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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
An Easter Afternoon Ramble

q wonder how many men or women take my remedy-a long stroll-for work ing off a deep seated cold" said lover of outdoor life last night.
 .srhis Sunday afternoon the rain had ceased and I started for walk. My way led me out Twenty-frst street to that skirt of woods lying along the north ern boundary beyond Sixteenth avenue. I noticed that nature, like the fair sex, had on her varying seasons dress-that ls' some of the trees had on a portion or the winters garb with a touch Of spring attire. Miss Dogwood' looked like a fairy Lillian on her way to the Easter services.
 ''The grass was rich and luxuriant Ill fertile places. The blackberry bushes were bursting buds and breaking into flower. What most impressed me was the wild violet, that, blue eyed, looked up with eladness near my path. My dog pushed a young rabbit from his bedding place and ran him merry chase. NoW' only one thing was lacking to make na- ture's harmony to eye and ear and heart no bluebirds noisy jay or rich plumaged redbird was seen in a miles rambie through the woodland. Has the small boy driven them hence? A few fussy spar rows made up the life of this Easter att ernoon ramble in arborial Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
DoNTs FOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
From the Emporia Gazette.

From the Emporia Gazette. Mnerva-dont
 You are just little girl, only in high school. You should be kept fin simple girlish cothes you should have your head full of your books. You should be interested in girlish things. So don't dress that way; if your mother hasn't enough sense to keep you little girl in simple frocks, the blessed Lord knows you should have enough sense for the two of you.
 DO you know, child, you are horribly
 overdressed? The idea of you wearing those clothes that bring out every line and
 curve of your girlish figure for men
 to leer at; Minerva, don't; don't put up your hair like a woman's of 30; you are so much more beautiful and attractive as
 you area child
 You will be woman soon enough; be
 A girl-a simple, genuine, frank eyed girl just as long as you can. Don't frowse yourself up with all those dowdy dry goods Don't stir up your hair like a taffy kettle. Don't show your lank little legs through sheath skirt; don't go gadding to school in white shoes; don | wear hat that looks old enough for a , mother of five.
 Get into some quiet girlish togs, forget l about your social position, put your mind l on our books chase the boys out of your 1 head, and be a nice girl-a nice, candid. open hearted, fresh eyes, clean hearted 1 little girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
FIRE ESCAPES

From Judges Library.
 Fire escapes are iron contrivances fast ened on the outside of buildings. They are put up under contract and may often be found without guidebook to the build ing. They are blazes-semaphores-t show that human lives inside are in dan ger A cautious person should never go inside building where there are fire escapes. They are not put up by accident, as many suppose, but for definite reasons and are used for four purposes:
 l. They relieve the monotony of a. building by lending a touch of quaintness to the architectural scheme.
 2. They may be used by limited num- Der of athletes who are capable of worm ing themselves out on them. for review ing parades and processions.
 8. They are placed at such great height from the sidewalk that they are always perplexing problem to burglars who desire to scale them.
 4 They are a great technicality evader, for, with one painted on his factory, 2 factory owner can go home and sleep the sleep of the just, knowing that though a fire breaks out he cannot be held re- sponsibe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
SHALL TT BE SERFDOM?

