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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Alabama Is Prosperous

Alabama is in fine shape, the peo- pie in the rural districts and the in terior towns are prosperous to al sur prising degree and there is an atmos- phere of optimism pervadng the coun- try that is really encoura ging," said J. A. Caldwell, district commercial agent for the Western Union Telegraph company, who spent yesterday in Bir- mingham.
 T have been over most of Alabama during the past few months and have had an opportunity to study general conditions of all classes of people pret- ty closely. The farmers are in better shape than they have. been for years The country merchants are of course enjoying their share of this prosperity and the banks seem to have more money than they know what to do with.
 1 tell you, Alabama is now just on the bye of a wonderful era of indus trial development"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
MIR. RUMBLE SPEAKS

From "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens.
 q hope" said MT. Rumble. looking about him with great ruefulness, as MT. Grimwig disappeared with the two old women, q hope that this unfortunate little circumstance will not deprive me of my parochial office?''
 Indeed it will,' replied MT. Brown low You may make up your mind to that, and think yourself well off besides. ''
 ''It was all Mrs. Rumble. She would do it. urged MT. Rumble; first looking around to ascertain that his partner had left the room.
 That is no excuse replied Mir. Brown low. You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law SUD- poses that your wife acts under your di- rection."
 "If the law supposes that said MT. Rumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands "the law is a ass-a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the laws a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law IS, that his eye may be opened by exper- ience-by experience"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
DELIVERING THE GOODS

From the Popular Magazine.
 It was through the efforts of George c. Tyler that the theatrical firm of Liebler & Co. was organized.
 Shortly after the concern had gone into business lot of work piled up. Tyler was rushing around at top speed and urging everybody to work overtime and up to the limit of human endurance. While he was in this excited and hurried frame of mind. he. bounced into the pri- vate office of Theodore Liebler, and found that gentleman calmly pacing the floor smoking a cigar '
 "Why don't you get busy. Liebler?' he thundered. Cant you see we're over our heads in work?"
 My dear George replied Liebler urbanely, when you got me into this concern, you said all had to do was to look handsome and sign checks. Well, that's me and my contract Get out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
Rnbbi Wise's Fine Work

"Birmingha was indeed honoreo Sunday with the presence of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York. whose address at Temple Emanuel found Q response in the mind and heart of our people," said well known person. II recall the nota ble sermon pr. Wise delivered before the National Confer ence of Charities and Corrections, held at Buffalo two years ago in which he addressed his hearers as Men ana women of the human Catholic church, brothers and sisters in the church or the Disciples of the Humanity of God and the Divine of Men.
 'Dr. Wise has for years been mil itant friend of child labor reform, and his remarks Sunday on this subject were only foretaste of what he may have to say to IS when we hear from him again in March. He will be one of the speakers on the programme at the conference of National Charities and Corrections, 10 be held here at that date, and 1t is to be hoped that his train will be running according to the scheduled time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
The King James Bible

"Three hundred years ago the author ized version of the Bible which King James l had ordered to be made, was completed and published says a writer in the New York Sun. 'If anniversaries are to be observed, this one surely should be by all English speaking people, for nb book in any tongue has ever influenced language and literature, as that has. The compilers modestly and wisely kept hid den. so that the only name attached to it is that of the monarch who directed that the work should be done. In England 1t has been suggested, therefore, that the event be commemorated oy erecting a statue of King Jsmes in some public place.
 "A more dignified and more reverent memorial, we imagine, will be desired by Protestants and lovers of English alike. Even Stuart legitimists and foes of to- bacco can hardly regard King James as A type of what that Bible stands for. There are statues in London, no doubt, of worse kings than the wisest fool in Christendom, and time and tolerance have softened the memory of Stuart blunders and follies; that would hardly excuse set ting up his grotesque image now to mark the great event in English history which he patronized." ANt'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
PASQUALE AMATO

William Armstrong in February Ainslee's.
 Two glorious things, youth and a high place in his art, make one side of Pas dual Amato's life; the other is full of the simple charm of love of home.
 To wander casually through Italy, and viewing things open to all, is to carry away ineffacable memories of beauty; to finger there is to find in the ties of its home life something better still There is a patriarchal aspect to the plan of it., but there is, too, the gift of perpetual youth that makes the elder so sympa- thetically understanding of the young. And so it was that when Amato married at %, in Trieste. the news was met by his father at Naples with the comment: T now have two children where l had only one, The father himself had married at the same age; at 52 he has long been a grandfather; the young lives of children and grandchildren have so overlapped his own that there has been no gulf of years making the one unapproachable to tine ot her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
ISOLATION OF GLADsTONE

