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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
Rus,pess Outlook Fright.

Robert Jemison, Jr, who has returned home after an absence of about two
 weeks, part of which time was spent in New York and a part in Florida, says
 that the business conditions are not only satisfactory. but that there is a feeling ! in financial circles in the east that the
 fast half of 1911 will be marked by high degree of prosperity.
 "The business situation looks good to
 me- said MT. Jemison. "In New York I found a decidedly cheerful feeling, and
 the idea seems to be prevalent that the
 last half of this year will be uncommon ly prosperous. The first half of 1910 wit messed a good deal of prosperity, but in the last half business was dull. Every thing seemed to be in a waiting condi- ton.
 "The present year so far has been com- paratively quiet, but We are just starting again on an era of genuine prosperity. It is safe to say that 1911 will be just the re- verse of 1910 as to periods of six months
 the first half of this year was like the
 last half of last, and the last half of this will be as good as if not better than the first half of last.
 "I spent a few days in Florida. l was
 in Tampa, St. Augustine and Jacksonville and found those cities pervaded by an ail
 of great thrift. Tampa has got over the effects of the cigar makers strike and is
 pushing right ahead once more. It has
 an enormous cigar industry and a good deal of general commerce. Tampa made
 an excellent showing in the last census
 s, ,524 a percentage gain of 14S.2 in ten
 years. The census did not include West
 Tampa, which has a population of about 15.0e0
 Jacksonville is making wonderful strides, and will be a great big city some day But after all Birmingham is the most attractive place in this country, and it looks better and better to me every day I live"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
REFLECTIONS or BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 All the trains for misfortune run ex- press.
 If sympathy cost money, hardly any body would ever get it.
 When a woman has a good figure it. sign she would know it was if it wasn't.
 man seems to build big fortune just to spoil the morals of those who inherit It.
 A man puts in his will those he want. to get his property. and maybe the law yers let them, If there Is no help for 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
Amu.tpr Baseball Incident

"The approach of the baseball sea- son is plainly in evidence both by the embryonic national leaguers on the city lots and the baseball dope in the daily papers," said F. W. Sterling of Bes- semer.
 CT am glad to learn that Bessemer will again have team in the heid' and I sincerely hope as good a record will be made this season as that Of last year. l love the national game, and will aid and support the local team so far as my opportunities allow.
 Last year my residence was at Greenwood, Miss, and one of the most amusing incidents I ever saw occurred during a game between that city and Jackson. The teams were evenly ma tched and a close game was the re- suit. On the Greenwood team was a player who was terror on the coach- ing line. His line of sarcasm and in yective was fierce and he rarely failed to rattle the opposing pitcher. The slabman for Jackson was 0 newcomer | in the league. He was a tall young fellow with a smile that wouldn't come off. and the utter indiff terence he dis played to the remarks of the fellow on the coaching line, which went from sarcasm to downright abuse, nearly Lroke that individuals heart and he quit coaching in absolute disgust The man with the smile won handily
 | "The local reporter in giving an &C., count of the game gave the youngster quite a boost for his level headedness, but suggested the real cause of the vic- tory was the excellent system of sig nals so successfully worked by the Jackson team Whatever their purport the signs were given vigorously, hands. head and feet being brought into play, and they might have been taken for the hailing signal of distress of the antique order of the Hop Toads, or a new system of 'wigwagging.'
 Tt developed later, however, that the
 smiling pitcher was totally deaf and dumb. hence his indifference. The vi- | tuperations of the sarcastic coach and i the signals were merely expressions in l signs to the deaf pitcher such as Go | 1t, old boy. or Soak him in the slats,' and other phrases so commonly used to
 encourage the box artist"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
BOOMING BUSINESS.

"Ai-yee-ow!' was the strange sound that came from the interior of small canvas tent occupied by the Jones Mus cum of Natural Wonders
 The spieler on a dry goods box in front cut short his harangue and listened.
 'Ah! ladies and gentlemen" he ex- claimed, '1 hear the India-rubber man yawnins. Those who purchase tickets now for only dime. 10 cents, will have an opportunity of seeing the India-rub- Der man stretch. The chance of a life- time' Buy your tickets here,'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
A GOOD-NVGYyT

From "A Reverie. by William Winter. Slow pales the light; the day declines; The night-wind murmurs in the pines; The stars come out, and, far away. Across the sweetly sleeping bay, One snow-white sail by sunset kissed. Fades slowly in the ocean mist.
 Fades--lilxe all joys and griefs we know. And like this dream of long ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
AtFAux PAS.