l And few of his own people, their
 minds working in the nineteenth and not
 the twentieth century, would deny him
 of that to which he is justly entitled driven solely by the blind superstition of
 dead antagonism. Never was greater or
 more indefensible self humiliation. We
 nave hewn the wood and drawn the I water, patiently dragging the load for the
 party this half century. We have cheer
 fuiiy seen presidential nominations go to states, hide bound republican in advance. Privilege after privilege, right after right
 We nave ourselves cast into the pot. be-
 cause we were told we were not yet
 "clean,' politically speaking.
 And now that the nation lets down the
 bars; now that a republican President and Senate make an ex-Confederate and
 southerner chief justice of the supreme court ana two other southernefs and deni-
 ocrats members of that august tribunal
 few of us stammer. faltf. protest that
 at some more convenient season a south
 ern man may stand for the presidency.
 but that 1t would be dangerous for him l to do so now, s#95 | If this voluntary abasement were dis
 played by any other people in any other section, our emotions toward them would border on contempt
 1 It is blistering indictment of southern | manhood, reversion from that high | courage and dignity willed us by our | fathers. We write our shame or we write
 our honor in the contest that approaches
 Before the onlooking nation, We try and
 condemn or we acquit our manhood. We formulate today legacy for posterity. As the south accepts or rejects Ender-
 wood-the party's acknowledged leader it bequeaths national political equality to it's children or 1t gives them as their
 birthright perpetual political serfdom For one-whether the party or the coun- try rejects underwood-we fight to tho last dtch for the proclamation of the right
 that the south be treated with simple jus tice in this hour of it's test by fire!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
To Europe Every Day

The director general of the Ham, burg-American line is endeavoring to arrange for daily steamship sailings between Europe and New York. This cannot be accomplished by any one line, but it can be if all will cooper ate. It is believed that daily sched- ule would lead to better distribution of passenger travel. It might, how ever, induce the lines that offer low rates to change their sailings to other ports. But the big ships hope to se- cure all classes of passengers by of fering wide variety of rates.
 The proposed plan would make New York even more prominent as pas senger port than it now is. At present boats sail on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. A daily sailing would be a convenience to business men and those who travel for pleasure would not object to it. Some believe it would have a tendency to make travel across the ocean somewhat safer. It is now as safe as railroad travel, and that is about as far as the hazards of the sea can be guarded against.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
Passing of the Old Grist Mill

One by one the old mill on some rushing stream which supplied it with power is dropping out, and the farmer who carries his own grain to the dusty miller is puzzled more and more to find him. The miller of old cannot longer compete with vast plants that employ the roller milling process. These great plants do not know how the old mllstones looked. The "patent" process is a later device in which grain is crushed between iron rollers.
 Nothing was more picturesque than the old mill, and it's droning was a music that is nearly ended. Here and there perhaps corn is still ground at the old grist mill. In Pennsylvania buckwheat is added to corn, and even wheat can be carried to mill. But wherever they exist they are now al most a curiosity. They are still a blessing to a community. Its whir- ring stones will, however, soon be a memory only, and the present gener- ation lives unconscious of what it has lost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08

From the Indianapolis News.
 It was once said there are only three generations in America from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves" That peculiar quality of character which is best devel- oped under adverse circumstances is found nowhere to a more efficient degree than in this country. In Europe families such as the Rothschilds have been able to maintain to a considerable extent their power from generation to generation. and today the Rothschild banking interests wield enormous influence in Vienna, Paris, Berlin and London. But the United States more than any other country, has developed the financial genius, the great power that plans and executes, takes from others and adds unto itself. While not the wealthiest nation. per capita, America has many enormously wealthy men who have attained positions of emi- nence by sheer shrewdness and the abli- ty to accumulate money.
 The tendency on the death of these financiers ever is toward the disintegra- ton Of their estates. To offset this 1t is to be noted that in the wills of men who have died within recent years great care has been taken to have the policy which built up the business enterprise continued. The will of Joseph Pulitzer. newspaper publisher. showed this. The success of Puitzer's papers may be attributed to Pulitzers magnetic personality and to his iron adherence to fixed policy. Natur- ally it Is to be expected that if this policy is continued it will form an insurance to some extent. at least, against future fail- ure. The heirs of Edwin Hawley, railroad builder, have decided to place the Hawley millions in the hands of trustees, who will endeayor during the next ten years, to carry out the plans drafted by the fnan- cier. In this way it is hoped to increase greatly the present s1O,0O0,o0O estate. So, too, with E. H. Hartman, The wizard of the west coast left fortune of s70, 00o00O. With prophetic foresight he placed the estate at the control of picked trus tees, who knew what his wishes were. It is said they are managing the Harri- man lines in a way that would meet the approval of their amalgamator
 But this does not dlsprove the fact that estate, bereft of the guiding intellect, retrograde, and then perhaps disintegrate. One reason is the assignment to scat tered relatives. Colonel John Jacob As tor built up a greater fortune-at least from what he had to work with-than have any of his heirs. Jay Gould was a fnancer whose work has lost it's power through dlsintegration. The time was when the Vanderbits were dominant m railroad development, but they are mighty no longer. Wealth in many instances re- mains, but it's potency has departed. What will be the case with the Morgan, the Rockefeller and all the other vast for tunes? Perhaps 1t is best for the nation that the span of human life. where trusts are concerned. scarcely ever exceeds three score and ten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
THE HOUR FOR SLEEP

