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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

from his early years, and in the lat ter part of his life devoted his time exclusively to Masonic affairs and Masonic literature. He was a great lawyer and was in active practice before the war and since-down to 1868. He commanded a squadron of Arkansas cavalry in Mexico and won distinction as a fighter. In the Con federate army he had the rank of brigadier general and commanded a detachment of Indians on the field of battle.
 All the encyclopedias have inter estine sketches of General Pike, but he will be best remembered by the public as a poet. A new edition of his poems would have wide reading and would result in Pike's taking per manent rank with Poe, Longfellow, Emerson, Lanier, Whitman and Tabb.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Albert Pike as Poet

One of the great poets of the nine- teenth century is comparatively lit- tie known, or rather little of his poetry is known to the present gen. eration. Albert Pike, although born in Boston, was greatly esteemed in the south. He was a pioneer in Ar kansas, and from 1883 to 1886 was associate editor, and then proprietor, of the Arkansas Advocate. His name became household word.
 His Hymns to the Gods" were first published in Blackwood's magazine in 1889. A volume of his poems was published in 1854, but it is out of print, and notwithstanding the fact that friends and admirers of Pike urged him to prepare a new edition, he declined. A few of Albert Pike's poems, including Every Year." writ ten after he was we'll advanced in life, go the rounds of the press from time to time, and appear in some of the popular hand books. "The Mocking Bird" and "The Lost Isadore," two of his famous poems, written in the early days, may be found in some of the recent libraries of selected litera- ture. But perhaps Pike's finest poem is on August" which was repro duced in The Age Herald of yester- day. Another of his singularly fine poems is entitled "Annie," and it was reproduced in The Age-Herald of Au- gust 9. These two poems were copied recently from an old volume in the Masonic library in Washington, D. C..
 Pike and Poe were contemporaries, but it is well known fact that they were not personally acquainted, and there is no evidence that Pike had read any of Poe's verse at the time he wrote his "Annie," but this poem is as musical as anything produced by the author of "The Raven" By the way, Ingram, the English author who wrote the first exhaustive life of Poe. had come across Pike's Lost Isa- dore" and he devotes an entire chapter to show that Poe must have S, en this poem before he wrote "The laven. " The form and rhythm of the two are the same, and weirdness and melan- choly pervade Pike's "Isadore" just as they do Poe's masterpiece. When the Hymns to the Gods were pub- lished in Blackwood's the famous British critic, Christopher North, in analysing them, wrote with unstinted praise, hailing Pike as one of the greatest of poets.
 Pike was born in 1869 and died in 1891. He had been an ardent Mason
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Electric Power in Southern Mills

If the south would utilize its water powers for the development of elctri- cal energy in it's mills it could speedily become the center of cotton manufacturing in this country. The rivers are here, and when the Panama canal is opened capital and enterprise will certainly endeavor to let no wa ter power in the south go without utilization.
 When the raw material and elctri- cal energy produced by water power meet in one field the south will lack but supply of good labor, and this, no doubt, can be secured The New England mills are now filled with French Canadians, together with some Portuguese and Italians. If the south can obtain enough labor there is no reason why it should not supply South America and the far east with cotton goods as soon as the Panama canal is opened. It will probably grapple the task and accomplish it. The prize is so rich it means great development in the south. The time at any rate has come for the utiliza- ton of southern rivers, especially those of the Appalachian range. No modern mill can afford to do without electric energy produced by water power, and no southern mill need lack this essential condition of successful and profitable cotton manufacturing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
AUTO FUNERALS
!, Milwaukee Sentinel.

