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Evening journal., 1910-12-07

Summary-FieId goals, (3); Hart
man. (2); McKendrick, (2); McGow-
an. ~; Warburton, a.. Goals from
foul, McKendrick, (5); McGonigal,
(4). Final score, Academy. IS; Del
aware -. Referee, Scheing. Timer.
w. Haley.
Evening journal., 1910-12-07
CRESCENTS LEAD
BASKETBALL RACE
Academy and CreSCentS Win
in Last Series Of
Games

In the West End basketball league
last night the Academy team defeated
the Delaware team by the score of 16
to II. Crescents. defeated the Yani-
gans % to II. Bob" Cunningham,
who is considered the best defense
man in the city, got in the game with
the Yanigans. The teams lined up as
follows:
Evening journal., 1910-12-07

Things once more look natural at
Brownson Hall. Bobby" Maxwell. the
former star player, is back in the ref
ereeing business. Bob" knows and
can explain the game as we'll as the
best of them
Evening journal., 1910-12-07

Jack" Mulrooney and Jack Far
ley are the two men who keep basket
ball on the go at Brownson. They
are always doing something for the
betterment of the game.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-06
Good Plays Wanted Next Season

The best place in the world said E.
H. Sothern recently, ito put on good
Shakespeare is in the west. Broadway
is not artistic. It doesn't know good
Shakespeare" Mr.. Sothern should have
added the south to the west as good
Shakespearean territory.
Mr.. Sothern thus explains Why 1.-The
provinces are flooded each season with
rubbish of the Blue Mouse sort New
York does not want good Shakespeare
and other good drama, and so the syn
dictate caters to New York tastes by put
ting on salacious plays, and then these
plays are booked in all other parts of
the country to the exclusion of something
better. Even Sothern and Marlowe were
compelled last season to shoulder the
financial risk of the Shakespearean plays
lilty pIeSenleu. luey maui, however, d
goodly sum of money, and they are ready
to repeat the effort
The syndicate will not, however, send
out good drama If 1t persists in over
whelming the rest of the country with
the plays that please New York audi
ences. The time has come when the
provinces should have plays independent
of the Great White Way The west and
the south really desire the plays pro-
duced as rule in the New theatre rather
than in the tenderloin. If the syndicate
will not do this, others will, and the
playgoing public in the west and south
will do the rest.
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Corn and Cotton In the South

The government crop report covering
conditions down to June % was not
wholly promising. 1t did not point to
big crop of cotton. although it showed
that favorable weather could bring on a
large yield. In the southeast the rainfall
has since June % been excessive, and
complaints of grassy fields will soon come
in. Conditions along the Mississippi river
and in Texas have been better-have, in
fact, been we'll nigh ideal. In some parts
of Texas however. rain would be well
coined.
Taking the south as whole, the crop
situation is still encouraging despite the
government figures. The cotton crop is
perhaps two weeks late. This lateness
may not affect the outcome, and the ten
dency still is to expect big crop of both
corn and cotton. A large corn crop would
almost stop the drain of money on that
account to the northwest, thus keeping
more money at home and more money in
the pockets of the farmers where money
is needed in the south, and where it ought
be kept to be spent for better farm build
ings, better schoohouses, and the pur-
chase of more mules for deeper plough
ing. This in turn would mean still more
corn and after while the south will
grow its own corn, and when it does this
section as a whole will begin at last to
get on its fea.
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NEW TYPE OF WOMEN

Joseph Burt, of London. In Leslies.
America is producing a new type OF
woman. who has the learning of blue
stocking, but who has lost nothing OF
the womanly tenderness of an carrier
generation: and she seems capable of
taking her religion in an abstract form,
without the use of Symbols thing
hitherto unknown to her sex. And, com
bined with wide intellectual outlook
and true womanliness, she has the
passion for righteousness that one finds
In the earnest religious set of a mar
rover school, This brings me to some
curious phenomena that are now pre-
senting themselves in the religious life
of America. Christianity-the belief In
Jesus as the Son of Gods passin g
openly and publicly. Heads of sch ools
and colleges do not hesitate to an
nounce views that in England would
ruin them as the guides of youth. Mary
of the churches are places of improN-
Ing entertainment, where the duty of
man to man takes the place Of the
duty of man to his God. Theology no
longer appeals to the masses in Eng
land but in America it has changed its
character, and Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself' is becoming tine
whole duty of man.
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DRAWING A CROWD

