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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
RED HAIRED spINsTERs RARE

From the London Mail.
Though red hair of the Titan tint
remains at least till middle age, a cor
respondent points out that until the
other day he had never seen or heard of
a red-haired old maid
Il know that real red hair in girls
and women is extremely rare nova
days, and anthropological experts say
that the red-haired race is fast dis
appearing. A friend to whom 1 mem
toned my one and only meeting with
a red haired spinster told me that he
had always heard that there was not
an old maid to be found whose head
was crowned with the real red hair
A member of the Royal Anthropologi-
cal institute said: 'I am inclined to
think that few if any girls with the
Titan tinted hair fail to get married.
Men like them and they are quickly
married. Nowadays red hair is rare
chiefly because only when both par
ents have red hair does the hair of
the child take on the same color. And
a man and woman with red hair rarely
marry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
Birmingham College Canvass

Leading Methodists of Birmingham,
including Bishop Mccoy and former
Governor Conner, have organized for
vigorous campaign in April to raise
funds for Birmingham college. A
large part of the $250,000 proposed
to be raised has already been sub
scribed.
Birmingham college is an institu-
ton which reflects credit now upon
this city and all northern Alabama,
and when the new buildings are
erected and an endowment fund
started it will be an institution of
which every man, woman and child
hereabouts will feel proud
Birmingham college owns nearly
70 acres of land inside the city limits
which has great intrinsic value today
and which five years hence will prob
ably be worth double or more than
double it's present value. But the
grounds will be improved along with
the buildings and public sentiment will
always oppose any sale of the prop
erty, for the college will be one of
Birmingham great show places.
When the committee of Methodists
complete the $250,000 fund another
$3.50, 900 can be raised easily by popu-
lar subscription; and total of $780,
O00-S250, 900 for buildings and $780,
900 for endowment will not be too
much.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
CAMERA MAN.s RLuNpEn

New York Correspondent Cincinnati
Times-Star.
The moving picture business is full
of horrors according to one of its pro-
fieients. He told the story of an acci-
dent that occurred not long ago. One
of the film companies had planned n
fine fire scene. An old house on a
Jersey meadow had been purchased for
$3.50 and filled with lively combustibles.
story lad been written around the
conflagration to come. At the last mo-
ment new camera man had been en-
gagged.
'fIe was a good photographer" said
the teller, but he was new to the
movies He got rattled."
FLAMES spurted out of the windows.
Bllows of smoke followed. BY and bv
actors popped out like peas from a
flaming pod. The gallant fireman res
cued the baby. Another gallant fire
man rescued a poodle to catch a giggle.
tornado of sparks arose, the roof
caved in, and it was all over. The new
operator had been working like a pants
hand on Rivington street He dropped
the crank and mopped his brow Then
he broke into laughter.
Gee" said he. "This is q joke on
me. I forgot to take the brass cap
often the lens
If there had been another operator
at hand he might then have secured a
good "chase" picture over the Jersey
swamps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
Automobile Rides for InvaIids

we have so many organizations so
many institutions maintained by charity
for the benefit of the needy, that | hesi-
tate to suggest one more, but I believe
this one | am about to propose will not
interfere with any of the others and will
cost individuals nothing in the way of
money said a prominent and beloved
clergyman.
1 find there are many invalids who are
not able to hire taxicabs or hacks, but
who would be immeasurably benefited il
they could have an outing occasionally in
an automobile. Now, there are hundreds
of persons in Birmingham owning auto
mobiles who would be only too glad to
put them at the disposal of a committee
of ladies for an hour or two now and
then. l would suggest that few ladies'
organize themselves into a society or
committee for the very purpose suggested
We find such charity in other cities
and it would be successful and greatly
appreciated here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

James Hamilton Lewis is one of the
most picturesque figures in political life
in this country of recent years. he
served in the Fifty-sixth Congress as a
representative from Washington and be-
came known as an orator and debater of
prominence. Leaving Congress, he Joined
the volunteer army in the war with Spain.
Colonel Lewis demonstrated his ability as
a parliamentarian when he presided over
convention. 1t was not discovered until
later that he was not member of the
convention, but had merely gone to Bal
timore as a spectator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
Bands and OrcIiestras