fTOn1 the M1lWaukee oenllHel.
 Our warm yet subdued solicitations to the progressive undertakers of Cincinnati! Recognizing that we are living in the dawn of the 'horseless age'' and that the automobile has come to stay, the Cincin- nati branch Of the ancient and decorous guild has determined to introduce the automobile funeral"
 The new type hearse, which will make the regular pilgrimages to the cemetery so to speak, under it's own power, is de- scribed as a 50 horse power limousine of commodious size and luxurious appoint ments. Nothing, one gathers, is lacking to the accoutrement of a first class car but the honk, and it was thought best to omit that as a concession to the feel ings of bereaved relatives.
 In general the prospectus setting forth the peculiar advantages of the automobile funeral is quite tempting and attractive, and the promoters of the idea are evil dently disposed to think perhaps with a little excess of professional enthusasm) that the trip in the new 90 horse power limousine will be a joy ride in com parisop with the old mode of equine loco rcot$6h.
 But at one point we shall have to de- mur ,little to the soundnes sof the pro- fessional view. Tt is claimed for the rev departure that the undertakers will be able to handle twice as many funerals because the automobiles go twice as fast and lose no time in coming back
 or course, the undertakers trade may be exceptionally brisk in town like Cincinnati, and things may be coming their way so fast that it is difficult to handle the mortuary rush. But the fast hearse idea does rasp a little on one's perhaps old fashioned ideas of decorum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
The Use of Wrong Names

Tt has been truly observed that one cannot head off an untruth," said Percy Clark, ''and in the matter of some mis- nomers there are many sins that may DC rightly charged to magazine and news that necessity made spoken language, and that evolution has brought to our American language with its English base and foreign word grating, together with colloquilaisms and free coinage, wealth of expression; and this should prevent many stupid errors This as a general proposition.
 There are three common errors that l often note in print, and one of them in what we think are carefully edited mag azines There are not many. if any, pure strain 'bloodhounds' in3this country. And yet writers and uninformed persons are continually speaking of the noble deer and fox hounds as bloodhounds when used in trailing criminals. The bloodhound proper Is very ferocious type of dog, probably bred from a cross of dogs with tho frame of the mastiff with the Rus sian wolf hound. This dog trails entirely DN DlDOu. NY dutuOlllN loi tiiiS ID N'N distinguished cavalry leader, Col John S. Mosby. who, I thin&. told me he had at one time owned one. The wonderful nose of the foY hound (used only when trained as a deer hound), Is the means of bringing many a criminal to the bar to answer for crime. This matter of
 nose is a variant, even in dogs of the same litter.
 "As to trailing men, that Is a matter of careful training. There are two different scents that are used If 1t is fresh trail, the dog will follow on the air scent, particularly if it is at night or in the cooler hours of the morning. If 1t is a cold trail, then the foot scent is the only one It is probable that the individual scent is somewhat variant-personal, as in matter of finger prints
 "A monstrous error painful to think on in the light of pathological facts, is that many persons say a dog has hydro phobia when mad. Ye gods! The poor dog, instead of being afraid of water, is crazy has rabies-because his throat is para lyzed and he can't take water to quench the consuming fever-thirst. Men who are. bitten by mad dogs are said to fear water, and hence hydros and phobos- tho fear of water, has given us the word hydrophobia
 ''The thoroughbred,' as applied to the aristocrats of the equine species, if not used to describe running horse whose pedigree can be more accurately traced than that of most of men who claim lineage royal, is a misnomer. The thor oughbred horse record Is the most care fully kept (and has been for centuries). save the lines of kings and princes, of men or animals in the world. There are standard bred trottlng and pacing horses comparatively new-as there are new aristocrats who are born with the chang ing tide of social conditions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
THE SINGER OF THE SOUTH

'The Raggedy Man" or Riley's "Old Swimmin' Hole themselves show nu more natural kid" touch than: Oh, schools took in, but it ain't took me, Fer the pond with the tadpoles is a-brim-
 in,
 When ant in the top of the chlnyberry
 tree,
 I'm six yards furder an my folks kin see Fishin' or strippin' off fer swimmin'. stanton drops into the effectively sc- rious in his poem about the death of SI, John Falstaff it was with more than the hurried newspaper touch that hs penned the last stanza: So I forgive him for his raid On Gad's Hill-with the rest; For Shadows thousand pounds unpaid And every brawling jest; For Bardolph's nose, a-shine with sack And Pistols tirades bold He parted from us young. poor Jack, That day he was a-cold.
 They've Hung Bill Jones,' the verse, so much talked about since they caused condemned murderer's pardon, ares& They've hung Bill Jones to the sycamor,
 tree,
 An hlS Wlfe an his mother Is a-Weepin': An his children come from the house to
 see,
 An the col wind a-wailn' an a-creepln Oh. the col wind a-wailin' an a-creepen., An the wife an the mother is a-weepin'l An the children there Fer to stand an stare, An the col wind a-wailin an a-crecpin' One takes leave of Stanton by choice however, with a cross section of his tinkling good humor, as:
 When you see the hills away off
 Lookin green an gold an blue,
 It Is time to take a day off
 With the daisies an the dew
 Don't you wish
 Fer a fish
 When you hear the birds a-singin',
 An the cattle bells a-ringin,
 An the honeysuckle swingin'- ..
 Don't you wish? The worst of it is that one always does wish. But. if you followed the lure. of the sunshiny Stanton, pay day wouldn't come around as regularly as t does now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
THE WRONG JOHNSON
I'd New Work Telegraph.