From the New York Tribune.
Weather threatening, crowd scurry-
ing, congestion Of humans in Broad
way. near Fulton street; hour, 1880
D. m. What is it?" imputed excitedly
a big blond man in a shaggy alpine.
ANY one hurt?" Nav responded a
seedy Individual; "a guys lost sumpin'
trou a subway gratin'. an hns fishin'
for it," passerby fought his way
through a struggling mass OF men and
women and found the guy" leaning
over a subway grating industriously
fishing with a long pole Con the en-
of which was presumably some sticky
substance) for bright and scintillatins
OBJ ject, What did he lose?" he asked.
"A diamond ring, / guess" answered
one in an awed whisper. "Ah, he's got
I'll No; it's slipped off! He's got 1t again
Steady, now. and you'll fetch 1t. Good
He's got it! Let's see it?' The last re
quest was shouted by man near the
other edge Of the mob. Jaw, you mus
make me SICK" remarked the fisher
man. Cant guy pick UP cent he's
dropped widout crowd co1lectfn'.'
And, amid derisive cries of "Cheal
skate. he held up bright Lincol;l
penny. That's how little 1t takes to col
lect a crowd In busy New York.
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MARK TwAINIsMs

Henry Watterson in the American.
The blending of high spirits and pathos
came in Mark Twain's life as In his
books
His mind turned ever to the droll.
Once in London / was living with my
family at No 1903 Mount street. Between
1Os and 102 there was a parochal work.
house-quite a long and imposing build
Ing One evening, upon coming in from
an outing, l found letter he had writ
ten on the sitting room table, and left
with his card. He spoke of the shock
he had received upon finding that next
to 102-presumably 103-was the work.
house. He had loved me. but had al.
ways feared that l would end by dis
gracing the family--being hanged. or
something-but the work. u.s." that was
beyond him; he had not thought 1t would
come to that And SO on through pages
of horse-play; his relief on ascertaining
the truth and learning his mistake-his
regret at not finding me at home-clos-
Ing with dinner invitation. Once at
Geneva, In Switzerland. l received a
long, overlooking letter, full Of buoyant
oddities, written from London. Two or
three hours later came telegram.
Burn letter. Blot 1t from your men,
DRY. Susie Is dead"
Susie was the favorite daughter of
whom Mark Twain has written so ten
derby in his autobiography.
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Arizona and New Mexico

A. speedily as the enabling act permits
Arizona and New Mexico are taking steps
toward statehood. The governor of New
Mexico has issued proclamation call
ing for the election on September of
delegates to "a convention to frame a con-
stitution, and the governor of Arizona has
done likewise, naming September 70 as
the day of election. After the delegates
are elected they are to meet and frame
the two constitutions needed respective
ly in the two new states. These consti-
tutions must then be ratified by the peo-
pie of the respective communities and
then they are to be ratified by Congress
and the President. Heretofore ratihca-
ton by the President has been sufficient
but the republicans in Congress put all
possible obstacles in the way, hoping to
prevent the admission of the two states
until after the presidential election OF
1912. The chances are, however, that the
two new constitutions will be laid before
Congress in the last month of the short
session, and that the new states will be
admitted by or before March next Any
further delay would partake OF gros:
craftsmanship and unfarness.
When the Sixty second Congress meet.
- the first Monday of December, 1911
there will be As states and 96 senators
The new ratio of apportionment to b;
adopted next winter will not apply tc
the Sixty-second Congress The Houss
II Representatives of that Congress will
: consist of 1893 members, or two nioie thar
~ In the House of the present Congress
and In it there will not be a territoria
Ielegate from the mainland.
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From the Washington Post.
There is not a city in the United
States that can boast so large an increase
in population in twenty years as Tacoma,
Wash" said Harrison ]. Newman of that
city, at the Ebbitt House. In 1880 Ia
coma's population was little more than
1000 The census of 1910 will show pop
ulation of $4,000 or more.
1T is one of the most important COM
mercial cities of the Northwest. and II
owes this importance largely to its selec-
ton In 1873 as the terminal of one of the
great trunk line railways. But not only
is Tacoma the terminal of the large rail-
ways of this country; it is the American
port of some of the most important east
ern steamship lines-lines that handle
big percentage of the oriental freight.
There are four transcontinental rail-
ways that are expanding from $1oWo0tU
to s20OOO. 900 In new terminal improvements
in Tacoma, and the city has still level
land on tidewater and river flats ada
cent to the harbor, and miles of unappro-
priated water frontage for the accommo-
dation of additional railway and ocean
terminals. Tacoma also is the home port
or port of call for steamers operating to
and from Puget Sound and Alaska, san
Francisco, and the Isthmus of Tehaunte-
pee. where connection is made by rail
and water for New York.
TT is marvellous that Tacoma should
have grown so rapidly. 1t is today the
leading city of the Pacific coast in man
ufactures. Its most important industries
are lumber. flour, car and locomotive
construction and repairs, reduction of me-
tails foundries and machine shops, furni'
ture, brewing, mailing, slaughtering' meat
packing-in fact, all the great industries
of other cities. Tacoma manufactures
more lumber and lumber products thah
any other city in the world, and II re-
duces more ores than any city west OF the
Rocky Mountains"
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MODEST HUGO
Thought 1t Quite Possible Paris Would
Bear His Name