From Harper's Weekly.
 investigation by scientists of the nature of the sleep of persons in normal health shows that it varies according to the daily diet and the different hours at which sleep is begun. Altogether, the Ideal hour for retiring is 10 o'clock. The sleep of person going to bed Regularly at ap- proximately this time gradually augments in intensity for the space of an hour. It then suddenly becomes very profound. reaching its maximum intensity at about II 30 o'clock. Within five or six minutes from this time it has been found that the sleep begins to be less deep. In an hour the sleeper Is again in the same condition of slumber as at about 11:15. From this time until after o'clock the rest is steady and light: from 2 until 1t augments and then it consistently diminishes until it ceases at the customary time of rising
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
The Summer Concerts

The decision of the Music Study club to undertake the work of provid ing open air concerts again this sum- mer is cordially commended by the public. The thousands who attended concerts in the parks last summer and who will enjoy the music again this Summer can but feel deeply grateful to the ladies of the club for their un- tiring efforts in the cause of free music.
 A band of 20 or 21 men was em- ployed last season for six concerts a week during July and August, The city commission made no appropria- ton and the entire fund was raised by subscription. Free music is heard in every large city, and in most cities the musicians are paid by the munich pal authorities. Birmingham will be able some day to appropriate several thousand dollars year, but for the next year or two our open air music will have to be paid for probably as it has been in the past, by contributions made by corporations and individuals.
 For two seasonas the park concerts have been given under the auspices of the Music Study club. The committee in charge of this work has hereto fore delayed taking up the matter ac- lively until June, but this year an early start will be made. As many of the best musicians make contracts for the summer as early as April, it will be the purpose of the club manage ment to make all arrangements for the coming summer within the next two or three weeks.
 Birmingham is highly prosperous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
From London to New York

The Marconi company announces that it intends to erect a high powered station on the outskirts of New York, and one in the suburbs of London for the direct transmission of wireless messages. It is believed both stations will be ready to receive and transmit messages on January 1, 1913.
 Messages are now freely sent from riifden, Ireland, to Glace Bay, Nova
 ata, and the Marconi company says M messages can be easily sent from
 a. ,n to New York. All obstacles
 d difficulties have been overcome.
 truth is the wireless has the Wo as a field, and it is surprising Chat it has not occupied that field u ! rapidly than it has.
 Gughelmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, is interested in all developments of his great inven- tion, and he takes an active part in installing the London and New York line. This line will in fact be great step forward in the extension and promotion of the wireless system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
THE UNDERGRADUATES

