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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-05

Her muH of blue fox with its ribbon OF jet
Red ribbons were tied her goId-eo1ored hair,
And green were the feathers waved in the air
Above her new hat of soft fluffy blue
Each foot protected ny a tan-colered shoe
The snowman was jolly, his coat it was white
His battered green hat a sorrowfu1 sight;
His umbrella amber, bright beyond words
So they skated gayly beyond some cute birds
Bgf what the birds wore [ c;n't very well tell,
Cause Debby herself can't remember so well
sat guess you can use your own fancy here
10 heip Debbys friends very Inc appear
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-05
IF ONLY.

I'd like to be a poet,
And I could be, every time.
If only when I had q thought
I'd find a proper rhyme.
should like to be an artist,
Portrait in the hall of fame:
But the picture that I dream OF.
On the papers not the same.
/ would like to be q singer,
And the world by storm I'd take,
If only, when / tried To sing,
My poor voice did not break.
So, after all. try as I may.
With anguish or with joy,
I'll have to be content, I S'9oss.
With being just q boy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-05

Small Debby declared night after dark
She thought 'twould be fine go lark;
She knew she could skate by the light Of the moon
And she thought she would 1t,
II was sooner thought than she gggled n glee
For whom do spose twas her pleasure 10 see?
with umbrella in hand and his hat his head,
Twas jolly big snowman she'd with small Ted
said he with q smile, and his very best bow
If you want to skating. your Is right now
soon Debby put her of brown plush
with belt Of white leather. and whispering 'Hush"
She sprang out the window. first waiting 10 get
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-05
KATY DID, KATY DIDN'T.

Such a dispute I never heard;
1t was so loud the wood was stirred.
= hundre@ shrielSed out: Katy did u
And Katy didn't yelled a crowd:
But though they all spoke oft so loud.
L noticed that they all kept hid
With Katy didn't" Katy did"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-05
LAST WEEKS PRIZE WINNERS

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Third rebus-Lotie NJ Gisonm, 1896 II
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-05
THE DUTY OF THE STRONG.

You who are the oldest,
You who are the talIest.
Don't you think you ought to help
The youngest and the smallest?
You who are the strongest
You who are the quickest,
Don't you think you ought to help
The weakest and the sickest?
Never mind the trouble,
Help them all you en-
Be a little woman,
BE A little MAJ
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-05
GROWING

A little rain and a little sun.
And a little pearly dew,
And pushing up and reaching out,
Then leaves and sendrils all about
All. that's the way the flowers grow,
Don't you know?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-05

little work and a little play,
And lots of quiet sleep,
cheerful heart and a sunny face,
And lessons learned and things in place.
An, that's the way the children grow,
Don't you know?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
O, l do not like that paying back 'tis double labor.
 Henry w.
The Price.

The Cincinnati Enquirer has com- piled an interesting table showing the number of fatalities which have re- suited from American devotion to sport The total list of dead is surprising and reveals that football is not alone in decimating the country's population.
 For instance, in the present year there were twenty-one deaths rom football. six from boxing and nine among jockeys. In addition to these, four harness horsemen were killed; there were many automobile victims and numerous deaths from other sports popular in the United States.
 Yet, fatalities are to be expected among sportsmen. It is the element or danger and uncertainty that makes sport. With the possible exception Of football, 1t would be impossible to re- form many sports and leave them worth while. In fact, no reform IS needed. It is perfectly natural for sportsmen to make blunders, just as all other human beings do. Sometimes they are themselves the victims of their carelessness and often innocent by-standers suffer, but the game will go on. Every hunter runs a risk ot being shot, every polo player may be hurt some day, every swimmer is lia- ble to be drowned, every wrestler or boxer or athlete of whatever sort stands a good chance to be hurt at some time during his career, but he would not have the right spirit if he faltered in face of danger
 Sport that is clean and healthy builds up a race of strong men. The dangers which it may hold serve to harden it's devotees for the trails they are des- tined to meet in life. Let baseball, hunting, riding and all sensible sports be followed with more enthusiasm every year The exercise of more care is all that is needed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
JOURNAL EXPLAINS.

