books you will There are no~manners and customs; but men and women grow up, like trees in still, well walled garden, lat their own sweet will" There is no prescribed or customary folly-no motley, cap, or bauble; out of the well of each ones own innate absurdity he is. allowed and encouraged freely to draw and to com- | municate; and it is a strange thing how this natural fooling comes so high to ones better thoughts of wisdom: and stranger still, that all this dscord of people speaking in their own natural | moods and keys, masses itself into a far more perfect harmony than all the dismal official unison in which they sing in other countries. Part singing seems best all the world over
 | I who lived in England must wear the hackneyed symbols of the profession, to | show that l have Cat leasD consular immunities coming as I do out of an. other land, where they are not so wise as they are here. but fancy that Got
 likes what he makes and is not bes
 pleased with us when we deface and
 dissemble all. that he has given us ant
 put about us to one common standard ot -Highty-Ti -Tighty!-when was jestet obliged to finish his sentence? I cut SC strong a pirouet;e that all my bells tin
 gle, and come down in an attitude, witt
 one hand upon my hip. The evening. entertainment is overland if our kin.
 friends-'
 Hurrah I feel relieved. I have pu
 but my gibber, and if you have rcat thus far, you will have taken it in.
 wonder if you will ever come thi
 length. shall try a trap for you, an.
 insult you here, on this last page. "Oh 1 Baxter. what a humbug you are!" Ther
 shall this insult bloom and die un seen, or will you come toward me, whel next we meet, with a face deformeI
 with anger and demand speedy ans
 bloody satisfaction? Nous verrons, whici is French. R. L. STEVENSON.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
At AtIanfn,a Exnense

''It is almost pitifu to observe the risks our fair neighbor Atlanta will take in an effort to get a little free advertising, although such chances might have it's eff feet of reflecting upon the intelligence of her people, said a railroad official yes- terday.
 Atlanta has long been noted for her ability to secure free advertising when all other cities continued their peaceful gait in real building; and the latter gen. orally won out in the recent census re- turns. The latest fad and the one which brings this idea to my mind was At lanta heralding the appearance of a per- son claiming to be assistant to Charles Markham president of the Illinois Gen. lanta boosted up the locating in that city of such an important official and cut a great shine about the assistant to the president. They bit at the strangers bait without so much as an investiga- ton because it sounded good. The truth of the matter was the man was an inn postor pure and simple and was never &C., credited by the slightest authority. Had there been a little discretion displayed Atlanta could well have learned that no official so important as an assistant to the president of two big railroads would jump into city and assume charge of affairs on so little introduction or with so little tact.
 "The person playing upon Atlanta did not get away with any money, 1t would seem, but he played up Atlanta in the dispatches. The recent appearance of South American oil king, with a bag of s1Ooo bills was also disproven, yet At lanta continues to move forward se- renely.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
Arbitration, Not Alliance

Tradition and jingoism are losing strength and peace and international arbitration are gaining ground. The creation of great fleets and armies nominally to preserve peace at the expense of the people has about run it's course and all begin to see the folly of it all.
 Sir Edward Grey, the British for eign secretary, brings forward at this stage of progress project that does not look to an alliance of Great Britain with the United States, but it does look to the provision of means for arbitrating any differences that may arise between the two great English speaking nations. Nothing could be more dreadful than a war be- tween England and this country, both having common traditions and com mon aspirations. Shakespeare is as much our heritage as he is that of England, and so it is all along the line. The two countries should never go to war, and the pending proposal is a noble effort to avoid and settle any trouble that may arise without resorting to war.
 The proposition is warmly com inendcd in both countries, and in all sections of this country, and in all lparts it has been received as a fair land common~sense arrangement die
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
A PATTY OF pAsQUEs

q - HI F rom the New York World.
 It is not often that the interpreters at Ellis Island encounter a large body of immigrants whose language none of them can speak or understand. The party of 150 Basques who arrived this week fur nished a novel experience. None of their race, it appears, has landed here in ten years. But in Montana and other parts of the west where they are going to work as sheep herders they are likely now and then to run across some of their countrymen.
 In Southern California there are several small communities that are still distinct ly Basque in their family names, their language and blood. Mostly they are de- scendants of early corners who settled there long before the American occu- patton and herded the sheep of the old Spanish and Mexican land owners. They present one of the most curious instances in this country of a small number of a race that in foreign surroundings have re- tained their identity and their character istics through many generations.
 All told. Basque is spoken by less than half million people on the French and Spanish sides of the Pyrenees. For pur- posses of romance they are picturesque lot of muleteers, smugglers and pelota players. Otherwise, they are a hardy. brave, industrious race of mountaineers, who love their independence and whom no invader has ever been able to make over or expel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
AhOut Persons

Three well known men of Atlanta spent yesterday in Birmingham inspect ing various buildings in Birmingham of concrete construction. The party in cluded Dan B. Harris, manager south ern department Aachon & Munich In- surance company of Germany and Se- curity Insurance company of Connecti- crt; Edwin P. Ansley, president Realty Trust company and Charles Loridans, president Southern Ferro Concrete company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

that he is stronger in the east than any other democrat As to whether Harmon or Taft will win in the next campaign, it is hard to say. I think the democrats have a very good chance indeed, and while I myself am a re- publican, if any democrat Is to cap ture the great prize, I hope it will be a conservative. old fashioned party man like Harmonn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

