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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-08
FUNNY HARD LueIx STORY

New York Correspondent Cincinnati Times-Star.
 You've heard all those funny hard luck stories. but this Is one that hap pens to be true and caps them all
 Bill" Jordan Is a teamster. He hadn't eaten for twenty-four hours and had been out of work for week when he met a man who promised him a job
 Meet me on the corner of Fiftieth street and Lexington avenue at J o'clock in the morning." said the man.
 Jordan was getting weak from hunger He went to one of the Bowery pawn
 brokers and traded his clothes for worse suit and enough money to III him with buckwheat cakes. He had just called for the cakes in one of the dumps on the Bowery where cash ac- companies each order as a guarantee of good faith-and had paid for them when fire broke out in the restaurant. Jordan managed to seize three on the top and ran into the street, munching them. but his cakes and his money were irretrievably gone. That was at night. He walked about all highland 1t was a bitter cold night-because he didnt have a nickel with which to buy flop downtown. Jordan is self-re- specting man and he would not beg. pretty shaky from the want of food and the all night fight against the cold, he appeared at the corner of Fiftieth street and Lexington avenue an hour before time While he was there the explosion took place in the Grand Cen tral station. Jordan was shot across the street by 1t and when he came to some time later he noticed people laughing at him. The entire rear ele- vation of that misera rable\old suit he had rescued from the pawnbroker had been blown out. He couldn't even walk on the streets until he had picked up some castoff newspapers and pinned them across the gaps. And then he dared not sit down. He returned to the cor ner where he had been told to walt and stayed there for hours. shaking in the chill breeze, waiting for the man to come to whom he had hired. In the mea antime he volunteered his services to those who were clearing away the ruins, although he was almost too weak to do any good. He helped carry out one of the victims of the explosion. It was tho man who had hired him.
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TO Be Manager at Knoxville

J. T. Greene. an esteemed member Of the Crane company office force, has been promoted to the position of man ager for the company Il. Knoxville, As a young man he began service with Miner & Kettig, the predecessor of the Crane company, and worked his way dp.
 MT Greene and his family will be missed oy their friends here,' said t citizen, but all will congratulate this gentleman upon his advancement. This is one ( many cases of my observa- ton wherc industry. purpose and abil- itv win; in oth,r r words where merit Is recognized and rewarded"
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A PATENTED HGRowLER,
'ew York Times.

From the New York Times.
 A Washington man has lately patented
 and placed upon the market in that city what must be crowned as the most re-
 rnarkable of the patented oddities of the year. It is what may be termed, for want of a more elegant word in the language,
 q sort of glorified "growler,' that ple-
 beian vessel or receptacle wherein liquid
 refreshments are served up at mixed ale
 parties and other gatherings of like na- ture.
 Heretofore the great drawback to the practical efficiency of the growler has been the attention it attracted. All this, however. the new 20th century
 growler eliminates; even bishop may TOW carry a gallon of beer along the
 avenue without exciting undue comment
 This boon to the thirsty but modest con-
 ssts of a screw-top vessel of block tin
 the outer side of which is convex, while
 the inner side being concave, fits as
 snugly to the body of a man as a recent
 Parisian creation in gowns fits the latest iavorite in comic 3pera. To the upper
 rim are attached two stout hooks The machine is operated by borrowing from one of the party the price of a gal
 lon of beer, which is delivered by the
 mechanician to the white-aproned gentle- man at the corner saloon. Upon satis- factory test of it's genuineness, the latter charges the receptacle from the contents
 of an iron-hooped keg, firmly screwing
 down the metal cap. The operator now engages the hooks of the appliance with
 the armholes of his vest, whereby 1t will
 hang supported. so that the receptacle will coincide with the fit of his ribs, and pulls his coat over it with careful care lessness
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seems to be in favor of democracy. but which, when 1t actually works out. is in favor of plutoeracy.s
 The bill will probably pass the Senate at this session, and before many years American visitors to London, Paris-Ber- lin and other capitals can look up United States embassies and point to the build ings with pride, instead of a feeling Of for the houses from which the stars and strikes float today bespeah on the part of this great government.
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---------ses-
 FRENCH DRAMA

