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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
Simplicity in Inaugurations

President Wilson has struck
"a telling blow even before he has at
tanned to power by calling for all
possible simplicity at the coming in
auguration ceremony. The greater
the simplicity the greater the dignity
of an Inauguration, and the President
elect was quick to see a chance to
weed out the shoddiness of the old
fashioned for-revenue-only ball.
1t now seems probable that not
only will the ball be abolished but the
proposed popular reception at the
capitol will not be substituted. No
one seems to want the latter, and
there will in all probability be no
popular reception, certainly no ball.
This is a fine innovation and the
President-elect is entitled to all the
credit of bringing about an Inaugural
ton without any fuss or feathers. The
PreSldent-elect presented the entlre
case when he said that he wanted the
ceremony of the Inauguration made
as simple as is consistent with dig
nifty and order. The truth is, simplicity
cannot be carried too far at Inaugural
tions.
The parades will be retained. In the
coming ceremony the parades will
cover two days and they will be ex-
tremely interesting, and that of March
8 bids fair to become historic.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

IN looking over the 1918 New YORK
World Almanac's table headed Produe-
tfon of Liquor and Wines in the United
states. | was surprised to find that the
output of bourbon whisky was larger
than the output of rye whisky, SAID an
old citizen. 1.-The two WHISTLES referred
to were classified from 1900 to 1s0s, IN
elusive. Beginning with 1909 the whisky
production is given without classiflca-
ton.
..The production has varied with the
years, but with the exception of 1902 more
bourbon whisky than rye was distilled,
and presumably consumed In 1907 the
production was a little over 33,O00,0O0 gal
Ions of bourbon, as compared with 3D.
$50, 1876 gallons of rye. In 1908 bourbon
was 14,12o, 4s4; rye, 1s,5S7,Ss8. In 1903 the
total whisky output had increased enor-
Inousy over the preceding year, the prod
uot having been 70152,175 gallons. In
1910 the production had increased to 81
AS, S94, and in 1911 to 100647, 155. Those
were the last statistics of production
given.
II have never been much of whisky
drinker but, although a Kentuckian by
birth, l have always called for rye when
| happened to be indulging 1t has been
a long time since l have tasted anything
stronger than beer Modern beer is very
mild compared with the beer of 30 years
ago that 1 used to drink. 1t has so little
alcohol in it as to be almost non-intoxi-
eating, and the friends of temperance
should go slow in discouraging the beer
drinker.
"There has always been some abuse of
liquor; more now, perhaps, than ever,
anc | believe that the solution of the
temperance problem will be the prohibi-
ton of whisky and the promotion of beer
ana light wine drinking.
Under the head of Liquor Movement
IN States the World Almanac prints this
item: Georgia-The Tippins bill designed
to close the near beer saloons passed
beth houses and was vetoed by the gov
sernor, the legislature failing to pass it
over his veto. The prohibition law is
practically a dead letter in the cities and
poorly enforced in the country districts.
There is a srtong movement in favor of
resubmission in this state Georgia..
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
EDISON IN THIRTY YEARS

electric lighting is invested in electric
railways. This industry alone employs
100000 people. Edison invented the
telephone transmitter; the telephone
business employs $4,000 people. There
are $4,000 people working in the NOV
ing picture business, more engaged in
the Edison Portland cement industry
Tens of thousands more are engaged
in making dynamos and motors, and
thousands more are working at the
'quadruplex system of telegraphy,
which Edison invented, and by which
eight operators may work on a single
wire. After all, the best and finest
thing you can do for any man is to
give him a chance to make an honest
living at some useful work Think of
the number of people Edison has pro-
vided with good jobs. Assuming the
population of the United States to be
10O,000.000, one man out of every forty
of us owes his means of livelihood and
usefulness in some degree to Edison.
Edison is still hard at work. He prom
Uses other things, and he has kept many
such promises.
We don't always recognize the angel
in our midst when we have him. Thirty
years ago a dozen men seemed a great
deal more important to us than Edi-
son, but it is not always the man in
public life who does the most to al
ter life. In 1892 the Moorish city of
Granada was taken by the Spanish
soldiers of Ferdinand and Isabella Any
historian writing at that time, we think.
would have chronicled 1T as the big
gest event of the time. and would have
devoted very small mention to the al
legged discovery of a new passage over
seas to India Yet Ferdinand presented
to Christian Europe only a section Of
rather barren and deserted country,
while Columbus gave to the world I'M
told wealth and two great continents.
When We see the splash in the pool,
we have no idea how far the ripples
will spread. or. to what mighty waves
they will grow. 1t is hard to realize
just what our value is. We may know,
at least, that honest industry is the
sureSt indication of the worth of man.
This ought to be q good enough New
Years thought for any one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
HARD LUCK OF THE URIANKHAI
From the February Wide World Ma ga-