From the July Bookrnan.
Perhaps after all it was not SO sur
prising. 1t was Theophile Gautier who
said something to the effect that II he
thought that one line of the master
was bad he would not acknowledge 1t
to himself IL he were alone at>the Dot
tom of dark well. On another occa-
sion Gautier spoke Of Victor Hugo as
"a new Moses fresh from Sinai. charged
to- deliver the tablets of the law De-
cidedly Victor Hugo was a man who
knew how to cast spell upon those
about him. For example. look at the
following picture drawn in the Souven-
irs sur Turgeneff.
zone evening Hugo's admirers, as
Sc, lied in his drawing room. were COM
peting with one another in the eulogy
OF his genius; and the idea was thrown
ont that the street In which he lived
ought to bear his name. Some one sug-
eested that the street was too small to
to be worthy of SO great poet, and
the honor of bearing his name ought to
be assigned to some more important
thoroughfare. Then they proceeded to
enumerate the most popular quarters of
Paris, in an ascending scale, until one
man exclaimed with enthusiasm that IT
would be an honor for the City Of Paris
itself to be renamed after the man of
genius. Hugo, leaning against the man
telpiece, listened complacently to these
fiatterers outbidding each other. Then.
with an air of one engaged in deep
thought, he turned to the young man,
and said to him in his grand rtyle,
Even that will come. my friend. Even
that will come"
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is beginning to disturb the British gov
eminent Lord cromer was a real ruler
in Egypt, but Sir Eldon Gorst endeavored
to conceal the steel hand. He played to
native susceptibillties, using all the tact
and diplomacy he was master of.
The reply to all this came in the as
sassination of Bontros Pacha, the Egyp-
tan premier, and the British government
at once saw that a radical change in the
British policy in Egypt had become desir-
able. To carry out this change the man
that all Egypt fears and honors, man
of Steel indeed, the most forceful man
in all England, is to be sent. If current
report be true, to Cairo to tell the
Khedive what he must do and what he
cannot do The young Egyptians would
then have a soldier to deal with, and they
will know that nothing short of a revo-
luton would be effective against LORD
Kitchener. And a revolution would at
once call to Egypt British troops and
Lord Kitchener would be there to direct
their operations. Egypts new nationalist
movement has evidently aroused British
feeling to the combative point, and sedi-
ton will be a dangerous game to play IN
Egypt hereafter.
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Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,
Which after hours give leisure to re-
pent. king Richard III.
No Railroad Injunction In Alabama

Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United
States court sitting at Montgomery has
told the Louisville and Nashville and
other railroads that this is no time TO
ask for a establishment of the injunc-
tion against the state freight and pas
senger rates. The railroads were told
to come again on the first Monday in
October next when the application must
be heard by three judges, one of whom
shall be a justice of the supreme court
or a circuit Judge True, the railroads
may apply to a supreme court justice
or a circuit judge to have the applica-
ton for an injunction heard at an earlier
date, but it is reasonably safe to say
that no earlier date will be named, and
that no injunction will be granted pre-
vious to August Is. when the new com
merce court act goes into effect.
This decision by Judge Jones prac-
tically eliminates the preliminary injunc-
ton from the cases brought to declare
the state railroad legislation confisca-
tory. Pending a final decision that leg
islation will no doubt stand in full eff
feet and operation, and no more confis-
cation will go on in this state than has
gone on many years in Georgia without
question on the part of the railroads.
AS things stand now it may be years
before the questions involved in the pend
ing suits against the state brought by
the Louisville and Nashville and the Gen.
trail of Georgia are fully and finally de-
termined. and when the settlement comes
wrought by the new rate bill will have
been applied and accepted and the rail-
road companies may by that time smile
in recalling that they charged Alabama
with desire to confiscate their prop
erty. These are progressive times in
the matter of railroad regulation, and
what seemed impossible five years ago
in that direction is now favored in some
form, at least, by both parties
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WHEN THE QUEEN SMOKES

From the Chicago Tribune.
If you were entertaining a queen and
she asked you for cigarette and you
found that your other guests had smoked
all you had, wouldn't it embarrass you?
That is what happened when the French
minister OF foreign affairs gave reoep-
ton to the King and Queen of bulgaria
In Paris. Her majesty expressed desire
to smoke, but when her host escorted her
to the smokatorium the boxes were all
empty. No one even had the makings."
The queen, with the SAVIOR faire which IL
an appanage of royalty, saved the stu
alton by talking to lady, but the min
lister of foreign affairs hadfa bad quarter
of an hour.
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FAME OF THREE GREAT WRITER'S

Brander Matthews in tho Century.
A RE the foundations for the reputa-
"a ton of Johnson. of Carlyle. and of
\ Ruskin any more solidly buttressed
than the foundation of the reputation
of Pope? The actual merits of Pope.
his wit, his verbal adroitness, his con-
summate craftsmanship as a versifier
according to the code accepted in his
own day-these are all acknowledged
now, and perhaps more adequately than
ever before; and yet his glory has de-
parted. Have we any cause to suspect
that the glory of Carlyle and of Rus
kin and of johnson will also be dim
med, even IL they continue to command
respect for humber qualities than those
with which they are now carelessly cred
tied?
The devils advocate could read to the
court many passage from Ruskin's
writings which would prove that he had
very bad manners, and that they were
rooted in a beligerent sclf-esteem and
In an offensive disregard for the feelings
of others No doubt the devils advo-
cate might feel it to be his duty also
to offer in evidence those pages In which
Ruskin reveled in violent eccentricities
of thought. and in which he compla-
Gently displayed his assumption of spe-
cial knowledge in departments of learn
ing wherein he was profoundly ignorant.
OF course, the counsel for the defense
would then read to the court other ex-
tracts in which the nobler side of Rus
kins nature revealed itself, and in which
the exuberant rhetoric was sustained by
clear thinking and by kindly feeling.
II the devils advocate has the cour-
age of his convictions, he may be moved
to insinuate that envy is the keynote
of CarlyIe's characteristic mean envy
of a peasant, aware Of great gifts, yet
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Great Flood at East Lake
MORALS IN AMERICA

From the New York World.
Prof. Ferrero in an article in the At
lantic Monthly notes the progress in the
United States of the same fight that was
fought In ancient Rome, then young ma
tion against moral decline. puritanism
here, as there, contending against the in
PRODUCTION of a refined but corrupt civili-
zation.
Vice in the great cities, alcoholism
gambling, and immortality he finds mo
more hideous in America than elsewhere"
the difference being that in America
there is still protest; in Europe there is
silence" Why" he asks. ARE noisy
New Years eve suppers described as II
they were the orgies of Heliogabalus?
This may all be explained exactly as was
the evil reputation of the last century of
the republic and the first century of the
empire as compared with the second GEN.
fury; because in America the Puritan
origin of the state is still not far behind
us, and the reaction of the moral con-
seriousness is greater than it is in Europe
against the progress of that extravaganza
corruption, and vice which accompany
rich urban mercantile civilization"
OF more immediate concern is Profess
sor Ferrero's statement that domestic life
is deteriorating with us and his implica-
ton that the fault lies with American
women. IN America" he says, 1.-The fam
lily tie is weaker. Divorce is too easy by
far. women are too emancipated the chill
dren too independent of parental control.
AS the strength or weakness of the fam
lily tie, the training of children, and the
ultimate responsibility for divorce rest
with women, the charge Is in effect an In
dictment of the sex for the abuse of their
larger influence in affairs. American
women enjoy a liberty and power not
possessed by the women of any other
country. They are virtually supreme in
tba bop
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DEGREES FOR BRIDES
From Punch.