Edwina Stanton Babcock in the January
 Atlantic.
 He who fingers in Paris with heart earnest to understand, chastened of prej- udice, no matter how tainted for him must seem some of the planes of French thought and morals, must needs have gratitude in his heart for the city that conserves for hungry world such treas ure of talent as is to be found in the French drama. All the world knows how the Parisians. because of their fickle ec- stasies, their morbid seeking of an im- possible perfection, their remorseless re- jcction of what does not attain to an al- most superhuman standard, may any night sit down in any theatre to contem- plate dramatic art almost too perfect, technique incomparable. Whether the in- tellect he beguiled by simple situation or stimulated by a complex one, the treatment of it is the same; the senses lie panting under voluptuous yet delicate ravishment; subtlety-the old Parisiau conjure word-plays like Ia hidden foun-
 lain of perfume over the whole.
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curtailed recently in order to reduce the expenses of the city, but all things con- sidered, Birmingham is an orderly town. It seems to be growing better-not worse. Let the good work of the police department continue.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
 Some men are so ungrateful they don t appreciate only few relatives.
 If an artistic temperament can't mak : a living/it has no doubts about itself
 A man who can walk 50 miles for fun without feeling tired will faint if it's only three for business.
 woman feels that it is specially her duty to believe her husband has brains when she knows he hasn't.
 Women have the sublime courage in being able to go on fighting their battle for an ideal marriage after they know it is lost
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----------- THE LAST INVOCATION

By Walt Whitman. At the last, tenderly,
 house, s:ss From the clasp of the knitted locks, from
 the keep of the well-closed doors, Let me be waited. Let me glide noiselessly forth; With the key of rsoftness unlock the
 locks--witha "a whisper, Set ope tine doors, Q Soul Yasst< Tenderly-be not impatient, ae Strong Is your hold, O mortal flesh. Strong Is your hold, Love.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A MEDITATION

1 A MEDITATION. (Prompted by some lines on "Character') I've often wondered. just like you. What life would be, ifsstrong and true, Our hearts ne'er throbbed in fevered race But kept sure. unerring pace. M How it would seem to wake each morn And find fresh inspiration born, "a A treasure longed for, past belief, Yet not conceived in pain and grief. And if in great poetic themes We then might weave our youthful dreams, A The crown of thorns would prove to be@ A laurel wreath for you and me. I know that souls when tried by fire K Like fagot flames rise higher and higher, But oh, the peace we never knewts I sometimes long for 1t, don't your? --NATALMc. Birmingham, February 5, 1911. &
 POOR CERT. Gertrude Dreams was the name that she And she was darned good-looker; But Cert woke up when the promising lad She planned for to marry, shook her. VICE VERSA. woman is a versatile creature" Indeed she is. She switches her train and trains her switch.'' %p
 NEVER. He'll never, never
 Make a hit,
 Whose only thoughts to,
 Booze a bit
 - A PROBABLE RESULT.
 Has Gilks much faith in the future of air navigation?'
 "He says he expects to be an aerial strap-hanger in 10 years" PAUL COOK.
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EVERYBODY

From the Beaumont Enterprise.
 A Chicago girl has run away to marry an Indian Moving picture shows are blamed by the Chicago News.-Brming- ham Age-Herald. Who planes the picture shows-the In- dian or the girl?
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Helen Vivien Gould and Lord Decies are at last married. Not all the Goulds have been held in public esteem, but George, the father of the bride, is all right, the bride is all right and Lord Decies stands well at home. May the happy couple live long and prosper.
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If farmers snowbound in the northwest could slip down to the Birmingham dis trict now they would be tempted to look up the Chamber of Commerces farm con- mittee movement with a view of set ting in this county.
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Now that Senator Joseph F. Johnston has vigorously defended Senator Billy Lorimer, what will Colonel Roosevelt do to Alabama's junior senator?
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St. Louis wants grand opera in English. Having a very large brewery in her midst, St. Louis ought to be happy without grand opera in any form.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-08

It has been nearly a week since Feb ruary g. but it has not yet been deter mined whether or no the groundhog in this district has been vindicated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-08

FFOOLISH LORD FFRENCH.
 Lord french, of England" Is at the Shoreham. That tells the whole tale, and he spells his name with two small "f's,' which is the old English for a capital initial ''F." Be that as it may-that's all. Washington Herald.
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Certain Nebraska women have -ecided that baldheaded men are trusting and confiding That Is amply proved by the numerous hair tonics they buy.
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OF COURSE NOT.