81 am glad to hear that we will have
one or more concerts at the Jefferson the
atre in April by Memoli's band" said a
retired musician. 81 attended Mr.. Me-
moli's premier concert on Palm Sunday
afternoon and was agreeably surprised to
find such large and we'll trained band
OF course, l knew that we had many good
sight readers here among the brass and
wind players, but | was surprised to find
as many as 40 assembled under one con-
ductor, and that the ensemble was COM
paratively firm and smooth
II missed the concert at the fair
grounds Easter Sunday but friend of
mine who was there said the band ac-
quilted itself admirably. For new band
it is remarkably good. Mr.. Memoli has
proved himself to be very able musician.
"The premier programme was by no
means light. Several of the numbers
called for high class ability on the part
Of the conductor. / was especially i'm
pressed with Mr.. Memoli's fine reading of
the William Tell overture, the 'Mefisto-
fe1e music and the Parsifar music Mr..
Memoli's next concert at the Jefferson will
be on the afternoon of Sunday April 20.
s'Now that Birmingham is growing so
fast and that our Musicians union has
increased so rapidly in numerical strength
| hope Mr.. Memol WIFI organize a concert
orchestra in the near future-say next
fall. While he could not start with an
orchestra as large as we find in Cincin-
natl st. Louis, Chicago or MINNEAPOLIS
ne should be able to begin with an or
chestra Of 35 or 40-six first violns. four
seconds, three vioas two or three cellos
three basses. etc. The trouble with or
pa ninzing first class orchestra outside
of city of 100000 or 100000 population
is the scarcity of certain important in
struments, such as French horns, which
arc exceedingly difficult of execution. and
are used chiefly in concert and grand
opera music; oboes, bassoons and so on.
| Birmingham is one OF the few cities
| under 100000 which has a first rate oboe
player. Philip Memoli, Jr., although
! scarcely in his teens, is a prodigy ON
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
Rising Waters in Cincinnati

Cincinnati does not lie on level
plain. It's site rises rapidly to a near
by hill about as high as Red noun
tain. The line of retreat from surg
ing waters is short and sure, and the
merchants along the water front are
accustomed to rapid changes in the
Ohio's flood possibilities. They move
their goods either up stairs or up the
hill and all is we'll.
The rivers rise already exceeds Ga
feet above low water mark, and the
belief prevails that the record of 1884,
II feet, may be reached and perhaps
exceeded. These sudden freshets in the
middle west in the early spring sea-
son are remarkable. They are as
mighty as they are sudden. In "a
hours the Great Miami, a river that
flows through fertile farms and by
prosperous towns, rose until it had
overwhelmed an enterprising city of
l116,O00 people-the home of the
Wrights, and the seat of many insti-
tutions.
But at Cincinnati there will be no
loss of life and the loss of property
will be small. This is because Cincin-
natl is fully warned, fully prepared
and fully confident of its ability to
reach the hill behind it before the yell
low waters of the river do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
Convention CITY In 1a14

Birmingham has long been popular
city for conventions of the smaller size
and as soon as the skyscraper hotels now
in course of construction are completed
and a great auditorium is built this will
be a convention city of the first rank
said Henry Hiden, chairman of the Cham
Der of Commerce committee on conven-
tions.
Il was in New Orleans the other dav
and met members of the executive com
mittee of the Cotton Seed Crushers' as
sociation, who discussed Birmingham
from convention point of view. That
associations convention this year will
mean a gathering of between 1000 and 5000
and | said to members of the commit
tee that Birmingham would not be In
shape to take proper care of such a
convention until 1914. Next year we will
certainly have the hotel accommodation
and the chances look bright for the
auditorium
when we do get our auditorium we
will have the biggest building of the
kind in the south. Atlanta has an audi
torium with a 700 seating capacity. The
one projected for Birmingham will have
capacity greater by several hundred
seats than the auditorium in Atlanta. We
will find it very easy to get great CON
ventions just as soon as we have the
hotels and the big convention build
ing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
Never trouble trouble till trouble
brings suit.
No man or woman ever lived who
was too good.
Cut out the fizz and fuss and fill up
on zeal and zest.
A homely woman doesn't look it after
you get used to her
1t Is easier and cheaper to get mar
ried than it is to get unmarried
There's nothing like a good manufac-
turing plant for raising money.
When a man talks about his princi-
pies he usually means his prejudices.
One may have the courage of his con-
victions and yet not amount to much.
All women have long and beautiful
hair in story books. In real life it
sometimes looks as If the rats had
gnawed it.
During courtship man easily makes
dollar look like 80 cents. After mar
riase he tries to make 80 cents look
like dollar. This is less easy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
SPRING SWEETNESS.