INTERLUDE. I sit and ponder "Locksley Hall," On land and see the light is waning; seem to hear the curlews call. The oceans mighty voice complaining. My moods compact of higher things, World-sweeping thought and soul im- provement, While OCT the way a damsel sings That song bout Every Little Move- ment"
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Attuned my soul to higher things. I ponder Hamlet gloomy Dane. My fancy unrestrained takes wings; I wonder if he was insane? My Tyre of poety I would strum; I riot in philosophy. HarlS, On my ears falls, 'There's Some Thing Bout You That Appeals To Me!''
 Rome Tribune-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
REyLEcTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 The lovesiest thing about spring is the smaller coal bills.
 Glory to most men means wearing badges and medals.
 A girl practices smiling before her look ing glass, but does it much better before . man.
 Stealing much money seems to be able to gain man moro distinction than say ing less.
 People seem to be afraid they will be considered common if they have good time in Unnatural way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
WHY MANIcuRIsTs GO INSANE

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Nice place you have here
 DO you live with your folks?' ''Do you mind if l smoker
 My nails are pretty bad this time I run my own car and that's hard on tn hands, don't you think?'
 q would like to take you to dinner to night if you care to go
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
THE LITTLE TOWNS DREAM

Every little old country town,' says the Lamar Democrat, 'Is like girl of Is who has her head full of Augusta Evans and Bertha M. Clay. It never gets over the notion that, one of these bright days, a Prince Charming will come along and start a lot of factories that will make it grow within a brief space, into a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

The constitution no doubt breathes easier now that Mir. Taft says he is not going beyond the preservation of neu- trality without the consent of Congress
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

Mexican mules are needed on both sides of the Rio Grande, and if the administra- ton stops mules going to the insurrectos it should stop those going to the regulars, for we need all of our mules.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

Mr. Taft may have two wars on his handsome in Washington when Congress meets and one in Mexico when he tries to intervene in civil war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

India has grown 20,5OO,oOo in ten years. It nows contains S15,O0O,Ooo inhabitants. or enough, such as they are, to make three United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

great and naughty metropolis But alas! | When the prince comes along he wants | the little bride to be to furnish the
 money to build the factory and then give him job as superintendent Democrat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
ITS IN THE AIR

IT'S IN THE AIR. Love. love, love-
 Oh, how the poets sing Each to his turtle dove, Along in early spring. Extravagant the praise Of hair and cheeks and eyes, In sweet, rhapsodic lays They tell thousand lies. Love, love, love-
 Full passionate they trill; "oh. meet me in the gloaming, love
 Oh, meet me by the mil'' Distraught, they rave OCT lilly hands
 And lips where honey turks: Of tropic isles and golden strands,
 Where no one ever works. Love, love, love,''-
 A truly vernal theme. By all the stars above,
 The poets we misdeeml They feel the call of spring,
 And simply can't resist. If you'd forbid to sing,
 You're just a pessimist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

The old battleship Texas has gone in goriously to the bottom She was but target in her old declining days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

The truth is, the army does not feel like crossing the Rio Grande with General Funston thousands of miles away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

Marshall Fields widow expects to spend s1,oO0,ooo in England during coronation week, all hard earned American dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

Carter Harrison cannot overcome the habit in his family of being mayor of Chicago The election occurs next month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

tated by justice, economy and busi- ness. When a treaty on the lines defined by Sir Edward Grey is brought forward it will assuredly be accepted in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

What the vowels lost the consonants would have gained if Kokovsoff had be- come premier of Russia in Stolypins 8 place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

Mexican canteloupes are rpening and new recruits will soon mobilize them- selves on the border.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

Vassar has designated 24 of the senior class as the daisy chain girls They are supposed to be the beauties of the class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

The trouser skirt is the only one that needs police protection.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

The name og Judson Harmon never appears in list of guests at a Bryan dollar dinner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

Mexico should begin to put up tress passing signs along the Rio Grande.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
A MILITANT CROUCH

How do you feel thiss morning?' "Grouchy. But please understand one thing"
 What Is that?'
 q don't care rap whether you sympa- thize with me or not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

Champ Clark's home town has lost 3l7 population in 10 years, but it has gained fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

It has been decided that the ugliest phrase in the English language is Please remit I"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

No seats will be reserved at the coro- nation even on the curbstone
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

The personally conducted tours of the present month are all lodged in camp down in Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

The modern man who takes up his bed and walks is the mattress salesman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

Few will enlist when Texas hot sea- son is coming on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

The army got to the border quickly and row it is wondering what all the hurry was for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

Dr. Mary Walker wears the extremist style of the harem skirt and has done so many years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

TRUE. Just call her cat t And she'll give you the mitten;. But nothing like that, If you call her kitten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

