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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-25
BADLY BEHAVED TRAVELLERS

From the ST. Louis Times
Americans are said to be spelling the
Passion Play at Oberammergau. Ac-
cording to an English novelist who has
written to the press a protest of the
behavior of the tourists from this side OF
the Atlantic, the American visitors are
insisting upon having personal inter-
views with the chief performers in the
play, and they are pauperizing the child
rem of the village by scattering pennies
in the streets.
We fear the charge may be we'll found
ed. but we wish the people of oberam-
mergau, and of other sections of Eu-
rope, might realize how little those tour
lists represent the real Americans.
We have experiences with these in
delicate people here at home. They have
been known to despoil houses and ships
on which they have been guests, by re-
moving every portable thing in sight as
souvenirs.
They have behaved like vandals in
every sacred place-at tombs. at birth
places which have become shrines, and
i'll many other places.
America is shocked by such per-
formances just as much as Europe can
be.
Let the authorities of Oberammergau
put few of these Ill hammered guests
out on the streets, and the others may
take warning. No defense from any
quarter-least of all from America--will
he heard n the ruthless travellers from,
the United States are sat upon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Census Figures


We will probably know within the
next week or two Birmingham popu-
lation as ascertained by the govern
ment enumerators.' said citizen, and
1t is safe to say that 1t will be upwards
OF 100000, but l will be agreeably sur
prised If 1t reaches 1875. 1000; not that our
population is actually less than the last
named figures, but owing to the lack
of cooperation on the part of many
householders it was impossible for the
enumerators to make a complete count.
THE census director has already an
nounced the population of quite num-
Der of small towns and a half dozen
cities of considerable size. The percent
age of increase has varied widely, but
in most cases the census reports have
been accepted by the respective local
statisticians as approximately correct.
At any rate, after the census bureau
announces the result of its work all To-
cal estimates have to be cancelled
The public will accept only the govern
ment figures"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-25
England'S Proposed Accession Oath

y King George V has decided to be
crowned next June, and parliament is
engaged in preparing a new accession
oath against that time. From the days
of William and Mary English soverelgns
have taken an oath that is extremely Of
Efensive to members of the Catholic
church, and in Great Britain there are
millions of Catholics. The government
has therefore put before the house of
commons substitute, as follows:
IT do solemnly and sincerely, in the
presence of God. profess, testify and
sneclare that I am faithful member of
yfhe Protestant reformed church as by
law established in England. and I will
saccording to the true intent of the en-
hetments which secure the Protestant
i. succession to the throne of my realm
rphold and maintain the said enactments
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to the best of my powers according to
law"
One WOULD think this would be salts
factory to any Protestant. especially
when both Mr.. Asquith and Mr.. Bal
four support it. but 1t is not, for 4s
members opposed it on its first reading,
and much more opposition is anticipated
when the bill comes up for debate and
final passage.
Only one objection of the opposition to
the proposed oath seems to have any
sense or reason in it, This objection
comes from the non-conformists who
protest against any established state reli-
gion whatever The non-conformist does
not think the old form of oath desirable
nor does he consider the proposed sub
stitute free from objections He believes
in religious freedom even for Kings
After all the chief objection to the
revised declaration is based on bigotry,
and this bigotry is just as senseless and
unyielding as it was in 1858, when there
was some excuse for its existence al
ways provided England was to become a
Protestant kingdam.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-25
aWALKING SALOONS"
Men Tramp Streets of indianapolis sun
days, Baskets on Their Arms