BY John Keats.
stood tiptoe upon little hill,
The air was cooling, and so very still,
That the sweet buds which with d
modest pride
Pull droopingly. in slanting curve aside.
Their scantly leaved, and finely taper
ing stems,
Had not yet lost their starry diadems
Caught from the early sobbing of the
morn.
The clouds were pure and white as
fiocks new-shorn.
And fresh from the clear brook sweet
ly they slept
On the blue fields of heaven, and then
there crept
A little noiseless noise among the
leaves.
Born of the very sigh that silence
heaves,
For not the faintest motion could be
or all the shades that slanted DER the
green.
There was wide wandering for the
greediest eye.
TO peer about upon variety:
Far round the horizons crystal air TO
skim,
And trace the dwindled edgings Of its
brim;
To picture out the quaint and curious
bending
OF fresh woodland alley never-endins
Or by the bowery clefts and lcafy
shelves.
Guess whore the iaunty streams re-
fresh themselves
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
THE RUSH TO CALIFORNIA

From the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
one of the oddities of the rush to can
fornia in 1919 was the feat of a man
who trundled a wheelbarrow all the way
from Independence, Mo-, to San Fran
cisco.
Evidently the rush to the Panama eN-
position is going to be good deal the
same. A group of Harvard students alert
for adventure, are already asking the
South Park commission of Chicago to lei
them take the Columbian caravels down
the Mississippi, through the canal and up
to the fair
The interesting point about the Forty
miner with the wheelbarrow was tnat nc
got there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

nov PRODIGIEs
M the Philadelphia Record.

From the philadelphia Record. i
Another Harvard professor has son
who ranks as prodigy, and' ike rroi
sidis. Professor Wiener denies that MS
son is a phenomenon. At ls Noroer.
Wiener is a master Of arts, ana IN oune
will become a doctor of philosophy; pue
his father says: Norbert is not precoc-
ious. He is simply developed intelligent
ly. I could take almost any e'iu anu
develop him the same way A""' -
what DIR. Sidis said. but his account ol
his methods was not altogether conVihc-
ing; that is, itleft the impression that the
boy was very unusual boy TO pes'n
with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
Protection Hereafter at Dayton

Protection Hereafter at Dayton
The breaking of levees, dams and
reservoirs accounts almost wholly for
the recent loss of life in floods in Ohio
and Indiana. These protective works
were no doubt built before the use of
reinforced concrete was understood,
and they will doubtless be rebuilt
strong enough to withstand all pres
sure that can be foreseen.
The property loss in Dayton will go
perhaps to $50,000,000 and this was
due to the breaking of inadequate
levees along the Miami river. These
levees will be rebuilt in manner that
will not again work disaster, and Day.
ton will then feel secure, and the
prosperous manufacturing city will re-
cover lost ground very much as Gal
weston and San Francisco did. The
Galveston of today is secure against
all seas, and Dayton will be rendered
safe against any torrent that the
Miami is capable of.
The lesson at Dayton is a dreadful
one, but there are means for building
levees that no rainfall, however alb
normal, can overcome. A fully pro-
tected Dayton will speedily be rebuilt
even as fully protected Galveston
has been.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
Postmasters and the S-Hour Rule

Postmaster General Burleson wants
no postmasters of the first or second
class who hand over their duties TO
subordinates and spend their own
time in politicating or in other work.
Presumably he expects about as much
from third class postmasters, and
fourth class postmasters are expected
to give reasonable amount of time to
public business.
No applicant for the two highest
glasses need apply unless he is willing
to devote his whole business time"
to the duties of the position sought.
This in itself is a revolution, for the
postoffice has long been headquarters
for politicians, and the postmaster
has as a rule had a room in which
political conferences could be held
daily.
The truth is, Mr.. Burleson and the
administration are preparing to take
the postoffices, from top to bottom,
out of politics. All hoidovers will no
doubt have to submit to tests to DEM
onstrate their fitness for life posi-
tions. When the postoffices are taken
out of politics the rush for office
when change in administration oc-
Ours will indeed be reduced to a min
imum, and the scandalous scenes CT
the past will not be re enacted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
TRAGEDIES TOLD IN HEADLINE.