An Atchison man took his wife to the orpheum at Kansas City last week. On the back of the seat in front of him was one of those patent candy boxes He dropped dime in the slot, turned the crank, and the box flew open with a loud click. Henry do you know what you have done?' his wife said greatly ex- cited. You've turned in the fire alarm. we'd better get out before you're ar rested. ."-Atchison Globe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
AN INVITATION
Philadelphia Inquirer,

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 Robins and peach blossoms in Birminy ham, Ala. Spring is invited to come north immediately for long visit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

Lorimers belief in his own innocence is almost childlike. But he never yet has told what became of that s1oo,O00 jackpot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

From the Tuscaloosa News.
 We are waiting eagerly to see who will have the first riot over a harem skirt, Birmingham or Atlanta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

With 13 dispensaries and 132 restau- rants supplied with wine and beer the rounder would not go dry in this city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

Captain Hobson gives us 10 months ir which to learn how to shoot the little Japs when they march over the Rocky Mountains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

The peers in the house of lords are say ing to themselves "to be or not to be- they are not sure which.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

Colonel Roosevelt speaks nowadays but he is no longer topliner. He goes to the bottom of the middle column.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

Even the wel-to-do are beginning to object to ten-dollara-pla public din-- ners They want the cost of living at such dinners reduced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

The New theatre in New York is to be devoted, perhaps, to opera, and plans arc Icing formed to build new New thea tre for the dance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT MATTERS
 OF HISTORIC AND CIVIC PRIDE

These men did something. They left an heritage which not only the south ap- plauds but which is respected by all the world
 So it is to leave city government or any other sort of business transaction to men who are supposed to do of the right.
 < * !: I believe in men. Elect them or appoint them, as you may see fit, but place the full power and right and privilege in the hands of that man or men. and hold bim or them responsible.
 Don't divide it out
 Who wants to run a business in the hands of discordant body? l would as soon leave my affairs to be conducted by woman's suffrage conven- ton.
 * * < Do the thing right. Whatever we have-whether it be beer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

One candidate for mayor in Chicago has already expended s26tOO, and the election is several days distant still
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

The professor who said the butler is the high mark of culture forgot where finger bowls stand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

Senator Aldrich's health is improving and he may come back to vote for Can adian reciprocity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

Alaska is talking about asking Canada to annex it, but Canada will do no such thing. The Canadians have no use for a Ballinger scandal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

The Pacific slope is producing no more Joaquin Millers, nor is the Mississippi valley turning out any more James Whit comb Rileys
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

February exhausted the legal holidays, and there is to be a respite of a few weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

The Congressional Record can never secure a big circulation unless it uses red and blue covers and has 129 pages of advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

The Presidents classmates. Yale '7S, are to dine with him at the White House next Saturday night after he has got rid of the Sixty-first Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
A DRAWBACI

There was a man in our town
 Who loudly prayed for rain; But when it did in floods come down,
 He prayed for drouth again. The dust, forsootll, was very bad
 And choked the throat of him, But too much water made him sad,
 Because he, could not swim. rs,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

The new Japanese treaty would never have secured MT. Hobson's vote had he been senator instead of representa- tive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

The day will yet come when an actress will awaken public interest by stating that she has been living happily these many years with her welded husband. It is possible and it will yet occur.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

Two members of the Celestial race are to be admitted to West Point next year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
DISCOuRAGING

A poet strove to write a rhyme About the good old summer time, But loud and long the blizzard blew And filled his tender heart with rue. Also. if painful truth be told,
 Presented him with such cold, A week or more he spent in bed. With compound snuffles of the head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

Woodrow Wilson keeps in touch with the sound-minded American people-the many instead Of the few.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
EXPLAINED.

"Finsome says he feels indebted to George Washington, the father of his country"
 T had no idea Finsome was so patri- otic."
 He isn't patriotic at all, but he is bank clerk and gets a holiday on Wash ingtons birthday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
WAIT AND SEE

No one wants to annex Canada in win ter weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

Between the passage of primary bills and the killing of mosquitoes Gov Wood row Wilson promises to be the greatest benefactor New Jersey has ever known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WHY NOT?

WHY NOT?
 This life could well be fairer And days of trouble rarer,
 If all of us together
 Would boost for sunny weather, AnG never. never borrow
 A doleful look from sorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
AVERY man to his work.