From Moncure D. Conway's Reminis-
 cences.
 Gladstone was not beloved. He was
 strong statesman without being great
 man. He was so entirely occupied by
 official duty that no room seemed to be
 left for those apparently small but really
 vital personal sympathies and relations
 which belong to real greatness.
 I was several times in evening compa-
 nies where he was present. When he
 entered it was as if in state all talk and
 mirth were suspended ard we stood around and bowed to him and his wife and his escort, he returning our bows all around as if we were some delegation. He would move near the hostess, introduce tions would follow. but there was no free and easy chat with individuals Hap oily he did not remain long on such oc- casions and the young people were en-
 abied, without much dpterrnption of gaiety. to cherish a remembrance of the Grand Old Man" He was an institu- tion; how can one love an institutions? A member told me that he asked another liberal why he disliked Gladstone; the re-
 ply was "Oh. he is always so damnably in the rightr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
PUTTING IN THE TIME
the Sacramento Union

Fro1 the Sacramento Union.
 A gentleman was engaging a general man and telling him what he wanted him to do. ''You VIII have to clean the windows and the boots and the knives and go messages, chop wood, cut short grass, mind the horse and pony, look after the garden and keep the house supplied with vegetables. and do any odd job that is required, and if suitable you will get 10 shililngs a week.
 "Is there any clay in the garden?" asked the man.
 What makes you ask that?'' asked the gentleman.
 q WE irkiny I ccnid make bricks in my spare time.' said the man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
LAST NIGHT AND THIS

By James Whitcomb Riley.
 Last night-how deep the darkness was And we'll knew its depths, because waded it from short to shore. Thinking to reach the light no more, She would not even touch my hand The winds rose and the cedars famed The moon out, and the stars fled bacl In heaven and hid-and all was black! But ah! Tonight a slmln6ns came. Signed with a teardrob fora name,- For as wondering kissedaH,l To,
 A line beneath it toldsme ESQ.
 And now the moon hangs over me A disk of dazzling brilliancy.
 And every star-tip stabs my sight
 With splintered glitterings of lightl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
DOthan's HOokWOrm Campaign

Dothan city has decided to establish a free dispensary for the treatment Of hookworm patients. The dispensary will be conducted under the direction of pr. ]. Frazer Orr of the Rockefeller sani- tary commission
 Dothan does this because it is enter prising and because it desires to rid its people of the parasite. And yet no one should consider that Dothan and Houston county have more than their share of hookworms. They have but the average number of this latitude. The Dothan physicians have been unusually alert i'll combating the hookworm, and It was at their invitation that the state campaign was inaugurated in Houston county. The Rockefeller commission and the physicians of Dothan got in touch with each other and the latter induced the commission to begin it's work in the state in Dothan Dothan has no more hookvorms per capita than any other county in the state. It is simply more alert and it will perhaps rid itself of the parasite sooner than any other county.
 The dspensary at Dothan should be duplicated in other counties, for there is not one that does not need dispensary or sanitarium for the treatment of the malady.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
nEFLECTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Expert advice is safer to sell than to buy.
 Jealousy grows best in any kind of weather.
 A heap of trouble wouldn't be If we didn't put so much imagination Into iI.
 You can be mighty sorry for poverty without wanting to give it any of your money
 The reason woman can love man is if he weren't the one it would be some- body else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 DoNSIDERATE nature, mindful, of . mans weaknesses, has so con-
 structed him that it Is physically impossible for him to pat himself on the back. It is a wise inhibition, too. else be would be engaged in little else than that pleasing occupation. so thoroughly inn pressed is he with his importance and the fullness of knowledge that he has ac- acme of wisdom. Little remains to be dis covered. The childish beliefs of our fore fathers are regarded with an indulgent smile. We are masters of truth and art:
 We have learned to whittle the Eden
 Tree to the shape of surplced peg, We have learned to bottle our parents
 twin In the yolk of an added egg.
 And even this is mere metaphor, for has not Bishop Lawrence of Boston de- clared that the story of Adam and Eve was a parable, invented to satisfy the child mind of the early man? Man de- scended from the ape. Who can doubt 1t :? Or who, in view of such glorious anteced- ents, can be other than proud of the ac- cess of knowledge that scouts the old time fancies?
 Thus does the modern augur, to whom has been intrusted the keeping of the sacred mysteries, wink knowingly-not at Bishop Blougram, in the privacy of his room, to the young neophyte. but out in the open and to the public at large.
 Strange how that old Eden story clings. The garden of delights has been located here and there and everywhere. Some say it was at the north pole, which, some 5000 years ago. according to Adheimer's s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
MacMiIIen Tomorrow Afternoon

