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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
Yesterday was also Red sox day.
THE GODDESS OF CHANGE

From the New York Evening Sun.
 Fortune is fickle. We believe that this
 truth has been formulated before, but at
 the risk of plagiarizing the long line
 of philosophers who have already made
 it's discovery, we venture to repeat it.
 Our excuse is the recent experience of
 the Chicago drummer who went up
 against a poker game in Kansas City.
 His filtration with the goddess of chance
 proved indifferently successful, and the
 evening wore away without any sign that
 his advances were making the slightest
 impression. And then, without warning,
 he looked down at his hand and discov-
 cred that the lady was not only smiling upon him, but was positively inviting him to elope To put the matter more prosa- ically, he was holding royal flush. Needless to say, things began to hap penl just about that time. The fortunate drummer lit fresh cigar and carelessly tossed his watch into the pot. Raise suc-
 ceeded raise until the kitty commenced to look as if 1t had swallowed mastiff. The drummer spent the time between raises planning little trip to Atlantic City. And then the goddess decided that she was in danger of losing her repu- tation.
 Whether 1t was that the limit cracked the rafters on its way to the roof we are not informed, but as the drummer leaned over to rake in his winnings the ceiling over the table gave way and a 75 pound chunk caught him just above the ma
 dula oblongato. When he recovered con- sciousness he was in hospital cot wondering who conflscated the stakes. The moral of this heartrending tale is. of course, never play cards without first
 examining the ceiling. And readers who are of the cautious breed that refuses to go out on sunshiny day without
 an umbrella should paste it in their hats to remind them that joy is fieeting and silver Things often plated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
Now sit we close about the taper here And call in question our necessities
 Julius Caesar.
Air Flights at Fairs

Aviator Stephenson, who had been sworn in as mail carrier between the city and the fair grounds, was fatally injured on Monday in fall of about 40 feet from his aeroplane. The accident occurred from a machine of his own invention, and the fatal flight was the first he had made in this state.
 The customary charge does not lie against the unfortunate aviator, for he was indulging in no circus stunts no glides and no spiral movements. He was attempting to guide his biplane upward, and for some reason it did not respond to his efforts. It plunged downward and the ill-fated man either fell or plunged from it, and went to his death.
 The conquest of the air is attended in its present stage with altogether too many risks. These risks before great audiences do not advance the art bit, and it is becoming question whether it would not be better to pro- hibit them until the air machines are rendered more susceptible to control. All told nearly 200 aviators have been killed and this great sacrifice of life has not advanced the problem of air navigation in the least. The work that men with feet on the solid earth men like the Wrights of Dayton will yet render flights in the air in heavier -than-air machines feasible and reasonably safe. The flights at fairs are wholly spectacular, throwing no light whatever on the great task that scientists have in hand.
 No doubt before the century is end ed the air will be made subject to mans uses just as the sea has been. Centuries were absorbed in the latter effort and one century is none too much to devote to the still greater conquest of the air. The Wrights laid the foundation of future inquiry and development by demonstrating that men can fly in heavier-than.a ma chimes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
SOUTHERN COLONIAL MANSIONS

From the Columbia State.
 Marion Harlands forthcoming book. descriptive of colonial homesteads, will doubtless contribute valuable data to the sum of general knowledge concerning i.s subject. But the publishers announce ment seems to indicate a curious section aIism in the mind of the author, which led her to ignore entirely the storied colonial mansions elsewhere than in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut Maryland and New Jersey. There exist in the Carolinas and Georgia, in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana a number of homesteads of the colonial period, which are not only notable ex- amples of the colonial type of architec- turo, but also possess historical associa- tions of greater interest and importance than some of the mansions elsewhere to which she has given attention. Still, we can afford to overlook this. sectionaiism if the book shall prove an adequate and entertaining presentation of the stories that cluster about Colonel Bird of Vest over and his Ill fated daughter, the fair Evelyn; bewitching Mary Cary of Will liamsburg, and the more beautiful Mary Phillpse of Philipse manor, New York; the early loves of George Washington; Pretty Peggy Chew of Cliveden, Major Andres American sweetheart; Eunice Williams of Deerfeld, the Indian captive; doughty Robert Livingston, first lord of the manor that bore his name; the Schuy- lers and the Colfaxes of New Jersey; the high spirited line of Van Cortlandts Madame Jumel and Aaron Burr; the Johnsons of Johnson hall and the Stock tons of Princeton. fa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
THE oRIGIN or LIrE