From the New York Sun.
 What President Lowell of Harvard says of college democracy is worth repeating. leges, so far as we know, and because the contrary is ignorantly believed by some folks:
 "A democracy is where all kinds of peo- pie are gathered. and here at college there ara all kinds. Of course there are rich men at Harvard. but there is also much deep poverty"
 There are no rich mems colleges" At Harvard, whose "Gold Coast" Is much and sometimes maliciously advertised, We believe that considerably more than one-fourth. and we have heard it put as between one-fourth and one-half, of the students are dependent upon their own exertions or on scholarships or both for their support in whole or in part. Tho ways of earning or partially earning a living followed by undergraduates are among the most curious college statistics.
 There are snobs in colleges as there is almost every other kind of social type, but the undergraduate, bubbling with in- dependence and the intolerance of youth. jeers and abominates them. Rich men as rich men have to be examined, and if they have the virtues worshipped at col leges manliness. athletic prowess, good manners, good fellowship. skill in song or at acting or playing the violin or what not, they pass" There is no necessary relation between poverty and scholarship Worthy poor lunkheads occur, and we have known rich men to lead theif class. The rich student today who prides himself on his plutocracy. lawns for so- cial advancement or distinguishes himself by excessive expenditure or dissipation will be the loneliest man in college un- less he can find a toady or two. who will be despised just as little more than he is.
 They are . queer enough set of healthy young sayages, the undergraduates, with their customs. prejudices, clothes and slang and ritual. including their magical chorus of ''yells;,' collectively they are some times something of a trial to the public. though individually usually modest and agreeable; morality and even re- ,gion flourish among them, many opir. ions to the contrary notwithstanding good form in their little republic has a mighty sanction and frowns upon vice. they loathe the pretence of goodness, but tie loud: they will be ostracized other wise: a strange tribe.
 Those of us who know what the colleges
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
ISSUED A NOTE FOR ONE CENT From Answers, London


 Once a Bank of England note for 1. penny was issued by mistake, It got into circulation, and was a source of great annoy ance to many persons when making up accounts. Search was made by the bank, and at-length they discovered the holder of the note, who returned 1t to them for fancy price.
 This Is the smallest amount for which an English note has ever been issued. for. of course, notes under a5 are never drawn up unless by mistake.
 On no account are notes issued twica from the bank, and they are always can.. celled even if exchanged for cash im- mediately on their issue. About 5o.Ooo notes are presented for payment every day. and in one department a large star of clerks is employed entirely to count and sort the notes that have been paid in on the previous day
 The cancelled notes are burned nv. years after the day of presentation. More than 90,000o00 of old notes are stored away in the bank. and about every fort- night a large quantity of old notes is de. stroyed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
BRIGHT THONGS FOR LoBsrERIA

From the LeWlstOn JOurndI.
 \ Never before in the history of the lobster pound on the Maine coast, and that means in 20 years, have the Holsters in the pounds come through the winter as well as they have this year, say the pound- keepers. The cause is found in the se- we're winter. All the pounds have been frozen up and the ice on the water has been many inches In thickness. As a re- suit the holsters have been in the dark during the cold months and have not crawled. When they do not crawl they do not fight as much, so they have passed the winter quietly and have grown and are now in the best of condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
4 Cincinnati Visitor


 John c. Greene, a representative of the Willis Music company of Cincinnati, IS in Birmingham. He is a frequent visitor and has a number of friends here' ne IS a good singer and on yesterday assisted the choir of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament.
 .The company which I represent pub fishes educational music-instrnetlon DOCKS and music used in educational lhstl.u- tions," said MT. Greene. Tt is one or the largest publishing concerns in the couh- try and has a house in Chicago as well as in Cincinnati Our business Is ehlefiy with female colleges and seminaries. we supply good many of the southern seml- naries, but the great volume of our bpsl- ness is in the north."
 Mir Greene said that it was plain to see that Birmingham was growing rapidly. Cincinnati, his home town, he said, was not only holding it's own, but was push Ing ahead fast, notwithstanding the fact that the last census gave it credit for population of only 364 4s3.
 "Cincinnati." said MT. Greene, "has for it's suburbs populous communities on both sides of the Ohio. Norwood, which joins the city, is quite large city itself. We not only have Covlngton and Newport on the Kentucky side. but many other large Kentucky towns, all belonging to Cincin- nati as an urban center. Cincinnati and it's nearby neighbors have population or GOO or more. We have more high class manufacturing industries than Will be found in almost any other city,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
From the Atlanta Constitution.
 A ppoNrrNrE,A-,r so,,th.-a-