From the indianapolis Sun.
He walks along the streets on Sunday,
covered basket on his arm, brazen
gaze for all "coopers," and a sly wink
for all dry drinkers He is the walk
ing saloon" brought into being by
Mayor Shank's Sunday closing order The
police are looking for him. but thus far
have found only two of him. Two hun
dred more of him are said to be tramp
ing the streets on Sunday
The walking saloon" does not con-
fine its efforts to having the parched
whistles of Indianapolis thirsty ones on
Sunday He may be found in any dry
territory in Indiana at any and all times,
and more than three-fourths of the state
is dry
The walking saloon does not carry a
license; his only incumbrance is big
basket loaded with bad booze. He gets
it on Saturday and peddles 1t on Sun
day in the highways and byways of the
city and the state. He is a puzzle to the
police, for all basket carriers are not
walking Saloons" although all walking
saloons are basket-carriers.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR


To the Editor of The e-Hera1d:
If entirely convenient, kindly use a
shotgun on the proofreader who marked
20. X" my essay on conversation which
appeared In Sundays issue of The Age
Herald. AS a rule, l let the mistakes of
of the compositor go without calling at
tention to them; but. at a place where
1 can be understood only by being pre-
else, the composltor has made me say
nonsense. and makes of no value that
which l stressed | was referring to
INSTRUMENTATION, in conversation, and
the printer makes me say this: "One of
. these is the word programme. Some
people pronounce it program But there
is no authority for It," etc.
Now, what 7 said is this: zone of
these is the word program. Some peo-
pie pronounce 1t 'progrum; but there Is
same vowel value that 1t has in 'dia-
gram Never say the first number on
the progrum' is so-and-so.''
Referring to George Eliot, your printer
makes me say 1.-The accuracy of her
formation I said THE accuracy of her
information"
Still referring to the author of Middle
march, your printer made me say
enabled her to become queen
in conversational ability and a lady
beauty" l said, quoting, "A lady beau
tiful'
In view of these. mistakes, therefore, I
repeat my request that you get shot
gun, and, if entirely convenient, use 1t
on the proofreader. Yours truly,
w. E. EVANS.
oil a Ill1N
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-25
A PUGILIsTIC FINANcIER
I'M the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
The credit of the national govern
ment receives support from an unex-
pected source 1t is true that 1t is only
an individual person, who annpunces
that he will invest sudden acquisition
of s16s,000 in United States bonds; but
the example of Mr. Johnson in thus
putting away the winnings of his phys
ioal prowess merits the imitation of
other athletes of less financial fore
sight. He is not moved to this finan-
cial policy by motives of patriotism so
much as by those of prudence. He has
see1 other victorious pugilists squander
their substance in every variety of
riotous living. He prefers low rate
q interest upon gilt-edged securities
locked in a safe-deposit vault.
The unique belt winner sets a pattern
of prudence that merits the flattery of
imitation Every devotee of the squared
he achieve championship, he will have
something to defend besides a title;
and when. in the inevitable course of
sporting events, that title passes, the
wealth may remain to lend color to the
wan Joy of Renaissance. Thus he may
be saved from an existence of servi-
tude upon the sometimes safe side of
the bar, or as a trainer of others to
attain the glory that once was his. In
the meantime the hoard may perhaps
be Increased by discreet devotion to
the footlights, with watchful eye
upon the box office.
1t appears also from the current state
of ,the market that the bruno investor,
If not on the ground floor, entered at
least well down in the range of prices.
All this shows both thrift and a GER
tain independence of thought that is
perhaps without precedent in his highly
specialized vocation. BY such foresight
he may always have larder amply
supplied with both bacon and chicken,
and>the knockout blow that lies some
where in the future will be robbed of
half its terrors. II will be interesting
to observe whether this instance of a
wise resolution can Withstand the as
saults of time and temptation
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-25
HUMANITY IN "CTANTECLER"
From Hampton's for August