Alfred Moves, in the London Mail. In the beginning slowly grope we back Along the narrowing track, .f Back to the deserts of the worlds pale
 prime The mire, the clay, the slime. And then, what then? Surely to some-
 thing less; es Back-back to nothingness! You dare not halt upon that dwindling
 way, There is no gulf to stay 'a Your footsteps to the last. Go back you Far. far below the dust, Descend, descend grade by dssolving
 grade; We follow unafraid. Dissolve, dissolve this moving world of
 men Into thin air. and then, o pioneers, o warriors of the light, In that abysmal night Will you have courage then to rise and
 tell Earth of this miracle? will you have courage then to bow th> And say, when all is said: "Out of nothingness arose our thought. This blank abysmaf nought Woke and brought forth that lighted city
 street Those towers. that armored neet?" When you have seen those vacant primal Beyond the centuries: Watched the pale mists across their darkness flow, As in lantern show Weaving by chance by merest chance
 ol~ Pageants of praise and prayer; Watched the great hill like clouds arise
 and set And one /hamed rt' When you have seen as a shadow passing
 away One child clasp hands and pray: When you have seen emerge from that
 dark mlre One martyr. ringed with fire; Or from that nothingness. by special grace. One wonan's lovelit face, Win you have courage then to front
 that law From which our sophists draw. Their only right to ffout one human creed, That nothing can proceed Not even thought. not even love. from less
 Than its own nothingnessf | The law is yours. but dare you waive your pride And kneel where you denied? 1 The law is yours; dare you rekindlev then, l One fairn for sfaithiess men 1 And say you found. on, that dark road
 you trod. 2. In the beginning-God3
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
ALASKA

From the Chicago Journal.
 Alaska lies between almost exactly the same parallels of latitude as do the scandinavian countries and Finland.
 Alaska is warmed by the Japan current al the Scandinavian countries are warmed by the Gulf stream.
 Alaska is 100000 square miles larger than Norway, Sweden and Finland put to- gether. Cut off that much of the north ern part of Alaska. as worthless. and territory remains as large as these countries named, and with climate av- eragihg little colder.
 Alaska has as much copper as Sweden has iron. Alaska has more forests than all three countries. Alaska has coal In quite unlimited quantities, and large de- posits of gold
 The population of the three countries named is 100000 The population of Alaska in 1910 was 64,' &6 an increase in 10 years of 7e4 per sons.
 Under the circumstances, does it mol look as though the conservation o' Alaskas resources had been just a pi' overdone?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Money of the World Exhibit

Farran Zerbe's large educational collee- tion of the money of the world which is on exhibition at the First National bank with the banks compll- ments attracted a large crowd of visitors yesterday It Is the largest and most unique collection of money outside of the British museum and the United States treasury department. The public is in- vited to inspect the exhibit every day up to and including Saturday. and for the benefit of those who cannot call at the bank in the daytime the collection will be on exhibition tomorrow night between the hours of ? and o'clock.
 q have seen numismatic collections, but I had never had an opportunity or inspecting such large and comprehensive display of money as MT. Zerbe's,' said professional man. ''As interesting as the coins are, was particularly interested m some of our old continental currency and in the various state issues of ante-bellurrs days. In. the collection of modern money and drafts that s40,Oo.0o0 warrant made to the order of J. Pierpont Morgan X Co. to pay the French claim on the PanaHa canal attracts most attention. Reporters and printers must have had an idea~that s40.O0 0OO was too large a sum, because l read in the Atlanta Constitution recent lv. when the same collection was being exhibited in the Georgia capital that this draft or warrant was for s<.oOo,O0o. The same mistake occurred in The Age-Her- aid. The warrant was drawn in the treasury department and was dated May g. 1904. It was signed by the comptroller of the currency. The form was engraved anc was styled a treasury accountable warrant. but J. Pierpont Morgan O., New York city, and the amount are in pen and ink. The original is in the treas ury department. MT. Zerbe's copy. IS photograph, by permission of the govern ment, and nobody but an expert would be able to detect the difference between if and the original. The government all lowed only one or two photographs to De made"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
NEW MASCOT AT BEVERLY

