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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
LIKE MLuKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 If a girls hair Is naturally curly sine just hates to wear a hat when she goes down town
 No matter how far down and out a man may be. he can always truthfully brag that there was time when he rode in his own carriage.
 When a man wants a new hat he goes into a store for two minutes and comes out with an up-to- date lid on his dome. When a woman wants a new hat she goes into store for an hour and tries on all the "creations" and comes out with some up-to-date ideas to use in making over the old lid she is wear ing.
 other half of the world is what Lauses all the trouble for our half of the world.
 | The fellow who doesn't know enougn ! to write capital "I'' when he is writ I ing about himself always knows enough to use capital "I' when he is :, talking about himself. Always remember that if you got all you prayed for there wouldn't be | enough to go around. Adam blamed it on the woman. And
 when the rest of us get caugh. we
 can't think of a more original excuse
 The old fashioned woman who used
 to give castor oil to sick baby now | has married daughter who gives the | castor oil to a sick fern.
 If a woman ever did succeed in mak- | ing herself just like one of the pic
 lures in a fashion magazine ever, l horse in town would run away If sh' i, went out on the street. l After ybu get to know some mel | you wonder why they doN not hav' holes in the brims of their hats so tha their ears will get a chance to grow tt their prope5 length.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

railroad, for which surveys are now being made, will open up a part of Alaska seldom visited by white men and will, Mr. Pugh thinks, prove the making of the country.
 Last year approximately s15,OO0,o00 worth of gold bullion passed through the rort of Juneau. About S15, ,000, ,00O worth of salmon were caught and canned on the Alaskan coast. These two items are the most important sources of revenue, but a heavy fur trade is carried on and gypsum and marble are being quarried in large quantities. Alaskan marble is said to equal the finest product of Italy. Gold mining and salmon fishing will doubt less always be the two greatest in- dusries of the country, but attention is now being paid to agriculture and excellent results are obtained. Musk UlelOIS, pOtdlOcS anu. lOilidtUeS Hdsc been raised successfully in the interior of Alaska. The midnight sun" causes crops to mature more rapidly than in countries farther away from the pole. In some parts of Alaska what is known as a growing sum-" that is, one that will ripen vegetables, shines for eighteen or twenty hours every day.
 It must also be remembered that Alaska has extensive mineral wealth. Despite temperature in winter as cold at 60 or TO degrees below zero, the country affords an attractive field to the settler and in course of time 1t will prove immensely productive. The bulk of Alaska's trade is now carried on directly with Seattle by steamship. The territory has eleven ports. It is divided into four districts, with dis trict judge and marshal for each district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
The Busy Ex-Presidents

A question that used to be discussed by magazine writers and others was' "What shall we do with our ex-Presi- dents ?" But it is not among the live topics of today.
 MT. Taft and Colonel Roosevelt are the only living men who have been honored with the presidency and have becomes ex's. And they both seem to be kept quite busy-the former as lecturer at Yale on constitutional law, and the latter as an explorer, nat uralist, politician and man of letters.
 Those who a few years ago wrote in favor of retiring the President Of the United States with some official status such as life senator, or as an associate member of the cabinet, or as a general of the army, retired, had an idea that any man who had held the highest office in the land, had been the chief magistrate of the great est republic in the world, should not return entirely to private life, and especially if he had not sufficient means to live without working. Dis cussions such as those alluded to were read with some interest, but they were never seriously considered.
 In this country where social caste is unknown, and where lordly titles have no place, an ex-President is not lowering his dignity in the least by engaging in an honorable calling in order to earn support. The fact is that the American people have all the more respect for the man who works, no matter how rich he may be. It would be decidedly un-Ameri- can at any rate to bestow an honorary rank on an outgoing President for the avowed purpose of pensioning him SC that he might lead life of "elegant leisure"
 Think of Colonel Roosevelt in any such fix!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
A Parable of the New Year

4 certain young man made iron purposes for the New Year, and sealed them up with the hot tears born of his vision.
 The days came and went. They were the ordinary days-full of minor de- cisions, commonplace labors, dust, some blood. There were times of full flowing strength, times when the heights seemed under foot, times when the gates swung open and were easy; but these times were drowned by the leaner times, when life ran sluggish and the gleam was dead. Memory stored certain tablets telling how swift wind whipped young blood into white fury; how languorous air brought in- difference and luxury; how tepid stagnation sickened even to nausea with life. And through no fault of his, some plans went awry, some caravans were footed, some argosies wrecked. |. |. At the end when the young man looked back upon the checkered year, he said: "The hot tears, with which l sealed my precious packet of purpose, have gone cold; even the iron resolu- tions are scattered and broken. l have failed"
 Other people said, "He has suc- ceeded." For they saw only the achievement, and had no gauge to measure how far it lacked of the dream.
 God said: "I mark him Succeeded three times:
 First. He set his eyes on star and swore to follow it. If had called him in that hour, the mark had remained registered his hot tears.
 "Second. He tried and tried again If I had called him in one of those hours, the mark had remained. regis tered his effort.
 "Third. He did not limit himself by mere possibility, in the espousal o1 his dream. I mark him succeeded be cause he failed, and knows it. He i. purified as by fire. His soul is height ened by a big conception, and humili ty wraps him as garment"
 And I said: "Dost Thou not accord him success also beca,'se he has wor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
STORIES TOLD AT
 NEWSPAPER CLUB
Can He a Regular Angel

