The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-09

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
 nOR sale, a good, sound hacE.-Ad-
 vertisement in the courier-Jour-
 A nal.
 According to the nearly always depend- able MT. Webster a hack" may be a horse for hire, a vehicle for hire, sad dle horse as distinguished from a car riage horse or a hunter, a s'bookmaker who hires himself out for literary work bookmakers as the term is generally un- derstood don't do that sort of thing even during periods of anti-racing legislation writer of any sort who writes for hire, as contradistinguished from a writer who writes upon inspiration, or upon specu- lation; a girl of the streets.
 man in society before the days of motor vehicles, and especially to those who were
 active in the social fife of the smaller cities in the south, where the livery
 business never leaned toward anything so small and informal as cab drawn by a single horse, the word hack has but single meaning It meant, in the period of it's pre-eminence as the vehicle for use
 upon formal occasions a stately, glisten-
 ing, costly-to-hre coach in which two
 couples sat facing one another upon the
 way to the ball if neither of the escorts
 was rich or reckless. One couple rode in l F q state of dementia in which a s5 bill looked like mere scrap of paper in comparison with the intoxicating delght of taking Juliet to the ball in glass front with out another couple.
 Alone upon the way to the party whatever 1t might mean upon the way home in the twilight of rosy June morn ing after the twenty-sixth dance on the programme and the twenty-second 'en- core"--didn't mean the pleasure of being screened from the gaze of prying eyes It meant, upon the contrary, occupying a position of envied prominence It meant enjoying keenly the full meridian of so- cial glory in community not large enough for social values to escape even the street loafer of the meaner sort, to say nothing of bootblaclls. soda singers and others more intimately in touch with society because of their personal ac- quaintanceship. in professional capacity, with the 42 centiner social guns. A young man who had but 8 to plank down at the livery stable did not ask credit for two
 more rare and valuable units of currency for nothing more than to have his best girl in corner during the time it took a pair of high-stepping horses to draw a rumbling hack the distance of six or seven blocks between the residence of his inamorata and the scene of the evening s gayeties. There was alway sthe parlor. and there usually was the divan. If the plan was nothing more than tete tete
 with the spice of freedom from intrusion. But it was worth his cash plus the ex- trene limit of his credit to hire whole hack and thunder grandly down the
 main street of the town in style evidently and spectacularly expensive. with the ac-
 knowledged belle of four counties at his
 side and his destination positively and publicly known to be the ball; the one ane only ball, mere admission to which meant to the populace, prominence, and possibly l leadership, in aristocratic socia. life. Il the street lights were not piercing, or ii the horses went too fast. the young mar might not be seen actually by many oi
 the wayfarsrs, or by the cresEd in front