OF COURSE NOT Mrs Scribber writes poems at an ele ,ant little desk" Does she write elegant little poems? 'No, but that isn't the fault of tho Iesk."
 MIR. TIGTWAD. He sympathized
 With sorrows band; His heart went out" But not his hand. He even wept
 When times grew worse. But kept tight
 Grip on his purse.
 Birmingham ge-Herald And then, at last. One day he died, And journeyed to
 The other side; Where Satan said To him. How do? I've got a warm
 Ish place for you,''
 Rome Tribune Herald.
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A rich Pittsburger died and left his pretty stenographer s10,0C0. Dame Rumor will surmise that he kissed her every morning.
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The colonel may yet see the day when he will wish he hadn't kept Senator Lori mer away from his own Chicago club table
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-08

Colonel Roosevelt will eat roast ostrich at Phoenix Ariz. However, he isn't that
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Aviators seem to be more considerate of their necks than formerly.
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NEUTRAL. This controversy bout the blonde Surpassing the brunette, Is one that we aren't very fond Of mixing in, you bet.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Who said the brunette beat the blonde? That's what we'd like to know. You cannot bet on either one,. The styles are changing so.
 Charlotte News.
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club woman says men love fluffy girls That lets out the suffragettes
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The Rev. Billy" Sunday continues on the job and the collections are invariably gratifying.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-08

In her new book we presume Miss Mary Garden will make number of yelled allusions.
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Mr. Carnegie shouldn't worry himself over being misunderstood. His money talks distinctly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-08

We have had long stretch of spring like weather, but a change is at hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-08

Salt has been reduced in price. So has radum.
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Fat men look with trepidation on cor set coats.
 The spring poem is now being incu- bated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-08
MANY DO.

, "Feathertop Is featuring now" What on?"
 lis nerve, I think!'
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His speech was trenchant from begin ming to end It bristled with. wit and its irony was keen, while in the argumenta- tive portions of his speech the senator was at once serious and eloquent. Sem ator Johnston never minced matters, and it may be doubted if a more notable speech has been made in the Senate this winter than his of yesterday. Helen Vivien Gould and Lord Decies are at last married. Not all the Goulds have been held in public esteem, but George, the father of the bride, is all right, the bride is all right and Lord Decies stands well at home. May the happy couple live long and prosper.
  If farmers snowbound in the northwest could slip down to the Birmingham dis trict now they would be tempted to look up the Chamber of Commerces farm com- mittee movement with a view of set ting in this county.
 
 It has been nearly week since Feb ruary 2, but it has not yet been deter mined whether or no the groundhog in this district has been vindicated.
 
 Certain Nebraska women have -ecided that baldheaded men are trusting and confiding. That is amply proved by the numerous hair tonics they buy Now that Senator Joseph F. Johnston has vigorously defended Senator Billy Lorimer, what will Colonel Roosevelt do to Alabama's junior senator?
 
 St. Louis wants grand opera in English. Having very large brewery in her midst, St. Louis ought to be happy without grand opera in any form. rich Pittsburger died and left his pretty stenographer s1o,0CO. Dame Rumor will surmise that he kissed her every morning.
 
 The colonel may yet see the day when he will wish he hadn't kept Senator Lori mer away from his own Chicago club table
 Colonel Roosevelt will eat roast ostrich going all the way to Arizona just for that.
 In her new book we presume Miss Mary Garden will make number of yelled allusions.
 MT Carnegie shouldn't worry himself over being misunderstood. His money talks distinctly.
 The Rev. Billy" Sunday continues on the job and the collections are invariably gratifying.
 We have had a long stretch of spring like weather, but change is at hand. A club woman says men love fluffy girls. That lets out the suffragettes.
 