Secretary Dameron tells the following on the newly elected county solicitor, Hugo Black:
 Judge Black the other day very vigor- ously prosecuted colored man for wife beating so vigorously, in fact, that the judge gave the negro sentence of one year. As the sentence was passed Judge Black turned around to the colored man wife, who was sitting near him, expect ing her congratulations on his arraign- ment as well as her approval of the yer dict. Thinking she had relented toward her better half. he told her, Never mind, Mandy, a year isn't such long time, and if he is good they will give him two months off of his sentence for good behaviour That's jest it," Mandy said. still crying, Dat nigger can be a reg'lar angel when he tries to-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
THE CAVE OF BUDDHA

From G. Loves Dickinsons Appear
 ances;' Doubleday, Page & Co.
 Gradually our eyes accustom themselves to the light and we become conscsous of a square hall, the flat roof resting on squat pillars deliberately carved, frag- ruents of painting on the walls and ceil- ing, narrow slits opening into dark cells, and opposite the entrance, set in shrine, a colossal Buddha, the light falling full on the solemn face the upturned feet, the expository hands,
 Of the art of the caves will not speak. What little can be seen of the painting and only ill lighted fragments remain is full of tenderness, refinement and grace; no touch of drama; no hint of passion. But what impresses most is rot the art, but the religion of the place. In this terrible country, where the great forces of nature, drought and famine and pestience, the intolerable sun, the in- tolerable rain and the exuberance of life and death, have made of mankind q mere passive horde covering before in- scrutable powers-here, more than any, where, men were pOunu unuer yOke OK observance and ritual to the gods they had fashioned and the priest who inter preted their will. Then came the deliverer to set them free not for, but from life. teaching them how to escape from that worst of all evils-rebirth again and again into a world of infinite suffering unguided by any reason to any good end. There Is no god," said the strange master, "there Is no soul; but there is life after death, here in this hell, unless you will learn to deliver yourselves by annhiblating de- sire" They listened, they built monas- teries, they meditated, and now and again, l here. perhaps, in these caves, one or other ettained enlightenment. But the cloud oi Hinduism. lifted for moment. rolled
 back he9vier than ever. Shiva-creator. preserver, destroyer-expelled the Bud-
 dha And that passive figure, sublime in its power of mind. sits forever alone
 in the land of his birth. exiled from the
 light, in cloud of clinging bats. And outside proceeds the great pageant
 of day and night, and the patient, beau
 tiful people labor without hope, while uni-
 versal nature, symbolized by Shivas foot. presses heavily on their heads and for
 bids them the stature of man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
Wealth of Alaska

Although in recent years the re- sources of Alaska have been widely exploited and developed on large scale. according to J. F. Pugh, col lector of customs for the district, this tarritory has merely been scratched. The government owned and controlled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT I HAT RAIL
 ORDER AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTERES

-HE Louisville and Nashville rail
 road, with other corporations, has
 received its share of abuse from a certain political element in Alabama but its president. Milton H. Smith. is the real true friend of the Birmingham dis trict.
 understand he didn't absolutely need just now that thirty eight thousand tons of steel rails which he has just ordered from the Tennessee company, but ordered them to keep things going in this district and to lend a helping hand to building up general conditions.
 It is a splendid spirit MT. Smith has manifested and is truly characteristic of the real big man that he is He is likewise enlarging the Louis vile and Nashville shops at Boyles, giv- ing work to hundreds of men who would otherwise be idle. Indeed. he takes a cheerful view of the outlook and mani- fests it in practical way.
 Such spirit and example should be emulated by all the going concerns in this district as we'll as by business men generally and city and county officials.
 1 # #
 am glad that George Ward has de- cided to earn his salary and himself do the work of pulling the city of Birming- ham out of the financial hole 1t has been half buried in. George is working with the subcommittees of citizens who have agreed to help him and he proposes to take charge of things himself before the legislature, and get a form of prac- tical relief for Birmingham. Just what
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
Safe Among Prohibitlonists