 There was near riot at the Asbury African Methodist Episcopal church in Fifty-third street Saturday evening, and a lecturer, Elroy Todd Tolliver, Ph D., of Bath county, Virginia, was attacked with such fury by his audience that it took 10 policemen to rescue him.
 The pastor of the church, the Rev. pr. Caleb Tabour, formerly of Jacksonville, Fla, announced at the Sunday services week ago that a fall course of lectures would be given, beginning Saturday night the course to run three months, 1S lec- lures in all, for only s1 .50.
 Keen interest was shown by the big congregation when the Rev Dr. Tabour said that the first lecturer was to be pr. Elroy Todd Tolliver of Virginia, and that his subject would be "A Day in the Life of Johnson"
 Every one of the colored folk present wished to hear about Johnson, evidently, and at the close of the services 300 tick cts were sold, and during the week nearly 1000 more were disposed of.
 The church was packed when Dr. Ia bour appeared on the rostrum with Dr. Tolliver, an extremely black man, with smiling, glistening and intelligent face He spread hs notes on the reading desk. A little cheer, led by Butch Hogan. the ne- gro politician, and E. Wesley Day, the president of the African Sportsmen's club, was given.
 The applause was gratifying to the lec- turer, and he bowed. Speaking in bass vose. he said
 Leaving his humble lodgings, the stout man with the big head and the scar on his face, followed by the ever attentive Boswell, made his way to Fleet street, and pausing In front of his publishers, the famous lexicographer raised
 'eThe what?'' Gabriel Musty, graduate of Hampden university and second cousin of I4angford, the fighter, hissed the words out.
 "Yes, MT. Lecturer. You, man, what that you call Johnson?" cried Butch Hogan.
 Photographer mildly said the lec- turer.
 Messrs. Hogan, Joel Tawyne, Jasper Sturgeon, and MT. Musty and 1000 others looked puzzled and began to murmur. Finally MT. Tawyne spoke up, and said:
 Skip that part of it and get down to his actions on the day you are talking about Did he lick anyone?
 "No, my friend; this great man could not fight" said the lecturer. Pardon me if smile. but pr. Samuel Johnson would never have indulged in physical combat with anyone"
 Can I ask a question:" said MT. Hogan
 ''Yes, friend"
 "Who are you talking about?'
 Dr. Samuel Johnson" What does he do?'
 "He has been dead more than 100 years,'' said Dr. Tolliver. But he wrote beautiful books, Lives of the Poets,' and he wrote dictionary"
 Say, let me ask you, mister: Do you know about Jack Johnson? And ain't you goin to talk about him?''
 NO; he is of no interest to a learned man; ne is a troglodyte, a--"
 Then frenzy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
No Censure for Wiley