From the February Wide world Maya
zine.
The Uriankhai are a poor, semi-no-
madic tribe who have been driven into
the reeesses of one of the most DIFF
ficult and remote regions of Asia by
stronger advancing hordes of Tartars
and Siberian Russians. They used to
dwell in better lands on the Siberian
side but now they are all within the
Chinese empire in the peculiar mountain
locked basin around the sources of the
Yenise
The existence of these people in this
region is peculiar. Long, long ago there
was a race of people who inhabited the
banks of the Yensei in Siberia, who TILED
the soil and worked metals. They made
stone implements until they learned how
to make bronze ones, and later they
attained to the knowledge of iron. They
covered the land with gigantic grave
mounds, the burial places of their chiefs
they drew pictures on the rocks ana
wrote their strange picture language,
thereby giving us a clue to their iden-
tity and helping us to know something
about them.
Hordes of men from the south. how
ever, drove them out of this good land,
and they retreated to the far north,
where they still exist. They live there in
a bleak land of tundra, within the arc
tic circle and are called Samyodes-
primitive people who have returned al
most to the status of the Stone Age
But portion of the tribe remained
for a time, and gradually retseated
farther into the inaccessible forests to
the south and east, where we now fad
the remnant in the remote corners CT
the Upper Yenisei basin. These are
the Uriankhai, the forest dwellers-or, as
some call them, 1.-The wild Uriankua.
Here they survive the march Of civil
lization that passes across Asia to the
north and south: here they herd their
reindeer, living on them,, casting their
meat, and clothing themselves in their
skins outside food. birch bark and rein
deer skin are their sole necessities. Theirs
is indeed the simple life.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

ously created; that is, not only could
two telephone receivers be used on
the real wires, but a third could be
added, making three telephones work
ing simultaneously and separately
on the two stands of copper"
The recent gains in the telephone
system are in short these: Loading
No. 8 circuits, phantoming the cir
cults, and then a combination of
loading and phantoming, which will
make it possible to telegraph and
telephone at the same time over the
same wires
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

Ply Philip j. Fischer.
Old men weave memories sitting in the
sun.
OF a world grown vain, whose one
time vaunted scars
The soft moss covers, and whose rare
bazars--
That sold them Truth-now. hayward
chafferers shun
For strange and impious markets. One by
one,
Dimmed by an alien flame. the unwink-
ing stars
That cheered their vigils fade; till
Death unbars
To their bruised eyes his kind pavilion.
o glory of the young days harbinger!
Yet, lest our kindling pride too madly
burn,
And lusty boast, our sicklier deeds out
run,
Mark We the portent. and forbode the
year
When dazed and blind we likewise. in
our turn
Old men weave memories. sitting il
the sun.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

Nine. Geraldine Farrar recently had a
difficult time in driving her geese off
the stage in the Metropolitan Opera
house in New York. The Goose Girl
chased'them round and round the stage.
but they only squawked at her. Then
using force, Miss Farrar grabbed one
by the neck. Its fellow goose escaped
and spat rebukes at her. At last, how
beating by the harassed prima donna
in the opera wings. Some smiled when,
on returning to the stage. Miss Farrar
sang the lbrettists words, Il am not
kind They seemed to voice the opin-
ion of the geese, which cackled loudly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

In discussing the ideal age to marry
Prof. Dallas l.. Sharpe of Boston Uni
versity, says: There is nothing par
ticularly God-fearing or discreet or
reverent about &c. Thirty is the timid
age. Forty is the dangerous age.
Twenty is the silly, milky. tassled age,
when boy is still liable to be croupy
and to need castor oil and his mother.
will never keep populated at that gait.
1 am inclined to put the ideal time
at Is"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES



Il used to think that western cities
had the lead IN growth, but some of the
cities in the south are making high rec
ords in progress said c. c. Pennen of
Philadelphia.
Il have. spent much time in the west,
but in the past three years I have made
visits to southern states several times
and | find that the south as whole
has developed along large lines, and is
making prodigiobs strides. All the south
ern cities with which l am familiar are
growing at a very fast rate.
In Virginia the three cities most
talked about on account of their rapid
growth are Richmond Norfolk and Roa-
nobe. Richmond had a populat ion of
nearly 10000 in the last census and it
Is claimed now that its population has
reached 10000. A casual visitor is i'm
pressed not only with Richmond's beauty
and elegance. but with its metropolitan
character. Norfolk is more prosperous
today than it ever was and there is a
teeming population in and around that
city. Within a radius or 90 miles of Nor
folk the population must be close to 200,-
600. Roanoke, in the southwestern part
of the state, is coming ahead at a brisk
rate, end will some day reach the &c.,
600 population mark. Among other cities
that impress the visitor favoraby are
Charlotte, N. c., Atlanta and Jackson
vile. Atlanta is certainly a very metro
politan city and it's proverbial public
spirit has done much to build it UP.
1t is great town
But l believe Birmingham, which
seems to be about Atlanta's size-be-
tween 175,OOO and 2C0,0OO-has a far bright
er future than any city in the south,
unless it be New Orleans. Birmingham
is phenomenal in its growth / was here
for the first time about Il years ago.
heard prophets of this city discuss the
material resources of the district and
predict great things, but I had no idea
that there would be such a large and
handsomely built city of Birmingham
cge that could be compared to this.
One easily imagires now that Birmiug-
ham will be in the million population
class before any other southern CITY,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