"The London and New ork papers have spoken in unstinted praise of Fran cis MacMillen, the violin virtuoso who will give recital at the High school au- ditorium Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock said a member of the Musicians union. He is really one of sthe worlds greatest artists and I hope sincerely that he will be accorded warm reception in Birmingham.
 "A few years ago hgh-class artists, unless they had been advertised like a circus, did not. as a rule, draw large audiences. But it is different now. With in the past two seasons several recitals scarcely advertised at all have been well attended, I have an idea that MacMillen will have a big crowd to hear him. He comes under the management of Mrs. Cathey of Memphis"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
SERIOUS BUSINESS
the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
 Where's your father?' asked the man on horseback
 Up the river fishin','' answered the boy.
 Where's your big brother?"
 Down the river fishin'."
 What are you doing?'
 "Diggin' bait
 Mister, if you think we're doing this for fun, you wait an hear what may says If we come home without any fishy'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
PROGRESSIVE CITIES

From the Indianapolis Sun.
 Birmingham, Ala, climbed from H,4l5 to 132, 6S5 in the last ten years. It was gain of 245 per cent.
 Los Angeles gained 211 per cent. It grew from 1O2, 479 to 319,19S in decade.
 Spokane gained 1s3 per cent. In 1900 ir was 3G,sas; now it is 1o4,402.
 Oakland, Cal, was 66,960 in 1900; 1t gained 124 per cent, making it at present -50, ,174.
 That is the tale of the census.
 Birmingham has just demanded the commission form of government. from its legislature. The recall came from Los Angeles, while Spokane has just adopted the commission form of government. and Oakland voted for it and got it by a vote of to 1 on December 6.
 It has been said by those who hunt around for reasons against the adoption of commission government that it is not adapted to the use of large and growing cities. People may have opinions about this, but the consensus of opinion of the really vigorous and growing towns is overwhelmingly in favor of the new plan of government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
Governor 0'Neal'S Great Inaugural

neSterday was an suspicious day in the history of Alabama. Coy. Emmet ONeal was installed chief magistrat te of this state and a new administra- tion, differing materially in certain of its policies from the old, started upon its course.
 Alabama's governor was chosen by a decisive ma jority in a democratic prinl- ary and he not only represents the people of this progressive commonwealth but he is exceptionally well equipped by educa tion, habits of reflection and ex- perience in practical affairs for his high executive duties. Montgomery was the scene of a grand inaugura- : ton pa geant and now that the festiv- ities are over the administration will address itself earnestly to the business of the state.
 Governor O'Neal's inaugural speech was notable effort. Among Ala bama's chief magistrates have been many able statesmen-men of fine lead ership as well as intellectual force; and Gov. Emmet O'Neal gives promise of measuring up to the ablest of them. His address of yesterday at any rate is a masterful state paper. Starting out by enunciating and discussing those great principles underlying free insti- tutions, he lays q strong predicate for the liberal and beneficent measures he will recommend to the legislature. A recital of familiar principles is some times wearying, hut the philosophy of our governmental system when pre- history and a man of clear mental vision such as Governor O'Neal has proved himself to be, never grows stale. The people quickly tire of platitudes but maxims evolved from the wisdom of the ages and Fundamental principles affecting our social economic and po- litical life cannot be too often reiter- ated.
 Governor ONeal devotes the largest part of his inaugural address to the tenn perance question, for. as he points out, the settlement of the liquor problem will clear the way for other important legis- lation. He reviews the te-wide prohk hition legislation under the last admins able conditions arising from the radical action of the special session in 1909 and sketches the amendment campaign. He since the enactment of drastic statewide prohibition laws was unmistakabl, against extreme measures
 l Public sentiment in Alabama never was for the sort of prohibition we have now The governor, like all loyal democrats ir
 Alabama. stands on the party platform l which declares for local option but as
 is w., .nown, he has long been an ardent
 and consistent local optionist, and thai fact assured his election. All he says or
 the temperance matter is full of interest
 but the gist of his attitude toward the
 licuor issue is contained in these plra I graphs:
 If abolition or prohibition has utterl. failed in some Of the larger yitles of tn state, there is no other policy left bu
 regulation, and this we sbbuld try in obe dience to our own judgment, in the in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
Interstate Casualty Meeting Today

I've are expecting large crowd of stockholders Tuesday to attend our an- nual meeting, said w. D. Wood pres- dent of the Interstate Casualty com pany
 We are closing up a fine years work, which will be a record breaker in many respects. The meeting will be called to order in our offices at 10 o'clock on the ninth floor of the First National bank building, but the stockholders will inn mediately go to the Country club in auto mobiles, where we will have noon day lunch and transact our business"
 Among those who arrived last night were W. T. Andrews of Opelika, vice president of the Farmers National bank c. B. Liddel of Butler, cashier of the Choctaw bank M. E. Welburn of An niston, president of the First National bank of Anniston; M Lightfoot, president of the Brundidge bank; S. H. Andrews, vice president of the Jackson Bank and Trust company, and J. T. Kirk of Tus- cumbia. Many others are expected to ar rive this morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
, THE ABRASIVE TALLEYRAND