 A PROMINENT southerner recently,
 "A and unwittingly. dramatized the \ south's stake in the pending dem ocratic nomination campaign with hnal clearness. He conceded that Underwood was intrinsically the most powerful and logical candidate the democracy could offer to the nation. But he qualified that admission with his humiliating apostasy;
 Everyone knows that Underwood is eliminated on account of his geographical location.''
 The Constitution for one does not know nor admit that Underwood is eliminated on account of his geographical location And we decline to renounce the party-'s most logical candidate for the sole reason that he happens to be southern man. If the one man with victory in every lineament hailed from north, east or west we would obeying party patriotism, sup port him to the top of our ability We will not be deterred from this duty be- cause the man whose achievements are synonymous with democratic triumph halls from the southern states
 Only ten days ago an impartial and ex- pert critic, discussing Underwood's mag nincent leadership and supreme states manship. declared that were it not for his southern origin he would be irresistible: - that no other aspirant would be even con- sidered If defeated 1t will be admittedly upon the sole theory that no southern man can hope to aspire to honors to which his work entities him.
 This issue is farther reaching than ITn- derwoodi In it the south's self respect and manhood is on trial, not for today only, but for generations yet to come. If the south-after 90 years-still hugs it's political letters it will be groveing for the next 800 years The spectacle is the most amazing and paradoxical in the politics of the world today. Here is a man the nation acclaims as the party's nat ural leader man 1t accepts without a murmur as to his geographical origin.~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
From the New York Sun.

tSiai tiit 4NcW OTK sun.
 Rs. CHARLES H. ANTHONY
 N twinkled pair of diamond heels in the Peacock alley of the New Willard hotel in Washington the other night and awoke to find herself famous. But when seen yesterday at the Waldorf Mrs. Anthony said that for the life of her she couldn't imagine why she should be besieged by reporters who wanted in terviews with her and her picture, and really 1t was very annoying; but then she always made it point to be eourtAus to everybody and to answer questions frank ly and she hoped that nobody would be unkind to her, and the comedy young lady reporter had such a pretty mouth she was sure she could not do such a thing, and the c. y. l. T. blushed ,and returned the compliment, and again begged Mrs. Anthony please to say what her diamonds were worth. But Mrs. Anthony gently, though firmly, refused.
 Mrs. Anthony is from Muncie, Ind, and has original ideas in dress, of which Washington recently got the benefit, and this is now being participated in by those who pass through the Waldorf in the aft ernoons and evenings. For instance, two elderly gentlemen who have been prom inent in politics out in Ohio for some years were able to be sheltered by her headgear night before last, and the lines upon which said hat is built were the talk of every body you saw about yesterday afternoon. She is a young looking woman to have son at Harvard, which last she tells you without blushing, and she has a wealth of blond hair. which shows up we'll no matter what the size of the cov- ering above it.
 When interviewed yesterday Mrs An thony was wearing a black velvet hat medium size, with tall plumes, a dress of a shade which woman present described as Kings blue" embroidered with Bull garian embroidery containing a note of red. and a generous amount of white open work at the neck; tall Russian boots, with gold tassels at the tops, and fas- tened by pearl buttons On her left hand were three rings, .one very large and the setting big diamonds in the shape of a cross; another nearly as large (but eyes unused to such glitter could not quite get the shape) and a third slightly smalled. On the right hand were two with smaller settings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-08
REFIEcTIoNs nE A BACHEI.oR

From the New York Press.
 A little romance in a man goes a heap further with a woman than much wis dom.
 A man feels about being good exam pie just the way boy does about wear ing curls.
 Nobody will listen to advice for which he doesn't have to pay as professional opirion
 Nobody forgets to drive a nail in his own coffin lid ever so often, but nobody remembers there is only so much room for them.
 A woman never gets so indignant with anybody in an argument that she can't get much more indignant with a peace maker who steps in