AVERY man to his work. n l hate lSickers.
 If one be not successful in that which he undertakes, let him take defeat In good nature and in good spirit. When Lee surrendered at Appomattox he rendered his sword to Grant. It was magnanimously returned in the spirit in which it was rendered
 After the civil war Grant was in charge of the war department in Washington. No favor was ever asked of him by an honest Confederate soldier for himself or for his family which was not granted. It was the magnanimous spirit of the victor to the vanquished.
 <; * j.
 The history of the world is full of the record deeds of those who have done something. One may go back into ancient history; or may stop in the times of Lee and Jackson
  Too badr One of the prohibitionists asked him to let him have the message Seizing 1t he rushed with great glee through the train announcing what to him was glad news. This prohibitionist said: I told you so. knew all the time that we had 20 votes in the senate. Colonel Leedy kept the whole train in ignorance. and it was not until the pas sengers arrived in Birmingham that they learned the true vote-21 for the bill and F against it.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
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REMEMBER.

 When fair the mornings greet you And faithful comrades love YOU: When fair the mornings greet you And good luck runs to meet you, Don't let success undo you And put vain thoughts into you. For Sorrows hand may smite you And fickle Fortune slight you Just when loud plaudits thrill you And boastful promptings fill you. PROPERTY AT STAKE. ''I am afraid Jiggers lacks a sense of humor."
 What makes you think so?" "He takes the Mexican revolution seri- ously."
 You don't understand the situation. Jiggers owns s10O worth of stock in . bogus mine down there'
 THE POETS. Of love and loves delight How blithely poets sing; What roundelays indite,
 Along in latter spring. According to those chaps,
 A kiss is all in all; And so they set their caps,
 Some Phoebe to enthrall You'd think their lives were brimmed With perfect happiness, Whose eyes are often dmmed
 With tears when sorrows press
 Birmingham Age Herak An, yes but then, of course
 A poet chap must sing When in his heart he feels
 The first impulse of spring. His song may be a frost,
 And win nor fame nor pelf; Still, on and on he writes
 He cannot help himself. You'd think he might win out, Ana have no cause to sob. Alas, He rarely is
 Onto his blooming job Rome Tribune Herald fr WHY HESITATE, DOC? Doctor Cook has decided not to revisi1 St. Louis" s sfa ,a &. And yet, it was St. Louis newspapefS man who said that one look into Doctor Cooks honest face would convince any skeptic that he had been to the pole"
 TN THIS OLD WORLD" Tn this old world there's many a wight Who thinks he knows it all; And yet, in foolish pride bedight, Is riding to fall.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
"IN THIS OLD woRID"

''IN THIS OLD WORLD" In this old world there's many wight Who thinks he knows it all; And yet, in foolish pride bedight, Is riding to fall.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

"ii I1Efoi A l IL, DOC
 Doctor Cook has decided not to revisi1 St. Louis" s sfa s ste & And yet. it was St. Louis newspapef' man who said that one look into Doctor Cooks honest face would convince any skeptic that he had been to the pole"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

saloons, open saloons. dispensaries-or whatever we might have. let us regulate them, and be of a community of which we can all be proud. The only way we can do this is to place the responsibility upon head. This head may be one or three-but if it be three, the departments of the city gov ernment will be separated into three heads, and each head will be responsible for his department. <: j: < So be it in all things.
 Let us do that which we conceive to be the right.
 Let us be magnanimous and just
 The world was made to make therein people who should be content and happy and to make those who inhabit it of good nature and good spirit as would always be
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

Entered at the Birmin gham, Ala, postoffice as second-class matter under act of Congress March g. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-12

obdurate. He wanted his price or noth- ing at all. We dragged along for months. I offered to sell at far below the appraisers estimate of my hold ings. but it was no use. Etach month meant more and more loss to the con- cern and a nearer and nearer approach to bankruptcy. The factory became dis organized. the trade which we former ly controlled drifted away from us, and, to cap the climax, there came d bitter as the present one. but bad enough. The little we had was tied up in one of the bank failures. we could not meet our obligations. and one day the sheriff took charge of the plant. Everything I had in the world was in that property. No one except a person who has had the experience can appre- ciate the agony a man suffers when the business which has become part of his life is wrecked. I know.
 When I was in the depths of that trouble I got a message one day from MT. Jacobson. l went to see him. He wanted me to go to luncheon with him. went. After we had eaten he asked me to excuse him if he asked some personal questions. Then he told me he had heard I was wiped out of ev- erything and he asked if 1t was true. I told him it was a fact-that I did not have dollar left in the world. He said. he was sorry, very sorry, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-12