Sometime ago some of my good pro- hibition friends took trip to their hunt ing club at, calcis for the weekend" said c. M. Stanley.
 Among those in the party were Gov ernor Conner, Murray Brown, A. H. Ford, Sid Lee and Hugh Morrow. Before leav- ing town Murray Brown. think it was, bought quart bottle of snake medi- cine, wrapped it carefully in a small sample corset and hid it in Sid Lees grip.
 MT. Lee happened to open his grip on the train when no one was around, saw the joke, and quietly sneaked it into Governor Comer's grip. Governor Co., mer opened his grip before the crowd at the club and the joke was on him But, like B'rer Rabbit, he lay low ant say nothin,' and just before the crowd got off the train on the return to Bir- mingham he slipped that outfit into Hugh
 Morrows grip just before MT. Morrow started out home.
 q understand the genial Roebuck cit. izen has never yet finished explaining 1 that incident, though the bottle got bacl with the cork unpulled.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

The Krupp company is reported to have sent the Kaiser decorated 42- cnt. The Krupp company Is at least consistent. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

it in measure? Is he not farther along than he was?"
 God said: "Man looketh on the out ward appearance, but Jehovah looketh on the heart"
 HENRY NJ. EpMoNDs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

It seems that Secretary Daniels did not forbid the singing of "Tipperary'' in the navy, after all. Still, there's no denying that he forbade the consump- ton of the stuff that makes sailors want to sing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
A WELCOME CHANGE

At last the genial sun is out, And scatters gladness all about. So many days were cold and drear, With hardly anything to cheer Our dropping hearts-just clouds and
 rain Still coursng down the window pane And winds that mourned around the
 caves And maybe whirled a few dead leaves The storms had not yet blown away, And friends we'd meet who'd pause and
 say, This weather and the long complaint Of hard times would upset sairtE Each morn we hoped2twas futile
 quite, The world continued far from bright. But when wed almost ceased to care If days were dark or days were fair, Behold the sun floods hill and plain And Dixie is herself again.
 A PLAGIARIST "Did you say that Gabson was a gifted speaker?'
 "No. I said a well endowed speaker. What do you mean by that?" "He's amply provided with the choicest thoughts of other people.
 A SURE SIGN
 When is a man moon struok:' "when he saysia womans eyes look like stars"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
THE OLD YEAR GONE

By Julia Neely Finch.
 Old loves! Old memories!
 Why do you haunt me so today?
 The year hath gone it's way
 And had it's will of me. And now the sands are fast
 Slipping into their lower space. And as sit alone
 seem to see my true loves face;
 look into his ardent eyes And on my lips feel the touch Of that first kiss that meant so much hear whispered word, 50 sweet That all my soul leaps up to meet And melt into it's melody.
 The surging tides of being rise And sweep one on to ecstacy! Oh. lovers lost! and love long past Had but knownl Had I but known Could come a day, an hour like thisi Life's story told. A book whose leaves no moro unfold.
 Alone is old
 With but the mem'ry of kiss!
 Birmingham, December a. 19lk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

BEGINNING THE DAY-I thank Thee for the name, Father, by which I call Thee. I nm glad when I breathe 1t and remember that I am not nn .lieu in Thy world. I live in my Fathers house. I praise Thee for the -el.t,onsbip that name betokens, for the love it assures, and the tender n..s and the longsuffering and the uudcrstauding. Amen.-H. M. 10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
SCANT ATTIRE

SCANT ATTIRE There is Mrs. Swinger. Although somewhat daring in dress. she has an excellent reputation.'
 I'm glad to hear that. The clothes she is wearing don't afford her much rrotection."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
MT. Lawrence Well Enough to rench
The Tango and the La,.


 "A well known local jurist and once the presiding judge of one of the courts of record of Jefferson con ty took his first dancing lesson the other night on 8 floor crowded with many couples tangoing." said a member of the bar.
 The judge seemed to take the new task Father seriously; his judicial fea- tures were set and he was evidently on the look out for possible collisions. And collision soon appeared to him imminent. Releasing his hand that spanned the slender waist of his fair and youthful partner, he raised it aloft and called out Stop. look and listen. This phrase he had so often rsed on the bench. Just old habits. But it broke up the dance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

A man stole the electric lights off the municipal Christmas tree of an h. diana town. If he ever runs across an infant with candy in its hands he'll surely take it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
Regarding Peace Negotiations

"When President Wilson first rendered
 his good offices to the bellgerent na-
 tons l felt sure that whenever the time
 came for mediation the President of the
 United States would be readily selected,
 but have my doubts about it now,' said William F. Lafferty of New York city. "The Germans have an idea that the Washington government is too biased in favor of England. It may be- however,
 that Germany can be satisfied as to Pres tdent Wilson's absolute sincerity and sense of justice In the event that he is called upon to mediate he would have to select some one to conduct the negotia- tions, for whoever did the actual work would have to go to Europe.
 Among the men who have already been suggested are MT. Olney, Colonel Roose- welt, MT. Taft. and Senator Elhu Root While the President would naturally pre- fer man of his own party, he would
 not hesitate to select the man he thought
 the best equipped. I am a democrat my self, but l think that the most available man to conduct peace negotiations would be Senator Root
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