From the Montgomery Journal
 The recent Birmingham special pub lished in thef Journal stating that there were rumors afloat in that city that Dr. Cunningham would probably retire from the race and that former Governor John ston would enter the contest has attracted very general attention of the state press, and many and varied are the comments. Some newspapers have found fault with the Journals special, declaring 1t was unjust to Cunningham. The Journals cor respondent made no positive statement, but mentioned rumors and speculated up on the probabilities. That was all. The Journal had no desire to do either Dr.. Cunningham or former Governor Johnston any injustice, and that was not Its corre- spondents purpose, who merely had that newspaper instinct for news that is char acteristic of the profession, and he did not stop to think if It would hurt or help any candidate or any person. but he wanted the news while it was news, or a rumor clear, and well defined, and that is all there is to it. It was this and as such it was published.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A girl always knows enough not tA pretend she is old enough to be woman
 A woman likes to take care of her re- ligion just the way she does of her best clothes. A woman has to be mighty fat to really like to go horseback riding early in the morning. If man can't grumbe about the coffee being cold he will about it's being too hot to drink when he has to catch a train.
 When a man gets off as his own a joke he read in a paper, without being caught, he thinks he ought to write comic opera.
 There wouldn't be much satisfaction in getting mad if there were no swear words
 Mourning would not be so bad if you could pick out those you had to wear it for.
 The only time a girl is more miserable than when she isn't in love is when she is
 You can't take the pride out of some people even by seeing them slip down on the lee. L It is easier to be rich than to be happy, but nobody ever got any satisfaction out of that thought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Makes Fine Record.

George M. Morrow, a well known Bir- mingham boy, is making quite name for himself at the West Point military academy and his friends here have been watching his career with no little inter est, said friend of his yesterday.
 At the beginning of the football season he was selected from the 300 cadets to manage the football team and this is an honor of which any cadet might well be proud. He was appointed to cadetship in the academy four years ago and has made excellent progress in his studies. He now holds the rank of second captain of the cadet corps and was selected by the commandant to instruct the new re- cruits at the school this year.
 Captain Morrow will finish his course this year and graduates in June next. In a letter to his father, Dr. Morrow, a few days ago he stated that he would come home to spend three months fur lough before entering the army. It is understood that he has not finally decided just what branch of the service he will enter but graduates in engineering. Cap tain Morrow has been very successful in his studies and has developed into quite a military genius"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
The Fjitv-ninth Conuress.

The first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, which convened yesterday, will be full of interest, and notable de- bates will be heard. It will be very busy session. Measures of farreaching importance will be proposed, and some new alignments are expected.
 Railroad rate regulation, the tariff, Panama canal construction, govern ment protection of life insurance policy holders and immigration will be live questions before Congress, and on a majority of these issues compromise bills will be passed. In view of the scandals in the Equitable, the New York Life and the Mutual, there will be a pressing demand for legislation that will make a repetition of graft methods impossible.
 The Presidents message will be sent to Congress today. It is bulky docu. ment and covers a wide range of sub jects. As soon as the House of Repre- sentatives is organized and the legisla- tive machinery set in order, Repre- sentatives will begin leaving for home for the holidays. By the middle of January the committees will get to work and the House and Senate will present scenes of animation from then until next summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05

MI A. ls. uleIlW1ueT, president or the Birmingham Realty company, left last night for the east Dan Pratt, 8 well known resident of Prattville, is spending a few days at the Hotel Hillman.
 R. F. Bowden of Keystone is registered at the Hillman.
 J. II. Craig of Cordova is a guest at the Metropolitan. c. B. Sergeant and W. w. Abbot of Cullman arrived in Birmingham last night and are stopping at the Metropolitan.
  N. ". Howard, a we'll known young business man of Fort Payne, is a guest of the Metropolitan. F. F. Rolston arrived last night from Chattanooga. and is a guest of the Metro politan hotel.
 L. A. Washington of Nashville is reg istered at the Hotel Hillman.
  w. M. Hart of Memphis is spending a few days at Nthe Hotel Hilman. S. T. Walker of Selma Is at the Nor ris hotel.
 A. L. Sutton of Atlanta is stopping at the Morris hotel.
 D. ". Vaughn and ". L. Burks. two well known residents of Hefin. are vis- iting the city.
  J. NJ. Murphy of Anniston is a guest at the Morris hotel.
 Lindsey Mcclure has gone to Florida. where he will spend several weeks on a hunting trip.
 o. H. Warren of Georgana was one of the arrivals at the Morris hotel last night.
 J. A. Banks of Opellka is spending a few days in Birmingham. He is regis tered at the St. Nicholas hotel. w. Y. Fordick, travelling man of New York, is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 
 J. T. Washington of Rockmart. Ga. was registered at the St. Nicholas last night.
 w. L. Henderson of Mobile is a the Morris hotel. F. c. Pence, business man of Fort Payne, Is at the Birmingham. J. F. Hatterner of Fort Deposit is To- cated at the Birmingham for a few days  A. P. Lanphon, a prominent citizen ol Columbiana, was a guest at the Birming- ham last night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
Gadsden's Industries,