Napoleon Quoted in The Corsican').
 Talleyrands face was so impassive that 1t is impossible to interpret it. Lannes and Murat used to say of him jolSingly that if, while he was speaking with you. somebody kicked him from behind. his face would show nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
ATTENTION. t,AsEMEN, i,

If watching the steam roller or the con struction work on tlie skyscrapers be comes. too strenuous an occupation fol our lads of leisure, we advise them to g to South Carolina and Watch Charles ton Grow. That's job like sleeping Ii a feather bed when the mercury is tel degrees above.-Houston Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

The yellow peril stands just where it did when the old year went out and pos slbly the peril will go out also. At the most it is mere foolshness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

And Senator Root has turned against Lorimer but Depew stands by him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

The vote in the Senate on the direct vote proposition for electing senators will be interesting. It should be yea and-nay vote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
ABOUT THE GARDEN OF EDEN

theory, pointed full toward the ardent sun. and the huge mammoth sportively played in the lush grass of Grinnells Land. In Adams county, Ohio, Goo, bet ter known now than formerly, there is great serpent of earth constructed by 9 long vanished people. It's head rests on steep bluff below which three streams meet, and Tn it's mouth is an oval shape, thought to resemble an egg. Why not an apple? Surely the trail of the serpent is still over that section. few months ago party of Paradisers sailed into Chesapeake Bay, hunting for the lost paradise. Maybe they have found it on the Eastern Sho." Others have placed it in the deba of the south. Colonel Lowell of Palmyra, Miss, says it was on his farm, and he can show you a petri- fed apple, bearing the imprint of Eyes teeth. Tennessee" Clafiin espouses the allegorical interpretation. and finds in the account of the garden a description of the human form divine.
 Tn one way or another, they are all correct. The Garden of Eden was It is rot. Historically it belongs to the be- einnings of times record, to the age when man walked with God Exper- mentally, all of us have lived in it, in the days of our innocency. We hunger for the knowledge of good and evil, and we eat. Afterward we try to go back, but the gates are closed. and the angel with the flaming sword bars the way. There is no return. Under the ban of the primal curse. henceforth we must earn our bread in the sweat of our face. Tn time we discover that the curse is a mercy, man being what he is. But now and then the memory of the, garden comes again, bringing the unsullied fresh- ness of first beginnings, of the time when we and the world were young together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

It is dangerous to become a centenarian, for one drops off nearly every day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

Senators by primogeniture are a Wes Virginia invention. They are misfits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

Editor Ed Howe of Atchison has re- tired to shack to get out of the un- ending strife and racket of life. He is a disciple of Tolstoi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

The Congress of Mothers will be con- vened in Washington soon after the Con gress of fathers has adjourned and gone home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

week lost. There have been some sen sational rescues. but once a person strikes the rapids above the falls there is no hope for him. Those who commit suicide generally wade into the river off Luna island It is practically impossible to save a person after he has been carried within half a mile of the falls. From there to the falls there is drop of Of AS feet, so you can judge. of the velocity of the water"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

When you meet an Ohio man do not fail to ask him if he is from Adams county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

Mayor Brand Whitlock should write a magazine article on Adams county, Ohio, and then the record would stand com plete.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

As the weather is conducting itself crop of 1911 strawberries will soon be 0ua
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
WHY, INDEED?

From fashion notes it is learned that having gotten off the hobble. lovel. woman is to return to the kangaroo wall and don a bird petticoat, snake hat, al insect veil, roof rats and menagerie stock ings. It is assumed that she is endowed with kittenish manner, mackere waist, a becoming mole and a couple 0 calves. Why should mere man longer pa, real money to go to zoo?
 Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
CAN'T REFoRM LIMBURGER

Who will keep off panics in New York when J. P. Morgan is no more?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

Banker J. G. Robin has settled down quietly and apparently contentedly as a jail bird.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

All Adams county money is now con sidered tainted, but the collection plates are still passed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE TIRED MAN.

The soft seduction of a nap
 Was soothing to his soul, Much more than working hard, mayhap,
 Or seeking for a goal. He worshiped ease and comforts spell
 Did hold his heart inthralled; Although he never was but well,
 For physic often called, And swore his health was delicate.
 With fierce pains in his chest. He knew if he'd but symptoms stato, His wife would do the rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
SENSIBLE GIRL

The count, in truth, was very poor
 And something of a clown; Although lie whispered, "Je t adore.'' Miss Money turned him down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
NOT INvULNERABLE.

He takes great pride in the. fact tha he has never tried to get rich by raisin chickens
 still, l happen to know that he ono tried 10 grow ginseng on a suburbal lot" ft
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

Rhode Island has a good many per sons to the square mile, but she is shy on square miles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17

The Americanization of England goes on apace. The annexation of soda water is the latest wrinkle.