| From Hampton's for August
wv ITH touch that is at once in
M cisive, penetrating and de-
w lightfully kindly whimsical
Rostand in "Chantecler," holds up to
humanity, as in mirror, the reflection
of its vanity, egotism, envy, deception,
as well as it's charming qualities of
bravery and devotion. Especially is
this apparent in the third act of the
celebrated play.
Nowhere in all literature, perhaps,
has a garrulous, chattering, scandal
| mongering afternoon crush" been so
delectably parodied as in the third act
of the play. This is entitled 1.-THE
Guinea Hens day" and describes the
valuable little feathered busy body S
popular afternoon, an occasion at which
Chantecler engages in his exciting fight
and, although wounded, energies VIC
torious and elopes with the golden
pheasant hen.
Satire, adventure, romance-the act
contains all these. 1t takes place in a
kitchen garden, which Rostand de-
scribes as being brilliant with flowers
and vegetables. Here, amid hubbub of
Gathering and swarming fowls the
Guinea Hen receives her guests. I'M
petuously darting from one to another
the little body simply. effervesces with
delight at the success OF her party. An
nounced by the magpe, the gander,
duck, turkey, hen, guinea pig, and all
the other notabilities of the barnyard
arrive. Never was there such a party.
Even the Breeze comes unasked and
shakes down cherries from a tree. On
tree limb, feigning drowsiness, sits
the cat, enemy of Chantecler, and party
to the plot to kill him. For the night
before, in the preceding act, there was
a convention of nightbirds, who planned
at this party to introduce a cock with
razors in his feet who would kill Chan
tecler whom the nightbirds hate be-
cause, as they believe, he conjures up
the Day.
Chantecler, arriving, views the po-
seurs the dilettante, the effete and ex-
otto parallels of human society IN the
fowl world with contempt Even the
pigeons, which arrive, are tumblers-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-25
A Bus ness Barometer

Few barometers indicate citys growth
and commercial Importance SO well as
It's postoffice receipts Bank clearings,
in the nature of things, are often mis-
leading. This is especially the case in
Atlanta's clearings, for that city clears
Cor all the banks of Georgia. But At
lanta makes a large showing in its post
office receipts. There is nothing padded
or misleading in that important business,
and Atlanta is fully entitled to the large
and beautiful building the government
has erected there
Birmingham's postoffice receipts show
satisfactory gains The quarter ending
June 80 showed a business of $104,063,
which was a gain of % rs per cent over
the corresponding period of 1909. When
u is remembered that Ensley, which was
added to this city the first Of the year. re-
tains its postoffice, the volume of busi-
ness in the Birmingham office is all the
more noticeable.
Atlanta's postoffice is in the class of
$4,000 postmasters, and Birmingham is
headed that way. Within two or three
years the receipts of the Birmingham
office will justify $4,000 postmaster and a
new postoffice building second to none in
the south
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-25
The Stock Market


Henry Clews, in his Saturday review.
says in part:
THE stock market is still undergoing
a rigid course of treatment under the
rest cure. Many operators are absent
on vacations, and big banking inter-
ests continue to discourage any special
activity in speculation at this time. No
encouragement to an advance is af
forded, neither are prices allowed to
show any marked declines without
meeting with support. The general
trend of financial affairs is towards i'm
provement. The local monetary outlook
has been much clarified by recent IL
quotation, by rising reserves, by con-
traction in loans and general prepara-
lions to avert undue stringency during
the coming fall. Gold imports have be-
gun earlier than expected, and estimates
are that no less than s40,000.000 of
specie will be imported from Europe
this season. Complete reports of the
national banks at the last call show
legal reserve of 21.22 per cent and a
contraction of loans of about s., 900, 600
The latter item, however, is still near
ly $500, 900, 900 larger than a year ago
Eastern banks, upon which the strain
for moving the crops will chiefly fall,
show much the stronger position. Alto
gether the monetary situation is work.
ing out its own cure, and as money
will go much further, owing to lower
prices and diminished business activity
there is much less reason for fearing
any undue stringency during the crop
moving period.
Liquidation in railroad stocks has
been radical. Six months decline has
brought no important failures, and pro-
Foreign opinion is still critical of Amer
lean securities and American manage
ment yet the fact remains that Europe
has made no better investments outside
of it's own domain than in the United
States Our credit abroad is good, and
when the turn comes Europe will no
doubt again be found a ready purchaser
of our investments, having absorbed
not less than $3.50, 100000 during the
first six months of the current year.
The present is not a time for despair
in Wall street. Readjustment has been
going on for many months, and the
unfavorable conditions now observable
elsewhere have in many instances been
fairly discounted.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-25