''The announcement that the Weller rolling mills formerly located in Anniston' would be established in Gadsden Is only the first of several new enterprises which have been practically secured for the Queen City" said citizen of Gadsden yesterday.
 Within the next sixty days I am con- fident that the location of several new industries for our town will be officially announced. With the exception of Blr- mlngham, I do not believe that another southern city is enjoying as much indus trial proportional prosperity.
 'The Commercial club has been work ing for some time to get new industries established in Gadsden and the efforts are now proving very successful. am told that one of the companies already To- cated here will begin Improvements in the near future representing an expendl- ture of several hundred thousand dol lars"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05

ity. It shows, too, that Birmingham is coming to be more and more of shop ping center.
 A few years ago the merchants of this city depended for their trade chief ly on the community bounded by Jef- ferson county Today shoppers come here not only from adjoining counties, from all the towns within a radius of hundred and fifty miles. The Bir- mingham merchants carry larger, richer and more varied stocks than those of any city in the south between Louisville and New Orleans.
 Santa Claus is partial to Birming- ham. He finds here just what he wants, and he finds moreover that he can drive good bargains in this city. But the benevolent old soul must take notice and make his purchases before the stocks are exhausted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
THE WANDERER.

By Eugene Field. Upon a mountain height far from the sea, I found a shell, And to my listening ear this lonely thing Ever a song of ocean seemed to sing Ever tale of ocean seemd to tell. How came the shell upon the mountain
 height?
 An, who can say Whether there dropped by some too care
 less hand Whether there cast when ocean swept the
 land,
 Ere the eternal had ordained the dayT Strange, was it not? Far from its native
 deeD
 One song it sang; Sang of the awful mysteries of the tide, Sang of the restless sea, profound and
 wide
 Ever with echoes of the ocean rang. And as the shell fupon the mountain
 height
 Sang of the sea, So do I ever. leagues and leagues away So do l. wandering where I may, Sing o my home! sing, O my home! q
 thee!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
Antl.Saloon Leanue.

''The approaching meeting of the state anti-saloon league in Birmingham will be an important event." remarked mem- Der of the organization yesterday.
 'The league has proved powerful or ganization in other states and Is rapidly gaining power in Alabama. It is endeavor- ing to secure local option law from the next legislature. When this Is obtained, efforts will be made in the various To- oalities where it is thought practical to secure the passage of the necessary laws.
 When the organization Is we'll under way in the state it will represent body of the most law-abiding citizens. When 1t is thought best it will take a hand in politics, regardless of party"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
Christmas Trade,

Christmas shopping in Birmingham Is already brisk, and by the middle of next week the holiday trade will have reached the stage of congestion. All holiday seasons in this town find the stores crowded and the streets full of stir and color, but the Christmastide of 1905 will be from commercial point of view the best in Birmingham's his tory.
 In ordinary years large percentage of the Christmas stocks are unsold and have. to be carried over to the next holiday. This seasons shopping has begun early, so early, indeed, as to in- Gicate the stocks will run short before the 25th of December, notwithstanding the fact that the merchants have bought more heavily than ever before. All this furnishes but another evidence of Birmingham's unprecedented prosper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
WILL WIFE OF THE FUTURE
 KEEP HER MAIDEN NAME j?

decided to submit to taking her husbands name.
 Another woman writer, who married a year ago, persisted, however, and she has kept her old name, simply changing the Miss to Mrs" She Is called by more names than most people.
 All her friends in her old home town have adopted her husbands name for her. They don't understand these newfangled notions there, and it would shock them to know of her contumacy. Her friends who knew her before her marriage mostly con- tinue to call her Miss Blank, while to new acquaintances she gives the name of Mrs. Blank
 Francis Willard taught all the Women's Christian Temperance Union women years ago to use their own first names, and to insist on being known as Mrs. Mary Smith instead of Mrs. John Smith. The actresses of course are the great examples of women in public life retain- ing their own names through all vicissi- tudes. There is an elderly woman in New York who has been known in semi-publio work for twenty-five years. She has been married three times, and each time has changed her name and made people learn to call her by her new one. She says now that If she had 1t to do over again she would retain her girlhood name through life.
 In view of all the unforeseen mutations of life that may come to women who go in for any sort of public work there is certainly ground to argue that 1t would be better to take one name and stick to 1t instead of changing ones name when one marries. As far as the legal aspects of the case go, there is no law requiring a wife to be known by her husoands name. Men have taken their wives names in England from time to time, gen. orally for reasons of property or title, but sometimes simply because 1t was more distinguished than their own.
 On the continent it is not unusual for husband to append his wife's name to his own. when 1t is an arstocratic one; and in Spain the wife of good family retains her own name and if 1t is the more distin- p,,ished. of the two her sons are quite likely to adopt it instead of their fath- CTS.
 In royal circles the Queen always re- tains her own name and coat of arms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
The Unionist Leader.