Mr. Jacobson. He is old enough to be my father, Sbut when I was quite young was in the same business that he is en- gagged in. My brother and I were part ners. My brother looked after the fac tory and looked after the office affairs and the outside trade. Jacobson's firm was our principal competitor. I only knew Jacobson as a business rival. did all l could to get trade away from him, and I think he did everything he could to win customers from us. He was well estab- lished and had ample capital. We were new comparatively and had small cap ital. It was hard fight for us. We probably would have done better but for thesfact that my brother and I disagreed Maybe I was at fault. Maybe my brother, too, was to blame. We differed radically on many points and came to such a pass that it became apparent that unless the friction ended there would be only one ending to it, and that bad for both of us
 I suggested to him that he buy me out or I buy him. We could not agree upon the value of the plant and I proposed that we call In an appraiser. We did
 When he gave his report I asked my brother which he would do: buy or sell. He said he would sell but he wanted far more than half the value set by the appraiser. I had a friend who was willing to buy my brothers interest. but my brother was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-12
EXTREME PENALTY
 FOR JUVENILES

From Justice for the Crild," by Judge
 Lindsey, in National Manthly.
 Within hundred years boys, it would seem, have been hanged for what now is denominated petty ladceny, and it is not much beyond this period when they were beheaded and their heads stuck upon gibbets as the gruesome reminder of the punishment in store for thieves: and even with 200 offenses in England at that period punishable by death, many of which today are looked upon as the petty offenses, crime increased.
 It was such protests as that of the old schoolmaster that caused considerate home secretaries to commute such sen- tences to Imprisonment for life. or a period of years in the pententiary but to one at all familiar with the degrada- tion that came to childhood through the old methods of the jails, this considera- ton might be questionable. The state that sent the child out into life with his soul scared and his body debauched, as through the jails was so often the case, was just as culpable as the state that choked the child to death upon the the ory that it was choking crime. The state lad not walked f.p to the difference be- tween, evil and the child; it had not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-12

would not ask your indulgence were not this one exceptional. I have gone to the title companies and urged my friends there. to take over the mort gage, but 1t is useless. It does not matter that the property Is worth more than S250,000 and that the mortgage does not represent one-third of the value. They will lend nothing. I have gone to men of money and have offered every sort of terms that it is possible to make. but the answer is the same everywhere. I made application here for {. loan of $100,000. I knew it was no use. The application was turned down fiatly. l know you are justified in do- ing everything within your power to safeguard your policyholders money in such times as these but tn ought if you knew this man, knew his char acter and his multitude of kindnesses, you would not stand by and see him sacrificed.
 "There is one little Illustration of his character and his code that I want to bring before you I could give many, but this will suffice. Some years ago he sold piece of property to a man an6 took notes in part payment A little later the buyer sent for him and told him he was in serious trouble and feared he would not weather t. You sold thac property in good faith to me, Jake, said the buyer, and it would be wrong to have you suffer through some mistakes 1 have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-12

here to worship her and>her temple was considered one of the seven wonders Of the world. It covered more than two acres, and it's mighty roof was upheld by 127 marble columns, each as high as a six-story house. The worship of the goddess was so famous that a business grew up in making statues of her and portable shrines which could be carried away by tourists and pilgrims. Athletic games were connected with the worship, and the month of May was sacred to her. The temple itself is referred to in the Scriptures; and in the Acts we read Of ''the great goddess Diana, whom Asia and all the world worshipped."
 But come to have a laok at the site of that temple today. We have taken q special car at Smyrna and have been carried by little French locomotive over the railroad to the station of Ayasoluk, which is AS miles away across country. We have gone through a land of vine yards and olives, where baggy trousered peasants are pruning the vines and work ing the fields. They dig about the trees with three tined hoes, and till their crops with donkeys and bullocks. The blows
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-12

made. For your own protection I want you to take the property back. If you don't and I go to the wall, you pro5- ably will lose what l owe you. Jacobson took the property over and two years later he sold it. Then he went to tho other man and laid on his desk a cer- tified check. My friend he said, I sold that building at a profit of s20.000 Here is the profit, less per cent on the money you owed me. It is yours.'
 '"rhe other man protested that he had no interest in the transaction. Oh, yes, you did, said Jacobson. If you had not been honest I probably would have lost all The property was yours because you purchased 1t from me. When took it back I simply carried 1t for you Now that 1 have sold it you are entitled to what profit there Is in the transaction, but I am entitled to proper interest on my money, and I have deducted it.
 Radcliffe told the story impressively, but one of the members of the board who had d habit of frowning did not appear to be much in sympathy with him.
 MT. Radcliffe he remarked, you nave led us to believe you have a personal in terest in this man. You said, l believe that if any man should help him you should. Did you happen to be the person who purchased that property and got the S2o eco, less the 6 per cent?'
 "No." replied Mr. Radcliffe. My case was different. am much younger than