Beverly. Mass, Telegram to the Wash
 ington Post
 President Taft has new mascot-Ca- ruso. a white French poodle, presented to Miss Helen Taft by Mrs. George Von l.. Meyer, wife of the Secretary of the Navy.
 When visitor arrives Caruso receives him and gives an exhibition of the latest tricks taught him by Maj. T. l.. Rhoads. MT. Taft's personal aid. He is learning to sit up and bark when anyone says ..,raft,r and to growl and whine when anyone says Wilson. Major Rhoads tells how Caruso won himself back into the Presidents esteem after he had earned the title of that blamed dog by insisting on rubbing his shaggy head against the trousers of the Presidents blue serge. The Presi- dent had lost an important document which he needed in a hurry. He had about given up in despair, when the door of his office was gently pushed open and 1 Caruso appeared with the document safe ly between his teeth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
COURTSHIP IN ANDALUSIA

make good husbands; perhaps this is why girls appear to care more for their mothers than their husbands The devo- tion of daughters to their mothers is very great. Indeed. to be a Spanish mother is to be much adored. l know a girl who was greatly exasperated with her lover because, when he wrote to her, he was always quoting his mother. The girl satir- ically said Tt was always Mi madre, Mi madre.' fi
 The houses of the Spanish poor are nearly always built round large patios, in which there is a we'll that has to serve for as many as 20 families. Some of these patios are very pleasant, being deco1 rated with plants and shaded in summer by large vines. The houses are very small, consisting of one little room and d tiny kitchen. So as there is not much homework to be done, nor much house. keeping, it is no wonder peasant girls are anxious to exchange domestic ser- vice for matrimony, and become rather aggravated with their lovers delibera- ton.
 If a girl is engaged to a man who emi- grates so as to make a home for her, before going out to join him she is mar ried by proxy. The girls. however, do not like the now very prevalent custom of enigrating, for owing to it they often lose their lovers. The English proverb that "absence makes the heart grow fonder" does not always prove true as regards the Spaniard. He will, indeed, ask his fianeee to write to him, but she will often refuse to do so if she believes his temperament a fickle one, preferring the chance of a new lover in her own neighborhood to an uncertain one at distance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
Birmingham to the Sea

When" says the Mobile Item, the
 improvements on the Warrior river are completed next year, giving tide water communication between Mobile
 and the high point of navigation on the Warrior reached by the locks, the water route to the gulf will be but a comparatively short distance from Bir- mingham. It is proposed to canalize this distance, thus giving river out let from the iron and steel manufac- turing district of the state to the sea. The immense tonnage originating Tn the Birmingham district is guaran- tee that the short canal would pay fol itself. It would give great impetus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
Local Buxiuess Conditions

Birmingham is wonderfully prosperous
 at this time" said w. N. Malone the well
 known real estate man. This whole dis
 trict is on boom. Real estate values
 are advancing steadily and it would be
 strange if that were not so, for new pso-
 pie are settling here in large numbers. Birmh gham is certainly growing at a much more rapid rate than in any pre- vious year.
 "spea1ing of the fair. we have the best one this year that [ have ever seen and have been living in this city upward ci .a wears Not only have. we great fair but the crowd of visitors IS unusually large. The farmers have prosperous look and the whole of Alabama has grand future.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
to Appellate Courts