doesn't make anything of an apology
that a man is old, or a veteran, or
cripple. They should not be permitted
to make themselves public nuisances.
Il am an anti-prohibitionist but 1
will say for the prohibitionists, lhat
they drove the saloons off of the sac
walks, upstairs at least; and that most
of the blind tigers either put their
.drunks' to sleep or sent them home IN
a hack
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
Advertising Birmingham

1.-THE Chamber of Commerce is doing
fine work in advertising Birmingham, "
said a public spirited citizen. Secretary
Radcliffe is sending out variety of lit
terature The reprints from the Balti-
more Manufacturers Record are especial
ly attractive, but a particularly effective
form of advertising is that little pink
slip headed 'Birmingham-The City With
Pay Roll of Million a Week
MY old friend, B. Steiner, formerly of
Birmingham, but now of New York, tells
me that he keeps a stack of those slips
on his desk to hand out to men who call
on him and that he always carries a
bunch of them in his pocket"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Any girl with money enough can be
good looking enough.
IL takes a very little scandal to start
a mighty big sensation.
Even If a man has a lot of sense II
of no help to him to understand women
Always hurting out the truth isn't any
more comfortable for people than bang
ing away at them with shotgun.
What makes fat woman suspicious
OF the scales is when she was young
everybody was afraid she might SO into
decline.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

Heat prostrations have been checked
for a season, although summer may re-
turn on short notice. The Pacific coast
is monopolizing all the real winter
weather.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

The music festival to be held this
year should be financially as we'll as ar
tistically successful and feel sure it
will be-" said member of the festival
board.
Last years festival brought us the
Minneapolis orchestra-one of the best
but there was considerable deficit I
have been on the guarantee list of every
festival since the first one that Mr. Guck-
enberger directed in the spring of 1899
| think that was the year. We have had
many festivals since then and I recall
only three in which the guarantors were
called upon to meet deficit-only two
In which the deficit which any guaran-
tor had to pay amounted to over 81.
1T was easy to see why last years
festival brought financial loss. The
Griggs lectures in the 1yceum course
were given at the time of the festival
and they proved to be a popular counter
attraction. The festival this year will.
be in the week of April IA The orchcs-
ira will be the New York Philharmonic
of which Mr.. stranslxy is conductor 1t
is the oldest Of the we'll known SYM
phony organizations of this country. The
late Theodore Thomas was at one time
its conductor. The Philharmonic will
have 60 men On its southern tour.
While no contract with the orchestra
will be signed until a guarantee of
$4,000 is obtained the matter of getting
the necessary subscribers will be, it is
believed only question of a few days.
or a week at most. I believe there viii
be a substantial surplus after the next
festival"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
ALACKADAY

ALACKADAY
True love. they say. is wondrous sweet,
A wight forgets all earthly cares;
So happily his heart doth beat,
And such a joyous look he wears.
snture fears alright his soul,
He never dreams of after ills,
When waves of sad misfortune roll
And wreck him on reef OF bliis
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

The photographers to the last man APP
piaud the President-elect for emitting
the ball
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

The bulb moose already begin to see
that the democratic party is to be rad
icalized The bull moose partys o.
cupation will be gone
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

A professor of sociology says half
the babies are "calamities," but almost
anybody would prefer such a calamity
to a professor of sociology.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

Philadelphia is lightning to look up.
S7-story office building has been
projected there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

No state will hereafter make its gov
ernor wait for the organization of the
legislature. Illinois is warning in
many respects.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

The New York Medical society says
the broom must go and the vacuum
cleaner stands ready to fill the sap.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

Deep snow has fallen throughout
Oregon. The entire Pacific coast slope
is experiencing a hard winter. The
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

A STRANGE STORY
a dancer who was lightly clad g
One night appeared upon the stage,
Forthwith became the reigning fad,
Among the Johnnies quite the rage.
To wine and dine she still refused
And would not dissipate at all;
Herself politely she'd excuse,
Fen when a millionaire would call.
You think-it strange, and so did they
Who sought this beauty all in vain;
The world was puzzled, sooth to say,
Why twas from pleasure she'd re-
frain.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

After its daily run the Turkish army
Is reported in good condition 1t had
better be.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