President Tafts refusal to censure Dr. Harvey ". Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry in the depart ment of agriculture, will meet with hearty approval from one end of the country to the other. Dr. Wiley Is distinguished chemist, and is the best known pure food expert in the public service.
 There appeared to have been technical violation of law regarding the pay which it was agreed in Dr. Niley's bureau that Dr. H. H. Rusby of New York should receive as phar- macognosist. The personnel board of the department recommended that Dr. Wiley and Dr. W. D. Bigelow, assistant to Wiley, be given an op- portunity to resign; that Dr. Rusby should be dismissed, and that Dr. Kebler, chief of the drug laboratory, for alleged "disingenuous conduct" be reduced. Attorney General Wick ersham, after reviewing the report J of the board, thought "condign pun ishment" should be meted out by the President. While there were some Irregularities in the bureau of chem ' lstry, they were of comparatively small moment in view of the large question involved in Dr. Wiley's hon. > est purpose to safeguard the public health and to keep in check certain large interests-men who wanted to preserve their canned goods by using z too much benzoate of soda.
 President Taft has reviewed the whole matter exhaustively. MT. Will son, Secretary of Agriculture, has, it is thought, leaned to the benzoate in- terests and against Dr. Wiley, but in .an interview in yesterdays Age-Her- aid he was quick to take sides with the President-and with the public.
 q think President Taft" said Will son, "has considered the so-called Dr. Wiley case carefully, decided it wise ly, and that his decision will give general satisfaction throughout the country"
 There seemed to be we'll grounded suspicion that the Remsen board of specialists in chemistry, as well as Secretary Wilson, wanted to see Dr. Wiley displaced, but the public has shown lively interest in regard to the whole matter and its sympathies have been on the right side.
 President Taft says in passing that the Wiley case has made apparent the doubtful legislative policy of placing limitations on bureau chiefs to exact per diem compensations for experts.
 1.-The government he says, fought not to be at disadvantage in this regard, and one cannot withhold one Is sympathy from an earnest effort by ur. Wiley to pay proper compensa-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
s Remember thee. aye thou poor ghost, while memory
 holds n seat Nh this distracted globe -uamIat
By-Product Coking in This District

By-Product Coking in This District . The Tennessee company is complet- Ing. a plant consisting of 280 Hopper ovens at Wylam, and the Woodward company is putting in 60 more Kop- pers. At Ensley are 24O Semet- Sol way ovens, and at Tuscaloosa are 40 more, making the total number in the district by the end of the year 620 ovens. These ovens, says the Iron Trade Review, should have an output of fully a million tons a year. This district bids fair, in other words, to make one-third of it's coke by the by- product process.
 Coke, as a rule, is higher in price an this district than it is in Pennsyl- Nania or in West Virginia, and there is therefore great incentive for the most approved coke making methods.
 In the country as a whole Is per cent of the coke made is by-product coke. This has not resulted in any depreciation in tar and ammonia, and all the gas made is turned to account in plants near at hand. Much freight is thus saved to this district, and the hope is that at least one-half of the home made coke will yet be by-prod- uct coke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Mighty few people would lie If it was a good habit.
 A mans political views are governed by his bank balance.
 It's queer what a good head man can have for business until he goes into one for himself
 A blind man ought to be able to zee Il girls blue. eyes aren't green when she says they are blue.
 You just can't make a woman see how. when yo ns@ in hoaA~~ ,---- --.s- it 8 rent jus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
LOVE TRIusapHANT

By Frederic Lawrence Knowles. Helers lips are drifting dust, Ilien is consumed with rust All the galleons of Greece Drink the ocean's dreamless peace; Lost was Solomon's purple show Restless centuries ago;
 Stately empires wax and wene- Babylon. Barbary and Spain Only one thing undefaced,
 Lasts, though all the world lie waste And the dear heavens are overturned: . Dear, how long ago we learnedl There's a sight that blinds the sun. Sound that lives when sounds are dontr Music that rebukes the birds. Language lovelier than words, Hue and scent that shame the rose, Wine no earthly vineyard knows, Silence stiler than the shore Swept by Charon's stealthy oar, Ocean more diviney free Than Pacific's boundless sea Ye who love have learned it true: Dear, how long ago we knewi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
DRAT THE BRUTE.
CLOSE FIGURING.