The declination of John B. Knox, who presided over the constitutional convention of 1901, has been followed by the appointment of Judge Edward de Graffenreid of Greensboro to the vacancy on the bench of the supreme court created by the death of the iate Judge Robert T. Simpson. The appointment created in turn vacancy in the court of appeals, and Elias Per nv Thomas of Eufaula has been ap- pointed to fill it. Both have accepted the appointments rendered by Govern or O'Neal, and the states two highest courts stand again complete.
 These important appointments have been conferred on two men who are known to be high in character and learned in the law. Judge Thomas is a young man, but no one doubts his competency to handle with Judge Walker and Judge Pelham, both law yers of experience, the cases brought before the court of appeals. Judge de Graffenreid is known throughout Alabama. It is believed the lawyers of the state will favorably receive both appointments, and that the law .'as it exists in the books," to use a zhs,rase of Judge de Graffenreid, will continue to be declared by our two great appellate courts in the future as in the past.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
The Knapp Memorial

"I hope there will be a generous re- sponse to the fund for the proposed me- morjal in honor of Dr. Seaman A. Knapp" said prominent citizen. Dr' Knapp was a northern man, native oI Essex county. New York. He spent ms boyhood on his fathers farm, graduateo from the Union college at Schenectady with distinguished honors, moved to lowa at the age of 32 and served five years as president of the Iowa School for the Blind. He edited The Western Stock Journal and Farmer, and in 1879 was elected professor of agriculture of the Iowa State college. He became presl- dent of that college in 1884. At the age of 53 Dr. Knapp resigned the college presidency and removed to Lake Charles, La. He developed the rice industry in Louisiana and Texas; conducted demon- strations in rice growing and diversined farming for the benefit of native farmers and emigrants. In 1898 he was author ized by the United States department of agriculture to visit China, Japan and the Philippines to make rice investigations; made a second trip to the Orient ana visited Europe in 1901. He was sent next to Porto Rica to report on agri- cultural resources and possibilities.
 'In 1903 he inaugurated demonstration work to fight the Mexican cotton boil weevil and from 1903 to 1911 he extended his demonstration work throughout the south. He died in Washington in April of last year at the height of his mental power These facts were gleaned from a. leaflet entitled The Services of Great Man and the Appreciation of a Great People, issued by the memorial commit tee, of which David c. Barrow of Athens, Ga, is president and O. B.. Martin Of Washington Is treasurer. Prof. J. F. Duggar of Auburn is a member of the committee for Alabama.
 ''The general education board of New York gave s250,000 to endow the Knapp School of Country Life in connection with the Peabody college at Nashville. The memorial committee has undertaken to raise s15O,000 for the building and for the farm. This is to be a demonstration farm and a demonstration school. It is said that no such institution has been planned before in the history of the world.
 MT Martin says that immediately fol- lowing pr. Knapp's death numerous suggestions arose throughout the south in regard to a memorial in his honor. It was argued that we are prompt to build monuments and pay tributes to the he- roes of war and why not to a hero in the arts of peace pr. Knapp's work and teachings made it will nigh impossible to erect a monument of cold marble or dead bronze. It was felt that there must be living memorial.
 "As MT. Sydney J. Bowie remarked the other day, 1t is difficult to estimate the great value of the services rendered to the people of the south by Dr. Knapp. I believe, said MT. Bowie, mo single factor in the history of the south has ever con- tributed more to its prosperity than the work he has done in the last seven or eight years in farm demonstration and in the organization of boys corn clubs and girls tomato clubs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

Eugene Chafin, prohibition candidate for President, says that either. Woodrow Wilson or he will be elected. This leaves something to the voter to decide next month
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
nnr,EcTIoxs OF A BACHELOR

Prom the Chicago News.
 AdNire is not so harmful when nobody follows 1t.
 A woman has smaller feet so as to he able to wear still smaller shoes.
 The reason man knows how badly tie government is run is he isn't running it.
 man works 10 get himself into poli- tics and then the public works to get him out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

The country Is getting along prosper ously without any advice from Jim Sher- man or Uncle Joe Cannon. These two
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
The Next President