Actually, Japan will have to excuse us until we get this Mexican muddle off our hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
The Rox In Scholars

"Exchange Professors Munsterburg
 of Harvard and Smith of the Univer-
 sity of Virginia, in their recent unbe-
 coming controversy out of the failure
 of the latter to be presented at court,
 have diminished the dignity of their
 calling in the eyes of the American
 people who usually are inclined to
 measure the heighth of the wise man
 by standards other than the recogni-
 ton of emperors.N said professional
 man. Neither professor has met with anything but the coldest response to
 his charges from the people at home and abroad.
 "The affair illustrates most nobly that human characteristic which I think Alexander Pope must have had in mind when he wrote, in his Essay on Criticism of the point when sense and learning meet In the same stanza Pope admonishes the critic, Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet, and it seems that he had clearly in
 mind the idea of the boy that all ways lives in every man.
 There is dominant spirit of the boy in every man, and l have noticed | it especially well defined among the wise. On several occasions I have been | at gatherings of eminent scholars and ] : have always been impressed with the fact that the brightest intellect fath- cred the greatest boy. l believe that no man ever is free from his boyish l impulses, though he may succeed in auppressing them, and think that the little difficulty that arose between Pro- | fessors Smith and Munsterburg more than ever verifes my assertion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

When the prince comes along he wants the little bride to be to furnish the money to build the factory and then give him job as superintendent.-Lam Democrat.
 TRUE. Just call her cat And she'll give you the mitten; But nothing like that, If you call her kitten.
 FACTS IN THE CASE. She'll billed as Madame Fantine IT. baut," From Paris, across the sea. Alack, alas! I happen to know She came from Kankakee. TROUBLES OF HIS OWN. "Here is some affecting poetry about worm in the heart of rose." ''Vex me not with sentimental vapor- ings. I have a hole in the sole of my shoe." IN ANOTHER FORM. "The modern farmer doesn't buy gold bricks"
 "No. He buys fake Rembrandts."
 STRICTLY TRUE. 'T understand Bliscum goes in for mo- toring now"
 No. He goes out for it.
 'TWOULD SEEM so. Mars must be a poor market for silk hose'' why do you think so?' Professor Lowell says it never rains on Mars''
 A POSE. 4 "IIe seems to be profound statesman" Seems is the proper word to use in his case. The higher up in the air he gets, the more profound he looks.''
 SUCCESSION. She turned him down long years ago, When fervidly he sought her; But he's a most persistent beau And now he loves her daughter.
 WELL INFORMED. ''Dibble tells me he is thinking of writ ing travel book about the Orient" 'Dibble has never been abroad" q know it, but he has seen great many musical comedies"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
THE QUEENS CANOPY

The daily war scare is feature of the spring season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
STRICTLY TRUE

q understand Bliscum goes in for mo- toring now"
 NO. He goes out for it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
National Politics

"One does not hear as much talk about the presidential nominations as might have been heard two or three months ago; fstill there is some quiet work being done in President Tafts behalf on the one side and Governor Harmons on the other." said Samuel T. Clifford of Chicago. Tt seems pretty safe, at this stage, to bet that MT Taft would be nominated by the re- publicans. with little of no organized opposition. A year ago I did not think the President had a ghost of a show for the nomination in 1912 but now l do not believe any republican can Leat him.
 "As to democratic possibilities, Gov ernor Harmon has easily the lead Woodrow uilson, who is popular and an exceptionally able man, may de- vclop great strength before the end C. this year. but Harmon is wonderfully strong in the middle west and in states west of the Mississippi river, where have recently been. And l am tolJ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
WELL INFORMED
THE BIRTHPLACE OF NAPOLEON

in Corsica for the Bonapartes, or for Bonapartism. We met not the Corsican Brothers, nor banditti, nor feudists, though we spent half day in the noun tains. But there were plenty of pretty girls and lovely children, and sunshine galore; a mingling of France and Italy in most of the human aspects as well as in the architecture; the sleepy old wharves lined with staring idlers and the streets thronged with merrymakers still celebrat- ing the carnival The party of us had seen all that was to be seen. We had eaten Of the food and drunk of the wine
 the food exceeding good, the wine ex- ceeding sour-and yet we were loath to take the launch and come aboard. It is queer old spot, is Corsica, midway be- twixt cloudland and fableland; all the year summer and every vista a far-off echo of song and dance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
FACTS IN THE CASE.

FACTS IN THE CASE. She'll billed as Madame Fantine IT. baut,'' ..e
 From Paris, across the sea. Alack, alas. I happen to know
 She came from Kankakee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

Mars must be a poor market for silk hose'' .* Why do you think so?''
 Professor Lowell says it never rains on Mars"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

She turned him down long years ago, When fervidly he sought her; But he's a most persistent beau
 And now he loves her daughter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28

'He seems to be profound statesman" Seems is the proper word to use in his case. The higher up in the air he gets, the more profound he looks.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
TROUBLES OF HIS OWN.
IN ANOTHER FORM.

"The modern farmer doesn't buy gold bricks" "No. He buys fake Rembrandts, '