Claus A. Spreckles, the well known sugar refiner, was talking in New York about economies in the sugar trade.
 We work very economically" Mir, Spreckels said, but we haven't got things down to such a fine point as some folks would have you believe We are not quite so economical, in fact, as the lady with the pet cat.
 "A lady who owned a tortoise-shell cat called her grocer up one morning and gave her usual economical order-an or der for dried beans. hominy, yesterdays bread and so forth-and she concluded with request for l cents worth of cats meat.
 The grocer sighed, for this order would have to be delivered three miles away, but, as he was entering the items in his order book, the lady called him up again.
 MT. Sands, she said. oh, MT. sandsy Yes, madam?'
 MT. Sands, I want to cancel that or der for cats meat The cats just caught a bird St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
 'TWOULD SEEM so.
 What is a sour mash?''
 "A sour mash is the kind firtatious old duffer gets fined $50 for trying to make PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
The Concert Taday

Nappis full concert band of 9 or 23 theatre this afternoon. And the pro- sramme will include several solos, The entertainment is being given for the ben eft of the Jackson highway movement and it's appeal should be popular enough to assure large audience.
 The committee on the Jackson high way has issued an attractive pamphlet containing the concert programme. On the front page is picture of Old Hicl1- cry, and underneath it is a cut of 'The Hermitage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
EXpERr pIrNcr1rA,n1nn

"A man went into the office of the Jew ell County Monitor and asked a young apprentice what rules of punctuation he followed" says a Kansas City paper. 'oThe boy replied; T set up as long as I can hold my breath and then 1 put in a comma, when I gape I insert a semicolan. and when 1 want a chew of tobacco. make a paragraph.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Bowers n Candidate

Yesterday in mentioning the men who were avowed candidates for the office of tax collector of Jefferson county the name of Philip B. Bowers, for many years chief clerk in Tax Collector Tarrants office, was accidentally omitted. Mir Bowers is q well known and popular citizen. and will be in the race to the finish, backed by earnest and influential friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Regarding Circulation

The people of Birmingham may not fully realize the large circulation of The Age-Eerald, nor the distances to whicN, it's influence extends said J. Mercer Bar nett, a prominent lumberman. q had both facts impressed upon me recently in very forcible manner
 About ten days ago an interview with ITO in favor of the abolition of wooden
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
VALE.

What Fireman Flynn to Morris did, His bleeding face upon, By sticking-plaster can't be hid Another white hope" s gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

From the Washington Herald.
 'When I got back from vacation my husband had only one soiled dish for me to wash"
 "He washed the others, eh?"
 'It seems he only used one dsh''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

Richmond Pearson Hobson gets on that losing Sside in prohibition contests, but he came near being crowned with the laurels of victory in Maine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

not yet said he would retire from the presidential race in favor of Mr. Justice Hughes. Some think the Wisconsin sen ator is building against 1916 and will not retire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

MT Bryan seems to think that Oscar Underwood should play to the bleachers as well as the parquet. So he does. He plays to all and for all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

 "Yes. Particularly my best cigars" STAGE FAVORITES. She wore a smile And little more; That's why she caused A great furore.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. We trust the smile, Don't dhink we scof0 Was of the style That won't come off
 Youngstown Telegram. We like to write Of Ruth St. Denis, But what will rhyme Except lawn tennis?
 St Louis Times. N1 A word to rhyme With Ruth St. Denis? We wonder if She's been to Venice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

Can it be possible that Fireman Flynn has come to save the white race from the shadow of a large black pug?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

The President will have to do better than he did at Winona or Hamilton if he talks himself back into office on his long tour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

The curious reader is reminded that Solicitor McCabe is soliciting in the de- partment of agriculture. The interests are lined up behind him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

Dr. Mary Walker is peevish because somebody said she was S1 years old. Mans clothes don't make a woman altogether manniSh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

Aviators Fowler and Ward will never in crossing the continent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

The trooly independent man wears his he doggone peases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
EQUALLY poLoRoI1s

"The poets picture the Titans in ter rble despair when they were overthrown by Jove and his accomplices." NO doubt. still, dare say the Titans felt no worse than town that has pen ant hopes and is disappointed at the tail end of the season because it's best pitcher develops weakness of the wing"
 DRAT- THE BRUTEi
 My cross
 Mood Il
 Stand no
 Poodle!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

western man killed himself because his wife asked him to wash the dishes. We wonder why he didn't put on his hat and "beat it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

The fancy automobile funeral offers at tractive possibilities, no doubt but We can wait.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

The two new stars on the flag are say ing to the AS already on it, "Sit over there and give us room."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

Each little Standard Oil company, P in number, may prove chipsof the old block.