From the Chicago Tribune.
"IIe Thought Four Deuces was a
Winning Hand"
Barrel of Alum Found in Ruins of
Burned Bakery"
Deer Hunter Wires Home for Money;
Farmers Cow, was a jersey
after Spending $400 in Procuring
Divorce, Discovers Marriage was Ille-
gal"
mot Enough Gasoline in Tank; Irate
Father Overtakes ISloping Couple"
Hastily Packs Trunk for European
Trip; Finds When Aboard Ship He Has
no Change of Shirts"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
STEAMBOAT .RAINv

The shallow draft passenger steamers
built by an English shipbuilding concern
for river service in the tropics are
equipped with artificial rain" Up through
the awning forming the roof of the upper
cabin project two water pipes each of
which is fitted with spray head These
fountains throw sprays of water over the
awning, and the rapid evaporation under
the hot rays of the sun keeps the cabins
cool. picture of the boat appears in the
April POPULAR Mechanics Magazine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

Mrs. May c. Brooke. So years old, the
last survivor Of the women members of
the Laura Keene cast which played Our
American Cousin in Fords theatre.
Washington. the night when Abraham
Lincoln was assassfnated died last week
at the Berkshire Hills sanatorium, North
Adams Mrs. Brooke was Miss May
Hart, and played many parts in many
companies before her marriage to c. w.
Brooke who became one of New York S
well known criminal lawyers. Mr.. Brooke
died many years ago. After his death
the widow acted with E. II. sothern and
Margaret Anglin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
IN HOTEL LOBIES
First visit to birmingham

Strange to say, am now visiting BIZ
minghsm for the first time, said ii. ".
Metcalf of Cincinnati and Boston
MY home is in Boston, where we still
pay much attention to Concord philos-
ophy, but I represent a we'll known mu-
sic house of Cincinnati. The piano busi-
ness is f1ourishing at this time. There
has been decided prosperity In almost
every section of the country and the
south seems to be enjoying a very high
degree of prosperity
Birmingham is a wonderfully 1--we
city. l expected to find something of a
large city here because had heard so
much talk about it, but it is even
brisker place than l had imagined 1t Is
a real city not only in size but in ap-
pearance. Also the ways OF its people
indicate the progressive city spirit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
ADRTFT WITH THE TIMES
- NE Of Olive schreiner's most beau
tlful Dreams" tells how hunt

NE Of Olive Schreiners most beau
~ tlful Dreams" tells how hunt
er sought for the bird of truth;
he climbed lofty mountain peaks, suffer-
ing great agony of body and soul. but the
object of his quest eluded him still. After
many years, for spent and weary, he lay
down to die. Then it was that a single
white feather from the wing of Truth
fell gently from the sky TO comfort the
man who had sought SO long and so per-
sistently for something that he was des-
tined never to attain. Not so nowadays.
Promulgators OF the faith and loud
voiced reformers from the housetops pro-
claim the only pure and unadulterated
brand OF truth, so that he who runs, if
he be not stone deaf, may know indubit-
ably the right from the wrong The
truth is their spoken word Truth has
a voice with megaphone attachment
and roars from morning to night with
overflow meetings on every corner. The
idea that Truth could ever be crushed to
earth is preposterous. Hither and yon
the cohorts are marching, with fanfare
and drum beat. Cheers are swelling on
the wind and the way of the wicked has
become like an open book. Our faith in
clines to the hunter whose lifelong quest
brought him a single feather, but as pure
as the eternal SHOWS, from the unsullied
wing of Truth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
A ROMEO OATH

From the Kansas City Star.
20, swear not by the moon, the in
constant MOON said Juliet
How about the modern maidens who
are going to be loved "till the sands
of the desert grow cold?"
Don't their physical Biographies tell
them that the sands of the desert grow
cold every night, lowing to the lack OF
aqueous vapor?' Ours used TO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
.The Business outIook