 Aviators seem to be more consderate of their necks than formerly. Salt has been reduced in price. So has radium.
 Fat men look with trepidation on cor set coats.
 The spring poem is now being incu- bated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-31
Hackett's S Bride

Milwaukee correspondence New York
 Sun.
 James K. Hackett, the actor, was se- cretly married on Saturday afternoon in Milwaukee, but the news did not get out until after he had left early yesterday morning for a weeks engagement in St Louis.
 The bride is Beatrice Mary Beckley. who gave her address In the marriage license as London and her occupation as none. Miss Beckley, however, is a for mer leading woman for MT. Hackett, having been in his company four years.
 The new Mrs. Hackett was an unknown and inexperienced actress, though wom- an of great beauty when she was intro duced to stage life in 1906 by MT. Hackett, when he played the Walls of Jericho. The following year she played minor part in John Glayde's Honor,' and the following two years was leading woman in Sampson" Since then she has not been on the stage.
 James K. Hackett married Mary Man nering secretly in London in 1897, when they were both members of the Lyceum Theatre Stock company. Their marriage was not announced to the public until eight months later. They starred together for several seasons, and then separated, each to head different company. Miss Mannering began divorce proceedings
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NEWS OF ROANOKE
Caleb N. Williams Dies at Home of
 His Daughter

Roanoke. December 30.-(Special.)- Caleb N. Williams died this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. c. Hunter, in this place at the age of 79 years He had been in feeble health for many months. The inter ment will occur at Fredonia Sunday morning. The deceased long resided at Fredonia, in Chambers county, and was one of the leading citizens of the county.
 Mollie Allums, negress who was shot by her husband, Charlie Allums. at her home in the negro section of the city last Wednesday evening, died last night. Upon returning home Wed nesday evening Albums found an other negro named Ezra Veal in the house with his wife He set upon them and claims that they showed fight, whereupon he shot Veal dead and fatally wounded his own wife. He then came down town and gave him. self into the hands of the authorities. Friday he had his preliminary trial be- fore Mayor Nichols for the killing of Veal, and was held under a bond of s1000, which he has so far failed to make.
 Eli Howell, father of W. T. Howell, one of Roanoke's rural mall carriers, died Friday morning at his home in North Chambers and was buried at Macedonia.
 Hiram B. Radney and family have moved to Roanoke from Wadley anu Mir. Radney will be identified with the business of J. P. Radney & Bro.
 MT. and Mrs Tom Awbrey, who were recently married at the latter's home in Lineville, have gone to Augusta, Ga, to make their home
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fraining from laughing they are retaining their looks
 .I first met the high priestess of the cult at the last big reception at Stafford house, and few days later I went to tea with her
 She has a beautiful but impassive face. She does more than keep her face from smiling. haven't laughed for two years she told me with the nearest approach to joy which she permits her. self Also, she avoids all manual work and strain.
 For example, she began to pour tea, and then, apparently remembering that even this might cause some expression to come into her face, suddenly stopped and ordered a man servant to do 1t for her. "A woman can keep 10 years off her face by avoiding doing things like that she explained
 This woman and her following have almost reduced keeping straight faces to second nature"
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Latest Recipe for Beauty

London Correspondence New York Times.
 A new plan for attaining or retaining beauty comes out on the average once a week, and some of the suggestions are sufficiently weird. but one which appears today has certainly not been surpassed in strangeness. #-fs
 It is simply that the person who desires to remain young should refrain from laughter: You must" according to Q lady who described the system, choose between looks and laughter; the two can not go together. Laughing lines and wrinkles the face.
 There has lately sprung up in London a set of expressionles women,' she added. "These women--there are from 50 to 80 of them at the moment-steadily refuse to laugh at anything. They are all, more or less, 40 years old-woman's dangerous age-and 1t is their daily belief that by re-
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fine text it would provide for MT Lloyd