youths who are more likely to be harmed
than benefited by sights of dead and
dying victims of a smash-up The city
authorities should act on their own
Initiative in such a manner. as much as
In the case of the prize fight pictures.
Such shows take us back hundred
years, when children were taken to see
public executions of criminals.
AT the same time 1t must be said that
railway which in this year of grace
runs heavy passenger trains on single
track at 20 miles an hour without
space interval system deserves all the
punishment that may come to 1t by the
exhibition of the results of such dan
gerous method of train mana cement. JIM
deed, If motion pictures showing the dis
tress caused by collisions could be dis
played before some men who are re-
sponsible for the creation of public opin-
ion, an appropriation from the public
treasury for that purpose would be COM
mendable."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-25
SHADE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

From the Washington Post.
almost every tragedy we read about
has some humorous feature connected
with it, said o. w. Nichols of Chicago,
at the Shoreham. This Crippen case
certainly presents one. Can you imagine
an American detective asking a man who
is under surveillance. If not suspicion, to
stick around until they can find out
whether his wife has been murdered ?
That is practically what the Scotland
Yard officers did. And, while they were
pursuing their Investigations, DR.. Grip
pen quietly packed up and got away !
have seen incidents parallel to this in
comic opera performances. but it seems
almost incredible In real life.
Scotland Yard is an old institution,
but it seems that it is not infallible. I'll
venture the statement that the Chicago
police department wouldn't have been SO
considerable of Dr. Crippen's feelings.
They might have made a mistake in
holding him, but they would have acted
on the theory that 1t is much easier to
let man go when you have him than
to find him after he has made his es-
cape I'm looking forward to seeing a
lot of funny cartoons on this Scotland
Yard 'blunder when the next batch OF
London humorous magazines arrives
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-25
FIVE .JULIETs
the Theatre Magazine.

From the Theatre Magazine.
Julia Marlowe, fortunately, con-
tinues to claim our attention as Juliet.
The slim, girlish /youthfulness of APP
pearance which made Miss Bertha Gal
lands Juliet so attractive, Miss Mar
lowe has not but through the finished
technique of her art, through intona-
ton, gesture and pose, she subtly and
convincingly suggests captivating
girlishness. During the long speech i'm
mediately preceding the potion drink
ing, she moves around from the priediu
to the bed and on to a settee at the
foot of the bed. Standing there she
drinks the potion and then falls with a
knees bend and. her body doubles up
as she collapses in a heap on the floor.
These varying methods of portraying
the climatic moment of the act are
but an indication of the great difference
in the Interpretation of the character
al a whole.
Miss Maude Adams and Miss Julia
Arthur | saw within the space of a
weeks time; Miss Eleanor Robson and
Miss Galland l saw on alternate nights;
in each case there was q strong con-
trast. Miss Arthur brought to her
presentation all her astounding wealth
of personal beauty, and distinguished
her rendition with marked restraint, be-
hind which depth of emotional feeling
was keenly in evidence. Miss Adams
omitted many of the more passionate
lines of the role. so as to bring the part
within the scope of her ability; but
even then she presented naive Ameri-
can girl of considerable fragility, and
not an Italian girl who has come sud
denly into woman's love fraught with
a heartbreaking warmth and depth OF
tragic pathos.
:. Miss Robson similarly contrasted
with Miss Galland, and presented O
vivacious modern girl of considerable
Intelligent feeling. but withal not the
tender, languorous, Italian girl which
Miss Galland infused with such ardent
vitality and genuine poetic purity. Miss
Marlowe, however, while presenting
much of the full sensuous beauty OF
Miss Arthur, much of the poetic emo
ton of Miss Galland a greater, richer
charm than Miss Adams. keener, more
judicious intelligence than Miss Robson
achieves as great an Illusion of girls
youth; above all. she far surpasses ans
Gus beauty of tone and accentuatior
with which she delivers her lines
Surely she is our greatest Juliet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-25
CONCERNING SWEET SIXTEEN