curriculum of household manage
ment for married women was advocated
by Mrs St. Loe Starchey in dis
cussion upon University Standard in
Home Science" at the Womens Con-
gress In the White City of June g. We
are left In the dark as to the syllabus,
and to whether the fair aspirant for
matrimonial honors will try 1t on the
dog or a dummy husband. Should de-
grees be conferred on successful candi-
dates, we hasten to enter a cayeat
against some familiar initials obtaining
the following acceptation:
b. Arbitrarily Argumentative
M. A.-Moderately Affectionate.
B. C.-Barely Connubial.
Sc. D-Sacrificer of Domestics
Lift D.-Litter Distributor.
LII. B.-Loves Lots of Bridge.
Mus. D.-Musically Defective.
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English Rule In Egypt

Il is more than intimated that Sir
Eldon Gorst, the successor of Lord
Corner, is to be apparently promoted
from the place of British agent in Egypt
20 the ambassadorship at Constantinople.
but really to make way for the coming
Of Lord Kitchener to the land of the
Hharoahs.
This change, If it comes, is an indica-
ION Of state of unrest in Egypt that
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A Canadian lawyer tells this story:
A baliff went out to levy on the
contents of house. The inventory be-
gan In the attic and ended in the eel
lar. When the dining room was reacn-
ed the tally of furniture ran thus
"One dining table, oak,
"One set chair 60, oak.
zone sideboard, oak,
1.-TWO bottles whiskey. full"
Then the word full" was stricke
out and replaced by empty" and the
inventory went on in hand that
struggled and lurched diagonally across
the page until 1t closed with:
"One revolving doormat."
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LOST.


oh, where is the way to Elfland?
ut lies just over the hill.'
I've sought it afar meath sun and star
And, alas, I'm wandering still!
oh, where is the way to Elfland?
But follow this winding stream"
| journeyed along and marked its song,
Nor found the land of dream
Oh, where is the way to Elfland?
"Dost see yon copse so greene"
| sought its deeps where the spider
creeps,
And there-but sylvan scene!
Oh, where is the way to Elfland?
Hast peeped in every closer"
Oh aye, and l found but a tinkle of
sound
And the flushing heart of a rose.
Oh where Is the way to Elfland?
No mocking voice replied:
And I thought, after all, twas the winds
wild call
To heart that is still denied.
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NEWSPAPERS AND PRIVACY

Henry Watterson, in the Atlantic.
The justest complaint which may be
laid at the door of the modern news
paper seems to me Its invasion of the
home, and the conversion Of its re-
porters into detectives. Pretending to
be the defenders of liberty. 1t too often
Is the assailant Of private right Each
daily issue should indeed aim to be
the history of yesterday, but 1t should
be clean as well as truthful; and as
we seek In our usual walks and ways
to avoid that which Is nasty and CHI st
ly, SO should we, In the narration OF
scandal and crime, guard equally
against exaggeration and pruriency nor
be ashamed to suppress that which
may be too vile to tell.
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RENO


From the New York Tribune.
RENO has achieved greatness. Hither-
to it had enjoyed only notoriety. Nay,
worse; the American sense of humor
had turned its name into byword and
a Jest The country's newspaper para
graphers and rhymers, callous to the
beautiful sentiment of it's activity In
the breaking OF CALLING ties. the sooth-
ing OF ruined lives, the mending of
broken hearts. made mock OF IT.. Now
all that IL changed. Reno has demon
strated it, versatility. It is no longer q