The intelligence conveyed in yester- days dispatches that Mir Balfour had paid visit to King Edward in order to present to his majesty the resigna- tion of the Balfour government will awaken interest, though not surprise, in international political circles.
 For more than two years it has been clearly evident that MT. Balfour has been riding for a fall He has contin- ued long to hold the reins of govern ment not because his grip thereon has been firm, but rather because there has been none other more available than he to handle them successfully. MT. Chamberlain, the unionist leader and champion of a preferential tariff, seemed to retain the key to the poltf- cal situation, but that gentleman studi- ously declined to turn the lock so long as he was not reasonably sure that by doing so he would be permitted to en- ter the door of actual power in parlia- ment. Honor, with divided responsi- bility was not acceptable to MT Cham berlain.
 The liberal party will now, with the cooperation of the Irish nationalists, form a government, and, led by Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman will at tempt to execute some well defined re- forms in English politics. Chief among these will be the granting of home rule to Ireland. It is yet too early to deter mine whether or not the effort will be successful. It is known that any at tempt made by the liberal party to carry forward to success the home rule cause will be resisted and resented by the conservatives under the leadership of MT Balfour and also by the union ists.
 Had MT. Gladstone lived the oppor- tunity that is now presented would have been grasped with advantage by the Grand Old Man, and Ireland might now have high hopes of attaining what was taken from her one hundred years ago and what has been denied her per sistently since.
 We may perish" said Henry Grat- tan, in his speech a century ago, but the cause will live. Like the spirit of the holy man, it will not die with the prophet, but will survive him." This great cause of home rule for Ireland still lives. It died not with Grattan or with Parnell or with Gladstone. It is not impossible that it will triumph under the leadership of Campbell Zimmerman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
ONE ON CONDUCTOR.

From Lippincotts Magazine.
 An Irishman boarded street car and handed the conductor a rather dilapi- dated-looking coin in payment of his fare. The conductor looked at the coin critical ly and handed 1t back. That's tin," he said.
 Sure I thought it was foive." answer ed the Irishman complacently, as he puts the piece back in his pocket and produced a nickel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
 N the opinion of some women we are
 now in a transition period with regard to women's names. A generation from now they believe large proportion of married women will retain their girl hood names through life
 One of the most famous of the early suffragists, Lucy Stone. set the example a good many years ago. With the ap- proval of her husband, Henry B. Black well, she retained her own name through family names of both parents. But Lucy Stone was too early pioneer to have any followers in her lifetime in this matter.
 Within the last few years a restlessness about changing name to which some honorable reputation has become attached has been showing itself among women. The experience of a very popular woman novelist is in point.
 When she married she began to write under her new name. prolonged vail went up from the librarians of the whole country, who had to recatalogue all her books and enter into countless explana- tions with their patrons. Her publishers protested also, and after year or two of the experiment she went back to her own name on the title page.
 A few years ago woman very well known as a lecturer and worker in a public movement married a second time. She was widow, and in this case it was ba of bar frs bits nd that he had made known.
 She and her second husband decided that she should retain this name, but the practical difficulties in the way proved too great. Everybody who had ever heard of her understood the matter, and it was all right. But this is a big country, and she would often find herself travelling with her husband, who was a wealthy man, among persons who couldn't understand at all how she could be Mrs. Brown and he MT. Smith.
 So after few years she gave up the effort, although she regretted to do so, as it was a principle with her.
 That is the way it is beginning to look to lot of young women nowadays who have led an independent career up to the time of their marriage. They are be- ginning to ask why they should be obliged to give up their own names and take others.
 There is young woman writer who is contemplating matrimony in the near fu- ture and who has persistently declared that she will not change her name. Or course. it is understood that she shall continue to write under her own name but that doesn't satisfy her. She wants to retain her name in social life
 Her betrothed, who is as advanced in his notions as she is in hers. is entirely willing, but her mother is old-fashioned enough to object.
 Really, Imogene." she says, every time the subject Is mentioned, how could l introduce you as my daughter, Mrs. Blank, when that's my own name? Peo- pie would think you were my daughter in-law, and then they'd find out haven't any son, and then they'd think you were divorced, and it would entail countless explanations"
 And she looks so worried every time she says 1t that the writing girl has sadly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-05
ROOM FOR TREPOFF.

From the Chattanooga Times.
 General Trepoff, ordered to leave Rus sia, will hardly seek asylum in the United States, although there is no embargo here on paupers of the titled class. Besides he might get a start here as patrolman in any of our larger cities. Better men than he have come across the water to become policemen, afterward achieving great success as statesmen and country savers