'I do not find any democrat who has the least doubt as to the outcome of the presidential election,' said F. F. Waldron of Buffalo, N. Y., who represents mans ufacturing concern.
 q think all the republicans expect to see Wilson elected. Some of the repub- lican politicians may talk as if MT. Taft had chance, but humanly speaking, he has not the ghost of show, and mo- body feels that more strongly, I imagine, than the President himself
 "As to the tariff used to be a protec- ton democrat, but I have changed my views While am far from being free trader, I think revision of the tar,ff is demanded. I doubt, however, if the Senate will let a tariff reform bill get through.
 Wilson will make us good President and there will be general rejoicing when the returns come in on November D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

A plant in the house will be worth more than half a dozen outdoors when the first killing frost arrives unanz nounced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
A Prominent Upbuilder

Few men have done as much for the upbuilding of the south in the past five years as MT. Finley, president of the Southern railway. who came to Birmng- ham as the special guest of the Alabama Good Roads association" said a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
 MT. Finley, like all the high officials of the Southern is southern born and southern raised. He Is a native of Mis- sissippi. In his younger days he was stationed in Texas. When he was vice president of the Southern he gave great thought and attention to the resources and development of the south and as president he has been able to do still more for the section traversed by the Southern railway. MT. Finley is not only full of constructive ideas, but he is pol ished gentleman and is one of the best platform speakers of the present time. He is convincing writer, and his addresses delivered in the south from time to time have been published in pamphlet form and have been widely distributed. The practical good that MT. Finley has done cannot well be overestimated."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

The pipe dreams of squad of presi- dential aspirants will be rudely shattered next month by a mere schoolmaster from New Jersey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

It begins by paying this tribute to lady who is working strenuously in the highway cause:
 Miss Alma Rlttenberry of Birming- ham. who represents Southern Good Roads in several southern states, contin- ues to be much in demand at good roads meetings, women's club meetings. ana like gatherings all over her territory. She is chairman of the Jackson memorial highway committee of the Alabama Daughters of 1872, and has the high honor of having originated the memorial highway idea. She 1t was who first thought out and planned a transcontinen- tai highway, from Chicago to Mobile, splitting the great middle basin, and nam ing it in honor of Andrew Jackson. When the Alabama Daughters of 1872 took the project up Miss Rittenberry was put at the head of the work, and she has done valiant service"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

Governor Dix should be excused if he rises up to remark that republics are ungrateful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

Acts are better than straw ballots, but
 both agree this month in predicting the
 sweeping triumph of Woodrow Wilson. the pedagogue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
THERE WAS A MAN

 There was a man in our town Who used to go on toots, Until he saw pink elephants Emerging from his boots.
 Indianapolis Star There was a man in our town Joy riding oft was seen, Until one day he broke the law, A lamp post and his bean
 Boston Transcript There was a man in our town Who never took. a drink, But when he'd see pretty girl He'd always want to wink.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. There was a man in our town And he was wondrous solemn. We asked him why, and he replied: Because I read your column"
 Springfield Union. There was a man in our town As thin as any stick, He met girl as thin as he Now those two are quite thick.
 Houston Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

The use of the f1sts-boxing in other words-is to be added to the curriculum. sc to speak, of the Pittsburg public schools.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

The year 1912 is emphatically year in which general business is not bit sacred or even disturbed by national political campaign
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

T. R. should take notice that neither
 MT. Archbold nor MT. Morgan are dead.
 They are very much alive and ready to teqtifv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

J. P. Morgan says the Roosevelt man. agers of 1904 had no limit when they sought campaign contributions from trusts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

Congressman Richard Bartholdt comes back from Europe declaring that Taft is a sure winner. But Europe cannot Vote
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

Some say they will not go over to votes for women unless those women stop wearing white shoes with black skirts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
SEE TEXTBOOKS.

.cholly chappington says he had a brain storm yesterday q don't believe it." Why notY' "A storm in vacuum is contrary to the
 laws of physics"