brighten the face of the world with he.
beauty: to drive away dull care with
the giggles. Today it is rats and puffs
and those things about which Professor
Hall talks so glibly; in mothers yesterday
it was leg-of-mutton sleeves, peroxide,
and what not, and in granny's time
1t was crinolines and maybe a patch
or two above the powder.
But the instinct has always been the
same, and no mere man need bother
about developing the soul of these To-
year-old gigglers. That will come In
time, lust as surely as the rats return
to their holes and the puffs are laid away.
1t needs no psychologist to tell US that
with the passing years the girl of sweet
Is will substitute the religion of dress
and good looks and giggles for something
of a more substantial sort; in all prob
ability the religion that comes with rock
ing the cradle, to which blessed state
so many sweet sixteens find themselves
brought at last.
Really, professor, there is no cause for
psychological worry. Sweet 16 will just
as readily wear her false curls and puffs
to church as elsewhere; the rats that
she deftly conceals beneath her golden
locks will not hinder the progress of the
soul. The bud will blossom into flower
in time; the hair will be brushed back
from the forehead, and the sweet 16 of
today will fulfill her destiny and prob
ably become the mother of weary psy-
biologists who will temper the silly sea-
son along by diseoursing learnedly on
subjects that belong in the young lady's
boudoir rather than in the PROFESSIONAL
IoboratorV
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From the Washington Herald.


WE are entirely out of sympathy
M with Prof G. Stanley Hall, who
w so often finds and harps upon
scientific faults in the fair sex. Like
him, we admit there are faults. but we
can't see what good is to come over rail-
ing about them. The latest theme OF the
learned professor is "giggling girls as
If it were not the eternal prerogative of
girls to giggle. He declares that the gig
Cling girls of 16 who bedeck themselves
with rats, puffs, false curls and such like
paraphernalia are woefully irreligious,
and thinks that something ought to be
done to protect and develop their souls
OF course, the axiom about fools rush
ing in where angels fear to tread APP
plies with some force to the temerity or
Professor Hall We suppose that giggling
girls do wear the sort of things he mem
tions, though we have no proof of it other
than an occasional glimpse of such things
in shop windows but even If they do we
hardly think that can be taken as an
evidence of lack of soul.
What is the harm in puff? Or in
those dainty curls chat so often do not
quite MATCH that hang down so grace
fully upon their wearers neck. impart-
ing grateful sense of lightness and
fluffiness and ease and emphasizing the
beauty of the giggling girl? The giggling
maid of Is is precisely like her grand
mother and her mother in her inherited
instinct-or, perhaps. it may be reason
to look as nice as possible. At an early
age the delightful feminine realizes that
it is part of her mission on earth to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-25

To this sum should be added the an
nual expenses of the yacht Mayfower
the yacht Dolphin and the yacht sylph
all three of which are used in a personal
and social way by the President. The
first-named is a cruiser. the second a dis
patch boat while the third is rated as
gunboat. If the expenses of the three
be added to the list the sum total would
approach half a million dollars a year
81 This sum stands in contrast with the
sum named by George Washington, who
stated to the First Congress that he de-
5asired no salary. The salary was, how
ever. placed at s25, 900, and it stood at
!. that until 1873, when it was increased to
$4,000. Two years ago this sum was
Increased to $4,000, and the present Con-
gress voted an appropriation of $4,000
for travelling expenses. Yet, after all,
the cost of the presidential office seems
small when compared with that of Eu-
ropean rulers.