Business conditions are healthy, but
at this season of the year there is some
inertia, comparatively speaking" said Ma
thaniel p Polig of Philadelphia. I'm the
early spring when there has been much
rain the farmers are blue about the back
wardness of the planting or crop work
When May comes the conditions are
usually very different. The chances are
we will have good crop reports in June.
and If so business will begin to boom
again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
THE TnUTH AnoIIT CEy,IJs

From The New York Tribune.
DR.. Alexis Carrel, seated in the smoke
room of the Victoria Luise, was enthusi-
estcally hailed by brother physician.
what a genius you arc! Thus the
brother physician ended long e,ilogy.
But Dr. Carrel smiled and said:
"A genius. eh? Well. ut his villa in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
Graduation or a Flat Rate

NJ. C. Burke of Tuscaloosa urges the
adoption of graded income tax-that
is to say, of an income tax that be-
gins at, say, per cent on small in
comes and rises even to per cent on
big incomes.
The democratic platform Of Balti-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

Gov Frank S. Black left no will, but
81, 10000, all made by the practice of law
since he was governor. The estate goes
to Mrs. Black and her son Arthur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
.xpANEsE FIREMEN

The empire of Japan. as is well KNOWN
has made wonderfuh, progress IN almost
every department of human cndeavor DUR
ing recent Years. and this rapid develop
ment also applies to the Japanese A'e w
partments in the larger cities espec'a''s
in Tokyo. The fire lighting apparatus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
ENGLANp's GIGANTIC locomotive

England's most powerful locomotive Is
shown in. an illustration in the April
Popular Mechanics Magazine. 1t is
spoken of in England's as IAN elephant of
the railroads. as "an enormous, unique
engine and as "the latest gigantiv loco
motive This elephant of the railroads
is remarkable in many ways says one
writer 1.-THE usual outside cylinders have
given place to inside cylinders, which are
no less than 211a inches in diameter and
of the exceptional length of II feet 3
inches. The engine and tender. in work.
ing order, weigh 122 TONS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
SOUNDS CRYPTIC

From the New York TelegAm.
Chicago chief of police advising a
new second deputy chief. said. u don't
think you'll have any trouble. Wen
get along together. 1t won't be the
things you don't do that will be found
fault with; it will be the things you
do that will be criticised This is
one OF those things you read twice and
then look for the diagram.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30
OF THE TlMESo

| remembered he told that story of pass
ing through Helrs Gate. how in that
dangerous location every sailor stands
ready to rescue the passengers in the
event of danger. And then he said:
How different it is with the state
Who is there to stand by the anchor
and save the people when the ship is
wrecked?"
Conner, those who heard him judged.
was referring Indirectly to the present
scandal in the convict department of
Alabama. 1t is probable that had he
answered his own question he would
have said:
THE men of the church."
That there did not follow q unanimous
shout of Conner in reply to the oues-
tion which was never answered, doubt
less came as a surprise to certain indi-
viduals in the audience But the people
Lad gathered to discuss plans looking to
the raising of certain fund for the
Methodist college. For that reason, it is
possible, they overlooked bet of very
certain merit
And there are other signs The peo-
pie of Birmingham, or certain of them
for special commissions" for this or
that, the last having been plea for a
vice commission
But Exum, Lane and weatherly are
engaged in so much worthy legislation,
and SO much work elicting the approval
of the people that they will probably find
no time ~ which to consider any sspe-
cial commission"
Birmingham is growing so rapidly that
the time is come for the shelving of the
swaddling clothes. For that reason all
the energy of these three men will be re-
quired in paving streets. lighting residen-
tial districts, and building up worthy po-
lice and fire departments.
As long as activity in this general Nil
rection is maintained, there are certain
reasons why the people of Birmingham
might declare the signs to be good
signs
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Biarritz, Saraste was once called genius
by famous critic But Sarasate frowned
and shook his head
A geniusn he said. For 81 years I've
practiced IA hours a day and now they
call me a genus."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

The large oil burning ship, the Cacique,
discharged large lot of nitrate in Sa-
vannah, and then she went to New York
carrying a quantity of copper and silver
ore. All came from Chilean ports.