fine text 1t would provide for MT. Lloyd Georges political opponents
 Another epoch-malSing event in the an- nauls of the mercantile marine was ac- complished by the great Cunard liner Lusftania, when she arrived at flsh- guard from New York, completing hef thirty third transatlantic trip during the past 12 months. Such record of con- finuous voyages has never been accom- plished before, not oven by her notaDle sister ship the Maurentania. During the F months the Lusitania has steamed over 100000 miles, and maintained an average speed between Daunt's Rock and the lightship in Ambrose Channel of A.67 knots westward and 2466 knots eastward through winter stress and summer sun shine This has necessitated the con sumption of something like 16o,000 tons of coal. The highest days run during the year was 654 miles westward and sos miles on the eastbound trip, whilst the 35 minutes westward, four days, one hour and 90 minutes eastward, at an average speed of 9. 10 knots. The latter, by the way. was the fastest eastward run of the great ships career. During this period the Lusitania has carried IS 2S4 bags of mails and over 100000 passengers. The passengers and crews during the year dis posed of 512S32 pounds of fresh meat alone. Nearly 1S,000 chickens and 4000 ducks and geese were required in addi- tion to well over half million eggs.
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The burden of office is beginning to show itself in the physical appearance of the chancellor of the exchequer. But his zest for frolics, which is the mar vel of his friends, is as great as ever. When he was last at his home in North Wales he was full of fun, and among the pastimes in which he indulged freely was that of tree climbing. clever young artist of the party drew an amusing sketch of AIr. Lloyd-George up tree, with his hatless head protruding above the thick foliage. There was some talk es 1e' din~ this to an illustrated paper, until 1t was suddenly realized what
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WHITNEY SECURES
 THE AUDOBON CUP

New Orleans, December 3O.-The finals in the southern invitation golf tourna- ment were played this afternoon in a drizzling rain on the links of the Audubon Golf club.
 In the match for the Audubon cup, N. Whitney, New Orleans, defeated R. c. Bush. New Orleans, up and to play.
 R. H. Brooks, New Orleans, captured the Gulf States trophy by defeating ". E. Stauffer, New Orleans, up and to play.
 A. Post, New Orleans, won the Crescent City cup by beating W. P. Ward, Bir- mingham, up and to play.
 Tn the match for the Pontchitrain cup, John D. Miller, New Orleans, won from J. Appleton, New York, up and 6 to play.
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ROBS BANK AND
 KILLS PRESIDENT

centralia, Wash. December 3O.-A rob- Der held up the Farmers and Merchants bank tonight and shot and killed the president, L. Barr. The murderer was captured.
 The robber entered the bank shortly after dark and pointing pistols at the cashier and boy obliged them to hold up their hands. President Barr entered the banking room from his office and the robber at once fired, killing him instantly The shooting attracted the attention of the police, who captured the robber,
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champions that will retain their titles were frequently defeated in short bouts. The men who suffered this blot on their boxing reptuations were Ad Wolgast and Abe Attell.
 Knockout Brown gained the distinction of earning two popular decisions over Wolgast-the only two defeats that the champion met with during the season. was due to an accident. Jack Johnson did not fight. Johnny Coulon fought only three honfS
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It IS unusual to find two members Of parliament appearing as actors on the same day. The other day, however 1 saw MT. Hugh Law, the nationalist repre- sentative of West Donegal, and son of the former Irish Lord Chancellor, who gave his second performance in the mor- ality play, "The Soul of the World,'' while in the evening MT. Matthew Heating one of the most popular members of the Irish party at Westminster, played in a little drama from the pen of Miss Johan- na Redmond, the nationalist leaders, gift. ed daughter, which was performed al Kensington. At the latter entertainment Miss Redmond herself played in another of her own sketches.
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against her husband in June, 190S The following year it was rumored that the suit had been withdrawn. but this Miss Mannering denied. and shortly afterward the proceedings began again. Miss Man nering obtained her decree on January D. 1910. Their child, Elsie, was awarded to the custody of the mother. The name of the correspondent mentioned by Miss Mannering was not made public.