Senator MARITIME of New Jersey. in
dueed the Senate 10 reconsider the bill
granting $4,000 to Miss Alice V. Hough-
ton, the young woman whose scalp was
torn off two years ago in one of the
tabnlating machines in the census ef-
flee, and promptly to repass the measure
with the amount Increased TO $4,000. OF
the $4,000 voted by the Senate. $4,000 is
to be paid at once, and SIS per msnth
will be paid thereafter. The bill is so
worded that the money canot be at
taehed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

THE perfect women" now being dis
covered may be Venuses, but they are
not really attractive girls. They are
too muscular
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

Chicago wants another secretary of
war, and so does q good share of the
rest of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

The next thing To go in the Inaugural
ton ceremony should be the delivery
of the first message from a platform
in the March air on the capitol front.
1t is dangerous to the President and
to the spectators There are no hear
eve
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

Mr.. Poincare is a strong man, and
he will become FESTIVE in a titulary
office.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
THE OLD SONGS

Uncle Shelby Cullom is trying tc
explain away his vote on Archibald.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
ALREADY SOLID

What did Miss Peacher say when
Cholly Chumply told her he would like
to make himself solid?'
'She replied that so far as his head
was concerned, he would have nothing
to do
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
SEE ABOVE

A chap can hold job like this
For years and years,
If he but chance to own, l wis,
A pair of shears.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

The Glover club of PHILADELPHIA is so
old-fashioned it has come out for Taft
for President in 1915.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
IRKsoME RESTRAINT

ture.'
mo. Cables can't bear to be in a
place where somebody else Is doing all
the talking"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
A QUIET CITIZEN

How does Dorning stand in this
community
"Old Bill Dorfiing?'
"Yes"
"Why, he makes about as much noise
in this community as the letter b does
in the word debt"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

DUMPING THE BUMPS
81 do not mind the jolts of fate
Said Tompkins, lighting a cigar,
"But there's no fun, | wish to state,
In riding where grade crossing
are"
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

woman suffrage amendment may
be submitted in Texas in 1914, and in
New York in 1915. The suffragists are
confident they can carry Texas. but
they are not at all sure they can carry
New York An election in 1915 cannot
we'll be forecast.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

The death Of Mrs Julia C. r. Dorr,
in her eighty-eighth year is widely
mourned. She was long considered one
of the best writers of New England.
She was born in Charleston, S. c., but
when her mother died she was carried
to Rutland, VT, where she ever after
lived. She published is volumes of
poems and many novels. She numbered
among her friends all the writer's in
this country of the last century
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
A STRANGE STORY

Even when he tells me something
for my own good. l listen.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

A CHEAP DIVERSION
Though slim my purse,
Somehow ii glads
My heart to read
The auto aus.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
1 read them ere
Sleep steals Ger me,
All night long
1 drive one free
Boston Transcript.
And when o. morns
To work 7 walk,
I dodge the horns
Imagined squawk.
Waco News.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

Miss Marie Dobbs dropped a nick Ell
by mistake into ticket choppers box
of the elevated railroad in New York
about year ago. She is $500 richer
as a result. She was awarded that sum
as damages for false arrest when,
on the refusal of the ticket agent to
nickel from his window Hailed to
court, the young woman was dis
charged honorably. Then she sued the
company
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

FULL MANY
Full many a man =
Has lost his grip
By being shy
= One poker chip.
Birmingham Age Herald.
Full many a man
Has lost his etack
BY being shy
one dog-gone jack.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

NOT SO sLANGY. AFTER ALL
Webster authorizes the use of the
word chicken as applied to young
person of the feminine persuasion. and
there is literary justification for the
use of wren applied to a fascinating
woman. In John Drydens play, "All
for Love-" which treats of the immor-
tai love affair of Antony and Gle
opatra, the proud Roman thus addresses
his general, Ventidius, who has ac-
cused Antony of selling his glory for a
woman's kisses:
Fool that I was. upon my eagles
wings,
bore this wren (Cleopatra), till 1 was
tired with soaring,
And now he (Octavius), mounts above
me-"
IT GREATLY CHEERS
To glad O. man
There's naught, my friend,
More useful than
The dividend.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
GRANDPA,s TALK

Grandpa said: "Oh, you chicken"
But, then, it did not matter.
The kind of FOWL he had in mind
Was steamirg on a platter
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Grandpa said: ooh, you kid"
And the kind he did not state,
For 1t was smoking roast
With mint sauce on his plate.
Louisville Post.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

The mystery became so great
Reporters followed on her trail,
Until they saw her happy state
At home. and heard her baby wall
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22
TEST OF FRIENDSHIP

I think a great deal OF Dorl<in.'
"Yes?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-01-22

Entered at the Birmin CHAM, Ala,
postoffice as second class matter under
act of Congress March 3, 1879.