If the Sultan of Turkey keeps re- iterating that he was forced into the war the world will begin to think that he was kicked into it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
ADREFT WITH THE TIr1ES
ALREADY SUFFERING
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ALREADY SUFFERING Let me see. New Years day vas? Two weeks ago." Nonsense. It was only two days ago."
 Pardon me. It seems longer. signed the pledge then"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

The title of Ella Wheeler Wilcox $ latest book is "1'he Art of Being Alive , It should be authoritative. as Ella is considered Tive member.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
How HoIse Smith Won

there done in the name of patriotism would be more transcendent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

President Poincare qualities for on optmist by predicting the end of the war in 1915.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
Brilliant Financial Stroke

''The committee of 100 citizens ap- pointed to solve Birminghams financial problem" said Dr. c. W. Shropshire, is generally referred to and with truth. probably-as a committee of patriots.
 Tt would scarcely be becoming in me. a non-member of the committee, and at best. no student of finance, to offer a suggestion. However, with the excep- ton of Hugh w. Roberts. all the mem- bers of the committee are very wealthy men. The city is s1.0oo,00o in the hole
 It strikes me, therefore. that the 100 mem bers by fine display of patriotic fervor could solve the problem. It would oos' them only $l0.o00 each. Tn the future we would erect monuments to their mem ories. Were they to follow this advice they would be as brave as any soldier on the red fields of Europe. and no dee(
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

Conditions at Naco have been. almost as lively as they are in a dry" town when policemen are raiding blind tigers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

Colonel Roosevelt tasted the free soup at New York souphouse and said, That's bully," The old familiar adiective.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
ITS A QUESTION
ABOUT THE AVERAGE

Beatrice is having her first affair of the heart. l wonder if love Is all in all with herr"
 Probably not. I would say that love is 33 1-3 per cent, clothes 33 l. U per cent, and pleasure s3 1-3 per cent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

The President of China will serve for 10 years and in that time he ought to be able to perfect a machine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

Mexican situation far from hope less states a headline. It is so far as Huerta is concerned and possibly Car ranZa,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

The Panama canal is already begin- ming to be a paying investment, al though conditions just now are not fa- vorable for the prosperity of any ca nal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

merely to the three cities. Such canu however, be accomplished unless thers be an active campaign before the legis lature on the part of the business men of the three cities
 We know from past experience tha. prohibition cannot be enforced in Bir- mingham and that it is much better to| have liquor openly sold in the hotels, ] clubs and a few we'll regulated saloons.|
 Another thing I hope this legislature| will do. Provide a law like that in| Georgia for the use of all convicts inl building pubic roads.
 The several counties in Alabama| which have tried the experiment have reaped splendid results.
 Nothing so adds to the prosperity of state as good roads, and by building them with convicts the state would add largely to It's taxable values and the marketing of its products.
 It is absurd for anyone to say that other methods cannot be devised to raise the revenue now provided by leas- ing its convicts to the coal operators and lumber men. Jefferson county has set an example in its splendid roads al- ready built and building which should be adopted by the state as whole. The new Alabama legislature is com posed of good and strong set of men and I believe it will enact legislation which will bring about lasting and practical results to the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

New York's unemployed have learned by bitter experience that starting a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

Happy New Year!" said Germany, as she torpedoed another British bat tleship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

Some men feel as important these days when they buy a ton of coal as If they were buying a battleship.
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the details are he himself don't know yet. but he proposes to shoulder the burden and act.
 He might not please everybody but he proposes to bring about practical re- displeased.
 Birmingham is too big a town to con tinue shuffing along in the financial path so long followed.
 It is quite certain that the legisla- ture of Alabama, which meets on the II th is generously disposed towards Birmingham and Jefferson county and will enact the laws urged by our of ficials and those who have the right to speak.
 It also looks like this legislature pro- poses to do something Tor JeHerson county that the business people here don't want. A majority of the legisla- ture seems to be in favor of a state- wide prohibition law and there are all sorts of rumors of trades the prohibi- tionists have made with members rep resenting special interests te act with them and enact a law during the first week of the session.
 | It would be an unfortunate thing for the business of Birmingham to return to prohibition days, and I hope that means can be devised by which the cities of Birmingham Montgomery and Mobile can be put on local option basis It need not apply to the counties in which these cities are located but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

Reflecting the spirit of the times Paraguay comes forward with a revc- tuition.